I have watched all the WW2TV presentations, guests on Poland, brilliant they are all. It’s so interesting to have a KZread history channel, with guests and subjects that are not boring and covering history that is well above your standard History TV channels. Thank you Dr Jadwiga Biskupska for your knowledge and enthusiasm for this subject shearing it and thank you Paul. Please bring Dr Biskupska back again

What an excellent presentation today by Dr Jadwiga Biskupska. She gave me a whole new meaning to the term resistance. Typically I thought of sabotage, blowing up tracks, etc. Who would have guessed going to school would be an offense treated as resistance. She is extremely knowledgeable on the whole Polish experience during WW2. Thank You Dr for a captivating presentation. Paul, I don't know how you keep coming up with these excellent presenters. Great Job. Happy Easter! Thx!!!!

@zepter00

Жыл бұрын

I found numbers for you from „ Polish contribution to the ww2” ariticle on wiki List of confirmed sabotage-diversionary actions of the Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ) and Home Army (AK) from 1 January 1941 to 30 June 1944[87] Sabotage / Diversionary Action Type Cumulative number Damaged locomotives 6,930 Delayed repairs to locomotives 803 Derailed transports 732 Transports set on fire 443 Damage to railway wagons 19,058 Blown up railway bridges 38 Disruptions to electricity supplies in the Warsaw grid 638 Army vehicles damaged or destroyed 4,326 Damaged aeroplanes 28 Fuel tanks destroyed 1,167 Fuel destroyed (in tonnes) 4,674 Blocked oil wells 5 Wagons of wood wool destroyed 150 Military stores burned down 130 Disruptions of production in factories 7 Built-in faults in parts for aircraft engines 4,710 Built-in faults into cannon muzzles 203 Built-in faults into artillery missiles 92,000 Built-in faults into air traffic radio stations 107 Built-in faults into condensers 70,000 Built-in faults into (electro-industrial) lathes 1,700 Damage to important factory machinery 2,872 Various acts of sabotage performed 25,145 Pre-planned assassinations of Nazi Germans 5,733

@robertafierro5592

6 ай бұрын

O would have been instramental.in the Polish Resistance if I were I've back then. I would have most likely followed one of my boyfriends over there. I'm not the type to Go Down Quietly. The Resistance was a Huge Deal.back then. You could be killed on the spot, if they even THOUGHT you had pertinent information. The Nazis FEARED the Resistance would grow. There was tremendous fear on either side during those years, depending on which side you were on. When Germany eventually lost the war, the new fear became rebuilding, starting over and for many; escaping the War Crimes Trials.

Dr Biskupska is a great presenter, you can sense her excitement in telling these resistors stories. I especially like her explanation of "intelligencia," in how it's used in Poland ... By far the best KZread channel!

I am mesmerized by the vast amount of information Dr. B keeps providing minute after minute. I had chills in the section of professional schools where teachers were teaching latin and greek, providing a sort of resistance that generates an intellectual discourse rooted in the freedom of thoughts. No less than what was happening in Lyon, Paris, or Leipzig (just not Freiburg: screw you, Heidegger!) That light of the mind, I find it more than compelling: it is irresistible, necessary and irreplaceable. If humanity needs something,right now,it is that light shining above the darkness of the heart of men. Thank you for sharing this lesson with us.

What an incredible presentation by Dr. Biskupska! Her passion and knowledge of the history of Poland is inspiring. I learned so much from Dr. Biskupska presentation today. I look forward to her return to WW2TV.

@WW2TV

2 жыл бұрын

Well said!

Dr. Biskupska is FANTASTIC!! This has got to be one of my favorite “talks” on your channel Woody! I won’t call it a lecture, because lecture has connotations of being staid and boring. This is anything but that! I really enjoyed this, thank you!!

@WW2TV

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, its one of my favourites too

Fantastic presentation by Jadwiga. Full of facts and has given me food for thought. Thank you. Hope to see more of Jadwiga on WW2TV

The most interesting presentation on the channel! Bring this speaker back for more please

Great presentation.

Absolutely stunning presentation! I humbly ask for more :)

Another amazing video. Dr. Biskupska was so informative and I learned so much. Thank you.

Thank you for this very insightful lecture. The detail you've presented is crucial to having a better understanding of the day to day attitudes of these people who lived under Nazi occupation. It's a great food for thought on what happens when ppl are subjected to tyring to survive under tyranny, and when overlaying these stories over the ones from other parts of Europe, opens possibilities of new perspectives on life & resistance mvmts in other countries.

Another fascinating talk. Dr Biskupska is an excellent presenter and I look forward to hearing her speak again. Well done!

Absolutely fantastic presentation on a very horrific period of history!

@WW2TV

7 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

such an interesting guest with fascinating information. Thank you WW2 TV for bringing the reality of WWII in such a personal and dynamic way.

Great video and guest. Very interesting.

A fantastic presentation, very informative. I learned a lot thank you

@WW2TV

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

This is one of the most revealing, informative and important presentations I've ever seen. And I've seen a lot of them. I need to understand more about this. Absolutely brilliant. Wish it could've gone one for days.

@WW2TV

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it was a favourite of mine too

This is brilliant, so informative on things I've never seen any books coveing

Holy cow! Where was Dr. Biskupska when I took my university history courses? This was an outstanding show, among the best yet. Excellent topic, research, and very professional presentation . As a matter of fact this Eastern Front week has been a standout. Keep up the great work!

@WW2TV

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Yes I've been very pleased with the response to this week's content

An excellent and fascinating presentation....yes please to part two....

Fascinating information. Learned a lot from a real expert with new ideas.

Another high quality episode 👌

Wonderful presentation. Thank you very much. My uncle Ladislaw has a placard in Warsaw as well as those other brave men and women. Haven't been to Warsaw in years but this presentation makes me want to go back again. Thanks again

Awesome and informative presentation on Poland in WWII.

High quality presentation. Some very bright women historians you’ve hosted recently.

Amazing stuff

Fascinating subject brilliantly presented

Absolutely a superb presentation. beautifully delivered by an even more beautiful narrator. And I thought that I knew the complete narrative. Bravo young lady.

@WW2TV

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the positive comments but its 2022, we don't need comments about the attractiveness of the guests plesse. You would never say something about Peter Caddick-Adams looks

Really liked this episode. The story of Polish resistance in WW2 is an epic one.

Liked and subbed

@WW2TV

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Welcome aboard

@guyinacoffeeshop2239

2 жыл бұрын

@@WW2TV your welcome and thank you. I have a question, did any of the polish resistance have a special forces group?

Another show that has proven a wealth of new perspectives and information, always learning.

Superb presentation on the means to Resist an occupation by a hostile power! The information war/ the countering enemy propaganda war/ the educational resistance/ and the long-term culture preservation attempts since not everyone is a soldier, or a trained saboteur...Magnificent. Strongly SUGGEST we have her again online! Outstanding cap to the Eastern Front week, sir.

@WW2TV

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I will definitely have her back on WW2TV

All of your guests are great. 1 in 30 is as good as Dr. Jadwiga. James Zobel comes to mind.

Any chance of you being able to find guests who can discuss the situation in Greece & Albania? A little mentioned area of the war

@WW2TV

2 жыл бұрын

They are on my list of show ideas. As soon as I find a suitable guest or guests I will do something

I was struck by the use of clandestine education as a means of resistance brought out by Professor Biskupska in her discussion. It seemed that the more that the Nazis tried to destroy the hope of the Poles by violence, the more the Poles found non violent ways to keep hope alive. Violence only benefits the oppressor, never the victims. Violence never can destroy the human spirit as was evidenced by this illuminating lecture. We have been treated to two fantastic presentations by two brilliant female scholars over the past two days. Where were these women when I was seeking to court a wife? I am honored to have been able to listen to such excellent work. Please have the professor back again.

This was excellent! Well done. Would be amazing to see her back to cover 44+ with the uprising

@zepter00

Жыл бұрын

I think that you can find better suited profesionals to talk about that in Warsaw.

Superb presentation on every level. I hope she is involved in policy one day because she has a great sense of the grey hues of history and humanity and knows how to express them.

This is another excellent presenation.

Excellent presentation by Jadwiga. She has only touched the surface of what she knows vs what we thought we knew on WW2 occupied Poland. By all means, bring her back for a part 2. We all need to learn more. Yes, it's very easy to think that armed resistance is the only way to resist an occupation. Keeping your language, religion, culture & history alive through clandestine education are just as valid means as armed resistance (which has its positives & negatives). Not as heroic but it works. Because as Jadwiga points out, the Poles don't know who is going to be the sole occupier/opponent when the war ends. So by 1944, they have to be sure they're an unified unbroken people when the Soviets come to "liberate" them from the Nazis in 1944. And accordingly, fight to retain a Polish state from a position of strength. P.S. although not mentioned here, resistance to the Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland was still continued by the Polish Army post 1939. Bands of soldiers continued to fight on in the open (they refused to join the Polish Home Army resistance out of a sense of pride) and NKVD reports of captured wounded Polish soldiers can be found up to 1941 (reference: Rising '44: The Battle For Warsaw; Norman Davies).

Dam. That picture of that partisan holding that BAR is bas ass.

Excellent presentation! Here’s something that came to mind when listening to the directions in the Illegal newspaper about how to be Polish: ‘when asked to work, drag your feet, when asked directions, give bad directions’, essentially act stupid … Since the Germans essentially wrote the narrative about the war afterwards… is this the genesis or basis of the myth/joke about Polish people being stupid? In fact … they were TOLD to do it to just irritate the Germans? Priceless 😂

In the late 60s early 70s I worked with a man who was 14yo in Warsaw when he was caught out after curfew. He ran messages for the underground and made up small wire pyramids which were thrown on the road to puncture tyres. He was lucky that no German soldiers were killed that night because hostages such as he was were shot for every death. He was put to work in a factory packing parachutes which were used on canisters of food, munitions etc Different chutes for different weights. They tried mixing the chutes up when possible. The light ones with a big chute, would drift and the heavy weights would piledrive with a heavy load. I don't know how often opportunity would present itself because getting caught would have meant death.

@WW2TV

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing that story Rob

As been said before Resistance can take many forms.

In the US today, and maybe other parts of the world, resistance can mean catching water from your roof or growing a small garden in your own yard. Hard to believe that these activities can be ilegal.

@WW2TV

17 күн бұрын

This comment is not really valid on a WW2 channel

I don't know about other countries, but in the United States, the story of Poland in World War II is quite limited. Obviously, Poland is brought up for the start of the war in Europe and it's conquest. Thereafter, Poland is only brought up episodically for the Holocaust, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Warsaw Uprising, the Soviet conquest of Poland, the betrayal of Poland at Yalta, The liberation of concentration camps, and the new borders of Europe. In some more comprehensive accounts, The einsatzgruppen massacres of the intelligentsia, the Katyn massacre, Polish pilots during the Battle of Britain, Polish units in Italy, and the role of Polish code breakers in breaking the Enigma code are brought up. The only place with more extensive coverage of Poland would be the World War II channel on KZread. In order to resist, everyone had to give an outward appearance of compliance. People who didn't do that were simply shot and could not be anything but martyrs.

@zepter00

Жыл бұрын

It is very sad because Poland was 3rd in participation to the victory in western allies...just after USA and UK ..both by number of deployed soldiers, resistance fighters, partisans, intel and technical contribution, cracking Enigma, inventong rotary tank periscope Rudolf Gundlach, mine detector, Polsten 20 mm AA gun and many more like capturing intact V2 rocket,

Listen to the shoah foundation recordings of survivors they many mention the education points it was very important,although from a jewish point of veiw still directly along side the polish schooling was deemed important

Note to self: pack an extra pair of socks when hopefully Dr.Biskupska returns as the ones you're wearing will be blown off. Thank you.

@WW2TV

Жыл бұрын

Nice to hear

Never let Oral.History die out. Record EVERYTHING and Document it Properly. Document EVERYTHING. Once the Generations die out, so does the TRUTH.

I would like to know if a lot of people or not many at all think that the president of Polands plane crashing was assassination or an accident.

Poland was Great; and that was their demise..Polish Socialism vs Universal Socialism; allegiance at the time, to be on what side; or just being Polish?!

My wife calls me “The Polish Resistance” because I have Polish ancestry and, apparently, I’m very stubborn. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Terrible.

@WW2TV

6 ай бұрын

What is terrible?

@jimplummer4879

6 ай бұрын

@WW2TV What the Nazis did to Poland.

@WW2TV

6 ай бұрын

Agreed, and the Soviets too of course

@jimplummer4879

6 ай бұрын

@WW2TV Yes, the Poles were caught in vice between the two.

@wojtekmleczaj6603

4 ай бұрын

Germans ​@@jimplummer4879