An American Reacts - 10 Historical Facts that are False

[@MyBigMouth]

The Earth cannot possibly be flat, if it was then cats would've pushed everything off the edge long ago.

[@lizbignell7813]

This made me giggle.

[@icebergrose8955]

My partner said the world was flat (yes he has mental heath issues) I said that would mean if airline pilots fly in a straight line they'd go right off the planet and straight into space. He insisted their calculations were wrong. I said the people who think the calculations are wrong need new batteries in their calculator. He dropped it but I could tell he wasn't convinced. The worse thing that ever happened to crazy people is the internet because there's always someone out there who will re-enforce their beliefs. What are you going to do? Ban crazy people from the internet? Good luck with that 🤣

[@АлександърДойчев-е5б]

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[@Le7emeChat]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@turquoisebubbles2042]

Lol yesss my mischief maker would completely do this

[@briansmith6791]

Canada, being a British Colony at the time, is always overlooked in these wars. Canada was in both wars long before the US and had a significant contribution to the war effort. Very proud of our troops but hate that it had to happen!

[@ScottDowneywoundedbear]

The US may not know the truth about both the world wars but when you go to Europe they are educated about what happened. They honour the men and women that gave up their lives. Canada was big part of the wars and many countries. Being from Canada, I get so pissed off about how the US won the war.

[@avaggdu1]

Let's not forget the other Commonwealth countries (and others) - India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc. If USA overlooks the contribution of Canada and the Commonwealth, the UK certainly doesn't. We should also remember the Polish (many Polish airmen continued the fight from the UK after Poland was invaded) and French; both countries played a big part in cracking early versions of the Enigma code as well as fighting. We salute you all! O7 If the Commonwealth ever disintegrates it will be a tragedy and I, for one, will be very sad.

[@davehoward22]

It would've thrown the cat amongst the pigeons had canada sided with the nazis.

[@avaggdu1]

@@davehoward22 The USA actually had invasion plans for Canada in the event that Britain and the Commonwealth sided with the Nazis. It was called War Plan Red.

[@chriscunningham7155]

As a Scot, it makes me immensely proud of our links with Canada because before Canada joined the war, pilots from Canada had already joined the RAF to help fight for the Western world. A country of people not frightened to do the right thing!

[@catgladwell5684]

I remember hearing an American on the (UK) radio at the 50th anniversary of D Day saying that it would be news to most Americans that other countires, even Britain, took part in the Normandy landings. I was disgusted. I knew many British Normandy Veterans - my father was one. How can the US teach history so badly?

[@Spacecoke]

Propaganda machine.

[@signolias100]

no one in the united states that i know believes America was the only nations landing on those beaches. the nations that they don't know that landed with the british and canadians are the polish, free french, Czech's, and other fracturus groups. as those groups served under british and/or canadian flags.

[@susieq9801]

Canada also landed at Juno Beach. Britain at Gold and Sword.

[@catgladwell5684]

@@susieq9801 yes, indeed. Visit Normandy in June and there are maple leaf flags everywhere! And the Juno Beach Centre is well worth a visit. I have some Canadian poppies (different from the UK ones) which I bought as a souvenir last time I went. Canada can hold its head up high with regard to WW2 in general and D Day in particular.

[@susieq9801]

@@catgladwell5684 - I lost a cousin at the Battle of Buron in July when Canadians attempted to take the airfield at Caen. He is buried at Beny sur Mer. My dad was in an RCAF Mosquito Squadron. Kudos to your dad. In London last fall I was VERY impressed by the Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park, dedicated in 2012. One man who fought like hell against much opposition to get it built was Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, a true history buff, but who sadly died a month before it was dedicated by Queen Elizabeth. On it among the many floral tributes was a note from a Canadian man, "Thank you dad from the son you never got to meet". 😭

[@kangablue4502]

Australia and New Zealand known proudly as the ANZACS were also on the frontline giving their lives for Europeans. The ANZACS also faught bravely and wore the brunt of both World Wars as allies shoulder to shoulder with The Brits, The French, other European countries and the Canadians. They shall not be forgotten, or as we say, “Lest We Forget”.

[@heywaitaminute1984]

Read "In Flanders Fields" by John Mcrae, the poppy is a Canadian thing, our way of Remembrance. We also say "Lest We Forget" for not only us but for all who fought and died. I know our troops love fighting beside the Australians and New Zealanders. I hope CANZUK goes through. I actually feel closer to you folks than our American neighbours. (They also don't know how to spell certain words..lol). Greetings friend, from the Great White North though the snows gone now.

[@tsubadaikhan6332]

I'm Anglo Australian, and what often amazes me is how rarely India and Pakistan get a mention. WW1 and 2 they supplied a couple of million men both times, who acquitted themselves with gallantry. Aussies, Kiwis and Canucks were all settlements from Europe, our men considered it 'their' fight, but India was kind of an occupied Country, and still made great sacrifices. Churchill even diverted food shipments away from India, contributing to a famine, because he didn't want to risk losing the ships to the Japanese. I'm a very Proud Australian, but the whole British Empire got up for both those fights, some guys from Countries that were essentially occupied. It reminds me of the Napoleonic Wars. Some of The Duke of Wellingtons Shock Troops were Scottish Highlanders and Irish Connaught Rangers. At the time, the Scots and the Irish had little love for England, but they still fought like Giants. Mind you, Wellington did describe his Army as the 'Scum of the Earth' once. Napoleon named his brother, Joseph, Emperor of Spain, and Joseph looted everything when he knew he was losing, and took off through the Pyrenees. Some of Wellingtons Army trapped his wagon train, and by the time Wellington and his senior officers got there, there was no loot left! His men had stripped the Convoy, and scarpered with the loot. So while being a Redcoat came with a good chance of dying, it also came with a slim chance of a lot of loot...

[@granthamilton2695]

@@tsubadaikhan6332 yes and South Africa, Kenya and many other small nations

[@keyakaabag6017]

@@tsubadaikhan6332 yeah, nobody can take anything away from any country during the world wars, the people all nations was fighters and all suffered the same. Most memoirs from the actual British soldiers of that time commented about the sheer bravery of soldiers coming from the commonwealth, nobody is undervalued brother, Lest we forget

[@Space-O-2001]

You've just reminded me of that awesome TV show Anzacs.

[@maximushaughton2404]

One of the biggest problems with history is America propaganda machine called Hollywood. OH!! the fun times I've had watching WW2 films with my granddad, him going in to a rant about how wrong the films were.

[@fedodosto3162]

I never watch American films about the wars, or any other historical facts, theu are always biased and wrong.

[@scottmorris5730]

Even Ben Afflick said that parts of " Argo " was pure Hollywood.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@fedodosto3162 As much as wrong the Stalinistic ones, comrade...

[@14hook]

Overheard an old soldier sitting alone in the Royal Canadian Legion talking to himself who said "The great American doughboys (a popular US term ww1 and ww2 ).They were kneaded in 1914 and didnt rise till 17. They were kneaded in 1939 and didnt rise till 1942!! Made this sailor smile as i walked back to my ship.

[@deanblaze-h5e]

Yes they turn up late both times. Lazy anti social buggers

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Äh, ja... Let me break it down for you. The Empire began a long-distance blockade of German ports in 1914, which was prohibited by international law. The Americans didn't like that at all! There was considerable friction, which almost led to a military escalation, between the British and the Americans. That would definitely have been funny if the Yanks had arrived in Montreal. They could then have carried out their dream from 100 years ago earlier and incorporated Canada. In the 1920s, the USA developed a war plan in the event of a confrontation with the British Empire. The plan was only put on hold in 1939 and only finally put into the shredder when Richard Nixon had already resigned (War Plan Red). You poor ignorant hillbillies apparently got your knowledge of history from Hollywood...

[@Becvar80]

I still find it shocking that my school's history books never once mentioned the Japanese-American internment camps the US created after Pearl Harbor. I had to learn about them from George Takei (Star Trek's Sulu) who was actually in one as a child.

[@germaniatv1870]

And the internment-labor and deportation camps for German-America, the Segregation of German-America, the ban of languages, art,music and even German dog-breeds. The tarring, feathering and lynching of German-America on the basis of being "German" starting 1914 and hits peak in 1917-18 - 20's. The Annexations of German farms, businesses and news papers. Breaching the constitution, setting up Martial Law based on a "ethnicity,culture & race". - What they did with the Germans in America can not even closely compared to Germany 33-39. - They claim the various languages in the USA gradually just "perished" ...simply like that...yet all over in the world we see settlements of peoples who have never lost their traits and language. - Why did the US Americans "blindly" hunt down German America and why did the US strop all German-Americans from their constitutional rights,rounded them up,interned,labored and deported them,criminalized the German language,literature and art in 1917?

[@claudiakarl7888]

It’s a thing even I, living in Germany, have known for years. It’s horrible that this is not taught.

[@maudeboggins9834]

That is why it is important to read. Reading historical novels too. I recommend an 80's BBC series called Tenko about a women's prison of war camp in Singapore run by Japanese. My grandfather was killed by the Japanese in Singapore in 1942.

[@germaniatv1870]

@@maudeboggins9834 Do the British also talk about their own Camps & Gulags ? - RIP to your Grandfather. But may i ask, was your Grandfather a US Soldier?

[@maudeboggins9834]

@@germaniatv1870 I recently read a fictional novel & was alarmed & surprised. The book was set in Wales, an Italian family had moved to Wales in 1932 & by 1943 I think it was the Italians were rounded up & sent to Isle of Man & Canada. OMG. Churchill had decided on that. I had no idea, so the more one reads the more one learns. I certainly did have my eyes opened. My grandfather was a British Soldier. Thank you for your RIP. Very kind. My grandfather died less than a month after the Pearl Harbour attack. NZ rounded up Germans back in WW1 even if the Germans had moved there well before 1914. Again the more one reads.

[@okkietrooy6841]

It is annoying that the USA claims to be our big liberator. They played an important part but fail to mention they were part of a big collaborative effort and that all participants played an essential role. I (Dutch) was never thaugth about the important role of Russia. My country was primairely liberated by the Canadians and some troops of other countries and we clearly recognize them for that. Americans were battling somewhere else in Europe. The liberation was accomplished by the combined effort of many groups: Russian, Polish, English, Scottish, American, Australian and Canadia forces. I read somewhere that also Moroccon and Italians were involved. Also important was the resistance in the several countries. And I probably forget some countries. Sorry for that.

[@Muck006]

The one thing they do ... is PROVIDE MONEY ... and as a german I can name the BERLIN BLOCKADE and the MARSHALL PLAN for that ... ... but any such investment POSITIVES have been made up for by ANTAGONISING RUSSIA AFTER THE COLD WAR ENDED ... instead of integrating it ECONOMICALLY and thus guaranteeing peace among TRADING PARTNERS. I grew up in West-Berlin in the 70s and thus have seen / experienced how TOTALLY DESTROYED the economy of East Germany was. Russia / the Soviet-Union would not have been better off (and there were loads of ROTTING SUBMARINES to show their economic destruction). Thus ... RUSSIA WAS AND STILL IS ... NO THREAT TO ANYONE ... apart from their neighbors.

[@stevethewanderer1687]

Yes, many people forget the massive role played by Russia and their losses, and the fact that it was the Soviet Army who were first to Berlin. I think you may have forgotten the Free French, and also the other British Commonwealth countries who fought for Great Britain... Welsh, Irish, Kiwis, Indians, various Africans ..

[@okkietrooy6841]

@@stevethewanderer1687 Thanks for the addition. I know there were about 50 countries involved in the allied forces. We the Dutch also do not want to forget the Schwedes who were neutral but kept a large part of our population alive during the starvation in the winter of 1944- 1945. The Germans took all our food and supplies. The population was forced to eat tullip bulbs. The Schwedes dropped bread and other food items. Without them many would have died from starvation and cold. Many Dutch who had escaped towards Britain, fougth with the allied forces or worked in Intelligence. Knowing this all, I get somewhat annoyed wifh Americans who claim they were our liberators.

[@blowingfree6928]

The countries that really mattered were the ones that designed and manufactured all of the aircraft, ships, tanks, equipment etc. The 2nd WW was a technological and industrial war. D-Day and beyond was not a collaborative combined effort of equals. Sure, some soldiers from defeated countries took part, completely suppled, equipped and directed by the main four allies, but they did not provide anything. The important war-winning thing was supplies and equipment, and the US supplied more of that than anyone else (as well as manpower). On New years day 1945 the German air force destroyed hundreds of US and British aircraft on the ground. They were replaced the next day. That is what wins wars and liberates countries, and it is that industrial capacity that liberated western Europe, including Holland. Equally war winning, the US (and the UK) supplied Russia with much aircraft and equipment, but most importantly, precision machine tools and steel supplies etc to manufacture tanks, guns and aircraft. Without those machine tools Russia could not have fought Germany. Without the US, liberation of Europe would have been impossible and the war could not have been won. Russia invaded Poland alongside of Germany in 1939, and had a non-aggression pact with Germany until midway through 1941. The Russians cared nothing for the liberation of Europe. Nothing to say about that? The Russians did not liberate anywhere, they forcibly occupied places as communists, the same as the Nazis did. Russian losses are not an indicator of their efforts, it is an indicator of the madness of communism, Stalin and the Russian Generals. Much lesser Western power losses are not an indicator of their efforts, it is an indicator of fighting on behalf of a US/UK/Can democracy where minimal casualties was a political demand.

[@damyr]

Many people don't know that Western Europe didn't even need to participate in the war in Europe, including the US. Hitler didn't want to attack Allies, except to return German territory forcibly taken by France after WW1, by negotiations. He only wanted to expand on East (Lebensraum), to defeat the Soviet communist regime. He actually wanted to preserve the whole western civilization from communist invasion, which was bound to happen a year or two later, after Stalin's reorganization of the Red Army, and he also preserved the west from Jewish financial domination, which was bound to took over the world even more severely than it's presented nowadays. If there wasn't Hitler, modern world would look so much different. Actually, we would slip into communist-jewish slavery long time ago. Tho, because of some western leaders (Biden, Trudeau, Macron) and their media pressure, the world is now fighting, more than ever, to become free. And it's losing the battle.

[@lynnewebb4573]

I own a book entitled "Lies My Teacher Told Me." It's written by a university professor who teaches first year history. He explains how one of the first things he has to do with a new class, is undo all the erroneous information taught in U.S. high schools. Written in 1995, it's old now but still valid. For anyone interest, the author is James W. Loewen.

[@S.M.E.A.C]

For anyone interest, the author is James W. Loewen. *American interested The rest of us are already aware.

[@lomax343]

This applies to other disciplines as well. I knew a professor of physics who found that he had to disabuse his first-year students of what he called "Lies for children." His point was that virtually all the science taught in school was - of necessity - simplified so that it could be understood by varying age-groups. And science is nowhere near as complicated as human history.

[@billfarley9167]

Not only the lies but what was conveniently left out.

[@CaptHollister]

@@billfarley9167 Lies by omission are also in this book.

[@CaptHollister]

@@foppo100 Every country has lies it tells itself about its own history.

[@gillcawthorn7572]

Nate Lawson ,this might amuse you . The British Queen Victoria wrote " I had long learnt that history was not an account of what happened but of what people thought had happened"

[@franciscafagerholm9457]

dat lady was smart, a bunch of liars, wolf, wolf, you on your own.

[@ihateusernamesgrrr]

She was half right. The realistic factual statement is that war is written by the victors placing them in the best possible light and the enemy in the worst. It's kinda like how the Americans like to say they were responsible for winning the wars whilst white washing the fact they had massive Nazi Germany support in their homeland and didn't enter until they could see which side was going to win.

[@jimdonovan243]

If does not matter how it is done as long as it is done.

[@tojamatokanava7778]

Gill Cawthorn Churchill admitted before his death that the Allies could have prevented the war if they wanted☝

[@danielch6662]

History is what we want to indoctrinate our kids with. Only Americans would be surprised that there is so much propaganda baked into what schools teach in history class. Those of us who grew up in other countries are thinking _how gullible and naive can they get?_

[@suetatlock8328]

We had a late comedian in the UK who told one of the best jokes re WW2 and American involvement. We had a TV comedy based in France during WW2 in the 80’s ‘allo allo. He commented that the US wanted to broadcast the show in the US, but when they realised it was about the war they just purchased the last two episodes. 😝

[@a.gilbert657]

It was shown in Canada on CBC, at the time. I do believe PBS, who are publically funded, in the US have shown it as well.

[@kevvoo1967]

That is funny!

[@eabryn]

Loved that show

[@Jacqueline_Thijsen]

My sister didn't really enjoy that show for what I think is the most valid reason ever: her name is Helga...

[@Whykickamoocow]

Great show

[@travcat66]

Australians were there from the beginning of both world wars and were in New Guinea fighting the Japanese who were trying to reach Australia. My children’s great grandfather fought in the British Army in WW1 and the Australian Army in WW2 and is buried in Bomana War Cemetery in New Guinea.

[@cathy6508]

The Japanese did reach Australia they bombed Darwin airport to stop the Americans from using it .

[@desireeperham7093]

And NZ. X Go the ANZACS!

[@bhalliwell739]

Canada fought in both World wars in fact they were chiefly responsible for freeing the Dutch and they are very grateful to our nation. We lost more troops in proportion to our population than any other nation so maybe an honourable mention would be appropriate.

[@germaniatv1870]

Freeing the Dutch...that was a funny one haha. Its quite interesting that the Germans sacked the Brits and let them walk away and did not massmurder the "Dutch". Funny war.

[@okkietrooy6841]

I (Dutch) gave Canada an honourable mention in another comment. You deserve it.

[@germaniatv1870]

@@okkietrooy6841 In 1914 the Canadians rounded up German-Canadians, interned,labored and deported them on the basis of being "German". Some (many ,all over the Common Wealth) would get publicly flogged for not even having committed a crime. They "Criminalized" Germans. - Some places where you buy guns, as a German, you need to prove that you are not a "Nazi-German" before you get the guns. Others dont have that. The German is the only one (or was) who had to provide evidence. Lol. :-D - Canada would practice eugenics until the 1970's, vaccinating the Natives, making them sick. That is a true historical fact.

[@Lia_key]

May I ask if there is a special day in Canada to commemorate the Canadians who died in WW2?

[@bhalliwell739]

@@Lia_key Remembrance Day November 11 across Canada we have ceremonies we wear poppies for about two weeks prior, schools have assemblies to remember the fallen.

[@x_quinn_x9179]

I will just leave this quote here..... "We were helped, too, by a very cheering piece of news that now reached us, and of which, as a morale raiser, I made great use. Australian troops had, at Milne Bay in New Guinea, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. If the Australians, in conditions very like ours, had done it, so could we. Some of us may forget that of all the Allies it was the Australian soldiers who first broke the spell of the invincibility of the Japanese Army; those of us who were in Burma have cause to remember." - British Field Marshal Sir William Slim

[@robynmurray7421]

Milne Bay Day is still observed in the Quuensland city of Toowoomba and surrounding towns, where many of the men who fought at Milne Bay came from.

[@jennysmith38]

Thank you for putting that comment up, as most forget how much the Australians did during both world wars

[@fluffybunnyslippers2505]

We were also the first to stop the Germans as well at a place called Tobruk.

[@fluffybunnyslippers2505]

@Gavin Pope While i agree there were troops from other nations at Tobruk, the vast majority of the garrison was Australian as was the garrison commander, Leslie Morsehead. We not only stopped them at Tobruk we HELD them.. for Months until relieved. then, the brits gave it back to the Germans... The Battle of Britain was not an Invasion, it was a bombing Campaign. There were plenty of Aussies and Kiwis involved with that as well.

[@fluffybunnyslippers2505]

@Gavin Pope Ok, please check your facts to avoid looking like a "dick" Here are the facts as recorded by history. The siege of Tobruk, 10 Apr - 27 Nov 1941 Garrison consisted of commonwealth troops from the Aus 9th Div , 20, 24, 26 brigades providing the bulk along with elements of British and Indian formations. the force numbered around 25,000 16,000 being Aus. British 70th Div and elements of Czech and Polish brigades began replacing the original garrison 18th Nov, the garrison was finally fully replaced on the 27th Nov. Polish troops as were the Czech were RELIEF forces NOT part of the garrison. Please check OFFICIAL military records... Wiki is NOT a source, it is a collection of opinions....

[@saschaschneider9157]

The most crucial that wasn't taught to me about History is to never lay on today's measures on the past. You should always judge in to context of that time, or better doesn't judge at all.

[@aidancampbell5644]

Consider that last one, that Russia did most of the heavy lifting in WW2. Then immediately after the war, the US adopted almost identical anti-soviet propaganda to what the Nazis had been using (if you look at McCarthy era propaganda and compare it to Nazi propaganda, the two are startlingly similar). There is a big difference between what the US tells itself about that time period and what actually happened.

[@Marian87]

Indeed, Russia did a lot of heavy lifting. it helped start the war and then killing people, its own and others. Russia helped and covered Germany's secret development of new weapons since the 20s, it then supplied Germany with raw materials and signed the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and carved up Eastern Europe. Then it lost 20 + million people in the war. That is not a redeemable sacrifice. It's the same country that starved millions of its citizens in the 30s, mostly Ukrainians and had labor camps and forced deportations of any people it thought it posed a poltical danger. The 20 million "sacrifice" was in fact a cynical decision of Stalin to throw at the Germans ill equipped and poorly trained soldiers until they were overwhelmed. As an Eastern European I can clearly see that the US is no angel, as any empire, but it's a far better choice when compared to Russia. No land conquered by Russia has seen any real development under its guidance. Every region in Russia is poor except for the region around Moscow and Sankt Petersburg. Frack Russia.

[@aidancampbell5644]

@@Marian87 I am not saying that Russia (or the Soviet Union for that matter) is the “good guy” in this (there are no good guys in international politics, just nations craving power). But you need to understand the level of BS that the US teaches its people. The US propaganda is that they came in to “destroy the evil represented by the Nazis and Hitler”. The reality is that there were 3 political groups in the US in the World War 2 era prior to Pearl Harbour. The largest saw WW2 as a largely European problem that America should not get involved with. The second largest group wanted to join the war, but on the side of the Nazis. The smallest group actively saw Hitler’s ideology as a threat to the world and wanted to stop it. The bombing of Pearl Harbour forced the non-interventionists to act, and for much of America that meant fighting people they viewed as ideological allies. Once the war was over, that massive bloc of people sympathetic to the Nazis imported Nazi propaganda into America that still influences American politics to this day. There are still bills being blocked on Capital Hill because of that propaganda and America can best be described as fascist-adjacent because of that propaganda. This is my point, and it’s all about America having a good look at what kind of propaganda it has been swimming in for the last 8 decades.

[@jacksmith-vs4ct]

The US actually heavily inspired the Nazis so I'm not really surprised.

[@Muck006]

The point is that ... McCarthy was both WRONG and RIGHT ... - WRONG ... in the AMOUNT of the "infiltrators" - which was TENS OF THOUSANDS instead of "hundreds" - and the part of society they were infiltrating. He COMPLETELY IGNORED ... the education sector, which was the MAIN ROUTE of infiltration! ["The long march through the institutions."] - RIGHT ... in that there was communist infiltration.

[@germaniatv1870]

Heavy Lifting (I agree, the US,in both wars, came in like a nasty azz, they waited till Germany grinds itself down instead of being "Brave") Germany absolutely outnumbered in Arms & Troop's . A Astonishing 1 to 12. Toy are telling me it took Britain (Canada,Australia,Common Wealth),France,the USA, the Soviet-Union to crush little Germany? - Bernays,Creel,Lippmann,Wilson= the CPI. The first Propaganda Ministry of its kind, even before Vladimir Lenin's "CheKa". That was a Pogrom of German-America for no reason at all, against a ethnic population which dominantly fought for US-Independence and end of slavery: The German Americans. - The Germans would set up internment,refugee-camps after the war started. Thats over 20 years after the USA's CPI. - That makes the Germans the last in line creating (as Goebbels states himself) a counter-Propaganda Ministry and setting up Camps due to the war, not because of a ethnic "hate". - Everyone loves talking about the Germans burning pseudo-science, pornography ect, yet no one talks about one of the most organized and vile literature & book burning of the USA starting in 1917. - In the end, the made the Germans mad as hell and keep blaming them endlessly...yet, the US American doesnt even know his own (short) history. - So now we understand why the USA & British had to make sure that everyone, to this day, "believes" that the Germans were "Evil Racists" and invented MK Ultra and Propaganda Ministries and started the Book burning ect... when there was no slavery,race-riots, segregation in Germany at all. It was all a "political" issue the US Americans have no idea about, to this day. - It comes to the point where Europeans know more about US History as the Americans themselves. Coincidence...or was it because of Wilsons administration killing US-History in 1917?

[@francisleroy6215]

It is often been said that Thomas Edison wasn't the first person to invent the electric light bulb - it was someone in Europe; but Edison's greatest talent was self publicity...the rest is history...

[@chillivodka01]

Sir Humphrey Davy, a British scientist invented the electric lightbulb. Thomas Edison perfected and produced the first commercial working lightbulb after a lot of evolutions from other scientists.

[@graemejohnson9025]

A German invented the Atomic Bomb, not America, America never one one conflict in the second world war... but you are taught that you did.. 200 times more bombs where dropped on Australia, than hit pearl harbour.. oh how is your health care system going? Richest Country in the world? Look up the United States Debt? It is Trillions of Dollars... yep, every American walking around, owes over a million dollars to the rest of the world.. America is Fake..

[@sweetpealee056]

Edison patented everything so he could maintain control and financial benefits

[@yasminesteinbauer8565]

In fact, there are quite a few people who have built different variations of light bulbs before. Such inventions are rarely the work of one person alone. And today, many believe Elon Musk founded Tesla.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded Tesla, Elon owns less than 20%

[@jamesguitar7384]

My late mother in law was a Londoner and she remembered standing in a shop doorway during a raid with her friend and they were watching while two American soldiers , who had obviously just arrived were cowering crouched down behind these two women in the shop doorway . She felt a bit of contempt for them but on reflection the London women had seen it before and it was probably their first time . I'm sure they changed not very much later .

[@jennifermcdonald5432]

OMG, no 1 really gets up my nose! There were many countries involved in both those wars. How dare people say that. That’s so disrespectful to all the other countries involved!

[@tobjin101]

The US didn't really clean up the mess. Probably one of the Best Generals that was in charge at the time when the US arrived in France during the First World War was actually an Australian General Sir John Monash. And they saw first hand what this Commanding Officer did and what the Australian troopers did to the Germans. The French, British, New Zealanders, Indians, Canadian and many more were still fighting as well. Yes in the Pacific it was mainly an American victory during the Second World War. The Australians were the first soldiers to beat the Japanese troops on land at Milne Bay then worked their way painfully and slowly along the Kokoda Track. Plus the Japanese weren't just fighting in the Pacific they were also still fighting in China and in India, Bangladesh, and Burma. And the Indian and Gurkhas (Nepalese) soldiers most definitely took the brunt of the attacks in those last 3 countries.

[@Trebor74]

You're forgetting the British royal navy also fought in the Pacific

[@federundeselsohr]

One example is also the Spanish Flu which didn't origin in Spain at all but the US. We know it as Spanish Flu because the spaniards were the first ones writing about this epidemic during the First World War. Other countries decided not to report on the flu for fear that it would damage morale during the war.

[@gerardflynn3899]

Actually it was called the Spanish Flu after it killed the King of Spain in 1919.

[@alexandrasmith7682]

The one I loved .... Taking a US American History college class and being taught about the US Empire. At the end of the class, the Professor stopped the class and said .... Apologies, to the two British in the class .... This was your Empire ..... She then read out the list of countries which had been British Empire. She finished by saying Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines does not an Empire make ..... And neither does the assumption that everyone in the World is desperate to be American.

[@jamesanderson5268]

We have military bases in like 110 countries.

[@bonniebirdwoman1]

​@@jamesanderson5268 yes, but that does not equate to ruling over those countries, "owning" them, or including them as part of your population.

[@valsyaranamual6853]

@@jamesanderson5268 And?But when you destroy countries eg Vietnam(why?) you don't make reparation - because you lost. Iraq being rebuilt by Hussein - shattered by a lie WMD!Destruction.You rebuild Japan - war won after the A bombs.

[@Trebor74]

@@jamesanderson5268 in 109 of them you are "guests" the other one is probably Puerto Rico which really should have been admitted to the union by now,bit you don't want it

[@valsyaranamual6853]

@@jamesanderson5268 And ?You don't rule those countries.England did.

[@layla1385]

And this is why we Europeans always laugh when we hear the age old phrase some Americans love to use " You would be speaking German if it wasn't for us " Also I was told off in History Class I would have been about 13 we was learning about Columbus and I put my hand up and said "How can a place be discovered that already had residents living on it"

[@hilsx7518]

While I can’t disagree with anything you have said, as a Brit, I can say that that the USA helped shorten the war, which is no small thing.

[@layla1385]

@@hilsx7518 Absolutely…. However the war would still have been won without them on the frontline and we still wouldn’t be speaking German.

[@layla1385]

@@hilsx7518 if it wasn’t for Russia at the time we possibly would be speaking German right now 😂….The Americans love to take the glory for it though.

[@jacksmith-vs4ct]

@@layla1385 To be fair the Americans and British and others sent the Russians a ton of equipment and food and such kinda like we are doing to Ukraine now without that equipment there is the possibility that Germany could have forced Russia out of the war before they could get their feet under them and their own industry up to par in reality though it likely would have just prolonged the war for a few more years.

[@Muck006]

@@layla1385 The correct phrase is: "If it wasnt for the STUPIDITY OF THE NAZIS ... everyone would be speaking german now in europe", because the MISTAKE they made was to WAGE A WAR ON TWO FRONTS instead of finishing the first one. If they had focused every effort on conquering EGYPT ... and thus the path to the SUPPLY OF OIL ... the Nazis would have had much better supplies AND it would have been more expensive to supply Britain from India.

[@mooldoo]

In the movie "The longest day", an american officer (maybe John Wayne) informed his troops that French and Britsh were already fighting for four years, that American were the newcomers. But I'm quiet happy you have an opened mind to see it. At that time Russian were The army. Even if from some perspective Germans ended because one against all

[@kevanwillis4571]

Funny that John Wayne, the great war hero, made sure he never to war. Many actors did.

[@oh8wingman]

The Japanese official who was opposed to attacking Pearl Harbour was in fact Admiral Yamamoto. He said it would be akin to awakening a sleeping giant. One should also remember that history is determined by the party that won the war. For instance, we allies bombed hospitals and schools in Germany but because we won the war, we were given the right to determine that the Nazi's were the war criminals.........not us.

[@germaniatv1870]

Specifically bombed civilians. There is still footage available where you see how RAF is flying over Germany targeting everything that moves after the 2nd-3rd bomb-wave. The Original plan was to erase Germany from the map. According to the British & US war-aims, Germany is not even supposed to exist anymore.

[@sumolps9084]

well, i AM a german. and i can say, as a society we ARE guilty of some of the most heinous crimes ever commited in a war!

[@john-xo9mg]

@@sumolps9084 Every nation can say the same if they are honest my friend we all have a dark past..

[@sumolps9084]

@@john-xo9mg i doubt, what we did DURING that war (shoah) and the callousness how it was done is rivaled by many others...

[@germaniatv1870]

@@sumolps9084 I am German and i sat we are NOT guilty. Especially not by British,French,US and Soviet standards. - Stop being "Guilty" for something you have not committed. C'mon man...wtf?! What the hell are you talking about?

[@Paul_C]

Yep, we still are convinced the Canadiens freed us. Sure, hell's highway was started in '44 but the Americans went towards the heartland with their industrial targets leaving the Canadiens to do the heavy lifting and freeing the Netherlands.

[@germaniatv1870]

It is a error to believe that the USA came to Europe to free it when 1. Versailles was dropped on Europe and 2. USA destroyed France,Netherlands-Holland and Germany and put the damage on the Germans. It wasnt a US-American war in the first place and 3rd, USA joined its arch-Enemy Britain. The USA has fought very hard for independence but sadly allowed the FED & Brits (after the Civil War) to take over US American politics. - Germany did not conquer France,Belgium and Holland-Netherlands, they occupied them. It is a lie that the Germans wanted to make Europe "German" but its true that the French & British wanted to crush Germany to erase it. It is true that Britain,France and the USA did not care about the future of "Free"-Europe as they would help the Soviets to crush and occupy ,plunder, slave,rape, massacre and re-educate it. - US Americans usually dont know much about central European history, maybe the artificial stuff, but as in "what is central Europe" they have no more idea about it since at least 1917 when the Wildon Administration re-formed the Education system and erased over half of US-American history...this is the reason why most US Americans consider themselves as "American", yet they are German,French,Italian,British,Polish,Russian ect. They true "US-American" history was stolen, literally. - One of the worst Propaganda Ministry's was the CPI. USA slaved and segregated the people, had race-riots, lynchings and full-blown Patriotism, forcing the settlers to forget their ancestry. Exactly this has led to a US America which would invade over 120 Nations after world war . A MultiCultural MeltingPot that returns to where it comes from to destroy it. - USA with its short 250-300 year history has one of the bloodiest "short" history in world history. - The USA made clear, in 1945, that they did not come to liberate Germany (the Germans never asked to be liberated from its own people, but asked to be liberated from Colonialism & Communism) they came to conquer and occupy Germany , and in their own words: Maybe forever. - US Americans need some revisionism.

[@heywaitaminute1984]

My Grandfather was in D-Day and the Liberation of The Netherlands and Belgium, he was injured in all three. Leo Major was an awesome warrior, he liberated a town by himself and then he got help from the townspeople. I would love to visit The Netherlands, there is a KZbin channel I watch, Friesian Horses, beautiful and wonderful people.

[@valsyaranamual6853]

Vietnam - soldiers didn't like fighting alongside USA.Not good jungle fighters.

[@DiZastur]

I'm Canadian and ex Infantry and Artillery so I should be biased, but we didn't actually provide that many troops comparatively to the war effort. What we did have were frigging obstinate farm boys from the prairies who would do anything to leave Saskatchewan and Newfies who needed to get off the rock or else end up in Jail. What we lacked in quantity, we also lacked in quality because apparently Field Marshall Montgomery decided to throw away 5k Canadians in the largest and possibly dumbest recon in history at Dieppe;. Hard to say if it helped because we did win in the end.I read the book "The Regiment" by Farley Mowat when I was a kid.; Absolutely fascinating look at Canadian involvement in the war spanning 6 years, the author was actually there in The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment.....gawd thank you for reminding me, I read that book almost 50 years ago, I must look at it again with half a centuries experience

[@colettepot7350]

@@heywaitaminute1984I am Dutch and I can assure you that people here are not more beautiful and wonderful than other people…

[@wolf1066]

Some of the ones I heard included "James Watt invented the steam engine" - he was actually employed to *maintain* steam engines (massive stationary engines that pumped water from mines) and he came up with improved - much more efficient - designs. He wasn't an idiot and he achieved a lot - but inventing the thing he was hired to maintain? _That_ he didn't do. And, of course, Edison taking the credit for inventing pretty much everything on the planet...

[@wolfgangheinzhupp7057]

You had heared anthing over Nicolas Tesla?

[@wolf1066]

@@wolfgangheinzhupp7057 I've heard numerous things about Nikola Tesla.

[@przemekkozlowski7835]

The basic idea of a stem engine goes back a long way and there were some early prototypes made in Antiquity. The first really practical industrial steam engine was the Newcomen engine. This is the engine that Watt improved on. Watt's massive achievement was that his engine was efficient enough that it could be used outside of coal mines (where coal was essentially free). Edison's big achievement was taking a number of existing inventions and refining them to the point that they were practical for every day use. eg the light bulb was invented long before Edison but he came out with a version that could compete with the existing gas lighting.

[@DFMSelfprotection]

Nope - that was Joseph Swan who sued Edison for nicking his design! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Swan@@przemekkozlowski7835

[@CharlesRWJones]

I thought Edison invented electricity, cos he was an American?

[@gordonwallin2368]

Canada was involved at the start of both World Wars-and trained many US pilots in WW2, and had the third largest Navy at the end of WW2. Everyone was just glad it was all over-very few thought themselves as heros; that was for war movies, in the '50's. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

[@METerrell]

A couple of things not mentioned - Paul Revere wasn't the only one to warn of the British troops approaching. In fact a 16-year-old girl, Sybil Ludington was one of the riders & went twice the distance of Revere. But Revere is the one who gets remembered because of a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, possibly because it was easy to rhyme his name than hers or just because the writer decided he was more interesting. That was the case with Daniel Boone. He got all of the attention, but his brother, Squire was also important in the exploration of the region that eventually became the state of Kentucky. And going back further, there are things people get wrong about the Salem Witch Trials, like not all of the people accused were killed and 19 of those that were found guilty were hanged, not burned at the stake.

[@valsyaranamual6853]

Probably because she was also female!

[@Trebor74]

Paul revere did not actually complete the ride

[@ladyjane8855]

Why would he shout "The British are coming" when everyone there was British at the time 😂

[@Dave.Thatcher1]

Why would "either" of them shout......"The British are coming", after all, the Colonists still considered themselves to be! Wait for it!!!.....British

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@ladyjane8855 In fact, they shouted " The redcoats are comin' ..."

[@Joanna-il2ur]

Nobody in antiquity thought the world was flat. Anyone who lived by the sea could see the ships rise up as they approached the shore. There are sculptures of Atlas holding a globe on his shoulders. An author even wondered what the people on the other side of the globe.

[@bernadettelanders7306]

Australia didn’t get a mention in WW1 or WW2. Short history of our casualties below. My great uncle was killed on the battlefield in Belgium in WW1. My father was in WW2, came home safely, thankfully way before I was born. *For Australia, the First World War remains the costliest conflict in terms of deaths and casualties. From a population of fewer than five million, 416,809 men enlisted, of whom more than 60,000 were killed and 156,000 wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner. *Australia lost 34,000 service personnel during World War II. Total battle casualties were 72,814. Over 31,000 Australian became prisoners-of-war. Of these more than 22,000 were captured by the Japanese; by August 1945 over one third of them had died in the appalling conditions of the prisoner-of-war camps.

[@briansmith6791]

Yes, as a Newfoundlander, our tiny army was with the Aussies at Galipolli. Additionally, of all tbe armies it has been said tbat the most fearsome, tough, brave warriors were tbe Australians, then the Canadians, then... some of us know!

[@bernadettelanders7306]

@@briansmith6791 yours and my country don’t get mentioned as much as some other countries. They didn’t win the war on their own, your country, mine and others tend sometimes by some people, don’t know or only think they did it all. Too many lost from so many allies 😢💞

[@scottmorris5730]

Gallopili. Heard of it & never saw the movie, but I know it was costly for our Aussi brothers

[@ronhall9394]

@@scottmorris5730 I think most people who are not interested in History will not know of the various contributors in the various wars of the 20th Century - this is not restricted to the USians but to most nations - unless of course your country drums in the propaganda from an early age. There is no reason for the average bod to question the media driven version of things and since the vast majority of output is from the US of course they are going to show it as they think it should be remembered. In quite ironic turn of events Gallipoli is now associated almost entirely with the ANZACS, when in fact there were a hell of a lot more British troops there than anybody else, but Mel Gibson's version of events trumps all.

[@st0rmrider]

Yamamoto, the most famous and highest ranking naval officer of Japan was against the attack, having studied in the US and recognising the capacity of the US to wage war in enormous sizes. He said that a successful attack on Pearl Harbour would only give them a 6 month advantage and he was largely right (even if the attack missed the carriers).

[@marieparker3822]

1 Columbus landed in the West Indies, not the East Indies. 2 The 'Vikings' did not wear either winged or horned helmets. They wore plain helmets.

[@anniebygrave9300]

I have liked and subscribed to your channel today Nate and this is only the second reaction video of yours that I have viewed. I find your gentle honesty and openness to the truth (rather than propaganda) really refreshing. I am from the UK.

[@liammac5540]

Well said Annie. I couldn't have agreed more. And I too have only watch two videos that Nate has posted and I also subscribed; from Canada, eh.

[@LeandroUrreaga]

Una aclaración, la palabra América en español se refiere a todo el continente (norte,central,sur), sin embargo en inglés se usa para referirse a Estados Unidos. Quizás de ahí viene la confusión con respecto a que "Colón pisó América". Es decir él llegó al continente pero no a Estados Unidos.

[@onetallgirl78]

Columbus never set foot on any western American mainland continent, specifically either North or South America. He only made it to a few islands in the Carribean. This can be seen from the maps of his routes.

[@manueltapia1859]

​@@onetallgirl78he's saying that is a continent, and besides US wasnt know in that period until 16 Century when English people went!!! Please watch a map in internet and you'll SEE is a continent.

[@manueltapia1859]

Sí hermano, realmente tienen que dejar de verse cómo el centro del universo!!! Aunque les duela es un continente y sí el Caribe es parte del continente

[@onetallgirl78]

@manueltapia1859 My comment is based on researching historically validated books that traced Colombus's routes. Furthermore, North America always existed, it just wasn't documented by Europeans until the vikings(1100) and Spanish (Not Coloumbus) & Portuguese came here in (1400s and 1500s) and set up settlements. England came after the other countries, because the Dutch came to North America too. But North and South America were in existence, and people and animals living on the land. THE US wasn't created until 1791 when all 13 colonies ratified the constitution. Previously, it was brittish colonies.

[@nathanjohnwade2289]

The Catholic Church never taught the earth was flat. The first"historian" to say this was a known *19th century fiction writer.* The argument with Columbus the size of the earth, the required amount of resources and supplies and a lack of records of the "New World."

[@CowmanUK]

I truly didn't believe it when I heard that people still thought the Earth was flat. I thought, no, surely not. I genuinely thought it must have been some sort of ongoing joke. But no, apparently, they exist. Absolutely bizarre.

[@germaniatv1870]

Once one starts to research,m we find out that there never was a time when the people did OT think that the earth was flat. - Its not that bizarre when you find out that there is no original data, film & picture which could prove that Nasa wet beyond the LEO (lower Earth Orbit). The Obama Administration admitted that they can only fly "within". Because a fun fact is: You need AIR to fly...and in SPACE there is no AIR. - Do we understand that we need AIR to fly? - But anyways, if you can provide me with just one single real ball-earth picture, i would like to see it. That all it takes: Some real footage, a real ball earth picture and we are good. - If it is a ball, we need to reform our science because then it would mean that our "science" is "FALSE" and a "Illusion", understand what i mean? - Example: If water has a flat surface (like a mirror) then this reality is but a "illusion", get it? - Example 2: Einstein claims that MASS & ELEMENTS dont have "weight". The "wheigt" derives from a push & pull Gravitational back and forth. - My question is: How do you prove me that a 1 kg piece of Iron does NOT have its own "weight"?

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

Watch a channel called Metatron. On there he debunks one from the central US who claims (no idea if she actually, genuinely, believes what she spews or whether it's all done for publicity) that the Roman Empire didn't exist. It was ALL the result of the Spanish Inquisition. That all those ruins are fake, the emperors/army/writers/poets etc etc are all fake, and she is incredibly vocal while extremely offensive to anyone who tries to explain the facts. He also has a great video debunking the flat earthers as well, as does another KZbinr called Shadiversity.

[@germaniatv1870]

@@MayYourGodGoWithYou Nope, he did not debunk anything, i watched it. The Woman who claimed that the Roman Empire did not exist is not a "Flat-Earther" or Ball-Earth Skeptic. - One thing a "pseudo-scientist" must be: Honest & Real. Before you claim that the surface of the ocean bends upwards, you need to prove it. - The Watermolecules dont behave accordingly. They have their own "law". Watermolecules line and chain up like a mirror on its surface. Where you pour water in, there is a LEVEL on all edges. A perfectly horizontal,flat surface. This "Watersurface" is the "measure" we use for horizontal "things" like a foundation of a building, a bridge, a airplane ect. - How can you "bend" this Law of Nature? You cant... - The guy didnt debunk anything, i challenged him, he did not respond. He responds to stupid question tho :-D lol. - One can not "Debunk" a Flat-Earth. But we for sure can prove that you dont have a single real ball-earth picture and we can prove that water does not behave according to Einstein thesis, or else he would of used "Water" to prove "Gravity" but he cant, because Water does not behave according to Einsteins "worldview". We must assume that Einstein rather "believed" the earth to be a ball and used "Mathematics" and "Relativity" to somewhat explain that: WHAT WE SEE IS NOT REAL, that what we see is a ILLUSION. - So, the Reality shows you a Flat Earth. But Einstein is saying: Thats a Illusion and i will explain you why without having prove the "illusion". - Same for the "Weight". Einstein removes the weight of the "MASS" and claims that weight is a "subjective" feeling, without having proven it. - So i ask you: Do you "believe" that a 1kg piece of Iron has no "Weight"? And how can you prove that Stone,Iron,Wood,Water does not have its own weight? How can you prove that the water surface bends upwards when in fact it does not? - Last question: How can you prove that all paintings & photoshop pictures of Ball-Earth are "real" when in fact all of them are marked by the Institution and Artist themselves as : Composite or Digital Composite. ? - Do you really think 100.000 million flat earthers are this stupid? I doubt it very. :-)

[@TheEvertw]

Apparently, some people think Trump makes a good leader. There seems to be a correlation between the two.

[@milkbone302006]

Canada played a major role in the Netherlands, Italy as well as everywhere else in western Europe. The Americas did play a role in Europe I'd say their major role in WWII was in the Pacific. In WWI Canada took some key locations in Belgium which helped with the major offensives and so on.

[@scottmorris5730]

I believe that my father was both in the Netherlands and Italy. I wish he had married a woman from there. Either I would be taller than 166 cms or I would have better eating habits. It would have been a win-win for me .

[@MaryBradley-s3s]

ITALY WAS ON THE SIDE OF GERMANY IN WW2 THEN CHANGED SIDES OF ALLIES

[@Katt-._.7.]

@@scottmorris5730 😂

[@redbaron474]

When it comes to US history, the best thing to do is to QUESTION EVERYTHING! So many of the things we (and our children) are taught in school are at best twisted tales and at worst outright fantasies!

[@BarryE48]

It is said that the victor writes the history, so take it all with a pich of salt.

[@ladyjane8855]

I've had my eyes opened by following history professors on TicTok. Certainly learned more than I ever did in school (which was mainly propaganda)

[@Keyboardje]

America is a country full of people who are taught to believe their movies, not real history.

[@kathleenriley643]

That is true in every nation! They all tell half truths and even outright lie to make themselves look better. Just look to the lies Japan propagates against everyone else. According to them, they are the aggrieved party being hostilely set upon by all the other countries of the world. I went to college with a guy who grew up in Japan, age 6 = 18, and had a bad attitude towards the USA due to the Japanese propaganda, but ended up preferring most of the Americans he met as opposed to the Japanese, so later in his life he emigrated to USA and started a couple of lucrative businesses, and he will probably die here.

[@davel8927]

I think I’m right in saying, we only recently paid off our war debt to the US for material supplied! Another great vid Cheers from sunny 🇬🇧

[@germaniatv1870]

We Germans settled Versailles War Debts in 2012? War debts for WW2 still open (plus interest) All damages caused by the Allied in ww 1 was put on Germany, Germany would have to pay for things they did not commit,destroy or murder. Not even Rome would put such harsh measures on their opponents.Its a world historic unique "Debt-Slavery". When the USA destroyed France & Holland, that was put on the Germans. So the Germans pay the debt of the whole of a 30 Year World War (WW1&WW2). Remember, Germany was shut down by the Allied & Communists. - The USA destroyed Germany and they still do. Now they want us Germans to fight Russia, but destroyed us for fighting Soviet-Communism. The USA makes us dependent from Allied resources ,cuts us off from the East. - That means the Germans, who once fought for US Independence and end of slavery, now has to fight for its Independence from the USA. Historical Fact. - Any Questions?

[@graemejohnson9025]

A German invented the Atomic Bomb, not America, America never one one conflict in the second world war... but you are taught that you did.. 200 times more bombs where dropped on Australia, than hit pearl harbour.. oh how is your health care system going? Richest Country in the world? Look up the United States Debt? It is Trillions of Dollars... yep, every American walking around, owes over a million dollars to the rest of the world.. America is Fake..

[@lindajackson5839]

Seeing it was us who bombed pearl harbour knowing it was the only way for America to join the war as we were failing miserably, it's the least we could do,,

[@graemejohnson9025]

@@lindajackson5839 is this Japan, the most racist shallow country you could visit?

[@jeffgraham6387]

I seem to remember it was 2003......

[@nanapaula1031]

My grandmother before she died told us about the German pilot they fed until the MPs turned up she said he was so young scared The stories she told us were fasinating about the war

[@altenberg-greifenstein]

That is probably the truth most people do not want to understand. People were scared. Nobody wanted a war and everyone was scared. There was only one "soldier" in my family, also too young really to fight, and he told the same story many told, that they were too scared to shoot when they met the enemy and instead smoked cigarettes together. And that enemy was Russians. Oh, and another one of my family was a soldier, and he got shot in the back. I think most people did not even want to fight.

[@renetr6771]

The sovjet union lost 27 million ppl in ww2, 13 million of them were civilians. I have some books from sovjet pilots. After reading it, i could imagine how strong the sovjets really were. They moved the most of their industry thousends of kilometers to the east, in the first month the most of their soldiers had no officers - and no weapons, because Yosef Stalin left them unprepared for the german attack. Maybe thats why Theodore Roosevelt called them "heroes" at this time. After his dead, they where called enemies. Sad. :(

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Oh, how nice... Well, direct after the war, the Bolshevics claimed 17 million casualities. Of course this number were totaly wrong, because Stalin would not look like the 3rd line strategist, that he in real was. Then, some years later, they came up with 22 million victims, which is in my opinion near the real number. Nowadays, this is rosen to 27 million. This leads me to 2 conclusions... 1. The Russians have problems with the 4 basic arithmetic operations and have miscalculated by 10 million victims, which is more than the population of Sweden. 2. The Russians lied about the beams bending. And after all the experiences with the Stalinists since the beginning of the revolution in Russia in 1917, I am inclined to believe the latter answer. But perhaps the Russians also included the 8 million dead Ukrainians that Stalin starved to death in the 1920s. Oh and one more thing... After the end of the fighting, people with a German ethnic background were expelled from all states in Stalin's sphere of power. People who had often been at home in these countries for 200 years or more and were brought into the country by the rulers at the time because of their special abilities to stimulate the local economy. These people had nothing to do with the Nazis and were completely normal citizens of their country. All in all, about 12.2 million people were displaced. 1.6 million of them died during the expulsion. It's one thing for civilians to die during a war. But it has a different quality when, technically speaking, it happens in peace. In addition, Stalin's henchmen murdered between 500,000 and 600,000 Germans in the part of Germany that was occupied by the Bolsheviks, as political opponents of the Stalinists. The Russians used the old Nazi concentration camps for this purpose. Stalin just had a sense of humor... And before I forget about it... FDR, was a war criminal in WWI.

[@renetr6771]

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 1. you should know, that u actually talk with a guy, what was born in this part of germany. My grandparents have seen all the cruelties of war, and of the sovjet ocupation. Even when Stalin was a mentaly ill dictator, what killed millions of his own people, the numbers u name for Germany are totaly wrong. The where a lot of crimes from the sovjet soldiers who want to revenge for the cruelties german soliders did in the east, but important to know is, that soon after the end of the war, soldiers of the Red Army often were executed when she found guilty for crime against the civilists. Around 7 million soviet civilist died directly from violence from Wehrmacht, SS and volunteer corps, (mostly formed from german policemen and former SA-Members) and the german ally, also in concentration camps and as forced laborer. Around 2.5 Million soviet soldiers died in german POW camps, most of them from hunger. Around 12 Millions died from starving, after the German Invasion troops had killed most of the farmers, confiscated all the harvest. In addition, an unknown number of sovjet jews where killed in mass executions. Around 6 Million sovjet soldiers died in action. 27million victims is the official historical consens. In addition, there are 13Millions more, who died from Stalins cleansing. The german war plan for the UdssR, "Operation Barbarossa", intents the anihilation of 30million Slavs. The cruelties of Stalin didn't alleviate the cruelty from our troops.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@renetr6771 Kleiner... Warum zitierst du aus stalinistischen Quellen? Die Russen, haben 17 Millionen Mann verheizt. Alleine 1, 2 Millionen Sowjetische Opfer, gehen auf den direkten 'Befehl zurück, Leningrad und Stalingrad nicht zu evakuieren. Ich empfehle dir dringend die Lektüre von Ralph Giordano's Buch, "Wenn Hitler den Krieg gewonnen hätte". Ich würde dir noch deutlich mehr Bücher empfehlen, aber wir wollen dich nicht gleich überfordern. Was die Toten Kriegsgefangenen angeht, so nehmen sich da Wehrmacht und Rote Armee, nicht viel. Aber hast du schon einmal darüber nachgedacht, dass es der Wehrmacht vielleicht gar nicht möglich war, die 3 Millionen Gefangenen zu versorgen, die zwischen Ende Juni 41 und Anfang Dezember 41, angefallen sind? Hat dafür, dein Grütze gereicht? Als die Resten der 6. Armee in Gefangenschaft gingen, waren von den 250.000 Mann, noch 95.000 übrig. Nach hause zurückgekehrt, sind 5.000... Mein früherer Grundschuldirektor, ein sehr religiöser Mann, war einer von ihnen. Ich habe noch erheblich mehr Zeitzeugen kennengelernt, im Rahmen meiner Dienstzeit im Zivildienst. Da waren ganz einfache Leute vertreten. Ein Wetterflieger, ein Nachtjäger, ein Agent der deutschen Abwehr, ein SS- Major aus dem Heereswaffenamt, der persönlich Vortrag bei Hitler hielt, die Schwägerin eines Generalmajors, der im Widerstand war, nur um einige zu nennen... Das Kronjuwel, war jedoch eine alte Dame aus Riga (geb. 1896), die den gesamten Mist im Osten, mitgemacht hatte. Erster Weltkrieg, Revolution und Bürgerkrieg und natürlich auch den deutsch- sowjetischen Krieg. Und von der Tatsache abgesehen, dass meine beiden Großväter clever genug waren, nicht im Krieg draufzugehen und ich außerdem als Kind noch meinen einen Urgroßvater kannte (1883), habe ich dadurch multiple Quellen. Tatsächlich beschäftige ich mich mit den Themenkomplexen, Politik, Geschichte, Strategie und Geographie, schon seit einer Zeit, als der Bundeskanzler noch Willy Brandt hieß. Damals hatte ich noch nicht einmal meine Erstkommunion. Du hast mir mit nichts in deinem Text, eine Neuigkeit verraten. Komm, geh woanders spielen, Kleiner...

[@Lordscotia3]

I did most of my schooling in the US. When I moved to Australia in 1971 and went to school and saw that the history books said WW11 was from 1939-1945,I thought that was totally wrong. I had been taught that WW11 was from 41-45. We were not taught that Europe had been fighting for the previous two years.

[@wiretamer5710]

From the Japanese point of view it started in 1937

[@doreenorr6435]

38 to 45,my old grandad volunteered in 38 and served on all European and African fronts my mum was born in 40 and was 6 before she met her dad, America entered the war in late 41 I think? The soviet Union was the main catylist in Germany defeat along with hitlers arrogance and ignorence? The Soviets lost far more people than the rest of the allies put together, no one paid more than they did (Andrew not doreen orr)

[@valsyaranamual6853]

What? No wonder USA thinks they won WW2. They don't even know when it started!!!!

[@samfire3067]

World War eleven.wtf

[@dfuher968]

@@doreenorr6435 True, the USSR lost over 20 million soldiers, but that cant really be compared to the casualties of other allied nations, who all tried to limit casualties, while the Soviet just used their soldiers as cannon fodder. Like having soldiers ride on the outside of tanks into battlefields like sitting ducks, so so many killed unnecessarily. So u cant use death count alone to determine, who did the most. In reality, every1 mattered. Much of what the regular armies achieved could never have been done without the information from and sabotage from the various resistance movements. And no single army could do it alone. Im not particularly impressed with Eisenhowers military record, but his political skills were amazing, it really took a master politician to get around 50 different countries working together.

[@tallthinkev]

WWI the US did just about nothing until June 1918. Five months for the US, over four years for everyone else.

[@kathleenriley643]

So, they never needed us, they just wanted to share the pain!

[@stevenweaver3386]

I propose the US Congress declaring war in April 1917 prolonged WW1 by a year. Spring 1917 saw all combatants exhausted by 3 years of industrial slaughter. The French Army basically mutinied after 1.5 million fatalities in useless frontal attacks. They would defend what hey had but no more. The British Empire only had their first real victory in 3 years in April 1917 with the CEF capturing Vimy Ridge. The public was wesry of their men dying in droves for sermingly nothing gained. Peace feelers were being made through the Swedes to negotiate an end to the war. The knowledge of millions of fresh cannon fodder and US industry supplying them ended any hope of the poor souls in fighting in the mud that the horror would cease.

[@catkin27]

All my life, I knew Lindbergh was the first to fly solo. When I read the text of the wrong point, I said to myself “the solo is missing”. No question that others flew in crews. Even Jimmy Stewart’s movie about Lindbergh stressed the solo aspect.

[@strangelee4400]

Yes i'll give it to Lindbergh. 'First to fly solo across the Atlantic'. The rest is semantics. You have to remember when watching these things that while American exceptionalism is a thing....there are just as many anti-American propaganda lies out there. I'm a Brit btw so i could be seen as somewhat neutral. Ahh who am i kidding...God bless America (at least you've got one ally that doesn't hate you).

[@jdtsb8856]

Saw a documentary a couple of years ago where they interviewed a German tank operator in WW2. He said American tanks outnumbered them but were not tactical in their attack, instead they just sent tank after tank on the battlefield littered with mines, doing the same thing over and over again to the point that they (the Germans) were literally just sitting around, watching them (the Americans) destroy their tanks.

[@Driver2616]

A bit like the Russians in Ukraine….

[@Lurch685]

@@Driver2616 the Russians are using old degraded equipment they don’t mind losing

[@BPo75]

@@Lurch685 I dare say the crews mind that a LOT.

[@ronhall9394]

You have to remember that the German version of the events was that non of them were Nazis - they were all 'good' Germans and they only got defeated because they were ridiculously outnumbered. On the Eastern Front this was a fair reflection of the true situation, however on the Western part of the European campaign this was not always the case - especially at Normandy where the Allies just didn't have the space to field huge amounts of troops. The usual ratio any Commander will be looking for in attack is from 3-1 to 5-1 in their favour, the Western Allies didn't always have this parity however still broke the Germans. That's not to say the Western Allies didn't have their moments, that tank operator you referred to might just have been at one of those occasions when things didn't go as planned, it happens with all armies.

[@lukedalton]

@@Lurch685 they wish

[@janjanssen9629]

Pretty interesting to “discover” America while the native Americans were living there already for millenniums…

[@Navajonkee]

I mean, what would you call finding a landmass you didn't know before existed? Most of the world didn't know America existed before Columbus, and they did after Columbus. That is called a discovery.

[@janjanssen9629]

MrLumie - why didn’t they “discover” Africa, or China, or Japan, or South America, or the Far East for that matters… bull to say you “discovered” America when there were already people there and was already traveled by Africans and Vikings (and who know else…).

[@Navajonkee]

@@janjanssen9629 You dodged the question. What do you call finding something you didn't know before existed? Discovery isn't some absolute thing, it's not like things are only discovered once. No, things are discovered by different people at different times, separately. The vikings discovered America way back then, but then European civilizations had no idea about its existence centuries later. So when Columbus reached America, it was a new discovery *for them* . Yea, the existence of America wasn't news for the native americans, but it was for most of the then civilized world. From their perspective, it was a new discovery. For example, today I *discovered* that you don't know what the word "discover" means. Am I the first one to *discover* that? Probably not. Is it a new *discovery* for me? Yes.

[@janjanssen9629]

MrLumie - seems you mix up (and have no clue about) personal discovery and something that is truly discovered for the first time. You can’t say you “discovered” new territory and claim for the European world you discovered something that is already existing. He discovered something on a personal level, nothing more, nothing less (else). So hé, you just discovered you have a distorted definition of the meaning “discovery”.

[@Navajonkee]

@@janjanssen9629 "Seems you mix up (and have no clue about) personal discovery and something that is truly discovered for the first time" Because the two are the same concept on a different scale. Discovery is discovery, whether it's on a personal, or a semi-global level. By the way, you *still* haven't answered my original question.

[@patbarnhardt9581]

I'm a Canadian, and I just found you, so I love your commentary... Thank you! You've restored my faith in Americans, I kinda lost it after Obama left office!😢 Loved that guy.... 😊

[@lindajohnston552]

My husband said the same thing "Nate has restored my faith in Americans"

[@kathleenriley643]

If you liked Obama that much, it just provers you are anti-American. Do you also love Trudeau, the black=faced commie. Do you love that liberty he so freely disperses on the lowest level of his subjects?

[@haraldschuster3067]

The "earth-shape" issue with Columbus was not about the shape but the size. The pope had split the world into east and west (not through Greenwich) and Portugal was given the east and Spain was given the west. India lay east and the spice trade was extremely lucrative. Since we are before the time when the ancient Greek documents were re-examined, no one knew of the Greek calculations - there were two different models of the earth size and people couldn't decide which was true and which was wrong. According to the small earth model, India might have been closer to reach via travelling west than via travelling east. India would then have been in Spain's influence zone and Spain would have had control of the spice trade. That's why Spain financed Columbus' journeys. Well, he didn't find India but the Spanish managed to plunder enough from the Carribeans and South America to make up for that.

[@otsoko66]

almost -- the treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the newly found lands between Spain and Portugal was in 1494, after Columbus 'sailed the ocean blue' and 'discovered' America. But yeah, Columbus thought the world was smaller than it was -- his detractors had the size approximately correct.

[@Zero11s]

@@otsoko66 you are talking to a A.I. Bot

[@haraldschuster3067]

@@otsoko66 - Well, I have my timetable wrong, I see. I just checked and FINDING a route to India also happened later, via Vasco da Gama. So this was a preparation phase BEFORE the formal split occured. My bad.

[@huvlarvrhorg4818]

@@otsoko66 95% of the historians tell you that, he didnt knew where he was going and completely erase where columbus was before going to the king of castille , he was a close friend with D.Joao II of Portugal and worked with him for 10 years , studying ancient navigation maps, one of those was from Ptolemy map. Modern history (dont know why) erases any influence from D.Joao II on sea discovery of the XV century , Columbus before going to castille knew the existence of the sargasso sea ,Terra nova ou as you say ,Canadá and even the currents of the atlantic sea north and south, why D.Joao II and later D.Manuel I threatened to kill anyone who passed information outside of Portugal about the discoveries and sea maps. new evidence shows that columbus was on D.Joao II orders to deviate the Chatolic kings atention from the south atlantic route, why columbus after his first journey stoped first in Portugal and met with D.Joao II before going to Castille to give the news ? strange eh ? there is so many evidences that modern historians try to hide . historians erase the fact that Azores were discovered in 1427 and it is exactly half way to europe and half way to america, Portugal was known to have the best sailors and pilots since the XIV th century, only a ignorant would think they didnt venture more to the west . At the end of the 15th century, there was a school of navigation, cartography and mathematics in Portugal for over eighty years, where the most talented scientists dedicated themselves to research. why historians dont look up on maps form the south america and north america , maps from the XVth century with Portuguese names on it. Portugal was small, D.Joao II knew that, he had no more than 200,000 capable men in all the kingdom to defend it, all discoveries had to be secretive, and Castille had at least 4 times more in population , he was considered a genious let me tell you something funny, in 1930 in Portugal , a statue of Corte real was erected in Lisbon, stating it was him not columbus that discovered america, in Portuguese and brasilian schools it was taught that Portugal was the one that discovered the Americas, not columbus, even the american historian society was leaned to accept it , if portuguese scholars could prove it 100% , this was in the late 50s . with the new regime , after 1974 , they made a step back about Portugal history in the discoveries and just erased all that was getting collected to prove Portugal was the one , and columbus was accepted as the one . they even took corte real statue out and put another one. recently the data that was lost with the new regime is getting collected again , but political influence is hindering researchers on this process, i really dont know why politics are doing this, some say its because they dont want to upset certain countries on this subject. but i believe the real history will come out someday.

[@elisaabolafia9542]

Not to mention the fact that our INDIGENOUS PEOPLE in the U.S. are stuck with being called " INDIANS" And why aren't we being taught more about the guy we named AMERICA after.....Americus Vespucci ⁉️ ( pardon me if I grossly misspelled his name) In my NY public elemrentary school , we were taught about him. Truth please. And P.S.....King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella were both religious fanatics and A-holes.

[@bigskypioneer1898]

I am from the region of Montana where Little Big Horn occurred - and I have to dispute one tiny thing the historian in the video said... the ENTIRE company under Custer's command was not wiped out. There were a few Crow scouts that did survive that were under Custer's command - _however_ they survived because they were technically non-combatants and left the unit either at the very beginning of the battle OR separated just before the battle. Curly (or Bull Half White) can be Googled. Other scouts were Hairy Moccasin, Go Ahead and White Man Runs Him. All reported that they were ordered away. Curly's account of the battle is actually available online.

[@oliversherman2414]

A personal pet peeve of mine in this historical myth category is "what if Germany won WW2?" There was simply no way Germany could've won the war fighting Britain, the Commonwealth, Russia and America (not to mention Germany's low fuel and resource issues)

[@voxdraconia4035]

I guess most of these what-if scenarios were like "America did NOT join the war" or "Germany developed the nuclear bomb before USA" or "Stalin fled Moscow early, making the defense collapse and basically doom the Soviet Union" etc - usually taking out one or more of the big contesters. Or have Churchill overthrown by british nazis etc...

[@ErwinDecoene]

They could have won by not fighting.

[@oliversherman2414]

@@ErwinDecoene That completely goes against the characteristics and the mindset of the Nazis though. Their whole deal was about dominating Europe

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

You have no idea...

[@oliversherman2414]

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 about what?

[@ydenneki]

11:08 That "Japanese Official" who warned against attacking Pearl Harbour was none other than Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the man who lead the attacks at Pearl Harbor and Midway. He had served with both English and American navies in the years leading up to the war and knew the manufacturing capabilities of those nations, most especially their ship building capacity. But when tasked by the emperor with leading the attacks fulfilled the duty assigned to him in the best way he could.

[@willyoeikeland3116]

His statement was "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant".

[@robertzander9723]

There were a lot of countries involved to beat Germany and his allies in world war 2, you can't just say that one country did the most or was mainly responsible. This war was huge and very complicated. I mean Russia and nazi Germany attacked Poland together and splitted the country, also attacked Russia Finland in November 1939. Hitler was just faster in betraying his allie and both countries paid a terrible price and leaded the world into absolute chaos for a very long time.

[@germaniatv1870]

No, Germany did not betray its "Allie", it attacked the Soviet-Union when it invaded Europe. The British,French and the USA helped the Soviet-Union instead of keeping Germany free from Communism. If the British,French & USA would of saved Europe instead of destroying Germany and let the Soviets conquer Europe to middle Germany (checkpoint-Charlie) we would of never had a cold war and we may not be where we are today. - Germany attacked Poland for very specific reasons. It was a German-Polish conflict due to Versailles and the Polish "invading" German territory first. Poland sits on German land and is registered as such to this day. We could regard it as by Polish occupied German land to this day. We dont start telling a story at the end of a war, we always start at the beginning. - Breaking a pact with Stalin doesnt mean "betrayal" , it means breaking the pact for the sake of Europes National-States and their independence from either Soviet-Russia or the Allied Anglo-American-British dominated EU.

[@robertzander9723]

@@germaniatv1870 sorry, but I never ever read just so much nonsense in my life before.

[@germaniatv1870]

​@@robertzander9723 The Germans declared war against Poland because Poland kept fronting. To make sure it would stay a German-Polish war the Germans made non-aggression pacts with all parties. When Germany attacked Poland, Britain attacked Germany. Germany would not attack (retaliate) against Britain for over 4 months trying to make (keep) peace with Britain. The Soviet-Union then invaded Europe and Germany broke the pact with the Soviets because of that. - There is no trace of Germany wanting to "conquer" Europe at all. It tried to settle its feud with Poland,Britain & France. - USA,Britain & Soviet-Union are Allies. It is their World War. - 1917 the USA created the first Propaganda Ministry of its kind, the CPI. Their Mr Goebbels was Edward Bernays,George Creel and Mister Lippmann. They sorted out literature (destroyed,pulped & burned them), banned language,art & music, annexed Farms,Business and German-American Newspapers, segregated the people based on ethnicity, set up Internment,Labor & Deportation camps and deported German Americans who settled the USA since at least mid 1600's. - The Germans built the Conestoga Wagon, printed the first Bible in America, wrote the first Anti-Slavery Petition in Germantown Pennsylvania, fought the Revolutionary Battle of Germantown (Germantown: Freedoms Backyard). - General Sherwood , who fought the Civil War, warned Congress that it would be going to war for its Arch-Enemy Britain to destroy its best European friend Germany. - Britain,France and the USA would let Stalin conquer Europe. And after that the British,French and the USA seen the Soviets as the far bigger threat and admitted that "they killed the wrong peoples".

[@germaniatv1870]

@@robertzander9723 There is a list of videos which talks about the Allies of Britain. "Why We Fight". There the Soviet "Kingdom" is portrayed as "Paradise on Earth" when in fact the east (at that time) was known as "Hell on Earth" especially on Polish,Ukrainian,Belarus territory. There are also videos called "Know Your Enemy". There every "Race" (Japanese,Germans,Italians,Arabs) get's their fat. That this US-Allied Soviet-Propaganda is not considered war-mongering, racist, colonial & communist boggles my mind. - The USA came to Germany not to free it, but to kill it in every sense of the word.

[@chrisklitou7573]

Yes you can when the USSR defeated 80% of Germany's forces and invaded Berlin They did most of the work FACTS

[@keithgrant7950]

Look up the journey of St Brendon, an Irish monk who got there around 520 AD, way before Columbus is claimed too. Tim Severin built a replica Leather boat to the specification of the original and sailed across from Ireland to the USA in 1977.Makes good reading.

[@davidwallin7518]

There is also Prince Madog from Wales, said to have got there before the Vikings.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Yes... There is also some evidence that suggests that the Phoenicians already knew the sea route to South America. Probably because of the same things as today... cocaine! The Egyptians were the party kings of ancient times. They got everything that really popped in their skulls! Things like sea routes were top secret in ancient times. This was even the case in Europe until the end of the 18th century. The knowledge just passed from one captain's ear to another. No written records. How did I come up with the idea? Well, cocaine has been found in Egyptian mummies. And since the stuff only thrives in South America (to the annoyance of the mafia), all other possible regions of the world can be ruled out. But there is more. Artifacts, construction techniques and weapons that can only be found in Europe were discovered. And before the birth of Christ. All of these traces lead to Celtic tribes, especially from the Balearic Islands. Well, the following situation... At the end of the Third Punic War, the victorious Romans exterminated everything associated with Carthage's power. Since the Celts in the Balearic Islands had always been the Punic allies, they were now faced with the Romans settling scores with them. A Carthaginian naval commander, from a knowledgeable Phoenician family, may have decided to take himself and allies to safety overseas to avoid Roman revenge. And since the Phoenicians were the best sailors in the ancient world, it shouldn't have been too difficult... And so slingshots made from Celtic made their way to an Indian tribe in the upper reaches of the Amazon. Such slingshots are only found in this Indian tribe in South America and the Balearic Islands, where they are still made today for sporting purposes in the same way they were made 2500 years ago...

[@viriatox9782]

Great reaction. By the way, the Number 6 ("Japan had to Attack America if it Wanted to Survive Economically") is somewhat biased on the part of the narrator of the original video because it gives two options (one, to end its long war with China, and the other, to invade the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and British Malaya (now Malaysia) without attacking America): Specifically, his second option is biased because at that time the Philippines (which lies between Indonesia and Taiwan (then a Japanese colony)) was an American colony. If the Japanese had invaded Indonesia and Malaysia without invading the Philippines, it would have been very easy for the American fleet to block the Japanese convoys. In addition, there is also the fact that Japan had previously invaded French Indochina to help in its war effort in China (taking advantage of the fact that the French colonial administration was loyal to Vichy France, the collaborationist regime with the Axis after the German invasion), something that had not been well received in Washington. Not forgetting the fact that many Asian nationalists (including Filipinos) saw Japanese imperialism as the protector of Asian peoples colonized by Western powers. An example of this can be seen in Emilio Aguinaldo, the first president of the independent Philippines (1899-1901). He was a guerrilla who fought against the Spanish Empire from 1896, but independence efforts in the Philippines were not successful until the American victory at the Battles of Cavite and Manila in the Spanish-American War of 1898. The Philippines then went from being a Spanish overseas province to a American colony, something that the Filipinos who had been fighting for independence, not to change colonial power, did not accept, causing the Philippine-American War (1899-1902/1913) that the Americans won after the death of a million Filipinos (the 10% of the Filipino population at the time). In almost the entire country the war ended in 1902, but what is known as the Moro Rebellion continued until 1913, which occurred only in the southern islands of Mindanao, Jolo and the Sulu archipelago, where there were Muslim majority populations (the Philippines is one of the only two countries in Asia with a majority Catholic population, the other country is East Timor, a former Portuguese colony). When the Japanese invaded the Philippines, many Filipino nationalists collaborated with the Japanese, including an elderly Aguinaldo (the Japanese considered placing him as the president of the second Philippine Republic in 1943, but he declined citing his advanced age (he died in 1964 at the age of 94)). After the war, he was imprisoned by the Americans, but after the Philippine independence granted in 1946, an amnesty was granted in 1948 for all those who collaborated with the Japanese to support Philippine independence. In 1958, when a journalist interviewed him if there was anything he regretted in his life, he stated: "Yes. I am largely sorry for having risen up against Spain and that is why, when King Alfonso of Spain's funeral was held in Manila, I showed up at the cathedral to the surprise of the Spanish. And they asked me why I had come to the funeral of the King of Spain against whom I rose in rebellion... And, I told them that he is still my King because under Spain we were always Spanish subjects, or citizens, but now, under the United States, we are just a market of consumers of their exports, when not outcasts, because they have never made us citizens of any state of the United States... And the Spanish made way for me and treated me like their brother on that significant day..."

[@Eysenbeiss]

Blocking the convoys would have been an criminal act, if not an act of war and that's why it would not have happend, since then, the US had been the active part and declaring on Japan, but that's not what they wanted and the reason, why they let Pearl Harbour happen, since they were informed, that the Japanese would be going for it. That has already been proven though several sources.

[@dianahahnacuna1227]

Emilio Aguinaldo a brave and fair man.

[@alexanderweigand6758]

​@@Eysenbeiss Already proved? Somebody made a travel into alternate universe?

[@juliusfrauenglass2411]

The Japanese official was Admiral Yamamoto he advised against awakening a "sleeping Giant" . He was ignored and correct.

[@debbie541]

yeah yeah yeah yeah , then the righteous usa went to save the world for two years in a 7 year world war -- the usa biggest contribution was supplying weapons, armaments, equip and food through the lend lease program ...wjich was not until 2006, that Britain fully repaid its lend-lease debts to the United States from World War II.

[@jodyharnish9104]

The schools also neglected to teach us things that would have given us a better understanding of our past. For example, we had two presidents who started out in life as indentured servants, and they both bought their freedom later on. Andrew Johnson's parents sold him to a tailor, and he made his own clothes for the rest of his life. Millard Fillmore's parents sold him to a weaver. He escaped at one point, was recaptured and taken back. A beating convinced him not to try that again.

[@ianmurphy9096]

This is good. Great Brittan only paid off the last of the debt to the USA in 2006 of which they borrowed (including interest) of 72.3 Billion in today's money

[@BassandoForte]

Profiteering off war to the maximum... 🤣

[@graemejohnson9025]

Um er. Look up the Debt that America owes the rest of the world at the moment... you can go to world square, and watch it going up at a billion dollar a day.. America is in debt up to its areshole.. the i am rich is worse than drag queen fake.. America owes, Europe and Germany, over a 7 trillion dollars..

[@graemejohnson9025]

@@BassandoForte America has a billion dollar defence force.. so the fake companies get money.. But that billion dollar defence force, was beaten by Farmers with Guns in, Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan.. they are full of shit..

[@InsaneMaggot137]

Point 8 is a bit incomplete. Yes there was an election in the parlament which granted Hitler the right to enable the "Notstandsgesetz", which made him a dictator but Hitler never held a majority in the parlament. He/his party used the SA (armed militia of the NSDAP) to hold captive an entire faction of the parliament (I think it was the "communist party of germany" - KPD) and declared them there as "absent by their own fault", which according to the rules of the parliament resulted in their votes being invalid for the election and suddenly the majority situation had turned around...

[@icemang.9981]

Hi Nate 🙂 @11:20 You are totally right. The mastermind behind Pearl Harbour, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said that a war against America is a losing venture. Becoming Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet in November 1940 he studied from 1919 to 1921 at Harvard University. He travelled throught America multiple times and was well aware of the enormous economical and industrial power the United States represent. He was against an attack or a war against the US. "Waking up a sleeping giant..." his words after the failed attack on Pearl Harbour (Failed because the missing of their main targets, the carriers). He also opposed against the building of the two battleships "Yamato" and "Musashi" as an "unwise investment on resources"... If you are interested take a look at wikipedia, his story is very well written there. Greetings from Germany.

[@drmick3423]

Really good to see someone with critical thinking skills, some interesting metaphors too. Keep it up mate 👍

[@The0ldg0at]

In Canada we have two big ethnic groups, the English Canadians and the French Canadians. So there is two Canadian History, the one you learn in English schools and the one you learn at school in French school. It's patriotic chauvinism 101. The factual dates, places and names are the same but the narrative about the ethics of the winners and losers will change depending from which side you are reading it from.

[@holoholopainen1627]

Do People know - These differences in general ?

[@manueltapia1859]

And the native americans like iriquos, don't count as ethnic group?? Man I'm surprised, even here in México we considered them as part of our comunity!!!!

[@fedodosto3162]

@@holoholopainen1627 we know them, we just have different views of them. For instance the English think the batlle of the Plaines d'Abraham was a great victory but the French see it as a great loss. The English love their royals but we know what the French did to their royals....

[@fedodosto3162]

@@manueltapia1859 We are starting to recognise how badly they were treated, (about time!!!) US's great shame is slavery but Canadians shoud be just as ashamed of how we treated the Natives, until very recently and for the Chinese as well. They were used for building the railroads in the 1800s at the cost of many many lives.

[@manueltapia1859]

@@fedodosto3162 and when nowodays they found the remains of native children in the backyard of a church!!!!

[@oliviervanrode6362]

Famous quote : there's always three sides to a story : ours, theirs and the truth.

[@colinearnshaw7725]

John Cabot sailed from Bristol (England) and landed in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in 1497.So he was the first European after the Vikings to land in North America

[@Dee-JayW]

Yes, and we have the Cabot trail on the East Coast and he is taught to us as our earliest European Explorer, although there are many famous Explorers that mapped Canada, especially crossing the Rocky Mountains.

[@monikacognomen1096]

What about St. Brendan in his leather boat?

[@gymjunke1]

US help and assistance in both wars was invaluable no question about that at all. But it was never a case of one country "winning " but the cooperation of all the " Allies " in Europe and the Far East .

[@heshangunarathna3262]

While this is true if you ranked who sacrificed the most it would be 1. Soviets 2. Britain 3. USA

[@Muck006]

@@heshangunarathna3262 So ... France and all the occupied countries didnt "sacrifice" anything ... because you dont include SUFFERING in your calculations.

[@heshangunarathna3262]

@@Muck006 nope i mean as millitary.. Every civilian of occupied coutries suffered ...not equally though but it isn't something we can't measure..

[@gymjunke1]

@@Muck006 Of course France and others suffered and made massive sacrifices and of course the Free French made a massive contribution .

[@evelynmacmillan2485]

Guess who knocked the apple out of the tree onto Isaac Newton's head.😂

[@michealbohmer2871]

The reason Hitler was such a effective public speaker was, in large part, because he was a very astute listener. As he was giving a speech he would gauge the reaction of his audience and would pick up on those things that resonated and then hammered them home. He also practiced a great deal, including his gestures. If you look at other politicians before and contemporary to Hitler, you will notice that they would do very little gesturing. Winston Churchill, for example, would simply grasp his lapels whilst giving a speech, as did many other public speakers. After Hitler, though, politicians started to copy his animated style of speaking, using gestures to emphasis their point. In fact, Hitler was so good at public speaking that even people who watch him but don't understand a word of German can get swept up and mesmerised by his performance.

[@mrvertigo23]

The Nazis used intense intimidation to gain power - The Brownshirts were a visible show of this force! His speeches were nothing special - shouted and rambling rants, the reaction from his captive audience was in the main due to terror, ignorance, peer pressure and mass delirium. Reminds me of someone!

[@majortom6262]

@@mrvertigo23 no, actually Hitler promised his people that he would take them out of the deep financial depression forced upon Germany by allied countries after ww1. It was once he was in power that his madness started to show through! He caused German citizens to turn on each other! Not too dissimilar than the current USA president!

[@casualgerman1949]

Yeah, he pretty much did a "Make German great again"-campaign and the people bought it. Because times where not that great at that time. And in fact when he got elected things became better, for a while as everyon had work. Some build the german Autobahn other worked in factories and some on the field. The brain washing did the rest. It is said that the Nazi where the first people who knew how to use the "Modern media" for propaganda in the most efficient way.

[@Geffi01]

The thing with Hitler isn't right. He used force - not by military, but the SA (NSDAP's thug army) opressed all other partys by force. They prevented their promotional events, put political opponents in jail and beat up and/or killed anyone they perceived as a threat to their own values. So it was a strategy of force, fear and violence.

[@michealbohmer2871]

@@Geffi01 Eventually, yes, intimidation did become one of the tools in the Nazi arsenal, but one must first convince their followers to follow and to put aside their moral qualms to engage in such notorious deeds. True, some, if not most, of the first members of the S.A. were likely thugs to begin with but one must keep in mind that when Hitler joined the Nazis (after first being sent to investigate the group by the German Army) he was a failed art student and corporal in the army: i.e. nothing special. It was his power of speech and charisma or, as Anton Drexler, one of the founders of the German Worker's Party which later became the NSDAP, said, after seeing Hitler arguing with a fellow party member, "He's got the gift of the gab, we could use him." After being offered a membership, Hitler quickly rose through the ranks until he became the head of the new National Socialist German Worker's Party. When he joined the German Worker's Party is was nothing more than a motely crew of malcontents with only a few members. His ability to deliver an impassioned speech, his force of will, his charisma and an ability to manipulate people and surround himself with others like him, are some of the things that got the group growing. All of these qualities are the hallmarks of a psychopath and that is exactly what he was -- he just had the ability to convince people he was their friend and that he was right, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

[@pennywynn8716]

Our understanding of History evolves as more information from different sources are discovered.

[@catzkeet4860]

Flat earthers are nuts..... They don't even agree with EACH OTHER!!!!

[@shotelco]

A Nuance, yet a point in fact: *Slavery is still protected under the U.S. Constitution to this very second:* Constitution of United States of America 1789 / Amendment XII - "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, *_EXCEPT_* as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Slavery didn't technically end until 1942. This is important as the U.S. Constitution is not Law. Its a collection of rights and such which can ... or can not... be upheld by each state. If a State fails to either create a law in accordance with the U.S. Constitution, or _Enforce_ a State law (we refer to this a "decriminalization" - like many States have laws regarding marijuana, but do not enforce them), then it is not really a law. Individuals must challenge the Constitutionality of State Laws at the Federal level. When slavers were taken to courts - even in the 1900's, their affirmative defense was that there was no law in a particular State that made Slavery illegal. Their positions were upheld by courts. The first ever slaver to be convicted of slavery occurred in 1942. Bonus Example: In *1780,* Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish slavery when it adopted a statute that provided for the freedom of every slave born *after* its enactment.

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

In short, the USA said that slavery without being convicted of a crime wasn't allowed, but then allowed it anyway.

[@alanthomas8372]

I knew that this last point would cause a few tremors. The USA never really got involved in WW1 until halfway through 1918. Pershing wa banking on 1919 as the breakthrough but it finished sooner than he thought. By mid 1918 Germany was spent and French and British knew it. However it was the THREAT of defeat by overwhelming amounts of US troops that forced Ludendorf to try a final time. US came to dominate the WW2 theatre in the west by the size of it's forces in 1943 during Operation Torch but they had a very novice force. Economic strength of the US was what helped them. Britain was broke (and lost an Empire) nobody in Europe is taught that the US won anything outstanding in WW1 or WW2 and that in the final analysis it was the Soviet Union. If it wasn't for the Russians the West would have been thrashed.

[@iriscollins7583]

Didn't America join WWI in 1917, which started in ,1914? Half way?

[@srgmiller340]

@@iriscollins7583 He said Half way thru 1918 28th of May was the first battle for the Americans

[@sarumano884]

@@iriscollins7583 They may have joined the first world war in 1917, but the US of A also had to gather, train, concentrate and transport its young men across the Atlantic to France, then re-train them in the latest fighting techniques, which would never be the same as the troops learned back on the training parade grounds. Only when they have learned from the enemy can they be sent in to fight. American engineers were caught up in the battles at Cambrai, and the Somme, but it was May/June 1918 before the Americans fought as an army, at Belleau Wood.

[@chrishutton1458]

And without the west, the soviets would have suffered greater attrition. We supplied them with tanks, airplanes and other war materiel at great loss of life, to keep them in a position to keep fighting.

[@eileentaylor1691]

@@iriscollins7583 usa joined ww1 in december 1917 so very late joined ww2 december 1942 so late again!!!

[@RustyDust101]

Weeeell, the 'seizing of power by force in Germany' is only partially incorrect. The SA, or Sturmabteilung, was the paramilitary arm of the NSDAP, the Nazi party. During many of the elections they posed threateningly in election locales, and influenced people into either staying away, or voting for the NSDAP, out of fear. But, to be honest, that was still only a fairly small minority of cases. So, to be honest, it was a partially mixed bag of true democractic process of elections, as well as a small percentage of voter influencing by violence, thus force. The later "Ermächtigungsgesetze" of Hitler after the Reichstagsbrand, effectively allowed him to ban the communist party outright, and rigorously control many other parties. Yes, he went through the full parliamentary system of empowering him with his extremely extensive emergency powers, but again, tough right wing propaganda, as well as a few well placed strong arm tactics kept many opponents of the "Ermächtigungsgesetze" at home, or at least out of the voting process of the parliament at a critical moment. So again, not wholy a true brutal forceful take-over of power. But very similar to what occured in the USA during the last election, with extremist groups threatening violence against non-Trump voters. Which was the reason why so many Germans were truely fearful of what would happen if Trump had been re-elected. We just saw far too many parallels to our own history to stand idly by. No, I am NOT exagerating the extent to which this made me fearful of a potential USA under Trump in a second term. Because he was already actively working on enabling his future power with trying to remove the limits of presidential terms during his rallies.

[@stephenlee5929]

Hi, Brit here, serious question, how would extremist groups know who to threaten as a 'non-Trump voter'? Same question about Germany.

[@kaishi10]

@@stephenlee5929 Dunno about Germany, but in the US, it's just a grouping question. Our political parties and such already keep track of that and make it known openly. You may come across that with the American Political Terms: "Red State / Blue State"

[@caligo7918]

@@stephenlee5929 If a group of armed people stands in front of a booth, looking menacingly and asking pointed questions about votes, people tend to be afraid and afraid people do dumb shit... If they then gain access to the ballots, they might find your name, adress and the party you voted for. That stops being a legal election, but some people don't give a shit how to get the majority and then outlaw the opposition.

[@jacksmith-vs4ct]

And they were right to be worried as seen by the Jan6th attempted insurrection

[@Muck006]

The point about the SA is moot / irrelevant, because THE COMMUNISTS HAD THEIR PARAMILITARY ARM TOO ... the others just won the fights. "Roter Frontkämpferbund" Oh and ... the last "head of the STASI" (Erich Mielke) from East Germany - who was in his 80s when the Wall fell - was tried (IIRC) for SHOOTING A POLICEMAN during that time. tl;dr "Blaming only one side" is WRONG.

[@glennstewart5397]

In Both WWI & WWII, Canadian Troops Kicked but hard. Vimy Ridge and Passendale in the first war are just two of the places Canadians fought and won, in the first war. Canadian Troop were the First of the beaches ion D-Day and had push farther inland on the first Day!

[@emmavink]

My big gripe is how little recognition the millions of British colonial subjects of colour got for fighting in both wars. Between India and a whole host of African countries, and possibly some Aboriginal and Mauri men, so many indigenous lives were forcibly given to those wars as cannon fodder.

[@kimbardgett1664]

I dont know what history teachers taught you but i do have relatives (no longer alive )who fought in. India with the people of India so knew first hand stories from fighting in Burma .But was taught about the many men who fought from all over the common wealth in my school ,like all men who werent upper middle class and above were all treated like cannon fodder full towns were left without young men who mostly never returned home .Its unfortunate but thats the way most wars are fought back in the 20th century.Some still are fought by the young working class of the country look at Afgan war as an example .I personally had family serve there abdd had friends loose their childrren there young people of the country .

[@JacquelineBarnes-u5y]

I don't know were you got your information from you have not travelled the country to see the statues and memorial sight...some are in London. Some are air bases..for polish fighter mod Duxford have memorial wall of the fallen...

[@emmavink]

@@JacquelineBarnes-u5y... 1) I didn't say zero recognition. I said comparitively little. 2) Polish people are white... Does someone really need to tell you this???

[@JacquelineBarnes-u5y]

@@emmavink please don't use the race card...you sound like a child eyeing up your brothers dinner because he has been given more than..you....colour has no place when it comes to the life's of all those men and women..who with this country were fighting side by side and never returned to the country they came from....they are remembered

[@ponfed]

The thing about history is that it's ironically not fixed. New discoveries change what we thought we knew, and of course politics, propaganda and unobserved biases do their own jobs at distorting history. The good thing, is that it can and does change, and if you look at it earnestly and in good faith, you learn shit. Good video.

[@Superman679]

You should remove that word from your vocabulary, at least in as much as it pertains to disseminating information. That word should not be used. "Faith" Faith is belief without facts or evidence and blind faith is belief when their is evidence against it. Faith goes against what you described. I would have written " and if you look at it earnestly and take only provable, facts into account while getting ride of everything else, propaganda, personal bias and especially faith based beliefs you learn shit." If you can not factually demonstrate what you believe to be true, it can not be included as factual history, as Truthful history !

[@ponfed]

@@Superman679 "good faith" doesn't mean what you think it means my dude.

[@manu-tonyo9654]

History is fixed, it is the factual events over time. Presentation of information can be flawed or biased, that is just recanting a story. But History is factual, only what is understood or perceived is changeable.

[@jessgibson4790]

Got one for you, Nate. The freeing of slaves was not an issue of the American Civil War. It was to make the trading in slaves illegal in the south, like it was in the north.. It was legal to own slaves in both the north and south. Lincoln himself owned slaves.

[@just.some.things3945]

I don’t think Lincoln did own slaves. He found it morally reprehensible. Although it is true that the civil war wasn’t initially about complete abolition, although it then became about it

[@openyoureyes909jones6]

I somewhat remember they wanted to stop it from springing up as they settles the west. Also, they werent outlawing slavery 100%, they were just reducing the number of slaves. Small farms and the such could have a few, but they were breaking plantations....basically attacking the southern rich.....so the rich got the poor to fight their war, sound familiar?

[@Jen-iy7lq]

Good thing we have these 'historical facts' debunking videos out there to teach me what us normies apparently all believe. I usually 'learn' a great deal about us as a society when someone is so kind as to inform me of our 'misconceptions'. I had no clue we were ever taught most of these 'facts'.

[@eucitizen78]

Interesting...there some points that i would like to add, just come to my mind. Columbus died thinking he reached India. By the way. Everyone who lives by the sea can see that the World is round. The first thing you see when a ships comes in is the top of the mast. Another thing the first motor flight was done by Gustav Weißkopf (14. August 1901), not the Wright brothers.

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

Outside of the US the Wright brothers fallacy has been fairly well debunked. I think there are several candidates depending on exactly how you define motor flight. Richard Pearse, 31 March 1902, also flew before the Wright Brothers, in New Zealand. Rather like Lindburg they were late to the scene.

[@elswift7820]

Guys it's not motor flight it was trans Atlantic flight... I don't know anything about this topic but did you mistake the two? Or am I mistaken? 🤷‍♂️

[@louisavondart9178]

@@elswift7820 ... you're right. People type before thinking.

[@BrickNewton]

@@MayYourGodGoWithYou Check out Gregs Airpanes video on who flew first. As a NZer I wish it was Pearse, but the evidence for true powered flight was the Wright Brothers

[@The0ldg0at]

Columbus was selling his idea for "Go West" on the theory that the circumference of the earth was a lit shorter than what was the scientific consensus of his time. So his expedition was to find a much shorter (and more profitable) maritime trade route with India. His theory was debunked soon after the Portuguese found South America, proving it was not India but a new continent. Scientific knowledge was not for the laymen in those Christian times so American natives are still called "Indians" by most Europeans these days.

[@Krebs-Danmark]

Leif den Lykkelige ore Leif Eriksen 👍I was born in Greenland, grew up in Denmark, so the historical part of Erik the Red and his son Leif has always interested me 🤗 the connection between Greenlandic and Danish roots 😉

[@finneire1282]

Hey Nate. I'm also a fan of history. I'm from Ireland and a lot of these "fake facts" were a thing when I was in school here too. In some cases we were lied to, no doubt. The victors write the history books after all. My twin and I have long held that facts are commonly held beliefs though, not by definition but in reality. So even though some are intentional lies or propaganda, others are just the retelling of stories that people genuinely believed. History is like science in that new information can offer new perspectives. In history, that is why archaeology and archaeological sites are so important. Anyway, as I mentioned we were taught a lot of the same things here. I was out of school before I found out that Colombus wasn't the first European to step foot on the American continent. I remember being told the "fall off the edge" myth at a young age but when my education actually reached Columbus it was clarified that the consensus of the time was there was no landmass between and the journey was therefore impossible. They were right that the journey west to India was impossible but because there was actually a landmass. I think Simon oversimplified the nuts coming to power in Germany. He outright says "free and fair elections". That's a lie, which is ironic. The funny mustache fella did use the electoral system, there were legitimate post-WWI grievances he played on, but there was also the use of paramilitaries to suppress the opposition to his rise. If the only people allowed to vote are your supporters, it's hardly democratic. In terms of the WSC, I was taught it was the beginning of the great depression, not the sole cause. It did also play into the popular rise of Hitly, along with reparations. Skipping a little and keeping it brief, isn't being sentenced to "hard labour" still a thing in some US states? Wasn't there objections to letting people out on early release for good behaviour because it would lose the cheap labour? In other words, there's exceptions to the 13th. The last point, #1, wasn't really taught to me either. It was generally mocked as an American belief. The US was late to both wars. America might have made a difference, but as Simon points out Germanys biggest f up in wwii was picking a fight with Russia. Really, its like the Great Depression. It was a string of factors, not just one. The outcome was never preordained and all parties made the difference. As much as you could credit allied countries, the weakness of Italy or the bad decisions of the angry Austrian dope could also explain the outcome. Thanks for doing the video, look forward to watching your next one and enjoyed reacting to your reaction of Simons video 😁👍

[@lawrenceglaister4364]

One of my favourite secrets !! was that Ireland was of course neutral but on the west coast there were big white stone arrows on the ground pointing to either the nearest British air force base or Scotland , England or Wales with the present latitude and longitude the arrow was at

[@BPo75]

Plenty of other things Simon's researchers got either wrong or oversimplified, especially in this video.

[@ladyjane8855]

​@@lawrenceglaister4364So the Irish were traitors?

[@Keyboardje]

The victors write the history books, yes, and then Hollywood re-writes it AGAIN making it seem in movies that America and Americans always did EVERYTHING. Claiming things from other countries and other peoples as "their victory or invention" and so on, and a lot of Americans rather believe what they see in movies, so... :D

[@Philjj61]

The jar analogy was perfect, so many times my kids when they were younger would try to open a jar and give it a really good go then hand it to me, I would pop it and hand it back always telling them they must have loosened it, which they had. Timeless good parenting like "pull my finger".

[@alchristie5112]

With ANY research topic it’s essential to gather information from multiple sources that are considered reputable. Taking from a single source will most likely lead to incorrect conclusions. I suspect that’s what happens with historical events, sometimes taken from a single perspective.

[@bagpuss121]

What Makes Me Laugh Is The Numerous Times I Have Heard Americans Say If Not For Us You Would Be Speaking German . American Is The Best Country , lol

[@jessicaelliott9857]

Would americans be speaking Japanese though?. America might have the brawn, but the United Kingdom have the brains. It was a joint effort. Lest we forget.

[@jonasfermefors]

As a Swede I am keen to demote Charles Lindbergh to historic obscurity. The son of Swedish immigrants Lindbergh was an interesting character, but his accomplishments should be overshadowed by his darker deeds. Lindbergh was a friend to Nazi Germany and though he was probably not a Nazi he did believe in "racial hygiene" i.e. the abhorrent doctrine of keeping races from mixing.

[@mccorama]

Philip Roth's "The Plot against America" is a great alternative history novel featuring CL

[@Muck006]

What? You arent going for him being a BIGA-/TRIGA-/QUADRAMIST and having a wife and family in many countries?

[@jonasfermefors]

@@Muck006 So much wholesome behaviour to choose from - I just picked the one that came to mind first. 😉

[@Vickzq]

Yes you really are a Swede. Cancel whatever is unpleasant... that fits feminist politics, too.

[@jonasfermefors]

@@VickzqI'm not trying to "cancel" Lindbergh - I just see him as a deeply unpleasant man, so I prefer lavishing praise on more worthy people. Perhaps you view Nazism and bigami differently, or just don't care what people do, but I find some things hard to condone. I love debating about unpleasant things - otherwise I'd stay off KZbin comments. I'm proudly humanist and for equal rights, but though >90% of feminists are fine the more vocal ones come in a lot of militant varieties so I don't personally use that label. The people I see really trying to cancel others right now are the MAGA/QAnon idiots in the United States - way more than the fringe on the left, but they certainly aren't great either.

[@michaeljamesstewart1000]

Canada was the first country to declare war on Japan and did so a few hours after Pearl Harbor was attacked. The USA did not declare war until December 8, one day after the attack. Chimo

[@michaeljamesstewart1000]

Thanks for taking the time to read my comment and giving it a 'like'. PS: Just realised I had left out the word 'war' after declare. Chimo

[@milgeekmedia]

Very much liked your 'it's like opening a jar' comparison. Spot one. But don't get the idea that we in Britain resent the USA for what they did, on the contrary - we have been very strong allies ever since. So thanks for opening that jar! :)

[@kathleenriley643]

Then why did you screw the Poles who help with your stunning and remarkable air battles?

[@ManuelLopez-zq9up]

History, as many other things, are taught in school in a very shortened and briefly way. This usually leads to some misconceptions, like Columbus (he was not the first, but it was the "discovery" that "counted", as it was the one who lead Europe to the Americas) or the Little Big Horn (as said: not all the he commanded died, but all those who were with him did). However, the blatant way it is taught it's a bit surprising viewed from outside. Here in Spain, for example, history is treated (World History, that is presented in a way that "the two sides" (or all sides) lived those events. This is kind of recent, of course, but I am kind of old and I got it in the 80s. Not much USA's History, of course, but we did learn about the 13 colonies, Boston, etc. Not in great detail, but enough to get the main facts. We were teached the whys of British and the whys of the soon-to-be USA. And same with the French Revolution, or the WW I, WW II... Granted, we did not read much about Hitler (an interesting individual) in class, but we are encouraged to read more about History in general. If you happen to have a really good teacher who pushes you to learn more... Well, that's priceless.

[@marklivingstone3710]

I’ve never understood how Columbus, Cook, Drake, Raleigh, da Gama, Dampier, van Dieman, Hartog, and so on ‘discovered’ anywhere that already had population. It would seem someone else had already discovered them. 😊

[@scottmorris5730]

Just like we call it the " Spanish Flu " when we still do not know where it originated from.

[@ManuelLopez-zq9up]

@@scottmorris5730 "Spanish" flu I think was ported by some soldiers, but I don't remember from where (USA, may be? I have to find the documentary).

[@scottmorris5730]

@@ManuelLopez-zq9up Reason why it is called the Spanish Flu : Spain was neutral during WW2 as they were in a civil war. Franco was sympathetic to Hitler [ can you say Guernica ?]. The British and Americans censored their newspapers so that their troops would not get discouraged. The Spanish newspapers were not censored when reporting on WW2. The " Spanish Flu " was noticed as early as 1915. Due to the fact that Spain reported it first it was called the " Spanish Flu ". G.I. did not know about this influenzia and unknowingly brought it back to America. Perfect example that ignorance is not always bliss. Trump did the same thing when a dozen cases of Covid were originally reported in L.A. in August or October 2019. He claims he did not want to alarm people so he ignored it.

[@scottmorris5730]

Sorry, brain cramp... Spain was neutral in WW1. That's why they reported the " Spanish Flu ". Spain did not participate in WW2 cuz they had a civil war ( Franco ). I need more coffee !

[@stevecox8066]

Really wish the schools had taught us better. The truth is so much better.

[@seelenwinter6662]

point 8: as a german i lived 5 years with my peruvian wife in peru and the funny thing was, that nobody in peru could understand why we dont like hitler... they are all great fans from him till today and in the school from my 2 kida, there was a kid with his first name hitler and nobody said something against it... and the uniforms in peru are looking mostly like the uniforms from germany in world war two.... even the letters on it were the same...^^

[@Sira_Kackavalj]

I guess the whole Argentina thing was a hoax. It was Peru all along

[@tallyhorizzla3330]

There is always usually more to a story than people realise.

[@tokesalotta1521]

What is this guy talking about? It was taught that Columbus thought he could sail around the planet and get to India, not that most thought the earth was flat. It was taught that some believed it was flat. Maybe the confusion is about the church not wanting to believe the earth orbited around the sun

[@malcolmrowe9003]

Several of these are more a matter of nuance than falsity. In teaching history to kids, it is easier to point to key historical landmarks. If you go on to study further, you learn that things are more complex. Similarly, in the sciences, there are, I believe, three substantially different models of the atom taught to students at different stages, the first being a very rough approximation, the second being more complex but still a rough approximation and the third being much closer to the actual case. While the Wall Street Crash may not have started the Great Depression, it could be fair to say that it marks its start. While Hitler may have achieved power within the constitutional process, IIRC, it was fear of Communism that led to the President appointing Hitler to the role that his electoral success, perhaps entitled him (the Nazis never had an outright majority but were the largest party and had been working with a minority government before Hitler was invited to become Chancellor). It is quite easy to see how the 'first solo flight' might get distorted, in young minds with so much else to learn, into the 'first flight'.

[@swanpride]

Yeah, exactly. It is wrong to claim that Hitler took over by force, but it is equally wrong to claim that he was actually elected by the German people in a "fair" election. Hitler NEVER had the majority support of the population, but he managed to game the system very effectively, basically using the same tricks to undermine the (very unstable) democracy of the Weimar republic, which are used by populists nowadays.

[@futtejanas5690]

if a man has 20 stab wounds, which one did he die of? he died of internal injuries and blood loss ... very similar to Germany during WW1 and WW2 (a little morbidly said, I know.) -but a good "picture"

[@featherknife4786]

Any unbiased historian will tell you that the decisive battle in ww2 was St. Petersburg. The Russians destroyed the entire German army that was sent to Russia, at a very high price in Russian people, of course. Without that loss, the war would not have been won.

[@goli8699]

@@featherknife4786 You mean Stalingrad? Saint Petersburg was under siege for two years until the Soviets Managed to Push the Germans Back to it.

[@1oolabob]

Regarding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, there are a couple of other things to know. One is that Hawaii wasn't part of the US at the time. We had a military base there, at a strategic position to give our military planes and ships closer access to eastern Asia. The Japanese saw that base as a threat, the same way the US would consider a Russian military base on Cuba a threat. The second thing to know is that Hawaii was and is as much a tropical vacation playground to the Japanese as it is to us. It's a US state now, but a lot of the real estate is still Japanese-owned. These aren't hidden facts, but these things were played down by the US government in the 1940s so they could demonize the Japanese as savages. We saw how that worked out. If they're savages, we can see our way clear to dropping atomic bombs on civilian targets. Years later, we know how wrong that was.

[@Gomorragh]

Lindbergh was first solo flight, but not first flight, thats what i learned in the uk .... sometimes it seems that people are vague over the beliefs of what is taught by history teachers. WW2 - part of the reason that certain battles were seen as America saving europe is because American Military command would only help if they commanded the fleet (that is info relayed by hearing the stories of a WW2 veteran told to thier child who had direct dealings with that "chain of command") the army was a different kettle of fish though, but, in return for the help there British canadian and australian soldiers returned the favour in the war with japan.

[@sarumano884]

Kept secret was that during the Battle of the Bulge (an 'American' victory, of course, involving British and Canadian units), about a third of the American troops were caught on the wrong side of geography, and ended up being subsumed into General Montgomery's command. The Americans weren't told this, of course, as it was thought that it would affect their morale, to be led by the Brits. It was kept secret until ?? 1980's I believe.

[@greengelacid2061]

Simon does excellent work...great video

[@verestamas3920]

Additional information. Columbus thought he was in India. Only later did Amerigo Vespucchi realize that it was a new continent. (The name is no accident)

[@TrondBørgeKrokli]

Fair point about people today who believe that the world is flat. Myself, I think they might be the type of person who simply *wants* to be anti-authoritarian and therefore opposes any established facts as they see fit. (There may be other reasons, but this one is my personal favorite.) edit: I also think they are very selective and hence biased in the way they select their own facts.

[@damirbajic4579]

In other words; uneducated idiots.

[@madyottoyotto3055]

Personally I think they are proof that natural selection has some power lifting to do

[@TrondBørgeKrokli]

@@madyottoyotto3055 Thanks for the chuckle, it sounds funny, but true. The world can be a little bit too diverse for my taste some times.

[@germaniatv1870]

I think the Flat Earthers are on point about many things. Fun Fact: The US & Canadian Military dont install one single module that connects with a Satellite. They need land,water & air troops. Mobile Communication Centers. - The Modern satellite is the "Drone" and a few years ago they said themselves: In the future there wont be need for any satellites. - Over 90% of connection between USA & Europe is established through under sea cables...not one single satellite is in charge when making a phone call. Can you imagine that?

[@madyottoyotto3055]

@@TrondBørgeKrokli the sad thing about it for me is how well developed the lies are about it It's reasonably believable untill you look at how space objects react to a spherical shape Vs disk shape And their answers for what causes gravity is u just stay on the floor FFS

[@flatandsplat]

These lines from a song in the musical Wicked always comes to mind when I watch things like this: " Where I'm from, we believe all sorts of things that aren't true. We call it - "history." A man's called a traitor - or liberator A rich man's a thief - or philanthropist Is one a crusader - or ruthless invader? It's all in which label Is able to persist There are precious few at ease With moral ambiguities So we act as though they don't exist"