Teacher Reacts To "Hitler - OverSimplified" [PART 1 & 2]

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  • Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
  • My name is Michael! I teach geography, history, religion, social science and physical education. Way too many subjects if you ask me... I don't claim to be an expert in any of these subjects.
    Although I am pretty awesome at PE!
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    Music: ♪ Biscuit (Prod. by Lukrembo)
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Комментарии • 241

  • @dingodelta
    @dingodelta 2 года назад +114

    "Inbreeding and a bad childhood is a recipe for disaster"
    Looking at you Alabama

    • @simpleviking
      @simpleviking  2 года назад +16

      xD

    • @flamer6566
      @flamer6566 2 года назад +8

      Better keep an eye on these Alabamans👀

    • @798jeremy
      @798jeremy Год назад

      Sometimes just one of these is enough for disaster though...but both, yeah, it's tough 😅

  • @Firelord150
    @Firelord150 2 года назад +180

    The iron Cross is like the german Version of the medal of honor, today you would get it if you save a comrad in a firefight or something similar

    • @simpleviking
      @simpleviking  2 года назад +43

      Oh thank you for explaining!!

    • @mighty_mike4790
      @mighty_mike4790 2 года назад +16

      That's right but during that time the decoration wasn't worth much compared to today. In World War I millions of iron crosses were awarded so that the decoration lost a lot of value. It should be equivalent to the medal of honor and today it is, but when hitler got it it wasn't worth much. Just to add a bit of historical context to your explanation.

    • @leonb3859
      @leonb3859 2 года назад +6

      @@mighty_mike4790 Under Hitler as the Führer of Germany (The Leader), the "normal" Iron Cross wasn't a unique "award", but there were many different iron crosses, which got better (for example) the iron cross with sword and brilliant gem.

    • @leonb3859
      @leonb3859 2 года назад +10

      The Iron Cross with swords, brilliant gem and golden oak leaves, was the highest award in Nazi Germany and only 27 People achieved one.

    • @mighty_mike4790
      @mighty_mike4790 2 года назад +2

      @@leonb3859 Thats right Hitler reestablished the value of the iron cross and yes there are different ranks to it. I only said that the decoration wasn't worth much in world war 1 because too much were handed out.

  • @niklasderzwote
    @niklasderzwote 2 года назад +86

    Greetings from Germany, been binge watching your videos love them!
    A litte mistake in the original Video:
    Nazi wasn't the Abbreviation for the Party but for the Party Members who called themselves " Nationalsozialisten".
    The Party had the Acronym NSDAP.

    • @simpleviking
      @simpleviking  2 года назад +20

      Oh wow thank you so much!! Really!
      Thank you for explaing :D

    • @niklasderzwote
      @niklasderzwote 2 года назад +7

      @@simpleviking always happy to help a fellow history nerd :D

    • @Honzikkx
      @Honzikkx Год назад

      @@niklasderzwote Hey, i just bumped in to this video and comments and i always wondered how today's germans are towards the WW2 if its complete taboo or are they open to discuss the term..and how it teached in schools etc..thank's for response and have a great day.:)

    • @nolucktft8389
      @nolucktft8389 Год назад

      @@Honzikkx We talk about the war in Germany, especially in schools. We Germans have made it our mission that something like the Nazis can never happen again in Germany.
      That's why the suffering of the Jews and other minorities is the main theme in history lessons. You can also mention the few positive things that came from the Nazis (highway expansions and animal welfare laws for example)
      It is taboo and even illegal to display Nazi symbols or Nazi salutes in public, as well as to spread general Nazi propaganda. For example, denying Nazi atrocities is illegal and can land you in prison.

    • @798jeremy
      @798jeremy Год назад

      Yep, that's right : NSDAP. We learned it in french school as well.

  • @SnappyJCM800
    @SnappyJCM800 2 года назад +78

    I like how you described humans. I’d say we are insanely incredible but would say we are also incredibly insane. We do the same things over and over in some cases

  • @KellCogs
    @KellCogs 2 года назад +14

    There are a few things:
    (1) The party was called the "NSDAP", the members were called "Nazis".
    (2) Hitler was a "Gefreiter" (don't know the English equivalent, maybe Corporal or Lance Corporal) .
    (3) The Iron Cross 1st Class required the rewarded soldier to own the Iron Cross 2nd Class. Hitler got his Iron Cross 2nd Class for delivering a message during the First Battle of Ypres, because he might have rescued a commander at named battle. The Iron Cross 1st Class was awarded to him once again for delivering a message, but denied wearing it in WWI due to his superior during that time being a jew.
    (4) Hitler was just a soldier, never made it to the rank of officer (or "Unteroffizier", which might be translated to sergeant, but thats not an accurate translation).
    (5) The SA was, as said in the video, the paramilitary divison of the NSDAP, while the SS were Hitler's personal security guards. After the night of the long knives ("Nacht der langen Messer"), the SA was basically dissolved and any remaining members were integrated in the SS.
    (6) Hindenburg passed away in 1934, not 1933, like it might sound in the video, so he became full-on dictator in 1934, not in March 1933.

    • @KuzuhaSama
      @KuzuhaSama 2 года назад

      Gefreiter = Private (second lowest rank)
      PFC or Lance Corporal would be Obergefreiter

    • @TheBingoHD
      @TheBingoHD Год назад

      @@KuzuhaSama Yea Gefreiter is OR-2 like Private
      and Obergefreiter is OR-3 like Lance Corporal

  • @andreasmetzger7619
    @andreasmetzger7619 2 года назад +41

    I want to say something about the cousin thing: Today most of us wouldn't even consider marrying so close to the family but you have to view it through the eyes of the time so to speak: Today we know cousin marriage was a thing in the noble houses BUT it was not uncommon for ordinary people to also marry their cousins. This changed I think with modern medicine and the knowledge of what today might be called "inbreeding"

    • @SusavonPunk013
      @SusavonPunk013 2 года назад +1

      I hate to mention it, but in germany it's allowed to marry your parent's sibling and get children with them so someone marrying a cousin isn't shocking at all ;-;

    • @andreasmetzger7619
      @andreasmetzger7619 2 года назад +3

      @@SusavonPunk013 I know it's legal, born and raised here. But I think the "marrying your cousin" thing isn't nearly as common than it was maybe 150 years ago. And we know that marrying your first cousin at least leaves you with higher risk of disabled children. I understand the "marry into the family"- thing but I just wouldn't encourage marrying your first cousin. And the marrying your uncle/aunt and having kids with them is just weird af

    • @andreasmetzger7619
      @andreasmetzger7619 2 года назад

      @Mr. Empty Hahaha that's one way to look at it

    • @EatAnOctorok
      @EatAnOctorok Год назад

      People need to keep track of the percentage of shared DNA so it doesn't error out. Log all your relatives so you know who are your second and third cousins.

  • @Eli-fi3wu
    @Eli-fi3wu Год назад +3

    8:27 the iron cross is the greatest military honor you can receive. it’s like the english metal of antiquity or the US medal of honor

  • @knockout352
    @knockout352 2 года назад +4

    19:55 you can see both the SS and the SA here. The guys left are from the SA, the militia of the NSDAP. The guys on the right , in the black uniforms are from the SS. Before the night of the long knives, the SS was subordinate to the SA only as Hitler's bodyguard, after that they even had some combat units of their own (sorry if i spelled something wrong, i'm a german)

  • @ChelseaChickadee
    @ChelseaChickadee 2 года назад +17

    In reference to the mention of inbreeding:
    If you wanna learn about some seeeeriously messed up family trees, I recommend the channel Mortal Faces (particularly the Habsburgs, Cleopatra, and Tutankhamun videos). His video about the worst popes in history is also... disturbingly informative 😬

  • @dracula7919
    @dracula7919 2 года назад +21

    Love your content dude! I’m learning a lot.

    • @simpleviking
      @simpleviking  2 года назад +4

      Thank you so much! Im learning alot aswell!!

  • @SCrYteX
    @SCrYteX 2 года назад +18

    I found your channel a few months ago and I absolutely love it 😃
    I'm amazed that you are almost at 20k subs already! Greetings from Germany!

    • @simpleviking
      @simpleviking  2 года назад +6

      Wow thank you so much! I know, me too! Its been crazy fast!

    • @SCrYteX
      @SCrYteX 2 года назад +2

      @@simpleviking Keep going! I'm watching every second of every video! Your commentary really really interesting! :)

  • @yasminesteinbauer8565
    @yasminesteinbauer8565 2 года назад +12

    Klara was not Alois' cousin. Alois father is not even known for sure. In general, marriages in such degrees of relationship were not at all unusual at that time.

    • @AlexandraVioletta
      @AlexandraVioletta 2 года назад +1

      And to marry a cousin is still legal in Germany.

    • @AlexandraVioletta
      @AlexandraVioletta 2 года назад +1

      I don't know austrian law

    • @caligo7918
      @caligo7918 2 года назад +3

      @@AlexandraVioletta en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage#/media/File:CousinMarriageWorld.svg
      There are a lot of places where that's legal

  • @ruas4721
    @ruas4721 2 года назад +10

    To be fair, at the time Hitler was born, it was nothing unusal to marry cousins and grand cousins. Actually most europeans have such relationships in their family tree, especially in regions with a lower population density. And its not realy inbreeding, because its not in a direct ancestory line, so its legal in most countries today.
    His childhood was quiet normal too. Dead siblings, violent parents and so on, nothing special at his time.
    The question "would you kill Hitler as a baby" isnt such an easy question in my opinion. Sure, he did terrible things, but a second world war was inevitable (Versailles was just to stupid). And (even if Russia fucked it up the last few months) his devastating war brought the longest period of peace Europe has ever seen. It was the foundation for the european union and global relationships.
    You dont know if killing Hitler would make the history better or even worse, but our timeline isnt that bad in my opinion. Much better than fight wars every 10 to 20 years, isnt it?

  • @StefanVeenstra
    @StefanVeenstra 2 года назад +3

    Psychology 101: Behavior breeds behavior.
    Treat a person like they do not belong and they will either reflect it onto you or worse, become exactly the fear you treated them so poorly for.

  • @LOLSKU115
    @LOLSKU115 Год назад +1

    15:02 “Fear left unchecked turns into anger and anger promotes violence” -Stuart Webster

  • @Polotiac
    @Polotiac 2 года назад +9

    You’re so close to 20k! You must be cool teacher

  • @Alaethancar
    @Alaethancar 2 года назад +10

    I always feel the question of "Would you kill baby Hitler?" is incredibly poorly considered, even as a thought experiment.
    We do not have enough information to effectively answer that question. The decision should be based on how time itself works.
    If Everett Multiverse Interpretation is true, whether you kill him or not is irrelevant because the 50% of the infinite universes in which you (or someone else) DIDN'T kill him would still exist. Your better choice is to explore for a universe you like and live there. Maybe he got killed, maybe he didn't, maybe he wasn't born, maybe his unilateral dictatorship created a backlash that led to a global utopia. Infinite universes means infinite options and killing him achieves nothing.
    If we're using Dr. Who mechanics chances are WWII was a fixed point in time and if you kill baby Hitler someone else just steps in to take his place.
    If we're using BTTF rules, then fuck yeah you kill Hitler. If it's the wrong choice you fix it with a sequel.
    Regardless of any of that, if we have the tech to send someone to where and when they need to be to even make this possible it means we've figured out how time works to a much better understanding than what we currently possess. And that is vital information required to even MAKE this decision. It's a bad question.

    • @ShenLong991
      @ShenLong991 2 года назад +1

      And in another way, if we apply logic, we cant be sure if anything timetraveling is possible while we can be sure that not the best way can become out of it, if we try.
      Think about it that way. Anything a time-traveller could have done, has already happened now. So either it is already the best future that has come out of timetraveling or it is impossible to timetravel to change our current timeline to become better.

    • @red.aries1444
      @red.aries1444 Год назад

      @@ShenLong991 I have a problem with the concept of an already fixed future.
      We are maybe really the first high engineered zivilisation in our whole universe. Maybe there are other universes, but it isn't necessary that it would ever be possible to travel between them. Maybe time traveling will be invented in the future, but as the future hasn't happened yet, no one could have changed anything in our universe yet. So in my opinion your logic is wrong.
      To the question:
      Would it be better to kill or just change something in the early life of Hitler? I think if you would do that you have to fix a lot more other things. I don't think WWII is fixed in time. But I think that a big war would have happened. What if it had happened 20 years later? WWII had pushed sciene a lot, but the invention of the atomic bomb, jet airplanes and rockets would have happened in any case. Imagine several nations with much more dangerous weapons but without the experience of an exhausting, deadly war before. It wouldn't be directly a worldwide thermonuclear war. But I'm sure more than just two small bombs would have been used and as a result more destruction would have happened and much more people would have died as in the WWII we know.
      A time traveler would be really busy to fix all the early lives of several politicians to avoid another war. 🙂

    • @ShenLong991
      @ShenLong991 Год назад

      @@red.aries1444 I didn't think that the future is predetermined. But i believe that we cannot change the past or cannot detect if the past has changed. So either time-traveling in the most common sense of the word is not possible, or we never know if it already had happened.

    • @jimmy2k4o
      @jimmy2k4o Год назад

      Why not kidnap him and give to to a loving Jewish family to be raised?

  • @PentragonCosplay
    @PentragonCosplay Год назад +4

    I learned more from that video then in 3 years of history class.

  • @hampusa06
    @hampusa06 2 года назад +2

    love your content keep it up 👍

  • @Bruno-yz9ug
    @Bruno-yz9ug 2 года назад +2

    3:18
    Look at the book cover
    😆🤣

  • @doryetra8658
    @doryetra8658 2 года назад +3

    new subscriber from Brazil for the coolest teacher in the school cause!

  • @DarleneLesmana
    @DarleneLesmana 2 года назад +1

    hey man love the videos! i think it should be 'sense' though in your thumbnail but i'm an esl speaker as well so i may be wrong :)

    • @simpleviking
      @simpleviking  2 года назад

      Oh snap! You are right! Thank you haha!!!!

  • @andreasmetzger7619
    @andreasmetzger7619 2 года назад +15

    I also wanted to slightly correct you about the antisemitism: Throughout history there was the religious hatred of jews but its called anti-judaism ("Anti-Judaismus" in german) but antisemitism is more like the idea that the Jews are a people/race. For a more detailed explanation I recommend Google haha

    • @simpleviking
      @simpleviking  2 года назад +5

      Oh thank you! I did not know that! Cheers :D

    • @andreamuller9009
      @andreamuller9009 2 года назад +4

      Well, Jewish people see themselves as their own people... and there's a reason for that.
      Due to the fact that only a Jew is one who also has a Jewish mother (the reason for this is in the Torah and was also an efficient protection for the preservation of the Jewish faith from foreign influence, especially in the time of Christianization, after all Jews in today's Germany were already settled by the Romans ... in Mainz there was one of the oldest Jewish settlements in Europe ) Jewish men were always anxious to marry a Jewess.
      Askenazi Jews (English, Middle European and East European) and Sepharian Jews (Spanish) are still very genetically related to their Semitic cousins ​​in the Middle East.
      They have all the characteristics of their own ethnic group,... genetically due to their origin in the holy land and culturally, including belief and z. b. which includes Yiddish as their own colloquial language (and .... Hebrew is the only ancient language in the world that has ever been successfully reconstructed and maintained through constant use, thanks to the cohesion of the dispora) and above all, what is even more important, the consciousness to be one's own people. (Again, by the way, some of the Jewish family names indicate which of the 12 Jewish tribes the family belongs to).
      And that's how they were perceived by others.
      It was not uncommon for Christians to perceive Jews as other people. Caricatures and disparagements about alleged external characteristics or alleged character traits and actually prescribed clothing for Jews (not only religiously suggested, but imposed by others ... e.g. the pointed hats) appear quite early on. Jews have been accused of stealing children, poisoning wells or other stupid reasons that were invented to get hold of these people's assets....doesn't sound much different than Hitler's: "The Jews are to blame for this that we are doing so badly now"
      The pogroms against Jews in the past since the early Middle Ages are always linked to ethnic cleansing and were not just related to Judaism.
      Yes, of course, the term "race" first appeared with National Socialism .... But for the reasons mentioned above, at least to my knowledge, no distinction is made in Germany between anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism. Because it just went hand in hand.

    • @andreasmetzger7619
      @andreasmetzger7619 2 года назад +1

      @@andreamuller9009 Thanks for the answer :) But just because there is no distinction made doesn't mean there isn't one. Take Luther for example: He wrote a text in which he very harshly hated on the jews ("Von den Jüden und ihren Lügen"/ "Of the jews and their lies"). The idea of Jews as a people wasn't common in Christianity but certainly they were seen as a homogenous group and the most prominent "claim" against the jews at least in Germany was that they nailed Jesus to the cross. When we get to the 1800s the religious rejection of jews (like with Luther) wasn't that much of a thing anymore but with Darwin and his theories, Social-Darwinism emerged and formed a school of thinking that later on would be part of the national socialist ideology. I may be wrong but I think the idea of the jews as a race is a bit older than the national socialist ideology, but certainly the Nazis made it what Germans would call "salonfähig"

    • @jaredgilmore3102
      @jaredgilmore3102 2 года назад +2

      I'm not really sure there is or has been a distinction between Anti-Judaism or Anti-Semitism, Judea was the name of the nation that the Semites (those of Semitic ancestry came from) they are commonly called Jews based on the word Jewish from their historical kingdom. The attempt to differentiate between the religion and people of that region doesn't really work. The people, religion and culture are intrinsically tied together.
      As for why antisemitism is so common, one reason probably stems from the diaspora, cultures naturally have a distaste for outsiders who settle in the lands especially when those outsiders refuse to integrate and accept the ways of the indigenous people. After the diaspora safe lands were few and far between and rarely lasted long for the Jewish people, they also made easy targets for political blame and when certain Jews started getting rich due to the fact that they could practice banking while Catholics were forbidden from usury, the rich nobles of Europe would often target them to steal their wealth or so that they could void the debts of the money they had borrowed from these rich Jewish bankers.

    • @andreasmetzger7619
      @andreasmetzger7619 2 года назад +1

      @@jaredgilmore3102 Atleast in the Texts i've read (in german) there was always distinction between the rejection of jews out of religious reasons and because of the rejection out of reasons of "biology" (race). The rejection the jews endured in Germany for over a thousand years is called (Christian) Anti-judaism to my knowledge. Later forms of hostility against jews not based on religion is called antisemitism. I mean of course, the term is kind of blurry because semites aren't just jews but I hope you get my point. It's just the terminology I'm after :)

  • @jamesnieder4566
    @jamesnieder4566 2 года назад +1

    thatnk you for reviewing this. its banned in Germany but i learned so much from this. have my Abo

  • @melbeasley9762
    @melbeasley9762 2 года назад +2

    Hitler was a runner in the Army, a very dangerous job as he had to carry messages, often exposed to enemy fire. He was a corporal (The lowest Non Commissioned Officer rank.)

  • @SilvanaDil
    @SilvanaDil 2 года назад +8

    Given current events, you should do OS' "Cold War."

    • @simpleviking
      @simpleviking  2 года назад +6

      Oh thats a good idea! Thanks :D

    • @SilvanaDil
      @SilvanaDil 2 года назад +1

      @@simpleviking - It's too bad Geography Now hasn't made it to the USA yet, although he does have a video that *very* quickly goes through each state, specifically a couple stereotypes per state.

  • @hugovasquez8222
    @hugovasquez8222 2 года назад

    2:30 that was Mozart but yeah its just what happens if you are born or living in austria. Its the Alabama of europe just like Turkey (in Turkey its pretty damn common even nowdays)

  • @celsus7979
    @celsus7979 2 года назад +7

    Hi viking.
    Dont bother with Mein Kampf.
    Its so badly written that even nazis struggle to finish it
    Read Alan Bullock - Hitler, a study in tyranny
    This book is by far the best book i have ever read (5 times, its that fascinating)
    It covers just about every minute of his life and is 70 years later still considered as a must read for people who are interested in the how and why of hitler, ww2 and germany

    • @t1r1g0n
      @t1r1g0n 2 года назад +1

      There are pretty good commentary versions though. But most of them are in German, mostly because uncommentary versions were forbidden for a long time, therefore they're probably not that helpful to him.

  • @corvus1374
    @corvus1374 2 года назад +3

    I inherited a book of stamps from my aunt that she had collected in the 30s and 40s. One of them is a German stamp that was originally one mark, it had been overstamped one million marks.
    The SA was a group under Ernst Roehm which had wild orgies, especially gay orgies,

    • @yanecp1358
      @yanecp1358 Год назад

      thats not completly true. These "gay orgies" existet, yes but Ernst Röhm did not participate or knowing (for a long Time) that these were hapening

    • @corvus1374
      @corvus1374 Год назад

      @@yanecp1358 Cite?

  • @johnnyringo80
    @johnnyringo80 2 года назад

    History Geek answering some of your questions: Hitlers Rank was "Gefreiter", a common soldier (the rank being roughly equal to Private 1st Class or Lance-Corporal). But he served as a runner delivering orders and messages to frontline troops, which was very dangerous.
    The Iron Cross was the standard military medal in Germany and was handed out somewhat freely for dutyful service (there were about 200.000 recipients in WWI).
    The Reichstag arsonist was a Dutch anarchist (Marinus van der Lubbe) and nowadays historians are quite sure that he was the sole culprit (he probably also had some mental health problems). It seems like it was just dumb luck for Hitler in this case.

    • @christianemmler6496
      @christianemmler6496 2 года назад +1

      Well, 13.2 Million Soldiers served for Germany in WWI and get 200000 Crosses (sometimes the same soldier two or three times. I would not say this was "handed out somewhat freely". And in 4 Years of Battle, the chances to "save the live of a soldier" or "safe the company/battalion trough taking dangerous missions" weren't not so little.
      (i am not defending the war or so, but in such cases the greater perspective helps - sorry for my bad english)

  • @TheAlGaga
    @TheAlGaga 2 года назад +1

    Goebbels was with Hitler pretty much from the beginning. His first official title was Gauleiter of Berlin, which is something like a local leader of the NSDAP for Berlin. He became minister of propaganda after Hitler himself was, although he had the job for only a short time. That was in 1930, but, as mentioned, he already meddled much earlier than that.

  • @Hago_official
    @Hago_official 2 года назад

    All soldiers/officers/generals had ranks (i think )Hitler was a lance corporal (in the British ranking system) which is just above a private or the 2nd lowest rank achiveable

  • @lofthestars2088
    @lofthestars2088 Год назад

    That Hitler was born in Braunau is just Comedy Gold.

  • @johntsam7071
    @johntsam7071 Год назад

    The SA(Sturmabteilung - Storm Detachment) was the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party!
    The SS(Schutzstaffel - Protection Squadron) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

  • @TheKilaby
    @TheKilaby 2 года назад +4

    If you have the ability to go back in time to kill a baby, you could as well work a little harder and try to change the future of that baby, who knows what good things he could have done if it just changed a little bit.

  • @j0hnn13K
    @j0hnn13K 2 года назад +1

    After WW1, all blame got put on Germany and they were given harsh penalties that drove their economy to the ground, that is what gave rise to Hitler i feel, all the ingredients were there after WW1 to ensure WW2 would eventually happen, it was basically the perfect storm brewing over the ocean and when Hitler came to power, the storm made landfall.
    WW2 is a culmination of everything that went wrong around WW1, and funny enough similar mistakes have been made after WW2, which lead to the cold war, luckily that did not become WW3 (but that might still change, judging todays events).
    So simply said, after WW1, WW2 was inevitable and would happen no matter who got into power, the sanctions broke the camel's back so to speak, and the outcome will always be the same, another war.

    • @j0hnn13K
      @j0hnn13K Год назад

      @Vandole that too, agreed

  • @devilix7132
    @devilix7132 Год назад

    My problem with the kill the hitler baby debate is the fact that so many people have been born because of him that you are killing by killing hitler

  • @lucazeppegno8256
    @lucazeppegno8256 2 года назад +2

    The image of Jews all around Europe in the past was surely not helped by the Church definition, for centuries of Jewish as Theocides, anyway.

  • @paulschirf9259
    @paulschirf9259 2 года назад

    It is a relatively modern concept that cousins are off limits in terms of potential mates. In fact, there are still cultures where it is not only accepted, it's encouraged. I was told by a co-worker that in her culture a girl can marry her mother's brother's son or her father's sister's son, but not her mother's sister's son or father's brother's son. All are cousins, for course, but the children of brother-sister pairs getting married is considered different from the children of two sisters or two brothers getting married because of the resulting social power-structure.

  • @totra2001
    @totra2001 2 года назад +1

    The book schoolboyhitler is reading is from Karl May, a popular western writer who'd never been to the americas. The cowboy-indian relationship as imagined in germany goes back to his works. Therefore the title: White Guys take over everything

  • @onkelhirnisfreund
    @onkelhirnisfreund Год назад

    Minute 2:36 Yes, Einsteins second wife was his cousin. But he had no children with her. Einstein only had two sons with his first wife Mileva Maric.
    Nice Video! - Greetings from Germany!

  • @benthepenguin7435
    @benthepenguin7435 Год назад

    0:30 you only have to make sure that his letter from the art school reaches him. THAT´S IT

    • @benthepenguin7435
      @benthepenguin7435 Год назад

      the only thing most people might be thankful to him is that he brought germany out of that stupid contract and built an actual infrastructure!

  • @sethaniel1
    @sethaniel1 2 года назад +4

    To answer your question, I too was interested to read "the book." Man was a passionate speaker but his writing skills were not captivating imo. It's just filled with antisemitic antics with an old-man-shaking-his-fist-at-the-sky vibe.

    • @simpleviking
      @simpleviking  2 года назад +3

      Thank you for explaining! :)

    • @sethaniel1
      @sethaniel1 2 года назад

      @@simpleviking To clarify, I'm not an expert and my description is based on memory so there's possibly some that I missed. I'm guessing I'm not too far from the truth.

    • @mighty_mike4790
      @mighty_mike4790 2 года назад +1

      @@sethaniel1 I'm an expert and you pretty much nailed it. It's basically a Book written by a fanatic amateur writer who collected the ideas of other antisemic authors to create something, that should become an alternative draft to Marxism. If you want to understand the man it might be worth reading but you shouldn't expect a great read.

    • @Ami_E_Bowen
      @Ami_E_Bowen 2 года назад

      I read it out of curiosity when I was in high school (I checked it out from my school library) in the mid-90s. It was confusing, convoluted and rambling. I agree with the first comment about the vibe of that book.

  • @KingChillmaster
    @KingChillmaster 2 года назад

    I love Oversimplified and just recognized, that these two Videos arent watchable here in Germany. But a react seems to be okay for the algorithm LUL

    • @OliverJWeber
      @OliverJWeber 2 года назад

      That’s no surprise. They are rubbish. You only have to look at what flags they use to represent Germany. In one case, it’s not even a German flag, but a Belgium one. Lazy. Do not waste your time watching those.

  • @melbeasley9762
    @melbeasley9762 2 года назад

    The SA were the Storm Troopers wearing a brown uniform. Their leader was a homosexual called Earnst Rohm. Hitler was fooled into believing Rohm was plotting against him, resulting in Rohms arrest and execution during the "Night of the long knives where many old scores were settled. The SS, Scutzstaffel were Hitlers personal bodyguard and wore black trousers and caps, but still the brown shirts. They were the instrument used during the night of the long knives. They were led by Heinrich Himmler, they grew in power as the SA waned. Eventually the familiar black uniform was adopted and worn by all SS until the Waffen SS (Armed SS) were raided for the war, their uniform was similar to the Army's but more grey in colour. I can't remember when the black uniform dissappeared but it didn't continue long into the war.

  • @KaipirinhaLP
    @KaipirinhaLP Год назад

    His military rang was "Gefreiter" what is a "private" in US.

  • @EddieLove
    @EddieLove 2 года назад

    outside of the horrible disgusting atrocities hitler committed, the fact that he was so successful in his endeavors is legendary.

  • @v.emiltheii-nd.8094
    @v.emiltheii-nd.8094 2 года назад +3

    Tbh i'd personally probably give him a better childhood and not be a 💩 parent unlike someone else we know.
    I still believe people can change based on their upbringing...being a product of it and all.

  • @njordholm
    @njordholm 2 года назад

    That's how I remember from school and further learnings, please don't take it as a 100% given, but I hope it's nearly true as far as it can get in a brief summarizing comment.
    SA 'Sturmabteilung' was the older organisation... In the earlier days they needed people to fight with their left counterparts. First just, we call it "Schlägertruppen" for the political idea, they have become more and more organized (para military) as the hole movement has grown over time. Often the members were former soldiers... if I remember right, Röhm was former Officer, but lost his job due to 100k size reducement of the army.
    It was Hitlers strategy to let the fellow leaders somehow fight for his attraction to strenghten his position as Führer and not let become one of them too powerful. Ernst Röhm somehow challenged, or disagreed with Hitlers decisions about SA/army 'Wehrmacht', so he was put 'out of play' over night by the SS.
    There were plenty organisations with overlapping competences and switching heads and internal fights for power. The SA had its counterpart in the army as said in the video, but with the Röhm case the SA lost more and more importance and the SS became independant of the SA, which founded as a sibling of it.
    Himmler established the SS 'Schutzstaffel' and combined all kind of polices in his hands during the 3. Reich.
    The initial idea of the SS was to recruit the 'elite' of Germans (ritual/spiritual believings of him) and to built a sworn in (nowerdays days you would say brain washed) security group (kind of police of the NS party) to protect Hitler on NS party events like in the beer hall.
    Over time Himmler also became the head of the 'normal' polices (after struggling with Göring, who first was minister of the interior and so head of police, but then focussed on the air force 'Luftwaffe' he became head of, since he was a pilot and flying ace in the WWI).
    The SS became more and more powerful and evolved from a party organisation to state organisation. Some call it a state within the state. The Gestapo was the very close connected secret police (geheime Staatspolizei) and the SD 'Sicherheitsdienst' as department of SS was established to fight political opponents, later on also to organize the 'Judenfrage'. Damn, those wordings these days to shield the terrible things behind.
    Himmler never was soldier, but dreamed of being military leader. So there was established the Waffen-SS, too. It's the military unit controlled by the SS and not the regulary army 'Wehrmacht'. If you want, you can say the initial dream of Röhm became true with other name and head.

  • @Weaslgas
    @Weaslgas 2 года назад

    a great video for you to react about german history is "German Reunification Explained" by History Scope

  • @ExecutiveSonda
    @ExecutiveSonda 2 года назад

    Term "nazi" was not used by actual nazis. It was originally used by Hitler's opponents as a "derogatory word referring to an awkward, backward, and clumsy peasant. It would go on to be used as a mockery of the name Ignatz-a German variation of Ignatius".

  • @mariosportsmaster7662
    @mariosportsmaster7662 2 года назад

    Hitler was a colonel. When his generals wrote their memoirs and addressed their staff they use the term "the Bavarian colonel" is disparaging ways. They did so to accentuate their negative views of his military strategy, since most of them were from the old Prussian aristocracy (junkers).

    • @stefanschmidt4465
      @stefanschmidt4465 Год назад

      Sorry ...Hitler wasn´t a Colonel i 1.WW...His millitary rang called in German "Gefreiter". That is something like you may call a "private". See also the comment of "slavic potato".

  • @richardpires9839
    @richardpires9839 2 года назад

    Hitler was a messenger. He would run across trenches to deliver message to headquarters

  • @onkelsten6266
    @onkelsten6266 2 года назад +4

    Prepare for your video to be unwatchable in germany :)
    (the original one isnt available here either)

    • @simpleviking
      @simpleviking  2 года назад +2

      Haha I should have gotten a sponsor for VPN in this video in that case xD

  • @anikar9751
    @anikar9751 2 года назад

    fun fack the family doc. Was a juw and later got the "ehren Jude,, which ment it was not allowed to kill him.

  • @amanitlas8945
    @amanitlas8945 2 года назад

    Military ranks: corporal was the lowest rank at the time other than private

  • @ilikesnipers114
    @ilikesnipers114 2 года назад

    Germany's iron gross is for preyvory

  • @hanzchii9245
    @hanzchii9245 2 года назад

    SA
    The members of the party probobly and mostly made out of unemployed ww1 soldiers that are hooked with his ideals
    SS
    The more elite version of the average German soldier strictly trained and highly effective especially on brute force

  • @joelhofmann5840
    @joelhofmann5840 2 года назад +1

    0:30 just so short in but I have to add a comment :D
    If your only options are killing the baby or letting it all happen like it would be with a metor I am completly on your side. I'm not sure if thats the case here... I mean, you could also just kidnap baby Hitler and raise him for example in the USA. I'm not saying he still wouldnt have had become an evil man but people are formed by their parents or who ever is raisig them and their social environment, so there could be a chance of saving everyone but at a high risk of course.
    When I have those 2 options I'm nomore in the "Kill the baby 100%"-sqaud. But I see the point you are making.

    • @ruas4721
      @ruas4721 2 года назад +1

      And than we get Nazi-Amerika .... oh well, we are close to it right now :,D

  • @HenSt-gz7qj
    @HenSt-gz7qj 2 года назад +10

    Hitler is a product of the circumstances of that time.
    His family, surroundings, country, role model, etc.
    In a way, the Allies had a hand in "creating" him too with the Treaty of Versailles.

  • @sarjorsusso6763
    @sarjorsusso6763 Год назад

    He was a lance copral !

  • @MrAchsas
    @MrAchsas 2 года назад

    im kinda convinced that if all that childhood stuff didnt happen he wouldnt have become so evil
    but who knows

    • @jimmy2k4o
      @jimmy2k4o Год назад

      Monsters aren’t born, they’re formed.
      He wasn’t born the most evil man on earth, it was his life and ideas that made him so. If you interceded and have him to another more affluent Jewish family to be raised……

  • @DaxRaider
    @DaxRaider Год назад

    calling hitler a "decent" speaker is like calling elvis a "decent" singer xD

  • @fjoergyn
    @fjoergyn 2 года назад

    U are awesome, SA wasnt better controlled like the SS and thats one reason why SA get backstabbed

  • @Daniel-gz1pf
    @Daniel-gz1pf 2 года назад +2

    React to : Geography Now Brazil 🇧🇷

  • @julianschenk9404
    @julianschenk9404 Год назад

    Just remember all the technilogical advancemants made and if ww2 never happend we would have had many other deadly wars

  • @Pelpe
    @Pelpe 2 года назад

    The SA were kind of his bully’s but they became very powerful and that’s when he decided to kill all of the leaders, and form the military SS, which of he is in control of and who commit most of the warcrimes like take over the KZs and erase whole villages.
    And they kid who was blamed of burning the Reichstagsgebäude in 1933 was killed and is buried in my Hometown Leipzig on the “Südfriedhof” which is really big and my great-grandfather Ist buried like 50m next to him and I meet by every now and than at both graves. The boys name was Marinus van der Lubbe.

  • @philipp0209
    @philipp0209 2 года назад +1

    They (adolfs mother and father) weren't blood relatives but cousins nonetheless
    Also, you were right Hitler did end his military career as a corporal
    bu ofc not trying to defend anyone here haha

  • @andreasm8391
    @andreasm8391 2 года назад

    Flag in the background at 3:37 is not German. ;-)

  • @chlafernozockt2501
    @chlafernozockt2501 2 года назад

    So I can watch this reaction but the Original Video is blocked in germany. LMAO

  • @stinkbug4321
    @stinkbug4321 2 года назад +1

    Most brilliant minds on the internet hang out in the comment section of RUclips 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @Vega6031
    @Vega6031 2 года назад

    SA = SturmAbteilung they where more like a militia
    SS = SturmStaffel was a elite group of aryan soldiers and there boss was Himmler

  • @plushluigi7417
    @plushluigi7417 Год назад

    How to prevent WWII: let hitler in art school

  • @jimmy2k4o
    @jimmy2k4o Год назад

    You said you’d like to show over simplified videos to your students but you can’t because of the language barrier.
    You could always take the transcript of the video, the narration. Translate it yourself then play the videos on mute and you read out the transcript in Swedish.

  • @diesesphil
    @diesesphil 2 года назад

    to the "would you have killed him" part. probably not, if he died in ww1 or some other events turned different, he might never came to power or could have even become a communist. It is just how the things turned.
    Imagine he would have been accepted to vienna art school

    • @ussenterprisecv6805
      @ussenterprisecv6805 Год назад

      (minor spoilers) look deadpool couldn't do it so neither can any of us

  • @Simon-hb9rf
    @Simon-hb9rf 2 года назад

    if you do find a good video for you students you could always dub it for them

  • @wkeklaalal1577
    @wkeklaalal1577 2 года назад +1

    1:02 you could just adopt him and teach him good morals. Perhaps make Gandhi his godfather 🤔

  • @DaxRaider
    @DaxRaider Год назад

    his book "mein kampf" which was literally printed more often then any other book expect the bible is ... extremly badly written xD he spoke it and his attachee wrote it down so sometimes sentences just end as he spoke to fast and the guy didnt ask him to repeat it xD

  • @Jump3RPictur3s
    @Jump3RPictur3s 2 года назад

    although what he did later in life was evil and caused pain, suffering and a lot of death - it is history. valuable history. I wouldn't change it by killing a baby. for what we know him being alive and evil is the reason the world advanced in the past 100 years the way it did. it's bad that it happened, sure, but it happened. period. no one should be judged and penalized before the consequences of their actions unfold. despicable as the actions may be... not condoning the evil here, just condoning putting moral and ethical compasses aside to fit your own narrative that is in hindsight.
    ironically it is hindsight because it happened, so by killing baby Hitler you'd be killing the need to kill baby Hitler whatsoever... but that's a whole other topic of discussion.

  • @lucasrokitowski8707
    @lucasrokitowski8707 2 года назад

    I don't know if you already had a chance to read "the book", but in all honesty, it's not that great. The writing is incoherent, at times really similar to ramblings of a madman, not to mention that after all that happened and with the knowledge we have nowadays, the reasoning there is very naive, to put it mildly.

  • @triggi3553
    @triggi3553 Год назад

    The party is not called NaZi it was called NSDAP what is short for "Nazionalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiterpartei"

  • @henryhernandeez6111
    @henryhernandeez6111 2 года назад +2

    hi

  • @dimathegoose
    @dimathegoose 2 года назад

    the Hitler videos are actually banned in England, you can’t access them

  • @endercat1707
    @endercat1707 Год назад

    The thing is Germany was so destroyed that it was bound to happen. The Treaty of Versailles is the reason for WW2. Germany was full of really poor ppl. If it wasn’t Hitler there would be an other right wing Politician doing it. The burden on the economy was too big. I don’t know what the allies where thinking of achieving with the treaty of Versailles. We need to lern from our History. The fog of ignorance is about our past makes sure history is bound to repeat.

  • @elwray3506
    @elwray3506 2 года назад

    Pretty sure, Hitler never waved black, red and golden colours.

  • @ShuffleUpandDeal32
    @ShuffleUpandDeal32 Год назад

    Awarded the Iron Cross by a Jewish guy no less

  • @l5tmeno
    @l5tmeno 2 года назад

    Don't worry about sounding like an ignorant person. I know a few people that don't even know what Germany is :)

  • @m.sierra5258
    @m.sierra5258 2 года назад +2

    The original video is blocked in Germany for some reason...

    • @simpleviking
      @simpleviking  2 года назад

      Haha xD

    • @tilltronje1623
      @tilltronje1623 2 года назад

      Not really. Sometimes it is available, sometimes it is not. Not sure what the reason behind this pattern is

    • @m.sierra5258
      @m.sierra5258 2 года назад

      @@tilltronje1623 Probably depends on which server you happen to connect

  • @matzeberlin555
    @matzeberlin555 Год назад

    Who are the OverSimplified videos aimed at?
    To children? They would certainly be overwhelmed, mentally and emotionally.
    To adult Americans? They would certainly be overwhelmed - despite or because of the "OverSimplified" display. (The millions of Trump supporters are, anyway.)
    To people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? I have doubts that this video will help these people.
    Overall I think the form is totally inappropriate for this content.
    In a way, the performance is an insult to the mind.
    Historical themes require a completely different approach. Not extreme simplification, but greater differentiation. I know some people think "differentiation" is a waste of time.
    But with this topic, the attention phase has to be a little longer than 20 minutes.

  • @Keyboardje
    @Keyboardje 2 года назад

    I don't know what people saw in him as a "great speaker". To me he has always looked and sounded like a shouting lunatic.

  • @gamerz1095
    @gamerz1095 2 года назад +1

    You could have given hitler good parents and good childhiid

  • @judyfauth208
    @judyfauth208 2 года назад

    inpaindaily

  • @aidendavis685
    @aidendavis685 2 года назад

    Yes you can say that because nobody cares about that guy

  • @elainecanby412
    @elainecanby412 2 года назад

    Don’t read the book. It is a pretty bad book, not just the ideology but the writing is also bad. Look for a summary instead, it’ll save you some heartache and precious brain juice.

  • @cocolosus00
    @cocolosus00 2 года назад

    I like your videos mate but you're obviously not a science freak. I wouldn't kill him because it messes with causality.

  • @salsonny
    @salsonny 2 года назад

    Mirror image of the Way Trump was voted in

  • @royblack2395
    @royblack2395 2 года назад

    You will not read Hitler's book. It is written in such an unbelievably bad style, the content is so stupid and chaotic that you won't even get through the first 10 pages. Believe me, I've tried.

  • @tionium6027
    @tionium6027 2 года назад +4

    Love ur videos Fellow Germanic Brother, Love from Germany.
    Also u dont need to kill hitler u just need to give him the love he deserved but not got when he was a baby.

    • @simpleviking
      @simpleviking  2 года назад

      Thank you so much!
      Haha I never even thought of that! That could work :D

    • @tionium6027
      @tionium6027 2 года назад

      @@simpleviking yes just love him... Have to say loving a adilf is pretty hard to imagine though 😂😂😂

    • @xxklesx1
      @xxklesx1 2 года назад

      @@simpleviking The problem with time travel is, that we dont know what would happen instead. Killing Hitler as Baby maybe lead to a communist win in the 1930. Germany + Sovietunion could win the second ww2. So maybe we would live in a communist hell today.

  • @md.rashidulislam8681
    @md.rashidulislam8681 Год назад

    Anti semitism is always be in this world.

  • @gerardcote8391
    @gerardcote8391 2 года назад +3

    This series Over Simplified, is not the best way of learning about any subject they are very politely biased.
    They skip over things like Hitler was a Social Democrat, a political left winger.
    His hatred of Jews only came late in life after he went into a Jewish market an winessed how they slaughtered animals. He became a vegetarian after that. He actually opposed smoking cigarettes.
    He was a corporal. Iron cross is awarded in 3 classes. 1st class was reserved for officers, but was occasionally given to enlisted men. He was awarded twice, once second class once first class.
    He was blinded by nerve gas, and was told he would never see again.
    He read Niechze, so he believed in Will to Power. And willed his sight back.
    He spied on the DAP, for the Democratic Socialist run military that was concerned that Right wing parties would be a threat to Socialism.
    He became a member after shouting down an advocate for capitalism. He was an avowed socialist.

    • @celsus7979
      @celsus7979 2 года назад

      Hitler wasnt a socialist.
      To him socialism was to the economy what democracy was to politics. The rule of the masses. He believed in the right of talented individuals to rule over the masses, in politics as well as in companies.
      He bitterly attacked the social democrat party.
      To him socialism was just another jewish invention to keep the 'strongest' from their rightful place as rulers over the masses

    • @celsus7979
      @celsus7979 2 года назад +4

      About vegetarianism.
      There is no proof of when and why he became a vegetarian.
      Many theories, but non are backed up by facts

    • @celsus7979
      @celsus7979 2 года назад

      About him becoming a member of the later NSDAP
      He got noticed for shouting down an opponent of the 'greater germany' idea.
      'Greater germany' meaning the expansion of the german state to includecall ethnic germans, like the austrian

    • @celsus7979
      @celsus7979 2 года назад +2

      About his anti semitism
      He said about his early days in Vienna.
      I paraphrase "i had never encountered jews before until i saw an orthodox jew in Vienna.
      It was then that the question arose in my mind 'can this person really be a german citizen?' It became clear to me that he cant be"

    • @ElGreco291
      @ElGreco291 2 года назад +2

      @@celsus7979 Since there are pictures of him later in the years eating meat, I believe the "theory" that Hitlers doctor set him a veggie diet due to health problems but he didn't always follow it.