The Battle Of The Bulge: Bastogne (Part 7)

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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Society & Culture, History, Education

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🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The battle everyone remembers. This siege has become the symbol of the whole campaign - but how well do we know what actually happened here? Find out what Band of Brothers got right, and why McAuliffe said 'Nuts!' to the German offer of surrender. Join James Holland and Al Murray as they debunk the myths and expose the real failures behind Nazi Germany’s final Western offensive—a reckless plan that wasted countless lives. EPISODE 8 IS AVAILABLE FOR MEMBERS EARLY - SIGN UP AT patreon.com/wehaveways A Goalhanger Production Produced by James Regan Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Social: @WeHaveWaysPod Email: [email protected] Join our ‘Independent Company’ to watch our livestreams, get earlybird tickets and our weekly newsletter - packed with deals. Membership Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.6	You have not seen it, do not know what hell looks like.
0:36.6	The tree man has to like. And that is, to see this thing through to the end.
0:44.9	Meanwhile in the Ardennes, the Americans have recaptured the initiative,
0:49.5	moving step by step back over the lost ground.
1:01.0	At 0700, my Panzer's return to the Neff Station. I gave him an order to continue the attack.
1:04.0	We got only a little distance and met fire.
1:07.0	I thought it was tank fire, but it stopped us.
1:10.0	We lost about 80 men, mostly from artillery.
1:13.2	I went to a cave near the Neff station.
1:15.2	At noon, I got the impression the American battalion was attacking in both places
1:19.0	and closing up my northern side, so I returned to Magri.
1:22.6	There was a US Army aid station there.
1:25.0	I went to the doctor and asked if he would help me care for my wounded.
1:28.6	There was a nurse there, and she was very beautiful.
1:32.1	And that, of course, was General Leitland Fritz Beirline, describing the events of the
1:36.4	morning of the 19th December 1944 near Bastogne.
1:40.7	Yes, and welcome to We Have Ways to Make You Talk, Battle of the Bulge, Episode 7,
1:44.6	which takes a Mills-Unt-Boon texture, as it's a story of Middle Aid, late September, love and lust,
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