#160 Comebacks (Part 2)
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
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This week we’re looking at some of the greatest comebacks history has to offer. Where else to begin than the epic comeback that is Skoda cars! And what about the comeback of the West German economy after world war 2?! And finally, a literal comeback, Apollo 13’s incredible return from the moon after disaster struck.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, what a time is now on Patreon. You can get main feed episodes before everyone else, ad free, |
| 0:06.4 | plus access to our full archive of bonus content, two bonus episodes every month, early access |
| 0:11.9 | to live show tickets and access to the Oh Water Time group chat. Plus, if you become an Oh Water |
| 0:16.9 | Time All-Timer, myself, Tom and Ellis will riff on your name to postulate where else in |
| 0:21.7 | history you might have popped up for all your options you can go to patreon.com forward slash oh what a time |
| 0:27.9 | right welcome to part two of great comebacks Okay, lads, we're going back to 1945. |
| 0:47.6 | Not a great point in history, to be honest, |
| 0:49.4 | especially not in Germany. |
| 0:51.8 | Germany was utterly defeated. |
| 0:53.6 | One of the most shocking World War II videos I've |
| 0:58.0 | seen, you can see this on YouTube. There is like a flight over Berlin in May 1945 at the end of |
| 1:04.5 | the Battle of Berlin at the end of the war. And it is a husk of a city. It's like, the whole thing is just crushed. |
| 1:12.5 | Just walls, like chimneys of buildings as far as the eye can see. |
| 1:16.6 | Just people walking around almost like zombies looking for food. |
| 1:21.1 | And that is really what the whole country was like, militarily crushed, |
| 1:25.1 | like completely morally exposed, physically ruined. |
| 1:28.7 | And the country at that point faced not merely reconstruction, but rehabilitation, really, |
| 1:33.8 | on an almost unimaginable scale. |
| 1:36.7 | The 12 years of Nazi rule ended in utter catastrophe, almost unimaginable the damage in Germany, but also in wider Europe too. |
| 1:47.1 | But specifically to Germany, the five million German soldiers had been killed in the war, |
| 1:51.9 | on top of one and a half million civilians. Some estimates actually say that Germany lost |
| 1:56.3 | three million civilians and the physical damage. You can see it on that amazing video over Berlin, but also like the whole country. |
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