Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

At the end of WWII a group of French POWs went looking for help and ended up taking part in one of the weirdest battles in military history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32622651 https://www.historynet.com/the-battle-for-castle-itter.htm https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/itter-castle-strangest-battle-world-war-ii-152721

When the nazis stormed into Poland at the opening stages of World War II it was not soldiers, trench lines, or pill boxes that they had to conquer first. Instead, it was the Danzig Post Office. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/employees-danzig-post-office-fought-germans-15-hours-invasion-poland-captured htmlhttps://libcom.org/history/defence-polish-post-office-danzig https://web.archive.org/web/20060502021616/http://www.1939.pl/epizody/poczta_gdansk.htm

Rwanda invades Congo using a fleet of hijacked planes to spark the Second Congo War. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://warisboring.com/bomb-the-other-side-of-the-runway/ https://www.economist.com/international/1998/09/03/heading-for-an-african-war https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/08/25/angola-sends-thousands-of-troops-to-back-kabila/c5da7c99-0f4a-469a-8a32-a74d46b79a0d/ https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/10/world/pilot-s-account-seems-to-confirm-rwanda-role-in-congo-strife.html

A group of nazis, KKK, and gangsters Voltron together to come up with the dumbest attempted invasion in American history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Bell, Stewart. The Bayou of Pigs http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/ron-paul-was-implicated-in-attempted-white-supremacist-island-invasion/

Eugene Debs organizes the working class and fights back against American entry into WWI. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fiery-socialist-challenged-nations-role-wwi-180969386/ https://debsfoundation.org/index.php/landing/debs-biography/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/wilson-eugene-debs/

South Korea starts an assassination squad made out of petty criminals and dudes who look kind of in shape. Hilarity does not ensue. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/18/asia/south-korea-failed-assassination-squad-unit-684-intl/index.html http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20050824000044 https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/world/south-korean-movie-unlocks-door-on-a-once-secret-past.html

In the conclusion of our series Vietnam liberates Cambodia and slaps around another world power. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

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Episode 134 - The Khmer Rouge Part 2: Year Zero by

Part 1 of 4 on the rise and fall of the Khmer Rouge sources for all 4 episodes: Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison A Cambodian odyssey The Pol Pot Regime When The War Was Over: Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution Cambodia: Year Zero Vickery, Micheal. Cambodia, 1975-1982 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Our first episode ever was about Luigi Cadorna. A lot has changed in the last nearly 3 years so we decided to redo the whole thing during a charity live stream. During the stream we raised over 5,000$ for displaced and at need victims of the recent war in Armenia. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

naval incompetence, sharks, and suicide oh my! Support the show :https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/ships/modern-ships/indianapolis.html https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/surviving-sinking-uss-indianapolis https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/sinking-ussindianapolis/narrative-of-the-circumstances.html https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23455951 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worst-shark-attack-in-history-25715092/

During WWII partisans came in all shapes, sizes, and ages. And sometimes death was 15 years old and riding a bicycle. Listen to It Came From the Sea @fromtheseapod Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/nazi-germany-dutch-resistance-freddie-truus-oversteegen-hannie-schaft-a9188306.html https://www.history.com/news/dutch-resistance-teenager-killed-nazis-freddie-oversteegen Poldermans, Sophie. Seducing and Killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII

The conclusion of the Third Servile War Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys follow us on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lionsledbydonkeyspod

Rome really loves enslaving people. Spartacus disagrees. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources for all related episodes: Appian. Civil Wars. Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. "The Life of Crassus." "The Life of Pompey" Bradley, Keith. Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989

One day in in 1946 a group of WWII Veterans grabbed their weapons and went to war against police brutality and electoral fraud. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.americanheritage.com/battle-athens https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/battle-athens-group.html http://csws.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2000-White-Bill-Transcript.pdf

Joe and Nick talk about all the times the militaries of the world attempted to weaponize the powers of woo woo bullshit. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.history.com/news/cia-esp-espionage-soviet-union-cold-war https://taskandpurpose.com/history/5-true-stories-militarys-paranormal-activity-research https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/soldiers-vampires-ghosts Blum, William. Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII https://science.howstuffworks.com/ghost-tape-no-10-haunted-mixtape-the-vietnam-war.htm

Folks, it's bad. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dirty-painful-death-president-james-garfield https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/09/19/garfield-assassination-white-house-doctors-lied/ https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/health/25garf.html https://medium.com/@simoncarryer/damn-near-killed-him-30042c796e29 https://nypost.com/2016/09/22/the-inept-doctor-who-killed-president-garfield/

During the Battle of Kunduz, the US bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital, one of the worst war crimes of the Afghan War. Nobody has ever been punished for it. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our store: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Sources: https://www.msf.org/kunduz-hospital-attack-depth https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/afghanistan-marking-six-years-us-attack-msf-hospital-kunduz https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pentagon-punish-16-afghan-hospital-airstrike-n564826 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/21/kunduz-hospital-attack-even-in-20-years-we-wont-get-such-a-hospital-again https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/10/03/afghanistan-us-airstrike-hits-kunduz-hospital

Life aboard a U-boat during WWII was horrible but thankfully short from all the dying. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Correction: During the show Joe says he couldn't find reports of U-Boat crews killing themselves. Someone pointed out it happened at least once in this incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zschech Sources: Iron Coffins by Herbert Warner https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/horrors-of-serving-a-u-boat.html https://warisboring.com/the-high-tech-toilet-that-destroyed-a-submarine/

Tom Cruise is the worst pirate ever. Support the show to get more bonus episodes like this: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Follow our Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/lionsledbydonkeyspod

Francis from the Hell of a way to die Podcast and Shocks, everyone's favorite podcast lawyer join the show to talk about all of the times the US and USSR lost nuclear weapons due to horrible incompetence. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://interestingengineering.com/broken-arrows-the-worlds-lost-nuclear-weapons https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/17483/8-nuclear-weapons-us-has-lost https://www.introtoglobalstudies.com/2012/10/broken-arrow-lost-nuclear-weapons-in-canada/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/command-and-control-goldsboro-1961/

The war ends and the world sets itself on course for nuclear hellfire. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources regarding propaganda discussed at the end of the show: WARNING: This is explicit porn. In case you want to just read what a historian Tim Clark wrote about this piece when it appeared in 2013 exhibition, Shunga: Sex and pleasure in Japanese art, 1600-1900. "Popular print culture in Japan was extensively mobilised to support the country’s war effort in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5. This is a particularly savage piece of anti-Russian propaganda.A different (presumed earlier) version of the design was produced using different woodblocks. The flag at top left is Russian, the soldiers in the background are Russians fleeing, and the following dialogue appears with the two foreground figures: [Russian:] (in Romanised script with katakana glosses) “I think I’m going to die!” (Watakushi mō shinisō desu) [Japanese soldier:] “I’ll soon deliver the final blow…” (Sugu todome o sashite yarō) [Russians:] “Quick, let’s run away!” (Hayaku nigero) " The original korean translation of the print that was found during researching was inaccurate. A full translation from japanese shows this is meant to show the japanese military "raping" the russian military. These prints were very common and popular, though technically illegal. WARNING: https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/8_12/317b80e3_54cc_4575_8936_a3dd00d07c11/mid_01361913_001.jpg There is a non graphic link to further research on the changing japanese propaganda done by actual art historians and not our dumbasses: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/mar2008.html

The Russian Navy sets off on a one way journey into naval history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Russia and Japan are introduced to the weapons of modern war. Hilarity does not ensue. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Imperialism and Racism lead Imperial Russia down a path of one of the biggest self owns in military history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: The Tide at Sunrise: A History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05 The Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905

Once upon a time a group of idiots with an airsoft rifle attempted to invade a country. Hilarity (and prison sentences) ensued. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53557235 https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/05/the-invasion-of-venezuela-brought-to-you-by-silvercorp-usa/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/mind-blowing-story-ex-green-beret-who-tried-oust-venezuela-n1201981

Once upon a time there was a man who loved cannons. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/26/magazine/the-man-behind-iraq-s-supergun.html https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160317-the-man-who-tried-to-make-a-supergun-for-saddam-hussein https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/02/10/who-murdered-gerald-bull/bfce6e11-7dff-4964-864d-29db5e02753b/

The one time a downed Japanese pilot started a small civil war on a remote Hawaiian island. *correction* A pronunciation guide was used for the word Niihau, which said it is nee-how. Others have told us this is incorrect and it is instead Nee-ee-how. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.historynet.com/the-niihau-incident.htm https://timeline.com/this-japanese-wwii-fighter-pilot-thought-he-crash-landed-on-a-deserted-hawaiian-island-wrong-635d898b08d0 https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/niihau-incident-hawaiian.html https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/the-niihau-incident/

Folks, it turns out Nazis are in fact, bad. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys *CORRECTION* A correction is needed regarding our answer to the question from the Legion in this episode. We originally thought the Army Esports team was just a Esports team staffed by soldiers who got a sweet gig. We were wrong. It is staffed by Recruiters. We officially retract our statement and encourage everyone to troll them until they go away. Children should not be targeted for military recruitment Sources: The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006 https://www.dw.com/en/the-wehrmacht-and-the-holocaust-on-the-battlefield/a-53366016

Stupid sexy Flanders. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: DeVries, Kelly (2006). Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century: Discipline, Tactics, and Technology. The Boydell Press.

Grab your butt ladles and get ready for the most epic tale of revenge in history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Allyn, John. 47 Ronin. Tuttle Books. http://chushingura.biz/ http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/chushinguranew/CHUSHINGURA.htm

The Wagner Group is what happens when money, strange neo nazi cults, and proxy wars have a baby. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/world/middleeast/american-commandos-russian-mercenaries-syria.html https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-wagner-group-mercenaries-where-operate-2018-4 https://www.fpri.org/article/2019/10/diplomacy-and-dividends-who-really-controls-the-wagner-group/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/russian-mercenaries-wagner-africa/568435/

Blow up Mount Rushmore. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sordid-history-mount-rushmore-180960446/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/07/03/mount-rushmore-gutzon-borglum-klan-stone-mountain/ https://apnews.com/430aa7f10b344eef891ff733116cf3ae https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/monumental-racism-the-kkk-member-who-carved-mount-rushmore

Joseph Medicine Crow became the last War Chief of the Crow Tribe. He did this by counting coup, stealing an enemy's weapon, and stealing their horses....in World War II. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Joseph Medicine Crow, Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/joseph-medicine-crow-last-crow-tribe-war-chief-dies-at-102

Dr. Nyri Bakkalian joins Joe to talk about video games, anime, and all of the things the west misunderstands about Japanese history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Preorder Dr. Bakkalian's book: https://squareup.com/store/balance-of-seven/item/grey-dawn-preorder

On this episode Joe and Travis dive into the history of the podcast's favorite cold war tank: the T-55. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://ospreypublishing.com/t-54-and-t-55-main-battle-tanks-1944-2004-pb

Joseph Beyrle is the only known American Soldier to fight within the ranks of the Red Army during WWII. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.rbth.com/history/330871-joseph-beyerle-american-paratrooper-ussr-wwii https://ss.sites.mtu.edu/mhugl/2017/12/08/joseph-beyrle-dual-soldier/ https://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured/incredible-story-joseph-beyrle-american-fight-u-s-russian-army-wwii.html https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2010/02/local_hero_joe_beyrles_possess.html

Once upon a time there was a one eyed Canadian beserker who liberated an entire town on his own. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/leo-major-the-unstoppable.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/27/world/canada/quebec-leo-major.html https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/leo-major-montreal-zwolle-nazis-1.4660487

Robert E Lee was a traitor, a slave owner, and a war criminal. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources for this episode: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/ https://acwm.org/blog/myths-misunderstandings-lee-slaveholder/ http://fair-use.org/national-anti-slavery-standard/1866/04/14/robert-e-lee-his-brutality-to-his-slaves https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/08/arlington-bobby-lee-and-the-peculiar-institution/61428/ https://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2013/06/30/Confederates-slave-hunt-in-North-a-military-disgrace/stories/201306300221

During the Cold War the US dosed thousands of its soldiers with acid. Hilarity did not ensue. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/secrets-of-edgewood https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/manufacturing-madness https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/17/operation-delirium

Nic Cage and John Woo flamethrower karate fight their way across the pacific theater of WWII. support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Creator of Popular Front Jake Hanrahan joins Joe to talk about how he got his start in Conflict Journalism, why westerners need to stop projecting their beliefs onto the revolutions of other people, and why frozen and lesser known conflicts demand your attention. https://www.popularfront.co Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

The Crippled Eagles were a collection of American Neo nazis, white nationalists, and fascists who flooded the colony of Rhodesia to defend white nationalism. They failed hilariously. This is the story of how they failed and died. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://taskandpurpose.com/history/vets-want-fight-isis-can-learn-something-old-fights-african-bush https://ricochet.media/en/2394/meet-the-canadian-soldiers-behind-a-white-supremacist-military-surplus-store The Nation. Volume 222. New York: The Nation Company. 1976.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/magazine/rhodesia-zimbabwe-white-supremacists.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/01/03/soldier-of-fortune-marketing-for-mercenaries/475aac8b-ddce-4878-b732-77111bb70b67/ https://www.transcend.org/tms/2011/09/the-dark-side-of-soldier-of-fortune-magazine-contract-killers-and-mercenaries-for-hire/ https://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/soldier-of-fortune-magazine-2016-02

We take a walk down white savior lane as Rambo kills more people than an atomic weapon. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

The Ottoman Empire, fueled by Turkish Nationalism, launched a genocidal campaign of violence against their own Armenian subjects. This is the story of how the Armenian people struck back. Sources: Bogosian, Eric. Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide. 2015. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

On this episode the gang eats a bunch of military rations from around the world and discusses some horrific missteps from the history of military food. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Follow us on Twitter @lions_by Join the reddit community: https://www.reddit.com/r/LionsLedByDonkeys/

For our 100th episode we answered questions from fans. Everything from the great tortilla debate to Jane Fonda tune in and listen to our probably terrible answers.

Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow, the Grand Army dies a slow death, and the Cossacks get blinged out as hell. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Follow us on twitter @lions_by Join the reddit community: https://www.reddit.com/r/LionsLedByDonkeys/

Moscow burns, Napoleon begins to lose his mind. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Follow us on Twitter @lions_by Join the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/LionsLedByDonkeys/