When resistence to the ns regime is remembered in public German discourse mosty White Rose mentioned. Coincidentally that was basically the only group not opposed to capitalism. Most of the resistance were anarchists, communists etc., but radicals can't be held up as role models by the German state, it's media and representatives.

The US plans the battle of the Hurtgen Forest. The first step is actively hating your own soldiers. 

sources for both episodes
https://www.historynet.com/the-hurtgen-forest-1944-the-worst-place-of-any.htm
https://europeremembers.com/story/battle-of-huertgen-forest/
https://armyhistory.org/hell-in-the-forest-the-22d-infantry-regiment-in-the-battle-of-hurtgen-forest/
https://9thinfantrydivision.net/battle-of-the-hurtgen-forest/
https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/longest-land-battle-hurtgen-forest/
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2020/01/29/the-battle-of-hurtgen-forest-a-tactical-nightmare-for-allied-forces/

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Episode 155 - Battle of Hurtgen Forest Part 1: Courtney Hodges Hates His Own Soldiers

Joe is joined by Robert Evans, the host of Behind the Bastards to talk about that time the US sparked a race war within its own army during WWII. 

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Sources:
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/events-global-african-history/the-riot-of-bamber-bridge-1943/
https://www.stripes.com/history/2021-06-24/bamber-bridge-race-riot-blacks-wwii-1792183.html
https://theconversation.com/black-troops-were-welcome-in-britain-but-jim-crow-wasnt-the-race-riot-of-one-night-in-june-1943-98120
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/85/a3677385.shtml

Episode 179 - The Battle of Bamber Bridge

2/3rds of the WTYP cast join Joe to talk about the dumbest game of telephone in military history. 

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sources:
https://www.historynet.com/crimean-war-siege-in-the-caucasus.htm
https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-who-blundered-in-the-valley-of-death/
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/light-brigade-britains-disaster.html

Episode 181 - The Charge of the Light Brigade

The conclusion to the story of the polar bear expedition 

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Episode 201 - The Polar Bear Expedition Part 4: Welcome to the Red Parade

The Ottoman Empire, fueled by Turkish Nationalism, launched a genocidal campaign of violence against their own Armenian subjects. 

This is the story of how the Armenian people struck back.

Sources: 
Bogosian, Eric. Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide. 2015. 

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Episode 101 - Soghomon Tehlirian: The Luger of Justice

Tom Cruise is the worst pirate ever.

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*Unlocked* Valkyrie

Life aboard a U-boat during WWII was horrible but thankfully short from all the dying. 

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Correction: During the show Joe says he couldn't find reports of U-Boat crews killing themselves. Someone pointed out it happened at least once in this incident: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zschech


Sources: 
Iron Coffins by Herbert Warner
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/horrors-of-serving-a-u-boat.html
https://warisboring.com/the-high-tech-toilet-that-destroyed-a-submarine/

Episode 124 - Life on a U-Boat was terrible

Joe and Nick talk about all the times the militaries of the world attempted to weaponize the powers of woo woo bullshit.

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Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/cia-esp-espionage-soviet-union-cold-war
https://taskandpurpose.com/history/5-true-stories-militarys-paranormal-activity-research
https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/soldiers-vampires-ghosts
Blum, William. Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII
https://science.howstuffworks.com/ghost-tape-no-10-haunted-mixtape-the-vietnam-war.htm

Episode 126 - How World Militaries Attempted to Weaponize the Paranormal

Rome really loves enslaving people. Spartacus disagrees. 

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Sources for all related episodes: 

Appian. Civil Wars.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. "The Life of Crassus." "The Life of Pompey"
Bradley, Keith. Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989

Episode 128 - Spartacus Part 1: Jupiter's Cock!

One the nazis stormed into Poland at the opening stages of World War II it was not soldiers, trench lines, or pill boxes that they had to conquer first. Instead, it was the Danzig Post Office. 

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Sources:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/employees-danzig-post-office-fought-germans-15-hours-invasion-poland-captured
htmlhttps://libcom.org/history/defence-polish-post-office-danzig
https://web.archive.org/web/20060502021616/http://www.1939.pl/epizody/poczta_gdansk.htm

Episode 141 - The Last Stand of the Danzig Mailmen

At the end of WWII a group of French POWs went looking for help and ended up taking part in one of the weirdest battles in military history. 

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Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32622651
https://www.historynet.com/the-battle-for-castle-itter.htm
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/itter-castle-strangest-battle-world-war-ii-152721

Episode 142 - Castle Itter

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