Don't think I forgot about you snitches... You will get what you deserve
@roco1634
3 жыл бұрын
No
@totaltakeovergames7275
3 жыл бұрын
@@roco1634 Yes
@kewl3841
3 жыл бұрын
oh god
@kewl3841
3 жыл бұрын
twitch armageddon boutta happen
@giorgosgournis625
3 жыл бұрын
Hehea booooiiiiiii
@TheArmchairHistorian
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching. I'm not very proud of my Life in WW2 Germany video as it's one of my earlier videos (from 2018.) Glad you enjoyed the Life in East Germany video, that was a recent release of ours.
@slk7376
3 жыл бұрын
You are an amazing content creator and I've always enjoyed watching your videos. KZitem isn't very supportive for historical content, especially the ones from the 30~60's. I hope you get more views, subscriptions and monitizations in the future and that the TommyKay fans would watch your videos.
@johngalt5166
3 жыл бұрын
I thought they where decent enough, but I am also a history buff and would have watched them anyway.
@Googoogagamf
3 жыл бұрын
I thought they were both great, Keep up the good work!
@pfw4568
3 жыл бұрын
Don't be to critical with yourself. Still amazing stuff
@alpakasohn2334
3 жыл бұрын
so how much money did you make with the sponsor?
@dictatorinperpetuity
3 жыл бұрын
Tommy wondering why Adolf didn't just make a medium tank template.
@F1nn12h
3 жыл бұрын
No comment, just 243 likes! I'm first comment Btw
@thealifamily99
3 жыл бұрын
I know lol
@flipzappa893
3 жыл бұрын
Tiger 1?
@Jesse_Leuning
3 жыл бұрын
@@flipzappa893 Panther D
@abelpap5313
3 жыл бұрын
@DanRage47 The development of super heavy tanks might have come forth towards the end of the war due to a severe lack of manpower.
@carolinaandy5059
3 жыл бұрын
Bruh everyone knows living in ww2 germany consisted of watching a floating hand in the sky smack down construction zones for civilian and military factories on the state while the army consisted of a single man doing jumping jacks until the start of the war.
@TommyKay
3 жыл бұрын
true
@bonkbonk3802
3 жыл бұрын
I DONT GET IT
@pizzapatriot1769
3 жыл бұрын
@@bonkbonk3802 In the video game Hearts of Iron 4, you are in charge of a nation. By clicking with your cursor (which is a hand pointing) you can order the nation to do things, such as build civilian and military factories in certain states and order soldiers to conduct exercises. Why only a single man? Well there is something called army experience, and one of the ways to get it is by exercising and you get the most by having only one person conduct an exercise. TL;DR, Hoi4 reference.
@bonkbonk3802
3 жыл бұрын
@@pizzapatriot1769 oh shit thx lmao
@ConnanTheCivilized
6 ай бұрын
Don’t forget that the universe only started with a loud ‘Dong!’ noise in the late 1930s!
@Hesadryt
3 жыл бұрын
Tommy, they went after Jehovahs Witnesses, because Jehovahs Witnesses are “conscientious objectors” (refuse to fight wars of any kind) as part of their religious doctrine, so Nazis considered this as weakening “German martial virtues”.
@MisterTipp
3 жыл бұрын
They also tend to reject society around them and tend to themselves, so I’m assuming they sorta made a lot of enemies by just doing their own thing.
@DEVS_VLTIMA
3 жыл бұрын
@@MisterTipp how can they reject society when they are the state entity presiding over German society, they enslaved, sterilized, eliminated, and “recovered” people based on arbitrary racial categorizing, they didn’t “reject society” whatever that even means.
@Chactemal
3 жыл бұрын
@@DEVS_VLTIMA he is talking about jehova witnesses dude..
@MisterTipp
3 жыл бұрын
@@DEVS_VLTIMA Yeah, I was talking about the Jehovah’s, not the nazis, lol
@Makarosc
3 жыл бұрын
They also reject governments of man
@luisurdiales3091
3 жыл бұрын
Interesting fact: on the final assault on the Reichstag, the building was not defended by germans but by frenchmen who were part of legion of volunteers Charlemagne. They fought till the last man because either they died there or returned to France were they would be executed as traitors.
@pentrus2747
3 жыл бұрын
That isn't fun.
@robloxfanboy86
3 жыл бұрын
Happy with both outcomes
@mykalo96
3 жыл бұрын
It wasnt a Legion like in the Wehrmacht. It was a Division (later i think a Brigade because of Manpower) of the Waffen-SS
@cosmicrahal6014
3 жыл бұрын
The Reichstag was also of no importance to Nazi Germany, as they did not use it for parliamentary sessions
@notgoddhoward5972
3 жыл бұрын
I don't think they would have made it back to France dude. If if anyone was going to have a very bad time in a Siberian work camp in 1945 it was the SS. That is if the soviets cared enough to transport them and not just execute them right there.
@kai5sennn320
3 жыл бұрын
Russian: Stereotypes are not real!!! ToomyKay: Russian saved my dad with votka
@leleloy360
3 жыл бұрын
Every stereotype has some truth to it
@bornstar481
3 жыл бұрын
@@leleloy360 what about racist stereotypes against blacks ;-;
@heroj1491
3 жыл бұрын
@@bornstar481 there are some truth in it
@johnnyb980
3 жыл бұрын
I love this story 😂
@tylermech66
3 жыл бұрын
@@leleloy360 yep. I mean the "russians and vodka" thing is probably the one "true" stereotype (Obviously not every Russian is an alcoholic, but a worryingly huge amount are), as Russia has had one of the world's biggest alcoholism problems for a solid century and even extending past that into the tsardom too.
@irishbattletoster9265
3 жыл бұрын
Most of the time I don't like reaction channels but this is different
@Left4Candy
3 жыл бұрын
That's because Tommy is not only reacting, he's actually listening and thinking about what is being said. Then he pauses, asks the audience, and try to keep a discussion going. It is way more interesting than normal reaction channels
@irishbattletoster9265
3 жыл бұрын
@@Matokii just did and it's good
@asslool8328
3 жыл бұрын
I’m a Jew who live in Israel and my gray grandfather was a ww1 German veteran and at 1933 he he lived in Berlin and the moment he was fired from his job for being Jewish he left. That’s why I’m alive now
@wavyy
3 жыл бұрын
@@asslool8328 Damn good that he was so forward-thinking. Those things remind you that life really is a sequence of hundreds of random events sometimes. My grandpa only survived because his family barely missed a ship that was supposed to evacuate them out of Königsberg/Kaliningrad. They had to flee because the Russian army was moving in their direction. This ship was sunk by Soviet bombers later on and 9000 people died.
@mitchellkeiser9135
3 жыл бұрын
@@asslool8328 good shit man
@alex_ho
3 жыл бұрын
"I think the Nazis were the closest we ever got to evil." The Japanese during WW2: 👀
@trollololololololo1173
3 жыл бұрын
Why does everyone forgett Stalin
@ХристоЯнакиев-е6н
3 жыл бұрын
@@trollololololololo1173 bc only winners are writing the history
@averyshortusername9597
3 жыл бұрын
@@trollololololololo1173 depends where in the world you are, eastern europe focuses on stalin, western and america focus on hitler, and asia focuses on tojo
@arma5166
3 жыл бұрын
@@ХристоЯнакиев-е6н that sentence will lose its validaty if you start to study history properly. History is written by historians
@helpiamstuckonthismanshead3385
3 жыл бұрын
Even the germans were sickend by the Japanese
@theemperororsomethingidont6897
3 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who thinks that the Armchair Historian looks like a 15year old without his beard but like a 30 year old with his beard
@sarahalexander7256
3 жыл бұрын
I just love the kinda smirk he gives at the end of every statement. He's kinda so cute!
@TheArmchairHistorian
3 жыл бұрын
Agreed! Lol
@theemperororsomethingidont6897
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheArmchairHistorian Wasn't expecting that reaction but that's OK
@TommyKay
3 жыл бұрын
he looks rlly good with a beard
@HaldorMaximius
3 жыл бұрын
It's the curse of the baby face; I'm 28 with a Ron Swanson mustache and when it's in full bloom people think I'm 30, but without it I'm 18.
@BlackfyreHD
3 жыл бұрын
I went to Berlin in 2019 and the Victory column still is littered with bullet holes.
@nqh4393
3 жыл бұрын
Also the walls inside the Reichstag are still littered with vulgar Soviet graffitis. Are they ever going to clean those shit up?
@bigdikdude4207
3 жыл бұрын
In the Kaliningrad region, we still have some German buildings that were NOT repaired after WW2. like Kalinigrad Forts or some churches in certain small towns. a very humbling experience going there sometimes
@adamwnt
3 жыл бұрын
@@bigdikdude4207 i am from nearby Gdansk, I think it's a shame there're so few traces of the past in Kaliningrad region, and the little left is often derelict. We in Gdansk tried to revive the historical centre, which looks decent compared to the past, but I wish Kaliningrad would do the same, just for the architectural perspective, not talking about the prussian past, it would also gain in tourism.
@nikitaberejnoy4359
3 жыл бұрын
@@adamwnt id really love if kalinigrad had rebuilt historical buildings, but in soviet times government tried to get rip of everything german, and for some reason todays autorietis also tries to deny city's past. although people(who mostly russian, like 90%) get used to call this city "Könik" as deminutive form.
@nikitaberejnoy4359
3 жыл бұрын
In Dresden there is still marks on buildings in russian of a guy who checked for the bombs
@hawkerben1158
3 жыл бұрын
One German subject I’d like to learn more about is the transition between east Germany into a unified Germany, iv never known a lot about German unification aside from how the wall fell ( specifically how the unified German government formed and whether there were elections or somthing)
@kinky291
3 жыл бұрын
Alot of people here have different opinions about the unification, there are people like my mother who always used to say that they should have kept the wall because of the minor economic collapse the unificaton brought. Alot of old westeners say that the germans from the east are alot more radical because they never had a de-nazification like in the west. They lived through a horrible regime and they didnt have the opportunity to get eduacted about capitalism and the life in the west. That of course is my opinion as a young west german.
@karl-heinzgrabowski3022
3 жыл бұрын
from my western point of view, it was a huge sell-out, eastern germany got fucked by the Treuhandanstalt which was used to privatize the economy.
@marcn.3768
3 жыл бұрын
@@kinky291 True! ...which is pretty ironic considering the way the SED in the DDR repressed ciritics in their nation and also generally surpressing any kind of political opposition, whilst condemning the BRD (and accusing Western Germany of being a fascist and imperialist warmongerous state), despite the BRD governments being much more true to democratic values than the authoritarian regime ruling in the DDR (although the denazification in the DDR was pursued much more quickly and thoroughly at first).
@abelpap5313
3 жыл бұрын
"Goodbye Lenin" is a great movie about this stuff, would definitely recommend.
@Joe_Mama661
3 жыл бұрын
They just had to add more civis and it was better
@bacebulgarianmapper1186
3 жыл бұрын
Tommy: "Germany was destroyed, gone, 10 years later boom, it's all back, all the buildings are back" Also Tommy: "You know what's the worst thing about communism? It's their depresive architecture. Who came up with this idea?!"
@def3ndr887
3 жыл бұрын
Well everything except for the easternmost parts of Germany (pommern, Silesia, Prussia etc.)
@LiterallyMe05
3 жыл бұрын
West Germany got rebuilt in half that time. So did France and Italy, while they don't have depressing buildings, unlike Poland, East Germany etc.
@juldris4180
3 жыл бұрын
They were designed to eliminate poverty fast enough. From what I now it worked Soviet Union
@nikitaberejnoy4359
3 жыл бұрын
@@LiterallyMe05 they don't have now, but back in a days it was a trend, just western countries realized that it's a horrible idea and blow up most of them.
@TheTMan001
3 жыл бұрын
I'm Polish, on the point of depressing architecture, it wasn't just east German in Eastern Bloc Poland, my parents lived in a flat in the most boring building, beige and grey, everything was beige and grey. most buildings outside of Warsaw, Krakow and Lodz still are just beige and grey
@frukoprof
3 жыл бұрын
Mówi się: „szare bloki”? Gdzie, kurwa, szare bloki? Tutaj wszystko pstrokate - baby, typy i yorki Purpurowe siniaki, pewnie bo była naughty On ma kefir dla mężczyzn, taki well-balanced protein o smaku toffee Mój kraj wyszedł z klatki, teraz się mota Moim krajem może rządzić byle miernota W moim kraju ta oświata to jest ciemnota Z jednej strony Jarmark, a z drugiej Europa
@dwarow2508
3 жыл бұрын
I am from Ukraine and here all soviet architecture is mich better than what we had in the Russian Empire and what we have now
@danielboymuk1344
3 жыл бұрын
@@dwarow2508 Українець який не гадить на радянський наслідок.Такі існують.
@dwarow2508
3 жыл бұрын
@@danielboymuk1344 Це відоме як неупереджене судження
@Fabrissable
2 жыл бұрын
They were grey, true, its because they wanted to develop as fast and cheap as possible. Nowdays many old buildings are being repainted, thermaly isolated and just made better overall. They wanted to make living blocks for famillies as fast as fuck, so the blue collar worker with his familly could afford living in centers of big cities w/o a problem in so called M3's. It wasnt the best ofcourse but it still was a huuuge improvement for people who just escaped war and were probably living in shithuts without a toilet in the middle of the forest. Im from commie block as well and my grandparrents were living in tiny house in the village without running water and in 80's they got a free apartament in the city, so my mum could go to highschool no problem now and my grandpa had lot shorter to work and they could sustain themselves and my mum could finish higher education later on because they moved to city.
@emote3182
3 жыл бұрын
This is so true when I listening to the part of Tommy talking about old East Germany and old China. I was born and grown up in Hong Kong, while my parents didn't. They always talk about when they were young, their grandpa or uncle (something like that, not sure) was working in Hong Kong. Every time that uncle visit them, he brought many good stuffs like toys, biscuits, wines. Also my parents was living in Guangdong, which is near Hong Kong, so they can watch TV shows from Hong Kong. Every time they talking about their childhoods, their eyes are bright and full of happiness. So when I listen Tommy talk about his mom listening to MJ's music, damn. I really get touched, so glad that we are living in a (maybe not that) peaceful time, also how similar did our parents, grandparents live in that unstable but nostalgic days. I even remember when I was young, we are so easy to be fulfilled, just running in the park with other children, that's how we spend holidays. While kids nowadays... Nah.
@Damo2690
3 жыл бұрын
Kids are a reflection of their parents
@pixelfencer
3 жыл бұрын
Did you know that when the Germans surrendered there were still Germans fighting the Dutch on the islands above the Netherlands
@Joe_Mama661
3 жыл бұрын
There was also a Georgian division that actually killed the Germans and got called war heroes unlike many other POWS who were considered traitors in the USSR
@Gorg-oe1hu
3 жыл бұрын
There were also german units in norway who hadn't surrendered until 1948. Aswell as a few u boats
@narayasuiryoku1397
3 жыл бұрын
men: in the army kids: training to go in the army women: breading kids so they can go to the army
@TommyKay
3 жыл бұрын
everything was about the army, what a terrible way to live
@GenocideWesterners
3 жыл бұрын
@@TommyKay West germany also had mandatory military service.
@connorbranscombe6819
3 жыл бұрын
@@GenocideWesterners Yeah pretty sure Tommy knows that dude. he was literally in the Panzer Grenadiers.
@grandmarshalbeans8459
3 жыл бұрын
How to watch the Armchair Historian without 30 ads :101
@FriedrichBarb
3 жыл бұрын
Or just get an ad blocker browser extension like 80% of people who watch KZitem have ....
@tylermech66
3 жыл бұрын
@@FriedrichBarb or get premium and never ever be bothered by them again without having to download sketchy shit onto your computer.
@FriedrichBarb
3 жыл бұрын
@@tylermech66 Chrome extensions usually aren't sketchy and are free so, worth the risk if you know how to protect your PC
@tylermech66
3 жыл бұрын
@@FriedrichBarb I prefer not to pirate.
@FriedrichBarb
3 жыл бұрын
@@tylermech66 it’s not pirating xD
@bobi6191
3 жыл бұрын
What you said at the end, about the lost generation which formed after 1989, really resonates with many people from countries formerly part of the Eastern Block. My grandparents lost their savings to hyperinflation and were both left unemployed by 2000. Approaching their 50’s at that point, they were considered too old and were unable to find jobs. They took to farming in hopes of riding out the years they had left until retirement but the retirement age was raised multiple times. Things just kept getting worse for them over the years. My grandmother didn’t make it till retirement. My grandfather still lives in their crumbling, old house.
@Vitorruy1
3 жыл бұрын
Thats awful, many people lost their savings here too
@How23497
2 жыл бұрын
That's what happens when you change to literally the opposite economic system. Lives get fucked up majorly
@trevalyn9953
3 жыл бұрын
Armchair Historian is an awesome KZitemr.
@radioshatter5574
3 жыл бұрын
I second this. If you’re reading this, go subscribe to him and watch his stuff
@panchohalo2158
3 жыл бұрын
I can't believe he got a lot of criticism over the Vietnam video because some KZitem woman didn't approve of it.
@panchohalo2158
3 жыл бұрын
@Order & Chaos Yep! But it just became a small bump on the road, issue died down pretty fast. Thank goodness.
@TheArmchairHistorian
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks man :)
@alphabet_god1175
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheArmchairHistorian oh wow I just noticed you got a million, good job, you deserve it
@ryannewman3676
3 жыл бұрын
Weren’t the skulls a Prussian symbol meaning they were willing to die for their country?
@karl-heinzgrabowski3022
3 жыл бұрын
some prussian husars were wearing skull hats, but skulls were used by many as a symbol, even the cetniks and polish husars used it
@JBGARINGAN
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah but don't get confused my bro, the main Prussian symbols are the Iron Cross and the Hohenzollern Eagle. It is totally retarded that the Allies would abolish Prussia when they had absolutely had nothing to do with the Nazi stuff other than the military traditions and general staff being of Prussian junker ancestry. In fact the Nazis wanted to centralize the German identity, they wanted people to think they were Germans/Aryans not Bavarians, Rhinelanders, Prussians, etc... besides the monarchist movement was largely purged and absorbed by the Nazis into their ultranationalist conservative traditionalist coalition to be the sole right wing party for the conservative voter base.
@The_Sandwich1984
3 жыл бұрын
@@JBGARINGAN They abolished Prussia to discourage militarism and pride
@GenocideWesterners
3 жыл бұрын
@@The_Sandwich1984 They abolished it because they wanted to crush German pride and destroy its military traditions(uniforms, helmets, marches and goose step) .
@32parchy
3 жыл бұрын
@@GenocideWesterners and now Germany is a shell of what it once was, very sad.
@tibwr8879
3 жыл бұрын
i cant believe tommy didint know about the best youtuber ever finally he now knows
@aq8048
3 жыл бұрын
@Geometry D wydm?
@Nothing-1w3
3 жыл бұрын
@Geometry D lmao what
@aq8048
3 жыл бұрын
@Geometry D I haven't seen that video but it seems a common theme him spreading his views into the videos.
@aq8048
3 жыл бұрын
@Geometry D Im not trying to justify him I was just asking since I didn't know what you were referring to.
@finnklapproth6023
3 жыл бұрын
28:22 my grandma once smuggled 50 West-Mark in her bread into the GDR. She literally ate a bite of the bread while she was at the bordercheck to make sure the guards won't find it.
@ieuanridout6291
3 жыл бұрын
I’m from Wales, and my grandfather was out in West and East Germany for most of his young adult life helping to rebuild many buildings and things like that
@lordxxx8493
3 жыл бұрын
My dad grew up in Poland during communism. He told me how his friend had an uncle living in West Germany. One day his friend comes into class and unpacks things his uncle gave him, then ten people came to him and he gave everyone a sip of Fanta. My dad told me how he'll never forget the taste of it. There was also a store chain named Pewex which sold western goods. The thing was, they accepted only dollars, so when my grandpa came back from the US with dollars my mom rushed to a Pewex to buy coca-cola.
@Damo2690
3 жыл бұрын
Fanta is a german drink created because the US had a trade embargo on Nazi Germany so they couldn't get coca cola so thats kinnda funny
@mokinsen
3 жыл бұрын
My mother once visited the east and East Germans would stare at her as if she was an alien when she drank Coca-Cola or something like that. And an East German major asked my mother: If Germany reunites, will the we come to you or you to us? and my Mother replied: Is that an honest question? (Ist die Frage ernst gemeint?). And as she asked an east German to try to drive a Trabbi he answered: Oh no what if Genosse sees a Wessi (West German) drive around in my car
@AururaTinn7930
3 жыл бұрын
I have honor to speak with ma'am Tekla Juniewicz, the oldest living person in poland and propably now in europe, sze was borm on june 10yh 1906. she literally saw our entire present history on her own eys. I learned from her, the hell that people experienced during the german occupation, and I appreciate that such people are still among us, because they tell stories to future generations
@mpb8628
3 жыл бұрын
Can you please tell more? Sounds very interesting
@davinnicode
3 жыл бұрын
Man Polish history is so interesting. I went there a couple of times and always had a blast.
@pawnyi7742
3 жыл бұрын
Damn Tommy, I felt you when you talked about experience of your parents in a communist regime. I heard similar stories so many times from my own parents(they are from the USSR). Thanks for sharing your stories, it was really fun!
@positivewheat2053
3 жыл бұрын
Hey, tommy, u should consider reacting to bald and bankrupt, he's a youtuber who travels through the post Soviet countries.
@TommyKay
3 жыл бұрын
send it during a twitch stream and he might check it out
@MemekingJag
10 ай бұрын
I appreciate the reaction in the reaction video. I just watched xQc react to oversimplified, and you could have replaced his cam with looped footage for all the input he gave. I enjoy history, and I enjoy seeing how people react to the information I discovered. It's no sin to be ignorant, but to be willingly disinterested when shown the events that lead to our life today like others are is a great pity.
@ghazii1243
3 жыл бұрын
Imagine the first thing aliens hear from earth is angry nazi sounds
@ryanmcgowan417
3 жыл бұрын
They'll probs decide not to visit
@austinstevens6052
3 жыл бұрын
Idk why but I love when Tommy watches documentaries about anything
@tinchorb1340
3 жыл бұрын
Hello tommy, i hope youre having a good day For you too markoni (i think i writed it okay)
@TommyKay
3 жыл бұрын
ty luv u
@tinchorb1340
3 жыл бұрын
@@TommyKay lol U answered (well, one of you)
@Aethelhald
3 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't say the Nazis were the closest we ever came to pure evil. Well, I mean, they were, but it's a position they share with so many other groups throughout history. The USSR during Stalin, the Khmer Rouge, CCP during Chairman Mao, Imperialist Japan during WW2, The Mongols, The Huns, too many African warlords to count, Saddam Hussein's Iraq, ISIS and so many others I'm forgetting at this moment.
@moenchii
3 жыл бұрын
My dad was lucky after the reunification and he could keep his job. He still works in the same company where he started his apprenticeship in 1978. My mom wasn't that lucky and was working in a fuck ton of part-time jobs with bad payment all while handeling my brother (who was 2 when the reunification happened) and later me too. They were lucky that they lived together with my grandparents in one house and they always supported them. My mom told me in the 90s that she had countless sleepless nights because of finacial troubles. My dad didn't get a huge sallary (he's a farmer) and she was either unemployed or also had a job with shitty wages. She was so greatful that her parents were with them and that they supported them.
@ashitaka1337
3 жыл бұрын
The Victoria 2 soundtrack in the beginning
@davidnguyen467
3 жыл бұрын
When tommy said “a couple years, everybody full in” in regards to accepting the nazi ideas. I litterally have every war movie flash before my eyes
@matejmihalik848
2 жыл бұрын
Im a croat currently living in germany in bayern and before i got here i didnt know almost anything about german history apart from the basics like hitler nazism etc. but in the last couple of months ago i started to get into this ww2 type of stuff and the entire post war part of germany is so damn fascinating for me mostly because seeing germany where it is now only like what around 80 years after is just fascinating. this country took me, gave me a chance to learn the language, actually start working with decent wages (faaaaar more than i would get in croatia for the same job), and just not ever in my 4 years here experiencing any type of discrimination nor anything like is insane. i will forever be thankful for the things that the people in this country have given me and for all of the chances that ive gotten when i know for a fact that if i was still in croatia i would be living from month to month on awful wages and probably end up selling drugs or using them.
@ratsmacker693
3 жыл бұрын
western healthcare: medicine, needles, bandages. soviet healthcare: vodka, vodka, vodka, and vodka
@EasyCookingonthego
3 жыл бұрын
Funny as f#ck, Idiot
@Sovietube
3 жыл бұрын
So funny man
@ratsmacker693
3 жыл бұрын
@@Sovietube i know you're being sarcastic but i will still take it as a compliment to assert dominance
@Sovietube
3 жыл бұрын
@@ratsmacker693 bruh
@davinnicode
3 жыл бұрын
Russian seem to use it for everything. I've gotten so many health tips from Russians involving the use of vodka. It was ridiculous!
@Fun4luve
3 жыл бұрын
Hey Markoni and comrades the war still rages on we must find the snitches and deal with them!
@eboypilled
3 жыл бұрын
My neighbor and my mom’s ex-boyfriend were both from East Germany originally, and actually her ex, I’ll call him H for now, he was deaf partially because allied bombing runs, and he’d tell me about his dad being in Wehrmacht or something, whilst my neighbor doesn’t really talk about East Germany much but I don’t really talk to him either, I didn’t even know he was German let alone East German until someone else told me, but he’s really old too, I should ask him about it sometime
@eboypilled
3 жыл бұрын
Also, when I was little, H would take me to this German bar in LA and they would serve me even though I was 14, but looking back at it, it was interesting because I asked many of the people there where in Germany they originally from and H was the only East German, he was from Dresden originally by the way
@spynix0718
3 жыл бұрын
You guys realize that when Twitch Chat snitched, they had to be a part of YT chat. In conclusion, there is an imposter among us.
@punishedlatvian5710
3 жыл бұрын
"I think the Nazis were the closest we ever got to evil." USSR: imma ruin this man's whole career
@MoldyChese
3 жыл бұрын
same as china
@eliaskjrbo8142
3 жыл бұрын
Nazi’s were far worse than communists
@MoldyChese
3 жыл бұрын
@@eliaskjrbo8142 Not in how Many People they killed that's Wrong
@MoldyChese
3 жыл бұрын
@worldrevolution I mean the only downside of capitalism is the depressions and recessions
@punishedlatvian5710
3 жыл бұрын
@worldrevolution If you think communist crimes are propaganda then you also should think that holocoast is propaganda
@seannaesseannaes
3 жыл бұрын
My cousins were stasi, but my Jewish grandparents got out of Breslau. Glad it worked out for you! I love your content!
@navaryn2938
3 жыл бұрын
Fun facr: yes, hitler's speech at the olympics was the first signal that could reach outer space. However, signal decays into noise as it travels through the cosmos, so any alien around another star could detect it, but in no way recognize it as communication
@davorstosic2776
3 жыл бұрын
you think aliens exsist haha...
@flyingbrick8849
3 жыл бұрын
@@davorstosic2776 you are more stupid if you believe that they don’t exists than they do
@navaryn2938
3 жыл бұрын
@@davorstosic2776 the scientific consensus is that they most likely do
@davorstosic2776
3 жыл бұрын
@@flyingbrick8849 sure brainiac, what makes you smart if you believe that they do, you make no sense haha
@unitedstatesofamerica4987
3 жыл бұрын
@@davorstosic2776 Give us a motive. If not walk out of here You rude person.
@roninblitz2159
3 жыл бұрын
im glad tommy is finding the great history channels, love it tommm
@itslowdefinition
3 жыл бұрын
My grandmother was really young when the Nazis rose to power and her family fled the county into the Sudetenland, but we know how that eventually went. She tells me stories about the war and the end of the war along with how she had to raise my mom in the post-war conditions. On my other side, I had a Grandpa who fought in the Nazis African Campaign. I was told that he never bought into the idea of Nazism, he just had a similar thing to what was talked about at the beginning of the video about wanting to fill the void. Really scary stuff. Whenever I'm told about this, my family, who is usually always super happy, all light goes from their eyes and all forms of happiness drains from their face. Especially hearing from people with first-hand experience reminds you how good we all have it now and how important it is that we preserve the freedoms and, you know, the anti-nazism.
@Lpf-df5yr
3 жыл бұрын
im excited for tommy to watcch his newer videos and see how much his animation has improved
@Cook1eSP
3 жыл бұрын
9:15 god damn Tommy, I was drinking tea
@KedAR_48
3 жыл бұрын
Now you should watch battle for Warsaw (1920), also from armchair historian
@Damo2690
3 жыл бұрын
Poland is not yet lost is better
@Progametloler
3 жыл бұрын
The mataxas regime in Greece also used a similar salute but it isn't the same as the Nazi one. From ancient Greece the salute is called "δεξιούμαι" meaning I am righting(makes more sense in Greek) this salute can be found in the works of Xenofod
@The_Sandwich1984
3 жыл бұрын
I am righting! Lmao
@Astraben
3 жыл бұрын
@Jeb Bush Goes to show how much of a clown party the Axis was
@ducklingchief8289
3 жыл бұрын
9:37 Just my personal replay button
@names1842
3 жыл бұрын
KZitem > Twitch
@vexxfulomega9
3 жыл бұрын
Debatable
@emukun9107
3 жыл бұрын
KZitem Twitch
@datboy038
3 жыл бұрын
At least everyone gets fucked equally here
@shweeps
3 жыл бұрын
0:40 This is the 2nd TommyKay video i've watched and you know im already subbed now. I love this guy! You make me happy to be German once again lol
@bruhrespecct1967
3 жыл бұрын
Armchair historian reaction! Pog Btw his animation has become really good nowadays
@AsuraZ22
3 жыл бұрын
I like that Tommy reaction videos are reaction videos + adding commentary from him, a lot barely react to those while Tommy go full in
@notantol
3 жыл бұрын
about living in East Germany and for my parents in Poland they also have told me that growing up in commie Poland wasn't that bad and that they had lots of great moments
@yonek1316
3 жыл бұрын
I think it depends on the region. My mother had a friend who lived in Poland and it was awful, her mom was a doctor but they barely got by.
@Vitorruy1
3 жыл бұрын
Every country that was a dictadorship has sone sort of weird nostalgia, here people talk about how they were less crime because of martial law.
@ramennoods8834
3 жыл бұрын
that was awesome to hear this history. I had no idea anything like this ever happened. glad he opened up. Thanks TK
@AlistaTudor18
3 жыл бұрын
Its funny the whole time he was talking about east germany i was comparing it to my own country. i really had no idea that i was living in a socialist country until now.
@The_Sandwich1984
3 жыл бұрын
What country?
@thebritishtwat1317
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah now I'm interested what country because it better not be the UK or something lol
@onm7864
3 жыл бұрын
.dz means algeria I think
@joshgetsmoneybitch1084
3 жыл бұрын
How is it like there is it as bad as they say
@AlistaTudor18
3 жыл бұрын
Its algeria and trust me living here is shit When Tommy mentioned the list for housing it struck me because that's how we get housing in algeria (unless you're rich obviously)
@ramos_6580
3 жыл бұрын
I’m my home town in Latvia we have a church that has bullet hole inside and out everywhere and it has been barely restored even to this day the inside looks a bit better but the outside looks like a scene from a WW2 movie
@edw2029
3 жыл бұрын
18:01 Tommy wanting to unite the German People.
@allninelivez7631
3 жыл бұрын
9:25 no wonder why Aliens never made contact yet.
@githreepi5811
3 жыл бұрын
My father always shittalks the Ossis (eastgermans). I actually think of him as very educated which makes it even weirder that he is SO biased against them and we regularly argue with each other about that.
@Vitorruy1
3 жыл бұрын
So much ignorance...
@notgoddhoward5972
3 жыл бұрын
5:56 When I watched Fury that tank movie a while ago. They had a bunch of trophy german crosses in the tank. One of them was the mother's cross. You can imagine how they got that in the first place. Yeah, small details like that make a good film
@gruger41
3 жыл бұрын
i had a german teacher and she boasted about how good it was in eastern germany
@fe1ip3
3 жыл бұрын
And thats was/is the major opinion of those who lived in eastern germany.
@gruger41
3 жыл бұрын
@@fe1ip3 yes i know. I know I watched the video. But it seemed weird to me that you would enjoy a nation who don’t let you speak freely. My teacher said it was nicer to live in eastern Germany then Sweden wich seems weird to me
@fe1ip3
3 жыл бұрын
@@gruger41 Like if in captalist country you could speak freely. In the USA during the cold war, pepol "marked" as communist (They might not even be communists) where watched and arrested by the CIA, and if they where a public figure all theyr carrear could end for been a "communist"
@JNeutronFTW
Жыл бұрын
Dankeschön Tommy und Armchair!
@chadhebner4185
3 жыл бұрын
Tommy ran out of HOI4 content and decided to become drew durnil
@jonasjuhas3246
3 жыл бұрын
Your voice is is kind, and you talk so nice man. Just made my day watching you
@CristianRodriguez-tp6rz
3 жыл бұрын
In minute 3:53; the reason why the Jehovah Witnesses were persecuted was becuase of their anti war stance and becuase many men of that faith refused to join the army
@ImmortalSugimoto792
3 жыл бұрын
One thing I’ve always wondered is if people that grew up in the DDR, Soviet Union, Communist Poland, etc. that are nostalgic for that time (which a lot of people are) are nostalgic because things were actually better back then or because that’s when they were young.
@karolissavickis10
3 жыл бұрын
As Tommy said life was stable so in a way it was better. Older people start value stsbility so by this standart soviets were better. Also because off closed borders and propoganda people simply had no idea how people in the west lived. Propoganda said they live better and simply believed. Ofc being young played part.
@ej191
3 жыл бұрын
the virgin Twitch Chat vs the Chad KZitem Comment section
@SanderDoesThings
3 жыл бұрын
You gotta watch more arm chair historian videos, they are super well made
@maksimrashkovskiy9187
3 жыл бұрын
When Tommy started talking about the architecture I immediately thought of the hypocrisy of American suburbs.
@johnmcfly-zf2xh
3 жыл бұрын
Eastern block people will always talk about how houseblocks are unoriginal and depressing buildings, Americans will always talk about how boring, bland and unoriginal suburbs are
@maksimrashkovskiy9187
3 жыл бұрын
@@johnmcfly-zf2xh And then the homeless people start getting confused.
@ynk1611
3 жыл бұрын
@Vinlon Voss Americans often say "How horrible, I would never give up my identity to live with hundreds of other people in an ugly high rise apartment block" when entire neighbourhoods in America look like they built one house and pasted it 500 times and everything looks completely similar.
@JallyJam
3 жыл бұрын
Sure but at least if you wanted to you could choose to make your house unique wherein communism well even just thinking that is a crime. we have repetitive architecture in America because it's cheap and easy.
@maksimrashkovskiy9187
3 жыл бұрын
@@JallyJam The eastern blocs too were easy and cheap to build.
@denniskylling3887
3 жыл бұрын
Another popular sets of movies in east Germany was the so called Olsen gang. This is a set of Danish movies that were watched in the DDR too. Great video :)
@fabianeweil192
3 жыл бұрын
Even today there considered classics Here in the East
@magnificentspud4659
3 жыл бұрын
How do you double the price of a Trabant? You put a banana in its trunk
@foxtrotdelta225
3 жыл бұрын
4:40 Hans... are we the baddies???
@scottnunnemaker5209
3 жыл бұрын
I love your optimism that the East/west German issue will go away with your generation, here we are in America and we kill each other for liking different sports teams.
@Vitorruy1
3 жыл бұрын
Nah
@ramicane1671
3 жыл бұрын
Yes! I’ve been waiting for a while for him to react to some of the AH videos, they are really good
@woafy4967
3 жыл бұрын
I’ve only just starting watching the armchair historian as well
@stateofconstatinopole8316
3 жыл бұрын
I started watching him 2 years ago but I got bored because he's veadeos are kind of click bait because he doesent really say what the title says he just says what was happening that time
@aq8048
3 жыл бұрын
@@stateofconstatinopole8316 same
@zeWuzard
3 жыл бұрын
Denmark: "These edibles ain't shi......" 10:34
@williameld3184
3 жыл бұрын
Please watch ‘who opposed German unification?’ By History Matters!!
@TommyKay
3 жыл бұрын
I think that would be a real quick video, not enough for an actual video to it.
@albertromas357
3 жыл бұрын
Easy , every country in Europe
@vigokarnebeek9856
3 жыл бұрын
I love that tommy says zauron inplace of sauron
@maseluss
3 жыл бұрын
Hey Tommy, have you ever watched Unsere Mütter, Unsere Vätter? It's an amazing minisseries about the germans in the soviet front, I'd highly recommend if you haven't watched it yet. Love from Brasilien
@nikitaberejnoy4359
3 жыл бұрын
this film is pretty unhistorical and biased, german historicals says that it's not why most of germans fought, people in film just aren't real. Also i felt cringe how they showed poles and russians in a bad sight
@user-eh4gu3bq8k
3 жыл бұрын
Armchair historian is the most quality history channel on YT
@josephstalin5782
3 жыл бұрын
i owned east germany lol
@muffle157
3 жыл бұрын
Hey Joe
@hetecks1385
3 жыл бұрын
Hey Joe Joe
@josephstalin5782
3 жыл бұрын
@@muffle157 hello my comrade
@josephstalin5782
3 жыл бұрын
@@hetecks1385 hello comrade comrade
@kwayyernorge7436
3 жыл бұрын
Hello gonmmunist non-freund
@Joe_Mama661
2 жыл бұрын
Same thing happened in the USSR, when it collapsed people lost everything, it's led to a big amount of people being nostalgic about the USSR
@GabrielGarcia-km2ou
3 жыл бұрын
Communism: Work thougether for a good life Fascism: Unity throught nationality makes us strong Democracy: Give me money, I give you nothing but you can still have dreams
@Zack-rc3dt
3 жыл бұрын
Tommy coming close to 300k! Lets go boiiiss!!!
@karmamaya1926
3 жыл бұрын
TommyKay: i hate communist architecture!! Homless in West Germany: 😐
@wolfsoldner9029
3 жыл бұрын
West German welfare makes homelesness impossible. Every homeless in Germany chose to be homeless.
@vixen878
7 ай бұрын
@@wolfsoldner9029 a poor excuse for homelessness it to blame the homeless
@wolfsoldner9029
7 ай бұрын
@@vixen878 All they have to do is to fill an application for welfare. Yes, they are to blame.
@vixen878
7 ай бұрын
@@wolfsoldner9029 not everyone is entitled to welfare, homeless or not.
@reichtanglevictor1694
3 жыл бұрын
Regarding the bullet holes, they were probably stray bullets, executions, maybe fortifications in front of that wall and some soldiers missed
@SuperShadowKin
3 жыл бұрын
18:00 So I guess every country has that kind of social divide. East vs West or North vs South. Hell, its even there at the city scale sometimes. Humans just can't seem to let go of tribalism.
@theundeadcommissar2935
3 жыл бұрын
I love that you start watching the armchair historian he’s the best
@cosmicrahal6014
3 жыл бұрын
“History is written by the victors”
@bigdikdude4207
3 жыл бұрын
except it's been proven that it's barely a true statement
@addiction4062
3 жыл бұрын
@@bigdikdude4207 lmao no
@vercot7000
3 жыл бұрын
and? so what? do we then ignore history because of a trend that has always and will always occur after a victor wins a war?
@lonely_four7608
2 жыл бұрын
Not really but go on
@Leocus57
3 жыл бұрын
You have earned my subscription when you compared Dark Lord Sauron and orcs with Hitler and nazist as pure evil
@blakejohnson1016
3 жыл бұрын
I think Tommy should read what happened in USSR. Much worse than concentration camps
@sovietboi7660
3 жыл бұрын
Any examples (books, articles etc.)
@blakejohnson1016
3 жыл бұрын
@@sovietboi7660 Gulag Archipelago by solzhenitsyn
@sovietboi7660
3 жыл бұрын
@@blakejohnson1016 this man went through repression and ratted his friends out for favours
@sovietboi7660
3 жыл бұрын
@@blakejohnson1016 also he was never trusted by historians soooo
@blakejohnson1016
3 жыл бұрын
My grandfather served as a blue cap, ussr wasn't a utopia. It's a good book, try it if you're into reading. Reserve police battalion 101 is also an amazing depicting middle aged germans becoming devoted nazis, check it out bro
@MsPysoul
3 жыл бұрын
20:17 Someone tell Tommy to watch a video about "Operation Unthinkable".
@korgmoh8322
3 жыл бұрын
Nice is time to Tommy stop saying good things to America for views
@brent123456yo
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly. I'm American and can see this
@githreepi5811
3 жыл бұрын
America (the people, not the government) is actually liked by the germans. My guess is that its a relic of the 50s when the US strongly helped rebuild germany even though they were enemies 10 years ago.
@korgmoh8322
3 жыл бұрын
@@githreepi5811 I feel pathetic for tommy for not knowing the Henry Morgenthau plan
@tik1469
3 жыл бұрын
You nailed Finnish architecture perfectly right there! 24:15 -24:43
@onecertainesquire486
3 жыл бұрын
Tommy, don’t deny it, you felt a bit of nostalgia didn’t you? There’s only one reason why people play Paradox games and that’s to live out their patriotic fantasies
@alanjrubin2012
3 жыл бұрын
2:55 I couldn't stop myself from laughing at that unintentional pun
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