Comments by "Dr. Dank" (@Dr.-Dank) on "How History Works" channel.

  1. I think a lot of people - at least Americans - vastly underestimate how much the break up of Austria-Hungry and the post-WW1 chaos that gripped central Europe enabled the rise of Nazi Germany and Hitler. Had countries like Hungary and Romania not been in such bad shape following the war, they may not have allied themselves with the Nazis and cooperated with Hitler, allowing the Nazis to annex Austria and Czechoslovakia. And had the countries Hitler did conquer, Austria and Czechoslovakia, not been so beaten up in the 1920s and 30s, maybe they would have been better suited to stand up to Nazi Germany? After all, had Hitler been stopped from annexing Austria, whose to say he would have stayed in power? Or that the Nazis would have remained as popular, as in control of Germany if they faced setbacks from diplomatic missteps?
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  2. I gotta say, as a recent history graduate who's education was interrupted by COVID, I don't regret choosing a degree purely to enrich myself with the pursuit of knowledge, but I am rather disappointed with the career outcomes, and disappointed with how much debt it took to get it. If I had to do it all again, I wouldn't change much, but it is rather sad to see that being someone that just wanted to learn and do scholarly shit after high school has so little value here in the USA.
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