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🗓️ 8 June 2021
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0:00.0 | What you're about to hear is part six of a six-part series on the Second World War in the Asia-Pacific Theater. |
0:09.0 | If you have not heard the earlier segments, please go check those out. You probably want to hear this in order, |
0:17.0 | but there's a few of you out there who don't care about those sort of stuff in which case. |
0:22.0 | Well, catch up and join us, won't you, for part six of the light and airy story that is supernova in the east. |
0:34.0 | The Sumbers Summ- It's History. |
0:38.0 | 1941, a date which will live in infamy. |
0:45.0 | It's Hardcore History. |
0:49.0 | People who are knowledgeable about the Second World War and many people are. |
0:55.0 | It's one of those subjects that fascinates human beings the world over, understandably so. |
1:01.0 | People who are fishing autos of the Second World War knows that the rhythm of the Second World War reminds you of an opera or a musical theater production |
1:11.0 | where the end is going to be like the end of the world, a ragna rock or a gotter dameron. |
1:16.0 | And the whole last year of the war is whipping yourself up like a roller coaster going uphill waiting for that giant dip where you're building up to that horrific ending. |
1:26.0 | The last year of the Second World War is the worst year of the Second World War. |
1:30.0 | And the kind of numbers that demonstrate that are, for example, casualties, killings. |
1:35.0 | Look at the German deaths, for example, in January 1945. That's a month that is mind blowing. |
1:41.0 | The Germans will have more than 400,000 of their soldiers, maybe close at a 450,000 of their soldiers die in that month alone. |
1:50.0 | For comparison purposes, that is more military deaths than the United States suffered. |
1:55.0 | All branches of service, all cause of mortality for the whole war. |
2:02.0 | Historian Neuphurgusen says the German military loses more soldiers in the last year of the war than the entire rest of the war put together. |
2:11.0 | And some of the latest estimates of casualty numbers suggest the Germans were losing on average 10,000 soldiers every day in 1945. |
2:19.0 | So from January 1st to May 8th when the war ended in Europe, 10,000 a day on average. |
2:25.0 | Almost twice as many people as the United States lost at the Battle of Antietam, which many military historians considered to be the worst day in US military history and the Germans were getting it day after day after day. |
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