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* AdventurerOutfit: Featured as part of the set dressing, a safari hat and brown coat can be seen draped over the Chair of Infinite Wisdom in the background behind Indy in Episode 42 - "Britain Votes to Leave".
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* DayOfTheJackboot: Episode 42 - "Britain Votes to Leave" covers the fall of Paris. After being declared an "open city" that will not resist the oncoming German forces in order to avoid destruction, on June 14, 1940, the Nazi swastika flys over the Arc de Triomphe followed by a military parade and a curfew imposed on the remaning citizenry of the city.
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* DayOfTheJackboot: Episode 42 - "Britain Votes to Leave" covers the fall of Paris. After being declared an "open city" that will not resist the oncoming German forces in order to avoid destruction, on June 14, 1940, the Nazi swastika flys over the Arc de Triomphe followed by a military parade and a curfew imposed on the remaning remaining citizenry of the city.
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* DayOfTheJackboot: Episode 42 - "Britain Votes to Leave" covers the fall of Paris. After being declared an "open city" that will not resist the oncoming German forces in order to avoid destruction, on June 14, 1940, the Nazi swastika flys over the Arc de Triomphe followed by a military parade and a curfew imposed on the remaning citizenry of the city.
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* GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks: The set is redressed with these for the "Nazis on Crystal Meth" special.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Episode 3 of the "War Against Humanity" - "The Strategy of Terror Bombing"[[labelnote:*]]The episode was originally titled "Bomb the Children".[[/labelnote]] discuses the deaths of civilians to strategic bombing campaigns, particularly the German Luftwaffe's destruction of schools and hospitals in Polish villages and towns and Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Episode 3 of the "War Against Humanity" - "The Strategy of Terror Bombing"[[labelnote:*]]The episode was originally titled "Bomb the Children".[[/labelnote]] discuses [[/labelnote]] discusses the deaths of civilians to strategic bombing campaigns, particularly the German Luftwaffe's destruction of schools and hospitals in Polish villages and towns and Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: In Episode 22 - "The Enigma of Germany's Wartime Economy" covering the week of January 26, 1940, Indy tells the story of Basil Reay, an Englishman working in the Egyptian Ministry of Education. On the 26th, Basil welcomes a daughter, Joy, into the world. That girl will go on to be Indy's mother.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: The Allies are not above strategic bombing of civilian targets and other warcrimes, as covered in the "War Against Humanity" series, but their enemies are the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan who each have massive laundry lists of crimes against humanity.
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* DeathFromAbove: Air forces deployed against ground targets is a critical aspect of the war. Scores of soldiers and civilians alike will die over the course of the conflict from bombs and strafing runs by aircraft machineguns and cannon.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hitler spares Warsaw from a specific request by Luftwaffe Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen[[labelnote:*]]Cousin to [[RedBaron/RealLife Manfred von Richthofen]], The RedBaron.[[/labelnote]] for a large scale experiment in terror bombing the city into complete annihilation. However, bombing continues and Hitler orders that no civilians be allowed to leave the city in order to speed its capitulation.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hitler spares Warsaw from a specific request by Luftwaffe Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen[[labelnote:*]]Cousin to [[RedBaron/RealLife Manfred von Richthofen]], The RedBaron.[[/labelnote]] for a large scale experiment in terror bombing the city into complete annihilation. However, bombing continues and Hitler orders that no civilians be allowed to leave the city in order to speed its capitulation.
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* TheGlovesComeOff: France, Britain, and Germany initially agree in 1939, at the behest of United States President Franklin Roosevelt, to avoid bombing campaigns on civilian targets. After the German bombing of Rotterdam, the Allies rescind this restriction and launch retaliatory raids on German cities and towns.
* GreatEscape: In September 1939, the Polish submarine ''ORP Orzeł'' was interned after taking port in neutral Estonia. Her crew stealthily sawed through the ropes holding the ship, disabled searchlights, overpowered guards and slipped away into the sea while under artillery fire.
* GreatEscape: In September 1939, the Polish submarine ''ORP Orzeł'' was interned after taking port in neutral Estonia. Her crew stealthily sawed through the ropes holding the ship, disabled searchlights, overpowered guards and slipped away into the sea while under artillery fire.
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* InnocentBystander: The millions of civilians who are caught up in the largest and deadliest global conflict in human history.
* AMillionIsAStatistic: The episodes emphasize constantly the massive toll in human lives the war extracts. Spartacus takes time in the "War Against Humanity" to remind the viewer that every single person dead was a full, complex human being who cannot be written off as a statistic and their loss was mourned by someone.
* AMillionIsAStatistic: The episodes emphasize constantly the massive toll in human lives the war extracts. Spartacus takes time in the "War Against Humanity" to remind the viewer that every single person dead was a full, complex human being who cannot be written off as a statistic and their loss was mourned by someone.
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Noted in the weekly episodes as they occur and given special attention and condemnation in the "War Against Humanity".
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: A bit of black humor by Winston Churchill after the Dunkirk evacuation and his famous "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" speech.
-->'''Churchill''': And we'll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that's bloody well all we've got!
-->'''Churchill''': And we'll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that's bloody well all we've got!
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* AuthorCatchphrase: Episode 40 - "Brexit at Dunkirk" sees the return of the CatchPhrase "This is modern war" from ''The Great War''.
-->'''Indy:''' Until May, 1940, they thought they knew what modern war involved, but ''this'', this is modern war.
-->'''Indy:''' Until May, 1940, they thought they knew what modern war involved, but ''this'', this is modern war.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''The Great War'' following the same weekly RealTime format with the same host and some of the people who founded the series.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: It's a documentaries series about World War 2, named ''World War Two''.
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* EveryEpisodeEnding: Every episode concludes with Indy thanking their supporters, asking for more support, and pointing at the camera, finishing with "[[SigningOffCatchPhrase See ya next time.]]"
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* OncePerEpisode: Every episode [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness except the first one]] begins with Indy in conversation at the phone on his desk, usually saying a few lines that foreshadow the content of the episode before hanging up. Every episode ends with Indy thanking their supporters, asking for more support, and pointing at the camera, finishing with "[[SigningOffCatchPhrase See ya next time.]]"
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* TalkingHeads: The primary style of the show is the host, usually Indy (Spartacus hosts the "War Against Humanity" series), sitting at a desk narrating about the events of the week with occasional cuts to StockFootage and maps and photographs.
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* BlackShirt: Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists, molded after the Italians following Mussolini. The Right Club is an assembly of fascist sympathizers formed by British Member of Parliment Archibald Ramsay. Some of their members are arrested for spying on the Allies.
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* BlackShirt: Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists, molded after the Italians following Mussolini. The Right Club is was an assembly of fascist sympathizers formed by British Member of Parliment Archibald Ramsay. Some of their members are were arrested for spying on the Allies.
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* BlackShirt: Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists, molded after the Italians following Mussolini. The Right Club is an assembly of fascist sympathizers formed by British Member of Parliment Archibald Ramsay. Some of their members are arrested for spying on the Allies.
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* BlackComedy: The journey of French general Maxime Weygand in May 1940 to organize a counterattack against the German invasion is described by Indy as descending into the realm of farce. A complicated shuffle around France and Belgium, involving Belgian King Leopold III, a stop at a country inn for an omelet, a perceived snub by a fellow commander, and a major army group left without anyone in charge in this time of major crisis needs a sidebar graphic to be made sense of.
* BombersOnTheScreen: The primary graphics of the series, along with StockFootage, are maps overlaid with symbols representing the units involved and shifting colored lines of battle as fronts advance and retreat. Animated (mostly) by [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCElybFZ60Hk1NSjgCf7I2sg Eastory]].
* CensoredTitle: Episode 39 - "The Allied Clusterf**k in France" covering the week of May 25, 1940.
* CensoredTitle: Episode 39 - "The Allied Clusterf**k in France" covering the week of May 25, 1940.
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: At the start of Episode 39 - "The Allied Clusterf**k in France" Indy has to make one of these over the phone, presumably over the Fall of France and the almost farcical shuffle in the Allied command while the Germans keep pushing into France and Belgium.
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* TheQuisling: Vidkun Quisling attempts to establish a fascist government in Norway, only to be brushed aside by Germany dealing with the legitimate government it has overthrown.
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* WarRefugees: Polish Refugees fleeing east from the September 1939 invasion by Germany are caught in a pincer by the simultaneous invasion from the east by the Soviet Union. In 1940 roads are clogged by French and Belgian civilians caught up in the German invasion of their countries. ''Eight million people'' are displaced in May 1940 by the war.
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* PleaseSubscribeToOurChannel: At the end of every episode, Indy asks the viewers to join the [=TimeGhost=] Army by subscribing and supporting them on their crowdfunding campaigns.
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* EyepatchOfPower: British Major-General Carton de Wiart, a veteran OldSoldier with [[CrazyAwesome/RealLife incredible exploits]] sports one of these.
* EyepatchOfPower: British Major-General Carton de Wiart, a veteran OldSoldier with [[CrazyAwesome/RealLife incredible exploits]] sports one of these.
* NewhartPhonecall: The nature of the phone calls that open the episodes, usually foreshadowing the events of the week.
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* ExtraLongEpisode: The episode on the German invasion of France was twice as long as a regular episode, slightly over twenty minutes instead of the usual ten.
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* BlitzEvacuees: Britain, fearing the German Luftwaffe, evacuated some people, particularly children, from some of her cities shortly after declaring war on Germany in 1939, but as the inactivity of the "Phoney War" set in they returned to their regular lives, only for the Blitz and Battle of Britain to take hold starting in 1940.
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* CrossOver: Special episodes featuring the curators of the Tank Museum have been produced, as well as a segment in "Out of the Foxholes" featuring Nicholas "The Chieftain" Moran where he answered a viewer question about anti-tank weapons.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: It's a documentaries series about World War 2, named ''World War Two''.
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* SeaMine: Britain littered the seas with naval minefields to blockade Germany. British shipping early in the war took heavy casualties from new, mysterious German mines. They were discovered to be magnetic when one of them was recovered and a countermeasure was developed.
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* TheXOfY: Indy's Chair of Infinite Knowledge.
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* RealTime: The format of the show, as with ''The Great War'', reports on the events of the war weekly to give the viewer an appreciation for the scale of six years of global conflict.
* WaistcoatOfStyle: Indy's costume for the series is a dark one of these worn over a white shirt with a red and black tie.
* WarIsHell: a central theme of the series as millions of people are killed in the war and untold suffering is unleashed on the world.
* WarIsHell: a central theme of the series as millions of people are killed in the war and untold suffering is unleashed on the world.
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* CoolChair: The Chair of Infinite Knowledge from which Indy answers viewer questions, continuing a tradition from ''The Great War'' of giving an impressive name to what is, as far as we know, just a comfortable chair.
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* FinalSolution: The Holocaust and other atrocities are covered in "War Against Humanity" episodes.
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* TheQuisling: Vidkun Quisling attempts to establish a fascist government in Norway, only to be brushed aside by Germany dealing with the legitimate government it has overthrown.
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* WinterWarfare: The appropriately named Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union was fought in snowdrifts, as was the invasion of Norway in 1940.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Indy does this a few times including in the first episode when he begins by saying that Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 began... The Polish-German War of 1939. Later, after months of Hitler planing to invade France, in May of 1940, an invasion happens... to Iceland, by the British.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Indy does this a few times including in the first episode when he begins by saying that Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 began... The Polish-German War of 1939. Later, after months of Hitler planing planning to invade France, in May of 1940, an invasion happens... to Iceland, by the British.
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* EyepatchOfPower: British Major-General Carton de Wiart, a veteran OldSoldier with [[CrazyAwesome/RealLife incredible exploits]] sports one of these.
* GreekChorus: Whoever is on the other end of the line of the telephone on Indy's desk. It was jokingly said to be the [[HauntedTechnology ghost]] of Conrad von Hötzendorf in a 2018 livestream, continuing a RunningGag from ''The Great War''. They are aware of events that have yet to unfold in the regular episodes such as when in Episode 035 - "Norway is Burning", covering April 1940, the introductory phone call has Indy being foretold about events upcoming in the life of British Major-General Carton de Wiart.
-->'''Indy''': Man, the future sounds adventurous.
* MoodWhiplash: It's jarring to hear Indy go from describing the horrors of the largest conflict in human history in grave tones to energetically pitching the [=TimeGhost=] crowdfunding campaigns that are needed to keep the lights on at the end of episodes.
* GreekChorus: Whoever is on the other end of the line of the telephone on Indy's desk. It was jokingly said to be the [[HauntedTechnology ghost]] of Conrad von Hötzendorf in a 2018 livestream, continuing a RunningGag from ''The Great War''. They are aware of events that have yet to unfold in the regular episodes such as when in Episode 035 - "Norway is Burning", covering April 1940, the introductory phone call has Indy being foretold about events upcoming in the life of British Major-General Carton de Wiart.
-->'''Indy''': Man, the future sounds adventurous.
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''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP1AejCL4DA7jYkZAELRhHQ World War Two]]'' is a Website/YouTube historical documentary series recapping the events of,[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well]], The UsefulNotes/SecondWorldWar as they happened in real time, week by week, exactly seventy-nine years after the events. It is hosted, written, and produced by the trio of Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, and Astrid Deinhard, who were part of the crew responsible for ''WebVideo/TheGreatWar'', with help from a crew of their own and in collaboration with other historians and youtubers.
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* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: As this series is effectively a sequel to ''The Great War'' with the same format and host but a different production company [=TimeGhost=] has had to rename some of the reused concepts such as "Out of the Trenches", a series about answering viewer questions, becoming "Out of the Foxholes" and Indy's Chair of Wisdom being replaced by the Chair of Infinite Knowledge.
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] as the RealLife situation of the War was much more complex than the "only dropped once" stereotypes and parodies. The BeleagueredBureaucrat nature of the overlapping Allied command structure contrasted with the German dictatorship is only one among many of the details the show tackles to illustrate the reasons for the Fall of France and combat post-war misconceptions about the effectiveness of the Maginot Line and French response to the invasion.
* BaitAndSwitch: Indy does this a few times including in the first episode when he begins by saying that Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 began... The Polish-German War of 1939. Later, after months of Hitler planing to invade France, in May of 1940, an invasion happens... to Iceland, by the British.
* OncePerEpisode: Every episode [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness except the first one]] begins with Indy in conversation at the phone on his desk, usually saying a few lines that foreshadow the content of the episode before hanging up. Every episode ends with Indy thanking their supporters, asking for more support, and pointing at the camera, finishing with "[[SigningOffCatchPhrase See ya next time.]]"
* ThoseWackyNazis: They're not wacky at all and their crimes and motivations are laid out with stark brutality in the series "War Against Humanity".
* WarIsHell: a central theme of the series as millions of people are killed in the war and untold suffering is unleashed on the world.
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* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: As this series is effectively a sequel to ''The Great War'' with the same format and host but a different production company [=TimeGhost=] has had to rename some of the reused concepts such as "Out of the Trenches", a series about answering viewer questions, becoming "Out of the Foxholes" and Indy's Chair of Wisdom being replaced by the Chair of Infinite Knowledge.
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] as the RealLife situation of the War was much more complex than the "only dropped once" stereotypes and parodies. The BeleagueredBureaucrat nature of the overlapping Allied command structure contrasted with the German dictatorship is only one among many of the details the show tackles to illustrate the reasons for the Fall of France and combat post-war misconceptions about the effectiveness of the Maginot Line and French response to the invasion.
* BaitAndSwitch: Indy does this a few times including in the first episode when he begins by saying that Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 began... The Polish-German War of 1939. Later, after months of Hitler planing to invade France, in May of 1940, an invasion happens... to Iceland, by the British.
* OncePerEpisode: Every episode [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness except the first one]] begins with Indy in conversation at the phone on his desk, usually saying a few lines that foreshadow the content of the episode before hanging up. Every episode ends with Indy thanking their supporters, asking for more support, and pointing at the camera, finishing with "[[SigningOffCatchPhrase See ya next time.]]"
* ThoseWackyNazis: They're not wacky at all and their crimes and motivations are laid out with stark brutality in the series "War Against Humanity".
* WarIsHell: a central theme of the series as millions of people are killed in the war and untold suffering is unleashed on the world.
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