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World War Two: Simple Version
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Published: 2008-01-03 00:50:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 601919; Favourites: 11214; Downloads: 17766
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DISCLAIMER (August 2016)As this comic is almost 8 years old, and I have grown and learned since 17 year-old me uploaded this comic, I have debated taking it down due to it no longer being how I would approach such a topic. It contains not only slurs and blatant mistakes, but also portrays it in a very American-European view. My intent at the time was to make a funny, quick comic with a very basic grasp of the whole conflict (at times, looking it up online to fill in the blanks, often with mistakes due to rushing). I was aware of the holocaust back then, but didn't know how to include it in, so I opted to not even mention it, which is wrong now, and was wrong back then. Not mentioning a whole genocide is, in my opinion, as bad as saying it didn't happen. I have chosen to keep this comic up, because ignoring and deleting it would be equal to pretending it never happened.
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (January 2008)
This is World War Two explained in ANTHRO.
AM I COOL YET
This is how I explain the major conflict of the last century.
P.S. the file is hueg
and if there are parts you can't read, I'll make a text available for download
P.P.S.
HHHHHGGGGGNNNNNNNNNHHHHH WHAT A DAILY DEVIATION
I knew something was wrong when I logged in and saw 468 MESSAGES.
Also, World War One: angusmcleod.deviantart.com/art…
And Cold War
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Comments: 2363
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lol, "Americans kicked German ass again." Some people I know who like in the U.S. actually believed this, since it's apparently still taught as fact in some places.
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Dude, you need to do the history of the Roman Republic and Empire. That would be cool XD
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I love this comic! Even if it contains small mistakes (like you said in your description), I think you should not feel guilty about leaving out the holocaust. It was without ANY doubt horrifying, but it kind of didn't belong to the war. It wasn't known to the ally forces in its extend until they arrived in the camps. So it wasn't anything that influenced the war at all. Also, it has been done far before the war, the first one opened 1933. As horrible as it was, it was simply something the German government did at the time and the war merely happened parallel to that.
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Agreed. The Holocaust was largely unrelated to the actual war, and as far as I can tell, this is a comic specifically for the latter. The Holocaust and the war were both seperate symptoms of the same problem, that being the Third Reich.
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This is one of my favorite historic comics!
And that's saying a lot.
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Who are those two countries between Canada and Germany in panel 7 when they're getting ready for war? AngusMcLeod
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The one to the left is British South Africa, the one to the right is hard to tell. It could be British Oman, or British Yemen. Other than that, I wouldn't know. We'll just have to wait for a response from AngusMcLeod.
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I recommend actual study material to go along with it, as this one is summed up and has many things cut off for the sake of flow.
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i know, is just a little help
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I prefer it to the nuclear football.
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That does seem more appropriate.
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You can achive much more with a friendly word and a planecarrier in front of the opponents coast, than JUST a friendly word.
belive me.
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I want to address a couple of things about the neutrals.
1. Ireland let the British use their airspace.
2. Turkey joined the war at the very end.
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Also Spain sent the army to help Hitler
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But the rest of your comic is super cool! Great job. Imagine, how much time took only drawing these USSR frontiers!
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Here is one little, but important mistake. You missed The Ribbentrop- Molotov Pact!
So, in fact USSR invaded Poland 17th September while we, Poles defended our western territories. And Stalin received part of our eastern territories. What's more, England and France knew about that secret protocol, and they even didn't inform Poland. Also, from the beginning to end they didn't intend to send military support during invasion on Poland. They even weren't prepared for a war.
Dear Author, you should take into account these facts, and express them more visibly!
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And poor Poland didn't have big shares in war!?
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well..... they got half of eastern Germany....
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Lol that´s really funny great job here XD
Just one thing you used the modern borders for Germany Poland etc, Germany was
bigger before 1945 
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You know what's really annoying? When people misuse the Cyrillic.
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I get you, but I don't think it's really misusing when the author knows they're not using it correctly. It was used for comedy, but in a way people who don't read the Cyrillic could still understand it. I can forgive that.
I did try to read it correctly at first though, and it confused the shit out of me for a sec.
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This is what I thought Hetalia was going to be.
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Thought it was great and very accurate
but the alliances weren't as clear as the first one, like the way Germany made a heap of alliances, to keep themselves safe, before they declared war could have been emphasised a little.
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i don't who you are but i will find you n i will love you
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Both historically accurate and AMAZING!!!!!!!
GOD BLESS YOU1
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Allies are awesome and smell good.
My favourite quote.
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the borders are like after world war II even if it is supposed to be before
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As long as you keep pretending America won either of the World Wars for Europe, you will never be cool.
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If you go back and look at the comics, it pretty clearly shows a team effort, where the US tipped the scales in the allies favor but not the usual "we won the war for you" shit. Granted, he could've emphasized the Soviet Union's role a little more, but I'd say it's pretty spot-on. Even in the WWI comic it's just showing that by the time the US showed up, Germany just couldn't take it anymore, not as if the US singlehandedly won the war.
Also, don't underestimate how much impact the lend-lease program had on the war; there's an expression that goes "amateurs think about tactics, professionals think about logistics" and the US contributed a lot in terms of finances, war materials, and technology to the UK and Soviet Union's war efforts even before the US actually joined the war.
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Were was Canada? It was in the war long before the states.
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I'm not a massive fan of the way you portrayed america in this, but overall its very good
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I think that he's trying to portray the way that Americans acted as if they won the whole war by themselves and that once they came in to save everyone that they were heroes. It was a team effort, but some people didn't see it that way.
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can you draw it as hetalia characters instead of countries
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Why? That would just about ruin it absolutely entirely.
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Does it mean something like nonsense
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Ha. If you were smart, you would realize that comments like these will only earn you bitchy-sarcastic replies from the sweet
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Apart from the borders being wrong on the axis nations (inc. Finland) and the SSSR it was still an amusing read.
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