thanks for posting that. very interesting.

+1!
But is there a translation?

Here's a good transcript with some additional info at the beginning: http://www.feldgrau.net/forum/viewto...4104ef#p119636
here's a youtube version with the translation as background video to the recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8raDPASvq0

It's truly fascinating. He's very well spoken as you'd expect (the transcript doesnt quite do it justice, especially considering he's freely monologizing for a good few minutes) and his voice and overall style is completely different compared to his speeches (f.e. this one). No rolling Rs, very different intonation and a very slight austrian accent that's absent from his public adresses as far as i know.

Says it all imo

I have just finished reading Double Cross - The True Story of the D-Day Spies and would recommend it to anyone interested in 2nd World War history. It reads much more like a spy novel than a historical book, but opens a fascinating incite into just how thoroughly the German spy network was controlled by the British.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...8-double-cross

sounds awesome, thanks for the recommendation!

Oh lawd.

nice pic. 70% true.

An interesting selection of WW2 photos from imgur:





















Full album here here.

Apologies if its already been posted, but one of the best (IMO) documentaries of ww2 is available on youtube (pretty sure its all legit as its been there for several months).

Its the French produced Aplocalypse. Its approx 6 hours of original WW2 footage, almost 100% in color and gives a very rounded perspective of WW2 (something which a lot of other documentaries do not do).

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocaly...cond_World_War
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1508238/
First episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjzYR0-vau0
YouTube user profile with the rest of the episodes: http://www.youtube.com/user/alnka1974/videos

Apocalypse is good but it's not my favorite one. I think it is too short and lacks details and explanations. For instance: I don't like that they talk about the Anschluss already on 8th minute.

I would recommend World War 2: The Complete History. I think it's better because they go deeper in pre-war politics and explain correlation between WW1 and WW2 among other things.

First episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mFG0Du_DKU

I always loved The World at War as a documentary series. I think I must've watched it about 5 times over the years and having Olivier doing the narrative is just incredible.

Is it the one from 1973?

LOL nice, a documentary from the neo-Nazi perspective.

"It's not clear who burned the Reichstag"

"Churchill's speeches in the thirties were the ravings of a lunatic"

Etc, etc.

The Germans used tons of artillery pieces and trucks captured at Dunkirk against the Soviets.

Italy was doing exactly what it did in WWI, sitting on the sidelines waiting to join the winning side. After the battle of France it looked for all the world that the Germans were gonna win so they invaded France hoping to pick up some concessions.