The JUSTIFIED Execution Of Franz Hössler - The Hitman Of Auschwitz
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- As the true crimes of the Third Reich were unveiled to the world when the liberation of the concentration camps took place at the end of the Second World War, the hunt for the perpetrators of the Holocaust was one. When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, the British were greeted by thousands of dead bodies which lined the camp, but within the remaining prisoners were a small number of SS guards who were trying to remain hidden to escape justice.
One of these men was Franz Hössler, who was an experienced Nazi guard of concentration camps, and he tried to conceal himself with the prisoners wearing their uniform. However he was quickly found. Franz Hössler had a long list of horrific crimes he had committed with many of these taking place at Auschwitz. He worked there for a number of years as a guard, and would routinely take part in the selections in which prisoners would be sent to their deaths and the gas chambers. This was a feared part of life within the camp, with those not fit enough to work being murdered. Hössler would decide who would live and die.
He also committed many other crimes such as executing innocent prisoners and shooting them in cold-blood regularly. He would also accompany prisoners to their deaths, and force them into the gas chambers. During one event he even liquidated one bunk full of over 1500 Dutch prisoners. He was a truly despicable man, who thrived within the cruelty of the horrific camps and the suffering of others.
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I saw a documentary where the soldiers who liberated a concentration camp said you could smell the place from three miles away. Three miles. That's how strong the stench was. Clearly, German locals who claimed they "didn't know" what was going on in the camps were lying through their teeth. They knew, and they turned a blind eye.
They all knew. Nearly every German knew.
@@WyattRyeSway They knew and ignored it.The allied soilders who liberated the camps would make the German people see the dead Jewish people and there is footage of this and the German people would cry and be shocked...But they all knew and endorsed it.
My grandfather was among the men who first discovered Dachau and that’s pretty accurate of how it happened to him.
@@thedragonlee76 There's archive footage of that> long lines of locals made to walk though the camps and view all the atrocities done by there countrymen and woman !
@@thedragonlee76 .....I’m a Russian-Israeli Jew. I’ve met those who were in camps as children. They knew. They told me, people would yell at them on trains about “dying dirty Jews”. Everyone knew though many did not not know the full extent. Everyone knew people were being taken. People were being shot in villages. Entire villages wiped out. They were given homes of former friends who disappeared and they knew they were taken by the gestapo. We used to have speakers who were survivors come to my school back in Petersburg (at the time of the war was Leningrad). It was a Jewish public school. We would cry. I heard many stories of people who lived through the blockade and buried family members and those stories were awful but Shoah survivors.....that’s something I just can’t possibly fathom and hope I will never be able to.
My dad was in Dachau shortly after its liberation....He saw horrors the like of which we could scarcely imagine....Soon to be repeated if we're not VERY careful!
I absolutely agree !
Worse? Explain...
Went past Dachau in 1962 on a bus, I could feel the evil coming from that place, every thing looked black and evil,
Glad this channel is getting the attention it deserves
Here here
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My uncle liberated one of those camps. He was sickened by the sights he saw.
The American run internment camps were pretty sickening.
Your poor uncle, the sights he must have seen. I’m sure it affected him for the rest of his life. Im Sure he can rest assured that what he did was humanity showing to these poor people. It’s so easy for people to descend into cruelty. Bless your uncle for being there. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
I can understand that when the GI's were liberating Dachau, ss officers in the camp threw down their arms and stood with their hands in the air and smiling, why they were shot down where they stood. After seeing the barbarity of the camps, it's easy to understand their disgust, hate and abhorrence for the kind of people who did that and expected to be taken prisoner and treated humanely, I can only say that I would have done the same. The GI's also stood by and watched the prisoners they had released beat to death the camp guards. The pictures taken of such incidents were not pleasant, they are outthere on the internet,
@@BikingVikingHH But the internment camps of the ss and wehrmacht prisoners of war were indeed sickening, but after the Americans had seen what they had done, they were treated much better than what they deserved.
@@ScooterZn and that's WHY we all should never underestimate human behaviour , anyone of us can with the so called justified reason? end up guards in a concentration camp or soldiers taken revenge, these two acts are crimes against humanity
Pierrepoint reckoned from start to finish it took 12 seconds,,,, personally I reckon they got off lightly .....
Not if God is Jewish... I'm tempted to believe that it is up to the Almighty is when judging people.
I agree,they died too quickly for the horrors the delighted inflicting on innocents.
Theres always the " lets not be the condemned " argument that we are better people .
Pierrepoint was very efficient. To efficient. When meeting these animals i would have undercalculated their weight and height and let them suffer at the end of the rope.
12 seconds for Pierpoint, 20 minutes for the Americans.
This is indeed The Untold Past. It's just horrifying and sickening to see how evil and inhumane we can be
@Sometimes Right These were NOT monsters but human beings like you and me. THIS is what is so monstreous. We ALL have the capacity. Non of us knows how we would have behaved if we had been in their shoes.
@@renatovonschumacher3511 just Imagine if the Nazis had not been defeated . Would Europe then be free from the Evils of Islam . Yes the Nazis’s were evil , but so is the Religion of peace and Tollerance
@Sometimes Right Well, the way you answer me reveals a lot about you.
@@coventrypunx1014
The nazis were Christians . “God is with us” ...”Gott Mit Uns” remember that?
54% Protestant and 40% catholic.
@@darwinawardcommittee "Gott mit uns" was NEVER the motto of the Nazis but of the Prussian kings long before.
Thank for your productions. I hope that they don't bother you to much. My father served in WW2 and had friends that were involved in the Bergen liberation. They told my father 3 decades later that they still had nightmares about it😓
@@Hartley_Hare my Dad was also in the RAF Regiment unit which went to Belsen
And they would have fought for the Germans if they saw the west today.
@@Hartley_Hare A lot of the nazis were shot while they were crawling on the ground begging for mercy. They were treated much better than they deserved. It saved imprisoning them, giving them a trial and then hanging them.
@@BikingVikingHH What is your point?
@@BikingVikingHH They weren't the fragile little edge lords you seem to think they were.
If it were not on film it would be hard to believe a human would do such bad things to other human beings. No. Who and why? Living through that must have been hell.
That's why Eisenhower told them to film everything, otherwise no one would believe something like this could happen.
When I was a teenager in NYC many years ago, I would daily take the subway to work or to meet friends. In the warmer months most of us not dressed in suites for work would wear shirt sleeve shirts. On more then several occasions I'd see middle to older aged men with numbers tattooed on the forearms. One day, while sitting nest to an older gentlemen with those numbers on his arm, I got up the courage to ask him. He looked at me with a grim sadness and said: "I could not begin to tell you," and left it at that. That made a profound impression that I never could forget.
Nice story. You made it all up but nice just the same.
@@sirgalahad1376 It's all true and obviously you are a Nazi lover and devoid of any humanity.
@@dontheguy1 That’s a big leap don’t you think? I have no love for Nazis I just think you made that story up.
@@sirgalahad1376 Like many of your generation you have not study history or learned the lessons from it. Had you done so you would have learned many Jews who were in Nazi concentration camps immigrated to the U.S. and mostly to large metropolitan areas like NYC, Chicago etc. in the late 1940's and early 1950's Your mind is on worthless social media and video games. If you make no effort to learn the truth, you will be easily fooled by a lie, as virtually all your generation has been.
@@dontheguy1 "have not **studied history" maybe some younger people haven't but clearly most of us have studied English literature better than yourself.
This guy was simply saying you were making a scenario up and your unnecessary reaction leads me to believe it was made up.
If you studied history yourself you would know what that type of tattoo was without having to ask someone.
You then mention video games and social media reliance but here you are watching and commenting on RUclips videos, a form of social media?
Pathetic!
Sadly, far too many SS officers & guards were either given lenient sentences or they escaped. None of them deserved to live! They were truly evil!
The ss, gestapo and einsatzgruppen. ALL deserved to hang.
Almost no japanese faced repercussions. What they did in China and the Philippines as as bad as the nazis
@@DHSpolo in some cases worse which is very hard to do
@@davidhutchinson5233 Amen to that.
I had a bus driver when I was in grade school who was in a concentration camp when he was a boy. He never said which, when asked about the tattoo on his left wrist, he just politely thanked us for our concern and asked us to take a seat.
Can anyone really blame the guy for not wanting to relive what must have been worse than Hell on earth? Me neither.
About 35 years ago my neighbor called me over to his house to meet his uncle. The uncle didn't speak English very well and Gunther translated since I didn't speak German he had fought in WW2 in the Waffen-SS he showed me his blood group tattoo.
It’s wild how many simultaneously died in the camps yet also escaped death.
Come to think about it now that you mention it an acquaintance of mine who I was employed to look after who was in one of those camps never mentioned which one either I happened to be getting her up & dressed for breakfast & she saw me looking at her arm tattoo & asked me did I know what I was looking at I told her I did indeed know what it was from history classes & a television mini series called holocaust i saw as a kid so I knew where things like that came from we became very friendly & spoke about a great many subjects history music art classic cars I even convinced her that there was an art & science to boxing well I sort of convinced her anyway I was, a young tough guy from the neighborhood she was an elderly monied Jewish lady with quite particular tastes & was considered difficult to work for talk about the odd couple she even made me learn to properly apply her morning make up while I worked in the facility she lived in but I don't recall her telling me which of those hell holes she was in I do remember her using the term NAZI MAMZERS & her telling me what this word mamzer means it seems equivalent to mother fu©k® in Hebrew I was then a young black male so my understanding of Hebrew was then as it is now as an old man nonexistent but if I understood her explanation of the term correctly it's a reference to someone who is the offspring of a mother & son who had what I'll politely call an unnaturally close relationship if you know what I'm saying!
@@3rdFloorblog Absolutely. However I once interviewed Simon Wiesenthal and when I asked him what his one message should be he replied: “tell the children”. What the Nazis did was unbelievable, but we must never allow it to become literally unbelievable.
Like the rest of the staff they died too damn fast. Signed Boomer Vet
Yes, it can be seen that way. On the other hand, if we hit back in the same cruel way, we would be no better than they were.
I know if i was an inmate of that place and had the strength i would be breaking him on the wheel...
No torture would have been to much. If I'm expected to feel sorry or pity for these monsters, I'm sorry but I don't.
@@renatovonschumacher3511 your logic is wrong. The murderers killed and tortured innocent people. Killing and torturing evil killers who tortured innocent people is not the same thing.
@@marcgrossman980 A persons logic is not necessarily wrong only because it does not correspond with another persons logic. Why should YOUR logic be right and mine wrong? Behind every logic there are a number of considerations. At most we can speak of different aspects. When we discuss these, we can draw different conclusions. But even then it is not up to us to say I am right and you are wrong.
I see they've changed the title of these vids from "vengeful" to "justified". Good move.
Is any execution justified? is killing a man to say that killing is wrong logical?
That’s because they were trying to justify revenge 🤔
Vengeful : Seeking to harm someone in return for a percieved injury.
Justified : Show or prove to be right or reasonable.
@@paulmuaddib3470 Killing is not necessarilty wrong. That's why we differentiate between murder, self-defense, judicial execution, etc.
@@paulmuaddib3470
Yes some are Justified.
At least when you understand the difference between murder and Justice via the rule of law.
The fact that prisoners were told there would be a cup of coffee after the shower should have been a clue as to what was coming. The guards treat you like cattle and now they're going to serve you hot coffee?
People in desperate times will believe anything they are told. This is credible.
That's a common extermination tactic.You tell the people everything is going to be alright and that's because so they wont resit or fight back.
@@thedragonlee76 Fluoride also helped .
Tea wasn't it?
Really love the channel expanding into WW II history ! Keep it up :)
At least we're not speaking German, right lads...
Richtig
Deutschland Uber Alles........
Hitler loved the English anyway, because he seen that they held the same kind of values as the germans.
The way things are going Europe is the new home for africans and asians.
lol based
Maybe you don't speak German but other people do....
Monsters are real. And they walk amongst us.
yes and they begin with a J and its 3 letters
Looks like RUclips doesn't places advertising on your videos. Wonder which products would suit such stories.
You can sign up for no ads on RUclips
@@anastaciapearson8950 Yeah, and pay for that. I did pay for a while, then I unsubscribed, when I did they chucked even more ads at me.
Looking at THIS video, to me it seems totally inappropriate, and an INSULT to put ads anywhere in it, particularly as none of the ghastly footage belongs to the uploader.
Making money from such videos must be stopped.
Lite beer
@@mikesey1 Hi.. I just noticed that I got an advertising for a fun game Mafia Underworld before reaching the reply function in the comment section.. Amazing.
The covid experimental forced bio weapon. The Josef Mengele approach to medicine..
We must always remember this horrific vision.
The only thing that makes me madder at what they did, is that they tried to lie, or downplay their behavior and deeds. “I didn’t agree with killing Jews”! “I gave them extra food or rations”! Yea right, Tell it to GOD!
Thanks again untoldpast always interesting. 👍😁
And to think we have people in the United States today that think this way, sad
The one that really angers me is Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's assistant ,who got an extra 55 years after the war ended living in Syria until 2010. Unrepentant to the very end.
Sounds like worse than death to me.
There was another Eichmann-level S.S. top banana, Martin Sandberger, who was very well connected (to the I.G. Farben management) and who was sprung from the death cell to spend his last 50 years or so living out in the open. He had been as guilty as any of the other hanged S.S. 'desk murderers' who'd not known the right people (people as high up as Adenauer, a relative-by-marriage of top American, John McCloy (q.v.)).
(See my comment elsewhere on this thread).
A very dark period of history.
But not the only one in recent history and also not the only place where evil happened, although this has been suggested to us for decades.
This will repeat again, if the demonization of whites continues as it has in recent times - a new horror will descend upon the earth, except this time we will have zero excuses.
Unfortunaly the very same people who financed Hitler the International Bankers and the people running the Federal Reserve still in charge and Controlling the Military Industrial Complex bombing and murdering people since 1945 with Wars of interventions and Color Revolutions..💀☝🇺🇸
No shit Sherlock.
The Japanese are guilty of a lot of these crimes too in the countries that they conquered
And people say they had a rough day. Just imagine how those in concentration camps felt!
Sad thing is there is still many more like him on this earth
More and more every day in fact. Weimar conditions require Weimar solutions.
Thank you, that's the most sensible thing anyone has said, and it's frightening because it's true.
Yes indeed. Fascism has moved from the right to the left. Churchill did say that the next wave of fascists would come disguised as liberalis, and he was 100% correct. Everyone who does not agree with the left is labelled a racist to justify their disdain. Everyone who didn't agree with Hitler was labelled a communist to justify his disdain, to make it more acceptable that they were sent to concentration camps. Exactly the same, only different in name. The only difference being that if push comes to shove and there was a civil war or similar today, the fascist left would be annihilated a lot quicker than the fascists of the 1930's.
@@juanmanu9652 Have to agree. It's happening now may of 2021
@@juanmanu9652 You are conveniently ignoring the facist right. The reigning champion of far-right, nazi-styled facism, Donald J. Trump, wanted state troopers to open fire on folks protesting racial injustice last year. And what say you of January 6th, 'ey? Was that the left at work? No, it was facism in the form of racist, right-wing terrorists who thought they could overthrow the US govt in much the same fashion as a certain Adolf in Bavaria, Germany, in 1923. Both failed miserably, I might add.
Good effort....sort of a B team....of Mark Felton.....but no reflection on this very welcome addition to various series on WW2.
Another great video on your channel. I do have one respectful suggestion though: If you mention particular days of the month at random points during your narration to earmarking certain events, inclusion of the year as well would be appreciated.
Too bad he got Peirrepoint, I remember seeing an interview with a British soldier and a camp inmate asked to borrow his wire pliers, the Brit asked why and the inmate said we found a guard hiding and the Brit gave the guy the pliers and then the inmates proceeded to take the guard apart with the pliers and the Brit soldier just bring them back when you are done.
It turns out that many of the guards the Allied forces found were local militia or Wehrmacht, assigned to keep order in the camps until the Allied forces arrived, the camp personnel having fled, knowing they would be held accountable. They were collateral damage, often murdered by the horrified Allied soldiers.
YES my uncle handed over his rifle and fixed bayonet to an inmate.....the other inmates had stripped other SS captured staff and hard wired them nude on the camps electric fence topped with barbed wire and the inmates took turns seeing who could inflict the best bayonet stabs on them....when they started screaming in pain....the inmates began laughing and dancing around throwing human waste on their wounds....after every inmate had taken a turn....my uncle was handed back his rifle and bayonet after the inmates had wiped it clean on the SS guards face.....!
@captain crankypants agreed.
@captain crankypants It happened, perhaps not exactly like the previous poster described but the soldiers stood by as the liberated prisoners beat the ss guards to death.
@captain crankypants
I have read some documented cases of “payback” by the inmates after liberation.
Heck, in one case Allied Officers turned a blind eye for 24 hours while the soldiers under them then tore apart and executed and SS or Camp employees.
The sights and smells drove sane men who survived D-Day basically insane.
Apparently inmates did the same thing, and a blind eye was turned.
I have watched torture documentaries. You be amazed what can be used to inflict pain on a fellow human.
The above story sounds about right.
After treating their fellow man worse then an animal.
Their fellow man decided to show just how much of animal they really were.
All humans have an sadistic streak inside of them.
Why else is the concept of revenge universal for our species.
After being tortured and deprived for so long, and now having an opportunity to do the same to your torturer.......
As they say, “Payback is a Bitch”.
Apparently Canadians went insane when upon liberating a camp, they found fellow Canadians executed near by.
Moral. Don’t piss off the Canadians.
Good old Albert Pierrepoint, I have always had a place in my heart for people who killed nazi's. Sorry I am a work in progress.
Nah it's cool to kill nazis
Lol so funny
Mr. Pierrepoint was far too professional for those Nazi killers. The liberators should have handed over the Beast of Belsen and all the other Nazi beasts to the surviving prisoners for execution.
Dachau when I visited and viewed the movie they played I asked how can you have so many people coming into the camp and not leaving why didn’t you do something. I was told it’s because they were scared and didn’t want the same thing to happen to them. Fear is a mighty evil
All this because the people believed in the ideology and followed one man. How stupid is life.
Yet here we are as people and have learnt nothing from these events, we are continually waring and killing each other, murdering, destroying lives in the name of politics
From what I understand Mr Pieroint was very quick and efficient as a Hangman.
This Guy Didn't deserve such a Clean end methinks.
In his Case a Russian Execution would have been more in keeping with his actions..!
Better still he should have Stuck with Photography right from the beginning.
But "Arseholes will Out Eventually...!"
'Lest we Forget.' Thank you for this Video and the Work within it...!!
Cheers from Oz, to All in Peace. 😎
You don't make any sense from Oz
THEY SHOULD HAVE STARVED ALL THOSE KILLERS THAN PLACED EM IN THE OVENS STILL ALIVE !!!
THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN REAL JUSTICE !!
Gee, you sound like a real nice and thoughtful guy! Cheers!
Thank you for this and other videos. Horrifying though the content, they are things we should not forget. All humans can treat others in such horrid ways as history proves. Will we ever learn or is greed just to strong.
"Hossler, it's time for your shower.".....
"No need to worry, you'll be served Crumpets & Tea afterward".
If you haven't seen the documentary about Kitty Hart it's an absolute must see. She tells about her years at Auschwitz and an interaction between her mother and Hossler. She really makes you see the camp through her eyes and it's horrifying.
I had a friend whose parents were in the camps. They weren't like any people in our upper middle class neighborhood. There was a real flatness to them but we were kids and didn't understand why. One time his father got mad at me and was shaking the wooden fence. Why? who knows. I was worried because if he touched me, my father who was an combat infantry man in WW2 would have taken taken him apart. So, his father died suddenly. His family was at home receiving condolences. The way it worked was that his mother was in one room being cared for and receiving condolences from other death camp inmates and friends. And in the other room was my friend and his brother receiving condolences from their friends. And then I knew the depth of what they went through. Their bond was even stronger than blood.
Too little is known and discussed about Albert Pierrepoint. No other state executioner in known history has killed as many and he remained on all appearances a normal man.
There are quite a few biographies of him and his family.
He had standards. He was a professional.
He went above and beyond to endure those condemned died quickly.
Before condemning Albert.....remember those he executed were sentenced to death by the state or thru trial.
He was not Judge or Jury. He was just the executioner.
While it’s scary how he had killing a person quickly down to a science, he has no botched executions to his name.
He also treated the dead with respect by cleaning the bodies afterwards.
When set to execute the aforementioned criminals in this special, he threw a fit when there was only 12 coffins, not 13.
“they paid the ultimate price, they are dead. There is no use in punishing them further”.
Interesting fact. Ancient executors had to ensure the condemned were healthy and fit before execution often.
They actually had side jobs as doctors as a result because they had a lot of knowledge on human anatomy and medicines as a result.
One executer estimated he actually saved more lives then he took.
One executer was so renown for his ability as a doctor that the state pardoned his children so they could (before job went from father to children per the law) so they could become doctors and not have to carry on his legacy of being an executioner.
What's a "normal man", come to think of it?
When the allies liberated the prisoners they were immediately given good food.The food shocked their systems and they were dropping like flies.Their systems couldn't handle pure food.
Hmmm it’s almost like they had no supplies...
One video has a doctor explaining that many camp victims had suffered organs so badly damaged from starvation that no nutrition given could revive their functions. The urgent effort was humane, but it was too late, and food could not save them.
The Americans knew this, but did not share this.
Early in the war, there were rumors of camps and horrible conditions.
So the military asked certified pacifists if they would voluntarily go thru a “starvation test” to see how starvation would affect the human body and the best ways to “bring them back”.
The Pacifists were told this was to help POW’s found.
Doctors present would monitor their bodies and how they reacted. They would also make sure no one dropped below being 30% being underweight for ethical reasons.
Which is still quite a lot.
I saw an interview of one of the volunteers. He recalled the physical and psychological effects of being so hungry. How afterwards he was very food paranoid afterwards.
But seeing the camp footage after the war, knowing what he went thru helped save lives, he would do it again.
As a military brat, and supporter of our troops, I wanted to give him a hug. Recalling what he remembered clearly hurt.
He may of been a certified pacifist. But he still helped.
@Roger Smith
Early in the war, American Pacifists volunteered to go thru a “starvation regiment” to see how starvation affected the human body.
Doctors made sure no one dropped below 30% below healthy body weight....well tried to.
They closely monitored how the body reacted to starvation, and how it reacted to food.
They quickly realized an introduction of rich food was a BAD idea. Instead, they needed simple basic foods, like broths or even baby food to be given since the body could not handle the rich food anymore.
A slow gradual introduction of protein, electrocutes and only much later carbs could be introduced.
And in Hiroshima it was not necessary. And in India there was a lack of "good food" starving a couple millions. Please consider this too.
I hope it wasn't too quick
Shame they killed him! He should've been made to go through the same torture he gave the people he murdered! Despicable monster!
Thd most moving film I seen was escape from sobibor
Stating 'the conditions were not very pleasant' is like saying Johnson has enough kids to form a Football Team.
True, after the allies began shooting everything that moved including horse drawn carriages carrying food, bombing train stations and civilian targets etc etc, the entire nation was starving, including the typhus ravaged camps.
Would have loved to have met Albert Pierpoint just to thank him for the wonderful work he did hanging these evil people,
Glad you changed the titles to JUSTIFIED.
Yup, me too
Why though? It detracts from the historic character of the channel.
@@Saufs0ldat ....the executions were not vengeful. They were justified. These people got what they deserved. Justice was served. Not vengeance. There were some former prisoners who killed their former captors. That was vengeance (though no doubt deserved). These people were given trials. More than they gave their victims. That’s justice, not vengeance.
@@WyattRyeSway It is not a historian's job to make moral judgements. They should report the facts and put them into context. A historian needs to ask "what, why, etc", not "was this good or bad?"
But I guess it's the same as with journalism, certain people just enjoy having an opinion crammed down their throat rather than the facts.
@@Saufs0ldat ....the holocaust was bad. Yes, it’s a moral judgment. I’m a Russian-Israeli Jew (which is oddly the second time I’ve said this in the last hour) and as someone who lost family in the holocaust, it was bad. Genocide is bad. The Armenian genocide was bad. The Native American trail of tears was bad. Sometimes, we must make moral judgments. The holocaust was bad and the punishment was justified for most. Many didn’t get as much as they deserved. Perhaps some got more but the holocaust was bad and these cases, given they were adjudicated and sentenced, not just murdered, were justice, not vengeance.
As a Russian Jew from Petersburg (which was Leningrad during the great patriotic war), I am well aware of Nazi atrocities. Many, too many, escaped justice. Many did not. These are the cases of those who did not. Justice was meted out (I think I used the word meted right but I’ll apologize now in case I didn’t).
This could go on today. You cannot trust our governments.
- WEAR YOUR MASK!
- CLOSE YOUR BUSINESS!
- SHOW YOUR VACCINATION PASS!
"Could"... if only.
My father was in the Polish army in the war his friend Anton Golba who was later in the Polish underground and was captured and sent to Auschwitz. I remember him saying that when the gas’ chambers were so overloaded with women ,babies and elderly the Germans had the prisoners dig massive pits to burn them. Anton mentioned how one Christmas at Auschwitz the German guards were singing the German Christmas song Oh Tannenbaum while they flung babies and small children ALIVE into these burning pits. I visited Auschwitz with my father back in the 1970’s and those massive pits were still there.
Auschwitz had over 8,000 SS people working there, Germans of course but also Austrians and Ukrainian who were just as vicious. Out of the 8,000 SS I think less than 100 were hanged. That’s what you call total injustice!
Didn't the BBC reporter David Dimbleby enter Bergen Belsen with the British army and make a report on it .
Albert Pierrepoint had a career to be jealous of.
Got the adverb right on this one
Obersturmführer
Is equivalent to 1st Lieutenant
It was not nazis. It was Germans. Remember.
They did not do it because they were Germans. They did it because they were nazis. Please keep the destinction. No German born after the war is responsible for these horrific actions. But nazi supporters and holocaust deniers have part of the guilt, not because they are German. But because they are nazis.
@Jason L don't you dare tell me, I am the same as the people, who butchered millions and caused the death of even more people.
That's xenophobic and nothing else.
Thankyou for your videos. I've got quite addicted to them but learning to much about how evil humans can become.
I’m somewhat of a history aficionado but I’d have a difficult time to go to Auschwitz or the other camps. People say that it’s really disturbing to be there
If it's disturbing now think of how it was when these camps were actually open. I've heard some of this survivors say that it was worse than stepping into hell.
Thoroughly evil sweinhund, got his just deserts.
Interesting video, well produced. Thank you 👍🏻👍🏻
I agree! Thanks for your comments and support Steve.
The spelling is Schweinehund you just learned something !!!!!!
@@rolandschramm3662 Ta 👍🏻
One of my relatives liberated Belsen.
Pause the video at 8:01 number "9" is not Irma "Grayz" but Irma Grese, (pronounced Gray-zuh). She was hanged, as the hangman was putting the noose around her neck, her last word was "Schnell".
I do understand that guards were given orders that they had to follow or suffer the consequences themselves, however some of these animals really seem to enjoy the power of life and the brutality that came with it. Some of the female guards were just as evil
nazis and communists both different sides of the same coin if you ask me
Quite so.
Nobody asked you. You have no idea what you are talking about.
@@marcgrossman980 Oh yes I HAVE, and I am certainly NOT asking YOU. Who do you thnk you are??????
@@renatovonschumacher3511 did the Russians kill 14 million civilians, including women and children? Did they try to exterminate 2 ethnic groups?
@@marcgrossman980 Just study Stalin and Mao and you have your answer. They have many times your number on their conscience - 60 to 80 millions - each of them.
What's so sad is that so few regretted their actions
None of them did. Not one. Germans are too arrogant to admit they were never guilty just following orders. Makes me sick just mentioning them.
Bro please do Ilse Koch
Man's inhumanity to man.
Evil is never too far from the heart of man...
The important message to remember from this...
Is that history is speaking to...YOU!
At one point all these people lived ordinary lives...and would have considered themselves as "good" people...
Looking at the faces of the camp guards men and woman sociopath's if you ask me > I bet the Nazi's sought out this kind person for the job ! .......
Instead of this crime's against humanity , could've joined the Wehrmacht even if were sent to the Russian front !
@@sheepsfoot2 Well spotted!
Here's the thing...people of a certain persuasion... seek opportunities...
...and there is no better place than places of power...
Give power over one to another (priest, nun, police officer, soldier, politician) and you are, whether you know it or not... " asking for it"
Humanity is well-populated with malevolent individuals always on the lookout for that "opportunity", especially if that said opportunity is cloaked in immunity... so beware...of who you give your "power" to...
@@ikm64 Yes just look at the corvid lockdowns , state premiers were loving there new powers !
@@sheepsfoot2 "Certain people" will exploit any opportunity...regardless of how it arrives.
A SS Cook conjures up some funny images. Might explain why he was such a miserable human being.
My Uncle Sid had the task of guarding Rudolph Hess at Spandau during the late sixties early seventies...I asked him once what he was like....he said of all the people he'd ever met...never had he met anyone so evil...he said it emanated from his body like an odour.
And Hess supposedly wasn't one of the really bad ones. He flew to Scotland early in the war, before the really horrendous concentration stuff started and allegedly thought he was going to arrange a peace agreement with the UK
Thank you for sharing.
Really love both of your channels. Thank you for all your hard work and for always explaining things clearly
"Will the last man hanging please remember to close the trap door."
must be Hanging Day today!
I dug up Mozarts grave once. I found him lying in his coffin erasing his sheet music. He looked up and shouted "Close the lid my boy, can't you see I'm decomposing!!?"
aha, funny lad
Good 1 👍😁
Liked that joke better when Monty Python did it 40 years ago. Decomposing composers.
If I may comment on your video piece, I found it to be rather superficial and facile in some aspects of the commentary. The description of the war criminals ' hanging is unnecessary speculative. .....how can you possibly describe what the condemned were thinking? Using terms such as Evil, to describe what happened during the Final Solution is also simplistic, and fails to take into account the cultural, societal , and political structures which gave rise to these monumental and tumultuous historical events. Ideologically, some of the Nazi hierarchy believed there was no more urgent and important task than the establishment of a purely "Aryan" continental population, and that only the S S were uniquely fitted to the task, however onerous and burdensome. The fact that the resources devoted to this task, at the height of the war in the Ostfront, depleted the military effort against Russia, demonstrates this fact. It is all too simple to label these characters as evil monsters, when it was ideology, politics, propaganda, and learned cultural prejudices, which gave them "permission" to act in the ways which appall us all today. Also, your titles raise the debate as to whether any judicial, state sponsored execution, whatever the circumstances, is ever justified, or deserved, in a civilized society ? Perhaps you could consider these areas in future publications, and dwell less on the tabloid gore , shootings, and neck snapping, which pander to a sensationalist element in our own society. "Lest we forget."
Your comment is one of the most balanced and intellectually honest I have ever read on this subject. Too many people succumb to unrestrained emotionalism every time Germany's actions in WWII are mentioned. One is not required to sympathize with such men in order to understand their positions. The Third Reich perished 76 years ago and that particular war is now a subject for historical analysis, not hysterical caterwauling.
The allies were aware of what was going on. The reasons and excuses for not doing anything are many. There was never any excuse for this murderous spree. Do not forget the non Jewish people who were sent to the camps because there were a million or or two of these people. The vengeance killings post war were just as cruel and disgusting.
The Americans declined to bomb the rail lines feeding people into the camps (see "John Jay (sic) McCloy", a top U.S. official who'd been a pre-war lawyer for the I.G. Farben chemical giant that had profited from the Auschwitz rubber works, inter alia, and who (McCloy) nixed the suggested bombing).
79 animals not worth breathing, voted this down so far
Don’t look down on the nazis look at what’s happening now
I wasn't even born during this horror show. Yet, every documentary I've seen about the holocausts, makes my blood boil. Justified Execution of these... I dont even know how to classify them. Certainly not humans. These Nazis. They got far kinder than any of them deserved. If it had been up to me, I'd have been more ... Creative. They would have suffered in the same way they brought suffering to others. Civilized laws are for civilized people.. Nazis were not civilized, nor human. Not even animals kill for the pleasure of it. Nazis deserved no such consideration, or a compassionate death. Their crimes will never be paid in full.
Many? Actually very few, they only had 24 defender seats in the Nuremberg court room so the US only prosecuted 24 of the mass murderers that were in the camps in their zone of control! Hundreds of policemen who participated in the einsatzgroupen went right back to being cops after the war. Over 11 million people were killed in camps and actions. What did each defendent kill half a million each?
Is not this going on right now with other countries and God’s children?
While. Our ever asleep leader does nothing
He Little Joe, we are ALL Gods children
and He expects us to live in that manner
I wonder just how many of our “leaders” know and respect Gods created children
There Will be a Price to pay folks
Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfähigen. (Isaac Asimov)
I don't know how many of if yiu visited Auschwitz, but I did...once you enter you exit another man, I cannot describe in words what is the felling, so many people perished, so many children were murdered, I have no words.
They keep looping the same video...
Yes, watch for the tall nun; she is in them all. By gosh, she really got around, didn't she?
Aha! There she is again ------ the nun who appears to be about 6'6" tall. She must fascinate you because she appears in almost every video in every KZ. Anyone else notice this?
It's all very interesting but I find it hard to listen to the one who is telling the story. He sounds like a computer voice. Sorry. I wouldn't do much better maybe but it would be nice to have a better narrator.
Who’s the man in the photo at 8:36? Second from the right, next to Hossler I think. I’ve seen him in so many Auschwitz photos. He’s always smiling or laughing and it pisses me off.
Show the execution so that one can verify that the execution has taken place.
Note the hair cuts on the Nazis ... remind you of the torch bearers in Charlottesville?
Different time, same folks.
Many criminals back then walked free. Nowadays there is a risk Donald John Trump will walk free.
it is Hoessler not Hossler as pronounced by the narrator
they so pathetic when they saw the real justice ⚖ great respect for the heroic men's and women's from the army of America and the British army.
Two wrongs don't make a write. What was the name of the factory in the KZ. Can anybody answer this question who was the tattoo artist who did the numbers
Cant believe such progressive policies.
The usual annoying toneless narrative. For God's sake get someone else to do the comments.
The deadpan narration style spoils these videos.
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It's pronounced 'hersler' not 'hossler'
Can you cover Franz stangl next please
Can anyone explain why and when the word holocaust has been changed to Holocaust with a capital "H". Who decided on the change? I have an BA in Modern History and cannot find the answer, now studying for an MA. Thanks for your help.
I would assume that the media along with academia took to referring to "The Holocaust" as a way to highlight the evilness of man.
Weird.... I tried to reply, but it seems to have vanished! There’s a New Republic article that discusses it and suggests the capitalisation/proper noun appeared in the 60s, but became common after the Meryl Streep miniseries in 1978. Best of luck with your MA!
@@nattynoodlenutkin I have no issue with the capital "H", I am just curious as to how it became the acknowledged norm. What would happen if we referred to the Queen with a lower case "q". I suspect there would be outrage.
@@markpattinson4627 I didn’t suggest you had a problem, I merely tried to help you find the answer to your question. In answer to your new question about the Queen, it is capitalised because it is a title. If you are talking about her as a queen, you don’t need a capital Q. It’s just a language convention. Hope that helps!
@@nattynoodlenutkin It does, thank you. I am also interested in the number of people ( guards and interns) starved to death by the Allied bombing raids (Bomber Command) on the supply lines. This also needs investigating. Did this contribute to the appalling death toll? There is no good answer. Just happy this will never happen again.
Lesson: If you're going to get executed by someone, choose the British.
Bro please do Ilse Koch ?
He did..
@@baddoopey no he didn’t
@@jadengarcia5086 Someone did, I've seen it.
@@harrycurrie9664 but I am talking about this channel