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James Holland

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

The Nazi ideology and people, you know, I've read it that historians will go, if only Hitler had realized that, you know, the Ukrainians have been quite happy to kind of fight on his side.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You know, if only he'd actually brought some of these Jewish scientists and kind of into the Nazi fold, then Germany might have prevailed in World War Two. And you kind of think you're missing the entire point. That's just never going to happen because this is an ideological war.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You know, if only he'd actually brought some of these Jewish scientists and kind of into the Nazi fold, then Germany might have prevailed in World War Two. And you kind of think you're missing the entire point. That's just never going to happen because this is an ideological war.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You know, if only he'd actually brought some of these Jewish scientists and kind of into the Nazi fold, then Germany might have prevailed in World War Two. And you kind of think you're missing the entire point. That's just never going to happen because this is an ideological war.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You know, if only he'd actually brought some of these Jewish scientists and kind of into the Nazi fold, then Germany might have prevailed in World War Two.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

And you kind of think you're missing the entire point.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

That's just never going to happen because this is an ideological war.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Yes, except that when you're making military decisions... if those decisions are always being bracketed by an ideology which is fundamentally flawed from a pragmatic point of view as much as a kind of... Ethical. You know, a kind of reasonable point of view, you're kind of opening yourselves up for trouble. I mean, this is a problem he has with Barbarossa.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Yes, except that when you're making military decisions... if those decisions are always being bracketed by an ideology which is fundamentally flawed from a pragmatic point of view as much as a kind of... Ethical. You know, a kind of reasonable point of view, you're kind of opening yourselves up for trouble. I mean, this is a problem he has with Barbarossa.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Yes, except that when you're making military decisions... if those decisions are always being bracketed by an ideology which is fundamentally flawed from a pragmatic point of view as much as a kind of... Ethical. You know, a kind of reasonable point of view, you're kind of opening yourselves up for trouble. I mean, this is a problem he has with Barbarossa.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Yes, except that when you're making military decisions...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

If those decisions are always being bracketed by an ideology which is fundamentally flawed from a pragmatic point of view as much as a kind of – Ethical.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You know, a kind of reasonable point of view, you're kind of opening yourselves up for trouble.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

I mean, this is a problem he has with Barbarossa.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You know, they realized very early on in 1941... when they're wargaming this whole operation, that it's not going to work. And so, you know, there's people like General Paulus, who was on the general staff at the time. You know, he's given a kind of, you know, he's in charge of kind of wargaming this. And he goes, this isn't going to work.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You know, they realized very early on in 1941... when they're wargaming this whole operation, that it's not going to work. And so, you know, there's people like General Paulus, who was on the general staff at the time. You know, he's given a kind of, you know, he's in charge of kind of wargaming this. And he goes, this isn't going to work.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You know, they realized very early on in 1941... when they're wargaming this whole operation, that it's not going to work. And so, you know, there's people like General Paulus, who was on the general staff at the time. You know, he's given a kind of, you know, he's in charge of kind of wargaming this. And he goes, this isn't going to work.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You know, they realized very early on in 1941 –

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

when they're wargaming this whole operation, that it's not going to work.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

And so, you know, there's people like General Paulus, who was on the general staff at the time.