The Fallen of World War II

Why HN readers recommended it

HN cites it for a sense of the scale of WWII casualties by country and the long decline in violence.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Neil Halloran

Topic

world war ii casualties

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• It is an odd claim, the largest. I just did a cursory search and found several notable atrocities with larger numbers. Most occurred from over several days to over several months. I guess an argument could be that specifies in a single day or in …

• Well, it's complicated. I think Putin's understanding of a "Nazi" is deeply connected to the Russian trauma of WWII that the West still doesn't get. Russians believe that due to the sheer number of lives lost, the USSR (and so Russia as its successor state) …

• There's something so emotional and compelling about the spectacle of shared tragedy (even smaller ones like oceangate). However there's always a reminder in the back of my mind that this sense of what makes our heart leap is very poorly correlated with what things ought …