The Fearless Cavarly Unit that Overwhelmed Nazi's Panzers

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8 ай бұрын

The Polish cavalrymen were eager to enter combat. They were armed with rifles, sabres, and lances. The memories of the Winged Hussars that expelled the Turkish invaders from Europe in the late 1600s inspired the men to charge against a different type of enemy: German infantrymen from the Wehrmacht. But there was one thing the Turkish did not have three centuries earlier: tanks.
When the courageous Polish cavalry encountered the imposing Nazi panzers on the first day of the invasion near Mokra and Krojanty in 1939, their selfless moves echoed through history in the form of romanticized myths. Yet, while the incidents were manipulated by the enemy for propaganda purposes, the contribution of the mounted forces to the overall Allied effort was paramount.
Indeed, it was the valiant Polish cavalry that conducted the last successful mounted charge in history near the town of Schoenfeld, where their unwavering determination ignited a fierce blaze of defiance against the relentless backdrop of enemy tanks…
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@tomrafal3655 8 ай бұрын

My grandfather was an ulan in the Wolynska cavalry brigade. 🇵🇱

@GEEKSRUS845 8 ай бұрын

Well my grandfather was one of the polish guys to screw in that light bulb

@Mondlichtproductions 8 ай бұрын

@christianlorentz9981 8 ай бұрын

He was a King among men 🇵🇱

@jimmyavpi 8 ай бұрын

Was your grandfather a coward too then?

@Jakal-pw8yq 8 ай бұрын

@@jimmyavpiwhy can't you have a civil, historically-based conversation in this thread. Why do you feel the need to intersect hate and racism however veiled it is. You're disgusting. My father was aboard the USS Montpelier and the USS Heavy Cruiser and the USS Norton sound which was the first guided-missile ship in the u.s. Navy Arsenal.. There's a book by James fahley. I forget the name of it but he documents his time aboard the Montpelier. Father was in the thick of it being in task force 58 under Bull Halsey all the way up to the Marianas, Pelilu, the Marianas Jima and Okinawa. My mom was a whack, women's Army Air Corps and was part of a unit that ferried Boeing B-17 flying fortresses from here in the Boeing plant down the Southern Cal for deployment to the South Pacific. She never got airsick and one of her thrils was to live fire the fifty cals out over the ocean! She loved that plane dying breath. Dad was both a boilerman and part of a nap crew 40 mike-mike anti-aircraft gun which as he tells it, was the great Marianas turkey shoot where we slaughtered the inexperience Japanese Pilots.

@4urluvjones155 8 ай бұрын

No mention of how many horses were lost. The horses were heroes too.

@larslarsman 8 ай бұрын

The Nazi propaganda of Poles on horses charging Nazi tanks is still taught/repeated to this day, 2023.

@rockharvey5787 8 ай бұрын

I wrote my college thesis on this topic. The myth of a cavalry charge against panzers became popular because every side had a reason to spread it. Germany used it to show the superiority of their equipment vs. the “backwards” Poles. The Allies used it to portray the Polish cause as hopeless to explain their failure to come to Poland’s aid. It persisted in Poland long after the war because it symbolized Polish bravery in the face of impossible odds. Thank you for covering this still very misunderstood topic!

@mrnice1976 8 ай бұрын

I was taught the Polish cavalry vs German tanks story in German secondary school in the 90s. It was well and alive.

@lLoveCarolCleavland 8 ай бұрын

I've always heard that a lot of the lore had to do with the reporting from an Italian journalist who was with the German army at the time.

@xray86delta 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for setting the record straight. The myth of Polish Lancers charging German tanks, however, will probably never die. 😉

@James-nl6fu 8 ай бұрын

Many people forget a few days after the Germans invaded, Stalins Soviet Union invaded in force from the east.The two dictators had already bargained to carve the unsuspecting Poland in half between them.

@dennykeaton9701 11 күн бұрын

Exactly

@Rikki0 8 ай бұрын

Well, since I haven't seen anyone else mention this, I guess I will. I've been a WWII buff for right at 60 years now. In all the probably thousands of WWII films and narratives I I've watched this is the first time I've ever heard anyone refer to the German army correctly. "On March 13, 1939 the HEER entered Czechoslovakia...". Most use the term Wehrmacht in referring to the German army. The Wehrmacht actually means the whole of the German military, which includes the Heer, the Luftwaffe, and the Kriegsmarine. The Schutzstaffel (SS) weren't part of the Wehrmacht as they were a separate entity and were considered Hitler's private bodyguards. Schutzstaffel literally means, "protection squad".

@rebelbatdave5993 8 ай бұрын

AMEN! GOD BLESS POLAND AND HER ALLIES! MAY AMERICA STAND WITH POLAND!

@zillsburyy1 8 ай бұрын

THE BRAVE POLISH!!!!!!

@jimmyavpi 8 ай бұрын

The Polish cowards..

@dr.jillalicecooper2587 7 ай бұрын

@@jimmyavpiPolish guy clearly stole your girlfriend. They look better, f better and are hardworking, not lazy like you😂😂

@johnneill5960 8 ай бұрын

The best way to defeat armor is to draw them into CQB in cities ect … then use barriers & traps , flanking them up close as they go past . Tanks without significant infantry support in urban areas are sitting ducks .

@bolsa3136 8 ай бұрын

This was the late 30's...

@paktahn 8 ай бұрын

the same can be done by infantry with anti tank weapons in open country using proper camo to conceal then ambush from the side or rear as infantry is the biggest offensive threat on the ground to armor

@Siskiyous6 8 ай бұрын

"Last in History"? History is far from over.

@CaptainTrips2020 8 ай бұрын

Uh, history is over. That's the literal definition of history. The study of past events.

@stillcantbesilencedevennow 8 ай бұрын

@@CaptainTrips2020and suddenly now never becomes the past? Lol

@gvoskin 7 ай бұрын

Last as of Current History states. WW3, will probably be fought, as is often said, with Sticks and Stones… and possibly horseback once more.

@johnlynch5167 8 ай бұрын

What about the American Army's horse mounted cavalry charge against the Japanese in the Philippians?

@davanderer9686 8 ай бұрын

This needs to go up!

@baysword 8 ай бұрын

I thought that was the last recorded Calvary charge

@johnlynch5167 8 ай бұрын

JANUARY 16TH 1942. So the Pols were the last in 44

@s2garage 8 ай бұрын

Wife's grandfather was in the 112th cavalry that you speak of. Story goes, they trained the horses in San Francisco then Australia to then get them to Papau New Guinea to discover hoof rot. I'm not certain they were the last but were certainly close .

@mrdynamic8678 8 ай бұрын

What about the US special forces in Afghanistan, they were mounted

@Shimospeher 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for help debunking the myth that propably some people still belive. Our soldiers were not stupid to charge with horses at tanks. And horses were use in much in eastern front, not for cavalary but logistic support and to transporst, where roads are worse then. By both sides, Germany and USSR. Also good to hear that at least polish calvery was succesful at war, even at the end ^^

@schmitzkatzewupper 8 ай бұрын

I learn more and more about the past . As a german born in 1981 .. not nice to see what the people of my country did . Shameful. And again ,eye opening . I did not know about that battle .

@AltIng9154 8 ай бұрын

I am 22 years older and we still feel guilty although a person born 8. May 1945 is only 78 years old now and the Polish PM wants 1,3 billions from us . There was an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine recently. Not the US billion. No, it would be 1,3 trillions! How many generations they want to insult us? Is it healthy... for us and them? In my case it is really weird. My father was an orphan 10 years old almost killed by a Pole with a shovel. What was my father's crime as a little boy? Well he talked German to his Polish playmate. And my grandfather died 1938 and did not fall off a watchtower. Really not. The Poles see themselves all as heroes or would have been heroes and us as murderer and would have been murderer? By the way Poles and Ukranians butchered each other. Pssssst that must be a German insult.... quite sure.

@maxalbon9557 8 ай бұрын

@@AltIng9154 Have you not yet learned in Germany that our rulers treat the topic of reparations as election pork barrel? Note that they always bring this topic back when the elections are approaching, but they only talk about it and do nothing about it, because they know perfectly well that they can't do anything about it and that's it.

@dr.jillalicecooper2587 7 ай бұрын

@@AltIng9154Yes they butchered each other because ukrainians were nazis, many of them still are.

@miwoj 8 ай бұрын

horses were by no means obselete by the time of WW2. most of the german army was actually carried by horses, german mechanization was a myth. horses were still a main mode of transportation for many armies at the time.

@krzysztofciuba271 8 ай бұрын

yes,US pres.Roosvelt while talking with the AK/HOme Army envoy informing him about Holocaust in Poland was mainly intersted how many horses had been in Poland (for use in military);the fate of Jews was a secondary issue for him

@AltIng9154 8 ай бұрын

German mountain troops still have mules. Not a joke!

@doktor_ghul 8 ай бұрын

You put infantry against a cavalry charge, and the soldiers on foot will see the wall of horses roaring down on them and shit their pants. As you said, no soldier on a horse would charge a tank group - so your video's title is a bit clickbait-ish, but overall, the video is a salute to the courage of the Polish cavalry.

@maxfan1591 8 ай бұрын

"You put infantry against a cavalry charge, and the soldiers on foot will see the wall of horses roaring down on them and shit their pants." Well, no. A man on horseback is a target twice the size of a man on foot. Machine guns slaughtered cavalry in WW1. Cavalry needed very specific circumstances to hope for a charge to be successful. Note that even the Poles treated cavalry as mounted infantry.

@Manco65 8 ай бұрын

@@maxfan1591I agree as my grandfather served as mounted infantry in both World War 1 and the Polish Soviet War later on his younger brother and my great-uncle served in Anders Army as a armored cavalry sergeant in charge of an M3 Sherman Lend-Leasef to the. British forces. Oh yeah one more thing f*** Hitler and f*** Stalin.

@paktahn 8 ай бұрын

@@maxfan1591 exactly against ranged weapons with any kind of accuracy cavalry does not stand a chance

@jesusschizus272 8 ай бұрын

THE POLES HAVE BALLS! 🇵🇱 💪 We don't beg for freedom, we fight for it!

@DSWL_ 8 ай бұрын

what a shame to discredit those extremely brave calvary men 🇵🇱

@donovanwilliams5424 8 ай бұрын

Even today, Poland has no chill. They love freedom and are absolutely opposed to Russia's saber rattling, and they are prepared to handle business with them if needed.

@JDDC-tq7qm 8 ай бұрын

Don't make Russians marched down to Warsaw again like their grandfathers

@Mr.bumski 8 ай бұрын

Please keep up the great work you’re doing. Love the vids!

@danmurn6040 8 ай бұрын

This your best presentation byte. Very well done

@chamberpot969 8 ай бұрын

God bless 🙏 them.

@rogergoodman8665 8 ай бұрын

I always thought the story of Polish Calvery soldiers charging German tanks was true. As a little guy in the late 70's, the story was commonly told that the Polish soldiers were so brave during the invasion, they were slashing at the tank turrets and main gun barrel with their swords as their horses raced thru the German tank lines and I always thought of the clanging sounds as the soldiers attacked the tanks but slashing their way thru German infantry soldiers is just as brave. I will always consider the Polish as being very honorable and brave.

@jimmyavpi 8 ай бұрын

Poland was full of cowards..

@jed-henrywitkowski6470 8 ай бұрын

That's a myth.

@pcfree4994 8 ай бұрын

Its true they did charge German tanks... they where told by their commanders that Germany didn't have tanks and the big boxy things where cardboard cut outs and just a bluff.... and they died in pointless glory, mowed down when it turned out that... they where actually tanks...

@lm157 8 ай бұрын

@@pcfree4994That's bullshit. Cavalry officers were the elite of the elite, very well educated and trained. They never ordered such an attack, besides in fact those troops were mounted rifles not the cavalry per se. They dismounted at the front and fought as infantry. Charges were used only at the retreating enemy, never in frontal attacks. Cavalry brigades had anti tank guns and rifles to counter armored vehicles and also armored cars for recon. Stop repeating this propaganda bullshit.

@pcfree4994 8 ай бұрын

@@lm157 My source is the grandson of a survivor that I spoke to in person, whats yours?

@clearcreek69 8 ай бұрын

Great video

@Why-D 8 ай бұрын

If you think, that the Polish had to fight Soviet Union after the 1st World War and were not able to have eqaul material and the cavalry was the best for the rural east, the did best they could while be attacked from two sides. There were even rumors about Polish cavalry attaicking tank with sabres, as they were told that it would consits of wood, what is rubbish as even Poland had some tanks an tanketts. And when cavalry faced tanks, the tried to get away as fast as possible and otherwise use there anti tank weapons against the tank, of course dismounted. Also good to see, that the attack of the Nazis stuck to heavy defense by Polish soldiers.

@stevew6138 8 ай бұрын

I don't know that was the last horse cavalry charge of WWII. I recall Edwin Ramsey, one of the men who lead the fight against the Japanese after the fall of the Philippines, lead a cavalry charge outside Clark Field.

@helixcheerleader Ай бұрын

The video is confusing because it talks about two battles - one early on in the war in 1939, but the last successful charge in world history was also a Polish cavalry charge. Of course, keywords here are the last successful cavalry charge in *world* history. The Battle of Schoenfeld was March 1st 1945. The battle in Philippines (Bataan) was the last charge in American history and was January 16th 1942.

@josephcarson7945 8 ай бұрын

I love your work keep it up.

@paulcorrigan3753 8 ай бұрын

March 1945 is indeed after August 1942. My apologies for not knowing about Schoenfeld. I meant no disrespect to Poland or her soldiers. A great-great grandmother came from an apparently prominent Warsaw family. My sister married a Pole. Her father-in-law had been a young cavalry sergeant who was awarded the Virtuti Militari for his bravery against the Red Army in the war of 1920-21.

@nickthenoodle9206 8 ай бұрын

I never knew the Poles used Valentine tanks in 1939. Very impressive.

@michaelangelos5117 8 ай бұрын

It's such an interesting video. Every time I've been in a tank battle, I wish I had my horse.

@JK-dv3qe 8 ай бұрын

but every time you were in a horse battle, what did you wish for?

@chiapets2594 8 ай бұрын

@@JK-dv3qea husband

@dillypentland 8 ай бұрын

@@JK-dv3qe lol

@biggtrux 8 ай бұрын

Yes. You on the battlefield on your Hobby horse would be a distraction.

@michaelangelos5117 8 ай бұрын

@@JK-dv3qe oats

@stephenloy3535 8 ай бұрын

the last cavalry charge was arguably the Italian cavalry in Russia which routed a Soviet anti tank gun battalion

@sidgarrett7247 8 ай бұрын

Exactly when was that and what source, so I can read more about it.😊

@Gamer.Instinct 8 ай бұрын

BAPTISED IN FIRE 40:1!

@alanh3713 8 ай бұрын

I Love all your Dark channels! But Tsar is pronounced Zar, not T- sar. Sorry.

@Wings_of_foam 8 ай бұрын

Let's go!!

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 8 ай бұрын

Nice introduction...thank you ( Dark Docs) channel

@jamesbrown9736 8 ай бұрын

The word is C A V A L R Y!!! Other than repeated mispronunciation good video. Semper Fidelis SSgt B.

@rikfox8812 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for finally contributing to explaining the truth behind the charge at Krojanty. As the First Officially recognized living history representation of the Polish Winged Hussar Knights in the United States, I can't tell you how many times I've had to clarify that action that never happened against German tanks, to some of the most ignorant morons you've ever seen. My compliments.

@poormansgunz8032 8 ай бұрын

Polska 🇵🇱

@michaelwebber968 8 ай бұрын

Epic

@jessebauer7372 8 ай бұрын

Tennyson's poem could also describe this charge with some alterations to it.

@dwaynekoblitz6032 8 ай бұрын

Taking a horse to a tank battle. I know. If you don't think that these soldiers are absolutely BADASS we can't be friends. The sheer heroism!! Fucking bad ass EMM EFFERS!! The sheer bravado. I can't hardly comment enough. On a horse?!?? Heyell yeah!!

@user-mq4vo3mk1s 8 ай бұрын

The US Army mounted a horse charge in the dark days in Philippines against the Japanese army.

@chriscarbaugh3936 8 ай бұрын

Never heard of that!

@s2garage 8 ай бұрын

112th cavalry?

@jessebauer7372 8 ай бұрын

Have you ever seen the movie, 12 Strong? It's about U.S. horsemen during the War on Terror in the days following 9/11.

@user-mq4vo3mk1s 8 ай бұрын

@@jessebauer7372 I may have the book, but not sure.

@Skipper.17 8 ай бұрын

And no one cares because it’s got nothing to do with the video.

@aasphaltmueller5178 8 ай бұрын

Until now I had thought the last successfull cavallry charge in WWII was made by Italians against the Soviets in about 1943. Soviet Cavallary was also quiete successfull, but not in classic charges.

@jagsdomain203 6 ай бұрын

Satisfaction I've ever seen is in Boston to the Polish Cavalry

@robertsolomielke5134 8 ай бұрын

German army used horse as transport from 1933-1945

@paulcorrigan3753 8 ай бұрын

The last cavalry charge was by the Savoia Cavalleria Regiment, apparently one of Italy’s finest and with a history going back 250 years, numbered about 600 men. On August 24, 1942, they attacked a strongly held position of about 2000 Soviet soldiers at a hamlet called Izbuzhenski. The Russian troops were Siberians, who had a reputation for ferocity and cruelty, and of being excellent fighters. The Italians destroyed two Siberian battalions before being driven off by heavy fire. Forty Italians were killed, they lost 100 horses, but they captured 900 Siberians.

@flynhiinthesky 8 ай бұрын

Battle of Schoenfeld was in 1945. I believe that’s after 1942!

@jedispartancoolman 8 ай бұрын

Damn how many times the thumbnail gonna change ffs

@jacobmcbride9426 8 ай бұрын

Horse power is great but you need tank armour

@aaronishii5874 8 ай бұрын

Love your videos but the last successful Calvary charge by regular army was the Italians vs T-35s

@johncmitchell4941 8 ай бұрын

When and where? It wouldn't have to be successful to be the last charge. Got me confused, esp about the event.

@maxfan1591 8 ай бұрын

Did you watch all of the video? The Battle of Schoenfeld was in 1945.

@ukulelemikeleii 8 ай бұрын

One wonders, what might have happened had England and France deployed a couple of fighter squadrons each to Poland in the summer of '39?

@mutualbeard 8 ай бұрын

A case of taking a knife to a gun fight.

@ChillDudelD 8 ай бұрын

Except Polish cavalry units were equipped with wz. 35 antitank rifles and wz. 36 37mm antitank canons.

@ce641 8 ай бұрын

I remember a history Channel documentary sayingsomething like. As if from a bygone Era the polish cavalry charged the German tanks. The idea was how lax and unprepared Europe's militaries had become.

@TheYeti308 8 ай бұрын

Every thing is used when desperation mounts .

@michaelarmbruster586 8 ай бұрын

How about the Russian cav/ cossacks ? And the German cav ?

@krzysztofciuba271 8 ай бұрын

Thank for info (I did not know it yet). THERE was a similar charge in tactics in WWI in "Palestine" contra Turkish forces by UK's military men on horses (from some Colony: NZ or Africa) that just by the speed (of horses) they surprised, and then destroyed the Enemy(Turkish-German) line: the artillery could not fix the goal's fire on them. Ps. o course, the Hitler-Goebbel's propaganda used anything to ridicule the enemy.

@greggweber9967 8 ай бұрын

Didn't some SEALs lead a charge about 20 years ago? I suspect Afghanistan.

@shannonbruzelius4960 8 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing! It was in the movie 12 Strong (based on the book Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton)

@paulhubbard2411 8 ай бұрын

That was Army Special Forces

@andrewholmes1889 8 ай бұрын

Their cavalry is like the Australian Light Horse. Basically mounted infantry.

@bruceminick8444 8 ай бұрын

Nathan Bedford Forrest used similar tactics in the US Civil War.

@andrewholmes1889 8 ай бұрын

@@bruceminick8444 The only time the Light Horse didn't attack on foot was when they attacked a town called Beersheba in the Middles East during WW1. They had been riding across the desert for a couple of days and when they got to the town they were going to get off and charge on foot but the horses hadn't had water for over a day and would not stop because they could smell the water wells and kept going. They wound up capturing the town and its valuable water wells from the Turks. It was the last cavalry charge done by the Australian army.

@turkichorsemankhanete2295 8 ай бұрын

@@andrewholmes1889GALLİPOLİ CAMPAİGN AGAİNST ANZACS TURKS WAS A BRAVE FİGHT AUSTRALİAN NEWZEALADERS.

@andrewholmes1889 8 ай бұрын

@@turkichorsemankhanete2295 A lot of courage on both sides. Unfortunately the whole war was so useless. Such a waste of lives.

@davidrudd9846 8 ай бұрын

One thing about the Poles they were every where in WW2 even though their country was over run by the nazis and commies then were let down by US and UK after the war

@dr.jillalicecooper2587 7 ай бұрын

UK Traitors

@serdnayoseidan8868 8 ай бұрын

repiten y repiten a cada momento las mismas escenas, esta narración más parece una fantasía mental de quien subió el vídeo.

@jordanmascarenhas7974 8 ай бұрын

I married a Pollack. Beautiful, but tough women. Will shorten your life LOL

@biggtrux 8 ай бұрын

It's always disgusted me that we force animals into our stupid wars.

@WarblesOnALot 8 ай бұрын

G'day, Imaginative use of RAF Westland Army Co-operation Lysanders to illustrate Polish Fighters...; But Much of your Cavalry Footage was of the German SS-Cavalry units. Naughty naughty...! Black does not equal White. German Cavalry Practising to invade Poland..., Do Not Well illustrate Polish Cavalry Being massacred by German Armoured Cars. Just(ifiably ?) sayin'. Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

@dannywlm63 8 ай бұрын

So how long did Poland hold firm in world war 2?

@jimmyavpi 8 ай бұрын

The Polish cowards crapped their pants after 5mins..

@flynhiinthesky 8 ай бұрын

Up until the end of the war.

@jimmyavpi 8 ай бұрын

@flynhiinthesky no they didn't, they surrendered like little girls after a few weeks. Their government fled to britain and they made a pathetic attempt at a resistance..

@flynhiinthesky 8 ай бұрын

@@jimmyavpi you’ve got a very warped and biased view of the historical situation they faced. Read widely, not just German/Russian propaganda.

@jimmyavpi 8 ай бұрын

@flynhiinthesky no, in fact I've got an honest truthful view of the historical situation the cowardly Polish faced.

@maineoutdoorsman677 8 ай бұрын

Um u think they learn after a thousand charges during WW1 that resulted in nothen more then dead horses an dead men

@flynhiinthesky 8 ай бұрын

On the Western Front, yes, very true. But on the Eastern Front, not so much. There were more open plains and less trenches. Effectively, good cavalry country.

@SlawcioD 8 ай бұрын

If You read about cavalrymen charging tanks it must be a Poles.

@306Geni 8 ай бұрын

Beside the story isn't true.

@SlawcioD 8 ай бұрын

@@306Geni yes its not true (sadly) but if You would read about something like that, first nation who came to Your mind are Poles. ;)

@larryjohnson7591 8 ай бұрын

No, they did not charge tanks with Calvary. Yes, the Polish people hate that myth. Yes, the Polish people were very good fighters, and only lost because they did not have enough technology or modern weapons. If they had, I firmly believe they could have really messed up the German timetable of World War II.

@samwinwood218 8 ай бұрын

This gave me krieg vibes

@donlawrence1428 8 ай бұрын

Hooray for the Poles! I think we need a comeback with cavalry. Those big expensive tanks today are juicy targets...

@jurgschupbach3059 8 ай бұрын

Schengenvisum

@RandyArmy 8 ай бұрын

This day ,they will charge with korean tank

@lostinspace013 8 ай бұрын

As a Pole, I have very mixed feelings after watching this material. You show the Polish cavalry during World War II as a bunch of madmen attacking the Germans with lances and sabers. This is some gigantic ABSURD. Polish cavalry brigades fought completely like infantry, on foot, using rifles, machine guns, mortars and cannons, Horses were used for movement and ONLY for this purpose. Yes, there were some cavalry charges (like about TWO) , but only against unprepared infantry and it was usually an act of desperation. The Polish army was large (although still twice smaller than the German one), but unfortunately poorly armed and based on an outdated military doctrine, which was natural after 123 years of partitions during which our invaders destroyed our nation. Our heavy industry was in its infancy and was just beginning to develop in the 20 years after independence. Cavalry was an unpleasant necessity, not the way of fighting we chose because we were famous for cavalry in our history.

@AltIng9154 8 ай бұрын

Poles and Germans are brave ... but our leaders are mad. This time PiS Party. No? I should pay you 30.000€?

@lostinspace013 8 ай бұрын

@@AltIng9154 .... what ? What 30.000 ?

@AltIng9154 8 ай бұрын

@@lostinspace013 You don't know? Your PM wants 1.300.000.000.000€ from us. Not a joke.

@lostinspace013 8 ай бұрын

@@AltIng9154 Oh, you mean war reparations? Well, in my opinion, demanding this money 78 years after the end of the war is absurd. This is done for domestic policy purposes, all politicians do such things, yours too. HOWEVER: I find it absolutely outrageous that your nation did not suffer ANY punishment for what you did to us during World War II, literally: NO PENALTY. The amount of harm, death, destruction, torture, slavery, suffering that you have done to us for NO REASON is beyond any scale. Today, Hitler or some unspecified "Nazis" are blamed for it, while it was done to us by ordinary Germans (and Austrians) , the entire society, with great willingness. After the war, only a few were hanged, 99.9% of all criminals lived peacefully and continued their careers. Today no one talks about it anymore. You murdered 1/3 of my family for no reason. My grandmother miraculously survived Auschwitz, where she almost died of hunger in a flooded bunker because she hid a moldy bread crust in her pocket. Some woman then died in her arms. She never recovered from it mentally. All this... for no reason. I am 45 years old today, and believe me, if there was a war between our nations, I would take revenge for it without mercy. Although I know that the people responsible are long dead. Your ignorance today, your sense of innocence, this is historical injustice.

@flynhiinthesky 8 ай бұрын

It is documented that there were around 15 mounted charges by Polish cavalry in 1939, mostly against German infantry with one against German cavalry, all mostly successful. The Germans launched two mounted charges in 1939, both unsuccessful. People forget that German cavalry strength actually increased during WW2. Easy facts to find.

@LMyrski 8 ай бұрын

I'm no fan of the nazis, what they did in Poland was disgusting, but these English language summaries explaining why Germany went to war with Poland always employ selective omission. Funny how he forgets to mention that Danzig and the Danzig corridor were German lands until 1918, with many Germans residing in them, or that the allies awarded them to Poland at Versailles so she could have access to the sea thereby splitting East Prussia off from the rest of Germany, so the Germans' request for road and rail connections to their remaining Eastern territories was not entirely unreasonable. Poland refused to seriously discuss the matter. The British and French agreeing to back Poland in advance just made Poland less willing to come to an agreement. Despite promising to do otherwise, Poland had a long history of harassing the Germans who resided within its borders thanks to the allies giving German territory to Poland at Versailles and afterwards during the Polish instigated uprisings of ethnic Poles in the German border lands. The Poles prevented the Germans from getting many jobs, seized many of their lands and businesses, fired Germans from government jobs (teachers, etc.), imprisoned many Germans on bogus charges, ignored or dismissed crimes committed against Germans by Poles, and deported many ethnic Germans from the lands of their birth. He also ignores that the Polish official who the Germans had requested to meet with blew them off and remained in bed. Further, there is no mention here that the city of Danzig was separated from Germany and made a "free city" against its will by the allies, but effectively placed under Polish control so that Poland would have access to its port. However, when Poland built its own port facilities elsewhere and the unhappy population of Danzig wished to rejoin Germany, Poland refused even though the city was 98% German and Poland no longer needed the port. Not long before war broke out, a Polish official threatened to bomb the citizens of Danzig if they attempted to rejoin Germany. This is why the Canadian Prime Minister secretly blamed Poland for the outbreak of war. (Read 'Versailles Orphans' for an impartial history)

@flynhiinthesky 8 ай бұрын

This May all be true, but should be taken in a broader historical context. Where would such a Polish attitude towards the Germans come from? Look back to pre-1918. Danzig was just one out of many pretexts for the Germans to justify their war. To view it in isolation as done here is an error and not understanding the full expansionist policies of the then German government.

@ericarbib4183 8 ай бұрын

Wrong, the last cavalry charge in WW2 was the charge of the Italian SAVOIA CAVALLERIA in the Soviet Union in Isbushensky, during the Barbarossa war.

@ChillDudelD 8 ай бұрын

Can you into math? Schoenfeld was in 1945... 🤦‍♂

@luvz2bite 8 ай бұрын

Not necessarily a manipulation. When Stalin said that he would commit around 20 divisions to the defense of Poland, he asked the British how many they would commit to deploy. The British said 2. Unsurprisingly, Stalin sided with Hitler. Felt that the West wanted the USSR to take the majority of the hits. Which seems true, regardless of whatever force Britain could actually deploy.

@neilreynolds3858 8 ай бұрын

Yes. It seems to me that what the British and French were also doing was a delaying action to keep Stalin from making a deal with Germany without offering the USSR anything in return. For some obscure reason we thought that Russian diplomats were as stupid as our diplomats in the West. We still do. I would have done the same as Stalin - he wanted a buffer between the USSR and Germany and Hitler was willing to give him one for a while in exchange. Letting Germany have all of Poland would have clearly been worse.

@gunguide9201 8 ай бұрын

Schade um die Pferde...

@dsmith2568 8 ай бұрын

Sorry that was not the last successful mounted charge in history, in the 80s Taliban forces with the support of a lone American special forces successfully launched a mounted charge

@majcorbin 8 ай бұрын

make 1984 FICTION AGAIN

@philais 8 ай бұрын

It will be interesting when Poland charges their tanks against the Russians....

@jimmyavpi 8 ай бұрын

Poland won't do anything against Russia. Poland are cowards. Unless the USA help them, Poland will just crap their pants as usual..

@JK-dv3qe 8 ай бұрын

more important question: what happens when you send tanks/armored vehicles designed to fight goat herders into a 'real' war? we have already seen the answer (Leopard 2, Bradley M-2, Stryker, AMX-10, Challenger 2) USA: naahhhh the Abrams won't arrive anytime soon. supply problems, you know.....

@BeingFireRetardant 8 ай бұрын

Pretty sure last cavalry charge goes to a US unit in the Phillipines in WW2, but may belong to Soviet Cossack units on Ostfront.

@paulcorrigan3753 8 ай бұрын

See my comment above. It was the Italians in Russia in 1942.

@BeingFireRetardant 8 ай бұрын

@@paulcorrigan3753 Yeah, maybe. Maybe not though. There were thousands of Cossack charges during WW2 in the East, and very few of those unit actions were recorded in the same way the Western allies did. Especially given Soviet proclivities for secrecy and scant battlefield record keeping, the data just isn't there. However, the vast numbers of cavalry units operating up to the very end of the war, particularly in the southern sectors, and the vast distances covered, strongly suggests that the Soviets hold the title for last WW2 cavalry charge, regardless. Now, the Afghanistan charges during GWOT era should factor as well. And that incident highlights my point. The Northern Alliance was in fact doing cavalry charges against the Taliban, but they were not recorded as such until Western forces were attached. Which begs the question, if Western nations are not present at a thing, did it even happen?

@306Geni 8 ай бұрын

@@paulcorrigan3753 The Battle of Schoenfeld was in 1945.

@MrNaKillshots 8 ай бұрын

Hopeless, even against Mk 1s.

@stomper5432 8 ай бұрын

The most insane *counterattack of ww2. come on bro you put fightback wtf is that the most insane fightback of ww2? lmfao ehatever bro

@jlk313ify 8 ай бұрын

Not to say that the Poles didn't fight valiently or that they were never successful in any engagements with the Germans, but I just cannot imagine ANYone could actually believe the absolutely absurd narration of this video.

@tltc191 8 ай бұрын

What is not true about it?

@stomper5432 8 ай бұрын

R.I.P. to all german soldiers who lost there lives trying to make the world a better place in WW2!!!!

@tltc191 8 ай бұрын

Germany should have been completely dissolved after WW 2. Doesn't really matter as Germany is mostly pencil neck lard butts now.

@ernestweaver9720 8 ай бұрын

What about the Courage of the Horses themselves??? Nobody ever mentions them. These victories would have never happened without them. Yes I like Horses. Sorry. But thats just the way it is.

@davidkomen5283 8 ай бұрын

Thus began every Pollock joke.

@napraznicul 8 ай бұрын

Poland nowtime controls a large part of Germany, then ukrain controls a large part of Poland. Ukrain should be dissasembled until it will remain only that area around the kiev, rest of those territories are polish, romanian, russian, hungarian, slovenian.

@iainsanders4775 8 ай бұрын

Poles - very brave - but now stopping arms to Ukraine, aiding Russia's Hitlerian attack on it. Perhaps not for TOO long, hopefully, or maybe the Ukrainians will have to charge Russian tanks with their Own cavalry.. Historical irony!

@neilreynolds3858 8 ай бұрын

Okay, I'm tired of trying to educate you people who won't even bother to read up on the history of Eastern Europe since 1991. You're on your own.

@iainsanders4775 8 ай бұрын

Thanks, I read it all up un the newspapers as it happened.@@neilreynolds3858

@michalsawa881 8 ай бұрын

Go go power ranger, sit in ur home while we fight for your freedome.🎉🎉 You shit higher then your head is