James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles | Lex Fridman Podcast #470

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0:00 – Episode highlight
0:26 – Introduction
1:13 – World War II
11:11 – Lebensraum and Hitler ideology
18:23 – Operation Barbarossa
34:36 – Hitler vs Europe
56:22 – Joseph Goebbels
1:06:17 – Hitler before WW2
1:11:12 – Hitler vs Chamberlain
1:33:18 – Invasion of Poland
1:37:55 – Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
1:45:56 – Winston Churchill
2:09:56 – Most powerful military in WW2
2:32:18 – Tanks
2:42:17 – Battle of Stalingrad
2:55:09 – Concentration camps
3:04:40 – Battle of Normandy
3:18:32 – Lessons from WW2

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the dangerous aspect of hitler many forget is that the will to power probably came after WW1 in the field hospital when he suffered a psychosis. you can not argue with a man driven by su!cidal narcissistic rage. that day decided that the painter, the worker, the soldier, wanted to be rather than not be and the world was the oyster. i think most such human archetypes act like that. be that gangster, dictators, etc. they might have been born empaths and through too much trauma become apaths. most monsters are born in an abusive world and succumb to the corruption. not even the beauty of berchtesgarden could have saved that mans soul after standing in a pool of blood of some frenchman, denied his dreams, bavarian and austrian work culture is very masochism driven, can swing back into sadism, abused as a worker and thrown away by his politicians. i regard hitlers actions as a projection of him enacting revenge on life itself playing god, fallen angel syndrome, betrayed by god. the psychosis was only one of many nails.

and now Britain and the rest of Western Europe is a refugee 3rd world dump, kinda like 1933 Germany ROFL

About 25% of the Bolshevik leadership was of Jewish heritage…. Trotsky was famously Anti Religious & Anti Nationalist. Hitler was a Nationalist. The Nazis were Socialist (Lefties) & the idea of a "Jewish" conspiracy. Isn't negatively impacted by a small population or group. It is actually a reinforcing factor. That's the playbook the Nazis ran. Scapegoat-ism to invent a term. I'm sure Hitler believed the conspiracy was true because he was a drug-addled sociopath. It just so happened. That the powerful players in Germany at the time. Needed an articulate, passionate but unpolished, everyday man. One who could inspire the population. While not over exposing the fact. They were after total power. I mean when you think about the Holocaust. It happened in a time when man was supposed to be enlightened. It's antithetical to enlightenment. It's maybe the most hideous thing. A group of people can do to another group of people. I don't believe Hitler was "driving" or was in control. To the degree that pop-history pop culture & the media says. He wasn't a patsy but he wasn't The Mastermind. I think the best evidence for this. Is the Haavara that passed in 1933. If you are Googling it right now & you're an adult. A better question is why don't you know about it? Especially if you're an American citizen. The powers that be today. Do not want us knowing exactly what Hitler & the Nazi were. If we were taught too well about their occultism. Hollywood would be in trouble. If we were too well read on their propaganda tactics. The New York Times/Obsolete Media sphere would have failed 50 years ago. It always makes me laugh. When Someone will mention how evil Columbus "really" was & then bloviate endlessly about the accomplishments. Of some well presented historical icon of their political mythology. Che Guevara comes to mind. "He quit medical school to save the world!" Lol Yea he raped a maid (he had a maid?!) in front of his party guests. Shot several preteens in the head point blank and one famously. While a priest protested & looked on in horror. He was a racist bigot & a psychopath. The Christopher Columbus lies & claims of evil deeds. ARE the juxtaposition of a children's song and actual history. Which is a cherry picked collage of misrepresentation & pure fiction. The sorta thing spun up by the kind of person. Who would still wear a Che Guevara t-shirt. After learning full well the monster he truly was. Jimmy Dore for instance. Probably thinks Columbus called the indigenous people "Great Potential Slaves". When in reality he called them "Great potential subjects to the Queen". I'm sure everyone knows. That the quotes come from his diary. Which he wrote in old Italian. That was later (300 years later) translated in Spanish & then into English. By a group of people. Trying to cast doubt on Spanish claims to territory in the Americas & who was at War with Spain. The only historical crime against humanity greater than the Columbus nonsense. Is the entirety of the 1619 project.

Fairy tales from the Holland brothers do you not catch the irony…they do 😮

So the nazis INTENTED to starve the Russians but in reality the British army starved the Persians by taking away the grain for their army and caused 10 million death to a neutral country

Extremely biased historian, typical western arrogance

Were the nazis wrong though ? Look where we are today .

He gets some things wrong. Like the most powerful navies being the US at the beginning of WW2, also a little off on after the war how he doesnt mention how bad the US was to Britain and favoured Germany and Japan, he glosses over a lot…

3:14:00 my boy was struggling to stay awake 😂😂

11:55 Is exactly what is happening again today, it happened then and its happening now.

Imagine this day, age and facts sticking up for the big noses

Great cast. One thing he said though that the British weren't obliged to protect the Czechs even though France and Britain did have a treaty to protect them from military action which Hitler was threatening before Munich. Let's be real France and Britain totally screwed the Czechs and bailed on their treaty and could have stopped Hitler then an there the Soviets would have joined to stop him as well. Britain was just looking after Britain.😂

no 9ne asked hitler to invade poland… no one asked hitler to pursue his policies? what about the condition germans lived under?

Lex needs to stop listening to Rogan and the other idiots that come up with insane accusations and trying to stick with them till the end . Churchill never started the war , never caused all the downfalls of governments in Europe , and never goaded other countries with Hitler as a big stick . He is the one who stopped Hitler with the backing of the US and in most cases the Soviets .
Listening to a moron in the US that talks about Churchill that he knows absolutely nothing about is always a dead end . Daryl Cooper is a Hitler apologist. He believes Hitler did more good than bad , and in many opinions he would have joined the Nazis during the war before fighting for his own country .
Daryl Cooper is a Nazi loving moron .

The Holland Brothers are just a real gift to the fine and popular arts for their historical writing and presentations and actual killer books… Nashvegas Duffer here, true fan.

War crimes in wars are routine, including bombing civilians from aircraft and abusing prisoners of war, all the rhetoric about it should not happen it still happens, barely worth making it illegal when it happens so often. Do what you like is the rule ✌️❤️🇬🇧

Well this didn’t age well with everything that was released recently.