GERMAN REACTS TO WW2! - TommyKay Reacts to WW2 by Oversimplified

TommyKay Reacts to Oversimplified's video on WW2.
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A lot of people were asking for Tommy to watch some Oversimplified videos and finally he decided to give it a go during a 24 hour stream. And what better way to start off than to watch the biggest battle in human history, WW2.
Tommy plays HOI4 all day and now it's time for him to learn a little bit more in depth about the history behind the game. Surprisingly he learns stuff he didn't know and also gives a small story time about his family during this time period. TommyKay is a German so there's bound to me some interesting stories when it comes to his family's past.
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[@TommyKay]

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[@zukzbigniew4802]

No

[@cellmachiner]

okay

[@AlamoOriginal]

ayo what? lmao

[@desert_druid_xD]

if we had chosen tokyo we would still be at war

[@Ljiljan_Mapping]

You Bosnian

[@magicduke8386]

Imagine finding out that your old school teacher became the Italian dictator.

[@MinecraftMasterNo1]

Mussolini origin story "Do your homework little boy!" "Make me!" "OK!"

[@VikingLord101]

Lol

[@LtGhost-tb3kq]

*Italian

[@someperson8641]

LMAO RIGHT

[@davidgomez7882]

Imagine meeting a beggar painter in Vienna, only for him to end up being a dictator. Or rather, that useful idiot that was sent from trench to trench delivering information would end up being a dictator.

[@spacegarb]

“Germany had bad teammates” The best excuse I’ve herd

[@moethelegend5787]

It's not an excuse. They where shit

[@kylelondon6737]

And Lag, Don't Forget The Lag

[@Skankhunt668]

They were bad they only made more enemies

[@moethelegend5787]

@ANALIESE MURAWSKY true. Italy kept asking for help and Japan doesn't give a fuck

[@SeanWMODonnell]

Wait, wasn't Russia a German teammate?

[@voidperception]

“Winning a war in the past makes you feel so proud” I’m a Vietnamese, I can relate. To be honest, though, if the countries (the US) that we fought went all out, we would have lost. We know how small we are. But we’re still proud that we won some battles, like how the Mongol empire tried to invade us 3 times but failed, French Indochina, etc.

[@Jacob-df5hr]

That was a very ugly war that they told us was waged to "stop communism." Stopping communism is not a good reason to drop napalm and agent orange on people living on their own land. Today, my next door neighbors are Vietnamese, first generation, their grandma cooks for us every month and I help them out with yardwork and tutored their daughter for her SAT. Best neighbors I've ever had.

[@petertran6887]

I'm vietnamese too

[@_airstar5085]

im american but i know what america did was wrong

[@gonkong5638]

​@Welcome to Mars My mom side have some uncle follow Viet Cong, some live rich life because they have conection with the French. The Vietnamese flee (especially desperate one) mostly working for South Vietnam goverment, my grandpa say they pull guillotine all over the South(If those not flee, revenge gonna come and they will not be forgive the warth of people), kill all suspected VC, that moment make our family against each other. Some of my Uncle friend got killed, he's hate South Vietnam to his bone, he go to VC. Some do not want trouble so they stay silent they never point out the other people but they banned VC to enter their house.After the war many VC member in my family were hate the Communist regime, they go to USA, France. But they never understand a word about Capitalism nor Communism. They also Catholic but no longer go to church since they saw other anti-communist kill VC in the church by the most gruesome you could image. My dad side also have Catholic, French relate great northerner vietnamese grandma, but they got killed by USA bomb. So my Grandpa become soldier for North Vietnam. You could go to Da Nang I could show you proof. The War was never on ideology. Pure Greed.

[@kylevernon]

@@_airstar5085 America didn’t do anything wrong. The war was a justified war, the north attacked our ally South Vietnam. It’s the tactics that were bad.

[@jazz4624]

“Winning a war in the past makes you feel so proud” I’m a Finnish, I can relate.

[@Voicemix]

Do you know that in reality Finland lost the Winter War?

[@tenr0h]

@@Voicemix Yes they "lost" in terms of that they had to cede land. But they still kept their independence as a "small state " against the Soviet Union while being pretty much outnumbered in everything.

[@SocialistNerd]

@@tenr0h and the soviets suffered twice as may casualties while also losing a lot more equipment

[@Voicemix]

@@tenr0hI'll tell you a secret - when you officially declare that you give up, it is called 'a loss'. When you loses 20% of your land and don't give a fock about the locals which are your homies, you're a coward who lost

[@ollikoskiniemi6221]

​@@SocialistNerdTwice as many? More like ten times as many.

[@xzibitserbia]

"He looks so Slavic?!" German guy taking out his Aryan measuring kit.

[@preddes6522]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@DEVS_VLTIMA]

It’s funny and sad how historically accurate that statement actually is.

[@jordanf8797]

What is the enthicity of Bosnia? I thought it was a melting pot and less 'slavic'

[@Anastas1786]

Do German biology classes still teach students to use calipers?

[@Aryan_0]

👀

[@robertruiz98]

I love how they just brush over Mussolini saying he was toppled from power they strung him from a building by piano wire

[@strke5972]

I mean, it is "overly simplified"

[@robertruiz98]

@@strke5972 I remember hearing the story of Mussolini from my Cuban family when I was a child very small it's not something you just passed over it's a piece of very interesting information

[@Judustine]

@@robertruiz98 not when you're an oversimplified history yt channel, im pretty sure he doesn't want to go over Mussolini's humiliating death for you to get the point 😂

[@robertruiz98]

@@Judustine yeah but he could have said something about it just toppled from Power that's like saying Gaddafi was toppled from Power.. it's always interesting how the truly interesting horrific stuff people do people gloss over

[@flygonkick93]

@@robertruiz98 That's the point of the video....... gloss over everything with no depth.......

[@AuroraIceFlame]

Japan: “hey Germany we did y’all a solid and took out americas pacific navy” Germany: “YOU WHAT?!”

[@airsoftpopcorn]

More like Japan: “hey Germany we took out most of America’s pacific fleet” Germany: “good…wait what do you mean almost? What didn’t you destroy?” Japan: “ummmmmmmm, about that”

[@Montechgamer-pm3mp]

@@airsoftpopcorn More like i dont give a fuck

[@xinceras-6542]

Whenever a German guy starts saying that someone "looks so Slavic" I get a bit nervous.

[@cabomuc4227]

@Тепляха no

[@dogeofgreatness2222]

They could be just saying "Slavic" instead of Eastern European or someother specific term like "He looks like Russian or something". What's there to be scared about lmfao

[@dogeofgreatness2222]

@Тепляха go ask a German

[@oneofthemanyones]

@@dogeofgreatness2222 Looking like a Russian actually should mean scary to German. ;)

[@ludger9878]

​@@oneofthemanyones Yeah because you're so strong fighters... Kill ratio was 1 : 3,42 so it needed 4 Russians to kill 1 German, respect.

[@extraordinarytv5451]

"This dude taught in elementary school after getting arrested twice."

[@TommyKay]

ye wtf

[@extraordinarytv5451]

@@TommyKay I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL TOMMY!!! MUCH LOVE FROM AMERICA!!!!

[@janekduda7548]

@@extraordinarytv5451 That's That Marko prick

[@JamesTrifolium]

@@extraordinarytv5451 Nice overreaction.

[@extraordinarytv5451]

@@janekduda7548 MARKONI SAVE TOMMY

[@Flyswada1]

Finally get to see a German reactions to ww2

[@lexel7795]

Is „NEIN NEIN NEIN“ not enough of an reaction?

[@huchung9886]

@@lexel7795 FEGELEIN FEGELEIN FEGELEIN!

[@exo2776]

Ja deutsche reaktion auf englisch🤷🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

[@ICXC_Matias_NIKA]

@@exo2776 und hast du ein problem mit das?

[@charlesmcgill2974]

I wanna see hitlers live reaction

[@CommanderSlayers]

Fun fact: France was so happy about their victory in WW1, that when Germany invaded France, Hitler made them to sign the treaty of surrender at the same train cart where the Germans did on WW1 and then burn the train down. Talk about being savage damn 🤣

[@turtlemasterkaboom535]

The treaty that Germany signed was in the hall of mirrors in the Palace of Versailles not a train cart

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa6162]

@@turtlemasterkaboom535 He talks about the Armistice of Rethondes.

[@turtlemasterkaboom535]

@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa6162 of corse I had completely forgotten about that lol he could have been more specific armistice is completely different to a treaty of surrender

[@azzkin9401]

They burn the cart before Berlin's fall, they were afraid that the allies could make Germany firm another treaty in it.

[@painvillegaming4119]

@@azzkin9401 damn

[@georgios_5342]

32:17 also, American high command believed that a land invasion of Japan would require not only the death of hundreds of thousands of American soldiers and maybe even more Japanese casualties than those that happened with the nukes, but also the possible conquest of parts of Northern Japan, like Hokkaido, by the Communists

[@terminator9099]

Mostly the communist invasion

[@jqa16]

They're too lazy to invade japan so they set threaten them to submission. Well if they did invade japan i wouldn't be here.

[@georgios_5342]

@@jqa16 おもちろんですね? I'm really interested in Japan and its culture and I'm interested in people's stories from the war. If you have anything to share, I'm all ears! I'd also like to learn Japanese at some point but unfortunately I have a lot going on this year so I couldn't 😐

[@proximitive3872]

Wow if that happened there might be no anime

[@soulplexis]

liberation not conquest. Personally I'd love if the soviet union had overthrown our emperor and installed socialist

[@InteloPL]

German: If you're not subscribed I am coming to your house tonight! Polish people: ... Sounds familiar...

[@zinova8252]

это звучит знакомо

[@yourlocaljew7357]

Loll

[@jakobi2800]

And france, austria, united kingdom(then they subscribed), and the u.s.s.r.(then they subscribed. Also, italy

[@VikingLord101]

Uh oh

[@zinova8252]

Eng: it sounds familiar

[@Pekara121]

2:38 guy in chat: "bosnians dont exist" me, a bosnian: "maybe I am non-existent"

[@Gmod2012lo1]

smejanje hahaha kenjamo svuda

[@TheJeremyHolloway]

That was the fault of auto-correct. The guy in chat actually typed "Belgium doesn't exist".

[@ermin3958]

@@TheJeremyHolloway he meant Bosnians because the German was talking about Bosnians that he had a Bosnian friend and he was talking about Slavs it wouldn’t make sense to talk about Belgium at that point

[@TheJeremyHolloway]

@@ermin3958 it was a joke, Chachie.

[@lukamandic9169]

I was saying only Serbs and Croats exist

[@cpat1068]

My great Grandpa fought in the Philippines as a tank driver, he never talked about..... when he came home became an alcoholic. I was so fascinated with ww2 and wanted to make a documentary of his life during that time, but whenever I asked my grandma(his daughter) to help me ask him, she said he doesn't talk about it. I was only 15 around the time, eventually he got dementia real bad and he passed away 3 years ago. War changes you, but ww2 was different.....

[@SIMONREMISH]

damn. where is he from?

[@Mitjitsu]

18:00 - Alan Turing's main problem was due to his work during the war being top secret. He wasn't allowed to mention what he did, which made it impossible for him to get a job.

[@avisdunrandom]

It's a lie to say Stalin didn't expect the betray of Hitler but it's True that he didn't expect Hitler attack him while he has Allies in the west.

[@hawkerben1158]

I think it was something along the lines of stalin thought war was inevitable but didn’t think Hitler was crazy enough to do it

[@butterskywalker8785]

@@hawkerben1158 of course nobody would think anybody is crazy enough to invade at that time,since Germany already had plenty of enemies,they kinda feel like they just spammed the declare war button on whoever they could

[@monnomestbizarre]

Soviet spies had information on the planned invasion but Stalin thought it was a trick by the allies to make him fight Germany so he ignored his spies

[@DanielFuentes-mr3nn]

Stalin knew Hitler was gonna invade him. He didnt expect Hitler to invade him so early. That's why the Germans got so far in the beginning. The Soviets were unprepared

[@rebelgaming1.5.14]

Stalin had his own plan to invade Germany before they became too powerful. If Germany had knocked out Britian, Stalin would've invaded and caught Germany by surprise, just like the Germans did. This ultimately would've been a deciding factor in the war against Germany, as an attack into GERMAN territory would've seen more partisans fighting the Soviets than the amount of Partisans fighting the Germans IRL. Even the Poles would've taken up arms against the Russians, not wanting to become a puppet of them either. In the end Stalin has his own Barbarossa disaster. Danzig or Königsberg becomes this universe's Stalingrad, and Stettin most likely becomes the Leningrad of this universe. German research priorities immediately ramp up, and they come up with designs faster due to the Russian Invasion. I see a total rout of Soviet forces on the Delta of the Vistula, seeing the turning point in the East. Now demoralized and on the retreat, the Soviet Union, instead of Germany would be more willing to sign a peace.

[@cringebrudi]

My great grandpa was ceptured in Stalingrad. But survived the captivity.

[@irishbattletoster9265]

God that must have been terarable

[@perniciousseizurehellio3438]

Are u Russian or german

[@cringebrudi]

My Grandma told me about it: Most man died of starvation or the cold.

[@cringebrudi]

@@perniciousseizurehellio3438 German.

[@perniciousseizurehellio3438]

@@cringebrudi dam that's pretty cool

[@ptolomaios4118]

This is why I love Tommy’s streams and reactions. He’s so insightful and deep, much more so than many other streamers and gamers

[@ethanchen4504]

Watch Vlogging Through History he's a history teacher and gives way more insightful comments. Yes he has relations to all this too.

[@nikitamiroshnichenko2864]

I once spoke with an albanian war veteran, he said that when he was his son's age, he was training in the army, sleeping 4 hours, then running straight for 15 km, then running back, and then having breakfast, with a piece of hard bread and some warm tea He then said: "I want to cry when I see young people insulting each other or being rude for nothing, they don't know how good they have it, because of all the work that was done during my generation. When I was young, there was no such thing as going out and buying a snack or a dinner or something to eat, only the richest could do that, Everyone else had to work from time to time to eat something and the choice was not such as it is today. If I wanted to eat I had to either cook for 4 hours, or obey someone's orders"

[@cautarepvp2079]

interesting.. different times to live by

[@d0odle]

He has spoken some harsh truth words. Even after ww2 communism came to Albania and everyone was at work. There was no such thing as going out to have fun. Everyone starting from childrens, youth, adult and elder people were involved in communist Albania. I would love to have someone from ww2 to tell me about it. I have become kinda obsessed with it. I do have a lot of people that lived through communism my family mostly. Life was really harsh.

[@nikitamiroshnichenko2864]

@@d0odle ok, life does not get hard because of communism, it sometimes gets communist when it's hard, that can be a reason for it, it is mandatory to work in communism, during comunism people don't tell if their children are born female or male, they're just born as workers, well, and sometimes food or trash. You're right, it was sad, and outside of videos like this and convos like this, people usually used to feel uneasy talking about this even if they knew

[@d0odle]

@@nikitamiroshnichenko2864 ye exactly, I would love to hear what that war veteran had told you, i really do.

[@nikitamiroshnichenko2864]

@@d0odle we were very drunk, you already red what I wrote before about him, beside that: he just called the english cowardish attention whores And well there is more, but it is, private, it would make me very sensitive while meaning little to you, you can find it online tho

[@za.monolit]

"Berlin fell, and with it, Hitler's dream of a great German empire." chat: *F*

[@Vengir]

Hopefully, they were meant for Tommy's grandpas.

[@2psah2]

W

[@avestaalamgiralam3868]

G

[@clone.1904]

Of course we are germans... wir vermissen das Reich xD

[@adampytlik8453]

Thank god

[@Przemek022]

My grandpa destroyed at least 23 fighters. He was the worst Luftwaffe mechanic.

[@theyeetgod2728]

Lol

[@CrawfordGrimaldi]

🤣🤣

[@davidfisher5140]

Bwaahahaaha!

[@fivemjs]

Oh my gosh my Dr Pepper is all over the carpet now! Ha

[@jwclifton1990]

My grandpa died in Auschwitz... he fell out of the guard tower... (while aiming)...

[@devildog6513]

I’m new to TommyKays channel. As an American I never think about how Germans today had relatives fight in the German army during WWII. Crazy to hear his grandpas died on the eastern front

[@ryanlaws6182]

Tommy such a well minded individual, much respect. Very interesting to watch these videos and hear these thoughts.

[@ministry95]

The story about the elderly solider and his reaction is so familiar. My grand-grandfather was on the Belarusian front (Soviet side), and he's been in combat since the beginning of the war until he was hospitalized in 1943. Since his return and until his death, he always refused to talk when anyone asked him about the war.

[@krm-kerem5558]

R.I.P.

[@webbergj]

My grandfather fought in the Pacific Theater and even though he was on the winning side he still didn't like to talk about the war. When my mom was growing up he'd tell the "funny" stories about shenanigans in camp and things like that, but never any real "war stories". I'd ask about the war sometimes as a boy, and he'd tell me the same kind of story he told my mom but never anything combat related. My dad did manage to get a few combat stories out of him. He told them to me second-hand when I was a teenager (after my grandfather passed) and then I had an idea as to why gramps didn't like discussing it.

[@TommyKay]

poor men :(

[@rolfdaswalross]

I have a similar story, my grandfather was just 5 years old when the war ended but he lost most of hist family, when they were bombed while fleeing from the front. They were caught up by a russian collumn of trucks, that was driving next to them on the road and the Luftwaffe decided to bomb the trucks, despite the many refugees next to them. My grandfathers grandmother saved his life by throwing herself on him, she died, his mother died and his 3 year old sister died a couple of days later from a shrapnelwound, my grandfather himself had his legs badly injured by the bombings and needed to relearn walking after they had healed, he spend most his time in bed drawing and became a painter later in life because of this

[@tresseismelo]

@@rolfdaswalross what an amazing story

[@berserker4940]

"Why not Tokyo?" Tommy Tokyo had already been firebombed to oblivion. The Allied terror bombing campaigns against Germany and Japan were far more deadly than the nuclear bombs combined.

[@nothuman3083]

Same with German air raids, if they didn't use heavy incendiaries as additives for fuel they would've done it. They had uboats sinking civilian ships.

[@nothuman3083]

Oh and Japan's attack against China

[@silversnakeproductions3241]

Also(and I assume hat he said “why not nuke tokyo” ) because killing the leadership would be very very bad.

[@Zoped98]

I think the primary reason would be that annihilating the government in a nuclear blast on Tokyo would’ve left Japan with no central authority to even surrender tbh

[@shiningamaterasu2579]

@@silversnakeproductions3241 Both Tokyo and Kyoto were on the list for the nukes, but president Truman declared if the US was to destroy a people, they would not erase their culture.

[@TrayTerra]

Learned a lot today sitting at work in a bad rainstorm with hardly much to do. Thanks for the knowledge.

[@daviddufresne343]

It was the same with all the WW2 vets I ever met and there were a ton of them back in the day. They all said they were in "the service" although if they were a Marine they'd tend to specify that, but that was as far as the conversation usually went. I knew a few guys that served non combat roles and they were happy to talk about the construction they did and stuff like that, but I never got a war story. Two close relatives of mine served in Korea, they never said a word about it, I only found out after they passed.

[@xEvannnx]

“Hitler should’ve listened to his generals” - BIG misconception. He listened to his generals way more than he did not before 1944. In the battle of Kursk, he said that he stayed up all night from his stomach turning at the thought of the battle plan his generals made, and went with it anyways. His generals would also go on to say “he didn’t listen to us” so the losses wouldn’t fall on them, and to paint hitler more as a crazy leader they had to follow, than the crazy leader that they chose to follow. Not to be too much of a Hitler defender lmao, just an interesting bit of history

[@TommyKay]

didn't know that

[@def3ndr887]

They would’ve captured Kursk if it wasn’t for the allies coming from the west

[@adolfus_catler]

He listened to his generals too when Normandy happened. Only Rommel and guderian thinks Allies rush into the Normandy. Other generals are Calais. So huge amount of German defence were in Calais.

[@amatthew1231]

@@TommyKay Hitler's generals were not loyal at all. One thing the oversimplified video does mention is Hitler's general staff actually planned on giving him bad invasions plans for France on purpose, in the hopes that Germany would lose and depose Hitler. Erich Manstein was one of the only generals who came up with real plans of attack, and gave them to Hitler. It was him that actually came up with the Ardennes strategy to get around the Maginot, sending 50 divisions through some of the worst terrain in norther Europe? The French commanders didn't believe it was happening when their reconnaissance planes returned with reports of it. Maybe for pride/glory, or maybe he really wanted the nazis to win, Manstein's brilliant victory basically prompted the rest of the war. Its crazy to think that if he just listened to the other generals and mislead Hitler the war might not of happened, opr would have been extremely quck, and millions upon millions would still be alive.

[@user-gx4cd1jb9h]

Actually at the battleof Kursk he didn't listen to his general, Heinz Guderian suggested various defensive smaller battles at villiges and towns, draining Soviets, while his other general suggested that they should do a major decisive battle at Kursk and win them over one battle and turn the war, so Hitler didn't listen to Guderian which would've succeeded.

[@chrisgames5201]

Tommy: "I'm coming to you tonight" Me, a Norwegian: "Oh God... Not again"

[@Name-ix6lz]

HVORFOR IGJEN?

[@chrisgames5201]

@@Name-ix6lz Han er tysk

[@myles3856]

Ok

[@chrisgames5201]

@@Name-ix6lz 2 ting: Tyskland, 1940

[@Name-ix6lz]

@@chrisgames5201 Jeg forstod det - _- WWII

[@sirenloud]

You sir have earned yourself a subscribe and I'm going to share this on my platforms I love your sense of humor very entertaining buddy well wishes all the way from Chicago Illinois United States of America

[@templar1372]

Seeing how we was all alone yet never gave up and carried on no matter how bad it seemed makes me feel very patriotic. We may be small however we will never fall

[@jocaa666]

"War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other." - Niko Belic

[@cgndnm]

add this shit on idk

[@sontalks]

Cabbage

[@wyattguilliams9472]

Thought that was Politics

[@siegfredch.960]

Wrong. Hitler is young. Mussolini too.

[@nawfsidereviews6029]

Loved that game.

[@chatnoir1224]

37:00 same story with my grandfather (Russian). He never talked about the war with his family. Only in a very rare moments when his war comrades would come and they drunk a little to much. And those stories were depressing. Grand-uncle also didn't talk about the war, but it didn't let him go. He would often scream at night. One night, when he was screaming, my dad, a young man at that time, came into his room and asked if he was ok. Grand-uncle, in half-awaken state of mind, would shout "Misha! What are you doing here! Run! Germans are near by!". "The war is over, uncle. We are safe at home" - father replied. ...

[@GT-fl9gf]

I'm sorry

[@eloyprado5652]

That made me cry, I´m from Chile, no wars since 1883 so no one here is used to these stories being so real...and sad

[@saddesk9191]

@@eloyprado5652 my neighboors husband was executed infront of her (he tried to run) because he was resisting arrest due to sabotage, i always thought growing up she was so weird but that must have been so horrible to watch (also they guy who killed him is the great grandpa of my bestfriend up the street, her great grandpa was a ss gestapo officer) the old lady thinks im sweet but cant bear to look at my friend and i understand

[@martinadamek7016]

Oh :/ man. It had to be terrible :/ so sorry for your family

[@eloyprado5652]

@@saddesk9191 History makes the sadest and best stories

[@marioalfonso9582]

Bro u are so entertaining, usually don’t like commentary on history videos but you killed it 🙌🏻

[@TommyKay]

yes mario!

[@jackmclaughlin9911]

My great grandpa fought on D-Day, my dad said it gave him ptsd and he was afraid of fireworks afterwards.

[@DraskoCobra]

Did spartans have ptsd huh? Did Romans, Mongols Etc?

[@moneymaykerhustler]

@@DraskoCobra They actually could have. We would never know. Also did the Romans, Spartans, or the Mongols have machineguns, mortars, heavy artillery (which cause ptsd)

[@DraskoCobra]

@@moneymaykerhustler its like getting Stabed By Gladius Isnt scary huh

[@moneymaykerhustler]

@@DraskoCobra it wont give you PTSD

[@moneymaykerhustler]

@@DraskoCobra It is more painful, but the mortars and machineguns have a psychological effect

[@thegraytemplar2548]

“Hitler should have listened to his generals.” I think his next reaction should be “why Germany could not have won World War II” by Potential History.

[@ximrade4287]

Potentional cringe history

[@BBraun-gw4hs]

@@ximrade4287 Damn, you just deleted his channel

[@BBraun-gw4hs]

@@ximrade4287 Damn, you just deleted his channel

[@TommyKay]

Ye might look into Potential history

[@reclaimer7787]

@@TommyKay YES! I would love to see your reaction to it

[@puggy9309]

Fun fact. My Japanese family moved from Hiroshima to Tokyo a day before the bomb fell. Also my mother remembers when she was young a lot of family vets talking about the war. Wish I was there to hear first accounts of the Japanese soldiers.

[@kw4584]

They dodged a major bullet

[@thisaccountwashacked666]

That's just pure luck

[@TheAquaAuthor]

@@kw4584 woawm

[@juanara6969]

Only imagine if you mom family wait until the next day to move Thats is 1ton of good luck

[@Discontinuedalready7372]

_They were lucky_

[@Kafulu363]

Both of my grandparents contributed to the war, one of them learned the Germans how to ski and the other one helped people escape over the Swedish border. That same guy the hero that helped people get over the border almost got executed at Akershus Castle but was saved by one of his friends

[@DANTE83100]

My dads' father was the same as your relative. He had photos of his time stationed in Egypt. Not once did he feel comfortable talking about his experiences to his sons or grandchildren. I can't even begin to imagine the things he'd seen or done and the friends he must of lost. Africa was a brutal conflict for everyone involved. But to me he was just my grandfather, who loved his family and always asked how our lives where going.

[@ronweasley5445]

“he was 1,69??? he was so small bro... so small” me at the height of 1,69 🥲

[@En3rgyactive]

Us short bois make the best dictators

[@giovannicesaramorim9adigan961]

He meant 1,69 not 1'69, that's not even a "height" measurement.

[@ronweasley5445]

@@giovannicesaramorim9adigan961 i’m pretty sure everyone knew what i was saying, idk how to write out cm measurements i’m bri ish we do feet (i’m also a wizard)

[@giovannicesaramorim9adigan961]

@@ronweasley5445 just use a converter, but the form is X,XXm, or XXXcm, as 1 m = 100 cm (m = meter, cm = centimeter).

[@ronweasley5445]

@@giovannicesaramorim9adigan961 i definitely know that. i just was unsure of how to part the 1 and 69, so i chose a ‘

[@mufcglen1878]

My grandfather was a Tank Commander in the British 8th Army in North Africa.He took a direct hit on the first day of the battle, he never spoke of the horrors he faced to me. It’s only through asking family members about it I have found things out. But 1 thing I do know is that he never hated Germany or it’s people, it was the rulers that Germany had it the time. The German soldiers where carrying out order’s just like the British soldiers where. Thank you for sharing a video like this, as a nation we are not taught the German perspective on both WW1 or WW2.

[@ardabayer8625]

It was the same with my Grandpa an Armenian captain in the Soviet Army, He never described Nazis as monsters or someone to hate in his writings and the stories he told to my previous generation. He was a very respective man...

[@patrykolech9930]

The greatest nonsense I have ever read. Hitler won the election democratically. When Adolf asked the people of Germany if they were ready for total war who shouted "YES" ? I'm glad that your grandfather didn't experience daily cruelty from ordinary Germans and can now talk such nonsense to you.

[@catherinewyles1947]

I heavily doubt that every German agreed with Hitler. And yes, some Germans would be down with hitler because the previous government was so bad it led to a lot of death. Also he most likely didn’t ask the Germans if they were ready for total war, because that would not be very smart.

[@ultimpower9350]

@@patrykolech9930 that was Goebbels not Hitler, it was in 1943 not in 1933 and done with a carefully picked crowed, you are clueless

[@falseprofit2569]

@@patrykolech9930 True most of the Germans did support hit** on going to war to bc he was "fixing" the country and brought a "solution" especially after what the allies did to Germany with the treaty of Versailles, However the grand majority didn't support what he did to the jews most wanted stability, other just hopped on the bandwagon and the rest (the ones in power not general people) did that to the jews, just like how people supported US president Franklin D. Roosevelt bc he was "fixing" the country out of the great depression yet sending Japanese people to camps yet no one says anything about that and Roosevelt is very popular among Americans

[@twswe933]

What a sight to see an discussion occurring in the chat with mcming3 and fireballJJ1. Truly entertaining

[@wojtekpolska1013]

29:23 the funniest thing is that this is a true story, some frenchman just gave champagne to the army that landed there lol

[@matthewdancz9152]

You physically circling the locations of where your grandpa's died made me realize that the cost of war is deeply human, and how close in time the second world war was. It hasn't even been one hundred years yet.

[@JonathanTaylorThomass]

now realize that the grandfathers of many viewers of this stream fought against each other less than 100 years ago

[@lokeandersson4255]

A.

[@daniel6009]

@@JonathanTaylorThomass That's actually such an interesting thought. 80 years ago, our (great) grandfathers fought to the death and now we're here, having a good time and enjoying video games toghether.

[@theender664]

@@daniel6009 it seems like it was ages ago doesn't it?

[@Th3Jac0b]

I'm polish so when he pointed where his grandparrent died I thought that he would probably harrased my family

[@absolutezero6423]

Yeah. Finland had the legendary sniper Simo Hayha. The White Death. He was a certified badass.

[@alexs7189]

You forget Lauri Törni.

[@Tea_N_Crumpets]

One thing that’s also often overlooked: Simo Häyha didn’t use scopes. He sniped HUNDREDS with nothing but iron sights! LEGEND.

[@sarahluise3153]

@@alexs7189 Literal Nazi

[@finemernop7201]

@@alexs7189 Lauri Allan Törni was a legend.

[@ProstoDen18]

bro's trying to see what mistakes not to make next time💀

[@robloxscripts1371]

liebe deine videos ^^. Mach weiter so

[@Liam.Fairhurst]

I’m so glad that Germany and England have great relations these days. Some of the nicest people I’ve ever met are German and it’s always a pleasure to catch up with them. It’s sometimes hard to believe that our grandparents had to fight each other while we sit in a peaceful cafe. If our grandparents could see what was happening 70 years later.. they would smile because all of that fighting did something.

[@fireironthesecond2909]

Regardless of who they work for the German people are remarkably well motivated and skilled, god knows how

[@Liam.Fairhurst]

@ANALIESE MURAWSKY pleasure to speak with you, where about a do you hail from in Germany? I have a couple of friends from Frankfurt Wiesbaden & Berlin. We often talk about how far we have come. There is at least one instance where I’ve had to step in and defend my German friends from ignorant people.

[@andretrividic1302]

@@Liam.Fairhurst from France love to germany

[@daniele5349]

@@Liam.Fairhurst gay

[@jelly4frog498]

@@daniele5349 straight

[@thomasodwyer5365]

Fun fact: The same queen who pardoned Alan Turing (Elizabeth II ) did absolutely nothing to help him while he was alive and well

[@MinecraftMasterNo1]

I find it rather hilarious how a German queen keeps being touted around by the Brits as the most ETERNAL hallmark of the UK.

[@P99s-s]

@@MinecraftMasterNo1 She ain't a German bruh, sure the house is german but she is born and raised in the UK

[@MinecraftMasterNo1]

@@P99s-s For a monarch, blood is everything. I'm pretty sure like half the inheritance list hasn't even set foot in the UK. It'd be hilarious if something catastrophic happen and we actually had to go down the list enough to get something crazy like an American lol.

[@huseynaxmedov09]

oof

[@mysteryj0430]

She couldn't help him unless the government at the time asked her to. She wouldn't have given him the pardon either it would have been the government at the time who issues the pardon in her name.

[@akileaf4029]

23:45 the Scholl siblings they were in Munich. The White Rose resistance group formed around the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, even including a professor who was teaching there. (I’m currently studying at the very same university that’s how I know it :)

[@trillseekersarge5099]

Crazy thing was parts of the atomic bomb were built near me and at the savanna army depo was during both world wars and desert storm had more munitions pumped through it in America. Ship to the rock island arsenal and distributed to the military.

[@jiengjieshi7815]

That story about your aunt’s father in-law reminded me of my grandpa who fought as a Filipino guerrilla against the Japanese. He was this cheerful filipino man who always told jokes and had a smile on his face, yet he never talked about the war. I am sad I was too young to spend time with him when he was younger, but slowly his mind and body started to deteriorate as he became older. Before he died in 2016, he couldn’t go down the stairs by himself, and he barely remembered what he ate for breakfast. One day when we were visiting, he finally started to open up about his experience from the war. This smiling man grew to a somber and frightened man as he remembered how the Japanese executed his fellow villagers and put their bodies on display. I always heard stories about the European and Pacific theaters from Americans, or the survivors of occupied Germany, but until then I had never heard the experience under occupied Japan. Even now it seems that the bombings (This is not an opinion on the morality of their use) have overshadowed the brutal conditions of living in occupied Japan.

[@texoraptor112]

😢 Enough a grown man cry

[@isthisthekrustycrabs5166]

I feel you on that man. My great grandfather was a Philippine Scout from Pangasinan and fought around his province all the way to Luzon. Unfortunately, that’s all I know about him because apparently my grandma said he died a year after the war. The war affected them deeply. They lost their farm and had to move to Manila every once in a while to find work. Despite never meeting my great grandfather, I just couldn’t imagine the things that happened to him during the war.

[@morrischma9565]

Russian still see the effects of WW2 to this, every 20-25 year their population decreases massively because only 20% of young adults (born in 1923) survived the war.

[@TommyKay]

yeah it's crazy, Russia got hit really hard

[@DeusEversor]

Bolshevism is to blame. Many Russians preffered to join Germans than to serve red menace. They were all executed in gulags after the war. Both Wehrmacht and SS recruited russian pows.

[@user-xx7xj5pj2g]

@@DeusEversor "soviets bad reich good"

[@DeusEversor]

@@user-xx7xj5pj2g Yes.

[@twotoneopossum7240]

@@DeusEversor cringe

[@unknownentity8256]

Soon we can watch part 3! Yay

[@tcsam73]

When I was a kid, I knew a guy who was a POW in Japan. He never talked about how he got captured, nor what happened when he was there. I do know the camp he was at was near one of the cities that got nuked. All he said was they thought it was another firebombing, they had no idea what had happened till he got back from the war.

[@David_Chime]

"WW2 is like playing a video game with trash teams" Hilarious 👍

[@nookiedrivein6153]

HOI4 Mussolini *will remembers that*

[@chatnoir1224]

19:50 We are proud. The problem is that at the same time we are talking about about Stalin's time and oppressive regime, which did a lot of bad stuff during the war. So it is a complicated topic.

[@MinecraftMasterNo1]

Also, many Soviet soldiers weren't even Russian. A lot of minorities felt like they died for some foreign conquerors in Moscow. Which is why so many nations broke away when the union finally fell.

[@Ronald98]

@@MinecraftMasterNo1 who even told you that? the majority of soviet soldiers were russian.. i highly recommend ww2 in real time from the world war 2 channel and the Time Ghost team... don't talk about stuff you don't know

[@MinecraftMasterNo1]

@@Ronald98 I never said the majority wasn't Russian. I said many soldiers weren't Russian not that the red army had a Russian minority. Don't talk if you can't read.

[@Ronald98]

@@MinecraftMasterNo1 then don't write "many soviet soldiers".. and instead write "some soviet soldiers"... don't talk if you can't write and phrase your sentence right

[@baptister7978]

@@Ronald98 calm down

[@JRock3091]

After my grandfather died his record was released. He told us he was a cook, in all reality he was OSS in the US Army. He fought in both main theaters, and was a plank owner of the CIA office in Manila. Also his sister was a missionary that was trapped by the Japanese in the Philippines. She was held as a POW in the compound of the Manila College. My grandfather was involved in the operation to take Manila. They never saw one another. But it's a crazy story.

[@ethanchen4504]

I have to share my piano teacher's story. Her father was drafted in WW2. SO... He worked an office job in Hawaii spinning that wheel with paper slips inside to select draftees. He had a 5 hour work day, and it was a 5 minute walk from the beach.

[@truanashabadapressure6621]

Loved that you brought up the Americans of Italian descent, my great grandfather was a 1st generation Polish American who liberated death camps in Poland. I was only 9 when he died so though I got many awesome war stories from him, he never spoke even to his wife about what he saw at the camps. I can’t imagine returning to your parents homeland and witnessing what he did.

[@niko_kabelek]

How could your grandpa do this if there were no american troops in Poland during WW2, only the soviet one?

[@ganjabandit5074]

I wouldn’t mind seeing tommy react to “The Fallen of WW2”

[@galaxc8462]

he should also see inmate 4859

[@reichtanglevictor1694]

oh right, amazing video

[@DayZilya]

Great mini documentary

[@GetAssista]

Tommy is qualified yes, he completely exhausted his manpower in hoi quite some times

[@martinlancaster6282]

That Allan Turing really got to me. He's from my city (Manchester) and there's many monuments, road names, murals etc etc But what we did yo that man was disgusting. I'm sorry brother, you didn't deserve that. Rip Allan Turing - f**king leg end

[@jamiewulfyr4607]

I feel the same way dude.Turing went to school in my hometown.Poor guy was shown no gratitude for his work and was hounded into an early grave.

[@terryskidmore6739]

I agree with both you. It was shameful the way he was treated.

[@everynamewastakenomg]

Sadly it was normal for the time. Society was much more religious which ultimately means homophobia.

[@iordannelucas]

He knew too much

[@vrabb9030]

@@everynamewastakenomg Religion doesn't mean homophobia , honestly a lil racist.

[@nunyabeeswax3936]

Was raised by the WW2 generation & Army Service found me in Germany during the Cold war which went hot a few times as the warsaw pact came at us.. We were sucessful in keeping them out of Germany. Being Saxon English it was strange indeed. At Baumholder I visited the Tavern that the german troops frequented and danced on top of a table holding a glass stein of Bier.. a very old tradition . Thanks indeed Tommy for your work here.

[@SvensssonboiMapping]

Love your end speech Tommy

[@dax3636]

As a slav I laughed so hard when someone said "Musolinović" in chat hahahaahahahahahahahaha

[@unbindingfloyd]

I watched a German movie called "Stalingrad". At least that is the name I saw in English. Anyways, it starts with young German boys in training. Then they are going off to the Eastern front and everyone is happy and confidant after the fall of France. They show each other propaganda news and you can tell they are living in a police state. No one questions anything at all. They move farther and farther east until they end up in Stalingrad. Over time things get worse and worse in the city. The young kids faces grow old. Their friends slowly die. At the end of the movie very few are alive in the original unit. It ends on an airstrip covered in snow with a blizzard all around. The last German flights leaving Stalingrad flying away. These young boys had no idea what was really going on. The last shot is one German soldier holding another, his last friend, who just froze to death. Then he dies as well. Both froze to death on an airstrip in Stalingrad. It takes real balls to tell the truth. The human story. Not just paint people as angles or devils. Show what really goes on in war. It was a fantastic movie.

[@joaoribeiro2688]

boo hoo dead nazis

[@marcelocalucho1756]

Holy...

[@unbindingfloyd]

@@joaoribeiro2688 How simple minded. Spoken like a simpleton. You try growing up with pure propaganda 24/7. Try living in a complete totalitarian police state. Lets see how long you survive. Lets see how egalitarian you are. The harsh truth is, most people with your mentality would have shut their mouths and went along just as well. Self preservation is far more powerful than bravery. Always has been. Lets hope you never have to test yourself.

[@FriedrichBarb]

@@joaoribeiro2688 Germans* fighting for their nation bravely as everyone was.

[@FriedrichBarb]

“Unser mutter, Unser Vater” (also called Generation War) is also good German WW2 movie/series with a heartbreaking story, you would enjoy it

[@dudeguy5855]

The part where he says some people aren't subscribed genuinely made me sub 😂🎉

[@Revilo567]

21:11 Unsere Müter, unsere Väter (Generation War) is a masterpiece recommend it to everybody. Already watched it 3x and will do it even more often

[@linuusshh5196]

15:02 As a Finn i can prove that Tommy is spitting fax

[@TommyKay]

hi finn

[@Aldoz]

I feel like Finns are the most patriotic of all the Nordic countries for some reason

[@henri9109]

​@@Aldoz Nationalism was a "civic religion" in Finland by the end of the 19th century, and you can still hear the echoes of it today. Got to remember that Finland is barely over 100 years old as a nation. And the nation's collective conscious understands the misery and hardships endured as second class peasants between two ruling kingdoms on the road to independence, let alone the sacrifices made by the veterans for our collective future.

[@linuusshh5196]

@@henri9109 couldn't have said it better myself.

[@user-no4di9ro7c]

Russian here. Congratulations, you beat our asses back then, I am very sorry for this war

[@paddymcginty1264]

"Anything to declare?" "Yeah, don't go to russia".

[@Tom-Mc70]

Is that a twist on the quote from “Snatch”

[@Gmod2012lo1]

@@Tom-Mc70 yeah i think so

[@talusn9405]

Why these Poles conquered Moscow and kept it for two years is unique in contrast to Hitler or Napoleon who succumbed .. Poles know the Russians well

[@user-ux7xs6vr2n]

@@talusn9405 Yeah, then they gave us Navalny (False Dmitry) and were happy, but not for long. It's 2021, and the methods are still the same. Ага, подсунули тогда нам Навального (Лжедмитрий) и радовались, но не долго. Сейчас 2021 год, а методы всё те же.

[@AnnDarko]

@@talusn9405 yeah in time of troubles lol, when rus fight among themselves

[@Sprud_]

My grandfather fought on the eastern front for 6 years and survived by being shot and having to be sent to a hospital. This ultimately saved him as shortly after his position was overrun and all his friends he knew for years passed away. After being captured by the Russians and being in Siberia my grandmother and later on my father knew to never ask about the war. I was too young to ask before he passed away and was only able to find out about this from my father who asked him and only got this story as an answer, and I really understand why so many veterans do not want to talk about what happened…

[@alpha-9609]

I Cannot explain how happy I am to see this on KZbin

[@big7491]

My girlfriends grandpa was in Vietnam (lost in the jungle alone for a week tons of other crazy shit) anyways we were out at dinner for his birthday and a drink spilt on him, before the water could physically leave the table top the man had the water picked up and sat back down, the reflexes were just insane. He’s been through a lot. Great guy

[@SIMONREMISH]

damn what year was he born in?

[@valesk4406]

Likely between 49-55, my grandfather served in Vietnam in the 70s and he was born in 50.

[@whitechapel8959]

My great great grandfather died in 1984, but his wife, she told me about both the wars. She was the ONLY survivor of her village by 1943, she was the last of her bloodline by 1918. Here is her quote: "I survive to pass on what I have learned so the young dont repeat my generations faults, I just hope they listen"

[@Twocat5side]

You have a very special story to tell then

[@fussel676]

Americans having wars every other year: "guess we're deaf!"

[@yama123numbercauseytdemand4]

1918 or 1981?

[@SIMONREMISH]

where are u from?

[@space4166]

@@fussel676why would 300 million + listen to one person

[@gamergoblin69]

33:52 The way I see it Military is a thrill seeker's job,if you have nowhere to go,no purpose and you want that spark in your life,war is there,it's messed up but I'd say it gives people a job and a reason in life which is kinda cool

[@asdfoifhvjbkaos]

32:27 they already destroyed Tokyo with a firebombing campaign, which was even more destructive than the nuclear bomb

[@Sillyboi05]

Yes we are proud of our achievements in the war. -Finland

[@TommyKay]

yessir

[@Scrap_Lootaz]

More than 600 thousand residents of St. Petersburg (Leningrad) and refugees who died during the siege of Leningrad from hunger and cold. Is one of these "achievements". Just reminding...

[@Red_V_kiwi]

@JK I think you forgot about Japanese

[@RoyalMela]

@@Scrap_Lootaz Finland did not take part in that siege. Finland only held their border.

[@Scrap_Lootaz]

@@RoyalMela , Maybe Finland has not yet fought on the side of the Nazis? Open the map and use your eyes to find out that the Finns have moved into the territory of the USSR by more than 100 kilometers. And thus cut off the supply of the city by land along the northern part of Lake Ladoga.

[@un7itledreacts]

American reporting in. Honestly, every country has things to be ashamed of. We're no different. Loved the video and the insights.

[@meganhanna1109]

Yes of course and we should definitely look back on history and learn from it so we never repeat it but I don’t think anyone should hold what there country did over their head as they were not even alive and we should honestly move on and have peace but of course that’s unrealistic which is sad

[@reddirtmillennial2011]

We should have kept mexico and cuba. I mean we have hawaii and puerto rico........ Would have prevented a lot of headaches over the centurys.

[@eyyy2271]

@@reddirtmillennial2011 shut up

[@eugenelubbock5478]

@@reddirtmillennial2011 you never had mexico

[@Vitorruy1]

@@reddirtmillennial2011 wtf

[@billsnothere4499]

when he said let me show you were my great grandpas died, i was like holy cow tommy is so lucky to be alive tbh, & were lucky to have him.

[@kingstonlillyvaea892]

imagine being a 30 year italian guy and you just think "i wonder what mr mussolini is up to these days"

[@pavelius140]

Just to clarify, Turing's work to crack enigma was partially made on polish achievements, Marian Rejewski has very similar participation to breaking enigma as Turing

[@pannik_lucas]

That explains Poland's focus

[@efulmer8675]

Poland did a lot of the legwork on cracking the Enigma and laying the groundwork. Turing's genius was coming up with a machine capable of doing what the Poles could do a million times faster, which itself is quite the achievement.

[@jarhead0806]

Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henry Zygalski they cracked the enigma code

[@IshijimaKairo]

Nah it was Turing

[@12345678966666666661]

@@IshijimaKairo they cracked it First but the method was to slow to be used practically

[@KaiservonKrieger]

They did. But then the germs changed the codes. So the brits did this one

[@KaOs324]

Yup, 3 polish boys cracked enigma code first, they sended this information to UK. But then germans added more complex codes. btw the most saddest thing is that UK forced polish squadron 303 to pay for fuel and for borrowing british planes, even when this squadron killed a huge amout of german planes and did a big impact on the air. Keep in mind, everyone can be asshole. Even democracts.

[@DeusEversor]

@Towarzysz Wiedźmin exactly, without knowledge how Poles cracked the code the first time, Thurings invention would have been just as usefull as a clock.

[@viktorclark1674]

Finally seeing a German react to WW2 is awesome. Thank you. As a American we tend to get only one side of the war. It's refreshing to get the German side of the war. My grandma was a United States Navy Nurse stationed at Pearl Harbor Naval hospital during the surprise attack on pearl harbor by Japan.

[@liambenn1214]

My grandad was in the British navy during the Cold War, he told me all about his experiences with ww2 as a child and the aftermath of it, he passed away in March from a long battle with cancer and he was a child during the Second World War, so to think how many people are left who actually fought in it must be so few. It’s sad because without any of those people to tell people war is bad, someday you will get another deranged child who never learns that, gets to power and boom. Ww3.

[@fernandoperes1274]

My family came to Brazil in 1900, they were from Abruzzo, Italy. When the great war broke out, 2 of my grandma's uncles were called, and got back to Italy, to fight in the alps. One of them died there in 1917. Having a war-soldier in my family makes me proud, and brings me courage. But I can only image the terror it was to face death through huge mountains, having to keep marching into heavily defended lines.

[@valeriopelizzaro3155]

Almeno ha servito una grande nazione e per questo lo rispetto (translate in Google)

[@Vitorruy1]

My great uncle fought in the 1932 Brazilian civil war

[@erpega]

Congrats Tommy, it's top 1 video in "German reacts to" search 🎉

[@stephenelberfeld8175]

My dad fought with the 10th Mountain Division in Italy. As part of the 110th Signal Corp., he was assigned to a radio truck where he took turns scouting an area behind enemy lines for camouflaged gun emplacements which were preventing ground troops from entering the Alps through the Po Valley. He was colorblind and could see through camouflage. On his last assignment he had been discovered and they tried to take him out and the radio truck with anti-aircraft shells. An exploding shell blew him up against the radio truck where he got a concussion and lots of small bits of shrapnel. He later revived from the coma and an eye was saved that suffered a slight shrapnel wound. He used to show us tiny bits of shrapnel that had reached skin level as a small black spot. He swapped a lugar he had found in a German headquarters for a camera with film in it, and the pictures he took were added to a scrap book that was donated to an Historical Society. A pair of Mittenwald skis were sent home to his brother with the insignia still on them. We search his brother's attic for them years later but no one knew what happened to them.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Oh yes, what a manly statue of Chamberlain. Chamberlain Day is the best holiday of all time

[@Boretheory]

stop follwing us we are scared

[@Gator_]

He is to powerful, he's everywhere

[@iiillliiill5917]

You again ??? I see you everywhere

[@frenziedserpent8271]

My great grandpa was there on the front on D-Day he was a tank driver. he came home and lived until march 2020. but he wouldn't talk about it either. he only spoke to me about the war when i was telling him about my goals to join the marines. long story short he persuaded me not to and was told i was one of the lucky ones to be able to hear his stories

[@Vitorruy1]

What did he said?

[@SIMONREMISH]

tell me one of his stories

[@angryface1788]

Norway is litterally only proud of sinking the german battleship blücher in the oslofjord, quite funny since theres made a movie about it. And yes im norwegian

[@williamcuillerier3634]

Tommy loved that story at the end. It’s crazy what a war does to a man !

[@Santucho999]

NEXT VIDEO: GERMAN REACTS TO THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES

[@TommyKay]

i think we have already seen that..

[@deakbenedek492]

Trianon was worse

[@slowfish1261]

I heard the word Nanking and I felt an overwhelming amount of sadness wash over me

[@itsbeyondme5560]

Same

[@playerxz6485]

@@itsbeyondme5560 Too bad china didn't learn anything they are doing the same shit to the Uyghurs I personally believe that if the Chinese were equals to the Japanese they would have done the same to japan and probably worst.

[@TheGravityShifter]

It's said the situation in Nanking was just as bad if not worse than the Holocaust in Germany, so your sadness was definitely justified. I think the death toll wasn't as high as say the Jews in the Holocaust but the acts committed was just as bad if not more barbaric.

[@space4166]

@@TheGravityShifterpretty sure in a month thr nazis killed 300,000 I need to search but if that source is true then my god

[@TheGravityShifter]

@@space4166 Sometimes you don't need a high body count for it to be worse.

[@Tzeda_]

that PERKELE RAKASTAN SINUA!!!! really made my day

[@Olliebobalong]

Im English German. You tend to hear more accounts of the British and German soldiers having more respect for each other even during the war, than a sheer hatred of each other. The two are natural allies, not enemies. I do resent how Germany is still made to feel guilty nearly 80 years on, much like the British with the empire. People will pin problems on history and play the victim, rather than take personal reasonability right now.

[@effoednagy1]

35:35 "had two eagles that looked a bit..." Lol

[@Bhyure33]

As a Finn I may comment on your opinnion about us being proud of the Winter War. Yes, we're proud of how the world recognises us because of the war. But most of us dont see it as a victory, as we lost thousands of men, which is a lot to a smaller nation. We also had to refugee around 400 thousand Karelians from the lost areas, which was a struggle. We also fucked up by doing the Continuation War, as we lost even more territory and men. But it could be a lot worse, as some historians have theories that we could have been genocided by the soviets if we lost completely. So overall, we're proud, but with honor and respect.

[@cassu6]

I don’t really know man. Most Finns I’ve seen consider it a victory because we kept our independence.

[@texoraptor112]

Genocide by the USSR? I don't it considering the fact that the Baltic peoples still exist. Unless if you mean that the winter war was as bloody as it was historically. Then that could've happened. Anyone know any Russian veterans from Sumosalmi (I butchered that didn't I?)

[@Bhyure33]

@@texoraptor112 i personally don't that much believe in the possible genocide, but i had watched this documentary about what if we lost winter war, and that was mentioned there. operation finalaska i think it was called?

[@user-ns9ri3xe8l]

luv your vids

[@TheChooch._.]

32:27 they didn’t bomb Tokyo because first of all, Nagasaki and Hiroshima were big industrial plants, second, Tokyo was very populated and they weren’t trying to kill people, more than say we can. Lastly the emperor of Japan most likely was in Tokyo and if they bombed Tokyo they risked killing him, and they knew that the Japanese would not surrender without someone to surrender for them. Your welcome for anyone wondering (: