Short Stuff: Battle of Itter Castle
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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At the end of WWII in Europe, one of the strangest battles of the war took place between German troops fighting alongside Americans and French to beat back an assault by the Nazi SS.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.2 | Hey, and welcome to the short stuff. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's sitting in for Dave, which makes this an official short stuff. |
| 0:15.9 | Don't accept substitutes. |
| 0:18.0 | That's right, and I'm only going to say this at the beginning, but boy, oh boy, this should be a movie, this episode. |
| 0:24.4 | It's insane that it's not. |
| 0:26.6 | Yeah, really great cinematic story in every way, the way it, you know, is laid out there, you know. |
| 0:32.6 | Yeah, the Battle of Castle ITER. |
| 0:35.0 | Would it be Ider? |
| 0:37.1 | Well, here we go. We already don't know what to call it. |
| 0:40.1 | So we're going to call ititter after John Ritter. But it's also called Schloss Itter, which is |
| 0:45.4 | Castle. And it's located in Austria, the Tyrolean region of Austria. And the reason why it's |
| 0:52.0 | significant is two. It's one of the last battles of the |
| 0:55.3 | European theater of World War II. Like, I can't name any other battles after it, but that doesn't |
| 1:01.4 | really mean that much. And then the second reason is because it is a really unusual battle |
| 1:07.7 | in that Germans got together with Americans and French and fought the Nazis |
| 1:15.1 | in this battle. |
| 1:16.7 | Yeah, and other randos from different places like Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. |
| 1:21.8 | Like it was a, like you mentioned, a real motley crew, real rag-tag group. |
| 1:44.3 | Yeah, but you didn't put both them louts. You got to put it over the O too. Oh, I didn't. Oh, I'm sorry. Man, I screwed up. It was pretty great, everyone. Josh put this together, and he typed out Motley Crew, and he put oomots over the U. Just clearly is a little love letter to me. |
| 2:02.2 | It was. Yeah, I got it. But I'm sorry, I screwed up the love letter. No, it's fine. It's the thought that counts. That's what they say, right? Yeah, but that's really patronizing. What if this was the very last battle? That makes it even more cinematic. I mean, that's what I read. It was like one of the last, |
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