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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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Kings and Generals have great content on YouTube
Aye. 1,000 percent correct
I will have to check this out.
Just so you know, these videos are crowdfunded; YouTube does not monetize them. People who choose to make contributions to the video producers (through either GoFundMe or Patreon, I believe) receive membership rights and can view the videos before they appear on YouTube. That gives the videos a bit more professional, independent weight than the average cat or dog video.
Great link to the radio recordings, thanks. I could even stream that through the car stereo on my next long drive, while the wife sleeps. ;-)
I wonder what radio archival sources "The Fonz" utilized?
Dollars to doughnuts, the role of the Albanian SS will be omitted (or only briefly mentioned in passing) as will all points of contact between Hitler and the muslims (whose koran he plagiarized and Germantisized).
Don’t worry, Kiddies, the history of WWII will be thoroughly sanitized and politically correct so no one will have hurt feelings or become ‘outraged’. Connections will be made between Nazis and present-day American and European conservatives, doubtless.
Stalin will be a good guy and praised due will be made to the utterly humble man who saved the West at great cost to his beloved Soviet Union. / i
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I’m still a fan of Jimmuh Carter for that accolade, but there is a strong case for Wilson or 0bama, with Zero leading that sad parade.
“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.”
Good stuff. No other work or feature on FR compares to Homer J’s work recapping NYT’s day-by-day reporting of WWII. Reporting frequently was a first take on routine reports that later went above the fold.
Included; thumbnail mention of General Anthony McAuliffe’s response to Germans demanding surrender; “Nuts”. Initial reports of the 1944 Battle of Samar. That became the greater story of Taffy-3; 7 US Navy destroyers going toe-to-toe with a greatly superior Japanese naval force. Also recall Hanson W. Baldwin’s memorable reports from Iwo Jima putting words to Marine spirit and sacrifice.
I’d like to say you’re wrong, but am incapable of finding a reason to do so.
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Give the meat grinder which was “der Ostfront,” it’s hard to see what leverage Roosevelt could have exercised - even if he wanted to. And his enthusiasm for limiting Stalin was certainly suboptimal.Problem was, tho, that allowing Hitler to take the Soviet oilfields wasn’t much of an option, either - so helping the Soviets was the least worst thing to do.
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The Great War | WW1 Online Series
There at least three Series called “the Great War”
The one I like best is 26 episodes of 38 minute3s each. It is narrated over lots of original film clips. The editor is especially fond of guns. The number of different type big guns is amazing. The footage comes from all the combatant archives. The series does not give much coverage to the American battles like the others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es4zhqqM5lU&list=PL4w-2j6Q0Qj7DtmB-YsnpK_WUlPs3MNCu
The Great war series on this thread is a week by week lecture lasting 7- 10 min each. It has pretty good maps but the events are described rather than shown. It boils doen to a complex college lecture. It was dropped after the first 5 weeks.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar
Sometime last week, I realized that WW I was won by the allies exactly 100 years ago now. September was the point where the aliesw actually advanced and the Germans were in retreat.
Dan Carlin of Hardcore History does an excellent series of podcasts on WWI. Something like 20 hours or more total. He makes the point that if you want to know what Napoleon's cavalry looked like find a photo of the French cavalry on the eve of the First World War.
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