Comments by "Christopher Conard" (@christopherconard2831) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. Thank God we've simplified it today to "Anyone I disagree with".
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  2. Who needs graphics or animation? We've got fingers! Another excellent video.
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  3. Why send in the Italians? Because when their brilliant plan fails they need someone to blame it on.
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  4. I tried reading it once. Mainly to see the mindset of the early Nazi movement. I gave up. It was unreadable gibberish. Not the offensive content, that was bad enough. The way it was written, it is the rantings of a madman. If I transcribed a homeless guy yelling at a telephone pole I could write a more coherent political commentary.
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  5. Germany: We are not retreating. We are reorganizing the battlefield in a more advantageous location. That just happens to be 100, or so, kilometers behind us.
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  6. Get sponsorship and still be monetized. Replace the usual symbols with chocolates. Hershey for Americans. Cadbury for British. Ritter for German. A potato for Russia.
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  7. Part 1, of 73.
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  8. That French officer's views carried on for some time. There's a documentary with interviews from soldiers that served in Vietnam. One talked about regularly being volunteered for scouting missions because he was an Indian (Native American) and therefore better at stealth in the wilderness. His response was "I'm from Detroit! What do I know about the f*cking jungle?"
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  9. Welcome to World War II Conspiracy Theories. A 27 part series down the rabbit hole of absolute WTF.
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  10. I was in highschool back in the 1980's when I learned the "recommended" sources such as books and articles were almost the only accepted source. Reading other books on a given or parallel subject, even when sighting them in the notes, was often discouraged and cause for being marked down. The situation is much worse today. Repeating anything beyond the party line can result in a failing grade.
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  11. And Madman Hitler.
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  12. Do NOT Google this. Sometimes being slightly ignorant of a subject is a good thing.
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  13. When it was announced I asked which would be longer, the Battle of Stalingrad or TIK's video. It was meant as a joke, not a challenge.
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  14. When it was first announced I joked about which would last longer, the battle for Stalingrad or TIK's description. It was meant as a joke, not a challenge.
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  15. I'm beginning to think you might not have faith in Keynesian Economics.
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  16. There was a lot of "Do as I say, not as I do." mentality in their leadership. Of course, they were hardly unique with this pattern.
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  17. He's only exited the stage, not dead. I'm sure he (Or at least the physical manifestation of his ego) will return when it's properly dramatic.
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  18. It's not cheating if you can convince the other players it's a real word.
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  19. TIK, thank you for the information you've put out. Last night I was dealing with another online argument about how the Nazis "privatized" everything and Germany was run by corporations during the 1930's/40's. Yes, it was with someone who misses the good old USSR. When I mentioned you at one point it was like spraying a cat with water. It may come as a surprise, but you are not liked in certain corners of the internet.
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  20. ​ @user-yv4mm6bx3c  It has a high likelihood of being overturned on appeal. I'm only going by comments from lawyers. But two arguments he has are selective prosecution. Basically find one other developer who didn't do what he did, specifically the claim he overstated his value for a loan. Second is the ham fisted way the judge handled it shows bias throughout the trial. I find it interesting that he can only sell his property to people approved by the prosecutor's office. I'm sure that list won't be loaded with people that happened to be major donors to NY Dems.
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  21. In their defense, they didn't know how deep in British territory they were at that point. Or where friendly troops were. Probably just chose to go with the plan that was working at the time.
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  22. A former professor used the term Polibrish. Political gibberish. It's when a person wants more, usually power but often wealth in general, but doesn't want to appear greedy or entitled. They won't say "The government should pay me X dollars a month just for existing." They will couch it in "The government should provide us with X dollars to ensure greater equality." By transferring their desires to the group, a group they coincidentally happen to be part of, it comes across as altruistic not greedy or lazy.
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  23. See also General Sherman of the US North Army during the civil war. He was quite proud of his army's ability to acquire food and other supplies while on the move. Admittedly he occasionally allowed his troops, and the people (Mostly freed slaves) following them to intentionally target civilian areas for looting for three reasons. 1) He had no way to take care of the camp followers so picking up food from the locals was about his only option. 2) He truly hated the South. He saw all pro succession people as traitors, and anything short of hanging them all was being nice. 3) Anything his troops took couldn't be used by the enemy.
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  24. Kamphy chair? I didn't expect Spanish Inquisition (with Germanic overtones) references.
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  25. From US history. Half drunk farmers vs the British Empire. Half drunk sailors decide they are tired of fighting on ships, and want to form units to get up close and personal with the enemy. Form USMC. Okay, not entirely historically accurate. But never underestimate the power of an armed, inebriated mob.
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  26. Or just blame Italy.
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  27. Now I'm trying to draw connections between Plato, Descartes, and the positioning of the South African Corps in relation to an Italian advance. This is becoming very confusing.
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  28.  @Etaoinshrdlu69  It was, I believe, supposed to be the final insult to the German people. There had been several reports of attacks on German citizens and Polish citizens of German ancestry before this. Some likely did happen, but most were blown out of proportion if they happened at all. Hitler and his allies within the government needed the people to ask them to "do something" to protect fellow Germans.
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  29. Germans are on an unstoppable roll. Russian army is staggered, alternating between falling back, surrendering en mass, or just running away. How could Germany possibly lose?
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  30. ​ @kieranmettler468  Also the word adjacent. As in Racist Adjacent. You claim not to be but agree with something that someone said, even if it isn't truly relevant to their overall view, so you are supporting them. Which makes you one of them. Or even worse because you aren't willing to come out and admit you are "one of those people". For example. TIK could release a video explaining why the Ruben sandwich is the greatest sandwich of all time. He'll list 12 reasons. (With footnotes below) If I post a comment saying he's wrong about 8 points, two are subjective, and maybe two are right. I am declared Ruben Adjacent and subject to full attacks as a known BLTphobe. Furthermore the PB&J fanatics, who normally hate the pro BLT lobby, will join with the BLTists in demanding my cancellation.
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  31. Haven't the German commanders shared the battle plan with the troops? Sure, it's hot and dusty, but don't worry too much. They'll be in Moscow by early September and the war will be over as the trees begin to turn Fall colors. There's no way Russia can stand up to the obvious German superiority.
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  32. Three hours until I have to go to work, what's on YouTube? Damnit!
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  33. I had a theory that postal workers loosing it might have had something to do with their seniority system. It was, and still may be, set in stone. If you were hired a week after me, I would always be above you. No matter how well you or I did our jobs, I received preferred treatment and first choice for things like promotions or vacation time. After a certain point most people will either go nuts from the frustration or give up and do just enough to not get fired.
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  34. What happens to things like MEFO bills or government backed bonds after a war if they are issued by the loosing side? I understand that if it ends with a treaty and redrawing a few lines on the map the issuing authority is still responsible. But in the case of Germany or Japan after WWII, or Russia after WWI that government no longer exists.
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  35. I have the urge to repeat that with a Dr Evil voice.
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  36. I've started before, when this was announced I asked which would be longer? The Battle of Stalingrad or TIK's series about it. I meant it as a joke, not a challenge.
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  37. Balance?
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  38. I had only heard of the events in passing. Like Russian, or other Soviet citizens who were POWs asking to not be sent back. This is the first time I saw it as an overall policy of the US and UK. I had no idea it was so extensive or resisted to such a degree.
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  39. At least canvas was a restricted item at the time.
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  40. Thank you for stating and explaining the shifting official numbers, and pointing out some of the bad research in the past. It is in these mistakes that Holocaust deniers get most of their more legitimate sounding arguments. History, as you have pointed out before, is not a set of absolute facts. It is the best we know from the available evidence. As the evidence changes, so does history. That doesn't mean an event didn't take place, it just means we have a clearer picture of what happened.
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  41. In my head I keep hearing TIK in his Hitler voice "They are only crossing water. Blood, as everyone knows, is thicker than water. And it is true, pure German blood that is the best. Let pure German blood flow, let it lead and there is no need for a ferry or bridge."
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  42. My dose of TIK history. The only tikling I will tolerate.
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  43. Something you mentioned that a teacher explained when I asked a similar question. Creating synthetic oil also required a lot of electricity and water. Both became less reliable as the war went on, and bombs were being dropped on anything larger than an outhouse. It required the prewar industry and economy to build up a surplus for the wartime economy. So, like a lot of Germany's ideas, a good plan just too late. This also only solved the problem of lubricating oil for machinery. Trying to convert coal into something like automotive or aviation fuel isn't practical even today.
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  44. Thanks for this video. I've seen numbers that are all over the place and almost every person giving them quotes "the Germans", but rarely gives an actual source.
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  45. I really need to check the title first. My brain was having a hard time remembering when Rommel arrived at Stalingrad.
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  46. While not the same, look at the Soviet blockade of Berlin a few years later. It is when business (capitalist) style logistics were put in place, the city was fed.
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  47. Just to clarify, are you saying a Socialist nation won't fight a Socialist nation?
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  48. We will not tolerate your silly metric spelling system. You'd think people from a place called England could learn how to spell in English.
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  49. People in the logistics chain had been less than accurate (lying) about what they had and where it was. When they were advancing this wasn't much of a problem. You can claim depot #27 has X tons of canned meat if the front is moving away and you probably won't need to send it to them. But when it stalls or falls back and you are ordered by a General to send your non-existent supplies forward, it gets bad. By the time anyone realized how bad the situation was, it was too late. Besides, Göring had personally promised Hitler that the airlift was possible. On paper maybe it could have been done, but in reality it was doomed from the beginning. But he wasn't going to say that. There's also the problem, as TIK said in the video, what you send doesn't matter nearly as much as what they receive.
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  50. The major problem with food for the US was logistics. We had it here, we had problems getting it there because of the war. The major problem with food for the USSR was a lack of food overall. It was a problem feeding Western Europe, but one we were overcoming when cargo ships stopped sinking
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  51. Clicks like
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  52. Not much to say. Posts an hour and a half long video. Okay.
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  53. Fascist Power Rangers. Great, now "Go, Go Power Rangers. Heil!" is stuck in my head.
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  54. Could some of the theory of the post war boom in America be seen as comparison economics? A man with two coconuts, sitting under a tree might consider himself poor. But when he looks around, he sees man with one coconut under another tree. Then sees another with two coconuts, but no tree. Now he considers himself wealthy. The US had factories whose production was cut at the end of the war. But at least it had factories. Most industrial nations had piles of smoldering bricks.
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  55. Like much of history's failures, it looked good on paper.
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  56. Resettled, caused people to flee for their lives. Tomato, tomahto.
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  57. Saw the title and thought "A little early for the April episode"?
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  58. Just because you own something it doesn't mean you have unlimited use of it. If I own a gun I'm not allowed to blast away whenever or wherever I want. Government (And occasionally common sense) restricts where, when, and how an item can be used in consideration of the effects on others. Though I will admit government regulations and restrictions on use or possession of various items often do not follow common sense or logic and are overly strict.
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  59. ​ @mojus2890  Not an official one. Though I guess you could get the PDF and use a text to speech program.
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  60. ​ @TheImperatorKnight  Maybe a vacation first.
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  61. Clouds provide a layer of protection to keep the radiating heat from leaving at night. This is why deserts can have such wide swings in temperature from day to night. It can also get so cold in northern areas that condensation for fog or low clouds doesn't happen. From limited experience in the US, 30° F with often be overcast. But 0°F or less will be perfectly clear. So cold, but machinery still operates, and you can't fly because of visibility issues and severe icing. When it finally gets cold enough to be perfectly clear, the machines stop working. The usual solution if you can't put something in the protected area, like a heated hanger, is to leave the engines running. But fuel was critically short, so they probably weren't allowed to do that.
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  62. Possibly educated women who saw an opportunity to get off the collective farm. They would likely offer top of the line prenatal health care, food, and housing while the women wouldn't be expected to work during the time of the experiment. The women had to wait around and to get knocked up by chimp DNA (impossible) from an orangutan (double impossible). And when it failed (100% chance), start the process all over. Outside of the ick factor it sounds like an extended vacation by USSR standards.
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  63. Definitely other aspects. It was a multi faceted war. Not just a clash of infantry and armor. Along with air and sea, there are the nearly endless machinations behind the lines. One of my favorite aspects of your videos is that they are more than group X met group Y at such and such location. I enjoy your research into the thinking of the various people involved to explain why they did what they did.
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  64. I think they had a similar view of the Slavs. Not as "subhumans" like the Nazis classified them, but more as a lesser civilization, AKA savages. This is a common view of the enemy during war. Look at the way Germans were portrayed as "The Bloodthirsty Huns" in the previous war. It helped justify going to war against Yugoslavia and not being seen as a territorial grab to rule all of the Adriatic down to Greece. Though they also wanted Greece too.
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  65. Not letting us down. Real life, good or bad, always comes before YouTube.
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  66. As he mentioned in the closing comments, many of the British commanders were gentlemen first, officers second. A lot of this likely came from being colonial commanders. Fighting the "fuzzy wuzzies" (Churchill's term) is much different than fighting a modern army led by people using a European military doctrine. Eventually they would adapt, but not until the loss of thousands of men.
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  67. If you ever get tired of trying to get rid of the European theater myths, look East. "The US were war criminals because they dropped atomic bombs on Japan even though the Japanese were trying to surrender." I've been hearing this one since I was a kid in the 70's. It's been disproven over and over, yet keeps coming back.
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  68. So, if Stalin didn't get a promise of unconditional surrender he threatened to make a separate, presumably conditional, peace treaty with Germany. Yep, sounds about average for everyone involved.
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  69. TIK retires to his bunker. Single pistol shot
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  70. Also service industry. Try being a waiter/waitress/bartender for a few months. You'll want to stab the other customers, or even friends sitting with you when they start acting up.
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  71. Thank you for these videos. The philosophy of fascism and national socialism is far deeper than most people understand. I've enjoyed learning about it's origins and other influencing ideas
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  72. Once upon a time it was. Along with Animal Farm and 1984. But I went to school in the 1970's and 80's.
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  73. Wanted chimp DNA. Silly Had only an orangutan. Bad Orangutan dies. Things got worse Everything about this is so Russian.
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  74. Germany "Look at this awesome new tank. Check out everything it can do." US "Check out our tanks. They're stunningly average. But we built 300 of them before going on lunch break."
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  75. ​ @TheImperatorKnight So I assume a 28 part in depth review of the Battle of the Bulge (With prologue episodes explaining how it got to that point, of course) is right out of the question?
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  76. So republish it as An Analysis of.... Then add a couple pages of random commentary. It will, for a time, slip past their banned algorithms.
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  77. 9:40 So, I assume the family court/paternal law system in the UK is as FUBARed as the US? I didn't think that was possible.
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  78. You made no mistakes. Your plan was perfect. It was that madman back in Berlin who meddled in the editing.
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  79. He was originally from Wilmersdorf near Berlin. Post war many prisoners were sent back to their original home. After his death sentence for war crimes was commuted he probably figured he'd slipped the hangman's noose enough to not want to risk it again in Sovcit occupied territory. France, as it turned out, wasn't completely safe. But it was probably the best of many bad options if he wanted to remain in Europe.
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  80. Gazala went poorly for the British? Please give a spoiler warning at the beginning of the preview.
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  81. ​ @Jduekengn qqq1q1
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  82. I look forward to seeing the end of the video. Alas, I must leave to engage in capitalism on the orders of my corporate lords.
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  83. For clarification, what is considered a "German" prisoner? For example, is a Ukrainian, conscripted in to the German army considered German or Ukrainian? Are there separate numbers available for other nationalities, or are all prisoners lumped in to one group for purpose of these stats? Edit: And you basically answered that just as I posted the question. That will teach me not to comment before watching the entire video.
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  84. Glucose, because a little sugar helps. Now I'm picturing Gobbels offering Hitler a Snicker's bar during the bunker scene after he starts yelling at everyone.
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  85. My first look at the reality of "Teacher knows best" was in the 5th grade. I was suggested for promotion to the 7th grade, skipping grade 6. I was also tested for Title III, remedial schooling. At the time it didn't occur to anyone that I am mildly dyslexic and half blind. Because I was always the largest person in class (sometimes including the teacher) I always sat in the back and never saw the chalkboard where stuff was written. Almost everything I learned was from my parents or what I read myself.
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  86. ​ @griff5713  Nah, first there's the 35 part series on the Battle of the Bulge.
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  87. They may not truly believe it, but it is often used as a tool to get what they want. They realize their hypocrisy, but humans can rationalize almost anything, or consider themselves the exception to the rule, if it gets them what they want.
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  88.  @TheImperatorKnight  I got it at noon. Holy crap! My phone can see the future.
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  89. I lucked out in HS history. My US History 1880-1945 class was taught by a woman who was born in England and lived through the blitz. She spent a lot of time on American and European activities in the 30's leading up to the war.
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  90.  @zxbzxbzxb1  The Stalingrad series is to prep people for the one he's been secretary working on.... After Stalingrad, The Drive to Berlin.
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  91. I made it in before the Wherboos automatically downvoted it. So, close enough.
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  92. You use exclusively sources that don't confirm the idea you had from the beginning? Or authors who's personal/political views aren't exactly in line with you? What madness is this!?!
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  93. RTFM! Read The Fucking Manual (Menu if you are in a restaurant). A lot of restaurants have pictures in their menus. People tend to order what they see, but never read the description. Then return it for a reorder, which the kitchen needs to rush, because they didn't realize it had an ingredient they don't like. Also custom orders. I understand that you don't want certain things with your food. But most morons can't grasp how stuff is made. I've gotten orders for "gumbo 86 shrimp, food allergy". Seriously, they are allergic to shellfish (or just don't like, they don't understand the difference) and want me to shut down my station while I make a whole new batch of soup (incorrectly) just for them. I also blame the braindead servers who turn in the order because they don't want to say "no" to the customer.
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  94. Thank you for these videos. I've seen and read Crusader referenced before, but never a real in-depth look at the battle, the theories of how it "should have gone", and how it actually did.
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  95. Posts tips for productivity on YouTube, the ultimate time suck.
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  96. "Attacked", no. Sent in huge numbers of troops and armor to support a "people's socialist uprising"? Definitely yes. Please ignore the fact that such a spontaneous uprising would have been completely backed, financed, and controlled from Moscow.
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  97. Outside of your usual range, but would you consider reviewing Gen Geo. Custer's mighty victory against the 23,654,781 Indians at Little Bighorn?
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  98. Of the various ones posted today, Ian's on Forgotten Weapons is probably the best. Delivered in a perfect flat informative style.
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  99.  @bashirelmubarak8527  The difference between the amount needed vs the amount they could provide was too wide. Only overland pipelines (too vulnerable), or traditional tanker shipping (that bothersome British navy) could get what they needed from Persia/Middle East. Mostly they shipped crude oil. The ability to process it on site was very limited. Even today, many nations like Iran produces a lot of oil, but very little gasoline or diesel.
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  100. Weather has been mentioned a few times, but were both air forces that limited? Did commanders on either side not understand how to use air support? I realize I'm seeing this through modern eyes, but even a generation later, I can't see the Generals wanting to take even a first step without air cover.
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  101. Arguing with a teacher/professor is as effective as arguing with a referee. Whatever they say is reality. Even if they admit they were wrong later, you still lose the game.
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  102. Crusader (the battle) lasted 5-6 weeks. Crusader (the TIK documentary) lasted 17. I'm guessing Stalingrad was a bit bigger, and with fewer Italians to blame everything on.
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  103. Which will last longer, TIK reviews the Battle of Stalingrad or the actual Battle of Stalingrad?
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  104. ♪ Mistakes, I've made a few. But I did it my wayyyy ♪♪
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  105.  @tianwong152  I tend to be more forgiving if someone engages in betrayal/treason for ideological reasons. But I live in a nation (USA) that was founded by traitors.
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  106. That's largely a rationalization they started using years later when called out on their choice. Time had many people who laminated the fact that Roosevelt was kept in check by Congress and the Supreme Court. They wanted a "Nice" Hitler in charge of America.
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  107. How were surrenders done? I understand an individual or squad tossing their weapons into the open and putting their hands up. But what about larger groups. Does an officer march out with a white flag and hope to be recognized before being used for target practice? Radio? It didn't seem like they had many, and you might not want to let more fanatical units in the area know your intentions. Or, at a certain point were observers told to keep an eye out for signs that the other side was giving up?
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  108. You put in more work than almost anyone on YouTube. Enjoy the downtime. But please everyone, while he's away, no spoilers about Stalingrad. I'm too heavily invested in the story and want to see how it ends.
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