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Hype. The claim that a new carrier could turn the direction of war in Japan’s favor is ridiculous. The catastrophic loss of most of its naval aviators at Midway and other battles doomed Japan.
You barely mentioned the massacre at Gabaudet, in fact there were a total of 36 resistance fighters and 4 civilians killed, either summarily executed or died in deportation. The intervention had taken 71 prisoners. There were also several missing persons. The farmhouse at Gabaudet was destroyed and never rebuilt , a memorial monument was erected there. The neighbouring hamlet of Donnadieu was also destroyed and a farmer shot while releasing his sheep from a barn that the SS were going to burn. Donnadieu was rebuilt after the war.
Great video. But may I suggest it’s a little weird to call Hitler “Führer” as though it’s a name. That infamous title needs the definite article: “The Führer”, “Der Führer”.
Reprisals by the French for partisan attacks: One of the most iconic paintings to depict the horrors of war is Francisco Goya’s The Third of May 1808, which depicts an incident during the Peninsular War against Napoleon in Spain.The nighttime scene of a group of Spanish civilians facing execution by a French firing squad was remarkable for its time, being utterly devoid of the patriotic glorification of war that characterized most contemporary war art. Goya based the painting on reprisals the French army carried out against citizens of Madrid in the wake of the Dos de Mayo Uprising against Napoleon’s occupation forces. . . .These were exactly the arguments made in both American and British concepts of laws of war well into the 20th century. As the American Rules of land Warfare on the eve of the Second World War stated “…commanding officers must assume responsibility for retaliative measures when an unscrupulous enemy leaves no other recourse against the repetition of barbarous outrages.” The British Manual of Military Law of the same era declared that reprisals “are by custom admissible as an indispensable means of securing legitimate warfare.” In a nutshell, taking reprisals seems to have been legal during WWII then declared illegal by the victors as to the defeated afterwards . . . For an indepth analysis, read F.J.P. Veale's books on WWII and war crimes - such as "Advance to Barbarism" and "Crimes Discreetly Veiled"
Thanks for putting the Oradour-Sur-Glane massacre into proper perspective. I knew it happened. But I was missing the why. This explains it. I would like to have known how many of the Das Reich division survived the ensuing battles for control of France. I've always been told that many of the soldiers who did the shooting at Oradour were killed in battle just weeks later.
Here's a bit of interesting trivia about Shinano, her captain Toshio Abe commanded the destroyer that scuttled the aircraft carrier Hiryu at Midway in 1942.
We actually know a lot about this sinking. At the end of the war the US military did extensive interviews of surviving Japanese military personnel. The sinking of the Shinano was only one such example. What I find interesting was the mission she was on and her cargo. She carried a good number of suicide flying bombs intended to be sent to Okinawa and the Philippines. Apparently, there were not enough trained pilots to outfit her as a fighting ship! Her first mission was planed (after completing outfitting) as a cargo ship.
Можно сколь угодно долго раскладывать карты объяснять что где и как и почему, но прорыв Шарнхорста и Гнейзенау через ла-манш это позор британского флота 🥳
