"Inbreeding and a bad childhood is a recipe for disaster" Looking at you Alabama

The iron Cross is like the german Version of the medal of honor, today you would get it if you save a comrad in a firefight or something similar

I like how you described humans. I’d say we are insanely incredible but would say we are also incredibly insane. We do the same things over and over in some cases

Greetings from Germany, been binge watching your videos love them! A litte mistake in the original Video: Nazi wasn't the Abbreviation for the Party but for the Party Members who called themselves " Nationalsozialisten". The Party had the Acronym NSDAP.

There are a few things: (1) The party was called the "NSDAP", the members were called "Nazis". (2) Hitler was a "Gefreiter" (don't know the English equivalent, maybe Corporal or Lance Corporal) . (3) The Iron Cross 1st Class required the rewarded soldier to own the Iron Cross 2nd Class. Hitler got his Iron Cross 2nd Class for delivering a message during the First Battle of Ypres, because he might have rescued a commander at named battle. The Iron Cross 1st Class was awarded to him once again for delivering a message, but denied wearing it in WWI due to his superior during that time being a jew. (4) Hitler was just a soldier, never made it to the rank of officer (or "Unteroffizier", which might be translated to sergeant, but thats not an accurate translation). (5) The SA was, as said in the video, the paramilitary divison of the NSDAP, while the SS were Hitler's personal security guards. After the night of the long knives ("Nacht der langen Messer"), the SA was basically dissolved and any remaining members were integrated in the SS. (6) Hindenburg passed away in 1934, not 1933, like it might sound in the video, so he became full-on dictator in 1934, not in March 1933.

I want to say something about the cousin thing: Today most of us wouldn't even consider marrying so close to the family but you have to view it through the eyes of the time so to speak: Today we know cousin marriage was a thing in the noble houses BUT it was not uncommon for ordinary people to also marry their cousins. This changed I think with modern medicine and the knowledge of what today might be called "inbreeding"

8:27 the iron cross is the greatest military honor you can receive. it’s like the english metal of antiquity or the US medal of honor

Love your content dude! I’m learning a lot.

19:55 you can see both the SS and the SA here. The guys left are from the SA, the militia of the NSDAP. The guys on the right , in the black uniforms are from the SS. Before the night of the long knives, the SS was subordinate to the SA only as Hitler's bodyguard, after that they even had some combat units of their own (sorry if i spelled something wrong, i'm a german)

In reference to the mention of inbreeding: If you wanna learn about some seeeeriously messed up family trees, I recommend the channel Mortal Faces (particularly the Habsburgs, Cleopatra, and Tutankhamun videos). His video about the worst popes in history is also... disturbingly informative 😬

I found your channel a few months ago and I absolutely love it 😃 I'm amazed that you are almost at 20k subs already! Greetings from Germany!

To be fair, at the time Hitler was born, it was nothing unusal to marry cousins and grand cousins. Actually most europeans have such relationships in their family tree, especially in regions with a lower population density. And its not realy inbreeding, because its not in a direct ancestory line, so its legal in most countries today. His childhood was quiet normal too. Dead siblings, violent parents and so on, nothing special at his time. The question "would you kill Hitler as a baby" isnt such an easy question in my opinion. Sure, he did terrible things, but a second world war was inevitable (Versailles was just to stupid). And (even if Russia fucked it up the last few months) his devastating war brought the longest period of peace Europe has ever seen. It was the foundation for the european union and global relationships. You dont know if killing Hitler would make the history better or even worse, but our timeline isnt that bad in my opinion. Much better than fight wars every 10 to 20 years, isnt it?

You’re so close to 20k! You must be cool teacher

15:02 “Fear left unchecked turns into anger and anger promotes violence” -Stuart Webster

Klara was not Alois' cousin. Alois father is not even known for sure. In general, marriages in such degrees of relationship were not at all unusual at that time.

Psychology 101: Behavior breeds behavior. Treat a person like they do not belong and they will either reflect it onto you or worse, become exactly the fear you treated them so poorly for.

I learned more from that video then in 3 years of history class.

3:18 Look at the book cover 😆🤣

I always feel the question of "Would you kill baby Hitler?" is incredibly poorly considered, even as a thought experiment. We do not have enough information to effectively answer that question. The decision should be based on how time itself works. If Everett Multiverse Interpretation is true, whether you kill him or not is irrelevant because the 50% of the infinite universes in which you (or someone else) DIDN'T kill him would still exist. Your better choice is to explore for a universe you like and live there. Maybe he got killed, maybe he didn't, maybe he wasn't born, maybe his unilateral dictatorship created a backlash that led to a global utopia. Infinite universes means infinite options and killing him achieves nothing. If we're using Dr. Who mechanics chances are WWII was a fixed point in time and if you kill baby Hitler someone else just steps in to take his place. If we're using BTTF rules, then fuck yeah you kill Hitler. If it's the wrong choice you fix it with a sequel. Regardless of any of that, if we have the tech to send someone to where and when they need to be to even make this possible it means we've figured out how time works to a much better understanding than what we currently possess. And that is vital information required to even MAKE this decision. It's a bad question.

love your content keep it up 👍

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hey man love the videos! i think it should be 'sense' though in your thumbnail but i'm an esl speaker as well so i may be wrong :)

thatnk you for reviewing this. its banned in Germany but i learned so much from this. have my Abo

The image of Jews all around Europe in the past was surely not helped by the Church definition, for centuries of Jewish as Theocides, anyway.

Hitler was a runner in the Army, a very dangerous job as he had to carry messages, often exposed to enemy fire. He was a corporal (The lowest Non Commissioned Officer rank.)

Given current events, you should do OS' "Cold War."

I also wanted to slightly correct you about the antisemitism: Throughout history there was the religious hatred of jews but its called anti-judaism ("Anti-Judaismus" in german) but antisemitism is more like the idea that the Jews are a people/race. For a more detailed explanation I recommend Google haha

2:30 that was Mozart but yeah its just what happens if you are born or living in austria. Its the Alabama of europe just like Turkey (in Turkey its pretty damn common even nowdays)

Goebbels was with Hitler pretty much from the beginning. His first official title was Gauleiter of Berlin, which is something like a local leader of the NSDAP for Berlin. He became minister of propaganda after Hitler himself was, although he had the job for only a short time. That was in 1930, but, as mentioned, he already meddled much earlier than that.

Hi viking. Dont bother with Mein Kampf. Its so badly written that even nazis struggle to finish it Read Alan Bullock - Hitler, a study in tyranny This book is by far the best book i have ever read (5 times, its that fascinating) It covers just about every minute of his life and is 70 years later still considered as a must read for people who are interested in the how and why of hitler, ww2 and germany

After WW1, all blame got put on Germany and they were given harsh penalties that drove their economy to the ground, that is what gave rise to Hitler i feel, all the ingredients were there after WW1 to ensure WW2 would eventually happen, it was basically the perfect storm brewing over the ocean and when Hitler came to power, the storm made landfall. WW2 is a culmination of everything that went wrong around WW1, and funny enough similar mistakes have been made after WW2, which lead to the cold war, luckily that did not become WW3 (but that might still change, judging todays events). So simply said, after WW1, WW2 was inevitable and would happen no matter who got into power, the sanctions broke the camel's back so to speak, and the outcome will always be the same, another war.

I inherited a book of stamps from my aunt that she had collected in the 30s and 40s. One of them is a German stamp that was originally one mark, it had been overstamped one million marks. The SA was a group under Ernst Roehm which had wild orgies, especially gay orgies,

All soldiers/officers/generals had ranks (i think )Hitler was a lance corporal (in the British ranking system) which is just above a private or the 2nd lowest rank achiveable

If you have the ability to go back in time to kill a baby, you could as well work a little harder and try to change the future of that baby, who knows what good things he could have done if it just changed a little bit.

History Geek answering some of your questions: Hitlers Rank was "Gefreiter", a common soldier (the rank being roughly equal to Private 1st Class or Lance-Corporal). But he served as a runner delivering orders and messages to frontline troops, which was very dangerous. The Iron Cross was the standard military medal in Germany and was handed out somewhat freely for dutyful service (there were about 200.000 recipients in WWI). The Reichstag arsonist was a Dutch anarchist (Marinus van der Lubbe) and nowadays historians are quite sure that he was the sole culprit (he probably also had some mental health problems). It seems like it was just dumb luck for Hitler in this case.

It is a relatively modern concept that cousins are off limits in terms of potential mates. In fact, there are still cultures where it is not only accepted, it's encouraged. I was told by a co-worker that in her culture a girl can marry her mother's brother's son or her father's sister's son, but not her mother's sister's son or father's brother's son. All are cousins, for course, but the children of brother-sister pairs getting married is considered different from the children of two sisters or two brothers getting married because of the resulting social power-structure.

The SA(Sturmabteilung - Storm Detachment) was the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party! The SS(Schutzstaffel - Protection Squadron) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

That Hitler was born in Braunau is just Comedy Gold.

To answer your question, I too was interested to read "the book." Man was a passionate speaker but his writing skills were not captivating imo. It's just filled with antisemitic antics with an old-man-shaking-his-fist-at-the-sky vibe.

His military rang was "Gefreiter" what is a "private" in US.

Minute 2:36 Yes, Einsteins second wife was his cousin. But he had no children with her. Einstein only had two sons with his first wife Mileva Maric. Nice Video! - Greetings from Germany!

Tbh i'd personally probably give him a better childhood and not be a 💩 parent unlike someone else we know. I still believe people can change based on their upbringing...being a product of it and all.

Hitler is a product of the circumstances of that time. His family, surroundings, country, role model, etc. In a way, the Allies had a hand in "creating" him too with the Treaty of Versailles.

The book schoolboyhitler is reading is from Karl May, a popular western writer who'd never been to the americas. The cowboy-indian relationship as imagined in germany goes back to his works. Therefore the title: White Guys take over everything

0:30 you only have to make sure that his letter from the art school reaches him. THAT´S IT

That's how I remember from school and further learnings, please don't take it as a 100% given, but I hope it's nearly true as far as it can get in a brief summarizing comment. SA 'Sturmabteilung' was the older organisation... In the earlier days they needed people to fight with their left counterparts. First just, we call it "Schlägertruppen" for the political idea, they have become more and more organized (para military) as the hole movement has grown over time. Often the members were former soldiers... if I remember right, Röhm was former Officer, but lost his job due to 100k size reducement of the army. It was Hitlers strategy to let the fellow leaders somehow fight for his attraction to strenghten his position as Führer and not let become one of them too powerful. Ernst Röhm somehow challenged, or disagreed with Hitlers decisions about SA/army 'Wehrmacht', so he was put 'out of play' over night by the SS. There were plenty organisations with overlapping competences and switching heads and internal fights for power. The SA had its counterpart in the army as said in the video, but with the Röhm case the SA lost more and more importance and the SS became independant of the SA, which founded as a sibling of it. Himmler established the SS 'Schutzstaffel' and combined all kind of polices in his hands during the 3. Reich. The initial idea of the SS was to recruit the 'elite' of Germans (ritual/spiritual believings of him) and to built a sworn in (nowerdays days you would say brain washed) security group (kind of police of the NS party) to protect Hitler on NS party events like in the beer hall. Over time Himmler also became the head of the 'normal' polices (after struggling with Göring, who first was minister of the interior and so head of police, but then focussed on the air force 'Luftwaffe' he became head of, since he was a pilot and flying ace in the WWI). The SS became more and more powerful and evolved from a party organisation to state organisation. Some call it a state within the state. The Gestapo was the very close connected secret police (geheime Staatspolizei) and the SD 'Sicherheitsdienst' as department of SS was established to fight political opponents, later on also to organize the 'Judenfrage'. Damn, those wordings these days to shield the terrible things behind. Himmler never was soldier, but dreamed of being military leader. So there was established the Waffen-SS, too. It's the military unit controlled by the SS and not the regulary army 'Wehrmacht'. If you want, you can say the initial dream of Röhm became true with other name and head.

My problem with the kill the hitler baby debate is the fact that so many people have been born because of him that you are killing by killing hitler

I love Oversimplified and just recognized, that these two Videos arent watchable here in Germany. But a react seems to be okay for the algorithm LUL

The SA were the Storm Troopers wearing a brown uniform. Their leader was a homosexual called Earnst Rohm. Hitler was fooled into believing Rohm was plotting against him, resulting in Rohms arrest and execution during the "Night of the long knives where many old scores were settled. The SS, Scutzstaffel were Hitlers personal bodyguard and wore black trousers and caps, but still the brown shirts. They were the instrument used during the night of the long knives. They were led by Heinrich Himmler, they grew in power as the SA waned. Eventually the familiar black uniform was adopted and worn by all SS until the Waffen SS (Armed SS) were raided for the war, their uniform was similar to the Army's but more grey in colour. I can't remember when the black uniform dissappeared but it didn't continue long into the war.

Hitler was a colonel. When his generals wrote their memoirs and addressed their staff they use the term "the Bavarian colonel" is disparaging ways. They did so to accentuate their negative views of his military strategy, since most of them were from the old Prussian aristocracy (junkers).

Term "nazi" was not used by actual nazis. It was originally used by Hitler's opponents as a "derogatory word referring to an awkward, backward, and clumsy peasant. It would go on to be used as a mockery of the name Ignatz-a German variation of Ignatius".

Military ranks: corporal was the lowest rank at the time other than private

a great video for you to react about german history is "German Reunification Explained" by History Scope

SA The members of the party probobly and mostly made out of unemployed ww1 soldiers that are hooked with his ideals SS The more elite version of the average German soldier strictly trained and highly effective especially on brute force

The SA were kind of his bully’s but they became very powerful and that’s when he decided to kill all of the leaders, and form the military SS, which of he is in control of and who commit most of the warcrimes like take over the KZs and erase whole villages. And they kid who was blamed of burning the Reichstagsgebäude in 1933 was killed and is buried in my Hometown Leipzig on the “Südfriedhof” which is really big and my great-grandfather Ist buried like 50m next to him and I meet by every now and than at both graves. The boys name was Marinus van der Lubbe.

Germany's iron gross is for preyvory

outside of the horrible disgusting atrocities hitler committed, the fact that he was so successful in his endeavors is legendary.

He was a lance copral !

Prepare for your video to be unwatchable in germany :) (the original one isnt available here either)

0:30 just so short in but I have to add a comment :D If your only options are killing the baby or letting it all happen like it would be with a metor I am completly on your side. I'm not sure if thats the case here... I mean, you could also just kidnap baby Hitler and raise him for example in the USA. I'm not saying he still wouldnt have had become an evil man but people are formed by their parents or who ever is raisig them and their social environment, so there could be a chance of saving everyone but at a high risk of course. When I have those 2 options I'm nomore in the "Kill the baby 100%"-sqaud. But I see the point you are making.

Hitler was a messenger. He would run across trenches to deliver message to headquarters

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calling hitler a "decent" speaker is like calling elvis a "decent" singer xD

U are awesome, SA wasnt better controlled like the SS and thats one reason why SA get backstabbed

Flag in the background at 3:37 is not German. ;-)

fun fack the family doc. Was a juw and later got the "ehren Jude,, which ment it was not allowed to kill him.

They (adolfs mother and father) weren't blood relatives but cousins nonetheless Also, you were right Hitler did end his military career as a corporal bu ofc not trying to defend anyone here haha

Just remember all the technilogical advancemants made and if ww2 never happend we would have had many other deadly wars

im kinda convinced that if all that childhood stuff didnt happen he wouldnt have become so evil but who knows

SA = SturmAbteilung they where more like a militia SS = SturmStaffel was a elite group of aryan soldiers and there boss was Himmler

You said you’d like to show over simplified videos to your students but you can’t because of the language barrier. You could always take the transcript of the video, the narration. Translate it yourself then play the videos on mute and you read out the transcript in Swedish.

to the "would you have killed him" part. probably not, if he died in ww1 or some other events turned different, he might never came to power or could have even become a communist. It is just how the things turned. Imagine he would have been accepted to vienna art school

if you do find a good video for you students you could always dub it for them

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The party is not called NaZi it was called NSDAP what is short for "Nazionalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiterpartei"

1:02 you could just adopt him and teach him good morals. Perhaps make Gandhi his godfather 🤔

So I can watch this reaction but the Original Video is blocked in germany. LMAO

I don't know if you already had a chance to read "the book", but in all honesty, it's not that great. The writing is incoherent, at times really similar to ramblings of a madman, not to mention that after all that happened and with the knowledge we have nowadays, the reasoning there is very naive, to put it mildly.

although what he did later in life was evil and caused pain, suffering and a lot of death - it is history. valuable history. I wouldn't change it by killing a baby. for what we know him being alive and evil is the reason the world advanced in the past 100 years the way it did. it's bad that it happened, sure, but it happened. period. no one should be judged and penalized before the consequences of their actions unfold. despicable as the actions may be... not condoning the evil here, just condoning putting moral and ethical compasses aside to fit your own narrative that is in hindsight. ironically it is hindsight because it happened, so by killing baby Hitler you'd be killing the need to kill baby Hitler whatsoever... but that's a whole other topic of discussion.

How to prevent WWII: let hitler in art school

his book "mein kampf" which was literally printed more often then any other book expect the bible is ... extremly badly written xD he spoke it and his attachee wrote it down so sometimes sentences just end as he spoke to fast and the guy didnt ask him to repeat it xD

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the Hitler videos are actually banned in England, you can’t access them

Don’t read the book. It is a pretty bad book, not just the ideology but the writing is also bad. Look for a summary instead, it’ll save you some heartache and precious brain juice.

I don't know what people saw in him as a "great speaker". To me he has always looked and sounded like a shouting lunatic.

Awarded the Iron Cross by a Jewish guy no less

The original video is blocked in Germany for some reason...

Pretty sure, Hitler never waved black, red and golden colours.

You could have given hitler good parents and good childhiid

The thing is Germany was so destroyed that it was bound to happen. The Treaty of Versailles is the reason for WW2. Germany was full of really poor ppl. If it wasn’t Hitler there would be an other right wing Politician doing it. The burden on the economy was too big. I don’t know what the allies where thinking of achieving with the treaty of Versailles. We need to lern from our History. The fog of ignorance is about our past makes sure history is bound to repeat.

Don't worry about sounding like an ignorant person. I know a few people that don't even know what Germany is :)

Yes you can say that because nobody cares about that guy

Who are the OverSimplified videos aimed at? To children? They would certainly be overwhelmed, mentally and emotionally. To adult Americans? They would certainly be overwhelmed - despite or because of the "OverSimplified" display. (The millions of Trump supporters are, anyway.) To people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? I have doubts that this video will help these people. Overall I think the form is totally inappropriate for this content. In a way, the performance is an insult to the mind. Historical themes require a completely different approach. Not extreme simplification, but greater differentiation. I know some people think "differentiation" is a waste of time. But with this topic, the attention phase has to be a little longer than 20 minutes.

I like your videos mate but you're obviously not a science freak. I wouldn't kill him because it messes with causality.

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Love ur videos Fellow Germanic Brother, Love from Germany. Also u dont need to kill hitler u just need to give him the love he deserved but not got when he was a baby.

You will not read Hitler's book. It is written in such an unbelievably bad style, the content is so stupid and chaotic that you won't even get through the first 10 pages. Believe me, I've tried.

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This series Over Simplified, is not the best way of learning about any subject they are very politely biased. They skip over things like Hitler was a Social Democrat, a political left winger. His hatred of Jews only came late in life after he went into a Jewish market an winessed how they slaughtered animals. He became a vegetarian after that. He actually opposed smoking cigarettes. He was a corporal. Iron cross is awarded in 3 classes. 1st class was reserved for officers, but was occasionally given to enlisted men. He was awarded twice, once second class once first class. He was blinded by nerve gas, and was told he would never see again. He read Niechze, so he believed in Will to Power. And willed his sight back. He spied on the DAP, for the Democratic Socialist run military that was concerned that Right wing parties would be a threat to Socialism. He became a member after shouting down an advocate for capitalism. He was an avowed socialist.