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Explaining History
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Bite sized guides to key questions in modern history and advice for studying and writing.
Men At War - Masculinity, Sexuality and Memory 1939-45
In this fascinating conversation with writer Luke Turner, we explore the emotional and intimate lives of men who fought in the Second World War. Luke's new book, Men at War 1939-45 is an exploration of the motivations, beliefs and personal and sexual histories of British soldiers in the Second World War. Join us to hear more about the book and the ideas behind it.
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The Fall of Civilisations
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In this wide ranging conversation with historian and podcaster Paul Cooper, we explore the themes in his new book The Fall of Civilisations. Paul has examined numerous ancient and medieval civilisations from the Assyrians to the peoples of Easter Island to understand the factors and tipping points that lead to the end of civilisations. We explore how empires divide, how civil conflicts begin, t...
Westlessness: The changing power of the west in the 21st Century
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The western world fought for its survival in the 20th Century and won the three great historical challenges it faced, the first and second world wars and the long ideological struggle of the Cold War. Now in the 21st Century, during a time of rapid global transitions of power the future of the western power is less certain in an increasingly multipolar world. In this episode of the Explaining H...
SAS warfare, survival and resistance 1942-44
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SAS warfare, survival and resistance 1942-44
William Freeman and America's first profit driven prisons
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William Freeman and America's first profit driven prisons
From biplanes to the jet age - three decades in the RAF
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From biplanes to the jet age - three decades in the RAF
From biplanes to the jet age - three decades in the RAF
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From biplanes to the jet age - three decades in the RAF
Music and Marxism - understanding pop from a materialist and class analysis
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Music and Marxism - understanding pop from a materialist and class analysis
Black Britain 1948-89: Economic drivers of migration
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Black Britain 1948-89: Economic drivers of migration
Infiltrating the IRA: Terror and Espionage in Northern Ireland
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Infiltrating the IRA: Terror and Espionage in Northern Ireland
IRA double agents - Terror and espionage with Henry Hemming
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IRA double agents - Terror and espionage with Henry Hemming
A timeline of everything - In conversation with Bruce Tapping
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A timeline of everything - In conversation with Bruce Tapping
Neoliberalism VS National Liberation Movements 1945-79
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Neoliberalism VS National Liberation Movements 1945-79
Socialism and Fascism - what they are and are not
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Socialism and Fascism - what they are and are not
Resistance from the right: America's campus backlash against the counter culture
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Resistance from the right: America's campus backlash against the counter culture
The rise and fall of Harry Clifton and the English Aristocracy - In conversation with David Slatt...
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The rise and fall of Harry Clifton and the English Aristocracy - In conversation with David Slatt...
Merze Tate - Groundbreaking scholar of colonialism and disarmament
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Merze Tate - Groundbreaking scholar of colonialism and disarmament
Yes and the priests said sing louder to cover up the screaming. They knew they were compliant I’m old and my family were Polanders and Norwegians. We know nobody over in that country is innocent. Only a few like Mr Schindler and a few nuns not the priests nor Lutheran pastors aided any but themselves. My grandparents lived through this fought against USA compliance. Germany was and is still guilty!
Thanks
You’re very welcome
Both foster and Alan had a perverted view of the world and of americas needs and set the tone and destructive path we are still on america feared by all respected by few and hated by many and is now turning on its own citizens fortress America is becomeing a penitentiary!
I think this is a fair assessment
People in here saying Hitler was a Socialist are the same people who claim to be a Capitalist.
thank god no one takes your stupidity seriously.
The British destroyed their African colonies because they did not decolonize in a sustainable way. They took shortcuts. They just left, then punished the people who built the empire for them so those white people in the UK could feel good about themselves. Now the empire is pouring into the UK, enjoy the war.
The Bolsheviks rebranded as Zionists 😂
A popular myth that the agency was right wing is laughable it was and always has been run and controled by liberals the right wing of the democrat party were still liberals wallstreet has always been domonated by liberals but liberals and neocons hide behind this right wing republicans run everything myth out of fear and guilt !
It depends what you imagine liberal means.
The German Army soldiers has been told the massive German offensives from March to June 1918 would win the war for Germany but by August 1918 this had obviously failed, hence the German moral was low but conversely for the Australian moral was high, hence the gap in the moral between the German and Australian moral was huge. Moral played a part in the victory at Amiens but also the effective use of "All Arms" strategic, total secrecy, no long warning artillery barrage to warn the Germans, tricking the Germans into wearing gas masks, taking out a very large proportion of the German artillery implacements, training of the infantry to work with tanks, re-supply of advancing infantry by tanks and aircraft drops, all played huge part of the allied victory.
There was great recognition of the Australian Army Corps commander General John Monash demonstrated by the fact that following the battle of Amiens Monash received spontaneous congratulations from a series of visitors to his head quarters including British munitions minister Winston Churchill, British Imperial Staff Chief Sir Henry Wilson, British Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in Chief Supreme allied commander in Chief Marshall Foch and the Prime Minister of France Georges Clemenceau French finance minister and finally, King George V visited Monash’s Head quarters asked for a sword and knighted Monash there and then, it was the first time since 1743 that a British monarch had conferred a knighthood on the field of battle and has not been repeated to this day.
john sweeney the guy you could trust to write a true story , did not elton john admit it late on?
I don’t think he did no. He might be many things, but I don’t think he’s that.
His movement was called "National Socialism" ( "Nazism" is only a shortening) So YOU are the stupid if you are denying that Hitler was a socialist.
Are you so lonely in life you have kiss leftist bum for a slim chance at finding love
JD = Jam Donut
Islam is against charging interest, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, taking drugs, poor quality food and gambling. SO that puts Islam at the top of the "HIT LIST." The fact that JD is a catholic means he is stupid and enjoys being provocative.
36:45 Labour aren't winning votes, they're losing them. I gotta ask, does the guy here work for a notable think tank or what? There's a few unsubstantiated strong opinions mixed in this video.
No I don’t and bear in mind this video was recorded last Wednesday. The Labour Party polled fewer votes than the previous two elections, and even Professor John Curtice, the most respected psephologist in the country stated that Labour’s landslide was mainly due to the divisions on the right.
Perhaps without the expectations of change, change will occur? I doubt it but possibly
It would be nice to think so, but yes, I doubt it too.
@@Explaininghistory People are tired of being promised the sky. Let's just see how it all shakes out
Hamas is to blame for all of this
Hamas committed atrocities on October 7th, of this there is no doubt. However, there’s simply no logical or moral argument that absolves the IDF from their deliberate mass killing of civilians. Also we tend to view the current situation as divorced from its wider political context. The Palestinian people have lived under apartheid and occupation for 75 years.
I'm afraid you are preaching to the choir. Young men are so programmed now to believe right-wing propaganda that it is useless trying to educate them. To young American men, Hitler is woke. Satan is woke. Feminism is woke. And white guys are the natural gods.
Another commie, then
Yep
Wrong, reform came 2nd in 98 seats, so in those areas tory split the reform vote. Besides, torys lost the conservative support, most didnt bother voting at all!
Quite possibly, but the point here is that the vote on the right is split, accounting for a Labour victory, not some wild enthusiasm for a Labour manifesto that promised as little as possible.
And now the labour party is on the path of coming back to power by defeating Sunak's conservative party in upcoming election with a landslide margin.
Yes, though it has little to do with any real enthusiasm for Starmer and is largely the result of a bankrupt ideology finally running out of road.
What primary source tells you that is an alliance. Stalin was rightfully distrustful of the Nazis. Before they came to power, he was constantly worried about a capitalist country invading the USSR, which was still recovering from a Civil War. He was very distrustful the Nazis when they came to power and tried many times to negotiate with the western allies to form some kind of anti-Nazi alliance, but the western allies rejected him every single time. Yeah, all you can do is criticize the USSR for signing a non-aggression pact of Germany after every other western allied nation did.
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“And only stupid people think he is”?!? 🙄🤦♂️😆When he called himself Socialist in at least 16 speeches and in some of those SAME speeches Railed against Capitalism sometimes more than Communism! 🤨 When it looks like a Duck, quacks like a duck and gravitates towards water like a Duck, it most likely is a Duck! 🧐 Hitler wanted top down government control of the economy even though big businesses was left in private hands and this or near Soviet communism was almost every Socialists Wet Dream! 💭 😳🙄🧐 You defeat your own DumbAss argument in just the first half of the video! 🤣 I call BullShit and I say it with 4 or 5 E’s like a Southerner! 😂
You're a god damn revisionist. You come up with bullshit because of popular opinion. Go get a job in thhe north sea and do us all a favor.
First thing to remember about Thatcher was she was a lover of Germans. When you realise a half a moron like her was put in power due to circumstances.. tou will release the Russians took over mi6 in rhe 50s. Inches 90s the just bought Chelsea..but we still gave to pretend the Downs syndrome street is somehow democratic 😅
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
Yes he was. He was a terrible, evil man and an evil socialist. A horrible ideology. You are coping and seething.
Interesting
Hey stupid: National Socialism is "Socialism" but not in the Marxist sense, it is based on Spengler's "Prussian Socialism" which emphasizes Prussian characteristics (austerity, militarism, dedication to order, self-denial, etc) in combination with Bismarck's "State Socialism" “After all, that’s exactly why we call ourselves National Socialists! We want to start by implementing socialism in our nation among our Volk! It is not until the individual nations are socialist that they can address themselves to international socialism." Otto Wagener in Hitler-Memoirs of a Confidant Hitler said after election: “The Germany of today is a National Socialist State. The ideology that dominates us is in diametrical contradiction to that of Soviet Russia. National Socialism is a doctrine that has reference exclusively to the German people.” Hitler’s last radio broadcasts to the German People asks Germans to fight for the survival of ‘our socialist State’ Socialism wears coats of many colours and blends into various concoctions all of which are totalitarian. You cannot disown it. Socialism destroys wealth and spreads misery. Socialists like to confuse amateurs with denial and variations of isms but the shit sticks to their blankets as if mohair. Hitler was indeed a socialist who was first nationalist and anti-communist secondly. Democratic socialism "by definiton" leads to national socialism just as socialism leads to communism.
Illuminating, thanks for sharing.
You’re very welcome, Ewan Gibbs writing is well worth checking out btw
Amazing video. Such a Great study resource. Thank u!!!!!
Many thanks! You can find the podcast on Spotify if that helps: spotify.link/okL2iEo5eJb
He was socialist. His policies reflect it. It has been in the history books for years now. It wasn't tell just recently the left has been calling him a right winger. He didn't believe in private property. he believed Gun control. Social healthcare, And abortion rights. Get over yourself. he was definitely left wing. Being horrible to a group of people doesn't determine your political ideology. If this was true the Democrats in America would not be the slave party. He was for centralization. That is socialism. Where the government regulates private business. Right wing is the complete opposite. Right wingers want less taxes and government regulations.
Can you present evidence, a source, a piece of peer reviewed history for any of the points you have made. Can you find any claim by Hitler that he didn’t believe in private property? Private property ownership existed throughout the Third Reich and was never affected. Gun control is merely an obsession of the contemporary American right, was never a debate at the time and even fascists generally agree that a mass armed population shooting one another is probably a bad idea. Nazism provided a degree of subsidised medical care for members of the Aryan race, a policy that wasn’t socialised, it was racialised. Hitler’s regime literally awarded medals to mothers having babies so that Germany could reverse its demographic decline. Germany had Nazi era abortion laws preventing doctors from providing any information about ending a pregnancy until 2022. Nazism was a centralised political force for sure but by that definition every government on earth is socialist. The central debate between left and right that has existed since 1789 and the French Revolution when these ideological strands emerged is ‘do we democratise access to wealth and power?’ Hitler, who believed it was his role to undo the French Revolution, believed in hierarchy, he believed that ordinary people had the capacity to follow and obey and little else. He believed that when ordinary Germans were mobilised at once, Germany would be unstoppable. He believed that the solution to Germany’s problems was conquest. This doesn’t place him on the political right that you are describing, a low tax, anti regulation, pro business right that emerged in many ways in response to Nazism (people like Friedrich Von Hayek, economic libertarians were obsessed by tyranny and believed that economic liberty would lead to personal freedom). Hitler’s politics and economics allowed for the existence of capitalism in Germany while it suited the regime, there were very wealthy individuals and businesses there until the end of the regime, there was no Stalinist collectivisation of the land or industry, though as with every other country in the world industrial targets and coordination was imposed during wartime. Fascism exists as a third player in the ideological struggles of the 1930s. If the economic left argued that more of society’s wealth go to labour and the right demands that more go to capital, fascism views the left as the enemy and coordinates with the right (Hitler’s first victims are the socialists and trade unions), the capitalist class is never attacked by Hitler, providing it was willing to adopt his racial ideas, and it was more than willing to do so.
This was interesting. Mosley's Union Movement and his European a Nation ideas are rarely if ever talked about.
Yes, there’s a whole history of post war British fascism in the 1940s and 1950s before the NF that goes largely unexplored.
You should also cover the british fascisti/fascists that were active if the 1920s before mosley's BUF.
That would be interesting.
fr. tankies are embarrassing
History!
How often do you hear that we couldn't have helped win without the USA, let alone the Russian dead.
It’s a basic historical fact
I'm British and that's a fact. It's only right wing thinking people that view the war with rose tinted glasses. Churchill was no saint. Then again, they're usually pretty ignorant about everything.
political language is a language of lies and hypocrisy, but nevertheless I appreciate the effort.
Often it is, but I think trying to make sense of the philosophical underpinnings of ideological positions is a way to start navigating things.
I think Hitler saw his opportunity to make a political career when the communists who were laying waste to Russia at a million a month, who had destroyed Germany from within when at the end of WW1 after they had successfully defended themselves from the British Empire stopping them from energising Europe with diesel fuel refined in southern Europe from pipelines out the oil fields of Iraq. Communists sabotaged Germany into the grave and their payment was Jerusalem. Communists were in Germany agitating for control. Not to mention Danzig, a German speaking city for 100's of years now in the hands of communists. They murdered, r@p3d, tortured, stole their land, enslaved them, and in one night in Bromberg laid waste to 3000 German families, all so the Germans would attack and they could take out their NO: 1 opposition. When Hitler saw that opportunity he acted, not sure what anyone else would have done? NOTHING? Joined in? A stern letter of reproach?
Marx hated socialismus, who decide weather socialism is national or international? marx?
I think when he wrote ‘workers of the world unite’ he was giving us a clue.
My Mother was slave labour under the Germans, and came to UK in 1946 as a teenager from the British run DP camps in Germany whilst my father was a Polish combatant< I can assure you that they did not have it "easy" due to there skin tone, and from me being classed as a white wog at school to my 94 year old mother still not allowed to vote in this country I can give you all the same life sob storys as anyone from the Commonwealth, However we get on with it and like the vast majority of immigrant's have made good lives hear
Hi, thanks very much for posting, it’s really good to hear other people’s stories, though I’m sorry to hear of the discrimination that you faced.
Just found this channel and enjoyed this video very much. I chuckled when Otto mentioned the Wooden Horse movie. The actor Peter Butterworth (from the Carry On films) was one of the vaulters during the actual escape, but failed the audition for the movie of the event because he “didn’t look heroic”.
I just need to hear now that Charles Hawtrey was in the SOE and that’s my week made!
You should thank god we had churchill
Please listen to my version of the truth....
He went and became a battalion commander at the front to try and restore his reputation after getting fired for the screw up at Gallipoli. No?
Briefly
@@Explaininghistory I wasn’t aware it was an at all prevalent opinion that he fought at the front throughout ww1. Genuinely/not being passive aggressive. As in where are the places (that isn’t some 14 year old on twitter etc) that is stated, in order for you to debunk it
There’s been a significant gap and disconnect between ‘right’ and ‘true’ in this country since the 16 days before the evacuation’ at Dunkirk!
Anybody wonder why we still see so many World War? 2 video games and movies coming out every year.? It's because it was the last war. Where the clear lines between good and evil we're visible
Yeah but it wasn’t. The myth of WWII as the good war is pervasive but it’s a myth nonetheless. It was for the most part a war fought against civilians and a war fought by old empire’s seeking to fend off new ones. The good guys either had colonial empires or racially segregated armies. The good guys Russian allies committed atrocities against German civilians en masse. Wars between empires are ugly things.
You presumably dismiss the opinion of his adjutant A.D. Gibb who was with him when he commanded the Scots Fusiliers who wrote about him anonymously in 1924 saying "no more popular officer ever commanded troops....And moreover, he loved soldiering: it lay very near his heart and I think he could have been a very great soldier."
Still a good job it was him rather than Halifax who was there to take over from Chamberlain or we would all be speaking German.
Sure, and it’s not like there’s nothing to be said for him at all. In this conversation (check out the full discussion), we were looking at the various myths about him. It followed Boris Johnson’s largely fictitious book on him (a lazy book written by a lazy man).
Couldn't stay faithful to his wife. Obviously he's a prick.
He is . He kept cheating on her , he had his own flat opposite the family townhouse . 🐕