Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "How William Fairbairn Created the Modern SWAT Team in Warlord Era Shanghai" video.

  1. I am german. The german police system is for centuries not the same all over the country, in former principalities and current states had been/are still differences. Only in Hitler era and former GDR everything was the same everywhere. The formerly monarchist states created in 19th century modern police forces, but the oldstyle ,medieval' policemen existed long into 20th century. Nightwatchmen existed even in the 1930s, town criers up to 1970s ( small rural villages) and up to 1980s you could find Feldschütze( field guards/ gardes champetres). Also up to 1980s you could find wineyard guards, armed with smoothbore muzzleloader pistols, but not as defence weapon, only to scare birds and other annimals.
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  2.  @AlexN2022  : In ,edged weapons' channels like Scholagladiatora of Matt Easton, who has a reputation similar to Ian, often the question apperars, is ,Hema' ( Historical European Martial Arts) still useable today. The answer is about: Basic training unarmed, knife/ dagger, or stick of different length is to some degree still useable, better than nothing. I think someone who knows older technics ( Fairbairn- Sykes or Defendu ) is in daily western europe not defenceless.
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  3. Wasn' his name Lichtenfeld , many jewish people have a german family name. As far as i know, in the interwar periode a stickfighting manual for indian policemen, written by a british colonial officer ,Long' , inspired by Barton- Wrights ,Bartitsu' , was popular among jewish people in nowadays Israel, because unter british rule in interwar time it was difficult to own firearms legally, so also arabian attackers often only had daggers, sabers or clubs.
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  4. Same with Barton- Wright, creator of Bartitsu. In 1951 members of an asian martial arts society remembered him and invited him to an event of their society AS honoury guest (?)/ Ehrengast, but he died short time before the event.
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  5. In fact. I am german, Britta is my girlfriend. When you are interested in police history, it is not so easy . In the german state Baden- Württemberg, where i live, there is the ,Museum of Military History/ Wehrgeschichtliches Museum' in Rastatt, but Police or other armed branches of civilian administration? For some years you could visit the private collection of a now passed away former ,special constable' , in some ,Home Region Museums/ Heimatmuseen' you can see the polearms of former nightwatchmen , the bells of former ,Büttel/ town criers' or old handcuffs or tortouring equipment of shocking old days justice, perhaps century old prison cell doors and in a small local museum in eastern Württemberg there is a room about poachery, thats nearly all. I own a book, printed in small numbers, about the police history in my Landkreis ( county? / Arrondissement?), and from Osprey company about german police in WW ll days and german colonial armed forces. Also i know some things about armed personal of civilian administration by reading newspaper, german arms magazins and german magazins about military history ( in continental europe the policeman is basicly a descendant of soldiers, on british Islands and iceland a descendant of nightwatchmen/town criers).
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  6. Matt Easton from Scholagladiatora channel has in edged weapons community a reputation, as Ian has in firearms community. About two years ago, he had a three Video series ,The Victorians' in which he talked about british police weaponry in ,Victorian Age', perhaps interessting for you.
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  7. When in the years after 1867, when Shogunate was abandoned, the now again ruling emperors wanted a modern army, at first they asked the country , with the strongest army, in this days France,, after 1871 Germany , for instructors. The Japanese noticed, that the use of bajonett, formerly unknown in matchlock era, had similarities to Yari and Naginata polearms, so a bayonnet technic based on Yari and Naginata was created.
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  8. Schwabe is a german name, which means translated Swabian ( member of the swabian tribe), this means, his ancestors had been swabians of southwestern Germany, which moved in a time, when family names started to appear to another region of Germany.This phenomeon is the reason , why in Germany many people have namess like Schwab, Bayer, Sachs(e), Frank(e), Schweizer or Elsässer . Greetings from Germany.
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