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I need you help guys! If you have short video ideas for topics I can cover relatively quickly, let me know. Everything I tend to go after ends up being long, and I could do with some shorter videos inbetween to allow me time to work on Crusader and Stalingrad. Any ideas let me know!

Also, thank you! I'm working hard to make these videos as good as they can be, and your support really helps to do that. Whatever Monday's video ends up being - I hope you're not disappointed!

And since I'm delaying the 6th Army's OOB until next Monday, I'll include this unit card of Romanian 6th Army Corps, who's commander was Corneliu Dragalina (cool name), son of Ion Dragalina from WW1. This unit was part of Fourth Panzer Army in mid-late 1942.

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Gimme, gimme, gimme your video ideas after midnight! Also, thank you! I'm working hard to make these videos as good as they can be, and your support really helps to do that. Whatever Monday's video ends up being - I hope you're not disappointed!

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Richard Stokes

It would be interesting to re-assess The World at War documentary series which is over 40 years old. The positives: Olivier's narration; interviews with participants (famous and not-so-famous) - this could never be matched as everyone is now dead! (apart from Vera Lynn) ; inspired soundtrack. Negatives: Olivier's narration (!); unaware of Ultra intelligence; neglects China's role; outdated analysis of the main events?

Richard Stokes

There's a new dramatised documentary series on Netflix - Hitler's Circle of Evil - which, at first glance, looks somewhat dubious. It promotes itself in tabloid style: "They were Hitler’s henchmen — the small gaggle of misfits, careerists and fanatical Nazis who had the ear of the Fuhrer. Those whose job it was to make his brutal vision a reality. Men like ex-chicken farmer and leader of the SS — Heinrich Himmler, Hitler’s adoring but mentally unhinged deputy — Rudolf Hess, fighter ace turned morphine addict — Herman Goering and sex-crazed propaganda chief — Josef Goebbels." ( I suppose you could easily parody the Theresa May Cabinet or the Trump inner circle with damning adjectives, if you wanted to. ) Despite the tawdry sales pitch, the Circle of Evil series might turn out better than I thought. The dramatisation is frequently interrupted by several leading contemporary WW2 historians. I'll give it a go. Even though I'm wary of dramatical reconstructions which aim to bolster the narration.