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* DecisiveBattle: Several of these happen on the European, Mediterranean, and Pacific Theaters from 1942-43, with the most notable being Midway, Stalingrad, El Alamein, and Kursk.
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* DoctorVonTurncoat: Discussed in "The Allied Hunt for Nazi Superweapons" special episode. By 1944, both the Western Allies and the Soviets were on the hunt for anything related to advanced weapon and technological development on the German side, among which included the various scientists and doctors of various fields that worked for the Nazi regime during the war. Unsurprisingly, the most notable of these is Dr. Werner von Braun, the man responsible for the Nazi rocket program and who would go on to play a huge part in the US Space Program.
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** Spartacus uses Indy's nicknames for some of the German officers in his War Against Humanity segments.
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* ExcitedShowTitle: Episode 48 - "No Deal... Herr Hitler!"
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** Played by, of all people, the United States Marines during the attack on Pearl Harbor episode. During the aerial attack on the fleet, a group of marines without weapons decided to break into an ice cream truck and spectate the Japanese attack, making commentary of hits, misses, and plane crashes like they were announcers at a baseball game.
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*NiceJobBreakingItHero: As the Allies continue to struggle in the Italian campaign, Indy points out that the controversial decision to bomb the Monte Casino monastery doesn't just destroy a priceless historical building filled with local refugees, but the Germans now decide that the rubble can be occupied by their forces without breaking their pledge to Italian civilians not to occupy it, since technically the Allied forces turned it into a battleground.
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* NoSell: As pointed out in a dedicated special, American submarines are able to harass Japanese merchant ships with impunity right as the war started, but the Japanese barely notice the attacks until because American torpedoes are so ineffective that they often fail to explode even making a direct hit. Bureaucratic bungling and manufacturing defects leads to a special investigation in the U.S. and the office in charge demands that if the Navy refuses to fix the manufacturing defects, then they should supply a ''boat hook'' that the submariners can use to try and rip holes in the Japanese ships. The Navy chose to fix the torpedoes and after 1943, Japan's merchant fleet began to sink with worse loss rates than the Allies' ever suffered in the Battle of the Atlantic.

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* NoSell: As pointed out in a dedicated special, American submarines are able to harass Japanese merchant ships with impunity right as after the war started, but the Japanese barely notice the attacks until because American torpedoes are so ineffective that widely defective- they often fail to explode even after making a direct hit. Bureaucratic bungling and manufacturing defects leads lead to a special investigation in the U.S. investigation, and the office officer in charge demands demanded that if the Navy refuses refused to fix the manufacturing defects, then they should supply a ''boat hook'' that the submariners can use to try and rip holes in the Japanese ships.ships instead. The Navy chose to fix the torpedoes and after 1943, Japan's merchant fleet began to sink with worse loss rates than the Allies' ever suffered in the Battle of the Atlantic.
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* No-Sell: As pointed out in a dedicated special, American submarines are able to harass Japanese merchant ships with impunity right as the war started, but the Japanese barely notice the attacks until because American torpedoes are so ineffective that they often fail to explode even making a direct hit. Bureaucratic bungling and manufacturing defects leads to a special investigation in the U.S. and the office in charge demands that if the Navy refuses to fix the manufacturing defects, then they should supply a ''boat hook'' that the submariners can use to try and rip holes in the Japanese ships. The Navy chose to fix the torpedoes and after 1943, Japan's merchant fleet began to sink with worse loss rates than the Allies' ever suffered in the Battle of the Atlantic.

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* No-Sell: NoSell: As pointed out in a dedicated special, American submarines are able to harass Japanese merchant ships with impunity right as the war started, but the Japanese barely notice the attacks until because American torpedoes are so ineffective that they often fail to explode even making a direct hit. Bureaucratic bungling and manufacturing defects leads to a special investigation in the U.S. and the office in charge demands that if the Navy refuses to fix the manufacturing defects, then they should supply a ''boat hook'' that the submariners can use to try and rip holes in the Japanese ships. The Navy chose to fix the torpedoes and after 1943, Japan's merchant fleet began to sink with worse loss rates than the Allies' ever suffered in the Battle of the Atlantic.
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* No-Sell: As pointed out in a dedicated special, American submarines are able to harass Japanese merchant ships with impunity right as the war started, but the Japanese barely notice the attacks until because American torpedoes are so ineffective that they often fail to explode even making a direct hit. Bureaucratic bungling and manufacturing defects leads to a special investigation in the U.S. and the office in charge demands that if the Navy refuses to fix the manufacturing defects, then they should supply a ''boat hook'' that the submariners can use to try and rip holes in the Japanese ships. The Navy chose to fix the torpedoes and after 1943, Japan's merchant fleet began to sink with worse loss rates than the Allies' ever suffered in the Battle of the Atlantic.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Indy does this a few times including in the first episode when he begins by saying that Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 began... The Polish-German War of 1939. Later, after months of Hitler planning to invade France, in May of 1940, an invasion happens... to Iceland, by the British.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Indy does this a few times including in the first episode when he begins by saying that Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 began... The Polish-German War of 1939.1939 ("What? What did you think I was going to say?"). Later, after months of Hitler planning to invade France, in May of 1940, an invasion happens... to Iceland, by the British.


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* SlainInTheirSleep: Indie notes in part 3 of the Pearl Harbor special that part of the reason Yamamoto wanted the declaration of war presented to the Americans ''before'' bombs started falling in Pearl is that it would be akin to killing a man asleep in his bed, which would be against samurai ethos. You wake him up, ''then'' kill him in his bed.
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** Taken UpToEleven with the War Against Humanity subseries where Spartacus Olsson takes a closer, more personal look at the suffering directly or indirectly caused by the war.

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** Taken UpToEleven Exaggerated with the War Against Humanity subseries where Spartacus Olsson takes a closer, more personal look at the suffering directly or indirectly caused by the war.
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* AprilFoolsDay: On April 1st, 2022, the channel released a video discussing the rise and fall of ComicBook/Hydra during World War II, covering it like they would any real conflict during the war.

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* AprilFoolsDay: On April 1st, 2022, the channel released a video discussing the rise and fall of ComicBook/Hydra ComicBook/{{Hydra}} during World War II, covering it like they would any real conflict during the war.
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* AprilFoolsDay: On April 1st, 2022, the channel released a video discussing the rise and fall of ComicBook/Hydra during World War II, covering it like they would any real conflict during the war.
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Noted in the weekly episodes as they occur and given special attention and condemnation in the "War Against Humanity".
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The team also runs a sister channel called '''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLfMmOriSyPbd5JhHpnj4Ng TimeGhost History]]''' where it's ''Between 2 Wars'' series, [[GenteelInterbellumSetting that covers topics in the Interwar years]], acts an {{Interquel}} to both this and ''WebVideo/TheGreatWar''.

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The team also runs a sister channel called '''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLfMmOriSyPbd5JhHpnj4Ng TimeGhost History]]''' ''WebVideo/TimeGhostHistory'' where it's ''Between 2 Wars'' series, [[GenteelInterbellumSetting that covers topics in the Interwar years]], acts an {{Interquel}} to both this and ''WebVideo/TheGreatWar''.
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** Taken UpToEleven with the War Against Humanity subseries where Spartacus Olsson takes a closer, more personal look at the suffering directly or indirectly caused by the war.
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* UrbanWarfare: Numerous battles throughout Europe take place in bombed-out towns and cities, with the most notable example being the Battle of Stalingrad, which sees the Germans obliterating the city and the Soviets fortifying the ruins and denying every inch of ground to the invasion force.

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