V-1: Hitler's Deluded Revenge Plan - War Against Humanity 090

[@WorldWarTwo]

As if it wasn't already, the lines between this war becoming even more blurred. Both Indy's World War Two week by week series and Sparty's War Against Humanity series are necessary to fully understand the development of this conflict. Join the TimeGhost Army: bit.ly/WAH_090_PI

[@nickdanger3802]

Hansard WAR SITUATION AND FOREIGN POLICY HC Deb 18 January 1945 vol 407 cc376-493

[@R2Manny]

Never forget

[@stephenandersen4625]

IDK. This both sides were the same trope gets old. Flawed as the Allies might be (and Stalin was very flawed) I can only think of one side that had industrialized murder camps. The difference in the civilian death total is just eye opening.

[@glennpettersson9002]

Since January 1943 Sir Edward(Weary)Dunlop has been fighting for humanity on the Thai-Burma Railway, in the words of the people who endured with him, he was " A lighthouse of sanity in a universe of madness and suffering".

[@michaelsmyth3935]

@@stephenandersen4625 Stalin, he had death camps. Called them Gulags. He also starved millions, on purpose, before the war, so......

[@TheTrickster923]

Thanks for shining a light on Speer's true culpability. I remember checking out Speer's memoir, Inside the Third Reich, as a child and sneaking it home to read under the covers at night. Looking back, while his books did spark my love of learning about this period of history, it also did much to fill my mind with myths and mislead me about many things, especially his own involvement in the atrocities of the regime.

[@dogcarman]

You should read “The good nazi” by Dan van der Vat. It strips all illusions about Speer away and reveals what he truly was: a nazi by conviction and sycophant for Hitler.

[@sonoftherabbitpeople4737]

I read that book when rather young and got the same impression.

[@davidingle8983]

Same here Dan Van Der Vat wrote a great takedown book about his memoir It's called: The Good Nazi, the Life and Lies of Albert Speer Highly recommend it

[@chrisferatu1793]

Sorry that you had to read an autobiography under the covers as a child!

[@TheTrickster923]

@@chrisferatu1793 I count myself fortunate. I was born before helicopter parenting became a thing, so I was allowed to walk across town to the library by myself and walk out with a war criminal's memoirs at the age of ten. Nowadays, Karens are trying to get harmless books about gay penguins pulled from libraries.

[@waukivorycopse2402]

If anyone is interested there is a 1965 film about the V1 story called Operation Crossbow. The first 3/4 of the movie are the usual Hollywood adventure derring do and then the last part, holy moly, does it get dark. I'd use the words violent, callous and sordid but they don't do it justice. Let's just say the hero does NOT get the girl and head off into the sunset at the end.

[@elveheim]

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[@jovanweismiller7114]

#СлаваУкраїні #ПеремогаУкраїни 🇺🇦

[@caryblack5985]

From The Third Reich At War by Evans p 666 The V2 killed no more than 5,000 people but cost the lives of about 20,000 slave laborers who built them. "The V2 was thus, as its historian Michael Neufeld has remarked 'a unique weapon: more people died producing it than died from being hit by it'.

[@heimao-tingzi]

I must thank the TimeGhost team and Sparty for the layout of these episodes, bringing the victims' names, experiences, and lives to the forefront. These cannot be easy events to cover, but you do so in a way that gives the victims dignity and voice, and that reminds us that the perpetrators were human, just like their victims, and just like all of us. It is chilling, but necessary, and so many of the events covered by these episodes are ones I've never heard of before. We must remember the costs of all these actions in human lives, regardless of what side of the war they were on, and that those who are ostensibly the "bad guys" are not the only ones capable of committing atrocities and war crimes. Thank you again, and keep up the good work. Never forget.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Never forget

[@neilwilson5785]

@@WorldWarTwo We don't forget.

[@guywilson8598]

The final statement in this piece was both powerful and moving.

[@whitepanties2751]

I visited Kalavrita in the north Peloponese in Greece, mentioned in this episode in the early 1990s. The church on the main square had two clock towers, one of which told the time and the other was stopped at 2.40. On the streets of the town one could see young men and middle aged men but no old men. Reason: at 2.40pm one day in 1943 the Germans assembled all the male inhabitants aged 15 or over outside the town and machine gunned them all to death. A few kilometres away is the ancient monastery of Mega (pronounced 'Meya' in Modern Greek) Speilion, meaning the Great Cave. The monastery is built in a cave at the foot of a cliff. Contemporaneous with the massacre at Kalavrita, the Germans took all the monks up to the top of the cliff and threw them off to their deaths. There is a memorial to them listing their names and ages, ranging from the 80 year old Abbot to a novice of 13.

[@Phoenix-ej2sh]

I needed that story of the prisoners who were saved from the cold. Thank you.

[@flyforce16]

Is that a Dr. Strangelove reference in the thumbnail photo? Excellently done!

[@moblinmajorgeneral]

Yeeeeeahoooo! Aaaaaah wahaaaaaah! Hooooo! 💥

[@nivlacyevips]

Rekon a fella could have a nice weekend in Vegas with all this stuff

[@jerryw6699]

@@nivlacyevips was that from slim pickens?

[@knightsnight5929]

I grew up on a farm in rural Sussex, which is to the South of London. I have distinct memories of playing in the woods and finding lumps of twisted metal, some quite large, which we were told were pieces of Doodle Bugs shot down or flipped over by the RAF, while on their way to London. There was even a large, fairly deep hole in one of the fields which were apparently made when a Doodle Bug came down, and killed a number of cows that were waiting to be milked. At the time, I thought that this was all pretty cool.

[@joshuablair7028]

It makes your head spin when you truly consider that each of the millions of dead in WW2 were a living consciousness with thoughts feelings, and a unique perspective of the world around them. All extinguished for the hate and ego of a few narcissistic cowards. Never forget.

[@jojonesjojo8919]

The V2 was a bad programme for the Germans. It was very poor in terms of the damage and disruption it caused versus its productions costs. But the V1 was a very different animal. This section of the V1 article in Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb#Assessment - gives a good introduction to how cost effective it was. Bear in mind also that the V2 was not really cutting edge technology. The first flying bomb design dated back to 1935. It could have been introduced a couple of years earlier than it was and the bang per buck (or per Reichsmark) would have worked very much in Germany's favour. It wasn't a war winning weapon but it could have been something similar to the U Boat from 1939 to early 1943 - ultimately defeated, but at a far higher resource cost to the allies than to the Axis.

[@tancreddehauteville764]

"Bomber" Harris lived under a delusion that major wars can be won by air bombing alone - a grave mistake. Bombings certainly caused death and destruction, but this was on a wide an unfocused scale, with deaths concentrated not necessarily on workers, but on passive civilians, namely women, old people and, tragically, children. It was only very late in the war that the air bombing campaign caused massive economic disruption in Germany, and by then Germany was on her last legs anyway. The RAF bombing campaign cost the lives of 55,000 airmen and millions of pounds in costs, plus the lives of 500,000 or so German civilians and 50,000 non-German workers in Germany (figures that include victims of USAAF air attacks). Was this effort worthwhile? I think not. Had the millions spent on heavy bombers been spent on high speed precision bombers instead, the investment would have been more effective in supporting allied ground forces.

[@themagicrabbit1877]

Was Arthur Harris's intent to bomb German people intentionally known to the British people? I have a (completely fictional) children's novel published in 1943 in which a British person claims that the British night bombers do not target civilian homes intentionally. Obviously Harris would disagree with this author, but is that more likely due to ignorance or dishonesty on the part of the author of this novel?

[@frankwitte1022]

It's part of the UK national myth even today that 'Bomber' Harris was a 'good guy' who only caused civilian casualties due to unavoidable collateral damage. He has a memorial in central London, (1dh, 265 Strand, Temple, London WC2R 1DH) and the people visiting it and writing Google reviews about it are deploring how the man "never got the recognition he deserved"🙄. There's no reference anywhere to the victims of his decisions, tactics, strategies and policies. He's considered a Hero and some even think he should receive greater reverence.

[@whitepanties2751]

My Mother was a schoolgirl near London at the time and remembers the distinctive sound of the V1 flying bombs as they came over, different from other aircraft. When the sound stopped people knew that the engine had cut out and the bomb was about to fall. It took 20 seconds for the bomb to reach the ground. People anxiously counted seconds and if they reached 20 and were still alive they knew the bomb would land somewhere else. After another few seconds, depending on how far away it fell, the sound of the explosion reached them as the flying bomb fell on someone else.

[@jayjayson9613]

What a terrible experience for a young girl to live through. God Bless her.

[@emmisysquire9684]

Hey Sparty, Thank you for this video, it answered the main question I had from Indy’s video earlier this week (regarding the effectiveness of the Allied bombing campaign) In your episodes, I sometimes just look up the names you bring up, of the survivors, but especially of the people perpetrating the crimes, and it sometimes infuriates me that these monsters were sometimes given early amnesty and end up living normal lives after the war ends

[@657449]

Tyranny is always going to be something to deal with. Now it has other names to make it look nicer. Never forget those who in their meager way, tried to stop it.

[@gunman47]

Somewhat interesting to learn the colonial British administration's reaction to the Japanese bombing of Calcutta, where things seem to have been covered up. Also even at this stage of the war, the Germans were more obsessed with getting their revenge V-1 rockets ready for use against Britain rather than solving their current Eastern Front problems. The shooting of POWs and civilians in occupied Greece is an unfortunate and sad thing that happened and partly a foreshadowing of things to come. Thank you Sparty for this episode and as always, never forget.

[@divarachelenvy]

Our Australian government deliberately downplayed the Darwin attacks too..

[@kperaki]

If you want to and are interrested in the right pronounciations of Greek names, I would gladly help. I greatly enjoy this series and would like to thank you for your absolutely great work!

[@hannahskipper2764]

Another heartfelt job well done, Sparty. Thank you and the team for such excellent work. I'm sure it's a rough slog to get through and I appreciate that you do it just for us. Never forget.

[@jeffersonwright9275]

Nice to find out that after WWII, SS commander Heinrich Schwarz was executed by firing squad in Baden-Baden by the French Army for his brief tenure as camp commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof

[@ahorsewithnoname773]

I often pause videos as well to check to see what happened to the monsters mentioned in it. Glad some at least of those involved with genocide got what they deserved. Others unfortunately did not.

[@JustSomeCanuck]

1943: This war isn't going well. Mobilize 300,000 more soldiers! 2022: This war isn't going well. Mobilize 300,000 more soldiers! Sure, history never repeats itself. #EpicSarcasm

[@ewok40k]

History might not repeat itself verbatim, but it does make excellent rhymes... 1943: our planes cant get to the UK thru air defences - lets cruise missile them to death! 2022: our planes cant get to Ukrainian cities thru air defences - lets cruise missile them to death!

[@pietervonck3264]

History repeats, first as a tragedy, than as a farce.

[@rickhobson3211]

Brilliant again, Sparty. Thank you and your team for creating these. A question: Were you named after the Roman slave who led a revolt against Rome?

[@spartacus-olsson]

I was not - it’s a long story…

[@rabihrac]

One of your best WAH episodes in my opinion... I am moved... Keep up your great work Sparty

[@spartacus-olsson]

Thank you

[@sharadowasdr]

One of the prime targets of the Japanese bombing of Calcutta was the Grand Hotel which was used as a meeting place for the allied high command in the BCI theatre. Japanese bombers narrowly missed it, and bombed across Mangoe Lane about two miles North of it, obliterating that neighbourhood.

[@robertm.8653]

A lesson learned, thank you guys!

[@alexamerling79]

Boy did those weapons have intimidating names: Vergeltungswaffen.

[@Spiderfisch]

On the other hand its the german language basically anything can sound intimidating

[@michaelkovacic2608]

@@Spiderfisch yes, even casually ordering lunch apparently sounds terrifying to non-German speakers

[@srenkoch6127]

Actually the V1 was not that much a waste of money as the individual units was not that expensive (in money that is, we should never forget the horrendous cost in human suffering that went into their production in Mittleverk Dora....)

[@alexamerling79]

@@Spiderfisch True look at the word for butterfly: SCHMETTERLING!

[@111doomer]

Vengeance weapon. German is full of portmanteau words.

[@chrisplumb4284]

What the hell happened in Germany today/yesterday with Thuringian Prince and 'theorists' looking to re-implement the 1870's second Reich? utter madness...

[@christopherbrowne736]

I agree with the sentiments expressed by Sparty but have two points. 1. The darkness he refers to is in man. As one person observed: the crimes against humanity were not done by monsters behaving as ordinary, but by ordinary human beings behaving monstrously. The opening sequence shows three members of some police or paramilitary organization - like the Melice in France I could guess - cold-bloodedly shooting three civilians in their back. The episode is echoed all over the Balkans, as Sparty describes this week. 2. The revenge weapons carried within them the seeds of the Reich’s own downfall and destiny. As with the resources diverted to wholesale murder in the various camps, there is both an economic and spiritual component. Slave labour devoted to these projects directly impact the general war effort. It’s simple opportunity cost principles. But how Speer escaped the noose beats me. God clearly says: “ vengeance is mine”. Let it ever be so.

[@mrgunn2726]

Nice Slim Pickens reference with the cover graphic!

[@kevinthomas3946]

Darn Sparty drag the sick outside in the cold and pour cold water on them so they can die a slow and painful death why kind of animals could do that I fell in a stream once as a kid in the dead of winter and that was torturous and I wasn’t sick I know exactly how that would feel these people are monsters and as a Black man in America if it ever came down to it I know to fight to the death because these are the same people no matter what flag they fly NEVER FORGET

[@sebbeflebbe1]

What a great quote by Arthur Harris outlining his total disregard for human life.😢

[@andreborges73]

a very strong message at the end! what humanity is able to do to itself is horrific...

[@DrJones20]

Animals

[@censusgary]

The Germans executed their guides? Good thinking, Germans!

[@alanfinch8763]

Those iranian drones that Russia has been using remind me of V1s

[@willmills1388]

Never forget!!!! Light candles for those gone and those still fighting

[@Wayoutthere]

Good that the atrocities in the Balkans get more coverage. The mass revenge executions of villages was shocking.

[@tancreddehauteville764]

As regards the German 'V' bomb programme, it was lunacy right from the start. Instead of building and refining high quality fighters, like the Me-262, Hitler, in his paranoid obsession with revenge, decided to spend huge sums on the 'V' weapons programme. If the Me-262 had been brought into production a year early, and as a pure fighter, it would have made a much bigger difference to the air war. Furthermore, if von Braun and his scientists had been engaged on developing sophisticated combat missiles with proximity fuse heat-seeking technology, this would have been a game changer for the Luftwaffe and potentially blown allied planes from the skies. A waste of intellect.

[@torstenwinkel2183]

You make two fundamental errors in your technocratic fascination with the Nazi technology: 1. Nazi Germany could NEVER win, because the USA and the Soviet Union outproduce, "outrecource" and "outman" them. (Please look at the "Luftwaffe Special" from this week.) 2. The USA developed the first atomic bomb to be dropped ON BERLIN not on Japan. If Nazi Germany had developed the Me-262 smarter and faster into a fighter... then maybe the fight would have lasted long enough for Berlin to become Hiroshima...

[@tancreddehauteville764]

@@torstenwinkel2183 Possibly you are correct. But history is full of 'what ifs'.

[@TheJojoaruba52]

Outstanding historical information. The stories of the poor individuals who were caught up in the insanity will always haunt me.

[@censusgary]

Thank you for reminding us that we owe a debt of gratitude to those who resisted in the past.

[@naveenraj2008eee]

Hi Sparty Sad week. So many people dying. Pouring cold water is extreme. Only remembering them will honor them. Never forget

[@brokenbridge6316]

That was a great quote form Mark Twain Sparty. And I think an accurate one.

[@chrish9698]

Once again I am left with no words. Excellent job as always.

[@spartacus-olsson]

Thank you

[@salty4496]

MY comment shows my support for the channel, and boosts it's KZbin algorithm

[@maciejkamil]

Thank you for informing me about the Italian resistance. I didn't know it existed.

[@penultimateh766]

Well, the Greeks really shouldn't have shot those German POWs...

[@ToddSauve]

Tito carried a Canadian passport in his travels. I don't know what good he thought it would do, as Canada was also at war with the Nazis and Imperial Japan. But it must have been of some use to him. Maybe someone who reads will know what.

[@rashkavar]

I'll be very interested to see how the situation with RAF Bomber Command progresses in the next few months. My grandfather served in the RCAF, the Royal Canadian Air Force. His squadron of bombers was one of the Canadian bomber squadrons stationed in England acting to supplement Bomber Command's forces. His first time in action was in March or April 1944 and he insists that, throughout his tour of duty, his squadron was assigned military, logistical and industrial targets - mostly V1/V2 launch sites, bridges, and train stations from his list of operations. That doesn't mean his hands are clean. Even if his claim as to these targets is accurate, the scattershot bombing of WWII era bombing runs means that every train station he was ordered to blow up probably took the whole neighbourhood along with it, and it's not like train stations are built way out in the middle of nowhere. But, assuming he wasn't adjusting his story after the fact, this suggests a marked change in bombing policy between where we are in December '43 and when he started his tour in Spring '44...a change I don't really see any foreshadowing of yet in this or the main series. (Even if my grandfather's memoirs are not being 100% truthful, I have a hard time blaming him for this. He was a single navigator on a single bomber, so incredibly far down the chain of command that he had no hope of infleuncing the policy where it actually matters. And convincing himself that the targets must have been viable targets and not innocent civilians who were unfortunate enough to be German or live in lands conquered by Germany is entirely possible as a coping mechanism. He knew what those bombs could do - London in '44 still bore visible scars from the Blitz, enough that one could work out a rough idea of what it would be like to be there with the bombs falling - and my grandfather was not the kind of man who could sleep easily with the guilt of the role he played.)

[@spartacus-olsson]

Your grandfather can indeed not be held responsible as a crew member - that responsibility wasn’t even conferred on Wehrmacht soldiers fighting a war of aggression. For great sweeping decisions like these the legal (and moral) responsibility lies with the officers and politicians making the decisions. Also, the CRAF was indeed often deployed for missions within the Crossbow campaign, and other military target campaigns. That said, RAF crews were mixed and often carried members from several Commonwealth air forces. Then, as you will see there is a change in the spring when Eisenhower forces (literally forces) Harris and Spaatz to focus on targets that actually have strategic significance in prep for Overlord. That struggle hasn’t begun yet. That’s why you haven’t heard about it so far.

[@rashkavar]

@@spartacus-olsson Thank you so much for your reassurances, both in the level of responsibility involved and in telling me that there is indeed a change in the bombing strategy coming up. And yes, the tail gunner in my grandfather's plane was with the RAF, though I don't think anyone else on his crew was. He served in Squadron 432 of the RCAF, though he did have British officers running things.

[@jamesbinns8528]

Thanks for sharing that. I am of mixed thinking/feeling concerning the bombings of German civilians. After WW1 German citizens believed in "the stab in the back." It did not look like Germany had been defeated. Hence, and great many of German citizens supported the Nazis. After WW2, it was a lot harder to accept a "stab in the back theory.

[@rashkavar]

@@jamesbinns8528 I mean, the "Germany wasn't beaten" myth is largely because of the lack of an occupation. In major wars of the 19th century, at the end of the war, land changed hands. In the Napoleonic Wars, countries that were defeated by Napoleon became part of the French Empire. In the Seven Weeks War, Prussia gobbled up a good chunk of the German speaking satellite countries that had been the minor German powers alongside Prussia and Austria, making something reasonably close to the Germany of today. In the Franco-Prussian war, Paris itself was beseiged. Wars ended due to deep penetration into conquered territory or the loss of major political figures (monarchs, etc). WWI ended with a bunch of war-weary generals sitting in a room signing a ceasefire that basically let the Entente decide what the Central Powers terms of surrender would be. It was, by the standards of the century plus of war before it, a weird way to end a war. And there's also the fact that the civilians never really saw the army's defeat. 6 months before the armistice was signed, German forces had broken through the front lines and achieved what seemed like a very impressive penetration behind Entente lines - nothing absurdly dramatic but by the standards of the Western Front, it was shocking how far the stormtrooper tactics got them. This was, of course, the last desperate gasp of the German military, and their leaders knew it, but the civilians back in Germany didn't. They just knew a war that had been static for nearly 4 years was finally moving, and it was moving in their favor. So when that all fell apart, they didn't understand. And Germany signed the armistice before things fell apart so much that the Entente was making similar breakthroughs into Germany. Which saved a hell of a lot of lives in the short run - WWI was a bloody and brutal war at the best of times, and a transition from grinding trench warfare to Entente forces mopping up the collapsing German Army would not have made for the "best of times." But it gave German civilians room to believe in that myth. They never got to see that final death knell, and didn't have the knowledge of military strategy to realize it was inevitable at that point. Now...would an extended and brutal end to WWI have stopped WWII? Maybe? Perhaps even probably? Or would it have just given people a different reason to seek revenge when they managed to rebuild? Vengeance not for Versailles, but for whatever horrors would have to be wrought in the process of this new finale to the war. That's the trouble with what-if scenarios: history is too complex to predict the alternate future that a single major change would cause.

[@Heka41]

This teaches so much. . .But is also like an arrow right through the heart. . .

[@Deathtroopers09]

Another moving ending speech. Keep the lights shining. Never Forget.

[@coendave5020]

Beautifull said as allways ❤ never miss an episode … keep it up

[@thschear]

I never miss an episode too. Sometimes it is very hard to watch but do so anyway as I don't want to ever forget.

[@kidmohair8151]

now, as then...Resistance! never forget. never again.

[@Medytacjusz]

19:43 their cheerful smiles are chilling

[@mirkoema]

Thanks thanks thanks for talking about the italian resistance! I was waiting for that! Don’t forget Val Grande resistance in Ossola valley for the future ;) you can find very intetesting and detailed video here on KZbin regarding the Ossola republic!

[@QALibrary]

wonder if there is any relationship between the starvation of India and India having the biggest army in WW2 ie Indian population joined up to have access to food be it via being a soldier or being an aid to British troops eg logistics support or engineering battalions etal

[@paulfoster3316]

starvation in india was caused by the japanese invasion of burma rather than a deliberate British policy infact when the extent of the famine was known in london the policy was reversed, so maybe revisionist history like these videos should be more aware of that.

[@spartacus-olsson]

@@paulfoster3316 that’s not correct. Not in any way shape or form. Go back and watch my episodes from the last few months. Time and time again Downing Street refused to send aid, even when they could. Most recently in the timeline, Churchill nixed an offer from Canada to send 100,000 tons of grain - with their own ships. He nixed it despite that the new viceroy Archie Wavell, Secretary for India Leo Amery pleaded to get it sent. The Japanese occupation of Burma didn’t help, but was definitely _not_ the main reason for the famine escalating. That happened when previous viceroy Linlithgow and (again) Downing Street, refused to allow redistribution of rice stocks between the Indian states.

[@spartacus-olsson]

As for the OP; the famine had little measurable direct effect on recruiting. Poverty in general did, but not the famine specifically.

[@porksterbob]

@@paulfoster3316 the famine was not policy but it was a ton of willful negligence. This series has shined a light on the local British rulers who actively made the situation worse. Eventually, policies were made to alleviate the famine but it took months before the British even tried. Also, yes. Becoming an army officer was a good way to get food and it was respectable.

[@MisterW0lfe]

Slava Ukraini!

[@martinlye2748]

Terror as a weapon.

[@SasBald]

Thanks!

[@podemosurss8316]

Ironically in Spain this week we celebrate democracy: the 6th of december, 1978 was the date in which the current Constitution was approved by the Spanish Congress. It would later be ratified in referendum by the population, with a wide mayority of the votes being in favour. After 40 years of fascist dictatorship and 3 years of transitional monarchy, this was seen as the moment in which the Spanish people regained our freedom. So remember the main lesson you can take from us: democracy will win at the end, may it take what it takes, but the horror days will be over.

[@66kbm]

I have not yet found a better Orator/Speaker on KZbin than Spartacus. Please continue. Never Forget.

[@spartacus-olsson]

You are too kind

[@jimelliott8931]

i really struggle watching WAH series its just so disturbing and depressing

[@deshaun9473]

Playing catch up. Thank you for your good work! I just wanted to say that this channel should put a ban on denial of the Armenian Genocide. Armenian genocide denial is extremely prolific around the World, especially in Turkey. I think this rule needs to placed in the rules and enforced. It should be stated clearly. Thanks!

[@Zadren]

Your last monologue: well said, Sir 🫡

[@stug41]

Hitler riding a v1 like major kong, hilarious

[@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw]

Little Nazi rocket man eh.....haha. First one. Now we have Little big mac rocket man Kim from Nk.

[@Erikbruun1]

Thank you for linking yesterday to today, as you often do in your dreadfully important work.

[@georgewright3949]

Crazy that during the entire V1 and V2 process no one said "so you want us to terror bomb England out of the war ? Didnt we try that already??"

[@Strydr8105]

There in the pictures 7 hanging prisoners and 2 ss officers posing and smiling...what a morbid selfie.

[@Strydr8105]

I wonder if the allies, towards the end of the war, would have turned on Marshall Stalin and relieved him of power, what the world would be like today.

[@kevinconrad6156]

Thanks Spartacus, never forget.

[@stamfordmeetup]

Amazing how putin and Hitler are so similar. Hitler and Putin both had the same tactic of attacking civilians with missiles because of a war that that they started but couldn't win.

[@michaelkovacic2608]

Many have tried simply attacking the enemy's civilian population as a means to wage war - so far, none have succeeded.

[@christopherroa9781]

Based

[@stephenhill8790]

He did not attack any civilians at the start and America managed to kill a whole family at a wedding party with only one as apposed to 2 from over 200 which all hit infrastructure not civilian buildings

[@stc3145]

Both Putler and Hitler have an imaginary threat and belives war is the only solution, despite how many of their own countrymen wil die. And neither will give up to save lives because that means losing personal *power*

[@stc3145]

@Nikola S. Facist bot

[@elisekehle8520]

Bella Ciao!

[@MoreMiles2Go]

Never forget.

[@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw]

Kim likes Grand big mac. Has bacon and extra cheese.

[@TheEvertw]

"Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul." This is why we resist evil, both 80 years ago and today.

[@headtheballington]

8;46 where is that picture from?

[@tomhenry897]

Look at what Russia is doing to ukraine with drones This what Germany wanted to do to England

[@legobros2020]

and plenty of targets hit by ukranian drones in russia

[@knightshousegames]

I like the shadow of the menorah in the shot for this episode, great piece of set design

[@shawnr771]

Thank you for the lesson.

[@mhpjii]

*_Payback is coming!_* (including for those nations of the world who could have saved the Jews but refused) כִּֽי קָרוֹב יֽוֹם הֹ׳ עַל כָּל הַגּוֹיִם כַּֽאֲשֶׁר עָשִׂיתָ יֵעָשֶׂה לָּךְ גְּמֻֽלְךָ יָשׁוּב בְּרֹאשֶֽׁךָ׃ _For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your reward shall return upon your own head._ (Obadiah 1,15)

[@hereinmindnotbody]

Thanks for all the great work done by the TimeGhost team - interesting education. I wondered why you refer to the United Nations army when the United Nations was not formed until late 1945 - I've always known them as the Allied powers (vs the Axis powers)

[@roberthiggins6401]

Never forget. Never forgotten. And today. What's happening? Modern times.

[@yootoodoode]

hey team, that castle is not Wolfsberg but castle Furstenstein (or zamek Ksiaz in Polish.)

[@dezbiggs6363]

Can I have a source for the Flossenberg inmates left to die from exposure. I'd like to read more about it

[@spartacus-olsson]

I use the “Auschwitz Chronicle 1939-1945” by Danuta Czech as my main source for events there. It’s a compilation of all preserved/salvaged records of the camp. It’s not an easy read, as it’s literally just the facts, one day after the other - a lot of numbers, and very brief notes on what happened that day. The English version is out of print and copies are usually very expensive - I use the German edition. It’s the main reference work on all things Auschwitz.

[@markreetz1001]

With all the massacres that we hear about every week, I can't help but wonder how anyone in Europe survived the war.

[@mickmac2223]

WW2 - you couldn’t make it up!!! never forget…….

[@patrickfreeman8257]

"Accepted and intended" Well, at least he's not trying to pretend that it's something that it isn't.

[@The1980Philip]

As grim as this video is, the thumbnail is epic.

[@StrangerOman]

Never forget.

[@brendanbarstow3661]

Sparty is always so well dressed. proper gentleman

[@lc1138]

Being afraid of getting caught for warcrime in the midst of committing a genocide is rather surprising. Were these people so confident in the rightness of their action ? Or did they fear soviet reprisal more than they feared jews ?

[@caryblack5985]

They began to see Germany was losing the war and their necks could be on the chopping blaock.

[@divarachelenvy]

the whole world was bonkers.. never forget.

[@welcometonebalia]

Thank you, never forget.

[@stevenda22]

As always, thank you for doing this Sparty and the team. We must continue to make this available to humanity and shine a light on these crimes. Never forget.

[@rdbchase]

"... has began [sic] ..." -- "begun"

[@lacasadipavlov]

Great segment about the Italian Resistance! Just one important correction: the Action Party was not a catholic nor a right party, on the contrary it was a liberal left party. It was an important area of the non-communist Italian left

[@spartacus-olsson]

We can agree to call it center if you like… the origins were however Catholic. The Catholic Democrats had been forbidden by the Vatican to stay in politics after Mussolini’s power grab, and in return were recognized as a religious group, and not purged. Action was founded in 42 to assemble those who wished to not follow the papal decree. By early 1943 they had attracted around 2,500 members that quickly grew to over 8,000 as dissatisfaction with the war grew - mainly more liberal Catholic Democrats. After the fall of Mussolini, Action gradually attracted liberally minded left oriented members as well.

[@lacasadipavlov]

@@spartacus-olsson That's not entirely correct: among the seven points of the foundation program of the Party we can find a strong laicism and the complete separation between State and Church. As a matter of fact the bulk of the founding members were republicans or socialists, most of them were not religious or even atheist. When the CLN was founded the Partito d'Azione was a leftist party.

[@spartacus-olsson]

@@lacasadipavlovI’ll bow to your expertise. I’m not an expert on Italian post-Fascist political history, so I rely on second hand sources - this is how three of my sources on the CNL had it, so I assumed it was correct. My apologies for assuming as much - teaches me to look deeper even on “secondary” facts.

[@lacasadipavlov]

@@spartacus-olsson thank you for your quick response and for the great quality of your work!

[@stefankronhoff841]

Can we get a special on the volunteer ukrainian ss divisions?

[@spartacus-olsson]

We can, we will, and we will be disappointed. In real numbers they were the third largest force of citizens of the USSR republic’s volunteers after Belorussians, and Russians. As percentage of population they were the fourth largest after Belorussians, Lithuanians, and Estonians. There are a number of reasons I can imagine why you might ask this question of course, but only one root reason that you do… the Nazis referred to all of their Soviet citizens volunteers as Ruthenians as they somehow imagined that this was different from Slavs, and less subhuman. In translation that became “Ukrainian” already during the war, leading to the erroneous conclusion that all of the Soviet citizens SS volunteers were Ukrainian.

[@Dimetropteryx]

Anything happening up north?

[@bluestar7023]

I like the thumbnail 🙂