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Smithsonian Channel. WW2 - HarleyDog - 05-26-2025
I'm not sure if most of you get this channel. I have a streaming package that gets me a ton of channels. This weekend, I watched this one.
Good Lord! I will start off by saying this channel shows actual footage of wars and nothing but. The destruction, death, pain, and agony. The strategies and agonies of our military during it's most trying times. The achievements and failures. The lives lost.
I started watching the channel and within 15 minutes was hooked. As a veteran, I am so intrigued and more proud of my brothers/sisters than ever. I learned things I never knew.
In WW2 alone. The death count was anywhere from 70-85 million deaths. However, 6 million of those deaths were Jewish, which I think some people thought was the majority of fatalities during the war. It was a brutal war between nations. There have been many who have sacrificed their lives for freedom and humanity.
May GOD hold you close.
RE: Smithsonian Channel. WW2 - TheLeonardLeap - 06-01-2025
(05-26-2025, 07:54 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: I'm not sure if most of you get this channel. I have a streaming package that gets me a ton of channels. This weekend, I watched this one.
Good Lord! I will start off by saying this channel shows actual footage of wars and nothing but. The destruction, death, pain, and agony. The strategies and agonies of our military during it's most trying times. The achievements and failures. The lives lost.
I started watching the channel and within 15 minutes was hooked. As a veteran, I am so intrigued and more proud of my brothers/sisters than ever. I learned things I never knew.
In WW2 alone. The death count was anywhere from 70-85 million deaths. However, 6 million of those deaths were Jewish, which I think some people thought was the majority of fatalities during the war. It was a brutal war between nations. There have been many who have sacrificed their lives for freedom and humanity.
May GOD hold you close.
The civilian deaths in Russia and China overwhelm pretty much every other category. We talk about the Nazi/Russian front a bit more because it was still the European part of the war, but Japan was truly awful in mainland Asia. We weren't as involved there so I feel like it doesn't get covered here quite as much, but some serious atrocities that globally they didn't get quite the same stigma from as the Germans did.
I think while the 6 million Jewish deaths aren't the largest number, it's perhaps the % that potentially makes it such a larger tragedy than some of the others. The Jewish population in 1939 was 16.5m globally, and then 6 million (or 36.4%) were killed in 6 years. So while China lost 15-20m people in WW2 which is a staggeringly large number and a ton of loss, that was out of a 1939 population of 517.5m people or 2.9-3.9%. The global Jewish population still hasn't actually returned to pre-WW2 numbers yet, even 80 years later.