Anzio
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Oct 13, 2026
Tony RobinsonHOST
The reality though is that he was born here in Antium in southwest Italy on the 31st of August in the year 12 AD.
Tony RobinsonHOST
Antium, or Anzio as it's now known, was the Roman equivalent of the Hamptons, a summer playground for the super rich just a little bit away from town.
Tony RobinsonHOST
Caligula's real name was Gaius.
Tony RobinsonHOST
He was the third son of a wealthy family, and if he didn't have his nickname yet, he had just about everything else you can imagine.
Tony RobinsonHOST
But Tacitus tells us he wasn't even in Rome.
Tony RobinsonHOST
Nero was actually miles away, here at his holiday villa in Anzio when it happened.
Tony RobinsonHOST
Immediately he heard the news, he jumped on his horse, rode back to Rome, and took charge of the firefighting and organizing shelter and food for the homeless.
Tony RobinsonHOST
Day and night he could be seen rushing around the city, completely without any of his bodyguards, who he told to go and help fight the fire, until eventually, after nine long days and nights, the flames gradually abated.
Ronald ReaganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We were taught very directly what it means to be an American, and we absorbed almost in the air a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions.
Ronald ReaganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If you didn't get these things from your family, you got them from the neighborhood, from the father down the street who fought in Korea or the family who lost someone at Anzio.
Ronald ReaganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school.
Ronald ReaganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And if all else failed, you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture.
John HagedornHOST
but not enough Norwegians could be diverted from other missions, so that it became strictly American and Canadian.
John HagedornHOST
The film dramatizes the force's first major mission, which was to capture the German mountain stronghold of Monte La Defensa, as well as others, which we'll cover in detail, and we will also stay with the unit through Anzio and Rome here, and then on to their disbandment.
John HagedornHOST
As for the movie, William Holden delivered a solid performance as American Lieutenant Colonel Robert Frederick, the brigade's commanding officer, with Cliff Robertson playing Major Alan Crown, the CO of the Canadian half of the force, and Vince Edwards as Major Cliff Bricker, the commanding officer of the American side.
John HagedornHOST
The director was Andrew V. McLaughlin, and we've covered the story of his father, Victor McLaughlin, in an earlier story, so some of you might remember him.
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John HagedornHOST
The Special Force Brigade was withdrawn from the mountains in January, and on February 1, was landed at the beachhead created by Operation Shingle at Anzio, south of Rome, replacing the 1st and 3rd Ranger Battalions, which had suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Cisterna.
John HagedornHOST
Their task was to hold and raid from the right-hand flank of the beachhead marked by the Mussolini Canal.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
But Tacitus tells us he wasn't even in Rome.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
Nero was actually miles away, here at his holiday villa in Anzio when it happened.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
Immediately he heard the news, he jumped on his horse, rode back to Rome, and took charge of the fire fighting, and organizing shelter and food for the homeless.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
Day and night, he could be seen rushing around the city, completely without any of his bodyguards, who he'd told to go and help fight the fire, until eventually, after nine long days and nights, the flames gradually abated.
EmHOST
And that is?
KatieHOST
Anzio.
EmHOST
I did not Google that.
KatieHOST
Jack Kerouac's character at one point, was it his brother, was, was in the war.
EmHOST
I think it was his, I think it was his brother.
KatieHOST
And his brother has sent a letter, and it's basically a goodbye.
KatieHOST
Um, and his brother was at the Battle of Anzio in World War II.
KatieHOST
So I did a quick Google.
speaker_0HOST
And that goal to create a corridor to countries such as Eastern Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and others was a key reason Churchill pushed for another amphibious landing, this one into northeast Italy near Trieste in early 1945.
speaker_0HOST
In the same way that Churchill proposed the Allied forces Anzio amphibious end around from Napoli to Anzio, southwest of Rome in early 1944, and which was designed to overcome the bogged down Gustav line battles around Monte Cassino, the proposed Adriatic crossing was designed to overcome the bogged down Gothic line offensive.
speaker_0HOST
in the winter of 1944 and early 1945.
speaker_0HOST
To get more retrospective insight into Churchill's strategy for the Allied Gothic Line Offensive, especially as it bogged down in 1944 and did not resume until the spring of 1945, I went to the University of Cambridge in England where all of Churchill's records, including more than one million documents, including his personal and official files, are located.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Sippenhaft literally meaning kin liability.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The other son, Friedrich Jr., was allowed to continue serving in the military and was killed near Anzio on the Italian front early in 1944.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Wilhelm Adam's memoir provides one of the best accounts of Paulus in his years in captivity in Russia, a period during which his correspondence was otherwise monitored and controlled by the Soviets.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Adam claims that one of the factors which convinced many of the German survivors from Stalingrad to join the Soviet cause were the events of the final months of the war.
JakeHOST
Can you imagine being like an Italian fascist guy? You just...
JakeHOST
You know, you get conscripted into Mussolini's death cult, and you're up in Anzio or whatever the fuck, and you're just up there like looking out at the mountains, and you're like, "I, I hope no about to come to take my mountain." And then it's just a bunch of fucking absolutely ret- like completely retarded...
JakeHOST
They've got hookworm in their feet.
JakeHOST
The [laughs] that was like the main draft of World War II.
JakeHOST
[laughs] Kill, kill every pomade-wearing shiny motherfucker you see from here to Timbuktu.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
We're raiding the tanning salons.
JakeHOST
[laughs] We're raiding the tanning salons in Anzio.
JakeHOST
[laughs] Which they were known-
James HollandHOST
...
James HollandHOST
but here in Italy, the clock ticking, you know, that schedule of expectations and, you know, are we gonna do Anzio? We got the, you know, you got the tyranny of Overlord and D-Day and everything, you know, so commanders are compelled to keep going and just try and try again.
James HollandHOST
And so Ortona is turning into the worst meat grinder of the entire Italian campaign to date, I think is fair, fair to say.
James HollandHOST
But meanwhile, Vernon Mork and his three comrades, well, they've remained in their foxhole at the eastern end of the plateau above the gully.
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