The Fallen of World War II

An animated data-driven documentary about war and peace, The Fallen of World War II looks at the human cost of the second World War and sizes up the numbers to other wars in history, including trends in recent conflicts.
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Written, directed, coded, narrated by me, Neil Halloran.
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Sound and music by / dolhaz

[@NeilHalloran]

My long overdue response to all the comments about the film's use of the phrase "Nazi soldiers." It was a mistake, and I regret it. When we recorded the narration for the other languages (available on the Vimeo account), I corrected it so that it states "German soldiers." I need to go into the recording studio and make the correction to the english version too (along with a handful of other corrections), but I have regrettably not yet done so. While it was certainly an error, I do not think it fits the comparisons many are making, i.e. that it is like calling American soldiers "Republican soldiers." I want to point out that in the case of Nazi Germany, it is correct to say Nazi invasions, led my Nazi commanders, which became Nazi occupations as part of a Nazi war effort. Calling soldiers of a Nazi war effort Nazi soldiers was a mistake, for sure, but a more complicated mistake than such analogies. As a personal note, I will say that I have close family members in Germany, and I feel that the transformation of the country after the war is a beautiful and inspiring story that we often take for granted. The word Nazi is often used to show separation between the German people today and a political movement of their past. In this case I screwed up and got it backwards.

[@Kardia_of_Rhodes]

Thank you. Also many people are pointing out that you left out Mongolian deaths at Khalkin Gol.

[@pleasestoptrackingmeasio7657]

Thankyou.

[@Kardia_of_Rhodes]

That's no excuse. Also Khalkin Gol was a major battle.

[@DaleHusband]

The fact remains that the Nazi Party was responsible for every German invasion, atrocity, and aggression of Germany before and during World War II. Your only mistake was calling the soldiers themselves "Nazis". But they still answered to the Nazi government, and in fact every one of them swore an oath of loyalty to Hitler, the Nazi leader, even if some of them were actually not registered members of the Nazi Party.

[@EPICFAILKING1]

He mainly covers major campaigns over major, war altering battles like Stalingrad and D-Day. Not every battle.

[@user-eu9jy8er5v]

Approaching this place, [Stalingrad], soldiers used to say: "We are entering hell." And after spending one or two days here, they say: "No, this isn't hell, this is ten times worse than hell." - Vasily Chuikov

[@checkmate9099]

War is worse than hell in hell the guilty suffer, but in war, the innocent suffer as well.

[@margieking3405]

Max Hastings: the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure

[@jsamc]

All wars end but hell is for all of eternity

[@jakobimax]

Chuikov is the only Soviet general, that wished to be buried on Mamaev Kurgan (mass grave in Stalingrad), instead of the Kremlin wall

[@TopWitchRus]

​@@jsamc that's a pitty thing you people invented a nonexisting horror world to justify and belittle realexisting horror made by nothing but humanity

[@shanu3009]

If we had a second of silence for everyone who died due to ww2, we'd be silent for around 2.8 years

[@alexkhaid]

We would have to have a moment of silence for like 70m people

[@shanu3009]

@@alexkhaid 85 million actually

[@alexkhaid]

@@shanu3009 yeah around there

[@ax8621]

1 days have 86400 seconds. 983.8 days of total silence for those who have died or 2 years, 9 months and 18 days without ever saying any words to anybody. 😞🏳️

[@ax8621]

@Danni Chesney prove

[@sunshine_tidings6983]

“Peace is a difficult thing to measure. It’s a bit like counting the people who didn’t die, in the wars that didn’t happen.” Man I don’t know what it is about that quote, but it’s goosebump inducing.

[@concept5631]

"People don't truly appreciate peace until they see firsthand its antithesis." - Quote I made on the fly

[@faderzon1639]

-@@concept5631 30 june, 2023

[@nsh1980gmail]

Looking back the wars seem inevitable but they weren’t…it could have gone much differently

[@concept5631]

@@faderzon1639 Yes thank you

[@stevencarlson5348]

Where is that quote from?!

[@BaldwinVoice]

4:44 is so haunting, when there is just that ominous tone of music and then the Soviet flag slowly comes into view...and anyone who knows anything about history knows the horrifying stats that are about to be shown to you. The Eastern Front of WW2 was the closest thing you will ever see to Hell on Earth, and it's embarrassing how little it's talked about here in the West. "War in the West was proper sport, while War in the East was unmitigated horror" ~German survivor

[@uncannyvalley3190]

Idk where you went to school, but I learned about the eastern front. Spent a whole week on it in high school and a month in college. Plus think of it this way. French people know tons about their own revolution, but little about the American one. And vice versa. Americans know tons about our revolution, but little about the French one.

[@shubhnamdeo2865]

@@uncannyvalley3190 Most of the world thinks that the Soviets just had an ineffective army which they used to just throw at the Nazis, which rarely happened. And also, people think that America brought both Germany and Japan to their feet, and no one even talks about the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. The Americans and the British were mostly responsible for the defeat of Japan and Italy. The Soviets were mostly responsible for the destruction of Nazi Germany. And the Soviet invasion of Manchuria was the Japanese version of D-Day. I am Indian, and it was only when I turned 14 where I realized who did what to win this war, and before that I always felt the Americans were responsible.

[@mirazh8]

Представьте , войска СС заживо сжигали деревни с мирными жителями, брали кровь детей для своих солдат.

[@user-hu9zi2jc2m]

A quote about Stalingrad during 1942 and 1943 「If Hell truly exist on this planet, it could only be here」

[@dise8785]

Both sides fought viciously in the eastern front, both nazi and Soviet propaganda were effective, the reason why the eastern front was so bloody is because of the viciousness, if it had fought like they did in the west, much less people would have died

[@Dev_Six]

The Soviets lost entire generation of men to the war.

[@womble3383]

Yeah and sadly many of them dies in vain because Stalin starve the country before the war, purging many of his general, and many more

[@satomon]

Two soldiers use one gun

[@lunchingtangpua2415]

@@womble3383 germany will have defeated soviet if 5 year plan was put in action it cause a lot of life than ever but who survive live because of it

[@pomiklom2499]

@@womble3383 And I think in every army are trained. Maybe the Soviet high command, not Stalin. And the war was not only the soldiers but also volunteers, who coached only 2 weeks or a little more.

[@pomiklom2499]

My my great-grandfather survived. He fought from the beginning of the war from 1941 to 1942, in 1942 he was seriously wounded and went home from the hospital

[@awzp918]

When the Soviet deaths weren't stopping I got kinda scared 👀

[@justaguy5947]

it was way more deaths, more than 10 million only military.

[@rogue_operator5565]

URA!!

[@tybates2883]

same but I cried

[@eggman8053]

*G U L A G*

[@pissyourselfandshitncoom2172]

The Soviets lost in Stalingrad alone, double what America lost the entire war.

[@Monoville]

If you made a film about every person who died in World War II, with every film condensing each person's life into just two hours, and played them back to back, it would take 16,000 years to watch.

[@braddavid902]

Wow

[@El.fish.the.chocolate]

That really make you think, because, most of the them were just old Young's, so, with out a long life under they're shoulders... That's sad... A minute of silence for everyone that died in the war... Amen a tutti voi, brave anime.

[@olegzhilin7687]

I am from Russia and every year we celebrate Victory Day with tears in our eyes... Many people ask us: “Why do you still remember this war? It’s time to forget the past and move on.” But we cannot forget! This terrible war is in our blood, in every Russian family there is a memory of the people who died or suffered from this war. Sorry for my English

[@Chaosherold]

... and since February of last year the government of your country brings war and death over another country. Many Russians don't forget the second World War and what loses it brought with it to their country. But certainly the leaders of your country have not learned from WWII - at all.

[@qua3ro]

Russia is the largest country in the world by territory. Why? all the time since its inception, it has waged wars of conquest, conquered, assimilated, and destroyed nations. if many nations have outgrown this, empires have collapsed, then the Russian empire still wants blood, wants expansion. Burn in hell Russian orcs. putin huilo, ruzzkie pidorasi.

[@hehehehaw3521]

​@@qua3rotypical guy who has no friends. You came from a generation of cowards don't talk big when you didn't do crap. Or you can just admit you're a cringe bullied 10 year old boy who likes fascism. Cope harder seething and malding BANDERA KHOKHOL BOT.

[@2hoon162]

​@@qua3rogo burn in hell with stepan bandera KHOKHOL it's a good thing are government stop sending you weapons and realized Ukraine will eventually lose and doesn't want to get involved with a sinking economy

[@jajayougayfool505]

​@@qua3rodid your mother left you for a Russian guy?😂

[@luminescentcore]

It’s terrible because all those people had names.

[@Kenshin_2]

And history

[@user-gj2ql1fd3h]

Ryan Munga Every single one of them was like you and me. Not anything else but humans. Even the darkest persons in this war could have been to live the most normal lives one could imagine. It all came from terrible mistakes and mental sickness, sadly forming an unexplainable product of destruction and death. What i want to say is, that people are people, and even if they happened to plan and do the most evil things imaginable, they could have also had luckier influences throughout their whole lives, which could have then lead to them questioning and hating such bad ideologies and dogmas.

[@sportspro2.049]

I'm depressed now

[@nars_bars8774]

That's the reason why its terrible?

[@Natashahoneypot]

Why does a person or animal need to have a name to be treated with compassion and respect. Surely the fact it is alive is enough to command that?

[@marseille1196]

It’s crazy how the eastern front makes the west look like a school playground although it gets all the attention

[@bamboo9666]

Maybe they have better media..

[@adammcgirt7123]

The east was were Hitler's back was broken. By D-Day the German army was beat, and some say that's the only reason we landed in France in 44. Now take that information and imagine if Hitler would've have the 200 divisions he stormed Russia with on the Atlantic wall. I think Germany only had 5 divisions facing the D-Day beaches. Imagine if there wouldn't been 40 fucking divisions waiting. Hitler should should have went to Stalin and made a real pact.

[@MoreAwsomeMetal]

@Ornate Orator They don't. But the point is here: WW2 in Europe was mainly about Soviets vs Germans. All the rest beeing side theaters. I don' t mean that these side theaters didn't matter somehow. I just say that without the soviets, the allies would have never beaten Germany. This is a story Hollywood is never going to tell you about... Same thing in the Pacific Theater: WW2 was mainly a war between Nationalist China and Japan, while the rest were side theaters, although the aeronaval fighting between USA and Japan was very determining for the outcome of the war. But if it hadn't been for the millions of Chang kai Tchek's soldiers dying in mass against the japanese armies and holding the big bunch of their armies, I hardly see who the allies could have defeaten the vast number of these same men in the Pacific islands. History is written by the winners. USA and the west won the une hundred year war tthat was the XXth century (1914-1989). Therefore Hollywood just tells you the story on the viewside of the winners. Which is a pretty deformed standpoint of view once you go and check out the facts in the history books.

[@MoreAwsomeMetal]

@Ornate Orator If we're strictly speaking about the point you made, "it’s normal for a country to focus only on their impacts on certain events", then let me tell you that you are wrong. You're just justifying the attitude the medias are promoting in your own country and not aknowledging that this is not what's happening outside your borders. If you watch the documentaries on WWII made in european countries or in Russia, you'll see that they don't have a necessary self centered vision. They depict the war the way it went phase by phase, and no one denies the main theater of the entire war was the eastern front, the place where the fate of the conflict was decided. And no one overthere says that the western front didn't played any significant role in the outcome of the war, not even the russians (who actually were expecting the opening of this front ASAP in order to relieve the eastern front of several german divisions, which of course didn't really happen after all...) You may have some debates depending the countries on some specific issues such as, for instance: was the Germano-Soviet pact of 1939 a cynical scheme between Hitler and Staline do divide eastern Europe between them, or a mean for Staline to earn some time before an inevitable conflict to come? But you'll never hear nonsense narratives such as "the allies, gathered and united all together where to defeat Germany". Everyone agrees that Germany was already defeated by the end of 1942 (Churchill even knew they were defeated by january 1942, when they failed to take Moscow, reason why he took a plane and went visit Staline this same month in Moscow...). The only medias where the world ears of a narrative where the world was beeing defeated by the "nazis" (you never use the word germans, but always the word "nazis" where in Europe and Russia, everyone says Germans), untill the USA entered the war is someting that is beeing spread out by the Hollywood entertainment business. And unlike what you are saying, this isn't a narritive specifically targeted to the american people, but to the entire world, since Hollywood dominates each single cinema markets out there in the world. So basically what's happening is that the people who don't read books, or don't watch documentaries (mainly the young ones), are completely ignorant about WW2, and just believes that everything the Hollywood shows them as beeing the truth. And this is affecting every single average Joe that lives around this planet and who nows share's the USA's vision on what was this war. This isn't simple as saying that every country should only care about it's own business, and write down it's own version of his history no matter what the facts are, as long as it suits them. China for instance does this, since their regime has complete control on their medias and can tell all the BS to the population about the commies defeating the japanese, while it's the nationalists who fled to Taiwan in 49 who actually did all the job. But the main difference between the chinese propaganda and the Hollywood propaganda is that one is targeted to it's own people, whereas the other one is aiming nearly the entire humanity. One is using coercition and complete information control to promote it, while the other one is using entertainment medias and sensationalism imagery to make it look more believable. In the end the objective remains the same: build a narrative on which a suitable vision can be given to the people in order to pursue specific strategic goals. If you just examine this war just on the datas you have on the papers, the facts are here: -80% of the Japanese forces were located in China, Korea and Japan during the 1937-1945 period. -Germany was defeated by USSR (with the auxilliary help of allies forces). If you still doubt about this, just ask the Germans and they'll tell you who crushed them and who was their true Nemesis. Once again I'm not saying that the allies were cowards, or that what they did was irrelevant. I'm just saying that we weren't the central pivot of this war, despite taking part in it. Trying to tell something else is, in my point of view, an historical falsification.

[@showsjohn]

@@MoreAwsomeMetal Chinese played a huge part in the Pacific war, absolutely no question. But they never would have defeated the Japanese empire itself. They best they could have hoped for would be be to reduce the Chinese territory Japan occupied. They didn't have the air power or naval capability of taking the fight to the Japanese. Had the US not destroyed their empire across the Pacific and south east Asia, they would taken a large chunk of Manchuria and kept it.

[@EatSomeAcorns]

One of the best KZbin videos of all time.

[@EatSomeAcorns]

@@electronicstudiodj could you give some examples? Not beefing, genuinely want to know.

[@user-ni7ui1nk8p]

@@electronicstudiodjit’s not inaccuracies it’s disputed facts. We don’t know.

[@diseasesjesus5078]

This really puts in perspective how terrible of a time it was to be alive. Hard to believe this much death occurred only EIGHTY years ago. Humans barely change yet we drastically change too. I think everyone needs to remember that those people would have been us. They were not soldiers, they were family and friends.

[@pumpkinhill4570]

Mostly slave soldiers. Almost none of them wanted to be there.

[@BoarhideGaming]

@@pumpkinhill4570 Slave soldiers?! None of the combatants of any WW2 army was even a fractional amount comprised of slaves. And "none of them wanted to be there" is also very, very debatable. Sure, no one wanted to die in a war. But I can tell you for a fact that German soldiers, my Grandfather included, weren't opposed, some where even quite eager to fight. They had been pumped so chock full of propaganda, they went very willingly, at least in the early years of the war. Similarly, the Brits and Yankees fought with considerable enthusiasm. They had a black and white evil in front of them that needed to be stopped. Hundreds of thousands enlisted voluntarily. No one likes being shelled, but it's a lot easier to endure if you have something to fight for.

[@pumpkinhill4570]

@@BoarhideGaming Majority were conscripts. You can debate whether you consider that slavery; personally I do. I'm quite proud that even with all the relentless propaganda most people don't actually want to go kill other people they've never met and have nothing against.

[@BoarhideGaming]

@@pumpkinhill4570 You can consider whatever you want, that’s not how words and their definitions work. And yes, most people don’t want to kill anyone and want to avoid wars at *almost* any costs, that is good. But when an army invaded your country and starts mass murdering civilians, stealing resources and destroying the environment, killing the invading soldiers is often the only way to prevent that and keep your liberties and save the lives of your loved ones. Not all wars are evil. All wars are terrible, but not all are evil. There are things worth fighting - and dying - for, even if our western, rose tinted pacifism glasses tell us otherwise. We have lived in the unbelievable luxury of lasting peace so long(wars were fought elsewhere, out of our individual spheres of interest) that we have forgotten that. Our pacifism has almost turned toxic. ‘Wars must be avoided *at ALL* costs, even if it means submitting to oppressors and murderers’. That is wrong, that is a dangerous mindset for the liberties we hold so dear. That is a fact that should be rather self evident and has nothing to do with propaganda.

[@skyh2394]

@@pumpkinhill4570That's plain and simple false. A LOT of soldiers (specially germans) wanted to be there, and wanted a war. WW1 was filled with soldiers who VOLUNTARILY went to war, same with WW2. There were some that were forced? Definitely. But plenty of them wanted it.

[@revolter7094]

I'm Russian. My great grandfather died in Stalingrad. In Russia there is nearly no family that hasn't been at some point associated with the war. There are entire villages with memorial plates with more names on them than the whole current population of that village.

[@MarkProsXD]

I'm a Russian, but we live in Kazakhstan. I also had a great grandfather who fought in the war. He lived till 1995.

[@christg989]

Im german, my grandfather invaded poland and stalingrad, was a prisoner of war for 6 years. After the war he became chainsmoker, he is 96 now.

[@Torrenaxe]

Sorry man. Such a sacrifice

[@buddha3058]

How could the Germans be so cruel

[@MoioxDARK]

Im froma america and my grandpa died in the war :(

[@efr-vy2lm]

just sayn 70 million died in 6 years that means about 11,5 million a year 1 million in month 250k in a week 35k a day 1,5k in a hour 25 in a minute only in war

[@karllamm5628]

Isn‘t it interesting how these 35k a day is still present? If you look it up you will see that we die at the same rate today as we did during ww2 but relative to the worlds population it has of course significantly decreased. Edit: it‘s actually 150k per day. But around 40k die of unnatural causes per day so we still have an interesting fact right here

[@wojtekthebear4958]

Except not really. The numbers are terrible, don't get me wrong, but disease kills far more. Over 300 million deaths were attributed to Smallpox alone in the 20th century, and the Spanish Flu is estimated to have killed almost as many as all the men that died during WW1 over the same period.

[@roddy_ricch9392]

Not to mention that back then there werde way fewer people ive, Not even 2 Billion If i am not mistaken

[@efr-vy2lm]

Rodler i think you mean billions

[@starcluster2593]

on average

[@Atlastheyote222]

My great grandfathers were German and Polish, they both fought on the same battlefield at the same time against each other during the invasion of Poland. Their descendants would later leave their respective countries because of the war, and despite their cultural heritage, they would fall in love and start a family together in Australia. Despite what happened, despite all the pain and death, humanity always finds room for love.

[@TheKeystoneChannel]

Well, 70 million people had to die first for that, apparently

[@faraza5161]

Seldom, not always

[@FritzTheDev]

How much genius was lost in this conflict? How much joy was forgone? How much grief created? The cause of a war is sometimes just, but the means is always terrible.

[@TheKeystoneChannel]

No war is just, they are just made by politicians, never by civilians , war is a business

[@hannahdyson7129]

​@@TheKeystoneChannelPoltcains lost sons in this war . This was down to a handful of nutters War is very bad for business

[@Unknown_Planet]

@@hannahdyson7129 Leaders of countries invaded each other even at the times of Roman Empire. Please, don't spread your "propaganda".

[@Unknown_Planet]

And now this war is used as propaganda... a case for new war...

[@AlexanderTheBloodraven]

The British supplied time, the Americans supplied treasure, but the Russians supplied blood.

[@rosesprog1722]

The Russians provided the manpower, The US all the tools and the British... Churchill????

[@funnyman4744]

@@rosesprog1722 tea

[@cfoster6567]

Stalin pushed his people to death, through no sacrifice of their own. He is responsible for their high death toll

[@keosad8196]

@@cfoster6567 Germany would have conquered Europe if Stalin didn't do it. 80% of Nazi forces were in the North.

[@rosesprog1722]

@@cfoster6567 Yes, the first half of the 20th was particularly vicious for us, 2 world wars, 3 dictators, a pandemic, the 1929 crash, the depression, the prohibition, sickness, hunger... NOT good.

[@russianbear7832]

“One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.” There is something about that quote and this video, just, I don't know.

[@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis]

That's fuckin Stalin for you. "Victory at any cost" was his motto. It's mind boggling how some russians are still worshipping him.

[@mysteriousmuffin6017]

why am I wasting my time on this Stalin never said that, it was actually Oliver Cromwell

[@JuanDeSoCal]

“One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.” Whoever said it, it's a very astute observation. It means that the death of a stranger is not as meaningful to another person as the death of a loved one. And since it's simply impossible to know a million individual people, their deaths must experienced more abstractly, like a statistic rather than a tragedy that can be truly, personally felt.

[@JuanDeSoCal]

@@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis It isn't mind boggling at all. Stalin had serious flaws and made huge mistakes before and during the Soviet Union's conflict with Nazi Germany and its allies. However, it is also simply a fact of history that he led his nation during the entire time it struggled against that formidable, annihilating force, and that struggle for ultimate survival ended in decisive victory. It's therefore entirely understandable that Russians and other formerly Soviet peoples will always have conflicted attitudes toward Stalin's legacy.

[@mysteriousmuffin6017]

JuanDeSoCal Really good and balanced evaluation there, I agree with you

[@alakazamkat5353]

Speaking of the tragedy of Leningrad, see the story of the people at The Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry, the first seed bank, who chose to starve than lose the invaluable specimens

[@jevgenijsblakunovs4741]

In Latvia last year, the authorities demolished all the monuments to Soviet soldiers that had stood in every city since Soviet times. The same thing is happening in Poland. In the USA, several years ago they issued a commemorative coin to mark the end of the war. There are only three flags on it: American, British, and French. In Poland, even Germany, which built these concentration camps, was invited to the annual event on the occasion of the liberation of Auswezen prisoners and did not invite Russia, which liberated them. This is how history is rewritten. Monuments are destroyed, and the new generation is given different information.

[@broski4039]

The soviets invaded and annexed half of Poland and all of the Baltic states. They did not liberate anyone, they were conquerors.

[@glorihol6803]

@@broski4039 They tried to get the UK and France to fight against Germany and stop the invasion. Once they saw they wouldn't do it, they decided to invade Poland and create a buffer zone. Nothing wrong in that. Don't try to rewrite history, russophobe. I'm sure you would be gladly speaking German today if it were up to you, fascist f**k

[@Mentol_]

@@broski4039 To say that the USSR conquered Eastern Europe, you need to find out the opinion of people who lived at that time, and not look at the words of modern politicians who create the image of an enemy.

[@luciagreenwell5860]

and now remember: every one of those little figures stands for 1000 people

[@masv1pe694]

Lucia Greenwell you girl?

[@luciagreenwell5860]

Mads Svender XD yes

[@Menugius]

@@masv1pe694 I would consider anyone who calls himself "Lucia" a girl.

[@yeehaw6507]

Mads Svender XD simp

[@yeehaw6507]

The crazy weeb it is my duty to identify and expose simps

[@TmK1ta]

It's very disgusting that people completely ignore the message of this video and are trying to prove that their country suffered and did the most in WW2.

[@alejandrojodorowsky5987]

There would not be the need to do so if Hollywood had not already state such thing about one country in particular. What you see in the comment section is the inheritage of Cold War and how a sizeably disbalanced vision of history prevailed because of it. As a Frenchman, I would never pretend France played a major role in defeating Germany. It would be just utter bullshit. And the fact I'm sympathetic to Poland and to Stalin's victims doesn't change what I honestly think of the true role of each country in the war. Truth is in historical facts, period.

[@finnthehuman2741]

Thanks Alejandro you are right, there is a need for these numbers to be discussed, because 80% of Americans are daft enough to think they're the heroes of WW2. We contributed only where we knew we wouldn't lose, while Russia was cornered and beaten until nothing but sheer badassery took over.

[@ezekielthedragon7558]

Sheer badassery? Did you know how terrible their regime was? If we didn't have nazis, the soviets would be the main evil of history now.

[@possiblyadickhead6653]

Ezekiel the dragon no the Japanese

[@ezekielthedragon7558]

Oh yeah, I forgot about them, but you get what I'm saying right?

[@notoriousdip5495]

I lost my 100 year old grandfather who served raf air sea rescue ww2 1940-1944. I was privileged to hear his stories about rescuing downed airmen in the channel and North Sea both enemy and friendly.

[@bart1950]

Sorry for your loss. Im also very privileged. I had one grandfather in the navy who was on the USS Oklahoma during Pearl Harbor, and was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Midway. He lived to be 97. My other grandfather was a marine who also fought in the Pacific Theatre, on Okinawa.

[@notoriousdip5495]

@@bart1950 the finest generation I have seen. I am sorry for your loss. May the LORD GOD bless them and keep them. We will never see such souls again in our lifetime. GOD bless mate. Hang in there.

[@BucketExperience]

@@bart1950 badass

[@internet_userr]

Chatgpt

[@we_played_Hob_Gobbies_together]

why did they enlist an 100 year old

[@thebob5240]

I had a great great uncle who served in Patton's Third Army as a tanker in the 6th Armored Battalion as I recall he came across the concentration camp of Buchenwald my grandfather once asked my great great uncle what he saw and my grandpa said he got this thousand yard stare and he would start crying and looked at him and said. "I saw things that no man who believes in God should have done to another human being."

[@CrossOfBayonne]

My friend August Caccavone was in the 7th Army, He was in the Battle Of The Bulge and was a squad leader

[@43jacob]

Don't lie, you've watched this more than once

[@vincelam1998]

Jaccub this is the fifth time i’m watching and it gets sadder every time...

[@isaiahdinkel5405]

Well... Uhh... You see... Well you have a point but... Uh... Yeah.

[@Samy.Channel]

Yes 20 and makes me sleep his voice

[@miranda8636]

I don't think you know how many people you're calling out right now haha

[@deadsluse127]

He be spittin’ facts tho

[@renaultft1917]

* Seeing the soviet counter go up * Man that's a lot *still goes up 10 seconds after* MAKE IT STOP!

[@nodoc]

@@noranqey WTF

[@duchieunguyen9093]

That Noranqe guy has no brain

[@botongyu8326]

I even can not imagine that！

[@kismaamin8100]

🙁

[@Pyzhara]

@@botongyu8326 It's easy. Just imagine that you are sitting at home, do not touch anyone, and suddenly the fascists start walking through your city with weapons and killing everyone in their path. EVERYONE! City after city, village after village. Children, women, old people, everyone. Then you will understand why Russians hate fascists and racists and will be grateful to them for the fact that you do not know what it is and can not even imagine.

[@free_and-will]

In this terrible war, my great-grandfather reached Berlin, but lost one arm. After that, he lived in Omsk and never spoke about that war. I'm even afraid to imagine how people's psyche didn't break after those events. Eternal memory to all the heroes of the Second World War!

[@Mortablunt]

You just try to get up and take each day one at a time. You stay on task and try to find something that makes you even briefly happy. And try to keep it out of your mind.

[@concept5631]

​@@MortabluntWhat flag is in your pfp?

[@Mortablunt]

@@concept5631 Lugansk People Republic. I have a bit of a personal connection to it. It's one of the regions in Ukraine that Kiev has been subjecting to genocide by artillery because it's Russian (identifying, speaking, ethnic) for the past 9 years.

[@concept5631]

@@Mortablunt ...I see. Hope the kool-aid tastes good.

[@Mortablunt]

@@concept5631 There's a few YT'ers you should watch 1. Patrick Lancaster - American independent war reporter, has been covering Donbass for years, has thousands of interviews with people living there 2. Willie OAM - Australian military veteran who covers news and does interviews with people on both side of the conflict. A recurring confession from Ukrainian supporters and auxilarie is the Donbas people are pro Russian and the Kiev forces are cruel.

[@user-gf2yz6kf2y]

The Chinese people made tremendous sacrifices in the Second World War, and China was the main battlefield for resisting Japanese aggression. According to incomplete statistics, under the butchery of the Japanese invading army, the number of casualties in China reached 35 million. Among them, the death toll reached 21 million, with over 300000 people killed in the Nanjing Massacre alone. The Japanese invading army carried out a brutal massacre in this millennium old city for over a month. As an aggressor, Japan has not apologized to the Chinese people or to the Asian people for its aggression crimes until today, April 26, 2023!

[@yes_correct]

Completely agree. I find it very annoying how glossed over the Chinese casualties are, especially given that China had the most civilian casualties in the war.

[@Sentinel465]

Actually, multiple Japanese leaders through the years have apologized and condemned the actions of leadership before.

[@user-gf2yz6kf2y]

@@Sentinel465 What you are referring to are statements by individual officials of the Japanese government or related persons in their private capacity expressing apologies, introspection, sorrow or regret for the war, which are not official and represent only him personally. The Japanese government has never apologized or been vague about starting the war and war crimes. Japan's invasion of China directly led to more than 35 million casualties among the Chinese people. The Nanjing Massacre, which occurred on December 13, 1937, was a six-week-long war crime of mass murder, looting, and rape of Chinese civilians and prisoners of war by the invading Japanese army in the urban and suburban areas of Nanjing, then the capital of China. The Japanese government and right-wing militarist forces have been denying this heinous crime. So Japan has not made any apology for the heinous crimes committed in Asia including China, Korea, Korea, and Southeast Asia in World War II. See what Germany did? Germany identified itself as the successor to the Nazi regime after World War II, and therefore engaged in a detailed and comprehensive public discussion of this history. Federal Chancellor Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenaue formally apologized to Israel and the Jewish people in a speech to the Reichstag on September 27, 1951, stating Germany's willingness to accept all responsibility. In addition, Germany made huge reparations to the victimized nations and peoples.

[@Nah_I_Would_Plummet]

@@Sentinel465 no they haven't, only unofficially which a lot of people in Japan have which is unsurprisingly and not even praiseworthy. But the government hasn't.

[@user-tn3jm5kn5w]

@@user-gf2yz6kf2y Germany apologized to the Jews, but not to the Slavs or the countries they invaded lol.

[@shady1468]

Can we take a moment to appreciate that editing, jesus Christ

[@urmaker]

I was looking to see how far I had to go to see this. Man, it was top notch!

[@dehydrated_water_]

Yea it probably took months to edit the whole thing

[@shady1468]

@@urmaker puts mine to shame ill tell u that 😂😭

[@PentaPW]

It made me realise how time is valuable, and how we're lucky to keep this "new peace" for so long. I hope it continues for way more seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades and centuries. Forever, I hope.

[@GeneralEggo]

@@PentaPW i hope so, but probably the nuke gonna kill us before we felt pain so i am not that worried

[@guestlikesmemes]

Seeing the soviet casualties is honestly terrifying

[@TovKafur]

@@BullRadu This was so edgy that i was cut just by reading the comment.

[@janis3577]

@@BullRadu I hope this is a joke

[@kutuzovm3215]

@@BullRadu A coward speaks upon those who died fighting and living a life the coward could not even imagine from the comfort of his home. The soviets will be remembered until the last human takes their last breath, and you on the other hand, are a nobody.

[@tapep225]

German P *Russian, my grandfather hated the Soviets but loved his people and his land

[@googlegulag7750]

@@tapep225 the Slavs endured unimaginable suffering under the Bolsheviks. The World needs to know.

[@sinistercrusader4981]

The truly tragic thing about the Soviet losses are the long term demographic consequences due to not just the deaths but potential births that never happened. It is estimated that Russia alone has around 85 million “missing people” because of the catastrophic losses in the war. Millions of people that will never exist because of events that happened decades ago. and with Russia’s fertility rate very low (1.5), Russias population is aging and declining, Russia will never replace that potential population again…

[@Zapper-kq1zg]

We'll figure it out and besides, you're drunk, what 85 million

[@Glub_blub]

​@@Zapper-kq1zgEveryone please ignore this disrespectful hater. I give my condolances to all then men, women and children who died in WWII, Russian, German, or any other country.

[@Zapper-kq1zg]

@@Glub_blub спасибо большое

[@Stevewilldoit96]

This is true for most of the west, birth rates are abysmal everywhere.

[@Nikitos98Kiler]

My great-grandfather is among these numbers. It is very sad, that his bravery is forgotten now, when monuments of soviet soldiers are demolished all over the Europe. Thank you for the video and glory to all who fought against nazi in WWII.

[@ashjones2627]

Problem was when the Soviets "liberated" countries, they never left.

[@amamzing]

@@ashjones2627 that was the government that made that decision, not the soldiers

[@stevencarlson5348]

The soviets murdered and raped more civilians than the nazis did. Communism is a plague on humanity.

[@coltonreeves6893]

@@amamzing You're right, the soldiers just enjoyed the raping and pillaging that came along with their government's decision. The Soviet soldiers inflicted just as much pain and misery on the civilian populations of the places they occupied as the German soldiers did in Russia, perhaps more so.

[@Iamduydoan]

Thank you for his service for peace.

[@clarkthakuria]

Watching the Soviet soldier death count is already terrifying, but when you remember that one person here was one thousand people, and you think about how every single person in that one thousand person group had their own unique life and story, you realize how lucky you are to be living in this era

[@rmnk_tm]

yeah im lucky to live in ukraine where more than 1 thousand civians and more are being killed right now

[@hiepthuc]

@@rmnk_tm I hope the situation gets better in your area. At least it wasn’t as bad as ww2

[@user-ik2li2xp7c]

Actual downgrade of USSR population from 1941 to 1945 was 30% of population. 52 millions. Diseases, hunger, bombs, etc

[@eloncrust3220]

Correction, YOU are lucky to be living where you are right now in this era. There are billions of people right now living in war zones, genocides, oppressive regimes, being separated from their families, trapped in authoritarian governments with no way to escape. Some are starving, some are being forced to spend their lives working in factories, some are just being killed. We need to realize we are very lucky we were born on the “right” side of the earth

[@thedoctorroth]

unique life and story and family story/history... think of the spider web of lives touched. Most probably had family/friends, kids (never had the chance to have kids). The fact of genocide means blood lines were forever ended. The world never to be the same... crazy

[@gyeoxn7815]

“One mans death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”

[@charleswinters9567]

Is that the words of Stalin?

[@demonifist1384]

@@charleswinters9567 Nope. It's from Remark's "Black Obelisk".

[@musicbox8351]

When the president does it its not illegal god bless America

[@Kazavop]

Covid-19:

[@pancake5830]

@@Literally-Brian it is though? somebody said exactly that before him, therefore its a quote.

[@liammiller1472]

what an excellent video, i really expected this to just be a 2 minute long number comparison but this was way better, definitely my favorite

[@Ride420Dirty]

That zoom-in effect at the end with the time scale...I have no words, other then amazing. Thank for the video.

[@peytontetrick1214]

4:52 - 6:48. That’s how long it was counting the deaths of Soviet soldiers. If we had a second of silence for every soldier fallen, we’d be silent for around 100 days. Staggering.

[@teltos6817]

add in civilian casualties and you get 312 days

[@bambamgamez7749]

@@teltos6817 almost a year

[@Szakal_zlocisty-Canis_aureus]

So wy they start this all storm with germany?

[@shavingryansprivates4332]

@@WhiteWolf-ow2mc Please don't listen to this trol. As a dutch person i am extremely thankful for the contribution the russian people have given to the world in eliminating fascism. Your soldiers were absolute heroes.

[@danyagha5654]

Max Orlemann as a Turkmen who’s great Grandpa died fighting Stalingrad, you don’t know anything. Have you ever been on a war front. It is truly horrifying and confusing. You don’t know what to do. Do you sit there with your comrades? Do you ask them if they want to start an attack. Do you just let the general decide. What if you don’t agree with what the general said? You are the true pussy.

[@rydersanderson8225]

Each of those symbols represents one thousand lives, one thousand stories, one thousand families. Lest we forget all those lives that were lost.

[@MasonKLutz]

Ironic that you have an american flag and your account is called United States of America.

[@thomasjess5029]

@@MasonKLutz Why is that ironic?

[@MasonKLutz]

@@thomasjess5029 usually in history, American as well, there are many people that we learn about, and saying about all of these people died in this war that we talk about it a lot and then we just forget about all of it.

[@TheDarkMaster90]

bro your country is the master on getting in wars where we never called

[@timthenoob8619]

Oil

[@coachlindsay6833]

This is the best synopsis I have ever seen. Brilliant use of graphics Neil, a masterpiece of sadness, but nevertheless a masterpiece!! Thank you for this!!!

[@MachoMan_Vert]

When soviets deaths kept piling up and the music went away I got chills.

[@dtt1900]

My dad was in the Korean war, he told me in Tokyo 1950-1953 you didn't see a Japanese male aged from 18-35.

[@Ant_111]

Yes but this is ww2 not the Korean war

[@bigboineptune9567]

@@Ant_111 The reason why he didn't see any Japanese men in that age range during the time of the Korean War is because they were all killed in World War II.

[@dtt1900]

@@bigboineptune9567 Bingo!

[@FirstNamelastName-xz9ok]

@@noahwiebe2558 lol

[@PREDATOR-Kun]

@@Ant_111 boy you look stupid

[@rbmedia8798]

Let’s hope that there will never be a “The Fallen of WW3”

[@notme1998]

it for sure won't be a KZbin video. For a very long time after WW3...

[@An_idot]

Hell, will there even be anyone left? We got friggin nukes that have like 300x the power of Hiroshima

[@danielcrespo7967]

“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

[@sick.lunatic]

Nothing will survive that if it ever happen

[@Kyle-gw6qp]

That's going to be SW1 (Solar War One)

[@madsrishoj]

Hearing you talk about “the long peace” gave me chills now that it’s over. It’s surreal to experience.

[@pazreyes7794]

over? in what way is it over?

[@sergeantswiss2401]

I wouldn’t say that the Ukraine invasion ends the long peace. By your definition you could say that Korea, or Vietnam, or the gulf war, or the war on terror was the end of the long peace.

[@hd5783]

@@sergeantswiss2401those where invasions from a large economy against a small economy. The Russia-Ukraine war is largely a evenly matched war with both sides fielding actual militaries, rather than insurgents doing guerrilla warfare

[@sergeantswiss2401]

@@hd5783 The North Koreans fielded actual militaries, and china got involved in Korea. The whole thing almost went nuclear.

[@hd5783]

@@sergeantswiss2401 ok? They said “since 1956”

[@l.a.middlesteadt565]

This is an amazing piece. Thank you for making it.

[@legendshibe5433]

it's hard to believe that just a single one of those figures were 1000 people, people who had families, lives, dreams, hopes, and loves. And they all had their own stories to tell. Stories that can no longer be shared.

[@batmanbruce186]

Legend Shibe Also hard to believe that all of them have a story to tell. 60+ million stories. I wish we never get this type of conflict again.

[@mattthelad4686]

@@batmanbruce186 in future we will have even bigger one

[@Chuked]

KrakenCraft WW4

[@findijs3525]

@@mattthelad4686 nah

[@Mrbg123]

Jeb Bush As the famous Einstein quote states “ I know not with what weapons WWIII will be fought, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

[@imichaeli3438]

Isnt it weird that in around 10 years no one is alive to tell about how ww2 was

[@misc7446]

That's frightening I'm really afraid of losing veterans and children of war

[@zkatom3773]

@@misc7446 well most of the people experiencing wars died so. Wars are old news.

[@ColdFusionPower512]

Fortunatley there are channels that record stories from veterans, so that we may watch them even after their deaths. These people are literally doing amazing work, interviewing both sides

[@ala0284]

Personally, I find it more weird that this catastrophe happened within living memory. We’ve come so far since then, but in the grand scale of time its nothing but a tiny blip. We’re closer now in time to the end of WW2 than the end of WW2 was to the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic.

[@tristanbackup2536]

Don't. Go. There. Please. I'm not ready.

[@apodyopsis_]

According to official figures, the USSR lost about 27 million people in World War II, but according to unofficial data, this figure exceeds 30 million people. This is because most of the war took place on the territory of the USSR.

[@Bary_McCokner]

This is nothing short of incredible and absolutely incomprehensible, unimaginable, unfathomable. Thank you.

[@legiterally2902]

Just imagine, being sent to war by the Soviet Union, then once you return every single man your age is gone in your entire neighborhood... if not city

[@nouser316]

sounds like a harem anime

[@chaimrothberg5367]

@@nouser316 I el oh elled

[@Schzercro]

I laughed when I shouldn’t

[@awesomelegion9950]

It sounds like the Pals' Battalions in World War I.

[@Funkiy]

Imagine the amount of chicks you'd get tho. Just kidding, had to bring some light to a dark situation. It truly is horrendous, and still affects russia's population to this day.

[@publicservicesinhawaii429]

Bringing a reasonable argument to “I was born in the wrong generation”

[@ihatebritain3942]

Yeah any generation behind us seems terrible

[@Leg8]

536 AD goes brrr

[@TsunaXZ]

I should be thankful I was born in this generation.

[@birdmcrandomsux]

Why do all he comments have even number replies ._.

[@davevd9944]

@@ihatebritain3942 70-80s is doable 90s sure awesome. But before that no thanks.

[@alexnieman5491]

I remember watching this with my dad when it was first released. Really helped me visualize the horror of WWII as a teenager.

[@internet_userr]

Ww2

[@internet_userr]

More like www2

[@Moai77543]

​@@internet_userrnot funny

[@danielukaegbu7807]

@@internet_userr Unfunny asf ngl

[@CryptoBaby407]

Great video! I go back and watch this every few months. Absolutely stunning information here

[@AidenTheHistoryReporter]

I cant even imagine how many parents got news of theirs sons were killed

[@ncrranger6409]

Aiden The History Reporter sons

[@AidenTheHistoryReporter]

@@ncrranger6409 yeah I didn't realize that until I layed in my bed to go to sleep

[@lamborger]

The same number that died lol

[@AidenTheHistoryReporter]

@@lamborger I mean you're not wrong

[@0siiris]

@@lamborger actually not entirely true. Sometimes death wasnt reported to the family for a variety of reasons. Sometimes they couldn't be identified.

[@Jackarooooo]

"But winning the war, came at a cost..." Understatement of the century.

[@LiterallyWho1917]

The most chilling part of the whole video. It really isn't appreciated in the west the sacrifice the Soviets made to defeat fascism. The war was won on the eastern front.

[@farenhite4329]

When the alternative is ethnic extermination by the nazis.. it is a worthwhile trade.

[@LiterallyWho1917]

@@cowboydoggo6168 we can agree to disagree on the first point

[@josephpostma1787]

@@LiterallyWho1917 about commie nism?

[@alexgainsborough4921]

​@@josephpostma1787 Of course: all world wars and all invasions into foreign countries, genocide and enslavement of their population - were not committed by communism at all - but by capitalism.

[@Parzalai]

This video is such a beautiful creation. Not only on understand the terrible loss endured by World War 2, but also in greater teacing of optimism, and helping us truly comprehend the importance of optimism in the way we view life and conflict. This is art.

[@drwatson4189]

Best visualition I've ever seen. Absolutely amazing work - thanks for that

[@SubcribeMinecraftNOW]

Imagine being a german or soviet soldier being drafted, knowing that you almost have a 100% chance of dying

[@BasicallyMatt]

yo xo no it’s not. It’s a 100% chance. 110% does not make sense

[@SubcribeMinecraftNOW]

@@BasicallyMatt i guess there's a 10% chance of dying twice

[@lenacehova4760]

As horrible as it is, you're almost right. Few known facts about the Eastern front: 1. 80% of Soviet men born in 1923 (18 years old) did not survive the Great Patriotic war. 2. 4 of the 5 German soldiers who fought in world war II, died on the Eastern front 3. 95% of German prisoners of war did not return from concentration camps 4. Only in the siege of Leningrad killed more people (more than a million) than in America and Britain combined 5. Well, the most famous battle of Stalingrad - the bloodiest battle in the history of mankind. 15 minutes - the average life expectancy of a Soviet soldier in combat. The battle on Mamayev Kurgan was unusually merciless. On the grain Elevator, the fighting was so intense that Soviet and German soldiers could feel each other's breath. The total power of all the bombs dropped by the Germans on Stalingrad was equivalent to the power of five nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You're right. Going to war on the Eastern front already meant death with almost 100% probability

[@benjenkins3220]

@@lenacehova4760 Fucking hell. I'm actually speechless. 5 nuclear bombs...I have been actually reduced to someone incapable of speech like I dont have the mental capacity to know what to say other than this and fucking hell

[@lenacehova4760]

Ben Jenkins Yes, it was the real hell on earth. So I really don't understand people who are frivolous about war. This is terrible. Today on Mamayev Kurgan is a memorial complex and the famous monument "Motherland calls", but there are periodically working sappers. If they find metal underground, they send a signal. More than 70 years have passed, but the shells of the great Patriotic war are still found there more often than ordinary metal garbage

[@owenhall213]

“Victory can not be achieved without sacrifice, Mason. We Russians know this better than anyone.” - Reznov

[@karolclark791]

WaW and B01 had such good campaigns cuz the devs did good research

[@owenhall213]

Karol Clark facts

[@asherz8202]

Played this about a week ago for the memories

[@asherz8202]

VORKUTA

[@asherz8202]

@The crazy weeb fr

[@Vlibba]

I still come back to this video every few years and watch it through. Such a well made piece of information

[@Smoke-tf8xk]

My great grandfather was Soviet Union soldier, fortunately he survived the war. He was from Poland but he lived in USSR before the war and he got into military

[@AG26498]

The average soldier in Stalingrad would only survive for 24 hours. True hell on earth.

[@VascoCC95]

My history teacher said that they were sent to war with incomplete equipment, and advised to scavenge from the fallen

[@totti581]

@@VascoCC95 it's wrong

[@hasanhaitham276]

@@totti581 no ships sherlock

[@dungusglumbus9946]

@@VascoCC95 yeah. The Russian soldiers were sometimes sent without a firearm. They were just advised to pick up the weapon from the man who died in front of you

[@EastAfricanWarrior]

@@VascoCC95 wrong. The Russian military was better equipped than the Germans. This is American propaganda. The Russian and the Germans just had fiece battles. But both were armed well

[@andyphu5038]

“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers” - Some French Dude

[@andrewmoloney9886]

-François Fénelon

[@markazain8996]

Andy Phu most useless quote ever

[@Yental]

@RoMMeL1337ak47 war is the natural state of human exsistins

[@jonnyraw2493]

*The Great Emu War Flashbacks*

[@billDgundam817DFW]

Truth

[@JaydenLawson]

That was amazing. Loved the time moving at the end

[@charlesstratford1612]

This was a most educational and gratifying video in every way. Very well presented. I learned so much

[@Scrod117]

This dude whole ass made me cry by looking at a bar graph

[@itsonlyafleshwound9024]

You are the antithesis to Stalins "[...] a million deaths is a statistic"

[@Scrod117]

​@@itsonlyafleshwound9024 This whole KZbin channel is the antithesis to Stalin's quote

[@anactualalpaca7016]

@@itsonlyafleshwound9024 lmao chill

[@Schzercro]

Me to.

[@Fruitsmymainispomgranates]

Yes

[@eazyt2714]

We think that coronavirus is scary. Imagine living during ww2 and having no idea how it would turn out. Honestly Terrifying.

[@samxu4928]

Louise X Why are you politicizing this shit? People are dying, and the first thing you people do is blame it on Trump.

[@mrsqueaker751]

I see that you are a fellow Canadian a? Fan of the jets?

[@eazyt2714]

@@mrsqueaker751 Thats right

[@infroma6745]

The coronavirus already killed 25% of the WW2 USA casualties

[@sawyer3715]

@@samxu4928 because trump could have prevented it, but he didnt take it seriously, and now american lives are being lost.

[@banjo._scranjo7830]

People describing the Eastern Front as ‘hell’ when in reality you’d much rather be in hell than on the Eastern Front

[@grifftown]

The part with the USSR numbers just keeps on going and going gives me chills everytime

[@MultiNike79]

Do you understand what Russia is fighting against now?

[@grifftown]

@@MultiNike79 yeah. themselves, their own brothers, and innocent civilians. Fuck off you absolute POS this is not the place or video to spread your stupid brainwashed bullshit. You make me sick.

[@Juan-qu4oj]

@@MultiNike79 their European brothers

[@MultiNike79]

@@Juan-qu4oj the same nazies. Current Europe is the same, as with Hitler.

[@thl205]

@@MultiNike79 I understand that Stalin’s alliance and joint-invasion of Poland with the Nazis, having military parades with them, supplying them raw materials, training the Luftwaffe pilots was foolish. As was his murders of Red Army generals in 1938. Which all led to Nazis rapidly taking over and devastating Russian Empire’s Western colonies like the Baltic States and Ukraine. And now survivors of the Nazis in Ukraine face once again a foreign power invading its land, torturing its civilians and raping its women. Fuck Hitler, Fuck Stalin, Fuck Putin 👍

[@albanianguy5586]

The fact that Bodies of Russian Soldiers from the war are still being found all over Russia gives me the chills

[@albanianguy5586]

@александрт яковлев woah no need to get so aggressive

[@WraithLK]

@александрт яковлев how the fuck was he racist?

[@iitzbenashley1006]

@александрт яковлев seek help

[@4Taemoneygaming]

My IQ is gone

[@dastemplar9681]

My heart aches alone to the thought of how many would be designated “Unknown”. God rest their souls.

[@bruh-bn3ni]

I know its crazy looking at it in numbers, but imagine if each name was listed. Each of their stories listed, each of their dreams, each of their hopes, each of their families, each of their thoughts. Hell, each with their favorite food. They're all just souls like us but who were taken away by the war

[@yizao9289]

That ain’t happening probably at least 95% of people who have died in ww2 had there names lost

[@gras2121]

@Anna's randomness WhoCares u ruined the comment.

[@carebros703]

@@gras2121 ok

[@jadsmvs8651]

I always think about this. The human mind would never be able to comprehend this. Our minds are so feble and weak when it comes to comprehension of scale. When numbers like 70 million get thrown at you it's hard to mentally differentiate 70 million from 70,000 or even a few thousand. The sheer scope of the death is just unfathomable to human minds. It's like the scale of space. It's impossible to truely appreciate. We can only use numbers and a vague imagination of it.

[@filipinordabest]

Xi Peng's favourite was breastmilk, for that was the only food he's managed to taste.

[@buoazej]

There's a serious mistake @03:17. It wasn't just Germany who started WWII, it was Germany and its ally, Soviet Russia, who both started the war. They both signed Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of aggression in late August and invaded Poland in September. Also, I wouldn't trust Allied, including Soviet, sources in regards to estimate of Soviet casualties here.

[@Gingerrrr]

This video is insanely edited. Fantastic job

[@justinfrazier9555]

"Sacrifice. Yes. We Russians know this is necessary...more than anyone else." -Victor Resnov

[@clickonmylinkfgt2157]

That hit me hard

[@LeftOverMacNCheese]

Ahh yes bargain...

[@Jack-di1ho]

“Victory cannot be achieved without sacrifice, we Russians know this better than anyone”

[@ssdipto9178]

Black ops 2??!!!!

[@anakinsandwalker6382]

Viktor Reznov*

[@Kustosz2137]

think about it. One person here means 1000 invidual stories, families, lives, deaths, friendships

[@unbeatablesniper16]

And it also represents over a thousand suffering PTSD, losing limbs, going blind or deaf, organ damage from bullets and survivor's guilt for the rest of their lives :(

[@dylanhaugen3739]

Now imagine for everyone of those soldiers there were even more woman children and old men that were, raped, shot, stabbed, starved set on fire, used as human Ginny pigs, crushed under bombed buildings, left orphans, homeless, and who lost everything. As bad as the soldiers have it, they're far from the only ones that suffer in war.

[@pi3kun]

Thats why, the war is sucked! Imagine, who knows from that million who perished, it could've been future inventor, artist, or influential people who will help the world in better place. Sadly, they didnt have a chance to try.

[@robertr7923]

wow your comment and the replies really put this into perspective. The deaths are a terrible thing, but that is really not even quarter of all the suffering that is in a war. All those who have lost relatives, friends. People who's lives are forever ruined by being injured, uneducated, traumatized, losing familiy, losing everything they have, raped and so on. Really makes you silent, and incredibly thankful for the long peace we have had here, but also makes you feel really sad about the war, and suffering that is going on everywhere else.

[@CAepicreviews]

Lest we forget, in our lifetimes, we'll probably know around 1000 people. Another person will know 1000. That's one million people that can be reached just from one person's influence. One more person, and you're at a billion. These people could have effected others the world over, especially if they had the technology we have today.

[@hadSVK]

Your video is great and I show it to anyone who doesn't comprehend the scale of that war. Long overdue but still GREAT WORK.

[@robertwilliams3734]

Love the graphics great video thanks for making it

[@vovab4922]

"War does not determine who is right - only who's left."

[@Kitty.3782]

Yoda

[@33yss]

I love these comments

[@crowtservo]

Anti-war libertarians were right. Every damned time.

[@Valdaur]

To deep for me.

[@xraystudios3693]

is that supposed to be smart?

[@tequestaorangejuice6673]

Lets get it straight. If you had to choose the single country that put the most effort to win World War 2, it is the Soviet Union. They won the war. Not the United States. Not the United Kingdom. Not any other country. The Soviets did the most. And they lost the most. And yes, Stalin was a horrible man. But just because the way he won the war was wrong doesnt mean he still didnt win the war. Also, WW1, yeah, that was not won by the Americans. Or the Soviets. Or the Italians or Greeks. It was won by the mighty British Empire and Fourth French Republic. Let us shame Russia for their atrocities, but appreciate their offerings to make the world a better place by taking Hitler and his regime of the face of the planet. Let us also appreciate the British and Indians and the French. For they won WW1. America had a major role in both parts, but not the main role. Yes, D- Day was probably the most important day of WW2. But the only reason the Americans, British, and Canadians were able to land on Normandy was because the Germans had a crippling army after rebellions in France and the onslaughts and offensives made by the Soviets on the Eastern Front. Praise the British and the Indians and the French and the Soviets. They did well.

[@VenomCold]

even though it sounds stupid .. i think germany had the most effort in every aspect. the only problem was that they were massively outnumberd and outflanked due to the countrys central european geographic

[@leronbenari226]

Acre ! You can't choose 1 country say the Luftwaffe survived the Battle of Britain or Sicily and d day never were done and soviets never got us supplies then Germany would win.

[@tequestaorangejuice6673]

Without the Soviets, there would be no D- Day. That means that the Soviets made the perfect senerio for D- Day to work. Thus, they put more effort. And Germany did not put the most effort in WW2. The Soviets did. Did you not see the massive loss of life for the USSR!? And during WW1, Germany had a ton of help from the Austro- Hungarian Empire.

[@leronbenari226]

Acre ! the massive loss of life was due to incompetents among the soviet command. Many troops had to be withdrawen from the eastern front to the sothern and western fronts. The luftwaffe was destroyed in the battle of britain. It was needed the most in Russia where there are vasts swabs of land. If the luftwaffe would have been operational Stukas and FW 190s would destroy the russian Advances and retreats.

[@VenomCold]

wasting lives =/= effort

[@PhilMoskowitz]

And people think the times were living in now is bad. Thanks, this puts it all into proper perspective.

[@bendi3768]

I keep watching this videos over and over again because I think I never want to forget

[@MikeAngel06]

I was like "Oh god 41 Millions" and he said "then we have the Asian theater...."

[@jackaroo8867]

To make it worse, this is only counting some of the countries. Countries like Brazil, Australia, New Zealand etc weren't included. The total death toll is 79-86 million, not 70 million,

[@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13]

@@jackaroo8867 Also the fighting in Africa.

[@mswijn]

@@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13 yea, you literally can see people from miles away, because theres no literally trees or things blocking your view

[@xiowoo9999]

@@jackaroo8867 Brazil lost 2k ppl. The 86 mil would mainly come from India, Indonesia, Philippines (3 of them together almost making 10mil) and other directly occupied territories instead of the countries you mentioned. Not criticising, just letting ppl know.

[@halofox4770]

oof...

[@kalla-]

'War does not determine who is right, only who is left'

[@minusatom]

Prefer2BePineapple I don't get it?

[@quartermaster2809]

Survival of the fittest, right?

[@dylanleddy8693]

clever, both a pun and a fact in a single phrase. I love it

[@hazmat4938]

It only determines how many people they get to kill and how many land they get to keep

[@xyme1434]

This quote doesn't work in german, maybe that's an explanation...

[@theemperor4901]

This was so beautifully made.

[@veldanen]

Speechless. Excellent work.

[@vitordex256]

My grandfather fought In Stalingrad to Berlin, died in 2007 of naturelly cause and he always said : "war? war is the stupid thing the man can do, war seems the answer to a problem but just make many more."

[@ivangagnon3494]

Respect for your grandfather, mine escaped the siege of Leningrad when he was a boy

[@Tiger_III]

war is part of nature. thats like saying a lion preying on a deer is pointless. we have evolved this form of struggle into what we identify as war. it is just as necessary to have wars that can help propel and evolve humanity. it has existed for as long as humans have. Too long of a period of peace time and its like not being exposed to diseases for a long time... may sound good at first but ask how the native Americans feel about that.

[@andrewbay8891]

@@Tiger_III we aren’t animals

[@Tiger_III]

@@andrewbay8891 aha... aha.

[@tsunvalley6734]

@@andrewbay8891 Pick up a science book someday buddy

[@Barracuda65]

8.7 million Soviet deaths? That would be like the entire population of my city dying 106 times. That's just wild to think about

[@YOU_SHALL_NOW_PASS]

That would be the entire population of my *Country.*

[@rhyssharland4055]

Twice the population of my country

[@generalfisten9093]

And even that is the low estimate...

[@ming_qi_ling]

YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!!! Mine too

[@kmh4674]

that's about a third of the population of mine.........

[@syreart5787]

What an incredible Video, thank you for that

[@jpkral]

All this only happened 80 years ago, everybody had family and friends that mattered the most to them. It's extremely easy to forget that it could've been us today, and we forget to be thankful for what we have now. I couldn't imagine the pain and suffering.

[@abdirahmanmahdi9458]

The average life span of a soldier in the battle of stalingrad was 24 hours!!

[@brotherhoodofsteeld.c.chap1917]

Wow, it goes to show you how horrible WW2 and all wars are. 😔

[@Yoo-Kang]

nah, more like 5 hours.

[@kriegscommissarmccraw4205]

@@Yoo-Kang Average life span of kreigsman is 7 minutes, 6 of those are marching to the battle

[@apollojenkins4046]

@@kriegscommissarmccraw4205 lmao can't tell if ur serious.

[@kriegscommissarmccraw4205]

@@apollojenkins4046 Its a warhammer 40k joke. In the warhammer universe though it is serious.

[@arnavcarpenter4063]

This is the 3% of world's population at that time, 15% of Soviet population perished

[@bartecki6]

Yeah, big number because of Stalin... You have to remember this war wouldn't go that far if not for Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

[@sloniychelovek2367]

​@@bartecki6 what are you talking about, child? Do you even understand what the Molotov-Ribentrop pact is? if not for Stalin you would have been in a concentration camp with your family now. Stalin initially foresaw a war against Germany, he understood that the ideology of Nazism is the absolute opposite of the ideology of communism and a war between them is inevitable. For this, he signed an agreement with Hitler to gain time and prepare for war, at least 2 years. For 2 years (from 1939 to 1941), 2 factories were built in the USSR every day. In total, about 4,500 factories were built. Thus, Stalin in 2 years did what the Russian emperors could not do for a whole century (he industrialized the country). And most importantly, he prepared the country for war. It was these factories that helped win the war and provided our army with everything it needed. When Hitler realized that the USSR was becoming the most powerful industrial center of Europe and the greatest threat, he realized that he could not hesitate any longer and needed to attack right now as quickly as possible and with all his might. Otherwise, the USSR will swing at such a rate to the level of a superpower and easily win the war. After all, already in 1947, a Soviet engineer created the greatest weapon AK-47(don't forget about it ). Do you think Hitler would have had a chance then? Yes, no. And he understood this perfectly. Stalin outplayed Hitler as a small child. And all his actions are a cold-blooded calculation.

[@MrKerag]

@@bartecki6 big number because of advanced german army. Every country was looking forward to sign pacts with germany because it became powerfull..and meny countries did. So stop pulling out this bullshit.

[@bartecki6]

@@sloniychelovek2367 What are you talking about, old commie? If not for Stalin, Germany wouldn't have army; If not for Stalin, Germany wouldn't risk getting closer to Russia and start a war; If not for Stalin, millions of people would stay alive. Instead they died in Gulags, were shot in the back of their head or were tortured by kgb.; If not for Stalin, Ukraine wouldn't have to suffer from hunger. Children would have something to eat. Instead everything went to the army.; If not for Stalin, Russia would focus on something diffrent than making more and more tanks to fight into Europe.; If not for Communists Hitler wouldn't gain power, because Germans wouldn't be scared of red army.

[@bartecki6]

@@MrKerag Do you know why Germany had strong army? Maybe because they were training troops in ussr, you idiot.

[@dabus2527]

Thank you Neil. Good job!

[@unionjackjackson2706]

My grandmother witnessed the Blitz of London and after she was evacuated to kent she watched the battle of Britain over her head. Spitfires and hurricanes taking on the luftwaffe. Her stories about her experiences during WW2 will always stay with me and I pass them on to my children x

[@RyanScheie-ep9rv]

The british evacuated their civilians in anticipation of continued urban bombing campaign. Their government values the life of those they govern. Hamas seems the opposite, and disturbs me greatly.

[@crappytrails7617]

my grandfather got the flu and stayed behind the day his platoon went out to patrol. They were all gunned down. He had severe PTSD and couldn't bare to look at a gun or nazi flag for the rest of his life.

[@alex-yl9ms]

жthe non commenter ж That's horrible, bless his soul.

[@maxibulle5671]

nepali hercules What the fuck is wrong with you?

[@nepalihercules]

Maxibulle truth too much for ya?

[@mummel2013]

nepali hercules says the guy that hasn't seen a single fight in his life...

[@mummel2013]

nepali hercules says the guy that hasnt beaten a single guy in his life

[@caneface87]

This should be taught in schools! Half the people I speak to about WW2 info have no idea about any of this

[@davidbacak161]

Why is Hitler?

[@caneface87]

David Bačák that is the start of a very strange question my friend... let’s not mess around here

[@hata6290]

what people are you talking to lol? also why should they know any of this but most of the basics?

[@Lee-ss8yj]

Wait... you don't talk about WW2 in school??? I am german and WW2 and the Third Reich are the biggest topics in our history class

[@10ksubswithoutavideo23]

I live in nigeria I can confidently and sadly tell you that 70% have never heard about ww2 or even know who Hitler is, it's saddening at times cuz history isn't even taught here. RIP to the men who lost their lives.

[@Grizz0220]

I’ve watched this video so many times over the years, and every time I watch it, it makes me cry. So we’ll made and thoughtful.

[@samuel.mccormick]

wow. incredible video mate

[@alanmaclaren4118]

This video 25% axis/allies loss 75% soviet loss.

[@batmanbruce186]

The cursed Account. so wheres china?

[@alanmaclaren4118]

@TrineBrix did I ask your opinion? No so shut up I have no problems with you man.

[@qwertyki9367]

@@alanmaclaren4118 he's not wrong

[@qwertyki9367]

@Dušan Duki wait, they should've have. Just curious how come

[@alanmaclaren4118]

@98573617 well he’s not actually, because 400+ find this funny. And he’s just jealous.

[@idlear1651]

to only be remembered by a number is a truly depressing thing

[@Makky265]

deep

[@billanthony7896]

Almost every number left behind someone who loved them!

[@alamp7640]

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin

[@franciscodias3151]

that expression is hauntingly beautiful

[@iamkadek5273]

Chill it was statistics

[@StrobeFireStudios]

Dude the bit when the music cuts off and all you hear is wind and the rising of the soviet deaths. Terrifying.