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@38innie
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 pm
the numbers he gives of the casualities avoided by bombing japan were actually wildly exagerated by the us government. the us solely wanted show their power to the ussr. i learned this in an actual history class. why does america always glaze itself??? tell the truth about how uselessly horrific it was. also, why call the ussr russia when it was the ussr when the events concerning it happened ?? would you call the us new england in 2025 ?
@anfo_4241
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 pm
4:48 is unfortunately false. The energy of the bullets would have been dissipated a couple of feet into the water.
@lovellkaopua2873
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 pm
Started with Hitler but ended with Japan surrender.
@johndododoe1411
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 pm
Churchill’s biggest achievements before WW2 were loosing the WW1 battle of Gallipoli, inventing the TANK “land ships” (also WW1) and being a major pro-war politician in the 1930s . He was minister of the Navy in parts of WW1 and became WW2 prime minister only after Chamberlain failed to delay the start of WW2 any further .
@sminthian
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 pm
Imagine if we let Japan invade China. That probably would have solved a lot of issues that we have now.
@tictagtube
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 pm
Nothing against Peter, truly a professional man deserving of respect, this video brought me to tears.
@franciscobarriga369
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 pm
You forgot Stalingrad
@markcahill9255
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 pm
This guys tie invalidates all his opinions 😂
@boogerf3679
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Nothing more patriotic then wearing a flag tie 🤣
@StarcatcherDK
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 pm
Another “Murrica won the WW2” story, smh. Not going to see him after that sketchy timeline at the start. WIRED keeps disappointing with “experts” on history…
@leonardodasilveiraev3255
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 pm
The time line is a bit American biased. It does not mention the battle of stalingrad which was far more important as a turning point on WWII than D-day.
@kevbot3005
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 pm
Disappointing to hear him repeat the revisionist take about use of the atomic bomb expediting, even mercifully, the end of the war in the Pacific when many senior American military officials (Eisenhower, Leahy, Henry Arnold, John McCloy) are on the record as saying it was unnecessary and the Japanese were already on the verge of surrender.
@marsupialpouch6930
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 pm
The start of the war in the west was 1939 but Japan started even earlier In 1937 with the July 7 Marco Polo bridge incident kicking off Japans full scale Invasion of China.
@franciscobarriga369
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 pm
It’s an American point of view, missing other Allies impact, misleading and incomplete
@ChekhovsSplaser
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 pm
I always find it funny when Euro-centric historians say WW2 started in September 1939 with the invasion of Poland. Japan and China had been fighting for 8 years at that point with death tolls that would’ve made anyone in Europe besides maybe Joseph Stalin soil themselves.
@Ixxlostinabox
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 pm
Undercover lizard man talks about human history to better prove he is indeed a real human
@IRNoahOne
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 pm
28:57 americans were cool with it. the german american bund never went away. americans didnt even have problems with germany, they didnt attack america. america never had german concentration camps but they sure had japanese ones…
fascist vs fascist to see whose better
@Arthur_____Johansen
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 pm
Anyone with a basic understanding of math can see that baking 6 million cookies in 4 years is impossible
@borisglevrk
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 pm
If you think distributing meth to soldiers in Germany is bad, think about Japanese.
before and during WWII meth was known as kakusei-zai (the awakening agent) in Japanese and made *commercially available over the counter*.
They simply didn’t know how dangerous this thing was.
To this day in Japanese language, kakusei-zai remains a way to refer to all neuro-stimulant type of drugs.
@Edgewalker89
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 pm
My lord, tis an ugly tie.
@DCS_World_Japan
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 pm
One overlooked aspect of Operation Downfall is that the operation itself planned to tactically employ at least 13 atomic weapons. Even if Hiroshima and Nagasaki hadn’t been nuked, Japan was going to get nuked anyway.
@MattMeskill
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 pm
Nice tie
@Hensei5339
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 pm
WIRED keep me love their content every released ♥♥
Please consistently make SUPPORT content
@GinoPietermaaivdoudebok
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 pm
Now answer questions about the Iraq ”war”.
@cat-jv2yt
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 pm
PART 2!!! i love this guy!
@1acergardenerhomeset918
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 pm
I hope you like my conlang.
—————————————————————————-
Esí l’e eplon espeisa lenqui. – yes, I speak susan lenguage.
Nyl selle so’n le bípp’el. – Don’t know the pitbull dog
Esí l’e bronta tid’e. – yes, I Brush teeth.
Nyl selle so’n le compuréz beule es non pian. – Don’t know the blue computer is no good.
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@boguekerbal
November 26, 2025 at 5:11 pm
Bro skipped Pearl Harbor in the timeline wut
@raitchison
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 pm
It’s kind of cliche that ignorant Americans think the war started on December 7, 1941 but I would think that the event that caused the U.S. to formally enter the war would have been a major milestone.
@makaylaspade848
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 pm
fix your jacket jezus
@t-marie3
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 pm
The enigma machine is SO fascinating! But no one tops the Native American Diné/Navajo Code Talkers!
@stargazinggalaxywolf
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 pm
okay education in america isn’t 100% illegal but still sevearly lacking
@Josh-hn5rc
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 pm
Not even mentioning the Soviets invading the Japanese empire with an army of 1.5 million soldiers as a reason they surrendered is insanity…
Then bringing up the death tolls of 85 million without noting that 50 MILLION of those were Chinese being slaughtered by the Japanese military is literally U.S. propaganda white washing Japan.
This video is inaccurate garbage at a less than elementary level of actual history.
@raitchison
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 pm
The Soviets didn’t enter the war against Japan until the war was already won. Once the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki everyone knew it was a matter of days or weeks until the war ended and the Soviets wanted to get some (more) territory before the fighting stopped.
@stargazinggalaxywolf
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 pm
For those curious about ENIGMA CODE: watch THE IMMITATION GAME it is so good
@thresholdgame7264
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 pm
It’s a good thing that we won that war. Otherwise, we couldn’t be forcibly replaced and dispossessed in our own countries while family formation is made functionally impossible – all while fighting endless wars for the sole benefit of Israel.
@jfwalken
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 pm
21:35 “They’re never as close of an alliance as the Allies are” Except the second the peace treaties were signed two allies start a 45 year cold war against each other.
@CrazyJaketheTerrible
November 26, 2025 at 5:59 pm
My brother here has some serious shark eyes 🦈
@KODtheawsome
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 pm
17:30 the section about bats is some of the best straight faced comedy I’ve ever seen. “Once you release them [the bats] you can’t stop them” hahahaha
@kingeryck1
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 pm
26:46, Ironic, considering the guy can’t complete a proper sentence.
@serialseb2841
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 pm
See, France and England Garanteed Polands security and they declared war when it was attacked. If only those standards where still around in February 24, 2022.
@caitlincordial8105
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 pm
As an American, this man has the most American accent I’ve ever heard.
@cookiejarseattle
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 pm
Actually I don”t believe the Japanese started the war on a premise that they were the superior race. They always regarded (still do, to an extent) the caucasians as the superior race. Their invasion of continental Asia was more strategic than ideological.
@monsieurouxx
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 pm
2:03 Aren’t we forgetting a teeny tiny thing called STALINGRAD?
@nayrworrep2472
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 pm
How does my guy not mention Pearl Harbour during the timeline?
@ivarb629
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 pm
That Russian map is way more accurate at showing scale
@SanityFayre
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 pm
Weird how his timeline missed out the fall of France, North Africa Campaign, Pearl Harbour, Stalingrad, The Soviet Counter-Offensive and you know, the fall of Berlin..
@qwaqwa1960
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 pm
You’d have more veracity without the tie & the staged scene on the desk. Unreal.
@Mimi-cq4bg
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 pm
Love how you fail to mention most european allies GDP spending was higher than the US
If you’re going to give facts give facts. Not just the American ones.
@jonathangraemeburns
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 pm
This guy sounds like John Gruden if he was a nerd instead of a jock lol
@MR-qz3ud
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 pm
The term “Blitzkrieg” (Blitz = lightning, Krieg = war) appeared in 1935 in the German military periodical Deutsche Wehr (German Defence). It was overused and popularised by the Western and German journalist, despite never used as an official military term by the Wehrmacht. Fun fact: Hitler did not like the term “Blitzkrieg”. 🙂
@MR-qz3ud
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 pm
Fun fact: That famous photo of soviet flag was a photo of about 3rd of 4th soviet flag raised on the Reichstag and it was staged after the fights for the building. And it was edited because the soviet soldier had several watches on his arms. That had to be corrected, for soviet soldiers could not be depicted as looters. 🙂
@yumanai5615
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 pm
This is aggressively American
@DanielRRZ
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 pm
Yeah, they could’ve left that out😂
@Heroesbleed
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 am
Thirty minutes to say, “Nope, it took two nuclear weapons to change the Japanese mindset.”
@theDWB-615
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 am
They were not always on drugs. We to this day give amphetamines to our soldiers on long missions, and imagine holding off Soviet forces that outnumber you 5:1, for weeks with beleaguered troops who have been in active combat for weeks. People love to say stupid stuff like this but we do and have done it ourselves. Look at the Ukranians drugged up constantly. Its been used for over 300 years. Unfortunately it is necessary in many cases in a total war.
@entity13x
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 am
Never forget….. PEEPEEPOOPOO army versus the wither.. FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS
@964cuplove
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 am
No Pearl Harbour in that timeline ?! Thats when the us finally entered the war, no Midway, no hitlers death and German surrender , quite a sieve of a timeline right there…
@964cuplove
November 27, 2025 at 11:16 am
Wasn’t Yamamoto opposed to attacking the US cause he knew the potential of the US industry ?! He fell in line once the decision was made, but he knew they hadn’t long…
@vlowolvtake1797
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 am
チャーチルが裸族だったとは…
@danielsullivan3339
November 27, 2025 at 11:58 am
The point made about the casualty estimates of the invasion playing a role in President Trumans decision was really interesting. I’d never considered that by dropping the bomb Truman was actually choosing lower casualty rates for the Japanese population as well as the obvious concern for American forces.
@mattinterweb
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 pm
The edit is misleading in the Enigma section. Turing was British, not American.
@markmccullough1270
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 pm
You DO NOT get to claim Alan Turing as an American. Nice try buddy.
@hooray4pizzaday451
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 pm
WW2 technically started when Japan invaded China, not with Hitler invading Poland.
@donaldmosley767
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 pm
We “contolled the Philippines ” the same way we contolled Ohio and Puerto Rico they were part of the United States and it people were U.S. CITIZENS.
@OneGeekStudios
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 pm
My uncle was a drill sergeant who served in the 101st Airborne in Desert Storm. I’m pretty sure those WW2 soldiers didn’t think that Patton needed to rescue any of them lol
@Jibble-jobble
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 pm
Thank you for spreading historical information
@MacMasore
November 27, 2025 at 2:13 pm
1:27 maybe you could even say WW2 began when WW1 began (or even sooner) or after the treaty of Versailles if the Germans were treated a little bit better maybe there wouldn’t be a reason to start the next one
@TheRealSonicBeats
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 pm
Sad he didn’t credit the “common phrases they used everyday” to the HH they couldn’t stop saying
@vhol93
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 pm
Great series !
@lorenzo6868
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 pm
Very America centric view of WW2
@tylercale69
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 pm
My grandfather was there the day Auschwitz was liberated and we played through Call Of Duty WW2 and when we got to the end, he opened up to me about the absolutely horrific sights he saw there and how he never wants anyone to have to witness anything like that ever again. That was the only time he ever opened up about his service. Miss him a lot
@jerbear7952
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 pm
Why do you always pick the dumbest people with the dumbest questions? Why give the idiots air time
@nighouds9062
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 pm
National Geographic over-simplified and western ally-centric history -core
@Afro-Socialist
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 pm
Skips over Midway, Stalingrad, and Operation Bagration as turning points 👀
@adamroscoe5950
November 27, 2025 at 6:04 pm
Alan Turing is British typical an American would try take credit
@MatthijsDierckx
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 pm
The timeline is off, it’s missing the blitzkrieg of May ‘40. Probably the most important part until DDay.
@w96yia
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 pm
Thats what I thought aswell however multiple historians have proven that its just a hoax
@xtrem5428
November 27, 2025 at 6:50 pm
That answer for the atomic bomb is very USA propaganda. While it’s not false per say, the real goal was who between the USA and the Soviet Union would be able to dictate their conditions to Japan. It was an arms race between the two. Since USA won the arms race, they won control of Japan.
@AlexanderHawley
November 27, 2025 at 7:21 pm
I was with the guy until the justification for nuclear weapons usage. Ug.
@oldvaliant
November 27, 2025 at 11:21 pm
Once the red army had established a positive identity of Hitler (using dental records) why wasn’t this fact made known to or shared with the Allies?
@safeontalk
November 27, 2025 at 11:54 pm
Yea im not letting him slide on this. America knew about the camps and what was going on early. The mixture of the failing economy, antisemitism, and the fact americans couldnt believe that it was that bad led to letting them do it for quite a while before they went in (and it wasnt cause of the camps).
Literally whats happening to the population of Palestine. Anyone dumb enough to say America isnt Islamophobic, and that the economy is great right now?
@jacobstamp818
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 am
When will these yanks stop trying to claim credit for breaking enigma?
@euryale5015
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 am
22:57 penchant, not pension. are these captions auto-generated?
@chrisschneider3873
November 28, 2025 at 2:21 am
I’m over ten minutes in and this blowhard has yet to even utter the words Soviet Union, despite the fact that they did the vast majority of fighting and destroyed 70% of Hitler’s army.
@MohammedomarOmar-m9z
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 am
1937 Japan 🇯🇵 attacked China
@yulekyulek4336
November 28, 2025 at 4:55 am
Most historions agree that the war started in 1937 when Japan invaded China. Who taught this guy history?
@Gabe04_
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 am
A lot of these questions are like ‘how many x and y boats/people etc?’.
The answer: ‘9000 tons of ships, 80.000 pounds of people’
……
@TheRageCage
November 28, 2025 at 6:44 am
Anyone remember the runescape subtitle parody video with that scene of hitler taking off his glasses lol
@dusanandjelovic1167
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 am
This “expert” is extremly subjective (Pax America), and taking some basic facts out of context, misleading, giving out false facts or personal impressions…Simply he starts good, based on correct i formation but finishes poorly almost on every question.
@empireprojectsLR
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 am
so on a ww2 timeline no battle of stalingrad? com on man
@theatrelac
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 am
Alan Turing was British, not American.
@juanamin9078
November 28, 2025 at 10:40 am
matariaal = material
@roydm143
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 am
Thank god that the US tested their relatively new atomic bombs on the field to send the clear message, that they were there to save those japanese lives LMAO
@weascualquieras
November 28, 2025 at 11:53 am
the whole world!, misses southamerica completly
@LoboDibujante
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 pm
Ahhh, there it is. “The atomic bomba actually saved Japan.” It wasn’t to show them off in front of the Russians, at all.
@pezboy715
November 28, 2025 at 1:25 pm
12:58 Love the intro, but we’re not giving enough credit to “RippinDankBonks” 😂
@Head-pot-man
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 pm
12:07 cut that sentence off pretty quick 😅😅😅
@tristanbowman7098
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 pm
Having the Marine Iwo Jima monument on the desk for an Army office is wild.
@nikita_kozlov
November 28, 2025 at 3:20 pm
Skewed American centric perspective.
@nikita_kozlov
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 pm
Flat out wrong about Yamamoto. He was schooled in the US and believed it was a mistake to bomb Pearl Harbor.
@Andrew24IV
November 28, 2025 at 5:52 pm
I think the majority of German citizens knew very well what was happening to the Jews, but tried to downplay their complicity after the fact.
@diazr2k
November 28, 2025 at 6:18 pm
I have an odd feeling that Peter Knight’s favorite moment in history of the battle of Spider 2 Y Banana
@marcus_i_13
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 pm
A person claiming to be an authority of history claiming WW2 has its roots in WW1 is absurd. First, hilarious. Second, completely ahistorical. What motivated fascists in Germany and imperialists in Japan to start the world war? Their conception of their nations being shamed by western countries in the 1800s. The roots of world war 2 are more form the conflicts of the 1910s but of the race for resource extraction of the 1800s
@GooMachine
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Sad to see invasion of china not on the timeline
@rinetti510
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 pm
Are we sure this guy isn’t Jon Gruden’s brother?
@jasonchoi8828
November 28, 2025 at 9:50 pm
Giving a timeline of WW2 and not mentioning Russia or the western front is crazy. I get the dude is American given the tie, but this deminishing of the Russian importance is not really historically accurate. 75% of the conversation should be about Germany, Russia, and the western front.
@patrickharrison1212
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 pm
Does this bloke know there were other theatres of war? Not just the ones the yanks were part of?
@nw641
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 pm
Crazy to me how when he was mentioning the key dates, D-day is mentioned and battle of stalingrad isn’t. I never understood how the soviets union part in the war is always never fully represented. 8 out of 11 German soldiers were killed by the Soviets yet D-Day is mentioned before stalingrad?
@GoofyCheeks
November 29, 2025 at 7:41 am
that and the battle of berlin lmao
@harrison3910
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 am
His eye’s are so incredibly dark
@philliphampton5183
November 29, 2025 at 12:25 am
This dude talks like Gruden and it’s very engaging. Bring him back!
@TexasTrad78
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 am
Meth claim is modern revisionism
@oleksii_che
November 29, 2025 at 1:11 am
A “historian” who calls the USSR russia
*facepalm*
@RefmanCards
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 am
It’s sad that Poland doesn’t get any credit for the cracking of enigma. Just before Poland fell they turned over all of their de-coding efforts. They had a lot of the machine already de-coded. England would never have had de-coded without what Poland had given them.
@dineshpala7598
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 am
HMS Bulldog. Look it up.
@asoka9212
November 29, 2025 at 2:03 am
I would argue that in the timeline the bombing of Pearl Harbor should be prominent. Without the United States entering the war, the allies might not have been the first to drop the A-bomb.
@jack40russel
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 am
Alan Turing was Britisch
@roxymoxy8866
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 am
Am I the only one who could listen to this guy read the encyclopedia? 😂 He’s awesome 😂😂😂😂
@guitarheroguy5
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 am
Churchill did almost nothing. You see how Peter Knight had to give that non-answer. You know he (Churchill) was thinking “Thank God for Pearl Harbor” just like Epic Rap Battles said.,
@michaelw5816
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 am
So much of this is completely wrong.
@PanTheGu
November 29, 2025 at 8:34 am
This man is a clown. Americans trying to make themselves feel more relevant in WW2. Trying to claim Turing as a yank… The tie should have given away what kind of episode this would be.
@Classic_Workshop
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 am
Everyone who finds this interesting needs to listen to sabaton. For those that don’t already the a metal band that has several songs about historical battles and military units.
@lnoel-tr5do
November 29, 2025 at 9:04 am
German forces could cover hundreds of miles in a matter of hours? What is this guy smoking? Does he think armor and infantry went 50+ miles per hour in the late 1930s/early 1940s? 😂😂😂
@spornge
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 am
I do not know if it is indocrination and pyshological re enformcement, but even just the quick news footage of rasing the flag on iwo jima always moves me
@gimmytube1
November 29, 2025 at 12:18 pm
why did we not drop A bombs on Germany as well?
@virtualqueenz6319
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 pm
I find it rather irritating that he has made it out that Alan Turing was American. Alan Turing was not American, he was British working at Bletchley Park in England. Comw on, let’s give the Brits the credit they deserve here!
@virtualqueenz6319
November 29, 2025 at 3:12 pm
Typical. Trying to give all the credit to the Americans when Alan Turing was actually British, not American! 🙄
@neilparry9511
November 29, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Mateeree – AL
@PaladinDansesGirlfriend
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 pm
As a historian wearing a tie that desecrates the US flag is an interesting credibility choice
@nauseatingpain
November 29, 2025 at 9:08 pm
Antifa video
@JBatesProductions
November 30, 2025 at 12:51 am
Hello? Japanese invasion of China? Does he know a pacific theatre existed? This guy is a buffoon
@ashleytrentdg
November 30, 2025 at 1:04 am
Peepeepoopooman is a legend in the hasanabi chat
@shelleydenison
November 30, 2025 at 1:27 am
I like to believe that Peter just carries these maps on his person at all times.
@catdee609
November 30, 2025 at 2:49 am
He made it sound like Turing was an American with the way he said it.
@maxavery9963
November 30, 2025 at 6:16 am
Alan Turing was BRITISH!
@prangenoob
November 30, 2025 at 8:39 am
The American tie and the ww2 timeline should rlly tell you all about this video lol.
@garethbailey4691
November 30, 2025 at 8:40 am
I have a question…why is a bloke in his 40s qualified to say how realistic saving private Ryan is? Also, he’s American. We all know Americans will make believe that they saved the day in any given situation….they are fantasists, do not listen to thi bollocks
@WW2StorieBattle-95
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 am
You should make a video about the P 51 that was captured by japan and studied.
@ProfessorWaltherKotz
November 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
16:48 BeWEgungskrieg, not “Begungskrieg”
@oliver7798
November 30, 2025 at 10:45 am
Sorry what? An American mathematician called Alan Turing?
@TheDanimalPlays
November 30, 2025 at 10:59 am
His tie makes me think he works for American Airlines.
@kld0096
November 30, 2025 at 11:21 am
How is it possible that you answer a question about the timeline of the war without mentioning Pearl Harbor? There is no mention of the Pacific at all until you get the atom bombs. WWII had 2 theaters and your answer is almost entirely focused on only one of them.
@ryankula6305
November 30, 2025 at 11:52 am
THIS DUDE DOES A GREAT JOB.
@WaibeMaibe
November 30, 2025 at 3:07 pm
The sound is painful, could you please invest in some better microphones or mix it bettter? thanks.
@BenjiSun
November 30, 2025 at 6:29 pm
Sept 1939… ah, the white only perspective.
@anupamjain3152
November 30, 2025 at 6:59 pm
Amazing episode!
@yotaruvegeta
November 30, 2025 at 7:26 pm
I don’t think it’s was editing. I think he just didn’t word things correctly. He mentioned Turing too late.
@Wladislav
November 30, 2025 at 7:52 pm
Lil correction: *Eva* Braun
@GinsuChikara
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 pm
There are just way too many obvious fuckups by this supposed “expert.”
The most obvious and appalling being even implying Turing was American, and the Americans played no meaningful role whatsoever in cracking the Enigma.
@SuperlunarNim
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 am
Something to note; he says that Truman authorized use of both atomic bombs but in fact after the devestation of the furst bomb Truman actually issued a directive to stop use of the bombs. It was a blood-drunk general in the pacific who basically ignored that directive and ordered the second bombing before Japan even sorted out reports about the first.
It was definitely a massive war crime, and has been argued the second bomb was unnecessary.
@stevegolembiewski7934
December 1, 2025 at 9:20 am
This guy is like the Jon Gruden of WWII History
@zeletskyy
December 1, 2025 at 9:50 am
Peepeepoopooman 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
@Stand_with_Israel
December 1, 2025 at 10:46 am
3:36 that dude was absolutely racked, he looks like me at the craps table on a Saturday night
@hayrullah1000
December 1, 2025 at 10:52 am
After i see color of the tie i understand perspective of answers.
@CattyHomesteader79
December 1, 2025 at 11:14 am
I lived in Bly for almost 20 years. The deaths happened when a pastor and his family went out to have a picnic. He let the wife and kids out to go set up while he parked the car. That’s the only reason he physically survived. Mitchell Monument stands there now.
The church I went to in Bly, it was the church he pastored. I’m not sure when it happened, I think in the 70s/80s, but a group of Japanese women who had worked at the factory making those balloon bombs came asking for forgiveness. They brought many gifts, most of which our church lost when it burned down January 29th of this year.
@zebounce
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 am
“Bewegungskrieg” not “beggungskrieg”; if you want to use a german term because its as you state “more accurate” at least use it correctly.
@Volkswagenitalia.
December 1, 2025 at 12:03 pm
This was great! Please, do one for The Great War, and other major wars, too!
@maryhales4595
December 1, 2025 at 12:21 pm
I want a movie about the Night Witches!
@codykirchner9606
December 1, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Some of these questions, I swear. Like the one about North Africa. My guy, your school mentioned it, I promise. You just slept through it.
@austinsullivan5225
December 1, 2025 at 1:13 pm
“RippinDankBonks asks…” as he says with a completely straight face
@andrewarsenault1906
December 1, 2025 at 1:31 pm
Not a bad presentation, but please take off that disrespectful tie. Our flag isn’t casual wear, used as a handkerchief or a tie. And it certainly isn’t the display of patriotism that you think it is. Perhaps you could consider a flag displayed in the background or a desk array would be a more dignified and appropriate when speaking of our nations fighting forces that sacrificed so much for our freedoms. Thank You.
doesn’t
@Colddemise
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 pm
I have this playing in the background and I keep thinking he is Jon Gruden.
@flaviusfake271
December 1, 2025 at 1:38 pm
@3:05 Allied troops were also given powerful amphetamines drugs to stay awake longer.
@azeem_akorede
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 pm
2:49 Germany started the war but it was ended by Japan surrendering make it make sense 😮
@spitsmuis4772
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 pm
Your suit doesn’t fit
@jordanbooth4470
December 1, 2025 at 2:46 pm
Saying the war began in 1939 is a very Anglo-Franco perspective. It could be argued, strongly I believe that it actually started in 1937 when Japan invaded China, and maybe even in 1931 when they invaded Manchuria
@anthonyguerin7659
December 1, 2025 at 3:19 pm
Intersting but very USA biased, I mean the tie says everything
@donmynack
December 1, 2025 at 3:26 pm
Way to step up and fight, Ireland.
@KevinPalmer777
December 1, 2025 at 3:30 pm
The greatest war
@miketucker9801
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 pm
Materiale
@Wittynametag
December 1, 2025 at 3:55 pm
Americans always miss the Battle of Britain. I don’t know if it’s something in their mind that refuses to accept the RAF successfully prevented the German invasion of Britain and defeated the Luftwaffe, the first large scale set back of Hitler’s plans and turned the tide of the war, but if it hadn’t been for that, the war in Europe would have been over before the USA joined and Russia had been forced to switch sides.
@prismatic_princess
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 pm
nobody asked my question, which is: Did the U.S. have advance knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor and did they allow it to happen anyway as a pretext for joining the war? Which I already know the answer to but I’d like to see a former intelligence officer handle that
@tomwheatley7561
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 pm
So the battle of Britain never happened!
@imprezzive3153
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 pm
I always thought Hitler took cyanide with ava, and thats how he died. I also thought russia has Hitler skull, fully in tact, in moscow
@timothystephenson2498
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 am
That is a rocking tie! I love it!
December 2nd, 2025, 7:24am
@AbiSaysThings
December 2, 2025 at 9:49 am
It’s great for signalling his insane bias before he even opens his mouth 🤡
@richardschleenvoigt4374
December 2, 2025 at 7:40 am
How is Pearlharbor not “one of the main events” on that timeline
@jukkajylanki4769
December 2, 2025 at 8:34 am
Holy smokes what revisionist propaganda is this video. 9:53: The Enigma machine was cracked in Bletchley Park in the Britain by the British Alan Turing, not “after partnering with an American Alan Turing”.
@WIRED Please take this video down, the lack of fact proofing for historical accuracy is shocking.
@PaleoCon2008
December 2, 2025 at 9:58 am
It’s “Bewegungskrieg.” German can be hard to pronounce unless the USAF and US Army send you there for 9 years.
@bryceallen5135
December 2, 2025 at 12:03 pm
I love that there are apparently at least 41 other Pee Pee Poo Poo men
@ceccamail
December 2, 2025 at 12:07 pm
YOU SHOULD study the first world war, because the Treaty of Versailles 1919 was what actually lead to to WWII and also studying WWI will make you understand a lot about the current status of the Middle east and the rest of the world.
@BrotherStarkey
December 2, 2025 at 12:28 pm
That timeline was missing 70% of major events
@themrfriend
December 2, 2025 at 12:34 pm
“How far back does the chain of events go to lead to WW2?” So, yes, the Treaty of Versailles created the economic devastation that Hitler exploited to gain power. The French pushed for the treaty to be as punishing as it was, in part, to get revenge for the terrible conditions Germany (Prussia, really) had imposed on France following the Franco-Prussian war. Which they did, in part, as punishment for the treatment they’d received at the hands of Napoleon. And it goes on. The point is that the Treaty of Versailles exists within a larger historical context, and that Franco-German enmity goes back centuries. That history is worth knowing.
@LoveLawWill
December 2, 2025 at 12:41 pm
I only lasted 70 seconds, WW2 started with the japanese invasion of china, not with germany in poland. Nice tie, statist. Thumbs way down!
@theMediocreAccountant
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 pm
If you close your eyes it sounds like AI Jon Gruden
@jonbloodworth474
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 pm
rippindankbonks is a great handle
@petervannini1232
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 pm
Why does he just not mention South America at all when talking about how it was “truly a global war?”
@jovenhate
December 2, 2025 at 2:45 pm
Check his tie
@Pierre_da_Chello
December 2, 2025 at 2:27 pm
What I read in book called Windswept Lies of War keeps replaying in my head. Some parts feel like they were never meant to be published.
@dvenururu
December 2, 2025 at 2:29 pm
I thought I knew WWII… until I read Windswept Lies of War. That book made me realize how much we’ve been spoon-fed.
@lanaminsklanaminsk725
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 pm
I Read book called Windswept Lies of War a few nights ago and still can’t shake it. Some truths cut deep when you’re not ready for them.
@Palantir13
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 pm
I used to think I had a solid grasp on WW2 history, until I read book called Windswept Lies of War. It flipped decades of what I thought were facts.
@Аркадий-ы1э
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 pm
Испытала потрясение!!!
@Am199-u8p
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 pm
nice
@galinaleyba7963
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 pm
What I read in book called Windswept Lies of War keeps replaying in my head. Some parts feel like they were never meant to be published.
@sundazze7969
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 pm
Cod ww2 is probably the best game ever to represent this era
@ariver7491
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 pm
1:29. That photo on upper right. Demonstrates that none of them trust each other
@lindaaa3256
December 2, 2025 at 3:37 pm
why didn’t world war 2 begin with the invasion of china by japan?
@lindaaa3256
December 2, 2025 at 3:41 pm
overall his explanations are not as good as answers by actual ww2 historians. i think if you want to really learn about it there’s no youtube video you can watch. you have to do a lot of reading.
@jaredc5789
December 2, 2025 at 7:16 pm
That video of Hitler gaking 😂
@bookemdanno5596
December 2, 2025 at 7:50 pm
Thanks for not caring about monetization like 99% of other YouTubers are and showing Mussolini the way he deserves to be seen. To all the idiots who _still_ believe creators when they say “YouTube won’t let me show it, otherwise I would!” watch at and around 25:24.
@bgrigg07
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 pm
Odd how he skips over the sneak attack on Pearl Harbour that brought the USA into the war.
@robertkoreis
December 2, 2025 at 9:05 pm
I think a US Navy historian would take exception with the claim that over two thousand soldiers died on the Arizona. The only men aboard were sailors and Marines.
@brucewen549
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 pm
World war started on 07JUL1937 if you are Chinese.
@scottciesielski6854
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 pm
Uhhhh…. how do you not mention the aircraft carriers being absent as the biggest reason pearl harbor was a failed attack……its definitively the biggest reason the US was able to survive in the PAT until new vessels were built and launched in late 42-early 43. We only had 7 Fleet Carriers in Dec. ’41…..if we lost 3 or 4 at Pearl, we have a much different war in the Pacific, the country is probably unable to shoulder the burdens of the Manhattan project and coming off the back foot against Japan even more than we already were.
Or if d day is possible, or if the invasion of north africa is possible. If we lose three or four carriers at pearl, it’s a completely different story
@rickbady2281
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 pm
He neglects the American seeking of resource colonies in the east pacific, places Japan had it’s eye on….such as the Philippines and Hawaii (a reason to attack Pearl Harbor)
@1758jiaos
December 2, 2025 at 10:40 pm
I think peepeepoopoo42 was inspired by the real peepeepoopoo man that terrorized Toronto
@alixthefunk
December 3, 2025 at 2:59 am
Is this the same guy who did the “Wear Sunscreen” record?
@KaelenTune
December 3, 2025 at 4:57 am
did America just claim Alan Turing?
@ginismoja2459
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 am
Noticed that too, wtf…
@sklud
December 3, 2025 at 5:28 am
This dude could do a killer Jon Gruden impression
@rafabuczynski3076
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 am
Thank you for NOT missing Polish contribution into decrypting enigma. To be fair, I did not know, that Poles managed to build enigma-like device all the way in 1939, I believed it happened 2 years after.
@Kingdomplains
December 3, 2025 at 6:44 am
Bring Peter Knight back some time for another video – I absolutely loved this one! Great delivery of information, likeable personality, and very calm/pleasant demeanor. Recipe for success in a host!! Awesome job, Mr. Knight! Will be looking for more vids of you here on YouTube after I finish watching this (10 minutes to go).
@evds501
December 3, 2025 at 7:15 am
The 101st never needed rescuing !
@zachlewis3279
December 3, 2025 at 9:04 am
1:00 Dont understand why no one talks about the invasion of Manchuria by Japan in 1931 or the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937? It starts when Germany invades Poland but not when Japan invades China and continues to war with China until the end of WW2?
@dzingunyte
December 3, 2025 at 9:13 am
russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 february 24 and lost around 1 mln man
@06alymay
December 3, 2025 at 10:59 am
I went on a school trip to France to visit all of the D-Day landings and they put on saving Private Ryan on the little TV in the bus and I honestly just remember feeling so much sorrow and despair over what happened on those beaches. Saving Private Ryan really does paint a very vivid picture.
@Jacopopitaciu
December 3, 2025 at 11:53 am
Shouldn’t we mention Japan invasion of China and its related wars? That dates back WWII to 1937
@JETX1990
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 pm
Just listening, I thought Jon Gruden was teaching history now.
@qagzou6331
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 pm
An expert who seems not knowing the actual start of WWII. So sad that Eurocentrism is still omnipresent, esp under the new cold geopolitical war between the G2.
@ryankelly5308
December 3, 2025 at 2:24 pm
Great video!
@The_Wailing_Doom
December 3, 2025 at 3:57 pm
I can’t believe Pearl Harbor was skipped over as an important point on the WWII timeline. I believe that Pearl Harbor set in motion the Allies winning the war as it is THE event that got the USA to join the fight directly.
In any case, thank you for this amazing video. I loved every bit of it.
@upperdeckhr
December 3, 2025 at 4:19 pm
MATERIAAAAAAL.
@SmokeBloody
December 3, 2025 at 9:36 pm
The atomic bombs were also a display of power to the Soviet Union.
@eleahanz9995
December 3, 2025 at 10:22 pm
I’d love to know what watch he’s wearing!
@ChantingInTheDark
December 4, 2025 at 12:23 am
NOBODY should support fascism. So many people died fighting it for a reason.
@OllieWorvell
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 am
I live in bletchley weirdly. I’ve seen Bletchley park museum it’s incredible
@RichieJimyt
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 am
Jon Gruden sure does know a lot about WWII
@nyls1717
December 4, 2025 at 7:11 am
10:02 did this historian just say alan turing was american
@mcgs91
December 4, 2025 at 8:02 am
Please, change the title of the video to “US Army Propagandist Answers World War II Questions With Occasional Lies | Tech Support | WIRED”. Thx
@pepuletrz
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 am
so hitler and trump actually have more in common than i though..for real..
@Samis-s113
December 4, 2025 at 10:06 am
The opening 😂😂😂😂
@Sally4th_
December 4, 2025 at 10:37 am
Was following with interest until you claimed Alan Turing as American around 9:50. The Establishment might have done him dirty in his lifetime but he was British born and bred and we’re very proud of him these days. Not impressed.
@R-co8su
December 4, 2025 at 10:38 am
23:11 not sure about that one mate. lots of us think hes a w@nk. he lost the election right after the war due to this fact.
@Homelini
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 pm
The Soviet conquer of Berlin? Americans just can’t say that, even historians, it’s stronger than them…
@tomcross481
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 pm
Well, I for one am incredibly shocked that an American historian would choose to completely overlook British achievements or claim them as American ones. Deary me.
@orsolyavizsuly3952
December 4, 2025 at 3:54 pm
That is the Japon.
@orsolyavizsuly3952
December 4, 2025 at 3:56 pm
<-ideally-orwerewas.china itcould. but matters if ideal is beaten in japon ideal is a man. who does 90's by judged by eighties seventies-good people of japon are. and traits.
@orsolyavizsuly3952
December 4, 2025 at 3:56 pm
yis had one. as haihai
@orsolyavizsuly3952
December 4, 2025 at 3:56 pm
mixed culture. but somixed that is haj-haj..
@orsolyavizsuly3952
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 pm
Ro as good politai still,
@orsolyavizsuly3952
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 pm
of course thay have bout god ro. waiwai
@orsolyavizsuly3952
December 4, 2025 at 4:28 pm
these are how-axes… nothereplains someone russian scereams out of frights, above low – Germany. horrifying the people.
@orsolyavizsuly3952
December 4, 2025 at 4:29 pm
Polish i shouldthink, even cseh
@orsolyavizsuly3952
December 4, 2025 at 4:29 pm
hunnia.
@orsolyavizsuly3952
December 4, 2025 at 4:29 pm
Germania. Francia
@orsolyavizsuly3952
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 pm
Svédország.Swajc.Finnország. Németország Magyarország, Románia, Normandia.Francia-vagy Frac?
@orsolyavizsuly3952
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 pm
Didthey sortout much of.
@orsolyavizsuly3952
December 4, 2025 at 4:36 pm
if sec has a friend. sec as goes. ewllinthesethanghalang.
@orsolyavizsuly3952
December 4, 2025 at 4:37 pm
crazyfolk. also says. o.o
@rithikuja7299
December 4, 2025 at 4:59 pm
Too US centric for my taste 👎👎👎
@zamiller12
December 4, 2025 at 5:12 pm
Anyone else feel like this guy is related to John Gruden?
@oGR7o
December 4, 2025 at 6:52 pm
Very pragmatic Harry Truman authorized the dropping of weapons of mass destruction over mostly civilian population to avoid horrific casualties… hmmm 🤔
@fep_ptcp883
December 4, 2025 at 8:03 pm
During WWII, the idea of Brazil sending troops to fight in Europe was widely mocked. People joked that “it’s more likely for a snake to smoke than for Brazil to join the war.”
Snakes smoking without hands seem unlikely. But when the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) was finally created and deployed to Italy in 1944, the soldiers adopted the joke as a badge of pride. Their official insignia became no less than a snake smoking a pipe 😅