Comments by "Mitch Richards" (@mitchrichards1532) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. At @ , the numbers are not bogus, not at all. They are the baseline of reality in this topic. Saying they are bogus is akin to throwing them away, which revisionists will do happily and write a whole new false narrative and use your video as a reference. The fact is, the Wehrmacht does know how many men went MIA on the Eastern Front (3.2 million Vermisste) and how many were ever repatriated after the war (about 1.92 million). We don't have actual stats down to the eaches, but what we have is in the right proportions in a holistic sense of German casualties in WWII. We know what divisions were deployed, when and where, how many men they had and how many they lost according to their unit histories. On the Eastern front that is consistent with what the Volksbund has been finding as it searches for and locates thousands each year in the East. I suggest you look up the Volksbund channel here on YouTube. The number of "live" POWs (2.3 million per NKVD/KGB) has to be qualified, only POWs who reached NKVD in-process were counted. The number of German POWs as reported by Red Army units that took them in is a better match to Wehrmacht estimates. Many were murdered shortly after capture or before they made it to be in-processed as official POWs.
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  2. Probably because he inspires ignor ant hateful people. Did that ever cross your mind? You like his Kool Aid?
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  3.  @svrsl7819  If you can't see Irving's lies and his agenda in his books and speeches, then its a obvious why you ask such a BS question. Work on it genius... lol
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  4. Hit ler on 1 September 1940: "And should the Royal Air Force drop two thousand or three thousand or four thousand kilograms of bo mbs, then we will now drop 150,000; 180,000; 300,000; 400,000; yes one million kilograms in a single night. And should they declare they will greatly increase their attacks on our cities, then we will erase their cities! " His intent was clear, what he lacked was capability. The Allies did not lack the capability.
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  5. Look up "Nazi Hunger Plan". If the Soviets had capitulated, the Hunger plan would have made the Holocaust pale in comparison.
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  6. lol, Irving's "truth" did.
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  7. Look up "David Irving Tagesbefehl No. 47 controversy" or "TB-47 Irving". See how honest he was with his Dresden book. You might have to dig a bit, but its there if you want to know.
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  8. oland did no ethnic cleansing, that's a Goebbels fabrication.
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  9. Oh yay... as if that's commendable? That makes everything ok, justified and moral?
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  10. Nazi apologist propaganda. Review complete.
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  11. Sure.... Considering that the Germans had enough reserves to effectively counter a single narrow thrust, but were completely incapable of resisting a broad front and in the end, they would lose more men, equipment, etc. and that it also served many political ends all around, I guess the "amateurs" won out on that one. Good thing 🙂
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  12. Well done TiK, this vid is a huge hit with N A Z I fanbois, their comments are priceless. 🤣
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  13. Irving can take a sentence from an original source and manipulate and distort it to fit his narrative like someone working a piece of clay into pottery. It's like "See Spot run", Which Irving turns into "Spot was a beautiful purebred German shepherd, related to Blondie, and was running to his master when the jealous son of a Jewish banker kidnapped and mistreated the poor dog for no reason". That's "History" David Irving style. Forcefully and convincingly written distortion of the legitimate historical record.
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  14.  @KansasHempMan  He was caught distorting the historical record by misusing his source material. He wrote lies and false narratives, so what do you call him?
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  15. No, Toyko was far higher, even Hamburg in 1943 was much higher.
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  16. Right.. as if the "truth" were not dug out in the TB-47 controversy that exposed Irving?
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  17. Nope....
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  18. The knotsie inner circle were all dead by 1946. Did he use a ouija board? And who did he interview that NO ONE else did? Seriously...
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  19. Explain what exactly the NS did in economic planning and control that was not basically the same or a legacy of Ludendorff's failed "Hindenburg Program" from 15 years earlier???? The NS plan was the same plan, only more evolved and failed just as bad. It wasn't socialist in 1917-18 under Ludendorff, and it wasn't socialist in the 1930's either.
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  20. 8:28  The Hunger Plan (German: der Hungerplan; der Backe-Plan) was a plan developed by Nazi Germany during World War II to seize food from the Soviet Union and give it to German soldiers and civilians; the plan entailed the death by starvation of millions of "racially inferior" Slavs following Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union (see Generalplan Ost). The premise behind the Hunger Plan was that Germany was not self-sufficient in food supplies, and to sustain the war and keep up the domestic morale it needed to obtain the food from conquered lands at any cost. It was an engineered famine, planned and implemented as an act of policy. This plan was developed during the planning phase for the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) invasion and provided for diverting of the Ukrainian food stuffs away from central and northern Russia and redirecting them for the benefit of the invading army and the population in Germany. The plan resulted in the deaths of millions of people.[
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  21.  @svrsl7819  Interesting opinion, no substance to it, but mildly revealing about how you go about attacking anyone critical of Irving. Is this your MO, asking dishonest questions to try to put people on the defensive? How original, never seen that before. lol
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  22.  @pasisovi  Glantz knew senior German officers from WW2 and held many meetings with them to discuss their experiences with the Red Army. Did Irving do that? Nope...
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  23.  @pasisovi  I know Glantz personally, Irving is not even close to his league. The credentials, resume', bio, etc. tells everything you need to know. I read Irving's Dresden book and parts of a few others and they are full of half baked ideas, weasel words, etc. Glantz would never write in Irving's style, its utterly beneath him. Glantz is a Historian, Irving is an author who writes about historical topics. Big difference...
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  24.  @pasisovi  If you insist on ignoring Irving's known failings along with his deliberate misinterpretation and distortion of source material, then YOU need to cease. I am not trolling and I am also not going to accept your opinion of Irving as anything other than that of an apologist that agrees with Irving's pro-Nazi leanings and beliefs. Are you a denier as well?
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  25. Violence against ethnic Germans in 1939 Poland is unfounded... No evidence exists.
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  26.  @PerPress  If you watch that all the way through, please point out where there is any "ethnic Germans were being ki lled for simply being German" as stated above by the OP. Poland's policies were generally better than Prussia's had been from 1795-1918 when Prussia was basically an occupier that was "Germanizing" Polish territory. Many Germans left on their own for various reasons, and the Poles were not violent or threatening towards those who stayed. Clearly the Germans were now 2nd class citizens, simply reversing the roles as they were under Prussian occupation.
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  27. I think you need to look at the distribution of the 6ish million across the operations of the Einsatzgruppen, the ghettos, work sites, etc. as well as the "big c amp", and the reinhardt facilities. The German Army managed to "process" 2.6 million Soviet POWs from July 1941 to Feb 1942, but I don't see denier nation questioning that.
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  28. @Lawofimprobability I agree 100% and that is the approach any Historian should take with people like Irving. I would gladly debate Irving on an online forum, where he can't interrupt, be theatrical and dramatic, and there is time to analyze his comments before moving on or allowing him to obfuscate.
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  29. No, which is why he ended up in Lipstadt's book as a denier in the first place. That, and Irving was and is not a peer of Phd.'s. He lacks the professional credentials, resume', and background.
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  30. lol, that's what EVERY Historian does. Look up "Historical Method" and understand that is what is taught at universities and leads to a degree in History (which Irving doesn't have).
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  31. lol, right... and when "your side" explains their version, are "both sides" covered?
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  32. Concerned with gullible people buying his BS and inciting hatred. That's a legit concern.
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  33.  @koko2bware  1.1 mil for Auschw-Birk. 2 mil for Reinhard locations. That's about 3.1 mil, and there are witnesses, forensic evidence, pics, film, etc. The math adds up, the evidence exists, but the real question is why people like you deny it.
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  34. The Axis on the Eastern front wasn't beaten by superior numbers? Ok, the Red Army lost 9 million dead and 18 million (est) wounded, no? That's 27 million casualties and they still had a strength of about 11 million men in 1945. They also lost 83,500 tanks and 13,000 self propelled guns in the war but still had some 12,000 in Germany in 1945. Seems they did have a huge strength advantage, no?
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  35. Read about how he falsified his evidence. Look up Irving and the TB-47 controversy.
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  36.  @jamesinnit1611  A few other main Irving themes: That there were no hom icidal ga s chamb ers. That Je ws were not kil led in g as cham bers or at least not on any significant scale; That the Na zis had no policy and made no systematic attempt to exter minate the European Je wry and that such dea ths as did occur were the consequence of individual excess unauthorized at the senior level; That the number of Je ws mu rdered did not run into the millions and that the true de ath toll was far lower; That the Holo caust is largely or entirely a myth invented by Allied propa gandists and sustained after the war by Je ws in order to obtain financial support for the newly created state of Isr ael.
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  37. No.... The knotsies never really touched private ownership of property, businesses, contracts, etc. So based on that alone the idea of them being socialist is moot.
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  38. "people who challenge the accepted narratives in society" LMAO, "challenge" with what exactly? A "challenge" without a working knowledge of academic process is not a challenge, it's ignorance and arrogance.
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  39. Who needs facts when you have apologist revisionists? Sure, ok.
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  40. I suggest you read the court transcripts, there is a mountain of evidence that was presented that you seem to not know anything about.
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  41. lol, really? So modern means something to you and there's no need to research the topic...got it. Perhaps you'd be interested to know that the ove ns built by Topf und Sohnen were larger, built for higher heat, and didn't need to worry about modern legal standards of fully incinerating all remains to a fine ash and that co-mingling ash is completely illegal? The 15 min it took to reduce a "customer" isn't a full reduction, just enough to introduce the next customer since the ov en was in continuous operation, hence why it was built larger for exactly that purpose. It was a specialized purpose-built design, look it up.
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  42. Does that hold true for the NS era in Germany and their strict censorship, book burning, constant propaganda, etc?
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  43. Krivosheev, Soviet losses in WW2 among others.  Vlasov's army was set up after 2.8 million Soviet POWs had been murdered.  You need to account for the timeline and understand the context of when Hiwis and Vlasov's army came into being after the intitial muder of 2.8 million men .
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  44. Its a bogus story, Bacque is a fiction novelist and he wrote it to start a controversy for his own financial gain.
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  45. Cool story, except you didn't mention that the evidence against that theory is far stronger than the evidence for it.
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  46. Source? Without a way to prove your statement it's not much of a claim.
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  47.  @andreask3675  I'm familiar with the event, but how do you know that this photo is from that and not from the German Army star ving Soviet POWs?
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  48. Not sure how you came up with that, but it seems pretty "off".
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  49. Check out the comments on a video called "Europa last battle". It's a neo-Na zi fanbois fantasy about how wonderful the NS were. There's all sorts of them making anti-semitic comments and they're also in denial about Wehrmacht brothels, as if the knotsies were to morally correct to partake in something so beneath them. lol
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  50. At 1:10 the claim is incorrect. 3.15 million Germans were "Vermisste", which does NOT TRANSLATE to assumed POW. It means they were missing without confirmation of current status. To make this easier... 3.15 million missing, 1.92 were ever repatriated, leaving around 1.2 million unaccounted for. Some died in combat, or later of wounds while in captivity before reaching NKVD POW in-processing, some were shot just after capture, some were processed as POW didn't last in the Gulag and we have official confirmation. The fact remains, at least 3.15 million men went in, 1.92 million came out.
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