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

@CoCAccount-bv2rp Attack me personally if you want, apparently that's your thing. I'm German-American, registered Republican, combat vet, posting with a hangover from celebrating the 4th at the VFW. Just because I call out N A Zis doesn't make me ga y, Democrat, or Commy. Get over yourself or gt fo. 😁
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@CoCAccount-bv2rp I see, you hate the US. Good for you, I don't give a sh't. lol Believe what the media tells you about the US, if it's in the media it must be true. Right genius?
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@CoCAccount-bv2rp "you are republican, you Support trump". I don't support Trump, did I say that I did? You make a lot of assumptions and put words in people's mouths so you can argue against them. lol, you're a fool.
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That's exactly his sales pitch, great job in identifying how he fools people.
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100% correct. The issue is the Germans know how many men they had, and how many came back by 1957. How the missing met their end has a lot of unknowns in it.
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@scottstambaugh8473 An interesting aside to the number of German POWs/MIA that never returned is that the percentage of Japanese taken in 1945 is similar. The campaign in Manchuria was very short, casualties relatively light for the Japanese, but the percentage of returning Soldiers after years in the Soviet Union was about the same as the German experience.
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@scottstambaugh8473 Its a rabbit hole I went down after looking into why Austrian POWs in particular had such a low survival rate (high percentage were taken at Stalingrad). After that I looked into Italian, then Hungarian, Romanian, Czech, and finally Japanese. Austrian and Italian are VERY low survival rates.
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@scottstambaugh8473 Yeah pretty much, the Italian 8th Army/ARMIR was enveloped as part of the series of counterattacks near Stalingrad, but they weren't in the pocket with the German 6th Army. They were relatively healthy when captured, which makes their attrition rate in captivity highly suspect.
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@scottstambaugh8473 Off the top of my head I think there were 54,000 "Missing" and about 11,000 were repatriated to Italy by 1956. I'm not sure about the Spanish, but there's interesting info out there on the number of "French" Soldiers that France was working on getting back from the USSR after 1945. This included W-SS personnel, and all of those conscripted from Alsace-Lorraine into the Wehrmacht.
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lol, do you believe that BS? Dr. Evans provided his opinion based on analysis of Irving's writings in comparison to his cited source material. They don't match and that isn't someone's opinion. Dr. Evans analyzed most of Irving's work and found a multitude of major discrepancies that ultimately led to his downfall. Irving is a charlatan, and it took an expert like Evans to prove it beyond any doubt. THAT is what "expert testimony" is you dolt...
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@Michael-it7nx Irving's "work". Ok, summary in one example; TB-47 controversy.... Case closed, certified charlatan. Evans has a Phd, works within his mandate, therefore by definition cannot be a charlatan....words have meaning genius.
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@Michael-it7nx Pandemic Phd's are called medical doctors. Obviously not the same as someone who earns a Phd in humanities and is an expert in research and analysis of historical evidence. Irving was a historical writer and not a Historian, a title, expertise, and credentials he clearly did not possess. Just because you agree with what he wrote doesn't make it accurate or answer for the mistakes he made or the lies he told as exposed by Dr. Evans. Dr. Evans exposed Irving's misuse of his sources and you can't take that back, he's guilty of what amounts to historical fraud.
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@fridriechrussofobber3500 Good comment though.
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"Divid wrote over 20 books by the time of trial. Over the 2 year period evens and his TEAM managed to find 9 errors in his works." They found substantial evidence to prove in a public court that he was as Dr. Lipstadt described him, a Holo caust denier. Therefore, Irving's Libel case and huge amount of money he was trying to get from Penguin were tossed out. Irving clearly wrote that the kil ling by g as was on a modest scale in Auschwitz, as well as the Reinhardt ca mps. He also claimed that the overall numbers of Jewish people that lost their lives in those places was greatly exaggerated. THAT IS denial, and he was disproven in a public court in a court case of his choosing. Mining his books for that information was Evans job, and he located the relevant information. That's it.... Irving hung himself in this and he is who the judge said he is. The whole thing is public record, and every word of every day can be read for free on the internet. Recommend you analyze it.
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@floycewhite6991 No, those are YOUR words, nothing more. What Dr Lipstadt says in her book is a direct reflection of the image Irving created for himself by writing/saying what he did. That was proven by the defense during the lawsuit trial. As I stated previously, its all on public record. If you disagree but don't bother to look at the evidence, then that's on you and is typical of "fans" of Irving.
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@floycewhite6991 The "official version" involves a great many irrefutable facts that Irving denied with simple and clear language. He lost the Penguin case because the comments that Lipstadt made about him in 3 pages of her book were found to be accurate and that he was not libeled. He was found guilty in Austria because he denied facts publicly and incited hatred. Tough to swallow the obvious?
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It was an extreme plan that was tossed out, never implemented for obvious humanitarian reasons.
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Interesting video, but for me the clarification to the numbers game starts with Wehrmacht statistics for "Vermisste" (Missing). There is a much clearer statistical set for the number of men known to have gone missing in the East, from unit records, personnel records, etc. Whether those men were KIA, died from wounds later, were captured and executed, etc. before being processed as Soviet POWs doesn't matter. What matters is ensuring that the number of men lost, on what front, when, is captured as accurately as possible. If there is any ambiguity, opportunists like James Bacque will show up like vultures and try to capitalize. If Germany had 3.2 million men MIA on the Eastern Front and 1.92 million were later repatriated, it still means that 1.3 million men were lost on THAT front. Comparing sources and estimates over POW death rates without MIA context leaves room for Bacque or other "revisionists" to create their false distorted narratives.
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@ionionescu6777 How many of these encirclements are within 200 miles of the border???? https://images.beastsofwar.com/2016/07/imagej.jpg Answer...(2), less than 400k prisoners on a 1000 km front during a surprise attack. Proof that the Red Army was not postured for a strategic attack.
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@ionionescu6777 jesus, get a clue...665k at Kiev, where tf is Kiev einstein? How about Vyazma-Briansk? Smolensk? My god...read SOMETHING on the topic. Idiot
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You would have been far better off showing the German squad and company TOE vs a Soviet squad/platoon/company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rKRt5zVZgw A comparison like that clearly shows the firepower of each formation. That and German tactics revolved around the MG, not just at the squad level, but all they way to battalion. An Infantry battalion had a full MG company, as well as a lot of other MGs. Depending on the quality of the formation, they could have MG34, MG42, MG08/15, ZB26, MG13, MG81 ground mount, etc. They also made about 500k Semi-auto rifles, another 450k Sturmgewehrs, and soaked up a lot of older MP28, MP34, MP35, and also used Italian Beretta 38 sub guns.
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Nope...
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@SBroconis522 You say 7.2 to 1, yet you don't account for Axis casualties, as is Italians, Romanians, Finns, Hiwis, etc. You're also not accounting for how many Soviet personnel losses were due to those other Axis troops. Red Army casualties to Romanian troops do not count in the German/Soviet ratio and you have to account for Romanian losses. Make sense?
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@SBroconis522 You said: "t took 7.2 Russians to kill 1 German . Look it up" Then you say: " I didnt say that. I was pointing that there are no real numbers" Go figure out what you're trying to say, and then get back with something coherent... lol
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Wrong... look up MEFO bills and German re-armament. The Nazis printed money, lots of it and it wasn't backed by anything. Do a little research into facts contrary to your current position instead of avoiding them and seeking affirmation.
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