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

  1. Until it failed under close analysis. TB-47 controversy demonstrated he both failed in his research, and then lied.
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  2.  @melc311  Sure....ignore that he used a known forgery regarding the casualty figure, then denied it. When the original showed up he tried to claim it was a fake, and that his forgery was the original. Total BS and clearly demonstrated who he is. You really should try to look it up.
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  3.  @TitusMaximus-g8w  A denier is someone who denies the existence of established fact on a topic.
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  4. The front was thousands of miles wide, hundreds of miles deep. Some POWs were killed shortly after capture, some of the roadside on the way to larger enclosures, some died on the way to camps while on trains, etc. Most died of starvation in the open air cages and there are monuments, mass graves were found, etc. Most of it is in Russian/Cryllic and there is little in the West. Few people in the West below 40 know much of any history, fewer still about WWII and hardly anyone cares about the Red Army POWs enough to research it. Its the law of supply and demand. https://www.historynet.com/soviet-prisoners-of-war-forgotten-nazi-victims-of-world-war-ii.htm
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  5.  @Todesking69  I agree with that 100% To further that line... The next step is to apply the same process to every article, book, documentary, or even individual claim. The process is called Historical Method and it is the academic standard of evidence required to prove something as "fact". David Irving does not subscribe to it and he literally paid the price when he was found to be knowingly engaging in distortion in order to profit from controversy, that he either created or exploited.
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  6.  @KansasHempMan  He hasn't published anything in 20 years, IM DB's description of him: His self-taught and biased 'scholarship' is as questionable as his openly right-wing politics, since most of his works are concerned with rehabilitating the Th ird Rei ch and denying the Holo caust. Because of these propagandist and revisionist positions, he used to be the most popular historian in international Ne o N a zi circles, but his influence is marginal today, because he has been exposed as a fraud by serious historical scholarship.
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  7. LMAO. it tells you enough to close your mind to anything else. Great plan genius
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  8.  @stvincents2007  Sure, and what is Cole not telling you? Works both ways.... He later recanted everything, that says something.
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  9. "Irwing went to the source and backs it up with sitations." The basis of his Dresden claim is Tagebefehl 47 (aka TB 47) which was proven to be a forgery. The series of Tagesbefehlen all have the same common features, including the real TB47. The fake that he often quotes is a clumsy forgery with statistics inflated by adding a zero. The number that Irving tries to sell is impossible. I visited Dresden, compared the area hit with RAF before/after photos, walked it, and its clearly too small to hold that number of people for any apparent reason short of a New Year's eve party with everyone crammed in the streets. Its just plain unfiltered BS. You can literally walk outside of that area in 5 minutes and be clear of the fires. We're not talking about a nuclear flash...😐
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  10. "We make up quotes" -any revisionist
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  11.  @jcvr732  Nope, revisionism has nothing to do with the truth. All "revisionism" boils down to is a mask for anti-Semitism and conspiracy BS. Thats all it will ever be, no matter how many BS videos get produced, cryptic slogans, etc. It's just fake empowerment for the disenfranchised. Get a clue, get a life...
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  12.  @jcvr732  Revisionism is not another point of view, it is amateurs writing outside of their ability and not held to any quality or accuracy standards. Would you take you car to a revisionist mechanic and then put your family in it? Go to a witch doctor for your health? And I'm a Protestant, conservative Republican (not a Trump supporter). Any revisionist who runs into someone who disagrees, usually throws the "you're a Jew" card out there.
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  13. I read it, along with several books by Glantz, Stahel, Keegan, etc. Suvorov/Rezun wrote a simplistic story based on a theory and his facts are mostly just anecdotal evidence while at the same time he ignores far better sources and information. He lists divisions and corps that the Soviets supposedly had but really only existed on paper. How does a Soviet tank corps that has 40% fill of personnel, 30% of its equipment, is mostly untrained, and is missing key personnel fight a war? Many Soviet units fit that description and were in danger of evaporating in space as they left their assembly areas without proper leadership, proper communications gear, and no ability to coordinate logistical support, artillery, or even communicate with higher. They didn't fight poorly because they were surprised, they fought poorly because that is all you could expect from any unit in that early state of development.
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  14. " It was the Airborne element planned by the Americans that ultimately failed." How long did XXX Corps take to reach Arnhem? Any plan that involves a timetable dependent upon taking multiple enemy bridges intact is a fool's errand.
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  15.  @davemac1197  Like I said: "Any plan that involves a timetable dependent upon taking multiple enemy bridges intact is a fool's errand." A plan that requires perfection or something close to it will inevitably fail when the enemy gets his say in the matter. Market Garden defied one of the main principles of war; simplicity which is the key reason it failed.
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  16.  @billballbuster7186  And what of the other 6 bridges and Groesbeek Heights that commanded the area and the bridge in question? These are your secondary objectives? Personally I would say that the failure of Market Garden had more to with the German 15th Army being heavily engaged in the battle rather than cut off, bottled up in France, and left to die. No? Who's failure was that?
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  17.  @billballbuster7186  No, the 15th Army escaped due to a purely British/CW error, and it in many ways eclipses the failure of Market Garden. Large elements of the 15 Army were engaged in Market Garden as well. The 2nd and 3rd order effects of not sealing the 15th Army's ferry route were the long and painful clearing of the Scheldt, the failure of Market Garden, and the denial of use of Antwerp until 28 Nov. According to Horrocks, “With the capture of Brussels and Antwerp 30 Corps was ordered to halt. The reason given was that we had out-run our administrative resources.” Brian Horrocks, Corps Commander (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1977) The failure of the British to cut off the South Beveland peninsula allowed the majority of the Fifteenth Army to escape into Holland, where they would later be utilized to oppose Operation Market-Garden. and defend the Scheldt.
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  18.  @billballbuster7186  lol, changing the topic, moving the goal posts, etc. Nope...
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  19.  @billballbuster7186  Bother? I'm laughing at your mental gymnastics. I pointed out a clear British failure related to Market Garden, and you squirrel off to something unrelated to compensate. Odd behavior, but 🤣
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  20.  @billballbuster7186  Your struggle is real... 🤣
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  21. Yes they had a choice, the plan was to dispose of the Soviet POWs months before Barbarossa began. This wasn't a surprise when they ended up with millions of POWs, it was expected and the plan was to murder them.
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  22. Nope... the Germans signed it and were bound to it.
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  23. Nope.... Evans has a Phd in Historical research and analysis, and also a team of experts for specific areas. An expert in German language is one of them. Dr. Evans is a first-class academic who can peel the onion on someone like Irving and his work, which is why he was retained.
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  24. Suggest you read "Facts Against Falsehood, Eisenhower and the German POWs". "Other Losses" is pure fiction.
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  25. vocal minority, but you'll never meet one in real life. lol Their comments are purely anonymous online only type of thing.
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  26. So there were Allied logistical constraints to be considered in the narrow vs broad front strategy. I believe what the SHAEF G5 was looking at was the fact the German logistical and personnel replacement constraints would be further strained by a broad front than a narrow stab. More Allied forces engaged means more German forces engaged and at a severe disadvantage. On a broad front, German transportation capabilities were paralyzed, as opposed to a narrow sector where they could concentrate limited resources. I could elaborate on many points, but the situation is clear. All of this is in the context of the territorial agreements drawn up at Tehran, the political considerations detailed in this vid, etc.
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  27.  @davemac1197  Your idea of military strategy is demonstrating concepts better applied to the operational level, not the strategic level which 100% involves politics. SHAEF G4 is just one staff component, one war fighting function that gets a say in informing the Commander. In this situation of what to do in Aug/Sep of 1944, the G2 and G5 would be far more influential in shaping the decisions of leadership. G2 provides the enemy situation, their capabilities, etc. and the G5 is taking that into consideration against Allied capabilities (which includes G4 statistics, etc.) within the confines of an overall strategy. After Falaise, German transportation and logistics were a shambles, and the opportunity to liberate France on the cheap was there to be had as a result. The broad front was a low risk/high reward proposition that put great pressure on the Germans everywhere at the same time while also serving the political agenda in regard to restoring France as a power. Monty's ideas are sound at the operational level and make sense given the situation, but they are riskier, remain below the level of grand strategy, not synced with the Tehran agreements, and inferior to the broad front in terms of coalition warfare.
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  28.  @davemac1197  Ugh, modern organization... I was a DIV G5 (Plans) just 18 months ago, so in 1944 I believe we're talking about G3 Plans? no? My mistake.
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  29. The repetition of bad logistics seems to gloss over the fact that Wehrmacht Intelligence caused most of the logistical failures in due course. When the operational design is based on fantasy information, then the logistical support plan has no foundation, no basis. The same could be said for the Personnel problems associated with Barbarossa. All reserves were used up by July and especially depleted were the Infantry battalions of AGC's Infantry divisions. So, regardless of logistical support, the tip of the spear was blunted anyway. All of Barbarossa's and Blau's failures can be attributed to poor Intelligence during the planning process and during the campaign.
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  30. Nice bias.... lol
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  31. When did they raid his home?
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  32. That was done at Treblinka, LIDAR was used as well. They also found ashes, crushed bone, etc. They found all of the buildings, numerous large burial pits, etc. Tiles from the fake showers were found and corroborated the firsthand accounts of the handful of survivors, etc. Deniers don't care and they never let facts/evidence get in the way of their opinions. In my experience many deniers are anti-Semites who adopt H-denial and all the conspiracies about Jewish folks because it confirms their opinions and simplifies their world while making them feel like they know something most people don't. They're a twisted bunch really...
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  33. The entire court case and all the evidence that was submitted is online, it completely transparent. Look up Holo cuast denial on trial and you'll find it.
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  34. That's BS.... You can "question" the facts, but why would you deny established fact? Put "both sides" under equal scrutiny and see which one fails.
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  35. Speculations? No, that's you trying to distort what happened when Dr. Evans examined Irving's work against his source material and was able to demonstrate when and where he omitted fact, took liberties, and fabricated lies to create a false narrative. That's not speculation, that's fact. He proved it in a public court and Irving was caught red handed.
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  36. definitely won't attract females...lol
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  37.  @sarahwilliams6384  Want to debate? How about Irving's claims about Dresden? How about whether or not the knotsies "eliminated" 3.3 million Soviet POWs? How about the Rhine Meadows claims of James Bacque? Which one works for you?
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  38.  @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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  39. Source? Without a way to prove your statement it's not much of a claim.
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  40.  @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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  41. His books aren't banned, and anyone reading them HAS to understand that he manipulates the material to fit the narrative he wants to create. Its not History, its an Irving story.
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  42.  @paulfallon7038  I just checked amazon and abebooks, no ban on Irving's books whatsoever. So, go back and try to find another way to make Irving a martyr. Fact is, and I do mean FACT...is that he distorts his source material to fit his agenda. Its not legitimate history.
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  43. Your hero in all his glory, watch the whole thing if you can stand it...lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rBCst4hph0
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  44.  @paulfallon7038  I see, because I have no respect for his work and know him to be a fraud, I must be a Communist? lol, thats brilliant. His research is 2nd to none, but gets the Dresden death toll wrong by a factor of 10x, and uses knotsie propaganda figures as his statistical source. You are one of das usual suspects, eh kamerad?
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  45.  @magna4100  Good luck with that and all that you Irving the denier stand for.
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  46. nope....  That is incredibly simpleton and way off the mark.  Try reading David Glantz' "Stumbling Colossus".
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  47. It's interesting to watch people who think they are so intelligent and discerning about history, propaganda, etc. fall for the most basic and elementary sales tactics. In regard to a sales hook, or simply the laws of supply and demand, people remain prone to falling for "secret" information, or since it claims to be suppressed, censored, or controversial, it MUST be true. This defies logic, but human psychology isn't about logic, it's about emotion. Irving knew this, it was his style and how he captivated an audience. Academic criticism of his work only makes his audience defensive of him. His career is better as a case study in psychology than it is history. He was a great salesman who knew his customers.
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  48.  @Michael-it7nx  Ok Dr. Katz... "projection"? What I stated about Irving fits his writing 100% and you can't avoid it. Does mainstream conventional history, written using the academic process of "historical method" claim to have secret or suppressed information that is used as a sales hook? Or is that an Irving thing? lol, explain that, Dr.
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  49. 🤣
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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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