Nazi Werwolves: Post War Terror - War Against Humanity 135

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  • @WorldWarTwo
    @WorldWarTwo  6 месяцев назад +367

    As Sparty laid out at the end of this episode, the end of the war has truly brought about the destruction of Nazism as a political force in Germany. Those now living in the shattered remains of the Third Reich endured nightly bombing, the invasion of their homeland, and will soon have to face the hardship of a harsh winter under occupation. On the whole, they have no time for the people and the ideology that brought this fate upon them.

    • @chins9217
      @chins9217 6 месяцев назад +55

      Thank you for not being a passive voice when it comes to the analysis of the Second World War. In an era where fascism and deranged hatred is hidden behind a smirk and a funny meme (especially with young men “interested” in history) your affirmation of these ideologies as inherently wrong and destructive is very much needed and extremely important. I value that fact and it’s why I believe this channel, the people behind it and its impeccable analysis is truly a treasure and beacon of historical morality.

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 6 месяцев назад +9

      ​@@chins9217Bro is bringing up memes as a serious issue as if it matters 😭
      Most fearmongering thing I've seen lol

    • @chins9217
      @chins9217 6 месяцев назад +40

      @@LordVader1094 of course they matter. How much of the worlds population is on the Internet now? They’re an extremely important tool of communication. What rock do you live under?

    • @Cacciatoredidemoni
      @Cacciatoredidemoni 6 месяцев назад +30

      @@LordVader1094 Read carefully: he said that the problem is that fascism is often hidden behind funny memes, and therefore is not considered as dangerous and criminal as it was and is.

    • @TheStephaneAdam
      @TheStephaneAdam 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@LordVader1094 Found the closet Nazi.

  • @svijj_
    @svijj_ 6 месяцев назад +194

    My grandfather grew up in 50s Poland, he told me once that the Werewolves became kind of a myth in his town. When he was a kid, his mother would always tell him and his friends to not go too deep into the forest, or the Werewolves will get them. This story has always stuck with me

    • @TheUSgoverment
      @TheUSgoverment 6 месяцев назад +2

      Ok but was it the nazi kind and not the big ugly animal man kind?

    • @Spaibo
      @Spaibo 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@TheUSgoverment Why couldn't it be both? An ugly animal man who also happens to be a nazi.

    • @Abcdefg25152
      @Abcdefg25152 4 месяца назад +6

      In the forest next to my house, some of them actually robbed and killed a dude just wandering around the forest. And that was 1948… 3 years after the war was lost.

    • @pieterwillembotha6719
      @pieterwillembotha6719 16 дней назад

      that's a weird thing to say, considering the Poles murdered ethnic Germans in Danzig and elsewhere in Poland; to say nothing of the Sudetenland

  • @YToVSTRoX0
    @YToVSTRoX0 6 месяцев назад +651

    In the mid 80"s I met an old free France veteran. His brother had been shot by the German and even 40 years later he had strong anti-German views. He was saying that at the end of the war, he was shocked to see train loads of brand-new civilian equipment for the Germans. He mentioned tractors if I remember right. According to his account, they were going out at night to blow those trains out, out of jealousy. I wonder if some of those actions have been assigned to werewolves.

    • @Free-Bodge79
      @Free-Bodge79 6 месяцев назад +129

      @@francisdotso8594 blowing up trains full of agricultural equipment, isn't a atrocity.
      The German's committed their fair share of real ones though.
      People have long memories especially in regards to ill treatment. !

    • @edwardblair4096
      @edwardblair4096 6 месяцев назад +110

      ​@@Free-Bodge79It may not be a direct atrocity like concentration camps, but the destruction of tools used to grow needed food definitely caused additional indirect suffering.

    • @albertarthurparsnips5141
      @albertarthurparsnips5141 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@francisdotso8594Anything to be surprised at with that general, nay, universal association of Germans with atrocities !?

    • @dsan8742
      @dsan8742 6 месяцев назад

      @@Free-Bodge79
      Lmao, stop justifying terrorism, last I checked the French still had a global empire and would go on to use some lessons taught to them by the Nazis on their indochinese and Algerian subjects. Pathetic imperials

    • @tbu_drachenkater5397
      @tbu_drachenkater5397 6 месяцев назад

      @@Free-Bodge79why are you saying that all of the Germans committed atrocities? It were the Nazis, which were all of the SS, the SA, large parts of the Wehrmacht and other high ranking positions. I agree, there were bystanders and even helpers in the common population, but you can’t just say that every German back then committed atrocities!

  • @lenjapita
    @lenjapita 6 месяцев назад +202

    My grandfather told me that his cousin was one of the volunteers who fought against the German werewolves in Belgrade after the communist occupation. Beneath the city is a vast system of ancient tunnels connected to modern sewers. A few hundred Germans remained underground and caused a huge problem. Then the communists promised that they would give a full military pension to all surviving volunteers who freed the tunnels, regardless of age, length of participation in the war and whether they were in the Chetniks before that. Thus, my grandfather's cousin became a pensioner at the age of 26.

    • @moelester8547
      @moelester8547 6 месяцев назад +5

      Like the new york tunnels

  • @Free-Bodge79
    @Free-Bodge79 6 месяцев назад +111

    Spartacus, sir. You truly are a gentleman and a scholar. It's been a difficult road we've all walked with you, watching war against humanity. Lord only knows how difficult it must have been researching and producing each episode. Just wanted to say, thank you for the way you've presented it . With so much empathy, compassion and sincerity. I've learned a lot from you sir. Many thanks again. ! 👊💛👍

  • @ssechres
    @ssechres 6 месяцев назад +62

    My father arrived in Germany in 1946 and was in the Constabulary (American Police for Germany). He talked of being shot at by children.

    • @ulysses1320
      @ulysses1320 6 месяцев назад +8

      Ami go home

    • @ssechres
      @ssechres 6 месяцев назад +8

      @@ulysses1320 Aber, ich liebe Deutschland!

  • @theNoogler88
    @theNoogler88 5 месяцев назад +16

    In the book "Exorcising Hitler", author Frederick Taylor includes an excerpt from the British newspaper, The Times, about this: "A werewolf is a human being who transforms himself temporarily into a wolf. There is no Hague Convention for the protection of werewolves." It's comforting to know that the British have always been pithy.

  • @matthewmcmacken6716
    @matthewmcmacken6716 6 месяцев назад +254

    'I saw a Werewolf drinking a Pina Colada at Trader Vics... his hair was perfect. Yeep!'

    • @karlbrundage7472
      @karlbrundage7472 6 месяцев назад

      You know, I am a rather brilliant surgeon. I could fix that.
      Fix what?
      That hump.
      What hump?
      ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Nevermind...................................

    • @SeattleJeffin
      @SeattleJeffin 6 месяцев назад +14

      "AhWoooooo"

    • @Maynardcomau
      @Maynardcomau 6 месяцев назад +8

      And all this time I thought it “was purple”. This really is an educational channel.

    • @pnutz_2
      @pnutz_2 6 месяцев назад +10

      I saw a werewolf with a chinese menu in his hand

    • @Kyle-g5u
      @Kyle-g5u 6 месяцев назад +2

      Better not let em in!

  • @aftershock2222
    @aftershock2222 6 месяцев назад +340

    The Werewolves were a sorry joke compared to the Forest Brothers. The Forest Brothers were a thorn in the side of the Soviets for years to come.

    • @nygarmik
      @nygarmik 6 месяцев назад +29

      Indeed, I thought about them while watching this episode. Some of them persisted until the fifties, I think.

    • @drewstar412
      @drewstar412 6 месяцев назад +25

      I never heard of "The Forest Brothers". I hope Time Ghost Army covers their story too!

    • @sanich0811
      @sanich0811 6 месяцев назад +24

      Nah. The Forest Brothers were destroyed as a force and those civilians who were involved in connection with them were deported to Siberia under Stalin. Those who remained were only formal members but did not wage an armed struggle in any way, perhaps they were agitating

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 6 месяцев назад +12

      Harold Cole, a British soldier who turned traitor and collaborated with the Germans, tried to cover himself postwar by killing a former German officer named Georg Hanft, claiming Hanft was a Werwolf. Cole later fled and went underground in Paris but was eventually tracked down and killed in a shoot-out.

    • @bienewolf6917
      @bienewolf6917 6 месяцев назад +1

      I heard about them, Soviet's couldn't deal with them for a decade and longer 😁

  • @macmedic892
    @macmedic892 6 месяцев назад +107

    Inga: Werewolf!
    Dr. Frankenstein: Werewolf?
    Igor: There.
    Dr. Frankenstein: What?
    Igor: There, wolf. There, castle.
    Dr. Frankenstein: Why are you talking that way?
    Igor: I thought you wanted to.
    Dr. Frankenstein: No, I don’t want to.

    • @c1ph3rpunk
      @c1ph3rpunk 6 месяцев назад +11

      Frau Blücher

    • @Deridus
      @Deridus 6 месяцев назад +4

      Suit yourself, I'm easy.

    • @dudesqr
      @dudesqr 6 месяцев назад +5

      If you're blue and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go where fashion sits?

    • @robertmiller9735
      @robertmiller9735 6 месяцев назад +10

      @@c1ph3rpunk (distant whinnying)

    • @Deridus
      @Deridus 6 месяцев назад +4

      @@dudesqr Puuin on da riiiiz

  • @alphamikeomega5728
    @alphamikeomega5728 6 месяцев назад +29

    I had wondered why, to my knowledge, die-hard Nazis apparently just gave up when defeated, when other guerrilla forces in other wars carried on. Thank you for explaining how this was not entirely the case, but why at a strategic level, it may as well have been.
    It helped other guerrilla forces (the ones which were successful) that they tended to have foreign support - which of course was not available to the Werewolves.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 6 месяцев назад +1

      I suspect the most diehard Nazis died in conventional war, or committed suicide at the end. The available pool of recruits for a partisan war was not there.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 6 месяцев назад +9

      Germany was too profoundly defeated. Quite a few surviving Nazis, in the Western zone at least, repackaged themselves as anti-Communists and took advantage of the Cold War. Hans Fritzsche, acquitted at Nuremberg though he served a short jail term, was along with others involved in infiltrating the Free Democrats party in an attempt to turn it in a Nazi direction. Fritzsche died of cancer in 1953. This kind of thing was more attractive for diehards than guerrilla warfare. So was working for the Gehlen Organisation.

  • @stevekaczynski3793
    @stevekaczynski3793 6 месяцев назад +33

    When the US declared mission accomplished in Iraq and continued to face attacks, there was a brief flurry of interest in Nazi Werewolves, with the assumption that this was parallel to the situation in Iraq. In reality Iraq 2003 and Germany 1945 were very different.

    • @OperatorMax1993
      @OperatorMax1993 5 месяцев назад +4

      Similar to when Saddam took notes from the Vietnam war about elements of attrition based warfare. But that's also different because it depends on terrain too (Jungle vs Desert)

  • @AbstractHistory01
    @AbstractHistory01 6 месяцев назад +43

    Amazing video as always, also war against humanity is one of my favorite sections of this channel, thank you so much!!

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  6 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks for watching, never forget!

  • @darthcheney7447
    @darthcheney7447 6 месяцев назад +9

    Never forget. Great job Sparty. Great job TimeGhost.
    "War is all hell."
    -William T. Sherman.

  • @5chr4pn3ll
    @5chr4pn3ll 6 месяцев назад +249

    Wehrwolves surely

    • @v_iancu
      @v_iancu 6 месяцев назад +7

      Lol

    • @michaelsamuel9841
      @michaelsamuel9841 6 месяцев назад +6

      Wehrwolves lol

    • @avnrulz
      @avnrulz 6 месяцев назад +2

      There wolves!

    • @thehellyousay
      @thehellyousay 6 месяцев назад +1

      took the title from the instruction manual the nazis issued "werwolf: tips for ranger units." displayed and translated @ 4:05 of the video. perhaps if you had watched and listened, ya?

    • @cratorcic9362
      @cratorcic9362 4 месяца назад +1

      @@avnrulzTherewolves?

  • @ives3572
    @ives3572 6 месяцев назад +28

    “The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.” - Joyce Carol Oates

    • @aze94
      @aze94 6 месяцев назад +3

      And yet almost all wars have ended before that point.

    • @Cancoillotteman
      @Cancoillotteman 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@aze94 This notion of unending wars is I think an integrate part of the total wars typical of modern warfare. And when we look at it, past 1905 few peace treaty has really been accepted by the losing side.

  • @FlavourlessQuark
    @FlavourlessQuark 6 месяцев назад +19

    Interesting coincidence, I recently submitted a question about werwolves for OOTF. Excellent video, as always!

  • @heralds
    @heralds 6 месяцев назад +234

    nazis had werewolves and zombies

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  6 месяцев назад +194

      Wait til you learn about the backside of the moon -TimeGhost Ambassador

    • @Soundbrigade
      @Soundbrigade 6 месяцев назад +41

      @@WorldWarTwoThe base in Antarctica, was that the jump-off base to the Moon?! And are there still SS-penguins left?!

    • @Aeonicentity
      @Aeonicentity 6 месяцев назад +14

      ​@@Soundbrigadewhy do you think they all still wear those boss suits?

    • @Lonovavir
      @Lonovavir 6 месяцев назад +6

      The Soviets had the Vampires.

    • @Soundbrigade
      @Soundbrigade 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@Aeonicentity Defending the icewall and the flat Earth …. I have always suspected that NASA has behind that but …. Werner von Braun … Things start to make sense to me, FINALLY!

  • @Lonovavir
    @Lonovavir 6 месяцев назад +93

    It's okay for the Germans to have werewolves. The Poles had a bear.

    • @Game_Hero
      @Game_Hero 6 месяцев назад +2

      Werewolfs originate from Poland

    • @BananaRama1312
      @BananaRama1312 6 месяцев назад +10

      @@Game_Hero you mean germany and prussia? xd

  • @rumrunner8019
    @rumrunner8019 6 месяцев назад +48

    Werwolves? More like " *where* are the *wolves* ?"
    I guess they were supposed to attack and do cleanup for Steiner.
    Also, can we talk about how awesome Spartacus's suit look?

  • @cdcdrr
    @cdcdrr 6 месяцев назад +54

    Nazi werewolves sounds so much worse than vampires.

    • @_chew_
      @_chew_ 6 месяцев назад +15

      It's a matter of perspective, really.

    • @h3069
      @h3069 6 месяцев назад +3

      Wait until you hear about the nazi cyborg that brought zombies to London to fight the vampires

    • @yagami1134
      @yagami1134 5 месяцев назад

      Some Hellsing references here

    • @_chew_
      @_chew_ 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@h3069 But WHY was he a CYBORG, though?!

    • @williamrosen3179
      @williamrosen3179 5 месяцев назад

      @@h3069Wasn’t he powered by a hamster on a wheel?

  • @mightymot45
    @mightymot45 6 месяцев назад +21

    Always nice to see a video from Spartacus Awesome

  • @samuelcroll344
    @samuelcroll344 6 месяцев назад +77

    They didn't see any irony considering their attitude to partisans?

    • @JurassicClark96
      @JurassicClark96 6 месяцев назад +34

      "Rules for me but not for thee" except totally reversed lol

    • @GeertTheDestoyer
      @GeertTheDestoyer 6 месяцев назад +6

      What irony? Their convictions seem mainly politically driven.

    • @MrPedroleiria
      @MrPedroleiria 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@JurassicClark96 classic nazi logic.

    • @SkilledKill
      @SkilledKill 6 месяцев назад

      ​@GeertTheDestoyer yeah it's all gotchas and zingers with these types

    • @SkilledKill
      @SkilledKill 6 месяцев назад

      Considering the soviet union never signed the Geneva convention and non-uniformed combatants, (,partisans) don't fall under it anyways, there is no irony. Just victors writing history

  • @RubberToeYT
    @RubberToeYT 6 месяцев назад +16

    I had never heard of the werewolves before, really interesting video

  • @wfellow1
    @wfellow1 6 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you for this video. I learned a lot in this that I didn't know before. Never Forget!!

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  6 месяцев назад +1

      Glad it was helpful! Never forget.

  • @BELCAN57
    @BELCAN57 6 месяцев назад +23

    "Werewolf!"
    "There wolf!!"
    Young Frankenstein

    • @Deridus
      @Deridus 6 месяцев назад +2

      There, Castle!

    • @TheBearInTheChair
      @TheBearInTheChair 6 месяцев назад +2

      Why are you talking​ like that?@@Deridus

    • @waukivorycopse2402
      @waukivorycopse2402 6 месяцев назад +3

      It's pronounced Fronk-en-steen!!

    • @Deridus
      @Deridus 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@TheBearInTheChair I thought you wanted to?

  • @brendenstuder6119
    @brendenstuder6119 6 месяцев назад +4

    My Grandpa, who served in the Canadian army overseas from October 1944 until the end of the war, and then served in the occupation, said that during the war, he slept with a knife under his pillow. During the occupation, he slept with a pistol under his pillow.

  • @AceMoonshot
    @AceMoonshot 6 месяцев назад +20

    Timing is weird sometimes.
    Last night I watched The Aftermath (2019) starring Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgard and Jason Clarke.
    It is set in post war Germany. One of the characters' daughter is friends with a boy that is a Nazi Werewolf.
    It was not the core to the plot but it was important.
    Afaik that is the only film I've watched about Nazi Werewolves. And I watched it less than 12 hours before you gave us this video.
    Timing is weird sometimes...

    • @DeerBoy736
      @DeerBoy736 6 месяцев назад +2

      I watched that movie exactly because of it. The romance getting the more focus was aletdown to me.

    • @AceMoonshot
      @AceMoonshot 6 месяцев назад

      @@DeerBoy736 I had no idea, I watched it blind coming into it. So it came as a surprise at its inclusion.
      And yeah, romantic triangles, cheating etc are meh to me.
      Still, the timing just hit my wtf brain.

    • @DeerBoy736
      @DeerBoy736 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@AceMoonshot Same, kinda. All I knew was it's a movie set in post war germany and the werewolf movement is in it so I was intrigued. But it turned out to be as you said love triangles, cheating and an annoying female lead.

    • @KlausVonKuste
      @KlausVonKuste 6 месяцев назад +2

      Werwolf featuring also in Lars Von Trier's movie "Europa"

  • @Cleverphin
    @Cleverphin 5 месяцев назад +3

    So many young adults and teenagers who lost their lives in the last months of the war. Terrible!

  • @matthewjay660
    @matthewjay660 6 месяцев назад +10

    Hello, Spartacus. 🙋🏻‍♂️ 0:32 I studied that the Werewolves were active until 1947. 🇺🇸🤝🇩🇪

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson 6 месяцев назад +17

      As I say at the end, even later than that.

  • @danielwillens5876
    @danielwillens5876 6 месяцев назад +7

    Excellent job, as usual. Is there going to be a "Spies and Ties" episode about the Gehlen Organization and the first rumblings of the Cold War? (You mentioned the NKVD trying to shut down Nazi cells in East Germany, and my first thought....}

  • @sonoftherabbitpeople4737
    @sonoftherabbitpeople4737 6 месяцев назад +1

    Wow! Bad Kreuznach made the news. I lived there for 3 years when my dad was stationed there with the US Army. Didn't think the town important enough to ever get a mention.

  • @sailordude2094
    @sailordude2094 6 месяцев назад +3

    I don't use Instagram but thanks for talking about the Aachen Operation. Good stuff!

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  6 месяцев назад

      We also post the day by day series on our website which you can find here: timeghost.tv/blog/ww2-day-by-day/

  • @kueller917
    @kueller917 5 месяцев назад +3

    Always tragic seeing the fanaticism to Hitler, even having children taking up arms, while the man they died for was hiding in a hole and when he finally did pick up a gun it was only to shoot himself.

  • @sankarchaya
    @sankarchaya 6 месяцев назад +25

    It's remarkable that the Nazi leadership spent so much time on "wonder"-weapons that broke down before they could be fully utilized instead of planning a real partisan resistance that could have been effective. It speaks a lot to how they viewed mass mobilization - it was a tool to gain power, but not something to be sustained beyond hammering loyalty to the state into the heads of citizens. Even though one could argue the same about Stalin's view of mass politics, even the USSR was able to field effective partisan forces of ideologically committed soviet citizens. At the end of the day, fascism of the nazi variety just promised blood and suffering, and perhaps there just weren't enough Germans willing to die for that vision. As Slovenian philosopher Zizek once argued, Stalin promised to do good things and did bad things, while Hitler promised to do bad things and did bad things.

    • @spacemanspud7073
      @spacemanspud7073 6 месяцев назад +6

      The Nazis, and the german people as a whole, despised partisans on a ideological level all the way back to the Franco-Prussian war with the fear of the dreaded francs-tireurs. The Nazi's were notoriously brutal against partisans and would react reprisals on all villages in a area of an attack, alot of times killing the entire population of those hamlets. The Nazis adopting such an institution would be a hard break in policy and rhetoric.
      The volkstrum was more a less an answer to utilizing mass mobilization without adopting the hated partisan system
      As for if the German people going for such a program, while the Nazis did promise and deliver some good things to the Germans until the war really started to turn, during the days of the Volktrum many Germans refused to serve without a uniform (Since the Soviets would just summarily shoot them as partisans, and the Nazis did to Soviet partisans). Since non-uniformed volkstrum is essentially partisans, I think it's fair to say the Germans wouldn't go for anything like true state supported partisans.

    • @Infinite_Jester
      @Infinite_Jester 6 месяцев назад +4

      I'm not really well-versed in National Socialist ideology, but in fascist philosophy a people defeated by strength of arms has no right to exist.
      Such an event is indicative of a lack in "strength of spirit" and, as such, planning for beyond a final defeat is meaningless.

  • @CaptApple
    @CaptApple 6 месяцев назад +6

    A captured B-17? Flyable? That must be an interesting story. I can't recall any bomber command airfields getting overrun so how'd that come about?

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  6 месяцев назад +14

      Planes would occasionally make a crash landing reasonably intact or even surrender if badly damaged in the interests of crew survival.
      It wouldn't be too hard to piece together a working B-17 from successful crash landed planes and other wrecks.
      -TimeGhost Ambassador

    • @janhaanstra2245
      @janhaanstra2245 6 месяцев назад

      Google for Kampfgeschwader 200😮

    • @HossBlacksilver
      @HossBlacksilver 6 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@WorldWarTwo As I recall that's how the Allies got their hands on their first Zero. But then again both sides did that with a lot of aircraft and armor.

    • @MM22966
      @MM22966 6 месяцев назад +2

      It crashed mostly intact and they rebuilt it. There were various plans to use it as a weapon, but it mostly ended up sitting at an airfield (if I remember correctly, there is an entry on it the Time-Life WW2 books)

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 6 месяцев назад +1

      Many Allied bombers carried a small explosive device. If the plane crash-landed in enemy territory the pilot was supposed to detonate it to destroy key technology like the bomb sight and also render the plane unusable. Even so, intact or repairable planes fell into German hands.

  • @El_Presidente_5337
    @El_Presidente_5337 6 месяцев назад +4

    4:28
    So we meet again Mr.Skorzeny

  • @answerman9933
    @answerman9933 6 месяцев назад +7

    Volun-told. I learned a new useful word.

  • @kidmohair8151
    @kidmohair8151 6 месяцев назад +70

    “…but the werewolves were plagued by poor organization, lacked competent leadership,
    were often poorly trained and motivated, and lacked resources…"
    which pretty much sums up the big h's thousand(12)year régime in the final stages of this bloody war.
    I would say "never again" but the forces of fascism are rising once more.
    so I will have to only say,
    never forget.

    • @SkilledKill
      @SkilledKill 6 месяцев назад

      Yeah, antifa and modern Israel border polices are pretty facist. Could you do something about this with your activism please

    • @oscaranderson5719
      @oscaranderson5719 6 месяцев назад +4

      their aesthetics and rhetoric may change, but the results never will. think positively tho- we can learn from the past and fight it in the here and now rather than wait for it to consume an entire continent.

    • @kidmohair8151
      @kidmohair8151 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@oscaranderson5719 and so we must.
      the rhetoric they use disguises their true intent.
      that is how fascists entrap those they need to accomplish their drive to dominate.
      metaphorical smoke and mirrors, that will eventually turn into real shattered mirrors and smoking cities.
      fear and division are their tools.

    • @GaiusCaligula234
      @GaiusCaligula234 6 месяцев назад +5

      What fascism? Are you okay mate

    • @oscaranderson5719
      @oscaranderson5719 6 месяцев назад +4

      @@GaiusCaligula234 if you can’t easily spot it…

  • @nikolamilivojevic8835
    @nikolamilivojevic8835 6 месяцев назад +5

    They tried the same thing in my hometown in 1944/45 but falled by using ex post Office workors with combat experience (Vojvodina, Backa Palanka)

  • @leoartolson4658
    @leoartolson4658 6 месяцев назад +3

    Imagine a found footage horror movie where someone comes across an old post ww2 nazi hideout and gets chased by werewolf SS soldiers, that would be awesome.

  • @jessehayes8052
    @jessehayes8052 6 месяцев назад +2

    I saw a trailer once for a whole movie called Warewolf Women Of The SS, didnt know it was a documentary

  • @shannonsullivan1968
    @shannonsullivan1968 6 месяцев назад +3

    Great video and thank you for sharing. I can certainly see how the German people were really tired of the war and wanted to part in any guerrilla war activity. If only because they viewed WW II as a continuation of WW I - in essence they had been at war since 1914 and they were ready for it to be over. They had no desire to continue a fight they had no hope to win.

  • @rsfaeges5298
    @rsfaeges5298 6 месяцев назад +8

    Informative 👍👍

  • @GeertTheDestoyer
    @GeertTheDestoyer 6 месяцев назад +13

    Doomed effort from the get-go, as the cruelty needed for the critical support was severely lacking. If i have learned one thing from this series, it is that cruelty inspires resistance movements. The allied occupation was never going to be as cruel as German occupation, they lacked that clear racial idiology.

    • @oscaranderson5719
      @oscaranderson5719 6 месяцев назад +2

      yet again, not being a massive dick wins out!

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 6 месяцев назад +1

      Even in the Soviet zone, the authorities distributed food even though the USSR faced famine conditions in a number of places postwar. They did not want an insurgency to develop among Germans out of sheer desperation.

  • @villainizing
    @villainizing 6 месяцев назад +15

    This video certainly explains the popularity of the wulfsangel with neo-nazis and other edgelords

  • @salty4496
    @salty4496 6 месяцев назад +5

    A comment to show my support for the channel, and to feed the YT algorithm

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  6 месяцев назад +1

      Much appreciated Salty.

  • @MrWill9894
    @MrWill9894 6 месяцев назад +6

    Lotta nazi apologists in the comments on this one, really sad. You’d think people would put on their thinking caps considering this series is about war crimes, a concept to which Naziism is faithfully married

    • @Veylon
      @Veylon 6 месяцев назад +2

      The Nazi leaders slinked away to hide when the chips were down or sought to bargain the lives of their subordinates and slaves in self-serving deals. Can't see anything to admire there.

  • @SamuraiAkechi
    @SamuraiAkechi 6 месяцев назад +2

    16:25 wasn't that the work for SMERSH rather than NKVD?
    18:30 and then we get Gladio and revisionist groups

  • @DominicBHaven-qm6nx
    @DominicBHaven-qm6nx 6 месяцев назад +3

    Somebody once said that the werewolves were neutralized by the economic rebound of Germany (West Germany) after the war ended. I think the rebuilding of Europe is a marvelous story that is overlooked. Of all the homeless people in Germany during the Summer of 1945, how long did it take to get shelter for those people before Winter came?? There must have been temporary housing erected while the cities were being rebuilt. What industries were restarted after the war and what was the employment situation like?? I find it amazing to look at pictures of Berlin, Cologne, Warsaw, and other cities heavily damaged during the war and contrast them with how they look today. What a massive effort it took to make those cities habitable again. One last thought. If the SS was busy telling everyone that wonder weapons would turn the tide of the war before Germany was overrun, then it would have undercut this message if they were preparing for a guerilla war. When you are in a hopeless situation against a numerically superior enemy, neither one of these options is going to help you. Thanks for another great video.

    • @molybdaen11
      @molybdaen11 6 месяцев назад +3

      My grandmother feed from the Russians as a child.
      She mentioned that they had to live from the land until sharing tiny rooms which the original German owners.
      Basically everyone who still had a house had to share it.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 4 месяца назад +1

      @@molybdaen11 A room in a building in Dachau concentration camp was filled with inmates' corpses when the Americans arrived in late April 1945. In the 1950s a Polish woman was living in the same room - it was the only accommodation she could find.

    • @molybdaen11
      @molybdaen11 4 месяца назад

      @@stevekaczynski3793 Frightening isn't it?
      And the worst thing is that we learned nothing.

  • @mrmeowmeow710
    @mrmeowmeow710 6 месяцев назад +1

    1 hell of a great history video👍👍

  • @Jarod-vg9wq
    @Jarod-vg9wq 6 месяцев назад +1

    18:40 couldn’t not have said it better myself.

  • @Stoner075C
    @Stoner075C 6 месяцев назад +3

    Them Werwolf dudes sure sound a lot like they are some kind of nazi flavoured Gladio, ain't them?

  • @karoltakisobie6638
    @karoltakisobie6638 6 месяцев назад +4

    Soviets and Polish communist government dealt with werewolf the same way like they dealt with Ukrainian armed groups. They locked thousands of civilians in camps and gradually expelled them to Germany and Ukraine respectively. That effectively removed any support for armed resistance.
    Somewhat ironically some camps for German and Ukrainian civilians were staffed by Jewish camp survivors drafted by Soviets. Few camps had very bad reputation for starvation, bad treatment and occasionally torture.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 6 месяцев назад

      Jews tended to be trusted as their anti-Nazi and anti-German credentials were considered good. For example, Erwin Weit, an Austrian-born Jew whose family moved to Poland before the war, was freed from prison by the Soviets and then given a green questionnaire to complete. He was then told he had just joined the Workers' Party of Poland. His autobiography is rather thin on what he did in the Stalin period but later he was a German-Polish interpreter at high-level talks in the 1950s and early 1960s.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 6 месяцев назад

      Detention centres for Germans in Czechoslovakia varied from bad to very bad. A camp at Kolin, east of Prague, had an especially bad reputation.

  • @philipb2134
    @philipb2134 6 месяцев назад +1

    There was an interesting movie, 'Zentropa' (/'Europa' in the US) which dealt with this topic. Enjoy.

  • @shawnr771
    @shawnr771 6 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you for the lesson.
    Will this channel be cover atrocities that occured during the Korean war?

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  6 месяцев назад +4

      All Korean War content will be on the Korean War channel, Sparty may appear a few times to cover war atrocities on there but we don't plan on having a regular series at this time. Sparty will be focusing on our other upcoming series. History of Democracy.

    • @shawnr771
      @shawnr771 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@WorldWarTwo Thank you for the answer.
      I am looking forward to the new series.

  • @TheMemeWeaver
    @TheMemeWeaver 6 месяцев назад +1

    So I've been a subscriber of The Great War. And THERE'S A SECOND CHANNEL?!

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson 6 месяцев назад +2

      There’s even a third and a fourth…
      www.youtube.com/@TimeGhost
      www.youtube.com/@TheKoreanWarbyIndyNeidell
      Although I should point out that we don’t produce The Great War channel since 2018, when Indy completed the coverage of WW1.

    • @NicoakaRedCat
      @NicoakaRedCat 6 месяцев назад

      lucky you, you are in for a hell of a ride

  • @frederic-leonpohl9812
    @frederic-leonpohl9812 6 месяцев назад

    ''Hier spricht der Sender Werwolf, sender der Deutschen Freiheitsbewegung in den vom Feind besetzten Gebieten." I remember hearing that in school in germany. We actually talked about Werwolf a few years later I met an old man who could tell me first hand about it.

  • @ericdanielski4802
    @ericdanielski4802 6 месяцев назад +15

    Nice video.

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  6 месяцев назад +5

      Glad you enjoyed. Never forget.

  • @Khaoki
    @Khaoki 6 месяцев назад +76

    "Nazi Terrorists" is redundant

    • @Bandog23
      @Bandog23 6 месяцев назад

      ?

    • @kingericson490
      @kingericson490 6 месяцев назад +11

      @@Bandog23 he is saying nazi's are terrorists so there is no need to say nazi terrorists

    • @pyrrhusofepirus8491
      @pyrrhusofepirus8491 6 месяцев назад +7

      ⁠@@kingericson490Doesn’t really make sense to me though, before they ascended to power they had elements of it but that was quashed after the Munich Putsch wherein they ran a successful election campaign and got into power that way. They were also considered a legitimate government by the rest of the continent, unlike, say the Taliban who despite diplomatic overtures and offers have been routinely denied purely based on the fact that actually discussing with them would imply they’re legitimate.

    • @Marcus280898
      @Marcus280898 6 месяцев назад +5

      I get your meaning but there is a distinction to be drawn between state terrorism, like the kind practiced by the Third Reich, and the actions of a terrorist insurgency.

    • @timmmahhhh
      @timmmahhhh 6 месяцев назад +4

      Perhaps the term Nazi Guerillas to distinguish them from the Nazi government is in order, because yes.

  • @richardsimms251
    @richardsimms251 5 месяцев назад

    Wonderful program

  • @andrewpearson5504
    @andrewpearson5504 6 месяцев назад +1

    That's it, I'm writing the script WerewolveSS.

  • @jameskostrewa9861
    @jameskostrewa9861 6 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome as usual

  • @lukagalic9533
    @lukagalic9533 6 месяцев назад +5

    I am just curious is there any talk about Fascist Italy and the war crimes commited by Fascist Italy ? on this youtube channel.

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson 6 месяцев назад +9

      Well… browse my 135 episodes and you’ll find plenty.

    • @lukagalic9533
      @lukagalic9533 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@spartacus-olsson Thanks

    • @kevinkearns7719
      @kevinkearns7719 6 месяцев назад

      What's more surprising is how few videos are dedicated to discussing Soviet and Communist war crimes. I went searching for some and was SHOCKED by how few there are. My Finnish relatives speak often of the war crimes Soviets committed there. I guess it's just not as interesting as Nazi's.

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson 6 месяцев назад

      @@kevinkearns7719 here too I would advice you strongly to look through my episodes…
      Soviets Hunt Down the Heroes of Humanity - War Against Humanity 128
      ruclips.net/video/4RxPhqp5Nk4/видео.html
      CENSORED: Red Army Rapes the Reich - War Against Humanity 127
      ruclips.net/video/UGgZ1jpkpL8/видео.html
      Moscow Invades Poland Again - War Against Humanity 106
      ruclips.net/video/_XqkGMsy8Qc/видео.html
      Beria’s Reward for Ethnic Cleansing - War Against Humanity 100
      ruclips.net/video/Y0GvQRLib_Y/видео.html
      Will Stalin Liberate or Occupy Poland? - War Against Humanity 094
      ruclips.net/video/bAi0i3wUFHA/видео.html
      Stalin Deports An Entire Ethnicity - War Against Humanity 093
      ruclips.net/video/lrdrEgpmqOI/видео.html
      I could go on… that was just the most recent ones.

    • @martinaustin6230
      @martinaustin6230 6 месяцев назад +1

      I recommend checking out Between Two Wars series on their other channel Time Ghost. They cover the rise of Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, the politics and other factors that lead to WW2 and more. Its a very underrated series.

  • @manfredconnor3194
    @manfredconnor3194 5 месяцев назад +1

    Bremen was in the British zone, but it was agreed that the Americans would use the harbor at Bremerhaven, that's probably why the police were there.

  • @michaelhumphreys6100
    @michaelhumphreys6100 2 месяца назад +1

    Reap it, Is-not-real...REAP IT!!!

  • @jankusthegreat9233
    @jankusthegreat9233 6 месяцев назад +14

    U guys are awesome

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  6 месяцев назад +5

      Thank you, and thanks for watching!

  • @nedludd7622
    @nedludd7622 6 месяцев назад

    Another group fallout you could look into "Operation Gladio" created by the Allies back in 1948.

  • @josepherhardt164
    @josepherhardt164 6 месяцев назад +1

    I've often thought that Germany's surrender in May of 45 gave the allies and the rest of the world time to prepare for the upcoming winter. Can you imagine the suffering had Germany survived, say, into September before capitulating?

  • @pepitamapping
    @pepitamapping 6 месяцев назад +5

    Hey, you should make a video talking about the Anti-Treaty IRA's campaign from 1942 to 1944 in Northern Ireland, aided by the Nazis. The IRA were in a weird position of ideological split at the time which makes it even more interesting, along with both the obscurity and importance of the event in decades to come. It also served as an example of Nazi plans in the UK insurrectional wise.

    • @MM22966
      @MM22966 6 месяцев назад +1

      WHAT?!! Irishmen not agreeing with each other?! Faith an' Begora!

  • @welcometonebalia
    @welcometonebalia 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you.

  • @GalleryBones
    @GalleryBones 6 месяцев назад +1

    Great video

  • @unlvphysics
    @unlvphysics 6 месяцев назад +27

    Werwolf? There wolf. IYKYK

    • @Soundbrigade
      @Soundbrigade 6 месяцев назад +7

      Wot about the Whenwolves and How-wolves not to mention the Who-wolves???

    • @JHF_Gaming
      @JHF_Gaming 6 месяцев назад +5

      What knockers!

    • @WalterReimer
      @WalterReimer 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@Soundbrigade Why wolves?

    • @keithscott1957
      @keithscott1957 6 месяцев назад

      Romeo, Romeo, wherewolf art thou Romeo?

    • @00dawn
      @00dawn 6 месяцев назад +4

      Why are you talking like that?

  • @OberstFeldwebel43
    @OberstFeldwebel43 5 месяцев назад

    If anyone has read the excellent novel by Harry Turtledove, "The Man With the Iron Cross", you well know how much worse this could have been for the allies, and the world at large had certain members of the SS not been eliminated when they were.
    Now I feel the urge to go reread that and his "The War that Came Early" series

  • @alexamerling79
    @alexamerling79 6 месяцев назад +31

    Yeah for such an intimidating name, they really had little impact lol

    • @Bandog23
      @Bandog23 6 месяцев назад +8

      Yeah well it's kinda hard to really do much when you are constantly being hunted

    • @Adonnus100
      @Adonnus100 6 месяцев назад +4

      There were a couple hundred of them at most and very few who remained active until 46.

    • @rainkloud
      @rainkloud 6 месяцев назад

      I’m not so sure. As Sparty mentioned, it made it more difficult to appointment non nazi mayors which meant that some “former” nazis would remain seated in power and wield some degree of influence.

    • @AtlasAugustus
      @AtlasAugustus 6 месяцев назад

      “Heh 😏”

  • @theoldar
    @theoldar 6 месяцев назад +1

    And yet, it raises it's hideous head in our times.

  • @CEOkiller
    @CEOkiller 6 месяцев назад

    A good “alternate history “ on this is The Man With the Iron Heart by Harry Turtledove.

  • @golden_smaug
    @golden_smaug 6 месяцев назад

    What's the difference between 'terrorist' and 'terroristic' ?

  • @Iwnwnwk
    @Iwnwnwk 5 месяцев назад +1

    He said Bremen so perfectly

  • @georget8008
    @georget8008 6 месяцев назад +1

    the werewolf fiasco shows that the guerilla fight does not fit the German mindset. Throughout the war, in the occupied countries, smaller groups with less resources and training achieved better and longer standing results

  • @George-vc9gl
    @George-vc9gl 6 месяцев назад +1

    thank you...

  • @NotSaddamHussein
    @NotSaddamHussein 6 месяцев назад +1

    Late to the party, but heres a personal funny thing. In area where i live, there was a wehrwolf school - yes, literally - on a castle near Aussig. They did some ruckus in 1945, but not much to be said - except for one shootout at old Obergrund train station but thats not whats interesting here - The Red army launched an operation to quell them, together with the red guards of bohemia, and they managed to find full list of equipment hidden in nearby forests - from aprox. 570 caches, to this day only 6 were found by the law enforcement, from that time period and todays one. Metal detector treasure hunting is popular here, and we got our hands on some interesting pieces - from medals dating to the spanish civil war given to the german expeditionary forces, to STG-44, magazines, lugers. you name it.
    No the guns dont work, yes we always call the police if its gun and explosive stuff.
    When it comes to the knives, medals and that kind of stuff... restoration it is!

  • @tmclaug90
    @tmclaug90 6 месяцев назад

    Nazi gorillas? That is a terrifying thought.

  • @bricks635
    @bricks635 5 месяцев назад +1

    2:48 now that you mention them I'm curious, did the Sturmabteilung do much notable during the war? It seems after 1938 and Kristallnacht they just vanish from the history books.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 4 месяца назад +3

      They continued to exist but lost much of their active membership to the armed forces or other Nazi formations. SA units were part of the German occupation force in Poland, sometimes implicated in atrocities.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer-Grenadier-Division_Feldherrnhalle
      This German Army unit was in large part recruited from SA personnel, but is a good example of how the SA as an organisation was bled away into other parts of the Nazi or military machine.

  • @j3lny425
    @j3lny425 6 месяцев назад +1

    As an aside who on the team will cover the war crimes trials ?

  • @IneverLearn-lg4qc
    @IneverLearn-lg4qc 6 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you thank you thank you I love you this is the best and I love you have the wonderfulest life !🎉

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  6 месяцев назад

      Thank you very much for the comment!

  • @SoftBunnyMommy
    @SoftBunnyMommy 4 месяца назад +1

    My neonazi father was obsessed with this idea and it didn’t mix well with his schizophrenia. Not fun being raised by such a man who seeks to enact it.

  • @rullangaar
    @rullangaar 6 месяцев назад +1

    Werewolves? Paper tigers are more like it.

  • @TheresaBrown-dc5dt
    @TheresaBrown-dc5dt 6 месяцев назад +1

    Some escaped to London and were the basis for Warren Zevons song Werewolves of London 😂

  • @jeremybraunscheidel6075
    @jeremybraunscheidel6075 6 месяцев назад

    are you telling me it took until today to find they do WWII videos as well?!

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  6 месяцев назад

      We are also covering Korea, starting in 4 days! Find it here: www.youtube.com/@TheKoreanWarbyIndyNeidell

  • @patron8597
    @patron8597 6 месяцев назад

    Now let me get this out of the way before I actually watch this episode but I remember that "operation" to be a completely over organized failure?

  • @History_with_Sirius
    @History_with_Sirius 6 месяцев назад

    I've known about these werewolves for years since I'm a scholar of 20th century history but it never fails that I still picture actual werewolves instead of humans 😂
    Ngl would make a cool movie.

  • @AncientRylanor69
    @AncientRylanor69 6 месяцев назад +1

    mind blowing video

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  6 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks for the comment and thank you for watching.

    • @AncientRylanor69
      @AncientRylanor69 6 месяцев назад

      @@WorldWarTwo 👍

  • @impishrebel5969
    @impishrebel5969 6 месяцев назад

    Could you guys do a special on lend-lease and the donations made to rebuild Europe? And what happened to the Mothball Fleet. i never hear on those topics and I think it'd be fascinating.

  • @konst80hum
    @konst80hum 6 месяцев назад +2

    Never forget. The next wave of fascists will not be so incompetent.

  • @blackhathacker82
    @blackhathacker82 6 месяцев назад +1

    17:21 well said nice video

  • @nonflyingfinn2173
    @nonflyingfinn2173 5 месяцев назад

    Reminds me of Turtledove's The Man with the Iron Heart

  • @chrisporter9397
    @chrisporter9397 6 месяцев назад +1

    When are you going to make a video on the Lehi? Or is that too risky for your boring channel?

  • @Makarosc
    @Makarosc 6 месяцев назад

    Honestly they mightve been viable if they were concieved at the beginning of the war and where trained less as a sabotours and more infiltrators then they could've maybe pulled a Hydra

  • @tsardean7438
    @tsardean7438 6 месяцев назад +3

    Wouldn’t it be wehrwolfs?

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson 6 месяцев назад

      I see what you did there…

    • @vaxrvaxr
      @vaxrvaxr 6 месяцев назад +2

      Jokes aside, they both stem from "wer", an archaic Germanic cognate, but with supposedly different roots in Proto Indo European: weraz = man, and warjaną = defend.

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@vaxrvaxr this comment is why I just can’t hate the internet… and why I love our community.