They restored Poland because they quote "felt like it".

@regabrielexv

Ай бұрын

"Felt cute, might conquer it later"

@BOZ_11

Ай бұрын

He clearly said that Russia and Germany wanted a smaller border between them. The same exact reason Mongolia has as much land as it does (keeps the Russian/Chinese border to its present minimum)

@FilmSkylar

Ай бұрын

missed the joke

@The_whales

Ай бұрын

What could possibly go wrong? -famous last words until mid 1918

@suhnih4076

Ай бұрын

Heh

Germany restored Poland in WW1, so they could invade it in WW2. Very clever move.

@BartlomiejDmowski

Ай бұрын

Made my day. I'm going to use it whenever some German "patriot" mumbles how Germany is so terrible now and it's all our fault

@PatRodak

Ай бұрын

Masterful gambit sir

@democraticrepublicofsprout7263

Ай бұрын

Germany made the Soviet Union so that the Nazis would have to fight a front in the East. Big brain moves

@suhnih4076

Ай бұрын

Lol oof

@NIDELLANEUM

Ай бұрын

Amusing, I thought "I wonder how many comments do I have to scroll down before someone makes a joke about them invading Poland in WW2" Didn't even have to scroll

The green in the Polish flag represents unchanging borders. The blue represents reliable allies.

@marcromain64

Ай бұрын

I see what you did there.

@LMB222

Ай бұрын

Jesus Christ of the colour palette, couldn't you have chosen a better pair? 😜

@sbiebaut7289

Ай бұрын

And the purple in the Polish flag its competent governments and leaders

@martinfiedler4317

Ай бұрын

You are writing nonsense, the Polish flag does not contain.... OOOOOOOOOOH

@ell3655

Ай бұрын

But there’s no green or blue on the Polish flag? I think?

Germany wanted a cute little buddy buffer state that they could eat when it grew up and stopped being cute.

@mingau993

Ай бұрын

me when the state I created to separate me from russia refuses to hand me danzig

@ecurewitz

Ай бұрын

So, a livestock buffer state

@timmccarthy9917

Ай бұрын

In urban planning this is known as "extra-territorial jurisdiction", land banked for a future annexation.

@sciencefliestothemoon2305

Ай бұрын

but later adding Galicia would make a rather less little buddy buffer state...

@AdvancedGamer-

Ай бұрын

@@mingau993💀💀

Germany: We want a Poland Germany 20 years later: We want a Poland. Again. Only this time it's actually ours. Poland: ...

@EEEEEEEE

Ай бұрын

E‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

@marcromain64

Ай бұрын

By the way, Germany vehemently supported Poland's accession to the EU. That was also 20 years ago now. You know what that means... /s

@AFGuidesHD

Ай бұрын

You could say German-Polish relations were complicated. Funny moustache man actually wanted them as an ally. But completely fumbled his diplomacy playthrough by not inviting Poland to the Munich conference.

@AnimeSunglasses

Ай бұрын

1944: Russia: "now WE want a Poland of our own!" Poles: "..."

@crafterrium8724

Ай бұрын

@@AFGuidesHD bro bought 1 million subs lmaoo what a loser, also that's just dead wrong germany wanted danzig from the start

Rare moment of historical Germany wanting Poland to exist.

@mixererunio1757

Ай бұрын

Moments when Poland wanted Germany to exist are even rarer. Nonexistent even.

@amadiohastruck4331

Ай бұрын

​@mixererunio1757Shhhh, they might call you a fashy

@edwinhuang9244

Ай бұрын

*Poland would not be fully independent of Germany

@rangar6853

Ай бұрын

Rare moment of historical Germany when forgoten why Poland shouldn't exist in first place*

@sthgamer_

Ай бұрын

Trololo

Germany in 1916: We want Poland on the map of Europe! Germany in 1939: Not that much Poland...

@plrc4593

Ай бұрын

*1939.

@Cyricist001

Ай бұрын

No, the painter was the first German leader who accepted Polish borders and anted an alliance against the USSR, this only stopped when Poland was guaranteed by France and Britain against Germany.

@extrage3061

Ай бұрын

@@Cyricist001 Where did you learn history bro.. Also it makes no sense, Germany attacked Poland because it was guratanteed by France and Britain? Actually Britain and France guaranteed the independance of Poland after the war had started and joined the Poles much later.

@Cyricist001

Ай бұрын

@@extrage3061 .... so by your logic, why did France and Britain declare war on Germany if Germany attacked Poland before any guarantees were given to it? What happened is that Britaina and France gave their guarantees in march and the war started in september of the same year. Meaning that your entire comment is wrong.

@3st3st77

Ай бұрын

@@Cyricist001 Need I remind you that we are talking about the same guy who wanted to form a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union guaranteeing their sphere of influence in Europe? And who claimed that he would only occupy German-speaking parts of Czechoslovakia and would forever stop expanding afterwards? He was not the most reliable person when it came to promises.

What is very interesting (and goes unnoticed) is that for centuries Polish - German (HRE) border was probably the most peaceful land border of Poland

@Osterochse

Ай бұрын

yes, that is practically unknown to many people. The borders practically never shifted for 350 years until the division of Poland and when they did it happened usually in a more peaceful way. Poland was even in personal union with saxony for 66 years.

@somewhereelse1235

Ай бұрын

@@szabuowski8677The majority of those happened after the dissolution of the HRE. And while yes there were polish uprisings, those were also AFTER the first two partitions of Poland, when the Border had finally started to move after the ~350 years of peace.

@tutentyp6934

Ай бұрын

Even better. Catholocism, a pillar of polish identity, got it's way into the kingdom with significant german support.

@tutentyp6934

Ай бұрын

If we ignore the czech-polish wars which brought silesia into the HRE with subsequent german settlement/influence, then yea you're right.

@Osterochse

Ай бұрын

@@szabuowski8677maybe I should have added the words "until the division of Poland". that was my bad. I was majorly referring to the times until 1772. They didn't shift a lot between 1385 and 1772.

It is a well known fact that a strong empire survives on a healthy diet of Poland.

@gerwaltspodnovigradu5508

Ай бұрын

Yeah, especially russians who were fighting against countless Polish rebelions destabilizating their already pretty divided country

@Comrade-Mostafa

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂...truly smart bro🎉🎉🎉

@Lucasrocha-pl1ll

Ай бұрын

​@@gerwaltspodnovigradu5508well the russian empire wasnt a strong empire about that time

@gerwaltspodnovigradu5508

Ай бұрын

@@Lucasrocha-pl1ll well austrians weren't either, but russians were stronger than austrians and literally only other strong country there was germany

@dtikvxcdgjbv7975

Ай бұрын

Well, it is all the Sejm. 😂

It's often overlooked how WW1 was technically a civil war for Poland. Although it technically didn't exist, there were Poles both on the side of the Central Powers and the Entente fighting each other.

@Tudor_Rusan

Ай бұрын

This was the case for Romanians as well, and Austria-Hungary made significant efforts to make sure none of the ethnic Romanians drafted from Transylvania actually fought in the region.

@ryangosling9275

Ай бұрын

Instead of civil war, it was more like a bets, who would win WWI and grant Poland independence for your sacrifice

@mixererunio1757

Ай бұрын

Yes, that is extremely sad and overlooked time in Polish history. More Poles died fighting in WW1, than in WW2 (in actual battles). And you need to combine that with the rest of civilian deaths, occupation, famine and spanish flu after the war.

@kingace6186

Ай бұрын

Damn. I never thought about it that way. Which make sense why the Soviets and Nazis invading Independent Poland is what officially triggered World War 2.

@KonradofKrakow

Ай бұрын

I have heard that some Polish unitis realising they are facing other Polish units would secretly agree to shoot in the air to avoid harming eachother.

I wanted a Poland for Christmas one year

@gustykraken

Ай бұрын

U get it?

@davesy6969

Ай бұрын

You would only play with the box it came in. 🎁

@joaolucasfraga9147

Ай бұрын

Everybody wants a Poland, until they grow. A Poland is COMMITMENT, people! You can't just have one for Christmas and then dump it on the side of the road like so many other Polands!

@suhnih4076

Ай бұрын

Same

@jlshel42

Ай бұрын

@@gustykraken Mom said only gifts that fit under the tree

Germany in ww1 : we want a Poland Germany in ww2 : we want Poland

@tronKriz

Ай бұрын

Funny how one letter changes everything

@Cyricist001

Ай бұрын

Yes but actually no. AH was the first chancellor that agreed to the Polish border, he courted Poland for years for an alliance and that stopped when Poland was guaranteed by France and Britain against Germany.

@seronymus

Ай бұрын

​@@tronKrizone literal iota makes all the difference, a universe worth: homoousios vs homoiousios ☦️

1:20 I always thought it was weird, as a Lithuanian, that Germany would make the Lithuanian puppet state so large. I can get including cities like Vilnius (historical capital )and Grodno despite of large Polish populations due to proximity, but the southern regions were so far away from the core lands that they never, even at the height of the Grand Duchy, were lithuanian speaking. My guess was that to keep the Polish puppet state from getting too strong, but its just a hunch.

@dvv18

Ай бұрын

Despite what the romantic nationalism of the last 200 or so years tries to make us believe, it's never about trifling things like languages.

@datdude119

Ай бұрын

I think it was to separate Polish speaking populations as much as possible to make any revolt not just a German effort but a multi national one.

@romas011

Ай бұрын

@@datdude119 thats a very good point. Another thought is that a lithuania of this size wouldnt be easily centralised, again making it more reliant on Germany.

@8Hshan

Ай бұрын

@@dvv18 Yeah, and then Yugoslavia happens. Not fun.

@Osterochse

Ай бұрын

fascinating that they wanted to create a state like this, yes. but at the end of th day it is just power politics anyway.

"Congratulations, you are being liberated. Please do not resist."

@amadeosendiulo2137

Ай бұрын

And we resisted 😉 Especially here in Poznań.

@talesferreiralimadossantos8806

Ай бұрын

​@@amadeosendiulo2137How's life there now? Do you still have German influence?

@amadeosendiulo2137

Ай бұрын

@@talesferreiralimadossantos8806 The region is richer than the east, the railway network is denser (although it suffered because of the rise of the car popularity too). Poznań is quite progressive, there are queer spaces in the centre and the pride parade called ‘Equality March’ happens yearly not as a protest anymore. We have some German architecture and even infrastructure. The linguistic influence of German on the regional dialect has faded away in everyday speech. Apart from Polish, English and Russian/Ukrainian are the most common languages in the city. Interestingly, you could find places with a German minority and German as an official language in southern Poland, way further from Germany.

@Argacyan

Ай бұрын

@@amadeosendiulo2137 The German minority you mention resides in Upper Silesia. While the area of Oppeln is farther away from current-day Germany, the areas of Silesia inhabited by Germans or Germanic people (referring to people speaking a Germanic language, but not nationally German such as Austrians & Swedes etc) used to extend up to that area before the end of WW2.

@MinusTheRogue

Ай бұрын

“Kurwa”

its funny because in my Victoria 3 Prussia campaign I did the exact same thing for the exact same reasons, and I had no idea that it happened irl until now

@niono1587

Ай бұрын

ye its very fun in video games when you end up reverse engineering things that happened in real life because it just makes sense.

@Comrade-Mostafa

Ай бұрын

@niono1587 Yes, especially when in any case france will do some revolution no matter what it would result! Sometimes, they become communist or even fa*sit. This is so realistic, dude...😅😂😂😂🎉

@palchum1185

Ай бұрын

Vic3 sucks

@concept5631

Ай бұрын

Then why are you "participating" in this conversation? ​@@palchum1185

@cl8804

Ай бұрын

gay af

James bissonete payed a goodwill price for them to do that.

Because James Bissonette wanted to use Poland as a place to exile his enemies

@paulcowlishaw

Ай бұрын

Who

@TransKidsMafia

Ай бұрын

Please be kind to trans kids my newborn is trans

@Liverpool-2004

Ай бұрын

@@paulcowlishawA patreon who gets mentioned in the end of every video

@toldiaraber

Ай бұрын

Sadly Kelly Moneymaker had no intentions of reviving Poland as it would weaken his alliance with Sky Shapal and thus .. war

@_nobodyxi

Ай бұрын

As they deserved Viva la Bisonette

1939: "Your services are no longer required"

@SillyUwUBilly

Ай бұрын

1945: "Likewise"

So, basically… Wilhelm II: “Wanna make Nicky angry?” Franz Joseph: “Yeah” Nicholas II: *cries in Yekaterinburg*

@NicolasHaufe

Ай бұрын

🤓 actually it by the time poland was created it would Karl I because Franz Joseph died in 1916

@BCrane-ej4iq

Ай бұрын

@@NicolasHaufe So you’re saying… Will II: “Charlie, wanna make Nicky Angry?” Karl I: “Bet” Nicholas II: *screams at Ipatiev House*

@Admiral45-10

Ай бұрын

To be fair, Nicolas II also promised to restore Polish Kingdom, on a little less harsh conditions as the Germans - and for the exact same reason. Yet another reason that pollitical leaders on all sides eventually gained interest in restoring Poland was to keep Poles fighting and supporting the ,,right" side, after historical propaganda campaign on both sides didn't work.

@diegoyqulki

Ай бұрын

I hate you Willy 🤬 Nicky-Rusian Empire 1916

Josef Pilsudski who was later the leader of Poland lead Polish Legions in the Austro Hungarian Army because he hated the Russian empire more . However he was arrested by the Kaiser after he refused to bow to him . He hated monarchies especially the German and Russian one . This cause massive amounts of his troops to disobey the Germans .

You know it's a good day when History Matters posts German politics

Finally, Ive been waiting for Poland lore!

@amadeosendiulo2137

Ай бұрын

So what you should look for is the 10/11th century CE.

Similar to the proposed Bulgaria that was created in the Treaty Of San Stefano, except in this case the proposed Bulgaria was a Russian puppet state meant to give Russia access to the Mediterranean. As I figured, Germany created/recreated Poland as a puppet/rump state.

Germany 30 years later: You no longer need to exist

@bartosz1320

Ай бұрын

Poland after ww2: "still D.R.E starts playing" Guess who's back

@luigi7720

Ай бұрын

​@@bartosz1320as a Russian puppet 😂😂😂

@bartosz1320

Ай бұрын

@@luigi7720 Poland in 1989: "without me starts playing" Guess who's back, back again

@Todietipso

Ай бұрын

Germany 110 years later: Actually, can you also take Saxony with you?

@LMB222

Ай бұрын

​@@Todietipsosadly your joke went over the heads of most here… 😐 Poland can also take Sachsen-Anhalt, and especially Meklemburg.

when Germany has its own version of Sikes-Picot...and actually fullfills its end of the bargain

@douglasboyle6544

Ай бұрын

Not enough straight lines 😊

@Hadar1991

Ай бұрын

No, they did not. Germany promised a Polish state, but they refused to say what borders they would have. So for the whole time Polish government did not know what exactly territory they were governing. When the war was nearing to end there was series of uprising which started establishing who controls what. And this basically destroy foreign relation between all those new emerging states because there were multiple example when two or more governments toughs they controlled territory X.

@dwarow2508

Ай бұрын

It did not actually fullfil the bargain but sure

Everyone talks about James bisonette but nobody talks about how there’s a guy who is spinning three plates and he’s been spinning them for a couple years at this point

Gotta love history videos man!

2:05 Note that the Entente didn't promise all this land. Poland fought Russia, Lithuania and Ukraine for the eastern part, and the west wasn't happy about Poland's "invasion". You should make a video about the Polish-Bolshevik war, it's pretty interesting.

@deepconnectome

Ай бұрын

Every single problem we have since 1900s is because of bolshevics.

As a Pole I appreciate the using of polish 'nie' instead of 'no' ; in fun fact no xD

@susiduo3438

Ай бұрын

Nie means never in German which makes it even funnier imo.

@maras3naraz

Ай бұрын

And polish money as well

James bissonete payed a goodwill price for them to do that

@paulcowlishaw

Ай бұрын

Who

@SGNL05

Ай бұрын

No, it was Kelly Moneymaker.

@crogersMX

Ай бұрын

James Castañeda stopped funding this long ago.

Thank you for making this video, much appreciated.

Thank you and have a great weekend, HM!

The eastern borders Poland would receive based on the Entente's proposal were not the 1921 border you showed in your video. It was actually along the Curzon line which is more similar to the 1945 border. The Entente also did not really aprove of Poland's new 1921 borders until they realised that they could not beat the Soviets militarily

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 *Germany and Austria-Hungary, historically hostile to Poland, sought to restore Poland during WWI, mainly to counter Russian threats and shorten their border for defense.* 00:55 *Germany wanted a Polish state as a buffer against Russia, to deport potentially rebellious Polish population, and to enhance its dominance in Europe, intending to control Poland's economy, railroads, and military.* 02:04 *Despite promises, the German-offered Polish state was not well-received by Poles, leading to unrest and eventually declaration of independence when Germany started losing the war.* Made with HARPA AI

All pro-central powers sentiments in Poland were killed by the central powers themselves. In February 1918 in treaty of Brest Germany and Austria transferred Chełm land from former Congress Poland to Ukrainian State. In protest Polish government led by Jan Kucharzewski resigned, and all Poles serving in Austrian military administration also resigned. Polish members of Austrian parliament moved to opposittion what prevented budget adoption and led to the parliamentary crisis in Austria. Also Polish auxiliary corp led by col Haller deserted from Austrian command. In Kraków officials decorated their dogs with Austrian orders and medals.

love ur work

Very important topic in Polish history is that we, the Poles, tend to ignore nowadays the fact of the Kingdom of Poland even existing despite it being responsible for basically creating Poland from nothing. Official historical narrative is that on 11.11.1918 we "got independence" but for some reason no one asks the question how exactly did it happen, it's like: *snap of fingers* boom Poland exists now. It's funny in its own way but primarily sad.

@The1Asher

Ай бұрын

Most of people that created Poland have been exterminated in PRL. I am not sure of what we you are talking about. In Polish you say I did something or Poles did something.

@OrkosUA

Ай бұрын

History classes in every country usually omit uncomfortable facts like this one.

@lukaszprotas

Ай бұрын

Try telling in school that we in Poland should celebrate 7.10.18 as intependent day, not the 11.11. On 7.10 Regency Council declared polish independence. Tell us how it went xD

@bunkol294

Ай бұрын

This is being taught in Polish schools, the problem is that praising Kingdom of Poland for polish independence would make as much sense as doing the same for Hans Frank's GG, KoP was artficial state created to trick Polish people into fighting alongside central powers, Germans didnt care about existence of Polish state and even wanted to carve half of its territories most notably northern Mazovia and Łódzkie, deport all Poles from there and settle those places with Germans.

@OrkosUA

Ай бұрын

@@bunkol294 still denying its role in the preparing Polish for independence is just weird.

Another great video. Humorous at times and informative.

I love how everyone once in a while I'll just be watching a bunch of these and all of a sudden I realize the latest one I clicked on happened to be brand new

Nice video.👍

As a maker of Poles myself, this really intrigued me

@steve1978ger

Ай бұрын

May I ask what kind of Poles you make?

Another amazing video

The video quality improvement alot

The plan to annex the polish strip was only a suggestion and it was never really implemented and i dont think the plan was seriously considered.

@leris7697

Ай бұрын

It was the favored plan by Ludendorff and Hindenburg, who by 1918 were the de facto dictators of Germany

@talesferreiralimadossantos8806

Ай бұрын

Yeah, what would be the point of creating a Polish state, transfer Poles to there, but also annex a strip of land to populate with Germans?

@zayedbinimran957

Ай бұрын

@@talesferreiralimadossantos8806 buffer.

@leris7697

Ай бұрын

@@talesferreiralimadossantos8806 Genocide, mostly. They weren't Nazis obviously but the Imperial German government still had pretty much the same opinions on the Polish that the Nazis did. There are letters from Bismarck from I believe the 1880s which expressed his desire for the total annihilation of the Polish people.

@ak-od7mf

Ай бұрын

@@leris7697 The Kaiser most likely never wanted any new land, the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine had been proven problematic enough, and at the end of the war theyd rather just want to be surrounded by somewhat friendly and calm neighbouring states and its not like the Poles were a united people either, some of them would rather join Germany than be part of a new Polish state. It was a very tricky score to settle.

It was mostly because Germany and to some extent Austria wanted to win over the Poles in support of the war effort and so promised them a independent state with large parts of the Polish speaking lands of the Russian empire. Basically to keep the Poles loyal so they don't try to revolt and possibly break away

@Cyricist001

Ай бұрын

No, the Central powers really wanted buffer states with Russia, Poland wasn't the only one that was supposed to be made from the Brest-Litovsk agreement. They would be puppet states, but the Soviets and American did the same thing, it's politics as usual.

Another great video!

Very interesting thanks for the video.

woah! I am a Pole that love history but I never heard of it! I didn't thought that I will find something here about Poland that I don't know about

@kodor1146

Ай бұрын

You didn´t know that the Germans were the founders of the Polish nation state O_o The Germans even printed the first Polish money.

history matters is the best way to learn history honestly

This week in questions we didn't know we needed to ask but are really curious about. 😁

Good video.

Nice detail that Germanys, Polands and Austria-Hungarys colours are the same as the current German flag. (Black, Red and Gold/Yellow)

@The1Asher

Ай бұрын

1+1=2, 4-2=2 and this is exactly as 4*2/4 so you are a Russian troll.

During World War One, Poland was divided and occupied by three major powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia. The region had been partitioned between these empires in the late 18th century and had ceased to exist as a sovereign state. However, during World War One, various Polish political factions and military units fought on different sides of the conflict.

@ewdsfghnrefdvgbgnmj

Ай бұрын

Germany only occupied the areas of Posen and West Prussia from Poland. Russia and Austria had the most. (In the German Empire only lived 3 Millionen poles)

@dwarow2508

Ай бұрын

Russia until 1814 only had Russian land under control, not Polish land. It was only after the Napoleonic Wars when the Poles sided with the French during the invasion of Russia that the Russians decided to turn the remaining Polish state into a puppet with a very high degree of autonomy

Fascinating!

Vassal feeding saves time and admin points you would need to use to core annexed provinces.

I have heard of Polish people celebrating the birth of modern Poland on November 11, 1918, corresponding to the Treaty of Versailles. Apparently they considered the German puppet state described in this video to be Poland in name only.

Day 3 of asking him to finish the English/British history series

Nice one! Perhaps something about Switzerland?

@ShadowSmokes

Ай бұрын

Have you ever had any war?

Would you consider doing videos on the Swiss or Swedish nuclear weapons programs? It seems they both got pretty extensively far into it but scrapped them as the cold war came to an end. Really interesting stuff personally

I really love HM videos, but I usually already know 90% of the content. This time I really learned a lot! Thanks!

Another interesting puppet of Germany was the "United Baltic Duchy", a kind of pseudo-Teutonic Order State with a German nobility and consisting of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as having a cool black and white Nordic Cross flag. This state was the successor of another short-lived German puppet state called the "Duchy of Courland and Semigallia" (not to confused with the earlier Polish vassal of the same name).

@The1Asher

Ай бұрын

OMG so Christian cross that is used all over Europe and is the symbol of Catholic church is Teutonic? Jesus. Please write to Putin who is the head of Orthodox Church immediately.

One of my Favorite episodes!

Possible History needs to watch this video

Woooo! History!

Can you do a video on why there was no coalition against Cromwell like what happened to Napoleon

KAISEREICH INTENSIFIES.

@ItsHonski

Ай бұрын

united baltic duchy moment

I enjoyed this episode.

Never clicked fast than ever

Because James bissonette wants to carve out a kingdom for himself

the historical context behind Germany's actions in World War One through this insightful animated documentary. 📜🌍

Poland when ask about restoring independence : *visible proudness* Poland when asked how they expanded their terretory in 20s: *quick change of subject *

@paprykpapryk84

Ай бұрын

We did get them for russians.

@Werty715_25

Ай бұрын

@@paprykpapryk84 Not Russians, Bolsheviks.

"I have gotten the greatest return on investment in history!" -James Bissonette (probably)

That’s a question I‘m asking myself every day. Why? Why? WHYYYYYYY?!

It's still wild to think that for a time, the United States and Poland-Lithuania existed together.

I do like these info reports

As a Kaiserreich fan this is too accurate lmao

Also, they wanted to create a polish batalion that would fill the conscription needs of the German Empire. They estimated 1 milion poles would be able to fight in german army but that backfired because the polish troops didn't want to fight for the germans and after the polish comitte was abolished by the germans they all turned against Germany. That's why the polish state in 1918 already had a national army.

Thanks for sharing this piece of history. Despite being german, I never heard of it before. Provably because school tends to focus on the western front of WWI.

I feel bad. I searched for "spinning three plates" to find a video of someone who cut a clip of you saying this with your channel's name in the title because I forgot what it was. But hey, at least it worked 😂

what history class leaves out: (they only teach kids about germans using gas and flamethrowers)

@suchymk

Ай бұрын

because they did use gas and flamethrowers, and even in this video its said that they only wanted Poland as a vassal state dependent on germany

@kodor1146

Ай бұрын

@@suchymk "because they did use gas and flamethrowers," As did anybody. " and even in this video its said that they only wanted Poland as a vassal state dependent on germany" Nevertheless the Germans were the founders of Poland. They even printed the first Polish money. The right of self determination of peoples is used to be atrributed to Woodrow Wilson but the actual inventors were the Germans.

The best thing is that the Entente didn't want an independent Poland either, they preferred Poland in union with Russia, like before, and if it was going to be independent it shouldn't be too big so as not to offend Russia

@Admiral45-10

Ай бұрын

That was the plan of Eastern Entante (excluding Japanese, they were cool). Western Entante didn't get involved in Polish matters for long time, mainly because they saw them as insignificant - that was, until the formation of gen. Haller's Blue Army in France in 1917.

Dzięki

More videos please

Because they wanted that reconquest cb

Interesting

Thank you.

It wasent so simple, but hay, 3 min clip. Thx

James Bisonette cast the deciding vote to create a new Polish state.

Poland is okay, as long as it’s not made from my territory

@SillyUwUBilly

Ай бұрын

And You are From ?

@gabespiro8902

Ай бұрын

I’m fine with people Polish, just so long as they keep it in the bedroom

0:07 It would be coller if there was written on the grave "We'll be back"

Actually after the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (in short Poland-Lithuania) was carved up, Russia didn't actually annex it but created retained the Kingdom of Poland, which it finally annexed a few years before WW1. The Emperor of Russia was the King of Poland.

@Werty715_25

25 күн бұрын

It got annexed 50 years before WW1, not a few years.

I guess Fun Fact abaut the Regency Council: Suprisingly they weren't just Spineless laceys to Germany and, like the vid said, declared independence and Kind of gave foundations for second republic. BTW one of its members, Zdzisław Lubomirski, lived long enough to WW2 and even afther the fall of Warsaw indirectly suported the creation of Polish Resistance. So yea Pretty nice.

@solsunman383

Ай бұрын

Did the regency ever seriously consider parking a noble bum on the throne of Poland?

@michaldworakowski187

Ай бұрын

​@@solsunman383 I guess it would depend. It was seriously chaotic time where we had lie 2 small republics of National minorites the the polish bolshevik war etc. The answer is...propably not/ would depend on world events and peace deals.

I love when you say "But fun fact, no"

@ArkadiBolschek

Ай бұрын

Surely you mean "Nie" ^^

I get this video in my recommendations right as I finish watching a video about the Western Front of WW1.

@ellidominusser1138

Ай бұрын

Same, only I didn't watch it to the end.

@ellidominusser1138

Ай бұрын

what video did you watch?

@CAProductions051

Ай бұрын

@@ellidominusser1138 Western Front Remastered by Full World Map

@ellidominusser1138

Ай бұрын

​@CAProductions051 Oh I think I watched the same

It's like one of those movies where a bully loses his favorite target and creates a new one, but the new target gets too strong...

If you want more precise information about the topic, I suggest you two videos: The Kingdom of Poland during WW1 and The Occupation of Poland in WW1 both from Sir Manatee channel

I appreciate this channel for highlighting how Europeans fought over the same small strips of land for over 900 years. While simultaneously calling Africans and others warring, savage tribes

@Cyricist001

Ай бұрын

Europeans aren't calling Africans savages for fighting wars, it's a plethora of reasons from how they fight, to cannibalism to wide spread grapes etc

TY🙏🙏

James Bissonette and Kelly Moneymaker. Name a more iconic duo, I'll wait

Nice of Charles I to take time from his busy schedule of being dead since 1649 to donate to the patreon