Never heard of Germany surgically harvesting meat off POW’s while they’re alive to then cook & eat. Not bc they were starving but to be better warriors. Japan on the other hand…
The weak leadership in Britain and France was a significant factor leading to WWII. Chamberlain,especially,was focused on appeasing Hitler assuming it would stop him from taking over more territory. Fortunately Churchill replaced him and prevented Germany from taking over Great Britain. As the war progressed,Hitler's ego got the best of him and he made some very bad strategic and tactical decisions. If he had listened to his Generals,there is a chance that Germany might have won ,or at least prolonged,the war. Our current leaders should learn from the mistakes made in the late 1930s. You have to stand up to aggressors. Appeasement does not work and only leads to larger problems. Countries like China,Russia, and Iran will take advantage of weakness. It is the lesson of history. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Not saying Chaimberlain was right, but he gets crapped on way more than I think he deserves. Appeasement wasn't working, but he WAS working to strengthen Britain's military in the meantime. Had he not done so then Britain wouldn't have been in much shape to fight.
@@captin3149 Sometimes the only way to tell a good idea from a bad idea is to try them. I don’t want to justify appeasement but Europe had just pretty much lost a generation in WWI and no sane person wanted to lose the next generation also.
I worked for a guy who had a grandma who was born in Germany in 1915. She told some terrible stories about trying to survive after WWI. She felt that Hitler was the best thing that happened for Germany in the 20th century because he took a totally destroyed Germany and made it great again. Anyone who spoke against Hitler was wrong and she wouldn’t believe any other thing. Unfortunately for her viewpoint her family left Germany and came to the US in 1926 so she never witnessed how Hitler totally destroyed the country again.
What often gets left out is germanys false flag when they attacked their own radio station to blame poland. Then 1 week after nazis invaded poland, russia invaded poland from the east because the nazis and rusdians had a deal to divide europe. Russia used false flags to invade present day ukraine.
One of the atrocities committed by Japan on Chinese, Korean and Russian PoWs that most forget about is their infamous unit 731. I just finished a book on the unit with Shiro Ishii as the leading person conducting the experiments on human subjects. Mainly disease and chemical experiments to see reactions and how to spread it through the air through weapons.
the most tragic part is knowing that for the chemical experiments, Shiro Ishii was inspired off of the Germans of ww1 since their and subsequently the allies' use of biological weapons invented a new Geneva convention rule and spread related trauma after the war, which, instead of dissuading, actually encouraged human monsters like Ishii, who spent his time researching these weapons for Japan's future use on other nations.
Very few major western movies were made about Japan invasions of Mongolia or mainland China. Japan had been engaged in invasions, expansions and atrocities in Asia for 10 years before they hit us at Pearl Harbor. They had already controlled Korea since 1910 but started getting pretty nasty in 1931. Oversimplified does a pretty good coverage of the American revolutionary war, civil war, and WWI. Good reaction.
If you like this I would recommend the oversimplified history of the American Revolution, the American Civil War and also WW1. One of the best history channels online.
To that I agree. I mean it is oversimplified after all so not everything is included. WW2 is such a big topic to cover it is hard to include everything no matter how long the video is.@@denroy3
The Nanjing Massacre or Rape of Nanjing beginning on December 13, 1937 lasted six weeks. Chinese soldiers were summarily executed in violation of the laws of war, and looting and rape was widespread. Death toll estimates over 300,000, with rape cases over 80,000. The massacre is considered to be one of the worst wartime atrocities in written history.
Another incredibly well-made documentary in a similar style is: "The Fallen of WII" but not as funny, rather very shocking, but very interesting for someone who is interested in this topic
The Rape of Nanking was considered one of the most brutal attocity since the Mongol Invasion. They said so many people were killed that the city's streets ran with blood and fat.
I'm working my way through your first Oversimplified rabbit hole reactions now. They are great history content. Hope to see you work through more of them
All OverSimplified videos are top-tier quality and worth watching, also "History of the Entire World, I Guess" by Bill Wurtz might be the best RUclips video there is.
WW2 is by far my favorite history topic, oversimplified presents all the information In fun way! Glad you guys are reacting to this. Strictly talking military might, Germany in WW2 were legendary.
Germany was supposed to do a lot of things to demilitarize, but they received a lot of money from the USA to build social programs, which they then used to militarize for WWII under the pretense of 'it's just social programs'.
For the United States the war was 4 years long after there was a declaration of war. The US produced enough materials for both the consumption of the population and enough material to supply a world war on three fronts. The population of the US stepped up and did what needed to be done to help its allies and friends.
5:50 /// Hindenburg had the complete option of not electing Hitler as chancellor. He chose him because he had a lot of support from the people, but that doesn't mean there was no other option. In addition, vice-chancellor von Papen promised that they would be able to control him, and they did until Hindenburg died.
As a young teen, 60 yrs ago, I read several of the books by Pearl Buck. One of them, Dragon Seed, covered the fall of Nanking to Japan. It's a fascinating and informative book ( the sequel to The Good Earth). Told from the view of the peasants who lived through it, both books cover the time just before the war and the experiences of living through it.
Treaty of versailles was literally a signed paper that ensured a second round would happen actually. Some French generals predicted it already when it was signed.
21:32 "boring" that was dragedy for all . Yes my grandfahter was railman that time and bring at wagon food and get hit by red army bombing plane bomb and died in 1944 left his weiv my grand mother with her son ..my father 3 years old and aunt 1 year old alone.
Just find it funny...love that you two are reacting to this...that this points so much as to what is going on here in the U.S. right now, and how so few realize it.
I remember Terry Fox and i ve seen a few dedicated Terry Fox places in rest areas along Canada ! the biggest one is east of Thunder Bay on top of a small hill wich there s a great view of the great Lake ! awesome and there s one nice place along the trans-canada highway in Alberta or BC. i can t remember exactly lol ! been trucking coast to coast for 35 years ! 10 of those years from Edmonton, AB. trucking the western Canada including Yukon and NWT. Too many places in my small head ! lol ! Happy new Year guys ! 🤠
Hi Phil & Sam, my Father was in WWII and I have many questions about that? My Father passed when I was 4 and my Mother raised 6 kids and her promised all of the 3 boys "Never go in the military" and I never asked her about it or him but I lost her 8 years ago at 94 and now I wish I had a discussion with her
11:55 they do not learn GULAG . Russian in Soviet time send political prison work camps prison to Siberia about 1,5 million peopole at 16 contries excliuting little Estonia twice with cow/ cargo train 7 days total 39.000 at that time Estonia population was only 450.000
great reaction you just gained anew sub! happy too hear your trying out new videos i would recommend epic history they have videos on almost everything history. God bless
Try 'History of the entire world, I guess'. It's fast paced and will blow your mind. It's a little long, but you will be entertained from beginning to end. Very similar to the style of this video.
I live in Sheffield one of the cities in the UK that was bombed in the Blitz that was mentioned in your video my friend a cup of years ago did a play about the survivors of the plates and on the night Sheffield got bombed
Two stories I live near Southampton, heavily bombed during The Battle of Britain when Hitler tried to invade The same road my mum lives down now had a german fighter plane get shot down by anti aircraft volunteers and it flew down the road and crashed at the opposite end to my mums house Also, a friend of the family had to get evacuated because a live German bomb was found near their house at a construction site.
18:46 I seem to recall having heard of this event. I believe the British ships sank the entire French navy which had escaped from France to northern Africa to avoid falling into the hands of Germany, but the word of the French admiral wasn't good enough for the English, and Churchill wanted all the French ships sunk - ostensibly to make 100% sure they would never fall into the hands of Germany anyway (but maybe also to make sure France wouldn't be a competitor after the war?) - and in the end the British ended sinking all the French ships and murdering thousands of french sailors. This was a despicable, totally needless act of callous tactics and power-games. I'd call it a war-crime. With "allies" like these, who needs enemies?
They should show these videos in history classes as a primer for courses. It helps put it all in context, and the humor makes it easy to follow and remember.
@@brettg274 very simple, it's over simplified entertainment tgat has little to nothing to do with history. It's for people that know nothing and want to know nothing...and should not be a part of a genuine education. Our education system is garbage now and you suggest some comic book style foray as material for history is ridiculous.
@@denroy3 I didn’t suggest it as an entire course, I suggested it as a primer. It’s not a nuanced discussion, but which part did you find to be inaccurate? BTW, I know a pretty good amount about WW2, and always got A’s in history all the way through my college honors courses. My grandfather was a flying ace, POW liberated by Gen. Patton, Flying Cross and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. I disagree with your assessment.
a "slight" error in the narrative occurring about 19:18 into it - in one of Germany's bombing missions of industrial targets and area of London was hit instead (accident?). British officials deemed this to be an aerial bombing of civilian target, so they retaliated with a small bombing attack on Berlin. Hitler, allegedly unaware of the previous German bombing of a civilian area in London, responded with a deliberate bomb attack on London. Thus, the "air war" of bombing civilian targets along with military/industrial targets began.
yea tbh like you guys said its crazy how fast things escalated but also to see truly how strong germany and japan were. Also no im not bragging about the bad stuff they did but we all know they were insanely powerful countries at that time. (even now they're pretty powerful)
Heck I learned all that stuff just from being alive ! Of course i didn't learn all in school but over the years it all came out , like Italy and Japan and even Afica ! We didn't go to war because of the Holocaust we learned about it after our solders saw it when they invaded , we did hear rumors but it wasn't till we SAW 👀 that it came out to the world
17:17 Perfectly explained why appeasement happened. Looking back, we can think oh it was inevitable. Why didn't they go to war earlier? They remembered the last one.
Something forgotten or overlooked is that the U.S. was already fighting Japan before Pearl Harbor. We started flying fighters in the South China Sea to defend China. They were called The "Flying Tigars". They were Marine Crp Flyers "Unoffically" sent. The infamos Pappy Boyington commander his raiders by shooting down Japanese aircraft and sinkeng re-supply ships, much like Viet Nam.
Inflation was so bad in the Weimar Republic that at one point they didn't print larger denominationed bills, they simply stamped larger denominations on the bills as it wasn't economically feasible to print brand new bills...
Japan's invasion of China began in 1931. China was a very rural, poor nation. The invasion of Nanking was an atrocity nearly on scale with the Holocaust.
You guys do realize that at this point in time even before every order every meeting or across all powers in the war were carefully written down in triplicate and saved for prosperity. That’s one of the reasons why after action report were so heavily emphasized asked. We have documentation about individuals actions in this war unlike any before it, we have the benefit of the written word from those who are actually they’re not only that but many of those we’re still alive when my generation was in highschool. To tell us about what they saw and did. Even then, so much has been written, publicized, and declassified that we pretty much know everything about World War II. It is the fault of the education system to not tell you these things. This is NOT about history written by the winner. This is about history being written by those who are actually there and still alive to tell us. It is our collective fault for not paying enough attention when we had the chance.
Have you seen 13 hours to save Britain when the Britain was getting bombed by the Germans it's very interesting and a very proud moment in British history well worth a watch
As a history major who's focused mainly on Roman history and WW2, these videos are super accurate to my knowledge. After you guys finish part 2, you should check out some other "Oversimplified" videos. American Revolution is also a great one, and the Pig War, and Emu War are his funniest videos.
By the way, you can slow down these videos a bit by clicking on the settings gear and choose Playback speed, normal and choose .75. It slows it down to understand it better because the narrator speaks so darn fast.
YES!!!!!!!!!! History of the Entire World I Guess, and Operation Praying Mantis/Operation Paul Bunyan World War Tree by The Fat Electrician You will NOT be disappointed.
You guys probably don't know that Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany had close political and military relations with the young Republic of China, Nazi military advisers were even training the nascent Chinese army, Hitler despised Japan initially and opposed Japan's atrocities in China, but eventually his close Nazi advisers persuaded Hitler to drop China and enter into an alliance with Japan, as Hitler's real objective was the conquest of the USSR and Hitler needed militarily stronger Japan for a planned invasion of the Soviet Union.
You're spot on about being surprised China got stumped on by Japan. China refers to that era when the West and Japan walked all over them as "the century of humiliation". It's still at the root of the anti-Japanese sentiment prevalent in China to this day and a large reason why China still has an anti-West stance even though they're intricately tied to the West by economics.
Everyone puts the beginning of WW2 as the German Invasion of Poland in 1939. It actually began with the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. That is what made the US, and, European powers cut off imports to Japan, and, made Japan feel they were left with no choice, but, war.
The reason the allies didn't invade Germany during the phoney war is simple : they couldn't. General mobilization in Britain and France took two weeks (which is normal) from the declaration of war, so by the time they were in position Hitler had already smashed Poland. Then Germany brought back its troops to the western front and enjoyed superiority in men and airplanes, and its own fortifications (the Siegfried Line) along the border, which made invasion highly impracticable. And unlike Hitler, the allied leaders didn't want to violate Belgian neutrality to go around these defences. So in the end they could only wait for the German offensive to come instead.
You new need to see the original Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever". It is a lesson about peace is not always possible. But there is much more in the episode. If you watch see if you can figure out who Edith Keeler is...
Their is a reason why the most powerful countries have pretty much been the same countries throughout most of history and why so few can fight and win against all odds
Have you watched the Revolutionary War Oversimplified? If not, you should so you can really learn how America gained their independence from England and how it became America. It's really interesting and the same narrator but see my other comment how to slow it down a bit to understand it better.
This just shows how fragile “world peace” is and how much of keeping the planet not in a state of war is really a balancing act of good evil and indifference.
I had Grandfathers and Uncles that fought in WW2 everywhere from Europe, North Africa, Alaska and the Pacific. Not to mention all of the teachers that I had in school from the 70's to 90's that were veterans from WW2. Wonderful people who went back to regular life after that. I did my Army time in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, but nothing compared to what they went through. Now people complain about their life with a computer in their hand while drinking their 8 dollar coffee and claim to have ADHD and PTSD while bitching about racism.... give me a break!!
I've always wondered with this video (oversimplified's I mean) why Hitler has the Belgium flag all over his bedroom? The German flag is horizontal black, red, yellow stripes and the it's the Belgium flag that has vertical stripes and if you look at Hitlers bedspread and rug they are vertical stripes??? Or am I being an idiot?
If you need a good book on WWII, I cannot recommend Anthony Beevor's The Second World War enough. Packs in an incredible amount of information about the global conflict.
An idea for a video that I can suggest to you, react to "The greatest speech in history" it is about a speech that Alexander the great gave to his soldiers when they refused to continue fighting, and it's excellent If I have to describe it. Greetings!
Okey but germany also still used horses. They invaded poland with 53 divisions. 6 were tanks. I think 4 or 5 were armored vehivles and the rest were normal infantery and horses. Its more on how you use it. When you use it and especially what the other side uses themselves against you But yeah, for later germany used tanks. Just wanted to randomly throw in that fact since I found it so weird when learning about it in school (im from japan)
I mean it's definitely oversimplified there's definitely a lot more to it of course than is in oversimplified videos can yall react to more of oversimplified videos
Wrong representation of the German flag at 4:55 That's actually the Belgian flag (black, yellow, red and vertical bands) as opposed to the German flag (black, red, yellow with horizontal bands). Just saying, but sometimes ...
Japan's atrocities in WW II were as bad if not worse than Germany's.
They are the same. Except Japan attacked the Us first.
Never heard of Germany surgically harvesting meat off POW’s while they’re alive to then cook & eat. Not bc they were starving but to be better warriors. Japan on the other hand…
Japan's atrocities were horrible, but nothing compared to the Concentration Camps and the gassing and burning in ovens of 6 million Jewish civilians.
Meanwhile us war crimes are wrost than Japan and Germany combine@@scotthill1600
The thing is that after ww2 comes the cold war, and Japan was on the US side and many crimes were covered
I think you really need to do part 2 and others. Learning never stops and since you like history Phil, you will enjoy watching.
They also need to watch Sam O’Nella’s content.
Part 2 coming!
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@@barsandbarbells2022 WHEN!!!?! haha
The weak leadership in Britain and France was a significant factor leading to WWII. Chamberlain,especially,was focused on appeasing Hitler assuming it would stop him from taking over more territory. Fortunately Churchill replaced him and prevented Germany from taking over Great Britain. As the war progressed,Hitler's ego got the best of him and he made some very bad strategic and tactical decisions. If he had listened to his Generals,there is a chance that Germany might have won ,or at least prolonged,the war. Our current leaders should learn from the mistakes made in the late 1930s. You have to stand up to aggressors. Appeasement does not work and only leads to larger problems. Countries like China,Russia, and Iran will take advantage of weakness. It is the lesson of history. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Not saying Chaimberlain was right, but he gets crapped on way more than I think he deserves. Appeasement wasn't working, but he WAS working to strengthen Britain's military in the meantime. Had he not done so then Britain wouldn't have been in much shape to fight.
Yes. Chamberlain was just trying to buy time while Britain built up its forces & defenses.@@captin3149
@@captin3149 Sometimes the only way to tell a good idea from a bad idea is to try them. I don’t want to justify appeasement but Europe had just pretty much lost a generation in WWI and no sane person wanted to lose the next generation also.
I worked for a guy who had a grandma who was born in Germany in 1915. She told some terrible stories about trying to survive after WWI. She felt that Hitler was the best thing that happened for Germany in the 20th century because he took a totally destroyed Germany and made it great again. Anyone who spoke against Hitler was wrong and she wouldn’t believe any other thing. Unfortunately for her viewpoint her family left Germany and came to the US in 1926 so she never witnessed how Hitler totally destroyed the country again.
What often gets left out is germanys false flag when they attacked their own radio station to blame poland. Then 1 week after nazis invaded poland, russia invaded poland from the east because the nazis and rusdians had a deal to divide europe. Russia used false flags to invade present day ukraine.
One of the atrocities committed by Japan on Chinese, Korean and Russian PoWs that most forget about is their infamous unit 731. I just finished a book on the unit with Shiro Ishii as the leading person conducting the experiments on human subjects. Mainly disease and chemical experiments to see reactions and how to spread it through the air through weapons.
Weaponizing the black plague is crazy 2 me
@trappestarrgaming3422 you're not wrong on that. The fact that the U.S. gave this dude immunity for his works and data is absolutely crazy.
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the most tragic part is knowing that for the chemical experiments, Shiro Ishii was inspired off of the Germans of ww1 since their and subsequently the allies' use of biological weapons invented a new Geneva convention rule and spread related trauma after the war, which, instead of dissuading, actually encouraged human monsters like Ishii, who spent his time researching these weapons for Japan's future use on other nations.
Very few major western movies were made about Japan invasions of Mongolia or mainland China. Japan had been engaged in invasions, expansions and atrocities in Asia for 10 years before they hit us at Pearl Harbor. They had already controlled Korea since 1910 but started getting pretty nasty in 1931. Oversimplified does a pretty good coverage of the American revolutionary war, civil war, and WWI. Good reaction.
If you like this I would recommend the oversimplified history of the American Revolution, the American Civil War and also WW1. One of the best history channels online.
Not if you want to know anything.
To that I agree. I mean it is oversimplified after all so not everything is included. WW2 is such a big topic to cover it is hard to include everything no matter how long the video is.@@denroy3
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The Nanjing Massacre or Rape of Nanjing beginning on December 13, 1937 lasted six weeks. Chinese soldiers were summarily executed in violation of the laws of war, and looting and rape was widespread. Death toll estimates over 300,000, with rape cases over 80,000. The massacre is considered to be one of the worst wartime atrocities in written history.
nanjing id only one of the massacre.they massacred many cities all around china.nanjing was the capital so it's famous.
Another incredibly well-made documentary in a similar style is: "The Fallen of WII" but not as funny, rather very shocking, but very interesting for someone who is interested in this topic
Anyone getting history from this junk has no interest in history.
Ye thats the next you have to react to guys
As a history teacher and a fan of your page I’m glad you guys are jumping into this type of stuff.
The Rape of Nanking was considered one of the most brutal attocity since the Mongol Invasion. They said so many people were killed that the city's streets ran with blood and fat.
"Oversimplified" does a GREAT JOB teaching history. You should do more of these on several subjects.
All of oversimplified's stuff is good. Thanks for the reaction.
It's crap if you are interested in knowledge of history. Sorry.
@@denroy3 It's nice introduction to get someone interested. Teachers use these videos in school now cuz their easy to digest.
Our pleasure!
They oversimplify it.... Thats literally in the name.@@denroy3
I'm working my way through your first Oversimplified rabbit hole reactions now. They are great history content. Hope to see you work through more of them
All OverSimplified videos are top-tier quality and worth watching, also "History of the Entire World, I Guess" by Bill Wurtz might be the best RUclips video there is.
WW2 is by far my favorite history topic, oversimplified presents all the information In fun way! Glad you guys are reacting to this.
Strictly talking military might, Germany in WW2 were legendary.
Germany was supposed to do a lot of things to demilitarize, but they received a lot of money from the USA to build social programs, which they then used to militarize for WWII under the pretense of 'it's just social programs'.
For the United States the war was 4 years long after there was a declaration of war. The US produced enough materials for both the consumption of the population and enough material to supply a world war on three fronts. The population of the US stepped up and did what needed to be done to help its allies and friends.
Graduated in 08’ in Newfoundland, Canada and learned pretty much all of this in world history
My school only focused on the battle of britan and the blitz
5:50 /// Hindenburg had the complete option of not electing Hitler as chancellor. He chose him because he had a lot of support from the people, but that doesn't mean there was no other option. In addition, vice-chancellor von Papen promised that they would be able to control him, and they did until Hindenburg died.
As a young teen, 60 yrs ago, I read several of the books by Pearl Buck. One of them, Dragon Seed, covered the fall of Nanking to Japan. It's a fascinating and informative book ( the sequel to The Good Earth). Told from the view of the peasants who lived through it, both books cover the time just before the war and the experiences of living through it.
Treaty of versailles was literally a signed paper that ensured a second round would happen actually. Some French generals predicted it already when it was signed.
My 8 yr old and love these videos and she spotted this on my feed yesterday. Would love to see you do them all!
this guy truly a what is love baby don’t hurt me
21:32 "boring" that was dragedy for all . Yes my grandfahter was railman that time and bring at wagon food and get hit by red army bombing plane bomb and died in 1944 left his weiv my grand mother with her son ..my father 3 years old and aunt 1 year old alone.
Just find it funny...love that you two are reacting to this...that this points so much as to what is going on here in the U.S. right now, and how so few realize it.
Yeah... Kind of crazy how many parallels you can see. It's scary because a world war 3 is never off the map, especially now.
Eva Cassidy sings Over the Rainbow.... 25 million views thats how good it is!!!
Love the channel and loved this reaction. You two are terrific and love your energy.
I remember Terry Fox and i ve seen a few dedicated Terry Fox places in rest areas along Canada ! the biggest one is east of Thunder Bay on top of a small hill wich there s a great view of the great Lake ! awesome and there s one nice place along the trans-canada highway in Alberta or BC. i can t remember exactly lol ! been trucking coast to coast for 35 years ! 10 of those years from Edmonton, AB. trucking the western Canada including Yukon and NWT. Too many places in my small head ! lol ! Happy new Year guys ! 🤠
Hi Phil & Sam, my Father was in WWII and I have many questions about that? My Father passed when I was 4 and my Mother raised 6 kids and her promised all of the 3 boys "Never go in the military" and I never asked her about it or him but I lost her 8 years ago at 94 and now I wish I had a discussion with her
Definitely react to the rest of his stuff, he's the best. Definitely watch part 2, can't just watch one.
Part 2 needed
Patiently awaiting part 2, the most important part…
11:55 they do not learn GULAG . Russian in Soviet time send political prison work camps prison to Siberia about 1,5 million peopole at 16 contries excliuting little Estonia twice with cow/ cargo train 7 days total 39.000 at that time Estonia population was only 450.000
Ready for part 2!
Loved it! Keep going, this is extremely interesting...
Yes oversimplifieddd
I really like these reaction to history videos
great reaction you just gained anew sub! happy too hear your trying out new videos i would recommend epic history they have videos on almost everything history. God bless
Try 'History of the entire world, I guess'. It's fast paced and will blow your mind. It's a little long, but you will be entertained from beginning to end. Very similar to the style of this video.
I live in Sheffield one of the cities in the UK that was bombed in the Blitz that was mentioned in your video my friend a cup of years ago did a play about the survivors of the plates and on the night Sheffield got bombed
Really cool thank you for doing this one pretty cool
Love the video !😂
Great reaction, definitely more history reactions! Love from 🇬🇧
Great reaction, I hope that you will do the WW1 video from Oversimplified after watching part 2
It's junk for simpletons
Two stories
I live near Southampton, heavily bombed during The Battle of Britain when Hitler tried to invade
The same road my mum lives down now had a german fighter plane get shot down by anti aircraft volunteers and it flew down the road and crashed at the opposite end to my mums house
Also, a friend of the family had to get evacuated because a live German bomb was found near their house at a construction site.
18:46 I seem to recall having heard of this event. I believe the British ships sank the entire French navy which had escaped from France to northern Africa to avoid falling into the hands of Germany, but the word of the French admiral wasn't good enough for the English, and Churchill wanted all the French ships sunk - ostensibly to make 100% sure they would never fall into the hands of Germany anyway (but maybe also to make sure France wouldn't be a competitor after the war?) - and in the end the British ended sinking all the French ships and murdering thousands of french sailors. This was a despicable, totally needless act of callous tactics and power-games. I'd call it a war-crime. With "allies" like these, who needs enemies?
1:22 sadly there is a new production out now for part 3.
They should show these videos in history classes as a primer for courses. It helps put it all in context, and the humor makes it easy to follow and remember.
They should never allow this stuff anywhere near a history class.
@@denroy3 why is that your opinion?
@@brettg274 very simple, it's over simplified entertainment tgat has little to nothing to do with history. It's for people that know nothing and want to know nothing...and should not be a part of a genuine education. Our education system is garbage now and you suggest some comic book style foray as material for history is ridiculous.
@@denroy3 I didn’t suggest it as an entire course, I suggested it as a primer. It’s not a nuanced discussion, but which part did you find to be inaccurate?
BTW, I know a pretty good amount about WW2, and always got A’s in history all the way through my college honors courses. My grandfather was a flying ace, POW liberated by Gen. Patton, Flying Cross and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. I disagree with your assessment.
a "slight" error in the narrative occurring about 19:18 into it - in one of Germany's bombing missions of industrial targets and area of London was hit instead (accident?). British officials deemed this to be an aerial bombing of civilian target, so they retaliated with a small bombing attack on Berlin. Hitler, allegedly unaware of the previous German bombing of a civilian area in London, responded with a deliberate bomb attack on London. Thus, the "air war" of bombing civilian targets along with military/industrial targets began.
yea tbh like you guys said its crazy how fast things escalated but also to see truly how strong germany and japan were. Also no im not bragging about the bad stuff they did but we all know they were insanely powerful countries at that time. (even now they're pretty powerful)
Need to watch "The Fallen of WW2". That's an eye opener.
Heck I learned all that stuff just from being alive ! Of course i didn't learn all in school but over the years it all came out , like Italy and Japan and even Afica ! We didn't go to war because of the Holocaust we learned about it after our solders saw it when they invaded , we did hear rumors but it wasn't till we SAW 👀 that it came out to the world
17:17 Perfectly explained why appeasement happened. Looking back, we can think oh it was inevitable. Why didn't they go to war earlier? They remembered the last one.
*History of the world I guess* a little bit longer video but it goes by fast
World War II started on November 11th, 1918 at 11:00 AM French Time.
As for greatest Canadian I have to say Tommy Douglas
Something forgotten or overlooked is that the U.S. was already fighting Japan before Pearl Harbor. We started flying fighters in the South China Sea to defend China. They were called The "Flying Tigars". They were Marine Crp Flyers "Unoffically" sent. The infamos Pappy Boyington commander his raiders by shooting down Japanese aircraft and sinkeng re-supply ships, much like Viet Nam.
Your voices are very soothing, I like it.
“Empire of the Sun” is a good movie by Spielberg about some of what Japan did in China.
Inflation was so bad in the Weimar Republic that at one point they didn't print larger denominationed bills, they simply stamped larger denominations on the bills as it wasn't economically feasible to print brand new bills...
In 1923 one US dollar was worth 6.4 quadrillion marks. A German's life savings couldn't buy a loaf of bread.
5:25 No it was not the Chancellor who made Hitler Prime Minister, it was the President who made Hitler the Chancellor
Japan's invasion of China began in 1931. China was a very rural, poor nation. The invasion of Nanking was an atrocity nearly on scale with the Holocaust.
You guys do realize that at this point in time even before every order every meeting or across all powers in the war were carefully written down in triplicate and saved for prosperity. That’s one of the reasons why after action report were so heavily emphasized asked. We have documentation about individuals actions in this war unlike any before it, we have the benefit of the written word from those who are actually they’re not only that but many of those we’re still alive when my generation was in highschool. To tell us about what they saw and did. Even then, so much has been written, publicized, and declassified that we pretty much know everything about World War II. It is the fault of the education system to not tell you these things. This is NOT about history written by the winner. This is about history being written by those who are actually there and still alive to tell us. It is our collective fault for not paying enough attention when we had the chance.
Have you seen 13 hours to save Britain when the Britain was getting bombed by the Germans it's very interesting and a very proud moment in British history well worth a watch
My History courses were very limited. The only requirement was Rhode Island history :-)
As a history major who's focused mainly on Roman history and WW2, these videos are super accurate to my knowledge. After you guys finish part 2, you should check out some other "Oversimplified" videos. American Revolution is also a great one, and the Pig War, and Emu War are his funniest videos.
If you know Hardcore history by dan carlin then you're a history chad 😂
@@mugiwara7347 I do, lol. One of the first podcasts I get into
We are still wrestling with Ukrainian involvement in WW2.
By the way, you can slow down these videos a bit by clicking on the settings gear and choose Playback speed, normal and choose .75. It slows it down to understand it better because the narrator speaks so darn fast.
YES!!!!!!!!!! History of the Entire World I Guess, and Operation Praying Mantis/Operation Paul Bunyan World War Tree by The Fat Electrician You will NOT be disappointed.
You guys probably don't know that Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany had close political and military relations with the young Republic of China, Nazi military advisers were even training the nascent Chinese army, Hitler despised Japan initially and opposed Japan's atrocities in China, but eventually his close Nazi advisers persuaded Hitler to drop China and enter into an alliance with Japan, as Hitler's real objective was the conquest of the USSR and Hitler needed militarily stronger Japan for a planned invasion of the Soviet Union.
5:55 importance to forgive
Part 2 when ?
You're spot on about being surprised China got stumped on by Japan. China refers to that era when the West and Japan walked all over them as "the century of humiliation". It's still at the root of the anti-Japanese sentiment prevalent in China to this day and a large reason why China still has an anti-West stance even though they're intricately tied to the West by economics.
The terms put on Germany after WW1 leading to another war resulted in the allies forming the marshall plan to help rebuild Europe after WW2.
11:05 The rape of Nanking/Nanjing was a horrible chapter in Japan's past during that era.
Oversimplified is great react to more
Now react to the first and Second Punic wars by oversimplified theyre amazing. As well as Napoleon.
Everyone puts the beginning of WW2 as the German Invasion of Poland in 1939. It actually began with the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. That is what made the US, and, European powers cut off imports to Japan, and, made Japan feel they were left with no choice, but, war.
The reason the allies didn't invade Germany during the phoney war is simple : they couldn't. General mobilization in Britain and France took two weeks (which is normal) from the declaration of war, so by the time they were in position Hitler had already smashed Poland. Then Germany brought back its troops to the western front and enjoyed superiority in men and airplanes, and its own fortifications (the Siegfried Line) along the border, which made invasion highly impracticable. And unlike Hitler, the allied leaders didn't want to violate Belgian neutrality to go around these defences. So in the end they could only wait for the German offensive to come instead.
4:07 Canada actually battled the Germans in Italy. The battle of Ortonna.
You new need to see the original Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever". It is a lesson about peace is not always possible. But there is much more in the episode. If you watch see if you can figure out who Edith Keeler is...
Their is a reason why the most powerful countries have pretty much been the same countries throughout most of history and why so few can fight and win against all odds
Have you watched the Revolutionary War Oversimplified? If not, you should so you can really learn how America gained their independence from England and how it became America.
It's really interesting and the same narrator but see my other comment how to slow it down a bit to understand it better.
Some historians believe that the start of WW2 should have been when Japan invaded Manchuria years earlier.
America learns about the Pacific Theatre because we fought in it
This just shows how fragile “world peace” is and how much of keeping the planet not in a state of war is really a balancing act of good evil and indifference.
11:45 I wonder why :)
I had Grandfathers and Uncles that fought in WW2 everywhere from Europe, North Africa, Alaska and the Pacific. Not to mention all of the teachers that I had in school from the 70's to 90's that were veterans from WW2. Wonderful people who went back to regular life after that. I did my Army time in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, but nothing compared to what they went through. Now people complain about their life with a computer in their hand while drinking their 8 dollar coffee and claim to have ADHD and PTSD while bitching about racism.... give me a break!!
These videos are well done. React to more oversimplified please.
I've always wondered with this video (oversimplified's I mean) why Hitler has the Belgium flag all over his bedroom? The German flag is horizontal black, red, yellow stripes and the it's the Belgium flag that has vertical stripes and if you look at Hitlers bedspread and rug they are vertical stripes??? Or am I being an idiot?
The brits are so badass i know at one point they were the only ones fighting against the nazis for an whole year
If you need a good book on WWII, I cannot recommend Anthony Beevor's The Second World War enough. Packs in an incredible amount of information about the global conflict.
An idea for a video that I can suggest to you, react to "The greatest speech in history" it is about a speech that Alexander the great gave to his soldiers when they refused to continue fighting, and it's excellent If I have to describe it. Greetings!
Dan carlin has a podcast hardcore history. He goes into detail into the lives of alexander and his family you should listen to it. You would like it
Okey but germany also still used horses. They invaded poland with 53 divisions. 6 were tanks. I think 4 or 5 were armored vehivles and the rest were normal infantery and horses.
Its more on how you use it. When you use it and especially what the other side uses themselves against you
But yeah, for later germany used tanks. Just wanted to randomly throw in that fact since I found it so weird when learning about it in school (im from japan)
I mean it's definitely oversimplified there's definitely a lot more to it of course than is in oversimplified videos can yall react to more of oversimplified videos
Wrong representation of the German flag at 4:55 That's actually the Belgian flag (black, yellow, red and vertical bands) as opposed to the German flag (black, red, yellow with horizontal bands). Just saying, but sometimes ...
You should check out The Vietnam War - Part 1 by Things I Care About
History buff that still hasnt heard of oversimplified madness :P
Where is part 2