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hello your videos are amazing good job here is a cool sniper montage i saw ruclips.net/video/9K1yZ7ch5uw/видео.html also can you cover realm royale as its by far my favorite shooter idk why im not commenting this on your arch channel @@HeyHistorically
yeah, in my opinion it would be a better idea to combine both ideas, starting with the idea, and then the creation, some people might not like it but eh.@@Saurophaganax1931
Corrections: The letter to FDR was actually written by Leo Szilard; Germany never made nukes because Werner Heisenberg calculated the critical mass wrong, and was convinced that nukes are impossible to make.
Ehh, and the map… First Slovak Republic has not borders as they are shown on the map. Czechoslovakia was divided into 4 “lands” - Bohemia, Moravia-Silesia, Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia (which is not a very good translation for what they have called now the region, better translation would be Subcarpathian Rus/Russia/Ruthenia). As should all of us know, in 1938 were territories with german-majority within Czechoslovakia were annexed by the Third Reich and were incorporated into its land, but also “lands” Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia weren’t untouched - entire “land” of Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed Hungary after of declaration of Republic Carpatho-Ukraine (that happened in 1939), a small bite of Northern Slovakia was annexed by Poland and it took also Zaolzie. In 1939, before the occupation of Czech-Slovakia, (I couldn't find any proper translation so here it is in czech/slovakian, Česko-Slovensko, and yes it was changed from (Second Republic of) Czechoslovakia to that) Slovakian Ultranationalist declared autonomous state within Czechoslovakia, and pushed Czechoslovakian government to quickly recognize it, government it recognized and after that they have changed its name, as I mentioned it earlier. After the occupation, “lands” of leftovers from “lands” of Bohemia and Moravia-Silesia were transformed into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and the autonomous Slovak State was given independence. When the Slovak Republic helped the Third Reich to invade Poland, it got back the re-annexed region from Poland, but not Zaolzie. And good to mention, that the Protectorate was a de facto sovereign state, but only on paper, so that you haven’t included the Protectorate on the map is rather your decision than a historical mistake.
I love how the setting of that opening scene is the stage in Kino der Toten from COD Black Ops Zombies. I would say it brings back good memories, but that wouldn't be very accurate considering I still play it😉.
Another factor may have been Telemark, and the raid in the heavy water facility there. Heavy water (D2O) is a poorer neutron regulator, than what other (modern) reactors use graphite, but the British helped the Norwegian resistance bomb the facility, this caused the Germans to think they were getting close with using Heavy water, and thus out more finances into rather than pursuing Graphite.
Dude the quality of these videos is insane for how fast you’re uploading! Either it was good planning and you started on them a while back and are only finishing them up. Or you’re insanely talented
There's something wrong with this video. At 3:24 you show a cartoon of France where it's head is the French tricolor flag. But when you show the British person it's head is the flag of England. It should be the UK Union Jack.
3:12 man i just got chills! The transition from the animationto real at the time foto and than to my memory! Ive been to that camp on an excursion to learn more about it and i lm preaty sure i saw that exact doorway!
Historically inaccurate. Leo Szilard is the one that realized the immediate danger. He was an acquaintance of Einstein, who was already famous at the time, having no way to contact the President Szilard used Einstein’s fame to have the letter of warning deliver to FDR. The letter was written by both Szilard (who informed Einstein about the danger) and Einstein who provided his signature The letter shows how little was known at the time as they expected the main danger being that tonnes of uranium maybe used to destroy a harbor (by being carried on a ship).
The important part of fissionable materials is not that they create just one neutron when split by a neutron, which is what the illustration in the video unwittingly implies, it is that they can create multiple neutrons! This way 1 neutron splitting 1 atom releases for example 3 neutrons, which split 3 atoms releasing 9 neutrons, splitting 9 atoms releasing 27, and so on. The reaction is not just self-prepetuating at a constant rate, it is growing exponentially. Usually many neutrons fly away without reacting, however, so the speed of this growth can be manipulated by the density of the material and the neutrons. The reactions go on, until the neutrons can no longer find enough new fissionable atoms to react with. In nuclear reactors, they do this using absorbing material, for example water. The reaction is allowed to grow slowly until it reaches the desired power output, after which enough absorbing material is added so that 1 reaction on average leads to about 1 new reaction, causing the reactor to keep going, but without dying, or growing too fast, which could cause a meltdown. (Nuclear explosions require special explosive methods to momentarily massive increase the reaction speed, which is why nuclear reactors cannot explode like nuclear bombs) Another possibility is that so much fissionable atoms undergo fission that the density of fissionable material grows too small, so the neutrons can't cause enough new neutrons to be released, and the reaction dies out. Basically, a reactor that runs out of fuel. In nuclear bombs, carefully timed explosions cause the atoms and neutrons to concentrate into an extremely high density sphere, where momentarily an absolutely insane amount of reactions can happen with far fewer neutrons lost before they cause a new reaction. The energy rises extremely high, and atoms gain so much energy that they get flung in every direction, so that the density goes down and the reaction stops. But before that, a lot of reactions have happened in a very short time, releasing an insane amount of energy, with said energy showing itself as a nuclear explosion.
If splitting a Uranium atom produced only one neutron there would have been no bomb. We call it chain reaction, but it’s actually branching chain reaction, so the number of split nuclei increases exponentially. This allowed nuclear weapons.
good video, but yeah you should do a double check on the maps, they are very well done and have great quality but you forgot to give crimea to the soviet union (this mistake can be seen from the 3:02 to 3:12) still i have to say again, you did a great job on the video, it's very good looking!
A very VERY important thing to note which Historically skipped over; Nazi engineers did in fact dream big ideas for weapons and technology, but more often than not those technologies were either drenched in sudoscience, were unfeasible or were literally there to drain the Nazi government of money by large corporations (the only good time they did that if you ask me). And when some of these projects did actually get past prototyping and got into field testing they were very usually impractical and a stupid idea to begin with.
This video should have mentioned Operation Gunnerside- which sabotaged Germany's heavy water facilities in Norway which basically made it impossible for Germany to ever develop a nuclear bomb- since Germany used un-enriched uranium, meaning they needed heavy water to trigger the nuclear fission needed to create a nuclear bomb.
You can't make a nuclear bomb out of un-enriched uranium and heavy water, that's a reactor. The reactor could technically breed plutonium for a bomb but the Germans were not really interested in that path like the Americans. They pursued uranium enrichment through centrifuge and electromagnetic separation, plus other methods with less interest. Also, IG Farben had its own heavy water production plant so at no point were the Germans out of heavy water.
Ah yes, the father of chemical weapons and synthesized ammonia, which would be used to either to further syntesize nitric acid for bombs and munitions or as a fertilizer.
Im only now releasing how much the Nazis looked like supervillains. Sharply dressed idiots who had so many extreme plans of hatred that they lost them the war. No wonder why so many people came up with superheroes around this time.
You kinda glossed over the fact that none of the scientists in either country were certain that such a bomb was possible to be made, even after discovering fission. Early on, the amount of uranium needed to go critical was calculated to be too large to be practical for a weapon. It took the physicists years of research to determine that it was.
Well, a large reason the Nazis never took the idea of a nuke all too seriously was because of the timeframe. Sure, we know in retrospect that the Americans made the bomb well within the timeframe of the war, but Nazi warplans were a lot more expedited. They steamrolled France extremely quickly, which shocked even them, since it was France that was still kicking to the end in WWI, and they expected the Soviet Union to be as much of a cakewalk as they believed the Russian Empire was, which fell in WWI. Sure the nukes were going to be complete by 1944, but the nazis expected the war to be well and truly over by then. In their minds, what good was a nuke when you'd already crushed everyone and there was no one left to nuke? Though I think they actually expected a 7 year timeframe on the bomb, with it being done in 1946...?
Let's be honest, the only reason Heisenberg didn't want to start the project was because he didn't want to undermine the war effort by putting an inordinate amount of resources into a potential dud.
Fighter aces don’t hold a candle to the overwhelming majority of history. Besides it wouldn’t make an entertaining story - He was aristocracy, really liked planes, learned how to fly, ww1 breaks out and he literally writes the book on how not to die in the air, then dies in the air.
The Americans didn't scoop him up like they did with all the other top scientists that they could get their hands on? The American effort to round up all those former Nazi scientists was called "Operation Paperclip". The British had a similar program operating from their Occupation Zone in the North- Western part of Germany under a different code name, as did the Soviets, who working out of their Occupation Zone in what would become East Germany along with East Berlin.
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It was so insanely hard to not get this video demonetized. We had to reupload the video with small adjustments (I kid you not) 14 times!
On top of that we had no clue what triggered it, as it was so inconsistent per our testing and RUclips didn't give us any feedback what was wrong with it....
It's actually not so much of a fun fact D:
Depression fact
When you're gonna make a video on the life of Louis XIV
@@Presidential_Teamworkwe have other subjects planned first
hello your videos are amazing good job here is a cool sniper montage i saw ruclips.net/video/9K1yZ7ch5uw/видео.html also can you cover realm royale as its by far my favorite shooter idk why im not commenting this on your arch channel @@HeyHistorically
Cool
"Say my name."
Your Heisenberg
@@johnsonwu4745You're goddamn right.
@@johnsonwu4745no, I’m Heisenberg. 😂
YO MISTAH WHITE
Uhh Hit-
Bros gonna be the next oversimplified 💯💯
I need my “history but really fast” fix and I need it NOW
It’s been like 1 year since he has uploaded
Omg yea
Around 5 days from now it will be a year ago
Os is shit ngl
Bro is both is a gaming youtuber and a history teacher. Respect.
RICHTHOFEN
Where’s the gaming
@@Boredability he has a second channel
@@IridescentOnYT ah ok, thanks dude
@@IridescentOnYT 🫂
2:30 “Sag meinen Namen”
…
“Heisenberg”
”Du hast verdammt recht"
the artists are so talented especially with the weapons they look so good
You don't draw them yourself. There's manh easy way to make accurate depictions of photorealistic images without much effort
He could honestly have a movie of his own like Oppenheimer, it’s super fascinating!
It wouldn’t have the pay off though that a lot of people came to Oppenheimer for. You can’t have a movie about nuclear bombs without the bomb.
yeah, in my opinion it would be a better idea to combine both ideas, starting with the idea, and then the creation, some people might not like it but eh.@@Saurophaganax1931
Fun Fact: he (Oppenheimer) had german ancestors and studied in Germany which was the world center of physics at the time
He did have a cameo in Oppenheimer.
Finally The Heisenberg movie
Corrections: The letter to FDR was actually written by Leo Szilard; Germany never made nukes because Werner Heisenberg calculated the critical mass wrong, and was convinced that nukes are impossible to make.
lol bro literally give up
But also the nazis thought nuclear science was "Jewish science" and never gave them the funds.
Ehh, and the map… First Slovak Republic has not borders as they are shown on the map. Czechoslovakia was divided into 4 “lands” - Bohemia, Moravia-Silesia, Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia (which is not a very good translation for what they have called now the region, better translation would be Subcarpathian Rus/Russia/Ruthenia). As should all of us know, in 1938 were territories with german-majority within Czechoslovakia were annexed by the Third Reich and were incorporated into its land, but also “lands” Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia weren’t untouched - entire “land” of Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed Hungary after of declaration of Republic Carpatho-Ukraine (that happened in 1939), a small bite of Northern Slovakia was annexed by Poland and it took also Zaolzie. In 1939, before the occupation of Czech-Slovakia, (I couldn't find any proper translation so here it is in czech/slovakian, Česko-Slovensko, and yes it was changed from (Second Republic of) Czechoslovakia to that) Slovakian Ultranationalist declared autonomous state within Czechoslovakia, and pushed Czechoslovakian government to quickly recognize it, government it recognized and after that they have changed its name, as I mentioned it earlier. After the occupation, “lands” of leftovers from “lands” of Bohemia and Moravia-Silesia were transformed into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and the autonomous Slovak State was given independence. When the Slovak Republic helped the Third Reich to invade Poland, it got back the re-annexed region from Poland, but not Zaolzie. And good to mention, that the Protectorate was a de facto sovereign state, but only on paper, so that you haven’t included the Protectorate on the map is rather your decision than a historical mistake.
Szilard wrote the letter but he asked Einstein to sign it so that they were more likely to get the attention of FDR.
Still leaves our question unanswered though.
Did he do it intentionally to waste resources?
Or just fail atomic maths-
This is the moment the Heisenberg became walter white
You’re goddamn right.
Didn’t the Nazis also claim that quantum mechanics were “Jewish science”?
Says who?
@@drapin idk but i also heard about it
@@drapinNazi officials and propagandists yeah it was politicized
@@drapin Hitler
@@nokedili it's true
Fun fact: oppenheimer and heisenberg were childhood friends
Childhood rivalry
Oppenheimer grew up in America, and Heisenberg quite naturally in Germany.
@@Ludovicus1769 Oppenheimer studied in germany
@@maxwell6881 Yeah, as a young man. Not as a child.
Oh
I love how the setting of that opening scene is the stage in Kino der Toten from COD Black Ops Zombies.
I would say it brings back good memories, but that wouldn't be very accurate considering I still play it😉.
Another factor may have been Telemark, and the raid in the heavy water facility there. Heavy water (D2O) is a poorer neutron regulator, than what other (modern) reactors use graphite, but the British helped the Norwegian resistance bomb the facility, this caused the Germans to think they were getting close with using Heavy water, and thus out more finances into rather than pursuing Graphite.
I love the valve refrences( the Gordon Freeman with the crowbar; and the TF2 bomb from the cart)
Dude the quality of these videos is insane for how fast you’re uploading! Either it was good planning and you started on them a while back and are only finishing them up. Or you’re insanely talented
Somehow, you are both my favorite history youtuber and gaming youtuber. Your animation style is amazing, keep up the good work!
I love your videos!!! Thank you so much for uploading and sharing history in such a funny way!!
WAKE UP HISTORICALLY UPLOADED!
0:01 mans looking like that German scientist from Zombies even the map looks like Kino
It is.
How do you forget Edward Richthofen?
There's something wrong with this video. At 3:24 you show a cartoon of France where it's head is the French tricolor flag. But when you show the British person it's head is the flag of England. It should be the UK Union Jack.
Thanks for pointing it out!
3:12 man i just got chills!
The transition from the animationto real at the time foto and than to my memory!
Ive been to that camp on an excursion to learn more about it and i lm preaty sure i saw that exact doorway!
Bro trust me, sooner or later you will blow up and this channel will have milions of subscribers. Keep up the good work, great video!
Very underrated channel, keep up the good work man!!!
3:01 it was Slovak State not are republic, minor error :)
Missed this one because it was uploaded like an hour after I went to sleep. Great video
Historically inaccurate. Leo Szilard is the one that realized the immediate danger. He was an acquaintance of Einstein, who was already famous at the time, having no way to contact the President Szilard used Einstein’s fame to have the letter of warning deliver to FDR. The letter was written by both Szilard (who informed Einstein about the danger) and Einstein who provided his signature
The letter shows how little was known at the time as they expected the main danger being that tonnes of uranium maybe used to destroy a harbor (by being carried on a ship).
The important part of fissionable materials is not that they create just one neutron when split by a neutron, which is what the illustration in the video unwittingly implies, it is that they can create multiple neutrons! This way 1 neutron splitting 1 atom releases for example 3 neutrons, which split 3 atoms releasing 9 neutrons, splitting 9 atoms releasing 27, and so on. The reaction is not just self-prepetuating at a constant rate, it is growing exponentially. Usually many neutrons fly away without reacting, however, so the speed of this growth can be manipulated by the density of the material and the neutrons.
The reactions go on, until the neutrons can no longer find enough new fissionable atoms to react with.
In nuclear reactors, they do this using absorbing material, for example water. The reaction is allowed to grow slowly until it reaches the desired power output, after which enough absorbing material is added so that 1 reaction on average leads to about 1 new reaction, causing the reactor to keep going, but without dying, or growing too fast, which could cause a meltdown. (Nuclear explosions require special explosive methods to momentarily massive increase the reaction speed, which is why nuclear reactors cannot explode like nuclear bombs)
Another possibility is that so much fissionable atoms undergo fission that the density of fissionable material grows too small, so the neutrons can't cause enough new neutrons to be released, and the reaction dies out. Basically, a reactor that runs out of fuel.
In nuclear bombs, carefully timed explosions cause the atoms and neutrons to concentrate into an extremely high density sphere, where momentarily an absolutely insane amount of reactions can happen with far fewer neutrons lost before they cause a new reaction. The energy rises extremely high, and atoms gain so much energy that they get flung in every direction, so that the density goes down and the reaction stops. But before that, a lot of reactions have happened in a very short time, releasing an insane amount of energy, with said energy showing itself as a nuclear explosion.
If splitting a Uranium atom produced only one neutron there would have been no bomb. We call it chain reaction, but it’s actually branching chain reaction, so the number of split nuclei increases exponentially. This allowed nuclear weapons.
This is the channel I watch to fill the void until oversimplified posts
This is actually more like SideQuest which is far more accurate
Nah this is better than oversimplified (change my mind)
5:25 The real uncertainty principle
I am glad to witness the start of this great channel
Love learning about history in a beautiful artistic manner!
HE UPLOADED
The laugh of the one activating the Glocke really shows the megalomania they had
Jesse, we need to create a weapon of mass destruction
I love your animation! Underrated channel!!
Bro really went to kino der toten and thought we didnt notice
Ill finally be able to say I subscribed to a major youtuber before he got 20k subscribers
good video, but yeah you should do a double check on the maps, they are very well done and have great quality but you forgot to give crimea to the soviet union (this mistake can be seen from the 3:02 to 3:12) still i have to say again, you did a great job on the video, it's very good looking!
I knew i recognized your voice! Love all your videos arch
IS THAT KINO DER TOTEN
This channel this small with this such good animation and skills is so cool
You should check out his other channel Arch if you like the animation and games
My Dude, love your videos, keep doing what you are doing and you’ll go far! Greetings from Brasil!
A very VERY important thing to note which Historically skipped over; Nazi engineers did in fact dream big ideas for weapons and technology, but more often than not those technologies were either drenched in sudoscience, were unfeasible or were literally there to drain the Nazi government of money by large corporations (the only good time they did that if you ask me). And when some of these projects did actually get past prototyping and got into field testing they were very usually impractical and a stupid idea to begin with.
Always a good day when Historically posts 💪
I am obese
Hit the gym fatty! 🤓
@@HeyHistorically last time i was near my local gym i wasbt old enough now i am but im in turkey so thats a scam
@@ekos6753 you are never to young for gym
@@Rahul_G.G. i looked up my local gyms site and it was like nuh uh
@@ekos6753 i just see excuses
So you could say that Heisenberg's principals were uncertain.
This video should have mentioned Operation Gunnerside- which sabotaged Germany's heavy water facilities in Norway which basically made it impossible for Germany to ever develop a nuclear bomb- since Germany used un-enriched uranium, meaning they needed heavy water to trigger the nuclear fission needed to create a nuclear bomb.
You can't make a nuclear bomb out of un-enriched uranium and heavy water, that's a reactor. The reactor could technically breed plutonium for a bomb but the Germans were not really interested in that path like the Americans. They pursued uranium enrichment through centrifuge and electromagnetic separation, plus other methods with less interest.
Also, IG Farben had its own heavy water production plant so at no point were the Germans out of heavy water.
Come on man we all watched breaking bad
No, we didn't.
@@lysanamcmillan7972 that explains why you had to watch this to answer the question in the description
Loving the content!!
A cool villain or hero example is Fritz Haber, though there are already videos covering his deeds. He is still interesting.
Ah yes, the father of chemical weapons and synthesized ammonia, which would be used to either to further syntesize nitric acid for bombs and munitions or as a fertilizer.
bro is really underrated we need to share this to make him go boom
1:59 tf2 bomb right there
“Why is the cart not moving!” Exclaimed spy
Is anyone gonna acknowledge the fact the dude used the bomb on the Payload cart in TF2 for the art of the atomic bomb?
Im only now releasing how much the Nazis looked like supervillains. Sharply dressed idiots who had so many extreme plans of hatred that they lost them the war. No wonder why so many people came up with superheroes around this time.
found out about your channel today, binged all of your videos theyre too good
I just wanna show appreciation for you starting the video with a black ops zombie Easter egg. May your pillow always be cold my good sir
wait was that the TF2 Payload in the thumbnail?!
Axis superweapons expensive pipedreams
Allied superweapons where war winers like radar
are we not gonna talk about the bomb in thumbnail and at 1:54 is the payload from team fortress 2
Animators are solid 🫡
Bro these are so high quality can believe you don’t have a million subscribers yet
these videos actually blow me outta the water with the quality every time i watch them
Dammit! He’s a new channel! I can’t binge a bunch of content…… YET
There was also that commando raid on the only axis heavy-water enrichment facility in Norway.
To paraphrase a quote:
"What the fuck is this Schrodinger's Hero bullshit?!"
They escaped because of the rising antisemitism, not fascism, that was in italy.
You kinda glossed over the fact that none of the scientists in either country were certain that such a bomb was possible to be made, even after discovering fission.
Early on, the amount of uranium needed to go critical was calculated to be too large to be practical for a weapon. It took the physicists years of research to determine that it was.
This is going big one day trust me
It anyone has heard this man on a different channel his name but doesent remember their name, its called"arch Productions"
Heisenberg and his team were most probably not even making the bomb but just doing research
wtf how do incredible creators like you just pop out of nowhere with content like this???
Changes in the algorithm. I'm not joking
Fun fact: Oppenheimer used to work with Heisenberg before the war
0:01 bro this guy for real used the set from Call of duty Black ops zombie
3:24 felt really weird seeing the flags on their faces lol
Got to say I love the Soviet red it’s such a beautiful color
Bro that's the tf2 payload cart
Jesse we have to make nukes
Well, a large reason the Nazis never took the idea of a nuke all too seriously was because of the timeframe. Sure, we know in retrospect that the Americans made the bomb well within the timeframe of the war, but Nazi warplans were a lot more expedited.
They steamrolled France extremely quickly, which shocked even them, since it was France that was still kicking to the end in WWI, and they expected the Soviet Union to be as much of a cakewalk as they believed the Russian Empire was, which fell in WWI.
Sure the nukes were going to be complete by 1944, but the nazis expected the war to be well and truly over by then. In their minds, what good was a nuke when you'd already crushed everyone and there was no one left to nuke? Though I think they actually expected a 7 year timeframe on the bomb, with it being done in 1946...?
I love the Richtofen reference at the beginning their XD
Let's be honest, the only reason Heisenberg didn't want to start the project was because he didn't want to undermine the war effort by putting an inordinate amount of resources into a potential dud.
Man's whole life was an uncertainty principle
You guys are improving so much, and I loved the video so much! You guys are such an inspiration for me.
2:01 is that designed after the TF2 Payload?
I love this artstyle please make more
Charming art style. Commenting for engagement.
Cod zombies gets like :)
Damn Gorden Feeman is smart but didn’t expect German Smart.
I'm uncertain if it was principle or the fear of an undead cat keeping commenters from making certain jokes at Heisenberg's expense.
Love the Video but, How was Heisenberg meeting Hitler in 1944 and Hitler commiting Suicide in 1945 Suspicious?
its called sarcastic comedy mate xD
its always a good day when historically uploads innit
using "America-dabra" as a subsitute for the nuclear bomb is the funniest shit i've ever heard
😮this is what schrodinger said(cat is live and dead at the same time).. Heisenberg is in the heaven and in the hell at the same time
pls do a video on the medieval teutonic crusades plese ! also good video
other channels: *doesnt say hitler or nazi because of demonitization*
Historically: LEEROY JENKINS
Edward, open this door! Goodbye, Doctor Maxis.
When are you going to cover richtofen.
Fighter aces don’t hold a candle to the overwhelming majority of history. Besides it wouldn’t make an entertaining story - He was aristocracy, really liked planes, learned how to fly, ww1 breaks out and he literally writes the book on how not to die in the air, then dies in the air.
love your channel please make more content please please :) please
This is all very ahistorical. Einstein wasn't the one that originated the letter.
This invalidates the rest because of simplification?
@@HeyHistoricallyyes
The Americans didn't scoop him up like they did with all the other top scientists that they could get their hands on? The American effort to round up all those former Nazi scientists was called "Operation Paperclip". The British had a similar program operating from their Occupation Zone in the North- Western part of Germany under a different code name, as did the Soviets, who working out of their Occupation Zone in what would become East Germany along with East Berlin.