Teacher Reacts to "WW2 - OverSimplified (Part 1)" [THIS IS PERFECT]

[@simpleviking]

I'm still getting adjusted to commentate. I tried not to deep dive into a specifik area, because that would be a 2 hour video :) I'm still trying to find a good middleground. Hey, if you want to recommend me a video, feel free :D

[@jakubpazewski7902]

Hi Michael, I just love your reactions, your insight and genuine emotions I see when I watch your videos, keep up with the good work! Also for reccomendation, if you would like to check videos somewhat connected to the social science or religion,you can check videos: bo burnham - from gods perspective bo burhnam - art is dead :) actually, I`d love to see you reacting to all of bo burnhams songs as they are extremely deep and funny at the same time. thanks for all the fun you give! can`t wait to see more

[@orangecrush6202]

Hello Michael :D!! Love your reactions and the additional info you provide throughout! I know WWII is something that really interests you and I wanted to recommend watching the video " The Fallen of WWII." It's very emotional, but I think you would find it meaningful and maybe even something to recommend to your students to watch to help put the war and its impact on the world into perspective. I look forward to future reactions!

[@redqueeen2950]

Heya. As a Norwegian watching your video, I highly recommend this one, it shows the start of Germany invading Norway =) there are others that show the fighting that was inland alao, definitely worth watching kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3zKc315abeLeZY

[@Pyth0n313]

React to potential history's operation Barbarossa series

[@notrealsaga]

Oh please make it a 2 hour video, please

[@SwedishFix]

“Sometimes I feel bad for Belgium…but then I think about the Congo. >.>” Fuckin brutal, dude. 😂

[@darksungwyndolin8305]

​@PointFear this is the last place I expected to find you

[@AaronDarkus]

"Normally when I talk about Blizkrieg is when my students get asleep" Well, they are losing a lot of interesting things. Lighting War tactics are really interesting in reality, because conquering a nation so fast is not that easy, is something well, truly remarkable from a military perspective, and also says a lot about the logistics of a nation.

[@susannah1523]

As a German, I can give some background information on what happened after WWI that made being swayed by a dictator possible. Apart from all these “unjust“ territory losses and the high reparation German had to pay, there was a severe ecological crisis. After WWI the first democracy was established with a legislation not really different from today‘s, the “Weimarer Republik”. However there was a huge inflation in 1923/24. Money wasn’t worth anything and then a world economical crisis came in 1928/29. People were highly unhappy with their personal life and what has happened to their nation. Those are two reasons, why Hitler gained power. And one should not forget that in the very beginning and when he was elected, he didn’t seem as extreme. In retro perspective we all know who he was, but people back then obviously didn’t know yet. His book wasn’t even as famous if I remember it correctly and it became famous afterwards. Then in the early years before 1936 or even 1938 everything seemed still quite alright. He has already done ugly things, but no one really knows due to propaganda and the way he talked in public in his speeches. Coming closer to WWII it became more and more obvious what he thinks, but at this point no one really had a chance to not be a part in his regime. Children were highly influenced in school (we have looked at racist math tasks in History class for example) and they had to join groups belonging to the regime, you had to be in the party to live a good life and make a careers … This doesn’t make it any better of course, but it shows that there was so much more to it.

[@anouk6644]

In a lot of history lessons the emphasis is on the actual war, which is understandable. But I think it is equally important to teach about the time before, as you described, to understand how it got to that point. I remember it was mentioned in class when I was young (way back when) only by a few sentences. It seems people forgot or maybe don’t know about it because for the past decade or two you see a rise in populist politicians who gain popularity in many countries feeding of people feeling wronged, dissatisfied, afraid etc. Certain groups are often being disproportionately blamed for the problems. People don’t see the danger or are willing to overlook the extreme ideas. When those politicians have a narcissistic, megalomaniac personality (and we know some of those) it’s a slippery slope we shouldn’t want to be on. Unfortunately the current divisiveness, anger and unhappiness doesn’t help.

[@dmwalker24]

I think you're absolutely right. Whenever discussing these issues, I always try to impress upon others the huge impact that hyper-inflation followed by a Great Depression had on Germany. I think it is a major lesson we should take as to how populations are pushed in this direction. I also agree about the indoctrination of the young. Unfortunately, a major issue we have here in the U.S. I mean after-all we invented the system of propaganda (to create public support for WWI) that was so admired by fascists around the world.

[@ellyraeken]

thank you for this information ! i would have never known about any of this. i have a huge interest in war history and how it all really started, and this helps a lot :)

[@dukenukem4343]

@@dmwalker24 Don't forget, the U.S. also directly inspired The Holocaust with the Indian Removal Acts

[@mikat164]

To be fair though, especially many Jews warned of Hitler very early and some left the country right after he was elected in 1933. Because they were his first target and he hadn't made a secret out of that so they KNEW things wouldn't be good for them once he came to power. Of course there were also Jews who didn't think it would get too bad or who simply couldn't leave. But we have to acknowledge this. Antisemitism has been a problem in Europe for as long as Christianity has been in Europe. Many Germans simply didn't care too much if discrimination against Jews became state-sanctioned and state-ordered even (or they even welcomed it) because it wouldn't affect THEM. Of course, Hitler then went after anyone he wanted: queer people, disabled people (both physically and mentally disabled people), Roma and Sinti, Polish people, political enemies etc etc. It just goes to show that when minorities tell you "this person is fucking dangerous" you should listen - because they always go after the minorities first, against the outsiders, against the ones they know people won't defend. But they will, in the end, come after you as well. We also shouldn't forget that we have many reports that the average German DID know what actually happened in concentration camps or at least had a pretty good idea. There's a reason some risked their lifes to hide their friends (if they were Jewish for example) or their children (for example if they were disabled). We can't simply say that us Germans had no idea what was going on - many of us did. Many didn't see a problem with what Hitler was doing, so blinded by their feeling of injustice after what happened after WW1 and the despondancy of the economic crisis and everything that happened then. It's simply too easy to absolve the average German alive at that time from everything just because they personally maybe didn't commit anything we would now consider a crime.

[@kix4635]

Fun fact, during the invasion of Norway, the commander of the Oskarsborg fortress had to decide whether to fire on a ship coming up the Oslo fjord not knowing whether they were British or German. Before he gave the order to fire, he said "Either I will be decorated, or court martialed."

[@thechosenone4422]

17:11 Stalin was too worried about Finland will join Axis, so he thought he can move borders off of Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg now), he doesn't want to conquer all of Finland 22:05 It was called Pervitine or «Panzerschokolade» - actually form of methamphetamine

[@frazierk300]

Man, I love hearing your opinion on this subject as an American i usually don't get to hear what people in other countries thoughts on this war are, so this was very interesting and i appreciate you not wanting to give your own opinion on some topics but if you were to talk about it i will be here to listen! Also don't mind pausing to talk cause I'd rather you pause and talk about something then not talking about it at all. Good luck in the future and i hope to see more reactions!

[@VV33Dy]

"but NOWADAYS Russia is powerful." That aged like milk lol

[@danieltodorov3863]

Laughed out loud when he said it haha

[@gavinturner2328]

Milk doesn’t age….

[@russia_not_prussia]

Milk doesn’t age...

[@spinning_ice1487]

@@gavinturner2328 No.

[@spinning_ice1487]

@@russia_not_prussia No.

[@LordInter]

When Chamberlain got home he said "apparent peace in our time" and immediately started gearing up the Royal army, Navy and Air force

[@369claude]

Awesome content my guy! Love learning your take on it and I've watched this oversimplified video before but its so cool to hear your Swedish take on it! Please keep it up!

[@mamaflush9945]

Another video you may find interesting "Fallen of WWII (by Neil Hallogren)" is very well done. And "Oversimplified - American Revolution Part 1&2" and finally "The Attack on Peal Harbor 1941" there are actual footage from the attacks, and in my humble opinion I think does a good job explaining the attack" anyway, I enjoyed your reaction... Thanks take care ☮️🙏😷

[@SirAaronFox]

Sweden in ww2: I was just a businessman doing business

[@mikkovaltonen3564]

Really good video and interesting points of view. Hälsa från Finland! :) And respect to your grandpa for volunteering to fight for Finland *salutes

[@Galaxius2117]

We need more teachers like Simple Viking!

[@gamelandmaster3680]

Finally, more people actually adding to the conversation and talking about things instead of just wows and ah mans. Thank you for helping to break this stupid trend of adding little to nothing to a subject.

[@cameroncaws5959]

That's because most people who react to this aren't history nerds. They react to it because its popular and gives views, but they have little to add because they know nothing about the history.

[@SolitarythBoy]

Literally the best reaction I've ever seen, keep it up man

[@OzoneTheLynx]

As a Swiss I can really relate to the cost of neutrality in WW2.

[@cavscout888]

So... when are you partnering with History Oversimplified to voice the Swedish version of the video?????????????????? :D

[@JonahNelson7]

Well that would be cool

[@mikkovaltonen3564]

About the substance Germans were using. It was called pervitin (metamphetamine) and it was also supplied to the Finnish army for emergency use. There is a story about a Finnish long range recon patrolman who, after being separated from his platoon in a firefight, overdosed on pervitin and went on a helluva ski trip through the wilderness. His name was Aimo Koivunen. Look him up for more details. All I'm saying is that it's a story well worth a video :D

[@blubirdds]

jesse we gotta shoot 'em up jesse

[@oliversherman2414]

I'm half Swedish (my dad's British and my mum's from Sweden) so I know what it's like to have ancestry involved in and neutral in WW2

[@panickedshears]

My history teacher loves oversimplified and crash course world history videos. We’re covering ww2 right now and we watched this video on Friday during lecture day-

[@TheGallantDrake]

Churchill was an oaf who doesn’t deserve the praise he gets, he was just someone who was willing to punch back.

[@notabyzantophile]

It's notable to know that France and Britain were not just sitting around when Hitler was taking land under appeasement, and they were both preparing for war.

[@LouiDerLustigeLeguan]

Little Note to 22:10: The substance used was Methamphetamine (mainly that the troops will be longer awake, more optimistic, less scared and less hungry). And back then it wasn't illegal, the big pharmacompany "Bayer" (still one of the big players today) produced it and it was sold without perscription under the name "Pervitin". The most iconic form of consumption was called "Panzerschokolade" (drug mixed in chocolate to overwrite the horrible taste of the drug). The Infantry mostly consumed it in pills or sniffed it.

[@granadosvm]

Great reaction. I have three comments related to your reaction. 1. I was raised by a generation that wanted to see prevail institutions over charismatic leaders; they saw first hand what Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Mao, Stalin could do with people's support and every time a charismatic leader raised, he was seen with distrust. If that generation saw what is happening now, they would be rolling in their tombs. 2. Thanks for clarifying you teach in Sweden. When you said you can't impose your opinion on your kids and you introduce them to critical thinking, I realized your education system is very different from the ones I'm familiar with (Mexico and US) which are very focused on memorizing data, not into analyzing, and teachers frequently pass their opinions as facts. I've heard many kids saying absurd things about history or science and when I tell them that's not true, they say something like "my favorite teacher who knows a lot, told me, so it most be true". 3. Like your family, my son's godfather was of Polish origin and he met no aunts, uncles or grandparents. His father (rest in peace) was a survivor from concentration camp, and was sole survivor of his family. I met him only once, when he was visiting his son (my son's godfather), but he didn't speak English, so I only could say 'hello' to him. He passes away a couple of years after that. He was a very lonely man, but very resilient. Regardless health or finances he wanted to live on his own and not in an elder's home until his last day.

[@iKvetch558]

It is always a real good day when I find a reaction channel doing Oversimplified for the first time...especially a brand new channel, so welcome to the world of history on YT. I hope you have great success and get lots of views from this content, and I hope that any and all comments are informative and helpful for you. ✌✌ Oversimplified does really good work, but he is not perfect. Unfortunately, there are a couple of spots in this one where he oversimplifies a bit too much, to the point where the things he says are factually incorrect. Specifically, the script has a line that indicates the German people loved the Schmazis, but that is not true...only some of them did. Shortly after that, Oversimplified gets the history wrong on how the Schmazis actually take power. He suggests that Schmazi popularity "grew and grew" and that led directly to the President making that Corporal the Chancellor, but that is not how it happened. The Schmazi's popularity had an upper limit, and actually fell after it reached that upper limit, but they were still the largest party in the Reichstag...and they used that power to force President Hindenburg to make the Corporal the Chancellor. 🖖✌ (I hope you are not confused by the codewords I use...it is often hard to discuss many of these topics, so talking in code sometimes helps to prevent comments from being deleted by the algorithms.)

[@simpleviking]

Wow thank you so much! As I said, I'm just a teacher, not a historian. I have many subjects to teach and very limited time with each. So I really only have time to teach the basics :( That's why I am making these videos, I want to learn more and maybe deep dive even. I Love comments like these, I learn so much from them. I hope more comments will educate me further. I don't mind if people correct me, that is good both for me and my classes :) I will take your advice about codewords.. I forgot that KZbin might pick up on it hehe.

[@nekane6168]

One of my comments disappeared, is It because of that? You can't write Names of people even in comments? This is nuts

[@iKvetch558]

@@simpleviking I would not say the codewords definitely works, I still have comments deleted pretty regularly, but it does seem to reduce that happening. I don't know if YT treats you differently as a creator, so the codewords may not help you at all...but it is sometimes fun to figure out ways to refer to them that are insulting...LOL...they have it coming, after all.😁

[@iKvetch558]

@@nekane6168 Yes...that does happen. YT is not at all friendly to free speech. ✌

[@nekane6168]

@@iKvetch558 But you can show boot1es twerking. I'll ask my daughter to teach me how to write "Safe", i'm sure at 12 she already knows that kind of things 😂

[@inferlynx737]

Fun fact when Winston Churchill was visiting the United States and was in his room in the White House completely nude president Roosevelt walked in without knocking and saw the man and all of his bareness! Churchill had enough quick wit to say to Roosevelt” The Prime Minister of England has nothing to hide from the president of United States!”😂 of course this is just a rumor but I wish according to the to the actual Kanas Churchill that stepped out from the bath in a towel and Roosevelt headfirst in the news excited to tell Churchill about the name he came up with for the United Nations!

[@lukethegame36]

This guy needs more subs he is amazing

[@mikecarew8329]

Love his videos - and you give excellent reactions as a teacher. HIGHLY recommend Oversimplified's American Revolutionary War and US Civil War as well.

[@iriscollins7583]

Needs to be taught in America. Definitely.

[@OstblockLatina]

People tend to give country leaders, monarchs etc. S for fleeing their countries at the event of invasion. But that is actually the best thing they could do for their own countries. If they just stayed and let the invaders take them hostage, the invading side would have an advantage of threatening them with various nasty things or death in order to extort stuff from the invaded land and its allies.

[@parsifal40002]

The video is as it says "Oversimplified ". It gives just the highlights of history.

[@wilcowen6284]

Oversimplified is genuinely one of the funniest youtubers

[@Asagofficial]

7:40 is quite funny nowdays :D

[@lds1126]

Op Reaction video Sir. God Bless YOU.🇧🇩

[@fjoergyn]

Panzerschokolade is a good word :D i think about Ghost division with erwin rommel where the higher wehrmacht command didnt know where rommel are, because he forced so fast

[@untrackedvariable3554]

The ultimate oversimplifcation of WWII: A bunch of Bavarians got drunk and decided to go see Paris.

[@daniellehurrell6620]

I just stumbled upon your videos. Not only do you react to history videos, but you also react to my favorite genre/bands! Love Sabaton! Please react to "Swedish Pagans"!

[@ArnoModelstate]

The channel "The Great War" did a very good series on WW1 (week by week) and after that others perhaps like WW2

[@RazvanMihai88]

you're right. Denmark was occupied in 6 hours

[@simpleviking]

Ah i wasnt far off then :) Thanks!

[@WillVafuth]

Concerning Russia, At that time the eastern areas of Russia were not as heavily populated as they are now. Even now a majority of the Russian population lives closer to the European end of the country. Once Japan had a foothold on the mainland (Korea), they really had a great ability to push into the more sparsely populated areas of Russia and China. As for German, there have been several document which have come to light since WWII. A number of them being correspondence between Chancellor Hilter and Felicjan Składkowski (Prime Minister of Poland) as well as with British Prime minister Nevil Chamberlain. The correspondence consisted of attempts by Hitler and Germany to purchase or lease the land between The main area of Germany and Danzig (the once capitol of Prussia which was separated after the land between was given to Poland following WWI). Poland got scared and complained to England and Chamberlain made promises to Poland that England was unable to keep. With the "invasion" of Austria, It wasn't so much an invasion as a capitulation of the Austrian government to Germany. Hungary sided with Germany after promises to eliminate the Gypsies (Ethnic group generally disliked by both the Hungarian government and a majority of the population). Of course this vid is extremely oversimplified.

[@Adiscretefirm]

Belgium wasn't placed badly by accident, the European powers supported their independence from the Netherlands with the explicit belief a buffer state was necessary between France and Germany.

[@celsus7979]

After napoleon there was a need for a buffer state, this state was the netherlands including what is now belgium. Belgium fought a war of independence to split of from the netherlands. This wasnt part of the original buffer state plan since it weakened the buffer

[@Sinvare]

A Chinese Historian called WW1 and WW2 "The Great 2 Part European Civil War." It is really hard to talk about the causes of WW2 without mentioning multiple events during WW1 or caused by WW1. Chamberlain gets an unfair reputation. He and the French asked their military if they were ready to fight Germany, and the British/French Generals said no because the German Luftwaffe was too strong and would bomb them into submission. This was the only Strategic victory of the Luftwaffe for the entire war, and it turns out they didn't have medium or heavy bombers that would be required to actually bomb an opponent into the ground. Churchill had a very high opinion of Chamberlain's domestic abilities and his humanity. He only really disagreed with appeasement, while agreeing with some parts of Chamberlain's arguments for it. The UK needed to buy time to increase it's air force, and it could oppose Germany by allying with Stalin, but Stalin was seen as a threat as large as Hitler. Chamberlain died in 1940 after becoming sick, and Churchill was said to have wished Chamberlain had been around to handle the domestic part of government so he could focus on the war. He thought Chamberlain was better at domestic issues. The Maginot Line DID go all the way to coast, but was not fortified to the same degree as the German border and had a far smaller garrison.

[@Thawney1]

Hey! love your reaction to this video, but i want to correct you at 18:50, the invasion on Norway was quick yes, but Germany used 2 months to take over Norway! Germany invaded Norway the 9th of April 1940 and completed their takeover on the 10th of June 1940

[@TheVirdra]

26:42 Actually Hitler put them at work. Or I should say, forced them to work. While most of the men fought at the fronts, someone had been needed to build and make weapons, tanks, ammunition and other supplies. The workforce in the Reich had declined as more and more soldiers were needed at both fronts and the left-behind women and children weren't able to fulfill the mass of requirements, plus seen as "too precious to waste" them as such labour force. So they deported many Poles and other Slavic residents (somewhat over 14 milion) to the Reich and other occupied states, to work at war factories (like Krupp Stahl for example) under horrible conditions. Though those concentrations camps were mass killing facilities, they also had been used for making war supplies. The Nazis did this under a contract with the factory owners, known as "Annihilation through Work". Still, they killed many without using them as forced labourers.

[@armlegx]

If they fall asleep during talk of Blitzkrieg, hit them with Ghost Division

[@TheGallantDrake]

I highly recommend “I am a Pole: The Legend of Piorun” by lazerpig. It’s a WW2 side story that intersects with the famous sinking of the Bismarck which is both funny and highlights that incredible fighting spirit of the Poles.

[@clxstrophxbic]

you are so freaking cool dude! i really love your comments on things and pointing specific stuff out you are really well educated on this subject! well- no wonder you are a teacher xD

[@florijnvantill4422]

You had the second war to end all wars, but there is no teacher, to end all teachers

[@lifelesslyric2130]

6 hours to occupy Denmark, 2 months to occupy Norway

[@inferlynx737]

19:46 everyone said similar things about ulysses S Grant during the American civil war

[@jlawsl]

I have got to say that Japan was expanding on its influence and invading since the end of the Meiji revolution. They weren't forced, they chose their path to war. Also, as a counterpoint, Russia's defeat in WW1 and the eventual revolution to the Soviet Union was because of the 1904 Russo-Japanese War, not the opposite. The focus of troops at the beginning of WW2 was definitely on the western side of Russia by the start of WW2.

[@beatrizrainha7028]

Imagine learning about this war and ypur history teacher uses nowadays exemples to explain the war We were terrified because it was the beginning of the war and we started theorizing another cold war but at the sime time a world war III And knowing that some of the plains from America with the weapons stopped here to do something that I forgot and then went away

[@ohmygodURMOM]

When you said if you know you know I laughed pretty hard. Keep it classy 😂

[@Frosty_Draws193]

Fun fact:before ww2 and all of that stuff hitler was going to be choosen as person of the year by time magazine in 1938

[@duccboi7547]

10:10 as a pole, thats litteraly what the soviets did to us

[@nekane6168]

Recently I've been watching some videos about the part of WW2 They don't teach us (at least in spain): The Japan part. Knowing now what they did in China and about the "Unit 731" , sincerely They make the nazis look like a kid killing ants with a magnifying glass. Why nobody talks about this? Or is It just the poor knowledge about the east we have in Spain?

[@Jim73]

I'd be really interested what Spain teaches about WW2. There is a huuuuge history knowledge gap in the US about Spain in the 20th century.

[@nekane6168]

Note: Slayer has a song about It and I hadn't realized until yesterday 😆

[@simpleviking]

Indeed! They dont talk about it in my country either. But I try to cover it as much as possible, the problem is that you only have so many weeks to teach this until you have to start something new. Even after the war, the japanese that were still in China kept committing war crimes. I believe it was something like 5000 deaths daily after the war had ended. And I always have to skip the North African part of the history, there is no time. Pretty sure thats the same reason they skip things in Spain.

[@nekane6168]

@@Jim73 Still nowadays It depends on which center you study in. Between 1936-1939 Spain went trough a brutal civil war Followed by a 40 years long dictatorship that's why couldn't afford get into WW2 (though Franc sent one división to help Hitle) To this day the Country is "secretly" divided. The official version is "Franc, Hitl and Muss are bad" but many people still thinks fascis gave Europe something good. Depends on Who teaches you and where.

[@Jim73]

@@simpleviking Well... Spain was Franco, right? And it's so strange in the US that there's this parallel history of South America that US schools basically don't teach. But it's a huge continent (well, maybe not a continent, technically), and the US kids don't get taught much. To be fair, when I was in school, I thought history was boring. I missed the boat. That's a good thing to talk about: how do you get kids to understand the loooong heavy weight of history when they're 12?

[@JayDealzz]

People who are 100% certain that they would have opposed the nazis in post war Germany.. Are not only exactly the kind that would have been an ardent supporter but also a card carrying party member.

[@daniellehurrell6620]

The illegal substances are highly documented in many books and documentaries. Meth, heroin, coke, etc. 😳

[@witthyhumpleton3514]

Panzerschokolade. 😅

[@captainjII]

i took world history twice cause i moved schools and I felt like i could teach the class, after i graduated i was confused when i found out japan invaded and did so much to china my teacher never went over this in class. also after watching oversimplified and other channels I realized how much I wasn't taught.

[@DaRealBAN]

Apart of the reason japan won againist russia was because japan attacked russian siberia, which russia didnt have near as much troops in asia, along with quickly crippling its pacfic navy and russia not being fully industrailized, leading japan to have better gear, japan also was able to strike a quick victory, which is needed

[@DaRealBAN]

Also russia and japan during ww2 had a nonagression pact they respected till the end of the war when russia attacked japan as it promised 2 months after germany fell

[@DieTuffs]

Well concentration camps started off as forced labour camps where the people had to work under harsh conditions (no food/sleep) until they just died. Just later on they became the minority anialation centre working with gas which are mostly known now.

[@kingwacky184]

You are from Sweden. So am I then you know Sweden sent iron ore to Germany and allowed Germany to use Swedish railroads, but sweden used that to send the allies information on the Germans plans and advances. Sweden was in no way in favor of the Germans. We allowed Norwegian and Danish troops to stay in Sweden to take those nations back and we also have troops ready to aid them in doing so.

[@simpleviking]

Oh yeah, even our royalty was related with germans.. Kind of a weird position to take a stance xD

[@micaro7774]

Oh yes Churchill, saying that my country (Argentina) it's just a bunch of barbarians and other not so cute stuff

[@Zodia195]

I got interested in history when it involved my family directly and WWI and WWII did have major effects on them. My great-grandpa was an American Soldier in WWI. Right after the war, he was stationed to watch over a German village where my great grandma resided. Well, my great-grandma's father must of had great foresight, but as Hitler was gaining in power (this is still the late 1910s), my 2 times great-grandpa actually pleaded with my great-grandpa to marry one of his daughters so he would know that at least one of his children was safe in America. So yeah I don't think all Germans liked Hitler even before he became a dictator. My German ancestor obviously didn't. But yeah WWII was awful for my German relatives. My great-grandma and grandma were always sending packages over there and learning what happened. I've had relatives who were barely teens being forced into the German army at one point, otherwise they kill the entire family. These poor boys didn't even last a month. Then they had to hide when the Russians came through because there were horror stories of what the Soviets did to the German people. My great-grandma didn't have an easy time in the US during the war too for due to her German accent, she rarely talk. For safety reasons she didn't teach my grandma and her siblings the German language (they learned on their own after the War). I guess the point I want to make is not all Germans were Hitler supporters nor were they Nazi's. I actually got called a Nazi to my face when a classmate of mine found out I had German ancestry. Gave him a good lecture, mentioning the some of the stuff I mentioned here.

[@sgxbot]

People knew hitler was evil. But sometimes you only have the option to choose between 2 evils. Then you choose what you consider to be the lesser evil or the evil that is best for you. And thats why hitler became so powerful. Everybody lost their jobs etc. Its either the government that cant get the situation under control and people die or somebody who will fix the situation and give you a life again but does some bad shit at the side that at first doesnt impact you

[@moritz1071]

As an austrian i am a bit embarrassed, that austrians started both world wars, but pretty much lost both. WW1: Assassination on Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary started the war. WW2: Hitler was austrian (born in Braunau)

[@Otto1292]

I’m confused. You said Russia couldn’t fight on two front with the Japanese and Europe but russias war with Japan was in 1904 and operation Barbarossa was in 1941

[@lavender-rosefox8817]

When we glorify Britain we're actually glorifying the entire British empire which include every country that helped

[@jenshendrickx2230]

As a belgian i gotta say i feel what you mean but technically congo wasn’t a part of Belgium but of the king until everyone found out what was happening there and the it becamr a belgian state/conoly

[@agr3x271]

Thing is our government still did some sketchy shit after leopold gave congo

[@jenshendrickx2230]

@@agr3x271 Didn't know that but if you compare them to what he did It can't be that bad right?

[@rattntattn778]

20:33 yeah you shouldn't feel bad for Belgium.

[@Dreckigerdan164]

Fun fact Blitzkrieg isn't an invention from the Germans its the English and French guys that made die word Blitzkrieg The German command avoided the word and nearly never sayed that The blitzkrieg is in fact as traditional german warfare as it could be Its called Bewegungskrieg (moving war) and is all ready used befor ww1 After Ww1 many old german generals good back in power und fought like they know The new think that made it that effective were the modern technology that help allot like motorized vehicle and radio

[@Jungleali]

8:02 yeah plus the tensions in Russia because of the revolution

[@DEHU]

So Denmark was taken over so fast cuz we basically gave up the moment they invaded tho we lost 5 soldiers due to miscommunication. Our military power was outdated as well so not like we had any chance anyway

[@ArtyKibbles2190]

“ Russia is powerful” the irony.

[@TheGallantDrake]

I would like to quietly remind everyone that there was no proper war crimes trial for the Japanese “doctors” who helped in the Rape of Nanking. Those men returned to society and taught students as though nothing had happened. Remember Nanking.

[@dracoargentum9783]

How about a narcissistic failed TV celebrity?

[@matt47110815]

Dude, you got it wrong, kept talking about Russia having to fight Japan at the same time as Germany... The Japanese-Russian War was in 1905! During WW2, only at the very end, when Germany was defeated, Russia declared war on Japan and invaded Manchuria.

[@Jim73]

Your english is pretty darn good, btw

[@simpleviking]

Thank you! Thats a confidence boost :) My brain laggs a bit when I have to switch to a different language. Grammar gets distorted and words forgotten xD

[@Jim73]

@@simpleviking much good you have done. ;)

[@raneeshchowdary8950]

Dude I have to talk 4 languages to live

[@JonahNelson7]

@@raneeshchowdary8950 what country do you live in?

[@raneeshchowdary8950]

India

[@spookizoid7726]

you look exactly like a teacher at my school Mr cook

[@live_possesion_5195]

I really like these videos 😸

[@krogkg]

denmark lastet 6 houres and we dont relley torke abaut it

[@auran_vesdranor]

"Nowadays Russia is powerful" Well, yes but actually no.

[@-NOCAP-]

I'm trying to figure out what your referring to when you kept saying that Russia had to fight a war on two sides and that's why they had so much trouble with japan. Can you please elaborate on that? Because the Russo-Japanese war between Russia and Japan was in 1904, and as far as I know Russia wasn't fighting anybody else in 1904. World war One didn't start until 10 years later in 1914. Perhaps I'm missing a huge chunk of information somewhere, so I would love it if you could please enlighten me.

[@celsus7979]

I think he worded it wrong, but meant they had enemies on two fronts to worry about. Russia couldnt afford to move all eastern troops since japan was a real threat

[@Racard]

Denmark lasted ca 6 hours where as norway took about 2 months, only becuase UK and France wanted Norway too

[@KamiThulak]

How did the germans get through belgium? Panzerschokolade

[@ArtyKibbles2190]

With lightning war or commonly known blitzkrieg or however you spell it and just having a better army.

[@lillia5333]

The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history. Said some wise guy/girl.

[@AlexAmez]

20:38 as a Belgian... yeah... such a shamefull page of our history.

[@raycapellari]

Wow, in kinda way history repeats now.

[@SharkFinProductions]

PE my favourite subject

[@iKvetch558]

I think it would OK for you to share your opinion with your students...on a selective basis. If you can clearly explain why you hold the opinion you do, and can describe some argument(s) that might make your opinion wrong, then expressing your opinion could be a part of your overall effort to teach them critical thinking. I applaud you for focusing not on telling your students what to think, but rather on HOW to think, I just hope that they are also learning how to disagree with other views in a respectful way...too many young people these days seem to think that any disagreement with their views is a personal attack of some kind. I will not claim to have studied Swedish neutrality very closely, but from what I know I would not question their decision to walk the tightrope between the Axis and the Allies to avoid a Nazi invasion in WW2. The Swedish government and people did a great many things to assist the Allies, and were not nearly as forthcoming with assistance for the Germans beyond the supply of iron and other ores. I think you could keep going with the Oversimplified videos...they are mostly pretty good, at least the WWI, WW2, and Cold War series. However, there are a couple of videos that I would suggest fitting into your schedule, since I think you will find them very informative and good for reaction content. I will post the names of the channels and links to the videos in a comment to this comment, since that appears to prevent the YT algorithm from deleting all of this. In the meantime, I look forward to your posting part 2 of this series, and where the channel grows from here.🖖💯✌😁

[@iKvetch558]

I would be really interested in seeing your reaction to the video "The Fallen of World War II" by Neil Halloran...it speaks directly to your comments about the numbers of people killed in the war all over the world. You can find it here...kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqiugXmKYrecpbc The other channel I recommend is Military History Visualized...in particular their video "Top 11 Misconceptions of World War 2 #Eurocentric Edition" which you can find here... kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3vbgpuuhK-Ua7c

[@simpleviking]

Oh yeah, Im sorry, when I switch to english my brain laggs a bit. I do share some opinions with my students, even let them debate my opinions at times. But I do stress in class that just bcs its my opinion it doesnt necessarily make it right. I try to encourage all opinions. But yes, you are right, its a great way of teaching them how to disagree in a respectful way. Thank you for the links. Ill make sure to check them out :)

[@aryanshukla7305]

Back then Japan was a beacon of hope to Asia we all looked up at them they were as powerful as the foreign masters nowadays not so much a big deal

[@vidsawatching7940]

You should check out Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History podcast he has a very in depth 6 part series on Japan and the war in the Pacific.

[@kirawr8064]

He might be a teacher but he looks highly unemployed

[@Captgroundhog]

At the time rasa had the biggest army in the world

[@jamesgiles4517]

oversimplified does have 2 Hitler videos but are blocked in a few countries

[@jblauh01]

Great video.

[@erlanggaputra4131]

I love your intro

[@sgxbot]

Good old Panzerschokolade used by germany.

[@BrightManX]

Wer aus der Geschichte nicht lernt, der ist dazu verdammt sie zu wiederholen

[@jblauh01]

There's nothing controversial about Churchhill from an American perspective. In my opinion you Brits should be damn proud to of had such a brave and inspiring leader to stand firm in your guys darkest hours. Churchhill did what he needed to do to make sure your people would survive. It's war people. It's not a fucking game,