# Interactive Documentary about Deaths During WWII **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 31, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-documentary-about-deaths-during-wwii/721229 "2015-05-31T00:26:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-documentary-about-deaths-during-wwii/721229/1 "2015-05-31T00:26:08Z")
[Here, about 18 minutes](http://www.fallen.io/ww2/) I’m a history nerd so I knew about the amount that died during the war, but seeing it laid out like they did really drove home that the war really, really sucked, to say the least. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-documentary-about-deaths-during-wwii/721229/2 "2015-05-31T03:08:20Z")
What is that second bar on the left that goes so high? If I’m reading correctly, the next one, to the right is the Mongol Invasions. What IS that? ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-documentary-about-deaths-during-wwii/721229/3 "2015-05-31T12:53:24Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > What is that second bar on the left that goes so high? If I’m reading correctly, the next one, to the right is the Mongol Invasions. What IS that? It was the [An Lushan Rebellion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Lushan_Rebellion). Quoteth Wikipedia: Some scholars have interpreted the difference in the census figures as implying the deaths of 36 million people, about two-thirds of the population of the empire. This figure was used in Steven Pinker’s book The Better Angels of Our Nature, where it is presented as proportionally the largest atrocity in history with the loss of a sixth of the world’s population at that time,[18] though Pinker noted that the figure was controversial ---
**Author:** ![Inter\_Alia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@Inter\_Alia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inter_Alia)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-documentary-about-deaths-during-wwii/721229/4 "2015-05-31T13:29:29Z")
That was really informative and interesting. Thank you, **RandMcnally** , for sharing the link. I’ll be thinking about that video all day now.