Western Allies
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Nov 2, 2026
Thomas777GUEST
It, the, very much within the contemplation of, of, of Hitler was the Soviet Union and its power projection potential.
Thomas777GUEST
And, the, uh, one of the reasons Hitler was so eager until it became clear that this was just totally off the table to sue for peace with the Western allies is because, you know, like A.J.B. Taylor to, you know, bring up him again, as I did about the Sondervag point a moment ago, Hitler didn't really have any interest in the West.
Thomas777GUEST
Um, I mean, yeah, like any kind of German superpower, you know, was going to dominate Europe as a little pivot politically and militarily of the continent.
Thomas777GUEST
But this idea that, you know, this idea like the German had some sort of designs on France or something.
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Thomas777GUEST
And of course, the U.S. Senate, to its eternal credit, refused to endorse the Versailles Treaty.
Thomas777GUEST
It wasn't really worth the papers written on when America bowed out of it and refused to ratify it or enforce it.
Thomas777GUEST
And, uh, you know, that entire, you know, Germany's unwillingness to comply and, and, and, and kind of Anglo, Anglo French impotence therein, like posturing without the ability to actually deliver on threat, um, by the Western allies had a lot to do with, you know, I said about still is 1939 and we will get to that.
Thomas777GUEST
But, um, I forgive, uh, the out of sequence, um, um, discussion of, uh, the starvation blockade.
ThomasGUEST
It's not for me to dictate the programming.
ThomasGUEST
What do you think? Next episode, I'd like to finish up Barbarossa and deal with the Western Allies' war against the Reich.
ThomasGUEST
And we'll get into things like Hamburg and Dresden then, if that's agreeable.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
It sounds good to me.
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ThomasGUEST
The Fairmont, they were able to regroup, counterattack, and they drove the Red Army back across the East Prussian frontier.
ThomasGUEST
You know, and this was a great victory, and coming as it did, At the fall of 1944, it was a much-needed morale booster, okay, because what would lay ahead was the Wehrmacht was charged.
ThomasGUEST
You know, a Wehrmacht that had been utterly hollowed out but still had a handful of crack units, they were charged with fending off the entirety of the Red Army as well as doing everything they could to force at least some kind of impasse with the Western Allies who, you know, in the preceding summer had assaulted and invaded and were now pushing their way through Belgium to pierce the heart of the Reich itself.
ThomasGUEST
Now, back to Nemersdorf.
MilesGUEST
The British Army, along with local guerrilla fighters, make their way through the Malaysian jungle.
MilesGUEST
Mosquitoes, leeches, and disease add to their trials as the World War II conflict between Japan and the Western Allies takes lives indiscriminately.
MilesGUEST
1941.
MilesGUEST
Hugh Jungle Carter, a British Army colonel, leads a party of Chinese and Malaysian bandits in an effort to rescue British and Australian nurses from a Japanese war camp.
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This was a major military operation that the Nazi regime undertook in Italy and the Balkans in the first half of September 1943.
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The North Africa front in the war had been closed by the Western Allies in May 1943, after they defeated the Italians and the German Africa Corps in Tunisia.
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Two months later, Operation Husky had been launched, an invasion of Sicily from North Africa.
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A six-week long campaign had ensued.
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He became Pope in the spring of 1939, shortly before the Second World War began.
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He has variously been accused of being complicit in the crimes of the Nazi and Italian fascist regimes and, conversely, of trying to clandestinely provide aid to those who were being persecuted by the regimes.
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Hitler's alleged decision to occupy the Vatican and have him placed under detention was, according to Wolff in the 1970s, decided on as a way of punishing the Roman Catholic population of Italy for the Grand Council of Fascism's decision to abandon the German alliance and join the Western Allies.
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Had such a mission been launched, Wolf, as the new head of Nazi security services in Italy, would have been central to it.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
But some sources point out that this declaration was somewhat forced.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
It came out two days after a similar declaration was made by the Western Allies, and it was not republished in the Soviet press, as was always done during newspaper campaigns.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
In 1943, out of seven reports of the Extraordinary State Commission for Investigation of Nazi Atrocities, such as extermination of Soviet prisoners of war and the destruction of cultural artifacts of our country, only one report referred to the murder of Jews in the Stavro- Stavropol region near Mineralnye Vody.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And in March 1944 in Kiev, while making a speech about the suffering endured by Ukrainians under occupation, Khrushchev did not mention Jews at all.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
But some sources point out that this declaration was somewhat forced.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
It came out two days after a similar declaration was made by the Western Allies, and it was not republished in the Soviet press, as was always done during newspaper campaigns.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
In 1943, out of seven reports of the Extraordinary State Commission for Investigation of Nazi Atrocities, such as extermination of Soviet prisoners of war and the destruction of cultural artifacts of our country, only one report referred to the murder of Jews in the Stavro- Stavropol region near Mineralnye Vody.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And in March 1944 in Kiev, while making a speech about the suffering endured by Ukrainians under occupation, Khrushchev did not mention Jews at all.
Mark PainterHOST
In the previous episode, I described the opening days of the German December 1944 offensive in the Ardennes.
Mark PainterHOST
The element of surprise was crucial to the German plan, and yes, they definitely succeeded at surprising the Western Allies.
Mark PainterHOST
Poor weather, including snowstorms, high winds, and low cloud cover, neutralized the Western Allies' air power, their most formidable weapon, which was also good news for the Germans.
Mark PainterHOST
So the German offensive began in the best of circumstances.
Mark PainterHOST
On the other hand, the key units in the attack were two German panzer armies, the 6th SS and the 5th.
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Mark PainterHOST
Hitler spoke at length about Germany's bright prospects in the New Year, and everyone around him was drunk enough to believe him.
Mark PainterHOST
Meanwhile, the Luftwaffe was mustering its planes for a surprise air attack intended to restart the stalled German ground offensive.
Mark PainterHOST
On the morning of January 1, 1945, the Luftwaffe threw everything it had at the Western Allies, about 800 fighter planes, in an all-out effort to catch Allied air forces by surprise and breathe new life into the failing German offensive.
DaveHOST
Yeah.
JasonHOST
So one player plays the Western Allies and the OKH on the Eastern Front.
JasonHOST
The other player plays the Soviets and the OKW on the Western Front.
JasonHOST
And the Germans cannot win, right? Neither German faction can win.
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JasonHOST
So, I think I said it before, but it's a World War II game, kind of strategic scale.
JasonHOST
One player plays the Soviets and Germany on the Western Front, the OKW.
JasonHOST
The other player plays... uh the western allies and
DaveHOST
okay it's a it's a two it's two players maybe it's a
Paul FreesNARRATOR
The Russians haul down the red flag, signifying Soviet withdrawal from the four-power command that has governed Berlin since the war's end.
Paul FreesNARRATOR
Taking no pains to disguise the fact that they want the Western allies out of Berlin, the Reds begin a blockade of the city.
Paul FreesNARRATOR
Tracks are removed from the road beds and trains are stopped for so-called technical reasons.
Paul FreesNARRATOR
Barges carrying food and coal find the waterways suddenly closed to them.
Paul FreesNARRATOR
Highways are blocked and deserted.
Paul FreesNARRATOR
The aim of the Russians to starve the entire city into submission backfires completely.
Paul FreesNARRATOR
In the shadow of the Soviet sector, 300,000 Berliners gather in protest and pledge support to the Western allies.
Paul FreesNARRATOR
Meanwhile, Anthony Eden arrives in the German capital for an emergency meeting, as does the French military commander, General Koenig.
Erik CasonHOST
And through choosing to, again, because apparently we're going through all of the communists right now, like, I think what Lenin laid out in State and Revolution and the way that he created a dual form structure to challenge the Russian state was a really important development that he took 15 years to do that ultimately allowed for the Russian Revolution to succeed.
Erik CasonHOST
Not to mention there was like a lot of other help he had, like, you know, actually getting himself back into Russia because the Western allies decided that was the best way to end World War One, which was true.
Erik CasonHOST
But I just think it's really important to include all of these tactics and just keep it in mind that like this is about your soul.
Erik CasonHOST
This is about your God.
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