Wholesome story that happened during the war. My great grandfather Arthur Osborne was a POW camp guard in the English midlands. He befriended a German prisoner, who made a rocking horse for my grandmother and her siblings.
@@caderiddle5996 oh, so its big than, i thought it was a small piece of wood carve into a horse, but its one of those big ones that you can ride. Nice nice
@@SomethingSeemsOff The Blitz scene was the only real change converting from book to movie, but that was because no kid, or even most adult, would have a frame of reference. Being sent to the country was the first 2 sentences and when it was published (1950), nothing else need be said and for those who were too young, they could ask Mom, Dad or their older siblings or cousins for first hand accounts.
20:20 Here in Germany, in a lot of cities, when you want to build a house you first gotta pay for bomb disposal to come and basically check the plot of land for anything that might go boom when an excavator hits it.
I think you should go ahead and keep pausing mid video, your discussion and questions you come up with are the reason to watch and like Bec said, its easy to forget before you get to the end of the video for a dedicated "discussion section". I think it feels more natural to just pause when something pops up in your mind too, which is always a better feel
Agreed, reaction channels that just give simple, one word responses like "wow" and "that's crazy" and "huh" throughout, and then end the video with "well that was cool, tell me what you thought about it in the comment." Those kinds of videos are boring. I can always just go watch the video myself, but hearing commentary that adds to the experience and seeing someone actually ask question and learn new things makes it better and worth watching.
true and the government was basically split up so west south north china were basically three separate countries government wise and they did not coordinate strategy at all...plus japan had militarized like the usa weapons discipline and training wise so they were more prepared for war flat out...chian was enlisting farmers to fight the trained japanese military who copied america's expansion type military..the eastern chinese had no chance
I don't know if she's still there but one of Mussolini's Granddaughters or Great Granddaughters recently served in the Italian Parliament as a member of the Fascist Party. Unlike Germany who outlawed everything having anything to do with Hitler the Fascist Party is still a thing in Italy.
If you don't pause and interject your thought or questions I really don't see why I would watch your channel. Your personality is why I have been watching. I am curious you have commented on what you learned in school, where did you both go to school at?
I want you to be yourselves! You have a natural chemistry on film and no pauses, I feel, would chip away at that. Brief pauses, although sometimes not quite so brief, provide a nice break to sort of absorb everything you just heard, as well as be able to ask questions that you have at that moment- good questions that you would likely forget to ask at the end of the video. Why fix what's not broken?! You guys are great! 👍 🇺🇸💙🇬🇧
I'm here 7 minutes after you posted, lol. I love that you guys react to many other history videos apart from Oversimplified. It's just to be expected that they won't be as popular, Oversimplified is dang addictive. Go out there and stay dangerous... Well, I'm tired with the "stay safe" BS, so I wanted to be original.
Most people in the British military thought the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk was a humiliating defeat but if it hadn't happened there might never have been a Normandy Invasion on D-Day in 1944.
BTW The series about Nazi Germany winning the war would be based on "Man In The High Castle". Most historians actually agree that WWII was not a done deal. There was Dunkirk and there was general Halder's betrayal where he moved too many troups to Army Centre while Hitler wanted to focus on the south in the first year of the war against the Soviet Union.. and a couple more things that could've gone differently. Please don't understand this as me suporting Hitler but I'm just saying that he got sabotaged at a few points in time. Also for example there was a German scientist that lied to him that Nazi Germany can't develop the atom bomb in 1942... while they most probably could in a couple of months Just felt like commenting on that. "Eastern front of WW2" is also a popular video on that if you wanted to give it a try one day
I think she was thinking of SS-GB which is a different alternate history show set in London at a time when Britain has fallen, the US doesn't enter the war, and Germany has yet to break the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
3:31 I love his attention to detail... The old Italian Lira sign did indeed look just like the British Pound Sterling sign, but with 2 strikes through the middle instead of one
8:30 do people not know that Austrians are basically southern Germans? Hitler himself is Austrian. Austria has always supported Germany through the wars, but now they deny everything lol.
The League of Nations gave the Japanese various island groups in the Pacific, that had been German possessions prior to WW1. This was Japan's reward for cooperating with the British in a joint naval action deemed important to the Western Powers. It was also, more or less, in recognition of Japan's rise as a great power, at least relative to the rest of Asia.
10:05 she's (sorry, I scanned through for her name, but cannot find) very correct about the Japanese soldiers in this discussion - they essentially had no fear, were hugely nationalistic, and believed dying in battle was the ultimate honour (and that surrendering was the polar opposite). So Russia and China found that out, but this also played a huge part in America's decision whether to invade mainland Japan, or drop the two nukes. They realised that the casualties involved in invading Japan would be eye watering (potentially far surpassing that of both nukes).
FYI, the reason why the Japanese war with Russia and invasion against China were so swift and successful is not only due to its militaristic ideologies (Oversimplified will touch on this in the next video), but also because it had been militirizing a lot during and shortly after its 200-year isolation period. Russia ultimately "lost" to Japan due to its then military ineptitude led under Tsar Nicolas (Oversimplified also touched on this in his Russian Revolution video). As for China, they had been fighting a lengthy civil war since 1927 between the Communists and the Nationalists (predecessors of those governing Taiwan today), and Japan invaded amidst the chaos when both sides are disorganized and weakened by the civil war (Just think of what happened to the Avengers in Infinity War when Thanos invaded). The Chinese Civil War persisted even after WW2 was over and the Japanese withdrew, which ended with the Communists victorious and the Nationalists retreating to Taiwan. Also, the TV series you've mentioned where the Nazis and Axis powers hypothetically won is most likely "The Man in the High Castle."
Japan, from it's early days till around the end of World War II, had a policy of 'never surrender'. It simply was not in the Japanese culture. Japan, even centuries ago (BC, AD, etc), were always a military-first type of nation. In other words, they viewed everything through the lens of a Military perspective and that's also how they made a majority of their war-time and 'diplomatic' (if you can even call if that, lol) decisions following their breakup with isolationism. So as she pointed out, Japan indeed had 'no fear' and were menacing warriors. From the colonial days to the days of World War II.
I'm a history fan and have studied WW2 alot and just want to remake on your comments about the idea of German forces invading Britain. Basically that was impossible and could NOT have occurred. Germany simply didn't have good enough naval forces to secure transport across the English channel. Had they attempted it, the British navy would slaughter any such effort. If you look at the entire history of amphibious invasions you'll see that invading any country over water is EXTREMELY difficult and the defending territory has an incredible advantage. Basically the invading force needs tremendous resources to attempt it. This is why Germany KNEW they had no chance of trying it unless they could completely wipe out the British air-force. If that happened, they might have SOME chance to cross the channel if the British navy had no air support but will still be hard. And as we all know, Germany had no way to win the air-war because Britain had the most sophisticated and organized air-defense network the world had ever seen, and the most advanced radar technology in the world. Britain has some of the brightest minds in the world in various technological fields. This was true during WW2, and is still true to this day if you look at companies like Deep-Mind, which is making some of the biggest advances in AI currently.
In "Angela's Ashes", Frank McCourt describes the general attitude of the Irish toward WW2 as not liking Hitler and Germany, but finding it hard not to find satisfaction in the UK getting bombed. But there were also many Irish living in the UK for job opportunities. Sweden, land of most of my ancestors, was officially neutral, and had a mixed bag of actions. They actively sent iron to Germany, but also routed refugees to the west. Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish ambassador to Hungary, gave asylum to many Jews and transported them to Sweden. Famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr, half Jewish, escaped via Sweden. His former student, Werner Heisenberg, was one of the few top physicists left in Germany, and sort of passively resisted being involved in efforts to produce an atomic bomb. The Nazis somewhat hobbled themselves scientifically by labeling new types of physics like relativity and quantum mechanics as "Jewish science", but this doctrine was nowhere near as strict as many others.
I believe Ireland was involved but I don't think they really like had a huge impact I believe they did create a force and help in some missions but I don't think they were like globally involved
5:59 Speaking of not learning much about Mussolini- Actually the fascist takeover nobody EVER seems to learn about was Francoist Spain right at that time as well... Likely because Spain was fighting its own civil war over it and so they stayed neutral during WW2... But it’s still a shame it doesn’t seem to be talked about much But Francoist Spain would still be interesting to learn more about- Hitler and Mussolini both provided aid to Francisco Franco’s side in that war of course
I enjoy both the pausing and conversations at points in the videos your reacting to as well as the conversations you have after finishing the videos (and the conversations before the video starts). So I definitely agree with others to keep doing it as you’ve been. I love watching you all’s reactions!
The thing I really enjoy about your reactions is that when you talk about things you pause the video and even go back 5 sec to make sure that you don't miss out on anything, which is unfortunately something few people do. Nothing more annoying than watching people talk about something and then sit there confused as hell afterwards because the video had just continued playing. Please keep up the great reactions!
In America, we remember WW2 much better than WW1 (for obvious reasons). Which do y'all remember better? On one hand, Britain suffered worse casualties in the first, but there was a greater threat to your freedom in the second.
We didn't hate the British really, Ireland lost 600 people trying to send food to the UK in Ww2. Britain could have easily starved if Ireland hadn't helped. We adjusted our tillage system here to produce more vegetables etc. for Britain. Ireland and Britain had an economic war only a few years earlier as well, basically over having to pay rent to British lords for Irish land. Also, german airmen shot down found themselves and interned and British airmen found themselves at the border. And another point Bombs dropped over Dublin by Luftwaffe aircraft killed 28 , wounded nearly 400, and destroyed 300 homes. (google the north strand bombings, the anniversary was only a few days ago)
The bombing of Berlin is what saved Great Britain more than anything. It distracted Hitler by causing him to shift the bombing missions, which allowed the Britain to rebuild crucial airfields and maintain an air defense. Also not to be forgotten are all the foreign pilots who volunteered to fly for the RAF and the financial and material aid from the US.
I prefer the way you do because it's a reaction video I might as well just watch the regular video if I didn't want to hear people opinions but I wanna hear y'all opinions.
My grandfather lived in the Dutch East Indies during WW2. After the war Indonesia became independent and the Moluccans (my grandfather's people) were seen as traitors because they helped the Netherlands. That is why the Dutch allowed the Moluccas to stay in the Netherlands "for a while". And they still live here!
Fun fact: Hitler's medical records were found and released, not only did he only have one testicle but he had problems with his lower intestines and stuff. This caused him to have hurendouse gas, after every meal he had to excuse himself because he had to release massive amounts of flatulence
I like the pausing. It shows that you're interested in the video and want to add your input without talking over it. I can tell some channels do some reactions just for views since a lot of these videos get clicks.
I personally like your guys' commentary throughout the video. And sometimes she asks questions that I realize I don't know the answer to either, like the Ireland question she had here. Some people pause it the same amount as you guys but they don't add or say anything interesting and then they press play without going back a couple seconds so they often miss crucial parts of the video, that shit's annoying. Also your banter towards each other is funny
You'd be surprised how disorganized the Japanese Military was. The Army and Navy were constantly at odds with one another, never working together unless they absolutely had to, often sabotaged one another and had completely different goals and air forces. It was the Japanese Army that wad invading China while the Japanese Navy was taking over the islands south of Japan
Czechoslovaks were fighting back. There were Sudetten Germans, who joined Hitler and attacked police force and strategic spots, so Czechs were defending themselves, but we had no chance against Wermacht.
Brilliant vid, great chemistry between you two, and a excellent informative vid to review. Learnt a thing or two 😜 Keep the format the same is my humble opinion ❤️
The movie she was talking about is called Hitlers britian, it was a really good watch. I have hours of war documentaries and for a what if documentary it was really well put together.
japan was pretty brutal in ww2, just read about nanjing (or nanking) massacre or the rape of nanking. idk how much of it is true but thats pretty brutal like they have some old vendetta against china.
The British were closer to seeking peace after the fall of France than people think. Churchill dug his feet in and won the debate. Would have likely meant allowing the Nazis to occupy parts of Southern England I'd imagine.
You'd be wrong. Hitler offered peace terms and he didn't want anything from the British. He offered to give us back our troops, he would take no territory and he wouldn't accept any reparations. If Churchill had peaced out Britian would not be occupied
The number one reason why Japanese soldiers had no fear is because in their military culture, if you die on the battlefield, you are considered a national hero and your family is honoured for tens of generations to come. The King's Government made sure that martyr's families received extraordinary amounts of financial help and respect. The same way if you came back home from a lost battle, or if you were found to be running away from the battlefield to avoid death, you and your family was would be insulted for generations to come. Even the great-grandchildren of a coward soldier would be ridiculed by the society- and it still happens to this day. If your troop lost a battle, you were supposed to kill yourself right there on the battlefield instead of returning home. Cowardice has never been, and will never be accepted in Japan.
There's a story of a polish General who had about 800 men and some basic equipment, who held up 40k German soldiers for 3 days before having to surrender.
The man in the high castle on Amazon Prime is a series based on the premise that the axis powers won with Japan controlling the west part of the US, and Germany controlling the east part of the US with a neutral zone in the middle. In one scene in rural America ash comes raining down and it is from the Germans burning people’s bodies or something. It’s pretty wild!
Believe it or not there’s a plaque at I think the Tower of London honoring a group called the Owls or something similar. They were a team of men who stood atop the tower and attempted to catch the German bombs by hand! I heard about it on Mysteries at the Museum.
Pause as much as you need to. I don't watch reactions to watch someone sit there watching a screen and then bring up 1 point at the end and finish the video. I watch them to know what you think, if you think of something, pause and tell us rather then waiting and forgetting.
10:50 Yep, it is nearly impossible fighting someone who isn't afraid of death and actually embraces it. Like, what could you possibly threaten them with? Lol
There's a great kids book called The Silver Sword about a family of Polish kids and their adventures in trying to get from Warsaw to Switzerland. I'd highly recommend it if you're interested in a fictional take from a non-British POV
10:04 Yeah that was pretty crazy. Although back in 1937, there were 6.35 million tons of steel produced in Japan per year, while in China, the number was 0.04 million tons. So 150 times difference. Steal to make guns, bullets, ships, tanks, etc. So no that crazy after all
Today's China though, produce 1030 million tons of steel (2021), which takes up half of the world's production. While Japan produced 96.3 million tons. Of course, steel don't matter as much militarily now, but that was a huge difference
The rumblings of the Second World War began much earlier than the officially recognized date.The Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1936. Japan's capture of China and Korea, the Spanish Civil War, the battles of the Red Army with Japanese troops on Lake Hassan Ihalkhin Gol. Here's an episode for you : A long-distance sailing captain from Wales saved thousands of Spaniards who were fleeing from advancing Fascist troops in the final days of the civil War. Archibald Dixon of Cardiff commanded the British freighter S.S. Stanbrook, the last ship to leave the port of Alicante in Valencia, eastern Spain, on March 28, 1939, before that city fell to the troops of General Franco. There were 2,638 civilian refugees on board the ship, who were safely delivered to Algeria. Captain Dixon and his entire crew would lose their own lives later, in the same 1939. On November 19, in the first months of World War II, the Stanbrook was torpedoed by a Hitler submarine." Photo collage: crowded cargo ship "Stanbrook" and Captain Archibald Dixon (1892-1939)
Tsar of Russia was a fool, and ministers as well as leaders of the Church admitted that he would have served as a perfect head of postcard family, however he was hopeless as head of the state.
As to the Hitler and Stalin - it was not exactly as shown here, because USSR had been helping Germany by sending food, natural resources and, most importantly, by training their officers. And, yes, many were killed during the Great Purge, because they had spoken ill about Germany and warned to stay away from that country. And in 1939 both countries decided who would get Finland, Baltic states, Bessarabia, as well as how Poland should be split.
There is a version that by signing pact together with the secret protocols, Stalin wanted to get enough time for invasion of Germany, because Soviets had decent tanks suited for good (not Soviet) roads as well as maps of Europe (instead of the Soviet Union), and, yes, it might seem insignificant, but many, including soldiers good boots instead of the usual, made of artificial leather that were of really poor quality.
I think pausing for commentary is better. Please react to Fun to Imagine with Richard Feynman. He's the guy who figured out what happened in the Challenger shuttle disaster. He was a revolutionary physicist and the video is him explaining everyday things from the physicist perspective. His QED lectures are amazing too.
Love your channel and I think it's great that you paused it when you have a question or want to tell your audience anything. If there are people who don't like you two pausing, they should go and watch the original video. 🙂
At 7:22, is that "The Situation" from the "Jersey Shore" TV reality show? At 7:51, I think Hitler's "The Plan" is a reference to the Underwear Gnomes episode of "South Park."
Keep pausing people can watch the original video if they want. After watching you react to the unbiased history of Rome I watched the whole thing and it's defiantly worth doing. There is no way you will be able to monetize it though. If you look at it as history from a Roman perspective it's very accurate. It's also incredibly funny if you get the references he makes.
I'm with the keep pausing crowd. It's a reaction channel and pausing lets us see you react. With Oversimplified, I'm a subscriber of that channel and can watch the unpaused video there.
I don't know if you could, but you should watch the Band of Brothers episode "Why We Fight" and give a reaction. It's a little long and might need multiple viewings but would be interesting to watch.
Can you perhaps also react to more serious history related history videos? Because Oversimplified is pretty much the opposite of serious. Just wondering.
Please keep pausing! People miss stuff by talking over it or not commenting at all. I mean like I've said before if I wanted to watch the original video i would but I'm here to hear what you have to say and it's ideal you do it without missing anything!
Why did none of the allies declare war on the USSR when the Red army crossed the border???? A very simple answer: The Red Army crossed the border of Poland after the escape of the Polish government. The Red Army stopped at the internationally recognized line of Lord Curzon. In 1920, Poland tore off part of the USSR in its favor - France and Great Britain had no reason to be outraged by the actions of the USSR government.
Your balance is pretty good. The ones who rarely pause and say virtually nothing are awful. Ditto the ones who don't pause, but say stuff over the narration. Then there are some who pause enough, but at unnecessary spots and say stupid stuff.
Weird thing was that during WW2 Germany became if not the most at least one of most advanced nations, like their military has better machines but yet that still lost
Her education is like mine in Texas but instead of a total of 4 years with 3 years about hilter and holocaust only one year for WW2 and there entire year was spent on the Holocaust not even hilter. Just that one year
This Oversimplified is pretty decent...but there are errors in it. Most are minor, but there are issues with the script about Hitler's rise to power, to varying degrees. For one thing, Oversimplified says that "the German people loved him", but that is not factually correct, he needed to specify that a portion of the German people loved Hitler...and not even a majority. The Nazis never managed to get more than about 35% support in any of the elections, but they were able to use that to force President Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor by leaving no other option. I know this is about "Oversimplifying" history, but it still needs to be factually correct and not misleading. 🖖💯✌ I really enjoy you two reacting to these videos together. 😁👌
WTF we wanna seem them too damn it. I like the way you currently do it. I rather you keep pausing. It is one of the things I love about your reactions!
THEM: I hope I remember stuff from high school history. ALSO THEM(while watching a doc on WW2) no dictator ever got elected to power. ME: WHAT ABOUT HITLER!!!!! AAAAHHH
Wholesome story that happened during the war. My great grandfather Arthur Osborne was a POW camp guard in the English midlands. He befriended a German prisoner, who made a rocking horse for my grandmother and her siblings.
Wow that's insane !
And now your name is Norman Osborne and your the green goblin
Whats a rocking horse?
It’s a piece of wood carved into the shape of a horse put on legs similar to what’s on a rocking chair
@@caderiddle5996 oh, so its big than, i thought it was a small piece of wood carve into a horse, but its one of those big ones that you can ride. Nice nice
The kids in the Narnia stories were kids sent to the countryside during WWII.
I never read the books, but I remember the intro scenes in the first movie and I assumed they were there on vacation or something. Today I learned :)
Tolkien was a WW1 vet for real. Think about it.
@@SomethingSeemsOff The Blitz scene was the only real change converting from book to movie, but that was because no kid, or even most adult, would have a frame of reference. Being sent to the country was the first 2 sentences and when it was published (1950), nothing else need be said and for those who were too young, they could ask Mom, Dad or their older siblings or cousins for first hand accounts.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 So was C.S. Lewis
The Railway Children has a TV/movie adaptation too
20:20
Here in Germany, in a lot of cities, when you want to build a house you first gotta pay for bomb disposal to come and basically check the plot of land for anything that might go boom when an excavator hits it.
Damn
Crazy
china wasn't unified back then and different provinces were ruled by various warlords so it was comparatively easy for japan to occupy large areas
And plus they were in a civil war
@@rumbleice9467 And above all that, China's industry was a joke.
Even if Japan's industrial capacity wasn't that good, it was still miles above.
The fun of a reaction channel is having people react. I say keep doing what you are doing.
Yeah spread the history
I think you should go ahead and keep pausing mid video, your discussion and questions you come up with are the reason to watch and like Bec said, its easy to forget before you get to the end of the video for a dedicated "discussion section". I think it feels more natural to just pause when something pops up in your mind too, which is always a better feel
She asks questions that seem simple at first but then I realize I actually don't know 😂😂
Agreed, reaction channels that just give simple, one word responses like "wow" and "that's crazy" and "huh" throughout, and then end the video with "well that was cool, tell me what you thought about it in the comment." Those kinds of videos are boring. I can always just go watch the video myself, but hearing commentary that adds to the experience and seeing someone actually ask question and learn new things makes it better and worth watching.
@@joshbeezley4234 appreciate you man, for sure when I watch reaction channels I prefer some personal opinions on stuff 💪🏼
China was also in the middle of a civil war when Japan invaded
true and the government was basically split up so west south north china were basically three separate countries government wise and they did not coordinate strategy at all...plus japan had militarized like the usa weapons discipline and training wise so they were more prepared for war flat out...chian was enlisting farmers to fight the trained japanese military who copied america's expansion type military..the eastern chinese had no chance
I don't know if she's still there but one of Mussolini's Granddaughters or Great Granddaughters recently served in the Italian Parliament as a member of the Fascist Party. Unlike Germany who outlawed everything having anything to do with Hitler the Fascist Party is still a thing in Italy.
If you don't pause and interject your thought or questions I really don't see why I would watch your channel. Your personality is why I have been watching. I am curious you have commented on what you learned in school, where did you both go to school at?
I want you to be yourselves! You have a natural chemistry on film and no pauses, I feel, would chip away at that. Brief pauses, although sometimes not quite so brief, provide a nice break to sort of absorb everything you just heard, as well as be able to ask questions that you have at that moment- good questions that you would likely forget to ask at the end of the video. Why fix what's not broken?! You guys are great! 👍 🇺🇸💙🇬🇧
I like you pausing it’s what makes these reactions worth it
I'm here 7 minutes after you posted, lol. I love that you guys react to many other history videos apart from Oversimplified. It's just to be expected that they won't be as popular, Oversimplified is dang addictive.
Go out there and stay dangerous... Well, I'm tired with the "stay safe" BS, so I wanted to be original.
Hahaha oversimplified is great but other channels have good qualities off their own 💪🏼 appreciate you man
I’m not being rude but you have 8 subs and no content. How?
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@@totallymlo2052 dont question the youtube algorithim
Most people in the British military thought the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk was a humiliating defeat but if it hadn't happened there might never have been a Normandy Invasion on D-Day in 1944.
BTW The series about Nazi Germany winning the war would be based on "Man In The High Castle". Most historians actually agree that WWII was not a done deal. There was Dunkirk and there was general Halder's betrayal where he moved too many troups to Army Centre while Hitler wanted to focus on the south in the first year of the war against the Soviet Union.. and a couple more things that could've gone differently.
Please don't understand this as me suporting Hitler but I'm just saying that he got sabotaged at a few points in time. Also for example there was a German scientist that lied to him that Nazi Germany can't develop the atom bomb in 1942... while they most probably could in a couple of months
Just felt like commenting on that. "Eastern front of WW2" is also a popular video on that if you wanted to give it a try one day
I think she was thinking of SS-GB which is a different alternate history show set in London at a time when Britain has fallen, the US doesn't enter the war, and Germany has yet to break the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
3:31
I love his attention to detail... The old Italian Lira sign did indeed look just like the British Pound Sterling sign, but with 2 strikes through the middle instead of one
8:30 do people not know that Austrians are basically southern Germans? Hitler himself is Austrian. Austria has always supported Germany through the wars, but now they deny everything lol.
Watch the video about Desmond Doss by simplehistory. He’s a medic that served in WW2 and never used a rifle in battle.
Yes, very good video
Another good channel.
I always thought Mussolini resembled Robert Duvall.
The League of Nations gave the Japanese various island groups in the Pacific, that had been German possessions prior to WW1. This was Japan's reward for cooperating with the British in a joint naval action deemed important to the Western Powers. It was also, more or less, in recognition of Japan's rise as a great power, at least relative to the rest of Asia.
They didn't push onto Dunkirk because the German Armor over stretched their Supply lines and also needed infantry to secure their flanks.
I say keep pausing. We're here for the reactions. React away!
I like the way ya'll pause and talk, doesn't bug me.
10:05 she's (sorry, I scanned through for her name, but cannot find) very correct about the Japanese soldiers in this discussion - they essentially had no fear, were hugely nationalistic, and believed dying in battle was the ultimate honour (and that surrendering was the polar opposite). So Russia and China found that out, but this also played a huge part in America's decision whether to invade mainland Japan, or drop the two nukes. They realised that the casualties involved in invading Japan would be eye watering (potentially far surpassing that of both nukes).
FYI, the reason why the Japanese war with Russia and invasion against China were so swift and successful is not only due to its militaristic ideologies (Oversimplified will touch on this in the next video), but also because it had been militirizing a lot during and shortly after its 200-year isolation period.
Russia ultimately "lost" to Japan due to its then military ineptitude led under Tsar Nicolas (Oversimplified also touched on this in his Russian Revolution video).
As for China, they had been fighting a lengthy civil war since 1927 between the Communists and the Nationalists (predecessors of those governing Taiwan today), and Japan invaded amidst the chaos when both sides are disorganized and weakened by the civil war (Just think of what happened to the Avengers in Infinity War when Thanos invaded). The Chinese Civil War persisted even after WW2 was over and the Japanese withdrew, which ended with the Communists victorious and the Nationalists retreating to Taiwan.
Also, the TV series you've mentioned where the Nazis and Axis powers hypothetically won is most likely "The Man in the High Castle."
Japan, from it's early days till around the end of World War II, had a policy of 'never surrender'. It simply was not in the Japanese culture. Japan, even centuries ago (BC, AD, etc), were always a military-first type of nation. In other words, they viewed everything through the lens of a Military perspective and that's also how they made a majority of their war-time and 'diplomatic' (if you can even call if that, lol) decisions following their breakup with isolationism.
So as she pointed out, Japan indeed had 'no fear' and were menacing warriors. From the colonial days to the days of World War II.
I'm a history fan and have studied WW2 alot and just want to remake on your comments about the idea of German forces invading Britain. Basically that was impossible and could NOT have occurred. Germany simply didn't have good enough naval forces to secure transport across the English channel. Had they attempted it, the British navy would slaughter any such effort. If you look at the entire history of amphibious invasions you'll see that invading any country over water is EXTREMELY difficult and the defending territory has an incredible advantage. Basically the invading force needs tremendous resources to attempt it. This is why Germany KNEW they had no chance of trying it unless they could completely wipe out the British air-force. If that happened, they might have SOME chance to cross the channel if the British navy had no air support but will still be hard. And as we all know, Germany had no way to win the air-war because Britain had the most sophisticated and organized air-defense network the world had ever seen, and the most advanced radar technology in the world. Britain has some of the brightest minds in the world in various technological fields. This was true during WW2, and is still true to this day if you look at companies like Deep-Mind, which is making some of the biggest advances in AI currently.
In "Angela's Ashes", Frank McCourt describes the general attitude of the Irish toward WW2 as not liking Hitler and Germany, but finding it hard not to find satisfaction in the UK getting bombed. But there were also many Irish living in the UK for job opportunities. Sweden, land of most of my ancestors, was officially neutral, and had a mixed bag of actions. They actively sent iron to Germany, but also routed refugees to the west. Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish ambassador to Hungary, gave asylum to many Jews and transported them to Sweden. Famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr, half Jewish, escaped via Sweden. His former student, Werner Heisenberg, was one of the few top physicists left in Germany, and sort of passively resisted being involved in efforts to produce an atomic bomb. The Nazis somewhat hobbled themselves scientifically by labeling new types of physics like relativity and quantum mechanics as "Jewish science", but this doctrine was nowhere near as strict as many others.
I believe Ireland was involved but I don't think they really like had a huge impact I believe they did create a force and help in some missions but I don't think they were like globally involved
5:59 Speaking of not learning much about Mussolini- Actually the fascist takeover nobody EVER seems to learn about was Francoist Spain right at that time as well... Likely because Spain was fighting its own civil war over it and so they stayed neutral during WW2... But it’s still a shame it doesn’t seem to be talked about much
But Francoist Spain would still be interesting to learn more about- Hitler and Mussolini both provided aid to Francisco Franco’s side in that war of course
I enjoy both the pausing and conversations at points in the videos your reacting to as well as the conversations you have after finishing the videos (and the conversations before the video starts). So I definitely agree with others to keep doing it as you’ve been. I love watching you all’s reactions!
The thing I really enjoy about your reactions is that when you talk about things you pause the video and even go back 5 sec to make sure that you don't miss out on anything, which is unfortunately something few people do. Nothing more annoying than watching people talk about something and then sit there confused as hell afterwards because the video had just continued playing. Please keep up the great reactions!
In America, we remember WW2 much better than WW1 (for obvious reasons). Which do y'all remember better? On one hand, Britain suffered worse casualties in the first, but there was a greater threat to your freedom in the second.
We didn't hate the British really, Ireland lost 600 people trying to send food to the UK in Ww2. Britain could have easily starved if Ireland hadn't helped. We adjusted our tillage system here to produce more vegetables etc. for Britain. Ireland and Britain had an economic war only a few years earlier as well, basically over having to pay rent to British lords for Irish land.
Also, german airmen shot down found themselves and interned and British airmen found themselves at the border. And another point Bombs dropped over Dublin by Luftwaffe aircraft killed 28 , wounded nearly 400, and destroyed 300 homes. (google the north strand bombings, the anniversary was only a few days ago)
Your islands Gernsay & Jersey, off the English & French coasts, were taken by the Germans early in WWII. They held them throughout the war.
The bombing of Berlin is what saved Great Britain more than anything. It distracted Hitler by causing him to shift the bombing missions, which allowed the Britain to rebuild crucial airfields and maintain an air defense. Also not to be forgotten are all the foreign pilots who volunteered to fly for the RAF and the financial and material aid from the US.
I prefer the way you do because it's a reaction video I might as well just watch the regular video if I didn't want to hear people opinions but I wanna hear y'all opinions.
My grandfather lived in the Dutch East Indies during WW2. After the war Indonesia became independent and the Moluccans (my grandfather's people) were seen as traitors because they helped the Netherlands. That is why the Dutch allowed the Moluccas to stay in the Netherlands "for a while". And they still live here!
Fun fact: Hitler's medical records were found and released, not only did he only have one testicle but he had problems with his lower intestines and stuff. This caused him to have hurendouse gas, after every meal he had to excuse himself because he had to release massive amounts of flatulence
Pretty weird to think people lived though that not knowing what will happen. My grandad was born in 1944 during the nazi bombing of Bucharest Romania
I like the pausing. It shows that you're interested in the video and want to add your input without talking over it. I can tell some channels do some reactions just for views since a lot of these videos get clicks.
I personally like your guys' commentary throughout the video. And sometimes she asks questions that I realize I don't know the answer to either, like the Ireland question she had here.
Some people pause it the same amount as you guys but they don't add or say anything interesting and then they press play without going back a couple seconds so they often miss crucial parts of the video, that shit's annoying. Also your banter towards each other is funny
You'd be surprised how disorganized the Japanese Military was. The Army and Navy were constantly at odds with one another, never working together unless they absolutely had to, often sabotaged one another and had completely different goals and air forces. It was the Japanese Army that wad invading China while the Japanese Navy was taking over the islands south of Japan
Czechoslovaks were fighting back. There were Sudetten Germans, who joined Hitler and attacked police force and strategic spots, so Czechs were defending themselves, but we had no chance against Wermacht.
Imagine Benito Mussolini as your elementary/primary school teacher... I can think of few things more terrifying
Thanks for the reaction, hopefully part 2 soon!
Have a great weekend guys!
Love this. That’s all. Just love this. So much, keep posting videos on this topic 😁
and the Japanese went from that in one generation to Hello Kitty ... yay!
Brilliant vid, great chemistry between you two, and a excellent informative vid to review. Learnt a thing or two 😜 Keep the format the same is my humble opinion ❤️
Here in Germany we also have a ton of remnants still left from WW2. A few bunkers are still there, but mostly undetonated bombs.
The movie she was talking about is called Hitlers britian, it was a really good watch. I have hours of war documentaries and for a what if documentary it was really well put together.
japan was pretty brutal in ww2, just read about nanjing (or nanking) massacre or the rape of nanking. idk how much of it is true but thats pretty brutal like they have some old vendetta against china.
The show were Hitler won was called "The Man in the High Castle".
The British were closer to seeking peace after the fall of France than people think. Churchill dug his feet in and won the debate. Would have likely meant allowing the Nazis to occupy parts of Southern England I'd imagine.
You'd be wrong. Hitler offered peace terms and he didn't want anything from the British. He offered to give us back our troops, he would take no territory and he wouldn't accept any reparations. If Churchill had peaced out Britian would not be occupied
You are right that Britain was very close to accepting peace
Only reaction channel worth watching tbh. It’s better when you pause and give insight or perspective
The number one reason why Japanese soldiers had no fear is because in their military culture, if you die on the battlefield, you are considered a national hero and your family is honoured for tens of generations to come. The King's Government made sure that martyr's families received extraordinary amounts of financial help and respect.
The same way if you came back home from a lost battle, or if you were found to be running away from the battlefield to avoid death, you and your family was would be insulted for generations to come. Even the great-grandchildren of a coward soldier would be ridiculed by the society- and it still happens to this day.
If your troop lost a battle, you were supposed to kill yourself right there on the battlefield instead of returning home.
Cowardice has never been, and will never be accepted in Japan.
There's a story of a polish General who had about 800 men and some basic equipment, who held up 40k German soldiers for 3 days before having to surrender.
Here we go!!! Excited for this 🙌😆
I actually like you pausing to give input or joke around it feels more personal
The man in the high castle on Amazon Prime is a series based on the premise that the axis powers won with Japan controlling the west part of the US, and Germany controlling the east part of the US with a neutral zone in the middle. In one scene in rural America ash comes raining down and it is from the Germans burning people’s bodies or something. It’s pretty wild!
Believe it or not there’s a plaque at I think the Tower of London honoring a group called the Owls or something similar. They were a team of men who stood atop the tower and attempted to catch the German bombs by hand! I heard about it on Mysteries at the Museum.
Pause as much as you need to. I don't watch reactions to watch someone sit there watching a screen and then bring up 1 point at the end and finish the video. I watch them to know what you think, if you think of something, pause and tell us rather then waiting and forgetting.
10:50 Yep, it is nearly impossible fighting someone who isn't afraid of death and actually embraces it.
Like, what could you possibly threaten them with? Lol
There's a great kids book called The Silver Sword about a family of Polish kids and their adventures in trying to get from Warsaw to Switzerland. I'd highly recommend it if you're interested in a fictional take from a non-British POV
I like your commentary and your interaction with one another.
10:04 Yeah that was pretty crazy.
Although back in 1937, there were 6.35 million tons of steel produced in Japan per year, while in China, the number was 0.04 million tons. So 150 times difference. Steal to make guns, bullets, ships, tanks, etc.
So no that crazy after all
Today's China though, produce 1030 million tons of steel (2021), which takes up half of the world's production. While Japan produced 96.3 million tons. Of course, steel don't matter as much militarily now, but that was a huge difference
The rumblings of the Second World War began much earlier than the officially recognized date.The Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1936. Japan's capture of China and Korea, the Spanish Civil War, the battles of the Red Army with Japanese troops on Lake Hassan Ihalkhin Gol.
Here's an episode for you :
A long-distance sailing captain from Wales saved thousands of Spaniards who were fleeing from advancing Fascist troops in the final days of the civil War. Archibald Dixon of Cardiff commanded the British freighter S.S. Stanbrook, the last ship to leave the port of Alicante in Valencia, eastern Spain, on March 28, 1939, before that city fell to the troops of General Franco. There were 2,638 civilian refugees on board the ship, who were safely delivered to Algeria. Captain Dixon and his entire crew would lose their own lives later, in the same 1939. On November 19, in the first months of World War II, the Stanbrook was torpedoed by a Hitler submarine."
Photo collage: crowded cargo ship "Stanbrook" and Captain Archibald Dixon (1892-1939)
Tsar of Russia was a fool, and ministers as well as leaders of the Church admitted that he would have served as a perfect head of postcard family, however he was hopeless as head of the state.
As to the Hitler and Stalin - it was not exactly as shown here, because USSR had been helping Germany by sending food, natural resources and, most importantly, by training their officers. And, yes, many were killed during the Great Purge, because they had spoken ill about Germany and warned to stay away from that country. And in 1939 both countries decided who would get Finland, Baltic states, Bessarabia, as well as how Poland should be split.
There is a version that by signing pact together with the secret protocols, Stalin wanted to get enough time for invasion of Germany, because Soviets had decent tanks suited for good (not Soviet) roads as well as maps of Europe (instead of the Soviet Union), and, yes, it might seem insignificant, but many, including soldiers good boots instead of the usual, made of artificial leather that were of really poor quality.
Great vid guys, subbed
I think pausing for commentary is better. Please react to Fun to Imagine with Richard Feynman. He's the guy who figured out what happened in the Challenger shuttle disaster. He was a revolutionary physicist and the video is him explaining everyday things from the physicist perspective. His QED lectures are amazing too.
3:10 i felt like he looked like that one guy from the impractical jokers (Joe Gatto)
The UK was alone, apart from the millions of Indians, Africans, West Indians, Australians, New Zealanders fighting on their behalf.
Love your channel and I think it's great that you paused it when you have a question or want to tell your audience anything. If there are people who don't like you two pausing, they should go and watch the original video. 🙂
Pause and comment all you want. Most of us enjoy that quite a bit.
At 7:22, is that "The Situation" from the "Jersey Shore" TV reality show? At 7:51, I think Hitler's "The Plan" is a reference to the Underwear Gnomes episode of "South Park."
2:51 The first picture of Mussolini looks alot like Rudy Giuliani lol
You guys should watch The Pacific, Its an excellent series
Czechs and Austrians have always viewed themselves as sovereign Germanic nations.
I love watching non American reactions to history and see what other places focused on during their history classes
Keep pausing people can watch the original video if they want. After watching you react to the unbiased history of Rome I watched the whole thing and it's defiantly worth doing. There is no way you will be able to monetize it though. If you look at it as history from a Roman perspective it's very accurate. It's also incredibly funny if you get the references he makes.
I'm with the keep pausing crowd. It's a reaction channel and pausing lets us see you react. With Oversimplified, I'm a subscriber of that channel and can watch the unpaused video there.
I don't know if you could, but you should watch the Band of Brothers episode "Why We Fight" and give a reaction. It's a little long and might need multiple viewings but would be interesting to watch.
We want you to react. If we didn't, we'd watch the original. Keeping doing you.
I’m American and the stuff they talked about I already knew also watch 1917
Can you perhaps also react to more serious history related history videos? Because Oversimplified is pretty much the opposite of serious. Just wondering.
Can you do a react to The Pacific please?
Please keep pausing! People miss stuff by talking over it or not commenting at all. I mean like I've said before if I wanted to watch the original video i would but I'm here to hear what you have to say and it's ideal you do it without missing anything!
Why did none of the allies declare war on the USSR when the Red army crossed the border???? A very simple answer: The Red Army crossed the border of Poland after the escape of the Polish government. The Red Army stopped at the internationally recognized line of Lord Curzon. In 1920, Poland tore off part of the USSR in its favor - France and Great Britain had no reason to be outraged by the actions of the USSR government.
Your balance is pretty good. The ones who rarely pause and say virtually nothing are awful. Ditto the ones who don't pause, but say stuff over the narration. Then there are some who pause enough, but at unnecessary spots and say stupid stuff.
Weird thing was that during WW2 Germany became if not the most at least one of most advanced nations, like their military has better machines but yet that still lost
Pause whenever you want.
Just found your channel love from Liverpool
I prefer being able to read the text in the video when you pause. When you pause and I pause too, it is much easier for me. 👍
Her education is like mine in Texas but instead of a total of 4 years with 3 years about hilter and holocaust only one year for WW2 and there entire year was spent on the Holocaust not even hilter. Just that one year
This Oversimplified is pretty decent...but there are errors in it. Most are minor, but there are issues with the script about Hitler's rise to power, to varying degrees. For one thing, Oversimplified says that "the German people loved him", but that is not factually correct, he needed to specify that a portion of the German people loved Hitler...and not even a majority. The Nazis never managed to get more than about 35% support in any of the elections, but they were able to use that to force President Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor by leaving no other option. I know this is about "Oversimplifying" history, but it still needs to be factually correct and not misleading. 🖖💯✌
I really enjoy you two reacting to these videos together. 😁👌
WTF we wanna seem them too damn it. I like the way you currently do it. I rather you keep pausing. It is one of the things I love about your reactions!
When your gf breaks your heart and everyone you know turns a blind on u and so u decide to take over the world to win back her love... yeaaaa
My favorite intro/intro: *CLICK CLICK*
Don't see Devito but I do see a bald Vigo The Carpathian from Ghostbusters 2
THEM: I hope I remember stuff from high school history.
ALSO THEM(while watching a doc on WW2) no dictator ever got elected to power.
ME: WHAT ABOUT HITLER!!!!! AAAAHHH
Have you guys considered reacting to movies or TV series? Such as Band of Brothers?