Darryl Cooper is a “historian” who creates the successful Martyr Made podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, as well as having over 175,000 Substack subscribers.
Roger's analysis of Hitler's rise to power and the role that the British and French ruling clssses had in enabling it, because it was as the instrument of their German brethren, the industrialists, bankers, landowners and the General Staff, that he was given the Chancellor's office.
As to the First War, I'm not so sure about the 'Britain wanted war' thesis. Why would it? Anyway these are complex questions.
What always strikes me about German complaints about Versailles is the fact that, mere months before the armistice of November 11, the German government had imposed a 'peace' at Brest Litovsk which makes Versailles look, in comparison, very fair. Something similar might be said of the Treaty imposed on France after 1871.
This is not to defend Versailles, which as Keynes pointed out at the time was senseless. As Roger points out the reparation issue, and the occupations which were used to enforce German compliance, all hinged upon the US refusal to see beyond the simple balance sheet figures to recognise that the War had been a four year long bonanza in which the US not only threw of its debtor staus to become a creditor nation but made enormous amounts of profit supplying arms and other necessities to the Entente. Europe bled throughout the war, the United States military intervention was minimal until the early summer of 1918. And its reinforcement brought the influenza pandemic along with the, very welcome, expeditionary force.
Capitalist elites seem to have this playbook etched into their brains. I wasn't aware of this Cooper guy, but it seems dicey letting a holocaust denier put forward your rationales for a world war on humanity.
It is certainly wrong to belittle, marginalize or explain away the suffereing of people at the hands of authoritarian regimes. This comes in many forms. I don't see why so few historians realize this, when they insist on defending one bad side side when making a point about another bad side, as you yourself do here:
"The Soviet Union managed to resist the attempts of the Mensheviks and Russian imperialist elites (the Whites), the Poles, the British Empire, the US, the French Empire, Japan, Greece, Estonia, Serbia, Italy, Romania and Ukrainian separatists to destroy it. At the cost of colossal destruction, war losses and widespread famine and deaths from disease as well as the loss of territories that became ..."
Are you kidding me?!! You are doing exactly what you claim MartyrMade is doing. At least when he did it he was not trying to make some big point, it was a throwaway line. Yet you feel the need to buttress your argument by essentially sweeping the Gulag and Holdomor under the rug provided by Russian propagandists.
Interesting stuff. I’m curious how you know so much about what Darryl won’t be talking about in his German War series. The first episode hasn’t even been released yet. Did you get a sneak preview of the series?
Excellent analysis of the period. I don't watch video lectures very often, so I don't know who this guy is. But your analysis was very good.
Roger's analysis of Hitler's rise to power and the role that the British and French ruling clssses had in enabling it, because it was as the instrument of their German brethren, the industrialists, bankers, landowners and the General Staff, that he was given the Chancellor's office.
As to the First War, I'm not so sure about the 'Britain wanted war' thesis. Why would it? Anyway these are complex questions.
What always strikes me about German complaints about Versailles is the fact that, mere months before the armistice of November 11, the German government had imposed a 'peace' at Brest Litovsk which makes Versailles look, in comparison, very fair. Something similar might be said of the Treaty imposed on France after 1871.
This is not to defend Versailles, which as Keynes pointed out at the time was senseless. As Roger points out the reparation issue, and the occupations which were used to enforce German compliance, all hinged upon the US refusal to see beyond the simple balance sheet figures to recognise that the War had been a four year long bonanza in which the US not only threw of its debtor staus to become a creditor nation but made enormous amounts of profit supplying arms and other necessities to the Entente. Europe bled throughout the war, the United States military intervention was minimal until the early summer of 1918. And its reinforcement brought the influenza pandemic along with the, very welcome, expeditionary force.
Capitalist elites seem to have this playbook etched into their brains. I wasn't aware of this Cooper guy, but it seems dicey letting a holocaust denier put forward your rationales for a world war on humanity.
It is certainly wrong to belittle, marginalize or explain away the suffereing of people at the hands of authoritarian regimes. This comes in many forms. I don't see why so few historians realize this, when they insist on defending one bad side side when making a point about another bad side, as you yourself do here:
"The Soviet Union managed to resist the attempts of the Mensheviks and Russian imperialist elites (the Whites), the Poles, the British Empire, the US, the French Empire, Japan, Greece, Estonia, Serbia, Italy, Romania and Ukrainian separatists to destroy it. At the cost of colossal destruction, war losses and widespread famine and deaths from disease as well as the loss of territories that became ..."
Are you kidding me?!! You are doing exactly what you claim MartyrMade is doing. At least when he did it he was not trying to make some big point, it was a throwaway line. Yet you feel the need to buttress your argument by essentially sweeping the Gulag and Holdomor under the rug provided by Russian propagandists.
Interesting stuff. I’m curious how you know so much about what Darryl won’t be talking about in his German War series. The first episode hasn’t even been released yet. Did you get a sneak preview of the series?