What a messed up crime of justice. You want to talk about betrayal, though? How about the homosexuals that were left to rot in prison for another twenty (20) years after the War ended just for being who they were, with war criminals released before they were? o_O Not to mention Alan Turing.

Can't wait for your young leftists to rip it to pieces. Literally had democrats in America where I lived in 2020 break apart WW2 vets gravestones and memorial plaques. Sad day.

@@williamyoung9401 then perhaps let's talk about all Polish freedom fighters killed after war by comminists

Too little and WAY too late.

Poles were simply useful idiots for the West, cannon fodder. Interestingly enough, they are in the same position now, again too blind to see.

Many such Cases!

Yep.

Thankfully the dutch supported general Maczek.

Not just a disgrace to allies but to all mankind, they gave everything to save the world

And a discrace on the soviets for denying them citizenship

And indeed they got the best we could afford to give them.

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 you mean betrayal by UK?

Actually, the soldiers kill people thats not freedom sorry The Army does not offer freedom they force you to convert or parish

Yes and the Soviet Ukrainians pushed the Poles out of Polish Galicia in 1945 i.e. Lvov, Stanislav, Lutsk and yet you are supporting them

@@cliveengel5744 Ukraine is part of Russia Poland, Ukraine and Russia are all part of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE so YOU are cOnFuSeD

​@@cliveengel5744 yes stanislaw maczek received proposal to return to the poland but he refused because as he said he dont have nowhere to go back to because lviv is not polish anymore[ lviv is his birthplace]

@@bartoszwalkowiak6590 Thank you - Stanislaw Wladyslaw Maczek, the famous Polish Tank Commander that helped liberate France in the Great Patriotic war, was born on 31 March 1892 in the Lwów suburb of Szczerzec (now Ukrainian: Shchyrets) then in Austro-Hungarian Galicia. He could never return to Poland because the Soviet Ukrainians annexed Lwow and made it part of Ukraine and called it Lviv! Stanisław Sosabowski, the famous Polish General from the Great Patriotic War that took part in Operation Market Garden in Holland was born on 8 May 1892 in Stanislau (Polish: Stanisławów), in what was then Austria-Hungary and is now Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine. They could never return to Poland as the Cities and hometowns they came from were annexed by The Ukrainian SSR and became part of Western Ukraine. So now the Righteous Ukrainians are now up in arms complaining that the Russians are doing the same thing to them. However, as “Anna from Ukraine “ always points out that the Soviets made them do it - but who were the Soviets but the Ukrainian themselves. She loves to point out that the “ills of Ukraine fall on the shoulders of Russia” All these guys as we say in the US are just “Revisionist Historians” and apply “Wokeness” to their entire Historical being! They all flock to to the very cities they annexed themselves from the Poles and Hungarians to hide out from the Russians.

The only way to make sure the Poles would not be under Soviet control and occupation much less the rest of Eastern Europe was to fight another war. Something the public in the UK, US and Western Europe had no desire for. Poland unfortunately has long been a victim of its geography.

@@memememeson3994 WTF you talking about.

@@mpetersen6 LOL since when did public opinion matter? The US population didn't want to enter either world war, but suddenly it's convenient to use them as a scapegoat over Poland

@@rommel17pl I presume due to his avatar a made up fantasy due to exposure to lots of vodka and propagandistic made up Russian history.

@@rommel17pl i am fairly sure he is reffering to Russian propaganda which mentions something similar to this. It portrays Poland as weak and Poles as stupid. It is completly untrue and ridiculous

You are the last person I expected to see here but fair enough have a good day

"Hello KZfaq, how's everyone doing, it's Professional here." 😂😂 But seriously though, welcome! Never thought I'd see you here but I'm nonetheless glad!

I'm a Brit in 1975 I married and relocated from London to Peterborough Cambs when I arrived it had three large ethnic groups Asian Polish Italian The Asian were from Uganda(Thanks to Idi Amin)the Polish I had assumed a RAF bomber station because the East coast was the floating Airfield that Britain was in WW2 And the Italians because their was a POW camp close to the city

my newsagent married a polish airman after her first husband had died

We had lots of poles after the war and now in my home town, and lot's of Ukrainians from ww2, they worked at a local asbestos factory TBA, my grandparents worked there, my grandad told me that there guys who had been in the Ukrainian SS, and escaped the wrath of the soviets

On the subject of those RAF records (since you said you were grateful an entry was in English - If I've misinterpreted that and you can read Polish just fine then my apologies!) the Google translate app will let you point your phone camera at a document (or analyse a photo you've taken of it) and do it's best to translate what's written.

What about the 450,000 UK citizens who died opposing the militarism that enslaved Poland?

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 They're war heroes for sure and glory to them, however can't see how their deaths benefitted Poland in particular. Said enslavement did not end up in 1945 which is the reason why those two generals couldn't return to fatherland.

​@@arturgrodzicki1209 Look at the international situation in 1939, Artur. The 3 "major world powers" at the time were the USA, USSR & the British Empire. USSR - Stabbed Poland in the back to steal half of the country, whilst also supplying nazi Germany with millions of tons of raw materials and fuel which enabled her to conquer the rest of continental Europe. USA - Happily sat on the "sidelines" profitting from BOTH sides of the conflict at the same time as the nazis were setting about the destruction and murder of the Polish nation. British Empire (& France) - declared war on nazi Germany to symbolically support Poland, and to oppose (and reverse) nazi military expansion in Europe, (Then likely set about the "soviet problem" after that had been achieved). NO ONE else in the "international community" had lifted a finger to oppose the nazi/soviet occupation of Poland at the time. No one can deny that the British and French as it turned out were caught with their pants down, and were FAR from being fully mobilised militarily, therefore unable to actually assist the Poles in their 6 week struggle.... except indirectly by the blockade of the North sea by the RN thereby putting economic pressure in Germany while they readied their armies. BUT the flame had been lit by the British and French. IF they had not declared war in Sept 1939, or IF they had "stood down" after the conquest of Poland, or IF Britain had sued for peace with the nazis after the fall of France, instead of seeing the conflict through til the end, then its almost certain that nazi death camps which as events happened had been put of action by 1944 / 45, would have instead been operating on Polish (and ultimately European and Soviet soil until the 1950s & 60s or even beyond. The British Empire and France collectively sacrificed over 1 million of their citizens and completely bankrupted themselves to see that it did NOT turn out like that. Unfortunately after the apocalyptic bloodshed of WW2 NO-ONE could liberate eastern & central Europe from the terrible yoke of communism after WW2, without further millions of deaths. Its very easy to look at the course of history as it happened and pick fault with the decisions that were made, and the outcomes that came to pass, but its a lot harder to see how events would have turned out if different decisions had been taken. All the best, Artur.

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 I'm not sure why you're presenting Britain and France declaring war on Third Reich as some selfless gesture. They were fulfilling their own pledge given to Poland earlier same year. Hitler's decision to attack Poland instead of France only came after British guarantees were given. British diplomacy had worked hard to deter Polish from the alliance with Germany and they succeeded but at the cost of making Poland Germany's next target. In fact in 30s Poland had good relations with Germany and some form of alliance wasn't off the table. Hitler was great admirer of Piłsudski. Ultimately it's only Polish who are too blame for choosing "honor" as minister Beck said over practicalities. Taking British guarantees was likely a mistake. If Poland had joined in with Germany we would have been way better off. As for Germany and their alliance that would be extra 1-2 million soldiers, 500 tanks and few hundred aircrafts with added ability to produce more. So as you see, we can do those IFs both ways. Had Polish politicians listened to Piłsudski, then even after his death they would keep the Germans happy

@@arturgrodzicki1209 So you would have preferred an "alliance" with nazi Germany, Artur? You do realise the geopolitical situation at that time don't you? Germany's number 1 national priority was the establishment of an empire of COLONIES (and not power sharing allies) in the east as was outlined in the traditional German policy of "Drang nach osten" or as Hitler described it "lebensraum" which had existed since the 19th century. Do you honestly think it was Germany's intention to treat Poland "as an equal"? See how the nazis operated after the "Sudetenland Crisis" in 1938? After Britain and France had signed an agreement to not declare war on Germany after international scrutiny had shown that the Sudetenland openly wanted to join Germany... What happened next? After Czechoslovakia had been left without her "shield" of defensive border fortifications, months later Germany after having diplomatically "coerced" the weakened rump Slovak govt, simply drove in and occupied the rest of the "Czechoslovak protectorate", and then ruled Bohemia-Moravia as a nazi "puppet" with murderous intent.... THAT was the sort of trustworthy regime that you're suggesting Poland should have allied with. Britain and France declared war with the wishful intention of preventing that happening to Poland and to attempt to maintain (or restore) a balance of independent nations across Europe and not allow an all powerful German empire to hold sway over the rest of Europe.

Perhaps the polish military over promoted him and maybe why poland only lasted three weeks in ww2👈😑

@@barbararice6650 tell me you know nothing about the start of WW2 without telling me you know nothing about the start of WW2 xD

@@Homer-fc5fm The barbara rice is a troll -empty anonymous account on YT , created two days ago

@@wojtekwesolowski1950 well,i got baited

WE LOST THE WAR, POLAND WAS GIVEN TO RUSSIA.

Well technically you can only be betrayed by someone you trust. You expect your enemies to treat you badly. However I know what you mean.

....of course it does. That's what "betrayal" means. Your enemies can't "betray" you if you didn't trust them in the first place. "The saddest thing about crapping your pants is that it never happens when you're already sitting on the toilet."

Isn't it disgusting when your enemies betray you 😕

That was said in the 1972 film "The ,Godfather."

So very trud.

The Poles get away with the fact they invaded and annexed parts of Czechoslovakia in 1938 right after the Germans, when it was at its weakest. So when they complain the Brits and French didn't do enough to help them then I bring this up, they love to act so innocently. The Czechoslovaks were the real victims of the war.

@@Gecko.... Ah yes, tiny Zaolzie, historically polish land which was also ethnically polish. Maybe 10 people died, truly comparable scale of an invasion. Regardless being just for people living there then it was diplomatic blunder that gets brought up here and there like you do.

Well obviously they were behind the Iron Curtain and were turned communist...... But are you referring to losses of territory to Belarus and the Ukraine

☹

What is " A Pole"?

I don't know why the descendents of the poles have not looked into their history and betrayal and seek the truth instead of helping with cover up

​​@@je-freenorman7787 Polak to narodowość tak jak twoja brytyjczyk

Glory to polski

❤

When you return home to the UK Chris, you can visit the HUNDREDS of memorials and grave stones dedicated to the Polish war service personnel who served and died in the west after 1939. I wonder how many memorials to the >1.1 million British and French citizens who gave their lives to see the evils of nazism (that had previously conquered, enslaved and murdered Poland) destroyed. My guess is less than 10, if ANY at all.

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 all those were put, after people realised how badly was their memory treated. Poland wasn't even invited to the victory parade. That's just a cover up for this grave injustice. Poland didn't even receive war reparations due to soviet occupation after the war.

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 I don't really get it what's your point? That British and French don't have enough grave stones and somehow this is Polish fault or what?

@@ypabloworld he is a shill looking for attention as I have seen some of his other comments. I think the point he is trying to make (which makes no sense actually) is that there are many memorials to honor Polish troops in France and the UK while in Poland there are no memorials honoring British, Commonwealth nor French troops. I do not know if this is factual or not but it would make sense as no British, Commonwealth or French forces fought on Polish soil during WW2 while the Poles fought heavily on French and British soil. Likewise there are many memorials to U.S. soldiers in France as many Americans fought in France and probably none in the U.S. honoring French soldiers from WW2 as no French soldiers fought on U.S. soil (obviously). So really his point makes very little logic. After all thats why his screenname is Kronkite's left shoe. Perhaps if his knick was Kronkite's right shoe he would make slightly better arguments.

so...the commies sent all the westernized poles to the Shipyards in Gdansk...the one where Lech Walensa organized his rebellion ?!?!

Great post. My Dad was with a Canadian Armoured Regiment in Europe and talked about a Polish Armoured Regiment that was attached to their unit from the D Day landings to Germany. Perhaps he knew your grandfather. I'm now 90 years old. Everyone dead and gone.

Don't be so quick to label him as not as important as these men in the video. He did reach general, after all. I'm sure these heroes would consider anyone fighting under them as important for the fight for European freedom, and heroes themselves. I personally thank him.

Your grandfather was a badass. A badass that surpasses most people alive today. The one thing I have a hard time understanding as an American Marine Corps veteran is I just can't fathom ever stopping the fight if my country was under occupation, even for a significant other. It's just a completely alien idea, if you're alive and you have the ability to resist, you resist, until the occupation is over, or you no longer have the capability to resist (death). I must be a product of 1980s culture + 2000s Marine Corps training + a mature adult who sees what happens when you decide to let evil win.

My grandpa had similar experience. He escaped transport to Syberia, with help of Lithuanian nurse. Came back to grandma, she barely recognized him. Before war he was at some point one of Piłsudski's bodyguards.

I don't think it's easier to understand when you're older. That kind of stuff should just never happen.

WOW could you elaborate on your story how the general behave what he was like?

great, he lived 100 years, as far as I remember

It was a bar run by his subordinate, a former Polish soldier. Allegedly, he treated the general badly.

Britain was already strapped for cash in 1945.

I can assure you most people from Allied nations are not okay with stabbing them in the back either. Even from the United States, I dont know why we didnt step in and, if worried about making people upset internationally by upstaging them, at least offer the free Poles the ability to immigrate and a pension of a lower rank. Its quite literally the very least we could do. Though I do have to wonder why a larger press campaign wasn't made out of it? Its not that hard to get governments to buckle when they are made to look bad very publicly. Just another way people failed them, I guess. But I guess we havent changed. We just stabbed the Kurds in the back after they fought ISIS for us. That angers me to no end, I cant change things that happened before I was born, but this just happened.

​@@booradley6832 I wholeheartedly disagree with your notion that these men should've been allowed to live in our country. It is my home, and it is also your home. Just like Poland is HIS home. His nation has my sympathy for the betrayal that Great Britain disserviced them with, because the very war in Europe itself, was started to defend Poland from foreign aggression. In essence, Great Britain completely compromised, and betrayed the virtues that originally brought Great Britain to war in Europe . . . the same war that she subsequently dragged the world into as a result of a military alliance with Poland, and alliance she betrayed when it was no longer convenient to be friends with the enemies, of the enemies of Great Britain.

what is " A pole"? what are you?

@@je-freenorman7787 Polish person

❤

Thanks, man 🙂🇵🇱👍

As a kid in the 1970's I was fascinated by the film Battle of Britain. So much so that later in life I decided to learn more about the real battle and the vitally important role played by the Polish and Czech squadrons. I, for one, know that it wasn't a battle we won entirely by ourselves. Without those brave Polish and Czech pilots we would most surely have lost.

Dziękuję bardzo. Mój dziadek służył pod Monte Cassino i wiele razy opowiadał mi, kiedy byłem chłopcem, o męstwie polskich żołnierzy, którzy w końcu je zdobyli. Pamiętam jego słowa. Pamiętam też jako dziecko, że polscy weterani w średnim wieku nadal pracowali na budowach w Wielkiej Brytanii, nie mogąc wrócić do domu. Staram się zrobić wszystko, co w mojej mocy, aby uhonorować dług, jaki mój kraj ma wobec was podczas II wojny światowej.

Hi, as a Brit ill always be thankful to Poland and its gallant soldiers for what they did during WWII. I'll always be thankful and never forget xx

I wonder if Churchill had not hidden from the Polish Government in London the fact that he and Roosevelt sold Poland to Stalin in Tehran in November 1943 - would our Polish soldiers have kept fighting on the side of Allies or would they have turned away and march to Poland. The Polish soldiers who fought at Monte Casino had mostly lived in the Eastern part of Poland that was to become Soviet Union now, they have been prisoners in Soviet Gulags for years, their families murdered or starved in Kazakhstan- weak, sick , many died underway yet they fought, fought for their loved ones and for their homeland. I wonder what would have happened if our generals, if gen.Anders had known of British betrayal of the first ally.

I am not sure drawing repeated attention to it (and thus the repeated flaming of comment sections with hateful remarks from both sides) is ideal really though. Yes Britain should have looked after these men better, and Monty shouldn't have blamed him for Market Garden when it was clearly the fault of different ground commanders (not saying which as its not the point) but I find the pendulum repeatedly swings the other way, and videos like this just sort of...increase the division instead of healing it. The Poles are aggressively salty and insecure, and the other Allies resent being called out on things like this, so all it ever does is cause issues.

Yes . Some would rather "move on to get along" .

@@AtheAetheling" I am not sure " you understand . Stick with toy soldiers.....

We’re not salty, we’re just don’t believe it allies..

@@AtheAetheling your comment works in favour of division especially labeling someone as aggressive, also reading the vast majority of comments your argument about bringing division simply falls flat on its face

The fate of MILLIONS of ordinary service men and women was no less tragic.

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Sadly all to true.

You would probably never handle the truth then? Its really gross

@@je-freenorman7787 Yeah well I've been learning about the death camps, genocide, betrayals and general inhumanity of one group of people to another. That is throughout human history, not just WW2. As far as handling the truth. I just accept it and go on.

@@jerryrenn346 World War 2 was a phony war. Set up by the Royal families for their own wealth tne rule.

You've obviously never been to a UK remembrance day parade, there you'll see wreaths laid to the Polish service personnel EVERY year, even at local ceremonies. The 3 Polish airmen's graves (From 302 Sqd flying out of RAF Woodvale) a couple of miles from where I live are also always well tended. Don't be fooled by the devious driving of a wedge between Britain and Poland. Lefties love to cuase discontent wherever they can. They call it "agitprop".

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Yeah, pretty sure it is modern day conservatives who are to blame for all of the hatred and anger on most issues these days.

@@Zer0.-_ Unburden yourself of the old outdated labels of "conservatives" "labour" "left" & "right". They're ALL just "brand names" now to keep the old arguments going while the TRUE power behind those labels, that is corporate globalism which finances ALL mainstream political parties in the west, continue to pull their puppet party's strings to keep the unthinkers enthralled while THEY continue to consolidate their grasp on the levers of power. THEY are the ones responsible for the setting of one country against another and for the instigation of the agendas which now cause so much disharmony and inflammation between the nations of the world.

Respectful is a good word, since it implies only giving things that have no financial value.

​@@Zer0.-_ yeah righg

Hey pay your military generals their pensions and don't expect other people to cheapskates 👈😕

@@barbararice6650 our allies unfortunately failed and we had no country to pay them.

Chwała bohaterom!

Poland, from its own gold reserves that were saved in 1939, paid for planes and military equipment used by Polish soldiers in the air battle for Britain... And after the war they could not take part in the Victory Parade in London. Strange because even Czechoslovak soldiers took part in it. The sad truth.

Disgusting.

​@@r2d2aa A sad testament to the folly of appeasement. Giving in to the demands of Stalinist USSR only brought us to the day where the West is once again threatened by a RuZZian dictator. I hope this generation has learned from the mistakes of the past.

such good men treated so poorly a shameful thing

@@r2d2aa nope - the ‚debt’ was cancelled later on and Poland didn’t have to pay…

en nu jullie hebben geen respect for ons..

That is very honourable of the people of Driel! Big thanks

THANKS to You and to all Dutch people who remember!!

A co to ma do rzeczy?

@@jankubiak3218 Another victim. He was charged and convicted by the new, Communist-backed, Polish government. Instead of being declared 'stateless' he was simply executed because of his dealings with the West.

I know this story. This man is the biggest hero ever lived. It saddens me that society takes to lightly on these few good men that have lived to do so imaginable much good.

@@jankubiak3218 Fakt. Prawactwo zrobiło z Pileckiego czarnosecińca.

This is an amazing story I didn’t know. Thank you!

Thank you for your respect towards our Heroes - it means very much to every true Pole who knows his history.

Bohaterowie!!

Ik zal altijd respect hebben voor Nederland en Nederlanders. We maken alleemaal domme fouten, maar jullie leunen ietsjes meer aan de kant "gezond verstand". Helaas ben ik niet Pools om dankbaarheid te kunnen uiten. I will always have respect for the Netherlands and the Dutch people. We all make stupid mistakes, but you lean a little more on the "common sense" side. Unfortunately I am not Polish to express gratitude.

You wanna watch out or they'll ask you for money 👈😑

He is Hero of not only of poles but all those who fought against Nazies in the defence of democracies of the world. EVEN the Reds.

Yes. I found lots of examples of Chinese generals (both PRC and ROC) being repressed by their own leaders after WWII out of paranoia.

the dutch government secretely granted him a general's pension since 1951.

Why should we pay some guy who fought with the Huns a war pension exactly 👈😑

@@barbararice6650 you really need to get your facts straight… he fought AGANST the Germans…

@@fishsmiddy1048 Look at felton winding up the half educated against Britian, well I say thank god for the civil service looking into these foreign bozos service record and deciding not to pay out high command pensions ✌️😑

I was born in a hospital.

@@je-freenorman7787 Are you mentally ill? You seem to want to leave irrelevant comments everywhere.

@@PolakInHolland What are you confused about? I dont normally teach people that throw around insults

i agree

Yeah well the kaiser and the ArchDuke were shysters 👈😕

@@barbararice6650 I fail to see how the deposed Kaiser and the Archduke of Austro-Hungary have anything to do with how Poland and the United Kingdom treated these two men after the Second World War as one died in early June 1941 and the other in late June 1914!

@@eoincaomhanach1983 i fail to see how you think we misstreated these people?

@@DarkShroom of course you do, the darker side of your countries history has always escaped you Brits.

keep visiting them!

I am another one of them, with a Polish ( ex- free forces ) mother, hence my English name. Moved to NZ, still scavenging at age 69, and corrupted my Hong Kong Chinese wife to do the same, be self sufficient, and not paying all the time, for everything. Hate going back to plastic HK. We learned about WW2 from the Polish side, first hand, and it's different from what the 'English' kids were taught.

@@peterrhodes5663 bless all of you! Greetings from (almost) free Poland!

@@ipodman1910 Dzięki.

Catholic churches were always full of Poles, in Portswood they even had their own social club. Most I knew were air force.

I’m appalled that our government did not support this man with something as little as a pension when he gave the blood to save our country im genuinely ashamed at this

Przynajmniej tyle mogę zrobić.

@@MarkFeltonProductions Mark, oglądem Cię od dawna, dziękuję za dobrą robote!!!

@@MarkFeltonProductions Your audience in Poland appreciates it, Mark. Thank you.

Thank you dr Felton!

@@MarkFeltonProductions I didn't know any of that... Thank you!

ALL the veterans indeed.

I talk about this all the time. Our military members give us the best years of their youth with the chance to come back physically or mentally broken, if they come back at all. We have an obligation to take care of them.

It has a bigger specific background against the time

@@mareksicinski3726 indubitably -- ask the Kurds!

Thank you for keeping the memory of those who give everything and received nothing.

So You can add killing gen Sikorski at Gibraltar. His plane was sabotage because he wanted to release information about Katyń massacre by Soviets but during that time Britain had alliance with CCCP so it was very unpleasant that those information could be review to public and they simply just sabotage plane. So yeah "alliance" but for who? We are been rape in the ass. Even Britain confiscated Polish National gold for "using British tank and plane to protect British sky and Europe's lands". Even Orwell would be confused.

United States and British Empire betrayed Poland. They gave Poland to Stalin. Stalin murdered several MILLIONS polish patriots. Also Poland LOST part of main lands as a country which was fighting against 3rd reich from the beginning to the end, and was in victorous alliance. Some of those lands were polish core lands from one thousand year and they were taken from Poland and they were given to soviet.

And me, but unfortunately, I already knew how we s**t on all the Poles and gave Poland to the communists, and it's a chapter in our history that is truly shameful.

from my grand parents and other people heard they fought brave against the germans sometimes against all odds

Might be a slight relief to know that gen. Maczek did receive a general's pension from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1951 onwards. Though for a long time this had to be kept secret due to how sensitive this was diplomatically.

@@MrDagren Seems that Dr Felton wasn't aware of this at the time of his video or perhaps is still unaware.

It should also be noted it is embarrassing for us, the Poles, that our own government, puppet or not, treated them and others so badly.

I get that they were treated poorly in comparison to other men of similar rank- but it seems a little overblown- I'm sure that most Europeans behind the iron curtain had an even more dismal post war experience- and there is something romantic about returning to a modest civilian life- like a roman general retiring to be farmer- I think there is a quiet and humble dignity about it and it makes me respect these men even more

Maybe not Rolf, (and sincerest respects to your father's memory and service btw), but the "1947 UK Polish Resettlement Act" rewarded nearly 300,000 Polish ex-service personnel AND their families with FULL UK citizenship (including full access to UK welfare benefits, then just starting to come online in the UK itself) as well as residency rights after their homelands had been stolen by the evils of communism. That's not what I'd consider as a "swift kick in the balls" from an ally. As the UK was the first country to pass such a law post WW2 it put pressure on other allied countries to do likewise, with France in 1948 and the US in 1949 passing similar statutes.

Great story

Great personal story, thank you for sharing it.

Was the title of that book by any chance "Freely I Served"? FYI It was one of the 1st books in English I read -- w/ the aid of a dictionary -- after immigrating to Canada. Well done, Dr. FELTON.

It is really something special, when we have an opportunity to meet the people involved in history.

What a lovely comment Ian. I remember youwell. Oliver is 22 now.

Unbiased? Hmmm why has Mark failed to research or include VERY relevant information regarding the "1947 UK Polish resttlement act" that gave full UK citizenship and residency rights to nearly 300,000 Polish ex-service personnel and their families?

A general didn't get a pension 😁

@ Barbara Rice You share that shame now. Congratulations.

@@barbararice6650 that is a disgraceful comment

More so for the treatment they gave to Alan Turing.

@@trappenweisseguy27 damn right. I love reminding homophobes about him. “You owe your computer and your freedom to a gay guy and his team.”

Nice to see a comment from an honourable Pole, not for once shitting over the sacrifices made by the UK both in people and gold to see nazism wiped from the face of Europe. Thank you.

British f....rs

@@baryka2015 No, not the Britisch, the Britisch government. As always, it are the gevernments, not the people itself.

@@HGmusiclist you put them in power, so it is the people..

And as always the Dutch lead the world in properly remembering those who helped them in their hour of need. Lovely people

@@fredjansen2659 What if Idid not and it is the other party who won? And my point is, that the common people and politicians are often quite difderent in opinions about many things.

Thank you!

You’re a good man John, thank You and God bless.

'It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, And Tommy bye and bye, But it's good old Tommy Atkins, When the bullets start to fly.'

Wow! How very true.

What Can You Do With a General, Irving Berlin, Bing Crosby

Perhaps less eloquent, Kipling's "Tommy".

@@peterh7594 See above.

Thank you

Thanks for sharing your story.

Thank you.

he got robber? how?.... of what?

Just look at France. Their white soldiers surrendered and joined the Nazis, so the Free French was mostly black Africans, and then the French refused to allowed them to liberate Paris so they made up fake white regiments instead. And then after the war and to this day France thanked those African troops by robbing their homelands blind.

@@DarkShroom Allies sell us to USSR

You are definitley not a dutchy, if that's what you are trying to imply. A Dutchy is an area ruled by a duke or a duchess. Nobody was ever liberated. You all got more government

@@je-freenorman7787 he meant he is dutch not duchy ...

Does it say anything about his service in the tyrolean jaegers during the first world war 👈😑 Edelweiss, Edelweiss how lovely it is to shoot you 😕 Pure and nice Edelweiss blah blah I've forgotten the rest if indeed I ever knew it, 👀

Przynajmniej tyle mogę zrobić.

@@MarkFeltonProductions dziękuje jeszcze raz

The sacrifice of your people will *never* be forgotten.

Deplorable!!!

@@MarkFeltonProductions Dziękujemy Panu !

Fucking hell the poles had to work for a living, My God the humanity 😕 My grandfather lost scores of fingers taking supplies to ungrateful eastern europeans, his merchant navy pension didn't cover his bus ticket into work, horrible world isn't it 👈😑

As an American, the more I read about how FDR threw Eastern Europe under the bus, I become absolutely sick to my stomach. I actually dread to think what might have happened to western European nations if he hadn't died and Truman taken over before war's end.

No England to be precise is to blame all to protect montys inadequecies

@@thunderbird1921 FDR is one of the worst.

Poland isnt only one with impoverished generals...czechoslovakia and many others too...viz= Gen. Jan Syrový, only Air marshall Karel Janoušek......

You'll find it just off the royal mile. In the corner of the square right behind the unknown soldiers tomb, outside City Chambers.

@@matt5042 You're very kind-thank you-hopefully visiting this Autumn.

Plus defence of norway, Atlantic, Arctic and mediterrean convoys, african and Italian campaigns, also eastern front.

and before that they held Bolsheviks in 1920

❤

Brother of my greatgrandfather was Liberated by Americans in Alps. He decided to cameback, not knowing borders of the country have changed, and rest of family being transported towards west by soviets. He was interogated by NKVD imedietly after crossing border checkpoint and sent to serve in Red Army unity for two years, in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Could be easly shot if they had any suspicious about espoinage. He eventually came back to Poland and rejoined with family. The most depressing thing about this is, he was captive by Germans as forced labour man for 5 years.

@@MarbelCube may your great grand uncle rest in in Peace with God

@@MarbelCube Interesting stories! Although being liberated by Americans could be dangerous. They tended to be trigger happy.

You're doing a great job, Jim. Any time you are in Warsaw, let me know - the first round is on me. Cheers to all good people in Scotland. 🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@@grzegorzkowalski5100 Thank you my friend.

Actually the titans were deities and there were 12 Did you forget? People are not deities and deties do not exist. So, are you still confused? Religion is the immoral behavior Government is the result The army makes people slaves. Thats about it

He surely did deserve more, just as the hundreds of thousands of returning British troops EQUALLY deserved more, but having been financially bled white by the US during WW2, the UK as a nation was in 1945 the world's biggest debtor and was in NO position to lavish money on its people.... though of course the 0.1% stayed rich.

My grandfather did as well! He fought alongside the Poles in Italy & then Canadians under Montgomery. He hated Montgomery with a passion until the day he died bc he had a habit of attacking territories then retreating to resupply then re-attacking the same place costing a lot of lives. He also hated him for delaying attacks for the same reasons (usually supply issues). He believed a lot of the conspiracy theories around why Eisenhower continued to indulge Montgomery’s incompetence. Also according to my grandfather the senior British generals & admirals hated Montgomery more than anyone else including Patton & that it was Eisenhower who always backed him (supposedly at the request of Roosevelt & Churchill).

hopefully an embarrassment that will never be repeated

The treatment of the Polish people and their nation as a whole post war. Why have them go to war over one part of their territory, if you're just going to hand em over entirely to another different hostile foreign invaders? Poland would've been much better off if they were allied with Germany instead of England & France post WWI

The assistance contract of GB and FRA for PL only included assistance in the event of a German attack. You can see that the two countries were not concerned with the existence and security of Poland, but only with getting a reason for war against Germany.y.

@@earlpipe9713 It doesn't matter...such ideas of being allied to Nazi-Germany were complete nonsense...the slavic poles were seen as "Untermenschen". In case of alliance and attack on the Soviet Union the polish army would be just used as a meat shield and later on the country and its people would be exterminated like they planned it to do with all (opposing) slavic people et cetera...

In general the idea of attacking Germany after the Hitler became chancellor and later on "Führer" (one could say after the death of Hindenburg) would be a much better idea... Maybe Mark Felton can find some hints or documents about it, since that plan could only be carried out with (at least) the help of France from the West. (Should be around the timeframe of 1933-35 while Piłsudski was still alive.)

My uncle is buried in Nijmegen. He was a member of the 1st Canadian Parachute Regiment and was killed during the drop at Arnhem.

Talk to a Vietnam veteran and ask how they were treated in Australia on liberty. Most never bought more than their first drink

Yes, now visit France ...

The Dutch people still honour the countries that fought to liberate them. The schoolchildren are taught, in great detail, what happened between 1939 and 1945. Their museums and memorials are well kept. In general, the Dutch people know more about the liberation effort than the people in the countries that liberated them do. The Dutch government, sadly, not so much. Politicians are unfamiliar with the concept of honour.

Yes, I was there 3 years ago. In the Airborne museum at Hartenstein, Oosterbeek. Almost every single house in the city has a blue Pegasus amblem flag, along with Union Jack. Amazing, very nice and touchy...

there is no Hero and No villain

Yeah he's really bad in that way:- watch out Mr Felton, you might yet suffer the fate of prof Norman Davies!

>blatant and shocking adherence to facts, You must be kidding. There is a blatant political bias on this channel.

Did you know that Jewish refugees who applied for asylum to the Irish free state ligation in Berlin we're not only refused that but their names were passed on to the Gestapo, and that's the official Irish channels, fuck knows what the IRA were up to even going so far as to set assurances of transportation of the final solution initiative 👈👀

Ciekawy herb masz

​@@Cthulhu1PL ten herb to Lubicz

@@wielmoznymaciej1678 moj to Bozawola

@@Cthulhu1PL bardzo się różnią od siebie :) Okolski i częściowo Paprocki twierdzą, że Bożawola wywodzi się od Lubicza

@@wielmoznymaciej1678 a lokalizacyjnie skad oba sie wywodza? Bo moja rodzina od strony ojca z okolic Bartatowa kolo Lwowa pochodzi i stamtad byla wypedzona przez Ukraincow.