Édith Piaf during World War Two, Kerensky, and the German Journey to N. Africa - WW2 - OOTF 017

[@WorldWarTwo]

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[@Geckogamer19]

You forgot to pin the comment

[@WorldWarTwo]

geckogamer thanks

[@leary4]

Definitely Indies most audacious fashion statement to date. Checked shirt with solid collar is something ya wouldn't give to syphilis were syphilis a person in need of a shirt. Matching vest? well it is too closely associated with a social disease isn't it. With every color on the poor man's visage running hither and yan it is left to the tie to do the impossible. Truly it is Christ like because there is nothing a Hawaiian print can not save. How many more fashion disasters can Indy pull off at the last moment? Is their a fashion Waterloo in the offing? (perfect knot btw)

[@wanderingRebel69]

Could you guys do an episode on Kurt knispel

[@brokenbridge6316]

Hey has Indy ever been asked how films in German occupied territory were affected. Particularly French films. It could be a nice video.

[@Nabium]

I can understand the French singers playing along with the nazis on one hand, then working against them behind the scene. Not everything is as it seems. I grew up with stories from the war from my grandmother. And she told me how they had Mein Kamps and Knut Hamsun books in their bookshelves, and were not allowed to show any kind of support for the Norwegian resistance or say anything against the Germans when in school or in public. That was very difficult for a young girl who just wanted to fit in, and the only one who understood her was one of her teachers. That teacher was of course an associate of the resistance fighters and knew why my grandmother could not wear paper clip on her shirt like all the other kids(a symbol of Norwegian resistance during the start of the war) or do any such things, or why they had mein kampf in their bookshelf at home. The first thing they did when the war was over was to burn that book, and the works of Knut Hamsun as well. And then her father came home, which she hadn't seen for three years because he was busy hiding from the Germans and blowing up rail lines and assasinating German soldiers. Things are not always as it seems, and her class mates must have felt a punch in the face after teasing her throughout the war. Europe is filled up with millions of individual stories, about to be forgotten. I really appreciate your dedicated work on the war and all the details, every week of the war. This channel is just amazing in that way, helps me try to understand the war and see the wider context to those stories I grew up with.

[@beachboy0505]

Resist the Nazis until November rain : Kerensky knew his motherland

[@Custerd1]

Beach Boy His attitude goes far toward explaining why the Soviets (well, a lot of them) didn’t welcome the nazis as liberators. Even though many Ukrainians did at first, they quickly changed their minds once they saw the nazis’ brutality.

[@TheCimbrianBull]

*Razputitsa intensifies*

[@briantarigan7685]

Every Russians knows their motherland

[@agactual2]

Do "The Hundred Years Wars: Week by Week" !

[@peletsoivre9110]

Honestly, why not making it but every week telling a whole year.

[@eduardovaldivia5572]

Year by year I’d watch that.

[@chad12345678]

Surprised kerensky never got the Trotsky treatment.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

He was lucky - the Soviet intelligence services sometimes even managed to get to Tsarist exiles, like General Miller, who was abducted from France in 1937 and shot in the USSR in 1939.

[@Anwandere]

I admit, I was confused that Kerensky lived after 1936...

[@francescobar9052]

actually he had a very long life and died in 1970, at 89

[@Anwandere]

Good to know, I never knew much about him so it's nice to have a wider perspective.

[@saint4life09]

Him being assassinated in 1936 is ingrained in my mind

[@RazgrizWing]

Huh what? He was assassinated in 1936, and who is this hitler douchebag? Where is the Kaiser? And how is Franklin Roosevelt still alive?

[@tommy-er6hh]

@@saint4life09 I think you are mixed up with Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico by Stalin

[@gianniverschueren870]

Astrid, you are SPOILING me with this tie. 5/5

[@yourstruly4817]

As long as they are long and thin, right?

[@fredaaron762]

I'd love to see you cover the story of the great guitarist Django Reinhardt who was a Belgian Romani. He actually returned to Paris from London when the war broke out, leaving behind his band (including the violinist Stephane Grappelli) and his wife, and managed to survive in the Occupied Zone for the duration of the War.

[@sigurdueland5194]

I agree

[@hamish5214]

I'm such a great fan of Reinhardt and Grappeli...that music means freedom!

[@TheAsianIdiot]

Oh wow. Didn't think about Kerensky still being around. Love all the new things I learn from this channel.

[@darrynmurphy2038]

The guy lived into the 70s, long after Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin had passed. Kind of weird how he played such a short historical role and had such a long life

[@stevekaczynski3793]

He lived until 1970. Anti-Communist Russian emigrés went in various political directions after Barbarossa. Some supported the Germans, with a number acting as interpreters for the invading forces. Others decided Mother Russia was under threat and supported the USSR against the invasion.

[@tomservo56954]

@@darrynmurphy2038 The day Stalin passed in 1953, Kerensky appeared on the then-new TODAY SHOW to discuss the subject...

[@joeyjamison5772]

I'm from the New York City area originally, but this goes to show you how old I am. Back in high school, my 11th grade history teacher told us one day that he had met Alexander Kerensky at Rutgers University when Kerensky was invited to speak there, I think he said it was in 1965. Kerensky died 5 years later.

[@Jay-zt1pq]

Can't wait for the resistance music special!

[@autokukk88]

Can't wait for Indy to humm all the instruments in 10 minutes.

[@loddude5706]

@@autokukk88 Let's hope they shave his chest to make room for the accordion . . .

[@nicholasnewlin1138]

As a millennial, I find Edith Piaf to be one of my favourite World War II era singers. I discovered her music when I was 14. Gotta love "Tu es partout." My biggest favourite is Vera Lynn, Rest In Peace.

[@Valdagast]

Kerensky failed for a very important reason - he did not have magnificent facial hair. Russia can only be ruled by someone with a magnificent beard, mustache, or both.

[@gameoflife9576]

Tell that to Putin.

[@Alex-fv2qs]

@@gameoflife9576 And tp Khrushchev and Brezhnev

[@Darwinek]

@@Alex-fv2qs Brezhnev had a massive single eyebrow

[@TheCimbrianBull]

@@Darwinek Eyebrows on fleek! 👀

[@harveybeaver9731]

He should have noticed that Moscow usually alternates between bald and hairy politicians.

[@GeneralSmitty91]

Must be serious if Alex is willing to endorse those who deposed him

[@kennethbedwell5188]

Benjamin Smith your country is still your country even when you have to leave. Trust me, I know.

[@kb866825]

There were quite a few who had been imprisoned or exiled by the soviets who were rehabilitated during the war. Writers who had been imprisoned for criticizing the regime were released to be propagandists etc.

[@kb866825]

@@kennethbedwell5188 "rehabilitated" as in "had their public image redeemed and were permitted to participate in society again. It's the same terminology used when describing how Kruschev revised the Stalinist history to exonerate purge victims as well, I didn't decide what the terminology for it is

[@general2109]

He realized it was a war of extermination, and had no wish to see his people destroyed. At that point he realized the Soviet state and the Red Army were the only ones that could stop the Germans.

[@True_Bits]

What is Hötzendorf doing here?! We don't want him to mess something AGAIN, do we?

[@marzbanofmerv2324]

Oh boy trust me you do.

[@TheCimbrianBull]

Oddly enough, he is giving me Cadorna vibes.

[@samsmith2635]

@@marzbanofmerv2324 Random Fan: Oh Noes Hötzendorf! Hötzendorf: *DROPS IT*

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Never thought of the Kerensky question one. (I am confused how did I start a war in the comments? I didn't even do it deliberately)

[@jamiehacker7059]

as socialist as Frederick Ebert was lol

[@maximilianolimamoreira5002]

@@jamiehacker7059 are you trying to be ironic?

[@jamiehacker7059]

@@maximilianolimamoreira5002 well both the SRs and the SPD were responsible for suppressing socialist movements and allying with the military to do so, whether that's right or not is another question but shooting workers really puts a bit of a question on one's socialist portfolio

[@exnihilo5087]

@@maximilianolimamoreira5002 Depending on the definition, Social Democracy is sometimes considered a form of Non-Marxist Socialism.

[@timmmahhhh]

I didn't either, assumed he was irrelevant or dead after the Oct/Nov revolution. Another reason to love this channel and learn of such details!

[@gordonhopkins1573]

Oddly enough Kerensky ended up working in my home sate of California for Stanford in Palo Alto, CA, I think Gorbachev, also spent some time her in Alta CA:) cheers

[@Nereidhar]

I love these videos: they are accessible, informative, and encourage curiosity towards usually forgotten subjects (like the life of pop musicians under occupation, I admit that I had never thought about that ). Keep up the good work gang!

[@remenir97]

Actually regarding Paris, would you guys cover the Grand Paris Mosque role in saving Jews?

[@GeertTheDestoyer]

Just read about that after seeing your comment, would be an awesome topic to cover.

[@nadirzacaria4554]

The Grand Paris Mosque effectively had at many times hide jews from an imminent death.

[@serendipitousconversations]

Great idea, would love to know more too!!

[@Darwinek]

Nice touch on the wartime musicians in Paris. Not everywhere had artists helped their occupied country though. For example, majority of Czech film industry more or less openly collaborated with the German and Protectorate authorities, living a high life, while the country was under a Nazi German boot.

[@edwardcamp3376]

Now I can't wait for the music special! Georges Brassens' story is always worth retelling :)

[@EdMcF1]

Little-known now, but after WW2 Édith Piaf caused a storm by dining in the first Korean restaurant to open in Paris. She was accussed of betraying French cuisine, but she boldly rounded on her critics, declaring 'Je ne regrette chien!'.

[@TheBoshy]

5:52 I was stupid confused I heard "Will one day be called Francis "Frank" Sinatra and was so bloody lost there for a moment.

[@michaelfodor6280]

Same here. He was called France's "Frank Sinatra" to clarify. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Aznavour

[@karameldanzen]

I heard the same exact thing lmao

[@lewisirwin5363]

Hah, *"Frank"* Sinatra!

[@cisium1184]

Did I ever tell you my Dad met Kerensky? He studied Russian history at UMass, and Kerensky came to speak.

[@clydecessna737]

I played crocket with Kerensky's son Oleg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Kerensky at The Roehampton Club; I had just seen Nicholas and Alexandra, a book and film anyone watching this video will enjoy immensely, I was a bit over awed but found him a nice man. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_and_Alexandra

[@edithpiaf7846]

As a big french fan of Édith Piaf, I imagine Édith Piaf be like : "Oh hello new german neighbor, want some music ?" I can't stop laugh.

[@vladdythebear5872]

I always felt bad for Kerensky. He was an ideal reformist for Russia, but not the stronger leader it needed at the time. Its sad that he fell into somewhat obscurity after the revolution

[@juniatapark54]

Maybe part of Kerensky's weakness was that his brand of politics didn't have a mass base. The revolutionary writer Victor Serge recounted how in circa 1920 Bolshevik Moscow, plenty of people, including Bolsheviks, had ideas of what would be best, what should happen, but those ideas didn't have much power in the elemental, atavistic, situation.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

He was a byword for political ineffectiveness during this time. Some of the July 20 plotters against Hitler advocated arresting him rather than assassination, but another one dismissed this as a "Kerensky solution" - ie. half-hearted and not likely to succeed.

[@frankwhite3406]

A most interesting episode indeed.

[@jurtra9090]

This reminds me of Saving Private Ryan. Capt. Miller mentioned Edith Piaf a few times

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

You should tell the story of Django Reinhardt during the war. That's a very strange tale.

[@indianajones4321]

The Chair of Infinite Knowledge returns

[@JerkerMontelius]

Do a special about Joséphine Baker. She got Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur for her work during the war.

[@welatxwese8074]

Hey Indy, nice video as always. May I ask you to represent Kurds more in these series? For example in 1941 they played a role in overthrowing the pro Nazi, Iraqi government. I feel like you barely mentioned Kurds in world war 1 and would be very disappointed if you did it here too. Your videos are great, don't get me wrong. I just wished that you talked about them from time to time :') Also there were many Kurds fighting on the allied side, the most 'known' one: Samand Aliyevich Siabandov (lieutenant colonel ). He was awarded: The Lenin Order and the hightest order of Soviets “Hero of the Soviet Union.” There was also some Kurds in the British army: By 1942, the Iraq Levies consisted of a Headquarters, a Depot, Specialist Assyrian companies, 40 service companies and the 1st Parachute Company, which consisted of 75% Assyrian and 25% Kurd. The new Iraq Levies Disciplinary Code was based largely on the Indian Army Act. In the British army there were the following Kurdish troops: 39th Kurdish company less one platoon -Habbaniya 27th Kurdish company -Majara 41st Kurdish coy -Karind 33rd Yezidi koy-karind 1 platoon 39th Kurdish coy -Karind 13th Kurdish coy -Nicosia 44th Kurdish coy less one platoon -Nicosia 44th Kurdish coy one platoon - Lakatamia 40th Kurdish coy -Famagusta 30th Kurdish coy - Ras el Ain 8th Kurdish coy -In transit to Habbaniya Comment: #2

[@Wawrzon161]

that's very interesting, I would really like a special about Assyrian Levies, although Kurds played lesser role than in WW1

[@caryblack5985]

I recommend highly the film The Sorrow and the Pity as a great way to learn about what was going on in France from 1940 to1944

[@RobertKFall]

You left out Josephine Baker, She got the Legion of Honor for her service.

[@Jekubman]

She'll probably get her own special episode.

[@RobertKFall]

@@Jekubman good

[@oldmangimp2468]

When was Alexander Kerensky put into cryogenic stasis, enabling him to eventually command the SLDF during the Amaris Civil War and the Exodous?

[@oldmangimp2468]

@@goldenfiberwheat238 It's from the Battletech role playing game (the wiki is located at sarna.net). The Star League Defense Force was led by... ...General Alexander Kerensky. I would reccomend watching a two part lecture by the Black Pants Legion featuring Keresky. They should be at the top of a YT search for "amaris civil war". . BTW, would you happen to have a flag with a two-headed bear on it?

[@oldmangimp2468]

@@goldenfiberwheat238 You are a good person. Ave, true to Caesar.

[@ldjkvfapbklmj9256]

Kerensky was once upon a time a classmate of Lenin. In Provisional Government of Russia no body do not understands why Kerensky not issuing order for Lenin's arrest in july-october 1917.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

The political élite was rather small and many knew each other - Kerensky's father wrote a reference so the young Lenin could study at university, despite his elder brother having been executed for involvement in a conspiracy to assassinate the Tsar. Pilsudski's older brother Bronislaw was mixed up in the same conspiracy and knew Lenin's brother, though not Lenin himself.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

There was an arrest order, and Lenin escaped to Finland, which was semi-autonomous after the February Revolution and the Russian government's writ did not fully operate there. He did take the precaution of shaving his moustache and beard and wearing a wig while a fake ID was prepared. At the time of the October Revolution Lenin probably had designer stubble rather than a moustache and beard, despite all the film and picture portrayals of him, as he had only emerged from hiding a few days before. In his first official portrait as government head, taken in January 1918, his beard and moustache are still relatively short. The first picture of him in a Russian magazine after seizing power was a Tsarist police arrest photo of him dating from 1898, as no more recent photos were available. The Provisional Government also had trouble managing its own bureaucracy. Kerensky was preoccupied with the Russian army's last failed offensive against the Central Powers in the summer of 1917. I doubt whether Kerensky was trying to do Lenin favours. He just had many other priorities and fully mastered none of them.

[@tkmedia2388]

@@stevekaczynski3793 Agree with your point on the Provisional Gov having too many responsibilities. As recent as the 1980s, even the most anti-Red Anglosphere writers agreed that so long WW1 continued, the Provisional Gov getting its act together was near impossible. In Feb/Mar 2017, some western journalists, for some strange reason, criticized Putin for not commemorating the Feb Revolution 100th anniversary. Despite Putin not commemorating both revolutions, he still received criticism for Bolshevik 100. Interestingly, practically no Anglosphere historian seemed to refer to Russia's official name during this time. They just described it as the Provisional Gov. Apparently, according to Wikipedia, the name was Republic of Russia.

[@Southsideindy]

Lenin fled the country after the July days. Too hot for him at home.

[@Themanwithnoname64]

Indy! Love the show, this is greatest show for history I’ve seen. Two questions:1) I know this is still two years away, I hope you will cover the Valkyrie plot, but will you also do a special on how many times Hitler was almost assassinated? 2)are there any plans for timeghost to expand your history series beyond 20th century history? Thank you for answering.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Yes and yes

[@rmod42]

Well it seems like Kerensky wasn't really pulling his weight. With 80% of the SLDF at his disposal you'd think he'd have more of an impact.

[@williamcain7022]

He was busy handling dissidence from Smoke Jaguar.

[@servinglooks247]

You forgot one very important part about Édith Piaf. She actually performed in German POW camps where French soldiers where held and she insisted that the French Tricolore must be hung, and she sven managed to perform her more patriotic songs like Mon Légioner.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Sometimes I wonder if these are stories made up to say "I was not really a collabo..." A lot of people will have some explaining to do in 1944 and 1945.

[@gwtpictgwtpict4214]

@@stevekaczynski3793 I'm sure that happened, but at the same time appearing to confirm to you new Nazi overlords requirements while working against them surreptitiously in the background makes a lot of sense.

[@tkmedia2388]

@@stevekaczynski3793 Apparently, most Frenchmen (& women) initially decided to do the minimum in order to placate Hitler. Then came Barbarossa and some right-wingers thought it was a good time to support the German war effort against the Reds. Things got even more complicated when the Resistance was increasingly dominated by the Left. Stalin never really saw France on equal status with UK-US and supposedly agreed only on post-War Germany divided into 3 zones. It was US-UK that was said to have donated part of their zones to include the French.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 A lot of people were doing that - it could be basic survival strategy in a difficult time but it makes historical judgments more difficult. A Czech Communist, later executed, managed to write a book in prison and had it smuggled out page by page by sympathetic guards. He mentioned some guards (mostly Czechoslovak citizens who claimed ethnic German status) were so opportunistic that it was possible to tell how the war was going. If guards were very strict, the Germans were doing well. If they loosened up, the Germans were doing badly. If they stressed that they were really Czechs and had been pressurised into claiming official German status, the Red Army was clearly doing really well in the east.

[@maximilianolimamoreira5002]

thanks,Indy,for the notification,stay healthy both you,and your crew.🥰

[@TheJojoaruba52]

Thank you for great history lessons.

[@andrasbeke3012]

Could we see a biography on the Horthy's in the future? They have some interesting stories around them

[@kevinbowen6182]

Q: A little ahead of the series, but after driving them from North Africa, why didn't the Allies sign a peace treaty with Mussolini, create him as an Italian Franco, and save time and resources to invade France and fight Germany?

[@tkmedia2388]

Mussolini by then was unacceptable to the WAs, The King tried to create an Italian Franco in the form of Pietro Badoglio but the Germans swiftly moved to take control of much of Italy. On this issue, few people seemed to have asked why after it became clear the Germans were able to slow down the WAs after Sep 1943 due to the terrain, the WAs did not try to bypass central Italy and land directly on the north Italian plain or moved to Southern France in late 1943/early 1944? One online answer was the supposed lack of air support (UK was the unsinkable aircraft carrier for Op Overlord) but no one else seemed to have taken much interest.

[@pnutz_2]

the music special sounds like a good idea, just heaps of heaps of 1940s music to chill to

[@GhastlytheTinkerer]

Us Battletech players know how Alexander Kerensky is too.

[@brokenbridge6316]

This was a very informative video to watch. Great job.

[@mairepcod4063]

Thanks,

[@burimfazliu3102]

That picture of Rommel isn't really flattering

[@calebjoost899]

We are taught about thw French Resistance more than any other Resistance. What other resistance(s) had a large impact on Germany?

[@caryblack5985]

Without a doubt the Soviet Partizans, then the Yugoslavs and the Greeks.

[@zosimus2.18i2]

I know there where a lot of Soviets pows on eastern front. A lot of them were even used to built up nationalist military regiments and armies to fight the Soviet Union. Any details on this subject?

[@caryblack5985]

You might take a look at this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Vlasov

[@stevekaczynski3793]

At least a million USSR citizens, many of them former Red Army POWs, joined pro-Axis armed units of one kind or another. With some exceptions their military quality was negligible - for the most part they were used as garrison troops, often in Western Europe, or to fight partisans. Tsarist anti-Bolshevik exiles living in Yugoslavia formed a "Russian protective corps" under German sponsorship and it was used to fight Tito's Partisans. Their head, Boris Shteifon, asked for the unit to be transferred to Russia to fight the Red Army but the request was not granted. SPOILER Shteifon died on April 30, 1945 in Slovenia, the same day as Hitler. He had lain down feeling unwell and was later found dead. It may have been suicide - things were not going well for pro-Axis forces - but this has not been proved.

[@patmctallica3522]

00:38 Are you joking??? This is Spatracus J. Olsson ! ! !

[@michaelshenk6847]

Any new information about the cast of Les Enfants du Paradis? Part of it was filmed during the Occupation. A few cast members were accused of collaborating when the war ended. I know that Arletty was acquited of charges.

[@jamesharmer9293]

That's quite a tie !!!

[@erikgranqvist3680]

How much time does Indy use for training to get pronunciation right on names from different countries? I think its an awesome job well done!

[@gordybing1727]

Hi All, book, The Good War by Mr. Studs Terkel. idea, Mr. Terkel talks about Chicago, during the period. Also, Mr. Mike Royko covered the city from a little different perspective. Do an OOTF episode about Chicago. The play and movie "The Front Page" takes place during this time. Thanks, take care.

[@TheIfifi]

Good to know Hotzendörf is still looking out for us.

[@stefanoskolovouris7223]

You are very good, and your informations are correct, congratulations!

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks!

[@stevenwhite7763]

Love the calendar confusion.

[@markmerzweiler909]

I want to congratulate you on taking an alternative route to deliver history!

[@tng2057]

I really despise the film ‘La Vie En Rose’ a as few years back which totally blocked-out E Piaf’s career during WW2. Why does that film still get the praise it really does not deserve?

[@hannahskipper2764]

Great stuff!! When is Molotov's Cocktails coming back?

[@sharpie660]

I second the necessity to discuss musicians in occupied territories in full.

[@loddude5706]

'Don't worry lads, we can keep the gig - as long as we change a few lyrics . . .'

[@jamiepeter3567]

an Ian q&a and an out of the foxholes on the same day... what unknown act of kindness have i done to deserve such providence? :)

[@Dave-sz6lk]

Hi Indy, one for the "Out of the Foxholes". Great work!! I will not extend my compliments cause you are very busy, just to say that you should qualify for the Nobel in education by now. Maybe a difficult question but do you know by chance if there was a Japanese subsidy for the families of deceased soldiers in WW2? Did they get an allowance for life? Did the rank matter to receive the subsidy? Could it be possible to even know the amount per military rank? Some time ago, we got to know that a relative of my wife passed away during the war and more interesting than the subsidy itself is to find out who that soldier was, information that definitely will be hard to find in Japan. Thank you for your time!!

[@QuizmasterLaw]

W in German and Slavic alike sounds like English V.

[@poiuyt975]

W in all European languages BUT English sounds like English V. :-) Funny thing is that Indy pronounce the first "W" in Witkowski properly. I guess you can blame The Big Lebowski for the mispronounciation. ;-)

[@QuizmasterLaw]

@@poiuyt975 that's a mighty snazzy tie, mighty snazzy indeed! Be a shame, a crying shame, if the talking head on top of it were to casually ... mispronounce ... a Word, huh!

[@poiuyt975]

@@QuizmasterLaw What?

[@QuizmasterLaw]

@@poiuyt975 everyone knows the guy who mis-pronounces is the spy and must be purged!!

[@sigurdueland5194]

You should have mentioned Django Reinhardt

[@SuperLusername]

So they started with Debussy and finished on the Bach?

[@drpapa26]

We see you down there, Conrad Von Hötzendorf!

[@SebastianTomescu]

Question: How often was it for soldier on both sides to be the same nationality? There is a movie from Estonia called 1944 in which something like this happens. Some SS estonian soldiers fight against some soviet soldiers and at one point they realize they are all estonians.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Often

[@stevekaczynski3793]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4rbkJ1robSbodk Extract from a Soviet film from 1985 "Батальоны просят огня" ("Battalions Request Fire"). A Russian former Red Army soldier who joined Vlasov's ROA is captured by Red Army soldiers.

[@rabihrac]

The calendar controversy is very funny!

[@breamsegovia]

You didn't mention Django Reinhardt!

[@dangerouslytalented]

Robert Clary had to sing for German officers every weekend when he was a prisoner

[@thebog11]

How unfortunate, but also how fortunate that he had a gift that probably saved his life.

[@islandrevenant5746]

Hey Indy, I’m a huge fan of your work. I’ve had one question lately about what happened to the judges at Hitler’s trial after the Beer Hall Push. What were their lives like after his rise to power, and did they live long enough to see their country burn in large part because of their decision?

[@RandomRetr0]

A short series on resistance music would be amazing

[@harveybeaver9731]

7:30 Who nominates Afrika Korps' insignia as the most appropriate symbol in the African Theatre?

[@GraafBerengeur]

can I give the tiniest of nitpicks? In French spelling, capitalised letters with accents don't exist. In other words, when a letter is capitalised, it never gets an accent. So, even though Edith *should* get the accent aigu, it doesn't, since Edith is a name, and names are always capitalised.

[@jordanjarrett1868]

I have a question what happend to Germans who had been imprisoned in country's eg poland/France prior to the Germans invasion for laws that may have been broken under that country's law but no under german where they fread or where they left in prison

[@johnstewart3244]

Strange that everyone in France fought in the Resistance after all!

[@Loreless]

they are winners for some reason

[@ulrichkalber9039]

about 110%...

[@halnywiatr]

Je ne regrette rien!

[@stevekaczynski3793]

I think the entire Patreon goes on those neckties.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

The German propaganda magazine Signal mentioned Maurice Chevalier and published photos of him during a performance in Paris. Like others he had some explaining to do after the Liberation, although he managed to escape the collaborator tag.

[@jimmyjackson9558]

I just was watching saving private Ryan and she is singing in it what a coincidence

[@patrickward8983]

Bella Caio episode confirmed!

[@thebog11]

7:30 Pretty sure the Afrika Korps emblem looks different than that, unless they used multiple ones.

[@LuckysMotorcycles]

Hummm, I thought that this whole video would be about Edith , not just 5 seconds !

[@kennethbedwell5188]

What is interesting is Hitler thought the Paris opera was Gaudy and over done.

[@kennethbedwell5188]

It was just an observation

[@percamihai-marco7157]

It's sad that you can't recommend The Great War episodes, like that about the October Revolution

[@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding]

You guys should do an episode on the white russians who supported the axis.

[@wanderingRebel69]

Day 2 of asking for an episode about kurt knispel

[@jkilla9934]

bit early, no?

[@Skogsmard]

Why is there a portrait of Conrad von hötzendorf down on the floor? IIRC he died before WWII began.

[@mach1chap]

Did the Germans understand the scurrilous words sung by British P.O.Ws. to the tune of "Colonel Bogey"? If so, what did they do about it?

[@doomed1673]

Oi! I demand some mention of Django Reinhardt!

[@QuizmasterLaw]

No! I regret nothing no! No! I regret nought at all! Not the good nor the bad! ... Je Ne Regrettes Rien!

[@fillythesurvivor873]

La vie en rose

[@maximilianolimamoreira5002]

nice music.

[@mbathroom1]

Yes I'm one of the earliest great video as usual

[@davidjohansson1459]

Joseph Kosma ser ut som Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Joseph Kosma looks like Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

[@dragosstanciu9866]

Poor Kerensky, forced to see Russia enslaved by communism and then invaded by the cruel Nazis.

[@hueylongdong347]

Poorer Russian (and others) who actually have to experience that

[@dragosstanciu9866]

@@hueylongdong347 Exactly.

[@vladdythebear5872]

Mars Attacks To be fair, Petrograd was taken by the Bolsheviks with very little fighting. I think more importantly it gave the Bolsheviks much more support after they defeated Kornilov, way more than the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries had

[@konstantinkelekhsaev302]

Without communism there would be no Russia.

[@dragosstanciu9866]

@@konstantinkelekhsaev302 Seriously? How so?

[@isakhan87]

Edith Piaf!!!!

[@amadeusamwater]

If the chair has infinite knowledge, do we really need Indy?

[@edwardblair4096]

Well the CHAIR has infinite knowledge, but we need Indy to supply the words that will transmit that knowledge to us.

[@tomjustis7237]

@@edwardblair4096 You beat me to it.