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Who ruled Germany before Hitler? Weimar Republic (1918–1933)

The 'Most Violent Prisoner in Britain'

The Angels of Mons (WWI Legend)

How did this Convict escape Prison using Miso Soup? (Strange Stories)

Sikh Bayonet Charge Hero - Wipe out at Bum La Pass

Scary History Compilation Series 1

UNSTOPPABLE Chinese Soldier who Blocked a Machine Gun with his Body - Korean War

Viking Myths you thought were true!

An NVA soldier and his son hid in the jungle for 40 years thinking the Vietnam War was still ongoing

Battle of Mirbat (9 SAS Soldiers VS 300 Adoo Guerrillas)

Gun Loadouts used by the Worlds most Elite Units

The Russian Revolution (1917)

The Bodies used as Landmarks on Mt. Everest

Ridiculously Overpowered Weapons in History

Spartan Warriors began training at this age

Unique Bullets (Cross Section)

M1 Abrams Main battle tank

The Truth of the Salem Witch Trials

What simple invention ended the Wild West?

Why were soldiers wearing American Revolutionary Uniforms in the American Civil War?

History Mysteries YOU Can't Solve

Why did Soldiers use guns from home or captured weapons?

Boy Soldiers (World War I)

Handheld Shields (World War I)

The Dead Gunslinger Corpse used as a Movie Prop

The Unbelievable Lives of North Korea's Dictators

The Green Beret who went on a one man Rampage to save his Comrades

“The Incredibly Stupid One” (Stories from The Vietnam War)

Allied soldiers Crucified by Germans in WW1

Real Life GTA Moments in History

Weird Plague 'Cures' (The Black Death)

U.S. Soldier who Fought NVA Troops while High on Marijuana (Stories from The Vietnam War)

The Berlin Wall (1961-1989)

Taking a Mortar to the leg, this Marine kept fighting

D-Day (1944)

Life Under THE Most Evil Communist Regime - Khmer Rouge

These Soldiers wore Bicorn hats in World War II

Savage War Crimes

Brutal Moments of the Vietnam War

Medieval Weapons and Armor used in WW1

Sea Kamikaze (WWII Military Tactic)

Attack of the Dead Men (Strange Stories)

When Stalin Starved 4 Million Ukrainians

The Stolen Tank Rampage! (1995)

The 5 Largest Armies in the World

A Commando Revenge Mission, in Disguise as Women

How the Mafia and U.S. Military Collaborated in WWII

U.S Army CBRN-Last defense against Weapons of Mass Destruction

Fishing Boat VS N.Korean Submarine (South Korea 1998)

The Rules of war ALL Soldiers MUST OBEY

The Man Who Didn't Shoot Hitler (1918)

FP-45 Liberator (Throw away pistol)

Weird Camouflage in History

The Prisoners who Used Fake Heads to Escape Alcatraz

WWII Tanks: Sherman Tank

The Plague that made People Dance until they Dropped Dead

The Hindenburg Disaster (1937)

Shameless Copycat Guns in History

Hitler’s Personal Train: The Führersonderzug

The Cannibal Escape (Strange Stories)

Hull-Down Position (Military Tactic)

This Type of Bullet Caused an Entire Uprising!

The MIAS Mini Tank (Strangest Tanks in History)

Convicts Recruited into the Russian Army

How to survive the Wild West (1800s)

How did people try to ‘cure’ the Plague? (Flagellants)

The 4 Great Inventions that changed the world (China)

The Great Missouri Train Robbery (1874)

The 6 Year Old Red Army Lieutenant of WW2 (Youngest Soldier of the War)

Forbidden Actions that are Illegal in War

Scottish Black Watch (World War I)

Tunnel Rats (The Vietnam war)

Why do the British salute differently to the Americans?

Sloped armor: A simple feature that saved many lives

The Ancient Greek Olympics (776 BC-393 AD)

Gross Jobs in History you're glad you don't have to do

Periscope Rifles (Weird Tech)

The Rarest Guns of World War II

Life Inside a WW2 Panther Tank (Cross Section)

Char 2C Super Heavy Tank (Behemoth)

Useless Overweight Tanks of WW2

Vietcong Booby Traps

Goliath (World War II Robot)

Military Copycats who stole ideas from other countries

Big Brain Prison Escapes

The Hideous Habsburg Jaw

The President who avoided being eaten by cannibals in WWII

The Worst Betrayals in History

The Roman Legionaries (Elite Heavy Infantryman)

The Italian invasion of Abyssinia (1935-36)

Teenage Marine Jumps on 2 Grenades to save his Squad

Secret Cold War Gadgets

Creeping Barrage (Military Tactic)

The Americans that fought for Germany in World war II

Japan's Unlikely Allies in WW2

War for Profit: Private Militaries in History

The Battle of the Bulge (1944-45)

The US Marine who fought with a GUN made from 3 GUNS!

Terrible Moments from Each Generation

How Hygienic were People in the Past?

Mao's Little Red Book

B-17 Ball Turret Gunner (Dangerous Jobs in History)

What Killed more People than WWI in 1918?

Medieval Punishments

Punishments in the Congo Free State under Leopold II

The Defense of Fort Vaux (1916, World War I)

Thumbscrews (Horrible Punishments in History)

Panzer Crewman (World War II)

15 Improvised Weapons Inmates Built in Prison

Worst MREs - Meals Rejected by Everyone

What was inside this tunnel, that killed 520 passengers?

Drill Sergeant Training Techniques

The Samurai

Spetsnaz (Soviet Afghanistan war)

Korean People's Army Guards who Escaped North Korea

Weird Tanks in History

Nazi Rudolf Hess’s Mad Mission for Peace (Strange Stories of WWII)

Strange Soldier Superstitions

Salvo (Military Tactic)

Most Obese, Tallest and Shortest Soldiers in War

Strange Military Deaths

The Bullet that Started WWI

Battle for Pavlov's House (WWII)

Weird Russian Weapons in History

The GIANT Sioux Warrior of the Korean War

The WWII Japanese Soldier Who Didn’t Surrender Until 1974

Helmets in History

Gurkha (World War II)

Why were these 2 planes stuck together? (World War II)

The Mystery of the 9 Russian Hikers found Dead

How Tanks are Stolen in War

Last Ditch Axis Weapons

T-14 Armata Tank: Russia’s New Threat?

Impossible Prison Escapes

The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

Low I.Q. People Forced to Become Soldiers (Vietnam War)

The Most Terrifying Sounds in War

The Monk that Burned Himself to Death (The Vietnam war)

Did the T-34 Tank Win WW2?

How to Survive the Spanish Flu (1918-20)

Why was a Pig put on trial in Medieval Europe? (Strange History)

Simo Häyhä 'The White Death' (World’s Deadliest Sniper)

WWII Tanks: Tiger I - Heavy Tank

Overpowered Guns used to Cheat in Battle

Sanitäter German medic (World War II)

F.B.I. Hostage Rescue Teams (Domestic Delta)

Most Fearsome Warriors in History

The REBELLION that Destroyed Soviet Russia

Why you Must NOT Shoot Medics in War

Jobs in History Series #1

When a US Marine Survived a LIVE RPG in his Leg

Press Gangs (Impressment)

What is the FSB and why is it so Feared?

The Murders of Jack the Ripper

What Makes a Good Gun Design

Bizarre and Mysterious: Deaths Throughout History

How do Soldiers Stay Clean in Battle?

Life Inside a WWI A7V Tank (Cross Section)

What Really caused 'Gulf War Syndrome'?

The Grey Ghost of WW2 - USS Enterprise

The F-35 Jet - NATO's Super Weapon

Air Force One

Operation Rolling Thunder (1965 - 68)

The Iranian Embassy Siege (1980) Day 6 - The Assault

The Man Who Survived TWO Tactical Nukes (Strange Stories of World War II)

Strange Famous Deaths in History

Senegalese Tirailleurs (World War II)

Strange Military Traditions

Bro does Beer Run for his Buddies in Vietnam War

The Russian Sniper who killed 242 Enemy Soldiers

Rasputin, the man who wouldn't die (Strange Stories)

M1 Garand Rifle

Tanks! Monsters of the battlefield!

Rationing in WWII (British Homefront)

Imperial Japan's Lost Tiger Tank of WW2

[Censored Version] Iban Headhunters (Malay Crisis, 1948-60)

Secret Organisations of the West and East

Weird laws in History

Nazi Germany's Secret UFO in WW2

The Unluckiest Cat EVER!

The Irish Potato Famine (1845–1852)

Pope Urban II orders the First Crusade (1095)

ME 262 Jet Fighter

Churchill's Plan to Start World War 3 Using German Troops

St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929)

The Electrician who escaped the desert by turning his car into a motorbike

Carrier Pigeons (World War I)

Strange Deaths in History (20th Century)

The French Resistance (World War II)

Inhumane Punishments in History

The Dentist who Fought an Entire BANZAI Charge Single-handedly (1 Man vs 98)

Where does Halloween come from?

U.S. B-17 Bomber Crewman (World War II)

The Great Plague of London (1665-66)

An Interview with Napoleon - Documentary

The Secret Life under Kim Jong-il's North Korea

Bill Gates co-founder of Microsoft (1955 -)

Old WW1 Veterans who Kept Fighting in WW2

How the West Betrayed Czechoslovakia to Hitler (The Munich Agreement,1938)

7.5 cm Pak 40 Anti-tank gun (World War II)

Chimney Sweep / Climbing Boy (Worst Jobs in History)

Axis Punishments of WW2

Stolen Valor (Fake Soldiers)

The Soldier who threw himself onto a grenade (Heroic sacrifice)

Soldier's Mental Health After the War is Over

Was This Britain's Vietnam War? - The Malayan Emergency

Puritans (The Killjoys of History)

Amazing Cross Sections- WW1 Trench, WW1 Tank and Lancaster Bomber Plane

Why were Korean Soldiers so Feared in the Vietnam War ?

The Bataan Death March (1942)

The Space Shuttle

The Forgotten Stalingrad of Asia (WWII)

Infantry Weapons of WWI

Sentry Duty (World War I)

Tank Silencer (Weird Tech)

Janissary (Elite Ottoman Infantry Unit)

Stupid Things that Bored Soldiers Do

Hitler's Evil Lair in the German Mountains (The Eagle's Nest)

English Longbowman (Medieval Archer)

The Man who Fought with a Longbow and a Sword in WWII

WWII Factions: The Chinese Army

Strange Features found on Tanks

Real One Man Armies

Powerful Aircraft in History

Battle of Bunker Hill (The American Revolution)

De-Stalinization: The Secret speech (1956)

Soviet Young Pioneers (1922-91)

The Georgians (Weird Fashion)

How Brutal Were The British Prison Colonies?

WWII Factions: The Red Army

The Great Emu War, 1932 (Weird Wars)

Yuri Gagarin, First Human in Space (1961)

Schwerer Gustav - Rail Super Gun (Behemoth)

Dummy Tanks (Weird Tech WWII)

The Pilot who strapped Bazookas to his Plane (World War II)

The Fighter Ace who Downed 11 planes in a Single Day

The PIAT (Anti-tank weapon)

Life inside a M4 Sherman (Cross Section)

Who Would Have Replaced an Assassinated Hitler in 1943?

RAF Fighter Pilot (World War II)

The Rocket Launcher Scooter (Weird Tech)

Soldier who Defeated 32 Germans WITHOUT Bullets - Harlem Hell-fighters WW1

The German Officer who Died Saving the Enemy (WWII)

The President that Kept Reading a Speech after being Shot

British Stereotypes of World War II ☕

Sniper Decoys: Fake Horse and other Dummies

Helmet Graffiti in the Vietnam War

Italian Infantry Weapons of WWII

Absurd Stories from the Afghanistan War

Why YOU Wouldn't want to be the 10th Roman soldier!

SPP-1 Underwater Pistol (Cold War Tech)

WWI Tanks: A7V Tank

Why Barbers have a Pole outside their Shop

Unique uses for Guns

How clean were Medieval people?

Cursed Guns in History

U-2 Incident (1960)

U-Boats (World War II)

Savage Stanley of the Cruel Congo, Hero or zero?

WW2 Japanese Pilot vs 182 Hawaiian Islanders

Leonardo da Vinci's Flying Machines

What do Soldiers Eat

Deadly Teachers in History

The Blitz (1940-41)

The Phalanx CIWS - The US Navy's deadly R2D2

The Aztec Ballgame where the Losers were Sacrificed

WWII Factions: The Italian Army

Stahlhelm M1916 (World War I)

The AC130 that Could Land in a Small Soccer Stadium

The Soldier who fought in 3 Armies

King Leopold II & the Congo Free State (1885-1908)

Aztec Sacrifice

WWI Tanks: FT-17 Light Tank

Australian Penal Colonies

The B-21, America's Ultimate WW3 Deterrent

Mutually Assured Destruction (Cold War -)

WWII Factions: The U.S. Army

1 Million Subscribers Celebration

NATO (1949-)

Who is Putin?

Spring Heeled Jack (Strange Stories)

Russia's Assault on Ukraine

The Sports Hero Who Died a War Hero

Drunkard's Cloak (Weird Punishments in History)

The Resistance fighter who taunted “I shoot better!” at her Execution

Most Unfair Wars in History

Improvised Samurai Weapons: the Kiseru (Pipe)

Censorship in Nazi Germany

Sniper Shields (World War I)

Who were the Richest Tycoons in America?

Watch Towers

U.S. Infantry Weapons (Vietnam War)

The Actress kidnapped by Kim Jong il and forced to make movies (Strange Stories)

Who Killed William II? (Murder Mystery)

This U.S. Pilot shot Down an American plane and got the Kill, Why?

Erwin Rommel - The Desert Fox

Most Evil Dictators and What they Did

How did an Entire Battalion Vanish into Thin Air? (World War I)

Miserable History of Medicine

The Paratrooper who fought with an Umbrella and a Bowler Hat

The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius Pompeii DISASTER (79 A.D.)

The Biscari Massacre, U.S. War Crime (World War II)

Weird Weapons of the Vietnam War

The Falklands War (1982)

The British POW who returned to a German prison (Strange Stories)

The London Beer Flood of 1814 (Strange Stories)

Life inside a WW2 KV-1 Tank (Cross section)

How a Lone US Sub Destroyed Japan's Most Important Ship in WW2

WWII Factions: The British Army

The Ratte - The Biggest Tank Ever Designed

The Corinthian Helmet (Ancient Greece)

The Feared Korean Soldier: From KPOP to Spec Ops

The Jewish Teenager who hid in the German Army (Strange Stories of WWII)

Obese Soldiers in War

Trench Systems (Cross Section)

Life Inside the Vietcong Tunnels (Cross Section)

The Yakuza - Mafia of Japan

The Volkswagen Beetle and its Dark origins

The US Army & German Wehrmacht VS Waffen SS - Battle for Castle Itter 1945

Soldier who Overdosed on Meth in Combat (Strange Stories of World War II)

Gunslingers of the Wild West