@@w1zarxd "Official science" says up to 2 million german women and girls were raped by the soviets during and after the war. And I am saying this as an Ukrainian. This war was true horror.
@@thatperformer3879 The brutal mass rape of German women and girls by the Allied forces was also never mentioned in your local history lesson. This is damn shameful. The Soviet Union is such an evil, but the Americans and the British are just angels descended from heaven ;)
I've had the honor of meeting and talking to these men. I've met a few fighter pilots, a TRIPLE war veteran (WWII, Korea, Vietnam), a couple of bomber pilots. Hell I've even met veterans from England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Germany, Japan etc.
This is pretty crazy. Glad my mom worked in a retirement center as a nurse and would bring me with her as a kid. Got to meet several WW2 vets and camp survivors. I always loved listening to the Airman talking about the dog fights they were in, them and the Sailors were the only ones to really talk about it. Few of the Sailors who were in pearl harbor would sleep with their clothes on from "fear of not knowing when the enemy would attack".
I had three grandfathers. Two of them died in the encirclement of keiv, the last one was stuck in leningrad,he lived long enough to witness both German, and Japanese surrender.(passed away in 2016.)
У меня прадед прошел Великую Отечественную, был ранен, на него пришла похоронка, но он выжил в госпитале, так что потом вернулся домой. Дедушка не успел по возрасту, был тружеником тыла, а вот его друзья из родного села, что постарше, почти все погибли.
Your grandfather's caught straight f****** hell then.... All the soldiers suffered but some suffered far worse than others... And your grandfather's are among those that suffered worse than others... I feel for you brother
My grandfather, a Soviet soldier, died in that war. I've never seen him. My second grandfather returned wounded and did not live long. I have never seen him either. In Russia and other former republics of the USSR, there is probably not a single person whose relative did not die in that damned war. Don't forget the history lessons so you don't have to repeat them. Peace and kindness to all of you.
My grandpa fought in the Winter War and the Continuation War, he luckily made it out alive from the war, and didn’t suffer any major injuries. Respect to your grandfathers from Finland
Such toxic answer to absolutely non toxic comment. He even wished kindness and peace to all... Oh, I understand. Someone doesn't wanna know history about negotiations with Finland about their border which lied too close to Leningrad. But the most interesting fact isn't this one. What about collaboration with Nazis during the during 2/3 of the War?... Soviet Union - isn't some kind of Evil force. Finland - isn't an Innova angels. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones...😔 😒
I'm from Russia. My two grandfathers were in this war. One grandfather Alexander died in a tank battle near Kirovograd. He was an officer and was buried in a mass grave. Yegor was the second to reach Budapest, was seriously wounded, and then fought with the Japanese. My mother was born on the eve of the war, on June 21, 1941. Her mother and her four children dug a hole in the ground and lived there eating rotten potatoes. Thank God everyone survived. I will do my best to prevent this from happening again, and I will tell my children that they will remember this horror.
The sacrifice of your family saved humanity of the wretched horror of the Fascist Reich. Eternal glory, respect and love to them, heroes of not just the Russian people, and of all the nations and peoples that made the old Union, but of the whole human race.
@@jorgedeanoperez2997 Thanks you. I want people to remember and understand that war is not a computer game. War is an abomination, stench, death and wild horror. And the generation that has gone through the war will never become mentally normal. I also want to say that wars don't just start out like that. There are always forces preparing wars for capital or racial intolerance and Nazism. People all over the planet should think and not be propagated. If any nation claims to be exceptional and superior to others, then there will be war. There are many such examples: Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan ... Now they say that Russia is an aggressive country, but this is not so. After all, these are NATO bases that are increasingly appearing at the borders of Russia, and not vice versa. Get more information and think, think, think. Otherwise, everything will repeat itself.
As a US military member I have on multiple occasions reminded fellow military friends that we couldn't of won the war without the Soviet Union. It is something I believe is overlooked in American History. It upsets me when I hear people (military or civilian) say they dont like "insert country" because "insert reason", i promptly correct them with "you dont like their government or their people?" because the people of the nation are just like us and we wouldnt like to be lumped into what actions were taken by our government (even though we are). I have met many people from many countries and if it wasnt for the governments of the world, including mine, we would get along much easier. Much respect to you and the people of Russia. (My best friend since I was in gradeschool is from Moldova =) )
@@Levyy_Pravyy I am aware, do not worry. I myself am a spaniard, and our civil war was the always forgotten first stage of the Second World War. The Nazis and Italian Fascists used our country and the local Fascists as the tinder to spark the flames of war, and our people and cities as testing ground for their weapons, aircraft and tactics. Half a million of my countrymen lost their lives in the war, and many more after it, during the resistance and repression movements. The whole planet, lead by the USA, the UK and France turned their backs on us, letting the germans, italians and spanish fascists slaughter us like cattle. Only volunteers from all over the planet came to our aid; them, and the soviet peoples. When all the planet turned their backs on us, your people was the only one to outstretch their hands to ours and lend us aid. My great grandfather fought the civil war, and later fought in Russia as well, taking arms to return the favor your people did for us, and after the war he was given home, trade and love, while the americans sent economic support to the Fascist dictator ruling our country, because he had "fought against communism", when the spanish republic was home to a crucible of dozens of ideologies, all of them democratic. We have bore witness to the duplicity of the warmongers, and know not to trust their words and their attempts to further fan the flames of destruction. That horror shall plague us no more.
I'm Polish and my aunt is 98 years old. Sometimes she has a hard time remembering what she was saying 10 minutes ago, but she still remembers the last names of the German oppressors she had to endure in the concentration camp she was sent to.
My brother was 22 when he was killed in the original Gulf War. He is 1 of 8 men who were never brought home and whose bodies were never found. 30 years have not lessened the pain that I feel for him and for all families that have lost a loved one to war.
Sorry to hear that Susan, events like that are reasons I believe in thanking the family of soldiers also because they are sacrificing precious time with their loved one and go through the pain of any car that pulls up each day in the mail or any phone call can be notifying them a loved one died.
@@MrDeserteagle411 They came to our house. 2 of them. I was a freshman in high school so thankfully I was not home. I will never forget my mom and what she went through. Thank you.
I was there buddy and some people think it was straight b******* it wasn't about a f****** thing... It's all different when Scud missiles hit your f****** tents... Or your dudes get killed any other way... Or sucks and it is f****** hell and I'm sorry you lost someone there I lost some people there too... And I still can't get over it
Enjoy him as long as possible! It would be neat to hear some of his stories IF he is willing to share. If he is willing to share and he will allow it, video tape him telling his stories. Trust me future generations could benefit from his wisdom! Give him a hug and a salute from the rest of us and Thank him for his sacrifice and service! I wish I could have done the same with my great uncle who jumped into France on D-day with the 101st Airborne. But there were no such things as video recorders then.
God bless him for his service, my dad's uncle was also a pilot in the Royal Romanian Air Force, during the turn of tide in August 1944, he was credited with 4 German kills. He passed away in 1995, at 81.
My grandfather said to me when I was a little boy: "If you have something to eat, then eat it immediatly. If you have alcohol to drink, then drink it directly. If you find a good girl - then love her forever." I miss him. He walked home from Stalingrad.
I am 80 years old. This comment reminded me of our conditions as refugees during the late 1940s Greek civil war when food was limited and we had to eat quickly so we could get enough food... Today, I still find myself eating fast unconsciously, but my family thinks I have poor table manners!
I'm from Russia, two my grandfathers was fight against germans. One of them was machine gunner, and other was multiple rocket launcher operator. both of them came home, but injured
it's a pity that the Russians helped the Germans for two years
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I'm Polish. my grandfather and thousands of Polish officers of the Polish army were murdered in Katyn by the Russians who attacked Poland together with the Germans in 1939, ...
@@grandadmiralthrawn9231 I'd say a bit of both. It's to the point where I believe that if aliens really do exist, they'd try and keep away from us as much as possible, as we are so vicious.
@@charleyhibschweiler4555 True, but we have a habit of being living devils. If just a few of us survive, they will dedicate themselves to revenge. Besides, that's only if aliens were logical. If they wanted us dead, we'd be dead. But frankly, the only thing they need to do is stay away from us and quarantine us like a plague. There are millions of other places they could go for resources, each better than our own world. To be blunt, aliens would most likely only come to Earth for two things. One being that they would exterminate us because of our danger, and the other is using us as an army. Turning our boundless hatred towards their own goals would be quite effective. It sounds strange, it sounds arrogant. But think about it. People are willing to killed millions of each other over some of the simplest of problems. Besides, if we are willing to kill our own people, our own species, over such trivial matters, then what would we do to something completely different to us, something we cannot possibly relate to.
Especially last year....I may be a Christian...but I almost got my AR and went to a city and told them to stop....or die.....I nearly killed myself last year cause of Covid and the protests......people are stupid
I've been waiting for this. R.I.P my Grandfather, Walter Baker. Born January 10th 1922. Army air Corp, Pacific theatre. Died January 28th 2005. The greatest warrior I've ever known. Thank you Courtney
@@Montweezy My grandfather & yours may have ridden together then. My grandpa Harry W. Rideoutt was born Aug 30, 1923, died Dec 26th, 2009. Part of his 22 landings, from Africa to Berlin, included being in the 1st boat, 2nd wave on Omaha. His greatest achievements were seeing all 6 of his grandkids reach 25, his first great grandson reach 5, & over 65 years of marriage to the little girl he hit with a rock as a kid (it was a joke it was all payback). I will forever be thankful for the sacrifice of all who serve.
Hello from Russia! In 1941, my great grandfather volunteered for the front. By 1944, he had reached the rank of lieutenant colonel, commissar of the division. During the crossing of the Dnieper, the division was defeated. The great grandfather was captured in an unconscious state. He just woke up, talked him friends into it, and they made their escape. They joined the partisans, fought for six months before the arrival of the Red Army. After many left to fight further, and the great grandfather was written off after suffering a wound. Returning to the village of Grivenskaya again, as before the war, he became the chairman of the fishing artel, gathering for this purpose women, children and the elderly. The caught fish were handed over to the Red Army. I am very proud of my great grandfather. At that difficult time for the country, he fought and worked for the benefit of his Homeland. Sorry for bad english:)
слышь, а чего ты в ТАКОЙ теме ник себе получше найти не мог? С фантазией плохо? Только не надо мне, что говорил этот человек. Я сама лучше тебя знаю. Вот только говорил он - одно, а действовал по-другому.
@@madamx6656 Эх... Угораздило меня нарваться на дурного человека, который считает Бисмарка фашистом) Этот великий человек сотворил страну, которая является на данный момент одной из развитых, и с этим ты никак не поспоришь, если ты не совсем на голову отбитый. И не вам распоряжаться, какая историческая личность мне должна нравится. Каждый выбирает свою. Кто-то выберет, к примеру, Кожедуба, кто-то Наполеона, кто-то Вашингтона и т.д.. И менять аватарку и ник из-за недовольства одного человека я не собираюсь, уж извините.
Welchen Sieg? Bist Du auf Droge? Stalin wollte NAZI-Deutschland hinterhältig und im geschwächten Zustand angreifen und Schlussendlich über ganz Europa herrschen. Hätte der Depp von Hitler an der Sowjetischen-Grenzen halt gemacht und die Grenze (einfach) stark befestigt wäre viel Leid auf beiden Seiten erspart geblieben. Aber Hilter wollte die Bedrohung einer Invasion seitens der Sowjetunion zuvor kommen und brach die Nichtangriffspackt. Schlussendlich, ohne die Hilfe von Geld, Nahrung, Material, Kriegsgerät und Ausrüstung von den USA und den Engländer hätte die Sowjetunion nie zur Gegenoffensive ausholen können. Also was genau feiert IHR Russen eigentlich jeden 9 Mai? Das die USA und England EUCH RUSSEN vor dem Untergang bewahrt hat? Ja, genau das feiert IHR dummen Russen. Ihr habt nie einen Krieg gewonnen, viele angefangen aber nie gewonnen. Schauen wir mal heute 2024, den Krieg Russland vs. Ukraine, den IHR Russe zu verantworten habt nach dem ihr Feb./2022 in die Ukraine eingefallen seit. PS: wir Deutschen haben zwar auch keinen Krieg gewonnen aber das lag an der Tatsache das NIE 1:1 gekämpft wurde, sonst sehe die Welt ganz anders aus und auch die Geschichte also seid froh wie es ist.
One of my Nana's childhood friends had an uncle who was a gunnery officer on the HMS Hood. For anyone who doesn't know, only THREE men survived her sinking at the guns of KMS Bismarck
that was fairly common for naval battles, usually the damage that caused the ship to sink in the first place happened too quickly for anyone to really react, and the ship would sink with people still trapped inside. and trying to escape a burning ship is nightmarish, all lights off and heavy smoke in maze like passageways and compartments is not easy to escape from either
@@CourtneyCoulston The people who went through WW2 were the ones who also lived through the Spanish flu and WW1. The Spanish flu was estimated to have killed somewhere between 20 and 50 million people worldwide. It occurred from 1918 to 1919, overlapping the end of World War I (21 million deaths). Covid-19 deaths toll 2,300,112 people. Yet, we are the most ungrateful. Got it fairly good so we look for causes to be unhappy. Complain over the smallest inconviences and offended at everything.
I'm from Russia. My grandmother's brother was a navigator on Pe2. Twice shot down, but fell short of their own. My mother's brother was the commander of the 45mm gun crew. He was seriously wounded three times, and returned with shrapnel in his legs. The family received three funerals for him. I saw villages with all the inhabitants spread out. But the most terrible thing is the village well, filled with the corpses of babies. They did not have time to take out the train with kindergartens and baby houses.
мой прадед был срелком-радистом на ил2. сбил 8 самолетов, был ранен несколько раз, награжден, но в августе 43-го скончался от ран в госпитале после драки с фашистами. ему было всего 22 года, двое детей (мои дедушки). спасибо им за мирное небо..
@ Another pseudo-patriot who does not know, and, most importantly, does not want to know the history of his country, his ancestors. Look for primary sources, and do not talk nonsense, which you are fed on TV.
@ Having a non-agression pact is not the same as being allies. You Poles had one with Germany and attacked my country Czechoslovakia in 1938 taking land
I am a veteran. My uncle was a Korean War Veteran and my Grandfather was a WW I veteran. Nobody hates war more than a soldier. Thank you for reacting to this video. It really puts things in perspective
The sound of marching in the background; when it gets to Russia, and you can hear the steps go from marching on pavement to marching in snow. Gets me every time.
I know right. Watching the numbers of the Soviet Union just keep going and going, hearing soldiers marching in the distance through the harsh winter storms, heading directly to their deaths. It's insane.
I was born in Leningrad. My grandmother survived the blockade as a child. Stalin did not allow the evacuation from Leningrad, this is a lie. The evacuation also took place during the blockade of Leningrad. First of all, children were taken out. My grandmother's older sister was evacuated, and my grandmother stayed with her parents in Leningrad. I believe her, not the liars.
Не стоит удивляться тому что несут на западе про ВОВ,"миллионы изнасилованых немок" комунистическими ордами варваров (это ублюдок Вибер из Англии уже много лет продаёт с полок книжных магазинов),"запрет" Сталина на эвакуацию Ленинграда и т.д и т.п. А вишенка на торте в том что ни один западный историк никогда не озвучит причины двух самых страшных войн в истории человечества (Первая и Вторая мировые),а причина проста,рыночки поделить надо было,не плохо так капиталисты их поделили.. З.Ы. С каждым днём я всё больше и больше убеждаюсь в том что в той войне то мы может и победили,вот только очень даже не до конца..
@@SeanWinters No, it ain’t propaganda, it’s a fact, The Alliance won the war, but US won the spoils of the war. Nazis were literally the best and most advanced army in that era, and also wealthy. Currently Germany is in a bad state as their own minerals and wealth that belongs to them were actually taken by US claiming it belongs to someone else. Switzerland was also attacked by US knowing they hold some of Germany wealth, also asked to give Germany’s assets to them or Israel, which simply Switzerland refused and its not within their policy to give a property of the owner to someone else. Take example the most recent one, Iraq, Iraq’s gold was actually taken, US gave them money and funds, to buy more gold. This ain’t propaganda, these are events that actually happened, it’s not like Russia didn’t have any spoils of war, but in comparison, Russia was reduced to barter system until 1960 in some remote villages. I know that most in the west, they don’t teach these stuff, most civilians don’t learn this on their own either, they only concentrate on the war battles, weapons and war crimes only.
@@ajstyles5704 Oh, so it is propaganda. In other words, you're lying. "Germany was the most advanced..." The US had the nuclear bomb. Case closed. "US took Germany's gold and minerals" Good, they fought against the US, the US rebuilt Western Europe (including Germany) and we deserved to be paid back. Not to mention, we were paid anyways for doing the actual rebuilding. And while Russia starved Eastern Germany and put up a wall to keep their slaves in, America lost millions of dollars feeding germans with the Berlin Airlift. America took gold, which we deserved. Russia took ENTIRE COUNTRIES and FORCED them into communism. Thank God Yugoslavia stayed separate from Russia. At least their brand of pseudo-communism wasn't gulag ridden hellholes and they got to keep their religion.
Omg.. Thank you so much for reacting to this.. It's one of my all time favorite videos on RUclips.. It really gives perspective.. When he says "average age was 23" it hits hard..
Oh it's remembered, but because of pride (both china and japan)...it's not as realized. Their historians are silenced for the most part, but the gist of the atrocities are there.
I so love and appreciate your kindness and compassion for humanity. My dad was a proud marine and fought in the Korean War and World war 2. My dad was one of just a handful of survivors during the war! Semper Fi! ❤️
I'm from Poland. My great-grandmother survived the war. At first, she and the rest of her family would prepare vodka - in those days it was sometimes "money". You could get a piece of bread from a Russian or a German, sometimes cold cuts, etc. At the age of 6, she had to run with orders in the army at the time when Warsaw was bombed. And she survived. At the age of 9, she operated a military hotline, something like a telephone. Her brother died as a scout during one of the actions. When she died, I was just a few years old, but surely the memories of that hell were traumatic for her ... If something is wrong or incomprehensible, please excuse me, I used google translator. Love from Poland ❤🇵🇱
I've seen The Fallen of WW 2 alot and i am shocked and saddened each time at the number of people it took to stop the most destructive war in human history.
My Great Grandfather served In WW2 in the pacific he was a US Marine who saw action at Peleliu island and Okinawa. One story he told me was just so heartbreaking he told me “ At Peleliu Me and my childhood buddy were ready and we fought hard but at the end I saw him die next to me and I had no reaction except to stare at his broken and bloody body.”
Your great grandfather must have been in the 1st marine division. Any marine who was in the 1st is a true american hero for what they achieved and did in the war
@@breedhate68 he was apart of the 1st Marine Divison he had the attitude where he would always be the first to volunteer with anything always eager to do his part and get in the thick of things. He felt that with his childhood friend dying next to him he felt honor bound to keep fighting for the men next to him so he tried to be the first volunteer for anything
My grandpa also served in the Pacific. He was in the Army. He fought in the battles of the Philippines and Okinawa. He never talked much about the war but told me of a time when he was on the beach with his buddy in a foxhole when his buddy head exploded. Turns out there was a sniper in a palm tree and he just said to me "Had it been a few inches to the left he would of been the one who died..."
When you look at Yugoslavia read 95% of civilian causalities as Serbs... Also they should have added Croatia as Nazzzi allies just to set things on right page.
@MainstreamPoPsucks3 "the chetniks for instance" - Draza Mihajlovic, leader of chetniks, has his monument built by Americans in middle of USA as a tribute for the most successful operation of saving allied pilots of WW2. 11k chetniks died in order to save more than 750 pilots. Chetniks were only portrayed by their political rivals in Yugoslavia, Communists, as Nazi collaborators. Cause that is what politics are for. Yes, there were a lot of decent Croats fighting in ranks of Partisans but 85% of Partisans in Yugoslavia were Serbs. How many percent of Ustashies were Croats? Yes, Nazzis placed their regime in Belgrade but important thing is that Serbia was dismantled and given to Albanians, Bulgarians and Croats meanwhile Germans centralized their presence in Belgrade area. Serbia was thorn apart country in that war. Belgrade was declared as first "judenfrei" because population of Jews was already really small even before war. It did not took a lot of time for Nazis to do it.
Brings back memories. Both my grandfathers were in the 2/5th Glosters in WW1, one died after of his wounds, and the other had one of his legs blown off. My father fought with the Coldstream Guards and suffered shell shock at Casino during WW2, where a third of his comrades were killed. One of my uncles was wounded at Dunkirk, and another was shot down during the Battle of Britain. I myself have served in Cyprus and was wounded during the troubles in N.Ireland.
"Feeling blessed" is the perfect thing to say about this video. Sadly, many people seem to think that things are worse than ever on this planet, and this is due to poor education in America and elsewhere in the world. As an aging American military retiree, I applaud the fact that you are searching for the truth of history. Keep on keepin' on!
I am an American Marine combat veteran of Viet Nam. I was recently humbled when I met a WW II veteran who made the D-Day Landing at Omaha Beach. We were both wearing our "been there, done that" covers (hats). He thanked me for my service after I stopped him to thank him for his service. I was, and still am humbled by his words. My late father was a POW for over 22 months after his B-17 G was shot-down.
It would be more correct to compare an American veteran of the Vietnam campaign with a German veteran of World War II. Vietnam didn't attack America, America attacked Vietnam. And the Americans committed many war crimes there.
"We who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams. So this is our story, for we were soldiers once, and young" Joseph L. Galloway. At the end of the movie we were soldiers when he's talking a little about that experience, he had also said something along the lines of how warfare is such a failure of diplomacy.
as they very well should. if they had any humanity left in them, they should have been haunted by the memories of the people they butchered, until the day they died. there were no good guys in ww2, it was a collection of evil powers fighting each other, and their victims.
@@sabin97 not...entirely true. There was a huge difference between WWI and WW2, in the first this may very well have been the case, no matter which side you were on the guy in your sights was doing just the same as you, what he thought was right. In the second, the allies saw nothing but rabid dogs that needed to be put down, monsters so to speak. This filled soldiers with hatred knowing the atrocities of their enemies, such as the holocaust and pearl harbor. America may not have been right to use atom bombs, but tell me you wouldn't want the same thing if you saw 5 year old Suzy having the time of her life watching the fleet in the harbor then having her limbs torn off and left to bleed to death after being hit by a rampant zero. Tell me you wouldn't want the same if you witnessed hospitals full of the injured and innocent nurses and doctors just doing wats right get blown to rubble by a passing zero simply because hey, we're here to fuck shit up, might aswell blow that thing up, cant hesitate about it because I cant see the whites of my victims eyes. Tell me you wouldn't want the same if your brother/father/husband got incinerated in the midst of a happy moment on one of the ships in an attack after America initially abstained from the war in the first place. America didn't go to war because Haha pew pew fun no remorse, they didn't even want to, they were dragged into it and when they had enough of the Pacific theater they built the ultimate tool to stop it. Civilian deaths as there was, those children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki got off far easier than before mentioned Suzy did. This doesn't include Russia because in all seriousness, stalin was a bad fuckin dude, but he was the bad fuckin dude we needed to crush the nazis because he was willing to do what the other leaders weren't. As far as Britain went, yeah there was a lot of rape and shit on their end so that's a no go. Hell, even Canada committed some hefty war crimes. Canada had a notoriously low German prisoner count, because I guess us canadians don't take prisoners during war time. The worst I think Canada did was level a village because they thought a civilian sniper killed their superior when it was revealed after that it was a nazi soldier, and I think they evacuated first anyway. Long story short no, killing monsters isnt the same as simply killing a soldier following orders. You're saying they deserve their pain and suffering after putting a stop to what very well could have ratfucked present day society as we know it. Oh and don't forget, they didn't have a choice. Bet you feel sympathy for the likes of the Taliban and such too huh? The types that would spit on your empathy before raping your family then skinning them alive.
@@BananakinSplitwalker "In the second, the allies saw nothing but rabid dogs that needed to be put down, monsters so to speak. " yeah. that's EXACTLY what everyone in ww1 say, rabid dogs to be put down, monsters so to speak. "the atrocities of their enemies, such as the holocaust and pearl harbor" the holocaust, which killed over 7 million slavs(that's slavs not slaves) was a terrible atrocity(or collection of atrocities, not sure if there's a word for that). pearl harbour was a pre-emptive military strike against a military target....and a very poorly planned one at that. not even remotely comparable. "America may not have been right to use atom bombs" it wasn america. that was usa alone. dont drag the rest of us with your filth. "but tell me you wouldn't want the same thing" no. i wouldnt. unlike you i still have my humanity. i would have done what the soviets did. defeat japans last standing army, forcing them to surrender. i also wouldnt have authorized the nazi-style carpet bombing campaigns you did. "America didn't go to war" america DIDNT go to war. usa did. and your atrocities are the worst in human history. no other nation on earth has destroyed as many lives as you have or as wantonly as you have or with as much hypocrisy as you have. "Civilian deaths as there was, those children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki got off far easier" wow. it's quite appalling to see someone shrug off the murder of children. your kind is a scourge on the earth. i'm glad covid is slowly taking care of you. "killing monsters" is not what you were doing. what you were doing was intentionally butchering civilians. "You're saying they deserve their pain and suffering" no. i'm saying they deserve far worse. they deserved to be haunted for the rest of their miserable lives for wantonly butchering innocent civilians. but i dont think you will ever understand. it seems you have lost your humanity because of blind patriotism. you are no different from a nazi. "Bet you feel sympathy for the likes of the Taliban and such too huh?" not really. they are the same as you. i find it funny the people of usa tend to have this distorted mentality of "all-or-nothing" that if i criticize you i must somehow automatically approve of other evil factions.....but i dont. evil is evil. be they white supremacists or be they muslim extremists.....or usa nationalists....they are all the same. the point is still exactly the same. there were no "good guys" in ww2. there were evil factions fighting for power, and plenty of victims of their rampage. it's good that 2 of those factions had some of their monsters put in trial. but other factions(like england and usa) spared their own monsters, and even celebrate them and their atricities as if they were heroes doing heroic deeds.....that's one of the differences between you and me. i'm not a hypocrite trying to justify genocide.
@@sabin97 Well you can say that it was unnecessary but during the war, it felt necessary. The US was trying to keep their casualties low due to the fact that the Japanese would fight to the bitter end since for them it was dishonorable to retreat. The US was island hopping, and the closer they got to the mainland the harsher it got (reasons are obvious). They didn’t want to keep going since they thought it was going to take too long and too many resources so they dropped the bombs. One of the bombs, fat man I believe, wasn’t even supposed to hit where it did, as stated in the History channel website(I think, I’ll try to put the link in a bit). The war was too much already, and it was confirmed that in the end it did saved lives, and it also showed the power of the US, and helped in the process of decreasing the numbers of wars, as stated in the video. Yes it is not good to kill people, but when someone threatens you and tries to hurt you, you have to put them in their place so that they don’t hurt anyone else or you anymore. War is hell to everyone but they did what they thought was necessary to end it as soon as possible, so that everyone can go back to a time of peace, which is still held up to today(in a way). If you feel something I said was off or wrong, I’m open to a discussion.
@@sabin97 I literally said in my comment that I am Canadian you fucking dope lmao and it doesn't take a genius to know that when someone says America in this context, it is always referring to the United states.
My Mother's side immigrated from Germany to America in the 1960s. My great grandfather fought in the Schutzstaffel (the SS) in the Eastern front. I've kept asking his story for years, knowing that he did commit terrible crimes against humanity. He has a hard time remembering things. It was around when I turned 16 and I finally got the answer I had been asking. Probably because he thought I was my dad since I look so similar to him. The stories he had were terrifying for not just him, but for the people he had been forced to hurt. He said to me that not a single day goes by where he doesn't hear their screams, nor the pools of blood of them and of his friends as they die around him. I asked him why he didn't just run away toward the allies side, but he said that he couldn't because if he gets caught, he would be executed. But it wasn't a matter of *if* he would get caught, it would be a matter of how *quickly* he gets caught since he would have to report to his CO every so often, thus, if he deserted, their entire company would be on full alert to shoot him on sight and to look for him. I have very mixed feelings about him as a person, but if he did decide to not follow his orders, I wouldn't exist so... It's hard coming to terms with him. He died a few months ago at 96 years old. I can't say that I missed him, but I can say our family won't be forgetting about him any time soon.
i hope your grandfather has found peace.... none of us could possibly understand what he witnessed and endured.... what he had to live through. id like to think we would all have made the "right" choices if we were in the same situation as his. but.... realistically, thats not likely. we didnt experience what he had to.... a child to a young man, raised in the after math of ww1 then thrust right into the middle of arguably the most terrifying and most confusing time in our most recent history. to be subjected and somehow survive the greatest war that we know. its easy for any of us to judge those from the past....we who were raised in a time of peace and prosperity. your grandfather fought for his life and for the lives of his family, friends, neighbors and countrymen and somehow came out the otherside... it is what it is. so i hope he rests in peace.
"I want you to remember the sacrifices these men have made must not be in vain. Dammit it's no fun to say to men that you love, "go out and get killed." But we've had to say it. And by God they have gone, and they have won." -General George S. Patton.
"Do not say that those who are killed in God’s cause are dead; they are alive, though you do not realize it." (Qur an, 2:154) They still live. For family, they live as a memory. For strangers, they live as a number. But for humanity, they live as a heroes. As long as they are remembered, they will live.
The part around 6:30 that shows the deaths from the Eastern front is such a spectacularly good use of visualization. By far the best I have ever seen. Really illustrates the magnitude of the lives that were lost.
My grandfather, born 1921 (now deceased), fought against the Japanese when they invaded Burma; the British were rather active against the Japanese in this part of the world, although it is usually brushed over for other fronts; D-day, Eastern, North Africa etc. He only ever spoke about the war once in his lifetime. When my mother was younger she told me how he started to open up one day when he was drunk, as people normally do. He said that his unit/division went into this area in Burma where the Japanese had just pulled out from; around him were bodies of women, men and children, some mutilated, many burnt corpses and just utter destruction everywhere. Many houses were burnt to the ground and other survival locals had either fled or were in hiding. I cannot fathom how it must have been for a young man (20 or so at the time) to endure this sight, and to even play a role in combat, being born and growing up in a rather rural and peaceful area of the world - Pembroke, Wales. He said the fight against the Japanese was tough and many lives were lost. Logistics and supplies were difficult because of the terrain and there being hardly any vehicle worthy roads at the time. He stated that the Indians were fine soldiers and he enjoyed fighting alongside them. He did his duty for King and country and was his job to defend the empire (India being a part of the British Empire at that time). He still remembered his rifle number until the day he died! He was a fine man. I loved your reaction.
1943, Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad). There were 14 children in my large family, only 2 of them survived. My grandmother and her sister. She told how they sent all the children to the war, all the brothers in the family left (there were 6 of them) - none returned, all died 🙄
I am from Russia, originally from Kyrgyzstan my grandfathers, two great-uncles and great-grandfathers participated in the liberation of Leningrad, Bobruisk, Minsk,Warsaw, Ukraine and the participants of the Battle of Kursk eternal Only my great-grandfather returned,I'm proud memory of the Soviet soldier!
Дадада,говори что хочешь если бы не Советская армия то все твои Поляки были бы куском мыло для ног нацистов и Европу освобождали народы победители! Которых вы называете дикарями! Рокосссовского я уважаю,никто не забыт! Ничто не забыто🇷🇺🇧🇾🇺🇦🇺🇿🇦🇲🇹🇲🇦🇩🇦🇿🇬🇪🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇯!!
Out of all animals, ants are only that do the same. They make armies and kill other ants. Every other animal kills other species. It rarely happens that they kill each other in between, usually self defense or survival.
I'm watching that video at least once or twice every year, it's so well made and it gets to me everytime. My grandfather fought in WW2 and I only started realizing and appreaciating what he must have been through in his early teens and even after the war as I grow older. It's so hard to comprehend, and when I think about it reading through the comments: Everyone's grandparents who experienced WW2 still have crystal clear memories of it, 75 years after it ended. Living with these memories for that amount of time, building a better future for their children and us. There's no word to describe the respect I have for that.
Near to my home lies the Deutschersoldatenfriedhof Cannock Chase, known locally as the German War Cemetery. It houses the bodies of nearly all German and Austrian soldiers, particularly Luftwaffe airmen, prisoners of war and sailors who died in, over or around Britain during both World Wars. There are almost five-thousand graves here, many of them of young men aged 18-25. It always brings a lump to my throat and tears to my eyes whenever I walk through this area of the Chase. Nearby is the Commonwealth Cemetery containing the graves of 379 Australian, New-Zealander, Canadian, Indian and South-African soldiers who died in service in Britain but were, for some reason or another, never repatriated. A very sobering place.
My mother's father just passed a couple years ago at 101. Fought in the invasion of Normandie and was later captured by the Germans and made a POW. He told me how his work detail were strafed by Allied fighters so frequently that for the rest of his life, whenever he saw a small plane in the air bank a certain way, he instinctively felt the urge to duck for cover. My father's father was in the navy in the Pacific. He was captain of a gunnery crew aboard one of the 3 ships he served on. Sometime after being transfered off that ship, the gun turret his crew manned took a direct hit, blasting it completely off the ship and killing every single one of his former crew mates. He was haunted by that for the rest of his life, feeling he should have been there to die with them.
The Soviets suffered more deaths than all other belligerents combined. All because of the delusional fantasies of one Austrian vagrant. And the millions of hero-worshiping fools who consciously put the fate of their country in his control, and chose to do his bidding.
100+ nationalities lived in USSR. Count them too. Im Kazakh myself. My grand grand father and 3 of his brothers died. I would go to length of killing, for making my country and people try to forget it. And US is doing it. They've done it to Ukraine already. Most of Ukrainians are on the Hitler side, by now.
You have a good heart.. I’m American and I have love and empathy for everyone, idc where you’re from and what color you are, just hope that the majority of the world starts to feel the same, love will come out on top❤️
I was really hoping I could ask you to react to the Navajo Code Talkers, this is about how the US used the Navajo language to create a code that was never broken and they had a Navajo indian out front in the Pacific theater. There was a code Talker in every island in the Pacific theater and were said to be the reason that that the US won that war.
@@maxwellharris507 yeah that was really cool. Isn't it kind of funny that government only liked and wanted Native Americans when they could use them and then threw them away when the job was done??? No medals confirmed for people who are the ones that are directly responsible for winning the war in the pacific!!!! There was a code Talker on every island in the Pacific!!!!!
Certainly a valuable asset. The breaking of the Enigma Code was another. One can never forget the courage of the many that fought and died on all fronts.
@@judithmctaggart4282 you are right and thank you for saying this everyone in WW2 are badass, that is why they are called the greatest generation of our time, nothing or noone can be compared to them and all of the sacrifices that they all made
Several years ago in America, WWII veterans were passing at a rate of 200 a day. My veteran's group only has 1 surviving WWII veteran, 4 Korean war. My grandpa was a SeaBee in WWII, My Uncle a SeaBee in Korean war. I was a Greenside Corpsman
I am sixty years old and what was referred to as a baby boomer. My father was drafted into World War two and fought over in Normandy. Until the day he died, he didn’t want to remember it. As young kids we would ask him about it, on the few occasions that he would start to tell us anything, he would inevitably get choked up and say “I hope you kids never see war” I am glad to say he ended up living a pretty full life, He ended up passing in 2008 at the age of 87.
The story of my ancestors in the Great Patriotic War: Most of my ancestors were burned in their own homes by the punishers (we are Ukrainian and Belarusian Jews), but my maternal grandfather survived. He was an engineer and a likalschik (he made the most accurate copies of parts at the factory and very accurately cut out complex elements according to drawings), he was sent to Leningrad to establish the production of ammunition there (thank God that he managed), he left there a few days before the complete blockade of the city. Although he was released from the army, he still went to the front as a volunteer. It just so happened that he ended up in the Marines. His last battle was on the "Kursk Bulge". He and his men had to cross the river and storm the first trenches of the fascists, thereby allowing the main troops to cross (this is pure suicide). During that battle, a shell fragment tore off his foot on one leg. Since the main forces of our people have gone forward, great - grandfather has launched a rapid offensive. for several days I lay alone among the corpses and waited for the approach of the rear units. He screwed up the corpses of the Nehemites (made them something like a pillbox, fortified) and shot the retreating fascists. On the 3rd day, it was picked up by the advancing artillery. Because of the heat, leg had to be cut off completely, but he would have returned home alive.
the brother of my great grandfather was in Stalingrad and came home from captivity. His wife persuaded him to write down his memories. Reading them was one of the most horrifying things i ever did
Wow. I wish i had something like this from my ancestors. They didnt talk or write much about it. My great grandfather was in stalingrad too. He was lucky enough to get extremely ill before the city was captured. A supply aircraft took him to safety and medics, he was never captured. My great-grandmother was in Dresden with my grand-uncle who was a little boy and my grandfather in her belly and she survived the bombing and the burning city. He (great grandfather) became cemetery gardener. My great uncle was an activist against the arms race and was part of the peace movement. He had seen the sky burning above him in Dresden, so he never liked campfires or barbecue... like a fear u have against spiders, he feared large fire.
@@andreyr3611 that depends at what point you call someone nazi. would you have called the US army Republican Army in the last four years and now Democrat Army ? What i know is he was not a member of the NSDAP like most in the Army and about 90% of Germans.
I'm from Russia.I am 44 years old.And I never saw my grandfathers.I didn't even know them.They both died in that war.One in the battle of Moscow, the second near Kharkov in Ukraine.Even my grandmother's own brother also died at Vyazma.He died a brave death.That's what it says in the funeral list.I wish you peace and kindness.And be healthy!!!
My dad just graduated from high school. He enlisted in the Navy went to the Pacific on a battleship. Luckily he came back or I wouldnt be here. He was part of The Greatest Generation.
Why boomers, children if the Greatest Generation, admire fascist dictator? Why they let in fascism into the White House? Why they clap to white supremacy, concetration camps, police brutality, banning books? The Greatest Generation should have educated their kids about democracy. Germany has lost. Fascism won.
Took a university course of comparative government. We covered Germany's history (fall of the Weimar Republic to Hitler's dictatorship, and democratic rise again). We watched this video in class and you can hear everyone sniffling. You aren't the only one to get emotional.
@@АрзамасовАлександр-ц6й maybe it's google translate translating imperfectly but this particular class covered many governments. The weak democracy of the Weimar Republic was an introduction to how a different approach was needed to handle democracy in German (and other places). Also how Russia uses a democracy and if it could be considered legitimate if only one person runs each election. Or if the same people swap between VP and President to stay in power.
@@militarymaster07 Демократия несовершенна. Гитлер как вы помните демократическим путём к власти пришёл. Я про неоднократные высказывания американских президентов об исключительности американской нации спрашивал. Не напоминает ли вам американская исключительность гитлеровскую исключительность германцев. Ну и если вы спросили про российского президента-отвечу. Российская конституция запрещает баллотироваться в президенты осуждённого преступника в течении некоторого срока после погашения судимости(я так понимаю вы на Навального намекали). Более того можете про него забыть он опять занялся мошенничеством и его посадили в тюрьму. И не кажется ли вам, что мы должны руководствоваться своей конституцией и имеем право сами выбирать себе президента. Вам лично кто давал право навязывать мне уголовника Навального с 1% поддержки вместо, выбранного мной и БОЛЬШИНСТВОМ россиян, Путина? Ваша американская исключительность?
@@АрзамасовАлександр-ц6й you have a right to elect putin. others have a right to criticize you for supporting an imperialist regime. do not reply to me about america. im not american, i dont support them, one wrong doesnt excuse another, whataboutism is never a solution.
All of my great-grandparents from my mom's side of the family perished in the Eastern Front (2 Polish & 2 Ukrainians in the USSR), & it would have been nice to at least meet any of them just once
Both of my grandfathers, who are no longer currently alive, both served and survived WWII. My mother's father in the US Navy in the pacific theater had a fairly uneventful service on a radar ship not directly in any combat and had no injuries. My father's father in the US Army fought in combat in Germany and was shot by a German sniper center mass under his left armpit. The bullet exited near his right hip and he never felt the shot hit him, only realizing when he got to his forward operating base and feeling like he was sweating profusely and wiped the sweat from his forehead and under his arm and saw his hand covered in blood. He survived without any major negative effects from the bullet wound and was able to live a relatively healthy and long life. My father served in the Navy during the Vietnam War, saw no combat and had an uneventful service with no injuries. I served in the Air Force during the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts and suffered non-combat related injuries and mental issues that give me daily pain and mental anguish that will last for the rest of my life with a service connected disability rating of 80%. My personal feelings and the feelings from most other service members that I call friends are that if we can prevent even one person from being injured or killed and ending up as a figure on a video like this, I'd go through all the pain and anguish I go through every day again in a heart beat.
I never met my Grandfather. He died fighting in WW2. My Father fought in Vietnam. I loved the stories my Dad told me about Grandpa. By 10yrs old I knew I'd be a soldier. When I volunteered to serve our country, my Dad was a proud man. He was also a sad man when I was sent to Iraq. No matter my assurance, Mom and Dad worried. I did come home tho
In russia, every family has a his story, how they survive a war Dad of my grandmother, his name was Andrey, when war start, they was 55+ years old After war, he become to home with post-shell syndrome, but this don,t stop him to help his family They died at 1951, my grandmother said "he died becauce post-shell syndrome", i think that would be infraction They only one man who back to home in 1945, they 3 children young 18-23 year,s old boys died on war...
I must say that I find you reaction quite touching. My parents were from Guam. Guam was invaded and occupied for almost 4 years, by the Japanese, during WW2. My mom was 12 and my dad was only 15. They saw things that were UNIMAGINABLE, to most people living today. My dad was so inspired seeing the United States Marine Corps fight and eventually liberate the island, he enlisted. He then did a tour during the Korean conflict, then 3 combat tours in Vietnam. He retired in 1974, then passed away in 1975. I was 11 years old. I was in my early 20's when I had the epiphany, that being alive--or worse, LIVING in a place that had been taken over by a foreign enemy was the worst possible situation to live in. They saw ABSOLUTE ATROCITIES!!! I used to TOTALLY stress out if I had a pimple on my face and had to go to school!!! I think that the people who live today in war torn areas of the world, need our compassion, sympathy and mostly, our UNDERSTANDING. Seeing your reaction, gives me hope...Thank you...
Yeah German "soldier" deaths. Give an 11 year old a rifle and he becomes a soldier. At the end of the war every man or woman capable of holding a gun had to fight against the unstoppable red army. So soldiers were definitely not the 23 year old well trained men.
В СССР каждый седьмой не вернулся домой с войны, 27 миллионов вот наши жертвы а не то что говорят в этом фильме, спасибо поисковым отрядам которые сегодня находят солдат и перезахоранивают! Вечная память им , вот почему мы отмечаем 9 мая День Победы , он для нас важен! Спасибо за реакцию :)
Вот фильме цифры вообще не имеют отношения к правде! Это не верные подсчеты. Реальные цифры советского союза: около 11,3млн солдат и до 16млн погибших мирных жителей. Они говорят про общее количество что 20млн, и ставят ввину Сталина блокаду Ленинграда, что это именно он не позволил жителям эвакуироваться. Сколько живу - впервые такое слышу! Про гулаг еще могу согласиться, но в гулаге погибло до 1млн начиная с 1937 по 1941 года, после заключенные либо шли на фронт, либо трудились в тылу, не было смысла тогда расстреливать.
My papa fought in world war 2 and fought for piece and he’s still here but in sorry for every one who’s lost some one can’t imagine but they will always be remembered as hero’s and Courtney your so lovely bubbly and down to earth wish you all the best in life lots of love guys
just to add to the part when the narrator was talking about the collapse of the nazi party at the end of the war and the soviets killing civilians in germany, at the time, millions of german civilians and remaining military fled west in desperation to be taken prisoner by the British because they knew that they would be spared the inhumane treatment the red army would inflict on them if they were captured by the soviets, there's some footage showing people begging the allied troops to spare their lives and it is chilling, i cannot even imagine the horror of having to make a choice between being taken prisoner by the enemy your country has been fighting against for the duration of the war or risking being raped and mutilated by an army who was once an ally of your nation, it is truly one of the darkest periods not only in the history of the nations involved but of the human race at large.
@@ИванГаврилов-б3б Revenge? Sure, but not all germans were nazis and those german civilians were just as peaceful as the soviets. As if only one nation started wars and anexed countries illegally during WW2.
@@nicholasnylund4480 I am not condoning these actions, I am simply saying that all this revenge was caused by the atrocities of the Germans. As the Russian proverb says - an eye for an eye
thats so easy as Shmut says: it is revenge, and it is not just a russian thing in WW2, long time ago I spoke to someone who was a child in 1945 and lived with his family in Aachen, in french it is called aix la chapelle and it is an german city near to france. When the last days of war came, the french army took the city, and the people were afraid... raping women and beating people was as I said not a russian thing, it was a thing of everyone who looks for revenge, in this case the french. The people in Aachen were happy when the us army took over the city, because then they feeled safe. ... and even "more civilized gentleman" take revenge... there ist a city in Germany it ist called Paderborn, in last weeks of war there has been a large tank battle. It lasted some days and in its process a british or american general drove with his car to a different place there. Unlucky that he met on his way a german tiger tank, but when the germans aimed at him he just wanted surrender... the problem was his belt which he tried to take of, but he did it with only one hand and was just not able to do this. One sudden movement and the german tank commander thought the General try to use his pistol and so he shot him down. After the death of the General the british or american soldiers took revenge: they executed more than 30 german war prisoners... so you see, war is always a thing of "eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth"
@@dieweissehand saw a video recently of a Russian talking about the rape and murder in Germany it was had to hear talk about the mass gang rape of 13 year old girls then shooting them and feeding um to pigs then looking an hour later and saying was just skulls left cause the pigs were hungry
Unfortunately, I think they get lumped in with the Colonial forces; they eventually stopped the Japanese cold in their westward bid for India in a nasty war of attrition with few supplies, inferior munitions, fighting disease, hunger, and the environment...but they did it. As "The History Guy" says,"...and that's history that deserves to be remembered."
@@loushelton1596 I think he is talking about the people of India. You mean native americans. I think that they are both included in the numbers of UK and US soldiers. India wasn't an independent country back then, so i guess, if he is talking about half a million UK soldiers died, this includes people from India and perhaps also Australia and New Zealand although i think that both Australia and New Zealand were at least kind of independent at that point. The native americans served with the US troops, so they are definetely included in the 400.000 dead US soldiers.
@@balli7836 I think you are right now that I look at the numbers. I live in the US, I think we automatically think American Indian when we see the word Indian. Regardless, the world owes a great debt to all the soldiers that fought in WWII
Shoutout to them because they fought for a nation that couldn't care less for them. Considering they are peace loving and law abiding men and women, it makes their suffering all the more worse.
My great grandfather, his brothers, cousins and the brother of my grandpa served in WW2, everyone joined the navy but not my grandpas brother he was in the IJA. All survived the war.
My grandfathers both fought in these battles. My dad, Dads cousin, and my brother are all police officers. Its crazy how my family likes to serve our country!
The besieged Leningrad, with its tragedy and perseverance, fettered and restrained a huge group of Nazis, which ultimately made victory possible. What does "Stalin's cruelty" have to do with it? These guys, the so-called "historians", invented a lie themselves, believed it themselves, and now this crap is being poured into the ears of unprepared listeners. The Soviet military killed 8.7 million in battles, but the Nazis in the occupied territories and in concentration camps, as well as bombing settlements, destroyed another 18.3 million civilians of the Soviet Union. For example, in Belarus (the westernmost republic of the USSR) a third of the population died. A total of 27 million Soviet citizens died
@@ferryman4931 from what you said, it sounded like you were defending Stalin. And if you are doing that, then you do NOT deserve to be talking about history, because clearly you are clueless.
@@deadlybladesmith3093 lmao it easy to dispute your statement, yes while Stalin was super cruel to his own people, but he was one of the reasons Soviets won. Do you know what the average world GDP is right now for countries like the USA? I'll tell you, it's 3% and during Stalin, he managed to get the country to 16% per year. How is it possible that Russian schools teach how evil Stalin was, but yet teaches you the goods as well, while America is simply taught communist = evil. That is stupid, you cannot ignore some facts and favor others.
@@DiegoShock oh, see thats where you are wrong. The bad part is that American schools DONT teach that anymore. They don't "teach" anything anymore. All they do is indoctrinate people to the radical left agenda. There is nothing wrong with being moderate left, but when it comes to the point of "blue check marks" on Twitter saying things like they want anyone who votes for Trump to get locked up at a work camp, and they DONT get banned for that, there is MOST definitely something wrong.
I'm a American with German and Italian ancestors. Both my grandfathers were in the war. My grandfather of German descent was in the Western Front and was part of the Normandy Landing. He actually landed on Omaha, but was part of one of the last waves of reinforcements, so he was lucky and did not see much combat. My other grandfather who is of Italian descent fought in the Pacific and unlike my other grandfather, was in the thick of battle at Tarawa. He got a shrapnel wound in his lower left leg. He was sent home soon after. I heard countless stories from both of them about the war. What a Rough and Brutal time that was to live in.
I often think about how the war would have negatively affected our gene pool. All the fittest strongest most competent men died on the front lines. Not all, but so many. Taking all those strong genes with them into the grave. War is like humanity shooting itself in the foot.
That would be utterly impossible to know. There are simply too many variables to predict what would happen. Perhaps, there were a few great revolutionary minds like Newton who were lost and our progress was stunted. But another thing to consider is that perhaps since a large portion of the gene pool for physical abilities was eliminated, maybe that has allowed an increase in the genetics for mental abilities to thrive, which led to the computer and science boom of the late 20th century. Or without those deaths, perhaps there would have been an overcrowding problem. Another thing to consider is that the massive threat of nuclear war might not have been realized and hundreds of millions of lives would have been lost. There was also the technological race between the US and the USSR which resulted in many improvements to our daily lives, which only was possible because of WW2. We will never know, and we can never know, so speculation is, in the end, utterly fruitless in this topic.
@@generationfallout5189 that’s actually not completely true. if you look at the numbers, after major wars, the population usually gets an influx in boys and they tend to grow taller and bigger because the stronger and tougher soldiers returned.
Germany attacked the USSR on June 22, 1941. The United States and Britain opened a second front from the west only on June 6, 1944. By this time, the Red Army was already fighting in Germany. in this wave, 28,000,000 people of the USSR died. And the USSR bore the brunt of the war because the war was on the territory of the USSR.
Там больше было чем 8 миллионов. А не официально ещё больше. Не помню точно, но порядка 47 или около того. + Кто пропал без вести. Посмотрите тизер war thunder)
47 миллионов это общие потери Советского Союза по статистике за время ВОВ. Взяли цифру сколько было в перепись населения до войны и перепись населения после войны. И получилась эта цифра. В среднем СССР потеряли 10 миллионов гражданских, 10 миллионов военных и около 20 миллионов не рождённых граждан. Вот полная статистика: disk.yandex.ru/i/wWQC4-nM3EEmZn
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I'm Polish. my grandfather and thousands of Polish officers of the Polish army were murdered in Katyn by the Russians who attacked Poland together with the Germans in 1939, ...
They are known as the Greatest Generation. That is so true, this generation personifies what America is. I love how you appreciate America and what makes it such a great Country.
I have seen this quite a while ago... and I know that Russia and the US are not allies... but my heart broke to see how many Russians died. I think of my Russian friends now who are absolute sweet hearts and it makes me want to weep. But although movies romanticize this war, it was brutal to all who got swept up in it. ( And yes, I know all wars are terrible.). But, many of the men in my family never came home because of it. But, this was extremely well done.
The way the media, and governments portray each other is not remotely reality... U.S. and Russia are not friends, yet I as an American have Russian friends... Like-wise, I also have friends, who are exceptionally nice, and understanding from the Middle East, and who are Muslim. People need to detach themselves from the propaganda of politics.
@@Cramblit Absolutely. They are people just like us, the same wants and dreams, they love their families, work hard and are kind. Granted, there are evil ones everywhere, but they do not represent the majority.
@@kimharding2246 Truth is that there is no 'they' and 'us' at least in my understanding. Look at what is going on with covid pandemic, it doesn't care whether you're Russian or American... Above all, we are humans. Not to mention that at that war Russians and Americans were allies.
@@Cramblit If you think the US and Russia are not friends today, you should have been around from 1945 to 1990. Almost came to NUCLEAR blows in 1962. Damn close.
@@relaxed-rider That’s a misleading oversimplification of the matter. Don’t forget that Stalin and Hitler sign a non-aggression pact so that they could carve up Poland. It wasn’t until Operation Barbarossa that Stalin found out that Hitler was even more untrustworthy than he. That’s when the USSR became allied with US, UK, Free French, etc.
My great Grandmother born in 1924 who sadly passed about two weeks ago now saw the entire war. I remember she told me once that she would always listen to the news in Europe once German relatives had told them what was happening in Germany once Hitler came to power. Eventually my great Grandfather which died in the 90's was in the United States Airforce during the war and once he was gonna be deployed in 1945 the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan so they sent him back home before being deployed. It was sad that I never really listened to her when I was younger I really only got to talk to her about the war and being alive for The Great Depression for about a year or a half. But I am glad I got to talk to her as much as I could before her death. We in fact still have multiple pictures of her brothers all in uniform, I have only but so far I have only seen my Great Grandfathers photo we are still trying to get the other photos from old storage.
Many simply can't comprehend how huge the war was on the Eastern front....
Yup, and Yugoslavia and it's partisans are barley mentioned.
Nor is the brutal mass gang rape of German women and girls by the Soviets ever mentioned in your local history class. It’s fucking disgraceful.
@@thatperformer3879 it is a myth. Official science of world doesnt admit it
@@w1zarxd "Official science" says up to 2 million german women and girls were raped by the soviets during and after the war. And I am saying this as an Ukrainian. This war was true horror.
@@thatperformer3879 The brutal mass rape of German women and girls by the Allied forces was also never mentioned in your local history lesson. This is damn shameful. The Soviet Union is such an evil, but the Americans and the British are just angels descended from heaven ;)
It is mind boggling to think that in our lifetime, we will see the last living soldiers who fought in the Second World War pass into memory!
I've had the honor of meeting and talking to these men. I've met a few fighter pilots, a TRIPLE war veteran (WWII, Korea, Vietnam), a couple of bomber pilots. Hell I've even met veterans from England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Germany, Japan etc.
Korean and veitnam
Not memory...... into LEGEND.
World War I veterans are already gone
This is pretty crazy.
Glad my mom worked in a retirement center as a nurse and would bring me with her as a kid. Got to meet several WW2 vets and camp survivors. I always loved listening to the Airman talking about the dog fights they were in, them and the Sailors were the only ones to really talk about it. Few of the Sailors who were in pearl harbor would sleep with their clothes on from "fear of not knowing when the enemy would attack".
I'm from Russia. One of my grandfathers fought in Stalingrad (Volgograd). The other was a participant in the Battle of Kursk.
I have my great grandfather's pocket watch. He was a quartermaster on the railroads for the Red Army.
I had three grandfathers. Two of them died in the encirclement of keiv, the last one was stuck in leningrad,he lived long enough to witness both German, and Japanese surrender.(passed away in 2016.)
У меня прадед прошел Великую Отечественную, был ранен, на него пришла похоронка, но он выжил в госпитале, так что потом вернулся домой. Дедушка не успел по возрасту, был тружеником тыла, а вот его друзья из родного села, что постарше, почти все погибли.
@Bernhard Engel А, что твой дед в Сталинграде забыл? Кто его туда звал?
Your grandfather's caught straight f****** hell then.... All the soldiers suffered but some suffered far worse than others... And your grandfather's are among those that suffered worse than others... I feel for you brother
My grandfather, a Soviet soldier, died in that war. I've never seen him. My second grandfather returned wounded and did not live long. I have never seen him either. In Russia and other former republics of the USSR, there is probably not a single person whose relative did not die in that damned war.
Don't forget the history lessons so you don't have to repeat them.
Peace and kindness to all of you.
My grandpa fought in the Winter War and the Continuation War, he luckily made it out alive from the war, and didn’t suffer any major injuries. Respect to your grandfathers from Finland
Such toxic answer to absolutely non toxic comment. He even wished kindness and peace to all... Oh, I understand. Someone doesn't wanna know history about negotiations with Finland about their border which lied too close to Leningrad. But the most interesting fact isn't this one. What about collaboration with Nazis during the during 2/3 of the War?... Soviet Union - isn't some kind of Evil force. Finland - isn't an Innova angels.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones...😔 😒
Innocent angels*
@@lorrie873 Huh?
@@lorrie873 How was his reply toxic? He even said respect to his Grandfathers. Seems to me the only toxic one here is you
I'm from Russia. My two grandfathers were in this war. One grandfather Alexander died in a tank battle near Kirovograd. He was an officer and was buried in a mass grave. Yegor was the second to reach Budapest, was seriously wounded, and then fought with the Japanese. My mother was born on the eve of the war, on June 21, 1941. Her mother and her four children dug a hole in the ground and lived there eating rotten potatoes. Thank God everyone survived. I will do my best to prevent this from happening again, and I will tell my children that they will remember this horror.
27 millions
The sacrifice of your family saved humanity of the wretched horror of the Fascist Reich. Eternal glory, respect and love to them, heroes of not just the Russian people, and of all the nations and peoples that made the old Union, but of the whole human race.
@@jorgedeanoperez2997 Thanks you. I want people to remember and understand that war is not a computer game. War is an abomination, stench, death and wild horror. And the generation that has gone through the war will never become mentally normal. I also want to say that wars don't just start out like that. There are always forces preparing wars for capital or racial intolerance and Nazism. People all over the planet should think and not be propagated. If any nation claims to be exceptional and superior to others, then there will be war. There are many such examples: Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan ... Now they say that Russia is an aggressive country, but this is not so. After all, these are NATO bases that are increasingly appearing at the borders of Russia, and not vice versa. Get more information and think, think, think. Otherwise, everything will repeat itself.
As a US military member I have on multiple occasions reminded fellow military friends that we couldn't of won the war without the Soviet Union. It is something I believe is overlooked in American History. It upsets me when I hear people (military or civilian) say they dont like "insert country" because "insert reason", i promptly correct them with "you dont like their government or their people?" because the people of the nation are just like us and we wouldnt like to be lumped into what actions were taken by our government (even though we are). I have met many people from many countries and if it wasnt for the governments of the world, including mine, we would get along much easier. Much respect to you and the people of Russia. (My best friend since I was in gradeschool is from Moldova =) )
@@Levyy_Pravyy I am aware, do not worry. I myself am a spaniard, and our civil war was the always forgotten first stage of the Second World War. The Nazis and Italian Fascists used our country and the local Fascists as the tinder to spark the flames of war, and our people and cities as testing ground for their weapons, aircraft and tactics. Half a million of my countrymen lost their lives in the war, and many more after it, during the resistance and repression movements. The whole planet, lead by the USA, the UK and France turned their backs on us, letting the germans, italians and spanish fascists slaughter us like cattle. Only volunteers from all over the planet came to our aid; them, and the soviet peoples. When all the planet turned their backs on us, your people was the only one to outstretch their hands to ours and lend us aid. My great grandfather fought the civil war, and later fought in Russia as well, taking arms to return the favor your people did for us, and after the war he was given home, trade and love, while the americans sent economic support to the Fascist dictator ruling our country, because he had "fought against communism", when the spanish republic was home to a crucible of dozens of ideologies, all of them democratic. We have bore witness to the duplicity of the warmongers, and know not to trust their words and their attempts to further fan the flames of destruction. That horror shall plague us no more.
I'm Polish and my aunt is 98 years old. Sometimes she has a hard time remembering what she was saying 10 minutes ago, but she still remembers the last names of the German oppressors she had to endure in the concentration camp she was sent to.
My ancestors are Polish. I got the same messages before they perished in the US in the early 80s. I've been very Polish defendish ever since.
Jesus
God, I'm so sorry, that is unfathomable.
Remember that if you ever even think of voting for a socialist...
Smutne
My brother was 22 when he was killed in the original Gulf War. He is 1 of 8 men who were never brought home and whose bodies were never found. 30 years have not lessened the pain that I feel for him and for all families that have lost a loved one to war.
Sorry to hear that Susan, events like that are reasons I believe in thanking the family of soldiers also because they are sacrificing precious time with their loved one and go through the pain of any car that pulls up each day in the mail or any phone call can be notifying them a loved one died.
@@MrDeserteagle411 They came to our house. 2 of them. I was a freshman in high school so thankfully I was not home. I will never forget my mom and what she went through. Thank you.
Sorry for your loss, Susan. The fact he was never returned home has gotta be rough. I hope he is found!
And still there are people supporting wars out there, the only thing it brings is pain
I'm sorry for your loss
I was there buddy and some people think it was straight b******* it wasn't about a f****** thing... It's all different when Scud missiles hit your f****** tents... Or your dudes get killed any other way... Or sucks and it is f****** hell and I'm sorry you lost someone there I lost some people there too... And I still can't get over it
That generation is tough as nails! My grandfather is a WW2 veteran. 97 years old and still going!
Enjoy him as long as possible! It would be neat to hear some of his stories IF he is willing to share. If he is willing to share and he will allow it, video tape him telling his stories. Trust me future generations could benefit from his wisdom! Give him a hug and a salute from the rest of us and Thank him for his sacrifice and service! I wish I could have done the same with my great uncle who jumped into France on D-day with the 101st Airborne. But there were no such things as video recorders then.
God bless him for his service, my dad's uncle was also a pilot in the Royal Romanian Air Force, during the turn of tide in August 1944, he was credited with 4 German kills. He passed away in 1995, at 81.
My grandfather said to me when I was a little boy: "If you have something to eat, then eat it immediatly. If you have alcohol to drink, then drink it directly. If you find a good girl - then love her forever."
I miss him. He walked home from Stalingrad.
well that’s wrong, but understandable why he said that
Conditions have changed so his „wise words“ are just meaningless now
@@ukaz1400 stfu
I am 80 years old. This comment reminded me of our conditions as refugees during the late 1940s Greek civil war when food was limited and we had to eat quickly so we could get enough food... Today, I still find myself eating fast unconsciously, but my family thinks I have poor table manners!
I'm from Russia, two my grandfathers was fight against germans. One of them was machine gunner, and other was multiple rocket launcher operator. both of them came home, but injured
Nice subflex
I'm Italian and my grandfather fought against the Russians. He was not injured but he never spoke about it.
it's a pity that the Russians helped the Germans for two years
I'm Polish. my grandfather and thousands of Polish officers of the Polish army were murdered in Katyn by the Russians who attacked Poland together with the Germans in 1939, ...
@ why you writting your comment under mine? Usual soldiers didn't do anything, NKVD forces did it. And they do a lot of evil to usual people of USSR
What’s more mind boggling is how little respect we have for our fellow human beings. It’s very sad.
Actually shows how susceptible we all are to propaganda
@@grandadmiralthrawn9231 I'd say a bit of both. It's to the point where I believe that if aliens really do exist, they'd try and keep away from us as much as possible, as we are so vicious.
@@gabevietor3685 They would most likely exterminate us with ease since they would have to be much more technologically advanced than us.
@@charleyhibschweiler4555 True, but we have a habit of being living devils. If just a few of us survive, they will dedicate themselves to revenge. Besides, that's only if aliens were logical. If they wanted us dead, we'd be dead. But frankly, the only thing they need to do is stay away from us and quarantine us like a plague. There are millions of other places they could go for resources, each better than our own world. To be blunt, aliens would most likely only come to Earth for two things. One being that they would exterminate us because of our danger, and the other is using us as an army. Turning our boundless hatred towards their own goals would be quite effective. It sounds strange, it sounds arrogant. But think about it. People are willing to killed millions of each other over some of the simplest of problems. Besides, if we are willing to kill our own people, our own species, over such trivial matters, then what would we do to something completely different to us, something we cannot possibly relate to.
Especially last year....I may be a Christian...but I almost got my AR and went to a city and told them to stop....or die.....I nearly killed myself last year cause of Covid and the protests......people are stupid
I've been waiting for this. R.I.P my Grandfather, Walter Baker. Born January 10th 1922. Army air Corp, Pacific theatre. Died January 28th 2005. The greatest warrior I've ever known. Thank you Courtney
Don't make them like they used too.ty for your service R.I.P
My grandfather was a pilot born 1923 flew a bomber 💯 salute ❤️
RIP to your grandfather....my grandfather was a captain of a landing craft the dropped troops on Omaha beach in Normandy he passed away in 1987
Blessings to your loved ones. True heroes. ❤️
@@Montweezy My grandfather & yours may have ridden together then. My grandpa Harry W. Rideoutt was born Aug 30, 1923, died Dec 26th, 2009. Part of his 22 landings, from Africa to Berlin, included being in the 1st boat, 2nd wave on Omaha. His greatest achievements were seeing all 6 of his grandkids reach 25, his first great grandson reach 5, & over 65 years of marriage to the little girl he hit with a rock as a kid (it was a joke it was all payback).
I will forever be thankful for the sacrifice of all who serve.
I enjoy your videos... and also Rest In Peace for the soldiers Who fought for our safety
Thank you! I second that ❤️
@Brecher mit eisenschwanz Learn english first kiddo
Hello from Russia! In 1941, my great grandfather volunteered for the front. By 1944, he had reached the rank of lieutenant colonel, commissar of the division. During the crossing of the Dnieper, the division was defeated. The great grandfather was captured in an unconscious state. He just woke up, talked him friends into it, and they made their escape. They joined the partisans, fought for six months before the arrival of the Red Army. After many left to fight further, and the great grandfather was written off after suffering a wound. Returning to the village of Grivenskaya again, as before the war, he became the chairman of the fishing artel, gathering for this purpose women, children and the elderly. The caught fish were handed over to the Red Army. I am very proud of my great grandfather. At that difficult time for the country, he fought and worked for the benefit of his Homeland. Sorry for bad english:)
слышь, а чего ты в ТАКОЙ теме ник себе получше найти не мог? С фантазией плохо?
Только не надо мне, что говорил этот человек. Я сама лучше тебя знаю. Вот только говорил он - одно, а действовал по-другому.
@@madamx6656 Эх... Угораздило меня нарваться на дурного человека, который считает Бисмарка фашистом) Этот великий человек сотворил страну, которая является на данный момент одной из развитых, и с этим ты никак не поспоришь, если ты не совсем на голову отбитый. И не вам распоряжаться, какая историческая личность мне должна нравится. Каждый выбирает свою. Кто-то выберет, к примеру, Кожедуба, кто-то Наполеона, кто-то Вашингтона и т.д.. И менять аватарку и ник из-за недовольства одного человека я не собираюсь, уж извините.
@@ottovonbismarck1453 пойди -поищи в моём комментарии, где Бисмарка фашистом назвала (вообще-то фашизм-это итальянское политическое течение)
That is why we celebrate victory even 70 years later, after this horror.
Stalin really wanted to join Axis powers right after France surrendered. Only one man stopped that from happening, Adolf Hitler.
Welchen Sieg? Bist Du auf Droge? Stalin wollte NAZI-Deutschland hinterhältig und im geschwächten Zustand angreifen und Schlussendlich über ganz Europa herrschen. Hätte der Depp von Hitler an der Sowjetischen-Grenzen halt gemacht und die Grenze (einfach) stark befestigt wäre viel Leid auf beiden Seiten erspart geblieben. Aber Hilter wollte die Bedrohung einer Invasion seitens der Sowjetunion zuvor kommen und brach die Nichtangriffspackt. Schlussendlich, ohne die Hilfe von Geld, Nahrung, Material, Kriegsgerät und Ausrüstung von den USA und den Engländer hätte die Sowjetunion nie zur Gegenoffensive ausholen können. Also was genau feiert IHR Russen eigentlich jeden 9 Mai? Das die USA und England EUCH RUSSEN vor dem Untergang bewahrt hat? Ja, genau das feiert IHR dummen Russen. Ihr habt nie einen Krieg gewonnen, viele angefangen aber nie gewonnen. Schauen wir mal heute 2024, den Krieg Russland vs. Ukraine, den IHR Russe zu verantworten habt nach dem ihr Feb./2022 in die Ukraine eingefallen seit. PS: wir Deutschen haben zwar auch keinen Krieg gewonnen aber das lag an der Tatsache das NIE 1:1 gekämpft wurde, sonst sehe die Welt ganz anders aus und auch die Geschichte also seid froh wie es ist.
One of my Nana's childhood friends had an uncle who was a gunnery officer on the HMS Hood. For anyone who doesn't know, only THREE men survived her sinking at the guns of KMS Bismarck
whoaaa 😔😔
@@CourtneyCoulston her friend's uncle was among the 1,197 who never saw England's shores again
that was fairly common for naval battles, usually the damage that caused the ship to sink in the first place happened too quickly for anyone to really react, and the ship would sink with people still trapped inside. and trying to escape a burning ship is nightmarish, all lights off and heavy smoke in maze like passageways and compartments is not easy to escape from either
Yes, one of those survivors was Jon Pertwee who went on to be a famous comedian/actor in roles such as Doctor Who.
@@CourtneyCoulston
The people who went through WW2 were the ones who also lived through the Spanish flu and WW1. The Spanish flu was estimated to have killed somewhere between 20 and 50 million people worldwide. It occurred from 1918 to 1919, overlapping the end of World War I (21 million deaths).
Covid-19 deaths toll 2,300,112 people.
Yet, we are the most ungrateful. Got it fairly good so we look for causes to be unhappy. Complain over the smallest inconviences and offended at everything.
I'm from Russia. My grandmother's brother was a navigator on Pe2. Twice shot down, but fell short of their own. My mother's brother was the commander of the 45mm gun crew. He was seriously wounded three times, and returned with shrapnel in his legs. The family received three funerals for him. I saw villages with all the inhabitants spread out. But the most terrible thing is the village well, filled with the corpses of babies. They did not have time to take out the train with kindergartens and baby houses.
I have friends from russia that grew up starting in the 50s. The stories they tell of the lack in 'fatherhood' is incredible and heartbreaking.
мой прадед был срелком-радистом на ил2. сбил 8 самолетов, был ранен несколько раз, награжден, но в августе 43-го скончался от ран в госпитале после драки с фашистами. ему было всего 22 года, двое детей (мои дедушки). спасибо им за мирное небо..
@ Another pseudo-patriot who does not know, and, most importantly, does not want to know the history of his country, his ancestors. Look for primary sources, and do not talk nonsense, which you are fed on TV.
@ Having a non-agression pact is not the same as being allies. You Poles had one with Germany and attacked my country Czechoslovakia in 1938 taking land
@@АлександрКузнецов-щ8х he knows what he’s saying and it’s facts the Soviets did in fact commit war crimes in Poland as well
I am a veteran. My uncle was a Korean War Veteran and my Grandfather was a WW I veteran. Nobody hates war more than a soldier. Thank you for reacting to this video. It really puts things in perspective
The sound of marching in the background; when it gets to Russia, and you can hear the steps go from marching on pavement to marching in snow. Gets me every time.
I know right. Watching the numbers of the Soviet Union just keep going and going, hearing soldiers marching in the distance through the harsh winter storms, heading directly to their deaths. It's insane.
I was born in Leningrad. My grandmother survived the blockade as a child. Stalin did not allow the evacuation from Leningrad, this is a lie. The evacuation also took place during the blockade of Leningrad. First of all, children were taken out. My grandmother's older sister was evacuated, and my grandmother stayed with her parents in Leningrad. I believe her, not the liars.
Классика же. Настроить население против своей истории и своего правительства.
Не стоит удивляться тому что несут на западе про ВОВ,"миллионы изнасилованых немок" комунистическими ордами варваров (это ублюдок Вибер из Англии уже много лет продаёт с полок книжных магазинов),"запрет" Сталина на эвакуацию Ленинграда и т.д и т.п.
А вишенка на торте в том что ни один западный историк никогда не озвучит причины двух самых страшных войн в истории человечества (Первая и Вторая мировые),а причина проста,рыночки поделить надо было,не плохо так капиталисты их поделили..
З.Ы.
С каждым днём я всё больше и больше убеждаюсь в том что в той войне то мы может и победили,вот только очень даже не до конца..
@@andreinirus93 I'm only able to translate what you said, so I'm sorry but I don't understand. Is This anti-capitalist propaganda?
@@SeanWinters No, it ain’t propaganda, it’s a fact, The Alliance won the war, but US won the spoils of the war. Nazis were literally the best and most advanced army in that era, and also wealthy. Currently Germany is in a bad state as their own minerals and wealth that belongs to them were actually taken by US claiming it belongs to someone else. Switzerland was also attacked by US knowing they hold some of Germany wealth, also asked to give Germany’s assets to them or Israel, which simply Switzerland refused and its not within their policy to give a property of the owner to someone else. Take example the most recent one, Iraq, Iraq’s gold was actually taken, US gave them money and funds, to buy more gold. This ain’t propaganda, these are events that actually happened, it’s not like Russia didn’t have any spoils of war, but in comparison, Russia was reduced to barter system until 1960 in some remote villages. I know that most in the west, they don’t teach these stuff, most civilians don’t learn this on their own either, they only concentrate on the war battles, weapons and war crimes only.
@@ajstyles5704 Oh, so it is propaganda. In other words, you're lying.
"Germany was the most advanced..." The US had the nuclear bomb. Case closed.
"US took Germany's gold and minerals"
Good, they fought against the US, the US rebuilt Western Europe (including Germany) and we deserved to be paid back. Not to mention, we were paid anyways for doing the actual rebuilding.
And while Russia starved Eastern Germany and put up a wall to keep their slaves in, America lost millions of dollars feeding germans with the Berlin Airlift.
America took gold, which we deserved. Russia took ENTIRE COUNTRIES and FORCED them into communism. Thank God Yugoslavia stayed separate from Russia. At least their brand of pseudo-communism wasn't gulag ridden hellholes and they got to keep their religion.
Omg.. Thank you so much for reacting to this.. It's one of my all time favorite videos on RUclips..
It really gives perspective..
When he says "average age was 23" it hits hard..
Average age was 23 but many never saw their 19th birthdays; and even younger.
The average age of a pilot was 22. I'm 22 and even imagine being in a dogfight or dropping bombs on a town
Not to mention all the teenage soldiers and guerilla fighters across Europe, especially from Germany and the USSR
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@@axelespinoza29 ну и хрен с ним
For some reason everyone remembers what the Nazis did but no one remembers what Japan did.
Japan did a ton of warcrimes like the bataan death march which is probally the biggest war crime in the war ever
@@randomclipsmilitary9056 idk man there was one I think in the Philippines where they raped lots of woman some of which were as young as 12
Do not forget the soviet crimes either
Oh it's remembered, but because of pride (both china and japan)...it's not as realized. Their historians are silenced for the most part, but the gist of the atrocities are there.
The Allies toned down the atrocities of Japan so they could focus on the possibility of war with the Soviet Union
I so love and appreciate your kindness and compassion for humanity. My dad was a proud marine and fought in the Korean War and World war 2. My dad was one of just a handful of survivors during the war! Semper Fi! ❤️
I'm from Poland. My great-grandmother survived the war. At first, she and the rest of her family would prepare vodka - in those days it was sometimes "money". You could get a piece of bread from a Russian or a German, sometimes cold cuts, etc. At the age of 6, she had to run with orders in the army at the time when Warsaw was bombed. And she survived. At the age of 9, she operated a military hotline, something like a telephone. Her brother died as a scout during one of the actions. When she died, I was just a few years old, but surely the memories of that hell were traumatic for her ...
If something is wrong or incomprehensible, please excuse me, I used google translator.
Love from Poland ❤🇵🇱
The best way to shape the future is learn from the past
Foxxie Jester watching a WW2 video
And yet we hide the lessons of the past in some vain effort to shield ourselves from the nature of mankind.
@@stephenseay3878 it’s propaganda. Each country wants glory and power, which only results in unneeded indecisive bloodshed often.
Generals in ww2 definitely learned a lot from ww1. Numbers shows it very well.
Curb your Guotes
I've seen The Fallen of WW 2 alot and i am shocked and saddened each time at the number of people it took to stop the most destructive war in human history.
The eastern front was hell on earth
My Great Grandfather served In WW2 in the pacific he was a US Marine who saw action at Peleliu island and Okinawa. One story he told me was just so heartbreaking he told me “ At Peleliu Me and my childhood buddy were ready and we fought hard but at the end I saw him die next to me and I had no reaction except to stare at his broken and bloody body.”
Your great grandfather must have been in the 1st marine division. Any marine who was in the 1st is a true american hero for what they achieved and did in the war
@@breedhate68 he was apart of the 1st Marine Divison he had the attitude where he would always be the first to volunteer with anything always eager to do his part and get in the thick of things. He felt that with his childhood friend dying next to him he felt honor bound to keep fighting for the men next to him so he tried to be the first volunteer for anything
My grandpa also served in the Pacific. He was in the Army. He fought in the battles of the Philippines and Okinawa. He never talked much about the war but told me of a time when he was on the beach with his buddy in a foxhole when his buddy head exploded. Turns out there was a sniper in a palm tree and he just said to me "Had it been a few inches to the left he would of been the one who died..."
When you look at Yugoslavia read 95% of civilian causalities as Serbs... Also they should have added Croatia as Nazzzi allies just to set things on right page.
@MainstreamPoPsucks3 "the chetniks for instance" - Draza Mihajlovic, leader of chetniks, has his monument built by Americans in middle of USA as a tribute for the most successful operation of saving allied pilots of WW2. 11k chetniks died in order to save more than 750 pilots.
Chetniks were only portrayed by their political rivals in Yugoslavia, Communists, as Nazi collaborators. Cause that is what politics are for.
Yes, there were a lot of decent Croats fighting in ranks of Partisans but 85% of Partisans in Yugoslavia were Serbs. How many percent of Ustashies were Croats?
Yes, Nazzis placed their regime in Belgrade but important thing is that Serbia was dismantled and given to Albanians, Bulgarians and Croats meanwhile Germans centralized their presence in Belgrade area. Serbia was thorn apart country in that war. Belgrade was declared as first "judenfrei" because population of Jews was already really small even before war. It did not took a lot of time for Nazis to do it.
Brings back memories. Both my grandfathers were in the 2/5th Glosters in WW1, one died after of his wounds, and the other had one of his legs blown off. My father fought with the Coldstream Guards and suffered shell shock at Casino during WW2, where a third of his comrades were killed. One of my uncles was wounded at Dunkirk, and another was shot down during the Battle of Britain. I myself have served in Cyprus and was wounded during the troubles in N.Ireland.
New Zealand is such a nice country to live in, you are super lucky lol!
Yeah just sort of just down there chilling
Not the best to live in id say but its nice to visit
@@efcnzl I mean I've lived there for 16 years and it's meh. You can have a good or bad life in any country.
And New Zealand was the only allied country to never be bombed by an access power
@@ryanm.2930 I think japan was actually trying to bomb us once during ww2 but they never could
"Feeling blessed" is the perfect thing to say about this video. Sadly, many people seem to think that things are worse than ever on this planet, and this is due to poor education in America and elsewhere in the world. As an aging American military retiree, I applaud the fact that you are searching for the truth of history. Keep on keepin' on!
I love how big your heart is, the emotion you courageously and continuously show! You have such a beautiful soul and you are such a beautiful person!
I am an American Marine combat veteran of Viet Nam. I was recently humbled when I met a WW II veteran who made the D-Day Landing at Omaha Beach. We were both wearing our "been there, done that" covers (hats). He thanked me for my service after I stopped him to thank him for his service. I was, and still am humbled by his words. My late father was a POW for over 22 months after his B-17 G was shot-down.
I don't like comparing Vietnam war to WWII, your ancestors were saving world from nazis, while in Vietnam, they just burned some villagers.
From a Gen Z American, thank you for your service sir
It would be more correct to compare an American veteran of the Vietnam campaign with a German veteran of World War II. Vietnam didn't attack America, America attacked Vietnam. And the Americans committed many war crimes there.
There’s nothing wrong with crying on a video about a topic like this. It’s a very genuine reaction which is such a rare thing in today’s world.
Courtney you have such a sweet and wholesome heart. Thank you for reacting to military videos and showing support to troops from all over the world!
"We who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams. So this is our story, for we were soldiers once, and young"
Joseph L. Galloway. At the end of the movie we were soldiers when he's talking a little about that experience, he had also said something along the lines of how warfare is such a failure of diplomacy.
as they very well should.
if they had any humanity left in them, they should have been haunted by the memories of the people they butchered, until the day they died.
there were no good guys in ww2, it was a collection of evil powers fighting each other, and their victims.
@@sabin97 not...entirely true. There was a huge difference between WWI and WW2, in the first this may very well have been the case, no matter which side you were on the guy in your sights was doing just the same as you, what he thought was right. In the second, the allies saw nothing but rabid dogs that needed to be put down, monsters so to speak. This filled soldiers with hatred knowing the atrocities of their enemies, such as the holocaust and pearl harbor. America may not have been right to use atom bombs, but tell me you wouldn't want the same thing if you saw 5 year old Suzy having the time of her life watching the fleet in the harbor then having her limbs torn off and left to bleed to death after being hit by a rampant zero. Tell me you wouldn't want the same if you witnessed hospitals full of the injured and innocent nurses and doctors just doing wats right get blown to rubble by a passing zero simply because hey, we're here to fuck shit up, might aswell blow that thing up, cant hesitate about it because I cant see the whites of my victims eyes. Tell me you wouldn't want the same if your brother/father/husband got incinerated in the midst of a happy moment on one of the ships in an attack after America initially abstained from the war in the first place. America didn't go to war because Haha pew pew fun no remorse, they didn't even want to, they were dragged into it and when they had enough of the Pacific theater they built the ultimate tool to stop it. Civilian deaths as there was, those children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki got off far easier than before mentioned Suzy did. This doesn't include Russia because in all seriousness, stalin was a bad fuckin dude, but he was the bad fuckin dude we needed to crush the nazis because he was willing to do what the other leaders weren't. As far as Britain went, yeah there was a lot of rape and shit on their end so that's a no go. Hell, even Canada committed some hefty war crimes. Canada had a notoriously low German prisoner count, because I guess us canadians don't take prisoners during war time. The worst I think Canada did was level a village because they thought a civilian sniper killed their superior when it was revealed after that it was a nazi soldier, and I think they evacuated first anyway. Long story short no, killing monsters isnt the same as simply killing a soldier following orders. You're saying they deserve their pain and suffering after putting a stop to what very well could have ratfucked present day society as we know it. Oh and don't forget, they didn't have a choice. Bet you feel sympathy for the likes of the Taliban and such too huh? The types that would spit on your empathy before raping your family then skinning them alive.
@@BananakinSplitwalker
"In the second, the allies saw nothing but rabid dogs that needed to be put down, monsters so to speak. "
yeah. that's EXACTLY what everyone in ww1 say, rabid dogs to be put down, monsters so to speak.
"the atrocities of their enemies, such as the holocaust and pearl harbor"
the holocaust, which killed over 7 million slavs(that's slavs not slaves) was a terrible atrocity(or collection of atrocities, not sure if there's a word for that).
pearl harbour was a pre-emptive military strike against a military target....and a very poorly planned one at that. not even remotely comparable.
"America may not have been right to use atom bombs"
it wasn america. that was usa alone. dont drag the rest of us with your filth.
"but tell me you wouldn't want the same thing"
no. i wouldnt.
unlike you i still have my humanity.
i would have done what the soviets did. defeat japans last standing army, forcing them to surrender.
i also wouldnt have authorized the nazi-style carpet bombing campaigns you did.
"America didn't go to war"
america DIDNT go to war.
usa did.
and your atrocities are the worst in human history.
no other nation on earth has destroyed as many lives as you have or as wantonly as you have or with as much hypocrisy as you have.
"Civilian deaths as there was, those children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki got off far easier"
wow. it's quite appalling to see someone shrug off the murder of children. your kind is a scourge on the earth.
i'm glad covid is slowly taking care of you.
"killing monsters"
is not what you were doing.
what you were doing was intentionally butchering civilians.
"You're saying they deserve their pain and suffering"
no. i'm saying they deserve far worse.
they deserved to be haunted for the rest of their miserable lives for wantonly butchering innocent civilians.
but i dont think you will ever understand.
it seems you have lost your humanity because of blind patriotism.
you are no different from a nazi.
"Bet you feel sympathy for the likes of the Taliban and such too huh?"
not really. they are the same as you.
i find it funny the people of usa tend to have this distorted mentality of "all-or-nothing" that if i criticize you i must somehow automatically approve of other evil factions.....but i dont.
evil is evil. be they white supremacists or be they muslim extremists.....or usa nationalists....they are all the same.
the point is still exactly the same.
there were no "good guys" in ww2.
there were evil factions fighting for power, and plenty of victims of their rampage.
it's good that 2 of those factions had some of their monsters put in trial.
but other factions(like england and usa) spared their own monsters, and even celebrate them and their atricities as if they were heroes doing heroic deeds.....that's one of the differences between you and me. i'm not a hypocrite trying to justify genocide.
@@sabin97 Well you can say that it was unnecessary but during the war, it felt necessary. The US was trying to keep their casualties low due to the fact that the Japanese would fight to the bitter end since for them it was dishonorable to retreat. The US was island hopping, and the closer they got to the mainland the harsher it got (reasons are obvious). They didn’t want to keep going since they thought it was going to take too long and too many resources so they dropped the bombs. One of the bombs, fat man I believe, wasn’t even supposed to hit where it did, as stated in the History channel website(I think, I’ll try to put the link in a bit). The war was too much already, and it was confirmed that in the end it did saved lives, and it also showed the power of the US, and helped in the process of decreasing the numbers of wars, as stated in the video. Yes it is not good to kill people, but when someone threatens you and tries to hurt you, you have to put them in their place so that they don’t hurt anyone else or you anymore. War is hell to everyone but they did what they thought was necessary to end it as soon as possible, so that everyone can go back to a time of peace, which is still held up to today(in a way). If you feel something I said was off or wrong, I’m open to a discussion.
@@sabin97 I literally said in my comment that I am Canadian you fucking dope lmao and it doesn't take a genius to know that when someone says America in this context, it is always referring to the United states.
My Mother's side immigrated from Germany to America in the 1960s. My great grandfather fought in the Schutzstaffel (the SS) in the Eastern front. I've kept asking his story for years, knowing that he did commit terrible crimes against humanity. He has a hard time remembering things. It was around when I turned 16 and I finally got the answer I had been asking. Probably because he thought I was my dad since I look so similar to him.
The stories he had were terrifying for not just him, but for the people he had been forced to hurt. He said to me that not a single day goes by where he doesn't hear their screams, nor the pools of blood of them and of his friends as they die around him. I asked him why he didn't just run away toward the allies side, but he said that he couldn't because if he gets caught, he would be executed. But it wasn't a matter of *if* he would get caught, it would be a matter of how *quickly* he gets caught since he would have to report to his CO every so often, thus, if he deserted, their entire company would be on full alert to shoot him on sight and to look for him. I have very mixed feelings about him as a person, but if he did decide to not follow his orders, I wouldn't exist so... It's hard coming to terms with him. He died a few months ago at 96 years old. I can't say that I missed him, but I can say our family won't be forgetting about him any time soon.
i hope your grandfather has found peace....
none of us could possibly understand what he witnessed and endured.... what he had to live through. id like to think we would all have made the "right" choices if we were in the same situation as his. but.... realistically, thats not likely. we didnt experience what he had to.... a child to a young man, raised in the after math of ww1 then thrust right into the middle of arguably the most terrifying and most confusing time in our most recent history. to be subjected and somehow survive the greatest war that we know. its easy for any of us to judge those from the past....we who were raised in a time of peace and prosperity. your grandfather fought for his life and for the lives of his family, friends, neighbors and countrymen and somehow came out the otherside...
it is what it is. so i hope he rests in peace.
It's nice to see a person who understands pain, sorrow and suffering, and not an indifferent, cold-blooded face.
"They called the first World War 'The Great War', the War to End All Wars! ...they had no idea what was coming..."
"I want you to remember the sacrifices these men have made must not be in vain. Dammit it's no fun to say to men that you love, "go out and get killed." But we've had to say it. And by God they have gone, and they have won."
-General George S. Patton.
"Do not say that those who are killed in God’s cause are dead; they are alive, though you do not realize it." (Qur an, 2:154)
They still live. For family, they live as a memory. For strangers, they live as a number. But for humanity, they live as a heroes. As long as they are remembered, they will live.
The part around 6:30 that shows the deaths from the Eastern front is such a spectacularly good use of visualization. By far the best I have ever seen. Really illustrates the magnitude of the lives that were lost.
Eastern Front was hell on earth
My grandfather, born 1921 (now deceased), fought against the Japanese when they invaded Burma; the British were rather active against the Japanese in this part of the world, although it is usually brushed over for other fronts; D-day, Eastern, North Africa etc. He only ever spoke about the war once in his lifetime. When my mother was younger she told me how he started to open up one day when he was drunk, as people normally do. He said that his unit/division went into this area in Burma where the Japanese had just pulled out from; around him were bodies of women, men and children, some mutilated, many burnt corpses and just utter destruction everywhere. Many houses were burnt to the ground and other survival locals had either fled or were in hiding. I cannot fathom how it must have been for a young man (20 or so at the time) to endure this sight, and to even play a role in combat, being born and growing up in a rather rural and peaceful area of the world - Pembroke, Wales. He said the fight against the Japanese was tough and many lives were lost. Logistics and supplies were difficult because of the terrain and there being hardly any vehicle worthy roads at the time. He stated that the Indians were fine soldiers and he enjoyed fighting alongside them. He did his duty for King and country and was his job to defend the empire (India being a part of the British Empire at that time). He still remembered his rifle number until the day he died! He was a fine man. I loved your reaction.
1943, Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad). There were 14 children in my large family, only 2 of them survived. My grandmother and her sister. She told how they sent all the children to the war, all the brothers in the family left (there were 6 of them) - none returned, all died 🙄
I am from Russia, originally from Kyrgyzstan my grandfathers, two great-uncles and great-grandfathers participated in the liberation of Leningrad, Bobruisk, Minsk,Warsaw, Ukraine and the participants of the Battle of Kursk eternal
Only my great-grandfather returned,I'm proud
memory of the Soviet soldier!
Дадада,говори что хочешь если бы не Советская армия то все твои Поляки были бы куском мыло для ног нацистов и Европу освобождали народы победители! Которых вы называете дикарями! Рокосссовского я уважаю,никто не забыт! Ничто не забыто🇷🇺🇧🇾🇺🇦🇺🇿🇦🇲🇹🇲🇦🇩🇦🇿🇬🇪🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇯!!
@ Stalin killed about 20 million people, Hitler caused ww2 in Europe, so about 41 million deaths
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This video reminds me of my grandpa who served in the Navy in WWII. He passed away six years before I was born.
So sad, well beyond sad, what humans do to other humans.
Out of all animals, ants are only that do the same. They make armies and kill other ants. Every other animal kills other species. It rarely happens that they kill each other in between, usually self defense or survival.
I fought today’s wars, and know that my worse day doing so simply does not compare to the world wars
thank you for your service! love from Germany
I'm watching that video at least once or twice every year, it's so well made and it gets to me everytime. My grandfather fought in WW2 and I only started realizing and appreaciating what he must have been through in his early teens and even after the war as I grow older. It's so hard to comprehend, and when I think about it reading through the comments: Everyone's grandparents who experienced WW2 still have crystal clear memories of it, 75 years after it ended. Living with these memories for that amount of time, building a better future for their children and us. There's no word to describe the respect I have for that.
Near to my home lies the Deutschersoldatenfriedhof Cannock Chase, known locally as the German War Cemetery. It houses the bodies of nearly all German and Austrian soldiers, particularly Luftwaffe airmen, prisoners of war and sailors who died in, over or around Britain during both World Wars. There are almost five-thousand graves here, many of them of young men aged 18-25. It always brings a lump to my throat and tears to my eyes whenever I walk through this area of the Chase. Nearby is the Commonwealth Cemetery containing the graves of 379 Australian, New-Zealander, Canadian, Indian and South-African soldiers who died in service in Britain but were, for some reason or another, never repatriated.
A very sobering place.
My mother's father just passed a couple years ago at 101. Fought in the invasion of Normandie and was later captured by the Germans and made a POW. He told me how his work detail were strafed by Allied fighters so frequently that for the rest of his life, whenever he saw a small plane in the air bank a certain way, he instinctively felt the urge to duck for cover. My father's father was in the navy in the Pacific. He was captain of a gunnery crew aboard one of the 3 ships he served on. Sometime after being transfered off that ship, the gun turret his crew manned took a direct hit, blasting it completely off the ship and killing every single one of his former crew mates. He was haunted by that for the rest of his life, feeling he should have been there to die with them.
Rest in piece.
WW2 is my favorite history subject to study and read about, but I didn’t realize the death count was that massive. That’s insane
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Sad fact: 26 million Russians died all through out
Not only Russians. This list includes many Soviet citizens, including Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Jews, Kazakhs, Georgians, Armenians, etc.
The Soviets suffered more deaths than all other belligerents combined. All because of the delusional fantasies of one Austrian vagrant. And the millions of hero-worshiping fools who consciously put the fate of their country in his control, and chose to do his bidding.
@@robinpage2730 mostly due to stalin's foolishness and his psychopathic behavior of killing his own men
100+ nationalities lived in USSR. Count them too. Im Kazakh myself. My grand grand father and 3 of his brothers died.
I would go to length of killing, for making my country and people try to forget it. And US is doing it. They've done it to Ukraine already. Most of Ukrainians are on the Hitler side, by now.
@@Lesche25это общая статистика стран СНГ которая воевала на стороне СССР
seeing her got emotional and feeling the pain that many suffered throughout the war in her eyes hits me deep. stay strong everyone!
You have a good heart.. I’m American and I have love and empathy for everyone, idc where you’re from and what color you are, just hope that the majority of the world starts to feel the same, love will come out on top❤️
I was really hoping I could ask you to react to the Navajo Code Talkers, this is about how the US used the Navajo language to create a code that was never broken and they had a Navajo indian out front in the Pacific theater. There was a code Talker in every island in the Pacific theater and were said to be the reason that that the US won that war.
In World War I, Cherokee Code Talkers were deployed to France
@@maxwellharris507 yeah that was really cool. Isn't it kind of funny that government only liked and wanted Native Americans when they could use them and then threw them away when the job was done??? No medals confirmed for people who are the ones that are directly responsible for winning the war in the pacific!!!! There was a code Talker on every island in the Pacific!!!!!
Certainly a valuable asset. The breaking of the Enigma Code was another. One can never forget the courage of the many that fought and died on all fronts.
@@judithmctaggart4282 you are right and thank you for saying this everyone in WW2 are badass, that is why they are called the greatest generation of our time, nothing or noone can be compared to them and all of the sacrifices that they all made
@@tobyjohnmedicinehorse8784 thats anyone homie, African Americans included.
Several years ago in America, WWII veterans were passing at a rate of 200 a day. My veteran's group only has 1 surviving WWII veteran, 4 Korean war. My grandpa was a SeaBee in WWII, My Uncle a SeaBee in Korean war. I was a Greenside Corpsman
Thank you for your service.
Then it'll be the Korean war vets, then the Vietnam.. then anyone who fought in Iraq and so on. C'est la vie mi amigo
Him calling the soldiers nazis is really not ok most of them were apart of the wehrmacht which is the non nazi associated army
I am sixty years old and what was referred to as a baby boomer. My father was drafted into World War two and fought over in Normandy. Until the day he died, he didn’t want to remember it. As young kids we would ask him about it, on the few occasions that he would start to tell us anything, he would inevitably get choked up and say “I hope you kids never see war” I am glad to say he ended up living a pretty full life, He ended up passing in 2008 at the age of 87.
The story of my ancestors in the Great Patriotic War: Most of my ancestors were burned in their own homes by the punishers (we are Ukrainian and Belarusian Jews), but my maternal grandfather survived. He was an engineer and a likalschik (he made the most accurate copies of parts at the factory and very accurately cut out complex elements according to drawings), he was sent to Leningrad to establish the production of ammunition there (thank God that he managed), he left there a few days before the complete blockade of the city. Although he was released from the army, he still went to the front as a volunteer. It just so happened that he ended up in the Marines. His last battle was on the "Kursk Bulge". He and his men had to cross the river and storm the first trenches of the fascists, thereby allowing the main troops to cross (this is pure suicide). During that battle, a shell fragment tore off his foot on one leg. Since the main forces of our people have gone forward, great - grandfather has launched a rapid offensive. for several days I lay alone among the corpses and waited for the approach of the rear units. He screwed up the corpses of the Nehemites (made them something like a pillbox, fortified) and shot the retreating fascists. On the 3rd day, it was picked up by the advancing artillery. Because of the heat, leg had to be cut off completely, but he would have returned home alive.
the brother of my great grandfather was in Stalingrad and came home from captivity. His wife persuaded him to write down his memories. Reading them was one of the most horrifying things i ever did
Wow. I wish i had something like this from my ancestors. They didnt talk or write much about it. My great grandfather was in stalingrad too. He was lucky enough to get extremely ill before the city was captured. A supply aircraft took him to safety and medics, he was never captured. My great-grandmother was in Dresden with my grand-uncle who was a little boy and my grandfather in her belly and she survived the bombing and the burning city. He (great grandfather) became cemetery gardener. My great uncle was an activist against the arms race and was part of the peace movement. He had seen the sky burning above him in Dresden, so he never liked campfires or barbecue... like a fear u have against spiders, he feared large fire.
Were your grandfather a nazi?
@@andreyr3611 because he was in the military ?
@@nadinefeiler9204 Yes. Because he was in nazi military.
@@andreyr3611 that depends at what point you call someone nazi. would you have called the US army Republican Army in the last four years and now Democrat Army ?
What i know is he was not a member of the NSDAP like most in the Army and about 90% of Germans.
I'm from Russia.I am 44 years old.And I never saw my grandfathers.I didn't even know them.They both died in that war.One in the battle of Moscow, the second near Kharkov in Ukraine.Even my grandmother's own brother also died at Vyazma.He died a brave death.That's what it says in the funeral list.I wish you peace and kindness.And be healthy!!!
My dad just graduated from high school. He enlisted in the Navy went to the Pacific on a battleship. Luckily he came back or I wouldnt be here. He was part of The Greatest Generation.
Why boomers, children if the Greatest Generation, admire fascist dictator? Why they let in fascism into the White House? Why they clap to white supremacy, concetration camps, police brutality, banning books? The Greatest Generation should have educated their kids about democracy. Germany has lost. Fascism won.
Thank you for being here, Courtney. Discovering you over the last week has been a real blessing.
I hate it that they call every 1 in Germany a Nazi.
Took a university course of comparative government. We covered Germany's history (fall of the Weimar Republic to Hitler's dictatorship, and democratic rise again). We watched this video in class and you can hear everyone sniffling. You aren't the only one to get emotional.
I took a Europe 1914-1945 class. It was around the time covid first came around with the lockdowns. I wanted to show this in class but i wasnt able to
И что ты услышал в речи своего президента об исключительной нации ?
@@АрзамасовАлександр-ц6й maybe it's google translate translating imperfectly but this particular class covered many governments. The weak democracy of the Weimar Republic was an introduction to how a different approach was needed to handle democracy in German (and other places). Also how Russia uses a democracy and if it could be considered legitimate if only one person runs each election. Or if the same people swap between VP and President to stay in power.
@@militarymaster07 Демократия несовершенна. Гитлер как вы помните демократическим путём к власти пришёл. Я про неоднократные высказывания американских президентов об исключительности американской нации спрашивал. Не напоминает ли вам американская исключительность гитлеровскую исключительность германцев. Ну и если вы спросили про российского президента-отвечу. Российская конституция запрещает баллотироваться в президенты осуждённого преступника в течении некоторого срока после погашения судимости(я так понимаю вы на Навального намекали). Более того можете про него забыть он опять занялся мошенничеством и его посадили в тюрьму. И не кажется ли вам, что мы должны руководствоваться своей конституцией и имеем право сами выбирать себе президента. Вам лично кто давал право навязывать мне уголовника Навального с 1% поддержки вместо, выбранного мной и БОЛЬШИНСТВОМ россиян, Путина? Ваша американская исключительность?
@@АрзамасовАлександр-ц6й you have a right to elect putin. others have a right to criticize you for supporting an imperialist regime. do not reply to me about america. im not american, i dont support them, one wrong doesnt excuse another, whataboutism is never a solution.
I see why my parents, who lived through WWII, freaked out when I enlisted in the Marines. My uncle who was a Marine in WWII on Iwo Jima cried.
All of my great-grandparents from my mom's side of the family perished in the Eastern Front (2 Polish & 2 Ukrainians in the USSR), & it would have been nice to at least meet any of them just once
На проспекте имени командира дивизии СС Галичина Степана Бандеры- хорошее место, прадеды бы оценили название данное потомками.
Both of my grandfathers, who are no longer currently alive, both served and survived WWII. My mother's father in the US Navy in the pacific theater had a fairly uneventful service on a radar ship not directly in any combat and had no injuries. My father's father in the US Army fought in combat in Germany and was shot by a German sniper center mass under his left armpit. The bullet exited near his right hip and he never felt the shot hit him, only realizing when he got to his forward operating base and feeling like he was sweating profusely and wiped the sweat from his forehead and under his arm and saw his hand covered in blood. He survived without any major negative effects from the bullet wound and was able to live a relatively healthy and long life. My father served in the Navy during the Vietnam War, saw no combat and had an uneventful service with no injuries. I served in the Air Force during the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts and suffered non-combat related injuries and mental issues that give me daily pain and mental anguish that will last for the rest of my life with a service connected disability rating of 80%. My personal feelings and the feelings from most other service members that I call friends are that if we can prevent even one person from being injured or killed and ending up as a figure on a video like this, I'd go through all the pain and anguish I go through every day again in a heart beat.
I never met my Grandfather. He died fighting in WW2. My Father fought in Vietnam. I loved the stories my Dad told me about Grandpa. By 10yrs old I knew I'd be a soldier. When I volunteered to serve our country, my Dad was a proud man. He was also a sad man when I was sent to Iraq. No matter my assurance, Mom and Dad worried. I did come home tho
This really puts into perspective how new the concept of "peace" is.
American steel, British intelligence, and Russian blood defeated the Nazis.
And the french?
@@josef-ralfdwerlkotte8333 french made the baguettes for the American, British and Russians to eat for lunch.
@@finnbarwilson670 XD
@@josef-ralfdwerlkotte8333 they plucked that white flag out again and bent over
@@InterMalager well my county did a war crime. So surrendering isnt that bad
In russia, every family has a his story, how they survive a war
Dad of my grandmother, his name was Andrey, when war start, they was 55+ years old
After war, he become to home with post-shell syndrome, but this don,t stop him to help his family
They died at 1951, my grandmother said "he died becauce post-shell syndrome", i think that would be infraction
They only one man who back to home in 1945, they 3 children young 18-23 year,s old boys died on war...
I must say that I find you reaction quite touching. My parents were from Guam. Guam was invaded and occupied for almost 4 years, by the Japanese, during WW2. My mom was 12 and my dad was only 15. They saw things that were UNIMAGINABLE, to most people living today. My dad was so inspired seeing the United States Marine Corps fight and eventually liberate the island, he enlisted. He then did a tour during the Korean conflict, then 3 combat tours in Vietnam. He retired in 1974, then passed away in 1975. I was 11 years old. I was in my early 20's when I had the epiphany, that being alive--or worse, LIVING in a place that had been taken over by a foreign enemy was the worst possible situation to live in. They saw ABSOLUTE ATROCITIES!!! I used to TOTALLY stress out if I had a pimple on my face and had to go to school!!! I think that the people who live today in war torn areas of the world, need our compassion, sympathy and mostly, our UNDERSTANDING. Seeing your reaction, gives me hope...Thank you...
Может просто не надо лезть в чужую страну? Странные выводы из жизни в оккупации... не находите?
US here.....huge impact on us.....the impact on Germany and Russia is beyond comprehension. So much death.
I really love your reaction videos!
Thank you so much, really appreciate that!
Yeah German "soldier" deaths. Give an 11 year old a rifle and he becomes a soldier. At the end of the war every man or woman capable of holding a gun had to fight against the unstoppable red army. So soldiers were definitely not the 23 year old well trained men.
It's quite hard to make the distinction on paper.
It was said "almost" entirely, not only.
That includes the Volkstorm and their Hitler youth that were pressed into service in the defensive Berlin
В СССР каждый седьмой не вернулся домой с войны, 27 миллионов вот наши жертвы а не то что говорят в этом фильме, спасибо поисковым отрядам которые сегодня находят солдат и перезахоранивают! Вечная память им , вот почему мы отмечаем 9 мая День Победы , он для нас важен! Спасибо за реакцию :)
Вот фильме цифры вообще не имеют отношения к правде! Это не верные подсчеты. Реальные цифры советского союза: около 11,3млн солдат и до 16млн погибших мирных жителей. Они говорят про общее количество что 20млн, и ставят ввину
Сталина блокаду Ленинграда, что это именно он не позволил жителям эвакуироваться. Сколько живу - впервые такое слышу! Про гулаг еще могу согласиться, но в гулаге погибло до 1млн начиная с 1937 по 1941 года, после заключенные либо шли на фронт, либо трудились в тылу, не было смысла тогда расстреливать.
Каждый четвёртый убит. В Беларуси каждый третий.
My papa fought in world war 2 and fought for piece and he’s still here but in sorry for every one who’s lost some one can’t imagine but they will always be remembered as hero’s and Courtney your so lovely bubbly and down to earth wish you all the best in life lots of love guys
Wow guys look at me Im so empathic
This is very sad...
yeah... very sad, humbling and confronting for sure
just to add to the part when the narrator was talking about the collapse of the nazi party at the end of the war and the soviets killing civilians in germany, at the time, millions of german civilians and remaining military fled west in desperation to be taken prisoner by the British because they knew that they would be spared the inhumane treatment the red army would inflict on them if they were captured by the soviets, there's some footage showing people begging the allied troops to spare their lives and it is chilling, i cannot even imagine the horror of having to make a choice between being taken prisoner by the enemy your country has been fighting against for the duration of the war or risking being raped and mutilated by an army who was once an ally of your nation, it is truly one of the darkest periods not only in the history of the nations involved but of the human race at large.
It was the Russians' revenge for their civilian population. The Nazis, especially the SS units, brutally killed the peaceful Russian population.
@@ИванГаврилов-б3б Revenge? Sure, but not all germans were nazis and those german civilians were just as peaceful as the soviets. As if only one nation started wars and anexed countries illegally during WW2.
@@nicholasnylund4480 I am not condoning these actions, I am simply saying that all this revenge was caused by the atrocities of the Germans.
As the Russian proverb says - an eye for an eye
thats so easy as Shmut says: it is revenge, and it is not just a russian thing in WW2, long time ago I spoke to someone who was a child in 1945 and lived with his family in Aachen, in french it is called aix la chapelle and it is an german city near to france. When the last days of war came, the french army took the city, and the people were afraid... raping women and beating people was as I said not a russian thing, it was a thing of everyone who looks for revenge, in this case the french. The people in Aachen were happy when the us army took over the city, because then they feeled safe. ... and even "more civilized gentleman" take revenge... there ist a city in Germany it ist called Paderborn, in last weeks of war there has been a large tank battle. It lasted some days and in its process a british or american general drove with his car to a different place there. Unlucky that he met on his way a german tiger tank, but when the germans aimed at him he just wanted surrender... the problem was his belt which he tried to take of, but he did it with only one hand and was just not able to do this. One sudden movement and the german tank commander thought the General try to use his pistol and so he shot him down. After the death of the General the british or american soldiers took revenge: they executed more than 30 german war prisoners... so you see, war is always a thing of "eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth"
@@dieweissehand saw a video recently of a Russian talking about the rape and murder in Germany it was had to hear talk about the mass gang rape of 13 year old girls then shooting them and feeding um to pigs then looking an hour later and saying was just skulls left cause the pigs were hungry
THERE WERE ALSO 1.5 MILLION INDIAN IN WW2
Unfortunately, I think they get lumped in with the Colonial forces; they eventually stopped the Japanese cold in their westward bid for India in a nasty war of attrition with few supplies, inferior munitions, fighting disease, hunger, and the environment...but they did it. As "The History Guy" says,"...and that's history that deserves to be remembered."
They were code talkers, they were communicating in Indian language and the enemy could not break the code.
@@loushelton1596 I think he is talking about the people of India. You mean native americans. I think that they are both included in the numbers of UK and US soldiers. India wasn't an independent country back then, so i guess, if he is talking about half a million UK soldiers died, this includes people from India and perhaps also Australia and New Zealand although i think that both Australia and New Zealand were at least kind of independent at that point. The native americans served with the US troops, so they are definetely included in the 400.000 dead US soldiers.
@@balli7836 I think you are right now that I look at the numbers. I live in the US, I think we automatically think American Indian when we see the word Indian. Regardless, the world owes a great debt to all the soldiers that fought in WWII
Shoutout to them because they fought for a nation that couldn't care less for them. Considering they are peace loving and law abiding men and women, it makes their suffering all the more worse.
My great grandfather, his brothers, cousins and the brother of my grandpa served in WW2, everyone joined the navy but not my grandpas brother he was in the IJA.
All survived the war.
My grandfathers both fought in these battles. My dad, Dads cousin, and my brother are all police officers. Its crazy how my family likes to serve our country!
The western front was little more than smokes and mirrors, the truth is this was a war between the soviets and the nazis more so than otherwise.
The besieged Leningrad, with its tragedy and perseverance, fettered and restrained a huge group of Nazis, which ultimately made victory possible. What does "Stalin's cruelty" have to do with it? These guys, the so-called "historians", invented a lie themselves, believed it themselves, and now this crap is being poured into the ears of unprepared listeners.
The Soviet military killed 8.7 million in battles, but the Nazis in the occupied territories and in concentration camps, as well as bombing settlements, destroyed another 18.3 million civilians of the Soviet Union. For example, in Belarus (the westernmost republic of the USSR) a third of the population died.
A total of 27 million Soviet citizens died
@@ferryman4931 from what you said, it sounded like you were defending Stalin. And if you are doing that, then you do NOT deserve to be talking about history, because clearly you are clueless.
@@deadlybladesmith3093 lmao it easy to dispute your statement, yes while Stalin was super cruel to his own people, but he was one of the reasons Soviets won. Do you know what the average world GDP is right now for countries like the USA? I'll tell you, it's 3% and during Stalin, he managed to get the country to 16% per year. How is it possible that Russian schools teach how evil Stalin was, but yet teaches you the goods as well, while America is simply taught communist = evil. That is stupid, you cannot ignore some facts and favor others.
@@DiegoShock oh, see thats where you are wrong. The bad part is that American schools DONT teach that anymore. They don't "teach" anything anymore. All they do is indoctrinate people to the radical left agenda. There is nothing wrong with being moderate left, but when it comes to the point of "blue check marks" on Twitter saying things like they want anyone who votes for Trump to get locked up at a work camp, and they DONT get banned for that, there is MOST definitely something wrong.
@@deadlybladesmith3093 well Im right and the reason for it is because Im Russian. After Soviet collapsed most people are right in the political scale
Now imagine a world where humans didn't fight. Imagine a world where none of these wars ever occurred...
Мир без США?
Impossible. Even kids beat each other over the color of the candy wrapper
Пусть всегда будет солнце,
Пусть всегда будет мама
Пусть всегда буду я
Love you Courtney! Need more people that feel and remember these wars this way. 💔
I'm a American with German and Italian ancestors. Both my grandfathers were in the war. My grandfather of German descent was in the Western Front and was part of the Normandy Landing. He actually landed on Omaha, but was part of one of the last waves of reinforcements, so he was lucky and did not see much combat. My other grandfather who is of Italian descent fought in the Pacific and unlike my other grandfather, was in the thick of battle at Tarawa. He got a shrapnel wound in his lower left leg. He was sent home soon after. I heard countless stories from both of them about the war. What a Rough and Brutal time that was to live in.
I’ve seen this many times but still I’m depressed.
Imagine how different the world would be if all those people hadnt died
I often think about how the war would have negatively affected our gene pool. All the fittest strongest most competent men died on the front lines. Not all, but so many. Taking all those strong genes with them into the grave. War is like humanity shooting itself in the foot.
We would currently be facing with overpopulation and a great depression all around the world
@@eateroftoast4665 do u have a time machine cuz thats pretty unlikely since were problem solvers
That would be utterly impossible to know. There are simply too many variables to predict what would happen. Perhaps, there were a few great revolutionary minds like Newton who were lost and our progress was stunted. But another thing to consider is that perhaps since a large portion of the gene pool for physical abilities was eliminated, maybe that has allowed an increase in the genetics for mental abilities to thrive, which led to the computer and science boom of the late 20th century. Or without those deaths, perhaps there would have been an overcrowding problem. Another thing to consider is that the massive threat of nuclear war might not have been realized and hundreds of millions of lives would have been lost.
There was also the technological race between the US and the USSR which resulted in many improvements to our daily lives, which only was possible because of WW2.
We will never know, and we can never know, so speculation is, in the end, utterly fruitless in this topic.
@@generationfallout5189 that’s actually not completely true. if you look at the numbers, after major wars, the population usually gets an influx in boys and they tend to grow taller and bigger because the stronger and tougher soldiers returned.
I strongly suggest everyone take the time to watch The Soviet Story. available on RUclips.
Full name of documentary or link please?
@@muramasa870 ruclips.net/video/iTJQXKUR6mM/видео.html For some reason this repeats again after the ending. It is 1hr 25min long, not over 2hrs.
Crazy that WW2 really started in my city, just a small town Chojnice in northern Poland at 4:23 am. About 20 minutes before Westerplatte.
in World War 2, 28,000,000 people died in the USSR, along with the civilian population
Germany attacked the USSR on June 22, 1941. The United States and Britain opened a second front from the west only on June 6, 1944. By this time, the Red Army was already fighting in Germany. in this wave, 28,000,000 people of the USSR died. And the USSR bore the brunt of the war because the war was on the territory of the USSR.
Там больше было чем 8 миллионов.
А не официально ещё больше.
Не помню точно, но порядка 47 или около того.
+ Кто пропал без вести.
Посмотрите тизер war thunder)
47 миллионов это общие потери Советского Союза по статистике за время ВОВ. Взяли цифру сколько было в перепись населения до войны и перепись населения после войны. И получилась эта цифра. В среднем СССР потеряли 10 миллионов гражданских, 10 миллионов военных и около 20 миллионов не рождённых граждан. Вот полная статистика:
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I'm Polish. my grandfather and thousands of Polish officers of the Polish army were murdered in Katyn by the Russians who attacked Poland together with the Germans in 1939, ...
They are known as the Greatest Generation. That is so true, this generation personifies what America is. I love how you appreciate America and what makes it such a great Country.
I have seen this quite a while ago... and I know that Russia and the US are not allies... but my heart broke to see how many Russians died. I think of my Russian friends now who are absolute sweet hearts and it makes me want to weep. But although movies romanticize this war, it was brutal to all who got swept up in it. ( And yes, I know all wars are terrible.). But, many of the men in my family never came home because of it. But, this was extremely well done.
The way the media, and governments portray each other is not remotely reality...
U.S. and Russia are not friends, yet I as an American have Russian friends...
Like-wise, I also have friends, who are exceptionally nice, and understanding from the Middle East, and who are Muslim.
People need to detach themselves from the propaganda of politics.
@@Cramblit Absolutely. They are people just like us, the same wants and dreams, they love their families, work hard and are kind. Granted, there are evil ones everywhere, but they do not represent the majority.
@@kimharding2246 Truth is that there is no 'they' and 'us' at least in my understanding. Look at what is going on with covid pandemic, it doesn't care whether you're Russian or American... Above all, we are humans.
Not to mention that at that war Russians and Americans were allies.
@@Cramblit If you think the US and Russia are not friends today, you should have been around from 1945 to 1990. Almost came to NUCLEAR blows in 1962. Damn close.
@@relaxed-rider That’s a misleading oversimplification of the matter. Don’t forget that Stalin and Hitler sign a non-aggression pact so that they could carve up Poland. It wasn’t until Operation Barbarossa that Stalin found out that Hitler was even more untrustworthy than he. That’s when the USSR became allied with US, UK, Free French, etc.
My great Grandmother born in 1924 who sadly passed about two weeks ago now saw the entire war. I remember she told me once that she would always listen to the news in Europe once German relatives had told them what was happening in Germany once Hitler came to power. Eventually my great Grandfather which died in the 90's was in the United States Airforce during the war and once he was gonna be deployed in 1945 the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan so they sent him back home before being deployed. It was sad that I never really listened to her when I was younger I really only got to talk to her about the war and being alive for The Great Depression for about a year or a half. But I am glad I got to talk to her as much as I could before her death. We in fact still have multiple pictures of her brothers all in uniform, I have only but so far I have only seen my Great Grandfathers photo we are still trying to get the other photos from old storage.
26 millions Soviets people die - Wow😮! 6 millions Hebrews die - Oh my got😢!
1 Nazis die - 😭?