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This week in World War II (Great Youtube series!)
World War Two ^ | 09/05/2020 | Indy Neidell

Posted on 09/07/2020 5:06:46 PM PDT by mkleesma

It is two years this week since Germany invaded Poland. That European conflict soon became a global one. Japan's invasion of China began two years before that, but with Japan allied to the Axis Powers, they are now the same conflict. Those Axis are all fighting together now to try and defeat the Soviet Union, but the war has grown not just in the scale of the armies fighting, but also in the scale of man's inhumanity to man. We see that this week in German occupied territory.


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: documentary; ii; war; world; ww2
This is a fantastic series on Youtube - week by week reports on all activities across all theaters during World War II. If you are a war history nerd, you will love it.
1 posted on 09/07/2020 5:06:46 PM PDT by mkleesma
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To: mkleesma

Indie Nidel also did a week-by-week series on World War I that’s worth looking at as well. Lot’s of stuff covered on fronts usually ignored by U.S. histories.


2 posted on 09/07/2020 5:15:01 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: mkleesma
Germany attacked Poland in 2018? 😚
3 posted on 09/07/2020 5:16:52 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: mkleesma

Great series. The level of detail covered is outstanding and the fact that the whole thing is covered in a linear sequence rather than being broken up from one front to the next gives you a great overview of how events in one theater affected events in other theaters.


4 posted on 09/07/2020 5:21:26 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: immadashell

No one noticed. It barely made the news in Poland. Lol.


5 posted on 09/07/2020 5:35:30 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: mkleesma

Japan was not fighting “trying to defeat the Soviet Union.” Japan and the USSR had a neutrality pact that kept them from fighting each other until mid 1945, when the USSR saw the opportunity to let the treaty lapse and go for a land grab..


6 posted on 09/07/2020 5:39:45 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is More often surrendered than seized.p.)
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To: mkleesma

I can’t take 5 years to see how it ends.
So what happens? Who wins?


7 posted on 09/07/2020 5:42:37 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: Vermont Lt

Or the story was spiked by the Polish MSM.


8 posted on 09/07/2020 5:43:24 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: minnesota_bound

Just a hint...we get to the semi-finals.


9 posted on 09/07/2020 6:41:12 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

Bttt


10 posted on 09/07/2020 7:05:54 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: mkleesma

I have to watch, will check it out.


11 posted on 09/07/2020 7:20:30 PM PDT by X-FID (Trump 2020)
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To: Vermont Lt

I will jump ahead to the semi-finals : )


12 posted on 09/07/2020 7:27:54 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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> So what happens? Who wins?

Since you asked, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick won in overtime. Here we see their victory parade through New York City. Notice how they were ever-alert for snipers.


13 posted on 09/07/2020 7:31:29 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: mkleesma

see also: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar

Battle of Warsaw - Turning Point of Polish-Soviet War I THE GREAT WAR 1920
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uRzN57qusI


14 posted on 09/07/2020 9:01:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: minnesota_bound

It ends with a bang. Actually, two bangs.


15 posted on 09/08/2020 6:50:12 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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