I’m from the south of Russia and I’ll tell a short story of my grandfather side of the family. My grandfathers family was his mom, dad, 3 older sister, and 4 older brothers. He was the youngest. His father died in WW1. His oldest brother in WW2 burned in a tank. Second brother drowned when the ice broke under his truck carrying supplies to an occupied city, he drowned to death. His third and forth brothers were captured and send to a concentration camp and died about 2 months before it was freed from the nazis. At the end my grandpa had to become the man of the house at 11. This is just my grandfather’s side of the family. More then half of the family gone in a few years. None were easy deaths. It didn’t help that the government didn’t care about us and in the Soviet times even cannibalism wasn’t uncommon, especially in the northern parts of the country. A true nightmare come to life in our history.
I’m glad you reacted to this video. I hope you are able to use it as a learning tool for your students. You’re an awesome guy and amazing teacher. Have a wonderful week.
Mustache man was financed by 2 German-Jewish Zionist bankers, as per Churchill's private correspondence we know their national bank was paying for the emigration of Jews into Palestine as per the transfer agreement, which later became taxation when finances got thin. Churchill asked the Loyal NATIONAL Jews to rise up and prove that Bolshevism was not a Jewish phenomenon. The main architects of the holodeck were Jews, Heidrich was a mischling and Eichmann had a name change, and mustache man had 136k Jews in his army, as per the American author Bryan Riggs. Rabbi Schach stated that the holodeck was punishment for secular(apostate) Jews that abandoned the Torah. "Yea, a commandment I give unto you that ye search these things diligently; for great are the words of Isaiah. For surely he spake as touching all things concerning my people which are of the house of Israel; therefore it must needs be that he must speak also to the Gentiles."-Jesus Christ "Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths. The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people."-Isaiah 3:12 "The socialist Saint-Simonian Barrault addressed an appeal To jewish Women, hailing them for rejecting the idea of a male messiah and producing instead the "bankers of kings" and "the industrial and political link among peoples." Against his belief that the Jews might produce the new feminine messiah, another Saint-Simonian argued that India produced more sensuous goddesses and a more truly "androgynous God" than Jewish "male authoritarianism." -James H Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men "The Freemasons are planning the destruction of holy Church publicly and openly, and this with the set purpose of utterly despoiling the nations of Christendom"-Pope Leo XIII, HUMANUM GENUS 1884 "The combination of Christian truth and political power led to the creation of the complex that we know so well. … The Emperor endows the church handsomely, helps it in all that it does, aids it in its mission. The Church supports the Emperor’s legitimacy and assures him that he is God’s representative on earth.“ - Jacques Ellul th-cam.com/video/6kDUy4GH8og/w-d-xo.html...
World War 2 is always a very sombre topic in Australia (as it should be). Our losses can't compare to what the Europeaen countries experienced, but every single soldier Australia and New Zealand sent was a volunteer, there was no conscription here. 730 thousand people, around 10% of our population, volunteered to join the war effort in some capacity, and one in 20 did not live to return home.
Without you guys many people in Asia f.e. wouldn't have make it. So your volunteers made a difference were ever they were involved! Greetings from Germany (Btw., my family has interesting "involvement" in the war and the Hitler regime, or were victims of the same without being Nazis at all.)
yeah actually same is the colonies they didnt mention whole of the cplonies in thw video i guess but a lot of soldiers were fighting from their own countries and actually dont represent the britain but the efforts are not shown anywhere its just britain and us not even soviet union loss is mention
i watched several reactions of "the fallen of ww2". i believe this is one of the most even the most documetory that made people silent by watching. it shows the cruality, bruatlity and craziness of war and why we have to stop wars. i am german citizen and i think this shows all countries why we have to deal with this and take it very seriuos not to forget that times, that ideologie and never go back to this! and i cannot believe that are some stupid people wants this area back... please say no to wars, everytime!
My grandfather was one of those 400k American soldiers who was KIA. My grandmother was pregnant with my dad at the time. I have a box of their correspondence. It is devastating to read. Discussing their love, picking baby names. It is hard to picture your elderly grandma as a young woman madly in love! My father, that yet to born baby in the letters, is now 75. He can't bring himself to read the letters. I'll keep them. They are part of history.
From my granddad on D-Day i heared it was like shooting staying targets as the troops was so slow in water it was hard to miss. They basicly just stopped shooting when the ammunition was empty
Glad you reacted to this video, this is one of the better videos out there. His editing, the graphs & his explanations make it so simple for people who even may not know much about WW2 going into it & puts it into perspective. I thoroughly enjoyed the input you added along with it as well, great reaction all-around. 👌🏻
20:54 If u wanna learn the details to the 40 million people that died during the mongol conquest and other parts of that graph, i advise u to check out the mongol conquest series of the channel "Kings and Generals". Its high-quality material.
@@zombieoverlord5173 For the second epidemic, the black death in the 14th-15th century, that statement seems to be accurate. The first epidemic of the bubonic plague was in roman times (emperor justinian, its was called justinians plague) 300-400 after christ was born, and it started in ethiopia/egypt, from there it spread all over the roman empire, all the way up to england/ireland and east into asia and china. Meanwhile, a big volcanic eruption in indonesia cooled down the climate for several years, destroying crops, leading to massive famines due to a dim sun, weakened and blocked the sun rays by ash.
12:00 I had the same experience in Cambodia at the "killing fields" (Choeung Ek) and the silence is quite overwhelming. You can do an audio tour where you walk around and hear a narration (form a camp survivor) where different elements of the site are pointed out to you. It was one of the more moving things I've ever done. Seeing people walking around in silence pondering this place was quite amazing.
Mustache man was financed by 2 German-Jewish Zionist bankers, as per Churchill's private correspondence we know their national bank was paying for the emigration of Jews into Palestine as per the transfer agreement, which later became taxation when finances got thin. Churchill asked the Loyal NATIONAL Jews to rise up and prove that Bolshevism was not a Jewish phenomenon. The main architects of the holodeck were Jews, Heidrich was a mischling and Eichmann had a name change, and mustache man had 136k Jews in his army, as per the American author Bryan Riggs. Rabbi Schach stated that the holodeck was punishment for secular(apostate) Jews that abandoned the Torah. "Yea, a commandment I give unto you that ye search these things diligently; for great are the words of Isaiah. For surely he spake as touching all things concerning my people which are of the house of Israel; therefore it must needs be that he must speak also to the Gentiles."-Jesus Christ "Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths. The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people."-Isaiah 3:12 "The socialist Saint-Simonian Barrault addressed an appeal To jewish Women, hailing them for rejecting the idea of a male messiah and producing instead the "bankers of kings" and "the industrial and political link among peoples." Against his belief that the Jews might produce the new feminine messiah, another Saint-Simonian argued that India produced more sensuous goddesses and a more truly "androgynous God" than Jewish "male authoritarianism." -James H Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men "The Freemasons are planning the destruction of holy Church publicly and openly, and this with the set purpose of utterly despoiling the nations of Christendom"-Pope Leo XIII, HUMANUM GENUS 1884 "The combination of Christian truth and political power led to the creation of the complex that we know so well. … The Emperor endows the church handsomely, helps it in all that it does, aids it in its mission. The Church supports the Emperor’s legitimacy and assures him that he is God’s representative on earth.“ - Jacques Ellul th-cam.com/video/6kDUy4GH8og/w-d-xo.html...
Oof, such a heavy video. Another fantastic one by Neil Halloran is "Estimating Deaths in a Nuclear War". History should be taught in this format more often. Explaining that "In (event), X number of people died" just isn't as impactful. Sure, we can recognise that, for example, 1,000,000 is a big number and that it represents a lot of people. But our animal brains do not innately ascribe real, tangible value to abstract numerals. Abstract numerals have only existed for around five thousand years. That makes them a very recent concept compared to the ~300 thousand year timeline of the Homo sapiens species and the ~4 million years of other Hominid ancestors (starting with Australopithecus). Tally systems and other visual representations of physical quantities - demonstrated wonderfully in this video - have existed for much longer (around 40 thousand years) and naturally make more sense to us. That's why this video has such a strong impact: Modern numerals require education and intellect in order for us to understand what they mean, and our brains have a limited ability to comprehend abstract concepts. But these symbolic visual representations - especially using human-shaped figures - hit us on a more instinctual level. Okay, my nerd spiel is finished haha 😅
Some Germans switched the barrel of their mg42 during dday multiple times. It was a bit like ww1 where you would just mow down waves of enemies charging at you. There was a German machine gunner called Heinrich Severloh who is suspected to have killed hundreds if not thousands of allies on that beach. It is very disputed but Severloh actually saw the end of the war, but it haunted him till his life ended which leaves me to two sayings. "The only people who ever see the end of the war are those who die" and "They say war is hell, but hell begins when the fighting is over and yours is the only heart beating"
War is war, and Hell is Hell, and of the two, war is worse. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell, but war is chock-full of them. (paraphrased from M*A*S*H, Cpt. Hawkeye / Alan Alda)
There is actually a flaw in the mg42/43. It's rate of fire is so fast that having multiple guns firing in the same local area actually drain the area of ammunition. This was a major concern for German with Allied attacks on munitions plants and transportation infrastructure.
You mentioned your great grandfather survived Auschwitz. RUSH lead singer Geddy Lee's parents were also Auschwitz survivors. There is a line in the spoken poem section of 'Song of Myself' by Nightwish that says "Death is the winner in any war"
My 2x great grandparents were from Krakow but immigrated in the 1910s in their teens. If they hadnt come to the U.S who knows what would have happened to them. They were Jewish and my 2x great grandfather served in an artillery regiment during both of the conflicts and told my grandfather that he owed it to his homeland.
Mustache man was financed by 2 German-Jewish Zionist bankers, as per Churchill's private correspondence we know their national bank was paying for the emigration of Jews into Palestine as per the transfer agreement, which later became taxation when finances got thin. Churchill asked the Loyal NATIONAL Jews to rise up and prove that Bolshevism was not a Jewish phenomenon. The main architects of the holodeck were Jews, Heidrich was a mischling and Eichmann had a name change, and mustache man had 136k Jews in his army, as per the American author Bryan Riggs. Rabbi Schach stated that the holodeck was punishment for secular(apostate) Jews that abandoned the Torah. "Yea, a commandment I give unto you that ye search these things diligently; for great are the words of Isaiah. For surely he spake as touching all things concerning my people which are of the house of Israel; therefore it must needs be that he must speak also to the Gentiles."-Jesus Christ "Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths. The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people."-Isaiah 3:12 "The socialist Saint-Simonian Barrault addressed an appeal To jewish Women, hailing them for rejecting the idea of a male messiah and producing instead the "bankers of kings" and "the industrial and political link among peoples." Against his belief that the Jews might produce the new feminine messiah, another Saint-Simonian argued that India produced more sensuous goddesses and a more truly "androgynous God" than Jewish "male authoritarianism." -James H Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men "The Freemasons are planning the destruction of holy Church publicly and openly, and this with the set purpose of utterly despoiling the nations of Christendom"-Pope Leo XIII, HUMANUM GENUS 1884 "The combination of Christian truth and political power led to the creation of the complex that we know so well. … The Emperor endows the church handsomely, helps it in all that it does, aids it in its mission. The Church supports the Emperor’s legitimacy and assures him that he is God’s representative on earth.“ - Jacques Ellul th-cam.com/video/6kDUy4GH8og/w-d-xo.html...
Yes the normandy beaches were intensely defended with overlapping firing positions. But it was different among the landing sites, with Omaha beach being the worst. The British had far less troubles at their sites, also partly due to them being disembarked at the wrong spots (if I remember this correctly). Kamikaze attacks were a measure to reduce the costs of ressources right from the beginning, be it pilot training or jet fuel, so there was never an option to give them extra fuel for their trip back home. On the other hand, the concept of "honourable sacrifice" was so ingrained in japanese culture that even non-kamikaze pilots rarely ever used a parachute; they didn't expect to be rescued if they "failed" their mission. There are even reports by US soldiers of shipwrecked japanese seamen who drowned themselves when a US rescue party approached them.
8:15 while the Stalingrad is well known, there are fights that were not as big but much more groomy , for example, Wolchow , Rzhevand the battles of Leningrad strategic defensive operation. Another interesting example is the actual biggest tank battle of WW II, the battle of Brody.
One of the Italian princesses was deported to a concentration camp. She was treated "better" than others, because of her social status, everyone in the camp knew who she was, even if she never told anyone. The deported Italian Jews rightly knew who she was. When she was given extra food, whoever was in the field with her said, that she offered it to those who needed it more then her. Unfortunately, her shack was bombed when the Russians came to liberate the camp. She survived, was "saved" by some Italian men, who were interned in the concentration camp but was seriously injured. She was given a bad surgery and apparently bled to death, from what I have read, if I remember correctly. She was then thrown into a common grave. The Italian men apparently buried her with a plaque on it, and returned to Italy, they gave news to the royals ... There are stories like this all over the world. It wasn't just the Nazis who had death camps. Russia, the US, China and Japan have had their own version of the death camp, albeit passed off as forced labor camps. The USA arrested the Asian Americans present in the territory for prejudice, the Russians anyone who was not on the side of the regime ... etc ... We remember much more the victims of Nazism, because the Nazis did horrible things, I'm not just talking about the rooms gas, I'm talking about the experiments they did on children, especially twins.
Thank you for reaction. I'm from Ru and there was literally no family that not lost someone in WW2. We lost generation in result of this war (someone count that 80% of a child birth in 1922 are not survive WW2) and this bring our industries and economics back for decades. And price of victory is really high. That why this so important for entire country, and we still remember and teach this history to our children's. My family stores: There was 6 child in my grandmother family, only 2 survive. Grandmother was evacuated from Leningrad blockade. There was very unstable "Road of live" over frozen Ladoga Lake, where children was evacuated and food supplies trying to reach city. The government was provide only a slice of bread for person per day, so all cats and dogs was being eaten inside city. Second grandmother was in the city for all time. Both of them was about 12 years old. My grandfathers was joining military schools, one for marine army, second for armored, when they was 14. Both of them lost all siblings in ww2. They survive mostly because they was too young and after cadets school they mostly action in support and supply missions, not real battlefields.
And according what happens right now... First of all - this is more, that "Reach country fight poor country, like Iraq, Afghanistan", so this not change the trend, that described in this video. Second - we all need to take a pause, before blame someone. We live in one propaganda bubble, you live in another propaganda bubble. I tried many times to discuss the situation in the forums in the Russian Federation and abroad. It always led to the same situation - any opinions against Russia are removed in the Russian Federation, all opinions against Ukraine are removed from English speaking places. We simply do not allow to analyze what is happening on both sides. In the meantime, there are no reliable proven knowledge - it is impossible to believe anyone.
im new to the channel so you might know this now but the main reason for the lack of fuel given to the kamikazi pilots was actually from loss of nerves while in the air not cause the pilots originally didnt want to most kamakazi pilots actually saw it as a giant honor to be given the opotunity to die for their country theres a part in a documentary about the I-400 program it was a very well done documentary about the secret japanese submarine aircraft carriers where they had a old japanese kamakazi pilot from that program who never got his chance talk about it and explain it the documentary is absolutly amazing and i must have seen it a dosen times
The common myth of if the Japanese only had enough fuel to get to there targets is wrong they had full tanks as if they where unable to get to the target or find there target they will head back home and try again the next day as the pilots that where doing those missions where seen as hero’s and very valuable as not many wanted to do it
My Great Uncle Caze died 2 years ago. His Favorite Joke was he was a failed Kamikaze pilot. He was a trainee For the Emperor's air force. But the war ended 2 weeks before he was to be Deployed. Also my Great great Grand Father was a Major or senator (some high ranked City Position) of Hiroshima in the late 1930's and was still living there when the war started. as far as I know. don't know when he died
It's more of a half-truth, if I remember right. It definitely didn't happen all over, but there *have* been accounts from kamikaze pilots who survived the war to know limited fuel was used in at least a few places. In others, extra fuel could help spread fires after a successful attack, which provided an obvious benefit that could either outweigh the need to conserve fuel (or that particular unit just had a better supply situation and could afford to spare the additional fuel, etc., I'm sure there were more reasons behind it). But sometimes they just used extra explosives instead, so there would be no need to [literally] burn the extra fuel or dump it in the ocean just because the pilot missed.
The reports that come from the eastern front; Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kiev... Its the most horrific thing you can read. Everything from meticulous recountings of the Holocaust of Bullets (I recommend War Against Humanity on the channel WW2 if you want to know more) to reports of Cannibalism, to horrific war crimes can be easily found and learned about. WW2 and WW1 for that matter are so incomprehensibly destructive, that you can never really grasp the true meaning of the statistics and get lost in the numbers. The cost in human life, the way they died and the way they lived during these wars... I would never wish on any soul. Horrific doesn't even do it justice. It was the darkest stain in recorded history. Never. Forget.
Another way of showing the numbers and eyes opening for me... I am from Germany and -nearly- every city, town, village I have visited, has places to remember the fallen (mostly only the soldiers). Often monuments with the names on it. I have driven to the place in my hometown with my bike, perhaps a bit disrespectfully climbed on it to be able to count the entries with my family name, when I was a kid about of age 9 or 10. I was shocked and asked my grandparents, who was of my family. And they have said: "All". Several brothers (my grand uncles) I never heard of before, because it was so sad for my grandparents to speak about them, and more of non-core family. This is the moment I remember, that I have noticed, war is no joke or adventure, something to celebrate or happy to join, just to prevent. P.S. this was in late 80's when military exercises where seen more often, tanks and military convoys on the streets... impressive for me to hear and see these big machines due to ongoing cold war. But since then, I was more critical. Over all I am glad to be in the peace period and hope it will like this in future. But especially regarding ongoing conflict in UA there are certain concerns.
Knowing Better's video on Japanese revisionism concerning it's war crimes is a truly excellent video and worth checking out. Sadly for some reason Japan is allowed to largely get away with that, which is why awareness of this must be spread as far and wide as possible.
Many people who are involved in wars, both soldiers and civilizations who survived, end up with ptsd. Post Tramactic Stress Disorder. There is help from doctors to help take that away.
Thank you for your reaction. 21:22 "fun" fact: Technically there is no war in Europe still since Ukraine didn't declare war against Russia and vise versa... Wonder why?
"American Indians" include the Islands (mostly under Spanish and Dutch rule,) Alaska (under Russian influence,) South America (ruled by the Spanish and Portuguese.) and the US and Canada. So, one must be careful to put all blame on the US alone. less than 10% of deaths occurred in US areas and a vast majority were from supplying the Natives with necessities that ended up carrying diseases not known to be harmful, plus the outright battles and trail of tears.
I love your videos, I want to recoment you one. 5 Worst combat roles from history from the channel Unknow5. I really think you are gonna like it, you might get good material for your students. Its amazing to see how the Tunnel Rats and U-Boat members lived their last moments fighting in war. Any ways I hope you can read this comment, Greetings froms México!
In fact war in Asia started earlier than the war in Europe, in 1937 when Japan invaded China. A lot of time - a lot of casualties, Japanese soldiers were really brutal with civilians.
It hits different. Being a german with a great-grandfather (Regular army, no SS) that made it out of stalingrad ill by one of the last planes, who became a cementary gardener for his church afterwards, while his wife and his first son, my grand-uncle and my great-grandmother, survived the firestorm-bombing of dresden. My grand-uncle became a church peace activist afterwards, oppressed by east german sowjet secret sevice, but lives on. He only cant stay close to bonfires after seeing the sky enclosed in flames burning as a child...
even most of the SS wasn´t the definition of evil .... many people joined the SS to get political favors ----- and most of the ss wher regular soldgiers ----- - what most people think the SS ist the SS-TV and the SS-TD the ss was responsilbe for many thinks for example most firefighters where part of the SS --- but had obviously nothing to do with the Totenkopf Divisionen (deathskull divisions)
@@robertbretschneider765 wird im geschicht untericht einfach nicht behandelt ----- da wird einfach gesagt das die wehrmacht böse ist und die SS super böse ist ...... ---- dann wird die HJ und der BDM besprochen und vieleicht noch die SA die von den nazis ganz am anfang erledigt wurde
My grandfather was an american soldier and fought in world war 2. For our social studies class we were learning about ww2 for a project I ended up essentially interviewing my grandfather. He told me that he'd seen the worst of humanity and it was really tough for him to talk about it. My grandfather told me though he'd seen the worst during the war he saw good too. He was extremely greatful because when he was stationed and fighting in germany he met and fell in love with my grandmother a german citizen. They were married for 60 years until he passed away.
My grandfather was in east prussia, he was 14 yo (germany) he was in the battle for east prussia against soviet union, later he moved to latin america. When i was a child i asked him about the war, he told it was the nearest to hell in earth
5:15 Pretty sure that’s just a myth, as the pilots were some of Japan‘s best why waste them, if they had to turn back due to weather or an equipment malfunction then that’s a waste of a plane and a pilot for nothing. If they returned they‘d be sent back. If they kept returning then they were executed.
The 20 million native Americans is total number who died during European colonization. This is a weird number to include because it was not a conflict. There was clashes between the Europeans and natives for sure but there was also alot of collaboration. Most of these deaths were due to disease. The natives were susceptible to disease, many of which were carried by the euros. But they did not carry these diseases as weapons
Yes, I was going to make the same comment about disease being the killer of most of the Native Americans. And when you say “Native Americans” people usually think of North American Indians. But the biggest number of killed were central American Indians that died During the Spanish conquest of the 16th and 17th centuries.
What you were talking about was the winter war, Finland defended very well from the Soviets, but when Soviets realized what was happening, they sent a lot of men there and understandably succeeded.
I have heard more spiritually minded people say that being at Auschwitz triblenka or any of the other forced labor or extermination camps that they can feel a quiet but very palpable feeling of pain hopelessness and despair. Sometimes there is no explanation for the things we do to each other. No excuses of ideology or prior events influencing things is in my opinion a good enough excuse for something of this level of monstrousness.
*One out of two gets a rifle, one without the rifle follows him. The one with the rifle shoots. When the one with the rifle gets killed, one who is following picks up the rifle and shoots.* Quote from "Enemy At The Gates", a movie showing the Invasion of Stalingrad. But the film focuses on the story of Vassili Zaitsev, a soviet sniper who fought at the Battle of Stalingrad. Zaitsev is credited with 242 kills (including 11 snipers).
Not a myth, lol. When the NKVD "volunteered" civilians to fight in Stalingrad, they were basically thrown at German positions and were extremely underarmed and undertrained (a Russian tradition that carries on today). And yes, they used blocking troops too, they weren't a myth either, no matter how much tankie simps want them to be. They are well documented. Stalingrad actually being a brutal exception and showcase of these two things taken to extremes. Civilians with barely any training and not enough equipment to go around being thrown at enemy troops under threat of being gunned down by NKVD machine guns behind them. Judging by reports from Russian troops and mercs in Ukraine, these tactics are still well alive too.
i stood on the site of a German pillbox. From there to the shore line was a 2 minutes stroll. So as those beach vehicles opened the hatch all the Germans had to do is aim the guns into the vehicles and a hit was almost guarantied. To see that was gut-wrenching. i mean even uphill from the beach to the pillboxes was no more then a couple of minutes gentle stroll, no climbing at all. imagine a regular beach in florida. one of those you see on every tv show imaginable ...with a couple of miles thousands of bodies on the sand only.
If you like historia. Try listen to Sabaton. Whom has a written some great songs about war history. Start with ”christmas truce” or ”no bullets fly” (FULL ANIMATED VERSION)
12:50 About this silence. You can't really compare visiting a place like Auschwitz with somthing like a natural history museum tour. The museum tour would be at least a bit of a fun and a discussion is maybe even encouraged. Not so much in a CC. When we went to a CC on a school trip we were heavily indoctrinated by out teachers to shut up and not fool around. So hardly a fair comparison.
The 20 million number for the American Indians includes all the indigenous peoples wiped out in all of the Americas from the time that Columbus inadvertently started the spread of European plagues like smallpox. It is difficult to figure it out exactly without access to Halloran's sources, but that seems to be where the number comes from. ✌🖖
@@Blizzard0fHope It seems kind of doubtful that Halloran would have only included the numbers for the North American native peoples that died and not have an indication for how many South American indigenous died. With only one listing for the calamity that came to the American Indians, it seems likely that it is meant to include all of the Americas. But you are right that it is at least possible it is only North America.
I'm just a average person that loves history and everything that happened in WWII. I have "studied" for over 20 years and I talked to as many survivors a I could and I still are so ignorant on WWII. We are still living with things that happened at that time. The horrible thing was when my son's high school studied this war only 1 page was about this war. This really made me mad! So I made sure to teach my son about this world changing war. Operation Paperclip and the Oddessay file would take years to completly understand why things were done. Please take this back to your students. My teacher got us to go find and talk to a WWII Vet. I learned so much! Sadly not too many WWIi Vets are alive today, but I cried my eyes out at what happened ti the men I talked to. I'm thinking some universities have WWII Vets and survivors story's, but I don't remember who. To hear first hand accounts are so much better than just facts from a channel. Good luck and please let your students know that history ALWAYS repeats itself, humans just don't learn from our mistakes. To see young people hate this country and cheer to get our Admendments ripped apart, when they don't really know what they are begging for upsets me so much. I asked if we needed to get rid of the 13th and 19th Admendments and they started screaming we needed to get rid of them, they didn't know what they were or why they were screaming to change these admendments. So sad these young people are jusy followers and only do what who every are the loudest. Please tell your students how important our rights are.
I had distant relatives die in the concentration camps. My great grandparents all came to the US around 1900. I shudder to think what would have happened to my family if they had stayed. Jewish refugees were rejected from entry into many countries including the USA and the UK. Sending right back into areas controlled by the Nazis. If you’re reading this, please just take a moment of silence to think about all of these people we lost. ✡️
If a teacher is this clueless about the eastern front what hope is there for a regular person. I’d suggest researching an issue before making a fool out of yourself
The death toll of Native Americans toward the end of the video (20 million) is a relatively low estimate. Between deliberate killings, starvation, forced relocation, open conflicts, resource extraction, slavery, and mass executions, exact numbers are almost impossible. The current estimate is that as much as 98% of the Indigenous population of North America was killed by various powers, including England, France, and the US. Beyond that, you have to take into account the cultural genocide that continues to this day, continued oppression and killing by military and police forces, and the generational trauma all of this has caused. It's really hard to even make sense of how devastating the genocide of Indigenous peoples here was and continues to be.
My grandfather and great uncle was in the pacific towards the end of the ww2 . Both in the US Navy. I have quite a bit of them been to war .I have a family member who died in Vietnam. My father served in the big red one during the Vietnam War. I love my country and am grateful for the brave man and woman who fought and died for our freedom. But I still hate war . I wish we could evolve to the point where it becomes a thing of the past.
another reason why so many died on Omaha Beach was that the Americans refused a British invention to get over the barbwire defences and also any RAF help 😔😥
The Finland fought with Germany in WW2. Sweden totally played it dirty. Tho they claimed to be neutral, they let the Germans occupy Norway, through their boarder and by using their railroad. They also sold steel to Germany to produce weapons during the war. Without the Sovjet union, the allied never would have won the war on the European continent. Americans tend to believe they came in as the heroes saving the world alone.
i am 54 years old and not proud of german history. but no country is without flaws. how many indians were killed in north america and still live in sanctuaries today...after almost 300 years...think about it
This is the usual nonsense that a gormless director showed in his below average (at best) movie. And then this cliche began to be used everywhere: in video games and tons of other movies. It has become a stereotype along with bears and vodka...
Hey, I was wondering if you could react to a song from the band muse one time. I thing you are gonna like it. Maybe a song like Uprising, Knights of Cydonia or Survival! Thank you 🙏
Something rarely talked about is the Soviet Invasion of Manchuria. There were Japanese Generals who refused surrender while the Soviets were advancing, but at that stage of the war, the Japanese were ill-equipped to defend against the Soviets and the Soviets at that point were well-equipped and had a lot more experience fighting the Germans, so it wasn't going to turn out well for the Japanese forces. As for war crimes, I don't know of any around that point because I never looked into it, but the Japanese had one of the most barbaric forms of scorched earth in human history where they would exterminate populations if they suspected that they were going to lose that area. So it would not surprise me one bit that these people were massacring Chinese Civilians.
Everyone needs to watch this. Everyone is saying the world is going to shit as we live through the most peaceful time in human history. The world isn’t going to shit, we just have it so good that any minor inconvenience is an earth shattering issue.
Since its Baseball season here in America i recommend Ken Burns Baseball history documentary. Its a bit lighter in tone but a great history lesson and a interesting snapshot of American sports history and society.
I think that only thing that counts is Human Lives, percentages are not suitable for counting human lives. And yes, I know that death of a human is a tragedy and a death of thousands is statistics… Still.
I don’t get why you keep pointing out China, but korea was suffering just as much. Also thanks to ww2 a lot of slaves got freed. Especially sex slaves young as 12 or even younger.
that story about taking weapons from the dead is plain stupidity. The Soviets had enough basic weapons.as well as shooting while pulling back. It happened at the beginning, in very small numbers. Check the information before you talk.
A lot of those Native American deaths are counted as the whole history of colonialism in the Americas. It would be a number of battles, illnesses, allied wars etc to even to the 1900s. Like, a lot of people can forget that the British and French had Native groups pinned side by side during their interests, of course there's the Spanish conquests, US/Canadian expansion, etc.
you know, I'm really sick of Europeans saying that the U.S killed off all the natives. Just who are the people of the U.S. where did they come from. Let's take 100% of the U.S population minus, of course it used to be higher, 9% native. That leaves 91%. Minus 13% African, 78% down. 3% Asian, that leaves 75%. OH MY GOD! are 75% of the people in the U.S aliens from another planet.
Hi man in 8:27 in fact Stalingrad strategic value was it name "Stalin", main objective of operation fall blue was the oil fields, but hitler intervention made Stalingrad the main objective. Hitler wanted to conquer it for propaganda when he saw the name of the city
Imagine being in Stalingrad. 100.000 were POWs after the battle with 6.000 ever seeing Germany again. 6% survival rate or if you count the other 500.000 deaths it leaves you at a 1% survival rate.
My grandfather was a prisoner of war after Stalingrad for 5 years. He said he only survived because he was so small. The bigger ones all starved to death in the first few months. He didn't like talking about it. But one story that stuck with me is that he always had a straw hidden on his body. At the time he was "working" at the train station. And when he loaded flour or grain, he tried to get something out of the sack with a straw. Because they often only got water soup, he would have starved to death otherwise. When he later had to go to Kazakhstan, he only survived there because he worked on a farm and the farmers there sometimes gave him something to eat. When he came home after all these years, he had to walk 50 km from the train station because his family thought he was dead. His mother also sold all his belongings. His two brothers were also in Stalingrad. It was never found out how or where they died.
My grandfather by fhater side was railway worker and he fallen in Tapa railway depoo when he bring for civilian and his family food by hit plae bomb piece 1944 Estonia.Left my fhater then 3 years and aunt then 10 month old. Planes was red army bombers.
Japan invaded china in 1937 and started civilian massacres during this period leading upto and through the war. After Japan's defeat the main power of the Japanese army was removed entirely. There were only a few pockets of individual soldiers on far islands left.
To put things into perspective: Germany lost more soldiers at Stalingrad than the Russian and Ukrainian armies had combined at the beginning of the current war in Ukraine. And that's just the German losses, it doesn't include the Italian, Hungarian and Romanian forces there who together lost almost as many soldiers as the Germans. Meanwhile, on the Soviet side, more soldiers died than all those Germans, Romanians, Italians and Hungarians combined. All this in one city, in one five-month battle of this six-year world war. And we haven't even started to count the hundreds of thousands of civilians who lived and died in this city.
Reducing the complex issue and decision making around U.S. firebombing in Japan as the video's creator did is intellectually dishonest, but given his tendency to both single out the U.S. for criticism and attempt to dismiss or ignore its contributions (in this and other content) I suspect he doesn't care.
Yeah. American food, fuel, ammo, and weapons. Something even the Soviets begrudgingly admitted was highly instrumental in victory. It's only delusional tankies and other assorted idiots today that refuse to acknowledge that. Turns out that having the largest industrial base in the world at the time kinda meant something. Who woulda thunk it?
so the American Native Wars are a bit hard to explain.. no it was not just one war it was close to 40.. and it's really weird in the sense that the US would be at war with a tribe and then the next year be allied with that tribe fighting a war against another tribe... and that happened about 20 times.. this should give you an idea of what I mean th-cam.com/video/UNhhaZHEiQs/w-d-xo.html
Hey, you can watch this, then you will understand more, why Russia today still celebrates the Victory: Артём Гришанов - Мир спас русский солдат / Russian soldier saved the world / World War 2
Imho the honor of kamikaze is purely Japanese propaganda. They started using kamikaze to save fuel, since it happened once USA break their supply lines. To put it simple, for Japanes' leadres, a japan pilot life worth less that the fuel to bring him back.
I’m from the south of Russia and I’ll tell a short story of my grandfather side of the family. My grandfathers family was his mom, dad, 3 older sister, and 4 older brothers. He was the youngest. His father died in WW1. His oldest brother in WW2 burned in a tank. Second brother drowned when the ice broke under his truck carrying supplies to an occupied city, he drowned to death. His third and forth brothers were captured and send to a concentration camp and died about 2 months before it was freed from the nazis. At the end my grandpa had to become the man of the house at 11. This is just my grandfather’s side of the family. More then half of the family gone in a few years. None were easy deaths. It didn’t help that the government didn’t care about us and in the Soviet times even cannibalism wasn’t uncommon, especially in the northern parts of the country. A true nightmare come to life in our history.
I’m glad you reacted to this video. I hope you are able to use it as a learning tool for your students. You’re an awesome guy and amazing teacher. Have a wonderful week.
Mustache man was financed by 2 German-Jewish Zionist bankers, as per Churchill's private correspondence we know their national bank was paying for the emigration of Jews into Palestine as per the transfer agreement, which later became taxation when finances got thin.
Churchill asked the Loyal NATIONAL Jews to rise up and prove that Bolshevism was not a Jewish phenomenon. The main architects of the holodeck were Jews, Heidrich was a mischling and Eichmann had a name change, and mustache man had 136k Jews in his army, as per the American author Bryan Riggs.
Rabbi Schach stated that the holodeck was punishment for secular(apostate) Jews that abandoned the Torah.
"Yea, a commandment I give unto you that ye search these things diligently; for great are the words of Isaiah. For surely he spake as touching all things concerning my people which are of the house of Israel; therefore it must needs be that he must speak also to the Gentiles."-Jesus Christ
"Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths. The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people."-Isaiah 3:12
"The socialist Saint-Simonian Barrault addressed an appeal To jewish Women, hailing them for rejecting the idea of a male messiah and producing instead the "bankers of kings" and "the industrial and political link among peoples." Against his belief that the Jews might produce the new feminine messiah, another Saint-Simonian argued that India produced more sensuous goddesses and a more truly "androgynous God" than Jewish "male authoritarianism." -James H Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men
"The Freemasons are planning the destruction of holy Church publicly and openly, and this with the set purpose of utterly despoiling the nations of Christendom"-Pope Leo XIII, HUMANUM GENUS 1884
"The combination of Christian truth and political power led to the creation of the complex that we know so well. … The Emperor endows the church handsomely, helps it in all that it does, aids it in its mission. The Church supports the Emperor’s legitimacy and assures him that he is God’s representative on earth.“ - Jacques Ellul
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World War 2 is always a very sombre topic in Australia (as it should be). Our losses can't compare to what the Europeaen countries experienced, but every single soldier Australia and New Zealand sent was a volunteer, there was no conscription here. 730 thousand people, around 10% of our population, volunteered to join the war effort in some capacity, and one in 20 did not live to return home.
Without you guys many people in Asia f.e. wouldn't have make it. So your volunteers made a difference were ever they were involved!
Greetings from Germany
(Btw., my family has interesting "involvement" in the war and the Hitler regime, or were victims of the same without being Nazis at all.)
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@@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl What does f.e. stand for?
@@saltyfish7626 for example
yeah actually same is the colonies they didnt mention whole of the cplonies in thw video i guess but a lot of soldiers were fighting from their own countries and actually dont represent the britain but the efforts are not shown anywhere its just britain and us not even soviet union loss is mention
i watched several reactions of "the fallen of ww2". i believe this is one of the most even the most documetory that made people silent by watching. it shows the cruality, bruatlity and craziness of war and why we have to stop wars. i am german citizen and i think this shows all countries why we have to deal with this and take it very seriuos not to forget that times, that ideologie and never go back to this! and i cannot believe that are some stupid people wants this area back... please say no to wars, everytime!
My grandfather was one of those 400k American soldiers who was KIA. My grandmother was pregnant with my dad at the time. I have a box of their correspondence. It is devastating to read. Discussing their love, picking baby names. It is hard to picture your elderly grandma as a young woman madly in love! My father, that yet to born baby in the letters, is now 75. He can't bring himself to read the letters. I'll keep them. They are part of history.
From my granddad on D-Day i heared it was like shooting staying targets as the troops was so slow in water it was hard to miss. They basicly just stopped shooting when the ammunition was empty
Glad you reacted to this video, this is one of the better videos out there.
His editing, the graphs & his explanations make it so simple for people who even may not know much about WW2 going into it & puts it into perspective.
I thoroughly enjoyed the input you added along with it as well, great reaction all-around. 👌🏻
20:54 If u wanna learn the details to the 40 million people that died during the mongol conquest and other parts of that graph, i advise u to check out the mongol conquest series of the channel "Kings and Generals". Its high-quality material.
Isn't one of the newer theories of the black death that the Mongols spread it to Europe with their conquest? That would certainly increase the numbers
@@zombieoverlord5173 For the second epidemic, the black death in the 14th-15th century, that statement seems to be accurate. The first epidemic of the bubonic plague was in roman times (emperor justinian, its was called justinians plague) 300-400 after christ was born, and it started in ethiopia/egypt, from there it spread all over the roman empire, all the way up to england/ireland and east into asia and china. Meanwhile, a big volcanic eruption in indonesia cooled down the climate for several years, destroying crops, leading to massive famines due to a dim sun, weakened and blocked the sun rays by ash.
12:00 I had the same experience in Cambodia at the "killing fields" (Choeung Ek) and the silence is quite overwhelming. You can do an audio tour where you walk around and hear a narration (form a camp survivor) where different elements of the site are pointed out to you. It was one of the more moving things I've ever done. Seeing people walking around in silence pondering this place was quite amazing.
Mustache man was financed by 2 German-Jewish Zionist bankers, as per Churchill's private correspondence we know their national bank was paying for the emigration of Jews into Palestine as per the transfer agreement, which later became taxation when finances got thin.
Churchill asked the Loyal NATIONAL Jews to rise up and prove that Bolshevism was not a Jewish phenomenon. The main architects of the holodeck were Jews, Heidrich was a mischling and Eichmann had a name change, and mustache man had 136k Jews in his army, as per the American author Bryan Riggs.
Rabbi Schach stated that the holodeck was punishment for secular(apostate) Jews that abandoned the Torah.
"Yea, a commandment I give unto you that ye search these things diligently; for great are the words of Isaiah. For surely he spake as touching all things concerning my people which are of the house of Israel; therefore it must needs be that he must speak also to the Gentiles."-Jesus Christ
"Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths. The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people."-Isaiah 3:12
"The socialist Saint-Simonian Barrault addressed an appeal To jewish Women, hailing them for rejecting the idea of a male messiah and producing instead the "bankers of kings" and "the industrial and political link among peoples." Against his belief that the Jews might produce the new feminine messiah, another Saint-Simonian argued that India produced more sensuous goddesses and a more truly "androgynous God" than Jewish "male authoritarianism." -James H Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men
"The Freemasons are planning the destruction of holy Church publicly and openly, and this with the set purpose of utterly despoiling the nations of Christendom"-Pope Leo XIII, HUMANUM GENUS 1884
"The combination of Christian truth and political power led to the creation of the complex that we know so well. … The Emperor endows the church handsomely, helps it in all that it does, aids it in its mission. The Church supports the Emperor’s legitimacy and assures him that he is God’s representative on earth.“ - Jacques Ellul
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Oof, such a heavy video. Another fantastic one by Neil Halloran is "Estimating Deaths in a Nuclear War".
History should be taught in this format more often. Explaining that "In (event), X number of people died" just isn't as impactful. Sure, we can recognise that, for example, 1,000,000 is a big number and that it represents a lot of people. But our animal brains do not innately ascribe real, tangible value to abstract numerals.
Abstract numerals have only existed for around five thousand years. That makes them a very recent concept compared to the ~300 thousand year timeline of the Homo sapiens species and the ~4 million years of other Hominid ancestors (starting with Australopithecus).
Tally systems and other visual representations of physical quantities - demonstrated wonderfully in this video - have existed for much longer (around 40 thousand years) and naturally make more sense to us.
That's why this video has such a strong impact: Modern numerals require education and intellect in order for us to understand what they mean, and our brains have a limited ability to comprehend abstract concepts. But these symbolic visual representations - especially using human-shaped figures - hit us on a more instinctual level.
Okay, my nerd spiel is finished haha 😅
Some Germans switched the barrel of their mg42 during dday multiple times. It was a bit like ww1 where you would just mow down waves of enemies charging at you. There was a German machine gunner called Heinrich Severloh who is suspected to have killed hundreds if not thousands of allies on that beach. It is very disputed but Severloh actually saw the end of the war, but it haunted him till his life ended which leaves me to two sayings. "The only people who ever see the end of the war are those who die" and "They say war is hell, but hell begins when the fighting is over and yours is the only heart beating"
War is war, and Hell is Hell, and of the two, war is worse. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell, but war is chock-full of them.
(paraphrased from M*A*S*H, Cpt. Hawkeye / Alan Alda)
There is actually a flaw in the mg42/43.
It's rate of fire is so fast that having multiple guns firing in the same local area actually drain the area of ammunition. This was a major concern for German with Allied attacks on munitions plants and transportation infrastructure.
That was morbid... Really shows how deadly the war was
As always, great video man! Keep it up!
You mentioned your great grandfather survived Auschwitz. RUSH lead singer Geddy Lee's parents were also Auschwitz survivors.
There is a line in the spoken poem section of 'Song of Myself' by Nightwish that says "Death is the winner in any war"
My 2x great grandparents were from Krakow but immigrated in the 1910s in their teens. If they hadnt come to the U.S who knows what would have happened to them. They were Jewish and my 2x great grandfather served in an artillery regiment during both of the conflicts and told my grandfather that he owed it to his homeland.
Mustache man was financed by 2 German-Jewish Zionist bankers, as per Churchill's private correspondence we know their national bank was paying for the emigration of Jews into Palestine as per the transfer agreement, which later became taxation when finances got thin.
Churchill asked the Loyal NATIONAL Jews to rise up and prove that Bolshevism was not a Jewish phenomenon. The main architects of the holodeck were Jews, Heidrich was a mischling and Eichmann had a name change, and mustache man had 136k Jews in his army, as per the American author Bryan Riggs.
Rabbi Schach stated that the holodeck was punishment for secular(apostate) Jews that abandoned the Torah.
"Yea, a commandment I give unto you that ye search these things diligently; for great are the words of Isaiah. For surely he spake as touching all things concerning my people which are of the house of Israel; therefore it must needs be that he must speak also to the Gentiles."-Jesus Christ
"Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths. The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people."-Isaiah 3:12
"The socialist Saint-Simonian Barrault addressed an appeal To jewish Women, hailing them for rejecting the idea of a male messiah and producing instead the "bankers of kings" and "the industrial and political link among peoples." Against his belief that the Jews might produce the new feminine messiah, another Saint-Simonian argued that India produced more sensuous goddesses and a more truly "androgynous God" than Jewish "male authoritarianism." -James H Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men
"The Freemasons are planning the destruction of holy Church publicly and openly, and this with the set purpose of utterly despoiling the nations of Christendom"-Pope Leo XIII, HUMANUM GENUS 1884
"The combination of Christian truth and political power led to the creation of the complex that we know so well. … The Emperor endows the church handsomely, helps it in all that it does, aids it in its mission. The Church supports the Emperor’s legitimacy and assures him that he is God’s representative on earth.“ - Jacques Ellul
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Yes the normandy beaches were intensely defended with overlapping firing positions. But it was different among the landing sites, with Omaha beach being the worst. The British had far less troubles at their sites, also partly due to them being disembarked at the wrong spots (if I remember this correctly).
Kamikaze attacks were a measure to reduce the costs of ressources right from the beginning, be it pilot training or jet fuel, so there was never an option to give them extra fuel for their trip back home. On the other hand, the concept of "honourable sacrifice" was so ingrained in japanese culture that even non-kamikaze pilots rarely ever used a parachute; they didn't expect to be rescued if they "failed" their mission. There are even reports by US soldiers of shipwrecked japanese seamen who drowned themselves when a US rescue party approached them.
8:15 while the Stalingrad is well known, there are fights that were not as big but much more groomy , for example, Wolchow , Rzhevand the battles of Leningrad strategic defensive operation. Another interesting example is the actual biggest tank battle of WW II, the battle of Brody.
One of the Italian princesses was deported to a concentration camp. She was treated "better" than others, because of her social status, everyone in the camp knew who she was, even if she never told anyone. The deported Italian Jews rightly knew who she was. When she was given extra food, whoever was in the field with her said, that she offered it to those who needed it more then her. Unfortunately, her shack was bombed when the Russians came to liberate the camp. She survived, was "saved" by some Italian men, who were interned in the concentration camp but was seriously injured. She was given a bad surgery and apparently bled to death, from what I have read, if I remember correctly. She was then thrown into a common grave. The Italian men apparently buried her with a plaque on it, and returned to Italy, they gave news to the royals ... There are stories like this all over the world. It wasn't just the Nazis who had death camps. Russia, the US, China and Japan have had their own version of the death camp, albeit passed off as forced labor camps. The USA arrested the Asian Americans present in the territory for prejudice, the Russians anyone who was not on the side of the regime ... etc ... We remember much more the victims of Nazism, because the Nazis did horrible things, I'm not just talking about the rooms gas, I'm talking about the experiments they did on children, especially twins.
Russian didn’t have death camps, please stop spreading misinformation
The video is generally good to react to and well made, I do see a few points I would phrase diffrent or add. Your video was awesome.
Thank you for reaction.
I'm from Ru and there was literally no family that not lost someone in WW2. We lost generation in result of this war (someone count that 80% of a child birth in 1922 are not survive WW2) and this bring our industries and economics back for decades. And price of victory is really high. That why this so important for entire country, and we still remember and teach this history to our children's.
My family stores: There was 6 child in my grandmother family, only 2 survive. Grandmother was evacuated from Leningrad blockade. There was very unstable "Road of live" over frozen Ladoga Lake, where children was evacuated and food supplies trying to reach city. The government was provide only a slice of bread for person per day, so all cats and dogs was being eaten inside city. Second grandmother was in the city for all time. Both of them was about 12 years old. My grandfathers was joining military schools, one for marine army, second for armored, when they was 14. Both of them lost all siblings in ww2. They survive mostly because they was too young and after cadets school they mostly action in support and supply missions, not real battlefields.
And according what happens right now...
First of all - this is more, that "Reach country fight poor country, like Iraq, Afghanistan", so this not change the trend, that described in this video.
Second - we all need to take a pause, before blame someone. We live in one propaganda bubble, you live in another propaganda bubble. I tried many times to discuss the situation in the forums in the Russian Federation and abroad. It always led to the same situation - any opinions against Russia are removed in the Russian Federation, all opinions against Ukraine are removed from English speaking places. We simply do not allow to analyze what is happening on both sides. In the meantime, there are no reliable proven knowledge - it is impossible to believe anyone.
@@theeasyjohn I agree. Good opinion.
im new to the channel so you might know this now but the main reason for the lack of fuel given to the kamikazi pilots was actually from loss of nerves while in the air not cause the pilots originally didnt want to most kamakazi pilots actually saw it as a giant honor to be given the opotunity to die for their country theres a part in a documentary about the I-400 program it was a very well done documentary about the secret japanese submarine aircraft carriers where they had a old japanese kamakazi pilot from that program who never got his chance talk about it and explain it
the documentary is absolutly amazing and i must have seen it a dosen times
The common myth of if the Japanese only had enough fuel to get to there targets is wrong they had full tanks as if they where unable to get to the target or find there target they will head back home and try again the next day as the pilots that where doing those missions where seen as hero’s and very valuable as not many wanted to do it
Post midway, they were very low on experienced carrier pilots for the rest of the war
They took fresh recruits and train them very minimally cause their just gonna die
@@billkuduk1159 also not enough fuel to train them fully
My Great Uncle Caze died 2 years ago. His Favorite Joke was he was a failed Kamikaze pilot. He was a trainee For the Emperor's air force. But the war ended 2 weeks before he was to be Deployed. Also my Great great Grand Father was a Major or senator (some high ranked City Position) of Hiroshima in the late 1930's and was still living there when the war started. as far as I know. don't know when he died
It's more of a half-truth, if I remember right. It definitely didn't happen all over, but there *have* been accounts from kamikaze pilots who survived the war to know limited fuel was used in at least a few places. In others, extra fuel could help spread fires after a successful attack, which provided an obvious benefit that could either outweigh the need to conserve fuel (or that particular unit just had a better supply situation and could afford to spare the additional fuel, etc., I'm sure there were more reasons behind it). But sometimes they just used extra explosives instead, so there would be no need to [literally] burn the extra fuel or dump it in the ocean just because the pilot missed.
The reports that come from the eastern front; Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kiev... Its the most horrific thing you can read. Everything from meticulous recountings of the Holocaust of Bullets (I recommend War Against Humanity on the channel WW2 if you want to know more) to reports of Cannibalism, to horrific war crimes can be easily found and learned about. WW2 and WW1 for that matter are so incomprehensibly destructive, that you can never really grasp the true meaning of the statistics and get lost in the numbers. The cost in human life, the way they died and the way they lived during these wars... I would never wish on any soul. Horrific doesn't even do it justice. It was the darkest stain in recorded history. Never. Forget.
4:45 It is true. Quite a lot of the fortifications are still there. I visited some a few years ago.
То, что он сказал про Сталинград... Ещё одна жертва фильма "Враг у ворот"...
Another way of showing the numbers and eyes opening for me...
I am from Germany and -nearly- every city, town, village I have visited, has places to remember the fallen (mostly only the soldiers). Often monuments with the names on it. I have driven to the place in my hometown with my bike, perhaps a bit disrespectfully climbed on it to be able to count the entries with my family name, when I was a kid about of age 9 or 10. I was shocked and asked my grandparents, who was of my family. And they have said: "All". Several brothers (my grand uncles) I never heard of before, because it was so sad for my grandparents to speak about them, and more of non-core family.
This is the moment I remember, that I have noticed, war is no joke or adventure, something to celebrate or happy to join, just to prevent.
P.S. this was in late 80's when military exercises where seen more often, tanks and military convoys on the streets... impressive for me to hear and see these big machines due to ongoing cold war. But since then, I was more critical.
Over all I am glad to be in the peace period and hope it will like this in future. But especially regarding ongoing conflict in UA there are certain concerns.
Knowing Better's video on Japanese revisionism concerning it's war crimes is a truly excellent video and worth checking out.
Sadly for some reason Japan is allowed to largely get away with that, which is why awareness of this must be spread as far and wide as possible.
Absolutely.I would highly recommend it for everyone.
There are just places….. Pearl Harbour, Treblinka, Berlin, the Killing Fields of Cambodia …… you can just feel the sorrow in such places
Видимо, этот "учитель" учил историю по фильму "Враг у ворот"))
Wow...thank you for reviewing this.
Many people who are involved in wars, both soldiers and civilizations who survived, end up with ptsd. Post Tramactic Stress Disorder. There is help from doctors to help take that away.
Thank you for your reaction.
21:22 "fun" fact:
Technically there is no war in Europe still since Ukraine didn't declare war against Russia and vise versa...
Wonder why?
"American Indians" include the Islands (mostly under Spanish and Dutch rule,) Alaska (under Russian influence,) South America (ruled by the Spanish and Portuguese.) and the US and Canada. So, one must be careful to put all blame on the US alone. less than 10% of deaths occurred in US areas and a vast majority were from supplying the Natives with necessities that ended up carrying diseases not known to be harmful, plus the outright battles and trail of tears.
Yes, maybe a phrase like "indigenous people in the Americas" would be clearer (if longer).
I love your videos, I want to recoment you one. 5 Worst combat roles from history from the channel Unknow5. I really think you are gonna like it, you might get good material for your students. Its amazing to see how the Tunnel Rats and U-Boat members lived their last moments fighting in war. Any ways I hope you can read this comment, Greetings froms México!
In fact war in Asia started earlier than the war in Europe, in 1937 when Japan invaded China. A lot of time - a lot of casualties, Japanese soldiers were really brutal with civilians.
Rewatching it, I agree, I fear that the long peace or new peace has ended, I'm preoccupied for what the future will be
It hits different. Being a german with a great-grandfather (Regular army, no SS) that made it out of stalingrad ill by one of the last planes, who became a cementary gardener for his church afterwards, while his wife and his first son, my grand-uncle and my great-grandmother, survived the firestorm-bombing of dresden. My grand-uncle became a church peace activist afterwards, oppressed by east german sowjet secret sevice, but lives on. He only cant stay close to bonfires after seeing the sky enclosed in flames burning as a child...
even most of the SS wasn´t the definition of evil .... many people joined the SS to get political favors ----- and most of the ss wher regular soldgiers -----
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what most people think the SS ist the SS-TV and the SS-TD
the ss was responsilbe for many thinks for example most firefighters where part of the SS --- but had obviously nothing to do with the Totenkopf Divisionen (deathskull divisions)
@@baronbrummbar8691 Oh, danke für die Info! Das ist bei mir nicht hängen geblieben im Geschichtsunterricht...
@@robertbretschneider765 wird im geschicht untericht einfach nicht behandelt ----- da wird einfach gesagt das die wehrmacht böse ist und die SS super böse ist ......
---- dann wird die HJ und der BDM besprochen
und vieleicht noch die SA die von den nazis ganz am anfang erledigt wurde
My grandfather was an american soldier and fought in world war 2. For our social studies class we were learning about ww2 for a project I ended up essentially interviewing my grandfather. He told me that he'd seen the worst of humanity and it was really tough for him to talk about it. My grandfather told me though he'd seen the worst during the war he saw good too. He was extremely greatful because when he was stationed and fighting in germany he met and fell in love with my grandmother a german citizen. They were married for 60 years until he passed away.
My grandfather was in east prussia, he was 14 yo (germany) he was in the battle for east prussia against soviet union, later he moved to latin america. When i was a child i asked him about the war, he told it was the nearest to hell in earth
5:15 Pretty sure that’s just a myth, as the pilots were some of Japan‘s best why waste them, if they had to turn back due to weather or an equipment malfunction then that’s a waste of a plane and a pilot for nothing. If they returned they‘d be sent back. If they kept returning then they were executed.
The 20 million native Americans is total number who died during European colonization. This is a weird number to include because it was not a conflict. There was clashes between the Europeans and natives for sure but there was also alot of collaboration. Most of these deaths were due to disease. The natives were susceptible to disease, many of which were carried by the euros. But they did not carry these diseases as weapons
il does mention when putting those numbers up that some of them were more atrocities than wars. . and how those distinctions can be blurry
Yes, I was going to make the same comment about disease being the killer of most of the Native Americans. And when you say “Native Americans” people usually think of North American Indians. But the biggest number of killed were central American Indians that died During the Spanish conquest of the 16th and 17th centuries.
i think this 20 million number only includs conflict ---- considering that around 50 million people lived in the americas
@@baronbrummbar8691 This number is highly disputed. Estimates go between 5 and 100 Million.
@@loraswolfrik1595 i mean considering how massive that land was it would be weird if it isn´t atleast 10 million
What you were talking about was the winter war, Finland defended very well from the Soviets, but when Soviets realized what was happening, they sent a lot of men there and understandably succeeded.
I have heard more spiritually minded people say that being at Auschwitz triblenka or any of the other forced labor or extermination camps that they can feel a quiet but very palpable feeling of pain hopelessness and despair. Sometimes there is no explanation for the things we do to each other. No excuses of ideology or prior events influencing things is in my opinion a good enough excuse for something of this level of monstrousness.
Ah yes, the "1 rifle for three men" myth.
*One out of two gets a rifle, one without the rifle follows him. The one with the rifle shoots. When the one with the rifle gets killed, one who is following picks up the rifle and shoots.*
Quote from "Enemy At The Gates", a movie showing the Invasion of Stalingrad. But the film focuses on the story of Vassili Zaitsev, a soviet sniper who fought at the Battle of Stalingrad. Zaitsev is credited with 242 kills (including 11 snipers).
Not a myth, lol. When the NKVD "volunteered" civilians to fight in Stalingrad, they were basically thrown at German positions and were extremely underarmed and undertrained (a Russian tradition that carries on today). And yes, they used blocking troops too, they weren't a myth either, no matter how much tankie simps want them to be. They are well documented.
Stalingrad actually being a brutal exception and showcase of these two things taken to extremes. Civilians with barely any training and not enough equipment to go around being thrown at enemy troops under threat of being gunned down by NKVD machine guns behind them.
Judging by reports from Russian troops and mercs in Ukraine, these tactics are still well alive too.
i stood on the site of a German pillbox. From there to the shore line was a 2 minutes stroll. So as those beach vehicles opened the hatch all the Germans had to do is aim the guns into the vehicles and a hit was almost guarantied. To see that was gut-wrenching. i mean even uphill from the beach to the pillboxes was no more then a couple of minutes gentle stroll, no climbing at all.
imagine a regular beach in florida. one of those you see on every tv show imaginable ...with a couple of miles thousands of bodies on the sand only.
If you like historia. Try listen to Sabaton. Whom has a written some great songs about war history. Start with ”christmas truce” or ”no bullets fly” (FULL ANIMATED VERSION)
12:50 About this silence. You can't really compare visiting a place like Auschwitz with somthing like a natural history museum tour. The museum tour would be at least a bit of a fun and a discussion is maybe even encouraged. Not so much in a CC. When we went to a CC on a school trip we were heavily indoctrinated by out teachers to shut up and not fool around. So hardly a fair comparison.
The 20 million number for the American Indians includes all the indigenous peoples wiped out in all of the Americas from the time that Columbus inadvertently started the spread of European plagues like smallpox. It is difficult to figure it out exactly without access to Halloran's sources, but that seems to be where the number comes from. ✌🖖
20 million could just be north america. . possibly.. its really hard to track
@@Blizzard0fHope It seems kind of doubtful that Halloran would have only included the numbers for the North American native peoples that died and not have an indication for how many South American indigenous died. With only one listing for the calamity that came to the American Indians, it seems likely that it is meant to include all of the Americas. But you are right that it is at least possible it is only North America.
I'm just a average person that loves history and everything that happened in WWII. I have "studied" for over 20 years and I talked to as many survivors a I could and I still are so ignorant on WWII. We are still living with things that happened at that time. The horrible thing was when my son's high school studied this war only 1 page was about this war. This really made me mad! So I made sure to teach my son about this world changing war. Operation Paperclip and the Oddessay file would take years to completly understand why things were done. Please take this back to your students. My teacher got us to go find and talk to a WWII Vet. I learned so much! Sadly not too many WWIi Vets are alive today, but I cried my eyes out at what happened ti the men I talked to. I'm thinking some universities have WWII Vets and survivors story's, but I don't remember who. To hear first hand accounts are so much better than just facts from a channel. Good luck and please let your students know that history ALWAYS repeats itself, humans just don't learn from our mistakes. To see young people hate this country and cheer to get our Admendments ripped apart, when they don't really know what they are begging for upsets me so much. I asked if we needed to get rid of the 13th and 19th Admendments and they started screaming we needed to get rid of them, they didn't know what they were or why they were screaming to change these admendments. So sad these young people are jusy followers and only do what who every are the loudest. Please tell your students how important our rights are.
He’s a Swedish teacher. US constitution doesn’t matter there.
I had distant relatives die in the concentration camps. My great grandparents all came to the US around 1900. I shudder to think what would have happened to my family if they had stayed. Jewish refugees were rejected from entry into many countries including the USA and the UK. Sending right back into areas controlled by the Nazis. If you’re reading this, please just take a moment of silence to think about all of these people we lost. ✡️
Watched Enemy at the gates, eh? Some history teacher you are.
Hi history teacher. First long distance communicate was of course fire but second was drums.
Such a sad time and moment in history but I absolutely learning everything around the topic of WW2
If a teacher is this clueless about the eastern front what hope is there for a regular person. I’d suggest researching an issue before making a fool out of yourself
The Pausing Teacher
American Indian War was probably the French and Indian War. 1700s .
The death toll of Native Americans toward the end of the video (20 million) is a relatively low estimate. Between deliberate killings, starvation, forced relocation, open conflicts, resource extraction, slavery, and mass executions, exact numbers are almost impossible. The current estimate is that as much as 98% of the Indigenous population of North America was killed by various powers, including England, France, and the US.
Beyond that, you have to take into account the cultural genocide that continues to this day, continued oppression and killing by military and police forces, and the generational trauma all of this has caused. It's really hard to even make sense of how devastating the genocide of Indigenous peoples here was and continues to be.
My grandfather and great uncle was in the pacific towards the end of the ww2 . Both in the US Navy. I have quite a bit of them been to war .I have a family member who died in Vietnam. My father served in the big red one during the Vietnam War. I love my country and am grateful for the brave man and woman who fought and died for our freedom. But I still hate war . I wish we could evolve to the point where it becomes a thing of the past.
another reason why so many died on Omaha Beach was that the Americans refused a British invention to get over the barbwire defences and also any RAF help 😔😥
The Finland fought with Germany in WW2. Sweden totally played it dirty. Tho they claimed to be neutral, they let the Germans occupy Norway, through their boarder and by using their railroad. They also sold steel to Germany to produce weapons during the war.
Without the Sovjet union, the allied never would have won the war on the European continent. Americans tend to believe they came in as the heroes saving the world alone.
This’s true, also Finland is partially responsible for 1.5 mil deaths in Leningrad. It’s amazes me that people don’t really talking about it
Don't know if you've see this YT vid 'Richard Dimbleby's 1945 news report from Belsen with photographs'. I must warn you though - it's horrific
The father of my grandma fell in Stalingrad. We don´t know how and where, but we know that he is buried there...
Its sad...
Неизвестная война документальный сериал посмотрите на английском , все поймете .
i am 54 years old and not proud of german history. but no country is without flaws. how many indians were killed in north america and still live in sanctuaries today...after almost 300 years...think about it
05:33 fuel crisis make that make , also bombs crisis. Last flights a make at pinethorn spirit fuel. !
"if you keep throwing enough people at the bullets eventually they will run out of bullets."
Great video
8:45 What is the source of this information? “Enemy at the gates”? 🤷🏻♂️
This is the usual nonsense that a gormless director showed in his below average (at best) movie.
And then this cliche began to be used everywhere: in video games and tons of other movies. It has become a stereotype along with bears and vodka...
hej Sabaton released a new album on March 4th !
Hey, I was wondering if you could react to a song from the band muse one time. I thing you are gonna like it. Maybe a song like Uprising, Knights of Cydonia or Survival! Thank you 🙏
8:45 what? If you history teacher, you must know, it is a big mistake. It used by filmmakers, but it's wrong
its a very common myth or at least two common myths but im alway shocked how much people fall for it.
Entire video is filled with misinformation
That's why it's so important for Russians not to forget Victory Day - May 9. There is no family in Russia whose ancestors did not suffer in that war
Something rarely talked about is the Soviet Invasion of Manchuria. There were Japanese Generals who refused surrender while the Soviets were advancing, but at that stage of the war, the Japanese were ill-equipped to defend against the Soviets and the Soviets at that point were well-equipped and had a lot more experience fighting the Germans, so it wasn't going to turn out well for the Japanese forces. As for war crimes, I don't know of any around that point because I never looked into it, but the Japanese had one of the most barbaric forms of scorched earth in human history where they would exterminate populations if they suspected that they were going to lose that area. So it would not surprise me one bit that these people were massacring Chinese Civilians.
Amazing video.
Everyone needs to watch this. Everyone is saying the world is going to shit as we live through the most peaceful time in human history. The world isn’t going to shit, we just have it so good that any minor inconvenience is an earth shattering issue.
Tell the dead in Ukraine you are sorry for their "minor inconvenience". Please read and think about what you write before hitting the reply button.
Since its Baseball season here in America i recommend Ken Burns Baseball history documentary. Its a bit lighter in tone but a great history lesson and a interesting snapshot of American sports history and society.
I think that only thing that counts is Human Lives, percentages are not suitable for counting human lives. And yes, I know that death of a human is a tragedy and a death of thousands is statistics… Still.
Weird that Napoleon was kind of a hero to Hitler yet Hitler made the same mistakes, The biggest was the invasion of Stalingrad.
I don’t get why you keep pointing out China, but korea was suffering just as much.
Also thanks to ww2 a lot of slaves got freed. Especially sex slaves young as 12 or even younger.
that story about taking weapons from the dead is plain stupidity. The Soviets had enough basic weapons.as well as shooting while pulling back. It happened at the beginning, in very small numbers. Check the information before you talk.
A lot of those Native American deaths are counted as the whole history of colonialism in the Americas. It would be a number of battles, illnesses, allied wars etc to even to the 1900s. Like, a lot of people can forget that the British and French had Native groups pinned side by side during their interests, of course there's the Spanish conquests, US/Canadian expansion, etc.
you know, I'm really sick of Europeans saying that the U.S killed off all the natives. Just who are the people of the U.S. where did they come from. Let's take 100% of the U.S population minus, of course it used to be higher, 9% native. That leaves 91%. Minus 13% African, 78% down. 3% Asian, that leaves 75%. OH MY GOD! are 75% of the people in the U.S aliens from another planet.
Canadians created the Final Solution to treat the native people.
Hi man in 8:27 in fact Stalingrad strategic value was it name "Stalin", main objective of operation fall blue was the oil fields, but hitler intervention made Stalingrad the main objective. Hitler wanted to conquer it for propaganda when he saw the name of the city
Should react to the fallen of world war 1 now 💯
Imagine being in Stalingrad. 100.000 were POWs after the battle with 6.000 ever seeing Germany again. 6% survival rate or if you count the other 500.000 deaths it leaves you at a 1% survival rate.
My grandfather was a prisoner of war after Stalingrad for 5 years. He said he only survived because he was so small. The bigger ones all starved to death in the first few months. He didn't like talking about it. But one story that stuck with me is that he always had a straw hidden on his body. At the time he was "working" at the train station. And when he loaded flour or grain, he tried to get something out of the sack with a straw. Because they often only got water soup, he would have starved to death otherwise. When he later had to go to Kazakhstan, he only survived there because he worked on a farm and the farmers there sometimes gave him something to eat. When he came home after all these years, he had to walk 50 km from the train station because his family thought he was dead. His mother also sold all his belongings. His two brothers were also in Stalingrad. It was never found out how or where they died.
My grandfather fought in WW2, he fought eastfront vs Russia and Westfront vs america... Not wanted to talk about it much
France is so much better villages and towns look almost the same as back then it’s really good
My grandfather by fhater side was railway worker and he fallen in Tapa railway depoo when he bring for civilian and his family food by hit plae bomb piece 1944 Estonia.Left my fhater then 3 years and aunt then 10 month old. Planes was red army bombers.
No, my friend. The Long Peace is no longer applicable. And I fear things are going to get much worse.
Japan invaded china in 1937 and started civilian massacres during this period leading upto and through the war. After Japan's defeat the main power of the Japanese army was removed entirely. There were only a few pockets of individual soldiers on far islands left.
To put things into perspective: Germany lost more soldiers at Stalingrad than the Russian and Ukrainian armies had combined at the beginning of the current war in Ukraine. And that's just the German losses, it doesn't include the Italian, Hungarian and Romanian forces there who together lost almost as many soldiers as the Germans. Meanwhile, on the Soviet side, more soldiers died than all those Germans, Romanians, Italians and Hungarians combined. All this in one city, in one five-month battle of this six-year world war. And we haven't even started to count the hundreds of thousands of civilians who lived and died in this city.
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Calling a drafted german soldier a nazi just doesnt sit right with me
99% of them were nazi
Reducing the complex issue and decision making around U.S. firebombing in Japan as the video's creator did is intellectually dishonest, but given his tendency to both single out the U.S. for criticism and attempt to dismiss or ignore its contributions (in this and other content) I suspect he doesn't care.
Puts in perspective who really helped the allies win WW II
Yeah. American food, fuel, ammo, and weapons. Something even the Soviets begrudgingly admitted was highly instrumental in victory. It's only delusional tankies and other assorted idiots today that refuse to acknowledge that. Turns out that having the largest industrial base in the world at the time kinda meant something. Who woulda thunk it?
But people died before 1942 tho!
so the American Native Wars are a bit hard to explain.. no it was not just one war it was close to 40.. and it's really weird in the sense that the US would be at war with a tribe and then the next year be allied with that tribe fighting a war against another tribe... and that happened about 20 times..
this should give you an idea of what I mean
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Hey, you can watch this, then you will understand more, why Russia today still celebrates the Victory:
Артём Гришанов - Мир спас русский солдат / Russian soldier saved the world / World War 2
It’s actually really scary when ww2 is put like this, it was before but even more now
8 :50 gun crisis is only in 1941
This video 20% truth 80% propaganda 😅
Imho the honor of kamikaze is purely Japanese propaganda.
They started using kamikaze to save fuel, since it happened once USA break their supply lines.
To put it simple, for Japanes' leadres, a japan pilot life worth less that the fuel to bring him back.
It was not 6m
Why are you lying?