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Regarding burnout - this is pour passion, like Indy said at some point; "this is what our entire lives so far have been leading up to" so get bored... never! - but if we don't get more help soon we might collapse ;-) but seriously though, that's why we see this as a collaborative effort. Only problem right now is that we're not even getting to the point of starting to collaborate - but we're very positive fools and we're loving this, so with some love and perspiration we'll move onwards and upwards.

Well. there's so many events during that war that are absolutely nuts and mesmerising - the obvious ones about the war like Kursk, the collapse of Barbarossa, D-Day and stuff like that will be in Indy's department. I'll be covering the War Against Humanity and when it comes to that the most exciting event will probably be the meeting between Himmler and the lead Rabbi of the Swedish Jewish Community (most of the other events in my area can't be described as exciting, only very sad, or absolutely horrifying). In any case in that meeting Himmler asked 'the Jews' to please stop carpet bombing German civilians - the absurdity and the horror of that situation, how it exposes the depth of the insane ideas about a jewish conspiracy with the Nazis, the daring move to fly to Germany being a Rabbi in the middle of the Holocaust, and of course that it saved tens of thousands of lives at the end is absolutely fascinating.

Here's an aside: last time we shot we had to start putting diluted apple juice in the glass, cause Indy was getting to much caffeine... he already pops through the camera with excitement, and we feared deaths might occur.

Actually... we don't treat anyone with love and everyone with respect. That's part of our brand. We don't take sides we tell the story as it developed. It's actually one of the great advantages with chronological documentaries the way we do them - we tell it as close as we can to how it was and then you can decide yourself. In fact if you look at our Cuban Missile Crisis series you get a compressed version of how that's meaningful. Usually the story is told as a good guys vs. bad guys story (depending on which side you're on). We just tell the story as it developed and something magical happens; you see that neither side had dogmatic good, or bad qualities - it was just simply a mess. With Stalin... well, need we really tell you that he was a pretty seriously dangerous and most probably deranged person? No, we don't so we focus on what he did and that will tell you more about him than if we tell you what we think.

The first one that comes to mind its how the plans for the Nazi atomic bomb were smuggled out of Germany by a monk and Sam Woods the trade attache to the US embassy in Berlin. It's obscure and pretty banal, but very telling of how the intelligence gathering was based on haphazard luck and opportunity (as I guess it always is).