Comments by "Pyromania101" (@pyromania1018) on "Biographics" channel.

  1. Yeah. While I support most of Sherman's actions during his infamous march*, his treatment of Native Americans was truly appalling; though, whenever a tribe submitted without a fight, he'd try to ensure said tribe was well cared for. * His abandoning those slaves at a river crossing was just nasty... but he didn't have the resources to feed them, and he'd warned them of this beforehand, and that they followed him at their own peril. So, yeah, it was a cruel move, but I can't entirely deny the practicality of it.
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  2. The goddamn mustache.
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  3.  @gasmonkey1000  His second wife was very similar to his first, which was why he was so smitten with her.
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  4. I've heard folks say that the two men would have been better suited in the other's theater: Slim was actually liked by the Americans and wasn't as provocative, while Monty's methods, according to them would have worked better in the Pacific. However, MacArthur was an even bigger egotist than Patton, so I'm not so sure.
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  5. He did develop antisemitism, even expressing open admiration for Hitler and praising the Holocaust.
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  6. The way Karl's downfall played out is deliciously ironic: Karl's immediate superior happened to be a former patient of one of the doctors he killed* to cover up his syphilis treatment, and when he learned about it, he launched an investigation. The officer was so astonished by the level of Karl's embezzlement actions that he started going after other camp commandants, including Amon Goethe, whom he quickly tossed into a looney bin. * Said doctor had also been protecting inmates from being killed on several occasions. Wish I could remember his name.
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  7. But Napoleon lost. Plus, for all his innovations, he was still a petty despot who tried to maintain slavery. He is fascinating, I'll admit, but admirable? Not the word I'd use.
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  8. What about Syngman Rhee, dictator of South Korea during the war? He was just as belligerent and unstable as Kim.
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  9.  @Cazzo1231  And then later, Taiwan sent him stuff, though not as much.
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  10. Rome was destined to fall eventually: maintaining its armies was incredibly expensive, and once they ran out of foreign lands they could pillage (and sometimes failed to), they gradually ran out of funds.
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  11. Eva wasn't some genius schemer or anything. She was a pretty airhead and little else. While I don't like quoting Albert Speer, he summed her up best: "For writers of history, Eva Braun is going to be a disappointment."
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  12. I went ahead and bought a copy of the memoirs. It was extensive, but still the cheapest I've I could find; all the others were over a grand.
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  13.  @maxillebastille9079  That's a lie he told later. The real reason he didn't serve was because he was found medically unfit. When he signed up with the German Army, they had the Austrians send his file in, but it got misplaced and he was allowed to join by mistake.
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  14. His mother was a hamster, and his father smelled of elderberries.
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  15. I disagree. I prefer the "Rise and Fall of Versailles" trilogy.
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  16. Modern historians have begun to reexamine his presidency and concluded he was actually a lot better than earlier "historians" claimed. It must be kept in mind that the early records of him were written by extremely biased "Lost Cause" sympathizers who hated his guts for conquering the South and taking away their slaves. He enforced abolition at gunpoint, tried to introduce civil rights to the newly freed slaves, and while it was during his presidency that the Native American tribes were subjugated, he did try to keep them from being slaughtered and oppressed.
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  17. Would it have killed him to mention that he got married and had a kid. Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman did.
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  18. Badum-tsh!
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  19.  @doomi4055  Uh, Bernie...
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  20.  @mcnultyssobercompanion6372  Of course it is. And I commend and respect your beliefs, as well. Personally, I'm more liberal than anything, but I liked his pro-Israel stance, plus I'm in the army, so his focus on the military was a personal boon.
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  21. He was also the puppet of the robber barons, who funded his campaign.
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  22.  @jamescarter5883  I wouldn't call him that, but he does need a video.
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  23. Actually, she was released pretty quickly and attended Moscow East University before returning to China in 1947. She was bullied and harassed by Jiang and never got to see the daughter she'd had with Mao. She lived to see Jiang's fall, but died alone in 1984.
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  24. Some details: 1. By the time of his death, Frederick William had (somewhat begrudgingly) compromised with his son: Frederick could maintain his hobbies as long as he was vigilant with his studies. In his dying days, the old man even began to express regret for his bad parenting. 2. Adding on to your remarks about Frederick's views on culture, he hated the Nibelung stories, regarding them as "rubbish".
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  25.  @tyrian_baal  Exactly. The farmland was way too good to waste, so after burning it down (though not before helping themselves to the city's vast supply of agricultural texts), they built another city over the ruins.
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  26. I don't condone what she did to those Protestants, but I don't think the title "Bloody" is well-earned since her dad and sister killed a lot more people than she did. Even taking into account their respective reigns still puts her behind them. Henry, in particular, just seemed to love having people killed.
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  27. She was my grandmother's sister's daughter's cousin's former roommate.
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  28. I understand you can't cover everything, especially with a subject this vast, but you skipped (or incorrectly described) a few things: 1) If Louis hated his wife, he didn't show it that much. Despite his affairs, he was both attentive and polite to her, and when Montespan was rude to her, he threatened her to stay silent. Maintenon actually persuaded him to spend more time with his wife, who was deeply grateful. 2) No mention that Maintenon later became Louis's second wife? And that he was actually faithful to her? Or that she was a Protestant? 3) In regards to the above, once Louis started aging, Maintenon had near-total control over him, and Versailles became a lot less extravagant and more rigid. 4) Louis may not have liked Paris, but he still commissioned several hospitals, universities, and libraries there.
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  29. ​ @MrMarinus18 Actually, he was an excellent military commander. He even seemed to prefer being a general over being a politician.
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  30. Germany had 3 emperors: "the senile emperor, the wise emperor, and the shitty emperor."
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  31. Requests: Rafael Trujillo Konstantin Rokossovsky Paul von Lettow-Worbeck Roland Freisler John Brown John Pershing
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  32. Played by Simon Russell Beale in "Operation: Finale".
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  33. He was born on April Fool's Day. Also, his biggest flaw was that the political system he constructed was made only for HIM to operate--he never bothered to explain to anyone else how to make it work in case he was indisposed.
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  34.  @latinhero1818  I'm aware that they were present, but like I said, McCarthy, like the typical leader of a witch hunt, used the chaos to go after people he just didn't like, as well.
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  35. Also made a scapegoat for all of Robert E. Lee's mistakes by the "Lost Cause" myth.
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  36.  @soccrstar4  Glad you liked it. It's from the first Austin Powers movie.
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  37.  @vincenzo2535  Salad.
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  38.  @bretthess6376  French Sniper: "Like this?" (shoots Nelson)
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  39. Alice Roosevelt, Teddy's daughter with the personality to prove it.
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  40. A key difference is that Lenin was more aware of Stalin's political maneuvering, but the stroke he suffered kept him from acting. Stalin screwed up big time when he viciously insulted Lenin's wife over the phone, but he bounced back through sheer luck. He later apologized to her and she came to support his policies.
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  41.  Ben Louis  It's so poor that the current king refused to have a coronation in order to save money.
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  42. What's that piano tune played over "a garden of peace before the horrors of war"?
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  43. Winston Churchill said as much.
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  44. It was a million-to-one-chance wound that just happened to hit a critical spot.
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  45. One of his last acts was to try to swindle a dying client into willing him his fortune. It got the fucker disbarred.
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  46. Admiral King harbored a long-standing, petty grudge against Captain MacVeigh's father, so going after him was his way of settling the score. This was not lost on MacVeigh, Sr.
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  47. And then back to rags, prompting him to pen his memoirs so his family would have some money after he died. They got rich, fortunately.
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  48. I see people here trying to defend Goebbels. Here's the thing: he had his wife bring his children to Berlin for the express purpose of killing them once the war was lost. They had several chances to evacuate their children from the capital before it was too late, but they refused out of blind fanaticism. "They belong to the Fuhrer," Goebbels said of his children, a sentiment his wife shared. In the end, they killed their children not to keep them from being killed by the Soviets, but to "protect" therm from living in a Germany without Hitler and his Nazi thugs.
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  49. Fun Fact: He had a younger brother, Heinz, whom--much like Hermann Goering's brother, Albert--did not share his views. Heinz was initially an enthusiastic Nazi, but after his brother's funeral, the Gestapo gave him all of Reinhard's papers. As he read through them, Heinz, according to his wife, grew paler by the minute. He tore off his SS patch, and began helping Jews escape from Nazi-occupied Europe. He committed suicide by gunshot in 1944 when he believed the Gestapo had found out in order to protect his family. In truth, they never suspected a thing.
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  50. ​ @jamesfracasse8178 Konstantin Rokkosovsky, one of the Soviet Union's best commanders. Sadly, he doesn't get much attention. He made this famous remark: "The German Army is a machine, and machines can be broken."
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