Posted on 09/08/2018 9:11:11 PM PDT by Charles Martel
Full title: Top YouTube Historians, Led By ‘The Great War’ Host, Are Teaming Up To Recap World War II, Day By Day
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Since 2014, historian Indy Neidell has hosted weekly episodes of The Great War, a web series that recaps World War I by discussing in real time the events that happened 100 years ago. At the show’s current point, the United States has joined the war and its preparing to send its manpower to the Western Front. By the end of next year (spoiler alert), the war will reach its conclusion, and Neidell will have to find a new chapter of military history to narrate.
The most obvious subject for a Great War follow-up is World War II, which can provide six more years of content. Unsurprisingly, that’s the path Neidell plans to take, but his not going to go alone. Instead, he has recruited multiple experts from the YouTube community, who will join him to turn the World War II edition of The Great War into a massive collaboration.
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The first two installments are already available on YouTube. Also, the "Between 2 Wars" series on the interwar years is available. So far, I think it looks pretty good.
Though much smaller I’ve always found WWI much more difficult to study than WW2. It’s the pointlessness of the horrible slaughters engineered by incompetent buffoons like Haig. Years of masses of men charging machine guns in daylight. Hideously disgusting.
Indy and crew have done a superb job on WWI.
A video classic to rank with any documentary series, bar none. This thing is up there with Ken Burn’s “Civil War”, but it deals with a vastly more complex topic, in enormous detail.
WWII will be that much more complex.
The complexity is a problem for some of their collaborators. Notably Othais, of C&RSenal, which is well worth supporting. Othais has collected, restored, explained and demonstrated all the major, and many minor, infantry weapons of WWI. That is a huge ordeal, especially all the automatic weapons. WWII will be worse.
WWI was terribly bloody.
But give the “Great War” a try.
Both sides did everything they could to solve the problems of technology, trying all sorts of experiments, while trying to figure out how to make modern war at all, in matters of personnel, production, logistics.
Everything was changing at an enormous rate.
Nothing came easily, because clever ideas were all well and good, but would they scale?
Ww1 was silly stupid and dumb. A bunch of aristocratic nobles signing mutual admiration treaties of self protection to keep the nobility in power. It all backfired terribly. If Germany had won,,,well there might have not been a WW2. However, who the heck wants a super strong Germany?! Roosevelt kissed the rear end of evil Stalin and allowed the evil commies to take over Eastern Europe.
The nobles had little to do with it.
Some of these countries weren’t run by their nobility at all, notably France and Italy.
In every country the aristocracy was being sidelined by the haut-bourgeoisie, rapidly getting much more powerful than the fellows with titles, and in many ways more warlike.
Indeed, the colonial expansion and competition part of it was a very bourgeois affair.
It was a weird, complex time.
I recommend “The Proud Tower”, Barbara Tuchman, to get a taste at least of what was going on.
WW I and WW II were the self inflicted mortal wounds that led to the death of European culture. Europe cannot and will not ever recover from the irreplaceable loss of its best genetic stock from 1914-1945. The migrations of the hordes was inevitable. Sorry but it has been forever transformed.
Ken Burns work is populist garbage.
Be hard to top “The World at War”.
Woodrow Wilson was the worst President, ever.
“Teaming Up To Recap World War II, Day By Day”
FReeper Homer_J_Simpson put his blood, sweat and tears into the same project using period newspaper articles here on FR for 4 years on the 70th anniversary of each day starting nine years ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2356646/posts
He’s doing the Civil War now.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3684633/posts
They better lay the blame on Hitler and Stalin equally.
They started the war, were initially partners, and both need to be given equal recognition for the magnitude of evil and havoc they unleashed upon humanity. The scars of which we bear to this day.
And America better get due credit for its sacrifices and for holding the moral high ground despite our temporary alliance with the Soviet Union.
For those interested in the WWII period, Twitter has a "RealTimeWWII" account, run by a gentleman who works at the Museum of London. His account features daily, sometimes hourly updates, following the actual timeline of wartime events. I believe he did the entire war period in that manner once before, now he's running through it a second time with further details added.
On YouTube, this guy posted an extensive archive of radio broadcasts from WWII, everything from Hitler’s speeches to the whole day D-Day coverage from CBS News.......
Here is one such link, you can easily find the others from there...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT9uTYxhzYk
So far, the material has been unflinching as far as Soviet and German motivations. The "Between 2 Wars" series is equally good in that respect, discussing in detail the level of Soviet influence in Germany during the Weimar era.
It seems to me that everyone went into WWI acting like it was still 1848, making the same kind of decisions and expecting the same sort of results. No one realized warfare was now on an industrial scale, and the genie was bribing hell if let out of the bottle.
Heck, the French fought WWII like it was still 1848.
Not really. They fought like it was 1914. Then again, they really didn’t want to fight at all. The guts of the country was ripped out in WWI and the socialists chopped up the carcass between the wars.
YOUTUBE is UNFALSIFIABLE, WILLFUL IGNORANCE
Censored media like Youtube is UNfalsifiable, hence Youtube can never be more reliable than UNKNOWN.
In other words, Youtube videos must be skeptically considered to be in error. They can never be considered as a historical source.
Youtube is great for cat & dog videos.
But Youtube is a poor source for historical truth.
Youtube is willful ignorance. Beware.
I listened to Dan Carlin’s 6 part Hardcore History podcast on WWI called Blueprint for Armageddon. I am a huge fan but have never been the same since listening to that. The two world wars wiped out the European bloodlines and have left nation of wusses as a result.
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