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Operation Barbarossa - The German Plans to Lose the War

July 21, 2020

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The planning for Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, took nearly a year and went through a variety of scenarios. The basic plan was finalized in December 1940, and that month General Friedrich Paulus ran a series of war games to test its feasibility. Today we'll look at his conclusions.

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When the Racism of Naziism hits the Nationalism of Monarchism, it doesn't quite go like Hitler would have imagined.
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Indy shares his thoughts on what he thinks would have happened if the French would have decided to meddle in the Spanish Civil War – triggering a Civil War.
0x47 - Resistance in China - Myth or Reality?
March 3, 2020
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0x54 - Will Stalin invade India? And what about the West Indies?
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In today's episode of Out of the Foxholes, we answer exciting questions concerning Dutch and French colonies in America, British defence strategies in India and French soldiers stuck in Britain post-armistice.
0x55 - Hans Oster - A German Against Nazism
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0x64 - Field Rations, Foreign Legion, and French Anti-Semitism
April 23, 2020
What did soldiers eat on the frontlines? What happened to the French Foreign Legion? And how is the legacy of Alfred Dreyfus handled in the anti-semitic Vichy France? Find out in this exciting episode of Out of the Foxholes!
0x65 - Haile Selassie - The New Messiah
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0x67 - Georgy Zhukov - Hero of the Soviet Union!
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0x69 - Rudolf Hess - Nazi Pacifist, Traitor or Madman?
May 12, 2020
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0x70 - Protecting the Innocent - Kids Evacuations
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0x79 - Operation Barbarossa Transport Vehicles and Logistics
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0x80 - The Tanks of Operation Barbarossa
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0x81 - What Actually Is Blitzkrieg?
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0x85 - A Non-Nazi in Nazi Uniform? - Gerd von Rundstedt
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0x86 - 500,000 subs! - Bloopers
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0x87 - The Healthcare Crisis of 1941
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When WWII breaks out many parts of the world are still missing population wide healthcare. The pressure of the war deteriorates healthcare services even further. By 1941, both the British Commonwealth and Germany are facing an outright healthcare crisis on the home front.
0x88 - The Luftwaffe and Barbarossa
July 7, 2020
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0x89 - The Real James Bond was Balkan - Duško Popov
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0x90 - Barbarossa, Hitler's and Stalin's Hell on Earth - July 1941, Part 01
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When the German armed forces invade the USSR, they come with an order to exterminate from Hitler. Now the defending Soviet armed forces receive similar orders from Stalin. The bloodshed that follows defies human imagination.
0x91 - Spanish Republican Exiles - Nazi Colonialism & Hitler + Mussolini ≠ ❤️
July 16, 2020
What did Spanish Republicans do during the Second World War? How would the Axis have divided Africa? And did Hitler plan to keep Mussolini around after the war? Find out as Indy and the Chair of Infinite Knowledge answer three more intriguing questions in this episode of Out of the Foxholes!
0x92 - Operation Barbarossa - The German Plans to Lose the War
July 21, 2020
The planning for Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, took nearly a year and went through a variety of scenarios. The basic plan was finalized in December 1940, and that month General Friedrich Paulus ran a series of war games to test its feasibility. Today we'll look at his conclusions.
0x93 - War Diplomats, Japanese/Soviet Neutrality, and why not Sweden?
July 23, 2020
What happened to Allied ambassadors? And how did Hitler react to the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact? And why didn’t he invade Sweden? Once again, Indy is in the Chair of Infinite Knowledge answering all your exciting questions about World War Two!
0x94 - Operation Barbarossa - How much Intelligence do you need?
July 30, 2020
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0x95 - Generalplan Ost, the Nazi plan to kill the Slavs
August 4, 2020
In China, and the Soviet Union, all sides are causing widespread death to the local civilians. The defending forces are scorching the earth and plundering their own civilians, the attacking armed forces of Japan and Germany are executing planned genocide and mass destruction.
0x96 - A Career Anti-Fascist – George Orwell
August 6, 2020
George Orwell is one of the most famous English writers in the modern age. But how did he become the man who would coin so many of the words we still use in our political debates?
0x97 - Hitler's screen idol - Leni Riefenstahl
August 12, 2020
Leni Riefenstal's film techniques were groundbreaking and are still influential today. She did, though, create her most famous works in the service of Adolf Hitler.
0x98 - How Feminism Came to the Middle East - Women's Emancipation
August 13, 2020
While battles rage across the world, women at home are fighting for their basic emancipation. In Egypt, Huda Shaarawi stands at the center of this struggle.
0x99 - The Luftwaffe and Barbarossa, Part II - No Longer Masters of the Sky
August 18, 2020
As Barbarossa unfolds and the Germans take ever more Soviet territory, they have ever fewer planes with which to fly over it. What does this mean for the forces on the ground? What does this mean for their other theaters of war?
0x100 - British Deserters, Sword Fights, and Poison Gas
August 20, 2020
What happened to deserters in the British Army? Did Chinese and Japanese troops ever engage in sword to sword combat? Why didn’t Germany use poison gas on the battlefield? Find out the answers to all these questions in today’s Out of the Foxholes!
0x101 - "Your Strict Thesis is not Correct!" - Reading Comments
August 25, 2020
Indy and Sparty are back again for ‘Across the Airwaves,’ where we look at interesting and unique comments from our videos and forums. In this episode, we will look at foreign volunteers in the SS, and the Polish experience in World War Two.
0x102 - Pearl Harbor and Tie Barn Update!
August 27, 2020
Join us for a progress update of the intense and thrilling work with the Pearl Harbor minute-by-minute special! Indy and Spartacus will - in their own special way - walk you through what's going on with this MEGA DOCUMENTARY. Indy and Astrid will also let you know the status of the ties from Indy's Tie Barn that have been auctioned off so far.
0x103 - Extermination Now! - August 1941, Part 01
August 28, 2020
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0x104 - Hitler's Hangman and Himmler's Protégé - Reinhard Heydrich
September 1, 2020
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0x105 - The ϟϟ and Wehrmacht Murder Inc. - August 1941, Part 2
September 3, 2020
Fegelein's and Himmler's actions to 'comb' the Pripet Marshes for Jews continues. The largest mass-murder yet is committed in Kamianets-Podilskyi, while new methods to commit genocide on an industrial scale are being devised.
0x106 - Tanks of the Red Army in 1941: Armoured Cars and Light Tanks, by the Chieftain
September 8, 2020
Chieftain is back on the World War Two channel with a deep-dive into the Soviet armour in the first months of war on the Eastern Front. Remember that this is only Part 1 and covers armoured cars and light tanks. Part 2 comes out next week and focuses on medium and heavy tanks.
0x107 - Ecuadorian-Peruvian War: The War That Had Nothing to do with World War Two
September 10, 2020
While the Second World War grows ever more destructive, some nations take advantage of the global chaos to settle old disputes. In Peru and Ecuador, long standing territorial disputes turn violent.
0x108 - Tanks of the Red Army in 1941: Medium and Heavy Tanks, by the Chieftain
September 15, 2020
Chieftain returns to the World War Two channel this week for Part 2 of his deep-dive into the Soviet armor in the first months of war on the Eastern Front. This week, the focus is on medium and heavy tanks.
0x109 - Édith Piaf during World War Two, Kerensky, & the German Journey to N. Africa
September 17, 2020
How did Alexander Kerensky react towards the invasion of the Soviet Union? How were French musicians working during the war? How did Germans get to Africa in 1940? Find out from Indy the answers to all these questions in Out of the Foxholes!
0x110 - The Man in Monty's Shadow - Claude Auchinleck
September 22, 2020
Claude Auchinleck put military matters over that of politics. Although this angered some, mainly Churchill, Auchinleck still found himself in India, and later facing down Rommel in North Africa.
0x111 - Resistance is Futile in Nazi Europe - September 1941, Part 1
September 25, 2020
In the first half of September, Nazi murder campaigns in Vilnius and the Pripet Marshes continue. In the rest of Europe, the Germans tighten their grip on the occupied countries, taking away media privileges and further restricting the freedoms of Jewish populations.
0x112 - America First - Patriots or Nazis?
September 29, 2020
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0x113 - The Rape of Humanity at Babi Yar
October 1, 2020
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0x114 - Keeping up with the Bonapartes, Sino-German relations and Barbarossa news
October 7, 2020
What were the Bonapartes up to during World War Two? How were the German casualties of Operation Barbarossa reported, if at all, in Germany? And what exactly was the relationship between China and Germany in World War Two? Join Indy in the Chair of Infinite Wisdom to find out.
0x115 - Yugoslav Resistance and Serb Collaboration in 1941
October 8, 2020
Resistance has been brewing since the Axis invasion in April 1941. Multiple resistance groups fight for very different reasons and with different methods. When they launch a big offensive against the occupier, lines between friend and foe become blurry.
0x116 - Wolfpack Killers - U-Boat Tactics
October 13, 2020
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0x117 - The Wehrmacht is Not Clean! - October 1941 Pt 1
October 15, 2020
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0x118 - The First Liberation From Nazism - The Republic of Užice
October 20, 2020
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0x119 - On Stalin's Secret Service - Richard Sorge
October 22, 2020
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0x120 - Cranking This War Up to Eleven - Hideki Tojo
October 28, 2020
A man who was both Japan's War Minister and Prime Minister, who played a large role in escalating the already daunting scale of the war in China to a world war against multiple world powers. We learn about his life from his birth in Tokyo in 1884 to his execution at Sugamo prison in Tokyo in 1948.
0x121 - The Banality of Death - October 1941 Pt. 2
October 29, 2020
French resistance members liquidate a high-ranking German officer, triggering a series of retaliatory actions by the German occupiers. Meanwhile, actions in the 'Holocaust of Bullets' continue in the east as German forces move further into the USSR, taking Odessa.
0x122 - How Mighty is the Red Army?
November 3, 2020
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0x123 - An American Globalist - Cordell Hull
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0x124 - How To Kill 15,000 People in One Day - November 1941 Pt 1
November 10, 2020
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0x125 - Pearl Harbor- Minute by Minute - Official Teaser!
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December 7th is one of the pivotal dates in world history. That day, Japan launched offensives all over Southeast Asia and the Pacific to secure the resources that embargo had denied them. They also- more famously- launched a surprise attack against the American Pacific Fleet at anchor at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii- the only naval power with any realistic chance of stopping them. The United States was neutral, but this "Day of Infamy" brought the US very much into World War Two. We are covering the events of that day for five hours in real time as they happen, and have recreated many of the action sequences in collaboration with World of Warships using their game engine. It's going to be very cool; it's going to be very good; and it's going to happen December 7th.
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0x127 - Patton marches on Shreveport, Romania vs. USSR, and Free French intelligence
November 19, 2020
How did the non-German Axis fare against the Soviet Union? What was the intelligence agency of the Free French like? And what were the Louisiana Maneuvers? All these questions are answered in this edition of Out of the Foxholes.
0x128 - Switzerland: Neutral or Nazi Ally?
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After the fall of France in June 1940, neutral Switzerland found itself surrounded on all sides by a hostile expansionist power. The small nation would have been a valuable possession but the jaws of the Reich hesitated to swallow it. How did Switzerland manage to exit the conflict intact and largely unscathed?
0x129 - Japanese Plague Bombs - November 1941, Pt. 2
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Japanse deploys Biological Weapons in China, leading to un unspecified number of deaths. Meanwhile, European Jews from Germany and their occupied territories are deported to Eastern Europe, where Jews are already being killed by the thousands.
0x130 - The Nazis: Most Notorious Art Thieves in History
December 1, 2020
During their occupation of large parts of Europe, the Nazis systematically looted foreign countries for art, gold and other items holding financial or cultural value. Often for any larger purpose, but for their own, egocentric, criminal gain.
0x131 - A Japanese Bureaucratic Mess
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0x132 - Pearl Harbor and the Global War Against Humanity - December 1941, Part 1
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0x133 - The NKVD: from Pen-Pushers to Communist Hit Squads
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The NKVD started out as your regular old Ministry of the Interior. But over time, they grew out to a hugely influential and highly lethal weapon for some of the Soviet Union's leaders.
0x134 - The Warlords of the United Nations
December 17, 2020
Following the German declaration of war on America on the 11th of December 1941, Britain gained an invaluable ally. Securing a joint military command between the new partnership will be central to its success, the question is, how can this be achieved?
0x135 - Kido Butai: Terror of the Pacific
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0x136 - Christmas with Adolf Hitler - December 1941, Part 2
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Christmas 1941. A holiday season in a year of darkness and suffering, where Hitler celebrates his own greatness as the world goes up in flames.
0x137 - Waking the Sleeping Giant - America Prepares for War
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0x138 - Germany Bankrupts Greece - Countless Die in Famine – January 1942 - pt. 1
January 14, 2021
The early weeks of 1942 show how much of a global War Against Humanity this really is. People in occupied zones across the globe suffer under the boot of their tormentors. In Greece, thousands die in a famine, while repressive tactics claim the lives of many more in the Balkans. The Holocaust continues in cities and the extermination camp of Chełmno, while the Japanese army wreaks havoc in South-East Asia as they advance on Allied positions.
0x139 - Hitler Never Gave the Order - So Who Did?
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The structure of decision-making in the Nazi Party and the German government is clouded in ambiguity and implicit power-structures. We explore how this leads to a. rat-race, resulting in an endless spiral of irrational decisions and violence.
0x140 - Japan’s Only Pacific “Ally” – Phibun’s Thailand
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Thailand's prime minister and de-facto dictator Plaek Phibunsongkhram imported European fascism, nationalism and militarism to his country. But when Japan's threat to South-East Asia became imminent, Phibun didn't know what to do. His story is one of utter indecisiveness and opportunism.
0x141 - Behind the Scenes of WW2 - TimeGhost Cribs
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This week we will start a series of videos where you get to know the team that makes this magnificent content.
0x142 - Japan's Big Asian Gamble
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Access to scarce natural resources and labor was a big reason for the Japanese to invade numerous South-East Asian countries. But was that necessary? And did the benefits outweigh the risk? Let's find out!

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0x52 - Fallschirmjäger - Germany's Finest

0x53 - When You Run Out of Stuff to Hoard - Rationing 1940

0x54 - Will Stalin invade India? And what about the West Indies?

0x55 - Hans Oster - A German Against Nazism

0x56 - Poland Will Not Bow to Nazis & Stalinists

0x57 - The end of US neutrality? The Lend-Lease Act

0x58 - Barbarossa, African Jews, and the fate of PoWs in Germany

0x59 - Prince Paul of Yugoslavia - Victim of Circumstance?

0x60 - Did the British Engineer the Yugoslavian Coup of March 1941?

0x61 - Girls Armed With Pitchforks - The Women’s Land Army

0x62 - Charles De Gaulle - The Flame of French Resistance?

0x63 - Tanks of the Early North-Africa Campaigns, by The Chieftain

0x64 - Field Rations, Foreign Legion, and French Anti-Semitism

0x65 - Haile Selassie - The New Messiah

0x66 - Why Pearl Harbor? Peaceful Portugal, and the poor Kriegsmarine

0x67 - Georgy Zhukov - Hero of the Soviet Union!

0x68 - Sending the Jews to Madagascar? - May 1941

0x69 - Rudolf Hess - Nazi Pacifist, Traitor or Madman?

0x70 - Protecting the Innocent - Kids Evacuations

0x71 - Roald Dahl - Pilot, Seducer and Author

0x72 - Indy is in recovery from COVID 19

0x73 - Wehrmacht Wages, Argentina in WW2, and Otto von Habsburg

0x74 - The Battle to Crack Enigma - The real story of "The Imitation Game"

0x75 - Der Bismarck: Doomed to Fail?

0x76 - The Wehrmacht's License to Kill the Innocent - May 1941

0x77 - Foreign Fighters Part 1 - The Non-German Germanics Fighting for Hitler

0x78 - US Racism Against Germans, South African Neutrality and the Occupation of the Maginot

0x79 - Operation Barbarossa Transport Vehicles and Logistics

0x80 - The Tanks of Operation Barbarossa

0x81 - What Actually Is Blitzkrieg?

0x82 - Soviet Gender Equality Was a Scam

0x83 - Bonus Before Barbarossa - Ep 001 to 014 1939 Remakes

0x84 - The Holocaust Begins in Lithuania - June 1941

0x85 - A Non-Nazi in Nazi Uniform? - Gerd von Rundstedt

0x86 - 500,000 subs! - Bloopers

0x87 - The Healthcare Crisis of 1941

0x88 - The Luftwaffe and Barbarossa

0x89 - The Real James Bond was Balkan - Duško Popov

0x90 - Barbarossa, Hitler's and Stalin's Hell on Earth - July 1941, Part 01

0x91 - Spanish Republican Exiles - Nazi Colonialism & Hitler + Mussolini ≠ ❤️

0x92 - Operation Barbarossa - The German Plans to Lose the War

0x93 - War Diplomats, Japanese/Soviet Neutrality, and why not Sweden?

0x94 - Operation Barbarossa - How much Intelligence do you need?

0x95 - Generalplan Ost, the Nazi plan to kill the Slavs

0x96 - A Career Anti-Fascist – George Orwell

0x97 - Hitler's screen idol - Leni Riefenstahl

0x98 - How Feminism Came to the Middle East - Women's Emancipation

0x99 - The Luftwaffe and Barbarossa, Part II - No Longer Masters of the Sky

0x100 - British Deserters, Sword Fights, and Poison Gas

0x101 - "Your Strict Thesis is not Correct!" - Reading Comments

0x102 - Pearl Harbor and Tie Barn Update!

0x103 - Extermination Now! - August 1941, Part 01

0x104 - Hitler's Hangman and Himmler's Protégé - Reinhard Heydrich

0x105 - The ϟϟ and Wehrmacht Murder Inc. - August 1941, Part 2

0x106 - Tanks of the Red Army in 1941: Armoured Cars and Light Tanks, by the Chieftain

0x107 - Ecuadorian-Peruvian War: The War That Had Nothing to do with World War Two

0x108 - Tanks of the Red Army in 1941: Medium and Heavy Tanks, by the Chieftain

0x109 - Édith Piaf during World War Two, Kerensky, & the German Journey to N. Africa

0x110 - The Man in Monty's Shadow - Claude Auchinleck

0x111 - Resistance is Futile in Nazi Europe - September 1941, Part 1

0x112 - America First - Patriots or Nazis?

0x113 - The Rape of Humanity at Babi Yar

0x114 - Keeping up with the Bonapartes, Sino-German relations and Barbarossa news

0x115 - Yugoslav Resistance and Serb Collaboration in 1941

0x116 - Wolfpack Killers - U-Boat Tactics

0x117 - The Wehrmacht is Not Clean! - October 1941 Pt 1

0x118 - The First Liberation From Nazism - The Republic of Užice

0x119 - On Stalin's Secret Service - Richard Sorge

0x120 - Cranking This War Up to Eleven - Hideki Tojo

0x121 - The Banality of Death - October 1941 Pt. 2