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.
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Hosted by: Spartacus Olsson
Director: Astrid Deinhard
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00:00 Introduction
01:13 French Resistance Success
04:06 The Germans Hit Back in France
07:05 Resistance Politics in Paris
10:40 Belgium Joins the Campaign
14:13 Denmark and Norway
17:25 Fears of Communism in Italy
21:50 Slovakia Rises
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We initially planned just one catch-up episode to cover the resistance activity that takes place over the summer and into the autumn of 1944. It turned out we underestimated our work there! Next week, we’ll have another catch-up on the brewing civil war in the Balkans. Coverage of the Warsaw and Slovakian Uprisings will continue in both Sparty and Indy’s episodes. Europe is really heating up right now as the Axis empire goes into retreat and Stalin’s forces arrive in the East. On top of that, the strains in the Allied coalition are getting harder to ignore.
De Gaulle, perhaps the most pompous and mentally diseased of the Allied leaders really was a vile littlr c*nt who expected everyone else to die to rebulid the Empire of Racism that it had always been since Napoleon – a "leader" who showed the world what a crazed Dictator looked like, providing Hitler a template for mass murder and oppression. After the war, the loathsome little dog turd of a man ruled over mass murder in every French colonial outpost. He also allowed the Vichy traitors to live mostly unmolested by authorities – mainly bacause he had no problem with Nazi mass murder, merely disagreed with the choice of targets slighly – killing the Jews was OK but they needed to get rid of Arabs too, though the French Army would soon start to address Hitlers failure, He deserves wider acceptance of his mass murdering skills and his open, racist contempt for those slaughtered
Anticommunism is an interesting ideology because its loudest proponents are fascists, and its quietest are convinced that they also dislike fascism
at least until the drive into the thousand (12) year regime's heartland begins in the late fall,
the sun of this summer of liberation can shine.
like all seasons though, it will pass.
darkness will descend again.
never forget.
never again.
"we saved Europe from fascism and they never forgave us for it" – Zhukov
Will part two of the series covering resistance mention how another Nazi war criminal, in this case Christian Wirth who was a participant in the Aktion T4 euthanasia program and was the first commandant of the Belzec extermination camp during Operation Reinhard, was killed while fighting partisans in Yugoslavia back on May 26?
Greece is a very important emerging area due to German withdrawal from its islands and peninsula following the withdrawal of Romania and Bulgaria from the Axis, and with Soviet forces reaching the Southern Balkans subsequently. In their wake, British forces land in Greece in late September 1944, intent upon restoring the Greek government-in-exile and forestalling a Soviet advance into the Aegean. Alas brewing tensions between this government led by the cold and aloof conservative King George II and leftist Greek guerrillas of the National Liberation Front (EAM) and National Resistance Liberation Army (ELAS) will gradually escalate into open conflict even as the British settle into occupation of Athens and the surrounding countryside. Tensions were high following the mutiny on five Greek warships in UK service in April 1944 against the Monarchist GvnEx, instigated by EAM sympathizers. Thus, the Cold War between the western Allies and the USSR had already begun.
Dutch resistance provided warning of German Panzer divisions near Arnhem before ill fated Allies offensive…
Smashing nazism AND building communism at the same time sounds good to me
I honestly didn't know that Slovak national uprising was started prematurely by what was probably communist meddling.
De Gaulle is such a hero here, and it's great to follow programs that won't think twice about talking about the nasty politics involved in the french liberation and its darkest takes.
My great grandfather was living in Lorraine and managed to avoid the german draft until the FFL came there, months from "now" . Since he merely spoke the local plat, he was drafted in a barely equipped infantry unit sent against the brunt of the enemy and was called "le boche" by his fellow french soldiers. He was treated like a colonial draftee and he never got a commendation for his actions. The Libération was scummy when you look at the details, and the secrecy maintained on the Resistance's archives to this day speak volumes about what we may still find in it.
Never forget 💪
Who is afraid of communism? I understand why they were afraid of military death squads. Did average people fear communism or did they fear the poor Soviet implementation of that ideology. It just sounds strange to me because I never hear " They were afraid imperialism was coming to kill them" when we talk about the Japanese army coming.
Slava Ukraine from a Canadian in Ontario
Smash Nazism or build Communism? Why not both?
Cardorna? Oh boy, the Germans have really Hötzendorfed this war up when a Cardorna for a commander seems like a great idea!
fear of "the ogres of communism" hangs over the continent? was this episode written by joesph goebbels? lmfao
Thank you.
Is Cadorna Jr. gonna fight 11 more Isonzo river battles? 😛
Awesome!
Smashing fascism and building communism are integral to one another, so the answer is YES!
Belgium 💪
In Italy, the rise of the communist movement was already apparent to the americans, and already thinking of the post-war world, the OSS recruited all kinds of fascists to help later down the line dealing with the communist threat.
This went so far as to save a famous leader of the mentioned black brigades, Valerio Borghese, from being put to trial by the communists in 1945.
This time around in 1944 his unit was doing anti-partisan warfare side to side with the germans in Italy.
To quote Gen Patton, "I'd rather have a division of Panzers ahead of me the a division of the French behind me". Look up the word "duplicity" in the dictionary, find a French face looking back at you.
Its almost jarring how good your pronouncement of Raol Nordling was.
Incredibly good work. Thanks.