"Seeing all of that is so incredibly uncomfortable." Sometimes learning history is uncomfortable. Sometimes learning history NEEDS to be uncomfortable.
@MarkusUbl
2 жыл бұрын
This is why here in germany we have the mindset of "Nie wieder Faschismus", meaning that we cannot ever again allow fascism to rise. While todays germans are not *guilty* for the crimes our forefathers did, we have this *responsibility* of never allow it to happen again, because we know where nationalism, militarism, antisemitism and - by extension - fascism can and will lead. At home and abroard, we are to fight fascism. You can say that germany is *THE* antifa. At least it should be. And this is possible only, because we face the uncomfortable experience of learning about our country's past without sugarcoating.
@Jere-iy2yv
2 жыл бұрын
Hits different being german but couldnt agree less
@Cyborg_Lenin
2 жыл бұрын
@@Jere-iy2yv hits weirdly being Russian.
@EddieLove
2 жыл бұрын
“Those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat it.”
@kylekinney9455
2 жыл бұрын
Ok
@o_r_c4141
2 жыл бұрын
My AP European History teacher actually showed us this video in class in my sophomore year and I remember crying in class, learning about WW2 is definitely one of the most horrific things to learn about
@kilobeastgaming
2 жыл бұрын
My AP Euro history teacher did the same thing last week, junior year though 😅
@CABRALFAN27
2 жыл бұрын
I believe "British brains, American brawn, and Russian blood" is the saying you're thinking of. British brains for their fantastic espionage and counterintelligence work (Particularly in successfully fooling German intelligence about D-Day), American brawn for the sheer amount of resources and industrial might they contributed (Not to mention the soldiers themselves), and Russian blood for, well, this video explains that better than I ever could.
@madaz952
2 жыл бұрын
Well it's not only Russian Blood , but more like Soviet Blood , Every Socialist Republic that was a part of The USSR participated in the war effort
@zachdelozier2133
2 жыл бұрын
@@madaz952 Those that weren't actively in rebellion against them like Latvia and Lithuania anyway
@girlunderlightmnoveou86
2 жыл бұрын
Большая часть этих смертей это гражданские держу вкурсе...
@spoodermanxxmlgxx
4 ай бұрын
I always heard “British intelligence, American artillery and Soviet blood”
@Dragontalon486
2 жыл бұрын
"We humans are wretched things..." a simple throwaway line from a movie, yet never felt more appropriate after watching the video you reacted to.
@YoBGS
2 жыл бұрын
But that's the hard part because like we don't know that all the people we lost were wretched too. What would the world be like WITH those people living normal lives? It's so wild.
@CyberBoy8799
2 жыл бұрын
I would love to see you react to more history videos, especially oversimplified videos. I think they're super fun while being very educational.
@theeasyjohn
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for a honest reactions. 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.
@theeasyjohn
2 жыл бұрын
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.
@theeasyjohn
2 жыл бұрын
And according what happens right now... 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.
@Alone-sf7wj
2 жыл бұрын
@@theeasyjohn Gotta suck knowing Putin butchered the name ''Russian'' and turned it into an insult for another 50 years. And I have no empathy for the russians knowing what they doing in Ukraine, including r*pe. At the start it was Putin's fault, now it's Russian's fault. Soldiers only executing orders, is and never was an excuse. And civilians? Don't care either, they so brainwashed by Russia propaganda, even family members don't trust each other when they end up on both sides.
@mexicanbanjo9325
2 жыл бұрын
@@theeasyjohn Absolute truth.
@robertbretschneider765
2 жыл бұрын
It hits different. Being a german with a great-grandfather 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 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...
@Somewhere_Bagel
2 жыл бұрын
Not so fun fact. Some people during the siege of leningrad. Would literally eat anything that was even somewhat edible. Including eating other people. Now for a slightly more fun fact kinda. The Leningrad radio orchestra had an premier of Shostakovich's 7th symphony that was dedicated to the city (Shostakovich was from Leningrad) they also played it on loud speakers across the city while in the middle of the siege. Unfortunately some of the musicians didn't live long enough to perform
@YoBGS
2 жыл бұрын
Those facts are chilling, even if the second is slightly more fun
@lm09999
2 жыл бұрын
@@YoBGS I am from Russia. In Leningrad they ate mice, cats, dogs and even died people! Childrens studied in bunkers. My dead grandmother said that there was starvation all over the country. She and her parents only ate radishes for 4 years. And that's not the worst thing I know
@dmitriyvet9893
2 жыл бұрын
@@YoBGS I recommend watching a series of films Unknown War. This documentary series about the Great Patriotic War (between the USSR and Nazi Germany) was filmed in the 70s of the last century jointly by Americans and Russians. This is the most informative and objective documentary series in which you can see the horror of the war on the eastern front. kzitem.info/door/PLhs30iGhgICncex8qB-_Fmej-0HSwy4fH
@ВалерийПодольский-ю9ш
11 ай бұрын
I am Russian. Only losses among the military are listed here, but in addition to 8 million military personnel, the Soviet Union lost almost 15 million civilians, whom the Nazis simply exterminated. For you these are just numbers, but for us this is a tragedy that has affected absolutely every family. And we remember the price that our grandfathers paid and will not allow some fascists to dictate their terms to us today.
@OzoneTheLynx
2 жыл бұрын
With the war in Ukraine going on now the ending really hits differently...
@avian1
2 жыл бұрын
It really does hit different.
@cheesemaster1481
2 жыл бұрын
Even more unfortunate is Ukraine has suffered worse than the war going on now, under the Soviet Union they had huge famines in Ukraine if you don't know I recommend you research it, it's important to know
@Firynn
2 жыл бұрын
@@cheesemaster1481 holomodor...
@shroomkxgephdre9214
2 жыл бұрын
Also you should look up the artificial famine that Saudi Arabia is doing to Yemen but no one is talking about because it's OUR ally doing it.. strange🤔 but it almost seems like America controls the flow of information so we can perform double standards
@cheesemaster1481
2 жыл бұрын
@@Firynn it's sad stuff
@sepiar7682
2 жыл бұрын
Good video, I feel like it's a bit of a weird one to react to since its kinda just a video you watch alone so you can appreciate it more, but if this video helped anyone else find "The Fallen of World War II" then it is definitely for the better.
@YoBGS
2 жыл бұрын
A lot of people had said I should check it out and since I watch these blind… it can be odd sometimes
@randomguy9113
2 жыл бұрын
Yes what’s happening now makes the ending hit differently than when it was uploaded, but we need to remember that the war in Ukraine isn’t the only terrible thing happening in this world. It’s not like everything was fine and dandy and suddenly Russia threw it all away out of no where. Terrible things happen all the time it’s just whatever the media chooses to highlight that gets all the coverage.
@getass3290
2 жыл бұрын
To answer one of your questions about the Polish death toll, about 16% of their population died in WW2. He mentions this but I don't think you picked it up.
@Zues4235
2 жыл бұрын
He was too busy pausing and talking, this is worse than some of these vocal coaches pausing every 5 seconds “so what they just did there was X” he needs to learn the definition of reaction means in the KZitem world. This video sucked!
@razier5299
2 жыл бұрын
@@Zues4235 k
@looneygamer3825
2 жыл бұрын
@@Zues4235 go watch the original video then? Don’t watch a reaction if you don’t want a reaction.
@johncenashi5117
2 жыл бұрын
@@Zues4235 Just dont watch it then. Go watch the ones that dont talk and then end with "okay this was good bye"
@Zues4235
2 жыл бұрын
@@johncenashi5117 do you know what the word reaction means? when some people watch videos and they are talking, they put in the tile reaction/commentary so people know what they are about to watch. there is a difference you know.
@goldh2o543
2 жыл бұрын
Man, I remember watching this video in AP Euro. It made an entire class of rowdy sophmores stay quiet for like 20 minutes straight. Really hits hard. If you want a video with similar ideas as this one (counting numbers) but on a MUCH grander scale, check out Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time. It goes through how our universe will change over time until it eventually "ends". It's a super immersive video, so the kind of thing you dim the lights and turn up the speakers for.
@Smileythesilent
2 жыл бұрын
The part that always gets me is after we've seen inconceivable numbers of dead soldiers, I remember he started by saying the average soldier was 23 years old. It tears my heart. If you need to pause to absorb, or just want a sec to put your thoughts out there, do it. If people want to watch without pauses they can watch the originals, or a different channel.
@frontgamet.v1892
Жыл бұрын
Also, I'm a historian and German soldiers are not Nazis. Nazi stands for Hitlers party... German Wehrmacht and Nazis were two different things. So German soldiers died. Not Nazi soldiers.
@YoBGS
2 жыл бұрын
Are there any other history or infographic-type films you want me to check out? I thought The Infographics Show could be cool to look at. Let me know below! Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to subscribe if you're new!
@silent8760
2 жыл бұрын
I think you should check out Lemmino (kzitem.info) He's does videos on a bunch of stuff, some history, but most are just random, interesting topics. He does a great job with visual design in his videos and the sound effects are amazing too.
@AshenLione
2 жыл бұрын
Definitely check out Sam O’Nella Academy. He has a bunch of super funny random history stories and facts.
@Yeetums
2 жыл бұрын
not really a series that you could react to because of how long it is but I recommend watching “The first world war, week by week” by the great war. It’s a serious that details the events of World War I as they occurred weekly and it went from 2014 to 2018. It’s too long to really react to but if you do want to further your own knowledge it’s an incredibly impactful series
@shroomkxgephdre9214
2 жыл бұрын
I recommend watching The Part of History You Skipped | Neo-. It takes American history that we're taught and gives the full context to all the events. I think if we're gonna do history, it might as well be our own first
@cervik2035
2 жыл бұрын
Montemayor is really good for some naval battles of the Pacific part of WW2
@UEDCommander
2 жыл бұрын
There's a pretty great but not extremely well-known documentary titled "Soviet Storm" that explores the Eastern Front of WW2 in great detail, mostly focusing on tactical & strategic side of things (other english language documentaries Ive seen tend to prioritize the humanitarian side of things, which makes them pretty difficult to watch) and describing a lot of major events that are oftenly overlooked in the western infospace (such as siege of Sevastopol which was arguably on part with Stalingrad in terms of scale), I can highly recommend it if you want to learn more about the events mentioned in the video in a somewhat detached, easy to preceive manner.
@zacharystephens982
2 жыл бұрын
Just like the SAT you are so right bro....im sooooo glad you paused every 3 sec to add commentary
@ASMRaphael
2 жыл бұрын
Whoa, that was so super epic and so intriguing to watch :)
@OzoneTheLynx
2 жыл бұрын
i love that you pause that much, your reactions and inputs is what we're here for.
@robertbretschneider765
2 жыл бұрын
25:48 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.
@jacobhogan3208
2 жыл бұрын
You should definitely look into stuff surrounding the Sino-Japanese part of the war, it's very dark at times but It's not something that really gets looked at all too often.
@raiden542
2 жыл бұрын
I just realised that he is experiencing the dunning-kruger effect.
@YoBGS
2 жыл бұрын
Omg you’re legit so right
@raiden542
2 жыл бұрын
@@YoBGS i was not expecting you to reply lol.
@shroomkxgephdre9214
2 жыл бұрын
If you watch The Part Of History You Skipped by Knowing Better. I think it would be a great experience for you and your community to know the parts of american history that are typically left out, straight from someone who used used to teach it, A history teacher. And the only way we can make our country better is if we know what actually happened and why and how that still affects not only Americans but the 3rd world countries that we continue to take advantage of the same way til this day
@Lenny-ue8hk
2 жыл бұрын
Vouch
@tieardragon4919
2 жыл бұрын
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.
@dmitriyvet9893
2 жыл бұрын
And I also forgot to mention one fact. The information in this video about the fact that Soviet soldiers massively raped German women is a lie. The author of the video says "propaganda anti-Russian cliché", which appeared after the destruction of the USSR. For the rape of the civilian population in the Red Army, there was an official order according to which the guilty soldiers were shot. Stalin's order of January 19, 1945 read: “Officers and Red Army men! We are going to the country of the enemy. Everyone must keep his composure, everyone must be brave ... The remaining population in the conquered areas, whether German, Czech or Pole, should not be subjected to violence. The guilty will be punished according to the laws of war. In the conquered territory, sexual intercourse with the female sex is not allowed. Those responsible for violence and rape will be shot.” On May 2, 1945, the military prosecutor of the 1st Belorussian Front, Yachenin, reported: “Violence, and especially robbery and hoarding, is widely practiced by repatriated people who go to repatriation points, and especially Italians, Dutch and even Germans. At the same time, all these outrages are shifted to our soldiers ... ". Beria reported the same to Stalin: “There are a large number of Italians, French, Poles, Americans and British released from the camps of prisoners of war in Berlin, who take personal belongings and property from the local population, load them onto wagons and head west. Measures are being taken to seize their looted property.” Cases of rape of German women by Soviet soldiers were recorded at 72 per 900,000 soldiers of the Red Army (the Belarusian front, there is an official archival document on it - this is a report by the military prosecutor of the 1st Belorussian Front on illegal actions against the civilian population for the period from April 22 to May 5, 1945 ). This is less than in peacetime in any country in the world. As an example - in the US, 40 cases per 100,000 population (total, men and women, in terms of men alone, it will be twice as much) in 2016 and the statistics are getting worse every year. And that is 8 cases per 100,000 in the Red Army versus 80 cases per 100,000 in peacetime in the United States. In fact, the first to launch the myth of "red rapists" and "hordes from the East" were the ideologists of the Third Reich. The current "researchers" and liberal publicists only repeat the rumors and gossip that were invented in Hitler's Germany in order to intimidate the population and maintain its obedience. So that the Germans fought until the very last moment. So that death in battle seemed to them an easy fate compared to captivity and occupation. The Reich Minister of Public Education and Nazi Propaganda of Germany, Joseph Goebbels, wrote in March 1945: “... in fact, in the person of Soviet soldiers, we are dealing with steppe scum. This is confirmed by the reports of atrocities that have come to us from the eastern regions. They really cause horror ... In some villages and cities, all women from ten to seventy years old were subjected to countless rapes. It seems that this is done by order from above, since one can see an obvious system in the behavior of the Soviet soldiers. This myth was immediately replicated and is still used today as anti-Russian propaganda, as well as in order to belittle the decisive contribution of the USSR to the defeat of Nazi Germany.
@user-sn1hi7my7x
Жыл бұрын
This is exactly why we need to avoid WWIII. The death toll is estimated to be 3X worse than WWII.
@briceoka5623
2 жыл бұрын
Hey man, you seem very keen to learn about history. You should check out this channel on youtube called very simply "World war two" they do the weekly events of the war as it happened in real time! It's extremely well researched and the host has one of the best delivery you will ever see
@jstevinik3261
2 жыл бұрын
9:55 Yugoslavia in 1939, before invasion in 1941, had a population of 15.6 million, so a fraction of the US population at the time. Yugoslavia had been at war nine months longer than the US. 12:10 The saying goes, said by Joseph Stalin in the 1943 Tehran conference, that the war would be won through “British brains [referring to intelligence], American brawn [referring to industrial capacity], and Russian blood.” 22:25 The civilian deaths, while not a majority of the Polish population, were about 16% of the 1939 Polish population, largest percentage of population killed for any country in WW2. 23:20 The intentional flooding of the Yellow River temporary slowed Japanese advancement, which succeeded its goal, albeit at human cost. 25:24 Timur Lenk was a Mongol conquer who took over 14th century central Asia. The An Lushan Rebellion was a failed uprising against the Tang dynasty of China towards the mid-point of the dynasty (from 755 to 763), with an attempt to replace it with the Yan dynasty. The Taping Rebellion was a failed attempt to overthrow the Manchu Quin Dynasty in the 19th century with a pseudo-Christian movement. I only know the Taiping Rebellion prior to Googling these other conflicts up. 31:45 The California population is 39.5 million in 2020. Once again, I hope that my comments have been helpful in answering your questions.
@joebob5313
2 жыл бұрын
When you said something about the SAT’s, it was funny, I just took my SAT today.
@EddieLove
2 жыл бұрын
“Those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat it.”
@-NOCAP-
2 жыл бұрын
You're right, history is in the process of repeating itself
@alloramora
2 жыл бұрын
One of the things I wanna see your reaction to is "The Cost of Concordia" by the Internet Historian. It's about a cruise ship that crashed and was all over the news in 2012 and further, with chaos the likes of which has only ever been seen from the sinking of the Titanic. It's a really interesting story with a lot of facets to it, and I think you'd enjoy it!
@CMY187
2 жыл бұрын
The USA lost 4 hundred thousand people. The UK: 3 hundred thousand. France: 2 to 3 hundred thousand. Germany: 4 million (and of that 4 million, around two-thirds died in the Eastern Front) Japan: 2 to 3 million The most widely accepted total number of fatalities (not wounded or missing) suffered by the Soviet Union, both military and civilian, is 27 million. However, some historians debate this and argue that the number may be as high as 51 million.
@gibospartan6185
2 жыл бұрын
These kind of videos are a much better way of rationalizing just how many people die in wars then just reading it in a textbook but I think there may be one way that's better. There is a channel I watched a while back called 'The Great War' which decided very boldly to cover the events of WW1 a week at a time in real time 100 years on. They literally committed to a project that'd start the 28th of July 2014 going until the 11th of November 2018 (Not including content about pre/post war) which is a hell of a thing to commit to but they achieved it. It's a lot of content but it's probably the most in depth docuseries there is covering WW1. I bring it up because each episode i'd hear about how over 100,000 people had died that week. At first I thought that's a lot, but then it'd be another 100,000 the next week and the next and the next. It really drove home the scale of the death in a way I don't think anything else could. The same people behind that project have been covering WW2 in the same way and are currently in April 1943. I'd recommend these channels to anyone interested because there is honestly nothing like it. The episodes are about 15 minutes on average. There's obviously a lot of them but it's really worth checking out.
@kylekinney9455
2 жыл бұрын
It's hard to comment on the actual video content itself, only because I'm shaken up and not sure what 5o say except my heart hurts for every soul out there in every country no matter what you're going through...and I thought your reaction was great man awesome job not sure if you've done that 1st medal of honor video or whatever but maybe try it if you're in the zone...thank youy
@WaywardVet
2 жыл бұрын
I can't speak for that photo where only one guy is looking back at the landing craft, but fear or not, I assume he was a squad leader at least. He's not looking back because he wants to get back on the boat. He's more like a teacher on a school field trip, making sure all the men are accounted for. Nobody left behind. It's the job of ranking NCOs
@CMY187
2 жыл бұрын
I believe the correct phrasing is ‘British intelligence, American industry, and Soviet blood.’ Personally, I believe that the Allies won because they were always going to win; the Axis factions never had a hope of winning from the very start of the war. Still, this video helps in visualizing the sheer loss of life in just six years of war. In Russia, the time period immediately after the Second World War is referred to as ‘The generation of fatherless children.’
@randomguy9113
2 жыл бұрын
You’re right about the Axis having no chance at winning. They chose to fight the 3 largest powers all at once
@CMY187
2 жыл бұрын
@@randomguy9113 It's actually more complicated than that. Apparently, even if Hitler did not wish to go to war against the USA (there is evidence that supports the claim that he did want war against them), Roosevelt was going to force Germany into war anyway; before the actual declaration of war was made, American ships were already firing at German ships and submarines, having been given orders to shoot on sight. In my opinion, it wasn't even Germany choosing to fight three major powers; it was its own horrible governing and administration. With how the Nazis were running the economy of Germany, Czechosloviakia and other occupied territories into the very ground, the European Axis factions would have had to keep invading and plundering other countries just to remain afloat. Essentially, Germany became a bandit nation due to not being able to maintain its own economy. Even if by some miracle the Axis had won WW2, their empires would have crumbled within a decade as people would have revolted due to lack of food, oil and other critical necessities.
@MrTonitro
2 жыл бұрын
Спасибо, мы ценим наших прадедов.
@crimsonknight7011
2 жыл бұрын
If you think 80 days of fighting was bad, there was the Battle of Verdun in WW1 that lasted 303 days. It was there that the French coined the phrase “they shall not pass” where they refused to retreat any farther.
@crimsonknight7011
2 жыл бұрын
m.kzitem.info/news/bejne/2YZurWGCsIl_oWU
@crimsonknight7011
2 жыл бұрын
This is Fields of Verdun by Sabaton, it’s an amazing song by them
@charlottemartin4715
2 жыл бұрын
“If my life was interrupted” bruh there’s a difference, these people were without food for 2.5 years 😭
@YoBGS
2 жыл бұрын
I mean, that's obvious, I wasn't saying it to downplay what they went through. I was more saying it so that I didn't make the video 2 hours explaining the atrocities they were going through
@Zeetrik
2 жыл бұрын
This video has been so heavy that I feel the need to input some more lighthearted facts about wars, if such a thing exists. In WWI the Germans took France by surprise and to stop them from reaching Paris they had to rush to stop them. But most of the soldiers were in Paris so how could you take them into the battle in time? The result was all of the taxi drivers going back and forth between Marne and Paris trying to move as many soldiers as possible. The first christmas on WWI was also a truce that had "no mans land" breached, letters and alcohol exchanged and even a football match. The following cristmas was also a truce but they didnt let the soldiers meet the opposing soldiers so that they didnt emphathize with them. They didn't have a truce the last two years. This also shows that most of the soldiers didnt even know what they were fighting for really. WWI could even be considered as a family feud, as most of the leaders involved were related one way or another.
@cheesemaster1481
2 жыл бұрын
I've heard about the Christmas Truce which is probably one of the most wholesome things of all time, people who was previously fighting coming together for a day to hang out
@toomasargel8503
Жыл бұрын
09:57 Correct . Yugoslavia was that time 5.8 million pop.
@danielhughes3316
2 жыл бұрын
The soviets legit had a order 227 in which if a fellow soldier retreated had to be kill them
@theeasyjohn
2 жыл бұрын
I do not think that this really changed something. The Soviet people really fought for their land and the lives of their loved ones. Maybe only in the first months of the war, when the opponent has not yet been studied. The ideology in the country was then such that no one had to force anyone to fight German army. If you have seen a video from North Korea, you may be approximately submitting the unity of the people in the USSR during and after the war.
@itsanandy
2 жыл бұрын
That’s a very false perception of that order. It wasn’t about retreat, it was about abandoning the fight without a given order. People who left their post during battle without an order were the only ones affected by that order. According to official statistics, of the 36109 soldiers and officers detained under the order, 32933 were returned to their battle groups, 1065 were assigned to penalty battalions, 736 were arrested, and 433 were executed. There was never any order given to any soldier to shoot at their own for retreating, that was left to the war courts.
@danielhughes3316
2 жыл бұрын
@@itsanandy oh I did not know that
@neojc128
2 жыл бұрын
"you're paying the price of admission to feel terrible" yup
@EdmundKempersDartboard
2 жыл бұрын
Ah, that Earthbound boss music takes me back.
@elisefincher4478
2 жыл бұрын
Imo its absoluty necessary to learn about stuff like this because if you don't take the time to learn and look at the picture as a whole history will be doomed to repeat itself.
@randomidiot9658
2 жыл бұрын
I would definitely suggest reacting to more individual stories like the story of mad jack (it's definitely more less depressing) or music about history like the metal band sabaton.
@kimsallach3608
2 жыл бұрын
Or some Iron Maiden songs, ''the longest day'' for example shows D-Day from a soldiers perspective.
@smexijebus
2 жыл бұрын
I think one of the hardest but most important lessons to learn from this war is that, were we alive in Germany at that time, we would've been nazis. We all like to think we'd be the rebel savior but that's only with the major benefit of hindsight. It was exceedingly rare to have the kind of strength of character and mental fortitude to go against everyone else. I mean just look at how most people acted during the pandemic. They even used the same language, doctors and 'experts' called jewish people unclean and dangerous towards your health. They even introduced mandatory health passports, which sounds eerily familiar, doesn't it? It's been quite nearly a century since the war and it seems like most people have completely forgotten about trying to learn from our mistakes. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
@crimsonknight7011
2 жыл бұрын
One thing to note is that unlike Germany who has acknowledged the atrocities they caused during WW2, Japan continues to refuse they did such atrocities to this day. There is a statue of a woman outside the Japanese embassy in one of the countries that is to represent one of the “pleasure women” during WW2. Basically they were women forced to bed with Japanese soldiers during the war and many of them died from horrible treatment. Japan refuses to admit this and has tried to pay the countries large sums of money as “hush money” so that they would stop talking about it. Some countries have refused the money because they don’t want Japan to just sweep it under the carpet and act like it never happened. I’ve heard or seen Japanese people react to WW2 who are shocked because they weren’t really taught about it as much and basically were told that America did the nukes for no real reason.
@theirishviking9278
2 жыл бұрын
24:32 to put this is some form of perspective Australia TODAY only has 25.69 million 2.8 times that amount died in WW2
@colt1903
2 жыл бұрын
Have you ever seen the Musical "Hamilton"? It's basically a hip-hop style Musical and one of the founding fathers Alexander Hamilton, his life and actions before, during, and after the American war for independence from the British Empire. It's a good watch and I highly recommend you take the time to check it out one day.
@YoBGS
2 жыл бұрын
NO! I know about it, but I haven't watched it in general!
@RandomPersonR
2 жыл бұрын
Also just to clarify about Poland population loss it was 16% of the polish population died
@kennashan
2 жыл бұрын
It's hard, but to learn history, your head understands casualties, and collateral damage. To learn *from* history, your heart needs to understand the woman with that child in her arms, the families that mourned, the families that never existed, because all the men were dead.
@Zeetrik
2 жыл бұрын
Also if you want a similar video in terms of grasping unreachable numbers but also a lot more lighthearted compared to the three WW2 videos I recommend "the most radioactive places on earth" by Veritasium, though I'm not sure what his thoughts are on reactions...
@devonsantiago7637
2 жыл бұрын
Despite you being in the WWII phase of history reaction where you react to all the stuff about WWII(I swear like every reaction channel that starts doing history has a WWII phase), if you are interested in some of the mysteries of history you should definitely check out Lemmino's videos on D.B Cooper and Jack the Ripper. Fun Fact; he started as a top 10 channel but then switch to these really cool documentary styles of videos that he puts a ton of work into. I wonder when you'll get into the Sam O' Nella or mythology phase.
@luketrottier9388
2 жыл бұрын
Correct. Going into WWII, Yugoslavia had about 1/9th of the population of the USA.
@creeperawwma8399
2 жыл бұрын
Hello bgs I am creeper from twitch when you gonna stream again?
@YoBGS
2 жыл бұрын
Should be streaming this afternoon. I've had some IRL stuff that's been keeping me from streaming but I wanna get back to it more.
@DeusKDuo
2 жыл бұрын
I am described as a very stoic person by friends and family. The first time I saw this it took every fiber of my being to just pretend it didnt bother me you would have to be a true psychopath for this not to hit you in some way.
@JRush374
2 жыл бұрын
Please watch Scott Horton's Enough Already playlist. It's amazing. It's about the US's recent wars and why they happened and how they lead to each other. His book is incredible.
@Ikller-xh7qq
Жыл бұрын
Most of Poland? 1 in 6 poles died... And you should look into Nazinsky. A soviet Gulag. I recommend the video on the Channel Geographics ...
@ChangliButTheRealOne
2 жыл бұрын
I m here to recommend some more oversimplified vids like the American Revolution and the American Civil War. Both of them are two-parters. Or if you want to see something more about Europe watch the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution or should I say three revolutions and see how the East and West were. Or even go back further and watch the battle of Hastings in the year 1066, which changed the English language. Speaking of England, many look at Henry VIII (8th) or the Napoleonic wars. (you could also just watch WWI) or look more in Asia the three kingdoms war tho it is, in my opinion, the most complex one. Bill Wurtz made a video about Japan as well. You're probably familiar with this one the cold war, you also have some up-off Hitler's history on his channel. So that's it or all that I could think of. There are like the pig war, the war of buckets, the football war, and the emu war but those are more to that specific area or country.
@naulpavneet
2 жыл бұрын
Its must shock you and make you feel bad because even if you have of course nothing to do with what happened back then. I mean you are not guilty of anything, but we must know all this and we must never forget it, because if we forgot we would kind of spit on the dead bodies of all those people who died because of the war. It is our responsibility to prevent a catastrophe to mankind like that from happening ever again. That at least is my opinion as a German who has thought very often about whether I am guilty or not. Don't look away, take the pictures and the grim truth deep in and try to do whatever you can to not let this happen again. Of course, one single person cannot do much, but for example we can be careful with people, try to be understanding and help others who are in need. I don't know what more to say ... It is good that you watched this video and while it is completely understandable that you want to look away - please don't do it. These people deserve that you see them and that you know about their fates.
@CheburashkaGenovna
Жыл бұрын
"Uncomfortable".... it's supposed to be uncomfortable... horrible... sobering...
@matei8master8
2 жыл бұрын
"82 DAYS!?" You literally just watched oversimplified. Did you miss the detail that Leningrad was put under siege for 4 years?
@nathanraby7659
2 жыл бұрын
No matter how much you learn you can always learn more that's just a faxt
@Obileo346
2 жыл бұрын
If you want a good "pick me up" Abbott and Costello "Who's on First?" If you haven't already seen it.
@winstonchurchill1639
2 жыл бұрын
You should watch ww1 oversimplified then the deaths of ww1 visualised after
@wilcowen6284
2 жыл бұрын
The saying was ww2 was won with American steel British intelligence and Russian blood
@YoBGS
2 жыл бұрын
American STEEL! Thank you, I thought it was engineering so I wasn't too far off.
@timtime88
2 жыл бұрын
"the death of one man is a tragedy. the death of millions is a statistic"
@SweetBrazyN
2 жыл бұрын
Should react to the fallen of world war 1 now 💯
@deadmanlnc2215
2 жыл бұрын
whenever people react to anything about war history it's always accompanied by them saying "why did this happen" "why didn't anyone do anything about it" "war shouldn't exist and other similarities and in some ways I find it annoying but I understand. The unfortunate sad reality is that war will never entirely die it will always evolve.
@YoBGS
2 жыл бұрын
See and I feel like I understood why it happened, but having a visualization of the toll was what took my breath away because the people are just numbers until you see it spelled out
@deadmanlnc2215
2 жыл бұрын
@@YoBGS So true, hey if you haven't already try listening to Sabaton they're a swedish power metal band and all their songs are about military history.
@luketrottier9388
2 жыл бұрын
Just FYI, the atomic bombs did not injure hundreds of thousands, or millions of soldiers. No, you don't count factory working civilians as solider casualties.
@chatchatfun1596
2 жыл бұрын
For to understand the eastern front you can react to ww2 eastern front animatied 1941
@viperblitz11
Жыл бұрын
The saying you're thinking of is "American Steel, British Intelligence, and Soviet Blood."
@gagecoalbrace3
2 жыл бұрын
I would recommend "Battle of Samar Odds what are those?" By Drachinifel
@TheGravy5
2 жыл бұрын
You should definitely look at some events other than WW2, maybe something less depressing?
@YoBGS
2 жыл бұрын
I mean that’s the plan. I wanted to check out like prohibition or something. But this was super recommended
@jstevinik3261
2 жыл бұрын
@@YoBGS 9:55 Yugoslavia in 1939, before invasion in 1941, had a population of 15.6 million, so a fraction of the US population at the time. Yugoslavia had been at war nine months longer than the US. 12:10 The saying goes, said by Joseph Stalin in the 1943 Tehran conference, that the war would be won through “British brains [referring to intelligence], American brawn [referring to industrial capacity], and Russian blood.” 22:25 The civilian deaths, while not a majority of the Polish population, were about 16% of the 1939 Polish population, largest percentage of population killed for any country in WW2. 23:20 The intentional flooding of the Yellow River temporary slowed Japanese advancement, which succeeded its goal, albeit at human cost. 25:24 Timur Lenk was a Mongol conquer who took over 14th century central Asia. The An Lushan Rebellion was a failed uprising against the Tang dynasty of China towards the mid-point of the dynasty (from 755 to 763), with an attempt to replace it with the Yan dynasty. The Taping Rebellion was a failed attempt to overthrow the Manchu Quin Dynasty in the 19th century with a pseudo-Christian movement. I only know the Taiping Rebellion prior to Googling these other conflicts up. 31:45 The California population is 39.5 million in 2020. Once again, I hope that my comments have been helpful in answering your questions.
@akirathepurpleboi2599
2 жыл бұрын
Who else cried when the number of deaths was totaled up
@flyingeagle3898
2 жыл бұрын
I get that its hard to cover positive news, but I think its more important than ever given our constant access to bad news. Good news tends to happen slowly in trendlines so more coverage of that is more important than ever. You kept asking about population so here are some stats I posted on a previous video: the population wasn't that much lower in European countries during wwII compared to today. In Germany in 1939 the population was 70 million in Germany proper, and 80 million in Germany+ Austria and other annexed territory. Today German population is 83 Million In 1939 France had a population of 40 Million, Today it is 60 million In the UK(home islands only) population was 48 Million, compared to 60 million today. In the soviet union population was about 194 Million in 1940 (difficult to compare to today due to the breakup of Soviet Union) The big differences between then and now in population were in places like the US (only 132 million in 1940) and especially Asia and Africa. India and China for example both experienced their massive population booms mostly in the decades right after WWII. Finally, both the An Lushang revolt and the Taiping rebellion were wars in China involving the attempted overthrow of/transition between dynasties. several of the most devastating wars in history actually involve major events in china, but we don't hear much about them in the rest of the world, because the effects were mostly contained in China
@Demanacus93
2 жыл бұрын
If i may, i would love to see you react to a comedic youtube series about Warhammer 40k called "If the Emperor had a text to speech device" by the youtube channel Bruva Alfabusa. its bot very comedic and very informative as well.
@Pyth0n313
2 жыл бұрын
React to potential history's Operation Barbarossa series
@antonymash9586
2 жыл бұрын
Have you guys seen Europes unexploded bomb problem? Is good and an eye opener for you new worlders
@pickledoff2710
2 жыл бұрын
You should react to “ww2 everyday with army sizes” by the channel *Christopher*
@colt1903
2 жыл бұрын
I would like to suggest reacting, or at least just watching in your own time, to MatPat's Game Theory video on the game Cooking Companions. It's brief, but there is some talk that he does about one of the crueller things Joseph Stalin did.
@keinenbockmehr1749
Жыл бұрын
You pause too much! ;-) No, seriously it's fine. It shows that you work with the video, instead of just sitting through it.
@cheesemaster1481
2 жыл бұрын
Russia lost 25% of its total population all together in the war apparently, that includes civilian deaths, Russia still feels the population impact to this day, Russia lost over 20 million people all together, for comparison, Russia today has just over 120 million people, World War 2 is such a sad and such an influencial event in human history, and the sheer number of casualties are never done justice in schools, so it's even more shocking when you do find out
@Napker
2 жыл бұрын
ahem ahem (27 millions death's) AHEM ahem (Military death 10.2 millions) AHEM AHEM...
@cheesemaster1481
2 жыл бұрын
@@Napker True
@xenotypos
2 жыл бұрын
Soviet deaths /= Russian deaths. The Soviet Union had vastly more people than Russia today has, and in first line of the nazis atrocities were the Belarusians, the Ukrainians, and others. And Russia has about 144 million people today, not 120, you got every number wrong tbh. I hope the 6 persons that liked that comment won't get the wrong idea.
@Yusheesan
Жыл бұрын
@@xenotypos Russia had the largest chunk of the Soviet population. Russians were the ethnic majority. There is no genetic difference between Russians, Belorusians and Ukrainians. Everybody went to the front regardless of where they lived.
@azorahai7837
2 жыл бұрын
11:50 I'm not devaluing the sacrifices from the US, but you should also remember that Soviets fought the best German armies. When allies landed, Germans didn't have air support, were demoralised, undersupplied, and even had random prisoners forced to fight for them (Koreans, Arabs). It didn't take long for Nazis to send inexperienced green boys to slaughter too. I'm sorry if this sounds offensive but allies had it much easier than soviets. Eastern theatre was HELL!
@mecampbell30
2 жыл бұрын
This is true but also misleading. The fighting was extremely tough for the Russians partially because their tactics were horrible. They didn't maneuver well. They suffered siege after siege rather than surrender territory that put them at a disadvantage. They also had the benefit of lend-lease and crippling airstrikes by the allies on the German mainland. By late 1943, when the Red Army started their advance toward Berlin, Germany's most experienced armies everywhere had been mostly depleted and it was relying on an inexperienced conscript army.
@Cassisomat
2 жыл бұрын
You should react to disguised toast new video where he was 5.7% ....
@kalkuttadrop6371
2 жыл бұрын
React to Potential History(any), and Knowing Better “Denying your history”
@axu4609
2 жыл бұрын
yobgs you should react to ''brewstewfilms'' one of if not the funniest animation channel on youtube and i feel like a lot of the stories you would relate to Edit: I reccomend starting with Brewstew - Dial-Up and Brewstew - Blockbuster
@toomasargel8503
2 жыл бұрын
My grandfather was railway worker and bring food at train car and get hit by plane bomb. Hi fallen. left his wife my grandmother and his son ..my farher and ounce his daugther 1944 My father was then 3 years old.. Tapa, Estonia. Bomber was red army.
@rajeevr7986
2 жыл бұрын
I would to see your reaction to oversimplified American civil war video.
@Kilgorio
2 жыл бұрын
Wow
@bluredstoneiii5594
2 жыл бұрын
React to overwimplified napoleonico wars
@susanpiper7431
2 жыл бұрын
This is why we should make everyone see this when they keep pushing for what could become WW3. Forty million WW1, 70 million WW2. What would WW3 be. We are starting to forget what happen with WW2, we can't afford WW3.
@laceybird5151
2 жыл бұрын
Day 221 of asking Yobgs to react to dsmp character analysis such as Kindacoral's and Scrawls one on Niki Nihachu and Scrawls one on Fundy. Just character analysis and stuff. I realise this is probably getting annoying
@Caldera01
2 жыл бұрын
If this video wasn't gut wrenching to you, there's something wrong with either your understanding, or with your mentality. Feeling uncomfortable is normal and healthy in this instance.
@giafoneozu9998
2 жыл бұрын
he said, about 60% of all polish people died in the war!
@YoBGS
2 жыл бұрын
I think at that point I missed it bc I was just numb
@jiraffe9600
2 жыл бұрын
He said 16% not 60%
@parsifal40002
Жыл бұрын
If you are a history noob, go back to school and learn more about WWII and its impact and how the war changed the world.
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