WEBVTT - A New Direction 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:04.960 You know your house smells, don't get mad. Don't get mad. 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:06.840 My house smells too. I'm not I'm not indicting you. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.520 I'm sure you keep a clean home, but just time 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:13.840 means you're going to acquire smells. Whether those are cooking 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:17.000 smells that get in your paint, your carpet, maybe their 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:20.600 animals smells. Maybe you're a smoker, or someone else was 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:25.640 just living create smells. I didn't realize that my home 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.840 had a smell to it until I got my first 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.800 Eden Pure Thunderstorm, the greatest air purifier I've ever owned 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.640 in my life. This thing. I had it plugged in 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:37.559 for two hours. I came back in the room and 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:42.200 my air smells so clean. I now owned three of them. 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:45.560 I'm not making that up. This thing has absolutely changed 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:47.800 me on top of what it's done from my allergies. 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.520 Go get one, get two, you like me, and get three. 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.000 Go to Eden Pure deals dot com. Make sure you 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.400 use the promo code Jesse that gets you ten bucks 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.440 off and free shipping. Eden here deals dot com promo 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:26.640 code Jesse. This is the Jesse Kelly Show. Sometimes you 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:32.480 shouldn't have faith. We will get into that today. I 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:39.720 will explain later on. We have a political rival arrested, 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:47.199 we have big foot hunting, we have a million jobs 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:56.400 already lost. We have Tulsi Gabbard taking over the Republican Party. Yeah, 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:00.800 we have a lot to get to today. But first 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.840 I give you my word. I don't care if we 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.320 have to add another hour to the radio show today. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:13.720 I am going to finish this little story of our campaign, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.680 the Allied campaign in Italy. And even then I'm going 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.280 to skip over so many parts. Oh, we will return, 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:26.520 We will return to it. Remember at Jesse Kelly DC 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:31.799 on Twitter and Instagram for now eight seven seven three 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.360 seven seven four three seven three Jesse at Jesse Kelly 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.440 show dot com. Let us go back to Italy. If 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:43.120 you missed the beginning two parts of this, you're gonna 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.919 have to go get the show. It's all podcasts that 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:54.720 on iHeart, Google, Spotify and iTunes. Now we landed in Italy. 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:59.560 Our naval guns are creating real havoc for the Germans. 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.919 But the Germans are dug in. They're dugging very well, 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:09.079 and at one point the Germans decide they're going to 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:17.520 tactically retreat to something called the Gustav Line. What the 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:22.880 Gustav line is it was the narrowest part of Italy 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.320 crossing it. You know what, if you're gonna build a 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.880 wall across it, this was the narrowest part. But it 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:33.840 was more than the narrowest part. It was narrow and 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:39.120 the terrain was just so absurdly in favor of the 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.760 defender in this particular line, and most of literally Italy anyway, 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.160 but in this particular line. And remember this because I'm 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.600 gonna keep coming back to it, because it's so important. 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:56.440 Italy is the most undertold story of World War Two 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:01.680 because it wasn't D Day, it wasn't the Normandy invasion, 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.320 it wasn't Pearl Harbor, it wasn't this, it wasn't that. 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.080 I mean, there's so many of these huge high points 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.040 of World War Two that overshadow other things, and often understandably. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.119 I mean, you think of the World War Two, it's Holocaust, 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.880 Pearl Harbor, Normandy, it's these things that are big. But 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:20.160 the fighting in Italy, and you're gonna see this today, 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:24.120 the fighting in Italy was perhaps the most fighting and 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.839 all the most vicious fighting in the entire war, almost 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.839 undoubtedly some of the most vicious fighting that the US 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:36.480 ever went through. It's all mountains. You have Germans, Germans 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:40.560 who know how to defend, well prepared. They these Germans 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:45.160 invented bunkers in peel boxes. Now I obviously don't think 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.960 they invented them, but I mean they perfected them. I 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.760 remember back in World War One. If you do any 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.680 reading on World War One, and you've heard any of 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:57.520 my World War One stuff, do you remember the British 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.240 and the French they had trenches too. The Germans had trenches, 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.320 and the British and the French had trenches. World War 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.320 One was all about this trench warfare. I remember reading 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.800 several times where the British or French would push the 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.920 Germans off line, or the Germans would vacate a portion 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:15.919 of the line, and the French and the British would 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.520 go storming in and they would storm into the German 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:25.920 trenches and they were just dumbfounded that these aren't trenches, 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:31.320 these are these are entire cities underground. The Germans rana 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:37.120 had wallpaper, running water. The Germans just do that stuff 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.320 better than other people. And now you've taken World War Two, 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.000 You've taken the Germans who do that stuff better than 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.159 other people, and you've put them in the mountains and 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.360 in the rivers, and we're talking rocky mountains. These guys, 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.359 they were very, very good. So when I say the 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:57.279 Germans retreated to the Gustav line, it was a well 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.520 prepared line they had. They had prepared a time, and 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.400 they were always planning to tactically retreat back there. They 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.800 weren't trying to die on the beaches. They weren't running 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.200 screaming for the gustav line. They were just Okay, let's 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:14.960 move back to the Gustav line now. And before I 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.760 point out some of the ugly things that frankly we 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:23.359 did today as Americans, ugly things when it comes to 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:28.680 civilian deaths and destruction of historical monuments and things like that, 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.880 you should know that they all were writing about it 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:37.920 throughout the Italian campaign. How sad they were. The British 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:39.960 talked about it, the Americans talked about it. There were 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:44.080 several countries fighting through here. How sad it was to 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:51.080 fight through Italian cities because of the history. Who doesn't 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.880 know Roman history, I mean, everybody knows some of it. 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.680 I don't want to give you the impression, ever, that 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.520 we were dropping a bomb or are two Hillary or 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:05.200 blowing up a building with some historical significance in the Allies, 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:09.880 were all those dirty Italians nice? Their building's gone. It 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:16.120 was something that bothered everyone, and the Allies are starting 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.360 to get extremely, extremely concerned at this point. You see, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.480 you and I get to look back at things like 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:26.520 World War Two with twenty twenty hindsight, and you know, 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.080 we won. We always won. It was always inevitable. Now 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:34.000 it was not, and we were having a very difficult 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:39.800 time fighting our way through Italy, very difficult time. Now 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:43.600 Hitler does make a mistake at this point, if you 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.680 want to call it that, he makes He takes a 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.320 risk and it doesn't pay off. I'll put it that way. 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.480 You have tons of elite German troops here. But Hitler 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:57.360 takes four of his best divisions from Italy at this 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:02.600 point and sends them to Russia. And that very well 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:07.280 may have saved the Allied campaign in Italy because he 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:13.040 replaces his four top notch crack divisions with three extremely 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:17.160 beaten up divisions and sends them into Italy. Now there's 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.520 still German troops, still experienced German troops. These guys are 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.040 not garbage by any stretch of the imagination, but it 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:28.640 does weaken the Germans enough, which brings us to where 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.800 we're going to go today. A place called Monte Casino. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.720 You've probably never heard of it unless you're an Italian 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:42.280 campaign freak, and that is sad because this is vicious 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.560 fighting they call it. You remember our World War One 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.960 stuff we've talked about before, Verdon. You remember Verdon in 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.560 World War One, that horrible, horrible battle, maybe the worst 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.280 battle of the war. They call the Battle of Monte 0:08:55.360 --> 0:09:02.000 Casino the Verdon of World War Two. It's ugly and 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.120 what it is, and you can you can look. You 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.000 can look it up, and you should look it up. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:10.520 Look up Monte m O Nte Casino c A S 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:16.560 S I n O. It's a monastery. That's what you 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.559 want to call it. An abbey I heard people call 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.680 it depending on what I was reading. It's a fortress. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:28.920 It's fourteen hundred years old. And when I say fortress, 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:33.559 it is the most perfect natural fortress I've ever seen 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:39.120 in my entire life. Now, why is it a fortress? Well, 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.240 you and I live. I've talked about it before. I'm 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.200 not going to go into it right now, but I've 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.680 talked about our twenty twenty American version of Christianity. We 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:53.520 have here very much. Oh you know that's sing some 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.640 songs and be nice to everybody. You just have to 0:09:56.679 --> 0:10:01.760 be just have to be meek. God slap me around. Well. 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.160 Monasteries used to be fortresses so they could kill people 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.560 who were trying to kill them. This was intentionally built 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.320 as a fortress, a place where you could worship God 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.400 and kill anybody who was trying to stop you from 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:18.120 doing so. That's how it was. And if you look 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.520 at it, it sits on. If you're not in a 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:24.120 place you can image search it. Just know it's huge. 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.600 It sits on this I mean looks like a mountaintop. 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:32.760 It's four it's seventeen hundred feet high, and it's almost 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:37.479 sheer cliffs around it that overlooked the town of Casino. 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.400 And now now we have to fight our way through it, 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.600 and it's gonna be really ugly, all right, and talk 0:10:45.679 --> 0:11:05.760 about that in a political rivalry. Arrested Jesse Kelly. When 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:09.680 I first started talking to the super beats people, I 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.400 had a big hesitation because you know, you know, I 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:16.199 don't don't work with anything I wouldn't use. 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It is right 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:14.160 on that Gustav line I told you about. And a 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.440 funny thing was happening is we have to step away 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.920 from Monte Casino for a second and go to a 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.640 different battle that's linked with this one, and it's its 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:26.000 own separate story. But you know, we have Italy and 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.280 there's this line across that. Don't worry about where the 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.680 line is. We're south of Rome at this point, about 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.600 eighty miles south of Rome, but there's a line across Italy, 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:38.000 the Gustave line. And like I said, the fighting had 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.600 been mountains and rivers, and it had been brutal, brutal 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:48.400 fighting Germans dug in period. But why were we doing that? 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:55.040 There were a lot of people, Churchhill included, who asked, 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.520 why are we fighting over every single square inch of 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:04.920 leave from south to north when we can land anywhere. 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:09.880 We have naval superiority. We could just land our troops anywhere. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.320 And this is something, this is something we have to 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:19.720 pause on for a moment, because history is a funny thing, 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:25.600 and you get such twisted, manipulated history out there. And 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:30.760 here is the truth. World War two was so much 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:38.560 more dysfunctional leadership wise than you can possibly imagine. Then 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:45.320 you can possibly imagine. They were constantly the generals, the 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:52.160 world leaders work constantly yelling at each other, hated each other, 0:14:52.960 --> 0:15:00.920 petty rivalries, political rivalries, generals with gigantic egos. This was 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:05.960 a constant struggle. This British general hated this American general, 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.840 but he also hated this other British general. And he really, 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.120 really he had an older history with the French. Show 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.000 he's not going to work with the French over here, 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.800 but this world. And we don't think about that. When 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:17.720 you think about World War two, what do you picture 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.880 a church hill and FDR sitting there working it all 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:24.880 out like gentlemen. And then of course they handed all 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:28.160 the reins over to MacArthur, who just he just told 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:31.240 everybody where to go, and everyone said, okay, General, I'll 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.880 go do that right away. And it's further greater good 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:37.440 after all. No no no, no no no no. It 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:42.600 was all still government, meaning it was all still very 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:49.320 inefficient egos going wild. As you can imagine world leaders 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.920 in generals, there's one or two egos there in the 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:57.480 room screwing everything up for everybody. It was a dysfunctional mess. 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:04.840 And sometimes oftentimes when they couldn't agree on one strategy 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:10.760 let's do this, they would try to split the baby, 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:12.880 for lack of a better word way to put it, 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.960 and they would try to halfway do both. Do you 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:20.600 remember I said Churchill wanted to land anywhere? Why are 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:26.120 we fighting through all of it? We didn't. We decided 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:30.560 to do both north of the gustav Line, so passed 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.720 it towards Rome. Passed it. There was a place called Anzio. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:42.400 And the plan was this, let's land some troops on Anzio. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:48.480 When we land the troops on Anzio, they should be 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:53.960 okay because the Germans are so preoccupied with us fighting 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.040 down here on the gustav Line, that the troops who 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.400 land in Anzio they should be able to tell right 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.280 through all these Germans and just go right to Rome. 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.800 I mean, that was the plan, and frankly that might 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.040 have worked, except remember those petty rivalries we just talked 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:16.320 about like thirty seconds ago. General Clark, he was really 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:21.600 the man running the American troops in Italy almost universally 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.639 despised by all of his men, and the history books. 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:26.800 Not a well thought of general by any stretch of 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.159 the imagination. I wasn't there. You know how twisted history 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.840 can get. Maybe he was, Maybe he was a lion. 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:35.840 He is not well thought of by his man. He's 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:40.800 just not. But General Clark sends American troops, obviously, with 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:46.399 the British troops to land and Anzio. Only he works 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:50.160 with an opposite purpose of the one Churchill wanted. Churchill 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.159 wanted them to land in Anzio and blow and go 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.359 charge right through head towards Rome. Keep the Germans on 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:01.480 their heroes, keep them discombibulated. Clark is very, very very 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:06.720 worried about taking too many losses. He doesn't like the 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:12.600 plan to land in Anzio anyway, so he instructs his general. 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:22.040 Instructs his general be very careful, be very very very careful, 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:28.359 don't move, don't risk anything, don't So he's there with 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.360 the opposite purpose of the entire mission, and it just 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.600 I will do Anzio another time. I'm not going to 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.520 do it this week, probably won't even do it this month. 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.919 But just know this. The American troops land there, the 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.399 British troops land there and they promptly take their time, 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:46.640 just loading gear onto the beaches and such. But because 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.080 they took their time, it allowed the Germans to gather 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:56.680 up and regroup up there, and Anzio was absolutely vicious, 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:01.200 turned into a nightmare, turned into an absolute nightmare. Which 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.080 brings us back to Casino. Why did I bring up Anzio. 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:10.360 I'll get to that in a moment. Casino. First, they 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:14.399 start focusing on what the gigantic monastery on top of 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:16.960 the mountain, the big fortress. Remember there's a town, Casino, 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.520 and then there's the monastery up top. They're focusing on 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.120 the monastery as you would if you were sitting there, 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:27.080 and they're thinking, the Germans must be dug into that place. 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:32.080 So what do we do? I wish I should tell 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:35.320 you there are people who live in Casino to this day, 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:39.920 at Tians who live there who still hate Americans. What 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:45.960 did we do? Well? We bombed it to dust. We 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:52.680 bombed the monastery, the fourteen hundred year old monastery into 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.560 the ground. And that turned out to be really, really 0:19:56.600 --> 0:20:00.440 stupid for a couple of different reasons. One, the Germans 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.920 were not dug into the monastery portion of it yet, 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.639 but the second we bombed it into the ground. Remember 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.800 I just got done talking about the rivalries. Well, the 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.760 Indian troops. There were Indians obviously fighting on behalf of 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.520 the Brits, and they were excellent troops. The Indian troops 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.680 were supposed to move in right after we were done bombing, 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.000 because that's what you do, You bomb and then move, 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.520 bomb and then move, Except the coordination was a mess. 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.960 Everyone hated each other. The Indian troops took too long. 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:31.960 By the time we got to where the bombed out 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:36.640 monastery was, the Germans were now dug into a perfect 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:42.960 defensive position. And it is a disaster. You have cracked 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:48.320 German troops on a mountain fortress with perfect fortifications around them. 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:52.400 It is a sniper war. It is a booby trap war. 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.600 It is a mine You remember that story about it. Well, 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:57.359 I mean how we just talked about we looked at 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:01.359 everything as a big victory in World War Two. We're 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:05.360 losing right now in Italy. We are losing. We're losing 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:10.080 to the Germans. And the fighting conditions are terrible because 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.720 the Germans were not only great at digging in, they 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:16.159 were great at using every part of their environment to 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:20.880 their advantage. They actually damned up a river and marshed 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:25.240 the area. They turned the town into a marsh. And 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:27.680 now we have to deal with the town. And you 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:31.400 thought the monastery was bad, the town is gosh, maybe 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:54.840 even worse. We'll talk about that. 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That doesn't sound right? 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:01.800 All right, go on, I'm gonna get to the politician arrested, 0:24:01.800 --> 0:24:03.560 so on and so forth. Let me finish up here 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:08.000 with the Balamontic Casino. We now have to try to 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:16.240 take the town. And again we bombed it. And when 0:24:16.280 --> 0:24:18.600 I say we bombed it, this is what I mean. 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:23.919 If you visit the town today, Casino, you won't find 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:30.920 a single building there that predates this battle. Why because 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:35.120 we blew them all up with artillery, mainly with our 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:39.840 air power. Air power is famously famously inaccurate. It's very 0:24:39.920 --> 0:24:43.360 difficult to especially in this era, very difficult to be accurate. 0:24:44.160 --> 0:24:49.000 We bombed it to dust, and we kept making life 0:24:49.040 --> 0:24:52.320 more miserable for ourselves, just like we did on the mountaintop. 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:56.520 We kept like making life more miserable because bombing it 0:24:56.520 --> 0:25:00.280 it's not working. One the Germans. Again, we find out 0:25:00.320 --> 0:25:04.720 the Germans invent this stuff, had these huge underground bunkers 0:25:04.720 --> 0:25:06.840 where they would go when the bombing began. So you're 0:25:06.880 --> 0:25:09.680 blowing up buildings, You're not blowing up the Germans. That's one. 0:25:10.320 --> 0:25:14.440 Obviously we blew them up. Two, you're angering the civilian 0:25:14.480 --> 0:25:17.560 population because you're not only ruining your building their buildings, 0:25:17.600 --> 0:25:22.240 you're killing them. We killed a lot of civilians in there. Three, 0:25:23.840 --> 0:25:26.919 you've just taken you know what, let me describe it 0:25:26.920 --> 0:25:28.879 to you. This way a road. Do you tell you're 0:25:29.000 --> 0:25:31.840 taking a city? You have troops, you have tanks, You 0:25:31.880 --> 0:25:34.400 have a road. Picture any road in your town, buildings 0:25:34.400 --> 0:25:39.640 on either side. Did I help my advance through your 0:25:39.680 --> 0:25:43.320 town or hurt my advance through your town? If you're 0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:45.760 looking down that road and it goes from being a 0:25:45.920 --> 0:25:51.840 road to being mountains of concrete and steel. Now the 0:25:51.920 --> 0:25:56.959 tanks can't get through. Now there are more booby traps everywhere, 0:25:57.640 --> 0:26:02.119 more minds everywhere. The death here in a two days span, 0:26:02.240 --> 0:26:06.680 we lost seventeen hundred men in just two days. There's 0:26:06.800 --> 0:26:09.760 so much death here that they were just starting to 0:26:09.800 --> 0:26:12.879 figure out what PTSD was. You know, night sweats and 0:26:12.960 --> 0:26:14.920 all these things. They're starting to figure this out. Really 0:26:14.920 --> 0:26:19.520 in World War Two, the doctors who were studying PTSD 0:26:19.600 --> 0:26:23.719 back in mental hospitals, we're going to the front line 0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:28.560 to see the troops here, and they found whole units 0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:33.480 with PTSD, every guy up there, every single part. You 0:26:33.520 --> 0:26:37.240 just exists in this living hell and you have it. 0:26:38.840 --> 0:26:41.600 And it was a nightmare at night during the day, 0:26:41.680 --> 0:26:46.320 and the Germans are dying and we're dying. And snipers, 0:26:46.800 --> 0:26:49.880 cause it's a sniper paradise. When you have that kind 0:26:49.880 --> 0:26:52.560 of rubble, they can hide everywhere. And like I already said, 0:26:52.600 --> 0:26:59.920 booby traps and minds, just staggering losses. And the Germans 0:27:00.040 --> 0:27:03.720 are becoming more and more emboldened. You see, we look 0:27:03.760 --> 0:27:08.879 at everything understandably so from an American perspective. Well, the Germans, 0:27:09.680 --> 0:27:13.000 remember every German in World War Two wasn't some card 0:27:13.080 --> 0:27:17.640 carrying Nazi. They all loved their country, their families back home, 0:27:17.840 --> 0:27:20.119 loved their son off to war. You know that. You 0:27:20.160 --> 0:27:25.200 know what I'm talking about, that national national pride, patriotism thing. 0:27:25.840 --> 0:27:31.119 The Germans in Casino are becoming legends back in Germany 0:27:31.160 --> 0:27:33.800 and they're they're finding out about it, like they're they're 0:27:33.800 --> 0:27:37.160 becoming propaganda pieces that they're spreading around to the other 0:27:37.240 --> 0:27:40.720 German units. If you fight like these guys, we can 0:27:40.760 --> 0:27:45.480 still win the war. And it's just terrible. And we've 0:27:45.520 --> 0:27:49.720 tried not one, not two, but three all out assaults, 0:27:49.800 --> 0:27:54.680 three different battles, and they've all failed. We're losing down here. 0:27:56.480 --> 0:27:59.480 Finally we decide to give it a fourth try, and 0:27:59.480 --> 0:28:02.280 we do a couple different things here. One we do 0:28:02.359 --> 0:28:06.920 a more coordinated, more accurate artillery barrage, trying to blow 0:28:06.960 --> 0:28:09.160 them out too. And there were a bunch of people. 0:28:09.160 --> 0:28:11.960 There were Indian Gurkhas and British troops and American troops, 0:28:11.960 --> 0:28:14.000 and there were troops in North Africa. There were even 0:28:14.080 --> 0:28:18.000 French troops. Here. We brought in somebody else, and we're 0:28:18.040 --> 0:28:20.560 gonna pause on this for a moment. We brought in 0:28:20.720 --> 0:28:25.800 some Poles. And I know what you're thinking, what Poles 0:28:26.760 --> 0:28:29.360 Poland's gone at this point, And you're right. You remember, 0:28:30.600 --> 0:28:33.000 Hitler and Stalin at the beginning of the war agreed 0:28:33.040 --> 0:28:35.399 to split up Poland and they just spit roasted it. 0:28:36.320 --> 0:28:38.400 And I don't have to describe for you what happened 0:28:38.440 --> 0:28:41.280 on the German side of Poland. You know that, But remember, 0:28:42.360 --> 0:28:46.160 Stalin was just as bad a guy as Hitler. Stalin 0:28:46.320 --> 0:28:50.600 immediately began committing atrocities against those people. I did a 0:28:50.640 --> 0:28:52.920 show one time on the biggest murder of all time, 0:28:53.000 --> 0:28:56.960 most people killed by like a single hand, and I 0:28:57.000 --> 0:28:59.480