British Guy Reacting to WW2 - OverSimplified (Part 2)
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You should react to “the fallen of ww2” next. It will really stun you.
Oh yea that's a good video
that video is very good but when it talks about the loses the soviet union had everybody only thinks of Russia but the soviet union took up a bunch of eastern European countries at the time such as belerus and ukraine and the video does not go into that but it had probably 3x the amount of deaths compared to germany
Please do that
that one really change perspective on who "won" the war
He did
“Sad hitler is a happy me” what a quote mate 😂
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@@blankblank5409 bruh what? So wanting lower taxes means we support Hitler? Bruh...
@@jh3305 well a good portion of (american) right wingers are actually white supremacists 🤷🏻♀️ that being especially proven with what happened at the capitol building yesterday
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Hey Luka. So yeah, the atomic bombings of Japan were kind of a double edged sword resulting in the deaths of about 144,000 Japanese. However, here’s the thing. American intelligence was predicting that a full-scale invasion of Japan would result in the deaths of 1 million American soldiers (on top of the already 400,000 dead) and 5 million Japanese while also prolonging the war for five more years. Also, you’ve got to remember that surrendering for the Japanese was a no no, so every man, woman, and child would fight against the Americans and the allies. Finally, as mentioned in the video, the Soviet Union was occupying Eastern Europe and was about to launch an invasion of northern Japan, so the US and UK used the atomic bombs to warn the Soviet Union to knock it off. On a side note, the war crimes committed by the Japanese were barely mentioned in these videos, but I highly encourage you to look them up on TH-cam (documentaries). Many historians say they are equal to or even worse than the atrocities the Nazis committed. These were the type of soldiers American troops had to deal with. On another side note, you bring up the US and UK being so close friends during the World Wars. Franklin Roosevelt (American president during WW2) and Churchill were really close friends. I believe Churchill cried when Roosevelt died a few years later. Also, one of our United States Navy’s Destroyers is named after Churchill. It is the only American ship with the Royal Navy flag on it and has a Royal Navy officer on it at all times as part of tradition. Look more in the comments if you want to learn more about it. Here is the link: th-cam.com/video/ovpNe8Bvg-U/w-d-xo.html
As much as U.S and U.K poke fun at each other, at the end of the day we got the most love for each other than almost any other two countries. Not to mention some of the most power too 🇺🇸 🍻 🇬🇧
Not to mention the millions killed firebombing tokyo and dozens of other cities.
The atomic bombing kills are wrong btw. That was just one city the total is like 400k.
@@deathcon6261 Both bombs combined at the high range of estimates put Japanese deaths at 220K.
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People say how many died because America nuked Japan... People don't realize that many more would've died if America had to actually put 500k to a million troops on Japanese mainland.
It might make you feel better to know America dropped thousands of leaflets warning of the attack over every target city and that Japan had 100,000+ POWs ordered to be executed should the Americans invade. They also expected the Japanese civilians to either evacuate or retreat to bunkers when they saw the plane combined with the warning (obviously they didn't, some apparently though it was just a weather or scout plane). Not to mention that the fire bombings were just as destructive and any other alternative short of surrender would have cost an order of magnitude more lives. Plus the absolute horrific things the Japanese did were just as bad, if not worse in many cases, as the Nazis. So I don't really think there's much moral grey area there personally. It sucks that it had to happen but really what else could the Allies have done?
Here's some stuff you might want to react to.
1. Hitler Oversimplified: it's about how he became so evil and how he rose to power
2. The Russian Revolution Oversimplified: It gives context to the parts about Russia in the videos.
3. The history of Japan by Bill Wurtz: it's by the same guy who made the history of entire world video, so it will be fun
4. Playing the Victim | Historical Revisionism and Japan: It's barely mentioned, but Japan did some messed up stuff during ww2 and that's what the video is mainly about. ( Note: if you want to watch it, watch #3 first, as it criticizes it a bit)
I know it was awful, but l do understand why it was done. Never forget this young man. Teach your children, also❤️
"This enraged his father, who punished him severely," is a joke from Oversimplified's series on Hitler.
It's a truly fascinating series that really explains the life and mind of Hitler, and why he became the most evil man in modern history.
@PaleoBones hitler was more racist but Stalin killed more
and why he became the most evil man in modern history.
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and why he became the most evil man in history
Tojo and other Japanese responsible for Nanking: Am I a joke to you
"Trying to get that money."
Fun fact: Germany was running low on oil at the time which was fueling their tanks, planes, etc. That is why they focused on the oil.
2nd Fun Fact: Japan didn't surrender after Hiroshima and may have forced a 3rd bombing if the threat of both it and the USSR forced them to surrender.
Not many people know that
soviets didn't declare war on japan till august ninth 1945 six days before the surrender of japan. Watch "hell in the pacific" A documentary made in the late 70's featuring many of the generals and government officials from the U.S and Japan. The atomic bombs made the prospect of an honorable death in a struggle against the allies an obsolete concept. The would face annihilation in a dozen quick flashes. Members of the Japanese government said it the documentary.
@@bluebird3281 even with that, the majority of the war council did not see the atomic bombs that much of a big deal. The air raids over the major Japanese cities were much more devastating than the atomic bombs were so the councils did not see the bombs as a big deal. They decided to disregard the bombs and keep fighting, some of them even wanted to keep fighting after the Soviet Union declared war. In the end it was the Emperor that made the final decision.
Also to mention that it was not the atomic bomb that disregarded the death before dishonor concept but having Stalin take control of the country and making it into a communistic state was a fate far worst than death. Not to mention Stalin was a very cruel and sadistic man than had no intention of keeping the imperial family alive. He would have also treated the Japanese citizens like animals so Japan had no choice but to surrender either to the United States or Soviet Union. Picking the lesser of 2 evils they went with the USA
@@MikeHunt-yl1so No doubt stalin would have done all that and more. Question is was he in a position to, with needing to consolidate his gains in the west and repair the massive infrastructure damage done to his country. Then get the bulk of his army a few thousand miles east and contend with the anglo American alliance in the south pacific. Who might not have been pleased with ussr newly at war with Japan seizing territory like they did in eastern europe. The official I saw in the documentary said it was the bombs that drove decision to surrender. But they attacked pearl harbor while negotiating peace in Washington, so he might have fibbed to me. Either way glad people still pay attention to history.
My dad was an MP sergeant in Patton's army. He was in the battle of the bulge, processing a lot of German prisoners. A few of those men are still with us but they are passing on fast now.
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Wow! My dad was an MP in Patton’s army in Luxembourg & Belgium. He was shot twice & returned to the states on the Queen Mary. He lived to be 91 (just two weeks shy of 92). He & two of his brothers served in WWII. Yes, not many of them left...what a blessing to the world they were!🇺🇸
@@AmarieH216 They quite possibly knew each other. There were only three companies of MP's in the 503rd Military Police Battalion. My dad was in Company C.
My mother's name was Anne-Marie.
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Something to keep in mind when it comes to the whole A-bomb thing... Deaths were skyrocketing at this point.
Iwo Jima: nearly 7,000 US dead. 18,000 Japanese dead.
Guadalcanal: 7,000 US dead. 19,000 Japanese dead.
Okinawa: 12,500 US dead. 80,000+ Japanese dead. 50,000+ civilians dead.
These weren't even mainland Japan which all military and cultural experts on Japan thought would see even MORE ardent defense. What's not mentioned in the video (hence 'oversimplified') is the propaganda Japanese people were exposed to about allied troops, specifically US marines. Women would hold their children and leap off cliffs to commit suicide. In a lot of respects, a war on the Japanese mainland might very well have been just as consuming of life as the eastern front of the European theater. One hopes atomic bombs never have to be used and aren't used again, but given the context of WW2 and what was happening, it's understandable. Tragic, unfortunate, wish it didn't have to happen, but happen it did.
You should react to the Cold War by oversimplified
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Nah, he needs to watch the Hitler oversimplified before getting to the Cold War!
Also worth watching is Churchill's speech about the Iron Curtain. There is also a Churchill Museum in Missouri where he delivered the speech. And the Berlin Wall speech by Ronald Reagan is timeless as well.
@jaycob ellis i watched that in uk its not banned
no one was safe from Hitlers Wrath, not even Hitler himself.
It’s sad that I learned more in a 20 minute video on TH-cam then 12 years of school, the education system is garbage....
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16:15 Correct the main reason for dropping them besides to show power to the USSR was to prevent millions of more lives being lost. (Millions of US, allies and Japanese soldiers along with civilians) During the battle of Okinawa there was Mass suicide by Japanese Civilians. I've heard it was from Japanese soldiers forcing them to do it that way they don't talk to US Soldiers but I'm not 100% sure on that.
Agreed. I bought into the "Russia declared war on them therefore Japan surrendered" argument for a minute but even that one doesn't make much sense when you look at the Russian navy and the semi-Cold War that developed after Germany was defeated. The US Navy was insanely huge compared to the Russians and there was no way the powers at the time would have allowed Russia to invade mainland Japan. The three options for defeating Japan was a blockade eventually starving them out, invasion, or the bomb. The bomb option was probably the best option.
@@chaost4544 I think it was absolutely hilarious that the US was producing 90 aircraft in one year (1943-1944). That's fucking insane
My great grandfather was captured during the battle of the bulge and had both of his legs broken
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Luka, I love your reactions to this kind of stuff. My grandma who is still alive and kicking survived Pearl Harbor as a girl, but her uncle died in the Battle of Midway. It’s crazy to think that he was about the same age as you and me when he made that sacrifice. When I get back home in a month I’m planning to record my grandma talking about her experiences. I’ll be sure to leave a comment on your future video if she’s okay with it being released online if you’d like to hear the story of what she remembers.
My grandfather was at Iwo Jima. Army Air Corps.
You are my new favorite TH-camr ngl
Legitimately, not about reactions, you should watch Letters from Iwo Jima if you haven't already. It's a stunning film that really captures how brutal the Pacific Theater of WWII was for Japanese and US forces. It's really gut-wrenching in a way.
Fun fact, japan actually almost didnt surrender after the bombs. Some top officials in japan were planning a coup to prevent the emperor from surrendering but they didnt get enough support and the coup got shut down
It didn't get shut down. The coup was attempted and was defeated.
@@RexFuturi 'Defeated' and 'shut down' for a coup is the same thing...
@@cavscout888 Shut down can give the impression that it was ended without actual violence. Defeated indicates there was a fight. The coup wasn't talked down.
@@RexFuturi OK, 'can give the impression' can't exactly be an inaccurate statement. I'd use the expression either way. Weren't a couple guards killed, and an officer or two killed themselves or were executed? It's been a while.
@@cavscout888 Yeah, they never managed a pitched battle. But the conspirators took over part of the palace complex and captured a bunch of people. They eventually gave up because one of the officers they had hoped would join them showed up and sided against them. Once completely outnumbered, the coup failed. Part of the resolution was the Japanese method of suiciding out of any problem, so several officers chose that over fighting. Unfortunately for the conspirators, they were time constrained and could not get enough support from the leaders in the immediate vicinity.
The island hopping campaign was nuts. Japan would come out of each island with only a handful (like literally maybe a couple hundred) of survivors. As an infantryman I just look at the terrain and its an absolute nightmare. Hats off to those guys.
The Japanese would make tunnel systems in the hills and dig in machine guns and mortars that were camouflaged with vegetation, completely hidden until they opened up at the advancing Allied troops. Every tree potentially had a suicide sniper concealed in its foliage. The final campaign for Japan would have involved millions of suicide fighters.
Man, just realized, since you’re British, you had a lot more history to learn in depth from before recent times than us in the US, which means they had to minimalise the 20th century in the education system. We learned a lot of this in school
Yeah we learn about both world wars mainly how they effected us but we learned nothing about The Cold War or
Vietnam or many of the more modern conflicts
There are some movies that you could watch. One an old black and white film "The Longest Day" about D-Day. Tora! Tora! Tora! about the attack on Pearl Harbor. One of the best is "Band of Brothers". The 1980s brought us a story of a fictional US Naval family caught up in history. "The Winds of War" (here on youtube) and the follow-up "War and Remembrance". All of them full of historical facts. Band of Brothers, the story of a US Airborne Company, is amazing. Also, "A Bridge Too Far".
It honestly blows my mind that they don't teach this in y'all's school system
The US is Britain’s most successful and independent child. We’re the kid who rebelled all throughout high school, left home at 18 after an argument, and somehow became a massive success on their own. We’ve had our fights with the UK/Britain, but we will come over and help out if someone is bullying our parent or our siblings like Australia.
Over the last year, I’ve seen you when you were a smaller channel and I’m so glad to see that you come across as so much more comfortable while reacting. Good work man
America and Macarthur's occupation of Japan is a super interesting read(Or watch if there's a good video). He basically administered the country for awhile and while he himself was critical of the occupation he honestly did the best he could and the efforts of the Japanese people and American propaganda to give Japanese woman equal rights under a new constitution was an enormous influence in making Japan the constitutional democracy it is today.
While there were issues with the occupation(starvation, lawlessness, cultural resentment against Japanese soldiers, cultural colonialism by America and American military base construction), in general it went A LOT better then most modern occupations(especially American occupations).
Macarthur was awarded the highest military award that could be received by the Japanese military in 1960 which shocked him as he felt the full occupation was unnecessary.
I wonder how the Japanese people feel about Macarthur historically today.
Thats why I love history dude... The Bitish didnt invade the United States. English settlers named all the cities on the east coast. It was technically an expansion of the Bristish Empire with most citizens from that area tracing thier roots back to Europe. The Leaders of America were essentially Englishmen who felt that because the Largest ocean in the world seperated the continents they had the right to lead themselves... They have a saying "That's so American" as if we do whatever we want and get away with it... But England was the First Protestant country and they have a much longer history of doing whatever they pleased lol. So in my opinion... it's "Pretty English"....... or maybe even "Pretty Roman"
My great grandfather fought against the Japanese in WW2. He was a Gurkha which is Nepal’s special forces. My grandpa once told me a story of how his dad (my great grandfather) had gone through a jungle in Burma to deliver intel with his squadron and they ran into a Japanese soldier taking a shit next to a tree. They caught them with their pants down. 😂 True story
Shortly after that the hydrogen bomb was developed. Thousand times bigger payload. The Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest we've come to annihilation. In school we were taught to get under our desks in case of nuclear attack.
Quite simply the dropping of the bombs was the only way to end the war right then and there. Japans military was at that point deadset on going down fighting loss of life,Japan,its people,and the Emperor be damned. From what I know the first bomb was only enough to make them surrender conditionally. The second bomb was for the American tradition of unconditional surrender. But even after that we still had to make Emperor Hirohito admit he wasn't a god to the Japanese people to fully destroy the image of invincibility that the Japanese still stubbornly clung too.
In addition to this the next nation to achieve atomic bombs was the Soviet Union and it is my firm belief that the knowledge of what a nuclear weapon does to a target has stopped this world from being consumed by a nuclear war. We've come close a few times no doubt but I feel the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ultimately is the driving factor in those times of crisis being averted.
There are a lot of moral questions to be asked about what happened to Japan, and it's healthy to have that discussion and wonder about the alternatives and whether it was right. At the same time, there's no doubt that dropping the bombs cut the war by several years, and it cost fewer lives than would have been lost if it had continued. The Japanese Emperor had made perfectly clear that he was not going to stop. Their culture was one of all-out war, brutal in the extreme, to the point where they were willing to kill themselves and each other just to cause damage to the enemy. This is death cult levels of insanity, it's not unfair to compare this to the kind of psychology you see with groups like ISIS. There's also speculation that Japan would have had intelligence about the bomb, but they still refused to surrender. When the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th the Emperor could have surrendered, again he chose not to. Three days later the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Japan had numerous opportunities to reverse course, and to surrender. I feel terrible for the victims who didn't have a say in it, of course, but the hundreds of thousands of victims from their invasion of neighbors didn't have a say in the brutality they brought to them, either.
My great grandfather was a scientist working on the a bomb in Washington state which is were the project was. He was not allowed to tell my grandmother what he was doing, but the day the bomb went off she confronted him and asked “if this is what he was working on” he said yes. He was proud of the achievement but devastated at the destruction. It’s controversial, but the science was amazing for the time. Please don’t attack my very nice grandfather as a murderer etc. I know it’s conteoversial. He was working on the science. He did not make the decision to drop the bombs nor conflate him with a nazi scientist experimenting and torturing humans. He was an engineering graduate who wouldn’t hurt a fly.
My great uncle fought and died in the island hopping campaign. He won a medal for bravery and died at 22.
The way I view the ethics of dropping the atomic bombs is like this. We wouldn't have been doing any favors to Japan by not nuking them and just continuing our policy of burning several of their cities off the map a week through conventional fire bombing.The nuking of Japan at the end of World War 2 wasnt the real ethical dilemma at that time. It was a natural progression of the brutal tactics employed by all sides during that war. The real ethical dilemma is figuring out how we got to a point where everyone on all sides decided that indiscriminately bombing cities with lots of civilians in them was an ok thing to do.
The United States and The United Kingdom have a special relationship. We aren’t the same country but we are so close as countries as we always walk in step with the other. I love my British and French brothers and sisters!
when he says that he didn't learn about the atomic bombings until he was 12 or 13 that was so insane to me because I grew up like 15 miles from one of the manhattan project locations. i have like two dozen family members who worked on it. and even way back in like kindergarten we were always hearing about "it was such a great victory" or "it was a monstrosity" and like... idk i guess just the idea that other people don't learn about this until later in life is weird to me.
There was one Japanese guy who survived both Atomic bombs. He was on a business trip or something in Hiroshima when the first bomb dropped. He then returned to his hometown of Nagasaki three days later and told his boss about what he saw. His boss told him he was insane for thinking that one bomb could destroy an entire city and then it happened again.
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There’s a shared camaraderie between the UK, US, and France. Despite being very different, we all developed along similar lines. And once we reached a certain level of development, it became obvious that we make natural allies.
We all generally believe in the same things. Stemming from the French virtues of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. The French don’t get enough credit for just how much their political philosophies have molded the major powers. And how that shared influence created the powerhouse alliance that has since shaped world affairs, for better or worse.
That intro was gold 😂
It was calculated that an invasion of the Japanese mainland would result in at least 3 million casualties, many of them Japanese civilians. So the atomic bombs ,ironically, were the better of the two options.
The Abomb might sound like too much until you hear stories from survivors that were captured by the Japanese forces at that time they completely threw out all morals and dove into complete insanity if you want I have a lot of war stories I’ve been told by family that fought in the war and were captured.
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5:00 we stunned a lot of people with that hold, I’d say if it wasn’t for the efforts put in by the Rats of Tobruk, the war would’ve gone on for much much longer
Noticed you thought the Australians holding out like that was nuts, well people love to forget the Aussies in WW2 they fought in some of the worst conditions with many men not even knowing the war was over for years after it ended due to them being on remote islands in Asia.
Enjoying your videos buddy, thanks for sharing!
I'd love to see you do the one he did about the Falklands War
Hi Luka! First time commenting, but I love your history reaction videos. And you're right, the US and the UK have had each other's backs a lot, especially over the last century. We (US) learn a lot about UK history. America really does see the UK as our "mother" in a lot of ways. (LOL, except for that whole War of 1812 thing. If there is a video on that, you should check it out. 🤣)
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Ahh america.. the Savior of europe lolol dominate since the the beginning of the 1900s
They have it easy they can't be invaded like everyone else could
Bro I'm on the US west coast and I look forward to watching your videos because you usually post right when I get off work. Love the sports reacts and the new history reacts. Keep it up bro
My friends father, now deceased, (was at the battle of the bulge) and was on a troop ship headed for the invasion of Japan. In his heart, he knew he was going to die and then heard about the bomb and truly believed it had saved his life. He was at church and the pastor was talking about the unnecessary second bombing of Nagasaki and he stood up and said it was necessary because Japan had not surrendered and told us his story. My friend and I were playing war games and my friends father asked some questions and we showed him the history of the battle of the bulge, he pointed out his division the 9th and said so that is what happened. His perspective was he was overrun separated from his unit, ate tree bark, and froze to death.
His nose, hands, and feet gave him problems the rest of his life, poor circulation. I would like you to cover Korea since my wives Dad and my dad served in Korea. My wive’s dad came back and drank himself to death and died mid 30’s. My dad became a teacher, never really talked about Korea, except he would say, The army, I was a farmer from a small town and I got to see a little of the world. He has two plaques in the town he grew up for his service. My dad requested a military funeral and his gravestone to show his time of service. My uncle served in Ww2 and was blown up in France.
You should react to Oversimplified's Hitler video. It explains a lot about his life.
I believe it still might be blocked in Britain, so he night need to use a vpn.
@@gregcourtney7717 Why should it be blocked in Britain?
@@dnocturn84 it's about Hitler. That's enough, even it is being done for purely historical reasons. The history based band Sabaton have gotten similar complaints since their songs bring up nazis.
One thing he doesn't talk about is the Native Americans...they were some of the biggest helpers in decoding the NATZI code. In fact the Navajo used their own language in our codes and the Germans were never able to decode it!!
it helped that native American language is on linear meaning the words can be written in any order
As an American, it's astonishing to me that there is someone who doesn't know about the cold war. I think you will find it's history very interesting and relevant to how the world as we know it came to be.
Times have changed. Even Americans these days have no understanding of the Cold War and why Communism is so looked down upon. Is a new generation who never had to deal with it. Which is kind of scary, as you used to never even want to utter the word Communism, but it seems to be all the rage these days along with Socialism. Though the kids are too dumb to know which is which.
Luka I was a History Major and I love the fact that you are getting a condensed but factual history lesson. I think that if teachers would make their lessons fun students would listen and learn better than they do now.
I love it! -- a 'pesky" American :-)
I would be scared if I was in the army back then
can you please react to timelapse of the future by melodysheep? its one of the craziest videos ive ever saw and feel like it would really change the way you look at things, if all true.
Pretty much it talks about whatll happen in our future, the tsunamis, life-ending natural disaters, like yellowstone, and even what would happen after earth and what happens to our star, its actually mind numbing how cool it is
Luka you gotta react to the Braves Vs Dodgers game 3 NLCS. Pretty historic first postseason inning from the Dodgers!
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"Band of Brothers" miniseries, many British actors.
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Hey! Please react to Crash Course US Government after you react to Cold War Oversimplified. I would start with the Bicameral Congress episode. I love your channel!
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Well now you gotta watch the cold war to finish it
The German demand read:
"December 22nd 1944
To the U.S.A. Commander of the encircled town of Bastogne.
The fortune of war is changing. This time the U.S.A. forces in and near Bastogne have been encircled by strong German armored units. More German armored units have crossed the river Ourthe near Ortheuville, have taken Marche and reached St. Hubert by passing through Hompre-Sibret-Tillet. Libramont is in German hands. There is only one possibility to save the encircled U.S.A troops from total annihilation: that is the honorable surrender of the encircled town. In order to think it over a term of two hours will be granted beginning with the presentation of this note. If this proposal should be rejected one German Artillery Corps and six heavy A. A. Battalions are ready to annihilate the U.S.A. troops in and near Bastogne. The order for firing will be given immediately after this two hours' term. All the serious civilian losses caused by this artillery fire would not correspond with the well known American humanity.
The German Commander"
The reply read:
"December 22, 1944
To the German Commander.
N U T S !
The American Commander"
When asked for an explanation of this unfamiliar slang, they were provided by the interpreter with "Du kannst zum Teufel gehen" (You can go to Hell).
Do over simplified cold war
I HATED history in school for the reasons to talked about before. They made it so goddamned boring it sucked. Funny that everything I learned was actually after I left school. Once I started actually learning history, I friggin love it now. My school curriculum failed me, and probably many others like me.
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The Australian defense of Tobruk was a display of exceptional grit and determination.
And, if you want a relatively easy-to-read book from a far underrated British general, check out William Slim’s Defeat Into Victory about the India/Burma campaign, where British and Gurkha forces teamed up with US and Republic of China forces to fight the Japanese. It’s a bit racist, where he calls Japanese people some rather derogatory names, but a good book, besides that.
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June 6,1944 arguably goes down as one of the biggest days in human history. It was the beginning of the end of Germany's horrific grip on mainland Europe. A close second for importance in the 20th Century would be finding a peaceful end to the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.
Yes, Pykrete's a real thing. In 2014 it was partialally used to make the world's bigest ice home. The story of it and its inventor is amazing. The convoys were for the most part, successful. Hello, HMS Curacao, that story is amazing. Also on a lighter note, Germany managed to pick a fight between their navy and Luftwaffe. Two boats sank, and it got worse from there.
also, not mentioned but the battle of Castle Itr is an amazing story to, the only time American, French and German troops fought on the same side to repel the Waffen SS (who wanted to get into the castle) while the French/German/US troops were holding them off.
Are you into climbing? If so you should check out El Sendero Luminoso ft. Alex Honnold. Super freaky, and impressive.
One thing to note about how powerful the United States was when the war ended in 1945: modern estimates of the value of American assets compared to the rest of the world show that America held 50% of the ENTIRE WORLD'S WEALTH due to its control of the oceans (and therefore trade), debts owed by other Allied nations, and sheer industrial strength. Also, it helps that the rest of the industrialized world was devastated by war.
Axis powers - bombs Pearl Harbor
Also Axis powers- oh crap what have we done WE CANT STAND UP TO THEM
after you do the Cold War...it would be cool if you did the Great Depression (takes place between WW1 & WW2) in America, but Oversimplified didn't do a video on it..
8:18 BRITISH GUY - Learn a little more about the different sects of Jewish Ethnicities ( Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Ethiopian Jew, Caucus Mountain Jew, Mizrahi, etc) some were targeted more than others by the Nazi's.
Then learn about Hitler and his mentors connections to secret societies and the industrial globalist. Once you've done that learn about the Nazi quest for ancient technology, artifacts and relics in the middle east, India and Africa. Then dive into the their esoteric practices and beliefs of many of the Nazi party and their allies. These are the topics rarely taught to the public, but are reality of what was driving the wars of the 20th century.
Check out the war that change the English language by oversimplified @Lavish Luka
You may not know this, but the reason the Americans were well received in Italy is because we sent Lucky Luciano (boss of American Mafia) free from jail and back to Italy in a clearly political move. Not saying I disagree, but not well publicized. It wasn't just because Sicilians had relatives in the US
Seems strange to me, drop 10,000 bombs destroy a city, well, that's war, drop 1 bomb destroy a city Oh the inhumanity of it.... If memory serves me correct the conventional fire bombing of Tokyo was much more damaging in property and human life.
I'm watching this thinking "Duh. Doesn't everyone know this?" But then again, I watched The Hitler Channel for years.
It’s so strange and odd how and specifically why human beings do what they do to each other.
That said my grandfather was a soldier in WW2 and was in Normandy on DDay and the Battle of the Bulges.
He caught a few bullets at both I think and died at 80.
The odds of me existing is absolutely fascinating. I’m an American. If I stated anything wrong, blame our school systems and general lack of understanding of history.
Great reaction! Love the Channel!
Yeah! hopefully France doesn’t cut a deal with Putin behind our backs. Emanuel Macron seems too eager to sit down and negotiate with Vlad, and Vlad doesn’t really want to talk, i just hope he doesn’t try to woo France or Germany away from Nato by offering some type of concessions.
4:20 It's even worse: the bullet ricocheted and almost hit US Navy Admiral King in his leg.... and O Boy... Ernest King hated the British even before this little incident, and this sure didn't help. Dismissing the Royal Navy help, the US Navy took quite a while before implementing RN's experiences into convoy defense.
The two atomic bomb drops were tragedies, but hot damn was the alternative much, MUUUUUUCH worse for everyone...
Operation Downfall would have been a second Barbarossa, and humanity should do all we can to avoid a second Barbarossa as much as possible...
You should watch two TV shows: Band of Brothers which details Easy Company's fight against the Germans and The Pacific which shows US marines fighting the Japanese. You might want to do reactions if you like.
I know you plan to do the Cold War videos, and thought the Berlin Wall might be something worth checking out once you do. Obviously a huge moment for the people of Germany (particularly the east), a victory for NATO, and a major moment in bringing the Cold War between 2 super powers to an end.
There is a newscast from this day that is good. It may be a little long, but since it has commercial breaks it would be easy to split into separate videos (or I’m sure there is plenty of other footage available on TH-cam). If you want to see how it was reported in America, and commercials of the 80s, here’s a broadcast: th-cam.com/video/7xAiWLtxb4M/w-d-xo.html
Hitler killed his wife and then himself in an underground bunker. For real. Watch the History channel, if you get it over there. My husband loves military history. We live on the southeast coast of Florida. Across the pond from you.🌴😎💙😎🌴
A few hundred years back the UK was trying to take over the world. The UK has almost been to war with every country and ethnic group on Earth. The US, UK and France have been pretty good allies since WW1, so 100+ years. I'm certain that has to be a record for Britain and France not fighting.
Unfortunately, the oversimplified video overlooks some details about the atrocities of WWII on the eastern front. However, it IS an over*simplified* video, which makes it understandable that details would be overlooked. We focus a lot on parsing western history in our education but not enough in the Asian, African, or Central & S American continents. Personally, it would mean a lot to me, and people like me, if you could react to some videos about WWII on the eastern front. Especially, the videos on the atrocities in places like Nanking and cities all over S Korea. Knowing Better does a good job with a part of this topic: th-cam.com/video/lnAC-Y9p_sY/w-d-xo.html
My education taught me about the ethical dilemmas/wrongdoings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as Japanese internment camps, but not to the extent of truly understanding them with a full perspective of what happened on the eastern front of the war before the west stepped in.
You should watch Hacksaw Ridge or Fury. They’re movies, so you wouldn’t be able to make a video but they’re both great movies about WWII. This is coming from an American’s perspective, so I’m sure there are other great movies detailing other moments, those are just some of my favorites
So i must fix it a little bit because it's a little bit wrong and details are important in that topic... besides I'm German and we do learn way way much more about this whole thing because our land wanna say it was absolutely bad because it's just true.
So Hitler was really psychological at the end, really, he was not right in the Head Wich is proved. It has many reasons like this one Art school if they would have take him as a student this whole thing would be not happened. Because many things that make him so strong and important was actually luck like the German Eiche table that saved his live on a bomb attack or the Versailler contract Wich was completely unfair (his Art was even not that bad... So wow Art school)
His ideology was wrote in prison it was just all propaganda shit with the "Aryan" race like he was an Austrian and told the "Germans" (Because the Nazis were no real Germans they wanted to destroy our democracy) how a German has to look like and more shit like this.
He only was a really really good speaker like he was not even really smart he was actually really dumb in military Strategy like most of the things did his generals.
Most people say "how could they just follow him" Wich, Sorry, i think is extremely difficult and dumb to say because it were hard times,... Germany was absolutely down from ww1 they had no food, no water discrimination and the Versailler Contract made Hitler that important because he used it and said it was all unfair (Wich was mostly true because Germany don't started ww1 and Germans were really really proud at that time so they really don't liked it also America and the USA helped creating the Nazis really because they wanted even more money from a at that time dead Germany.. And the USA, with their groups, was a great inspiration for Hitler. It was such a good inspiration that even such a madman like Hitler thought that the USA would be a good friend and Allie) so he said i can fix this give you food, water, Work.. and what you must say even he was a absolutely mad man - at the beginning he did all that! He gave them all that and his group made smart decisions like creating specific main roads you all use today (first in the wold - German inviting *again* ) and when you have children at home that had nothing to eat you wanted to change so two options the Nazis or the communists because at the beginning he seemed good and did good things even he was inside a absolutely insane person. the people cannot see into the future at the beginning he really did good things for Germany they couldn't know what a crazy man he was. time and time passed and the shit came out like holocaust and the Germans realized that he was absolutely crazy so many *real* Germans made underground groups and there were so many attacks on him but all failed. Many many good people lost there life's in the revolutionary groups like the Great Major Graf von Stauffenberg: He had Hitler in his hand because he worked himself up and was winning Hitlers trust so before a special meeting he placed a bomb under the table and it worked... Not.. because the Table that was made from the tree German eiche protected Hitler I mean it was German handwork this table was unbreakable if this was a American table Hitler would be completely blown up .. In that time the major was in the Parlament and was so close to bring Hitler down they had a great plan they said all that was the SS and NSDAP Hitlers groups and they had good prove but... In the last minute Hitler came and give the command to shot them down. Rest in peace
If he would have not been absolutely crazy and heard his generals out we would probably speak all German today! because Nazi Germany was the strongest and There are many psychological facts about the army that are really smart like the Nazis (SS) were just stylish at that time.. And what you must say even they were shit this black uniforms with the skeleton heads just looked awesome and there all had the same size so it looked really really good and cool when there marched its really psychological smart. But we can be happy he was a absolutely mad man and complete crazy Wich again is proved so we can live free now more or less.. better if he would have won
Edit: yeah the only thing America can do is everytime coming at the end and than feel super cool.. I mean just because of that America is so strong today.. Besides the Germans would have overrun America and everyone else if Hitler would have heard his generals out i mean just like at ww1 this was a *All* *vs* *1*
You should watch American revolutionary war on oversimplified
You should check out some of the videos by Extra Credit. They also do history animated videos and are very good. Specially check out the video on Sinking The Bismarck.