Discover the hidden truths of World War II in this eye-opening video. Dive into the complexities of the war’s morality as we explore five shocking war crimes committed by the Allies. From American concentration camps for Japanese-Americans to the controversial bombing of Dresden, this video exposes the uncomfortable realities of war often seen in black and white. Join us on this journey through history and be prepared to question your perspective on World War II.
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Idk I went to a private school from kindergarten to high school and I definitely learned about all of this
Congratulations, more truth is always the best course of action.
Hey, you missed us in Canada, we put Japanese Canadians in camps as well and we also got to steal their stuff too
When talking about the allies at the start you didn’t mention the ANZACS and god damn I’m fuming
Does accidentally creating the taliban count???
To be honest, it really takes you aback when you hear modern academics say "Well, you have to understand that sometimes war justifies harsh tactics. This may have been necessary."
Said every war criminal, about almost every war crime ever. The rules are not just for the easy situations. Rules like these are specifically FOR the difficult situations. Otherwise, what is the point?
The acts of the Vichy Government and their willing support of the Nazis i think clearly shows Catapult was just good tactical thinking. The French were given an out and didnt take it they would have capitulated and given the ships to the Germans. Our support of the free French shows we did stand by our allies.
The British taught the Americans how to destroy a city. The Americans taught the British how to destroy a nation.
"It's not a war crime the first time."
Why have Dresden in there but not the firebombing of Tokyo? With Tokyo they knew what would happen and it killed far more people, more than the immediate deaths following the A bomb at Hiroshima.
Not saying Dresden wouldnt have been a war crime it certainly would have if we'd lost but the Germans started the bombing of civilian populations like London and Coventry Bomber Harris just took the idea and ran with it. Its not as if they could precision bomb military targets only that wasnt an option with the technology at the time.
My father was crew of the USS George Clymer, at the time flag ship for Adm. Perry. War in the Pacific. Sailors were ordered to take the bodies of dead sailors and Marines and weigh their bodies down with debris and drag them into the ocean to sink them in order to distort the body and casualty count. After the pacific, his next duty station was going to be the Bikini Atols. We all know what happened there…. He got out, but was dragged back in for Korea.
The most tragic fact on the bombing of dresden was, that the war was practicaly lost for us already…… it was simply not necesarry for winning the war and a simple act of violence and revenge against women children and elderly people.
One of my colegues from work who has passed away since twenty years was a refugee from estern germany and he was still full of hate against the alied countrys when he passed. He told me that he had to watch as a child that the russian forces naild his father to a barn dorn and they watched them raping there mother and sister to deth ……
Unspeakable things were done at that war. We realy need to take care , not to alow our poleticians to blow the horn of war again…. even more in this turbulent times
I have an idea. How about when the powerful declare war, we the not-powerful do not show up. Idealism. I know.
On the pragmatic view, under the current rules of war, nobody ever "wins". We end up with forever war which from the point of view of investors is the way to go. Gun and bomb companies make death and they are never themselves targeted. Why, that would cause some billionaires to lose a few dollars! Heresy! Just have forever low grade war that only kills a few poor people.
The absolute gall of Germans to complain about Dresden, while being responsible for the holocaust. Fuck around and find out lads.
Look, America is well known for its war crimes. We're constantly committing them, even now. And should be hauled before the Hague all the time.
The fact we're not is hella fucked up.
3:34 Message to Michelle Marin!
Ok! Let's replay the situation. She will be the prisoner, and I will be the prison guard with no respect to laws!
I wonder after how many days she will give up? My bet is 7 days…
Karl Dönitz, admiral of German Navy was charge of several war crimes in the Nürnberg Trial.
But walked free because, his lawyers pointed out the same war crimes were made by American, British and Soviet admirals and captains, who also needed to be trailed.
After his lawyers' statement he was only in jail for one night.
Pure hypocrisy!
18:25 Watch or read Slaughterhouse five!
And you will change your mind!
It was a crime!
Make a video about modern Israel's war- and humanitarian crime against Palestine people!
So I wonder how many Japanese-Americans would have died if they had NOT been interred.
Dresden was a tragedy, but so was the bombing of London, Warsaw, and other cites the Germans destroyed. They started that barbaric crap.
They turn men into killing machines who go for years fighting for their lives (if they live) and then wonder why they become total animals.
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I'm sure the Allies did commit what would now be regarded as war crimes, but I think in our comfortable, free world, able to discuss these topics thanks to the sacrifice of the Services in World War 2, we are incapable of truly understanding the scale of the evil threat posed by the Axis Powers, and if you were to do a video on war crimes committed by the Axis we would be here until the end of time!!! I remember seeing an interview with a former Bomber crew member who took part in the bombing of Dresden, and on the way back he saw the trails of V2 rockets on the way to smash London, so the war and the Germans were far from finished even at that time of the war.
I'm glad the bombing of Dresden made it onto your list. That horrible incident never gets mentioned.
As a Romanian I can tell you that mass rape is in the Russians D.N.A just like carnivorous diet is in the Siberian tiger's D.N.A. This is who they always are.
Its never a warcrime the first time
"laws of war" lol
The only reason these aren’t classified as war crimes is that the “winning side” committed them and history is written by the victors.
We all have this veneer of humanity on us. Protecting us from our savage instincts. War is an arena that continually attacts that veneer.
Ironic what war does. Many Pollish pilots fled to England after Germany's invasion. They flew with gallantry and heroism with the RAF fighting for England only to have their request for asylum to live in England denied after the war. Many had to return to there homes in Russian controlled Poland only to be imprisoned and some executed as political prisoners… Yay England..
I had a poli-sci professor in college who had given us an assignment where we had to argue whether or not dropping nukes on Japan was justified/necessary. She made it very clear that she thought that it was, in fact, justified and her given reason was (and this was an example but still) that her father was on a ship off the coast of Japan (I’m from the U.S.) and if the bombs hadn’t been dropped her father may have died and she may not have been born as she was born well after the war was over. That was a wild thing to tell a bunch of students. I get where she was coming from on the one hand and as a personal opinion, fine, but her at the time potential birth vs the death toll and long term effect of those bombs? No. My assignment for that week was very, very staunchly anti-the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and included some pointed comments.
Needless to say, there were a number of other issues with this professor and I did
notenjoy her class or like her or her teaching style very much.You put the Soviet Union on one side and that side might still come out ON BALANCE but you give up the ability to say it is DEFINITELY better.
What about Canada? I keep hearing they did some terrible things, but when I try to research it, nothing ever comes up.
oh dont forget that the japanese owned a LOT of land, good farm land and vinyards and etc in California- all of which was forcibly sold or given to non japanese
The French fleet were given warning – there was a lengthy stand-off during which the French were basically told to hand me over or else, they didn’t so they got the or else.
i never heard of operation catapult!
This seems like a video for Into the Shadows
As a U.S. citizen, I’m ashamed of the Japanese camps, but to compare that to the concentration camps?? 1,862 vs 6 MILLION PLUS?!? THAT’s LOW, even for this channel. We made a HUGE, unforgiving mistake, but to compare 1 to the other?!? It’s almost as egregious & unforgiving as the crime…Maybe write your own scripts when it comes to topics like this…unless that’s how you REALLY feel, Simon. If you had any guts you’d actually respond to your comments, SIMON…Or are just a talking head only in it for the check, SIMON?? If you’re gonna make the argument, TALK TO YOUR SUBSCRIBERS SINCE WE HELP PAY YOUR LIVING EXPENSES!! Or are you just a coward?? It’s a rhetorical question b/c I already know the answer. Go get your check & GOOD LUCK ON THE BEARD. 👎🇺🇸✌️
As an historian and a war veteran, I'm going to express my opinions on these. Yes, sinking hospital ships is a war crime. Killing shipwreck survivors that are incapable of fighting is a war crime. I won't get into the shame and dishonor of what happened to Japanese Americans. Believe it or not, I've actually had people argue that the mass rapes committed by the Soviets was okay because it was a war. However, I will say that no one with any decency could say it was, and still is, a war crime beyond measure. But I will argue the bombing of Dresden was not a war crime, and in fact, though tragic, Dresden was a legitimate target due to its importance in aiding the war effort.
Here’s a YouTube video…Let’s allow a someone to compare the Japanese internment camps to the freaking HOLOCAUST!!! You censor & demonetize people on a daily basis but somehow THIS GETS BY, & HE GETS PAID FOR IT?!? Oh YouTube, ya dropped the ball on this one, sorry.
Operation Catapult – " a surprise attack", except the British commander gave his French commander an ultimatum. Either turn the ships over or scuttle them or they would be destroyed.
Hardly surprise. And as such, hardly a 'war crime'.
Dresden
The main points were made in the video, but to add a few more
i) Main force. After Dresden it was stood down. Had Hitler or Stalin had this capability they would have continued to use it, but the UK/US ceased using main force in this way. Bear in mind that the Soviets had yet to attack Berlin, imagine the damage that daylight raids of main force could have done. These had been attempted by Harris earlier in the war but the distance to Berlin (The Big City) and the extensive defences meant that the losses were significant.
ii) Context. This was mentioned but this cannot be over-emphasised. From June '44 to May '45 the German resistance never broke. The Battle of Normandy was longer and harder than planned. The V1/V2 onslaught was fierce. Fighting through Eastern France and the low countries was difficult and Operation Market Garden failed. The Battle of the Bulge was an unwelcome surprise. While progress was being made losses by the army were continuous. Why would the allies stand main force down?
iii) Dresden itself. After the initial attack Goebbels exaggerated the causalities for propaganda purposes. These were accepted for many years (although the video uses the newer, revised estimates). Dresden had been regarded as a 'lucky city' as it had been largely untouched. This was due to a lack of factories and its position in Eastern Germany.
However by '45 there were over 2000 factories. In 'Lancaster' John Nicol explains the rationale behind the attack. He also puts in an anecdote about Dutch political prisoners. There was a camp about a dozen miles to the SW with these Dutch political prisoners. They were due to be shipped to a concentration camp/executed the day after the Dresden raid, with a team being sent out. After the raid this order was never carried out. Approximately 4,700 lives were saved there.
iv) 'The perfect raid'. A lot of the lives lost were due to the macabre fact that Dresden was 'the perfect raid'. Usually factors take place that dilute the effectiveness of raids. Aircraft get lost. Bombs miss. The weather, especially in winter is against you. NIghtfighters and air defences deter attacks. In this case none of this happened and instead circumstances conspired against the city and its inhabitants. The city was brim full of refugees (in part due to its transport links, in part because it was 'lucky'). A lack of deep shelters, with cellars used instead. Poor 'civil defence'. Atmospheric conditions and bombers on target meant that the firestorm was particularly effective, for the the old town with wooden buildings in its centre (think Bristol). This meant a large number of casualties actually asphyxiated.
v) War crime – as the video states itself, during the war this was ill-defined (e.g. attacking dams is now, explicitly, a war crime). Op. Chastise led to 1,800 people drowning, mostly slave labour yet few people consider this a 'war crime', simply because of the exigencies of war and the limitations of technology (i.e. nobody knew it could be done until it was). Also, Hitler (and Rommel) ordered various dams and sluices to prevent allies advances. This was typically in Holland to prevent the use of the port at Antwerp (the Schelt estuary) and fields in Normandy to prevent glider/paratrooper landings. A number of US airborne troops in particular drowned. These attacks cause tremendous hardship of the civilian population both during and for a long time afterwards.
The narrator is really leaning in to his vocal Intonation.
You know, I have not once heard Simon Whistle, legally speaking I'm sure there's some kind of law being broken claiming you're a 'Whistler' whilst not proving so, I'm going to start flagging all his videos as misleading until this is remedied.. Good day, sir!
Dropping white phosphorus after you 911 yourselves like we saw last week is the worst .. 😮
Hopefully this doesn't need to be said but just in case: this is a reminder that all the typical crimes you'd see in war that happened on the non-Axis side (theft, rape, murder of POWs and civilians) were prohibited and usually punished when discovered by that side. Those that happened on the Axis side were frequently either not punished or were carried out as an explicit part of their military strategy, with the guidance and permission of the military and government leadership, and en masse.
Regarding war crimes sanctioned by the Allied leadership, like terror bombings, there can be no such excuse, but again, it bears emphasizing: the Axis were the first to engage in this strategy and officially sanction it.