A brief and accurate description of World War II

This is after the “29 saddest pictures” the most unrespectful post I read here ever.
Please keep posting funny internet-weirdo-geek-stuff without that wrong sense of mission in historic facts. I love your blog, but 2 bad taste posts during one week made me write this.

Ha! The allies would have won the war WITHOUT the USA? Right…

What’s next, a ten reasons Barrak Obama is the king of the world post?

Gee, wasn’t there any fighting in the Pacific, or just in August of ‘45?

I’m a student of history. And I didn’t say that the facts aren’t accurate. But its horrible to reduce this horrible era in 10 phrases with some funny clauses (buckets of sunshine) or historical correct but absolutely irrelevant Hitler-Ball Information (maybe, an this makes me sad, this will be the fact that will be the best remembered fact by the readers because it is so catchy).

The US joined before everyone found out about the holocaust.

I like how people below are missing the point that this is supposed to be funny..

Doesn’t Italy switch sides at the end too? That is pretty funny.

Great piece. Really funny and to the people who are offended for some reason need to lighten up. Its over and done with. Although yeah it wasn’t Russia in the WW but USSR.

Meanwhile EVERY one forgets Australia and New Zealand was there on the front lines fighting and holding back the enemy while everyone retreated. Even when the Japanese came in to the war we continued to fight on both frontlines and we did it proudly.

If you mention Canada then you must include the ANZAC’s as we all fought under the British banner.

[...] A brief and accurate description of World War II [...]

I’m British, this isn’t funny,isn’t true and omits all the bloody bits outside Europe.
It does nothing ,withdraw it.

Don’t forget that Latin American countries were forced to provide all the oil, raw materials and food US needed to win the war.
Sig Heil!

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Could you write one about WWIII as well, I have a test tomorrow.

As a “real student of history” (thanks for that one, Keith!) I found this absolutely hilarious because… well, you successfully carried out what you had intended, I suppose. Brilliant post.

As for Keith: Shut the fuck up. For fuck’s sake, gently remove the broomstick or you’re going to be seriously upset by life, if you ever do manage to reach reality. Jesus, it’s a humorous post about WWII, he didn’t sew a kitten into a bag for target practice, people. You’re misplacing your anger.

@Keith:

“…clearly the person who wrote it isn’t a student of history, or at least not a “serious” student.”

Neither, apparently, are you.

“For one thing, the Danish certainly never sent any damn “divisions” to the Germans, and in fact the Danish resistance to the Germans (which saved practically the entirety of their Jewish population) is one of the more interesting chapters in WWII history.”

Although the mass evacuation of Danish Jewry to neutral Sweden is certainly a moment of pride in Danish history, it can hardly be said to be the work of the resistance, but rather a last-minute effort instigated by, believe it or not, a German civil servant (naval attaché G.F. Duckwitz) who quietly notified the Danish government that the Germans were about to round up the Jews (who had, until then, been unmolested, out of deference to Danish sensibilities).

As for “not sending divisions”, I am sorry to say that you are completely wrong. Frikorps Danmark and the Schalburg Corps were (in relation to the size of Denmark) a significant military effort on the part of Nazi sympathizers in our country.

It is not unreasonable to say that Denmark was a collaborator nation, and might easily have been treated as such by the Allies after the end of the war, had it not been for the fact that it was strategically located. Courting Danish membership in a pro-US, anti-USSR grouping (which became NATO) was more important than anything else, so Denmark was given honorary “Allied” status after the fact.

I write this as a Dane, as an historian, and as a member of a family that took active part in the resistance. Although some Danes did their part, most of them just ducked and tried to stay out of harm’s way — even if this meant collaboration.

We have nothing to be proud of.

The person who wrote this is clearly some asshole Brit, showing the crass arrogance that has made them the red-headed step-child of the world.

On a less serious note, I think this is a hilarious and pretty sharp blogpost, and I enjoyed it very much.

Everyone always (evidently) forgets the ANZACs (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps), Australia was a major ally to the US.

LOL THE INTERNETS ARE SERIOUS. All you people pissing and moaning about this article need to take the sticks out of your asses, just because someone’s opinion is different from yours doesn’t mean they’re wrong. For what it’s worth, America really didn’t do much in Europe until the end of it.

@Author

you are wrong. Croatians and Muslims from Bosnia and Herzegovenia joined axis, and part of Serbs. Bigger part of Serbia was in Partizan divisions.

Oh, good Lord people. It’s a parody of a writing style. Haven’t any of you been on the Internet before? Geez.

meh.. I’ve seen better

The US doesn’t tell everyone what to do anymore. We have our new Dear Leader bowing to the world so he can be popular. The article was hilarious however.

how could people speak like that about the most awefu think that can ever happen to the country, war?

Yes, nobody talks about Bulgaria as allian for German. Why should we hate each other? We should never let it happen again but not remmebering the fact that bulgarians chose the wrong side… piece for everyone. I went through the war , i was just three but i remeber the sound of shooting… gunfire between brothers from both sides of the river Dniester .. and i don’t think that we should remmeber how wrong moldavians were to carry out the order of their nationalistic President Snegur by attacking us . However, we should never let it happen again, forgive and to love… we are all people, brothers and sisters