'The Final Costly Year of World War II' with Robert M. Citino

[@steel5791]

Rob Citino never lectures! Rob has a one-sided chat. But every sentence he says gives a perspective, or maybe just nuance on facts you know I have favorites, but Rob is the one who always delivers a medium rare filet, and usually a little desert on the side. 'Another' GREAT lecture.

[@doxun7823]

Talk starts at 19:40

[@whazzat8015]

It's a Jenny Craig Lecture. and you wanted wait loss?

[@amerigo88]

Incorrect. It starts at 19:44

[@whazzat8015]

@@amerigo88 I'm slow to warm up

[@Toe_Merchant]

Citino is a world class orator, one of the greats in military history. I wish he had more of a presence online. His expertise on the fall of Germany would dispel a lot of the ridiculous Wehraboo myths online

[@bmcgehee8074]

I was lucky enough to be a student of his for multiple semesters

[@Ben-zr4ho]

Like you think hes a dweeb not in the high school sense or even middle school but in a grade school kind of way? How old are you 8? And how is this relevant?

[@tonydevos]

Amen

[@tonydevos]

​@@Ben-zr4hoyoure a very confused person

[@bufatutuagonistes8876]

Dr. Citino is a fantastic speaker, deeply knowledgeable about his subject, not afraid of humor or poking a little fun at himself, and yet with a profound understanding and vision. One of America's greatest military historians. If I were stranded on a desert island and could only have two military historians to pass the time with it would be Rob and Craig Symonds, John Parshall and John McManus as the alternates!

[@TimeWarp2000]

Best Citino audio in existence perhaps

[@davidlacroix210]

Yay! New Citino lecture! I love these to pieces

[@JeffreyRees]

What is this? I have never seen Citino on KZbin where audio, visual, and slides were all coordinated until this video 😊

[@Bob.W.]

It starts about 20:00.

[@PMMagro]

Very intersting and well presented!

[@oreo507]

A new Citino lecture? Christmas came early!

[@EldritchMadness]

Jesus Christ get to the speaker already I’m not listening to 15 minutes of round of applauses.

[@Onlytheclouds]

Lol clean the sand outta your Vag and fast forward instead of complaining about this free content

[@The89delta]

19:29, start

[@RickBredlau]

I could listen to Rob all day

[@ZeePhi]

19:39 it all starts how ironic

[@davidlavigne207]

The whole strategies of the Axis powers was to try to win the war quickly through surprise, shock and awe, forcing the Allies to a negotiated peace. When that didn't come about then their policies were to make the war so costly, brutal, expensive and time consuming as to break the morale of the allies and force them to negotiate on that basis. Unconditional surrender was the only real answer to such totalitarian notions. Someone else made a comment about the British and Americans adopting this approach to encourage Stalin not to make a separate peace with Germany. While that may have been part of it, I don't think that Stalin could be trusted to keeping any kind of agreement any more than Hitler could be.

[@Universal_exports87]

51:35, better to risk it surrendering to the Americans or British vs the Soviets. I love Rob Citino, he's as hilarious when he wants to be as he is brilliant.

[@AllenJones-w3p]

In war, victory can be a most agonizing thing.

[@nodirips_8537]

Citino starts at minute 19

[@PalleRasmussen]

To the last question; no. It was mainly the experience of Okinawa, but also the last six months before that; that decided the plan for Japan and the relief of the Bomb.

[@dexculpepper-py1jr]

Listen to Anthony Beevor

[@aurorathekitty7854]

The US army in WW2 was the only army in the world that was fully mechanized. Even the Soviet's still relied on horses some

[@hc8379-f4f]

"unconditional surrender" was designed to assure Stalin that the US and Britain would not do a deal with Hitler against Stalin. This was always Stalin's great fear. Not hard to understand.

[@craigb4913]

Yes, Stalin didn't want the US to do a deal with Hitler, like Stalin's deal with Hitler.

[@Ben-zr4ho]

Precisely… Stalin projected a lot. That’s why he murdered so many people. He projected his own dark soul and untrustworthiness onto others…

[@thevillaaston7811]

Notice that people who ask questions about war crimes and casualties only ask about comparisons between Russian, German, and US casualties, as if British and Canadian matters did not count.

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

Maybe because the British and Canadians didn't commit any war crimes 👼 (did read once the Germans thought it was best to be captured by the British because they always got a cup of tea 🙂)

[@PalleRasmussen]

The Brits and Canadians did not commit many war crimes, nor were they subject to many in Europe.

[@thevillaaston7811]

@@PalleRasmussen 'The Brits and Canadians did not commit many war crimes, nor were they subject to many in Europe.' What? Less than US forces?

[@PalleRasmussen]

@thevillaaston7811 that I cannot say for certain, so I shall refrain from trying. The question was about the Brits and Canadians though.

[@pauljenkins6877]

@@PalleRasmussenCanadian prisoners were the victims of war crimes by the SS in Normandy, and retaliated in kind.

[@clydecessna737]

Nothing new here.

[@xMario209]

Nothing new to you. This was very informative for me.

[@rj521]

Terrible lecture. First of all it starts out with at least 20 minutes of introducing people. Then the speaker just doesn’t give you any facts or interesting material. Just deals in generalities. A lot of mumble jumble with not substance. Go listen to an old Ambrose lecture. You will be more entertained and more importantly truly learn something.

[@whazzat8015]

Spoken like a man with no youtube experience. /s

[@whazzat8015]

? a war without generalities? There is a colonel of truth in that

[@seanbrady6731]

The keynote usually is general or a few nuggets. 20 minutes intro is appalling though.