when we find our selves at pur last moment on earth we will be a familiy reunited bt peace to a better place this is y we dont need war but peace-Robert T.
@acuragsr4 my dear friend you do not know true evil i am sorry but bush was not evil he may not have been the best president , he may have made mistakes, but he id his best for this country and after all thats all we can really ask of a man is to do his best so i hope you will reconsidder your statement and just try and see past the bias media and false reports of people who result to personal attacks on bush for they know not what evil is thank you
great tribute i only wish i could show my grandfather this he served in europe for years faught in the battle of bulge was first wave of normandy and in countless other battles i know he would of shed a tear
dude fuck USA. they waited until the last moment to attack the germans, every1 knew the germans would lsoe by the time usa attacked them. fucking cowards.
what the hell are you talking about? You are obviously an idiot so I will educate you. USA and Britain both fought the Germans since 1942 in the Deserts of Africa then into Italt, long before the Russians defeated the Germans in Russia. Nobody knew what would happen, the defeat of the Germans was marked with the entrance of the Americans and Canadians on D-Day. Without Eastern fighting, Russia may have lost. Considering you are from America, you should just say thank your veterans instead.
fuck you man. we had our own problem to worry about called Japan. The Soviet Union was handling the Germans in Europe until the US came in. Even then, I bet the Soviets could have defeated Germany single-handedly. And we were fighting the Germans already in North Africa.
LOL man, the most of WW2 was fought on eastern front ! Russians fought for 4 years to defend their country ! Millions of men died there! Americans arrived on western front in the summer 1944 and the war ended on spring 1945...and 200 000 americans died there next to millions of russian soldiers. The eastern war was a huge conflict next to the western front !
The Soviet army was pretty kick-ass during WW2. But so was every army. It seems the bravest and best fighting men all lived and died in the mid 20th century.
Please save your patriotic bullshit for the foolish. The German army suffered 88% of its casualties on the Eastern Front. It was the Soviet troops who broke the will and the capacity of the German army to carry out massive front offensives in 1943
The british had been fighting since 1939. thats why the war started in 1939. when germany invaded poland. the americans beleive it started in 1941 because thats when they decided to fight. this does not actually mean the war started in 1941. the war started in'39
It is surprising. When a video laening more on the gran side is put on. Comments are disabled. When it describes the courage og the Allied, thre are no problmes. Double standards. Millions of german soldiers, as prisoners of war, were put in slavery in Siberia by the russians AFTER THE WAR. Almost all of them died of deseases and hunger. The Iron curtain did not allow the thruth to go out. Germans know but want to forget.
Please save your patriotic bullshit for the foolish. The German army suffered 88% of its casualties on the Eastern Front. It was the Soviet troops who broke the will and the capacity of the German army to carry out massive front offensives in 1943
"History will be kind to me," predicted Winston Churchill, "because I intend to write it." And so it proved. Churchill's The Second World War, which began to appear in 1948, largely set the agenda for all subsequent presentations of the war years, especially in western countries: Britain stands in the centre of the conflict and her survival paves the way for victory
As Churchill has it, Britain's enemies, the axis powers, provide the sole authors of aggression, of criminal conduct and of undefined "evil". The tide turns at El Alamein. Britain's principal allies, the US and the USSR, which Churchill brought together in the grand coalition, provide the twin sources of military muscle that hunt down the fascist beast.
In Europe the allies of east and west co-operate, overcome their differences and triumph. The spectacular landings of the western armies in Normandy match the huge "Russian" successes on the eastern front. The Reich is crushed. Freedom and democracy prevail and "Europe is liberated".
Unfortunately, the truth is more complex. The Russians, for example, are clear that the Red Army played the dominant role in the defeat of the Reich, demoting the Anglo-American war effort to secondary or tertiary importance. What is more, like the Americans, they insist that the "real war" began in 1941, relegating the events of 1939-41 to a mere prelude.
For their part the Americans are most conscious of the competing demands of the two theatres of action in Europe and in the Pacific. They also emphasise the importance of the US as "the arsenal of democracy".
Any attempt to revise established views provokes resistance, although I must admit to being surprised at the vehement opposition I encountered when challenging the Churchillian version. Other historians, such as Richard Overy, Robert Conquest and Anne Applebaum, have been peeling away the layers of myth for the past four decades, but still many people are unwilling to judge events on their own merit for fear of being accused of supporting "the forces of evil".
Others recoil with incredulity from the notion that our patriotic opinions about 1939-45 may constitute something less than the whole truth. Both the British and the American public have long been told that "we won the war" and D-Day, in particular, has been built up as the decisive moment.
The American D-Day Museum has been adopted as the national tribute to the war and Steven Spielberg, the director of Saving Private Ryan and co-producer of Flags of Our Fathers, which is just about to open, seems to have made it a mission to perpetuate Churchill's myth.
In Europe the allies of east and west co-operate, overcome their differences and triumph. The spectacular landings of the western armies in Normandy match the huge "Russian" successes on the eastern front. The Reich is crushed. Freedom and democracy prevail and "Europe is liberated".
Unfortunately, the truth is more complex. The Russians, for example, are clear that the Red Army played the dominant role in the defeat of the Reich, demoting the Anglo-American war effort to secondary or tertiary importance. What is more, like the Americans, they insist that the "real war" began in 1941, relegating the events of 1939-41 to a mere prelude.
For their part the Americans are most conscious of the competing demands of the two theatres of action in Europe and in the Pacific. They also emphasise the importance of the US as "the arsenal of democracy".
Any attempt to revise established views provokes resistance, although I must admit to being surprised at the vehement opposition I encountered when challenging the Churchillian version. Other historians, such as Richard Overy, Robert Conquest and Anne Applebaum, have been peeling away the layers of myth for the past four decades, but still many people are unwilling to judge events on their own merit for fear of being accused of supporting "the forces of evil".
Others recoil with incredulity from the notion that our patriotic opinions about 1939-45 may constitute something less than the whole truth. Both the British and the American public have long been told that "we won the war" and D-Day, in particular, has been built up as the decisive moment.
The American D-Day Museum has been adopted as the national tribute to the war and Steven Spielberg, the director of Saving Private Ryan and co-producer of Flags of Our Fathers, which is just about to open, seems to have made it a mission to perpetuate Churchill's myth.
After talking at Cambridge recently about the preponderance of the eastern front and the scale of the Red Army's triumph, I was accosted by an angry young British historian. "Don't you realise that we were pinning down 56 German divisions in France alone," he said. "Without that the Red Army would have been heavily defeated." What is less acknowledged is that without the Red Army pulverising 150 divisions, the allies would never have landed.
The attack on the Third Reich was a joint effort. But it was not a joint effort of two equal parts. The lion's share of victory in Europe can be awarded only to Stalin's forces and it is a fantasy to believe that he was fighting for justice and democracy.
Separating the facts from the myths and the propaganda is not easy. One of the trickiest problems in establishing a credible narrative of the war arises from the misconception that the largest combatant state, the USSR, stayed neutral before the German attack of June 1941. Soviet accounts have always preferred to focus on the so-called Great Fatherland War, and carefully avoids close examination of Stalin's political and military machinations in the preceding years.
Western commentators have usually followed this line, reluctant to publicise their embarrassment at Hitler's initial partner becoming the ally of the democratic West.
In reality, in the first 22 months of fighting when the Wehrmacht attacked and occupied eight countries, the Red Army attacked and occupied five. These manifest aggressions make nonsense of any claims of neutrality or of defensive responses to the provocations of others. In November 1939, for example, Stalin's unprovoked invasion of Finland resulted in a war that lasted for twice as long as any of Hitler's early campaigns.
Proportions, however, are crucial. Since 75%-80% of all German losses were inflicted on the eastern front it follows that the efforts of the western allies accounted for only 20%-25%. Furthermore, since the British Army deployed no more than 28 divisions as compared with the American army's 99, the British contribution to victory must have been in the region of 5%-6%. Britons who imagine that "we won the war" need to think again.
The modest size of the American contingent also calls for reflection. The population of the US was more than twice that of Germany and not far short of the Soviet Union's. The military potential of the US, as estimated in 1939 in terms of gross national product and industrial production, represented more than 40% of the world's total. Yet these advantages were never translated into proportionate superiority on the battlefield.
The 100 divisions that General George C Marshall and his staff set as their target for mobilisation were overshadowed 2.5:1 by German divisions and 3-4:1 by the Red Army's divisions.
Nonetheless, the Third Reich was not brought to its knees by bombers and blockades. Both the German military and the German civilian population proved remarkably resilient. Hitler's continental fortress had to be reduced inch by inch by soldiers on the ground. And here the Red Army excelled.
When Churchill was writing in the late 1940s, he knew perfectly well that Stalin was no angel. Yet the sheer scale and variety of Stalinist crimes was not known. The statistic of 27 mil. Soviet "war losses", which appeared in the 1960s, concealed the fact that many of them were not Russians and many were victims not of Hitler but of Stalin. It has taken the collapse of the Soviet Union and more than 60 years for this body of certainty to accumulate
All of which makes the Churchillian model open to revision. Britain can no longer stand centre stage. The axis powers are joined on the criminal list by the Soviet Union, which also turns out to have been the principal victor. The western allies are not all-conquering heroes but did well to finish in the winners' enclosure
The Americans arrived too late and in too few numbers to play the dominant role. The forces of democracy played their part in the defeat of fascism, but were left controlling less than half the continent. In the greater part of Europe one totalitarian tyranny was replaced by another. More often than not, the rhetoric of "freedom" and "liberation" was misplaced.
I live in germany, and in our garden I can still see traces of the war! we found stuff in the ground and we've got holes in the ground where bombs landed, and a hidden cellar where people hid.
I respect the men that fought to protect our values and I too do miss that "average U.S soldier", instead of the superiority we have seen in Iraq, in World War II, just young men, called up to fight. Men that still had their morales.
i also made a WWII tribute video,my numbers where 52,199,262 casualties,but now i look at wikipedia it has changed already at 62,537,800,do they count the people who survived the war and died after the war also with it or something :S
Thank you all for your comments especally Peter. BUt yes ever since the USA became a superpower they over look them selves. I miss the good old days when they use to be motivators of peace :(.
Thanks for the vid, but let's not forget that our current heads of state in the UK and US are the now the tyrants and aggressors and not keepers of the peace as they would have us believe.
Very moving tribute to WWII memories. Great ochestration as well. Being interested in history especially the armoury involve in world wars I greatly appreciate your videos. I am sure Peter like it too...cheers mate
very good!
IneartheDBodom 11 months ago
my honor to the dead soldier
cuinte8888 1 year ago
when we find our selves at pur last moment on earth we will be a familiy reunited bt peace to a better place this is y we dont need war but peace-Robert T.
TheFsdd 1 year ago
Thanks to Finland´s brave soldiers, we finns are still independent...
Biggerthanyou89 1 year ago
Beautiful!
norfolkdash9 1 year ago
i feel as if that number was made up. anywho. nice video anyways.
joeprice010 1 year ago
for my grandfathers- they'll never see this, and i never knew them, but I'm proud of them nonetheless. God bless!
1o951o8 1 year ago
Germany 1940's = U.S 1960's till now
Hitler= Bush
acuragsr4 2 years ago
@acuragsr4 my dear friend you do not know true evil i am sorry but bush was not evil he may not have been the best president , he may have made mistakes, but he id his best for this country and after all thats all we can really ask of a man is to do his best so i hope you will reconsidder your statement and just try and see past the bias media and false reports of people who result to personal attacks on bush for they know not what evil is thank you
TheMarineRecon 1 year ago
those were the generations that did it right now adays we've gotta bunch of pussys to afraid to do what is right
bobchrisman 2 years ago
Stongman - you are a piece of trash. God bless all soldiers. American and others.
They died so you could use up valuable oxygen spouting your ill concieved, half-baked anti-American crap.
Cordially
Joe
gojoe150 2 years ago
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DestroyerAlexandros 2 years ago
@DestroyerAlexandros Dont forget the pacific.
jmfigone209 1 year ago
Lest we forget !
nikon005 2 years ago 2
great tribute i only wish i could show my grandfather this he served in europe for years faught in the battle of bulge was first wave of normandy and in countless other battles i know he would of shed a tear
Nascarfever 2 years ago 2
i got curious, was he kia or actually survived normandy?
Iamename 2 years ago
survived the whole war died about 10 years ago
Nascarfever 2 years ago
@Iamename he survived and lied till his 80's dies of cancer few years back
Nascarfever 10 months ago
@Iamename he survived and lived till early 80's dies of cancer about 10 years back
Nascarfever 10 months ago
Long live Axis nations!! We fought what was right.
ArDeZe 2 years ago
70 years today!
roboticDuck1 2 years ago
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sammyboi1453 2 years ago
USA CANADA BRITAIN FRANCE RUSSIA AND OTHER ALLIED NATIONS ALL GET EQUAL THANKS NO ARGUING OVER [you could do this or that]
goldedition3 2 years ago 3
56,125,262 men died for a single purpose to rid tyhe world of hitler and his stupid nazis
goldedition3 2 years ago
RIP ALL THAT DIED
bcb2294 2 years ago
dude fuck USA. they waited until the last moment to attack the germans, every1 knew the germans would lsoe by the time usa attacked them. fucking cowards.
strongman325 2 years ago
what the hell are you talking about? You are obviously an idiot so I will educate you. USA and Britain both fought the Germans since 1942 in the Deserts of Africa then into Italt, long before the Russians defeated the Germans in Russia. Nobody knew what would happen, the defeat of the Germans was marked with the entrance of the Americans and Canadians on D-Day. Without Eastern fighting, Russia may have lost. Considering you are from America, you should just say thank your veterans instead.
AirRavers723 2 years ago
And Usa supplied Russia, england, france and all the other countries with weapons, ammunition, and vehicles
And im from Sweden and i feel ashamed about our actions!
Flugskit 2 years ago
All I can say, is the strategy and courage in the World Wars were something to be marvelled.
Brave men faught and died, nobody won the war for anyone, it was collective, a team effort, a team effort that this World doesn't know of anymore.
mariodarren123 2 years ago 7
fuck you man. we had our own problem to worry about called Japan. The Soviet Union was handling the Germans in Europe until the US came in. Even then, I bet the Soviets could have defeated Germany single-handedly. And we were fighting the Germans already in North Africa.
hogger129 2 years ago
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gojoe150 2 years ago
Please tell me where did you get this great music?
I need this music!
I love this music !
Cizurator 3 years ago
its from band of brothers
Coulthard123 2 years ago
Thanks !!!
Cizurator 2 years ago
LOL man, the most of WW2 was fought on eastern front ! Russians fought for 4 years to defend their country ! Millions of men died there! Americans arrived on western front in the summer 1944 and the war ended on spring 1945...and 200 000 americans died there next to millions of russian soldiers. The eastern war was a huge conflict next to the western front !
Cizurator 3 years ago
The Soviet army was pretty kick-ass during WW2. But so was every army. It seems the bravest and best fighting men all lived and died in the mid 20th century.
AirRavers723 3 years ago
No offense but it cant be proven that the bravest lived till mid 20th century
bcb2294 2 years ago
God Bless our Boys...we need another baby boom to get ready for WWIII. So here is how its gonna go down boys...absolutely no domes and pulling out.
Colin
Eastsideweezy 3 years ago
WW3 would be shit....all nations turned pussy when they inventedthe atomic/nucler bomb....so...ww3 would last only a couple of days...
elpikac117 3 years ago
ww3 would end very fast due to massive amounts of nukes
slippp40 3 years ago
No, they would fight as a usual war but when one side is losing they would remove the earth from our feet... with nukes
Flugskit 2 years ago
Norman Davies wrote about historical documented facts!
karabazbarabaz 3 years ago
Please save your patriotic bullshit for the foolish. The German army suffered 88% of its casualties on the Eastern Front. It was the Soviet troops who broke the will and the capacity of the German army to carry out massive front offensives in 1943
karabazbarabaz 3 years ago
The british had been fighting since 1939. thats why the war started in 1939. when germany invaded poland. the americans beleive it started in 1941 because thats when they decided to fight. this does not actually mean the war started in 1941. the war started in'39
ghengis5 3 years ago 3
the soviets destroyed hitlers armies
PersianDictator 4 years ago 2
It is surprising. When a video laening more on the gran side is put on. Comments are disabled. When it describes the courage og the Allied, thre are no problmes. Double standards. Millions of german soldiers, as prisoners of war, were put in slavery in Siberia by the russians AFTER THE WAR. Almost all of them died of deseases and hunger. The Iron curtain did not allow the thruth to go out. Germans know but want to forget.
aronron2727 4 years ago
to be honest after what the germans did to the russians are you that surprised?
punkyhiphopdood 3 years ago
here is some interesting article written by Norman Davies
Britain and America still insist they defeated the Nazis, in the face of overwhelming evidence that they were minor partners, says Norman Davies
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
You just make this up? Cannot seem to find this anywhere on Norman's websites.
Are you just trying to start a debate?
and who the hell is Norman Davies and what possible experience does he have in military operations?
cujoforlife 3 years ago
Please save your patriotic bullshit for the foolish. The German army suffered 88% of its casualties on the Eastern Front. It was the Soviet troops who broke the will and the capacity of the German army to carry out massive front offensives in 1943
karabazbarabaz 3 years ago
There is absolutely no way Russia would have defeated the Germans had it been a war fought on a single front.
17Yankees17 3 years ago 5
"History will be kind to me," predicted Winston Churchill, "because I intend to write it." And so it proved. Churchill's The Second World War, which began to appear in 1948, largely set the agenda for all subsequent presentations of the war years, especially in western countries: Britain stands in the centre of the conflict and her survival paves the way for victory
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
As Churchill has it, Britain's enemies, the axis powers, provide the sole authors of aggression, of criminal conduct and of undefined "evil". The tide turns at El Alamein. Britain's principal allies, the US and the USSR, which Churchill brought together in the grand coalition, provide the twin sources of military muscle that hunt down the fascist beast.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
In Europe the allies of east and west co-operate, overcome their differences and triumph. The spectacular landings of the western armies in Normandy match the huge "Russian" successes on the eastern front. The Reich is crushed. Freedom and democracy prevail and "Europe is liberated".
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
Unfortunately, the truth is more complex. The Russians, for example, are clear that the Red Army played the dominant role in the defeat of the Reich, demoting the Anglo-American war effort to secondary or tertiary importance. What is more, like the Americans, they insist that the "real war" began in 1941, relegating the events of 1939-41 to a mere prelude.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
For their part the Americans are most conscious of the competing demands of the two theatres of action in Europe and in the Pacific. They also emphasise the importance of the US as "the arsenal of democracy".
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
Any attempt to revise established views provokes resistance, although I must admit to being surprised at the vehement opposition I encountered when challenging the Churchillian version. Other historians, such as Richard Overy, Robert Conquest and Anne Applebaum, have been peeling away the layers of myth for the past four decades, but still many people are unwilling to judge events on their own merit for fear of being accused of supporting "the forces of evil".
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
Others recoil with incredulity from the notion that our patriotic opinions about 1939-45 may constitute something less than the whole truth. Both the British and the American public have long been told that "we won the war" and D-Day, in particular, has been built up as the decisive moment.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
The American D-Day Museum has been adopted as the national tribute to the war and Steven Spielberg, the director of Saving Private Ryan and co-producer of Flags of Our Fathers, which is just about to open, seems to have made it a mission to perpetuate Churchill's myth.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
In Europe the allies of east and west co-operate, overcome their differences and triumph. The spectacular landings of the western armies in Normandy match the huge "Russian" successes on the eastern front. The Reich is crushed. Freedom and democracy prevail and "Europe is liberated".
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
Unfortunately, the truth is more complex. The Russians, for example, are clear that the Red Army played the dominant role in the defeat of the Reich, demoting the Anglo-American war effort to secondary or tertiary importance. What is more, like the Americans, they insist that the "real war" began in 1941, relegating the events of 1939-41 to a mere prelude.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
For their part the Americans are most conscious of the competing demands of the two theatres of action in Europe and in the Pacific. They also emphasise the importance of the US as "the arsenal of democracy".
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
Any attempt to revise established views provokes resistance, although I must admit to being surprised at the vehement opposition I encountered when challenging the Churchillian version. Other historians, such as Richard Overy, Robert Conquest and Anne Applebaum, have been peeling away the layers of myth for the past four decades, but still many people are unwilling to judge events on their own merit for fear of being accused of supporting "the forces of evil".
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
Others recoil with incredulity from the notion that our patriotic opinions about 1939-45 may constitute something less than the whole truth. Both the British and the American public have long been told that "we won the war" and D-Day, in particular, has been built up as the decisive moment.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
The American D-Day Museum has been adopted as the national tribute to the war and Steven Spielberg, the director of Saving Private Ryan and co-producer of Flags of Our Fathers, which is just about to open, seems to have made it a mission to perpetuate Churchill's myth.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
After talking at Cambridge recently about the preponderance of the eastern front and the scale of the Red Army's triumph, I was accosted by an angry young British historian. "Don't you realise that we were pinning down 56 German divisions in France alone," he said. "Without that the Red Army would have been heavily defeated." What is less acknowledged is that without the Red Army pulverising 150 divisions, the allies would never have landed.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
The attack on the Third Reich was a joint effort. But it was not a joint effort of two equal parts. The lion's share of victory in Europe can be awarded only to Stalin's forces and it is a fantasy to believe that he was fighting for justice and democracy.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
Separating the facts from the myths and the propaganda is not easy. One of the trickiest problems in establishing a credible narrative of the war arises from the misconception that the largest combatant state, the USSR, stayed neutral before the German attack of June 1941. Soviet accounts have always preferred to focus on the so-called Great Fatherland War, and carefully avoids close examination of Stalin's political and military machinations in the preceding years.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
Western commentators have usually followed this line, reluctant to publicise their embarrassment at Hitler's initial partner becoming the ally of the democratic West.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
In reality, in the first 22 months of fighting when the Wehrmacht attacked and occupied eight countries, the Red Army attacked and occupied five. These manifest aggressions make nonsense of any claims of neutrality or of defensive responses to the provocations of others. In November 1939, for example, Stalin's unprovoked invasion of Finland resulted in a war that lasted for twice as long as any of Hitler's early campaigns.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
Proportions, however, are crucial. Since 75%-80% of all German losses were inflicted on the eastern front it follows that the efforts of the western allies accounted for only 20%-25%. Furthermore, since the British Army deployed no more than 28 divisions as compared with the American army's 99, the British contribution to victory must have been in the region of 5%-6%. Britons who imagine that "we won the war" need to think again.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
The modest size of the American contingent also calls for reflection. The population of the US was more than twice that of Germany and not far short of the Soviet Union's. The military potential of the US, as estimated in 1939 in terms of gross national product and industrial production, represented more than 40% of the world's total. Yet these advantages were never translated into proportionate superiority on the battlefield.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
The 100 divisions that General George C Marshall and his staff set as their target for mobilisation were overshadowed 2.5:1 by German divisions and 3-4:1 by the Red Army's divisions.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
Nonetheless, the Third Reich was not brought to its knees by bombers and blockades. Both the German military and the German civilian population proved remarkably resilient. Hitler's continental fortress had to be reduced inch by inch by soldiers on the ground. And here the Red Army excelled.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
The Third Reich was largely defeated not by the forces of liberal democracy, but by the forces of udssr
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
When Churchill was writing in the late 1940s, he knew perfectly well that Stalin was no angel. Yet the sheer scale and variety of Stalinist crimes was not known. The statistic of 27 mil. Soviet "war losses", which appeared in the 1960s, concealed the fact that many of them were not Russians and many were victims not of Hitler but of Stalin. It has taken the collapse of the Soviet Union and more than 60 years for this body of certainty to accumulate
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
One can argue about the similarities and differences of the Holocaust and the Gulag and it is obviously a mistake to equate the two.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
All of which makes the Churchillian model open to revision. Britain can no longer stand centre stage. The axis powers are joined on the criminal list by the Soviet Union, which also turns out to have been the principal victor. The western allies are not all-conquering heroes but did well to finish in the winners' enclosure
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
The Americans arrived too late and in too few numbers to play the dominant role. The forces of democracy played their part in the defeat of fascism, but were left controlling less than half the continent. In the greater part of Europe one totalitarian tyranny was replaced by another. More often than not, the rhetoric of "freedom" and "liberation" was misplaced.
karabazbarabaz 4 years ago
I live in germany, and in our garden I can still see traces of the war! we found stuff in the ground and we've got holes in the ground where bombs landed, and a hidden cellar where people hid.
katzwelt4 4 years ago
They didn't give up their lives to protect our values, they gave up their lives to preserve and further capitalism. Don't be so naive.
ComradeButtsecks 4 years ago
I respect the men that fought to protect our values and I too do miss that "average U.S soldier", instead of the superiority we have seen in Iraq, in World War II, just young men, called up to fight. Men that still had their morales.
Nice video my friend. God Bless them all.
Ksim3000 4 years ago
i also made a WWII tribute video,my numbers where 52,199,262 casualties,but now i look at wikipedia it has changed already at 62,537,800,do they count the people who survived the war and died after the war also with it or something :S
Necramonium 5 years ago
what song is this?
99999999988888888 5 years ago
Thank you all for your comments especally Peter. BUt yes ever since the USA became a superpower they over look them selves. I miss the good old days when they use to be motivators of peace :(.
slowmode122 5 years ago
WW2 ! The war that changed the world !!!!
Sodutchyme86 5 years ago
Thanks for the vid, but let's not forget that our current heads of state in the UK and US are the now the tyrants and aggressors and not keepers of the peace as they would have us believe.
dewexdewex 5 years ago 2
Very moving tribute to WWII memories. Great ochestration as well. Being interested in history especially the armoury involve in world wars I greatly appreciate your videos. I am sure Peter like it too...cheers mate
davidjesse72 5 years ago
THx :)
slowmode122 5 years ago
fact: 2.5% of the world population. nice tribute dude. done well :)
agentofx 5 years ago
Pretty cool.
Pookieftw 5 years ago