My grandparents went through the camps. It was hell. They kept them there until they were well enough to go to a displace persons camp. They lived there for a year, then emigrated to the states. Many people died from overeating after starving for so long. Some just died from malnourishment and disease that wasn’t caught fast enough by the liberators. They were forever grateful to the ally armies for fighting back the Nazis and liberating them from literal hell.
Many died of disease even after liberation, regardless if the aid they received. And far too many were killed or driven away, when they tried to return to their homes.
No. The soldiers did not know about the camps or the horrific events in those camps. It was beyond comprehension to begin with. The townspeople around these camps? You bet they knew.
By soldiers are you talking about Allied troops or Wehrmacht? To be fair I've assumed that other than SS very few knew. I agree about the townspeople. They knew or had a good enough idea.
By 1945, allied soldiers should have known. I presume that was what Janovic was reading about, when he was saying that the Germans were bad. The allied high command knew about it in 1942, because the Polish resistance broke into Auschwitz set up a cell there and got information out. Initially the cell was just about Polish soldiers who had been sent to Auschwitz one and had been forced to build the wider camp infrastructure and subcamps. They then told the world about the extermination camp at Auschwitz II Birkenau. When the allies liberated North Africa, they also ran into the beginnings of murders of Jews there. She has been rounded up and men had been worked to death, while Jewish communities had been pillaged by the Nazis. The United States and the United Kingdom actually covered it up because they didn't want to lend any credence to the Nazi claims that the allies were fighting for Jews. By 1943, the Allies couldn't cover it up anymore, as protests broke out in the democratic countries. But they didn't really do anything to stop it either other than the invasion. I think the average American soldier in Europe knew something was happening, but had no idea about the extent of it. As for German soldiers, they damn well knew about it. Hundreds of thousands had participated working with the SS Einsatzgruppen when they invaded Poland and the Soviet Union by rounding up Jews and others, taking them to excluded locations often with pre-existing trenches or even bomb shelters and lining up people by the tens of thousands forcing them to strip and machine gunning them. Even if they didn't individually go down the line shooting men, women, and children and then stabbing or shooting anyone still alive, they saw it. There were thousands of work camps and the German civilians absolutely knew about it.
@@blairhaffly1777 They were propagandized into thinking sending people to the camps was a good idea because they were led to believe "the undesirables" were less than human. This was due to the galvanization of the public by Joseph Goebbels Nazi propaganda machine with the marketing knowledge he gained from Edward Bernays' psychological manipulation in the rise of marketing and advertising in the 1920's USA. That same sort of devious application is the bible of advertising and government publicity offices worldwide to this day.
12:35 The numbers tattooed on the arms was a reference to Auschwitz. The same camp that they refer to as the one that the Russians discovered and liberated. With the gas chambers. It's likely those prisoners were transfers from Auschwitz. Since that camp was the only one that branded the prisoners with numbers.
Auschwitz II Birkenau was somewhat damaged by the Nazis on the way out, but the Soviets took it mostly intact. The Soviets liberated Majdanek, where most of my maternal grandmother's family was killed, intact. There they found the gas chambers, crematoria, articles of clothing left behind by the dead, and a literal hill of ashes.
9:17 yes those are french soldiers. Nazi germany was a brutal occupier to the nations it invaded and, as such, many of the locals of said nations built up resentment towards their occupiers. These kind of events were not that uncommon during the end of the european war when the nazi regime began to collapse. This is especially prevelant in the eastern front when soviet troops began taking back the land that was taken from them by germany. The anger soviet troops felt toward the german people was quite intense due to how germany treated the soviet people's during the war.
_This episode was what I hoped to warn you about without spoiling it but it is definitely the most important and difficult episode to watch by far_ The producers of Band of Brothers had it written so it was much more dramatic than the actual liberation of *Kaufering IV,* which was actually liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945 with the 101st arriving the following day. And there were only a handful of prisoners found alive, along with about 500 bodies.
I went to Berlin in Christmas of 2019. Around the city you will see small brass markers in the sidewalks. They indicate person, their name, birthdate, etc. And it shows when they were killed in the camps. Its really sobering.
@Pat Ludwa No, the markers I'm referring to are not for people killed while trying to cross the Wall. Honestly, there is no mistaking them. ie: 'Ermordet Auschwitz 16.1.1943'
The scene at 9:51 always makes me laugh because it was filmed at the same warehouse that the Bastogne scenes were filmed. Before the fake snow was added.
Tom Hanks playing a French soldier. The French soldiers who were still around when the Americans and Brits were liberating France and conquering Germany were quite brutal in their revenge on German soldiers for raping and pillaging their women and country earlier. Can't say I blame them.
Spiers fell in love with a British woman whose husband was thought to have been killed in action and they had a son together. He was sending the loot back for his family. Then after the war her husband turned out to have been taken prisoner and she picked him over Spiers.
I have just been listening to the HBO Podcast and Matt Settle who played Speirs said that Speirs would not engage with the making of the series because Ambrose misrepresented his wife in his book. That story about her being married to someone else was untrue. He was seriously pissed with Ambrose. Settle only met Speirs face to face at the premiere of the series in Normandy. They formed a friendship from there but if Ambrose hadn’t misrepresented his wife in the book, he probably would have been more involved in the series.
No that's just a war reference in general. It was noted by many soldiers that injured and dying men, especially the younger ones, would call out for their mothers.
3:10 I think of it the same way as the Confederacy or any other similar bad sides in a war. Like, the leadership of the Nazis or the Confederates were bad guys, no doubt. But the ordinary people on the front lines were often just regular guys drafted into duty who happened to have he bad luck to have born in the geographical location that was in the wrong in that war. I think the last episode of Band of Brothers handles this well when (SPOILER for Ep10) the high ranking German Officer is speaking to his men after surrendering to Winters and Winters sees that the relationship the German has with his men is exactly the same as Winters feels about Easy Company.
Check out we stand alone together, the documentary that accompanied this mini series. It is the full length interviews with the men of Easy company 506th PIR.
When you're severely malnourished, eating even a normal amount can cause your whole system to just shut down. You have to very carefully by small steps bring your food intake back to normal.
How they were able to get the prisoners to look like that was they hired terminally I'll cancer patients from a nearby hospital to portray them. One of the patients was a major history buff and the second he heard they needed people for that scene, he persuaded a large number of his fellow patients to audition as well. And well, the rest is history and their involvement made the scenes so much more impactful.
There were actually only a handful of prisoners found alive when the camp shown in Band of Brothers, *Kaufering IV,* was liberated by the 12th Armored Division.
Dude, you caught every aspect of this episode. The contempt scene with the German officers wife, the concentration camp scene and the execution of the German soldiers by French soldiers - you are a bright man!! A I mentioned, I've watched many reaction vidoes and most have no idea what they're watching and are ignorant to everything. You, on the other hand, caught it all. Way to go!!
6:36 @Rideout Reviews you are so right man. I've had friends who went overseas, did their time in service, saw some things no one should have to see. War really does change a person, doesn't matter if you're the hardest SOB on the block
There is a layered message with the interviews, and the subject of this episode. The vets were right. Those Germans were men just like them. They loved their families, cared about their country, and had similar interests. They were led astray into evil. Most did not take part in it, but they were still under it's shadow. Both soldier, and civilian. Even some of the SS that were drafted as young boys. For a parallel example, look at the Soviet Union under Stalin's control. Stalin by direct order, and the leadership who believed in their Marxist ideology killed directly, or by fanatical incompetence, killed tens of millions more than Hitler. Most of them their own citizenry. Then there is Japan, and the horror they committed onto main land China, Manchuria, Korea, and the Pacific Island nations. Now think about those Americans. Good men, and woman. Not perfect, but what happens if our country is led astray. The point is, any society can be led to evil. I feel that we are at a cross roads right now. Many paths that can leas to a damnation. Not just by one group, but many fighting for control.
As an aficionado of alternate history, I sometimes indulge in concepts of my own imagining. One in particular comes to mind. Suppose a different kind of Second World War had been fought. Instead of a world where the Axis Powers won, contemplate instead a 20th Century that saw Germany pitted against the United States under the following conditions: The Socialist revolution led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in 1919 had succeeded. They were able afterward, in the course of the 1920s, to somehow build for postwar Germany a stable system of government and a vigorous economy that became a model for the West to admire and emulate. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the USA sank into isolationism. The Ku Klux Klan had undergone a surge in popularity in the years before the war, and under the leadership of its flamboyant and charismatic leader D. C. Stephenson, now skyrocketed in its membership. By the end of the 20's, Stephenson had skilfully rode the wave all the way to the Oval Office, and the US became a WASP's paradise, with all others either deported or reduced to manual or domestic labor. Then the Depression came, and Stephenson or his successors really put the screws on the non-WASPs, while liberal Germany led an economic coalition in Europe that kept conditions from degenerating into the desperation that seeped into the US. An interesting scenario, no? And, from there, it should not be too difficult to postulate a reconstituted Germany and her allies mounting a war to destroy the genocidal racism of the Americans. If you want to know more about Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and D. C. Stephenson, visit your local library. It's all in books! (Or Google them, if you're just plain lazy.) 🤔 😕 😬
So... facts about this episode. Not sure if I would say fun facts. The actors/extras brought in to play the Holocaust victims were actually real cancer patients going through chemotherapy treatments. Their appearances helped contribute to the depiction of the prisoners in this episode. Sadly, many of them didn't live long enough to see this episode premiere on television. The entire main cast was not shown the construction or the set of the prison camp until the day of shooting. The reactions from all of them are genuine. Seeing the camp for the first time.
A very sad yet uplifting story. Check out the reaction below. part 1 ruclips.net/video/a15JZW-A6rE/видео.html part 2 ruclips.net/video/BhtvrP9eWy8/видео.html
12:26 Yep! they didn’t know, the Allies didn’t find out about the concentration camps or anything to do with the Jews until 1945, 6 years after the war begun. This is mainly because all these camps were held up in Germany and further away countries such as in the east of Europe e.g Belarus, Bulgaria, Romania, where there was no war, so that the allies wouldn’t be able to find out about them, now obviously they found out after they entered Germany in I think march of 45’.
One of the toughest episodes. Hurts to watch every time, because you'll catch more details. They photographed these camps because they were smart enough to know eventually people would try denying it happened. Sadly we have those people around now.
@@racheng77 I'm not going to lie, I've seen in quite a few times and i didn't know it was him. I knew it was "someone" or they wouldn't have lingered or shown it, but not specifically him. Also, i think you meant baker not butcher. But I knew exactly who you meant.
Some background info that I find astonishing about this episode: The people playing the prisoners in the camp are mostly actually sick people, terminal cancer and such, they wanted to make a contribution to the series this way. Because it's really hard to make people look thin with makeup and CGI was in it's early days when this was filmed. In order to get the correct look of shock on the soldiers faces, none of the soldiers had seen the camp set or the actors playing prisoners before this scene was shot, they just knew their lines and that's it. In reality though, the Easy Company liberation of this concentration camp is fictional. Kaufering concentration camp (11 smaller camps in total around Landsberg, Germany) was liberated by the Screaming Eagles unit and the 12th Armored Division
Dude, I give you a lot of credit for realizing that the three who executed the three German soldiers were French soldiers. Their uniforms is what told you that. Good for you!! Way to go!! Every reaction video I've watched -- no one realizes that those soldiers were French. Most have no idea what they're watching and have no idea the details of history. You seem to be different. Good for you!!
most the german army were just soldiers not necessarily Nazis, the Waffen ss were the armed branch of the Nazi party, would be like a separate political army fighting along side the regular army. Regular german army generals didnt like the waffen ss being apart of their formations.
Nix and Winters really are, even if not the main focus of this series, are a great pair of best friends. Nix got divorced while serving overseas. Mind you, that was probably a really tough situation to go through. I can't even begin to fathom what Kathy was thinking, dropping the divorce bomb on him, using the old fashioned mail system, trying to locate Nix, just to tell him she's leaving him. He has survivor's guilt from losing the boys in the jump from the beginning of this episode, or before the beginning of this episode. And Winters is there for him, listens, and helps him get through it too. I think that even though you see how he feels, Nixon also pretty much switched mentalities when he saw the prisoners. He saw that other people had been through so much worse. And what he was going through was definitely weak by comparison.
All those civilians are guilty. Because they all knew what was going on. It literally rained ashes for several days when they'd burn the bodies. People like to make excuses that they "Couldn't do anything about it." But they could have. For example, Action T4 which was to exterminate disabled people, ended due to public outcry. Not to mention, there were plenty of people in recorded history that helped Jews or resisted the Nazis in even the smallest ways and were never found out. My family were some of the unlucky people who were found out, lost everything they had and one was almost sent to the concentration camps.
Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg had actor who are portraying vets away from Concentration Camp until day of shooting that scene because they wanted actors' actual reactions
The leaders of the the major countries, Eisenhower and a few others new what was going on. There where discussions at the highest level about bombing the train bridges and roads too the camps, try too shut them down. It was decided for several reasons not to.
There is a holocaust museum in Oklahoma City that puts it all in perspective. The camp here is a VERY toned down version of how bad things were in those camps.
Whenever I see American soldiers taking stuff from the German‘s I remind myself that people who said they didn’t know what was happening saw their Jewish neighbors rounded up put into train cars and taken away. The Nazi’s stole all the valuables left behind, family heirlooms, art, gold silver. It wasn’t just the Nazi’s plenty of their neighbors took it too. So, I never feel so badly about what the American soldiers take. It’s also true that the German army/soldiers were not generally aware about the camps. Anyone who was in the SS or married to an SS officer knew. The camp guards obviously knew. And anyone who lived in a town nearby any of those camps knew. To be fair, In Germany they have done an extraordinary job confronting and acknowledging this history. They say never again and they mean it. I appreciate anyone who can love their country, hate what it did and commit to doing better.
By late 1944/early 1945, you can be assured that "whispers" of the attrocities had made it back to most of Germany. The people and soldiers of Germany who had not taken part in the Holocaust might not have believed it was happening on the scale it was, but I'm pretty certain they had heard the rumors.
Allied forces did get away with a lot of “war crimes” but they were usually killing SS and Wehrmacht officers. However, this was usually done in retribution to Nazi war crimes. French soldiers often executed Nazi officers because, well… the Nazis took over their entire country, subjugated them, and humiliated them. American soldiers executed officers (and frequently even enlisted Germans) in response to things like when the SS massacred over 84 captured Americans during the Battle of the Bulge. After that, orders were given verbally by lower commissioner American officers that “no prisoners shall be taken” The US Army then proceeded to summarily execute German POW’s. The worst scenario of which was the Chenogne massacre, in which 80 German POW’s were executed en masse via machine gun fire. It’s important to note that these executions PALE in comparison to German war crimes during WWII, and if you were to put yourselves in the shoes of those American, French, British, and Soviet soldiers, I guarantee you’d also be equally angry enough to either lash out in such a way, or look the other direction when it happened.
Hey Rideout, i totally Unterstand your Opinion about the German Army BUT as a German myself, i can Tell you the Most that were in the Wehrmacht werent Bad People (from my Family were around 10 in the Wehrmacht) What im tryna Say is that only because there were Bad People that have been doing this horrible stuff with the jews MOST were really just fighting for their Home. An Exempel is the German officer in the picture = he was a Officer in the Wehrmach and the camps were led by the SS (Totenkopf Einheit)
Are you saying that the Deutches Heer did not join the SS Einsatzgruppen in mass shootings in the east starting in September 1939? Are you saying that the German Army did not itself kill tens of thousands of civilians in the East, rape, plunder, and burn villages in the Soviet Union? Are you saying that they didn't destroy entire villages and shoot 100 people or more for every German killed in retribution to partisan activity?
@@ronmaximilian6953 everything you said Was NOT DONE BY THE WEHRMACHT if u raped someone u got executed, they neither hat the time to do such things sinse they were the front line, it was the waffen SS who was doing such stuff since they were Roaming behind the lines. What youre saying Shows that you know nothing about ww2 accept what u see. There is not only black and white in this war. The Wehrmacht was fighting on the Front under strict rules to fight for Germany and not to kill innocents. Furthermore not even all SS men were bad, but thats a thing that would be to long to explain ( they had shorter Service time so alot of people joined them bc they wanted the war over asap so they can go home). Exen tho yes there were those things what u said done by the germans BUT those was not the Wehrmacht who for example raped people bc if they did itthey get punished aswell.
@@ronmaximilian6953 im not a nazi myself and i know those things happend and that there are allways black sheeps among them but when they did such stuff they got punished for it. For example in French: a villige got destroyed and people killed by the SS and some Wehrmacht Soilders in 1944. End of the Story the Leaders of this raid got courtmarshelt and hanged by erqin Rommel himself
One of the most powerful books anyone will ever read: Man’s Search for Meaning By Auschwitz survivor Viktor Frankl. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a higher purpose to their life.
think about this for a moment, it is estimated that about 80 million people lost their lives in WWII, 11 million of them were in the camps, that is more than 1 in 8 of the total losses were murders in the camps at the hands of the Nazi's, it kind of puts it into perspective the scope of the crimes against humanity that was perpetrated upon this world!
The views that the two men discuss in the intro were probably commonly held about the normal Wehrmacht (Army). The guards of the camps were not Wehrmacht though, they were Schutzstaffel (SS). As the show stated, the SS were Nazi through and through. There were a few cases during the liberation of the camps that the allied forces were so angered by what they saw that they rounded up the guards then tortured and shot them. I'm not saying that was the right thing to do, but in my opinion it wasn't the wrong thing either.
9:17 Well. Yes and no. The prisoners were executed because they probably deserted and tried to run. It is an offense punishable by death. Instead of surrendering with the large army of Germans that were seen marching to be processed as prisoners, they ran from their fate. And thosr French soldiers found them and enacted justice. French: "You ran into our home, our country, occupied us, destroyed our lives, and when you were supposed to face the consequences of your actions, you ran as cowards? Die." By the way, one of the french officers was a cameo by Tom Hanks. 😉
No, Webster wrote about this incident. They were captured and executed in cold blood. Webster also stated that the 3 German "soldiers" were boys who were not old enough to shave. That was not justice. That was murder of children.
One of the reasons why people deny that the holocaust ever happened is because of the numbers involved. This episode, and the actual film taken of the camps should be compulsory viewing during every history lesson in school, so that it is never forgotten.
Yes, what the French soldiers did is a war crime but please try to remember many of these soldiers would have been seeing home for the first time and witnessing what Nazi occupation had done to their country and families. They were only too aware of German atrocities a fact that this show goes into details explaining the American soldiers were not at the start. Hence Tom Hardy's character.
In my opinion they still dont have the right to kill umarmed men. Furthermore those were normal Soilders not any SS-Officers so idk how they should be treated different to ANY other soilder i the World bc the Wehrmacht were no Nazis ;) they were normal men fighting for their country just like the frech and Americans. So please dont try to excuse the French for their Crimes.
@@lordlorres2290 I''m not saying they have the right at all, im aware of the rules of war. and I'm aware that not all Germans voted for Hitler or were members of the Nazi party. Many did/were but that's irrelevant. I'm not saying they were right or justified to kill them only that its completely understandable why they did. It was a lot more personal for them than it would have been for the American soldiers. Especially if some of the French soldiers fought in the first war and saw what happened when the Germans were let off easily. Many wanted to see Germany properly punished this time around.
@@AlexC-ou4ju But Germany wasn't let off easily. The Treaty of Versailles is the single biggest reason for WWII. It crippled Germany so hard with reparations and sanctions that the people were looking to anybody who would throw that yoke off for them. They didn't start WWI, they were just casualties of a pissing match between rich royal fucks that started a war that they didn't have to fight.
@@ronweber1402 Germany did the same thing to Russia , they really have no legs to stand on. WWI was the build up of a new quickly rising power (germany) trying to prop herself up on two dying empires ( austro-hungarian and Ottoman) to try and stand a chance of overthrowing the Status quo powers ( Britain and France) to take over their influence. There's a reason Germany insisted on being a pest in French Morrocco in 1911 and taking Alsace Lorraine in 1870 and built a massive fleet despite not having much of an empire to patrol . Germany's expansionist attitude can best be seen by the fact that they were the ones to invade neutral Belgium and that the war was mainly fought in the territories they invaded, that is to say the land of the allies. Wilhelm wanted his colonial empire even if Von Bismarck had told him it was a waste of time and would bring war and to do that he had to bring war to the Established powers which he was able to do by giving AH a blank cheque of support when a terrorist group killed Franz Ferdinand. It was very convenient to their interests, too convenient.
Hi, I'm new here. Got recommended this because I'm bingeing reactions to this episode. Is your last name Rideout? Asking because always interested in tracking my grandpa's lost siblings. He came across 2 camps like that in the war as well as a ton of other stuff.
@@RideoutReviews nice! Same sort of. The typewriter bounced on my grandad's birth certificate so we have an extra T. He was the 2nd of 13 & born in Detroit. If you had folks from there in the 1920s or 1930s, you might be a distant cousin. 😂 Of course, the shader bar got slid on your part if so. We match the damn snow. Which is great cause part of my family wore red coats in one war, grey in the next, & settled their asses in the Red River Valley (Tex). Anything that makes their racist asses (not shit talk, we have stories) spin in their graves makes me smile. If you want to check out things, my grandad was Harris Weston Rideoutt (b Aug 30 1923 - d Dec 26 2009). He had a brother Tom Rideout & a sister named Pat (youngest, forget her last name). Harry served in WW2 with 22 landings, was at Monte Cassino & more. Was in the first boat of the 2nd wave at Normandy, Omaha Beach. I can't remember the names of the camps he found & helped liberate, but one was one of the Auschwitz, maybe Birkenau.
the soldiers marching along the road were not Nazis, they were Wehrmacht, please check the difference. Wehrmacht was Army, therefore either conscripted or carriere soldiers but not necessarily Nazis. And they, too, gave up their life, just for the misguided ideology of mad men.
There were Nazi soldiers and there were German soldiers. They were not the same. German soldiers were the country's military and fought for Germany like an American soldier would fight for America regardless of who is president. A Nazi soldier fought for the ideals of the Nazi party, which are all the hateful things we recognize. Also at this stage in the war the German government (who were Nazis and a defacto dictatorship) was forcing children and old men into their ranks because they had lost so many fighting age men. Some of these children had lived in a Nazi Germany since they were 3--4 years old and had been forced to attend Nazi youth camps all their lives. They had been encouraged to have their families arrested if they spoke against the party and many of them did because they were so brainwashed. I certainly don't want their to be an excuse but it was all so evil and complex and horrifying. I both pity and despise some of these people.
9:00 well yes and no Them soldiers who were shot would have been the NAZIS who were trying to flee the camp that was up the road, they obviously got caught trying to escape. Now they would have been massively involved with the camp, so in a way, there is a right to kill them, but then again you are also right by saying it’s also a war crime but in that situation, it’s up to the person holding the gun
Did anyone else see the size of that camp of unvaccinated? Impressive that we’d make the same mistakes under “fill in the blank” reason why. If anyone would deny that’s what could easiler happen again, there’s a camp for you too. The new world order is just the reclamation of the old aristocracies.
Unfortunately antisemitism was a lot more common place in a lot of ally countries than we care to remember. in 1942, There was a case of Jewish refugees docking at a port in Miami, and they were told simply to turn around and go back.
war crimes, were committed by all the belligerent countries, specially those that suffer the most or contributed a lot specially with men power. USA , the UK, France, Rusia, even though they were the victors, they also did a lot of fucked up shit, and unfortunately most of the time, the civilians were the ones taking the worst part. but i tell you something specially when it comes to soldiers taking out in sight Nazi SS and imperial japanese soldier, thos guys went trough a lot of shit, they didnt started it, most of them were dragged half across the world to fight a war they didnt want but were surely gonna end it, im not going to shame or bring shit on them specially since because they did what they had to, we havent got in a conflict of this magnitude for decades, and its probably even our sons and daughters are not going to see a conflict like this in their lifetimes, i thank them for that, even thou a didnt knew any of them
It was widely known that the Nazis had stripped Jews and other minorities of their rights... but further atrocities were dismissed as propaganda. The Soviets first ran into camps about a year before the rest of the allies... but Roosevelt and Churchill assumed to Stalin was exaggerating to downplay the Soviets own war crimes.
Im a Native American... and we are told in this 4th world, we are retelling the same story again and again. Minorities of all colors being persecuted and with full intent... wiped out. When will we learn?
11 million is closer to 13 million and it wasn't just a religion. Actually, the only people killed by the Nazis over religion were Jehovah's witnesses, German pacifists, clergy who refused to go along with the Nazis, and thousands of Polish Catholic priests. (The Nazis actually weaponized malaria using the prisoners of the Dauchau priest barracks as food for mosquitoes and test cases of malaria.) Jews were killed on ethnic grounds and it included converts from Judaism. Roma/Sinti/Gypsies were likewise killed on racial grounds. Black Germans Born from the consensual and non-consensual relationships between French colonial soldiers and Germans during the French occupation after World War I were likewise sterilized or killed on a racial grounds. Lee Nazis tried to kill off most of the Polish intelligentsia, as they wanted to destroy the nation of Poland. And of course the Nazis killed communists and other political enemies by the hundreds of thousands. Something not normally counted in the Holocaust was the seven million Soviet prisoners of war who were starved to death. If you count to them, the actual number approaches 20 million.
My grandparents went through the camps. It was hell. They kept them there until they were well enough to go to a displace persons camp. They lived there for a year, then emigrated to the states. Many people died from overeating after starving for so long. Some just died from malnourishment and disease that wasn’t caught fast enough by the liberators. They were forever grateful to the ally armies for fighting back the Nazis and liberating them from literal hell.
Many died of disease even after liberation, regardless if the aid they received. And far too many were killed or driven away, when they tried to return to their homes.
😢an incredible horrific and sad event. I am thankful that your family was saved, but I am so sorry they had to go through that 😔
No. The soldiers did not know about the camps or the horrific events in those camps. It was beyond comprehension to begin with. The townspeople around these camps? You bet they knew.
By soldiers are you talking about Allied troops or Wehrmacht? To be fair I've assumed that other than SS very few knew. I agree about the townspeople. They knew or had a good enough idea.
@@cardiac19 Turns out Germans in general knew about the holocaust. Pretty disturbing.
@@blairhaffly1777 ok. That makes it worse.
By 1945, allied soldiers should have known. I presume that was what Janovic was reading about, when he was saying that the Germans were bad. The allied high command knew about it in 1942, because the Polish resistance broke into Auschwitz set up a cell there and got information out. Initially the cell was just about Polish soldiers who had been sent to Auschwitz one and had been forced to build the wider camp infrastructure and subcamps. They then told the world about the extermination camp at Auschwitz II Birkenau. When the allies liberated North Africa, they also ran into the beginnings of murders of Jews there. She has been rounded up and men had been worked to death, while Jewish communities had been pillaged by the Nazis. The United States and the United Kingdom actually covered it up because they didn't want to lend any credence to the Nazi claims that the allies were fighting for Jews. By 1943, the Allies couldn't cover it up anymore, as protests broke out in the democratic countries. But they didn't really do anything to stop it either other than the invasion.
I think the average American soldier in Europe knew something was happening, but had no idea about the extent of it.
As for German soldiers, they damn well knew about it. Hundreds of thousands had participated working with the SS Einsatzgruppen when they invaded Poland and the Soviet Union by rounding up Jews and others, taking them to excluded locations often with pre-existing trenches or even bomb shelters and lining up people by the tens of thousands forcing them to strip and machine gunning them. Even if they didn't individually go down the line shooting men, women, and children and then stabbing or shooting anyone still alive, they saw it.
There were thousands of work camps and the German civilians absolutely knew about it.
@@blairhaffly1777 They were propagandized into thinking sending people to the camps was a good idea because they were led to believe "the undesirables" were less than human. This was due to the galvanization of the public by Joseph Goebbels Nazi propaganda machine with the marketing knowledge he gained from Edward Bernays' psychological manipulation in the rise of marketing and advertising in the 1920's USA. That same sort of devious application is the bible of advertising and government publicity offices worldwide to this day.
12:35 The numbers tattooed on the arms was a reference to Auschwitz.
The same camp that they refer to as the one that the Russians discovered and liberated. With the gas chambers.
It's likely those prisoners were transfers from Auschwitz. Since that camp was the only one that branded the prisoners with numbers.
Auschwitz II Birkenau was somewhat damaged by the Nazis on the way out, but the Soviets took it mostly intact.
The Soviets liberated Majdanek, where most of my maternal grandmother's family was killed, intact. There they found the gas chambers, crematoria, articles of clothing left behind by the dead, and a literal hill of ashes.
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in every camp they had numbers tattooed on them it was a way for the Nazis to dehumanise the people over in the camps
9:17 yes those are french soldiers. Nazi germany was a brutal occupier to the nations it invaded and, as such, many of the locals of said nations built up resentment towards their occupiers. These kind of events were not that uncommon during the end of the european war when the nazi regime began to collapse. This is especially prevelant in the eastern front when soviet troops began taking back the land that was taken from them by germany. The anger soviet troops felt toward the german people was quite intense due to how germany treated the soviet people's during the war.
This episode was what I hoped to warn you about without spoiling it but it is definitely the most important and difficult episode to watch by far
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_This episode was what I hoped to warn you about without spoiling it but it is definitely the most important and difficult episode to watch by far_
The producers of Band of Brothers had it written so it was much more dramatic than the actual liberation of *Kaufering IV,* which was actually liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945 with the 101st arriving the following day. And there were only a handful of prisoners found alive, along with about 500 bodies.
I went to Berlin in Christmas of 2019. Around the city you will see small brass markers in the sidewalks. They indicate person, their name, birthdate, etc. And it shows when they were killed in the camps. Its really sobering.
@Pat Ludwa No, the markers I'm referring to are not for people killed while trying to cross the Wall. Honestly, there is no mistaking them. ie: 'Ermordet Auschwitz 16.1.1943'
The scene at 9:51 always makes me laugh because it was filmed at the same warehouse that the Bastogne scenes were filmed. Before the fake snow was added.
The man who shot the 3 German prisoners on the side of the road, was Tom Hanks in another cameo
Tom Hanks playing a French soldier. The French soldiers who were still around when the Americans and Brits were liberating France and conquering Germany were quite brutal in their revenge on German soldiers for raping and pillaging their women and country earlier. Can't say I blame them.
Webster wrote about that killing. He said the three Germans were boys who were not old enough to shave. :-(
Spiers fell in love with a British woman whose husband was thought to have been killed in action and they had a son together. He was sending the loot back for his family. Then after the war her husband turned out to have been taken prisoner and she picked him over Spiers.
I would too... Spiers stayed in the military training legions of Americas best. Loyal and honest to the end.
I'm glad she did. I'm sure she loved them both though.
He married her, just to clarify. So when she found out her first husband was alive, she went back to him.
Speirs was technically British himself. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but moved to the US with his parents when he was 3.
I have just been listening to the HBO Podcast and Matt Settle who played Speirs said that Speirs would not engage with the making of the series because Ambrose misrepresented his wife in his book. That story about her being married to someone else was untrue. He was seriously pissed with Ambrose. Settle only met Speirs face to face at the premiere of the series in Normandy. They formed a friendship from there but if Ambrose hadn’t misrepresented his wife in the book, he probably would have been more involved in the series.
Probably the one of the most depressing yet great hours of TV. Top notch episode.
5:50 "Guts hanging out. Crying out for their momma."
Saving Private Ryan reference there. 😎😉
No that's just a war reference in general. It was noted by many soldiers that injured and dying men, especially the younger ones, would call out for their mothers.
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I think of it the same way as the Confederacy or any other similar bad sides in a war.
Like, the leadership of the Nazis or the Confederates were bad guys, no doubt. But the ordinary people on the front lines were often just regular guys drafted into duty who happened to have he bad luck to have born in the geographical location that was in the wrong in that war.
I think the last episode of Band of Brothers handles this well when (SPOILER for Ep10) the high ranking German Officer is speaking to his men after surrendering to Winters and Winters sees that the relationship the German has with his men is exactly the same as Winters feels about Easy Company.
Check out we stand alone together, the documentary that accompanied this mini series. It is the full length interviews with the men of Easy company 506th PIR.
So respectful and honest about this touchy subject, that's why you have 355 likes and 0 dislikes :)
EVERYBODY NEEDS TO SEE THIS IN 2022.
Humanity needs a reminder and a kick in the teeth of how worse it could be.
When you're severely malnourished, eating even a normal amount can cause your whole system to just shut down. You have to very carefully by small steps bring your food intake back to normal.
An excellent reaction. Your attention and appreciation for this series is much appreciated.
How they were able to get the prisoners to look like that was they hired terminally I'll cancer patients from a nearby hospital to portray them. One of the patients was a major history buff and the second he heard they needed people for that scene, he persuaded a large number of his fellow patients to audition as well. And well, the rest is history and their involvement made the scenes so much more impactful.
I didn't know that. I wondered how they cast realistic looking holocaust survivor's.
Oh shit were they all -terminally ill- ? Never heard that detail about these cancer patients before
There were actually only a handful of prisoners found alive when the camp shown in Band of Brothers, *Kaufering IV,* was liberated by the 12th Armored Division.
WWII killed about 80 million people. That number is mind boggling and hard to wrap my head around.
Dude, you caught every aspect of this episode. The contempt scene with the German officers wife, the concentration camp scene and the execution of the German soldiers by French soldiers - you are a bright man!! A I mentioned, I've watched many reaction vidoes and most have no idea what they're watching and are ignorant to everything. You, on the other hand, caught it all. Way to go!!
6:36 @Rideout Reviews you are so right man. I've had friends who went overseas, did their time in service, saw some things no one should have to see. War really does change a person, doesn't matter if you're the hardest SOB on the block
You should watch the documentary series The World At War, narrated by Laurence Olivier.
A complete education
Great documentary.
There is a layered message with the interviews, and the subject of this episode.
The vets were right. Those Germans were men just like them. They loved their families, cared about their country, and had similar interests.
They were led astray into evil. Most did not take part in it, but they were still under it's shadow. Both soldier, and civilian. Even some of the SS that were drafted as young boys.
For a parallel example, look at the Soviet Union under Stalin's control. Stalin by direct order, and the leadership who believed in their Marxist ideology killed directly, or by fanatical incompetence, killed tens of millions more than Hitler. Most of them their own citizenry.
Then there is Japan, and the horror they committed onto main land China, Manchuria, Korea, and the Pacific Island nations.
Now think about those Americans. Good men, and woman. Not perfect, but what happens if our country is led astray. The point is, any society can be led to evil. I feel that we are at a cross roads right now. Many paths that can leas to a damnation. Not just by one group, but many fighting for control.
definitely right @Dirus. we can all be led astray. I think a commentator below said, Liberty is ever vigilant.
As an aficionado of alternate history, I sometimes indulge in concepts of my own imagining. One in particular comes to mind.
Suppose a different kind of Second World War had been fought. Instead of a world where the Axis Powers won, contemplate instead a 20th Century that saw Germany pitted against the United States under the following conditions:
The Socialist revolution led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in 1919 had succeeded. They were able afterward, in the course of the 1920s, to somehow build for postwar Germany a stable system of government and a vigorous economy that became a model for the West to admire and emulate.
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the USA sank into isolationism. The Ku Klux Klan had undergone a surge in popularity in the years before the war, and under the leadership of its flamboyant and charismatic leader D. C. Stephenson, now skyrocketed in its membership. By the end of the 20's, Stephenson had skilfully rode the wave all the way to the Oval Office, and the US became a WASP's paradise, with all others either deported or reduced to manual or domestic labor. Then the Depression came, and Stephenson or his successors really put the screws on the non-WASPs, while liberal Germany led an economic coalition in Europe that kept conditions from degenerating into the desperation that seeped into the US.
An interesting scenario, no? And, from there, it should not be too difficult to postulate a reconstituted Germany and her allies mounting a war to destroy the genocidal racism of the Americans.
If you want to know more about Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and D. C. Stephenson, visit your local library. It's all in books! (Or Google them, if you're just plain lazy.) 🤔 😕 😬
So... facts about this episode. Not sure if I would say fun facts.
The actors/extras brought in to play the Holocaust victims were actually real cancer patients going through chemotherapy treatments. Their appearances helped contribute to the depiction of the prisoners in this episode. Sadly, many of them didn't live long enough to see this episode premiere on television.
The entire main cast was not shown the construction or the set of the prison camp until the day of shooting. The reactions from all of them are genuine. Seeing the camp for the first time.
This episode is still making my eyes water every time I watch it. The reality of it is so great it’s still felt around the world to this day.
If you haven’t seen Schindler’s List it is a must watch. You should also follow this series with The Pacific.
He has seen and reacted to Schindler's List, well worth a watch. 😊
A very sad yet uplifting story. Check out the reaction below.
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Yep! they didn’t know, the Allies didn’t find out about the concentration camps or anything to do with the Jews until 1945, 6 years after the war begun. This is mainly because all these camps were held up in Germany and further away countries such as in the east of Europe e.g Belarus, Bulgaria, Romania, where there was no war, so that the allies wouldn’t be able to find out about them, now obviously they found out after they entered Germany in I think march of 45’.
One of the toughest episodes. Hurts to watch every time, because you'll catch more details.
They photographed these camps because they were smart enough to know eventually people would try denying it happened. Sadly we have those people around now.
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One detail most miss.. the German man sobbing digging the grave was the butcher from the town that Webster put a gun in his face.
@@racheng77 I'm not going to lie, I've seen in quite a few times and i didn't know it was him. I knew it was "someone" or they wouldn't have lingered or shown it, but not specifically him.
Also, i think you meant baker not butcher. But I knew exactly who you meant.
@@repeter I was just going by that he had sausages and cheeses in his shop 🤷♀️ But def the same guy.
The ending with the German woman is so powerful.
I believe those executed on the side of the road were runners who didn’t surrender. They were retired there in view of the surrendering troops.
The mind cannot even comprehend what these men saw.
That's how you know Nixon (well the tv-show Nixon at least) wasn't an actual alcoholic, he is way too picky with his liquor. xD
You should really watch The Pacific next and the documentary Searching for Augusta
The soldiers didn’t know but the generals, FDR and Churchill knew.
9:01 that's Tom Hanks' cameo in this episode
There were prisoners who ate themselves to death.
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Some background info that I find astonishing about this episode: The people playing the prisoners in the camp are mostly actually sick people, terminal cancer and such, they wanted to make a contribution to the series this way. Because it's really hard to make people look thin with makeup and CGI was in it's early days when this was filmed. In order to get the correct look of shock on the soldiers faces, none of the soldiers had seen the camp set or the actors playing prisoners before this scene was shot, they just knew their lines and that's it.
In reality though, the Easy Company liberation of this concentration camp is fictional. Kaufering concentration camp (11 smaller camps in total around Landsberg, Germany) was liberated by the Screaming Eagles unit and the 12th Armored Division
Imagine never knowing these things, and then one day you find a camp in the woods..
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Never ever forget any history.
Dude, I give you a lot of credit for realizing that the three who executed the three German soldiers were French soldiers. Their uniforms is what told you that. Good for you!! Way to go!! Every reaction video I've watched -- no one realizes that those soldiers were French. Most have no idea what they're watching and have no idea the details of history. You seem to be different. Good for you!!
That bothers me too. Or saving private Ryan, opening scene. So what battle is this supposed to be? Ugh…. 😩
most the german army were just soldiers not necessarily Nazis, the Waffen ss were the armed branch of the Nazi party, would be like a separate political army fighting along side the regular army. Regular german army generals didnt like the waffen ss being apart of their formations.
Easily the best episode
Nix and Winters really are, even if not the main focus of this series, are a great pair of best friends.
Nix got divorced while serving overseas. Mind you, that was probably a really tough situation to go through. I can't even begin to fathom what Kathy was thinking, dropping the divorce bomb on him, using the old fashioned mail system, trying to locate Nix, just to tell him she's leaving him.
He has survivor's guilt from losing the boys in the jump from the beginning of this episode, or before the beginning of this episode.
And Winters is there for him, listens, and helps him get through it too.
I think that even though you see how he feels, Nixon also pretty much switched mentalities when he saw the prisoners. He saw that other people had been through so much worse. And what he was going through was definitely weak by comparison.
To be fair, he did cheat on her. In Crossroads, when he handed Winters a pass to Paris, he said he was going back to England to meet a "young lady".
Need The Pacific after these
All those civilians are guilty. Because they all knew what was going on. It literally rained ashes for several days when they'd burn the bodies. People like to make excuses that they "Couldn't do anything about it." But they could have. For example, Action T4 which was to exterminate disabled people, ended due to public outcry. Not to mention, there were plenty of people in recorded history that helped Jews or resisted the Nazis in even the smallest ways and were never found out. My family were some of the unlucky people who were found out, lost everything they had and one was almost sent to the concentration camps.
Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg had actor who are portraying vets away from Concentration Camp until day of shooting that scene because they wanted actors' actual reactions
The leaders of the the major countries, Eisenhower and a few others new what was going on. There where discussions at the highest level about bombing the train bridges and roads too the camps, try too shut them down. It was decided for several reasons not to.
There is a holocaust museum in Oklahoma City that puts it all in perspective. The camp here is a VERY toned down version of how bad things were in those camps.
Whenever I see American soldiers taking stuff from the German‘s I remind myself that people who said they didn’t know what was happening saw their Jewish neighbors rounded up put into train cars and taken away. The Nazi’s stole all the valuables left behind, family heirlooms, art, gold silver. It wasn’t just the Nazi’s plenty of their neighbors took it too. So, I never feel so badly about what the American soldiers take. It’s also true that the German army/soldiers were not generally aware about the camps. Anyone who was in the SS or married to an SS officer knew. The camp guards obviously knew. And anyone who lived in a town nearby any of those camps knew. To be fair, In Germany they have done an extraordinary job confronting and acknowledging this history. They say never again and they mean it. I appreciate anyone who can love their country, hate what it did and commit to doing better.
By late 1944/early 1945, you can be assured that "whispers" of the attrocities had made it back to most of Germany. The people and soldiers of Germany who had not taken part in the Holocaust might not have believed it was happening on the scale it was, but I'm pretty certain they had heard the rumors.
I have heard that whether they admit it or not every German family has at least 1 peice of stolen Jewish property in their home.
Allied forces did get away with a lot of “war crimes” but they were usually killing SS and Wehrmacht officers.
However, this was usually done in retribution to Nazi war crimes.
French soldiers often executed Nazi officers because, well… the Nazis took over their entire country, subjugated them, and humiliated them.
American soldiers executed officers (and frequently even enlisted Germans) in response to things like when the SS massacred over 84 captured Americans during the Battle of the Bulge.
After that, orders were given verbally by lower commissioner American officers that “no prisoners shall be taken”
The US Army then proceeded to summarily execute German POW’s. The worst scenario of which was the Chenogne massacre, in which 80 German POW’s were executed en masse via machine gun fire.
It’s important to note that these executions PALE in comparison to German war crimes during WWII, and if you were to put yourselves in the shoes of those American, French, British, and Soviet soldiers, I guarantee you’d also be equally angry enough to either lash out in such a way, or look the other direction when it happened.
6:45 War. War...
NEVER CHANGES. Ooops, wrong video.
Hey Rideout, i totally Unterstand your Opinion about the German Army BUT as a German myself, i can Tell you the Most that were in the Wehrmacht werent Bad People (from my Family were around 10 in the Wehrmacht)
What im tryna Say is that only because there were Bad People that have been doing this horrible stuff with the jews MOST were really just fighting for their Home. An Exempel is the German officer in the picture = he was a Officer in the Wehrmach and the camps were led by the SS (Totenkopf Einheit)
Are you saying that the Deutches Heer did not join the SS Einsatzgruppen in mass shootings in the east starting in September 1939? Are you saying that the German Army did not itself kill tens of thousands of civilians in the East, rape, plunder, and burn villages in the Soviet Union? Are you saying that they didn't destroy entire villages and shoot 100 people or more for every German killed in retribution to partisan activity?
@@ronmaximilian6953 Yes
@@ronmaximilian6953 everything you said Was NOT DONE BY THE WEHRMACHT if u raped someone u got executed, they neither hat the time to do such things sinse they were the front line, it was the waffen SS who was doing such stuff since they were Roaming behind the lines. What youre saying Shows that you know nothing about ww2 accept what u see. There is not only black and white in this war. The Wehrmacht was fighting on the Front under strict rules to fight for Germany and not to kill innocents. Furthermore not even all SS men were bad, but thats a thing that would be to long to explain ( they had shorter Service time so alot of people joined them bc they wanted the war over asap so they can go home).
Exen tho yes there were those things what u said done by the germans BUT those was not the Wehrmacht who for example raped people bc if they did itthey get punished aswell.
@@lordlorres2290 Did you just fall for straight Nazi propaganda?
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@@ronmaximilian6953 im not a nazi myself and i know those things happend and that there are allways black sheeps among them but when they did such stuff they got punished for it. For example in French: a villige got destroyed and people killed by the SS and some Wehrmacht Soilders in 1944. End of the Story the Leaders of this raid got courtmarshelt and hanged by erqin Rommel himself
One of the most powerful books anyone will ever read: Man’s Search for Meaning
By Auschwitz survivor Viktor Frankl. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a higher purpose to their life.
think about this for a moment, it is estimated that about 80 million people lost their lives in WWII, 11 million of them were in the camps, that is more than 1 in 8 of the total losses were murders in the camps at the hands of the Nazi's, it kind of puts it into perspective the scope of the crimes against humanity that was perpetrated upon this world!
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If you are starved long enough, your stomach literally shrivels/shrinks a bit, so it's way, way easier to dangerously overeat.
This episode is up there with American History X in terms of required viewing.
Hey Rideout! I highly recommend you react to the movie John Q with Denzel Washington. Such an amazing story and i know you’ll love it !!
The views that the two men discuss in the intro were probably commonly held about the normal Wehrmacht (Army). The guards of the camps were not Wehrmacht though, they were Schutzstaffel (SS). As the show stated, the SS were Nazi through and through. There were a few cases during the liberation of the camps that the allied forces were so angered by what they saw that they rounded up the guards then tortured and shot them. I'm not saying that was the right thing to do, but in my opinion it wasn't the wrong thing either.
9:17 Well. Yes and no.
The prisoners were executed because they probably deserted and tried to run. It is an offense punishable by death. Instead of surrendering with the large army of Germans that were seen marching to be processed as prisoners, they ran from their fate. And thosr French soldiers found them and enacted justice.
French: "You ran into our home, our country, occupied us, destroyed our lives, and when you were supposed to face the consequences of your actions, you ran as cowards? Die."
By the way, one of the french officers was a cameo by Tom Hanks. 😉
No, Webster wrote about this incident. They were captured and executed in cold blood. Webster also stated that the 3 German "soldiers" were boys who were not old enough to shave. That was not justice. That was murder of children.
Nothing worse than losing someone when you're short. As in short timer.
One of the reasons why people deny that the holocaust ever happened is because of the numbers involved. This episode, and the actual film taken of the camps should be compulsory viewing during every history lesson in school, so that it is never forgotten.
I have one good nostril and I can still smell roadkill from 400 meters. They smelled the stench
Yes, what the French soldiers did is a war crime but please try to remember many of these soldiers would have been seeing home for the first time and witnessing what Nazi occupation had done to their country and families. They were only too aware of German atrocities a fact that this show goes into details explaining the American soldiers were not at the start. Hence Tom Hardy's character.
In my opinion they still dont have the right to kill umarmed men. Furthermore those were normal Soilders not any SS-Officers so idk how they should be treated different to ANY other soilder i the World bc the Wehrmacht were no Nazis ;) they were normal men fighting for their country just like the frech and Americans. So please dont try to excuse the French for their Crimes.
@@lordlorres2290 I''m not saying they have the right at all, im aware of the rules of war. and I'm aware that not all Germans voted for Hitler or were members of the Nazi party. Many did/were but that's irrelevant. I'm not saying they were right or justified to kill them only that its completely understandable why they did. It was a lot more personal for them than it would have been for the American soldiers. Especially if some of the French soldiers fought in the first war and saw what happened when the Germans were let off easily. Many wanted to see Germany properly punished this time around.
@@AlexC-ou4ju But Germany wasn't let off easily. The Treaty of Versailles is the single biggest reason for WWII. It crippled Germany so hard with reparations and sanctions that the people were looking to anybody who would throw that yoke off for them. They didn't start WWI, they were just casualties of a pissing match between rich royal fucks that started a war that they didn't have to fight.
@@ronweber1402 Germany did the same thing to Russia , they really have no legs to stand on. WWI was the build up of a new quickly rising power (germany) trying to prop herself up on two dying empires ( austro-hungarian and Ottoman) to try and stand a chance of overthrowing the Status quo powers ( Britain and France) to take over their influence. There's a reason Germany insisted on being a pest in French Morrocco in 1911 and taking Alsace Lorraine in 1870 and built a massive fleet despite not having much of an empire to patrol . Germany's expansionist attitude can best be seen by the fact that they were the ones to invade neutral Belgium and that the war was mainly fought in the territories they invaded, that is to say the land of the allies. Wilhelm wanted his colonial empire even if Von Bismarck had told him it was a waste of time and would bring war and to do that he had to bring war to the Established powers which he was able to do by giving AH a blank cheque of support when a terrorist group killed Franz Ferdinand. It was very convenient to their interests, too convenient.
Read Webster's book. He wrote about this incident. Those 3 Germans were boys who were not old enough to shave. It was murder.
That was rough, Paul. Real rough. 😥
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The black band on the picture frame means he was killed in action.
Hi, I'm new here. Got recommended this because I'm bingeing reactions to this episode. Is your last name Rideout? Asking because always interested in tracking my grandpa's lost siblings. He came across 2 camps like that in the war as well as a ton of other stuff.
Yep!
@@RideoutReviews nice! Same sort of. The typewriter bounced on my grandad's birth certificate so we have an extra T. He was the 2nd of 13 & born in Detroit. If you had folks from there in the 1920s or 1930s, you might be a distant cousin. 😂 Of course, the shader bar got slid on your part if so. We match the damn snow. Which is great cause part of my family wore red coats in one war, grey in the next, & settled their asses in the Red River Valley (Tex). Anything that makes their racist asses (not shit talk, we have stories) spin in their graves makes me smile.
If you want to check out things, my grandad was Harris Weston Rideoutt (b Aug 30 1923 - d Dec 26 2009). He had a brother Tom Rideout & a sister named Pat (youngest, forget her last name). Harry served in WW2 with 22 landings, was at Monte Cassino & more. Was in the first boat of the 2nd wave at Normandy, Omaha Beach. I can't remember the names of the camps he found & helped liberate, but one was one of the Auschwitz, maybe Birkenau.
the soldiers marching along the road were not Nazis, they were Wehrmacht, please check the difference. Wehrmacht was Army, therefore either conscripted or carriere soldiers but not necessarily Nazis.
And they, too, gave up their life, just for the misguided ideology of mad men.
The population of New York City is a little over 8 million people.
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That was a men’s camp
Evil does exist in the world....
There were Nazi soldiers and there were German soldiers. They were not the same. German soldiers were the country's military and fought for Germany like an American soldier would fight for America regardless of who is president. A Nazi soldier fought for the ideals of the Nazi party, which are all the hateful things we recognize. Also at this stage in the war the German government (who were Nazis and a defacto dictatorship) was forcing children and old men into their ranks because they had lost so many fighting age men. Some of these children had lived in a Nazi Germany since they were 3--4 years old and had been forced to attend Nazi youth camps all their lives. They had been encouraged to have their families arrested if they spoke against the party and many of them did because they were so brainwashed. I certainly don't want their to be an excuse but it was all so evil and complex and horrifying. I both pity and despise some of these people.
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well yes and no
Them soldiers who were shot would have been the NAZIS who were trying to flee the camp that was up the road, they obviously got caught trying to escape. Now they would have been massively involved with the camp, so in a way, there is a right to kill them, but then again you are also right by saying it’s also a war crime but in that situation, it’s up to the person holding the gun
They were children. Webster wrote about this and said those 3 Germans were not old enough to shave.
Did anyone else see the size of that camp of unvaccinated? Impressive that we’d make the same mistakes under “fill in the blank” reason why. If anyone would deny that’s what could easiler happen again, there’s a camp for you too. The new world order is just the reclamation of the old aristocracies.
Horrible, but important episode. Sometimes, we cannot look away. Never forget. Keep an eye out for societal warning signs and do not be silent.
Unfortunately antisemitism was a lot more common place in a lot of ally countries than we care to remember. in 1942, There was a case of Jewish refugees docking at a port in Miami, and they were told simply to turn around and go back.
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war crimes, were committed by all the belligerent countries, specially those that suffer the most or contributed a lot specially with men power. USA , the UK, France, Rusia, even though they were the victors, they also did a lot of fucked up shit, and unfortunately most of the time, the civilians were the ones taking the worst part. but i tell you something specially when it comes to soldiers taking out in sight Nazi SS and imperial japanese soldier, thos guys went trough a lot of shit, they didnt started it, most of them were dragged half across the world to fight a war they didnt want but were surely gonna end it, im not going to shame or bring shit on them specially since because they did what they had to, we havent got in a conflict of this magnitude for decades, and its probably even our sons and daughters are not going to see a conflict like this in their lifetimes, i thank them for that, even thou a didnt knew any of them
This episode doesn't even cover what they did...
It was widely known that the Nazis had stripped Jews and other minorities of their rights... but further atrocities were dismissed as propaganda. The Soviets first ran into camps about a year before the rest of the allies... but Roosevelt and Churchill assumed to Stalin was exaggerating to downplay the Soviets own war crimes.
Im a Native American... and we are told in this 4th world, we are retelling the same story again and again. Minorities of all colors being persecuted and with full intent... wiped out. When will we learn?
If I may make a request watch the movie MONUMENTS MEN... it tells the entire store of the Nazis robbing of Europe
11,000,000 killed just because of their religion
Not solely because of their religion but innocent victims who were murdered nonetheless.
Also if you were in wrong political party.
11 million is closer to 13 million and it wasn't just a religion. Actually, the only people killed by the Nazis over religion were Jehovah's witnesses, German pacifists, clergy who refused to go along with the Nazis, and thousands of Polish Catholic priests. (The Nazis actually weaponized malaria using the prisoners of the Dauchau priest barracks as food for mosquitoes and test cases of malaria.) Jews were killed on ethnic grounds and it included converts from Judaism. Roma/Sinti/Gypsies were likewise killed on racial grounds. Black Germans Born from the consensual and non-consensual relationships between French colonial soldiers and Germans during the French occupation after World War I were likewise sterilized or killed on a racial grounds. Lee Nazis tried to kill off most of the Polish intelligentsia, as they wanted to destroy the nation of Poland. And of course the Nazis killed communists and other political enemies by the hundreds of thousands. Something not normally counted in the Holocaust was the seven million Soviet prisoners of war who were starved to death. If you count to them, the actual number approaches 20 million.