"He was just a watchmaker" - yeah, and Hitler was just a painter. Seriously, you need to stop making assumptions. The Nazis didn't believe Elser, either, so they made him reconstruct the bomb in captivity. Which he did. And, of course, he was a watchmaker (a clockmaker, actually) with access to explosive materials, detonators etc.
Georg Elser was a lone perpetrator. His planning and preparation took almost a year. Among other things, he worked in a quarry to gain experience and access to the explosives. A hero. He lived temporarily in my neighboring town of Constance, where he was also arrested.
Love your history posts and great original video to react to. I do equally enjoy varied content you post as much, but this sort of thing is why i originally joined your channel so many years ago. I know a lot of this stuff in a general way, but I'm not always so clued up on the condensed sections, or important tipping moments in history, especially as they are not always so well explained (or even introduced to viewers as you do). Always cool to learn new things....slight edit just realised you have a separate youtube channel for history 'Mr McJibbin' and the main channel which might have thrown me a little there. All good though keep doing what you do :)
With Hitler dead in 39 his number two Hermann Göring would have been the almost certain successor. The war in the west would have probably gone ahead. But Göring was less obsessed than Hitler so war against Russia is not a sure thing.
Connor...you were correct when you talked about FDR being sympathetic to the Allied side in 1939, when most of the USA was feeling very much AGAINST doing much to help. You are also correct that FDR was trying to do anything he could to convince, cajole, and connive to allow Americans to do more to help...and that was a big part of why he pushed to get Cash and Carry put in place in late 1939. At the time, I believe he got the votes he needed in Congress by touting how good for the US economy it would be if the Allies were to buy a lot of war material from the USA...he was not wrong. FDR would go much further the following year in 1940 when he not only got Congress to approve the first peace time draft in US history AND the Two Ocean Navy Act, but would also get them to approve the Destroyers for Bases deal...and all in the middle of running in the 1940 election for his unprecedented THIRD term as President. But Indy will get to all those events in due course. If Bitchler had died in 1939, there would obviously be a struggle for power...and there is not any way to be certain who would come out on top. However, there was a pretty strong faction that opposed Bitchler AND the war, and if they had come out as the winners in the struggle...who knows.
Er... at THIS stage Roosevelt had no intention at all of EVER taking the USA a single inch closer to war in support of the two Western allies. Nor did HMG delude itself he would. Remember, for the past 50 years+, we in the Anglosphere have far too often misapplied a cozy, but absurdly ahistorical amalgam of sentiment and hindsight to the first 9-10 months of WW2. All aided by, inter alia, ignoring that virtually no one at the time ever expected France to go "teats skyward". While as for the real history of US/UK relations specifically (both directly in that same short period AND over a far longer span as well (between 1814 and 1957 to be exact), then almost certainly the best YT Channel to view is "Old Britannia"... and a series of very well informed vids collectively titled "The Other Great Game."
Perhaps a bit more hesitant and spending a bit more time on planning, since Hitler was incredibly impatient. FYI both the knowledge and the ingredients for explosives were readily available at the time. I remember my dad saying he nearly blew his foot off as a kid making bombs.
3:30 I get that but soviets had no interest in Finland. Fins had no reason to truth them after their civil war yes but I'd say that Finland might have blundered here. (power of hindsight I guess) Soviets wanted to secure their access to the Baltics from St. Petersburg and have offered Karelia in exchange for this. This MIGHT have prevented the winter war but in the same time Fins saw it as setting pieces for an invasion due to Soviet interferance in the afore mentioned Civil war
Connor, some of the best bomb makers in the world were watchmakers....
Really enjoying this series. Thank you for reacting to it. Love from the UK
"He was just a watchmaker" - yeah, and Hitler was just a painter. Seriously, you need to stop making assumptions. The Nazis didn't believe Elser, either, so they made him reconstruct the bomb in captivity. Which he did. And, of course, he was a watchmaker (a clockmaker, actually) with access to explosive materials, detonators etc.
If you know how to build a watch (very complicated piece of small machinery) you can EASILY build an explosive
@@Kekkeri59what that doesnt make sense
Georg Elser was a lone perpetrator. His planning and preparation took almost a year. Among other things, he worked in a quarry to gain experience and access to the explosives. A hero.
He lived temporarily in my neighboring town of Constance, where he was also arrested.
Love your history posts and great original video to react to. I do equally enjoy varied content you post as much, but this sort of thing is why i originally joined your channel so many years ago. I know a lot of this stuff in a general way, but I'm not always so clued up on the condensed sections, or important tipping moments in history, especially as they are not always so well explained (or even introduced to viewers as you do). Always cool to learn new things....slight edit just realised you have a separate youtube channel for history 'Mr McJibbin' and the main channel which might have thrown me a little there. All good though keep doing what you do :)
With Hitler dead in 39 his number two Hermann Göring would have been the almost certain successor. The war in the west would have probably gone ahead. But Göring was less obsessed than Hitler so war against Russia is not a sure thing.
Hitler's Deputy fuhrer was Rudolf Hess
the war would always be a thing, who would attack who, that's what would change
Connor...you were correct when you talked about FDR being sympathetic to the Allied side in 1939, when most of the USA was feeling very much AGAINST doing much to help. You are also correct that FDR was trying to do anything he could to convince, cajole, and connive to allow Americans to do more to help...and that was a big part of why he pushed to get Cash and Carry put in place in late 1939. At the time, I believe he got the votes he needed in Congress by touting how good for the US economy it would be if the Allies were to buy a lot of war material from the USA...he was not wrong.
FDR would go much further the following year in 1940 when he not only got Congress to approve the first peace time draft in US history AND the Two Ocean Navy Act, but would also get them to approve the Destroyers for Bases deal...and all in the middle of running in the 1940 election for his unprecedented THIRD term as President. But Indy will get to all those events in due course.
If Bitchler had died in 1939, there would obviously be a struggle for power...and there is not any way to be certain who would come out on top. However, there was a pretty strong faction that opposed Bitchler AND the war, and if they had come out as the winners in the struggle...who knows.
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Er... at THIS stage Roosevelt had no intention at all of EVER taking the USA a single inch closer to war in support of the two Western allies. Nor did HMG delude itself he would. Remember, for the past 50 years+, we in the Anglosphere have far too often misapplied a cozy, but absurdly ahistorical amalgam of sentiment and hindsight to the first 9-10 months of WW2. All aided by, inter alia, ignoring that virtually no one at the time ever expected France to go "teats skyward".
While as for the real history of US/UK relations specifically (both directly in that same short period AND over a far longer span as well (between 1814 and 1957 to be exact), then almost certainly the best YT Channel to view is "Old Britannia"... and a series of very well informed vids collectively titled "The Other Great Game."
Perhaps a bit more hesitant and spending a bit more time on planning, since Hitler was incredibly impatient. FYI both the knowledge and the ingredients for explosives were readily available at the time. I remember my dad saying he nearly blew his foot off as a kid making bombs.
11:12 IF he was a communist sympathizer it's not very unlikely he learned
also watchmakers know a lot about fine mechanic
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If you want to learn about the man for real, try Zoomer Historian.
You wouldn't trust them (neither would I) but we know how it ended. That's the problem with history compared to politics today 🤔
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3:30 I get that but soviets had no interest in Finland. Fins had no reason to truth them after their civil war yes but I'd say that Finland might have blundered here. (power of hindsight I guess)
Soviets wanted to secure their access to the Baltics from St. Petersburg and have offered Karelia in exchange for this.
This MIGHT have prevented the winter war but in the same time Fins saw it as setting pieces for an invasion due to Soviet interferance in the afore mentioned Civil war