This is the first episode of On the Homefront. For those of you who haven’t watched our trailer or have seen the Between Two Wars episode on the Home Revolution, let me introduce you to Anna. She will be telling us all about the homefronts and the people on them in these monthly sub-series. Now, we know that this episode might seem to be playing on the Corona related hoarding that is going on, but this was already produced before any of that made the news. In any case, as many of you are sitting in your own homefronts, I hope this episode offers some relief and perspective. If you like it, do make sure to Join the TimeGhost Army to keep us running! You can do so at timeghost.tv or patreon.com/timeghosthistory Cheers, Joram *RULES OF CONDUCT* STAY CIVIL AND POLITE we will delete any comments with personal insults, or attacks. AVOID PARTISAN POLITICS AS FAR AS YOU CAN we reserve the right to cut off vitriolic debates. HATE SPEECH IN ANY DIRECTION will lead to a ban. RACISM, XENOPHOBIA, OR SLAMMING OF MINORITIES will lead to an immediate ban. PARTISAN REVISIONISM, ESPECIALLY HOLOCAUST AND HOLODOMOR DENIAL will lead to an immediate ban.
I've seen the grocery store shelves empty three times because of local disasters. This'll be the 4th time, but never has it been as widespread as it is for the CV flu. Stay healthy everyone!
@@Jakob_DK I believe as long as we take care of ourselves and not fall in hysteria we can all leave this mess behind us, maybe even before summer is here. Where are you from, how are you doing? Good luck from Turkey!
@@OttomanDrifter91 Abi şu tuvalet kağıdı saklama olayı niye başladı yav? Hiçte o kadar gerekli bir şey değil yani stoklucak. Avrupa'nın özel bir durumu var heralde
There was just news that Swedes have contacted Finns for possible support in the future if the situation is prolonged. Apparently their food self-sufficiency is only 50% while Finland is more like 80%. So Finland has the same self-sufficiency as Germany at the start of WW2, that's pretty surprising.
I'm watching this, sealed away in my room, whilst my antibodies fight off the you know what virus. Thanks for entertaining and educating me and staving off madness for a few minutes longer.
@Squadron266 On a serious note, please *only* flush toilet paper (and human waste). Any other type of paper (paper towels, facial tissue, etc.) and other items (wipes (even "flushable" wipes), feminine hygiene products, condoms, etc.) should never be flushed down the toilet unless you like clogged pipes.
john dowe Which is why he said to only flush TP? If you flush other items, they won’t break down in water. Sure they may not clog YOUR pipes, but they have an affect on the larger sewer system. Imagine 10,000 people flush paper that doesn’t dissolve in water. It all adds up.
My grandmother was a notorious hoarder. My grandfather, an electrical engineer who did something, during the war, for some vague thing called the Manhattan District, commented that if his house ever burned down, there would be a three story cake sitting there, from all the sugar, butter, flour and other odds and ends that she had stashed...
I'm so glad to see this series of The Home Front coverage. I was raised on my Mom's stories of growing up in Wisconsin during the war. Her dad owned a cheese factory. (yes, I know the stereotype. But he really did!) She said that her family was better off than some others because they could always barter for goods with cheese, which of course was rationed. I imagine her dad made a few Black Market deals too. Thanx Mom, I'm a WWII devotee because of your stories!
This is probably the real History, the day-to-day one, the History about frames if minds and long term processes, so brilliantly introduced in the historical science by the Annales School. These trends, so important and often so hard to unearth are for the same reason more challenging as a matter of enquiry. These are the links that hold together the more visible chain, made of the "great men and the great deeds". Anna, you are a great hostess and I am delighted for finally arriving at this stage of this channel, having viewed so many hours of excellent material, pertaining the war itself. Greeting from Chile. PS: sorry for my sometimes unrefined English.
@Germán Hernán Burgos Ffrench - Davis I assure you your English is nothing if not refined! We couldn't agree more with your sentiment, thanks for watching with us
@@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus rationed by American standards - yes, eventually - but not by European or Asian standards including Russia. I dread to think just how badly they suffered while carrying the brunt of the war on all 4 fronts (Eastern, Balkan, Home, and SinoJapanese) throughout the entire war.
I woke up to Anna this morning :) Victory gardens are still common today but they are called allotments. My parents when they were kids in the 50's were working on them & even today they are still popular. Also Hormel Foods Corporation invented Spam just before the war & proved to be beneficial. Even the Russians praised Spam as their armies would have starved without it.
Actually DU ammo is better for the environment than lead. While it is mildly radioactive, it is only mildly, and the main issue is heavy metal poisoning. Which in the case of lead will remain in your system for 20 years, vs the 5 or so of DU due to it's decay rate.
My grandmother talked about how the Germans would basically take all the good food each harvest. Fruits, meat, dairy, vegetables and grain etc. too feed their own people back home. They had meager rations themselves, a lot of potatoes, vegetables and a little meat, mostly fish. She did specify that they never starved though, just kept on a strict diet, also if you were sick you were allowed more rations.
An anecdote was written in the script, but didn't make it to the final: "My granddad Lars, Sparty's father was born in Sweden during the war, and when some time after the war he got his first banana, he mistook it for a toy gun and ran off going pow pow pow, shooting in the air like the cowboys he had seen in his comics."
My mother born 1930 living in north of sweden Told me once, how when they got bananas again after the war. That it was only given to the younger children. Who never seen it before. She was so jealous
I was a child during WW2. My mother stayed home and my father was a critical war worker. My mother grew a “Victory Garden”. She fed me stewed rhubarb every day. During rationing, the local grocer was invited to every neighborhood party. He could bring the food.
Hunger was already a real thing in America. My father, a WW2 vet, grew up on a farm in Florida during the depression. He said he was lucky to be on a farm, as people in town were starving. It was his job to shoot tree squirrels to keep them out of the corn. The squirrels were often the only meat they had.
My dad was in occupied Holland during WWII. one of the things they did was dilute their scarce fats with indigestible Vaseline to make bread. His family got around the meat shortage in 1941-42 by growing rabbits.
That's horrifying. If the British were having poop issues with their diet, I can only imagine what Dutch toilets must have been subjected to during the war.
That was a big qualified statement about rationing leading to beneficial effects due to less meat. Decreased overall caloric intake, diversity in medical care affecting diagnosis, healthy subjects being drafted, increased physical activity on the home front due to gardening/loss of public transport/emergency service duty/etc. All more likely confounders.
Eric George I’m glad someone pointed out the likely health benefits from the extra movement caused by fuel rationing, less public transport, and more walking overall.
vegetarian or eating meat it's ok when you have the luxury of choice just a thought but in war or depression, you eat what you can get it becomes survival. you will eat horse dog or whatever you can lay your hands on if you are starving to death.we can only read about and imagine what some of them went through. My father a born in 1933 taught me that.
I was literally shoving chicken into my mouth when she started talking about being a vegetarian. I still enjoyed it. Not my fault some humans want to deprive themselves of some of life’s luxuries.
“My granddad Lars, Sparty’s father was born in Sweden during the war, and when some time after the war he got his first banana, he mistook it for a toy gun and ran off going pow, pow, pow shooting in the air like the cowboys he had seen in his comics.” 9:33 Nice subtitles
This is such a great edition. The other two series fill in details of the knowledge of many people. But even for many WW2 buffs, a huge amount of this info will be completely new.
Really looking forward to seeing more from this series! I know a bit about the homefront in my home country (UK) from school but know next to nothing about what it was like in other countries so looking forward to you guys helping to fill the gaps in my knowledge. Anna already feels like a natural part of the team as well. Keep being awesome guys!
So called digging for victory or rationing didn't preclude keeping chickens in your garden. I was told powered egg on toast was so awful that it convinced my grandparents to keep chickens so they could get plenty of fresh eggs. Chickens also stopped insects from eating the vegetables growing in the garden. Fresh eggs could also be exchanged for things as there was always a demand for extra eggs from people wanting to bake cakes for special occasions. My grandparents lived in East London during the war and were eventually bombed out of their home near the end of it when a V2 landed at the top of their street and deformed their home so badly that it was beyond repair and was condemned.
Love it! It usually takes me a few episodes to warm up to a new host but I absolutely adore Anna already. Very well presented and enjoyable to watch. Great episode!
Ah rationing, the eternal challenge that governments face during war: how much can they make the civilians go without in order to support the military without risking the civilians revolting.
And one of my best trips through Europe as a young explorer, Bavria was the best. While the BLACK FOREST seemed surreal. Almost strangely haunted to the point of out of this world.
Interesting point about the "rotating home" for Brits and Germans. I am Canadian and my understanding, not carefully researched, is that there were many Canadian soldiers who left in 1939 and didn't return home until the end of the war.
That was pretty funny. However I think its kind of a flippant comparison of the contemporary minor inconvenience for most people to the absolute hell millions of people suffered during WWII.
@@jamestheotherone742 Don't take offence by it though. TH-cam algorithm pretty much requires clickbaity titles in order to get the visibility needed for sufficient ad revenue. They have no choice but to make references to on-going stuff that draws people's attention if they want money.
In Northern Ireland, where there was rationing, people used to travel to the republic/south and get as much stuff as they could to smuggle back across the border. My grandparents, who were too young to fight, told me about their exploits in moving cattle and evading the inspectors on the trains
The stories of smuggling in the war and even during the 50's and 60's were such that it almost formed its own subculture along the border. Goods flowed both ways. For some reason paraffin wasn't rationed in the free state/south (no republic until 1949) and beet sugar was more readily available than imported cane sugar in the north, while black market petrol was available in the north and the imported American flour was better than the home produced Irish wheat and was smuggled south. Agriculture got priority for supply during the war over normal civilian life and for example fuel for farm machinery was less restricted than for cars. My grandfather had bought a petrol ford son tractor in 1938 and always claimed it made more money sitting still than it ever did going.
Rationing and scarcities weren't just limited to the countries at war: the period from April 1939 to 1946 in Spain is known as the "post-war years" (la posguerra), and those were really difficult years for the population. In adition to the enormous death and destruction caused by the Civil War, the pro-axis stance of the Franco government during its early years made it difficult to import food, and it was also difficult to produce it locally. The winter of 1940-1941 was specially harsh, and this was compounded as in february 1941 an enormous fire broke out in Santander after a high tension line shortcut. The losses were estimated to be at a value of 250 million ptas. That same year, a typhus epidemic broke out, transmitted by green bugs, and it was commonly known as "piojo verde" (green bug). There were shortages of everything, in the case of fuel it was so excruciating that many people modified their cars adding a steam engine that could work on coal, or wood, or whatever, it was called "gasógeno". The Government, meanwhile, was talking about the "big Empire" and "glorious victory over the evil communists" while doing little to nothing in order to revert those situations.
One important thing the government did do was refuse to join the Axis even though they were under pressure to do so. Ironically, it was the food shortages that were the main reason they didn't. Because they were dependent on trade and food imports from the USA, they didn't want to cut off that supply due to wartime restrictions and risk another domestic conflict. It was a difficult time for Spain, but it would have been much worse in the long run if they had been in a better economic position in the late 1930's and Franco felt like he could openly support the Axis and join in the fight.
Those converted cars were seen during WWII in The Netherlands as well (and probably all over Europe). It usually wasn't a steam engine though but a gas generator that produced gas from wood etc. to be used as fuel for the combustion engine in the car. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas_generator
4:20 Making more farmland usually means cutting down forests, not repurposing grazing grounds, since those can be in areas not suitable for farming. Expanding farmland is generally considered to be very bad for the environment, vegetation and wildlife (see Brasil and rainforest). Just 'sayin.
you're avatar is firmly sandwiched in uncanny valley, but idk why. is your picture from some horror graphic or something? it just looks like nightmare fuel.
Something that might be interesting to cover in this series is how men who were physically incapable of service. I am an asthmatic and am unable to join the US military. In the movie Hacksaw Ridge there is a scene where the main character talks about 2 men who kill themselves because they were unable to serve. How accurate is this?
As far as malnourishment, that was a severe concern for the US Army and its draftees. Many were barely fit to serve. The 'food pyramid' that was taught when I was in grade school (fifty years ago) was inspired by nutritionists that had the job of developing an healthy diet for the US armed forces. The Great Depression wreaked havoc on diet and development. If you watch 'Triumph of the Will' then you'll see a lot of scrawny Nazi youths. No doubt that Hitler manipulated the hungers and resentments born of dearth.
Happy to have the series here. I mean, I've heard about the various homefronts of course, but an entire series on a largely forgotten or at least ignored part of the war? Lovely! I'm also curious to hear about what being a nurse was like during the war. Lots of my friends and family are nurses.
Cheeky title Anna, you're a great host right off the bat! I'm excited to see how this series evolves and develops as the war, that's for sure ending this winter, unfolds.
Anna, it is obvious by the accent that English is a second language for you, but your presentation was still fantastic! I'm now looking forward to more 'on the home front' episodes. Well done!
Half of the comments: Thats not Indy The other half: Corona virus Great Job, Anna! I love the objective reporting, mixed in with your own personal opinion (and the obvious line between the two). I look forward to more of your work!
My grandmother had a mayonnaise based cake recipe. It turns out that Mayo works like eggs in baking, and the recipe came about due to the shortage of eggs during the war.
EXCELLENT episode, Anna! I have eagerly awaited the start of this sub-series of the World War Two channel. Continued success to all of you on the World War Two team!
To give an idea of how lightly the effects of the war lay on Canada's homefront, I have to look no further than my grandmother's standard commentary on economic problems: "We just need another good war to sort things out." That sounds very callous, and I highly doubt she'd have been caught dead saying that if she had even a hint of what really went on in WWII, but, from her perspective, in the years leading up to the war, Canada had been in a slow recovery from hthe Great Depression - an economic crisis so severe that her parents had been forced to adopt her out to a wealthier family (to whom she was more a free servant than a daughter, by all accounts) in order to afford to feed her siblings,) During the war and its immediate precursor, though, she met a man, fell in love and got married (and lived with him until the day she died)m she saw the economy finally shrug off the lingering effects of the depression and kick into high gear for the duration of the war, she got lots of propaganda saying how great the war was going, her husband came back just fine, and they went on to raise 4 children in a time of dramatic prosperity. She had no interest in history and hr husband, my grandfather, actively discouraged everyone he met from being curious about the war. She'd have heard some news from the Neuremberg Trials and so forth, and Grandpa's insistence that it not be discussed must have at least implied things, but it's entirely possible that she died ignorant of much of the dark side of the war, despite that coming a good 60+ years after the war ended. But that is a fairly typical Canadian experience: economy picked up, some people went off to fight the good fight, and we're feeling even more like an independent country than we did after WWI. And the good times keep going for another 20 years or so. Exactly the wrong lesson to take from any war, but especially WWII.
It sounds like Brits got a large dose of fiber in the war time diet. Know we know that a diet high in fiber and plant products is actually a very healthy diet.
I came to think of Finland because of this video. In the 19th century it lost about 8% of the population to the famine in the 1860's. Then in the early 1930's it gets by but not by a whole lot in feeding its population, then comes the incident Russia staged to invade Finland, a lot of fighting was done in Karelia, Finlands industrial and agricultural powerhouse being fought in and having to mobilize large amounts of the population, if i remember right Sweden supplied Finland with a lot of food and a whole lot of else, lots of volunteers and enough vehicles and small arms to field lots of divisions. Sweden also took in a lot of war children, children displaced by the war or preemptively sent away to Sweden to spare them from the horrors of the war and the shortages. Then after the winter war was done Finland now lost it's second biggest city, agricultural center and a big part of their industry while also with the baltic sea being pretty much inaccessible to ship into from the outside. Not very fun for the population, lots of people that were fleeing from Karelia had to be resettled somewhere with a bit of land and such, a bit of the army had to be demobilized to go back to work in the agricultural and industrial sectors. Then comes the continuation war a bit later to get back the lost territories of Karelia and Petsamo (Petsamo connects Finland to the white sea, and also the only point Sweden and Finland can really trade with the outside world aside from the axis or using blockade runners like Sweden did). For a while things return to normal ironically, even with wartime being wartime, the war turns into a stalemate of sorts after Finland recovers their territories and a little bit of buffer zones at the lakes in Russia to make the frontlines shorter and easier to defend. Again, a bit of the military gets demobilized to work the lands, a lot of the population that fled Karelia returns to their homes. But later in the war the Russians manage to push forwards a bit, a few times the southern front was on the verge of collapsing, but they manage to hold them off even with big casualties on both sides, battle of Ihantala for example. Finland manages to hold on thanks to german material help in the form of much needed food, rifles, buying a few tanks and planes even, it's regrettable that Finland had to side with the devil himself, such was the situation back then when the devil throws a lifebuoy sort of. Sweden had stopped supplying Finland due to Finland being on the side of Germany against Russia, but Finland never was in the axis itself, just on the same side of the war against Russia. Anyway, bark bread, ersatz coffee, homebrewed alcohol with leftover bad hops and crops, grey soup, malnutrition during the continuation war was common and substitutes had to be found as much as possible. After the war Finland lost Karelia again and forever, same with Petsamo. The population of Finland during the 50's was very malnutritioned, ribs poking out, stale butter was considered good enough, kids in school had to poke out the maggots in bread. The population as a whole was quite malnourished, which wouldn't make for a very useful workers and laborers, and out of a humanitarian perspective too. So in the 50's all schools now got school meals that every pupil could eat without paying anything extra which helped quite a lot to combat the malnutrition. Now, Finland entered the 50's as a still agricultural nation, but to pay the very high war reparations to soviet, not just in the form of cash but in heavy industry and ships, to which Finland developed its industry quite rapidly for being a very poor backwater. It was supposed to be paid in just 6 years but got extended to 8 years, and reduced too in terms of material demands. But Finland managed to pull it off in about 1952. Interestingly enough, Finland also had to send over premade wooden houses to Russia as payment. To this day Finland is still quite good at naval engineering.
This is a great series. I would love to see an episode on life as a soldier on the front. Where did they sleep, what did they eat and where did they do their other business?
I really wonder what entertainment looked like during the war, how did people entertain themselves these days? Love the host and excited for what's coming next.
Welcome on board, Anna! I look forward to what's coming and I am really happy that those non-war aspects are being covered by the team! I've got one little piece of feedback when it comes to delivery: I feel that you speak a tad bit too slow for my taste. A more upbeat pace could help make this even better. In addition I've got a little story to share from my grandma, who was a kid during WW2 in Austria: Towards the end of the war the food shortages were extreme and getting meat was incredibly difficult and only rich people could afford it in small quantities. In the small village the local priest had a few very well fed cats, which upset my great grandfather quite a bit. In fact so much so that he actually hunted them for food, as he was angry that the priest could feed meat to the cats, but didn't help people in the village. There is a somewhat relevant German/Austrian saying: "In der Not frisst der Teufel Fliegen" (Roughly: In desperate times the devil eats flies).
A most enjoyable episode indeed , particularly as yet again Europe and most of the World suffers the effects of Corona Virus and Food shortages in the Super markets. Stay healthy every one !!!
Hey, I know you were joking about the plumbing situation.. but I'd personally love to see a video detailing public infrastructure in various war torn areas
@@WorldWarTwo oh MYGOD you responded!? 😁 I don't have any good ideas for hooks, but infrastructure is essential for quality of life! Modern day electronic warfare revolves around infrastructure attacks
@@benoitlabrecque4513 easter eggs were something else that would have been rationed during the war. Which, by the way, is something that we (British) are not allowed to mention. At least, "not in front of the Germans"!
"They also spend a lot more time on the loo... you see, the volume of thier facees, also known as poop, increases by 250" - the english sub: boy that was so much more information then we needed 8:28 Somebody scolding Anna
I'm sure they will. It was one of the largest and most significant food crises during WWII, at the time it happened and in terms of determining what the post-WWII world looked like.
Be nice if they covered the American input to it as well (the Americans refused to divert shipping from Russia (via Iran) to India). Why is this important? The Germans and Japanese had sunk over half of the British flagged merchant fleet by this time, making the American merchant fleet the largest remaining in the world. The Indian National Army (working as allies to the Japanese) had also invaded Bengal from Burma at this time.
@@allangibson8494 Decisions about shipping during WWII were being made by a joint US-UK shipping board that allocated all of the shipping resources available. Commonwealth countries such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand were involved in the decision and deal-making process; British colonies such as Burma, India and their African possessions weren't, so they came much lower on the priority list. Making things even worse for eastern India was the experience the Brits had after Burma was invaded and the Japanese (suffering from desperate rice shortages) seized the entire supply of food for their own uses. The UK didn't want any more food to fall into their hands, and reduced shipments to the area - resulting in the Bengal Famine. Lizzie Collingham covers this in "The Taste Of War" in a huge amount of detail if anyone's interested in the subject.
@@Raskolnikov70 And two years ago the secret classified British Cabinet papers from 1943 were released revealing that Winston Churchill asked for shipping capacity to be diverted to India and was refused by Washington.
Very well done, Anna. Nice skill and insight into an overlooked part of the War. Ya know, if there was nobody left but Americans, inundated by Hollywood, to tell the story of the homefronts, we would be left thinking every day had a swing dance, every wife was a bombshell pinup and jazz music was blaring everywhere. Thanks!
This is the first episode of On the Homefront. For those of you who haven’t watched our trailer or have seen the Between Two Wars episode on the Home Revolution, let me introduce you to Anna. She will be telling us all about the homefronts and the people on them in these monthly sub-series. Now, we know that this episode might seem to be playing on the Corona related hoarding that is going on, but this was already produced before any of that made the news. In any case, as many of you are sitting in your own homefronts, I hope this episode offers some relief and perspective. If you like it, do make sure to Join the TimeGhost Army to keep us running! You can do so at timeghost.tv or patreon.com/timeghosthistory
Cheers, Joram
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#MentionLuxembourg!
World War Two - But what if polite is not my strong suit, heck it may not be in my DNA? 🤪
all cribs with ANNA are also palindromes!
LET'S BE *PALS*!
I've seen the grocery store shelves empty three times because of local disasters. This'll be the 4th time, but never has it been as widespread as it is for the CV flu. Stay healthy everyone!
Loved the first home front episode
Anna: I'm not Spartacus
Romans: Oh, well then you're free to go
"In case you didn't notice, I'm a woman."
Me: *Spits out drink just as I was taking a sip* "WHAT?!"
*frantically rewinding and taking notes*
GET DOWN KING, THERE’S A WOMAN BEHIND YOU
YOU CANT BE SERIOUS GRIFF
@@abc-oq7dt I am. Re-watch the video if you don't believe me, she said it herself!
NOW HOLD UP
Couldn't have a more relevant video right now
I bet you 1000 toilet rolls right now, they'll do a covid-19 series right after the pandemic is dead.
Uğur Mete
I think they will do it sooner. As I am not sure it will end.
Good luck
@@Jakob_DK I believe as long as we take care of ourselves and not fall in hysteria we can all leave this mess behind us, maybe even before summer is here.
Where are you from, how are you doing? Good luck from Turkey!
@@OttomanDrifter91 Abi şu tuvalet kağıdı saklama olayı niye başladı yav? Hiçte o kadar gerekli bir şey değil yani stoklucak. Avrupa'nın özel bir durumu var heralde
There was just news that Swedes have contacted Finns for possible support in the future if the situation is prolonged. Apparently their food self-sufficiency is only 50% while Finland is more like 80%. So Finland has the same self-sufficiency as Germany at the start of WW2, that's pretty surprising.
The more Indy keeps denying this isn't him with makeup on, the more I believe the conspiracy theorists. ... You're not fooling me, Indy. 😁
Even having him dubbed by her half-Chinese coworker is not fooling anyone.
We need to get to the bottom of this
SPARTACUS has many faces!
"I'm not Indy Neidell"
Now that's exactly what an Indy Neidell in disguise would say, wouldn't he?
She isn't Indy, she's Spartacus. Just notice her mannerisms, and you'll be convinced. (Like father, like daughter. You're doing a great job!)
"...their volume of faeces... increases by 250%."
Well, shit.
Love how the subtitles say that was more information than we needed, by the way!
I see what you did there
Hellboy: Aw Crap.
Abe Sapian: Exactly!
I'm watching this, sealed away in my room, whilst my antibodies fight off the you know what virus. Thanks for entertaining and educating me and staving off madness for a few minutes longer.
Best of luck man.
Good luck king! 👑👑👑
Get well soon.
Get well soon!!
Hope you get well soon.
I hear the first shortage crisis in the war was toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and tissues.
@Squadron266 On a serious note, please *only* flush toilet paper (and human waste). Any other type of paper (paper towels, facial tissue, etc.) and other items (wipes (even "flushable" wipes), feminine hygiene products, condoms, etc.) should never be flushed down the toilet unless you like clogged pipes.
Why do you have to do that to me
@@MrRadar you aint clogging 3 inch pipes with tp unless youre dumb as hell
@@johndowe7003 wooosh
john dowe Which is why he said to only flush TP? If you flush other items, they won’t break down in water. Sure they may not clog YOUR pipes, but they have an affect on the larger sewer system. Imagine 10,000 people flush paper that doesn’t dissolve in water. It all adds up.
Man, Indy has changed a bit. Stunning and brave as ever.
Only joking, this was a nicely presented episode which I rather enjoyed
The brad review Show before and after
Anna: "0:57"
Me: *"Shut up, Indy!"*
My grandmother was a notorious hoarder. My grandfather, an electrical engineer who did something, during the war, for some vague thing called the Manhattan District, commented that if his house ever burned down, there would be a three story cake sitting there, from all the sugar, butter, flour and other odds and ends that she had stashed...
I'm so glad to see this series of The Home Front coverage. I was raised on my Mom's stories of growing up in Wisconsin during the war. Her dad owned a cheese factory. (yes, I know the stereotype. But he really did!) She said that her family was better off than some others because they could always barter for goods with cheese, which of course was rationed. I imagine her dad made a few Black Market deals too. Thanx Mom, I'm a WWII devotee because of your stories!
Thanks for sharing this, glad you're enjoying the series!
This is probably the real History, the day-to-day one, the History about frames if minds and long term processes, so brilliantly introduced in the historical science by the Annales School. These trends, so important and often so hard to unearth are for the same reason more challenging as a matter of enquiry. These are the links that hold together the more visible chain, made of the "great men and the great deeds".
Anna, you are a great hostess and I am delighted for finally arriving at this stage of this channel, having viewed so many hours of excellent material, pertaining the war itself.
Greeting from Chile.
PS: sorry for my sometimes unrefined English.
@Germán Hernán Burgos Ffrench - Davis I assure you your English is nothing if not refined! We couldn't agree more with your sentiment, thanks for watching with us
UK:Bollocks, these food rations sucks.
USA:You guys are having rations?
China and India:You guys are getting fed?
The USA was rationed as well.
Mr. S eventually. Not in 1941; the U.S. wasn’t fighting yet.
@@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus rationed by American standards - yes, eventually - but not by European or Asian standards including Russia. I dread to think just how badly they suffered while carrying the brunt of the war on all 4 fronts (Eastern, Balkan, Home, and SinoJapanese) throughout the entire war.
*The entire SE Asia:*
*F**k! Y'all have food?"
I woke up to Anna this morning :)
Victory gardens are still common today but they are called allotments. My parents when they were kids in the 50's were working on them & even today they are still popular.
Also Hormel Foods Corporation invented Spam just before the war & proved to be beneficial. Even the Russians praised Spam as their armies would have starved without it.
"Not driving tanks around and blowing so much stuff up all the time would have been great for the environment"
*LAUGHS IN DEPLETED URANIUM ROUNDS*
god i know...
HAHAHA HAHAHAHAH HAHAHA HAHAHAHAH HAHAHA STOP STOP HAHAHAHAH HAHAHA YOU'RE KILLING ME HAHAHAHAH HAHAHA HAHAHAHAH HAHAHA STOP HAHAHAHAH CAN'T BREATHE HAHAHA HAHAHA CAN'T BREATHE STOP HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHAH HAHA HELP CAN'T BREATHE HAHAHA CALL 9 HUNDRED ELEBEN HAHAHAHAH HAHAHA
Interestingly nuclear power is the best and only viable solution for environment.
@@Dev_Six Not really though.
Actually DU ammo is better for the environment than lead. While it is mildly radioactive, it is only mildly, and the main issue is heavy metal poisoning. Which in the case of lead will remain in your system for 20 years, vs the 5 or so of DU due to it's decay rate.
My grandmother talked about how the Germans would basically take all the good food each harvest. Fruits, meat, dairy, vegetables and grain etc. too feed their own people back home. They had meager rations themselves, a lot of potatoes, vegetables and a little meat, mostly fish. She did specify that they never starved though, just kept on a strict diet, also if you were sick you were allowed more rations.
An anecdote was written in the script, but didn't make it to the final: "My granddad Lars, Sparty's father was born in Sweden during the war, and when some time after the war he got his first banana, he mistook it for a toy gun and ran off going pow pow pow, shooting in the air like the cowboys he had seen in his comics."
This is amazing.
Sean -Chesthole- Osman wait are you saying that you are Sparty’s child?
Sjinnie_Boy Anna is... it was left in the subtitles ;-)
My mother remembers the first banana she got, a couple of years after the war. Sge had no idea we what it was or how to eat it
My mother born 1930 living in north of sweden Told me once, how when they got bananas again after the war. That it was only given to the younger children. Who never seen it before. She was so jealous
I was a child during WW2. My mother stayed home and my father was a critical war worker. My mother grew a “Victory Garden”. She fed me stewed rhubarb every day. During rationing, the local grocer was invited to every neighborhood party. He could bring the food.
Haha, amazing!
Victory gardens should never have fallen out of favour, could certainly use them now.
Hunger was already a real thing in America. My father, a WW2 vet, grew up on a farm in Florida during the depression. He said he was lucky to be on a farm, as people in town were starving. It was his job to shoot tree squirrels to keep them out of the corn. The squirrels were often the only meat they had.
7:35 Converting to pounds or ounces: Per week: 1/4 lb. Meat and 1/4 lb. fish; 1/2 cup milk; ·one stick or 1/4 lb. (8.5 u.s. tablespoons) margarine
My dad was in occupied Holland during WWII. one of the things they did was dilute their scarce fats with indigestible Vaseline to make bread. His family got around the meat shortage in 1941-42 by growing rabbits.
That's horrifying. If the British were having poop issues with their diet, I can only imagine what Dutch toilets must have been subjected to during the war.
Growing rabbits is smart! I love animals, I love my family more.
8:15
British soldiers: *farts*
German soldiers: GAS!!! GAS!!! *scrambles for gas masks*
this is literally a joke in the military. someone farts, everyone else warns of GAS GAS
/stupid army jokes
Hitler was an ethical vegetarian... and the Germans in the know did indeed make jokes about the noise and noisomeness of his flatulence...
@@chemech *unethical
Rule Britannia
Loving this new series, Anna is a great addition to the team.
Anna: "0:57"
Me: *"Shut up, Indy!"*
That was a big qualified statement about rationing leading to beneficial effects due to less meat.
Decreased overall caloric intake, diversity in medical care affecting diagnosis, healthy subjects being drafted, increased physical activity on the home front due to gardening/loss of public transport/emergency service duty/etc.
All more likely confounders.
Eric George I’m glad someone pointed out the likely health benefits from the extra movement caused by fuel rationing, less public transport, and more walking overall.
vegetarian or eating meat it's ok when you have the luxury of choice just a thought but in war or depression, you eat what you can get it becomes survival. you will eat horse dog or whatever you can lay your hands on if you are starving to death.we can only read about and imagine what some of them went through.
My father a born in 1933 taught me that.
One more reason to join the calvary!
I was literally shoving chicken into my mouth when she started talking about being a vegetarian. I still enjoyed it. Not my fault some humans want to deprive themselves of some of life’s luxuries.
@@alswann2702 the german Army used more horses than anyone .
@@Wallyworld30
Well more for us meat eaters I guess
In extreme cases the Japanese resorted to cannibalism.
www.pacificatrocities.org/blog/cannibalism-in-the-pacific
Blind we are, if shortage of toilet paper we could not see.
“My granddad Lars, Sparty’s father was born in Sweden during the war, and when some time after the war he got his first banana, he mistook it for a toy gun and ran off going pow, pow, pow shooting in the air like the cowboys he had seen in his comics.” 9:33 Nice subtitles
This is such a great edition. The other two series fill in details of the knowledge of many people. But even for many WW2 buffs, a huge amount of this info will be completely new.
The Homefront is absolutely as important as the front line.
I know it's you Indy stop denying it!
Really looking forward to seeing more from this series! I know a bit about the homefront in my home country (UK) from school but know next to nothing about what it was like in other countries so looking forward to you guys helping to fill the gaps in my knowledge. Anna already feels like a natural part of the team as well. Keep being awesome guys!
Clock this . . . whenever Anna's on screen . . . time just . . . . . . . . . . stands still. Excellent episode, thank you. x
So called digging for victory or rationing didn't preclude keeping chickens in your garden. I was told powered egg on toast was so awful that it convinced my grandparents to keep chickens so they could get plenty of fresh eggs. Chickens also stopped insects from eating the vegetables growing in the garden. Fresh eggs could also be exchanged for things as there was always a demand for extra eggs from people wanting to bake cakes for special occasions.
My grandparents lived in East London during the war and were eventually bombed out of their home near the end of it when a V2 landed at the top of their street and deformed their home so badly that it was beyond repair and was condemned.
The 3 Host are Awesome,I gotta love how they Portray themselves and the Info to us
Great video, Anna! Surprisingly relevant too (not because of shortages, but hoarding). Looking forward to more of these!
Thanks!
Love it! It usually takes me a few episodes to warm up to a new host but I absolutely adore Anna already. Very well presented and enjoyable to watch. Great episode!
Thank you very much!
Ah rationing, the eternal challenge that governments face during war: how much can they make the civilians go without in order to support the military without risking the civilians revolting.
A balancing act
People were healthier from it
What about the revolting citizens they already have? Just let the really ugly ones starve?
@@d.e.b.b5788 "My lord, the peasants are revolting"
"Yes I know the peasants are revolting"
Blackadder
Wizard of ID.
Rodney: “Sire, the peasants are revolting”.
King: “Aren’t they”.
This feels oddly timely
And one of my best trips through Europe as a young explorer, Bavria was the best. While the BLACK FOREST seemed surreal. Almost strangely haunted to the point of out of this world.
Interesting point about the "rotating home" for Brits and Germans.
I am Canadian and my understanding, not carefully researched, is that there were many Canadian soldiers who left in 1939 and didn't return home until the end of the war.
once you cross an ocean to fight no one goes home till done
I see what you did there with that sneaky little title. Let the toilet paper wars begin! :)
Begun the toilet paper war has.
I should have invested in huggies.
They already have.
That was pretty funny. However I think its kind of a flippant comparison of the contemporary minor inconvenience for most people to the absolute hell millions of people suffered during WWII.
@@jamestheotherone742 Don't take offence by it though. TH-cam algorithm pretty much requires clickbaity titles in order to get the visibility needed for sufficient ad revenue. They have no choice but to make references to on-going stuff that draws people's attention if they want money.
In Northern Ireland, where there was rationing, people used to travel to the republic/south and get as much stuff as they could to smuggle back across the border. My grandparents, who were too young to fight, told me about their exploits in moving cattle and evading the inspectors on the trains
The stories of smuggling in the war and even during the 50's and 60's were such that it almost formed its own subculture along the border. Goods flowed both ways. For some reason paraffin wasn't rationed in the free state/south (no republic until 1949) and beet sugar was more readily available than imported cane sugar in the north, while black market petrol was available in the north and the imported American flour was better than the home produced Irish wheat and was smuggled south.
Agriculture got priority for supply during the war over normal civilian life and for example fuel for farm machinery was less restricted than for cars. My grandfather had bought a petrol ford son tractor in 1938 and always claimed it made more money sitting still than it ever did going.
In Hawaii they still consume their favorite ww2 meat in a can, vienna sausages and spam.
Eggs, sausage and spam?
@Bennett McCoy Spam, beans, bacon, sausage and spam?
@Bennett McCoy Spam, spam, spam, spam, eggs, sausage, bacon and spam.
@Robin Gannaway It's Shoulder of Pork and hAM.
@@KaptenN Baked beans are off
I love how you guys keep expanding the cast! Indy is so versatile in his ability to portray different people. The voice shift is astounding!
His talent never fails to impress us too...
Rationing and scarcities weren't just limited to the countries at war: the period from April 1939 to 1946 in Spain is known as the "post-war years" (la posguerra), and those were really difficult years for the population. In adition to the enormous death and destruction caused by the Civil War, the pro-axis stance of the Franco government during its early years made it difficult to import food, and it was also difficult to produce it locally. The winter of 1940-1941 was specially harsh, and this was compounded as in february 1941 an enormous fire broke out in Santander after a high tension line shortcut. The losses were estimated to be at a value of 250 million ptas. That same year, a typhus epidemic broke out, transmitted by green bugs, and it was commonly known as "piojo verde" (green bug). There were shortages of everything, in the case of fuel it was so excruciating that many people modified their cars adding a steam engine that could work on coal, or wood, or whatever, it was called "gasógeno". The Government, meanwhile, was talking about the "big Empire" and "glorious victory over the evil communists" while doing little to nothing in order to revert those situations.
One important thing the government did do was refuse to join the Axis even though they were under pressure to do so. Ironically, it was the food shortages that were the main reason they didn't. Because they were dependent on trade and food imports from the USA, they didn't want to cut off that supply due to wartime restrictions and risk another domestic conflict. It was a difficult time for Spain, but it would have been much worse in the long run if they had been in a better economic position in the late 1930's and Franco felt like he could openly support the Axis and join in the fight.
@@Raskolnikov70 True.
Those converted cars were seen during WWII in The Netherlands as well (and probably all over Europe). It usually wasn't a steam engine though but a gas generator that produced gas from wood etc. to be used as fuel for the combustion engine in the car. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas_generator
Well done as always Time Ghost Crew! And very hearty welcome to Anna! I’m really looking forward to this series behind the front lines!
Thanks Ross!
I like how you brought this video out now.
Stay safe everyone, think of others
8:15-8:40 The most interesting commentary on bodily excretions I've seen on TH-cam so far.
U must be new;...
Angry Video Game Nerd would like to have a word with you.
4:20 Making more farmland usually means cutting down forests, not repurposing grazing grounds, since those can be in areas not suitable for farming. Expanding farmland is generally considered to be very bad for the environment, vegetation and wildlife (see Brasil and rainforest).
Just 'sayin.
Wow Indy, that makeup and outfit are really convincing! You almost had me
you're avatar is firmly sandwiched in uncanny valley, but idk why. is your picture from some horror graphic or something? it just looks like nightmare fuel.
Ann Onymous it’s a hentai girl
@@chanhjohnnguyen1867 ewww omfglol I KNEW IT
worse than a trap, let's be clear.
The nail polish isn't period correct though.
@@chanhjohnnguyen1867 No it's not lol. The full pic is completely SFW
Something that might be interesting to cover in this series is how men who were physically incapable of service. I am an asthmatic and am unable to join the US military. In the movie Hacksaw Ridge there is a scene where the main character talks about 2 men who kill themselves because they were unable to serve. How accurate is this?
As far as malnourishment, that was a severe concern for the US Army and its draftees. Many were barely fit to serve. The 'food pyramid' that was taught when I was in grade school (fifty years ago) was inspired by nutritionists that had the job of developing an healthy diet for the US armed forces. The Great Depression wreaked havoc on diet and development.
If you watch 'Triumph of the Will' then you'll see a lot of scrawny Nazi youths. No doubt that Hitler manipulated the hungers and resentments born of dearth.
Thanks for the suggestion, Adam!
@@kirbyculp3449 That's true. The Army was appalled by how many men they had to turn away because they had been starved during the Depression.
I love how this channel is evolving
This episode is always somthing I thought of
Happy that you're enjoying it, Damian!
That was a great first episode. I really enjoyed it. Many thanks Anna. The videos of the Time Ghost Army are a light in those sad days.
"A high vegetable, low meat diet will have a dramatic effect on your metabolism."
"No sh!t."
"Er, quite the opposite, in fact."
Happy to have the series here. I mean, I've heard about the various homefronts of course, but an entire series on a largely forgotten or at least ignored part of the war? Lovely!
I'm also curious to hear about what being a nurse was like during the war. Lots of my friends and family are nurses.
Thanks for the suggestion, hope you enjoy!
Cheeky title
Anna, you're a great host right off the bat! I'm excited to see how this series evolves and develops as the war, that's for sure ending this winter, unfolds.
Keep the good work Anna. I always welcome a new prespective on forgotten aspects of WWII
Anna, it is obvious by the accent that English is a second language for you, but your presentation was still fantastic! I'm now looking forward to more 'on the home front' episodes. Well done!
Half of the comments:
Thats not Indy
The other half:
Corona virus
Great Job, Anna! I love the objective reporting, mixed in with your own personal opinion (and the obvious line between the two). I look forward to more of your work!
@@thaddeusfreeman you must have missed the part where i noted the line between the two. Please move to ABC Mouse so you can learn to read
I guess you'll cover how women were "drafted" in Britain to go to farms, in order to produce enough food.
This will be covered soon!
My grandmother had a mayonnaise based cake recipe. It turns out that Mayo works like eggs in baking, and the recipe came about due to the shortage of eggs during the war.
That's what mayonnaise is...eggs
@@tomservo56954 maybe it was miracle whip or something, idk.
EXCELLENT episode, Anna! I have eagerly awaited the start of this sub-series of the World War Two channel. Continued success to all of you on the World War Two team!
Thanks William, we're looking forward to the production of the series too!
To give an idea of how lightly the effects of the war lay on Canada's homefront, I have to look no further than my grandmother's standard commentary on economic problems: "We just need another good war to sort things out."
That sounds very callous, and I highly doubt she'd have been caught dead saying that if she had even a hint of what really went on in WWII, but, from her perspective, in the years leading up to the war, Canada had been in a slow recovery from hthe Great Depression - an economic crisis so severe that her parents had been forced to adopt her out to a wealthier family (to whom she was more a free servant than a daughter, by all accounts) in order to afford to feed her siblings,) During the war and its immediate precursor, though, she met a man, fell in love and got married (and lived with him until the day she died)m she saw the economy finally shrug off the lingering effects of the depression and kick into high gear for the duration of the war, she got lots of propaganda saying how great the war was going, her husband came back just fine, and they went on to raise 4 children in a time of dramatic prosperity. She had no interest in history and hr husband, my grandfather, actively discouraged everyone he met from being curious about the war. She'd have heard some news from the Neuremberg Trials and so forth, and Grandpa's insistence that it not be discussed must have at least implied things, but it's entirely possible that she died ignorant of much of the dark side of the war, despite that coming a good 60+ years after the war ended.
But that is a fairly typical Canadian experience: economy picked up, some people went off to fight the good fight, and we're feeling even more like an independent country than we did after WWI. And the good times keep going for another 20 years or so. Exactly the wrong lesson to take from any war, but especially WWII.
Great first episode, looking forward to the upcoming ones!
1 egg, 110g meat, 110g fish in a week. Here I am eating >a< chicken for lunch.
Puts it in perspective eh, I eat 250g of protein per day, these people were having half that per week
@@dreamcrusher112 But on the other hand, food wasn't as processed as it is today.
Wow great timing with the video release. Great segment, keep up the good work,
I went to the WW2 museum in New Orleans. I had to point out that the kitchen was missing...a grease can.
Very interested to see a video on the Hongerwinter (Hungerwinter) in the Netherlands.
It sounds like Brits got a large dose of fiber in the war time diet. Know we know that a diet high in fiber and plant products is actually a very healthy diet.
I like Anna as a host. Interesting and funny! Can't wait to see more!
You mean indy with makeup?
Anna: "0:57"
Me: *"Shut up, Indy!"*
Wonderful job Anna, and great to see half the human race being included in history instead of ignored as is the usual case. Continued success.
Glad you enjoy!
I came to think of Finland because of this video. In the 19th century it lost about 8% of the population to the famine in the 1860's. Then in the early 1930's it gets by but not by a whole lot in feeding its population, then comes the incident Russia staged to invade Finland, a lot of fighting was done in Karelia, Finlands industrial and agricultural powerhouse being fought in and having to mobilize large amounts of the population, if i remember right Sweden supplied Finland with a lot of food and a whole lot of else, lots of volunteers and enough vehicles and small arms to field lots of divisions. Sweden also took in a lot of war children, children displaced by the war or preemptively sent away to Sweden to spare them from the horrors of the war and the shortages. Then after the winter war was done Finland now lost it's second biggest city, agricultural center and a big part of their industry while also with the baltic sea being pretty much inaccessible to ship into from the outside. Not very fun for the population, lots of people that were fleeing from Karelia had to be resettled somewhere with a bit of land and such, a bit of the army had to be demobilized to go back to work in the agricultural and industrial sectors.
Then comes the continuation war a bit later to get back the lost territories of Karelia and Petsamo (Petsamo connects Finland to the white sea, and also the only point Sweden and Finland can really trade with the outside world aside from the axis or using blockade runners like Sweden did). For a while things return to normal ironically, even with wartime being wartime, the war turns into a stalemate of sorts after Finland recovers their territories and a little bit of buffer zones at the lakes in Russia to make the frontlines shorter and easier to defend. Again, a bit of the military gets demobilized to work the lands, a lot of the population that fled Karelia returns to their homes. But later in the war the Russians manage to push forwards a bit, a few times the southern front was on the verge of collapsing, but they manage to hold them off even with big casualties on both sides, battle of Ihantala for example. Finland manages to hold on thanks to german material help in the form of much needed food, rifles, buying a few tanks and planes even, it's regrettable that Finland had to side with the devil himself, such was the situation back then when the devil throws a lifebuoy sort of. Sweden had stopped supplying Finland due to Finland being on the side of Germany against Russia, but Finland never was in the axis itself, just on the same side of the war against Russia.
Anyway, bark bread, ersatz coffee, homebrewed alcohol with leftover bad hops and crops, grey soup, malnutrition during the continuation war was common and substitutes had to be found as much as possible. After the war Finland lost Karelia again and forever, same with Petsamo. The population of Finland during the 50's was very malnutritioned, ribs poking out, stale butter was considered good enough, kids in school had to poke out the maggots in bread. The population as a whole was quite malnourished, which wouldn't make for a very useful workers and laborers, and out of a humanitarian perspective too. So in the 50's all schools now got school meals that every pupil could eat without paying anything extra which helped quite a lot to combat the malnutrition. Now, Finland entered the 50's as a still agricultural nation, but to pay the very high war reparations to soviet, not just in the form of cash but in heavy industry and ships, to which Finland developed its industry quite rapidly for being a very poor backwater. It was supposed to be paid in just 6 years but got extended to 8 years, and reduced too in terms of material demands. But Finland managed to pull it off in about 1952. Interestingly enough, Finland also had to send over premade wooden houses to Russia as payment. To this day Finland is still quite good at naval engineering.
This woman has an amazing voice
Simp
I heartily agree. But I'm just waiting for them to slip in a couple of snippets from "'Allo, 'Allo"! (Brit WW2 sitcom set in France).
This is a great series. I would love to see an episode on life as a soldier on the front. Where did they sleep, what did they eat and where did they do their other business?
I really wonder what entertainment looked like during the war, how did people entertain themselves these days? Love the host and excited for what's coming next.
Hey, really glad you're into the series! We'll be definitely diving into this at some point soon
Welcome on board, Anna! I look forward to what's coming and I am really happy that those non-war aspects are being covered by the team! I've got one little piece of feedback when it comes to delivery: I feel that you speak a tad bit too slow for my taste. A more upbeat pace could help make this even better.
In addition I've got a little story to share from my grandma, who was a kid during WW2 in Austria: Towards the end of the war the food shortages were extreme and getting meat was incredibly difficult and only rich people could afford it in small quantities. In the small village the local priest had a few very well fed cats, which upset my great grandfather quite a bit. In fact so much so that he actually hunted them for food, as he was angry that the priest could feed meat to the cats, but didn't help people in the village. There is a somewhat relevant German/Austrian saying: "In der Not frisst der Teufel Fliegen" (Roughly: In desperate times the devil eats flies).
Thanks for your feedback and sharing that story!
"I am not Indy Neidell. Nor am I my dad, Spartacus Olsson." NAW! That's crazy! No way?
What an appropriate and timely video.
This channel is amazing. I love learning the history and conditions in other countries than my native America. Keep up the good work.
Thanks!
Orson Wells also said when doing commercials for Ernst and Julio Gallows "We Shall Sell No Wine Before You Pay For It".
A most enjoyable episode indeed , particularly as yet again Europe and most of the World suffers the effects of Corona Virus and Food shortages in the Super markets. Stay healthy every one !!!
Dang, how could i have missed this series, just found it today.
Hey, I know you were joking about the plumbing situation.. but I'd personally love to see a video detailing public infrastructure in various war torn areas
Interesting idea, if we can work out a good hook we might just do that.
@@WorldWarTwo oh MYGOD you responded!? 😁
I don't have any good ideas for hooks, but infrastructure is essential for quality of life! Modern day electronic warfare revolves around infrastructure attacks
great, timely, video! and welcome on board miss Deinhard!
Btw, the subtitles easter eggs are great xD
I wanted to hear about Lars and the banana gun
What easter eggs?
@@benoitlabrecque4513 easter eggs were something else that would have been rationed during the war. Which, by the way, is something that we (British) are not allowed to mention. At least, "not in front of the Germans"!
"They also spend a lot more time on the loo... you see, the volume of thier facees, also known as poop, increases by 250" - the english sub: boy that was so much more information then we needed 8:28
Somebody scolding Anna
There are still several groups of Wartime Allotments (very small family urban farms) surviving around Edinburgh, where I live. :-)
Great episode, I'm looking forward to watching the other episodes.
This was an outstanding first solo effort.
Well done.
Fantastic another sub series. Good job
I have watched everything from Indy and your dad. I am sure he is very proud!
these are my new favoruite part of World War two channel,
Glad you're enjoying the series so far!
I'm really enjoying Anna's dry wit - who says Germans aren't funny! Great start to On the Homefront - looking forward to the next one!
Haha thanks, enjoy the series!
Good video, I just made one with Walgreens, Target, Walmart, and Dollar store in Minnesota. Empty shelfs
Corona virus Coronavirus Convid-19 shopping supplies 3-16-20 in Northern Minnesota
Hope this channel will cover Bengal famine in detail either in this series or War against humanity.
I'm sure they will. It was one of the largest and most significant food crises during WWII, at the time it happened and in terms of determining what the post-WWII world looked like.
Be nice if they covered the American input to it as well (the Americans refused to divert shipping from Russia (via Iran) to India). Why is this important? The Germans and Japanese had sunk over half of the British flagged merchant fleet by this time, making the American merchant fleet the largest remaining in the world.
The Indian National Army (working as allies to the Japanese) had also invaded Bengal from Burma at this time.
@@allangibson8494 Decisions about shipping during WWII were being made by a joint US-UK shipping board that allocated all of the shipping resources available. Commonwealth countries such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand were involved in the decision and deal-making process; British colonies such as Burma, India and their African possessions weren't, so they came much lower on the priority list. Making things even worse for eastern India was the experience the Brits had after Burma was invaded and the Japanese (suffering from desperate rice shortages) seized the entire supply of food for their own uses. The UK didn't want any more food to fall into their hands, and reduced shipments to the area - resulting in the Bengal Famine.
Lizzie Collingham covers this in "The Taste Of War" in a huge amount of detail if anyone's interested in the subject.
@@Raskolnikov70 And two years ago the secret classified British Cabinet papers from 1943 were released revealing that Winston Churchill asked for shipping capacity to be diverted to India and was refused by Washington.
Awesome first episode, can't wait for what's to come!
Great episode indeed!
Excellent diction, very well spoken, terrific job all the way around.
Thanks! Glad you liked it
Great video Anna!
*Women empowerment right here.*
Thanks to people like Anna & Indy, the next quarantined weeks of my life will be informative & knowledgeable.
Kudos!
Enjoy and stay safe!
Interesting episode! Puts into perspective how life was back then, and how insignificant our problems are now.
Very well done, Anna. Nice skill and insight into an overlooked part of the War. Ya know, if there was nobody left but Americans, inundated by Hollywood, to tell the story of the homefronts, we would be left thinking every day had a swing dance, every wife was a bombshell pinup and jazz music was blaring everywhere. Thanks!