The Fallen of World War II Reaction 

“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.” - Bertold Brecht -

I am Russian, my grandfather went through the Battle of Stalingrad, survived and was able to go through the whole war, do not forget how many of our lives we put on the altar of victory

Everytime I watch someone react to this I can't help but wonder. In all those millions upon millions of lost lives, what have we denied ourselves. What great scientist, doctors, artist, musicians, philosophers, have we missed out on. Was the person who would go on to cure cancer killed in a concentration camp. Was the next Mozart killed on a French beach.

There's a line from Captain Kirk in Star Trek: Into Darkness that I really love; "There will always be those who mean to do us harm, to stop them we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves."

if you’re interested in WWII you HAVE TO watch the movie Downfall. It’s about Hitlers last moments in his bunker and it’s incredibly well done in terms of historical accuracy. One of the best foreign films ever made, highly recommend it.

I think the farther away from people who were in WW2 the harder it is for people to come to grips with just how big an event it was. I'm older so I had a direct connection to 3 family members who were in the military in WW2. My Mother was a US Navy WAVE. My Uncle was in a LST landing ship in the Pacific. My 1st Cousin was a US Army infantryman in the Pacific. Beyond that I knew several men who were also in WW2. Just about everybody had something to do with WW2. From the military to the civilians working in factories, scrap metal drives, buying war bonds, even planting gardens to make ends meet. Having this close connection with people who were there makes it a lot easier to wrap your head around.

My grandfathers in the New Zealand 🇳🇿 Army, 28th Maori Battalion (Charlie company) who served in El Alamein Egypt 🇪🇬, Greece 🇬🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, and finally Nazi Germany 🇩🇪 were most likely on this list 😔 😢😭😖😣 even after 76 years I still think about what they’ve done for our country. Now they are dead in European battlefields. And their mothers and fathers wept when they did not return home 🏠.

My grandmother was the youngest of 5 children and the other 4 were older brothers, all 4 died during WW2 and I still remember the days when she would tell me stories about them and gaze far away as tears would flow down her face. All in all my grandparents lost 12 Siblings and to this day I don't understand the need or the reason for any wars now.

This video is devastating, but everyone needs to see it. We should never forget how truly horrible war is.

Thank you Ellie, I so appreciate your tears as you hurt for those who are hurting or lost!

My grandfather was 19 when he was conscripted. He committed suicide in 1991 after suffering from severe PTSD coz of which my grandma left him and married another man

My grandfather was very cheerfull person, allways kind and positive. I sometimes tried to ask him about the war but he would never answer and just laugh it off or told "another time". He never drunk, but once he did, and I mentioned the war again. Never ever have I seen him so stuned, he looked like completly another person, he told me something about the horror, the constant fear of sharp sounds and some phrases and moments that he alwayes remembered better than what he ate for the breakfast. This was a shoking conversation. (That's what my mother told me about her grandfather).

I love how genuine your reactions are. This is the only reaction channel i watch

You are such a lovely empathetic human being and I love watching your emotions be let out without barriers. It gives me hope for humanity.

Seeing Ellie watch and cry over serious topics is absolutely the humane reaction that I wanted to see, which is the reason why I subscribed in the first place before reaching 100k subs. I hope that you enjoy your days all throughout your life and to those around you Ellie, in a world where fighting comes first before peace.

This is why movies like "Saving Private Ryan", "Schindler's List" and the miniseries "Band of Brothers" are so important in telling the story of what happened. This December 7th will be the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, almost all of that generation are not around anymore to tell their stories. One story I always wished someone would tell with a major motion picture would be about the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team. The regiment is known as the most decorated in U.S. military history and was composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry during WWII. All the soldiers were volunteers even though many had their families in interment camps back in the U.S. during the war.

"I do not know how the third world war will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the fourth......sticks and stones." Albert Einstein

If you ever meet a World War II veteran/survivor, thank them and listen to their stories (if they’re comfortable doing so). As the saying goes, those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Please watch the German Movie „Stalingrad“. A true Masterpiece.

Thank you for reacting to this!! Nothing but respect and love! 🙏🏽💯

My graet grandfather was a cheif of textile factory in Serpukhov (town near Moscow). He was voluntarily consripted in red army. Went through the whole war. And was killed during the seige of keningsberg. My grandma (his doughter) showed me his letters from the front. The last letter was few moments before red army conquering kenigsberg. He wright to wife "hug all my daughters, I'm going to fight, here is hell"

Much love to you and thank you for showing us this ❤ ... there is a great saying "Those who forget the past risk the past coming back". Only by remembering the futility of past wars do we have a chance to stop them happening again.

You're so beautiful, and you display so much empathy! I've watched that video many times, and I'm always moved by it... but I seldom shed any tears. I sure did while watching it with you though. It's very comforting and cathartic to have a nice, quiet little cry with a kind stranger. It makes me feel a little connection to the rest of humanity, and that can seem like it's in short supply on some days. Lovely video, good work!

every men that fought WW2 is a stud , the amount of horror those dudes saw is unimaginable , let's hope there's never a conflict like that ever again , those numbers are shocking :/

As soon as I saw this reaction in my recommended, I immediately clicked it. I know how much it affected me, so I thought I knew how you would react. I was wrong. Your sincerity and innocence when the numbers just kept stacking up made me shed a tear or two. The amount of lives sacrificed is absolutely heartbreaking. A history forgotten is a history doomed to be repeated.

My grandpa fought in WW2 he never was the same again I Salute the soldiers who Sacrifice for our Liberty and freedom

The sad fact is, as the people who endured this war die, the lessons learned are forgotten, making it more likely another war will occur. So history teaches us.

Thank you so much for watching this, now you can maybe understand the scale of WW2 a bit more. I know it is kinda sad, but the ending part gives a smile at least. 😉 I just know that the video is something worth watching, not for fun or entertaining, but for all the souls lost in WW2. 😐

I still remember that when i was young my grandmother sometimes talked about her relationship to my grandfather and the hard time being seperated from him, not knowing if he is still alive. But he never returned. Short bevore the war ended he died in a conzentrationcamp.

We too often grow desensitized to the reality of such numbers. Each death from that war, took effort. We often look at the numbers, overtime growing used to seeing them, but we continue to fail to comprehend that EVERY single death, EVERY single individual, a person, someone who came from a mother, who knew what love is in their life, was taken from this world by effort. 70 million people don’t just disappear at the blink of an eye, and for it to happen within only six years truly continues to outdo our wildest imaginations to understand the nature of war. I read a comment earlier from this video, in which the person stated; “If we were to take a second of silence for every single person, who was killed in WWII. We would be silent for 2.8 years.” Even we can barely imagine ourselves doing something like that.

I’m of polish and British ancestry. On my British side I lost at least 5 members of my family and I say at least cause sadly some were never retrieved. On my polish side it was much sadder. My “Baba” as we called her was forcibly taken from her family and they were all taken by the Germans. We were not Jewish yet my family was still taken. The Germans took her forcibly from her parents forced her on a train and took her to a labour camp. (Separated from her family) where she was forced to work a German officer told her when she was a teenager she wasn’t working hard enough and nearly beaten to death by him with a baton. She was blinded in one eye for nine months. They didn’t feed them and she was starved. The camp where she was interned was targeted by the allies and was bombed she was fortunate enough not to be killed. She was then able to escape and was rescued by the allies photos show her looking like a living skeleton. She was not willing to return to Poland once hearing of what the soviets were doing. The rest of my polish family other then my Baba were killed. She fled on a dingy to the UK soon after. While in the labour camp she gave birth to my grandma. (In Germany). They then made it on a cruddy dingy to the UK where she then moved to Canada. My Baba was the toughest women I ever knew, to continue on and survive. With everything that happened to her she should not have lived to an old age yet she lived to 92. She had sort of a forced marriage at the beginning of the war to my great grandfather who beat her and he had an alcohol addiction. She was undoubtedly the toughest women I ever knew and I was very fortunate to have as much time as I did. She died a few years ago.

There is a quote from Edwin stars war :” war I despise because it means destruction of innocent lives war means tears to thousands of mothers eyes when their sons go to fight and lose their lives.” -“ Life is the only thing that is precious to be fighting wars these days, war can’t give life It can only take it away.”

Ellie u should check out some of the oversimplified videos.

You should react to the movie called Windtalkers, it’s about the Navajo code talkers who used their language due to the Japanese being unfamiliar with the language of the Navajo tribe

Thank you for caring enough to learn these facts. War has a horrendous cost and those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it!

I watched the original video and many reactions to it. But she made me cry like a baby. Greetings from germany ❤️

I think the ease of international communication & interaction between individuals are what's keeping major wars from happening. Thank God for the internet & other ways it happens! If only those in power had their way, telling civilians only what they wanted them to hear, I think things would be allot worse. Freedom is VERY necessary!

Привет из России, я очень рад что наши братья и сёстры всё ещё помнят тот подвиг который совершили наши деды!

Thank you for your sincere reaction. Eternal memory to the fallen 🔥

"The world at War" 1973 is great too

I'm glad ( if that's the right word) you were the 1 from your group to react to this. Respect

You have such a visceral and transparent reaction. I appreciate it.

Pretty heavy stuff. Other war related movies viki@ you ladies might be interested to watch for entertainment only. - Black hawk down (2001) - The Wintalkers (2002) - The Hurt Locker (2007) - 13 hours: the secret soldiers of Benghazi. (2016)

Makes you understand why Poland has become one of the largest Militaries in Europe. They took “never again” to heart

"I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelly

I got bullied in school when I was 17, I wanted nothing better then to join the army and become a strong man and a soldier . I thought that I can overcome the bully rather than become the bully. 😔

I knew this one was going to be rough for poor Ellie ❤

This is important for everyone to see so we NEVER EVER allow this to happen again 🙏❤️🙏

There is something about 27 million civilians died in USSR during this war. We can’t know exactly even now. You can now feel our pain. Every family lost somebody. Mine lost 10 people. The fact that I’m exist know is a miracle.

now you have another reference point when watching "war movies" ........ always remember that when someone asks you to give up some "freedom" for the "greater good" that "freedom" IS the greater good.

Bulgaria lost 22k soldiers and 3k civilians. They had a complicated stance during the war but ultimately joined the allies and declared war on Germany in 44

Big reason of the losses from Soviet union is because of Stalin horrible view of lives and dumd strategy. There is the famous order called order 227. This order was a monstrous order which send many recruits and young men against the enemy, without weapons. So that they would take all the shots as a meat shields until the enemy could potentially run out of ammo, so that the captain officers and sergeants could then get protected from the fire and then finnish of the germans, if the germans ran out of ammo. The order also included another horrible detail, if you tried to run back to your line and not wanting to run against the enemy to be a meat shield. The sergeants and officers had orders to shot any Russian who fled or just tried to run back to them. This order went on for months until the generals of soviet union begged and advised Stalin to step down from office as commander over the soviet army, as if this continued they would lose the war quickly cuz they nearly killed more of their own than the enemy did to them. This instanly removed the order to send soldiers needless into battle to just be meat shield and you would not get executed for retreating, which obviously resulted them later on able to push back against the germans.

"This is what you have wrought! Countless murderers, slayers, assassins; born of a war that has, as always, taught the wrong lesson..." - Kreia -

This may be the most important video ever uploaded on RU-vid

There are a lot of lessons to be learned from that conflict. Tactically, it isn't hard to suggest that one should 'never' surrender. Notice how just as many casualties occur in prison camps as on the front line. Brutality has never been confined to just the warfare itself. About the only place where prisoners were treated fairly, were the POW's that were transported to the U.S. who got three meals a day and weekend movie passes. Important too also understand that bullets and bombs tend to take targets indiscriminately and the causality of civilian deaths are always high. If there are lessons learned as a result of the 'Long Peace' it's that nuclear weapons and trade agreements have a chilling effect on conflicts. There is no benefit to irradiating territory you desire to own and nations are loathe to harm trade partners they profit from.

I just found and subbed to the channel. It's outstanding and going to be big. I'm just an old guy from Oklahoma but I might suggest, movie reviews and music. The 3 of you and any of you are so real. No acting and that's great. Just my opinion but looking forward to see more. Great stuff kids

If you want the RAWEST WW2 film react to "Come and See".

I'm German and in EVERY family you had people that were killed or crippled or disfigured in the war as a soldier. Even if they came from rural areas that had not much war going on in daily life. Both my grandfathers survived, both were POW, one in France the other in the East. (Both were not in the Nazi party BTW) I'm born 1974 and these people were around. (Not my grandfathers, but still). And you had MILLIONS of people coming in from the East that fled death, torture and rape and experienced it. After the war they were in the neighborhood, in your house. Because of shortage of housing it was mandatory to take people in. Other then the guilt that many or most Germans still have to this day, this death and devastation still runs in the collective and individual psyche. And that is all over Europe and I think this mindset and awe that is still present, when it comes to war, connects the Europeans, but even closer Germans with Russians, Poles and others from the East. I imagine I feel what they feel. Might sound strange, but it was SO major that it might have changed the genes. There is a darkness and depression around these peoples, that we share. But Soviets could cover this hurt with pride, while all Germans had was shame and guilt. Nie wieder Krieg!

As a fictional killing machine once said "It's in your nature to destroy yourselves".

My grandfather was sniper in WW2. We will never forget fallen in that war.

There are more movies that you must watch!! 1. Dead Poets Society 2. Glory Road 3. Sully 4. Remember The Titans 5. Seabiscuit 6. Deepwater Horizon 7. The Greatest Game Ever Played 8. Unbroken: Path To Redemption 9. Akeelah And The Bee 10. Patriots Day

On the topic of how this can happen at all, there is a film based on real events, called "The Wave (2008)

удивляет, что даже сейчас, когда доступ к любой информации на любом уровне проще, чем когда бы то ни было за всю историю человечества и все население планеты имеет, объективно, неописуемо свободный к ней доступ, все еще есть взрослые люди, которые удивляются этим числам, ДАЖЕ, сук, о солдатах своей страны

The point that was made, that most of us have enjoyed almost 80 years of peace, without large-scale total is astounding, possibly this was due to people who lived through WWII remembering how horrible it was. We need to try to keep the memory of how awful total war can be alive, perhaps if nothing else to help prevent another such war. No future total war will like any in the past - nuclear weapons will see to that. Their immense destructive power has profound consequences far beyond has been seen in any prior conflicts. The concept of a multi-year nuclear winter has modelled, studied, and more-or-less validated. If such a war occurs, followed by several years of high summer temperatures in 0 - 5 deg C range, coupled with near total darkness would mean at the very least anything remotely resembling civilization will be gone, and perhaps humanity with it. We all had better hope that we can control our "leaders" so that any potential progeny we might have will have a world worth living in.

I thought this might upset you a whole lot more than it did, Ellie. But it got you thinking about why/how it all came about, it seems? Good for you.

RIP To the military and civilians who were killed during World War II

You are beautiful inside out Ellie. Oh, this reminds me of the fantastic movie CONTACT. The name of the heroin is ELLIE... It's by Robert Zemeckis, who did Forrest Gump. I'm not including a trailer because it will spoil the story right away. You will LOVE IT ^^ Contact, 1997, by Robert Zemeckis with Jodie Foster. I also noticed how you insisted that your friend watch Schindler's List - then you cried. You have many feelings to express, on a deeper level. I feel that. :) Love from Paris.

I Recommend reacting to Videos by that Channel Memoirs of WW2, they have some insight that is hard to find anywhere else on the internet

And that Includes the Philippines as well Manila to Mindanao, i know I'm a Filipino as well my Grandpa went to War in 1943 and also but right now he lay to rest at the Right age of 90.

My late grandfather used to say: " A war is worse place than hell. Why? Because there are no innocents in hell"

Hallo ich habe schon einige Videos won dir gesehen. Du hast meiner Meinung nach ein so großes Herz und mitlied mit jenen die nicht mehr klagen und weinen können. Egal welcher Nation und so. Daran sehe ich oft das gute in dir, aber auch etwas zerbrechliches. Persönlich hoffe ich es zerbricht nie. Ich kenne dich zwar nicht, aber behalte es bei dir. Denn es gibt wenig Menschen in dieser verrückten Zeit die das Herz am richtigen Fleck haben. Ich wünsche dir alles beste in dieser verrückten Welt.

God I cannot resist a pretty woman with an Eastern European accent. These chicks are just stunning. Goddess-like.

It died more Soviet soldiers during the war than there are people in my entire country. Think about that.

Ellie, YOU HAVE TO WATCH THESE MOVIES! -Downfall “der untergang” -Valkyrie 2008

I don't really have any military people in my family, but I'm grateful to those who serve. My family came to the US at the beginning of WW1 because my great grandparents, a German and his Jewish wife, both born and raised in Russia, thought getting out of Europe might be a good idea. The US military, the British military, the Free French, the Canadian military (Canada played a surprisingly large role in the war) and all the brave men and women who fought made people like my ancestors able to be safe and live life.

2:55 Ellie this here is what you already saw at the beginning of _Saving Private Ryan_ , the Omaha Beach assault on D-Day.

Simple History is a really good channel for segments of history.

"Albert Einstein -"Zwei Dinge sind unendlich, das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit, aber bei dem Universum bin ich mir noch nicht ganz sicher. (Bad Englich) - "Albert Einstein -" Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, but I'm not quite sure about the universe yet.

I feel your tears, tears are the reaction to these numbers that feels appropriate and i have watched some reactions to this video and it almost always hits me. Watching the reactions i always looked out to reactors to realize the time that is ticking at the end of the video. The speaker - therefore Neil Halloran - points out, that now is the time for discissions to make which would ensure peace. The zoomed in time is Novembre, 8th 2016 around 09:07 am - that was the day when the US could have made such a discission. On that specific day USA elected Trump - not that wise to prevent future wars I would think, but I am only a german guy.

War is often a necessary means when other options have failed. I think about the people living in North Korea for example, living without the basic items we take for granted, living in fear of their government, starving due to lack of availability of food or proper medical care. Wars have been fought for humanitarian reasons and not just territorial gains.

I recommend the soviet film "Come and See". It shows the events of WW2 in eastern europe from the perspective of a 14 year old boy.

I didn't end up crying ultimately, but I can say with certainty that a chill ran up my back seeing the KIA icons just keep going up and up for the USSR with no end in sight

Power is always dangerous. It corrupts the best and attracts the worst. Power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up. (Ragnar)

This one got to me. Every time you seemed emotional, I started getting emotional. Sad how we treat each other. So much death... for what?! Feed Love! Starve hate. 🤘

Re: human nature, i think it should be noted that the drastic cost of World War II is due to the fact that the most powerful governments on earth dedicated their entire organizational capacity to the conflict. Every beuracracy and organization, industrial capacity, was centered to war-making ability. Yes wars and deaths will occur but there was a unique moment when world leaders dedicated themselves to a massive blood letting, and we can avoid such a situation if we dedicate ourselves to peace.

Would love to see all the animal owners reactions to the netflix series "Tiger King" if you all havent seen it yet, and the second season just came out! It really shows some of the crazy stuff that happens in the USA lol

To ensure world peace these three things must occur in every nation. All must be independent of food, water, and energy. Unfortunately, those that have this in abundance will control those that do not. Each of us albeit if your conservative or liberal know deep down inside this is true. So, if war world 2 has either taught us this or it simply didn't. Nations that are independent of the big 3 should teach those who do not how to achieve this in doing so without imposing their ideology upon them. The big 3 needed for every human in every nation has nothing to do with ideology.

Now i hope you take time to watch Charlie Chaplin, in his first talking role, the movie he starred, written directed and produced. "The Great Dictator" it was a 1940 parody film of Adolph Hitler, with possibly one of the best speeches in film history, that is still applicable today.

я не историк ., но 13 лет я ходил в походы по местам боев , НА КУБАНЕ был самый знаменитый полк (ночные ведмы)

reaction to movie "Battle for Sevastopol" this is an incredible film about WWII

I know that you mainly make reaction videos to movies, but if possible, I hope to one day see you make reactions to history videos and/or documentaries. I'm curious of what you would think of the Napoleon series by Epic History TV.

It's hard facts, and a hard video to watch, but these numbers are the lower end of the scale too, I'm glad you reacted to it

That Red Army column just never ends.

Film: "Brest Fortress" is the first Soviet city that took the hit of the Nazis

The Third Reich-The Rise\The Fall , a History Channel show, does a great job explaining how the German people were taken advantage of.

Sad thing is that today stuff like being PC or watching not to hurt somebody's feelings or insult them lots of people who simply did not experienced stuff like WW2 (I was in a war but nowhere near one like ww2 but Yugoslav in 1990s).... and making history "happier and happier" will make people simply forget on how some stuff can make so big destruction and people simply think it could never happen to them today..... and people in 1930s and 1940s thought the same (remember America only joined WW2 because they were attacked)....

Bulgaria Covid-19 response, record keeping and mask, vaccine record’s terrifying. Please stay safe, care about your family and communities. My son has been on active duty many times over the past 3 years. He’s 25. My father was in Okinawa. He had served in Malaya then somehow ended up with US forces in Okinawa. He was 16. My adopted dad was captured in Crete in November 1941. He was 22. He was freed from a German POW camp after D Day. Both suffered from PTSD. Both hated the glorification of war. The New Zealand I grew up in respected ANZACS but never respected the impact of war. We were told and raised too disconnect from Japan, Germany, Russia any culture different from the glorified British Commonwealth. So your the peace makers❤️Arohanui. If we don’t do something World War 3 is close. Ukraine, Philippines, China. Hitler insane plan look at Trump, look at American society. Hayzzz human nature is not evil it’s about humanity. It’s not better now but at least your voice is being heard.

I think parts of the world think Europe has not endured suffering like other parts of the world I think this tells a different story never forget

I would never kill even one "color" of humanity! - "But what do you do when it is asked of you? -" Think about it !!! " PS "- I hate that idea!" PPS: sorry for that bad englich!

I have to watch Shutter Island with Leo DiCaprio!!! It's sooooo dope !