WW2: Why We Fought & How We Won - Historian James Holland

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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0:00.0	What we wanted to do first and foremost is actually just to get you to talk to us about World War II and explain the basics to us.
0:08.1	Maybe starting with, why did it happen?
0:10.7	One of the revisionist's narrative I alluded to is the idea that actually that he could have done that peace deal with Hitler.
0:19.7	You can't do peace deals or someone like Hitler. You can't.
0:22.4	You know, they tried in 1938 and it got nowhere. You know, he then got it. I mean, I can't even
0:27.6	begin to say how totally absurd this argument. I know. I know people say it, but they say it from a
0:32.9	point of deep ignorance. So, Britain stands alone.
0:38.3	Not to put too fine a point at it.
0:40.1	We're in the shit.
0:41.2	How did we manage to get out of this situation?
0:45.8	Ever wondered what tariffs,
0:47.5	cryptocurrencies and Girl Scout cookies have in common?
0:50.3	If you're a fan of trigonometry,
0:51.8	then we know you're the type who's curious to learn.
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