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

  1. Yes. Good comparison.
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  2. Highly likely.
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  3. You think he was going to tell his officers that he told the Russians everything he knew?
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  4. Definitely Stalingrad. It's the holy grail of WW2 land operations.
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  5. Browning was to blame as well. He should have insisted that Gavin concentrate on the bridge, but he too was probably worried by The SHAEF report.
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  6. Yora. Good to know that people are pretty well informed.
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  7.  @partytor11  Commitment to Enlightenment ideals of internationalism should stop leftists falling into fascism but the effectiveness of this seems to vary a lot according to time and place.
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  8.  @randomdude4136  I don't think libertarianism in either its left or right variations has ever been much of a thing in Eastern Europe.
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  9.  @partytor11  You're right. I should have said, Not much of a thing outside Russia (and Poland).
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  10.  @merdiolu  The improvement since Crusader was astonishing.
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  11. The British executed around 300 servicemen for cowardice in WW1 so they weren't squeamish. Kipling included an epitaph for a "coward" shot by firing squad in his, Epitaphs of War.
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  12.  @billbolton  You can't beat real estate. I do think there will be more house building in future but I doubt this will cause any fall in prices.
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  13.  @billbolton  According to the video he didn't expect The French to occupy The Ruhr, and it was this event that destroyed the already weak mark.
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  14.  @billbolton  I think hedging operations are very useful. Anticipating what exchange rates "ought to be", not so much.
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  15.  @billbolton  Me too!
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  16. Very happy to hear that Stalingrad has been reprieved. I do think more Patreon - response videos are a good idea. They're not too difficult and they show some love for the Patreon supporters. Submitted on Trinity Sunday. Hail the holy trinity of Guderian, Manstein and Rommel! But mostly Manstein of course.
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  17. Pretty sure it was being organised before Pearl Harbor.
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  18. August 1941 in fact.
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  19.  @TheImperatorKnight  I seem to remember reading that the British had pretty good information about it, but were sceptical because if it were true the Germans should have known that they were bound to be beaten.
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  20. Neither was the key problem imo. Rather the Reichsbahn being starved of resources because of rearmament was the real problem, though I'm sure the other factors made things worse.
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  21. 1942.
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  22.  @johnweatherby8718  Wikipedia reckons that the main reason to use a quasi - private corporation instead of issuing normal treasury bills was to conceal the extent of rearmament. A secondary effect would be to conceal the true government deficit. I'm not sure how important this was though. I don't think there was any foreign investment in Germany then because it was impossible to get the money out again.
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  23. @tokul76 You should read a book about Bomber Command.
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  24. It was because of the shortage of raw materials, the result of breakneck rearmament.
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  25.  @dongilleo9743  Good point. There was no reason for Browning not to stay in England, but of course he wanted a piece of the action.
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  26. It was way worse. Everyone with a brain knows that.
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  27. In his history of WW1 Niall Ferguson disregards estimates for numbers wounded since they are so hard to evaluate. Only permanent losses (killed and prisoners) are really meaningful. Ferguson's account does have errors ( he makes the standard Western exaggeration of Russian WW1 losses) but I commend his resolve to disregard the number of "wounded".
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  28. I should try Frost's memoir of the battle.
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  29. Doh! There was no mass murder of German POWs and it seems you actually know that yourself.
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  30. It usually is. But Weimar Germany was unusually constrained economically because of its dependence on foreign loans. World wars are very bad economically but unsurprisingly it's even worse if you lose
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  31. Eremenko was wounded three times during the war. He may not have been too bright but he was certainly brave.
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  32.  @DawnOfTheDead991  Not very crypto, I'd say.
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  33. The SPD maintained a well organised underground (The Sopade) throughout the Nazi period. It's best known for its surveys of German public opinion, which post - war historians have found useful.
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  34.  @jangelbrich7056  Just so. Money and trust are interlinked. Hyperinflation is really a breakdown in trust so that money becomes worthless.
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  35. Horatio82. Good point. This atrocity makes The Polish refusal to accept a Soviet security guarantee a good deal more understandable.
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  36.  @chrislambert1617  Bizarre that people present obvious and well known facts as stupendous revelations.
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  37. You should read, The Man in The High Castle, since the Nazis do exactly that in that novel (colonise Mars having wrecked Earth).
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  38.  @attila7092  I thought it was an interesting question. It was probably too inaccurate to be useful would be my guess at an answer.
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  39. It was all very lopsided.
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  40.  @ВалБал-н3й  It is the case that most of the officers imprisoned after the military purge had been released and reinstated before Barbarossa. Not that this should surprise us because A. Most Gulag prisoners were amnestied after a year or two. B. The Soviet Union was rapidly expanding its army and needed officers.
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  41.  @Observer29830  It helps relieve the monotony.
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  42.  @TheImperatorKnight  It's not pronounced that way in English. We don't drive folkswagen cars.
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  43. Something similar. And much worse imo in that many of these guys were actually British allies as former Chetniks, and that The Partisans actually shot most of those deported because they lacked the ability to handle them.
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  44.  @TheImperatorKnight  In other words you want to answer the question with an unequivocal, "Yes", but know that would rightly be dismissed as crazy talk.
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  45. The southern French ports (notably Marseilles) allowed the US armies on the southern part of the front to be maintained but I don't know whether it was a good idea to make an effort in the south. I suppose it did tie down a great many German soldiers.
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  46.  @SmotritelMayaka29  In The Cold War days many British and American soldiers were taught Russian but the Soviet Archives were closed. Now that they are open no Anglophone bothers to learn Russian. A little irony of history.
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  47. Not so much will as speed tbh
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  48. Possibly. But Anglo - American armies were also small.
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  49.  @TheImperatorKnight  Nijmegen was the base from which Allied operations began in 1945, so there is that to be said for Market Garden.
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  50. He did correct himself later in the video.
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