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Mehmed the Conqueror was a fearsome ruler that transformed the Ottoman Empire with his ambitious war plans and inflicting terror throughout his campaigns to the east. Europeans in the west were terrified of this Ottoman ruler and subsequently celebrated his death. Stick around to learn more about this Sultan and the many ways he destroyed his enemies, in this video of a Day in History. Mehmed the Second was the Ottoman Sultan, sultan meaning a Muslim ruler, mainly from 1451 to 1481. He was born on March 30, 1432, the son of the previous Sultan Murad II. Once Mehmed’s father passed away due to illness during the winter of 1450-1451, Mehmed II began his ascent to the throne. Mehmed II’s reign began with the death of his baby brother. According to some sources, the new sultan had his baby brother drowned to avoid any future power struggles. Mehmed II was responsible for the sieging of Constantinople, Moldavia, Albania, and the rest of Anatolia. With his conquest of Constantinople, he viewed himself as the continuation of the Roman Empire and not a replacer of it. Although the other European bodies at the time did not view him in the same way. There has always been a struggle between Islam and Christianity within Europe and its borders. The Ottoman Empire under Mehmed II was determined to spread its influence within Europe. The European entities at the time were terrified of the idea of the Islamization of its people. #mehmed #history #ottomanempire #ottomans #vladthedracula #ottomanhistory Scriptwriter: Matthew Milian Video Editor & Motion Graphics: Jason Bohol Voice-over Artist: Stephen Vox Music: Epidemic Music Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved. DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to adayinhistory2021@gmail.com

One of the things that often stuns people learning about the Nazis for the first time is the sheer amount of information available to us about them – authored by the Nazis. In this video, we will tell you about five infamous documents detailing the evil of the Nazi regime. One of these documents isn't on paper. Instead, it's on audio tape, recorded in October 1943 in Poznan, Poland. The recording of SS-Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler speaking to an assembled bunch of SS officers is today housed in the US National Archives. We will tell you more about the content of the speech in a few moments. The Marburg Documents Before we tell you about the worst evils of the Nazi regime, let's talk first about some of the political machinations they attempted far away from the battlefields of Europe. Many scandals have rocked the British monarchy in the last four decades, and the royals continue to make headlines today: Prince Harry and Megan Markle and the renunciation of their positions and moving to the United States, and the involvement of Prince Andrew in the Jeffery Epstein scandal. But even these, and the scandal surrounding the late Princess Diana and her death, paled compared to the royal scandal, which exploded into English headlines in 1936. The story of King Edward VIII and the American divorcee' Wallis Simpson is a story in and of itself. For many Englishmen, including Edward's brother, the future George VI, and wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the scandal of the British king being married to an American woman who was divorced was almost too much to bear. The American part was not so bad. Churchill was a member of the aristocracy, and his mother was an American. However, in 1936, the divorce part was BAD. At that time, in that country, in that culture, and in that ultra-upper class society – a divorced woman was seen as a "loose-woman" without morals, discipline, or religion. Adding to Mrs. Simpson's problems – she was not well-liked. She was seen as Hitler's personal secretary for the latter part of the war, Traudl Junge, survived the war and gave several interviews about Hitler's last days in the "Fuhrer bunker" before he committed suicide with his new wife Eva Braun. Her character is one of the significant personalities in the famous movie "Downfall" (2004). She was also the focus of the documentary "Blindspot" made just before her death in 2002. Traudl Junge witnessed much of what went on in Hitler's inner circle for the last part of the war and, more importantly, what took place within the bunker as the Red Army closed in. 00:00 Start 00:55 The Marburg Documents 06:50 The Nacht und Nebel Erlass 10:03 The Einsatzgruppen documents 12:20 Himmler's Speech 15:42 Hitler's Last Will and Testament #nazi #history #holocaust #nazisecrets Scriptwriter: Matthew Gaskill Video Editor & Motion Graphics: Kanishka Mudaliyar Voice-over Artist: Chris Redish Music: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved. DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to adayinhistory2021@gmail.com

In 1940, the Bolshevik revolutionary and first head of the Red Army, Leon Trotsky, was offed in Mexico City. Trotsky fled the Soviet Union in 1928 after he came out at the bottom of a power struggle with Josef Stalin, a position many people had found themselves in. The offing of real and imagined foes had a long history in Russia. Still, it was during the early Soviet era when an entire branch of the intelligence gathering and spy apparatus of the country was given its own very top secret department within the NKVD in 1936. The department was called the "Directorate of Special Tasks." The NKVD underwent many changes after WWII and became the "MGB." In the MGB, the department was known as "Spets Byuro #1" for "Special Purpose Office #1". It was also known by more sinister and 007-like names such as "The Chamber" and "Lab #1". #kgb #topsecret #history #putinkgb #putin Scriptwriter: Matthew Gaskill Video Editor & Motion Graphics: Jason Bohol Voice-over Artist: Stephen Vox Music: Epidemic Music Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved. DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to adayinhistory2021@gmail.com

Play World of Warships here: https://wo.ws/3S0VAb2 Thank you, World of Warships, for sponsoring this video. During registration, use the code BRAVO to get for free: -500 doubloons -1.5 million credits -7 Days Premium Account time -Free of choice USS Phoenix, Japanese cruiser Kuma, French battleship Courbet, Italian battleship Dante Alighieri, or the HMS Wakeful after you complete 15 battles Applicable to new users only. n February 2022, Netflix premiered the sequel to History Channel's "Vikings," called "Vikings: Valhalla." Two main characters are the famous Leif Eriksson and his sister, Freydis Eriksdotter. As you may know, Leif is reputed to have arrived in North America centuries before Christopher Columbus. Some accounts in the Norse sagas include a couple of tales of Leif's sister, Freydis – but in one of them, the close brother-sister relationship depicted in the series is anything but that! We'll tell you about that in a moment. The Vikings were brutal. It was the early Middle Ages – everyone was brutal. The most powerful Christian king at the start of the Viking era was Charlemagne. Charlemagne may have been Christian and well-educated, but that didn't stop him from waging a genocidal war against the Saxons of Germany in his campaign to convert them to Christianity. Saxon children were instructed to report any pagan activity. Many pagan men and women were burned alive, and many Saxon children were taken back to Charlemagne's kingdom and raised as Christians. Pretty brutal, right? The Magyars of today's Hungary became Christian around 1000 under King, now "saint" Stephen. Stephen was brutal, too – he burned stubborn pagans at the stake, among other punishments. The only real reason the Vikings were considered especially brutal – and they were, make no mistake - was that combined with their brutality was their habit of appearing suddenly out of nowhere and killing many unsuspecting people. Then, they took the survivors as slaves and then disappeared. They did this for about 300 years before most converted to Christianity. At that point, Scandinavian raids essentially stopped, and the tales of their brutality stopped as well. 00:00 Start 01:29 Conquer The Seas 03:35 Freydis Eriksdotter 07:10 Erik the Red 09:55 Slaves, not always intact ones 12:21 Female slaves 13:08 “Vikings” did get some things right 15:11 Warfare, up close and personal #vikings #history #vikingshistory #ivartheboneless #ragnarlothbrok #norsehistory #rollo Scriptwriter: Matthew Gaskill Video Editor & Motion Graphics: Kanishka Mudaliyar Voice-over Artist: Jake Flory Music: Motionarray.com DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to adayinhistory2021@gmail.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.

Grab Atlas VPN for just $1.99/mo before the deal expires: https://get.atlasvpn.com/DayHistory Have you ever asked your school teacher for permission to get married? No? Well, if you'd been an Aztec, this would be just one of many things you'd have to do if you wanted to settle down! And did you know the saying Tying the Knot originates in a literal Aztec wedding tradition? Welcome to A Day in History, where we will be deep-diving into the astounding traditions of the Aztec people, from wedding preparations to married life and childbirth. In this video, you'll learn about the rich worlds of deities and crazy religious rituals that provided order to day-to-day Aztec life. Aztec society was clearly defined, with a complex, rigid social structure similar to a Caste system. Families would arrange their children's marriages to determine prestige and connections, and to strengthen their dynasty. With so many factors to consider, it's no surprise that Aztec marriages were an incredibly complicated logistical nightmare to organise. A boy's parents would begin the process of finding a lucrative match by consulting with a female matchmaker. Or “ah atanzah” (ar-uh art-ans-ah) in the Aztec language of Nahuatl. After securing a match, the groom's parents would need to negotiate with the 'House of Youth' - a school that was part of the sophisticated, mandatory education system for Aztec Boys. This would include inviting their sons' Headmaster and teachers to a special evening. Where they would give grand speeches and ply the school staff with food and alcohol. Sometimes, a young man in school might realise he was ready to marry before his parents decided. In these cases, it was really down to the groom-to-be himself to grovel for teachers' permission - a process that included donating twelve large blankets to teachers. The best information we have about weddings come from surviving illustrated Aztec manuscripts - known as Codices. From these we know that weddings lasted a whole five days. They'd begin with guests arriving from midday for a lengthy feast and drinking session. #aztecs #history #azteccivilization #aztecwarrior #aztecreligion Scriptwriter: Ingrid Banerjee Marvin Video Editor & Motion Graphics: Naman Meena Voice-over Artist: Chris Redish Music: Motionarray.com Timecode: 00:00 Intro Protect Your Internet Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved. DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to adayinhistory2021@gmail.com

When the Allied forces entered the camps at Auschwitz on January 27, 1945; what they found was a tragic scene of mass extermination the likes of which our world had never witnessed before. After Germany sparked WW2 and invaded Poland, the Schutzstaffel- more commonly known as the SS- would convert Auschwitz 1 into a prisoner-of-war camp. Later on, the construction of Auschwitz 2-Birkenau started which would become the site of countless atrocities. Lets go back in history, and witness these atrocities ourselves, #nazi #auschwitz #history #concentrationcamp #auschwitzbirkenau #holocaust #hitler DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to adayinhistory2021@gmail.com DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commission Scriptwriter: Ahsan Kamal Voice-over Artist: Chris Redish Music: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.

The Brutal Things Russian Tsars Did During Their Reign Before Putin, the Soviet Union, Stalin, and Lenin, Russia was governed by the Tsars, an eccentric bunch of emperors and empresses who ruled the Slavic realm with an iron grip for nearly 400 years. As figureheads with unlimited power, and whose every word was tinged with absolute authority, it comes as no surprise that Russian kings and queens had a tendency to abuse their position, often in spectacularly gruesome ways. Today we're going to talk about tsars like Peter the Great, Nicolas II, Ivan the Terrible and Anna Ivanova. No other sovereigns in history left in their wake such misery as the Russian Tsars, who showcased the very worst of humanity. It’s amazing to think that their gory and often imaginative atrocities, like something you might see in a Saw movie, were actually real-life events. We should count ourselves lucky then, that we live in relative comfort, and that we aren’t confined to a Tsarist jail cell preparing ourselves for a bizarre, and probably slow, execution at the hands of a bloodthirsty dictator. What is for certain however, is that if Peter, Nicolas, Ivan, or Anna somehow time-travelled back to the present day they would definitely take inspiration from this channel. Why not join them by pressing that subscribe and like button! #russiantsars #history #russianhistory #ivantheterrible #ussr #sovietunion #russianempire #historydocumentary Scriptwriter: Jake Leigh-Howarth Video Editor & Motion Graphics: Kanishka Mudaliyar Voice-over Artist: Jake Flory Music: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved. DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to adayinhistory2021@gmail.com