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This week on the eastern front, orders are issued left and right - quite literally speaking - that could make even the most seasoned commander raise an eyebrow. 

Stalin drops the kid gloves once and for all (if he was ever wearing any) and issues the heavy-handed Stavka Order No. 270, where he deals with Soviet surrender in no uncertain terms.

Hitler is determined to have the cake and eat it too, ordering his commanders to advance both in the south and in the north, but without nearly enough working armor, supplies or manpower to go around.

And as the week is coming to a close, an ominous dark cloud is rising at the horizon, as Heinrich Himmler is on the hunt for a new weapon... 


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"There are no Soviet Prisoners of War, only Traitors" - WW2 - 104 - August 22, 1941

Josef Stalin is forming new armies to fight off the German onslaught, and yet it continues gaining ground in the north and the south. He also issues orders Draconian orders to the Red Army concerning any form of surrender. Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory Or join The TimeGhost Army directly at: https://timeghost.tv Check out our TimeGhost History YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/timeghost?sub_confirmation=1 Follow WW2 day by day on Instagram @World_war_two_realtime https://www.instagram.com/world_war_two_realtime/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeGhostHistory/ Between 2 Wars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrG5J-K5AYAU1R-HeWSfY2D1jy_sEssNG Source list: http://bit.ly/WW2sources Written and Hosted by: Indy Neidell Director: Astrid Deinhard Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer Creative Producer: Joram Appel Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns Research by: Indy Neidell Edited by: Iryna Dulka Sound design: Marek Kamiński Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory) Colorizations by: - Jaris Almazani (Artistic Man), https://instagram.com/artistic.man?igshid=k4l2ushhbwk5 - Norman Stewart - https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/ - Dememorabilia - https://www.instagram.com/dememorabilia/ - Olga Shirnina, a.k.a. Klimbim - https://klimbim2014.wordpress.com/ - Julius Jääskeläinen - https://www.facebook.com/JJcolorization/ - Cassowary Colorizations - https://www.cassowarycolor.com/ Sources: - Imperial War Museum: E 5057 - Bundesarchiv, CC-BY-SA 3.0: Bild_101III-Alber-096-34, Bild_101I-136-0877-08 Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com. A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

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Anonymous

(un)Fun fact, Zyklon B was used on humans as early as the 1920s by US border authorities fumigating people crossing over from Mexico https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/zyklon-b-us-border/

Anonymous

This ending was absolutely chilling. Thanks to all of you for conveying what happened in this way, I guess there is no better way of ingraining "let's not do that ever again" than this. Especially thanks to indy for being consistent with his messages from the great war channel, when he said that weapons, uniforms and insignia of that period are not cool because thousands died on a daily basis.

Anonymous

What a finale. Chilling. And wholly appropriate.

Anonymous

My pleasure. I love how you present the situation. Really brings it alive.

Dan Hindes

All the episodes of The Great War, the between two wars, the specials on Indonesia, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the episodes about Japan's atrocities in China, all the horrors thus far since 1939... and it was at the end of this episode that I finally got choked up. That was the moment. A threshold over which the species would reach epic new levels of ugly. It's like a global race to reach rock bottom. Everybody take a drink.

Anonymous

man , this is getting full on

Anonymous

That was a really long pause at the end. Damn that Himmler, but the truth is unfortunately it is all too easy for someone to intellectualize that some murder today will lead to less murder in the future, or that some "people" aren't really people at all.

Arioch

I have to agree with Indy's final note: "................."

Arioch

I have to say, watching the war unfold week by week makes it feel more real and less like history. And when we come across developments like this, which of course we all already know about, it still fills one with a renewed sense of horror, and and a renewed sense of... wonder? Disbelief? Amazement? ...that this stuff really happened.

Anonymous

I couldn't even keep eye contact with Indy during the ending....

Anonymous

Yes, That ending sent shivers through me.

Anonymous

It's such a small part of all of this, but my Grandfather was one of the rats of Tobruk. I never knew him. I only ever met him once when I was little, at an airport as he was passing through. He spent a good part of his life after the war in various institutions with, what I suppose they called at the time, "shell shock". I sometimes wonder who I might have become had be been around. War takes lives, takes humanity, takes dignity, and, decades later, it keeps on taking.