This is it. I'd prefer a Nazi over WWII Japanese that is for sure, SS vs Japanese capture I wonder what would be worse
I was reading about that only yesterday! Look up Unit 731 on wiki if you want to lose sleep.
Any history buffs ? Why are Nazi worst in history
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I was reading about that only yesterday! Look up Unit 731 on wiki if you want to lose sleep.
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And look up joseph mengele if you want to lose more, and be even more enraged that he escaped justice (not that theres any punishment could have fitted his crimes)
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Not got time to look properly but the first thing to do when studying history is to check the source material. Only clicked link 2 and honestly that article is click bait built around guess work and very few provable facts. It also references other numbers and statistics as facts for other historic events that are again 'best guesses' rather than absolute fact.
To discus history you have to question the material, where it came from, who wrote it, when was it written why might they have written etc etc.
To discus history you have to question the material, where it came from, who wrote it, when was it written why might they have written etc etc.
They may have killed an estimated 40 million people, but they were equal opportunities killers and didn't pick on one particular race, religion, or ethnicity. Therefore they get a place in the good guys of history.
Dan Carlin in his Hardcore History podcasts asks why King Alexander of Macedon is known as "the Great" when he was basically every bit as sick and twisted as the Nazis.
No one really has a confirmed number but thats why I did put if my number are wrong please correct me, I don't discus history normally but I was wondering so I asked, I know for a few things nothings going to be clear.
So far no one has corrected, one person has asked for my source twice but still without correcting me.
Im open to getting corrected, Im trying understand but so far this reply by Mason- make the most sense to me *Because the people who win the wars write the history books.*
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Probably because his brutality was pretty much par for the course at the time, all the ancient nations were at it, just read up on the brazen bull.
Wheras the cruelty of the nazi's was so clinical, mechanised industrial genocide, performed by a people who especially now, you'd hardly beleive were capable of such hate (all the germans i've met in germany and outside it have always had a freindliness and helpful attitude that does them credit)
Does anyone have any information/good reads about colonisation? I recall watching a documentary about tribes of the Amazon where, to this day, there are still some tribes that are in hiding and those that come out of hiding (as per the show) recall stories of how their ancestors were forced into slavery or obliterated.
Also any good info about the colonisation of America and Australia as I don't know enough about either. Whilst I guess the absolute numbers might not be inline with those already mentioned it's still interesting to learn more about it.
Also any good info about the colonisation of America and Australia as I don't know enough about either. Whilst I guess the absolute numbers might not be inline with those already mentioned it's still interesting to learn more about it.
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I know that once the Spanish took hold in the Americas the native populations of many countries, especially Mexico and Peru, declined by ~90%. Mainly it was down to newly arrived diseases, but the slave labour system (the encomienda) and the sheer brutality of the Spanish also played a major part.
Does that make them the good guys? Is hating everyone better than hating just some people? They killed so many people that they delayed climate change. Entire cities were completely wiped off the map. Their dismantling of Baghdad was so total that its population only recovered in size in the 20th century.
I love Dan Carlin's podcast so much. He always frames history in such a relevant way to the modern world.
This depends on your definition. Generally it is considered that the camps run by the Confederates during the US Civil War were the first, but were not given that name. It was British who first used the term, and perfected the concentration camp in its original meaning: that is, a camp to concentrate a particular group in. In neither case was death the plan, but in neither case did the power in charge care.
I'm not entirely sure the Mongols are looked on as 'the good guys'. Glamourised, possibly. It's estimated their conquests wiped out around 17% of the world's population (at the time). By comparison, all the casualties of WW2 amounted to roughly 3% of the world's population.
The colonisation of the Americas by Europeans was also fairly awful.
The colonisation of the Americas by Europeans was also fairly awful.
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I wonder what is in store for the muslims in EU.
They are becoming more hated and ostracised and disliked.
As far as I can work out Jewish were peaceful, and did lots of things for society and science.
They are becoming more hated and ostracised and disliked.
As far as I can work out Jewish were peaceful, and did lots of things for society and science.
what do you think ?
I listen to his stuff as well - enjoyed both the Mongol and Roman series
You should probably check out the Islamic contribution to modern society too.
Humans are very capable of utterly destroying each other. We will wipe ourselves out eventually. It's all a bit sad really, arguing about who's the most efficient or greatest destroyer of life.
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Ideologies. Imagine what the Nazis would have done if they had their way.
And also, you forgot Japan.
And also, you forgot Japan.
Monkey tennis?