The Staggering Human Cost of World War II Visualized in a Creative, New Animated Documentary

The sad­dest thing is that Hitler would have been eas­i­ly crushed after remil­i­ta­riz­ing the Rhineland in 1936 had not the advo­cates of “peace” and appease­ment pre­vailed. Iron­i­cal­ly, it was the so-called “war­mon­gers”, like Churchill, who would have pre­vent­ed this cat­a­stro­phe by deal­ing with Hitler when he was most vul­ner­a­ble.

There is also no men­tion of the hor­rif­ic death tolls between the year 1957 to 1959 (The Great Leap For­ward move­ment in Chi­na) and 1960 to 1969 (The Cul­tur­al Rev­o­lu­tion in Chi­na). The 3 years from 1957 to 1959 alone result­ed in a death toll of at least 22 mil­lion to a high­er esti­mat­ed of 43 mil­lion human lives. This is a mas­sive piece of tragedy with such an enor­mous loss of lives that should not be mut­ed.

Typ­i­cal. Cana­da is com­plete­ly dis­missed. How insult­ing!

I’m Amer­i­can and I hear about Cana­di­an roles in WW2 some­times. Fought brave­ly in Tank bat­tles. The role lead­ing up to and dur­ing D‑day.

Why am I not sur­prised that the Cana­di­an con­tri­bu­tion to World War Two has again been ignored by an Amer­i­can recount­ing that war. I guess hav­ing the third largest Navy in WW2 and being one fifth of the D‑Day inva­sion force does­n’t mer­it men­tion.

I always remem­ber the Cana­di­an involve­ment (as well as Aus­tralian and the oth­er coun­tries asso­ci­at­ed as “The British Empire”) in WW2 talked about as a whole and the sta­tis­ti­cal contributions/deaths they con­tributed to the war effort includ­ed with the English/United King­dom num­bers and then that num­ber would be fol­lowed by a break down of that num­ber to reveal Cana­da, Aus­tralia, India and so forth’s indi­vid­ual num­bers in his­to­ry class­es I’ve had over the years. This is espe­cial­ly true as the class­es were of high­er lev­el (high school and col­lege) and were cov­er­ing more spe­cif­ic eras as opposed to a “World His­to­ry” course or sim­i­lar over­all his­to­ry overview com­pressed into a three to four month time frame. Seems like that’s a func­tion of being a mem­ber of the com­mon­wealth and how it’s data is report­ed to the world and not some U.S. con­spir­a­cy to hog WW2 glo­ry. Per­son­al­ly, I have rel­a­tives and and know a few through them that were shot down over occu­pied Europe who would not have prob­a­bly sur­vived if not for all the work and sac­ri­fice pro­vid­ed by the Free French and Free Dutch forces that helped get them before Ger­man troops found them and smug­gled them to places where they could then be picked up by boat to get across the chan­nel to Eng­land. Those guys get very lit­tle respect and recog­ni­tion for all that they did and the fact that ulti­mate vic­to­ry would have been expo­nen­tial­ly hard­er with­out their contributions.What lit­tle you do hear about them is almost exclu­sive­ly about the French and not the Dutch, Pol­ish and numer­ous oth­er Free Forces of Ger­man occu­pied coun­tries. In oth­er words, there’s no way to ever ful­ly give each their due in regards to their con­tri­bu­tion and sac­ri­fice in those dark years, and I hope as time goes on all can take more of a “Tomb of the Unknown Sol­dier” approach to giv­ing cred­it to all we were unable know or iden­ti­fy and hon­or them as best we can. Bick­er­ing over who did what and how much ulti­mate­ly makes us all look fool­ish and pet­ty while fur­ther obscur­ing the peo­ple and con­tri­bu­tions that we should be try­ing to uncov­er and rec­og­nize going for­ward. By the way, my friends to the north, thank you for what you have and done for what you will do to help us out. With all the Hol­ly­wood movie pro­duc­tion that goes on in Cana­da, how about some movies to illus­trate those shin­ing moments and the Cana­di­an person/people that were involved? Amer­i­can’s enjoy hero­ic peo­ple and their exploits from all over, we just need you to bring them to our atten­tion most of the time…

Its peo­ple like you that enabled all those deaths. I bet you are an anti-cap­i­tal­ist of some sort and prob­a­bly think that once cap­i­tal­ism is gone, you’ll get some sort of utopia. That’s what the Nazis, Fas­cists and Com­mu­nists were pushing…and it result­ed in all those deaths.

Cana­da lost what? 10%(45,400) of what the US lost(407,000 not includ­ing the 12,000 civil­ian deaths of which Cana­da had none). Of course these num­bers are from Wikipedia.

wow. I think you guys are all miss­ing the point.

Actu­al­ly Hitler pushed for peace and avoid­ing arms race. We know that Neville Cham­ber­lain had severe pres­sure to get Great Britain into World War 2. Before he died, he revealed Amer­i­ca and World Jews forced Britain into war against Ger­many (men­tioned in The For­re­stal Diaries from 1945.)

But one of the most hon­or­able things about Cham­ber­lain was he was a pro­nounced oppo­nent of the use of the bomber as a weapon of ter­ror­i­sa­tion (men­tioned in David Irving’s book “The Destruc­tion of Dres­den” (1995), Page 7–8).

With Cham­ber­lain, he had a pub­lic guar­an­tee to respect Ger­man civil­ian lives. This applied till the last day of Cham­ber­lain as the prime min­is­ter of Great Britain (May 9, 1940).

But when the Anti-Ger­man mon­ster Churchill became British prime min­is­ter on May 10, 1940, the British gov­ern­ment now pub­licly pro­claimed that it reserved the right to take what­ev­er action it con­sid­ered appro­pri­ate in the event of Ger­man air raids on civil­ian pop­u­la­tions. Churchill was not elect­ed in.

So the cab­i­net on its very first day of office under Mr Win­ston Churchill, the new prime min­is­ter, was able to dis­pose of Mr Chamberlain’s pub­lic guar­an­tee to respect Ger­man civil­ian lives (David Irving’s “The Destruc­tion of Dres­den” (1995), Page 8–9).
That was the begin­ning of the hor­ror on Ger­man civil­ian lives which result­ed in hor­rors like Oper­a­tion Gomor­rah (the bomb­ing of Ham­burg) in 1943, and the bomb­ing of all Ger­man cities (Dres­den, Rot­ter­dam, Berlin, etc.). Churchill was only the front man for the Estab­lish­ment. Remem­ber Churchill was not vot­ed in demo­c­ra­t­i­cal­ly, he was placed in charge. Which means he had a boss or boss­es. You also have to remem­ber the per­son or peo­ple who did put him in charge are always in charge. Hitler nev­er bombed civil­ians first and the pilots on the mas­sacre of Blieburg broke their silence. Find out who prof­its from wars and you will see who Hitler warned and talked about. Enjoy­ing the end­less wars and end­less cycle of usury and debt today? More death to come.

Actu­al­ly Hitler pushed for peace and avoid­ing arms race. We know that Neville Cham­ber­lain had severe pres­sure to get Great Britain into World War 2. Before he died, he revealed Amer­i­ca and World Jews forced Britain into war against Ger­many (men­tioned in The For­re­stal Diaries from 1945.)

Ha this is fun­ny yes lets talk about this in real­i­ty.
A guy took pow­er in a severe­ly depressed coun­try and tried to use mil­i­tary to get the econ­o­my going… He did, his name is Hitler, here is a fact that you did­n’t men­tion when you said Hitler was­n’t tar­get­ing civil­ians… and he also start­ed eth­nic geno­cide and con­cen­tra­tion camps that the video points out. If there were Jews of the world which sounds like some secret orga­ni­za­tion you think there is… then yes they did. I would have begged any­one to stop the Ger­man Hitler form exe­cut­ing men so they would­n’t revolt then throw­ing women and chil­dren in the gas cham­bers. Eng­land lis­tened and was the only coun­try that was­n’t rolled by the Ger­mans and had the abil­i­ty to stop their onslaught, by doing what­ev­er they could to stop them, any­thing they could.

What would have been your course of action to stop Ger­many if hind sight is 20–20?

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