The Fallen of WW II (1 Viewer)

[Bob Magaw]

The numbers are even more staggering than I realized (between civilians, and the Eastern front on both sides).

https://vimeo.com/128373915

"An animated data-driven documentary about war and peace, The Fallen of World War II looks at the human cost of the second World War and sizes up the numbers to other wars in history, including trends in recent conflicts."

 

[GilbertGrape]

Yeah, it was really loud, and the first thing it said was that American life expectancy now is 80 years, which I doubt. I kind of hate how everything has to be a video now, I still know how to read.

 

[Bob Magaw]

Does your computer have a volume control? Latest stats suggest 81 in the UK and Canada, and 79 in the US. So 80 sounds pretty close. But I guess you can read it in a book.

 

[Mjolnirs]

I posted this link in the D-Day thread, but it deserves a thread of its own. The numbers are staggering, and it's hard to imagine any nation's people tolerating a war that cost that many lives today.

Imagine if that war never happened and all of those people lived and procreated. What would the world's population number be today?

 

[Gator Shawn]

Watching it now. It bothers me that he refers to any German soldier's death as a "nazi."

 

[Bob Magaw]

Watching it now. It bothers me that he refers to any German soldier's death as a "nazi."

This was mentioned in the comments section.

It sounds complicated.

There were elements of the German military that thought Hitler was evil and/or a mad man and tried to assasinate him. The military (except for the elite units like SS?) were actually not allowed to have political afiliations.

The Nazis were closely attached to the command structure of the various military branches, and I think the entire military had to pledge an oath to Hitler. The Nazi ideology had also permeated many levels of German society and culture through indoctrination methods like the Hitler youth. Many military members worked hand in hand with the Nazi command structure and elite units to carry out the aims of White supremacy, racial cleansing and genocidal murder of the Jewish people and other "undesireables".

If a US President won as an independent candidate under the Satanist party, the miltary swore an oath and allegiance to Satan, and started rounding up Americans within our borders and other nations outside our borders in a massive ritualistic human sacrifice campaign for mandatory Black Masses, some other nations, societies, cultures and people, might begin referring to this arm or extension of the Satanist command structure and massive ritualistic human sacrifice campaign as themselves Satanists? You can see how they might come to this conclusion.