The Broski Report with Brittany Broski - 58: Professor Broski Spills Tea on WWII

Episode Date: July 23, 2024

This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski shows off her wares from her trip to London, discusses her favorite war-based media, lists some surprising facts about WWII, and elaborates on the suppression of art under the Nazi Regime. 👕 Get your merch here: https://broski.shop/ Subscribe to the NEW Royal Court YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMSqyGyyqI_zWkyS22pk7bA Follow The Broski Report:https://www.linktr.ee/broskireporthttps://www.tiktok.com/@broskireport https://instagram.com/broskireport Follow Brittany:https://www.tiktok.com/@brittany_broski https://instagram.com/brittany_broski https://youtube.com/brittany_broski Follow Royal Court:https://www.tiktok.com/@bbroyalcourthttps://www.instagram.com/royalcourthttps://www.twitter.com/bbroyalcourt Brought To You By:Rocket Money – Go to https://rocketmoney.com/broskireport Tinder – Download the app nowFactor – Get discounts at https://factormeals.com/broski50 with code BROSKI50Songs of The Week: Northern Attitude by Noah Kahan (feat. Hozier)Apple by Charli XCX365 by Charli XCXMystery Train by Elvis PresleyRegister To Vote:Headcount – https://headcount.org Rock The Vote – https://rockthevote.org Some helpful credible resources/links to help Free Palestine:Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund - https://www.pcrf.net/UNICEF - https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/helping-gazas-children-cope-traumaDoctors Without Borders - https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/give-monthly-double-your-impact-search-onetime-reverse-mobile?ms=ADD2301U3U49&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BRAND.DWB_CKMSF-BRAND.DWB-GS-GS-ALL-DWBBrand.E-BO-ALL-RSA-RSARefresh.1-MONTHLY&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6PGxBhCVARIsAIumnWZpQAMikxPIRiPMfAjYsJZ-eHiRQV2pw7tu2Jlo6YL8Gk_uaTSwH0MaAtFGEALw_wcWorld Central Kitchen - https://wck.org/World Health Organization - https://www.who.int/Headcount - https://www.headcount.org/IG ACCOUNTS TO FOLLOW:@eye.on.palestine@aljazeeraenglish@palestinianyouthmovement@byplestia@motaz_azaiza@impact  CHAPTERS:00:00 - Intro00:36 - English Role in WWI Fixation01:38 - Housekeeping3:39 - History & Education9:29 - Dunkirk12:45 - Band of Brothers13:49 - Cigarette Cards from London20:42 - The U-Boat in Chicago23:18 - The Secret Life of Hitler25:49 - Nazi Counterfeit Money28:36 - Banned Art Museum32:21 - Destruction of Art38:31 - Banned Art Museum Cont. 40:39 - Government Classification41:44 - Banned Art Museum Cont. 50:03 - Songs of The Week & Outro#brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #bandofbrothers, #wwi, #wwii, #worldwar, #hitler, #artsupression, #london, #portobelloroad, #dunkirk, #harrystyles, #christophernolan, #art, #arthistory

Direct from the Brozky Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California. This is the Brozky Report with your host, Brittany Brozky. Now, now, see, we'll have order in this court order. Brookesky Nation, we've got some things to address today. And whether you like it or not, I am a student of history, and I love history, and I love learning about history. And whether you like it or not, I've got a load of laundry going as well. So if you hear that, that's what's going on in the background. Guys, I've been back on my bullshit.

I've been way, way just fist deep into World War II lore, you know, because it was World War I at first. I had a real vested interest in the English sort of, the English presence in World War I. And when I was in the UK and I went to the Imperial War Museum and I went to Churchill's war rooms, Oh, that was fucking cool. That was cool, okay?

But you guys don't want to hear about that. I'm here to talk to you today more so about everything I've – it's tea time. It's war tea time, okay? Because I'm not here to retell history to you. I want to give you the interesting facts that I have learned recently that are sort of off the beaten path. They're not really brought up. They're going to be included more so in like, you know, top 20 things you didn't know about World War II. number one, like that sort of shit, okay?

That's where I'm going to give you here today. But before we launch into that, some housekeeping things for us today, Bro Ski Nation, we've got, um, first and foremost, I want to announce to you, there's a new YouTube channel. We are launching a new YouTube channel. Clap it up, clap it up.

I want to hear some claps. Take your hands off the fucking wheel. I want to hear some claps. We're launching on a YouTube channel for Royal Court. Okay? A lot of back-in stuff going on here. I am happy to announce the launch of the Royal Court YouTube channel. Go ahead and find it.

There is a new episode this week with a very special guest. So go subscribe to that. And every Royal Court episode from now on will be posted on there. And we're going to try to get them up as we get them. You know what I mean? Because we were trying to do this weird thing before. We were like, once a month. But if we don't have them backlog, then we can't do it.

So now it's like, go there. And I'm going to let you know every time there's a new one, okay? Now that, what else? Oh, I have a big fucking zip! I have a big fucking zet on my mouth. That's the second major update. Got a big fucking goiter right here on my lip that's just growing, it's growing in strength and power by the day.

Okay? There is a town of little creatures living under my skin. Just, yes, master, yes, master. And they're toiling away. They're working. It's finally getting hot here. And I like to keep my house on. about 68 degrees.

But today, it's really just not working. Okay, like I said, order, order in this court. Everybody be seated here. They'll show the program's about to begin. Order, order. Okay. So here's what I really want to talk to you guys about. Well, actually, let me, no, I'm going to launch into this,

and then at the end, I'll get into what I missed from last week, okay? Did I just bite my tongue? Yeah, I did. You bite your own tongue. fucking ow Okay I have started watching Band of Brothers

Okay and if Can I just say something also If you guys are like Oh I don't want to hear about history Fucking grow up Grow up Maybe you might learn something Open your ears

And open your eyes And shut your little lips And you might learn something Okay Because I'm not like I said This is my approach If I was going to be a professor Of anything

It would probably be language Okay, I would probably, once I'm at a level of fluency of Spanish that lends itself to, you know, having a really niche interest in the language, which I do have, but I've been kind of lax in my studies recently. I'm finally back into doing my lessons with, you know, Maddie's Mundo, my professor, of course. at a much later stage in my life, after I've traveled the world a bit more, learned a lot more history, and just have all around more wisdom and more life experience, I would love to actually get my master's and then my doctorate in the Spanish language. And a specific sort of area would be phonetics, like Spanish phonetics. I would really love to do that. So putting on that cap for a second of every day we live on this planet is an opportunity to learn.

and to grow as humans and to be more culturally aware and culturally informed. So if I were to be a professor of anything, specifically it would be Spanish, but of anything, I think the mark of a great instructor, of a great teacher, is you make what you're saying into a story, you make it compelling, and you tell it as if, you know, it's the next episode of a TV show. you have to approach history in that way because it was lived day by day by the people who, you know, survived it. And if you tell it in that sort of suspenseful narrative way, I think that that is really what I enjoy as a student is being able to put yourself into the storyline and imagine how would I have reacted? How would I have, you know, what would me and my family would have, what would we have done? And so I think that that's the true tell of a great teacher is how do you keep your audience engaged?

How do you keep them on the edge of their seat? Like, and what happened next? What happened next? Because you'll remember it better that way as well. And I, you know, we've all had horrible instructors who are just there to collect a paycheck and move on. And even worse, maybe they're being paid to be a teacher or an instructor. and then they just make you read the fucking PowerPoint. I lived through that in college and in high school.

Or you just get there and they're just reading words on a screen. You're not teaching me anything. You know, what is the benefit of having a real life person, a quote unquote expert in this field who is qualified and trained to teach the youth this topic? And you're going to sit up there and read off of a PowerPoint to me? I can fucking do that. And so I think that the real impactful professors that I've had in my life have

made me care about the topic at hand, the way that they care about it. So that's kind of the approach that I want to take you today, okay, is I care about this because I find it very interesting, very interesting. And it's also the sort of underbelly of a more common, commonly discussed topic, which obviously World War II, very, okay, everyone knows about World War II, but these are facts where I'm like, oh damn, okay? All that to say. I started watching the show called Band of Brothers. This is an old TV show.

It's from like 2001. And the young gentleman in it are so... I don't even care. Because guess what? It's not about that. But is it important to bring up? No. But am I going to bring it up anyway?

Yeah. Because they're attractive. And it's like famous actors of today who are like 24 in this series. They're so young and they play young servicemen, which... Look, a tight fade and a uniform. I'm locked into that. Anyway, I watched Dunkirk with Stanley when he was here is what sparked this. I was like, you know, I've never seen Dunkirk.

I watched Oppenheimer in theaters like two or three times because I kept going with people because I really enjoyed it. I obviously love Killing Murphy and it's a star-studded cast, but I never gave much thought to any of the subject matter that Oppenheimer is about. I didn't know that there was a race for, you know, who was going to come out with the A-bomb first and how imperative it was that we beat the Germans to it, that sort of thing. So obviously watched Oppenheimer when it came out, we were talking about in the vein of Christopher Nolan films because I'm not really a film girl. Okay? I'm watching Iron Man too and I'm watching Shrek. That's kind of what I'm locked into. And Stanley was like, you've never seen Dunkirk?

And I was like, no, I haven't, which is shocking because for all the hairy girls out there, hello? I never saw Dunkirk. But I've seen everything I needed to see about the movie from the Harry Style Stan perspective. Like I've seen all the gifts, I've seen all the, whatever. And I finally watched it, and Stanley was like, oh, Harry's not even in the movie that much. Fucking liar, he's in it a lot.

He's one of the main fucking storylines. Anyway, really enjoyed it. And I also appreciate, and I'll get into all this here in a second, like the sort of specifics. But when it comes to telling stories of World War II, telling the story of whether it be a town, whether it be an individual,

whether it be a specific event from the timeline of World War II, the leaders, the government officials, whatever. What I appreciate about Dunkirk, which I think Christopher Nolan's talked about this ad nauseum, of course, for the whole idea behind the film, is that Dunkirk, by all means, was sort of a failure. And if you're not, let me sort of paint the picture.

This is in France. Okay, we're in northern France. Okay, so this happened between May 26th and June 4th of 1940. Basically, what's happened here is the German troops have pinned the Allied troops in northern France. They are completely blocked off. They're pushed to the beach, and they're literally sequestering on the beach awaiting help. They have no air support. The Germans are pushing in from the land and they're stuck there. It's Allied forces. It's English, maybe some American and French. And they're stuck there,

just sitting ducks, waiting. And as they're waiting to be picked up by these boats that are being bombed as they're coming into shore, so they're watching their help sink. It's German air raids. It's literally a dire situation. Dunkirk is this story of what could be and is considered a military failure where they ended up having to be evacuated and the evacuations were few and far in between. Churchill asked for like 30 to 40,000 troops to be evacuated. There were 400,000 on the beach. And the ships are coming in and as they're being loaded and leaving the French beach, they're being bombed and sinking. And so now all those soldiers are having to swim back to shore.

The injured, there's dead. I mean, just awful. So the story of Dunkirk is that civilian vessels, just English citizens, just English people who happen to live on the coast, you know, because England and France are extremely close, taking their own personal civilian boats and sailing to Dunkirk and picking up the soldiers and taking them back to safety, you know, quote unquote safety, to England. And it's a really beautiful story of humanity, of loss, of, you know, re-stratogizing, and what could have been an all-out massacre. And so I appreciate the storytelling from that perspective of these soldiers were going home,

feeling like they failed, feeling almost like survivors guilt. You know, I got out. But as these air raids would come over the beach, it was just a waiting game. This person you were just talking to, you know, are they going to get blown up? Are they going to get shot? Are they going to, are you going to be one of the lucky ones that makes it onto the boat? So obviously Dunkirk is so good. It's a great movie and I enjoyed it.

But yeah, what a scary feeling of you get back home and you feel like a failure. And you're arriving home and the English public is calling you, a hero and you're like, I'm not a hero. You know, like the kids that died overseas are a hero, are heroes. So it's just very, like, wow, what an interesting perspective to tell the story from. Yeah, so I really enjoyed it. So that sort of kicked me off on this thing of like, okay, now I'm in this war mindset because y'all remember way back when I was really just hyper fixated on

World War I? Well, we're back. We're right back here. So now, in that vein, started watching Band of Brothers, which is Harold it is one of these like really important, well done honoring World War II TV shows. And I think it's only one season and it's 10 episodes, but the episodes are the long. And each episode starts out with real World War II veterans opening up the tone of the episode of sort of what the episode's going to be about. And all the characters in the show are based on our portrayals of real commanders and captains and privates and lieutenants or whatever and the uh u.s paratroopers their u.s. paratroopers which means they jumped out of planes okay so been watching band of brothers very very beautiful men

very beautiful men in this show can't feel the need to go ahead and tell you that right now if you're interested in the aesthetics and that sort of thing and very very beautiful men to look at now before i get into what I want to teach y'all about today. I want to show you a cool thing I found when we were in London. Me and Katie were in London about two, three, four weeks ago. We went to Portobello Road Market, which is this cute little outdoor market. I know it's very touristy. Whatever, dude, I found some really cool shit there.

And I want to show you all these things I bought. Number one, we stumbled across this girl who had this tent setup that was all. all cigarette cards. And I'm thinking, what the fuck is a cigarette card? And like, they're selling sigs over there? No, it's cigarette cards. And it's completely set up all these different ones. And I go, what are these?

And she explains it to us, and she included this whole thing on the back. That says, cigarette cards were originally used as stiffeners in soft packs of cigarettes from the 1880s onwards. The concept developed into issuing them in series of 25 and 50, covering themes that would appeal to men. For example, military, sport, transport, and for women, flowers and costume.

The idea being to encourage them to collect the full set. The advent of war in 1939 stopped production and the impetus was lost, although the hobby remained popular. In recent times, there's been a resurgence of interest, now for their decorative qualities, leading to the reissue of favorite subjects. Okay, so that is what a,

cigarette card is and they're they're hard they're like cardstock and they would basically be in the cartons of cigarettes that sometimes I believe they'd be part of war rations for the soldiers and it would keep the pack stiff so if it got wet if it whatever you know the cigarettes wouldn't bend and so these are them I don't these aren't like from the war but they're from wartime these are from 1938 uh right here and she's got it displayed on the back and what the explanation is for each of them. And I got this one right here. If you can, if you can zoom in on that,

if you want to show that, that is World War I and World War II military aircraft. That's what this is going to be, okay? From 1938, I just think that's so fucking cool. This is so cool. And we came across this and I was like, these are really from the 30s? And she was like, yeah.

And I said, where do you get these? She was like, we trade them. It's literally, it's a very lucrative sort of trade she was told us about? I said, that's crazy. So one of these, I mean, what does it say up front? Will's cigarettes. We've got a submarine, supermarine spitfire fighter right here. And it says, although no exact performance figures can be quoted for the sub-supermarine spitfire, single-seat fighter, which is in production and will shortly go into service in the RAF, it is definitely the fastest fighting aeroplane in the world.

The Spitfire is a low-wing cantilever monoplane, and it goes into the sort of whatever. But this is, it's from wartime. How fucking neat is that? And they're all English. Okay, so that's one I got. And then this is the other one. Now, this one is cool. This one's from

1939, and it's Hollywood starlets. Okay? So they're film stars. It's part of the film stars beauty line. This one in the middle right here is Marlene Dietrich. which was a famous fan favorite of servicemen. And, yeah, on the back, this is from 1939.

How cool is that, y'all? So I got this. A series of real photographs now being issued with these cigarettes, Carreras Limited. Arcadia Works, London, England. Just real, real neat. So I'm going to frame these, and I don't know, I don't know, okay? And I also got this thing from that market that says, it's a little plaque and it says

England expects that every man will do his duty in the war effort which is enlist in the draft. I also got this gold thing here which I haven't really talked about. It says bullshit corner. That's staying right there. Okay? Because you've entered the bullshit corner. Anyway Yeah, those are my fines from the market. Now let's get into the T that I wanted

to tell y'all which it's not, this is like tea on World War II what are you talking about? Okay, so basically to set the scene, I just want to, I want to share this experience because I told you I went to the war rooms, Churchill's war rooms in London, fucking crazy. And then when I was in Chicago a few years ago, we went to, I forget which museum it is. It's one of those like not science and something museums, like natural science museum. And in this museum, nuts, it's going to give me like scary chills thinking about it. There is a real German U-boat that was captured. A U-boat is a type of submarine.

And these were so scary, deadly, and caused a lot of damage. One was captured, I believe by American forces, drug all the way back to, I think, the continental U.S., and then eventually, you know, restored and whatever, and now it sits in this museum in Chicago. And it was an exhibit completely built around it, and they walk you through it and sort of paint what life would have been like on this U-boat

and what happened when it was captured and how much intelligence was gained by the American military when they captured it. You can go inside of it. A Nazi U-boat, you can go inside of it, and it is chilling. On the wall next to it, they have like, one of the original Nazi flags it was on it's just chilling it's like I don't you read about this

shit in history books and you hear about it but like being there looking at it it was it was like a chilling isn't even the right word it's like oh this is evil it is pure evil and I've never laid my eyes on pure evil like that before and so we went through and got a little tour and of course I had to ask is it haunted because these people who work in the museums I'm sure they hear shit. And she was like, oh, yeah, for sure. The girl who gave us the tour, she was like, oh, for sure. I've had children who have been with, you know, their families or whatever who take them to the museum claim that they see things. They're like, who's that man on the top of the boat? And then everyone's like, what man? And its little kids being like, who's that man? What? So, of course it's on it.

of course it has horrible, horrible negative energy attached to it. But yeah, just very, very interesting. So in that vein of just chilling evil sort of things, I was watching this documentary recently about the sort of hidden secret life of Hitler. And because we obviously know his hypocrisy knows no bounds. And he was truly one of the, if not, the most evil man to ever live. he portrayed himself as the pinnacle of mental and physical strength and health. But there was a completely opposite, true history that was untold, which was he was a tweaker.

He was a fucking tweaker. He was reliant on so many different, I think, falsely prescribed injections and pills and tonics. pills and potions that like sort of kept him ticking. He had high blood pressure. He had high cholesterol. He had a, I think a heart attack. If not had a heart attack, then he was, he had heart condition. All these things.

Also, not even to mention the fact that the whole like Aryan shit, he wasn't even, he wasn't even German. First of all, he was Austrian. And he was a brunette. And he didn't have blue eyes. Well, all this shit. I just, you know, this documentary basically was talking about how many different things he was on. And here's the biggest tea of all that you bitches don't know is that Hitler was off

the gas station dick pill. He was prescribed dick pills. And he had IBS. Hitler was shitting. He was pooping himself. It was characterized as aggressive flatulence. That's what he had. How are you going to be hateful, fat, old, and you're farting? And you're farting blood? Cringe How are you going to be one of the most evil men alive And then also have diarrhea Just The fuck

This doc was insane This documentary I watched It was like all of these ailments That plagued him We were so close to Hitler being a He could have been an Elvis He could have shit himself to death Maybe that's what happened

We'll never know Hitler if you shit yourself to death That wouldn't have been torture enough Okay so that was one of the first ones is that his health and mental health was rapidly deteriorating to the point where he like shook, uh, into his 50s, obviously before fucking killed himself. He, he was rapidly declining, which is just like, I've found very interesting. Okay, second thing that I kind of wanted to Google with y'all is, um, Hitler had counterfeit money printed for the Great British pound, like for British currency. Counterfeit money. because he attempted to, like, destroy the economy of Great Britain. And I'm like, I didn't know that. So let's Google that.

Operation Bernhard, there was a name for it, was an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge British banknotes. The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse of the British economy during the Second World War. The first phase was run from early 1940 by the... Cyker Haight-Thainst. under the title Underham and Andreas.

The unit successfully duplicated the rag paper used by the British, produced near identical engraving blocks, and deduced the algorithm used to create the alphanumeric serial code on each note. The unit closed in early 1942, after its head fell out of favor with his superior

officer, Reinhardt Hydrant. What? And they did it at concentration camps. Like they were stamping and printing this counterfeit money using concentration camps to do it. That's nuts. I didn't know. I don't know if it was successful, though. So the guy hid at his home until November 1946 when he handed himself over to the British authorities. Forging an enemy's currency was not a war crime, so he faced no charges. He was detained until early 1947 when he was handed over to the French. They attempted to persuade him to forge passports for

them, but he refused. He was released in November 1948. He underwent a D-Nazi-Nazi-Feworthy. He underwent a D-Nazi process during which statements were produced from the forger inmates whose lives he had been responsible for saving. What? Examples of counterfeits from Operation Bernhardt have appeared at auction and have been sold through dealers for a higher face value than the original five pounds. There are also examples of the notes in the Museum of the National Bank of Belgium and the Bank of England Museum. The International Spy Museum holds an example of an Operation Burnhart printing plate. What's the International Spy Museum? Where is it?

It's in D.C. I want to go here? It's in D.C. Visitors received the conclusion to their undercover mission of a debriefing center, including a performance debrief that summarizes their top spy skills.

Oh my God, I want to do it so bad. You get assigned a mission, like a fake mission? Oh, yeah, we're doing that. We're doing that, we're doing that. holy shit, that's cool. Okay. Yeah, so that's nuts. I didn't know they printed fake money.

And now apparently it's worth a lot. So the next thing I want to talk about is the concept of the banned art museum by Hitler in Germany. And this was supposed to display how degenerate and rotten these art pieces were and, like, detest everything that they represented. Meanwhile, there were plenty of museums that offered, you know, Reich approved art that the public could go admire. But, of course, when this shit opened, everyone flocked to it because they want to go see the band art. It's the sort of macabre, you know, if it's denounced, if it's not allowed, that makes you want to see it more. So, this kind of backfired on Hitler because he wanted to use it as a public display of what not. to do, but it ended up creating way more viewers, way more viewers and eyeballs on it than if he had

never done it at all. Anyway, there's a whole separate discussion here that I think I've briefly mentioned before on an episode of the suppression of art under the Nazi regime and how a lot of famous major works of art were stolen and were hid away for his personal gain, his personal enjoyment and some of them were destroyed. Some of them were, yeah, it was a really strange thing to do in a time of war. And I'm sure you've seen that photo of the bricks placed in a protective pattern around the statue of David in Florence, Italy. I believe the statue is still in the same place it was during wartime.

And they did this to protect it from German bombing from the Blitz. and yeah, those pictures are really interesting of everything that was built around it, and it came out unscathed, so really lucky in that regard. But, yeah, Hitler had this weird thing of, like, suppressing what he considered modernist art. What is it specifically? All modern art was considered degenerate by the National Socialist Party, the Nazis. Expressionism was particularly singled out. In 1937, German museums were purged of modern art by the government.

a total of some 15,000 works being removed. And this is from the Tate, the Tate Museum, which is a very famous museum in England. A selection of these was then put on show in Munich in an exhibition titled In Tarté Kunst. This was carefully staged so as to encourage the public to mock the work. At the same time, an exhibition was held of traditionally painted and sculpted work, which extolled the Nazi party and Hitler's view of the virtues of German life. Kinder, Kuch, Kurche, roughly, family, home, and church.

Ironically, this official Nazi art was a mirror image of the socialist realism of the hated communists. Some of the degenerate art was sold at auction in Switzerland in 1939, and more was disposed of through private dealers. About 5,000 items were secretly burned in Berlin later that year. The Sick Child by Edward Munch, who everyone knows the Sikh. scream by Edward Munch. Munk is now in the Tate collection, which it was sold at the 1939 auction.

Crazy. Burning art. And like, I just this is, I think I talked about this last week, too, of when it comes to destruction of what I consider a collective, human,

this is going to come out choppy, but like I hope you understand my meaning here. Like, one of the worst things I can imagine is an individual or a small group destroying what belongs to the collective human archive. Do you know what I mean? Like when a very old, very famous piece of art is destroyed, I feel a sense of loss that is not even selfishly for me or like my

lineage, I feel a sense of loss for humanity in general of when something like, you know, the Notre Dame Cathedral is destroyed or when a very famous work by a very famous artist is destroyed. You cannot never get that back. And it is the most selfish thing imaginable to deny other humans what that is, it is an innately human thing to enjoy and to appreciate and to learn from art and literature and creative works of humans past. It is so selfish. It truly makes me emotional. When you go to a different country or even in America, when anytime the conversation of censorship or burning media,

burning books, banning books, banning art, stealing art, destroying art, anything like that is, it's just unimaginable to me because without that at our core, what are we as humans? What have we contributed to the world, if not art? If the entire human experience cannot be described as art, a performance of art, then what is it? and when we destroy it out of some heated selfish act or out of some political message, the only people that suffer are future generations because they have less to learn from and they are doomed even more to repeat the mistakes of our past. It just makes me so emotional and honestly learning about,

because there are chapters in every art history book that will, touch on how detrimental that period of time was in the 40s. Like the Nazi destruction of communal art, it's horrible.

And it is, you know. And something else should be said about how everything today is digitized. Everything is digital. And all of our, not all, but like our art in today's age

is in the cloud. And I feel justified in saying that I don't particularly understand exactly how the cloud or clouds work. And it's very scary to think that if that crashed or if a server crashed or this Microsoft blackout that just happened, how fragile it really is when it's all of our memories and it's everything. you know, one could suggest that someone's entire life, because we no longer have physical photographs or scrapbooks, these are sort of art forms that have been thrown to the wayside in favor of a digital scrapbook of our lives. You know, a digital archive of our lives.

When that goes down, what do we have? And maybe that makes me a very sentimental, you know, you know, physical person that I love physical memories and I love concert tickets and I love knickknacks and I love this reminds me of that trip that we took to wherever or here's the playbook from my first ever Broadway show or here's my sister's high school graduation, you know, commencement trip trifold thing. I just, I am very attached to physical things and so I think that might, Do you understand what I'm saying?

It's also a strange thing in the context of like hyper-consumerism where we all just want to shop, shop, shop, and buy, buy, buy, buy, buy. But none of those things have meaning. None of those things have a sentimental value. To have things just because they're trendy or because they were expensive does not endear them to you. It is a wealth status symbol. And I think that the wealthiest you could really be is

being rich with memories and people who you love and reminders of how much you love those people and the good times that you've had. I think that that's a truly wealthy man, a truly wealthy person. So anyway, yeah, that shit's crazy. That shit is nutso to me. That he had this band art museum and it was supposed to be teaching the public a whatnot to do and it completely backfired because of course people want to go see, and I want to know what was in it. What was in the Intartetic Kunst? The Nazi's inventory of degenerate art. I think this is from the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The Victorian Albert holds the only document detailing the full extent of the Nazi's systematic purging of German museums and public collections from 1937. created at the heart of the Nazi regime by Joseph Goebbels Ministry of Propaganda, which is nuts, by the way, which I touched on that a little bit in my art history video that I did on YouTube, talking about World War I and how all these countries developed a propaganda department. Go watch that if you haven't. The document records the confiscation of more than 16,000 works of art, which the Nazis deemed degenerate. A selection of the seized paintings, drawings, and sculptures was shown. at the infamous degenerate art exhibition, which opened in Munich in 1937 and subsequently

toured across the Reich. The document details the confiscations themselves, and it also sheds light on how the Nazis extracted value from the art they despised. Artworks were sold abroad to raise funds for the regime, or were exchanged for objects that did not violate the Nazi's aesthetic sensibilities. Most of the remaining works of art were destroyed in a bonfire held in the courtyard of the Berlin Fire Department, echoing the public burning of books in 1933 that were considered to be incompatible with Nazi values. I can't think of anything scarier. That's fucking terrifying. There's nothing scarier than burning books than burning the public's access to information. You know, that's also why I'm, I've talked about Chernobyl on here as well.

Chernobyl, Chernoble, Sher Noble. Sunny and Sherry. I've talked about that before of how interesting it is to me the extent to which a government is willing to lie and classify information for so long. We know governments lie. We know government officials lie. We know that we are kept with wool over our eyes and in the dark. But Chernobyl was an example of how severe and how truly terrifying and evil these people have to be to want to save. face more than save their country. Like, save the people of their country. Like, actually how devastating the effects of the share-noble nuclear disaster was. And, like, they lied to these people. You'll be able to return home in two weeks, you know, just get on a bus, get out of here, you'll be back in two weeks. Never to return. Never to return. Damn near 50 years later, will never, never,

will probably be inhabitable ever again. Anyway, exhibiting degeneracy. After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Germany's new rulers organized so-called condemnation exhibitions across the right. These would ultimately serve as the blueprint for the 1937 Munich exhibition. The exhibitions, which had titles such as

Chamber of Terror, Art in the Service of Subversion, and Degenerate Art, were united by. a common theme. They denounced works of art which were interpreted as an attack against the German people and as symptoms of a cultural decline inextricably associated with liberal democracy. The exhibitions argued that this art had been nurtured by those politicians who had betrayed Germany by signing the Versailles Treaty, which was the peace treaty that ended World War I. Condemming Germans to a life in servitude to outside forces and who had thereafter promoted

utterly destructive social and cultural trends. Many of the artworks displayed in these early exhibitions would later be confiscated in 1937, recorded on the inventory and displayed in the Munich's exhibition. Such pieces included Otto Dix's anti-war paintings. Yo! Oh, that's crazy! Otto Dix's anti-war paintings that depicted the gruesome reality of trench warfare and the emotionally and physically crippled veterans it produced.

These were denounced as an attack on the honor of the German soldiers and an assault on their heroic memory. What? Now, if you all haven't seen my YouTube video, I literally kind of teach about this, that Otto Dix was an incredibly important war art historian, truly. I mean, he was a record keeper. If you want to think about art, historical art in that sense of it is a record keeping to a certain. extent of the time. And if it's not a historically accurate retelling, then it is definitely a sort of screenshot of the emotional impact of the war at that time. So, you know, it's like when we've talked about things like paintings that are commissioned by Napoleon or commissioned by

the king of whatever country, that you can't really trust that to be an accurate portrayal, because of course it's influenced by the person in power and how they want the moment to be remembered. So always taking these pieces of art with a grain of salt. But with Otto Dix, his thing was really portraying the emotion of what it was like to be on the front lines, to be in trench warfare, to have lived and survived this incredibly traumatic world event that he happened to be a part of. Otto Dix, I want to say he was, not Otto Dix, Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway, was a medic? He was a medic in Italy? Ernest Hemingway World War I.

Medic? I'm so smart. Hemingway, during the First World War, Ernest Hemingway volunteered to serve in Italy as an ambulance driver with the American Red Cross. In June 1918, while running a mobile canteen dispensing chocolate and cigarettes for soldiers, He was wounded by Austrian mortar fire. Crazy! Anyway, yeah, Aldo Dix was incredibly important, and his paintings have helped us contextualize

and paint a more accurate picture of what that lived experience was like. And I'll show you one of his famous ones. This is one of his most famous. This is called Stormtroopers advance under a gas attack. Stormtroopers were... German soldiers. And like I've talked about here before, biological warfare was becoming, it was being introduced into the conversation. Mustard gas was a major tactic used in World War I that caused a temporary blindness and oftentimes permanent blindness, if exposed to it for too long,

that would just incapacitate the enemy, you know, the opposing side. And it was the introduction of these gas masks that resembled skulls or these sort of alien, terrifying faces that are advancing towards you during an already chaotic, traumatic environment. And that must have invoked such horror, such horror, never having seen it before. And so, yeah, he portrayed them a lot. So the fact that these, you know, quote unquote,

accurate portrayals of what it must have felt like having these soldiers advance on you. These sort of works being hung up in a museum to be painted as lies is nuts. It's nuts. Oh my God, this shit interests me. It is so compelling to me. Like, what the fuck? That's also why I studied communication in school because the extent of persuasion and propaganda and being a skilled orator.

and just humans' ability to influence other humans is so scary to me. And to bring it back to a very personal basis, it's why I really, really struggle with having an audience sometimes because I don't think that I'm any more deserving of any one person where I should have the ear of this many people, you know, and that people should give a shit what I have to say because I know how powerful that is. and it's terrifying to think that I could use it incorrectly

or that I ever have used it incorrectly. It's just such an interesting topic to study of the ways that historically it's been used for good and it's been used for evil, just pure evil. So, okay, this is from the Victoria and Albert website as well. Another tactic, which would also be employed in the 1937 exhibition, was to juxtapose this degenerate art with pieces which did not violate the Nazi's aesthetic sensibilities.

These were artworks from a time before the cultural rot was said to have set in, or which was composed by artists seen to have resisted its poisonous temptations. Some of these works would feature in the German art exhibition, which took place only a short walk away from this art exhibition, inviting visitors to compare the best and worst the art world had to offer. Nuts. Also, in this context, feel the need to say that Hitler was a failed art student. Like he wasn't, right?

He like dropped out of art school or he wasn't allowed into the art school that he wanted to be in in Austria. So this probably, I mean, there's, it's Little Man syndrome of just, you, because someone determined that, someone came to the conclusion that you were not good enough, you now, in your position of authority,

get to determine which art is real and not real, which art is considered good and bad. And you get the final say on that. Like, it's just a claim for, Just nuts. This whole shit is nuts. The ego of man knoweth no bounds, but it will always knoweth a fall.

Wow. Okay. So that's kind of going to do it for me in the sort of like historical hyperfixation thing right now. I'm going to keep watching Band of Brothers because it's real good so far. Very sad. Obviously, any war retelling of a war story

is very sad because you see the camaraderie, and then you see the camaraderie be ripped away by just instant and tragic death. And I also, it's interesting now to watch these sort of things and enjoy it, but also be like, oh, this is American military propaganda. It's hard, I will say, though, when it comes to World War II stuff, it's hard not to be kind of patriotic

because I'm like, damn, we really showed up and showed out. In that context, of course. And that goes with, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, anyway, my songs are the, week are, I'm back on Northern Attitude by Noah Conn and Hozier. That one, it's just going to do it for me every time. I do love that one. It's going to do it for me every time. We're also doing Apple by Charlie, of course, Apple by Charlie XX, of course, and I love, my favorite is 365. Okay, that's going to be my

go-to every time. That's going to get the party started. Apple is great. Everyone's going to do the dance, but 365, that's going to do it for me every time. Bumping that. Bumpin that. Okay, happy summer to all who celebrate. And my third song is going to be Mystery Train by Elvis. I'm back on my Elvis kick. I'm back on the Elvis kick, just a little bit. One of his songs came on shelf the other day, and I was like, damn, mystery train is such a good song. So go check that out if you have not. Like I said, new Royal Court channel. So go subscribe to that. Also subscribe to this channel, if you're watching this on YouTube. And if you're not, go check us out on YouTube. We've got videos up.

new episodes of Brosky Report every Tuesday I promise next week probably won't be as history focused but Lord knows, okay? What else? Go get your merch if you'd like merch for the Brookesky Report, broskey.shop. Go get you a moo-moo. I've got my...

This is not Brookey. Dot Moomoo. My beautiful Halloween black cat moo-moo. And I think that'll do it for me, guys. Thanks so much for listening to me, Yap. I just getting here off the Premier Protein and the Red Bull X ice water combination. And I just sort of just start yapping. And I really appreciate anyone who listens to these to completion.

It means a lot to me. So I love y'all. Thank you all. And seriously, I'll see you next week. Okay, bye-bye.