The Einsatzgruppen: Hitler's Death Squads
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2023
- The story behind the precursor to the death camps of the holocaust.
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The fact Reinhard was so arrogant that he traveled in a convertible which eventually lead to his assassination, just reinforcement the quote, "pride comith before the fall!"
And the fact they never bothered changing the route driven
From what I understand, Hitler was very upset when he learned about Reinhart was using a convertible vehicle and ordered him to travel by armored car. Hitler considered Reinhart his heir.
Heydrich wanted it, he asked for it, and the Czech partisans gave it to him. The only negative of that was that they didn't do it earlier. For all his talk about Aryan superiority and breeding, with his widely spaced beady eyes and that snout he called a nose, Heydrich looked suspiciously like a ferret. Which was probably his own genetics as a rodent.
So the Nazi party had a badge that they would put on their car that would signify any of the party could use that car if it had that badge on it so could have been just fate that he was in that car. National Socialist party badge with a swastika on it and they will put it on the grill of the car and if you a party member you could use the car, they had these cars just sitting around. I found that little piece history very fascinating.
He had to ride in a convertible though. He was almost 7 feet tall and couldn't fit in a sedan or coupe.
I am 44 in October and have spent almost my entire life researching. I find your videos exceptionally useful.
Good,then its contribute and has been for over sixty years of my life ! NOT CONTR -E - BUTE.
true believers are the most dangerous
It’s on Netflix too !
@@philiprufus4427 your reply to Brianone has alot of grammatical errors so you probably should work on your mistakes before pointing out others.
My grandparents escaped Jonava, Lithuania a few-years before the war.
There were twelve children in her family.
I do not know anything about my grandfather. Nothing.
Her family were all murdered by Einstazgruppen. Approx seventy immediate and extended family were murdered in Sept and Oct 1941.
Elderly people, and babies.
I now see photos, pre-war, of many.
Little kids. A one year old baby named Mirale. She was my grandmother’s sister’s baby.
My mother’s first cousin.
Seventy family, plus friends, neighbours.
Everyone in their lives.
This is very, very difficult to watch.
It’s difficult to watch but important to know. My mothers family was from Vienna and her mother and 23 relatives got wiped out by the Germans and their enthusiastic collaborators. The youngest was a cousin who was only about three, Suzanne. Some were massacred by Einstazgruppen B in Minsk. Never forgive and Never Forget.
A lot of us have ties to WWII, my family are Italian immigrants. Two of which served under Mussolini. My grandfather survived service on the African front.
If we allow these crimes to be forgotten then they will be repeated. Nobody wants that to happen, except for sick minds.
@@philipnestor5034 You have to forgive for your own sake. You cannot forget for your own sake.
@@jamallabarge2665 no. One can survive quite fine without forgiving the unforgivable.
It’s not the type-of anger that’s all consuming; many are in our group-of family victims and survivors.
It is not my place to forgive those who wiped out my Bubbe’s entire family.
As she was actively dying, she was calling out her baby sister’s name.
It’s not a consuming anger. It’s an awareness that those who participated in these atrocities do not ask for our forgiveness.
Unless they, in their now-ended lives, demonstrated and remorse, or asked to be forgiven, it would be different.
But, most had zero remorse and would have murdered more Jews, had they opportunity.
Others have said it, but it's absolutely true. If more history were taught with such cohesion, charisma, and clarity, more students would realize just how vital and fascinating history is.
You, sir, make history live.
Thank you 😁👍🏻
History Yeah ! It was taught in my day ! (fifty years ago.)There was also plenty veterans about.( Both Sides P O Ws.)
Most of The Einsatzgruppen were civvy police not soldiers and Von Manstein was a N A T O Consultant in the fifties,he knew how to beat The Ruskis.
Just about some lousy krauts, nothing significant to learn here.
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it⚡⚡☠️☠️⚡⚡💀💀⚡⚡
@@DiD86 Not once did you mention that the Jews declared War on Germany in 1933 ,Now that History
I love this channel! The narration is excellent & the narrator has one of the best voices on RUclips.
I do to this is such a great Channel I always think oh I know so much about this and I learn so much more about it❤
Shame he has to put on comedy German accents
I think I have a crush on his voice and research. Equal to any I can name in public...that eff you was massive. Can't wait to see nextone
Does his German accent make your lady parts flutter?@@laurenjeangreenbean6301
Thank you from Israel. Meanwhile Hammas has learned a great deal from the Nazis. We have many young kibbutz members who are hostages. They are witnesses to the atrocities
Awesome release as always! Few points though, Ernst Rohm was not rumored to be homosexual, it was a widely known fact. Also, he did not kill himself. He refused (none too quietly) so was shot in his cell.
When Rohm was arrested he was in bed with young boy.
I believe it was Eicke who actually shot Rohm according to some
@@Demy1970 id never heard a name, very interesting!
@@Demy1970 I don't know the name but I remember him being shot by a LT Colonel in the SS about a week or so after the night of the long knives.
Theodore Eiche shot him. It was for this act of loyalty Eiche was promoted eventually to the Commander of Concentration Camps. Shortly after that though Eiche clamored for a field command and later became tge Commander of the 3rd SS " Totenkopf" Division...a unit which had an envious combat record on the Eastern Front. Eiche was killed later whole doing an aerial recon as a passenger in his Fieseler Storch Liason/Scout plane.
Excellent as always and linking to Mark Felton gives you ultimate respect- that is so nice to see in a world that rarely gives a nod to a fellow historian !
He’s the historian. I’m just an amateur with a flair for the dramatic.
@@DiD86 I think you may be underestimating yourself. I used to watch a lot of Mark Felton's stuff but gave up for two reasons, the over dramatical presentation and, though but an amateur enthusiast myself, the number of factual errors. He gets a no from me.
😆and a flair for comedy as well i see! @@DiD86 thank you for presenting this part of dark history so well, I really like how you make your videos.
Can you detail any actual Mark Felton errors?
As Stalin said: One death is a tragedy, one million is simply a statistic .
Wow, that's sad and sick.
One of the truest quotes ever
Palestinians are just a statistic now too.
Please give the source of this statement i would like to read it. i`mafraid a lot of so called historians put words into Stalins mouth which he never said at all. most of what we read about Stalin is just lying propaganda
Let's say if such absurdity is true. What does it say about the human race? Maybe animals are more civilised than humans..
Theres a great book called Ordinary Men. It looks at how the seemingly ordinary police officers who enlisted into the Einsatzgruppen, ended up killing 2.5million people.
Great channel keep up the good work. People must not forget.
I love history so much. It shocks me when people say they find it boring. Boring. Imagine thinking that. History is everything and anything that has previously happened. How can you not find interest in that? My problem is I'm too interested. I find so much interesting.
In addition to playing a role in the Einsatzgruppen, Arthur Nebe also selected the 50 Allied POWs that were shot following the mass escape from Stalag Luft III. Nebe however got his in the end after joining the conspirators who tried to blow up Hitler on July 20, 1944. Nebe was tasked with killing Himmler, but never got the order. He tried to lay low during the roundup of the conspirators, but his mistress ratted him out in January 1945. After a show trial, Nebe was hanged later that March in Berlin.
Thanks for the extra info. Very interesting. 😁
Yeah it showed Arthur Nebe being filmed as he was executed by hanging in the 2015 movie (15 minutes) it was about Georg Elser’s FAILED assassination plot. VERY GOOD movie 🎥
@@ChairmanPaulieDwhat is the name of the movie?
@@texicanamerican9346operation valkyrie with tom cruise
did you know the BBC broadcasted the remaining names of Hitlers death bomb plot conspirators , the day after learning he,d survived , ensuring their deaths ?
Subscribed. Good Solid Work! Kudos about the Reference to Mark Felton's on the Babi Yar Massacre.
Thank you for showing this ad for your time taken in finding so many details
I've just now found this "gem", of a video.
Funny I very recently seen a video about a "barn find Mercedes" thought to have belonged to Heydrich with corresponding damage like you showed....
A video by Mark Felton
I'm glad you're aquatinted with him.. Also good stuff
Finally spelled Mark's name right.....
I hope 🤞
2 Brits spewing hateful lies against Germans... what's new ?
Even how the subject matter is yes horrible, I applaud you for keeping history out there. Evil needs never to be forgotten again
Not forgotten and in full swing, as ever. The present situation in the US and the millions of followers of a similar maniac there are standing proof!
Don't worry,nothing has changed in my lifetime(born 1953) What happened in Germany could easily happen elsewhere. The Germans are A Highly Cultured People,Thats what has always scared me.
Who is the evil here? After WW1 Poland openly attacked Germany and that resulted in years upon years of border combat between germans and poles, and when in 1930s Germany pressed Poland to work out a solution for Danzig (which is a completely Germany city and was given to Poland by a criminal Versailles Treaty), and Hitler offered the most generous things, including letting Poland keep the port of Danzig and only let Germany have west Danzig, which consisted fully of Germans. Poland was pushed to not accept any offers from Hitler with the purpose of using Poland as a dummy. Polish bolsheviks started slaughtering all germans they could hunt down in there, they were mutilated, eyes gouged out, skin taked off from women and children, etc. That's why Hitler attacked, to stop this maniacal craziness of poles (and Jws too, they also been doing it.) You people here claim to be studying this subject for so long, but you don't know these simple facts
@@helenamaria710Europe is currently overflowing with fascists too! Hopefully we get our last democratically elected president in America. Imagine America without the restraints of peace and democracy!
@@lepersonnage371they always only want to hear the stories of the allies, and never listen to the other sides arguments. They also executed innocent people during and after the war but the allies act like they never commited warcrimes. I highly suggest you watch: “Europa, the last battle” it shows how Germany isn’t the guilty one in the war with all the facts that can be looked up to verify them.
One of the fallacies put forth by historical deniers is the rather odd idea that a particular historical event probably didn't happen because it seemingly "sprung from nothing." This is what those who deny the Apollo missions to the Moon use as "evidence" that the moon landings were "faked". Some Holocaust deniers use the same fallacy, claiming that the death camps couldn't have just come into being "suddenly." They're unaware of the Einsatzgruppen, and the years of trial-and-error, research, practice, revision, and "improvement" that went into the design and implementation of the Nazi genocide machine.
This video is an excellent review of the history of the Einsatzgruppen and the horrific role they played both in the direct massacre of Jews but also in making the later gas chambers and crematoria possible. Thanks again, from a regular Descent into Darkness viewer.
(I heard that, preparing for the moon shot, NASA rigged up a simulated moonscape, complete with moon dust, and hung the astronauts in their spacesuits from bungee cords to simulate the moon's low gravity, to prep them for the real thing. And of course NASA filmed these exercises---and these obviously earthbound films have been the source of all "fake moon landing" conspiracy theories!! AHAHA!! It sounds so stupid it has to be true!!
What does that have to do with the clearly fake moon landings?
Thank you for making your agenda very clear. Its great you made it extra obvious how much of a troll comment this is, i bet there's people so far gone they will be believe it 😂
Been asking for this! Appreciate the video!
Always happy to oblige. 😁
I am ever impressed with the research and concise commentary. Thanks for your efforts!
Much appreciated!
I would like to add a thing to this topic. Jan Kubiš, was born in: "Dolní Vilémovice" - therefore, he was of the Czech nationality; on the other hand, Jozef Gabčík, was born in "Poluvsie" (Rajecké Teplice) - therefore, he was of the Slovak nationality. Excellent video nontheless, and thank you for covering this topic.
Yes, but the latter was a Czech resistance fighter & not a Nazi sympathizer like his countrymen.
Thankyou so much for all thhe work you put into these❤
We've seen what our governments did in recent times. Just one step away...
I appreciate the details in these important and powerful videos. The sarcasm and condemning tone and comments make your style a cut above the rest
Thank you. 😇
Gotta give it to you as a German, lots of words to pronounce here. Largely very well done. Especially the "ch", which is apparently very hard for native English speakers. Some of the words are pretty outlandish, even to us. Like "Obersturmbannführer". It's nothing that even makes a large deal of sense in German anymore. But German military abbreviations and wording are still fucked up.
Also a great breakdown of a very dark part of history. Very detailed and in-depth.
I mostly get it from listening to native speakers and how they pronounce things. I can pick up languages really easy.
@@DiD86copying others 8snt something to be proud of
you should stop copying halfwits when you interact with people then@@cheezesmoker8851
How do you propose one learns a language?
How did you learn to speak? BY COPYING OTHERS…
@@DiD86 your comment had me chuckling, i really couldn't care less what you make of it. Have a good one
I really enjoy your narrative style.
As revenge for Heydrich, many was killed. A town named Lidice was wiped out too.
Even today , I would be uneasy in the presence of a German...A stain on the Human Race.....
Yeah I remember reading about how they had these death squads that were roaming all over Ukraine as well. And some in Ukraine have that attitude to this very day.
They do along with Germany and new neo nazi groups with a different name. Ukraine is full fascism. One of Putin's arguments. Though I don't agree with his war.
Indeed... Anyone that think that 🇺🇦 is just this wonderful land of smiles and human goodness... Well they haven't read much about the hollow cost (the AI will be unbeatable soon) and especially the mass deletion events in the east. There wasn't a whole lot of coercion needed to get the 🇺🇦ians on board. Once on board.. They enjoyed the work by all accounts.
Unfortunately, there were some Ukrainians who gladly helped the Einsatzgruppen rounded up and killed Jews.
Yup. Look up "The Ravine." It's a photo from October 13th, 1941.
Three of the Einsatzgruppen in that photo were Ukrainian volunteers.
The things that they did to Czechs, Georgians, Roman-Catholics, Jews, Poles, Ukranians of 'mixed-marriage', and any who harbored them were heinous.
The kids. The kids are what gets me.
B*bies on b**onets.
Live-immoliation.
They'd round people up into barns and churches and set the buildings on-fire.
Also look into the m*ss*cres of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
In one of those events, there was only one survivor. One.
There's a legitimate reason that I cannot support this proxy-war now. Azov ABSOLUTELY still follows their lineage.
They use the Black Sun, the Wolfsangel, and the swastika.
While half our population calls the other ones N**is,
the half making the accusations are more than happy to be buddy-buddy with the grandkids of ACTUAL N*zis.
Even Jewish historians state that without the Ukrainian participation being a blueprint for it, the H***caust might not have even happened.
If any believe it to be exclusive to Poland? Nope.
"The Ravine" was in Miropil, Ukraine.
There's a mass-gr*ve there from WWII, and another mass-gr*ve there from the CURRENT conflict, while they use WWII equipment now.
I'm somewhat late to the party (9 months) but I really wanted to say that you're the first person I've come across who appears to be so obviously comfortable and natural in the way that you pronounce German names and such.
It's very impressive.
These are very sobering and informative. Thanks for not putting loud music over the narration. 👍
Sadly it didn't end well for Czechoslovakia either. From one occupation to another.
Thank you DiD for another interesting video.
Great video. It brilliantly captures the rabid nature that was the Einsatzgruppen. Just a tidbit...Ernst Rohm did not kill himself. He defiantly refused to do so.
Hitler was hesitant in authorising Röhm's execution, perhaps because of loyalty or embarrassment about the execution of an important lieutenant; he eventually did so, and agreed that Röhm should have the option of suicide.[63] On 1 July 1934, SS-Brigadeführer Theodor Eicke (later Kommandant of the Dachau concentration camp) and SS-Obersturmbannführer Michael Lippert visited Röhm. Once inside Röhm's cell, they handed him a Browning pistol loaded with a single cartridge and told him he had ten minutes to kill himself or they would do it for him. Röhm demurred, telling them, "If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself."[63] Having heard nothing in the allotted time, Eicke and Lippert returned to Röhm's cell at 14:50 to find him standing, with his bare chest puffed out in a gesture of defiance.[68] Eicke and Lippert then shot and killed Röhm.
…Few years later the CIA implemented the same methods in South and Central America ( Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Argentina, Paraguay,Chile,Brasil, Bolivia) Etc.. They shipped and financed Nazi War Criminals in to the U.S. and those countries mentioned above to enforced “ Pax Americana during the 1950’-1990’s throughout Latin America..🫵🏼💀🇺🇸
Brutal Bstards.
Hitler had him killed because Rohm wanted the SA to be separate entity. . Ran by him. . Plus they had proof he was gay. . By that time the SA had over 200k members and that was not ok with Hitler. . He wanted ultimate power. . Plus the gay thing. . Have you ever seen The Greatest Story Never Told. ? Check it out if you can find it. . It's been scrubbed from most places. .
Thanks for the information.
@@jeffreybaier5312 the night of the long knives. . That is the biggest purge of the Third Reich up until the Valkyrie attempt on Hitler. . He had the offenders hung by piano wire and had pictures taken . . The fuhrer was OCD about revenge. .
I’m 68 have always been interested in germany through the years. I was stationed in Germany two times. It just consumes me. Your video is outstanding you make it easy for me to follow
I knew a guy who’s family were from Lithuania. He knew I had an interest in WW2 and wanted to know about his Father. He said he was extremely disturbed and violent towards his family. He said his father had a small tattoo on one arm, and they weren’t Jewish. I told him his Dad was in the Einsatzgruppen and there was probably an arrest warrant for him. He agreed!
So PTSD and a tattoo makes someone a former death squad member? Foolishness and slander.
@@Hunter_Nebid There’s a very strong possibility that his father was a “Special Constable” for the Nazis in Lithuania, and the probability is quite high that he was engaging in mass murder. You’re aware that you can’t slander dead people right? They’re not going to be on the phone to their lawyers. Oh, and his son was a peadophile.
Snitch
Human history is far and away the most important thing anyone can learn growing up. To know such thing happened on an industrial scale and that they can again happen anywhere at anytime given the right circumstances.
"It was a good throw" 8 days later..... "Goodnight Vienna" .. Brilliant !
😂😏
Someone has probably already mentioned it, but Ernst Rohm didn't commit suicide.
He was given a gun so that he could do so, but Rohm refused, and an SS fired the shot that killed him.
I'm looking forward to the new video. 👍
Yes, I’ve edited that part out now. My own fault. I should’ve made certain. It’s not a video of mine if there’s no mistakes! 😅
Thank you DD for your history truth that we can not afford to forget.
What hurts me is that these psychopathic murders were not brought to justice. They committed some of the worse crimes of the century and lived long happy free lives after the war. Shameful
Actually a lot were killed,esp camp guards.
This is superbly presented, in a dignified and empathic manner, reminiscent of Lawrence Olivier. WELL DONE!
19:55 the picture on the left. I just wanted to say that was a Canadian soldier in WW1, he didn't lose his mind or suffered from shell shock. This picture was taken after he either got shot or a bullet grazed him can't remember exactly but it's one or the other, he also had blue eyes which didn't show up very good in black and white pictures so both him being extremely happy he survived combined with his blue eyes not showing up on the picture makes him look like he lost his mind when he didn't.
I'm just saying this because I find it disgusting each time I see his picture being used and a lot of wannabe historians sharing it on their channels saying he went crazy when it's false. I also feel bad for his descendants who may be coming across those channels or anyone sharing his picture online with the false claim he lost his mind.
His helmet deflected a bullet and he was expressing his surprise, relief and gratitude for it having done so.
People will repeat the mistakes if they come away from a documentary like this with the idea that they would NEVER commit or would even fight against atrocities like the ones outlined therein. All it takes is the right conditions, and each and every one of us would happily visit horror like that on innocents.
I would like to believe that I would have the strength to end my life somehow before raising my hand against innocents.
@@alinapopescu872Everyone likes to believe that about themselves.
@@SC-jh9qp I also hope never to be given the opportunity to test my resolve.
Absolutely. Here in Germany it came all together. Deep economic crisis, a lot people felt treated unfairly, were agitated towards different ethnicities and religions, also frustrated and Hitler was the populist voice that they needed and the people that Hitler needed for his narcissistic cause. Since the Holocaust these characteristics were shown in nations worldwide over and over again. Especially in these trying times. The Holocaust may never be repeated in such a perfidious way but no one is born evil. Evil regimes and blind followers is more a matter of the environment and circumstances as you mentioned. It can happen in any failed society so let's stay woke 👁👍🏿 Edit: in the sense of staying alert of the mentioned signs not budweiser woke which is a different conversation
@@tyronevaldez-kruger5313 It's good to hear a German voice.
Impeccably researched, as always.
May mankind have the courage and moral strength to remember its deeds and acknowledge its shadows, face them and disarm them so that they may never do harm again.
Beautifully said, tyvm.
The Eternal jew is the enemy of mankind.
that's funny
Let's disarm Israel so they can't murder Palestinian civilians, like they recently done in Jenin.
And Putin?? He's the new "HNIC"!
There's a great book, the French author's name escapes me, bui it's titled 'HHhH', which is an acronym for 'Himmler's Hirn heißt Heydrich' (Himler's Brain is called Heydrich), something people high in the SS used to say to eachother.
It sounds like hahahaha in German, so it was easily done sneakily.
It tells the story of the death of Reinhardt Heydrich, and everything around it. Great book, about a truly horrific monster.
Sometimes people fantasise about what would have happened if Hitler had been killed before the war started.
Imagine what could have happened if Heydrich had won the power struggle that would have caused. That's even scarier than what actually happened, which is scary enough.
At that point, Heydrich could have easily won power, as well. Himmler was weak spirited, Göring was too fond of his lavish lifestyle, Göbbels was just a walking mouth.
@DiD86 I always counter that fantasy, Hitler being killed, with a 'be careful what you wish for'.
Stephen Fry wrote an excellent novel , 'Making History', about a scenario where Hitler was never born, and what could have happened then. Highly recommended, if you like that sort of thing.
Great video, by the way.
Thank you for keeping us aware.
At someone is making the effort to pronounce German names correctly. It makes such a difference...
Like the number of lice Nazis counted and reported on each victim's head in death camps
Another absolute banger of a video.
I watched the einsatzgruppen documentary on netflix and was an emotional wreck after that but i find this subject matter fascinating in the sense of what man can do to each other. Such a great and informative doc
Yep, watched that docu too. Absolute madness what humans are capable of. If you haven't already, you might want read a couple of books. Ordinary men. And Hitler's Furies. Two very difficult reads but these crimes must never be forgotten.
You were an emotional wreck? How weak are you?
FU@@tonyaughney8945
@@tonyaughney8945 nothing to do with being weak. It's called empathy. Empathy for the suffering of fellow human beings.. Something you don't seem to get "Mr tough guy"
@@fraudebs8786das Leid der Deutschen ist dir wohl nicht so wichtig?
Thanks for such informative and exceptional videos
Thank you for the efforts
The heart breaking fact is almost all of these evil killers escaped justice. Their atrocities especially in Russia is hard to comprehend. Simply because it was so massive and wide spread. The german army complicit also
Mark Felton great shout out... An encyclopedia of war.
I LOVE his channel. He’s such a better historian than me! Helps that he actually studied it properly, whereas I’m just an amateur with a flair for the dramatic! 😅
Amateur but we like your style and admire your commitment!
You should upload just the audio of these as podcasts. It would be good to be able to listen while driving
@22:30, interesting what u said on that, back during the civil war here in the USA particularly @ two battles: Antietam and Gettysburg, it’s been recorded that afterwards, the smell of the dead was so horrible. Also Grant had wrote a reply to Beauregard after the battle of Shiloh, “owing to the warmth of the weather I deemed it advisable that both parties be buried immediately, heavy details were made and now it’s accomplished.” That was in response to Beauregard asking permission to send a party to retrieve confederate dead from Shiloh.
@ Antietam where 22,000 men fell in 12 hours and weren’t buried for 2 more days, visitors said the whole 12 miles of the battlefield and town smelled of death.
@ Gettysburg, 53,000 in 3 days, was just as bad as Antietam and Shiloh, that a local Gettysburg resident Elizabeth Thorn, buried over 100 soldiers killed there in evergreen cemetery.
As General Lee would say “it is well that war is so terrible otherwise we should grow too fond of it.”
Wow, tyvm!!
Yes, I intend to cover civil war battles in the future as it’s a particular interest of mine.
It was so strange that the US still used tactics of single line open field fighting, even though they learned from the Indians to hide in the woods and to not be so obvious during the revolution. Then add modern rifles with lining up in open fields and it’s a bloodbath. The opening volley started with a bang and smoke followed by a grown from those shot in the front lines. They’d fall over and the second volley began.
You get 5 stars for being able to pronounce all the Schitzingrubels and Shnotzenbaums. 👍🍻
Nazis musta had a hellava ammo factory.
The assassination of Heydrich wasn’t exactly what could be considered “a happy ending”.
His death meant absolutely nothing to reduce the purges and the genocide. Quite the opposite, it was months later that the holocaust reached its terrifying crescendo during the late summer and fall of 1942. But so many innocent had to pay with their lives for Heydrich’s death.
It was though, as I said a great blow to the Nazi’s sense of invulnerability
@@DiD86 It was. But it really didn’t change anything.
No. That is true. I believe that even killing Hitler himself wouldn’t have changed much, either. Given who was around him in high positions, I believe Göring would have continued the war, but probably have left the military decisions to the generals, unlike Hitler.
@@DiD86 Here is another example. I don’t remember if it was Suchomel or someone else who said that if anybody “have had the courage to kill Christian Wirth, then the whole Aktion Reinhard would’ve collapsed”. But I doubt that. Even if they hadn’t found a man who possessed such astonishing efficiency and terrifying ruthlessness such as Wirth, they still would’ve found someone to replace him.
You are absolutely correct. It was indeed Suchomel who said it. Just for fun, I found the whole quote from Nazi Gaurds Part 2…
“If only someone had had the courage to kill Christian Wirth - then
Aktion Reinhard would have collapsed. Berlin would not have found
another man with such energy for evil and nastiness.”
I think Suchomel was correct about the last part of the quote but I agree with you that they would’ve found a replacement and things would still have carried on.
Thanks! Cheers mate great content!
Thank you. I really appreciate it.
This is a really good video 👍
I'm 67 and have enjoyed ww2 history all my life. But I wasn't aware until fairly recently that the nazi's started bumping people off imeaditly after the invasion of poland.
Sadly, yes.
The Holocaust basic started then. Just didn't pick up in pace and intensity for a couple years
This is chilling & appaling in equal measures 💔
21:45 -- RE: Himmler's Nausea; Lucky me, when I went to university (many moons ago) it was during a period of time when that university employed a living legend by the name of Elliot Leyton, who had achieved notoriety with a book titled "Hunting Humans". For 2 semesters every year for over 20 years, Leyton offered a course called "War and Aggression". In that course, part of his talking points touched directly on this peculiar human response to merely *observing* violence occurring to other humans. In the same way that a very large fraction (85% of everyone, ie. most of the time) of humans are susceptible to suggestion, most humans will become physically ill when observing something bad happening to another person. In a more cliched way is the idea of fainting at the sight of blood. That might well be one of the symptoms of nausea, in other words, but it also won't be a routine feature after repeat exposure. The long term effects are exactly as we might expect: a complex of symptoms currently called PTSD.
It is also interesting to note that works of fiction exist in a kind of grey area in terms of the emotional responses they elicit from audiences are not as likely to cause nausea unless they believe them to be real; in other words, being physically present to witness something requires no suspension of disbelief and for the most part fictional violence has been exaggerated for effective Affect. What we see does *not* constitute the whole of the experience either; obviously, there are also perceptions involving sound and smell. In essence, reality requires no suspension of disbelief and the subconscious part of our nervous system reacts faster than the perceptive equipment on top.
Himmler had probably had *no* experience of violence against prisoners and/or political enemies, but had kept himself isolated from it via the chain of command.
Gonna add a footnote comment to this with a link.
^^ Another Footnote: Humans are so affected by the acts of violence that it spills out onto other species as well. Some people don't react well to hunting game they have previously eaten, many don't want to eat meat after observing a slaughter house or a gross anatomy course in med school.
Another peculiar psychological feature which I guess is related is the human affinity for dogs. Prolonged and unnecessary acts of violence against wolves resulted in dogs with the added kicker that some humans must also be classified as Dogs, ie. no better than, also no worse than... and some dogs are.
The narration is out of this world.
Heydrich's face no doubt whatsoever looked SO much better on the Bull Terrier he stole it from. Thanks for posting the horrible yet necessary reminders of the biggest crime in history.
Savage! Like it!
And you’re most welcome, of course.
"Biggest crime in history", not by a long shot. 25 million civilian Chinese killed by the Japanese in WW2 and I am sure many others.
Lol seems like propaganda works wonders on the feeble minded...
I have always kept Bull Terriers. They are handsome dogs, nothing like him!
What’s shocking is the fact that so many of the Einsatzgruppen commanders had intellectual honorifics in their names like Dr or the fact some were Professors at universities. People think intellectuals are somehow more enlightened but in truth they might be some of the easiest people to radicalize given sometimes one can be too open-minded.
I remember reading that ironically the Einsatzgruppen had the highest literacy and education level of all units either in the regular army or Waffen-SS.
They are nasty people.
Just look at the educators in the US.
A disgusting group.
There is a great line in the movie Conspiracy, a dramatisation of the Wannsee conference. Gerhard Klopfer, from Nazi Party HQ, has become impatient with arguments over legal points and asks "How many people here are lawyers?" More than half of them put their hands up. "Oh Christ, it's even worse than I thought!" he exclaims with disgust.
Thanks for the history lessons
My supreme pleasure.
The picture at 8:30 was taken during the brutal ending of the Warsaw Uprising. Both the soldier with the submachine gun as well as the little boy (named Zvi Goldberg, but I'm not sure here) in the foreground survived the War. I suppose the Einsatzguppen active in Warsaw were led by two men who haven't appeared in the list shown before: SS - OStuBannF Jürgen Stroop and SS - OStuBannF Sepp Dirlewanger. The brutality of these two killers showed no limits, so that even the "normal" Wehrmacht filed a complaint to the OKW!
You meant Warsaw Ghetto Uprising I think. Warsaw Uprising was in August 1944
@@crazzylongears8835 Yes, that's right! The picture was taken after the Jewish defendants had surrendered to the German aggressors. Most of them were later deported to Auschwitz, with Zvi Goldberg being one of the few survivors.
Brilliant video thank you 👍
Lest not forget kids.
Your just as Human as these demonic people. The evil in them is also in you.
Its the Nature of Humanity that allows for our greatest and most Terrible actions
Another FANTASTIC video! A couple things:
There WAS a massive reprisal after Heydrich's death. The villages of Lidice and Lezaky were raised to the ground and the inhabitants all murdered horrifically.
Second, no mention of
Sonderaktion 1005? Maybe too horrific :( These poor souls were Jews who were forced under gunpoint to travel through USSR near the end of the war to dig up The ensatzcommandos victims to
Burn them so there was no evidence left of what had been done. Needless to say, there were far too many victims and the nazis were forced back too quickly, so many graves still remain.
Tyvm for details!
There is a very good story of this in the book war and reimburse by Herman woark
If You are going to tell the story, get it right.!!!!!!! If things are found wrong then it takes away from the brave people.
Both of my parents lived through the WW 2. Because of where and how they lived I say this to serve their memory.
its only a 30 minute video. he cant possibly cover everything
It’s astonishing how far from humanity we can travel.
This is one of my favorite history channels and I love history.
Worth noting is although nominally under SS organisation that over 70% of the volunteers actually came from police units and the amount of actual SS personnel was comparatively small. These men were never called to answer for their actions and many went to work as policemen again after the war for the allies.
Where possible, if it served their purpose, they'd record photo and video evidence of the inclusion of the willing natives of the occupied land, and often nary a German uniform to be seen. It was imo conscious inclusion of as many people as possible to bind them in violence and guilt to the murdered. They were often the only ones who were involved, especially in Ukraine and Balkans. Again, the hand of evil planning, the anticipation of potential events within the administrative departments and bureaus of civil and military and public, all drenched in the blood of the world...
ACAB worldwide
Bormann was not party secretary at the time of the Rohm purge, Hess was.
Very well presented dark history of the world. Great voice over and script too.
I hope that with these videos, people can finally learn about the atrocities of the soviets, khmer rouge, various genocides (recent ones too), pogroms, etc, etc as well and know that the nazis pale in comparison.
So far, the world knows so much about what the nazis did but seem to be ignorant to the other genocides and holocaust perpetuated by other leaderships.
These videos like yours and holocaust memorials simply shows what humans are capable of doing to one another.
Thank you for this.
"No German plans, or orders from Hitler, or from Himmler or anyone else have ever been found for an organized holocaust by gas and cremation of Jews. This is extraordinary as such a massive use of resources and transportation would have required massive organization, budgets and resources. What documents do show is Hitler’s plan to relocate European Jews to Madagascar after the war’s end. With the early success of the Russian invasion, this plan was changed to sending the European Jews to the Jewish Bolsheviks in the eastern part of Russia that Hitler was going to leave to Stalin. There are documented orders given by Hitler preventing massacres of Jews. Hitler said over and over that “the Jewish problem” would be settled after the war.
It seems that most of the massacres of Jews were committed by German political administrators of occupied territories in the east to whom Jews from Germany and France were sent for relocation. Instead of dealing with the inconvenience, some of the administrators lined them up and shot them into open trenches. Other Jews fell victim to the anger of Russian villagers who had long suffered under Jewish Bolshevik administrators.
The “death camps” were in fact work camps. Auschwitz, for example, today a Holocaust museum, was the site of Germany’s essential artificial rubber factory. Germany was desperate for a work force. A significant percentage of German war production labor had been released to the Army to fill the holes in German lines on the Russian front. War production sites, such as Auschwitz, had as a work force refugees displaced from their homes by war, Jews to be deported after war’s end, and anyone else who could be forced into work. Germany desperately needed whatever work force it could get.
Every camp had crematoriums. Their purpose was not to exterminate populations but to dispose of deaths from the scourge of typhus, natural deaths, and other diseases. Refugees were from all over, and they brought diseases and germs with them. The horrific photos of masses of skeleton-like dead bodies that are said to be evidence of organized extermination of Jews are in fact camp inmates who died from typhus and starvation in the last days of the war when Germany was disorganized and devoid of medicines and food for labor camps. The great noble Western victors themselves bombed the labor camps and contributed to the deaths of inmates." Paul Craig Roberts "The Lies of WW2"😉
My great-grandparents emigrated from Pomerania to the US in the late 1800s. Makes me wonder if I am related to one of the commanders you mentioned since I share a last name with one of them. 😑 Wack.
Reinhard Heinrich was the kind of guy that even the other Germans were afraid of.
At least as far as what I understand.
George Lincoln Rockwell. The picture your blog has. Great man. Reinhard Heinrich, how sad he was killed, would have made a great replacement for the Furher, when he retired...
@@michaelrokohl3220 I have to be honest. That escapes many people. But not you. God Bless!
Is there any chance of a video about Sobibor and the daring escape by all the prisoners.
Yes, that will be coming soon.
Much respect for touching on a very, very important topic even if it'll make the ad people angry.
Thank you so much.
Its these crimes that lost them the war. They could have had the benefit of support of the people of eastern Europe, who many of whom initially saw the Germans as liberators from Stalin, who wasn't exactly what you could call popular. Hitler's regime went insane though and the rest is history.
One of the most disturbing facts was how educated many of these officers were. They understood the full consequences of their actions. They were not ignorant men
Many of the leaders of the different Einstazgruppen were older and college educated. Some were professors, doctors and Lawyers. All of them believed in what they were doing. Just looks at all the lists they put out of each ,town, village , city, was wiped out and the details of the list as to how many men women and children were murdered, they were very proud of what they did. Let’s not also forget of the enthusiastic help they got from the local population,Ukrainians, Latvians, Lithuanians, etc.
I love your narration and you putting perspective in your videos, you should do a video of rineheat, there’s a documentary in his wife Lena,I think it’s called nothing to be forgiven,something like that, I’m sure it’s still somewhere on you tube..
Thank you. I’ll have a look for that doc you suggested.
Very well done.
Thanks!
Given that they were all volunteers whose purpose was the mass murder of civilians, it's amazing that any Einsatzgruppen members went free after the war.....yet most of them did. Every one of these monsters should have been strung up. This goes well beyond "following orders".
I didn't think Martin Borman was that close to Hitler at the Night Of The Long knifes. I thought he was still under Hess at the time and was still mostly unknown?
Important video. Only problem was ur characterisation of the Ardennes Offensive. Otherwise very good.
If this interests you? The book by Richard Rhodes' MASTERS OF DEATH is the most comprehensive on the Einsatzgruppen
And to think the allies released all the commanders of these groups, in the mid 50s, go figure…
Precise, accurate and perfectly delivered. I salute you sir. Excellent work!…on a dreadful subject.
The systematic digging of trenches, lining up, shooting was given a name by the bastard Eichmann.. "Sardine Packing" I suppose it sounded more gentle than the title Sadistic murder... Great video and info. T.Y.
Jeckeln
The ruthlessness of the Hitler regime is almost too monstrous to believe! My heart aches for those poor innocent people who died and were forgotten.
I wonder how the Germans could identify Jewish Czechs by lastname. Before the coming of the yellow star on jackets was the standard.
And its happened again, in most neighborhoods in most cities and villages all over the world.
And most didnt even notice ..................
Excellent presentation but there really needs to be a more intensive study of the Einszatsgruppen in relation to the commanders, all of whom were highly educated individuals. Law Professors and the like. That mix of hyper-intelligence and brutality, mixed with Nazis ideology. Which led to a mass slaughter that was both systematic and sealed the testament of evil that Nazism would always represent.
The Einszatsgruppen and its subject requires numerous layers of study as burning questions linger around those that were both its initiators and victims.
It all just serves to illustrate the multi-layered nature of the human mind.
Try "Ordinary Men - Reserve Police Battalion 101 And The Final Solution In Poland" by Christopher R. Browning, published 1992. Not an easy read but the clue is in the title, Reserve Police Battalion 101 were not fanatical Nazis, they were for the most part family men called up from the reserve to serve in the rear areas of the newly captured territories in Eastern Europe. It's chilling stuff.
I wonder how it would have turned out if Rohm and SA had taken over?
Birth rate would've dropped.
Hi,
I read today comment from one of "those who knows better", that Polish people was the same as nazis.
Yes, as you always hoping that your materials are informative - very informative.
Actually I'm not even irritated about the opinion from "ignorant". The background may vary. Ie.: my Mom's parents met in nazi's concentration camp, and unlycky my father's mother (with whole family) was sent to deep Siberia when she was 6yo. Both grandparents tried not to talk about those times. They deepy cherrished present times. And I was born in times when in my country was "war state" due to fights with communism. So I can tell some stories from times when there was "queue lists", nothing in stores, contrabands brought from families who lived on countryside like cottage cheese/meat/eggs. Or times when people used to say that is doesn't matter if you work/sit/stand/digging in nose or sceatch the backside... you're entitled for regular salary. :P on paper wasn't high unemployment or lack of medical services. Ok, quality was, at it was... but peoples didn't die in front of hospitals. I visibly remember (obligatory) first days of May marches with huge banners, flowers, singing... - the workers day.
and lots of history was rewritten by victors, but still "truth" was presented.
I remember many things. Ie.: my Mom didn't get promotion in work because she wasn't in the "party".
Well, there you have it. Yet another example of what I've been saying all along.
Germans love David Hasselhoff.
Excellent...thank you.
You are welcome!
I’m working on alternate history novel - Hitler is killed in a plane crash in 1937. In the ensuing power struggle - Reinhardt Heinrich claws his way to the top of the heap. He arranged for the crash - having paid off Luftwaffe mechanics to damage the fuel supply on his Focke-Wulfe Condor Airliner.
After the crash - the mechanics all perished in another plane crash - that was blamed on Communist Sympathizers.
Heydrich was no military genius. He however knew Germany couldn’t take on The USSR by itself…
No one ever talks about how his naval career ended.I think it had a major impact on his future decisions.
Rinehart was a gifted musician with classical training on the violin. Grew up in a wealthy connected educated family. His learning afforded a future Naval career. His careless lust for women and status climbing drew the wrath of German command several times. He was forced to resign his commission from the navy. I think there was a hidden sinister flaw in his personality that was fed and brought to fruition by the rise of Hitler.