WW2 - OverSimplified (Part 1) REACTION!! | OFFICE BLOKES REACT!! 

Everything from Oversimplified is brilliant.

Hey Blokes, the Oversimplified video you reacted to before was the American Revolutionary War. The American Civil War happened 80 years after the Revolutionary War ended. That's another video to react to 👍

Best fact about Dunkirk - one of the civilian captains used to be the 2nd officer (4th highest one and top one to survive) on the Titanic.

Manchurian Candidate refers to a politician being used as a puppet for an enemy regime/power and the concept was taken from a book from the 50's/60's.

Oversimplified is, to the best of my knowledge, just one guy. And he researches and animates each one himself. Which is why it usually takes 3-6 months between videos. Totally worth the wait, though.

13:54 he knew what he was smirking about

There's a more in depth version he made strictly about Hitler's life that's really interesting and obviously funny

Oversimplified is not only good history but teaches it in such a funny way its hard to not pay attention to.

Lol. 'Hitler was Fuhrer-ous'. So somebody made me laugh while explaining WW2! Oh, my dad served in WW2.

I’m showing my age but it makes me miss Schoolhouse Rock.

You guys should do some “BAD LIP READING”!!! Some are hilarious!!!

Bloke on the right looks like he's seconds from napping during the history lesson lol

Absolutely agree with you guys that OverSimplified should be producing shows for TV/Netflix. Some progressive teachers have already started showing these videos in their classrooms, which I think is a great idea because not all kids are able to absorb information via reading from a textbook - visuals help a lot, especially when they’re as entertaining as these. I think it’s just a small team over at OverSimplified, so they don’t put out that many videos each year; but when they do they’re definitely worth the wait.

I've learned more when I actually want to learn, not when I'm made to learn in school.

I am simple guy, i see oversimplified ,i click..

These oversimplified vids need to come out back to back, we don't wanna wait! Lol 😁🙃

Awesome! Loving you guys doing oversimplified

looking forward to part 2. "the fallen of ww2" is another great video about the war you guys should react to

Dude everything from oversimplified is funny and brilliant at the same time 😂

Leo Major, the one eyed scout who liberated a city by himself. Love seeing these bits by you guys👍

If you haven't yet, check out "The Fallen of World War II." Astounding!

You guys do an outstanding job 👍. Thanks.

Just imagine having Mussolini as your elementary school teacher.

I immediately love these guys

For all his lineage, Winston Churchill was considered a commoner. His Mother was an American heiress from New York.

When my buddy and I went to London a couple years ago to watch the Seahawks London game, we rented a car and drove out to Dover and toured Dover Castle. They covered Dunkirk and the history of the castle, including how the castle was a key point in warning the rest of England where the German bombers were going to. They were able to give enough of a warning for the air raid sirens to go off and people to get to shelter and the RAF to mobilize. It was definitely a really cool tour and glad was able to do it. They took us through several of the bomb shelters there at the castle that were used during WWII by the military.

As recent as 2002, the US Mmarine Corp had motorcycle mounted couriers for sensitive messages and items such as captured maps and documents. This is something that that should never go away. There will always be a need for something like this and I can guarantee that someone has put serious thought into their use on a wider scale in the case of the use of and EMP or wide area jamming.

I wish videos like the ones by Oversimplified were around when I was still in school. I would have actually paid attention lol.

Hope you are well all three of you!

The Manchurian Candidate is a John Frankenheimer film made in 1962 starring Frank Sinatra.

Man so many in my family were in the war. One was tank driver and another was a tail gunner on a airplane I can't imagine. One great uncle was a grunt and got shot in the helmet skinned his scalp so close. He earned the nick name skunk because the hair grew back white and we have black hair.

Seems like dude on the right gets mad every time dude on the left says something lol

my granddad also served in WW2. He was stationed in England and was the navigator of a B-17 flying fortress that would fly over Germany and bomb their factories and other strategic places.

15:50 They told the French to either hand over their ships or scuttle them themselves They refused So Britain sank them They had their chance to make the right choice

American here. I know I’m horribly late but you guys are awesome even though sometimes I can’t understand what you’re saying 😫 Subbed!

Man Oversimplified is the best with sliding those sponsors in.

my great uncle was on the burma railway and my great grandad fought in both world wars on the artillery

Actually, I was first introduced to OverSimplified in a history lesson!

I love this channel.

He was the first lord of admiralty that was his first Job.

Can't wait for part 2

Manchurian Candidate is a term used to refer to someone under a spell of influence. It's based on an old movie about a guy who's hypnotized to kill the candidate for Manchuria, it's like you play a song and the person is "activated" and does what they were trained to do. There's a remake of the film by the same name with Denzel Washington and Leiv Schriber, not 10/10 but not bad either.

"I alone can fix it!" History repeats itself.

The raising of the flag on Iwo Jima was not done by ALL native Americans, but there was 1. The staging came after the battle was won and they put up a simple flag and a general said I want that flag so they sent a few men to go up to get the 1st raised flag and replace it with another one. When they went to raise the 2nd one they had a press crew who took the famous photo we all know now. If you want more in depth information about it including the lives of the 6 men who did it, Flags of our Fathers is a great book and they made a movie about it as well

Technically Hitler was Austrian but he was from a part of Austria that used to be Germany. And as a child he declared his alliance to Germany because he went against everything his dad did and his dad was an Austrian public official.

The Dunkirk evacuation did not move 1.5 million men, it was a little under 340,000 men evacuated over 9 days. In comparison, on 9/11, ferryboats and civilian craft evacuated more than 500,000 people from the island of Manhatten in a single day.

He was First Lord of the Admiralty during World War I and the disaster at Gallipoli led to his sacking from the post. He was in government for a very long time.

OS is mistaken with regard to the Maginot Line, which did exactly what it was supposed to do: channel the German attack through Belgium.

My grandfather's were in the Army Airforce in WWII bombing Italy and Germany. They fought along side with the British. The only regret I ever heard them utter was that the US waited longer than it should have to help the 'brave British people' out. I'm honored to stand on their shoulders. I too would help the Brits out in any scrap!

Jenny Jerome Churchill was Winston Churchill's mother. She was born in Brooklyn New York so he's half American. Lol.

British guys and Americans together watching a video about WWII. What could go wrong?

Noticed the Cowboys from hell tattoo hell yeah

Manchurian Candidate comes from a novel and a later twice made movie. In the novel US soldiers are captured during the Korean War, taken to Manchuria where Soviet Psy Ops agent brainwash/hypnotize them.and then return them to the US where they are to help in political goals for the Soviets by running one of them for high political office. The term Manchurian candidate has naught to do with the Japanese false flag op in Manchuria, well unless the author had that in the back of his mind.

Mussolini was an elementary school teacher. I had to let that one sink in for a minute.

The Maine, sparking the Spanish American war is a good example. The official story was an underwater mine sunk the U.S.S. Maine, but officers that survived and internal investigators agreed that the cause of is was a type of methane related by that fuel used to power the ship known for spontaneous combustion causes the explosion resulting in the 3/4 loss of crew. It's still a point of controversy, but many people consider it a false flag operation set up to give us the excuse to go down to Cuba, Which up and coming politician Theodore Roosevelt was an advocate of.

"The fallen of WW2" is another great video you guys should check out.

Cheers Blokes!

My grandfather lived in the Dutch East Indies during WW2. After the war Indonesia became independent and the Moluccans (my grandfather's people) were seen as traitors because they helped the Netherlands. That is why the Dutch allowed the Moluccas to stay in the Netherlands "for a while". And they still live here!

Guy in the middle could be Anthony Hopkins twin

my great grandpa being from Germany but living in america was a translator for the us army

British folks should always be proud of and commemorate the rescue at Dunkirk. That is all.

Manchurian Candidate movie was about mind control, the MK Ultra program.

Wow, Point and shout bang. Damn!

One of my favorite beers! Stella please!

My understanding that while appeasement issue is often misunderstood today. In the proper context of the 1920s and 1930s it made some sense. The Bolshevik revolution turned Russia into a communist state, the fear in Western Europe and the US and Canada to a lesser degree fear Bolshevism would spread into their countries. It wasn’t necessarily fear of fighting Germany when they had no issue fighting in their colonies of Africa, Asia or the pacific. Germany/Hitler being opposed to communism was a perfect buffer from Soviet expansion westward, so the reason for giving Germany what they wanted was to keep them satisfied and to use them as a safe guard against Soviet expansion. Stalin seeing he’s being set up as a target for German aggression signed the non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union basically threw a wrench into the plans of the West. The Soviet Union was never an ally but just had a common enemy in Germany. Churchill in particular was drawing up plans to attack Soviet lines after Germany was defeated and also preferred an invasion in the Balkans, closer to the Soviet Union over France in 1944. An invasion in the Balkans would mean less territory for the Soviet Union after the war as that was the initial fear of Soviet expansion.

British who I actually like cause they don’t fake they’re reactions when they see this. Good job! Also love from North Carolina, USA!

Finally someone was in Burma during WW2.

Looking forward to part 2. 'Murica! :-)

world war2 unintentionally freed the colonies...we in Africa are thankful

Churchill is is royalty on his fathers side technically and his mother was an American heiress

Stella....That's good stuff

Great reaction, love you guys

around 400,000 men were evacuated from dunkirk. not a million and a half

Wythenshawe schools 😭😭 St Paul's massive hahaha

You should let the sponsors play, it’s common etiquette for the creators to make their coin since it’s already free for you to monetise it ykyk

See if they have one for the War of 1812 between America and the British oversimplify history.

Churchill was posh but he was real deal. He actually fought in trench warfare. Maybe that's why Hitler is afraid of him & wanted peace deal.

Hello, good greetings from Germany. We learn so much about this here and I'm a little history nerd so... All that happened because of the Versailler contract. The Great Nation. And the People that were so proud of themselves and their Germania blood were dead. Depression, no water, no food for you and your children, no work... From this point we must think from a perspective from a person in that time. Because There comes a man who promised to give you all that.. Give you food, water, work.. And a good blame for all your suffering - The jews. And the important thing is he did all that. He gave them all that. The people in that time couldn't knew that Hitler was psychological broke and crazy, even his party. But later they saw what he had planned but it was to late. Now they said: kill for the Reich or be killed. And so many people especially the young were extremely manipulated. Because Hitler was not a smart person, he was not a strategic leader,.. He was a speaker.. An excellent Speaker. And all that suffering and his charisma get you manipulated and at the beginning as I said he did "Good Things" besides the jews blaming. But that was with reason to get the people completely manipulated. And to this day the REAL Nazis were only Hitler himself, the SS and his party. Mostly all other people were manipulated or they were executed by their "own" people if they not fought for the Reich. And even then so so so many resistance groups were formed. And and this people were REAL Germans. My favorite story - Graf von Stauffenberg even was a high person in that Nazi system.. But many of Hitler own people saw that he was not right in the head and they would lost the war. So they planned to assassinate him. Wich is basically suicide because Hitlers system was strong.. Really strong. But Stauffenberg had a Joker he was a higher person. At Hitlers secret bunker 'Wolfsschanze" he placed a Bomb under the table were the important people should sit with Hitler. And it was a time bomb so luck.. He went out. Before he placed the bomb he and his resistance group planned a *perfect* literally perfect way after the bomb would explode to get Hitler and his groups out of power. So at the meeting the bomb explode and it was perfect!.. Except one thing.. And here as German i must smile and crying at the same time... Because the Fucking TABLE that was made from The German Eiche protected Hitler.. Like... Of course the German handwork best in the world.. German handwork and thinking builded our world today.. But.. Really! Now.. The German Eiche table was not real German it was a Nazi table.. Omg.. It Fucking protected Hitler. If that table was made American or from Russia Hitler would be dead twice 😂🤦‍♂️ (Love u bros) At that time Stauffenberg and his group was at the Parlament and were so close.. So Fucking close to kick Hitler out of power. But Hitler came at the last second saying "I am alive"... And mostly all people from that group including Stauffenberg were executed. Rest in peace legend .. Because they really planned to end the war and make freedom contract.. And that would be the best possible way for Germany.. And history.. With all respect.. We learn from such bad things as the holocaust. In that way.. Yes the beginning of the holocaust was there and many died already and Yes Germany would be punished for what one person and his group did, even they would make freedom.. But that's kinda ok.. But in many views it would be better for us - There would be no DDR and BRD so one unite Germany.. - It would be a democracy - The USA could not invent the Atomic bomb (because mostly all people that invented the A bomb were Germans.. Just like the NASA) so that could be good or bad depends on the view. If you say the A bomb saved us from ww3 or not - We could still be proud of our fatherland, Germania blood, mentality and thinking without being called straight a Nazi - Germany would not be the bitch for mostly every country today ... We still pay billions to the jews.. But i have nothing to do with that Nazi shit anymore .. We would not be completely robbed by everyone, pay to others more and more and more even if we settled the problems with the contracts .. Because we are the perfect victim they say I'm a Nazi if i say i just want to be proud of the once country of the poets and thinkers .. Because they want that we will never stand up again completely and want that Germanic blood to disappear .. But that is Paradox because it only let grow the Hate and suffering again. - We could have a REAL German army again for protection - German thinking and Handwork would still be here , completely Love you all freedom is important. The France people can say im proud to be France and the Americans too everyone can say that .. But i want to say that to .. as German, without being a straight Nazi for some stupid people that have only shit in the head and know nothing about history

part 2 !!!

Btw look up Silly Moustache by Stephen Lynch. Hilarious comic clip

That power move at 5:56

WW2 stories must be crazy. Being half a Jappo, my grandparents were in internment camps, or too young to go. I got good Korean war stories though.

But even if an German Invasion took place the British fleet would have annihilated the Germans anyway in the channel

Welcome to Burma 🎉

Did you blokes move from an office to an internet cafe?

There's four cans there....

My grandmas brother died on a aircraft carrier during pearl harbor

In all fairness, when we destroyed french navy ships, they was given a warning first. Either surrender the ships or be attacked. They chose death 😂

Top lads

Unga fought in the first war in hooman history. It was about who got the most meat for the year.

It Was Only Around A 100k Evacuated From Dunkirk

Italy never overtook Ethiopia. Part of the reason they were so unsuccessful in Europe is because they spent so much money, weapons and manpower to transfer to the African front. Italy was supposed to be in the northern African don't, but it clearly didn't happen

I also watched the movie Dunkirk and from what I got from it was a bunch of continuous ticking sounds. Tic-tic-tic-tic ended up having a headache at the end. But hey, Harry Styles was looking cute in it😏😏

When I come to England can I have a beer with you proper gents

300,000 were evacuated from Dunkirk.

@ScrapyardApe that pfp is crazy 🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😂

I hope Stella is paying you guys lol

Mike with a nice Carling

I love this video but Nanking is totally brushed over. The atrocities the Japanese committed are just as bad as anything the Nazi’s did just to a smaller scale. And the worst part is that there’s a significant number of Japanese people today who still deny or are never taught about it.

Y’all have a discord ?