I don't get why he calls all german soldiers nazis, as if every german soldier was a nazi back then ...
anyway, i like the project
The Fallen of World War II – An Interactive, Data-Driven Documentary
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even WWII was started on the assumption that it would be a quick and relatively painless war. I suspect that modern missile technology makes this assumption flatly invalid.
Actually, is there some analysis on that? I always suspected that, with all the high-tech equipment, after the initial stockpile is gone (and a few hundred planes is not a lot if you look at WW2), it's much harder to scale up production (if one country alone even produces all the necessary parts like semiconductors, rocket engines, etc.).
It's probably not going to be a free for all but a 2-3 sided conflict with alliances of several countries on either.
US+EU+allies can probably manufacture all the war machines they need, as does China+allies.
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#23I always knew the russian front had a much bigger impact on the war then we are taught in our western history classes, but this video made me see the scale of the loses on the soviet side. Incredible.
The video is really well done. Great job, a good change from the usual black and white documentary.
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#24Notice the inflation-adjusted deaths in the American slave trade.
The North-American slave trade was less than 10% of the American slave trade. Abut 40% went to the Caribbean and the remainder 50% to South America (mostly Brazil).
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#25This guy should receive an award of something.
The end is amazing.
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#26Well done visualizations of the number of military & civilian deaths occurred during second world war. The video version was a bit long, yet rich in details. The interactive vis. in the middle of the video was useful. Though most of the video deals with the number of deaths, towards the last 10% of the video, the focus is on the PEACE we are enjoying today. The comparison between how bad the world was in the past to…
Anyone looking for more information on the topic of the peace we live in today might be interested in the book The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker: Why Violence Has Declined
http://www.amazon.com/The-Better-Angels-Our-Nature/dp/149151...
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#27BTW in addition to amazing content, this documentary is also technically interesting: this is not a video created in some motion graphics production software.
It is a hand-written JavaScript code, rendered realtime in WebGL using three.js (if you select "interactive" option, "video" option is a capture of this WebGL rendering).
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#28Well done visualizations of the number of military & civilian deaths occurred during second world war. The video version was a bit long, yet rich in details. The interactive vis. in the middle of the video was useful. Though most of the video deals with the number of deaths, towards the last 10% of the video, the focus is on the PEACE we are enjoying today. The comparison between how bad the world was in the past to…
> Though most of the video deals with the number of deaths, towards the last 10% of the video, the focus is on the PEACE we are enjoying today. The comparison between how bad the world was in the past to how good it is now, is staggering. Indeed. What worries me is how deeply dependent that peace has been on policymakers having living memories of how terrible World War 2 actually was, and of how Hiroshima and Nagasak…
> What worries me is how deeply dependent that peace has been on policymakers having living memories of how terrible World War 2 actually was
I worry about the same thing, and not just policymakers but the public too. I hypothesize that a few behaviors are connected to it:
* The disregard for the importance of the multilateral international institutions built after WWII: The UN, the EU, the WTO, the Geneva Conventions, and the general rules-based international order. Many conservatives seem to describe these as naive, idealistic and unrealistic, but these institutions were built by the survivors of WWI and WWII. They knew far more of war than we do; if anyone is naive, it's us.
* The war-mongering: Within a large segment of U.S. political arena, people compete to show who is most aggressive with the use of the military, as if to prove that they are not 'liberal'. War is not a last resort for them, but almost a first choice.
* The embrace of ideology and nationalism: It seems to me that a lesson of the World Wars is that nationalism and dogmatic ideology leads inexorably to war, and integration with your neighbors and pluralism prevents it. But now xenophobic nationalism and extreme ideologues, unmoderated by skepticism, are mainstream, from the U.S. to Europe to East Asia to the Middle East. We all know where that ends.
* The civilian-military divide and the glorification of the military: Also a product of the move to an all-volunteer force, few Americans have experience in the military or know someone who does, a far remove from the days of WWII or the draft. The results (based on what is written about more and more): Civilians that recklessly send people to the horrors of war (see "war-mongering", above); a military that resents the burden they carry for the civilians; and a highly partisan military. Another result is the recent glorification of the military: Around WWII (and other wars during the draft era), when a large portion of the public had military experience, the military was associated with terms like SNAFU and Catch-22, a bureaucratic disaster that soldiers had to overcome. Now, from a distance, with so few having familiarity with its realities, the military is glorified by civilians. It's almost unpatriotic to criticize it (which incidentally creates a lack of accountability that endangers the personnel we claim to care so much about).
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#29Awesome visualization.
Would love to see more
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Though most of the video deals with the number of deaths, towards the last 10% of the video, the focus is on the PEACE we are enjoying today. The comparison between how bad the world was in the past to how good it is now, is staggering. Indeed. What worries me is how deeply dependent that peace has been on policymakers having living memories of how terrible World War 2 actually was, and of how Hiroshima and Nagasak…
> What worries me is how deeply dependent that peace has been on policymakers having living memories of how terrible World War 2 actually was I worry about the same thing, and not just policymakers but the public too. I hypothesize that a few behaviors are connected to it: * The disregard for the importance of the multilateral international institutions built after WWII: The UN, the EU, the WTO, the Geneva Convention…
> the military is glorified by civilians.
> It's almost unpatriotic to criticize it
You can see the same divisive narrative in the discussions of Bad Behavior by Police in the US (any criticism is derided as "hating the police", rather than opposing behavior), or in the discussions about Snowden's revelations.
Loving and Supporting someone doesn't mean that you agree with their behavior, nor does it mean that you don't hold them responsible for poor/illegal/destructive choices. I can hold deep respect for our soldiers and the jobs they do, while still feeling that we should not be sending them to kill/die in remote locations, or while criticizing the way we treat our enemies in prisons. For many people, they seem either unable or unwilling to take a nuanced view like that.