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Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the short Stuff. I'm Josh and

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Speaker 1: there's Chuck and Jerry sitting in for Dave, which makes

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Speaker 1: this an official short stuff. Don't accept substitutes.

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Speaker 2: That's right. And I'm only gonna say this at the beginning,

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Speaker 2: but boy, oh boy, this should be a movie, this episode.

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Speaker 1: It's insane that it's not.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, really great cinematic story in every way, the way it,

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Speaker 2: you know, is laid out there, you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Battle of Castle Itter would it be Ittter eid?

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Speaker 2: Well, here we go. We already don't know what to call.

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Speaker 1: It, so we're gonna call it Itter after John Ritter.

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Speaker 1: But it's also called Schlossitter, which is castle, and it's

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Speaker 1: located in Austria, the Tyrolean region of Austria. And the

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Speaker 1: reason why it's significant is too it's one of the

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Speaker 1: last battles of the European Theater of World War two,

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Speaker 1: Like I can't name any other battles after it, but

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Speaker 1: that doesn't really mean that much. And then the second

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Speaker 1: reason is because it is a really unusual battle in

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Speaker 1: that Germans got together with Americans and French and fought

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Speaker 1: the Nazis in this battle.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and other randos from different places like Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

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Speaker 2: Like it was a like you mentioned a real Motley Crue,

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Speaker 2: real ragtag group. Yeah, but I didn't put both of them, Lounce.

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Speaker 2: You got to put it over the O two.

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Speaker 1: Oh I didn't. Oh, I'm sorry, man, I screwed up.

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Speaker 2: It was pretty great everyone Josh put this together and

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Speaker 2: he typed out Motley Crue and he put Umlas over

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Speaker 2: the U just clearly as a little, uh little love

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Speaker 1: It was Yeah, I got it, but I'm sorry, I

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Speaker 1: screwed up the love letter.

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Speaker 2: No, it's fine. It's the thought that counts, that's what

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Speaker 2: they say, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's really patronizing.

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Speaker 2: What if this was the very last battle? That makes

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Speaker 2: it even more cinematic.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's what I read. It was like one

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Speaker 1: of the last, and it could just pretty cobody hedging,

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Speaker 1: you know, it could have been the last one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. So this castle is sitting up there

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Speaker 2: since the thirteenth century. Since eighteen seventy eight, it's been

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Speaker 2: as a hotel for a while, but notably for our story.

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Speaker 2: After the Nazis annex Austrian nineteen thirty eight, they took

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Speaker 2: it over and a few years later, in nineteen forty three,

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Speaker 2: it became part of Dacau, you know, the death camp,

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Speaker 2: and it served as a sort of a VIP prison

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Speaker 2: for some high value prisoners of war that they thought

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Speaker 2: We think we might be able to use them as hostages,

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Speaker 2: so we'll hold them up in this castle.

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Speaker 1: Right, And there were some like real VIPs in there.

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Speaker 1: There were two French generals, two former French prime ministers, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: sisters of Charles de Gaull, who was like, I guess

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Speaker 1: he was the head of the military in World War Two?

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Speaker 1: Correct or was he the No, he was the current

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Speaker 2: Oh I thought he just built the airport.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hand by hand, but that was a side project

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Speaker 1: They were also, like you said, some Czech prisoners from

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Speaker 1: Yugoslavian prisoners, and they were there for a couple of years,

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Speaker 1: and in May of nineteen forty five, the beginning of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. They were literally about to offer up

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Speaker 2: their formal surrender. But if you're in this castle, you're

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So one of the things that really unsettled them

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so he really finished the job.

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Speaker 2: A couple of days, I guess there were briefly relieved

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Speaker 2: There's no way to get out, even if they could

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Speaker 2: know what, I'm gonna make a run for it, you guys,

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Speaker 2: this is a movie, it's like an amazing success story

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Speaker 2: that he found the Americans.

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Speaker 1: And didn't get shot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Americans were like, hey, listen, man, we're

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Speaker 2: legally the war's not quite over. We're not allowed to

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Speaker 2: Major John T. Kramer, and he said there will be

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Speaker 2: a podcaster one day that will coin the term nuts

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Speaker 2: to that, but I'm going to say it right now.

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Speaker 2: Let's send a small detachment of tanks that way and

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Speaker 1: I can't take credit for that. I learned that from

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Speaker 1: Grandpa and Simpson's yeah, that's funny. So yeah, Major John

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Speaker 1: Kramer says, we're going to go help you guys, and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it.

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Speaker 3: That's why s K. You should know why SK definitely

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Speaker 3: should know. But Josh Clark.

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Speaker 2: All right. So meanwhile back at the castle, these prisoners,

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Speaker 2: they don't know what's happened to this Yugoslavian handyman that

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Speaker 2: the cook of the castle, and he said, all right,

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Speaker 2: oh god, this is such a movie. He finds a

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Speaker 2: German major, Sep Gongle, and this guy you said, you know,

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Speaker 2: all Nazis were terrible. I guess you would call him

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Speaker 2: the Navarone style. Let's go, let's go save these prisoners.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So Gangle is on his way now to Castle Itter,

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Speaker 1: Castle Itter. And this is not like some sort of

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Speaker 2: and they were right. The Waffen SS. They were the

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Speaker 2: They arrived at the castle, like you said, about twelve

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Speaker 2: like a really gruesome battle. They inside the prison. They

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the Nazis had some eighty millimeter gun

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Speaker 1: But then they started to run low on ammunition. And

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Speaker 2: He brought them there and and just like a movie scene,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the only thing about it you would have to

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Speaker 1: get him, get these people out of here alive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, tells them, I said.

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Speaker 1: Tell the Nazis, I said.

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Speaker 2: Second, there's there's a really funny uh oh, yeah, who cares.

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Speaker 2: Gould comedy bit about his plan on his deathbed is

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Speaker 2: just right, he said, Otherwise you just have to lay

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Speaker 2: the great Dana Gold. All right, So Gongle is taken out,

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Speaker 2: Lee comes up with that plan to get hold up

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Speaker 2: That's where you take your last stand in a castle.

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Speaker 2: So it's, you know, not a bad plan. He was like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not a bad plan, but the chances

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Speaker 2: met up with Captain Lee, and Lee said, what kept you?

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Speaker 1: That was a quote from Lee later on recounting it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would punch that up to what took you

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Speaker 2: so long? Yeah, with it like a little wink or something.

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Speaker 2: But and then maybe they've fall.

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Speaker 1: In love, yeah, or and Kramer responds with the traffic.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, it's SuperFect, you know, very sadly well, I mean,

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Speaker 2: I guess it's good news that Gongo was the only casualty.

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Speaker 2: this ragtag group held off this forest until the reinforcements arrived.

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Speaker 1: Major Lee lived to be an old man. I think

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Speaker 1: he died in the seventies and he was awarded the

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Speaker 1: Distinguished Service.

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Speaker 2: Cross for this amazing Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. This is movie stuff like out the

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Speaker 1: Yin Yang right at the Yen Yang, which means, of

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