New Zealand Family Reacts to The Fallen of WW2 (Emotional)

what's up insiders hi and welcome back to another family reaction video this time i'm going to be checking out very highly requested video i mean i i must have seen this so many times and instagram as well not only not in like one reaction video but in like almost all of our reaction videos everybody says [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] um [Music] so and this one kind of hits close to home because my grandfather was actually a fighter pilot in world war ii he fought for the rnz af the royal new zealand um air force against the japanese in the pacific theatre so i'm quite you know i've heard stories and i've seen photographs of it so i know firsthand well secondhand you know of how um you know how intense and how crazy that time was so this time um yeah we're gonna be checking out apparently this is like an animated uh kind of documentary of the the scale of the loss of life that happened in world war ii so yeah it's going to be i think it's going to be quite heavy but i think it's going to be quite something that's probably going to be quite eye-opening as well very sobering yeah just to see exactly how many people really lost their lives in that war in world war ii they they still think it's one of the greatest uh loss of loss of life yeah and the world's ever seen so yeah this is almost a 19 minute video so without further ado let's check it out yeah the average lifespan of an american is 80 years and an 80 year old today was 10 when world war ii ended before when it began a soldier who saw battle would have to be in his late 80s at least today generals political leaders the decision makers of the war if you are still with us and over the past few decades we've seen authors and filmmakers rush to capture stories from survivors before this connection of memory is lost [Music] this project is not about individual war stories and it's not about survivors we're going to tally up the tens of millions of people whose lives are cut short by the war and see how these numbers stack up to other wars in history including trends in recent conflicts [Music] we'll be counting soldiers and civilians separately each of these figures represents 1 000 people who died civilians were of all walks of life [Music] whereas military deaths were almost entirely men the average age was about 23. in most battles for every 1 000 soldiers killed there are more than a thousand who were injured the word casualty can be confusing because in military speak it often includes both deaths and injuries and anything else that takes a soldier out of service here we're just counting the deaths and we'll begin with american soldiers [Music] over 400 000 died [Music] most of the deaths occurred in the european theater fighting the nazis and about a quarter were in the pacific fighting the japanese when you put them on the timeline you see that casualties were the heaviest at the end of the war the war began on september 1st 1939 but the u.s wasn't willing to join the fight until pearl harbor two years in the deaths increased drastically on d-day and the allies invaded normandy one of the most tragic moments of the war was on d-day at omaha beach where 2 500 americans fell [Music] so about the same number of u.s holders died on this single beach lane as the entire 13 years of the recent war in afghanistan the bloodiest battle in the pacific was okinawa which lasted 82 days during which 12 500 americans died [Music] about 5 000 of these deaths were at sea from kamikaze attacks now let's look at some other countries starting with europe germany started world war ii when it invaded poland poland ultimately lost 200 000 soldiers in the war most died after the invasion while the country was occupied by germany and the soviet union germany meanwhile lost just 16 000 in the invasion of poland the nazis went on to invade and conquer other countries including denmark belgium the netherlands france greece and yugoslavia france surrendered but after losing 92 000 soldiers in the battle of france over two hundred thousand ultimately fell which includes deaths in pow camps french colonies and other fights yugoslavia suffered almost half a million military deaths the initial invasion brought relatively few casualties on both sides but the deaths mounted under nazi occupation due to guerrilla fighting civil conflict and mass executions [Music] the nazi invasions were swift with relatively few german losses even the nazi commanders expressed surprise at their success [Music] and then we have the united kingdom in the united states who were not invaded but took the fight to the nazis britain lost about the same number of soldiers as the u.s which includes the british colonies germany lost about half a million soldiers fighting the us and britain and was known as the western front which took place in france and belgium but most nazi soldiers died in the eastern front germany's unsuccessful invasion of the soviet union numbers are stagnant wow the most famous battle of the eastern front and perhaps the turning point of the european war was stalingrad the german sixth army successfully took stalingrad but then got surrounded by the soviets and cut off from food and ammunition half a million nazis would ultimately die in stalingrad another one hundred thousand are taking prisoner of which six thousand would ever return as pows had a low survival rate throughout world war ii and it was particularly grim in the east when you include these pows roughly the same number of germans died in stalingrad as all the western front fighting against france the uk and the us and though stalingrad was a victory for the soviets they suffered almost twice as many losses as germany [Music] that's insane the soviet union would eventually defeat the once unstoppable german army killing 2.3 million nazi soldiers wow let's look in the previous light the previous whoa wow oh my goodness oh it's horrific wow 8.7 million is the official tally by the russian military a hotly disputed number some studies have calculated as many as 14 million dead wow to complete the count of european military deaths we need to add german deaths from other fronts including the north and africa as well as deaths from other access powers a lot of the nazis hungary romania and italy when you put these european military that's on the timeline it looks like this you can now interact with the chart to learn more pause the narration if you'd like more time [Music] it was just soldiers six million jewish people were killed in the holocaust if you separate this by country you see that about half 2.7 million for polish 700 000 were soviets followed by hungary and 17 other countries [Music] broken down another way about half of the 6 million were killed in the concentration camps over a million died in auschwitz most were killed in the gas chambers others died from starvation exhaustion disease and other forms of execution there's a lot of people the second most deadly camp was which was exclusively an extermination camp set up to look like a train station mobile killing groups killed 1.4 million jews like with the gas chambers men were killed first to reduce the risk of revolt [Music] the holocaust also includes non-jewish deaths between 130 000 to 500 000 roma then called gypsies were killed the numbers are disputed about a quarter million people with disabilities were killed homosexuals catholics and other groups were also exterminated but their numbers are relatively small some historians say that other civilian deaths should go under the label of holocaust about 2 million non-jewish poles were killed under german occupation some of it were sent to the gas chambers at auschwitz when you combine civilian and military deaths over 16 percent of the total polish population died in world war ii which is the highest percentage of any country but not the highest in total death count the soviet union again tops that list losing at least as many civilians as it did soldiers somewhere between 10 and 20 million a particularly dark moment for the soviet union was the siege of leningrad now st petersburg german forces surrounded leningrad before civilians could be evacuated supplies including food were cut off for two and a half years one and a half million people died as a result mostly from starvation mostly civilians stalin's cruelty towards his own people is partly responsible for these numbers he often didn't allow civilians to evacuate from cities thinking it would cause the soldiers protecting them to fight harder about a million soviets died in stalin's own liver camps called the gulag just about every country suffered civilian losses especially countries who were invaded while many died as a result of so-called collateral damage the biggest numbers occurred when it was no accident civilians were exterminated purposely fired upon or bombed used as human shields or intentionally deprived of food the intentional killing of civilians was done by most warring parties including the united kingdom and the united states the united kingdom was spirit of a land invasion but still lost 60 000 civilians largely from german air raids or blitzes often directed at civilian population centers the uk did the same to german cities at a much greater magnitude causing about 10 times the number of deaths but most german civilian deaths came from the ground at the late stage of the war when the nazi regime collapsed civilians living in occupied regions had to desperately flee from the advancing soviet army rapes were widespread and death estimates ranged from 600 000 to 3 million wow let's step back and see where we are with the totals we just counted about 20 million civilian deaths in europe new zealand is 5 million if you add this to the european military deaths we already covered it brings us to over 40 million wow then we have the asian theater here we see the vast majority of military deaths in asia came from china and japan on the civilian side about 6 million deaths from china indonesia korea indochina and the philippines can be attributed to japanese war crimes which are sometimes compared to the nazi atrocities due to the sheer scale of the cruelty china had the second highest death count after the soviet union and like the soviets the chinese government demonstrated a stunning willingness to sacrifice its own people chinese nationalists opened the dike at the yellow river hoping the flood would halt the japanese advance half a million chinese civilians or more were killed which is two or three times the number who died in all countries in the 2004 asian tsunamis wow i remember that but the invasion of china only cost japan 200 000 soldiers most were killed fighting the us and allies in the pacific war a significant portion of japanese civilian deaths were caused by american firebombing and the two nuclear attacks contrary to official u.s statements these airstrikes were directed at civilian populations not military targets when you add all the death outside europe it brings us to a grand total of 70 million for the war give or take depending on who's counting and what civilian deaths get included [Music] more people died in world war ii than in any other war in history comparison here are 20 or so of the very worst wars and atrocities we have on record some of these are more of atrocities than wars but we've seen how that distinction can get blurry some of these spanned across centuries world war ii had the highest body count and it all happened in just six years the world's population has grown significantly since the earliest atrocities on this list if you want to compare them in terms of what percentage of the world died we can adjust the chart to look like this this rough approximation tells us there may have been more devastating wars before world war ii proportionally speaking [Music] when we turn to post-war conflicts it's hard to say anything that isn't controversial but the data shows something quite extraordinary has been happening in 1989 john gaddis coined the phrase the long piece to identify the absence of conflict between the nuclear powers during the cold war 25 years later the cold war is over and the term is still being used although its meaning may have shifted european countries have not fought each other except for this 10-day war in 1956 when the soviet union invaded hungary when we look at european awards before world war ii it looks like this they tend to be more frequent as you go back though smaller in scale and the largest 44 economies of the world have not battled each other since world war ii rich countries have fought poorer countries like the us versus iraq but rich countries have not fought other rich countries such a period of peace between the so-called great powers hasn't been seen since the roman empire wow to many peace is too strong of a word wars have occurred since world war ii and they can be grouped into these four categories we don't see colonial wars anymore we've already noted that interstate wars between rich countries have not occurred at all and here we see wars involving smaller economies have tapered off that leaves civil wars of two types with and without farm intervention and this is what these battle deaths look like alongside of world war ii more people died fighting in world war ii than in all the worst since it almost just stops on its track again we can't forget about world population which is almost tripled since world war ii if we scale these numbers to show deaths in proportion to world population showing the likelihood that a person on earth dies in battle the downward trend becomes even more pronounced now this isn't to infer anything about why this trend is occurring that's a discussion for another day you can now interact with this chart to explore what conflicts are behind the totals now bear in mind we're just looking at battle deaths here not civilian deaths but those two are in decline peace is a difficult thing to mention absolutely counting the people who didn't die in wars that never happened we give such importance to the word peace but we don't tend to notice it when it occurs or report on it that's true sometimes it takes reminding ourselves of how terrible war once was to see the peace that has been growing around us stop the failure of course this trend may not continue and it's not clear how looking at these charts can help us make the right decisions to ensure that it does [Music] but the longer the long piece grows the more significant it becomes so if watching the news doesn't make us feel hopeful about where things are heading maybe watching the numbers might [Music] wow that was a really well presented yeah documentary in a graphic of just how things work and it leaves you with a little bit of hope as well like you don't leave feeling quite as heavy yeah yeah that was amazing that was like uh yeah i like what he said there about the news he said if you watch the news and it doesn't leave you hopeful for the future then what's the point well just look at the facts yeah imagine being one of those people i know i was actually thinking almost the entire time like we're just four human lives here and there were 70 million that were lost yeah so it almost just seems like it's like unfair that in the statistic of 70 million people that are just their lives just seem almost insignificant you know well like they just get lost i don't think anyone came out unscathed without losing like a family member yeah you know because a lot of the young men were called to war and they didn't really have the option not to yeah so everyone was affected yeah and i i even remember that you know being told stories of that in new zealand a lot of the uh the male population the men were called over to war yeah i think in fact in the battle of britain to say britain from the nazi invasion i think new zealand was to the third highest country in um providing pilots to fight in the sky against the nazis behind at britain itself and poland yeah so that just goes to show you just how you know it doesn't matter what corner of the earth you're from yeah that it was you're still heavily affected from it and you know even the even the man who led the defense against the nazis in the battle of britain was a key was a new zealand man yeah so keith park and you know we even have a statue here in new zealand the honour of him and he was the one who actually came back and redesigned the international airport up in auckland yeah and yeah so we you know doesn't matter where you're from and the world yeah you're almost definitely affected by it yeah so yeah especially with my grandfather being in the war as well yeah you know hearing stories about him so yeah that was definitely like it was quite sobering yeah quite eye opening i didn't actually realize the amount of life that was lost the russians the russian loss was just so they just weren't willing to stop unreal it's just unreal i think they just had so many people so many men in their army that you know they were just willing to like and like you saw that it was just one city that they defended and they lost like tens of millions of soldiers wow just one city it wasn't just the whole war yeah one city where they lost tens of millions of people so wow that was yeah definitely um yeah it was shocking anyway guys if uh like we hope that you enjoyed our reaction today thank you for recommending it yeah because we know that you guys uh heavily requested that one um if you have any others like this that you want us to check out because we know that this one was a very well known video i think got almost 10 million views yeah so it's obviously quite a popular video yeah again uh you know thank you for recommending it if you have any more make sure you mention it down in the comments for us and we'll check it out also follow us on instagram yeah likes make sure you smash the 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Channel: Your New Zealand Family

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Length: 22min 56sec (1376 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 27 2021