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The Rise of the US Airforce
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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?
World War Two: Season 0 - 101 Episode s
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.
0x382 - The Nazi Quest for Thor's Hammer
December 20, 2022
Books, films, and comics are filled with Nazi scientists and explorers travelling the globe to get their hands on ancient artifacts or summoning daemons with black magic. But how much of it is grounded in reality? Well, some of it. In the neo-pagan religion invented by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the world can only be explained through the occult.
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.
0x433 - Will the Resistance Smash Nazism or Build Communism? - War Against Humanity 112
August 31, 2023
The hour of resistance is here. Across Western Europe, armies of resistance fighters rise up to meet the Allied armies and sabotage the Axis war machine. In Slovakia, a secret army fights to restore Czechoslovak independence. But against this hopeful backdrop, the Axis forces strike back hard. And, all around, the spectre of communism strikes fear in the Western Powers.
0x434 - It's getting worse.
September 3, 2023
Working via YouTube has always been a bit a of wrestling match, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for fighting in our corner.
0x435 - How Britain Helped the Communist Revolution - War Against Humanity 113
September 6, 2023
Fight the Nazis or fight your countrymen? From Marshal Tito's Partisans in Yugoslavia to the ELAS fighters in Greece, that is the animating question among the Balkans resistance movements. For many, the question is already answered. It is Mihailović and his Chetniks and EDES, EKKA, and the Greek royalist government who must be outmanoeuvred first. British foreign policy has so far failed to change this state of affairs, can Churchill get his SOE officers to stop these civil wars?
0x436 - At the end of the Axis’ Destiny - War Against Humanity 114
September 12, 2023
The imperial dreams of Germany and Japan are in tatters. But the expansionist beasts do their best to drag their enemies down with them. Across Europe the cycle of resistance and retaliation continues. Paris is free but Warsaw burns. V-1s rain down on innocent civilians in London. The Japanese cleanse West Borneo of opposition. The genocide of the Jews continues. For so many people, liberation is now so near yet so far away.
0x437 - When Patton Flipped out at Air Traffic Control
September 13, 2023
It’s time for another instalment of Across the Airwaves, where Indy and Sparty highlight some of the most interesting comments under our videos. In this episode they cover Patton losing his pilot’s license, the history of Polish 303 Squadron, the military irrationality of committing war crimes, and the community we’re creating here on the channel.
0x438 - Iranian Railways, Red Cross Care Packages, and Tail Gunners - WW2 - OOTF 31
September 20, 2023
How did the Allies build and manage an enormous railway supplying the Soviet Union through Iran? How did the Red Cross deliver aid parcels through enemy territory to Allied POWs? And, how effective were the rear gunners in ground attack aircraft like the Stuka and Sturmovik? Find out in this episode of Out of the Foxholes
0x439 - Is the Slovak Uprising Doomed to Fail? - War Against Humanity 115
September 21, 2023
Even as they battle an uprising in Slovakia, the Nazis see the opportunity to continue their racial realignment of Europe. The latest victims of this genocidal legacy are Anne Frank and her family, who arrive at Auschwitz. In Britain, the V-1 menace is defeated. But as London breathes a sigh of relief, the Nazis and their allies reduce Warsaw to rubble in a rampage of burning, looting, rape, and murder.
0x440 - What are we doing after WW2? TimeGhost Breakfast Club
September 25, 2023
It's been a while since our last one, but we're back with a fresh episode of the TimeGhost Breakfast Club! This episode has a look behind the scenes of TimeGhost, a short snippet of our team trip to Oktoberfest and an enticing sneak peek into the thrilling projects on the horizon. All whilst having breakfast between our latest filming!
0x441 - WW2 Jet Engine Development
September 28, 2023
Jet planes and jet engine technology revolutionized air travel, as we are all well aware. However, the development of jet planes during WW2 was fraught with all sorts of obstacles and hurdles. Let's take a look at it.
0x442 - The Man Who Stole the Atomic Bomb
September 29, 2023
In the New Mexico desert, a secret team of scientists is working flat out to develop atomic bombs. It’s the most important American military project in history. But one of those scientists lives a double life. Klaus Fuchs has decided to betray his country and share America’s most secret technology with the Soviet Union. But is he the only person who has turned traitor?
0x443 - Paris under the Swastika - Collaboration and Resistance - On the Homefront 019
October 3, 2023
Occupied Paris, a paradoxical city of banality and brutality, of resistance and collaboration. Join Anna as she takes you on a tour of the city from occupation, the establishment of the Pétain regime and collaboration, the growth of resistance, and finally liberation. But the story doesn’t end there and into the 21st century, the city of lights is haunted by its occupation.
0x444 - The Soviet Spies Who Kickstarted the Nuclear Arms Race
October 4, 2023
Last episode we saw Klaus Fuchs steal details of the American atomic bomb for the Soviet Union. But he’s only one component of a much bigger conspiracy. Today, Astrid introduces you to the mysterious web of Soviet atomic spies. Their work will change our world forever.
0x445 - Eastern Front Tank Warfare 1944
October 6, 2023
In this conflict, we’ve seen armoured warfare on a greater scale than anything before or since. Indy takes a look at some of the tanks slugging it out on the Eastern Front, from the long-serving Panzer III and IV, to the newer and more powerful Tiger and T-34 85, and the monstrous IS-2.
0x446 - How Britain Broke Hitler’s Brain
October 10, 2023
In a re-upload of one of our D-Day 24 Hour videos, Astrid introduces you to the war’s most effective counter-espionage and deception programme, The Double Cross system. Today she’ll talk about their operations before and during D-Day and introduce you to some of the most important double agents. Their mission - fool the Führer.
0x447 - Elvira, the Party Girl Double Agent
October 11, 2023
She’s the gambler with a hotline to the Abwehr. The party girl tearing up the London social scene. Now she’s doing her bit to hold back the Panzer Divisions and pave the way for D-Day. This is the story of Elvira Concepcion Josefina de la Fuente Chaudoir, Double Cross’s most flamboyant double agent.
0x448 - The Allied Rape Wave of 1944 - War Against Humanity 116
October 12, 2023
Since the earliest days of humanity, where there has been war, there has been rape. This war is no different. As vast armies battle across Europe, the chaos in their wake breeds an epidemic of rape. In its action and its punishment the European rape wave is also highly racialised. It adds up to a storm of suffering.
0x449 - Agent Garbo, MI5’s Greatest Actor
October 17, 2023
Juan Pujol Garcia’s neighbours think nothing of the new Spanish family that moves in during the war. But this quiet man who lives in suburban London and works for the BBC is a master of military deception. He runs a Double Cross network of invisible men who run rings around the Germans before, during, and after D-Day.
0x450 - Will Brutus Stab MI5 in the Back?
October 18, 2023
The problem with some Double Agents is that it’s very hard to trust them. After the mercurial Polish pilot and spymaster Roman Czerniawski offers his service to the Allies, MI5 and Double Cross worry that their new man will turn out to be a Triple Agent! But they’ll have to learn to trust agent Brutus because he might just hold the key to success in Operation Fortitude.
0x451 - Agent Treasure, MI5's Jewel of Deception
October 24, 2023
The intrigue of espionage lies in the shadows of trust. When the enigmatic Russian-born Nathalie Sergueiew is caught between German recruitment and British counter-intelligence, MI5 faces a quandary. Agent Treasure's unpredictable nature makes her a challenging asset, teetering between an invaluable ally and a potential risk. Yet, amidst the dance of deception, it becomes clear: Treasure's role is more golden than her codename suggests.
0x452 - The Double Cross Spy Bromance
October 25, 2023
Dusko Popov and Johnny Jebsen, Double Cross and Abwehr resistance working in perfect harmony. Together they forge a friendship that outfoxes the Nazis. But Popov and Jebsen are just a small part of a much wider story that goes to the heart of the anti-Nazi resistance and brings in our old friends Admiral Canaris and Hans Oster.
0x453 - The Tale of Fat Man and Little Boy
October 26, 2023
Here near the end of 1944, we look at the development of the atomic bomb. What different methods of creating a nuclear reaction are being developed? How close are they to development? How does it work? Will they be able to make one in 1945? Will it go boom?
0x454 - Smith Versus Smith: US Army/Marine Relations in 1944
October 27, 2023
When Marine Corps General Holland Smith removed Infantry General Ralph Smith from command in 1944 during the Battle of Saipan, it began a controversy that soon snowballed, threatening to sabotage Army-Marine relations at a time when cooperation was the key to victory.