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Apprently if the Polish Military is told something is impossible, they take it as a personal challange and then go and succeed, you utter mad lads, never change.

If you want a bonus badass story, look up Joseph Unrug, Polish Navy commander in chief at the beginning of ww2. Largely responsible for the plans described in the video, he was Polish-German who actually started his career in the German navy. After being captured nazis naturally tried to get him to switch sides and fight for them but Unrug not only refused but also demanded an interpreter whenever the germans officers tried to talk with him because as he claimed, on September 1st, 1939 he forgot how to speak German.

There is nothing comparable to the mix of pride because somebody is talking about your country and laughter felt when they completely butcher Polish words. Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła!

Half of polish history is people doing something dumb, brave, risky and imaginative at the same time. We even have a word for it.

Reminder that the only other English speaking YT channel that covered this story is a channel called “The History Guy”. Not even Drachinifel has covered this yet.

32:15 That’s the history of the Soviet Union in a nutshell right there: decide to launch an unprovoked invasion to conquer and subjugate a territory, fake a justification, and then publicly claim to be an anti-imperialist victim while secretly being the imperialist perpetrator.

The more I learn about Poland, the more I admire it.

What is necessary to state is the fact that the Polish fleet was designed solely to combat the threat posed by the Soviet fleet, which was planned to be stopped on its way to the western Baltic Sea in the area of natural bottlenecks. For this purpose, Poland had a strong component intended to mine the exit from the Gulf of Finland and the areas east and west of Gotland, both from water and underwater. Anything that would survive passing through these minefields was to be destroyed by attack ships. Polish ships were so large and fast that they could arrive at the posts before the Soviets did. This was critically important because Poles at that time considered a conflict with the USSR, not with Germany, inevitable - material aid from the West was to go through the thriving port of Gdynia in the event of such a conflict. Gdynia was created in general (Poland did not receive this fastest-growing Baltic port in the Treaty of Versailles, and had to build it on its own) in order to avoid the situation of 1920, when German shipyard workers in Gdańsk did not want to unload the aid sent to Poland from France. However, the Polish fleet was never supposed to fight the Germans, who were an opponent from a completely different weight category, both in the literal sense and in the sense of maritime skills and traditions. This is worth remembering when considering why a country that always had too little money for land forces and air force suddenly acquired expensive naval power. It was simply aimed at a different enemy than the one Poland ultimately faced.

one of my great grandfather was a serviceman on Schleswig Holstein, other was killed in Auschwitz - just imagine those family meetings...

I'm a sailor from Poland and when i was 13 i've had to learn navigation by the stars untill it was so ingrained, that became my 2nd nature.Being old fart my first reactions, when i leave home is a short glance at the sky and milisecond later checking where the wind blows from.i'm always aware of it and i guess that's a trait of every sailor.

As a Dutchmen I still take pride in the fact that a Dutch built Submarine made this absolutely mad journey under command of the Poles I honestly think there is nothing more dangerous/scary then a Dutch built submarine with a polish crew. Bravo brave Orzel and her crew Also another amazing video, I love it whenn you talk about these absolutely crazy adventures. P.S I want 12 episodes and 2 movies made about this right the fuck now

You know it’s going to be a good day day when your favorite Aussie memelord drops a video…

Ok but the absolute class of the line "Men returning form the underworld deserve to travel first class."

My grandma told me this story when I was a kid! She was part of Zegota and my grandfather the armia kriowa.

One of the Polish officers overseeing the construction of Orzeł in the Netherlands was a gentleman named Kazimierz Leski. During the September 1939 campaign he was a fighter pilot(!), crash landed in the Soviet occupied territory, made a daring escape from the NKVD with an injured spine, after recovery joined the resistance as an intelligence officer. He frequently travelled across europe in a wehrmacht general’s uniform - as such he inspected the Atlantic Wall obtaining eyes-on knowledge about the fortifications soon to be assaulted during Overlord. He aloso took part in the Warsaw Uprising, spent 12 years in communist prison. Kazimierz Leski, callsign „Bradl”

I recently learned about the polish anti tank horse units and every time I think of it I get a huge smile on my face. The polish in their infinite wisdom, realized that they couldn’t raise very many tank divisions but knew they would still have to fight tanks. The only thing they had a large quantity of was anti tank guns and horses. One thing lead to another and they had an effective tank fighting force that was quick, maneuverable, and easy to supply with their war economy. Though not stopping their advance, they caused major casualties to the German tank brigades and delayed them enough for other units to get into position or evacuate. Freaking awesome.

These orchestral versions of 40:1 and winged Hussars are great.

Best moment, guards returning from the dead by first class passenger line.

"Leave it to the Poles. Nothing is impossible for them. " Napoleon

Fun fact, Miracle of Wistula was given such name to undermine the current leader Józef Piłsudzki by the opposition yet it stuck because of how fitting it was for his propaganda at the time

ORP means Okęt Rzeczpospolitej Polski (Ship of Polsh Commonwealth). Okręt is military ship, Statek is merchant/liner ship. And our IIWW flagship is not Witcher but Wicher pronounced more like Vee her and it means Strong Wind. BTW all II WW destroyers have names after weather conditions such as forementioned Piorun (thunderbolt). One of those ORP Blyskawica (lightning) is todays a Museum Ship anchored in Gdynia Harbour.

I love that in 1:00 stadium sound system speaks: " please cease using fireworks" when Animarchy and this girl praise this XD

Animarchy: "Have you ever met the Poles?" Me: **does the awkward side eye after realizing one of my work besties is Polish, I conceal carry a P-64, I set my phone in Polish for funsies, and I'm completely obsessed with the ORP Błyskawica.**

​my Gdad was a polish Spitfire pilot in the 317sq and was on of the heroes of ghent

I'm glad to be part polish and part Ukrainian, what with my grandmother having a Ukrainian father and a polish mother, and whenever I hear a story about the poles being awesome as all can be, it puts a smile on my face.

I'm a simple Pole, I see Poland I click❤

Yes! We need more people covering the battles of the polish people, their history and pride keep inspiring me. Ave Poland! Love from Brasil

Imma say, I didn't expect to see myself in an Animarchy video, I was there on the hill during the parade 3 minutes in

I would love to see someone do a video on the Polish Navy's general bloodlust towards the Luftwaffe someday. After the Invasion of Poland, the Norweigan Campaign (Where ORP Grom was sunk by a sinlge Heinkle 111 in the Fjords as part of a trap), and Dunkirk (where ORP Burza had her bow punched in by Stukas), there was a noticble tendancy of Polish destroyers going full aggro whenever a plane with crosses flew by. ORP Piroun and ORP Blyskawica both are famous for strutting half-refitted from their docks and diverting entrie arial armadas using their AA defenses, and at one point, ORP Blyskawica even had her 120mm guns swapped out for a swarm of double 4in Dual-purpose guns simply because they could elevate farther than the standard British 4.7in mounts currently available.

Dammit! Now you've got me thinking of the entire crew lined up on deck in parade formation flipping everyone the bird and repeatedly screaming "i am a pole!" As they steal their own submarine....

"Polish destroyer Witcher" I giggled with glee whenever I heard that. Soo.... Petition to rename one of our ships "Wiedźmin", the best way to raise morale :) PS: Don't worry about mispronounciations you're doing pretty well - certain fun errors notwithstanding :)

Craziest mad lad voted at the local RSL was a polish veteran who fought in the anti tank calvary in 39, and one of the old members who voted for him was a rat of tobruk. So glad I got to chat to them before they passed.

Polish hussars appear more than once in the "Ring of Fire" book series, and it quickly becomes obvious that no one, but no one in their right mind, casually dismissed Polish hussars...

1:00 - I love that "We request the pyrotechnical materials will stop being used immediatly" in the background. Cause they are 100% illegal in stadiums XD

I had the privilege of meeting an elderly gentleman a number of years back and asked “may I help you Sir?” The retort “Don’t call me Sir, I work for a living!”. I replied “What rank?”. He hand signalled warrant officer, I hand signalled corporal & we got on famously after that. A pilot from Poland, escaped to UK, Battle of Britain, career in RAF, became an instructor on 36 different types of aircraft. Interesting person, interesting times

Brilliantly done! BRAVO ORZEL!

Gotta love that my country despite having almost no naval tradition whatsoever, pulls the most badass things ESPECIALLY on sea.

Orzel was with her sister class the further development of the Dutch O16 class. And Dutch submarine design and development had a great impact on the rest of europe . One should look in to it as they where the leading nation in submarine development .

The orchestral rendition of the Winged Hussars was an awesome touch 24:05

"Geneva is gonna need a bigger suggestion box" This line can only be thought of by someone who is really done with something

0:00 "Of course i know him ! That's me !"

before any english-speaking lads get confused, he meant "Wicher" which can be translated as "Whirlwind". Our navy did not name one of their ships "Witcher" for the better or worse. lmao

This is what History Channel should be informative and entertaining,I love learning new historical events on here

When your national anthem starts with "Poland won't perish as long as we live, and what enemy forces take from us we will return with a sabre[in hand] ", you know you're bound to come upon a certified band of madlads

I swear, if Pacman (Animarchy history) made a 40 minute video about an especially tasty ham sandwich I'd watch the whole thing with rapt attention. No doubt the question of mayo, mustard or both world feel like stakes the likes of which humanity hasn't seen since the bay of pigs. The fact he's starting videos like this with some of the craziest stories in modern military history makes it all that much better.

The Estonians have a plague dedicated to the Polish submarine in front of the maritime museum in the old town of Tallinn. Our guards were rumoured to kind of inform the poles when to take off. And telling them to slowly do the demilitarisation, I mean the Estonian navy had submarines, we could have offered a torpedo hoist to borrow. We didn’t take the crew off the ship etc. But as they were legally interred and left non-legally we could say to the Germans “oops those darn poles” and the soviets legally had no business in Estonia as the ship was already gone. We in Estonia fought with the soviets from 1918-1920 when they surrendered, so the 1919 war of poland-soviets is also one we can sympathise with.

Animarchy posts a vid about Polish people and accidentally summons thousands of poles who onstamtly flock to foreigners talking about them

"never before have so many been screwed by so many" - Me Also, If you look more into her escape from Estonia it becomes obvious the Estonians were very aware of what Orzel's crew was planning and only made a show of trying to stop them. Considering Estonia was surrounded also it wasnt hard to figure who the bad guys and good guys were.

"Have you ever met the Poles?" **Me, an Icelandic dude, where the largest minority is Polish and work with about 4 of them every week** Yes? "When it comes to wars, the Poles. Have absolutely. No. Chill." Yes. Absolutely splendid video! Thank you for drawing attention to this voyage. I never realized how much I needed an Aussie narrating spectacular war stories. Stellar performance!

was already loving it, but when I started hearing sabaton... my god you are a master of your craft

From the bottom of my polish heart - Dziękuję!!

Fun fact. The new ORP orzel is a kilo class submarine.

You know what’s pretty crazy, my sister got me a pretty cool polish model of the Orzel last Christmas, and I didn’t even know about this absolutely crazy story. I will now deeply treasure this incredible representative of history.

At the moment there is a exhibition at the swedish navy museum in Karlskrona about 170 polish submariners from three submarines how was damaged during the war and hade to take shelter in swedish ports. The exhibition is about mainly the people how did stay in sweden after the war but they also take up that all sailors how did return to Poland after the war was charged but many did go back in to the navy. The exhibition is more people's life stories but it was really intressting to hear about this part of history. Very well done 👍

KInd regards from Poland. The spirit of Orzeł is alive. Polish army have a lot of this kind of stories.

30:29 Sinking Rio De Janeiro was first indication of Germany attacking Norway. Ship was carrying 330 soldiers, 10 AA guns, 73 horses, 71 vehicles and 292 tons of provisions

Well there is third theory about what what happend to ORP Orzeł. That allied planes sunk it, one of evidence for that theory is the pilot's drawings of atacked targets. Along siluetes of uboots there was one that was standing out, and very similar to Orzeł one

When I was in pre-primary school (so about age 4), I remember a new kid started who was very quiet and shy. It only occurred to me later that he didn't speak English, he was from Poland. I actually found him on Facebook and he is 100% Australian now. Lots of photos of him fishing and drinking beers with his mates. His family must have left Poland immediately after the collapse of communism in Europe (this was around 1990). I'm so glad he and his family found a good home in Australia. Now I'm an adult with a lot of friends who moved here from Poland. It's really cool that our tallest mountain is named after a Pole, too. Between this channel and Perun, it really appears that Australia really loves talking about Poland.

I mean I'm Polish, we're brought up with this story - and I still learned a lot of it. Thanks, pal!

9:58 we accualy dont. our word for surrender is *poddaje sie* wich accualy means *i gave up* . so we accualy do not have a direct word meaning surrender :)

I read this story when I was in kindergarden, in 1982, and it was really impressive. Almost like defence of Westerplatte and Polish Mail Office in Gdańsk. Not to mention defence of Hel.

13:00. Good god, I had a history of science class last semester, and during a test was asked about what some major technological developments during ww2 were (attempting to test our knowledge of date ranges). I was glad it was online, and I had lots of time because I got to fully explain why that is not the right term to use.

There were 4 aft and 4 bow torpedo tubes with 1 spare torpedo for each tube, so there are 8 launchers. Additionally there were 2 rotary twin launchers and these ones could not be reloaded in the sea. All together there were 12 launchers and 20 torpedoes.

1:00 "it is called to stop the usage of pyrotechnic charges" And now IDK if they had that phrase on standby, or they can generate anything they want on the go.

Thank you for telling this story to a wider audience, we really appreciate it. Independent historians do a great job when they do not stick to the truths forged in academia. I have a degree in archeology myself, and although life and necessity pushed me to become a welder, in my free time I do it as a hobby. Thanks for the video and other informative stories on your channel. Although interesting facts from the latest research based on British declassified documents, a picture emerges that ORP "ORZEŁ" could have been very unlucky and been mistaken for an enemy by an RAF plane. Kind regards!!!

The KZfaq logo replacing the swastika is a nice touch. 😂 Solves the problem while making a statement at the same time.

Holy shit that was a wild ride. I love these OVA episodes.

8:02 this has so much meme potential with the current conflicts

Can confirm about Poles and Soccer, Many moons ago I used to do security for Soldier Field in Chicago, My section was at the South End Zone for Chicago Fire and World Cup Soccer matches. That section was reserved by the Barn Burners [the official Chicago Fire fanclub] and the Polish Ultas [another local Futbol club]. Both were entertaining, but the Ultas took the cake. I had to turn down so many shots from those madlads. They also had some fun chants, my favorites were "You're a Bastare, Referee! You're a Bastard, Referee! Who's your daddy? You ain't got one! You're a Bastard Referee!" and "If I had the Wings of an Eagle, And I had the ass of a Crow, I'd fly over [Rival town] tomorrow, and shit on the bastards below!"

Love you mate just two minor notes: it's not a "statek" (civilian ship), it's an "okręt" (warship), ORP "Wicher" is not actually pronounced "Witcher" :)

The more I watch your videos, the more underrated, underappreciated Chads I learn about.

1:00 a voice synthesiser (tech which was also pioneered by Poles*) says "we politely ask you to cease using pyrotechnic devices on the premises". I just love this random inclusion xD *Amazon's Polly service is based on tech acquired from IVONA, which basically made up half of Polish YT presence back in the day with fandubs being ridiculously easy to create but really bad to listen, as the free demo version changed all "oo"s to "o"s. Imagine the disappointment when you hear the first "korwa" instead of the real thing.

-5:18 there is also a theory that it is even possible that it is true because there is a report and a sketch of the ship before the sinking make by crew the British submarine-hunting plane who reminded appearance of ORP ORZEŁ that ORP ORZEŁ was destroyed by allied forces by mistake... sorry for the grammar errors... I drank some vodka...

Thank you for this well researched history and great storytelling ! 💖☺👍👍👍👍

As a proud Pole I am very happy that someone is telling this amazing story. Thank's a lot! (by the way the beautiful music in the background is about polish airforce :D)

I'm a Polish girl. The best part is the moment when the lady says that she likes the flares and you can see that you are happy about it, and in the background you can hear the stadium staff asking the fans to stop using the flares through a megaphone. It's forbidden, but it won't stop Polish football fans. They really truly and deeply love their football clubs.I respect this. it's part of our culture because Poles are very loyal and show their feelings openly. This can be seen in sports. For the military aspect, I would say: never, ever mess with Poles. Even if you have an empire. The empire will collapse and they will stand still. That's perfect to know... Russia and Germany. They have already tried to rule the Poles twice (both of them!) and it did not end well. They had a very hard time here and there was constant resistance. In the end they gave up, failed and lost everything. No one does well from occupying this country.

Two bangers from two of my favorite “russophobes” from the souther hemisphere!?? I’m about that action chief. And if these guys are an inkling like the other polish units I’ve seen vids on, this is gunna be bonkers.

What a thrilling tale! I understand that you're a specialist on modern navies, but if you ever feel like doing a video on Poland's volunteer fighters in the American war for independence, then two 18th-Century madlads -- the general & military engineer Thaddeus Kosciuszko and Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski (the father of the US Army Cavalry, who was KIA in Georgia) certainly deserve coverage. Both are honored here with monuments and by having bridges and other things named in their honor, not to mention a song by Sufjan Stevens.

The housing bit had me laughing in evil until the warning cracked me up.

My grandmothers uncle was actually the teacher of most of the pilots in the 303 division while they still were serving in poland

Greetings from Poland. Please, stay in good health. Godbess!! You're always welcome.

Long live Poland and long live Australia. You Aussies have a simmilar look on geopolitics as we Poles. Glory to our nations! Also great choice of polish songs in the video.

Contrary to Animarchy's claim, there is indeed a word for "surrender" in Polish. There are a number of them in fact: poddać się, oddać się, ustąpić, stracić, etc. They however only have second and third person declinations. xD

Give the Poles and Finns a few nukes apiece and Russia will be scared to try any further special military actions, knowing the fingers on the red buttons WANT and excuse to push them.

Charge of Somosierra is one of the craziest stories of polish madness.

Beautiful story very well done!

12:57 It's only a violation if they find out

Another delightful video! I would go so far as to say you may just well be the best of youtubers tackling history! Your videos are delightfully entertaining and engaging, all the while being properly informative! Thank yiu for blessing us with these videos!

Ladies and gentlemen: The poles, the absolute chads of europe.

Poland is not yet lost!!! 🇵🇱

Great video man, and a great story. I love the way you wrote this video even if the pronunciation of a couple words is not even close 😂 but still a great video

One day the Orzel and the U47 will be found - those cats returning their guards was so cool to me.

Fun fact the ending song is a polish aviators' anthem that i heard way to many times as my dad is one of them

I know you’re a history channel with some added memes, but your videos have brought a good amount of joy that I really needed recently. Thanks man, puts me in a better mood whenever you and your colleagues upload

I have no doubts some Estonians helped them leave. But awesome info on this.

This story knows every polish boy, and most of girls as they learn about it at school. There is also an old b/w movie titled "ORP Orzeł" telling this very story. It ends with the sub going on its last patrol from which it never returned. Polish history of navy has also story of ORP "Burza" (Storm) which played key role in finding Bismarck when it managed to break away from the hunt set by Brits. Yes, you are right. Poles are brought up in quite unique way. They are taught their history by their families even before they go to school. Their families take them to cemeteries where their ancestors lie after giving life for freedom and independence. This is where they take their first lessons of patriotism. Then they are taught reality, and how to be innovative. Most Poles think out of the box just naturally. This makes them great individualists, but their upbringing in love for their country, which they call "Fatherland" (Ojczyzna) gives them this unique ability of uniting in time of need, and instantly becoming this famous monolyth - one for all, and all for one. This is one of their greatest strengths. Solidarity was born out of it, all their uprisings, and self determination, as well as fighting for freedom of other nations, which is known in Poland as fight "for freedom yours and ours", as it was written on flags of Poles fighting hand in hand with Americans for their independence. Since then names of Kościuszko and Puławski belong also in history books of both nations - Poland and the USA. To add to your story, Poles also led the seventh, final attack on Monte Cassino, where they overpowered Germans. Not many people except Poles know that to honor their great sacrifice a Polish military Cemetery has been built directly in front of the monastery, where they attacked. There is a 2m tall writing in stone running around this place. The words were inspired by words written in Thermopylae, where 300 Greeks gave their lives holding up against 50 000 strong Persian Army, and yes they teach that in Polish schools as well. In Monte Cassino the words (written in Polish) go like this: "Bypasser, tell Poland that we have fallen, faithful in service to her."

I'm glad you mentioned 303. We Brits owe a lot to the Poles

This type of content is why i came to this channel ( and the memes) It's so nice to see it again. excellent video !

Three salvos for the honor of Poland🇵🇱😊