#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus lament thst the memory of D-Day June 6, 1944 is vanishing among the young. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
1944 D-Day Airborne
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is the Friends of History debating society. I am Gaius and Germanicus is here. |
| 0:05.0 | It's 91 AD. And we remember the Toutenberg Forest. |
| 0:11.0 | The ambush of two legions that disappeared from the earth and the German boasting ever |
| 0:17.9 | since. We remember that in the first, in Augustus was Emperor. These were not things that happened because we |
| 0:27.8 | were weak. They were happened because the Germans took advantage of a |
| 0:31.7 | commander of a commander of two legions who was sloppy. |
| 0:37.0 | However, I learned that in 19... In 1933, 33, Lippa, a very small state in Germany where the Judenburg Forest is, was the scene of a |
| 0:58.2 | comeback stage by the NSDAP, led by Adolf Hitler. |
| 1:05.6 | The comeback was they campaigned hard for 10 days and though they didn't win the vote, they |
| 1:12.4 | improved compared to the communists. And that was enough for |
| 1:16.6 | Adolf Hitler who only came up with facts that pleased him to advance his case once more to the president of the Reich, that would be Hindenburg. |
| 1:27.0 | What is that? |
| 1:30.0 | 1933 and 10 AD, I I remember so we're talking about 1900 years or more. That's how people |
| 1:40.6 | remember in Europe but we have a statistic now that is surprising because it's |
| 1:47.9 | about the UK and the US forgetting. Of 2,000 adults polled fewer than half, 48% of those 18 to 34 |
| 2:00.0 | could recognize D-Day as the day that Allied Forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. |
| 2:05.8 | 59% of the people could identify it correctly. |
| 2:09.8 | Overall, but the young people could not. Within the young age group 16% said they did not know what |
| 2:16.2 | Diete was. 10% said it was, they thought it was, quote, the day that Germany surrendered |
| 2:21.2 | the Allied forces unconditionally. |
| 2:24.2 | 9% thought it was the evacuation from Duncirk, |
| 2:27.4 | and 8% thought it was the day of victory |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Batchelor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of John Batchelor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

