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May 13, 2020

Rudolf Hess – Nazi Pacifist, Traitor or Madman? – WW2 Special Episode

Filed under: Britain, Germany, History, Military, WW2 — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

World War Two
Published 12 May 2020

In a series of events, Hitler’s second in command Rudolf Hess decides to fly to Britain to enter peace negotiations with the Allies. But the true reasons behind and effects of his action remain ambiguous at best.

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Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Written by: Joram Appel
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer
Creative Producer: Joram Appel
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Research by: Joram Appel
Edited by: Mikołaj Cackowski
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

Colorizations by:
Norman Stewart, https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/
Carlos Ortega Pereira, BlauColorizations, https://www.instagram.com/blaucoloriz…
Jaris Almazani (Artistic Man), https://instagram.com/artistic.man?ig…
Olga Shirnina, https://klimbim2014.wordpress.com
Adrien Fillon, https://www.instagram.com/adrien.colo…

Bibliography:
– Balfour, Michael, Propaganda in War, 1939–45: Organizations, Policies, and Publics in Britain and Germany (London, 1979).
– Fox, Jo. “Propaganda and the Flight of Rudolf Hess, 1941-45”. In: The Journal of Modern History 83:1 (March 2011) 78-110.
– Gorodetsky, Gabriel, “The Hess Affair and Anglo-Soviet Relations on the Eve of ‘Barbarossa'”. In: The English Historical Review 101:399 (Apr 1986) 405-420.
– Görtemaker, Manfred, “The Bizarre Mission: Rudolf Hess in Britain,” in Britain and Germany in the 20th Century, ed. M. Görtemaker (Oxford, 2006), 75–101.
– Heiden, Konrad, “Hitler’s Better Half”. In: Foreign Affairs 20:1 (Oct 1941) 73-86.
– Kettenacker, Lothar, “Mishandling a Spectacular Event: The Rudolf Hess Affair,” in Flight from Reality: Rudolf Hess and His Mission to Scotland, ed. David Stafford (London, 2002) 19–38.
– Schmidt, Rainer, “The Marketing of Rudolf Hess: A Key to the ‘Preventative War Debate’?” War in History 5 (1998) 62-83.

Sources:
Bundesarchiv
Portraits of Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, duke of Hamilton and Duff Cooper, MP, courtesy National Portrait Gallery
Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Portrait of Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, courtesy Nationaal Archief
IWM D 8987

Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound:
Rannar Sillard – “March Of The Brave 4”
Reynard Seidel – “Deflection”
Andreas Jamsheree – “Guilty Shadows 4”
Johannes Bornlof – “The Inspector 4”
Johannes Bornlof – “Deviation In Time”

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A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

May 11, 2020

Imperial Gewehr 71

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, Weapons — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Forgotten Weapons
Published 30 Jan 2016

Sold for $575.

The Gewehr 1871 was the first rifle adopted by the newly-formed German state after its unification at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. It replaced the decades-old Dreyse needle rifles, and fired an 11x60mm black powder cartridge. It was the first significant rifle designed by the Mauser brothers, and would evolve into the iconic and ubiquitous Mauser 98 design over the years.

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May 10, 2020

Enigma Captured! – WW2 – 089 – May 9, 1941

Filed under: Britain, China, Europe, Germany, History, Japan, Military, WW2 — Tags: , , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

World War Two
Published 9 May 2020

An Enigma encode is captured in the Atlantic Ocean as the Germans make plans for a new offensive in Crete. Britain is heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe and fighting continues in Iraq, China and East-Africa.

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Written and Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer
Creative Producer: Joram Appel
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Edited by: Iryna Dulka
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

Colorizations by:
– Julius Jääskeläinen – https://www.facebook.com/JJcolorization/
– Olga Shirnina, a.k.a. Klimbim – https://klimbim2014.wordpress.com/
– Carlos Ortega Pereira, BlauColorizations, https://www.instagram.com/blaucoloriz…
– Adrien Fillon – https://www.instagram.com/adrien.colo…
– Dememorabilia – https://www.instagram.com/dememorabilia/

Sources:
– Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
– Bundesarchiv, CC-BY-SA 3.0: Bild 101I-769-0229-10A / Borchert, Erich (Eric), Bild 101I-317-0053-18 / Amphlett, Eduard, Bild_101I-567-1523-38, Bild 141-0853, Bild_146-2006-0188
– Micheal Hörenberg, Uferstr. 29, D-78343 Hemmenhofen
– Imperial War Museum: E 6822, AUS 897, E 4791, E 3040E, E 3042E, E446, E 3025E, E 1164, E 1172, E 3020E, E 2182,
– Ju 52 graphic by TSRL from Wikimedia
– DFS 230 and Ju 87 graphics by Kaboldy from Wikimedia

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A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

“Blitzkrieg”: Stuka & Panzer – DEBUNKED

Filed under: Europe, France, Germany, History, Military, Russia, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Military History Visualized
Published 21 Aug 2018

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The popular view is that the Wehrmacht used a combination of Panzers and Stukas to roll over Poland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and later the Soviet Union. Whereas the Panzers were heavily supported by Stukas overwhelming enemy ground forces.

The problem is that the details on how this was actually done are rather scarce. As such, there are various assumptions and misconceptions around, at least I had plenty of them myself before I took a closer look. So, in this video we will take a deeper dive on how Panzers and Stukas actually coordinated their efforts in Poland 1939, France 1940 and the Soviet Union 1941 (Operation Barbarossa).

“Kommandeure der Luftwaffe” (Commanders of the Air Force) – usually called Koluft.

“Flieger Verbindungsoffiziere” (Pilot Liason Officers) – usually called Flivo.

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Corum, James S.: “The Luftwaffe’s Army Support Doctrine, 1918-1941”. In: The Journal of Military History, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Jan., 1995), p. 53-76

Murray, Williamson: “The Luftwaffe Experience, 1939-1941”. In: Cooling, Benjamin Franklin (ed.): Case Studies in the Development of Close Air Support. Office of Air Force History: Washington DC, United States (1990), p. 71-113

Citino, Robert M.: Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm. The Evolution of Operational Warfare. Kansas University Press: US (2004).

Pöhlmann, Markus: Der Panzer und die Mechanisierung des Krieges: Eine deutsche Geschichte 1890 bis 1945 (Zeitalter der Weltkriege), Paderborn 2016.

Creveld, Martin van; Canby, Steven L.; Brower, Kenneth S.: Air Power and Maneuver Warfare, Air University Press: 1994.

Brütting, Georg: Das waren die deutschen Stuka-Asse. 1939-1945. Motorbuch Verlag: Stuttgart, Germany (1984)

Stahel, David: Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East. Cambridge University Press: UK (2009)

Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, Band 2: Die Errichtung der Hegemonie auf dem europäischen Kontinent

Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, Band 4: Der Angriff auf die Sowjetunion

Munzel, Oskar: Die deutschen gepanzerten Truppen bis 1945

Corum, James S.: The Roots of Blitzkrieg. Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform

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May 8, 2020

Sending the Jews to Madagascar? – War Against Humanity 011 – May 1941

Filed under: Africa, Europe, Germany, History, Military, Russia, WW2 — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

World War Two
Published 7 May 2020

The War Against Humanity is accelerating and accelerating. Across the world, people live under oppression. In Nazi Europe, solutions to the so-called “Jewish Question” has taken on new, fantastical, proportions.

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Hosted by: Spartacus Olsson
Written by: Francis van Berkel, Spartacus Olsson
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer
Creative Producer: Joram Appel
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Research by: Francis van Berkel
Edited by: Mikołaj Cackowski
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

Colorizations by:
Olga Shirnina https://klimbim2014.wordpress.com
Dememorabilia – https://www.instagram.com/dememorabilia/
Norman Stewart – https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/

Sources:
IWM HU 106212
USHMM
Bundesarchiv
Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
Glaser family photo, courtesy Willie Glaser
from the Noun Project: Letter by Mochammad Kafi, people by ProSymbols, Deteriorated building by Tokka Elkholy, workshop by Gan Khoon Lay from the Noun Project
Page 1 of La Loi Portant Status Des Juifs with Pétain’s annotations, courtesy Mémorial de la Shoah

Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound:
Reynard Seidel – “Deflection”
Farell Wooten – “Blunt Object”
Philip Ayers – “Trapped in a Maze”
Wendel Scherer – “Growing Doubt”
Gavin Luke – “Drifting Emotions 3”
Johannes Bornlof – “The Inspector 4”
Andreas Jamsheree – “Guilty Shadows 4”
Peter Sandberg – “Document This 1”
Jo Wandrini – “Dawn Of Civilization”
Gunnar Johnsen – “Not Safe Yet”
Philip Ayers – “Under the Dome”

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A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

May 3, 2020

Balkans in Nazi Hands – A Greek Tragedy – WW2 – 088 – May 02, 1941

Filed under: Britain, Europe, Germany, Greece, History, Italy, Middle East, Military, WW2 — Tags: , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

World War Two
Published 2 May 2020

Greece falls as Axis troops push through the last Allied defences. New plans are made for a German invasion of Crete, and a new war breaks out between Great Britain and Iraq.

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Written and Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer
Creative Producer: Joram Appel
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Edited by: Iryna Dulka
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

Colorizations by:
– Olga Shirnina, a.k.a. Klimbim – https://klimbim2014.wordpress.com/
– Julius Jääskeläinen – https://www.facebook.com/JJcolorization/
– Dememorabilia – https://www.instagram.com/dememorabilia/
– Carlos Ortega Pereira, BlauColorizations, https://www.instagram.com/blaucoloriz…

Sources:
– Bundesarchiv, CC-BY-SA 3.0, Bild_146-1977-163-05A, Bild 146-1977-122-16, Bild_141-0816, Bild 101I-757-0023-32
– National Portrait Gallery
– Imperial War Museum: Q 69840, HU 52264

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A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

From the comments:

World War Two
2 days ago (edited)
Now, we have decided to leave out any Call to Action (the bit where Indy tells you to subscribe and support us on Patreon) to give room to the dramatic speech on Radio Athens. So allow me to write it right here: If you want to learn more about how Kurt Student’s Fallschirmjäger were developed and used earlier in the war, you can check out our Special Episode about that right here: https://youtu.be/RNr3E3Hr0bo. I don’t want to deny anyone the chance to get a random name shoutout in the video by writing it here, but it is thanks our supporters that we can continue to make content like this. You can join the TimeGhost Army on www.patreon.com/timeghosthistory or https://timeghost.tv. Don’t forget to subscribe, ring the notification bell and see you next time!
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May 2, 2020

After The Berlin Wall: Making Germany’s Armed Forces (Bundeswehr 1991 Documentary)

Filed under: Europe, Germany, History, Military — Tags: , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Forces TV
Published 5 Jan 2018

It’s more than 27 years since German reunification, when East and West Germany came together again after the fall of the Berlin Wall. This documentary looks at the challenges facing the West German Army as they took over the East German National People’s Army.

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How things change … back in 1991, the Bundeswehr had a vast over-supply of military vehicles between the mass of Soviet-era equipment inherited from the DDR and the excess due to planned down-sizing of Germany’s overall military expenditure (the “peace dividend”). Earlier this year, Bild reported that German soldiers are being advised to take personal vehicles during military training exercises, due to a lack of infantry fighting vehicles and other military transport.

May 1, 2020

Why Pearl Harbor? Peaceful Portugal, and the poor Kriegsmarine – WW2 – OOTF 011

Filed under: Britain, Europe, Germany, History, Japan, Military, WW2 — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

World War Two
Published 30 Apr 2020

How were relations between Japan and the United States at the beginning of the war? What were both sides doing to try and make Portugal enter the war? And to what extent did the Kriegsmarine match the Royal Navy? Find out as we answer these questions in this Out of the Foxholes episode!

Links to the Between 2 Wars videos mentioned in the episode:
Japan, the Bureaucratic War Machine | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1931 Part 2 of 3: https://youtu.be/vVgCy6iwrHQ
The World Takes Advantage of American Isolationism | BETWEEN 2 WARS | 1933 part 3 of 3: https://youtu.be/-iuQcxXAdfw
Did WW2 Start in 1937? – The Rape of China | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1937 Part 1 of 2: https://youtu.be/_3vPGpamtDI

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Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Written by: Rune Væver Hartvig
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer
Creative Producer: Joram Appel
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Research by: Rune Væver Hartvig
Edited by: Mikołaj Cackowski
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

Colorizations by:
Carlos Ortega Pereira, BlauColorizations, https://www.instagram.com/blaucoloriz…
Dememorabilia – https://www.instagram.com/dememorabilia/

Sources:
BIBLIOTECA DE ARTE DA FUNDAÇÃO CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN
Bundesarchiv

Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound:
Reynard Seidel – “Deflection”
Fabien Tell – “Last Point of Safe Return”
Johannes Bornlof – “Deviation In Time”

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A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

Soldier of Three Armies Pt. 2 – Continuation War – Sabaton History 065 [Official]

Filed under: Europe, Germany, History, Media, Russia, WW2 — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

Sabaton History
Published 30 Apr 2020

With a bounty on his head, the Red Army wants him dead, Soviet enemy number one. Second part of the Lauri Törni trilogy. The Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union was over, but the world was further tumbling down into war. Finland saw itself trapped between two power blocks. A new arrangement with Nazi Germany gave men like Lauri Törni an opportunity to train with the newly established Waffen-SS. But it was an opportunity with lasting consequences.

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Apple Music: http://bit.ly/HeroesAppleMusic
iTunes: http://bit.ly/HeroesiTunes
Amazon: http://bit.ly/HeroesAmz
Google Play: http://bit.ly/HeroesGoogleP

Check out the trailer for Sabaton’s new album The Great War right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCZP1…

Listen to Sabaton on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/SabatonSpotify
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Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Written by: Markus Linke and Indy Neidell
Directed by: Astrid Deinhard and Wieke Kapteijns
Produced by: Pär Sundström, Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Creative Producer: Joram Appel
Executive Producers: Pär Sundström, Joakim Broden, Tomas Sunmo, Indy Neidell, Astrid Deinhard, and Spartacus Olsson
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Edited by: Iryna Dulka
Sound Editing by: Marek Kaminski
Maps by: Eastory – https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory

Archive by: Reuters/Screenocean https://www.screenocean.com
Music by Sabaton.

Additional video footage from Dennis Henson

Sources:
– Bundesarchiv, CC-BY-SA 3.0, Bild 101III-Hoffmann-04-23/Hoffmann
– Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
– sa-kuva.fi

An OnLion Entertainment GmbH and Raging Beaver Publishing AB co-Production.

© Raging Beaver Publishing AB, 2019 – all rights reserved.

April 29, 2020

Curator’s Tour of The Tank Museum | Blitzkrieg | WW2: Part 1

Filed under: Britain, Europe, France, Germany, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

The Tank Museum
Published 25 Apr 2020

Join Curator David Willey as he takes you on a tour of The Tank Museum’s Tank Story Hall, which houses over 30 key vehicles from Little Willie to Challenger 2. In this section he looks at early Second World War vehicles and gives you a potted history of the Blitzkrieg.

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April 26, 2020

Another Last Stand at Thermopylae – The Battle of Greece – WW2 – 087 – April 25, 1941

Filed under: Africa, Britain, Europe, Germany, Greece, History, Italy, Military, WW2 — Tags: , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

World War Two
Published 25 Apr 2020

The Battle of Greece continues as forces clash once more at the historic site of Thermopylae.

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Source list: http://bit.ly/WW2sources

Written and Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer
Creative Producer: Joram Appel
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Edited by: Iryna Dulka
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

Colorizations by:
– Norman Stewart – https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/
– Jaris Almazani (Artistic Man), https://instagram.com/artistic.man?ig…
– Julius Jääskeläinen – https://www.facebook.com/JJcolorization/
– Dememorabilia – https://www.instagram.com/dememorabilia

Sources:
– Bundesarchiv, CC-BY-SA 3.0, Bild 101I-163-0318-09/Bauer, Bild 101I-163-0319-03A/Bauer
– Edo leitner from Wikimedia
– Imperial War Museum: E 3830, TR 1762, IWM ART LD 3355, E 676, E 3182, E 3187, E 3178, E 3183, E 2363
– Roll by rivercon from the Noun Project
– Grains by Gan Khoon Lay from the Noun Project

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A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

From the comments:

World War Two
2 days ago (edited)
The war keeps on growing, and were doing our best to keep up with it. As you notice the episodes are often longer these days, but there are still many details we just can’t cover in the weekly episodes for time reasons. That’s why we do our specials and also why we have our Instagram and Facebook feed with headlines of the war day by day. For instance, while we cover the Allied retreat at Thermopylae, Indy just didn’t have space to go into the details about how Australian and New Zealand forces hold back the Wehrmacht while the others retreat. That will instead be the topic of our post on Instagram / Facebook on April 24 here: https://www.instagram.com/world_war_two_realtime/ and on the TimeGhost facebook page. We also dedicated the thumb to that event by featuring a soldier of the 28th (Māori) Battalion of the NZ forces, photographed in North Africa somewhat later in 1941 while doing the Haka. His unit was part of the rear guard at Thermopylae.

And on that note we would like to acknowledge that we would never be able to do this massive endeavor without the TimeGhost Army and their financial contribution. Valantis who supported this episode by dedicating it to the Cypriots fighting for the Allies in the war is not only a member of the TG Army, he’s also a valuable contributor in our comment sections and volunteers his time to help us sift through and read every comment posted under any of our videos. So, in this place we would like to once again thank Valantis and the entire TimeGhost Army for keeping us in kit, supplies, and manpower to continue the good fight for remembrance and education, especially in these trying times. You can join our forces here https://www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory or here https://timeghost.tv

Spartacus on behalf of the entire TimeGhost team.

“Soldier of Three Armies” Pt. 1 – Winter War – Sabaton History 064 [Official]

Filed under: Europe, Germany, History, Media, Military, Russia, WW2 — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

Sabaton History
Published 25 Apr 2020

Started out as a reserve, soon promoted well deserved, and the legend has begun. Lauri Allan Törni, the soldier of three armies. Born and raised in Viipuri in Finnish Karelia, Lauri Törni grew up into a world of tensions, of class-consciousness and conflicting ideologies. Boxed in between the Soviet Union and Germany, Finland was preparing for war of survival. The Winter War would be the first place for Lauri Törni to see battle and begin his legacy as a born soldier.

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Listen to “Soldier of Three Armies” on the album Heroes:
CD: http://bit.ly/HeroesStore
Spotify: http://bit.ly/HeroesSpotify
Apple Music: http://bit.ly/HeroesAppleMusic
iTunes: http://bit.ly/HeroesiTunes
Amazon: http://bit.ly/HeroesAmz
Google Play: http://bit.ly/HeroesGoogleP

Check out the trailer for Sabaton’s new album The Great War right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCZP1…

Listen to Sabaton on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/SabatonSpotify
Official Sabaton Merchandise Shop: http://bit.ly/SabatonOfficialShop

Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Written by: Markus Linke and Indy Neidell
Directed by: Astrid Deinhard and Wieke Kapteijns
Produced by: Pär Sundström, Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Creative Producer: Joram Appel
Executive Producers: Pär Sundström, Joakim Broden, Tomas Sunmo, Indy Neidell, Astrid Deinhard, and Spartacus Olsson
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Edited by: Iryna Dulka
Sound Editing by: Marek Kaminski
Maps by: Eastory – https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory

Archive by: Reuters/Screenocean https://www.screenocean.com
Music by Sabaton.

Sources:
– Lauri Törni Perinnekilta
– Helsinki City Museum
– Finnish Heritage Agency
– sa-kuva.fi

An OnLion Entertainment GmbH and Raging Beaver Publishing AB co-Production.

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From the comments:

Sabaton History
2 days ago
Hello everyone! We hope you all stay safe and healthy! Due to the current situation, the interview part had to be recorded via webcam and the quality is sadly not the best. We apologize for that. Still we try to keep to our weekly schedule and bring you exciting new episodes of Sabaton History!

Where have all the airships gone? | James May’s Q&A (Ep 8) | Head Squeeze

Filed under: Britain, Germany, History, Military, Technology, WW1 — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 02:00

BBC Earth Lab
Published 21 Feb 2013

James May talks us through the rise and fall of airships.

James May’s Q&A:
With his own unique spin, James May asks and answers the oddball questions we’ve all wondered about from “What Exactly Is One Second?” to “Is Invisibility Possible?”

April 24, 2020

Field Rations, Foreign Legion, and French Anti-Semitism – WW2 – OOTF 010

Filed under: Europe, France, Germany, History, Italy, Military, WW2 — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

World War Two
Published 23 Apr 2020

What did soldiers eat on the frontlines? What happened to the French Foreign Legion? And how is the legacy of Alfred Dreyfus handled in the anti-semitic Vichy France? Find out in this exciting episode of Out of the Foxholes!

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Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Written by: Rune Væver Hartvig
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer
Creative Producer: Joram Appel
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Research by: Rune Væver Hartvig
Edited by: Mikołaj Cackowski
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

Colorizations by:
Norman Stewart – https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/

Sources:
Bundesarchiv
German soldiers eating (courtesy Josef Gierse)
Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
IWM E 3799
From the Noun Project: Spam by Jay Adams, Biscuits by Xela Ub, can by Anniken & Andreas, Bread by Vallone Design, Jam by Vichanon Chaimsuk, honey by Marta Ambrosetti, Coffee by Larea, stew by Smalllike, Soup by Ben Davis

Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound:
Trabant 33 – “When in Bavaria”
Rannar Sillard – “March Of The Brave 4”
Johannes Bornlof – “Deviation In Time”

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Mauser-Norris Prototype: Origins of the Mauser Legacy

Filed under: Business, Europe, France, Germany, History, Military, Weapons — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Forgotten Weapons
Published 10 Jan 2020

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Today we are looking at one of the rarest and earliest rifles built by Paul and Wilhelm Mauser, a design which would set in motion all the events that led to the Mauser company becoming one of the great world leaders in small arms. The Mauser brothers were born in Oberndorf am Necker in the Kingdom of Württemberg, sons of a gunsmith. They would take up their father’s trade and were creative and intelligent boys, but opportunities were limited in the small, rural town of Oberndorf. In 1865 they presented a rifle to the Austrian Army in Vienna for trials, where it was rejected. However, it was noticed by an American sales rep for the Remington Company, a man named Samuel Norris. Norris saw the potential in the Mauser brothers’ design to convert needlefire rifles to metallic cartridges, and he signed a deal with the brothers to further develop the system.

The Mausers moved to Liege Belgium to do their work, and within just a few years they were making rifles for Norris. This example is based on a Chassepot, as Norris hoped to sell the conversion system to the French Army. That deal was rejected, however (the French were happy sticking with paper cartridges as of 1868), and Norris’ plans began to unravel when the Remington company discovered that he was making dealings in his own name instead of for them. The Mauser brothers ended up walking away from the deal with ownership of the patents they had filed with Norris, and when they submitted the design to the Prussians a process began which would result in the Mauser Model 1871 being adopted. From there, their talents would lead to the whole line of Mauser repeating rifles culminating in the Model 1898, arguably the pinnacle of the bolt action military rifle.

Thanks to the Liege Arms Museum for access to film this for you! If you are in Belgium, definitely plan to stop into the museum, part of the Grand Curtius. They have a very good selection of interesting and unusual arms on display. Further thanks to the Paul Mauser Archive for helping to arrange this filming!

https://www.grandcurtius.be

http://www.paul-mauser-archive.com

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