Week 262 - The War is Five Years Old - WW2 - September 2, 1944

Five years of war and no real end in sight, though the Allies sure seem to have the upper hand at the moment. Romania is coming under the Soviet thumb and Red Army troops are at Bulgarias borders, the Allies enter Belgium and also take ports in the south of France. A Slovak National Uprising begins against the Germans, and the Warsaw Uprising against them continues, but in China it is plans for defense being made against the advancing Japanese.

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Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson
Creative Producer: Marek Kamiński
Community Management: Ian Sowden
Written by: Indy Neidell
Research by: Indy Neidell
Map animations by: Daniel Weiss
Map research by: Sietse Kenter
Edited by: Miki Cackowski
Artwork and color grading by: Mikołaj Uchman
Sound design by: Marek Kamiński

00:00 Introduction
01:09 Eisenhower Takes Command
03:24 The Allied need a Port
05:08 Allies liberate Toulon and Marseilles
06:06 Allies advance in Italy
07:51 Warsaw Uprising Continues
09:24 Slovak National Uprising Begins
12:09 The end of German 6th Army
16:36 Soviet plans for the Baltics
17:48 Defense Plans for Quanzhou and Guilin
19:15 Allied Bombers and German Flying Bombs

Colorizations by:
Mikołaj Uchman
Election1960 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Albert_Kesselring#/media/File:AlbertKesselringColor.png
Carlos Ortega Pereira, BlauColorizations, https://www.instagram.com/blaucolorizations/
Klimbim https://www.flickr.com/photos/22155693@N04/
Daniel Weiss

Source literature list: http://bit.ly/WW2sources

Archive footage: Screenocean/Reuters - https://www.screenocean.com

Image sources:
PhotosNormandie
Bundesarchiv
IWM TR 2721, H 42496, NA 18124, C 4985
CMH Online
FOTO Fortepan ID 95814, ID 5809
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria
Lukasabram https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vernar_PAK40.jpg
MichalLiszkay https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mal%C3%A1r_August%C3%ADn.jpg
Pavel Pelech https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kanon88.jpg

Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound:
Rannar Sillard - March Of The Brave 4
Jon Bjork - Shrouded in Conspiracy
Edward Karl Hanson - Spellbound
Fabien Tell - Weapon of Choice
Edwrad Karl Hasnon - Firebreak
Farell Wooten - Equations of Motion
Johan Hynynen - Dark Beginning
Cobby Costa - Missing the Subtext
Alec Slayne - Conspiracy Inc.
Yi Nantiro - Watchman
Reynard Seidel - Deflection
Max Ason - Darkness Closing In

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