‘But TIK, the reason WHY Hitler started WW2 makes no sense!’

Why would Hitler go to war with Poland, knowing that Britain would declare war on Germany? For some, including my Patreon, the reason why Hitler started the war don't make any sense. But when you look at the way Hitler viewed the world (his ideology and his economics) and if you understand the way Chamberlain changed his mind after the Munich Agreement, then it all falls into place. This video will help you put the pieces of the puzzle together.
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History isn’t as boring as some people think, and my goal is to get people talking about it. I also want to dispel the myths and distortions that ruin our perception of the past by asking a simple question - “But is this really the case?”. I have a 2:1 Degree in History and a passion for early 20th Century conflicts (mainly WW2). I’m therefore approaching this like I would an academic essay. Lots of sources, quotes, references and so on. Only the truth will do.
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[@finnhackapell6560]

As a college student studying history, I learned that your quote "But is that really the case?" is pretty much the motif and theme about learning in history. Thanks for inspiring me TIK.

[@Eisengeboren]

But is that really the case?

[@Alte.Kameraden]

There is a reason I used to use the quote from Katsumoto from The Last Samurai "I want to know my enemy." As it fits perfectly into history study. It's the main reason I got into studying the German Empire, Nazi Germany, the USSR and the the Japanese Empire. It's also why already by the time I was in highschool I would say things "Regardless of Nazi Germany's crimes, we would of been at war with them anyways. The crimes they committed were fortunate for us after the war." As I knew very well already by then that Nazi crimes were not the reason we went to war with them but for other political and economic reasons. To be honest, I personally think the crimes they committed broke history, as you can argue today, socialist have been fighting tooth/nail to distance themselves from Nazi Germany, and Fascism as a whole, which when combined with the Cold War, poisoned much of the historical narrative for decades.

[@MarkVrem]

TIK just possibly single-handedly changed public perception on "Quarterly Inflation Reports". They might need to be renamed the "Price Change Reports"

[@JohnRodriguesPhotographer]

I don't always agree with Tik, that being said I absolutely respect his intellectual honesty and research.

[@Jordan-Ramses]

Yes, but i worry about his grasp of economics when he takes out a loan that is 10% interest per day. That is 3650 APR. :) :) (just kidding, obviously he meant the days to be an analogy for years)

[@angrylinecook]

I've learned more about WWII in 6-7 videos with you than 3 yrs of HS and 4 years of BA. Thank you

[@joyempire462]

WW2 teaching in Australia is optional and you only really learn Australia's participation and the role of blockout blinds, Eastern and Western Fronts not mentioned once

[@bijouxdoum6199]

Not really. It's through the eyes of an British revisionist. He doesn't ever admit that Hitler requested peace 35+ times, while Churchill firebombed women and children.

[@bijouxdoum6199]

@R.K. RocketKnight allegedly? Do your research. He called for peace 30+ times starting in 1939.

[@LegalTyranny]

@R.K. RocketKnight Are you really this lazy that you can't look up the info on the dates peace offerings were made?

[@LegalTyranny]

@@bijouxdoum6199 You're dealing with an absolute, lazy moron who isn't about to look into the peace offerings.

[@CallanElliott]

Hold on, this exploitation of the outlying territories in the Reich sounds awfully similar to what happened to the Soviet Republics that bordered Russia.

[@edwardcullen1739]

"Not real Socialism!" - I think that's the phrase you're looking for :) ;)

[@CallanElliott]

@@edwardcullen1739 Lmao, just pointing out that the differences between all attempts at real socialism do in fact have more comparisons than contrasts with the Thrid Reich...

[@mikebellis5713]

@Jasta Two and Britain and Roosevelt were big buddies of Stalin. No war declaration there for doing arguably worse than Hitler

[@SusCalvin]

It sounds like the age-old "periphery and center" idea about empires, where empires balance on how much parasitic the center can get at the cost of the periphery. 1914 Germany was starting to confiscate goods in occupied territories. Not to the point of slave labour though.

[@SusCalvin]

@Jasta Yildirim Everyone dislikes the soviet union, even other socialists distrust them.

[@FourOf92000]

> no, we call that Keynesianism based and Sowellpilled

[@abellseaman4114]

J. M. Keynes WAS A VERY CLEVER MAN - whose economic theories have been UTTERLY DEGRADED AND POISONED and DELIBERATELY MISS-interpreted BY SHAMELESS LIE-berals who will routinely tell all manner of LIES to justify their aspirations to become Soviet Socalist Dictators!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@1crazypj]

At 8 minutes I thought 'what am I watching?' It was so fascinating I sat through the entire thing and then thought it ended too soon. What a great explanation. I'm subscribing

[@alexandrianautocruiser8024]

You are the embodiment of history being taught as an alive subject. Most channels unfortunately just narrate what happened and why, but what I love about your content, that you discuss history actively as a subject to be thought about, analyzed, reconsidered, or even reimagined. I was a history addict before your content. Now, I am a 2x a history addict. :) You remember me? I am the one who always send greetings from Egypt! ;)

[@zapptavian724]

Your channel is by far the best history channel I’ve ever seen, the depth and tremendous research you go into makes this the highest quality production on KZbin. Keep up the good work

[@computerbob2193]

The thing about History is it was told to us by the Victors of the wars that they financed and determined the outcomes. The Banking Cabal is just another in a line of evil Cabals in this world that we are just now learning the truth about. Do research from different view points. The truth is somewhere in the middle. We are living in scary but amazing times. Get ready to be blown away.

[@haroldfiedler6549]

More like the ultimate Anglo / anglophile bogus history on the net.

[@TheMattTrakker]

@@haroldfiedler6549 How very clever.

[@mr.yellowstrat3352]

​@@haroldfiedler6549Specify or F off with that ignorance

[@Boomhower89]

Chamberlain gave successions to Germany the same reason France did. The British generals and the French generals both were saying the same things “we are not ready for war”.

[@kemarisite]

Yep. In the fall of 1938 the Hawker Hurricane was available in several squadrons, while the Super Marine Spitfire was barely entering service. A year later, the Spitfire was available in several squadrons while the Hurricane was available in many more squadrons. Prior to them, the British were using, and still had in large numbers, the biplane Gloster Gladiator.

[@duaneday5474]

​@@kemarisiteleagues ahead of where they are currently

[@sirguy6678]

But TIK- your “facts” clash with my feelings and my terrible memories of history class in public schools- thanks for all you do! Keep up the good work!

[@crimson6952]

@@Edax_Royeaux Thats all socialism. When there's no free market, there's no capitalism.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@Edax_Royeaux There was a good reason why Pinochet threw the Chilean Stock Exchange into the Pacific.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@Edax_Royeaux I know, I was just poking fun at how the stock market is apparently socialist.

[@davidtuttle7556]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 the stock market is a casino. It may have Capitalist origins but it is now a heavily manipulated suckers bet. At least the NYSE is.

[@crimson6952]

@@Edax_Royeaux Free market= When people exchange goods and services freely without coercion

[@AFGuidesHD]

"Germany had to go to war because of the economy" Funnily enough this is also why Britain went to war, I believe in one of the Cabinet meetings the treasury minister basically said "go to war in 1939 or not at all" because the British rearmament campaign would have broken the British economy in 1940.

[@Caresfree637]

War = Profit

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@Caresfree637 Losing trade to the populace you are fighting. Doesn't sound profitable.

[@MarkVrem]

@@Edax_Royeaux Cause they didn't print fraudelant money within occupied lands as far as I'm aware at least... Probably did have some sort of scam scheme with the Soviets in Iran. but too lazy to look into it lol

[@andrewjohnston9115]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 wasn’t British trade primarily with the empire?

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@andrewjohnston9115 The white colonies, yes.

[@matelic8]

Why isn't this taught in school? Thx, for being the best history teacher I ever had.

[@w8stral]

Because the Marxists after WWII and when the horror stories from the USSR came out all ran and hid in the western school system and have essentially taken it over. Why? Teachers do not have to deal with the real world, they get to preach from bully pulpits about their utopia... with them in charge of course and us peasants kow towing to their magnanimous presence.

[@zupalan2265]

@@w8stral You're delusional. It's just an incompetent memory based learning system, if you are referring to the USA.

[@w8stral]

@@zupalan2265 Ah, you must be a delusional Maxists socialist playing pretend games as if you have never been to a college or inside a teachers union which are all or nearly all Marxist socialists in power and are blatantly lying to cover up their incompetence. And every school is based on memory learning as 95% of schooling is just swallowing, and not much thinking until last couple years of high school and college.

[@alanpennie8013]

@@zupalan2265 He certainly comes across as delusional. He should hide under the bed from those scary Communist teachers.

[@KI.765]

No time in the curriculum

[@BaseDeltaZero1972]

TIK doesn't study this stuff, he straps it to the bench and dissects it under bright lights and a microscope. Suberb understanding of these things and real depth of knowledge.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

I really like how aggressive you sound when quoting Hitler.

[@DaveSCameron]

He's a real snack our Tikky boi hey*

[@thegreathadoken6808]

You were my favourite WWII General!

[@нєманрсь]

@@thegreathadoken6808 Who's now?

[@thegreathadoken6808]

@@нєманрсь General-Major Heinrich zu Dohna-Tolksdorff!

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@thegreathadoken6808 The guy who tried to kill Hitler?

[@GeographyCzar]

TIK's scholarly work commands my highest respect. I have a Master's degree, but I don't just trot that out to throw weight behind my often unscholarly opinions. I mention it here to add weight to my studied opinion regarding TIK's work. Also, I contribute financially. TIK's work is unique and brilliant in addition to rigorously researched.

[@billosby9997]

It's good to be reminded from time to time that the possession of an advanced degree doesn't completely preclude good sense and discernment.

[@timwillard4298]

@@billosby9997 Absolutely. I have a PhD and my wife has a MD. I've seen the type of people that get advanced degrees and they're not always the best and the brightest.

[@benbruce9192]

You contribute to this nonsense? He has absolutely no grasp of modern economics. "that's what you call Keynesianism" says TIK when he probably hasn't seriously read any of the modern Keynesian literature. He presents an incredibly simplistic view of the economy and without proper academic backing supports a fringe school of economic thought (Austrian Economics).

[@timwillard4298]

@@benbruce9192 Nobody has a good grasp of modern economics. Monterism died years ago. In recent years the idea that massive increases in money and deficits would automatically cause inflation have not proven true. As we blow up the US debt, interest rates have steadily declined and there is no sign of inflation, contrary to what all traditional economists have said. I suspect it has something to with the enormous growth of international finance capital, some of which is always looking for a safe haven like US Treasuries. In any even, economists seem to have no explanation for what's happening.

[@billosby9997]

@@benbruce9192 He's probably much better off not to have read "modern Keynesian literature"

[@Somerville431]

I liked the deferential allusion to Margaret Thatcher at the very end: "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

[@Lennon6412]

The problem with Thatcherism is eventually you run out of other people's assets to sell

[@SusCalvin]

Germany went full command economy in the Great War, more than in '43. The german command starts to run the country like a military dictatorship. Both Germanies think confiscating goods from occupied and client nations is fine, but WW II Germany makes it all the way to slave labour. All the powers in Europe slide a little closer to a command economy during wartime.

[@SusCalvin]

@John Beige What do you think of confiscations in the previous war? The germans are loading up supplies from their captured territories in France at the time. Not at all the same scale as here.

[@luelee6168]

@@Lennon6412 Thatcher was a statesman, she was clearly speaking from personal experience.

[@2paulcoyle]

​@@Lennon6412The alternative at the time was raise yet more taxes on a dying economy or cut pensions, services. Selling assets was like a once rich family selling the family business. And living large off the sales.....for a while longer.

[@ichwill7536]

Favourite ww2 channel. Thanks for the well researched videos.

[@JohnRodriguesPhotographer]

Hitler was like an addicted Gambler on a hot streak. He had rearmed, he had occupied the rheinland, he had taken Czechoslovakia and cowed to a degree the United Kingdom in France. He had every reason to believe that France and England would back down yet again. It's kind of like that addicted gambler rolling snake eyes and he has his whole steak on the table. Now what. Every signal sent to Nazi Germany prior to the invasion of Poland was one of weakness and acquiescence. Was that kind of feedback for a few years you think you can do whatever the hell you want. Kind of like a spoiled 5 year old.

[@5anjuro]

Sounds like a certain People's Republic these days.

[@ewok40k]

Furthermore he kept on gambling down to Barbarossa and declaring war on USA. Hell, he gambled away as late as december 44 Ardennes offensive.

[@theeternalsuperstar3773]

Sorry TIK, but it doesn't matter whether you list sources, people will still say that you're a lying propagandist because people have ideological and political goals that won't be dentured by irrelevant sentiments such as "reality" "facts" and "logic.

[@TheImperatorKnight]

True... unfortunately

[@andrewjohnston9115]

In fairness to them, to be demonstrably told that their most terrible bogeyman of the 20th century (apart from Mrs Thatcher of course) was actually a socialist, and all you have to do is exchange "class" for "race" and both ideologies are virtually inseparable, must be a very very bitter pill to have to swallow. Before TIKs video I had absolutely no idea this was the case, but once seen you can’t unsee it. It’s so obvious once you apply some critical thinking, Jews/Kulaks are both the objects of each regimes hate. TIK you’re doing a great job, keep it up.

[@theeternalsuperstar3773]

@@andrewjohnston9115 Fair point. I didn't know that national socialism was socialism either before TIK either. I thought the name was a ploy to make the ideology sound good to other nations and the people.

[@damyr]

@@theeternalsuperstar3773 The problem with that is that people can only learn that entire socialist ideology is bad. It's not. It's actually good and very rational. But, well, not in practice. At least not currently and probably not for quite some time in the future. The actual problem with socialism is that it simply doesn’t work, as it's not compatible with human nature. People are inherently selfish, they don’t want to sacrifice their time and their efforts for someone they don’t know, and there are no benevolent bureaucrats with no self-interest. And those are facts, at least for now. So, yeah, socialism, communism, as well as some other collectivist ideologies are nothing but empty words, because people are not ready for such level of cooperation.

[@srelma]

@@damyr The actual problem with _both_ capitalism and socialism is that when taken to extreme, they don't work. That's why the most successful countries in the world are those who have best found the sweet spot between these two by letting large parts of the economy being run by capitalist system with as simple and transparent regulation as possible while dealing those parts that are unsuitable for capitalism with a socialist system. And when on top of that you combine it with a system that builds up social capital (that capitalism doesn't have a clue about) by taking care of all members of society, you'll end up in near perfection. That's what the Nordic countries are doing and keep topping year after year the top spots in world happiness rankings. The problem with the simple kind of thinking is that people are both selfish and also have empathy for other people and keep collaborating any many aspects of life. We are neither bees that live in perfect communism, nor tigers who live completely solitary lives, but something between. Economic models that ignore one aspect of human nature or the other, are going to fail. Most of TIK's videos deal with war. A collective war by a nation as a concept is completely impossible if people are 100% selfish. The only way to get soldiers into an army is to appeal to their collective duty to the nation.

[@theseek7278]

Why would Germany NOT invade Poland at that time? It's the same scenario of today's Eastern Ukraine. In this case, Germany had held the land conquered for hundreds of years until the end of WWI. Germany recaptured the part of Poland that was theirs before, which had a large ethnic German majority. Just like today's Eastern Ukraine has a large Russian ethnic majority.

[@1toneboy]

The issue is that it’s referred to as Poland. For the brainlets maybe it should be called ‘former Germany’. Britain declared war because Germany invaded former Germany.

[@Graphene_314]

The "gotta conquer to stabilize the economy. oh no the economy is falling apart because of a lack of conquest" kinda reminds me of Rome, except on 100x fast forward

[@alanpennie8013]

Also The French Revolutionary Wars, launched because the Revolution. which was the result of a fiscal crisis, had made that crisis even worse

[@alanpennie8013]

@@ryanward10 There's a depressing thought. Perhaps the Vietnamese will save us.

[@davidburroughs2244]

It works until it runs out real goods to steal.

[@brucetucker4847]

The difference is that Rome never pretended it was any other way.

[@alanpennie8013]

@@brucetucker4847 It's quite interesting that Rome conquered the world despite The Fetial Law, which prohibited wars of aggression.

[@AFGuidesHD]

33:27 so basically Romania started WW2

[@tijotypo5252]

double crossing the allied, sided with Germany and became communist..... something went wrong

[@odysseus2656]

@@tijotypo5252 They really had few options.

[@odysseus2656]

No, we all know that Poland started it when they attacked a radio station (sarc)

[@heli0s101]

Balkans strike again.

[@ian_b]

@@odysseus2656 Well, the Germans weren't going to live without the latest pop hits from the Hit Parade on the wireless now were they?

[@georgefitzhugh5408]

On Czechoslovakia: Neil Ferguson wrote that Chamberlain caved at Munich because the RAF was unready to defend London from terror bombing, which was believed before the war to be a war-winning strategy. Chamberlain expected the Spitfire, flak guns, and civil defense would improve London's chances by late 1939. Also, one can never count on a coup d'Etat's success. Supporting one is just as likely to enrage the existing regime and embarrass one's own regime as it is to succeed. Finally, tiny Czechoslovakia was almost useless as an ally to Britain and France. On Poland: You omit that even the British ambassador to Berlin, Neville Henderson (see his autobiography: "Failure of a Mission") admitted that Germany's initial demand on Poland, a 1 km wide corridor through the Polish Corridor, and the return to Germany of 90% German Danzig, were reasonable demands. But the British encouraged the Poles in their determination not to concede an inch to Germany. Also, Britain and France provided no serious military aid to Poland in 1939. Combined with the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, it's easy to see why Hitler doubted the British guarantee to Poland. On economy: Germany flourishes today because of free trade with the world. American and the British Empire were not free traders before WW2, so the option of Germany growing its way out of debt was not available. Hitler assumed USA/Britain would be hostile to the idea of trade deficits with Germany. Was he wrong?

[@MALITH666]

One of the few channels I click instantly. Others being : Military History Visualized, Military History Not Visualized, Mark Felton Productions, Indy Nidell's, Historia Civilis. You guys are so damn good at being through with history. And being part of a history interested community (than some who try to be know it all's).

[@ΑνδρέαςΠαππάς-φ4ν]

You should check the armchair historian too.

[@ANWRocketMan]

@@ΑνδρέαςΠαππάς-φ4ν Much more "popular history" focused. Made for entertainment value, not necessarily a believable presentation of history.

[@Sulpbot]

You forgot my nigga Potential History

[@ParanoidAlaskan]

Plainly Difficult and Invicta are good mentions as well

[@p_serdiuk]

What about The Chieftain, Drachinifel, and Bismarck (Military Aviation History)? Tank Museum as well. Though with them the list gets a bit too long.

[@thanksfernuthin]

Damn you! Yours is one of those channels you can't just let play in the background while you do something else. You force me to pay attention and hold my attention with your energetically researched facts. Well... when I explain it like that it's more of a compliment, isn't it. Hmmph.

[@taylorc2542]

It's so hard to find history that is free of contemporary political correctness.

[@michelguevara151]

agreed. it is a mistake to judge history by contemporary standards.

[@backalleycqc4790]

"Your comment offends me, I'm going to cancel my subscription to 'Cats Today' because of it." -Donald T.

[@Quickshot0]

Eh, you can just read histories from other places then. Other countries don't hold to the same political correctness. How ever I'm not sure you should say TIK is entirely free of his own biases either, because he kind of likes pushing some of his own ideological beliefs as well. A historical perspective that also constantly questions Keynesianism for instance? Kind of odd, it's not very objective when you keep adding pushing an extra ideological narrative beyond what is needed to understand the historical one. That very economic model wasn't really much of a thing back when this was playing either. So it's kind of bringing a contemporary argument in to history. As such I'd say it's probably wise to balance out this channel with other perspectives, as not everyone agrees with his perspective and some of them also source their arguments. History as is many things is something that gets debated a lot and which ones own beliefs tend to color.

[@thethirdman225]

@@michelguevara151 So we should ignore all recent research and accept the myths and legends instead?

[@thethirdman225]

@@Quickshot0 Nothing to do with political correctness. Not unless you are one of those who refuses to accept anything that comes out of the Soviet archives, anyway.

[@timkern462]

I taught Economics for 15 years. If your video had been available, I could have done it in 42 minutes.

[@stevej71393]

27:27 This video is chock-full of important information, but the prostate exam joke had me in stitches

[@Hrossey]

I stopped taking Adolph serious when I found out he didn’t inhale when he smoked a joint. Don’t be that guy.

[@yohannbiimu]

I had suspected for a long time that the Nazi economy was completely dependant upon the confiscation of the wealth of "undesirables" in their own population, and later entire treasuries of countries that they conquered. I never looked into the reasons for this dependence, but it's good to hear these reasons from you. I also liked your explanation as to how the Nazi's arrangement in control of the German economy couldn't be "Capitalistic." The very idea of "shrinking markets" most certainly couldn't have come from the mind of a "Capitalist."

[@SusCalvin]

Germany was still one of the industrialized nations of Europe. The NSDAP ends up taking loans and granting orders and contracts to the existing industrial cartels. In practice, their confiscation of goods lets them treat the civilian german economy with a lighter hand. Germany enters a wartime economy slower than the other powers of Europe. They all have these bombastic, apocalyptic ideas of grand, sweeping struggles against vast sionistic conspiracies. A lot of it only makes sense if you buy into their conviction of a nebulous sionistic conspiracy controlling everything that isn't the true nation-soul. Their idea of the nation-soul itself borders on the occult. There are a lot of different ideas inside the NSDAP. There was a group of people who were much more on board with nationalization of industry, but they ended up getting purged. I always stall because of how many counterintuitive ideals different NSDAP guys have. Sometimes things just happen because the people at the head of the NSDAP are trying to build small empires within the state and balance their power against eachother. Himmler ends up grabbing more and more power towards the end.

[@jacobhollback2879]

Those "undesirables" just so happened to be in a position after ww1 to basically seize the majority of real estate, production and assets of the German people, who were being starved to death by the British blockade until 1919 and were so desperate they sold off everything for pennies just to have something to eat. It was one of the most massive transfers of wealth in German history. So the Nazi's, it could be argued were simply taking back what had been taken from them. Also the main reason the German economy recovered under Hitler was that they basically swindled countries by importing goods paid with their weak currency and then exporting in a better currency, essentially defrauding the countries they did this too. I haven't explained it very well but that's the gist.

[@krisfrederick5001]

You're the only KZbinr that I have ever heard use the term "Bibliography." It's appreciated. Hitler literally said what he wanted to do, to ignore someone when they do so is incredibly dangerous and the world found that out the hard way. This "Elon Musk" thought themselves into a corner, a lot of words but not a lot of actual thought or perspective.

[@Therworldtube]

This video is wrong 1 pound does not equal 100p. It's actually like 1/90ish

[@michelguevara151]

quite right! it equals 240d

[@Therworldtube]

@@michelguevara151 Man, the pound system is so simple with the dozen, right? Not that dollar system with the decimal system.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

The pound was decimalised in 1971.

[@Therworldtube]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 Which actually helps my point, since this is ww2 era.

[@shyzunk]

"People imagine economics to be all about maths and a subject that has no real substance. No, we call that Keynesianism." lol best quote of the video.

[@akacurmurdar1]

I'm going to be honest, I was an adult by the time I became aware that the Soviet Union invaded Poland at the same time as Nazi Germany. It wasn't taught in school.

[@Cthulhu1PL]

How about this: there was a third invader, namely Slovakia.

[@shootinputin6332]

@@Cthulhu1PL A mere Nazi puppet at that time, though.

[@Cthulhu1PL]

@@shootinputin6332 Yet still quite an independent country which could decide not to invade.

[@shootinputin6332]

@@Cthulhu1PL ? It was a Nazi puppet, they had no actual power. If they refused the Nazi's would of just taken full control.

[@Cthulhu1PL]

@@shootinputin6332 does this justify their action? They could still refuse. Hungary refused.

[@kevinbruner9588]

Prior to the Polish Defensive War of 1939 against Third Reich and Soviet Union, all of the gold reserves (105,000 kg) were evacuated from Poland to Paris.

[@alanpennie8013]

Thanks.

[@KrissowskiM]

True! Also - no atrocities were committed against German minority in Poland! It’s Goebbels propaganda to provide a reason to start the war!

[@jamesbarca7229]

"As so often happens in the course of history, the main difficulty is not to establish a new order of things but to clear the ground for it's establishment." Prophetic words indeed, as this happens before our very eyes.

[@TheOne-er7nk]

So why didn't Brittan and France not declare war on Russia as well?

[@derlowe4590]

Maybe their guarantee did not serve the purpose they declared?

[@mrsnrub282]

They (correctly) assumed that Germany and Russia would be at war soon. Declaring war on Russia too would have prevented that.

[@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462]

​@@mrsnrub282A lot of britain France decisions to let germany get away with as much as it did make at least degree of sense in the view of the growing soviet union.

[@ruihund]

Well they definitely considered doing so after the fall of Poland tho

[@linnharamis1496]

This was another fascinating TIK discussion of the “WHY” background of the complex origins of WW2. Thank you and keep up the good work.👍

[@robhitchler9031]

@typo pit Pl)p]please L)

[@theboofin]

@Chandler White Saying 'revisionist' as if it's a bad thing is a similar property... Science does the same.

[@spaduke]

The real question for me is that why Churchill won't accept a peace treaty after France surrendered. He's gambling with the fate of the UK for his personal gain. The sad truth is that he won and treated as a war hero. And the same behavior was repeated up to now.

[@krissobieski4341]

I really appreciate your efforts to educate people on this. With so many millions of victims, I think it is crucial to understand this time period correctly not just write it off as "A really evil person just couldn't help himself from invading other countries" - you don't prevent a repeat with that level of understanding. Sincerely thank you for all your work.

[@0witw047]

Is that not basically what happened? Hitler could have just not invaded sovereign countries

[@krissobieski4341]

@@0witw047 TIK goes into the dynamics behind the choice for war. If people chalk up WW2 solely to Hitler being evil, they might not get alarm bells when the same or similar economic forces push a different leader to a similar choice.

[@SusCalvin]

@@krissobieski4341 I don't think you can understand the NSDAP without understanding their worldview. They believe a sionist conspiracy controls international communism, the press, several world governments and international business. Economically, they end up concentrating on rearmament. They grab any quick tool they can get and use it without making too much radical change to the pre-NSDAP german economic model. Germany already had a conservative welfare state, they and other countries already had industrial cartels.

[@wiilsharaban]

I just realised at 12:20 to 14:00 How What Hitler believed sounds eerily similar to the current Climate Change Alarmism. Hitlter: Capitalism has failed, markets are shrinking and we only have limited time to save civilisation and if we do not act, in 30 Years we will all be groaning under the pain of failure and facing starvation and end of civilisation. Climate Change Alarmism: Capitalism and our way of working and living is failing the planet, we only have a limited time to act and take drastic actions or we face certain doom and end of civilisation. If we do not act, in 30 Years or less we will all be facing catastrophy, starvation and end of civilisation. I know it is a coincidence, but it is a parallel worth noting.

[@P7777-u7r]

"when Britain declared war on Germany but not the soviet union." This one thing and the fact that they sweep it under the rug and gloss over it to this day is the reason there are still so many conspiracies surrounding ww2

[@dragosstanciu9866]

It would have been suicide for Britain to fight Germany and the USSR at the same time. Britain would have lost the war.

[@captainneedadrink]

The British guarantee contained a secret provision that it was only directed against Germany. It was meant to provide a tripwire for the war the British and FDR were preparing for as confirmed by the secret Polish diplomatic cables captured in Warsaw in 1939.

[@JeremyMacDonald1973]

@@captainneedadrink See Operation Pike. While Britain and France did not want to fight Russia they had come to believe that they might have no choice in the matter.

[@SusCalvin]

Reaching back to 1917, the entante powers are generally pro-duma and want to keep Russia in the Great War. One of the big promises the communists make is a russian separate peace.

[@gumdeo]

They had another chance to declare war on the Soviets when the Red Army invaded Finland in November 1939. But again, nothing.

[@Ross-ch9vv]

“Socialism only works until you run out of other peoples money” Im using this

[@CEFFYYNWA]

Its funny because that is exactly how capitalism works

[@MarkaNgamer]

So does everything

[@benricketts1768]

Love Thomas Sowell, glad you do too! 15:10

[@Drain_Life_Archive]

I think another reason they invaded Poland is simply because it was in the way. They wanted Russia and that means going through Poland first to get there.

[@davidburroughs2244]

And to get the polish stuff for free to fund his next stages.

[@KrissowskiM]

They also were paying huge custom taxes for moving any goods to eastern Preussia- that was the whole deal with corridor and Gdansk!

[@sticksie4419]

I think your theory ignores the massive Soviet army amassed on Germanys border complete with European gauge railways pointed westwards. Hitler attacked because he had to.

[@hibernianperspective6183]

I think you, MHV and a couple other history content creators are still the only channels using a reference bar or on screen references of any kind and your one of the few with an extensive bibliography. I think this is an great mechanism to allow for viewer engagement and makes watching your videos worthwhile. It should really be the standard for all History/Political/Economic & Academic channel's channels which take themselves & their subject seriously, alas many do not and saturate the internet with myths and 'fun cool thing that happened' rather than the pursuit of the truth. Many 'History channels' today concern themselves with cosmetic factoids and contemporary political agitation rather than asking difficult questions, it's a sneaky way to cherry-pick the past to push a modern agenda. You and about a half dozen other channels are the only one's I have trust in regardless of difference in opinion. "Is this really the case?" has become the default response for any suspect claim I hear people pandering about. Edit: Just got an ad on your video for 'We the People' from Patagonia.com has all the usual 'Great Reset' newspeak.

[@RedGreekWolf]

It's 2am and I've never clicked on a notification harder than when this happened

[@thegreathadoken6808]

Save your mouse button, it doesn't load up the video any quicker! Trust me, I have done extensive research on this!

[@RedGreekWolf]

@@thegreathadoken6808 my mouse button may suffer from it, but it is a price I willingly pay for my enthusiasm

[@p_serdiuk]

You aren't the only one doing references; Real Engineering, for example, puts references in the description in a numbered list and shows these numbers in the corner of the video when talking about specific topics. Military History Visualized is also pretty good about citations.

[@w8stral]

"Real Engineering" s "references" may as well be kindergarten coloring books for 95% of them.

[@vaggs75]

Just a short note on economics. If you want to understand it, forget about the currency. An economy is the production of goods and services, as well as their exchange. If you increase production, you become richer, over a long period of time. Almost everything else is just borrowing from the future, or playing around with numbers. If you update a factory, you will have to wait 2-3 years until it pays off. If you become richer within months, then it's probably just borrowing.

[@BrotherAl01]

TIK, You should really write a book on this so it can be placed with honor on many a bookshelf and place you in that realm of historical correction sorely needed in historical circles. Thank You for What YOU do! PS, that Chamberlain proctology reference was priceless!

[@nmoranv]

Ah yes, the legendary aryan super saiyans. I love that phrase so much xD

[@MarkVrem]

They'll never be as endowed as an Hung-aryan

[@jamesnewstead7099]

Power levels are bullshit

[@noodled6145]

The legendary aryan super saiyans just needed to mass produce the Maus tank :D

[@ajsimo2677]

@@noodled6145 And mass produce the fuel to run them...

[@hakeemzahardi9207]

*super aryan

[@generalkenobi9782]

"To defeat an enemy, you must know them. Not simply their battle tactics, but their history, philosophy, art." - Grand Admiral Thrawn

[@38Kilo]

Agreed

[@thegreathadoken6808]

I wish I was a Grand Admiral, that sounds like a hell of a rank.

[@jamesdewane1642]

Awesome quote, awesome name. Here's how I explain to myself that I've never heard of either. Admiral Thrawn is a character from Star Trek fan fiction, modeled after the real life Thomas Cochrane, who inspired the fictional Horatio Hornblower series. Thrawn was a genius renegade Klingon ship captain, barely able to secure a commission and consistently passed over for recognition or promotion, despite fantastic success, because of his dangerously unconventional beliefs. Never bowing to ridicule or pressure of any kind, Thrawn insisted on assiduously studying the cultures, lives, values, and beliefs of his opponents, an extremely un-Klingon thing to do. Klingons are the most repressed people ever because of their mortal fear of empathy, which none of them can touch with a ten-parsec pole, or they'd literally vaporize on the spot from profound guilt and shame, but much worse from remorse and the grief provoked by glimpsing all the things that could have been. So despite the huge, potentially empire-cracking social liability that he is, no one can deny his unparalleled genius, and despite extreme misgivings, Thrawn is promoted step by step, mostly because he saves the Klingon bacon in so many different ways without seeming to break a sweat and with almost no resources. Before promotion to admiral, Thrawn had to agree to never speak of or promote or even record his beliefs or methods. Junior officers were never assigned to him for more than one tour. There is no mention of Thrawn in Klingon history. The Federation only learned of him from oral histories of people subjugated by the Klingons during Thrawn's time, who refer to him as Grand Admiral, a title he never held.

[@GicaKontraglobalismului]

It was Great Britain and France who declared war on Germany September3, 1939 and not vice versa. As in 1914, It was Britain and France who started the war and not Germany.

[@libertatemadvocatus1797]

And Germany declared war on several nations beforehand. So don't play the victim card.

[@ΣάββαςΧριστοδούλου-ω8ψ]

And it was the British that started to bomb German cities so Germany retaliated with the blitz. But that's not mentioned in the history books.

[@barsukascool]

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

[@polarvortex3294]

In a technical sense, they declared war on Germany first. But my understanding is that the British declaration, at least, was worded in such a way as to make it clear that the declaration was only made to make official what the enemy's evil actions had previously made a fact. You can hear something similar in Roosevelt's famous Infamy Speech, which he ended by urging Congress to declare that "a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire" ever since the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Germany, too, complained about Polish attacks and provocations. Anyway, this seems to be a super common theme when comes to wars. "Sure, we're declaring war and attacking with our armed forces, but, the enemy really started it."

[@Ono595]

And both benefited the usa immensely

[@AttarProductions]

Thank you for using the correct definition of inflation.

[@YlL-ji2sl]

It's not.

[@marcschramm6958]

@@YlL-ji2sl it’s indeed not. Money growth isn’t inflation. I hate redefinitions that only confuse matters. That doesn’t mean that money growth doesn’t lead to inflation. And inflation was relatively high in Germany and government tried to conceal this by price controls and rationing.

[@АндрейБуланов-э3ш]

@@marcschramm6958 The term you are looking for is “devaluation” (of “currency”, since actual “money” rarely lose their value). “Inflation” is indeed expansion of currency base. Btw it’s not the case that Inflation always leads to devaluation. If economy expands inflation is needed to support it otherwise prices might skyrocket as well.

[@realitycheckreally8412]

Just found your channel , must say every episode I've watched so far are top draw packed full of detail and presented flawlessly, your Battlestorm Stalingrad series has to be the best on this subject around.

[@TheImperatorKnight]

Awesome! Glad you're enjoying the videos! :)

[@ssz2150]

27:33 I liked the video for this most historical accurate description of the munich agreement I've ever heard!

[@anderskorsback4104]

I guess Germany could have avoided economic collapse by slowing down its rearmament and thus balanced the budget. But at the same time, Britain and France were arming for war. 1939 was the time when the balance of power was as favourable to Germany as it would ever be. In fact, Hitler had hoped the Sudetenland crisis would lead to war, and was disappointed when Chamberlain gave in. Hitler thought that already 1938 was the point where the balance of power would be the best it would be. He knew well how unsustainable the current rate of German rearmament was. To his fortune, he turned out to be wrong, mainly because the extra year gave Germany time to integrate the Austrian military and the considerable equipment of the Chechoslovak military into the Wehrmacht.

[@markgouthro7375]

The weird thing for me is I was taught all this in High School thirty years ago. Glad to hear it again.

[@IvorMektin1701]

Same here. Something must have changed in teaching during the intervening decades.

[@MrKakibuy]

In school they never teached me the economic motives of the war but this certainly should be more commonly known

[@timcahill4676]

@@IvorMektin1701 much has changed, I was in school 5 years ago and after becoming interested in history in the last couple years i realised how little I actually learned in school

[@IvorMektin1701]

@@timcahill4676 It's anti-learning so it seems. Independent thought was definitely discouraged when I was in school. Memorize, regurgitate, obey orderly schedules. Definitely training for factory work.

[@w8stral]

NO high school I know of teaches this stuff. I am 50. The marxist socialists have truly taken over our school system.

[@s1140285]

The irony in Tik's voice when he said "I look forward (deep breath) to seeing the comments," rofl

[@lukemchale-jones3041]

I've watched this a couple of times now, and it's a really good analytical piece - its fascinating. I noticed more than a couple of parallels to the invasion of Poland and Germany's reasons and rhetoric to that of the invasion of Ukraine and Russia spin. "History rarely repeats, but it often rhymes" someone once said.

[@swalker3175]

Just a quick point regarding lending and consumption. You contend that lending allows more consumption today but less tomorrow. This is naturally an oversimplification of lending and is true mainly for individuals or individual households. When lending is put in national and global contexts where it can be invested in infrastructure or technologies which allow for improvements in efficiency then this simplified process of lending no longer applies. I'm not actually dismissing your overall argument in this video at all but would just like to make the point that the principles of lending in national contexts are not always the same as personal lending.

[@coelholukas]

Also, this different format of camera angles and the Finding the Plec trailer was awesome 😎

[@mwtrolle]

Thanks for the video, I had wondered myself why he didn't just wait with the Poland invasion at least till the spring 1940 or maybe 1941. As it seemed their military buildup and technological development at the time had an advantage over the likely opponents. I have found the whole situation increasingly interesting in the last decade as I see many similarities between pre-war Germany and the "Peoples" "Republic of China. Sadly it seems like we are doing a lot of the same mistakes. Especially EU seems to fear standing up to PRC. I know part of the problem also is that PRC has bought influence in some countries. I see a fault in the way the western democracies work, as the politicians care more for short-term economical goals than almost anything else, they only think about winning the next election and not really what they leave behind. That makes those not bought directly less likely to stand up to PRC even though it's in their interest in many ways.

[@tomaskrashevsky818]

About Danzig (Gdansk) , we need to begin with one fact, that Gdansk was an independent town with its own government, money, post office all other establishments. Yes, Polish were living there, but it was not part of Poland, so attacking Poland because of some accusation against Germans being mistreated in Gdansk make no sense. Gdansk was on a way to Prussia and Hitler wanted a corridor to get there without crossing borders, which was one of the reasons to start a war but his need to expand and crash some nations in the process was another. However, a war for some is the best place to speed-up development of any kind of technology ranging from machines to chemicals and control of mases or individuals without any restrictions what so ever. For some, well those who put their money into it to make profit and much more. To get resources (in human creativity perhaps?), power? gain more control?

[@SpawnSniper]

People were just trolling you TIK, don't listen to them. They will drive you insane.

[@TheImperatorKnight]

Too late, am insane 😂

[@Xoruam]

@@TheImperatorKnight In other news: The YT-famous Nazi apologetic admits that he is, in fact, insane. All his content deemed unreliable. Back to the plantations, everyone!

[@jamesbooth3694]

As an economics student this really helped! Wasn't expecting to learn economics :) thanks

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

What is more important, military history or political history? Neither, *E C O N O M I C S*

[@benbruce9192]

This isn't economics. Please please please do not think this man has an understanding of economic thought. Would be happy to introduce you to some sources on real economics (I have an MA)

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@benbruce9192 Does "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell count?

[@srelma]

I hope you don't take TIK's word as any kind of proof that his views align with any mainline thinking in economics.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@srelma And? It once was mainline to think that miasma caused cholera.

[@360Nomad]

What kind of elevator music would Hitler and Himmler listen to?

[@davidburroughs2244]

"Sky rockets in flight - afternoon delight"

[@classifiedad1]

Asking the real questions here.

[@shannonpace9433]

Wagner, Ride of the Valkeries

[@MikeF1189]

Disco Inferno

[@zenarcher9633]

Obviously "Blitzkrieg Bop".

[@henrymeers234]

Well done. I’m a history major as well. A couple of quick additions. Apparently, Britain did not expect Joseph Beck, the Polish foreign minister, to cash their check quite so quickly over the Danzig Corridor; but they knew what they were doing, and their support of Poland was aimed at Berlin. Your comments about Hitler’s economy are right on the mark. The other well know dictator who needed conquest to fund his government was Napoleon I. He was unable to overcome Directoire’s massive Assignats inflation which forced him back onto the the gold standard in February of 1797. Ironically, that was the same month in which Britain ceased convertibility (the “battle” of Fishguard), left the gold standard. England, in contrast, had such a good financial reputation that it had little trouble borrowing money. In those days, borrowers expected wartime inflation to be reversed shortly after the cessation of hostilities with a restoration of the old rate of convertibility; thereby, losing none of their capital in the long run. In 1815, Britain began the process with huge tax cuts and, finally, a return to the gold standard in 1821-that powered 100 years of prosperous world leadership.

[@thecoolerjon3506]

I dont generally agree with your economic beliefs, but these videos still provide an interesting perspective on ww2.

[@DaMaster012]

The laws of economics don't agree with your economic beliefs.

[@thorshammer7883]

And why is that exactly? You don't state why you disagree with him.

[@thecoolerjon3506]

@@thorshammer7883 Dude im just an economic liberal. Id just rather not get into a fight about economics with libertarians. See the first guy who commented? I dont need more of that in my life

[@thecoolerjon3506]

@@thorshammer7883 also if you dont know, TIK is a VERY strong proponent of free market cspitalism. Not a bad thing neccesarily, but i feel it colors his views on historical events, especially economic circumstances, from time to time. Like, its the point on some videos he treats nazis as leftists.

Another superb video. The precise and clear explanatios by Tik, combined with great graphics, makes a complex issue easy to follow and undertand. Thanks for the great work. Cheers form Peru!

[@IL2TXGunslinger]

I scored “Hitler’s Beneficiaries” from you TIK and actually read that monumental piece of work. If more people would just read the references ..... well, it would be a better world now, wouldn’t it? Thanks a million for that book

[@SusCalvin]

The snag I hit with the NSDAP is their organisation itself. The different factions inside it, how they balance eachothers power. How much different parts of the german state could distrust eachother. It's like a circle of people and factions trying to build their own powerbase within the state.

[@IL2TXGunslinger]

@@SusCalvin Yes. It's ironic how that distrust/power brokerage struggle goes on and on in many governments today. I think they all have it at some level. It's the nature of politics and mankind.

[@SusCalvin]

@@IL2TXGunslinger A lot of dictatorships have it weirder because they remove balances of power and has to use different ones. Like how close was Churchill ever to a palace coup in the war years. If I'm a dictator trying to be alone at the top and institute my elite Deathguard to keep me there, what keeps those guys from doing me in. So you end up with a lot of parallell organisations with the job of keeping eachother in check. And suddenly there's four security agencies all doing the same job.

[@IL2TXGunslinger]

@@SusCalvin I concur 100%. The dictatorships become then - the most inefficient governments over time, exactly the opposite of “streamlining” the decision process. Gradually devote more and more treasure from traditional tasks/organizations toward remaining in power.

[@tonywilliamson-bruscaglia3070]

Thanks for showing the commenters in the video. It’s amazing to see that there’s actual Nazis complaining about Jews and trying to defend Hitler as some sort of Marxist hero. Good job man!

[@guillermonardone3431]

Happy to be a patron. You are def one of the only WW2 you tubers to source throughly.

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

I can respect the methodical approach you take to your videos and your plethora of sources, it's allowed me to expand my own reading material, for which I am grateful.

[@thomasruppenthal7192]

Hitler DID NOT start WWII - England and France did. Hitler only went to war with Poland. Oddly England and France supposedly declared war on Germany to protect Poland but did nothing when the Soviets also invaded Poland. Point your finger at London and Paris.

[@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0]

Did u even try researching? They only made the agreement with poland to fight against germany, that's why. Why tf would they fight the soviets if they knew fighting the germans would be tough enough already. BTW its literally well known by those who study history that the west never expected hitler and stalin to work together and that the pact shocked the allies

[@john2001plus]

Psychopaths often don't fear consequences.

[@Ajax-wo3gt]

I have to say, your channel is one of the most enlightening and valuable resources I've found in recent months. Thank you for all your hard work.

[@donmcatee45]

We've been learning history and repeating it since the beginning, and we will repeat it to the end. Ego has always driven us, coupled with short memories...

[@nicholasmatthew9687]

I smell some nihilism. I think when you study history it becomes pretty clear that consciousness evolves. There's a reason we can't just look back on history through the lens of our own worldly understanding and expect anything other than inaccuracy . The world changes and people change right along with it. Somethings are definitely likely to repeat themselves but not most. History has actually been broken down into different eras, and they were all vastly different from one another because the accessible world was vastly different. Drawing up a timeline for forms of govenrment and characterize them properly, you'll find that things change rather chronologically. The idea that freedom of the individual being the foundation of govenrments is a wildly new concept when you look at the evolution of human history. I think the only way your statement really holds substance is if one believes all history has been nothing but conquest.

[@kiwitrainguy]

The policy of appeasement was practised precisely because of the experience of WW1. Chamberlain et al learned very profoundly from the history of WW1.

[@karapuzo1]

The Soviet narrative is that they approached France and Britain and were rebuffed before signing the pact with Germany. It's interesting that you mentioned Chamberlain dropped the Soviets because of the Poles. This development probably needs a deeper exploration, who exactly did what to whom in this episode.

[@auguststorm2037]

After Annexation of the rest of Czekoslovakia (March 1939?) appeasement policy was abandoned by Britain making Britain and France searching allies on the continent in the East. However this put Stalin in the position of sort of king maker. Stalin wanted to expand westward. (Balts, Eastern Poland, Romania) also he need direct border with Germany in order to fight them in case of war, so he proposed France and Britain to force those countries to accept Soviets troops. Allies hesitated, lost time in negotiations, then Hitler saw an opportunity to neutralise two front threat and offered Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, surprising Allies and even other Axis members. M-R pact basically gave Moscow that it needed - German neutrality during expansion westward

[@srelma]

Poles hated Soviets at least as much as they did hate Nazis. So, they would have never accepted Soviet troops in Poland to "guarantee" Poland's freedom. And their paranoia wasn't probably not unfounded especially considering what happened after Germany attacked and also what happened in 1944. However, the key question was why didn't the West collaborate with the Soviets at the time of Sudetenland crisis, which is the time when it would have been easy to check the German expansion. I think the France and Britain were thinking that since Hitler had declared in Mein Kampf that he sought Lebensraum in the east, their optimal situation would be that the Soviet Union were left to be crushed by Germany (as they hated communism as well as nazism). Then they were outplayed and surprised by Stalin with the M-R pact and at that point there were no longer any good options available. So, they did two mistakes. First by not allying with the Soviets with the Soviets during the Sudeten crisis and then by being played into the corner by Hitler with Poland.

[@KrissowskiM]

@@srelma west kept USSR in international isolation - they wouldn’t ally with them apart from extraordinary circumstances like war. The right move was to listen to Pilsudski and attack Germany preemptively in 1934. The idiots in France an UK overslept as usually!

[@KrissowskiM]

@@srelma also - Polish army was tooled to fight against Russians - had western powers allied with Russia - Poland would have probably be left without a choice and had to ally with Germany. The whole west perceived Poland as German ally in the late 1930! The whole 1939 was spent negotiating with Poland not to go with Hitler and that is why British guarantee to Poland was given.

[@srelma]

@@KrissowskiM Germany's ultimate goal (under Hitler) was to get living space from the East. I can't see why it would ally with Poland at any point. If it did force an alliance with Poland, it would require Poland to let German troops to march through it to Soviet Union.would they allow that?

[@TheLastOilMan]

No one was involved in staring ww2 , it was designed by the Versailles treaty after ww1 . Who set up WW 1 , well that is well documented, The Colbert report is a more resent description

[@KRAMPUS_G60_16V]

Yes, there truly is something odd about whole WWII when you look at the general picture...

[@dennisweidner288]

@ Krampus What is odd about it? It is simply the end result of the rise of totalitarian powers.

[@SvensktTroll]

It's mostly half truths and bull ish like all other stories about wars and heroes and that is why germans weren't allowed to talk about it and anyone that says anything will go to jail.. I don't believe anything that is trying to paint some as monsters and others like angels.. In my experience that is how all wars are explained more or less !

[@dennisweidner288]

@@SvensktTroll Nationalist feelings do influence the public discussion. I notice you still do not mention any specific historical era. What you apparently do not like is history. And I agree the history of NAZI Germany is horrible. Tragically it is all too true. If anything it dose not fully depict the evil involved. www.histclo.com/essay/war/ww2/tol/ger/crime/nazi-crime.html

[@FreeSpeechAbsolutist1776]

@@dennisweidner288 If the history of Nazi Germany is all true, then why is it punishable by law to question certain parts of it?

[@Warriorking.1963]

@@SvensktTroll Yeah, I mean how could anyone consider a bunch of killers herding civilians into buildings, setting them alight, and hen shooting anyone who somehow survived, as monsters? And don't even get me started on the sons-of-a taxman (thanks for that one TIK) who drove the Jews into gas chambers!

[@BQD_Central]

For some reason I forgot to respond, but I just want to say "Thank you for mentioning my question", really appreciate it.

[@henryviii6341]

TIK is brilliant and is underrated I think in part cos he wears a polo shirt in his living room and not a suit sitting in a plush office.

[@Cthulhu1PL]

I prefer his polo over any kind o suit. Although i would like to see him in a 'stick to the tanks' t-shirt or 'hitler was a socialist'. Oh boy, that would rally some troops :)

[@jamesdewane1642]

Are you kidding? TIK is as posh as they come! This everyman image is totally constructed. I know the guy who created this whole "just like the regular folks" vibe. He records in a rented room, not his home! His clothes are rented for the vids; he wouldn't be caught dead wearing that shite in public. Those teeth are prosthetic! His voice is altered!

[@henryviii6341]

@@jamesdewane1642 Is he actually Lord Lucan then ?

[@jamesdewane1642]

@@henryviii6341 Possibly. One must be evasive in delicate cases you understand.

[@HendrikPlukaard]

What the USA is doing right now looks awfully familiar with what Germany did.

[@lee-fr8oo]

You are so right

[@markmulligan571]

Your argument sounds cogent to me, more coherent than most others I've heard on this topic. What scares me most is that, barring anecdotal and biographical details, in almost all of your sentences, the word Putin could replace the word Hitler. That leads to two scary conclusions: A) that the threat of economic collapse instigated his (Putin's) assault on Ukraine and B that makes World War III a self-fulfilling prophecy in his (Putin's) analysis. When Putin says "the West" he could just as well be using a notoriously anti-Semitic Russian dog whistle code for the International Jewish-Communists now Capitalists-homosexual-baby eater conspiracy, cha cha cha.

[@jacobhollback2879]

Jesus Christ how wrong you are. Please study NATO expansion, the war Ukraine started in 2014 after a US backed coup of the Government, the Ukrainian build up on the border just before Putin invaded and the decades worth of speeches and interviews were Putin wants to create economic ties with Europe and foster working together as an international community.

[@commonsensetony2480]

I've studied history my entire life. I've questioned a few of tiks stuff. He's always been accurate as for what I see! Love your videos.. Glad for ur channel I love history more importantly I love the truth in the history on this channel! Love from Flint Michigan U.S.A

[@kgsniper4850]

How’s the water?

[@gregsmith7949]

I loved the Thomas Sowell quote popping up in the middle of your commentary. Well done Sir, well done.

[@kiwitrainguy]

That quote sounded to me as though it was describing capitalism ie taking from the many to enrich the few. It was, after all, said by an academic, not someone who has not had to work for wages.

[@artofthepossible7329]

Taking from the poor (interchanchably here with poverty) explicitly demands that they have something to take from, but relative to the total economy, being poor requires that you don't have much to take in the first place.

[@margaretpepper3550]

I think that the reason why Hitler started the war was very simple. Up to 1938 Hitler was on a roll & when he met Chamberlain face to face & looked into his eyes he must have thought this man will NOT fight, that is why he was so surprised when Britain reacted the way it did a year later....

[@robertfrost1683]

Thanks for a fantastic explanation of the backstory to the start of WW2. I actually feel a little sorry for Chamberlain. He and Hitler were playing a game of Chicken and Both lost.

[@Alonkis251]

No they don't or to be more accurate they play different values of the word "chicken". Chamberlain "play" to prevent the war, while Hitler play to start war. In the short run Chamberlain won, but in long run Hitler is won. Well I'm not pity Chamberlain, he treat over the Nazi matter without the right knowledge and approach.

[@KrissowskiM]

@@Alonkis251 exactly he is almost as responsible for start of the war as Hitler

[@morningstar9233]

Thanks. I too have always been curious about Hitler's "What now?" reaction to Great Britain's declaration of war.

[@calmolly1]

I must have had an odd history teacher. This pretty much parallels what I was taught.

[@paulohagan3309]

Agreed, years ago, I heard that Hitler had to go to war because if he didn't, the economy would have collapsed around 40-41

[@SusCalvin]

@Jasta Two There is a fascist state that stays neutral during the war and survives well after it, Spain. They remain a dictatorship for the entirety of Franco's natural lifespan.

[@paulohagan3309]

@Jasta Two I didn't say that fascist states can only be sustained by war; I was only referring to the German economy pre-war.

[@SusCalvin]

@Roger Daht Would you say that Germany in 1890 was socialist or not? Great War-era Germany ran like a military dictatorship with a command economy at times.

[@pr0xZen]

I'm a bit curious why the poster would disregard Hitler's beliefs and ideology, when (paraphrasing) "Trying to pit himself in Hitler's shoes/frame of reference to understand why he made the decisions he made". Knowing that the German war effort had such a heavy slant of ideology in their preachings and actions (obviously not a strictly resource/land/fiscal/political pursuit), it seems double-dipping odd to not include his ideology, beliefs and worldview in the equation, when you're already taking the approach of trying to understand his reasonings from Hitler's own mind and perspective. If you're intending to "walk a mile" in someone shoes to understand them, don't take the bus.

[@justinhart8652]

People who lie a lot think others lie a lot

[@hetzerwesson]

Excellent video! There are elements of this video, that is playing out in America. Rising Taxes to pay for huge amounts of money created out of thin air. Scary stuff. I wish politicians understood the dire consequences of their actions. I don't see a way out. Anyway, I thank you for your great work. I look forward to your videos, I always come away with a clearer understanding of history.

[@SusCalvin]

All the european countries run a wartime economy in 1943. They are taking on massive debts to finance yet another total war n Europe. France and the UK come out of the war with huge debts and resource depletion.

[@extramild1]

Would'nt it be funny if that was the real Elon Musk? Taking time out from watching his rockets explode to understand the origins of the second world war.

[@mking806]

Of course any idiot can create a username "Elon Musk" so that's no proof whatsoever. HOWEVER given the attention TIK gave to the comment it does kinda make you wonder. TIK gets tons of questions/comments, many of them are good questions, so why did this one rise to the top? If true I wouldn't knock TIK for giving it such attention. I'm a big SpaceX fan as well. So hey, if the real Elon is dropping questions on one of my favorite KZbin channels then by all means give the man a full answer. I guess one way to know if it's the real Elon is when he drops a question, does it explode? Overall excellent video TIK, love the channel.

[@frasermartin4621]

@John Milton you''d hope the real Elon Misk can write sentences that make sense.

[@Justin-ShalaJC]

Hitler was a Gnostic Politician. We have many.

[@joedoe783]

You should read out the Hitler quotes whilst wearing a Darth Vader mask.

[@anderstopansson]

Every imam should put a Darth Vader mask then.

[@TheImperatorKnight]

If I read Hitler quotes in my normal voice, my haters will take the audio out of context and claim I'm promoting him or his ideology

[@TheImperatorKnight]

But yes, I could try changing the voice to Darth Vader 😂

[@joedoe783]

@@TheImperatorKnight Don't let the haters get you down. I only discovered the channel a few weeks ago and am loving it. The haters are probably just jealous of your millions of views.

[@joedoe783]

@@anderstopansson That's the joke. That even if he wore a Vader mask they'd still find a way to say he was supporting AH.

[@Zed1776]

I have been baffled in several conversations with people who can not differentiate the definition of understand and sympathize. It genuinly seems that people believe that if you understand a concept you believe in that concept. Sam Harris seems to be a particular victim of this simple-mindedness.

[@susanmaggiora4800]

I’m often frustrated with this kind of thing. There is really no other way to get to the deeper truth than to try & understand the way people feel, whether you agree with them or not. But I’ve found that people often get very freaked out during these conversations, similar to the experiences you’ve had. It’s almost like people really don’t want to understand & are happy simply giving lip service to these types of things. I don’t have enough experience with Harris to agree or disagree. I have listened to several of his podcasts, but I haven’t heard him in a couple years, so anything that may have stuck out regarding your statement has likely been long forgotten by me.

[@jamesdewane1642]

Same. Now when people ask, why would anybody believe x? I'm just like, I dunno. Or... You can make the case for x in scoffing tones with statements like, Well it's not as if (relevant fact or circumstance)! If this elicits a, What do you mean? The follow on can be, Well to believe x you'd have to think that (eminently reasonable supporting opinion). And so on. This tends to work better in fiction than in real life.

[@100acatfishandwillbreakyou2]

I never really put it into words, but I felt the same way. It's like explaining something in and of itself is a horrid thing, but if I pull up an article about it, it's suddenly ok, even if I read it word for word. Maybe if I use a text to speech device people won't get upset, can't argue with an inanimate object.

[@AlexiusRedwood]

Yes TIK you are the only one that puts foots notes and quotations in the video. And that's why I platonicly love you

[@arnekrug939]

Military History Visualized does that as well.

[@TheImperatorKnight]

@@arnekrug939 Fantastic! I didn't realize he'd started doing that, but that's great news! (Honestly haven't watch a video of his in a while... but should do)

[@arnekrug939]

@@TheImperatorKnight Since you responded here I will take that as an opportunity to shamelessly ask, wether you could elaborate on your "free market military" if I may call it that way, from your logistics of Britain video.

[@danielodey7775]

Being a history graduate , this question why Hitler invaded Poland and started WW2 really has gone begging. The popular explanation is that he was just a military expansionist , and had gone well in Austria and Czechslovakia. These popular narratives have always been problematic..why woukd he start a WW2?

[@anthonykeane4984]

Please do a video on witzlebens possible coup. It's a very interesting subject thats barely ever mentioned