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Shandypants

Shandypants

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I started this yesterday, compelling viewing and worth a watch. Despite studying it during A Level History the scale of the events can be taken for granted. Its the biggest event in the history of mankind, the scale is jawdropping. Its hard to believe I was born 24 years after it had finished and yet its on the cusp of being 24 years since the millennium evening.
This event is 80 years ago, the balance of victory was decided by two events, Pearl Harbour which brought the reluctant yanks to the war and the battle of stalingrad which alone cost approx 1.5m lives. The world would be unrecognisable if the axis powers had won and although Hitler respected the UK the following is quite disturbing:

According to captured German documents, the commander-in-chief of the German Army, Brauchitsch, directed that "The able-bodied male population between the ages of 17 and 45 will, unless the local situation calls for an exceptional ruling, be interned and dispatched to the Continent". The remaining population would have been terrorised, including civilian hostages being taken and the death penalty immediately imposed for even the most trivial acts of resistance, with the UK being plundered for anything of financial, military, industrial or cultural value
 
Shandypants said:
Its hard to believe I was born 24 years after it had finished and yet its on the cusp of being 24 years since the millennium evening.
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I feel the same way about the moon landings. As a child it felt like it was many, many moons ago (20 years ago as a 9 year old). Yet 20 years ago from now, I was in my final year of uni.
And some another interesting but pointless historical facts... Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the pyramids.
There were woolly mammoths around 1,000 years AFTER the pyramids were built.
 
Shandypants said:
I started this yesterday, compelling viewing and worth a watch. Despite studying it during A Level History the scale of the events can be taken for granted. Its the biggest event in the history of mankind, the scale is jawdropping. Its hard to believe I was born 24 years after it had finished and yet its on the cusp of being 24 years since the millennium evening.
This event is 80 years ago, the balance of victory was decided by two events, Pearl Harbour which brought the reluctant yanks to the war and the battle of stalingrad which alone cost approx 1.5m lives. The world would be unrecognisable if the axis powers had won and although Hitler respected the UK the following is quite disturbing:

According to captured German documents, the commander-in-chief of the German Army, Brauchitsch, directed that "The able-bodied male population between the ages of 17 and 45 will, unless the local situation calls for an exceptional ruling, be interned and dispatched to the Continent". The remaining population would have been terrorised, including civilian hostages being taken and the death penalty immediately imposed for even the most trivial acts of resistance, with the UK being plundered for anything of financial, military, industrial or cultural value
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I love historical stuff In particular military history
I’ll give this a look so cheers for the heads up Shandy 👍
 
BFC1980 said:
I feel the same way about the moon landings. As a child it felt like it was many, many moons ago (20 years ago as a 9 year old). Yet 20 years ago from now, I was in my final year of uni.
And some another interesting but pointless historical facts... Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the pyramids.
There were woolly mammoths around 1,000 years AFTER the pyramids were built.
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In fairness, no-one likes a smug woolly mammoth though…😉🤣
 
YES I have started watching it. All the film has been colorized. if that is the term Remember as a teen watching World at War . Never missed an episode. I have a lot of the episodes on DVD . they were given away years back in the Daily Mail.
Wizaard said:
I was born 14 years after the end of the War. It's nice that this Government has brought back austerity to remind us of those times.

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Nothing wrong with starvation rations . makes real men. LOL.
 
RUSTY_2_STANDS said:
I love historical stuff In particular military history
I’ll give this a look so cheers for the heads up Shandy 👍
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Shandypants said:
Not that it matters but it's in colour which emphasises how recent it was. The holocaust, Stalingrad, dropping of the atomic bombs the list is endless of events that morph under this event.
It's compelling viewing
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check out OPPENHEIMER. WOW. Really worth a watch. Los Alomos. And he was accused of being a communist.
 
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