Why Hitler is Everywhere - Wisecrack Edition

A look at the history of evil people and the history we often forget about.
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[@WisecrackEDU]

Correction: We made a very dumb mistake in saying Georges Ernest Boulanger was a general during the French Revolution. In fact, the Boulangist movement happened nearly 100 years later. Thanks to all the commenters who pointed this out.

[@weatheranddarkness]

Ah! That explains the disconnect in my head!

[@gameexe6337]

you also got the death counts wrong, hitler killed 21 million, not 17, stalin killed 62 million, not 3 to 9, other than that, good video

[@lindleytrueblood5413]

@@gameexe6337 it's not exactly a defined thing... neither regime kept good records of executions etc and it depends on which deaths you count, but yes Stalin is generally considered to have killed more than Hitler

[@matthewdoss6548]

Infamy and fame hold the same impact just turned on its head instead of being loved by all they are hated by all but are usually remembered longer than famous types, theres tons of actors that where famous but are now all but forgotten while hitler is still making millions and is brought up on a daily bases

[@jimigutierrez6807]

Watch this and you'll understand kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJXcf4iPr6mXkNE

[@Darrell9000]

"Spoilers for WW2" -brilliant. This channel always delivers the goods.

[@distilledmeat42069]

@Doctor Detroit a spoiler warning isn't anywhere near a trigger warning, my man.

[@antonydrossos5719]

Wait, you mean we WON?!?

[@M4ruta]

I have just added "Führer fatigue" to my vocabulary. Thank you.

[@Aogami20]

The over-use of comparing people to Hitler has watered down the analogy to the point where even when something actually deserves the comparison it's seen as an exaggeration even if it is an apt comparison

[@InternetMameluq]

I can say this is true in the most literal way. I have literally, LITERALLY called fascists and Nazis 'Nazis' and been told 'you shouldn't call everyone you disagree with a Nazi', and I'm like, 'NO. HE'S ACTUALLY A NAZI. LIKE HE CARRIES NAZI AFFILIATE CARDS ON HIM.'

[@deeveevideos]

didn't you know Hitler drank water?! damn water drinking Nazis!!!

[@InternetMameluq]

@@deeveevideos Water? In Germany? Fake news.

[@deeveevideos]

@@InternetMameluq 🤣

[@helvarstark4282]

Agreed, and to me it’s incredibly infuriating because it actively diminishes how despicable things like racism, fascism/Nazism, etc. are in the public eye.

[@immortallix]

You forgot to mention that anyone who disagrees with you is LiTeRalLY HiTLeR

[@drillasbarbies]

'why Hitler's vegetarianism was influenced by ancient Aliens' LOL

[@AstroLOW]

"an earthquake.....Nazis"

[@travissamz1604]

That would be on the history channel lol

[@JustCozItsMe]

This needs to stop.meme here. Fkin ancient aliens bs, same level as Alex Jones, poison of the mind, though Id still take ancient fkin aliens before any of Jones.

[@dddmemaybe]

@@AstroLOW Nazi Earthquake Zombie Heresy.

[@fabycho6791]

Duhhh... of course

[@bicameralmind32]

Dude you totally spoiled WW2 for me

[@getgud7849]

He warns with a spoiler alert at the beginning for potentional spoilers for world war 2. But don't worry, he never explicitly spoils who wins the war.

[@michaelpisciarino5348]

0:04 Introduction 1:14 The Hitler Industrial Complex 1:55 Start. Hollywood Pro War Comics (Captain America, Superman, Batman vs Hitler) 3:25 A&E 6:24 Who was Hitler before Hitler? 10:34 To The Devil 11:28 Munich Agreement 12:27 No Grey Area. No Nuance. 13:45 The Good and Bad of Analogies 15:27 Mass genocide 18:33 _Express VPN_

[@moviesbyemilio]

Because express vpn is part of hitler

[@jimmyspliff88]

far-right i guess

[@l1ghtny]

I'm here just for vpn part, thanks

[@naruto00nix]

do you have an idea what the devil movie, that we see footage of, is called? or even only the actors name?

[@cv4809]

@@naruto00nix I don't remember the title but is an adam Sandler's comedy movie where he is the son of devil but who's sent to live on earth

[@NotHPotter]

This episode of Wisecrack brought to you by Hitler.

[@NaumRusomarov]

This is literally Hitler.

[@thevrana]

No, this episode is brought to you by Godwin. Let's skip the rest and go directly to Hitler.

[@OmuBuntaOficial]

*Since 1945, Argentina.

[@Leopoldshark]

ExpressVPN: Yo, Jared. Can we sponsor your next video? Jared: Sure. ExpressVPN: What's it going to be about? Jared: Hitler. ExpressVPN: ...fine.

[@jcfranco231]

oof !!!

[@radicalxedward8047]

What are the odds a video with Hitler in the title that says “Hitler” 78 times doesn’t get demonetized? 😂

[@rangamans1060]

A nein out of ten

[@taasinbinhossainalvi9173]

HYDROiD Gaming 0 out of ten?

[@kimjongun3890]

Taasin Bin Hossain Alvi lol yeah right it should be neun

[@sgtpepper138]

Wisecrack is lowkey one of the best channels on KZbin/streaming.

[@raulfernandezarias3506]

Agreed

[@TheSefirosu200x]

I'd say... Is it highkey? The opposite of lowkey.

[@atomichobbit7358]

This is a noticeable trend in historical publishing. I'm a history graduate student and unless you are writing about World War II, the Civil War or the Revolution, it is an uphill battle to get published.

[@WilliamHasMelted]

I'd say you can make a similar argument for George Orwell's 1984 It is a great book that does have an apt warning about government control, but it is used for everyone from Burnie to Trump. We just like to use 1984 and Hitler because saying it is immediately discrediting. Using them is the conversational equivalent of punching someone in the face during a game of rock paper scissors and saying you won because of your "tactical skill"

[@gabrielfraser2109]

I've definitely noticed those conversational punches, in several other areas of politics as well. Let me give you an example - Many people have called Trump's remarks on Mexican and Muslim immigration "racist", despite neither of those categories encapsulating any specific race. People will justify this by saying that in the US, those categories go hand-in-hand with brown skin, but that's really quite a weak argument. Those remarks aren't racist, they're xenophobic, and xenophobia is exactly as bad as racism - it is prejudice against other people based on traits that they haven't chosen, and that have nothing to do with their moral character. Logically and rationally, Xenophobia is just as serious an accusation as Racism. So if Xenophobia is the more appropriate term, why do people insist on calling such sentiments racism? I think it's because racism has a better-established history in the US, it's a word that's been thrown at slave owners, Klan members, and other clearly despicable people, it conjures up images of lynchings. That word carries an enormous amount of weight, while Xenophobia is nowhere near as heavy on the American conscience. Speaking of 1984, the only thing more annoying is Idiocracy. "Hurr Durr it's become a documentary", everyone seems to think they're the only intelligent person left in a world full of idiots.

[@radagast7200]

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan he also said that Marxists dont love the poor... they just hate the rich. Or at least I think he did. He has some criticism for everyone, but animal farm was definitely anti socialist when the pigs became the oppressors in the end.

[@radagast7200]

@@gabrielfraser2109 dysgenics is definitely real though, which is was Idiocracy was about. Though it only exists where free thinkers and the most intelligent are murdered by the state to preserve dogma. Cough, cough... middle east... also 1400 hundred years of strategic cousin marriage tends to not help.

[@Nisfornarwhal1990]

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan i believe he started off like that, but as he got older he shifted away from radical forms of leftism. I highly recommend The Road To Wigan Pier, its an incredible book by him

[@radagast7200]

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan and thats the weird thing... for example, Sunni and Shia are both at odds... and have been for over a millennium... but both are still Islam. Just cause two Marxist factions are at odds, doesnt mean one isn't marxist. Edit... I may have misunderstood your point...

[@Immerteal]

You forgot or deliberatly avoided one extremely important factor: The nazis appearance. From the uniforms and panzers to the famous blitzkrieg etc. What was used for propaganda back then still draws viewers today.

[@Samphappalapa-56912]

I'm convinced it was Deliberately avoided because that subject would be too close to glorifying the 3rd Reich for being sexy and the video would probably then be demonitised

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

@@Samphappalapa-56912 You gotta admit their uniforms were badass.

[@cleverlilvixen]

@Immerteal I think I agree with your point. The nazi's aesthetic appeal was very deliberate and controlled and, in my opinion, that does contribute to their staying power in the public consciousness. and @TrvWhorror_kpn one can state that something was designed to be aesthetically appealing without glorifying the people who made it. Drawing attention to the calculated appeal to aesthetics might even encourage people to be more mindful of their consumption of corrupted ”beauty”.

[@apotato6278]

@@cleverlilvixen They hired Hugo Boss so i guess it shouldn't be that odd that their uniforms looked stylish. It's a bit of a weird segway but i think more nations should become fashionable. Hire some companies who know what they're doing and watch the public sector become a hell of a lot better looking... of course you shouldn't act like the nazis but still, bland uniforms suck ass.

[@JackOpulski]

"Stormtroopers" weren't Nazi paramilitaries; they were units formed in WW1 to raid trenches. And yes they wore armor.

[@kaiserdb]

They were both, but it's clearly the Nazis that led to greater awareness of the term. Hitler's paramilitary "SA", as in the Brown Shirts, was short in German for Storm Detachment, and the SA have commonly been referred to as storm troopers ever since.

[@eternalreign2313]

Sounds like they should have been dubbed trench troopers haha.

[@helvarstark4282]

Well they were, they were just named after the stormtroopers of WW1. It’s like if a hypothetical hyper ethnonationalist radical militant and extremist group in France (for a hypothetical example) naming their militant members the cuirassiers, simply because the French army used them during the Napoleonic wars (I’m not an expert in history so I could be wrong on what they were called, but the example illustrates my point well enough.).

[@helvarstark4282]

Eternal Reign No they were called “storm troopers” because they were basically shock troops that would go in in the vanguard and overwhelm the enemy first so the rest of the troops could come in with greater ease and under less fire, hence “storm troopers”.

[@shenhue7041]

No :D They where called Sturmbatallion!

[@Kostchei]

Oh no WWII spoilers :O. You say Germany lost? Dammit

[@flytrapYTP]

Dude, the entire cast is dead now.

[@sparsh1478]

Don't worry....wait for the sequel

[@trentonbean3531]

havent been this pissed since someone spoiled titanic's sink smh.

[@braeive2888]

dont belive what mainstream propaganda tells you.

[@Zellig]

Got zerg rushed by the USSR gg

[@JamoboBorg]

You're right! I should compare more people to Leopold II!

[@jetflaque8187]

Underrated dictator almost as often not mentioned as chairman Mao

[@Sulkie]

Aww man, got to put this in watch later, I'm still only at WW2 season 7. So, guys, no spoilers, please!

[@arbaaz9992]

Hitler killed himself. BOOM! SPOILER!

[@Leroset]

@@arbaaz9992 The only good thing about Hitler is that he killed Hitler. Sadly, he negates this one good deed by also killing the guy that killed Hitler.

[@arbaaz9992]

@@Leroset agree 😂

[@jagpro91]

Drogon burned the bunker Hitler was in, and the Allies made Bran the king of Germany.

[@radicalxedward8047]

Is Jared the only one to actually make a non-academic career out of a philosophy degree?

[@demiguy2973]

No dude there's a lot more, like this guy kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4KxqGV8d8mjr6c and his friend kzbin.info/www/bejne/gH-kcnScgc5jpq8

[@sontypohnenamen5161]

Y‘all know the game „5 clicks to Hitler“? Open Wikipedia, go to a random page and click wiki-links until you get to the article about Hitler, try to stay below 5 clicks to win. Was fun in boring IT classes back in the day.

[@TheCosmicNemesis]

Holy shit it totally works lol. I've played like 6 times and haven't lost no matter how small and irrelevant the starting page is

[@DianeOBCD]

Omg I won in 3 clicks

[@et379]

It works with a lot of famous names though

[@macanaeh]

I won in zero clicks. I just googled him and opened Wikipedia

[@sontypohnenamen5161]

@@macanaeh If you bothered to read the rules you'd see that's not how it works, but hey, if you need cleverness internet points for that that's your problem, not mine.

[@Elfos64]

What? You didn't mention "Look who's back" on Netflix, that was a great mockumentary.

[@mazenahmed5993]

"mein fuhrer, are you crying?"

[@jacktowers7533]

To quote the Australian tv soul mates A pair of friend run a time travel tour guide company in the future, they hatch the idea to let a billionaire Jew go back and kill Hitler for a billion dollars One character says “why does everyone wanna kill Hitler? Why not Pol Pot why not Stalin why not supreme chancellor Abbott” To which he responds “Street cred, if you go up to people and say, I just killed Ho chi Ming, People would be like “eh” but if you kill Hitler you’re a fucking legend”

[@athrundead1]

If you kill Stalin who gon kill Hitler

[@kyriss12]

I remember reading a comic about time travel where they had a waiting room full of time travelers waiting to kill hitler but they would always fail because you can’t rewrite history. Might explain why there were a shit load of attempts to kill hitler in real life that failed because of dumb luck alone.

[@TheSefirosu200x]

If someone has access to time travel and thinks about killing Hitler (or anyone), they should not have access to time travel. Fortunately, they'd just create a parallel timeline and would be locked into it (or any others they create by trying to get back to their original timeline) so we wouldn't be affected. I'm not defending Hitler, I'm just saying that killing anyone is wrong, but also going back in time could have drastically unintended consequences. I'll bet that, when that person leaps forward to the present day of the new timeline they created, there are A LOT MORE genocidal, fascist governments, maybe the USA even is one, because there was no example to learn from about not committing genocide, without Hitler.

[@TheSefirosu200x]

@@kyriss12 which is dumb because the idea of time travel only operating on one single timeline rather than creating new ones (Many Worlds Theory) is dumb. They would succeed, they'd just create a new timeline as soon as they jumped into the past, and be stuck in it, so in our universe, nothing has changed.

[@kyriss12]

@@TheSefirosu200x Except time travel theories aren't even theories, they're just hypothesis since there's absolutely no way to test them, or evidence to study. Time travel might be very well be impossible since we haven't seen evidence of it, it could be multi world, it could be predestined fate, or maybe history has already been rewritten 5 times this week, and we just didn't notice.

[@xpusostomos]

And today... Wisecrack cashes in on the Hitler industrial complex.

[@thedavid00100]

Oh the irony!

[@alessandro_natali]

I guess a video where so many times the world "Hitler" is pronounced, gets demonetized pretty quickly...And I'm sorry for 'em, cause they put effort into it.

[@turjun]

Hold on a minute! The History Channel had shows about history? Really?

[@Doomroar]

@@Ulysses626 not true, they also have a couple of reality shows about haggling, swamp life, bikers, and trailer park life.

[@SimonPiano42]

he's saying that they overdid it. Do you need 40 hours of WWII programming weekly, sometimes 12 hours a day? probably not. see 4:00

[@nuarius]

dont worry OP, I got the joke.... its not completely lost ;)

[@rodrigomedeirosdasilva6915]

yes, but they weren't as profitable...

[@PhyreI3ird]

Person: *Is a vegetarian* Other Person: "You are LITERALLY HITLER"

[@connysophie]

Try being vegan and have people tell you that basically makes you an "extreme Hitler" 🙈

[@meingaht6265]

Cringe

[@jetflaque8187]

He who must be named: Hitler He who must not be named: Voldemort and Mao and Stalin and Pol Pot and Hideki Tojo and Leopold II etc. etc.

[@zacharyskow4178]

@@blfunex 11.?

[@tsarnature6587]

@@blfunex leopold 2 is not a commie you dumbass

[@helvarstark4282]

It’s sad that people either are ignorant of atrocities committed by communism, or sweep it under a carpet.

[@ggsay1687]

@@helvarstark4282 not only communist countries killed and oppressed own citizens, read something about South American countries.

[@helvarstark4282]

GG SAY I never said only communist countries killed and oppressed its own citizenry. Obviously other totalitarian systems exist. Regardless of that it doesn’t make communism any lest tyrannical, oppressive, and murderous. Furthermore, in the 20th century alone communism killed around 96 million people with a margin of error of 4 million people, according to the Black Book of Communism and other sources. Even if that specific number is disputed, it’s widely agreed communism killed around that many millions of people. So arguably while communism isn’t the ONLY murderous totalitarian system, it’s one of the most murderous on a systematic level, on par with Nazism.

[@tsarnature6587]

You never mention about me being everywhere!!GULAG FOR YOU.

[@DaniboyBR2]

Yeah thats the whole point, make them look at the ball flying away while there's one coming right to their head.

[@Samphappalapa-56912]

Slaughtered the wrong pig indeed

[@zacharycrater2588]

Shhh, they're currently attempting to use your ideas in the US Democratic party. You're making a come back!

[@thebestofallworlds187]

@@Samphappalapa-56912 you're correct. tell me what you think about this one: www.bitchute.com/video/GcnwSQFVzRoA/

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

*Next Up:* Why Is Justin Y Everywhere?

[@JoshuaKimbrough]

Its a bot

[@InquisitorThomas]

I haven't really seen Justin Y in while, he isn't really as omnipresent as he was. Also I really doubt that Justin Y is a bot, his comments are too specific to the videos he's commenting on, unless he's a really complex bot funded by fucking google or something. He's stated in a few interviews that's he's simply a dude with notifications on mobile devices and post comments fairly fast.

[@darthfenrir4892]

@@InquisitorThomas I saw him yesterday on a Most Amazing Top 10s video.. yesterday I think.

[@junkiejackflash]

@@InquisitorThomas he did an online interview with someone where he said he spends at least 3 hours throughout his day just commenting on videos. He doesnt always watch the entire video, might just skim it or just leave a comment and move on

[@joryjones6808]

Inquisitor Thomas I think he is just more than one person.

[@PhatGirlLuvr68Comix]

The idea of Hitler isn't scary. The idea that some still believe he was right is scary.

[@speedy4574]

It's a VERY small minority so I wouldn't worry too much. The vast majority of people are smart enough not to go down that road.

[@MANewhall]

Time until the point about subtly and diversity improving political discourse was lost? 2 hrs.

[@esindirik4447]

Hitler is still pursued after, with covert racism, blindness to color, fortified country borders and economic war.

[@speedy4574]

@@esindirik4447 lol covert racism? What is that? I keep picturing a KKK member cosplaying as a spy for some reason. Also what's wrong with blindness to color? It's basically just not caring about skin color when judging someone as an individual. Last I checked, that is a GOOD THING. Also there's nothing wrong with a country fortifying it's own borders. If anything, it's incredibly smart and essential for a country's continued survival.

[@esindirik4447]

​@@speedy4574 I wouldn't respond to a comment starting with "lol" but I will give one response. Being blind to color means disregarding the heritage of racist history, omitting the generational acquisition of assets and resources with white privilege and accusing impoverished black folk of "laziness", ignoring the racial profiling in the justice system, yelling "white lives matter", systematically criminalizing non-white ethnicities: It means racism which transforms from de jure racism to de facto racism, but I obviously doubt if you are capable of understanding what I mean by that, seeing that your level of cognitive processing can associate it only to cosplays. Try to expand your consciousness beyond pop culture. That association you have hints a tactless mentality.

[@copypaste3526]

„Hitler became for evil what Amazon became for books.“ weitd flex but I love it!

[@thelaughingstormbornagain1297]

So in summary just say what you think is bad and explain why specifically instead of defaulting to a Hitler analogy.

[@TheSBled]

>Stalin >3-9 million Did you not count the holodomor? Because by most estimates Stalin's body count is above 20 million.

[@prateekwadhavkar275]

I wrote a paper on Holodomor. The total deaths caused by it are highly disputed. Very little data is available regarding this because of the secrecy that was typical to the Soviet Union. The highest count that is given historical credibility is 12 million as expressed by Robert Conquest in the 'Harvest of Sorrow. As for most estimates, Jared is correct. Almost all other credible estimates suggest that Holomodor resulted in 3-9 million casualties.

[@cruzcontrol474]

He mentioned Mao in some of the lists he cited, but not once was his Great Leap Forward even mentioned, despite estimates ranging from 30 to 80 million deaths. Honestly, they missed a huge opportunity on these events, which are lesser known, but far worse than Hitler's Holocaust.

[@monroecorp9680]

It's hard to calculate, because a lot of people end up conflating the deaths during the Revolution, then the Civil War, then those by Lenin and Trotsky, then those during the Holodomor and Stalins purges, and some after that also.

[@amildlyupsetdeer1983]

Bruh ikr I heard that and had to rewind the video to be sure that's who he was talking about when he said 3-9mil. I did a quick google search and it seemed the general consensus rn is 20mil

[@Doomroar]

@@cruzcontrol474 which in a way would make the video better, because it shows that even with all that Hittler manages to remain being more infamous, which was the point of the argument, that there isno correlation between the impact on culture and the actual damage made.

[@jonathanhull6999]

"The more I learn about that guy, the less I care for him." - Norm Macdonald

[@guy_incognito]

Another great piece. Some points to consider: 1 - at least one historian has noted that the Holocaust went almost forgotten by a generation due to Hollywood's (and the worlds) disinterest: they were sick and tired of living with WWII and wanted to move forward (hence the abundance of Sci-Fi and escapism post WWII); 2 - I remember when the History channel was new, and was referred to as the "World War II" channel, but there were other factors: they needed content and there was an abundance of WWII footage, documentaries, etc. already in existence and CHEAP to acquire; it was a "popular war", with many veterans still living; 3 - while Hitler may have killed 17 million one should also consider the proportion-to-population: Pol Pot for example, killed about 25% of the Cambodian population. Hitler, of course, started a war that engulfed the world, etc., but you get the idea. 4 - Hitler is easiest to remember, but the Japanese killed millions (estimated 6 million during WWII alone) and no one compares anyone to Hirohito, possibly because at the end of the war he and the Imperial Family were protected by MacArthur, and went on to rule Japan until his death in 1989. Them's the breaks. Thanks again!

[@TheNightmoose]

Circle of Evil was very interesting imo! Also you could have mentioned/joked that Ancient Aliens (despite supplanting Hitler shows for popularity on History) STILL has Nazis and Hitler in it sometimes :P Also surprised you didn't really mention Mao... didn't he oversee more deaths than Hitler or Stalin? You do mention his name technically, but only in a quote, and don't address stuff like Great Leap Fwd/Cultural Revolution

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

*Fun Fact:* The birth of Hitler took place after the release of TTG. Adolf Hitler = April 20, 1889 Teen Titans GO! = April 23, 2013 3 days = 3 sides >>> Illuminati _Coincidence? I think not._

[@muntu1221]

One could even say that there were 3 powers. Axis powers, even.

[@MrCBroz]

i'm noticing multiple mics in the audio, with different levels of echo.

[@dilemmadnb]

*reverb

[@BathedInMilk]

It's a 'pick up' or ADR. If something needs clarification or explanation it can be added after the initial recording.

[@MrCBroz]

@@BathedInMilk I know. Wisecrack used to audio-match better. Somebody didn't have time to record with the same mic or adjust the levels this time.

[@keithgoh123]

15 year olds losing an argument start using the n-word, adults losing an argument start using the WW2 n-word. Hahahaha

[@casamir1]

This is great

[@Niom_Music]

Imagine being a model for stock-photos and wisecrack puts a swastika on you Feelsbadman

[@Nutochi]

This video: monetised KZbin: wait, thats illegal!

[@estebanlord420]

what happend to thug notes ?

[@intermedianguitarsguild4482]

Got it's own channel

[@nikkity5491]

@@intermedianguitarsguild4482 link bro?

[@Jimmeh0h]

Biggest problem with WW2 Hitler discourse is the effect of sweeping war crimes of Japan, Russia, etc under the rug

[@mirosawirzyk5247]

@@MrVaffel sorry Im Polish my nation got butchered by Hitler and Stalin, betrayed by UK and France, when we informed the USA about the Holocaust we got ignored... After WW2 enslaved by the Soviets...

[@Getloose360]

@@mirosawirzyk5247 Wait.. didn't Poland Kill a slew of Germans prior to WW2? Oh yeah, the massacres of Danzig? You didn't think real historians would remember that eh?

[@mirosawirzyk5247]

@@Getloose360 are you serious? You know that you are repating Joseph Goebbels propoganda..? It is the same as with Gleiwitz Radiostation in 1939... BTW If you use J. Goebells propaganda as historical facts are you okey... Here is Wiki read dumbass en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1939)

[@mezmerizer9422]

Biggest problem with WW2 is that allies were on the wrong side of the history. Hope the world enjoys it's gay commie jew propaganda.

[@webkeeper]

@@mirosawirzyk5247a crying Polish nationalist. Stop dwelling on the past you invented for your self to be a "victim". You will only repeat history and many people will die again.

[@Eclispestar]

Hitler is a at his time well documented leader. Stalin was more reclusive. We know and see Hitlers speeches and his supreme charisma that got a whole country out of a depression and created a modern god cult is fascinating. All the rest of the imagery works well. And the leftovers from WW1. The helmets, the guns, the tanks, troop marching. It creates a perfect image of industrialized authority.

[@MatthewNolan101]

You guys constantly put out great, thoughtful stuff!

[@sandwichninja]

If you like gatekeeping bullshit. lol

[@dragoninthewest1]

History channel went from the WWII channel to the Historical Fiction channel.

[@MrBassmann15]

Stormtroopers were actually WW1 German soldiers who specialized in trench warfare but close enough. Your point was still very well made.

[@prplfleur]

As much as i love your Rick n Morty videos, this is perhaps one of my favourites that yall have done

[@Ravi-xf8dw]

He is more famous than people who saved millions of lives. It's so sad.

[@GamerFromJump]

the dude - Norman Borlaug, anyone?

[@donb6897]

@@GamerFromJump yup. I first heard of him when Penn and Teller did a segment on him.

[@Yellow.1844]

Than* So sad

[@Ravi-xf8dw]

@@Yellow.1844 thank you. English is not my first language.

[@Yellow.1844]

@@Ravi-xf8dw you welcome bro

[@HerrMeier007]

The entire video felt to me like you're trying to give a real answer to the bit of Bill Burr where he asks why everybody is always compared to Hitler :D

[@3RAN7ON]

11:33 I wonder what Czechoslovakia had to say about this annexation agreement? Oh they weren't invited to the meeting and they didn't have a voice? Cool.

[@ekhoyt]

His mother must be so proud

[@Bilbo490]

Hey wisecrack when are you going to do a deep or dumb on the 2003 reboot of Battlestar Galactica?

[@dragoninthewest1]

Yes

[@Bilbo490]

@Amfram How? Go deep when you give your answer.

[@tastyloaf5487]

@@Bilbo490 Always go deep, man.

[@diegowushu]

@@Bilbo490 You mean besides ghost pilots, "All Along The Watchtower", making up shit as they go, that shit when they went to the planet, a single guy having power to kill the world after the fembot stole his wifi password... damn it was dumb as hell. Nice effects tho.

[@mav8535]

Hitler was my favourite Character in World War 2. I didn't really enjoy his role in the Prequel but he has grown on me ever since. I hope he comes back for the sequel. Great character!

[@commmander64]

I laughed too hard on this.

[@geoffbucher9289]

this is one of my favorite channels. you guys are great.

[@taskdon769]

You missed China and Great Leap Forward for about 45 million. During his reign that somewhere about 70~80 million died.

[@comradeofthebalance3147]

There seems to be something very wrong. These are deaths. Tragic deaths from terrible planning and too much optimism and maybe semi too much pride. It was also filed by the need to make the nation better quickly. This of course does not m,e the leaders bad people but they are not evil like Hitler.

[@taskdon769]

@@comradeofthebalance3147 I don't know about that. I mean, considering that Mao thanked Japan for invasion of China because it helped him to grow in power. Mao was also an original Thanos when he believed that to let half of the population starve to death will feed the other half. Hitler is what you have learned as evil but what made him evil has a lot to do with his misguided belief that he is the savior of German people too.

[@comradeofthebalance3147]

Task Don And that is one of the misinterpretations that certain people use to justify Japanese expansionism during the period. Mao did not say it helped get him to power but rather he just wanted to give recognition as the invasion proved as a block for the people to rally against and united the people under a common goal. Also to realise that they need to be united again and improve for the future.

[@comradeofthebalance3147]

Task Don And also where did you get that Mao talked about having half of population is better?

[@serteres32]

I think there is a new fashion going alongside Hitler, that is Drug Lords and Cartels... I am personally quite fed-up with Pablo Escobar tales, for example.

[@MrLightlike78]

I noticed that too. These shows are glamorizing these things, pretty lame.

[@rush1er]

You Hippopotamus loving son-of-a-bitch!

[@Amquacktador]

Yes! Here in Latin America, as it is maybe one of our worse problems, you can see how the drugs, cartels and gangs are taken by the media complex to sell productions for people in and outside Latin America about it, but sadly, in more than few cases almost glorifying them.

[@ordinarydevin]

Now why would the ||media|| do such a thing?

[@Rui_Luo]

Don't forget the Ted Bundy movie that came out earlier this year!

[@adamcollins8907]

I always wondered how WWII ended... Thanks Wisecrack lol

[@Leopoldshark]

No spoilers please.

[@danielkogan2641]

This video should have been 2 seconds longer

[@ordinarydevin]

Indeed. Good catch there Jonesy!

[@lifeisbettergreen]

I love that you put in the effort to include academic research, it is what makes your account so great! Thank you!

[@JamoboBorg]

Red Velvet is amazing though!

[@neoculturetea2486]

for some reason i feel like he would've been irene biased

[@jediyarahim-danford7592]

It's just chocolate with red food coloring

[@JamoboBorg]

@@jediyarahim-danford7592 Heresy!

[@MrAskmannen]

Meh, it's kinda overrated

[@SleepyMatt-zzz]

Top notch video, the disturbing truth is that while Hitler is still vilified, so many people are not really educated as to why Hitler, and other totalitarians like him, were so bad during the first half of the 20th century. Not really helped that the media and politicians influence people to have a very general and very superficial interpretation of what transpired before, and during Hitler's regime. I partly blame the education system, it absolutely fails to teach people about how and why Hitler, the Nazis, and other totalitarians were so bad. It's really no wonder that some people will call anyone Hitler who is slightly right of Stalin (as the saying goes at least, Stalin being Left is debatable). I'd say that people's cartoonish interpretation and reaction to ideas involving Hitler is actually contributing in favor of Neo-fascists.

[@arcarsenal1380]

Totalitarianism and authoritarianism are dogmatic and hyper conservative, thus they are by definition on the Right of the ideological scale. So by extension, all dictators are Right wing. (Trigger warning lol) Good comment btw.

[@monroecorp9680]

@@arcarsenal1380 This is why Right and Left are completely insufficient terminologies

[@arcarsenal1380]

@@monroecorp9680 Agreed. I tend to try and avoid using those terms unless it's in response to someone who's used it in their framing. My excuse here is I was intentionally being provocative :D

[@monroecorp9680]

​@@arcarsenal1380 Definitely a good way to get that provocation going xD

[@cobraglatiator]

it's not just leftists calling being hitler ("call anyone hitler who is slightly right of stalin" i'm not denying this happens, but that's not the only time people are called hitler.) right wingers do it too. : P

[@michaleandmore5111]

No comment, on how the British Empire made so many countries suffer

[@nialpollitt3410]

No comment. on how the Aztec emipire sacrificed tens of thousands on the top of pyramids to fuel their hungry gods.

[@hugostiglitz1673]

@Pls Explain Life 3 I think the Irish would disagree. Unless by 'improved' you mean allowing famines which kill millions of people. Same in India.

[@mirosawirzyk5247]

Moa killed 70mln people, Stalin 40-50mln, thanks to LEOPOLD II of Belgium we have HIV/AIDS (he also killed 15mln people in Africa) - hahahahaaaa yeah British Empire LOL...

[@edwinramirez1019]

Using Hitler as the primary analogy sort of erases the deeds of Stalin and Mao, which both have greater body counts of civilian death than Hitler.

[@jordanpeele24]

When u realize hitler would have put Jesus in a concentration camp

[@Call-me-Al]

@@Ulysses626 Jesus was a jew. Christianity was originally a Jewish sect, until some time after after his death. Jesus was supposed to die too, according to God's plan. So, you can't whine about it unless you hate God for using Jesus' death to cleanse sin.

[@Polar702bear]

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Romans did yes but under pressure from the Pharisees (Jewish authority of the timee). Romans were occupying the area and didn't want the people to revolt by allowing Jesus to* go. Edit*

[@Call-me-Al]

@@Ulysses626 I don't take religion seriously, but I do take it seriously when people use religion (or most other things) as an excuse to reinforce shit that has gotten a lot of innocent people killed.

[@Polar702bear]

@DARTH DOOFENSHMIRTZ Get thicker skin, getting defensive without being aggressed looks like weakness.

[@Polar702bear]

@DARTH DOOFENSHMIRTZ No, get thicker skin by not *falling into a victim position and assuming someone was calling you a monster.

[@MrLeemurman]

15:00 What? It is widely stated that 20 million died under Stalin. And you didn’t even mention Mao’s count* with the lowest estimates putting him at 35 million. If the point you were making is that Hitler is the most vilified despite others having committed atrocities of similar scale, why would you not mention this?

[@buddykiller]

THIS!! biased account is biased and bluepilled.

[@unexpectedinquisition4862]

Because sadly, there are so many tragedies that have happened that they don’t even need to mention the worst of them to get their point across.

[@WeirdTale]

Hitler did a lot of damage. A third of the people than those two in a fraction of the time in power.

[@KingBowserVlog]

I found it weird as well. It's a pretty well known fact more people died under Stalin than in nazi germany

[@f3ynman1um8]

What this? An actually important video that is relevant no matter what pop culture says and is an interesting discussion over the impact of one of the most important people in the past century

[@joelrenouf7917]

Excellent vid and no ads, bravo

[@BRONYandtheTROLL]

Guess he ain't dead, he lives on our TVs

[@QarthCEO]

Aaaaand, this video was just demonetized...

[@AdemNBTR]

It's doubtful. It's history. We can't ignored what happened.

[@QarthCEO]

@@AdemNBTR Doesn't matter, the word "Hitler" is in the title, so the algorithm will demonetize it automatically. They may win on appeal, and it will be monetized after about a week, but by then, they lost out on most of the ad revenue. KZbin algo's are stupid.

[@nelsonmza9915]

Great video pointing out forgotten tragedies of our world's history.

[@rebekahcastro5430]

I agree that comparing present-day fascists to Hitler is unproductive. Fascism comes in as many shapes and sizes as there are demagogues.

[@Jarod-sm5rf]

You should see that the Europeans where doing for a long time before hitler was around, especially Britain.

[@monkofdarktimes]

Like the famine in India durring wwii

[@monkofdarktimes]

@@callummason6589 you can say that to almost every religion

[@BayaRae]

Look at how people today see Genghis Khan as opposed to how his contemporaries saw him. How will people see Hitler seven hundred years from now? Something to think about.

[@Euphoriasmotion2011]

Chinese chairman moa, and Stalin killed more than Hitler, but they and Kahn are not white. It's a white bashing racist uprising of feminism. It's retarded

[@muntu1221]

@@Euphoriasmotion2011 Stalin was white.....

[@iwanttogivedaisyridleyafac2432]

We meet again.

[@danielhalls8153]

Awesome as always. You guys should put a reference list in the youtube description. Would love to read some of your resources.

[@Ellivation]

Because deep down, people secretly love him.

[@Nekr0n35]

But Hitler is not in the new Rammstein Music video called "Deutschland" (Germany) lol

[@traeherren2269]

Awesome song

[@rockfrolic6249]

Nekr0n35 There is Nazi symbolism in the video.

[@abrilherrera9523]

If the reason media "uses" Hitler so much is to avoid such tragedies from happening again I'd say it's not working, as in the last few years we have seen an increase in neo-nazis and neo-nazi-like organizations, propaganda, and politicians, with much more support than one might expect, considering that Hitler and his awfulness is everywhere.

[@user-hv4zt3ro5m]

I can't thank you enough for mentioning the greek party of Golden Dawn in this particular video. Modern Greek political landscape has pretty much everything you need to make sense not only of our Southern-European mindset but also all the pitfalls of the lethal mix that is capitalism+post modern take on democracy.

[@testimonialicochique]

15:40 : It was not the "Belgian Congo" yet but the "Congo Free State", a private corporate state belonging to the king Leopold II before it was given to Belgium. Nowadays, people often mix the differents periods of the Congo colonisation and wrongly conclude that the Belgium state organised a genocide a bit like Third Reich did during WW2. That is not that simple. Belgium state had little information and power about these lands, the armed forces were by majority enrolled local population, and the motivations of the killings included tribes wars, personal gains, and such. It was at the same time that the Wild West in America and similar on some aspects.

[@alanlight7740]

Yes, and the massive deaths in the Congo were not so much a deliberate choice by King Leopold as they were poor management and perverse incentives, mostly unintentional and enabled by the rampant criminality of the local population that were hired as soldiers. King Leopold gets a bad rap for what was done by others, and as it happens things were just as bad in at least some neighboring French colonies, but Leopold gets the blame because he did not try to cover up what was happening like the French government did.

[@yourethatmantis5178]

For Millenials it was Avengers: Endgame spoilers For the G.I. Generation it was World War 2 spoilers

[@esindirik4447]

Why do I feel proud of you for creating such good content, as if I'm your mother or whatever

[@arcarsenal1380]

Because the Alt Right suck and need a reality check?

[@ordinarydevin]

Because social justice lefty types always imagine themselves to be everyone’s mother. Sell the cats, have some kids and leave everyone alone ffs. Everyone (YOU included) will be HAPPIER! 🙄

[@youtubeuser2188]

This video is so damn terrible, it sounds like a speech some high faux intellectual would make. The reason why Hitler is everywhere is because the elites want to constantly stoke white guilt amount the public. They fear nationalistic masses that would limit their power. If any bad guys are made to resemble Hitler it’s because they want to let you know who’s the bad guy. This video is so much fluff as well. Half is just pointing out comparisons that people make.

[@arcarsenal1380]

@@youtubeuser2188 I read your comment, but for some reason all I came away with was REEEE outrage 🤔 curious

[@esindirik4447]

​@@youtubeuser2188 you sound like a know-it-all who expects everyone to believe his own opinion without presenting any argument and evidence. For the video provides many references to actual scholarly work, its alleged pseudo-intellectualism is preferable over your baseless rant.

[@FullMetalCaptain]

Thank you for covering this!

[@Driftking305forlife]

Keep up the good work. This channel rocks especially when you post thought provoking content like this.

[@Giganfan2k1]

I love political idiocy. It allows me to skirt actual discourse.

[@BlenBlen]

Good dialectics. Hegel approves.

[@DickHeadsPodcast]

DickHeads Podcast was lucky enough to get a chance to interview Gavriel Rosenfeld on the subject of Philip K. Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle a couple months ago. He is a brilliant guy. Cheers to Wisecrack for choosing him as their primary source for this episode.

[@aDeviantType]

Another big reason he got big was his screen time. WWII was the first big war after cameras were all color, better quality, and portable. There was lots of very clear recordings from news and such and it was incredibly widely distributed. He was featured in cartoons and films for propaganda and became the new big movie villain but was real. He’s become an associated with media and storytelling and he’ll be remembered as long as Darth Vader, Voldemort and every other big bad movie villain will. He like, switched realms.

[@bigmike9128]

Ahs formerly the military channel has taken over from the history channel.

[@aguBert90]

Conclusion, instead of compare x to hitler make a more complex analysis.

[@millerrepin4452]

Oh so we can't use Hitler analogies now what is this nazi Germany

[@aguBert90]

@@millerrepin4452 I know you think otherwise miller, but you are part of the solution.

[@zacharyzoet3046]

From one of his essays in "Shooting an Elephant," George Orwell taught me the worth of crafting original prose. A newly opened analogy is a blossom of the mind, I think. Pluck it while you can and stand it in a good vase for others to take notice of it's character.

[@wereberius9201]

Short answer-People, especially extreme hypocrites, are always comparing others to Hitler.

[@l.e.b.3541]

That is exactly what Hitler would have said in your place, explain yourself!

[@Captainflowers1011]

The interesting thing is, our culture has had a "most evil bastard" to compare crappy people to for way before Hitler. Before that it was common to refer to shitty people as "Pharaoh" in reference to the biblical story of Moses. So it's not exactly a new concept and once someone even shittier takes the mantle it'll change hands yet again.

[@WLxMusic]

I'm thinking of old Kimmy Jong Un to take up that position after some time.

[@Captainflowers1011]

@@WLxMusic hell I'm down. Let's get it un!

[@RedStarMonkey98]

Very intelligent and well researched video. Great Job make more

[@johnbullandhisfriend]

First of all, thank you, I enjoyed your work a lot! There are things we get so used to that we don't even take a second to analyze. However, it's interesting how you made a tricky analogy yourself in the video, comparing, beneath the word of “historical crimes", the iberian conquest and colonization of America with the Shoah. As a spaniard and historian, I'd like to note that, far from the nazi crimes, the enormous amount of native people (whatever should be the precise number) dead or demographically “dissapeared” from iberian America while the colonial period weren't mostly “killed”. There wasn't a plan made to exterminate the natives, but a wide number of circumstances (diseases, famines, internal wars, natality dicrease...), originated by the conquest, but not prepared or even wished, that led to this so unfortunated tragedy. No one is doing any favour to historical memory and accuracy with such comparations. I just wanted to note that. Appart from this, I repeat, good work! :)

[@jerryvee3968]

I'm kinda sad the swastika is the default Nazi logo. It's a waste of a symbol.

[@wirelesmike73]

It was stolen from other cultures and reversed in image and meaning. It was once a symbol of peace and prosperity. Just one more thing that they ruined. :(

[@jerryvee3968]

@@wirelesmike73 I tried putting swastika on school cultural festival stall's banner for world peace logo once. Somehow, an Indian kid liked it, shared it with his friends. Next thing you know, I'm in dean's office next to dean and student guidance counselor for being a "nationalist extremist"... outlook

[@wirelesmike73]

@@jerryvee3968 Nazis ruin everything they touch. I can't buy a Polynesian tiki torch for my back yard anymore without getting side eye. Not to mention they're getting harder to find outside of home improvement stores.

[@MagetoLp]

@@wirelesmike73 not rly the swastika is in many cultures

[@wirelesmike73]

@@MagetoLp, It is... And in all other cultures it was a symbol of peace, until the Nazis took it for their own and reversed it and it's meaning.

[@imroztowhid1284]

god knows how many stuffs he had to read before making this vid

[@Himewna]

as a side note- one of the reasons holocaust documentaries/films in particular rose during the 80's and 90's is that almost all of the nazi camps were located within the Soviet block prior to WWII. Access to them for research purposes, especially by those in the States & Western Europe, was either denied or heavily restricted. In the 80's we saw the grip of the USSR weaken around Eastern Europe, and its subsequent collapse in the 90's, leading to greater access to information about the holocaust overall (of course alongside the stories of survivors. We could put peoples memories to a specific place and time)

[@dukelornek]

Man I love the outro music is it from anything?

[@pharos6362]

Boulanger in the french revolution ?! Its not serious ! He was near of the power yes, but 100 years ago before 1789 ... Its not a good work of documentation.