I'd be happy if you were to explain zororastrian civilization

@emojicaptain7285

Ай бұрын

No

@DarthHoosier3038

Ай бұрын

Yes pleeeaaaseeee

@josephstalin839

Ай бұрын

Ah, yes, the original religion of Iran/Persia for millennia before the Muslims came along 🐎

@tssc1095

Ай бұрын

How about Israeli civilization

@azlyri

Ай бұрын

@@tssc1095 sure why not but Iranian civilization is so mysterious and over shadowed by Islam

'"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," [Nikita Khrushchev] wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."...

@2bad-ts2kp

29 күн бұрын

I think they are just underselling their own country at that point.

I hope the next one you do is WW2 in Asia since far fewer people know even a little bit about it.

@charliedontsurf334

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately because of the Cold War and anti-racism the American really let the Japanese off the hook for most of the atrocities.

@jasonpalacios1363

Ай бұрын

Exactly.

@junior4900

Ай бұрын

Dan Carlin’s Supernova in the East series is pretty good

The parallels between the Assyrians and Nazis are somewhat strong, strangely so. Both were perhaps the perfect example of the power of evil in the human spirit, genociding and conquering their neighbors. Both also ended up destroying their ancient civilization to a large extent. Western Civilization in Europe after the Nazis and Mesopotamia after Assyria were completely altered, traumatized, and unconfident. The entire energies of Europe and Mesopotamia (with Egypt and Babylon rebelling repeatedly) were spent defeating their great evils. But after those evils were vanquished, there was little left. And the regions gradually fell to kind foreign conquerors (Persians and Americans). And so Western Europe and Mesopotamia, which in their heydays ruled the entire civilized worlds, burned brightly in one final fire that consumed almost their entire civilizations.

@omegarealmsbans1914

Ай бұрын

Would the Aztecs, Imperial Japan, the Mongols, and the Timurids be their equivalents in the Mesoamerican, Sinic, and Islamic civilizations?

@shadywyvern

Ай бұрын

I like the pfp

@DarthHoosier3038

Ай бұрын

@@shadywyvern Thank you dude. :)

No more brother wars

@user-rg7sg6kp1p

Ай бұрын

Go tell (((them)))

@ugiswrong

Ай бұрын

Sorry but Africa love to fight herself

13:27 I wish the ‘host’ asked Rudyard “Why would you have just let Germany take Poland if you were the prime minister? Do you see an outcome that doesn’t result in war if Germany were to take Poland without war being declared?”

@glimmerxp

Ай бұрын

Was also curious about that

These are great videos, but I think the video would do a lot better with some better production quality. A few examples would be having the guy on the left be more centered in frame, or adding better microphone quality.

@christianrandall5618

Ай бұрын

I agree, they are shorting themselves in the foot by not paying attention to those small, yet very important details!

@MIKAEL212345

Ай бұрын

honestly, i think production quality is fine,. What I do think is a problem is the structure. Ss much as I love the whatifalthist long period's of talking, I wish guy on the left had some more questions or was able to structure whatifalthists long periods of speaking with some pauses. Basically, I wish he had a structure that led to to whatifalthist saying the same things, but in some manageable chunks

@segiraldovi

Ай бұрын

​@@MIKAEL212345 getting a better microphone is not expensive and would improve the production a lot because after all it is a podcast. I don't know why I feel like the guy at the left doesn't care.I understood that not all topics may be interesting to him (for example, the one about Latin America, it was obvious that he didn't give a damn and it offends me in particular because I am from Latin America and I would have liked this WIAH time to have been spent making a more elaborate video talking about of the topic) but the minimum would be to warn Wiah not to talk about these since it seems a bit disrespectful to me.

@MIKAEL212345

Ай бұрын

@@segiraldovi yeah, I was trying to be a bit more empathetic cause I'm not sure if he just doesn't care, or maybe the chemistry just isn't there with WIAH so he seems uninterested

@segiraldovi

Ай бұрын

Basically the role that he should fulfill should be a person who enables the presenter (WIAH) to explain the topic through good questions that guide the podcast. And you don't have to be an expert on the topic to ask good questions, the only thing you have to do is have a minimum of interest in the topic. Interesting questions that could have been asked in the last civil war podcast that would have enabled WIAH to go deeper into these topics and not mention them marginally What was the trigger for the tensions between the north and the south? It's clear that the Deep South wanted to maintain slavery, but why did states like Virginia join the confederation? What impact did Lincoln's murder have?

14:18 "You can't remove the barbarity of the human condition through education" Well said. Schools are one of the few places in Western Civilization where social hierarchies form organically.

Top Ten Sequels that were better than the original

@ZontarDow

Ай бұрын

So good the author never finished the trilogy.

@omegarealmsbans1914

Ай бұрын

@@ZontarDow Not yet

@cythereanmapping

Ай бұрын

Bruh remember when we thought it would come out in 1962

@omegarealmsbans1914

Ай бұрын

@@cythereanmapping Remember when we thought it would be released in 2020 after the Qasem Soleimani trailer?

I disagree with the notion that the Germans could have won the war by not invading Russia (they needed the oil in the Caucasus), taking Moscow (they needed the oil in the Caucasus), or not declaring war on the USA (they had already failed to take the oil in the Caucasus by the time American help arrived at scale in 1943, and America was supplying the Allies anyway). The Germans couldn’t win in North Africa because they were depending on the Italian fleet for their supplies. The French army didn’t give up because they were cowards, they gave up because the German army was already 100 miles behind them and cut off their supplies, while the French units had no way of catching up with them. The British were able to defeat Italian armies 5 times their size in North Africa because those Italian armies were not motorized and the British units were mechanized. It wasn’t because the Italians didn’t care. The war in the East was such a meat grinder because the Soviets tried to make up for their lack of industrialization and the Germans tried to make up for their lack of natural resources with mediocre horse-mobile infantry units. The Germans in Army Group B were already, not quite starving, but suffering from hunger as they were attacking before they even reached Stalingrad. They were really struggling to get gas to run their tanks. They just couldn’t get supplies that far to the front at a sufficient scale. I’d note the difference between strategic bombing, operational scale bombing, and tactical bombing/close air support. Strategic bombing tends not to work super well. Bombing at the operational scale is extremely powerful.

@jasonpalacios1363

Ай бұрын

Actually the mistake Hitler did was when he went against the Elites by not wanting to share his power to them but keep it to himself instead.

@user-rg7sg6kp1p

Ай бұрын

Dunning Kruger at work right here

@andrewrogers3067

Ай бұрын

@@user-rg7sg6kp1pIncorrect, he’s just right.

@deriznohappehquite

Ай бұрын

@@user-rg7sg6kp1p That is not a counter argument.

@deriznohappehquite

Ай бұрын

@@andrewrogers3067 I would invite counter arguments if people disagree with my position.

I don't get why WhatifAlthist has this other guy on, he's just making the same videos he normally does but without the graphics. It's not really a conversation.

@More_Row

Ай бұрын

By the end hes about to fall over into a pillow.

@macknittle1121

Ай бұрын

I think the main reason the other guy doesn't speak as much is because of time constraints. IIRC, in past episodes he said something along the lines of, 'I would like to ask a question but we have to get through this.' Stuff like that. Seems like a better idea would be to give more time for each episode and give the dude specific time for the dude to ask questions.

@Bamawagoner

Ай бұрын

It does seem too scripted but I think the original point is that WIAH is explaining history to a man with no background knowledge

@gavincrees8603

Ай бұрын

@@macknittle1121 he’s paying this guy to sit there and ask the right questions to make it seem like this isn’t whatifalthist talking randomly. He leads him into questions it’s so easy to see. He will not answer the wrong questions. Seen it before

Should’ve let me win losers

@themainmanborah

Ай бұрын

Real.

@Neon-Puritan

Ай бұрын

True.

@josephstalin839

Ай бұрын

I agree. The Universe of Kaiserreich in RL would be 🔥 🔥 🔥

@Menaceblue3

Ай бұрын

Shouldn't have started 💩 to begin with, Kaiser....

@user-fc7kj2hv3w

Ай бұрын

​@@Menaceblue3he didn't the Serbs did

Germany’s biggest asset in tank warfare was actually simple. The allies learned the wrong lesson from radios in WWI when the Russians were open broadcasting their movements with old world tactics and got annihilated. The Germans realized that two-way radios in tanks in blitzkrieg warfare was more advantageous than disadvantageous, even if they were intercepted in real time. The French had better quality tanks at war’s outset. The Germans also used massed tank columns, the Allies at first used dispersed tanks as infantry support. Hitler decided his soldiers needed a break before Dunkirk and Rommel was furious about it as was most of his staff. Hitler also thought that he could negotiate with the British as he figured that the British would make decent allies, and had no racial or historical qualms with them the way he did with the French. He miscalculated that the British public would agree to this arrangement where Hitler left the Empire alone in exchange for a free hand on the ideas of shared Anglo-Saxon heritage. The Germans needed a negotiated peace in Eastern Europe and that was attainable at several points. Several sources from Russian archives indicate that Stalin was planning to invade Germany/Central Europe sometime in late Summer 1941. The huge German pincer movements were so effective as they caught Soviet armies arrayed for attack instead of in any defensive positions. It also helps explains why Stalin was dead silent for like 40 days after the initial shock, he thought that Hitler had pre-empted his advantage of surprise and he would never get such a good chance again. Even taking Moscow though, Hitler couldnt win by pure conquest. German supply lines were so thin, and the Russians had managed to hastily transport all their industries past the Urals quite effectively. However, if Hitler sat down after his attempt on Moscow failed, or didn’t attack at Kursk in 1943 and set up defensive positions, he could have gotten a favorable peace deal out of Eastern Europe with the Soviets and practically achieved his goals. A great book on this was Adam Tooze’s “Wages of Destruction”. If you look at WW2 from an economic standpoint Hitler was making nearly perfect decisions until late 1942 on how to keep his economic system afloat long term, he just missed in a few tactical aspects in Russia that cost him due to failures in German logistics. For America’s industrial might. By 1945, 53% of all manufactured goods worldwide in 1945 were made in the United States. If every single US ship in both Atlantic and Pacific Fleets was sunk at Pearl Harbor, by mid 1943 the US would still have outnumbered the Japanese Navy 3:1 in ships and still would have outnumbered their carrier groups. Yes I am a huge nerd. I also like WW1 better.

@deriznohappehquite

Ай бұрын

Why would the Soviets make peace when they had the strategic initiative?

@quinnmonnin2172

Ай бұрын

@@deriznohappehquite Massive losses of Soviet manpower in the first several years of the war combined with what felt like a redux of WW1. They didn’t have the true initiative until the German armored backbone was crushed at Kursk. If the Germans had arrayed a defensive line they would have been stuck in a fairly static front for several years, and even through the end of the war the Germans were beating the Russians in the attrition game at a micro level with individual soldiers having a 2 or 3 to one kill ratio.

@deriznohappehquite

Ай бұрын

@@quinnmonnin2172 Nah man, the Soviets took back everything from Stalingrad to Rostov-on-Don. The German counteroffensives took some ground, but as you said they lost at Kursk and from then on they were getting steamrolled.

@quinnmonnin2172

Ай бұрын

@@deriznohappehquite so like I said, make a defensive line instead of the Kursk offensive and it’s a static war. Guderian and Manstein had figured out how to stop the Russian attacks and stabilized the line in early 1943. Germany just attacks right into a Russian ambush laid against them at Kursk instead of sitting pat.

Could you do an episode on Japanese civilization?

@janpol466

Ай бұрын

It's China, but on a shitty ilands. You welcome.

@theuniverse5173

Ай бұрын

He's cooking one, he said It on Twitter

@TCCTCCTCC

Ай бұрын

@@janpol466 🤣

1) The other mad thing about how the Normandy landings is that while that made Germany fight on a THIRD front, the Allies completely duped the Nazis into thinking we were going to then land in Norway to open up a fourth. Never happened, and 300,000 or so German soldiers sat out the rest of the war for a landing that never happened. 2) Crete is a weird one. It horrifies Hitler into banning any more parachute assaults, but shocks the Allies into actually forming airborne divisions, and the rest is history. I've even argued with friends who say Germany could never have won that Crete along with France is a microcosm of how they could have won the whole war: a complete Allied catastrofuck. 3) Last one about Crete: the Royal Navy had to evacuate the British Army. Air cover was gone due to carrier losses, Luftwaffe was having a turkey shoot of a time. The British Army told Admiral Cunningham to stop coming back for them in case the RN was wiped out in the Med. He responded roughly: "It takes three years to build a ship. It takes three hundred years to build a tradition. The evacuation will continue".

Been loving these videos guys

Yay! I've been waiting ages for this one!!! This made my day!

See you say people study WW2 a lot but it's really Germany, Russia, and the Western front people study. Most couldn't tell you anything about the African front, the Italians, Romanian, Finns, Scandinavia, the Balkans. And the Pacific people boil down to pearl harbor, midway, and nukes. Avoiding China, to India, and the various island nations.

Curious to hear a video on the geopolitics/history of Czechoslovakia

Love this content so much

A podcast like this has to be longer guys . If they came this far and will listen to an hour, then we might as well dig in completely.

After the upcoming civil war, you should do a video on it lol

why is the guy on the left even there?

@pandelidvorani7482

24 күн бұрын

He’s pretty :)

The Gentiles shall rise again

Waiting for my invite to the next. I don’t even need a mic. I can just sit there Interested. Or I could be cleaning my room or something. Idk I think it’s a good idea. JLMK

History is written by winners

@deriznohappehquite

Ай бұрын

Franz Halder: “Hold my Hugo Boss drip”

@julianwenden6986

Ай бұрын

No

@tiistai9696

Ай бұрын

@@julianwenden6986 Yes.

Everyone likes to criticize Chamberlain's appeasement policy but most forget that it was that policy that helped strengthen the allies and the free world to deal with Germany, Japan and Italy. It enabled Britain to build up and improve their lagging Airforce and navy. It helped bring America away from isolation and into the war buildup. It even led to the eventual cooperation that birthed the United Nations and other geopolitical economic and security blocs. Chamberlain's policy was a good one in retrospect.

If anyone wants an actual indepth breakdown of WW2 related topics which isn't kosher approved by Rudyards jewish handler here, then watch some Zoomer Historian videos particularly the one on the outbreak of WW2, Rudyards cartoonish view of Hitler is comical and honestly makes me question all his other opinions.

@jonathanmay6755

Ай бұрын

Dont forget Europa the Last Battle

@prestonbane4176

Ай бұрын

Did you even watch this? what about his characterization of Hitler is cartoonish?

@SF-hq8ee

Ай бұрын

Spot on

@OldGoat-cw8he

Ай бұрын

Yeah i find it intellectually dishonest that people acknowledge that the victors write history. The victors have, will and continue to lie to their populations. They acknowledge this and then use that same history as a reason they are correct. For people who are supposed to be intelligent, rational and critical thinkers, it's a joke they don't see their own bias.

Two small points: -De Gaulle had served in Syria before the war but was in France by the time WW2 began. He fought briefly and then escaped to England. He did go to Gabon but that was later once the garrison revolted against Vichy. -Mussolini did not switch sides. The king and some high ranking fascist party members kicked him out of power to negotiate with the Allies. He was freed by a German commando and sent to nothern Italy where he "ruled" the Italian Social Republic.

The D-Day was an important military event, yet the German army was grinded not in Normandy but in Belarus where the battle between German and Soviet troops (Operation Bagration) involved 10 times (!!) more soldiers precisely at that time. When one reads American history literature one gets an absolutely distorted picture of the events.

To be fair you say everyone else thinks they’re ww2 experts but not, meanwhile including numerous misconceptions and mischaracterizations in your lecture

@isaacdonitz9506

Ай бұрын

Not trying to say Poland was evil but when you say Poland did “nothing wrong” you sorta ignore the systematic oppression of Germans Ukrainians Lithuanians and Belarusians? Also Germany and the US were already in a defacto state of war prior to the German declaration, with American convoy escorts exchanging fire with U-boats already

Not a word was said about how Hitler had developed from a small pub politician to a big policy maker in Europe. American capitals played a key role in this. The whole WW2 was at large orchestrated by them and they were indeed the biggest benefit receptients.

"We defeated the wrong enemy" George S. Patton

@_Chev_Chelios

Ай бұрын

March 24, 1933 the headline on the top of the daily express: Judea declares war on Germany This doesn’t fit the propaganda I’ve been fed for my entire life. What about you?

@Menaceblue3

Ай бұрын

"I got my mind on my money and money on my mind...." [Confucius, probably?]

@ZontarDow

Ай бұрын

If you claimed he supported the Nazi's he'd have likely smash a shovel in your face.

@fathead8933

Ай бұрын

@@_Chev_Cheliosyou should probably stop spouting propaganda yourself. The first sentence of the article, right after the headline says “ All Israel is uniting in wrath against the Nazi onslaught on the Jews in Germany.”

@prestonbane4176

Ай бұрын

dumb

pacific theater would be really neat, the Chinese and Japanese states where very interesting during that time

I would love an episode on 17th century Europe Aksum Latin American decolonization Indian civilization and the Bronze Age Collapse.

I'd be happy if you make "the world before and after covid"

@history102 can you make a video explaining the british empire please 🙏

Do History of Jewish civilization

@TCCTCCTCC

Ай бұрын

He could make multiple videos about that one, the ancient jewish civilization/jews before the diaspora, the diaspora itself, ashkenazi jews, sephardic jews, mezrahi jews. They have an interesting and large history.

@HuWhiteDeath

Ай бұрын

That's not a civilization

@jonathanmay6755

Ай бұрын

Be a short video, they've never had one last more than 80 years.

Why is the guy on the left there?

@evzenzacharias8056

Ай бұрын

Big mystery

Could you do do a video on judeo civilisation

@ivangrozny496

Ай бұрын

no, we don't want him to get taken down

@HuWhiteDeath

Ай бұрын

That's not a civilization

Over 50% of German industry was involved in the fight against Great Britain in 1942. Soldiers were fighting in the East, but most of the industry was building anti-aircraft defenses, submarines, etc. Additionally, Russia received enormous aid from the West.

I cringe when Redyard says blitzkrieg like it's some kind of new tactics. You (or anyone interested in this) can go look up either the reviews from daspanzermuseum with the chiefrain or military visualised, the blitzkrieg is only good for describing of the German faught a quick and decisive war. The specific military part is the fusion of mechanized force (with or without armour) and traditional german/prussan war of movement (bewegungskrieg), which in itself isn't new. And also in inter war time france and British did contribute a lot on the making of tank forces, don't say something like they stuck in WWI.

Rudyard seemed to make a bit more mistakes than usual, but perhaps that is because I know more about ww2 than I know of other eras of history.

Rudyard, what is that shirt you're wearing?

I like the World War Two channel since it goes through the war week by week. It forces you to change your perspective on things you thought you knew, since you are going through it just like they were and can't jump to the obvious conclusion or make sweeping generalizations. One thing I think should have been mentioned here was Britain's advantage on the tech tree. From everything to Nuclear science, aviation, radar, code breaking, the first computer, antibiotics, medical theory, and even Jet engines; the British often had quite the leg up on their opponents. It was often just the scale and resources that needed to be addressed, which the Americans could bring to bear. A lot of American technology has it's origin in Britain during the war. And the code breaking in Britain changed the war in their favor on more than one occasion. I surprised there is no mention of this considering it's importance. There is a brief period where for around a month or 2 the British aren't cracking Enigma codes in the Atlantic, and the Nazi's sink so much shipping that they thought they were going to have to suspend convoys. Not to mention the number of Battles fought were they knew exactly what the enemy was going to do. (Kursk is a good example.) Code breaking was a massive failure on the side of the Axis and a huge reason the war concluded so quickly. In both instances the Japanese and the Nazi's lost the war ultimately because of their Ideology. Any time there was a good decision, tactical or strategic, that could have been made or understanding they should have had, they went with ideology instead of sound reasoning every time. It made them unable to adapt to the changing reality they faced. They just weren't as good at fighting wars as they thought they were when it began.

My grandfather was a young Italian man drafted into the Italian Army in WW2, all he wanted to do was play his guitar and woo women, he didn't want to fight. I may be one of few Americans who had grandparents on both sides.

The sickle cut was not Hitler's plan, it was Manstein's plan. True the rest of the German General Staff when asked by Hitler for a plan to invade France just dusted off the old Schliefen plan from WW1, modified to include the Netherlands this time. However these plans were captured by the French and British after a German staffer's plane crash landed in Belgium. Manstein had already been working on an alternative plan and Guderian convinced him to make the bold strike thru Sedan and the Ardennes Forest straight to the Channel coast. The German Chief of Staff Halder hated Manstein and refused his plan, so Manstein had the plan shown to Hitler via an intermediary (one of Manstein's staff officers was friends with Hitler's army attache). Hitler then ordered Manstein to Berlin to present his plan, which became the operation plan to invade France and the Low Countries.

@kylepatterson8445

Ай бұрын

Agreed. It seems Hitler's arrogance was in believing that he in fact had planned the whole thing and it was his victory. You really start to see his Narcissism at the very end of the war in the comments he makes. He doesn't think anything is his fault and that everyone failed accept him.

Enjoying the content, but a little hard to watch and listen, with your audio being out of sync - just some constructive feedback. Again, great content.

A few factual tweaks since I was raised watching WWII movies: (a) DeGaulle was in metropolitan France during the collapse, not Gabon or Syria (b) the French fleet was sunk at Oran, not Toulon (c) the Battle of Britain was 1940, not 1941 (d) Hitler declares war on the US in Dec 1941, not early 1942. And, of course, a bunch of times where Rudyard's going so fast that he says one country when he means another. Still, a much better job than I could do.

47:45 Bro can't help but smile, who believes that

“You can’t take the barbarity out of the human condition.” I offer . . . “What’s done out of love takes place beyond good and evil.” What is barbaric to Usurers is a fatherly love to the victims of usury. I’d love to know the sources for your portrayal of “Hitler wanted all of Poland” vs other arguments where he just wanted fair treatment of ethnic Germans in Poland and after ignoring and refusing his hand for military intervention was forced. Do the writers/publishers of those sources have a stake or profit in their portrayal?

@bryanrussell940

Ай бұрын

“We really don’t know why he didn’t completely destroy the British Army” Yes we do. Hitler is quoted many times speaking about the British people with a cousin-like almost brotherly admiration if not down right affection. He made overtures for peace with Britain many times. No doubt rejected and ignored by Churchill for his moneyed connections.

Does he have a recommended reading list somewhere

46:43 Americans brits and Russians and French divided up Germany. It weren’t just you two mate. This is still a very good Summary overall.

Rudyard please I need you to really do a deep dive into military history if your going to go into these topics on major wars. Your a intellectual mastermind when it comes to anthropology and sociology but lack any type of knowledge in the military sphere which is essential when your covering any war especially WW2 of all wars

@ChrisxXxNB

Ай бұрын

In this video as well as the WW1 one tend to be very wrong in a lot of your military statements regarding both wars which is why I made the last comment.

There are a lot of things that I love

"'The Germans are people too', but that turned to be totally wrong."

33:50 You forget about one thing - resources. Western Front was more resource intencive for Germans and so their attention was focused on war with russia resource and production whise only in 1941. It got to the point that in december of 1943 Hitler declared officially Eastern front as second one to incoming invasion of France and that further resources have to be redirected. Also you forgeting about strategic bombing (something russians were unable to do not to mention they were unable to achive air superiority despite advantage 10:1 against secondary luftwaffe forces) that crippled Germany industrial production.

@rotmistrzjanm8776

Ай бұрын

Also forcing Italy out of the war pulled milions of Germans not only on the frontline but also on garrisons milions italians were guarding on Balkans

Lol Poland had done nothing wrong? Yea, you really are not an expert on WW2.

@kumel1303

Ай бұрын

What had Poland done wrong?

@verschlusssache6283

Ай бұрын

@@kumel1303 Research what they did to the German population in Poland.

Do an episode on contemporary Israel and read the comments :)

By 1944 the US was building a Liberty ship, on average, every 42 days. Yamato knew when the attack at Pearl Harbor failed to get the CVs that they'd only awakened a sleeping giant.

The Eastern front is where Germany lost but nearly won, and only lost because of American lend lease.

@benandring365

Ай бұрын

The Germans got within a few miles of Moscow and only needed to capture Stalingrad to take the Southern Oil fields, which would of secured Germany's fuel supply for the rest of the war.

I like the video with the old English dude talking about the second world war I forgot the name of it I think you watch the same one he explained it really well or United States was part of it egg and I on building up Germany etc.

Audio is out of synch.

3:36 *cough* Turkey

USSR was planning to invade. Hitler moved first, captured their masses of troops on the border and was right to do so. - Prof Stephen Kotkin (leading expert on Soviet history). War on the Ostfront was inevitable.

17:00 you switched up Denmark and the Netherlands

WWI began out of pure ego and WWII began out of pure evil plain and simple. Also after the WWII in Asia topic, you should do talk about the Spanish-American War.

15:01 A country that had done nothing wrong!? I'm not trying to justify Nazism at all, but Germans had been raped and expelled from Poland. Ofc this pales in comparison to what the Nazis did to the Poles, but c'mon a country that did nothing wrong? Also, Ik this isn't the same Poland that the Nazis and soviets conquered, but watch my 2nd latest vid to see how poorly the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth treated the east slavs.

All this material is one big stereotype about World War II without any valuable knowledge. The most foolish things: Italians were useless - their navy really fought well, and their troops helped garrison many occupied territories. Their betrayal was a huge blow. Bombing was ineffective - bombings were extremely effective and paralyzed German industry. Bombings paralyzed German industry. They blocked the production of tanks, for instance. Bombings were the key to victory. Doubting their effectiveness comes from misreading statistics. For example, the tank production industry in Germany was destroyed, but the number of tanks produced did not decrease because instead of producing newer tanks, they started producing older generation tanks in the Czech Republic, and when the Allies started bombing the Czech Republic, it also had a great impact.

This video is so full of inaccuracies i dont even know whwre to start. But Mussolini switching sides has to be the dumbest one. Mussolini did not switch sides, he was disposed and imprisoned by the new Italian government, not the germans. They Freed Mussolini

"holocaust derangement syndrome" is such a wild phrase. Like calm down, miss, it's nothing to be so hysterical about.

What if I just asking questions, and keep posting photos of how I looked at 21? 1984, 40 this year, boyo.

Poland was not an innocent country. Poles discriminated their German population fiercely while the European countries kept mouth shut. Great Britain supported Polish government that confronted fair German demands for protection. Soviet Union had no choice as to make peace agreements with Nazi Germany because the USA and European countries had refused to build an alliance and didn't do anything to prevent the WW2. Rudyard reads more than most Americans about history but FAR from enough for understanding that war.

25:54 nah it was 1940. But bombing did continue well after the Battle of Britain.

Would love a video on jewish civilization and Israel.

I love how this is another video where y'all hace buffering issues and talk over one another! It makes it seem like Rudyard is extremely rude unless you know its their internet connection!

@deriznohappehquite

Ай бұрын

People know.

Honestly some yours takes are very wrong. Soo many inaccuracies. Ex. 1. America entering the war and Stalingrad where 1 year apart, not two months. 2. Mussolini did not change side and was captured by the Germans, the italian government a coup amd imprisoned him, before the German freed him amd created a puppet government in the North. 3. The spy that told the Russian Japan was not going to attach wasn't Russian, but a German communist close to the German embassy working undercover for the soviets. 4. Stalingrad didn't involve millions on men, the german where less than 400,000s (soviet slightly more than a million). Others as well. I am no ecpert in WW2 and prefer other hostorical periods, but this video isn't as gpod as the average of this channel IMO

We all know WW2, but I guess I'll watch anyways

you forgot to talk about the Spanish civil war

@Kyle_lofc

Ай бұрын

Oh mate. There’s plenty he didn’t talk about lol. If you want to talk about every single event this podcast would need to be way more than 1 hour

So many echoe like simmilarities in narrative between post WWI Germany and Hitler, and post Soviet Russia and Putin.

Lol Uber driver can't be crypto expert. Right they are supposed to go back to sleep or login to WoW after hitting enter on their trading bot for miner, not actually work or contribute. Getting Smug guys

Czechoslovakia was land of Czechs and Slovaks. Not only Czechs.

Why ? It's the most overtalker subject ever.

@earlpipe9713

Ай бұрын

Probably because WWII and it's outcomes are what set in play the paradigms we still live under to this day.

@asahelnettleton9044

Ай бұрын

It would be interesting if it wasn't a basic regurgitation of the cursory, accepted Allied narrative. Check out zoomer historian if you want to hear an interesting counter narrative.

@joao.fenix1473

Ай бұрын

@@asahelnettleton9044 His Franco video and Spanish Civil War are nice but his other videos are really not nice

@asahelnettleton9044

Ай бұрын

@@joao.fenix1473 Who said anything about nice? I said "interesting."

@joao.fenix1473

Ай бұрын

@@asahelnettleton9044 They are interesting but I hold the opinion that they are not nice (they seem mostly skewed or partially false)

This is amazing

Please learn the difference between English & British. (They are not the same thing).

Ignoring the literal nazis in the comments, if u see this, don't rely on this guy for historical information he's either wrong or inaccurate about every other thing in this video.

@ahahuehafook4207

7 күн бұрын

Yropa the last battle . Net

Stalingrad and US were 2 years apart. 😂

"We don't know why" Yes, we do, the tanks where too far ahead of the infantry, had they attacked the urban fighting would have been a onesided eradication of the German tanks attacking. Also the British and French almist bombed Baku when the Soviets invaded Poland. Germany could never win, even if they'd taken Moscow, even if they'd not gotten America involved. They had no plan to subjugate the Soviets.

Japan wasn't fascist

Fascist italy wasn't totalitarian

@bevbevan6189

Ай бұрын

Wanted to be, but was too incompetent to pull it off.

Oh. It's the normie version of WWII history. I expected better for some reason. Too bad.

@thebender7458

Ай бұрын

Real

@doronaznible7298

Ай бұрын

Greatest story never told isn’t a reliable source

@thebender7458

Ай бұрын

@@doronaznible7298 Europa the last battle is better

@HuWhiteDeath

Ай бұрын

He's not gonna want to destroy his livelihood.... That should say everything you need to know about WWII =)

@HuWhiteDeath

Ай бұрын

@@doronaznible7298 That's not the point

"What I remember about the rise of the Empire is... is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Clone Wars, the 501st Legion was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word." - Operation: Knightfall "Knightfall" - Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)

This was too scatterbrained. Ww2 is too huge. You need to break it down into regions and then tie it all together. Beginning of war, Europe, the Atlantic. Eastern eaurope, spread of conflict, Mediterranean and North Africa. Middle east and Pacific theatre, japan, siberia, china and pearl harbour. India, Philippines. Russia, Finland, links with Germany at start, stalingrad. Then link all together. Podcasts can be as long or as many as you want. It doesn't have to be rushed and combined into one video, like whatifalthist videos. This could have sparked very interesting discussion, especially with the question about misconceptions people hold.

This is a rare bad video by Whatifalthist. So many little misconceptions about ww2. Meme-believes even... Maybe the asian one will be better.

Pretty sure the hyperinflation was just stupid economics, not a stupid repayment scheme but it's certainly a disputed topic

@peterg76yt

Ай бұрын

Hyperinflation was about German currency, and reparations were not in German currency, so the two are unrelated. Not that that stopped politicians from blaming hyperinflation on reparations.

@deriznohappehquite

Ай бұрын

Hyperinflation was due to the fact that the Weimar Republic tried to do democratic socialism on a 1920s economy.

Sure, you can explain WW2. You might even be able to hold dow a job and pay your taxes... But do you know what the mitochondria is?

@TheMoopMonster

Ай бұрын

Do you?

@DarthHoosier3038

Ай бұрын

Yes, it is an independent cell inside of our own cells with its own set of dna. It is the defining trait of eukaryotic animals that separates us from prokaryotic bacteria. It is considered the 2nd revolution of life on Earth, its integration in our ancestors cells, creating multicellular organisms. 🤓

@bubble-wu6fi

Ай бұрын

All I remember is that mitochondria is the power house of the cell

@spiffygonzales5160

Ай бұрын

@@bubble-wu6fi dam right 💪🗿💪

The more I learn about WW2 the more I realise there are no good guys

@TCCTCCTCC

Ай бұрын

Welcome 😉

@asahelnettleton9044

Ай бұрын

Remember, kids: it's only a war crime if you lose.

@bubble-wu6fi

Ай бұрын

Yeah same

@starsofaheartattack6286

Ай бұрын

Exactly

@ZontarDow

Ай бұрын

It was an extremely light shade of grey that you as closer to white then neutral amongst particularly dark shades of black.

History was written by the winners. Re-written. Much of this is false.

@KingMinos316

Ай бұрын

Yeah, found a stack of documents from the 1930s, showed everything I'd been taught was a lie. 'They went crazy' 'he hypnotised them' Or did he promise to protect Europe from communist expansion? The only party promising to rearm against Russia?

VIDEO ON ISRAELI CIVILIZATION

I've read a lot about WWII but somehow that bit about the western allies almost declaring war on the Soviet Union because of Finland evaded me