World War 2 Didn’t End Like You Think It Did…

[@keaganthegreat]

My grandfather was in the battle of the bulge. He took shrapnel from a mortar in his left knee and was bleeding heavily. There was no chance of evac, so they buried him... He spent six hours, buried in the snow to hide from the german scouts, waiting for his squad mates to come dig him up and take him home. I only ever heard this story about a year before he passed, but he was a tough old man until the day he died, despite his limp.

[@jurbagarga1410]

My grandfather was in the winter war fighting againts the ussr and he too got hit by shrapnel, but he survived and he was only 17 i think. Edit: I remembered wrongly since he died when i was 6 in 2013 and yeah he actually fought in the contiunation war, but still he was brave!

[@keaganthegreat]

@@jurbagarga1410 it's amazing what a man can endure in furtherance of a good cause.

[@demnbrown]

@@jurbagarga1410 your grandfather did God's work

[@lucaslin4693]

That’s incredible

[@koncretemang5049]

I bet he was scared when they left him. I would have been. He may not have been.

[@JL-qn4cd]

I’ve been learning about WWII for the last couple of years now, japans struggle was chaotic and savage towards the end, it’s amazing to see how much the country itself has changed after what that government did.

[@TheKillerham5ter]

After what America did*

[@moldovianfieldmarshal6313]

@@TheKillerham5ter we don't talk about that. XD

[@moldovianfieldmarshal6313]

Hey mate, have you been learning ww2 history in the quarantine as well?

[@itsytyt5192]

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[@boyurbeegaming36]

@@moldovianfieldmarshal6313 are we still in quarantine? Ugh, wish I could stay home. I worked though-out the whole pandemic. Lucky you.

[@bangscutter]

The start of WW2 depends on who you ask. For the Soviets, it only started when Germany invaded it, and they call the war the "great patriotic war". For China, the war already started back in 1937 when Japan invaded it, 2 years before the war in Europe started. Even then, war didn't really end in China when the Japanese surrendered, because almost immediately, the Nationalists and Communists resumed their war against each other, with Communist victory in 1949.

[@koncretemang5049]

Who are nationalists

[@aleksandarvil5718]

@@koncretemang5049 Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang / KMT, who later founded *Republic of China* in island of Taiwan after 1949. Officially in international way, It's Still Considered part of People's Republic of China, which place in UN Security Council Taiwan held til 1971. Unofficially, Taiwan Is Independent and protectorate of USA.Chiang Kai-shek passed away in 1976.

[@koncretemang5049]

@@aleksandarvil5718 thanks 👍I appreciate you letting me know

[@aleksandarvil5718]

@@koncretemang5049 7:35 German and their allies' ( Ustaše, Italian fascists, local quislings) forces, in Area of ex-Yugoslavia // Slovenia, northern Italy and Austria fought until *May 13th ; May 15th 1945.*

[@bradmaas6875]

Before Pearl Harbor the Japanese had already begun imperial expansion in Manchuria (1931). Seems to me this was the start of WW2. If entry into Poland was the beginning of WW2 in Europe, this was it for the Japanese.

[@c.c1940]

It's incredible to know that the war ended in different perspectives of time. However, it is overwhelming to know that it is forever embed in the psyche of those who survived the war. A decade can just feel like seconds ago or just yesterday. War costs everything and in the end, oneself.

[@torkelsvenson6411]

It really also started in different perspectives of time as Japan started their attacks in Asia before Germany attacked Poland.

[@sakethmukkera8730]

Bro.. WTF...U and I have the Same Profile Picture 😳😳... (My profile Pic on Insta) .. For a While ..I thought this Was my Comment 😂🤣.. Anyway.. Nice meeting U 🤝🤝

[@spontaksback]

Almost all of the WII vets have passed away

[@GGK1000]

@@sakethmukkera8730 what your insta?

[@c.c1940]

@@sakethmukkera8730 It's also nice meeting you 🤝. I just chose this profile picture because of the sky view☺

[@kn0xstep]

My Great Grandfather on my fathers side was at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked, I forget what ship he was on but I do know it was one that sunk. Surprisingly he managed to get off the ship almost completely uninjured and helped fight the Japanese back in the Pacific up until the wars end.

[@Pfuhler455]

Thats badass!

[@-prettyceejade]

incredible!!!

[@DaEverythingBagel]

thats absolutely incredible man

[@makiroll218]

Wow

[@reiss2704]

It's heartbreaking how many people died during the world wars but I feel even more pity on the ones who lived after their comrades died, the amount of guilt they face must truly be unbearable.

[@notchrisloveing9319]

What's even crazier is the chinese revolution known as Mao's Famine which killed almost 3x the amount of people.

[@Muslim_israeli]

@@notchrisloveing9319 World War II killed around 75 million people, Mao Zedong killed In his entire role as president of the Chinese Communist Party, around 50 million people. Do not change the facts, check them before.

[@notchrisloveing9319]

@@Muslim_israeli my bad you are correct , estimated deaths is about 40 to 50 million so less than WW2.

[@kennethvillanueva4353]

@@Muslim_israeli still very horrifying

[@HaggleWiggleworth]

true😢

[@tangyorange6509]

Love these WW2 videos, and the 20 minute ones recently! I watch these to sleep and never thought I would watch a channel every day

[@321Nox]

Two things: 1) that's a really nice way of saying your videos put me to sleep, and 2) death and destruction relaxes you 🙃

[@mcpeepantz666]

dont believe this capitalist imperialist propaganda, watch the great patriotic war series

[@M4A1_DELTA6]

@@321Nox can also mean he the narrator has a calm soothing voice that is like hearing a story time before bed and 2 for ppl with insomnia stuff that they like helps with falling asleep ;)

[@pacificostudios]

17:05 - I'm glad you mentioned that the last Americans of Japanese descent were not released from unjust imprisonment until months after the war ended. However, contrary to what your video says, thousands of Japanese-Americans had been released from The Camps before the end of the war. Over 10,000 had volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team to fight in Europe. There were thousands more working as Japanese language teachers, interpreters, and military analysts. Many universities away from the Pacific Coast welcomed young Japanese-American women and men to get a college education, now that so many young men were in the military. Many other jobs away from the Pacific Coast, from farm worker to professional and technical jobs, were filled by Nisei Japanese, especially among those too old to serve in the military. Overall, the Camps were steadily shrinking from early 1943 onward. But there were still tens of thousands in the various camps when Japan surrendered. As for 1946, in fact, it took a decision by the U.S. SUPREME COURT to get these Americans released. A great mark of shame on the Land of the "Free."

[@justjax6000]

I would love to see a movie of the Japanese soldiers that kept fighting for 30 years. Just to see them grow old and mad, and finally start to see that it’s been over. OSCAR WINNER.

[@denji_knife9794]

Indeed

[@armyant9163]

Love the idea

[@dragonskulls_4813]

There's a movie coming out, set for the year 2060. The actors are gonna actually age for the movie. They're gonna shoot it 20 years separate, so as the movie progresses, so does their age. And you will be able to see it if it comes out.

[@jpjums4637]

You would see lawless bandit torching homes murdering civilians just because he didnt know the war ended

[@greentobacco2824]

So make it, noon.

[@youlikedyourowncomment5151]

I like reading the comments about what peoples grandfathers and great grandfathers did in WW2.

[@beyondrecall9446]

My grandfather was 15 when he participated in the last battle in Europe. It was the Battle for Odžak in Yugoslavia (25.May 1945) . He joined the Partisans when he was 12 and remember how happy he was when the Partisan Airforce came in (a captured Stuka accompanied by 2 bf-109s).. He said how amazing it was that when a few years prior, when they saw Stukas, they used to lay low, but by the end, The Stuka was a symbol that ended the war for him. .

[@philipjoyce8817]

The Yugo Partisans were badass...I forget the leaders name but the axis did not want to eff with that guy!!

[@jakeweberzwier8655]

Imagine your a Filipino veteran in the 1950s and a group of imperial Japanese soldiers ambush you, must be terrifying.

[@hepersopon4459]

My lolo (grandfather) told me he knew a guy who knew a guy who got shot by that japanese soldier who stayed in the jungle up until the 80s

[@77jesseday]

That Japanese soldier murdered several Filipino farmers that caught him stealing from their crop. He was never tried for it.

[@urban0443]

My grandfather is fond of the Japanese tho. He says America is way worst at treating us Filipinos. Well I guess everyone had different experience.

[@mrsalwaysright6478]

The Infographics Show makes documentaries on random topics so interesting. Appreciate the hard work 👍

[@truthmatters5170]

🥺

[@garyd395]

you have to love how youtube is the closest thing to a time machine we have

[@inoscopedjfk09]

Museums exist. Same with books.

[@tyr3759]

It's scary really, since it will be far from objective. Any balanced criticism will be removed because of 'hatespeech' or any other clear defined reason.

[@gunsnrosesdefinition7672]

Traveling forwards

[@prashanthbharadwaj5504]

2 events changed the course of the war. 1. Japan's attack of pearl harbour that brought the USA into the war and Germany's invasion of USSR that brought the USSR into the war. 2 sleeping giants were rudely woken up by Japan and Germany there by sealing their own fates...

[@mimikurtz2162]

ONE event changed the course of the war: the Battle of Britain. Britain's success meant that Germany could not immediately invade and gave Britain time to mobilise the Empire. Faced with that prospect, Germany had to secure resources for a long, drawn out war. Meaning they would have to invade the USSR prematurely before they had prepared their forces. They were still not strong enough to take the oilfields and industrialised west of Russia, and even if they did they were incapable of operating past the Urals, and so could never win. Britain's defiance in 1940 made the eventual defeat of Germany inevitable over a year BEFORE Pearl Harbour. The USA's help hastened the Allied victory, but it did not fundamentally change the course of the war in Europe.

[@aminyapussi4740]

@@mimikurtz2162 I still feel the axis powers still had a chance if they just played it smart and isolate their fights. For some reason they chose to bring in the USSR and the US into a fight which was an interesting decision.

[@mimikurtz2162]

@@aminyapussi4740 As I said in my earlier post, Germany did not choose to invade the USSR in 1941. They had planned to wait until 1943 and use the time to built the necessary military force. But their failure to defeat Britain in 1940 meant that they now needed vast resources to fight the whole British Empire in a longer war, and the only way to get them was to occupy Russia immediately. They had intended to isolate their fights but their failure to win the Battle of Britain forced them to invade the USSR prematurely and while the western and Mediterranean fronts were still active. So the Battle of Britain was the turning point, and the doomed invasion was a consequence of it.

[@williamcito29]

The turning point of the war is subjective. Also the germans did choose to invade the Ussr in 1941. Besides that what does the battle of britian have to​ with Japan's side of the war?@@mimikurtz2162

[@xaviercallejas145]

I love these WWII videos, I listen to these videos everytime I drive. Keep up the great work on all your videos

[@redacted7908]

1:19 “I’m gonna rage-quit then” *Sounds like a skill issue.*

[@alter112]

Edited

[@redacted7908]

@@alter112 Yes the original was Skill Issue instead of this right now

[@blackopsmajorr5]

Hitting pearl harbor was like hitting a sleeping komodo dragon with a stick. Yes it hurt but the komodo will bite back and cause a permanent and soon fatal wound. Its weird to think if that komodo wasn't struck then the world could be so much different.

[@robert-joshuamcfaddin7041]

Weird to think indeed. So many things would've been so different.

[@RailTV01]

Their plan was good, destroying everything could have given them a year

[@alexanderblackburn4520]

Japan was desperate already, their oil supply had been diminished to the point that they viewed the attack as a necessity.

[@bobbywise2313]

@@alexanderblackburn4520 Very true and the US knew an attack was coming. I don't think many felt it would be at Pearl though..

[@raygagnon4809]

Russia and Japan is still technically still at war as a peace treaty had not been signed. So technically we are still in WW2.

[@Sqrickz]

Yea but it was the USSR not Russia

[@DMS-pq8]

Nope they signed a treaty in 1956

[@WhatHappenedIn-vt3vq]

@@Sqrickz Russia has been really shaky about what's USSR and whats Russia nowadays though. Current Ukraine is a example Russia was claiming it had the right to enter because of its agreements with the USSR, which were allegedly violated

[@Sqrickz]

@@WhatHappenedIn-vt3vq ok I did not know that and that might have changed when I commented if not now I know

[@DocChrome]

Thumbnail is just the best! Thanks for all the info!

[@donm5354]

12:50 Factoid: Nagasaki wasnt the origina 2nd Atomic Bomb target city - it was KOKURA but it was too cloudy and lots od smoke (some think it was a smoke screen) so they moved on to Nagasaki - it too had clouds but there was a break in the clouds enough to spot the target - even it missed center of the city killing fewer people.

[@JoseFlores-xh5cj]

Is it possible for a nuke to miss?

[@robert-joshuamcfaddin7041]

Fewer people? I knew dropping the bombs had a different effect than we thiught they would (having only tested them by setting them off on the ground).

[@buckhorncortez]

No, it was not a smoke screen. On August 8, 1945, the nearby city of Yahata was firebombed and the smoke was blown to Kokura.

[@robert-joshuamcfaddin7041]

@@buckhorncortez Learn to read and comprehend

[@buckhorncortez]

@@robert-joshuamcfaddin7041 A "smoke-screen" implies the intentional use of smoke to obscure a target, and not the inadvertent and unintentional smoke blown in from an outside source. I know the difference and apparently, you don't.

[@realtimestatic]

I believe officially Japan is still in WWII with Russia since they haven’t had peace talks and still have disputes about territorial claims of islands

[@darkfathergothjesus1902]

Well then technically they were never at war with Japan since a declaration of war never happened the Germans just launched an attack on the soviets so they switched sides

[@america_1137]

@@darkfathergothjesus1902 the US didn't launch a declaration of war on Iraq or Afghanistan. Countries just don't declare war anymore

[@darkfathergothjesus1902]

@@america_1137 lol yes let’s compare iraq 2000s to WWII 1940s cause nothing major ever changes in 60 years 😂 the whole not declaring war thing and using proxy wars and the like started around the time of the cold war

[@spoo0901]

technically the Soviets lost because it collapsed

[@犬の大将]

My great grandfather was on the USS Missouri when the Japanese surrender was taken on September 2, 1945.

[@nursestoyland]

Really??? That’s insane! May god bless him!

[@犬の大将]

@@nursestoyland Fortunately/unfortunately he died before I was born. I say fortunately/unfortunately because people on the paternal side of my family had different opinions of him

[@Lady_Chalk]

You have to give Onada credit. I hope his loyalty allowed him a great reward.

[@DaanBruins]

2:19 as a Dutch person, nothing offends me more than having the word Belgium written all over my country.

[@fwsteve]

I’m sorry but I don’t understand your comment. Can you please explain why you are offended?

[@waleah4855]

Who else started getting into history stuff because of infographic show?

[@jurbagarga1410]

I just because of school, but not completly

[@tamarakepreyeomgbuayakimi.1379]

I mostly "simple history".

[@modyphantom]

Joke on you, I'm already into history since I was a child.

[@eathanmejia7272]

The inphographics show is Amazing

[@demarcusfaulkner7411]

My great-grandfather fought in the War he never talked about it much. He had a scar across his chest from a German bayonet. Once when I was a child I asked him how he got the scar he simply said I got dropped 35 miles in the wrong direction and had to hike through enemy territory. That was the only thing that he ever told me about it.

[@1RadicalDreamer]

making up stories on the internet again i see.

[@demarcusfaulkner7411]

@@1RadicalDreamer ???

[@ThePromisedFall]

@@demarcusfaulkner7411 Most people dont have great grandparents. But I get you might have but that would mean your parents and grandparents are extremely young.

[@demarcusfaulkner7411]

@@ThePromisedFall my mom is 62 so nothing extremely young about any of them

[@demarcusfaulkner7411]

@@ThePromisedFall now honestly I hate the day that we will lose that generation. Because it's fewer and fewer of them I cherish what they teach me and what they have taught me more and more. If my great-grandfather was still here he would be a 112 I'm miss him every day. I grew up listening to his stories I remember because I asked him about that scar when I was very young. The look of shock that he gave me is why I never forget it.

[@EAcapuccino]

Filling in ever more details on my part. Love these re-immersed history! 🙂👍👍 🗾🇯🇵🎎

[@A.R.C.publicspeaker]

Actually asking if you do believe In the Japanese atrocities in china in the second world war because I heard many Japanese don't believe that it happened 🇦🇱❤️🇯🇵 love from Albania

[@EAcapuccino]

@@A.R.C.publicspeaker Or perhaps they are unaware due to possible cover-ups made by the Japanese government.

[@JichaelMacksonHeeHee]

I learn more from you compared to 15 years of school! Thankyou!

[@ValenceFlux]

My grandfather told me stories about flying recon for admiral 'BS' Halsey as some sailors called him and a storm with 100 foot waves. They still sailed the fleet into the storm after my grandfather warned the fleet of the dangers. I believe he said it was a destroyer that split in half and they lost a thousand lives to the storm. Also at the end of the war US planes continued to get fired at in the Pacific but were ordered not to return fire and to disarm.

[@jimbean9054]

Thank You For Sharing 🇺🇸

[@rottenrobbie8466]

The Infographics Show makes documentaries on random topics so interesting. Appreciate the hard work 🙏🏽

[@truthmatters5170]

🥺

[@bobbythomas6520]

Random? This is like the most significant war in human history. It’s not really random at all

[@arcynull]

@@bobbythomas6520Probably referring to other videos that aren’t as prominent of a significance as this one

[@helios8366]

Fun Fact: After WWII, the emperor japan was grateful that USA put an end quick to them because he said that Japan would have starved to death because of the upcoming winter, because the USA fleet had multiple blockades stopping food and material to coming in and out of Japan.

[@TonySimons]

Another top notch video! You've become one of my favorites!

[@AuRoaraAnimations]

it’s interesting how some japanese soliders truly thought the fight wasnt over after over 25 years

[@thunderbird1921]

That's because of their bushido ideology. Never surrender, fight to the death. Anything less is dishonor to yourself and your family. That's what we thankfully tore down in the postwar occupation.

[@starboiklem8381]

@@thunderbird1921 true

[@farhanaditya2647]

@@thunderbird1921 did we really tore it down though?

[@romelimmense]

The last soldier who surrendered is 30 years after the war. He was a terrorist in our island of Lubang in the Philippines.

[@nicholasoh9606]

@@romelimmense honestly those soldiers should be executed. Just because they didn’t know the war was over. They attacked innocent people regardless of knowing if the war is over or not.

[@chrisbole8339]

"Alright, im going to rage quit then!" Comedically, yet accurately sums up Dolf's demise

[@darkfathergothjesus1902]

He probably was fuming when he did the act if he did in fact do it, it was the soviets that confirmed his death and then never let anyone have hard evidence

[@aleksandarvil5718]

*This Enraged Adolf's Father Who Punished Him Severely.*

[@randallminchew6780]

My father was in the navy for 20 years. WWII was just the beginning for him.

[@Hilts931]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not chosen to make as much damage as possible, they were chosen so that the damage the bombs caused could be evaluated on a relatively undamaged city and not confused with conventional bomb damage

[@iainhart3823]

And Nagasaki wasn't the primary target, it was chosen because of inclement weather.

[@ChemicalReactionMan]

I can’t wait for the first WW3 recap video

[@sarahhughey478]

Fighting a 2 war front isn’t good especially with very strong nations. Sure the Soviet unions army was a mess at the time but the Russians had one thing the Germans didn’t. Winter clothing. German soldiers were freezing. Germans tanks fuel was freezing inside the tanks. Another downfall was in France when usa landed and rebellions in France was everywhere. Italy was also being invaded at the time but wasn’t a huge help as their army was smaller compared to the Allie’s and Italy’s army was very underrated. Also when japan bombed Pearl Harbor because usa stopped trading with them that was another downfall. Oh and don’t forget about the balkans. Partisan armies / groups were everywhere there especially in the Soviet Union.

[@devdolph]

It’s kind of ironic how now the Russians are struggling more than expected in Ukraine due to lack of supplies, bad communication and lack of winter clothing

[@balls7659]

@@devdolph why, there aint no Winter there, i dont think they struggle with anything you said

[@Thefrogking234]

They probably thought

[@Thefrogking234]

That Africa would be easier

[@daviddevault8700]

Soviet army might have been a mess and the Germans better tactically. Soviets had better logistics such as fule and winter clothing.

[@ChairmanMeow1]

WW2 was so insane its almost unbelievable it all happened

[@antithesis2211]

There was a documentary on PBS, over a decade ago, where some Japanese generals did not want to surrender. They went to the emperors palace, to look for the paperwork, to surrender, along with a recording of the emperor surrendering to the states. Unfortunately, they were not able to find it, because it was hidden under some pieces of paper on the table, where they never even bother to look!!! Had they gotten a hold of the documents, and they’re recording, Japan would have never surrendered.

[@DadCanInJapan]

There were also plans to kidnap the Emperor and hold him hostage so he couldn't make the surrender proclamation.

[@tpl608]

This guy has the best voice for your videos. The other guys do not. I could listen to him reading books on tape and as an animated character in a movie. Use this guy all of the time.

[@gunsnrosesdefinition7672]

How bout be amazed

[@tituspullo9768]

I think you may have forgotten German soldiers who were Russian pows who did not get released until the mid 1950s if they were not killed

[@asherhayes2429]

My great grandfather was one of those, he came back in 1954 from Siberia and he had no teeth, and could barley speak a word, he was basically a living corpse.

[@carnifexor3010]

Videos like this are needed. So many past the age of 18, who do not know these commonly known facts, either were failed by their secondary education, they didn't care/had zero interest on the topic, or we're incapable of paying attention or reading about the topic. All 3 reasons are very unfortunate.

[@Skibiditoiletfan246]

I love your videos

[@owenc245]

Friend: how did ww2 officially end? Me: here comes the sun

[@RedneckRapture]

I like how you say that the nuclear detonations caused untold lost of life, but the city firebombings killed more civilians.

[@sixtenfrid6895]

“My furher we are losing” “Alright i’ll go rage quit then” I died

[@jacobmarkham2162]

“It was in 1944 the tides of WW2 changed.” Not true, the tides of WW2 changed in February of 1943 when the Soviet’s trapped the 6th army in Stalingrad. And the war was effectively over in July of that year after the Battle of Kursk. Americas biggest contribution wasn’t even Normandy, it was the industrial output of America. As Roosevelt puts it “we are the arsenal of democracy.”

[@BuntTheBlunt]

Very true. USA supplied 2/3rds of all allied equipment during the war. What won the war was: Soviet manpower, American industrial might, and British intelligence

[@asherhayes2429]

No, you are wrong, it was even earlier that the tide changed. Also Stalingrad started in late 42, not early 43.

[@BuntTheBlunt]

@@asherhayes2429 yeah, you could argue it was in the 1941-1942 winter campaign, BUT the when the Germaine’s resumed their offensive they pushed with ease and didn’t lose a huge number of troops till Stalingrad. Remember Russians had men to spare, the Germans didn’t.

[@asherhayes2429]

@@BuntTheBlunt I would say that the war was over by the time that the Germans had even been pushed a foot back from Moscow.

[@BuntTheBlunt]

@@asherhayes2429 I’m curious to why? Just the pure logistics of it? *I actually agree with this take a good amount

[@bradmaas6875]

So, since Japan and Russia never signed a peace treaty, isn't WW2 still technically going?

[@KyRonGAMES]

That would have been the USSR and Japan, so seeing as the USSR had collapsed, the war did technically end regardless

[@yaxb1729]

@@KyRonGAMES so technically the soviets lost ww2

[@doesnotmatter4088]

@@yaxb1729 they won it against Germany and Italy...but yeah, lost against Japan.............technically

[@bradmaas6875]

@@KyRonGAMES And yet they still haven't signed the treaty, delayed by Russia entering Ukraine.

[@robert-joshuamcfaddin7041]

You have a point.

[@miaojiasheng]

Interesting topic, you could also argue WW2 started before 1939. Japan invaded the Republic of China in 1937 that lasted until Japan got nuked. People commonly see Germany invading Poland as the start because it started global fighting. But Japan invading China 🇹🇼🇨🇳 started the first fighting.

[@mikerice5298]

1931 Japan invaded

[@miaojiasheng]

@@mikerice5298 True if we count Manchuria which we should. It’s Chinese land. But I said 1937 because if we stretch it like that WW1 and 2 are like the same war and Japan took Taiwan from China in the 1890s.

[@tonysudano778]

Wonder if China will invade Japan and Taiwan at the same time. Is Japan a part of NATO?

[@erenyaeger1577]

Infographic show , thanks for making good quality videos. ❤️ Sorry for bad English

[@bredsheeran2897]

0:37 my guy the Czechs didn’t exist when they invaded poland

[@bobthe7thh]

@the infographics show idk if you gotta see this but I've been watching you videos for like 3 years now I have a really hard time sleep and I have to listen to something to help me fall asleep and I always go on your videos on because its never to loud never to quit its just right I just listen to you well I fall asleep idk if that creepy or anything but you guys have saved me from so many sleep less lights

[@josephlee2469]

So you are telling me I can argue with my history teacher if there is a question on when the ww2 ended in the exam? Coooooool😎

[@TeamSkeptic]

The Battle of Silicy was one of my favorite!

[@MISTERX_5890]

Doesn't matter if Germany won the battle of the bulge as The Soviet Union was going to reach Berlin. Germany was never going to be able to Make enough weapons to fight the soviets neither had the Men to fight

[@michaelwoods8654]

Thanks US

[@robert-joshuamcfaddin7041]

True, the soviets had a way of producing weapons and men at the time that was unmatchable, as much as it pains me to say it, it's the truth that even the US couldn't meet the Soviets wrath there. However the US and the Soviets had different methods.

[@MISTERX_5890]

@@robert-joshuamcfaddin7041 a lot of people over exaggerate the importance of dday. by the time dday took place the soviets already had mass offensives planned that would destroy the german army. Operation Bagration being one of them

[@airassault11]

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a resident of Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the city was bombed at 8:15 AM, on August 6, 1945. He returned to Nagasaki the following day and, despite his wounds, he returned to work on August 9, the day of the second atomic bombing. That morning, while he was being berated by his supervisor as "crazy" after describing how one bomb had destroyed the city, the Nagasaki bomb detonated. In 1957, he was recognized as a hibakusha ("explosion-affected person") of the Nagasaki bombing, but it was not until March 24, 2009, that the government of Japan officially recognized his presence in Hiroshima three days earlier. He died of stomach cancer on January 4, 2010, at the age of 93.

[@buckhorncortez]

There were eleven people that have been documented as being at both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

[@van10nistelrooy]

"what actually caused the axis powers to give in to the allies" Well, there where not to many left alive to argue

[@jacobmontoya7172]

Do a story about the marines in the Pacific theatre. The fighting was brutal, and somehow both of my grandfather's were machine gunners. One was with the 5th marines, the other was with the 8th marines. Between them, they hit every battle that marines saw in WWII. Me, my uncles, and cousins have carried on the tradition as marines.

[@donm5354]

9:11 Too bad the USS NIMITZ that time traveled from 1980 to Dec 6, 1941 didnt sink the Japanese task force before it could bomb Pearl Harbor. History would be very different.

[@darkfathergothjesus1902]

What are you even on about your there’s no mention of the nimitz or anything about sinking the task force 😂

[@manuelnunes1502]

@@darkfathergothjesus1902 Its a reference to a movie called the Final countdown. A U.S. carrier accidentally time travels back to 1941 before Pearl Harbor. It’s a good movie to watch.

[@alanfike]

Save us Martin Sheen!

[@robert-joshuamcfaddin7041]

@@darkfathergothjesus1902 It was a movie, lol.

[@robert-joshuamcfaddin7041]

True that man, was very much a shame.

[@judgejimbobrowntown7600]

My pap was a bar man for the 5th division first wave on Iwo Jima he was there all 35/36 days he was and still is in my admiration my buddy my pal my friend may you rip !

[@iloveallah5960]

2:32 Actually the front in italy was opened before Germany started to lose the war

[@TheExecutorr]

debatable, that was months after Stalingrad and I would argue the loss of 3rd army was the first major blow to Germany that changed the tides against them, and also the surrender of von Arnim in Africa happened before the landing in Italy, which was another army lost. Germany was already crumbling before a second European front was openend.

[@coyotehd816]

I know this is random but the art on that thumbnail is incredible 👀👀🔥 dropped a like and I’ll watch when I get off work ✌️

[@anthonybarker6346]

Correction Russia AND Germany invaded Poland. Idk why people don't say that part as often as Germany invaded poland

[@ThePromisedFall]

Ikr, Germany pretty much signed the peace agreement with Russia only because both invaded Poland and now shared borders.

[@pawelfafara189]

WW2 for Poland ended on 1987-89. After numerous videos I have viewed on this channel, for some reason A LOT of facts and such are omited. Especially about Poland.

[@christopherdecker3830]

I consider the actual end of WW2 to be 15 March 1991, when the treaty allowing for German reunification went into effect. Yes, hostilities ended in 1945 yet the war didn't formally end in Europe until decades later. It's as if everyone was victorious (Allies) or surrendered (Axis) but no one remembered to draw up the peace treaty which would finally and legally end it, which was done in 1990 and took force in March 1991.

[@WhatHappenedIn-vt3vq]

That's interesting and almost funny. It's like "oh shoot, did we ever remember to declare the war over"

[@TheNitinrai]

Can you please do a documentary on all Indo Pakistani wars? Many epic battles have been fought in these wars and many tales of heroism on both sides. Please... Please...make a video about this

[@philiprpalumbo]

11:37 I very larger number of those civilian casualties were self inflicted. Japanese civilians were witnessed by American forces, jumping off cliffs with children in their arms rather then surrender. That was one of the main contributing reasons that led to the use of the atomic bomb.

[@Aparup985]

Please don't justify the heinous act of nuclear attacks

[@shanesanders2255]

Yep. And I don't feel sorry for the use of atomic weapons. The Japanese were brutal. And the atomic use was less lethal then the fire bombing we were engaged in

[@BabaYagaRacing]

@@Aparup985 it was a necessary tool

[@BabaYagaRacing]

@@shanesanders2255 and most history books don't talk about what they did

[@Trzntxn]

@@Aparup985 oh they were 100% justified

[@heatherwanamaker8000]

I have visited Pear Harbor. It is a very solemn experience

[@jeredbaloo3934]

The Atomic Bomb was tested at the Trinity Site near San Antonio NM. Not near Alamogordo NM. But it is still in the White Sands Missle Range (WSMR) testing area. That stretches across hundreds of miles.

[@robert-joshuamcfaddin7041]

Ain't that around where Area 51 is?

[@buckhorncortez]

@@robert-joshuamcfaddin7041 No. Area 51 is Groom Lake in Nevada.

[@Mrgunsngear]

Thanks

[@Elver_Galarga_jugo]

Forgot to mention that, since Japan never signed a peace treaty with the USSR/Russia, Japan and Russia are still technically at war and thus, WWII is still in going.

[@systemmessage2927]

Such a good Channel.

[@drew21t]

13:25, you say they were picked because they hadn't been bombed extensively. That isn't true, both were sites of major military bases with Nagasaki having a major shipyard. What isn't widely reported is that a huge number of the casualties from the initial blasts were in fact military personnel, some reports say most were military personnel. Of course, the aftereffects are well documented, but to say they were selected for maximum casualties is disingenuous at best.

[@StackND]

1:17 "alright im going to ragequit then" 💀

[@scottdenstedt2371]

I thought the war ended because Chuck Norris was born?

[@Koolkibanimstions2]

Nah💀

[@atheistjellyfish6952]

my 1 grandfather was captured during Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid. my other one fought in the pacific theatre It’s strange that canadians are rarely mentioned in either theatre let alone the pacific

[@robertalaverdov8147]

For me ww2 ended with the surrender of Paraguay and the dawn of the Luxembourg empire spanning the globe.

[@darkfathergothjesus1902]

*Rothschild empire

[@alanfike]

I don't think WW2 will truly be over until Germany dismantles to its 1871 borders and Prussia comes back. That's right, I say the Franco-Prussian war was rigged!! Hail Emperor Napoleon III!

[@maxjonesonyt8112]

1:18 Absolute comedy gold.

[@auroraotw]

To the person reading this: Even though I don't know you, I wish you the best of what life has to offer❤️

[@anormalman9280]

Well that's just lovely,the same goes to you,my friend

[@Chunkylover.]

❤️❤️

[@xaviergarcia9522]

Same to u buddy!! Life's too short life it up!!🤗🙌 Enjoy the small things life has to offer!!🌹🤞

[@shawndale1552]

Like wise 👌 ✨

[@auroraotw]

@@anormalman9280 thanks i’m close to 2k plz bless brother

[@siripornchartpanich4170]

Thank you for the very well done informative vdo. 👍🏼 My only suggestion would be that the background music is so loud that it makes it hard to listen to the narration.

[@ives3572]

"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war." - John F. Kennedy

[@seanbyers6916]

First thing I must say is that you do great work on your videos and I really enjoy watching them. Now in regards to this video you did leave out 1 thing about the Japanese Americans those of them who did serve in the U.S. military especially in the army were the most highly decorated unit in U.S. military history they were the combined 100th Infantry battalion and 442nd RCT and they became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history earning over 4000 Purple Hearts Medals and 4000 Bronze Star Medals and the 100th infantry battalion became known as the Purple Hearts Battalion.

[@rugburn4783]

About a day before the Pearl Harbor attack, my grandfather was in Hawaii on leave from his ship. He and all sailors were ordered back to their ships and left harbor. According to him, the older ships were purposefully left there. He was a day out of Hawaii when the attack came. Roosevelt knew the attack was coming, he just wasn't sure exactly when. My grandpa's theory was Roosevelt wanted to get into the war, knowing Europe needed America, but needed something to galvanize the American people, so he sacrificed the older ships and the men on them to this end.

[@bobbywise2313]

That is a big conspiracy theory. Either way war with Japan seemed inevitable at the time due to the oil embargo on them. They could not maintain their war machine without oil. I have heard that at the time most felt Japan would not attempt a hit on Pearl Harbor because of the likelihood of failure. Of course others say it was an obvious target. None of our carriers were there when the attack occured but we lost many battleships including the Arizona that day. In 1941 battleships were thought to be more valuable than carriers. After Midway carriers were known to be much more important. Could some military strategiest have suggested we get our carriers out because the future belongs to the carrier and not battleships? Also keep in mind we picked up the attack on radar but it was thought they were American planes returning. Japan knew they had no chance at all to defeat the USA if the resolve of America was to fight. They gambled that a huge blow would bring the USA to the negotiating table. Of course it has an opposite effect.

[@gabrielsanchez3298]

Like how Egypt told cia 911 was going to happen but they never did anything or told other agencies

[@joshuadyer1017]

Yessir, a time old trick... 9/11 8/7 Pearl harbor Same story different day

[@croissant3659]

Fun fact: the baltic states were fighting ww2 until 1953 , thousands of Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian men and women took up arms and went to the great forests of the baltic region to fight the soviet union and the exiles of native Lithuanians Latvians Estonians to Siberia, the baltic partisan war was the biggest guerilla war in european history and maybe even bigger than the Vietnam war. If by any chance yall see this, this would be a very good video idea because most of the western world doesnt know about any of this

[@fisch6665]

As a German watching anything to do with ww2 just hurts.

[@tom51202]

I bet man.. but hey, pretty dope the fight y'all put up! I mean, it wasn't dope, but it took a lot of heart.. well, it was pretty heartless, but.. yeah I see what you mean, very hard

[@fisch6665]

@@tom51202 yeah there's nothing positive to say about us when talking about ww2.

[@JamesCook76131]

I love German cars and German food (thanks amg events) I definitely see how being a German, reliving this, is rough. But just know, I feel the same way to my Japanese step dad, as his family was in Japan during the bombings.

[@a_designs2369]

My Great Grandfather fought in the red army and featured in the battle of Stalingrad, the capture of Berlin and the victory over Japan. I'm still young, never saw him but I saw his medal and his archive. Soviets sure still keep raw data on their military men.

[@jakegreifenhagen3938]

This video greatly exaggerates the US importance on the outcome of the second world war. Germany would have lost to Russia with or without the US participating.

[@kkpenney444]

False. Before the U.S. even entered the war it had already begun providing massive military and economic assistance to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease program- totaling over 11 billion- or over 180 billion in today's $. Sure Stalin could expend as many lives as he wanted but Russia was much poorer than Germany in planes, trucks, jeeps, tanks, locomotives, gas, explosives, food, radio equipment, etc- all provided or supplemented by the U.S. Of course, Russian Cold War historians have dismissed the contributions, but both Stalin and Kruschchev acknowledged that without the U.S. they would have lost the war. Further, without America entering the European front, Germany would have been free to concentrate its forces in the East. And finally, let's say we can completely dismiss any U.S. role in WW2 in determining Germany's defeat. Welcome to the Soviet Union of all European countries. Or rather, in the real world, *you're* welcome, Germany.

[@jakegreifenhagen3938]

@@kkpenney444 nope, sorry. Although initially unable to replace losses at the same pace they took them, it only took one and a half years for Russia to catch up and then outproduce losses using their domestic industry exclusively. Without lend lease, Germany would have advanced further and the war would have taken longer, sure, but the soviets planned to retreat all industry further and further east of the Caucasus' in order to keep fighting. Considering the only way germany could have won would have been by defeating Russia in under a year that makes the United States entering years later irrelevent. The germans weren't equipped to fight a war of attrition, they had only a quarter of their units capable of conducting offensive operations less than six months into Barbarossa, and those are from Wehrmacht reports. And to your point, Stalin and Kruschev were never fully immersed in the red armies capabilities. Zhukov and other generals (including german generals) acknowledged that there was no way for Germany to defeat the USSR. So no, I'm not basing this on soviet revisionism information or whatever else you might be attempting to suggest. Sorry, but the US wasn't crucial at all, or even necessary to winning the war against Germany.

[@ThePromisedFall]

Agree, I’m legit from the USA. And sure they did have a pretty big importance but not that big. The allies didn’t make up of just USA and USSR. UK also played a big part by repelling Germany. Also a bunch of countries decided to help out the allies.

[@alexrodgers6333]

The destruction tactics in Russia were also used when napoleon tried to invade Russia and it was flawless for the russians

[@LeanAndMean44]

Wow, you’ve got some extraordinary titles to live up to with the latest two videos. “Real Reason Why The Soviet Union Collapsed” and “World War 2 Didn’t End Like You Think It Did…”.

[@Henry.Kampen]

Amazing video! 👍👍

[@Zeze_5412]

My great great grampa died in ww2

[@pepperidgefarms1772]

What side was he on ?

[@CumClan69]

@@pepperidgefarms1772 bro😭

[@thesizzlingbacon1516]

@@pepperidgefarms1772 black square mustash

[@Zeze_5412]

@@pepperidgefarms1772 idk

[@Zeze_5412]

@@CumClan69 ya I never got to meet him but he died saving hi best friend from a bomb

[@jeffersonott4357]

“Alright, I’m going to rage quit then”. Super funny!

[@jshock1695]

Can you make a video on what would happen if china invades taiwan while russia invades ukrain pls?

[@SeattleResponses]

And North Korea invading the south.

[@raypavey1102]

My grandfather was on the ship with General Mac Arthur when the Japanese surrendered

[@JClow08]

Fun fact, Russia and Japan never formally ended WWII, so technically it is still going on.

[@bussin_0]

nah, this would mean that usa would be at war with russia, since japan is usas puppet and russia was at the peace conference with japan and the usa sooo

[@Demonetization_Symbol]

Proof?

[@DMS-pq8]

Not true, Japan and the Soviets signed a formal treaty in 1956

[@JClow08]

@@DMS-pq8 ohh I didn’t know, thank you for telling me good fellow

[@_Arminius]

@@DMS-pq8 No, they agreed in 1956 to cease hostilities but there's still no official peace treaty, there's always something postponing it. They just can't get along over that couple of islands and with today's events in Ukraine, they've raised the issue once again and a peace treaty is as far away as it was in 1956.

[@aarondsouza4308]

Thank you infographic for talking about the Soviet part of end of ww2.