A lot of the coverage in this series is upsetting, and can be quite emotionally taxing to write. Sparty covers this in his personal Instagram, where he often posts a behind the scenes photo that accompanies a video. Take a look here: instagram.com/spartacusolsson/
@*UncleJoe* I was referring to the bombing of rail yards, sounded like they actually intended to do that instead of dropping bombs indiscriminately like they usually do. Or did I indeed miss something?
My mother's neighbour was a Bulgarian who lived through the war. When the World at War TV series premiered in the 1970s, she asked her her if she was watching it. "Why would I watch it an be reminded of the horrors and all of the loved ones I lost" she replied.
As someone from the UK in my early 20s, I grew up with the re-runs of the World at War series on TV (I also bought the DVD boxset in my teenage years). It is largely the reason why I began reading about the war, and history more generally. However, the series really does paint a much more black and white picture than the reality. On the other hand, I think it is a good window into how the UK sees and remembers the war (as opposed to a summary of the actual events). (Before the next point: full disclaimer here I'm not English, but I do fully recognise their contributions in WW2. I do not intend to undermine any veterans etc) Something I've noticed as I've gotten older is that the British Imperial forces and rest of the UK (including parts of England outside London) often get skipped over in documentaries, films etc. Looking back, the War increasingly seems to be told in the UK as: Dunkirk is mentioned, then focuses mostly on Londoner's withstanding the Blitz/Battle of Britain, then D-Day happened, then the Allies won. Which misses so much out. I'd be interested to hear if anyone else from the UK maybe feels this way too? (Or, if you're from a different country, does your country do something similar when covering WW2?)
@@lab-testedllamba8554 >Looking back, the War increasingly seems to be told in the UK as: Dunkirk is mentioned, then focuses mostly on Londoner's withstanding the Blitz/Battle of Britain, then D-Day happened, then the Allies won. Which misses so much out. Nah, they also put a lot of focus in the African campaign (And in Rommel as the token "honorable" Nazi). But otherwise yes, this is pretty spot on.
To a degree, that was why my mom said no to watching the Ken Burns Vietnam series from 5 yrs ago when asked by my dad. She didn't participate in the war, but she didn't want to go re-live the stories/images from Vietnam.
My father commanded a LST in MacArthur’s New Guinea campaign and the Philippines. He had to leave Saving Private Ryan in the first five minutes. He told me that the “memories came back” watching the landing. He never talked about Biak, except to say it was the worst.
I hope you're taking care of your mental health, Sparty. While the work is absolutely vital, it is also quite taxing on one's psyche to be so immersed in the absolute worst of humanity.
Agree. But he does seem to be coping better than a year ago. I believe there he has a strong sense that it is his duty to make this series, creating the most complete documentation available for love or money of the atrocities that were committed during WW2. It will be a monumental resource, which hopefully will be widely available for humanity for the years to come. One and a half years to go...
There's always someone who has (or has had, past tense) it worse. That doesn't mean we shouldn't extend compassion right now to anyone suffering, especially someone who has taken up the cause that Sparty has. Deciding that certain people deserve less compassion than others is the first step toward arbitrarily deciding who deserves to suffer - or to live.
My wife’s aunt and uncle were killed by American bombs in Holland. The city in Holland was not the target. It was a tragic mistake. Thank you for not letting the memories of the victims die.
I was in Amsterdam years ago and picked up a local newspaper mentioning a commemoration of large numbers of Dutch people killed by an air raid on the city in the summer of 1943. It had targeted a munitions factory but the bombs mostly hit residential areas near the factory. The newspaper article did not mention who carried out the raid but it was American bombers, as I learned later when I researched the bombing.
My Oma's dad was a Dutch government official that helped get Jews and others out of there. She lived in basements and addicts the whole time. When I was about 12 or 13 me and my friend put swastikas on a lego guy. My dad made me talk to my opa about the war, he was Dutch aswell. He told me that when he was my age he watched people get put into boxcars and the ones the disobeyed where shot. He watched one of his beat friends get shot that day.
Sparty, your epilogues are usually very poignant, but today's was even more so, and sent a bit of a chill up my spine. It reminded me of a saying from the old sci-fi show "Babylon 5" which, in addition to the space opera storyline, had a very spiritual undertone. The saying was said in reference to trying to stop a war and its attendant atrocity from occurring, to which a character said, "After the avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote."
Wasn't that actually the episode where some alien parents were trying to refuse life-saving surgery for their son on religious grounds? When they were going to different ambassadors and finally ended up at the Vorlon one out of desperation. Pretty dark ending with the doctor's urge to do the right thing by overriding the parents' authority in court blowing up in his face.
@@rightwingextremist9544 Hmmm...could be. Either way, the sentiment stands. Once an atrocity is done for 'moral' reasons (doctor does the surgery against their beliefs), it opens up the door for more (parents off child because they believe he's 'tainted').
@@ex-navyspook I can't remember which episode it was, but it was Kosh who said it and I think it was after one of the first shadow attacks on civilian targets
When I started watching I thought that this tube might be a little boring, it seemingly being a man talking to camera. What followed was 18 minutes of some of the most compelling narrative I have listened to. Utterly well done. It is a fine thing to give these long dead people a voice.
I can't recommend the movie "Come and See" enough. It gives you something visceral to think of when German atrocities are discussed; what was depicted in the film is very similar to what happened countless times all across Europe.
That film in particular portrays the partisan war in Belorussia, and how rogue German ss and Polizei units and their collaborators eliminated “partisans”
@@ducomaritiem7160 That's one of the best aspects of it I think, it leave you utterly drained emotionally. You can only image what it would be like to actually live through that if just seeing a film showing it is so taxing.
I may have missed it, but I think the video did not explain why the Nazis were especially keen on taking revenge on Erich Maria Remarque. I'm guessing it was because of his anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front.
It was because of All Quiet on the Western Front. Judge Roland Freisler’s statement said as much. This was a spite killing, no more, no less. Turns out Fascists like spite a lot.
"... I have never celebrated my birthday." Thank you, Spartacus! I know this depraved, inhuman stuff is difficult to research, searing to write, daunting to even read. But we, your listeners, must know, must learn -- for the forces that caused these atrocities are at work still today, and if we've learned anything, we must oppose them HERE and NOW. This year, this Christmas, next year, however long it takes, SUPPORT UKRAINE! "Likes" don't count.
Makes you wonder what those German soldiers thought... they had it in them to murder 400 innocent men, but for some reason found themselves allowing this man to witness the birth of his daughter before executing him. What an absurd mix of brutality and inhumanity that seems to make the 'mercy' even worse.
Rules and regulations most likely. They were supposed to only murder the men and didin't want to get their hands dirty by delivering a baby. Ordnung muss sein...
The ones doing the arrest and the ones doing the killing were probably from different units. I doubt that the orders to kill where disclosed in advance as some soldiers could be reluctant or protest. They didn't know what his fate will be.
@@BangFarang1 I doubt that very much. It's a theory that sounds very similar to the clean wehrmacht myth. When you lock all women and children into a school/church/town hall and march off all the men... That's a tale as old as time.
@@BangFarang1 they knew everything. German soldiers (at least those in police battalions) could ask to be excused from "cleansing operations" (war crimes) but very few did. They wanted to be part of the project of extermination.
Sparty and the team I can't applaud you enough, making so much from these (not so old) dejectional actions of humanity. Never was I given the opportunity to learn about the "brilliant" and "courageous" actions of the Wehrmacht vs Greek civilians; nor the first trial against Holocaust's perpetrators in USSR. Let's hope we never forget; let's hope you guys can cope and keep the excellent work!
@UwU we cover thing’s chronologically. The famine genocide was covered in or between two wars series. Here’s a re-upload of that with introductory comments in relation to Russia’s war on Ukraine: Genocide in Ukraine: | Into Context | War in Ukraine 01 ruclips.net/video/s1JI9_WNr1Q/видео.html
Ever since I randomly stumbled across this channel a few weeks ago I am thoroughly enjoying this channel and appreciate the efforts Spartacus and Co. are doing to educate people so that we may never forget. There are so many things about the war that I have not learned of until I started watching the war against humanity series. I always knew the Nazis were evil and knew about the Holocaust but never knew in detail of the many atrocities committed by them. I greatly appreciate this channel for educating me further on the war and discovering things about it that I never knew until now. Thank you Spartacus and Co. for doing this, never forget.
You are such an amazing person. Your eloquence in describing these horrors truly does Justice to the truth of the way these people lived, and the way they died. The world needs this documentation of these people’s lives, and we are forever in your debt for doing this service on behalf of humanity.
Your coverage of so many unknown stories is simply remarkable. I hope that this series, which I have not always agreed with, sometimes, gets the recognition that it deserves. Thank you for making content that will hopefully live long after we are all gone. Thank you.
Spartacus, that was perhaps one of the best presentations or speeches I've ever heard. You are just brilliant in your work. I'm going to share this video far and wide. This episode should be shown to all high school students, just for the share power of your presentation. Keep up the great work.
It is uncertain whether Freisler would have gotten the Justice he deserved from the German government after WW2. But he did not escape God's judgement. What a terrible monster that man was. Somehow, a man freely and willingly putting himself up as Judge, Prosecutor and author of the proceedings, making a mockery of all principles of justice, shocks me even more than those brutes who committed terror on civilians.
Certainly in West Germany, the postwar legal profession had quite a few ex-Nazis and judgments rendered by them cast some doubt on the "ex" part. For example, death sentences by Nazi "People's Courts" for undermining the war effort were in some cases not annulled until the 1990s. Earlier attempts were frustrated by judges or lawyers who seemed to have the same view of the executed that the Third Reich had had.
Mr. Olson, do you write your scripts alone? Extraordinarily elegant, poignant and poetic epilogue in this episode. Listening to your delivery, how could anyone Ever Forget? Thank you for your work, which I do hope you're able to keep separate from your heart?
Excellent coverage of the Kharkov trials, especially the testimonies of the German war criminals. Looking forward to when you talk about the Nuremberg, Tokyo trials, etc. Many thanks to Sparty & Co. for all your research, no matter how heartbreaking and soulcrushing.
One interesting difference from the Nuremberg trials is that the Kharkov defendants wore full uniform in court, including rank badges. At Nuremberg military defendants like Goering will wear uniforms but the insignia was removed.
I watched yesterday but my mind floated back to it today and then I started wondering if I'd left a comment. I couldn't think of what I'd written so and I did watch kind of late so I decided to come back and check. The part about the woman never celebrating her birthday struck me the most. That's what I was thinking about before I started wondering if I'd left a comment or not. I was also thinking about Remarque's sister and the Hanging Judge earlier today. I always get a kick out of people who are willing to denounce the war in public, even if they generally wind up dead. Never forget.
Big props to doing this series. It can't be easy on the mind or soul. But as you always emphasize, there is a need to record these events for the future so hopefully one day comes where atrocities like these never happen again. I really appreciate all of the work your crew does.
Everytime I watch i have to force myself. And everytime I'm impressed by the way you handel this gruesome subject. My thanks and respect for doing this as it can't be easy to tackle all of this!
The last statement was so powerful that I copied transcript as best I could. "Like an avalanche of countless pebbles rolling down a hill, the dead of this war take with them the loved ones they left behind. Husbands, wives, parents, grandparents, siblings, family, and friends will long be left rolling from the terrible force that pummeled them in these distant years. They will remain in painful motion down that slope long after the dead have come to rest further back on this dark hill of humanity. Then with the gentle stroke of time, the hill flattens out into the rolling meadows of mourning and memory. At the slowly fading echo of their voices, their scent, their laughter, and the terrible cries of their unjust end sends vibrations that time again sets new pebbles in motion. For the sake of your children, their children, for all the generations to come, do not go up that hill. Do not tread the path to where it began. Do not set the pebbles rolling. For it began there on that peak and it begins with only one Pebble thrown in anger, fear, and hatred. Never forget."
I feel that those currently in the seats of power need to watch this series. To remind them to be careful which paths they choose to walk. Sadly, I don't think they would care.
Es fällt mir oft schwer diese Folgen anzuschauen. Ich weiß, das ich selbst nichts mit diesen "Verbrechen an der Menschlichkeit" zu tun habe, aber das Wissen überwindet die Vernunft.
In the book "Alien" about being English married to a German living in Germany during WWII, the author writes about bombings in Berlin, most people went to a basement "safe" area, and quickly learned NO ONE could say anything about the bombings, even expressing fear was dangerous. There was a "rat" in almost every building. They would be rewarded for denouncing anyone, and her being English, she was especially at risk. Anything other than, "This is nothing, I know our planes are paying the English back double, even triple, for every bomb dropped." Things like that were GOOD, as saying nothing was even suspect. People spouted to their children "Do not be afraid Hitler will protect us!" even though they knew it was nonsense. The fear, when the war really came home to them all (after Stalingrad), made no one brave anymore.
Gods, Sparty.... I have to share this; someone on my Facebook shared a picture of Hitler in Leiderhosen. The commented, laughing on how anyone could take the man seriously. Having watched your ( and everyone else at Time Ghost ) good work, I couldn't laugh. I found no humor in the image. We can't afford to take the man or the history lightly, even as others in the here and now try to bury it... or repeat it. Thank you again for all the hard work and brilliant prose. You are doing important work.
While I denounce the show trials prominent in both the Soviet Union and Germany, I also denounce the glaring shortcomings, light sentences and very early commutation of the trials and sentences in post war Germany by the Allies. I understand that the Western Allies decided that it needed to be smaller in scope than desired for the ability of the West German public to better adjust and comply more easily with the new Government and Democracy and limit the resentfulness I lean closer to the Russian way of doing it as being closer to fairness.
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It is a shame they went after Remarque, his book was an excellent read. Perhaps I should not have beee on a psychedelic while reading it, but it was an evocative and intense experience.
Is that supposed to be a menorah that's casting it's shadow on the set from the right hand side? And second question, if it is, has that been there this whole time and I just never noticed or is that specifically thumbing our noses at the targets of this particular series for the season? Either way, well done, good set design.
Yes, as far as I can remember, the menorah has always been there. Contrast with the Stuka shadow on the other wall. An instrument of terror flying over and dive bombing the Jews.
During the bombing of propaganda in northern France, did they chose those locations in hoping that the resistance would increase and therefore it would help during overlord?
I feel for the poor beggars who suffered under Allied bombing. However, it was nothing that the Germans hadn't tried already, only failing due to their lighter equipment and inability to sustain losses. Did the slave workers hate the bombers, or take some comfort that thair opressors were finally getting some payback? I also feel for the airmen, far from home over enemy territory, risking their lives in quite vulnerable machines, watching friends blown to oblivion, or simply disappearing, relying on technology that looks so primitive from 60 years on. Until other alternatives were ready, air was the only method of striking back. In a fight for survival. you use what you have.
Human life was cheap to the perpetrators of these crimes. This kind of callousness is not just a part of an unholy war, it is a part of when civilization begins to tolerate the intolerable.
These things are still tolerated. It’s happening in China and Africa right now. Disney movies are filmed near concentration camps and the credits thank the governments responsible. Not to mention the ongoing atrocities in Africa.
Imagine how long would the video be if it mentioned all attrocities that we have no record, specially in China. If so much was happening in Europe alone I can't comprenhend the scale of what was going on in China. Never forget
@@spartacus-olsson No indeed. What choice did they have? You're no doubt familiar with Reserve Police Battalion 101. They shot hundreds of thousands of Jews. After the war their commander and his 2IC were hanged. The rest, the ones who did the killings, went back to their jobs in Hamburg as if nothing had happened.
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Sparty apologies for my outburst on your last broadcast that ended with Germans pouring cold water on sick prisoners while laying them down in the cold snow because it struck a cord with me because I new exactly how that would feel from experience once again apologies
Another moving video that, in my opinion, should be shown in schools along with all the videos in this series to show the hottors of fascism & extreme right wing politics which, sadly, seem to be on the rise again. As a BTW, the picture of the airman in the thumbnail is that of Squadron Leader Brian J E 'Sandy' Lane DFC who, at the time of the picture, was the Commanding Officer of 19 Squadron RAF in the Battle of Britain. He was posted as "missing in action, believed killed" on December 13 1942.
Fun fact the term Kugelblitz has been used to describe an artificial method for creating a Black hole. The idea being to focus a large amount of light in such a way as to create a micro black hole. From there we can feed it matter that we can't use and harvest energy from it. Of course such a thing could also be used as a weapon so powerful it would take Star Trek level sci fi to describe it. (Compare to quantum torpedoes, _lets hope by the time such things are no longer fiction we are, at least, not using them against other Homo Sapiens_ .). Might be a good reason to hope we don't come up with an easy way to do this. IMHO strategic bombing is a complex topic. Going after civilians just for casualties is a crime. Talked to a crewman on a Vietnam era B52 and he was quite adamant that they only bombed places that had military-industrial utility. Bombing the locations from which other people bomb you, shoot you, or make the weapons is clearly ok. i.e. like the Bombing of Penemunde. (sp?)
A lot of the coverage in this series is upsetting, and can be quite emotionally taxing to write. Sparty covers this in his personal Instagram, where he often posts a behind the scenes photo that accompanies a video. Take a look here: instagram.com/spartacusolsson/
Please, could you add manual subtitles ?
RAF bombers did something useful, on purpose? 😲
Sparty did a great job here
@*UncleJoe* I was referring to the bombing of rail yards, sounded like they actually intended to do that instead of dropping bombs indiscriminately like they usually do. Or did I indeed miss something?
Thanks as always everyone.
My mother's neighbour was a Bulgarian who lived through the war. When the World at War TV series premiered in the 1970s, she asked her her if she was watching it. "Why would I watch it an be reminded of the horrors and all of the loved ones I lost" she replied.
As someone from the UK in my early 20s, I grew up with the re-runs of the World at War series on TV (I also bought the DVD boxset in my teenage years). It is largely the reason why I began reading about the war, and history more generally. However, the series really does paint a much more black and white picture than the reality. On the other hand, I think it is a good window into how the UK sees and remembers the war (as opposed to a summary of the actual events).
(Before the next point: full disclaimer here I'm not English, but I do fully recognise their contributions in WW2. I do not intend to undermine any veterans etc) Something I've noticed as I've gotten older is that the British Imperial forces and rest of the UK (including parts of England outside London) often get skipped over in documentaries, films etc. Looking back, the War increasingly seems to be told in the UK as: Dunkirk is mentioned, then focuses mostly on Londoner's withstanding the Blitz/Battle of Britain, then D-Day happened, then the Allies won. Which misses so much out.
I'd be interested to hear if anyone else from the UK maybe feels this way too? (Or, if you're from a different country, does your country do something similar when covering WW2?)
@@lab-testedllamba8554 >Looking back, the War increasingly seems to be told in the UK as: Dunkirk is mentioned, then focuses mostly on Londoner's withstanding the Blitz/Battle of Britain, then D-Day happened, then the Allies won. Which misses so much out.
Nah, they also put a lot of focus in the African campaign (And in Rommel as the token "honorable" Nazi).
But otherwise yes, this is pretty spot on.
To a degree, that was why my mom said no to watching the Ken Burns Vietnam series from 5 yrs ago when asked by my dad. She didn't participate in the war, but she didn't want to go re-live the stories/images from Vietnam.
My father commanded a LST in MacArthur’s New Guinea campaign and the Philippines.
He had to leave Saving Private Ryan in the first five minutes. He told me that the “memories came back” watching the landing. He never talked about Biak, except to say it was the worst.
Alas.
Brilliant epilogue. As I have said before, this is the most important series on RUclips.
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I hope you're taking care of your mental health, Sparty. While the work is absolutely vital, it is also quite taxing on one's psyche to be so immersed in the absolute worst of humanity.
@Jebus Hypocristos also not suggarcoating the events. So many aspects to juggle with, I can't imagine the mental toll.
@@jebushypocristos what have you lived, as a descendant?
Ok woke Wilbur lol
Agree. But he does seem to be coping better than a year ago.
I believe there he has a strong sense that it is his duty to make this series, creating the most complete documentation available for love or money of the atrocities that were committed during WW2. It will be a monumental resource, which hopefully will be widely available for humanity for the years to come.
One and a half years to go...
There's always someone who has (or has had, past tense) it worse. That doesn't mean we shouldn't extend compassion right now to anyone suffering, especially someone who has taken up the cause that Sparty has. Deciding that certain people deserve less compassion than others is the first step toward arbitrarily deciding who deserves to suffer - or to live.
My wife’s aunt and uncle were killed by American bombs in Holland. The city in Holland was not the target. It was a tragic mistake. Thank you for not letting the memories of the victims die.
I was in Amsterdam years ago and picked up a local newspaper mentioning a commemoration of large numbers of Dutch people killed by an air raid on the city in the summer of 1943. It had targeted a munitions factory but the bombs mostly hit residential areas near the factory. The newspaper article did not mention who carried out the raid but it was American bombers, as I learned later when I researched the bombing.
My Oma's dad was a Dutch government official that helped get Jews and others out of there. She lived in basements and addicts the whole time. When I was about 12 or 13 me and my friend put swastikas on a lego guy. My dad made me talk to my opa about the war, he was Dutch aswell. He told me that when he was my age he watched people get put into boxcars and the ones the disobeyed where shot. He watched one of his beat friends get shot that day.
Sparty, your epilogues are usually very poignant, but today's was even more so, and sent a bit of a chill up my spine. It reminded me of a saying from the old sci-fi show "Babylon 5" which, in addition to the space opera storyline, had a very spiritual undertone. The saying was said in reference to trying to stop a war and its attendant atrocity from occurring, to which a character said, "After the avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote."
Man I love that show. Good tastes. X)
Man...Babylon 5...haven't seen that in a long time. I also see references to BSG(the 04 series).
Wasn't that actually the episode where some alien parents were trying to refuse life-saving surgery for their son on religious grounds? When they were going to different ambassadors and finally ended up at the Vorlon one out of desperation. Pretty dark ending with the doctor's urge to do the right thing by overriding the parents' authority in court blowing up in his face.
@@rightwingextremist9544 Hmmm...could be. Either way, the sentiment stands. Once an atrocity is done for 'moral' reasons (doctor does the surgery against their beliefs), it opens up the door for more (parents off child because they believe he's 'tainted').
@@ex-navyspook I can't remember which episode it was, but it was Kosh who said it and I think it was after one of the first shadow attacks on civilian targets
When I started watching I thought that this tube might be a little boring, it seemingly being a man talking to camera. What followed was 18 minutes of some of the most compelling narrative I have listened to. Utterly well done. It is a fine thing to give these long dead people a voice.
Thank you for the kind comment and appreciation - welcome to the series and our channel.
I have never celebrated my birthday, damn that one hit me hard.
I can't recommend the movie "Come and See" enough. It gives you something visceral to think of when German atrocities are discussed; what was depicted in the film is very similar to what happened countless times all across Europe.
I believe that is the greatest WW2 movie ever produced.
@@jerryw6699 It is indeed one of the greatest, if not the greatest.
I saw that movie and was haunted by the images for a long time...
That film in particular portrays the partisan war in Belorussia, and how rogue German ss and Polizei units and their collaborators eliminated “partisans”
@@ducomaritiem7160 That's one of the best aspects of it I think, it leave you utterly drained emotionally. You can only image what it would be like to actually live through that if just seeing a film showing it is so taxing.
I may have missed it, but I think the video did not explain why the Nazis were especially keen on taking revenge on Erich Maria Remarque. I'm guessing it was because of his anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front.
Pretty much. The Nazis banned the novel as soon as they could, and Remarque quickly became a persona non grata in Germany.
I believie it was discussed in one of the previous episodes
It was because of All Quiet on the Western Front. Judge Roland Freisler’s statement said as much. This was a spite killing, no more, no less. Turns out Fascists like spite a lot.
Not really meant as an anti-war novel as such.
"... I have never celebrated my birthday." Thank you, Spartacus! I know this depraved, inhuman stuff is difficult to research, searing to write, daunting to even read. But we, your listeners, must know, must learn -- for the forces that caused these atrocities are at work still today, and if we've learned anything, we must oppose them HERE and NOW. This year, this Christmas, next year, however long it takes, SUPPORT UKRAINE! "Likes" don't count.
Makes you wonder what those German soldiers thought... they had it in them to murder 400 innocent men, but for some reason found themselves allowing this man to witness the birth of his daughter before executing him.
What an absurd mix of brutality and inhumanity that seems to make the 'mercy' even worse.
Rules and regulations most likely. They were supposed to only murder the men and didin't want to get their hands dirty by delivering a baby. Ordnung muss sein...
The ones doing the arrest and the ones doing the killing were probably from different units. I doubt that the orders to kill where disclosed in advance as some soldiers could be reluctant or protest. They didn't know what his fate will be.
@@BangFarang1 I doubt that very much. It's a theory that sounds very similar to the clean wehrmacht myth.
When you lock all women and children into a school/church/town hall and march off all the men... That's a tale as old as time.
@@SomePeopleCallMeWulfman Could jsut have shoved the man along and left the wife giving birth. If it was just following orders then that'd be fine.
@@BangFarang1 they knew everything. German soldiers (at least those in police battalions) could ask to be excused from "cleansing operations" (war crimes) but very few did. They wanted to be part of the project of extermination.
Sparty and the team I can't applaud you enough, making so much from these (not so old) dejectional actions of humanity. Never was I given the opportunity to learn about the "brilliant" and "courageous" actions of the Wehrmacht vs Greek civilians; nor the first trial against Holocaust's perpetrators in USSR. Let's hope we never forget; let's hope you guys can cope and keep the excellent work!
Thank you
@UwU we cover thing’s chronologically. The famine genocide was covered in or between two wars series. Here’s a re-upload of that with introductory comments in relation to Russia’s war on Ukraine:
Genocide in Ukraine: | Into Context | War in Ukraine 01
ruclips.net/video/s1JI9_WNr1Q/видео.html
@UwU « The Holodomor - the Communists’ Holocaust » ruclips.net/video/mZoUioqlZEs/видео.html
Shame, yes?
Ever since I randomly stumbled across this channel a few weeks ago I am thoroughly enjoying this channel and appreciate the efforts Spartacus and Co. are doing to educate people so that we may never forget. There are so many things about the war that I have not learned of until I started watching the war against humanity series. I always knew the Nazis were evil and knew about the Holocaust but never knew in detail of the many atrocities committed by them. I greatly appreciate this channel for educating me further on the war and discovering things about it that I never knew until now. Thank you Spartacus and Co. for doing this, never forget.
Glad that you have found us. Thank you for your kind words, I look forward to seeing you here again.
You are such an amazing person. Your eloquence in describing these horrors truly does Justice to the truth of the way these people lived, and the way they died. The world needs this documentation of these people’s lives, and we are forever in your debt for doing this service on behalf of humanity.
I swear Sparty you have the soul of a poet.
Spartacus, every episode in this subseries is more stunning then the last.
Great respect to the entire production team.
Thank you
Your coverage of so many unknown stories is simply remarkable. I hope that this series, which I have not always agreed with, sometimes, gets the recognition that it deserves. Thank you for making content that will hopefully live long after we are all gone. Thank you.
A very well-written epilogue, and very well delivered too by Spartacus. Thought provoking and moving.
That was an incredibly moving way to end the video. Never forget.
Spartacus, that was perhaps one of the best presentations or speeches I've ever heard. You are just brilliant in your work. I'm going to share this video far and wide. This episode should be shown to all high school students, just for the share power of your presentation. Keep up the great work.
Thank you - you are too kind!
It is uncertain whether Freisler would have gotten the Justice he deserved from the German government after WW2. But he did not escape God's judgement.
What a terrible monster that man was.
Somehow, a man freely and willingly putting himself up as Judge, Prosecutor and author of the proceedings, making a mockery of all principles of justice, shocks me even more than those brutes who committed terror on civilians.
Certainly in West Germany, the postwar legal profession had quite a few ex-Nazis and judgments rendered by them cast some doubt on the "ex" part. For example, death sentences by Nazi "People's Courts" for undermining the war effort were in some cases not annulled until the 1990s. Earlier attempts were frustrated by judges or lawyers who seemed to have the same view of the executed that the Third Reich had had.
Mr. Olson, do you write your scripts alone? Extraordinarily elegant, poignant and poetic epilogue in this episode. Listening to your delivery, how could anyone Ever Forget? Thank you for your work, which I do hope you're able to keep separate from your heart?
Thank you. I du sure them myself. I get help with some if the research, by the writing is all mine.
Excellent coverage of the Kharkov trials, especially the testimonies of the German war criminals. Looking forward to when you talk about the Nuremberg, Tokyo trials, etc. Many thanks to Sparty & Co. for all your research, no matter how heartbreaking and soulcrushing.
One interesting difference from the Nuremberg trials is that the Kharkov defendants wore full uniform in court, including rank badges. At Nuremberg military defendants like Goering will wear uniforms but the insignia was removed.
My God, Spartacus and the other writers, you are poets.
I watched yesterday but my mind floated back to it today and then I started wondering if I'd left a comment. I couldn't think of what I'd written so and I did watch kind of late so I decided to come back and check. The part about the woman never celebrating her birthday struck me the most. That's what I was thinking about before I started wondering if I'd left a comment or not. I was also thinking about Remarque's sister and the Hanging Judge earlier today. I always get a kick out of people who are willing to denounce the war in public, even if they generally wind up dead. Never forget.
Big props to doing this series. It can't be easy on the mind or soul. But as you always emphasize, there is a need to record these events for the future so hopefully one day comes where atrocities like these never happen again. I really appreciate all of the work your crew does.
Thank you for the War Against Humanity video as always, Sparty and team. Never forget.
Glad to see some of the Nazis starting to be held accountable. Never forget.
Great episode as usual, Spartacus. Thanks for your hard work!
I just can't thank you all enough for doing this.
Everytime I watch i have to force myself. And everytime I'm impressed by the way you handel this gruesome subject. My thanks and respect for doing this as it can't be easy to tackle all of this!
The last statement was so powerful that I copied transcript as best I could.
"Like an avalanche of countless pebbles rolling down a hill, the dead of this war take with them the loved ones they left behind. Husbands, wives, parents, grandparents, siblings, family, and friends will long be left rolling from the terrible force that pummeled them in these distant years. They will remain in painful motion down that slope long after the dead have come to rest further back on this dark hill of humanity. Then with the gentle stroke of time, the hill flattens out into the rolling meadows of mourning and memory. At the slowly fading echo of their voices, their scent, their laughter, and the terrible cries of their unjust end sends vibrations that time again sets new pebbles in motion.
For the sake of your children, their children, for all the generations to come, do not go up that hill. Do not tread the path to where it began. Do not set the pebbles rolling. For it began there on that peak and it begins with only one Pebble thrown in anger, fear, and hatred.
Never forget."
Hi Ivan, thank you so much for watching. We're glad you liked the episode and the writing. Means a lot! Never forget.
Another great show, thanks.
Thank you for the lesson.
Excellent video
It does indeed, echo through. Excellent.
Very well said .. we will cry forever for the sins of that war ..
There are none without sin...
That poor woman never celebrates her birthday. It was the day of such a massacre. The horror.
" I have never celebrated my birthday." Utterly heartbreaking.
Excellent as allways
13:25 You know the defendant was stuffed when Freisler is mentioned as the judge
"I never celebrated my birthday" is one of the most horrifying quotes I've heard.
I live in Belgrade Serbia 🇷🇸
It makes me cry to think of the fear and hatred there is for the "Nemacki" Germans
I feel that those currently in the seats of power need to watch this series. To remind them to be careful which paths they choose to walk. Sadly, I don't think they would care.
You're spot on!
Well said sir
Thank you.
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Kalavryta was a dreadful tragedy.
These get harder and harder to watch...
that testimony ending at 10:38 sounds a bit too close to home . . .
What an ending. Well said.
"This has been the 20th century. I'm Mike Wallace."
Es fällt mir oft schwer diese Folgen anzuschauen. Ich weiß, das ich selbst nichts mit diesen "Verbrechen an der Menschlichkeit" zu tun habe, aber das Wissen überwindet die Vernunft.
Amen.
Man nennt das Empathie. Es ist nicht im Widerspruch mit dem Wissen der eigenen Unschuld, sondern bestätigt diese.
In the book "Alien" about being English married to a German living in Germany during WWII, the author writes about bombings in Berlin, most people went to a basement "safe" area, and quickly learned NO ONE could say anything about the bombings, even expressing fear was dangerous. There was a "rat" in almost every building. They would be rewarded for denouncing anyone, and her being English, she was especially at risk. Anything other than, "This is nothing, I know our planes are paying the English back double, even triple, for every bomb dropped." Things like that were GOOD, as saying nothing was even suspect. People spouted to their children "Do not be afraid Hitler will protect us!" even though they knew it was nonsense. The fear, when the war really came home to them all (after Stalingrad), made no one brave anymore.
The header picture is of Squadron Leader Brian Lane , who was a fighter pilot and had nothing to do with Bomber Command. Lane died 13.12.42.
Gods, Sparty.... I have to share this; someone on my Facebook shared a picture of Hitler in Leiderhosen. The commented, laughing on how anyone could take the man seriously. Having watched your ( and everyone else at Time Ghost ) good work, I couldn't laugh. I found no humor in the image. We can't afford to take the man or the history lightly, even as others in the here and now try to bury it... or repeat it. Thank you again for all the hard work and brilliant prose. You are doing important work.
Don't start the stones rolling; after the avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.
I think it was chaplin who said
The Nazis want to be feared so we should laugh at them
@@Spiderfisch Same, with Mel Brooks.
20 December 1943
Ye Olde Pub
Roland Freisler sounds like a real monster. He's lucky he never stood trial
It surprises me these countries can forgive Germany ... never forget.
Monsters are still amongst us!
Never forget.
Absolutely heart breaking.
Thank you Spartacus.... the world had forget, we have now Ukraine
That's what I just thought...
While I denounce the show trials prominent in both the Soviet Union and Germany, I also denounce the glaring shortcomings, light sentences and very early commutation of the trials and sentences in post war Germany by the Allies. I understand that the Western Allies decided that it needed to be smaller in scope than desired for the ability of the West German public to better adjust and comply more easily with the new Government and Democracy and limit the resentfulness I lean closer to the Russian way of doing it as being closer to fairness.
I just can't get over the callousness of these atrocities... Never Forget.
Emotional introducing video👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 👏🏻👏🏻😢😢😢that reminds atrocities, brutality of military 🪖 systems of WW2 partners for heading humans, committing bloodshed, prosecutor ancient populations behind fooled accuses & pretext besides war operators
At 00:46 which part of Kolkata is that footage of ? and where is that footage from ?
We will never forget.
What are those marvelous glasses????
Never forget.
6:35 is that a Fusil Mitrailleur Modele 1924?
or ZB vz 26
If you think this could never happen again then open your eyes and look towards Eastern Europe.
It is a shame they went after Remarque, his book was an excellent read. Perhaps I should not have beee on a psychedelic while reading it, but it was an evocative and intense experience.
The Nazis claimed Remarque was a Jew and that his real name was Kramer and that he had reversed his name and Frenchified the spelling.
Is that supposed to be a menorah that's casting it's shadow on the set from the right hand side?
And second question, if it is, has that been there this whole time and I just never noticed or is that specifically thumbing our noses at the targets of this particular series for the season?
Either way, well done, good set design.
Yes, as far as I can remember, the menorah has always been there. Contrast with the Stuka shadow on the other wall. An instrument of terror flying over and dive bombing the Jews.
It’s been there since I began, almost in every episode of the WaH series - in the beginning without the shadow though…
@@markwilliams2620 that doesn’t look like the shape of a stuka to me..
@@spartacus-olsson Thank you for including it
It's not a menorah. Menorahs have nine candle holders. Sparty's only has seven. It's just a candlabra.
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During the bombing of propaganda in northern France, did they chose those locations in hoping that the resistance would increase and therefore it would help during overlord?
I feel for the poor beggars who suffered under Allied bombing. However, it was nothing that the Germans hadn't tried already, only failing due to their lighter equipment and inability to sustain losses. Did the slave workers hate the bombers, or take some comfort that thair opressors were finally getting some payback?
I also feel for the airmen, far from home over enemy territory, risking their lives in quite vulnerable machines, watching friends blown to oblivion, or simply disappearing, relying on technology that looks so primitive from 60 years on.
Until other alternatives were ready, air was the only method of striking back. In a fight for survival. you use what you have.
Never forget 🌹
Never again.
Anyone know what Ingeborg Reitzel's reaction was to her getting her friend killed?
Who writes your script Sparty, well done them.
I write them myself - I get some help with research, but the writing is all me.
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Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Glory to Ukraine!!!!!
Spoiler: Both Rietzel and Freisler were killed by Allied Bombings. So the Bombing Campaigns achieved some good after all.
content warning.
documented history.
never again.
never forget.
Human life was cheap to the perpetrators of these crimes. This kind of callousness is not just a part of an unholy war, it is a part of when civilization begins to tolerate the intolerable.
These things are still tolerated. It’s happening in China and Africa right now. Disney movies are filmed near concentration camps and the credits thank the governments responsible. Not to mention the ongoing atrocities in Africa.
Joker tells us the dead know only one thing, it’s better to be alive.
I can't support the title - this was a bad day, yes, but the worst day for the RAF - in its 105-year history - came the following March: Nuremberg.
Imagine how long would the video be if it mentioned all attrocities that we have no record, specially in China. If so much was happening in Europe alone I can't comprenhend the scale of what was going on in China. Never forget
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It would have been impossible to be a part of the German army without being
involved in war crimes deserving of death.
That’s not how the Nuremberg prosecutors determined reality… to not mention the judges, and the law.
Even the Soviets didn't go that far.
@@spartacus-olsson No indeed. What choice did they have? You're no doubt familiar with Reserve Police Battalion 101.
They shot hundreds of thousands of Jews. After the war their commander and his 2IC were hanged. The rest, the ones who did the killings, went back to their jobs in Hamburg as if nothing had happened.
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Just watched post on Facebook.
It must have been ptsd inflicted on the entire german nation by ww1 that turned them from bach and beethoven into dirlewanger
42 seconds ago, never even this early
Sparty apologies for my outburst on your last broadcast that ended with Germans pouring cold water on sick prisoners while laying them down in the cold snow because it struck a cord with me because I new exactly how that would feel from experience once again apologies
What was your outburst? It sounds like expressing that you knew how that would feel wouldn't be a bad thing.
ay man I like these, but i can not handle shots of dead people like this.
Another moving video that, in my opinion, should be shown in schools along with all the videos in this series to show the hottors of fascism & extreme right wing politics which, sadly, seem to be on the rise again.
As a BTW, the picture of the airman in the thumbnail is that of Squadron Leader Brian J E 'Sandy' Lane DFC who, at the time of the picture, was the Commanding Officer of 19 Squadron RAF in the Battle of Britain. He was posted as "missing in action, believed killed" on December 13 1942.
Fun fact the term Kugelblitz has been used to describe an artificial method for creating a Black hole. The idea being to focus a large amount of light in such a way as to create a micro black hole. From there we can feed it matter that we can't use and harvest energy from it. Of course such a thing could also be used as a weapon so powerful it would take Star Trek level sci fi to describe it. (Compare to quantum torpedoes, _lets hope by the time such things are no longer fiction we are, at least, not using them against other Homo Sapiens_ .). Might be a good reason to hope we don't come up with an easy way to do this. IMHO strategic bombing is a complex topic. Going after civilians just for casualties is a crime. Talked to a crewman on a Vietnam era B52 and he was quite adamant that they only bombed places that had military-industrial utility. Bombing the locations from which other people bomb you, shoot you, or make the weapons is clearly ok. i.e. like the Bombing of Penemunde. (sp?)