0x217 - The German Slave Economy

September 9, 2021

To fuel the German war economy, the Nazis force millions of Prisoners of War, Concentration Camp inmates and civilians from all over Europe to work for in their factories and on their farms as slave laborers under harsh circumstances.

0x218 - The Real-Life Nazi Pirates

September 16, 2021

There is more to war on merchant shipping than U-Boats and the Battle of the Atlantic. Raiders disguised as innocent traders also play the role of privateers; stalking vessels, approaching with a false flag, and then striking before anyone can react. Here's the story of one: Kormoran.

0x219 - What if Pearl Harbor Never Happened, Life in Cyprus, and Peasant Armies of China - WW2 - OOTF 024

September 17, 2021

Ever wonder what would have happened if Japan just never attacked Pearl Harbor but invaded the Indies anyway? Or how the people of Cyprus are faring in the war? Or if the Chinese armies had any specialized combat forces? Find out in this Out of the Foxholes!

0x220 - What About Bagration?! - Why We're Covering D-Day - WW2 - Reading Comments

September 21, 2021

We've got a lot of comments along these lines. Here is Indy's response on why D-Day matters and why we're covering it in this special way.

0x221 - Kill The Nazis - War Against Humanity 042 - September 1942, Pt. 1

September 23, 2021

The Nazi German occupiers have kept increasing their pressure in occupied territory, and fooled their victims to still have hope, but at some point when the oppression gets unbearable, or all hope is lost, people will resist.

0x222 - Feeding the Meatgrinder - The Red Army

September 28, 2021

What is left of the Red Army after the smashing offensives of Operation Barbarossa and Fall Blau, and what have Stavka done to rebuild it? As the war on the Eastern Front goes on, more men and materiel stream to the frontlines, stemming the onslaught of the Wehrmacht.

0x223 - How Britain Oppressed India - War Against Humanity 043 - September 1942, Pt. 2

September 30, 2021

People in India are increasingly fed up with their British rulers and calls for independence grow. Resistance against the Nazis is also growing in Eastern Europe, which causes ruthless retaliations against the civilian population.

0x224 - Did a Wonder Drug Win World War Two?

October 5, 2021

We all know that penicillin is a wonder drug, it shortened the war, and assured Allied victory. Or did it, is that just a myth? The Allies are certainly much further ahead than the Axis, but even with accelerated wartime development, will it come into service quick enough to make a difference?

0x225 - The USSR: A Conspiracy Disguised as a Country - WW2 - Spies & Ties 09

October 8, 2021

The Soviet Union is built on distrust and paranoia, giving birth to a system of intelligence and a huge spy network ran by agencies such as the GRU and NKVD. But what good is all that information if you don't believe it

0x226 - A War Without Hate? - The Officers and Gentlemen of North Africa

October 12, 2021

In the history of European-style warfare, there has always been the ideal of "rules of warfare". The horrors of the Eastern Front and the Pacific prove how hollow this ideal can be, but there is one theatre where some officers are trying to maintain it: North Africa.

0x227 - Resist. Collaborate. Die. - War Against Humanity 044 - October 1942, Pt. 1

October 14, 2021

Resistance against occupation starts rising in the Autumn of 1942. It faces opposition not only from the occupiers, but also from collaborators killing their own countrymen.

0x228 - Music to Win a War - Music of World War Two - WW2 - On the Homefront 011

October 19, 2021

With the ascent of the radio, popular music became an important cultural phenomenon for the masses throughout the world. Therefore, it is the perfect mouthpiece for Allied war propaganda during the Second World War.

0x229 - The Vehicle That Will Win World War Two?

October 21, 2021

The Higgins Landing Craft, Higgins Boat, Landing Craft, or whatever you would like to call it, is one of the most important vehicles of the Second World War - perhaps just as much as tanks, planes, and warships. In a war full of amphibious invasions, landing on beaches in a safer and more efficient way is crucial to victory. So let's find out the history of this war machine and it's use by the World War Two Allies?

0x230 - Lying About the Jews in Film

October 28, 2021

How do you convince your people to hate and fear their neighbors, to support a genocidal war of aggression, and see you as their only hope? If you are Adolf Hitler or Joseph Goebbels, the answer is simple. You send them to the cinema.

0x231 - D-DAY - What YOU Can Do

November 3, 2021

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0x232 - A United Front Against Nazi Atrocities - War Against Humanity 045 - October 1942, Pt. 2

November 4, 2021

As the war intensifies on all fronts, the occupied world is aflame with resistance and reprisals. From Paris to Papua New Guinea, Humanity is under attack - but it is also fighting back.

0x233 - Is the Answer in Uranus? - The Soviet Plan to Win at Stalingrad

November 4, 2021

Georgy Zhukov told Josef Stain in September that if the Red Army could just hold out until November, he could put together a counteroffensive that would defeat the enemy. Well, November is here, and that counteroffensive is ready to kick off, but how was it put together? Let's find out.

0x234 - Wives – What Soldiers Left Behind - WW2 - On the Homefront 012

November 9, 2021

With men away at the front, couples have to separate and manage the struggle of war on their own. For women, who stay at home, this is not any easier than for the man: Worry, longing, loneliness, meaningless sex, the temptation of falling in love with others – it is an emotional rollercoaster.

0x235 - This is World War Two!

November 10, 2021

Welcome to WW2. This channel follows the Second World War as it unfolds, week by week, in real time. We began in 2018, by 2023 we will have created more than 300 hours of content documenting the war, making it the biggest documentary series of any kind about this conflict. Join us on this journey.

0x236 - Why Join the TimeGhost Army?

November 10, 2021

The TimeGhost Army is a community which comes together to make history so that future generations can learn the crucial lessons of the past. Without it, the content on this channel would not exist, and we would not have the large and expert team that is capable of doing the history justice. The TimeGhost Army allows us to stay independent ambitious, and free to take risks. Join now, and let's make history.

0x237 - Armored Vehicles of Operation Torch Pt. 1: Italy and Germany - by the Chieftain

November 11, 2021

Chieftain returns to the North African theatre to talk us through the armored fighting vehicles in action around the time of Operation Torch. This episode is part one of two with Chieftain covering the German and Italian vehicles. Here, Chieftain looks at everything from the fearsome Tiger to the nemesis of LRDG: the Sahariana.

0x238 - Here's Looking at You, Bill - The Secret Preparations for Operation Torch - WW2 - Spies & Ties 10

November 12, 2021

To smooth the way for the Allied invasion off French North Africa, Operation Torch, a massive spy operation is set up in 1941 and 42.

0x239 - New Faces, New Plans, Bright Future - WW2 Brunch Club - Special

November 13, 2021

1942 is drawing to a close, and the TimeGhost crew, that's us who bring you World War Two in Real Time and TimeGhost History have some big plans for 1943 and beyond. You can find out what they are right here.

0x240 - Fighting Nazis with Radios and Funerals - War Against Humanity 046 - November 1942, Pt. 1

November 14, 2021

As the Winter of 1942/43 is beginning, the German Nazis are under more and more pressure, both on the frontlines and in the occupation zones.

0x241 - Camps for Child Soldiers, Captured Crewmen, and Chaotic Air Forces - WW2 - OOTF 025

November 16, 2021

How did the ‘Nazi pirates’ treat their captured crewmen? Why didn’t the Soviets just bomb the motionless German armies stuck in a traffic jam? And how did the Nazi government convince parents to allow their children to go to ‘evacuation’ camps? Find out the answers in this latest edition of Out of the Foxholes!

0x242 - The 1942 Plan to Invade Europe

November 18, 2021

The second front has been opened, and Allied forces are invading Vichy French Northwest Africa. But did you know that it could very well have been an invasion of Europe taking place right now instead? Let’s examine how this idea came about, and why it never worked out.

0x243 - Little Saturn and a Live Stream - WW2 feat. Hearts of Iron

November 22, 2021

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0x244 - The Germans Learn to Love Their Slaves - War Against Humanity 047 - November 1942, Pt. 2

November 25, 2021

In November 1942 the resistance fight in many parts of Europe becomes a part pf the regular military war. In Germany the Germans discover humanity while the German mass murders see no end.

0x245 - Armored Vehicles of Operation Torch Pt. 2: America and Britain (and France) - by the Chieftain

November 26, 2021

Part two of Chieftain's return to the North African campaign. Here he looks at the armored fighting vehicles of the British and Americans with a small bit on the French as well. We see the introduction of the iconic Sherman and the varied fortunes of British design.

0x246 - LIVESTREAM: WW2 - Hearts of Iron IV: No Step Back

November 22, 2021

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0x247 - The Titanic Struggle for Reunion Island

November 30, 2021

It might only be tangentially relevant to the war as a whole, but the Battle for Reunion Island is not only interesting in and of itself, it serves as a microcosm for the war for the French in general. Check it out!

0x248 - Australian-American War of 1942 - The Battle of Brisbane

December 2, 2021

America shares a language and large parts of its culture with Britain and Australia. But when tens of thousands of US troops arrive in 1942, things will be far from smooth. While the alliance remains firm, their soldiers will spend almost as much time fighting each other as they do the Axis.

0x249 - Kokoda Trail: D-by-D Recap 01

December 6, 2021

For the past months, we have continuously mentioned the fighting on the Kokoda Track, but it was often a mere footnote next to the colossal battles happening throughout the world. Today, we give you a unique recap of all that’s been going on in this remote theater of war.

0x250 - Imperial Japan - A Spy Comedy? - WW2 - Spies & Ties 11

December 7, 2021

Japanese spy rings were somewhat successful up until December 1941, but after Pearl Harbor, Japanese intelligence remains only a shell of its former self.

0x251 - Rzhev Meatgrinder: Day-by-Day Recap 02

December 8, 2021

It is one of the deadliest battles of the Eastern Front and entire conflict, yet it is often overlooked next to the fighting at Stalingrad. Today, we will take a look at the 1942 Summer Battles of Rzhev.

0x252 - How WW2 Created a Welfare State - WW2 - On the Homefront 013

December 9, 2021

In predicament due to the extreme situation of war, people are in dire need for a working system of social security. Therefore, Beveridge is instructed by the British government to draw up a report on the state of the country´s insurance schemes. But in his opinion, a war is no time for patching up a collapsing system – and he is ready to make some waves.

0x253 - The Stahlhelm

December 10, 2021

The Stahlhelm. Perhaps the most iconic symbol of German military power, ever present in images of the war. Hitler believes it strikes fear in his enemies and makes his own troops fearless. But where does it come from and why is it so enduring?

0x254 - Is the Wehrmacht Defeated in 1942?

December 14, 2021

It's late1942 and the German Army is close to ruin. The Ostheer alone has suffered more than a million casualties in its fight against the Red Army. If the Wehrmacht can not find a way to return to its former strength or reap decisive strategic benefits in the near future, it will ultimately face destruction in a war of attrition.

0x255 - Death Squads Arrive in North Africa - War Against Humanity 048 - December 1942, Pt. 1

December 16, 2021

Despite Allied occupation, the situation of the Jews in North Africa hardly improves, in newly German-occupied Tunisia it deteriorates. Meanwhile, the world learns more of the details of the Holocaust - they cannot believe their ears.

0x256 - The Nazi-Islam Alliance? - Amin al-Husseini - WW2 Biography Special

December 21, 2021

Amin al-Husseini is one of the leading figures in global Islam. He’s an Arab nationalist, an anti-Semite, and anti-Zionist. But he’s also willing to work with imperialist powers if it suits him. He’s been loyal to the Ottomans and the British. In 1941, he throws his lot in with Hitler and the Nazis.

0x257 - How Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin Spent Christmas

December 23, 2021

They might be four of the most powerful politicians and/or military leaders on earth, but they are also citizens of their respective countries and today we take a look at what they do over the traditional Christmas holidays in 1942.

0x258 - Season’s Greetings from the Expanded WW2 Studio

December 25, 2021

As we go into the second half of this epic series, the TimeGhost Army has made sure that we get better armed for the fight. Bigger studio means nicer pictures, but also more and better content as we can work more efficiently. Heartfelt thanks for 1942/2021 and we will see you in 1943/2022.

0x259 - In the darkness of 1942/2021: Excelsior!

December 27, 2021

The 1841 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Excelsior” has both been parodied endlessly, and lambasted both for being Panglossian and misanthropic. We just think that striving onwards and upwards when facing impossible odds anyway is a really healthy attitude.

0x260 - War in Numbers 1942

December 28, 2021

Quantity had a quality of its own. 1942 was the year in which the dimensions of the Second World War became truly apparent. The US and its unmatched economic power began to outproduce any other warring nation, manufacturing a fleet of ships and aircraft in record time. In the east Soviet industry began recovering itself, producing tens of thousands of tanks despite tremendous losses. All the while the German logistic system got overwhelmed by the vastness of the occupied territory.

0x261 - Let the Hunger Games Begin - War Against Humanity 049 - December 1942, Pt. 2

December 30, 2021

The world learns more details of the War Against Humanity in Occupied Poland, while in China and India starvation looms.

0x262 - Chinese Spymasters - The New Warlords? - WW2 - Spies & Ties 12

January 5, 2022

During World War Two, china was ripped up by many different warring parties, all of which were also playing spy games with crosses, double-crosses and triple-crosses.

0x263 - Desert War - Dysentery, Disease, and Dehydration

January 6, 2022

North Africa. The Axis and Allies are fighting each other but even more, they’re fighting the desert itself. The men of the desert burn during the day and freeze at night. They do most of their fighting on a litre of water and a packet of army biscuits. What is life in such a hostile environment?

0x264 - Sniper Warrior - Vasily Zaitsev - WW2 Biography Special

January 11, 2022

From the woods of the Urals to the burning city of Stalingrad, Vasily Zaitsev went out to hunt his prey. As a sniper, he learned his trait in the grim reality of Stalingrad street fighting. Deep in the ruins of the factories, he stalked his enemies with a team of battle-hardened snipers. For days on end, they would lay in wait for valuable targets to show up. With a finger on the triggers, they would decimate the German ranks within a few deadly moments.

0x265 - Sniper Rifles of 1942

January 12, 2022

Even the best sniper needed a reliable and accurate rifle. During the Second World War, all warring nations fielded designated sniper and marksman rifles, but different manufacturers had different ideas, from optical sights to breech-loading mechanisms, to gas-piston systems. Some preferred traditional bolt-action, others favored the new semi-automatic approach.

0x266 - The Revenge Bombing of Germany - War Against Humanity 050 - January 1943, Pt. 1

January 13, 2022

While Nazi Germany keep on escalating its War Against Humanity, the United Nations Alliance decides that they will escalate their war on Germany.

0x268 - Nazi Breeding Farms - Lebensborn - On the Homefront 014

January 25, 2022

With high losses of German soldiers and low birth rates, the Nazis worry about who will inherit the Nazi paradise they are fighting to build. One of their ideas to breed a new Aryan generation is the Lebensborn association.

0x269 - Total War Coming to Germany - War Against Humanity 051 - January 1943, Pt. 2

January 27, 2022

In early 1943 Nazi German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels is preparing to rally the German people behind an unrestrained war - or “total war” as he puts it. It’s unclear what that means, Nazi Germany is long waging an unrestrained war, and it seems that the United Nations Alliance is now ready to do the same on Germany.

0x270 - The Origins of the SAS

February 3, 2022

"Who dares, wins”. Nowadays the British SAS - Special Air Service is considered one of the best special forces in the world. Yet its wartime origins are shrouded in mysteries and legends. From the first ideas of top-secret “special raiding squadrons”, to the first raids in North Africa accompanying the Long Range Desert Group, the SAS’s beginnings resemble one big experiment. An experiment from which a truly legendary special service would emerge.

0x271 - MI6’s Secret War - WW2 - Spies & Ties 13

February 9, 2022

Britain's MI6 is caught off guard when war breaks out. As the Germans advance across Western Europe MI6’s networks collapse, and Britain becomes almost blind. MI6 have their secret weapons at Bletchley Park but they now face a painful struggle to rebuild their eyes in Europe.

0x272 - Eat the Nazis, There’s Nothing Else - War Against Humanity 052 - February 1943, Pt. 1

February 10, 2022

As the United Nations Alliance, and the Resistance in occupied Europe increase their pressure on Nazi Germany, they continue to escalate their war on humanity. Meanwhile, in more and more parts of the world there is little to eat.

0x273 - Total War on Valentine's Day - WW2 - Reading Comments

February 14, 2022

Another installment of Across the Airwaves, where we highlight some of the best viewer comments under our videos. It's Valentine's Day and we're feeling pretty romantic, so Indy and Spartacus will be reading comments that are all about love, humanity, and relationships.

0x274 - D-Day - The Biggest Trick in History

February 17, 2022

It’s 1943, the preparations for D-Day have already begun: deceive the Wehrmacht. Here at TimeGhost, we have begun to prepare our D-Day for 2023, and we want you to join us! Find out how in the pinned comment.

0x275 - When Goebbels Signed Germany's Suicide Pact

February 17, 2022

Outnumbered, outgunned, and outproduced by the Allies, the noose seems to be tightening slowly but surely around the Third Reich. For Joseph Goebbels, salvation lies in a radical transformation of the economy and society – Total War. But first, he must sell it to the German people.

0x276 - Stop Being a Coward! - The WW2 Solution to PTSD

February 22, 2022

Humanity has spent millennia developing ever more efficient ways to kill. This reaches its apogee in WWI and WWII, the most terrible conflicts in human history. Broken bodies bring with them broken minds. The trauma of war brings with it the mysteries of shell shock, war neurosis and PTSD.

0x277 - Got Wood? - The de Havilland Mosquito

February 23, 2022

What if there was a plane that the enemy could neither catch nor reach? One that fully relied on speed instead of defensive armaments? The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was the first multi-role aircraft developed during World War Two. Made mostly out of wood, the “Wooden Wonder” could be easily converted into different roles - a fighter, a fighter-bomber, a bomber, and a reconnaissance aircraft.

0x278 - Total War NOW - War Against Humanity 053 - February 1943, Pt. 2

February 24, 2022

Germany declares total (unconditional war) putting its economy on a full war footing over three years into the war. Given the unconditional war they are already waging, and the resistance and opposition they now face, it’s unclear what it shall mean.

0x279 - Duck Tape - WW2 Secret Weapon

March 1, 2022

This war has seen a huge amount of scientific and technological innovation. New ways of taking lives, and new ways of saving lives abound. But what about the more ordinary, everyday, products of the war? Would you be surprised to hear that people in the 21st century will still be using WWII inventions in daily life.

0x280 - No Nazi Atomic Bomb - Operation Gunnerside

March 3, 2022

By 1943 the German “Uranium-Club” was hoping to harvest the energy of the atoms. One of the things they still needed for their experiments was the moderator “heavy water”, which was produced for them in the hydro-plant “Vemork” in occupied Norway. British High Command authorized a top-secret mission to prevent it from ever reaching Germany. A group of highly trained commandos was to parachute in and destroy the heavy water facility by any means necessary.

0x281 - Switzerland - The Heart of European Spying - WW2 - Spies & Ties 14

March 8, 2022

As a neutral country surrounded by occupied and axis countries, Switzerland was a major spy hub during World War Two. Surrounded by the Swiss Alps, the Axis and Allies fought a paralel spy war to get the upper hand.

0x282 - Death From the Skies: Surviving Civilian Bombing Campaigns - On the Homefront 015

March 10, 2022

Right from the start of World War Two, there has been little distinction between combatant and civilian. While bombs keep falling, people in Great Britain and in Germany are sitting in bunkers, basements and underground tunnels. We are taking a look at live inside those shelters.

0x283 - Assassinate Hitler, or Die Trying - War Against Humanity 054 - March 1943, Pt. 1

March 17, 2022

In the weeks after Goebbels' Sportpalast speech, we realize that Total War might mean an apocalyptic end for Germany, with Hitler's blessing. No wonder that some Germans are looking to end Hitler before he ends them, and what a blessing that at least one Nazi with influence on the fate of thousands of Jews turns out to have a heart and soul.

0x284 - Turkey Invading the Caucasus, Freemasons in Nazi Europe, and North African Trains - WW2 - OOTF 026

March 17, 2022

Did Turkey plan to invade the Soviet Union if Stalingrad fell to Germany? Did the Allies ever consider building a railway in North Africa? And what happened to the Freemasons in Nazi Europe? Find out the answers to these fascinating questions in our latest edition of Out of the Foxholes!

0x285 - Hollywood: Government Propaganda?

March 24, 2022

Along with its arsenal of carriers, bombers, and tanks, America has perhaps the most powerful weapon of all. Hollywood. Hollywood is pumping out American and Allied propaganda as quickly as it can. But was this always the case?

0x286 - Combat Boots Save Lives

March 29, 2022

Boots on the ground! Despite all the mobility provided by tanks, trucks and planes, the infantryman had to rely on his own two feet above all else. To march, run and fight, soldiers needed sturdy and comfortable footwear. Choosing between ankle-boots, service-shoes and jackboots, the warring nations were looking for the perfect combat-boot for their soldiers.

0x287 - Denazify the World. Resist Now. - War Against Humanity 055 - March 1943, Pt. 2

March 31, 2022

The Nazis and the Soviets discover each other's atrocities, while resistance is on the rise, and a half dormant conspiracy against Hitler comes back to life to take his life.

0x288 - LIVESTREAM: Ask Us Anything - Starting 8PM CEST 31/March/2022

March 31, 2022

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0x289 - The German Art of Bunker Building

April 5, 2022

Few things of the Second World War are more intimidating than the iconic German Bunker. Made out of reinforced concrete with a thickness of up to 3.5 meter, these casemates and pillboxes were incredibly tough to destroy. Built to withstand shells and bombs, they provided shelter to troops and civilians alike. But there were also some even larger super-structures. From giant U-Boat shelters and fearsome Flak-Towers, to the ultimate Führerbunker, the Germans perfected the art of bunker building.

0x290 - Bicycle - Can You Put a Gun on It?

April 8, 2022

“Bicycling to victory! Soldiers were moved by trucks and trains to the front, transported on the backs of tanks and armoured vehicles into combat. But sometimes they also went by using the good old bicycle. Pedaling over the paved roads of Western Europe and East Asia, specialised bicycle-companies surprised through mobility and independence. Bikes were comparatively cheap to mass produce and did not need fuel nor fodder. So they proved a real alternative to those nations, that had to budget their oil resources.” Have you forgotten yet?... For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days, Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways: And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow Like clouds in the lit heaven of life; and you're a man reprieved to go, Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare. But the past is just the same--and War's a bloody game... ...........

0x291 - The Awesome Force of War

April 8, 2022

0x292 - Smash Tyrants, Fight Lies - The TimeGhost Army

April 8, 2022

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0x293 - Life in a German U-Boat

April 12, 2022

The German U-Boats were one of the most dangerous armed forces of World War II. From the North Sea to the Mexican coast to the Cape of Good Hope, everywhere they put fear into the Allied merchant marine. But what was life like on a German submarine? What dangers did the crew face? How did they endure the long voyages far away from home?

0x294 - The West Sacrifices Poland to the Soviets - War Against Humanity 056 - April 1943, Pt.1

April 14, 2022

There are cracks in the alliances on both sides. Hitler’s allies are refusing to do his every bidding, and the revelations about the Soviet massacre of Poles in Katyn has set a wedge between Poland and the USSR.

0x295 - Khrushchev - Stalin's Loyal Enforcer?

April 19, 2022

Nikita Khrushchev has served Joseph Stalin faithfully for the past decade. He’s a career commissar and party man. So, when war breaks out, are commissars like Khrushchev little more than Stalinist enforcers? Or is there more to the institution than that?

0x296 - Would You Risk Everything to Fight the Nazis? - War Against Humanity 057 - April 24, 1943

April 24, 2022

The war against Naziism is escalating on all fronts - in the War Against Humanity the main battleground is now the Warsaw Ghetto.

0x297 - It Sucked To Be on a Merchant Ship in World War Two

April 26, 2022

Serving on board a merchant-ship during the Second World War is a hazardous endeavor. Stalked by submarines, attacked by surface raiders, and hunted by bombers, the convoys and individual cargo ships face constant danger on their routes across the seas. And that is in addition to the job’s typical hazards. But what is life like for a regular sailor on board these ships? And what motivates a man to sign up for such a dangerous job?

0x298 - God Help These British Agents - WW2 - Spies & Ties 15

April 28, 2022

We’ve seen it time and time again in this war. Supposed Allies arguing with each other instead of fighting the enemy. But when SOE and MI6 begin vying for leadership of Britain’s secret war, it’s more than cross words. Now there are lives at stake.

0x299 - Dead Refugees Are Better Than New Immigrants - War Against Humanity 058 - May 1, 1943

May 1, 2022

As the SS continues to crack down on the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, Great Britain and the US decide not to help Jewish refugees.

0x300 - Allies on Amphetamines

May 3, 2022

We’ve heard how German forces are fuelled by stimulants like Pervitin. But are the Allies doing the same thing? Of course! Their drug of choice is Benzedrine. It’s in use as the RAF bomb German cities, as Monty’s tanks push Rommel back, and as US Marines take the fight to the Japanese.

0x301 - Europe Aflame - Who Will Stop It? - War Against Humanity 059 - May 8, 1943

May 8, 2022

Europe is burning and it seems there is little that will end the suffering except victory over Naziism.

0x302 - A Dead Homeless Man on a Top Secret Mission - WW2 - Spies & Ties 16

May 10, 2022

We’ve encountered plenty of different secret agents. Men, women, Allied, Axis, Partisans. They all fight for different reasons: patriotism, vengeance, or cold hard cash. But they’ve all had one thing in common. They’ve been alive. We’ve never had a dead secret agent. Yet...

0x303 - Heaviest Air Raid in Human History - War Against Humanity 060 - May 15, 1943

May 15, 2022

As the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is being quashed, there are renewed Japanese atrocities in China, and the RAF sets a world record by bombing German civilians.

0x304 - Trident: The Allied Plan to Win the War - Time Ghost News Flash

May 17, 2022

Washington, May 1943. It was the largest Anglo-American conference of the war so far. With the Axis being defeated in North Africa, the Mediterranean, and New Guinea, the need to agree on new strategic goals arose inside the Combined Chiefs of Staff. A new course of action was to be set against Italy, Japan, and Germany, to capitalize on the recent successes. But debates and old dilemmas heated up when it came to resources, manpower, and the question: “where to attack next”.

0x305 - Drowning Germans, Burning Jews - War Against Humanity 061 - May 22, 1943

May 22, 2022

When Air Marshal Arthur Harris and Reichspropagandaminister Joseph Goebbels agree that a lot of death and destruction is not enough death and destruction, the world is in trouble.

0x306 - The Spy Game That Killed Yamamoto - WW2 - Spies & Ties 17

May 24, 2022

We’ve already seen the power of signals intelligence. Churchill loves being fed information from MI6’s Ultra. Now it brings a vengeance for his American allies. They manage to bag the scourge of Pearl Harbor, C-in-C of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.

0x307 - The Day the Radios Rang Freedom - D-Day Trailer

May 25, 2022

D-Day was a day when the news rang freedom, and a new hope was born for a world torn apart by violent conflict. It was not just a monumental event in the history of the Second World War and military logistics. It was also a historic day for journalism and international cooperation.

0x308 - The Deadliest Job in World War Two - War Against Humanity 062 - May 29, 1943

May 29, 2022

Arthur Harris and the RAF set another record in bombing Germany, and the outnumbered Yugoslav Partisans show the Axis that numbers mean little when you’re clever.

0x309 - How To Kill A U-Boat

May 31, 2022

How to kill a U-Boat? The threat of the elusive and nearly undetectable submarines had been on the mind of every Allied naval planner since the Great War. As the Kriegsmarine once more unleashed its wolfpacks to the high seas, it became a race against time to find a way to stop the deadly stalkers from beneath the surface.

0x310 - Dr. Mengele Takes Command - War Against Humanity 063 - June 5, 1943

June 5, 2022

Despair in Germany, more death in the Jewish ghettos, and Dr. Mengele tales command in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

0x311 - The Story Behind the Dambuster Raid

June 7, 2022

The thousand-bomber offensive was about to begin as Air-Marshall Harris was assembling his forces. Yet one man was to challenge his strategy. The aircraft designer Barnes Wallis thought: “What if there was a way to destroy Germany’s industrial might not by simply dropping thousands of bombs over its cities, but by a precision strike against its dams?” For this, a new kind of bouncing bomb was to be delivered.

0x312 - Nazis in a Balkan Mess - War Against Humanity 064 - June 12, 1943

June 12, 2022

In the Balkans, the Axis powers fail to rout Yugoslav and Greek Partisans. In Bengal, British India starvation is spreading, and in the Netherlands, the Nazis send 1,296 children and infants from the Vught Camp to the gas chambers at Sobibor.

0x313 - Istanbul: City of Spies - WW2 - Spies & Ties 18

June 14, 2022

Neutral Turkey appears to be an island of peace in a sea of war. But if you look a little closer though and there’s another story. Assassins ply their deadly trade. Spies slip in and out of occupied Europe. The Allies and Axis battle for influence. The secret war is in full swing.

0x314 - Mussolini’s Pope? - The Geopolitics of the Vatican - Vatican Series Part One

June 14, 2022

Pope Pius XI is the first Pope to guide the Catholic Church through the age of fascism. How has his Vatican responded to Fascists Italy and Nazi Germany, and what is the geopolitical position of the Papacy on the eve of war of World War Two?

0x315 - Leaving the Jews To Die - The Pope and the Holocaust - Vatican Series Part 2

June 15, 2022

Pope Pius XII never publicly spoke out against the Holocaust. Why? Did he not care? Was he a coward? Or did he think his silence was saving lives and Catholic souls?

0x316 - The Catholic Plot to Kill Hitler - Vatican Series Part 3

June 16, 2022

The Vatican and the Nazis have had an uneasy truce throughout the 1930s. But that ends now. As ever more of Europe’s Catholics come under attack from Hitler’s war machine, the Pope finds himself supporting the German resistance in their plot to kill the Führer.

0x317 - The Spy Networks of Rome - Vatican Series Part 4

June 17, 2022

The Vatican and the Nazis have had an uneasy truce throughout the 1930s. But that ends now. As ever more of Europe’s Catholics come under attack from Hitler’s war machine, the Pope finds himself supporting the German resistance in their plot to kill the Führer.