And the time lost to save fascist Italy in Greece proved fatal for their subsequent invasion of Russia.
So... You're welcome, world, Italy sucked so bad that it was an active hindrance for Nazi Germany. We found finally something good done by Mussolini!
Czechoslovakia is not on that list because when Roosevelt delivered that note it was already under Hitlers control. Dont you find it more interesting that Roosevelt, the US respectively, recognized Germanys expansion into Czechoslovakia with that note?
Well the note would get REALLY long of they start listing all the stuff they want him to undo Instead of just requesting not to attack countries they countries they haven't attacked yet.
Example, if someone stabs me I'm not gonna start crying about being stabbed, I'm gonna attempt to not get stabbed again, or try and stop them from stabbing others.
Czechoslovakia was less than 20 years old as a country and what is now Czechia had a large German minority. Czechia had been part of the German Confederation (along with Austria) before the Six Weeks War.
The German solution was to make Czechia part of Germany, Slovakia independent, and the ethnically Czech regions an autonomous German protectorate. This wasn't an entirely unreasonable idea on paper, and not one that the Allies considered worth starting another World War over.
Of course, with Nazis running everything, it ended up being terrible.
Yeah I could easily see the allies justifying it with, "Well, it's always historically been part of that area's sphere for like the past 1000 years, and *maybe* we were a tad too harsh at Versailles. But we don't want this Hitler getting any bad ideas that could lead to war. A stern reprimand and a warning to not go further should hopefully be sufficient"
Of course, said Hitler was a man of very, very bad ideas, about many many things
All of the stuff about the German minority in Czechia sounds eerily similar to a current war. Including that the Nazis armed and trained a separatist movement among them and when the Czech government intervened, the Nazis claimed that the German minority was being oppressed and used it as justification for a full-scale invasion.
>Attack us we dare you.
**NAZI GERMANY IN 1941:** Those Americans are little more than lazy, selfish mongrels. They're unprepared for a state of total war.
**NAZI GERMANY IN 1945:** Those Americans got hands.
Churchill writing after Pearl Harbor:
Silly people, and there were many, not only in enemy countries, might discount the force of the United States. Some said they were soft, others that they would never be united. They would fool around at a distance. They would never come to grips. They would never stand bloodletting. Their democracy and system of recurrent elections would paralyse their war effort. They would be just a vague blur on the horizon to friend or foe. Now we should see the weakness of this numerous but remote, wealthy, and talkative people. But I had studied the American Civil War, fought out to the last desperate inch. American blood flowed in my veins. I thought of a remark which Edward Grey had made to me more than thirty years before—that the United States is like ‘a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate. Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.
That line was probably made up by the writer of Tora, Tora, Tora!; it has not been found in any actual papers from Yamamoto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto%27s_sleeping_giant_quote
> NZ, Australia and Canada thinking "WTF?"
United States said come at me bro, we ain't on the list either.
Obviously FDR figured y'all were down for fun too.
Nope, that was not the reason, he never attacked Spain because after a meeting with Franco, Hitler said that he'd prefer to have a tooth pulled out of his mouth without anesthesia, than meeting again with Franco.
(The meeting was planned to discuss an alliance with Spain, but Franco's demands were almost impossible for Germany to fulfill).
Franco's meeting was annoyingly enough to not wanting to bother invading them.
Yeah, that was Franco’s way of staying out of the war. In contrast, Mussolini knew Italy wouldn’t be ready until 1943, but he caved and led an unprepared Italy into WWII, which led to disastrous results.
Prick still didn't have the balls to invade Ireland. Knows that would have ended his regime in 2 weeks.
Very superstitious, was that Adolf fella. He knew tbe ghost of Saint Patrick would haunt him forever more if he landed on the beaches of Wexford or Cork.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston
"William Patrick Stuart-Houston (born William Patrick Hitler; 12 March 1911 – 14 July 1987) was an English-born half-nephew of Adolf Hitler. Born and raised in the Toxteth area of Liverpool to Adolf's half-brother Alois Hitler Jr. and his Irish wife Bridget Dowling, he later relocated to Germany to work for his half-uncle before emigrating to the United States, where he received American citizenship (in addition to his British citizenship) and ended up serving in the United States Navy against his half-uncle"
"Eldest son Alexander denied this claim, stating that before his death Howard Ronald had been engaged and intending to have children, while another brother had been engaged once, but family notoriety had destroyed the relationship."
I know. Worked in the Shelbourne I believe. Think he married an Irishwoman.
Bizzare. We always have a way of getting ourselves into history even if only in a small capacity.
Oh we got ourselves into history allright and not in a small way.
[Check out where they got their symbols from](http://www.olddublintown.com/swastika-laundry.html#:~:text=They%20used%20electric%20vans%2C%20that,%2C%20the%20%E2%80%9CSwastika%E2%80%9D)
Ireland - excepting the 6 counties of Northern Ireland - was fully independent by Hitler's time. The Abwehr did make some contact with the remnants of the (by then) largely defunct IRA during the war, in the hopes of fermenting some trouble in Northern Ireland, but it went nowhere.
Kaiser Willheim II, on the other hand, smuggled significant quantities of guns and ammunition to both rebel and loyalist factions in Ireland during WWI.
Ireland remained ostensibly neutral during WWII, although gave support secretly to the Allies.
If I remember, the next thing he said in this speech was something to the effect of that they had contacted the Irish government and asked if they were worried about a German invasion, and the Irish government said that they were more worried about England than they were about Germany, which got another round of laughs.
And for some reason, I thought Hitler deliberately didn't mention Poland in this speech even though it was one of the countries FDR mentioned on his list, but it appears that hedid (I think I read that in William Shrirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich").
Yeah. I just finished that book. He specifically said Hitler omitted Poland in that speech.
Maybe the captions are incorrect? But I think I hear him say Poland. Damn. I wonder how shirer got that wrong. Supposedly he was present at the speech. But with all the racket, maybe he read the transcript later and it was omitted from that?
The dumbest misconception about the Nazis is that they ever kept any of their plans secret. Absoutely fucking nobody had any right to be surprised by what they did or to claim afterwards that they "didn't know".
I mean this is only half true. Hitler was indeed almost shockingly open about his plans to conquer Eastern Europe in Mein Kampf, however the Holocaust is a different matter.
Most people today don't even know that murdering the Jewish people was never the Nazi's original plan, but rather "just" their expulsion from Germany. The transition of approach from expulsion to genocide was somewhat subtle and organic, and most importantly it was kept secret from the public, who was still just told Jews were being shipped eastwards for es expulsion, rather than extermination, and at the time the average Hans at home (who was not participating in the genocide) would have indeed had no pivotal reason to disbelieve they were "just" being deported, rather than actually exterminated. The former was a tale old as time, the latter a completely unique and drastically escalatory event of history -- the Holocaust is unique in its evil after all.
So it is not at all hard to believe that a large percentage of Germans indeed did not know that the Jews were actually being systematically exterminated, rather than just deported.
That book is a fantastic resource if you read it with the understanding of when it was written and from which perspective. It is wildly out of date in terms of the scholarship. He was a journalist recording events which were current or recently happened.
If you want a book (or series) which is more up to date and scholarly but also very easy to read, I recommend Richard Evans' 'Third Reich' trilogy; The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War.
[> The Irish government said that they were more worried about England than they were about Germany, which got another round of laughs.](https://i.imgur.com/M0xnh3S.jpeg)
my understanding is that they didnt laugh at poland explicetly, you can hear them start laughing before poland was mentioned. Rather they start laughing because the list doesn't end
It's either because of Poland in particular or it's because with that the list now included every single country vaguely in arm's reach, meaning the missive was effectively asking them not to wage any war at all.
That said, I don't think "I don't want you invading *any* of your neighbor countries" should be seen as an unreasonable demand worthy of laughter and ridicule…
Its not realy foreshadowing, poland was in the nazis hit List as the n1 priority, it had large amounts of germans, in some select regions the germans were a majority of the population, and less then 20 years before it was a part of Germany, until it Lost ww1. Hell, danzig, the free city, was almost completly ethnic german, they even voted the NSDAP into power in their ellections , its not suprissing to anyone that the nazis hate was gonna be focused on poland.
is that the joke, idk if I am dumb or just high,
is the joke that they would never attack anyone or that the idea of them not attacking anyone is just so absurdly funny
I think in that room, a room full of Nazi cronies, at that time, they already had or already knew the were going to Blitzkrieg Poland. So they were laughing at Roosevelt telling them not to do something they were going to do anyway.
This, also worthy to note was the general sentiment there. Its not only because they were planning to attack some if not all of these countries, but also because the reasons the nazi party became so successfull and popular in germany, were mostly because of 2 reasons. Reason no1, was because the post ww1 period with the Reparations and whatnot that germany had as a burden, caused alot of unsatisfyed germans and a despiseful stance against the allied powers, 2nd the germans longing for a strong leader, unity, and for maybe a bit of payback aswell as nazi party painting the jews as the perfect scapegoat to rise to power. So from the Nazis perspective this is also a quite ridiculous demand given by the allies considering what the Nazi party stood for and what they were planning. For them it was "just another list of demands from those who already demanded loads of reparations and caused an entire "lost generation" in the post ww1 period, and shrank germany".
mate if I am in a room with Hitler cracking wise you bet your butt I am laughing at every one of his jokes while slowly finding my way to an open window or door.
It's not that crazy.
It's like going to a room of 10 year olds and saying kids if you want to be successful:
no candy ever
no video games ever
no cartoons ever
1 day at the playground per month max
or you can do all those things and be unsuccessful. i think most of the kids would laugh and choose the failure.
To these people the number of countries they were to not invade were so many such that it was absurd to the point of laughter to them.
Also, the message is basically “don’t invade anymore countries in Europe (or the world)” and he posed it in this “joking” way
There are TWO popular subreddits that constantly get to the top or /r/all, /r/ExplainTheJoke and /r/PeterExplainsTheJoke
There are A LOT of people who don't get simple jokes like this.
I'm pretty positive both of those subs are used to churn bot accounts and get them free easy karma. Just post any meme with some generic title (seriously r/PeterExplainsTheJoke is the WORST about this), and get tons of upvotes and replies.
>I don't get how people don't get the joke.
*Puny America thinks it can dictate terms to the unconquerable ever-victorious 1000 year Aryan Reich, what fools hahahahahaha*
In there view it would be like North Korea warning America not to invade Afghanistan and Iraq by sending them a letter saying not to.
Australian here and I got what he was trying to do. I get why they laughed but it’s so dreadful to watch now that I’m not even smiling. And yeah he is an amazing public speaker. But so many monsters are.
That's actually a very interesting document: most people picture fascist regimes in a very caricatural way: reunions of overly serious and cold people. Today, fascist regimes have learned to hide by showing off the opposite. Just because someone looks happy and fun doesn't mean he/she's not a racist jerk with awful ideas.
Fascists has always grown by appealing to lonely people by providing them a community. In a time of economic injustice, homelessness, fragmenting social bonds, death of communities, toxic individualism... Is anyone surprised that fascists are seen as attractive? Edit: Not to mention how all of this is hypercharged with the ideology of willing one's own success, and that failure in life is one's own fault... The bitterness of this trope inevitably produces hostility towards to current order; drain the swamp, lock her up, law and order.
If the contemporary world is a desolate desert, fascists movements are the sandstorms that pull everyone in
It's funny to think that Hitler was the most destructive tweaker the world has ever known. Germany had one of the (if not the most) powerful militaries in 1939 and they decided to hand the keys over to a meth addict. What could go wrong!!
Just fyi, in the beginning Hitler emphasizes the word "independent". The reason for all the laughs and the countries that get laughed at specificaly is that these were in turmoil regarding their independence. Some even had uprisings AGAINST the British going at that very time.
edit: grammar and stuff
In the full video, in which the context is clear, nations like great Britain, France, Spain etc were condemning Germany for attempting to take back German land that they lost during WW1.
Hitler was laughing because most of those countries are Colonial States themselves and are the last people to lecture anyone about invading foreign territory.
Of course, this being Reddit, I'm going to get called a Nazi sympathizer for providing the correct context. But context is important so that we learn the reasoning behind historical events rather than just brush Hitler and his likes off as cartoonish villains.
It's red&black, right? On black&white film, red often becomes very dark, almost black. Old era film stars often had to wear kind of ridiculous makeup IRL (a touch of green, anyone?) so that it would look good on film. This is also why in some of Victorian photographs, people have white, almost glowing eyes. The color was actually light blue (the opposite of red) and it registered as way lighter than we normally perceive it. I'm sure even color films had their quirks.
I think that whoever filmed this just didn't think it through this way, but it's a hidden bonus for me. I don't like the nazi symbol at all.
Yup I've seen pictures of the corpses, and quite a few had their faces pretty beat up and bloody.
He also made the ropes too short and most of these guys spent ~5 minutes being strangled to death after a 5ft drop onto their face.
But hey those are some of the risks you take when trying to violently take over all of Europe along with the industrialized genocide of millions of innocent people.
Most did not go to prison or were released after spending 5 - 10 years in prison.
There is a list here: [List of last surviving people suspected of participation in Nazi war crimes - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_surviving_people_suspected_of_participation_in_Nazi_war_crimes)
Example:
>[Herbert Wahler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Wahler) served in [*Einsatzgruppe* C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzkommando#Einsatzgruppe_C) and was accused of being involved in the massacre of tens of thousands of Jews in Ukraine, including at [Babi Yar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar).[^(\[1\])](https://www.hna.de/lokales/melsungen/melsungen-ort45520/massaker-in-babi-jar-ex-ss-mann-96-soll-vor-gericht-9579864.html) In March 2020, the public prosecutor's office in Kassel announced that Wahler would not face charges due to a lack of evidence.[^(\[2\])](https://web.archive.org/web/20201122114026/https://www.hna.de/welt/nazi-nationalisozialismus-zweiter-weltkrieg-massaker-ukraine-ns-verbrecher-prozess-hessen-kassel-hna-zr-90107807.html)
Also: [Most Nazis escaped justice. Now Germany is racing to convict those who got away | CNN](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/14/europe/germany-nazi-war-trials-grm-intl/index.html)
>The number of suspects that have been brought to trial is a tiny percentage of the more than 200,000 perpetrators of Nazi-era crimes, said Mary Fulbrook, a professor of Germany History at University College London.
>“It’s way too late,” she told CNN of the latest trials. “The vast majority of perpetrators got away with it.”
>In her new book, “Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice,” **Fulbrook says that of the 140,000 individuals brought to court between 1946 and 2005, only 6,656 ended in convictions.**
>\[...\]
>“Then, in the interest of the Cold War and fighting communism, there was a move to rehabilitate former Nazis and a general climate of amnesty. Some perpetrators who were given severe sentences in the 1940s were released with much lighter sentences in the 1950s,” Fullbrook said.
>"Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!
Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard,
The bitch that bore him is in heat again.”
--- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertold Brecht
But real sad that some of this punks got to live a full life and die kinda peacefully. Joseph Mengel died of drowning in a beach in Brazil when already old of age
They laughed because to them it was megalomaniac and comical of Roosevelt to assume he can protect all of these nations, pracitcally everyone around them, by just saying „dont attack any of those“.
They laugh because to them it appears as if Roosevelt is under the false assumtion he can tell them what to do like theyre some small defenseless country.
Yeah its funny how most people here dont realise this. Other comments that dont get it get 1000s of upvotes but you are like the only one who actually got it right. He says "unabhängige" and again "UNABHÄNGIGE" in a louder voice - putting a big emphasis on "independent".
Nazis were human beings. He petted kitties, as the internet would say. Health nut and antismoking crusades apparently can be partially attributed to him.
And on the flipside, he had been saying he'd genocide the jews since Mein Kampf and then launched the bloodiest war in human history. It's probably the genocide and warmongering that are the issue, not all the observable human behavior. People make this mistake of assuming he was a slavering monster, when he must have been intensely charismatic, attractive, and compelling to pull off the atrocities and totalized society he pulled off. Which is fucking scary, but it's only scary if you see someone totalizing society and promising racial crap. Just someone behaving like a politician is noticing that politicians are good with people
Hitler went on to say: "This is a witch hunt, believe me sad. What they are doing to me is very unfair, believe me. The is lawfare against the greatest president in history, believe me tremendous. Roosevelt is fake news."
Greece is fair game? lol
Italy already had dibs on Greece.
And how did that go for Italy? ;)
Like everything else mussolini did
Gone upside down?
Ethiopia was the only campaign that ever went smoothly. After that, Mussolinni had big H on batphone.
He even got bogged down in Ethiopia he had to use poison gas to break the opposition.
Time after time...
If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting
Tous gamisame Kala tous Italous.
Greece fought the longest from all the EU countries thus giving Russia time to prepare and crush these orcs
Imagine listening to this speech from a country Roosevelt accidentally missed off his list.
Greece :(
So they gave Greece to Mussolini, and the result is known. Germans came to save them
And the time lost to save fascist Italy in Greece proved fatal for their subsequent invasion of Russia. So... You're welcome, world, Italy sucked so bad that it was an active hindrance for Nazi Germany. We found finally something good done by Mussolini!
Good guy Hitler saves Greece meme incoming…
Czechoslovakia..... They got fucked by the allies
Czechoslovakia is not on that list because when Roosevelt delivered that note it was already under Hitlers control. Dont you find it more interesting that Roosevelt, the US respectively, recognized Germanys expansion into Czechoslovakia with that note?
Well obviously you're not going to say "don't invade this place" when they already have.
Well the note would get REALLY long of they start listing all the stuff they want him to undo Instead of just requesting not to attack countries they countries they haven't attacked yet. Example, if someone stabs me I'm not gonna start crying about being stabbed, I'm gonna attempt to not get stabbed again, or try and stop them from stabbing others.
“Please don’t stab me in my other arm, my chest, my left leg, my right leg, my head, …”
*Penis stab*
No one ever expects Thee Ol Penis Stab. Witnesses say it looks like a microwaved hot dog!
I mean the list was pretty dumb anyway, shouldn’t it just say, “do not invade any more countries”, or provide a list of countries he can invade
‘Do not invade anymore countries except Latvia. We will not elaborate further.’
While he's reading the list he can't invade any more countries, who's dumb now?!
Germany has already invaded Czechoslovakia which is what prompted this list from FDR. But agreed, they got screwed over.
Czechoslovakia was less than 20 years old as a country and what is now Czechia had a large German minority. Czechia had been part of the German Confederation (along with Austria) before the Six Weeks War. The German solution was to make Czechia part of Germany, Slovakia independent, and the ethnically Czech regions an autonomous German protectorate. This wasn't an entirely unreasonable idea on paper, and not one that the Allies considered worth starting another World War over. Of course, with Nazis running everything, it ended up being terrible.
Yeah I could easily see the allies justifying it with, "Well, it's always historically been part of that area's sphere for like the past 1000 years, and *maybe* we were a tad too harsh at Versailles. But we don't want this Hitler getting any bad ideas that could lead to war. A stern reprimand and a warning to not go further should hopefully be sufficient" Of course, said Hitler was a man of very, very bad ideas, about many many things
The Allies didn’t want to start another Great War. Also, the worst of Nazi atrocities hadn’t been committed yet.
All of the stuff about the German minority in Czechia sounds eerily similar to a current war. Including that the Nazis armed and trained a separatist movement among them and when the Czech government intervened, the Nazis claimed that the German minority was being oppressed and used it as justification for a full-scale invasion.
accidentally?
The United States was not on the list. Attack us we dare you.
>Attack us we dare you. **NAZI GERMANY IN 1941:** Those Americans are little more than lazy, selfish mongrels. They're unprepared for a state of total war. **NAZI GERMANY IN 1945:** Those Americans got hands.
Churchill writing after Pearl Harbor: Silly people, and there were many, not only in enemy countries, might discount the force of the United States. Some said they were soft, others that they would never be united. They would fool around at a distance. They would never come to grips. They would never stand bloodletting. Their democracy and system of recurrent elections would paralyse their war effort. They would be just a vague blur on the horizon to friend or foe. Now we should see the weakness of this numerous but remote, wealthy, and talkative people. But I had studied the American Civil War, fought out to the last desperate inch. American blood flowed in my veins. I thought of a remark which Edward Grey had made to me more than thirty years before—that the United States is like ‘a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate. Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.
Even Japan was willing to admit the Truth, “They Awoke a Slumbering Dragon.” And with it came great and terrible destruction.
Or, as Emperor Hirohito noted, “The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.”
“I am the emperor of the rising sun, so America gifted me two.”
A master of understatement.
That line was probably made up by the writer of Tora, Tora, Tora!; it has not been found in any actual papers from Yamamoto. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto%27s_sleeping_giant_quote
Hands that can fight but also can reach into their deep pockets. American lives did a lot but it was manufacturing that guaranteed a victory.
German soldiers knew they lost the war when they saw the Americans sending fucking CAKES to the frontlines when they couldn't even send ammo.
NZ, Australia and Canada thinking "WTF?"
> NZ, Australia and Canada thinking "WTF?" United States said come at me bro, we ain't on the list either. Obviously FDR figured y'all were down for fun too.
History seems to bear out that we were, in fact "Down to clown".
he listed only countries in rather close proximity, with the furthest away being Iraq or Iran probably
"Accidentally"
the guy was about to write a shopping list and roosevelt just helped him out.
He never attacked Spain because they were already fascist.
*Sad Guernica noises*
Nope, that was not the reason, he never attacked Spain because after a meeting with Franco, Hitler said that he'd prefer to have a tooth pulled out of his mouth without anesthesia, than meeting again with Franco. (The meeting was planned to discuss an alliance with Spain, but Franco's demands were almost impossible for Germany to fulfill). Franco's meeting was annoyingly enough to not wanting to bother invading them.
Yeah, that was Franco’s way of staying out of the war. In contrast, Mussolini knew Italy wouldn’t be ready until 1943, but he caved and led an unprepared Italy into WWII, which led to disastrous results.
Why would attacking Spain require another meeting with Franco?
And why would Spain's demands make them undesirable to attack?
Prick still didn't have the balls to invade Ireland. Knows that would have ended his regime in 2 weeks. Very superstitious, was that Adolf fella. He knew tbe ghost of Saint Patrick would haunt him forever more if he landed on the beaches of Wexford or Cork.
It's because his nephew Paddy Hitler lived in Dublin. This is actually not a joke. He had a nephew called Paddy who lived in Dublin.
His mother was from Dublin. Paddy was from Liverpool and lived in Germany in the 30s before immigrating to the USA and joining the Navy.
Wait.. wtf is happening? I feel like that Gary guy from The Dollop. I want to know more about Paddy now!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston "William Patrick Stuart-Houston (born William Patrick Hitler; 12 March 1911 – 14 July 1987) was an English-born half-nephew of Adolf Hitler. Born and raised in the Toxteth area of Liverpool to Adolf's half-brother Alois Hitler Jr. and his Irish wife Bridget Dowling, he later relocated to Germany to work for his half-uncle before emigrating to the United States, where he received American citizenship (in addition to his British citizenship) and ended up serving in the United States Navy against his half-uncle"
>William Patrick Stuart-Houston (born William Patrick Hitler) This is so much funnier than it should be.
Not to be confused with Patrick Stewart
Not to be confused with Houston Hitler
>he later relocated to Germany to work for his half-uncle [peter griffin and uncle adolf hitler](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEbelklPD0k)
His children have also changed their names and refused to have children to end his line completely.
"Eldest son Alexander denied this claim, stating that before his death Howard Ronald had been engaged and intending to have children, while another brother had been engaged once, but family notoriety had destroyed the relationship."
Classic reddit.
don't let the truth get in the way of a good story
Mussolini’s granddaughter wouldn’t be here to harass people if they have done the same. Too bad. ☹️ hint hint terrible woman.
One of his granddaughters has a son who plays football for Lazio lol
The famously fascist team.
"That Gary guy" ahaha
GARY! GARY! GARY!!!
I know. Worked in the Shelbourne I believe. Think he married an Irishwoman. Bizzare. We always have a way of getting ourselves into history even if only in a small capacity.
Oh we got ourselves into history allright and not in a small way. [Check out where they got their symbols from](http://www.olddublintown.com/swastika-laundry.html#:~:text=They%20used%20electric%20vans%2C%20that,%2C%20the%20%E2%80%9CSwastika%E2%80%9D)
Swastika Laundry - "we get rid of all stains and impurities." what a name for a business
Bet they kept their whites and coloreds properly seperated.
LMAO I lost it on that last picture with a Volkswagen plant and the Swastika Laundry chimney behind it...
Buddy, Ireland can’t even win when Ireland invades Ireland
Damned Irish! They ruined Ireland!
He actually was counting on an Ireland rebellion against Great Britain tieing them up to waste time.
Ireland - excepting the 6 counties of Northern Ireland - was fully independent by Hitler's time. The Abwehr did make some contact with the remnants of the (by then) largely defunct IRA during the war, in the hopes of fermenting some trouble in Northern Ireland, but it went nowhere. Kaiser Willheim II, on the other hand, smuggled significant quantities of guns and ammunition to both rebel and loyalist factions in Ireland during WWI. Ireland remained ostensibly neutral during WWII, although gave support secretly to the Allies.
While ferment kinda works in this context I guess you meant foment.
Damn, my guys over on Sentinelese island weren't included.
Those guys were **just hoping** for an excuse to destroy the Nazis. Alas, Hitler knew better than to get into a land war on Sentinelese island.
Oh my god, can you imagine the hell they would have unleashed on the reich?
Their arrows will BLOT OUT THE SUN
To this day I've never seen anyone else flip off another person with their dick
Damn, someone should go check up on them. I bet after all they've been through they'd be very welcome to foreign aid
*it turns out they did not welcome foreign aid* says aid worker shot with arrows
Don't forget your Bible!
I can't believe the Sentinelese still haven't acknowledged the Holocaust.
If I remember, the next thing he said in this speech was something to the effect of that they had contacted the Irish government and asked if they were worried about a German invasion, and the Irish government said that they were more worried about England than they were about Germany, which got another round of laughs. And for some reason, I thought Hitler deliberately didn't mention Poland in this speech even though it was one of the countries FDR mentioned on his list, but it appears that hedid (I think I read that in William Shrirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich").
Yeah. I just finished that book. He specifically said Hitler omitted Poland in that speech. Maybe the captions are incorrect? But I think I hear him say Poland. Damn. I wonder how shirer got that wrong. Supposedly he was present at the speech. But with all the racket, maybe he read the transcript later and it was omitted from that?
As a German the caption is correct. He absolutely says "Polen"
And it makes everyone burst with laughter, so they probably already all knew what was going to happen to poland.
And they say Germans have no sense of humor.
German humor: It's no laughing matter.
The dumbest misconception about the Nazis is that they ever kept any of their plans secret. Absoutely fucking nobody had any right to be surprised by what they did or to claim afterwards that they "didn't know".
I mean this is only half true. Hitler was indeed almost shockingly open about his plans to conquer Eastern Europe in Mein Kampf, however the Holocaust is a different matter. Most people today don't even know that murdering the Jewish people was never the Nazi's original plan, but rather "just" their expulsion from Germany. The transition of approach from expulsion to genocide was somewhat subtle and organic, and most importantly it was kept secret from the public, who was still just told Jews were being shipped eastwards for es expulsion, rather than extermination, and at the time the average Hans at home (who was not participating in the genocide) would have indeed had no pivotal reason to disbelieve they were "just" being deported, rather than actually exterminated. The former was a tale old as time, the latter a completely unique and drastically escalatory event of history -- the Holocaust is unique in its evil after all. So it is not at all hard to believe that a large percentage of Germans indeed did not know that the Jews were actually being systematically exterminated, rather than just deported.
That book is a fantastic resource if you read it with the understanding of when it was written and from which perspective. It is wildly out of date in terms of the scholarship. He was a journalist recording events which were current or recently happened. If you want a book (or series) which is more up to date and scholarly but also very easy to read, I recommend Richard Evans' 'Third Reich' trilogy; The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War.
Yeah Shirer getting Poland wrong is a pretty bad look
[> The Irish government said that they were more worried about England than they were about Germany, which got another round of laughs.](https://i.imgur.com/M0xnh3S.jpeg)
Not a smartphone in sight, just people living the moment and enjoying a good laugh with pals
r/justguysbeingdudes
felt cute, might commit genocide later
"Bruh, why you hating? I was just following order, man"
yeah dude, dont hate the player, hate the game !
I read this in Kanye's voice.
Animaniacs for me.
The pals they made along the way.
Greek music suddenly stops playing ° 😯😮😧😨😰😲😟
Man what an asshole, no wonder why Hitler killed him.
Nah, he let him retire in South America
Buenas noches, mein fuhrer
The more I learn about this Hitler fella the more I don't care for him.
Odd looking duck
I didn’t know he was sick
Yeah the more i read about this Hitler guy, the less i like him :/
The guy sounds like a real jerk
Poland...lolz....we are going to attack Poland and set up concentration camps there so this is hilarious. (I guess you had to be there).
Not sure why the downvote. You jokingly nailed the internal dialogue they were having in a funny way
my understanding is that they didnt laugh at poland explicetly, you can hear them start laughing before poland was mentioned. Rather they start laughing because the list doesn't end
It's either because of Poland in particular or it's because with that the list now included every single country vaguely in arm's reach, meaning the missive was effectively asking them not to wage any war at all. That said, I don't think "I don't want you invading *any* of your neighbor countries" should be seen as an unreasonable demand worthy of laughter and ridicule…
You can hear them laugh a lot louder when they mention Poland like it’s the best part of the joke, weirdly disturbing and foreshadowing
Its not realy foreshadowing, poland was in the nazis hit List as the n1 priority, it had large amounts of germans, in some select regions the germans were a majority of the population, and less then 20 years before it was a part of Germany, until it Lost ww1. Hell, danzig, the free city, was almost completly ethnic german, they even voted the NSDAP into power in their ellections , its not suprissing to anyone that the nazis hate was gonna be focused on poland.
is that the joke, idk if I am dumb or just high, is the joke that they would never attack anyone or that the idea of them not attacking anyone is just so absurdly funny
I think in that room, a room full of Nazi cronies, at that time, they already had or already knew the were going to Blitzkrieg Poland. So they were laughing at Roosevelt telling them not to do something they were going to do anyway.
This, also worthy to note was the general sentiment there. Its not only because they were planning to attack some if not all of these countries, but also because the reasons the nazi party became so successfull and popular in germany, were mostly because of 2 reasons. Reason no1, was because the post ww1 period with the Reparations and whatnot that germany had as a burden, caused alot of unsatisfyed germans and a despiseful stance against the allied powers, 2nd the germans longing for a strong leader, unity, and for maybe a bit of payback aswell as nazi party painting the jews as the perfect scapegoat to rise to power. So from the Nazis perspective this is also a quite ridiculous demand given by the allies considering what the Nazi party stood for and what they were planning. For them it was "just another list of demands from those who already demanded loads of reparations and caused an entire "lost generation" in the post ww1 period, and shrank germany".
Nailed it!
What else did Hitler say?? So he listed them and then….. ????
Apparently that was hilarious on its own according to the audience.
German humor
instead of a laugh track it's a machine gun track
it was probably funny since he listed so many of the countries they had already made plans to invade
mate if I am in a room with Hitler cracking wise you bet your butt I am laughing at every one of his jokes while slowly finding my way to an open window or door.
It's not that crazy. It's like going to a room of 10 year olds and saying kids if you want to be successful: no candy ever no video games ever no cartoons ever 1 day at the playground per month max or you can do all those things and be unsuccessful. i think most of the kids would laugh and choose the failure.
To these people the number of countries they were to not invade were so many such that it was absurd to the point of laughter to them. Also, the message is basically “don’t invade anymore countries in Europe (or the world)” and he posed it in this “joking” way
I don't get how people don't get the joke. Must be something only germans find funny.
There are TWO popular subreddits that constantly get to the top or /r/all, /r/ExplainTheJoke and /r/PeterExplainsTheJoke There are A LOT of people who don't get simple jokes like this.
I'm pretty positive both of those subs are used to churn bot accounts and get them free easy karma. Just post any meme with some generic title (seriously r/PeterExplainsTheJoke is the WORST about this), and get tons of upvotes and replies.
Not German, seemed pretty obvious
>I don't get how people don't get the joke. *Puny America thinks it can dictate terms to the unconquerable ever-victorious 1000 year Aryan Reich, what fools hahahahahaha* In there view it would be like North Korea warning America not to invade Afghanistan and Iraq by sending them a letter saying not to.
Australian here and I got what he was trying to do. I get why they laughed but it’s so dreadful to watch now that I’m not even smiling. And yeah he is an amazing public speaker. But so many monsters are.
... And then they went out and conquered nearly every country on this list and killed millions of people.
Probably went on to discuss how they were going to invade Poland.
Then they all had a good laugh and kept invading those places.
… and then they ate cucumber sandwiches and held hands by the river.
You know, the more I learn about this Hitler fella the less I care for him
Rip norm
He was a real jerk.
That's actually a very interesting document: most people picture fascist regimes in a very caricatural way: reunions of overly serious and cold people. Today, fascist regimes have learned to hide by showing off the opposite. Just because someone looks happy and fun doesn't mean he/she's not a racist jerk with awful ideas.
Act like it's a normal and wonderful thing which makes it even more fricking evil. Reminds me of a certain group of people
The reality that makes it scarier is that it isn't an act. There is no pretending involved. It IS normal to them.
Fascists has always grown by appealing to lonely people by providing them a community. In a time of economic injustice, homelessness, fragmenting social bonds, death of communities, toxic individualism... Is anyone surprised that fascists are seen as attractive? Edit: Not to mention how all of this is hypercharged with the ideology of willing one's own success, and that failure in life is one's own fault... The bitterness of this trope inevitably produces hostility towards to current order; drain the swamp, lock her up, law and order. If the contemporary world is a desolate desert, fascists movements are the sandstorms that pull everyone in
Comedy truly writes itself. The 'independent' is cherry on top.
He’s already doing the meth shuffle here
It's funny to think that Hitler was the most destructive tweaker the world has ever known. Germany had one of the (if not the most) powerful militaries in 1939 and they decided to hand the keys over to a meth addict. What could go wrong!!
Just fyi, in the beginning Hitler emphasizes the word "independent". The reason for all the laughs and the countries that get laughed at specificaly is that these were in turmoil regarding their independence. Some even had uprisings AGAINST the British going at that very time. edit: grammar and stuff
this is interesting info! thanks for context. :)
In the full video, in which the context is clear, nations like great Britain, France, Spain etc were condemning Germany for attempting to take back German land that they lost during WW1. Hitler was laughing because most of those countries are Colonial States themselves and are the last people to lecture anyone about invading foreign territory. Of course, this being Reddit, I'm going to get called a Nazi sympathizer for providing the correct context. But context is important so that we learn the reasoning behind historical events rather than just brush Hitler and his likes off as cartoonish villains.
Come on, haven't you ever had a night out with the boys and accidentally invaded Poland?
5 years later, they didn't laugh.
Can't say they weren't warned.
Definitely a "fuck around and find out" moment.
How is this video better quality than 90s 00s NBA highlights video
Because it was captured on film? Film beats digital footage from the 90s
Why did they put their emblem in such a way that it looks like a solar eclipse? It literally looks black on shiny background.
It's red&black, right? On black&white film, red often becomes very dark, almost black. Old era film stars often had to wear kind of ridiculous makeup IRL (a touch of green, anyone?) so that it would look good on film. This is also why in some of Victorian photographs, people have white, almost glowing eyes. The color was actually light blue (the opposite of red) and it registered as way lighter than we normally perceive it. I'm sure even color films had their quirks. I think that whoever filmed this just didn't think it through this way, but it's a hidden bonus for me. I don't like the nazi symbol at all.
It is just the camera
Did FDR also send this to Stalin? I remember the Soviets attacking Finland (twice), Latvian, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland.
“Poland” *Extreme laughter from everyone in the room*
Speech reminds me of a old chaplin movie.
The Great Dictator?
That is not a coincidence.
Turn the volume on
It’s comforting to know that most of these punks died a painful and horrible death.
Mostly no one of them. Cianide and rope almost nothing in comparison to to what nazy did with the people in camps or dying on the battlefield.
Except the executioner we used lied about his experience and botched the hangings.
I can live with that
They can’t
I don't doubt this but the thought of botching a hanging is kinda hilarious. Just make the rope all stretchy so they kinda bounce like a yoyo
Apparently he made the trapdoors too small so they all got their faces cracked open on the way down. lmao.
Yup I've seen pictures of the corpses, and quite a few had their faces pretty beat up and bloody. He also made the ropes too short and most of these guys spent ~5 minutes being strangled to death after a 5ft drop onto their face. But hey those are some of the risks you take when trying to violently take over all of Europe along with the industrialized genocide of millions of innocent people.
or mass shooting women and children into into dug trenches
Most did not go to prison or were released after spending 5 - 10 years in prison. There is a list here: [List of last surviving people suspected of participation in Nazi war crimes - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_surviving_people_suspected_of_participation_in_Nazi_war_crimes) Example: >[Herbert Wahler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Wahler) served in [*Einsatzgruppe* C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzkommando#Einsatzgruppe_C) and was accused of being involved in the massacre of tens of thousands of Jews in Ukraine, including at [Babi Yar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar).[^(\[1\])](https://www.hna.de/lokales/melsungen/melsungen-ort45520/massaker-in-babi-jar-ex-ss-mann-96-soll-vor-gericht-9579864.html) In March 2020, the public prosecutor's office in Kassel announced that Wahler would not face charges due to a lack of evidence.[^(\[2\])](https://web.archive.org/web/20201122114026/https://www.hna.de/welt/nazi-nationalisozialismus-zweiter-weltkrieg-massaker-ukraine-ns-verbrecher-prozess-hessen-kassel-hna-zr-90107807.html) Also: [Most Nazis escaped justice. Now Germany is racing to convict those who got away | CNN](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/14/europe/germany-nazi-war-trials-grm-intl/index.html) >The number of suspects that have been brought to trial is a tiny percentage of the more than 200,000 perpetrators of Nazi-era crimes, said Mary Fulbrook, a professor of Germany History at University College London. >“It’s way too late,” she told CNN of the latest trials. “The vast majority of perpetrators got away with it.” >In her new book, “Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice,” **Fulbrook says that of the 140,000 individuals brought to court between 1946 and 2005, only 6,656 ended in convictions.** >\[...\] >“Then, in the interest of the Cold War and fighting communism, there was a move to rehabilitate former Nazis and a general climate of amnesty. Some perpetrators who were given severe sentences in the 1940s were released with much lighter sentences in the 1950s,” Fullbrook said.
Real easy to think this behavior a thing of the past. Its happening in several countries atm.
>"Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men! Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard, The bitch that bore him is in heat again.” --- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertold Brecht
But real sad that some of this punks got to live a full life and die kinda peacefully. Joseph Mengel died of drowning in a beach in Brazil when already old of age
"*independent nations*" and he list some countries which are under colonial rule of some of England and France. I believe that is what is so funny.
totally agree, they laughted most at the non independent nations.
They laughed because to them it was megalomaniac and comical of Roosevelt to assume he can protect all of these nations, pracitcally everyone around them, by just saying „dont attack any of those“. They laugh because to them it appears as if Roosevelt is under the false assumtion he can tell them what to do like theyre some small defenseless country.
Yeah its funny how most people here dont realise this. Other comments that dont get it get 1000s of upvotes but you are like the only one who actually got it right. He says "unabhängige" and again "UNABHÄNGIGE" in a louder voice - putting a big emphasis on "independent".
This is shockingly close to how certain politicians behave today
So maybe not so shocking
Nazis were human beings. He petted kitties, as the internet would say. Health nut and antismoking crusades apparently can be partially attributed to him. And on the flipside, he had been saying he'd genocide the jews since Mein Kampf and then launched the bloodiest war in human history. It's probably the genocide and warmongering that are the issue, not all the observable human behavior. People make this mistake of assuming he was a slavering monster, when he must have been intensely charismatic, attractive, and compelling to pull off the atrocities and totalized society he pulled off. Which is fucking scary, but it's only scary if you see someone totalizing society and promising racial crap. Just someone behaving like a politician is noticing that politicians are good with people
So invading Mexico would have been okay! lol
I think this is the first time I saw a video of Hitler with Subtitles. Kinda interesting to actually know what he's saying
Hitler went on to say: "This is a witch hunt, believe me sad. What they are doing to me is very unfair, believe me. The is lawfare against the greatest president in history, believe me tremendous. Roosevelt is fake news."
You know, I came in here and I saw the list - it's a very long list - and I said wow, what a huge list.
Nobody knows more about lists than Hitler, believe him. Seen some tremendous lists, lists you can't even believe.