We took your advice for his next talk, and you were absolutely right. Thank you.

Thank you for listening to the suggestions in the comments. I am an academic (my Ph. D.is in a different field), and I have given and attended many scholarly talks over the years. Remember that we should always be able to see the speaker’s face - so yes the camera should be to our right/speaker’s left in this case. We can see the visuals better that way as well (or just insert them in the video for short periods of time post facto). And I also agree that the speaker really needed to use notes. Of all the talks I’ve given and attended I can count on one hand the SUCCESSFUL talks that have been given by a person not using notes (and the images don’t count as notes). It’s nearly impossible to do this well as scholarly talks are dense, and since there is so much information that *can* be shared, the speaker quickly loses herself/himself in random details. This is very confusing for an audience - even scholarly audiences - as the point is lost.

‘ “You know” should be removed from he speakers vocabulary. Also, if one is speaking about equipment one should know what one is talking about.

He is simplifying everything 😂 I know one hour only but he is rumbling about unrelated things like sudetenland thag has nothing to with the fall of Berlin lol

Really painful to listen to it 😭

Word searches constantly, not fluid. Too many umm and pauses.

If he prepared better than he did for this. This sounded like a thrown together at the last minute...thing, not really a presentation.

I don't want to sound critical because clearly the speaker knows his material, but his pauses were frequent and long. If this talk were edited to fix that, it would have been better. However, I enjoyed the talk.

@@stevenleslie8557 sorry we are not as perfect as u

Right? I couldn't listen to the end because I got so frustrated.

I found it more engaging due to the somewhat conversational style. I don’t like an overly dense lecture as I’m literate and could just read it instead.

Uhh uhh uhh

Like mark felton

Better than hearing him saying "You know?" every thirty seconds, you know?

Take a shot every time he says "uh" boy will you ever get loaded.....dor someone who has a "few other" one of thwm is certianly NOT public speaking. And the camera work is awful, too

Yeah, it’s irritating.

Correct. Also i disagree that the bombers just dropped their bombs anywhere over Berlin in order to get away. Crews could be punished for this behaviour and there were ways of checking they released the bombs over the specified target. Crews generally were also highly personally motivated to do their job as best they could. The collateral damage was due to bombs being very inaccurate.

Better than Babilon Fall.

He is a granduate of Ed Koch lectureing.

Yeah, we've gradually gotten better at this over time. Some of our earlier videos are a case study in learning by doing.

In the end my country of origin ended up Capitalist again . Unfortunely Stalin and his romanian traitors plus romanian jewish killed all the upper middle class starting 1946 peoplethat were educated enough to keep up a good work for its nation . Back that time we were hiring belgium workers and specialists to work for the romanian industry . Romanian coin was stronger than us dollar . Now after 29 years of so called democracy we are the poorest country in the E.U and up to 4 million romanians relocated to the west that's including me !

+Danel Irimescu in any case i lived in USSR and knew exactly that any country of Eastern communist block lived better then we lived while we lived not bad in 70-80,I would like to ask you was dependence from USSR for Romania stronger than today dependence from US and EU?

Dude I do not want to elaborate on this issue cause it will take too long but all i can say market economy makes competition strong and competition means progress . I am not a ass licker but I love the western civilized world . I feel home in the west but you have to be organized .Before Romania joined NATO there were already british paratroopers in the mountains . Me I live in CANADA on the western coast and I love both Romani and Canada . Social welfare and disabillity programs are very well organized in british columbia . They are very human not what you guys think . Democracy and the rule of law.

Agreed. We've (slightly) improved our video production over the years.

You need to specific....

Tom York in the search bar of youtube you can tipe "TIK" (its the name of the channell. It should aappear on top of the list. If you are not sure is a british guy). As for doctor Citino you can type his name on the search bar. I would reccomend "death of the wehrmacht" (i think is that one). Hope i was helpful and that you would enjoy those lectures.

@@carminio79 thank you

@@craigjones8518 oh jeez that was a 2 years old comment. Now, I don't remember the specifics because it was so long ago. However, you there as I said to Tom York above, you can check "TIK" channel, which does extensive research on the whys and hows of WW2. David Glantz and Robert Citino are also two other historians that focus on this matter. If you want to go into the really specific and technical you should check out "military history not visualised". Let me know if this was helpful. Thanks!

But TIk is a fascist/extreme right wing so keep that in mind before you give him your views.

James Miller he sucked

Yes At First...........Casualties Were High Went To Night Bombing.......m

No, we (yanks) , bombed by day and the Brits bombed by night.

Uhh

lots of micro-errors... thought i was going crazy spotting them all.

"He should never have attempted....."

ADD

@@localbod *He never should have attempted

@@alitlweird As far as I am aware, your placement of the word 'never' and mine are both acceptable. I teach English, but it is impossible to know everything regarding the language. Please could you point me to a definitive reference that shows that one can not put the adverb 'never' in between the auxiliary and principle verb? Thank you.

@@localbod Nerd. Separately, great vid. Very informative 10/10.

Sounds like it's the usual crap about the Red Army and WW2. Thanks for warning me :-)

More cold war nonsense

Seriously the "Uhhhh and Ummms" are killing me

agreed... lots of micro-errors..

TIK does present different view points and his opinion. His understanding of economics is terrible.

Also be warned that tik is a fascist/extreme right winger, which contaminates his amateur but noble attempts at scholarship.

@@ALimbOfGreatTree TIK is not a fascist lmao. Unless you know something I don’t, nothing he has ever said would even remotely suggest that.

@@GrubHuncher unless he’s deleted the video, his political analysis explaining how they nazis were in fact communists/socialists therefore nazism = socialism strongly suggests he has at the very least far right (bordering on fascist?) views. The way in which he tries to distance the Nazis, obviously evil, from the right and conflate the evil of the Nazis with the left (socialism/communism) suggests he has certain leanings, along with many of his other comments contained within said video.

@@ALimbOfGreatTree Well he's not wrong, the "Nazis" were national socialists, and they never considered themselves to be anything else or called themselves anything else. The racialism and nationalism were the main areas of disagreement between them and conventional socialists, beyond that it was mostly aesthetic differences between the two. Look at what happened to the Ukrainians. Look at what happened to the Kulaks. Look at Lavrentiy Beria. The gulags, the brainwashing... Then gaze over the fence at the German side -- the genocide, the slavery, the secretive disdain for lower classes, the brainwashing, the death camps, Goebbels acting like Harvey Weinstein... What is the actual difference between these people? Giving power to a party of socialists results in atrocities and madness every single time. TIK is absolutely correct to point out the obvious similarities between the forms of socialists and to condemn them all equally. And I'll agree that he's probably right-wing, but to call him a "Nazi" is blatant slander. He's never condoned or supported anything the Nazis did, he just said they shared a lot of their political ideas, aspirations and doctrine with far-left communist types, which is true.

Punctuation, please!!

sure bro

Battle of Rovné-Brody 1941

Stalin's jokes are smart and famous.

Dr.Foster said Stalin DID have a sense of humour. Shows you didn't really listen much.

If you had more than a child's concentration level you'd have heard him say he did have a humour, but being called uncle Joe wasn't something he found funny, learn to listen fully in future, you're an adult afterall.