Comments by "EdMcF1" (@EdMcF1) on "Mark Felton Productions" channel.

  1. I thought I saw a Russian bomber flying up the Thames one hot summer's day. It turned out to be an optical Ilyushin.
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  2. The British Foreign Office maintained that the Germans were responsible for Katyn until... 1989! An utter disgrace.
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  3. So the Swedes wanted to see what had become of their iron ore.
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  4. The Axis also had a plan to turn Detroit to ruins, it was to sit back and wait 70 years.
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  5. There are around 55 villages in England called the 'Thankful Villages' where no one was killed serving in WW1, and a very few lost no one in WW1 or WW2. I have read that there are NO villages in France where no one was killed serving in WW1.
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  6. On Southend Pier once, I thought I saw a Russian bomber flying up the Thames estuary, but it turned out to be an optical Ilyushin.
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  7. Not to be confused with Bundt cake.
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  8. 6 foot 4" scarface, not chosen for his ability to blend in to the background...
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  9. Sir Humphrey: "Prime Minister, the purpose of our defence policy is not to defend Britain, it is to make people think Britain is defended". Jim Hacker 'Who, the Russians?" Sir H 'No, not the Russians, the British. The Russians know it's not defended!'.
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  10. I read that the Hungarian Regnent Admiral Horthy's son was rolled-up into a carpet and carried out of the palace he was in. It sounds like a Pink Panther film plot.
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  11. Trying to imagine how gutted those GIs were to find Schnapps crates... full of books.
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  12. When Patton and his men turned up, and with Zhukov in the other direction, and Mussolini became a piece of performance art, Himmler's thoughts turned to peace.
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  13. Goering clearly won the Battle of the Buffet.
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  14. The plots against Hitler are almost a ghastly pre-parody of Wile E. Coyote pursuing the Road Runner.
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  15. Make a film of this: 'Teufel! Teufel! Teufel!'.
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  16. Shhh! Still classified.
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  17. This was feared to be the start of the Pferd World War.
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  18. A desperate battle with the Soviets to the finish, a massive rant from Adolf, confusion and failed efforts, and a hairdresser, this could be a prequel to Downfall.
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  19. They use the old weapons to make it fairer when Bolivia invades.
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  20. There was some damage from the incident, a cyclist on the bridge tore his trousers as he reacted (not a messy situation btw). The gallant Flt-Lt offered to pay for the damage, but the cyclist declined.
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  21. First thought, those Werewolf plans for resistance after occupation were pretty thorough. Second thought, a battleship is a bit harder to hide under a car park than Richard III.
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  22. The proximity fuze still astonishes me today, how they could make something so small not destroyed by being fired and that could detonate so quickly given the need for a detonating mechanism and avoiding false positives.
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  23. Kelly Holmes had a long British Army career, so she has a track record.
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  24. 'It's gonna be really great radar, the best."
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  25. It'd be a menu from a turning point in the Chinese civil war.
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  26. I read that in occupied Copenhagen a bookshop owner put two portraits in his shop window, one of Adolf and one of Benito. In-between the two portraits was a copy of Victor Hugo's novel, Les Misérables.
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  27. A taxying aircraft pulled by oxen, to save fuel. Ryanair eat your heart out!
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  28. Did they call their guard units 'the Swiss Watch'?
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  29. Captain Eric Brown RN (who was there) said of Reitsch that she was a wholly committed Nazi and was unrepentant right to the end of her life.
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  30. Went on a jeep safari in Fuerteventura with a random bunch of Germans in the early 90s, one of my fellow passengers was a former Bundeswehr tank driver who'd practised his tanker skills in Wales in the 80s.
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  31. Germany, saving the Allies the trouble of killing German pilots with a cunning DIY plan.
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  32. The late Captain Eric Brown RN, lecturing about his amazing life got to the Occupation Zones in Germany said something like 'The British got the North West, the Americans the South, the Soviets got the East and the French got... Who cares what the French got?'.
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  33. Italy has 3 micro-nations, one of which is now just an embassy, but it used to have an air force post WW2, the International Sovereign Military Order of Malta, at 68 Via Condotti, Rome. They flagged the Italian post-war air force.
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  34. Dr Felton asked the King if he could discuss this and the reply he got was 'I'm all ears'.
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  35. Turns out that the SAS weren't as suited to South Georgia's glaciers as Shackleton and his crew.
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  36. The Finns also had the swastika as a positive symbol, it was used in the Finnish Air Force even after WW2.
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  37. Solzhenitsyn remarked (iirc) that the (murderous) Gestapo for the whole of occupied Europe, had 40,000 staff, which was roughly the number of NKVD operatives in a major Soviet city..
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  38. We won't ask what he did.
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  39. I read the title summary, and clicked 'like' before the music ended. None can condemn me.
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  40. What were the adjusted tyre pressures for Goering's car when he was in it?
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  41. Sounds like 'Hold meine bier, Tommy'.
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  42. There is a special layer of horror and disgust that a nation as great as Germany was taken over and moulded to the will of a bunch of vicious freaks and weirdos, and no one could do anything once they got into power.
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  43. A guy at my secondary school made a replica Sten gun in metalwork class, we were amazed but looking back that was exactly what the design was about.
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  44. 'Hans,... are we the bad guys?' (Mitchell and Webb sketch)
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  45. D-Day: the ultimate wedding crashing!
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  46. Poor blighters, absolutely no hope. They fought against evil at every point, RIP all. Prague survived the Nazis thanks to them, remember that all.
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  47. I read reports of German U-boat crews landing in remote Welsh coastal villages in monolingual Welsh-speaking areas in WW1, and sometimes going into pubs and drinking with the locals, who not speaking English couldn't tell Germans from English crews.
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  48. Have to wonder why she was allowed into Britain after the war given her position. Did she ever go to Bolivia for dental treatment?
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  49. Von Ribbentrop;s son died recently. He fought right through the war, wounded many times, he got an obit in the Telegraph.
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  50. There's probably one on eBay these days.
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  51. 4:57 it wasn't yet the Republic of Ireland in name in 1945, it was still a Dominion. The crown was formally cast off in 1949.
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  52. That's true though.
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  53. I hope he has a tombstone with the inscription 'Here lies a total git.'. Excellent story, as ever.
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  54. Sikorski's death was ever so convenient for the British government as it avoided the embarrassing truth about Katyn and our Soviet allies being discussed. I have been to his memorial in Gibraltar. There was a Polish chap there when I visited it too.
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  55. When Mark is looking for facts and is in a hole, he just keeps digging. An American Home Guard unit.
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  56. All those flights over the years from what is now John Lennon Airport - Imagine, all the people.
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  57. He did bounce...at the end of a rope.
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  58. Imagine a Schrage Musik German fighter flying underneath to fire upwards and coming in range of the down-blast.
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  59. 'supposedly bomb-proof U-boat pens' cue: Barnes Wallis' Tallboys.
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  60. Nothing to apologise for, what a favour she did us, even if by accident.
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  61. Well, the Commies had a Rolls-Royce jet engine in their jets, sold with the permission of the UK's Labour government.
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  62. He was there, with his cine camera. He is a Time Lord.
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  63. I can't help think of Jason and the Argonauts and those sword-fighting skeletons when I see the Corinth Canal. Bet they'd've put up a fight against the Fallschirmjaeger.
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  64. 'News of this robbery would seriously damage the image of the British Army' As if Operation Keelhaul handing 2,000,000 over to Stalin, including thousands of non-Soviets wasn't bad enough.
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  65. A bunch of bat crazy cranks, with an entire country subordinated to their every whim, and the proud Generals of the Reichswehr/Wehrmacht cringing and scraping before them.
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  66. 0:22 Not the best camo of WW2.
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  67. 'Cecilia, you're breaking my heart' sang Keiji.
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  68. The most shocking point was the autopsy revealing that 'Himmler's are rather similar'.
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  69. His auto-biography gets to a point where I read two 'suicide missions' per page, then it tails off to one per page. I had the immense honour of meeting him and hearing him talk about his experiences, beyond jaw-dropping.
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  70. All that goose-stepping in Berlin stopped when the East German army was disbanded, saw them in summer 1990.
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  71. Hitler: 'I will interfere best with my Generals' plans'. Himmler: 'Halten Sie an meinen Bier'.
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  72. Mark only made this vid to show that he could pronounce the capital of Chad, for which he gets an Iron Cross 1st Class.
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  73. There seems to be a theme in the US Army of rather more 'petty' dishonesty (ok looting) that seems acceptable in the aftermath of WW2.
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  74. So that we could enjoy this amazing story on this video.
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  75. Lesson from this: Be careful what you wish for.
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  76. After the German surrender, Eric Brown, a Royal Navy pilot, managed to get permission to a test flight in a captured 163 with the help of the then PoW German crew. Even in peace, it was incredibly risky. If the dolly bounced too high on release, it could hit the 163 and detonate the fuel, and if there was any residual fuel, the shock of landing could produce an explosion.
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  77. At the Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire, WW2 fighters are regarded as terribly new-fangled.
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  78. Could have ended very badly. Strictly, West German military weren't allowed in West Berlin as it was under 4-Power occupation, all the Powers patrolled daily (notionally) checking for enemy (i.e. German) forces. The Bundeswehr could not conscript West Berliners or West Germans living in West Berlin, hence draft-dodgers moved to West Berlin. Luckily, these two pilots weren't interned till the end of the Occupation in 1990 or even 1991 when the legal rights of the 4 Powers were renounced.
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  79. Saw one at Shuttleworth, it literally hovered in the wind and drifted sideways along the crowd line, amazing sight.
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  80. Part of Sir Tom Sopwith's companies' fantastic stable of steeds, right up to the Hawker Siddley Harriers.
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  81. I've heard a rumour that in June 1982 a USAF Hercules landed at Rio at some ungodly hour, disgorging a team of technicians who scurried back on with a 'firework' and promptly left.
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  82. Perhaps the second type should be called a 'Martin Baker'?
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  83. He was a Volksalligator.
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  84. No truth in the rumour that Romanian officials, seeing the drone heading for Hungary, cracked open some fizz and forgot to tell their neighbours.
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  85. Macher was the probably the one person in the Reich hoping that the RAF would 'drop by' and unwittingly lend a hand with his demolition efforts.
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  86. 3:30 seeing that gentleman shoot the Lee Enfield, I was reminded of reports that in WW1, German troops reporting facing machine gun fire when in fact they had faced groups of well-drilled Tommies firing Lee Enfields very rapidly.
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  87. Song for this incident 'Fuel if you think it's over'.
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  88. The Czechs were entirely subordinate to the Soviets, this was formalised under the Warsaw Pact, when a Deputy Defence Minister of the USSR had authority over all Warsaw Pact forces. @dewittbourchier7169 
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  89. And Ulbricht's heirs have now made it to the Netherlands, having a go at their farmers.
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  90. They came from the sea as the ferry from the mainland was too expensive.
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  91. There was a beer advert for Stella, saying that it was 'reassuringly expensive', guess those guys weren't.
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  92. Plus Tito and Enver Hoxha?
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  93. There is a saying in Portuguese 'Ir a Roma e não ver o Papa' "Go to Rome and not see the Pope" which means to fail in one's mission. You didn't.
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  94. We could thank Colonel Tibbetts and his crew for that.
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  95. First time the Soviets ran a prison that wasn't overcrowded.
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  96. Those unreliable engines and transmissions were later to inspire many models at British Leyland.
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  97. A member of the public told Mrs Thatcher in mid-March 1982 that the Argies were planning something, and she brushed it off. The 1977 operation should have led to a firm assault on the Southern Thule base, and its destruction, to send a message to the Argies and indirectly, the Soviets. There was plenty of indication of Argentine aggression, as with their abortive assault on Chile in December 1978, Operación Soberania, called off around 6 hours before the assault began. And those poor penguins.
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  98. Rather like the West Germans starting off with the Federal Border Police (Bundesgrenzschutz) force which was the precursor to the Bundeswehr.
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  99. Delighted to hear that he is still with us.
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  100. Also Slartibartfast got an award for the Norwegian coast, it's in the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy.
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  101. Intel didn't mention that they were Sumo wrestlers.
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  102. There has been some debate over whether it was meant to be the bird's name or a reference to a weedkiller. Either way, the weeds were removed and the Argies got shat on.
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  103. In an alternative reality, the Soviets overran Japan and the croc eats the horse.
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  104.  @Dogmeat1950  Not as nice as the UK was to Australia, repeatedly nuking them, despite our common heritage and friendship... :-) Puts Bodyline in perspective.
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  105. You leave Corporal Jones alone Dr Felton, you won't like it up you.
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  106. I remember at the time, the Swedish nuclear monitoring authorities thought that there had been a leak in Sweden due to the levels of radiation being so high that it could only conceivably have been a local leak, that it could have been on the scale it was had been (til then) unimaginable (beyond horror film scenarios).
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  107. It was indeed, it's just that they were the testing range.
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  108. Imagine the shock outside the country of getting a letter from Germany in late 1945 with one of those stamps still on it.
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  109. Ditto, met him in Godmanchester a few years back, and great to call out his birthday.
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  110. 2:22 The Fuehrerstandard - the white circle represents just the one ball.
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  111. No, because that was necessary to defeat evil. This ruined Christmas is necessary to politicians, but not good people.
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  112. I heard that when he was elected Pope, he got to meet all the Cardinals, and one American Cardinal new to him told him they'd already met, Ratzinger was puzzled, and the Cardinal explained that he had been a USAAF gunner in WW2...
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  113. I have considerable doubts that it floated far from where it sank.
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  114. Dad's Army graphics there, excellent.
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  115. The Mosquito: Wood, you believe it!
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  116. What about the brave anti-Nazi Wehrmacht messenger pigeons who tried to stop Hitler by staging a coo...?
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  117. Correct, the RAF's and "VERA" in Canada, but there are plans for a third, in England, a ground-running Lancaster based in Lincolnshire in private ownership. @crazyventuriantale2835 
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  118.  @ruberxwibebadhi  Wrong chat Bud!
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  119. George VI served at Jutland in WW(1)2 and was mentioned-in-despatches. (edit (1) for 2).
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  120. When Speer calls you 'disgusting', you might not be the most likeable of chaps.
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  121. Great that the Luftwaffe guy who helped Perón in Argentina lived to see Sir Tom Sopwith's firm's Harriers dispose of his proteges in 1982, as did Sir Tom.
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  122.  @realQuiGon  Not really, it was railroaded by the Pope the other year, just a puppet embassy of a former State.
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  123. Christopher Lee served in Finland in the Winter War, (as a camp guard, releasing Finns for the front) before joining the RAF later in WW2.
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  124. How does it feel, to treat me like you do?
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  125. The Wehrmacht had around 3,000 tanks in total in Barbarossa in June 1941, and the Soviets had 5,000 KV-1s alone. Who says the Soviets hadn't been preparing for war?
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  126. Caught between the hammer and the anvil, hard to judge from our perspective.
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  127. The calling thing is that when it came to the crunch, the German State preferred to obey a deranged junkie, an officer cadet chicken farmer and a bunch of thugs rather than confront reality.
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  128. How many of those brave agents might have been betrayed by British Commies in MI6?
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  129. 'Wheel meet again, Don't know where, don't know when'.
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  130. Iraqis nearly got a German Monarchy of sorts in Rashid Ali's coup in 1941, except it would have been an Austrian Corporal.
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  131.  @keithammleter3824  Early 1980s, at a school with a Cadet force where most of us had some shooting lessons.
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  132. That's got to have been the best raffle in all of history.
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  133. Potholes?
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  134. It was fitted with a bar, most important for the Grand Old Man.
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  135. War trophies are not theft. But yes, there seems to have been a lot of stealing in occupied Germany (works of art, mementoes).
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  136. The Canadians were just in time, that's true though.
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  137. Watch out for Iranian spies trying to nick it.
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  138. On a U-boat? 🙂
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  139. On the Channel Aircrew Interviews, a former Luftwaffe (IIRC) pilot who was high in the post-reunification Luftwaffe said that a lot of East German air force pilots couldn't stomach being part of the Federal German Luftwaffe as they were ideologically commies. The feeling seemed to have been mutual.
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  140. It was a Dominion and it was technically subordinate to the British Parliament until the Australia Act of 1986, which formally abolished the 'right' of the Westminster Parliament to pass laws that had effect in Australia. So whilst it had its own governments (Federal and State) they were all (practically in legal theory) under the rule of the UK and had the ultimate court of appeal in the Privy Council (Judicial Committee) in London.
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  141. 7:19 Panzerjägerdrahteselkommando 'Tank hunter 'wire donkey' commando' ('wire donkey' slang for 'bike' in German).
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  142. 2:34" Churchill meets Nigel Mansell in a former career.
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  143. I wonder what the spammers offered back then, stashes of Nazi gold, '...I need to get to South America where I have a fortune, I just need ten bucks...'?
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  144. A former champagne salesman, the fizz went out of his sales patter in the end.
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  145. Yes, and the actual Molotov cocktail device was invented earlier, by a Nationalist Captain in the Spanish Civil War, near Toledo IIRC to stop Soviet-supplied tanks that the Republicans were using.
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  146. There is a pub in Fowey, Cornwall called 'The King of Prussia', apparently a local smuggler's nickname.
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  147. He should have swung in 1918.
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  148. Someone I know alive today, as a young girl in Kingston (near the Hawker factory) was walking down the street, age c. 8 and was strafed by a German fighter.
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  149. The police were surprisingly open, they made no bones about it.
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  150. That's not fun, but nonetheless a fact.
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  151.  @Balt21Raven  And then came along the Khmer Rouge.
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  152. The Duke of Kent's father (also HRH the Duke of Kent) was killed in an air crash when serving in the RAF in WW2, on his way to Iceland.
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  153. Most people only get embarrassed by their uncles when they dance at a wedding.
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  154. I have, I know someone alive todau who as a child c1943 was walking down a street in Kingston when a German aircraft strafed the street, missing her and her friend. The Hawker factory was nearby.
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  155. The UK ganged up on Finland with the Soviets in WW2, the UK thereby becoming the first democracy to declare war on another democracy.
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  156.  Charles DuBois  You're not that far from the truth sir, sadly.
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  157. Six symbols: Adolf also appropriated Charlie Chaplin's 'tache!
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  158. The Boomtown Rats did a song called 'I never loved Eva Braun', it gets remarkably little airplay.
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  159. The Imperial German armed forces brought brutality to the world in novel ways, like with the destruction in Leuven right at the start of the war.
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  160. The Werewolves cunningly anticipated how to hide their armour from satellite reconnaissance.
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  161. He was there.
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  162. The law of England provides that if you die without a will, then your living relatives as far as half-aunts and uncles, but not cousins can claim the estate. This only applies if no living offspring, parents, and aunts and uncles survive you.
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  163. 'I'm watching you Gandhi' Arnold Rimmer, Waxworld, training the 'good' army.
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  164. No, Attlee sold them jet engines after that.
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  165. "Dr Goebbels, the Fuehrer is dead. The ball is in your court now". "Ach, I haf no balls at all.".
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  166. So what about the other tens of millions murdered by the Soviets? You like that?
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  167. It is inconceivable that anyone would have even thought of telling Stalin who could visit him, even if they were an 'Armenian Bourgeois Nationalist' or 'grand-daughter of a Tsarist General'
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  168. Can't see the comments on this going anywhere.
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  169. Teetotaler vs Drinker, it was never going to work.
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  170. They don't deserve any credit, for siding with an aggressive Junta that carried out mock executions.
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  171. Have to say that the KV-1 looks right.
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  172. Navigation errors like that weren't all that uncommon, with bombers attacking the North as well, added danger for civilians in Ireland was the risk of a false sense of security from the geographical distance and neutrality and assuming that the risk of getting bombed wasn't there..
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  173. One side starts with indiscriminate bombs, ends with V1s and V2s. Other starts the same way but devises Tallboy, Grand Slam and Upkeep pre-smart bombs designed to be aimed at specific targets accurately.
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  174. The Communist Resistance sprouted on the morning of 22nd June 1941. Prior to that, they were in favour of the situation.
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  175.  @spooderdoggy  After the war, he was a Christian Democrat.
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  176. The search for Heisenberg was hindered by uncertainty.
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  177. 4:09 a Major-General is 2-star, not 3-star, but in the context, it hardly matters.
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  178.  @jasontrauger8515  Not really, but for the war, the 'plane crash most likely wouldn't have happened.
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  179.  @XxBloggs  Sounds like you've never been to the UK.
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  180.  @thatontariofarmer  'In defeat inconsolable, in victory unbearable' iirc per WS Churchill
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  181. Well you could at least have put the Swiss Guard to the test. 🙂
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  182. Seems that it mattered to HIM where he served.
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  183. For all the guff we hear about Bletchley Park, no one ever seems to explain how this attack was a surprise.
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  184. The Lancaster has a turret donated by the Argies in the 1970s, long after they had retired their post-WW2 Lancasters and Lincolns.
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  185. I went to that part of Munich with the tombs whilst at the Oktoberfest. It was obviously what the tourist board would have called 'The Hitler Quarter' but for, well, you know... The U-bahn (underground) station there had effigies of some notable Germans in the wall over the escalators, the members of Kraftwerk.
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  186. Super title: I can hear Adam Ant singing 'Prinz Charmlos, ridicule is nothing to be scared of'.
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  187. The Japanese soldiers and killer crocodiles perhaps?
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  188. 6:06 That's Lieutenant Grüber.
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  189. Mitchell and Webb (British comedians) did a skit on Doenitz's reaction on getting power, he starts planning Autobahns before aides remind him of the mess. Pure Nazi power remained in Alderney until 16th May 1945 as the British did not liberate it until then, with Jersey and Guernsey being liberated on 9th May 1945.
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  190. Bombing cities wasn't widely accepted, it was unknown until the attacks by the Luftwaffe on Guernica, Warsaw and Rotterdam, and there was no alternative for the Allies to wear down the enemy. Bombing was regarded as wrong at the start of the war, the RAF wasted many lives dropping leaflets on Germany in the early days alongside some bombing missions.
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  191. They were only following orders.
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  192. If you are letting Luftwaffe aircraft land in and use your territory and fly out again, you're not 'neutral'.
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  193.  @eliseereclus3475  Shame on you for not understanding what I am saying. No Nazi is a hero, if they were, they'd never have served that evil State. Repenting evil-doers? Yes. Heroes? No. Brave? Yes.
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  194. Their actual plan for the Dead was 'You ain't seen nothin' yet!'.
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  195. I was hoping Mark had some for sale.
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  196. So THAT'S why he was never released.
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  197. Because the Soviets didn't tell them to? The Warsaw Pact Armies were subordinate to a Deputy Minister of Defence of the USSR, not to the Minister of Defence, but his deputy. Maybe some special forces from the Warsaw Pact did get trained there, in disguise.
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  198. '...The Welrod 9mm...' 'Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range'...
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  199. It should really be an armoured train and travel with a Hurricane and Spitfire escort at around 500 feet.
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  200. I can't help feeling that many got off far too lightly after the war. SS units committed atrocities in France in 1940, there's no argument that they were war-weary. There was also in WW1 the Rape of Louvain by the Imperial German Army in the aftermath of the invasion of Belgium. I can't help wishing that there had been a reckoning after the First World War, to discourage the others.
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  201. In Southampton, there is a modest plaque as a memorial to the musicians of the band that played on to keep up morale as the ship went down taking them with it, outside of some offices. This video brings home the scale of it all.
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  202. The film 'The Death of Stalin', is absolutely excellent black comedy.
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  203. The greatest stain on the United Kingdom's record of all time. An out-and-out war crime, and the scale of it post-War, handing back 2 million souls to the evil Soviet Union, makes it comparable to any Nazi crimes, albeit by aiding and abetting. The Prince of Liechtenstein told the Soviets to get stuffed, despite his properties in Czechoslovakia, he said 'You have to talk sternly to these people, it is the only language that they understand'.
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  204. Well, we'll have to strip the wallpaper out from every house in Germany and Austria till we find it.
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  205. You need a passport to get to the Falklands from the UK as it is outside the UK's Common Travel Area (same with Gibraltar), but you for the other islands (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands etc. you need a permit for a visit, they are not part of the Falklands but part of the South Georgia territory.
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  206. For transporting salt, they used Short Sunderland flying boats, flying onto lakes, since as seaplanes, they had the appropriate corrosion protection which most aircraft lacked.
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  207. 'There are people who have a positive genius for spoiling all my little pleasures.' Zhukov, Rokossovsky, Eisenhower, Harris.
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  208. Yes, and look how far he got, that's what's truly frightening, obviously deranged.
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  209. Slight pedantry attack, the Channel Islands were not, and have never been 'part of the UK'. They are Crown Dependencies and have a distinct status. After D-Day, a Swedish Red Cross ship, SS Vega, delivered food supplies for the Islanders, which the Germans did not steal. At the Jersey War Tunnels museum, the cafe is called the 'Vega cafe' in honour of the ship.
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  210. French Commie partisans would probably have been ordered by their Soviet idols to kill those Ukrainians for being anti-Soviet even if they defected.
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  211. And Angela Merkel was taken the other way by her Dad.
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  212. So how come 'we' end up siding with the only guys there who can't fight?
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  213. 3:22 A physical resemblance to his great-nephew Prince Andrew methinks.
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  214.  @DBEdwards  It's on YT, and it is that man.
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  215. With every promotion he got, the German situation got worse.
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  216. For the Bavarian monarchy, fine, not those damned Hohenzollerns.
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  217. There you go, on 29th April 1982, they were planning to sink British ships, and they attacked on 1st May 1982, the Belgrano was sunk only on 2nd May 1982.
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  218. Dropping bread to the starving Finnish masses, of course.
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  219. 1:33 Looks like some Ukrainian troops have done some time travelling.
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  220. I guess that it was for Iran to say this 'plane turned up and we let it land and go on its way than to say 'Er, yes, Ivan we are letting the Imperialists fly all over your place,. Northen Iran had been Soviet-occupied in and after WW2.
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  221. This was actually the Pferd World War.
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  222. Nuclear fission was conceived in theory by a Hungarian physicist in 1933, Leo Szilard. He thought up the basic concept in Russell Square in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Szilard
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  223. I suppose to them, that was leadership.
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  224. The Yamato was also converted into an aquarium...
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  225. He has touched on this topic, somewhere in the enormous archive there is something about German WW2 tanks being used IIRC by Syria.
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  226. All we need now is for one to drift into the SS Montgomery!
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  227. There is a Boulton Paul Defiant in the RAF museum, Hendon, not airworthy. It is painted in a matt black night fighter scheme. It would be terrific if it could be restored to flight.
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  228. Argentine jets were doing fabulously, until Sir Tom Sopwith's firm's Harriers came along in 1982.
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  229. The element of German surprise in these attacks rather gives the lie to the 'Bletchley Park cut 2 years off the war' narrative, never mind what the Manhattan Project meant for war-limiting scenarios.
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  230. Since he wasn't British, I think he ought not to have faced treason charges any more than any other American, whose allegiance to the Crown was determined by George Washington and army. His conviction was a bit of a fix. That he was a monstrous t*rd is not a reason to hang him. I suspect he did wonders for stiffening British resolve during the war.
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  231. Stark contrast to the UK government's approach to its servicemen.
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  232. There was a story that Douglas Bader post-War was visiting a posh Girls' School to give a talk about the War. He told the pupils 'I then shot down a Focke...' At which point the Headmistress interjected 'Girls, the Focke-Wulf was a type of German aircraft' and Bader replied 'Indeed it was, but this chap was flying a Messerchmitt',
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  233. Stalin reputedly proposed a rampage through Switzerland as the war ended. Frankly, I don't know why the Western Allies objected. Switzerland would take the profits of genocide, and not lift a finger to help anyone else, so they ought to have been left to their fate.
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  234. So Shirer was wrong in his history of the 3rd R when he said that the RAF retaliation raid on Berlin in 1940 following a Luftwaffe raid on housing in London was the first time that bombs had fallen on Berlin.
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  235. It's not 'aggressivness' to have responded to being attacked. If the Junta had bothered to think a few minutes, the Heads of the UK Forces were: a veteran of the Normandy landings, a veteran of the Battle of the North Cape, a veteran of the Malta convoys and a pilot who'd been over Berlin in a Lancaster ten times. I can't think of a worse place to start if you were looking for a push-over.
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  236. At this stage of the war, Schmidt, we need a futile gesture...'
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  237. As Battery Sgt-Major Williams put it 'Oh dear, 'ow sad! Never mind.'.
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  238. Hey, come on now, no one wanted to offend nice Uncle Joe Stalin, did they? Never mind that he kicked the whole thing off invading Poland in 1939 in league with Germany.
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  239. If Hess had pegged on for a few more years, he would (presumably) have seen the unification of Germany and the end of the Four Power Allied Occupation of Berlin, leaving Spandau a German prison, not an Allied one.
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  240. So why isn't the title music 'Gold' by Spandau Ballet? (I'll get my coat...).
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  241. The F-14s will be fine as long as they haven't fitted new avionics sourced from that pager company.
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  242. 3:00 That's actually the fuel gauges filmed in reverse. :-)
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  243. A shortours like Stalin could hardly have wielded such a sword!
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  244. Ireland should have kept the 'plane, a useful symbolic boost to its armed forces.
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  245. 'Gniezno' For c. 1 millisecond I heard 'Gneisenau', but it's actually a nice town in Poland.
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  246. Somehow, I read that in a Bond villain voice.
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  247. Had you drunk as much whisky as Galtieri did at the time?
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  248. I went to this museum a few years ago and saw the Harrier. They also had a Pucará, thought it'd've been better to have the Sea Harrier 'chasing' the Pucará as it closed in for a cannon kill.
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  249. The Finnish ace (75 victories) Hans Wind also had a great name and record.
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  250. Moldova probably has a Pterodactyl in its Air Force.
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  251. Anti-B-52 missiles don't use infra-red, they use smoke alarms.
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  252. Roam if you want to, all around the World, I will, with or without you.
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  253. Damn lucky that he didn't get a round from that Colt, which he would fully have deserved in the circumstances.
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  254. They are all hiding in his basement.
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  255. I've read that in mid-October, there was a general panic in Moscow and some thought that a battalion of German Fallschirmjaeger might have taken the city had they been able to land.
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  256. 1:35 'Hitler's Finnish allies' WRONG - 'Hitler's Finnish co-belligerents'.
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  257. Hitler was, per Willam Shirer's book, a foreigner in Germany (i.e. an Austrian) right up until just before he took power, I didn't get a date, but he said that the Austrian painter could have been deported at any point up to getting citizenship. George Washington ruled over a country he wasn't born in, as the United States didn't exist then.
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  258. Is it on LuftBnB?
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  259. Makes me think of Young Frankenstein. Abbie Nomal.
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  260. The Germans were probably planning to hitch a huge glider to a pair of V-2s and to fly it over the Atlantic.
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  261. Starfighters! Easiest way to acquire one? Buy a field and wait.
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  262.  @Jay-O_Carlow  That's why I call it a 'ghastly... ...parody', how it always went wrong. I don't doubt their courage.
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  263. He could have done one at least 'decent' thing in his miserable life and gone out in a 'Banzai' charge on the attacking Soviets, like so many had done before him, and one more, let his children be evacuated.
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  264. She didn't, and because no such order is possible, it is a pointless thing to ask.
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  265. Probably, but nothing much happened. Ageing man gets up, has breakfast, lunch, walk and dinner, reads and goes to bed x 14,600.
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  266.  @lunsmann  No Sir, I won't have that. It was only one award and it was his own medal, the 'Victorious Cross'. Stolen valour and a fridge full of enemies.
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  267.  @jamesglass4842  Seems undeniable that she knew her stuff too.
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  268. Oliver Cromwell on the Quakers: 'Now I see there is a people risen that I cannot win with gifts or honours, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can.'.
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  269. After 5 flights, did a mule become an ass? (I'll get my coat...)
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  270. Considering that his cousin the Tsar and Grandma Vicky gave him such nice presents, the Kaiser was an ungrateful sod.
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  271. It's an ancient symbol which if anything was borrowed by the NSDAP, its use in Finland long pre-dates the notorious use in Germany. Some speculate that it was known to Germans serving in the East in late WW2 and made its way to Germany thus. There you go, some history for you.
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  272. Germany and Finland were not allies, but co-belligerents in 1941-44, a small but significant difference.
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  273. The start is a bit sin of omission, the Soviets joined in the attack on Poland, if they were sincerely worried about war, then the Soviets would have guaranteed Poland's borders with the UK and France
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  274. As a boy, when I found out about Dieppe, I was utterly disgusted (I am English) and I couldn't understand why it happened and why no one was court-martialled (and frankly, shot) for the utter waste of life. My apologies to Canada, your troops were wasted and your goodwill abused by shameless scoundrels.
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  275. Boris was a better man than Anthony Eden.
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  276. His actions, in the context of the humanitarian catastrophe of the evacuation of the Baltic, a small but significant redeeming feature for the Kriegsmarine.
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  277.  @theodorebennett7938  Yes, I stand corrected. Thanks.
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  278. Tell that to Polish General Sikorski.
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  279. That was over 1% of German tank strength lost in one action. It actually sounds like an ironic re-enactment from the Winter War when Finns (but not using tanks) cut up isolated Soviet columns.
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  280. @Rommel the Cat I didn't say that they didn't. Sheffield was hit by an Exocet aimed in the general direction of a carrier whilst on picket duty, it was the 'sacrificial anode' like zinc. Your comment is completely irrelevant to my point. Skill and determination in support of a junta who threw people out of helicopters into the River Plate and who staged a mock execution of a civilian in the Falklands does not a virtue make.
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  281. If this had come off, there'd have been no Downfall film or parodies, the internet would be totally different.
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  282. If only the British Secret Service had trained the young lions to attack men with toothbrush moustaches...
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  283. Tanks for the memories.
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  284.  @ARGAR_GAMES  'h' for 'c'....
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  285. Nothing to do with his nose, then? That's a relief.
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  286. I can't imagine that the comments on this one would go anywhere...
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  287. There's a monument to General Sikorski in Gibraltar, he died in a 'plane crash near there. I have wondered if this was a 'convenient' happening arranged to appease Stalin. There was a lot of Communist sabotage in the UK before 22nd June 1941, the guy who 'sank' the Bismarck, an RN Swordfish pilot mentioned it in his book.
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  288.  @MarkTheMorose  I think you mean the IRS?
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  289.  @oakey44  Lloyd George reputedly told Griffiths in the Free State negotiations that there was no word for 'republic' in Gaelic (nor Welsh) as Celts had always had kings.
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  290. You missed the Duke of Atholl's Highlanders, a private army permitted by Queen Victoria.
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  291. Bet the van owner's insurance company queried the crash diagram.
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  292. I was at Checkpoint Charlie in August 1990. There was a chap in civvies who claimed to be a Grenzpolizei Colonel flogging off Border Guard uniforms (sadly didn't buy one), an Irish chap helping the Colonel, and a short Turkish chap dressed up as a East German Border Guard with a very fake wood cut-out rifle waving at traffic as it crossed the by now open line. What made me laugh was a large Merc coming from the West saw the Turkish chap (who had a Super Mario look) waving at them and the Merc did a rapid U-turn and zoomed back, just staying in the West. And in my hotel, there was a picture of Gorbachev behind reception.
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  293. If the Duke of Windsor was the answer, what on Earth was the question?
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  294. Imre Nagy sought asylum at the Yugoslav embassy in Budapest, he was promised safe conduct out but was then arrested. There's brotherly solidarity for you from Tito, they could have done more to have got him out to a safe country.
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  295. You'd have thought he'd've done a roll or two over the Channel to lose his mail before landing.
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  296. Nelson carried on with one eye. Perhaps you didn't enable them to tick the right boxes?
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  297. What happened to it after the war? Did a certain Austrian Corporal with time on his hands get the U-boat rustled away in a creek somewhere in Florida as part of a long-stop back-up plan to get to Argentina if Plan B didn't work out? Stay tuned....
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  298. What was the point of Britain having forces in theatre if they weren't there to fight? They seem to have been sent there in order to retreat.
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  299. Oberpfaffenhofen has fame at last. Captain Eric Brown RN said that hos team serching Germany postwar for aviation technology were shocked at how far advanced the Germans were, and the scale of the plans for jet figters. Luvkily they were overrun before they could get air supremacy.
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  300. OC's pep talk was probably 'Tovarishi, you have nothing to fear, this enemy can't shoot back.'.
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  301.  @ends8  Yes, they are below the infra-red, never mind ultra-violet or X-rays.
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  302. The Mosquito: wood, you believe it!
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  303. Try TIK, or MHV. Mark's niche is different.
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  304.  @Thisisnolongerajoke  Yes, but the 'd'.
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  305. Barnes Wallis effectively invented 'precision bombing' with the Tallboy, Grand Slam and Upkeep (the dambuster mine). Today we now see the astonishing accuracy of guided bombs. Hopefully, wicked politicians across the World will see this accuracy of modern conventional bombs as an indication of a high risk of non-nuclear 'mutual assured destruction' and be less inclined to start wars.
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  306. What an insult that would have been to all those killed in WW1 and especially those civilians murdered at Leuven in 1914 by the German army.
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  307. Supposing mailing home a Tiger would have raised eyebrows.
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  308. I read somewhere that Heydrich had a grandmother whose first name was 'Sarah' and that this was known to Himmler who used it as a way to keep Heydrich in line.
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  309. 3:16 No snow camo, Soviet penal battalion?
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  310. 1' 14" That's not Heisenberg, it's Stan Laurel.
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  311. The Yanks and Brits, against the Germans, Soviets and French.
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  312. Staggering that in Versailles there was not provision for a permanent monitoring of every boatyard in Germany forever more.
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  313. Captain Eric Brown RN was in the British team scouring post-War Germany for aviation tech, he said that they were 'shocked' by what they found, the sheer scale and state of German technology. They were about a year away from air supremacy. Not sure about the oil situation, but the tech war was almost lost for the Allies.
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  314. The RAF had a Balloon Command in WW2, disgracefully in the Falklands War, the British armed forces 'forgot' the lessons of WW2 and failed to deploy barrage balloons to protect San Carlos Water or Bluff Cove against low level air attacks.
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  315. So Angriff Steiner got going at last, in the wrong country against the wrong opponent, 22 years and 2 months late and failed. NB iit was only in 1948, the Communists got full control of Czecoslovakia.
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  316. A weird echo of the Royal Naval Division of WW1, who fought in the Western Front, made up of sailors who had nothing to do sea-wise as the High Seas Fleet was mainly bottled up in the Baltic.
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  317. Imagine the one-balled one parachuting in an emergency and landing in your garden!
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  318. 'Nothing should disturb that Condor moment. (pipe baccy advert of the 1980s)
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  319. That one in Bognor was not sent there by George V.
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  320. The RAF came back with the Blockbuster or Cookie bomb, designed by Alfred 'Blockbuster' Brooks, MBE.
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  321.  @davetravers4621  But our silver is in Denmark!
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  322. 'For you Tommy, ze War isn't ofer!'
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  323. Goes through all that Hell, and he wants a sequel.
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  324. The NVA draft, not to be confused with the NBA draft.
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  325. The Boomtown Rats (lead singer Bob Geldof) did a song about Eva Braun and her lover.
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  326. Hope you managed to get some genuine Mozart balls at the airport for Christmas. When I was there, I tried to buy some Hitler balls, but they only had one.
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  327. Not as hard as a Boeing 'Hard Landing'.
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  328. The regimental theme song is not van Halen's 'Jump'.
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  329. If the Argentine Junta had bothered to think a few minutes, they might have considered that the Heads of the UK Forces were: a veteran of the Normandy landings, a veteran of the Battle of the North Cape, a veteran of the Malta convoys and a pilot who'd been over Berlin in a Lancaster ten times. I can't think of a worse place to start if you were looking for a push-over.
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  330. Your life is written in your teeth, from the trace elements that get incorporated in them as you grow, to the wear and tear of life.
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  331. Dr Felton plumbs new depths.
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  332. This Swastika thing didn't blow up overnight.
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  333. I love a happy ending.
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  334. There is a hitherto unknown hominid-like creature in China that the CCP is hushing up until tests confirm its existence, it's called in romanisation, the Uinny-da-Puuh bear.
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  335. Present-day Russian tank commander watches this and sighs for the days when mines were the biggest headache.
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  336. Outside powers not wholly interested in the welfare of the Persian people? Well oil never!
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  337. Lihou and Brechquou aussi!
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  338. I went to a talk of his, words fail me to describe how amazing it was, but I felt as if I had met the real Baron Munchhausen (not the comic one), so extraordinary were his tales, as well as the horror of liberating Belsen. He spoke for 90 minutes (in his 90s) and the only thing he stumbled over was the RAF's terminology for 'the rotation system' for pilots, since he was FAA (apart from a brief time in the RAFVR), not surprising he didn't know the term. His bio 'Wings on my sleeve' is astonishing.
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  339.  @stefanodadamo6809  Yes, (hence 'in name') but note Spain has a Presidente del Gobierno, who we refer to as 'Prime Minister'. There was a wilful ambiguity as to who was the Head of State, George VI or the President until 1949.
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  340. Whoever programmed that drone should watch a bit of Geowizard.
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  341. 'What is your misson now, Leutnant?' 'Herr Kapitän, I am just in a Biber.'.
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  342. When he mentioned 'Japanese midgets', yes. They should have tried a Sumo sub.
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  343. Not sure Dr Felton has been able to check all the care homes in Paraguay for lurking Wehrmacht retirees.
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  344. Wasn't Gehlen's operation riddled with Soviet agents?
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  345. Did they weigh the crew before and after the mission?
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  346. This proves that those Trolls who said Invincible was sunk and was replaced by Illustrious were right!!!!
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  347. This is the Pferd World War!
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  348. Proof that Dr Felton, a true historian, can make a video without mentioning WW1, WW2 or something in-between.
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  349. As a child in the 1970s, I always checked a George VI two shilling coin (10p in new money), I knew that pre-1948 they had silver in them, but I never found one. Gresham's Law, bad money drives out good (people hoard the coins with actual value, here from silver).
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  350. Visitors didn't know who the Gurkhas were? That's Nepalling!
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  351. 'As a Pharmacist, I prescribe an 88mm HE shell, I find it solves most problems.'
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  352. Franco was more a Falangist rather than a Fascist, he basically united those in Spain who weren't Communist or Anarchist and established a personal dictatorship.
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  353. The Armenians were really dumb in that war, not what you'd expect from a nation of great chess players.
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  354. Magnet fishing expoldes in popularity.
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  355. And they should have made Hirohito present it, in person.
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  356. Captain Eric Brown tested captured FW-190s, he told how he was later in a dogfight with one, thinking 'I've flown your plane, but you haven't flown mine', but neither could get an angle on the other.
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  357. I was half-expecting that the Soviets had a probe looking for NSDAP activists on the Moon...
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  358. A celebrated British bomb disposal expert Lt-Cdr John Bridge GC, GM* was involving in clearing mines in the river Scheldt around this time, after bomb disposal in the Blitz and in the Sicily landings. His biography was called 'Trip to Nijmegen'. He's worth his own video.
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  359. Next week, 99 year old Feldwebel Fritz Schmidt, the last hold-out 74 years on in Greenland, comes in from the cold, low on ammo and really not fancying yet another winter of seal meat.
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  360.  @Loup-mx7yt  Kabul had great air defence, and lots more, that did nothing to save it.
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  361. What about Matthias Rust, daredevil German pilot (of the 1980s)?
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  362. Gehlen was riddled with Communist spies, so it's inconceivable that the Soviets didn't know about this, and presumably the Allies turned a blind eye.
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  363. 12:07 They got that new pic of the Big Boss up in double-quick time given the chaos. Looks like a waste of time.
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  364. 'I never loved (Wernher von) Braun', not quite a song by the Boomtown Rats, but it should have been, NASA.
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  365. Chris Rea did a song about this raid 'Fuel if you think it's over', or was that Blackbuck 1?
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  366. Spoiler: It's not the missing part that visited...
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  367. 4:28 Rauchen verboten! (Smoking Forbidden) - Old 'olf is still issuing orders.
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  368. 3:15 sounds like this is repeating itself today in the Ukraine.
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  369. Bit of welding and it'll be on the front line next week.
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  370. This makes me think of Young Frankenstein and Abbie Normal.
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  371. We know that Himmler ate some British Army sandwiches in custody, so it's not surprising that he died soon after.
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  372. The irony of Luftwaffe bombing raids helping the Liberty ships supply the war effort by providing rubble is beyond words.
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  373. What a topic for the 80th anniversary of Barbarossa.
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  374. There's no truth in the rumour that the French were only looking for tanks with more than one reverse gear.
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  375. He was Lindemann's secret' boss during the war, and devised an anti-aging machine.
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  376. Is it a FrankenPanzer?
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  377. For a serious commenter, I would have hoped you'd've realised he was simply describing locations by reference to how the area is known today, not making a political point. Not everyone has an obsession with the present day.
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  378.  @gadaboutunited  Give him some donations so he can spend it on other maps?
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  379. It was the French Communists, fear of them, ending up in the GULAG and the prospect of mass killings like those that had been playing out in Russia/USSR since 1917.
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  380.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Yes, and he popped over to the Republic of Ireland too.
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  381.  @sergioattonito1867  Well, with Hitler gone, the Generals would able to say 'Our oath to the Fuehrer is no longer in force', and with that bunch of evil clowns in the government, there was scope for a military take-over'. But they might have taken the 'easy' way out.
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  382. 'Hessco's', rather tasteless name for a NAAFI since Tesco's had a Jewish founder.
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  383. It would have been a Lifeline.
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  384. Some American General called Ludwig Battenberg 'a real p1sspot', he (Battenberg) reportedly once delighted in saying to a group of senior officers 'Lieutenant-Generals, Quick March!''. He was Rimmer from Red Dwarf before Rimmer was born. My apologises to Canada for this catastrophe.
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  385. A 'Florenz Nazigehl' for her time, not to be mistaken for an Amish.
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  386. Goering, fat lot of bad he was.
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  387. The Royal Navy have announced that they are re-inforcing Gibraltar with a River-class patrol boat with a massive, er, 30 mm cannon and a few MGs. Looking at what the Kriegsmarine cobbled together for this, it seems that today's Navy isn't exactly keen to pack a punch.
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  388. Sloppy fools the Allies at that point.
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  389.  @auldare7053  Yes, sorry typed whilst watching. Ta for the spot.
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  390. But he did nearly get killed by Donald Sutherland and his German paratrooper pals.
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  391. The King (in WW2) was Commander-in-Chief, so on 'active service' in a way, unlike President Clinton.
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  392. Edward VIII when PoW visited the front in WW1 and got a Military Cross for it, but he was a bit embarrassed apparently and did not wear it.
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  393. The Pferd World War!
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  394. His bite was worse than his bark, man.
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  395. To admit to being a British relative of Hitler would take some balls.
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  396. A Storch at Old Warden aerodrome in Bedfordshire (home of the fabulous Shuttleworth collection) at the end there.
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  397. 1:43 the Pferd World War.
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  398. The New Zealand Air Force scrapped its old WW2 planes as too advanced.
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  399. So how did Dr Felton produce this documentary in quick time just after an assassination attempt? Do we know he did not know it was coming? ;-)
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  400. I have an unopened bottle of East German beer (from 1990) in the cupboard.
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  401. Anyone who thinks Versailles was 'harsh' should consider (i) it was an alternative to Allied occupation of the entire country, hanging the Kaiser and his General Staff and perhaps splitting off Bavaria and (ii) look at the terms Germany imposed on the Soviets in the treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
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  402. OK, this Guy Fawkes Night, a few cardboard kitchen foil rolls, some sticky tape and a few rockets and let Jerry beware!
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  403. Gòring, the oursole from the castle.
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  404. 3:24 Sure that isn't Inspector Clouseau?
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  405. The Winter Special Operation, I think you mean?
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  406. Shame that time prevented coverage of the Sausage War, when a Soviet surprise attack on a Finnish camp collapsed when they found a sausage stew and discipline broke down as the starving Reds started feasting, allowing the Finns time to regroup and counter-attack.
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  407. No reserve 'chute, but a radio set to communicate with Berlin 'Teufel! Hallo Berlin: Meine Fallschirm öffnet sich nicht! Auf Wiederseeeehen!"
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  408. Scouse nephew to uncle 'Calm down!'.
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  409. There is now a dog, Dilyn, in 10 Downing Street, he's a terrier too. I hope that fur play prevails.
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  410. Should have used a Tallboy.
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  411. No one tell a certain chap in Moscow that something needs nuking again.
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  412. I believe that there was a Dutch art forger prosecuted for collaboration after the war for selling his fake paintings to Gōring as Old Masters, in his defence it was pointed out that he had been paid by Gōring with forged Reichsmarks.
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  413. Was Mussolini tiny? Was Stalin a little darlin'? Was de Gaulle tall? Was Horthy a shorty? Was Quisling a stripling? Was Truman a big shoe man? Tune in...
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  414. A bit of light relief.
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  415. So the Führer's dream of the Wehrmacht parading through Moscow was realised even before the War had ended...
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  416. 9:04 American military liaison/attachés?
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  417. Charles Godefroy: Smoke him a kipper, skipper! Wasn't he a medic in Dad's Army in WW2?
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  418. Communist sabotage was rampant in Britain in early WW2, until 22nd June 1941 of course. The author of 'I sank the Bismarck' Lt-Cdr John Moffat wrote about this in his book. Also note the death of Roy Chadwick after WW2, in what appears to have been an incidence of an aircraft with controls wrongly ordered, no proof, but certainly a possibility.
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  419. Look at RAF OTU (Operational Training Units) terrible loss of life in training, not always by making training harder than battle. Simple disregard for basics.
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  420. We had none of this nonsense under the Cromwells.
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  421. Perhaps George VI was troubled by his father's lack of assistance to the Romanovs after the Russian Revolutions.
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  422. He was only giving orders.
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  423. A whole World of trouble might have been saved had Kaiser Bill stuck it in the roof of his mouth and done the decent thing in early July 2014.
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  424. Or 'adventure' as it might turn out to be the one and only find.
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  425. Well not quite as more mines closed under the previous Labour government. Seems that once you dig coal out of the ground, it isn't there anymore, so they all have a lifespan.
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  426. It wasn't fun for them, but yes, it was very harsh and a good point, you'd think that the government would've shown a bit of gratitude, but it's the government.
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  427. 0:57 a bit of snow camo might have been of benefit to those guys.
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  428. A horrible irony in the name 'Zigeuner Tunnel' 'Gypsy tunnel'.
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  429. Looks remarkably like the English Electric Canberra with a gun stuck on its tail.
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  430. Himmler, Rimmer from Red Dwarf gone badly wrong.
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  431. He wasn't athletic enough to have run off to South America.
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  432. Thank goodness for his comparative youth, if he'd got going in 1939, he could well have affected the course of the war.
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  433. Grim and well-deserved as his end was, he was lucky that he hadn't been rumbled, it might have been a lot grimmer.
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  434. 'At this stage of the war, Perkins, we need a futile gesture.... ... Don't come back...'.
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  435. Did you miss the crocodile vid?
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  436. @Rommel the Cat I can't see what's honourable about advancing the power of a regime that gassed people, if you find out, do let me know.
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  437.  @30smsuperstrat  The Finns in the Continuation War were not impressed by their co-belligerents from the Wehrmacht, so I've read.
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  438. Der Angriff Steiner war nicht erfolgt!
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  439. 1:58 Actually to Edward VIII who abdicated in December 1936.
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  440. There's no truth in the rumour that this property is listed on Reichmove.
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  441. Song for the flight: Chris Rea 'Fuel if you think it's over'.
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  442. Mueller lived long after the war, and unless I am very much mistaken, he went on the head the FBI in the 21st century.
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  443. Thanks!
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  444. He couldn't beat Snoopy.
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  445. Mistakes in war are inevitable, from the tragic like this to the comical; Royal Marines on South Georgia in 1982 mistaking the silhouettes ahead of them for Argentine Commandos, they attacked and advanced quickly, only to find that they were Elephant Seals.
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  446. Old Marty Bormann tried to hide, But fell down a sewer, and died, The next day Stumpfegger, fell down another And they were interred side by side.
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  447. I had a look at that area on a trip to Munich, I thought 'This is obviously what an honest tourist guide would call 'The Hitler Quarter'.' The U-Bahn station had effigies of the members of Kraftwerk over the escalators, nice deflection.
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  448. Amazing collection, but what a Rimmer, and with all the power of a State at his disposal.
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  449. Mark mentioned the two film makers who were on South Georgia in his video about that, and were left with pistols but the Argies never got to their hut.
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  450. First glimpse of the flag = White Rose of Yorkshire!
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  451. Sounds like some scare stories we are hearing in the UK these days.
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  452. 'Der Fuehrer' also means 'The Driver'.
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  453. 2:29 Looks as if Dastardly and Muttley should be in it.
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  454. Last I heard, he was a Bolivian dentist.
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  455. Was the 'K' in 'PPK' for 'klein' (small)?
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  456. Hey, Liberace had talent, he was an accomplished pianist and he hurt no one. But to be fair, to call his tastes 'Baroque' would be generous.
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  457. Der Angriff Steiner ist erfolgt!
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  458. Bormann was relatively unknown during the NSDAP era, what if his (hitherto unknown) identical twin's skull was placed there, anticipating foiling DNA tests? Tune in....
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  459. Those in B Company attacking the sewage farm said they thought it was the turd world war.... I'll get my coat.
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  460. If he'd been born sooner, the Nazis would have tried to sign up Bob Marley to thwart these "We're jamming''.
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  461. Dr Walther Funk sounds like a Hamburg DJ.
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  462. Vati, what did you get in the war? Iron Cross 1st Class and 3 (gold) bars.
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  463. And he was a (fictional) bank manager.
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  464. This video may dispel some stereotypes about accountants.
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  465. This video is an edit, a shell of the original version.
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  466. '...an elite corps, of N***political spiritual soldiers, that's descended from various mediaeval traditions and groups, including the Teutonic Knights...' and led by a former chicken farmer.
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  467. Sauron claims copyright on this video.
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  468. Well we do know that Mark has the alibi of not having been born at the time, so we can (probably) rule him out of the frame. ;-)
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  469. He's an unaging WW2 War office boffin, just going through his diaries.
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  470. That's normal for a Merlin on start-up. Some photographers get dusk or night shots of Merlin start-ups these days. In the War, they fitted baffles to cover the blue flames that flickered from Merlin-powered night fighters.
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  471. The golden Hind. (Drake got there first).
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  472. North Korea probably has carrier pterodactyls, having eaten all their pigeons.
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  473. That's how good those videos are. People like before they finish viewing.
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  474. Did he stay at the Goring Hotel?
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  475. I read that during the War, a Dutch forger sold Göring a load of fake masterpieces that he had painted himself, and Göring paid him in forged Reichsmarks.
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  476. Should have had that wartime song as the intro music.
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  477. Who else is thinking 'Just one rivet remains? Restore to flight!'?
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  478.  @horstschlemmer2042  You can see now why people don't write many cheques these days.
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  479. Just over 7 years later, there was no USSR. Bet the diplomat's handlers got a bullet too.
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  480. The Jersey War Tunnels have a bit of Commie propaganda going on there, a bunch of Marxists were credited with providing some information for it, and they gave themselves away by using the term 'anti-fascist'. The Museum seemed to me to ignore the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the fact that the Soviets fuelled the invasion of France and the Channel Islands. That apart, it is a good museum.
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  481. Slovakia got invaded by Hungary in 1938 and lost Kosice. It also got invaded by Poland who nibbled at its borders, and in turn puppet Slovakia took part in the September 1939 invasion of Poland alongside Germany.
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  482. This video makes me think that Chamberlain should have been hanged on 4th September 1939, if it was good enough a fate for Admiral Byng.
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  483. They still duck when a Hawker Typhoon flies by....
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  484. "That's 'E X P R E SS'"
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  485. First time I went to Munich, I was a bit shocked to see trams with 'Dachau' as the destination. I would have thought a re-brand was in order.
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  486. David Niven of course.
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  487.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Well, it was a David Niven film, so that outranks Bond.
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  488.  @anthonymorris2276  Oh I like him now.
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  489. Apparently Ian Fleming named his villains after his least-liked schoolmasters.
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  490. Unluckily for the Berliners, and the women and girls, the Soviets got there first, with the consequential mass rape.
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  491. The Duke of Brunswick turned out to be a bit ham-fisted.
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  492. The Continuation War started exactly 80 years ago today, and this piece of vermin was at the other end of the scale from Mannerheim, in every possible way.
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  493. I heard it said that the Ustashe's view of the Serbs was 'Kill a third, convert a third, expel a third', but they weren't too fussy about the fractions being equal.
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  494. Amazing story, rather gives the lie to the hype about Bletchley Park knowing all the German plans.
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  495. The people of Dover did not bend.
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  496. Hope you are not coughing to the beat of the intro.
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  497. I read somewhere that some units of the German Army in WW2 had a 'test' for trainee officers which was to stand to attention with a grenade balanced on your steel helmet and pull the pin out, and the blast and shrapnel were deflected by the helmet (ear damage excepted I suppose). It'd make a great training video.
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  498. Surprised Red China didn't claim it was an old Japanese balloon that had been knocking around the jungle for a while.
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  499. The Fairey Swordfish biplane had a similar trick early in WW2, steep dive when attacked by fighters, then pulling up just before the water, often a monoplane fighter, going faster and with less 'wing' could not pull out of the chasing dive. Then Jerry wised up.
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  500. One town's very like another when you're occupying the Ruhr, brother!
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  501. CentrParcs for Dictators.
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  502. I knew that the Dutch had their own Quisling, I couldn't remember his name. After this, I really don't want to remember his name.
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  503. Imagine filling one of those Mars with gasoline and dropping it on a target, biggest 'woof' since Fenrir.
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  504. The Blairmacht is not there to defend Britain, it is there as a tool of social policy.
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  505. The British Army is only a few thousand troops larger than Italy's militarised Guardia di Finanza, the tax police, who are like the Carabinieri, and Italy's military forces vastly outnumber Britain's if you add in the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Finanza.
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  506. Yes Prime Minister in the 1980s, Sir Humphrey 'Prime Minister, what is the purpose of our defence policy?' PM 'To defend Britain.' 'No Prime Minister, the purpose of our defence policy is to make people think Britain is defended!' 'Who, the Russians?' 'No, not the Russians, the British. The Russians KNOW it's not defended'. That was then, and this is now.
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  507. God rest ye Jerry Gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, a trip to Stalin's GULAG is almost always one way, to save you all from Stalin's power, von Paulus will lead the way, oh tidings of doom and dismay, doom and dismay, oh tidings of doom and dismay.
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  508. Captain Eric Brown RN said he was shocked when they found the extent of German jet development at the end of the war, imagine if they'd had another year to get this sort of gear like Sturmtigers up and running in large numbers, along with jets. Little Boy and Fat Man delivery would have been essential.
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  509. What is Dr Felton going on about? I saw Comical Ali/Baghdad Bob's news conferences and he was adamant that there were no US tanks in Baghdad.
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  510. A sentry demanded Mark sing to prove he was a genuine music professor, or else he vud be tschott.
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  511. Next week: Saturn's battle with Ivan in the sewers of Berlin in 1945.
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  512. 'Saturn has only got one ball' so he couldn,t fertilise eggs.
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  513. Why wasn't he in a 1960s/1970s Bond film?
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  514. This is not a normal trainspotting video. Not sure it was the weight of the carriages that required two locos.
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  515. Venice uses sirens for floods, very eerie, the number of warnings indicates the height of the tide 2 hours hence.
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  516. This video will be a good lot of fat.
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  517. Who chopped up those new Nimrods then, Dave Cameron (no names, no packdrill)?
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  518. Golden chance for Scotland to declare independence and neutrality.
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  519. I thought I saw a Russian bomber flying high up the Thames today in the bright sunshine. It turned out to be an optical Ilyushin.
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  520. By not handing the Kaiser over for trial as a war criminal, the Dutch government made it easier to push for WW2 as there was no consideration of anyone starting a war being held liable for it. And then Rotterdam got bombed flat...
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  521. Why not do your own video on it?
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  522.  @AtheistOrphan  Yes, but did all the aircraft involved take off and land from the same air base in those?
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  523.  @javcar1238  That's pretty much what happened with that Junta, wasn't it?
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  524. Even today, flying such an aircraft in peacetime at night to a damp turnip field in a wooded part of Poland from Italy would be regarded as extremely hazardous, never mind with a flak battery 1,000 metres away and everything else. What fantastic courage all round.
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  525.  @davidellis2021  We also know that Himmler's are rather similar... from a previous MF video.
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  526. 'He's fat, he's round, he's trying to go to ground, get Göring, get Göring!'.
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  527. They all really wanted to train as pole vaulters.
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  528. Horthy made the gold trains run on time.
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  529. Admiral Horthy, the Regent of Hungary, a Kingdom without a King, led by an Admiral without a navy.
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  530. Dr Barnes Wallis, inventor of the Tallboy, finally ending the battleship concept.
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  531. And Adolf notoriously hated smoking!
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  532. I have read rumours of Winter/Continuation War Finnish Army units striking deep into Soviet territory in Karelia, the details of which are still classified by the Finns. Yet these days attacks are on Youtube.
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  533. Isaac Newton's collaboration with Michael Faraday and Einstein feat. Leonardo da Vinci, Tacitus and Marco Polo (when it's up, just working out how to bring them back).
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  534.  @MarkFeltonProductions  AIUI, Bavaria maintained its military until the Bavarian Soviet Republic was founded post WWI. Whilst the Bavarian was under Imperial operational control in time of war, it was a distinct army with its own systems. Cf. Warsaw Pact forces which were legally subordinated to a Deputy Soviet Defence Minister.
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  535. He was a lance-corporal of the Bavarian Army, not the Kaiser's army, a small distinction.
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  536. The Wombles of War.
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  537. This video does well to do justice to this large topic.
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  538. In WW1, the dish of sausages or 'bangers' and mash(ed potatoes) was called 'Zeppelins in the Cloud' in England, Shuttleworth ised the term recently in their café for a WW1 event. Poor Zeppelina, explaining her name all her life.
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  539. Not only a base, they had a shipyard, that's where the Pinguin commerce raider came from.
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  540. Not closely related or linked to Sepp then?
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  541.  @watching99134  Context and time matter.
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  542. 'Here's another fine mess I've got you into'.
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  543. You can see why a lot of Jews with German surnames Hebraicised them on arrival in Israel.
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  544. Can't imagine there'll be much in the comments on this one...
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  545. Not U235!
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  546. No graphite rods: just imagine, a lack of pencils (in the right place) stood between Hitler and a nuke!
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  547. Closest you could get to a Stirling is the Short Sunderland Flying boat of Kermit Weeks.
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  548. It's a bit like 'Jim'll Fix It', 'Joe'll Fix It.'.
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  549. They should all have been handed over to the NKVD for special treatment, as only they knew how.
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  550. Good ? Bradley?
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  551. The past 78 years have convinced me that the landings should have been in Belgium, letting France stew a bit.
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  552. ... said no Japanese tank designer, ever.
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  553. Saved the US a whole lotta trouble.
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  554. That would break the Net.
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  555. Is that music in the instructional video around 2:31 a variation on Three Blind Mice?
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  556. Someone out there is dreaming of restoring it to flight.
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  557. Czechoslovakia wasn't fully under Communist control until the Communist coup in late February 1948, even then the Soviets recognised Israel when it was proclaimed later than year, and they probably were happy to sell weapons to almost anyone given the circumstances of the time.
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  558. 4 viewers (as I write) have found this video deflating.
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  559. All this after the Dieppe Raid.
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  560. Similar problems in the Falklands War for the British, and in the Grenada operation for the Americans, almost unbelievable.
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  561. Dr Felton, our third Lord Protector?
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  562. In a parallel Universe, had this gone 'hot', we might never have heard of James Blunt. What a relief!
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  563. 3:45 "Mackensen had pieces of eight..." Arrrrrrghhhhh Jim Lad!
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  564. Hitler only had one, and his were rather small, so he was fortunate they didn't check his ID too closely.
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  565. Tanks for the memory! (I'll get my coat...)
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  566. Herbert Haupt's Vater var Hauptmann Haupt.
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  567. '...I have a cunning plan..' 'Is it the plan of a cunning fox, who has just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?'.
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  568. I wonder if there were any similar stories from the Winter War, where in a very cold winter, the wolves of Karelia ate well.
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  569. What a BTW 'It had once belonged to...'
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  570. This pronunciation is a causus belli.
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  571. Plenty of 'Dagga-dagga-dagga' there.
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  572.  @wayneantoniazzi2706  Yes, and he wasn't a threat. But for Stalin, politics came before personal friendship.
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  573. 6:47 Budenny's 'tache overshadows Stalin's, yet he survived all the purges.
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  574. The von Schlieben plan 'to save his Nazi neck' per the narration on the newsreel.
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  575. Shhhhh! Putin's lads will be scavenging for parts there soon.
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  576. What we do know is de Valera sent his condolences on the death of the Führer.
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  577. And John Bridge GC and GM*, a physics teacher in normal life.
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  578. 2:32 Would he have got so far if he'd copied his Dad's moustache in later life?
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  579. The Finnish swastika was a good luck symbol, and was used in the war of independence 1918 ish. It was blue on white. Some speculate that German troops helping Finland in 1917/1918 saw it and so it had some resonance in later years.
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  580. IIRC, Speer was interviewed on British TV in the late 1970s or roundabout that time, and it was pretty controversial at the time.
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  581. Truman is mentioned in one of the press articles quoted, as rejecting the peace overtures.
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  582. If Himmler is the peacemaker, then Goebbels is the Pope.
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  583. 1:33 'Unfortunately, we must ask Sweden for some IKEA stuff'.
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  584.  @anabarros6681  Es verdad. El caballero Sir Tom, uno de los gran hombres en la historia de aviación.
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  585. So when Hodges called Captain Mainwaring 'Napoleon', there was another Napoleon in the war.
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  586. I was thinking Mark needed to check his chronology there.
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  587. Custer to the Light Brigade 'Hold my beer!'.
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  588. Steel meet again...
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  589.  @caryblack5985  I agree, the Germans were unprofessional and complacent in that respect.
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  590.  @caryblack5985  Which in any normal armed forces is standard operating procedure.
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  591. I had no idea that he had a tomb in Italy. Poor great-grandson, what's he supposed to do about having him as an ancestor?
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  592. The SNP has a symbol that looks like a yellow inverted symbol of the Waffen-SS Handschar division, sometimes things are co-incidences, sometimes they aren't.
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  593. Doubtless whoever put that Black Sun Wheel on the flag got a Swasticking-off.
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  594. Captain Eric Brown RN was one of the first British pilots to fly a helicopter after WW2, he and a colleague had to collect and fly two helicopters delivered by the Americans to what is now John Lennon Airport in Merseyside. He asked for instructions and an American WO handed him a book and said something like 'That's it Budd' and left them to it, they spent some days careering around the airfield before managing to get a grip on the machines, and then flew them a two hundred miles south to their base.
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  595. It was only following orders. Our term 'robot' originally derives from the Czech word 'robota', not content with stealing Czechoslovakia, the Nazis stole the idea.
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  596. Harris did not devise area bombing, he simply implemented it. It had been policy before he took command.
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  597. I'm pretty sure that Zhukov had a Yorkshire accent, I saw The Death of Stalin.
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  598. 4:25 Sounds awfully like Michael Palin as Pontius Pilate in The Life of Brian. Do you find it wisible?
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  599. 11:39 De Gaulle basically bs'ed, saying Paris had liberated itself with the help of the Free French. Phoque nose why anyone would believe that.
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  600. Those Wehrmacht troops stuck together like glue.
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  601. They should have rained Tallboys on them day and night.
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  602. Japanese sub fired a defective torpedo: USN 'Hold my beer'.
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  603. Huge forest fires in the Pacific North West, started by Japanese float 'planes? The blighters are still out there, in their late 90s, plugging away.
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  604. Goering should have been tried at Nuremberg under the name 'Meyer'.
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  605. 1:56 There is a hole in the ground, and we are looking into it.
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  606.  @abdulrazaqibrahim950  No, they agreed to recognise it about a year ago, when it changed its name to 'North Macedonia'. They moaned about it since 1991, never heard Luxembourg complain about the Belgian province of the same name next to it.
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  607. What about RAF Canberras operating out of Chile on reconnaisance? A 'murky' chapter to this day, little said about it.
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  608. US Army looting? I'm shocked, shocked. But by heck they'd earned it.
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  609. 1' 51" So she's the flagship of the Hai Shih fleet? I'll get my coat....
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  610. Right, we need a new fleet of Vulcans and Victors.
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  611. Compared to a Javelin or NLAW, the accuracy of this first generation (and so effectiveness in doing actual damage) is almost laughable. On the other hand, imagine the impact of a Javelin or NLAW that went back in time 80 years.
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  612. At this point, the RAF had quite accurate Tallboys and Grand Slams which could have taken out German heavy guns with relatively little loss of life. Of course, that would mean hurt 'pride', but where's the pride in so many innocents getting killed just as deliverance was in sight (of course no one knew when the war in Europe would end, but everyone knew it wasn't far off).
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  613. Now I understand why one of the late Queen's corgis was called 'Vulcan'.
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  614. Bachmann, Turn.. Er, Overdrive!
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  615. Sobering that a great country like Germany was run by such a bunch of nutters and it took 6 years of war to get rid of them.
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  616. Maybe some really old guy with a few regrets about chickening out in Manchuria is off to the Ukraine?
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  617. At 0' 31" the author refers to the only German attack being the shelling by a U-boat. I would add to that the Black Tom explosion on a munition ship on 30th July 1916 in New Jersey which damaged the Statue of Liberty (still not repaired). This was before the United States entered the war.
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  618. A 'submarine' with a flamethrower, presumably they asked a 10 year old what it needed.
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  619.  @voivod6871  If working in the heart of the 3rd Reich isn't actual wrong doing, then what is?
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  620. Bachmann turned into overdrive.
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  621. That bit about horses at the end, it was actually the Pferd World War.
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  622. The United Kingdom has an enormous national debt. So I have a plan. Rockall is removed from Scotland and becomes part of the UK in its own right. Then every other part of the UK secedes, and either go their own way or form up in a federation. Those seeking to recover their loans to the UK can write to the Chief Gannet on Rockall and ask to be repaid.
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  623. Has anyone found Martin Bormann's house in Bolivia/Paraguay/Brazil?
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  624. Price is ridiculous, perhaps 20,000,000 Reichsmarks?
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  625. I'll raise you 'Mad Jack' Churchill and his longbow at the fall of France.
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  626. Mind bleach, please...
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  627. WW2 in Europe is barely over and the French are the enemy again.
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  628. Most uncles only embarrass their nephews/nieces by dancing at the wedding, this guy's uncle was in a league of his own.
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  629. They chose to visit about 25 years before ubiquitous smartphones could have got it all on film... So they had a pretty good idea about our technology.... But then again, the animals, perhaps it was a Galactic Old MacDonald visiting his farm, with a 'moo moo' here and a 'baa baa' there?
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  630.  @MarkFeltonProductions  True, but there must have been a fair bit of scrap to salvage knocking around across Europe.
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  631. Achtung! Schmittfeuer!
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  632. Sounds like it's time for Matthias Rust to get back in the cockpit. (The original would make a great MFP video).
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  633. The Romans had (some) central heating, just saying.
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  634. No jokes about the 'Litter Cross' please.
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  635. 5:28 looks a bit like Mike Pence.
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  636. Perhaps one day, Dr Felton will do a video about himself.
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  637. Good job they didn't get as many subs as this channel.
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  638. About 10 years ago in Venice, I walked down an alley off Campo Santa Magherita in Dorsoduro and an old man came out of his house (clearly old enough to have been around in WW2) and he pointed to a small sign in black paint on the wall. He told me it was painted by the Wehrmacht as a broad direction sign for their soldiers during the German occupation after the Salo republic was formed. Last time I checked, it had been removed.
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  639. Dr Felton, there is no PUNishment on Earth fitting for that title.
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  640. I read that Horthy's son was rolled up in a carpet and carried away in it. This actually might have saved his life in the long run.
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  641. The catering Service Units got a pizza the action.
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  642. The next one or the last one?
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  643. We all know that Martin Bormann ended up as a dentist in Bolivia.
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  644. So Goering's first wife was really a 'Karen'.
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  645. I'm sure the uniform didn't fit Mark.
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  646. The literature suggests that the RAF GR-3 boys were itching to get fitted out with Sidewinders and have a pop at the Argentine aircraft, and were immensely miffed that they had no chance to do so.
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  647. He didn't patent the 'tache, no royalties there, that was Charlie Chaplin.
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  648. I went to Sweden c. 1990 and was surprised to see the pickelhaubes on the ceremonial Royal palace band.
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  649.  @notmenotme614  Shhhhhh!!!! Don't want to embarrass de Valera any more than he did by signing the condolence book in April 1945.
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  650.  @rovercoupe7104  Yes, but U-boat crews might have had a motley collection of outfits, they certainly did in WW2.
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  651. No, they wren't singing 'Roam'.
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  652. It ought to have been raining Tallboys on them.
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  653. UNLESS, a random Soviet shell arrived and detonated just as Frau Eva H topped herself outside the bunker.... AND another shell blew the bridgework out of the other person's mouth and it landed in Frau Eva's. /s
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