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@marcusbierman5310

5 жыл бұрын

I remember when I first discovered the Great War, I was already more than a year behind. Now I'm seeing the videos before the official release date. Feels surreal.

@marcusbierman5310

5 жыл бұрын

Also Happy Birthday Mrs. Nidell!

@Hyperious_in_the_air

5 жыл бұрын

@@marcusbierman5310 I literally spent all of last week binge watching the entire channe. Easily some of the best content on all of KZread

@marcusbierman5310

5 жыл бұрын

@Hyperious So true!

@marcusbierman5310

5 жыл бұрын

@Hyperious For a while on TGW, I was watching it 101 years to the day. One week I tried to binge 52 episodes, but of course that same week my internet went down so it took me two weeks to get caught up. :P

Happy birthday Joy!

@mikiroony

5 жыл бұрын

I've devoured hours of footage from ww1 and now ww2 with Indy. Only today I cried. Only today.

@seanmccann8368

5 жыл бұрын

Joy to the world!!!!

@_Nasduck

5 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday

@antteraraphaelhoskinen504

5 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday Joy! She has amaizing son XD... I follow this show from september 2015 and its my favorite YT channel, I never thought that Indy Mother and i have birthday on same date

@willatkins9686

5 жыл бұрын

On Australia Day! Gr8t mate!

"This stuff really didn't happen that long ago" - You're right, and that's the scariest thing about it. It didn't happen that long ago, which means it could very easily happen again.

@indy_go_blue6048

3 жыл бұрын

In geologic time it happened 25x10-8 years ago.

@BubblewrapHighway

2 жыл бұрын

It basically happened yesterday.

@dantheman3022

Жыл бұрын

ukrain war is happening now

@nolikeygsomnipresence270

Жыл бұрын

@@dantheman3022 Yup... a lot of us feel we are always on the brink of WW3. Right now Russia is withdrawing and I fear they could be taking their people back to drop "something" (I don't even wanna say it) over a particular Ukrainian city or town. I don't know. The world they made for us post September 11, 2001 makes many of us feel the anguish of impending crimes against humanity every single fucking day.

@carlmanson6634

Жыл бұрын

Wow

Wow, right in the feels there at the end! Congrats Indy & mom!

@L1b3rta

5 жыл бұрын

Damn those feels are real. Made a lump in my throat.

@zaikolebolsh5724

5 жыл бұрын

Wholesome

@lamarharambe4349

4 жыл бұрын

right?! my eyes are welling up right now

@danderson5084

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, indeed.

My great grandma was working in labour and concentration camps in Poland. She told me that the Poles purposely made the equipment faulty and of lowest quality for the germans as a way of resistance. Everybody did what they could, no one can EVER break the Polish spirit. Long live Poland!

Many happy returns to Joy!

@WorldWarTwo

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot, pal! She's gotten a lot of love on the channel today!

happy birthday Joy Nidell!

Aaaaaah yes. Let's just take a moment to applaud the ingenuity behind the title!

@WorldWarTwo

5 жыл бұрын

A three man job between Indy, Spartacus and Joram ;-) Teamwork!

A very touching ending to a grim week. And a reminder that we are connected to history, whether we like it or not.

Happy birhday to your mother Indy. I've lost both my grandfathers who fought in the Finnish front. My grandfather from my father side was only 16 when he was sent to the front. Until few years ago my father disliked my grandfather for his behaviour when my father was groing up (he was born in 1945) but looking back he realized that his father was suffering from what we would this day call PTSD. Back then in Finland nothing was really being done about this and young men (children) coming back from the frontand they received no help to deal with the horrors they had just witnessed. My grandfather on my mothers side was injured. He was hit by sharpnel from an artillery shell that hit a tree above him. He lost few fingers and was also hit in the face by sharpnel. I remember one of visits in the veteran hospital where he was treated during the last years of his life. One man in his room was repeatedly calling for his comrads to help him. "Don't leave me!" he kept shouting in a crying voice while sleeping. It was heathbreaking. It was clear that then around 90 year old man was reliving the war again and again whenever he was sleeping. I respect what my grandparents did during the war and I can never really understand the horrors they went through or so I hope. Neither of my grandfathers ever talked about he war. In the early two thousands in our summer cottage my then remaining grandfather almost shared some of his stories while a bit drunk but in the end all he said was we don't really want to know what he went through. No one pushed him for a story after that. It is a shame that we cannot hear of their exploits during the war but at the sametime I respect their decision whether or not they ever decided to talk about what happened during the war. I must have been absolute hell for young men or to anyother person living back then.

I find the lack of excessive background phones in this opening greatly disturbing.

@TheDJGrandPa

5 жыл бұрын

I felt a great disturbance. As if a million phones suddenly fell silent in terror.

"No the trains don't run on time" Haha that line really got me

I loved that ending … in the Great War we contemplated and followed the experiences of our grandparents … now it is our parents' generation at war and in peril.

@indy_go_blue6048

5 жыл бұрын

To many if not most of the world's people today it's their grand and great-grandparents generation. "Don't you feel small? It happens to us all."

I just started watching, I try to get in a couple of weeks a day. I'll be caught up soon. I absolutely love this. I've been a WW2 buff since grade school and I'm 62 years of age. This ties up so many unanswered questions. I knew about USSR v Finland but you fill in the blanks. And now I know you come from good stock. Your father fought in the RAF and struck a blow against Apartheid. Good on you sir!

@WorldWarTwo

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, I'm glad you like our series! Happy to be of service!

Happy Birthday Joy! You have given us a great gift. Of course as someone who has followed your son for over four years I have a simple question. Given his age. How did you know to name him after a certain movie hero's dog nearly half a century ago?

@OfflineSetup

5 жыл бұрын

Thank goodness not the "dam busters" dog. Now that would have caused a whole host of problems for him.

@OfflineSetup

5 жыл бұрын

@Tom Dick Oddly enough the 1950s (60s?) film is not cut on UK TV. I really was expecting it would be. Unless I am mixing it up with another film, I am sure they broadcast a warning/explanation at the beginning. As much as I am reluctant to bring down the scorn of you tube comments on myself, I would not lose sleep if they did edit it. I would feel different if they edited the book.

@philsosshep4834

3 жыл бұрын

Funny thing is my mother's German shepherd was called the N word and that was during the war . It was a black dog and I don't think any racial intent was meant, it was just another word for black. Besides you can't judge people's morals in the past on today's morality

@balisong46

3 жыл бұрын

@@philsosshep4834 Sure you can. Whatever was more acceptable was still known as dickish then

Good episode, cryptology and the machines to calculate while not being fully electronic computers will lead to after the war to the first fully electronic computers.

@Hyperious_in_the_air

5 жыл бұрын

I hope that they do an episode like out of the trenches all about the cryptology used in WWII. It really was the first war where radio was a crucial component for military operations, and was pivotal in the war with things like the cracking of enigma and the US cracking IJN codes for Midway.

@griffincheng

5 жыл бұрын

Hyperious also Fairplay used by the British

@Dave_Sisson

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, a British team led by Tommy Flowers (not Alan Turing), developed the first electronic computer later in the war.

@basswarnow

5 жыл бұрын

​@@Dave_Sisson The first Computer in the modern sense was invented by Konrad Zuse. Flowers' Colossus computer was not a fully Turing complete machine.

@yorneustein7851

5 жыл бұрын

@@basswarnow And that was , no cut be any different : a German ... talking abount Kraut Control

It's impressive how much the quality has already improved, the map detail is amazing. Happy Birthday Indie's mom!

@luxembourgishempire2826

5 жыл бұрын

*mum

@badgerstorm2188

5 жыл бұрын

@Anonymous Person No, not mum

@luxembourgishempire2826

5 жыл бұрын

@@badgerstorm2188 yep

@kstreet7438

5 жыл бұрын

Anonymous Person he’s not British tho. What american says mum lol

@luxembourgishempire2826

5 жыл бұрын

@@kstreet7438 intelligent Americans say mum.

Happy Birthday, Indy's Mom! Thank you for recognizing Poland's input into decryption of Enigma, it wasn't solely English and French achievement. Wszystkiego najlepszego z okazji urodzin!

@SilentLegion96

5 жыл бұрын

rHrynek Who’s Andy?

@marcusbierman5310

5 жыл бұрын

I think you mean Indy's Mom.

@rHrynek

5 жыл бұрын

@@SilentLegion96 My bad, fixed it ;)

"Apathy is death. Worse than death, because at least a rotting corpse feeds the beasts and insects." - Kreia. it amazes me how lack luster the allies response to actually being at war was

@ShortT-RexLikeArms

5 жыл бұрын

Indy was part of the cast of Battlefront 2 according to IMDb.

@robinmorritt7493

5 жыл бұрын

The Great War, as it was known back then, was later held up as the War to End All Wars. Every tiny village across the land built a war memorial where you can read the names of the dead to this day. After it was all over, many women were left to live out their lives as spinsters because the men were gone. People did not think going to war was some glorious adventure, but you, Brady, are not alone in being attracted to the idea. It is a foolishness inspired amongst tomorrow's cannon fodder by today's warmongers. Wise up.

@dend1

5 жыл бұрын

Knights of the old republic 2 had some truly great writing

@lovablesnowman

5 жыл бұрын

@@robinmorritt7493 and people like you Robin, pathetic cowardly defeatists are the reason Hitler was allowed to rise to power demand what he wanted and occupy Europe for over 4 years and commit genocides and other horrific war crimes. War is necessary whether you like it or not

@WorldWarTwo

5 жыл бұрын

He did a few droid voices the actual game - even cooler though - he pre-recorded the voices for the actual stars so that they (who are often not professional voice actors) had a correctly timed template to work against.

Yeah I have no idea, it’s all gibberish And happy birthday!

@indianajones4321

5 жыл бұрын

Duke Of Istria hello there

@felixvanmears

5 жыл бұрын

The Duke of Istria and Indiana Jones have a meeting -1940 colorised

@onmegafan

5 жыл бұрын

@@indianajones4321 general kenobi

History is written by the victors. Poles break enigma, save thousands of Judes, created decode machine "bomb", helped Brytain in air. who appreciated it? Who knows that? Great material and content. You are doing awesome work. Good bless U.

@hobmoor2042

5 жыл бұрын

Andrzejibn - the Polish contribution to the war effort is well known and appreciated. And, don't forget, at least Great Britain and France declared war on Germany when they invaded Poland. Nobody else responded in that way. Both Great Britain and France were reluctant to fight because of the huge number of deaths their armies suffered in the First World War - but they still committed to show solidarity to Poland.

@christianhoffmann8607

4 жыл бұрын

cringe. history is written by historians.

@zachariahwade8482

3 жыл бұрын

The Polish were the victors and history is written by historians.

@jaroslawpeter3586

3 жыл бұрын

@@hobmoor2042 Come on, there was no any "solidarity" towards Poland whatsoever, just self interest and deception. Signing the allince pact with Poland Brits did not mean to attack Germany, they just found the way to protected themselves from German aggression for a time being, turning Germany against Poland. More to that, Brits after signing pact with Poland had learned secret supplement to the Moscow's Ribentropp-Molotov agreement (about Germany and Soviets attacking Poland together) but they had shared this with France only, not with Poland, which they wanted both to engage in solitary war for as long as possible. So where was "solidarity"? :) From the British perspective signing alliance with Poland was the mean to protect their own ass, to gain time to prepare defend itself. It was cold calculated pragmatism, Britain's self interest but no loyalty to the ally. It is not the accusation of how immoraly UK had behaved and actually betrayed Poland, because in world's politics there is no morality or honor. I just state historic facts which came out many years after the war from the British archives. In 21 century there is no need anymore to hide anything about WW2. Only the Russian archives are closed again though in the 90's, when Yeltsin was president, they were open to historians.

The end twist was superb! You got an incredible family!

Happy Joy Day!

The war didn't happen long ago indeed. My grandpa who still lives in Montevideo till this very day told me that when he was a child he saw Graf Spee at the port, and some days later he could hear the explosions from when the ship was scuttled by it's crew. It's crazy to imagine that all those events didn't happen that long ago.

@spartanK42

5 жыл бұрын

It's weird when you think of history that way. For us today, history seems like a bunch of distant stories and it's really hard to think that they actually happened. It wasn't so long ago when my grandmother was watching the naval and aerial battles around Leyte.

@IncomitatusExcelsior

5 жыл бұрын

My grandfather passed four years ago. He remembered the end of World War ONE, and fought in WWII as the oldest enlisted man in his company. He was born in 1912, so you could say he cheated by living to triple digits, but when I think of his life it really drives home how little time has really passed since *both* World Wars.

@binaway

5 жыл бұрын

@@IncomitatusExcelsior My uncle, a RN veteran, is still around.

The world really does owe Poland a huge thanks.

@RapidAssaultEuro

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Poland!

@Pfsif

5 жыл бұрын

Poland is saving Europe again by fighting unfettered immigration.

@SonsOfLorgar

5 жыл бұрын

@@Pfsif found the wannabe nazi...

@dasboot5903

5 жыл бұрын

@Andrew Majewicz >> AMEN Bro Christian !!

@honkhonkler7732

5 жыл бұрын

@@SonsOfLorgar Virtue signaling western civilization into extinction I see.

Such a great point that this isn't old history. I think about how I was born in the year 2000, 55 years after the war and currently we are 77 years after the war. Blows my mind to think that a few of my short lifetimes is all that separates us from such unimaginable realities.

@WorldWarTwo

Жыл бұрын

Indeed, but that is distance enough for us to seemingly forget the lessons this tragedy should teach us. That’s why we do this, in the small hope that we can keep the memory of this conflict alive.

This is an incredibly taut and well made series - I salute you. I am the last survivor of a family of Poles, Czechs and Germans (and later adopted Liverpudlians) that was nearly 200 strong before that war. Many - 47 died in the camps, 3 were executed for their part in the July 20th plot, many more died in the fighting - for the Germans, the Czechs, the Poles, the British and as I found out many years later, for the Russians and the Polish partisans. 4 were paratroopers of which 2 survived the war, 2 worked at Bletchley Park, unbeknownst to each other and they never told each other. A large, but unknown number died in air raids and other actions as civilian deaths. Some survived the war, but I was the only child born after war in 1959. I have a daughter, but the family name dies with me. So - I was born 14 years after the war ended, but it would utterly shape my life. The English couple who adopted this German child died in the 1990s. With all this in mind, I was deeply touched and got a little teary at the last entry about your mother, Joy - it brings it home and its nearness is crystalised. As for your Grandfather, Basil - I know of him, what a great man he was. Again, I salute you, and all who make this series. Wonderful work.

It's first time I hear honest history about cracking enigma code and part of the pols in it! Even BBC couldn't compare.

@thumper8684

4 жыл бұрын

It is true, and it does not take away from Alan Turing's genius, or Bletchly Park's vital contribution to the war to acknowledge the people who's work they built on.

The ending of this is incredibly moving. My father lived through the Blitz. It really isn't that long ago. Though fortunately it feels like a world away. Thank you for this series.

wow, the 3D maps are classy as hell!

@OfflineSetup

5 жыл бұрын

Especially if you are wearing the 3d glasses that accompany this series. It really is, 'as if you were there'.

Oh yes! The super-nerds to the rescue: Rejewski, Zygalski, Różycki and Turing. :) BTW obligatory nitpick about the Polish pronunciation: the letter j is always pronounced like the English y. The sound that j usually makes in English (more or less) is actually spelled as "dż". Happy birthday to Indy's mom!

@oz4087

5 жыл бұрын

Artur M. I see commonwealth, i like carry on Brat, Broli!

@henrikmunkmadsen3190

5 жыл бұрын

As a Dane, let's all just agree that the English pronunciation of the letter j is nonsense.

@OchotaJack

5 жыл бұрын

Indy does his best. He even mastered pronunciation of Przemyśl:)

@felixvanmears

5 жыл бұрын

As a belgian, let's all just agree that the English way of saying "j" is just stupid

@jeffstanley4593

4 жыл бұрын

As an American lets just say that "j" and "y" have two different pronunciations. Are you going to pronounce jelly as yelly?

1:40 people often confuse "recovery" for "growth". The German economy grew really fast under nazism, yes, but that was because after the Weimar crashes and the 1929 stock crash it had bedn in shambles. It was less "growing" and more "betting back to speed"

@colinkelly5420

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's funny decades later people still believe that Hitler saved the German economy, but it points to the power of the Nazi propaganda from the time. The German industry was basically producing war material paid for by Government IOUs prior to the outbreak of war. Not exactly a sustainable model.

@Lukeee91

5 жыл бұрын

@@neues3691 except they NSDAP did not adhere to a strictly socialist doctrine and were only socialists in name.

@Saeronor

5 жыл бұрын

@@neues3691 TIL economic policies are enough to determine ideological stance - or that any ideology outside of ivory towers has ever dealt exclusively with economy. Also, democracy is horrible for markets too. Democratic North Korea is a testament to this.

@Saeronor

5 жыл бұрын

​@@neues3691 Well, they insist on calling themselves democratic. Isn't it enough these days? There's very few arguments for "nazis = socialists" that are more mentally deficient than focusing on a selection of economic policies. "NSDAP meant national socialists therefore socialism!" is one of them, right up there with "Democratic North Korea therefore democracy!". This obsession with economy as some exclusive, magical litmus paper for ideology is almost... marxist.

@robertohlen4980

5 жыл бұрын

@@neues3691 Oh boy, the stupid "Nazis were socialists, it's in the name" nonsense. Todays education has really made a lot of peeps dumber than a sack of hammers.

I cried a little when you talked about your family, thank you for everything you do Indy.

My grandma was alive when Nazi troops were going on her farm and field, stealing her apples and onions. She told me alot of stories of soldiers flirting with all the women in the village and alot more. No, the second World War was not that far ago, not at all. It might be in about 50-100 years, but we are not there yet. Its still fresh in our minds. :) Great episode as always, happy birthday to the mom too :)

That bit at the end really brought home how recent that war really is. Nice little touch Indy. I love this channel.

A stunning revelation to end this episode, Indy has a mother! I always thought he was created from pure history. Lol. Joy is the most perfect name for any daughter.

Happy birthday Joy Nidell

@thebog11

5 жыл бұрын

technically she wouldn't be named Neidell at birth, unless Indy goes by his mother's maiden name

Ah, that ending got me all emotional. He camouflaged it so nicely in this week's storytelling.

can you guys do an episode like out of the trenches all about the cryptology used in WWII? It really was the first war where radio was a crucial component for military operations, and was pivotal in the war with things like the cracking of enigma and the US cracking IJN codes for Midway.

@jtilton5

5 жыл бұрын

That would be great, but I would also like to hear about US, British, and Soviet codes, there is really no information about how they were devised, and how effective they were agienst the Axis, apart for the Najavo codetalkers, and their glorious contribution.

@maciejk7689

3 жыл бұрын

Not the first. In the Polish Soviet War of 1919-1920, the Soviets used the radio to communicate between armies. Poles broke soviet codes. This significantly helped to choose the Battle of Warsaw and the Battle of the Niemen in 1920

Indy, your closing comments gave me goosebumps and put a new light on the entire series. All the best to you and your family.

The truth is ..... they were THREE Polish friends, very talented mathematicians from Polish Western University of the city of POZNAN, and they were ordered by the Polish Government to work together, to finally crack down German "Enigma" codes. All three of them were fluent in the German language. Poznan city and the whole Wielkopolska Region, before the Great War, was occupied by Prussia for more than 120 years, It was the territory of the first Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth Kingdom, So those three Polish guys, as kids, they were attending their schools with the German language as a major. > On the happy day of November 11th, 1918, when the Republic of Poland came back on the map of Europe again, Poznan City together with the majority of the Western Wielkopolska Region, and after anti-german successful Polish Uprising ..... it came back to Poland.

@dasboot5903

5 жыл бұрын

@Thelondonbadger

That ending was incredibly touching. Top notch content as always and Happy Birthday from Texas Joy!

Happy birthday Joy! The fact that your mother was born on that day really makes us understand that all of these events you tell are much closer to us than we think.

Great idea of linking the episode with your mother’s birthday. My Grandmother just turned 104. Her being born in 1914 was a big reason why I watched The Great War channel so faithfully. Keep up the good work.

Britain and France: curse this enigma code Germany: muah hahaahaha you will never crack it Poland: guy we cracked weeks ago. 🤨

Wow, yeah. The fact that the birthday of Indy's mom does drive home that this really wasn't all that long ago that this happened. Happy Birthday to Joy, I hope you're still able to celebrate it with your son. :)

Thank you Indy for sharing with all of us out there your touching happy birthday to your mom and thanks for telling us about your grandfather Basil Reay's good deeds during and after the war especially his courageous initiative against the Apartheid in 1971. Now we better know what you're made of. Cheers !

Well done. Amazing how often people forget that wars are fought with human beings, not machines.

My first video as a patreon. So happy :)

@fennekofox7030

5 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@WorldWarTwo

5 жыл бұрын

You made us very happy as well! We hope you like it!

Wait is this series going to last till 2024... 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I've been watching the great war since 2014 (I was 12 yo then).. by 2024 I'll be 22 and probably a medic in Indian army (I'm joining this year).. one of the few stuffs which pulled me towards army is your great war series and this current one.. ❤️❤️ love from India

@SilentLegion96

5 жыл бұрын

Arul Shankar I’m an *surely* confident Germany can end the war quickly. After all, look at how effective that Blitzkrieg is. Also, I’m pretty sure their leaders will *not* do any dumb mistakes like opening a two front war.

@felixvanmears

5 жыл бұрын

@@SilentLegion96 yeah totally !

@dentoncrimescene

5 жыл бұрын

Good luck dude. Although how any of this makes you want to join is beyond me.

@arulshankarum2512

5 жыл бұрын

@@dentoncrimescene my parents work in the armed forces (both of them).. I actually hated army stuff becuz as a kid I didn't get to go anywhere during my holidays, when my friends went to foreign nations for summer holidays I had to visit the border area and live in a army unit.. but as I grew up small things like this attracted me towards the armed forces...

@ironwolfnl7365

5 жыл бұрын

@@SilentLegion96 and, I mean, it's not like the gemans have a fuel shortage, right? And the british will surely surrender after france falls

That end with that music😭 so emotional and sweet. Best wishes to Joy and thank you Indie for another great episode

Happy birthday, Joy. I have no words to tell you how well you brought your son. Indy - well put. These events ARE not so long ago. Thank you for everything!

Even though each week we get a new episode, the endings of these always leave me to feel different. The ending to this episode was somehow sweet, almost bitter-sweet considering the content that followed it... Happy birthday to Indy's mom!

The Winter War was probably the best thing that could have happened to the USSR. It began fixing all the problems with the millitary, and forced the Soviet command to adopt modern tactics. If the Winter War hadn't occured, be it because Finland caved to Soviet demands, or those demands had never been made in the first place, Soviet forces wouldn't have modernized their tactics. In 1941, this would have been disastrous. Soviet forces wouldn't have a chance of saving Moscow, or Leningrad. Germany would have steamrolled the USSR even worse than they did in Barbarrossa.

@auguststorm2037

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed. Sometimes you need to suffer a failure in order to question your way of doing

@OneLeatherBoot

5 жыл бұрын

One could argue that the Soviet performance against Finland gave Hitler the confidence to strike against the Soviets before they had a chance to rearm & reorganise. The Soviets had on paper a massive numerical superiority in man, tanks, aircraft, production capacity & raw materials. We shall have to keep tuning in each week to see how it pans out.

@auguststorm2037

5 жыл бұрын

@@OneLeatherBoot True. The poor results during the winter war gave the impression of weakness of the Red Army, however it wouldn't change the German decision to attack because they had to fight at some moment and once France is defeated and Great Britain is driven from continent (Dunkirk and later Greece) the only remain real opponent is Soviet Union.

@OneLeatherBoot

5 жыл бұрын

@@auguststorm2037, spoiler alert!

@auguststorm2037

5 жыл бұрын

@@OneLeatherBoot oups, sorry :/

Happy birthday to your mother! It's so touching that you've devoted your life to covering the events and doings of others and also take time in your videos to give a message to your mother.

What a lovely touch at the end, Indy you never fail to bring a human feel to things, got a tear in my eye, anyway, great work all!!

At 7:55 I can see my grandfather's home village (next village southwest of Kämärä) and maybe even THE house or ..its ruins... Anyway, I guess there is no need to tell how awesome these maps are!... A great video as always! Greetings from Finland.

Next week, the snow turns even more red...and the fate of Finland and her young democracy hangs in the balance. P.S Happy birthday Joy!

@OfflineSetup

5 жыл бұрын

spoiler

@bethanycook8124

5 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday joy!!!

Happy birthday Joy - running through this a year behind(deliberately) but just want to take a moment to say thank you very much for this. JUst when you think you know WWII...you come accross this. Nice one!

I just discovered these series. Can't stop watching this. What an amazing work! Thank you, Thank you!

Indy love your both channels about ww2 and ww1 greetings from Poland my friend 🤗🇵🇱 Happy birthday to your mother Joy 🎂

Just found your channel last night, and been binge watching episodes from the beginning. Love the series! And as I mentioned in a previous post, thank you for sharing your knowledge!

@WorldWarTwo

4 жыл бұрын

We glad you enjoy it!

@scorpioking280

4 жыл бұрын

@@WorldWarTwo I also enjoy the host. He's entertaining, informative, very good with each week's narrative, and just fun to listen to. It's been a long time since I learned so much about World War 2.

Thank you Indy for sharing. You are the hook that keeps us all coming back.

Happy birthday joy. You’ve given the world a brilliant son and historian.

Mamma mia I cannot wait until the Invasion of Greece later this year

@VladTevez

5 жыл бұрын

Neither your spies, chef, they were so vocal about it since 1939...

@menitobussolini659

5 жыл бұрын

There's no way this operation can go wrong

@VladTevez

5 жыл бұрын

@@menitobussolini659 Of course chef Ramsay, ahhm, Mussolini, sorry Duce!

@currahee1782

5 жыл бұрын

Propaganda! Greece won't be invaded by ragtag fascist!

@auguststorm2037

5 жыл бұрын

Considering the Italy's power it will be a healthy walk, right ?

"Joy" What a wonderful name. Happy birthday, Mrs N.

I was born in Russian Viipuri in the 80s. many of the bunkers and fortifications are still there in the woods. Finns have been visiting Viipuri for as long as I can remember to see their lost land and put memorials to fallen relatives. For a long time I was under the impression that Viipuri was a small peripheral border town before the war. But then I discovered it was actually a very important, second largest city in Finland with lots of famous historical landmarks, some of which were ruined by war and subsequent soviet rule. Thank you for completing the historical context for me in these great series.

Loved the last few minutes. It brought eveything into focus, a stream of events not individual happenings . Happy birthday Joy.

happy birthday Jay Nidell. She's the best "world war" mom to all of us, fans of her son and his work.

The reason he always starts the episode by putting down the phone is because he has a strict schedule to give his mom a call every week. It just so happens that he has to also record for this series every week, so... He does them both at once.

You made me tear up, Indy. What a wonderful way to make this story so personal.

Great episode. The heartfelt personal ending from Indy was just the cherry on top. This channel is doing amazing work. My support is on its way. Keep up the outstanding work. Cheers

@WorldWarTwo

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad to hear you're enjoying our content and we're really excited that you'll be joining the TGA. Welcome.

Happy birthday to Your Mom! And thank You very much! Finally someone said who really broke enigma for the first time. I wonder, how many non-Polish watchers actually knew that? And thank You as well for mentioning forced labour. It's estimated that during the WWII between 12 and 15 million people mostly from occupied countries of Central and Eastern Europe were forced to work in Germany (including around 1,6 million Polish civilians and around 300 thousend Polish POWs). Till 1944 forced labour made around 1/4 of overall labour force in Germany. They were forced to work for almost every major German company: IG Farben (todays BASF), Bosch, Daimler-Benz, Thyssen, Krupp, Henschel, Junkers, Philips, Siemens, Volkswagen, Blaupunkt but also... Ford Motor Company and General Motors in Germany. So many of those people died, for so many of these companies to survive and get richer... And just an interesting fact which should be attached to your first episode. The first german nazi concentration camp on Polish occupied territory has been establish the 2nd of September 1939. Yes, the very next day, when the WW2 broke out with german forces invading Poland. It has been established in Sztutowo (Stutthof), 36 km from Gdansk (Danzig). It has been liberated (the Red Army entered literally empty camp) the 9th of May 1945, which makes KL Stutthof the longest operating concentration camp on territories occupied by Germans. It's very well preserved and definitely worth visiting.

i feel like you guys do these videos so professionally. really good job guys! keep it up! And of course happy B-Day to Joy :)

I nearly cried at the end, love your work mate

Wow great job at the end. I know your Mom would be proud of all the work you've done helping and teachimg people about history and it's importance! Awesome job.

0:00: "Dragovich...Kravchenko...Steiner...ALL MUST DIE!"

@dennile_7355

5 жыл бұрын

Victor Bruant THE NUMBERS, WHAT DO THEY MEAN

@shellshockedgerman3947

5 жыл бұрын

REZNOV?!

Wonderful video it really touched from start to finish, happy birthday Indy's mother!

Happy birthday Joy! very good episode as always Indy, looking forward to this series.

What a touching gesture to share this about your mother. Beautiful way to end this video.

"It didnt happen that long ago." So true

Great! Finally some acknowledgement for Rejewski. :)

Im a couple weeks behind and getting caught up, so a late Happy Birthday to your mum! People forget how real this war was to everyone . the dead have no one to speak for them and are now forgotten except by close family(if they survived) or a footnote in a family album. But those of us who had family in the war(either side. Im not going there right now) know how intertwined this major event was to all of us. Its mind numbing but so few are aware of what their families did. My grandparents(all now gone) were soldiers, nurses, or something else directly involved in this war. One grandfather was in WW1 but US thought he was too old for this one and he could be better used in war industries(he invented and manufactured a lot of new radar/sonar equipment not previously available. Got rich after the war from it) while my other gramps fought through Africa, Italy, France and into Germany. Wounded 3times. His wife, my grams, a nurse. My wifes family too fought. Both her grandfathers dying on the Eastern front in 1944, one aunt killed and another crippled from Ami bombs while her father was in an HJ unit attached to the 10th SS to fight the Red Army on the Oder River. He was 13 years old. This war affected everybody, but now it seems that those today dont know how HUGE it was. I love this series! Keep it up! Patreon support is cheaper than one cable bill and a much better investment!

I'm loving this show! Thank you. Keep up the great work.

Thanks to the British man Alan Turing the forerunner of GCHQ , where he devised the way of cracking the enigma code also called the father of the computer

@Belianify

4 жыл бұрын

3 Polish mathematicians broke the enigma and for many years before the war they read German messages and they created the cryptological bomb on the basis of which Turing created his version

@schoe2164

Жыл бұрын

@@Belianify Still the father of the computer

We better get a special episode on your grandad.

Holy cow, your delivery has gotten 1000% better.

Happy Birthday Joy. Thanks for giving the whole world Indel, such a great gift

Nice Enigma reference at the start 😆

Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy Birthday Joy! Thank you Indy. Love the Great War channel and am enjoying this one as well. Keep up the good work!

Man that last part about it not being that long ago and the birthday of your mother hit me like a train. Happy birthday Indy's mom and thank you Indy and crew for another awesome video

So USSR will go into Finland artillery only?

@rikuvakevainen6157

5 жыл бұрын

No. It's much more then that. You will see next week the first glance the reason why red army was terryfying opponent in WW2.

@Szpareq

5 жыл бұрын

Now it all makes sense. Soviet organization was so low that making artillery only increased their org.

@HH-tc3wf

5 жыл бұрын

There is a "slogan" : "Artillery conquer, infantry occupy". Largest fight in nordic countries, in Ihantala 1944, artillery caused 90% of casultaties both side (some picture of how effective it is, finns could shoot 6 hectare are 2000 rounds in 1 minute, it will do job). But then finns have ammunition, winter war they dont have. Soon, there will be pretty strong artillery action.

I wish a very happy Birthday to Joy!

I can't thank you enough for doing what you do! Cheers all the way from Brazil!! Please don't forget to mention Brazil's role in the war, when the time is right. And happy birthday to you mom, what a beautiful ending!

god damn the ending gave me the chills, a big thanks and god bless all of you working on this great project

No way today is My mother’s birthday as well !😂

Happy birthday to your mom indy.

Awwww... that was a wonderfully sweet way to end the episode. All the warm fuzzy feels.

I just discover tour séries and i am binge watching it since one week. It's incredible the good work you put into it. And this last message was so touching...

@WorldWarTwo

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!