Historians, what horrible events were left out of the history books?

[@oocombz]

See that's the thing that upsets me is the fact that we talked so much about how bad hitler, mussolini and Stalin all were but we barely talk about the atrocities committed by Hirohito. My uncle by marriage his mother lived through it all and she said the imperial Japanese were some of the worst on the planet. I mean having your best men commit suicide because you're losing the war shows you what kind of an egotistical asshole he really was.

[@philipcampbell5646]

This is somewhat unfair to Hirohito - He had only about as much power as Britain's George VI and probably didn't know much if anything about the atrocities. Blame His cabinet instead.

[@burlyraccoon5029]

well if you think like me you can understand how to fix all conflict all humans have conflict only becouse of lies and feelings. me saying that is becouse we should be smart enough to know we have no concrete evidence. thus meaning EVERY SINGLE THING PEOPLE FEEL is 100% fake thus me saying your point is valid, but also say that the fact we say hitler is bad, is becouse people where and have always used one another for selfish gains. and me saying that all people CAN be GOOD. means we can fix everything with real truth, everything from from confict from religion. all the way to people we regard as worst like terrorists. meaning if we are truly neutral like how countries like austria, but have that mentallity ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE WAYS SINGULAR PEOPLE ARE.

[@yellowrose0910]

@@philipcampbell5646 Yes and no. He probably was very limited in his knowledge of what really was going on both in the world and within his own government and armed forces because he was isolated and spoon-fed information. But No because he was the head of a nation and an adult human and it behooved him to realize his status and exert his power to become informed and control the actions done in his name. "I'm a god and I rule this land. They tell me everyone loves me. They tell me everything's going great. They tell me we are a superior people" does not cut it; a 'god' should observe and rule on their own. That whole thing where he made an address to the nation that Japan was going to surrender and local military tried a coup to prevent it from being broadcast is another interesting and relatively-unknown event in the annals of WW2 though.

[@Robodogo-sc7si]

Another thing is, when they committed acts so horrific on the Koreans, Chinese, Filipino, and other native civilians that made even the n@zis try and smuggle people away from the japanese war machines. The n@zis thought that the japanese were so cruel that THEY tried to smuggle people AWAY from imperial japanese controlled territories.

[@Robodogo-sc7si]

This is a clear sign of western bias, so much focus is on the west and few know much about what happened to asians during ww2. Unit 731, etc.

[@Cloverthecat]

A roman emperor killed his mother, killed his wife, castrated one of his slaves and made that slave his new wife.

[@rosy_tissue3936]

Nero -_- what a nasty excuse of a man

[@Cloverthecat]

@rosy_tissue3936 my history teacher said this btw.

[@BastetMusic]

​@@rosy_tissue3936 ....the more I learn about that man, the worse he gets.

[@scramble7673]

America is literally a modern reflection of the Roman empire, the castration of society, the raping of education, the sacking of family unity under the guise of compliance for the greater good, and the list goes on.

[@waynrbunyea7059]

This is mostly propaganda from political enemies. 😅

[@rondanakamura2655]

The Roman sac of Jerusalem (70AD) was SO thorough, that later a confused traveler is said to have asked a sentry which direction Jerusalem was. He had visited many times and knew he must be close. The sentry informed him that he was standing in its center. Every building had been leveled. Every waterway had been filled. Every tree had been cut down.

[@V.Hansen.]

No stone left on top of another, as was prophesied

[@xiFiNaTiCzxi]

Correct ​@@V.Hansen.

[@antifascistskater]

Israel is doing the same thing to Palestine right now. Jesus was a Palestinian Jew, if Jesus came back today the IDF would murder him.

[@DKN117]

I hate that "The Rape of Nanking" is such a well-known, infamous title for that atrocity, something pretty much everyone calls it even in history books, and yet KZbin's draconian content guidelines force the narrator to say "S.A." instead...

[@equarg]

You can’t and should not censor the truth. No matter how much it hurts.😢 Or else it will happen again.

[@cottoncandiez8872]

Thats not censoring the truth though. Sa is a type of grape no? Not to mention i disagree on another level. If we were to teach this to children for example, we should lower the information to their level then expand as they grow. It isn't censoring in the way to hide knowledge but to make it accessible ​@@equarg

[@rondanakamura2655]

Vietnamese Boat People: Des Moines, Iowa took many Vietnamese Boat People as refugees in the 1970's. To this day, Des Moines has a thriving Vietnamese community and their restaurants are amazing!

[@MiserieNotMisery]

can confirm. I live close to the city and the restaurants slap to a despicable degree

[@Hawaiiansky11]

My older brother graduated with one Vietnamese boat person. I don't know what happened to his family; he was adopted by a white family in our MN neighborhood. I don't recall him every telling anyone about atrocities. He seemed very happy and was very popular.

[@Spectrophilias]

As a multiply disabled person, the comment from the disability historian made me tear up, because I felt very seen for once. I'm grateful for the book recs on that subject, I will definitely look those up.

[@snakebitepellehue]

Same for me.

[@kitcat-xn1mn]

I'm an ambulatory wheelchair user and I hadn't even realized we had history. Why were we never told?

[@snakebitepellehue]

@@kitcat-xn1mn I ask myself all the time.

[@raynjpg]

@@kitcat-xn1mn because, according to our curriculum, written by dumb folk, the weight/importance of history of the atrocities against minorities far outweigh any history of anyone with disabilities, despite proclaiming that we're all equal. history in school is completely skewed. they barely ever mention helen keller, which just so happens to be the *most* famous disabled person. forget anyone else, we only need one example of disabled people, right?

[@lauriensnijers2322]

whats the timestamp?

[@nikayli07]

My grandfather also survived the London school explosion! His brother died in the explosion. My grandfather always shared his story in a way to keep my great uncle alive. In the chaos after the explosion my grandfather broke a window and literally jumped out the window and went looking for his siblings. All were okay except their brother. There is a memorial that beautifully honors the victims and survivors. One story that stuck with the small town was a mom went to the school when parents got wind of what happened, she literally dug out her daughter and rode around with her dead daughter in the trunk for a week. She had a psychotic break from loosing her child and in such a tragic way. There’s so much more that happened it’s not talked about enough. Rip Grandpa Dwayne💙

[@alanbear6505]

Remember some of these stories when you hear politicians supporting company towns and rolling back health and safety regulations, including in the workplace.

[@yellowrose0910]

And admitting they're spreading lies about certain groups eating pets for the sole purpose of inhumanizing them. 'Merikkka!

[@n7nja851]

Seems like yesterday.

[@darkstarr984]

Ignorance is fine, it can be helped. Stupidity is fine, everyone will do something stupid at some point. It is willful ignorance that is bad.

[@AnonymousBosch3158]

... aaaand it is everywhere!

[@Localcourtjester4hire]

If someone is being ignorant, please educate them.

[@spookyghostwriter3110]

43:47 Correction: Canada didn’t get rid of the system in 2018 per se. The 2018 change meant that people could no longer be discriminated against while applying for permanent resident status, but a similar rule still applies for those who want to get to Canada in the first place. If you’re expected to cost the government more than $26220 a year and you don’t fall under three special categories (refugees, protected people, or you have a sponsor), you’re not allowed in.

[@Robinette_kelly]

I grew up and live in East Texas, I am 61. When I was a kid, every yr on the anniversary the news station would do a feature on New London. The black and white images of that torn school and the stories have stuck with me my entire life. Thank you for sharing the story.

[@j_mars_cars]

I’m from new London Wisconsin, and was super confused until the name of Texas came in. I was like “wait what happened here?!”

[@aaronrodgers9202]

I live in Lake Jackson right next to Galveston

[@shootingstarproductions2530]

The Armagh Train Disaster should also be mentioned. It was the worst train accident to have happened in Great Britain, aside from the Quintinshill incident. A large amount of children were on a school trip that day. Due to the high numbers, two trains were scheduled, with very long trains. The first train left with about 15 coaches and two brake vans, both somewhere either in the middle or at the front of the train. The driver didn't want to take the train without the banker, as the line had very steep grades. The station master ignored his concern and sent the first train on. Sure enough, that train stalled on the steepest part of the line. Rather than wait for the second train to come along and help push the train up, the driver thought it was a good idea to split the train in two and carry on over the hill with one half, before returning to collect the other half. Separating the coaches meant disconnecting the airbrakes that were on the coaches, leaving the handbrakes to hold the train. The driver attempted to restart the train, but it rolled backward, and it sent the back portion of the train rolling out of control down the hill. The passengers, who were mainly children, couldn't get out due to the doors being locked. Unfortunately, the second train was coming up the hill, and well, you can imagine what came next. 80 passengers were killed and 260 were injured. The accident caused a lot of sweeping changes throughout Britain and as I said before, it was considered one of the worst train accidents in U.K. History.

[@suzannanicholson9511]

My family is in America because of the Highland Clearances. My grandfather's grandparents and MOST of their children were born in the Scottish Highlands. His grandma was pregnant with his dad when they were burned out. They were lucky enough to escape the blaze, but their land, animals, and most of their possessions were not so lucky. They had the good fortune to be able to immigrate to North America, and they changed their last name to Hiland.

[@ThingsInWarehouses]

7:34, Fun fact: there's a kid's version of The Radium Girls, which is exactly the same as the normal version, but with a word bank

[@MandiTheMerrow]

....😅 wow.. I am struggling to get thru it, and I got thru Upton Sinclair's Jungle OK. I cannot imagine a kid reading this book.

[@lordofsmores]

There’s also a play version of Radium Girls. First I’ve seen it, it was preformed by a Highschool, it was actually very well done. It was the first time I heard about this event.

[@Leprechaunlock]

I did a play for that book when I was in high-school. I think it was. Musical bit I don't remember

[@AnonymousBosch3158]

Reddit: what horrible things happened in history? People: Japan...

[@GiordanDiodato]

or "America..."

[@aleksandarvil5718]

China...

[@justinottenbacher8369]

The new London school explosion along with odorant also brought the requirement of thermocouplers on pilot lights that shut off gas flow in the event of it being extinguished. 😢😢

[@ZoeSFX]

55:24 at the end of this story... the anger and insults aren't needed.

[@kojinaoftheinvertedeye810]

Glad to hear the Romani getting recognition, we really are crap to them and it's sad, same for many other peoples like the Native Americans

[@ass4and8am]

On what minute is that?

[@riochavez665]

Amazing topic for the video. Love history and also the lawyer ones. Also, I love that the narration is good. Hope the narrators are getting PAID PAID.

[@ionaladygarden]

As a Scot, we get taught about the Highlands. I loved and worked in Glencoe for 2 years and theyre still bitter about the massacre

[@sunbear9374]

11:32 survivor guilts a bitch specially when you know it should’ve been you, but at the end of it all you can’t blame yourself, something like a gas leak explosion is way beyond you and out of your hands

[@DKrueger1994]

The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in January of 1945 The sinking happened while Nazi Germany was evacuating civilians, children, wounded, military officers, families, etc, the ship was spotted by Soviet Sub S-13, and was torpedoed three times, rolled on uts side, and sank. 9,400 died in the sinking, and to this day, it remains as the deadliest maritime disaster of all time. The death toll is unimaginative, if you combined some of the deadliest 19th and 20th century sinkings like the RMS Tayleur, SS Atlantic, Sultana, SS Arctic, RMS Titanic, RMS Empress of Ireland, RMS Lusitania, SS Eastland, HMHS Britannic, and the Halifax Explosion, the combined death toll would almost be equal

[@jjohnsoc23]

One of the things people don't really talk about in the firebombing of Dresden was just how HOT it got. I recall stories about people melting into the asphalt.

[@RedDeadTrooper]

​@@jjohnsoc23 I believe that's called reaping the whirlwind.

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

Speaking of hidden disabilities in history, I wonder how many people in history would have been diagnosed today as on the spectrum, autistic, having Asperger's, dyslexic, dyscalculic, dysgraphic, but were labelled otherwise, such as "slow", "mute" (but not deaf-mute), or the Hard R, which I will refuse to say. I'm sure Aspergers and autism and the spectrum in general existed long before the modern age, it didn't just appear in the last 40 years. Sadly, I'm sure many were labelled with the Hard R and often placed in asylums. I'm sure dyslexia and the other conditions also existed throughout history, but people didn't have the education for them to be identified.

[@StroeyBro]

Sir Isaac Newton was said to be a socially awkward shut-in, and Michelangelo often struggled to convey emotions!

[@heatheral-hammadi3046]

You want to know something really interesting? When people are losing their sight such as advanced macular degeneration patients, the visual input is sometimes interpreted by their brain as something else. For example I know of a few patients who see geometric shapes all over. One lady sees most things as purple. Like, everything she sees is purple. One patient sees running horses. It’s called Charles Bonnett Syndrome. Can you imagine all the partially blind people who thought these hallucinations were dementia or something??

[@TheWebbNasty]

Leonardo Da Vinci was incredibly neurodivergent. And IMO the most intelligent person to ever live. But you can't actually diagnose people that are dead.

[@aaronrodgers9202]

Yeah there was just as many if not more disabilities back then that were obviously impossible to diagnose bevause these people weren't seen as human they were seen as undesirables and often thrown out like yesterday's trash. Only within the last hundred years or less did we finally somewhat come together and start to treat people with disabilities as humans again and tried to study and find out what exactly is going on with them in order to try and improve their lives. Although we still have a long ways to go still

[@roberthunter479]

Humanity has come a long way, but still has a long way to go.

[@roberthunter479]

I've read many comments from Japanese people who claim that during WW2, the atrocities attributed to them are lies and the reason why is due to their desire to free all the east from the colonizing west. One even told me that Nanking was proven to be a lie, something I don't believe is true. Despite my love of Japan, I was a little bothered by this.

[@lenoxpI]

Still a lot of covered up atrocities happening to this day.

[@lenoxpI]

@@roberthunter479That is very concerning. Not too surprising though. Pretty much all countries will do anything in their power to cover up anything bad they’ve done. Example: Belgium or Hungary(I think)

[@ShapesWithoutColors]

56:30 that op has been brainwashed. What they say at this timestamp is ironic.

[@TowerArcanaCrow]

I firmly believe they got that one from /pol/. That dude would've gotten lasered by Reddit

[@insaneartist6383]

Thank god someone else is pointing out how fucking stupid that story was bc holy shit

[@fennecwolfox]

I hope they got downvoted to hell, lol

[@Imimurwalls283]

I don’t see the problem? Explain please

[@TowerArcanaCrow]

@@Imimurwalls283 1. Calling people retarded, generally classless and gross. 4chan incel speak. 2. Dumbfuck confuses socialism with communism, which right wing grifters or braindead culture war types often do 3. Complete failure to recognize the issue of bad people doing bad things and no system is inherently good or evil (aside from fascism maybe, I fail to see positives there). The events he's screeching about are due to deranged dictators. Capitalism is just as capable of fucked up things and events. Just look at the Great Depression. Capitalism at its lowest, all due to greed and stupidity.

[@ARKdeEREH]

There was a dispute over hunting rights in rural Hawaii in the 1920s and hunters rigged a businessman's car to explode when he turned it on because his company prohibited deer hunting on its land. There was a massive law enforcement response and prominent investigators were brought in from the U.S. mainland, but the killers were never caught. Decades later one of the killers made a deathbed confession, which is how the motive and circumstances of the car bombing are known.

[@AidanCaliri-yu9jk]

Surprised how no one remembers Chechnya not too deadly but it was a war that shows how merciless some people can be.

[@avidreader8521]

Personal accouts of the Bath, Michigan school bombing are horrific. I'll never forget the testimony I read from a panicked parent who rushed to the school to find their child's mangled body in the rafters. Edited to fix typos

[@shastaleewilliams8675]

My mom used to work with a lady who was a boat person. She was young when she fled around 16 and she dressed as a man and as a last resort she painted a rag with red and brown paint to make it look like she was menstruating. My mom said that her friend said that the pirates had a stigma of r'*!"ing bleeding girls. Her story is incredible.

[@avenue3246]

Eyyy I’m from Halifax! There’s still some buildings left around from before the explosion. There’s tens of ghost stories. The ship museum on the waterfront also has displays related to it. A lot of victims ran up to citadel hill, which happens to also be a very old military base. Think 1700-1800 (I can’t remember off the top of my head haha)

[@Ik34thyD1ngus]

In the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1902, Saw the British Empire putting Boer women and children in concentration camps for their husbands and brothers serving in the Boer army against the British, approximately 47,900 Boers and innocent Black Africans died in these camps, overshadowed by the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 and then WW1 in 1914.

[@Dpowell28]

The Anne Frank TDS connection was hilarious 🤣🤣 These people are consumed and completely obsessed.

[@Sensansenkai]

This was really interesting! I hope you do more vids like this, there’s all kinds of “little known” topics you could cover. Also smh at the person who said “9/11” 🙄 as if that’s not one of the most talked about terror attacks in modern history.

[@linpittsburgh2375]

The attack is mentioned over and over and over but I think they are right, it is not well studied in terms of the massive changes in the culture of the US since that day. I think we are just now getting enough distance to think about the event and its repercussions with any kind of objectivity. The invasion of Iraq and war in Afghanistan are known to exist but we don’t talk about it nearly enough. We have been at war for 40 years-why? For what? I can’t tell you even though I remember the first invasion of Iraq (1991) clearly. I thought the invasion of Afghanistan was a terrible, baffling idea at the time and it still is to this day. You can’t declare war on a tactic (terrorism) and think you will win.

[@GiordanDiodato]

@@linpittsburgh2375 oil

[@asantaimeep]

"Socialists are basically neon@zis" is an... Interesting take. 😬

[@hostilegames1043]

Yeah they are 2 completely difrent things socialism is not the same thing as facism it’s the exact opposite of it

[@nploda1408]

Yeah that person is just a moron. Probably a politically illiterate American.

[@rjmaster1091]

​@@hostilegames1043i mean the only real difference is the rigid social class structure that would be enforced along with the spending being focused on military research instead of social programs

[@SMEGMA42069]

Yeah, lumping together socialism, communism, and anarchism as one objectively evil force is an astoundingly dumb take. 5 were terrible atrocities committed by communist regimes post WW2 (Something that is commonly known if you have any knowledge of history), but that guy seemed like a closeted facist. Him calling the left mentally retarded seems like projection.

[@hayots_lernashkharh]

It’s total bs

[@nihilism1652]

1:39:18 gotta LOVE the fact that THIS is what is mentioned about Kashmir when the largely Muslim population of Kashmir has been facing active oppression and genocide by India since 1947 lmfao. The lack of context for this particular incident is hilarious. It’s giving Zionists putting Hamas and Israel on the same level of responsibility as if Israel wasn’t committing ethnic cleansing and colonization of Palestinians for half a century before some Palestinians finally took up arms as Hamas. Also, Hamas was largely created by the Israeli govt around the second intifada, just like how the taliban were created and trained by the American govt in order to push out the Soviet govt out of Afghanistan. Imagine acting like you bad nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks that traumatized your entire nation as if you didn’t create the organization that committed the atrocity in the first place. The way NOBODY ever talks about Kashmir and the only ones who even know about what goes on there are Indians and Pakistanis. And this is what someone decides to share with the global population. Fucking sickening.

[@mangalover0149]

Here's one that's shown in the series "The Crown": Abefan Disaster on 21st October 1966. It happened in a coal mining village in Wales; a landslide of coal waste crashed into the village's Junior school and several homes surrounding it, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

[@zombiedoggie2732]

The Titanic gets all the attention, but the steamboat Sultana carries a higher death toll. She was bringing home Union POW's and was over compacity. Her boiler exploded due to a shoddy patch. It was a choice between burning to death on the burning Sultana, or drowning in the cold swift current of the river. Due to the fact that her sinking was so close to the date Abriham Lincoln was assassinated, the assassination got front page news, and she just got a short summary.

[@Mattybot3000]

"Historians of Reddit" is the most ironic statement since they censor everything.

[@RowanWhite1980]

It’s because their posts can be-and often are-removed for spelling things out clearly. It sucks, but posters aren’t doing it for the reasons you might think.

[@megamimagne5461]

How is no one talking about story 19?? I know the US has a habit of hiding the bad parts of their history so I feel like more people should know about the ugly You know how it is, the good, the bad and the ugly, excep that they don't talk about the bad and the ugly

[@snokey1153]

Umm… no??

[@Hawaiiansky11]

The more I live, the more I realize that every country, every nation, every kingdome has had a very shameful event or time period that they try to hide.

[@roberthunter479]

Unfortunately, this is true. Celebrate our triumphs but also learn from terrible mistakes.

[@LittleGreenCar514]

The problem with many of these historical stories is that they aren't really "palatable" (I wish that I had a better term) for high schoolers, so they aren't well known. Yes, we'll learn about the Holocaust and maybe apartheid and the Hutu-Tutsi War in Rwanda, but something so personally done and so close to home is something else. I completely agree that it should not be covered up, especially since the actions taken by those soldiers are often things that "bad" indigenous people do in movies. I don't know if I am making sense to anyone, but I tried to write my disjointed thoughts down.

[@TheWarhawkandtheiowa]

how has nobody talked about the Henry Morganthou plan of world war 2

[@annika5893]

Regardless of race, ethnicity, color, century, continent, country etc... aren't we humans just lovely?

[@dwarfwithinternetaccess]

This is why we live in caves.

[@alexaharrington1819]

I don’t know if it’s in the video, but there was a Haitian revolt that happened near the time of the US Civil War but then was quieted by putting each of the revolting slaves’ heads on stakes lining a river. Did a paper on it in middle school which was really interesting and hard to find sources

[@petekaimaku5609]

the only sources i can find talk about a Haitian Revolution about half a century before the Civil War. is this what ur talking about?

[@munromister777]

Yeah, I think you're thinking of the Revolution that happened from 1791-1804. Did you mean the American Revolution, cause that's the American war it's closer to.

[@jamesTBurke]

Cannot forget that history books no longer talk about Africans kidnapping and selling blacks into slavery

[@stormydayvibes]

Or the trail of tears...

[@Azulakayes]

Maybe in your country. I am from East Africa and we are all taught about local slavers and collaborators to the Portuguese and Omani Arabs in the enslavement of other Africans. In secondary education, we even get to learn about the 'popular' trans-Atlantic slave trade. I have enough West African friends who have been taught all about it and visit slavery museums in their own countries. Don't assume if you don't learn something in your country, the rest of the world is just as ignorant.

[@jamesTBurke]

@Azulakayes yea here in the US the school system now claims that whites are the sole reason for slavery and we're the only slave owners unfortunately. They changed the curriculum shortly after I graduated from high-school

[@jamesTBurke]

@stormydayvibes yup. When I was in school (I graduated in 2012) they barely even spoke about it. I'm part cherrokee and mohawk as it is and have had a hard time finding much information about my ancestors ways. What I can mostly find just gives the brief "hunter and and gatherers from this region of the world" rhetoric

[@i-eat-áśś-69]

You speak as if you think they had any choice but to sign a devil's contract when they had guns to their heads and saw chiefs who resisted get slaughtered. If I mug you, that doesn't mean you sold me your wallet.

[@agridulce3532]

A lot of people want the world to go back to the 1800s in many aspects. It is crazy.

[@rubypeter2025]

I really love how you express your ideas, it's truly unique and creative. 🎨

[@roygoodhand1301]

Virtually EVERY SINGLE NATURAL DISASTER. You almost NEVER see natural disasters mentioned in school!

[@JasminMernica]

The Ustascha during WW2. They did so messed up things that even the Nazis were disgusted with them. As a German I knew what my ancestors did, so the Ustascha really must have been bad.

[@SkyeSentinel4157]

Hey there, Canadian here. Not sure if it's been a recent change (only graduated ~8 years ago), but Residential Schools are taught pretty thoroughly in our history classes as early as middle school. I don't know if that's nation-wide, but at least in my province it's true

[@standardrobloxian7212]

The forgotten American war crime: the Laconia incident

[@spencerhamilton3084]

Fun fact about Galveston as someone who grew up in the area! There's a whole mansion that is still around from back then and you can visit it! (It's super haunted and makes me sick)

[@ARKdeEREH]

One of Magellan's crew members was from Southeast Asia, and had travelled to Europe prior to the expedition starting. He became the first known person to circumnavigate the globe when the Magellan expedition arrived in the area from which he had left many years earlier.

[@alexandriacopeland3477]

Much respect for highlighting struggles for Black/African history

[@cantbyou3086]

The Holodomor was taught to me by my 9th grade history teacher. That was close to 40 yrs ago SK,CA

[@jamesTBurke]

That radium is well known because story #8 specifically is about the women whom painted the dials on paratroopers watches in WWII making those watches glow in the dark

[@CoolCademMAnimates-fz1ui]

The first act of war on the American side in WWII took place in Botwood, Newfoundland in which a German cargo ship was captured in the river and the sailors were locked up. I’m surprised at how many people don’t know this. There is much more history there that is fairly undocumented with the exception of living memory. A massive fire broke out there following an engine explosion on a cargo ship docked at the newspaper storage shed and the fire spread to destroy the shed, two houses and damaged two others. There was also a massive shooting there that was strikingly similar in its story to the house that was being raided by police and exploded in 2023 if you know what one I am talking about. That one has a book written about it, but the inaccuracies in it are very noticeable to those who witnessed it.

[@iamtenurial]

In the 1800s, the USA kept an enslaved man in a zoo next to the chimpanzees

[@alisonbailey2636]

Story 19 is sickening and bought tears to my eyes. Those soilders were bastards. I hope the modern government will apologise for any of their desentanace.

[@davidmaggiesmith9758]

Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler. They wrote a report on Auschwitz after 15 days of being hunted in Nazi Germany (4 trying to get out of Auschwitz, 11 trying to get out of Germany itself). This report caused backlash, which caused Germany to delay gathering the Hungarian Jews, which saved a lot of lives.

[@israelcarrera7287]

The "Mexican Vietnam" explains why I grew up around adults that acted like we've been at war for the last 500 years.

[@mackjay7074]

Port Arthur: I’m from Tasmania (Tassie as we call it) and that event is still talked about a lot here, it’s still kinda spooky down there because of the whole thing, plus everything else that happened there just makes it spooky as even in the daytime

[@GabeGettinRich]

You hear a lot about the slave trade, you gloss over the very worst part of it. The door of no return, and the middle passage is some of the most unsettling shit I’ve ever had the misfortune to obsess over. It was like I wanted to cry.

[@JunkstHat3605]

11:17 Idk why I put a timestamp here

[@Abbeydoobie]

Rosewood, FL and the Tulsa Massacre.

[@harly_brus944]

30:16 not the worst massacre Batavia was pretty bad also all the murder of Aboriginal people that went undocumented

[@Third7Plays]

yeah once you start researching history in depth, you realize how messed up human kind really was (and kinda still is)

[@sara-oq1hb]

everyone commenting ab galveston but no one’s pointing out how awfully “maori” was butchered 😭😭 i know that this narrator tends to mispronounce things, but i think mispronouncing an entire group of native people comes off as disrespectful

[@sierramoore3959]

Story 88 is almost completely wrong the Tenerife disaster happened because the pilot of the KLM plane was cocky and wouldn’t listen to his copilot or flight engineer when they told him that they didn’t have clearance to take off yet. The Pan Am plane was taxing down the runway at the same time that the KLM plane was trying to take off the Pan Am pilot tried to radio that they were still on the runway but they were speaking at the same time so the Pan Am got cut off and was never heard. The KLM pilot was arrogant and refused to listen to anyone because at the time of the disaster he was the face of KLM and a flight instructor at the time so the company catered to his every whim and let him get away with a lot.

[@GiordanDiodato]

Tenerife happened because of a lot of reasons.

[@yellowrose0910]

​@@GiordanDiodato And the last straw was the arrogance of KLM culture and the captain taking off without a clearance, as sierra said.

[@Trinny1978]

Story 58: the "horrible thing that happened 100.000 years ago" was not some single event that wiped out most of humanity. It was most likely a normal population bottleneck, which is known to happen every few hundred thousand years because life sucks sometimes. The study is from 2018 by Mark Stoeckle and David Thaler and published in the journal "Human evolution". So it basically was just a really sucky time to be alive but it was nothing out of the ordinary as history and population goes.

[@Bub383]

The Mau Mau uprising was briefly mentioned. It was an anticolonial uprising in the early 1950s by the Kikuyu people of Kenya, many/most of whom had recently returned from fighting for Britain in WW2 (in part against them being forced off their land so it could go to white land owners and being forced into indentured servitude as farmers). The British colonial administration responded by setting up mass detention camps of anyone slightly suspected of involvement. People were regularly beaten (sometimes to death), some were killed by being dragged behind cars, in one camp the well that was their only source of water had oil and animal carcases dumped into it. British solidiers also kept scoreboards of people killed. As someone from the UK I had never heard of this before studying British colonialism at university. I highly recommended Caroline Elkins' 'Britain's Gulag' on the subject

[@jessh5310]

The Romans took many people as slaves. almost 80% of places like Wales, Kent (UK). The Romans wiped out the Druids, These were a band of intelligence who had vast knowledge and maintained a sort of peace and did medical work. What knowledge lost? The German ship MV Wilhem Gustav. A long time ago customer of mine survived the sinking, She says many more than listed were aboard, The cabin her mother bought was listed and paid for 4 persons. There were closer to 25 in the cabin maybe 35. So she estimated 38-40,000 on the ship.

[@killermfkaty]

23:05 He also rigged his farm to blow before the school house. The cut the fruit trees thrift the trunk and sat them very carefully back onto the stump. He looked everything he could onto the dynamite to make the blast as damaging as possible. He killed ALL of his livestock. All this because he didn't agree with the small tax increase that was required to build the new school house

[@Mogget01]

I’m probably going to get a bit of this wrong, because finding info on it is pretty hard, since info on it has only really come to light recently. Apparently there was an entire indigenous population that lived on the islands between Russia and Alaska that the Russians decided were too inconvenient being between Russia and its American colony, so they completely genocided the natives. The genocide was so thorough, that the only info we have on them are the random documents the Russians kept that still exist, and the occasional burial sites that are discovered. Also, that’s literally all they know about that population crash 100,000 years ago. It’s a very recent discovery and was a revolution in genetic anthropology. There are people currently trying to find evidence of something devastating happening back then, and I think right now they think it was a massive volcanic event or meteor impact.

[@mork6668]

If it wasn't on history books,and you weren't there,how the fuck you know it happened?

[@JackieBlue65]

I know most of this stuff,it's written somewhere..

[@darlagts]

About Story 5, I watched a documentary a couple weeks ago about this event and further scientific research considers that the culprit of these phenomenons was a massive eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in Java.

[@raeganhayes1366]

If they didn’t mention the Wilmington Coup, I was going to. We only learned about it recently in my school(s).

[@kiralana324]

it's not that history overlooks African history on wars, it's more of a 3-part conundrum, part 1 is in modern conflicts casualties are counted only if they're directly caused by the conflict, in Africa casualties often include disease, starvation, poison and even deaths by civilians fighting for resources, this severely inflates the number dead, the Congo wars being great examples, death directly caused by both wars total 2.5-3 million, but add in all the indirect deaths and both wars have 6-7 million dead, second, most historians don't record civil wars because it's not a win lose scenario that can be quantified, (not to mention nearly every modern country has had at least one civil conflict) and 3 history could write seceral whole books on just African conflicts in the past 200 years alone, by comparison all other wars can usually be condensed to region, era , or reason, doing so for Africa would get messy and disorganized pretty quickly all that said there are plenty of books and reports on African conflicts but you need to want them in order to find them.

[@aimeeturner3253]

More of these videos please

[@RoofingFacts]

I have visited Galveston for work six times in my life. I have probably heard that story close to 90 times by now. It's all they talk about

[@darkstarr984]

I’m openly discriminated against *now* for my disability, in the US, and it’s not even obvious.

[@vez3834]

I'm so sorry. I hope the community there can find better leaders that actually want people to be educated.

[@Localcourtjester4hire]

Like, in general? If it's in your workplace, I think the ADA would be very helpful there.

[@Skyshark98]

I heard a lot about the Romans, but I didn't hear about 48AD when they invaded Wales 5 years after the invasion of England. Tacitus simply said: "they bore down upon them, smote all who opposed them to the earth and wrapped them in the flames they had themselves kindled." The Romans butchered Wales.

[@PliskinYT]

Regarding the company town one, there's actually a song about it

[@thejourney1369]

Great video! I hope you do more like it.

[@wonky_shoebox7514]

I have drug resistant epilepsy. It makes me shiver at how many reasons in the past i could have been killed due to my illness

[@darkstarr984]

I think I’ve only even heard of the African wars listed before because of my mom’s expansive focus on recent history and current events. But this reminder gives me a new rabbithole for research

[@darkstarr984]

I can’t remember offhand if any of them were in my world history textbooks but it’s unlikely, considering that most wars I’ve heard of at all were notably absent, even the French-Indian War being fully absent in a World History textbook targeted to American high school students

[@JasminMernica]

I think so too. We had 3 school hours about Africa and the colonial era, but nothing about the history of every state in Africa. Now I’m really interested to learn more about this missing history.

[@willowtree7343]

The 535ad event was Illopango Volcano in El Salvador erupting- followed a few years later by Krakatoa. It caused the Justinian Plague and the final Fall of Western Rome- it was the cause of the Dark Ages.

[@robertsteinbach7325]

The Galveston disaster. The equal to this would've been if Atlanta was destroyed by a hurricane storm and Athens, Georgia grew into a big new city. Houston was almost a nothing port town until after Galveston was destroyed.

[@beth-rg8bm]

18:12 That's one of the most horrific things I've ever heard!

[@Lin-sl3vk]

There have been more people on the Gustloff. My grandpa nearly got on there fleeing from Ostpreußen at 9 years old. Him, his twin brother and his sisters had tickets but wouldnt be let on the ship cause it was packed. The flet over the Stettiner Haff.its a mass grave cause they bombarded even the ice. He told, when he even talked about it, there were more then 20.000 on the ship!

[@E.T.42]

Fifteen years ago, I had to research the penal colony in French Guyana for French classes. That it existed is well-known; until when it existed is something I am to this day not certain about. It may have changed, but fifteen years ago, most sources I found tended to claim either 1923 and 1938/39, both of which are important milestones towards the closure, but neither is the actual year the system was shut down. That process only really began in 1946. Considering the real year the last "camp de transportation" in Guyana closed its doors is somewhere between 1953 and '67, I am fairly convinced that the lack of information is deliberate...

[@jeffmiller211]

Man the first one here REALLY got my attention, I'm a history buff and I didn't even know that one.. Galveston was even where me and my wife went for our honeymoon!

[@DoodLb0p]

The last residential school closed in 1996 and the nutrition levels needed to survive were figured out using and staving indigenous kids and baby’s

[@tiflafo]

We’re actually in the middle of another solar flare cycle at the moment. If anyone noticed the crazy Auroras throughout May that was seen across the world in some pretty unusual places, that was the beginning of the solar cycle, which should be at its peak sometime July 2025 - we have become somewhat more aware of these cycles since the Carrington event, so power stations have time to prepare for such events… still if something like that were to hit us again, the damage would be quite catastrophic unfortunately 😢

[@fabiannevarez2500]

The trail of tears is being written out of history books.

[@Voxelgd]

I feel like the taiping rebellion isn't unknown, but schools don't really teach about it, and Its definitely not known about enough for being the second deadliest conflict in history.

[@lilbitlaur]

right off the bat- it isn't "gav-uhl-stun" it's "gal-veh-stun"

[@Hotpocketmountiandew]

A blueish sun can only mean one thing. The moon gave the sun blueball.

[@XV1-VII]

Humanity can rely on telegraphs if a carrington like event happened. Good to know.

[@prophet3204]

I think 100,000 years ago they were referring to when Homo sapiens were at “war” with Neanderthals

[@monkeytastix]

The persecution of Mormons in the 1800s which led to them escaping the country and settling Utah, which at the time was a no man’s land. There were literally massacres and Missouri actually legalized killing Mormons, the only law of its kind in US history. The law was revoked in 1976.

[@mvpd98]

Coincidentally all the history books were written by the good guys so we have nothing to worry about. How did we get so lucky?

[@ivyindigovlogs5312]

Story 88 I shouldn't laugh during a video or story like this, but hearing the narrator call it Tennor-Rife just cracked me up Tenner- reef is how it's said.