1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: Hello, delicious friends, and welcome to Who Did What Now? 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: The history podcast That's not your history class with me, 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: your host Katie Charlwood, History Harlotte, and reader oh Books. 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: So yeah, this is definitely not your history class, not 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 1: at all one. There's too much swearing and too I 6 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 1: get so many messages and comments stuff along the lines 7 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: of if this was how history was taught, or if 8 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: you were my teacher, or if you taught history, I 9 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: would be interested, I would have learned something, I would 10 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 1: have done better in my exams, so on and so forth. Now, granted, 11 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: enthusiasm does count for a lot, Like if you have 12 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 1: enthusiasm and knowledge, like if you understand the subject and 13 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: you were excited to talk about it, yeah, people are 14 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 1: gonna people are gonna engage. There's gonna be better interaction 15 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:50,160 Speaker 1: with that, and people are gonna learn better. And if 16 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: you do get a really good teacher, like I had 17 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: my leaving set up, my leaving set exams, my history teacher, Jerry, 18 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: shout out to Jerry really really instilled that love of 19 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: history for me. And yeah, oh my goodness, Like here's 20 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 1: the thing, here's a shout out to Jerry. Anyone who 21 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: knows me in real life, who is actually listening to 22 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: this podcast and who knows Jerry. Yeah, I don't think 23 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: he'd care that I've given him a shout out on it. 24 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: It's like, hey, Jerry, Jerry, I know that you are 25 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: retired now and do a bunch of fancy, you know, 26 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: history stuff for a bunch of colleges and unis in 27 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: the country. But uh, yeah, that girl used to teach 28 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: you but twenty years ago for the living self. Yeah yeah, 29 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,119 Speaker 1: she'd give you a shout out on a history podcast. 30 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: By the way, I don't think he'd give a shit, 31 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: But no, Jerry was amazing. And when it comes to education, listen, 32 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: skills and colleges and whatnot. They have a cellabus. There 33 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: is a specific timeline or series of events they want 34 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: you to cover, and you have a finite space of time, 35 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: so you need to cover that you know, and and 36 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: that means there's certain things that just won't be discussed 37 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: or it will be seen as what is the most 38 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: relevant to you? What do you need to know to 39 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: understand the core points of this topic? Which is why 40 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: when I cover stuff like especially this month, this month 41 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: remind me never to do a full month on anything specific. Again, 42 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: especially anything this bad. Like, I don't know what I 43 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:34,799 Speaker 1: was thinking. This was a bad idea because it's not good. 44 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: It's very heavy, and do you know what it's like actually, 45 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: when you're like six seven videos and one podcast episode 46 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: away to being finished talking about one of the most 47 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 1: harrowing events in modern history, and then you think that 48 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: you have like your finish line, you see the finish line. 49 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: And it all started because people didn't understand the very 50 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 1: basics of concentration camps. They didn't understand just the core parts. 51 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: And that's how this whole thing. I kind of fell 52 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: into it. And then I made a promise and I 53 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: don't go back on my word. So here we are. 54 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: And so yeah, I'm seeing I'm approaching. I'm approaching that ribbon, guys, 55 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: I'm approaching it. And then out at the corner of 56 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: my eye, somebody says, slavery wasn't that bad? What? What? What? Slavery? Chattle? 57 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: Slavery that in which in which it's not only you 58 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: were enslaved, but the generations after you would be enslaved 59 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: where you had less rights than animals. Are you? Are 60 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: you serious? I mean? And I studied the slave trade 61 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: and plantations and the I also study that like the 62 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: Trailer Tears and how the United States of America is 63 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: built on the blood and bones of the indigenous, the enslaved, 64 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 1: and the indentured. But anyway, like a lot of people 65 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: genuinely believe that chattel slavery wasn't that bad, and I'm thinking, 66 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: like Jesus, do I need to explain this? And I'm 67 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,559 Speaker 1: thinking I might have to, just like October, maybe because 68 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: I'm giving September as a palate cleanser to myself because 69 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: I need something that's not as incredibly horrific as we 70 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: have been discussing this month, which brings me to today's episode, 71 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: which lovely segue there. I I have found what I 72 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: believe to be the most positive, positive concentration camp story 73 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: in the entire Holocaust. And you're thinking that is a 74 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 1: weird way to say it, and it is, You're not wrong, 75 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: but also it's technically correct. The Battle of Castle Ata 76 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 1: is the weirdest, the weirdest battle in the entire Second 77 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 1: World War. I maintained this, And also I think it 78 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 1: would make a great like three part mini series, Like 79 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 1: I feel like it would just be an easy, an 80 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: easy tale to tell because You've got like three different aspects, 81 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 1: and I feel like it all come together really really 82 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: really well. I feel like that would be like a 83 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: very good good thing. But anyway, I know what you're thinking. 84 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: You're thinking, Kertie quite your Jebel Jabba in fact me, 85 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: in fact you are will. But first we've got to 86 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 1: get our source on. Our sources are prison by Augusta 87 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 1: leon Jo. The Last Battle When US and German soldiers 88 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 1: joined forces in the winning hours of World War in 89 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: Europe by Stephen Harding. World War Two's Strangest Battle, when 90 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: Americans and Germans fought together by Andrew Roberts. The Last 91 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 1: Battle by Donald Ladner. S s Alibi of the Nation 92 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 1: by Gerald Raiitlinger. The Battle for schloss Ada by Richard Pendavin. 93 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: The insane story of a German American effort to rescue 94 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:30,719 Speaker 1: French prisoners during World War Two by Sebastian Roblin. Women 95 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: and Yugoslav Partisans. A History of World War Two Resistance 96 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: by Yelena Baldinite. The Austrian Castle were Nazis lost to 97 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 1: German US Force by Bethany Bell. Secret Agents, Spies and sabageurs. 98 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:49,720 Speaker 1: Famous undercover missions of World War Two Boyannis Pilkowichits. We 99 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 1: also have contemporary articles from Hellcat News, This Saturday Evening Post, 100 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: and The New York Times, and of course we have 101 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: our old favorites biography, do history dot com. I use 102 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:07,599 Speaker 1: it in coomfortably good. Then let's begin. The Battle of 103 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: Castle Ita has to be one of my favorite stories 104 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: from the entire Second World War. It is completely wild 105 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: and probably most likely the most positive story you will 106 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: ever hear, like from the Holocaust, which is such an 107 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: odd thing to say about something so horrible, but it 108 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: is what it is. So let's get to basics. Let's 109 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: get our context on you know what I still prefer like, 110 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: let's slip into some context, like that's my favorite part, 111 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: that's my favorite. So you've got the Allies versus the 112 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: Axis Powers. So Allies were like the Big three UK, USA, 113 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: uss R, and then you've also got Poland and France 114 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: like along with them. Then you've got the Axis Powers, 115 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: which is like the German Reich. So you've got Germany 116 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: and Austria, and then you've got Italy and so they're 117 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: all part of the Axis grew. So the Federal State 118 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: of Austria was annexed by Germany on the twelfth of 119 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: March nineteen thirty eight. They marched in, they invaded, and 120 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 1: they took it over, absorbing it into the Reich. This 121 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: was known as the Antlos. So this is like before 122 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: the war starts in nineteen thirty nine, when Germany invades 123 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: Poland and when Austria is forced into the Reich. Not 124 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: everybody is cool with that. Some people didn't agree that 125 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: joining Germany was a great idea, or that going to 126 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: war with some of the biggest powers in the world 127 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: was super either. Which brings us to the Austrian resistance, 128 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:51,199 Speaker 1: which is one we don't hear about too often. Now 129 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: you've probably heard a wee bit about like the Polish 130 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: and Dutch resistance in recent years, but typically the French 131 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: and British resistance is what gets shared like that's like 132 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: the most popular out there. And around one hundred thousand 133 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: people that we know of were involved in the Austrian resistance, 134 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: with thousands imprisoned or executed, And of course there were 135 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: different splinters within the resistance itself. You had armed groups 136 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: like the Austrian Freedom Front, the Gorama Potzan and more 137 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:30,839 Speaker 1: who attacked facilities, infrastructure, demolishing bridges, damaging railway lines and offices, 138 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 1: basically anything to bugger up the Nazi supply chain. Then 139 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: you had the abver Intelligence Agency, so General Erwin Lahausen 140 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 1: he was appointed chief of ABWA Section two, which mainly 141 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: dealt with sabotage and Blanderburger. Lahousen wanted the agents to 142 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: be trained mainly for espionage, as the higher ups were 143 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 1: focused on sabotage, and so this led to like double agents, 144 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 1: triple agents, counter intelligence, et cetera, et cetera. Then you 145 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: have another part of the resistance in the Wehrmacht, also 146 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: known as the brandy Burgers, and so they were to 147 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:18,959 Speaker 1: deal with sabotage and infiltration like like the Sees, but worse. 148 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: So some resistance fighters work their way up to the 149 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 1: Vermacht in order to destroy it from the inside and 150 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: send intelligence. Then you have heard about this, so this 151 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 1: kind of becomes an issue because this makes like the 152 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: Nazis like super super duper like suspicious, and so you 153 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 1: have like spies trying to weed out these spies and 154 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:53,559 Speaker 1: it's like espionage on espionage. Right, you have Nazi officers 155 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 1: going undercover in Austria and this meant more political prisoners 156 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: and political prisoners. They were useful and they're basically bargaining chips, right. 157 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: But of course if you have political prisoners, if you're 158 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: planning to use them at some point, you know you 159 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 1: have to be able to store them somewhere, and so 160 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 1: they're figuring out where we're going to put them, and 161 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 1: of course they had just the place Castle Ita. So 162 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,199 Speaker 1: Castle Ita was in the North Tyrol and had been 163 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:32,199 Speaker 1: leased from the owner Frans Gluna in nineteen forty now 164 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: least initially three years later it was seized and it 165 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: was converted into a prison in nineteen forty three and 166 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: then camp laborers they came up and like basically maintained it, 167 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 1: did some work and it became a subcamp of DAJA. 168 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: Its purpose was to hold high profile French prisoners that 169 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: they're the saw is valuable. But it also had like 170 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:09,319 Speaker 1: Austrian and Eastern European prisoners like Zomanian Kukovic, e Croatian 171 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: electrical engineer who joined the resistance when the Nazis invaded 172 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 1: Yugoslavia that used to be a country, for those of 173 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:19,959 Speaker 1: you who don't know, there used to be a country 174 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: called Yugoslavia. And so he had a skill, and that 175 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: skill kept him alive, and so they kept him like 176 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: they kept like certain prisoners from the other camps. Right, 177 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: So these regular prisoners, shall we say, and they had 178 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: them for like maintenance and labor, because that wasn't something 179 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: these high profile political prisoners were supposed to do. So 180 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: it's it's quite interesting, right, You've got a motley crewe 181 00:12:55,480 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 1: in there. Like you have the right wing leader and 182 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: closet French resistance fighter Francois de la Rocque, trade union 183 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 1: leader Leon Jois, tennis player Jean Borotra, like he's a 184 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:17,760 Speaker 1: famous tennis player as well. Right. Then you've got commanders 185 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 1: in chief or former commanders in chief Magzie Moregand and 186 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: Maurice Ramlin, former prime ministers Edod Derider and Paul Reynald. 187 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: Then you have politician and diplomat Andre Francois Ponsett, who 188 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 1: was an ambassador to Germany pre war. So then you 189 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 1: have politician Michel Clemonceaux, son of the former French Prime 190 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: minister George Cremonceaux. And last but not least, Marie Agnes 191 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: de Gould, resistance fighter and Charles Dugaul's sister. So you 192 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: also had like the wives and husbands of like the 193 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: political prisoners there as well, So there's there's there's like 194 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: there's a good chunk there. So for those of you 195 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: who don't know, Charles de gaul was the leader of 196 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 1: the Free French forces who were resisting Nazi German rule 197 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:17,680 Speaker 1: and occupation, and like spoilers. After the war, he would 198 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: go on to be like the prime Minister, which is 199 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: the English word, so effectively, actually he would be the 200 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 1: Premier Ministre de la Rpublique frances so the Prime Minister 201 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: of the French Republic. So it's like a it's like 202 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: a big title. So these prisoners, they are all high profile, 203 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: they're important, and the Nazis wanted them close enough, but 204 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: like not too close, so they're sort of hidden away 205 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: but still within Nazi reach, so they're nirtelal. In Austria, 206 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 1: it's say, Nick, it's beautiful. It looks like a scene 207 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 1: out of the sound of music, Like it really is 208 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: a stunning place. And it's what one hundred forty kilometers, 209 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: which is math hang On eighty six miles south of Munich, Munich. 210 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: I miss her pretzels. You know, it's weird. When I 211 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 1: was in Munich, is there were so many like prawns, 212 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: like shrimp, and my boss was like, I've never seen 213 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: them eat as much shrimp as when we were in Munich, 214 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 1: and I'm like, we're landlocked. I'm not sure this is 215 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: the best idea, but nobody died, so I'm going to 216 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 1: assume everything's fine. I'm fairly certain nobody got fit poisoning. 217 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: So this castle, it is Schloss Ada. It is nestled 218 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: in the Alps, and it's actually about yeah, it's actually 219 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 1: about the same distance from Munich to Aa as it 220 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 1: is from Ita to no Sunstein Castle, right, so ciber 221 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: No Sunstein Castle was the home of Ludwig the second 222 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: of Bavaria, the Martian Corneague, the fairy tale King. Like 223 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: that's like inside Germany he's known as like the fairy 224 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: tale King, but outside Germany he's known as mad King Ludwig. Anyway, 225 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: So the Nazi had also claimed like No shans Signed Castle, 226 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: and that's one of the places where they were holding 227 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: stolen gold, like because you know how they looted and 228 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: stole everything from the property of Jewish people, so they 229 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: would like kill them and then like chisel out their 230 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: gold teeth and things. But before they did that, they 231 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: would reclaim I say reclaim, they would steal all of 232 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: their property and claim it as their own. I touched 233 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: on this a little bit in the previous episode with 234 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: Amon Gould, like when the ghettos were were emptied, like 235 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: when they removed people from there and they you know, 236 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: heard them off into either camps or or or extermination centers, 237 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:10,680 Speaker 1: they would just take all of the valuables, so jewelry, clothes, art, furniture, 238 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,199 Speaker 1: like they would all be collected and become part of 239 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: like the right pot if you will. And yeah, the 240 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: thing about the art is like they collected like artwork, 241 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:29,400 Speaker 1: but they hid it because it was more like the dragon, 242 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:33,640 Speaker 1: the hoarding the gold. And Hitler as a general rule, 243 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 1: didn't enjoy art that was artistic, like anything that had 244 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: flair or whimsy or anything or an expression or impression. 245 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:50,159 Speaker 1: He liked photographs. Really, I think he'd be better just 246 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,239 Speaker 1: looking at a photo because if you ever look at 247 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 1: his artwork, it's like mate Wareern't you're just doing architectural drawings, 248 00:17:56,359 --> 00:18:01,640 Speaker 1: like that's that's kind of your jam. There wasn't imagination 249 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 1: or flair. And yeah, but listen, I'm not here to 250 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:09,679 Speaker 1: talk about the artwork. But I just feel like that 251 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: would have been a more constructive path for him to 252 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: go down as opposed to, you know, the current situation 253 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 1: we are currently in in this very short domino effect. 254 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 1: But yes, so they were just hoarding all of this 255 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 1: stolen gold and it's like just up the road, right, 256 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: it's like so close and Castle Ida. It's in the Alps. 257 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:42,160 Speaker 1: And the Nazi counter intelligence had been spreading the idea 258 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 1: that the Nazis last stand, Like they were like, if 259 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 1: we're losing the war, if things go down, the last 260 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 1: dance is going to happen in Austria, and like nobody 261 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 1: wanted that because the thing about Austria geographically, if you 262 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 1: look at a map, right, it's landlocked. It's inland, it's landlocked, 263 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: and you're right in the heart of Europe, like you've 264 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 1: got rocky terrain, you've just got it's not the most 265 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 1: accessible of locations, and it would draw troops away from 266 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 1: like other prominent areas. And so there was always this 267 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:25,239 Speaker 1: idea that you know, oh, they'd go inland and then 268 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 1: we'd have to follow them, and then it's going to 269 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: be a big pain. Like that was never actually put 270 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 1: the plan, but that was what the seeds they were sowing, 271 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 1: and so because it would be pulling people in from 272 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 1: all over other parts of the war, the Allies already 273 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: had their eyes on the area and this led to 274 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: the idea as well that the place would have this 275 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 1: entire network of underground bunkers. That's that's no, that's not 276 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,959 Speaker 1: to say they were not underground bunkers in the Alps. 277 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: They had them. They had them. That's where they put 278 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: like the like the forgery stuff initially from Operating Bernard, 279 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 1: like that's where they had smuggled it, and that's where 280 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: they were like making them do a bit more counterfeit 281 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 1: in there. But yeah, there were bunkers in the Alps, 282 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: carved underground, but there was not a network of them. 283 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: There wasn't like a secret Nazi city underneath the Alps, 284 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 1: like that's conspiracy theory time. But yeah, there's there's a 285 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: couple of things there, but nothing really to write home about. 286 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,640 Speaker 1: And like around this area as well, Hitler's we hide about. Sorry, 287 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: his home was around this. The Eagles Nest a fucking 288 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 1: such a prick, I mean, mass murder aside the Eagles Nest, 289 00:20:50,400 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: how fucking pretentious. Like uh, anyway, Eagles nest here Wolf's 290 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:09,640 Speaker 1: Layer in Poland. Like I just I just it's it's 291 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 1: it's just screaming. I'm an alpha male energy. I simply 292 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 1: cannot friends, I simply cannot. So you've already got this 293 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 1: area like under surveillance anyway for like the Smorgas Board 294 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 1: of Reasons. And then you've got these VIP prisoners who 295 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:35,879 Speaker 1: were tucked away in the Alps, and like it's also 296 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: pretty handy in case they needed to clean up like 297 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: like like listen, Lessen, kind of like the Bolsheviks and 298 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 1: the Romanovs, if they need to cover some tracks, you know, 299 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:57,879 Speaker 1: they've got them contained. They can just you know, it's 300 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 1: it's yeah. There was never really any actual attempt or 301 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: suggestion to use them in any kind of trade. It 302 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 1: basically went from we're worrying to oh now, last hand, 303 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 1: Unlike concentration camp prisoners, these VIPs they got meals, they 304 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 1: got to stretch their legs and talk to the guards. 305 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: And the dynamic year is also it's also really interesting 306 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: because you've had these like vshy collaborators like Maxime Legand 307 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:41,399 Speaker 1: and Jean Belottre and members of the resistance all hold 308 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 1: up together and while they're imprisoned. Things are not going 309 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:51,120 Speaker 1: well for the right. The Allied counter offensive was happening 310 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: and liberation was near, and you've got this really weird 311 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 1: mix actually, because not only do you have these people 312 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 1: that are on opposite sides, especially initially, but you've also 313 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 1: got this group that are VIPs along with their like 314 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 1: various husbands and wives, their partners. And then you have 315 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: these like ex labor camp prisoners who are there just 316 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: to do like maintenance and labor and all this stuff 317 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: that the political prisoners shouldn't have to do. Yeah, so 318 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 1: you've got them, and then you've got like SS officers, 319 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 1: one of which cut Siegfried Shreda. He was injured and 320 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: he was there resting at Castle Ita. And while he's 321 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 1: recovering there, he was being cared for by the prisoners. 322 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 1: So yeah, liberation is on its way, you know. And 323 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: you have like inside the walls of Schloss Ita, it's normal, 324 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,119 Speaker 1: it's the day to day, it is how it is, 325 00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 1: how it's been outside the wall and kind of go 326 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:06,400 Speaker 1: into shit. So things are crumbled down around us. You've 327 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: got the Red Army coming in from Poland, you have 328 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: like it's past ere at this point. So you've got 329 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,959 Speaker 1: like US troops coming down from one side, You've just 330 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: got from all angles, right, like a double pronged attack. 331 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 1: And so you have this coming down. And on the 332 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: second of May nineteen forty five, Edward Vita, commandant of Dahl, 333 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:40,480 Speaker 1: arrives at schloss Ita. That's right, the Dahl commandant. He 334 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 1: knows allies are on the way, and so he is 335 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: getting the heck at a dodge and so he is 336 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:52,640 Speaker 1: stopping at schloss Ita for the night, and he's he's 337 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: he's only supposed to be staying at night, but he 338 00:24:55,880 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 1: ends up staying much longer than he expected because he 339 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 1: ends up dying mysteriously as he fell onto a bullet, 340 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: and so like, he basically has a grumble with somebody, 341 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: gets up, goes into a building like within the castle, 342 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:23,640 Speaker 1: like a little Britain, and a little while later there's 343 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:28,119 Speaker 1: a bang and they're like, oh, no, he must have 344 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 1: ended his own life, like the man who's trying to escape. 345 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 1: I mean, if ye have you already a gun, why 346 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: wouldn't he have done that back at back out? Why 347 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: did he do it here? Anyway, the next day they 348 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:48,880 Speaker 1: end up burying him outside the walls. So like he's 349 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,640 Speaker 1: just like a lit'll be grave outside of the castle. 350 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: So yeah, that that next day, that same day that 351 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 1: they buried him outside the castle grounds, negles to say, 352 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: things are a getting a little bit tense inside, and 353 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 1: said schloss Ita. And it seems likely that information had 354 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: been passed on to, you know, the guy running the castle. 355 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:20,119 Speaker 1: And so Sebastian Viemer, who is in charge, he sends Kokovic, 356 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:25,160 Speaker 1: the electrical engineer, on an errand on his bike. He 357 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 1: does not return. See, here's the thing. The prisoners they 358 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:36,120 Speaker 1: have a secret radio and they heard that the Allies 359 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: were coming. And yeah, like so they'd smoke on a 360 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 1: little radio and they were using it unbeknownst to the 361 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:46,640 Speaker 1: ESSs guards. So because they knew the Allies were on 362 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,120 Speaker 1: their way and they were coming into that area, they 363 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: give Kokovic a letter to give to the first Allied 364 00:26:53,640 --> 00:27:00,880 Speaker 1: soldier he meets, and like Wimmer, he's panicking. Sebastian Vember 365 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 1: is freaking the fuck out. He is like pacing back 366 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: and forth thees panicking. They have buried Vita outside the 367 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 1: castle grounds. The Croatian electrician hasn't returned, and he is 368 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: well aware that they have been committing war crimes. So 369 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 1: he says, fuck this for a game of soldiers and 370 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 1: just runs off, followed by the remaining SS guards. So 371 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: they just leave. Okay, So Kookovich, he is on his bike, 372 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:39,640 Speaker 1: and he is also well aware that Vorl, the closest town, 373 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 1: which is like five miles away, is occupied by you know, 374 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 1: German rech forces, and so he thinks, what would be 375 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 1: a better idea is to cycle instead forty miles away 376 00:27:56,040 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 1: to Innsbruck, where the four hundred and ninth regimen of 377 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 1: the American one hundred and third Infantry Division are. AD's 378 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 1: a mouthful, lads, four hundred and ninth Regiment of the 379 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: American one hundred and third Infantry Division. There we go. 380 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:17,159 Speaker 1: They've got it second time. So Viimar he's absconded, leaving 381 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 1: the prisoners in charge of castle item and so, like 382 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 1: any decent contestant on Project Runway, they manage to fashion 383 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:33,160 Speaker 1: together a few items and they make a French flag. 384 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,920 Speaker 1: And so they make this French flag and then they 385 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: raise it so that people can see like they've put 386 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 1: a claim on the castle, like this castle belongs to 387 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: like France, and so they have raised their flag. They 388 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 1: arm themselves like they just grab like guns, because there's 389 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: just armory, like a few bits and bess still left around. 390 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: And they don't know what's happened to Kokovich. Okay, they 391 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: don't know where he's gone because like they're thinking, oh, 392 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 1: the nearest town isn't that far. So for all they know, 393 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: he's been caught, he's dead, he's escaped, you know, any 394 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 1: or all of those. So then they decide they're going 395 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: to send Andreas Krobot a check cook with a message 396 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: for American trips. But Andreas he goes, they send him 397 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: away and he heads to Vorl right, and when he 398 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: gets there, he doesn't come across American trips. Instead, he 399 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: comes across Major Joseph L. Gangel, an Austrian major who 400 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 1: had commanded howitzers on the Eastern Front and nebel Vefer 401 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 1: rocket launchers in the Battle of Normandy. Now, now that 402 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 1: this is not a man one would assume that one 403 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 1: would want to meet in a back alley, like this 404 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:09,080 Speaker 1: guy was an Austrian soldier. He was part of the war, 405 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 1: Like he knew how to use his artillery and so yeah, yeah, 406 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 1: and see Rango, he had perceived orders and those orders 407 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: were to make a last stand against the US twelfth 408 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 1: Division that was allegedly approaching. However, he thought instead of 409 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 1: doing that. Instead of doing that, he chose to pass 410 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: the information on to the local Austrian resistance under Alois 411 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 1: Mayor Oh and he armed them. See, the SS had 412 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 1: orders to shoot Austrians who showed any signs of welcoming 413 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 1: the allies. So what a lot of people had been 414 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 1: doing was flying like white flags or white sheets like 415 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: from their windows, like they were doing this as a 416 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: symbol of peace, of showing that they were part of 417 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 1: this and that they were welcoming the trips. So the 418 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 1: major he was like mmmmm. He was ready to fight 419 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 1: back and hoping that the US troops would like arrive 420 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 1: before he would actually have to fight the SS. Like. 421 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 1: He didn't want to have to do that. He wanted 422 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 1: to have his little Vermax soldiers and just protect the town. 423 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: So this was his only option. And here's the thing. 424 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 1: He can't be in two places at once, so he 425 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 1: can't protect the town and stage rescue like he can't 426 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 1: have the vermaked his vermaked like in two zones. He 427 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:56,960 Speaker 1: can either have them here or have them there, And 428 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: so he keeps his men there. Majority of his men 429 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 1: there and then sends the information on and they says 430 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 1: it had gotten a bit weird at this point. And 431 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 1: you're thinking, really at this point, because there were bands 432 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: of them just like roaming the area full of rage 433 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,840 Speaker 1: and bloodlust because they had nothing left to lose at 434 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 1: this point, like like, they know what they did, they 435 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 1: know what will happen to them because of what they did, 436 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 1: and so I'm assuming just enraged by the fact they 437 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 1: have to deal with the consequences of their own actions. Yeah, okay, 438 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 1: so they're just like I you know, when an animal 439 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 1: has rabies and it's just a frothing, rageful like ball 440 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: of anger and well, spit that's what the guy. These 441 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 1: guys are like for me, Like, that's that's what I say. 442 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: And so you've just got these violent men who have 443 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 1: unchecked power, with no shits to give and nothing left 444 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:28,000 Speaker 1: to lose, roaming the country looking for a fight. So 445 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 1: the major he ends up like getting some intelligence, getting 446 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 1: some stuff going, and he ends up sending a small 447 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,560 Speaker 1: force to protect the prisoners at the castle in case 448 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 1: the ESSs tried to reclaim it, and so he's like, 449 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 1: come on, let's go. So he's with a small force 450 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,480 Speaker 1: and he reaches Cuffstein, which is where they meet a 451 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:57,320 Speaker 1: reconnaissance unit from the twenty third Armored Battalion armed with 452 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 1: a white flag. Like they approach because this wasn't the 453 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 1: safest thing because these trips, like the Vermacht, these Austrian 454 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:12,920 Speaker 1: Vermacht trips, they look like Nazis. You know, it's the 455 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:20,399 Speaker 1: uniform they are they're Nazis, and they look like, yeah, 456 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,239 Speaker 1: they were the Nazis. And so there there were the 457 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:27,600 Speaker 1: WE flag and they meet with these exhausted US troops 458 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 1: led by Lieutenant Jack Lee, and these troops like they 459 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:39,920 Speaker 1: are they're supposed to be being relieved, right, and so 460 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 1: they're like, hey, there's these prisoners. We need to rescue them. 461 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,279 Speaker 1: And they're like fuck it, yeah, let's go. Let's go 462 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:54,920 Speaker 1: rescue some prisoners at the castle. The princess is in 463 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:59,759 Speaker 1: another castle. So they all decide that they are just 464 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 1: gonna go. So you've got obstacles, obstacles in their way. 465 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:09,359 Speaker 1: They're coming across machine gun nests as they're being set up, 466 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,680 Speaker 1: so they're like in tanks and all their stuff, and 467 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:16,719 Speaker 1: they're coming across this like at one point they end 468 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:22,040 Speaker 1: up going over a bridge that is being wired to explode, 469 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,680 Speaker 1: which is not the strongest thing to like cross the 470 00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:31,880 Speaker 1: best of time, but in a tank, it just doesn't 471 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:36,319 Speaker 1: feel like the safetest option here. And you've got this 472 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:41,440 Speaker 1: like command car, a truck and four tanks making this 473 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:47,240 Speaker 1: journey and this liberation force. It ends up being reduced 474 00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:54,839 Speaker 1: down to ten German Austrian troops and fourteen Americans, and 475 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:59,719 Speaker 1: they end up leaving some tanks behind to man the roadblocks, 476 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:05,360 Speaker 1: which only leaves one tank Jack Lees tank, the besot 477 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:09,520 Speaker 1: In Jenny and upgraded easy eight Sherman tank with a 478 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:14,400 Speaker 1: high velocity seventy six millimeter gun, which I'm sure is impressive, 479 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,920 Speaker 1: because here's the thing I don't I don't know. I 480 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 1: don't know guns. I don't know calibers or millimeters or that. 481 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:27,920 Speaker 1: I'm like, that sounds like a weapon. So as this 482 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:32,279 Speaker 1: tank is going, there are several African American soldiers from 483 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:37,800 Speaker 1: the seventeenth Armored Infantry Battalion riding on top of the tank, 484 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:44,960 Speaker 1: right on top of Besotting Jenny, And so they reach 485 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:52,560 Speaker 1: schlos Aita, and because they're French, the prisoners are entirely 486 00:36:52,640 --> 00:37:01,040 Speaker 1: unimpressed with their rescue. Barder, the diamly dialed, so you 487 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:06,920 Speaker 1: have fourteen US soldiers ten ex verver marked riflemen. So 488 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,719 Speaker 1: they arrive and they see that the castle's defenses are 489 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:16,640 Speaker 1: being headed up by an SS officer, Kurt secret Shaeffer, 490 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:22,040 Speaker 1: whose family is also inside the castle. So the injured 491 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,000 Speaker 1: s S officer from before that they befriended. They were like, hey, 492 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:30,040 Speaker 1: we've been abandoned by all of these guys. You wanna 493 00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:34,480 Speaker 1: you wanna help protect us? And he's like, yeah, absolutely, 494 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,880 Speaker 1: So they he deploys his troops and sets his tank 495 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,320 Speaker 1: in front of the gatehouse, and he wants to send 496 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,279 Speaker 1: like the prisoners. He wants to keep them inside. But 497 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:49,160 Speaker 1: they're like no, no, no, no, no, honey, we're gonna fight. 498 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:56,720 Speaker 1: They're like, oh no no, nibba nibba niba. Oh castle, 499 00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,239 Speaker 1: No no, no no, and that I can pa. They're 500 00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:04,480 Speaker 1: like absolutely not. They're like they're gonna fight. So not 501 00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:10,120 Speaker 1: long after they arrive, not long after, the Vermacht the 502 00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:15,440 Speaker 1: riflemen the fucking US dudes, Right. Not long after they arrive, 503 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:23,160 Speaker 1: the seventeenth SS Panzagrnadia Division starts moving against the castle 504 00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:32,240 Speaker 1: and lays siege. By the next morning, around one hundred 505 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:36,400 Speaker 1: and fifty to two hundred SS troops had a masted 506 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:41,439 Speaker 1: to besiege the castle Ita, setting up an eighty eight 507 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:45,680 Speaker 1: millimeter anti tank gun and a twenty milimeter flat gun 508 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:51,720 Speaker 1: upon a hill like eight hundred yards away. Now again 509 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:58,880 Speaker 1: I'm no artillery expert. I'm not great with the pure pews. 510 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:03,760 Speaker 1: But as far as I can tell, these are big 511 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:09,120 Speaker 1: heavy guns. These are big, massive heavy guns, scary guns. 512 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:11,480 Speaker 1: You don't want these shipping at you guns. I mean, 513 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,040 Speaker 1: you really shouldn't want any guns shooting at you. But 514 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:18,799 Speaker 1: like on a scale of zero two anti tank gun, 515 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:24,320 Speaker 1: we don't. We don't want this, Okay. So the next 516 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,360 Speaker 1: that next day, so you've got all like two hundred 517 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:32,120 Speaker 1: ish men there right ready to besiege, and the Allies 518 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:39,279 Speaker 1: they only get two additions, one German Solda and a 519 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:46,000 Speaker 1: teenage Austrian resistance member hands well like, and they fucking 520 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:50,319 Speaker 1: held for leather. Remember they've had to cross like the 521 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,319 Speaker 1: bridge that's wired to explode. They've had to come all 522 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:57,640 Speaker 1: this way like up through the up, through the winding roads, 523 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:02,080 Speaker 1: through the fucking Alps. Man. So you've got all these 524 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,799 Speaker 1: guys and they've just rushed to be there. They have 525 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,720 Speaker 1: just zoomed up because they got told we need reinforcements, 526 00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,839 Speaker 1: and he's like, great, I've got this teenager and this 527 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,799 Speaker 1: other guy. And it's the fifth of May and the 528 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:19,160 Speaker 1: attack begins. The artillery hits the castle, causing it to 529 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:24,279 Speaker 1: physically shake, like bricks are falling from the wall. Like 530 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,480 Speaker 1: one of them actually falls and hits Schrader's wife and 531 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:31,239 Speaker 1: so she's injured just from the building being shot at 532 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:36,840 Speaker 1: and the Besotton Jenny. So Jacqulee's tank it provided machine 533 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:40,480 Speaker 1: gun fire support until it was hit by that eighty 534 00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:46,000 Speaker 1: eight millimeter anti tank gun. There was one fella inside 535 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,719 Speaker 1: and he was trying to fix the faulty radio, but 536 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:54,840 Speaker 1: he managed to escape unharmed, so like he was just lucky, 537 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:59,720 Speaker 1: you know. And by the afternoon, the news had reached 538 00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:08,040 Speaker 1: the one hundred and forty second Battalion Infantry Regiment. Hey, Kerry, 539 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,640 Speaker 1: you know history stuff, And I'm like, yeah, I'm just 540 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:15,359 Speaker 1: really bad at naming different sections of military. I don't know, 541 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,920 Speaker 1: I'm not there. Some have guns of horses, some of 542 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,480 Speaker 1: guns on horses, some of them have tanks. I don't know. 543 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:27,839 Speaker 1: They do different things, right, So in the castle, they 544 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:31,440 Speaker 1: knew the reinforcements were on their way, but because the 545 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,680 Speaker 1: radios had been down. They hadn't been able to give 546 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:41,239 Speaker 1: complete information regarding enemy positions, which is not good. Like 547 00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,160 Speaker 1: if you are approaching, that's the kind of thing you 548 00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:50,719 Speaker 1: want to know. Enter tennis player Jean Bartoa, who volunteers 549 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:54,520 Speaker 1: to deliver the information. And this this is a visual 550 00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,320 Speaker 1: that I think we need in our three part mini series, 551 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:03,760 Speaker 1: and that is he vaults over the castle wall, runs 552 00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:09,000 Speaker 1: the gauntlet of SS strong points and ambushes past SS 553 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:13,960 Speaker 1: officers with machine guns. Right. He races through the forest 554 00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:17,799 Speaker 1: and meets the one hundred and forty second Division. And 555 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,880 Speaker 1: when he meets them, he is recognized like straight away 556 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:26,040 Speaker 1: by a Canadian reporter who's just like with the division 557 00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,799 Speaker 1: and this bota like he's made it to them. He's 558 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:36,160 Speaker 1: given the enemy positions. And what does he do? Does 559 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:40,200 Speaker 1: he leave? Does he say, man, I'm done now? He 560 00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,520 Speaker 1: says no. He doesn't say no. He says, give me 561 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:49,640 Speaker 1: a gun and a uniform. And then he heads back 562 00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:55,319 Speaker 1: to the castle with them. And it's good that they're 563 00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:59,360 Speaker 1: coming there because the prisoners they have a finite number 564 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,320 Speaker 1: of bullets, so they really need them to make it back, 565 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:06,400 Speaker 1: you know. And when they reach the castle around two pm, 566 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,879 Speaker 1: they end the battle, and there wasn't that many casualties 567 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:16,080 Speaker 1: all in all. Yosevic gangle like he was fatally shot 568 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:20,280 Speaker 1: by a sniper while removing the former French Prime Minister 569 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:26,480 Speaker 1: Paul Renaud out of the line of fire. And Yoseph 570 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:33,000 Speaker 1: here the ex vermachte, right, he was the sole defender 571 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:37,839 Speaker 1: to die. He was the only one. So with this, 572 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:42,319 Speaker 1: around one hundred s S soldiers are captured. And this 573 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:46,359 Speaker 1: is like five days after Hitler committed suicide and two 574 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:54,360 Speaker 1: days before Germany's unconditional surrender. So Kurt Field Trader, he 575 00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:59,239 Speaker 1: gets two years for Nazi stuff, which is fair, but 576 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,719 Speaker 1: he's sent in was reduced because of his efforts in 577 00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:08,000 Speaker 1: you know, protecting the people of Castle Ida and like 578 00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:14,080 Speaker 1: as well. So Joseph he gets a posthumous like thing. 579 00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:19,040 Speaker 1: He ends up losing his life, you have, you know, 580 00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:23,240 Speaker 1: Schrader he ends up getting he ends up getting two years. 581 00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:28,680 Speaker 1: And Jackie Jacklie the man, the young American with the tank, 582 00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:35,560 Speaker 1: he's twenty seven at the time of this. That is wild, right, 583 00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,520 Speaker 1: And I just love the idea. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 584 00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:42,320 Speaker 1: I love how ridiculous it is. I love the idea 585 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:46,319 Speaker 1: of like the ess showing up and just being like 586 00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:51,799 Speaker 1: seeing these soldiers like German army uniform and they're like 587 00:44:52,840 --> 00:45:00,520 Speaker 1: are they are they Alice man commander? Are those allan then? Aloman? 588 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:04,000 Speaker 1: Is this? Whose tank is that? Is it? It's not 589 00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:09,279 Speaker 1: our tank? Is such an American tang? Is it an SS? So? John? 590 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,120 Speaker 1: That is his uniform? What is he doing it? Oh? 591 00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:15,640 Speaker 1: You shooting at us? He's mental be one of us? 592 00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:20,440 Speaker 1: What is this? What is this? Is it said? Men 593 00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:25,719 Speaker 1: break Dennis one time? And is that is Child's gold sister? Oh? 594 00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:29,480 Speaker 1: This is going down? Like I just love the idea 595 00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,719 Speaker 1: of him just being like so fucking out of it, 596 00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:39,000 Speaker 1: like what the fuck? But like, this is so interesting 597 00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,400 Speaker 1: because you've got this group of people. You've got the Vermach, 598 00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:47,120 Speaker 1: the SS allies, prisoners, and you know, a tennis player 599 00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:52,000 Speaker 1: all working together to stop the ess from taking a 600 00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:56,840 Speaker 1: castle and killing everyone inside. And on paper it's wild 601 00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:02,240 Speaker 1: Americans working with x Nazis from Austria with the Austrian 602 00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:06,880 Speaker 1: resistance to lead Germans and Americans through the Alps to 603 00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:11,920 Speaker 1: rescue a host of French prisoners. Like from the essays, 604 00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:18,600 Speaker 1: that's that's insane, but that is that's the story of 605 00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:22,000 Speaker 1: the battle. Of Castle Ita like still one of the 606 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:25,640 Speaker 1: silliest and fun like as it could be. It's the 607 00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:29,960 Speaker 1: tennis player vaulting over the wall of a castle and 608 00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:35,680 Speaker 1: just vaulting it, right. I just I just can't get 609 00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:37,280 Speaker 1: it out of my head. I just love the idea 610 00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,360 Speaker 1: of just that million dollar man jumping over the wall 611 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:45,440 Speaker 1: and then just zig zagging through the damn forest, right 612 00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,799 Speaker 1: and just been like give me again into uniform, like, 613 00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:55,600 Speaker 1: oh see, are so so amazing. And it had like, 614 00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:59,080 Speaker 1: I mean, apart from that one death, it had a 615 00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:01,759 Speaker 1: positive out come, you know, and you don't get that 616 00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,480 Speaker 1: and a lot of these stories. But that is the 617 00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:10,800 Speaker 1: final Concentration Camp series episode we're gonna have for a while. 618 00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:15,120 Speaker 1: The possibility I'll do something in October because it's a 619 00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:19,880 Speaker 1: horror month, so we'll see. But honestly, I'm done. I 620 00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,080 Speaker 1: have a few more videos to pop out for this 621 00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:26,520 Speaker 1: week and then it's anything else, anything else. I think 622 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,280 Speaker 1: at this point I might just go for God guns 623 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,840 Speaker 1: and girls, girls, girls, and so so ends the story 624 00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,920 Speaker 1: of a Battle of Castle item. If you liked my 625 00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,520 Speaker 1: retelling of the story, it's where I'm losing my voice again. 626 00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:46,480 Speaker 1: I think my throat is injured. Again, which is super fun, 627 00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:50,120 Speaker 1: but I think it's like actually quite painful. So yes, 628 00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:52,680 Speaker 1: rate review of five stars are nice things. If you 629 00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:54,719 Speaker 1: don't have anything nice to say, you can just not 630 00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:59,879 Speaker 1: say things. That's fine. And I guess it's a recommendation 631 00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:07,920 Speaker 1: time this may show you for watching. I'm gonna recommend Hunters. 632 00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,279 Speaker 1: So I've been watching Hunters like I'm two episodes in 633 00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:14,960 Speaker 1: because it came up on the algorithm and I was like, yeah, 634 00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:19,040 Speaker 1: I'll give it a go, and it's it's interesting thus far, 635 00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:21,840 Speaker 1: although it feels like maybe it's the wrong time to 636 00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:25,600 Speaker 1: be watching it, but I want to be done with this. 637 00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:27,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch it this week and then be finished. 638 00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,520 Speaker 1: So that's a recommendation. It seems like a very interesting 639 00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,920 Speaker 1: concept for a show. And so I'm watching that right 640 00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:39,680 Speaker 1: now because everyone hates Nazis. And then and then for 641 00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:47,120 Speaker 1: listening apart from me obviously. So there's this podcast called 642 00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:51,600 Speaker 1: Threesus t hr E s ed US and it's hosted 643 00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:57,799 Speaker 1: by Mason Sperling, Danny Padilla, and Jason I don't know 644 00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,719 Speaker 1: Jason's surname. Actually, I feel like I should look that up. 645 00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:05,319 Speaker 1: But yet they do this thing called unfair Trivia and 646 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:10,200 Speaker 1: it's just trivia that's unfair and awkward, and it's the 647 00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:14,200 Speaker 1: most fun thing because I love not knowing things and 648 00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:16,440 Speaker 1: it's great. But then one time I got an answer, right, 649 00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:18,920 Speaker 1: and I was like you, I was so proud of myself. 650 00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:22,360 Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's a fun one. It's on Apple podcasts, 651 00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:26,000 Speaker 1: it's it's just a fun time with some nerds and 652 00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:31,879 Speaker 1: you should totally check it out for reading. Though. So 653 00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:37,000 Speaker 1: Penguin released like a bunch of classics and they're like 654 00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:39,719 Speaker 1: you see them out there. They're white with red writing, right, 655 00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:45,000 Speaker 1: and they are books released in the original print, right, 656 00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,680 Speaker 1: So it might have been an abridged version. It might 657 00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:49,080 Speaker 1: have been just the way it was released for the 658 00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:52,319 Speaker 1: first time, right, And they've got all these books, and 659 00:49:52,640 --> 00:50:00,400 Speaker 1: I have hell Dante. I just remember it, like, not 660 00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:09,440 Speaker 1: Dante's Infernal, not the Divine Comedy, just hell Dante. I I. Yeah, 661 00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:13,280 Speaker 1: So that's an option, so you should give you should 662 00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:17,040 Speaker 1: give that a read. And with that, I am going 663 00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:20,040 Speaker 1: to bed you good night, and I'm gonna say goodbye 664 00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:25,680 Speaker 1: to fucking Nazis because I just can't right now anyway. 665 00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:31,680 Speaker 1: Adios au revoir of We Deserve my Friends, Bye Bye,