Adolf Hitler vs Winston Churchill (Part 19)
Real Dictators
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The French Resistance in the Second World War
There's a pronounced gradient in terms of how European populations were regarded by the Nazis from west to east. In the west, the agenda was kind of one of economic exploitation, rather than of anything genocidal. And it was an unpleasant occupation without a doubt. Resistance is punished mercilessly. The average heights of children born in France during the Second World War synced by centimetres for the rest of their lives because of malnutrition. Because in the east, he immediately treats people as subhumans. He sees the east as territories to be colonized, not so about France and Belgium and the Netherlands.
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