You have to pay close attention to the screen when it says Alois married his cousin Klara because in small print at the bottom it says *"cousin by marriage, not blood"*
@@icel8828 It was still scandalous and embarrassing, even back then in 19th century Germany-Austria. Which is why Alois moved the family around so much. But truth is more important than comedy. Especially when it comes to gigantic worldchanging figures of history like Adolf Hitler and WW2
I love how Chris made it a point to mention he wasn't rejected by the school in Vienna so he's not going to start a world war. I mean thank goodness xD
I feel that the harsh conditions resulting from the treaty of Versailles really left the population vulnerable to populism. They were hurt, desperate, hungry... and Hitler offered hope of improvement. The humane treatment of the population of both Japan and Germany following WWII protected them from another Hitler
Throw in the incapacitation of US President Woodrow Wilson, Congress' failure to ratify the League of Nations, and a shift to the Harding administration and the pursuit of a more isolationist American foreign policy, and the stage was set for a German nationalist movement hellbent on exacting revenge. I agree that the Marshall Plan is what truly helped prevent another "hot" war in Europe. The fact that the US also wrote the Japanese Constitution, forced it to be ratified, and prevented the Japanese from having an external military presence, did much to prevent a reoccurrence of aggression too. Of course one also needs to consider how many military bases the USA maintained - and still maintains - in other countries.
The problem with saying Versailles was harsh is that Germany set the precedent. Look at what Germany imposed on Russia at the treaty of Brest-Litovsk in Early 1918, Versailles was not nearly as bad as what Germany did to Russia. One part of the issue was the stab in the back myth, the war never reached German soil which both French and American Generals warned at the time would allow some Germans to claim they weren't truly beaten.
@@corvinredacted u mean the guy that already has 2 assassination attempts on him? the guy that also had already been president for four years and didn't do anything u guys feared he would do?
@xaevius5319 Hitler survived multiple assassination attempts, so I don't see your point. Also, Trump's four years ended with him telling blatant lies about a stolen election and inciting a violent, insurrectionist mob of his supporters to storm the capital and attempt to illegally overturn a democratic election by force and install him as an unelected ruler. The only reason he "hasn't done anything" (debatable, btw) is because he hasn't succeeded yet. Well, Hitler and his loyalists had a failed coup attempt first, too. Even after the coup attempt he managed to convince people that, yeah, he was a bit extreme at times with the anger, and sure, he was a huge bigot, but Germany just really needed the economic and immigration reform he claimed to offer, so it was the lesser of two evils to put him into power. After all, it's not like he was actually allowed to go full-on fascist with the government... Nobody would ever really allow that... Right?
Cemetery is where people are buried. A crematorium is where bodies are cremated (burned). Ashes from the cremated body, in an urn, can be interned at a cemetary.
Just a note, it is "interred," not "interned." Interred is from the Latin, "in terra," or, "in ground," while having interned means having held an often unpaid position as an intern, from the Latin, "internus," from which we also get "internal,"as in organs. It's an easy mistake to make, and for all I know, it was stupid autocorrect.
Cemetery and graveyard are often used interchangably. While it is true, as they're both burial places. There's some difference. Graveyards are typically lots either run by, or adjacent to a church. Those buried there are typically members of that church, or demonination. Cemeteries are their own entity, either being privately owned, or publicly open, tracts of land for everyone for burial. Like the Department of Veterans Affairs, they operate the national cemeteries in the United States. The VA is run by the Federal Government, and not a religious organization, so those buried in National Cemeteries are military veterans and their spouses.
22:07 Sounds familiar. Not to that extreme but sounds like the U.S. right now. If you speak up against the opposition, you get cancelled and get beatin into submission
I mean, who's "the opposition" here? Because it's Trump's cult that threw fits and tried to tank one of their favorite beer companies over an advertising deal with one trans influencer. And it's Trump who's literally stated several times over the last four years that if re-elected, he'll be prosecuting and imprisoning his political rivals and anyone in the media who was "unkind" to him. And who turns the ire of his followers at foreigners (From non-European nations.) and "an even more evil enemy within." Hell, his group's even super scared of "the socialists/communists!" And convinced anyone not of them is one.
I have another note to add, you did a very good job in this video with your comments. I know a lot about WW I and WW II, and I have to agree with all of your comments about what happened, and how the aftermath of WW I created WW II in Europe. The reparations of WW I had a lot to do with creating WW II. It took the US, at the end of WW II, that forced the rebuilding of Western Germany and much of the war torn European countries outside of the Eastern Block. The US did the same thing with Japan, again, not issuing reparations. The US had little to do with Europe after WW I, partially due to the fact that the US government did not ratify the League of Nations, recognizing the the Treaty of Versailles was a war declaration in the making. Nice video, and Oversimplified video ARE great to react to, and are quite educational as well.
Cemetery is a "graveyard" not on church grounds and not usually in consecrated soil. A graveyard is a burial place on church grounds, normally in consecrated soil. A crematorium is where they cremate your body (if that's what you want) and you can be buried in either of the above.
William Patrick Hitler was the illegitimate son of Alois Hitler, older brother of Adolf. Alois Hitler had spent some time in England and married a local woman, fathered a child with her, later abandoning her to return to Germany. he fathered other children in Germany so William Patrick Hitler had at least one other brother, who if memory serve me, fought and died on the eastern front. William Patrick came to Germany and Hitler got him a job, later he returned to Britain then he and his mother emigrated to the USA where he enlisted in the Navy.
Reminds me of one of my favorite Eddie Izzard skits, when he talks about Hitler being a vegetarian painter. "I cannot...paint these trees right.. its just not looking.. DAMN! I VILL KILL EVERYONE IN DA VORLD!"
The difference between a graveyard and a cemetery is where they are located. A graveyard is one that is attached to a Church, and a cemetery is a free standing location. That's the only difference, and we use the terms interchangably here in the US
Actually, a graveyard is a more generic term, whereas a cemetery has a specific affiliation, such as either a church or an organization. My family members, for instance, are all buried in St. John the Baptist Cemetery. And just about a mile from here is IOOF Cemetery, which is affiliated with an organization called Odd Fellows.
As an American, I feel just a little bit smarter now. I knew almost nothing about what was in this video. I hope you do more of these. Heck, I'm an American because of Hilter, it's good to have a better understanding of what happened.
You should watch a series called The Greatest Story Never Told if you wish to learn more. TH-cam cannot give you the knowledge that you need, for it is a controlled platform.
how did you not know this? It is taught in world history. or was that just my generation because our parents were IN that war. How did you think we so quickly recognized what Trump was doing? how why the alarm has been ringing since 2015. We saw some of the same patterns emerge. It didn't help that Fred Trump was a part of the leadership of the KKK when Trump was a kid. I don't understand how so many Americans didn't know this stuff. Trump was in the news all the time during my most of my Adult life - including all the rumors about his dad buying his way through school. Maybe I know because Trump is only 13 years older than me.
@@catlady443 I don't like that you took an innocent post appreciating this video, to spread misinformation about Trump. I'm probably about 10 years younger than you. I don't like you making the assumption that I'm a ignorant child. Just had a less than stellar education.
@@Listentotheread - I had a phenomenal world history teacher in 10th grade (1988-1989) and we covered all of this history. Watching Trump ride a wave of nationalism into office, it's hard not to see the similarities. You're better than everyone else. Check. The current political leaders are all to blame and they've sold you out - even your own party (RINOs). Check. Government is the source of all your problems but my government will fix it all - even if I have to be a dictator from day one. Check. The immigrants and asylum seekers are the reason for your not doing well financially. Check. Hitler said Germans were better than everyone else, blamed existing government leaders and said that the government has failed the Germans. He also blamed Jews - a minority group that adhered to different customs and spoke a different language (or languages). Sounds very similar to Trump's rhetoric.
If you really care about analyzing a person's psychologic development during childhood, it follows a pattern. Don't treat your kids like garbage, we wouldnt have this kind of adult monsters then.
@@fingal113Modern neuroscience research suggests that nature and nurture interact in a continuous feedback loop that shapes the brain's physical structure
That was the reason America helped rebuild Japan and Germany. We knew how Germany was treated after WW1 and wanted to make sure no bad feelings were left.
It also let us control how kids were educated in school. Which was pretty important to rebooting the culture in both countries. And we also banned a lot of people from government posts for a long time to reduce their power and influence as well. This only works with countries that must surrender unconditionally.
And both Germany and Japan were astonished at the gracious terms the US granted them after the war. Basically "don't be warring, but we'd love to trade with you". The US could have very easily-- and very traditionally-- taken everything they wanted from both.
Germany was not treated badly after World War I. The Germans started the War (Belgium did not invade Germany), why should they not help pay to repair the damage done? Large areas of Europe were in ruin after the War such as northern France. Germany was largely untouched. And look at the peace agreements Germany imposed on other countries: France (1871), Serbia, Romania (1918), and Russia (1918). They were all far worse than Versailles.
We had an obligation to mend the holes in the world economy. Yes an obligation to patch the piggy bank... and the opportunity to dictate the terms to the former aggressors... bad feelings indeed!
My grandfather also fought in WW1 as a member of the German Army, in both Verdun and in the East. He also was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class, which I now have. He and his wife emigrated to the US in 1923. He gave me some of the paper money that he brought with him, one is for 10 Million Marks, which was worth next to nothing.
I LOVE OverSimplified! OverSimplified is one of my FAVORITE TH-cam channels! Continue reacting to OverSImplified videos! I want to know the German Perspective.!
Thanks for posting this video, Chris - as an American, it was new and interesting to have your input as a young German of everything that led up to WWII. Very helpful to better understand the mindset of why it happened the way that it did. I now see more similarities happening with dictators today, Putin, Kim, etc.
i love germans. they know and teach all their history including their ugly parts, like we americans do. the japanese dont though. im pretty bitter about it. my great grandpa was a pow in germany in 1945 and he was treated well. my great uncle his brother fought the japanese , and he was killed in a manchurian prison camp. the leader of the camp was tried for warcrimes and hung.
America still defends its decision to imprison all Japanese and Japanese Americans during WW2 and has refused to apologize. They also barely talk about it in schools or don't talk about it at all. All German students are brought to tour the concentration camps so they never repeat their actions. I'd say Germany has the high ground on this one.
From wikipedia: "In 1876, four years before separating from Anna, he had hired Klara Pölzl as a household servant. She was the 16-year-old granddaughter of his step-uncle Nepomuk (who may also have been his biological father or uncle)." So it's not clear if Alois and Klara were biologically related. They may or may not have been.
@nooneofconsequence1251 This is a complete truism. If Klaras grandfather (Alois' uncle by marriage) turned out to also be Alois actual father, that would make Alois Klaras uncle. If Klaras grandfather was actually Alois' uncle, that would make her his first cousin once removed (the daughter of his 1st cousin) Either way, she'd be far, far more closely related than everyone on Earth. Any more completely irrelevant points you'd like to make? Edit: and while everyone on Earth is related were talking about 6th and 7th cousins PLUS. Anything more distant than 3rd cousins and the two people might as well not be related at all. If Klaras grandfather was a biological relative of Alois of any degree of closeness, then Klara and Alois are going to be pretty damn related. Far fucking more than if you plucked two random people from Western Europe amd gave them a DNA test.
@jasonmain6398 not sure. Don't see why they would need to, though, because from what I saw their biological relatedness is not confirmed. Is/was dispensation required for legal relatedness?
@@Boog1137 Yes it was for second and first cousins. It's been a long time and my source is a secondary source so I'm not super confident in it. But I believe I'm quoting Ian Kershaw's Hitler volume 1.
Love your work Chris, do you travel much in Europe? Here is a joke for you: Chris goes to France and has to go through customs for visa check French official : Name? Chris: Chris French official: Nationality? Chris: German French official: Occupation? Chris: No, just visiting this time.
I am an American. Although we tend to have cultural differences with Europe, it's not hard to look back and see that the Treaty of Versailles was little more than a forced unconditional surrender. It was solely punitive and did not serve to heal wounds or to make it possible to rebuild into a productive status. As bad as WWII was, that treaty learned from the mistakes of WWI and Germany (at least West Germany) benefited and grew not only productive, but and ally within Europe as a whole. This would be essential during the cold war, and the US made a lot of effort to render aid to East Germany until the USSR completely cut them off. As I understand it that section of Germany is still - different isn't exactly the word - than the rest of Germany even though the end of the USSR and the fall of the Berlin wall reunited the former East Germany. One of my favorite computers as a late teen (during the cold war) was the Commodore 64, and (West) Germany produced a great many for European distribution.
Solely punitive .. well no. It was certainly very punitive. And the strategy behind it was not a good one. They wanted to cripple Germany from ever reasserting any imperial ambitions. Oh, the irony.
Most young Americans don't have a clue. Older Americans who knew people that were involved with the war tend to have more knowledge about the facts of the war.
During WW2, my Mom worked at Fort Sheridan, just north of Chicago. She told stories about all the German POWs who were there. Most of them had jobs outside of the Fort and only had to return at night. They received wages, albeit at a lesser wage. Mom talked about how after the war, most of the POWs wanted to stay in the US, since they didn’t want to return to what was left of Germany. Also, there is/was a huge German population in Chicago and in Milwaukee. If those POWs had a good record, they were allowed to stay.
With that little quip about being accepted at your school, I quite literally burnt myself by spilling out my coffee while laughing so hard. Whoever said that Germans were humorless were clearly lying. It has been a good long while since I cried laughing. Thank you, good sir.
Hey bro. Just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy hearing your perspective on the history. I look forward to seeing your future subjects. I’m in Albuquerque New Mexico. You’ve got fans worldwide!!!
Oversimplified is a great channel. I’ve tried to understand the Napoleonic wars for years, and now I get it. My German GGGreat Grandfather fought at Waterloo and fled Germany after. WWI and WWII were the same war with a piece in between. The treaty of Versailles flat out caused WWII. The Allies, the French in particular, spanked the Germans way to hard. The first war was a falling of alliance dominos. Things just snowballed and no one stopped to look around and take a breath.
Graveyards are typically on church grounds, cemeteries don't normally have a specific religion. Crematoriums are where you would send somebody to get cremated
I already knew all of this but that's because PBS (Public Broadcasting System) has great documentaries and quite often I'd watch Documentaries with my father.
Hi Chris, before WW1, Hitler dodged the draft, moving to England, and living with his half-brother. He returned to Germany and later enlisted when WW1 broke out. The highest rank he achieved was corporal. He served as a messenger, a job so dangerous that they sent five soldiers, each with the same message, to insure it got through. He was awarded the Iron Cross first class twice, something almost unheard of for a corporal, each time on the recommendation of a high ranking officer. Both of them were Jewish, as was his beloved family physician. He finally got wounded, and it was during his long convalescence that he began his long-winded preaching on political issues, talking to his fellow patients. By no means was Hitler unusual in his antisemitism. Dislike of Jews was longstanding, and very common in the German people. He was preaching to the choir! He used antisemitism as a tool to further his ideas on political and social change. I really like Oversimplified. They cover important issues in s fairly accurate and entertaining format. You should do the one on the U.S. Civil War. It's pretty good.
The story he lived in England has been debunked. It comes from his sister in laws post war book. There are records of his residence in Austria and Bavaria on the dates she claimed he was in England.
And not just in germany, it was decently popular in a lot of places. He even modeled some of his stuff after the US. Even they were not free of antisemitism and racism (and to a degree still aren't)
Chris, you are my #1 pick to sit and watch videos with. Between your reactions and insightful questions (and my ability to answer most of them), it would be lots of fun --especially if we had good snacks. 😺
For even more insight. A Grave Yard is specifically one attached a church. Hence the name Grave yard. A Cemetery is a place to bury the dead, that is not attached to a church. However in modern English at least here in America, Cemetery is usually the go to for any place that they bury the dead.
Yep! The Treaty of Versailles was certainly a "motivation" for Germany, but the "allies" were stupid not to recognize the "winds of war " coming down the road!
um, I think collectively their crystal balls weren't working well. Partly as they had problems of their own. Russia had had a resolutely. France and Britain were struggling with the effects of the Great Depression and the loses of the WW1. Italy also had a bit of a crisis going on. have I missed any other allies?
@@lorrainemoynehan6791the US was dealing with the affects of the depression and also the affects of the dust bowl. There was a lot of issues in the world, so it makes sense that no one noticed until the wheels were fully in motion.
I really appreciate your perspective on this. As an American student, I studied the very broad history of Hilter’s rise and WWII. None of the details that you have seem to have studied. Thank you!!
Most of history, you can't marry a 1st cousin. Most of history, you can marry your 2nd (or 1st cousin Once Removed). Remember, in European villages, everyone was related to everyone else for a thousand years. So 2nd cousins marriages were common. Oddly, DNA verifies the importance of not marrying close relations. Level after level of marrying a 2nd cousin is also bad, but one now and then only slightly increases the risk of damaged babies. However, the ruling classes from the earliest known kingdoms, through the Egyptians, and the first two thousand years of the common era, royals married royals and that gets dicey pretty quickly. Queen Victoria is also known as the Grandmother of Royal Europe as so many of her grandchildren married into the other royal families. This is why Charles marrying Diana and William marrying Kate is so refreshing, literally, for their bloodlines.
"Cemetery" and "graveyard" continue the proud English tradition of having two completely different words taken from two other languages for the same thing. "Cemetery" is derived from a Greek word, while "graveyard" has Germanic roots.
Slightly different meanings too. Graveyard is a burial ground in the enclosure of church grounds, a cemetery is a burial ground independent of the presence of a church.
The cemetery is another word for graveyard. The place where they “burn” people is called a “crematorium”, pronounced “cream-atorium”. Also, there is a special word in English for when we burn a dead body into ashes - the related “cremate/cremation”. So in English, you would say “the body was cremated at the crematorium”, bearing in mind the letter E is pronounced actually like the German letter i.
5:12 Mild distinction. Graveyards are affiliated with Churches or something like that whereas a Cemetery is just any old burial ground. Most people don't care about that. Crematoriums are where bodies are burned up
I wouldn't say the American education system is genius; however some segments in some regions gave us a more in depth education than others. I for one had absolutely AMAZING World History and US History teachers. A lot of the details you added are items I remember vividly from World History (it was a 2 year history course so we could have time for details about major world events) - we even did class projects around the fact of, simulating actions post WW1 - how with the knowledge of what happened could we have attempted to prevent WW2 - and thus have the mindset to hopefully prevent a future WW3. That same mindset actually had our Model UN club win some state awards in different committees. So yup, some of us Americans, we did pay attention and to this day try to keep the needle nudged to freedom and away from megalomania, fascism, authoritarianism and aggressive war (defensive war - that is a whole different level of topic).
A graveyard is an independent burial ground, a cemetery is on church or religious grounds, and a crematory is the place where people are cremated but not buried.
Hi Chris, I really liked your comments in the video. 😊 It's nice to get a Germany's perspective. As for what I was taught in school about Hitler, my school taught about Hitler's family background and about Adolf's creepy love for his half-niece, Geli. 😧
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You have to pay close attention to the screen when it says Alois married his cousin Klara because in small print at the bottom it says *"cousin by marriage, not blood"*
That ruins the fun of saying “hitler was the result of inbreeding”
Ah that’s not as hot then
It has been common for centuries to marry a cousin until recently.
@@Lili-xq9sn. It's still being done in the middle east.
@@icel8828 It was still scandalous and embarrassing, even back then in 19th century Germany-Austria. Which is why Alois moved the family around so much. But truth is more important than comedy. Especially when it comes to gigantic worldchanging figures of history like Adolf Hitler and WW2
That joke about you getting accepted into university was hilarious 😂
I love how Chris made it a point to mention he wasn't rejected by the school in Vienna so he's not going to start a world war. I mean thank goodness xD
I feel that the harsh conditions resulting from the treaty of Versailles really left the population vulnerable to populism. They were hurt, desperate, hungry... and Hitler offered hope of improvement.
The humane treatment of the population of both Japan and Germany following WWII protected them from another Hitler
The treaty surely had an impact.
Throw in the incapacitation of US President Woodrow Wilson, Congress' failure to ratify the League of Nations, and a shift to the Harding administration and the pursuit of a more isolationist American foreign policy, and the stage was set for a German nationalist movement hellbent on exacting revenge.
I agree that the Marshall Plan is what truly helped prevent another "hot" war in Europe. The fact that the US also wrote the Japanese Constitution, forced it to be ratified, and prevented the Japanese from having an external military presence, did much to prevent a reoccurrence of aggression too.
Of course one also needs to consider how many military bases the USA maintained - and still maintains - in other countries.
The problem with saying Versailles was harsh is that Germany set the precedent. Look at what Germany imposed on Russia at the treaty of Brest-Litovsk in Early 1918, Versailles was not nearly as bad as what Germany did to Russia. One part of the issue was the stab in the back myth, the war never reached German soil which both French and American Generals warned at the time would allow some Germans to claim they weren't truly beaten.
Actually many Americans have a detailed knowledge of what happened. Many are feafull it can happen here and others are hoping.
Watching this as an American living in the age of Trump and MAGAism is extremely unsettling.
@@corvinredacted u mean the guy that already has 2 assassination attempts on him? the guy that also had already been president for four years and didn't do anything u guys feared he would do?
@xaevius5319 Hitler survived multiple assassination attempts, so I don't see your point. Also, Trump's four years ended with him telling blatant lies about a stolen election and inciting a violent, insurrectionist mob of his supporters to storm the capital and attempt to illegally overturn a democratic election by force and install him as an unelected ruler. The only reason he "hasn't done anything" (debatable, btw) is because he hasn't succeeded yet. Well, Hitler and his loyalists had a failed coup attempt first, too. Even after the coup attempt he managed to convince people that, yeah, he was a bit extreme at times with the anger, and sure, he was a huge bigot, but Germany just really needed the economic and immigration reform he claimed to offer, so it was the lesser of two evils to put him into power. After all, it's not like he was actually allowed to go full-on fascist with the government... Nobody would ever really allow that... Right?
I really appreciate your adding context to the video.
Cemetery is where people are buried. A crematorium is where bodies are cremated (burned). Ashes from the cremated body, in an urn, can be interned at a cemetary.
A crematorium is sometimes called a crematory, which is probably where the confusion came from.
And a creamery is something altogether different.
@@DG-kq8zf i think I've seen that movie
Just a note, it is "interred," not "interned." Interred is from the Latin, "in terra," or, "in ground," while having interned means having held an often unpaid position as an intern, from the Latin, "internus," from which we also get "internal,"as in organs. It's an easy mistake to make, and for all I know, it was stupid autocorrect.
Cemetery and graveyard are often used interchangably. While it is true, as they're both burial places. There's some difference. Graveyards are typically lots either run by, or adjacent to a church. Those buried there are typically members of that church, or demonination.
Cemeteries are their own entity, either being privately owned, or publicly open, tracts of land for everyone for burial. Like the Department of Veterans Affairs, they operate the national cemeteries in the United States. The VA is run by the Federal Government, and not a religious organization, so those buried in National Cemeteries are military veterans and their spouses.
If you started a movie reaction channel I'd totally watch it... especially comedies.
22:07 Sounds familiar. Not to that extreme but sounds like the U.S. right now. If you speak up against the opposition, you get cancelled and get beatin into submission
Not the place. Keep it to yourself.
@@jcruz4759 Thank you for proving my point
I mean, who's "the opposition" here? Because it's Trump's cult that threw fits and tried to tank one of their favorite beer companies over an advertising deal with one trans influencer. And it's Trump who's literally stated several times over the last four years that if re-elected, he'll be prosecuting and imprisoning his political rivals and anyone in the media who was "unkind" to him. And who turns the ire of his followers at foreigners (From non-European nations.) and "an even more evil enemy within."
Hell, his group's even super scared of "the socialists/communists!" And convinced anyone not of them is one.
I have another note to add, you did a very good job in this video with your comments. I know a lot about WW I and WW II, and I have to agree with all of your comments about what happened, and how the aftermath of WW I created WW II in Europe. The reparations of WW I had a lot to do with creating WW II. It took the US, at the end of WW II, that forced the rebuilding of Western Germany and much of the war torn European countries outside of the Eastern Block. The US did the same thing with Japan, again, not issuing reparations. The US had little to do with Europe after WW I, partially due to the fact that the US government did not ratify the League of Nations, recognizing the the Treaty of Versailles was a war declaration in the making. Nice video, and Oversimplified video ARE great to react to, and are quite educational as well.
Eastern Europe was sold to Stalin for nothing….plus a big bonus…Kaliningrad …Kaliningrad,the tool for Putin to keep nuclear weapons against Europe.
Cemetery is a "graveyard" not on church grounds and not usually in consecrated soil.
A graveyard is a burial place on church grounds, normally in consecrated soil.
A crematorium is where they cremate your body (if that's what you want) and you can be buried in either of the above.
It is so interesting to get your perspective.
Oh my gosh! I just thought you reacting to the mini series Band of Brothers would be amazing!
Fun fact. Hitler's nephew, William Patrick Hitler (later William Patrick Stuart-Houston) was in ww2 as a US Navy hospital corpsman.
William Patrick Hitler was the illegitimate son of Alois Hitler, older brother of Adolf. Alois Hitler had spent some time in England and married a local woman, fathered a child with her, later abandoning her to return to Germany. he fathered other children in Germany so William Patrick Hitler had at least one other brother, who if memory serve me, fought and died on the eastern front. William Patrick came to Germany and Hitler got him a job, later he returned to Britain then he and his mother emigrated to the USA where he enlisted in the Navy.
My brother knew a guy in dentistry school at UofM and apparently his grandfather was a servant for Hitler at the Berghof.
@@Asmr_Ornek My grandfather was Hitler's pool man.
@@RadRat1138 that's wild, how did you find that out?
Surprise, there are us Austrians here in America! Been here for a long time. Shocker, I know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Reminds me of one of my favorite Eddie Izzard skits, when he talks about Hitler being a vegetarian painter. "I cannot...paint these trees right.. its just not looking.. DAMN! I VILL KILL EVERYONE IN DA VORLD!"
I appreciate you explaining certain things during your videos- Thank you 😎🌴
The difference between a graveyard and a cemetery is where they are located. A graveyard is one that is attached to a Church, and a cemetery is a free standing location. That's the only difference, and we use the terms interchangably here in the US
Actually, a graveyard is a more generic term, whereas a cemetery has a specific affiliation, such as either a church or an organization. My family members, for instance, are all buried in St. John the Baptist Cemetery. And just about a mile from here is IOOF Cemetery, which is affiliated with an organization called Odd Fellows.
As an American, I feel just a little bit smarter now. I knew almost nothing about what was in this video. I hope you do more of these. Heck, I'm an American because of Hilter, it's good to have a better understanding of what happened.
You should watch a series called The Greatest Story Never Told if you wish to learn more. TH-cam cannot give you the knowledge that you need, for it is a controlled platform.
how did you not know this? It is taught in world history. or was that just my generation because our parents were IN that war. How did you think we so quickly recognized what Trump was doing? how why the alarm has been ringing since 2015. We saw some of the same patterns emerge. It didn't help that Fred Trump was a part of the leadership of the KKK when Trump was a kid. I don't understand how so many Americans didn't know this stuff. Trump was in the news all the time during my most of my Adult life - including all the rumors about his dad buying his way through school. Maybe I know because Trump is only 13 years older than me.
@@catlady443 I don't like that you took an innocent post appreciating this video, to spread misinformation about Trump. I'm probably about 10 years younger than you. I don't like you making the assumption that I'm a ignorant child. Just had a less than stellar education.
@@Listentotheread - I had a phenomenal world history teacher in 10th grade (1988-1989) and we covered all of this history. Watching Trump ride a wave of nationalism into office, it's hard not to see the similarities. You're better than everyone else. Check. The current political leaders are all to blame and they've sold you out - even your own party (RINOs). Check. Government is the source of all your problems but my government will fix it all - even if I have to be a dictator from day one. Check. The immigrants and asylum seekers are the reason for your not doing well financially. Check.
Hitler said Germans were better than everyone else, blamed existing government leaders and said that the government has failed the Germans. He also blamed Jews - a minority group that adhered to different customs and spoke a different language (or languages). Sounds very similar to Trump's rhetoric.
If you really care about analyzing a person's psychologic development during childhood, it follows a pattern. Don't treat your kids like garbage, we wouldnt have this kind of adult monsters then.
hello, We have one right now.
Not true, but they would be a lot less common.
are you familiar with the psychological term "nature vs nurture"?
@@fingal113Modern neuroscience research suggests that nature and nurture interact in a continuous feedback loop that shapes the brain's physical structure
That was the reason America helped rebuild Japan and Germany. We knew how Germany was treated after WW1 and wanted to make sure no bad feelings were left.
It also let us control how kids were educated in school. Which was pretty important to rebooting the culture in both countries. And we also banned a lot of people from government posts for a long time to reduce their power and influence as well. This only works with countries that must surrender unconditionally.
And we wanted a bulwark against Stalin's conquests.
And both Germany and Japan were astonished at the gracious terms the US granted them after the war. Basically "don't be warring, but we'd love to trade with you".
The US could have very easily-- and very traditionally-- taken everything they wanted from both.
Germany was not treated badly after World War I. The Germans started the War (Belgium did not invade Germany), why should they not help pay to repair the damage done? Large areas of Europe were in ruin after the War such as northern France. Germany was largely untouched. And look at the peace agreements Germany imposed on other countries: France (1871), Serbia, Romania (1918), and Russia (1918). They were all far worse than Versailles.
We had an obligation to mend the holes in the world economy. Yes an obligation to patch the piggy bank... and the opportunity to dictate the terms to the former aggressors... bad feelings indeed!
Great reaction Chris. Keep up the good work young man.
My grandfather also fought in WW1 as a member of the German Army, in both Verdun and in the East. He also was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class, which I now have. He and his wife emigrated to the US in 1923. He gave me some of the paper money that he brought with him, one is for 10 Million Marks, which was worth next to nothing.
The oversimplified channel is so easy to get sucked into... so much good content. It is great to see your reaction to it.
-Is there any football on TV tonight?
-Yes. Austria, Hungary.
-Against whom?
I LOVE OverSimplified! OverSimplified is one of my FAVORITE TH-cam channels! Continue reacting to OverSImplified videos! I want to know the German Perspective.!
Thanks for posting this video, Chris - as an American, it was new and interesting to have your input as a young German of everything that led up to WWII. Very helpful to better understand the mindset of why it happened the way that it did. I now see more similarities happening with dictators today, Putin, Kim, etc.
I see chilling similarities to current American politics
@@m3li55a5 I feel like vomiting watching this and seeing parallels here in U.S.
I enjoyed your video very much. I knew most of the facts, but your added comments give more depth to the history. Thank you.
i love germans. they know and teach all their history including their ugly parts, like we americans do. the japanese dont though. im pretty bitter about it. my great grandpa was a pow in germany in 1945 and he was treated well. my great uncle his brother fought the japanese , and he was killed in a manchurian prison camp. the leader of the camp was tried for warcrimes and hung.
americans do not teach true history
"Like we Americans do" - hooboy.
Remember that Texas schoolboard textbook that described the West African Slave Trade victims as "Immigrant workers"?
@@finncullen I was about to say the same thing. Historically yeah, but recently the winds been a-changin' scarily.
America still defends its decision to imprison all Japanese and Japanese Americans during WW2 and has refused to apologize. They also barely talk about it in schools or don't talk about it at all. All German students are brought to tour the concentration camps so they never repeat their actions. I'd say Germany has the high ground on this one.
@@finncullen wym? we are taught slavery, warcrimes, all that shit. what are you smoking kid?
Society is always 3 meals away from collapse. A government needs to keep people fed and entertained and they can do anything they want.
Bread and circus
@@richardlandrum1966 Hail Ceasar.
BTW the English word you were looking for at 8:45 was "starving".
From wikipedia:
"In 1876, four years before separating from Anna, he had hired Klara Pölzl as a household servant. She was the 16-year-old granddaughter of his step-uncle Nepomuk (who may also have been his biological father or uncle)."
So it's not clear if Alois and Klara were biologically related. They may or may not have been.
Literally everyone on Earth is biologically related. It's unclear if she was his 1st or 2nd cousin or more distantly related.
@nooneofconsequence1251 This is a complete truism. If Klaras grandfather (Alois' uncle by marriage) turned out to also be Alois actual father, that would make Alois Klaras uncle. If Klaras grandfather was actually Alois' uncle, that would make her his first cousin once removed (the daughter of his 1st cousin)
Either way, she'd be far, far more closely related than everyone on Earth. Any more completely irrelevant points you'd like to make?
Edit: and while everyone on Earth is related were talking about 6th and 7th cousins PLUS. Anything more distant than 3rd cousins and the two people might as well not be related at all. If Klaras grandfather was a biological relative of Alois of any degree of closeness, then Klara and Alois are going to be pretty damn related. Far fucking more than if you plucked two random people from Western Europe amd gave them a DNA test.
I'm pretty sure they had to get dispensation from the Catholic church because they were at least second cousins
@jasonmain6398 not sure. Don't see why they would need to, though, because from what I saw their biological relatedness is not confirmed. Is/was dispensation required for legal relatedness?
@@Boog1137 Yes it was for second and first cousins. It's been a long time and my source is a secondary source so I'm not super confident in it. But I believe I'm quoting Ian Kershaw's Hitler volume 1.
My Grandfather was 28 years old with a wife and three children and landed on the French beaches, He came home.
Klara Hitler had massive OCD. She constantly sterilized the house and everything was in operating-room order. It clearly affected the young Dolfie.
Love your work Chris, do you travel much in Europe?
Here is a joke for you:
Chris goes to France and has to go through customs for visa check
French official : Name?
Chris: Chris
French official: Nationality?
Chris: German
French official: Occupation?
Chris: No, just visiting this time.
I am an American. Although we tend to have cultural differences with Europe, it's not hard to look back and see that the Treaty of Versailles was little more than a forced unconditional surrender. It was solely punitive and did not serve to heal wounds or to make it possible to rebuild into a productive status. As bad as WWII was, that treaty learned from the mistakes of WWI and Germany (at least West Germany) benefited and grew not only productive, but and ally within Europe as a whole. This would be essential during the cold war, and the US made a lot of effort to render aid to East Germany until the USSR completely cut them off. As I understand it that section of Germany is still - different isn't exactly the word - than the rest of Germany even though the end of the USSR and the fall of the Berlin wall reunited the former East Germany. One of my favorite computers as a late teen (during the cold war) was the Commodore 64, and (West) Germany produced a great many for European distribution.
Solely punitive .. well no. It was certainly very punitive. And the strategy behind it was not a good one. They wanted to cripple Germany from ever reasserting any imperial ambitions.
Oh, the irony.
Cemetary is another name for graveyard, yes.
The incineration of bodies is done in a crematorium.
Just to add on to this, someone said that a graveyard is connected to a church while a cemetery isn't.
Most young Americans don't have a clue. Older Americans who knew people that were involved with the war tend to have more knowledge about the facts of the war.
The cautious seldom err.
Hunger is the noun, hungry is the adjective. Starving is the worst form of hunger.
Hunger is also a verb but it’s not used as such very often anymore.
I appreciated hearing the war told from a German point of view
Cemetary + Graveyard. Cremations are performed in a crematorium.
Your a proud GERMAN stay proud
Starving was the word you was looking for. I started learning German lately and Ich liebe es so far.
During WW2, my Mom worked at Fort Sheridan, just north of Chicago. She told stories about all the German POWs who were there. Most of them had jobs outside of the Fort and only had to return at night. They received wages, albeit at a lesser wage. Mom talked about how after the war, most of the POWs wanted to stay in the US, since they didn’t want to return to what was left of Germany. Also, there is/was a huge German population in Chicago and in Milwaukee. If those POWs had a good record, they were allowed to stay.
The stopping of trade is an "embargo", the collapse of agriculture and resulting hunger is "famine".
Hitler was one of Time magazine's "man of the year". Just like saddam hussein.
Apachen auch Apatschen in English are called Apache pronounced (/əˈpætʃi/
ə-PATCH-ee) or by their endonyms, some variation of Nde.
Thanks for pointing out that is wasn't just the Jews.
Each time we face a fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
With that little quip about being accepted at your school, I quite literally burnt myself by spilling out my coffee while laughing so hard. Whoever said that Germans were humorless were clearly lying. It has been a good long while since I cried laughing. Thank you, good sir.
Oh my stars .. my new favorite word is ‘hungering’. 😂 Absolutely love hearing you speak Chris!!
"Hungern" sagt man "to starve", "verhungern" = "to starve to death" oder "to die of starvation".
Oh my gosh, not ENOUGH oversimplified lately!
I love your channel. Bro, come to Texas. My door is always open and I'll change your life when it comes to American culture 😆
"that explains so much" lol
Hey bro. Just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy hearing your perspective on the history. I look forward to seeing your future subjects. I’m in Albuquerque New Mexico. You’ve got fans worldwide!!!
Cemetary is a place for burying, crematorium is for burning.
"SANCTIONS" -WHEN OTHER COUNTRIES WONT TRADE WITH YOU
I appreciate your added background information to the videos, Thank you!!!
Good way to put it where some people still wanted an emperor but if you choose them it’s a dictator. Never heard it put that way before.
I love that "Nooo! That explains so much!"
Oversimplified is a great channel. I’ve tried to understand the Napoleonic wars for years, and now I get it. My German GGGreat Grandfather fought at Waterloo and fled Germany after.
WWI and WWII were the same war with a piece in between. The treaty of Versailles flat out caused WWII. The Allies, the French in particular, spanked the Germans way to hard. The first war was a falling of alliance dominos. Things just snowballed and no one stopped to look around and take a breath.
I love your commentary. The Treaty of Versailles was very harsh and I can see how that fomented resentment.
I like Oversimplified! And I really like the information that you put in, things that nobody really talks about
Great reaction as always Chris!🎉
Graveyards are typically on church grounds, cemeteries don't normally have a specific religion. Crematoriums are where you would send somebody to get cremated
Love your videos man! Keep up the good work!
Maybe it's why he was nuts. His mother and father were related
Whew! So glad you were accepted to school, Chris! That was a close one!
He married his cousin?!
*Banjo strums*
The word you were looking for being hungry was Starvation and famine.
I already knew all of this but that's because PBS (Public Broadcasting System) has great documentaries and quite often I'd watch Documentaries with my father.
Hi Chris, before WW1, Hitler dodged the draft, moving to England, and living with his half-brother. He returned to Germany and later enlisted when WW1 broke out. The highest rank he achieved was corporal. He served as a messenger, a job so dangerous that they sent five soldiers, each with the same message, to insure it got through. He was awarded the Iron Cross first class twice, something almost unheard of for a corporal, each time on the recommendation of a high ranking officer. Both of them were Jewish, as was his beloved family physician. He finally got wounded, and it was during his long convalescence that he began his long-winded preaching on political issues, talking to his fellow patients. By no means was Hitler unusual in his antisemitism. Dislike of Jews was longstanding, and very common in the German people. He was preaching to the choir! He used antisemitism as a tool to further his ideas on political and social change.
I really like Oversimplified. They cover important issues in s fairly accurate and entertaining format. You should do the one on the U.S. Civil War. It's pretty good.
Hence, the reason it was so easy for Hitler to raise antisemitism to a level of an accepted social action after he gained power in 1933.
The story he lived in England has been debunked. It comes from his sister in laws post war book. There are records of his residence in Austria and Bavaria on the dates she claimed he was in England.
And not just in germany, it was decently popular in a lot of places. He even modeled some of his stuff after the US. Even they were not free of antisemitism and racism (and to a degree still aren't)
You made me laugh...I got accepted to the school, so I won't start WWIII. 😂
Concentration camps - also (as you've mentioned before) disabled, and when the war started POWs.
Chris, you are my #1 pick to sit and watch videos with. Between your reactions and insightful questions (and my ability to answer most of them), it would be lots of fun --especially if we had good snacks. 😺
For even more insight. A Grave Yard is specifically one attached a church. Hence the name Grave yard. A Cemetery is a place to bury the dead, that is not attached to a church.
However in modern English at least here in America, Cemetery is usually the go to for any place that they bury the dead.
I knew most of the stuff they were talking about, but it was nice to hear your perspective. A German perspective really cool man.
Yep! The Treaty of Versailles was certainly a "motivation" for Germany, but the "allies" were stupid not to recognize the "winds of war " coming down the road!
um, I think collectively their crystal balls weren't working well. Partly as they had problems of their own. Russia had had a resolutely. France and Britain were struggling with the effects of the Great Depression and the loses of the WW1. Italy also had a bit of a crisis going on. have I missed any other allies?
@@lorrainemoynehan6791the US was dealing with the affects of the depression and also the affects of the dust bowl. There was a lot of issues in the world, so it makes sense that no one noticed until the wheels were fully in motion.
@@jonok42 I'm not disagreeing with you. Perhaps you should have addressed it to someone else
I really appreciate your perspective on this. As an American student, I studied the very broad history of Hilter’s rise and WWII. None of the details that you have seem to have studied. Thank you!!
"He married his cousin!? Is this LEGAL?"
It's not just legal. It's REGAL
✌️😂
(No clue of the actual laws concerning this, much less back then)
Most of history, you can't marry a 1st cousin. Most of history, you can marry your 2nd (or 1st cousin Once Removed). Remember, in European villages, everyone was related to everyone else for a thousand years. So 2nd cousins marriages were common. Oddly, DNA verifies the importance of not marrying close relations. Level after level of marrying a 2nd cousin is also bad, but one now and then only slightly increases the risk of damaged babies. However, the ruling classes from the earliest known kingdoms, through the Egyptians, and the first two thousand years of the common era, royals married royals and that gets dicey pretty quickly. Queen Victoria is also known as the Grandmother of Royal Europe as so many of her grandchildren married into the other royal families. This is why Charles marrying Diana and William marrying Kate is so refreshing, literally, for their bloodlines.
@@dking1836 I love this response to death, and it is incredibly interesting. But, dude... my pun, though! You burned it alive! 😂
Cousin marriages were quite common back in the day. Most of the top royal families were related through queen viktoria
Thanks for adding your perspective.
Famine is the word for mass starvation. Hunger
The Hindenburg zeppelin is seen in the past as a huge loss of life - but actually, only 35 passengers and one ground crewman died.
I learned a shit load from this. Thank you, Chris!
Great job with the commentary!!
Great; blue eyed, blonde haired artist...we'll let Chris take over YOOTUBE, but nothing else!
Wouldn't that be ViewTube?
It's almost like history doesn't happen in a vacuum.
"Cemetery" and "graveyard" continue the proud English tradition of having two completely different words taken from two other languages for the same thing. "Cemetery" is derived from a Greek word, while "graveyard" has Germanic roots.
Slightly different meanings too. Graveyard is a burial ground in the enclosure of church grounds, a cemetery is a burial ground independent of the presence of a church.
and a place where you "burn people" is a crematorium... which starts with the same letter as cemetery... perhaps why our German friend was confused.
I love this guy and the videos he watches
Great comments! I've spent a lot of time studying the history of various aspects of WWII, and I appreciate your insight.
The cemetery is another word for graveyard. The place where they “burn” people is called a “crematorium”, pronounced “cream-atorium”. Also, there is a special word in English for when we burn a dead body into ashes - the related “cremate/cremation”. So in English, you would say “the body was cremated at the crematorium”, bearing in mind the letter E is pronounced actually like the German letter i.
5:12 Mild distinction. Graveyards are affiliated with Churches or something like that whereas a Cemetery is just any old burial ground. Most people don't care about that. Crematoriums are where bodies are burned up
Dudes videos are fun to watch
I wouldn't say the American education system is genius; however some segments in some regions gave us a more in depth education than others. I for one had absolutely AMAZING World History and US History teachers. A lot of the details you added are items I remember vividly from World History (it was a 2 year history course so we could have time for details about major world events) - we even did class projects around the fact of, simulating actions post WW1 - how with the knowledge of what happened could we have attempted to prevent WW2 - and thus have the mindset to hopefully prevent a future WW3.
That same mindset actually had our Model UN club win some state awards in different committees. So yup, some of us Americans, we did pay attention and to this day try to keep the needle nudged to freedom and away from megalomania, fascism, authoritarianism and aggressive war (defensive war - that is a whole different level of topic).
A graveyard is an independent burial ground, a cemetery is on church or religious grounds, and a crematory is the place where people are cremated but not buried.
Love your videos Chris
Love your videos. 1 gen born in America. Dad born in Frankfurt oma born in Bochum Germany. Oma born 1928. First hand knowledge about ww2
Hi Chris, I really liked your comments in the video. 😊 It's nice to get a Germany's perspective. As for what I was taught in school about Hitler, my school taught about Hitler's family background and about Adolf's creepy love for his half-niece, Geli. 😧