The fez wearing Italian man

@minecraftgameing1705

3 ай бұрын

love your videos man

@krisstarring

2 ай бұрын

Il Ducebag. 🤣

@wildfire9280

Күн бұрын

what’s up checkmark is this joke still funny

I can’t stop laughing with you naming Mussolini “the fez-wearing Italian man” the fact you cant mention his name otherwise you’ll get demonetized is just sad

@matthewpoole2700

10 ай бұрын

It's cause the vid was initially de-monitzed cause he mentioned his real name, mental ain't it

@scotandiamapping4549

10 ай бұрын

So thats what that was about

@theamericane2655

10 ай бұрын

Only for the first minute

@epicponedge1177

10 ай бұрын

Just call him Chef Boyardee like in HOI4.

@TheMCCraftingTable

10 ай бұрын

You could say he was DEMON-etized.

My math teacher was Greek and told us of how his grandmother would have Italian occupying soldiers over for dinner regularly. Italians and Greeks considered each other related and so they got along together really well. Not so much with the German occupying forces though.

@moranii1843

9 ай бұрын

Thats bullshit. The greeks fought their brutal war against the italian invasion and won. The Germans only came to Greece because the greeks were so zealous and effective in pushing out the italian invaders

@BountyFlamor

9 ай бұрын

Not with the Bulgarians either.

@richardstephens5570

9 ай бұрын

If that's true, then his grandmother was lucky. The Italians committed many atrocities against the Greek people, like the Domenikon massacre for example.

@dante.fiumenero

9 ай бұрын

This massacre was an answer to the free death of 9 italians soldiers by greek resistance. So tell 100% truth or tell nothing jakass@@richardstephens5570

@BamBam-wh7nt

9 ай бұрын

@@richardstephens5570 Not lucky... clever, feeding the soldiers who haven't had a proper meal in months some proper food and building up a relationship, even dogs don't bite the feeding hand, it was probably the best strategy for her to maximize her family's chances of survival in that situation.

Allies: You are going to militarily disarm. You cannot have anymore tanks. Italy: Pfew, oh thank god. We were worried you were going to go hard on us. Allies: You also cannot have an aviation industry. Italy: We thought you were going to punish us. Why are you rewarding us for defeat? Allies: And you must fire all your generals and put them on trial. Italy: Yes! Finally, someone is saying what we are all thinking. Criminally negligent, indeed! Allies: Also you will admit that New York style pizza is superior. Italy: *NEVER SURRENDER, NEVER RETREAT!*

Knowing the problems this video had because of you mentioning Mussolini by name makes the "Fez-wearing Italian man" bit so much funnier

@planescaped

10 ай бұрын

I did not hit her I did naaaht! KZread: WHO SAID HITLER!?

@stevemc01

10 ай бұрын

if he made an original post detailing the issues, I wanna see it.

@edwinhuang9244

10 ай бұрын

The weirdest thing is that he said "mussolinian" yet wasn't in trouble for that.

@8thsinn

10 ай бұрын

The thing is, he said Mosulini at 1:30

@itsblitz4437

10 ай бұрын

​@@planescapedThe Room reference.

The fact that we are forced to treat historical figures as if they were Voldemort, because we can't name them even for educational purposes it's very distopian.

@aoikemono6414

10 ай бұрын

It's for monetization purposes. You can make a rap song with all their names and youtube won't do anything to your video. Advertisers, however, don't want to be associated with anything controversial. It's their money and they get to choose who to support. Nothing dystopian about it. KZread can't handle the millions of videos uploaded daily without using bots, although the bots can be heavy handed and too restrictive, which they are constantly tweaking.

@FlagAnthem

10 ай бұрын

Do you live in Russia? No? Then STFU

@lioraselby5328

10 ай бұрын

​@@aoikemono6414I mean, there were still advertisements on the History Channel when they did their WWII documentaries, or even just advertisements on cable news channels, so I don't think the "advertisers don't want to be associated with anything controversial" argument holds terribly much water.

@theawesomeman9821

10 ай бұрын

seriously?

@jeffersonclippership2588

10 ай бұрын

​@@lioraselby5328 because the History Chanel didn't have a bunch of shows saying "fascism is good" like KZread does

Another bug factor in my opinion is the Italian Civil War that lasted after the capitulation in 1943 all the way to 1945: many parts of the north were in open rebellion and there was fighting even between family members. This is to say that a big chunk of the (surviving) population was willing to give up Fez-wearing and maybe this eased up the peace process.

@diegograssi9269

10 ай бұрын

It can make sense but most of them were Communists …make more sense that the US was worried about them take over and so helped the not Communist part at least the one not compromised too much with Mussolini

@ultimatejager4058

9 ай бұрын

@@diegograssi9269not most of them, just a portion. The members of the resistence belonged to all sorts of political beliefs: democratic-christians, social-democratics, socialists, liberals and yeah, some of them even communists

@fiore7939

9 ай бұрын

This!

@diegograssi9269

9 ай бұрын

@@ultimatejager4058 Some of them even communists?They were by far the largest group , as you can see also in how was composed the CNL ( Comitato di liberazione nazionale) .

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music

9 ай бұрын

OMG YT is now altering history...

Nice video! I'm Italian from Milan, both of my grandfathers were conscripted right before we turned sides, as soon as we did, both were sent to prisoner of war concentration caps. One was sent to Linz in Germany and one in Greece (not sure where). Both survived mal nutrition and decimations. I'm thankful that they somehow survived and I am living proof!

@tancreddehauteville764

10 ай бұрын

My grandfather was also Italian and joined the RSI army after the armistice. He had enough to eat :-)

@sergioparentini6743

10 ай бұрын

@@tancreddehauteville764 You must be so proud 😉

@lambdacode1503

10 ай бұрын

Good for you man, those were tough times. When grandpa was captured by the Americans the conditions of the prisoners were abysmal, he almost died of infection and was lucky compared to many later German prisoners in Allied hands. The dynamics were much more complex than what we're taught at school, it wasn't about the Good guys vs the Bad ones, only the ones that won and those that lost.

@sergioparentini6743

10 ай бұрын

@@lambdacode1503 I totally agree

@tancreddehauteville764

10 ай бұрын

@@sergioparentini6743 I am - very proud.

I mean, when you’re proactive enough to take care of THE FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN you should get some sort of credit for doing so.

@F.R.E.D.D2986

10 ай бұрын

History matters talks like a professor and then pops out with that and it's just comedy gold

@jueviolegrace8827

10 ай бұрын

Mussolini is Mussolini

@sufthegoat

10 ай бұрын

Flex wearing Italian man

@ricardokowalski1579

10 ай бұрын

1:27 and yet one mention slipped thru

@ArcticTemper

10 ай бұрын

'Yeah we supported him for twenty years but now we've lost we'll turn on him' WOWWW

“The fez wearing Italian man” I have a feeling he isn’t allowed to say the fez wearing Italian Man’s name anymore without getting demonetized

@-Benedict

10 ай бұрын

Yet he says the name later in the video anyway.

@Hraher

10 ай бұрын

He alredy said it

@Teknanam

10 ай бұрын

@@-Benedict I think the rule is you can't say certain "offensive" things in the first minute of the video.

@Sceptonic

10 ай бұрын

​@@Teknanamyoure right

@lordfedjuvekinval252

10 ай бұрын

yep, that's what he said on Twitter, saying Mussolini gets him demonetized, so he just uploaded a day late with the hilariously passive aggressive FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN

0:56 THE FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN!! 😂

I was impressed that your battleship animation was an accurate image of the Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto! Good job!

There's actually another very good fact and reason about this that hasn't been mention in the video. When the war was over, the prime minister of Italy, Alcide de Gasperi, heard the the french and the brits wanted to punish Italy hard, so he went to the americans and persuaded them to not go too harsh by promising them that,in exchange, he and the other right wing politicians would never let the communist party of Italy win an election at any cost, securing Italy's position as an enemy of the iron curtain and an ally of the US. De Gasperi's plan worked and the US made sure not to give in to the harsh punishments that France and the UK wanted to give.

@Tonyx.yt.

10 ай бұрын

calling DC politician "right wing" it's a bit of a strecht... they were at best centre-right for european standards

@nadrini300

10 ай бұрын

​@@Tonyx.yt.and the fact that the DC also had a left wing faction that facilitated an organic centre left government.

@RonJohn63

10 ай бұрын

"promising them that ... he and the other right wing politicians would never let the communist party of Italy win an election at any cost". With a little help from the CIA, of course.

@alanpennie8013

10 ай бұрын

Good for him I guess. Though bad for The Communists.

@backwashjoe7864

10 ай бұрын

But I would refer you to @1:25, where he does mention that the Italian government was attractively anti-Communist, and to @1:55, that the US stopped France and the UK from giving harsher punishments. He did not give the details or reasons that you have, but both points were mentioned. You're only going to get so much depth in a 2.5 min video. Atbs, thanks for the extra information, always nice to get to another layer of the onion! :)

For anyone wondering what's going on with the "Fez-Wearing Italian Man" business, it's cos HM keeps getting demonetised by YT for daring to mention the name "Mussolini", which actually delayed the upload of this video for about a day or so. The fact that HM found a way around this, whilst simultaneously not-so-subtly roasting YT's algorithm with that zooming in shot, is the reason why he's legendary.

@GaryWagers

10 ай бұрын

The name Mussolini came up once in this video. I hope he's not going to have trouble because of that.

@heisenburger1_

10 ай бұрын

And Fez-Wearing Italian man and Mr Moustache is absolutely hilarious

@willevensen7130

10 ай бұрын

@@GaryWagersusually you won’t get demonetized if you don’t say anything offensive in the first minute of the video. After that it’s usually ok

@bananasplit3805

10 ай бұрын

Why would the name get him demonitized, I don´t understand?

@GaryWagers

10 ай бұрын

@@willevensen7130 Gotcha, thanks.

Your attention to detail in your character's uniforms and, especially, weapons it quite impressive. Thank you.

Seeing this on a Sunday morning after spending way too much last night, was a delight. Love the quality of your videos. Keep it up, you brought me back from the dead this morning. And a burger. Love from Norway

A part of the history which is always forgotten is the Italian civil war. Love your videos, keep going

@humorpalanta

10 ай бұрын

Unless you are a HOI4 player. Then you would just say "Italy is doing its thing"

@dw620

10 ай бұрын

Italy's helping overthrow the communist government in San Marino afterwards is usually glossed over, too... : )

@Boretheory

10 ай бұрын

@@dw620YEEES FINALLY SOMEONE THAT KNOWS IT

@RobotWithHumanHair.

10 ай бұрын

@@dw620 well they shouldn’t have been commies

@alexahardaway7093

10 ай бұрын

USA to Japan: AHHHHHHHHH- to Germany: OH NO! to Italy: lol- pizza eaters

before everyone else comments, thank you for your hard work and research! I hope you see this comment and know that we appreciate your work!

@newedgegt7435

10 ай бұрын

Who me?

@xbirds9187

10 ай бұрын

Due to my adhd i accidentally read "everyone except communists". Epic

I will never not enjoy this channel. Keep doing what you do man, it is working great!

Great video! I enjoy the scholarship that goes into them, and the tone and running gags make it even more enjoyable!

Hearing History Matters refer to Mussolini as THE FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN is something I didn’t know I needed in my life.

@DreerKarler

Ай бұрын

if you say his name you get demonetized

It did lose territory, though, not just overseas colonies (though it didn't consider Libya a colony) - it lost the Dalmatian port city of Zara and the entirety of Istria with cities like Fiume and Pola to Yugoslavia. Trieste was also temporarily lost in 1947 and existed as a UN-ran free city until being returned to Italy in 1954, although a good chunk of its surrounding towns were also given to Yugoslavia. The island of Sazan was given to Albania. Two villages on the Alpine border with France were also lost to France, along with some other minor border revisions. The Italian islands of the Aegean, namely Rhodes and the Dodecanese, were ceded to Greece.

@alanpennie8013

10 ай бұрын

Those annexations on the French border were very odd. Why would France want such an insignificant alteration?

@emberfist8347

10 ай бұрын

@@alanpennie8013hey lost a good part of land in that region to Italy when they joined the war. The two villages that weren’t part of France’s pre-war borders held a referendum in 1947 to leave Italy and join France.

@giarabub87

10 ай бұрын

De Gaulle wanted the dams built by Italy on the Alps and the chaberton mountain to have a better military position that’s why

@alanpennie8013

10 ай бұрын

@@giarabub87 Makes sense I guess.

@erenkozan2027

10 ай бұрын

Can someone give the names of those two Alpine villages?

Thank you for another good one. It's a question I simply never heard asked before.

Fascinating! I've studied WWII for 50 years, and this is something I never really considered. Thank you for teaching me something today.

1:21 it makes me really happy that you included Canada's flag when talking about the allies. I hate how often the UK gets the credit for countries like Canada and Australia's contributions to the war

@noistivmuestiliv3300

10 ай бұрын

And India. why forget India😭

@chad_b

10 ай бұрын

@@noistivmuestiliv3300 yes India too. I just didn't want to try to list every single country

@cpob2013

10 ай бұрын

That's how imperialism works though, you're just colonies. Or should we throw in Puerto Ricos flag every time the us is mentioned?

@Oakwin_mb

10 ай бұрын

@@cpob2013 if significant puerto rican people/armies/forces etc are involved in the subject, absolutely.

@ANobodyatall

10 ай бұрын

Should put in the South Afrian and Rhodesian flag to be 'fair'. The British flag kinda covers all, as yer know, Empire!

"The fez-wearing italian man" almost choked

@torrick00

10 ай бұрын

Same. 😂

@The105ODST

10 ай бұрын

just like The fez-wearing italian man

Your videos are amazing man, you teach me more in 3 minutes that my school teachers managed in hour long history lessons!

Honestly I had to rewind more than once because I kept laughing so damned hard at the Fez wearing Italian man. Had me in stitches so it did ha ha!! Love your videos, always fascinating and informative, bringing up interesting questions that I’ve never thought to ask even as a history buff with the question-asking capacity of a very annoying small child myself. That and you’re damned good craic yourself! Fantastic video as always!

When demonetization is so bad on KZread that you have to just switch the regular word to just "the fez wearing italian man." I could tell that kind of pained him a bit. Thank you for your hard work and putting out content m8. You deserve the best.

@alexandruchira184

10 ай бұрын

Why you asume is not for comic porpose and you blame demonatization ?

@poe_slaw

10 ай бұрын

@@alexandruchira184 Because he only does it in the first minute of the video and then says Mussolini at 1:26. Also he said so on twitter apparently.

@bcvetkov8534

10 ай бұрын

@@alexandruchira184 why not both?

@waynejohnson1786

10 ай бұрын

@@alexandruchira184Because we have more than two brain cells?

@kourii

10 ай бұрын

@@alexandruchira184 You should really practice your spelling, matey. Also your critical thinking.

I can not express how entertaining I find your little segments of a political figure bounding through a field of flowers

@FieldMarshallWeeb

10 ай бұрын

One of the best yet not often mentioned parts of HM videos.

I again enjoyed another one of your episodes. And every episode. You have a great voice and an excellent tone in your dry British humor. I would like to have a pint with you sometime

As an American of Italian descent, I found this video quite informative! Now, I know some of the reasons why Italy was not placed under an occupation administration: the Allies couldn't spare the resources, President Roosevelt needed the Italian-American vote, and in any case, Italy wasn't seen as a great threat to the major Allies. Thanks for the information! Also, that nickname ("the fez-wearing Italian man") is quite funny!

Good video, but as an italian I would say it's not enough said: an other very important reason is that few days after the 8th September 1943, italian soldiers were ordered by the new government to join the allies and fight the germans. There were not many soldiers and civilians who decided to keep collaborating with the germans after that date. The resistance movement gained more and more success than the fascist counterpart. In Germany and Japan there was no armed resistance against their own dictatorships.

@alanpennie8013

10 ай бұрын

Yep. The Italian defection to The Allies was a big difference.

@Boretheory

10 ай бұрын

@@alanpennie8013 it was not a defection. We surrendered then fell to a civilwar ( caused by Germany) and the majority of the ppl remained with the king which was pro-allies even the majority of the fascists didn’t join Mussolini

@Bo38062

10 ай бұрын

​@@BoretheoryNon è del tutto vero... ovviamente la guerra era persa ma nonostante questo i soldati della RSI erano comunque di più di quelli della resistenza. Pur sapendo di perdere hanno difeso fino alla fine i propri ideali.

@solinhogm

10 ай бұрын

As an Italian what's your opinion on THE FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN

@williamfarnaby

10 ай бұрын

well, must also add that actually Italy was occupied by american troops and military bases that are still there today also: freemasons, vatican and various mafia families with connections in the USA

Even though it sucks that you can’t mention his name without getting demonized, “The Fez Wearing Italian Man” is amazing.

@OptimusWombat

10 ай бұрын

I didn't realize that was why. But in a way it makes the substitution even funnier.

@normanclatcher

10 ай бұрын

Snuck it in at 1:25

@valentintapata2268

9 ай бұрын

Yet there is the possibility of him being confused with Garibaldi.

Short video but supppperr informational and straight to the point. Great job.

1:38 "with some weird neutral zone" Didnt expect anyone else to know about The Man in the High Castle.

It's ridiculous the things a purely historic and educative channel such as this one has to do to not get demonitized. I say no for the KZread thought police

@MikeCee7

10 ай бұрын

What is the actual rule? You can’t say the actual name? but you can actually refer to the person pretty much exactly, without saying the name, and that’s allowed? Whenever I watch a history channel show, they always mention the names.

@PrezVeto

9 ай бұрын

​@@MikeCee7KZread generally doesn't disclose the actual contours of their rules, for the same reason dictators don't clearly define what will get you killed: they like to both instill fear (and the greater self-censorship it induces) and retain the ability to act arbitrarily with less risk of being exposed as doing so.

@Nn-3

9 ай бұрын

​@@MikeCee7This is the first video on this channel where he avoided saying the name. The rule is to have content that Mcdonalds wants to associate itself with. Videos can be auto demonetized if the transcript contains too many keywords associated with manually demonetized videos. Some common stuff I'm aware of: - The Holocaust and other genocides or war crimes - Fascism, Communism, Nazism - Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Mussolini, other dictators - Descriptions of violence, which can include wars - Discussing racism or homophobia - Saying too many swear words

@MikeCee7

9 ай бұрын

@@Nn-3 Thanks for the information. Do they have any rules like that, with the word “Trump”? Isn’t that quite a divisive word?

@Nn-3

9 ай бұрын

@@MikeCee7 Politics is a different scenario. If you discuss politics too much, your channel might get branded as "independent news". If this happens, then vastly fewer people will be recommended to watch your videos compared to a normal channel. I don't think "Trump" by itself will cause demonetization, though.

It’s because James Bisonette would occupy it himself

@CakeboyRiP

10 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure he did

@Memesgoo1

10 ай бұрын

"nah" incoming

@yodathefearless

10 ай бұрын

Nah

@memento-mori-amor

10 ай бұрын

I only come to the comments of HM vids to find the James Bisonette joke tbh

@tomasfelipegonzalezmeza8207

10 ай бұрын

Don't forget about Kelly Money-maker

I like your sprint docs to refresh my memory. I need that at my age.

The “Fez-wearing Italian man" makes this video very funny and also you finally making an video about why Italy wasn’t carved up after ww2 makes it even better

0:46 "The fez-wearing Italian man" - Dumbledore said calmly

Please God make THE FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN a meme for the channel where appropriate, that was bloody iconic 😂😂😂😂

@lawrencedoliveiro9104

10 ай бұрын

The FWIM!

Actually in Italy we have more than 100 American military bases (maybe there are another 30 secret ones) still "occupying" the peninsula, many of them with nuclear weapons that make Italy a nuclear target o.c., but if you prefer for some reason to avoid the use of the word "occupation", well, we can go on sying that this situation is not an "occupation", however the truth is different: Italy and all other Axis nations are still under American military occupation 80 years after the end of World War II. That's it.

@Kakaitokoi

9 ай бұрын

Lucky you, bring it to the east

1:46 so true 😂

There were American military camps on Italian soil, though, just to make sure Italians weren't gonna do anything stupid (again). One of them was close to the city I grew up in: Leghorn. I remember passing by several times on a road nearby, trying to take a peek, but obviously I wasn't allowed in. They had everything there, including their own food, their own vehicles, their own football pitch, basketball court and everything. It was really like a mini American city rather than a military camp. One of the things I remember dearly was the radio station: AFN The Eagle, which is the radio that each military camp has, broadcasting mostly music and news. They use to play some good bangers and I used to listen to it a lot. They also had their own TV, coming via satellite and re-broadcasted locally via analog. Of course, it was for the internal military staff, not for other people, but it was back in the analog days with no encryption, so waves just... spread. I was so fascinated by it, that I begged my parents to buy one of the very first dual standard TVs which supported both PAL and NTSC. When my father brought one home, I just tuned in and boom, I was able to watch US TV with their TV Series, baseball matches etc. I loved it and it was how I learned English. It was also the reason why in 2013 I moved to the US to work there (legally). Unfortunately, it wasn't easy to renew the visa and eventually I had to move to the UK where they welcomed me as they were still in the EU. Long story short, I'm a British Citizen living in the UK now, but still. As to what happened to those military camps, some of them are still there, but ever since they started the demilitarization, there are less and less people there and they closed the radio station. Eventually, no one will be left and there will just be empty camps around the world...

@AnalyzerOfTruth-wu5ww

10 ай бұрын

In fact, a sane and truthful comment, only one!!! In a sea of lies and propaganda such as this video is.

@lambdacode1503

10 ай бұрын

Interesting story, and hopefully you are correct in your prediction.

@luigipetrosino7831

9 ай бұрын

Americans don't do stupid things, so it has sense.

@itadrummer1

9 ай бұрын

@@luigipetrosino7831bella battuta , mi piace il tuo sarcasmo 😂😂😂😂😂

@luigipetrosino7831

9 ай бұрын

@@itadrummer1 Gli USA hanno commesso moltissimi crimini di guerra, solo che i propri non possono essere raccontati, perché sostanzialmente sono i nostri padroni, mentre quelli dei suoi nemici...

First, Italy was always a curious case. It usually a horrible military yet fighting in Italy was more difficult than France (despite it's a lot more mountainous). Another Irony is that they were one of the few countries to apologize to their former colonies (ahem Britain and France, we're waiting). Still hoped the German parts of South Tyrol were returned to Austria but again bad allied judgment for fear of communism.

@vincedibona4687

10 ай бұрын

No you weren’t.

@enchantedplays7860

10 ай бұрын

@@dedrinzypool1209 what?

@jtgd

10 ай бұрын

I mean it was also occupied by the Nazis in 1943-1944, which was part of the reason it was so difficult. When Italy switched, Germany essentially took them over and kept fighting

@Piman31417

10 ай бұрын

?

@Vessick

10 ай бұрын

@@vincedibona4687 Jessie what the fuck are you talking about?

I like your video's a lot thanks to the team for making this.❤

@2:00 by then, Rooselevelt didn't want much because of a mild case of the dead. you must have meant Truman

Always pausing for your priceless newspaper inserts and this one at 1:38 was as usual a little jewel. I particularly enjoyed the Man in The High Castle's allusion to the Neutral Zone and Rufus Sewell.🤗😂👍

@grim_2000

10 ай бұрын

Was looking for this comment. Caught the reference as well

The Italian people made it more straight forward for the post war settlement, by disposing of their former Axis leader, in a convenient petrol station I believe. They also had plenty of people fighting with the Allies in the last couple of years of the war, unlike Germany and Japan.

@FlagAnthem

10 ай бұрын

...only to pretend nothing really happened. The lack of an italian nuremberg is the reason there are politicians claiming italian colonialism in africa was so good (minus the pillaging, reprisal, apartheid, sexual slavery and gas attacks I guess)

@matteoorlandi856

10 ай бұрын

He was disposed of in an alley then showed off in a petrol station, but still What happened to the body Is tipically Italian: It turned into a commedy were It was Stolen, recovered, hidden by the secret service, Stolen again, the brain removed for study, a mess. And nowdays you can visit his burial site, i've been there Is... Strange.

@AnalyzerOfTruth-wu5ww

10 ай бұрын

You are brainwashed by propaganda. Italy has been occupied since then by hundreds of US military bases and its intelligence and military respond to Washigton over Rome since 1945. What the fuck are you talking about!?

@banmadabon

10 ай бұрын

The main Northern cities were already freed by partisans when the Allies came from the South

@zyoninkiro

9 ай бұрын

Fez Boy and his mistress were caught and "dealt with" by partisan forces at the gate of a villa in a village near Lake Como. The carcasses were then hauled to Milan to be "put on display", first by dumping them on the ground in a piazza (quite deliberately chosen as it was the site were 15 partisans were executed then their bodies put on display) near Stazione Centrale, then hung from the above mentioned petrol station's canopy. The local inhabitants were able to express their "condolences" to the recently deceased. They were generally quite enthusiastic in that expression.

Roosevelts sits "because he wants to" I dont see it commented on much, but these newspaper gags are always hilarious and deserve more recognition.

I never even considered this. thanks for the info!

Besides loosing its colonies, Italy also lost the Istrian peninsula with important cities like Pola and Fiume.

@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621

10 ай бұрын

​@@FlagAnthemZadar was always Croatian, but Italians tried to Italianize the dalmatian coast and failed. Take this L bozo 😂

@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621

10 ай бұрын

Istra is majority Croatian 🇭🇷 now, keep crying 😂😂😂

@gs7828

10 ай бұрын

@@FlagAnthem He only paid Trieste for it and the loyalty of the only place somewhat close to Austrian rule, Slovenia. He wouldn't have liked it at all.

@Yalbou

10 ай бұрын

Italy also lost piran and copper to slovenia

@andreamarino6010

10 ай бұрын

​@@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621the contrary, dalmatian coast was well romanised when the slavs came in 600AD. Then it was a gradually process of assimiliation, look at Republic of Ragusa (Dubronovik today). Native romance language died while venetian colonisers became the majority of tomance speakers. Austria-Hungary had an anti italian policy and that was basically the end for italians in Dalmatia. Istria on the other hand remained 40-50% italian. After ww2 italians were expelled

A few ideas: Why did Ethiopia become Christian? How did the Netherlands become a global power? What was China’s roll in WW2? Why was Thailand not colonized? How did Liberia stay free? How did the Ottoman Empire treat its Christian population? Love the vids ❤

@ThePumpkinRot

10 ай бұрын

Liberia stayed free because America wanted a port there. Since that was and the congo was only thing they wanted and the fact the congo was handed over to a monarch during the American civil war, American politician were pissed. Given the fact America had some of the first ironclads the European colonial empires didn't want push their luck with a neutral trading partner.

@regularrock8637

10 ай бұрын

The trick with Liberia is that it was actually an American colony that declared independence in 1847. The American government treated Liberia as a sort of informal protectorate after that and deterred European governments from going for it during the Scramble.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104

10 ай бұрын

Ethiopia was also Jewish, not just Christian. A lot of Ethiopian Jews emigrated to 🇮🇱, where unfortunately they get treated as second-class citizens.

@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621

10 ай бұрын

Ottoman Empire massacred and genocided the Christians, and also forced them to pay blood tax or devshirme.

@EthiotendoEdits

10 ай бұрын

​@@lawrencedoliveiro9104that's in beta isreal which is in amhara

1:38 I just noticed the reference to The Man in the High Castle in that newspaper. Love it.

I love how japan and italys flags were shown but not the german flag at 0:01

"So, in summation, the European Allies didn't occupy Italy after it capitulated in WWII for one very simply reason: they couldn't."

@michealf6675

10 ай бұрын

And because many of the FWIM’s friends were anti-communist, another thing they shared with the FWIM and his friend with a funny mustache up north who’s friends also ended up helping the Allies! But it’s fine, they’re the good guys now! UwU

It did help that many Italians welcomed the Allies in Sicily and in Rome as liberators rather than enemies, and that *the fez-wearing Italian man* was ultimately captured and killed by Italians themselves. Thus giving the image of a population that was largely on the Allied side. Whether that image was fully honest, is a complicated matter.

@giorgiodifrancesco4590

10 ай бұрын

The population was clearly divided, but you seem not to understand that twenty years of dictatorial propaganda, starting from the schools, bear fruit necessarely.

@ChilapaOfTheAmazons

10 ай бұрын

@@giorgiodifrancesco4590 yeah, I agree with that.

Weird hearing "fez wearing Italian man" several times then changing back to "Mussolini" at 1:24

This channel is fantastic at patching up my historical blind spots. It’s basically duct tape for my brain.

“Deprived of its colonial territories” -with the exception of the former Italian Somaliland, which from 1947 became a UN Trust Territory under Italian administration. The Italians actually did quite a good job as regards improving the infrastructure and general well-being of the territory after WW2.

@alanpennie8013

10 ай бұрын

Good to know.

@Dourkan

10 ай бұрын

I saw another comment that said that somalia and eritrea wanted to be ruled by italy again

@Boretheory

10 ай бұрын

@@Dourkanthey were the only two colonies in history to ask for its coloniser back

@coh2conscript851

10 ай бұрын

@@Boretheory imagine hating the Ethiopians that much that you want your colonial overlords back

@tylerbozinovski427

10 ай бұрын

​@@BoretheoryWhat about Hong Kong? They also want the British back.

Guys, after watching a few of these videos, I'm starting to suspect Britain after WWII was a tad broke

@centredoorplugsthornton4112

10 ай бұрын

Britain got very little out of winning World War ll except more problems than Germany had losing World War ll.

@cpj93070

10 ай бұрын

You just found that out just now?, Sadly Britain's time as top was over at the end of the second world war.

@Dourkan

10 ай бұрын

​@@cpj93070sadly? Thank frigging god it was

@limmeh7881

10 ай бұрын

Just a wee bit, yes

@_blank-_

10 ай бұрын

James Bissonette took a little break after all the lend-lease.

good video... I didn't know the history and wasn't ever curious about this.

Great video. Straight to the point.

Allies: Why did you did all those things? Italy: To be honest, we just hate commies. Allies: Allies: Understandable.

@joseluisblanco8074

10 ай бұрын

The allies forgave a quasi fascist regime as Franco's (ups, I'll get demonetised) for the same very reason

@_blank-_

10 ай бұрын

@@joseluisblanco8074 Yeah the US supported so many f**ked up dictatorships/terrorist groups because commies bad.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104

10 ай бұрын

Setting a pattern which was to continue through the entire Cold War.

@nick21614

10 ай бұрын

@@joseluisblanco8074 FDR's regime was fascist and was modeled after the Fez wearing Italian man's policies. Fascism is just a slightly different flavor of socialism than communism that happen to hate each other. FDR also had many communists in his government and did a lot of nasty things that supported the commies in the USSR.

@savioblanc

10 ай бұрын

That was pretty much the entire reason for the rise of the Nazis and even the crazies that ran Japan - they were absolutely terrified of the Communists taking control of their nations and went overboard in trying to stem that from happening. Had the spread of Communism not been as swift across Russia and Eastern Europe, there is a good chance there would be no Fascism or Nazism, as these ideologies came about as a response to Soviet Communism and their fear of it

The "Fez-wearing Italian man" is the new *"The Austrian Painter"* And What about Hideko Tojo?

@Bzons

10 ай бұрын

The Original Victim of The Bald Head Slap. Seriously. While Tojo was in court, someone sitting behind him "slapped" the back of his head.

@poe_slaw

10 ай бұрын

he has a combination of eyebrows, glasses, nose, and mustache very similar to the classic disguise. in fact when I type disguise my phone recommends this face which looks exactly like him: 🥸

@FastTquick

10 ай бұрын

“THE BALD-HEADED MUSTACHIOED MAN.”

@stvdagger8074

10 ай бұрын

I suspect that too many descriptions of Tojo will also draw the baleful gaze of the Eye of SaurTube as any description of Tojo's features would be too close to the stereotypes of Japanese people, as can be seen in allied propaganda of the WWII period.

It's important to note that The Italians killed Mussolini, not The Allies. We never liked him. Italy was an occupied nation that became part of The Allies as soon as they could. Being angry at Italy is like being angry at Poland.

"Italy was just... well... Italy" that's the most accurate way you describe my country XD

You're one of the few channels that I watch every video of. Have this.

why cant everything in life be like your videos, short, simple, straightforward and animated.

Great video! 0:28 dunno much about weapons but funny how a soldier’s AK47’s charger seems to be upside down 😊. Great video and well balanced views! As always

Greetings from Brazil. You speak very, very fast. It's so difficult to a person who doesn't have English as first language, to understand the entire video. Thanks for your job.

I can never get over how accurate a video made out of squares is. All the items of the era are always perfectly accurate.

1:26 you said it now prepare to die.

@dastardlyruby74737

4 ай бұрын

He didn’t say a *fez wearing Italian man*

thanks for the video

My favorite animation is when someone is smiling and waving their arm, but those crazy eyes made it even better.

Noticed the references in the newspaper to “Man in the High Castle” and California’s crazy housing prices. Also, $14 in 1942?! That’s like a months rent then!

Fun fact, when Italy was disarmed, some or their Air Force planes were given to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), a chivalric order from the Crusades that governed the islands of Malta, Camino and Gozo from the 1500s until the French kicked them out in the 1790s. After a while, the SMOM relocated to Rome in the 1800s and remained there. The SMOM still works closely with the Italian Armed Forces today.

You're a bloody genius!

Nice that you depict every American GI here carrying an M1 Carbine, The weapon did actually first saw action in Sicily and the Italian campaign is often overlooked but still had important battles such as Monte Cassino and the push towards the Gothic line in the northern part of the country.

Never knew FDR had a mistress called P. Olio!! Those newspaper clippings you feature are so informative!

It probably didn’t hurt that nobody really opposed Mussolini’s model before WWII and would’ve likely left him alone had he not joined the Axis (which he almost avoided).

@regalecusglesne3022

10 ай бұрын

yeah he was an opportunist at heart, he believed that hitler would carry the war (in a sense he did) and italy would get free territories without much of a fight. too bad that hitler wanted to use the italians as cannon fodder and they themselves were beaten up by their costly war in ethiopia just a year prior.

@pucciox40

10 ай бұрын

Yeah UK acted so though against Italy during the aftermath but we forget how Mussolini had a good reputation in Churchill's eye due to his ability to kill and imprison socialists during the 1920s We can praise all we want but the "free word" never had a problem with dictators that were useful tools against the insurgent movements from the red biennium

@valentintapata2268

9 ай бұрын

Eexcept for the people his regime oppressed.

@carlbates9110

9 ай бұрын

@@valentintapata2268 Like the Mafia?

@valentintapata2268

9 ай бұрын

@@carlbates9110 No like the Slovenes, Croats, Albanians, Greeks, Montenegrians, Libyans, Ethiopians, Eritreans, communists, democrats,...

I love how the “fez wearing italian man” just looked so goofy 1:49 😂😂

Great content!

0:46 The man, is absolutely terrifying

Another factor to be considered was the issue of Italy's sense of loyalty to the NATION rather than the individual. Unlike Germany's "oath of loyalty" to AH, and Japan's "divine Emperor", Italy's population was more focused upon the loyalty to the country as a primary factor. And with a "stable government" in power, there was far less chance of a "resistance" to the changes that took place after surrendering. With Germany, there was always the risk of an "attempt to reform" the former political system. In Japan, it was a matter of "who will step up to restore the Emperor" mentality to consider. As such, a strong "occupational presence" (display of force) was needed to discourage any "attempt to resurrect the old ways".

@emberfist8347

10 ай бұрын

Mr Fez man actually encouraged having the oath to the nation thing seeing himself as expendable to the greater cause of fascism.

@_blank-_

10 ай бұрын

@@emberfist8347 I feel like Italian fascism wasn't as crazy as its offshoots.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104

10 ай бұрын

But was there ever really a “stable government” in Italy after World War II? As I recall, they were going through about a new Prime Minister per year. And (unfortunately) it took someone like Berlusconi to break that trend.

@anyways4438

10 ай бұрын

​@@_blank-_they weren't antisemitic either. The biggest mistake the Italian fascists made was trying to conquer other countries and then siding with the Nazis.

@user-cx9nc4pj8w

10 ай бұрын

@@_blank-_ nazism and whatever japan weren't so much offshoots as parrallel ideologies that borrowed a little from Fascismo and had a lot of their own. But yeah, whilst Italian fascism was extremely bad, I wouldn't say it worse than Stalinism or most communist movement more generally, and it's imperialism wasn't really worse than the British or French either.

Fun fact: once the "Fez wearing Italian man" was dismissed in July 43, the king appointed Marshall Pietro Badoglio as PM. Badoglio negotiated the armistice and stayed in office for 1 year roughly. Badoglio is a very controversial figure in Italian history for a variety of reasons, spanning his role in the tragic Caporetto defeat and retreat (1917), the war crimes committed in Ethiopia by the Italian army and then the support to the "Fez-wearing Italian man" 's regime until his downfall.

Great video 🎉

Lmao I saw your tweet about how just saying "Mussolini" gets you in trouble

@itsmeblank4028

10 ай бұрын

There's a twitter page?

@Heath580

10 ай бұрын

@itsmeblank4028 yes, it's how I knew the video was being delayed so he could replace Mussolini with Fez man

I appreciate the side-stepping of comedically saying "The fez-wearing Italian man," to avoid mentioning him by name, immensely. I had to stop the video to get all the giggles out before watching more, then you did it again! 🤣 I hate the fact that you will get demonetized for recapping actual history. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Can we not censor history?

0:29 Not sure if the person on the left is meant to represent a member of the King's African Rifles or the Ethiopian Arbegnoch, but either way I love the detail as Black and Brown contributions to victory in WWII can often be overlooked.

@Godslayer5656

Ай бұрын

Think he’s meant to represent Brazil, who helped the Allies push into Italy.

Thank you for including Canada at 1:22

It's worth mentioning that the italian government was still disappointed that they had to pay reparation. the reason is that since they surrender so early (the switch side is just an historical meme, it was a surrender) and collaborated for almost 2 years they hoped that they could go from being responsible for the war to being seen as collaborator. That didn't happen but as mentioned few years later a bunch of sanctions were dropped anyway since the USSR was seen as more important.

@mikesiciliano210

10 ай бұрын

It's not a meme. Mussolini came to power constitutionally, but it was not through a democratic election. Italians were largely opposed to fighting alongside the Germans, and to entering the war all together. To call Italy's fight against Germany a "meme" is greatly disrespectful to those who served to free their country.

@jephesoj31

10 ай бұрын

​@@mikesiciliano210I think by "meme" he was referring to the popular but grossly oversimplified/inaccurate idea that Italy switched sides during the war, not anything about the fight against Germany itself.

@EflowNivek

10 ай бұрын

@@mikesiciliano210 I'm sorry who? I think you mean FEZ-WEARING ITALIAN MAN

@marciobrunoloiolagomes3631

10 ай бұрын

I think the meme is because the Italy position on First World War

@francesco8000

10 ай бұрын

@@jephesoj31 Yeah that's what i meant. The "Italy switched side in both WW" is a historical meme that is fun but is also 100% wrong.

Loved the U.S. Soldier armed with a flamethrower at 3:02. The U.S.-Japan fighting in the Pacific was to the death, and flamethrowers were a valuable weapon in the hands of people like Medal of Honor recipient and Marine Hershel "Woody" Williams, who only recently passed away at age 98. It takes a special person to go into battle with a tank full of flammable liquids on your back.

@GhostSal

10 ай бұрын

The reason it was to the deáth was also because of the fłame thrøwer. Japanese would often fight to the death precisely because the US soldiers would kíll Japanese soldiers that were trying to surrender. So the Japanese learned to fight to the very end from that tactic of kílling men that were surrendering.

@graceneilitz7661

10 ай бұрын

@@GhostSalWell the practice of U.S soldiers killing Japanese soldiers trying to surrender started because many Japanese soldiers would fake surrender. Both practices were bad regardless of who started it.

@pucciox40

10 ай бұрын

@@GhostSal Why isn't this hard to believe at all? Lol That's exaclty how I picture US soldiers in the pacific after Pearl Harbor

@richardstephens5570

9 ай бұрын

@@GhostSal "Killing Japanese that were trying to surrender" happened because the Japanese would often pretend to be surrendering, then pull out a grenade and try to kill themselves along with their captors. Japanese wounded would also attempt to kill American medics trying to help them. The Japanese would also booby trap their dead and wounded, don't try to portray the Japanese as victims.

@GhostSal

9 ай бұрын

@@richardstephens5570 I’m not saying atrocitíes didn’t happen on both sides, they absolutely did. However, consideríng the prøpaganda of the time depicting Japanese people as subhuman and the general feeling of wanting revenge for very real attack on Pearl Harbor… is it really that hard to believe?

The Allies: Do you have anything to say regarding your action during WWII? Italy: It's Pizza Time. The Allies: I guess that's good enough, you're forgiven.

nice video.. straight to the point without a 5 min intro of jibber jabber

It'd be great to see a video on Italy's role in the cold war and OP Gladio

You should do a video on what happens to embassy personnel when their countries go to war.

Why would he get demonetized for saying Mussolini? He's not supporting his ideas or ideologies. He's just educating us about history and saying facts.

@stvdagger8074

10 ай бұрын

Because KZread's algorithms are either badly designed OR are designed with bad intent. Incompetence or malice? Your guess is as good as mine.

I have never even wondered about this until you wondered about it for me!