German here. I once met a guy from Russia that came to Germany to work in a east german coal mine in `58. He told me he and his parents survived by cooking the wall paper to a thin soup. They didn`t ate the paper of course. Back then the glue was made out of some kind of vegetable starch.
В ход шло всё: клей, кожаные ремни, домашние животные, всё, что могло содержать в себе хоть какие-то питательные вещества. Когда подорвали склад с мукой, то оставшуюся пригодную муку мешали со сгоревшей для экономии... Каждый день умирали люди, многие прямо на улицах или в подъездах домов, не дойдя до мест выдачи пищи или до своего рабочего места. Есть множество хроник и фотографий. Очень страшная страница в истории Петербурга...
@@nansyraccoon7095 Una chica de los grupos de niños q huyeron de la guerra civil Española acogidos por la URSS " los niños dela republica" estuvo es San Petersburgo ,si no estoy equivocado es la chica q aparece en la foto del video cogiendo agua , contaba q en las labores de ayuda a la gente se distribuía en algunas ocasiones carne , muy poca , les dijeron q no preguntaran por el tipo de carne . tiempos muy crudos e innecesarios . Como dice alguien de mi país ,Julio Anguita " Malditas sean las guerras y los canallas que las apoyan ”. Saludos .
For some perspective on the Eastern Front of World War II in Europe, it, by itself, is the largest war in human history. Operation Barbarossa was the largest ground invasion in the history of warfare, with the Germans marching four million men into the USSR along three separate fronts. The sheer scale of the fighting makes the Western Front look like a schoolyard fight.
fact is the tragic part of their first march was that west ukr joined the nzi's and that is the main cause of the vast majority of civilian casualties that betrayal destroyed the main logistics of the rus defensive line it took many months to rebuild a new one almost a year....during whcih west ukr nzi alongside germ nzi's non-stop caused the most gruesome and revolting torture and murder of civilians possible.
Growing up in America watching movies like saving private ryan and how ww2 is taught in school, I figured America was the heroes of the war. The more I learned about ww2 as I got older, the more I realized russia is the true hero.
Germany and the USSR were never allies. They signed a non aggression pact so they wouldn't have to worry about fighting each other while they persued their own agendas. But they both knew they would eventually fight.
Germany and the USSR were indeed never allies, but German Empire and the Russian Empire were. It might be important to read into why and how the Russian Empire got toppled and who the culprits were to fully understand the scale of hatred many Germans had towards the USSR that replaced it. The inventors of communism play a big part in this as well.
They did invade Poland together though, that is a sort of alliance. The USSR supplied German war industry against the western allies, negating their blockage as well. Completely messed up the Allied plans for WWII.
@@PiggyPigFaceMight be because Nikolaus II was related to Friedrich Wilhelm II. Not to mention that Otto von Bismarck knew how important good relations between Russia and Germany were. Russian Germans exist for a reason. They were invited by Katharina II (Who was also a German who married into Russian royalty and became the empress of the Russian Empire) to live and thrive in Russia. Russian royalty and German royalty always mingled with each other up until the first world war. Germany and Russia were connected not only connected through economical interests, but also through relationships. Only when bolschewiks overthrew and killed the Zar (And his family) in 1918, following the october revolution of 1917, and (to shorten it) installed the USSR in 1922 were relations between the two completely gone. Some might argue that everything from 1914 onward was planned by people stronger than the royalty at the time to destroy these relations forever and ever. Only one winner to all this (1914-1945) and that is the USA, GB, the USSR and Israel aka the allied forces of the time. A loss for continental Europe. You not knowing that, tells me that you are either American or you don't know what you are talking about.
In the U.S., Veteran's Day was originally called "Armistice Day" and celebrated the end of WW1. On this day we tend to recognize the surviving "veterans" . At the end of May (it had been 30 May, but now it floats) we celebrate "Memorial Day". On this day we remember those who died.
Well technically Armistce Day didn't celebate the end of the war, but the cessation of fighting. The war ended when Gemany surrendered and then sign a formal peace That's why technically the Korean War is still ongoing. They called a halt to fighting but no formal end of the war has ever been concluded
Imagine a full packed stadium lets say Manchester's stadium fits 75,000 people now times that by 500 and you have an approximate of how many people died because of WW2. I only say this because I had to try a way to fathom the size of how many people that truly is and I am worried WW3 could be soon. I truly hope it doesn't.
Уже началась, если вы не заметили. Украине сейчас многие Европейскик страны, включая США помогают, против нас одних - третья мировая уже идёт, не первый год. Пока она не ощутимая, так как идёт ограниченным колличеством людей - больше игру напоминает, тренеровка так сказать, перед крупной битвой!! Сейчас вокруг нас, НАТО начинают союзников, из слабых стран собирать. И вот когда нам надоест в игры играть, тогда и вступят в игры, тяжёлое вооружение, ракеты полетят на дальние дистанции, с более мощной разрушительной силой!! Вот тогда и начнётся третий сезон, мировых войн!! ❤❤❤
Note that at Normandy, two beaches were American, two were British, and one was Canadian. The British were there, just not on Saving Private Ryan, though they did man the landing craft (they didn't use British crews in the movie because they couldn't find British landing craft or replicas, and thought using British crews on American landing craft would be dumb).
If Hollywood is to be believed the US fought and 'won' WWI & WWII with the likes of the British, French, Canadians and the commonwealth playing only bit parts. The Russians (Soviet Union) are never seen, heard or involved.
If you think about it that way, then Britain was also an ally of the Germans. The British signed a non-aggression pact. I'll list some documents: 1933. The Pact of Four (Italy, Germany, England, France). 1934. The Pilsudski-Hitler Pact (Germany, Poland). 1935. The Anglo-German Maritime Agreement. 1936. The Anti-Comirtern Pact (Germany, Japan). 1938. The Munich Agreement (England, France, Germany, Italy). 1938. The Anglo-German Declaration of Friendship and Non-Aggression (England, Germany). 1938. The Franco-German Declaration (France, Germany). And last one: 1939. Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (USSR, Germany) Based on your logic, Germany's allies also were: Britain, France, Poland =)
I’ve been to Gettysburg. It’s one of the most somber places I’ve ever visited. There was an eerie silence and a heavy presence while walking the battlefield. It was like I could feel the dead walking with me. I hope to make it to Normandy someday.
I went in April 2009 when I was 14 and can confirm your statement. We as a species need to show more reverence towards invading each others personal space and quit forcing others to violate their own will, and allow them the chance to respect ours.
I raise a toast, to absent comrades and fallen friends. Fair winds and following seas until we stand the watch together again on those streets paved with gold. Oorah!!!
Firestorms didn't just happen in Japan. They happened in Hamburg and Dresden in Germany. Dresden was the worst because it was struck because the Allies had run out of targets to bomb. Some of the survivor accounts were heartbreaking. The worst was a woman who lost her baby when the wind from the firestorm sucked the child from her arms and pulled it into the flames. Teary now. War is a series of catastrophes followed by victory. - Georges Clemenceau
Great reaction Ash! You mentioned your grandfather and his experiences taking place at the same time as your birth. Please consider really researching his experiences. I lost my great-grandfather when I was four years old. Everyone in the family knew he served in WWI as a Private in the US Army. I spent the better part of a year looking into his experience keeping in mind that he was on 17 - 19 years old at that time. For me, it was a wonderful experience! I even went to France to visit the fields and hills his unit was assigned to. To top it off, I even meet the grandson of the unit's commanding officer! It was a life-changing labor of love. Important, please consider starting to collect photos, letters and other materials from other family members before they are lost to time.
For imagine scales of WW2: Cemetery for american soldiers (3 sq.yards per body) could take land about 30% of NYC Central park, Cemetery for USSR soldiers - could cover 37% of Manhattan, or 103% of Westminster (just graves, no roads, no footpaths between) Starve-dried (and grinded) corpses from Auschwitz could 6 times fill "Elizabeth Tower" up to the top and leave a little (25 ft tall) pile nearby. Estimated pyramid combined of of all fallen in WW2 will be 1.14 times highter than Great Pyramid of Giza
10:11 Not all German forces were Nazi's. That's a distinction I was taught in my history classes. Rommel is one of my favorite heros of WWII, who gained the respect of allied leaders for his war conduct, and his opposition to Hitler's orders to send in minorities. He was just an honest man fighting for his country, even if to us he was on the wrong side. Depressingly he was also killed by his own side because he was suspected in an assassination attempt on Hitler.
In the US we have Veteran's Day for all Veteran's on November 11th, old Armistice Day, Memorial Day for all US military killed in Wars, and Armed Forces Day for US Military members on active duty.
Thanks for reacting to this - Ash really seemed to struggled with this one. Also, thanks Dave for bringing up that Russians civilians suffered massive numbers of assault as did German civilians. Its always mentioned regarding Russian soldiers but it went both ways, sadly.
The fact that every German Landser is called a Nazi in this video dehuminizes their deaths and doesn't represent the loss for each of their family, even though they were on the wrong side of history, doesn't mean they didn't have friends, family and relatives who mourned their deaths just as much,as it does with every other soldier during this conflict. Not every national socialist was part of the military and not everyone within the military was a national socialist.
Нацисты не были людьми, они были хуже зверей, моральные уроды. То, что они творили исключает всю человечность! Их родные и любимые имели возможность плакать и горевать по погибшим, а в СССР нацисты вырезали деревни и горевать по близким было уже некому. Но нацисты не просто убивали, они убивали очень жестоко, им нравилось издеваться над простыми людьми так, что даже представлять это страшно! В России и странах СНГ есть люди, которые слышали эти истории от первых лиц, я не исключение. Так вот, ни капли не жалко нацистов и их скорбящих родных! У моей прапрабабки было 16 детей, выжило только 2! Как думаете, она задумывалась о чувствах друзей нацистов, когда убивали её детей? Тараканы заслуживают больше почести при смерти, чем нацисты
Leider fehlt Leuten aus diesen Ländern die Weitsicht , da sie halt selber in ihrer Echo Chamber aufgewachsen sind. Krieg ist kein Marvelfilm wo Superhelden gegen Superschurken kämpfen die Wahrheit liegt in der Regel in der Mitte. Die Sieger schreiben die Geschichte, wodurch auf individuelle Schicksale bei der Opposition geschissen wird.
The author already corrected himself. As a half Russian/Kazakh, i see your point. But for my ancestors, German uniform will always be a red tally for a bull. Sorry, but for me too. I don't think they cared what political party those people were supporting. Enemy is the enemy. Especially after all the monstrosities they've covered Europe with.
Regarding Russian revenge on German civilians. It would be foolish to exclude cases of violence, but they were by no means welcomed and were punished in the Soviet army by execution on the spot. What's the point of the part about Stalin and the Gulags?
I suggest anyone read the book "Ordinary Men" by Christopher R. Browning. It shows how regular soldiers and civilians can be corrupted by ideology. How people can start being violently opposed to these sorts of atrocities and just a few short years later will become willing participants.
USA has Veteran's Day - those who served; Memorial Day - those who died in service; Armed Forces Day - those currently serving. The first and third are celebrations - the second is not a celebration.
The fire bombing was way more devastating than the atomic bombs. One bombing run of 334 B-29s bombed Tokyo with 1,667 tons of napalm and incendiary explosives, killing 100,000 people and injuring far more. The atomic bombs were devastating and tragic, but the U.S. killed far more people with conventional bombs.
There's quite a few factual errors, and errors really based on exclusion Factual error at 6:15 He states the Germans took Stalingrad. They did not. Famously they captured 9/10ths of the city and claimed victory but by hanging on the Russians ultimately won Another factual error at 11:44 (by exclusion) Maybe he excluded them because they were so minuscule but the Nazis occupied the British territories known collectively as the Channel Islands At least 3 Jews were deported and executed - or maybe he included them elsewhere as they were not deemed British subjects? Another factual error at 14:00 Though this may be a matter of semantics regarding Lenningrad There was a siege. The city was MOSTLY surrounded. But it was never completely cur-off And that's how such a large city of so many people managed to hold out for the entire time Though initially the Soviets were caught with poor structures and thus the first winter great numbers died because they weren't evacuated, and not enough food could be brought in But also in winter Lake Ladoga froze over and became a vital route for supplied that could be moved across the frozen surface at multiple points At 17:05 he excludes other allies attacks on Japan - again minuscule compared to the US effort The British Pacific Fleet launched carrier attacks on mainland Japan and also shelled cities with gunfire - another thing the Americans also did - which he doesn't mention. Nor does he mention civilian deaths from submarine attacks Which reminds me... The greatest loss of life in a ship incident happened in the Baltic when 9,400 people died at the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by a Soviet submarine. Depending on whether he includes India and China (October to November 1962)- at 20:50 of the video because they have fought each other, albeit in limited wars. China has fought the 'allies' by proxy in the Korean War so he's ignored that too. You say the video is 6 years old.. but even that's not far back enough to have excluded the wars that took place in the former Yugoslavia and subsequent military action such as the US bombing of Belgrade The several wars between India and Pakistan cannot be described as 'colonial' wars, nor those between Israel and various nations (except perhaps the Suez Crisis - a post-colonial war where France and the UK wished to re-establish their power) The Konfrontasi between Indonesia on the one hand, and the newly independent Malaysia on the other (backed by Australia, the UK, NZ) also would not be a 'colonial' war as it was between two nations not colonies of the same nation. The Falklands War was not a colonial war either
I'm American and we have politicians that describe other Americans they disagree with as "communists, Nazis, socialists and fascists" and I'm like... what? Do you even know what those words mean? But then, one of those people did talk about the "gazpacho police", so...
This video gives me perspective on our current situation in Europe & Middle East. For some foreign wars are in far away lands and a casual colonial expedition, televised on evening news or talk shows with a few odd 100s or thousands exclusively soldiers lost. For others more geographically connected, it's an existential conflict that ravages entire populations and changes borders. Depending on where you stand, the approach and consequences are different.
Thank you for this reaction. I showed this to my class (U.S. History) five years ago, and it is so amazing. Your wife's dialogue and reaction was emotional and impactful. Great video
The Dan Carlin podcast is called “Super Nova in the East” and it is amazing. It’s quite long I want to say over 8 hours but he goes over everything from beginning to end. Definitely check it out if you want to learn more.
Btw Ash, most of Auschwitz birkenau II is off limits to the public including school tours. Iirc only a third of Auschwitz is allowed to be toured or explored due to the bodies and items of clothing littered around still. There is a DR 52 class steam locomotive that lives at Auschwitz in restored condition but it’s held in a storage shed somewhere on the Auschwitz property. The class 50 and class 52 kriegslokomotiven carried the majority of the holocaust victims and freight to the eastern and western fronts of the war.
Dachau was the first death camp, it was among the worst along with mauthhausen. Mauthhausen was very a brutal extermination camp, very few escapes or survived.
Total losses: of USSSR - 26.6 million people. Of which, the losses of the Armed Forces amounted to 8,668,400. The rest were civilians killed by the Nazis.
In addition to The Boy in Stripped Pajamas, highly recommend these films dealing with the Holocaust: Schindler’s List, The Island on Bird Street, a small but extremely compelling film about a Jewish boy who escapes into the sewers of the Warsaw ghetto , pursued by Nazi hunters when his father is taken in a mass roundup of civilians.
I always tell the same story to illustrate what pretty much every family experienced in ussr after ww2. My grandgrandfather had eleven sons, only two of them returned after war (one more as we found out not so long ago survived the concentration camp and stayed in europe after war) so of these two both were severely shellshocked and traumatized and I experienced it with my own grandfather when i was little maybe like 6-7 yo and he was 90 something years of age. We were walking near the road and some kind of loud bang happened, he pushed me to the ditch beside the road and dived in it himself. After maybe ten minutes i got out as i suppose i hit my head while falling and fell unconscious, he was still in the ditch in some kind of trans, muttering in georgian: "air-air, keep the head down people, get to the cover". I ran to the house and called my father and uncles, we were near the granddad in ten minutes and he was still on the bottom of the ditch muttering. Its truly the blessing our neighbor was serving in ww2 as well and he somehow managed to get granddad from this state but to this day its literally the scariest thing i have seen.
The Massacre of Nanking.. is probably the most disturbing thing in human history, it was truly evil and the deepest depths of hell, on the shit that took place there.. if there is a hell, those people lived it alive
the most wrenching song to hear it SGt. Mckenzie. omg. hits me hard. for all the friends. family members that i've lost. as someone from Scottish decent. in many wars. from ww2. Korea. Vietnam and many in both wars we had in the middle east. and even the battle that happened in Somalia. My family all has been in the service. I went to join after my brother joined and i saw all my friends dying. My week with them, them giving me wavers for my tattoos and other issues and ultimately being turned away. Broke me. I suffered a lot of sucicidal thoughts. my brother made it back thank god. but i saw him struggle so hard with it mentally. we became drinking champions. drugs. The need to serve might not hit everyone but it did me. The suicide rate for those who volunteered during ww2 and were 4F like me. most killed themselves. today is a day that hits me hard. i'm not even super patriotic. Just love my friends and my brothers. I can't imagine what it was like and i wish i could trade my life for all of them.
Just a huge thanks to those of the former USSR who gave their lives. In the east, the USSR faced off with about 150 German divisions. We in the east, the Americans, UK et al faced around 59 German divisions and we had our hands full just dealing with that. Had Germany NOT invaded the USSR we would be living in a decidedly different world.
The Munich Agreement of 1938 (also called the Munich Agreement) was an agreement between Germany, Great Britain, France and the Kingdom of Italy, drawn up in Munich on September 29, 1938 and signed on the night of September 29-30 of the same year by German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Prime Minister of Great Britain Neville Chamberlain, French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were not allies. Hitler hated the Soviet Union and Communism in general. If Hitler never invaded the Soviet Union, (which would have never happened) then Stalin would have invaded Germany, when his army was ready. Edit: At the beginning of the war, Germany and the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact, That means they would not attack each other, if the other did shady stuff. They also traded things, but the main thing that came out of the pact, was dividing Poland when the two invaded. Little oversimplified but, it is too much to explain in detail.
@@GunLinser Well yes, Stalin was originally going to sign with the Allies, but they weren’t pledging anything to defend Poland, (by anything I mean less troops than Hitler) so Stalin just signed with Hitler. That was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, unless you are talking about the Tripartite Pact. The Tripartite Pact was a different thing all together. It was the Anti-Comintern Pact, or the Pact of Steel (which would be come to be known as the Axis Powers) Which majority of those countries joined because they were forced, wanted to carry favor, or joined for protection against the Soviet Union, because the USSR, would eventually annex the Baltic State countries.
@@FxreverNxthingDid you know that during the Millitary talks between Britain, France and the USSR the British led Admiral Drax has no authority from his government to sign a Millitary alliance with the USSR? Also when Admiral Drax arrived in Moscow on the 12th of August 1939 he admitted that not only did he have no authority to sign a Millitary pact with the USSR but that his government had no millitary plans for a defence of Poland. This is one of the main reasons why the USSR signed a non aggression pact with Nazi Germany. I can send you primary source documents on the Anglo Soviet millitary talks if you like but its in Russian.
I'm proud of my father, he was part of the effort to liberate the camps. He named me for his beloved big brother who died while fighting the Nazis. He was one of the roughly 10-25 million saved by the dropping of the two nuclear bombs. They were brutal but many historians estimate millions of deaths, mostly Japanese civilians if an actual invasion of Japan had been necessary. I was one of many who got live because the fighting ended, had it now well who knows. The evil that controlled Germany and caused so much of the deaths is incomprehensible. WW I was chemical weapons and WW II showed the depths of depravity, the will of good people to fight it and yes the nuclear weapons that finally scared the powers into the "long peace" ... we can't say never again because there are people like Putin who gain power and just feel they can do whatever they want.
I was hopeful when I watched this back when it was released. Then we hit the past few years and damn, we've cocked it all up again. I know the numbers are still small compared to WW2 but any death as a result of greedy, corrupt, power-hungry leaders is a tragedy.
Leningrad history: - Dad, how did we survive? - Our puppy saved us. - Why didnt he save mommy? - She couldnt eat him... Now you know why "russians dont smile"
The German people knew what was going on, but they were afraid of the Nazis too. Anyone who spoke out was rounded up and disappeared. Now, what would you do again?
A brutally sobering video, 1 that I wish every single human on this planet would watch. Something like this cannot be allowed to happen again. Good reaction guys.
With the advancement of weapons it won’t, if Hitler pulled this shit in this era him and his regime would be met with pin point drone strikes, precision strike missiles, hypersonic missiles etc they would all be dead within days of invading Poland. Hell on D-Day one single AC-130 gun ship could’ve absolutely obliterated Omaha beach without a single American casualty but instead in those days it was a tactical disaster that led to absolute carnage due to tanks sinking and getting stuck in the mud, bombers missed key nazi targets etc. They completely failed at softening the targets before storming the beach. War was so much harder without technology, it was literally Everyman for himself like the opening scene in saving private Ryan.
We have Veterans Day in the US on Nov 11th. It's mostly celebrated by government employees getting the day off work and we (veterans) do not and still have to work lol.
I don't agree with the narrator calling all German soldiers nazis. German soldiers were nothing more then the soldiers of the allies, they were drafted into the army and sent to fight by their government. There is so much about WW2 that is ignored, like the British and French declared war on Germany for invading Poland and at the same time ignored that russia invaded Poland with Germany. Then you have that muslims also joined the German army to round up the Jewish people in Eastern europe.
The dirty little secret of WW2 was that the British and French declared war on Germany for invading Poland, but the British and French ignored the fact that russia/soviet union also invaded Poland with the Germans, and they did not declare war on russia/soviet union. The Germans did not start WW2, the UK and France did when they declared war on Germany.
@ZXSPEX Once again, the facts are facts. Your armchair quarterbacking holds no reality in how history played out. What the Germans you say were planning is just hear say words on paper that never had a chance to materialize, because the brits and french declared war on Germany before any plan's they had could be launched.
America bombed wooden Tokyo, drawing crosses. This operation was called "fiery crosses" and was a response to Pearl Harbor. Tokyo is a peaceful city, but Pearl Harbor was a military port.
All Japanese civilians were considered enemy combatants if the planned invasion of the home island actually took place. This was also true when the fire-bombing campaigns were being carried out in late 1944 to early 1945. When a B-29 Superfortress was shot down over the home islands, and the aircrews parachuted out of the planes, the Japanese civilians were not afraid to surround and beat to death American airmen before Japanese military police arrived. First-hand accounts recall this happening all the time to US aviators. This threat was no different when the Atomic Bombs were used. The Japanese Militarists were willing to sacrifice their entire population if the US landed troops on Kyushu and the Kanto Plain. Girls as young as 17 would be given sharpened wooden spears to fight the Americans and Commonwealth Forces. Every able-bodied male age 15 to 60 would be conscripted into the war effort. People in the West like to demonize the US for using the Atomic Bombs but compared with a land invasion or blockading and mass starvation of the home islands (which were the two other options), this decision actually saved far more lives than either of the other options.
If you haven't delved into the treatment of POW's in the different theaters of war. The "Bataan Death March" would be considered rather egregious and brutal treatment by the Japanese that would compare very closely to other global atrocities though not being close in sheer numbers. I am very thankful my Mother (I'm 68) read books to me about the military and the conflicts to make sure I appreciated how good we have it here in the U.S. and how humans can and will always have pockets of lunatics in every country. Unfortunately some of those are leaders. Great reaction! Love your respect shown to all of those who fight and support staff who save lives.
We had major wars about every generation (20 years) until nuclear weapons came about. Now the big nations have small nations do their dying for them without the expense of a major war.
Не у всех так, не у всех. Именно поэтому в России есть Бессмертный полк, горят вечные огни на мемориалах и самый главный праздник в году - 9 мая, День Победы! Мы не хотим забывать! В каждой семье был кто то, кто воевал, погиб. Великая стойкость наших предков, великая жертва ради мира!
Once again, I recommend War Without Mercy by John Dower for the Pacific War for times when you're more or less depression proof. I recommend entire seasons of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood for this purpose...
The Soviet Union has never been an ally of Nazi Germany. Never! Neither militarily, nor economically, nor politically. All the Great States of Europe concluded agreements with Nazi Germany on cooperation or non-aggression, peace, Economic Cooperation long before the Soviet Union. The Soviets saw what was happening and preferred the tactic of waiting until they had rebuilt their military and economy after World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Civil War, the barren years associated with famines, and the Winter War with Finland. All the states of Europe had already become politically "friends" with the Nazis, and so Stalin had to do the same and play a neutral card until the Nazis ' military objectives came to the point of invasion of the Soviet Union. Everyone had their own interests, and they had to finish them separately. Poland was historically taken, always in the wrong place on the world map. Between the German Empire and the Russian Empire. Like the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. ...... The Western states of Europe, and especially the United States of America, were very supportive of the rise of Germany before the war, and many financial groups, especially on Wallstreet, supported Hitler himself. So, none of the Anglo-Saxon countries can wash their hands of responsibility from the emergence of the Third Reich. ...... The German Nazi army was the best technically equipped army in the world during the Second World War. Also because Hitler had restored Germany's industrial capabilities a decade earlier and was supported by US funds. Of course, a large part of the military equipment at the beginning of the war, which the German troops had, was obtained from annexed and occupied Czechoslovakia. Our products and weapons were among the top of the world. And that is why Hitler wanted to win the Czech Republic and Slovakia without a fight and without damage. After the Munich Betrayal on the part of Britain, it could not have happened otherwise. That's why the Nazis were able to attack the USSR with so much equipment and weapons. ..... And nothing against the Jews, but they cry too much as if they were the only victims of the war. Much, much more people from ethnic groups died in the USSR and China. The largest Holocaust of the war was the slaughter of more than 30,000,000 Slavs. Where is the world monument to the sacrifice of our Slavic peoples? Where? ... Blasphemy! Jews and the West.
А не хотите вспомнить, как Польша вторглась в Чехословакию , в Тешинскую область, в 1938 году!? И Советский Союз не вторгался в Финляндию, ещё раз изучите историю, и только не по википедии, что предшествовало войне СССР и Финляндии, и с чего всё началось. @@toddjohnson271
Book recommendation: The Unwomanly Face of War. Hundreds of short interviews with Russian women soldiers who fought in WW2. The author won the Nobel Prize for it in 1985. It will take you a long time to read because of the toll just a few pages will take on you.
I recommend that you pick up and read Flags of Our Fathers the book about the flag raising at Iwo Jima every every single one of them except for two guys Ira Hayes and I can't remember who the other guy was survived the war Ira ultimately ended up drinking himself to death and the other guy that survived his family had no idea that he was even on he with you until after he had passed away the book starts off very slow because it introduces you to every single member who raised the flag mount suribachi. But it gets better the more you read into the book. There where people in Nakasaki and Hiroshima that where vaporized just leaving a shadow burned into the concrete. Some had the print of the paper they where reading burned on to their face, some had their cloths burned to their skin.
Unfortunately war and militaries will always be necessary as long as evil men are put into positions of power; and men are easily corruptible given absolute power. Jorge Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", “Only the dead have seen the end of war."
My father's parents were from a little village in Germany and fortunately they were able to escape and immigrated to the US in the early 1930's! My parents took my sister and I to Germany in 1982, I had just finished my sophomore year in high school so I was 16 and my sister was 14. We had relatives who lived in Germany, but my father made it a point to go to Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau! I didn't want to go inside, it was enough for me to see the fences and buildings and understand the atrocities that happened there! Later, when Schindler's List came out it really drove home how evil Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito were! To have the mindset that a certain kind of people were not worthy to be alive because they were different is boggling to me! Hitler wasn't even German, he was Austrian! Hatred in general is evil, but to have a mindset to think it was not a problem to murder millions of people I can't fathom that! That kind of thinking could not be allowed to continue; I'm glad The US, the UK, and many other nations came together to eliminate this threat! I cringe to think what the state of the world would've been like if Hitler would've succeeded? Unacceptable! Thank you to all of the countries who fought and died, military and non-military, to save us from this evil and insane way of thinking! Sadly, there are still some world leaders who are evil too and who must be stopped as well!
Sadly nothing happened to Hirohito During the war the Brits took certain honorary awards from him, but after the war restored these to him Stranger Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (KG), 3 May 1929; revoked, 1941; restored, 22 May 1971 Even as he surrendered he mentioned he was calling for it as if he was doing the world a favour.
its crazy that some day in the future all those men and women who severed or survived the war will no longer be alive to share their stories and experiences
The worst thing is so many that don’t appreciate what was sacrificed by men and women better than we could hope to be. The majority of people today are either clueless, or just don’t care. So long as they have TikTok and onlyfans and social media, people couldn’t care less how we got where we are today.
What shocked the Japanese about Hiroshima was not the scale of destruction per se, as Japan had experienced similar and worse bombings prior. It was that the scale of destruction came from a single bomb. One bomb could destroy an entire city, with Nagasaki to demonstrate Hiroshima was not just a fluke. The Japanese had no idea how many more of these new bombs the Americans had to wilfully drop and destroy each city at a time
No ... the Soviets didnt just throw bodies. This tired trope needs to end. They suffered major losses in the rout of the initial invasion of Barbarossa. Take that out of the equation and their losses are quite comparable to the German losses once they started turning them back. Higher casualties are to be expected as they were an attacking force going up against well entrenched fall back defense positions. This happens in any war, the attackers will generally lose more men vs organised defence
THAT DRUNKINN OLD INDIAN IRA HAYS. BALLAD OF IRA HAYS. BY KINKY FRIEDMAN. IRA HAYS WAS ONE OF THOSE RAISING THE FLAG. THIS SONG IS PART OF OUR AMERICAN HISTORY.
В этом видео тоже пропагандические данные, что Германия, Гитлера потеряла всего 2 миллиона. Если это так, то как в 45 году в Германии не осталось мужчин? Если из 80 миллионов всего 2 миллиона воевали? По данным Википедии СССР потерял 10 миллионов, а Германия потеряла 8 миллионов
I live in north western germany not far from bergen-belsen concentration camp. I went there a long time ago with my dad. It felt weird. On the surface it appears quite serene. There are no reconstucted barracks like in other camps, just a wide, open field of grass and a modern looking museum. And mass graves scattered all over. There's also the epitaph for Anne Frank who was killed there. Not many people there, just you, the wind, the trees and the dead. This Video and you talking about Auschwitz made me want to visit once more. I feel like in these times of a rising right wing in many countries and of course here as well, it would kinda refresh my resolve. Not because i need to remind myself on an intellectual level, obviously not. But to feel the shame again, the shame that is meant to prevent things like the holocaust from happeningevver again. Is that a selfish reason to go there? Maybe, but apart from remembering the victims, isn't this also the reason we remember? To not let it come to how it was ever again?
One fact that most people don't know is why the US targeted Japanese civilians with nuclear bombs. The entire country of Japan fought with a mindset that the entire population would rather die than be occupied by the US. The Japanese government fed propaganda to its citizens and convinced them that the US was going to do horrible things to them if they took over (rape, killings, etc.). The US was getting ready for a land invasion of Japan, knowing that it was going to take years and hundreds of thousands of deaths. The US decided to drop the bombs to try to convince the Japanese government how serious they were about winning, hopefully avoiding a land invasion. The jist of the move was "We're going to keep dropping nukes on you until you don't have a population left." The US happened to luck out, and Japan surrendered when they realized that the US was willing to literally nuke the entire country. The crazy part was that the US wasn't willing to keep nuking them. They were bluffing, hoping Japan would fold.
The Japanese were already trying to surrender through the Soviets. But the US wanted unconditional surrender and the Japanese wanted to keep the Emperor at least. The Japanese cities were already destroyed so atom bombs didn't really make make a big difference to them. The deciding factor was the Soviet Union declaring war on Japan and the US agreeing to let the Emperor remain,despite still calling it unconditional. The basic US strategy the last 6 months of the war was to burn to death as many woman and children as possible so their soldiers wouldn't have to fight in Japan. The biggest thing the A bombs did was it gave the Japanese a face saving excuse to surrender.
I'm sure im just not educated enough on the subject, but why was Japan's emperor Hirohito just allowed to get off scot free and live a long life? I just visited Hiroshima and there was zero accountability anywhere in the museum or park for any contribution that man had on those bombs being dropped in the first place.
Historically WW1 was the final deathnel of the Ottaman empire, realistically a lot of royal family European interminglimg of families of European nations which realistically was nothing more than a family squabble that these leaders did not have to fight because they had the power to send the populations to fight ( history in a nutshell)
Watching this reminds me of the British journalist, Malcolm Muggeridge,writing: “If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.” The reality today is within days of the unspeakable horrors of 7 October 2023 tens of thousands, more than a few college professors & students, rallied in support of pro-terrorists/ hamas. The sad reality of the end of WW2 in the Pacific is America's dropping of the two nuclear bombs prevented hundreds of thousands of American Soldier casualties trying to take the other Japanese islands in which civilians fought or were used as human shields by the Japanese imperial army. Further more, America's nuclear force ensure the 65 years of unprecedented peace in most of the world.
Of those soviet war deaths by end of 1941 germans took 3 millions soviet POWs (taken into the sistem - the ones murdered at surrender and there were a lot of those not included here) by february 1942 only 1 million were still alive of which less than 0.5 million were capable of forced labour. In all 57% soviet POWs taken by germns died comparing to 5% of other allied POWs. A rate higher than allied POWs taken by Japanese (excluding Chinese POWs). Very informative video RE soviet POWs in german hands: th-cam.com/video/OeRR100incE/w-d-xo.html
German here. I once met a guy from Russia that came to Germany to work in a east german coal mine in `58. He told me he and his parents survived by cooking the wall paper to a thin soup. They didn`t ate the paper of course. Back then the glue was made out of some kind of vegetable starch.
glue used to be made from animal material.
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В ход шло всё: клей, кожаные ремни, домашние животные, всё, что могло содержать в себе хоть какие-то питательные вещества. Когда подорвали склад с мукой, то оставшуюся пригодную муку мешали со сгоревшей для экономии... Каждый день умирали люди, многие прямо на улицах или в подъездах домов, не дойдя до мест выдачи пищи или до своего рабочего места. Есть множество хроник и фотографий. Очень страшная страница в истории Петербурга...
@@nansyraccoon7095 Una chica de los grupos de niños q huyeron de la guerra civil Española acogidos por la URSS " los niños dela republica" estuvo es San Petersburgo ,si no estoy equivocado es la chica q aparece en la foto del video cogiendo agua , contaba q en las labores de ayuda a la gente se distribuía en algunas ocasiones carne , muy poca , les dijeron q no preguntaran por el tipo de carne . tiempos muy crudos e innecesarios .
Como dice alguien de mi país ,Julio Anguita " Malditas sean las guerras y los canallas que las apoyan ”.
Saludos .
For some perspective on the Eastern Front of World War II in Europe, it, by itself, is the largest war in human history. Operation Barbarossa was the largest ground invasion in the history of warfare, with the Germans marching four million men into the USSR along three separate fronts. The sheer scale of the fighting makes the Western Front look like a schoolyard fight.
🙏💯% tragedy fact. 😢
fact is the tragic part of their first march was that west ukr joined the nzi's and that is the main cause of the vast majority of civilian casualties that betrayal destroyed the main logistics of the rus defensive line it took many months to rebuild a new one almost a year....during whcih west ukr nzi alongside germ nzi's non-stop caused the most gruesome and revolting torture and murder of civilians possible.
Growing up in America watching movies like saving private ryan and how ww2 is taught in school, I figured America was the heroes of the war. The more I learned about ww2 as I got older, the more I realized russia is the true hero.
Soviet Union, not Russia😊@@jimboramba
@@ganizhunis910 Doesn't matter, bro. These are our grandparents. Our families🙏🏻
Germany and the USSR were never allies. They signed a non aggression pact so they wouldn't have to worry about fighting each other while they persued their own agendas. But they both knew they would eventually fight.
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Germany and the USSR were indeed never allies, but German Empire and the Russian Empire were. It might be important to read into why and how the Russian Empire got toppled and who the culprits were to fully understand the scale of hatred many Germans had towards the USSR that replaced it. The inventors of communism play a big part in this as well.
They did invade Poland together though, that is a sort of alliance. The USSR supplied German war industry against the western allies, negating their blockage as well. Completely messed up the Allied plans for WWII.
@@Fuerwahrhalunke Really? The german empire and russian empire, who were clashing on the eastern front of WWI were allies? news to me
@@PiggyPigFaceMight be because Nikolaus II was related to Friedrich Wilhelm II. Not to mention that Otto von Bismarck knew how important good relations between Russia and Germany were. Russian Germans exist for a reason. They were invited by Katharina II (Who was also a German who married into Russian royalty and became the empress of the Russian Empire) to live and thrive in Russia. Russian royalty and German royalty always mingled with each other up until the first world war. Germany and Russia were connected not only connected through economical interests, but also through relationships. Only when bolschewiks overthrew and killed the Zar (And his family) in 1918, following the october revolution of 1917, and (to shorten it) installed the USSR in 1922 were relations between the two completely gone. Some might argue that everything from 1914 onward was planned by people stronger than the royalty at the time to destroy these relations forever and ever. Only one winner to all this (1914-1945) and that is the USA, GB, the USSR and Israel aka the allied forces of the time. A loss for continental Europe.
You not knowing that, tells me that you are either American or you don't know what you are talking about.
In the U.S., Veteran's Day was originally called "Armistice Day" and celebrated the end of WW1.
On this day we tend to recognize the surviving "veterans" .
At the end of May (it had been 30 May, but now it floats) we celebrate "Memorial Day". On this day we remember those who died.
Memorial Day is on the last Sunday of May. Its our most solemn of holidays here in the U.S.
@Tiger5672 From 1868 to 1970, it was observed on May 30. Since 1971, it is observed on the last Monday of May.
@@Tiger5672 i hear you drink beer and have BBQs
Well technically Armistce Day didn't celebate the end of the war, but the cessation of fighting.
The war ended when Gemany surrendered and then sign a formal peace
That's why technically the Korean War is still ongoing. They called a halt to fighting but no formal end of the war has ever been concluded
The date in the video is 8 Nov 2016, it was election day in the US, Trump won.
Imagine a full packed stadium lets say Manchester's stadium fits 75,000 people now times that by 500 and you have an approximate of how many people died because of WW2. I only say this because I had to try a way to fathom the size of how many people that truly is and I am worried WW3 could be soon. I truly hope it doesn't.
WW3 doesn't begin without WW1. Perhaps your pity should dig a little bit deep further..you can't understand WW2 without studying the Great War
Only 37.5M? Number of people that died in ww2 is around 75-80M
You are correct. The number I provided was half because my math was wrong i was doing it in my head.
I did say its hard to fathom...
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34,209 a day over 6 years. Happy with my math now?@@marcinszrajber
Уже началась, если вы не заметили.
Украине сейчас многие Европейскик страны, включая США помогают, против нас одних - третья мировая уже идёт, не первый год.
Пока она не ощутимая, так как идёт ограниченным колличеством людей - больше игру напоминает, тренеровка так сказать, перед крупной битвой!!
Сейчас вокруг нас, НАТО начинают союзников, из слабых стран собирать.
И вот когда нам надоест в игры играть, тогда и вступят в игры, тяжёлое вооружение, ракеты полетят на дальние дистанции, с более мощной разрушительной силой!!
Вот тогда и начнётся третий сезон, мировых войн!! ❤❤❤
Note that at Normandy, two beaches were American, two were British, and one was Canadian. The British were there, just not on Saving Private Ryan, though they did man the landing craft (they didn't use British crews in the movie because they couldn't find British landing craft or replicas, and thought using British crews on American landing craft would be dumb).
If Hollywood is to be believed the US fought and 'won' WWI & WWII with the likes of the British, French, Canadians and the commonwealth playing only bit parts. The Russians (Soviet Union) are never seen, heard or involved.
If you think about it that way, then Britain was also an ally of the Germans. The British signed a non-aggression pact. I'll list some documents:
1933. The Pact of Four (Italy, Germany, England, France).
1934. The Pilsudski-Hitler Pact (Germany, Poland).
1935. The Anglo-German Maritime Agreement.
1936. The Anti-Comirtern Pact (Germany, Japan).
1938. The Munich Agreement (England, France, Germany, Italy).
1938. The Anglo-German Declaration of Friendship and Non-Aggression (England, Germany).
1938. The Franco-German Declaration (France, Germany).
And last one: 1939. Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (USSR, Germany)
Based on your logic, Germany's allies also were: Britain, France, Poland =)
Except unlike most of those "non aggression, friendship pacts", Soviet pact included co-invasion of another country
I’ve been to Gettysburg. It’s one of the most somber places I’ve ever visited. There was an eerie silence and a heavy presence while walking the battlefield. It was like I could feel the dead walking with me. I hope to make it to Normandy someday.
I went in April 2009 when I was 14 and can confirm your statement. We as a species need to show more reverence towards invading each others personal space and quit forcing others to violate their own will, and allow them the chance to respect ours.
I remember a line from Pink Floyd: "Forward they cried from the rear, and the front rank died".
I raise a toast, to absent comrades and fallen friends. Fair winds and following seas until we stand the watch together again on those streets paved with gold. Oorah!!!
Thank you for your service!
Firestorms didn't just happen in Japan. They happened in Hamburg and Dresden in Germany. Dresden was the worst because it was struck because the Allies had run out of targets to bomb.
Some of the survivor accounts were heartbreaking. The worst was a woman who lost her baby when the wind from the firestorm sucked the child from her arms and pulled it into the flames. Teary now.
War is a series of catastrophes followed by victory. - Georges Clemenceau
Hitler would not stop......the Japanese would not stop....just terrible.
400k civilian deaths if I recall.
Great reaction Ash! You mentioned your grandfather and his experiences taking place at the same time as your birth. Please consider really researching his experiences. I lost my great-grandfather when I was four years old. Everyone in the family knew he served in WWI as a Private in the US Army. I spent the better part of a year looking into his experience keeping in mind that he was on 17 - 19 years old at that time. For me, it was a wonderful experience! I even went to France to visit the fields and hills his unit was assigned to. To top it off, I even meet the grandson of the unit's commanding officer! It was a life-changing labor of love. Important, please consider starting to collect photos, letters and other materials from other family members before they are lost to time.
When you go to Normandy you should also visit the British and American cemeteries
For imagine scales of WW2:
Cemetery for american soldiers (3 sq.yards per body) could take land about 30% of NYC Central park,
Cemetery for USSR soldiers - could cover 37% of Manhattan, or 103% of Westminster (just graves, no roads, no footpaths between)
Starve-dried (and grinded) corpses from Auschwitz could 6 times fill "Elizabeth Tower" up to the top and leave a little (25 ft tall) pile nearby.
Estimated pyramid combined of of all fallen in WW2 will be 1.14 times highter than Great Pyramid of Giza
They forgot Finland.
10:11 Not all German forces were Nazi's. That's a distinction I was taught in my history classes. Rommel is one of my favorite heros of WWII, who gained the respect of allied leaders for his war conduct, and his opposition to Hitler's orders to send in minorities. He was just an honest man fighting for his country, even if to us he was on the wrong side. Depressingly he was also killed by his own side because he was suspected in an assassination attempt on Hitler.
In the US we have Veteran's Day for all Veteran's on November 11th, old Armistice Day, Memorial Day for all US military killed in Wars, and Armed Forces Day for US Military members on active duty.
Thanks for reacting to this - Ash really seemed to struggled with this one. Also, thanks Dave for bringing up that Russians civilians suffered massive numbers of assault as did German civilians. Its always mentioned regarding Russian soldiers but it went both ways, sadly.
The fact that every German Landser is called a Nazi in this video dehuminizes their deaths and doesn't represent the loss for each of their family, even though they were on the wrong side of history, doesn't mean they didn't have friends, family and relatives who mourned their deaths just as much,as it does with every other soldier during this conflict. Not every national socialist was part of the military and not everyone within the military was a national socialist.
Нацисты не были людьми, они были хуже зверей, моральные уроды. То, что они творили исключает всю человечность! Их родные и любимые имели возможность плакать и горевать по погибшим, а в СССР нацисты вырезали деревни и горевать по близким было уже некому. Но нацисты не просто убивали, они убивали очень жестоко, им нравилось издеваться над простыми людьми так, что даже представлять это страшно! В России и странах СНГ есть люди, которые слышали эти истории от первых лиц, я не исключение. Так вот, ни капли не жалко нацистов и их скорбящих родных! У моей прапрабабки было 16 детей, выжило только 2! Как думаете, она задумывалась о чувствах друзей нацистов, когда убивали её детей? Тараканы заслуживают больше почести при смерти, чем нацисты
Leider fehlt Leuten aus diesen Ländern die Weitsicht , da sie halt selber in ihrer Echo Chamber aufgewachsen sind.
Krieg ist kein Marvelfilm wo Superhelden gegen Superschurken kämpfen die Wahrheit liegt in der Regel in der Mitte.
Die Sieger schreiben die Geschichte, wodurch auf individuelle Schicksale bei der Opposition geschissen wird.
The author already corrected himself. As a half Russian/Kazakh, i see your point. But for my ancestors, German uniform will always be a red tally for a bull. Sorry, but for me too. I don't think they cared what political party those people were supporting. Enemy is the enemy. Especially after all the monstrosities they've covered Europe with.
Regarding Russian revenge on German civilians. It would be foolish to exclude cases of violence, but they were by no means welcomed and were punished in the Soviet army by execution on the spot. What's the point of the part about Stalin and the Gulags?
I suggest anyone read the book "Ordinary Men" by Christopher R. Browning. It shows how regular soldiers and civilians can be corrupted by ideology. How people can start being violently opposed to these sorts of atrocities and just a few short years later will become willing participants.
WW2 is one of my favorite history topics to learn about 💯
I advise you to watch the documentary "the unknown war" about the German attack on the USSR.
Thanks for reacting for Remembrance/Veterans Day. The life expectancy for a Soviet soldier at the front averaged 24 hrs.
USA has Veteran's Day - those who served; Memorial Day - those who died in service; Armed Forces Day - those currently serving. The first and third are celebrations - the second is not a celebration.
The fire bombing was way more devastating than the atomic bombs. One bombing run of 334 B-29s bombed Tokyo with 1,667 tons of napalm and incendiary explosives, killing 100,000 people and injuring far more. The atomic bombs were devastating and tragic, but the U.S. killed far more people with conventional bombs.
There's quite a few factual errors, and errors really based on exclusion
Factual error at 6:15
He states the Germans took Stalingrad. They did not. Famously they captured 9/10ths of the city and claimed victory but by hanging on the Russians ultimately won
Another factual error at 11:44 (by exclusion)
Maybe he excluded them because they were so minuscule but the Nazis occupied the British territories known collectively as the Channel Islands
At least 3 Jews were deported and executed - or maybe he included them elsewhere as they were not deemed British subjects?
Another factual error at 14:00
Though this may be a matter of semantics regarding Lenningrad
There was a siege. The city was MOSTLY surrounded. But it was never completely cur-off
And that's how such a large city of so many people managed to hold out for the entire time
Though initially the Soviets were caught with poor structures and thus the first winter great numbers died because they weren't evacuated, and not enough food could be brought in
But also in winter Lake Ladoga froze over and became a vital route for supplied that could be moved across the frozen surface at multiple points
At 17:05 he excludes other allies attacks on Japan - again minuscule compared to the US effort
The British Pacific Fleet launched carrier attacks on mainland Japan and also shelled cities with gunfire - another thing the Americans also did - which he doesn't mention.
Nor does he mention civilian deaths from submarine attacks
Which reminds me...
The greatest loss of life in a ship incident happened in the Baltic when 9,400 people died at the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by a Soviet submarine.
Depending on whether he includes India and China (October to November 1962)- at 20:50 of the video because they have fought each other, albeit in limited wars.
China has fought the 'allies' by proxy in the Korean War so he's ignored that too.
You say the video is 6 years old.. but even that's not far back enough to have excluded the wars that took place in the former Yugoslavia and subsequent military action such as the US bombing of Belgrade
The several wars between India and Pakistan cannot be described as 'colonial' wars, nor those between Israel and various nations (except perhaps the Suez Crisis - a post-colonial war where France and the UK wished to re-establish their power)
The Konfrontasi between Indonesia on the one hand, and the newly independent Malaysia on the other (backed by Australia, the UK, NZ) also would not be a 'colonial' war as it was between two nations not colonies of the same nation.
The Falklands War was not a colonial war either
I'm American and we have politicians that describe other Americans they disagree with as "communists, Nazis, socialists and fascists" and I'm like... what? Do you even know what those words mean? But then, one of those people did talk about the "gazpacho police", so...
This video gives me perspective on our current situation in Europe & Middle East. For some foreign wars are in far away lands and a casual colonial expedition, televised on evening news or talk shows with a few odd 100s or thousands exclusively soldiers lost. For others more geographically connected, it's an existential conflict that ravages entire populations and changes borders. Depending on where you stand, the approach and consequences are different.
Thank you for this reaction. I showed this to my class (U.S. History) five years ago, and it is so amazing. Your wife's dialogue and reaction was emotional and impactful. Great video
The Dan Carlin podcast is called “Super Nova in the East” and it is amazing. It’s quite long I want to say over 8 hours but he goes over everything from beginning to end. Definitely check it out if you want to learn more.
Btw Ash, most of Auschwitz birkenau II is off limits to the public including school tours. Iirc only a third of Auschwitz is allowed to be toured or explored due to the bodies and items of clothing littered around still. There is a DR 52 class steam locomotive that lives at Auschwitz in restored condition but it’s held in a storage shed somewhere on the Auschwitz property. The class 50 and class 52 kriegslokomotiven carried the majority of the holocaust victims and freight to the eastern and western fronts of the war.
Dachau was the first death camp, it was among the worst along with mauthhausen. Mauthhausen was very a brutal extermination camp, very few escapes or survived.
Total losses: of USSSR - 26.6 million people. Of which, the losses of the Armed Forces amounted to 8,668,400. The rest were civilians killed by the Nazis.
that may have been the greatest description of entering Aushwich that i have ever heard.
In addition to The Boy in Stripped Pajamas, highly recommend these films dealing with the Holocaust: Schindler’s List, The Island on Bird Street, a small but extremely compelling film about a Jewish boy who escapes into the sewers of the Warsaw ghetto , pursued by Nazi hunters when his father is taken in a mass roundup of civilians.
I can’t watch Schindlers List again 😭😭 it was such a heartbreaking but beautiful film. I couldn’t handle the heartache again 😭
I always tell the same story to illustrate what pretty much every family experienced in ussr after ww2.
My grandgrandfather had eleven sons, only two of them returned after war (one more as we found out not so long ago survived the concentration camp and stayed in europe after war) so of these two both were severely shellshocked and traumatized and I experienced it with my own grandfather when i was little maybe like 6-7 yo and he was 90 something years of age.
We were walking near the road and some kind of loud bang happened, he pushed me to the ditch beside the road and dived in it himself. After maybe ten minutes i got out as i suppose i hit my head while falling and fell unconscious, he was still in the ditch in some kind of trans, muttering in georgian: "air-air, keep the head down people, get to the cover".
I ran to the house and called my father and uncles, we were near the granddad in ten minutes and he was still on the bottom of the ditch muttering. Its truly the blessing our neighbor was serving in ww2 as well and he somehow managed to get granddad from this state but to this day its literally the scariest thing i have seen.
I am very grateful you both reacted to this. SO much more to say but I've said enough.
Memorial day for the fallen veterans day for those that have served!
Love your clips Dave
The Massacre of Nanking.. is probably the most disturbing thing in human history, it was truly evil and the deepest depths of hell, on the shit that took place there.. if there is a hell, those people lived it alive
the most wrenching song to hear it SGt. Mckenzie. omg. hits me hard. for all the friends. family members that i've lost. as someone from Scottish decent. in many wars. from ww2. Korea. Vietnam and many in both wars we had in the middle east. and even the battle that happened in Somalia. My family all has been in the service. I went to join after my brother joined and i saw all my friends dying. My week with them, them giving me wavers for my tattoos and other issues and ultimately being turned away. Broke me. I suffered a lot of sucicidal thoughts. my brother made it back thank god. but i saw him struggle so hard with it mentally. we became drinking champions. drugs. The need to serve might not hit everyone but it did me. The suicide rate for those who volunteered during ww2 and were 4F like me. most killed themselves. today is a day that hits me hard. i'm not even super patriotic. Just love my friends and my brothers. I can't imagine what it was like and i wish i could trade my life for all of them.
I personally had family members who perished in Auschwitz; only one survived.
Just a huge thanks to those of the former USSR who gave their lives. In the east, the USSR faced off with about 150 German divisions. We in the east, the Americans, UK et al faced around 59 German divisions and we had our hands full just dealing with that. Had Germany NOT invaded the USSR we would be living in a decidedly different world.
The Munich Agreement of 1938 (also called the Munich Agreement) was an agreement between Germany, Great Britain, France and the Kingdom of Italy, drawn up in Munich on September 29, 1938 and signed on the night of September 29-30 of the same year by German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Prime Minister of Great Britain Neville Chamberlain, French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.
the saddest thing about this video, is it now has a different ending
What detail in the end is wrong? Ukraine is nr 58?
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were not allies. Hitler hated the Soviet Union and Communism in general. If Hitler never invaded the Soviet Union, (which would have never happened) then Stalin would have invaded Germany, when his army was ready.
Edit: At the beginning of the war, Germany and the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact, That means they would not attack each other, if the other did shady stuff. They also traded things, but the main thing that came out of the pact, was dividing Poland when the two invaded. Little oversimplified but, it is too much to explain in detail.
Never mentioned that USSR were last European country to sign such treaty after failed talks about german threat with western allies.
@@GunLinser Well yes, Stalin was originally going to sign with the Allies, but they weren’t pledging anything to defend Poland, (by anything I mean less troops than Hitler) so Stalin just signed with Hitler. That was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, unless you are talking about the Tripartite Pact. The Tripartite Pact was a different thing all together. It was the Anti-Comintern Pact, or the Pact of Steel (which would be come to be known as the Axis Powers) Which majority of those countries joined because they were forced, wanted to carry favor, or joined for protection against the Soviet Union, because the USSR, would eventually annex the Baltic State countries.
@@FxreverNxthingDid you know that during the Millitary talks between Britain, France and the USSR the British led Admiral Drax has no authority from his government to sign a Millitary alliance with the USSR? Also when Admiral Drax arrived in Moscow on the 12th of August 1939 he admitted that not only did he have no authority to sign a Millitary pact with the USSR but that his government had no millitary plans for a defence of Poland. This is one of the main reasons why the USSR signed a non aggression pact with Nazi Germany. I can send you primary source documents on the Anglo Soviet millitary talks if you like but its in Russian.
I'm proud of my father, he was part of the effort to liberate the camps. He named me for his beloved big brother who died while fighting the Nazis. He was one of the roughly 10-25 million saved by the dropping of the two nuclear bombs. They were brutal but many historians estimate millions of deaths, mostly Japanese civilians if an actual invasion of Japan had been necessary. I was one of many who got live because the fighting ended, had it now well who knows. The evil that controlled Germany and caused so much of the deaths is incomprehensible. WW I was chemical weapons and WW II showed the depths of depravity, the will of good people to fight it and yes the nuclear weapons that finally scared the powers into the "long peace" ... we can't say never again because there are people like Putin who gain power and just feel they can do whatever they want.
Идиот 😊
If you guys haven't seen Band of Brothers it's definitely a must watch.
If you like military history, check out the Fat Electrician. It's mostly American, but he tells great stories.
In the states we have Veterans Day like you said but there’s also Memorial Day in may
I was hopeful when I watched this back when it was released. Then we hit the past few years and damn, we've cocked it all up again. I know the numbers are still small compared to WW2 but any death as a result of greedy, corrupt, power-hungry leaders is a tragedy.
Lancaster bombers didn't have a co pilot. He must have been a pilot or maybe a navigator?
Ah! Maybe the navigator? I’ll have to check with my dad!
Leningrad history:
- Dad, how did we survive?
- Our puppy saved us.
- Why didnt he save mommy?
- She couldnt eat him...
Now you know why "russians dont smile"
The German people knew what was going on, but they were afraid of the Nazis too. Anyone who spoke out was rounded up and disappeared. Now, what would you do again?
Here we go again the one guy protecting the nazi “people” lmao
A brutally sobering video, 1 that I wish every single human on this planet would watch. Something like this cannot be allowed to happen again.
Good reaction guys.
With the advancement of weapons it won’t, if Hitler pulled this shit in this era him and his regime would be met with pin point drone strikes, precision strike missiles, hypersonic missiles etc they would all be dead within days of invading Poland. Hell on D-Day one single AC-130 gun ship could’ve absolutely obliterated Omaha beach without a single American casualty but instead in those days it was a tactical disaster that led to absolute carnage due to tanks sinking and getting stuck in the mud, bombers missed key nazi targets etc. They completely failed at softening the targets before storming the beach. War was so much harder without technology, it was literally Everyman for himself like the opening scene in saving private Ryan.
Agreed. The only way to 100% guarantee that it won't happen again, is to fight back ultimately.
Excellent video. Thank you both.
We have Veterans Day in the US on Nov 11th. It's mostly celebrated by government employees getting the day off work and we (veterans) do not and still have to work lol.
I don't agree with the narrator calling all German soldiers nazis. German soldiers were nothing more then the soldiers of the allies, they were drafted into the army and sent to fight by their government. There is so much about WW2 that is ignored, like the British and French declared war on Germany for invading Poland and at the same time ignored that russia invaded Poland with Germany. Then you have that muslims also joined the German army to round up the Jewish people in Eastern europe.
The dirty little secret of WW2 was that the British and French declared war on Germany for invading Poland, but the British and French ignored the fact that russia/soviet union also invaded Poland with the Germans, and they did not declare war on russia/soviet union. The Germans did not start WW2, the UK and France did when they declared war on Germany.
@ZXSPEX exactly, when the brits and french declared war on Germany, they lit the fuse of the second world war.
@ZXSPEX Once again. Yes, Germany did that, but it was after the brits and french declared war on Germany first.
@ZXSPEX Once again, the facts are facts. Your armchair quarterbacking holds no reality in how history played out. What the Germans you say were planning is just hear say words on paper that never had a chance to materialize, because the brits and french declared war on Germany before any plan's they had could be launched.
My Uncle Norman was 17. He died on Iwo Jima In 45.
America bombed wooden Tokyo, drawing crosses. This operation was called "fiery crosses" and was a response to Pearl Harbor. Tokyo is a peaceful city, but Pearl Harbor was a military port.
All Japanese civilians were considered enemy combatants if the planned invasion of the home island actually took place. This was also true when the fire-bombing campaigns were being carried out in late 1944 to early 1945. When a B-29 Superfortress was shot down over the home islands, and the aircrews parachuted out of the planes, the Japanese civilians were not afraid to surround and beat to death American airmen before Japanese military police arrived. First-hand accounts recall this happening all the time to US aviators. This threat was no different when the Atomic Bombs were used. The Japanese Militarists were willing to sacrifice their entire population if the US landed troops on Kyushu and the Kanto Plain. Girls as young as 17 would be given sharpened wooden spears to fight the Americans and Commonwealth Forces. Every able-bodied male age 15 to 60 would be conscripted into the war effort.
People in the West like to demonize the US for using the Atomic Bombs but compared with a land invasion or blockading and mass starvation of the home islands (which were the two other options), this decision actually saved far more lives than either of the other options.
Another sad thing about the siege of Leningrad. There was also reports of cannibalism
If you haven't delved into the treatment of POW's in the different theaters of war. The "Bataan Death March" would be considered rather egregious and brutal treatment by the Japanese that would compare very closely to other global atrocities though not being close in sheer numbers. I am very thankful my Mother (I'm 68) read books to me about the military and the conflicts to make sure I appreciated how good we have it here in the U.S. and how humans can and will always have pockets of lunatics in every country.
Unfortunately some of those are leaders. Great reaction! Love your respect shown to all of those who fight and support staff who save lives.
We had major wars about every generation (20 years) until nuclear weapons came about. Now the big nations have small nations do their dying for them without the expense of a major war.
One death is a tragady
Millions of deaths are just statistics.
That's how we cope with such events. "Oh well, it wasn't me"
Не у всех так, не у всех. Именно поэтому в России есть Бессмертный полк, горят вечные огни на мемориалах и самый главный праздник в году - 9 мая, День Победы! Мы не хотим забывать! В каждой семье был кто то, кто воевал, погиб. Великая стойкость наших предков, великая жертва ради мира!
They weren't, "Nazis" & "soviets".
They were conscripted soldiers from Germany & Russia 💔
Once again, I recommend War Without Mercy by John Dower for the Pacific War for times when you're more or less depression proof. I recommend entire seasons of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood for this purpose...
The Soviet Union has never been an ally of Nazi Germany. Never! Neither militarily, nor economically, nor politically. All the Great States of Europe concluded agreements with Nazi Germany on cooperation or non-aggression, peace, Economic Cooperation long before the Soviet Union. The Soviets saw what was happening and preferred the tactic of waiting until they had rebuilt their military and economy after World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Civil War, the barren years associated with famines, and the Winter War with Finland. All the states of Europe had already become politically "friends" with the Nazis, and so Stalin had to do the same and play a neutral card until the Nazis ' military objectives came to the point of invasion of the Soviet Union. Everyone had their own interests, and they had to finish them separately. Poland was historically taken, always in the wrong place on the world map. Between the German Empire and the Russian Empire. Like the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
...... The Western states of Europe, and especially the United States of America, were very supportive of the rise of Germany before the war, and many financial groups, especially on Wallstreet, supported Hitler himself. So, none of the Anglo-Saxon countries can wash their hands of responsibility from the emergence of the Third Reich.
...... The German Nazi army was the best technically equipped army in the world during the Second World War. Also because Hitler had restored Germany's industrial capabilities a decade earlier and was supported by US funds. Of course, a large part of the military equipment at the beginning of the war, which the German troops had, was obtained from annexed and occupied Czechoslovakia. Our products and weapons were among the top of the world. And that is why Hitler wanted to win the Czech Republic and Slovakia without a fight and without damage. After the Munich Betrayal on the part of Britain, it could not have happened otherwise. That's why the Nazis were able to attack the USSR with so much equipment and weapons.
..... And nothing against the Jews, but they cry too much as if they were the only victims of the war. Much, much more people from ethnic groups died in the USSR and China. The largest Holocaust of the war was the slaughter of more than 30,000,000 Slavs.
Where is the world monument to the sacrifice of our Slavic peoples? Where? ... Blasphemy! Jews and the West.
false history. your butthurt due to the betrayal blinds you.
USSR and Germany invaded Poland.....and Finland....before Hitler's betrayal.
А не хотите вспомнить, как Польша вторглась в Чехословакию , в Тешинскую область, в 1938 году!? И Советский Союз не вторгался в Финляндию, ещё раз изучите историю, и только не по википедии, что предшествовало войне СССР и Финляндии, и с чего всё началось. @@toddjohnson271
@@toddjohnson271and Poland invaded Czech Republic along side with Hitler long before Soviet Union 😂
@@hullmees666 if you let yourself to be fooled, at least don’t show this in the comments, it’s a bit embarrassing 😅
Fun fact in this sad video Kleenex was actually making .50 cal machine guns during the war.
Kyle carpenter and Jessica Buchanan stories are amazing. Would be a great reaction
a good followup to this vid is the tomb of the unknown soldier
My Great grandfather fought in WWII, I still have his uniform
Book recommendation: The Unwomanly Face of War. Hundreds of short interviews with Russian women soldiers who fought in WW2. The author won the Nobel Prize for it in 1985. It will take you a long time to read because of the toll just a few pages will take on you.
I recommend that you pick up and read Flags of Our Fathers the book about the flag raising at Iwo Jima every every single one of them except for two guys Ira Hayes and I can't remember who the other guy was survived the war Ira ultimately ended up drinking himself to death and the other guy that survived his family had no idea that he was even on he with you until after he had passed away the book starts off very slow because it introduces you to every single member who raised the flag mount suribachi. But it gets better the more you read into the book.
There where people in Nakasaki and Hiroshima that where vaporized just leaving a shadow burned into the concrete. Some had the print of the paper they where reading burned on to their face, some had their cloths burned to their skin.
yes i agree and it is coming around agean
Thank you for doing this. It’s not only about the lost of ww2, it’s about the needless loss of life that this war brought.
I want more of Ash😮
Agreed she is a gem.
Unfortunately war and militaries will always be necessary as long as evil men are put into positions of power; and men are easily corruptible given absolute power. Jorge Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", “Only the dead have seen the end of war."
My father's parents were from a little village in Germany and fortunately they were able to escape and immigrated to the US in the early 1930's! My parents took my sister and I to Germany in 1982, I had just finished my sophomore year in high school so I was 16 and my sister was 14. We had relatives who lived in Germany, but my father made it a point to go to Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau! I didn't want to go inside, it was enough for me to see the fences and buildings and understand the atrocities that happened there! Later, when Schindler's List came out it really drove home how evil Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito were! To have the mindset that a certain kind of people were not worthy to be alive because they were different is boggling to me! Hitler wasn't even German, he was Austrian! Hatred in general is evil, but to have a mindset to think it was not a problem to murder millions of people I can't fathom that! That kind of thinking could not be allowed to continue; I'm glad The US, the UK, and many other nations came together to eliminate this threat! I cringe to think what the state of the world would've been like if Hitler would've succeeded? Unacceptable! Thank you to all of the countries who fought and died, military and non-military, to save us from this evil and insane way of thinking! Sadly, there are still some world leaders who are evil too and who must be stopped as well!
Sadly nothing happened to Hirohito
During the war the Brits took certain honorary awards from him, but after the war restored these to him
Stranger Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (KG), 3 May 1929; revoked, 1941; restored, 22 May 1971
Even as he surrendered he mentioned he was calling for it as if he was doing the world a favour.
If you look at it the US civil War is still the most costly of American Wars
its crazy that some day in the future all those men and women who severed or survived the war will no longer be alive to share their stories and experiences
The worst thing is so many that don’t appreciate what was sacrificed by men and women better than we could hope to be. The majority of people today are either clueless, or just don’t care. So long as they have TikTok and onlyfans and social media, people couldn’t care less how we got where we are today.
What shocked the Japanese about Hiroshima was not the scale of destruction per se, as Japan had experienced similar and worse bombings prior. It was that the scale of destruction came from a single bomb. One bomb could destroy an entire city, with Nagasaki to demonstrate Hiroshima was not just a fluke. The Japanese had no idea how many more of these new bombs the Americans had to wilfully drop and destroy each city at a time
No ... the Soviets didnt just throw bodies. This tired trope needs to end. They suffered major losses in the rout of the initial invasion of Barbarossa. Take that out of the equation and their losses are quite comparable to the German losses once they started turning them back. Higher casualties are to be expected as they were an attacking force going up against well entrenched fall back defense positions. This happens in any war, the attackers will generally lose more men vs organised defence
How many great leaders or inventors or scientists died during wars and how different things might have been if they hadn't?
В этом и заключается ошибки многих, кто хотел нас поработить!!
Все под откос пойдём, но врага не пропустим!
Только победа, остальное уже не важно!!
You should do “The loss of life in ww1 visualized” next
THAT DRUNKINN OLD INDIAN IRA HAYS. BALLAD OF IRA HAYS. BY KINKY FRIEDMAN. IRA HAYS WAS ONE OF THOSE RAISING THE FLAG. THIS SONG IS PART OF OUR AMERICAN HISTORY.
There are no civilians in total war. That's literally the defining feature of total war.
November 11th is Veterans day. November 10th is the Marines birthday. It's also my birthday
You guys need to listen to "Sabaton - No bullet fly" A true story about both side of the war :)
В этом видео тоже пропагандические данные, что Германия, Гитлера потеряла всего 2 миллиона.
Если это так, то как в 45 году в Германии не осталось мужчин? Если из 80 миллионов всего 2 миллиона воевали?
По данным Википедии СССР потерял 10 миллионов, а Германия потеряла 8 миллионов
always an interesting vid to watch and learn from
I live in north western germany not far from bergen-belsen concentration camp. I went there a long time ago with my dad. It felt weird. On the surface it appears quite serene. There are no reconstucted barracks like in other camps, just a wide, open field of grass and a modern looking museum. And mass graves scattered all over. There's also the epitaph for Anne Frank who was killed there. Not many people there, just you, the wind, the trees and the dead.
This Video and you talking about Auschwitz made me want to visit once more. I feel like in these times of a rising right wing in many countries and of course here as well, it would kinda refresh my resolve. Not because i need to remind myself on an intellectual level, obviously not. But to feel the shame again, the shame that is meant to prevent things like the holocaust from happeningevver again. Is that a selfish reason to go there? Maybe, but apart from remembering the victims, isn't this also the reason we remember? To not let it come to how it was ever again?
Thank you😢
One fact that most people don't know is why the US targeted Japanese civilians with nuclear bombs. The entire country of Japan fought with a mindset that the entire population would rather die than be occupied by the US. The Japanese government fed propaganda to its citizens and convinced them that the US was going to do horrible things to them if they took over (rape, killings, etc.). The US was getting ready for a land invasion of Japan, knowing that it was going to take years and hundreds of thousands of deaths. The US decided to drop the bombs to try to convince the Japanese government how serious they were about winning, hopefully avoiding a land invasion. The jist of the move was "We're going to keep dropping nukes on you until you don't have a population left." The US happened to luck out, and Japan surrendered when they realized that the US was willing to literally nuke the entire country. The crazy part was that the US wasn't willing to keep nuking them. They were bluffing, hoping Japan would fold.
The Japanese were already trying to surrender through the Soviets. But the US wanted unconditional surrender and the Japanese wanted to keep the Emperor at least. The Japanese cities were already destroyed so atom bombs didn't really make make a big difference to them. The deciding factor was the Soviet Union declaring war on Japan and the US agreeing to let the Emperor remain,despite still calling it unconditional. The basic US strategy the last 6 months of the war was to burn to death as many woman and children as possible so their soldiers wouldn't have to fight in Japan. The biggest thing the A bombs did was it gave the Japanese a face saving excuse to surrender.
I'm sure im just not educated enough on the subject, but why was Japan's emperor Hirohito just allowed to get off scot free and live a long life? I just visited Hiroshima and there was zero accountability anywhere in the museum or park for any contribution that man had on those bombs being dropped in the first place.
Historically WW1 was the final deathnel of the Ottaman empire, realistically a lot of royal family European interminglimg of families of European nations which realistically was nothing more than a family squabble that these leaders did not have to fight because they had the power to send the populations to fight ( history in a nutshell)
"most losses from advance soviet army?" Are you mad?)😂
Watching this reminds me of the British journalist, Malcolm Muggeridge,writing: “If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.”
The reality today is within days of the unspeakable horrors of 7 October 2023 tens of thousands, more than a few college professors & students, rallied in support of pro-terrorists/ hamas.
The sad reality of the end of WW2 in the Pacific is America's dropping of the two nuclear bombs prevented hundreds of thousands of American Soldier casualties trying to take the other Japanese islands in which civilians fought or were used as human shields by the Japanese imperial army. Further more, America's nuclear force ensure the 65 years of unprecedented peace in most of the world.
Of those soviet war deaths by end of 1941 germans took 3 millions soviet POWs (taken into the sistem - the ones murdered at surrender and there were a lot of those not included here) by february 1942 only 1 million were still alive of which less than 0.5 million were capable of forced labour. In all 57% soviet POWs taken by germns died comparing to 5% of other allied POWs. A rate higher than allied POWs taken by Japanese (excluding Chinese POWs). Very informative video RE soviet POWs in german hands:
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