WW2 Oversimplified REACTION

Sorry it's a day late everyone! It's been a busy week!
Once again, Oversimplified helping me realise just how little I know about history haha Hope you enjoy the video!
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[@xSTRYKERx243]

As an American I can say I wasn't offended at all, jokes are jokes, everyone just needs to calm down a little lol

[@denniscampbell4272]

'Murican here too. I remember my reaction being "I know, right?", but props to Alice for owning and acknowledging that it could have offended. Thumbs up!

[@lashedsuns4529]

I second this -- In fact, if I recall correctly, I laughed at her throwaway comment. Because, y'know, if the shoe fits... xD

[@megadev9099]

Exactly!

[@dalorianangulo6586]

Agreed. Say what you want.

[@casonhuffman4466]

Texan here. Making fun of Americans for war mongering is totally justified and can be very funny. Ricky Gervais makes a great point. People need to stop saying "that's offensive" and rather say "I find that offensive". What offends one person makes another fall out of their chair laughing.

[@josephsink9994]

Yeah, the official response was "Nuts" and it actually confused the Germans enough where they didn't attack for hours

[@kassandratorres1463]

Really?

[@philipcoggins9512]

@@kassandratorres1463 No, after their initial confusion, the Germans asked General McAuliffe to clarify what he meant, to which the commander of the 327th Glider Infantry told them "Go to hell!" At the point the German officers that were at the meeting left. The Germans began their attack shortly after the two hour period that was in the original message ended.

[@ShadowMoon878]

It was history's very first "Deez Nutz" joke

[@dakker5292]

What I heard is that Gen. McAuliffe was busy directing many things for Bastogne's defense when someone came up to him with the German's demand for surrender and he said 'aw, nuts' as in 'something else to deal with', and they said 'no really, you need to send a response', and they then decided to go with the 'NUTS' as the response.

[@colinfraser7150]

As an American I wasn't remotely offended, it wasn't necessarily incorrect.

[@jas1007]

Same. Some people just dont want to hear national criticism.

[@chrisbovington9607]

If an American is "offended" by an "alien" implying that USA is a warmongering nation, maybe they should direct that unease into a little historical study.

[@ericbadertscher6978]

EXACTLY, as a southern American, do not apologize for a joke. Especially one as mild as that.

[@sledgehammerk35]

definitely not incorrect... most Americans are honestly tired of being involved in overseas conflicts.

[@TheLegoMaster261]

@@jas1007 If an American gave criticisms to another country, I guarantee you wouldn’t stand for that and you hurl insults at all Americans. So cut the crap and just admit that you hate America

[@solbringer2483]

As an unoffended American I felt I must speak. Nothing you have said has offended me, and I am certain I share my opinion with the majority. For every person who has voiced an offense, understand there are hundreds of us who believe your views are completely reasonable. I implore you to take the vocal minority with an extreme grain of salt.

[@gafgarian]

Facts. That “offended” guy was quite the snowflake 😏 shocker…

[@metallicdragon3614]

I'm suddenly feel like I'm standing at attention during a speech of a military officer lol

[@solbringer2483]

@@metallicdragon3614 lol, is it that obvious?

[@cedric182]

Commented within the first minute of the video to make sure your views are heard lol 🤡

[@spacebar1111]

‘The fallen of ww2’ would be an amazing follow up on this. It’s pretty popular among reacters and for good reason.

[@IceMaverick13]

The height thing with the Japanese emperor *does* have something to do with it, in this case actually. Basically less than 1 generation before World War One, the Samurai still existed in Japan and the samurai spirit was alive and well. The concept of Bushido - the moral and ethical code that true warriors were meant to follow - had regained a *lot* of popularity just before the 1900s. A lot of the western nations involvement with China (The Opium Wars) and their economic exploitation of Japan bred a lot of hyper-nationalism in the Japanese people to be especially anti-western. Part of the revival of Bushido and the very tight interconnection into all aspects of their society was the idea that the Japanese people, being an honorable race of true-warriors who followed this strict code, were of course superior to all other peoples. And the only person who could lead such a noble, invincible race of people would be somebody who has ascended to ranks of the divine. While the Japanese concept of gods is less absolute than the western Christian God, they still believed that their leader was a divine God-Emperor as the hyper-nationalism swept across the military. The printing of the photo of McArthur standing next to the emperor was a big wake-up call for a lot of the Japanese people. Widespread media coverage was nothing like it was today. There were plenty of people who had never even seen their emperor, and if they did, it was almost always in pictures with other similarly-heighted Japanese people, often bowing or prostrating before him. Seeing photographic evidence that the emperor wasn't literally larger-than-life and was just a mortal man - much less a man who was both smaller and less muscular than one of the so-called Inferior Races - really shocked the general public. The society of the time placed him on a pedestal of expectations, so seeing him brought back down to Earth and convincing the Japanese people that they were just following a man like any other was one of the key points of breaking their society away from their hyper-nationalism and getting the country back to running peacefully instead of turning into a hellscape of resistance fighters trying to put the "true ruler of Japan" back in power. Nowadays, the idea of him being shorter than somebody making front-page news seems a little silly, but if you believed your country's leader was a god, wouldn't you feel blown away to find out that your god doesn't tower over every person he meets and is instead a solid foot-and-a-half shorter than most people in the world?

[@Aliceingingerland]

Ahh right! Man I learn even more in the comment section hahaha thanks for that, good to know! 👏🏼

[@Northbravo]

Also to be fair McArthur was a fucking Chad

[@edixonvc5101]

@@Northbravo he was literally consider a shogun, being called the gaijin shogun of Japan during the U.S occupation

[@alphalycan_roc55]

@@Aliceingingerland I didn’t know if you would see my comment. So I am doing this. Every time you have a drink of water in your videos, or at least one time, say the phrase “Hydrate or Die”. Credit of the phrase goes to MandJTV on KZbin.

[@Navybrat64]

That's very well put and makes perfect sense. I agree.

[@jamesgiles4517]

If you want to know more about the death count I recommend watching fallen of ww2. It breaks down the numbers pretty well I do still recommend watching more of oversimplifieds videos

[@sledgehammerk35]

The sad thing is, if the atomic bombs weren’t dropped, the casualties from both sides in an invasion would be absolutely staggering. So many Purple Hearts (a decoration given to wounded U.S. Servicemen) were made in preparation for the invasion, that the very same batch from WWII are still being awarded to wounded U.S. Servicemen to this day. Because the Japanese surrendered after the bombs, it also spared them from a potential Soviet invasion and occupation. It’s just incredibly tragic that this even became necessary.

[@chriswhinery925]

Yep. The dropping of the atomic bombs was a tragedy, the best situation would have been for Japan to surrender when it was clear they were beaten. But since they didn't, the US took the least bad course of action that was left to them. The A-bombs killed around 225,000 people. A land invasions likely would have killed millions.

[@wesleypeters4112]

The US was also thinking about just blockading the island and starving the Japanese as one of three options.

[@johnnyb8412]

WW3 losses will hit the Billion mark due to nukes, what annoys me most is even after a nuclear world war all the idiots who caused it will be safe and sound in thier bunkers😡

[@HarmonyShoal]

Your videos have an old school authentic youtube vibe to them which I really enjoy. You seem genuine and down to earth which makes it really difficult to not like you.

[@lo_ma_cel3079]

Just a small thing I wanted to share after hearing the story of your grandfather. Like the 18year old in that story, my grandfather was conscripted during WW2. He was 15 and two months away from his 16th birthday when it happened in November 1944. There are so many stories I heard from him. Just to give you an idea: About friends(the same age as him) he saw dying, him escaping from being a POW twice, the time he was behind enemy lines and the only food they got, was a calf they got gifted from a farmer. All of the 5 boys didnt know how to slaughter it without the calf going wild or drawing attention through making noise. They went 2 days without food until they could trade it. The sudden ptsd he had when hearing someone say "please identify yourself" from behind at the airport, when he visited the US for the first time. He of course was drawn back to his memories from being captured by American soldiers. I feel honored to have heard his story and being able to tell future generations what war means. Seeing him react to the current war in Ukraine just breaks my heart. He hoped that the world had learned its lesson about war... The main point I wanted to make is there are no true victors in war. I(23yo therefore the same age as the average soldier who died in this war) can't imagine pulling the trigger on someone, yet walking up to the body and discovering I just shot a 15 year old kid... Nor can I imagine being forced to fight at an age where my main worries were school, videogames and how I do in my footballmatch on Sunday.

[@Aliceingingerland]

Awww man absolutely heart breaking 😭😭 glad he made it through to tell the tale, but wars something no one should have to go through 😭 thank you for sharing ❤️

[@FengshenNL]

Aww yiss, new reaction video about one of my favourite Oversimplified videos by a great youtuber on my birthday! :D Thanks a lot for yet another amazing video :)

[@helge9047]

I recommend you ww1 from epic history where the first world war is explained in more detail. And just as interesting are ww2 footage and the fallen of ww2 is also very good. Would be very interesting to see a reaction to this

[@matej9368]

Oversimplified best

[@xsithspawnx]

I appreciate that you care about your audience and felt the need to apologize, but I'll just add myself to the list of Americans who straight up laughed when you made the joke. Our government has gotten up to some shady and/or morally questionable stuff and acknowledging that isn't offensive. Keep doing what you're doing! ;)

[@cheekychunks6952]

I'm never offended but appreciate the time taken to point it out I support you keep it up

[@amoral_minority]

It's nice that you don't want to offend anyone, but imo no government should be immune to criticism, that's how we get today's Russia (I am Russian) and WW2 Germany. So if there are people who are offended when you mention all the messed up stuff their country did in the past, that is their problem. As long as the joke is based in fact and not spreading misinformation about its subject, it's all good.

[@user-ux7xs6vr2n]

Nazi pig from Ukraine - stop writing everywhere that you are Russian.

[@shadeblz8425]

Ага, давай критиковать Россию за экспансию НАТО

[@moviebad109]

@@shadeblz8425 the fact that countries surrounding russia want to join for protection from the Russian aggression is definitely NATO’s fault. Lol It’s all a huge conspiracy and definitely not the typical behavior of nation states on the borders of aggressive nations historically.

[@shadeblz8425]

@@moviebad109 the fact that NATO still exists after collapse of the USSR and keep expanding to the east since then is definitely Russia's fault. Lol Learn some history before typing me

[@David-id6jw]

re: Hiroshima pronunciation - You are pronouncing it the way an English speaking person would pronounce the word (emphasizing the first and third syllables), but it's not the way it's pronounced in Japanese (which generally avoids syllable stresses like that). On the other hand, while the video narrator is using more correct syllable stresses, he's also mispronouncing it. The 'o' is pronounced as 'oh', not 'ah'.

[@Aliceingingerland]

The more you know! I’m editing I was like, Alice. Should have mentioned that obviously there might be different pronunciations haha thank you for clarify!

[@SphynxsShadow]

As a Kiwi, I expect no less than to see the odd jab at us out of friendly neighbourly rivalry haha. Love your reactions to learning new things :)

[@ThePereubu1710]

Your point about "we only learned the bad things that happened" is SO important. Yes, dreadful things did happen but people need to be taught HOW we got there, what caused it, how it could have been stopped etc. as well as the brutality and pointlessness of war.

[@Cloudyedits86]

To put into scale how much money Germany owed, they finished paying reparations in 2010

[@tanjimmy125]

And that were only the reparations for WW1 as far as I'm aware.

[@atonesb5251]

Oversimplified is so good. The ones on the American Civil War, American Revolution, and Napoleonic Wars are all really cool.

[@Somewhere_Bagel]

The cold war is quite fascinating and interesting. It must of also been terrifying to live through due to 2 countries with the power to end the world basically having each other at gun point.

[@alexissmith5589]

This is my first time on this channel and I love your content and it's nice seeing a fellow Aussie on KZbin. I want to recommend you to watch Death Battle, I take two characters (most of the time) from pop culture and pits them in a fight to the death while doing analysis on their abilities.

[@Serryy]

France falling so quickly in WW2 is one of the reasons why the French surrendering is a meme.

[@IsenoAlpha]

There are some crazy stories about WWII. Like the shear number of Russian men that died in the war caused an imbalance in the number of men vs women in the country that still exists. Or that the purple hearts (an American military award) that they give out to this day are ones left over from the ones they made in anticipation for possibly needing to invade Japan because they expected tons of people to die if that had happened. It's still kind of controversial to whether the nukes influenced Japan's decision to surrender though. But on the other hand some people claim that less people died because of the 2 nukes than would have died if the US had actually invaded Japan.

[@89sponge]

21:10 How it works The main idea of the encirclement: not only the seizure of territory, but also the withdrawal of large enemy forces from the war, which there is nothing to replace. To do this, the strongest and most mobile troops gather on the flanks to go forward and surround the enemy, while the center is relatively weak. The gloomy German genius enriched military science with the tactics of "asymmetric cannas": two flanks are equipped with a mobile strike group, and the center is equipped with sedentary and few forces, whose task is to hold on until the flanks make a breakthrough and connect in the enemy's rear. However, since there were not enough tanks for everyone, the shock groups were made different - one more mobile (tanks and motorized infantry), the other less mobile (just infantry). The result is the same - the enemy is surrounded, he runs out of food and ammunition, then death or captivity. /// Sorry for bad english and hello from Kazakhstan (its former russian-speaking soviet republic)

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

My great-grandfathers fought there. One of them was a machine gunner and participated in the liberation of Warsaw, Prague and in the battle for Berlin. His brother was a tanker and fought in Stalingrad. He has a medal "for courage" and "Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree"

[@delz3507]

Hero

[@andrewbyronloveshire5209]

oh no tooo much sad face Alice - more funny ha-ha Alice - Guys lets only send all laugh vids to make Alice finally fall off her chair. I say over simplified Emu War - or Tim Minchin "Cont" aka "Context"

[@luisalmanza119]

I recommend 2 videos, "the seminal tragedy" by extra credits (which talks about the days that brought on WW1) and "the dead of WW2", a very popular video that breaks down who and how many died in WW2, as well as why. They’re both fantastic videos.

[@louishermann7676]

Speaking of Extra Credits, their 4-parter on the Bronze Age Collapse was amazing.

[@bryanbrady877]

For what it's worth, hope this gives you a laugh. You resemble someone I went to school with yet I just now realized that. It took dreaming about her then watching another of your videos for me to put it together. Anyway, thanks for the entertainment. I respect you and your cat. Prefer wolves myself.

[@condeaarondarkusexcubitor3155]

What I find incredible about Oversimplified is how he manages to produce history content with a massive focus on humor while still tackling the overall basics of dark events in human history, specially a brutal and sinister one like the Second World War. No matter how controversial a topic can be, he always finds a way to make it look like a "good vs evil saturday cartoon show" with good jokes everywhere. PD: Towards the topic of showing swastikas, yes, I think they must be censored in KZbin, though the Iron Crosses of the military forces (Wehrmatch, Luffwaffe and Kriesgmarine) don´t (ands thus is why you see people using the iron crosses in the tactical map representations to display Nazi Germany rather than the flag with the swastika). Plus, I like his format of representing and summarizing history.

[@SomeRandomGuy499]

Cold War video is really well made and pretty much covers the topic, so it would be cool if you did it. My favorite OverSimplified videos are about French and Russian revolutions though, but it's just me and the topics I prefer. People in comments are mentioning Fallen of WW2 - it gives more perspective on the death toll and victims of WW2. But while it's sad to see "~ 50 - 80 million killed", seeing more specific numbers and circumstances is really (and somebody mentioned in the comments that he prefers "happy Alice" over "sad Alice" - although for me, "Alice learning about stuff" is fun enough) Extra Credits / Extra History also have great videos about history - usually more detailed and divided into more parts, but very fun and entertaining anyway. People in the comments mention their WW1 series, but all of their videos are awesome, especially when they're talking about less known events.

[@ajmccalla4511]

Another video that really puts the destruction of WWII in perspective is The Fallen of World War II. It's an amazing representation.

[@channelterminated6699]

AMAZING! She didn't struggle with the headphone cords!

[@89sponge]

21:30 According to modern data, the demographic losses of the USSR amounted to 27 million people. Military losses of the USSR amount to 11,444,100 people, of which 8,668,400 soldiers were killed (6,818,300 soldiers died in battles, hospitals and other accidents, and 1,850,100 people did not return from captivity), civilian losses in the occupation zone - 13,684,700 people (of which: intentionally exterminated - 7,420,400 people, died in forced labor in Germany - 2,164,300 people, died of hunger, disease and lack of medical care - 4,100,000 people). /// P.S.This list does not include large, but difficult to calculate, civilian casualties from enemy combat in frontline areas, besieged and besieged cities. For example, 658,000 people died during the siege of Leningrad. During the bombing of Stalingrad - more than 40,000 people. Tens of thousands of people died from the bombing of Sevastopol, Odessa, Kerch, Novorossiysk, Smolensk, Tula, Kharkov, Minsk and Murmansk. /// P.P.S.Over time, for various reasons (the long lack of access to primary sources, the fundamental absence of primary sources on German losses separately for the Eastern Front in 1945, the obvious ideological and political interest of various parties.), there was a large variation in the final numbers. In state publications, estimates of losses from the USSR ranged from 7 to 42.7 million people. Later, other figures appeared in the journalism.

[@captaindelta43]

Oversimplified is just Goated in these animation of learning history with fun.

[@jonathanrichwine1996]

You shouldn’t be heart broken about the A bombs, because of 2 reasons 1) the Allies gave Japan an ultimatum to surrender or “face destruction” which the Japanese refused. 2) the alternative option was to invade the Japanese home islands code named “Operation: Downfall” which would’ve resulted in millions more casualties on both sides

[@frozenstorm1658]

swastika isn't necessarily banned on youtube but it is banned in a lot of countries so Oversimplified probably just doesn't want his videos to get banned in those countries

[@cbretschneider]

Hi Alice, I'm enjoying your oversimplified history videos. I hope you continue with the cold war, but I also recommend his other videos like the American revolution, French revolution, and Russian revolution. Keep up the good work!

[@xliquidflames]

Great video, as always. WWI & II are full of stories of humans doing incredible, insane things. My favorite, being the computer geek that I am, is the one about Allan Turing and his team that built one of the first computers that they used to crack the Enigma. It was mentioned in passing in this video but it's a fascinating story. Not only did Turing come up with a way to crack the German codes, but he had to do it under the stress of being found out for being gay. As you can imagine, LGBTQ rights were not the greatest in the 1940s. It was illegal to be gay. Churchill said Turing made the biggest single contribution to Allied victory. His work laid some of the foundations for not just modern computers, but also encryption and statistics, all while having to hide his sexuality. He was engaged to the only woman on the team, Joan Clarke, who is fascinating in her own right, just to keep the secret. He may have also had Asperger's, on top of it all. The movie about him and his team, The Imitation Game, is really good. Benedict Cumberbatch plays Turing and it's worth a watch. I plan to make the long pilgrimage from Florida to Bletchley Park one day.

[@oldkayakdude]

About the atomic bombs, the US realized the cost in men to invade mainland Japan was going to be huge based on the losses they were incurring on every island landing. The Japanese civilians were just as fanatical as their soldiers, the misinformation fed to the civilians by their government had them thinking that Americans were monsters. The use of the two bombs ended the war much faster, and sent a message to the rest of the world that set up globalization, US Navy secured the shipping lanes. Many people don't realize that all the international trade that has progressed the collective world is secured by safe shipping, all started as a result of WW2. We are now living in a period were that is changing as the US Navy has been reducing in size due to the end of the cold war.

[@volkerkonrad8937]

„Ancient rome in 20 minutes“ is a fun video to react to! U r great.

[@ronnieyates8527]

Whenever you got a popup ad, I couldn't help but try and click it lol.

[@danielbutler8103]

19:30 that Pykrete thing dose work, Mythbusters tried it, made Super pykrete (Newspaper/Ice) and made a boat out of it.

[@jayzandstra1830]

the video world war two in 39 minutes has like a ton of interesting facts,moments and even speeches from multiple leaders at the time. its a tad lil long but id heavily recommend it for a more clear view of the war,subbed tho!

[@johnnyb8412]

One thing Churchill was great at doing is winding up Hitler and rallying up military spirit through great speeches and of course his humour because when times are shit humour gets you through it

[@rhythmkhandelwal2940]

Amazing, do coldwar next from oversimplified or French revolution

[@drakeloki4214]

That story about your grandfather letting a young enemy soldier go happened to Hitler in ww1, he was in no condition to fight alone and an ally soldier could have killed him but felt bad and let him go.

[@jimlee6856]

Great reaction. Please continue with the history videos, particularly with oversimplified :)

[@ShuffleUpandDeal32]

Their clever deception tactics included movie props and inflatables, lol.

[@thedevourerofgods1686]

something i think you'd enjoy a lot is Sam O'Nella, either that or the Emu War by Oversimplified.

[@hdtripp6218]

The United States in anticipation of having so many wounded in an invasion of Japan began producing Purple Heart Medals...because we made so many we have never had to produce the Purple Heart medal, the ones issued today are still from the batch produced during WW2

[@datguy3581]

It's sad to hear of the tragedy of WWII on both sides. And how it led to the Cold War where more people would die.

[@jrtspace7945]

I always pronounce Hiroshima the way u do as well but who knows, But i did subscribe! I Love your positive attitude!

[@EpicMRPancake]

I would also install adblocker and activate it when you're filming, the ads seem to be disrupting your train of thought.

[@eddhardy1054]

12:03...the comment about us only sending two-hundred thousand men is a tad unfair as that was basically our entire standing army minus reserves. The army of the UK was always much smaller than it's French & German counterparts as we tended to concentrate on building up a strong navy instead (far more useful if you're living on an island).

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Yep, and also the Luftwaffe had already failed to defeat the RAF in the Battle of Britain before the Luftwaffe targeted cities. They did that out of frustration because nothing they tried was suceeding. It was a full two weeks after the RAF bombed Berlin that the Luftwaffe opened their campaign against London etc. In the meantime they tried bombing the airfields, but failed every day. They gave up abs decided to target civilians. Its a complete myth that this decision decided the battle. No. Germany had already failed to win it.

[@louies5988]

“Sounds……..good.” - Oversimplified

[@grimmlight4541]

The hilarious part about all of this is the people believing they have light coming out of every orifice thinking they would of never joined the fascists and would of fight again at it. They would of most likely done there same thing as a country on crisis will do anything to survive and morals disappear.

[@nukeyourhouse]

Thought nothing of it, fam. Keep up the good videos

[@gregbryant3826]

I'm an American. If anyone says they are offended by jokes you make about America they are lying but just in case tell them I said it and you are just quoting me. I will gladly field their angry e-mails. Team America was a full movie making basically the same joke you made. I promise they are concern trolling we know what we are.

[@psychokitty9325]

OMG that is such a funny movie! 😂

[@ProudSanatani0007]

Hey! Just a curiousity are you and Diane Jennings same or different people...?

[@CaddyJim]

I've seen this many of times and never noticed they put the two *Mussolini* pictures together making them look like him kissing himself good eye, even though you had makeup in it 😜

[@YungIsyan]

5:17 he kinda made this up but he also didnt. In the parts with french presence (rhineland), there is even footage where a french guy marches through the german streets, slaps a civilian which was just standing on the side of the road, and then stealing his hat

[@Khornedevotee]

Great video and reactions Alice. :D I'm a new subscriber of yours. Just found you today and thought your reactions were very funny and relatable so I thought you earned yet another sub for that. Perhaps you would like to react to 'How the Universe is Way Bigger Than You Think' by RealLifeLore and other space related stuff like that(especially other RealLifeLore vids)?

[@HoneyMike]

32:04 I think at the time people were not allowed to take the emperor's picture, so that's why MacArthur had that picture printed. Not just because he was taller

[@SungJaeUng3]

Alice, there is something that maybe isn't super well known in other countries, but in America the "history" people were taught in schools is practically an american fanfiction version of what actually happened. Someone being offended at your comment is probably someone that has never had anyone challenge their conception of american history. A major event in US history is the Boston Massacre. Every US history textbook mentions it as one of the key incidents that kicked off thr revolutionary war. What isn't mentioned is that the "massacre" was started by a british soldier's gun going off after he had been hit in the head with a rock. In that "massacre", it resulted in 5 colonists being killed, and the whole thing was an accident. So, what I'm saying here is you should keep commenting how you perceive things. Your viewpoint might challenge someone's misconceptions, and result in them actually learning the truth.

[@monkeywithtrombone]

I didn't know it was an accident. I learned that the colonists were mad and started pelting stuff at them causing the soldiers to fire and kill five people.

[@samstall9173]

In almost every country, the history taught in schools is just fanfiction.

[@Tenwaystospoildinner]

Fun fact: John Adams, who would become the second president, successfully defended the British soldiers from the Boston Massacre in court afterwards.

[@SungJaeUng3]

@@monkeywithtrombone misfire after getting hit in the face with a rock, and due to line tactics of the day, when soldiers farther away from the center of the line heard the shot, they assumed the order to fire had been given.

[@frokghug]

@@SungJaeUng3 I don't mean to doubt you but I had learned the same as Jason. Do you have a source for the gun going off as a *result* of the soldier being hit by the rock? I know the event was obviously blown up to be more (served its purpose as propaganda at the time so I get it), but I had always believed it was soldiers who panicked being hit by rocks from a much larger and increasingly angry crowd and made the decision to shoot and then the rest playing out as you said, with others believing the order to fire had been given.

[@DarthPudden]

You should do Oversimplified Emu War next.

[@acrefray]

As a mention: Nagasaki wasn't the original target for the second A-bomb. The original target was scrapped due to bad weather.

[@Zavstar]

Awesome reaction. Need more

[@RexTyrranae]

You should react to the Napoleonic wars, Its pretty interesting. Its also from Oversimplified.

[@joeyeldabaa7963]

My great grandad was at Pearl Harbor, spent 7 years in the Philippines. He was a Great man an I was lucky to know him as long as i did. Second very sad fact about the nukes is it blow to high so it did much more damage. At a school yard there are the shadows of kids jumping rope an playing tag an so on burnt onto the stone walls that still stood. Madness.

[@Aliceingingerland]

Awwww your poor grandad! And oh my god that’s horrible! Terrifying. Sad as hell. Trying not to cry right now 😭

[@joeyeldabaa7963]

@@Aliceingingerland He Lived to 86 and I was Lucky ish to live with them more offten then not (Mother was/is a math head and my Dad sold and worked for the cartil and assulted mom, in more then one way... an you et woken up at 2am an set on the couch to watch for hours with my younger bro an baby sis) Anywho he(Greatgandpa/ greatgrandma) showed me that to be a real man you only needed honor, commen respact for all things, and to help others; even if you only have one shirt, pass it on to the back of the person with none.

[@lenar3457]

good video, you should react to "the fallen of world war II" it's really good, also check out extra credits all their videos are gold, especially recommend the punic wars and ww1 "the seminal tragedy" series, it talks about how world war 1 coul've been avoided multiple times but unfortunately wasn't

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

Some of those details of ww2 I wasn't familiar with, and/or I don't remember hearing or learning.

[@chaoslegend953]

You should react to “the fallen of ww2” Puts into perspective of how many people died during the war. Hits really hard (If you haven’t already)

[@XplosivCookie]

"We'd all be speaking German now" is the most nauseating thing Americans keep saying to everyone else who fought in the world wars, I recoiled hearing you say it too. That hero complex is exactly why so many of them have an idea that they could do no wrong, and the healthy way of looking at their accomplishments would be to recognize equally the mistakes, the heroics, and the evils they have been responsible for.

[@JJaqn05]

American propaganda is disgusting

[@boombalatty2161]

I also hate that, I am American and would never say that because we were only there for a year and Europeans took most of the casualties. But I also hate it when people say “we didn’t need Americans” because the ones that gave their Life deserve the credit they deserve, no matter the country.

[@yomama629]

As a Frenchman I have to say they're right though, as it was the Americans and British who did the vast majority of the fighting to liberate my country. It's also thanks to the US that Western Europe maintained its status as an economic powerhouse and became a region of democratic nations; had the Soviet Union singlehandedly defeated Germany (which I very much doubt they could have done) then they would have occupied all of Western Europe as well and we would have become a collection of underdeveloped Soviet satellite shitholes instead

[@citymorgue8462]

@@boombalatty2161 What they did need was American supplies

[@xviper2k]

The other major players of the war were being heavily supplied by Americans the whole time, so they can stay nauseated if it bothers them that much.

[@RamblingRose08]

Great reaction! My favorite Oversimplified videos are The American Civil War and Prohibition. You might also enjoy Montemayor video Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941 and Eyepop Productions video Boatlift - An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience.

[@jairon_2518]

The Emu’s War Oversimplified video is pretty hilarious. And I guess you’re maybe familiarized with that being from Australia

[@deplorablenation111]

As you've noticed in this comment section, we are used to European jabs at our country.... as if European history is less war hungry. A lot of my fellow Americans forgive easily and have thick skin. You're little jab at us that you apoligized for isn't a big deal. Not the worst we've heard 🤷🏻‍♀️. But this is why I adore my country, many of us say it didn't bother them at all or wasn't offended, maybe that is a weakness.

[@Valdaur]

From my experience at least, Americans get offended quite easily.. but I'm happy to see the Americans commenting here aren't triggered so easily.

[@c6nexhexta713]

thanks for this reaction 👍

[@GardenheadTHEBAND]

Hi! Just wanted to recommend the Hardcore History podcast to you Alice if you'd like some amazing entertaining history (not to react to). He goes super in depth and really focuses on the human side of the events. His WW1 series is probably the most popular. My personal favorite is probably the Death Throes of the Republic. Anyhoo, great reaction! Have a good one

[@nickjeffery536]

Can you watch WW3 Oversimplified next, please - I'd like to know how that one ends up!

[@philipp0209]

what's wrong with all of us speaking german right now haha 😂

[@majindomttv3903]

I just found your channel and I heard the beginning part. Some people always get offended. But you said america saved the war a lot of people don’t realize how much. Infographics show did a video on what if america didn’t exist and it mentions how many tons of food and supplies and just how many 100s of thousands of trucks and ammo was given to places like Russia to keep them alive.

[@Fritz_Water_Bottle]

Loved your reaction. I recommend reacting to The Fallen of the WW2 before doing the Cold War from Oversimplified.

[@libertatemadvocatus1797]

The Cold War was "cold" between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, but very hot elsewhere. Most of the wars of the 20th Century were either caused by or made worse by the Cold War. The Korean War, Vietnam War, the civil wars in Africa and Latin America, etc.

[@user-sn1hi7my7x]

Weren't the Vietnam war and Korean war instigated by the U.S. and U.K.? I could be wrong.

[@zach415]

9:58 this is called the Rape of Nanking and it was arguably one of the worst atrocities committed during the Second World War. There was actually a Nazi Party Member named John Rabe who witnessed these atrocities and worked with the allies to get the Chinese to safety

[@Xpndable]

Hi, commenting on your latest video about watching full length specials and reacting, you could do a watch party recording - vtubers do them all of the time. Basically, you find the video you're going to watch, then record a commentary track with a timer on screen so people can stay in sync, instead of showing the video itself. As an experiment I think it'd be worth while, plus so few people do that type of content, if you picked something like Bo Burnham's Inside you'd probably get a ton of traffic. Just a thought.

[@Xpndable]

You can also do a similar thing with videos that have been blocked, but you still want to show your reaction to it, an intro at the start of the video and a link in the description would be enough, with a timer on screen and if you pause at all, a reversing countdown like "3, 2, 1, PAUSE" added in post would work too.

[@jodieearl1492]

War doesn't determine who is right, war determines who is left.

[@coyotelong4349]

Next I highly recommend Oversimplified’s video on Hitler’s life before moving onto The Cold War

[@alexanderludvigsen1893]

a thing about the winter in russia is that it gets so cold the gasoline, disel and oil just freeze solid inside the fueltanks the russians were used to keep the engine running and using better fuel or how to thaw up the oil and fuel with a small fire under the vehicle. and they were themselves used to -40 to -50 degrees. especially the siberian troops, they were more or less all hunters and could kill people from extreme distances without a fancy scope, they were born in the cold and the germans weren't. so the winter has always been what potected russia from an invasion, if hitler had read history instead of burning it he would maby had won

[@zegh8578]

Swastikas are normally allowed to be shown, because theres all kinds of context - historical, cultural, educational etc, many cultures use this shape in their history, decor, symbolism etc - BUT, in Germany, for example - as you might guess - it is indeed not permitted to show or fly the German nazi flag, the red background, white circle, black swastika inside - the very unambigious flag we all know. Same applies here in Norway, where we might make exceptions for examples for the purpose of shooting a war-movie, which we have done on a few occasions :D Many youtubers will therefore blur or replace the nazi German swastika-flag for something related, like the German army symbol, or the German imperial tricolor, so that their videos won't be banned from showing in those countries where displaying the flag is forbidden. Video games set in WW2 often do the same, in order to avoid a German ban.

[@turbo_turk1]

King Htler was really prepared for this and President Stalin wasn’t, that was the main reason why they made great progress

[@wesleypeters4112]

The Germans were very low on oil in 1941-1942 as they pushed into the Soviet Union. Hitler hoped to take control of the oil fields in the Caucasus. Instead of focusing on the cities, he should have routed his army and followed the Volga to the Caspain Sea.

[@StephanePare]

In the first weeks of Soviet occupied Germany, women meeting each other in the street would discreetly flash finger counts at each other. That was the number of time each woman had been raped that day. Soviets pretended there was no violence done to local civilians, and anyone claiming otherwise was executed for treason. So, discreet finger counts at each other was women's way of speaking out.

[@EddieLove]

Speaking strictly from a strategic standpoint, what Hitler was able to accomplish is honestly astonishing... truly a real life super villain.

[@starrynight1657]

Some places still had more die in WW1 than WW2, the UK for one.

[@Zinthos.]

The balls on this girl to still say "Bada Boom" on a WWII video :D

[@mikecarew8329]

Oversimplified is excellent, You should react to his American Revolutionary War and American civil war as well. Also. on WW2 - the video the Fallen of WW2 is amazingly well done.

[@appledane]

As a Danish viewer: There are dozens of us! Dozens!

[@Lunarmech]

Psh. As an American, there's no offense taken at all. We make jokes about your lovely country all the time, it's only fair to return the love sometimes. I'm loving watching your reacts to oversimplified, hope you enjoy doing them!

[@romemedina4712]

No issues. We even mock each other on things like this.