Death of Roland Freisler - Hitler's Fanatical Screaming Nazi Judge - Plot to Assassinate Hitler

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Death of Roland Freisler - Hitler's Fanatical Screaming Nazi Judge - Plot to Assassinate Hitler.
When the First World War began on the 28th of July 1914, Roland Freisler was studying law at the University of Jena.
In 1919 Freisler returned to Germany to complete his law studies at the University of Jena and in 1922 he qualified as a Doctor of Law.
In July 1925 Freisler joined the Nazi Party.
After Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party came into power in January 1933, Freisler became a member of the Reichstag - the German Parliament.
Freisler was a committed Nazi ideologist, and used his legal skills to adapt its theories into practical law-making and judicature.
He also strongly advocated for the creation of laws to punish so called “race defilement" which was the Nazi term for sexual relations between "Aryans" and those deemed as "inferior races”. In 1933, he even published a pamphlet calling for the legal prohibition of "mixed-blood" sexual intercourse. Freisler's ideological views reflected things to come, as 2 years later on the 15th of September 1935, the Nazi regime announced two new laws:
The Reich Citizenship Law which defined a citizen as a person who is “of German or related blood.” ; which meant that Jews, defined as a separate race, could not be full citizens of Germany and had no political rights;
and The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor which banned future intermarriages and sexual relations between Jews and people “of German or related blood.” The Nazis believed that such relationships were dangerous because they led to “mixed race” children. According to the Nazis, these children and their descendants undermined the purity of the German race.
World War 2 started on the 1st of September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland.
On the 20th of January 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." The "Final Solution" was the code name for the systematic, deliberate and physical annihilation of the European Jews. Adolf Hitler had authorized this European-wide scheme for mass murder at some still undetermined time in 1941.
At the time of this Wannsee Conference, most participants were already aware that the Nazi regime had engaged in mass murder of Jews and other civilians in the German-occupied areas of the Soviet Union and in Serbia.
On the 20th of August 1942, Hitler named Freisler president of the People's Court.
Under Freisler's rule, the frequency of death sentences rose sharply. Approximately 90% of all cases that came before him ended in guilty verdicts. Between 1942 and 1945, more than 5,000 death sentences were decreed by him, 2,600 of these through the court's First Senate, which Freisler controlled. He was responsible in his three years on the court for as many death sentences as all other senate sessions of the court combined in the court's existence between 1934 and 1945.
When on the 18th of February 1943, Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl were distributing leaflets at the Ludwig Maximilian University, they were reported to the official secret police of Nazi Germany - the Gestapo and then arrested.
Roland Freisler sentenced them to death.
Another of Freisler’s victims was Elfriede Scholz, a sister of German-born novelist Erich Maria Remarque. After a failed bomb attempt to assassinate Hitler on his airplane, Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters.
In the days that followed, Hitler ordered a massive hunt for conspirators which continued for months. In August 1944, some of the arrested perpetrators of the failed assassination were brought before Freisler for punishment. Hitler had ordered that those found guilty should be "hanged like cattle".
In the end more than 7,000 people were arrested. 4,980 of them were executed, often on the barest evidence.
Roland Freisler died on the 3rd of February 1945 when United States Army Air Forces bombers attacked Berlin.
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  • Sophie Scholl to Freisler in his own courtroom: "you know the war is lost. Why don't you have the courage to admit it?" Pretty ballsy

    @pikiwiki@pikiwiki Жыл бұрын
    • Erwin von Witzleben also deserves to be mentioned as well, as he actually told Freisler before he was murdered: "You can turn us over to the executioner. In three months, the outraged and tormented people will call you to account and drag you through the filth in the streets alive." The movie "Valkyrie"'s Erwin von Witzleben's words convey the same message but go as follows: "You may hand us over to the executioner. But in three months' time, the disgusted and harried people will bring you to book and drag you alive through the dirt in the streets." The sad part is, Freisler really did deserve to be dragged alive through the filth on the streets, only for the bombing of the courthouse to beat the disgusted and harried people to the punch.

      @thecajunphoenix@thecajunphoenix8 ай бұрын
    • Sounds like: first they came for my neighbor, then they came for me@@thecajunphoenix

      @pikiwiki@pikiwiki8 ай бұрын
    • It's interesting that she new that as early as 1943.

      @gregpettis1113@gregpettis11136 ай бұрын
    • @@gregpettis1113 I think the German people did have the news of the Nazi army losing Stalingrad.,

      @DCinchi@DCinchi4 ай бұрын
    • The defeats in North Africa, Stalingrad, the huge loses on the Eastern front, the mass bombing of Germany, all pointers to defeat.@@gregpettis1113

      @martinnoyes8507@martinnoyes85074 ай бұрын
  • The fact that his own family refused too even acknowledge his death and dumped him into an unmarked grave shows exactly who and what he really was.

    @Hammerhead547@Hammerhead547 Жыл бұрын
    • That most likely was due to the exigencies of war, as the Soviets were besieging Breslau in the east and the western allies had already entered the Saar and Hunsrück in the west.

      @petebondurant58@petebondurant58 Жыл бұрын
    • that holds true for most judges

      @spaceclown7650@spaceclown7650 Жыл бұрын
    • Not really. It just shows they knew he was a widely detested figure and that interring him in a publicly-known grave would invite trouble.

      @lucasgroves137@lucasgroves137 Жыл бұрын
    • A fanatical, despicable rat.

      @jean-louislalonde6070@jean-louislalonde6070 Жыл бұрын
    • His sons changed their family name after war. They did not wanted even Freisler family name.

      @infinito2200@infinito2200 Жыл бұрын
  • If there was ever a case of poetic justice, this is it. After perverting justice, he's crushed to death by his own courtroom.

    @ashenshugar8650@ashenshugar8650 Жыл бұрын
    • Ain't it the truth!!

      @bobtaylor170@bobtaylor170 Жыл бұрын
    • Oh yes by his hair his hair was gross to begin with he should have been forced to eat hair from the sewer or maybe a rotting sheep or goat that would be good lots of hair on those things my cat has too much hair he spreads it around and eats it and I guess poops it out idk

      @TimPerfetto@TimPerfetto Жыл бұрын
    • @@TimPerfetto Ummm...what the hell are you talking about?

      @ashenshugar8650@ashenshugar8650 Жыл бұрын
    • @@ashenshugar8650 Oh you know better than I do I saw when you smelled your hair and you did not know I was watching but we were a lot older then so I don't have a clue

      @TimPerfetto@TimPerfetto Жыл бұрын
    • @@TimPerfettoemotional challenges?

      @jeffclark7888@jeffclark7888 Жыл бұрын
  • There was ONE bomb from the 8th Air Force with Freisler's name on it - and it didn't disappoint!

    @ridethecurve55@ridethecurve55 Жыл бұрын
    • Yeah. I heard the bomb was from a B24 Liberator.

      @Guardmn@Guardmn Жыл бұрын
    • Freisler got off way too easy 🤔

      @gargould7186@gargould7186 Жыл бұрын
    • Bastard got off lightly though... He would've deserved way worse a fate.

      @joenight9693@joenight969311 ай бұрын
    • ​@@gargould7186 True

      @JamesJames-jt3ts@JamesJames-jt3ts11 ай бұрын
    • ​@@joenight9693 True, he should have been an example

      @JamesJames-jt3ts@JamesJames-jt3ts11 ай бұрын
  • “It is a beautiful day and I must go.” - Sophie Scholl just before being taken to the guillotine

    @rebeccaanne9863@rebeccaanne98635 ай бұрын
  • Not only his death was poetic justice, the fact that the footage of his infamous show trials after the attempt on Hitler's life on 20th July 1944 couldn't actually be "shown" to the German public because his screaming and shouting was even too embarressing for the Nazi regime.

    @SNP-1999@SNP-1999 Жыл бұрын
    • Yeah, I'm thinking that even Hitler reached a point where he thought, "This Freisler guy's an absolute nut-job."

      @diarradunlap9337@diarradunlap93376 ай бұрын
  • William Shirer was spot on when he described Freisler as "a vile, vituperative maniac."

    @guydreamr@guydreamr Жыл бұрын
    • Hitler only went as far as he did because of folks like this

      @mavjimbo@mavjimbo Жыл бұрын
    • There were also certain people during the French Revolution who said about Fouquier-Tinville: "He was a vile, vituperative maniac!"

      @julesvismale8387@julesvismale83874 ай бұрын
  • Such a shame he missed out on the Nuremberg trials.

    @charliemarkovic4301@charliemarkovic4301 Жыл бұрын
    • No---WE missed out. He'd have had his neck stretched alright---slowly.

      @MrDaiseymay@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын
    • It would have been nice to see the same power of a court turned on his ass. Never knew the guys name but saw the footage of his ravings. I think I would have asked him if I was in front of his court what a raving lunatic acting in such an un professional manner was doing in a court room. Would have pissed him off pretty good.

      @SanitysVoid@SanitysVoid Жыл бұрын
    • Well, he was a "judge" of sorts, and even though he got what he deserved it would have been better if he was put on trial and later hanged. Would have been the way to go for him.

      @ActiveAussie2024@ActiveAussie2024 Жыл бұрын
    • He'd have overruled the Allied judges and screamed abuse at them.

      @chrisholland1504@chrisholland1504 Жыл бұрын
    • At least he stopped murdering people from a judicial bench.

      @PaulBrower-py7tv@PaulBrower-py7tv Жыл бұрын
  • What an odious man. I really feel so sorry for the brave men who tried to rid the world of Hitler, God bless them, and the brave brother and sister of the white rose!

    @serenityflies1462@serenityflies1462 Жыл бұрын
    • I agree. I learned a lot about him from the Europa the last battle documentary.

      @dudebro3250@dudebro325011 ай бұрын
    • The White Rose was started by (now Saint) Alexander Schmorell (Russian Orthodox) and Hans Scholl (Protestant). Sophie joined later. I've been to their graves in Perlacher Forst Cemetery. Our youth need the courage (and the intellect) the White Rose had. Read "Alexander Schmorell: Saint of the German Resistance " by Elena Perekrestov.

      @susangleason3987@susangleason398711 ай бұрын
    • Do you also know that Antoine-Quentin Fouquier-Tinville (1745-1795), also a horrible lawyer, sentenced to death during the French Revolution a certain Charlotte Corday (1768-1703), a Girondin girl, because she Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) had murdered in his bath! Marat was one of the ringleaders of the dreadful Terror, and when Corday stood before Fouquier-Tinville, it took him a great deal of effort to condemn her, although he too used a bombastic and aggressive tone against her! For example, Roland Freisler often compared himself to his equally infamous French predecessor and one of his victims, Elfriede Scholz (1903-1943), he compared to Charlotte Corday! In fact, Fouquier-Tinville and Freisler could almost have been related!

      @julesvismale8387@julesvismale838711 ай бұрын
    • May he have found upon his death that God is Jewish. The Almighty has the power to define Himself to serve harsh judgment upon evil-doers. As for being a shape-shifter on theology... when judging Serb butchers of Muslims, God is Allah and Muhammad is His chief Prophet!

      @paulbrower@paulbrower10 ай бұрын
    • @@susangleason3987 I am involved in politics as a hobby. Occasionally I risked getting sued for insulting a political opponent (up to now nobody ever sued me), but I would never never have risked my life like the "Weisse Rose." They knew what they did and they paid the ultimate price.

      @TheWuschelMUC@TheWuschelMUC9 ай бұрын
  • A very important and interesting story about Freisler's death is missing. On the day of his death, he was conducting a trial against members of the wider circle of the 20th July 1944 conspiracy. One of the defendants was Fabian von Schlabrendorff, an officer and lawyer. Those who know the film "Valkyrie", he was the officer who smuggled a bomb-prepared bottle of Cointreau onto Hitler's plane, which unfortunately did not explode in the air because the detonator froze in the luggage compartment of the plane. In any case, Freisler was still holding Schlabrendorff's file in his hand when he was found dead in the rubble of the court. Von Schlabrendorff would certainly have been sentenced to death by Freisler that day; the death of this blood judge saved his life. After the war, he made a career as a legal expert in democratic West Germany and was appointed as a judge to the Supreme Court of West Germany 22 years after the war, where he served for 8 years. It is known that no official representative of the Nazi government was present at Freisler's funeral. His shabby body was buried anonymously in his wife's family grave, otherwise his grave would surely have been visited every day by people whose loved ones he had sent to their deaths for trivialities. They would certainly have spat and peed on it!

    @ruhri0411@ruhri0411 Жыл бұрын
    • I would shed tears on his grave. Oh, and by tears, I mean pee.

      @ccrider3435@ccrider3435 Жыл бұрын
    • if I ever get to Germany, his grave is indeed one of the places I'd love to visit... to piss on of course, because he really needs to be pissed on a lot more :D

      @chouseification@chouseification Жыл бұрын
    • The pile of poop that would accumulate would be taller than any flowers that would have a chance to try to start to grow....

      @rogersheddy6414@rogersheddy6414 Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you for sharing. Keep it up!😊

      @AroundTheWorldWithEase@AroundTheWorldWithEase Жыл бұрын
    • There would be so much urine at his grave folk would think the Rhine had broke its banks.

      @georgedonaldson1516@georgedonaldson1516 Жыл бұрын
  • The Scholl children are heroes. They should be celebrated the world over.

    @pointsofsue2487@pointsofsue24877 ай бұрын
  • Watch the film Sophie (White Rose) the actor who play him was brilliant. He bought out how evil Freisler was. The actress playing Sophie was brilliant as well, both should have got awards

    @sleepingbear1889@sleepingbear1889 Жыл бұрын
    • A feature film was once even made about Charlotte Corday, the Girondin girl who had murdered the right-wing radical Jacobin Jean-Paul Marat during the French Revolution! She then had to stand trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal, of which the infamous president Antoine-Quentin Fouquier-Tinville sentenced her to death! Fouquier-Tinville looked just like a sinister gravedigger in his black suit and even he could rage horribly against his victims! By the way, he has sentenced as many people to death as Roland Freisler, at least 2600 people that is!

      @julesvismale8387@julesvismale8387 Жыл бұрын
  • There were no tears shed for Roland Freisler.

    @TheMatrixxandRhodesShow@TheMatrixxandRhodesShow Жыл бұрын
    • No tears shed!

      @WorldHistoryVideos@WorldHistoryVideos Жыл бұрын
    • Yes, he made an ass of himself. He had also drunk the koolaid !

      @nielspemberton59@nielspemberton59 Жыл бұрын
    • “Drinking the Magical Elixir” - the Koolaide - was part and parcel of being a “Righteous” Nazi. It is also a current requisite for most modern Authoritarians

      @dennisyoung4631@dennisyoung4631 Жыл бұрын
    • I'm sure his family wept for him.

      @tancreddehauteville764@tancreddehauteville764 Жыл бұрын
    • @@WorldHistoryVideos Not that you would know. He had a family and kids. Tears will usually be shed when family members die.

      @AuH2O@AuH2O Жыл бұрын
  • The only unfortunate thing about his death was that he probably knew nothing about it.

    @brucemasters3487@brucemasters3487 Жыл бұрын
    • He did know.

      @jguenther3049@jguenther30496 ай бұрын
  • I love the end line you put in the videos: “In the end, there was no tears shed for…*horrible human being*” it really adds a sense of poignancy to the story. Thank you for adding it. Because, you’re right: in the end, there are no tears shed for these horrible monsters. Be it man, woman, or whatever country you hail from. If you are a horrible, sadistic monster there will be no tears shed for you.

    @scottlawton9459@scottlawton9459 Жыл бұрын
    • Very correct!

      @WorldHistoryVideos@WorldHistoryVideos Жыл бұрын
    • Yet there are people today who choose to dance with political extremists who unlock monsters like these, even though their choice would lead to their own undoing. I don't know if it's ignorance, ideology or idiocy.

      @stewartmackay@stewartmackay Жыл бұрын
    • Like alec murdaugh

      @jayond3978@jayond3978 Жыл бұрын
    • It is a great line...already a classic in my book!

      @disseminationnetwork@disseminationnetwork Жыл бұрын
    • @@WorldHistoryVideos As the old saying goes, *"NO CHANCE IN HELL"*

      @usamazahid3882@usamazahid38826 ай бұрын
  • I love the spirit of the resistance movement White Rose, I am enamored with the chutzpah of Sofie, "I won't betray my brother or my principles. I'll make no bargain with the Nazis!" ❤ That is the kind of determination and courage which I admire and revere, May her spirit be remembered always and may she find peace in heaven.

    @harryshriver6223@harryshriver62235 ай бұрын
  • If anyone deserved what was coming, it was Judge Roland... Divine Judgement

    @optimusprinceps3526@optimusprinceps3526 Жыл бұрын
    • I don't agree. He should have been tried and hung. His accidental death was quick and he didn't have to go through a court case which would have exposed his crimes.

      @gennettor8915@gennettor8915 Жыл бұрын
    • Unfortunately the quick deaths were delivered by the British and often on the worse criminals,The Lynched them,They called it hanging but choking to death for 20 to 30 minutes is Lynching and ofcourse the Russians and Sibera

      @Johnketes54@Johnketes54 Жыл бұрын
    • @@gennettor8915 not if he was hit by shrapnel and slowly bled out, trapped in his courtroom, perfect Karma for Judge Roland

      @optimusprinceps3526@optimusprinceps3526 Жыл бұрын
    • Personally I would have preferred a trial, but I'm not going to shed tears for this evil man.

      @andrewbyrne2173@andrewbyrne2173 Жыл бұрын
    • @@andrewbyrne2173 he got one and was judged.....by the Almighty

      @chrismc410@chrismc410 Жыл бұрын
  • This monster's death was divine justice. Thank you for another great video, World History ! 🌷💖🌷

    @14Aymara@14Aymara Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you very much

      @WorldHistoryVideos@WorldHistoryVideos Жыл бұрын
    • Alas no. Justice was never done on Roland Freisler.

      @gennettor8915@gennettor8915 Жыл бұрын
    • Would have been better had he faced human justice, this time on the opposite side of the bench, trying to hold up his pants to keep them from falling ddown/

      @jdrancho1864@jdrancho1864 Жыл бұрын
    • @@jdrancho1864 - Oh, yes! I would have loved that!

      @14Aymara@14Aymara Жыл бұрын
    • @@jdrancho1864 Exactly. He got off easy.

      @hanseekhoff1093@hanseekhoff1093 Жыл бұрын
  • Certainly no tears for him. My only regret is that he didn't get a date with Albert Pierrepoint.

    @georgeamanor-boadu6771@georgeamanor-boadu6771 Жыл бұрын
    • It's safe to say the USAAC did well enough.

      @chrismc410@chrismc410 Жыл бұрын
    • A date with the much less efficient American hangman John Woods would have been more deserved.

      @michaelhughes4466@michaelhughes4466 Жыл бұрын
    • @@michaelhughes4466 might as well let Oskar Dirlewagner at his cheeks before Woods hangs him. Freisler and Dirlewagner were two people even the Nazis themselves wanted dead but had use for.

      @chrismc410@chrismc410 Жыл бұрын
    • @@michaelhughes4466on the contrary, Wood knew how to hang a man, he just wanted these assholes to suffer

      @Fcukthedems@Fcukthedems Жыл бұрын
    • 😂😂😂😂😂

      @ngozikaonyekwelu4356@ngozikaonyekwelu4356 Жыл бұрын
  • Unfortunately, Freisler was never really brought to justice. He was officially declared "a victim of war" and his widow received a large pension until she died of old age in 1997. The pension was granted due to the reason that Roland Freisler had officially been a high-ranking member of the legal system and had never been sentenced for his crimes against humanity.

    @EricMustardman@EricMustardman Жыл бұрын
    • Two things are infinite: the universe and the number of excuses Germans have for letting nazis escape justice.

      @hans-joachimbierwirth4727@hans-joachimbierwirth4727 Жыл бұрын
    • Eric: She got a pension because her husband was a member of the Nazi legal system and recognized by post war Germany? I thought post war Germany did not want anything to do with Nazi atrocities.

      @jgstargazer@jgstargazer Жыл бұрын
    • A nation possessed by blood lust

      @me-ds2il@me-ds2il Жыл бұрын
    • @@hans-joachimbierwirth4727 got the complexion for protection 😉

      @mcahtme2977@mcahtme2977 Жыл бұрын
    • Unbelievable!

      @sabinegroe2006@sabinegroe2006 Жыл бұрын
  • “There were no tears shed for.....”. Excellent ending which I have now heard well over a dozen times!!!!

    @lapensulo4684@lapensulo4684 Жыл бұрын
    • Watch our other videos, this ending is typical of our channel.

      @WorldHistoryVideos@WorldHistoryVideos Жыл бұрын
    • There are tear shed every year and flowers left at the Graves of the heroes Graves are France. You should go visit those graves. It looks better those us graves with lots of personal stuff.... it's an secured by camera's so don't even think of ding something to a grave!

      @ArnieC1974@ArnieC1974 Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks for that docu. I watched a number of the clips available of Freisler in the court room, and I knew how he ended up dead, but I never heard about his background and upbringing that lead him to his notorious position in the Third Reich. Thanks for enlightening us about that man.

    @jdrancho1864@jdrancho1864 Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you. We are happy that you liked the video. It was very difficult to make ...

      @WorldHistoryVideos@WorldHistoryVideos Жыл бұрын
    • @@WorldHistoryVideos please keep it to the truth! Think about this, your sister couldn't be your brother and nu they,them and our children would still learn what they should learn and not be brain washed by completely idiots!

      @ArnieC1974@ArnieC1974 Жыл бұрын
    • What a monster bastard. Thanks 🇺🇸 USAF

      @brianp.5715@brianp.5715 Жыл бұрын
    • @@ArnieC1974 what do you mean specifically???

      @joffryvangrondelle@joffryvangrondelle Жыл бұрын
    • @@joffryvangrondelle you can't read? Blind? Brain damage? And I reacted 4 things so what do you want to know? That the US army is made out of losers?

      @ArnieC1974@ArnieC1974 Жыл бұрын
  • Why would you describe his death as “ horrible”? It’s too bad he didn’t suffer proper justice like so many hundreds of thousands who escaped justice.

    @michaeltroster9059@michaeltroster9059 Жыл бұрын
    • Agree!

      @warrena.7179@warrena.7179 Жыл бұрын
    • HOW TRUE..

      @edward1676@edward1676 Жыл бұрын
    • It's a pity he was not handed over to the NKVD it could take two weeks to die with most skilled interrogators...

      @geoffbell166@geoffbell166 Жыл бұрын
    • @@davecopp9356 Such as?

      @keni010-nf4pg@keni010-nf4pg Жыл бұрын
    • My thoughts exactly.

      @reginaldmassey3272@reginaldmassey32723 ай бұрын
  • The way the narrator quotes this judge seems almost alarmingly cruel. Like he really get into character for those moments!

    @AlteredStateAdventures@AlteredStateAdventures Жыл бұрын
    • It is great, isn't it? :)

      @WorldHistoryVideos@WorldHistoryVideos Жыл бұрын
    • @@WorldHistoryVideos are you British NY g?

      @hassanmohammed8906@hassanmohammed8906 Жыл бұрын
    • @@hassanmohammed8906hows that relevant to the narrative of this asshole judge

      @Fcukthedems@Fcukthedems Жыл бұрын
    • The great religious prophets never imagined Hitler. many of us become our own theologians when we contemplate the Holocaust. An unending simulation of a painful death would fit. 72 virgins --- but they are hyenas!

      @PaulBrower-py7tv@PaulBrower-py7tv Жыл бұрын
  • The stones of the Court could not bear so much injustice and collapsed on the miserable monster, crushing it.

    @encomunismo@encomunismo Жыл бұрын
  • Always wondered what happened to the fanatical judge. Thank You for the story.

    @carlsowell8099@carlsowell8099 Жыл бұрын
    • You cant always wonder about anything so very confused what you are talking about. And you are very welcome for the story my cat made it up a few years ago and I figured I would share it with the world so yeah I guess cats are old too or maybe they need less hair not sure if the two are mutually exclusive but yeah ok

      @TimPerfetto@TimPerfetto Жыл бұрын
    • Me too. He seems to have been a screaming meanie deserving of any grotesque death. ☠️☠️

      @peterwallace9764@peterwallace9764 Жыл бұрын
    • @ManInAmerica Oh

      @TimPerfetto@TimPerfetto Жыл бұрын
    • @@maninamerica2046 Troll. Ignore him.

      @jdrancho1864@jdrancho1864 Жыл бұрын
    • The truth is that he with Hitler and other great leaders went to Argentina and lived a long and happy life

      @ArnieC1974@ArnieC1974 Жыл бұрын
  • That end line was absolutely killer. Sounds like something God would say to him before casting him into the eternal suffering of Hell, though even something as horrible as endless agony is too good for a man such as him.

    @cheezkid2689@cheezkid2689 Жыл бұрын
    • "There were no tears shed for____" is at the end of every one of these videos.

      @michaelsternberg1597@michaelsternberg1597 Жыл бұрын
    • Hell fire does not burn forever! That teaching was invented to scare people into going to church. The Bible teaches eternal life, not eternal death! The evil will burn in the Lake of Fire, but only until their flames go out. Several places in the Bible, such as the story of Sodom and Gomorrah states they were destroyed with everlasting fire (Jude 7), but their not still burning today. Everlasting means it will not rise up again. Malachi 4:1-3 states the wicked dead will be ashes under the righteous one's feet. Remember, God is a God of love, not torture (John 3:16).

      @mntryjoseph1961@mntryjoseph1961 Жыл бұрын
    • @@michaelsternberg1597And this is very piss borring!

      @jeanyves5380@jeanyves5380 Жыл бұрын
    • he was sub-human

      @MrDaiseymay@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын
    • Now you're talking.

      @duartesimoes508@duartesimoes508 Жыл бұрын
  • Sophie Scholl Light in the darkness!

    @user-kw8ff9ne8l@user-kw8ff9ne8l Жыл бұрын
    • A light in the darkness is needed in Russia today

      @peterwood9034@peterwood9034 Жыл бұрын
    • Indeed. I am travelling in Bavaria at the moment and going to visit Sophie Scholl’s (and Hans and Christoph Probts) grave in Munich next Monday (15/5/23).

      @graemehancocks4171@graemehancocks417111 ай бұрын
  • Poetic justice for a man who was a disgrace to his profession.

    @murraywilkinson6515@murraywilkinson65156 ай бұрын
  • Good morning, and as ALWAYS, Thank You for your Excellent, Informative, and Well Done videos.

    @renee1961@renee1961 Жыл бұрын
  • I'm guessing that's the judge from the movie Valkyrie where he has a brief scene yelling at the accused the courtroom.

    @martyisokay@martyisokay Жыл бұрын
  • I think how appropriate that a true pillar of justice must have descended upon him. I just hope it was slow and agonising, not at all instant. As his life flashed before his eyes I hope he saw the faces of all those he'd put to the slaughter. As he fell free into his very own circle of Hell.

    @mrfrankiej932@mrfrankiej932 Жыл бұрын
  • Kaltenbrunner, Hans Frank, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Wilhelm Frick and Otto Ohlendorf were all lawyers. It is scary the types of people that become lawyers.

    @McDago100@McDago100 Жыл бұрын
    • People without integrity find the practice of law easy.

      @baronburch6702@baronburch6702 Жыл бұрын
    • @@baronburch6702 In other words, you mean narcissists.

      @McDago100@McDago100 Жыл бұрын
    • Remember after East Germany joined west Germany, anyone who went to university in East Germany was automatically aloud to have their degrees recognised despite that east Germany university was only really a how to spie school on your friends and family, run by the Stassi

      @stevenmallory3768@stevenmallory3768 Жыл бұрын
    • And how many members of parliament in the U.K., are lawyers by profession, says it all too….

      @billmagowan1492@billmagowan1492 Жыл бұрын
    • I'm reminded of that arch-narcissist Tony Blair!

      @nigelpower1509@nigelpower15096 ай бұрын
  • The story was not over on 3 February 1945 when Freisler was killed. Many years later his widow claimed a widow's pension from the Federal Republic. As Freisler could not be indicted any more, he was under the presumption of innocence and the widow's pension was granted with gritted teeth. Afterwards, the cartoonist Horst Haitzinger drew a cartoon of a very elderly Eva Hitler, née Braun, who also wanted a widow's pension.

    @TheWuschelMUC@TheWuschelMUC Жыл бұрын
    • The née Braun lady was, no doubt, very pleased to have had only a short few hours married to the Prancing, Limp-wristed, Hitler.

      @martini3524@martini3524 Жыл бұрын
  • It is astounding that an otherwise intelligent man could hold such evil views, and twist logic into unrecognizable shapes. I suspect he would have joined any evil regime, such were his deep flaws of character.

    @andrewbyrne2173@andrewbyrne2173 Жыл бұрын
    • It’s easy to accept the feeble minded or the under educated as being ripe fruit for the evil to pick and ripen under a twisted sun. It’s much harder for me to see the highly educated become so enchanted with a maniacal dictatorship that was so overt in its hatred and terror. It’s nearly impossible for me to not see it happen again

      @missyounorm33@missyounorm33 Жыл бұрын
    • He was running with the crowd without taking personel stand to the killings

      @oleriis-vestergaard6844@oleriis-vestergaard6844 Жыл бұрын
    • People can believe all sorts of crazy things. The problem comes when the state starts enforcing those things.

      @rogerpattube@rogerpattube Жыл бұрын
    • I've said the same thing about ppl I thought were intelligent until i saw they joined the MAGA movement.

      @gc4644@gc4644 Жыл бұрын
    • As Nazis and Commies show, great intellectual talent with no moral scruples creates some of the most efficient evil. Smart people usually figure that evil is a losing proposition and often get what they want through legitimate means. Smart people with not-so-legitimate purposes, are particularly dangerous.

      @PaulBrower-py7tv@PaulBrower-py7tv Жыл бұрын
  • I liked the fact that those conspirators to the assassination of Hitler roasted that tyrannical monster before they were executed 😂

    @jasonallen3678@jasonallen3678 Жыл бұрын
  • Really wish that the History Channel would have shows like this

    @SPQRTejano@SPQRTejano Жыл бұрын
    • I agree. History channel a Joke now!!

      @edward1676@edward1676 Жыл бұрын
    • Memba the 90s and early 2000s?

      @drlca6601@drlca6601 Жыл бұрын
    • @Edward I don't understand why they kept the name ( history Channel) it is mostly reality TV

      @SPQRTejano@SPQRTejano Жыл бұрын
    • Hah, they have too many episodes of Ancient Aliens and Ice Road Truckers to air.

      @chad3232132@chad3232132 Жыл бұрын
    • @@chad3232132 that is so true!!

      @SPQRTejano@SPQRTejano Жыл бұрын
  • What is missing here is that the air squadron that bombed Freisler was commanded by a Jewish officer of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Source: Wikipedia: "On the morning of 3 February 1945, Freisler was conducting a Saturday session of the People's Court when United States Army Air Forces bombers attacked Berlin, led by the B-17 of USAAF Lt. Colonel Robert Rosenthal." G-d's divine justice indeed, Frau Jodl.

    @edzaslow@edzaslow Жыл бұрын
    • Ed, thanks for your comment but remember that we try to keep the videos not too long ... if we wanted to mention every single detail that we know about Freisler, this video would last hours ...

      @WorldHistoryVideos@WorldHistoryVideos Жыл бұрын
  • The scandal is, that his widow has been payed a pension by the Federal Republic of Germany until her death in 1997. The law enabling her to receive this pension , has been changed accordingly right after her death.

    @61diemai@61diemai Жыл бұрын
    • The scandal is that the laws have been changed and are changing in other ways too, especially when it comes to free speech and the lack there of. This is evil and not a good sign of a free society which the west is no longer.

      @davecopp9356@davecopp9356 Жыл бұрын
    • How is that a scandal? That he wasn't prosecuted in the ultimate "absentia trial" or that she wasn't summarily denied benefits? Think about it. You want to punish him and his family (guilt by association) with summary judgment. A bit hypocritical. No, not a bit, extremely. The phrase goes...imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

      @JD-tn5lz@JD-tn5lz Жыл бұрын
    • @@JD-tn5lz Exactly. People are crazy nowadays. They see a documentary, don´t even know if it is true and under what intentions it was produced, and get railed up and angry and full of hate because of a documentary made by some faceless individue. Amazing. People are getting stupid and emotional.

      @davecopp9356@davecopp9356 Жыл бұрын
    • @@davecopp9356 Not surprised you would post that comment, since you obviously are a Nazi supporter.

      @seattlewa8500@seattlewa8500 Жыл бұрын
    • It was a scandal because most german judges collaborated with the Nazis and practically none was punished after the war. Thus, she knew that her pension had been earned by her husband for murdering thousands...

      @emmanueldidier321@emmanueldidier321 Жыл бұрын
  • Been waiting for something on him specifically. Thank you!

    @RevHamHead@RevHamHead Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you for watching. It was a long-planned video, we wanted to do it well. We are glad you like it.

      @WorldHistoryVideos@WorldHistoryVideos Жыл бұрын
  • "Doctor, Doctor, Freisler has been severely injured. You must help!" "Who me? No way." "But you have taken the hippocratic oath? You must help." "But I am Hippocrates."

    @malcolmabram2957@malcolmabram2957 Жыл бұрын
  • Although she would take offense being compared with a Nazi, the way American television Judge Judy insults and screams at people in her courtroom reminds me of Roland Freisler

    @kellygreen5556@kellygreen5556 Жыл бұрын
    • Which, ironically, has the same title as Freisler's court: "The People's Court."

      @d.s.archer5903@d.s.archer5903 Жыл бұрын
    • Demented Comment of the Day

      @rogerpattube@rogerpattube Жыл бұрын
    • @@rogerpattube don't play yourself. When you have nothing to offer. go back to your war games.

      @kellygreen5556@kellygreen5556 Жыл бұрын
    • My elderly father stopped watching precisely for that reason. She seemed to have gotten worse over time.

      @cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338@cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338 Жыл бұрын
    • @@cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338 Yes, I only see snipets of it as it is on before the evening news in my area. I don't know who would have agreed to be in her " courtroom".

      @kellygreen5556@kellygreen5556 Жыл бұрын
  • Must admit I got a bit teary at the end of that . Lovely heart warming presentation . Thank you .

    @Nightowl76@Nightowl76 Жыл бұрын
    • Those tears better be for the judge's victims!

      @youngmasterzhi@youngmasterzhi Жыл бұрын
    • IN the case of Freisler there is an old saying that sums it up - empty vessels make the most noise.

      @jimbo43ohara51@jimbo43ohara51 Жыл бұрын
  • My father who was shot twice & returned to duty was a Canadian lieutenant with 25 men under him fighting in North Africa & Europe. It is only NOW that I appreciate what he did for God & country. I never tire of the ''deep'' background music here & the narrator has an excellent voice that flows of conviction.

    @thecatcameback3921@thecatcameback3921 Жыл бұрын
    • Probably a chance Your Father met My Father. He was a Sapper in N. Africa then went onto Italy'

      @tracybarrie1897@tracybarrie1897 Жыл бұрын
    • both of your fathers served under my father's command

      @jeortiz-luis4288@jeortiz-luis4288 Жыл бұрын
    • @@tracybarrie1897 Could be. I dunno. I think he mentioned Italy. I do know he was tough as hell & it wasn't until I was in my 20's that he spoke of it.

      @thecatcameback3921@thecatcameback3921 Жыл бұрын
    • Looks like a 'god' allowed six million Jewish civilians to perish against 250,000 Allied personnel.

      @RideAcrossTheRiver@RideAcrossTheRiver Жыл бұрын
  • 😃 there were no tears shed for Roland Freisler. he now awaits the judgment of the true & supreme judge. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes. 😎

    @zeppelin2412@zeppelin2412 Жыл бұрын
  • Interesting video, and well spoken as well!. Thank you for posting.

    @conningdale8805@conningdale8805 Жыл бұрын
  • Great stuff as always, thank you. Freisler was often compared to the equally (indeed statistically even more so) odious 'hanging judge' in the USSR, Vyshinsky - I think I've read of Hitler referring to Freisler as 'our Vyshinksky' (much like Stalin referred to Beria as 'our Hitler'!). Aside from the parallels in cruelty, both men could be said to have the Sword Of Damocles hanging over them, in so much as both had a past which could taint them in the eyes of the party and the dictator they served. Freisler's iffy connections to the Communists when young were mirrored in a way by Vyshinksky's prior affiliation to the Mensheviks in opposition to the Bolsheviks - and being a former Menshevik could alone be a death sentence in Stalin's 1930s. Hence it's been argued that both hanging judges over-compensated in their fanaticism in order to prosper or even simply to flat-out survive under their respective capricious dictators. Just a horrid merry-go-round of so much of the worst in human nature.

    @ShoegazingHammer74@ShoegazingHammer74 Жыл бұрын
    • Fanatics typically have shallow beliefs, They can often go from one extremist cause to another when the first one fails. If you wonder how the Commies were able to find the people to do the large-scale blood work for them in central Europe -- they found ex-fascists. They went from harassing liberals for fascists to doing the same thing for Commies. Communism has a simple catechism, and it replaces one set of heroes with another. Many Nazis and Italian fascists had been Commies. The French collaborationist PPF was lead by a former Commie Doriot, and the organization even had a Commie-styled Politburo. Some neo-Nazis became members of ISIS/Daesh. It is shocking to find that Saddam Hussein's secular Baathists also went over to ISIS, but cruelty seduces fanatics. Fanatics do badly in dealing with subtle ideas. I contrast Judaism, which for over 2500 years has debated the fine points of ethics and responsibility, To put it bluntly there was nothing wrong with the German people in the Nazi era that Judaism would not have solved. All that surprises me about Hitler is that he did not have formal executions by animal attack, impalement in an iron maiden, crucifixion, or by burning. Freisler was enough of a fanatic that he would have used whatever cruel means Hitler asked for. I would not have been surprised if Freisler didn't ask about burnings at the stake, slow slicing, crucifixion, or an iron maiden.

      @PaulBrower-py7tv@PaulBrower-py7tv Жыл бұрын
    • ..and both of them are indirect models of legalism used & abused in Putin's Russia to oppress those Russians whom speak out and/or resist - except many are sent to Wagner to become cannon fodder.

      @razor1uk610@razor1uk610 Жыл бұрын
    • @@PaulBrower-py7tv Absolutely - the transposing of Baathists to ISIS isn't that surprising (in fact inevitable) on this basis. Essentially a re-badging of evil - again.

      @ShoegazingHammer74@ShoegazingHammer74 Жыл бұрын
    • The Baath party was created in 1941 on the model of BOTH the Nazi and the Soviet communist party: Makiya, "The republic of fear". And Isis was managed by Saddam's former Military intelligence staff, from his own tribe.

      @emmanueldidier321@emmanueldidier321 Жыл бұрын
    • No, you're wrong, Stalin referred to Beria as, our Himmler. Since they both of them had similar jobs in those respective regimes.

      @michaelnoonan352@michaelnoonan3526 ай бұрын
  • He actually was running for cover and remembered the files going back and perished.

    @bobbrowning653@bobbrowning653 Жыл бұрын
    • Love it ... just 51 years on our lovely planet!

      @thepianoman1010@thepianoman1010 Жыл бұрын
    • Paper work sucks

      @mavjimbo@mavjimbo Жыл бұрын
  • One of Freisler's inspirations was the Soviet jurist Andrey Vyshynsky. Vyshynsky's Wikipedia article includes this: Roland Freisler, a German Nazi judge, who served as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice, studied and had attended the trials by Vyshinsky's in 1938 to use a similar approach in show trials conducted by Nazi Germany. Like Freisler, Vyshynsky never stood trial for his abominations of justice. He died in 1954 of a sudden heart attack in New York City where he'd taken the post of permanent Soviet representative to the UN.

    @hughmungus1767@hughmungus1767 Жыл бұрын
    • Thx for the interesting history footnote. Too late, he got what he deserved all along.

      @ericbrunnich5272@ericbrunnich527211 ай бұрын
    • Wasn't very permanent, was it? Or maybe he became the permanent Soviet representative to Hell.

      @jguenther3049@jguenther30496 ай бұрын
  • Excellent narration, and vocal delivery!

    @Cromwelldunbar@Cromwelldunbar6 ай бұрын
  • That’s a very good documentary. The very first one I saw about Roland Freisler, I knew about him because in history class two students made an exposé on Hans and Sophie Scholl. He was literally Germany’s Vyshinsky! You could make a documentary about Antoine-Quentin Fouquier-Tinville. He was the prosecutor of Paris’ Revolutionary Tribunal in 1793-1794. In 15 months he send the guillotine nearly 3’000 people.

    @davidnavarro4821@davidnavarro482111 ай бұрын
    • Thank you Maybe we will also bring some videos about French Revolution, let's see in the future ...

      @WorldHistoryVideos@WorldHistoryVideos11 ай бұрын
  • When he yelled at the accused he sounded just like Hitler....

    @patgalvez4563@patgalvez4563 Жыл бұрын
  • Freisler's death was anything other than horrible. It was more a death of undeserved mercy!

    @TheHesseJames@TheHesseJames11 ай бұрын
    • Exactly so.

      @ericbrunnich5272@ericbrunnich527211 ай бұрын
  • What a fascinating story. Thanks for the upload.

    @brianvittachi6869@brianvittachi6869 Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you. Keep watching us, we have many more interesting videos

      @WorldHistoryVideos@WorldHistoryVideos Жыл бұрын
  • A master of judicial impartiality! I clicked on this just to see if this guy's end was suitably awful. In my opinion, it was mercifully too quick. But I do appreciate that the Nazi obsession with paperwork led to his demise.

    @ashcarrier6606@ashcarrier6606 Жыл бұрын
  • It's a shame he didn't get the opportunity to defend himself at Nuremberg. Master Sergeant Woods would have been most gentle with him.

    @tomantush4867@tomantush4867 Жыл бұрын
    • Funny Dude you're all right

      @geraldek4948@geraldek4948 Жыл бұрын
    • Pierrepoint!

      @warrena.7179@warrena.7179 Жыл бұрын
    • @@warrena.7179 Woods hanged those convicted at Nurenberg, but he made a mess of the hangings, possibly intentionally. The drop was too short, meaning that many of the convicted prisoners strangled slowly to death, in some cases up to 20 minutes or so, instead of being killed quickly by a broken neck, and the trapdoor was too small, so that some cracked their head on it as they fell. Pierrepoint was brought in to hang the Belsen guards as the british didn't want a repetition of the Woods fiasco, and he did the job quickly, cleanly and efficiently.

      @russelltofts7233@russelltofts7233 Жыл бұрын
    • Respect..Sgt.Woods

      @edward1676@edward1676 Жыл бұрын
    • @@russelltofts7233 Yeah Pierrepoint knew how to get it done, was so much better as a hangman than Woods.

      @cpj93070@cpj93070 Жыл бұрын
  • Poetic justice the roof collapse on him...Karma...no tears shed for roland .

    @stevebeckford9418@stevebeckford9418 Жыл бұрын
  • He also sentenced Sophie and her brother to death by guillotine.Their crime ,they circulated pamphlets criticising the Nazi rule.

    @satishkamtikar958@satishkamtikar9587 ай бұрын
  • Erwin von Witzleben 🙌🙌 love the pius words, died with dignity and with the last word.

    @sisekelohlongwane5388@sisekelohlongwane5388 Жыл бұрын
    • Imagine Witzleben's surprise to find out his judge had been taken off the bench by an act of God.

      @jguenther3049@jguenther30496 ай бұрын
  • He was luckier than he deserved: imagine the look on his face if he had survived and got an actual fair trial from the Allies?

    @aaronz7056@aaronz7056 Жыл бұрын
  • "No tears were shed for Roland Freisler"😏😏

    @saloriasaxon7323@saloriasaxon7323 Жыл бұрын
  • Excellent. Thank You

    @robertsansone1680@robertsansone1680 Жыл бұрын
  • One of the Nuremberg trials, were for Judges. Where people like him were held accountable. they made a movie about it, In 2013, Judgment at Nuremberg was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"

    @Spike-qt7tx@Spike-qt7tx Жыл бұрын
    • U mean the one with Alec Baldwin ??? Think its js called Nuremberg

      @myassizitchy@myassizitchy Жыл бұрын
    • most of the executions of prisoners at the nuremberg trials were of people convicted for executing prisoners

      @jgunther3398@jgunther3398 Жыл бұрын
    • There were two movies. The first one starring Spencer Tracy, a more recent remake starring Alec Baldwin. Both worth watching, and can be found on ytube. The older movie is in B/W, the more recent one in color. It also stars Brian Cox, very effective as Hermann Göring, corrupting a young GI prison guard, and planting the seeds of Nazi ideology to live on after his death.

      @jdrancho1864@jdrancho1864 Жыл бұрын
    • The victors write history. This is garbage

      @davidneumann5175@davidneumann5175 Жыл бұрын
    • @@myassizitchy no Spencer Tracy

      @Spike-qt7tx@Spike-qt7tx Жыл бұрын
  • Finally Justice for Freisler..

    @joszoet4003@joszoet4003 Жыл бұрын
  • What was even more perverse was what happened after the war when Freisler was killed by an Allied bomb in February 1945. In 1985, it became known that his widow, Marion Freisler, was not only in receipt of a pension in accordance with the Federal German War Victims Relief Act, but also that she had been awarded a supplementary pension from the Occupational Disturbance Compensation Funds. The quite astonishing grounds given for that additional payment were: “In the case of Roland Freisler surviving the war, he would have achieved a very high income, either as an attorney or as a higher-placed civil servant”. Despite a public outcry, the widow continued to receive her added perks. It wasn’t until 1997 that the law was changed to exclude such grotesque cases. MsG

    @gionncaomhinmorpheagh4791@gionncaomhinmorpheagh4791 Жыл бұрын
  • Pretty good documentary but there were considerable disjointed timelines and apparently unrelated events. I know you need filler but you have to glue it together more coherently. Narration was clear and concise. Stock footage was engaging. Thank you.

    @electrolytics@electrolytics Жыл бұрын
  • Justice was served. Hear! Hear! Let those beasts rot in Hell.

    @johnrossiter3185@johnrossiter3185 Жыл бұрын
  • If you ask me,he got off easy

    @jamesdavis8021@jamesdavis8021 Жыл бұрын
    • THEY all got off too easy. Germany should have been wiped off the face of the earth. The Americans were too nice to them after the war.

      @doclawyer@doclawyer Жыл бұрын
    • MUCH TO EASY

      @edward1676@edward1676 Жыл бұрын
    • Maybe, but more would have been condemned at his trials if he wasn't killed.

      @davebroad642@davebroad642 Жыл бұрын
  • This video answered the exact question I had about this, plus some. I had seen him in the old show trial videos before, as well as represented in movies. Not surprising to hear that Roland Freisler was just as cruel and odd in his everyday life, as he was in his show trials. Awfully ironic way to go for a joke of a "judicial figure".

    @mikemontgomery2654@mikemontgomery2654 Жыл бұрын
  • I love your videos. If you wouldn't mind sharing the information, I am curious as to who the narrator is?

    @kenhaynes@kenhaynes11 ай бұрын
  • Hitler once referred to him as "That old Bolshevik"

    @chrisxavier3147@chrisxavier3147 Жыл бұрын
    • See the video, it is mentioned there

      @WorldHistoryVideos@WorldHistoryVideos Жыл бұрын
    • 👍😆 That's hilarious that his Idol couldn't stand him, and thought once a Bolshevik always a Bolshevik

      @optimusprinceps3526@optimusprinceps3526 Жыл бұрын
    • Go habs go.

      @prikov1@prikov1 Жыл бұрын
    • @@WorldHistoryVideos actually typed that before I finished the vid, remembered it from another doc on this figure

      @chrisxavier3147@chrisxavier3147 Жыл бұрын
    • @@optimusprinceps3526 they are applying this policy in The Netherlands as well. At the moment far leftist policy and when it goes wrong 'suddenly' move to the right to correct their wrong doing. To claim their policy now as being 'right'.

      @dpt6849@dpt6849 Жыл бұрын
  • I have a screaming message to Freisler: DEINE PAPIERE NAZI! DEINE PAPIERE NAZI!

    @jasonbrody1540@jasonbrody1540 Жыл бұрын
  • Who could give this madman a license to practice law the scales definitely were tilted towards the party !! His conduct in the courtroom was reprehensible yelling and screaming constantly at the accused who were guilty before the trial even started!

    @shirleytwsw@shirleytwsw Жыл бұрын
  • there were no tears shed for xxx ...

    @gerald56@gerald56 Жыл бұрын
  • Very little quality documentation on Judge Roland. Good job He's actually one of my favorite villains because he was just so insane and contradictory. Goes from communism to Nazism with all the self-promotion in between. For some reason he is a fascinating creature in history for me. Imo

    @sherirobinson6867@sherirobinson6867 Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you, we tried hard with this video.

      @WorldHistoryVideos@WorldHistoryVideos Жыл бұрын
    • Tu dois avoir un garde robe plein de squelettes pour aimer et admirer ce trou duc

      @denislaferriere2693@denislaferriere2693 Жыл бұрын
    • @Jack O'Bean Fascination is one of those words used when one can't find another appropriate one when dealing with evil. I think a lot of people are fascinated* with studying the evil people; it doesn't mean that one wants to "adopt and adapt" to become one of those people.

      @indy_go_blue6048@indy_go_blue6048 Жыл бұрын
  • Oh dear what a shame never mind. He got what was coming to him

    @sophiegeorge2816@sophiegeorge2816 Жыл бұрын
  • I wish I could find details of which labour camp my dad was in and what he experienced, I should have asked him more about it. Perhaps there are historical archives somewhere after liberation

    @dannywachowski5880@dannywachowski5880 Жыл бұрын
  • The narrator is top level. Right up there with Attenboro,Robert Stack and the They Will Kill You guy.

    @blueridger28@blueridger28 Жыл бұрын
  • Only a tiny percentage of german war criminals ever were prosecuted. Most became respectable german citizens after the war

    @xili7077@xili7077 Жыл бұрын
    • And none of the Allies war criminals was ever on trial.

      @gerardosalazar161@gerardosalazar161 Жыл бұрын
    • @@gerardosalazar161 what allied war criminals are you referring to?

      @csthompson9785@csthompson9785 Жыл бұрын
    • @@csthompson9785 Wernher Von Braun was on of those that wasn't judged Instead, he played a key roll in the development of NASA

      @Saturnia2014@Saturnia2014 Жыл бұрын
    • @@gerardosalazar161 Name one

      @MrDaiseymay@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын
    • @@MrDaiseymay for one example every allied bomber crew who released bombs at night over civilian areas is very comparable to some war criminals who were executed after the war. the lesson to learn is if you're in a war don't be the loser

      @jgunther3398@jgunther3398 Жыл бұрын
  • A fitting punishment would have been exile with his side-kicks to a cold, remote area, given a few basic building and gardening tools and a shank - maybe a few seed potatoes, turnip and kale seeds, then left to fend for and argue amongst themselves. Since there is no honour among psychopaths, they'd soon "final solution" each other.

    @peteacher52@peteacher52 Жыл бұрын
    • A fitting punishment would have been the guillotine.

      @rogerpattube@rogerpattube Жыл бұрын
  • In any society,no matter how much we may say it isn't so in our nation,or even be unaware of it being so,every institution is influenced by the prevailing political,economic and military elites of that nation. With Roland Freisler,you see what happens when that influence reaches that highest form. The complete perversion of in this case the legal system,to where justice is not the end result or desired end result but rather,where law is to being nothing but another frightening instrument of the states power,against its own citizens. It is a lesson and most importantly a warning from history for our own times,never to be forgotten.

    @fredbelak8508@fredbelak8508 Жыл бұрын
  • I like the idea that the very court he ran crushed him. He ran it to the ground, literally.

    @krackenagate5606@krackenagate56068 ай бұрын
  • I first heard of the despicable Roland Freisler while reading Earl Beck's excellent book 'Under the Bombs: the German home front, 1942-1945'

    @derekheuring2984@derekheuring2984 Жыл бұрын
  • T in the trial shown the poor defendant said he didn't believe in the murder of someone or some people, the subject screamed MURDER? MURDER? Yes old man.. MURDER.

    @thorawilson6253@thorawilson6253 Жыл бұрын
  • Who is that brown shirt member shown at 6:13 I always see him in other footages

    @jndoirin@jndoirin Жыл бұрын
  • As per the Cause of Death, the Acquittal of Fabian von Schlabrendorff is circumstantial evidence that Freisler was wounded in his attempted escape from the Courtroom. Were he actually clutching the Case Files as the Courtroom collapsed due to the Bombing Raid, those files would have been used to convict Schlabrendorf, who actually survived the War.

    @claytonbenignus4688@claytonbenignus46887 ай бұрын
  • Great bio of this Nazi judge, thanks! I am happy you put the names in print, it lets me look them up for further study. He reminds me of the phrase "Hanging judge." Except they used the guillotine there. The head hunter judge? He met a great ending!

    @msgfrmdaactionman3000@msgfrmdaactionman3000 Жыл бұрын
    • Actually many of the Main defendants in the 20th july plot was hanged with piano wire so that they should be hanged as cattle as Hitler said..

      @640626@640626 Жыл бұрын
    • The Germans,then,also hung victims on piano wire to hooks,Hooks,to slowly,strangle their victims. Many of the 'Operation Valkyrie' plotters,suffered this fate.

      @iggyarctic5711@iggyarctic5711 Жыл бұрын
    • @@iggyarctic5711 I wrote that in one post above that they used piano wire

      @640626@640626 Жыл бұрын
    • @@640626 I mentioned in another video that those who were executed by guillotine were the lucky ones. Those executed by piano wire.... prolonged agony.

      @LethalSaliva@LethalSaliva Жыл бұрын
    • Read 'Under the Bombs: the German home front, 1942-1945' by Earl Beck.

      @derekheuring2984@derekheuring2984 Жыл бұрын
  • I hate violence. In his case I make a exception. Devil 👹

    @deeppurple883@deeppurple883 Жыл бұрын
  • If I remember correctly his favorite taunt was calling people piles of misery.

    @mattmadden3013@mattmadden3013 Жыл бұрын
  • Imagine going to bed knowing that you have requested that someone to be killed

    @sisekelohlongwane5388@sisekelohlongwane5388 Жыл бұрын
    • He probably thought that those opposed to Hitler were enemies of Germany. After all, he was a Nazi.

      @harrynking777@harrynking777 Жыл бұрын
    • For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble. They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. - Proverbs 4:16-17

      @Ben-rh4lj@Ben-rh4lj Жыл бұрын
    • One British judge, can’t recall who, always ordered hot buttered crumpets and tea after putting on the black cap.

      @stevetaylor7403@stevetaylor7403 Жыл бұрын
  • I call that poetic justice with a touch of karma. Crap happens to crap.

    @jeffreyschwarz3699@jeffreyschwarz3699 Жыл бұрын
  • Who is the narrator of these videos on this channel? Does anyone know?

    @CharlieBrown-lt3tq@CharlieBrown-lt3tq Жыл бұрын
  • West Germany was exceptionally generous to spouses of deceased Nazi figures. Freisler's widow received his full pension that was based on a status of Chief Justice. The pension was around EIGHT times that of the average salary at the time.

    @chrisholland1504@chrisholland1504 Жыл бұрын
    • Dear sir. How much did she get in the pension. Thanks

      @calvinforcejr2382@calvinforcejr2382 Жыл бұрын
  • What's so "horrible" about Freisler's murder? If anything, HE was the "filthy piece of trash"... Okay - dying from being crushed from a collapsed piece of column is no way to go...that's a slow and painful death. But, with Freisler? I think his was exceptional. He died in the building that didn't give him immunity. The thing that he loved the most, killed him.

    @AnastasiaSaenz@AnastasiaSaenz Жыл бұрын
  • Imagine a world where he died during the first world war along with the mass murdering future leader of the Nazi regime.

    @nobody-ly9ef@nobody-ly9ef Жыл бұрын
    • They had others brewing at that time when the perfect storm brought hitler into that amount of power, might of even seen someone worse come to power if that’s even possible. Hitler had to out maneuver other snakes that we’re trying to get to the top…

      @ssherrierable@ssherrierable Жыл бұрын
    • No point wondering what would have been, only what actually happened.

      @davidkennedy8929@davidkennedy8929 Жыл бұрын
    • @@ssherrierable I agree..... wishful thinking is obviously a waste of energy.....it's still so hard to truly imagine that kind of evil existed/exists in our world.

      @nobody-ly9ef@nobody-ly9ef Жыл бұрын
    • @@davidkennedy8929 of course, wishful thinking is useless.....it was more of a rhetorical question, and, by all means, I agree with you.

      @nobody-ly9ef@nobody-ly9ef Жыл бұрын
    • Probably another Jackass would have done the same. There was plenty of Nazis who didn't participate in WW1.

      @jasonbrody1540@jasonbrody1540 Жыл бұрын
  • 10:02 THANK YOU for giving us audio of this lunatic. Just wish it was translated.

    @ladycplum@ladycplum8 ай бұрын
  • Hitler wanted to show the traitors that tried to kill him in the Wolfsschanze in the Wochenschau. But Freisler screamed at the accused so loud that the audio technicians had trouble to regulate the sound. The quality of the sound was so bad that even by the restoration of the court films in our days the technicians had problems clearing the sound out. The films were never shown on the Wochenschau because Hitler and Goebbels feared that the accused would become martyrs and the screaming of Freisler.

    @Newie67@Newie67 Жыл бұрын
  • It is GODS verdict! That was a brilliant remark. Spot on!

    @Catquick1957@Catquick1957 Жыл бұрын
  • He got his dream job but couldn't enjoy retirement

    @ninhil2@ninhil2 Жыл бұрын
    • Hilarious dude

      @geraldek4948@geraldek4948 Жыл бұрын
  • Who was the defendant at 10.07 who was calmly shaking his head while being shouted at ?

    @Benlu64@Benlu645 ай бұрын
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