Comments by "Alan Pennie" (@alanpennie8013) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. When your advisors tell you you're not in a fit condition to fight a war it's wise to listen to them. Franco did that, Hitler and Mussolini not so much.
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  2.  @andrewpestotnik5495  Napoleon's ghost nods.
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  3. Good to get a video about the rather neglected southern sector of the campaign in France.
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  4. Hitler actually shooting himself wasn't the most surprising thing that ever happened.
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  5. It worked partly because the country was the centre of s world empire and had plenty of food available if it could ship it across The Ocean, which the u - boats could never prevent it from doing.
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  6. I agree with this post. The battlestorm series is of a depth you don't usually see on YouTube. I don't know anything else like it.
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  7.  @zupalan2265  He certainly comes across as delusional. He should hide under the bed from those scary Communist teachers.
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  8. It was something weirder, a quasi - government bill whose redemption could be indefinitely extended.
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  9.  @AFGuidesHD  You should do it. Wouldn't be hard to do better than Hoggan.
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  10.  @CloneDAnon  It didn't. When Ribbentrop asked the Poles to join The Anti - Comintern Pact they turned him down.
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  11. I'd say they had exactly two reasons. 1. That The Dual Monarchy had in effect been assimilated to the German Reich and it was hard to see how the two could be separated again. 2. President Wilson wanted it.
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  12.  @gogojoob  Absolutely. It's really remarkable to get such a thorough account from an Anglophone source of an iconic battle where no UK or US soldiers fought. For all his idiosyncrasies we're extremely lucky to have TIK.
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  13. I suspect many of these pows actually were civilians and that the Germans rounded up all men of military age inside the kessels, whether they were wearing Red Army uniform or not
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  14.  @billbolton  There's a good short article on voxeu.org (Accominotti and Chambers) arguing that Keynes' strategy (based on market fundamentals) was inferior to interest rate (carry) and historic (momentum) strategies. Keynes himself quipped that a speculator would probably go bust before the market aligned properly.
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  15. Yes it's incorrect. Nazism isn't really the same thing as national socialism. You could make a reasonable case that national socialism was destined to be the most popular political formation in CEE after 1919. As the Czech case indicates it was perfectly compatible with liberal democratic norms. But Hitler's movement, though it had nationalism and socialism in the mix (it wouldn't have been popular otherwise) was actually driven by racism, revanchism and the idea of a military conquest of the region (Lebensraum). Hitler's misleading choice of a name has distorted our understanding of the period ever since.
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  16. You can't. That's why the Soviet economy was rather well suited to wartime conditions.
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  17.  @righ-naalba6715  I'm a Leningrad cowboy, Raising cattle on the steppe, Won't you pour me a glass of vodka, Coz I'm drinking to forget.
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  18. The very worst were mines in The Arctic. The ones around Magadan most infamously.
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  19. I detest his ideas, but it is admirable that he preferred truth to continued group - think.
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  20. It should be said that not all Nazi writers reject The Hossbach Memorandum. David Irving accepts it and gives an interesting brief account of it in pages 62 - 65 of, The War Path (1978) noting that French Intelligence was well informed about the meeting.
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  21. I have heard it said that the Russians lost in 1905 because The Trans - Siberian Railway was single tracked.
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  22. Marxism - Leninism has its advantages.
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  23. Being on the offensive The Red Army was able to muster some recruits in the areas it was overrunning. The German neglect of spare parts was an extraordinary self - imposed handicap, the downside of Speer's Production Miracle possibly.
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  24. Also The French Revolutionary Wars, launched because the Revolution. which was the result of a fiscal crisis, had made that crisis even worse
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  25. Very true. If only they had been able to clone their star general the Germans would have been invincible.
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  26.  @TheImperatorKnight  I'm not surprised. It's a hell of a battle.
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  27. Remember the other thing Clausewitz said: War is very simple and at the same time extremely difficult.
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  28.  @kickinghighify  Some Americans believe crazy things. How many have been abducted by flying saucers?
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  29.  @ryanward10  There's a depressing thought. Perhaps the Vietnamese will save us.
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  30. I agree with that. I think Browning is more at fault for ignoring extremely good intelligence about panzer divisions at Arnhem than Gavin is for believing bad intelligence about tanks in The Reichswald. But blaming a failure on a subordinate isn't exactly impressive leadership.
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  31.  @TheImperatorKnight  I've been doing that. I should read the instructions more carefully.
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  32. If Curzio Malaparte is to be believed the Germans routinely shot any Soviet prisoner who could read
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  33.  Blesava Konjina  He didn't develop his argument well but I thought it was a good one. Because price signals are lacking military supply is almost bound to be less efficient than civilian
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  34. I think you have outlined them pretty well. Given the intelligence Browning and Gavin had a counter attack from the east looked pretty likely. And so they guarded against it before securing the bridge. In hindsight obviously the wrong decision, but this was much less clear at the time.
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  35. The principle of moving the people to conform to the borders (ethnic cleansing) was first accepted in The Treaty of Lausanne (1923).
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  36. Yep. Distrust of The Brits is sensible.
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  37. Indeed. The Russians could have paid with natural resources, but the Americans had plenty of those.
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  38. Speer called it a second front over The Reich.
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  39.  @harshbansal7982  It was Allied Policy to regard Austria as Conquered by The Nazis. You can't blame the Austrians for going along.
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  40.  @jarozawiercie3357  I think you have a point. Though as I say the targeting of already victimised foreign workers does add a complication.
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  41.  @soupordave  I think that's it. The Soviets weren't interested in Hess as such but his continued incarceration gave them a presence in West Berlin which was probably useful for intelligence gathering.
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  42.  @dixiewhiskey3273  I think it was The Russians Partial control of the prison gave them a listening post in West Berlin.
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  43. Plus the Soviets had killed around 100,000 Poles less than two years earlier.
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  44. There was the same problem with food as people ate out less.
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  45.  @therealignotus7549  Franz Josef was a stickler for legality, and correctly imo since The Empire had nothing else to hold it together.
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  46.  @ducomaritiem7160  It's a long way from being a fun read.
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  47. A. Lack of fuel kept them grounded B. Tooze suggests these production figures may be fiction.
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  48. The bugler of Cracow nods.
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  49. I know what you mean. We still have nearly two months until Uranus, and though Sixth Army is beginning to lose its killing power it's still pretty terrifying.
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  50. Notified before 18.30.
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