Historian Breaks Down World War 2 - Oversimplified (Part 1)
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As a Chinese I cannot be more grateful that you mentioned the rape of Nanking (The Nanking Massacre), which is the absolute darkest day in WW2 for Chinese people.
Even darker is the fact that a communist party got hold of the power in China.
People don’t talk about the atrocities that Japan did it’s just us and Germany and Russia
The raping and killing babies and ect was messed up
@@jakestan1185 pretty much everyone did atrocities in the war.
Here in the West , the atrocities that occurred in the 20th Century Asia are rarely , if ever , discussed .
Its very strange . Its almost like its racist to discuss them .
The exceptions may be North Korea , the Khmer Rouge and the Japanese military used sex slaves .
Ask someone how many people died during the "Great Leap Forward " and they have no idea what that was
How many Asians and POW's the Japanese used in forced labour camps during WW II , they have no idea it even happened.
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@@landsea7332 Also, Japan completely still denies the war crimes in World War II. The Great Leap Forward is a harder topic to cover. It’s very hard to teach the Great Leap Forward without being biased against communism/socialism in any way, and reliable information is hard to get.
Imagine being a student...then you see your teacher become the head of your country and your like..
"Wait...is that Mr. Mussolini!?"
lol !
"I always told you guys he'd do something like this."
@@Joe_Mama661 underrated comment 😂😂😂
"See, Luigi? That's why we told you not to play Truth or Dare with him."
Or imagine just after the shoot out with the Neo Nazis at their compond if you had really took chemistry from Walter White.
“Our Japanese military is completely well equipped to handle the United States.”
5 years later
“We bombed one harbor, they dropped the sun on us twice.”
Technically I think atom bombs are the literal opposite of the sun
@@meatloafisgood2374 😂😂 that was too literal.
@@meatloafisgood2374 No the atom bombs are essentially mini uncontrolled stars.
From land of the rising sun to falling sun real quick
Japan never assumed to be well equipped to handle the US for longer than 6 months or so. Their whole plan was pretty much to blitz the pacific and hope the US would just cede it when public support for the war would drop..
I love Oversimplified. Love the history and the humor.
"Here's The Situation." 😂
1:28 Why You Let Mussolini Punch Your Head?
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contrary to most people I miss going to class and your commentary sounds like a class lecture. I love it.
Imagine if the allies didn't learn and punished Germany even harsher.
It may have been better ironically. The French plan for WWI german treaty was to completly balkanize Germany, making it impossible to be a great power again. But US and UK found this plan too harsh.
Can we recognize for a moment, that te original Germany gives a thumbs up on the right? :D
That's not "original Germany", what do you even mean? I'd say that there's no such thing as an original form of any country, but if anything original Germany would be East Francia, and it does not have any thumb anywhere.
@@mscmrdx6826 I perfectly understand it's a joke, but it doesn't mean it's not wrong and that it does not cause misinformation and misconceptions. He didn't ask me for anything, but it doesn't undermine the fact that he made a pretty huge mistake which i decided to correct - not so much for his sake as for all the others reading his comment - since it is, as I believe, a professional historians channel, so I assumed people here would like to know something about history.
Also I don't think my "bs" digression made anyone's life worse in any way. Being upset because of it would be like being upset after finding a pebble on your front stairs. Because firstly, it's really just so unimportant. And secondly, things aren't bad just because they aren't asked for.
You can say it was useless, but then how different is your comment? They are both equally meaningless, singular messages in the Internet with no bearing on anyone's life. So maybe it would be best if we learned to let people say things as long as they aren't hurting anyone, especially if there is this slightest value there.
I know, it's way too long, but well, I'm bored and you got me philosophical.
Good night or have a nice day or whatever
@@loopmuhzoop
It is the original Germany. The second reich, German Empire, Kaiserreich, or however you want to call it is the first unified Germany and thus, the original Germany.
@@loopmuhzoop You way overreacted, pointing out a fun/amusing thing is not causing misinformation, misconceptions, nor is it a mistake, and neither is using the word 'original' to describe the first instance of germany shown in the video. They didn't make a mistake just because you took a comment out of context.
Annoyance is definitely a bad feeling, and causing it is making people's lives worse, maybe not in a huge way, but still worse.
"maybe it would be best if we learned to let people say things as long as they aren't hurting anyone, especially if there is this slightest value there." Maybe you should take your own advice, and leave people alone when your comments are neither needed nor wanted.
@@csharkop I was less annoyed by his comments than the use of the word "original" when applying it to a country
As a French, I’ll point this out at 19:40 (god that is so on point) : the Treaty of Versailles was signed in the Chateau de Versailles as a revenge to the treaty that ended the war of 1870 against Bismarck and the incoming Germany. The french surrender of 1940 was signed on the same rail cart as the german surrender of 1918
I love the duality between you and oversimplified, he gives you the basic knowledge of everything then you go into deeper detail about the thing he says.
Quick thing, it was the armistice that was signed in the railcar. Minor correction, the armistice being the ending of hostilities, the treaty of versailles being the formal end to the conflict, can be easy to mix up.
You're correct. I meant the armistice.
Currently studying this in college. Oversimplified is an awesome resource to help understand the general overview of the events. Understanding that will help you to digest what else was happening.
2:40 This is a very interesting and relevant point. There are a lot of people claiming they are anti-war or anti-violence, yet support these things when it serves their ideology
Hey! Chinese here, love your thumbnail! Subed, and going thru all your videos. Love them!
good video! At 14:10 I think it might just be because of what we are taught in school and it is up to creators like you and Oversimplyfied to tell us stuff about it.
The story on the rail car, if I recall correctly, is that Hitler then had the rail car blown up. Most likely to simultaneously prevent a future humiliation in the same symbolic place, and as another added kick to the defeated French people.
8:42 actually Franco wanted to join WW2 as axis member but Spain had a bad economy and less army because of the civil war, also when Hitler conquered France he spoke with Franco at Hendaya, but as everybody knows, they didn't join axis, but sent the blue division and la nueve to operation Barbarrosa
20:35 interesting fact. France thought about declaring war to Great Britian after they sunk their ships
I already saw the original videos but I am very grateful to have a real historian here to confirm and add information . Thank you a lot !
I would recommend the sabaton song aces in exile, it is about those polish and Czech fighters in the Battle of Britain
I'm from Czech Republic btw
Amazing guy, doesn't talk too much when he pauses, and even if he does talk smartly and informative.
21:30 we (the czechs) weren't just part of the polish 303rd, we also had our own squadrons (310-313th if I remember correctly)
Thank you for pointing that out! I wasn't aware.
Exactly, 310, 311, 312 and 313 were Czech manned.
If I`m correct, in 303sqdr only Josef Frantisek was actually Czech; after Czechoslovakia has been overtaken by Germans he fled to Poland and joined Polish Air Force still in June 1939, so during Battle of Britain he flew officially as pilot of Polish Air Force.
By the way, Frantisek is listed as 3rd best scoring pilot in Polish Air Force of the war on so called "Bajan List", being only official list of kills by Polish pilots during war - with 17 kills.
@@VloggingThroughHistory since you react to sabatons, check this: ruclips.net/video/8QwkyKS3dng/видео.html
I forgot... thank for your videos, finally one who sees the facts fairly impartially and not under the usual American eye! thanks
@@VloggingThroughHistory My pleasure, always love sharing history facts with others :)
And if you ever want to find out more about Czechoslovak activities during WW2, I would suggest looking into Operation Anthropoid. I'm not sure if, or how much, you're familiar with the operation, but there's a pretty good video from channel Hindsight History if you want to use it for future video :)
There's also a great 2016 movie about it but that might be too long for the channel :D maybe for some private viewing :)
The only comment I would make is that my understanding is that nowadays it's generally understood that Chamberlain knew "appeasement" was unlikely to work but that the UK military had told him they were not ready to go to war and needed another year+, so Chamberlain was playing for time hoping he could delay Hitler until the UK was ready to fight.
Love your content man
20:15 If you're talking about French Navy at Mers-el-Kebir they weren't fighting for Axis but British decided to sink them just in case
He is indeed mentioning this, unfortunately he is pretty wrong. The French navy never fought for the Axis, as matter of fact it preferred to sunk itself rather than having to fight for the Axis (Cf Scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon, look it up on Wiki). As for Mers-el-Kebir, the British started the attack in fear that the French Navy would fight for the Axis later, do you expect the french to go down without reply...
Same for the Jean Bart and Richelieu battleship, both fled France for Dakar & Casablanca to not be captured by the Germans.
this is just oversimplified with bonus cuts. I hate reaction videos but this was extremely insightful - even to get the original video validated by another historian!
Churchill begged the French to sail their ships to England. They said if it looked like they would fall into German hands they would but Churchill couldn't take the chance. I think also showed Roosevelt the lengths he would go to
Fun fact, the Aussie prime minister from 1932 to 1939, Joseph Lyons, also supported the appeasement strategy because he was a Christian pacifist. Unfortunately Lyons died of a heart attack. One of his successors (not immediate successor), Robert Menzies, thought that the UK declaring war sort of implied we were also automatically at war too. Menzies was soon replaced by Arthur Fadden and then John Curtin, who is ranked by historians as one of our greatest prime ministers, like FDR he was left-leaning politically (actually, he was a democratic socialist), and like FDR he also died in office before the war was over.
17:50 Also 9th April is a very good movie about the German Invasion of Denmark, although the Danish forces surrendered in less than 6 hours its still cool how most of them fought back as much as they could.
Why isn’t the Scottish 51st Highland Division never talked about? Churchill abandoned the Scottish regiment at Dunkirk!
They made a movie about the polish fighter aces recently
The montage of bald Mussolini set to the 1812 overture never fails to make me laugh
When the one who gets bullied fights back , now he's the villain
When you watch this on the 30th of September and didn't even plan it (12:20)
"Oh yeah and they were on what we call meth. That kinda helped" OMFG WHAT
Pervitin was the name of it (in English) and it was made into Chocolate bars and fed to the troops right before the invasion of France
On the topic of appeasement, I think it needs to be said that a good amount of the Allied Powers didn't think it would prevent a war. It was supposed to give the Allies time to prepare to fight the Axis. The problem is that the Axis, being dictators, were able to build up faster than the Allies were able to, making the whole thing pointless. Especially because at the time of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Czech and French armies alone outnumbered the German ones. So, overall, not as dumb in theory, but it was the wrong hand to play
At 4:40 VTH reaction special, ruining future jokes. In all seriousness I love your stuff.
If everybody that watched were to subscribe, this guy would get the credit he deserves 1million+ subs!!!
Great reaction🔥🔥!!! Why wasn’t history this entertaining when I was in school!!!!!!
Eh We Italian jump into the war on Hitler side (after waiting long enough to see how things proceeded in France just to be sure) because we assumed the war at that point was over and that England would surrender soon (We didn't know Hitler after that had any intention to invade the Sovietic Union) and as we wanted some of that "sweet, sweet new territories" too from the aftermath we gone and joined forces.
the funny thing is woodrow did not supported to not punish germany so harshly but flippy U.K said nope so america should have the vote on every thing and every one should agree also vist oversimplavied
21:18 This is actually a huge mistake that Hitler made. He could have just destroyed the British war facilities once in for all and successfully invaded Britain, but his ideology and obsession with national pride kept him from doing so. If he could occupy Britain and Ireland, he could just build a strong coastal defence against the US, which is on the other side of the North Atlantic Ocean. This way, he could continue with his expansion eastward without worrying about any possible landing by the Allies from the British mainland. With Britain defeated and supplies couldn't get through, the Soviet Union couldn't fight the war against Germany,. Eventually, the cold war might end up between two powerful nations of the US and Germany.
Underrated comment
You are right. When hitler was "imprisoned", he was in cushy conditions and it was during that time that he dictated "Mein Kamph" to Rudolph Hess
Do you have any videos where you go more in depth with the civil war? Like the oversimplified video, I'd love to hear you're break down of some of the major battles
people should also look up Unit 731, brutal stuff
thank the RUclips gods for recommending this to me.
Yeah, many people forget that Japan also committed atrocities and not just the army but the navy also committed atrocities which why don´t like the fact that the movie Midway that came out a couple years ago is dedicated to both the US navy and the Japanese Imperial Navy who fought at the battle of Midway.
The role of Soviet Union and Stalin in causing WWII was almost complete omitted: trying to conquer Europe just after WWI and uniting with comunists upriseings in Hungary and South Germany; using German comunists to drown German international socialist to rise Hitler and national socialists into power to make troubles in "capitalists Europe"; helping Third Reich to develope wepons which was forbiten in Versailles Treaty.
Just a small correction - the French ships after the fall of France never fought alongside the Axis forces. Most of them were in British ports, and the ones in the Mediterranean were just chilling until Catapult (which was 100% justified, by the way). It was a shitty thing to do to the French navy, but there really was no other option to keep it out of Nazi hands.
I wish he would make the war of 1812 or the Napoleonic wars
I made a video about Austerlitz but it was given a copyright strike and deleted. Apparently Epic History TV didn't like me using their stuff.
almost at 1 million views yo. Congrats!
As usual, some of the key points were touched on, but not discussed. The treaty of Versailles was the only reason the USA got involved in WWI. They wanted to ensure that their favoured trade partner, Germany, would still be able to afford the iron they were exporting. They even prolonged the war, costing tens of thousands of lives, to make this happen.The same iron that was used to build the German war machine, well into WWII. And while the USA were allied to the Allies on paper, they did more to aid their Axis trade partners.
17:58 Watched the entire movie and came back to the video
God imagine watching your elementary school teacher later become one of the most infamous world leaders the world has to offer
Imagine your 3rd grade teacher becomes a fascist dictator
the "pervitine" yeah surely helped, they could keep going for 3 days without sleeping
I had a neighbor who did meth and I woke up at 3am to some banging and he was building a fence inside his fence as a wind break according him lol.
@@vorsutus753 200 iq move
Just found your channel, very good content!
oh my god... i searched the r4pe of nanking and i need to wash my eye now, i thought things that happens on berserk would only happens in that world but my god...
I really disagree with the “appeasement didn’t work” mindset. Because Britain and Frances goal wasn’t to stop Germany, it was to build themselves up to take him. The longer the allies stalled the better they could get their armies. Without appeasement giving valuable time the Royal Air Force would have been way inferior to the Luftwaffe, but due to the extra time Britain could get a more modern force to combat Germany in the sky!
Me: Watches Video
Oversimplified: There's gonna be a tax for that
appeasement only failed if you think it was in hopes Hitler would just stop eating counties. nobody really thought that. it was ti buy France and England time. they were not ready. sadly Germany used that time more effectively.
What I find hilarious about the treaty of Versailles was that Germany was the 4th country to enter the battle.
Iirc from my time in global, it went Austria-Hungary vs Serbia then Russia joined in then Germany. Yet Germany got hardcore blamed. Why not Austria
There is a video on the Monemayor channel over the Battle of Midway from Japanese POV. It may be a fun one for you to do.
Great vids
Hey did you know that Britain could've had another enemy to the west, Ireland. The axis sent a ship of weapons to ireland in hopes of drawing them to the axis. The boat got destroyed by the British and then all hope for a pincer attack failed when a bunch of axis bombers bombed Ireland when they thought that it was England. So Ireland technically hopped into the war mid fight. Also not to mention, a large number of British forces were comprised of Irish volunteers.
16:22 they tried but Belgium denied (however if it’s incorrect then sorry
Can you break down your thoughts on governments? Fascism, communism, democracy... and so on. You explain everything so well. It’s still hard to understand motives for different governments and why they are worth killing others over.
Actually, Great Britain, which was still a major force back then and probably the only one who could have technically really intervened in Germany's uprising, was broke due to the world economy crisis/ great depression. Since most of the rest of the world at least experienced some temporary flourishing, known as the golden twenties, there was really no such thing in GB, since they held on to their old gold standard course for way too long, making their currency overpriced and basically leading to real bad deflation.
Europe didnt intervene as they werent financially ready for another war, and they hoped and kinda believed hitler's speeches of piece, he said that he just wanted to reverse the treaty of versailles.
9:19 During the Korean War the South was NOT democratic! It was a repressive dictatorship. South Korea didn't start becoming democratic until the 1980s.
I hope people don't have the misconception that South Vietnam was also 'democratic!' Or that in Cuba we supported 'democratic' resistance against the communist regime?
That's the equivalent of saying that in Chile we supported the 'democratic' regime of Pinochet!
Since the end of WWII the USA fought _against_ communism but that didn't mean it fought _for_ 'freedom.'
4:55 The thing you mentioned here is one of the reasons why India voted for Modi. It hasn't led to a world war yet, but still an extremely facist govt.
I find it hilarious that Hitler's bedroom has the Belgian flag as sheets instead of the German flag :D
15:25 Yeah, they didn't do anything and they were their allies. Polish people to the last moment believed that France and Britain will come to their aid and they just kept fighting and buying them time. They couldn't resist for long but did some serious damage to the Germans along the way. With all the forces combined there was a brief chance to end this war right there...
Hitler invades Poland
allies do nothing
Poland: why am i not surprised?
You should do:
Tuskegee experiment extra history
You can't jump over Spanish Civil War like that. It's like direct rehearsal for the upcoming war.
Love the video, thank you for the content but Franco was fighting against the Second Republic, not a royal family (don’t know if it has been already comment or if I got the info wrong)
I thought a read a while back that appeasement wasn't supposed to be a long-term goal; rather, it was to buy time for the Brits to arm up.
Fun fact Mussolini was *fired* as an elementary School teacher for being to harsh in the kids… in like the 1930s-40s he must being doing a *lot* of damage to those kids… (also imagine how weird it would have been for those kids who had Mussolini as a teacher to later have him as a dictator… 😂)
Actually Italy was also guarenteed to get coastline of the Aegen Sea of the Anatolia but that lands were promised Greece as well and in conclusion, Italy didn't get there. That is why Italy didn't fight against Turks during the Independence War and just abandoned invaded lands.
I believe I read somewhere that Germany had finally paid that debt off in like 2010
9:05 "You got a fascist side fighting against" A REPUBLICAN SIDE. Not the royal family.
Italy wanted the Adriatic sea territory in ww1 because it belonged to the republic of Venice and many italians lived in the coastal cities
Japan: I bombed some ships
Germany: who did you bomb
Japan: USA
Germany: you did what
Yes. Just Yes.
@@ShuffleUpandDeal32 did i have a stroke reading that or did you have one writing it
i mean to be fair germany messed up first by attacking russia before taking britain ...both side were stupid
@@razkable I can assure you all sides are stupid. How they shafted their WW1 allies especially Japan that at the time was really close to the UK, then shaft them again at League of Nations through US veto on equality despite, you know... Being the US and all men are equal and all that. Which hits the civilian government of Imperial Japan (Yes, they even have a commoner prime minister that wasn't even close to be militaristic) harder than any Militarist elements from inside Japan. So... Yeah, all side are stupid.
Then Germany Declared war on the US, which he didn't need too, he would've won the war if he didn't invade Russia.
19:45 yes, he made the French sign their surrender in the same rail car that the armistice in 1918 was signed in. Later he gave the order to blow it up, so that the allies couldn't do the same to him xD
1945
@@jassen1924 lol
19:45= 1945? Is that the joke guys?
@@wkawengian yes
@@wkawengian Yes
There's a historian who called the Treaty of Versailles "The treaty that started all wars." Virtually every conflict since then has its roots in that mess of a document, from WW2 to African border wars.
wow i learned something today.
A lot of things led to now in the 20th century like the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand leading to WW1, then to the treaty of Versailles, to Hitler and WW2, to the Cold War, etc. Some people say that you can go even further into the 19th century and still find that it leads to those events
@@bentheadultsagafi2720 that’s what history is though lol events influencing events. We could trace modern conflicts all the way back to the fall of western Roman Empire if we tried hard enough hahaha
@@kayzeaza we could trace all events to that single cell that started all life
This view is increasingly being revised among historians and for good reason.
me thinking on every other sentence: "there's a Sabaton song about that".
sabaton is just the early 2000's history channel except music.
Finally somebody knows who Sabaton is
@Wesley Maxfield wow alright, i just came across the video but defs gonna check the rest out now
We could make a religion out of this.
True that
Oversimplified is great.
This guy is great as well.
Like how he may correct a few things
but it's not in a accusing way.
We all miss things at times.
But most of the time he adds to the oversimplification without getting it too far
back to over complicated.
Both channels are awesome.
Nice limerick
Ok michael jackson
I did not see a part where my guy corrected oversimplified's mistake.
tbh he just added more information and made it more entertaining
@@jjarmstrong1997 one can say he unsimplified it
4:40
"People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made"
-Franklin Roosevelt
Lol Franklin himself
Didn't he expand the executive powers himself?
He knew that better than anyone as he himself took advantage of an unemployment crisis to expand his powers
I was looking for this quote, thank you.
@@PolarisSGL no
21:39 As a Pole, thanks for bringing it up as it is usually forgotten how much our pilots had done for Brits. In the matter of fact they haven’t even been invited to the post war victory March in London. If you want to learn a bit more about 303 there is a great moovie called “Hurricane : squadron 303” I highly recommend it.
The story of the Battle of Britain should never be told without the efforts of the fantastic polish pilots. I went to Poland last year and was amazed how nice everyone was - some of the friendliest people you could ever meet. I'll always have the greatest respect to Poland
post war politics there... Soviet Poland had been invited but turned down the offer.
As for what Poland did for Britain... we don't forget... just like we they don't forget they whent to war for Poland... also gave Polish refugees a home.. money and support... also made sure to give the polish government a home also backed polish fighters in Poland.
Oh and did not fucking surrender or sue for peace when Germany over ran Poland and looked like the UK had its back against the wall.
So yeah... the UK don't forget what Polish fighters did for the war effort also don't forget what UK did... all ww 2 would have been 1939 to 1941 ending with German victory
@@bigbad25 Not just Britain and Poland. Yes, without Britain the war would be over, but lets not forget the contributions of the USSR, America and China.
@@boranates1320 totally on board with that... but at that point of the war... American was playing Mr I don't want to get involved... Russia had actually invaded Poland along with Germany.... and well China was fighting the Japanese.... hence at that point of ww2 it was the UK and its empire.... and there was a lot of pressure to agree to a peace deal with Germany... hence ww2 would have been 1939 to 1941 with a Germany victory.... thankfully some warmonger had enough political support to get made PM... and said no compromise / no peace deal....so as I said... ww2 1939 to 1941....
I am of Polish decent. It was great hearing about the 303. Never heard that before. Hello to all my fellow Poles! ❤️🇵🇱
My Grandfather was from Poland and he served in the RAF after serving in the Polish Air Force.
That's an awesome legacy. Thankful for your grandfather's service.
@@VloggingThroughHistory could you react to "between two wars" videos of indy neidell about italy ?
I think it’s interesting tath my great grandfather (i mean “Urgroßvater“ mit sure how to write this in English) was a 109 pilot in the Luftwaffe (died in 1943 I think)
So it’s possible tath at some point they „meet“ each other in the sky.
And yes I know my English is not the best
Your grandfather was a hero.🇺🇲
@@EPSGU you’re English is better some people I know and yeah it’s totally possible for them to have met each other
13:57 You may have already heard about this, after reading 'the rape of Nanking' by Iris Chang I did some further research on the Japanese, their camps, and even came across a unit that experimented on people, similar to the experiments the Nazi's did under the 'Angel of Death' Mengele. It's called Unit 731 and the things humans did to other humans there truly are horrific. I also spoke to my grandmother in law who is of Indonesian descent who told me about brutal torture methods in prison camps that involved bamboo (though I will spare you the details). The Japanese were indeed extremely well taught in the arts of torture...
The event actually coloured Sino-Western nations relations up to this day. The Chinese never forgave the Japanese for what they did and they did not forgave the West for supporting Japan after WWII. It was understandable from the Western POV that they needed Japan as a bulwark against Communism during the Cold War. But to the Chinese, it was seen more like a betrayal from the West for supporting the nation for killing so many Chinese peoples, and a further confirmation that the West can never be truly trusted.
If you got a stronger stomach...there was an episode of myth busters where they investigate the legitimacy in science of wether the bamboo thing was play or not...
@@beohel Unified China has never trusted anyone or considered anyone a trustworthy equal. This is more a 'confirmation' of their already existing bias of looking down on everyone else.
@@liarwithagun True, there was a history of perceived superiority which in some cases were justified; their state became centralised way earlier than anyone else, allowing them to embark on significant engineering and scientific projects. As for today, it is more or less the same, a return to the previous status quo. In Chinese society, humility is supposed to be valued, but people are always damn arrogant the moment they feel that it is justified. In some ways today, one can say that they are arrogant because it is justified; their economy is rising, their military is stronger than ever, and other nations are becoming subdued by their hard and soft power. Only way this is going to change is if Chinese society gets a full transformation, or if there is another nation that rises to beat the Chinese at their own game.
@@liarwithagun Always has been. China in the ancient times considered themselves the "Middle Kingdom" and considered anyone outside their kingdom barbaric or inhumane.
Look who's talking now.
First at all, thank you for the excellent video. However there is a minor mistake (well, huge mistake if you are Spanish). When you talked about the Spanish civil war, the facist did not fight the royal family, they were fighting the second republic. I am sure you knew that (you just made a mistake) and I am also sure that very few spotted that error (again, unless you are spanish) and for the content of the video is have very little impact.
Yes you are correct. Thank you for pointing that out!
Outside Spain the Spanish Civil War is really confusing to many.
@@jimreilly917 agreed, so many factions
@@jimreilly917 yeah I am still confused till today
The Treaty of Versailles is why Hans Morgenthau, in "Politics Among Nations" (1947) argued that in the aftermath of a conflict, the victorious party must be benevolent to the defeated party. I wrote a paper once (the literature review was a hassle) arguing that WWII started the day WWI ended. Good paper, though early in my Masters Program
The Meth you mentioned was in the army known as "Panzerschokolade" (translated from word to word: "Tank Chocolate").
It was also used (my Father told me this who got it told from his Father and so on) from pilotes, to keep them wake and alerted the hole time.
Thought it might be fun to know
Or "Pervitin". Soldiers even send letters home, asking to send them more Pervitin.
The Germans were so powerful in the blitz because they never got tired since they were on fricking drugs
@@youngstrategistgaming Exactly
@Trade Bum Simmons really?! I didn't know that. Thanks for telling
"Ohhh by the way German troops were taking Meth" lol caught me off guard
They called it Panzerschokolade (tank chocolate) lol
Me too! Apparently both sides were using drugs to 'elevate morale,' reduce fatigue, etc. I didn't think that was common until later wars.
@@BlackIjs Wait, you should be in a war BEFORE you take drugs to "elevate morale"?! I've been doing it all wrong!
There’s a whole documentary about it called High Hitler (I think). The Nazi insane MDs did lots of experiments on their own soldiers with various drugs. They were also on a form of LSD.
@@anna-px3ty Thats wrong. The Meth was called Pervitin and came in a cylindrical tube in tablets. What you are talking about is the chocolate named Scho-Ka-Kola. There are rumors of it if there was cocain in it or not. Officially not. But some soldiers said there was something in there.
Speaking as an Englishman, I just want to make it clear that we had to sink the French navy. Partly to prevent it falling into German hands and partly because we would have absolutely kicked ourselves if we hadn't taken the opportunity when it arose. Do you have any idea how long we'd been trying to sink the French Navy? And it was RIGHT THERE!
Anyway, no hard feelings, eh chaps?
With those ships, plus the Italian navy, the Brits would have had a rough time in the Mediterranean if they hadn't done it.
@@VloggingThroughHistory Yeah I was being a bit light-hearted and silly. I'm aware that it was a strategic necessity.
A brit sinking a French ship for the purpose of a war is most likely the reason we kept our morale up throughout the war 😂
Thank you for telling me about the polish pilots defending Britain. I did not know that and I think it is a very important fact to point out and one I sadly have not heard before. :(
I am danish, but I have a huge interest in WW2 and those polish pilots deserve their credit. :)
Yes it's a very interesting fact. It must've been satisfying for them to be given a chance for revenge after the way their homeland was carved up without any realistic chance of fighting back.
@@CosmicAeon It not entirely true. Polish fighter pilots fought over Warsaw defending the city day after day against German air raids. Then many of them moved to France, and when fight in France was over, they escaped to UK to fight Nazi alongside RAF.
It just makes it even worse that polish troops where not invited to the marching ceremony after the war as England was scared of the Soviets
I choose to believe that Denmark doesn’t exist
@@seanparker3386 Why so if i may ask :)
My wife watched your video, and she really appreciated what you said about the atrocities in Nanking. Thanks for taking the time to make others aware.
21:24 Fighter pilots in exile fly over foreign land
Tell their story again, tell of 310
Men from Czechoslovakia in the battle of Britain
Guarding the skies of the isle
Chamberlain: *A chill guy tying to create peace with Nazi Germany*
Churchill: Man, it feels good to be a gangster.
🤌 mama Mia!