Ruining World War II with Bad Translations | StarvHarv | History Teacher Reacts 

You need to show this to your class, let them know that everything they've been taught is a lie and this is actually what happened lmao

"Eat salami and bravely declare war on Finland!" Russian strategy in 1940 in a nutshell.

A real shame, "He/Him" is so neglected in history books. A underrated legend, imo.

"The Luftwaffe conquers Scotland" "German guns capture Dover and lay siege to the sea" "British soldiers attacking planes. A London factory crashed into the radar" "My aunt bought me a plane for 50 cents" "He prevented Hitler from invading Britain" The Battle of Britain is a lot more intense and unhinged than I remembered damn...

HE deserves to be taught in schools Such an under appreciated dude

The worst part is: Somewhere in the multiverse, this history actually happened, and this is all realistic.

"try not to go to court and look like Hitler" Thats a quote i live by

We will never forget HIM.

*HE* deserves to have a movie

The best part of this was finding out what He was up to. The types of stuff that He did like establishing a Cretian kingdom were absolutely ridiculous!

Misteries we'll never know: Black Holes Infinity The brain The universe Who is 𝘩𝘦?

Funnily enough, Neville Henderson was actually a real person separate from Neville Chamberlain. That part of the video is partly accurate as he was an ambassador for the UK that they sent to Germany between 1937 to 1939.

Based on his skills as a warrior and intelligence on the battlefield "He" is clearly the Daneslayer and Kingmaker himself, Uhtryd son of Uhtryd, lord of Bebbanburg.

He is basically the ww2 equivalent of Doomguy.

StarvHarv is too frickin hilarious. I wouldn't be surprised if this one video grew into a series of reactions!

I love how he tried to correct the mistakes at first but just gave up eventually

I love how you went from trying to decipher what the articles originally said to just commenting on the imaginary timeline.

i suspect the ones where "He" appears is probably translation to english from japanese as it is very common for japanese to leave out personal subjects in sentences. the context prior to the line translated more than likely indicated what it was supposed to mean but often the auto translate looses it's mind with japanese because of this.

"How did you have a monopoly on spices and not use any?" Everyone knows a good dealer is one that doesn't dip into their own supply.

StarHarv is such a legend, he made a bunch of other funny videos as well

11:19 It's Jack Churchill. No question about it. He is absolutely him with his longbow, sword, and bagpipes

One reason these are so messed up is not just because of normal translation errors but the fact he probably translated it twice -- first from English to a language known to have poor translation quality as he stated in the intro and then back to English. This creates two opportunities for mistranslation to occur. It's sort of like the "telephone game" only much, much worse! Since he mentioned he used the Google timeline, I checked that and it helped clarify what some of these were supposed to mean which helps when trying to figure out some of the more garbled responses.

I am glad more people are exposed to HIM

The "aunt bying a plane for 50 cent", is likely a headline about the donation drives held in villages to help fund the building of Spitfires.

Britton: Invades most of the world for their different spices Also Brit: doesn't use ANY of them

Fun fact. There actually was a battle between America and Australia in Brisbane. It lasted two days and one Aussie was killed.

21:48 Fun fact: the Mongols did fight in WW2 as allies of the Soviets (Mongolian Republic) or as part of the Chinese United Front (Mongolian soldiers in the Chinese armies), though their participation was overshadowed by the larger countries back then. Mongolian cavalry and armoured car units took part at the battle of Khalkhin Gol against the Japanese. Some Soviet units were of Mongolian origins, such as the 112th "Revolutionary Mongolia" Tank Brigade, which fought against Guderian's attack near Tula during the battle of Moscow, or the Mongolian Arat squadron. In 1945 a big chunk of the Mongolian army fought in the Soviet Invasion of Manchuria as part of the "Soviet-Mongolian Cavalry-Mechanised Group".

Maybe someone already said it but 'He' is probably just a passive or a impersonal tense that got screwed up in translation and became an active tense (not a native english speaker, don't know the technical names in english) but things like 'He founded london' were probably like 'London was founded' or 'He summoned the Estonian army' maybe was something like 'The Estonian army was summoned' I know that one of the most varied thing in languages is if certain expressions need an explicit subject or if it can go implicit, especially for concordance and stuff.

21:10 The funny thing is that Gobbles did almost become a priest irl. Same with Stalin.

Other translation traps are homonyms and false friends. False friends are words from different languages that look close enough that you believe they mean the same thing. Like how the Swedish word "svimma"(= faint, swoon) is similar to the English word "swimming", which makes one of my favorite Swenglish jokes possible. (Yes, there are enough false friends between Swedish and English to create an entire genre of jokes that require a degree of bilingualism.)

As a confederation has a dictionary definition, the word 'confederates' is not only used for the Southern US. I'd heard the Germans termed as 'confederates' before.

The sun is stronger at night might have been a reference to the Battles of Savo Island and Tassafaronga where the IJN despite a lack of Radar has shown superior nighttime fighting capabilities (at that time) due to their long-range torpedoes

Ah yes, Roosevelt “Hit” the bucket because he couldn’t use his legs.

HE is gotta be my most favorite dude in all of history. HE was just an absolute gigachad bringing destruction and new kingdoms wherever he walks the POWER HE HAS

I died laughing when I first saw it.

I love how he is just going along with it

I WAS HOPING YOUD WATCH THIS LOL

HE, is the most interesting man in the world. He doesn't always drink beer, but when HE does, he prefers dos equis.

3:38 Neville Henderson was the British ambassador to Germany, not the Prime Minister. You're thinking of Neville Chamberlain.

HE lead the allies to victory in those difficult times

15:53 Winter is indeed a choice! I used to work at a callcenter for the prominent telecommunications company here in Sweden. Once a week, at mondays 9am to be specific. Soeone would get a call from an old demented military officer giving his report on how russians bombarded us with negative degrees (you don't have a word for minusgrader i do believe) It was quite hilarious

I LOVE YOUR CONTENT SO MUCH I'm so jealous of all your students you really seem like a wholesome guy and your content is amazing

In the middle of all of this perfectly accurate history the narrator let it slip that he was secretly a murderer. You cannot ignore the fact that he definitely said " I killed a man (28:05)" That's enough for a conviction in Texas.

I actually have come to the conclusion of "He" being Winston Churchill, he established the capital in belgium, And the aunt thingy i believe is his aunt, and sealion was basically a plane fighting which aswell brings us to the conclusion when "He" prevented the german occupation of the UK. 🤔 Aswell as fighting in africa, Very interesting i have to say!

StarvHarv is an amazing channel! You should watch his other bad translations videos. They have history-related material in them.

One thing that is true is some merchant marines believed early in the war that the Germans might be able to track ships if they listened to their radios.

"He" is, of course, James Bissonette. The almighty God of history itself

Britain did use spices. Basic curries had been common since the Victorian era, what really made British cooking bland was the war itself.

Weirdly enough, some of these headlines make sense. I guess to those speaking only english it won't, but I speak a couple of other languages, and in the Foreign Legion, when you speak French to non French speakers, you tend to simplify and "idiotize" many phrases to help others understand. Think about it this way, you don't speak to an infant the same way that you do to an adult, now mix in other languages and you get the drift. Still hilarious though

Terry casually reacting to EVERYTHING great!! Literally best history reaction channel

9:25 I think it's really simple here, as the translator may have wanted to say "by the British government" and failed horribly :D Anyways, yep, it seems all of these translations used stuff straight from the early 00s, where the quality of the web translator were so very worse than what we have today. Cracking video!

I believe the one about Donitz lifting the ban on radio attacks on small allied vessels, was referring to the ban on targeting merchant and non-military ships heading for Allied (French, British, etc) ports. The radio attacks refers to the wolf pack tactics the German submarines used. I'm not sure about all the specifics but that should be the basic gist of what was trying to be said!

"He" is obviously Mad Jack Churchill, the only guy to get confirmed kills in WW2 with a longbow. That is the least unusual thing about him.

This is brilliant. If only we knew who He was. He seemed like the coolest of guys!

"The Germans actually raided some weeb village" has me laughing more than it probably should 😂

Operation Barbarossa 3: this time it's personal

that was really funy please do more of this, love your content and greetings from germany

He-Man! He's the only one who I know of that has the power to get around that quickly and do all those things while remaining semi incognito in that pose.

I'm so honored to see Naruto appreciating my country.

Also fyi the "Big Three" referred to Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, the 3 leaders of the major Allied powers during WW2.

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I’m sure the robot army thing is from translating it into Czech. The Czech word for peasant worker is robot. The word was introduced to English by a Czech SciFi novel, so in English it replaced the word automata. However, the word kept the same meaning in Czech. So the program probably translated to Czech, but then when translating back it didn’t translate robot not knowing the words mean different things in the different languages

This was absolutely hilarious lmao Love this. If they have other videos would like to see more!

Churchill is he.

I know, we all love HIM, but lets also mention how much Rommel got up to. So many titles. Defeats death. Family man.

Legend says that He is still out there and that one day He will return.

Always happy when Mr. terry post!

I love your channel and StarvHarv’s channel too! Both great!

Honestly, Germans speaking English has always ruined World War 2 movies for me. Or at least left a bad taste in mein mouth. That's one reason why I love Downfall. I can read subtitles just fine. The fact that it was made by the Germans themselves, is almost an admission of guilt. Sometimes you forget you're even watching a movie and not a documentary, or in the room yourself.

Everyone talks about the legend that is *HE* but can we talk about the guy with what has to be the best military officer name ever, John B. Operations?

ive been waiting for you to watch this !!

Mr Terry i love your videos, they are so fun watch and so educational even though i dont have history classes at high school as a carpenter but i still love learning thanks to your videos! keep on going with this amazing content. gosh i wish i was your student haha

Are we just going to skip over the fact that 150 miles = 62 feet at 15:47? XD This was absolutely hilarious!

12:50 Since the British attacked Athens and the Italians decided against Greece that means the Axis's currently known members are Greece and Germany with Italy being either Neutral or currently not in the war proper. This insane timeline is going to make my brain explode at this rate.

We need more of this

I was waiting for you or Vlogging through histroy to react to this!

When you turn "Historical AI" off

25:33 I think its refering to the time that Rommel was being driven through France when his car got strafed by an fighter plane and he was hospitalized.

Keep up The vids! Love them

Please do more StarvHarv reactions, his content is hillarious!

I can’t remember the last time I laughed this hard at anything. I’m only 17:15 in and I have legitimate tears streaming down my face. 😂😂😂

How well would this compare to an average person if you'd ask them to write a short summary of WWII?

Thanks for the video

I'm dying at your first reaction to how quick the video goes 😭

The "bad translations ruin World War II" video reminds me of a TV sketch where ordinary people listened to high school students talk about History, Geography, etc. (This was the "early MTV generation.") That was on the level of current RU-vid "person in the street" interviewers ask simple questions and get hilariously bad answers. Using Google Translate! is "a roll of the dice," since you can't tell if, say, a translation of a Soviet pilot's manual is accurate.

The funny thing is that for some reason, this feels like something that would actually go down in Hearts of Iron 4. Especially the Finland declares war on Finland and the Soviet Union and the Great Britian and Nazi Germany alliance

okay this might be my new favorite video ever...

As a fan of StarvHarv's translation videos (I was already subscribed to him _before_ he ruined World War II; in fact, I watched the ruining of the war the day that video came out!), I found this reaction video quite funny! StarvHarv, with help from Google Translate, made a roller coaster of a "history" video! Also, might I leave my interpretation of 4:39-4:43? I interpret "radio attacks" as meaning an attack on the communications systems (the radios) of a ship: a jamming, for example. _Argal,_ the sentence probably "means" that Dönitz allowed the German navy to jam the Allied ships' communication systems. Why Dönitz had to "order his ships to stop sailing to Mongolia", I don't know. Thanks for making this! I'll subscribe!

"My aunt bought me a plane for 50 cents" is probably related to the destroyers-for-bases deal!

First time seeing this video too and oh my, I laughed so many times xD

Well this made me have a good laugh this was a great video

16:30 You could also consequently mean it chokingly.

This “mistranslation” comes from translating the script about 20 times to various languages and then back into English.

US Airforce at this time was actually the US Army Air Force. And HE can only be the one and only Chuck Norris!

I watched this myself yesterday, certainly gave me a good laugh. I hope he does a Napoleonic wars one

Speaking as a Brit, if we want to eat spicy food, we eat Indian food. If you're gonna take the spices, why not take the recepies using them too?

I woke my entire family up last night watching this and dying

Most of those weird lines are probably transliteration of place names. Cher is sick is probably Cherbourg. Bourg in whatever language they used as intermediary means sickness or similar. An example of bad translation IRL: A K-pop band [Boyfriend I think] came to my venue. None of the crew spoke any English, and the translator they hired didn't speak theater. One of the band was having issues with the keyboard. The translator asked for a piano tuner [an expensive technician that adjusts the strings on an acoustic piano]. The keyboardist just wanted to change the keyboard from organ to piano and couldn't read the menus. You see in Korean, the same or a very similar word means: note, tune, music, sound. He said "change keyboard sound", she translated as "I want a piano tuner". Also some languages don't have a distinction between things like 'have the permission to do', 'have the ability to do', 'begin to do', 'currently doing', 'completed in doing', 'will do later' and 'have done similar in the past'. Instead they have 'I do' and maybe 'I did', so things like pretense, or the order in which things occur, and 'who did whom in the what?' get mixed up.

"German guns capture Dover and lay siege to the sea." HOI 4 with historical AI focus disabled.

Papa was in the underground during WWII. I remember the stories he'd sometimes tell. Things going on today sound familiar, but this isn't the forum.