The Famine the World Forgot - WW2 Special

The occupation of a neutral country by the United Nations Alliance potentially killed millions of innocent people. Few seemed to care at the time and it has gone largely unreported in traditional historiography. This is the forgotten famine of World War Two. The Iranian Famine. Join us on Patreon: https://bit.ly/SPECIAL_093_DE Or join the TimeGhost Army directly at: https://timeghost.tv/signup/ Our thanks to Donald McKenzie, Jake Landis and Magnus for their generous support during this episode's premiere! Check out our TimeGhost History YouTube channel:    / timeghost   Between 2 Wars:    • Between 2 Wars   Follow WW2 Day by Day on Instagram: @ww2_day_by_day Follow TimeGhost History on Instagram: @timeghosthistory Like us on Facebook:   / timeghosthistory   Hosted by: Spartacus Olsson Director: Astrid Deinhard Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson Creative Producer: Marek Kamiński Community Management: Ian Sowden Written by: Francis van Berkel Research by: Francis van Berkel, Joram Appel Edited by: Karolina Dołęga Artwork and a color grading by: Mikołaj Uchman Sound design by: Marek Kamiński Colorizations by: Mikołaj Uchman Daniel Weiss Source literature list: http://bit.ly/WW2sources Key sources: Jackson, Ashley. "Persian Gulf Command: A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq." (2018). Majd, Mohammad Gholi. Iran Under Allied Occupation In World War II: The Bridge to Victory & A Land of Famine. UPA, 2016. Majd, Mohammad Gholi. "The Three Famines and the Makings of a Malthusian Catastrophe in Iran (1869-1944)." Journal of Iranian Islamic Period History. 12 (2021): 75-105. McFarland, Stephen L. "A peripheral view of the origins of the cold war: the crises in Iran, 1941–47." Diplomatic History 4, no. 4 (1980): 333-352. McFarland, Stephen L. "Anatomy of an Iranian political crowd: The Tehran bread riot of December 1942." International Journal of Middle East Studies 17, no. 1 (1985): 51-65. Milani, Abbas. The shah. Macmillan, 2012. Archive footage: Screenocean/Reuters - https://www.screenocean.com Image sources: Iranian bread picture courtesy of Roozitaa from Wikimedia Commons Portrait of Sir Ralph Clarmont Skrine Stevenson courtesy of NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY Library of Congress National Archives NARA Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound: Equations of Motion - Farrell Wooten Firebreak - Edward Karl Hanson For the Many STEMS INSTRUMENTS - Jon Bjork Dark Beginning - Johan Hynynen March Of The Brave 10 - Rannar Sillard Not Safe Yet - Gunnar Johnsen Ominous - Philip Ayers Rememberance - Fabien Tell Weapon of Choice - Fabien Tell A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.