Dirlewanger didn't die of natural causes - he was arrested, handed over the the French and they stuck him in prison - but they 'just happened' to stick him in a wing with Polish guards and Dirlewanger was beaten to death... Given the atrocities he comitted against the Poles he got off lightly....
The poles were dogs that found their teeth when England gave them support. The night of August 31 saw the Polish foreign minister running around Berlin looking for Hitler to tell him that Poland had changed their mind and that they agreed to the terms previously put forward. To late. Start learning Russian.
@@davidscott2821Is that the same "they" that created Covid, or the "they" that wants to corrupt children, or the "they" that is oppressing Good Christian America (tm) or any of the other "theys" that are behind every issue?
Dirlewanger was beaten to death in French captivity. When I was a kid I talked with German relatives who were occupied by the French after the war. They received harsh and brutal treatment, and were rigidly oppressed.
The 12th SS massacred 156 Canadian prisoners after D-Day. It should be no surprise that Canadians refused to take SS prisoners. Why Kurt Meyer served 9 years for this crime is an injustice.
If the band of brothers scenes could be held to account the massacres weren't one sided.even regular german army suffered the fates that the SS did,especially in the days after Dday.
A NEEDLESS WAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, HAD THE BRITISH NOT DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY. ENGLAND AND THE USA WERE BOTH MANIPULATED INTO WW II, BY THE SAME TRIBE WHICH DID 911 AND IS NOW KILLING THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS 24/7.
They thought they would get a pass with, "I was just following orders." Adolf, Himmler, and Goebbels all knew very well that that defense was not going to fly.
My dad was there at end, crossing the Rhine. He told me what was left of German Army were old men and kids, no food, no ammo, SS had taken it. He said when SS prisoners were pointed out, they'd be pulled out of line, taken somewhere, then you'd hear a shot go off.
You might have to rethink yhat & do a little bit more research because i read of Durning & was found to have lied about being at Malmedy. He said he was Wounded so he'd have been awarded a Purple Heart, but wasn't on any Recorde, there was also something about his name being different? I always had this story tucked away but couldn't ever remember the Actors Name? ✌️
@@68majortomthat would require a diligent research with intense accuracy. Durning was no doubt infantry Normandy. I'm curious to know and settle the matter.
So, no justice then. All these death sentences commuted, converted to life sentences and then commuted again, released in a couple years for the torture rape murders they committed. Sickening.
We keep the evil safe and amongst us all. Then we wonder what has happened to the world. Modern man is blind deaf but they speak as if they can see and hear everything
Not all got off with light sentences but I think a good portion did. Here are a few that were executed and they were Hans Frank, Ernst Kartenbrunner, Arthur Seay’s-Inquart, Irma Grese, Rudolph Hoess, Herman’s Goring was scheduled to be executed but cheated the hangman by committing suicide, Dorothea Binz, Maria Mandell, Johanna Borman, Franz Bottger, Karl Brandt, Wilhelm Dorr, Adolf Eichmann, Amon Goth, and many others but yes most got off scott free while others were sentenced to life and got released in less than 10 years while others sentenced to death had sentences commuted. Way too many got off way too easy especially Sepp Dietrich and many others while others were assisted in escaping to S America with help from Bishop Hudal at the Vatican who was a Nazi sympathizer and he got them the necessary documents to go to S America via the so called “rat lines”.
@@adriannarobeson4758 You must be blind or gullible. Harris is beating Trump in every poll. Face reality or live in your world of delusion and stupidity.
I was married to a Peiper and his father was a phyco and an animal I always wonder if he came to South Africa after the war ! Lots of the Germans went there and had a safe life !
allot of germen veterans ended upp in new zealand. 3 knowen SS - knew son off Kapitan W. Von Konrat Waffen S.S. who deserted russi front by baltic sea boat and sailed too new zealand .- hitler youth taught him how too sail boats in oceans. Met his son and other germen veterans in hare Krshnas in australia and new zealand.- connection too do with both haveing swasikers and Hitler loveing a india vegan. vegetarian menu/ food.- Sean O'dwyer- 136- 140 hobson street.- Auckland 1010.- new zealand.
Joachim Peiper was not present at Malmady and he didnt order the killing of the American soldiers. He took responsibility because he was the overall commander. He was not a lunatic by any means and he was living in France, long after the war and died when his house was bombed
I'm a ex British soldier, and believe that we can't forget history or if so it will happen again. I have collected medals, awards also documents from Germany during the third reich era, if you or anyone wishing to sell their items ill be willing to pay you in cash. Hope to hear from you. Angus
I was stationed in a former SS army barracks. It had the marks of a deadly fight in its walls - no SS survivors. We were told that after the massacre of POWs by the SS, Eisenhower gave orders to take no SS prisoners. The Russians had the same orders - no prisoners with SS insignias. I'm not sure what US troops actually did, but the Russians mowed them down and did the same to German regular army.
Eisenhower - the Supreme Allied Commander absolutely would not have given an order to take no SS as prisoners. These type of decisions in War are typically done at a much lower level and depended on what unit you were in and what your soldiers had been through.
@@luckycharm4623 Maybe, but SS fought to the death, if they had the choice, and many US troops refused to accept a surrender from SS troops. One story (not mine): My father jumped into Normandy with the 101st Airborne. He said that when another Screaming Eagle was found hanged from a concrete telephone pole that the word quickly went out that the perpetrators were SS. Dad said after that that paratroopers “declined “ to accept the surrender of any SS they encountered.
@@luckycharm4623 Not all orders were written, and there was no effort to stop the summary execution of SS troops, which had to be known by commanders up the line.
Eisenhower did not give an illegal order to murder POWs. He did give an order that Germans wearing American uniforms would be considered spies and commandos in violation of convention laws and could face execution which many did face a firing squad.
Stalin was nearly as brutal to his own soldiers as he was to the Germans. Stalin once said, you have to a very brave man to be a coward in the Red Army. He wasnt joking.
Someone please explain to me why Hitler did what he did on 3:04. The soldiers were surrounded, they decided to retreat and fight for another day, and Hitler's epic idea to "punish" them was to strip them of a stupid arm band indicating they are elite soldiers. Like do politicians think petty stuff like these matter? Someone is dying and their worry is the arm band on their uniform that says whatever?
In reality they were probably long past caring at that point but unit morale is often tied up with traditions. One of the first things the Soviets did upon taking Berlin was rounding up all the ceremonial flags of various German units they could find and parading them. There is a photo of many of these flags and standards being held pointing to the ground by a line of soviet soldiers who are turned to face the camera. The Liebstandarte division were also ordered to remove their cuff which bore the signature of Adolf Hitler rather than the unit's name. As a bit of trivia, the name liebstandarte means life regiment and essentially bears the same name as the senior regiment of the British Army, the Life Guards. The Swedish Army also has a unit called the Life Regiment Hussars going back to a common theme amongst European armies.
@@AntonioPeralesdelHierro With all due respect to the British people, Churchill was a flawed individual on so many levels. He just happened to be a high social class boy at the right place at the right time. Good thing they got rid of him soon after the war ended, he could have destroyed Europe by waging war on the now over-powered communists.
People need to read, 'Murderous Elite: The Waffen-SS and Its Record of Atrocities' by James Pontollilo. It documents the crimes of every Waffen-SS division. It's a fascinating read, and a very hard one too. These men were.....well, buy the book.
Indeed. Another thing comes to mind too: so the fact that the Jew state secret services after WW2 hunted down and captured many SS and Nazi members is fake news, because many above+mentioned members got away, became prominent MPs and right-wing politicians !!!😮😮😮
My father (a WWII Infantry officer) told me long ago that they would rather face an SS unit than a standard Wehrmacht unit. The SS (mostly) were not elite fighters, and the Wehrmacht saw far more combat than the SS did. One thing the SS was was dedicated, so they didn't surrender easily - but that didn't make them elite units, just more ideologically driven. I worked with a couple of SS vets while stationed in Germany. One was an officer who had taught at their officer (Junker) school in Bad Tolz during the war. He was cleared by the US Army to work for us, so I gotta think his record was clean. BUT, he was a member of the SS, so not pure as the driven snow either. Most folks in my unit were unaware of his past - he just did his job and went home at the end of the day. Dude was married, but at his funeral all SEVEN of his mistresses and a ton of his children were there for it.
@@Headloser The SS were more of a political entity. Their training was different from the regular troops, and their leadership wasn't as good. Some units fought well, but most were not as effective as the Wehrmacht.
Not really, waffen ss is a paramilitary group, its different than the normal SS. They were better equiped than the normal Wehrmacth and the training also was tuffer than the normal WM.
While stationed in West Germany at Smith Kaserne in Aschaffenburg situated northwestern Bayern. Our barracks was a former SS base. There were still iron rings morticed in the walls of the motor pool where they tethered their horses. The fanatical unit there as well as the town avidly nazi gave a great fight to Patton and his forces trying to capture the city. The battle began on March 25, 1945 and after ten hard fought deadly days the SS stronghold finally surrendered. The combined forces of the 7th and 3rd Armies suffered 3,000 KIA, WIA, and MIA. In a news conference on April 7th 1945 Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson noted, "There is a lesson in respect to [fighting to the end] in Aschaffenburg. There nazi fanatics used the visible threat of two hangings to compel German soldiers and civilians to fight for over a week."
There were hundreds of thousands of them, and it was generally not possible to determine who had done what. Also, after years of bitter conflict, the world was eager to get back top normal and rebuild. There was no mechanism in place to punish hundreds of thousands of people and governments sought normalization and rebuilding.
Before anyone gets too crazy, remember that atrocities against enemy soldiers occurred on all sides of the war. As an example check out the Chenogne massacre - Wikipedia, an incident where 80 German soldiers were captured and machine-gunned. Worse atrocities happened on the eastern front between Germany and Russia. Horrible things happen in war and the things like the Malmady and Chenogne are examples of inhuman behavior, often ordered by lesser officers. Those of us who have never been in a war have a hard time fathoming these atrocities and it is very easy to be judgemental. I rather blame the politicians who brought on the war, not the soldiers.
Lots of SS soldiers ended up in the French Foreign Legion, where their original names and wartime records (but not tattoos) were expunged, and some even fought, and surrendered, at Dien Bien Phu. At the same time, some American Marines reported seeing SS tattoos on fellow Marines who spoke with accents. The Cold War effectively ended de-Nazification efforts by the West, and provided sanctuary for former SS soldiers.
7:08 that’s not Himmler. It’s not even Hitler but a look a like. Also when the bridges were bombed they didn’t have to swim across. They built pontoon bridges. I think even the Russians got across without swimming.
so true" Just remember when the US killed journalists in Afghanistan and even people who wanted to render First Aid to them. That´s a war crime and a crime against humanity. YT is full with US videos showing how they murder injured enemy fighters in masses.
The SS was NOT the ELITE of the German Army. The German Army was the Wehrmacht, while the Waffen-SS constituted a separate paramilitary body,much like the Praetorians of Rome. They took a special oath of obedience to the Führer. They were quite similar to the Janizzaries,or the Jesuits. The Jesuits take a special FOURTH VOW of obedience to the Pope.
@@paulgentile1024 I know. It's funny, though, that Stalin was a student in a religious seminary,...of all places. Look at his fanatical group.🙄 Mao Tse Tung was a librarian🤯
@@MrBagpipes Yes, the Jesuits.Like the other orders they affirmed the first three vows of poverty, chastity and celibacy. The foutth vow ,as before, was a special vow of absolute obedience to the Pope. What's more, all their correspondance was signed: His Holiness which the SS took for Heil Hitler.
got off with a bad start there...already in the first sentence...SS was NOT part of the german army...it was it own,separate, army, not under Wehrmacht control.
@@chrism3872Take a closer look at the Asov battalions in todays Ukraine, or Stepan Bandera, who was behind atrocities committed against Poles and Jews, which were so horrendous, even the Nazis were shocked. The ignorance of many, when it comes to Ukraine, is in itself, disturbing.
@@cruelpirate78the video said that the Waffen SS was part of the army which it isn’t. That’s the one I caught anyway. I’m about halfway through and he said that Himmler committed s*icide and showed a dead Hitler look alike that wasn’t either of them. Also said that when the bridges were taken out they all had to swim across the river. Those rivers were huge and many men probably didn’t know how to swim but the US built pontoon bridges. They didn’t swim across.
Yes! My university didn’t allow wiki as a legitimate source. Wiki is full of lies and misinformation. In this case, they are actually noting something that some under 40 people are not aware of (what a failure of our public school system). But current crappola is also referenced because google (RUclips) thinks we’re stupid, and they get it wrong. Often.
It isn't. (Any reference to Wikipedia on the bibliography of an academic assignement/paper, and you're doomed.) I myself have found plenty of errors in Wikipedia entries.
the germans lost TWO world wars in the 20th century.........but after about 10 years after WW2, germany had (and still has to this day) one of the highest living standards in the world!!! RESPECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@AshScott-f4p Seriously, no. Spain was a poor country, ravaged by a brutal civil war, that didn't receive Marshall aid. Yet Spain managed to modernize and achieve rapid economic growth by the 1960's. Germany would have done the same without Marshall aid, though recovery would have been delayed by 5-10 years.
Not exactly correct on survival rates for POWs. Axis soldiers captured by the Soviets had a survival rate of about 60% whereas a Soviet soldier captured by the Germans has a survival rate of about 40%. No which way you paint it the nazis were assholes.
The Waffen SS was not the army. The Wehrmacht were the army. This report is so inaccurate as to make it worthless as an historical account. e.g., Dirlewanger did not die of natural causes, he was beaten to death by his Polish captors.
If the story I heard is true they were murdered in a very horrible and sadistic fashion. The Allies unfortunately also decided to take no prisoners on some occasions
@@armstronggermany2995 Unfortunately? Are you kidding me? The SS monsters and German nazis were mass murderers and war criminals who murdered over 30 million people!
The Germans were super soldiers there's no doubt. The Germans of ww2 are among the greatest forces of all time. A lesser country and military wouldn't have accomplished the feats they did. This is in no way a backing of what they did. I would say they were doing what they thought was right, being told something over and over and really believing you were doing the right thing for your family and country is all a soldier can do. You have plenty of countries today that have totally different beliefs, that don't even see the world in a similar way, yet there's none that have almost taken over the world like these brave German men did.
Unfortunately Russia committed a lot of war crimes but he was not interrogated because Russia won.some Americans were also guilty of war crimes though theirs is much lower
A NEEDLESS WAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, HAD THE BRITISH NOT DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY. ENGLAND AND THE USA WERE BOTH MANIPULATED INTO WW II, BY THE SAME TRIBE WHICH DID 911 AND IS NOW KILLING THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS 24/7.
It is not wikin, but Ss-Wiking, the international SS brigade in which Dutch volunteers served, underwriting the racial ideology and standards. The name refers to Norse languages, in which the V is pronounced as W.
And some SS (like Wernher von Braun) were honored : President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service (1959) Elliott Cresson Medal (1962) Wilhelm Exner Medal (1969) National Medal of Science (1975)
There were SS units formed in western countries. When they returned home it was not unusual for them to be prosecuted. The French did not want former French SS members who were captured to be returned to France. However, France did hire a number of German SS veterans and sent them to Vietnam.as Legionaries.
Karl wolf was directly aided by the OSS and Allen Dulles, future director of the CIA, considered his rescue to be the crowning achievement of his wartime service.
My grandfather eacaped and lived a happy life in Canada through 4th reicht operations just before the end. 😂😂😂 as they continued to shift the nazi operations to North america for the future forseen world. As most north american companies profited from nazi investments and support
no need to praise the US and British. had Nazi had invaded and occupied US or UK and did what they had done in the USSR, the American and British would have done the same thing to the captured Nazi as Soviets did.
Very questionable history here. Seeing that even the eastern border map of Germany was completely wrong. The Waffen SS (Army) were not the criminals like the Allgemeine (general) SS who ran the death camps. The atrocities by the Army were not unique to the Germans by any means. Surrendering soldiers were at times shot by American troops also. Peiper was not present at Malmady and did not order the killing of the American troops there. But he accepted responsibility since he was the overall commander of the guilty unit. Pots should not be calling the kettle black and there are so many exaggerations. The waffen SS were soldiers and not prison guards. In fact, many of the prison guard SS were not even German, but often Ukrainians or other eastern Europeans.
Conspiracy is that Nazi Germany were not far from producing the atom bomb. Analysing the situation at the end of war and Red Army approaching. Nazis understood Russian won't stop even they nuke Moscow. So they made a deal with Americans and passed know-how of Nazi atomic programme. Nazis "CIA" rightly predicted and I personally believe helped to start Cold War. As they understand Russian soul and Stalin paranoia much better than anyone else in The West.
3:18 so in the last weeks, Hitler ordered his troupes to Berlin to SAVE HIM, and he couldn't care less about his country .............................. sounds familiar?
Of the German POWs that made it to Soviet POW camps in the rear areas over 80% survived. The death toll is skewed by the high percentage of Stalingrad POW fatalities due to their starvation before capture. It was the prisoner taking and initial processing that was the most lethal for any German combatant. There seemed to be an unofficial order to shoot anyone caught with death head symbols on their uniforms. A policy which proved deadly for a lot off Panzer troops who had a different death head emblem from the SS.
Much as the British soldiers, Black and Tans, and the notorious Auxiliaries who committed atrocities in Ireland after WW1 and later during the 'Troubles' were never even put on trial.
Because they didn't commit atrocities on an industrial scale doesn't absolve them of guilt. Look at the concentration camps in South Africa during the Boer War. It's a pattern. No country is willing to admit its own crimes which is hardly surprising. Britain likes to portray itself as decent and fair, admitting to their mistakes would undermine the image that they want to propagate. All Nations have the potential to follow the path of Nazi Germany. All countries.
@@tigerland4328 No, they were worse. They never showed a bit of remorse over the killings of innocent women and children. The British government told them it was proud of what they had done. Mountbatten ordered the machine gunning of peaceful protesters, all of them women and children and was proud of it. The official count was in the hundreds, but the British only counted those who died in hospitals or on site. Many hundreds more died at home and were never counted. Mountbatten afterwards said, “ They were traitorous Irish dogs and deserved whatever they got.” The royal family blocked most of the inquiry into the deaths and still blocks inquiries even today. Mountbattens actions exacerbated the troubles and extended them for decades. The fact that the policy of no inquiries into atrocities committed by the army became standard procedure didn’t help.
The fact that the British didn't commit atrocities on an industrial scale doesn't make them less guilty. Even now they are covering up war crimes their soldiers perpetrated in Afghanistan, with the government refusing to give details and, be open and honest about it. The British have always sought to present themselves as decent and fair. 'The Good Guys' .To admit their dreadful deeds would reflect badly on them. Look at the concentration camps they ran in South Africa during the Boer War. Its a pattern of behaviour. These horrors too have been swept under the carpet. If we don't talk about them they never happened, and we can go on deluding ourselves. In not delivering real justice the Germans could pretend that their husbands, brothers and sons were also merely doing their duty, no more. This kind of behaviour is universal. All countries are capable of this kind of behaviour. All countries.
@@richardbeckenbaugh1805 but the British never attempted to wipe out the Irish people for ideological reasons like the SS did in Poland and the soviet union. There was no British extermination camps in Ireland,the Irish people were never subjected to inhumane medical experimentation and the British never attempted to murder the entire Irish race for the benefit of themselves. Anyone who thinks the British are worse or equally as bad as the Nazis doesn't know history.
My great uncle, that would be my grandfathers brother served in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. He was a tank commander towards the end of the war and he survived the war. As a young kid, we all heard what he endured. What I can tell you is this, the first casualty of war is the truth. First of all, the Waffen SS weren't some superhuman elite killing machine nor did they believe that propaganda BS, what they were, was a dedicated fighting force that didn't cower or run. They weren't some fanatical hyped up drugged lunatics. The US military today has a branch very close to what they were, they are called US Marines. Second, were war crimes committed by the Waffen SS ? Of course there were, but it wasn't policy nor was that crap ordered. Here is something to think about, all sides committed war crimes, you just don't hear about it, the reason you don't hear about it is because the Allies won, so you can only read about the victors version of history. No war ever fought was clean or fair nor will any future be fought fair and clean.
The SS were also an industrial power within the Reich in that they had control of forced labour, who died in their millions manufacturing weapons and war material for the SS. For every SS man who was killed in action, far more civilian PoWs died in SS run camps. Every SS unit had blood on it's hands from the start of the war to the very end.
Whatever. The allies had morals and a Biblical worldview and the Germans supported the hate and evil of the NAZI party and the 3rd Reicht. No true Nazi beleiver deserves to live. And they were drugged up lunatics....on Methamphetemines ....a fact. The SS were pure evil. Your BS is just that.
If Hitler listened to hermann goering and didn't attack Poland like goering said let's wait, churchhill wouldn't have declared war , so what then , and since Russia attacked Poland in the east with a packed with Germany why didn't churchhill declare on war Russia , look at the angles then learn.
Many SS went to Ukkkraine and started Nazi organization again, Azov Battalion with 40 million members. 3 millions regular/POC in ukkkraine who being suffering by them.
@@arnerusbjerg9138 yep it’s true. Videos all over to prove. Azov is a largest Nazi organization, praising Adolf Hilter. They all love to put their arms in air like Adolf did. Videos are evidences and your words aren’t evidences
@@phillipsugwas 43 million population. 40 million Azov members and 3 Million black people & regular people. Largest Nazi organization is in Ukkkraine….. And you guys supporting them blew my mind!
Pronounce it like Vaffen SS. To be pedantic, it is like a flapped V pronounced between the lips, and not the upper teeth and lower lip, but Vaffen is good enough for non-German speakers. Army panzer units wore a uniform with a skull and crossbones which could be mistaken for an SS uniform. Some Heer soldiers passed through SS hospitals and also got the tattoo.
It would have taken 250+ years to trial them all. Europe was in debt and Britain only just finished paying for ww2 loans in 2006. Where was the money going to come from? Seriously you couldn't be that much of a simpleton !
That's an interesting assertion. It looks to me like fascist mentality is Alive and Well in the so-called neoliberal Progressive movements of america. In other words, fascism basically meaning that you force or make certain points of view become accepted and you simply do not tolerate and you wish to cancel out anyone else who has an opposing point of view. I actually see that coming way more from the left. But one thing is for sure, anything one extreme side of the political spectrum is guilty of, you can find evidence on the other. Yeah, I got a real kick out of people that just try to say Trump is a fascist without any real logical backing up behind it
The Waffen SS was a criminal gang with a gang leader to whom they all swore loyalty and total obedience to commit whatever crime they may have been ordered to. AND they all had an identifying tattoo so when the end came they were easy to find and deal with, ridding the world of the SS. Today we have(had?) the criminal gangs of El Salvador….nowhere near as bad as the SS but they too have the Tattoo and it has made them easy to find and deal with in a country where just “being a member” is crime enough for long long prison sentences…makes them easy to round up. El Salvador is practically crime free now, apparently.
the allies murdered more German civilians, woman and children than the waffen SS ever did to allied POWs look up allied fire storm bombings on hamburg, Dresden ect when at wars end, only months weeks left, for no reason the allies kept carpet bombing German city's creating firestorms , killing tens of thousands old men , woman, and children not one allied officer charged with war crimes for thousands of deaths due to these bombing raids
Yes, 'their' actions are unforgivable. And most of 'them' are dead. WWII ended 79 years ago today. How many German WWII veterans do you imagine are still alive? German civilians were brutalized by both Allied AND German soldiers at the close of WWII. Germany today is not the Germany of the 1940s. It happens to be a beautiful country. Why wouldn't people visit?
The past is not to be forgotten but prejudice should be. My daughter married to a German was at a wedding recently where some English people and their children were also guests. Her young son , fluent in English, came to her at one point telling her that one of the children who he had tried to engage with on discovering he was German had told him , ' we dont talk to Germans". Fortunately we got to England in the 9th century, but its a close run thing.
Far from a oxymoron. There's plenty of righteous reasons for war. The man who doesn't believe anything is worth going to war for is much worse than the soldier fighting for what's right.
@@Kuwaitisnot_adeployment A NEEDLESS WAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, HAD THE BRITISH NOT DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY. ENGLAND AND THE USA WERE BOTH MANIPULATED INTO WW II, BY THE SAME TRIBE WHICH DID 911 AND IS NOW KILLING THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS 24/7.
well many if not all found gainful support and employment with the amerikkkan cold war machine and the south american and arab dictatorships gave many new homes and again gainful support and employment
American troops committed at least two massacres of German troops including SS and Wehrmacht in late 1944 but that is usually glossed over or ignored. Many ethnic Germans who were born outside of the Reich could not join the Wehrmacht but had to join the SS,
At least 3 or more cases glossed over by Allies.Had the germans killed allied prisoners in more cases they would have been right to trial but not Americans!!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣bastards!!!!
The Waffen S>S was not part of the German army, it was a seperate militarised political organisation. The traditional army resented, even hated them. They were not even elite just driven.
It was a kind of 4th branch. Compare it with US Army, Navy, Air Force , Marines.Average German soldiers were happy to know the "other ones" on their side. History is written by the winner of the war and Hollywood. The greatest enemie of historians and media is the contemporary witness.
American soldiers were told not to take waffen SS prisoners, the aftermath of such things like malmedy, and they shot unarmed surrendering German SS soldiers. Thousands were killed. You haven't mentioned this atrocity. The russians did the same thing too.
My Grandfather Erwin Sheldon (Pvt. 36th AIR Co I) DOW Jan 20th 1945 from Shrapnel on Dec. 17, 1944. I knew it was Waffen SS in the Ardennes, I wonder if 1st SS Panzer Reg. or Das Reich which I thought Can't get answers from US Army
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Dirlewanger didn't die of natural causes - he was arrested, handed over the the French and they stuck him in prison - but they 'just happened' to stick him in a wing with Polish guards and Dirlewanger was beaten to death... Given the atrocities he comitted against the Poles he got off lightly....
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So THEY say. Don't believe what they tell you though.
Justice has it's way, it won't be denied.
The poles were dogs that found their teeth when England gave them support.
The night of August 31 saw the Polish foreign minister running around Berlin looking for Hitler to tell him that Poland had changed their mind and that they agreed to the terms previously put forward.
To late. Start learning Russian.
@@davidscott2821Is that the same "they" that created Covid, or the "they" that wants to corrupt children, or the "they" that is oppressing Good Christian America (tm) or any of the other "theys" that are behind every issue?
Dirlewanger was beaten to death in French captivity.
When I was a kid I talked with German relatives who were occupied by the French after the war. They received harsh and brutal treatment, and were rigidly oppressed.
The 12th SS massacred 156 Canadian prisoners after D-Day. It should be no surprise that Canadians refused to take SS prisoners. Why Kurt Meyer served 9 years for this crime is an injustice.
If the band of brothers scenes could be held to account the massacres weren't one sided.even regular german army suffered the fates that the SS did,especially in the days after Dday.
@@susandaniels9733l’armée allemande était partie prenante des assassinats nazis.
Cf l’ouvrage de wolfram wette: les crimes de la Wehrmacht .
Pas une injustice: une hypocrisie .
A NEEDLESS WAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, HAD THE BRITISH NOT DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY. ENGLAND AND THE USA WERE BOTH MANIPULATED INTO WW II, BY THE SAME TRIBE WHICH DID 911 AND IS NOW KILLING THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS 24/7.
@@richardbeckenbaugh1805 Please provide ANY evidence to support this claim.
They thought they would get a pass with, "I was just following orders." Adolf, Himmler, and Goebbels all knew very well that that defense was not going to fly.
My dad was there at end, crossing the Rhine. He told me what was left of German Army were old men and kids, no food, no ammo, SS had taken it. He said when SS prisoners were pointed out, they'd be pulled out of line, taken somewhere, then you'd hear a shot go off.
1. Not communist soldiers, but Russian soldiers.
2. The last German offensive was the Battle of Balaton.
american actor charles durning was shot at malmady and some how survived.... he also was the only survivorof his landing craft on dday
You might have to rethink yhat & do a little bit more research because i read of Durning & was found to have lied about being at Malmedy. He said he was Wounded so he'd have been awarded a Purple Heart, but wasn't on any Recorde, there was also something about his name being different?
I always had this story tucked away but couldn't ever remember the Actors Name? ✌️
@@68majortom im not saying the internet never lies. but so far i can only find that he did survive malmady
Malmady, another propaganda stunt by the allies.
@@68majortomthat would require a diligent research with intense accuracy. Durning was no doubt infantry Normandy. I'm curious to know and settle the matter.
@@68majortomLee Marvin maybe, warrior
So, no justice then. All these death sentences commuted, converted to life sentences and then commuted again, released in a couple years for the torture rape murders they committed. Sickening.
Yeah, and that’s just the French and Americans.
Just like today as the UK releases 2000+ prisoners who only served 35% of their sentence!!!
That said,those uniforms were sharp af…
We keep the evil safe and amongst us all. Then we wonder what has happened to the world. Modern man is blind deaf but they speak as if they can see and hear everything
Not all got off with light sentences but I think a good portion did. Here are a few that were executed and they were Hans Frank, Ernst Kartenbrunner, Arthur Seay’s-Inquart, Irma Grese, Rudolph Hoess, Herman’s Goring was scheduled to be executed but cheated the hangman by committing suicide, Dorothea Binz, Maria Mandell, Johanna Borman, Franz Bottger, Karl Brandt, Wilhelm Dorr, Adolf Eichmann, Amon Goth, and many others but yes most got off scott free while others were sentenced to life and got released in less than 10 years while others sentenced to death had sentences commuted. Way too many got off way too easy especially Sepp Dietrich and many others while others were assisted in escaping to S America with help from Bishop Hudal at the Vatican who was a Nazi sympathizer and he got them the necessary documents to go to S America via the so called “rat lines”.
No Justice for the dead and tortured by the hand of these bastards...
They were criminals
Very well produced and presented video. This has become my favorite war history channel. 👍
Because you´re an history ignorant who can not judge what is a fact in this videos and what is utter BS.
A dispassionate telling of a vile reality, thanks
Zero sympathy.
YEP, ZERO.
Justice denied, shame on American and British
Piper should not have been released
Evil wears many faces and decive many.
We now refer to those people as Trump supporters.
@@NeilNBlomewhat a asinine comment, especially when Trumps approval ratings are soaring.
@@adriannarobeson4758 You must be blind or gullible. Harris is beating Trump in every poll. Face reality or live in your world of delusion and stupidity.
@@adriannarobeson4758Sure they are in an alternate universe.
@@backagain5216 I can only imagine where you get your bogas information from.
I was married to a Peiper and his father was a phyco and an animal I always wonder if he came to South Africa after the war ! Lots of the Germans went there and had a safe life !
Yeah, but you were married to the Pied Piper and should be sent to prison for child abduction.
allot of germen veterans ended upp in new zealand. 3 knowen SS - knew son off Kapitan W. Von Konrat Waffen S.S. who deserted russi front by baltic sea boat and sailed too new zealand .- hitler youth taught him how too sail boats in oceans. Met his son and other germen veterans in hare Krshnas in australia and new zealand.- connection too do with both haveing swasikers and Hitler loveing a india vegan. vegetarian menu/ food.- Sean O'dwyer- 136- 140 hobson street.- Auckland 1010.- new zealand.
swastikers
Joachim Peiper was not present at Malmady and he didnt order the killing of the American soldiers. He took responsibility because he was the overall commander. He was not a lunatic by any means and he was living in France, long after the war and died when his house was bombed
I'm a ex British soldier, and believe that we can't forget history or if so it will happen again. I have collected medals, awards also documents from Germany during the third reich era, if you or anyone wishing to sell their items ill be willing to pay you in cash. Hope to hear from you. Angus
And we are supposed to feel sorry for these evil, despicable criminals??? I think not!!
They are just people!
U racist, i seenur comments history u call African americans monkies
@@LeeeOhh-gr3gn Inhumans in human form !
A lot of them found shelter in South America....
And South Africa. Today´s big friend of fascist ruSSia.
I was stationed in a former SS army barracks. It had the marks of a deadly fight in its walls - no SS survivors. We were told that after the massacre of POWs by the SS, Eisenhower gave orders to take no SS prisoners. The Russians had the same orders - no prisoners with SS insignias. I'm not sure what US troops actually did, but the Russians mowed them down and did the same to German regular army.
Well, that's calles war crimes. Unfortunately this never applies to the winners of a war...
Eisenhower - the Supreme Allied Commander absolutely would not have given an order to take no SS as prisoners. These type of decisions in War are typically done at a much lower level and depended on what unit you were in and what your soldiers had been through.
@@luckycharm4623 Maybe, but SS fought to the death, if they had the choice, and many US troops refused to accept a surrender from SS troops. One story (not mine): My father jumped into Normandy with the 101st Airborne. He said that when another Screaming Eagle was found hanged from a concrete telephone pole that the word quickly went out that the perpetrators were SS. Dad said after that that paratroopers “declined “ to accept the surrender of any SS they encountered.
@@luckycharm4623 Not all orders were written, and there was no effort to stop the summary execution of SS troops, which had to be known by commanders up the line.
Eisenhower did not give an illegal order to murder POWs. He did give an order that Germans wearing American uniforms would be considered spies and commandos in violation of convention laws and could face execution which many did face a firing squad.
Stalin was nearly as brutal to his own soldiers as he was to the Germans. Stalin once said, you have to a very brave man to be a coward in the Red Army. He wasnt joking.
Someone please explain to me why Hitler did what he did on 3:04. The soldiers were surrounded, they decided to retreat and fight for another day, and Hitler's epic idea to "punish" them was to strip them of a stupid arm band indicating they are elite soldiers. Like do politicians think petty stuff like these matter? Someone is dying and their worry is the arm band on their uniform that says whatever?
In reality they were probably long past caring at that point but unit morale is often tied up with traditions. One of the first things the Soviets did upon taking Berlin was rounding up all the ceremonial flags of various German units they could find and parading them. There is a photo of many of these flags and standards being held pointing to the ground by a line of soviet soldiers who are turned to face the camera.
The Liebstandarte division were also ordered to remove their cuff which bore the signature of Adolf Hitler rather than the unit's name. As a bit of trivia, the name liebstandarte means life regiment and essentially bears the same name as the senior regiment of the British Army, the Life Guards. The Swedish Army also has a unit called the Life Regiment Hussars going back to a common theme amongst European armies.
@@damionkeeling3103 Its called "Leibstandarte" as in "Leib" which means body.
Not "Liebstandarte" as in "Lieb" which means love.
The said order, was NEVER passed on to the troops.
Churchill owned the same arrogance. The British military (and U.S. as well, likely), had to keep an eye on his constant meddling.
@@AntonioPeralesdelHierro
With all due respect to the British people, Churchill was a flawed individual on so many levels. He just happened to be a high social class boy at the right place at the right time.
Good thing they got rid of him soon after the war ended, he could have destroyed Europe by waging war on the now over-powered communists.
People need to read, 'Murderous Elite: The Waffen-SS and Its Record of Atrocities' by James Pontollilo. It documents the crimes of every Waffen-SS division. It's a fascinating read, and a very hard one too. These men were.....well, buy the book.
i read and seen very much about thiss, to many got away with there crimes
@@jeroenverzijl8596No one gets away with anything. Criminal or not.
Murderers who took pride in being murderers.
Nennt man Soldaten du dumme Nuss 🎉
@scotthill there were murderers on both sides!! Go watch something else! Lefty libitard.
Not just mass murderers. They were elite mass murderers.
Not just mass murderers. They were elite mass murderers.
Name me a country that's called liberators in the history books
😂
Pipers house was set on fire in france in 1976 he was found dead inside with a pistol and rifle trying to defend himself
Piper? Pied Piper? he was named Peiper you muppet
@@johntowleI thought he was talking about Piper Laurie 😮
True, he sent his wife away, planned on shooting it out until the end. He wasn't going to go alive.
Even Churchill new the Soviet’s were no good but the uk was to depleted to take that horrible country down
Too many S.S. soldiers got away with war crimes, regardless of what is stated in this video.
Those guys should never have been allowed to form groups after the war. How dangerous of move that was!!
Indeed. Another thing comes to mind too: so the fact that the Jew state secret services after WW2 hunted down and captured many SS and Nazi members is fake news, because many above+mentioned members got away, became prominent MPs and right-wing politicians !!!😮😮😮
My father (a WWII Infantry officer) told me long ago that they would rather face an SS unit than a standard Wehrmacht unit. The SS (mostly) were not elite fighters, and the Wehrmacht saw far more combat than the SS did. One thing the SS was was dedicated, so they didn't surrender easily - but that didn't make them elite units, just more ideologically driven.
I worked with a couple of SS vets while stationed in Germany. One was an officer who had taught at their officer (Junker) school in Bad Tolz during the war. He was cleared by the US Army to work for us, so I gotta think his record was clean. BUT, he was a member of the SS, so not pure as the driven snow either. Most folks in my unit were unaware of his past - he just did his job and went home at the end of the day. Dude was married, but at his funeral all SEVEN of his mistresses and a ton of his children were there for it.
I have heard many other experts say the same thing. The SS were nowhere near the fighting force the Wehrmacht was.
Wow, didn't realized about the combat ability.
@@Headloser The SS were more of a political entity. Their training was different from the regular troops, and their leadership wasn't as good. Some units fought well, but most were not as effective as the Wehrmacht.
Not really, waffen ss is a paramilitary group, its different than the normal SS. They were better equiped than the normal Wehrmacth and the training also was tuffer than the normal WM.
While stationed in West Germany at Smith Kaserne in Aschaffenburg situated northwestern Bayern. Our barracks was a former SS base. There were still iron rings morticed in the walls of the motor pool where they tethered their horses. The fanatical unit there as well as the town avidly nazi gave a great fight to Patton and his forces trying to capture the city. The battle began on March 25, 1945 and after ten hard fought deadly days the SS stronghold finally
surrendered. The combined forces of the 7th and 3rd Armies suffered 3,000 KIA, WIA, and MIA. In a news conference on April 7th 1945 Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson noted, "There is a lesson in respect to [fighting to the end] in Aschaffenburg. There nazi fanatics used the visible threat of two hangings to compel German soldiers and civilians to fight for over a week."
Unfortunately many of them after the war did not receive any punishment for the crime's they did when they did get sentences often they were too short
There were hundreds of thousands of them, and it was generally not possible to determine who had done what. Also, after years of bitter conflict, the world was eager to get back top normal and rebuild. There was no mechanism in place to punish hundreds of thousands of people and governments sought normalization and rebuilding.
Before anyone gets too crazy, remember that atrocities against enemy soldiers occurred on all sides of the war. As an example check out the Chenogne massacre - Wikipedia,
an incident where 80 German soldiers were captured and machine-gunned. Worse atrocities happened on the eastern front between Germany and Russia. Horrible things happen in war and the things like the Malmady and Chenogne are examples of inhuman behavior, often ordered by lesser officers. Those of us who have never been in a war have a hard time fathoming these atrocities and it is very easy to be judgemental. I rather blame the politicians who brought on the war, not the soldiers.
Lots of SS soldiers ended up in the French Foreign Legion, where their original names and wartime records (but not tattoos) were expunged, and some even fought, and surrendered, at Dien Bien Phu. At the same time, some American Marines reported seeing SS tattoos on fellow Marines who spoke with accents. The Cold War effectively ended de-Nazification efforts by the West, and provided sanctuary for former SS soldiers.
7:08 that’s not Himmler. It’s not even Hitler but a look a like. Also when the bridges were bombed they didn’t have to swim across. They built pontoon bridges. I think even the Russians got across without swimming.
Crimes against humanity goes mostly unpunished 😢
so true" Just remember when the US killed journalists in Afghanistan and even people who wanted to render First Aid to them. That´s a war crime and a crime against humanity. YT is full with US videos showing how they murder injured enemy fighters in masses.
Like in the Middle East today
@@ottson Middle East my Obama. Try oakland!
The SS was NOT the ELITE of the German Army. The German Army was the Wehrmacht, while the Waffen-SS constituted a separate paramilitary body,much like the Praetorians of Rome.
They took a special oath of obedience to the Führer. They were quite similar to the Janizzaries,or the Jesuits. The Jesuits take a special FOURTH VOW of obedience to the Pope.
both cults
@@paulgentile1024 I know. It's funny, though, that Stalin was a student in a religious seminary,...of all places. Look at his fanatical group.🙄
Mao Tse Tung was a librarian🤯
Wow you know so much about them. You must be sad they sucked ass
Jesuits? 🤭
@@MrBagpipes Yes, the Jesuits.Like the other orders they affirmed the first three vows of poverty, chastity and celibacy.
The foutth vow ,as before, was a special vow of absolute obedience to the Pope. What's more, all their correspondance was signed: His Holiness which the SS took for Heil Hitler.
got off with a bad start there...already in the first sentence...SS was NOT part of the german army...it was it own,separate, army, not under Wehrmacht control.
Waffen SS units were assigned to Army Corps, Armies and Army Groups.
Who is committing war crimes & genocide today and getting away with it?
Russkis
Jews
@@chrism3872Take a closer look at the Asov battalions in todays Ukraine, or Stepan Bandera, who was behind atrocities committed against Poles and Jews, which were so horrendous, even the Nazis were shocked. The ignorance of many, when it comes to Ukraine, is in itself, disturbing.
Inaccuracy within the first 2 seconds, didn't bother watching the rest.
indulge me.
@@cruelpirate78
Indulge you?
The SS was not part of the German Army. It was a special "Army".
Where he said the Waffen SS was part of the army? They are not part of the army
@@cruelpirate78the video said that the Waffen SS was part of the army which it isn’t. That’s the one I caught anyway. I’m about halfway through and he said that Himmler committed s*icide and showed a dead Hitler look alike that wasn’t either of them. Also said that when the bridges were taken out they all had to swim across the river. Those rivers were huge and many men probably didn’t know how to swim but the US built pontoon bridges. They didn’t swim across.
I watched it as far he pretty much said Canadians of all people committed war crimes
Even several leaders of the infamous einsatzgruppen were sentenced to prison, released after some years and lived for many years after.
Why is wikipedia considered a source of reliable information?
Yes! My university didn’t allow wiki as a legitimate source. Wiki is full of lies and misinformation. In this case, they are actually noting something that some under 40 people are not aware of (what a failure of our public school system). But current crappola is also referenced because google (RUclips) thinks we’re stupid, and they get it wrong. Often.
Not perfect but compared to what else? (Besides good academic studies)
It’s better than AI!
Because in 2024 it is well-maintained, articles critically reviewed by peers and sources usually reliably quoted.
It isn't. (Any reference to Wikipedia on the bibliography of an academic assignement/paper, and you're doomed.) I myself have found plenty of errors in Wikipedia entries.
the germans lost TWO world wars in the 20th century.........but after about 10 years after WW2, germany had (and still has to this day) one of the highest living standards in the world!!! RESPECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But only thanks to Americans and their Marshall Plan, otherwise Germany would still be a developing country.
@@AshScott-f4p sure. but still, very impressive.
@@AshScott-f4p Seriously, no. Spain was a poor country, ravaged by a brutal civil war, that didn't receive Marshall aid. Yet Spain managed to modernize and achieve rapid economic growth by the 1960's. Germany would have done the same without Marshall aid, though recovery would have been delayed by 5-10 years.
None of them should have been released 😞
They were and SS officer Werner Van Braun created US space program.
Not exactly correct on survival rates for POWs. Axis soldiers captured by the Soviets had a survival rate of about 60% whereas a Soviet soldier captured by the Germans has a survival rate of about 40%. No which way you paint it the nazis were assholes.
The opening statement is VERY incorrect. The Waffen SS was NOT anything IN the German Army.
Many just got away clean. Even got back into public service.
The Nazis were socialists, speaks volumes for that political model !
They were not socialists in anything but the name.
Such grandiose superiority matched only by their sadistic evil.
Seems like a lot to go through just because you like waffles
Going to a Waffle House today is almost as dangerous.
" Vaffen" not "Waffen ", " Viking" not " Wiking " , " Vermacht " not Wermacht.....😮😮😮
Dont know what you are trying to say
It took the whole world to beat the 3rd R
Proud of that, are you?
"Der Schoß ist fruchtbar noch aus dem dies kroch." Bert Brecht
Truth .
The Waffen SS was not the army. The Wehrmacht were the army. This report is so inaccurate as to make it worthless as an historical account. e.g., Dirlewanger did not die of natural causes, he was beaten to death by his Polish captors.
Spoiler alert: In the end, everyone dies. both the good and the bad.
The 1st SS Panzer Division under Piper. Massacred 11 black POWS of the 333rd field artillery regiment in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge.
If the story I heard is true they were murdered in a very horrible and sadistic fashion. The Allies unfortunately also decided to take no prisoners on some occasions
@@armstronggermany2995I would have liked to have read joachims memoirs.
@@armstronggermany2995 Unfortunately? Are you kidding me? The SS monsters and German nazis were mass murderers and war criminals who murdered over 30 million people!
Canada and Poland called them the Geneva Suggestions during WW2
The fascists were ultimately beaten by the Red Army and we owe them a great debt .
The Germans were super soldiers there's no doubt. The Germans of ww2 are among the greatest forces of all time. A lesser country and military wouldn't have accomplished the feats they did. This is in no way a backing of what they did. I would say they were doing what they thought was right, being told something over and over and really believing you were doing the right thing for your family and country is all a soldier can do. You have plenty of countries today that have totally different beliefs, that don't even see the world in a similar way, yet there's none that have almost taken over the world like these brave German men did.
Unfortunately Russia committed a lot of war crimes but he was not interrogated because Russia won.some Americans were also guilty of war crimes though theirs is much lower
They joined to fight communism
Also !
A NEEDLESS WAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, HAD THE BRITISH NOT DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY. ENGLAND AND THE USA WERE BOTH MANIPULATED INTO WW II, BY THE SAME TRIBE WHICH DID 911 AND IS NOW KILLING THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS 24/7.
And capitalism, also sionism...
It is not wikin, but Ss-Wiking, the international SS brigade in which Dutch volunteers served, underwriting the racial ideology and standards. The name refers to Norse languages, in which the V is pronounced as W.
And some SS (like Wernher von Braun) were honored :
President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service (1959)
Elliott Cresson Medal (1962)
Wilhelm Exner Medal (1969)
National Medal of Science (1975)
There were SS units formed in western countries. When they returned home it was not unusual for them to be prosecuted. The French did not want former French SS members who were captured to be returned to France. However, France did hire a number of German SS veterans and sent them to Vietnam.as Legionaries.
That was the first SS he ordered to turn in their arm bands. And. Depp Dietrich refused to tell that to his soldiers.
Karl wolf was directly aided by the OSS and Allen Dulles, future director of the CIA, considered his rescue to be the crowning achievement of his wartime service.
My grandfather eacaped and lived a happy life in Canada through 4th reicht operations just before the end. 😂😂😂 as they continued to shift the nazi operations to North america for the future forseen world. As most north american companies profited from nazi investments and support
How was that justice they should still be in prison.
Hmmm. Are you American by any chance? Recall My Lai massacre by any chance? Guess not but not surprised regardless.
no need to praise the US and British.
had Nazi had invaded and occupied US or UK and did what they had done in the USSR, the American and British would have done the same thing to the captured Nazi as Soviets did.
Very questionable history here. Seeing that even the eastern border map of Germany was completely wrong. The Waffen SS (Army) were not the criminals like the Allgemeine (general) SS who ran the death camps. The atrocities by the Army were not unique to the Germans by any means. Surrendering soldiers were at times shot by American troops also. Peiper was not present at Malmady and did not order the killing of the American troops there. But he accepted responsibility since he was the overall commander of the guilty unit. Pots should not be calling the kettle black and there are so many exaggerations. The waffen SS were soldiers and not prison guards. In fact, many of the prison guard SS were not even German, but often Ukrainians or other eastern Europeans.
No SS should have survived!
4:10 They wished that germany had nuclear weapons. For gods sake this did not happen.
Conspiracy is that Nazi Germany were not far from producing the atom bomb. Analysing the situation at the end of war and Red Army approaching. Nazis understood Russian won't stop even they nuke Moscow. So they made a deal with Americans and passed know-how of Nazi atomic programme. Nazis "CIA" rightly predicted and I personally believe helped to start Cold War. As they understand Russian soul and Stalin paranoia much better than anyone else in The West.
Soldier at 3:40 is a member of the Luftwaffe, not the Waffen SS....
The fight between nazis and russian bolshevicks was extra awful.
2:49 Hitler insulted his elite squads................. sounds familiar?
3:18 so in the last weeks, Hitler ordered his troupes to Berlin to SAVE HIM, and he couldn't care less about his country .............................. sounds familiar?
The SS where never part of the german army.
Your right. The Weirmach came very close to open combat with the SS on the retreat thru Poland.
@@Charles-xy5jdreally?
SS appears to me to be a more fanatical group based upon the concepts of Aryan supremacy.
Wermacht appear as genuine German national soldiers.
All part of the Third Reich. Paychecks, weapons, clothing and orders, all came from the same place.
@@russellcollins6718 erm……..
Of the German POWs that made it to Soviet POW camps in the rear areas over 80% survived. The death toll is skewed by the high percentage of Stalingrad POW fatalities due to their starvation before capture. It was the prisoner taking and initial processing that was the most lethal for any German combatant. There seemed to be an unofficial order to shoot anyone caught with death head symbols on their uniforms. A policy which proved deadly for a lot off Panzer troops who had a different death head emblem from the SS.
they never found mueller
No glory with these people, pure hate.
NOT TRUE.
@@JESUSINAMERICAvery true. Lol they even wrote it down in journals. You must be brain damaged.
You think Americans or Russians always took prisoners? 😅
Himler was murdered in captivity .
Much as the British soldiers, Black and Tans, and the notorious Auxiliaries who committed atrocities in Ireland after WW1 and later during the 'Troubles' were never even put on trial.
The British were not on the same level as the SS ...not even close lol
Because they didn't commit atrocities on an industrial scale doesn't absolve them of guilt. Look at the concentration camps in South Africa during the Boer War. It's a pattern. No country is willing to admit its own crimes which is hardly surprising. Britain likes to portray itself as decent and fair, admitting to their mistakes would undermine the image that they want to propagate. All Nations have the potential to follow the path of Nazi Germany. All countries.
@@tigerland4328 No, they were worse. They never showed a bit of remorse over the killings of innocent women and children. The British government told them it was proud of what they had done. Mountbatten ordered the machine gunning of peaceful protesters, all of them women and children and was proud of it. The official count was in the hundreds, but the British only counted those who died in hospitals or on site. Many hundreds more died at home and were never counted. Mountbatten afterwards said, “ They were traitorous Irish dogs and deserved whatever they got.” The royal family blocked most of the inquiry into the deaths and still blocks inquiries even today. Mountbattens actions exacerbated the troubles and extended them for decades. The fact that the policy of no inquiries into atrocities committed by the army became standard procedure didn’t help.
The fact that the British didn't commit atrocities on an industrial scale doesn't make them less guilty. Even now they are covering up war crimes their soldiers perpetrated in Afghanistan, with the government refusing to give details and, be open and honest about it. The British have always sought to present themselves as decent and fair. 'The Good Guys' .To admit their dreadful deeds would reflect badly on them. Look at the concentration camps they ran in South Africa during the Boer War. Its a pattern of behaviour. These horrors too have been swept under the carpet. If we don't talk about them they never happened, and we can go on deluding ourselves. In not delivering real justice the Germans could pretend that their husbands, brothers and sons were also merely doing their duty, no more. This kind of behaviour is universal. All countries are capable of this kind of behaviour. All countries.
@@richardbeckenbaugh1805 but the British never attempted to wipe out the Irish people for ideological reasons like the SS did in Poland and the soviet union. There was no British extermination camps in Ireland,the Irish people were never subjected to inhumane medical experimentation and the British never attempted to murder the entire Irish race for the benefit of themselves. Anyone who thinks the British are worse or equally as bad as the Nazis doesn't know history.
My great uncle, that would be my grandfathers brother served in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.
He was a tank commander towards the end of the war and he survived the war.
As a young kid, we all heard what he endured.
What I can tell you is this, the first casualty of war is the truth.
First of all, the Waffen SS weren't some superhuman elite killing machine nor did they believe that propaganda BS, what they were, was a dedicated fighting force that didn't cower or run.
They weren't some fanatical hyped up drugged lunatics.
The US military today has a branch very close to what they were, they are called US Marines.
Second, were war crimes committed by the Waffen SS ? Of course there were, but it wasn't policy nor was that crap ordered.
Here is something to think about, all sides committed war crimes, you just don't hear about it, the reason you don't hear about it is because the Allies won, so you can only read about the victors version of history.
No war ever fought was clean or fair nor will any future be fought fair and clean.
"The US military today has a branch very close to what they were, they are called US Marines." - bull's eye.
demonic bastards that murdered
The SS were also an industrial power within the Reich in that they had control of forced labour, who died in their millions manufacturing weapons and war material for the SS. For every SS man who was killed in action, far more civilian PoWs died in SS run camps. Every SS unit had blood on it's hands from the start of the war to the very end.
Whatever. The allies had morals and a Biblical worldview and the Germans supported the hate and evil of the NAZI party and the 3rd Reicht. No true Nazi beleiver deserves to live. And they were drugged up lunatics....on Methamphetemines ....a fact. The SS were pure evil. Your BS is just that.
Are you not aware of the SS atrocities in concentration camps?So you think your great uncle is a hero?Was he part of mass execution?
If Hitler listened to hermann goering and didn't attack Poland like goering said let's wait, churchhill wouldn't have declared war , so what then , and since Russia attacked Poland in the east with a packed with Germany why didn't churchhill declare on war Russia , look at the angles then learn.
Churchill listened to his army commanders views on tactics Hitler hardly ever. Churchill was a painter, so was Hitler, but Churchill was better.😊
0:42 Correction: bravely
branded is wild
Many SS went to Ukkkraine and started Nazi organization again, Azov Battalion with 40 million members.
3 millions regular/POC in ukkkraine who being suffering by them.
Bullshit, fake news.
@@arnerusbjerg9138 yep it’s true. Videos all over to prove.
Azov is a largest Nazi organization, praising Adolf Hilter.
They all love to put their arms in air like Adolf did. Videos are evidences and your words aren’t evidences
@@blazeroranger
Have you any idea at all what the size of Ukraine's population is?
@@phillipsugwas 43 million population. 40 million Azov members and 3
Million black people & regular people.
@@phillipsugwas 43 million population. 40 million Azov members and 3
Million black people & regular people.
Largest Nazi organization is in Ukkkraine…..
And you guys supporting them blew my mind!
Pronounce it like Vaffen SS. To be pedantic, it is like a flapped V pronounced between the lips, and not the upper teeth and lower lip, but Vaffen is good enough for non-German speakers.
Army panzer units wore a uniform with a skull and crossbones which could be mistaken for an SS uniform. Some Heer soldiers passed through SS hospitals and also got the tattoo.
It would have taken 250+ years to trial them all. Europe was in debt and Britain only just finished paying for ww2 loans in 2006.
Where was the money going to come from?
Seriously you couldn't be that much of a simpleton !
Try em for what deuschbag
Amerikkka brought them stateside. Hence the USA's current spiral towards fascism.
I think poor education and Xtian religion is responsible for the current right wing in America
That's an interesting assertion. It looks to me like fascist mentality is Alive and Well in the so-called neoliberal Progressive movements of america. In other words, fascism basically meaning that you force or make certain points of view become accepted and you simply do not tolerate and you wish to cancel out anyone else who has an opposing point of view. I actually see that coming way more from the left. But one thing is for sure, anything one extreme side of the political spectrum is guilty of, you can find evidence on the other. Yeah, I got a real kick out of people that just try to say Trump is a fascist without any real logical backing up behind it
Correct. The Fascists are alive and well in the Democrat party.
@@brocklanders6969 democrat(communist party)
THERE’S NO “K” IN AMERICA!!!!
Very Interesting.
The Waffen SS was a criminal gang with a gang leader to whom they all swore loyalty and total obedience to commit whatever crime they may have been ordered to. AND they all had an identifying tattoo so when the end came they were easy to find and deal with, ridding the world of the SS. Today we have(had?) the criminal gangs of El Salvador….nowhere near as bad as the SS but they too have the Tattoo and it has made them easy to find and deal with in a country where just “being a member” is crime enough for long long prison sentences…makes them easy to round up. El Salvador is practically crime free now, apparently.
the allies murdered more German civilians, woman and children than the waffen SS ever did to allied POWs
look up allied fire storm bombings on hamburg, Dresden ect
when at wars end, only months weeks left, for no reason the allies kept carpet bombing German city's
creating firestorms , killing tens of thousands old men , woman, and children
not one allied officer charged with war crimes for thousands of deaths due to these bombing raids
What an awful nation. There are still people who visit their country. Their actions are unforgivable.
Eh? So all the German people suffer because of the War? Stupid comment!
Yes, 'their' actions are unforgivable. And most of 'them' are dead. WWII ended 79 years ago today. How many German WWII veterans do you imagine are still alive? German civilians were brutalized by both Allied AND German soldiers at the close of WWII. Germany today is not the Germany of the 1940s. It happens to be a beautiful country. Why wouldn't people visit?
The past is not to be forgotten but prejudice should be. My daughter married to a German was at a wedding recently where some English people and their children were also guests. Her young son , fluent in English, came to her at one point telling her that one of the children who he had tried to engage with on discovering he was German had told him , ' we dont talk to Germans".
Fortunately we got to England in the 9th century, but its a close run thing.
Lived in Germany for 7 years. Lovely country, and great people. Good memories.
You idiot
War crimes? What an oxymoron 😮
Far from a oxymoron. There's plenty of righteous reasons for war. The man who doesn't believe anything is worth going to war for is much worse than the soldier fighting for what's right.
Spoken like and ignorant jerk who knows nothing about WWII.
@@Kuwaitisnot_adeployment A NEEDLESS WAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, HAD THE BRITISH NOT DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY. ENGLAND AND THE USA WERE BOTH MANIPULATED INTO WW II, BY THE SAME TRIBE WHICH DID 911 AND IS NOW KILLING THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS 24/7.
The Waffen SS was NOT the elite of the German Army (Das Heer). It was a separate service of the Wehrmacht (Armed Forces). Simple fact. Please correct.
It was not part of the Wehrmacht
@@Karl-nv5ok Correct. I wasn't clear enough when I said separate.
well many if not all found gainful support and employment with the amerikkkan cold war machine and the south american and arab dictatorships gave many new homes and again gainful support and employment
American troops committed at least two massacres of German troops including SS and Wehrmacht in late 1944 but that is usually glossed over or ignored. Many ethnic Germans who were born outside of the Reich could not join the Wehrmacht but had to join the SS,
After they found out Germans massacred civilians and soldiers. Grow up.
so thats alright then.ffs
They did not HAVE to join anything - they VOLUNTEERED for the SS.
Wow 2 massacres? How many did the germans commit in just Italy?? Plz answer I'll be waiting
At least 3 or more cases glossed over by Allies.Had the germans killed allied prisoners in more cases they would have been right to trial but not Americans!!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣bastards!!!!
The Waffen S>S was not part of the German army, it was a seperate militarised political organisation. The traditional army resented, even hated them. They were not even elite just driven.
It was a kind of 4th branch. Compare it with US Army, Navy, Air Force , Marines.Average German soldiers were happy to know the "other ones" on their side. History is written by the winner of the war and Hollywood. The greatest enemie of historians and media is the contemporary witness.
American soldiers were told not to take waffen SS prisoners, the aftermath of such things like malmedy, and they shot unarmed surrendering German SS soldiers. Thousands were killed. You haven't mentioned this atrocity. The russians did the same thing too.
Where were their court cases .What about Katyn massacre!!!!!
@garywenzlaff6918 the russians shot 4000 polish officers and soldiers. Not German.
10:45 Yeah right! Read the book “Other Losses”
work of fiction. Long discounted by credible historians.
Maybe look into Auschwitz, holocaust, as pow treatment.
This book is proven incorrect. But regardless if 1/2 of it was true, …. Well….
oh they killed innocent people lets let them live what a Fing joke
My Grandfather Erwin Sheldon (Pvt. 36th AIR Co I) DOW Jan 20th 1945 from Shrapnel on Dec. 17, 1944. I knew it was Waffen SS in the Ardennes, I wonder if 1st SS Panzer Reg. or Das Reich which I thought Can't get answers from US Army