The Danger Zone (DZ)

The Danger Zone (DZ)

Humans have spent most of their history fighting wars. All of that would have been a terrible waste except for the great things it has done for us. Fantastic music, great movies, mind expanding literature, technically incredible cars, flying that took us in just 60 years from the Wright brothers travelling just 37 metres to going to the moon and back (that’s the important part) 60 years later, faster and safer ships, life saving medicines and medical procedures, great video games, the internet. So much to cover and so many interesting stories to tell . You’ll never be bored.

Episodes

June 8, 2023 23 mins
He was 38 years old when he was born in 1953. He never ages. He never loses. Like Dr. Who he’s continuously being reborn – in body and mind as he moves effortlessly through the passing decades since the movie Dr No was released in 1963. Was this fictional character modelled on a real person. Is that even possible? Perhaps he’s a composite of more than one person. Or is he just pure fiction? Let’s go into the world of national and i...
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This programme is a true story that you probably have never heard before. And what a story it is! In 1940, after Hitler had invaded Poland and England and France had declared war on Germany, England and France were about to enter into a war with Russia. Given that there was no differences that matter between how evil Nazi Germany was, and how evil Communist Russia was, this would have made a lot of sense. What the British and the F...
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Shock & awe – words we came to know in March 2003 with Operation Desert Fox. A revolutionary new military tactic using revolutionary new weapons. But were the shock & awe tactics new or had they been around for a long time. Let me illustrate my point from long long ago – about 480BC. The great Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu, found one technique for achieving this which he recommended to his emperor. The emperor asked him if i...
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Who, or what, was responsible for killing more Nazi officers than died in active combat? This is a fascinating and incredible story. It involves Adolf Hitler, who avoided the death that so many German officers suffered from this cold-blooded killer even though he was a number of times in its sites. Ferdinand Porsche comes into this story too amongst others. Stay tuned because you won’t want to miss this one. Tag words: Nazi; Adolf ...
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I guess like me you often find yourself lying awake in bed, wondering what the world would be like today if Adolf Hitler, instead of answering the call to be the saviour of Germany (a job he ended up doing really badly) had decided to follow his natural bent for comedy and had instead become a stand up comedian. In this Danger Zone programme I’m going to look at the jokes that Hitler told, and the jokes that Hitler was told that ha...
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The attack on Pearl Harbour had not been the success the Japanese needed. In the modern war that was shaping up in the Pacific aircraft carriers were the key weapons. For the Japanese mastermind of Pearl Harbour, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, he needed to finish what he‘d started. If he didn’t he knew that the war was lost. So now the stage was set for a number of key players, who very likely would have been visitors to Cairns dependin...
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On 12 September 1918 a tank attack was led by Colonel George S. Patton – the legendary leader of American tank forces in France in World War II. Patton was just a young colonel in World War I. He walked along the top of American trenches, with an American infantry brigade sensibly taking shelter in their trenches. Sensible because a creeping German artillery barrage was moving their way. Patton commented that the commanding general...
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The Emperor Napoleon has an important connection with Cairns, and there are some other interesting ones he has with Australia too. In this programme I’m going to tell you about both, and where you can go and see the large, unmissable relic from Napoleon in Cairns. Tag words: Emperor Napoleon; Boney; Betsy Balcombe; Elba; Treaty of Fontainbleau; Louis XVIII; Colonel Neil Campbell; Lord Castlereagh; Charles Dickens; David Copperfield...
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The 20th Century, from about 1949, when the Soviet Union detonated its own atomic bomb, made using stolen intellectual property from the American Manhattan Project, with the help of some of the scientists who worked on that project and were spies for the Soviet Union, until 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed, the world lived in fear of a nuclear holocaust. This fear was not based on theoretical scientific models, not based on dub...
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What’s World War III going to look like? Not that I want to see. It’s not going to look like anything we’ve ever seen before. One of the hottest selling books amongst the top level people at the Pentagon since 2016 has been “Ghost Fleet” written by PW Singer and August Cole. These guys aren’t the writers of your typical boy/man political/war thrillers, like Tom Clancy’s “Red Storm Rising”. Singer is a consultant to the US military,...
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International Womens’ Day. Some women have their praises sung and their achievements recognised. But not all women. After all International Womens’ Day is very much something that the feminist movement has instituted and that is a movement that only recognises women of the left. To paraphrase one of Joe Biden’s remarkable comments during the 2020 US Presidential election, if you ain’t on the left, you ain’t a feminist – or a woman....
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If you’ve ever seen the movie “Zulu” with Michael Caine you’ve seen the story about how a handful of British soldiers stood up against a large army of Zulu warriors defending a place called Rorke’s Drift. If you’ve ever heard of Breaker Morant, or seen the movie of the same name, you’ve seen a movie about the Boer War which was fought in South Africa in 1900. It’s not a war that most people have heard of. It was the first war where...
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Here’s a murder mystery that you’ve possibly never heard about. A cold case. The possible murder of Dr Todt, committed at Hitler’s headquarters (built by Dr Todt’s organisation) from which Hitler conducted the war against Russia. The HQ was called the Wolfschanze. Hitler’s knickname was Wolf – so the HQ was called the wolf’s lair. It was located in East Prussia. The murder victim (if this was a murder) was Dr Fritz Todt, the engine...
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Technology and science have let us kill people far more efficiently than we ever could before. The guillotine of the French Revolution allowed the socialists to use mechanical means to exterminate their class enemies, the aristocracy (and vastly more numbers of other people who fell foul of the these revolutionaries). The guillotine was the precursor of the far more efficient Nazi extermination camps that allowed the National Socia...
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In January 1944, Vasily Grossman, a non-practising Jew, entered the town of his birth, Berdichev in the Ukraine, to finally confirm that his mother had been murdered by the Nazis. It was the first time he’d been back there for a long time. Soon after the German invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941, he’d left his mother and other members of his family there because his wife, Olga Mikhailovna, had refused to let them move into their fl...

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The time had come for the SS to perfect its skills. It wasn’t easy. Things worth doing never are. A Panzer Division had showed up for a rest and re-fit – pretty much right in the middle of where the SS was to conduct its mass executions. So a huge live variety extravaganza was turned on for the men at night, plus showings throughout the day of the latest release movie. Beautiful Ukrainian girls kept the boys company. Better still, ...
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How to quickly and efficiently kill the 30,000 Jews at Berdichev was the problem that had to be solved. It was important to get it right because, if they could, they could do it on a far bigger scale at the next place where they’d already planned to do a mass extermination of Jews, a place called Babi Yar near Kiev. So how did the SS tackle this first time problem of mass murder? How did the average German soldier respond to the ma...
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Everything has to start somewhere. This programme’s about the first day of the holocaust. Not the efficient extermination camps like Auschwitz. But men working hard days organising the digging of deep pits (just the right length), ammunition (you don’t want to run out half way through), organising Jews to the site and then shooting them all day long (you need plenty of Schnapps for the men) until there were none left. Standartenfüh...

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After World War 2 Churchill said: "The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril. I was even more anxious about this battle than I had been about the glorious air fight called the ‘Battle of Britain’”. But that wasn’t true. The U-Boat activity, sinking shipping heading to England, was annoying and needed the defences bolstered to counter it, but it was nothing more than annoying. If you know anything ...
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The Tom Hanks movie, “Greyhound”, tells the dramatic story of a much older man, Commander Krause (played by Tom Hanks), but still a rookie as a naval commanding officer, taking his first command at sea. Like many in World War II Commander Krause came into the Navy from civilian life. In the movie he’s appointed as the commander of an American Fletcher Class destroyer. More than that he’s put in charge of three other naval escorts. ...

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