"Top 10 Historical Facts That AREN'T TRUE" (Thoughts + Commentary)

"Top 10 Historical Facts That AREN'T TRUE" my semi-rambling thoughts & commentary on the subject(s) plus some literary recommendations.
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[@animalunleashed3812]

Technically, you could say that Custer had divided his troops into thirds. One third with himself, one third with his other general, and a third escorting the wagon train that was trailing the army.

[@johnmonk66]

One part of history that shocked me is that the miniseries Roots was written to be fiction. No one has ever went to Africa and stole people, they just pulled up near shore and bought people who were already slaves.

[@NandR]

Yes some slaves were straight captured by Europeans themselves. It was not he majority but it did happen. And since some African leaders had found a profitable business in selling slaves, they started to do it just for profit. They were taken against their will to be sold to Europeans for the purpose of agriculture and industrial work in the Americas under the idea that they were subservient beings meant by God to be slaves.

[@wslayerem6996]

Lee's objective at Gettesburg was not to win the war there, or even to push east if he didnt have to. Lee wanted to force the north to the peace table. he just wanted a stong position to bargain from.

[@Eshvongelion]

I've noticed alot of things that were taught as fact when i was a kid started getting disproven around the time the intenet started being truly widespred, almost like easy access to information is a nice thing to have

[@wayjamus2775]

Very true but then comes the problem of vetting which information is accurate...

[@knutkarstensen3114]

​@@wayjamus2775 Not a problem. Sharing information online is like putting it through a purifier. What is wrong will be pointed out. What is biast will be blasted for it. Be critical and vary of those that don't allow discourse. That mute their chat. That moderate their comment section. Those people are full of shit. Easy enough to figur out really. The lier is usually the one wanting to shut the conversation down. Don't fear misinformation. Such things filter themselves out by being shared. Fear censorship. That is how lies are kept believable

[@MrVvulf]

The flip side of that is the polarizing effect the internet can have, where preconceptions are reinforced by website algorithms (feeding people whatever they've searched or clicked on previously) - so, for example, there are MORE people who (at least profess to) believe the earth is flat now, than there were 30 years ago.

[@knutkarstensen3114]

@@MrVvulf Polarizing short term. You have to consider the sheer speed of information being way different then any other time in history. Heard it said that the going rate between a conspiracy theory and a proven fact is around 6 months at the moment? Ecco chambers are equally nothing to fear. They relegate themselves into obscurity faster then ever. Infact they often rely heavily on censorship tools to maintain their isolated state.

[@Plague_Doc22]

Pluto not being a planet still bothers me lol.

[@kennethbriner5390]

I read Shirer's book back in1964 about the time it first came out. I did this at 13 years old. This was prompted by a stop that my dad and mom did as we were returning from a trip into Italy. We stopped at a place which had a solid wall caped with barbed wire. It turned out that we had stopped at Hitler's first concentration camp just north of Munich called Dachau. Greatly affected my 12 year old mind.

[@jamesalexander5623]

I visited Dachau twice while I was stationed in England in the USAF '77 to '86.

[@bobbydollar388]

I also ready this book as a young man. In the small town where I grew up, there were many who had fought in WWII, including my father and his brothers. In talking to them, I learned a lot about war, and developed an interest in history.

[@blueboy4244]

that's funny.. I got it about the same time and age..I picked it from one of those 'book fairs' they used to have in the cafeteria of the grade school

[@honourobeten8799]

Love keeping up with your channel. Very informative and you've got quite interesting reactions lol

[@rg20322]

Totally agree - great channel!

[@montelljackson890]

I love your channel. It’s entertaining and educational and I’m glad I found out about you

[@NoProtocol]

Hey, thanks Montell (: I’m glad you’re liking it so far

[@montelljackson890]

@@NoProtocol I am so far 💎💎. I came across your awhile ago I just wasn’t commenting at the time.

[@elliottburke3142]

@@NoProtocol I’m with montell! However disappointed to see you do smilies like (: and not :) 🤣

[@SeemsLogical]

​@@elliottburke3142 It's because she grew up in Australia and they smile on the other side of the colon.

[@skipstopstart]

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[@paiute6911]

A couple of years ago my aunt brought a copy of my great, great great grandfather’s journal he keep during the civil war. It is absolutely fascinating. He was a member of the 1st Regiment U.S. Sharpshooters Company F, 1st Vermont CO. He describes landing in Yorktown Virginia in April 1862 (McClellans Peninsular Campaign) with Fritz John Porter’s Corps, during which he eventually ended up in “The Battle Of Malvern Hill.” He also camp on Fritz Hugh Lee’s (nephew of Robert E. Lee) 1000 acre wheat plantation. Here is a direct quote: “There were about 700 slaves on this plantation when the war broke out but at the time of this writing, all able-bodied men were with Lee’s army waiting on the officers, cooking, digging in the trenches, working with the pioneers Corp, and a thousand and one other things which were necessary in army life.”

[@reaper215]

Look into the guy who did this video. He has SEVERAL history based channels, and puts out voluminous content, and it is all great. You have a big fan here from a 27+ year veteran from West Virginia. God bless you ma'am.

[@jdeamaral]

My day just got GREAT! No Protocol has an upload!

[@paiute6911]

3:26 A great book related to this topic is “Bubble In The Sun” by Christopher Knowlton. It covers how Florida land speculation in the 1920’s help bring on the Great Depression.

[@jamesalexander5623]

Yes! "Every House is a stones throw away from the Station! As soon as they throw enough stones, we're going to build a station!'

[@brianhuss9184]

When Pershing arrived in Europe in 1917 he saw two defeated armies: at least a third of the French army was in mutiny and the British were bled white; neither was even considering attacking. If the US had not gone to France then WWI would most likely have ended in a negotiated peace, with Alsace and Lorraine still in German hands. The presence of the AEF gave the allies a morale boost. Yes the AEF had issues stemming from about 80% of the company grade and 50% of the field grade officers being green, and while trench warfare was trained it took a backseat to offensive strategy: these two combined created a large number of casualties. To his credit Pershing realized what was happening, went with his subordinate commanders requests for a retraining period, and then continued offensive operations using new, better tactics.

[@markomilicevic]

However, the Western front actually wasn't completely responsible for victory in WW1. It was a Thessaloniki front. Both Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary were defeated by combine French-Serbian and partly British and Greek forces, French and Serbian troops entered Austria and literally forced Germany to surrender, being alone without its allies and pushed from the west as well

[@almost_harmless]

Love your approach to learning. You seem curious abvout things, a trait I also share in. I am open minded, and want to learn, and do not let prejudice or bias govern what I learn, though I do check more than one source to insure the facts.

[@odsbodkins1792]

For literary reference I would also like to add Studs Terkel's works "Hard Times" for the Great Depression and "The Good War" for World War Two.

[@mattgames7543]

I completely disagree with him on the Japan one. This is like saying 'Germany would have won WWII if they didn't invade the USSR.' You can't just change the goalposts in your hypothetical. In the same way that eastward Lebensraum was always the ideological goal of Hitler's regime, as outlined as early as in his Mein Kampf, expecting Japan to just end their war in China would require the entire aims and ideology of the militarist government in Japan to change. Yes, in theory, they could do this, but they needed those resources to continue their war. I also think it is incredibly disingenuous to suggest that the USA would have just sat by and let the rest of the Pacific get invaded, especially due to US interests in the area.

[@SunnyIRL209]

Was looking for a comment on this, also as far as i remember japan needed/wanted the phillipines as some kind of operating base to push further onto the malaysians and indies, (otherwise it would be a long logistical travel from mainland japan) - the phillipines were some kind of protectorate of the US at that time, japan knew that the US would defend them, i think it was inevitable; why they attacked pearl harbor first should be known - plan to destroy the fleet before they sail in open seas; which was actually a good plan, if they went through with all the goals they set them.

[@wezselecta9929]

It's not only the discovery of new information in history that leads to changes in the 'established version' but political ideology plays a great part. Sometimes the 'revisionists' get revised for political reasons. History is one of the major battlefields for political debate - history is as much about the historians that make it as it is about the events themselves. For me this is what makes the discipline so interesting.

[@jlawson7204]

Love your channel. Interesting that you say that you have never heard somebody claim that the USA was responsible for winning WWI and WWII. This is the sentiment that I have heard from almost every American that I know.

[@jeffreysmith236]

well, the US provided the coup de grace in WWI, which caused the rapid collapse of Germany and thus prevented an equitable negotiated peace. So our entry certainly heavily contributed to causing the rise of the Nazis and WWII. The invasion of the Soviet Union doomed Germany, they were never going to win there. But the victory was due to the allies, all contributions were necessary.

[@georgeprchal3924]

Only fools claim such. Yes we beat the Japanese but no-one says we solo'ed the Germans. As for WWI I'd give it to France.

[@tixximmi1]

Yep.

[@rorykeegan1895]

Yup. Have heard it from Americans endlessly. Once had to sit through a loud American regale his wife about how he and his comrades "saved" Europe during WW2. I was with an old RSM from the 8th Army at the time, who sat quietly through the whole thing and afterwards told me through gritted teeth he had killed far more Americans in North Africa than he ever did Germans. Why? It was the only way to stop the Americans shooting all his troops in the back No discipline, no brains was his experience of the Americans in WW2.

[@jeffmattes5446]

I would strongly disagree with the claim that anything the Allies did led to the rise of Nazism. I put all the blame on the Germans, especially Ludendorff, and his big lie. That was the claim that Jews stabbed Germany in the back, causing them to lose WWI. The Versailles treaty was similar to the treaty that Germany imposed on France after the Franco-Prussian war. It was no harsher than the treaty they imposed on Russia in 1917, or would have imposed on France, had they won WWI.

[@mattsmith5421]

If you have an hour for a reaction what it takes to win the Victoria cross is an exceptional ww2 battle history video it's the first of two ww2 stories/documentaries told by Jeremy Clarkson. The second is the greatest raid of all, both are worth a watch.

[@solomonkane6442]

I agree with you on that My favourite doctor 😊

[@stanleydavidlepretre4241]

New subscriber to your channel. I've been a huge fan of top tenz for years and can't recommend them enough.

[@NAFO_MythicPlague]

Knew all of these but thanks for the historic refresher. D your looking great.

[@Boodieman72]

Juan Ponce de León was a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Florida and for serving as the first governor of Puerto Rico. He was born in Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain in 1474.

[@williamii3108]

My understanding of Columbus - why he had such difficulty getting funding, and why he was still confused about what he had actually discovered for so long after others figured it out - was that he erroneously thought that the Earth's circumference was about 10,000 miles, and not the 30,000 that most everyone going back to the Greeks had estimated. Most knowledgeable people of the time thought that the distance required for the voyage to China in that direction would be an insane ocean voyage - which would certainly have been true without the accidental New World interruption. Meanwhile, he always thought that his discovery vindicated him for what was actually his gross miscalculation.

[@MYJ61]

Great video! You’re quite articulate. I’ll have to look at some more of your content.

[@Milwall_will_win_uclbeforeidie]

good video keep on doing it. love from leeds england

[@bipolarewok]

That law about not being illegal to own slaves reminded me of a law from my country. I live in uruguay and eventhough it's the first country to legalize weed for years and years the law said that it wasn't illegal to HAVE weed, but it was illegal to grow it, to sell it, and to buy it. So the only possible answer to the question "where did you get it" was that someone gave it to you for free. But you never had to actually say that because the police shouldn't be asking you how you have something that's legal in the first place. It was such a nonsense law that the people who fought to make it fully legal had the same basic argument year after year, which was "DUDE, IT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING ALREADY!"

[@gertstraatenvander4684]

Over here in the Netherlands it's illegal to have more than a certain amount or grow more than 5 plants, but 'coffeeshops' are allowed to sell weed (and hash). There's no legal way for them to get it, but it's allowed. 'Gedoogbeleid' it's called. It's silly.

[@paulkirk7120]

Cluster actually formed 4 detachments from his command. The first was commanded by himself, the second by Reno, the third by Benteen and the fourth by McDougall. Mc Dougall's was an independent command of a single company charged with the escort of the ammunition train.

[@seanspuffy]

I was coming to say same thing. I love that guys videos but he glosses over some stuff or accidentally gets bad info. U can see his European Bias talking about WW2. To downplay how much natural resources/good/steel/clothes, etc b4 US went full throttle is disingenuous. Also claiming US joined "at end of war" when it was alighty b4 halfway. Churchill even admitted they would have been done long b4 US got there. Also downplaying US as only being "in Africa" instead of Europe was facing Rommel ffs lol.

[@rorykeegan1895]

@@seanspuffy WW2? You don't turn up until late 1941. When you do, you don't do any fighting, but you do do a lot of running away. See the North Africa campaign. The Americans don't really make a serious contribution to the fighting in Europe until 1944. When you do, you are terrible at it. The lack of discipline and inability to work alongside Allies meaningfully shows up throughout the European campaigns. What you do do, is make a vital contribution via your industrial base which nobody from the Axis can bomb out of existence.

[@Kenneth_James]

Simon seems to have forgot that in order to get to the Dutch East Indies they would have had to deal with the US in the Philippines which we ...owed? administered? governed yeah.

[@marinesinspace6253]

My history teacher referred to the American army in WW1 as the "rainbow army" appearing only after the worst storms had passed. (Am Canadian, for reference)

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Well... 115.000 Flatheads were killed, in less than a year. That don't seems to me like "comin' after the storm". I'm a German and we know how many we killed of them...

[@marinesinspace6253]

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 That is total casualties, killed and wounded. Canada, being a fraction of the size, population wise, had over 233,000 casualties during the war. The British had over 870,000, while France suffered over 6 million!

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@marinesinspace6253 Ähm... I'm not talkin' about wounded. Germany lost about 2.000.000 men and was the country (besides Russia), which took the most casualities. So, the French thing, is not true. And the Brits lost 960.000 men dead...

[@marinesinspace6253]

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 The library of congress puts American total casualties at 274k. British Empire casualties (which includes colonial troops) at just over 3 million, with 692k dead.

[@Peregrin3]

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 1.800.000 is the number of German dead, if you count wounded it's over 7.000.000. France suffered 1.400.000 dead making a total of around 6.000.000 total casualties.

[@potdog1000]

i read the rise & fall when i was 19(now 72) & still haven't found a better one that deals with the subject

[@charlesf2804]

William L. Shirer (the "i" in "Shirer" is long), I believe. Other than that, I have always heard of and about his book, but never read it. I don't seem to have much time to read these days, or draw either (I used to draw also). This channel has the best chance of influencing me to take up either or both again. and perhaps not by coincidence, I have a huge book backlog plus a drawing pad one of my grand-nieces gave me for Christmas which I've yet to use. The point about the Vikings was one I'd heard quite some time ago, and it made sense that Columbus wasn't the first European to land on these shores. I hadn't heard of the one about Custer at Little Big Horn or the other reasons behind the 1929 stock market crash. Interesting.

[@cmlemmus494]

With a name like Shirer I think a lot will depend on accent and origin. Since most American accents are rhotic, I could see this being pronounced Shee-rur or Shy-rur, rather than Shy-er which would be more British. If it's of Germanic or Dutch origin, it could even be like shur-er, from a name like Schurr.

[@charlesf2804]

@@cmlemmus494 "Shy-rur" is what I've always heard. Never considered there might be other possibilities.

[@billbliss1518]

I love that “Easter Eggs for Hitler” photo!

[@TheMiG96]

You're reaction videos are amazing , and you are as well 🙃

[@dissent6812]

Great information. Thankyou

[@ShatteringIllusions1]

Custer's force was split between him, Captain Benteen and Major Reno.

[@jimponton693]

Some of these were weird; not sure that was the conventional wisdom. However, as a 59 year old, some of these were definitely taught when I was growing up: Columbus was the first, people thought the world was flat, Custer's whole army was wiped out, etc. And the book about Jesse Livermore, just wow. Who reads that anymore? (I did, but...I'm old).

[@prometheus4993]

I can't help it, I finally have to subscribe to the channel now ) ...ey...missing your opener "Hey" :-)

[@user-xw8xk8kl6u]

I love how her sweatshirt has donut frosting smudges on it. Roll out of bed, eat a donut, watch a video. Talk about the video. Love these.

[@paulwagner2089]

Great material.

[@EBlank3807]

Omg simon is a baby in this 😂😂 every Simon whistler video is amazing!

[@brentandvuk]

Thank you, a great video

[@MrBizteck]

Simon Whistler has more you tube channels than most people have underware !!! 🤣

[@TheMajorActual]

On #4: No. React to Montemayor's video on Pearl Harbor, and he will explain Japan's rationale better, in less time......In fact, you should do a deep dive on Montemayor's entire channel.

[@TheMajorActual]

For literary recommendations on recent military history, look into _Hell In A Very Small Place_ and _Street Without Joy,_ both by Bernard Fall, are excellent source works on the end of France's colonial empire in Vietnam in the early 1950's, which led directly to US involvement immediately after.

[@louishermann7676]

Montemayor has some of the highest quality tactical history videos on KZbin.

[@TheMajorActual]

The _Strategy Stuff_ channel as well.

[@Vulture2k]

Hrm, the last one is interesting. Of course the US didn't matter for ww1 but I don't think the eastern front would have went the same without lend lease. The deliveries were huge.

[@petegarnett7731]

That was good business for the U.S. We carried on paying interest on lend lease until after the turn of the century. It was jokingly known as our special relationship i.e. the one that kept the U.K. poor after WW2. Of course it is our fault that Hitler reneged on his treaty with USSR. If we had capitulated he would have occupied us instead of invading them.

[@robertdraper5782]

@@petegarnett7731 Lend lease also required British businesses to surrender any holdings in the US. One of the aims of the US was break up the British Empire in the Far East, with both Honk Kong and Singapore being US strategic objectives.

[@Othello484]

I read a full account of the Little Big Horn from (A Good Year to Die) and yes, according to the book they were divided into three columns. The Soviet Union did the heavy lifting in Europe is a new myth and is not true for many reasons: 1) They were helping Germany fight the Allies until June 22, 1941. 2) Without Lend Lease they would have likely lost due to starvation in early 1943. 3) Our air campaign kept the Luftwaffe home rather than fighting the Soviets. 4) Even in 1941, Germany only use 56% of its military might in its invasion of the Soviet Union. Germany essentially fought the Soviets with one hand tied behind its back from the start and had to use more and more resources to hold back the British and Americans as the war progressed. Defeating Germany was a team effort. Thanks for the video. Subscribed. :)

[@zurnie]

An interesting aside factoid on Custer's battle, The weapons Custer was equipped with were far superior than those the natives were carrying. But, according to one of my college professors historical dig of the Little Big Horn site, Every rifle they dug up had an empty casing jammed in the chamber due to the extractor tearing through the overly soft brass the ammunition was made out of. Even though out numbered Custer's troops should've been able to defeat the native forces. However, with almost every rifle being turned into a "club" they were decimated. This can be checked in the professor's book, Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Re-examined, still available for sale. Richard Fox, the author and professor, mentioned his book the first day of class in Intro to Archaeology. He highly recommended it if you had issues trying to fall asleep as it is chock full of charts and tables of their dig. I love professors with a sense of humor over their own work.

[@flightgangmembers]

Beauty and brains 😍👏🏾 very good and interesting video

[@jorluo]

Actually Custer divided his more than 600 men into four groups. He ordered one small battalion to stay with the supply train and the other two, led by Captain Benteen and Major Reno, to attack from the south and prevent the tribesman from escaping. Custer would lead the final group, 210 men strong, and planned to attack from the north. Reno’s group attacked first but embarked on a disorganized retreat after realizing they were completely outnumbered. Benteen’s troops came to Reno’s aid and the combined battalions joined forces on what is now known as Reno Hill. They remained there and didn't help Custer despite admitting later they’d heard heavy gunfire coming from Custer’s position. Reno's and Benteen's groups lost tens of men but it was the Custer's group, 210 men, who died to the last man.

[@madmaxtravax]

Her hair is always perfect ❤

[@MyBigMouth]

If you like history and you've got a spare hour, then I highly recommend "The Greatest Raid of All" (Channel: North One). Its about the raid on St Nazaire docks in France during WW2, it's a truly fantastic story, and utterly strange that such a story is a) Hardly talked about and remembered, b) Hasn't been made into a film, as it would be an epic film.

[@jimburg621]

Right up there with The Hero's of Telemark.

[@jamesalexander5623]

@@jimburg621 That's a story that needs to be told and there was a film made about it and it should be promoted!

[@jimburg621]

@@jamesalexander5623 there is already a film about it, great movie, staring Kirk Douglas.

[@warrenturner397]

@@jimburg621 Kirk Douglas playing who?

[@jimburg621]

@@warrenturner397 Rolf Pedersen, a Norwegian physics professor.

[@sailorb3944]

Hi NoProtocol, would you like to react to "Top Hardest Punchers In Boxing Ever" by MR SLAV ? Would you like more sports requests or should I slow down with these ?

[@markcrawley1889]

In regards to Custer and the Little Big Horn I seem to remember a controversy and survival of a Captain Benteen.

[@halwakka504]

7:45 I've always wondered where this mysterious "New Finland" place that British KZbinrs occasionally mention, is.

[@JoFa876]

🤣 Nice one

[@319313193]

Custer divided his command into three battalions. These were divided as follows: Three companies (A, G, and M) under the command of Maj. Marcus A. Reno, three (H, D, and K) under Capt. Frederick W Benteen, and five (C, E, F, I, and L) under Custer

[@ArtistJoshuaWeigand]

That's Simon from the "Today I Found Out" youtube channel. He's on a few channels actually. He does a lot of trivia type stuff mostly on historical topics

[@MasterIceyy]

Bro has about 40 different KZbin channels

[@ArtistJoshuaWeigand]

I find that very easy to believe

[@bobconnor1210]

Shirer also wrote Berlin Diary, he was there, on the scene, as the Nazis took power and started a murderous war. A good warm up to “The Rise and Fall” and significantly shorter by several hundred pages.

[@jacobwest4771]

One thing they don't teach about Columbus is that at first, his voyage wasn't even seen as the more significant one. Vasco de Gama and other Portuguese explorers had sailed around Africa and charted a course through the Indian Ocean that would reach India and the ultimate goal: the Spice Islands. This was seen as a better and more direct route to Asia than what Columbus was attempting. It wasn't until later Spanish expeditions that people started to realize how big the Americas were and what was in them.

[@CitroChannel]

WhIle not _directly_ related, since the topic of this video is technically historical "facts" that aren't true, I feel like this is as fitting a time as any to drop a few of my favorite "alternate history" novels that I think people should read as book recommendations! I was going to add general historical fiction too, but then my list would be way too long lol. • _Fatherland_ by Robert Harris • _The Difference Engine_ by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling • _The Man in the High Castle_ by Philip K. Dick • _The Yiddish Policeman's Union_ by Michael Chabon • _The Years of Rice and Salt_ by Kim Stanley Robinson • _The Alteration_ by Kingsley Amis

[@rorykeegan1895]

Good list ...

[@Plague_Doc22]

I love stuff like this. Also really like your broad general knowledge, it's become more rare today I feel as a lot of my friends arent really aware of what I consider general knowledge. History is a topic you can constantly learn about. If you havent done a video on Mansa Musa, argubly the richest man of all time. I'd highly suggest it. The guy was so rich he ruined the economy while visiting through Egypt. He spent and gave away so much gold that gold lost a lot of value for 12 years in Egypt. Now that's a fucking baller lol

[@robertpundsack1363]

Really you need swear. Shows your mentality.

[@fallendevonish1869]

Top 10 Historical Facts That AREN'T TRUE OR Top 10 American Historical Facts That AREN'T TRUE

[@Peakfreud]

More like European/American .... They're the ones who wrote the worlds history with a bloody pen.

[@seth1455]

ha ! just thinking the same thing,

[@johnmcguinness6145]

Mr whistler without his beard, how quaint. All his channels are good and very informative, also entertaining.

[@arnoldcox9128]

Very interesting

[@rg20322]

The last one stating that, "The US won both WW1 and WW2" seems kind of a ludicrous statement. I've never heard of this type of statement, and I read/view a lot about history.

[@seth1455]

it's a perception created mostly by Holywood

[@derubain5774]

Simon Whistler has so many channels it's hard to keep up. There's one on geographics, the casual criminalist, business blaze... Endless

[@johnconnery1939]

I enjoy your videos. The comments about Custer are true.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Now I have to say something about the statement about the Americans and their intervention in the two world wars. In World War I, it was not so much direct military support for the Entente that mattered, but the vast quantities of material the Americans were supplying to the British and French long before they even started playing themsels. I don't want to go into too much detail here because you could easily write a book about it. But when the Russians were out of the war, a million battle-hardened men were freed for the German western front. And these men were ready to attack in March 1918. The Western Allies had fought numerous battles in 1916 and 1917 and had been bloodily defeated in all their offensives. In May 1917, mutinies had broken out in significant parts of the French army. This gives a deep insight into the morale of the "Grande Nation". When the Germans attacked and broke through immediately, the British faced major problems. The deployment of French troops was necessary to support the British flank. That wasn't sooo easy, because British and French units had already been transferred to Italy in 1917 to prevent the Italians from collapsing. They were simply missing in France. After almost 4 years of war, there wasn't much substance left. The Americans stepped into the breach and made it possible for French units to move. In addition, stupid mistakes were made by the German OHL and the troops of the Empire managed to prevent the Germans from splitting the front at the last moment, thus saving the entire British army from being encircled and destroyed. Without the Americans, the Kaiser's troops would have succeeded in crushing the British in northern France and Flanders and occupying all the territory north of the Somme, which would have allowed the Germans to shorten the front enormously and build up large reserves. It is questionable whether France would have been mentally able to continue fighting after such a defeat and the loss of 2 British armies plus Canadians. And 115.000 Americans lost their lives in the fight of 1918. That's not nothing...! I only want to go into the 2nd World War to the extent that the American material production made the successful fight of the Soviets possible in the first place. Anyone who doubts this should look at the vast amount of material supplied to the Bolsheviks. Above all, you have to read the "fine print" and not necessarily the thousands of tanks that have been delivered. Just an example. The Americans supplied the Soviets with almost 60% of the aircraft fuel. What good are 10,000 planes if you can only get 4,000 up? It is precisely these things that made the Soviet victory possible in the first place. And one thing that's also easily forgotten... If you need all this stuff to win and you have to make it yourself, then that production also takes a lot of time and men who can't be on the front line to do it to fight. And the additional aid that was being supplied to the Soviets by the British and Canadians has not even been mentioned. Although... If you think of the English Churchill tank, for example, then the help for the Russians might not have been that great after all. The Russians nicknamed this British product "enemy of tankers"... And you should be also aware, that this whole topic, is made by a Britsch guy. And the Brits like it, to look as best as possible, in such discussions. Otherwise, he had to mention, that first non stop flight from the Continent, to America, was made by a German crew on a FW- 200 in 1938. Because it's a lot more difficult to fly the distance from east to west, because you face a constant air stream, from the west to the east. That means strong winds from the front, which costs a much more fuel and slows your speed... I have one more thing to mention. If you really want a good book about the III Reich and if you want to read, then you should read Sebastian Haffner's "Notes on Hitler". A small, fairly short book, appropriate to the mind of the person it is about. You can easily do that on a lazy afternoon at the beach. The great benefit of Haffner's book is that he witnessed the rise of the Nazis himself and lived under Nazi rule for 5 years before going into exile in England to continue fighting the Nazis from there. He became a British citizen before returning to Germany as a newspaper correspondent after the war. He has written a number of books on German history and made an excellent documentary play about the 1914 Battle of the Marne, produced for German television (Generals - The Anatomy of the Marne Battle). This documentary play, can also be found here on YT, but unfortunately it is in German and only has these bad automatic subtitles. But there is also a real British secret service agent who takes on the role of the commander of the British expeditionary force, Sir John French... kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnmrYXRtbb-Hg6c

[@daviddixon6408]

A good book about the history of The Great Depression and WWII is "Freedom From Fear" by David M. Kennedy. It is a rather lengthy read at 871 pages but is very informative.

[@Tijuanabill]

Yeah, but history isn't just things that happened, it's things that happened that mean something. The Viking discovery of American didn't lead to anything of historical significance, and they didn't share that knowledge with any other Europeans. It's a silly technicality to say Columbus did nothing important, because some Vikings stopped by for a visit once. Columbus is still the reason the rest of Europe found out about the Americas.

[@holycow131]

One of the best books I've read is " The Collapse Of The Third Republic " by William Shirer . He explains why France collapsed so quickly in 1940.

[@petermcculloch4933]

Lee should have taken Gettysburg on the first day of fighting, however, one of his generals chose to postpone the battle until the following day.This mistake allowed Union reinforcements to arrive.As for the Little Big Horn, all of the soldiers under Custer's immediate command were massacred, with the exception of bugler Martini, who was instructed to deliver a message to Major Benteen.

[@bamacopeland4372]

It's so weird to see Simon without his beard. He has like 10 other Channels

[@joshuanevermind1530]

You read books? Kudos to you! ~~~ Subbed ~~~ 🤓

[@mattybuu4910]

Curious that you never heard someone say that America was responsible for beating Germany. It was even stated like that in an episode of The Simpsons (Lisa's wedding)

[@NandR]

Often you will see "USA Back to Back World War Champs". We helped greatly and suffered, yes. But we were on the winning side, not sole champions. That American Exceptionalism is strong. The Pacific was our theater, where our Navy became what it is today and where Marines fought hard for every inch of those islands. That's plenty to be proud of.

[@AGD_27]

What he says at the end about "the USSR doing most of the heavy lifting in Europe" I have a small issue with as much as it's true that the majority of Nazi casualties were in the eastern front contribution from Britain, the US and the USSR were all instrumental in winning the war. A popular phrase about this is that "the war was won with British intelligence, American steel and Russian blood". The British were highly effective in intercepting Nazi communications both directly and indirectly as they were working with multiple resistance groups in occupied nations such as France and Poland. The Americans who were lucky enough to never face a land invasion had the ability to produce weapons effectively non-stop and their vast wealth which out did all axis powers combined meant long before they got involved with the war directly they were extremely valuable to the allies in Europe. The USSR despite being ill equipped massively outnumbered the Nazis, the eastern front was truly brutal and the Russians lost far more than any other ally nation, that incredible human sacrifice drained Nazi resources and lightened the load in the western front. If you haven't seen it I recommend a video called the fallen of WW2, it goes into detail on the military and civilian casualties on both sides of the war and illustrates how that's affected the way wars are fought today.

[@kalasatwater2224]

That channel is good.

[@YiYaEmperor]

10. Then what role has Columbus today? The Vikings "discovery" meant nothing historically - Columbus (re)discovery on the other hand is an keyelement. 09. What the greeks knew doesn't matter in the medieval period. Also, what qualifies as "the people knew". All scholars, only those who dealt with that topic, the common man?

[@Peakfreud]

Key Element, thats opinion, conjecture & perspective. There were people, cultures and societies here thousands of years before Columbus or the Vikings. Prevailing history doesnt mean more than actual history just because its beneficial to the people telling it. And thats only possible because genocide was successful...

[@eyeinsee]

Video suggestion: Anything by Billy Carson He is fascinating!

[@Rob_1218]

I've always felt like Germany didn't deserve all the blame for the first World War. They didn't start it but I guess France and Britain felt like they had to blame someone and Germany was their nearest neighbor.

[@mattsmith5421]

They pretty much did they attacked France and Belgium with no reason to other than they wanted a war with Russia and France was Russia's ally and they mailed Belgium just to get into France.

[@georgeprchal3924]

Serbia started it but with the Ottoman Empire and Austro-Hungarian Empire destroyed only the German in remained to pay reparations.

[@mattsmith5421]

@@georgeprchal3924 No Serbia didn't start it and Austria Hungary wasn't destroyed it was broken up after they surrendered. There were plenty of other country's left who also got punishments like Bulgaria and the ottomans. It was a regional war that austro Hungary started by shelling Belgrade until Germany joined and attacked France to attack France they went through Belgium who were a neutral country which dragged in France England Canada Australia India Japan etc the Germans also brought the USA into it by sinking 3 passenger ships.

[@georgeprchal3924]

@@mattsmith5421 Germany brought the United States into it with the Zimmermann telegram. A Serbian anarchist assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and they thought there wouldn't be repercussions for this? Germany was left to pay because they were the only ones left with the bag, unfairly yes but I think if they had won the Kaiser would have been anything but magnanimous.

[@robertdraper5782]

The First World War was caused by a combination of treaties between countries ruled by or with allegiance to Monarchs that were all cousins, it was basically like a drunken fight at a family party that got out of hand. The sad thing is that they all conned their poor people into killing each other for no actual good reason.

[@woeshaling6421]

the creator of that video, simon whistler, has a web of channels. covering trivia, history, persons, places, mysteries, true crime and pseudo science/scams. it's a lot of content

[@prohiadam9]

Good ol' Factboy gained a lot of coolness with a beard😀

[@DASBIGUN]

holy hell....that is a YOUNG simon. this is YEARS old....hot damn

[@mdhj67]

I've heard some speculation that a victory at Gettysburg could possibly have led to a Southern victory. The reasoning behind the speculation has more to do with politics and public opinion in the North and less to do with military capabilities.

[@Psycorde]

People underestimate the role Lend-Lease played in the Soviet success in WWII, where US was a major contributor. Without that it would've been a different story. Wars aren't won with troops alone.

[@silversurfer8278]

100% agree, William Shirer's "The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich" is one of the best books about Hitler's Rise and Fall. In 20 years, I wonder who will take on the mantel of chronicling the Rise and Fall of Putin's dictatorship?

[@motionpictures6629]

The Lindbergh flight is stupid. He couldn't even fly both ways because his plan could not handle headwind. The first guy to fly both ways was Hugo Junker, whose house stands 30 meters from where I am now.

[@hornbeam7131]

Simon Whistler has several channels, Top Tenz and Biographics are just two, all usually interesting.

[@eddiem461]

Even with the nukes getting dropped on Japan, people always forget that USSR invaded Manchuria on the same day. I think the pressure from both is what made them surrender. Bombs that can level entire cities and an endless wave of USSR troops pushing for you.

[@zoltanposfai3451]

One reason the USA dropped the bombs was that they wanted Japan to surrender to them alone, and not combined with the Soviet Union. Imagine if Japan ended up something similar to Korea. A soviet North Japan puppet state, and a USA influenced South Japan.

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

Yes, Custer split his command into three groups. Himself, Reno, and arch enemy major Frederick Benteen who brought up the rear with the pack train. Hense the famous dispatch from W.W. Cooke, Benteen, come quick, bring packs (ammunition). And also the picture shown had sabres, Custer did not bring sabres, they made too much clanking noise on the trail. And Benteen took his time coming, on purpose.

[@toniyourcuzzin]

Hey, cool intro

[@JoelMatton]

It's so weird seeing Fact Boy without a beard

[@robertdraper5782]

The idea that Japan was forced into war in 1941 is basically what is still taught in Japan today, there's a certain comfort in victimhood pretty much like that States Rights was the reason for the American Civil War rather than rich people getting poor people to fight and die for their right to own people, history seems to be situational and never quite what you think. Hats off to you for knowing about Alcock and Brown, that's quite an obscure one for Americans.

[@vax6575]

The main channel that this guy has is called MegaProjects, there he has linked all of his other channels such as TopTenz, SideProjects, BrainBlaze, and Today I Found Out. Those are his more popular channels. He has 11 channels in total, 9 of which he still uploads to atleast weekly if not a couple times a week.

[@jeffschreifels8651]

I had always believed the great depression was caused by the stock market crash but that's because I never gave it the proper amount of thought. Now that he mentions it, the market isn't likely gonna crash on its own. Something had to trigger it. I have never heard anyone claiming the US gets sole credit for ending WWI and WWII either. It's definitely been suggested we had a bigger role than we had but not that we were the only ones doing the work.

[@bobwallace9814]

Real Custer facts unlike TV/Movies. He had very short hair. It was over 100 degrees so no one wore jackets, especially buckskin. The battle took place over a vast area and several days. Last stand hill was actually next to the command post. A teenage Indian boy suicide charge had run off the horses sealing the commands fate. Custer had led a small group down to the river to cross into the huge Indian camp to gather a few women and children as hostages to use as bargaining chips to stop the hostilities. Custer was shot through the chest while crossing the river at close range and fell into the river. His men dragged him out and back to command post. The rifle calibers were very large and being shot as he was probably made it fatal. The major Indian attack began on the command post. Custer was found with the chest wound and a point blank shot to the temple by a special caliber bullet that only his experimental gun had. Custer, and brother Tom died early into the fight. Judging by the markers of where the troopers fell, they were all running from the hill to the ravine in hopes of reaching the river. This says the officers in charge had all been killed and it was everyman for himself.

[@cmlemmus494]

#5: He's not wrong that the South probably couldn't have defeated the North utterly, but that's not actually the point of Gettysburg. European powers were getting tired of the lack of American imports and were planning to intercede and force peace talks. The North's win at Gettysburg gave Lincoln the confidence to make a public declaration against slavery, which he hadn't previously done, which prevented European involvement by turning it into a moral war. So the thinking is that if the North had lost at Gettysburg, Europe would have forced a peace, Southern succession would have been successful, and there would be two Americas.

[@jordanchristeson2872]

Don’t change OP 💕

[@cspaikido]

I've watched a very interesting historical series called "In Between Wars" which comprehensibly covers the period between WW1 and WW2. In the ones concerning Germany and Hitler, the Nazis never achieved a majority of the vote in Germany although they continued to make gains. Hitler was made Chancelor on January 30, 1933 in an effort to control him. It failed miserably and by July of that same year less than six months later, Hitler was able to completely remove any Democracy and freedoms and Germany's fate was sealed.

[@katnerd6712]

Keep in mind, most of Simon's research is fairly shoddy. Specifically, I'd like to point out that his opinion of the Russians doing all most of the heavy lifting in Europe in world war II is up for debate and mostly a lot of propaganda. It was the British that held out against the against the Germans and are largely responsible for winning world war II. What the Russians did was suffer the heaviest casualties during the war because Stalin had murdered most of the high command and experienced officers in the Russian military. Simon's videos are somewhat notorious for a shoddy research.

[@kellykent131]

Great reaction. There is a short two part series called Assume the Position by actor Robert Wuhl. It’s about how history became pop culture. It’s funny and entertaining. They are half an hour each. I hope you’ll react to it.

[@alolkoydesigns]

Love those shows

[@corvanna4438]

Whistler makes the same mistake on war that most Europeans do, wars are not won by losing troops. Wars are won by logistics. General Zhukov, the Russian commander in WW2, said the material provided by the US is what saved Russia from total defeat. Before Russia began taking any ground Italy was invaded by the UK and the US. In WW1, Ludendorff said it was the American infantry that defeated Germany. Wars are not won by getting your troops killed.

[@Aoiichi]

WW2 Book Recommendation : " " And i was there " , by Admiral Edwin T. Layton.

[@hlawrencepowell]

Canadians played a major part in both the First and Second world wars. This seems to be glossed over in this video. Check out Canada's contributions and compare them to the French contributions in WW2. And Canada trained hundreds of English, Australian, and British airmen in Nova Scotia, about 20 kilometres from where I sit at this very moment. The USA was always late to the show. They had to make their billions off the wars before actually getting involved.