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Well they had to do it twice, the second time they filmed it. And after each German reaching the peck, the Russians came along and cleaned up the garbage the Germans left behind.
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Ba dum tish!
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@readhistory2023 here all week, try the fish.
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I suspect that Gavin told Browning that he intended to take the high ground and the Reichswald before taking the bridge and Browning accepted this. I suspect the Generals are like all busy managers - they accept the suggestions of lower level managers and staff. The big question is why would Browning want to delay the ground forces of Operation Garden from reaching Arnhem?
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Which Geneva Convention are you talking about? I think you meant the Hague Conventions.
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No squadrons operational with Sptifires (first examples came into service in August 1938 with 19 Squadron). The crappy tanks as used in 1940, but fewer of them. Result would be similar to 1914, if we were lucky.
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@ShamanKish by court ruling YouTube is a private forum that the public can choose to have access to in order to make comments. They are allowed to block comments if they decide the user has breached their terms and conditions.
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The Wilde Sau missions were ready anky successful in the summer months, but come the autumn losses mounted, many of the losses were due to landing accidents but an equal number were due to pilots becoming lost and bailing out (they didn't have the electric navigation equipment that standard night fighters were fitted with, nor did they have someone trained in the art of celestial navigation). Those that did find an airbase to land at didn't always land back at their home baes which meant the day fighter unit had to spend time retrieving their aircraft. The unit was disbanded after less than a year.
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Just because the report says a unit had performed well it doesn't necessarily mean that it was directly involved in combat. Without further information we can't assume why they performed well.
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Stop talking bollocks about company ownership. This is one area you are always wrong.
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@2ndTimPlayground not with the fragile French governments of the mid-1930s.
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@pavliksin123 whilst the Bf109 had been in service for around 18 months and had been used in combat over Spain, I agree that Getnany wasn't ready either (they weren't really ready in 1939), which is why I think it would have been a repeat of 1914.
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@tomfu6210 and nobody ever talks about the bits of Czechoslovakia that Poland and Hungary took either.
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So you're happy for a child to be shown programmes that will give them nightmares? Censorship prevents that.
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@dfmrcv862 then you are guilty of propagandising your children and causing them more harm than good.
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Didn't the Soviet Union annul the Brest-Litovsk Treaty on 13th November 1918 and the Germans agree to its annulment as part of the Versailles Treaty?
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@TheImperatorKnight no it is a private business being a limited liability company which allows it some of the tax benefits of a sole-trader or partnership and the limited liability of a corporation. It does not matter if there is a single owner of the business or a thousand (just bezyse shares are publicly traded doesn't cha ge a thing). It is by law a private business (as determined by a court of law) and thus is exempt from the provisions of the 1st Amendment and thus it can censor your videos.
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@ShamanKish not really it is based on legal precedent set by US Supreme Courts ruling in Marsh vs Alabama from 1946. Prager Univerdity failed to demonstrate that YouTube was acting in violation of this ruling. As the court pointed out in its ruling "a private entity hosting speech on the Intefnet is not a state actor" and that "YouTube does not perform a public function by inviting public discourse ou its property". The judges went in to say that it is not a "public forum", in the same way that other companies that host "speech kn a private platform" such as a comedy club, nor does YouTube's embrace of diverse expression transmogrify them into state actors (unlike what TIK thinks). The ruling in Marsh vs Alabama was that state trespass laws could not prevent the distribution of religious pamphlets on a town sidewalk even though the sidewalk was in a privately owned company town. The company was ruled to be acting as a state agent in preventing the distribution of the pamphlets.
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And yet he still gets it wrong.
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Don't forget that many drivers in the army had only just learnt to drive and didn't drive before being called up.
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@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 you seem to overlooking the fact that the British army based in the UK was much smaller than the French ķarmy based in France. The first portion of the BEF left Portsmouth on 4th September 1939 and by 27th Deptember 1939 152,000 men were in France along with21,400 vehicles, 36,000 tons of ammunition, 25,000 tons if petrol, and 60,000 tons of frozen meat. Between January and April 1940 8 TA Divisions were also landed after completing large formation training in the UK.
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We'll have to wait a bit for all the dust to settle - any economic decisions take a decade or more to have a clear outcome. An example of this is the devaluation of Sterling in 1967 has one of its routes in the economic decisions passed by the Conservative governments in the 1950, one of which encouraged overmanning in both the nationalised and privately owned industries in order to keep unemployment unnaturally low.
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@romansternberg5696 sadly, you are mistaken. If you tell children about the Holocaust without the censorship of making the information age specific then you are abusing those children and can cause PTSD. This is why teachers are trained to differentiate for age groups. There will always be people drawn to evil actions.
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@dfmrcv862 it may be what happened and totally accurate, but do children need to know all the facts in one trauma inducing lump? As Stalin is supposed to have said 1 death is a tragedy, 1,000,000 deaths is just a number.
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@dfmrcv862 yes they need to know this and about other atrocities as well, but they need to understand it and not be traumatised by it. How do you get s child to understand the industrial murder of every inhabitant of a city the size of London (currently around 8.9 million inhabitants)? Especially if they have no concept of death. We don't teach quantum physics I school, but we do teach that atoms behave like hard balls and that electrons orbit their nuclei in set orbits when neither description is true but do allow concepts like pressure and chemical reactions to be explained. Simplifications are a form of censorship, but only to allow concepts to be built up to their full complexity.
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@TheImperatorKnight you need to learn the difference between a state owned company and a privately owned company. As you don't understand the basics. A group of people can own a business and it is still a private business. This is so basic it is the economic equivalent of 1+1=2.
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According to US case law YouTube is a private company and thus can censor what is put on it (see YouTube vs PragerU. As YouTube operates under American laws, the American court decision stands.
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Wrong it was a toilet, not the seat. Operation Sani-flush.
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@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 a third of the total British deployment delivered to France in 3 weeks, and that was just the Army's contingent. And it used radios. Maybe nit as many as the Germans but certainly more than the French did. The only radio in Gamelin's was fine if you wanted to listen to the BBC or Radio Luxembourg. He had to issue orders over the civilian telephone system. The British Army in Europe may have been small, and it was certainly smaller than that which had sailed to France in 1914, but it was highly trained and reasonably armed. It was let down by the French command and control system and the crap plans drawn up by Gamelin.
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@robertcbarry potentially doesn't mean that they would. It is equally potential that the interference of foreign governments in the inter al affairs of Germmany could have had the opposite effect.
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@robertcbarry there's a big contraction in your last post. How could Chamberlain go against all advice if he was listening g to the people of Britain, who were primarily anti-war? I also don't believe that the conspirators had full control of the units they claimed. Just look at what happen on the Storozhevoy when its Commissar, Sablin, lead a mutiny and tried to sail the frigate to Sweden. Not all of the crew were on his side. One escaped and raised the alarm in the port before they sailed and several others freed the Captain whilst at sea. The Beer Hall Putsch failed after Ludendorf released von Kahr. Not that I'm saying such would have happened, but they could of happened.
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@TheImperatorKnight nobody needs to label you as a conspiracy theorist, you've already done it. As for economics, yes you don't know as much as you think, after all you think a plc and a state owned company are the same thing. In a plc the shares are traded publicly on a stock exchange and in a state owned business no shares are traded. Which means they are not the same. Yes a government can retain a share in a plc, like they did with the Royal Mail until quite recently. It's amazing that You Tube is so bothered by your comments they have taken no real action, after all they are a private business, a Limited Liability Corporation, and can legitimately silence you without infringing your freedom of speech. But they don't seem to have done this, although they did make it harder for people to see your video about the Greek famine in WW2 by not recommending it this is not censorship to all but thinnest of skinned conspiracy theorists. You Tube, is there to make money for its owners, Google, and films about famines or other disasters including wars are not money makers for them.
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He said vertically, which teams the mortar bombs will drop back on to the mortar crew....
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@TheImperatorKnight performed well means that in the duties they been assigned they performed well. It does not necessarily mean that the unif has been fighting unless the report says that.
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Patton was an idiot for giving such an order to kill those who surrender after fighting. The judgement in Compton's trial is correct given what you have said. He had a valid defence and the court accepted it, whilst West had murdered POWs. In general, crimes are only judged against the laws in place at the time of the offence.
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@TheImperatorKnight private ownership is EVERYTHING not owned by the state. You can't get that simple,e fact into your head. It doesn't matter if it is owned by a individual or share holders that is ALL the same, it is private ownership. Perhaps you should get with the programme. Your crappy video on what is public and private ownership is not acceptable evidence as it was wrong on so many levels.
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Sometimes. But aren't we all.
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@dfmrcv862 and propaganda doesn't have to be false.
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@romansternberg5696 that's correct, but it doesn't make it right that you sit a bunch of kids down and give them tbe unexpurgated facts either. It won't help then to understand the evil that men do or to contextualise the evils of, in this case, the nazi regime. Can you get your head around the death of everyone in a city the size of London (about 8.9 million people)? Could a child with no conception of death do that? Because that's what you're going to be doing. The Holocaust and all the other atrocities heed yo ve taught in the same way you eat an elephant.
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@dfmrcv862 so you agree with censorship then. Hypocrite!
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@dfmrcv862 there are many forms of censorship but you're not thinking. You've heard the word censorship and had a Pavlovian reaction to it, instead of thinking about what it means. One form is the gradual introduction of a topic in easily understandable chunks. You censor out the harder bits until your audience is csoanke of understanding them, which to use an analogy is why you don't get classes in quantum physics in a primary school. THIS IS CENSORDHIP IN ACTION ON A DAILY BASIS. Would you let a class of kids watch potm? No, me neuther then we've just practiced censorship.
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@dfmrcv862 wrong, that is still censorship as you are suppressing knowledge of a sensitive event in history.
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Sorry, but I've doubts about the veracity of this tale of the actions involving the British 11th Tank [sic] Divison. The British 11th Armoured Division was in Schlesvig-Holstein as the forces of occupation for that part of Germany, where it was disbanded by January 1946 (some sources say November 1945). There is no evidence that they ever operated in Austria. The author is probably confusing the American 11th Armoured Division that was disbanded at Gmunden, Austria, in August 1945. However I can't find any evidence that they were involved at Lienz.
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It wasn't just the western Allies but the Swedes as well.
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@TheImperatorKnight so not a scientific source but an economics institute. Is that the best you've got? Stick to history, you're good at that. 3 minutes in and he's already failed to understand just what the Nightingale/field hospitals were for. It doesn't matter that they were not used for the envisioned figures. They were insurance against the fixed hospitals being overwhelmed. I pay a significant sum for insurance and only rarely do I need to make use of it, and when I do I'm glad that I have insurance.
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And yet TIK doesn't understand what public ownership actually is.
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@2ndTimPlayground it's not working in Israel is it? All it causes it revenge attacks. The occupation of the Ruhr by the French and Belgians when Germany defaulted on its reparation payments bred more resentment of France than anything useful.
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@Tian Wong 500 years earlier we had just concluded the Hundred Years War against France, which had 2 main aims to restore the Angevin Empire and to allow the grandson of Philip IV (and his descendants) to hold the crown of France. In this we had the support, for a while, of the biggest power block in Europe at the time the Holy Roman Empire, whilst France was officially only a small territory surrounding Paris. The real power of the French Kings was the vassalage of the local Lords, some of whom were also vassal of the English Kings at the same time.
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Whilst Article 2 does say that POWs should be treated humanely, Article 45 says they are subject to the same military law and regulations as the capturing power's military and Article 46 says that can face the same justice processes as the soldiers of the capturing power for breaches of these laws and regulations. The "rioters"should have faced a court martial and if found guilty the same punishment as a British soldier found guilty of the same offence. Those killed whilst attempting to regain control are a different matter.
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@ajsimo2677 it takes me that long to liv off and walk to the fridge. They don't like me drinking and working.
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From 1937 Lord Woolton, he was elevated to the peerage in 1939 (as unalligned peer), was involved in many secret war preparation committees and worked senior civil servants, such as Sir Horace Wilson (who advised Stanley Bsldwin) and Sur Warren Fisher (Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and Head of the home Civil Service. From May 1939 he was an honoury advise to Secretary of State for War, Leslie Hore-Belisha, and was responsible for ensuring sufficient uniforms would be available in case if war. Iin April 1940 was appointed as the Minister of Food (the Woolton Pie is named after him). In the same year he was made a Privy Councillor. So, his carpeting in 1938 by the government wasn't a serious sanction; it was only done as a matter of form. The government had to show the Germans that they were serious about maintaining good relationships with their country and not draw attention to the more covert aspects of war preparation. Really expect better from you TIK. Took me all of 10 minutes to find these details and draw my quick and dirty conclusions of the information readily to hand from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies which is run by Oxford University Press. After the war he joined the Conservatives (on the day after Churchill's defeat was announced) and quickly became party chairman and oversaw party reforms which git them back into power in 1951, after which he was in the Cabinet for 4 years. He died in 1964 as the Earl of Woolton.
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Does anyone know what is meant by the British Specisl Service? The only one I can find is the Special Service Brigade which became the Army Commandos. It isn't the SAS, which wasn't operating in western Europe at the ti e of Heydrich's assassination. Do you think he means the SOE or the Security Service?
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@diarradunlap9337 I wish he would be more precise.
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@dejjal8683 easy. The PM is the leader of the party that gains the most seats in a General Election, or if the change of leadership occurs during the term of the Parliament the leader if the largest party in Parliament. When Baldwin resigned after the Coronation of George VI, he advised the King to call for Chamberlain.
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@tomfu6210 the border fortresses were no longer relevant as many of them were lost with the the Sudeten. Numbers are less important than many people think. One man can hold off a thousand in a narrow passage of ge has the will to fight. The French and British had more tanks than the Germans, but had failed to learn how to use them effectively. The days if the close blockade were over. Billy Mitchell had shown that air power was a danger to warships and got court martialed for it, and the previous conflict had shown just how vulnerable warships were to the submarine.
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@stevewatson6839 what exactly could he do as Gamelin's subordinate? Apart from ensuring all units under his command were aware of their role in Gamelin's great plan. A plan that involved the Belgians preparing positions for the French and British, which when push came to shove were either not started or already occupied by the Belgians (who didn't want us on their territory before being invited - the Belgian Ambassador to the Court of St James made an official complaint on the day the Gernans invaded Belgian that British troops had entered his country without being invited).
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@stevewatson6839 you should be on the stage, you're a real comedian. He did prepare The BEF for action. But as they were intended to move into Belgium there was little he could do until the Belgians invited them to enter. The Belgians having played the neutrality card to avoid a repeat of 1914, not that it helped them. As for Arras, that attack was ordered by Gamelin, who was fired before the attack commenced and IIRC both attacks were cancelled by his replacement only for the order for the orders to be reinstated giving the Germans about 48 hiyes if respite. The problem with Gamelin's plan was it left the Belgians out in the breeze and King Leopold told Gort his army would not be able to hold out if the BEF went south as ordered. Gort attacked with what he had, but the only half decent tank was the Mathilda II, and that's stretching half decent to breaking point, and there were only 16 of them. The French command structure meant some units had 2 chains of command. How, all knowing Oracle that you are, is a foreign subordinate going to sort that mess out?
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@TheImperatorKnight you obviously slept through 2015 - because in that year 499 years of state ownership of the Royal Mail came to an end with the selling of the final 30% stake held by the government. Royal Mail Group plc is now wholly owned by shareholders. The clue is in the name - plc - public limited company which means it is a company owned by shareholders and that those shareholders are protected against any liability for any losses the company runs up (that's what limited means). The word public means that shares are traded publicly and that anyone can own buy; unlike in private limited companies where the other shareholders decide who can and can't buy the shares. In a stated owned company, there is one shareholder, the government. Your video on public and private ownership got this wrong, public doesn't mean state and private doesn't mean an individual. You have a good grasp on history, but haven't a clue about basic economic facts. As for YouTube's alleged censorship, case law shows that YouTube is a publicly accessible privately run forum and had the right to restrict freedom of speech (as I told you last time you were complaining about your Greek famine film, which I have watched and consider to be a well balanced film). YouTube don't have to promote such films, nor do they have to allow you or anyone else to say what you can say in, for example, the street.
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@useodyseeorbitchute9450 could we now have that in English? Don't forget case law gas YouTube as a publicly accessible private forum and that they can legally block comments and films without infringing the poster's freedom of speech.
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@TheImperatorKnight you don't have a clue about what you are talking about. Public limited company has a very specific meaning AND I'll repeat it for you. It means a company whose shares are traded so that anyone may buy them and that those shareholders are not responsible for any debts the company incurs. The company is privately owned, which simply means that it is not owned by the state (see the definition of private below). A private limited company is one where the shares in the company cannot publicly traded. THIS IS ECONOMICS 101, and if you can't understand this you have no place discussing economics or busi ess ownership. I own a car, but have to follow the laws governing driving and car ownership by your logic the car is now owned by the government as I have to obey the law. THIS IS NOT WHAT HAPPENS. The FTSE250 is a capitalisation-weighted index of the 101st to 350th largest companies listed of the London Stock Exchange, which is owned by the London Stock Exchange Group, a public limited company (see above for what this means). It is not under the control of the Bank of England nor had it ever been, although, just like with driving, government has set the ,awx under which it operates. As for a dictionary definition of the word private please note the following definition option given by the Cambridge Online Dictionary: belonging to or managed by a person or company rather than the government. Cambridge in thus case means the Cambridge University Press which is a publisher owned by, and run independently to, Cambridge University. Please don't try playing silly word games it just makes you look more foolish.
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@hermitoldguy6312 not necessarily. Performed well just means that whatever task they had been assigned in regard to their normal or ancillary duties were performed to the expected standard. The units in question may have been assigned the task of shifting ammunition to the front line and had moved it in sufficient quantities and in a timely manner to allow the fighting units to conduct combat operations. Without knowing what duties they performed we can't say with any certainty that it was in fighting or support of the fighting. An artilasrynunit that is attacked by an infantry unit and drives them off with their small arms preventing their guns from being damaged, destroyed or captured van ve said to have performed well in the infantry role but not in the artillery role. An aircraft repair facility that has been bombed and gets back to operating quickly can be said to have performed well in the resetting up of their main function but not necessarily in their main function.
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The source in Wikipedia for the bombing of the Hitler house comes from the BBC article called The Scouse Hitler. I've not been able to find a copy of this on line. You find the details in the Wikipedia article on the Liverpool Blitz.
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Tanks for the music.
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Nice hypothesis, but how does it fit in with the Britush landings in France around 7th June of 157th (Highkand Light Infantry) Brigade and the intentions to land 1st Armoured Dividion and the rest of the 52nd (Lowland) Infsntry Division (from which the 157th came) and the 1st Canadusn Infsntry Division? By focusing on a single part of the fighting, you have lost sight of the bigger picture. Remember after the war all the failures were Madman Hitler's fault, so we can't rely on the German generals for objectivity.
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@romansternberg5696 and then counselling for the trauma you would cause. You're as bad as the Catholic Church.
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@dangreene9846 dear fuckwit, you've just described what a sensible parent does. I bet you were fed the information on the Holocaust in easily digestible chunks and not a sudden flood ue you were subjected to a form of censorship.
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@dangreene9846 first I'm a snowflake now I'm a racist. Of which I'm neither. You have the gall to comment on somebody's IQ that you have never met and holds a different opinion, you must be one of those woke fools.
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@meeeka children are a group within society and as with every other grouping they show a wide range of ability to absorb and assimilate knowledge, just ask anyone who has trained to be a teacher. There is no such thing as a typical child, nor is there average human, and so you have address all concerns to the entire group or a subset of that group. Whilst some child will be able to deal with topics as difficult as the Holocaust and other such outrages others will not and so you have to start with the simplest explanations and work up, ie you censor the topic to the bare essentials and then add to those foundations.
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@KopitioBozynski I'm sorry for your loss, but lots of people including me (an eighteen month old baen my that would have been my great-uncle killed in the bombing of a industrial town in the north-eastern England, lost people during the WW1),was and infamous situations in history. I6m not saying se can't teach about episodes like the Holocaust but that you need to approach the matter with a degree of self-censorship. The internet is no different to any other media, it has to be used responsibly and is responsible for its content. YT is a private forum and thus it is exempt from the freedom of speech rules, ax confirmed by a court ruling.
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@KopitioBozynski censorship is like money neither good nor bad in itself. It is how it is used that make it good or bad. Cinema and TV age restrictions are a form of censorship, they allow people the choice of what to view and restrict children from seeing images that they might find disturbing, such as graphic violence. I'm advocating that form of censorship, which includes discussion of the Holocaust and other similar topics in age specific ways as we already do with film and TV. I'm not for the banning of the teaching about these difficult topics or lying about them. However, education has been described as lies to children because it presents simplifications of reality, for example to structure of the atom that chemistry teachers use is not the same as that used by physics teachers, but both are true for a specific value of true and are at the same time censored version of the truth.
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@ninobelov4153 you've forgotten that YT is a private forum where you don't have the freedom of speech (as established in the US courts as YT is an American organisation). A situation you agreed to when you joined.
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@ninobelov4153 and yet you made a defamatory statement in your post about the Vatican.
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@RomanHistoryFan476AD you've just contradicted yourself.
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@RomanHistoryFan476AD no, it's a form of censorship. The person doing it has determined that person to receive the information can't have it.
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@RomanHistoryFan476AD in many countries, like in the UK, teachers are paid by the state which also sets the curriculum so it all gets linked. Censorship starts with the self and finishes with the state.
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@RomanHistoryFan476AD I'd only want that for the maturest of children. Those about to go off to University. The rest get censored versions. The latest episode of the Franco-Prussian War went into fairly graphic details of injuries sustained during the fighting, and they always complaining about age restrictions.
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@RomanHistoryFan476AD it's on the Real Time History channel on YT. The episode came out on Thursday.
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@RomanHistoryFan476AD it's as good as their series on the Great War, as well as one of those wars that is hardly covered outside of France and Germany.
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@David-ci1vn why do you say that?
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@MikeHunt-zy3cn yes, the age if the person viewing the material. The same is true of TV channels as this private forum. Yes, You Tube is a private forum with it's own rules of what us acceptable for viewers and presenters which means if we want to use this forum we have to obey their rules. The same is true for film makers and TV channels, they need to ensure that if they want the widest possible viewership they have to present a sanitised version of events or face restrictions on viewership. The difference between films, TV channels and You Tube is the organisations enforcing the rules. There are only 2 options on You Tube - obey their rules or find another forum.
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TIK 250 from 350 leaves 100 and not 150.
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Well Riebels always die.
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TIK the government are countering disinformation on Covid-19, you know the information that can harm people.
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@TheImperatorKnight you do talk a load of conspiracy theory bullshit don"t you.
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Any kind of intoxicant can lead to poor decision making. Just look at bad decisions that drunks make every day. If Hilter was on drugs that affected his behaviour then some of the decisions he made whilst on those drugs will have been poor decisions. Just like anyone else on the same drugs.
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Hitler not a Christian. Is that really the case? Yes, was born to a Catholic mother and was baptised and confirmed as a Catholic, but there is no evidence he we to Mass or received the sacriments after after he left home aged 18. There is no record of the Catholic church excommunicating him as would be automatically done should be have defected from the Catholic church, which means he died a Catholic. No matter what be wrote in Mein Kampf there are enough quotes from him to show that he was a Catholic including him telling Genedal Engel in 1941 that "I am now, as before, a Catholic, and will always remain so". If he wasn't a Catholic, he certainly wasn't an atheist as he spike in Mein Kampf about what could only be described as a Godhead. He also took steps against the leading atheist organisation in Germany shortly after taking power and handed its buildings over to the Catholic church, which suggests he had leanings towards that faith. But he also took steps to subordinate all Christian churches the Nazi goals. I suspect we will never know the truth, but my own conclusion from all readily available sources I'd that he was a theist with no specific faith and told his audience just what they wanted to hear so that they would do his will.
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Unconscious bias is a bad thing for anyone, let alone a historian. Whilst I may not agree with all of your conclusions, you do a decent job of countering your own biases TIK and should be saluted for your efforts.
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The Pound Note is also a promissory note, as it states the Bankmof England will pay the bearer on demand the sum of the face value of the note [in gold].
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Is there a set wording for a Declaration of War? If not, then any statement that makes it clear a state of war exists is then a Declaration of War, like the 2 examples given.
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Have you not seen The Producers?
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Tik unfortunately does not understand that a privately owned business can have shareholders. He's under the illusion that as soon as you gave shareholders the business is state owned and no longer privately owned. This is caused by his refusal to understand all of the meanings of public and private in regards to limited companies. It's a pity he can't u derdtsnd thus fundamental concept.
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@TheImperatorKnight which would fall under the Industrial Common Ownership Act 1976. Such an organisation would have to be a ,I ited company by guarantee or a registered society under the Cooperative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014. The Articles of associate must define that members must be either employed by the body or any of its subsidiaries, that the assets of the business remain the property of the business and cannot be transferred to an individual member excepting if the business sells them to the member, and that the assets on the winding up or dissolvement of the business are transferred to a central body responsible for the disposal of the assets to pay off any outstanding debts. It also states that body is controlled by a majority of the people working for the body. Therefore, the definition of common ownership is a form of private enterprise and not state ownership. Please go and do some proper research.
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@2ndTimPlayground but you still espoused that Britsin and Frande should have invaded Gernany in 1935, when the populations of both Britain and France were opposed to war? You can't gave it both ways?
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@dondajulah4168 or another more openly anti-semitic, anti-bolshevik leader from the Nazi Party would have arisen. One with the economic brains that Hitler lacked.
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@dondajulah4168 why would it have to transition to a democratic government? An internecine conflict was just as possible.
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@Tian Wong it ended just over 500 years before WW2. 500 years is the period you stated.
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@Tian Wong reufirces a pointless point. OK, have it your way.
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I see you know a little about railways. The Russian gauge in WW2 was only 89mm wider than the German gauge. If modern track is to go by with a sleeper length of 2,560mm the rails would on standard gauge track would have the inner edge of the rail about 532mm in from the ene of the sleeper, for Russian gauge it would be 488mm in from the end. However, the length of sleeper is a pure guess, as there is nothing I can find on the internet to say just how long the sleepers were on the railways of the Soviet Union. In the UK prior to WW1 the standard length of a sleeper had standardised on most railways to 2,745mm and afterwards, as a cost saving measure, to 2,592mm. The decrease in inset distance on the assumed sleeper length is not that significant as timber sleepers are often cut shorter than normal to around fixed obstructions, and all without train falling over at those points. The Germans whilst retreating from Russia also used railway ploughs which ripped the sleepers in half and damaged the track bed, so the Soviets would have had to restore the track bed in order to lay down new tracks, with new sleepers. Damage to the track bed is a more likely source of derailments. A lot of effort is taken in peacetime to ensure that railways are kept as level as possible as passengers don't like being thrown around. But it's not just for our convenience, trains don't like it either. A typical steam locomotive has a very limited amount of play in its suspension, unlike a car, lorry or dare I say it a tank, most of the suspension of the train actually comes from its trackbed being flexible to absorb the weight if the train whilst being rigid enough to not collapse. Quickly repaired or badly maintained track may be more like a rollercoaster than a a railway and that means either limiting speed of trains or derailments. As for the train loading policies of both the Soviet and German armies, there us something to be said for mixed loads. At least you'll get some of what you need on each train that arrives at the rail head, provided the correct items were dispatched. In the way of these things if you put the loads on trains in the most effective manner, the train that is lost to enemy action will be the one filled with the most vital supplies.
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@TheImperatorKnight but you're relying too much on an economic historian and not an engineer. I spoke to a railway civil engineer. Yes, the holes left by the bolts of spikes would reduce the strength of the sleeper, but not that much considering the nature of the material; some sleepers would have broken, but for reasons other than the shifted rail. It is also true that moving a rail outwards will increase the bending moment on the sleeper, again but not by much. The real problem is the increased loadings on the track bed at the outer end of the sleeper at the end with the shifted rail. This increase load on the ballast making the track bed shift exacerbating the problem of the shifted rail.
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@TheImperatorKnight it's still wrong to send those non-Soviet citizens back.
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You'll have to clean up after it.
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State socialism does not equate to a society of producers. State socialism means the government owns all the means of production. Whereas a society of producers has no single meaning, ranging from 100% capitalistic through to 100% state owned. And don't send back your normal response saying that a company owned by members of the public is a state owned company when anyone who understands these things knok you don't understand it. Private corporations are not part of the state.
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The public sector is everything owned by the government or state. The private sector is everything else. A sole trader is a business owner by an individual, whilst a company us one owned by more than one person. A private company is one where the shares are owned by one or more persons and not traded publicly (ie they can only be sold to the other share holders and that new shareholders can only join with the permission of the other shareholders). A public company us any company whose shares are publicly traded on the open, market. Then there are cooperatives which are owned by the members and anyone can buy into them. This is do simple even a child can understand it in less than 10 minutes.
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Me I start at 1705 each day....
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