0x332 - The Posh Brits Betraying Their Country - WW2 - Spies & Ties 20

July 27, 2022

Being allies does little to discourage Moscow from recruiting double agents in the British establishment. The most famous of them all, Kim Philby and the Cambridge Five, penetrate deep into MI5, MI6, and Bletchley Park. With friends like the NKVD, who needs enemies?

0x333 - Hamburg’s Citizens Burnt Alive - War Against Humanity 071 - July 31, 1943

July 31, 2022

In Italy the Fascists fall from power in a peaceful coup, while in Germany the RAF and USAAF bring down a rain of fire of biblical proportions in Operation Gomorrah, launching the Firestorm of Hamburg.

0x334 - The Battle of Stalingrad Every Week with Maps

August 1, 2022

0x335 - The Never Ending Failures in France - WW2 - Spies & Ties 21

August 8, 2022

The typical image of the French Resistance is of a man, beret at an angle, cigarette hanging from his bottom lip, captured MP40 across his chest. But one of the most successful resistance leaders is a woman – Marie-Madeline Fourcade. And right now, the Germans have her on the run!

0x336 - TimeGhost Army Meetup!

August 9, 2022

We have some fan meet-ups planned for September. Join us in Normandy, Munich, or even at Oktoberfest! Tickets are exclusively available to members of the TimeGhost Army, and there is an exclusive auction for a seat with the team in an Oktoberfest beer hall.

0x337 - The Great Escape from Treblinka Death Camp - War Against Humanity 072 - August 7, 1943

August 12, 2022

While enslavement, and mass murder continues unabated in August 1943, at the Treblinka Death Factory the forced laborers decide that enough is enough, and bring battle to the SS in a daring escape attempt.

0x338 - Amazing Money Heist by Polish Resistance - War Against Humanity 073 - August 14, 1943

August 14, 2022

The reality of war finally seeps through to the majority of Germans, and it didn’t match up with the propaganda. Meanwhile resistance is increasing, and part of that is a classic money carriers when the Polish Home Army robs a money transport.

0x339 - The Communist Spies in America's Atomic Program - WW2 - Spies & Ties 22

August 15, 2022

The NKVD have wormed their way into British society. Across the pond, America is also teeming with communist spies. They’re in the government, military, even OSS, and the FBI. Now they’re going for the biggest secret of all – the atomic bomb.

0x340 - How Accurate is Saving Private Ryan?

August 16, 2022

How accurate is that famous beach scene in Saving Private Ryan? Is it true to the history or just another Hollywood story? Seeing as we're about to start the filming for our massive D-Day project, we figured we'd break it down, shot by shot.

0x341 - Join Us in Person at Oktoberfest!

August 17, 2022

We have some fan meet-ups planned for September, but the crown jewl is a spare seat at the TimeGhost Teambuilding in Munich on Oktober first. Join the bidding for this seat live on Friday, 19/August/2022, at 8PM CEST (German) time.

0x342 - LIVESTREAM: Meetup Auction - Bonus Q&A

August 19, 2022

The auction and tickets are available for sale exclusively to TimeGhost Army Members

0x343 - Greece Burns Under Nazi Occupation - War Against Humanity 074 - August 21, 1943

August 21, 2022

The aerial bombing of Germany takes a new turn but continues to fail to bring long-term results. In occupied Greece and Poland, over a thousand children are murdered by the Nazis.

0x344 - A Floating Airfield Made of Ice - WW2 Newsflash

August 23, 2022

In 1943, the British are working on a radical plan which could revolutionize the Allies' productive capacity. It might sound crazy, but ice might be the magic material they need.

0x345 - The Astonishing Nazi Underground Slave Factories - War Against Humanity 075 - August 28, 1943

August 28, 2022

While the RAF and USAAF continue to try to bomb Germany into submission, the German Nazis move their war production underground. In the process they create an underground slave camp that defies imagination.

0x346 - What would the Nazis say about this? - Blooper Reel

August 31, 2022

Lights, Camera, Action - CUT!

0x347 - Amon Göth: The Super Nazi - War Against Humanity 076 - September 4, 1943

September 4, 2022

While the Allies give up on the first Battle of Berlin, Amon Göth goes on a murderous rampage in the Tarnow Ghetto.

0x348 - How to Escape the Nazis

September 12, 2022

This is an intimate story inspired by real events (notably inspired by the story of a member of the Danish resistance and grandmother of Hans von Knut Skovfoged, Head of Development at PortaPlay. A story told not on the front line, but in the intimate setting of a small Danish village.

0x349 - Italy Switches Sides in World War Two - War Against Humanity 077 - September 11, 1943

September 14, 2022

When Italy leaves WW2, The Nazi German Reich immediately begins occupying the country, and the occupied nations it has held until now.

0x350 - D-Day On the Road Vlog [Part 1]

September 17, 2022

We're on the road right now, and filmed a little behind the scenes for all of you. Stay tuned for part 2!

0x351 - US Concentration Camps and Hitler's Latest Ally - War Against Humanity 078 - September 18, 1943

September 18, 2022

The German Nazi Genocide of the Jews surpasses four million deaths, while the Soviet Union and US step up oppression against some their own citizens.

0x352 - D-Day On the Road Vlog [Part 2]

September 22, 2022

The TimeGhost crew continue exploring the D-Day sites with Paul Woodadge, have a BBQ, and show you the very historical bed and breakfast, La Ferme aux Chats that they live in while in Normandy.

0x353 - Life Inside a Panzer - Tank Life Part 1

September 23, 2022

The German Panzers are high on the list of the most feared and respected weapon systems of the Second World War. Much of their effectiveness however did not simply stem from technical or tactical superiority, but was achieved through rigorous training and the tight camaraderie of their crews. Days, weeks, or even months on end, the men operating a Panzer would stay together, maintaining the tank, and training for the battle to come. Through summer and winter, heat and snow, mud and rain, the tank would become their home.

0x354 - Did D-Day win WW2? - a WW2 expert discussion

September 25, 2022

WW2 historians Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, and Paul Woodadge moderated by Ryan Socash discuss the meaning and significance of D-Day from historical, current, and future perspectives. Recorded on the road while shooting in Normandy for TimeGhost’s 24-hour documentary on the events of June 6, 1944.

0x355 - End of D-Day On the Road Vlog [Part 3]

September 25, 2022

As the first D-Day recording session concludes, Indy, Sparty, and Paul go look at the Hedge Rows, and Utah Beach. The grand finale is a meetup and dinner with the TimeGhost Army… with oysters!

0x356 - Nazis Go Fascist Hunting - War Against Humanity 079 - September 25, 1943

October 2, 2022

The Wehrmacht continues Operation Axis and its slaughter of Italian soldiers. In Western Europe, the situation of the Jews becomes increasingly precarious, especially so in Denmark.

0x357 - Sweden: The Jews' Salvation? - October 2, 1943 - War Against Humanity 080

October 2, 2022

As the Allies advance in southern Italy, the people of Naples join them in fighting the Wehrmacht. In Denmark, the biggest rescue operation of Jews thus far begins.

0x358 - Canine War Heroes

October 6, 2022

Where man goes, so does man’s best friend. Across the globe, tens of thousands of dogs are called up. They play their part in tales of heroism and joy. But without any agency over their own lives, they also experience fear, death, and cruelty.

0x359 - Chinese Warlords and the Royal Canadian Navy - WW2 - OOTF 028

October 9, 2022

In today's episode of Out of the Foxholes, we discuss the role of Chinese warlords played in the war against Japan, while also shining a bit more light on the Canadian Navy and its impact on WW2.

0x360 - The Nazis' Justification for the Genocide - October 9, 1943 - War Against Humanity 081

October 12, 2022

This week the Nazis go on the record about their genocide of the Jews. Meanwhile the Jews in Denmark are coming closer to safety, and the Roman Jews are again at peril.

0x361 - Nazis Suck at Sabotage - WW2 - Spies & Ties 23

October 13, 2022

They say every masterpiece has its cheap copy. Well, the German Sicherheitsdienst are trying to copy the success of the Soviet Partisans. With Walter Schellenberg, Heinrich Himmler, and Reinhard Heydrich in charge, you know it’s going to be a bloody affair.

0x362 - The Great Escape from Death Camp Sobibor - October 16, 1943 - War Against Humanity 082

October 16, 2022

The German Nazis and their helpers are facing increasing resistance, this week in Rome from the Vatican, and at the Sobibor extermination camp from their victims.

0x363 - Britain's Royal Spy - WW2 - Spies & Ties 24

October 20, 2022

SOE agents come from all walks of life but very few can claim to be royalty. Few except Noor Inayat Khan. She’s been sent as a radio operator to France, arriving right in the middle of a German crackdown on the resistance. Now she is the sole link between London and Paris.

0x364 - Another bombed city - war still not ended - October 23, 1943 - War Against Humanity 083

October 23, 2022

Trainload after trainload arrives at the slave and murder factories in Auschwitz, and a fire storm is created in Kassel, while the United Nations War Crimes Committee UNWCC is formed.

0x365 - Executed for Telling a Joke - October 30, 1943 - War Against Humanity 084

October 30, 2022

From a conference in Moscow the United Nations Alliance issues a warning to Nazi Germany about their atrocities, while those atrocities continue unabated.

0x366 - Community Livestream! [Starting 9PM Munich Time, 30/October/2022]

October 30, 2022

0x367 - Your Thoughts on Our D-Day Coverage So Far

November 3, 2022

Indy and Sparty pick out some of the best, most interesting, and even controversial comments by you under our videos. Stay for the PJs.

0x368 - Inside the Gulag System

November 4, 2022

Even as the Allied powers condemn the German crimes against humanity, their recent victories are in part thanks to the massive system of forced labour built by Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union. Over one million prisoners work in the Gulag to power the Soviet war economy.

0x369 - The Final Bloody Chapter of Operation Reinhard - War Against Humanity 085

November 9, 2022

The genocide of the Jews of Eastern Europe concludes with Operation Harvest Festival - Aktion Erntefest when 42,000 are murdered in the Lublin district.

0x370 - The Auschwitz Business Model - War Against Humanity 086

November 10, 2022

Hitler commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the failed Beer Hall Putsch, in Auschwitz 50 men are shot in celebration, and Arthur Liebehenschel replaces Rudolf Höss as commandant.

0x371 - The Real Reason for Hitler's War

November 15, 2022

The murder of the Jews of Europe is not simply conducted alongside the military and political war aims of the Third Reich. For Hitler and the Nazis, the murder of the Jews of Europe is the military-political aim of the war. It confounds all logic, but in the twisted worldview of Nazi ideology, it makes perfect sense. This is a war on the Jewry.

0x372 - The Pornstars of World War Two - Pin-Ups - On the Homefront 017

November 16, 2022

How do you motivate men to leave home and go fight in a foreign land? Send them packing with Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, and Irene Manning, of course! It helps if you include an Esquire magazine and girlie cartoons from the infamous Alberto Vargas.

0x373 - Baltic Peoples Join the SS - War Against Humanity 087

November 17, 2022

Hitler forces Himmler to betray his promise of independence for the Baltic states, despite giving the Waffen-SS 40,000 of their young men. Ion Antonescu of Romania decides to save the remaining Romanian Jews to save his own ass.

0x374 - The Secret Radio in Auschwitz - War Against Humanity 088

November 24, 2022

In Auschwitz the inmates gathering evidence of Nazi crimes score two successes, while the RAF score a direct hit on Goebbels as they set Berlin aflame. In the Pacific the accidental sinking of the SS Suez Maru triggers a Japanese war crime.

0x375 - Victorious Italians, Swedish Turnips, and Battlefield Songs - OOTF 29

November 29, 2022

Rommel disliked Italian officers, but how bad were the troops during the North Africa Campaign? DID German pilots use skip-bombing in the Atlantic? AND what kind of wartime songs did soldiers sing? Find out in this episode of Out of the Foxholes!

0x376 - The NKVD Making Fools of German Intelligence - Spies & Ties 25

November 30, 2022

Colonel Reinhard Gehlen is head of German military intelligence in the East. He likes to think he’s a master of his craft. But all along he’s been a victim of the NKVD and a man named Max. Gehlen thinks he can hold off the Red Army. But as things go from bad to worse his thoughts will start to turn to the possibility of a new world…

0x377 - Bombing Berlin with Ed Murrow of CBS - War Against Humanity 089

December 1, 2022

Ed Murrow accompanies the RAF on a bombing raid on Berlin, and files one of his most iconic broadcasts with CBS. In Teheran, Winston Churchill walks out on a dinner with Joseph Stalin, after the USSR Premiere suggests mass murdering German officers.

0x378 - Is the Luftwaffe Defeated in 1943?

December 7, 2022

Outnumbered and outproduced, the once mighty Luftwaffe is battling to hold its own across three fronts. Every month brings new pain for the force. But the Luftwaffe still has a few tricks up its sleeves and can make the Allies bleed heavily. If only Hitler and the Nazi leadership weren’t sabotaging its chances…

0x379 - V-1: Hitler's Deluded Revenge Plan - War Against Humanity 090

December 8, 2022

Japanese planes bomb Calcutta when it is still being crushed by the weight of the Bengali famine. Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer are obsessively trying to increase war production so Germany can begin launching its vengeance weapon against Britain. The wars of resistance continue across the Balkans with continued brutality and a new resistance force emerges in Italy.

0x380 - The Story of Poland's Armed Forces in Exile

December 13, 2022

The Polish state was the first to fall in this war, yet across the globe Polish soldiers are fighting on land, air, and sea as part of the United Nations alliance. The story of the tens of thousands of men and women fighting for Polish liberation is equal parts hope and hardship as they battle the enemy and even sometimes their own allies.

0x381 - The RAF’s Worst Day of the War - War Against Humanity 091

December 15, 2022

The United Nations Allies has some success bombing the Nazi German Reich, but it comes at a heavy price. In the village Kalavryta in Greece, the Wehrmacht massacre hundreds of men and boys.

0x383 - US Couples Miraculously Escape Japanese Massacre - War Against Humanity 092

December 22, 2022

Two escapes, one from the Nazis in Kovno (Kaunas) Lithuania, from the prison at Fort IX, and one from Japanese terror on Panay in the Philippines this week, will help to document the crimes of the Axis powers.

0x384 - The Myth of the Nazi Police State

December 27, 2022

The popular image of the Gestapo is as black leather-jacketed fiends whose spies keep the nation under constant surveillance. They are so powerful that the terrified population has no choice but to sell out its family and friends. But how true is this? Are all Germans living in fear of the Gestapo all the time?

0x385 - Stalin Deports An Entire Ethnicity - War Against Humanity 093

December 29, 2022

The last week of 1943 is a busy one. Stalin deports the Kalmyk minority from Kalmykia, the escapees from Fort IX get away, and the US President moves to found the post-war UN.

0x386 - 1943 in Numbers

January 1, 2023

This war is massive. Our chronological coverage helps give us an understanding of it, but sometimes statistics help us understand the bigger picture.

0x387 - Will Stalin Liberate or Occupy Poland? - War Against Humanity 094

January 5, 2023

The last week of 1943 is a busy one. Stalin deports the Kalmyk minority from Kalmykia, the escapees from Fort IX get away, and the US President moves to found the post-war UN.

0x388 - Is the French Resistance Defeated by 1944? - War Against Humanity 095

January 12, 2023

While the Soviet Union declared they will annex parts of Poland, the Western Allies fear that the broken French Resistance may ruin the plans for D-Day.

0x389 - The Partisan War Behind the Frontlines

January 18, 2023

There is a second war raging on the Eastern Front. From the huge expanses of no man’s land behind the German lines, Moscow’s battle-hardened and well-armed partisan bands are waging a Rail War in support of Red Army offensives. But every successful mission brings down the wrath of the genocidal Axis war machine.

0x390 - When the SS Go Too Far - War Against Humanity 096

January 20, 2023

The internal conflict between Poland and the other United Nations Allies deepens as Churchill faces them with diplomatic defeat over Soviet land grab. In the Occupied Netherlands and Poland the Nazis continue their atrocities.

0x391 - The Latest D-DAY Project Update, from an Alpine Cabin

January 25, 2023

Indy and Sparty are locked up in a mountain house working away at D-Day, and it's all thanks to those of you who have joined us on Patreon and booked memorials!

0x392 - Who Were the Flying Aces of World War Two?

January 30, 2023

Young, daring, and handsome, the Allied fighter aces of World War Two have captivated the public with their thrilling exploits. Join us as we take a look at the top scorers! Thanks to Curiosity Stream for sponsoring today’s video.

0x393 - Poland's Descent into Civil War - War Against Humanity 097

February 2, 2023

Poland, occupied, abandoned or even threatened by her allies is left to fight her own war. A war that under the influence of internal and external forces looks more and more like a full blown civil war inside the world war.

0x394 - How We Make Our Videos (and what it costs)

February 5, 2023

We're excited to finally answer all your questions about where Indy lives, how we produce the series, and how many of us there are in the TimeGhost Team!

0x395 - Hitler's Jazz Band

February 9, 2023

Does Adolf Hitler like Duke Ellington? No, and nor do many National Socialists. But the story of the music in the Third Reich is more complicated than you might think. What if we told you that Joseph Goebbels has tried to create a Nazi-approved swing band tasked with bringing the Jazz War to the Allies?

0x396 - A Very Special Message from Astrid

February 12, 2023

This is our last day of the TimeGhost Fundraising week. You saw what goes on behind the scenes, and now we want to show you what you've made possible over the last seven days.

0x397 - America’s War on Japanese Shipping

February 15, 2023

We've covered in great depth the Battle of the Atlantic and the war by and against German U-Boats, but what about the other side of the world? Why has the war on Japanese shipping been so much quieter? There are several very specific reasons for that, which we look at today.

0x398 - Mosquito Bombers Bust Out French Resistance - War Against Humanity 098

February 21, 2023

Across Europe the anti-Nazi Resistance continues to rise as does the infighting. In France the RAF carry out Operation Jericho to break out captured resistance members held at the prison in Amiens.

0x399 - Up Close and Personal - Mountain Warfare in Italy

February 23, 2023

Even as the Allied and Axis commanders focus on the sweeping warfare of the Eastern Front and the planning for the invasion of Europe, their men continue to fight a grinding war of attrition high in the Italian mountains. It’s a war of merciless terrain, brutal close-quarters combat, and vast quantities of artillery and bombs. They may be playing second fiddle, but the soldiers on the Italian front will never forget these battles.

0x400 - Luftwaffe Defeated in One Week?! - War Against Humanity 099

February 26, 2023

Allied and German Air Forces fight fierce battles over Europe with civilians caught in the crossfire, while Joseph Stalin and Lavrenti Beria deport two entire ethnicities of half a million in just one week.

0x401 - African Opinion in the War, Minor Axis Partners, and Foreign Ships in the British Navy - OOTF 30

March 2, 2023

How did the British manage their multinational Merchant Navy who are the non-American operators of Liberty Ships? How did Kenyans, South Africans, and others from Britain’s Sub-Saharan Empire view the war? And what is going on in Slovakia and Hungary right now? Find out in this episode of Out of the Foxholes.

0x402 - Ukrainian, Yugoslav and Baltic Nazis? - ϟϟ Foreign Fighters Part 2

March 16, 2023

Across Europe, non-Germans are filling the ranks of Heinrich Himmler’s forces. These foreign fighters certainly don’t meet the racial standards of the SS but times are tough and the Reichsführer-SS needs warm bodies. So, does that mean Himmler’s given up on the idea of a Germanic master race? Not at all. And he uses all sorts of twisted esoteric logic to justify his latest moves.

0x403 - Beria’s Reward for Ethnic Cleansing - War Against Humanity 100

March 23, 2023

Authoritarian regimes on both sides, in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and Imperialist Japan the terror is once again escalating. The bombing war from both sides see continued death of civilians, while Harris of the RAF, Spaatz of the USAAF, and Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower are getting into a fight about how the bombers should be used for the upcoming D-Day.

0x404 - The Rise of the US Airforce

March 27, 2023

The United States Army Air Forces, USAAF, is the most powerful air force in the world. Alongside the Royal Air Force, it is winning the air war against the Luftwaffe. But things weren’t always like this. At the outbreak of war, the USAAF could not hold a candle to its allies or enemies. How have the Americans managed to turn things around?

0x405 - Will Finland Leave the War?

March 28, 2023

The Finns have been fighting the Soviet Union since the Winter War. But now, Marshal Mannerheim and Prime Minister Risto Ryti look like they might pull out of the Eastern Front commitments they agreed upon with their Axis allies. German-Finnish relations seem to be at breaking point, and Red Army troops are threatening the borders. How long will Finland stay in this war?

0x406 - Do the Germans Know About Operation Overlord?

April 14, 2023

We are getting closer and closer to D-Day and the potential liberation of Nazi Europe. But how much do the Germans know about this? Is the leak inside the British Embassy in Ankara enough to thwart the efforts of Operation Bodyguard, Operation Fortitude, and everything else the Allies are doing to deceive Adolf Hitler? Let's find out. This is the story of Cicero

0x407 - Why We Don't Talk About China

April 19, 2023

We often see comments asking why we don't cover the war in China. Chiang Kai-shek is one of the major Allied leaders - so why don't you hear about him as much as Stalin, Roosevelt, or Churchill? Let us explain.

0x408 - Hitler's Revenge on the Italian People - War Against Humanity 101

April 21, 2023

As the RAF closes in on Berlin and the German Army is running dangerously low on men, the Nazi leadership is determined to use their resources to spread their crimes deeper into Hungary and Italy.

0x409 - They Predicted D-Day Would Fail

May 16, 2023

D-Day is almost here and we're putting our faith in all of you to join us in making it happen: https://dday.timeghost.tv/

0x410 - What Happened Behind a Photographer's Lens on D-Day

May 21, 2023

Roberta Capa has gone down in history as one the most groundbreaking war correspondents in all of journalism. His account of what happened on D-Day was something we wanted to share with all of you.

0x411 - The Moment D-Day Was Announced

May 28, 2023

D-Day is just around the corner, we're in the end game now. You can learn more about the project and how to get involved at http://DDay.TimeGhost.tv

0x412 - Invasion by Air - D-Day [Part 1]

June 5, 2023

In the early hours it is up to the Allied airborne troops to secure the battlefield perimeter, and protect the operation. Now they will find out if the Germans have been deceived, or are ready and waiting with mortal force.

0x413 - Through The Gates of Hell - D-Day [Part 2]

June 6, 2023

When the amphibious landings begin, they run straight into Hitler’s Atlantic Wall. Eisenhower has predicted a third of his troops may fall. While they land, the news breaks across the world.

0x414 - Piercing the Atlantic Wall- D-Day [Part 3]

June 6, 2023

With wide gaps struck in the Atlantic Wall, it is now up to the Allies to secure the beachheads and move inland. There they will face off with new German defences, and the Norman geography.

0x415 - German Counterattack - D-Day [Part 4]

June 6, 2023

It has taken all day for Rundtsedt, Hitler and the rest of German command to gather their wits, but now the Panzers are rolling - will the beachheads hold?

0x416 - The Combat Engineers of D-Day

June 22, 2023

How do you blast through the obstacles and minefields on the beaches Normandy? How do you get thousands of tonnes of tanks, guns, and men into the fight? And what about reopening the shattered French ports? You need men who are as skilled in construction as they are destruction. You need the engineers.

0x417 - The End of Nazi Intelligence in 1944

June 27, 2023

After years of undermining the Nazi regime and aiding the resistance, Abwehr Chief Wilhelm Canaris finally loses his battle with Heinrich Himmler and the SS. The Abwehr Trojan Horse is no more, and German intelligence is at death’s door at the most crucial moment.

0x418 - Nazis Destroy Last Jewish Sanctuary - War Against Humanity 102

July 6, 2023

Until now Miklos Horthy’s Kingdom of Hungary has been a rare sanctuary where most Jews have lived in relative safety. That changes with the German occupation. Now Adolf Eichmann. the Nazis, and their Hungarian allies bring the Holocaust to Hungary.

0x419 - Nazi Drone War Begins - War Against Humanity 103

July 11, 2023

Bombing enemy civilians does nothing to advance a nation’s war effort. But now, Adolf Hitler believes that the V-1 flying bomb, the first of the Vengeance Weapons, will bring London to its knees and unite the German population behind the war effort as never before. The missiles are ready for launch and thousands more civilians will die to satisfy the Führer’s delusions.

0x420 - How Hitler Approved His Own Assassination

July 13, 2023

So far, the German resistance haven’t had much luck with their attempts to kill the Führer, Adolf Hitler. But now, the German war hero Claus von Stauffenberg, together with Friedrich Olbricht and Henning von Tresckow, drives the resistance forward. It’s time to kill Hitler. It’s time for Operation Valkyrie.

0x421 - Diplomats Fight the Nazis in Budapest - War Against Humanity 104

July 18, 2023

Hungary's Jews are facing a Holocaust machine in overdrive. The deportation trains are arriving in such volume that even the extermination factory of Auschwitz can barely keep up with the pace. The entire country swiftly becomes Judenfrei and the Jews of Budapest sit helplessly as Adolf Eichmann and his Hungarian collaborators tighten the noose around them. Admiral Miklós Horthy is one of the few who can save them, but so far he has done nothing. Will that change?

0x422 - The Führer Adolf Hitler is Dead!?

July 20, 2023

Stauffenberg, Olbricht and the plotters launch Operation Valkyrie. The army moves in to seize power, troops surround the government quarter in Berlin, and Joseph Goebbels is arrested. But things start going wrong pretty much immediately and far away in East Prussia the Nazi fightback begins.

0x423 - Bombing France into Freedom - War Against Humanity 105

July 25, 2023

The destruction of German cities has shown how difficult it is for the heavy bombers of the RAF and USAAF to hit small targets with precision. Things will be no different when these big beasts go into action to support the D-Day landings. Thousands of French civilians will pay the price for the flawed logic of Allied bombing.

0x424 - D-Day Summary – Time Ghost PSA

July 28, 2023

Today we sat down with James Newman - our soon-to-be Head of Writing department and talked about the exciting D-Day adventure which had its spectacular finale last month.

0x425 - Moscow Invades Poland Again - War Against Humanity 106

August 4, 2023

The Home Army has fought hard to earn Poland its freedom from both Nazi and Soviet domination in Operation Tempest. But has it worked? Operation Bagration has seen the Red Army punching into Polish lands so what will become of Wilno, Lwów, and Lublin? And is the time right for an uprising in Warsaw?

0x426 - America Plans to Incinerate Japan - War Against Humanity 107

August 8, 2023

The Allied Strategic bombing campaign has claimed hundreds of thousands of civilian lives across Europe and has made little real impact on the Axis war machine. Even so, the United States is determined to extend the campaign to Japan. Until now, the vast distances of the Asia-Pacific theatre have protected the imperial enemy. That all changes when the USAAF unleashes the Superfortress.

0x427 - The End of Anne Frank’s Diary - War Against Humanity 108

August 10, 2023

In Poland, the SS and Wehrmacht unleash their most sadistic fighters to crush the Warsaw Uprising and massacre tens of thousands of people. In Amsterdam, the German security forces finally discover Anne Frank and her fellow fugitives. Against this backdrop, Heinrich Himmler talks of an irreversible ‘racial realignment’, and the Soviets discover the horrors of Majdanek.

0x428 - Hitler Youth Murder Canadian Soldiers - War Against Humanity 109

August 15, 2023

In Normandy, the Waffen SS butcher their military and civilian enemies while some Allied soldiers play fast and loose with the laws of the war. In China, hundreds of thousands flee their homes as friend, foe, and famine take their toll. Meanwhile, the spectre of deportation haunts Eastern Europe as Stalin reshapes his new empire.

0x429 - Life and Death at the heart of Nazism - On the Homefront 018

August 22, 2023

The Nazis love to spread the myth that they have transformed the German capital from a city of sin, unemployment, and Marxist street violence to the centre of a glorious new Reich. But the reality is that right now, Berliners are trapped between the Allied bombing and the Nazi regime’s tightening grip. And yet, the men and women of Berlin continue to support this war. For them, it’s a war of survival.

0x430 - Robo-tanks Slaughter Polish Children - War Against Humanity 110

August 25, 2023

Fierce fighting continues in Warsaw as German forces battle the Home Army’s uprising. Frustrated by a determined foe, the SS continues to retaliate against civilians, including Polish children. The Home Army calls for help but finds that London is silent. In Paris, the Resistance has their revenge against collaborators. The death factory at Auschwitz continues to burn as the Nazis start to evacuate the camps in the East.

0x431 - Hitler Plans His Genocidal Legacy - War Against Humanity 111

August 25, 2023

At the centre of his shrinking empire, Hitler plans his legacy. Together with his genocidal accomplice Heinrich Himmler, these two top murderers plan the destruction of the imagined creature of Judeo-Bolshevism. This week the children of Warsaw, the people of London, the peasants of Italy, and the souls condemned to slavery and death at Auschwitz pay the price for their warped worldview.

0x432 - The Double Agent Saving London From the V-1

August 30, 2023

The Germans are assaulting London with waves of V-1 flying bombs. But Eddie Chapman, a career criminal, serial womaniser, and masterful double agent working for MI5’s Double Cross is fighting a secret battle to beat the bombs. When he’s done with that, he pulls the wool over Reich’s eyes to help Britain beat the Kriegsmarine. This is Agent Zigzag.