"The Rape of Nanking" is what they were referring to. I believe you were thinking of "Unit 731" which also took place during WWII. They are extremely disturbing topics. I legit can't recommend that anyone investigate it, but at the same time, we can't allow these things to be swept under the rug.
@@kabirconsiders Hilter was actually afraid of Japans Unit 731. They called people maruta (logs), if you survived one experiment you were moved on to the next one. They did everything from seeing how long someone can live wuthout certain organs to seeing what a grenade does to someone and how far out it kills. The US government also pardened the leader of the Unit to get all the research after the war. We learned a lot about diseases from Unit 731 giving candy to kids in china. Youd be surprised at what stuff we use now that came from all of that research.
Well said, agree 100% The Rape of Nanking is the atrocity that nobody learns about in the West… In school we all learn about the Holocaust, yet the Rape of Nanking was every bit as cruel and barbaric as the Holocaust, honestly Fine examples of the utter cruelty and evil humans are capable of visiting on our very own The Armenian Genocide is another example… The modern government of Turkey wants to sweep it under the rug, just as the modern government of Japan wants to downplay the Rape of Nanking, but history cannot allow that to happen
The “Rape of Nanking” are the Japanese atrocities against the Chinese that he’s referring to The Rape of Nanking is every bit as cruel and barbaric as the Holocaust was, yet it’s seldom mentioned and rarely talked about in schools (at least in Western countries)… It was utterly horrific though, if you ever get a chance to read more about it
9:45 when he talks about Japan's shocking atrocities, I actually had looked it up for myself. It was actually sickening what they did to the local people in China
@@kabirconsiders It is often overshadowed by the Nazi and German led atrocities, but it is honestly incomprehensible that it isn't talked about. It may be that the Western countries are more concerned about what happens in Western countries and countries that are closer.
@@Somewhere_Bagel They deny the worst one, in my opinion, that being the experimental units that did human experimentation on the magnitude of hundreds of thousands of victims. They have, for a few decades, started to touch on the Rape of Nanking, for example.
Iris Chang, an American, wrote a book entitled The Rape of Nanking. Some say that all her research about the war and the evil acts committed during the war left her very depressed. She committed suicide in 2004.
One thing that no one seems to remember when wondering why the Allies did not just go in with all guns blazing earlier. The leaders of France and the UK at the time had just 20 years earlier watched basically an entire generation of men get torn to shreds in the last great war....they were willing to try almost anything that would not repeat that. In hindsight we can see that they would have been better off being more proactive, but that is with hindsight of what happened.
Appeasement never works, with two year olds or dictators. Unfortunately history has a way of repeating itself due to the fact our society tends to forget the lessons of the past. Thanks Kabir funny and factual video.
Britain and France had little choice but to try and appease Hitler. Neither country was ready for war...not even in when they did declare war in 1939...that is why there was the "phony war" period. However, even more than that, the Brits and French had no choice because their people were absolutely opposed to war...and the will of the people actually mattered in Britain and France, at least in some way, as opposed to they way it was in the dictatorships. The British and French people did not want to go to war to save Austria or the Sudetenland or even all of Czechoslovakia. Even when war was declared in September of 1939, the British and French people were not all that enthusiastic about going to war for Poland. People today think that appeasement was an actual strategy...it was not...it was what happened because there was nothing else Britain and France could do. 🖖✌
"Didn't America get involved in this at some point?" - the question that every member of the allied forces (including Churchill) wanted to know at that time lol. As an American, I can honestly say while we did play an important, even vital role, our own textbooks really play it up to make it out like we were some kind of world savior. Russia, the UK, and France really took the brunt of it in regards to the European front.
Our textbooks play it up?? Lmao. We financed the war through lend lease 😂 Hitler most likely would've won without the US sending ammo, food, money etc to both Britain amd Russia while fighting on 2 fronts against Germany and Japan at the same time
It had nothing to do with the US, just like WW1. Why would they happily fight another European war when they refused to pay back their loans from the first world war?
It should also be noted that the story of high British morale during the blitz is overblown, as it largely comes from the press which was heavily censured at the time and made for a good story. It wasnt all chip and cheery and typical British stoicism.
The British press were amazing masters of propaganda at the time, to keep the UK public in as good of spirits as they were in at the time, given the circumstances Honestly it’s the unsung victory of the war- on the British homefront The US media kept American morale high as well, but obviously the US wasn’t facing the same stakes as the UK was
you're right and wrong. There are numerous accounts from US soldiers and Polish Pilots, astounded at the resolve and bravery of the British people. So don't be so quick to minimise the courage and stoicism of blighty.
Honestly these kinds of reactions where the person reacting doesn't know much about the topic but is interested and willing to learn, are my favorite. I get so bored watching someone to react to these videos if they already know everything that's going to happen.
@@kabirconsiders Yeah, that video messes with you. It puts the deaths in graphs, which creates a powerful visual for the astonishing number of human life lost.
The "Heavy Gustav" was at least one of the biggest movable guns ever made, it required 8 (?) diesel locomotives to move. Of course it couldn't be moved secretly because enemy aircraft could spot the tracks and it was terribly inefficient, but it was a great propaganda tool. It wasn't actually mounted on a train but ran on 4 wheelsets requiring two parallel train tracks.
In regards the RAF’s casualty rates during the blitz, they were often lower than reported or believed as they were flying over home soil, and any pilot who bailed out his plane and survived could fly again soon enough. German pilots on the other hand spent the rest of the war in POW camps in GB, Canada, South Africa, or Australia instead of fighting another day.
There's a story of a polish general and around 780 men who held a position against 40 thousand German troops for three days, giving time for civilians to retreat. They had to give up eventually, but still..40:1 and they held out for 3 days.
My dad enlisted in the Navy the year he graduated high school and just after Pearl Harbor. He was 17 yrs old. If he hadn't returned alive, I wouldn't have been born. He served on a battleship in the Pacific.
Interesting note: the Battle of Britain arguably was won by accident. Germany was targeting the RAF airfields but on one raid some of their planes got off course and accidentally bombed London, which was why Churchill ordered the raid on Berlin, which made Hitler so mad he ordered the change in tactics that let the RAF recover.
Watching these videos it’s really cool to see the difference in what we learn in schools here and canada and in the UK cause here we learned a lot about world war 2
@@kabirconsiders look up the rape of Nanking, that’s what the narrator was referring to, to put it simply they looted, murdered, raped & tortured their way through Chinas capital
Like other comments have said, the Japanese atrocities they refer to are known as the "Rape of Nanking." The stories of what the Japanese did to the Chinese and Korean people under their rule is truly horrific. It's worth looking into, as Japanese atrocities tend to be overlooked because of what the Nazis did. But, definitely not for the faint of heart.
So some interesting stuff has been coming out about Chamberlain in recent years that the UK government has been sitting on even as appeasement was taking place... While he was appeasing Hitler and publicly pushing for peace and not provoking Hitler by building up Britain's armed forces, he was behind the scenes working to build up Britain's military ASAP because he actually knew appeasement wouldn't work and was only hoping to buy time(which very much annoyed Hitler - he was hoping they would reject the Czechoslovakia agreement and give him an excuse to go to war) to do it in. Some of this info also indicates that the only region he intended to let Hitler keep was a small but significant section of the Sudetenland that Germany had a major legitimate claim for, and the he may have been willing to eventually go to war himself over the rest if Hitler had not invaded Poland. So why did the UK sit on this info until recently? Well, APPARENTLY in order to help keep the buildup secret, Chamberlain probably did some very underhanded and possibly illegal shit to move funding around for it. The kind of shit that gets politicians kicked out of office if found out. The problem with this info is that it's been sat on for so long, and details about the funding movements is so spotty, that we will probably never be able to verify ANY of it. Which is a real shame since this would be a pretty god damn big deal if it could be proven. All but the harshest historians admit that Britain needed the time provided by appeasement, but it's only recently as this information has started coming out that some have begun to soften on Chamberlain. It's strange to realize that it's very possible that Chamberlain's only true fuckup was how he handled the start of the war.
That makes a lot of sense. Brits are usually very pragmatic and the appeasement strategy seems very unlike something that i would expect of a prime minister. It makes sense that there was an ulterior motive behind it
After Germany invaded France the French fought for Germany along with others. Robert Murphy took some men and then drove to the residence of General Alphonse Juin, the senior French Army officer in North Africa. While they surrounded his house (making Juin a hostage) Murphy attempted to persuade him to side with the Allies.
Not really reaction-material, but if you got some time to spare check out "WW2 by indy neidell". He's the dude doing the sabaton history videos, and he's got a running series with like 15min/week going through the events of WW2 "in real time" (1 week's events every week)
A very good series, that too be fair he doesn’t do alone(he’s got a whole team behind him.) he also did a series on the Great War WW 1 in a similar style
@@kabirconsiders Yeah, my grandmother has a caretaker from Poland, and she says everyone still knows/uses the German names, some places apparently even got both on the signage when you go into town.
One thing that I’ve read about WWII is that the British, French and to a lesser degree the United States were more collaborators with Germany at least in the beginning. Remember the biggest fear/threat in the west in the 1920s and 1930s was the Soviet Union and Stalin and the fear the Bolshevik would spread westward. They wanted to keep the Soviet Union in check and the west was using Germany to do so, that’s why despite Germany’s aggression the British and French gave Germany the territory they wanted. Their plan was to keep Germany satisfied and send Germany to oppose the Soviet expansion in the East. Stalin saw the potential threat from Germany and wanted to form and alliance with the British and French who refused. This lead to the Soviet-Germany non aggression pact which killed the French/British plans to use Germany against the Soviet Union. Even after declaration of war, for about a nine month period nothing big happened on the western front leading to what was called the Phony War as the west was still trying work out an agreement with Germany until the battle of France began.
Yes the US did get involved, but after the point of the blitz strategy by Hitler in the UK. December 7th 1941, Pearl Harbor, is when the US got involved. Before that, the merchant marines and lend lease were the only real support from the US. Merchant marines took food, war materials, etc from the US to Britain to keep the war effort going. Lend lease allowed the Us to legally let the UK “borrow” ships, guns, bullets, everything needed to prosecute a war. It was supposed to be illegal to sell any of these to the warring parties, so the loophole to help only Britain was lend lease, where they were technically “borrowing” it.
it's called "The Rape Of Nanking" and it was way more than some experiments. Way, way, more, and like the Armenian Genocide by the Turks, is still an issue often ignored "out of politeness"
LOL Kabir, I am raising my hand in your class. LOL My mom just gave me permission to sign up for your part 2 Class LOL I love this. Half of this I did not even know of. wow. Thank you KBC
Recently to veterans, one English the other German, met in France for the first time since D-day. The Englishman was part of the invasion and the German was among those who surrendered. There's BBC coverage on it here on YT Sorry to nit pick, but it was for king and country. King George VI was still around at this time.
15:25 my grandpa was a soldier in the US Army Air Corp(Which later became the US Air Force), working as a navigator of of B-17 Flying Fortress, stationed in England and flying over continental Europe, bombing Nazi factories and railroads.
At 17:50 I believe you are referring to what is known as 'the rape of Nanking' where 100's of thousands of people were brutely murdered and women were assaulted with impunity.
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As lousy a policy as it was, appeasement gave the UK tome to build up the RAF. The only reason the UK was able to escape at Dunkirk was that the Germans stopped to regroup before proceeding. If they hadn’t, things would have be quite different. I got the chance to meet one of the “Few” many years ago. He had some interesting stories.
@@kabirconsiders that's weird compared to the US, here history, English (literature) and physical education are mandatory all the way through highschool. Science for at least 2 years, maths for two, and foreign language for 2. 9th was US history 10th and 11th grade were global history, and senior year was civics and government. (NY state law says in order to graduate you need to have a basic understanding of the Constitution.)
I have watched several reaction channels react to this WW2 series. It is very disturbing how little younger people know of this extremely pivotal time in history.
This Oversimplified is pretty decent...but there are errors in it. Most are minor, but there are issues with the script about Hitler's rise to power, to varying degrees. For one thing, Oversimplified says that "the German people loved him", but that is not factually correct, he needed to specify that a portion of the German people loved Hitler...and not even a majority. The Nazis never managed to get more than about 35% support in any of the elections, but they were able to use that to force President Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor by leaving no other option. I know this is about "Oversimplifying" history, but it still needs to be factually correct and not misleading. You actually asked a really good question about how does a guy with a record become Chancellor...because Oversimplified left out just a bit too much information.🖖💯✌
@@kabirconsidersWell...it is complicated...he also puts stuff kind of out of order, but it is very not oversimplified to describe how...I would not make you read that long of an explanation. As far as the Hitler omissions, he does not address those in part 2...I have watched that and watched people react to it a bunch of times. He actually makes other mistakes in the second part...but I still like that he makes the effort. Summarizing World War 2 is not a challenge I would try to tackle myself...and I am not aware of anyone else on TH-cam who has done a better job...but nobody is perfect. 🖖✌
And after that Hitler made the biggest mistake of all declaring war on the US who do that Also two two reasons world war II happened one you could not write the treaty the way it was in front punished Germany the way they were that was never Second part of part 1 Japan and Italy were pissed because they had been very much winners and they felt like they had lost And also the Great depression played bigger role than anybody likes to give a credit for Pearl harbor I think I think that's all I need to say but world war II had two of the greatest speeches ever made which was by why do I always forget this president's name even though he's my favorite President of the US And went to Churchill they're two speeches are are legendary
You probably mean FDR's "a date that will live in infamy" speech. Yes, Churchill's "we shall fight on the beaches" was also a historically significant speech.
haven't seen the video - but my opinion .. ww2 over-simplified - ( since UK has LOST every war / battle ever entered - why would ww2 be any different ? ) UK decided to join a war ... " our boys will be home in 2 weeks - plenty of time for christmas" ( winsted Churchhill ) ...Hitler responded by BOMBING london for 4 years every night killing MILLIONS of civilians .. BEFORE .. UK .. call for help. - after calling the americans - for help - the americans invaded germany killed hitler in less than 6 months.
@@kabirconsiders makes sence. We are not allowed to chose on the 4 majors. English, Arithmatic Social Studies and Science. We have to eat what is served. We do have 3 electives but are for cooking, electronics or any shop classes. In high school we can chose to take more deeper indepth of the 4 majors but that is mainly done by college bound students and not shop bound students. Shop students usually go on to make cash straight away out of school and college bound student usually do not make cash till 2 years after college.. Eventually college bound make more on the long run but only if the shop bound stay shop employess. Usually after 5 u ears they start their own buisness and have to higher college bound students to help build their buisness. But we do try not to pay the college bound students at a low pay rate till they figure out they need to go to buisness for themselves to make more cash. If they never figure it out, they become very loyal to their employee chains and will never leave their shop masters. 😎👍😎👍😎👍
@@kabirconsiders but as you can see..it was MAJOR for UK..If Japan did not bomb the US we would have not gotten involved and you would be speaking Germany. US was anti war and it was not fought on our soil... Here WW2 did not really exist to us until Pearl Harbor but the war had been going on for YEARS
So i must fix it a little bit because it's a little bit wrong and details are important in that topic... besides I'm German and we do learn way way much more about this whole thing because our land wanna say it was absolutely bad because it's just true. So Hitler was really psychological at the end, really, he was not right in the Head Wich is proved. It has many reasons like this one Art school if they would have take him as a student this whole thing would be not happened. Because many things that make him so strong and important was actually luck like the German eiche table that saved his live on a bomb attack or the Versailler contract Wich was completely unfair (his Art was even not that bad... So wow Art school) His ideology was wrote in prison it was just all propaganda shit with the "Arische" race like he was an Austrian and told the "Germans" (Because the Nazis were no real Germans they wanted to destroy our democracy) how a German has to look like and more shit like this. He only was a really really good speaker like he was not even really smart he was actually really dumb in military Strategy like most of the things did his generals. Most people say "how could they just follow him" Wich, Sorry, i think is extremely difficult and dumb to say because it were hard times,... Germany was absolutely down from ww1 they had no food, no water discrimination and the Versailler Contract made Hitler that important because he used it and said it was all unfair (Wich was mostly true because Germany don't started ww1 and Germans were really really proud at that time so they really don't liked it) so he said i can fix this give you food, water, Work and what you must say even he was a absolutely mad man - at the beginning he did all that! He gave them all that and his group made smart decisions like creating main roads and when you have children at home that had nothing to eat you must follow him because at the beginning he seemed good and did good things even he was inside a absolutely insane person. time and time passed and the shit came out like holocaust and the Germans realized that he was absolutely crazy so many real Germans made underground groups and there were so many attacks on him but all failed. Many many good people lost there life's in the revolutionary groups like the Great Major: He had Hitler in his hand because he worked himself up and was winning Hitlers trust so before a special meeting he placed a bomb under the table and it worked... Not because the Table that was made from the tree German eiche protected Hitler I mean it was German handwork this table was unbreakable.. In that time the major was in the Parlament and was so close to bring Hitler down they had a great plan they said all that was the SS and NSDAP Hitlers groups and they had good prove but... In the last minute Hitler came and give the command to shot them down. Rest in peace If he would have not been absolutely crazy and hear his generals out that he should finish the first front and than attack Russia we would probably speak all German today! because Nazi Germany was really Strong probably the strongest army and There are many psychological facts about the army that are really smart like the Nazis were just stylish at that time.. And what you must say even they were shit this black uniforms with the skeleton heads just looked awesome and there all had the same size so it looked really really good and cool when there walked its really psychological smart. But we can be happy he was a absolutely mad man and complete crazy Wich again is proved so we can live free now more or less.. better if he would have won
Because it is oversimplified: it completely leaves out the fact that the Germans and Italians gave direct support to the Spanish Fascists - who overthrew the elected government. While all the "Democracies" stood aside because well, it was a Socialist government. Though Franco wasn't particularly helpful to his erstwhile allies during the war, the allies chose not to remove his brand of Fascism from Europe.
@@kabirconsiders Only so much detail before people start to lose focus. I think that they are great, because they give a good general overview, and that increases peoples curiosity. The people who started "The Great War" in 2014 and now have several spin-offs including "World War 2" do a great job - they break the events down week by week and give 15-20 minutes at a time. That is an absolutely excellent place to go to get more detail - but in reasonable sized bites.
Funny thing is, it practically was just germany vs the world. Italy had a terrible military largely due to poor leadership and terrible equipment that saw germany constantly have to bail them out and send help. They were friends with japan but being on the other side of the planet couldnt help much and made things worse by dragging the Us in the war. If just italy had been even half as good as germany, the axis likely would have won
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I have to ask. What do they teach you about ww2 in England? Because you aren't the first English person I've seen know next to nothing about something that happened less than 100 years ago. In America we are at least taught who all was in it and the major battles that happened.
I ligit have no idea how you dont know how much went on during ww2, and as you said it should be common sense. Guess the Americans like talking about ww2 more than the brits, but you should at least still be proud of the battle of Britain. And you need to settle your stance, hurricane, or spitfire as the best battle of Britain fighter?
Has to be the spitfire! Is just such an iconic aircraft. I love the bullseyes on each wing! Over here in the U.K. when you get to 13 you have to choose which subjects to continue studying. I didn’t choose history, I wish I did!
@@kabirconsiders yea. That's interesting, we dont have a choice in our schooling as much as that, we have to have high school years of english, and 3 for history and math, very interesting.
"The Rape of Nanking" is what they were referring to. I believe you were thinking of "Unit 731" which also took place during WWII. They are extremely disturbing topics. I legit can't recommend that anyone investigate it, but at the same time, we can't allow these things to be swept under the rug.
Yeah I’ve heard some of the things done are absolute evil
@@kabirconsiders Hilter was actually afraid of Japans Unit 731. They called people maruta (logs), if you survived one experiment you were moved on to the next one. They did everything from seeing how long someone can live wuthout certain organs to seeing what a grenade does to someone and how far out it kills. The US government also pardened the leader of the Unit to get all the research after the war. We learned a lot about diseases from Unit 731 giving candy to kids in china. Youd be surprised at what stuff we use now that came from all of that research.
Well said, agree 100%
The Rape of Nanking is the atrocity that nobody learns about in the West… In school we all learn about the Holocaust, yet the Rape of Nanking was every bit as cruel and barbaric as the Holocaust, honestly
Fine examples of the utter cruelty and evil humans are capable of visiting on our very own
The Armenian Genocide is another example… The modern government of Turkey wants to sweep it under the rug, just as the modern government of Japan wants to downplay the Rape of Nanking, but history cannot allow that to happen
The Asian Holocaust is criminally overlooked, imo. China lost the most people in the war behind the Soviet Union.
The “Battle of Manila”, also known as “Stalingrad of the East”, was the second most devastated capital next to Warsaw, Poland.
The “Rape of Nanking” are the Japanese atrocities against the Chinese that he’s referring to
The Rape of Nanking is every bit as cruel and barbaric as the Holocaust was, yet it’s seldom mentioned and rarely talked about in schools (at least in Western countries)… It was utterly horrific though, if you ever get a chance to read more about it
9:45 when he talks about Japan's shocking atrocities, I actually had looked it up for myself. It was actually sickening what they did to the local people in China
Absolutely horrific, I’m shocked it isn’t taught or spoken about more
@@kabirconsiders It is often overshadowed by the Nazi and German led atrocities, but it is honestly incomprehensible that it isn't talked about. It may be that the Western countries are more concerned about what happens in Western countries and countries that are closer.
@@aauwhatitdo1582 it doesn't help that Japan still after all these years denies it as well.
@@Somewhere_Bagel They deny the worst one, in my opinion, that being the experimental units that did human experimentation on the magnitude of hundreds of thousands of victims. They have, for a few decades, started to touch on the Rape of Nanking, for example.
@@Somewhere_Bagel Not officially at least, the closest thing to that would be the former prime minister’s personal apology.
Iris Chang, an American, wrote a book entitled The Rape of Nanking. Some say that all her research about the war and the evil acts committed during the war left her very depressed. She committed suicide in 2004.
One thing that no one seems to remember when wondering why the Allies did not just go in with all guns blazing earlier. The leaders of France and the UK at the time had just 20 years earlier watched basically an entire generation of men get torn to shreds in the last great war....they were willing to try almost anything that would not repeat that. In hindsight we can see that they would have been better off being more proactive, but that is with hindsight of what happened.
Appeasement never works, with two year olds or dictators. Unfortunately history has a way of repeating itself due to the fact our society tends to forget the lessons of the past. Thanks Kabir funny and factual video.
Completely agree with this comment. It’s like we repeat the same mistakes again and again.
Britain and France had little choice but to try and appease Hitler. Neither country was ready for war...not even in when they did declare war in 1939...that is why there was the "phony war" period. However, even more than that, the Brits and French had no choice because their people were absolutely opposed to war...and the will of the people actually mattered in Britain and France, at least in some way, as opposed to they way it was in the dictatorships. The British and French people did not want to go to war to save Austria or the Sudetenland or even all of Czechoslovakia. Even when war was declared in September of 1939, the British and French people were not all that enthusiastic about going to war for Poland. People today think that appeasement was an actual strategy...it was not...it was what happened because there was nothing else Britain and France could do. 🖖✌
These oversimplified videos, while being a little goofy at times, are extremely accurate about what actually happened
"Didn't America get involved in this at some point?" - the question that every member of the allied forces (including Churchill) wanted to know at that time lol. As an American, I can honestly say while we did play an important, even vital role, our own textbooks really play it up to make it out like we were some kind of world savior. Russia, the UK, and France really took the brunt of it in regards to the European front.
well seeing how Churchill said that they won the war when the USA joined does kind of sound he made us out to be heroes
Our textbooks play it up?? Lmao. We financed the war through lend lease 😂 Hitler most likely would've won without the US sending ammo, food, money etc to both Britain amd Russia while fighting on 2 fronts against Germany and Japan at the same time
It had nothing to do with the US, just like WW1. Why would they happily fight another European war when they refused to pay back their loans from the first world war?
It should also be noted that the story of high British morale during the blitz is overblown, as it largely comes from the press which was heavily censured at the time and made for a good story. It wasnt all chip and cheery and typical British stoicism.
Yeah I can see how see the story was spun a little, served a purpose though. Mass evacuations and hiding in subways aren’t fun things to do!
The British press were amazing masters of propaganda at the time, to keep the UK public in as good of spirits as they were in at the time, given the circumstances
Honestly it’s the unsung victory of the war- on the British homefront
The US media kept American morale high as well, but obviously the US wasn’t facing the same stakes as the UK was
you're right and wrong. There are numerous accounts from US soldiers and Polish Pilots, astounded at the resolve and bravery of the British people. So don't be so quick to minimise the courage and stoicism of blighty.
For someone not knowing a lot about the war, you ask a lot of the right questions
Honestly these kinds of reactions where the person reacting doesn't know much about the topic but is interested and willing to learn, are my favorite. I get so bored watching someone to react to these videos if they already know everything that's going to happen.
Thanks mate :) and I agree there’s nothing fun about reacting to something you’re already clued up about
If you haven't watched the movie "Dunkirk" it's excellent, especially since it's based on the battle and having a connection to the U.K.
I really need to check it out, maybe this weekend!
@@kabirconsiders check out "darkest hour" as well, its the same kind of thing
You should react to “the fallen of World War Two” by Neil Halloran
I’ll check it out! Will it make me emotional though?
@@kabirconsiders most likely yes
@@kabirconsiders oh my goodness yes it’s one of the best information videos your gonna get mate!
@@kabirconsiders Yeah, that video messes with you. It puts the deaths in graphs, which creates a powerful visual for the astonishing number of human life lost.
The coolest thing about history is that it's a chain of causality that goes back to a time when there was no history at all.
The "Heavy Gustav" was at least one of the biggest movable guns ever made, it required 8 (?) diesel locomotives to move.
Of course it couldn't be moved secretly because enemy aircraft could spot the tracks and it was terribly inefficient, but it was a great propaganda tool.
It wasn't actually mounted on a train but ran on 4 wheelsets requiring two parallel train tracks.
Ahhh I see. A very impressive looking weapon nonetheless!
In regards the RAF’s casualty rates during the blitz, they were often lower than reported or believed as they were flying over home soil, and any pilot who bailed out his plane and survived could fly again soon enough. German pilots on the other hand spent the rest of the war in POW camps in GB, Canada, South Africa, or Australia instead of fighting another day.
There's a story of a polish general and around 780 men who held a position against 40 thousand German troops for three days, giving time for civilians to retreat. They had to give up eventually, but still..40:1 and they held out for 3 days.
My dad enlisted in the Navy the year he graduated high school and just after Pearl Harbor. He was 17 yrs old. If he hadn't returned alive, I wouldn't have been born. He served on a battleship in the Pacific.
AH! Love this vid! Make sure to check out part 2 of the vid! ❤️
Part 2 will be coming very soon! I can’t believe it took me this long to learn about this war
5:45 many people think it was only Germany because Germany had to take all the war guilt again.
Interesting note: the Battle of Britain arguably was won by accident. Germany was targeting the RAF airfields but on one raid some of their planes got off course and accidentally bombed London, which was why Churchill ordered the raid on Berlin, which made Hitler so mad he ordered the change in tactics that let the RAF recover.
Watching these videos it’s really cool to see the difference in what we learn in schools here and canada and in the UK cause here we learned a lot about world war 2
But also to be fair the harbour in Nova Scotia Canada went BOOM
Over here in secondary schools you get to choose which subjects to study, I didn’t choose history. Wish I did though!
A note about blitzkrieg: meth was used by the german army to keep them moving at lightning speed with minimal sleep.
You are confusing the atrocities committed by Unit 731 with everything else Japan did in Korea, China, and the Philippines.
You’re probably right. I need to do some research
@@kabirconsiders look up the rape of Nanking, that’s what the narrator was referring to, to put it simply they looted, murdered, raped & tortured their way through Chinas capital
Like other comments have said, the Japanese atrocities they refer to are known as the "Rape of Nanking." The stories of what the Japanese did to the Chinese and Korean people under their rule is truly horrific. It's worth looking into, as Japanese atrocities tend to be overlooked because of what the Nazis did. But, definitely not for the faint of heart.
I’ve read a bit about it on Wikipedia. Good God, such evil
Glad I discovered you
Thanks Jason :)
So some interesting stuff has been coming out about Chamberlain in recent years that the UK government has been sitting on even as appeasement was taking place... While he was appeasing Hitler and publicly pushing for peace and not provoking Hitler by building up Britain's armed forces, he was behind the scenes working to build up Britain's military ASAP because he actually knew appeasement wouldn't work and was only hoping to buy time(which very much annoyed Hitler - he was hoping they would reject the Czechoslovakia agreement and give him an excuse to go to war) to do it in.
Some of this info also indicates that the only region he intended to let Hitler keep was a small but significant section of the Sudetenland that Germany had a major legitimate claim for, and the he may have been willing to eventually go to war himself over the rest if Hitler had not invaded Poland.
So why did the UK sit on this info until recently? Well, APPARENTLY in order to help keep the buildup secret, Chamberlain probably did some very underhanded and possibly illegal shit to move funding around for it. The kind of shit that gets politicians kicked out of office if found out.
The problem with this info is that it's been sat on for so long, and details about the funding movements is so spotty, that we will probably never be able to verify ANY of it. Which is a real shame since this would be a pretty god damn big deal if it could be proven.
All but the harshest historians admit that Britain needed the time provided by appeasement, but it's only recently as this information has started coming out that some have begun to soften on Chamberlain. It's strange to realize that it's very possible that Chamberlain's only true fuckup was how he handled the start of the war.
That makes a lot of sense. Brits are usually very pragmatic and the appeasement strategy seems very unlike something that i would expect of a prime minister. It makes sense that there was an ulterior motive behind it
You should react to the American Civil War Oversimplified after this.
I’ll put it on my list!
Yesssssss. My favorite educational channel outside of my BOY, the absolute GOAT of youtube, Sam O'Nella himself
Yeah this channel is awesome, can’t believe I’m just discovering it!
Can't wait for part ll ! COYG!
Coming soon brother! 🔴⚪️
I Hope we get Pt.2 ASAP !! Love ya Bro !!
Thanks brother :) part 2 on the way!
I just saw the documentary called "Japan's Atomic Bomb" on TV again yesterday. Not a very well known subject...
I’ll check it out, sounds interesting
After Germany invaded France the French fought for Germany along with others.
Robert Murphy took some men and then drove to the residence of General Alphonse Juin, the senior French Army officer in North Africa. While they surrounded his house (making Juin a hostage) Murphy attempted to persuade him to side with the Allies.
I highly recommend the book "The Rape of Nanking" if you want to really learn how brutal japan was during WW2
I’ll check it out! I just read the Wikipedia page about the experiments. Good God.
Not really reaction-material, but if you got some time to spare check out "WW2 by indy neidell".
He's the dude doing the sabaton history videos, and he's got a running series with like 15min/week going through the events of WW2 "in real time" (1 week's events every week)
A very good series, that too be fair he doesn’t do alone(he’s got a whole team behind him.) he also did a series on the Great War WW 1 in a similar style
Sounds like a really cool way to learn about the war, I’ll check it out! Thanks for telling me about it mate
There are still cities in the former "Polish Corridor" and the former exclave that go by German names.
Oh wow, to this day?
@@kabirconsiders Yeah, my grandmother has a caretaker from Poland, and she says everyone still knows/uses the German names, some places apparently even got both on the signage when you go into town.
One thing that I’ve read about WWII is that the British, French and to a lesser degree the United States were more collaborators with Germany at least in the beginning.
Remember the biggest fear/threat in the west in the 1920s and 1930s was the Soviet Union and Stalin and the fear the Bolshevik would spread westward. They wanted to keep the Soviet Union in check and the west was using Germany to do so, that’s why despite Germany’s aggression the British and French gave Germany the territory they wanted. Their plan was to keep Germany satisfied and send Germany to oppose the Soviet expansion in the East. Stalin saw the potential threat from Germany and wanted to form and alliance with the British and French who refused.
This lead to the Soviet-Germany non aggression pact which killed the French/British plans to use Germany against the Soviet Union. Even after declaration of war, for about a nine month period nothing big happened on the western front leading to what was called the Phony War as the west was still trying work out an agreement with Germany until the battle of France began.
The best documentary series ever about WW2 would be "Apocalypse." It's all available on TH-cam.
Yes the US did get involved, but after the point of the blitz strategy by Hitler in the UK. December 7th 1941, Pearl Harbor, is when the US got involved. Before that, the merchant marines and lend lease were the only real support from the US. Merchant marines took food, war materials, etc from the US to Britain to keep the war effort going. Lend lease allowed the Us to legally let the UK “borrow” ships, guns, bullets, everything needed to prosecute a war. It was supposed to be illegal to sell any of these to the warring parties, so the loophole to help only Britain was lend lease, where they were technically “borrowing” it.
Ahhh I see. Thanks for explaining this to me Jake
@@kabirconsiders Just trying to help give a little context. Love the videos man
Idky as an American I enjoy to watch British people react to oversimplified videos. Maybe to see it from your guys perspective
Thanks mate :)
When’s part 2? 😩, great reaction btw
Coming next week mate :)
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Great vid keep up the good work mate
Thanks mate :)
ayee kabir back at it i dont even have to consider subbing cuz hes the goat
Thanks my bro, nice wordplay too :)
it's called "The Rape Of Nanking" and it was way more than some experiments. Way, way, more, and like the Armenian Genocide by the Turks, is still an issue often ignored "out of politeness"
What an awful, terrible event.
Yeah imagine being one of the pilots.. And all those young soldiers they are just all ready to die
LOL Kabir, I am raising my hand in your class. LOL My mom just gave me permission to sign up for your part 2 Class LOL I love this. Half of this I did not even know of. wow. Thank you KBC
lol yeah this was an interesting one!
Recently to veterans, one English the other German, met in France for the first time since D-day. The Englishman was part of the invasion and the German was among those who surrendered.
There's BBC coverage on it here on YT
Sorry to nit pick, but it was for king and country. King George VI was still around at this time.
15:25 my grandpa was a soldier in the US Army Air Corp(Which later became the US Air Force), working as a navigator of of B-17 Flying Fortress, stationed in England and flying over continental Europe, bombing Nazi factories and railroads.
I bet your grandpa had many stories to tell!
I knew this video was coming!
I just realized we are at 12.9k. It felt like the 10k stream was last week!
Yeah I’m pretty happy to see the number growing :)
At 17:50 I believe you are referring to what is known as 'the rape of Nanking' where 100's of thousands of people were brutely murdered and women were assaulted with impunity.
It was not about queen and country but about king and country
Ohhh yeah, George was on the throne back then I believe
Germany only fully repaid their WWI reparations in 2009 (91 years after the Great War ended).
Oh wow, it took them that long?!
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As lousy a policy as it was, appeasement gave the UK tome to build up the RAF. The only reason the UK was able to escape at Dunkirk was that the Germans stopped to regroup before proceeding. If they hadn’t, things would have be quite different. I got the chance to meet one of the “Few” many years ago. He had some interesting stories.
That’s a good point, it allowed us to bide our time a bit
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In the 1970s when I went to school we spent between 4 and 6 weeks studying ww1 and ww2 I'm sure that isn't the case today
In U.K. secondary schools you get to choose which subjects to study, I didn’t pick history. I wish I did!
@@kabirconsiders that's weird compared to the US, here history, English (literature) and physical education are mandatory all the way through highschool. Science for at least 2 years, maths for two, and foreign language for 2. 9th was US history 10th and 11th grade were global history, and senior year was civics and government. (NY state law says in order to graduate you need to have a basic understanding of the Constitution.)
I have watched several reaction channels react to this WW2 series. It is very disturbing how little younger people know of this extremely pivotal time in history.
Yeah I agree history like this should be required knowledge
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PART 2
Coming soon mate :)
This Oversimplified is pretty decent...but there are errors in it. Most are minor, but there are issues with the script about Hitler's rise to power, to varying degrees. For one thing, Oversimplified says that "the German people loved him", but that is not factually correct, he needed to specify that a portion of the German people loved Hitler...and not even a majority. The Nazis never managed to get more than about 35% support in any of the elections, but they were able to use that to force President Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor by leaving no other option. I know this is about "Oversimplifying" history, but it still needs to be factually correct and not misleading. You actually asked a really good question about how does a guy with a record become Chancellor...because Oversimplified left out just a bit too much information.🖖💯✌
Thanks for filling in the gaps mate. There is a part 2 to this so maybe he’ll cover some of the omissions
@@kabirconsidersWell...it is complicated...he also puts stuff kind of out of order, but it is very not oversimplified to describe how...I would not make you read that long of an explanation. As far as the Hitler omissions, he does not address those in part 2...I have watched that and watched people react to it a bunch of times. He actually makes other mistakes in the second part...but I still like that he makes the effort. Summarizing World War 2 is not a challenge I would try to tackle myself...and I am not aware of anyone else on TH-cam who has done a better job...but nobody is perfect. 🖖✌
And after that Hitler made the biggest mistake of all declaring war on the US who do that
Also two two reasons world war II happened one you could not write the treaty the way it was in front punished Germany the way they were that was never
Second part of part 1 Japan and Italy were pissed because they had been very much winners and they felt like they had lost
And also the Great depression played bigger role than anybody likes to give a credit for
Pearl harbor I think I think that's all I need to say but world war II had two of the greatest speeches ever made which was by why do I always forget this president's name even though he's my favorite President of the US
And went to Churchill they're two speeches are are legendary
You probably mean FDR's "a date that will live in infamy" speech. Yes, Churchill's "we shall fight on the beaches" was also a historically significant speech.
@@jeffburdick869 “a date that will live in infamy”
@@DannL18 ah yes, you're right. I misspoke. Its been a while since I listened to it.
@@jeffburdick869 np. It’s a common enough mistake even if you listen to it. A day which will live in infamy rolls off the tongue better imo
@@jeffburdick869 yes
Go watch a movie called Come and See. It's a Russian WW2 movie that is one of the most fucked up war/horror movies I've ever seen.
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memoirs of ww2 is a great web seires of first person expirences told by the soldires themselves.
I’ll check it out!
You said u were a teacher before. What subjects do u teach?
I was a primary school teacher, you teach the maths, english, science, art based off the national curriculum. Everything else is taught by specialists
5:23 people say NA public education is bad and this 30 year old british guy thought WW2 was the world vs just Germany lol
I swear I’ve seen 4 brits react to this and none know about WWII is the UK schooling that bad that they don’t teach history?
Still can’t believe this dude is 30 like how i hope i age like you
Thanks brother :)
haven't seen the video - but my opinion .. ww2 over-simplified - ( since UK has LOST every war / battle ever entered - why would ww2 be any different ? )
UK decided to join a war ... " our boys will be home in 2 weeks - plenty of time for christmas" ( winsted Churchhill ) ...Hitler responded by BOMBING london for 4 years every night killing MILLIONS of civilians .. BEFORE .. UK .. call for help. - after calling the americans - for help - the americans invaded germany killed hitler in less than 6 months.
Kabir, I cannot believe you did not. Get tought this is 9th grade World History class. Please explain?
In the U.K. we choose what subjects to study at secondary school, I didn’t choose history. I wish I did!
@@kabirconsiders makes sence. We are not allowed to chose on the 4 majors. English, Arithmatic Social Studies and Science. We have to eat what is served. We do have 3 electives but are for cooking, electronics or any shop classes. In high school we can chose to take more deeper indepth of the 4 majors but that is mainly done by college bound students and not shop bound students. Shop students usually go on to make cash straight away out of school and college bound student usually do not make cash till 2 years after college.. Eventually college bound make more on the long run but only if the shop bound stay shop employess. Usually after 5 u ears they start their own buisness and have to higher college bound students to help build their buisness. But we do try not to pay the college bound students at a low pay rate till they figure out they need to go to buisness for themselves to make more cash. If they never figure it out, they become very loyal to their employee chains and will never leave their shop masters. 😎👍😎👍😎👍
What kind of history do they teach in thr UK? Your country was more involved than US. We didn't get involved until late.
We can choose what subjects we study from age 12, I didn’t choose history
@@kabirconsiders but as you can see..it was MAJOR for UK..If Japan did not bomb the US we would have not gotten involved and you would be speaking Germany. US was anti war and it was not fought on our soil... Here WW2 did not really exist to us until Pearl Harbor but the war had been going on for YEARS
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So i must fix it a little bit because it's a little bit wrong and details are important in that topic... besides I'm German and we do learn way way much more about this whole thing because our land wanna say it was absolutely bad because it's just true.
So Hitler was really psychological at the end, really, he was not right in the Head Wich is proved. It has many reasons like this one Art school if they would have take him as a student this whole thing would be not happened. Because many things that make him so strong and important was actually luck like the German eiche table that saved his live on a bomb attack or the Versailler contract Wich was completely unfair (his Art was even not that bad... So wow Art school)
His ideology was wrote in prison it was just all propaganda shit with the "Arische" race like he was an Austrian and told the "Germans" (Because the Nazis were no real Germans they wanted to destroy our democracy) how a German has to look like and more shit like this.
He only was a really really good speaker like he was not even really smart he was actually really dumb in military Strategy like most of the things did his generals.
Most people say "how could they just follow him" Wich, Sorry, i think is extremely difficult and dumb to say because it were hard times,... Germany was absolutely down from ww1 they had no food, no water discrimination and the Versailler Contract made Hitler that important because he used it and said it was all unfair (Wich was mostly true because Germany don't started ww1 and Germans were really really proud at that time so they really don't liked it) so he said i can fix this give you food, water, Work and what you must say even he was a absolutely mad man - at the beginning he did all that! He gave them all that and his group made smart decisions like creating main roads and when you have children at home that had nothing to eat you must follow him because at the beginning he seemed good and did good things even he was inside a absolutely insane person. time and time passed and the shit came out like holocaust and the Germans realized that he was absolutely crazy so many real Germans made underground groups and there were so many attacks on him but all failed. Many many good people lost there life's in the revolutionary groups like the Great Major: He had Hitler in his hand because he worked himself up and was winning Hitlers trust so before a special meeting he placed a bomb under the table and it worked... Not because the Table that was made from the tree German eiche protected Hitler I mean it was German handwork this table was unbreakable.. In that time the major was in the Parlament and was so close to bring Hitler down they had a great plan they said all that was the SS and NSDAP Hitlers groups and they had good prove but... In the last minute Hitler came and give the command to shot them down. Rest in peace
If he would have not been absolutely crazy and hear his generals out that he should finish the first front and than attack Russia we would probably speak all German today! because Nazi Germany was really Strong probably the strongest army and There are many psychological facts about the army that are really smart like the Nazis were just stylish at that time.. And what you must say even they were shit this black uniforms with the skeleton heads just looked awesome and there all had the same size so it looked really really good and cool when there walked its really psychological smart. But we can be happy he was a absolutely mad man and complete crazy Wich again is proved so we can live free now more or less.. better if he would have won
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I’ll check it out!
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@@charlottedrolet9000 lol
After Pearl Harbor is win we entered
I thought that the US was the only modern country that had stopped teaching history
Schools shouldn’t be teaching history because perspective matters. Your parents should teach you history.
In the U.K., at secondary school you get to choose which subjects to study, I didn’t choose history
Because it is oversimplified:
it completely leaves out the fact that the Germans and Italians gave direct support to the Spanish Fascists - who overthrew the elected government.
While all the "Democracies" stood aside because well, it was a Socialist government.
Though Franco wasn't particularly helpful to his erstwhile allies during the war, the allies chose not to remove his brand of Fascism from Europe.
Yeah these are some glaring omissions
@@kabirconsiders Only so much detail before people start to lose focus. I think that they are great, because they give a good general overview, and that increases peoples curiosity. The people who started "The Great War" in 2014 and now have several spin-offs including "World War 2" do a great job - they break the events down week by week and give 15-20 minutes at a time. That is an absolutely excellent place to go to get more detail - but in reasonable sized bites.
Funny thing is, it practically was just germany vs the world. Italy had a terrible military largely due to poor leadership and terrible equipment that saw germany constantly have to bail them out and send help. They were friends with japan but being on the other side of the planet couldnt help much and made things worse by dragging the Us in the war. If just italy had been even half as good as germany, the axis likely would have won
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I have to ask. What do they teach you about ww2 in England? Because you aren't the first English person I've seen know next to nothing about something that happened less than 100 years ago. In America we are at least taught who all was in it and the major battles that happened.
In secondary school (high school) aside from maths, english & science you get to pick you're own subjects to study. I didn't choose history
@@kabirconsiders that would explain it. Here we have non optional History classes for at least 6 years of school. From US history to world history.
I ligit have no idea how you dont know how much went on during ww2, and as you said it should be common sense. Guess the Americans like talking about ww2 more than the brits, but you should at least still be proud of the battle of Britain. And you need to settle your stance, hurricane, or spitfire as the best battle of Britain fighter?
Has to be the spitfire! Is just such an iconic aircraft. I love the bullseyes on each wing! Over here in the U.K. when you get to 13 you have to choose which subjects to continue studying. I didn’t choose history, I wish I did!
@@kabirconsiders yea. That's interesting, we dont have a choice in our schooling as much as that, we have to have high school years of english, and 3 for history and math, very interesting.
OMG! Dude, stop pausing it right in the middle of what they are saying. You are making this into a poor thing reaction video.