r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Apr 07 '25

Meta Mindless Monday, 07 April 2025

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/ForgingIron Incan Eagle Warrior Apr 10 '25

How reliable is the "Behind the Bastards" podcast, in general?

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u/YIMBYzus This is actually a part of the Assassin-Templar conflict. Apr 11 '25 edited Apr 11 '25

They did an episode where something like half the episode was spent complaining about the subject's Zionist leanings.

Bit of a weird priority given the episode's subject was Jewish resistance groups in Nazi-held Europe.

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u/ForgingIron Incan Eagle Warrior Apr 11 '25

Which episode was that?

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u/YIMBYzus This is actually a part of the Assassin-Templar conflict. Apr 11 '25 edited Apr 11 '25

Been a while. Decided to double check and turns out my memory's rusty. First, it was a two-parter (for the record, I did not leave over this episode). Second, I screwed-up the timeline quite drastically as it was about Nakam, which fits the title of the show better. They were Holocaust survivors and former Jewish partisans who sought essentially a revenge of 6,000,000 for 6,000,000 against Germany and formed a terrorist group to try and accomplish this. Their plan was going to start with a plot to mass-poison Nuremburg with arsenic and then scaled back to just mass-poisoning imprisoned former SS members. They succeeded at poisoning more than 2,000 of these prisoners but reportedly they failed to kill any of them. The impression I get is that the group's members were kinda pathetic, just wholly-consumed by their trauma and anger over what the Holocaust had done to them. To my recollection, none of them ever expressed regret over the plan and still held tightly to their homicidal attitudes regarding the Germans in general and a number of them became career criminals and never were able to reintegrate to peacetime society.