Atrocious Acts Committed by the “Good Guys”

[@richardeast3328]

Most people remember the evils that have been done against them, but do not remember the evils that they have done against others.

[@jrr7031]

Ha!!! Thats funny! The English complained about the horrors the Spanish committed against the first nation natives.....only to turn around and do the same to the central West Africans.

[@mauricedavis8261]

Exactly ask us catholics!!!🤔

[@chuckemeade]

@@jrr7031 The Spanish were big players in the Atlantic Slave Trade also.

[@jrr7031]

@@chuckemeade Spanish? You mean Portuguese?

[@chuckemeade]

@@jrr7031 Also the French, Dutch and Arabs.

[@thebonesaw..4634]

Pretty harsh towards The United States, Canada, South Korea and France... yet, *not one disparaging remark about Great Britain.* I guess they don't have a single thing to be ashamed of. NOPE, not a thing...

[@briandunstan3503]

No, your right we didn't, we were bombed by Germans, that meant we had to hurt the bastards, what's your point,?didn't you like us using live ammo,, or didn't you like us winning ?,,,

[@thebonesaw..4634]

@@briandunstan3503 -- Leave it to a limey to *completely miss a point as simple as the one I made!* I mean, you didn't even get within 1,000 miles of it (I'm sorry... 8,467,619 kilo-twaddlers... or whatever). You know, for a group of people who proudly claim to have "invented" the English language... you sure do seem to have an awfully hard time deciphering it. What do you need in order to better understand my original point? Smaller words, shorter sentences... pictures?

[@davidboyle2476]

@@thebonesaw..4634 You think Great Britain uses the metric system. Aww how sweet. And just who do you think ''invented'' the ENGLISH language? The Yanks

[@fritzkuhne2055]

@@briandunstan3503 britain bombed german cities first, only then started the bombing of london and so on. read it up

[@kade721]

@@fritzkuhne2055 I'm not denying it or anything but to my knowledge Churchill ordered a rather small bombing raid on Berlin which made Hitler essentially angry and caused him to start bombing cities letting the RAF (Royal Air Force) into the air to combat the Germans which ultimately saved Britain.

[@haggus71]

saying "instead of taking it out on the men" with the French humiliation of women sympathisers is wrong. This was done in Belgium and the Netherlands as well, by the way. The men sympathizers weren't humiliated, true. They were EXECUTED. A bit better research, please.

[@TheftTone6]

Notice how Britain isn't up there lol bias at its finest.

[@mattiOTX]

Britian does not actually have free speech the same way the us does. He might actually get in legal trouble.

[@mattiOTX]

@@swalker157 what do you mean?

[@swalker157]

6 plyrich if the UK doesn’t allow people to talk about the terrible things it’s done in the past it’s on the same level if not worse than those disgusting people who deny the holocaust.

[@FriedEgg101]

@S Walker157 Simon doesn't live in the uk, and the channel is owned by an american afaik. Also, with the amount of content he presents daily do you really think he even writes his own scripts? How would he have time?

[@lynxfirenze4994]

A video on British nefariousness would take quite a long time. You don't build such a powerful empire with please and thank you.

[@Hawaiian_Shirt_guy]

Not much was mentioned about Britain, oddly enough.

[@jonathanpalmer228]

Nothing was mentioned of Britain

[@FriedEgg101]

This is an american channel afaik, it just has a british presenter. I don't think he even writes his own scripts, and with the level of content he presents daily I'm sure he doesn't do the research; he wouldn't have time. He doesn't even live in the uk.

[@masteroogway3816]

Timothy McCravy bengal famine

[@ramozj6997]

Bomber Harris.

[@jacobdenness8659]

I really thought he was going to mention how Churchill ordered the French fleet sunk. Had to be done but it was really bad.

[@eb1239]

He said Canada was at war whith the Austro-Hungarian empire in ww2. He meant ww1.

[@Gfp1995]

The_Jaguar_ Knight he's a host, not a researcher or writer, it says so in the description. Get over yourself.

[@Gfp1995]

The_Jaguar_ Knight I know its pre written and hes just reading it lol

[@victorsamuleson9505]

The_Jaguar_ Knight c

[@annegrey3780]

I feel like that's a How I Met Your Mother joke about Canadians that just kinda wrote itself in...Canadians are so behind they were fighting the Austro-Hungarian Empire in WW2 isn't that far off from "the 80s didn't hit Canada till the late 90s" (I am Canadian btw, and old enough for dated references).

[@jackmolenar909]

The slide said WW1 he misspoke dipshit

[@thefrozenknight3666]

"Back during WW2 Canada was at war with the Austro-Hungarian Empire" oh, were they Simon, were they...Austro-Hungarian Empire...WW2...ok Simon, lay off the Brandy

[@tonytwinkletoes3149]

LMAO I think he missphrased but funny none the less

[@thefrozenknight3666]

tony twinkletoes oh yeah, mistakes happen, I absolutely love Simon and all the channels he works on. I just got a giggle out of the mistake

[@tonytwinkletoes3149]

@@thefrozenknight3666 yeah definitely a easy laugh at the image of an austro Hungarian hussar charging a ww2 tank 😂

[@shihtzu291]

Yeah I cottoned on to that Frozen Knight the Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolved in World War One didn't it.

[@donaldv13]

The Polish charged German tanks on horse back during WW2, quite effectively at times.

[@MrTTuguldur]

You left Russians or Soviets i should say. They had done massive atrocities against all other people in Europe at that time.

[@thedeathwobblechannel6539]

but he did mention Russia helped the west win the war. like all those russian aieplanes and tanks we used. and the russian supply ships. and the russian food shipped out the the west.

[@slavsya]

I agree with both of you but with all russian hate from the west media it's nothing new that Red Army committed atrocities

[@maryjeanjones1940]

Tuguldur_CFC E- Russia also had the highest amount of causalities of any country who participated in WW2. The Russian death toll was around 26 million citizens killed.

[@brianverbanickjr.5551]

@@thedeathwobblechannel6539 what are you talking about, what Russian planes, tanks, ships, and food that "helped the west" win the war, western nations were supplying the Russians with planes, tanks, ships, food, weapons, bullets, helmets, boots, etc... WE were HELPING the Russians, i dont know where you get your information but if your looking for facts, what ever your using to learn history is wrong

[@Ambtran2023]

@@maryjeanjones1940 Doesn't make the atrocities right.

[@FinnlandIlpoPietinen]

Next video: all war crimes of UK

[@Decimalar]

So... None?

[@Altrantis]

@@theunusualsuspect9577 Or, you know, Ireland.

[@anthonysalgado5118]

Britain smells like roses I suppose , wheres the Boer war come in , let me tell you that the Boer women were not put in camps to keep them safe as some moron historians like spreading around. Who were they in danger from not the Boers but the Brtis were having a hard fight and started playing dirty . Then just for the hell of it they through blacks into concentration camps as well where thousands died as well .

[@paulsheehan2998]

We're perfect obviously

[@ravenkahne8484]

@@Decimalar Dresden. Churchill should burn in Hell for it.

[@steveadams5190]

DUDE!!! SERIOUSLY??? NOTHING about the UK, huh? Wow.

[@psychronic8327]

UK : oh you're getting invaded ? Colonies : YES WE NEED HELP *UK has left the chat*

[@aleddavies-williams6083]

@@psychronic8327 maybe cos the didnt want another war like ww1 want 700000 dead brits again

[@psychronic8327]

@@aleddavies-williams6083 they could also try to be competent enough to point their coastal guns in the right direction

[@CH-wg1bh]

Steve Adams A war crime by the British was unrestricted Submarine warfare

[@aleddavies-williams6083]

@@psychronic8327 well they did they just never had a naval invasion attempt

[@freddypedraza2066]

Jews: we are saved!!! Stalin: yes, but actually no

[@bigcoins2320]

Lol

[@conors4430]

Freddy Pedraza by the time the war was over there was hardly any jews left

[@ИванДогаев-ф3ь]

Freddy Pedraza Stalin didn’t target Jews.

[@morelanmn]

@@conors4430 Check the Red cross population count.. you will see we have been lied to

[@freddypedraza2066]

@@ИванДогаев-ф3ь no, he targeted everyone

[@patricklevens777]

He lied the French did punish male colaberaters. They shot them in the head.

[@Altrantis]

Petain was only sentenced to life imprisonment because of saving France in WW1, if he had been anyone else he would have gotten the death penalty, which is what he was actually convicted to.

[@robertraymond762]

I don't think they lied, I think they made a mistake.

[@iriscollins7583]

@@Altrantis WWI ????????????

[@iriscollins7583]

@D B You can't handle the truth.

[@scottbrooklyn2995]

It's easy to condem with a full tummy well sitting in an easy chair

[@RealSkoolmaster]

careful there Simon... your bias is showing...

[@neville592]

Skool Simon is just the presenter for the channel

[@kennynoble1223]

@@neville592 So, do you think the script writers were afraid to write something that'd seem like an anti-British script for a British-American guy to present or what? Clearly, there's bias there. The specific reason for the bias doesn't seem to be as important as the bias itself. Maybe I'm just biassed though...

[@neville592]

Kenny Noble jeez.. all I'm saying is that Simon is the presenter and doesn't write the script so people stop blaming him.. and yes I do believe there is bias in this

[@kennynoble1223]

@@neville592 He took that position as his own, too, though. People are responsible for what we say. He could say it's just an act and he didn't mean it. many actors and even some presenters are like that, saying 1 thing then making disclaimers that essentially backpedal in some way. "For entertainment purposes only" is a popular 1. Or Simon or someone on his team could get straight to the point and say “He’s playing a character” like Alex Jones had his lawyer confess on his behalf once, but I don't recommend it. I guess many of his viewers didn't like that level of brutal honesty. Still, there's more than 1 way to convey Simon's "just the messenger" and doesn't necessarily believe or condone what he says or leaves out on these videos. That's all I'm saying.

[@KianoUyMOOP]

Especially with Canada being tolerant and accepting refugees en masse. I'm not comfortable with this channel anymore.

[@christoduplessis8177]

The British murdered a quarter of the Boer population in concentration camps during the 2nd Anglo-Boer war but being interned as a Japanese American and made to salute the flag is worse mmm interesting.

[@britishgamer666]

Christo du Plessis this is about WW2 mate.

[@christoduplessis8177]

@@britishgamer666uhm like the first story is about the Korean war, which happened in the 1950s hahahaha

[@britishgamer666]

Christo du Plessis really? Must’ve not listened to it properly. I usually play games and listen to these.

[@thehowlingmisogynist9871]

The British had no idea how to runlkarge camps with large populations, just like the Americans in the Civiul War, think Andersonville and Camp Douglas.

[@Briselance]

"a quarter of the Boer population" What?? O_o

[@Totoofwarful]

i am french and what we did to women after the war is not unknow it's teached in school

[@John77Doe]

Totoofwarful We should never have given Charles DeGaul, nuclear arms. 😑😑😑😑

[@FriedEgg101]

@George It's clear you were joking, but that's tasteless man.

[@camembertdalembert6323]

John Doe "We should never have given Charles DeGaul, nuclear arms." This is ridiculous. France created it's nuclear arms from scratch.

[@JustinCase99999]

I am french and you meant unknown * and taught *. De rien. 😊

[@JustinCase99999]

I know the official story now is that the public humiliation of those women who slept with German soldiers was a horrible thing, and that those women either were just trying to survive or didn't know what they were doing. But that's only one side of the story. I have talked to people who lived through Occupation, including my mother, who was in her early teens at the time. She hated the Germans. Everybody was trying to survive, food and various goods were scarce because the Germans kept them for themselves. So the few girls who slept with Germans for money, gifts and such were despised by the French population. Especially as some of these women would spy on French people for the Germans. My mother knew of one of these women in her building where she lived and she would listen through her neighbours doors at night to see if anyone was listening to Radio Londres, the free french London-based radio station, because it wasn't allowed to listen to it and you could be in trouble if you did. And she reported her own neighbours to her German soldier boyfriend. Some French people got in trouble because of these women, when all French people were living through hard times trying to survive, with some of them dying in the Resistance, like my mother's brother, who died at the age of 18, an uncle I never got to know. If you'd asked my mother, she would have told you that these women had it pretty easy at Liberation, with the public haircutting and all. Just because they were women. Men traitors were usually shot or hanged on the spot. It's easy to judge now, but four years of frustration, starvation, humiliation, torture, and retaliation by shooting civilian hostages, well, that might explain it.

[@45obiwan]

16 million soldiers were in Europe during WWII, most were decent people but, there is no group that large that doesn't have a few monsters in it. When you are fighting a war, you look for monsters to be on your side.

[@derekscanlan4641]

and the fires of war have turned many clean souls dirty

[@FriedEgg101]

Especially today when national service is uncommon. And what I mean by that is; those who go to war in modern times have mostly chosen to, and so are up for it, and so have a higher chance of being so inclined. To my logic anyway.

[@nathnathn]

FriedEgg tho alot of of ppl that join the military don’t expect to deal with more then pirates. I cant remember where i heard of it but i heard a story about how many ppl in the military’s before ww2 we’re afraid when told there deploying because apparently one of the common things with the recruiters was them saying you’ll never be deployed that you’ll just do drills a few years and get out with pension.

[@stevetreloar6602]

Cyprian96, and you/they have more than your fair share of monsters too.

[@bobwendoloski6970]

Very true.

[@williamdennis7652]

In war no one comes out clean. Just those that win make it look like that

[@theamericanpatriot3758]

I find the lack of war crimes disturbing.

[@C104-x9s]

There are a lot lot more they picked the most harmless

[@gintautassickus6390]

There should be a part 2.

[@Christinebanks11]

Go out there and commit some ! ;p

[@corbingreiner9879]

I see you've joined the dark side. lol

[@someturkishguy8638]

*I have been disappointed by the lack of people admitting that they have disobeyed the geneva convention*

[@jasper677]

i hate how churchill is getting away as the heroic enduring freedom-fighter, while he was one of the worst warmongers in recent history, he committed warcrimes on every continent and declared dozens of unjust wars. Also, he was a terrible tactician, while his broad strategics were generally ok, but inconsistent, he was a atrocious frontline commander

[@jasper677]

D3LTA yes and another example for bad strategy is dunkirk, when he wanted to continue the war even though his army was defeated. Only luck and individual commander skill safed the day. Just imagine 100-200 thousand fresh conscripts against the german Army at its peak

[@King_Cova]

Just want to break this down for you, Churchill wasn't even the person who declared war on Germany, he never had the authority to declare war untill 1939, at which time the UK was already at war. After WW2 the first conflict Britain was involved in was the Suez canal blockade, which time Churchill was not the PM and before 1939 he was only a member of parliament. Now run back off to history class and maybe try again, I am not saying you are 100% wrong just you have your facts all screwed up.

[@altelf3079]

I know about the Indian famine, but what other atrocities has Churchill committed?

[@jacksmith3189]

The fire bombing of Dresden caused 100,000+ plus deaths but the allies put it at 10,000 Churchill/Montgomery took advantage when possible The firebombing of Tokyo resulted in more deaths than the two A-bombs Thanks for the video There were more atrocities caused by the allies that we don’t know of

[@richardstephens5570]

A 2010 report released by the Germans put the actual death toll at less than 25,000.

[@Anna-gg9wj]

@@richardstephens5570 I just know that on my father's side of the family, all my relatives died during the bombings. They are completely forgotten in my family and through it, I can not trace my entire family tree back. On my mother's side I can track it back to the 16th century

[@BmorePatriot]

Still the Americans, Brits and even the Russians were better.

[@georgameise1684]

@@richardstephens5570 pretending Germany can be truthful about this

[@alexandersteffen7805]

@@BmorePatriot base on what????

[@leviwarren6222]

You'll notice whenever Britain was involved in any of these war crimes, they were grouped together with other countries and not mentioned by name. This channel is opening my eyes more and more to the distain that some British people hold for Americans. They're certainly becoming less diplomatic about it.

[@winged9247]

One could say the disdain is justified.

[@williamlee7672]

Levi Warren Most nations don’t like America.

[@swalker157]

William Lee it’s hard being the best but somebody has to do it.

[@Three_Random_Words]

Simon is just a shitass biased against America. There are dozens and dozens of videos showcasing his bias where he singles out the USA.

[@europium606]

USA is far from perfect, but we did contribute alot to making the world better, such as contributing to the defeat of absolute monarchy and communism. Also, most of Americas crimes Canada did 5 times worse. Persecution of Native Americans and the Japanese was far worse and continued far longer (1970s) in Canada.

[@alejandroojeda1572]

Nothing about the extense bombing of Germany or Japan. When I was in Germany I went to a town and they told me: this is one of the only three towns not bombed during WW2. the reason? It was foggy. In Berlin there's an statue called the unnamed soldier which was nicknamed the unnamed raper by the local population. The masive emigration of germans is rarely talked about and to this day's it's still the worst in migration crisis in the history of modern Europe. The soviets were so incredibly brutal towards the local population in the Baltic that sometimes the nazis were welcomed as Victor's while the streets were still full of corpses. The English in order to maintain the war effort killed millions in British India. The bombing of Tokyo killed more than 100.000 people, mostly civilians in a fire that burned 40 square km (15.8 square miles). However the number could be an understamation as 1.5 million people approx lived in the burned area.

[@sagedelacruz8199]

@Kyllyan Fritz-Yoen Ateme he’s talking about the liberators most people know what the nazis and Japanese did but what the liberators did is rarely ever talked about

[@hansrutzigen754]

Japan bombed cities on the Asian mainland and in Australia. It's well documented, yet it is almost never mentioned.

[@Briselance]

"The English in order to maintain the war effort killed millions in British India." So they left the famine unchecked on purpose? Hmm... I'm not even British, and I doubt it.

[@mattemal6054]

Nearly as atrocious as the firebombing of Tokyo was the Allied firebombing of Dresden. Tens of thousands of civilians were slaughtered in fires so hot that concrete was set ablaze.

[@hansrutzigen754]

@@sagedelacruz8199 What the Japanese did is never talked about in Japan.

[@wirehead1000]

Also the internment of Japanese-Canadians in Canada in WW2, most born in Canada. The Japanese-Canadians were mainly coastal fishermen and quite well off owning properties now worth hundreds of-millions; fish factories, fishing fleets, and boat-building factories. They were forced to sell all of their assets for 10% of its value and sent to the interior mountains of south BC to ramshackle semi-deserted ghost towns high in the snowy mountains, and the men compelled to construct their own camps for the thousands more internees. The camps were slapped-up, being drafty green lumber shacks for the women, children and elderly. The folks at the coast were confined in a sport's stadium in tents in a cold wet rain-forest climate for months while the construction was done. The Internment Camp residents were mainly women , children and elderly who were supplied with crappy inadequate food. The winter snow was many feet deep and services rudimentary at best. The men were put to work as virtual slaves in Alberta's farms and other industry far from their families. TB was a huge problem in the camps. My family lived in the camp region and saw the abuse first hand. Many local farms gave what they could, but the region's inhabitants were subsequently demonized in documentaries that CBC and other media showed in the 1970s and on because the racism of some of the locals was featured and the help never mentioned. My valley still bears the scarred memory of this terrible time. I still remember the camp ruins. The houses were salvaged, but the TB outhouses were shunned. They were the last easily visible remains of one of Canada's most egregious crimes against humanity. After the war, the discrimination was continued because the Japanese-Canadians were forbidden to return to the Coast and their former lives. They had to either stay in the Interior or move east, mainly to Ontario. Their unique culture and community were thus destroyed. The German and Ukrainian discrimination in WWI and WW2 was mild in comparison.

[@brndonlu9635]

This makes the interment of Japanese Americans seem more like grounded compare to the Candians of Japanese descent. Both were bad though.

[@MrJdebest]

British cooking and cuisine which was forced upon millions during the reign of the British Empire was NOT mentioned.

[@tomfrazier1103]

Fortunately it (British cookery) was modified by the natives. The pommies spread curry worldwide.

[@Siegmeyer_]

As an Englishman, I sincerely apologise for the disgrace which is our cuisine hahaha

[@alanhorowitz3796]

I don't know...I kind of like lamb vindaloo, chcken tika masala and basmathi rice...

[@Briselance]

@@tomfrazier1103 British cookery is bigger than just curry, eh, mate?

[@tomfrazier1103]

@@Briselance curry here is the Japanese interpretation, they got it from Britishers whom got from India.

[@CtrlAltWut]

i'll save everyone 13 minutes "great britain never did anything wrong" the end

[@HasvenWorld]

Britain not being mentioned =/= saying they did nothing wrong. Cmon how many of you guys are gonna point out UK wasn't mentioned

[@bogusmogus9551]

-Yep, just about sums it up.

[@greenghost2212]

That's not even the crazy part. He gonna critique our bombing campaign even though the axis STARTED BOMBING CIVILANS FIRST 🤦🏿‍♂️. So just because ours was more efficient its a problem 🤦🏿‍♂️. Plus add the fact that the Germans nor Japan recognized the Geneva accords.

[@ParanormalEncyclopedia]

@@greenghost2212 you do understand that kindergarden logic (But they did it first) doesn't work in ethics right? No ones claiming the axis were poor victims, well no one sane.

[@greenghost2212]

@@ParanormalEncyclopedia That's not the point. Ethics is a touchy subject anyway in terms of warfare. No one said that nuking Japan was right per say. But it was the right decision out of the two. The other would've been way more bloodshed than already recorded.

[@thejawalord3169]

Weird, nothing about England, haha.

[@milesgreenaway6008]

The Jawa Lord we did ours a couple hundred years ago this is all WW1 on wards

[@joancarter125]

He can't talk about England. ...they will "TOMMY ROBERTSON" him !

[@scan9954]

@@milesgreenaway6008 bloody Sunday (1920 & 72), balamurphy, mau mau uprising, Malaya.. could make 10 of these videos just on post korea British war crimes and botched pull outs of colonial territory

[@astyanax905]

Of course not, but some shaky governing by Canada was mentioned ;)

[@grayishcolors]

Was just thinking that :P

[@simonkevnorris]

My understanding is that at the end of WWII in Europe there were supposed to be 'free elections' in Eastern Europe but the Soviets installed governments that were friendly to them and any elections were hardly 'free and fair'. The Soviets had done their bit to ensure a friendly Polish government by slaughtering Polish Officers at Katyn Forest (and then blames this on the Germans). I don't know how Britain or France could have done anything to help Poland at the start of the war as they didn't have to forces to do anything. The treaty was more of a deterant to protect Poland rather than anything more. In truth no side in any war 'plays fair',

[@indy_go_blue6048]

That's not to mention encouraging the Warsaw Home Army to attack the Germans, then when fighting started sitting on their blood soaked hands on the east side of the Vistula for months while the courageous but anti-communist Poles were slaughtered, not even allowing the western allies airbases so they could fly in supplies.

[@terrorgaming459]

Lmao what

[@tedcurrently6092]

"War is Cruelty, you cannot refine it." - U.S. General William Tecumseh Sherman

[@stupidhat1779]

Indeed

[@wolfgangemmerich7552]

George Patton: We didn´t make Prisoners.......

[@Vivekanandakg]

What about British in India...not a single word...ha ha ha .

[@we_rock_on]

If you want to put the time into making a video on this topic I'm sure many people would like to watch it.

[@karstenshields1694]

VivekNanda kg or selling opium illegally in china then invading them for not buying opium and selling tea to the British

[@conlaiarla]

What about the British everywhere they went ?

[@hajimeokajima]

He'll make a full video on it.

[@mikecain6947]

You should a video about the famine in India.

[@workingguy-OU812]

"The conflict escalated into open warfare when North Korean forces-supported by the Soviet Union and China-moved into the south on 25 June 1950" -- WIkipedia ... so the USA is to blame for all-out warring NK despite them being the ones to decide war was the best idea? If you decide war is what you want, don't complain when war is what you get.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

No mention of the 750K to 1M S Korean victims of communist atrocities during the summer of 1950 either.

[@jjquinn295]

The only war to make war less brutal is to make it short. Is it more civilized to kill all the people by bombing or through staving them through blockade as your army crawls across the land? The answer is whatever ends the suffering faster.

[@alexhatfield2987]

As an Englishman, I was educated for a while in a Prep School, where we sung " Jerusalem" at assembly, played rugger and cricket, and I was taught how our historic national atrocities were never as appalling as the atrocities committed by other uncivilised peoples... Oh, give me strength! No nation, no community, no race, no individual has the moral or ethical monopoly on civilised or compassionate behaviour. We ALL live in countries that have been humane and inhuman. We all have much to be proud of....and much to be ashamed of.

[@altelf3079]

Shame it's just us who understand that.

[@CABRALFAN27]

And so I choose to be neither proud nor ashamed of the achievements or atrocities of my ancestors, because neither of them are mine.

[@atmywhitson]

@@CABRALFAN27 YES

[@riverdaledragon]

Churchill did several under the table deals with Stalin. How did you get that wrong?

[@WillHayes44]

Roosevelt did nothing wrong...

[@Walden-jx4mi]

They were allies, they didn’t need under the table deals

[@walnzell9328]

The Soviet Union and the Allies were allies, but they weren't friends. In fact, the USSR had its own faction known as the Comintern. They never joined the Allies. The entire war, the two factions, the Allies and the Comintern, were secretly planning the next war between each other. The best example of this is the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They were done to speed up Japan's surrender and prevent Soviet annexation of them.

[@godlovesyou1995]

Churchill HATED Stalin. It was USA what thought they could be allies. (At first)

[@lafaqmacros8667]

No British war crime ? Wow. I didn't know the Brits never did anything wrong.

[@ReaperCH90]

Dresden is missing, in my opinion the biggest allied warcrime in WW2.

[@trevor7132]

It’s over exaggerated

[@1sanitat1]

@@trevor7132 It certainly isn't.

[@richardstephens5570]

A 2010 report released by the Germans put the actual death toll at less than 25,000.

[@loditx7706]

Richard Stephens That's disappointing. I thought the number equaled those killed in Nagasaki. Maybe I confused number with death toll in Hamburg or Cologne.

[@sheep1903]

@Ariell G Did you miss the word "Allied"?

[@AVERYFLUFFYWALRUS]

I get that Japanese internment camps were pretty bad but I would definetly have to disagree that making them salute the flag and say the pledge of allegiance is an "atrocity"

[@alexsikar6814]

Oddball I mean, they had First Amendment rights, so according to our Constitution it was an attrocity.

[@zacharybohn2189]

@@alexsikar6814 Eh, I think we can agree that forcing anyone to display patriotism is authoritarian in nature. However, I think using the word "atrocity" is a bit of a stretch.

[@jucadvgv3449]

these japanese americans, though, were treated fantastic when compared to the prisioners japan took and the countries they occupied. these americans should not have been interred like this, but the way the japanese treated conquired people, not even necessarily interred folks, was with totally archaic barbarism. if i recall correctly, they had refused to sign the geneva convention and showed it. (i may be wrong on this, as i am pulling from memory of history, but i believe it's correct.)

[@brianverbanickjr.5551]

Nazis that were captured by the USA in ww2 were sent to the states and were also treated very very well, actually, basically all the prisoners we took in ww2 were treated very very well EDIT: still, they were prisoners of war but when I mean we treated prisoners very very well, we treated them better than many of the other countries involved in the war

[@conors4430]

Oddball The atrocity was keeping them in a camp, the added humiliation was being forced to pledge allegiance to a country that had locked you up

[@Wesely66]

At 9:05 you said that there where vigilantise running around hurting and shameing woman insted of going after their men counter parts. I know that in most of Europe this is false, since even to the woman got humiliated. Most of the men just got shot.

[@Koozomec]

You forget rule number one '...but women had it worse !'.

[@Wesely66]

Koozomec they kinda did have it worse since all the men where dead. The only people i feel bad for is the children. they got harrased most of their life for something they where not at fault.

[@Koozomec]

@@Wesely66I disagree, i was sarcastic. German enslaved millions of french men to work in their factories, so many young women bounded (not raped) with german soldiers (for love and/or for food). I would chose being shaved instead of being shot personaly and i think most people will chose that too. France was in a civil war state after the liberation, commies and collaborators did many attrocities during this period. Just for the anecdote my grand mother told me they avoided germans but were terrorised by americans because they were unpredictable. No, women haven't got it worse than men during this war.

[@Wesely66]

Koozomec i did not say that woman had it worse during the war, i said that the most traitorus woman had it worse after becouse the men got shot. And if they are dead then they do not suffer.

[@nachomurielaraujo6029]

It actually pisses me off. In Spain, during the Civil War, my great grandfather was executed by republican army soldiers (he was a civie and he was in his house, he didn't want to get involved in the war). There are people who say that he deserved it because he was a "facha" (he wasn't). "Facha" is something like fascist, but in Spain.

[@marccamp6376]

Lamento leer eso hombre, la guerra civil española si que fue dura, mis respetos compañero. Saludos desde Mexico

[@710moz]

he forgot to mention the massacres committed by the US Army against So Korean civilians during the Korean War, also the atrocities committed by the Canadians and US against the First Nations people of Canada and the US to this day.

[@pieseldatches5555]

Yeah, as a Canadian, I’m still ashamed by the fact that Residential schools existed and how they poisoned the minds of indigenous children and stripped them of their culture and beliefs.

[@nuru666]

@@pieseldatches5555 Yea, thinking about that makes me want to literally vomit on every person in the federal government....

[@ACamaroGuy]

@@pieseldatches5555 sometimes a conquered people need to get with the program.

[@matthewlee8667]

5:12 yes because fighting a war with Stalin over Eastern Europe would have been preferable. You know by the time Europe was redrawn, Stalin already controlled much of Eastern Europe and they controlled it with force. You think you can just take that from him without force? No.

[@rilyc2843]

Matthew Lee exactly, I’m American and this was very very bias. Im disappointed in this channel that’s supposed to teach I’m un subbing

[@jjquinn295]

@Irritable Fuhrer They didn't seed land to Stalin, the red army took it. Not much the allies could have done about it short of waging war against the Soviets, a war they would likely only be able to win by nuking the way across Europe. There were 10 million red army soldiers in eastern Europe. When Truman asked what the Red Army would need to get to Paris he was told shoes. Not a great proposal.

[@brewsyyg]

My mother’s 2nd husband refused to have anything to do with return service because of the crimes he witnessed against the people he was there to liberate by his follow soldiers and the officers who knew but turned a blind eye.

[@Jodonho]

I wonder how he'll cover the Mau Mau Rebellion. The British Empire wasn't created over a game of cricket after all.

[@yarsivad000.5]

Jodonho , The British can do no wrong. The Beatles made up for all dirty deeds. All forgiven.

[@jorge6207]

I wondered the exact same thing, after seeing that he didn't. Are they doing (or did) a video just on British crimes?

[@fridjidkleftaeon3908]

+Stesilaus if i may point out the boer war concentration camps might have been horrible but it was not purposfull the entire region was plagued with food shortages and desease because of the guerilla type warfare that cut food suplies for everyone british soldiers starved aswell the whole of the british tactic was badly organised and led to this but in the end intent is what counts if we compare

[@Morgan8378]

Or how about the anglo-boer wars

[@OfWavesAndWinds]

I'm from Czech Republic. Not only the Western Europe gave us to Stalin after the war, they gave us to Hitler at the beginning of the war (the Munich Agreement (or Betrayal).

[@2011littlejohn1]

@@epikmuskip2467 Yes I agree with every word - that action at Munich was the real start of the war I don't think it would have happened otherwise. I'm British.

[@samwell8]

The Munich Agreement only gave over the Sudetenland, which was at that time mainly German anyways. Germany invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia a few weeks later however the UK had no obligations to Czechoslovakia, only France did.

[@OfWavesAndWinds]

@@epikmuskip2467 Yes. We called it 'O nas bez nas' = About us without us.

[@johnhardin4358]

They also sent back Russians who did not want to go. POWs were treated as traitors for not dying. Long story. See Operation Keelhaul.

[@Ye4rZero]

The Czech Republic was also told that if they didn't go along with the munich agreement and it caused a war, they would be held financially viable for it!

[@Fathanah123]

You didn't mention atrocity made by Britain n Churcill. What a bias.

[@lewis8325]

I don't really think the British night bombing was necessarily 100% justified but still, I'd say that Churchill's atrocities were far more notable outside the scope of WW2 if one was to make a video on them.

[@Erin-Thor]

blaze fire - Dude, seriously? Every, and I mean EVERY country has done some horrible things during wars. But you are correct, but Britain’s "free press" and "free speech" is different than other nations. Will this cause their war crimes to be forgotten, let’s hope not.

[@goldenvrpca7962]

@@Erin-Thor Many that believed in Britain's "free speech" are in Britain's prisons now.

[@Erin-Thor]

golden vrpca - That is a very sad fact of a democratic country. Here in the states you can say almost anything save yelling FIRE 🔥 in a crowded area when there is no fire.

[@franl155]

"forced loyalty": if you need to force someone to be loyal to you, you're not worth any degree of loyalty whatsoever. I'm not offering any excuses, but the trouble with war is that men are stripped down to a basic level of kill or be killed, but are still expected to act like gentlemen.

[@peterlewerin4213]

Re giving up Eastern Europe: it wasn't like the Western Allies could stop the Soviets at that point. They were outnumbered by approximately 5:1. Add to that that USA was very keen on getting help against the Japanese and that Britain and France were only barely to keep going at that point, and the willingness to appease Stalin seems more like accepting the inevitable.

[@abhishekparmar6702]

Brother, you have opened up Pandora's box.

[@sometimesifly_356]

I've noticed something about Simon over several of his videos. He seems to hate the US. That, and the English do no wrong.

[@shosha101390]

It's almost like he's british. (US people to the exact same thing, actually everyone. most places think they're the best)

[@atrashlemon7735]

Most people think Usa is some super hero type state despite it still committing war crimes even now

[@Jere_9717]

Can join that, hate no country more than the US and China

[@Chineseconcrete]

You realise that America does the exact same thing to almost every country? Hypocrisy at its finest

[@CJM-rg5rt]

British people have these crass, sometimes bizarre, and condescending ways. They spin it to be a esoteric type of humor but I know jokes and these are.. like genuine traits. Specially in the US, people are incredibly disturbed by the power structure and lies. The British stereotypes definitely ring true, for example their Irish neighbors seem to be down to earth and hilarious, why are they noticeably not like Brits? I don't want people to take it personal and toss back unrelated slanders because this is a genuine criticism.

[@ZAR556]

No British Empire ?? Weird Oh, you will release another video dedicated just for British Empire Atrocities

[@garthtomlinson2570]

Zavid Al Rasyid considering how long the British empire lasted, there were not many atrocities committed compared to other empires

[@DidamDFP]

@@garthtomlinson2570 wrong.. Take a look at France for example which is a very old country as well, they didn't commit nearly as many atrocities as the Bridish did. Pretty sure there's no country on earth which commited as many atrocities as Great Britain.

[@garthtomlinson2570]

Madid wrong, the Soviet Union killed far more people during the Second World War than the British empire ever did. Many of atrocities committed during the British empire were caused by failing in leadership (such as the Bengal famine) not directly trying to kill people.

[@ruslan-albertokudaev]

@@garthtomlinson2570 Lol no.

[@mikecain6947]

You should do a video about England

[@edmondbradley305]

You made a mistake, it was WW1 that Canada was at war against the austro Hungarian empire, not ww2

[@mork6668]

I think he said WWI, but the worse is not mentioning the British atrocities!!

[@NoNameAtAll2]

10:18 Please learn how to read

[@markabbott3936]

@@NoNameAtAll2 check out 10:41 ... the title card was accurate but Simon misspoke

[@blueeyeswhitedragon9839]

@@NoNameAtAll2 :- Simon definately SAID World War Two.

[@RosebudDelicious]

I'm from Texas and they taught us all about Japanese internment

[@maryjeanjones1940]

Grey Gorilla- Are yo talking about the internment of Japanese citizens in the USA and Canada during WW2?

[@dead_beatbunny]

I'm from Washington. We had one of the largest camps here, which I never learned about in school. They have a giant fair on those same camp grounds every year and no one ever thinks it's odd...

[@themasterninja110]

I'm from Texas as well. And they taught me about it as well. And alot more

[@tomfrazier1103]

Same Cali side. Here in Hawaii about 1560 interned people, out of 100,000+ AJAs.

[@themasterninja110]

My school library also had a book relating to that time and they had it front and center.

[@amberswafford5984]

"We defeated the wrong enemies,"- Gen. Patton.

[@nelsonnoname001]

Haunting isn't it

[@jhoughjr1]

Based

[@NoName-kw3ek]

@Christopher Felix true but the atrocities committed by the Soviets were greater then the atrocities committed by the Germans... the Americans had to create a propaganda campaign to get the civilian population on board with siding with the Soviet Union out of necessity... in truth we never should have sided with the Soviets but did So to avoid an even longer War... both the Germans and the Soviets were our enemies in all reality

[@NoName-kw3ek]

@@John77Doe no... the Germans were still horrible oppressors bent on Imperial expansion and genocide... both the Soviets and the Nazis we're horrible people to side with and anti-capitalist going against basic American ideas

[@gintautassickus6390]

Long live Patton.

[@ethans6539]

Hey so uh.... What about all the stuff Britain did...?

[@godlovesyou1995]

Britain has done very little. Also they are always seen as the 'bad guys'

[@FormerGovernmentHuman]

Hoplite 898 yeah the IRA was mad for no reason.

[@themexus5369]

Hoplite 898 starved several million Indians, colonized and conquered millions and killed thousands in their conquests

[@brianverbanickjr.5551]

Did you catch his accent, it sounds very British, he probably is living in the UK and probably doesn’t think the British did anything

[@stoat2]

@@brianverbanickjr.5551 He lives in the Czech Republic and doesn't write the script...

[@sstritmatter2158]

4:52 the West failed to secure Eastern Europe and gave large swaths to the Soviets. Well, Stalin was hard to bargain with and the Soviets did take it over from the Germans so since they occupied it they probably figured it was theirs. Churchill and Stalin met before the surrender of Germany knowing the Allies had won and carved up the world as to who would control what. Churchill did spare Greece from the Soviets though Stalin insisted on having it but in the end Churchill prevailed in his case. 8:00 In fairness France did not send entire armies to help defeat Britain in the Revolutionary War so this isn't comparable. The French sold us weapons, gave us some valuable military advisors and provided their Naval Fleet (along with Spain) near the end of the war to help force British surrender rather than retreat. Of course it was important but not comparable to 1 million + U.S. troops liberating France. I'm not making excuses for the U.S. but the French primarily took revenge in the Vichie's more than anyone. Lastly, since the Soviets were an Ally in WWII you failed to mention their wrath against the German civilians as they ravaged and pillaged their way to Berlin. The Soviet incursion into Germany was pure 24 karat HELL.

[@dominikschwarz2456]

You might add that after the end of WW2 the French military treated their German POWs so horribly the US started taking the POWs away from them. One of the most famous soccer trainers in German history owes his life to being claimed, fed, and then sent home by US authorities.

[@yourmama3515]

@Xiao wong Bidensteinberg Patton had released the ones he held but Eisenhower criticized him for it

[@yourmama3515]

And he then he became a president 8 years later

[@hilariousname6826]

@Xiao wong Bidensteinberg What's that disgusting smell? Nazi? Gross!!

[@ThePhantomSafetyPin]

Not to excuse France here, but they kinda were taken over by literal Nazis. I can see why they were so horrible to the German POWs they caught. Still horrible.

[@mauricebregman6729]

I think you forgot about Great Britain?????

[@goblincleaver_mshm.9751]

The British content is too big for a KZbin videos

[@zacm1368]

If you want British war crimes look at the boer war and earlier. Ww1 and ww2 didn't have many war crimes compared to other nations. Also I love how people can forget Britain actually fought in the war and will happily say that America saved the day and won the war but as soon as bad things are brought up it's "LOOK AT BRITAIN"

[@jojo-eb1ib]

That's because Great Britain has done he worst and most Acts.

[@altelf3079]

@@jojo-eb1ib thats a pretty stupid thing to say

[@stevekerr7040]

@@altelf3079 shame it's true...

[@wovfm]

If only the world were filled with self righteous Simons as he deals in sarcasm rather than specifics.

[@youtubecensors5419]

False: in the US we learn about EVERY sin the US ever committed during our public school indoctrination. Japanese internment was taught every year from 4th-12th grades.

[@wolfgangpagel6989]

I doubt that. Did you really learn about so many crimes in so many countries? In that little school time?

[@alisonsmith4801]

Do they learn about the destabilising of most South American countries by their secrect services, who allowed junta after junta to torture and murder their own citizens all in the name of stopping communism allegedly. All in the pocket of the USA.

[@Grimm1695]

As an American, I had never learned in school about the internment camps. It was only when I got home and was able to look things up online .

[@themasterninja110]

What state? I'm in Texas and my school library had loads on it and other things

[@Grimm1695]

@@themasterninja110 Indiana

[@johnmoyle4195]

Prior to 1788, the Australian continent had 602 countries, each with their own language and laws. 95% of the population of those 602 countries were wiped out by THE BRITISH EMPIRE. This staggering crime is hardly ever mentioned because those people were black, naked and isolated from the rest of the world. They were the oldest continuous culture in human history. Archaeology places them in Australia 60,000 years ago. Geology places them there 100,000 years ago. Their religion pre-dates every other belief system known to man.

[@LordWhatever]

Just here for the comments.

[@cactusschoorsteen3911]

An African-American ww2 veteran has written something along the lines of: "I was feeling very double about fighting this war of freedom. At home, I am and always will be considered a second class citize "

[@seanbtwo]

And as stated English crimes are overwhelmingly numerous but somehow you seem to forget about them ENTIRELY.

[@amvkarthik]

What about Bengal famine? Are you going to cover up for the Brits during WW2 when Churchill diverted food grains from peasants of Bengal and when the British officer pleaded Churchill to leave at least few rations for people who harvested, dying of starvation and as rations for Brits in Europe are plenty. Churchill replied "why didn't Gandhi die".

[@godlovesyou1995]

He said that because Gandhi didnt die, because Britain left India. (After he threatened to starve himself)

[@altelf3079]

Thanks for knowing the facts and not blaming 70 mil people.

[@thehowlingmisogynist9871]

You mean the famine caused by profiteering merchants? India had a rationing system during the war. Churchill could have starved the whole of India by shutting down the rations. Instead it only impacted Bengal!

[@kartikaytiwari7387]

you didn't mention Britain well it was master of this art

[@rokas081]

iMMORTAL l I see you never heard about russia...

[@briandunstan3503]

What art, ?

[@DarkRipper117]

Nice to see the Brits never commit any war crimes in the history of ever, and have never ever manipulated countries from behind the scenes , they're truly a shining beacon of everything right in the whole wide world.

[@knightowl3577]

There was no Austro-Hungarian Empire in WWII. You are talking about WWI that's 100 hundred years ago, I'm sure you could find atrocities that were committed in the Napoleonic wars if you were to try or perhaps the Punic wars. Man is a vicious animal it's not about sides or right and wrong. You are projecting the values of today on to historical events. Today's armed conflicts happen over long distances sometimes by remote control. Even seeing an enemy is unlikely never mind sticking a bayonet into his guts or cracking his head open with an entrenching tool. We are not the Judges of our ancesters.

[@leondillon8723]

WWI actually ended 28 - 06-1919. The Paris Peace Conference ran on from Januarius to Maya 1919. Sometime after 12 Novemberius and before 31 Decemberius,1918 Bavaria united with the rest of Germany.

[@jamesgill4590]

What about Britain's intentional bombing of civilians in WWII?

[@johnsinger3540]

So he is more or less saying "America BAD, Britain, SQUEAKY CLEAN!"

[@johnsinger3540]

@Robert Dunn he didn't have to.

[@TheFunktipus1]

Couldn't help but notice a couple of your sources included The Guardian, The Arkansas Democrat? Can't help but feel a little let down about that.

[@luddlycunningham8588]

hey Top Tenz, let me help you out with this subject, and now............... 5 of the worst atrocities carried out by British Empire, after 'historical amnesia' claims 1. Boer concentration camps "During the Second Boer War (1899-1902), the British rounded up around a sixth of the Boer population - mainly women and children - and detained them in camps, which were overcrowded and prone to outbreaks of disease, with scant food rations. Of the 107,000 people interned in the camps, 27,927 Boers died, along with an unknown number of black Africans. " 2. Amritsar massacre "When peaceful protesters defied a government order and demonstrated against British colonial rule in Amritsar, India, on 13 April 1919, they were blocked inside the walled Jallianwala Gardens and fired upon by Gurkha soldiers. The soldiers, under the orders of Brigadier Reginald Dyer, kept firing until they ran out of ammunition, killing between 379 and 1,000 protesters and injuring another 1,100 within 10 minutes. Brigadier Dyer was later lauded a hero by the British public, who raised £26,000 for him as a thank you." 3. Partitioning of India "In 1947, Cyril Radcliffe was tasked with drawing the border between India and the newly created state of Pakistan over the course of a single lunch. After Cyril Radcliffe split the subcontinent along religious lines, uprooting over 10 million people, Hindus in Pakistan and Muslims in India were forced to escape their homes as the situation quickly descended into violence. Some estimates suggest up to one million people lost their lives in sectarian killings." 4. Mau Mau Uprising "Thousands of elderly Kenyans, who claim British colonial forces mistreated, raped and tortured them during the Mau Mau Uprising (1951-1960), have launched a £200m damages claim against the UK Government. Members of the Kikuyu tribe were detained in camps, since described as "Britain's gulags" or concentration camps, where they allege they were systematically tortured and suffered serious sexual assault. Estimates of the deaths vary widely: historian David Anderson estimates there were 20,000, whereas Caroline Elkins believes up to 100,000 could have died." 5. Famines in India "Between 12 and 29 million Indians died of starvation while it was under the control of the British Empire, as millions of tons of wheat were exported to Britain as famine raged in India. In 1943, up to four million Bengalis starved to death when Winston Churchill diverted food to British soldiers and countries such as Greece while a deadly famine swept through Bengal. Talking about the Bengal famine in 1943, Churchill said: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.”"

[@christianrapper]

James Mcneil how does that change anything that he said in the video?

[@jixuscrixus1967]

You didn’t mention an gorta mór (the great famine) 1845-1849. Britain decided to commit genocide against their own subjects, Britain ruled the island of Ireland in this period. One million people are estimated to have perished.

[@calebkeane9241]

The Canadian Internment happened during World War I, The Austro-Hungarian "Empire" didn't exist during World War II

[@lizzard7473]

Love history. I am an American. Yet, I thoroughly enjoy learning the things that aren't taught or swept under the rug. Make more. If we forget the past we are doomed to repeat it.

[@verticallogic5909]

the greatest allied atrocity was russia sitting in judgement of Germany during the Nuremburg show trials.......

[@Altrantis]

A case of the pot calling the kettle black if I've ever seen one.

[@pfranks75]

vertical logic Ironic yes, justice for all war criminals nope!

[@comradeigor9859]

What's wrong with you

[@neotheresa]

I knew America wasn’t the knight in shining armor we claim to be in WW2, but DAMN we were horrible. It’s honestly disgusting

[@mellowmood2785]

This topic has absolutely nothing to do with Jolly 'ol England now does it? 😒 ☠💂☠

[@mikecain6947]

Some say the English empire killed 150 million.

[@vernonbear]

You really need to learn about the crucial difference between the English and the British. It was the British Empire. It was Great Britain that exacted some terrible atrocities upon people worldwide. It was British Forces that starved communities (acting on orders from Churchill, y’know the one that everyone seems to love?), England is one part of Great Britain, to lay atrocities at England’s door is like saying that Texas went to war when Pearl Harbour was attacked. Us English get a bit snippy when the blame for a wider nation gets sent our way.

[@mikecain6947]

England was that area in the south which took over Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland as the first parts of the British Empire and then went on to expand further in other continents.

[@mikecain6947]

England conquered the rest of the British Isles so it is the English empire and not the British Empire that was responsible

[@jerry321999]

@@vernonbear It was the ENGLISH who CONTINUALLY raped SCOTLAND until their TOTAL SUBJUGATION!!!!!!

[@RobertGreenwald]

What about when the US dropped napalm on Bonneuil-Matours, France and destroyed the entire city and loads of civilians just to (reportedly) take out a group of Nazis holed up there long after the fighting had left that part of France

[@richardbidinger2577]

I believe the US destroyed an entire town in Belgium, just because they were worried the Nazis were using the train depots and tracks to move troops and supplies.

[@laughingjack85]

America dropped about five million fire bombs on the Japanese cities resulting in the loss across Japan to be near a million dead civilians.

[@jonathansibrian695]

The allies destroyed more frech territories and citys than the germans did

[@jonathansibrian695]

@lil pug soo is the civilians fault for the country going to war?

[@spaky1954]

jonathan sibrian They need to learn how to get out of the cross fire

[@omegacouchpotatoe5998]

Canada also had Concentration camps for the Japanese who were born in Canada and they took all their lands and shops away from them Also from early 1900 they received orphan children from Britain that were put to work on farms where they were beaten starved and raped . So no it is not a great past for a bragging country

[@crookedpaths6612]

The reckless British firebombing of Dresden in WW2 targeting civilian areas with no military significance (and coincidentally leading to the staggering high death rate amongst British Commonwealth bombing crews.)

[@trevor7132]

all of that is wrong

[@wolfgangpagel6989]

Yes, but all Marketing of civilians is a war crime and the top of that is the nuclear annihilation of two Japanese cities.

[@wolfgangpagel6989]

And I am saying that as a inhabitant of Dresden.

[@rudolfkraffzick642]

Churchill himself admitted the "moral bombing" of cities aimed at killing as many Germans as possible. It is widely unknown that more Germans were killed or died after the unconditional surrender in May 1945 than during the whole war. Roosevelt called this in Yalta "punishment". In Poland, Jugoslavia and Cechoslovakia it was "regaining lost territories" or ethnic cleansing. The occupation zones of the Allies in Germany were kind of reservations where the Nazi savages died of famine (fertilizers were forbidden), cold (the coal had to be sold half of its market value and to be imported at costs up to double of the market price) and of diseases. International humanitarian aid wasn't allowed until 1947. My father was then 34 years old. He lived in a fertile region but hardly survived. But then the Germans of later West Germany were needed against the new enemy Sovjetunion and to rebuild western Europe economically.

[@bertobazmastr]

Damn the UK was never mentioned. They must be angels.

[@NodzergHorde1997]

no they just ignored them

[@ViperRob]

America needs it's own 30min video on the subject

[@millabasset1710]

needs a 10 hour documentary

[@blur-blade4981]

“Back during WW2 Canada was at war with the Astro-Hungarian empire.” Spot one mistake.

[@eifelitorn]

Every empire has committed atrocities.

[@jonathanpalmer228]

USA isnt an empire

[@Akeche]

Isn't it?

[@theirishempire4952]

@@Akeche no it isnt

[@the_godfather9974]

And that makes it less horrible?

[@eifelitorn]

@@the_godfather9974 definitely not..

[@andrewswift2727]

One IMPORTANT correction. The allies didn't give Eastern Europe to Stalin he already possessed it by the end of the war and the only way that was going to change is if the other allies went to war with the Soviet Union.

[@dthtoneocons1]

Thank You!!! Remember, George Patton wanted to repatriate the remaining Wehmacht along with the Americans and attack the Soviets. Shortly afterwards, he was killed in an auto accident, oh so strange.

[@sydneischultheis39]

I’m a citizen of the USA and you can’t count how many times we’ve done terrible stuff

[@thiagoevangelista2754]

Terrible stuff that they don't really teach in schools... Sure, they gloss over some major points, but... Wow... We missed out on a lot, and I'm not even talking about this points that this video makes...

[@warrioroflight6872]

The USA had done a lot of great things too. No country is free of flaws. Still, I have to say, I just don't like FDR. He was kind of a slimy swine.

[@RetroAP]

TopTenz is a comrade confirmed

[@tyrssen1]

Man, you barely scratched the surface. Eisenhower oversaw 5 concentration camps along the Rhine, that were crammed as full as sardine cans, and given no rations -- even though rations were available. He murdered a couple million German civilians in this manner. Most of the defendants at the Nuremberg trials confessed under torture. The British maintained concentration camps of their own, so did the Americans, and conditions were no better there than they were in Germany, in many cases. The list goes on and on. And as far back into time as history itself. Humans, collectively, seem to be a rather nasty lot.

[@mike03a3]

Thoroughly debunked BS based on a single book. Several groups of historians and the German government have investigated the claims in the book. The camps were certainly a terrible place to live, but they weren't concentration camps, they were surrendered German military and largely administered by Germans and were fed exactly the same rations as the civilian population. Everyone in Europe was near starvation. England and France were strictly rationed as well. Germany was in ruins, something like 65% of the housing was gone and the West was flooded with Flüchtlinge und Vertriebene, refugees who fled West ahead of the advancing Red Army and ethnic Germans who were expelled from Eastern countries.

[@r.h.f.6073]

Don't forget about the Munich Agreement, where the West sold out Czechoslovakia for a deal that the Germans broke anyway.

[@thehowlingmisogynist9871]

And, Gave Britain the time to build fighter aircraft to win the Battle of Britain !

[@14rnr]

A dude my Sister went out with about 15 years ago had a French Grandmother who herself was a victim of being raped by an American Soldier..... She said they looted anything they could find also. Sad times.

[@Cacowninja]

I asked people on Quora how we could hold at least the U.S. government accountable for the war crimes and nearly everyone who responded either sneered at me or laughed at me. Sheesh people I just want some accountability.

[@georgeevangel4292]

War is cruelty,There is no use trying to deny it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over -General William Tecumseh Sherman

[@nationalist464]

It is cruel then why Allies his their war crimes and over showed the crimes of Mighty Germany

[@praetorian11]

That explains why the Sherman tank is named after him, that thing was so cruel to her crews, maybe because of the hope it all would have end sooner when being cruel to your own soldiers.

[@mitchfaircloth979]

Yep. Part of the reason Afghanistan and Iraq dragged on forever is because we couldn’t do what would have had to to end it quickly. I’m not saying I don’t agree with all of this video because much of it was beyond too far but you need to be able to completely crush your enemy. Lots more innocent civilian causalities that way but it’s part of it.

[@malkomalkavian]

This is nonsense. Cruel conflicts repeat for generation after generation. Every act of cruelty makes lasting peace less likely. This quotation reflects a wish to simplify war, and look tough.

[@mitchfaircloth979]

@Robert Dunn nothing easy about war but the quicker it’s over the better.

[@triciaw3064]

And you can just hear them all saying, whoever they're fighting for...."Whatever side I'm on is the right side, and you're all on the wrong side, so we win". It's a version of "my way or the highway"

[@dadagan8815]

It's the same everywhere, some years ago I heard an anecdote about a city in the Spanish civil war, and the fact that it changed hands multiple times between left & right, and each time those in control rounded up people deemed to be enemies of their respective regimes and these people were usually executed by firing squad. But strangely every time just before these people were shot they would always shout long live Spain, no matter what side they were on in the war. I suppose both sides believed they were fighting for freedom as they saw it, so they believed themselves to be in the right.

[@louirudy670]

You need that mentality if you dont wanna go insane

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

@@louirudy670 pehaps in some extreme circumstance.. like a famine from climate change before proper language.. If USA wanted to keep face they would have went like a storm through theyre ranks making sure to.. ofcourse respect whamen!

[@FriedEgg101]

Kinda like religion.

[@triciaw3064]

@@FriedEgg101 exactly

[@devilopment3291]

South Korean massacre on suspected communists. kinda remind me of what happened in Indonesia in 1965. Indonesian millitary gov doing massacre on anyone, any citizens who deemed as communist party sympathizers (innocent or not. related or not) without going through any legal process. the military are adding a reason that all those communist party sympathizers are "heavily armed", thou in fact they're NOT. the massacre are not documented, coz the millitary gov at that time are using full control over media, and it was supported by several group of civillian organizations. so it's a perfect crime. (even America consider it as a victory over communist/east block. I smell something from here) the crime only remembered by a collective people (the survivors) And they can't speak out about it, coz they're still considered as enemy of public (until now) even tho they're innocent. And when we decide to forget about it to maintain peace after decades, some people would brought it back as a reminder that communist would came back anytime. truly an idiotic reason to bring back hatred to young generation towards all those survivors and their childrens.

[@mohamedayman1583]

What about when british forces opened fire on unarmed college students in Cairo Tahrir square in 21 feb. 1946 and many other atrocities in Egypt at that time

[@mohamedayman1583]

Al Telf ofcourse you don’t deserve to die neither do i hate you cuz i dont know you. I cant blame anyone for there ancestors actions and its kinda naive to ask me that, its our duty to ask the right questions for the people who suffered from injustice and didnt have the means to defend their selves

[@gruesomewolfgaming4735]

@@altelf3079 what a stupid question

[@zolizizo8443]

"Back during world war two Canada was at war with the Austro-hungarian empire" .......

[@arx3516]

They were also at war with Ramses II and Charthage.

[@ryszardgalica1425]

I mean a lot of people are butt hurt in these comments of how he is putting the United States in the lime light. Yeah it might make u uncomfortable because he did not bring Britain into it but it doesn’t discredit these atrocities just because he is bias.

[@markandrade7547]

That's why it's called HIS STORY and not Factual Events.

[@wokeeye6441]

Coincidence. History is from the greek historiein or 'to investigate'

[@gabrielespana319]

Funny how the pledge of allegiance is the “dark atrocious” part of the internment camps even though many of the people involved still loved their country

[@DrOlds7298]

One of the highest awarded US Army regiments of the war was the 'Fighting 442nd', made up of volunteers from these camps. Many of them also later made careers of the Army as well,or used the G.I.Bill bennies to later go to college. Told a lot of old Japanese-American Doctors/Dentists especially got their schooling this way?

[@amyatrebas4265]

Love the bitterness and shock of some of the Americans on this post. Your country wasn’t innocent, nor perfect, who knew? If you can point to a country that is totally innocent, and perfect, I would love to know about it.

[@BeautyandtheBritt]

Ideals are peaceful, war is not

[@brianverbanickjr.5551]

This is why I’m scared of the future generations, they will be so much more cowardly than my generation

[@brianverbanickjr.5551]

@Crack Lord in general, the world itself is not sunshine and rainbows

[@bryanjaeck4828]

Interesting that the Brits are such wonderful nation that they have NEVER done anything wrong in the world......What bigoted video...

[@altelf3079]

You think that because nothing was mentioned in a 10 min video. Youre stupid!

[@SpiceIntolerance]

Lol we are one of the worst tbh, you don’t make an empire with clean hands. And I’m sure Simon knows this....