EARLY EPISODE: Otto Skorzeny Part 1: The STEM Lord, Sword Fighting Enthusiast
Added 2022-11-02 12:26:20 +0000 UTCOtto Skorzeny was Hitler's favorite Commando during WWII, he was also a total loser.
Sources:
Stuart Smith. Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple
Dr Robert Forczk. Rescuing Mussolini: Gran Sasso 1943
Otto Skorzeny. Hitler’s Commando
Comments
I was practicing fencing while listening to this, but the only thing that got hurt was my lightbulb.
Gabriel Laycock
2022-11-07 21:15:32 +0000 UTCThe thing that you said at the very end about "an army of not special people" is incredibly on point
Ooof_uhhh_haah
2022-11-06 20:04:06 +0000 UTCActually I was missing this in the episode: there was no mention of the earlier membership of Skorzeny in those german-nationalistic fraternities (Burschenschaft) which were the ideological pool for Nazis, and still are. They didn't dissolve, because they were directly banned - they did because they were either integrated into Nazi-organizations or by themselves, because their main "target" was achieved. Some of those members nowadays use this to argue that they couldn't be Nazis because they were banned - smoothbrain argument. Also the fencing part was not a school sport, but a fraternity tradition. They differ those in "schlagende" and "nicht-schlagende" - so ones that are fencing and those which are not. Both are usually hardliners, but the fencing ones are that bit more extreme. Point is, Skorzeny was aligned with antisemitic Nazi-prototypes even before the legion.
priordice
2022-11-05 16:22:49 +0000 UTCAnother fun fact: the Vienna university of technology does have sports teams for football and basketball. They are called "The Robots" (I can already hear Joe shouting in the background: "Neeeeeeeerds!")
priordice
2022-11-05 15:43:46 +0000 UTCFun fact: One of the candidates of the recent Austrian presidential elections has a scar (called "Schmiss") from the fraternity and fencing ("Mensur") he was part of. They had their PR team retouch the posters, to not show it. Those Burschenschaften/fraternities still exist and is serving as a recruiting pool for right wing parties and the identiterian fucks.
priordice
2022-11-05 15:42:05 +0000 UTCThe fencing thing is the corniest shit about German and Austrian rightwing culture, some fraternities still do it...
Dennis Schmidt
2022-11-04 17:29:06 +0000 UTCMy local bar was pouring Old Crow the other night and I tried to explain what the Legion was. I was met with some very quizzical looks and then a "that is the whitest thing I've ever heard."
Hunter Bowlan
2022-11-03 17:03:13 +0000 UTCI'm just here to say the Nuremburg hangman wasn't from Nebraska he was from a shittier Midwest state: Kansas
Nick S.
2022-11-03 01:34:05 +0000 UTCThere was also a thing where German students would agree to rig the duels so that they got cool scars without the whole “lose an eye/ear/nose” problem. I can respect that.
Matt
2022-11-02 23:24:14 +0000 UTCBehind the Bastards did an episode on that guy, I believe.
Matt
2022-11-02 23:23:21 +0000 UTCPotential History has a fun video on that guy.
Louis G
2022-11-02 21:40:14 +0000 UTCLol at the hangman who didn't know how to hang people. What a legend
A Guy
2022-11-02 19:20:06 +0000 UTCThis episode reaffirms my long held belief that gas station sushi is more trustworthy than german memoirs from WW2
jackson macpherson
2022-11-02 18:59:45 +0000 UTCThe style fencing also known as "mensur" or at least what I was told, and has to be the weirdest looking thing in the world. You stand there facing your opponent at very close distance. You are not allowed to move at all besides you arm that is hold the sword. You and your opponent rise each other's sword up above your heads and start wacking at each other's sword and head. Here is clip from an Italian documentary https://youtu.be/Qlf6i8_7UAU
ely spokish
2022-11-02 18:01:39 +0000 UTCA nazi ruroni kenshin sounds horrifying.
TheBannerofHomuraAkemi
2022-11-02 15:06:04 +0000 UTCSomething that really interests me in the Nuremberg trials is the case of Rudolph Hess and how he ended up being a solitary prisoner in Spandau for decades. Not that he didn’t deserve it, but I’m confused why others like Albert Speer who used slave labor got off with less time than him. Honestly all of Hess’ life sounds insane, his flight to England is absolutely bizarre.
Dinosarden
2022-11-02 14:45:22 +0000 UTC
