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This vid is super well made. As an Italian myself it’s quite fascinating to see some similarities from the past still present today. Saddens me though each time I come visit my family here how the situation worsens in Italy. No work, crummy economy and not enough repopulation. I’d live here if it wasn’t so hard to make a living.
Again awesome work guys. Would miss you if you really ended to create youtube content. Do not remember an hour long video like this so far. The youth needs more education like this, instead of the tons of pointless 2 minute videos on youtube…
Please do Battle of Midway documentary
Germany sold (and lent?) rifles and anti-tank guns to the Ethiopian empire before the war. What about the successful invasion of British Somalia?
A great book to read about the italian expeditionary force in Russia is "The sergeant in the snow" it talks about the experience of an Italian mountaneer during the retreat in the Don river encirclement.
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Next WW2 from the Romanian perspective? Trapped between USSR and Nazi Germany must have been something.
5:30 "pacify" 😢😂, 9:30 as a hyena i was hugely offended
Mama-Mia! The Italians had it rough in the second World War. And only because Beta Putin existed!
Brazil and FEB referenced 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
My grandmother was living in Northern Italy during WW2 and tells the story of her older brothers, cousins, and uncles that would hide in the mountains and shoot down at Natzi soldiers after school.
People who are making the same jokes about Italy we have been hearing for years now in the comments, probably will never be mature enough to even understand the complexity of the Italian situation prior and during ww2. They probably didn't even watch the whole video. Aside from that, props to the armchairhistorian, it was a very all-round and insightful video
Damn Mussolini got pussywhipped even worse than people say.
Oh boy this is going to be good…
Do Romanian perspective
When I saw the thumbnail I thought Italy was Spiderman.
R.I.P DVX
1:01:32 oh that's where crosses grow, no soldier sleeps, and hell's 6 feet deep
You wrest control of territory from the enemy, you don't wrestle it.
why are all the men and boys hunched
Can we see both world wars from Croatian perpective?
Mussolini hated jews, and that was a driving force in his alliance with Germany & Spain
This has got to be one of the stupidest, silliest ‘history documentaries’ on yt
The British n Americans hated jews more than Italians
Just… silly.
Only a fool would find this informative
The list of assets of Italy during ww2 is so poor.
It's kinda like if, today, I see the Queen Elizabeth carrier of the British and I say: "that must be the only ship in the British Navy".
So superficial.
After having seen a third of the video I can say that you really fit in your channel name.
"Armchair Historian"… In Italian we use this expression to name those who are too lazy to do a proper job.
Curious how things fits so well while being totally casual, right? 🤣🤣🤣😌👌
Can you maybe do it with ANISSE?
the italian forces and troops were brave and skilled, it's just that the logistical problems and crappy leadership ruined them
At last historically accurate flags for Third Reich, yay.
idk how but i think ive allready seen this
I feel sorry for people that can't read Italian, they're missing out on some amazing dialogue
Please stop with the gaming and discord moments. It is really out of place in a history video. Good Production otherwise
Make a Romanian perspective please
There wasn’t the italian late war perspective in this vid… only allied perspective against german lines
It’s true that the Italian Army was logistically, technologically, and strategically flawed. Their leaders were atrocious. The Italian Navy had good ships and the Italian Air Force had good planes, but again leadership and logistics were poor. However, I believe that the biggest factor was that their forces were completely unmotivated. They were not cowards, but they just did not want to fight a war. They saw no point to it.
Had Mussolini stayed neutral, as Franco of Spain wisely did, he would have remained in power until he died of old age too.
Thank you for another excellent long form documentary. I love learning more about history through these. For the last several years, this channel and others have taught me a ton.
God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ 🙂
This guy is clearly lacking knowledge regarding European history
This is a reupload right?
Reminder that the BEF(Brazilian Expeditionary Force) fought extremely well at mount casino in montanous snow terrain depiste brazilians not being used to low temperatures in general. We also had a reputation of being generous and sharing most of our food with italian civilians. And, we also captured an entire german divison at the end of the campaign!
Before the War Italy own what is now Libya.
Nobody knew Libya had lots of oil until 1959 that was 14 years after the war.
For Sale
Italian ww2 rifle, never fired and only dropped once.
Almost 200k views as of now and only 8k likes…. You guys deserve so much more credit than given, thank you for the passion you and your team put into these videos!
Really good documentary,should’ve mentioned the axis counterattack at gela though
Mama mia
I think they should've just tried to buy Tunisia and stuck with what they got. Maybe took greek stuff. Maybe took turkey and Yugoslavia? Just minimal stuff compared to what they wanted. Their dream was impossible. Just like if Germany stopped at Poland. More than enough land and people. If they had just chilled and hung out, they would've been more successful. Going for France was just too damn much. Maybe taking the Nederlands was way too much.