The Fallen of World War II REACTION

[@MarkArandjus]

_>Half a million dead_ "Wow, that's a lot." Oh, my sweet Summer child...

[@helline9]

I was expecting her to cry when she got to the red pillar of the soviets

[@kacper6116]

@@helline9 or the germans or poles

[@ruscyber9765]

Soviet Union left the game!

[@MarkArandjus]

@@helline9 Red pillar, more like space elevator.

[@1perisha1]

Well though, it depends, you cant compare Yugoslav losses and Soviet, looking how much each had population in its country,so in procent its almost same. Thats my opinion though

[@smoka7086]

I am native russian and one of my granpas died in the Battle of Kursk, which is biggest tank battle in the history, and the second one came back home from war in 1945 after winning nazis in Czechoslovakia. He told me many scary and sometimes cute and funny stories from that war, but he always told us to afraid of any conflict, starting from the big war and ending by fight in the classroom, he said the worst thing in the life is hate and angriness, so i still remember his words after so many years

[@PalleRasmussen]

Your grandfather was right, bless him. You are wrong though, Brody/Brodny was the largest though. And interesting cause it shows the Red Army's reaction to the attack. Have a nice day.

[@kevinpeng8295]

Thanks for sharing!

[@OoogaBoog]

My first wife was the granddaughter of a 82nd airborne of normandy. My grandfather flew b29 bombing runs over berlin. I've heard so much horror over the years that I've lost the excitement of hunting, and even fishing I return all the fish back to their environment. I could never be a soldier.

[@OoogaBoog]

In America it's left to the teacher, not the 'curriculum', on what is and isn't taught. I can assure you, I had to write a 66 page report on ww2 in 9th grade and 50% of it had to be about the Eastern Front and Asia. 4 years later in college it was SHOCKING how little others knew about the eastern front. Trust me, it's not political why so few in the west know so little about what happened in the eastern front, moreso that it's just too much to take in alongside of the other history that is given about the major parts said country took part in. I will say that the majority of post grad and doc education focuses on areas not commonly known. I'm sure this would be similar in other areas of the world. You learn direct effects to the region first, then if you proceed.......you learn others. Not everything is political. If one says so, then they are part of the problem.

[@barto4686]

Did your Soviet grandfather attacked Poland together with Germany back in 1939? Of course he did. Russian redshit army invaded Poland together with Germany. You Russians love to forget about it, huh?

[@imrekalman9044]

"It just keeps going and going and going. It doesn't stop." Welcome to the European Eastern Front, that most Western schools don't like to talk about. Based on the pre-war and after war tallies the USSR lost around 27 million people.

[@modtec1209]

I can assure you that at least the main perpetrator's schools do cover the eastern front, at least in the 12-year-highschool-line back in my schooldays.

[@Argiue]

@@modtec1209 In Belgium it sadly enough was never mentioned..

[@modtec1209]

@@Argiue its kind of understandable, as Belgium didn't loose 6 million soldiers there. I also find it kind of sad how the Soviets role is downplayed by the allies. Yes, without the lend-lease they would have been off way worse but the most crucial defeat of the Nazis was paid for in Soviet blood and I don't think that that fact is highlighted enough by the Americans and the British, exept by those with a keen interest in history.

[@imrekalman9044]

@@modtec1209 As coming from a country that was on the loosing side (Hungary) the Eastern Front was basically only discussed because we lost a lot of people there. It was all very rushed.

[@modtec1209]

@@imrekalman9044 Maybe to not talk too much about some of the shit your old folks did to the civilians during your involvement in Barbarossa in cohort with our own lovely fellows. Novi Sad might come to mind. It took like 40 years or so until German schools started teaching extensively about the holocaust and to have a productive way of confronting that part of our history. Before that the eastern front wasn't talked about very much either, just enough for after-war kids to understand what their parents and grandparents didn't want to talk about. And there is still parts of the country where I wouldn't recommend wearing a Kippah being out and about.

[@WOLF_KZ]

Kazakhstan was a part of the USSR and fought against Germany 1941-1945 ! I WISH ALL PEACE!

[@donichiro]

бааа массаган. Кандай жаналык

[@WOLF_KZ]

@@donichiro кет жоғал !

[@НиколайЛебедев-я3ч]

Да. У моего прадеда был друг из Казахстана, вместе воевали

[@cagan.k]

@@WOLF_KZ are you from kazakhstan?

[@pownall0391]

In my opinion this is possibly one of the most important historical videos on youtube. It is very necessary to remember our past so that we don't make the same mistakes again.

[@stratejic1020]

Too bad we already are at this very moment throwing molotovs at cops and bombs at civilians on the streets we are on the road to another Nazi situation, get ready for ww3

[@Maks_Morkovkin]

Sadly it full of BS propaganda

[@Gallowglass7]

@@Maks_Morkovkin What type of propaganda do you think was injected into this?

[@Maks_Morkovkin]

@@Gallowglass7 About Stalins fault of Leningrad victims, about total loses, about Gulag's victims, everything what touches Soviets based on your, western "history". Noone interested in that video that in USA those times was 2.5 more prisoners in jails than in "bloody Stalins Gulags" Noone tries to count them as War victims About Raping german women, totak fake. In soviet army in was crime with dead sentance without jail. OFC there were some issuel but not even close to 2 millions. Its hardly were 2000. Meanwhile in USA army it WASNT crime and those 2mil raped German woman were OR raped by USA army or totaly fake of Goebbels propaganda pushed in mind to protect Berlin better. (its looks more like true) And so on ...

[@stratejic1020]

@@Maks_Morkovkin Dude there's literally documented proof how stupid are you? Is your mother drop you on your head when you were a baby? This information is literally front and center all you have to do is do some research it's not hard to find, seriously some people just have a brain the size a pea.

[@Sd-cl6of]

This video, should be in every school. This is for your generation and beyond.

[@ExtremeTeddy]

@Pathrose son of Xavier And still by the vast numbers it will trigger some thinking in most ppl. WW2 will hopefully be the last before some aliens try to extinct us.

[@Sd-cl6of]

@Pathrose son of Xavier I agree. It should absolutely have included everyone involved, in stopping the war!.

[@NotJustAnotherAverageJoe]

@Pathrose son of Xavier They literally mentioned colonial and interstate wars in the video. Clearly stating that the numbers are small comparatively speaking.

[@ragrag5470]

In order to teach your children lies, maybe. But hey, pissing on truth has always the American and European way of life

[@ИгорьМирошниченко-з4р]

I'm from Russia.So that you understand what pain lives in the souls of people until now. From the village where my grandfather lived, 200 men went to war, only three returned.

[@gingerfox2974]

Yep. Every people from USSR have relatives who died in Second World War.

[@ThatGuyC3P0]

Well Russia was on Germany's side at the start they didn't help their neighbour Poland especially with the Katyn massacre ut then again Russia didn't treat it's own people very well so its not that surprising.

[@meetthespy3398]

@@ThatGuyC3P0 then why did the polish authorities order their military not to shoot at the soviet military and help them? why were the civilians advised to leave for the part of the country held by the soviet union? why didn't great britain declare war on the soviet union, since there was an agreement to defend poland? think about it.

[@Navynho1]

@@ThatGuyC3P0это был политический ход, чтобы не дать врагу всю территорию Польши

[@Cergey_loer]

​@@ThatGuyC3P0где же вы суки это всё берёте.

[@zebrion5793]

What makes this video great is the visualization of scale. Most people who aren't students of history have no idea exactly how devastating WW2 was for the Soviet Union. The scale of death on the Eastern Front was nearly incomprehensible for the human mind. Most people can't even visualize what a million bodies looks like, let alone 20+ million - all within about 6 years. We take for granted the amount of relative peace we have now.

[@stratejic1020]

It wasn't devastating just to the Soviet Union it was devastating mostly to the Soviet Union I can say that but I think the war was devastating for everybody even countries that weren't invaded or fought at all since the war took a huge effect on the economy in many countries and just watching that many people die can mess anyone up.

[@pierreo33]

@@stratejic1020 ever heard of a comma?

[@Hunter4042012]

And you know what was even more devastating to the Soviet Union, you guessed it, The Soviet Union.

[@littlesth0b0]

I grew up in the UK through the 80's. We were taught so much about the Western front but other than Stalingrad, the East was barely mentioned. I had no idea until I saw this dude's video.

[@factsbykidd4765]

@@littlesth0b0 same bro except I grew up in the U.S, it gives me a unsettling feeling knowing they took that much damage and are just walking around like nothing happened, it’s incomprehensible.

[@sld1776]

"Rushing to capture history from survivors..." Dusty Kleiss crippled two of the four Japanese aircraft carriers at the battle of Midway, and he didn't speak about it until he was in his 90's.

[@barreloffun10]

And Richard Best, two more.

[@grampabuckshot402]

my grandfather fought in europe, he had won 2 medals for bravery under fire and a purple heart......we never knew, he never mentioned it. My grandma found them along with paperwork explaining what they were for years after he died in an old chest he kept in the closet.

[@kbkman7742]

My grandparents were all involved. Two were orphaned or enslaved, and survived the war as refugees. I got to hear those stories. Another was a soldier who fought in africa, crete and italy and spent a long time as a POW. He was apparently an alcoholic who didn't talk about it. He died when I was 2.

[@thomasmackelly7685]

@@grampabuckshot402 I can only imagine that some people just wanted to move on. I don’t blame them.

[@geentarr3935]

I really hope that kind of videos will help anyone living outside ex-USSR to understand why the yearly military parades on 9th May in Moscow are not "demonstration of aggression", but are honouring THAT memory.

[@langestamper]

I fully agree, we here in the Netherlands aren't beeing educated on the eastern front in our schools.. It's mostly about the Camps and Jewisch people... People have no idea what horrors were being conducted at the eastern front... Dirlewanger brigade and so on.. Mabey then many people can trully understand the mentality of the people from eastern Europe and Russia and understand there values and believes.. For me personally, history is one of the most important things to study.. Not the history they indoctrinate us with, but really dig and research on your own... History repeats itself because of human ignorance.. Just look at the state of the world today, the things they are doing to control the people, the hate they push amongst race, religion, gender amd so on to keep the people divided.. They're trying and doing it again... Blessing to you 🙏

[@headhunter1945]

A memory started by an aggression of the Russians against Poland, hand in hand with their friend Adolf. How easily manipulated their memories have been. You reap what you sow, and when you play with fire, you get burned.

[@ГригорийШумков-ш9з]

@@headhunter1945 Munich Agreement

[@johnnyjoestar5193]

@@langestamper we in the west are taught history with western bias. When we are in school we think the U.S.A and U.K beat the Nazis. We "won" ww1 and beat the germans. Napoleon was beaten by the british at waterloo. Yet in all these wars it was eastern powers (russia) who really won all these wars for us, yet we never thank them

[@ИльяЯрлычев]

"You reap, what you saw". Nice words. Allies sold Czechoslovakia, when they concluded Munich Agreement, hoped that it save them from Nazi. Poland occupied Teshinsky district, chzechoslovakian territory. All of them got the war on their land. Reaped what their saw.

[@pudder68]

We live in the greatest time in history in regards to poverty , personal wealth , and freedom .. yet we're tearing ourselves apart like its the worst time in history ..

[@JoeyJoJoJr0]

They have to burn it all down to "Build Back Better" from the ashes, then they can decide whatever "history" they want. We don't need a time machine to change history; just total economic/social collapse.

[@Damo2690]

Are used always disagree with people that said the world is worse but with the panda make maybe

[@r13hd22]

Hard times create hard men, hard men create good times, good times create soft men, soft men create hard times. Queue The Circle of Life song

[@pudder68]

@@r13hd22 facts

[@hyenalaughingmatter8103]

WE HAVE NO FREEDOM!!!! ZIONISST OWN OUR ASS!!!

[@DerMaje]

I‘m german. My grandpa survived Stalingrad. He went to a Gulac and finaly came back home somewhere arround the 1950‘s. He rarely spoke about the war. Just some little storys how bad it was, eating frozen horses. And walking and sleeping in the cold without winter clothing. If he tried to remeber some things, he allways started crying. And cant watch that videos without crying too. In reality, he wasnt my real grandpa, he died in the war. He was my granduncle(?), but he was my grandpa at my childhood. I later found out that he wasnt my „real“ grandpa.

[@saschah.6272]

I understand you well. My grandfather also survived Stalingrad and came back 1952 too Germany. Just as yours, he never spoke about it. He simply could not allow his mind too remember it. So what we know is based on official informations and another Guy that survived and told us a bit. He got hit by a granade, defending the last airport. Badly injured, he than survived the travelling too the gulags, mainly because his comrads gave their lifes too carry him und support him. About the Gulags itself we never heard a single word...so well, thats as much of the story we know

[@SuperPashkin]

So, that's why in Russia (and other countries of former USSR) this war is called as "the Great Patriotic War"

[@sebastianlup]

They have lost the equivalent of a "D day" , everyday, for 18 years.

[@ТимохаАхиллес]

Они легли за то что бы мы ВСЕ стояли во весь рост,а не на коленях!!!Вечная память героям!!!

[@ganizhunis910]

Если бы они знали во что превратились их потомки. Война диадохов никогда к хорошему не приводила

[@ТимохаАхиллес]

@@ganizhunis910 Ну,противоречивое утверждение и да и нет!?

[@ganizhunis910]

@@ТимохаАхиллес ну, знаешь после распада империи Александра. Война диадохов привело к тому что элинская культура пришла в упадок. Так же и про Орду можно сказать. Примерно то же самое сейчас происходит в пост советском пространстве. Игроки меняются, а игра остается та же самая. Это мое личное мнение пока что так я вижу

[@KyivanEnjoyer]

русня на коленях уже все 300 лет🤣 походу как появилось в этом мире так и стали сразу на коленки🤣

[@janfg1578]

I recommend the movie "Come And See" directed by Soviet filmmaker Elem Klimov. It shows the war highly accurate and drastic from eastern europe perspective through the eyes of two children.

[@richcheckmaker]

Don't watch this movie, it's disturbing.

[@SilencedButNotForgotten]

@@richcheckmaker Hard truths are important.

[@nemamiah7832]

@@richcheckmaker well, war is disturbing, yes. It should be. And if the movie about the war disturbs you, then... Good. It's supposed to.

[@РоманКомолов-е3б]

@Purple Emerald Это действительно хороший фильм.

[@Stockfish1511]

Best ww2 documentary imo is soviet storm. Its detailed east front invasion. Showed savagery of the war

[@mikethemechanic7395]

My great grandfather was a Hungarian who fought with the Waffen SS on the eastern front. He was captured by the Russians and was not killed because he spoke Russian. He had many nightmares over the hundreds killed by his MG34 on his half track. He told me in the beginning. Waves of Russians were thrown without equipment or any weapons. He also told me they were the most patriotic and endured the most headache during the war. He regretted going to war and We all knew he finally got peace when he passed away..

[@ashxxiv]

my great grandpa fought in WW2 and recently passed away at 96 years old. aside from his body falling apart he was all there and very proud and pleased how the world has kept peace and hoped it would last for generations to come. honestly we owe that peace to all the generations lost.

[@Dnie.]

As a half German and half Russian I shed a Tear when I saw the numbers rising I dont wanna know what these soldiers have gone through

[@SerpMolot]

Don't shed a tear for the Germans, particullary those of military age and other adults who did nothing to stop the rise of fascism in their country.

[@ludger9878]

@@SerpMolot Not every German was a Nazi russki. Saying anything against hitler and the party in pubilc would have meant death.

[@stefankurpick8425]

@@SerpMolot you might wanna go back to the classroom and learn the history before making a stupid coment like that

[@SerpMolot]

​@@stefankurpick8425 You see, what you just wrote is something stupid people write to sound smart but actually have no thoughts they can formulate in a concise manner.

[@SerpMolot]

​@@stefankurpick8425 In Russia we're actually taught WWII. Our grandparents remember all the evil they (the fascists) commited. We have films created by veterans of the war depicting the reality. You, on the other hand, are just some snotty kid with an opinion based on popular culture.

[@Scott_Burton]

My grandfather served in the U.S. Army and was deployed during WWII. He only ever had one conversation with me about it, and he kept it short. I was a teenager. After a few minutes, he said he didn't want to talk about it and to stop asking questions. It was the only time I ever saw tears in his eyes. Even 25 years later when he passed, I'd never again seen tears in his eyes, and I never asked about it again. What I remember most was that he lost family there, but they weren't family to me. (They were family to him. Then I didn't understand, but I learned what that meant over the years since.)

[@bluesuncompanyman]

I am in Generation X and as a child listened to the stories of my grandfather and those of his generation who fought and suffered. Now I watch as these truths are being lost to the youth that have followed me. As I watch this young Gen Z Dutch girl learn what I knew from my childhood, I feel the urgency that we MUST pass these stories on - or they will be forgotten. And if they are forgotten - I fear that the "Long Peace" described at the end of the video might end.

[@Navynho1]

already

[@sahoruland6058]

Слава Советскому Воину!

[@Dmitriy_Chuev]

Да будет так...

[@renamed_user1703]

*союзу*

[@РусьИзначальная-ч9ш]

@@renamed_user1703 И Союзу тоже!

[@cyberkit8717]

@@РусьИзначальная-ч9ш сначала этот союз тесно сотрудничал с нацистами, делил зоны влияния, даже когда началась 2 мировая поставлял им провизию и ресурсы для войны. Потом бессмысленно начал оккупировать Европу ускоренно теряя людей, чтобы по приказу сверху раньше запада добраться до Берлина и оккупировать восточную Европу, чтобы установить там людоедский коммунизм, хотя в этом не было нужды.

[@РусьИзначальная-ч9ш]

@@cyberkit8717 О, американский выкормыш выполз!

[@phj223]

Bill Wurtz, "History of the entire world, I guess" is amazing, everyone on earth should watch it. :D

[@playbetter7937]

He is speaking truth

[@MasterShuShuShu]

My grandmother had 4 sisters and 2 brothers. After end of war only she and one of her brothers stayed alive. Also her younger sister died, she was only 1 year 2 months old. Only now when I become a father I started to understanding what is love to your children. It makes me crazy when I think about my grandgrandmother and grandgrand father feelings!

[@Lesche25]

Two of my great-grandfathers died in the WWll and we still do not know how and where it happened. I think that many families had this situation, especially on the eastern front.

[@eric1138]

If you want another 70 years of the Long Peace, then all of us must keep the memory alive. This, is the implied point of the video.

[@zizzla3887]

I've watched this video a few tmes, but seeings people reaction who dont know much about WW2 always makes me sad, it was a very sad time indeed.

[@yasminesteinbauer8565]

And many more people were injured; lost a leg or an arm; lost loved ones; lost their possessions; their homes, etc. And it is unknown how many more lives were shortened by suicide or alcohol addiction due to the trauma of war. And often in families these events continue to have an effect for many generations.

[@eduardosoul99]

I feel such a big respect for Russians they gave everything to defend a country that was killing them and even with all difficulties they succeeded and now getting stronger. Russians are amazing warriors in all aspects of life, although i have to say that i feel as much respect for modern Japan and Germany.

[@user-wb2tm3hv8w]

As a Russian I'm sorry to say but I don't really respect Japan. Their way of dealing with WW2 memories is... Well, it isn't. It's highly hypocritical, unlike Germany. Even though I'm raised on the stories of Germans burning villages, I know full well Germany redeemed itself, but Japan didn't.

[@eduardosoul99]

@@user-wb2tm3hv8w totally agree japan has a pending redemption.

[@tizi087]

@@user-wb2tm3hv8w we germans..... ahve all the nazi stuff and ww2 for over a half a year maybe even a full year in school, there a dozens of memorials all over germany. And Japan has a shirne honoring warriors serving the emperor..... with 116 (i hope i dont have the number wrong) who are convicted class A war criminals (crimes against humnity)

[@eduardosoul99]

@@tizi087 I think Germans should not longer feel shame about wwii, been both in Munich and Berlin and everyone was nice all the time, I'm brown skin amd going to the US is horrible most of the time if i go alone, so it was a big surprise feeling this good in my trip to Germany. Much respect, also in my Hometown called Puebla there are many germans and they always good people.

[@strauchs95]

I mean the generation who lived at these times and did those really disgusting things are either old or passed away. Our Teacher at our German School used to say. As long you remember what happened back then and realize what was wrong back then, then i achieved what it wanted.

[@AT-zj2bp]

One of my relatives stormed the beach at D-Day. Of all the men in his unit, only he and one other guy lived to see the end of the war.

[@lordfrostdraken]

My great uncle was on a ship in the pacific and survived a kamikaze attack, the plane hit next to his position but he got sheilded by some pipes. If not for some pipes he wouldn't have had any children and 2 of my aunts would not exsist.

[@sandragruber4596]

My Grandma lost her father and three brothers to the war. Her youngest brother was forced into the ss and dragged out of their home... He was 16 years old, his father and brothers were already fallen and the war was almost over. His fate was never fully cleared. Only a message arrived a few weeks later, that he had fallen. When I think about all the lifes lost in the war, I think a lot about all the familys that where devestated like my grandmas

[@GlennLittleford]

Your reaction is important. We have generations of people who dont know our history, how wrong and cruel the world can be. Knowing our history is important, or we will make the same mistakes, again and again. I know this was tough for you to watch, but you are a better person for it. Thankyou.

[@keinenbockmehr1749]

I must say, IMO this reaction is perfect! It is content you normally don't work with and you can really feel the moment where your brain goes "click" and you switch to "Ultra-serious-mode". There isn't a lot coming from you during the video, but your behavior says more then you ever could with words! This is the face of someone who is trying their hardest to comprehend what they are seeing, and that is a great accomplishment for a video with this type of content!

[@bradballenger6490]

Everyone wants a war until the pain starts

[@piotrczuchowski1080]

Me, upon seeing jaw drop at 400k USA casualties: Oh, you sweet summer child

[@SirTranquilizator]

9:28 at this point i remembered that every figure represents 1000 people.

[@Dusklight2008]

Russia and China suffered most casualties during the WW2. Millions. And we do remember it. Peace upon you!

[@meetthespy3398]

My grandma really appreciate it

[@Greeknext1]

Remember and pass on to descendants that 80 years ago, superheroes from Russian villages stood under the red flag to voluntarily go to the meat grinder, to give their lives and hopes for the future to a bloody and cruel massacre, so that today your children would not have their skulls measured to make sure that they deserve to live ...

[@mnemonicpie]

watch "Come and see". They weren't superheroes, they simple have no other option.

[@Coinpease]

Your reaction to the quote at 20:13 may be my single favorite moment in any reaction video I've ever witness. The look on your face at about 20:20 is the look of someone who heard truly profound and seemed to genuinely understand it The involuntary smile at the sudden optimism is literally everything ❤

[@morozov3034]

According to declassified data of the USSR State Planning Committee, the losses of the Soviet Union in World War II amount to 41 million 979 thousand, not 27 million, as previously thought. The total population decline of the USSR in 1941-1945 amounted to more than 52 million 812 thousand people. Of these, irretrievable losses as a result of the factors of war - more than 19 million military personnel and about 23 million civilians."

[@mixofx]

Love seeing reactions to these educational sort of videos

[@oilcountry79]

Respect to the Russians. We in the west always hear about how the US saved us all. Now to be fair the war wouldn’t have been won without our US friends, but without the Russians, none of us would have stood a chance. Russia quite literally threw bodies at the Germans until they ran out of bullets. Respect.

[@petesthename1588]

Britain and the soviets alone woildve beat the nazis. However US intervention allowed a Western Europe democracy to exist, and massively helped limit damage to Britain.

[@Genevasplaytime]

Russians allied with the nazis. Lol you are deluded.

[@thejosh3855]

*Soviets, not only Russians

[@wkeklaalal1577]

My grandfather was conscripted when he was 18. After the war he suffered by severe PTSD, for this reason my grandma left him. He unfortunately committed suicide in 1969.

[@Evasion381]

it's impossible to truly get your head around numbers of that scale like the quote 'one death is a tragedy, 1 million dead is a statistic' This video truly does a good attempt though

[@benmatrix]

one of the leaders that helped to shape the world we live in today yet his unbeliveble cruelty to his own ppl is insane

[@elstan690]

"One death is a tragedy, 1 million dead is a statistic" - it's Stalin's words, it's heavy truth

[@tonyslabu6373]

@@benmatrix "helped" yeaaaa us eastern europeans would like to disagree and I think I speak for everyone besides the russians and belarussians themselves when I say that

[@benmatrix]

@@tonyslabu6373 well I am from Eastern Europe and stalin did "help" shape the world we live in. We don't know how everything would have happened if stalin never came to power.

[@iplaygames8090]

@@tonyslabu6373 thanks to him you can disagree, unless you are one of the "honorary aryans" that would have avoided extermination.

[@GrimonprezB]

My grandfather fought during WW2... he shared some stories about that war but sayed he'll never tell us a single thing about some battlefield... That was a real nightmare.

[@batboy555]

Mine is the same. Couldn't watch saving private ryan.

[@lesbiehonest8914]

Horrible loss of life. My grandpa was saved from a concentration camp and fled to the US but not before he lost every single family member he ever knew.

[@TheOffkilter]

Theres a saying that the war was won with British brains, American muscle and Russian blood.

[@alfredthegreatfounderofeng1583]

Every major war explained.

[@anotherhappylanding4746]

@@alfredthegreatfounderofeng1583 well I mean america is a relatively new country lol

[@pudder68]

I believe its British Intelligence, American steel , and Russian blood ..

[@alfredthegreatfounderofeng1583]

@@pudder68 Practically the same thing.

[@DSiren]

@@alfredthegreatfounderofeng1583 except that the British inteligence agencies were the best in the world and the British commanders were mediocre at best.

[@golfr-kg9ss]

Since you father is a big WWII history fan he's probably seen "Band of Brothers" but if not maybe you and him could react to it. Episode 4 deals with the allied attempt to cross the Rhine rive in late 1944 by doing an air drop across a good size portion of the Netherlands with a bridge in Arnhem being the final objective.

[@andrewcharlton4053]

There's also the Pacific and Generation Kill in the same vein as BoB but less well known.

[@kian-rhysevans5576]

Its such a crazy figure. I'm from the UK and it's horrifying to think that more people died during this conflict than our current population. I think it would have been interesting to have seen the the comparison of numbers of deaths for each country versus their total population. Seeing as the UK, France, Poland etc had smaller populations than the likes of the US and Soviet Union.

[@dbzstory265]

Exactly and to see the africa fight death, with all civilian that just doesn't want to die in Nazi regime and fight for freedom and not only in africa but in whole nazi occupation. 🇫🇷💪🇬🇧 glad to see a brother here.

[@AndyGrouch]

Poland lost like 16% of their people in WW2. That's just nuts.

[@НиколайКузьмин-я5ш]

@@AndyGrouch Where does this figure come from?

[@XXXTENTAClON227]

@@НиколайКузьмин-я5ш … math? Polands population - polish fatalities in the war (excluding things like disease and old age)

[@kwj_nekko_6320]

​@@НиколайКузьмин-я5ш in this video. When they cap the civilian deaths in Europe.

[@eclipse41]

I am from Russia and do you know what my grandfather said when he returned from the war? He said: "You can only hear the bullets that fly at your comrades, but you will never hear the bullets that fly at you."

[@Zerencij]

Летов Философская песня о пуле

[@davidnichols1568]

I had a couple uncles who was in the ww2 theater. One of them was a ball turret gunner in a B17 in missions over Germany.

[@ayushrawat9480]

People don't Realize that American were a important and crucial player in WW2 but it was the Soviets (Russians) who broke Nazi backbone and Stopped once Unstoppable German Army

[@prestonjones1653]

In part thanks to American manufacturing.

[@ayushrawat9480]

@@prestonjones1653 And thanks to all British slave colonies from where British squeezed every penny and made them poor to Fight world wars. That money was used to buy weapons.

[@aaronburdon221]

@@prestonjones1653 American's provided the considerable bulk of the materials, while russia provided an extremely costly (on both sides) front to split the Nazi war machine and allowed the allies to take Berlin. Both sides were integral and it was hard all around.

[@schtreg9140]

@@aaronburdon221 The Soviets took Berlin.

[@aaronburdon221]

@@schtreg9140 I apologize. I was incorrect. Maybe I was thinking WW1. Thanks for correcting me and not letting me spread misinformation.

[@casslane3932]

i remember my gran telling me about her experience of the blitz and the fact the air raid alarms still make her panic and go back to the trauma how her freinds died. it seems like another world i can only help it will continue to be like.

[@Kosh800]

Large numbers aren't easily understood by humans without some good visualizations like this. We can easily understand 5, 10, even a hundred things. Once we start moving to a couple hundred our brains just can't easily visualize or comprehend numbers like that. Move into thousands, or hundreds of thousands, let alone millions? Without a graph or visual comparison like this it's almost impossible to understand the scale of things like this.

[@mksnkr5659]

9:14, so now you see why we, Russians, will never forget what they have done to our Motherland....

[@Talsedoom]

Now you know why Russia still celebrating their victory in WWII. It has two reasons. First they don't want to forget what cost their ancestors payed for peace. Second, they show the power of their army to prevent any bad idea from neighboring countries to attack them again. Like saying "don't mess with us, or we mess you up... no matter the cost".

[@psicogames5509]

For the Russian is not world war 2, it's patriotic war, because the only defended and the retaliated

[@Greeknext1]

@@psicogames5509 Russian patriotic war was in 1812 against Napaleons France , the war against Nazi Germany and a large part of Europe united under its flag, in Russia it is called the Great Patriotic War

[@Stalingrad1943-dt5bk]

May 9th is the biggest day in Russia history

[@KyivanEnjoyer]

no ruzzians just a weak and sick of victory-madness. nothing related to WWII in their sect about "woof woof won war, grandads fought woof woof"🤣

[@robertembury6094]

There is a book written in 2012 called Bloodlands which chronicles the disaster that happened to the people living between Berlin and Moscow from 1931 to 1948,it makes for grim reading.

[@Hoi4o]

Current and future generations need to know this, so they don't allow it to repeat.

[@user-pe9gz8si8k]

I must add that the reason behind this should not be forgotten either

[@jarlnils435]

@@OfficiallyFreehugs no, there are always enough idiots to start a war. Allone he wouldn't had been able to do it.

[@TheHulk2008]

World War 1 was already bad enough with fighting in trenches and charging open fields getting mowed down by bullets and bombs. We did change our way of fighting for WW2 but it didn't change the amount of casualties.

[@fredlandry6170]

Well over 20 million people died in the Soviet Union during World War 2, they suffered terribly as well as Poland.

[@panzerwolf494]

I'd suggest The Unconquered. Poland was absolutely fierce in WWII

[@lordfrostdraken]

Its a shame that they are so often overlooked

[@noobster4779]

That is a propaganda video though

[@jamesheald7971]

One of the saddest locations I have ever visited was Seodaemun prison, located in Seoul, South Korea. In 1910 the Japanese occupation of Korea was complete, but there was resistance to it. Using Korean prisoners and slave labor, Seodaemun prison was built and became housing for Korean resistance fighters who were captured. Those who were not executed were put in overcrowded cells, and it was not uncommon for prisoners to die from malnutrition or other health problems. I walked the perimeter of the prison thinking about history in general, the lessons we have learned or were supposed to have learned. Instead of learning to make life better for everyone, we have learned to improve upon the torture devices of the earlier ages, including the tools of the Inquisition and other countries and cultures. We have learned to make life more miserable for those we think of as enemies, or who are somehow lesser humans because of some stupid thing. Hitler read books from the Age of Enlightenment. He hated the Jews because they did not have their own home country is how one history commentator explained it. After all, a culture settles into a location and stays there and grows, and thrives, and faces challenges that are both internal and external. War, peace, treaties, trade, all the things to help the people prosper are addressed. Introduce corruption and only the rich thrive at the expense of the poor. But I am straying away from the point of this. The Jews did not have a homeland. The Romani nomads didn't have a homeland. Based on his readings, these people were failures on all levels and not worthy of existing. Survival of the fittest. Natural selection. Darwinian evolution. And yet they did exist like parasites feeding on a host nation and getting rich at the expense of the host country. No wonder Hitler blamed the Jewish bankers, etc. for Germany's post-WWI condition. And the results were truly tragic. The same to a degree was true in Japan's dealings with the Chinese and Koreans. I've seen what racism and ethnocentrism have done. I've stood at the tomb of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I've seen battlefields and forts and prisons and the gates of city walls where defenders fought to preserve their right to live in peace. And still, we continue making ways to make life more miserable for others who are miserable enough or perhaps are just as happy to live and let live in peace without guns and bombs and land mines and other weapons in their lives.

[@toomasargel8503]

13:10 Leningrad blockade first year was day norm 400 grams bread (black bread) but second blockade year 250grams per one / day . They eat cats and dogs.

[@zhangeldy4097]

By third year no rats, squirells or birds were left in the entire city as people were forced to eat frozen comrades.

[@Deutschritter.]

and the flesh of the recently deceased

[@kentbarnes1955]

Agreed...what an incredible well made video. WW2 was horrific. I am still amazed that there was such a huge deal made about the number of US deaths (all tragic and I don't mean to make light of them) in Iraq/Afganistan hitting 1000, and compared that to the number lost on a single day (D-Day) in WW2. Like your father I've been a "history student" of the great conflict between 1939 to 1945. I would love to visit Europe and stand in some of the places. I know I'm very late to this video...but thank you dear lady for doing this. Peace

[@Jewus19]

these numbers are scary. I wasn't aware that clearly. I hope you are all doing well, no matter who you are or where you live! Best greetings from Germany! :)

[@Stalingrad1943-dt5bk]

The eastern front was hell on earth

[@tedpetry2028]

My father worked with Enrico Fermi. They split the atom which let to the Atomic Bomb. That was in 1942. My dad was the last living person who was present.

[@DSiren]

You should react to "The Final Solution" by Sabaton. Sabaton is a band that makes music based on historical events, battles, and wars. The Final solution is obviously about the holocaust, and as an American it brings me to tears every time I hear it. The certainty with which the vocalist says "when freedom burns..." tears my soul asunder.

[@augl2702]

This is the cost of our 'Peace'... We're quickly losing our connection to The War, less than 240,000 WWII veterans are with us. Less than 10 WWI veterans... WE can't forget. We can never forget.

[@ponos8632]

Yaay so lets start ww3 🥳🥳🥳

[@edwardphillips6738]

The war was won with Russian blood, British intelligence and American industry.

[@SleekMinister]

An American broke the Enigma code.. I don't know about British intelligence, really.. There wasn't much spying, and they had sea power and air power, so they simply cut telegraph cables and surveyed from the air, eliminating the need for spying. Americans mobilized women into the work place, which they could do because the Prussian Unit School was instituted as five days a week in the 30s. The Russians moved their factories east, and without _that_ industry, we'd probably all be speaking German now, who knows? At some stage their tanks became superior to German tanks, by the way. The Nazis did all they could to avoid war with the West, but the financiers put the screws on them, and the English king abdicated, creating ripples throughout the colonies. Winning the peace, now, there maybe the award goes to the UN, and the general amnesty for war criminals in 1951, that's hard to say. This didn't affect Germany so much, where a few Nazis would run for office, and the like, but in Japan, it was a major, major thing, and the Americans never dealt with what happened in the Rhine Meadows camps. At any rate, West Germany was quickly rebuilt, so there's that, and that was a joint effort.

[@SerpMolot]

More like: The war was won with Soviet blood, Soviet intelligence and Soviet industry with some help from the British and Americans. Don't overestate your contribution (although don't forget it of course).

[@tizi087]

@@SleekMinister 1: The enigma was initally broken by the polish, then the germans changed it but the birtains under allan turing used the polish ideas to break the code again. They sometimes dropped mines so that the germans send two messages one coded an one uncoded and then used that to break the daily coes 2nd: Russian indutry without lend lease would have broken down 3rd: The german tanks (inculding the crews) remained better troughout the whole war, on the first look soviets tanks seem decent but the so called "soft stats" make the diffrence

[@SleekMinister]

@@tizi087 You think late Soviet tanks were a joke ?

[@tizi087]

@@SleekMinister not a joke, still a threat. But inferior to panther and Tigers in terms of effectiveness

[@mityaastro]

I'm Russian. My grandfather was conscripted to Stalingrad, he and seven others were removed from the train and sent to the navy. He fought with the Japanese. He couldn't put all the medals on his jacket, there was no room left. It was rather not a victory, but a miracle for the whole country, we were doomed to defeat, but we managed, millions died. I remember my parents and my little sister were on Mamayev Kurgan and she broke her knee there, my dad felt sorry for her and said-it doesn't matter at all, it will heal, there is much more of it here.

[@tyroneloki5131]

'we need war, to remind us of peace'

[@ProgressiveRevelation]

I kinda feel proud being that Patreon who suggested this video for you lol. Now this video is the second most watched video on your channel (soon to be first) ;)

[@redstarlegion7009]

losses of ww1 is a similar layout to this made by RealLifeLore, so I recommend it

[@jarlnils435]

Would love to see this about the punic wars

[@philipcochran1972]

So have you seen the WW2 film 'A bridge too far'? It's about operation 'Market Garden', the Allied attempt to shorten the war and focuses on the British attempt to hold the Bridge in Arnhem.

[@АчеВсмысле-к2т]

В России мы со школы изучаем Вторую Мировую, забавно наблюдать, что девушка не знает о ужасах этой войны, а ведь она была меньше века назад, да что уж там, до сих пор есть свидетели всего этого. Поищите ради интереса дневники солдат, советую.

[@_nanoslon_4609]

Я думаю она и другие жители запада это понимают, но не осознают до конца. Я в частности не до конца осознавал потери СССР до просмотра этого видоса…

[@ВадимАнтонов-т2в]

@@_nanoslon_4609 особенно если учесть ,что военные потери составили 9,5 миллионов,а 18 миллионов-это гражданское население.

[@buianh1257]

I am the first generation of my family live in peace. I really appreciate what I get.

[@КанстанцияВикуленко]

I wish peace for you and your descendants. From Russia.

[@mistrants2745]

How is the Dtuch accent so incredibly recognizable lol. I guess 'Larissa Zeeuwe' kinda gave it away too.

[@H4KU8A]

And this is the reason why its so fcked up when people say "the allies beat the Nazis." No. The Soviets did it. Stalingrad was the turning point of WW2 and that was 1.5 years before the US invaded the normandy. I mean sure they helped fighting the Nazis but the soviets did the hardest part and payed by far the most. I don't care what you think about socialism or Stalin but you just have to respect this simple Fact.

[@lukehrovat8699]

Well I mean Often times "the allies " include the Soviet union as well

[@Dimetropteryx]

The fact I respect is that the entire war was started by Germany in collaboration with the USSR, and in light of that fact, I do not care about any Soviet contribution to ending it.

[@H4KU8A]

@@Dimetropteryx they made a pact with Germany, yes. So did England, Spain, France, Denmark and a couple of other country's aswell. The only pact they educate you about is the Molotov-Ribbentrop-Pact. Do some research, please.

[@Dimetropteryx]

@@H4KU8A Nice try, but it's no coincidence that they immediately proceeded to invade the countries that they agreed to be within their respective spheres of influence. The USSR is as much at fault for starting the war as Nazi Germany, and equally responsible for the deaths that occurred during it. Take your own advice, do some research, educate yourself.

[@H4KU8A]

@@Dimetropteryx Well If you had done your research you would know that Hitler had started the war even without the pact with the soviets. His ideology demands it. He tried to make the expansion of the german Reich as safe as possible, that's it. The soviets still had to rebuild from WW1, the revolution and the civil war. They weren't anything near to compete with the Germans in another war so they made the pact to buy some time and to prepare. You can't blame the soviets for the war. It was Germans fault 100%. And if you think the pact was part of the start, so was every other peace or non-aggression pact the Germans signed with all the other nations aswell.

[@CiaranW2003]

My Great grandmother is 90 and she told me about what life was like during and after the war

[@RageWyvern]

I'm not sure how my great grandparents died to the germans but I like to think it was a mobile killing group would have been a lot quicker and less painful than a camp my grandpa was so young when they sent him to America they spent every last cent they had to make sure he would survive leaving themselves behind penniless and vulnerable and they were killed I just hope it was quick and that they didn't suffer

[@psycho.dad5252]

this is why VOTING is the single most important thing to get done.

[@kenseitakesi1662]

27 million soviets die in ww2!

[@AbsoluteZero-lv8js]

Absolutely horrible lost rate. That's why the eastern front was a living hell in WW2

[@seannovack3834]

Proud to be the grandson of a Polish-American WWII vet who was part of the 2nd wave onto Omaha Beach on D-Day

[@DiamondTanksBlitz]

Слава народу победителю!

[@TheNismo777]

Thank you young lady for reacting to this :)

[@TCELL24]

Nobody suffered as much as the soviets did, even in between and after the world wars.

[@curiosity_yesiam]

china are close tho

[@headhunter1945]

The Polish had it much worse - and the Soviets attacked Poland despite a non-aggression pact, never forget this.

[@paulvonlettow-vorbeck4302]

@@headhunter1945 Losing such a high percentage of the population as well. The German expulsions during later war Soviet offensives were also very horrific. The Soviets suffered horribly, but I would hesitate before saying they had it the worst.

[@curiosity_yesiam]

​@@headhunter1945 well the allies didnt protected czechoslovakia despite a guarantee

[@headhunter1945]

@@curiosity_yesiam That is not an excuse for the evil actions of Russia.

[@kiwinewz2042]

We must not forget that we are closer too World War 3 then we want to admit. We need a worldwide monumental Peace Movement.❤️Arohanui keep remembering what has already happened.

[@jarekcimrman8382]

Trump 2024

[@peterlem1]

Props to you for visiting the concentration camp. I'm German and every student in high school here goes at least once. I completely understand your feeling that you just had to see it. It is something that has to be seen so the truth doesn't get lost. Just reading about it cannot capture that truth like standing where it happened and where so many died. I've never understood what the scale of cruelty really was as well as when I stood between the endless barracks. How small you are between them.

[@abjectt5440]

The Germans were well educated, industrious, cultured and they let themselves get sucked into fascism very quickly. Americans should take note.

[@hristovak3603]

watch band of brothers

[@Soundtracks92]

Yessss! and also The Pacific and Saving Private Ryan :)

[@ИскандерГераненевич]

Человечество еле выкорабкалось из второй мировой , из третьей мировой войны человечество при всем желании не выкорабкается , берегите люди мир .

[@АртёмС-о1в]

О первый человек которого я понимаю))

[@lordfrostdraken]

I like your energy, i think ill stick around.

[@popsiclegd9327]

enemy at the gates is a soviet film based in stalingrad about a sniper who is called Vasili Zaitsev

[@7heSlime]

It's not a Soviet film, it's a Hollywood movie depicting the Soviet side (poorly at that) during the Battle of Stalingrad. It's been a huge factor in popularizing the human waves myths and the one rifle per two soldiers myth. It's a fairly good war movie but it's incredibly historically inaccurate.

[@popsiclegd9327]

@@7heSlime it’s based on the Soviet perspective and there were human waves at Stalingrad there are witnesses of human waves who are still alive today

[@7heSlime]

@@popsiclegd9327 Alright, show me some.

[@-Alexey-]

This movie is a garbage.

[@Azsouth]

wow this girl is beautiful, keep learning about history, it's really interesting and the foundation of basically everything in entertainment.

[@ussenterprisecvn-8098]

Those 70-75 million who gave there live so the world could be a better life will not be forgotten. Most were forced but a lot was not, they gave their life so you can be here today and let the world be safer.

[@estebanvazquez9606]

Watch the terrible loss of lifes in ww1, nice reaction

[@EricPalmerBlog]

We WWII history enthusiasts, enjoy it when someone who is not an enthusiast discovers something about the war.

[@DerekTDR]

When you call one of the biggest war in history of Earth - "a pretty big event".

[@doomdrake123]

The only other event as earth shattering as WWII would be the conquests of Genghis Khan.

[@frankartanis1290]

@@doomdrake123 If you watched the video, the war with the highest percentage of world population that died is the An Lushan revolt, the turning point for the Tang Dynasty of China.

[@RepressedMemories16]

@@doomdrake123 uuuuhhh maybe only other human conflict. There are a bunch of natural disasters that would like to enter the chat that could be considered events

[@doomdrake123]

@@frankartanis1290 And it involved only the chinese. Didn't hear a single medieval european peasant cry about it.

[@nkvdussr]

Good time of the day. I am sorry if there are any mistakes, I use an electronic translator. Here in this video there is a little misunderstanding about the eastern front. Our civilian population killed 18 million people. The delivery of food to Leningrad was organized, but ... He walked along the lake. In the summer by ships, in the winter by cars on the ice. Until recently, even when the ice was already melting and cars could fall through the ice. But the Nazis even fired at cars with a red cross. During the most difficult period, November-December 1941, unemployed residents of the city were given 125 grams of bread for the whole day. Workers in military factories received more. But nobody abandoned the city. And the supply, which they could, but adjusted. And they even evacuated people, especially children. But it was difficult as there was not enough transport. And German planes bombed ships with civilians. On the eastern front, in contrast to the west, by order of Hitler, it was allowed not to observe any laws against the Soviet people. Often Nazi tanks even crushed the hospital tracks just like that. Knowing that the wounded are in the tents. The pilots shot columns of refugees, seeing that there were no soldiers there. They dropped bombs on ambulance trains when they saw the red cross. The fact that it is said here that Stalin did not specifically evacuate the population of the cities is also a deception. I don't even know why they invented this in the west. This did not happen and any Russian will say it. we sacredly keep the memory of that war, we each have someone who has not returned from the war. And we remember that if it were not for our grandfathers, we would not exist. Even women fought with us. In anti-aircraft units, snipers, 3 female aviation regiments. This is not counting signalmen, doctors and other conditionally safe military professions. Only the Wehrmacht soldiers often mocked the captured female soldiers. If you are interested in the theme of the war from the Soviet side, write. It’s just very scary, this topic. Even to compare how prisoners of war American-British-Frenchmen were kept in Germany and how Soviet ones ... These are two big differences. This is even remembered by former prisoners of war from Western countries themselves, if next to them there were barracks with Russian prisoners. Russian prisoners in Germany were fed rotten rutabagas, and that was not enough for everyone. In winter, in summer clothes, in her remains. They just beat and maimed. It was scary.

[@isaaczaragoza4198]

I Recomend reacting to "Memoirs Of WW2" On KZbin. Its a Web Seires of first person war stories told by the soldires themselves paired with real footage of the war.

[@krisfrederick5001]

So many Americans are essentially taught that we Won the War...In reality we helped the Russians survive through armament and supplies and then created a diversion with D-Day. You Reds shed the blood. Not to take away from anyone's honor but we simply were not taught the scale of sacrifice.