The Wacky History of the World's Smallest Island-Nation | Animated History of Nauru

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  • čas přidán 6. 03. 2020
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    Nauru is best known on CZcams for all the poor investments it made in the 1980s, but did you know that the entire history of the island is just as wacky?
    Sources:
    Dauvergne, Peter. “A Dark History of the World's Smallest Island Nation.” The MIT Press Reader, 22 July 2019, thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/dark-history-nauru/.
    Doherty, Ben. “A Short History of Nauru, Australia's Dumping Ground for Refugees.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 9 Aug. 2016, www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/10/a-short-history-of-nauru-australias-dumping-ground-for-refugees.
    Healy, Amber, and Pierre Köchel. “Nauru: From Rags to Riches to the Brink of Extinction.” INSH, 14 Mar. 2018, insh.world/places/nauru-from-rags-to-riches-to-the-brink-of-extinction/
    Kiste, Robert C., and Sophie Foster. “Nauru.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 3 Sept. 2019, www.britannica.com/place/Nauru/History.
    McDaniel, Carl N., and John M. Gowdy. Paradise for Sale : a Parable of Nature . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Print.
    Tanaka, Yuki. “Japanese Atrocities on Nauru during the Pacific War.” APJJF, The Asia-Pacific Journal, 6 Nov. 2010, apjjf.org/-Yuki-Tanaka/3441/article.html.
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Komentáře • 469

  • @Cnut_the_grape
    @Cnut_the_grape Před 4 lety +461

    Don't you just hate it when you forget you're a God?

  • @aspenlovelock8115
    @aspenlovelock8115 Před 4 lety +876

    We just going to gloss over
    “Nazi Pirates”?
    Paints a great mental image.

    • @paddyret7968
      @paddyret7968 Před 4 lety +9

      More like Privateers but same concept

    • @boogiespadina8375
      @boogiespadina8375 Před 4 lety +22

      @Adolf Hitler Uncle Dolf, I am sorry it went south :(

    • @Jrandlehasnohandles
      @Jrandlehasnohandles Před 4 lety +4

      Hey Adolf I’m hear to buy the bunker you put on the market. I checked it out and I noticed a similar color scheme. I don’t like the excessive use of red and white but I do like your collection of prop heads.

    • @Jrandlehasnohandles
      @Jrandlehasnohandles Před 4 lety +3

      I heard the showers need renovation

    • @Jrandlehasnohandles
      @Jrandlehasnohandles Před 4 lety +2

      Thank you Adolf for giving me the credentials, I want to congratulate you on converting your arm bands into make shift head bands it’s been a real life saver.

  • @jasonkephas2897
    @jasonkephas2897 Před 4 lety +239

    Lol! As a Nauruan, I thoroughly appreciated the satirical take on our history. Good content!

  • @TFD_Animations
    @TFD_Animations Před 4 lety +281

    CZcams: WHAT KINDA HISTORY IS THIS?!? I CAN’T DEMONETIZE THIS!!
    History House Productions: Bazinga, no Hitler or Swastikas here.

  • @abthedragon4921
    @abthedragon4921 Před 4 lety +212

    This is hilarious because I watched Geography Now's video on Nauru yesterday.

  • @Daniel-ht4wr
    @Daniel-ht4wr Před 4 lety +592

    If you look at pictures of the island's interior there is just desolate stacks of coral, somewhat reminiscent of a grave yard.
    Very sad story of human greed, at the islands peak the citizens were one of the richest nations on earth per capita, on an island with no running water many owned swimming pools, now they are one of the poorest nations and rising sea levels will render the island uninhabitable.

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  Před 4 lety +64

      It is really too bad. The fact that so much of the island is uninhabitable is just crazy to me.

    • @elmashable9722
      @elmashable9722 Před 4 lety +17

      Corruption, Oh Corruption...

    • @CoffeeSuccubus
      @CoffeeSuccubus Před 4 lety +2

      I never seen a Yuan Shikai supporter before.
      Hello!

    • @Lyle-xc9pg
      @Lyle-xc9pg Před 4 lety +3

      The island isnt a foot above sea level, its a relatively high and hilly island. it wont go anywhere you simp

    • @Amelia_-qy9nz
      @Amelia_-qy9nz Před 3 lety

      @@CoffeeSuccubus to be honest, he really didn't do anything bad, he is a good general and a pragmatic leader, it's just that he's to power hungry.

  • @spacemanjoe7074
    @spacemanjoe7074 Před 3 lety +77

    “Almost a gun per person”
    America: Those are rookie numbers!

    • @tiki_trash
      @tiki_trash Před 2 lety +4

      Maybe America was crying in the video because it was just too beautiful.

  • @lyndonbjohnson2865
    @lyndonbjohnson2865 Před 4 lety +60

    This is a rags to riches to rags story.

  • @anjusanal
    @anjusanal Před 4 lety +254

    Middle East: makes millions out of oil...
    Nauru: *makes millions out of bird poop!*
    Every one else: Steals Nauru’s poop.
    Nauru: Bruuhhhh.... Unfair.....

    • @navilluscire2567
      @navilluscire2567 Před 4 lety +9

      Oil = dead dinosaurs...and other stuff turned into a thick black sludge.

    • @anjusanal
      @anjusanal Před 4 lety +1

      @@navilluscire2567 but atleast it's dinosaurs!

    • @silversurfs
      @silversurfs Před 4 lety +2

      America*: makes millions from oil

    • @catmagedsproductions1998
      @catmagedsproductions1998 Před 4 lety +6

      America: *steals oil*
      Middle east:Bruuhhhh.... Unfair....

    • @ronjayrose9706
      @ronjayrose9706 Před 4 lety +3

      Oversimplified:Dude................Uncool

  • @ankemwigaroa1999
    @ankemwigaroa1999 Před 3 lety +39

    Why am I just seeing this?
    Yeah alot of the stuff you mentioned was was true, and as Nauruan myself I can say this was pretty accurate.
    We had little choice in regards to our actions in the international community. We had so little money that the dead in our morgues were starting to rot because we couldn't afford to buy diesel to keep our utilities going with power. And more people who were ill were stacking up in the hopsital.
    Our elders who endured the horrors WW2 said it was better when they were exiled to the other island as slaves, because at least they had something to eat.
    Nauru is now but a shadow of its former self, and may never recover fully. But despite the absnece of wealth and the growing challanges we face, the Nauruan people remain.
    All we can do is to keep going and hope for the best.
    Best wishes to you and your channel.

  • @uts4448
    @uts4448 Před 3 lety +9

    Damn. That is the exact fate that happened to their hotel in Susupe, Saipan called the Nauru Building. After the phosphate depleted, they couldn’t pay for the building anymore (just like their other ones). That hotel shut down and is now the Marianas Business Plaza.

  • @petartoshkov2076
    @petartoshkov2076 Před 4 lety +56

    The one dislike is a enemy of the greatest Nauru state

  • @BajanEnglishman51
    @BajanEnglishman51 Před 4 lety +148

    I died at the Taiwan is part of China scene

    • @Amelia_-qy9nz
      @Amelia_-qy9nz Před 4 lety +2

      @Gabriel Petkov where

    • @Hortifox_the_gardener
      @Hortifox_the_gardener Před 4 lety +2

      F for you then

    • @alexanderchristopher6237
      @alexanderchristopher6237 Před 4 lety +7

      Gabriel Petkov well, now that China has money, they can play Australia’s and America’s game in buying off smaller island countries in the Pacific region for UN support.

    • @CrafterboeyMiner
      @CrafterboeyMiner Před 4 lety +3

      @@alexanderchristopher6237 you know their economy is tanking atm right?

    • @yukikaze-117
      @yukikaze-117 Před 4 lety

      The dress was blue

  • @sicariusvast9555
    @sicariusvast9555 Před 4 lety +138

    Nazi pirates ? Sounds like fun

  • @chrochan3682
    @chrochan3682 Před 4 lety +162

    5:21 Murica seeing the almost non existent murder rate in Switzerland

    • @olbradley
      @olbradley Před 4 lety +13

      That's not because they have less guns...

    • @ThrE3-GeS
      @ThrE3-GeS Před 4 lety +1

      henrey no, it's because they have no guns at all. Im from switzerland by the way.

    • @Tom_Cruise_Missile
      @Tom_Cruise_Missile Před 4 lety +31

      Britons realizing London's violent crime rate has surpassed NYC'S.

    • @maxstone2380
      @maxstone2380 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Tom_Cruise_Missile LOL

    • @CrafterboeyMiner
      @CrafterboeyMiner Před 4 lety +5

      @@ThrE3-GeS that's not how it works. You've heard of getting guns illegally and how most guns are gotten illegally when it's linked to crime right?
      And this is just setting aside the fact there is a huge difference of culture in Switzerland.

  • @bourpigaming5851
    @bourpigaming5851 Před 3 lety +23

    As a nauruan I totally aprove this video

    • @GabrielUngacta
      @GabrielUngacta Před 2 lety

      Just curious about the gun thing, are airsoft bb and pellet guns banned to?

  • @southernbreeze3278
    @southernbreeze3278 Před 4 lety +51

    poor Nauruans : (

  • @kingsarues1586
    @kingsarues1586 Před 4 lety +7

    Nauru went from one of the richest nations from selling bird poop to Australia’s prison island, and now into 2020 they are now Australia’s quarantine island.

  • @charlieheadlam8771
    @charlieheadlam8771 Před 4 lety +8

    Petition to call the population of Nauru ‘Narutos’

  • @hyenafur
    @hyenafur Před rokem +3

    “Put him in a raft and pushed him out to sea.”
    My brain….
    Naru and Beach Combers: “We’re not your buddy, friend!”
    Jones as he sails away: “I’m not your friend, guy!”
    Naru and Beach Coners: “We’re not your guy, Buddy!”

  • @caos1925
    @caos1925 Před 3 lety +8

    "Wow europeans are so brutal"
    *Japanese* "Allows us to introduce ourselves."

  • @outcastpandayt
    @outcastpandayt Před 4 lety +74

    I thought they were going to say," TAIWAN IS PART OF US" and "THE INVASION OF GEORGIA WAS BRITAINS FAULT" because they wanted revenge for colonizing them i guess

    • @alexanderchristopher6237
      @alexanderchristopher6237 Před 4 lety +7

      Outcast Panda Nah, it’s about the money.
      That’s one of the reasons why they agreed to host the detention camp for Australia there.
      The small island nations of the South Pacific often relies on other countries, especially richer countries like Australia or the US, for aid because they don’t have much of a sustainable economy there. Tourism sometimes isn’t enough.
      So they trade their UN memberships and diplomatic support for money. Many such countries are often knee-deep debating Asia-Pacific issues in the UN. The most famous is probably calling Taiwan as China and support for an independent West Papua. Though tiny, they still have equal votes in the UN as other countries save for the veto powers of the 5 permanent members.

    • @denkedeligekanal9059
      @denkedeligekanal9059 Před 3 lety

      part of us or part of united states?

  • @beooftheeuphrates
    @beooftheeuphrates Před 4 lety +21

    "The dress was blue"
    just when i thought you couldnt get more based

  • @otakusway7377
    @otakusway7377 Před 4 lety +27

    *RESPECT THE DRIP GUSTAV*

  • @reallyriley123
    @reallyriley123 Před 4 lety +6

    The jaystation joke had me sold😂

  • @northernkaiser7979
    @northernkaiser7979 Před 4 lety +7

    When you realize you got a response from the creator and and get happy
    And don't feel depressed that the comment dead

  • @deepanshchaudhary5094
    @deepanshchaudhary5094 Před 3 lety +4

    RESPECT THE DRIP GUSTAV!
    My favourite line from the video. Awesome writing bro.

  • @tomfrazier1103
    @tomfrazier1103 Před 3 lety +6

    There is a Nauru Tower on Ala Moana boulevard in town. A good investment? There were other phosphate islands, and the commissioners were obligated to invest and help islanders when the phosphate was gone. I think there is more to this story and other similar ones. Sir Arthur Grimble's A Pattern of Islands tells the story of his post on Tarawa, 1914-30 as a British Colonial officer. He left for the Carribbean in 1931

  • @racoonlittle1679
    @racoonlittle1679 Před 4 lety +4

    Wow, the island of Nauru is just getting better and better!

  • @undercoverb9719
    @undercoverb9719 Před 4 lety +6

    2:55 Perfect depiction of what native populations felt when seeing a huge strange ship coming for them.

  • @alfalfa8168
    @alfalfa8168 Před 4 lety

    I love you videos and thank you for putting the sponsor at the end :D

  • @Piddel
    @Piddel Před 4 lety +6

    Another well-made video. Thanks!

  • @MrTheWaterbear
    @MrTheWaterbear Před 4 lety +6

    Man, this is so similar to Sam O'Nella Academy...

  • @potatopoh-tah-toh5039
    @potatopoh-tah-toh5039 Před 3 lety +2

    damn Gustav, respect the goddamn drip.

  • @fuckacuck
    @fuckacuck Před 4 lety +57

    There’s no sorts of intelligent life anywhere shows J station

    • @botondmatrai1366
      @botondmatrai1366 Před 3 lety

      I straight up rolled on the floor laughing till i couldnt breathe at that part, and im only 1:10 in? What else could be here?

  • @thebirdmapper357
    @thebirdmapper357 Před 4 lety +2

    Amazing video,it's nice to see you rise to here. Hope I,loyal s̶l̶a̶v̶e̶ subscriber of you,am not forgotten. You still deserve more.

  • @gunnarwallgren8572
    @gunnarwallgren8572 Před 4 lety

    Great video! I love your channel

  • @iainhansen1047
    @iainhansen1047 Před 4 lety +3

    My world history teacher for university did a lecture on the guano mines on islands in the pacific. He started class by saying “ today we are going to talk about bird shit and indentured servitude. One of those is a lot funnier so I’ll try and focus on it first. So bird shit was worth more then gold........”

  • @WeaselWeaselW
    @WeaselWeaselW Před 4 lety +16

    Congrats on getting monetized

  • @abnerq.cheeseburgerjr111
    @abnerq.cheeseburgerjr111 Před 4 lety +16

    Those birds in naru island would have been safe if they were sponsored by world of warships

  • @IpernickTheGreat
    @IpernickTheGreat Před 4 lety +34

    Nauru became rich by selling poop.
    I have been trying to fossilize my poop for 37 years,
    soon I will be rich and I will be the one laughing!
    no mom i don´t need a job i am working on opening a poop store

  • @remedy6093
    @remedy6093 Před 4 lety +2

    Nauru when undiscovered: Well i bet that the future looks good to us.
    Nauru in the future:I JUST GOT DRUNK AND KILLED A BUNCH OF PEOPLE.

  • @hiimryan2388
    @hiimryan2388 Před 4 lety +30

    OMG FINALLY!!! I thought you died. I'm so glad your still making PREMIUM content. DID STALIN LET YOU GO FOR QUALITY CONTENT!

  • @davidhughes9086
    @davidhughes9086 Před 4 lety +11

    Glad you’re back. Keep up the great work

  • @evancrum6811
    @evancrum6811 Před 4 lety +6

    What a weird history of this island. I never heard of it. Nice job

  • @thanos9447
    @thanos9447 Před 4 lety +3

    On your Warsaw Uprising video what is the name of the music you play at 5:17

  • @vartanvartanian2320
    @vartanvartanian2320 Před 3 lety

    good job
    keep up good work

  • @doctornone7041
    @doctornone7041 Před 4 lety +1

    I like this channel sooo much

  • @romanboswell996
    @romanboswell996 Před 4 lety +1

    Really funny video 😂😂😂 thanks for making my day better

  • @BajanEnglishman51
    @BajanEnglishman51 Před 4 lety +6

    Omg that jay station reference

  • @johannessvendsen9284
    @johannessvendsen9284 Před 4 lety +2

    Great Britain when they took over Nauru: So we back in the mine

  • @abdokorib8898
    @abdokorib8898 Před 4 lety +15

    How about history of germany? I know there is many but your content makes it so funny.

  • @hithere1435
    @hithere1435 Před 4 lety

    Damn your channel has grown so much

  • @djlisboa7061
    @djlisboa7061 Před 4 lety

    Great channel

  • @GabrielUngacta
    @GabrielUngacta Před 4 lety +1

    Historically it is beleived that Nauruans are descendents of Micronesians and Polynesians that settled and mixed on the island. Thus why there genetics and language are a mystery.

  • @RafaelScapella
    @RafaelScapella Před 3 lety +3

    Hi, I’m making a video about Nauru. Can I use parts of your video in my video, with credits to your channel/instagram?

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  Před 3 lety +1

      Thanks so much for asking. What kind of video is it? Where’re you planning to post it?

    • @RafaelScapella
      @RafaelScapella Před 3 lety +1

      Well, I answered your question but YT removed my comment... it will be a video about Nauru (geography, history and fun facts) in Portuguese.

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  Před 3 lety +1

      @@RafaelScapella yeah. I’d be okay with that. As long as you don’t use the whole video and credit me, I’d be okay with it.

    • @RafaelScapella
      @RafaelScapella Před 3 lety +2

      @@HistoryHouseProductions sure, no I wouldn't use a lot of it and yes, I would totally credit you. I know what it's like when people just grab your content and present it like its theirs... once a TV channel did that with videos that I spent time and money to make. I wasn't happy...

  • @riperroxd7664
    @riperroxd7664 Před 4 lety

    Finaly a new video! And now how many months will take for the next one😅

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  Před 4 lety

      Probably less time now that I’m stuck in my house because of Coronavirus...

    • @riperroxd7664
      @riperroxd7664 Před 4 lety

      Oh yeah...but because Im a curious person Im going to ask you from curiositi where ate you from?

  • @luri_aden4920
    @luri_aden4920 Před 4 lety +7

    Im living there when Coronavirus spreads more in my country

  • @alessandromsk3195
    @alessandromsk3195 Před 4 lety

    Dude amazing vid. 10/nauru's economy

  • @poopycock5606
    @poopycock5606 Před 4 lety +1

    I have 17 friends sub to you at my school someone sharednthis chanel to me and i really like it I wosh you could upload video every 2 days or something but it will be a hard work and im a big fan and. Keep doing vid i love it its funny.

  • @flynnmiller4155
    @flynnmiller4155 Před 4 lety +2

    Good vid👍

  • @DeadKoinz
    @DeadKoinz Před 4 lety

    i fucking love this channel for all of the I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE moments

  • @mattthedoormat
    @mattthedoormat Před 3 lety

    Why's the name of the song you played during the sponsorship? Sounds like a real banger

  • @HolyShitNew
    @HolyShitNew Před 4 lety

    nice i missed your videos

  • @xa-38
    @xa-38 Před 4 lety +1

    2:16 an airliner b-17 would be the coolest shit ever

  • @wolfeasmr9505
    @wolfeasmr9505 Před 4 lety

    I love all of ur vids and I would love to see South America history vids like the triple alliance war

  • @Liphted
    @Liphted Před 4 lety

    Lol that last bit was cold lol

  • @ioaneqarmazanashvili2339
    @ioaneqarmazanashvili2339 Před 4 lety +2

    Could you make a Video about the Country Georgia? It has a pretty interesting history:)

  • @jona4919
    @jona4919 Před 4 lety +5

    What is your intro music? I really want to know!

  • @serpenthand
    @serpenthand Před 3 lety

    I learned something new today

  • @ottoiofgreece7585
    @ottoiofgreece7585 Před 4 lety +3

    Why don't they just pour sand and dirt and stuff over the old mines to make the land habitable again?

  • @pieterkennes7181
    @pieterkennes7181 Před 4 lety

    isit justme or was the entire ad just shots of the u s s misouri ship?? at the end

  • @ingsnaut_7006
    @ingsnaut_7006 Před 3 lety

    The fricken boat got me.

  • @NotFM
    @NotFM Před 4 lety

    I love the intro

  • @phredphlintstone6455
    @phredphlintstone6455 Před 3 lety +1

    Fertilizer isn't the only thing phosphates can be used for

  • @danshakuimo
    @danshakuimo Před 4 lety

    That transition to world of warships though

  • @michimuffins3609
    @michimuffins3609 Před 4 lety

    Congratulations, you have roughly 45k subscribers. Next video you'll have like 80k.

  • @lippi2171
    @lippi2171 Před rokem +1

    Always has been one of my favourite / most interesting countries. But their 20th century history is just really sad

  • @charliemaine9304
    @charliemaine9304 Před 4 lety

    Glad I'm not the only one with a crippling fear of playing games with voice chat HEUEHEUEHEUE

  • @spencersss1251
    @spencersss1251 Před 4 lety

    Wow I heard about that camp I didn’t know it was Nauru

  • @Vekhh
    @Vekhh Před 3 lety

    beautifully drawn spider

  • @bearsplitz96
    @bearsplitz96 Před 4 lety +2

    The beginning kind of has a Sam O’Nella vibe

  • @Dennis-nk2fq
    @Dennis-nk2fq Před 4 lety

    You can cross that whole country watching this video and still have a couple minutes left

  • @dimaE965
    @dimaE965 Před 4 lety +1

    This is pretty interesting

  • @jerbear7952
    @jerbear7952 Před 7 měsíci

    I can't believe how many Nauruans are in this comment section. There aren't very many period. That is amazing.

  • @feelsbadman1677
    @feelsbadman1677 Před 3 lety +1

    So basically every video about small unknown country’s: So there was a peaceful friendly Country living in harmony, then rich Europeans,Americans or Asians came and just ,you know, destroyed everything for there own goods. Noice

  • @simonpeter5032
    @simonpeter5032 Před 3 lety +1

    Nazi pirates?? *WHY AM I JUST FINDING OUT THAT WAS A THING?!?!?!?!*

  • @cawoahmed5589
    @cawoahmed5589 Před 4 lety

    you so under rated

  • @slappy8941
    @slappy8941 Před 4 lety

    A fool and his bird pop are soon parted.

  • @erdamadam7827
    @erdamadam7827 Před rokem

    fuckin hilarious! definitely subbing

  • @Theturtleowl
    @Theturtleowl Před 3 lety

    All I knew about Nauru was 'Bird poop'.

  • @martinb.3997
    @martinb.3997 Před 3 lety

    So, I was waiting for HOI4 to start up and in the meantime watched this video, and just when they fell the music started playing

  • @CrashTwin
    @CrashTwin Před 4 lety +1

    Do Tuvalu next please

  • @samuelhalsey2671
    @samuelhalsey2671 Před 4 lety +7

    I wanna watch this but I’m at work :(

  • @MS-hj5tw
    @MS-hj5tw Před 4 lety

    Respect the drip Gustav needs to be your Instagram bio

  • @polemarchos9370
    @polemarchos9370 Před 4 lety +1

    Where did you see that the detention centre closed? It’s still operating as far as I’m aware..

  • @nauruball7807
    @nauruball7807 Před 2 lety

    Beatyful

  • @tomasziskierka9557
    @tomasziskierka9557 Před 3 lety

    5:21 ... This is priceless.

  • @rustyyy1k
    @rustyyy1k Před 4 lety

    I’m so glad that the creation of humans phased out the brainlethal, modernly known as the ‘Jaystation’

  • @bradenbeyer5832
    @bradenbeyer5832 Před 3 lety

    “Nauru during the colonial period” then the next slide has the year “1845” , which was during the Victorian era

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  Před 3 lety

      But it was during the colonial period of Nauru. Nauru wasn't a colony during the traditional "colonial period."

    • @bradenbeyer5832
      @bradenbeyer5832 Před 3 lety

      History House Productions ah then my bad , still enjoy your content and I appreciate the clarification

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  Před 3 lety

      No worries at all!