BRITISH FAMILY REACTS! The FALLEN Of WORLD WAR II

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 เม.ย. 2023
  • Aidan, Gaynor and Sophie react to the fallen of World War 2 where they see how many people died from each nation, how many were killed in total and how they died.
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  • @kinjiru731
    @kinjiru731 ปีที่แล้ว +606

    The Soviet Union death were so high that there's an entire lost generation of men. Population numbers in Russia and other former soviet states still suffer dramatically today from that loss.

    • @oldsport24
      @oldsport24 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      you're right

    • @lowtdave
      @lowtdave ปีที่แล้ว +68

      This is something nobody knows about anymore. Everything is just, Russia bad. It's sad.

    • @ksiadzrobak5369
      @ksiadzrobak5369 ปีที่แล้ว

      Russia must die.

    • @dulguuntsg8389
      @dulguuntsg8389 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Before ukraine war there were 4mill man short in russia. Now the number raised a much I think...

    • @carsismyaddiction6919
      @carsismyaddiction6919 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      and the reason for so many deaths is the legacy of the monarchy... the Russian Empire was backward both in terms of technology and in terms of industry and agriculture, and the Communists simply did not have time to restore the backward country after the First World War. (therefore, the Soviet armament was not infrequently lagging behind the German, there was not enough food at the front, medicines sometimes too.) if the revolution had happened earlier, the losses could have been reduced tenfold.

  • @grekys2908
    @grekys2908 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Mathematics of civilian casualties in the USSR in 1942. Three Germans were killed near the village. The village was surrounded and burned down along with all the inhabitants in the number of 188 people. This is one example out of tens of thousands

  • @user-jw8rl8hx8r
    @user-jw8rl8hx8r ปีที่แล้ว +159

    Мой дед прошёл всю войну. От советского Союза до Берлина. На стене Берлина его роспись. Артиллерист.

    • @Nclake5485
      @Nclake5485 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      With the amount of casualties the soviet union had I never thought it would be possible for a soldier in the soviet union to see the war from beginning to end

    • @chuck_quincymrp2640
      @chuck_quincymrp2640 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      ​@@Nclake5485в этом видео потери Германии на восточном фронте занижены в 4 раза, потери у Немцев на Востоке были почти такими же как у Советов, но видео создано для Западных людей, поэтому тут многие смерти советских граждан рассматриваются как вина Советского руководства... Политика

    • @hawker870
      @hawker870 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@chuck_quincymrp2640 ничего здесь не занижено , хуйню написал.

    • @marksherry6589
      @marksherry6589 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@chuck_quincymrp2640 not right, if German loss was as you suggest the total Ost heer all branches the war is over in mid 1943. Country births prove thisfor year by year. Although the Bundesarchiv now admits to 3.5 million troops KIA in the East.

    • @Trubadurushka
      @Trubadurushka 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Царствие небесное вашему деду. Память о наших героях никогда не умрет!
      Мой дед воевал, но знаю почти ничего о его боевом пути. Его не застала, а сам он никогда не говорил про войну, только какие-то обрывки фраз, но не в контексте, что вот во время войны был где-то там, а просто «я был в городе Лида» и уже потом начали понимать, что во время войны. А если судить по сайтам, он дошёл до Чехии, а потом ещё воевал и на Тихом октане против японцев. А бабушка всю жизнь вспоминала как бомбы падали. Всегда рассказывала «Сирена. Мы бегом в окопы. И как начинает бах, бах, бах… страшно, сидишь и думаешь, что сейчас на голову прилетит», а потом ходили осколки от бомб собирали

  • @hasanaliakhmedov6826
    @hasanaliakhmedov6826 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Azerbaijan was one of the countries in the USSR, out of 681,000 conscripts, 300,000 died, almost as many as US casulties, which is crazy because Azerbaijan SSR only had a population of about 3 million. One of the men who fought in stalingrad was my great grandpa, Rustam, who was shot in the legge and sent home in 1943.

  • @Rickety_Cricket
    @Rickety_Cricket ปีที่แล้ว +177

    My grandfather (American) enlisted around 19-20 - and fought after Pearl Harbor until the end of WW2. He came back a very different man. "Shell Shocked" now known as PTSD. He died 8 years before I was born. He became an alcoholic - he died in a fox hole he dug in a snow bank 2 blocks from his apartment. I always wonder if he heard a car backfire or a gunshot and by sheer instinct dug himself in and died of exposure/hypothermia. It's so surreal. Who was he? What horrors did he see and experience in all of his service? I only know he did come across one of the concentration camps - and it broke his heart and mind. He became cruel and detached - but I still feel sorry for him. I wish I could have asked him questions. I still have so many questions that will never be answered. I know he became something of a monster after coming home once the war was over, but he served until the bitter end and deep down I know he never got any treatment or diagnosis - so he looked for the solution to his issues in the bottom of a bottle and never found any sense of peace - and that makes me feel such sorrow for who he could have been. But one thing is for sure; he was brave. He volunteered and enlisted of his own free will. He witnessed atrocities. And it mangled his soul and tore him to shreds. My poor, broken, yet courageous grandfather. If there is an afterlife, I hope he found the peace he so desperately wanted to find. 😢

    • @USMC-Goforth
      @USMC-Goforth ปีที่แล้ว +20

      PTSD is the beast that never sleeps. The most difficult part is the readjusting to civilian life after working so long as a cohesive unit.

    • @semiramisubw4864
      @semiramisubw4864 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      now quadruple that and u have the average eastern front. Still sad for you and ur granddad. Mine fought on the eastern front and got captured and thrown into a copper mine which collapsed later.

    • @startrack3898
      @startrack3898 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@semiramisubw4864 and then those wounded in eastern front got executed to end the suffering of the soldiers

    • @GT-mq1dx
      @GT-mq1dx ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Very sorry to hear that about your grandfather. War does ugly things to people, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

    • @marysue7165
      @marysue7165 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thank you for sharing his story. It has touched my heart

  • @jinyatta4103
    @jinyatta4103 ปีที่แล้ว +358

    That shot of the German soldier preparing to kill the civilian holding a child brings tears to my eyes every time. I've probably seen this video 30 times.

    • @dudermcdudeface3674
      @dudermcdudeface3674 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      "Tears" is a pretty wholesome reaction. I would have to say "unquenchable rage". The sort of people who did that are still around, and still hope to get a chance to do it again, to this or that scapegoat. They don't hide it. They brag about their little conspiracy theories that they made up in their heads to justify their hatred.

    • @jinyatta4103
      @jinyatta4103 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@dudermcdudeface3674 All too true

    • @beccaRey
      @beccaRey ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I had the same reaction, made me want to cry. Just heartbreaking! 😢

    • @hyenalaughingmatter8103
      @hyenalaughingmatter8103 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Jinyatta yeah its staged and you fall for it like a true sheeple.

    • @trixOsix
      @trixOsix ปีที่แล้ว +2

      its sad many of them were forced to do all of this, but the waffen ss willingly did all this which is terrible.

  • @justinmcgough3958
    @justinmcgough3958 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    It's sad seeing this video talking about the long piece but then knowing how recently the war between Ukraine and Russia has started, how tensions between China and the US have grown and overall how violent and messed up the world has been getting. So sad seeing how many innocent lives are ruined do to unnecessary hate, greed, corruption, and other rediculous reasons.

    • @bastetolesya7853
      @bastetolesya7853 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, the war is between Russia and Nato, to be exactly. Ukraine isn't independent since 2014. That is why Russia was negotiating with USA and NATO before conflict.
      Ukrainians don't mind to be slaves of USA to make Russia weak and made all for war. I was ukrainian till 2020, I know what I'm saying.

    • @paul1979uk2000
      @paul1979uk2000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It's why wars need to be nipped in the bud before it takes hold, otherwise it can escalate into something far worse and bigger, and I have a feeling that if the west didn't respond so forcefully to the Ukraine-Russian war, things might have escalated far worse.
      As the video points out, this is the longest we've had when it comes to peace since Roman times, at least in the sense of major peace, because clearly, wars still happen, but are far smaller in scale and will it last? I like to think so but you never know and personally, I feel if a major war does break out, it's going to be because of the US or China butting heads, basically, China rising as a power and the US not taking it too well, it wouldn't take much for it to escalate into something major, but then, the same could have happened during the Cold War and peace remained.

    • @yahudigahba
      @yahudigahba 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You pretend like the world is just turning with tensions. While the west has been raping Middle East for the last 30 years.

    • @italianspiderman5012
      @italianspiderman5012 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@paul1979uk2000oh man, I have some news for you.

    • @MrGeorge7823
      @MrGeorge7823 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Part of Human nature

  • @noirgames7561
    @noirgames7561 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    Вряд-ли в нашей стране возможно посчитать потери . Но одно можно сказать точно : не существует семьи , которая бы не потеряла предка на войне .

    • @nicklibby3784
      @nicklibby3784 ปีที่แล้ว

      Действительно?!? это верно?! насколько это было плохо?

    • @noirgames7561
      @noirgames7561 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@nicklibby3784 2 миллиона человек за первый год войны попали в окружение, но сколько погибло? Выйти из окружения, месяцами прячясь в лесу без возможности подтвердить свою личность , свою историю и не попасть под НКВД , с их расследованием против тех кто был в плену. . . уж проще второй раз попасть под призыв. Так у нас получаются ,,дважды убитые,, . Полицаи отдельная история , сначала они работают на немцев, потом всеми способами пытаются записаться в партизаны, а как начинается расследование - записаться в мертвые герои СССР. Да же историю смерти своих родственников невозможно 100% подтвердить. Ленинград - там самые загадочные и лживые истории. Как величайшую оплошность в планировании списали на блокаду. Сотни тысяч людей умерли , не из-за каких то немцев, а потому что старая система логистики была признана не эффективной и нужно было переходить на новую (эффективную). Ликвидировать северный центр снабжения и расосредоточить(из-за захвата такого цента осенью в Киеве, по доктрине централизованного снабжения). Вот только вся северная армия , беженцы с Украины, Белорусии, Польши , Латвии, Литвы, Эстонии все направились туда, где уже было приказано леквидировать центр поставок. Огромный промышленный город , вторая столица. Все силы на эвакуацию заводов и специалистов. Люди есть, оружие есть , припасов нет. Куда записать этих погибших беженцев? Приказ 227- ни шагу назад , пока на западе все думают, что заград отряды убивали солдат, на деле сами солдаты не правильно поняли приказ и думали, что их расстреляют. А офицеры не чуть не лучше - поддрежвивали опосения рядовых, хотя сами не знали как работает этот приказ. Слухи и страх быть убитым своими , убили больше , чем заград отряды . Есть в Ленинграде - ,,дорога жизни,, . Это маршрут через озеро , по которому доставлялись припасы во время осады. У нас в официальной истории написано, что это дорога героев, где самые смелые под обстрелами артилерии и самолетов, по хрупкому льду везли припасы. Там погибло двое моих предков. Но если сесть изучать вопрос очень внимательно, то можно обнаружить, что до дороги жизни от берега 18км, у немцев на северном направлении нет артилерии, которая бы могла стрелять на такое расстояние. Авиация? У защитников города её в 2 раза больше + ПВО с земли и флота. В статистике написано огромное множество погибших на этом пути. Но как они могли погибнуть? А если начать изучать ,, торгсин,, то сам дедушка Ленин встанет из мавзолея на красной площади , чтобы тебя расстрелять. Уж очень это темная тема. Если официально : это магазин для иностранных туристов, для обмена иностранной валюты на советский товар. Если не офицально: ломбард для обмена скрытого от приватизации на дефицитные товары. Офицально: закрыт до войны , а все причастные приговорены по статье за привышение должностных полномочий , с целью разбогатеть . Но есть в отчетах за 41й год пункт - трофейное золото . Его там несколько тонн. Откуда в 41ом у отступающей армии трофейное золото в ЛЕНИНГРАДЕ? Есть огромное множество доказательств, что в голодающем Ленинграде , меняли еду на ценные металы . Доставленную еду , для торгсина , записывали в уничтоженную под атаками врага. Но это никогда не попадет в книжки по истории.

    • @b4nterontilt245
      @b4nterontilt245 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Stalin's and high command's fault

    • @sitting_nut
      @sitting_nut ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@b4nterontilt245 no. they contributed most to winning the war , western contribution was small

    • @b4nterontilt245
      @b4nterontilt245 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sitting_nut they paid with so much blood only because Soviets let it happen. If only they cared like Allies losses would be lesser. Also Stalin was just as bad as Hitler

  • @pulsatingsausageboy2076
    @pulsatingsausageboy2076 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    The song she is thinking of that refers to the average age of soldiers being nineteen was from an artist named Paul Hardcastle back in the 1980’s and was actually referring to Americans sent to fight in Vietnam.

    • @fuzzhead76
      @fuzzhead76 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Correct...and the song does mention the average age of a soldier in World War 2 too: 26.

    • @dusky6280
      @dusky6280 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not "green fields of france"? About a 19 year old soldier in WWI?

    • @pulsatingsausageboy2076
      @pulsatingsausageboy2076 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dusky6280 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_(song)?wprov=sfti1

    • @dusky6280
      @dusky6280 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pulsatingsausageboy2076 didn't ask, but ok guy

    • @pulsatingsausageboy2076
      @pulsatingsausageboy2076 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@dusky6280 You responded to my comment first and I didn’t ask you but “ok guy”. Lol.

  • @rachelginter3616
    @rachelginter3616 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    My dad was a WWII VET..he was a field medic ...he told us that when he died he didn't want a 21 gun salute because he'd been shot at enough when in battle..he said that he even had his medic backpack shot off of him once

  • @jonathancathey2334
    @jonathancathey2334 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    The average age of a U.S. veteran. According to stephan ambrose, was 26 years old. The average age of a Korean War veteran, was 24. The average age of a Vietnam War veteran, was 21.

  • @t-72b34
    @t-72b34 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Мой дед, кавалер ордена Красной Звезды, танкист. Дважды тяжело был ранен под Воронежем, не дошёл до Берлина 40 километров....
    My grandfather, Cavaliers of medal Red Star, tank crewman, was twice injured v ery hard under Voronezh. And he was KIA near Berlin, before Victory
    Слава советскому солдату!

    • @TheKarlShow
      @TheKarlShow ปีที่แล้ว

      Смерть советским солдатам!

    • @t-72b34
      @t-72b34 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@TheKarlShow Земля тебе стекловатой, надеюсь на том свете тебе по заслугам воздастся
      Всего тебе хорошего)

    • @TheKarlShow
      @TheKarlShow ปีที่แล้ว

      @@t-72b34 Советские солдаты были отвратительными убийцами, насильниками и ворами. Они будут гореть в аду вечно.

    • @lilopka8887
      @lilopka8887 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      ​@@TheKarlShowмальчик, если бы не они тебя бы не было, иди учись

    • @messer722
      @messer722 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheKarlShow молодец, хрюкнул. Теперь можешь зигануть

  • @BTinSF
    @BTinSF ปีที่แล้ว +27

    There is a fantastic German TV series called “Generation War” that I can’t recommend enough. It’s about a group of friends including 2 brothers who are sent off to the war and what happens to them through the war and its aftermath.

    • @ryszardjanecki6998
      @ryszardjanecki6998 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Bardzo fantastyczny i bardzo tendencyjny

    • @nicklibby3784
      @nicklibby3784 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nazi propaganda

    • @JokerVidsSG
      @JokerVidsSG 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nicklibby3784 ⁠you have serious brainrot. You've seen too many of your American propaganda movies, so you probably think German soldiers are all Cartoon caricatures screaming "DEATH TO THE J3WS"

  • @SuperHotgun
    @SuperHotgun 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The song is true. We don't have many songs about the age of defenders. If you want, I'll give you examples. My grandfather was almost twenty years old. Gunner, two concussions, shrapnel in the shoulder. He lived a happy life.
    He didn't like to tell me about the war. Only on the ninth of May. When he could drink a little vodka for dead friends. I'm 41, I still remember all the little things I heard.
    My grandmother is a minor prisoner of a concentration camp.
    She miraculously managed to survive. She didn't say anything at all. When she became old and died (my parents took her to their home, in her old age she could not serve herself), huge stocks of food were found in her apartment, especially dried bread.
    The second grandmother lived in besieged Leningrad. Have you ever cooked sparrow soup? Did you know that after the blockade was broken, there was a carriage with cats in the train train? There were a lot of rats. Rats ate corpses and carried infections.
    Do you know that people didn't get sick at the same time? Couldn't afford to be sick!
    You know that we still have an inscription on the wall: "Attention, this side is dangerous during shelling!" (the shelling was carried out from the west, from the Pulkovo heights).
    Read about the norms for issuing bread by cards. Would you be able to survive? The loss of a food card is
    death!
    People were evacuated! First of all, children! There is a poem by Olga Bergolz. And there were victims. A lot! Children! The "Road of Life" took place in winter - on the ice of Lake Ladoga. The air defense was working at full capacity, but it was not coping.
    Schools and theaters were working (you can imagine how it was, especially in winter, the first winter was -30 Celsius, the blockade lasted almost 900 days, this is an all-time record). Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) is the cultural capital of the country. Tram tracks have been repaired. Shestakovich gave a concert. The seventh Symphony was written in besieged Leningrad.
    Sorry, I'm talking about a sore point. If you are interested, I can tell you more.
    Many children reported that they were adults. Even more minors joined the partisans (watch the 1985 film "Come and See", if you are impressionable, it's better not to watch).
    Very, very many men have died. There was a demographic crisis after the war. There were women left. Nature made it so that after the war more girls than boys were born. We are still recovering now. As far as I know, we still have more girls than boys. And the women are very beautiful.
    Grandfather is an artilleryman.
    Grandfather is a fighter pilot.
    Grandma is a nurse.
    Leningrad:
    Great-grandmother - arrested a downed fascist pilot (a family heirloom is a school graduation dress made of parachute silk =)).
    Grandmother - miraculously escaped death in a Nazi concentration camp (Germany paid her a lot of money every month after the war).
    Another grandmother (half-sister) worked at the factory.
    Minors went to the front (they lied about their age).
    Female fighter pilots and female snipers.
    "There is such a profession - to protect the homeland."
    We won the war, but the USA won the war (Я не знаю как перевести с русского, "победить" и "выиграть" у нас разные - слова. I do not know how to translate from Russian. "to win" and "to win" we have different words. In one case, "victory" is meant, in the other, "a win".)
    I would be glad to talk to you.

  • @zacharyricords8964
    @zacharyricords8964 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    My great grandfather passed away a couple years ago. He was i think 97 years old. He was a 2x puple heart, POW in germany. He was a truck driver/mechanic and he was in many famous battles. He was such an amazing man....

  • @garythornbury9793
    @garythornbury9793 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    when i was much younger, i worked at my dads barber shop and a lot of the clients were ww2 vets, most of them were very quiet, and never talked about the war, we even had 1 ww1 vet- he never talked about. im honored now that i got to meet them. my dad was a korea war tank commander- he never talked about it. he did say once that in one fight they were with ENGLISH TROOPs and they were good fighters.

    • @katzmax1
      @katzmax1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      One of the reasons why no one wants to talk about it afterwards is that not only have they experienced the horrors of war, but most of them have also done terrible things themselves. That is the nature of war. It is a mixture of guilt and repression. when my great-grandfather was dying, he was in a delirium (morphine) and was describing scenes he had experienced. this was 70 years later. we were standing by the bed and were shocked at what he had experienced. especially because he had never told us anything like this before.

    • @user-ju7jw1wf4n
      @user-ju7jw1wf4n 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@katzmax1совершенно верно.

  • @captainredbeard542
    @captainredbeard542 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I've watched this video myself then started watching reactions no matter how many time i've watched it the total death count always make me tear up just imagining the amount of death and the total number is horrific

  • @dudermcdudeface3674
    @dudermcdudeface3674 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The best-ever documentary about WW2 is "Apocalypse: The Second World War." Takes you through it step by step over six parts. Conveys the full impact as best as I've seen.

  • @theblackbear211
    @theblackbear211 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Actually, there were significant numbers of soldiers under the age of 18.
    The Royal Navy accepted boys as young as 14, the 15 was more common.
    I many countries no one was looking too close at the paperwork - so many underage lads enlisted.
    Somewhat famously, the most decorated soldier in the US Army, Audie Murphy,
    coming from a poor family, he had his sister lie on an affidavit certifying his age (he was 17)
    and was enlisted, despite being baby-faced and
    his enlistment physical listing him as: 5 feet 5.5 inches (1.66 m) and 112 pounds (50.8 kg)!

    • @Mariko991
      @Mariko991 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A lot of children fought in the Soviet Union, in partisan detachments (pioneers), withstood numerous tortures, but did not give up. One example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Guard_(Soviet_resistance)

  • @michaelmcgowen8780
    @michaelmcgowen8780 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Three uncles of mine served in the U.S. military during World War II; my Dad's brother Lawrence (U.S. Army), my Mom's brother George (U.S. Army Air Force), and my Mom's brother-in-law Ken (U.S. Coast Guard/U.S. Navy). All three survived the war, although Lawrence was wounded twice, first in Sicily in 1943, then on Omaha Beach at Normandy in 1944. George re-enlisted in the Army Air Force after the war ended, finally retiring from the U.S. Air Force in 1972 after 30 years and three wars. Ken served in the Pacific fighting the Japanese.

    • @marysue7165
      @marysue7165 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ordinary people, doing extraordinary things

  • @DorfVG
    @DorfVG ปีที่แล้ว +51

    one of the worst parts of the holocaust is the fact that those who perpetrated it weren't the monsters that films and TV led us to believe, but were normal people who thought what they were doing was justified. Look up the book "Ordinary Men"

    • @PongoXBongo
      @PongoXBongo ปีที่แล้ว +7

      True. Villains don't see themselves as such, they see themselves as heroes. And heroes are those who win, not necessarily the "good guys". I was in grade school when the narrative taught switched from "how the West was won" to "how the West was lost" (referring to Westward expansion in the US).

    • @mrmops1586
      @mrmops1586 ปีที่แล้ว

      As a Russian, I can honestly tell you. Most citizens of the Russian Federation are sure that the Nazi regime in Ukraine and Russia is fighting against the Nazis. And all who know the reality are either dead or live underground fearing death.

    • @user-yi4pt1um9u
      @user-yi4pt1um9u ปีที่แล้ว

      Победа во Второй мировой войне была достигнута совместными усилиями стран-участниц Антигитлеровской коалиции. Значителен вклад в нее западных союзников, разгромивших и пленивших 176 дивизий. Но главную тяжесть борьбы вынес именно советский народ.

    • @mrmops1586
      @mrmops1586 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-yi4pt1um9u Каждый Русский человек должен знать, что если бы не коммунисты, нацисты бы даже не пришли к власти в Германии и тем более бы не напали на Русских, уже не говоря о помощи коммунистов нацистам вплоть до 41 года. После объявления же войны, коммунисты могли сдаться немцам и сохранить миллионам гражданам жизни, как это сделала Франция, которая потеряла в 50 раз меньше человек чем СССР, при том что сдалась. Напомню, сами коммунисты и свергли Николая за то, что он не хотел сдаваться немцам в первой мировой и погубил 10 миллионов граждан в ней. Самих же комуняк большие потери не остановили, и по итогу умерло в 2.5 раз больше человек ради "победы", которая не дала русским ничего, кроме голода, разрухи и поколения без отцов, но зато советы остались у власти и подняли свой престиж на мировой арене.

    • @redalarm8926
      @redalarm8926 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mrmops1586 Эм..."что если бы не коммунисты, нацисты бы даже не пришли к власти в Германии" Что? "уже не говоря о помощи коммунистов нацистам вплоть до 41 года" Они одни или ещё были страны? "После объявления же войны, коммунисты могли сдаться немцам и сохранить миллионам гражданам жизни, как это сделала Франция, которая потеряла в 50 раз меньше человек чем СССР, при том что сдалась" Чтобы Германия получила в своё распоряжение так нужные ей ресурсы и победила в войне? "Напомню, сами коммунисты и свергли Николая за то, что он не хотел сдаваться немцам в первой мировой и погубил 10 миллионов граждан в ней" Нет, народ был недоволен войной и проблемами ,которые она вызвала ,левые расшатали лодку ,а объединил их засланный Ленин(ну это если опустить подробности и про Временное правительство и тп). Ну я понял вашу логику , у вас коммуняки виновны во всех бедах войны ,лучше бы они сдались, а страну бы поделили на Протектораты, чтобы они отправляли ресурсы и рабов в Германию ,как это было на территориях восточной Европы." Итог-вам надо лечиться.

  • @AlejoJuares
    @AlejoJuares ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

  • @gregcable3250
    @gregcable3250 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    German soldiers are not Nazis unless they were actually Nazi party members. So, 500,000 "Nazis" did not die in the Battle of Stalingrad. This is a common misstatement/misunderstanding.

    • @Maddog-wm5xi
      @Maddog-wm5xi ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I cringe every time he says "nazis" because it makes modern generations think that every single person in Germany was a "nazi" like conscription wasn't a thing. I can't imagine how people would react if their government drafted them then everyone labeled them in a negative way.

    • @mechanomics2649
      @mechanomics2649 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The Weirmacht was an arm of Nazi Germany's military and were complicit in the atrocities conducted by the Nazis.
      This is a distinction without a difference.

  • @dead-anarhist6291
    @dead-anarhist6291 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Именно поэтому 9 мая это праздник со слезами на глазах. Славянский народ сражался не за режимы, а за свое выживание. Сталин великий лидер. Рузвельт и Черчель признавали что им не удалось бы совладать с Германией без СССР
    That is why May 9 is a holiday with tears in your eyes. The Slavic people fought not for regimes, but for their survival. Stalin is a great leader. Roosevelt and Churchill admitted that they would not have been able to cope with Germany without the USSR

    • @Respen
      @Respen ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Видимо лишь для нас. Правительство Америки слезами может и захлёбывается, но лишь от досады, что не удалось тогда нас перебить

    • @dead-anarhist6291
      @dead-anarhist6291 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Respen Они сразу после конца войны хотели удар в спину сделать даже план по операции был и назывался он Немыслимое.

    • @Respen
      @Respen ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dead-anarhist6291 это ясное дело, СССР у них развалить вышло, а после они сразу же с Россией то же самое решили проделать.
      В 90е они явно не могли подумать, что РФ сможет выбраться из этого кошмара

    • @ka4erga779
      @ka4erga779 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Хочу уточнить что не только славяне воевали

    • @dead-anarhist6291
      @dead-anarhist6291 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ka4erga779 Угу

  • @rodneygriffin7666
    @rodneygriffin7666 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    You'd think mankind had learned a lesson from this.
    It hasn't.

    • @dudermcdudeface3674
      @dudermcdudeface3674 ปีที่แล้ว

      The video argues that we learned, but obviously no memory is forever.

    • @juttaweise
      @juttaweise ปีที่แล้ว

      you cannot learn anything from something you didn't experience yourself, especially if something had occured quite some time ago. That's why there will always be wars. Add to that the sheer cult around soldiers, especially in the US, where you see parents proudly standing around the coffin of their son covered with the flag, that for me is pervers. As long as parents are proud that their sons are dying around the world for no reason at all, things will never change.

    • @noldo3837
      @noldo3837 4 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      Because who has list was Germany, not Nazism. Trump admires Hitlers, Meloni is fascist, Le Pen is fascist, whole India admires fascism...

  • @sideboob6851
    @sideboob6851 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Not sure if someone has already listed it but the average age of 19 was from the Vietnam War. The average age in WW2 was 23.

  • @flubber1557
    @flubber1557 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Its crazy how both my grandfathers (paternal and maternal) are alive over the age of 90. I wouldnt be alive nor would my parents if my grandfathers had been born a little earlier and died going to war. My great grandmother lived to be over 100. Its nuts sometimes the ride life might give you. I would pay my respects to every soldiers grave every day if I could for giving Americans today what they have. Red White and Blue forever.

  • @SotonSam
    @SotonSam 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I'm always surprised by how many people Germany actually had, their military was massive

  • @ryanhampson673
    @ryanhampson673 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Both my Grandfathers fought. My moms dad was in the US navy on a mine sweeper and my dads dad was in the British Royal armored core 7th fusiliers and was the radioman/loader on a Sherman tank in N. Africa and Sicily.

  • @jacd751
    @jacd751 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My grandfather was 🇺🇸 Army Infantry in WWII. He was captured 4 months into his 1st tour and was a POW in Nazi captivity for nearly 10 months until he and a handful of other POWs escaped & made it back to 🇺🇸/Allied lines with the aid of 2 German soldiers that they met on the way who didn't want anything to do with Nazi Germany. In exchange for acting as their "guards" doing a prisoner camp transfer when they came up on other German soldiers, my grandfather & the other POWs would vouch for them once they made it to allied lines. One of the Germans was an artist and gave my grandfather the 2-sided sketch/charcoal he made on while they spent the night in a German jail over Easter during the escape(it's quite the adventure!). One side showed a lush valley with a stream running through it and the other side was a bombed out cityscape on fire. That piece sat alone, in honor, in a double-sided crystal frame on a small table in my grandparents' living room. My grandfather only talked of his experience to my grandmother, my aunt(his daughter) & myself due to the things he witnessed & experienced over there. He only talked to me because of a school assignment where I had to interview a WWII veteran and present that interview/paper as a speech in class. He let me take that drawing by the German soldier that helped them escape to show the class during my speech. My grandfather unexpectedly died in 1991 and my grandmother passed in 2013. When she passed, my uncle had high quality copies of that drawing made for each of us in the family. My grandfather obviously had PTSD from his capture & time as a POW which is why he never spoke openly about it. He told me a tiny bit about "life" in the POW camp which was incredibly hard to hear but mostly focused on the escape & journey back to allied lines. He told my aunt MUCH MORE, which she wrote down in her journal at the time and has told me I can read anytime and that she left it to me in her will. I haven't asked to read it yet.

  • @adambrown3918
    @adambrown3918 ปีที่แล้ว

    19 - by Paul Hardcastle. Your mom gets big props for remembering this awesome jam! 👌

  • @Jesusisking2785
    @Jesusisking2785 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Not all german soldiers where nazis it is unfair to classify all Germans as Nazi

    • @cjjk9142
      @cjjk9142 ปีที่แล้ว

      The term Nazi then isn’t what it means now (neo Nazi). Nazi is just a party member. All Germans were nazi’s as it was the only party. He does say Germans throughout the videos

    • @archamtracovich8783
      @archamtracovich8783 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well most people support the concept of collective responsibility so the whole nation is blamed for mistskes of government or aggressive minority
      We can see it even today

    • @Jesusisking2785
      @Jesusisking2785 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@archamtracovich8783 True Very True

    • @mechanomics2649
      @mechanomics2649 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Wehrmacht was an arm of Nazi Germany's military. The video is an overview, it's not about splitting hairs.

  • @ruffnexs4470
    @ruffnexs4470 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    12:55 they looked at this picture and the first thing that came to mind was a movie, wow

  • @scavyboi
    @scavyboi 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the thing that gets me about this video is that each icon represents 1000 people, such a chilling visual

  • @Lucas6l5
    @Lucas6l5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My daughter last night while watching this video said "Dad I want my hair like Sophie's for school tomorrow" 😭 bless her little soul, she is blonde but adores Sophie to death

  • @bintheredonethat
    @bintheredonethat ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My dad, RIP, was a U.S. naval aviator in the Pacific Theater of operations. He flew transports. Went on to become chief pilot of a major regional airline.
    I worked with a guy who was in the Treblinka concentration camp. Had his number tattooed on his arm. He was Polish.

  • @MrElis420
    @MrElis420 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Welp, so much for the "Long Peace" now lmao

    • @b4nterontilt245
      @b4nterontilt245 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ye. It seems Russia wants milions of their people dead again

  • @OmegaS-117
    @OmegaS-117 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My great grandfather and great uncle both survived WW2 my great grandfather passed away in 1999 he was in the USAAF fighting in the European Theater and my great uncle passed away in 2011 He was in Navy on a minesweeper ship in the Pacific Theater

  • @gk5891
    @gk5891 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As I recall the Median Age was 19 and the Average was 23.
    That's from memory however, which is known to be unreliable.
    "Schindler's List" is a must see if y'all haven't seen it.

  • @himself177
    @himself177 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s wild to see people making jokes while watching exact part of video about staggering losses of lives

  • @oskarprotzer3000
    @oskarprotzer3000 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:02 you are referring to the song "19" which is about the Vietnam war :D The songtext is: In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was twenty-six
    , in Vietnam he was nineteen

  • @SerTasera
    @SerTasera ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My grandmother had to give birth to my Aunt Pat in the subway tunnels during a German bombing raid on London. She never said anything about the Blitz other than it was "absolutely dreadful". She married the first U.S. soldier that proposed to her, my granddad, just to get out of the country after the war.

  • @cosmicthespider7974
    @cosmicthespider7974 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I watched a documentary on London recruits going in and saying they were 14 and the enlistment office telling them to come back in when they were 18. The would leave and come back in and say they were 18

  • @denniss5505
    @denniss5505 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    If we had a second of silence for everyone lost to WWII we would have silence for 2.8 years… crazy!

  • @mariafury396
    @mariafury396 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The song you referenced was about the war in Vietnam, it douse refrance ww2 saying the average age of a combat soldier was 26, but says the average age of the same combat soldier in Vietnam was 19 which is for the most part true, due to gurilla warfare tactics used the Americans struggled and constantly needed reinforcement and so the age dropped due to necessity.
    Of course there were people who lied on there investment forms but that was the average ages.
    The song is Paul Hard Hardcastle "19"

  • @VerchielxKanda
    @VerchielxKanda ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Every time he says the average age is 23, it hits me so hard.
    Boys and girls practically. Dying as pawns on a chessboard.

  • @cookmatthew920
    @cookmatthew920 ปีที่แล้ว

    We all love each other.... we have forgotten that sadly.

  • @user-jf7rd1mg2i
    @user-jf7rd1mg2i 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    MY father was Marine in WWII. he was 22 and on a small Japanese island. He was 92 when he passed in 2014.

  • @Chimponaut
    @Chimponaut ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One thing I really dislike about that video, which otherwise is a very good one, is that they refer to all German soldiers as Nazi soldiers, when obviously not all of them was.

  • @eponaalbion
    @eponaalbion ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is why we remember them!

  • @adambee9975
    @adambee9975 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The youngest soldier to die was 13 that should give you some perspective on what was happening. the age of enlistment was 16 most didnt wait and the officers were happy to let them serve

  • @brucegreenberg7573
    @brucegreenberg7573 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Additional WW 2 films: Sophie’s Choice, and Saving Private Ryan.

  • @zackschwind1
    @zackschwind1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Same thing here in the the US we have the selective service so everyone 18-25 have to sign up by law, you dont actually have to serve but in the case of an emergency they may enforce it and draw from a lottery,during WW2 we had a draft, I'll give you an example too as far as the German soldiers my great-grandfather was stationed outside of Stalingrad fighting the Russians, but he couldn't stand the Nazi party he was pretty much forced to fight in the infantry and was eventually wounded when his magazine was shot while he was reloading and was thankfully captured by the Americans because this was towards the end of the war when the Americans moved in towards the west and spent the rest of the war in an American pow camp but a lot of them were forced but the stories that my grandfather with my great grandmother back in Germany after the war how they would find live ammo and grenades and artillery shells just lying around when he was a kid because nobody picked it up afterward

  • @revtoyota
    @revtoyota ปีที่แล้ว +77

    I can't with the fidgeting foot in the corner the entire video.

    • @braamz-_-3116
      @braamz-_-3116 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Just dont look at it then

    • @beverly.alford
      @beverly.alford ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Different brains require different mannerisms and activities to operate effectively 👍🧠😊.

    • @dilbertdoe601
      @dilbertdoe601 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Too much caffeine. 😬

    • @tayejus8413
      @tayejus8413 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      My daddy used to say "Only women cross their legs son".

    • @dreci3001
      @dreci3001 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He is young and should have no compulsive disorders, but that nervousness drives me nuts!

  • @barrybarry5803
    @barrybarry5803 ปีที่แล้ว

    It was such a relief to see that there were no Australian Military Deaths, New Zealand Military Deaths, and no Canadian Military Deaths... The greatest problem with the Internet today is the proliferation of TH-cam Videos by people that should be in Straightjacket's!!!

  • @kathleenchilcote9127
    @kathleenchilcote9127 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My father fought in WW2 he was in England to Normandy and fought in many battles including the battle of the bulge. He went all the way to Germany....

  • @westtell4
    @westtell4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The long/new peace ended last year

  • @Jakel79
    @Jakel79 ปีที่แล้ว

    everybodys jaw drops when watching that video

  • @SilvanaDil
    @SilvanaDil ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Along the lines of "Boy in the Striped P(y)jamas":
    "Schindler's List," "Sophie's Choice," "Life Is Beautiful" ("La Vita E Bella")....

  • @DR_REDACTED
    @DR_REDACTED ปีที่แล้ว +1

    12:35 We watched it in history class when i was in school

  • @richardmiller7018
    @richardmiller7018 ปีที่แล้ว

    Something for yourselfs to watch or listen to is Tom Clay's What The World Needs Now. The b side of the record is titled The Victors. I really don't think U Tube will let you show it on your channel.

  • @johncrow6669
    @johncrow6669 ปีที่แล้ว

    My father was in D-day, 2 uncles were in the British Air Force one was from Holand the other was from Oklahoma

  • @user-so3my6rx1v
    @user-so3my6rx1v ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yugoslavia will always be remembered as the fire that kept burning even after being doused by water multiple times with a people that love their freedom and nation so much that they'd give their lives one after another for it.

  • @toomasargel8503
    @toomasargel8503 ปีที่แล้ว

    15:34 they have bread cupons, they make potato field to city parks , they eat horses cats ,dogs ...

  • @jonymcqwin9751
    @jonymcqwin9751 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The number is incorrect, in total, the Soviet Union, according to official data, lost at least 26 million people, and according to unofficial data, more than 30 million.This is the pain of each of our families, so you honor the memory of those people who stopped this hell.

  • @SuperBenathon
    @SuperBenathon ปีที่แล้ว

    Need to watch ‘The Pianist’ brilliant but sad film

  • @Locke99GS
    @Locke99GS ปีที่แล้ว

    An example of how you can have some people of a higher age and a lot of people of a younger age and the average be 19:
    ((17*20)+(18*100)+(19*200)+(20*100)+(21*20)+(45*5))/445=~19.3
    My example demonstrating how 440 people of age 17-21 with the mean at 19, and 5 people at age 45. Most people in this example are younger. This _idea_ of proportionality scales to the millions of people who fought of various ages. Most were very young, some were older. Because there so _so many_ more of a younger age than of an older age, the average calculates out closer to the younger end.

  • @brucegreenberg7573
    @brucegreenberg7573 ปีที่แล้ว

    Re. Films of WW2, highly recommend Steven Speilberg’s Schindler’s List & Empire of the Sun. Also a small beautiful film about Jewish survivors, The Island on Bird Street.

  • @vegas7027
    @vegas7027 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Glad you reacted to this. It is a sobering video.

  • @balancedactguy
    @balancedactguy 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It should be kept in mind that the "Average Age' of soldiers INCREASED over time. A Brit who joined up in 1939 at age 18 was 24 by 1945! Americans who joined up in late 1941 at age 18 would be at least 22 by the end of the war.

  • @horizonbeatbox8148
    @horizonbeatbox8148 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    “One death is a tragedy, a thousand deaths is a statistic” - Josef Stalin

    • @queenxx1690
      @queenxx1690 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah Russian play heros but there were invaders too so in the end they had to protect themself because of their stupid alliance with Hitler they literally asked for waar so they got in in the end

    • @user-lp1pe6lc9k
      @user-lp1pe6lc9k ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@queenxx1690 хватит принижать мою историю,западной пропагандой. Если ты про разделение Польши, задайся вопросом почему Польша разделила Чехословакию за несколько лет до этого. И на тот момент союз не знал на сколько Гитлер жесток и ужасен, и в Европе много примеров когда с Гитлером дружили,советский союз спас европу, а вы любите нас принизить. Нас в разы погибло больше,чем евреев и мы не просим никаких особых прав для себя, просто не передёргивайте нашу историю.

    • @queenxx1690
      @queenxx1690 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@user-lp1pe6lc9k speak English or not at all

    • @nmoret2991
      @nmoret2991 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@queenxx1690 ваш ответ это все, что нужно о вас знать

    • @b4nterontilt245
      @b4nterontilt245 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nmoret2991 Better dead than red

  • @schattenwolf2044
    @schattenwolf2044 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    19:55
    As strange as it may sound,
    That ,,The Long Peace" was possible is also due to the result of 40 years of efforts by the government in Bonn (West Germany, 1949-1991)
    The Bonn politicians have in 40 years
    have done their utmost to keep the world and Germany peaceful.
    As a country that was responsible for the Second World War,
    Germany after Hitler made sure that never again a country would do what had been done in its name.
    With its foreign policy and its policy of détente, the "Federal Republic of Germany", which served peace, gained trust in the world during the Cold War.
    Whether in Russia, America or China.

  • @WaywardVet
    @WaywardVet ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Average age of 19 sounds like when they were enlisted. I enlisted as a combat soldier in a much later war, and at the ripe old age of 21 i was the 3rd oldest guy in my Troop. Nearly all 18, one 17 year old, a few 19s, and old people like me over 20 throwing off the average.

  • @gregorywright2798
    @gregorywright2798 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There are winners and wars it's just at a high cost.

  • @heywoodjablowme8120
    @heywoodjablowme8120 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    G quoting a song about the dead in Vietnam not WWII. I got the reference though, way 2 go.

  • @toomasargel8503
    @toomasargel8503 ปีที่แล้ว

    24:35 in Estonia left many 2 meters wall artelery punkers.

  • @JPMadden
    @JPMadden ปีที่แล้ว

    1) As of the end of 2022, about 167,000 American WW2 veterans were living. That's only 1% of the 16 million who served.
    2) I was not familiar with "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas." It is historical fiction, and apparently many have criticized it for being too fictional. Some have even called it a "fable."

  • @jimmybobsap8729
    @jimmybobsap8729 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think about when I wish I were born too but what are my circumstances in each time period?

  • @chrisvallia3602
    @chrisvallia3602 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sad part is that it was most likely more then that😭

  • @lumbeeman01
    @lumbeeman01 ปีที่แล้ว

    Queensrÿche- Empire lol I wore that album out.

  • @bdoeden64
    @bdoeden64 ปีที่แล้ว

    Minor correction, the average age of US soldiers in WW1 and WW2 was 26 if I am not mistaken. UK I think would be about the same.

  • @Tobonocom
    @Tobonocom 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Actually the average age of 19 refers to american soldiers in the Vietnam war, not WW2.
    The lyrics we are talking about are from the Paul Hardcastle song "Nineteen".
    "In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was 26
    In Vietnam he was 19"

  • @jinyatta4103
    @jinyatta4103 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you're looking for something more fun, I'd like to see a British take on Trevor Noah's "How the British took over India" stand up set. I know the Blokes have done it, but I think you might find it funny.

  • @remo27
    @remo27 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He lies about the US not targeting military targets. Undoubtedly the firebombing raids on Tokyo, Yokohama and such did kill many civilians. But they were done because the Japanese did not produce most of their war material in big factories, but instead in little civilian owned shops, which it was impossible to separate from the general homes. And if he's talking about the Atomic bombs, well, Hiroshima was a military target. 1) It was the home of the Japanese 2nd Army. This was the army charged with protecting Southern Japan against the American planned invasion. Between 44000 and 80 thousand soldiers were based in Hiroshima. 2. ) Since it was unbombed it was a communications hub and home to one of the few functioning Japanese early warning radar systems. 3. ) There was a Japanese armed services airbase in Hiroshima as well. Those three things, plus the fact the US targeting committee didn't know there were any US POW's in the city (There were actually a few) Led to us choosing it. And while there were still 200 thousand or so civilians living in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing, most of the prewar civilian population had been evacuated over the years. Nagasaki wasn't as important, but it did have two very large war manufacturing plants.

    • @Ra111den
      @Ra111den ปีที่แล้ว

      Great comment justifying murder, thanks psycho

    • @remo27
      @remo27 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Ra111den Yes, you do sound like a psycho. A psychotic individual would believe that war was conducted with flowers and butterflies and didn't involve the killing of humans after all. So tell me, how long have you needed medication to deal with reality?

  • @CaddyJim
    @CaddyJim ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think every Western Country should watch this video possibly following watching the movie *(Saving Private Ryan)* especially Americans who constantly complain not knowing how good they actually have it

  • @redactedredacted4080
    @redactedredacted4080 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A lot of the bombing of civilians, depends on what you classify as a civilian target. For example, a lot of bombing was targeted at factories produce in Tanks guns and shells. He’s targeting the factory a genuine civilian target or is it a military target? I’m not saying it’s a good thing or anything like that. But you can see what I can get confusing right.

    • @Maddog-wm5xi
      @Maddog-wm5xi ปีที่แล้ว +1

      For the most part it's true that bombing raids were directed at military targets and I feel alot of people today don't realize how inaccurate munitions were back in the 40s, it's not like we could send one jet up and drop a laser guided bomb through the factory's smokestack, these raids had hundreds of bombers to hit ONE target. British bombing raids were even more inaccurate due to them bombing at night (to avoid fighters). As long as civilians are around one side or the other will use them as cover, look at the video that came out of Ukraine of a Mig-29 launching rockets "at the houses" the person is filming from... what you don't see in that video is a tank that is hiding in those group of houses.

    • @redactedredacted4080
      @redactedredacted4080 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Maddog-wm5xi Exactly, the lack of PGM’s on top of targeting the means of production i.e. the factories make war material, makes it so much harder tell.

    • @juttaweise
      @juttaweise ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Maddog-wm5xi the bombing in march 1945 lasting some days and run across the outer western border to the eastern border of Germany, almost a straight line, by the RAF was aimed at civilians, as the british later said, it was to break their spirit.

  • @skyjust828
    @skyjust828 ปีที่แล้ว

    The average age here in the states may have been 19 because the draft age was 18. We also had people in the Japanese end of this war, so some parents had son's (& daughters) in Japan & some in Germany. I don't remember if anyone from Europe (back then England was part of Eu.😂) Was in Japan 🤔

    • @artsed08
      @artsed08 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Keep taking the tablets, dear.

  • @sergeidubovikov2313
    @sergeidubovikov2313 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Как в шоу сидят улыбаются,смеются...вот собственно и все)Эх вы..

  • @James-yg4xu
    @James-yg4xu ปีที่แล้ว

    Aiden your right that no winners in war except death. Oh what's up with the jumping foot

  • @alekseyandrienko9598
    @alekseyandrienko9598 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Около 30 миллионов Советских граждан погибли в этой войне и вот по этому День Победы для нас не просто праздник со слезами на глазах. Вы наверное смотрели Парад Победы на Красной площади? Посмотрите тогда и Бессмертный полк он проводится в День Победы, люди выходят на улицу с портретами своих дедушек,бабушек,отцов,матерей,братьев и сестер которые участвовали в этой войне

  • @tonywlaschin7842
    @tonywlaschin7842 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I think the average age of 19 refers to Vietnam?

    • @limeygg
      @limeygg ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was, you are correct.

  • @bobbyquinting3918
    @bobbyquinting3918 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The USA did not have mandarory military service. The young men volunteered for 2 reasons. Destitution and patriotism

  • @no_just_relax
    @no_just_relax ปีที่แล้ว

    Trust me you are living in the best time in the world, medicine has developed a long wey and standard living has went crazy

  • @anthonyfuqua6988
    @anthonyfuqua6988 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was purely fiction.

  • @PgPgDn
    @PgPgDn ปีที่แล้ว

    The song you are referring to is referring to Viet Nam aged soldiers.

  • @TheGuilty11
    @TheGuilty11 ปีที่แล้ว

    How many bomb shelters do you still have? Here in Finland we are required to build one if the housing area of more than 1200-1500m2 depending if it is private or business building. There is even huge underground network and "city" under our capital that can hold like 1.1 - 1.2 times the population of our capital safe :D I guess it is a bit different here near the good old mr. P than you have in your island :D One video about that is here if you are interested th-cam.com/video/CKdvq5PTORI/w-d-xo.html

  • @NatashaAvtonomova
    @NatashaAvtonomova 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Смотрите сериал Неизвестная война он на английском , поймете насколько это чудовищно по документальным кадрам и свидетельствам очевидцев .

  • @Tobi-ln9xr
    @Tobi-ln9xr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The woman in the middle acts like she never heard about a place called "Germany“

  • @moose2_the_o756
    @moose2_the_o756 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The average life expectancy for a man during the battle of Stalingrad was 16 minutes.......

    • @moose2_the_o756
      @moose2_the_o756 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But guys, this reaction was very bland. 3 bits of commentary?

  • @ronaldpagar6513
    @ronaldpagar6513 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excuse me but can you also please do WW2 timeline