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I want to hate anything as much as Nick hates Communism. It's inspirational.

"The Germans were not the enemy. The Nazi`s were." That`s is my take on WWII and it goes with the point you made at the end of the video.

Wendigoon's last line.... Aint that the truth. "people are the victims of some rich man's game, just pawns in a fight." That hits home.

Communism is lame.

My Dad was a WW2 combat vet, a life long friend was a German tank driver that fought against him. Just young men caught up in something bigger than them

I had uncles in the British, Canadian and American armies (and Navies) in WWII. They didn't meet until after the war and their units didn't work directly together. That being said. They all had very similar stories about captured SS (Officer and enlisted). Any captured in or around Normandy in June 1944 were treated just as POWs. After the break out and the deeper they got into France, the shorter the life expectancy was for captured SS. One they crossed over into Germany and Found Dachau, summary execution was the rule. *None of them regretted what they did to the SS.* But they carried the nightmares of the camps the rest of their lives. They're all gone now. I hope they found peace.

Wendigoon laughs like he’s nervous that god is judging him 😂

That's why Eisenhower told the troops to take lots of pictures at the concentration camps.

So I just commented elsewhere about this but I'll do it here: Nick, you should definitely do a video series called 'That Wasn't Real Communism' where you go over the atrocities done by Communist nations- like a video for the Holodomor, for the Soviet Gulags, for the Great Leap forwards, etc.

My dad works with the elderly, and he met a 93 year old German man who was one of those 14-16 year olds who manned a Flak 88 in Berlin. Crazy story he told.

Every single one of these men individually has a following well over 13 times the nightly viewership of any major mainstream media coverage. Wild

That was the best episode ever! I had to pull over on the highway because I was laughing so hard!

On the take about Germans by the near-end of the war, Fury puts it best when the tank crew takes a brief stop at a post with a dual question: Lt: "Huff...why dont they just surrender?" Wardad: "Would You?" The guy just answers in dead silence. All the confirmation the audiance needs: If it was YOUR home, youd fight to save it too, hopeless or not.

I get that people are tired of late-stage capitalism born of a lot of democratic evolution and corruption over time. I really do. It sucks sometimes. Democracy and its variations (Republics, Constitutional Monarchies, etc.) is one of the oldest and comparably efficient modes of governance for most/all of the world's successful countries. Communism was, in the context of broader history, thought up an hour ago, failed miserably 30 minutes later, took millions and millions of lives with it, and turned the nations who espoused it into the arc villains of world history.

Reference 'The Last Battle' by Sabaton for Castle Itter... they do a good job of saying the US and Germany worked together for good against the SS.

“Jenny at the gates!”

Yep, I dropped out of Ridgewater College in Rural Minnesota, and my History Teacher was saying the same bullsh*t, "Japan was going to surrender and America knew, they just dropped the A-Bombs for revenge for Pearl Harbor". He also claimed "Hitler allowed the British to escape at Dunkirk because he wanted their army intact to join him in Invading the Soviet Union", which is also a lie, just ask the 18,000 French and Belgian soldier who died in a valiant last stand in the final days of Operation Dynamo, giving the B.E.F. and other French Forces time to escape. Thinking back, I really wish I had called him out, what a prick.

I think most people can empathize and understand the perspective of the regular German army looking down the barrel of defeat at the end of WW2, them not wanting to fight and subsequently surrender. Honestly, it's pretty fucking cool that a band of German soldiers, some French prisoners, and a ragtag group of Americans and Sherman tanks all fought off SS at a literal castle in the last days of WW2. It's why characters like Hugo Stiglitz are endearing. Which this battle is really easy movie material, crazy it hasn't been made already.

I believe LazerPig said that Germany’s most effective soldier in the Battle of Berlin was 2 twelve year olds, an artillery shell and a hammer

I wrote a paper on the battle of Castle Itter, the events that culminated together for that battle is insane

Lifting the weight of the silence is an underrated joke

I actually had the pleasure to meet a WWII vet on a 911 call and befriend him. He told me many stories about his time with Patton. He fought at Dachau and blew up the incinerators. He cried as he recounted how the prisoners thought they were there to kill them. I regret that I didn’t get to meet him earlier in life. He died shortly into Covid and I wasn’t able to visit him due to the virus.

Fat Electrician, Pete Quinonez, Thomas777, and Dangerous History. Gimme an 8 part series on WW2.

Castle Itter huh? Somehow Sabaton - The Last Battle starts playing in the background...

Sobibor, Bergen-Belsen, Breitenau, Buchenwald, Mauthhausen Ravensbrook...a few of the big ones you missed.

I think everyone in the group here is great, but for the sake of an actual good conversation can we get Fat electrician and Wendigoon by themselves

Fun fact: Steam has a "Capitalism" sale and not a "communist socialism" sale for a reason. Because it's really hard to make a fun game when everyone is guaranteed the same experience. Go ahead, tell me I'm wrong. I'll point you to the first year of Destiny 2 with its first two expansions. The only reason why it didn't die completely the following year is because they changed the weapon system to allow players to seek out unique builds and perks that suited their unique playstyles and attributes. This is why communism only works in theory and not in reality. In theory, everyone is equal, in reality everyone is different and sometimes unique.

I mean Yarnhub did a video also about Castle Itter and i don't think he got cancelled maybe demonetized, but if Electrician want's the nuance, should he ask Yarnhub how he avoided demonetizetion?!

I will admit that I didn't know about the Holodomor either. I did know that millions of people died under Stalin, but I'd always assumed it was due to communist incompetency and indifference. I hadn't known that so much of it was intentional deliberate acts. They never covered any of this in any of my history classes.

I knew a WW2 German sailor and he was forced into the military. He didn't want to go but the government said his family would be different when he got home. He was against the regime and after the war he became an engineer for NASA. One of the sweetest men around

One of my favorite Sabaton songs covers that battle.

Shout out to the Dubliner in DC, great authentic Irish music!

Dachau is not in Austria it is outside Munich. You can visit as it is a Museum now.

My family on my dad's side is Polish and I have relatives that live near Auschwitz. My grandfather on my mom's side was in the European Theater of WW2 his unit liberated Dachau we have photos he brought back its not pretty.

There’s a famous interaction between a confederate and union soldier that the late historian Shelby Foote told an account of: after the battle, when the confederate POWs were being rounded up, one union officer asked one of the confederate soldiers “why are you fighting your own countrymen?” The confederate soldier answered “sir, I’m fighting because you’re down here”. He wasn’t fighting for slavery. Most confederate soldiers were partially or totally illiterate and never traveled more than 20 miles from the places they were born. He was simply fighting because his town, his homestead, and his area were being invaded by an army that wanted to take and occupy those same areas. Most people, if they were in that man’s shoes, would’ve done the exact same thing.

2:15 Ah, Castle Itter. Very interesting and downright bizarre battle.

Been to Dachau....very humbling.

Auschwitz is in Poland, so technicaly it is considered Eastern Europe. so said, most of wastern europe and, as an example, all those in Italy, was called transit camp, it was a network of staging posts where people were loaded on increasingly longer train convoy and shipped to killing ground. there is one in Fossoli which is 20 minutes away from where I was born, been there many time. it is humbling, it teach you to keep en eye on the government it teach you not to trust those "in power" those "in the know"... fast forward some years, while working in the automotive industry, I moved to Slovakia and Poland... visited that hell place... you really feel it.. the evil is still there, the monstrosity linger in the air... it is like a predator waiting in the shadow... not to directly hurt you, "just" to luere a normal human being into committing monstrosities. one interesting thing: in europe both Hitler and Mussolini are considered the evil right, they are considered far right politician. this is the biggest misconception ever and I find it funny when people profess themselves antfa AND socialits... the historic reality is that nazi is the shortening for the "nationalist socialist party of the worker" AND Mussolini was first a journo then the director of the socialist newspaper (it still exist I think) of Italy, he was booted from the socialist party when he declared he was to enter WWI... so, please tell anyone: socialism, fascism and nazism are basicaly the same, the only true difference was the color of the uniform

If my grandpa's family didn't leave Ukraine in the 1930s, which his family was Mennonite I would probably not be alive.

I wrote one of my essays in SLC on the battle of castle Itter. Most of the German soldiers weren’t even German. They were conscripted from other occupied countries.

Dachau is just north of munich, in Bavaria not Austria

I am a WW2 Reenactor and I do WW2 Photography and I have original slides from Dachau

It’s not a War Crime the First Time

Okay a podcast that interviews better podcasts, we are at full circle ⭕️

I would suggest brandon watch atun shei for the civil war history.

The Last Battle by Sabaton covers the Battle of Castle Itter excellently in less than 5 minutes

When is the after show coming out

Hey, whoever edits/uploads these clips: the audio is SUPER quiet Shoutout for the upload though, appreciate ya

There's an entire song about the battle at Castle Itter. called The Last Battle by Sabaton

Back when i was in highschool the history teacher asked us if the nuclear bomb was necessary, my classroom was 35% Japanese-american and they where so butt hurt when i rose my hand and said they deserved it 😂 apparently their parents never told them about the atrocities they committed during ww2 but they learned that day 💯

I’m working as an electrician for a fire protection company. Once a week my boss buys us all Guthrie chicken. Soon I will be a fat electrician.

That battle is a sabaton song

Dachau itself was in Germany, not Austria, but the SS men at Itter in Austria were directly involved with the camp’s operations.

Dachau is in Germany. Just outside of München (Munich).

It is very possible for adults to discuss this stuff without huge brewhaha on the channels of the "Adults in the room"

I feel like we can't blame the new College kids or highschool kids for not knowing these things. They only know what they've been taught. And they have no other basis but to accept it as truth

To be fair. You kind of have to go all hands on deck when it's a country the size of the average State in the US vs almost the entire modernized world.

It’s scary that in an age when we have access to so much free information that there is still so much ignorance.

I'm surprised that Castle Itter is considered controversial. If you want a real superstorm of nuance lookup John Heinrich Detlef Rabe, the German Ambassador to Nanking.

I remember when Brandon went on PKA

Aight. I'm new to the podcast. Is my weed just too strong. Is the dude in the yellow shirt related to Nick?

Great museum in OKC. 45th Division, pics of concentration camps, Okies and Texans liberated. Also, STEAL of Hitlers office furniture from on display. Great museum here at Ft. Sill as well.

Dachau is outside Munich, not in Austria

Thats kind of a cop out by Nick because Castle Itter is an extremely well known incident and theres already a tonne of videos on it from history channels that have been around for a while

Greed and inflated ego are the downfall of any country. If anything we must have a structure that somehow keeps greed in check. Capitalism did it at some point before greed rotted it from the inside out and now we have sky-high rent and non-existent paycheck for the working class. We humans are just doomed to keep repeating the same mistakes till the sun exploded

I wanna see TFE's take im his age and there was a part in my youth like 10 and thought the idea of communism was good (self realized idea, thought it would be cool if we all just shared and built together, thought it would be cool to just go into the store and grab a playstation for free) but the reality as an adult it needs to be talked about even the dark, i think TFE what you could do is visually make your background and atmosphere dark and talk truly, but with you comedic jabs done respectfully cuase in a way they were kids flighting in that battle but the darkness of communism should be shown and i know you can do it

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Ive been to Dachau when i was stationed at Hohenfels. It started as a camp for political dissidents, Gypsies and Homesexuals. It was yhe Blue print Camp that all others were modeled after. Dachau and standing at the base of the tower of Babel in Iraq are two places where the hair on the back of my neck stood up. The expeiments they did at Dachau on the prisoners is nightmare fuel.

Five history buffs and not one word about the wooden doors.

I was in a government class in college and the teacher, who I thought was left leaning/statistically likely, had a writing assignment on if increasing the number of justices on the supreme Court was a good idea after trump appointed so many. I wrote how it was a terrible idea because it creates a precedent that presidents in the future can just add justices if they feel the court is too against their party. There was no right or wrong answer because it was more of a discussion assignment but the teacher messaged me and praised me because I was the ONLY one in the class to say it was bad and my answer was basically the only correct one she got.

War is a racket, semper

I would love for u to make videos on the Baton, Dutch March.I know there's shit about concentration camps

I’m currently a junior in highschool and I hate my generation. Just the idiocy of my generation

Sabaton - The last Battle

There was a movie about Castle Itter. It is obviously not a real good movie because I can not remember the name of it. lol There is also a script for a new movie going around called The Last Battle. It has a IMDb page. Someone has been trying to make it for years. It is adapted from the book The Last Battle by Stephen Harding. I really hope they do. It is a story that needs to be told. There are so many stories from WWII that need to be told. These are the men that literally saved the World. They are the true Superheros.

Treblinka was the second most deadly camp, solely for execution

Most people, regardless of birthplace, when found in the "right time" in history, while inevitably be found facing trial by life or death in the meat grinder of history. Would you or I ignore a call to patriotism when your nation says it's in danger? Fact finding had been going on for twenty years after the war, it is difficult to believe an eighteen year old has the omniscience of his countries sins in the present. Only his own really. So I recall the great line from the film "Kingdom of Heaven", when the King of Jerusalem, speaking to Balian, says, " When you stand before God, you cannot say, 'but I was told by others to do thus, or that virtue was not convenient at the time.' This will not suffice." You will be held accountable for your own actions, in this life or the next. So live honorably. No one can make you live honorably, and no one can take it away except yourself.

Wendigoon pretends like he knows things “because a video”…. We know you know everything Wendigoon, don’t try to hide it

Auschwitz is in eastern Europe (arguably). Dachau is in Germany near Munich.

Dachau is in west Germany

That quip at the end about how 'only 4% of the South owned slaves during the civil war' bugs me, given how incorrect it is. I can't tell if Brandon was saying that to mock people who believe that, or if he genuinely believed it, and I'd hate to just assume he'd actually believe such an objectively false statement. It was closer to 30% of southerners who owned slaves at the time. Unless I'm completely misinterpreting it, (in which case I apologise) It seems like Brandon doesn't believe that the Confederacy fought for Slavery, despite the fact that all but one of the seceding states wrote in their constitutions that they were seceding to preserve and expand the institution of slavery.

It never shocks me when people know nothing a out the World War history. And it makes me sad. Doomed to repeat

clicked to see Nick fly off the handle disappointed

I might point out that one of the defenders of Castle Itter was an officer of the Waffen SS who came to the conclusion that Hitler and Himmler were a couple of grifters.

If we just wanted to test them, we could have just dropped it where we tested the first explosion. Then, we have zero risk that if something goes wrong it falls into enemy hands. Weird concept.

Wait a minute so you're saying communism is bad news to me

Fifth of May, V day is just around the corner 1945, the Führer's reign is at its end Jenny at the gates, as the SS open fire There's no time to waste, the final battle's begun After the downfall, a castle besieged Facing the Nazis awaiting relief Gangl and Lee and their men set the prisoners free And it's the end of the line of the final journey Enemies leaving the past And it's American troops and the German army Joining together at last One last fight, it's the death throes of the Third Reich Justice shall be done, the final battle remains Ammo is running low, they're depleting their machine guns Every bullet counts until surrender's announced After the downfall, a castle relieved Defeating the Nazis who held them besieged Gangl and Lee and their men set the prisoners free And it's the end of the line of the final journey Enemies leaving the past And it's American troops and the German army Joining together at last

Not a Brandon Fan boy , but love u guys , carry on...

As soon as shit goes sideways, it ain't real communism 😂

On the confederate point a lot of the soldiers for south weren’t fighting for slavery they were fighting the fact that the union was trying to just claim some of their private land even the non slave owners but that doesn’t get taught in school because the winners right the history book.

It should be noted that a majority of southern rebels did know the war was about state's rights to choose slavery and they were deeply racist to the point that even if they themselves didn't own slaves, they didn't want the institution of slavery to go away. We have a lot of letters and diaries from the southern soldiers where they express this very sentiment, now whether the average soldier actually understood how wrong and cruel slavery was is a different debate (as the south was so racist that the general sentiment was that slavery was actually good for the slave and allowed them to live a better life than if they had freedom). It is possible that there were "good" southern soldiers that did not like the institution of slavery but still fought on the side of the confederates, but that is more the exception than the rule, as the sentiment that the confederates had a more "noble" cause and they only fought for their own state's rights. Which then begs the question, the state's right to do what? and the major sticking point that any historian or history buff will always point out is slavery.

Look whos talking jews

i would like this podcast so much better without the laugh tracks.

Dont forget the armenian genocide

Acting like the “regular” German people didn’t understand the weight of what was happening is ridiculous

This show, and all others, would be so much better without Eli in it. Has he ever added anything insightful to these videos??? Always childish, annoying & immature.

Owning slaves is a bad representation of a person's opinions, they were expensive so most couldn't. Economics aside, they did like to write back then and an overwhelming amount of those first hand writings refrence maintaining the institution of slavery as their motivation (most in pretty vile and inhumane language). It wasn't until after the war when they pivoted to the states' rights narrative to save face. That's when all those weird statues started popping up and those fluffed up memoirs got written. Please don't rewrite history on one hand while telling truth on the other, it confuses people.

Donut is the only one worth watching... I'll just go back to his channel...

Yeah you look really cool when you bully the awkward guy, it doesn't make you look pathetic at all.

A bunch of bros with baby brains!!