@@LordProtectorPepper It's a side effect of "everyone I don't like is Hitler". Call people "anime nazis" and you start getting photoshops of cute anime girls with Hitler because it's funny.
@@Blink_____No. It's more a reference to an old trend of people on message boards with specifically K-On! profile pics also happening to be raging Neo-Nazis.
I am so glad to see I am not the only one that had trouble following. I am bad with names, but add non-linear familial relationships to that, and im done
My uncle, whose family name was Hiler, was accidentally given the ID badge of William Patrick Hitler, which was next to his, when they were both serving in a CCC camp (the Civilian Conservation Corps was a semi-military organization run by the Federal government to provide employment during the Depression). Hitler's nephew explained to my uncle the source of his colorful surname.
@@rheannagold6620 There really isn't more to it than that. Uncle Wes thought it was kind of cool to meet Hitler's nephew, but that was about it. Young Hitler didn't reveal the Hitler Family secret handshake or anything.
Nope people from that era especially people that were part of the Nazi party. Got definitely a box in the house with medals, flags and stuff from the Nazi party. Someone’s grandpa showed me once a box like that. But people in Europe especially don’t like to talk a lot about it.
@@Jaa__17 There's a word in German (I don't remember what it is, but since it's German, of course it's a single word, heh) that means something like, "grandfather anxiety". It refers to the uneasiness a young German feels on first meeting a German born before 1930....
"died of measles in June of 1900 because the past was the worst" was such a throwaway line but it was a gem. I quite literally spit out my drink because of this.
And yet you still have people that think that their so called "end stage capitalism" is bad and going back to old ways and times would fix everything... and they are mostly on the "progressive" side
@@juanf5391Strife and struggles build character. The kids today don't have the difficulties of previous generations, and are soft, whiny, spoiled brats with delusions of entitlement.
I used to have a manager with the last name Hiler. He was a jerk so we used to joke that his family name was really Hitler and they just took the T out when they emigrated. Maybe we were closer to correct than we thought.
That happened more times than you think when people migrated to the US. Like when my great grandfather migrated to the US from Sweden his last name went from Neilson to Nelson.
There was a family that I knew whose name was originally Hitler which was changed In WWII. Another family acquaintance, our butcher had changed their name from Mussolini again in WWII. Neither were related to the notorious holders of the families original names.
I find that difficult to believe. because Hitler was originally spelled Hiedler, and his father Alois changed it to Hitler. ie. Hitler is extremely rare surname even in Germany or Austria for that matter.
A friend of mine's family "Americanized" their German last name when they immigrated here around/during WWI. They dropped a single consonant! She said it wasn't uncommon for Germans to do that either because of ostracization or because their last name was too difficult for English-only speakers to pronounce or they would always transcribe the name phonetically, so that's what the family would stick with. They had a double M and dropped one to make it less Germanic plus Americans never spelt it right anyway.
@@xXNitemareXx Famous Hollywood Actor James Garner's real surname was Bumgarner. Which, obviously, is an unfortunate Americanization of Baumgärtner. So, Hollywood dropped the Bum part.
its actually kinda fucked up because the picture definitely was made by a 4chan nazi. Like, I've seen it posted there. Nothing against K-On btw, its an amazing show about freedom and the liberation of girls' youth...directed by a woman, too. its really not something that nazis should be fucking with, but for some reason they are known to do so.
I feel like that's a common theme when you look at vitas from the 1800s (the time when we had solid documentation but no solid birth control or fertility treatment). Many either had a ton of children, or none at all. And f*ckboys are certainly not a 21st century invention.
There's 3 Hitlers buried right next to my WW2 code talker grandfather in law and about a quarter mile from my code talker dad. I've always wondered about them, though they appear to have died and been buried several years before and during WW2. There's also quite a few Histors buried there too. I've heard Histor is just Hitler misspelled.
@kurtvanluven9351 Imagine waking up in your coffin after having been a code talker being surrounded by Hitlers! I could see my dad, "Hahaha Lozen. Very funny, Lozen. Now take me back to the Rez or to Arlington. WHADDA YOU MEAN MY GRANDCHILDREN "LIKE" JAPANESE CARTOONS?!?! IS THAT A JAPANESE CARTOON MACHINE IN YOUR HANDS?!?! ET TU, MY BELOVED DAUGHTER?!?!" I'd be like, "Yup, you're going to Arlington or the Rez. I can't handle this for an eternity! 😫"
A minor correction: Alois and Klara indeed had five children, but it was the first two -- Gustav and Ida -- who died in infancy. AH was number three. The fourth, a brother called Edmund, passed aged 6. The fifth, called Paula, survived her famous brother and died aged 64 in 1960.
@@inamorata966 . . have you seen Western Society today? Has it ever crossed your mind what General Patton meant when he said "we defeated the wrong enemy"?
around 20 years ago working IT in London, a Young Irish web Developer started at the company, nice guy around 21. Anyway he proceeds to tell me a story of how there is an upcoming TV programme re his family/him (Channel 4) and it's about the fact they are part of Hitler's extended family, i.e from his brother Alois and Bridget. It was most unexpected. Turns out he was telling the truth, again he was a super nice guy
@@grantschiff7544 he was'nt name dropping , at the time i worked with him, he said that there was a upcoming C4 programme about his family, where he might be mentioned , and that it was a well known family secret, so not to be shocked. It was just a weird family connection he had, i did'nt think he intended to invade Poland
@davidrenton I feel sorry for him. I also don't feel sorry for him. Extremely bad luck. A friend of mine had a notsee hidler youth grandfather, and we are good buddies, I tease him about it.
@@grantschiff7544 he seemed to treat it as , you think your uncle is mad :). It was an open secret, hence the C4 documentary, he comes from the Brothers side who lived in Liverpool during the war, and people do not bear the sins of their father, brother i'll try and find the name of the show, it was 2001 just around 9/11 as i remember being at the job as we watched it unfold.
@@grantschiff7544 i might be wrong on this but i think Bridget Dowling, who was married to the Austrian painters brother was i think his great grandaunt or something, she was born in 1891 - 1969, and moved to America (being born in Dublin and living in Liverpool) , he was around 21 in 2001 , so it must be 3 generations back. He was from Ireland, Bridget did have a brother Thomas Dowling , so maybe that was his Great Grandad
When I was in university, I lived on the same street where his brother and sister-in-law lived. There's a plaque outside it honouring his brother for his service in the Allied forces. Local folklore says his sister-in-law was the one who convinced him to change to the Chaplin stache.
I don't know who got the idea for the thumbnail, but I'd give them a raise. To combine a photograph of Austria's most famous painter and all members of the light music club from K-ON! - this is truly the best thumbnail I've ever seen. Even better is Simon in the corner seemingly at a loss for words.
I just realized I can change the speed of Simon’s talking just a notch down to 0.75 in order to better catch everything he says. I found myself backtracking a lot 10, 20, 30 seconds here and there. But I absolutely enjoy listening to Simon. He’s the best❤
Yeah I was struggling trying to keep up with what he was saying because he was speaking so fast. I had no clue that I could slow it down so that I could process what he was saying, thank you for that info!!
Would a US Navy corpsman have his surname stitched on his uniform? If so, I can only imagine the startled reaction of a wounded sailor looking up and seeing a Hitler was treating his wound.
@joachimb5721 K-On is an anime, but some parts of its fan base are anti-Semitic and extremely racist. People with K-On pfp usually say some out of pocket racist stuff too.
@@joachimb5721 K-On is an anime about a Japanese High School club whose members form a band dedicated to playing light music, eating cakes and drinking tea. The band consists of the 4 girls in the thumbnail plus another (Ritsu) who isn't shown. It's as far from Hitler & fascism as you could possibly get. Unfortunately some idiot fascists decided to use their images in their posts and made some f*cked up memes about them.
@@saucymongoose7246 No. It was a thing many years ago for some people of the hitler persuasion to use it as their avatar in certain forums. Now it's just a meme.
My friend found out only about 10 years ago that his (great?) grandfather was Rudolf Hess. He got super depressed when he found out, and doesn't like talking about it.
Why would he get depressed over that it sounds like he is sad because of what society might do to him but honestly if I found out my great grandfather was a nazi or something I would be pretty intrigued lmao that sounds pretty cool I mean if it makes sense lol
His dad was always distant, and a shell of a man, and did (does?) contract work with companies like Triple Canopy, KBR, etc in various warring regions, and he would always just send my friend money for whatever. He said they always seemed to have money, but never really knew where it came from. When he pressed his dad on the money thing, his dad told him of their family tree, and sent him a brand new drum set to make up for it. To have an emotionless, never present father that lives a life of a mercenary that he barely knows surely takes a toll on its own, but then to find out that perhaps the reason why his dad was like that, was because his own father was one of the most well known Nazis in history.... That's pretty grim. I remember we were gonna jam, and he was like "yeah.. I don't even want to play these drums. What if these were bought with Nazi gold or something."
@@svjnessI hope your friend has learned to internalize his family's past and make peace with it. What matters is he's living against the ideologies of an evil man. Blood is all they share. Nothing more.
@@svjness ah damn now that you explain the full story it makes sense I feel bad for the guy I hope he gets better if he hasn’t already I mean the whole dad situation sucks I can relate but in different ways my dad just wasn’t present but would show up like once every year or two but damn hope he is doing good I still think its pretty intriguing to have a well knows nazi as your grandfather I mean obviously he doesn’t have to respect the guy or anything but just that fact alone is pretty crazy
Read Sabag Montefiore’sbiography. Stalin ended up showing a good deal of respect for Yakov. He was seen gazing at his picture and mutmouring about what a ‘ real man ‘ his eldest son was. I suspect that he always thought so, but under the circumstances of Barbarossa couldn’t afford to say so. One of his illegitimate sons ( very handsome bloke ) served with distinction in the War, too. He died in the 90s. His legitimate younger son was a dire embarrassment to Daddy, drunkenly crashing aircraft, botching up anything that did. All of his sons looked very Georgian, completely alike to Dad. Svetlana looked nothing like either of her parents. I’ve long thought that she was not, in fact, Stalin’s daughter. It’s just as well that the Great Leader never seems to have considered this possibility. Imagine the resulting turmolt ! 😮😮😮
Simon, just wondering if you talk this fast in your everyday life, or if it is to squeeze as much as possible into each video. This old brain is thankful for RUclips's speed adjuster 😄. Keep up the great content!
The question is have u ever read or listened to his speeches? Or did u just see clips of him yelling in German and u listened to what 🇮🇱 media told u he “said”. Because if you didn’t u know nothing about this man.
@@raggamuffin2682 the speeches reference annihilating those people, not up for debate. Unless you're trying to say Jewry is something else entirely, he's still talking about annihilation.
If anyone's confused about the thumbnail, the characters are from an anime called K-On, which is one of those "Cute girls doing cute things" anime (they are in a band). Basically completely unpolitical on its own, but for some reason Neo-Nazis (particularly on 4chan) have a weird affinity towards that type of media and that series in particular. Therefore, people with profile pics of its characters being card carrying Nazis has become a stereotype and a meme (not inaccurate IMHO). The original edit in the thumbnail was also probably at least semi-serious, not someone making fun of those guys, which adds another layer to that joke.
"Neo nazis on 4chan" man I love when people try to explain stuff they aren't actually very familiar with. It's because the juxtaposition of cute harmless characters doing and saying vile shit is FUNNY. the subversion of expectations being used for comedy is as old as comedy itself And basically everyone on 4chan is role playing being insane but are actually pretty damn normal irl (aside from the social issues) they're autistic shitposters trying to one up each other in the crazy shit they say and goofing off, not actual neo nazis lmao
I am a long-time subscriber and love your content but sincerely wish you would speak a bit slower so that I can understand what you are saying. Thank you!
david.....NO !!! Laughed my arse off at that !!! I gotta use this...thanks! !.😅. There was a creepy old 1900'ish apt bldg, when I lived in Cincinnati that people [jokingly] called 'the birthplace of Eva Braun'.
There was an employee at a gas station near me a few years ago that claimed to be related to Hitler. He was creepy about it too and seemed proud. Always talked about it
I find it hard to hear what is being said, and even closed captioning can't decipher what is being said at the speed of light. Take your time so we can understand what's being said.
I changed the playback speed in settings. If tap on the video, a cog wheel icon will pop up in top right corner. Click on it, then playback speed & choose which speed is best for you. I went with 0.75
The History Channel once did a special on Hilters surviving relatives and some immigrated to America ane now live somewhere on Long Island under a different name.
I can’t help but have sympathy for his sister. I tried to imagine my own siblings doing such terrible things, and I still think I would be very sad if they passed away. The whole situation is heartbreaking.
RUclips videos are not education material. You wouldn’t even recognize the mistakes in this video before you were to repeat it. Please be a better teacher don’t steal material from Tiktok and RUclips because they’re almost always missing critical info.
@@buy_large_mansionsOne definite mistake is the picture that supposedly shows the young Paula Hitler. Nope, it's Maria Reiter, a young girl he was linked with for a short time before Eva Braun. At the end Hans Frank is mentioned as probably being mad at his boss for being in that situation and facing hanging. Actually, Hans Frank was the only one amongst the whole bunch of war criminals who showed a bit of remorse (Though that certainly did not absolve him, and it's recommended to read what Niklas Frank, the youngest of his three sons said about his father! Hint: it's not good.) That's just two off the top of my head.
@@mariann2111 Hans Frank being remorseful doesn't alter the fact that he might still be angry with his former boss. I'll take your word on the mistake with the one photograph, it still seems pretty solid to me.
@@buy_large_mansionsI think I said something to this end - he wasn't absolved and his story was actually also told by Niklas Frank, his youngest son, who doesn't have a single good word for his father. Rightly so.
I must commend the entire team for not succumbing to the tempetation of naming any surviving relatives of Hitler. It's a fact that they are relatives, and that is easily discoverable through a search on the internet. However, it takes a superiour understanding of the human condition to know not to just freely divulge such sensitive facts about a fellow human, especially not in this age of eager age of cancel culture.
Famouse people are 'canceled' and for some definable action/statement etc which is seen as over the line, and in the strictest sense only people who were previously supportive can 'cancel' aka they are canceling their support, an already estabished detractor can't cancel. If your a nobody who hasn't done anything and your identifying info is spread that it's just called Doxing. And frankly it's a very low bar for a video to cross to not engage in Doxing.
There is a catacombs in Brussels where entire family lines are interred, generation after generation. One of the families in there, whose first cells date back to the founding of the catacombs, was the Nazhi family. Sometime in the mid 40s they, for some reason, chose to change their family name to Natchi...
I don't like to be critical as I enjoy your videos but lately you seem to be talking faster or my brain is slowing down. I've had to resort to setting the playback speed down.
These are not shocking family secrets, but well-known facts. But I haven't seen another documentary that explains the complicated family relationships so well and summarizes everything.
Thank you for not getting into the living relative’s info. Everyone is at the mercy of their fate, and they do not deserve condemnation for their relative’s crime, although their pact (which they have corroborated many times) is very respectable. Great episode, & fantastic content as always Mr. W. Simon 👏
There’s a part of my brain that wants someone to create a sitcom called “The Hitlers”. Make the cast of the show super diverse. The twisted image I have in my head makes me laugh!😂
This is fascinating ! Thank you. (**note** never watch this stoned, and without pencil and paper). Regardless, it's terrific. Also, the b&w photograph/films from pre-1950, are really telling. It's hard to explain. Weirdly, my dad was among the first American soldiers (82nd & 101st Airborne) to enter the Berghof (Eagle's Nest). Didn't know my dad well, but my older sister later told me, that me had chronic nightmares, from working at a Rumanian orphan camp after the war, as a GI. I've watched you about a dozen times, but this was one of your best. Subscribing now...
He wasn't related to Hit*&r, but my friend's child got harassed by older children because of the actions of an imprisoned uncle he'd never met. "Oh, you're one of those no good Wallis kids," even though it was that one specific family member who was the 💩bag.
That seems to happen a lot. When my grandma was a kid, she had a neighbor who went absolutely nuts, just lost her entire grip on reality, and killed all but two of her kids (one was gone, the other was a baby whose twin she killed, but for some weird reason...left the other alive). She dressed them up, tucked 3 in bed, put one in a chair at the table and rocked the dead twin baby on a rocking chair outside all day long. 🤷 That was how she was found out. Someone saw the baby was dead when they came up to talk. The two kids that survived were sent to live with nearby family and were bullied RELENTLESSLY. Grandma said rumors started that the twin that lived was a demon who possessed the mom. The stories she told about their treatment were brutal. Like these people don't suffer enough because of said persons actions!
The Stuart-Houston's lived near my husband when they were kids. They had NO IDEA who they were. As a kid my husband went over to their house and their kid went over to his house. He and Howard Stuart-Houston and others went on a ski trip together Howard Suart-Houston is the one who died in a car accident. My husband dropped his spoon in his soup when I told him who the Stuart- Houstons were.
I love how it's so common for stuff like " a record few others in history have managed to match" just roll glibly off the tongue, when 2 contemporaries far exceeded him in death toll and easily matched him for sheer evil, and while Hitler started a war that killed 10s of millions across all of Europe, Stalin and Mao killed their own citizens in numbers that far outstripped the entirety of all European war dead.
I think that I've been watching your show, one or the other, for several years. I am always facinted by you topic, how well its written, and your wonderful delivery.
Well, influence can help there. Crown prince Rudolph also was burried in consecrated grund, and he killed himself plus murdered a Teenager he groomed for it. Also: the churches rules are a bit more nuanced. For a sin to be mortal, it has to be understood as mortal and done willingly. Mental illness, Youth etc can all be used as an Argument that your will wasn't free/that you didn't understand the gravity respectively.
There are always exceptions. And considering where she was to be buried likely came from a dictator that people immediately did without question ... or else, that means nothing here in this case. So it would have been entirely possible, and only up to a decision from a mad man. Let that sink in.....
The fact that William Patrick took the surname Stuart-Houston is another weird twist. Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a ultra far right anglo-german author and anti-semite, and one of Hitler’s main sources of inspiration..
he has on a different chanel geo something unfortunately i can’t remember but just look up sealand history and it should come up ! my family just purchased baron/baroness titles from there and it’s extremely interesting finding out about its history!
@@marcpeterson1092 Oh. Boy. You had to be the one to ask the stupid single-word question. Here goes: Sealand has an extremely intriguing story. The Principality of Sealand is an unrecognized micronation on HM Fort Roughs (also known as Roughs Tower), an offshore platform in the North Sea approximately 12 kilometres off the coast of Suffolk, England. Roughs Tower is a Maunsell Sea Fort that was built by the British in international waters during World War II. Since 1967, the decommissioned Roughs Tower has been occupied and claimed as a sovereign state by the family and associates of Paddy Roy Bates. Bates seized Roughs Tower from a group of pirate radio broadcasters in 1967 with the intention of setting up his own station there. Bates and his associates have repelled incursions from vessels from rival pirate radio stations and the U.K.'s royal navy using firearms and petrol bombs. Since 1987, when the United Kingdom extended its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles, the platform has been in British territory.
@@PrimericanIdol I suggested a subject once and provided a link to a magazine article which explained the subject and why it was interesting. Not sure it was because of me, but he did a video on it soon after.
My son's mother is from Argentina, her father is half German , the unbelievable stories that come out of that area are pretty wild. My own grandfather fought in WW2 in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. Ironically my father was stationed in Anchorage Alaska in 1995 when I was only 14 years old. I followed in his footsteps and I retired 6 years ago. History is a strange thing. A war changed history so much it's weird to think how the world would be today if the war never happened. I can guarantee I would have never been born nor would my son have been born and possibly even my father. I guess there's a silver lining to everything.
When I was in highschool it was correctly or not accepted that Hitler was part Jewish. Trying to distract a teacher from starting class with conversation whas very common. In the conversation before English class the top of Hitler being part Jewish came up. Most of us had heard this and all but one accepted this as fact. The one student very angrily said "Hitler was not par Jew. Do your research.". If he was correct or not is not relevant his anger at the idea of Hitler being part Jewish was concerning
This kid could have been Jewish and the idea that the most evil man to ever lived being anything to do with his religion could have pissed him off somewhat.
idk if you are angry about people being wrong then saying something about it it is pretty natrual. imagine you a expert in a hobby regardless of waht it is , and then some one claims something totally opposite of it or wrong yeah you are gonna be annoyed, i don't envy or fancy nazis but if some one is wrong about something then guess what they are wrong regardless.
My second wife, Austrian, had a father named Adolf. Bizarrely, he never thought to change his name and unsurprisingly I, an Englishman, could never bring myself to address him as Adolf. So, for the gratifyingly short time we were obliged to spend together before his natural demise, I addressed him as "Adi, whether he liked or not. I might have given him leeway had it not been for the framed photograph of him in Nazi uniform, replete with Iron Cross and Oak Leaves, displayed proudly in his living room. I admit not to have shed a single tear at his dismal funeral.
Props to y'all for choosing to respect the living relatives' wishes for privacy, instead of going straight for the "juicy story". Not many would do that, especially when, as you say, personal information about them is already somewhat public.
I assume most of the family did not change their last name. But what if.....Adolph had been successful as a painter? Might as well wish that the Archduke's driver had not made a wrong turn in 1914.
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That thumbnail is absolutely wild.
A reference I am sure Simon has no idea what it is.
I dont recognize the characters is it a cheeky refrence or joke? @matthewdopler8997
Average K-On fan be like
@@LordProtectorPepper It's a side effect of "everyone I don't like is Hitler". Call people "anime nazis" and you start getting photoshops of cute anime girls with Hitler because it's funny.
@@Blink_____No. It's more a reference to an old trend of people on message boards with specifically K-On! profile pics also happening to be raging Neo-Nazis.
Give a raise to whoever made that thumbnail.
Sam as ever. He's a treasure. :-)
@@TodayIFoundOutwhat did K-on ever do to you?
@@biornr.4031Don't pretend like you don't know.
@@biornr.4031who's gonna tell him?
@@biornr.4031they never make a third season...
The first five minutes of this video REALLY needed a family tree diagram!
At least one you can read….
I am so glad to see I am not the only one that had trouble following. I am bad with names, but add non-linear familial relationships to that, and im done
Thought i hit the joint too hard lol
Fr I had to go back so many times that I ended up hand making a family tree real quick just to try to understand
I think a roadmap is more apt
My uncle, whose family name was Hiler, was accidentally given the ID badge of William Patrick Hitler, which was next to his, when they were both serving in a CCC camp (the Civilian Conservation Corps was a semi-military organization run by the Federal government to provide employment during the Depression). Hitler's nephew explained to my uncle the source of his colorful surname.
TELL US MORE 😮🤯🫨
@@rheannagold6620 There really isn't more to it than that. Uncle Wes thought it was kind of cool to meet Hitler's nephew, but that was about it. Young Hitler didn't reveal the Hitler Family secret handshake or anything.
Nope people from that era especially people that were part of the Nazi party. Got definitely a box in the house with medals, flags and stuff from the Nazi party. Someone’s grandpa showed me once a box like that. But people in Europe especially don’t like to talk a lot about it.
@@Jaa__17 There's a word in German (I don't remember what it is, but since it's German, of course it's a single word, heh) that means something like, "grandfather anxiety". It refers to the uneasiness a young German feels on first meeting a German born before 1930....
Did he mention anything weird about the nephew? Because in this video he sure as fuck looks reptilian.
Guy who made the thumbnail definitely knows things lmao
Brother been in the trenches for sure
Yeah, he knows about some shitty meme.
@@frostyfrenchtoast He's been in the Blazement, not the trenches
@@be2eo502 And by shitty you mean hilarious.
@@be2eo502hoe status: Maaaad
I NEVER thought in my entire life that I would ever see FUCKING K-ON and Simon in a thumbnail together 😂😂😂
Same bro
hitlers not the stretch here?
@@Tomato-qn5sga historical figure in a thumbnail with a guy who talks about historical figures..?
@@cashnelson2306 hitler and k-on
who da fook is dat
"died of measles in June of 1900 because the past was the worst" was such a throwaway line but it was a gem. I quite literally spit out my drink because of this.
And yet you still have people that think that their so called "end stage capitalism" is bad and going back to old ways and times would fix everything... and they are mostly on the "progressive" side
Yet, every generation whines and reminisces about how the world was "better back in the day" and how the newer generations are terrible. Never fails.
@@juanf5391Strife and struggles build character. The kids today don't have the difficulties of previous generations, and are soft, whiny, spoiled brats with delusions of entitlement.
I wish I was this easily entertained
@@juanf5391i always remind people that women weren't guarenteed a clean bath. You did not lick a clam back then. Wasn't a thing.
I used to have a manager with the last name Hiler. He was a jerk so we used to joke that his family name was really Hitler and they just took the T out when they emigrated. Maybe we were closer to correct than we thought.
Odds are he was doing his job because you sound like someone difficult to manage...name calling like a child on a playground.
Maybe he was. Video says they are still out there just living normal lives.
So like simon added a "w" and an "s" to the name?
That happened more times than you think when people migrated to the US. Like when my great grandfather migrated to the US from Sweden his last name went from Neilson to Nelson.
Ronald Reagan’s family likely had an O’ preceding their last name until someone got off the boat in NY and the clerk didn’t feel like writing the O’…
Interesting, but the video sorely needs more family tree chart graphics overlaid to tie the flurry of names and faces being thrown out together
There was a family that I knew whose name was originally Hitler which was changed In WWII. Another family acquaintance, our butcher had changed their name from Mussolini again in WWII. Neither were related to the notorious holders of the families original names.
Rough. To edit though i totally get it from my own name
I find that difficult to believe.
because Hitler was originally spelled Hiedler, and his father Alois changed it to Hitler.
ie. Hitler is extremely rare surname even in Germany or Austria for that matter.
@@davidjacobs8558 I was classmates with the daughter from K-12. That is what we were told. The name they took was just a little different.
A friend of mine's family "Americanized" their German last name when they immigrated here around/during WWI. They dropped a single consonant! She said it wasn't uncommon for Germans to do that either because of ostracization or because their last name was too difficult for English-only speakers to pronounce or they would always transcribe the name phonetically, so that's what the family would stick with. They had a double M and dropped one to make it less Germanic plus Americans never spelt it right anyway.
@@xXNitemareXx Famous Hollywood Actor James Garner's real surname was Bumgarner. Which, obviously, is an unfortunate Americanization of Baumgärtner. So, Hollywood dropped the Bum part.
I'm amazed that even his blood relatives referred to him as "Hitler", as those direct quotes prove.
True lol it’s like trumps relatives calling him “trump” meanwhile they have the same last name lol
Like Cher
@@TheloniousCube Well...
My uncle was Adolf Hitler Matangbuko, he was pretty based even before we knew who he was named after
They were hoping they wouldn't enrage Adolf's father, who punished him severely.
My people
Ah...the spankings...
how would you know this fuckwit
And here comes the rest of the army 😂
*in funny voice* d'ooOoOOooh Nyooowe
Definitely a standout thumbnail.
K-On xD
its actually kinda fucked up because the picture definitely was made by a 4chan nazi. Like, I've seen it posted there. Nothing against K-On btw, its an amazing show about freedom and the liberation of girls' youth...directed by a woman, too. its really not something that nazis should be fucking with, but for some reason they are known to do so.
Alois must have been quite the charmer. Guy was running around town laying pipe.
I feel like that's a common theme when you look at vitas from the 1800s (the time when we had solid documentation but no solid birth control or fertility treatment). Many either had a ton of children, or none at all. And f*ckboys are certainly not a 21st century invention.
Imperial Moustache rides: 5 ducats
With a face like Alois' what woman could resist.
@@mannacler 😂
Every time Simon mentions the gulag, I'm flashing back to him clutching his face and yelling "No! I don't want to go to the gulag!"
is it good?
There's 3 Hitlers buried right next to my WW2 code talker grandfather in law and about a quarter mile from my code talker dad. I've always wondered about them, though they appear to have died and been buried several years before and during WW2. There's also quite a few Histors buried there too. I've heard Histor is just Hitler misspelled.
Imagine the Japanese, trying in vain to understand the messages!
@kurtvanluven9351 Imagine waking up in your coffin after having been a code talker being surrounded by Hitlers! I could see my dad, "Hahaha Lozen. Very funny, Lozen. Now take me back to the Rez or to Arlington. WHADDA YOU MEAN MY GRANDCHILDREN "LIKE" JAPANESE CARTOONS?!?! IS THAT A JAPANESE CARTOON MACHINE IN YOUR HANDS?!?! ET TU, MY BELOVED DAUGHTER?!?!"
I'd be like, "Yup, you're going to Arlington or the Rez. I can't handle this for an eternity! 😫"
A minor correction: Alois and Klara indeed had five children, but it was the first two -- Gustav and Ida -- who died in infancy. AH was number three. The fourth, a brother called Edmund, passed aged 6. The fifth, called Paula, survived her famous brother and died aged 64 in 1960.
@@w.neuman Or a simple Google search. 👀 🔍 💻
I would like to change to word 'famous', to 'infamous.' Poor word choice, in this context. Mea Culpa.
@@inamorata966 . . have you seen Western Society today? Has it ever crossed your mind what General Patton meant when he said "we defeated the wrong enemy"?
@@Republitarian-g4h absolutely not.
around 20 years ago working IT in London, a Young Irish web Developer started at the company, nice guy around 21. Anyway he proceeds to tell me a story of how there is an upcoming TV programme re his family/him (Channel 4) and it's about the fact they are part of Hitler's extended family, i.e from his brother Alois and Bridget. It was most unexpected. Turns out he was telling the truth, again he was a super nice guy
He was a nice guy until he started name dropping hitler.
@@grantschiff7544 he was'nt name dropping , at the time i worked with him, he said that there was a upcoming C4 programme about his family, where he might be mentioned , and that it was a well known family secret, so not to be shocked. It was just a weird family connection he had, i did'nt think he intended to invade Poland
@davidrenton I feel sorry for him. I also don't feel sorry for him. Extremely bad luck. A friend of mine had a notsee hidler youth grandfather, and we are good buddies, I tease him about it.
@@grantschiff7544 he seemed to treat it as , you think your uncle is mad :). It was an open secret, hence the C4 documentary, he comes from the Brothers side who lived in Liverpool during the war, and people do not bear the sins of their father, brother
i'll try and find the name of the show, it was 2001 just around 9/11 as i remember being at the job as we watched it unfold.
@@grantschiff7544 i might be wrong on this but i think Bridget Dowling, who was married to the Austrian painters brother was i think his great grandaunt or something, she was born in 1891 - 1969, and moved to America (being born in Dublin and living in Liverpool) , he was around 21 in 2001 , so it must be 3 generations back.
He was from Ireland, Bridget did have a brother Thomas Dowling , so maybe that was his Great Grandad
When I was in university, I lived on the same street where his brother and sister-in-law lived.
There's a plaque outside it honouring his brother for his service in the Allied forces.
Local folklore says his sister-in-law was the one who convinced him to change to the Chaplin stache.
The thumbnail threw me for a loop.
I don't know who got the idea for the thumbnail, but I'd give them a raise.
To combine a photograph of Austria's most famous painter and all members of the light music club from K-ON! - this is truly the best thumbnail I've ever seen.
Even better is Simon in the corner seemingly at a loss for words.
Its an absolute gem
Eye watering, absolutely amazing
It's an old meme.
@@kitsuneneko2567 Simon has been at a loss for words a few times. Pretty funny moments.
I just realized I can change the speed of Simon’s talking just a notch down to 0.75 in order to better catch everything he says. I found myself backtracking a lot 10, 20, 30 seconds here and there. But I absolutely enjoy listening to Simon. He’s the best❤
Thanks I needed that!!!!
@@eilsmile8732 Oh yay!😁
I wish I knew how to do that... because I catch about every other word, and it got way too tiring trying to figure it out. So I gave up.
Okay, so we will have to go to RUclips to find out how to do this. 😭
Yeah I was struggling trying to keep up with what he was saying because he was speaking so fast. I had no clue that I could slow it down so that I could process what he was saying, thank you for that info!!
What a lovely family in the thumbnail!☺
K-On xD
@@theproudgeek12 K-On fans are not beating the allegations
Don't mix one of the most evil person in recorded history with one of the most wholesome anime ever made
@@SJH_21Sorry but my absolute love for K-On has nothing to do with my nationalism.
PS give Yui sweet treats and feed Azunyan tasty cakes
@@kitsuneneko2567My wife Yui sure does love her cakes
She never misses with her baking skills!
Would a US Navy corpsman have his surname stitched on his uniform? If so, I can only imagine the startled reaction of a wounded sailor looking up and seeing a Hitler was treating his wound.
Isn't Navy corpsman a bit redundant?
@@johnd5740 Corpsman is the term for medic in the Navy and Marines.
K-on thumbnail is crazy😭
What‘s a k-on and why is everyone talking about it
@joachimb5721 K-On is an anime, but some parts of its fan base are anti-Semitic and extremely racist. People with K-On pfp usually say some out of pocket racist stuff too.
@@saucymongoose7246whats wrong with anti-semitism?
@@joachimb5721 K-On is an anime about a Japanese High School club whose members form a band dedicated to playing light music, eating cakes and drinking tea. The band consists of the 4 girls in the thumbnail plus another (Ritsu) who isn't shown. It's as far from Hitler & fascism as you could possibly get. Unfortunately some idiot fascists decided to use their images in their posts and made some f*cked up memes about them.
@@saucymongoose7246 No. It was a thing many years ago for some people of the hitler persuasion to use it as their avatar in certain forums. Now it's just a meme.
I've often wondered what it was like for the relatives of him or for other people who are notorious in history. Can't be an easy thing
Out of the million shows about Hitler I’ve never seen one about his family. Good work.
I had no idea I ever wanted to watch a sitcom named "Meet the Hitlers". Now I really want to watch it.
They must be neighbors with the Jetsons and Sopranos. I'd watch it.
Hollywood would never make it
there is a "Heil Honey I'm Home!" sitcom from the 90s
I know…. Since we have “keeping up with the kardasians” why not “keeping up with the Fuhrer”.
Or Hotler starring Ryan reynolds
My friend found out only about 10 years ago that his (great?) grandfather was Rudolf Hess. He got super depressed when he found out, and doesn't like talking about it.
Why would he get depressed over that it sounds like he is sad because of what society might do to him but honestly if I found out my great grandfather was a nazi or something I would be pretty intrigued lmao that sounds pretty cool I mean if it makes sense lol
His dad was always distant, and a shell of a man, and did (does?) contract work with companies like Triple Canopy, KBR, etc in various warring regions, and he would always just send my friend money for whatever. He said they always seemed to have money, but never really knew where it came from. When he pressed his dad on the money thing, his dad told him of their family tree, and sent him a brand new drum set to make up for it.
To have an emotionless, never present father that lives a life of a mercenary that he barely knows surely takes a toll on its own, but then to find out that perhaps the reason why his dad was like that, was because his own father was one of the most well known Nazis in history.... That's pretty grim. I remember we were gonna jam, and he was like "yeah.. I don't even want to play these drums. What if these were bought with Nazi gold or something."
@@EyeNeedAllDat yikes.
@@svjnessI hope your friend has learned to internalize his family's past and make peace with it. What matters is he's living against the ideologies of an evil man. Blood is all they share. Nothing more.
@@svjness ah damn now that you explain the full story it makes sense I feel bad for the guy I hope he gets better if he hasn’t already I mean the whole dad situation sucks I can relate but in different ways my dad just wasn’t present but would show up like once every year or two but damn hope he is doing good I still think its pretty intriguing to have a well knows nazi as your grandfather I mean obviously he doesn’t have to respect the guy or anything but just that fact alone is pretty crazy
I read a rumour that Stalin was disappointed his own son had surrendered. Stalin refused the prisoner swap saying “he’s no longer a son of mine”.
We do not exchange lieutenants for generals.
Iti s interesting to note that both tyrants, Hitler and Stalin, both had a doting mother and an abusive father.
He did not want anyone to have leverage on him, and something like regular human feelings where a bit alien to him.
He was one of the MOST stubborn men ever. His daughter said with his last breath, he was shaking his fist, & arguing with GOD!
Read Sabag Montefiore’sbiography. Stalin ended up showing a good deal of respect for Yakov. He was seen gazing at his picture and mutmouring about what a ‘ real man ‘ his eldest son was. I suspect that he always thought so, but under the circumstances of Barbarossa couldn’t afford to say so. One of his illegitimate sons ( very handsome bloke ) served with distinction in the War, too. He died in the 90s. His legitimate younger son was a dire embarrassment to Daddy, drunkenly crashing aircraft, botching up anything that did. All of his sons looked very Georgian, completely alike to Dad. Svetlana looked nothing like either of her parents. I’ve long thought that she was not, in fact, Stalin’s daughter. It’s just as well that the Great Leader never seems to have considered this possibility. Imagine the resulting turmolt ! 😮😮😮
Simon, just wondering if you talk this fast in your everyday life, or if it is to squeeze as much as possible into each video. This old brain is thankful for RUclips's speed adjuster 😄.
Keep up the great content!
We got that adhd brain
The thumbnail looks like a bad acid trip
"The Hitleeeeeeeeeeeers~" Also gotta love 'Oh my brother wouldn't have known about that.' DID YOU LISTEN TO A SINGLE SPEECH HE GAVE!?
The question is have u ever read or listened to his speeches? Or did u just see clips of him yelling in German and u listened to what 🇮🇱 media told u he “said”. Because if you didn’t u know nothing about this man.
@@raggamuffin2682 the speeches reference annihilating those people, not up for debate. Unless you're trying to say Jewry is something else entirely, he's still talking about annihilation.
@@KyleRobots Also Didn't he write a book that detailed what he was going to do, called "Mein Kampf"
@@barelyasurvivor1257 apparently that was about his love of crochet...wait, no, I'm thinking of his other book, mein kraft
@CaptKyleJ
Oh sorry my mistake
Silly me.
If anyone's confused about the thumbnail, the characters are from an anime called K-On, which is one of those "Cute girls doing cute things" anime (they are in a band). Basically completely unpolitical on its own, but for some reason Neo-Nazis (particularly on 4chan) have a weird affinity towards that type of media and that series in particular.
Therefore, people with profile pics of its characters being card carrying Nazis has become a stereotype and a meme (not inaccurate IMHO). The original edit in the thumbnail was also probably at least semi-serious, not someone making fun of those guys, which adds another layer to that joke.
"Neo nazis on 4chan" man I love when people try to explain stuff they aren't actually very familiar with.
It's because the juxtaposition of cute harmless characters doing and saying vile shit is FUNNY.
the subversion of expectations being used for comedy is as old as comedy itself
And basically everyone on 4chan is role playing being insane but are actually pretty damn normal irl (aside from the social issues) they're autistic shitposters trying to one up each other in the crazy shit they say and goofing off, not actual neo nazis lmao
@@TeslaHaxz
It's only ironic if it is convenient.
Yikes.
Oh look the twitter commie got trolled by randoms and decided they all must have been windmill germans 😢
That is tragic. But thanks for the explanation.
Those girls don’t deserve that, and the vast majority of their fans have nothing to do with hate.
I am a long-time subscriber and love your content but sincerely wish you would speak a bit slower so that I can understand what you are saying. Thank you!
I so agree!
Just change the speed of the video.
When Alois Hitler learned what his son wanted to be, he raised a furor.
david.....NO !!! Laughed my arse off at that !!! I gotta use this...thanks! !.😅. There was a creepy old 1900'ish apt bldg, when I lived in Cincinnati that people [jokingly] called 'the birthplace of Eva Braun'.
There was an employee at a gas station near me a few years ago that claimed to be related to Hitler.
He was creepy about it too and seemed proud.
Always talked about it
Sounds weird
Sounds cool
I find it hard to hear what is being said, and even closed captioning can't decipher what is being said at the speed of light. Take your time so we can understand what's being said.
I changed the playback speed in settings. If tap on the video, a cog wheel icon will pop up in top right corner. Click on it, then playback speed & choose which speed is best for you. I went with 0.75
The narrator truly show cased how fast he can talk.
The History Channel once did a special on Hilters surviving relatives and some immigrated to America ane now live somewhere on Long Island under a different name.
The handgun used to kill Geli was a Smith and Wesson .22 revolver that was seized as a souvenir by a US soldier and is now in a US museum.
I can’t help but have sympathy for his sister. I tried to imagine my own siblings doing such terrible things, and I still think I would be very sad if they passed away. The whole situation is heartbreaking.
Make this a sitcom show with a laugh track
I believe this could also be a rather hysterical Broadway type musical. -Daven
there IS a 90s show called "Heil Honey I'm Home!"
What a thumbnail 😅
Wiliam Patricks story is wild. I've never heard about him before and that's a tragedy. I definitly will teach my students about him now.
RUclips videos are not education material. You wouldn’t even recognize the mistakes in this video before you were to repeat it. Please be a better teacher don’t steal material from Tiktok and RUclips because they’re almost always missing critical info.
@@tomservo_what are the mistakes in this video then?
@@buy_large_mansionsOne definite mistake is the picture that supposedly shows the young Paula Hitler. Nope, it's Maria Reiter, a young girl he was linked with for a short time before Eva Braun.
At the end Hans Frank is mentioned as probably being mad at his boss for being in that situation and facing hanging. Actually, Hans Frank was the only one amongst the whole bunch of war criminals who showed a bit of remorse (Though that certainly did not absolve him, and it's recommended to read what Niklas Frank, the youngest of his three sons said about his father! Hint: it's not good.)
That's just two off the top of my head.
@@mariann2111 Hans Frank being remorseful doesn't alter the fact that he might still be angry with his former boss. I'll take your word on the mistake with the one photograph, it still seems pretty solid to me.
@@buy_large_mansionsI think I said something to this end - he wasn't absolved and his story was actually also told by Niklas Frank, his youngest son, who doesn't have a single good word for his father. Rightly so.
I must commend the entire team for not succumbing to the tempetation of naming any surviving relatives of Hitler.
It's a fact that they are relatives, and that is easily discoverable through a search on the internet. However, it takes a superiour understanding of the human condition to know not to just freely divulge such sensitive facts about a fellow human, especially not in this age of eager age of cancel culture.
Famouse people are 'canceled' and for some definable action/statement etc which is seen as over the line, and in the strictest sense only people who were previously supportive can 'cancel' aka they are canceling their support, an already estabished detractor can't cancel. If your a nobody who hasn't done anything and your identifying info is spread that it's just called Doxing. And frankly it's a very low bar for a video to cross to not engage in Doxing.
Cancel culture isn't real.
I hear "cancel culture" said unironically and I know I'm talking to a hypersensitive "why is everyone so sensitive these days?" person
There is a catacombs in Brussels where entire family lines are interred, generation after generation. One of the families in there, whose first cells date back to the founding of the catacombs, was the Nazhi family. Sometime in the mid 40s they, for some reason, chose to change their family name to Natchi...
Light music club in the thumbnail 😅 Azuza's face says it all
Your thumbnail has me crying around friends, thank you, it is amazing.
I finally figured out how to watch your videos all the way through. Watch at .75x speed. It’s a little too slow but it’s easier to hear the details.
Did you get that thumbnail from certain imageboard?
I don't like to be critical as I enjoy your videos but lately you seem to be talking faster or my brain is slowing down. I've had to resort to setting the playback speed down.
He's said in other videos recently he's behind on recording so he's probably subconsciously rushing
It is 30 mins at that speed. If read slow it might be up to 45 mins. You can slow the playback speed without affecting the sound quality too much.
These are not shocking family secrets, but well-known facts. But I haven't seen another documentary that explains the complicated family relationships so well and summarizes everything.
Thank you for not getting into the living relative’s info. Everyone is at the mercy of their fate, and they do not deserve condemnation for their relative’s crime, although their pact (which they have corroborated many times) is very respectable. Great episode, & fantastic content as always Mr. W. Simon 👏
Did you not watch the video? He said the pact isn't real.
There’s a part of my brain that wants someone to create a sitcom called “The Hitlers”. Make the cast of the show super diverse. The twisted image I have in my head makes me laugh!😂
This is fascinating ! Thank you. (**note** never watch this stoned, and without pencil and paper). Regardless, it's terrific. Also, the b&w photograph/films from pre-1950, are really telling. It's hard to explain. Weirdly, my dad was among the first American soldiers (82nd & 101st Airborne) to enter the Berghof (Eagle's Nest). Didn't know my dad well, but my older sister later told me, that me had chronic nightmares, from working at a Rumanian orphan camp after the war, as a GI. I've watched you about a dozen times, but this was one of your best. Subscribing now...
Respect for leaving the living alone.
Never thought I'd see K-on in any of Simon's thumbnails...
He wasn't related to Hit*&r, but my friend's child got harassed by older children because of the actions of an imprisoned uncle he'd never met. "Oh, you're one of those no good Wallis kids," even though it was that one specific family member who was the 💩bag.
That seems to happen a lot.
When my grandma was a kid, she had a neighbor who went absolutely nuts, just lost her entire grip on reality, and killed all but two of her kids (one was gone, the other was a baby whose twin she killed, but for some weird reason...left the other alive). She dressed them up, tucked 3 in bed, put one in a chair at the table and rocked the dead twin baby on a rocking chair outside all day long. 🤷 That was how she was found out. Someone saw the baby was dead when they came up to talk.
The two kids that survived were sent to live with nearby family and were bullied RELENTLESSLY. Grandma said rumors started that the twin that lived was a demon who possessed the mom. The stories she told about their treatment were brutal. Like these people don't suffer enough because of said persons actions!
Intelligent and tasteful video. Well done!
Aloisia Veit, his second degree cousin, was killed in a gaschamber at Hartheim in 1940.
The use of that anime in particular was ‘chef’s kiss’😂
This is something I was actually thinking about not too long ago So I'm glad you made a video on it
Thumbnail pic had me dying!! 😭☠️🤣😭😭
That thumbnail
The Stuart-Houston's lived near my husband when they were kids. They had NO IDEA who they were. As a kid my husband went over to their house and their kid went over to his house. He and Howard Stuart-Houston and others went on a ski trip together Howard Suart-Houston is the one who died in a car accident. My husband dropped his spoon in his soup when I told him who the Stuart- Houstons were.
I love how it's so common for stuff like " a record few others in history have managed to match" just roll glibly off the tongue, when 2 contemporaries far exceeded him in death toll and easily matched him for sheer evil, and while Hitler started a war that killed 10s of millions across all of Europe, Stalin and Mao killed their own citizens in numbers that far outstripped the entirety of all European war dead.
I mean, I'd say that's the point of the qualifier "few". I'd say two is few.
I think that I've been watching your show, one or the other, for several years. I am always facinted by you topic, how well its written, and your wonderful delivery.
Interestingly, Geli was buried in consecrated ground. That wouldn't have been possible if she had taken her own life.
Let that sink in. I'll wait.
Well, influence can help there. Crown prince Rudolph also was burried in consecrated grund, and he killed himself plus murdered a Teenager he groomed for it. Also: the churches rules are a bit more nuanced. For a sin to be mortal, it has to be understood as mortal and done willingly. Mental illness, Youth etc can all be used as an Argument that your will wasn't free/that you didn't understand the gravity respectively.
There are always exceptions. And considering where she was to be buried likely came from a dictator that people immediately did without question ... or else, that means nothing here in this case. So it would have been entirely possible, and only up to a decision from a mad man. Let that sink in.....
This isn't a video game
A very interesting Video 👌🏻👍🏻
There was a WW2 rumor that Adolph Hitler sired a child.My Dad told me about it when it was lightly mentioned in a comedy show called Hogan's Heroes.
The K-on girls and Hitler together in one picture is something I never thought I would see, ever
K-on is inherently nationalistic
you're new to anime, aren't you?
Nice thumbnail bro
I could take several history classes with Simon as the Professor.
The fact that William Patrick took the surname Stuart-Houston is another weird twist. Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a ultra far right anglo-german author and anti-semite, and one of Hitler’s main sources of inspiration..
Glad someone else caught that! Chamberlain, along with Wagner both pushed the same idealoghy.
the director
What's the rush? We want to watch your videos, no need to hurry
You did it, you made the greatest thumbnail of all time.
The background music should be ふわふわタイム！
@@ShikataGaNai100 That melody is still stuck in my head
Simon should do a video on the Principality of Sealand if he hasn't already.
he has on a different chanel geo something unfortunately i can’t remember but just look up sealand history and it should come up ! my family just purchased baron/baroness titles from there and it’s extremely interesting finding out about its history!
Why?
@@marcpeterson1092 Oh. Boy. You had to be the one to ask the stupid single-word question.
Here goes: Sealand has an extremely intriguing story. The Principality of Sealand is an unrecognized micronation on HM Fort Roughs (also known as Roughs Tower), an offshore platform in the North Sea approximately 12 kilometres off the coast of Suffolk, England. Roughs Tower is a Maunsell Sea Fort that was built by the British in international waters during World War II. Since 1967, the decommissioned Roughs Tower has been occupied and claimed as a sovereign state by the family and associates of Paddy Roy Bates. Bates seized Roughs Tower from a group of pirate radio broadcasters in 1967 with the intention of setting up his own station there. Bates and his associates have repelled incursions from vessels from rival pirate radio stations and the U.K.'s royal navy using firearms and petrol bombs. Since 1987, when the United Kingdom extended its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles, the platform has been in British territory.
@@PrimericanIdol Well, yeah. I mean, why would anyone be interested just because you say so.
@@PrimericanIdol I suggested a subject once and provided a link to a magazine article which explained the subject and why it was interesting. Not sure it was because of me, but he did a video on it soon after.
3:39 camera glitch?
Thank you! I felt like I was the only one seeing it because no one had commented
My son's mother is from Argentina, her father is half German , the unbelievable stories that come out of that area are pretty wild. My own grandfather fought in WW2 in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. Ironically my father was stationed in Anchorage Alaska in 1995 when I was only 14 years old. I followed in his footsteps and I retired 6 years ago. History is a strange thing. A war changed history so much it's weird to think how the world would be today if the war never happened. I can guarantee I would have never been born nor would my son have been born and possibly even my father. I guess there's a silver lining to everything.
I have a popsicle headache 5min in. I’m gonna need a whiteboard and marker
Thank you Simon
10/10 Thumbnail 😅😂
it would be good if this video included a family tree popping up throughout to make it easier to follow all the names
When I was in highschool it was correctly or not accepted that Hitler was part Jewish. Trying to distract a teacher from starting class with conversation whas very common. In the conversation before English class the top of Hitler being part Jewish came up. Most of us had heard this and all but one accepted this as fact. The one student very angrily said "Hitler was not par Jew. Do your research.". If he was correct or not is not relevant his anger at the idea of Hitler being part Jewish was concerning
he was probably jewish himself and was disgusted by the idea that Hitler could be part jewish
If he got angry about the idea, yes, concerning. Some people though get angry about spreading poular misconceptions. Let's hope it was that.
This kid could have been Jewish and the idea that the most evil man to ever lived being anything to do with his religion could have pissed him off somewhat.
Depends, think it out
idk if you are angry about people being wrong then saying something about it it is pretty natrual. imagine you a expert in a hobby regardless of waht it is , and then some one claims something totally opposite of it or wrong yeah you are gonna be annoyed, i don't envy or fancy nazis but if some one is wrong about something then guess what they are wrong regardless.
clicked for the thumbnail, stayed for Simon.
wow dude don't drag k-on into this lmao
That thumbnail, Simon up to date on internet trends lmao!
Every time I think I understand just how evil Stalin was I learn something like he told Hitler to KEEP HIS OWN SON!
That video was complicated, I had to rewind and double-check with subtitles a LOT.
Still struggle to comprehend how one of his nephews is technically Scouse
My second wife, Austrian, had a father named Adolf. Bizarrely, he never thought to change his name and unsurprisingly I, an Englishman, could never bring myself to address him as Adolf. So, for the gratifyingly short time we were obliged to spend together before his natural demise, I addressed him as "Adi, whether he liked or not. I might have given him leeway had it not been for the framed photograph of him in Nazi uniform, replete with Iron Cross and Oak Leaves, displayed proudly in his living room. I admit not to have shed a single tear at his dismal funeral.
@Simon
You need to read the book...
"The woman who lived in hitlers house".
An account by his personal maid if his Goins on in his private moments.
“Yes I would like to know that!”
- me every time you post a video 😂
“Meet the Hitler’s” should be a television show.
A comedy show
There was a pilot..."Heil honey I'm home."
You're welcome.
I vote Erika for the theme song. Sorry Funkerlied fans. And Panzerlied and Horst Wessel song fans.
Wow. Great job Simon.
I'm not denying the hcaust, but ngl having Mr Hit's righthand man be named Himler sounds like meme writing.
Props to y'all for choosing to respect the living relatives' wishes for privacy, instead of going straight for the "juicy story". Not many would do that, especially when, as you say, personal information about them is already somewhat public.
I assume most of the family did not change their last name.
But what if.....Adolph had been successful as a painter?
Might as well wish that the Archduke's driver had not made a wrong turn in 1914.
Yo that thumbnail is incredible