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imanamerican63

(13,802 posts)
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 04:53 PM Jun 2017

I watched the History Channel today.....

and they did a series of the World Wars. What got my attention was how the leaders of Germany, The Soviet Union, Italy and Japan, reminds of what we are seeing with Trump, Putin and those that want the ultimate power of the world. Scary! We need to stop Trump in his tracks, NOW!

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Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
3. I recorded them but haven't had a chance to watch...
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 04:59 PM
Jun 2017

but along those same lines. I suspect that Trump's hair is an alien symbiont.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
2. Trump has admitted I think that he models his behavour after Mussolini.
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 04:56 PM
Jun 2017

You can see it in his idiotic movements and facial expressions.

elleng

(130,974 posts)
5. 'He and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, were captured on 27 April by local partisans
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 05:07 PM
Jun 2017

near the village of Dongo on Lake Como. Mussolini and Petacci were shot the following afternoon, two days before Adolf Hitler's suicide.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Benito_Mussolini

OK with me.

Warpy

(111,277 posts)
4. I just finished watching a 1964 BBC series on The Great War
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 05:00 PM
Jun 2017

over on You Tube, all 26 hours of it. It went deeply into depth over why the assassination of a relatively unknown archduke from an imperial power in serious decline started a war that spread to every continent, plus the sheer scale of the effort, the destruction of land and human beings, and the incredible slog the whole thing was. I greatly recommend this because it very clearly shows the roots of Hitler's ambition to recreate it and "do it right" by conquering what the Kaiser and his armies failed to.

You also get a sense of why France surrendered in WWII rather than have another horror like WWI fought on its soil, decimating its population and ruining its economy completely.

I'm surprised the History Channel actually showed some history instead of pawn shops or that idiotic aliens guy.

MiddleClass

(888 posts)
6. I got the World At War miniseries about the second world war
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 05:20 PM
Jun 2017

Lawrence Oliver (name like that can pronounce not spell)

the seventies, I did not know they did one in the sixties about WWI.

Thank you, off I go searching. I remember something about the Archduke and something about Czechoslovakia, but the countries before that with Slovakia being the key to the triggering of all the alliance that caused it.

Warpy

(111,277 posts)
7. Well, the original argument was between Austria and Serbia
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 05:37 PM
Jun 2017

but the Prussian aristocracy had been building an elite military for decades and it was burning a hole in their pockets. You put that much time, effort, and national wealth into a thing like that, you start looking for ways to use it. Sound familiar?

In any case, look for "The Great War 1964" at You Tube. I can't recommend it highly enough, it's excellent.

MiddleClass

(888 posts)
10. This is just like world at war
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 07:16 PM
Jun 2017

Narrated the exact same, excellent and explanatory.

Serbia was the name, not Slovakia, something like Serbian rebels and a Austrian Prince and his wife.

I went and watched the first one, 25 more to go

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