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  1. As an American soldier in 1984, I remember standing on a rise looking over the wall at two East German guards on the other side. One with binoculars and the other with a notepad as they were gathering names and patch info. from our uniforms. the road beside us ran straight through the west German neighborhood, ended at the wall, then continued on the other side into the east German neighborhood. Couldn't help thinking,, just because you lived two houses down, you were doomed when the wall went up!! I threw a pack of Marlboro Reds in a box across the wall and it landed at their feet.. one of guards picked the cigarettes up, looked at them, looked at me, smiled and waved...
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  2. When your officer gives you orders in German but you’re Italian so you ask your NCO but he only speaks Hungarian and your only squad mate speaks only Romanian and most of the regiment deserted already because their Czech and the Polish is drunk talking about socialism and you hear Italian screams from the mountains. “Guess I’ll die then.”
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  3. Deepest respect for the Iraqis soldiers, who remained in their motherland and kept fighting.
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  4. When stuff from 2002 starts becoming “history”, I , a 23 year old, feel old.
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  5. I remember that there was a story where a German man came home with a wheelbarrow full of money The next day he woke up, he discover that someone broke into his house but the robber didn't still his money....but the wheelbarrow instead
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  6. These animations are practically movies at this point
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  7. Wow! YouTube must be so glad that the [censored] got [censored]! It really adds to the moral complexity of the [censored].
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  8. I've lived in iraq for the past 22 years, and during that time we've rarely seen peace. All I hope is that people learn from us and not just pity us.
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  9. Please do more of these. This type of video solely about uniforms is fantastic.
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  10. The nostalgia referred to is called Ostalgie in German. Ost means East and Nostalgie means Nostalgia. Well, East Germany is still behind the Western part of the country, sadly. And the Ostalgie is there for a reason. I once talked to a man, an Ossie, a former East Berliner. In 2010 he told me: "I used to have one job. I couldn't go where I wanted, for example Paris or London. But I could go on vacation to Prague, Budapest and the East-German and Polish coasts. We always went on summer holidays. Now, I have two jobs, and I barely make enough money to sustain myself. I can't go anywhere these days. I haven't been on a holiday for over 20 years now."
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  11. The Soviets won because they used The Armchair Historians link to a 30 day free trial for The Great Courses Plus to learn encirclment tactics
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  12. Griffin: EDUCATIONAL CONTENT Susan: We do not support this kind of content here on YouTube
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  13. The Germans really did hand the Soviets a beachhead fortress in this city. With all the bombed rubble it only became more of a nightmare to advance into.
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  14. I was literally just about to make a video on this. Welp. New topic
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  15. At this point his animation look like movies
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  16. Oh boy here we go
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  17. Iwo Jima or D-Day?
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  18. Imagine he mades “Downfall of Germany | The Eastern Front | Full Documentary | Animated History”
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  19. Well, well, well, the Armchair is covering ancient history again. Love to see it Griffin!
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  20. Really feel like the T 26 should’ve been in here considering how many of them were made and how important it was to early Soviet war doctrine
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  21. They killed the video like the Viet Minh killed French hopes at keeping Indochina.
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  22. I'm gonna be honest here: another cinematic masterpiece. I'm amazed by how much further the quality of this content has been going up. Cheers!
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  23. I served in an Infantry Battalion in the Marine Corps in the '90s and was lucky enough to be rotated to Camp Hansen in Okinawa twice. Beautiful but rugged land. Always either too hot or too cold. Those rainy seasons are no joke. I spent many, many days and nights slugging around a 60mm Mortar in the mud and hills of NTA. Thankfully with no live rounds coming my way. I thought a lot about those Marines (and Soldiers) who took "The Rock". Great video. Thank you.
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  24. Cool math games > Rainbow six
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  25. I've been waiting for a remastered version of this. It was worth the wait.
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  26. Winter doesn't stop armies, counterattacks do. Moscow wasn't saved by the cold but by Zhukov's 21 siberian divisions.
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  27. Omg finally someone posted history of Vietnam that’s not boring and actually helpful thank you!
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  28. As a Dane, I would like to mention Denmark’s quite horrific treatment of German POWs over here. We interned thousands of germans and made them slave away by clearing out mine fields and working on farms often with little to no protection and little food. Many consider it a war crime and the Danish government at one point considered paying reparations to the families of the people effected but they decided not to. There is a good movie about it called ‘Land Of Mine’ and SimpleHistory made a good video on it so if you’re interested about it then go watch them
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  29. When you play "easy" level, but still lose game .. wkwkwkwk
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  30. Fantastic video! It was great working with you! Can never get enough Napoleon content.
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  31. Very balanced and informative video. Well done.
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  32. "The cavalry realized they were invading Poland all by themselves" LMAO
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  33. Those Japanese voice overs were quite excellent.
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  34. Iam Italian I suck at war games Wonder why
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  35. It's so weird hearing all these names and places I heard all the time as a kid, without knowing what they really were about, finally put into their proper context. Great video dude.
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  36. Youtube will probably hate this one, but I enjoy it. good luck guys, your videos are amazing!
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  37. Not a lot of people realize how insane the battle of Tsushima was. Russia's Pacific fleet was gone, and so they just renamed the Baltic fleet the "Second Pacific Squadron" and told them to sail around the world to relieve Port Arthur. So off they went. While they did have some modern ships, a large portion of the Russian ships were decrepit, rusting, and hopelessly obsolete. Zinovy Rozhestvensky, the commander of the squadron, called them the "sink by themselves ships". What made the situation even worse was that the Russian sailors were mostly just untrained peasants shanghaied into the whole thing. Their odyssey to the Far East took months, and conditions on board the ships were unbearable. And of course, they were all being sent to die. When these exhausted men in their battered ships finally reached the end, they met rested, experienced, and well trained Japanese sailors. The "Battle" of Tsushima turned into a massacre, as one by one the Russian ships were blown up and sunk. Rozhestvensky was badly wounded and unconscious, and so his second in command (Nikolai Nebogatov) surrendered the remnants of the fleet. A decision which saved many from meaningless deaths, but one that nearly got him executed when he returned home.
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  38. 1:52 "Some saw the Japanese as Asian liberators" Japan: "You thought the French were bad?"
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  39. Europa Universalis 4 country colours are pretty much default for any historical maps at this point...
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  40. I have to point out a minor mistake in your video. The heavy cruiser Blücher wasn't deployed to Narvik, it was deployed to Oslo. It got sunk outside Drøbak in the Oslo fjord.
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  41. I really cant think of anything but Reznov saying "now their land, their people, their blood"
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  42. As a German speaking person myself I loved that the hypothetical conversation of the high command was actually in German
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  43. Massive respect to the Harlem Hellfighters, those boys never got the praise they deserved in that era
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  44. Thank you for giving me the chance to voice Napoleon in this great video Griff! It was a true honor. I actually live right next to Golfe-Juan, the beach where Napoleon with 600 men landed in 1815 following his escape from Elba. They did a recreation of the event last year which was quite fun. Merde to you!
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  45. Thanks for the collab! Great video!
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  46. Wait, they LOST?!
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  47. You covering Italian military failures should be a mini-series at this point.
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  48. Something about Germany in Africa would be cool, especially in East and South-West Africa. Portugal would be another interesting one
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  49. Great video. Mistake though at 2:30, the mandate for Palestine included Jordan as well... Only later were they spilt off as a separate entity and independent.
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  50. Couple things...the video makes it seem like Italy got the territories it was promised, but that is not the case. Italian nationalists complained that the Treaty of London was not actually fulfilled. Additionally, Italy suffered severe economic hardships after the war, which was the primary reason for the rise of Mussolini and fascism (not to mention communism). The end of the video doesn't seem to reflect the realities of the post-war period. I do enjoy your channel, though!
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