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  1. History is so much more interesting when you look past the sugar coating table scraps you were given in high school.
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  2. I’ve figured it out. TIK isn’t pro German, Soviet, American or British… no TIK is truly pro Canada. Think about it when was the last time you heard TIK complaining about something the Canadians did. And it’s Definitely NOT that the Canadian troops were a small part of the overall force used mainly on the flanks… nope this is proof that TIK is overwhelmingly biased in favour of the Canadians. ;P
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  3. Never knew that the situation in occupied Greece was so bad during the war. A real eye opener for me. Thank you for posting this video. My condolences to the people of Greece.
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  4. Arguing with a Marxist is like trying to talk a starving rabid dog out of biting your leg. It’s (almost) a waste of time.
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  5. 19:37 You and higgs are a bit wrong here. There are a lot of civilians that TOTALLY want grenades. just a few laws in the way, that's all.
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  6. As far as I can work out. This Stalingrad series has been running for over 24 hours at least. And we've only just reached the start of the encirclement of the 6th Army. Learnt a lot more from this series than I ever could have in a class room. TIK. Your service has been invaluable.
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  7. The most accurate depiction ever of the most critical day in Stalingrad. And yes, 6th Army's diary is sometimes inaccurate, as any other war diary. Watching the events unfold on this fantastic map is a unique experience.
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  8. I enjoy the phrasing in the title, "weren't as nightmarish." Not good, not mediocre, not bad, still nightmarish but not as horrid as the Germans.
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  9. Those patrons look like the Stalingrad casualty list by now!
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  10. You should create a series called "But is this really the case?" Its becoming a staple of the channel. xD
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  11. TiK deserves a medal for listening to this. not sure what was worse, the dudes audio quality or his commentary
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  12. Those who believe in the Manstein shall receive the blessings of the Manstein.
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  13. The man did it. Mad respect. This amount of work in such short time , trully impressive.
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  14. I get the impression TIK doesn't like the state, commies and central banks. Glad to see this episode
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  15. I guess the oil shortage is partly why they used horses to tow a significant portion of their artillery instead of half tracks.
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  16. I love how TIK is so calm when they're throwing so much BS lmao
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  17. Apparently, the NAZIS won the war; most of their social ideas and technical knowledge are now the norm in all of the allies countries.
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  18. Whoever's asking you to dumb down Stalingrad, don't listen to them! I for one am loving the amount of detail we're seeing!
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  19. Funny thing, this how I was taught in the school by my historian: German declaration was merely only a confirmation of a fact.
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  20. Thank you TIK, for making my day with the map showing West Taiwan. Your small digs scattered through more recent videos like easter eggs are most enjoyable.
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  21. Germany's history is endlessly fascinating, just like Britain's.
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  22. I really love the running footnotes at the bottom! Makes it much harder for someone to claim bad research on you part
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  23. I am 51 yrs old and have been studying the Battle of Stalingrad since I was 11 yrs old. I have literally been waiting 40 yrs for this! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Absolutely amazing!
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  24. For me the turning point was when the UK refused to surrender. With Britain still in the war it would not end its oil blockade of Germany. Germany could not win from this point. This not mean that the UK could win but it meant that the Germans could not remove Britain from the war. Britain was playing the game that every operation was designed to waste German Oil. Seemingly pointless operations in Norway and Greece when viewed through this lens forced the Germans not only to deploy its troops to areas but also its fleet. The war was an economic one between the UK and Germany and every German operation versus the UK had to be decisive whereas the UK could lose to the Germans but push the Needle ever more in its favour. This was the British way of war and it was very good at it. It used similar tactics verses Germany in the first world war to devastating effects. It used it against the French multiple times over a 200-year period and it would force the smaller nations of Europe to follow its Pax Britannica due its naval dominance. Through the use of positioning Britain could dictate any wars outcome by blocking trade of one side or another. So, what does this have to do with the war in 1939-1945. The Germans like most European states relied on imported oil. For the Germans this could come from two places. One Russia or two the rest of the world. By removing the rest of the world from the axis the British forced the Germans to use Soviet oil. Stalin however was not going to supply one of his rivals with oil. Remember the Soviets believed that war with Germany was investable as soon as it had removed the western allies, it just believed that Hitler would wait to defeat Britain before attacking. Hitler had no choice but to invade the Soviet Union in 41 because of the oil situation. He could have made savings by docking his entire sub fleet but then he would have been letting the UK build up in peace. Same story for grounding the Luftwaffe. Hitler had been forced into a corner by the British one that they knew he could not escape from. Even if Hitler had taken the oil fields in the Caucuses the British would have focused it for their bombing campaign. (There were plans to bomb it anyway). Just to drain German oil. Therefore, every British victory in Africa was decisive and every German victory was not. Unless Germany could take the Suez and push beyond the British could just come back year on year and counter attack with new tanks and new men. Hitler was no fool he knew that he could not invade Britain. The royal Navy was just too powerful, the RAF could replace losses far quicker than he could. Plus, his mechanised troops would be bottlenecked by the amphibious landings. It is pure folly to believe that sealion was a valid plan. Look at the difficulty the allies had with conducting Overlord and they had years to plan and prepare. Some simulations conducted over the years would have given the Germans 3 days of clear channel before the Royal Navy counter attacked and without the battleships to challenge them the Germans who landed would have been surrounded and cut to pieces. So, what does this leave us it leaves Germany with an enemy it can’t defeat who after 18 June 1940 would not surrender throttling the Germans every day of the war. The invasion of Russia may have hastened the wars end for Germany, but it was not the turning point. Germany had already lost the war it was just a matter of who won it and when they finally beat Germany.
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  25. I laughed when he said we need to start our story a bit in the past and then starts explaining feudalism
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  26. Okay Tik. That's cool and all but like stick to saying things about Karl Marx that you don't actually here about. You know, the type of things which people like me research about and then mention in a politics class which is very left-leaning and then get the diversity officer at your school's attention because some leftist got annoyed. (This genuinely happened to me last thursday for the 2nd time, further proof Britain is an authoritarian state).
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  27. You know a YouTuber is good when he can get you to watch 10 minutes of him pointing at maps
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  28. oh boy This gonna be spicy
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  29. Props to TIk for being one of the VERY few historians on youtube who actually cites the sources they are using in their videos. It's sad that this is the exception rather than the rule.
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  30. YAAAY Stalingrad is back🎉🎉
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  31. Well, all hostess of that show have inteligence, attitude and knowledge of average pre-kindergarden child, so no suprise there. Good job Karen...
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  32. Great, balanced take as always TIK. The answer is not necessarily global anarchy, rather DECENTRALIZATION. As Hans Herman Hoppe put it, there should be thousands of Lichtensteins. Thousands of little laboratories experimenting with systems of economics and trade so as to best observe which practices work and which ones we should avoid. The key is to keep them as voluntary associations, not coerced serfs.
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  33. Personally Id like your video's about the ideology of the Nazi/Hitler and others. So I would love if you can continue making them now and again!
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  34. I think that's a great lesson: -No matter what you believe in, you should read the "other people's books".
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  35. This is mind blowingly good. I took a class on Nazi Germany and they glossed over ideology without taking on the roots of phrases such as arbeit macht frei. TIK never ceases to ameliorate my knowledge on what really happened in the past
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  36. “It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.” ― Murray N. Rothbard
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  37. It is strange how the “official” narrative describes the Nationalist Socialists as friendly to the Monarchy. Good job. Nice quote from Beevor. Thanks!
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  38. You have found solid evidence to discredit a false historical source which was by many of us believed to be legitimate until this point. What you did is even BETTER than just continuing with the Stalingrad documentary, which is already cool enough. This doesn't ruin your previous work. It improves it. It also gives you the credit of being a proper historian who can doubt and fact check his own sources instead of just following them blindly and softly rewriting what's in them and then presenting it as "your" work. If anything, this Hoffmann incident makes me appreciate your work and effort more seriously, not the opposite. Keep up the good work! We're all waiting for your next episode of Stalingrad's documentary
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  39. More people need to see this, and James Lindsay's podcasts on gnosticism and the roots it has in the current climate. Once you realize that the reason all these awful ideologies operate a lot like religion is because they ARE a religion things start to make more sense and they are more easily combatible.
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  40. Funny how the side with the fastest firing MG had the worst logistics.
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  41. I like how you called socialists "religious". Their fanatical defense of irrationality of socialism is at religious level
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  42. It's funny you have to give all these warnings that you're not a fascist yet if you talk about communism everyone's like hey it's awesome
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  43. TIK, please.. DON'T JUST STICK TO TANKS!😁
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  44. Wow, a politician being disingenuous?! Say it ain't so
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  45. The Kingdom of Hungary had an Admiral as Head of State as Regent, and that Admiral didn't have a navy as Hungary lost its coast post WWI.
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  46. I usually get annoyed at movies where a character should obviously have died but somehow survived then I remember that does happen in real life a lot. Chuikov is plot armor personified.
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  47. I think this is the reason it was so powerful because it wasn't just a political movement, it tapped into a deep spiritual reservoir that was just bursting to get out of the German people
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  48. Hello TIK. I am a 69 year-old Patreon contributor to your channel. During the last few years, your WWII history videos have enhanced my life more than anyone could imagine. The factual and objective video presentations have made me more knowledgeable and thereby, happier. With real knowledge comes contentment. I appreciate all you do.
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  49. You've made it difficult to watch other documentaries now! Great work!
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  50. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, like the collapse of the Roman Empire, is a lot more complex and multifaceted story then it looks when you just scratch the surface. There's rarely a single or just a few reasons for why empires and nations have fallen throughout history.
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