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unidentified		World War II.
unidentified		The Yankees.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		We are the Yankees.
		This is going to be a fun segment, guys.
		I love doing these props, I tell you.
		This is the most enjoyable part for me.
		Are we still cooked?
		This is possible.
		We might still be cooked, guys.
unidentified		But let's get into this segment, all right?
unidentified		And really quick before we do, Rupert.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		Look at that, ladies and gentlemen.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Dog Cam.
		Rupert is in the house, guys.
		I know you guys were asking about him earlier.
		He's been chilling on the couch.
		He's been a good boy tonight.
unidentified		Yeah.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		He's in the studio now.
unidentified		Rupert.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		World War II.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Let's take it from the top, okay?
		So everybody knows there was two wars.
		You got World War I, and then you've got World War II, which is what we're focused on.
		But World War I was important, guys, because this is what set the stage for a lot of the despair that created why Hitler even exists till today, right?
		So we had in 1919, we had what was called the Treaty of Versailles, which was Germany takes full blame for World War I. They're forced to pay $6 billion in reparations, which is a lot of money back then, guys.
		This is like over.
		Yeah, this is like something that you wouldn't even be able to afford in a whole country like that that's already in peril.
		And they had a lot of bombing.
		They didn't have the ability to make these payments.
		Their army was capped at 100,000 men.
		They weren't allowed to have tanks.
		They weren't allowed to have subs, Air Force.
		The Rhineland, which is like this little region on the Western Front, that was given away.
		And so you can see the land that the German Empire and the Austria-Hungary Empire, what they had.
		And essentially, they just went in, they divvied it up.
		They just said, all right, you get this.
		We're creating these new countries here.
		We're creating these new countries there.
		And the size of Germany was significantly shortened.
		Okay.
		So the problem is, is that that was 13% of its land and 10% of its population, including like key industrial regions.
		And it was a psychological hit, guys.
		You know, the Germans were very prideful in their country.
		This is something that was instilled to them from their, you know, chancellor.
		And so a lot of them felt humiliated and betrayed, right?
		So this sets up the stage perfectly for a man that we all know as Hitler, but people don't always know what got him into power.
		So we're going to cue this video up, which is going to show, you know, how the Great Depression and a lot of these financial situations actually led to, you know, the reason why Hitler got in.
		Let's cue the rise of Hitler's party.
unidentified		In this climate of bitterness, Hitler rose to prominence.
		A gifted public speaker, he captured the people's disillusionment with a series of speeches calling for a stronger, unified Germany.
		He insisted that one group was to blame for the nation's post-war misfortunes, the Jews.
		Hitler and his followers attempted a government coup in 1923, but the plan failed.
		Hitler was jailed for treason for nine months, but the publicity from the failed coup made him more popular than ever.
		Then, in 1929, the Great Depression hit, destroying the German economy overnight and leaving millions unemployed.
		Hitler saw the ensuing chaos as his opportunity to seize power.
		He loudly criticized the ruling government and promised to return Germany to greatness.
		Long-suffering Germans believed they had finally found their savior.
		In Germany's 1932 elections, the Nazis won a majority of seats in parliament, and Hitler ran for president.
		Though he lost, his soaring popularity inspired President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint him chancellor, the head of the German government.
		As chancellor, Hitler wasted no time tightening his grip on every aspect of German life.
		He tripled the size of the military, violating the Treaty of Versailles.
		Under Hitler's orders, rival parties were banned, while paramilitary groups cracked down on protests and executed political opponents.
		Anti-Semitic laws prohibited Jews from working, voting, and occupying public spaces.
		A propaganda department produced art, films, and books praising Hitler and embracing his vision of a better Germany.
		After the death of President von Hindenburg in 1934, Hitler declared himself Führer, an absolute dictator.
		With Germany under his total control, Hitler would shift his focus to global domination, setting the stage for World War II.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, so getting into Hitler talking about this, it's an interesting topic, number one.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		Hitler was a World War I veteran.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Yes, he was.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		And people point him and they go, oh, look, funny mustache.
		They had mustaches like that so they could still wear gas masks.
		That's where that all comes from.
		So Hitler endures the horrors of World War I.
		And he sees this loss of, you know, national power, national empire that Otto von Bismarck and really the Germans had created for themselves.
		And he sees the rise of the Weimar Republic and he sees kind of a fall into what he perceives to be degeneracy, into stagnation, into like anti-nationalism.
		And he doesn't want to stand for it.
		So that's why he becomes this great political figure is because he's able to tap into that rage because he has it himself.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
		And when you have a lot of people that are miserable and you've got a lot of people that are unhappy and they're depressed, you can easily galvanize them because they're looking for a way out and you just have to promise them that.
		So the thing about this is everyone thinks that this 1939, you know, when Germany invaded Poland, everybody's heard that in the history books, they're like, okay, that's what really started World War II.
		But here's the thing.
		There was like an entire decade prior to this where you had all this shifting around and instability and the world was already on fire, right?
		So, I mean, you had the Great Depression didn't just crush the United States.
		It crushed Germany.
		It crushed a lot of other economies because everyone was tied globally to the United States and their stock market.
		And so everything crashed across.
		And this is actually, it's crazy because this is one of the dominoes that sets the course.
		Inadvertently, the United States' greed and these things have set the course of these depressions in a certain aspect.
		Now, it's not all just the United States, but this is a major factor.
		So here's the thing.
		You had Italy under Mussolini.
		They wanted to conquest.
		They turned to conquest.
		They wanted to distract from the economic chaos.
		You even had Spain that erupted in 1936.
		Had their own civil war, where you had, you know, Hitler and Mussolini arming uh, a man named Franco who kind of read, who kind of led this right uh, anti uh government, the establishment government situation where they had basically civil war and then you had the Sil?
		Uh Soviet Russians backing the other side, the original government.
		So I mean, it was basically like a dress rehearsal for World War Ii.
		And even Japan was hit by this economic uh, economic?
		Uh collapse and that was what caused them to invade a region of China called Manchuria in 1931.
		And that's because uh, for people who don't know, Japan is not rich in natural resources.
		They have nothing, they have nothing right, but everything around them has natural resources, and Manchuria is one of those regions where they had, you know, a lot of natural uh materials that they could go.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		You're leading into it this is where we get the term Manchurian Candidate, exactly.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		And and one of the things that happened when they went and attacked Manchuria during this 1931 uh, it's called the rape of Nanking, right?
		So people don't know, but German uh, Germans did their own atrocities, but the Japanese did some crazy stuff.
		They were killing 200 000 citizens uh, they carried out mass sexual assaults and, you know, there was a lot of chaos.
		Like I said before, Hitler even invaded Poland, and so when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, that's when it became official, essentially.
		So you know it's crazy, during this entire time we had a little thing called the League OF Nations.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		They couldn't do.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Do you know what the League OF Nations is?
		REX, Proto-un?
		Yeah, it's essentially what we kind of see as the UN now, and it was an organization meant to stop.
		They established this after World War One, where they're like, oh, we don't want to ever run into this situation again.
		So they formed this to prevent another global conflict.
		And you know it's crazy because they only issued statements and sanctions and no one followed it.
		And what's even more crazy is, even while the world started falling apart and you had Japan invading, you had Italy having, you know, invading Ethiopia, you had Spain in the civil war, you know, Britain and France were just still haunted by World War One.
		They refused to intervene, they were scared of escalation.
		And meanwhile all these nations are begging for help from the League OF Nations.
		And the irony is, is each one of these countries that were being aggressive, they were part of the League OF Nations, right?
		So it's like, isn't it like a spinning parallel to the UN?
		Now right, we've got all these people condemning people in the UN currently right, but what's really about it?
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, they don't do anything about it.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		And that's such a great point Tim, yeah.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		So I mean, let's cue the uh, let's cue this map of uh, the League OF Nations, just so people can see.
		So, as you can see, with the League OF Nations, you can see the members that left, you can see the members uh, that you know, colonies of the members.
		It was supposed to be this global order.
		You know, it was supposed to be something that everybody was a part of and you could condemn people.
		But again, like I said, it's the same parallel as we see today.
		So now this cues the main attraction, which is Germany's territorial expansions, which started from 1936 to 1939.
		So guys pay attention to this map.
		Remember I said that, that red Germany before in the World War One map that we show it's bigger.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		And then World War Ii map, Pre-world War Ii, it's got that giant chunk bitten out of it.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Yes right, that's Czechoslovakia okay, and that.
		And Rex is pointing on something that is important.
		So in 1936, what he does, Hitler does, is he re remilitarizes the Rhineland, which is supposed to be this neutral zone, that's that red area right there on the left that you see there.
		And then it's violating the Treaty Of Versailles and everybody's like, oh my God, you can't do that.
		Again, nobody's doing anything about it.
		Hitler's like, okay, what are you going to do?
		And then you get into 1938 and then he takes Austria.
		So he takes Austria and he starts calling them, you're my people, essentially.
		And he wanted to take control of also Czechoslovakia.
		The thing about this was Hitler.
		all of these territories because he felt like these were my ethnic people.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, this is German land.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		There was German land.
		There was German people.
		There was people that spoke the language and they wanted to bring those people back into it.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		Really quick, pre-World War I, pre-all of this German, Germany and Prussia, it was a place that was made out of dozens and dozens of countries.
		It was Otto von Bismarck that was able to unite this place into one giant German empire.
		Go ahead, Tim.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		The main issue where all of this starts to have conflict is the Czechoslovakia, right?
		So he wanted to go in and take Czechoslovakia, specifically the Sudetenland, okay?
		Because that's like the primary driver of where you see like a lot of the German ethnic people.
		And, you know, it's interesting because to avoid war, you know, you had Britain and France, they signed this Munich agreement where they say, okay, look, Hitler, we know you're going to go and do this anyways because you didn't listen to us and you've been taking land from all these people for years.
		So we're going to legally give you these lands as long as you promise to stop here and stop taking other countries.
		Okay.
		So you can have that little green area that you see on the outside of Czechoslovakia.
		And then you should be able to essentially have that area.
		As long as you take that area, we're good.
		There's no fighting.
		We're good.
		And so during that time period, while all of this is happening, you know, the Britain, France, a lot of these were trying to create like an alliance with the Soviet Union.
		Long story short, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union were trying to form an alliance against Hitler because they saw he was doing all this land grab and causing issues.
		But again, the Western people took their time.
		They couldn't figure out a deal.
		So it's crazy because what ended up happening is everyone thinks that the Soviet Union was like this innocent, like part of the allies, but they did something really shady here, guys.
		Essentially, what they did during this time period is they formed, once that negotiation between Britain, France, and the USSR fell through, they formed a secret non-aggression pact with Germany.
		They secretly conspired to create a deal where they would divide Eastern Europe between them.
		So essentially, USSR is like, okay, we're going to take this half of Poland.
		We'll take Finland.
		We'll take a little bit of these Dutch countries and Germany, you can have the other half.
		And meanwhile, the Allied powers, which aren't the Allied powers quite yet, they don't know any of this is happening.
		So they shake on it.
		They're like, okay, let's do this.
		And then that is when Hitler invades Poland.
		And that is what kicks off the war because three days later, that is when France and Britain officially declare war against Hitler, even though Russia was part of this deal.
		Isn't that insane?
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		It is insane.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		It's pretty crazy.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		So this is the moment that the textbooks say that mark World War II.
		But here's the thing that we aren't talking about in history class as well.
		Rex had pointed this out before, but do you know, it doesn't, you do, you can't just make all these weapons and get all these people without money.
		You know, it takes money in order to create an army and rearm, you know, your entire government system to create the monster that Hitler was able to do.
		And what's crazy is the US and Britain and a lot of these other countries were responsible for it.
		So we're going to queue up this video that shows how'd the money for all this come from?
		Where'd the money come from?
		Came from us, guys.
		But long story short with this guy, this is called the Bank of International Settlements.
		It's basically this international bank that loans money, moves money around the world.
		And they essentially let Hitler do this thing.
		And this is like, you guys really need to pay attention to this part because I had no clue this existed while I started a research and they don't talk about this thing.
unidentified		But the real scandal wasn't what happened before the war.
		It was what happened during it.
		September 1939.
		War is declared.
		Citizens are told this is a battle for civilization itself.
		Good versus evil, freedom versus tyranny.
		And in Basel, the Bank for International Settlements opens its doors for another meeting.
		Business as usual.
		By 1939, the BIS had become a financial sanctuary where enemies could do business.
		As cities burned and armies clashed, they continued to meet, continued to facilitate transactions, continued to move money across battle lines.
		The BIS handled gold for the Reichsbank, Hitler's central bank.
		And not just any gold, looted gold.
		Train cars arriving in the dead of night.
		Gold bars stamped with the national seals of countries that no longer existed.
		Czechoslovakia, Austria, Belgium, Poland.
		Gold melted down from wedding rings, from jewelry, from the teeth of Holocaust victims.
		That gold moved through the BIS.
		It was laundered through Swiss banks, converted into currency the Nazis used to buy raw materials from neutral countries.
		Tungsten from Portugal, ball bearings from Sweden, oil from Romania.
		And the men facilitating this?
		Respected central bankers in three-piece suits.
		The president was an American named Thomas McKittrick.
		The Nazis had a legal, internationally recognized pipeline to convert stolen assets into usable capital.
		So while the world thought it was fighting fascism, finance was fighting for profit.
		In March 1939, six months before the war even started, the Bank of England made a decision that still stuns historians.
		Czechoslovakia had gold reserves held in London.
		When Hitler's tanks rolled into Prague, the Nazis demanded that gold.
		And the Bank of England under Governor Montague Norman handed it over.
		Crates of Czech gold sitting in British vaults guarded by British soldiers.
		And they transferred it directly to the Reichsbank, not under duress, because they honored the financial claim.
		Britain would be at war with Germany six months later.
		And yet the Bank of England prioritized a banking obligation over national interest.
		For Norman and men like him, banks existed above nations.
		And then there was America, officially neutral until December 1941, but deeply, profitably entangled.
		The Union Banking Corporation, a New York bank with heavy investments in the Thyssen Empire.
		Fritz Thysen bankrolled Hitler when the Nazi party was still fringe.
		And guess who sat on the board?
		Prescott Bush, father of President George H.W. Bush, grandfather of President George W. Bush.
		In 1942, after the U.S. entered the war, the government finally seized the bank's assets.
		But by then, years of profitable business had already been conducted.
		Standard Oil kept supplying Germany with crucial petroleum additives through neutral intermediaries.
		Without them, the Luftwaffe's fighters would have been grounded.
		The excuse?
		Legal separation.
		The parent company stays clean.
		The subsidiary does the dirty work.
		Money flows quietly upward.
		It's the same playbook.
		Well, let's talk about this, man.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		What do you think about this?
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		Well, I mean, it's kind of the same thing we see today.
		And isn't it funny how there's always someone related to someone that does something, right?
		The Bush Empire, the Bush royal family, the Bush dynasty.
		Where did they come from?
		Where did they get all their money from?
		Well, financing the Nazis during World War II.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Insane.
		And it's so crazy because you keep you guys both said this, you and Matt, you were like, well, you know, the person that wins the war essentially establishes the narrative like it couldn't be any.
		Do you think they would put this in a history book?
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely not.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		You know, that's like self-incriminating.
		So here's the thing.
		It's crazy because they want to take the money after the damage is already done.
		It's like, imagine your bank account is like halfway across the world.
		Someone invades your house.
		It's like, all right, I stole everything in his house.
		His property is mine.
		And then he calls up your local banking.
		He's like, you know what?
		The house wasn't enough.
		Give me his money too.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		Meg goes, yeah, I mean, your claim is correct.
		I guess you just give me that money.
		Look, we ultimately, we're so far in the future.
		We don't really know the real machinations, but it seems like this was all to just set up a global system at the end of the day.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Right.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		That we're living in now.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		So we're here.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, we're here.
		And the thing is, is the reason why the banks would do this in the first place, it's because every transaction, there is a fee associated with that transaction.
		If you're talking about billions worth of dollars, that's a lot of money that these guys make and that's payday.
		So that's what it comes down to.
		And so I'm glad we got into this because now we go into the main theater of the war.
		Okay.
		And we're going to kind of like, we won't go too deep into this because there's a lot that happens during this chapter.
		And we're primarily focusing on Europe because that's the immediate tie.
		But this is like a segment that needs to be like split up into two sections.
		So this one is kind of like more primarily like, how did World War II happen?
		And then a little bit of the story.
		But I think later on, we're going to do like a real dive into like the crazy stuff that happened.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		We'll be revisiting this time.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		We'll be revisiting it because it's too big to ignore.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		And we got to talk about, we got to air everybody's laundry out, guys.
unidentified		Okay.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		So war erupts.
		Germany takes this approach called the Blitzkrieg, which is called the Lightning War.
		Yes.
		I'm so glad you know this.
		Okay.
		So when they went in and they invaded Poland, they did it all in like tanks and vehicles.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		It was the first time that mechanized warfare became a real reality.
		And this is the thing, and Tim will get into this a little bit later.
		The French military at this time was seen as the pinnacle.
		Like they were the best.
		They helped win World War I.
		This is, these are the best guys out here.
		Hitler stormed through the Ardennes forest in under three days and he did it using tanks and methamphetamine.
		And like this is modern day, all these same things are used.
		Stimulants, mechanized warfare, quick response, quick attack forces.
		But at this time, people were still riding horses into battle.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		And then they also had trenches.
		And that's why like World War I was like, the lines wouldn't move.
		And it was just a meat grinder because you would get up, go over the no man's land, get mowed down by some machine guns.
		And then basically Germany is like, you know what?
		Let's try something different.
		Let's not do and build all these things.
		We'll just steamroll.
		We'll get boosted up and we'll just run over everybody.
		So what they did was they did this Blitzkrieg.
		It worked perfectly in Poland.
		And then they did, what they ended up doing is they were like, you know what?
		Let's do this in France.
		We could do this as well and we could overrun them.
		And this is exactly what they did.
		And it's crazy because France had all of this like defensive military built up along the border because they were like, okay, we're just going to be the defense country.
		But they weren't prepared for something like this.
		And so essentially France gets destroyed.
		Paris gets taken over.
		Germany is now like parading around.
		They're like, we own all of France.
		We have all this land.
		And then they turn their sights on Britain.
		And so during Britain, it's a little harder because he can't use vehicles.
		So what does he do?
		He's like, we're just going to bomb the shit out of him, boys.
		So they send a bunch of bombers night after, day after night.
		You're talking about hours and hours, like just relentless bombing.
		And they did it to break the soul of the British people because they knew they couldn't just directly invade and they expected Britain to just be tired of getting bombed and hand over the reins.
		But, you know, Churchill and a lot of these other guys were like, no, we're in this for the long haul.
		The British people rallied together.
		They were like, we will not submit.
		And essentially, this was kind of like Hitler's, they eventually weathered the storm.
		And this was Hitler's first blow because for an entire like, you know, five years, this guy was just steamrolling through Europe, taking what he wanted, snatching all the money, snatching whatever he wanted.
		And Britain was like the first hit to his ego.
		So with that being said, you know, he didn't take too kindly to that.
		And so during that timeframe, he also did another fatal mistake.
		And what he did, instead of just going with that peaceful treaty or, you know, the treaty that should have never happened with Russia, he decides, you know what?
unidentified		I'm going to invade.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		I'm going to invade these guys too.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		Real smart.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		I want your shit too.
		Give it to me, boy.
		So in 1941, Hitler does this big mistake of invading the Soviet Union.
		He sends over 3 million troops across and stormed east of the land in search of like land and oil.
		And the thing is, is he didn't just like strategically attack one location.
		He like did this like crusade across like this wide amount across the eastern front of the or the western front of like of Russia and spread his troops thin.
		And so by doing that, of course, Russia's like, okay, now we're going to war.
		And so Stalin, he starts throwing everything that he has at him.
		And so this brings Russia into the conflict, even though they backstabbed Britain and France.
		But the enemy of my enemy is my friend, right?
		That's how these situations go.
		And, you know, before the war is over, dude, the Russians just treated their people like meat grinders, man.
		27 million Soviets died during it before the war was over.
		Yeah.
		To put that in context, guys, like you're talking like a third of the men, basically.
		Exactly.
		And that's, you're, you're talking about the major cities in the United States.
		You have to add all the people up and just imagine all those people dying.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		And to make a meta point, to talk about where we're at now in the modern day, you know, America, we like to beat our chest and talk about how we're the greatest and how we won all these wars, etc.
		China fought the bulk of the Japanese.
		We fought about 30% of them.
		And then we lost, you know, 100,000 men during World War II.
		These other nations, specifically Russia and China, they lost tens of millions of people.
		So we have this attitude in the modern day where we're like, yeah, I mean, like, we could win a war against Russia.
		We could win a war against China.
		It's about how much punishment you can take during a war, ultimately.
		And these places have cultures that were built really during World War II and even before that, where they're like, yeah, we're going to keep our national identity, even if we lose a third of our population.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
		And Stalin basically just brainwashed his whole society to just follow him blindly.
		And he killed a lot of his own civilians as well as the military.
		And he didn't care.
		And one of the things is, is like now Germany's fighting a two-front war.
		And so meanwhile, you know, the United States, we're like, we're going to stay neutral.
		We took this stance of isolationism and not being involved in anything.
		Yet we were still kind of funding and pulling money towards the Allies, but we weren't committing troops.
		Right.
		And so during this time period, you know, all this stuff is still happening over in China and Japan's getting bold.
		They're like, ah, we got it too.
		And then they go and do the whole Pearl Harbor situation, which we'll do a breakdown at another time.
		But essentially, everybody has a general idea of what happened during Pearl Harbor.
		And this is what drags the United States into the war.
		And so then now it really becomes an issue because now the Allied powers are now truly formed.
		So when the United States gets involved, they decide, all right, we're going to do a Europe-first strategy.
		We're going to defeat Hitler before we focus on Japan.
		We'll commit all of our troops to getting Europe under control because, you know, China can wait.
		You know, we don't really care that much.
		And they were small islands.
		They were like, all right, let's focus on the bigger hand.
		So let's go into the strategy that they did.
		Essentially, they struck North Africa and Italy first.
		They decided to go after that because Italy was aligned with Germany, of course, and Mussolini had control over certain areas, as well as Germany had a lot.
		Like there were a lot of conflicts in Africa as well, along that northern, along the northern coast.
		And essentially, what happened with all of that is the United States steps in, they take over those regions, they take over the Italy falls, and that's really what happens during that time period.
		Okay.
		Now, the thing that no one talks about is while we're at war and we're now involved, Britain does something that no one expects.
unidentified		Okay.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		So you know how Britain they colonize, they're colonizers, they love to take over regions.
unidentified		Right.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		So we have this beautiful place called India, which has a lot of natural resources and they have a lot of manpower.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		They were able to control that place with 10,000 people.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
		Right.
		So we have this situation called the Bengal famine.
		Now, everybody in India knows about this.
		This is like their version of the Holocaust in but so many words, where essentially you had 3 million people in India that were starved and that died of starvation.
unidentified		These are images from 1943 when Bengal suffered one of the worst famines in the history of modern India.
		Up to 3 million people died of starvation and diseases aggravated by malnutrition and lack of health care.
		But this disaster wasn't natural.
		It was man-made, caused by a heartless British administration whose wartime policies diverted food grains from India, leading to the catastrophe.
		The Famine Inquiry Commission, appointed by the government of India in 1944 to investigate the calamity, concluded that the shortage in rice production was the major reason.
		But was that really true?
		Journalist Madhushi Mukherjee, in her book Churchill's Secret War, The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II, writes that the scarcity was caused by large-scale exports of food from India for use in the war theaters and consumption in Britain.
		India exported more than 70,000 tons of rice between January and July 1943, even as the famine set in.
		The British were so focused on the Second World War and feeding their army that they let shortages in India get out of hand.
		Further, wartime inflation, speculative buying, and panic hoarding diverted goods from an open market to the black market.
		Prices skyrocketed and were beyond the reach of poor people.
		Next, preferential distribution was given to workers in high-priority war industries to prevent them from leaving their positions, thus diverting supplies from calamity-struck villages.
		Also, the British military ordered the removal or destruction of rural boats in anticipation of a Japanese invasion via the eastern Bengal border.
		Fishermen were not only out of jobs, but this broke down the transport system for the movement of rice.
		British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, though a war hero in Britain, has been severely criticized for his handling of the Bengal famine.
		In fact, he was downright callous as he ignored the fervent pleas for relief measures required in India, saying it wasn't his responsibility.
		What's more, his statements during the period were obnoxious and unforgivable.
		His response to an urgent release of food stocks for India was, if food is so scarce, why hasn't Gandhi died yet?
		And he believed that no aid would be sufficient as famine or no famine, Indians would breed like rabbits.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Talk about a Rex.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		Well, I mean, it's the same thing we see in the modern age as, you know, Palestinians aren't human.
		They don't matter.
		We don't care ultimately.
		If we bomb them, they're still going to have kids.
		They're still going to be there.
		So why do we care?
		Hamas Amazon?
		It's the same language that's always used during wartime.
		In interest of, you know, advancing our own position, in interest of serving our own population.
		We don't care about the people over there.
		They're not important.
		We care about ourselves.
		And this is how you breed long-lasting resentment with the population, right?
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		He's accurate.
		He's right.
		And the thing is, is Churchill in the history books, what I was taught was like Churchill was like a freaking saint.
		He saved Britain.
		He's the hero.
		And then I don't even hear about this stuff where you had 3 million people.
		3 million people was more than what how many people Britain were being killed at that time.
		This was just on the civilian level.
		And so we forget about the fact that like, okay, we talk about the troop casualties, but really where most of the death comes from is like not just the soldiers, but the people on the ground.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		They didn't think China, they lost 30 million people.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Over the course of all of World War II, the estimate of how many people were killed was 100 million people, guys.
		100 million people.
		And I want you to understand that during this time period, 100 million people is about 5% of the entire global world.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		1 in 20 people.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Let that set in just from one man-made war where people were greedy.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		It was all for self-interest.
		It was even, you know, the cries of nationalism in places like Germany.
		It was all about advancing people's pocketbooks.
		That's what it's all about at the end of the day.
		I mean, what else do we have to get into here?
		The fall?
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, so now we're getting into the fall of the war.
		We had, you know, in 1942 through 1943, you had Germany looked unstoppable at that time, but then they had overstretched.
		And so they had pushed too far south towards Stalingrad.
		And that battle came into a nightmare.
		That was them fighting the Russians.
		And so essentially, Hitler starts doing some crazy stuff.
		Rather than withdraw, and it's winter time, instead of withdrawing from that, he decides, no, you guys need to stay in Stalingrad and fight this out, essentially.
		And in Stalingrad, it was like guerrilla warfare.
		These people are in buildings shooting at each other like from 30 feet away.
		And so you had 300,000 troops and only a few thousand people survived during from the Nazi side.
		And so what really caused the end of World War II was the decline of Hitler.
		And it wasn't just from his strategic sense, but it was also his mental self.
		We talked about him shooting himself, shooting his people up with, you know, methamphetamines, but he was the one that was.
		Had a special doctor giving him vitamin injection, exactly so his doctor injected him daily with, you know methamphetamines opiates, testosterone as well yep, it's all hormones.
		It's insane.
		And so essentially, he started becoming paranoid, he became sleepless, he became erratic and he started firing his loyal generalists, his loyal generals, and trying to control everything himself and micromanage.
		And so, by doing this, his own officers started to lose faith in him.
		They're like this guy's nuts, he's trying to get us.
		He already just killed 300 000 people over here by telling them to to, to stay in there, even though they had time to withdraw.
		And so then there was, you know, they calculate there's like 15 assassination attempts that were attempted on Hitler's life during that time period, but the biggest one was operation Valkyrie.
		Okay, during operation Valkyrie, this is the one that really set the the tone for what Hitler did next.
		On july 20th in 1944, his colonel Kloss Von Stauffenberg planted a bomb in Hitler's meeting.
		It was in a briefcase that he brought in there and essentially uh, that bomb was he.
		He was cued, essentially to, somebody called him and then he left and while they're in this meeting, this bomb explodes.
		Somehow Hitler survives this bombing, but i'll make you even more nuts.
unidentified		He.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		Now he's like oh, they just tried to kill me.
		Now he really doesn't trust anybody.
		And you know historians.
		They estimate that if that bombing had succeeded, Germany might have surrendered several months earlier, saving four to five million people.
		Wow, so now you had the fall of Berlin.
		Because Hitler is now no longer trusting anybody.
		He's doing all types of stuff, he's making uh wrong strategic moves and by 1945 Germany was surrounded.
		The Soviets had stormed the east, the allies had advanced from the west, they had already taken over France and by april 30th of 1945, Hitler and his uh wife Eva, Eva uh Braun, they took their own lives in the bunker and then a week later the Germans surrendered.
		Now that is the gist of everything.
		Like I said, we're not going to dive uh too much more into it right now in this session.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		We'll do more on the jack, we'll do deeper session.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		This is enough for you guys to understand what happened and what you have to really pay attention.
tim tompkins ▲ ● ▼		And what I prioritized was the events leading up to the war.
rex jones ▲ ● ▼		And right, and it's so similar to modern day guys.
		I mean, we have all these global, intertwined financial interests.
		We have, you know, various national interests of.
		Oh, we're the good guys.
		It's why we have to fight this war.
		You see that with Israel Iran, you see that with Ukraine, Russia.
		You see that even with America Venezuela, sadly enough.
		But at the end of the day, it's all about resources, it's all about profit and it's all about making money.
		It has absolutely nothing to do with the people, and this is the thing we hold historical figures in high regard.
		Usually they're all in on the game, right?
		That's how they get to positions of power.
		And Hitler was useful.
		You know, he's very useful for the British.
		He was useful for them to make money and get rich.
		Same with the Americans.
		And that's why he was allowed to really treat Europe as his playground for a long period of time.
		He was useful for the Russians too.
		That's why they allied with him.
		But at the end of the day, when it comes down to it all, it is all about that cash.
		It's all about the gold.
		It's all about the oil.
		It's all about the resources.
		And you look at a nation like Germany, Germany needed that oil.
		That's why they ultimately failed.
		They didn't have it and they couldn't get it from places like North Africa and Romania.
		That fizzled out.
		So they fizzled out.
		But look, it's the same story, different book.
		I mean, you talk about an area like they refused to withdraw.
		They put the soldiers there that shades of Ukraine.
		Little Zelensky does that all the time.
		And like, we're getting to a point now where we're going to have that new world war.
		And we don't know exactly how it'll start.
		Me and Tim have different theories on how it will start, but it's coming.
		And the general ignorance of the population is an absolute requirement for these things to happen.
		It doesn't happen without the population at least being willing to not pay attention or just not knowing in general and then having a good enough story.
		Hey, they bankrupted us.
		Hey, they took our land.
		Hey, they did XYZ.
		And then to get our emoji back, kind of to right the wrong, we have to do a wrong ourselves.
		And then like an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind ultimately.

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