Never heard of this guy but hating Bayern has to be the worst thing he’s ever done

There was once an article that claimed Hitler was a Schalke fan. Schalke responded saying it was nonsense and that Schalke were just the most successful team during Hiter's reign. They stated "To conclude Hitler was a fan of Schalke 04 because they won most of the titles during his regime must make Margaret Thatcher a Liverpool fan. Funnily enough she didn't make the list."

The more I learn about this Нitler character, the less I like him. He was a real jerk.

Thank you for clearing this up! This is such an awful joke that is incredibly annoying, not to mention ignorant.

This is far better than the Bayern museum even has. When living in Munich, I knew of prominent members of the club being arrested, but was under the impression even after visiting their museum, that the club was relatively pro-Nazi. Brilliant video

Bayern Munich wasn’t the only thing he hated…

Thank you for this Alfie. Always pissed me off when people who know no history of my club call it the Nazi club

Hartlepool United was the only ground bombed from the air in WW1 (by a Zeppelin) and in WW2 (several times) and also Hartlepool was the first town in mainland UK to be bombed (by sea). Obviously the guy was a Darlo fan.

Maybe a video on Spanish clubs during francoist spain would be good. So much argument between Madrid and Barca fans on which club got favoured by the government

As a citizen of Munich, I thank you for this impartial record.

While we're on the subject of the Nazis trying and failing to use football for propaganda purposes, here's one of my all-time favourite footballing anecdotes: In 1938, England played Germany in Berlin, and were forced to perform the Nazi salute as part of the UK's appeasement policy at the time. The players *hated* being made to do so, and fueled by that rage, they thumped Germany 6-3. One of England's six goals - described by Stanley Matthews as "probably the greatest goal I ever saw" - was scored by a Jewish forward named Len Goulden. From 25 yards out, he struck a volley with enough force to partially rip the net off the crossbar, then wheeled away and yelled "Let 'em salute that one!" Legend.

Alfie you should make a separate channel for history without any mention of football since your voice is just iconic to listen to.

I was just at bayern Munich museum last week, and this exactly explains much of what was described on many of the walls! Fantastic club, great history and tradition. And of course, one that I admire and respect as a Manchester United fan

Thanks for making this, Alfie. I'm no fan of Bayern as I dislike any club dominating a league like they do, but the accusations of them being Nazis is unfair and untrue. I wish people would do their reseach but I guess that's pretty pie in the sky...

Had no idea Bayern was this courageous. Wow. Honestly shook. I am now a fan of Bayern Munich, what a wonderful story and history 🤝🏼

As a lifelong Bayern fan, thank you, Alfie, for a very good and comprehensive look at this.

Brilliant video yet again Alfie, I'd noticed the "Bayern badge during WW2" "meme" that had appeared a lot on the cesspool that is X (formerly Twitter) and wondered what the craic was with that. Thank you for educating so many of us on what should be a better-known story.

The algorithm is gonna love this video, good timing Alfie 🤣

thank you. your content is the only thing keeping me sane when scrolling too much on youtube / instagram comments.

This was super interesting. I have seen the same comment about Bayern's logo during that period, used as a quick insult, so many times. Thank you for providing important context.

His missing ball actually made him difficult to defend against especially when he would drop the shoulder and do a wicked turn.

Just from the title can see this is gonna be another great deep dive - great content mate 🔥

Danke Sehr You have no idea how much me needed a well made video tackling this topic.

Very eye opening Alfie, a great job very well done!

I love your history-and-football documentaries Alfie, you're the GOAT

Finally someone is making a video about this Hopefully clowns and casuals can stop calling us Nazi Club

Fascinating video, Alfie. Quite insightful. Thank you for making it.

Thanks for making a great video about one of my favorite teams. I already knew a lot about this topic but still learned a ton. Another great video from Alfie!

Wow that intro hit me me hard. Well done. I had no idea about most of this.

I love yur videos! I actually didn't know about the badge change so I would have been confused by someone mentioning it...

Thanks for clearing this issue hopefully some of my friends will see this and correct their stance

Fascinating video, I visited Bayern for the first time this weekend and never knew this. Love learning more about clubs rish history.

Small correction Alfie: By all accounts, Hitler didn’t take Jesse Owens winning some medals very badly. He apparently either waved or nazi saluted Jesse Owens in a quick exchange, according to Jesse Owens himself and other eye witnesses. He didn’t officially congratulate any winners of medals, except a few German ones I believe, because the IOC had told him he should either congratulate everyone, or nobody. He chose to congratulate nobody. Foreign press explained this as Jesse Owens being ‘snubbed’ by Hitler and that Hitler was ‘very upset’, but all accounts we have of the Olympics point towards Hitler not losing a single night’s sleep over it. Jesse Owens himself has always maintained the United States treated him even worse than the Germans. The US was still an apartheid state at this point. People simply pretended he never won a medal. While other athletes received awards and celebrations, he and the other black athletes were basically told to sit in the back of the bus again. Only in 2016, Barack Obama invited the families of Jesse Owens and other black athletes over to show an official sign of appreciation from the white house.

I love all your content bro, but this is just wonderful. Have a look at Vasco Da Gama, how they were initially formed and fought against racism. Their story made me a fan of them nearly 100 years later and living 5000 miles away. Great work lad 👏👏👏

Excellent video, thanks for your hard work APH!

Your opening is gold! Kudos for it!

Hi Alfie, do you think you could do a video on Armenia Bielefeld. They’ve suffered a double relegation and I’d be intrigued to know why.

I'm presuming you enjoyed making this video more than most & it was also very sad too. I greatly appreciate it being Jewish myself & a job well done. I can be critical at times in some of your videos but this is a 10/10. Thank you Alfie 🙏🏼

Alfie, you have outperformed your consistent quality and insight with this video. Outstanding work. Works like this are becoming iincreasingly valuable as fascism makes another of its periodic resurrections. Your observations of Jewish integration into German society during the period of prosperity early in the century illustrate a fundamental fact about fascism. The bullying and persecution of The Other only appear when societies are stressed, most commonly by economic crisis (the Great Depression), but also during ethnic migrations, periods of national humiliation (Treaty of Versailles), and most recently as Western culture has encountered the inflection point of cultural evolution. It is most obvious in the U.S. where the abrupt increase in the rate of cultural evolution, with the advent of The Information Age has revealed our species' inability to adapt to environmental change beyond a certain rate. American society is beginning to turn on itself in a manner reminiscent of 1930's Germany, with the emergence of Hitler analogs like Trump. As in Germany under Hitler, our fascists are searching for scapegoats, the weakest groups in society to subject to potentially fatal bullying. My point is Thank you for helping to illustrate this particular human failing in such a timely fashion.

Some of your very best work Alfie. Well done mate

as always, very well researched

Very interesting, relevant to what's happening at the moment. Have you considered doing a video on the Yugoslav 89-90 season where one of the final games Red Star Belgrade v Dynamo Zagreb which reportedly caused the start of the war

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍

Love videos on football history. Thank you for this

Another exemplary video highlighting a topic very few content creators would take on due to its sensitive nature. This is why I watch HITC Sevens, and also why you deserve KZfaq's best football content creator.

Why Stalin Hated Spartak Moscow

Great video as always! Can you do one explaining what's going on with Ajax this year?

Alfie, wonderful video as always. Recommendation - 7 best players to retire between 30-32

Been waiting for a video like this, so thank you for informing people on this. Football fans on Twitter are pathetic, and I doubt they will stop with these jokes anytime soon. Would like to see a video on the social media side of things in football these days, and the toxic culture it brings. Keep up the good work!

Thank you for making this. EPL fans need more education outside of top 5 clubs lol. As a Bayern fan, you hear so much ignorance from EPL fans who learn the sport from FIFA lol

Excellent research, thank you for setting the record straight.

Great video, thanks Alfie.

Thank you for this video Alfie, I can now just send people this instead of having to type out an essay as to why making jokes about Bayerns badge is distasteful.

Some Commeters after this Video: Come on Alfie, why are you always making political references. I mean now you even comparing people to Hitler (I am not smart and can't read the title or listen to the video). Before this I was a long-term subscriber of 2 days. Now after you suddenly turned political, you have lost me and I am sure you will now change your ways, because I am a weirdo in the comments. Irony Off: I have read parts of this word for word on this channel and its baffling.

way to go on this one. thank you Alfie

Thanks for clearing this up ❤

Glad to see you clear up such a lazy point people make about Bayern

I always love hearing about Nazi actions or quotes that point out how painfully out of touch and warped their world views were to where “winning a match is more important to the people than the capture of a town somewhere in the East” is an actual realization an actual nazi had 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 like yes no shit Joseph, and then bro proceeded to ban them from losing 🤣😭

Thank you alfie! Great video king!

Hats off for tackling such a controversial and difficult topic. I appreciate you want to tackle a negative narrative and shine a light on a side that people outside of Germany won't have heard about. However you could just as well point out that many at the club were dedicated followers of the regime and joined the NSDAP long before they actually came to power. VP Harlacher comes to mind, but there were others. There were a lot of dedicated Nazis at the club, otherwise it would not have been allowed to continue. I suggest that people who are interested do some additional reading and make up your own mind. I personally think you are being a bit to kind to Bayern, but it's nice that you remind people that there were people who showed resistance in Germany. It's a very complex era of German history and you'll find that most sporting institution will have similar stories. By that I mean people who didn't agree with persecutions of jews and others had to find little ways to show disapproval, but ultimately had to toe the line.

10:54 it should be noted here, that Hitler (and probably also Hirsch for that matter, though I cant say for sure, since Hirsch got a second class iron cross whilst Hitler got a first class one and I am not sure if the second class one was actually more likely to be gotten by actually doing brave things in WW1) did not actually receive that iron cross for extraordinary bravery (though Hitler would have wanted you to believe otherwise). During that time most soldiers who received that thing actually were not the ones fighting on the frontline but actually serving the higher ups way behind the front lines and sucked up well enough. From all we know today, Hitler most likely was rather a coward than a war hero in WW1.

I just found out about Bayern history thought it was strange they only recently talked about the history. Also surprised Shalke was a powerhouse back then.

This is a great video. Very educational. Cleared up a whole lot, Alfie. The trolling agenda will still agend pal 👍🏾

Brilliant and interesting video. This history of Bayern is something I’d never known about.

Why Mussolini hated AC Milan

You should do a history like this on Barca and Real Madrid in the franco era

Love your stuff Alfie, and this is among your best.

Thumbnail game on point👏

This would make an incredible heartfelt sports movie.

What a thumbnail 😂 Anyway people need to stop acting like Bayern endorsed Hitler during the war. Great video as always

You do the best vids. Danke

Another great video ! Love the history ones

That thumbnail is class😂

Interesting side note: Austria Vienna was temporarily banned under Nazi rule, while their bitter rivals SK Rapid competed in and succesfully won the German Bundesliga, despite being located in Vienna.

The level of research on display here is astounding. Covers two subjects I'm interested in too. Superb x

That they title and pic are insane, never thought I’d see hitc sevens of all accounts talking about gom

For some completely unrelated reason I’m kinda liking Bayern Munich a bit more than I used to.

just to be clear that as a dortmund fan i still hate bayern just as much as i did before this video, but only because i never thought they were nazis to begin with, that’s stupid. now if you’ll excuse me, i’m gonna continue crying over last season and hating harry kane, thanks

Ehrenalfie! Good job, mate.

I'm sitting here watching this in my Bayern shirt, that I've had on all day. I love Bayern, and from the UK,. So thanks for this video. I love a club with a rich history

Landau might survived the Holocaust and became the president of Bayern München again but to live with the fact that all his family members were murdered was really hard :((

Proud to be a Bayern fan... Miasanmia❤

Great video 👏

Thank you for talking about the Sinti.

Never really followed the Bundesliga until this season, when Kane moving to Bayern made me jump on the bandwagon. Thank you for making me less ashamed of what’s now my favourite German club.

0:37-0:56 basically everyone your average 12 year old hates

I thought that Alfie would talk about Schalke 04 in that period, it was controversy

very good vid, wish the whole world could see it

Odd timing to be bringing up the Austrian painter....

Why Osama Bin Laden hated Al Nassr

Brilliant upload.

Excellent video. Bravo. Chapeau.

Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 558) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.

7 clubs that defied fascism/nazism? I would like to nominate my club Hajduk Split.

Excellent video!

I did chuckle at that thumbnail 😅👏🏼

I learnt this little tid bit on Wikipedia and my respect for Bayern Munchen soared to impossible heights

Class club, always has been, always will be. We could talk about Bayern's footballing successes all day, but what matters is, club is built on a healthy foundation and it remained that way till this day. Really can't understand how somebody can hate this institution, unless you are a Dortmund or 1859+1 fan.

🇧🇬 🇧🇬 🇧🇬 Day 15 - Alfie, please do a video on the pitiful situation the Bulgarian national football team is currently in. Here are a couple of points to give you an idea about what I'm talking about: - Currently, the team is in a streak of 8 winless games, at the bottom of its qualification group for the 2024 Euro, with no chances of qualifying, after losing to opponents such as Montenegro and Lithuania. - The team's last win was almost a year ago - on 16.11.2022 in a friendly against Cyprus. Our last win in an official match was more than a year ago - on 26.09.2022 against North Macedonia. - The national football team of Bulgaria has been constantly performing bad for at least the last 20 years. The last big tournament we played was the 2004 Euro in Portugal, where we were humiliated in the group stage. - Many supporters blame the current bosses of the Bulgarian Football Union for this downfall. The most notable of them are Borislav Mihaylov, Emil Kostadinov and Yordan Lechkov - 3 players who were part of the great 1994 WC team which reached the semi-finals of the tournament. Sadly, those people's success as players has been overshadowed by their lack of capability or willingness to resolve many of the problems in our football - the out-of-date training systems, the poor football infrastructure etc. What's worse is that they refuse to resign a failure after another and they have changed the rules of the union in a way that makes them irremovable for more than 18 years. - Recently a couple of players from the next generation - Dimitar Berbatov, Stiliyan Petrov and Martin Petrov started a campaign, trying to overthrow the aforementioned but as I said the rules are in the bosses' favour. - Meanwhile fans are getting really angry with the situation and are starting to take measures. During the last couple of weeks, at many matches of the First and Second Football Leagues the fans were chanting against Mihaylov and company and displayed banners against them. Of course, the BFU fined the clubs for "obscene chants and banners". - A campaign was started on social media, calling fans of all local clubs to put their differences aside and come to the Euro qualifier with Hungary on 16.11 and show their disapproval of the current BFU leaders. Later, the Bulgarian Football Union, citing commands from UEFA regarding safety, moved the match from the "Vasil Levski" stadium in Sofia to "Hristo Botev" in Plovdiv. And now the match will be played behind closed doors, because they’re scared of the protests. The fans, though, are still planning to attend the game and show their disapproval for the BFU, from around the stadium. More than 2500 Hungarian fans, who have already bought tickets for the game, are due to be compensated for their losses. Some of them, who had already reserved plane tickets and hotels, are planning to come over and join the protest though. That's the main points, I'm sure that if you dig a little you'll find much more. Please consider doing such a video, the anti-BFU sentiments are getting stronger and we need to disturb those self-serving ex-legends in every way possible. Thank you and keep up the good work!

Very interesting video I think the same with Barcelona and Franco could be amazing