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November 1, 2020

Winter is Coming – WW2 – 114 – October 31, 1941

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

World War Two
Published 31 Oct 2020

Operation Typhoon is halted until the coming winter can freeze enough ground to increase mobility. But the ever colder weather is a disaster waiting to happen for an already over-stretched German supply line.

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Research by: Indy Neidell
Edited by: Miki Cackowski
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

Colorizations by:
Mikolaj Uchman
Dememorabilia – https://www.instagram.com/dememorabilia/
Jaris Almazani (Artistic Man) – https://instagram.com/artistic.man?ig…

Sources:
Bundesrchiv
Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
Yad Vashem 7283/146

Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound:
Johannes Bornlof – “Death And Glory 2”
Johan Hynynen – “Dark Beginning”
Johannes Bornlof – “The Inspector 4”
Hakan Eriksson – “Epic Adventure Theme 4”
Farell Wooten – “Blunt Object”
Fabien Tell – “Last Point of Safe Return”

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A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

October 31, 2020

The Banality of Death – War Against Humanity 021 – October 1941 Pt. 2

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

World War Two
Published 29 Oct 2020

French resistance members liquidate a high-ranking German officer, triggering a series of retaliatory actions by the German occupiers. Meanwhile, actions in the “Holocaust of Bullets” continue in the east as German forces move further into the USSR, taking Odessa.

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Written by: Joram Appel
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Research by: Joram Appel
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Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

Colorizations by:
Mikołaj Uchman
Julius Jääskeläinen – https://www.facebook.com/JJcolorization/
Norman Stewart – https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/
Jaris Almazani (Artistic Man) – https://instagram.com/artistic.man?ig…
Carlos Ortega Pereira – BlauColorizations, https://www.instagram.com/blaucolorizations
Tzo15 – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…

Sources:
– Berkhoff, Karel (ed.), Basic Historical Narrative of the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (2018).
– Cobb, Matthew, The Resistance (2009).
– Desbois, Patrick, The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews (2008).
– Fox, Holquist and Martin, The Holocaust in the East: Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses (2014).
– Kay, Alex and David Stahel, Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe (2018).
– Klee, Dressen and Reiss, The Good old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders (1991).
– Longerich, Peter, The Unwritten Order: Hitler’s Role in the Final Solution (2001)
– Longerich, Peter, Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews (2010).
– Mitter, Rana, Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945 (2013).
– Müller, “The Brutalisation of Warfare, Nazi Crimes and the Wehrmacht”, In: Erickson & Dilks, Barbarossa: The Axis and the Allies.
– Parrish, Michael, The Lesser Terror Soviet State Security, 1939-1953.
– Rutherford, Jeff, Combat And Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantry’s War, 1941-1944 (2014).
– Snyder, Timothy, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010).
– United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Encyclopaedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, volume II, Part A (2012).
– United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Encyclopaedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, volume II, Part B (2012)

Visual sources:
Yad Vashem 75EO4, 933/3/5, 94DO1, 75FO4, 75DO3, 3065/2, 4359/45, 2725/6, 86FO2, 3199/5, 7904/172, 3745/138, 90FO3, 4359/83, 4359/21, 4359/55, 4216/34, 86DO8, 3150/129, 4613/89, 142BO7, 3150/122
Bundesarchiv
Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija
Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
Picture of Lavrentiy Beria in court, courtesy of Фотограф – Ист.доки https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…
Picture of Gilbert Brustlein, courtesy of Fbrustlein https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…
Picture of Jewish officials of the Vilnius ghetto, courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, William Begell
Picture of Jewish and Lithuanian police guarding the entrence to the Vilnius ghetto, courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, William Begell
from the Noun Project: Skull by Muhamad Ulum, students by Piotrek Chuchla, person by Adrien Coquet, Injury by Adraino Emerick, Man by Milinda Courey, Woman by Maxim Kulikov, Child by RocketDiction

Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound:
Reynard Seidel – “Deflection”
Johannes Bornlof – “The Inspector 4”
Johannes Bornlof – “Deviation In Time”
Farell Wooten – “Blunt Object”
Peter Sandberg – “Document This 1”
Gunnar Johnsen – “Not Safe yet”
Jon Bjork – “For the Many”

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A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

October 25, 2020

Martial Law in Moscow, but is the Cavalry coming? – WW2 – 113 – October 24, 1941

World War Two
Published 24 Oct 2020

The Germans draw ever closer to Moscow, but Soviet reinforcements have begun to arrive from Siberia and the city’s defenses have grown stronger. Meanwhile in the south, the Germans are sweeping into the Crimea and looking hungrily at the Caucasus.

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Written and Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Director: Astrid Deinhard
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Creative Producer: Maria Kyhle
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Research by: Indy Neidell
Edited by: Miki Cackowski
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

Colorizations by:
Julius Jääskeläinen – https://www.facebook.com/JJcolorization/
Mikolaj Uchman
Klimbim – https://www.flickr.com/photos/2215569…
Daniel Weiss
Carlos Ortega Pereira, BlauColorizations – https://www.instagram.com/blaucolorizations
Dememorabilia – https://www.instagram.com/dememorabilia/
Norman Stewart – https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/

Sources:
Mil.ru
Bundesarchiv
Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
Yad Vashem 90FO3
from the Noun Project: Skull by Muhamad Ulum, Horse by RIZCA, Injury by Adriano Emerick, Oil Tank by Mangsaabguru

Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound:
Johannes Bornlof – “The Inspector 4”
Reynard Seidel – “Deflection”
Johannes Bornlof – “Death And Glory 3”
Johan Hynynen – “Dark Beginning”
Hakan Eriksson – “Epic Adventure Theme 4”
Gunnar Johnsen – “Not Safe Yet”
Andreas Jamsheree – “Guilty Shadows 4”

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A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

October 23, 2020

On Stalin’s Secret Service – Richard Sorge – WW2 Biography Special

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

World War Two
Published 22 Oct 2020

A spy who is famous for warning Stalin about Hitler’s plan to invade the Soviet Union. But he was so much more than that. His fascinating life begins in the Caucasus and eventually leads him to Tokyo.

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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
Research by: Indy Neidell
Edited by: Monika Worona
Sound design: Marek Kamiński

Colorizations by:
Carlos Ortega Pereira
Daniel Weiss
Mikołaj Uchman

Sources:
Bundesarchiv
Milu.ru
Archive.org

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A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

From the comments:

World War Two
16 hours ago (edited)
More fascinating World War Two spy stuff we know you love. We’ve already spoken about Popov, Enigma, and much more, but what makes Sorge particularly stand out is the amount of praise he has consistently received. Both Tom Clancy and Ian Fleming have said they consider him one of the world’s greatest spies, and other espionage workers, including ones who worked on the opposing side to him, have admitted their admiration for the man.

October 18, 2020

Russian Civil War in Central Asia I THE GREAT WAR 1920

Filed under: Asia, Europe, History, Military, Religion, Russia — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

The Great War
Published 17 Oct 2020

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By the fall of 1920, the Russian Civil War had unleashed three years of ethnic and internal conflict in Central Asia, and there was no end in sight. In this episode we’ll catch up on the dramatic events of the former Russian imperial lands in Central Asia from the revolution right up to the end of 1920, 100 years ago.

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Baumann, Robert F. Russian-Soviet Unconventional Wars in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Afghanistan, Combat Studies Institute, 2010.

Becker, Seymour. Russia’s Protectorates in Central Asia: Bukhara and Khiva, 1865-1924, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.

Brower, Daniel R. Turkestan and the Fate of the Russian Empire, Routledge, 2010.

Buttino, M. “Study of the Economic Crisis and Depopulation in Turkestan, 1917–1920”, Central Asian Survey, no. 4, 1990, pp. 59-74, doi:10.1080/02634939008400725.

Campbell, Ian W. Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917, Cornell University Press, 2017.

Everett-Heath, Tom. Central Asia: Aspects of Transition, Routledge, 2003.

Hiro, D. Inside Central Asia, Abrams, 2011.

Keller, Shoshana. Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence, University of Toronto Press, 2020.

Khalid, A. “Central Asia Between the Ottoman and the Soviet Worlds”, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, no. 2, 2011, pp. 451-76, doi:10.1353/kri.2011.0028.

Khalid, Adeeb. “The Bukharan People’s Soviet Republic in the Light of Muslim Sources”, Die Welt Des Islams, no. 3, 2010, pp. 335-61, doi:10.1163/157006010×544287.

Khalid, Adeeb. Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR, Cornell University Press, 2019.

Khalid, Adeeb. The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia, Oxford University Press, 2000.

Loring, B. “‘Colonizers With Party Cards’: Soviet Internal Colonialism in Central Asia, 1917–39”, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, no. 1, 2014, pp. 77-102, doi:10.1353/kri.2014.0012.

Olcott, M. B. “The Basmachi or Freemen’s Revolt in Turkestan 1918–24”, Soviet Studies, no. 3, 1981, pp. 352-69, doi:10.1080/09668138108411365.

Poujol, Catherine. “Jews and Muslims in Central Asia”, A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day, edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb, Benjamin Stora, Jane Marie Todd and Michael B. Smith, Princeton University Press, Princeton; Oxford, 2013, pp. 258–268.

Sahadeo, Jeff. Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent: 1865-1923, Indiana University Press, 2010.

Sokol, Edward D. The Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

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Panic in Moscow! The Germans are here! – WW2 – 112 – October 17, 1941

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

World War Two
Published 17 Oct 2020

Moscow panics as the Germans edge closer and take prisoners by the hundreds of thousands, even as the temperature drops far below freezing. At home in Germany, Josef Goebbels has a problem – he’s promised victory too soon and too often. And in Japan, a government falls.

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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
Research by: Indy Neidell
Edited by: Monika Worona
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

Colorizations by:
Jaris Almazani
Daniel Weiss
Mikołaj Uchman
Carlos Ortega Pereira
Julius Jääskeläinen
Adrien Fillon
Norman Stewart

Sources:
Bundesarchiv
Archive.org

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

A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

From the comments:

World War Two
2 days ago
Japan’s immediate future seems decided with a new government that certainly has no issue with the war in China or with extending that war to the south, meanwhile Moscow panics as the Germans approach. What does all this mean for the men and women in the occupied territory? What does it mean for those at home?

To learn more about that check out our sub-series “War Against Humanity” and “On the Homefront”:

War Against Humanity playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIk0qF0R1j4cwI-ZuDoBLxVEV3egWKoM

On the Homefront playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIk0qF0R1j5Ug9lCaxygenFf3lzuGXap

October 16, 2020

The Wehrmacht is Not Clean! – War Against Humanity 020 – October 1941 Pt 1

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

World War Two
Published 15 Oct 2020

The Wehrmacht is deeply involved with the Nazis’ War Against Humanity. They are complicit in the murder of thousands of Jews in the “Holocaust of Bullets”, and the severe treatment of Soviet Prisoners of War. In October 1941, Wehrmacht General Walther von Reichenau issues the “Severity Order”, taking away any ambiguity there may be as to the Wehrmacht‘s vision.

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

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

Colorizations by:
Mikolaj Uchman
Klimbim – https://www.flickr.com/photos/2215569…
Jaris Almazani (Artistic Man) – https://instagram.com/artistic.man?ig…
Julius Jääskeläinen – https://www.facebook.com/JJcolorization/
Norman Stewart – https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/

Sources:
Berkhoff, Karel (ed.), Basic Historical Narrative of the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (2018).
Desbois, Patrick, The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews (2008).
Fox, Holquist and Martin, The Holocaust in the East: Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses (2014).
Kay, Alex and David Stahel, Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe (2018).
Longerich, Peter,
The Unwritten Order: Hitler’s Role in the Final Solution (2001)
Longerich, Peter, Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews (2010).
Mitter, Rana, Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945 (2013).
Müller, “The Brutalisation of Warfare, Nazi Crimes and the Wehrmacht”, In: Erickson & Dilks, Barbarossa: The Axis and the Allies.
Paine, S. C. M., The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 (2012).
Pieper, Henning, Fegelein’s Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare: The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union (2015).
Rutherford, Jeff, Combat And Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantry’s War, 1941-1944 (2014).
Snyder, Timothy, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010).
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Encyclopaedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, volume II, Part A (2012).
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Encyclopaedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, volume II, Part B (2012).
Porter, Thomas Earl, “Hitler’s Forgotten Genocides: The Fate of Soviet POWS”, in: Elon Law Review 5/259
Walter E. Grunden, “No retaliation in Kind: Japanese Chemical Warfare Policy in World War Two”, in: One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences (2017) 259-271.

Visual sources:
Yad Vashem 4216/18, 4360/123, 7904/245, 143BO2, 6584677, 4147/65, 1044/148, 75FO4, 4220/2, 1249/67, 3745/140, 5705/34, 2725/23, 5705/47
USHMM
Bundesarchiv
www.auschwitz.org
FOTO:Fortepan — ID 73897, ID 28024
Picture of corpses of Auschwitz prisoners in Block 11 (Auschwitz I), courtesy of USHMM, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej
from the Noun Project: Skull by Muhamad Ulum, can by CCCHOI, gas bomb by Mete Eraydın from the Noun Project, Injury by Adriano Emerick

Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound:
Fabien Tell – “Never Forget”
Wendel Scherer – “Growing Doubt”
Jon Bjork – “Icicles”
Farrell Wooten – “Blunt Object”
Peter Sandberg – “Document This 1”
Gunnar Johnsen – “Not Safe Yet”
Andreas Jamsheree – “Guilty Shadows 4”

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A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

From the comments:

World War Two
7 hours ago (edited)
Two years into the World War Two channel, we’re still often confronted with stubborn myths regarding the responsibility for the crimes committed against humanity during the Second World War. We have already seen time and time again how the Wehrmacht is actively and passively complicit to the harsh treatment of civilians, the mishandling and killing of PoWs, the murder of local non-combatants, and the genocides committed by Nazi Germany. Let this episode be nail in that myth’s coffin. There is, unambiguously and unequivocally, no doubt about the Wehrmacht‘s awareness, intentions, actions, effects and complicity in the War Against Humanity.

For our Polish speakers: while Spartacus’ less than perfect pronounciation of Polish names is usually at least an attempt, the pronounciation of Belzec is on pupose the English way of saying it, since the Polish pronounciation is not familiar to almost all non-Polish speakers, and it needs to be clear of what place he is speaking of.

October 15, 2020

This is what happens when politicians delegate too much of their powers to the courts

Filed under: History, Law, Politics, Russia, USA — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 03:00

At the Foundation for Economic Education, Lawrence W. Reed recounts the stunning injustice of Soviet “justice”, in the person of Nikolai Krylenko:

Panorama of the west facade of United States Supreme Court Building at dusk in Washington, D.C., 10 October, 2011.
Photo by Joe Ravi via Wikimedia Commons.

As I watched the first day of hearings on Judge Barrett’s nomination, I was reminded of a largely forgotten Soviet legal theoretician from decades ago. His name was Nikolai Krylenko. Judge Barrett is being given the Krylenko treatment by Democrat senators like Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, meaning this: The only thing that matters is whether she will vote their party line in future cases.

Under the communist dictatorship of Lenin and then Stalin, Krylenko (1885-1938) rose through the Soviet Union’s legal system to become People’s Commissar for Justice and a Prosecutor General. He was a leading practitioner of the theory of “socialist legality,” which held that an accused person’s innocence or guilt depended on that person’s politics (real or imagined). It sounds nuts and indeed, it was. It was the stuff of Orwell’s nightmare, and one of the reasons the Soviet Union thankfully perished of its own poison.

In The Gulag Archipelago, the famous Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn recounted an episode involving Krylenko. Shortly after Lenin’s Bolsheviks assumed power in 1917, an admiral named Shchastny was sentenced by one of the regime’s judges “to be shot within 24 hours.” When some in the courtroom expressed shock, it was Krylenko who responded thusly: “What are you worrying about? Executions have been abolished. But Shchastny is not being executed; he is being shot.”

To Krylenko, the only morality was what served the Party and the State, which of course in the Soviet Union were one and the same. If your politics were not correct, you would be “corrected,” one way or the other. In Richard Pipes’ authoritative book, The Russian Revolution, Krylenko is quoted as exclaiming, “We must execute not only the guilty. Execution of the innocent will impress the masses even more.”

At the Senate hearings for the Barrett nomination, it was apparent the first day that the Judge was being Krylenkoed. Hostile senators pronounced their verdicts before she had uttered a word, and those verdicts had nothing to do with Barrett’s stellar qualifications or keen legal mind. Legal analyst and George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley commented,

    What they were suggesting is that they will be voting against her because of what they expected her vote would be in a pending case, and that is a conditional confirmation … Here, the senators seem to be saying, “I’m not even going to listen; I’m going to vote against you because I don’t think you’re going to vote the right way …”

Judge Barrett clearly articulated her judicial philosophy, borne out by the way she has ruled at the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit: She believes the role of a judge or justice is to follow the Constitution and the law as written, not make stuff up in the service of a political agenda. How ironic that this is a point of fiery contention. Senators who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and the law hate the guts of a judge who does just that!

October 11, 2020

An Open Road to Moscow! – WW2- 111- October 10, 1941

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

World War Two
Published 10 Oct 2020

The road to Moscow does indeed lay open before the Germans, but for how long? And can they exploit such an opportunity — since the panzers are busy encircling hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers near Vyazema? Georgy Zhukov arrives in Moscow to take charge of the Soviet defenses and try to shut the door.

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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: Maria Kyhle
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Research by: Indy Neidell
Edited by: Monika Worona
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

Colorizations by:
Carlos Ortega Pereira
Mikołaj Uchman
Julius Jääskeläinen
Daniel Weiss

Sources:
Archive.org
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Mil
Bundesarchiv

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

A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

October 4, 2020

A huge new German Offensive begins – Operation Typhoon! – WW2 – 110 – October 3, 1941

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

World War Two
Published 3 Oct 2020

Adolf Hitler’s renewed drive on Moscow, the Soviet capital, begins this week, even as the Japanese drive on Changsha ends. But major news this week is the colossal amount of equipment, arms, and ammunition that Britain and the neutral USA plan to ship to the beleaguered Soviet Union.

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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
Research by: Indy Neidell
Edited by: Miki Cackowski
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

Colorizations by:
Dememorabilia – https://www.instagram.com/dememorabilia/
Carlos Ortega Pereira, BlauColorizations – https://www.instagram.com/blaucolorizations
Norman Stewart – https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/
Klimbim – https://www.flickr.com/photos/2215569…

Sources:
Bundesarchiv
Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
RIA Novosti archive, image #585208
Yad Vashem 3725/4
Picture of Lord Beaverbrook, courtesy Yousuf Karsh, Dutch National Archives
Graphics of Hawker Hurricane, courtesy Martin Čížek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hu…
Graphic of P-39Q Airacobra, courtesy Martin Čížek https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…
From the Noun Project: Skull by Muhamad Ulum, Radar by Econceptive, Mining by Pham Duy Phuong Hung, golds by iconsphere, Diamond by IconMark, puncture by supalerk laipawat, tire by Juan León, wool ball by IconMark, Boots by Atif Arshad, Oil by TTHNga, Needle by artworkbean, Gloves by Berkah Icon, Knife by Vladimir Belochkin, saw by Stepan Voevodin, forceps by IcoLabs, Chest X-ray by Turkkub, pills by Komkrit Noenpoempisut, antibiotics by UNiCORN, Roll by rivercon

Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound:
Johan Hynynen – “Dark Beginning”
Johannes Bornlof – “Death And Glory 3”
Jon Bjork – “For the Many”
Johannes Bornlof – “Last Man Standing 3”
Reynard Seidel – “Deflection”
Johannes Bornlof – “The Inspector 4”
Bonnie Grace – “The Dominion”
Johannes Bornlof – “Deviation In Time”
Gunnar Johnsen – “Not Safe Yet”
Rannar Sillard – “March Of The Brave 10”

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A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

October 2, 2020

The Rape of Humanity at Babi Yar – War Against Humanity 019

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

World War Two
Published 1 Oct 2020

Killing Jews by the thousands becomes the main way of eradicating the Jews in Eastern Europe in August and September 1941. The Mass Murder at Babi Yar in Kiev is yet another escalation in that process.

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

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

Colorizations by:
Carlos Ortega Pereira, BlauColorizations – https://www.instagram.com/blaucolorizations
Julius Jääskeläinen – https://www.facebook.com/JJcolorization/
Tzo15 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…
Mikolaj Uchman
Spartacus Olsson

Image Sources:
Bundesarchiv
Yad Vashem 3725/4, 7717/273, 5705/29, 5705/43, 3150/37, 5705/48, 5705/53, 5705/54, 5705/21, 2725/7, 5705/12, 5705/20, 5705/22, 4788/72, 5705/26, 5705/40, 4613/1055, 3521/134, 3521/133
USHMM
Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
from the Noun Project: Skull by Muhamad Ulum, soldier by Simon Child

Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound:
Cobby Costa – “Flight Path”
Andreas Jamsheree – “Guilty Shadows 4”
Jon Bjork – “For the Many”
Farell Wooten – “Blunt Object”
Fabien Tell – “Never Forget”
Gunnar Johnsen – “Not Safe Yet”

Sources:
Berkhoff, Karel (ed.), Basic Historical Narrative of the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (2018).
Desbois, Patrick, The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews (2008).
Fox, Holquist and Martin, The Holocaust in the East: Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses (2014).
Kay, Alex and David Stahel, Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe (2018).
Longerich, Peter, The Unwritten Order: Hitler’s Role in the Final Solution (2001)
Longerich, Peter, Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews (2010).
Klee, dressen and Reiss, The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders (1991).
Müller, “The Brutalisation of Warfare, Nazi Crimes and the Wehrmacht”, In: Erickson & Dilks, Barbarossa: The Axis and the Allies.
Pieper, Henning, Fegelein’s Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare: The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union (2015).
Rutherford, Jeff, Combat And Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantry’s War, 1941-1944 (2014).
Snyder, Timothy, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010).
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Encyclopaedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, volume II, Part A (2012).
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Encyclopaedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, volume II, Part B (2012).

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A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

From the comments:

World War Two
3 hours ago
No one should have to go through what the subjects of todays episode went through. Every one of the 33,000 victims of the mass-murder at Babi Yar has their own personal story. They were humans, just like you and me, with memories, interests, hobbies, fears, hopes and loved ones. This is why we tried to make this episode as personal as we could – So that we don’t forget that we’re talking about real people here.

September 27, 2020

Free from the Nazi Occupation – but for how long can it last? WW2 – 109 – September 26, 1941

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

World War Two
Published 26 Sep 2020

In former Yugoslavia, the Republic of Uzice breaks free from the German occupation, even as the Germans are mopping up the masses of shattered Soviet Armies after last week’s capture of Kiev. In the north, it really looks as if Leningrad will hold out for the time being, and German troops from both north and south converge on the center for the coming drive on Moscow.

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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
Research by: Indy Neidell
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/
– Norman Stewart – https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/
– Carlos Ortega Pereira, BlauColorizations – https://www.instagram.com/blaucolorizations
– Mikołaj Uchman
– Jaris Almazani (Artistic Man) – https://instagram.com/artistic.man?ig…

Sources:
– Bundesarchiv, CC-BY-SA 3.0: Bild_146-2005-0176, Bild_183-J21813,
– Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe

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A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

September 26, 2020

Resistance is Futile in Nazi Europe – War Against Humanity 018 – September 1941, Part 1

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

World War Two
Published 25 Sep 2020

In the first half of September, Nazi murder campaigns in Vilnius and the Pripet Marshes continue. In the rest of Europe, the Germans tighten their grip on the occupied countries, taking away media privileges and further restricting the freedoms of Jewish populations.

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Written by: Joram Appel
Hosted by: 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: Joram Appel
Edited by: Karolina Dołęga
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Karolina Dołęga & Mikołaj Cackowski

Colorizations by:
– Spartacus Olsson
– Daniel Weiss
– Jaris Almazani (Artistic Man), https://instagram.com/artistic.man?ig…
– Carlos Ortega Pereira, BlauColorizations, https://www.instagram.com/blaucolorizations

Visual Sources:
– Bundesarchiv
– Yad Vashem: 7283-146, 4331-14), 3150-122, 4613-1055, 10470-23, 97, 03-198, 1044-148, 2725_22A, 4788_71
– United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
– Library of Congress
– Imperial War Museums: H6550
– Deutsche Fotothek: 0000149 003
– Picture of Lavrentiy Beria in court courtesy of: Фотограф – Ист.доки https://cutt.ly/Lavrentiy_Beria-
Picture of Cathedral Square and Nikolskaya Street in from Saratov from RusDeutsch
National Archives NARA

Music:
– “Endlessness” – Flouw
– “Weapon of Choice” – Fabien Tell
– “Last Minute Reaction” – Phoenix Tail
– “Moving to Disturbia” – Experia
– “Potential Redemption” – Max Anson
– “Flight Path” – Cobby Costa
– “Break Free” – Fabien Tell
– “Never Forget” – Fabien Tell
– “It’s Not a Game” – Philip Ayers

The Icons from Noun Project: Bar by priyanka, beach by Studio GLD, Bicycle by Henry Haolong Yin, cabaret by Smalllike, Cafe by Eucalyp, Calendar by iconsphere, Children by Sarah Rudkin, curfew by supalerk laipawat, finish line by Luis Prado, Fruit by Eucalyp, guest house by ProSymbols, Helmet by Daniel Turner, Hotel by Nociconist, Immigrants by Luis Prado, Info by Flatart, Library by Jaime Serra, Man by Milinda Courey, Museum by Justicon, Skull by Muhamad Ulum, onion by Jellycons, Park by Made by Made, Passenger Wagon by Peter van Driel, person and house by Rflor, Phone by Leona Grande, potato by Vectors Point, Restaurant by Adrien Coquet, singer by Luis Prado, Store by Fahmi, street by Vadim Solomakhin, Swimming Pool by Vectors Point, Theater by Susannanova, Town Square Clock by Graphic Enginer, Vegetable by Eucalyp, vintage motorcycle by Justine Hammernik, Woman and boy by Studio Het Mes & Zoo by Eugene Dobrik

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A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

From the comments:

World War Two
2 hours ago
A new month and more carnage — we get the question about why so much about the Jews? Why only about the Eastern Front? Well, this is September 1941, many of the things that befell other ethnicities have not yet begun. When they do we will cover them. You’ll also see that some of this is “more of the same” — and in fact, sometimes it’s difficult for us to find a way to not let the tragedy that all this death really represents become trivial through the sheer size and repetition of the drama, yet we feel that it is important to keep it coming, week after week. Recent surveys in several countries show that a majority of people under 30 don’t know the full extent, or sometimes even the existence of the Holocaust. Using YouTube to document how it evolved, step by gruesome step is therefore in our opinion all the more important.

September 21, 2020

The Iconic “Burp Gun” – Shooting the PPSh-41

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

Forgotten Weapons
Published 16 Dec 2017

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The Soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun is most distinctive for its very high rate of fire — approximately 1250 rounds/minute — and large drum magazine. What may come as a surprise to those who have not tried it is how this very high rate of fire does not actually make the weapon difficult to control or hold on target. In fact, the PPSh-41 is an easier SMG to shoot effectively than the later PPS-43, at least in my opinion.

The Soviets and the Germans made quite different choices in magazines and rate of fire with the PPSh and the MP40, but both turned out to be very good submachine guns. The glaring weak point of the PPSh are its magazines, and the difficulty in finding a drum that would run reliably in this particular example is why today’s shooting session is done with one of the 35-round stick magazines instead.

Thanks to Marstar for letting me examine and shoot their PPSh-41!

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September 20, 2020

Another week, another half million for the Germans – WW2 – 108 – September 19, 1941

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

World War Two
Published 19 Sep 2020

Kiev falls to the Germans, yielding hundreds of thousands of prisoners as whole armies are surrounded, but behind the lines all over German-occupied territories, partisan movements are gaining steam. Meanwhile, in China, Japan launches another campaign against Changsha.

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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
Research by: Indy Neidell
Edited by: Monika Worona
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/blaucolorizations
– Olga Shirnina, a.k.a. Klimbim – https://klimbim2014.wordpress.com/
– Julius Jääskeläinen – https://www.facebook.com/JJcolorization/
– Jaris Almazani (Artistic Man) – https://instagram.com/artistic.man?ig…
– Daniel Weiss

Sources:
– Ra Boe / Wikipedia / Lizenz: Creative Commons CC-by-sa-3.0 de
– Mil. ru
– Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
– Estonica

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