Comments by "Jussi M. Konttinen" (@jussim.konttinen4981) on "Deliberate or Accident? The German Blitz of Rotterdam 1940" video.

  1. I recommend Kings and Generals: Winter War Full 3d.
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  2.  @hjalmar4565  Considering all the participants, there was no completely peaceful period from 1914 to 1945. Selecting another date (than 1 September 1939) will change the aggressor. France and Belgium occupied the Ruhr Valley on 11 January 1923. Or a later date: Britain declared war on Finland, Hungary and Romania on 5 December 1941, even though the USA did not declare war on Finland.
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  3.  @czechpatriot2230  Yeah, I realized Jan is also Finnish name. Jani is more common though. Tapio Rautavaara, a veteran of the Eastern Front, wrote the song "Kulkuri veljeni Jan". Roughly translated my vagabond brother Jan.
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  4.  @rickglorie  Josef Schicklgruber is an  Austrian  footballer who last played for FC Pasching. Alois Schicklgruber (Adolf's father) changed his surname in 1877 to Hitler.
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  5. Actually, the Dutch were one of the largest group of foreign nationalities in the Waffen-SS, before they began accepting other groups.
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  6. I recommend "Satunnaista sotilashistoriaa" subtitled in English. The bombing of Leningrad by the Finnish Air Force. Animation says more than a thousand words. Mannerheim specifically banned the bombing of unlit fields to prevent civilian casualties On top of that, it's monetized and made by an UN veteran.
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  7.  @wesjanson6979  Do you realize that you justified roasting toddlers because Asians dispatched Asians in another country. Not that I would complain. In reality, combat or even policing is not hundred percent sanitary.
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  8. Why even fight if you surrender in less than a week? Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands refused to become a German ally whatever the circumstances
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  9.  @captainsponge7825  That is not a justification but one of the reasons. Czechoslovakia was formed from territories of Hungary and Austria. The central proponents of the European Civil War were originally based at the history department of the London School of Economics. I know Europe is not a country, but Schengen is now a core part of EU law.They have joint defense and border control, with the exception of a different currency in Poland.
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  10.  @hjalmar4565  I agree, El Alamein has nothing to do with Germany. It's a town in North Africa.
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  11. Well said. War crime is a very feminist concept. Especially, ex post facto laws.If the woman had really been attacked, she would go to see a doctor. Basically, poison gas became a "criminal weapon" when Churchill stopped using it. Insecticide, rocket and fire bomb are all the same thing to me.
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  12. I said, concentration camps were morally wrong, but my comment was deleted. Hmmm, so it was actually....?
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  13. Typical Allied over-engineering. Axis men go to the nearest hardware store and buy insecticide
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  14. I love the multilingual versions where Rommel is a genius and rehabilitated posthumously. However, If I was him, I would have established my own country in Africa.
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  15.  @68walter  Belgium, Hungary and the Netherlands were at the forefront of foreign nationalities in the Waffen-SS.
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  16. Both Sukarno and Suharto appear to have been deep in collaboration with the Japanese. Suharto was a sergeant in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. He took the opportunity to join Japanese organised police, and was trained as a platoon commander.
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  17. China entered (continued) a state of civil war in 1946. Then Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948. It didn't take long for the Allies to start a war with each other.
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  18. Including Kosovo?
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  19.  @juliancate7089  I asked because it is by no means unusual to call KFOR as murderers. The German soldiers were received as liberators by the ethnic Albanian inhabitants.
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  20.  @juliancate7089  President? You mean Harry S. Truman. Yeah, we were lucky that he didn't declare war on Finland. On the last day of the war a Finnish Colonel shared cigarettes with two German officers. The officers saluted each other and went their ways.
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  21. Interestingly, German forces declared Rome, Florence, Chieti and Athens open cities. I understand Athens was never friendly, so it could have been leveled as a parking lot.
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  22. I don’t think any explanation is needed for a quick bombing. The number of casualties was relatively small, because thousands of civilians had fled to safer parts. General Winkelman surrendered shortly afterwards at Rijsoord.Dutch capitulation was signed on 15 May. They understood this and joined the Nazis in tens of thousands. Lots of drama for nothing. If some reason needs to be invented, then I say, a show of force. Dutch troops in the province of  Zealand  continued to resist the  Wehrmacht  until 17 May.
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  23.  @troystocker6179  I just watched Prince Philip: The War Years from 1995. He said, Japan did not surrender after the nuclear bombs, but by order of the emperor. Even after that Taiwanese and Japanese rogue soldiers (holdouts) thought it was Allied propaganda.
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  24.  @wesjanson6979  If a bit whataboutism is allowed, I want to ask: Have you ever heard of Operation Searchlight?
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  25. Have you thought that it is possible to bombard intentionally and change your mind afterwards. "We fought the wrong enemy."
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  26. Not true. In a split decision, Hirohito decided to surrender. Half of the generals wanted to continue the war. They could easily have continued for weeks.
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  27. Turku is located on the west coast of Finland and was bombed 61 times in 1939-40. The city is officially bilingual. The British Royal Air Force bombed Malmö and Lund in 1940 and 1943. Unlike the British, who apologized, the USSR had no desire to acknowledge its fault. An examination of the shells with Cyrillic lettering revealed that the raid on Stockholm (1944) had been carried out by Soviet aircraft.
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  28. That's dangerous whataboutism. The bombing of Stockholm is actually controversial because they had a Soviet prisoner. Helsinki and specifically Åland is on the same line, so it could also be a navigation error.
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  29. Swiss Armed Forces (1964)...If only I had a time machine
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  30. Oddly enough, that WW1 captain later turned his sled 180 degrees. About 8,000 Japanese people held jobs related to the Korean War, most of them in ports preparing for the transporting of American troops. In the US, the war was initially described by President Harry S. Truman as a "police action".
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  31.  @mdhofstee  Another question is whether the invasion made sense. After all, only a few ships were originally sunk. How much their society really changed?
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  32.  @mdhofstee  My surname is in the SS roster, but they are not blood relatives, my father was adopted.
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  33. Screaming nuns is tragic. I thought you were Protestants. Btw. Helsinki was bombed 39 times (1941-44), but the damage wasn't significant, perhaps due to more spacious zoning.
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  34. 1971 Bangladesh genocide (Allies vs. Allies)
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  35.  @captainsponge7825  Good enough reason for me. All other reasons were in Finland after the war, such as socialism and hyperinflation. Nothing happened.
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  36.  @hjalmar4565  Technically speaking, they did clash quite brutally. Afrikaans is as young as American English. Winston Churchill was captured and held prisoner in a camp in Pretoria. Transvaal government left Africa on a Dutch warship, sent by the Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.
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  37.  @hjalmar4565  Maybe you have poor eyesight. I said, I agree. Just like USA is not a colony. Rommel could have declared his army as a neutral African republic, since a single division was able to operate independently at that time, nowadays a brigade. For example, Rhodesia was smaller than Rommel's army. He made a fatal mistake by returning to Normandy
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  38.  @hjalmar4565 That's how states are born. Liechtenstein's Standard German is virtually identical to Standard German. It is Europe's fourth-smallest country, with an area of just over 160 square kilometres (62 square miles) and a population of 38,749.
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  39.  @hjalmar4565  In 1918, Finnish reds would have joined the USSR voluntarily. One German division was enough to capture Helsinki in a couple of days, which resolved that Finland exist as a country. That is another example of how a relatively small number of people can change history.
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  40.  @hjalmar4565  Propably over three million men either switched to Allied side or were pushed out of the game like Kalervo Kurkiala, Felix Steiner etc. I don't believe Rommel would be a problem in Africa. Nowadays, many Namibians of German ancestry identify themselves as Afrikaners.
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  41.  @hjalmar4565  Apparently you still don't realize that Rommel was killed by Hitler, not by the British. They did create three new countries run by Nazis, such as Kurt Waldheim, Kurt Kiesinger and Willi Stoph. If we look at Finland, it is no longer completely independent either, because independence was based on Gustaf Mannerheim. At the time of Urho Kekkonen, Finland was in trouble. For a moment russia was week 1982-2001. We are now NATO collaborators, even if we are not members. Rommel would have been strong enough, but he lacked imagination.
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  42. It’s not my intention to insult, but is Jan a woman’s name?
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  43. Czechoslovakia and Poland annexed all of the Liechtenstein's properties in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia. Deliberate or not?
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  44. Hitler’s physical condition must be taken into account when comparing the alternative post-war world. Mao, Hồ Chí Minh, Pol Pot, Kim Il-sung's division, etc. Countless mass murderers on the allied side. Not nearly as clear case.
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  45.  @rickglorie  Anastasio Somoza García, Fulgencio Batista, Jorge Ubico, Gualberto Villarroel etc.
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  46.  @rickglorie  Your fascist friends
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  47.  @rickglorie  What about İskender kebap? I don't know half of them either. Iskander Mirza (Branch/service: British Indian Army) held that Pakistanis "lacked the parliamentary spirit and because of the lack of training in the field of democracy and the low literacy rate among the masses, democratic institutions cannot flourish in Pakistan"
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  48. Also, Rotterdam is not related to England in any way. Why are they even talking about it? Same as Sweden attacking London because of the Mau Mau uprising.
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  49. Tell me when one country that has invaded another country and not bombed cities on purpose. It would be interesting to know that one exception.
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  50.  @extramild1  Probably not every war. They still used artillery and fire bombs. Sherman notoriously practiced a "scorched earth" policy.
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  51.  @extramild1  Maybe it was a good joke, but now the joke is on you, if you are white. Synonymous with police. That's going overboard, mate! You're insulting the cops.
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