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On September 1, 1939, nearly seven years after Hitler became chancellor, Germany invaded Poland. Over the next six years, Nazis invaded, occupied, and brutalized a considerable amount of Europe and Northern Africa. The German brand of military-industrial fascism imposed radical changes in the daily life of all those who came under its reign, though these changes were often specific to context. For instance, life in occupied France was very different from life in Poland under German occupation, which was different than the experiences of Norway or the Balkans. There were, however, some consistencies: food shortages, rape committed by German soldiers, the persecution of Jews, shipping Jews who weren't killed on the stop to concentration camps, and random acts of senseless violence.
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I fear that younger generations will forget or simply not believe the atrocities committed by the Nazis. After I graduated college, in my first real job, I was befriended by an elderly Jewish man who had been lucky enough to escape from 1940s Europe as a boy with only his mother, uncle and siblings. Some of the stories he told were incredible. He died in 1992 but I will always remember him and cherish the time I had with him as a friend and mentor.
I think they already have. It's all starting again in front of our eyes in eastern Europe.
@dan morley I fear you are correct.
Isn't this a huge part of history class all over the globe?
@@danmorley6517 there's ughyers in concentration camps right now in China its been happening for many years it's just that now that a western country is invaded people want to think ww3 is coming but the communist nations have been doing atrocities for some time now it's just that there stupid enough to go to war like Russia doing now thinking they won't be countered by the west and are now feeling the full force of the world turning on Russia and soon China if they invade taiwan
so? that's their problem.
My father fought in WWII at Normandy and in the Battle of the Bulge. He rarely spoke of his time in Europe, certain thing would trigger his PTSD. He was 85 years old before the VA indicated that he had that. Sure, for almost 60 years! He had nightmares and flashbacks until he died in 2017 at age of 96. He went overseas as a young 23 years old and came back a very torn up 25 year old that saw things no one should see or do. I had great respect for my father.
My grandfather was at Normandy! Your dad sounds like my grandfather to the letter. We never watched movies with gunshots or else he would lose it
No he didn't
@@Hoosier_Daddy69 No he didn't what?
Thank you to your father
I’m grateful for your fathers’ service to the USA. Please know, their sacrifices are not forgotten. 🇺🇸
My grandma who was 4 years old at the time remembers German soldiers knocking on their door and taking oil and any other food they could find. Luckily my grandma lived in a village in Greece and they had some resources to live by. My heart aches for those who lost their lives and suffered so much from the Nazi atrocities
What atrocities? If you murder German soldiers, expect retaliation! If you side with the war mongering British, accept the consequences.
Look, almost all I learned about Hitler and Holocaust and Shoah was not from school. Movies believe it or not helped interest me, like Exodus(the ship), The Diary of Anne Frank(book and film), Mr. Skeffington, as well as documentaries on TV like The Rise an Fall of the Third Reich, WWII in Colour, AUSCHWITZ, The Boys From Brazil, THE ODESSA FILE, HITLER,. ROMMEL in THE DESERT FOX, VALKYRIE, Hitler's Children. I read books as well of my own accord. I think Exodus and The Diary,,, were the ones that really got me. I also saw other films about the camps, those who started them, Eisenhower getting Germans into liberated camps,Judgment at Nuremberg, Hidden in Silence, Defiance, even Resistance, Swing Kids, Book Thief, BEN HUR. You see Hollywood did a good job showing us about the Holocaust. and Nazis. There were many more films and docs. and books. Im still interested since 60+ years ago.There are survivor stories on KZhead and holocaust novels. If you really spark interest,. it doesnt die. Now younger people I cant be sure what really sparks that interest, because if they hate history, Im not sure they will be interested in Shoah, but its fascinating to me. In high school 9th grade Jewish student played Anne in a play about the diary. We had the great late History Channel and old war and pre war films on TV which was new and exciting. I saw Eichmann on Trial in Israel. I saw parts of real Nuremberg Trials. There were Nazis all over South America. But good films like Schindlers List do make a difference. Yad Vashem has survivor testimony. We had Weisenthal too, the Nazi hunter alive and unyielding about finding war criminals. Even films and books about Nazis keep that memory of the evil of persecution alive and how ordinary people get sucked into helping them along. I WONT EVER FORGET!
My grandad told me the story of my great grandfather who was a parachuter for Britain in WW2 and how much war affected him after he came back. Every-time he would hear a loud noise he would drop to the ground into his firing position. Though he lived through the war it never left him.
The most heartbreaking part (besides the loss of life) is that friends and neighbours turned on each other to save their own skin, once their countries were taken over 😔
It’s really sad and it’s really hard to blame them given their position. “Help the Nazi’s or you and your family will be killed/sent to a concentration camp as a dissident”
It was also the fact that many of them were anti-Semitic to begin with and the Nazis used them as "hiwis" or helpers.
@@salag13: Anti-Semitism was _rampant_ worldwide. This is why I am suspicious of so-called "Christians" who endlessly scream that "Jesus is the only way" and that anyone who doesn't "accept Jesus as their savior" is forever doomed to a place called "hell."
@@Coryraisa The more serious someone takes their religion, the more dangerous that person is.
@@plm-fp6nu Ironic considering almost every Dictator is or was an athiest. Hitler, Stalin, Mussalini, Kim Jong Un, ect.
Please make a video on how the Empire of Japan brutalized other Asian nations such as China and the Philippines with atrocities like comfort women and the Bataan death march. It's no surprise why Japanese students and teachers today skip over their WWII past in school subjects. Even people today forgot how Japanese soldiers brutally treated American, Chinese, Australian, and Filipino soldiers and civilians. During the Bataan death march, if a POW fell due to exhaustion, a Japanese tank would run them over or they would be bayoneted on the spot. In Nanjing (Nanking) China, Japanese soldiers even held a competition on how many Chinese people they can murder. I'm sure Japanese students today were never taught this in schools...That's why I thank you for your videos..."Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana.
the war crimes committed by the japanese were arguably worse and more wide-reaching… you’d almost have to make a video about each place that they occupied
Our country, Malaysia welcomed the Japanese because they promised to get us independent and free from the western influence. We, sick of getting betrayed by the western power, thought our fellow asian people are trustworthy. They are not. Babies are killed, house are burned, people are tortured, many heroes died trying to save our country ... It makes me hates the Japanese until I realised it's no use, those who commit such horrendous things are already gone, old, withered. And the new generations have no idea.
I couldn't watch the excellent US made documentary on the Pacific War. It showed, in no uncertain terms, the brutality of the Japanese.
Unit 731
What about the brutality of Thai soldiers?
I worked with a woman who spent her young womanhood in occupied Paris. She told me that neighbors would disappear and never seen again. She came to America 🇺🇸 as a war bride. She's gone now and I miss her.
Met an old lady, a patient, when I used to work at a hospital.. she had her numbers tattooed on her arm, spoke to her for about 20 mins. Told me how she survived auschwitz .. I'll never forget her
The key take away is not in how many nazis subjugated the Jews to this treatment, but how many normal citizens went along and actively participated in murder.
That is my very same opinion. I am continually baffled. How?
@@thegreencat9947 As Goebbel said “Tell a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth.” Manufactured consent through propaganda.
Jewish historian Gi'tta Sere ny stated that Auschwitz was a terrible place but it was n o t an exterm'ination camp.
Look up what `Joseph `G `Bur'g said.
@@moiseiuritskythebutcherofp8469 sure looked like one.
My mother-in-law was a German child during the war. I'm always amazed remembering stories she told of living under Nazi occupation, and what experiences she probably never told. After the war her family lived in the east so came under Soviet occupation until she and a friend escaped in 1955. As previously noted, it is amazing the similarities we see today, not only in Europe but around the globe. Unfortunately we children of the greatest generationn failed to get the lesson through to our kids and grandkids. Yes, the repeating of history is a result of not learning lessons from our past. The only difference is now we see it live on television and the Internet.
Exactly how you have just said!
I attended the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz 27 January 2020 in s Poland. One of the several survivors who spoke said, the 11th Commandment, if it existed, would read "Thou Shalt Not Be Indifferent."
yeah well you got it your generation failed miserably on many levels. not to attack you personally, but summarized - im sorry - yeah your generation harmed coming generations more than they did nearly 100 yrs ago. dont misread me please; what i mean is geopolitical turmoil and instability alongside the climate change is foremost the doing of the people of the last 50/60 yrs.
Thank you for sharing there pain. Stories are remembrances of life.
The left is again turning authoritarian in the West and will push us into wars. See it everyday in the news.
World War II is my favourite piece of history but also so incredibly shocking, vile and sad. People forget that it hasn't even been 100 years since these events occurred as this is still modern history. As human beings, the world must come together to never let a government like the Nazis come to power ever again.
To late america Is like this just don’t get publicize
the Communists were much worse than the NSDAP. Part of the rise of the Austrian Painter was the threat of Communism spreading thru Germany/Europe. Many saw the atrocities that were being committed by the Bolsheviks. I can go on and on. I truly just want you and others that parrot these arguments to do a deep dive on WWI, Treaty of Versailles all the way thru the 1920s/1930s up until WWII. Look at if from different perspectives. I think you'll see things differently and you'll come to understand how things seem so crazy right now.
@@xboxhack585 I agree with what he said.
Sounds real good, but keeping it 💯 humans are too damn horrible to ever put down their own individual sense of superiority which fuels agendas to come together and peacefully coexist. To quote Tolkien “…who above else, desire power.”
@@curtiswhiteheadjr1322 What are you implying?
I'm Jewish and I lost half of my family tree in the holocaust. SO utterly terrifying to even imagine what those people and my family went through. It is equally as terrifying how so many people deny the holocaust and how humanity as a whole, doesn't change much. I pray for all of those in Ukraine right now and I pray we do not enter WWIII.
Sad really they believe propogranda
The Warsaw ghetto was built near my grandfathers boyhood home.
The ones West is defending now are the same ones who did the unthtinkable evil to ur family tree. The same west also gave Hitler man of year award in 1938. Your remaining family was spared the holocaust by the Russians mainly . Please don't have misguided allegrnces. Russia is moving in so we don't have a repeat of 1939.
@@katjagolden893 Warsaw ghetto was built by various right wing nationalist regimes in territories Nazis controlled. Last I checked, azov batallion and hailing of Stefan Bandera as a national hero is done by pro West Ukraine not Russia.
@@xxxdieselyyy2 - ja, not sure how close Grandpa Wieczorek’s parents house was to the area.
It hasn't even been 100 years, yet some parts of the world we live in today have already projected the same chaotic war situations. Although on a different level of gruesome and scale ofc. But that doesn't mean it's less scary to know that, with this many horrors we've been through AND have learned in school, we still tend to repeat it. Somehow I think it's no longer mother nature which do the natural selection, it's humanity itself. I want to ask why to humanity but the answers always disappointing.
“Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it” George Santayana
@blahnik... As it is said, "History repeats itself". I can only Hope theres a brighter future ahead.
As humans we are very susceptible to a term called INSANITY..and obsession
US and Russia :(
@@guangaotian6044 US?
I work in insurance and I had a Jewish couple (old) that would come into the office to pay directly and get a free soda. Somehow they made it through the war in hiding. They were VERY lucky some days. They’ve passed away and I miss them. At least they allowed me to interview them one day and record it.
@David Huberty Are you seriously trying to insinuate that the Holocaust didn't happen?
@David Huberty Who hurt you js ?
@David Huberty ok there David whatever helps you sleep at night ..?
@David Huberty You should be shamed into a reading class your grammar is something else.
@David Huberty I think somebody might be mindless themselves 😂
A very important detail that most histories overlook is that the Romany (Gypsies) played a central role in how the Resistance in many countries operated. Being a nomadic people who had wandered into Europe and her borders centuries before, they knew intimately how to cross borders undetected and how to forge documents. They did this knowing that sharing this information, kept a secret for centuries, increased their own danger at a time when Hitler had them on his genocide list. 1-3 million Romany died in concentration camps (estimates vary) but no one can count how many people of all ethnicities survived because of them.
We have a German born Romany Friend His Family were allowed to keep living in a Ghetto. Because His Uncle was a German War Hero in their Navy. He learnt about growing Fruits and Vegetables during that time when He was a Little Boy they were allowed to do that.
@@larissahorne9991 There's always exceptions. Hitler's doctor, for instance, was allegedly Jewish (and I personally believe that his "quackery" was deliberate sabotage--who could blame him?) Even today, there's an American who defected to Russia out of hatred for Obama some years ago, who is now fighting on the Russian side. Is he typical? Nope.
That is phenomenal. Thank you for sharing that!!
Bullshit story....
And now they rip off old ladies when they tarmac their driveways
It would be interesting to get a video of what it was like as a teenager, not just in ww2 but also perhaps throughout history
Teenagers didn't exist before the 1950s.
@Rudolf Hillard schindler's list was not a fictional movie. It was dramatized reality.
@@rudolfhillard8505 The Conjuring doesn't have the actual evidence of said events like Schindler's List does. It's about a real man who sacrificed everything he had, and was made destitute in efforts to save 1,200+ people from the Nazi's. The man existed, "The Conjuring" has no actual proof.
@@rudolfhillard8505 The atrocities were worse than shinlers was allowed to show it
Teenage life or Adolescence is a modern invention, of the 1940s 50s. Before that you started your adult work by age 12 as a boy, 10 as a girl. So the extension of education beyond that age as industrial revolution grew, and then technology demanded more educated workers, and the increased understanding of the brain recognized that the grain wasn't fully developed at 12. We also saw a decrease in the number of craftsmen, hands-on trades that were passed from father to son from earliest moments. Your dad tans hides you must be a tanner too. So both my grandfather's were teens in WW1 England. One was already in the coal mines at 12, the other working a farm.
An Italian writer, Primo Levi, wrote the book "Se questo è un uomo" ("if this is a person") to tell his experience in a Nazi Camp and added that knowing history is important because what happened in the past could happen again (history as cautionary tale). It's a must in all Italian schools, or at least it was when I attented it some 2 decades ago.
That doesn’t sound like an Italian name
@@yourmom9951 isn't Primo quite a common name for Italian boys? The Levi surname indicates that his family comes from the priestly Jewish Levites.
I recommend another one, from the son of the famous violin maestro Menuuhin.Its called Tell the Tru'th and Sha'me the Dev'il by Ge'rard Men'uhin.
I recently read Primo Levi’s book Survival in Auschwitz; and, it broke my heart. 😔
I am glad that schools in other countries teach about it and do not want to forget about this massacre that destroyed our country and society
3 of my great grandparents were Holocaust survivors. We won’t let people forget about our killed families, and the atrocities that even survivors faced
Yes as long as you don't condemn the innocent people who have nothing to do with it. So much hatred still exists with these newer generations because of what happened way before their time.
I met & talked with an elderly man at a wedding. He lived in Poland under occupation. Both German then Soviet. He said living under Soviet was much worse than German. But today the horrors of communism have been swept under the rug, but the Nazis are bad. 🙄
This video was very well done. It is absolutely chilling that the horrors indicated in this video have occurred and even more disheartening that history is bound to repeat itself because people don’t study the past. Keep ‘‘em coming.
This video is everything but well done. The narrator completely ignored Czechoslovakia and its role during this period.
Unfortunately, there are people out there who would use the atrocities of the Nazis as a pretext for comitting similar atrocities. After all, all they need to do is label their victims "Nazis", and suddenly they're _heroes,_ saving the world by persecuting and eliminating "fascists and bigots".
Chokolovakia
@@dalimilmatousek4074 So you have to cover every single nationality involved for it to be well done? Get off it.
@@bigguy7353 Czechoslovakia played a crurical role. But that is not important for ignorants.
They have to teach this in school. History ignored can be repeated. My mother told me about the Holocaust when I was a child. She had lived in Germany for a time before I was born and she saw some after effects. It's sad that a lot of Holocaust survivors have passed on.
The amount of harassment and ridiculous demands to not teach the eViL "critical race theory" in schools (which isn't anyway, they teach it in college), banning the word "slavery" from being used in textbooks, banning all kinds of great books for increasingly ridiculous reasons, including the graphic novel Maus which deals with the Holocaust, and of course the ol' classics of teaching the "controversy" between creationism myths and actual science of evolution... instead of teaching just science like a secular society should be doing in public schools, teaching "abstinence" instead of sex ed, and on and on is getting beyond annoying and into disturbing territory. It's not enough for these unteachable, ignorant, and hate filled helicopter parents to keep their precious kid homeschooled where they can control everything they see, hear, and read, they want to turn back the clock on the fragile progress we have made regarding civil rights and truth so that we can all live in their ideal version of society. Whenever people have tried to censor and burn books throughout history, they always turned out to be the evil doers and literal NAZIs.
I had the holocaust shoved down my throat in school we learned more about the holocaust then any other time in history. It's being taught don't worry.
@@knighthawk882 yes, but that doesn't mean this person was taught about it. Not everyone has the same experience. I moved to Florida from Jersey. For all it's faults, New Jersey was ranked the highest in the nation in terms of education. it's still pretty high up there I think. Well, when I moved to Florida for my last two years of school, not only were they teaching three years behind what my schools had taught us in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, we had some real simpletons running those schools here, and they never studied any atrocities that students should be educated on. I went to college in my late twenties. The American history professor insisted that the Civil War was about state's rights and not slavery, which has been a far right talking point for a long time, particularly in the south, as part of a strategy to minimize the indefensible institution of slavery in this country.
@@knighthawk882 I disagree. I didn't learn about it until I was assigned a project about the results of WWI and accidentally clicked to WWII. It's not common to learn about it in schools, perhaps it was in the past but not anymore.
@@knighthawk882 I think you're exaggerating or flat out lying.
Listened to the audio book version of Wine & War about the impact of the war on French wine and how French wine influenced portions of the war. Funny moment was the Resistance stopping a Germany-bound train and they stole cases of the "best" wine. After drinking some, they found the wineries were sending the worse swill they could to Germany but sleeping on high dollar labels.
I love this! Even the French vintners were resisting in their own subtle way. The French government may have folded, but never let it be said that all of France did.
@@odinfromcentr2 It does have some portions on collaborators and those who just tried to profit no matter what. A good book to remind you there’s more to France than the surrender stereotype.
The young boy holding his hands up in the famous photo, survived, grew up, and commented on the celebration in Berlin as the Wall was breached in October 1989 with the end of east German border restrictions: "the Germans don't deserve this happiness."
He obviously had succumbed to the ceaseless anti-German war propaganda that continues to this day.
The path to being alive today is paved in blood and atrocity. If we knew our full history we might say no human deserves happiness
@@jek__ Germany and its predecessor are/were the most peaceful country in Europe. If you are looking for war mongers look no further than Britain and France.
My father and his family were in the Netherlands during the occupation, he was the youngest and a small boy, but he told some stories of went on, they lived in Almelo until the migrated in 1949, the fact we're ignoring the same actions being done by our government is astounding to me, and people are welcoming it, as a side note my father in law landed D-day plus 4, him and thousands of other brave serviceman liberated my father, it's a small world sometimes.
Yup. Today we are seeing the same massive propaganda campaigns vilifying certain members of the population and without the government even having death camps yet so many of the advocated for the deaths of the deaths of these people just because the news keeps painting them as dirty Vermin who are destroying everybody else's life
I love Weird History videos! I have learned so much since I found this channel! Please please please please do a video on the Navajo Code Talkers during WW2!
Those who do not heed to history are bound to repeat the atrocities!
@М I see you're not one to be up to real history...
@М Weird history clone kzhead.info/sun/g6uYdtGqZHSii3A/bejne.html
It's basically new people making old mistakes
@LT don't acknowledge the trolls
And this who win the war are the ones who write the history.
I am 23 years old and from the Netherlands. I think that the WW2 should not be forgotten. I personally think it is a very important and interesting subject for the future.
Agreed, and you live in a very significant country that was part of the occupation
I got to meet Elie Wiesel twice in my lifetime before he passed away. We read his book Night in hs. Rest In Peace to the many lives who have suffered during this time of war 🙏🏽
Where did he write that Jews were gassed??? He did write that his father was treated and cured in a German camp hospital and, upon the German retreat from Poland, Wiesel and his father CHOSE to retreat with the Germans. The word is CHOSE, because some camp inmates chose to stay to be liberated by the Soviets.
I would like it if Weird History here makes more videos on general Russian and Ukrainian history with what’s going on right now. Kinda to see how this all played out.
I love this channel but something that complicated wouldn't work for their 11 minute oversimplified videos
Also I don't think this channel wants to get too political
RealLifeLore made a good video on this. It’s worth checking out. Or doing a little research on Russian history/the USSR. Both have helped in my understanding of the conflict.
Whomever made this video was reading out of some Russian polluted propaganda pages. I am unsubscribing from this channel. If you want to know the truth you have to ask trusted historian or read a lot of different sources.
@@lyudmilaaksan2232 hahahah what
I have been wondering this for awhile! Thank you for the upload!
I’m a 28 year old electrician/veteran. I love history, one of my many hobbies is reading/learning about WW2. I’m a decent popular/social guy and as part of the more younger generation (millennial), I can confirm that it is a rare attribute among my age to know any history. It is a very brief teaching in school and most do not care about it. Hopefully that changes, historical education will thrive and we try to avoid history repeating itself….. although I very much doubt it.
I’m the same age and feel like people don’t know that much in history, it’s unfortunate because we could learn a lot from the past
My great grandpa fought in Okinawa. Came home and never talked about it. R.I.P. Leo Tharp 1917-1994
I had a friend/neighbor whose grandmother had lived in Poland during WWII. My friend told me that his grandmother rarely spoke of her time under Nazi occupation. What little she did reveal was about how desperate the food situation had become; that she had to resort to picking leaves off of trees to eat. And in general, she had said (to no one's surprise), that the Nazis were absolutely the most horrible people to ever have to endure.
@David Huberty the nazi's were very mean to polish people, killing people for newspaper articles
Maybe your grandmother didn't meet the ''liberating'' red Russian army. They killed, robbed, raped and beat up everybody regardless of race or ethnicity.
@@GIBunz Not "nazist" but Germans.
What about the warring Croatian groups?
There are reports the Soviets were even worse than the NAZIs, if you did not know they actually invaded Poland a few weeks after Germany did, carried out the Katyn massacre, poles seen the Germans better than the Russians, , Laurece Rees, world war 2 'behind closed doors, Stalin the Nazis and the west 2008, BBC Books.
Please do a video on the Roma holocaust. The Nazi atrocities against the Roma people were awful too.
Never forget the Roma!
Don’t forget the Romanies.
Noone cares about us… we didn’t get a country and billions in reparations
My wife's grandparents were members of the Danish resistance movement during the Nazi occupation of Denmark. It was interesting to hear about their experiences.
Yeah cause Europe is so much better off today. Disgusting
I can only imagine being a 18-20 year old American solider breaking down these camps, OMG the smells, the very malnourished people, and let alone the conditions they were forced to live in! Now we see these camps as how shouldn’t treat someone over a region. The amount of innocent people that died to these Monsters, it’s really sad to see!
My father was one of those soldiers... He rarely talked about his time in the war. One day we watched someone on TV saying that the Holocaust was a hoax. He turned to me and said "Don't you believe that s--t! It was real; I was there. We went in the camps and I saw what they did to those people! I saw the mass graves! " He wouldn't say anything more about it. But I imagine it marked him for life. He was only 20 at the time. Has he lived, he would be well into his 90's. I always wished he would've shared more. Too many of these men have passed...
The monsters were the allies who fire bombed civilians and machine gunned everything that moved. Use your fertile imagination and picture what this did to the supply lines for the concentration camps.
Imagine what the future holds for our childrens children and so on and so on. We came from chaotic events in History only for it to be repeated. 'History Repeats Itself' and it doesn't knock 😔
We never know
What are you refering to?
This video is definitely going to be on my WWII Playlist 👍
Thanks for being one of the only YT channels who tries to pronounce things right. Kazimierz could have used a bit of refining, but it was really good. And thank you for the content. Love you and whoever is on your team.
No one should ever forget this. If you don't respect and remember history, you'll be doomed to repeat it. I know it sounds awful but I understand why people turned on their neighbours. If it came down to turning on my neighbour and protecting my family, I'd turn on the neighbours.
Mark 8:36 36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Look today what goes on.....look
Thank you for including my country Lithuania. Usually other youtubers talk only about Poland because it is a big country, but you put light on our very painful history. Thank you for that.
If there is such a thing as hell, I hope every last Nazi is roasting slowly in it. I also sincerely hope that this history will continue to be taught and that somehow people will still take heed of what could happen.
my family tree has a story about one of my great grandparents was a nazi general who removed his name from records and fled to tennessee it goes like he was extremely evil killing almost every jew or enemy soldiers and civilians he saw he was friends with himmler and one of hitlers favorite generals he got shot and fled to the fuhrerbunker and hitler removed his records he fled into the soviet union then to america basactly this shows any nazi officer or general was just as bad as hitler and the soldiers that were lower ranks were manipulated by the higher ranks in the ss
There is a literal hell and you can rest assured that there are Nazis there.
Look around you. The western world is turning into cess pools. And you cannot even blame the National Socialists for that. Oh Weh!
If there is such a thing as rehabilitation, I hope every lost soul moves toward it
I can’t thank you enough for all your videos. You do amazing work. History forgotten is history to be repeated.
It'd be interesting for you to cover the German Occupation of the British Channel Islands during the war - they had it *ROUGH*. Hitler was so paranoid the british would try and retake the islands, he turned them into basically island fortresses. The lack of food on the island got so bad, even the GERMANS were starving by 1944.
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I enjoy all your videos, this was a hard one though , thank you for doing it , we cant turn away from the truth . Your site is entertaining and informative , and I recommend it to family and friends.
I love learning about WW2 history. The Holocaust must never be repeated. I am a person from a very small minority and often wonder if it happened to us how horrifying that would be. To happen to any one group of people.
Well, that group of people declared war on Germany in 1933, at a time when Germany was mired in depression and despair. You think that may have had a little to do with the anger Germans felt?
In terms of human genetic code lost the worst wars were during the bronze age. During that time entire tribes of humans would be wholly wiped out, and those lines of humans are just completely gone now. Modern wars are far more brutal in terms of number of human lives lost, but generally represent a much smaller loss of human gene variants
You look like a fat Asian, or Indian (feather Indian, not red dot Indian). There are a lot of both of those groups, so I'm not sure what "small minority" you're claiming. Why do people always want to throw their minority status into the mix? It doesn't matter what group of people it would happen to. It will always be horrible
“Required to wear the Star of David” then you show a normal 5 point star….
Life and the world today is so eerily similar to what it was like just before the outbreak of ww2. Both culturally, economically and politically it's virtually identical. Same game only different players. Maybe we can avoid what would most certainly be a devastating conflict but I fear our countries leaders are too wicked to stop.
Yup I'm not looking forward to it.
I wouldn't go that far
There's only one wicked leader in this scenario, and you're right, he won't stop.
@@kkpenney444 No there isn't only one wicked leader. It's stupid if you think that America's downslide is not due to a whole regime of wicked leaders and a bunch of other leaders who are complacent. The whole system is messed up...
@@jennifermarie3158 The analogy is 1939 and at present there's only one leader invading a sovereign country to annex it, committing a little genocide while they're at it. Sure, the U.S. is a mess, but its only real conflict is within its borders.
I would love to see a series based on the rise of the Japanese empire and its brutality.
And what led up to the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbour. That seems to not be taught to Americans.
What about the Croatian and Mexican groups that prowled in the dark? That’s shivering insane.
A+ video! Fascinating topic and video, very thought-provoking!
Your videos are my favourite, I watch them before bed every night
Suggestion: How the Navajo Wind Talkers baffled Japanese code breakers.
80 years later and we begin to witness the same things all over again. And amazingly, the majority of people fall in line.
I remember the thumbnail being a chapter picture in my school history book and it moved me so much as to keep me from ever forgetting it my only wish is that I had a hard copy of the picture
Your videos are not weird but very informative!
As a Jew, I appreciate the care you took when doing your research for this video. To answer your last question: *YES,* I do think this will happen again. Humanity has a short memory and many have an unquenchable thirst for power. I believe we're seeing the first steps toward this right now. May G-d help us all.
It can happen especially when people listen to an evil, charismatic "leader". Someone like T***p comes to mind with his scapegoating, grifting, and lack of empathy. If the US had been going through more economically difficult times, like Germany was in the 1930s, that's all it takes for someone like that to succeed.
Yes I think it can happen again. And I actually think it will be more widespread. If those that are ravenous for power and money have anything to do with it. They will eliminate anyone that gets in their way.
My grandma was in birkenao in the war and she said it will sadly happen again
God isn't a cuss word
@@TheFoyer13 🤷🏻♀️ who cussed?
This sadly could happen again if we don't learn from our mistakes. It's good that you make videos to remind the world we could do so much better.
This video is very enlightening. As to the answer for your question: “Do you believe that something like the Holocaust could happen again?” It is already happening again with China’s treatment with the Uyghurs Muslims. The atrocious is as bad (if not even worse) than what happened in WWII and it would be great if you would shed more light into it.
To be honest, the Uyghurs problem within China has been grossly exaggerated by Western Media. I’ve been to Xinjiang, and asked some locals about the government’s treatment of their people, and they seemed to be alright and said “The government has indeed come in and out of Xinjiang, but this is due to the rising extremism and desire of independence by some Uyghurs”. So yeah, i believed him. It seems like the government is only focusing on Uyghurs who expressed ideas that might threaten China’s sovereignty and control of that region.
Also, i would like to add something in regards to your comment. The prime example of a modern day holocaust is the treatment of the Rohinya people in Myammar. Currently, i am living in Malaysia. A country where many Rohinya seek asylum in, and the stories i’ve heard from them are nothing short of horrifying. But alas, the rohinya crisis are taken lightly by both the western world and the international community.
@@muhammadzariff7075 Oh wow this is very enlightening and I thank you for that (I shall do some research). Also it’s sad that no one from the western or global world give an ounce of care to the struggles of non-European communities and because of that, we are less informed about its existence 😔😔😔.
100% spot on about Lithuania. My grandfather on my mom's side came from there. When I was a kid he would talk about how horrible the Russians were and that the Nazis/Germans were "good". He was part of the Lithuanian wing of the SS that massacred 90% of the Jewish population. He hated Jews and black people until the day he died. That day I laughed in his dead face at what an ignorant monster he was... Yeah I'm dealing with some shit because of him...
I'm so sorry that you crossed paths with someone like that❤
I was wondering what music y'all use for these videos? They're great to study to and I'd love to find the original so I can focus better on my studies.
you should do the brutal cannibal African dictator Idi Amin.
he was not a cannibal
Uganda has had a lot of tyrannies already.
I'll NEVER understand HOW just ONE man could have that much power. SO COMPLETELY SAD! The devil in the flesh! 👹
My grandfather on my mom's side was in the Danish underground. He didn't like to talk about the things that he did to the German soldiers as most of them weren't Nazis but just regular infantry.
I had no idea the Nazis invaded more countries and made so many innocent lives miserable...to say the least. My great grandpa and his family were lucky to escape Europe before the war started but I understand why he kept his whole family history and origin a secret. We were able to figure out where he came from a couple of decades ago. But how awful it can be living hiding for a lifetime. Our President in El Salvador (Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez) admired Hitler a lot and slaughtered thousands of indigenous people in our country and even banned black people from entering El Salvador. Even though he was ugly as hell himself.
Many of the Nazis were ugly too. Many of them looked like they had disfigured faces, yet they claimed they were the "master" race. Maybe it was that inferiority that contributed to their rage, and hatred of other people's.
I mean, the idea Hitler could look in a mirror and actually think he was part of some master race is beyond laughable.
I was thinking the SAME exact thing!! That they invaded Africa was news to me completely!
@Jason Mimosa Riiggghht... so that slaughter of 6 million jews - and millions of other 'undesirable races' and disabled was just a quirk, huh? The more he could murder as cannon fodder the better. You're despicable in your rewriting of history.
How does that excuse 6 million dead jews and millions upon millions of innocent civilians who died in world war 2?
I just watched another video where you had a man who studied the German soldiers and he said a majority of them didn't agree with what they were doing, but didn't stop and just followed what the sadist soldiers did. Videos like this make that hard for me to believe. And to answer your question, yes. It definitely can and probably will happen again as long as people with a superiority complex are competing to be the dominant race, class, religion, etc.
It's happening right now with the Russian people.....most do not want this war
@@KAT-dg6el in America.....the sheep are the uneducated and easily manipulated....and with the downfall of the American education system......comes the rise of the sheep
I’m not sure if you’d heard, there is recording of a Russian soldier calling someone back home and bragging about murder, looting and destruction. The person they were talking to doesn’t even seem phased. They’ve just dehumanized all Ukrainians by calling them Nazis. History repeats itself
Look to Ukraine. It's happening, right now. Russian soldiers are crying and texting their mum how scared they are, how they've been fooled in to it all. Just like Hitler did with his soldiers.
It's happening now in xianjing China to the ughyers
9:42 I heard many stories of how the workers were sabotaging the weapons they created - the best way was to make them look good enough to pass inspections, but actually possesing a major flaw. for example, throwing in coins to the molten metal used to create weapons, the addition of nickel, copper, etc. would increase the chance of barrel cracking when shooting
KZhead in a nutshell: - Your video got demonetized, because you said a curse word - Millions got tortured to death or were executed, but let's talk about our sponsor of today's video
What is a course word? Is that something about a direction on a map?
@@seanwebb605a curse word is a bad word
My grandmother grew up in occupied France, she had a few stories about what had happened, but she rarely talked about it, and my second cousins lived in occupied Poland and some of them were in what is Ukraine today. They were forced on a 300 mile march and some of them were sent to work camps. Later they also had to suffer under Stalin as well. I knew people who have actually lived through this ordeal. It’s sad how many people now a days have forgotten, perhaps for not knowing anyone who had gone through this. Thanks for this.
My grandmother actually lived only a few towns away from Oradour-sur-Glane if people know the story. This was to set an example against the Resistance but that didn’t stop people from helping the Resistance.
Love your videos. Watch every one!
As a young person I never would’ve thought that the holocaust could ever happen again, especially in the United States. After seeing the whole coronavirus thing play out, I 100% believe that the holocaust can and probably will happen again. I learned that if you give someone a good enough story and scare them, you can convince them to do almost anything to survive. Only the strong willed and the strong minded will create a resistance and unfortunately most people are not either of those things.
Hitler, like the GOP, failed the first time they tried to overthrow the government. I worry about the same.
My grandmother was sent into forced labour in Germany during the war. Just one fact from a plethora of stories from my family (and there's even a book). One half were persecuted by the nazis, the other, the Russians. Some were even sent to Uganda via teran and karachi...
Lies
@@happypaws24 Holocaust denier detected
My mother was in Lwow as the Germans invaded Poland. She said that every day less and less children were in school with her. The school closed eventually. Walking passed it, the smell was horrific and blood had flowed under the doors and congealed down the steps and into the streets. My mother spoke of other events that occurred. Mass genocide is happening right now. 💙💛 Thanks for an informative video. 🙁
No it isn't.
I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy the sheer terror and hopelessness of being one of the people marked for _'relocation'_ during the later years of the Third Reich. Being in hiding for months or even years. Often starving. Terrified of being discovered, arrested and sent to a labour/extermination Stalag...only for it to actually happen. To be caught after all that anyway. For their torment only to begin there...
@MI girl what people in Ukraine are marked for “relocation”? You feel the war is about systematically rounding up and torturing/killing just a certain population of people belonging to a specific segment of people?
@MI girl Weird history clone kzhead.info/sun/g6uYdtGqZHSii3A/bejne.html
@MI girl me: laughs in operation mockingbird.
@MI girl Not really the same thing. This war is about forcing a regime onto a country and taking advantage of them geographically, not really about exterminating them. You could say that holodomor was similar to nazi doings seeing as that was a genocide.
When I started out in healthcare, I was learning phlebotomy at the VA in Oklahoma City. I got to meet a few holocaust survivors, that had the serial number tattooed into their right forearm. Some of the stories, damn. I have nothing but respect for those that fought in anyway they could to survive.
Well, for starters they should not have declared war on Germany!
@@BasementEngineerfor starters, Shut up
@@XSlimSxadyX You ever heard of free speech?
@@BasementEngineer ever heard of not being a Nazi?
@@XSlimSxadyX Why? They were the only decent people then.
I was there and Mr. Toads Wild Ride was intense!
My Father was in WW2 the Battle of the Bulge. He told me to never forget how some humans can be cruel. Cruelty seems to be the point these days......💛💙 praying for Ukraine 🙏💙💛
My uncle who just died was in that one too , maybe they met , or maybe now God Bless
History is already repeating itself. Just look at the news.
Both sets of my grandparents lived through the occupation in Poland. My dad was born outside of Warsaw in 1939. It’s a miracle I’m here to comment..
My father’s friend was born in a Polish concentration camp. He really is, to say the least, fortunate to be alive.
Not taking away from y’all plights but it’s honestly nice to know they found some time to make love in all the chaos even more to actually give birth and they survived.
I’m glad you’re here to comment 👏🏼
I wouldn't call it a miracle. A lot of people died (6 million Polish citizens) but majority managed to survive that hell.
@@XaYt0b33perhaps…or they were sexually assaulted by the guards.
100% Believe it can and will happen again.. Sadly I don't think we as people learned for the first time so we're doomed to repeat history.
I grew up Jewish and I always thought someone would come and attack me for being Jewish. But I realized people around me don’t really care, so I taught my fellow classmates about being Jewish, by bringing a menorah in for the front desk to display, watch episodes on Hanukkah, etc. and when people ask me about certain things, like why is the #18 so important? Why do we follow different rules? Things like that. But I can answer perfectly fine🙂
The things that happened during WW2 are absolutely DISQUIETING! Hope it never happens again, but you know things can repeat themselves… the weird thing is that hitlers mom was Jewish, so why would you attack your own people?
@@Jerms995 Adolf Hitler's mother was Roman Catholic. It is his paternal grandfather that might have been Jewish. Interestingly, Hitler's half-nephew left Germany shortly after his threats to tell the public about the possibility did not get him the job he wanted and relocated to Long Island. The family is still there today, actually.
@@Meee_Shell interesting r
Why don't you also explain to your class mates why, in 1933, your tribe Judea declared war on Germany. You think that may have had a little to do with German feelings towards your tribe?
Question why is that religion vastly over represented among the corporate media and financial institutions?
Greetings from Lithuania. Thank you for mentioning a little bit of our history. Thank you
The revival of autocratic rulers throughout the world, ensures that genocide and horrors will continue. Here in America we thought we were immune to such movements, however, we have seen that we are vulnerable as well. We must teach the real history of our past, in order to not repeat it.
I am not Jewish, I English and non religious (well, I'm Church of England which is the same thing). I've always had a fascination of Jewish culture and would say I have a great deal of respect for them (which is actually quite common amongst ethnic English people but sadly not amongst some of our 'guest' communities who came here over the past 50 years). I visited Auschwitz three years ago, and from the moment I set foot inside the perimeter I felt an intense wave of nausea which remained until I left. The sight of bundles of human hair, suitcases with names, and the area where the Jews were unloaded from the trains (which has barely changed in appearance looking at old photos) will always stay with me. I felt as though I was walking on a piece of hell that was transported onto the Earth. I walked the short distance from the area the Jews were unloaded up to the location of the gas chambers - the thought that 1 million people made that same short walk in the last few minutes of their lives was a haunting experience. I can't imagine what these people went trough, whether they were in ghettos or concentrations camps, but the thought that humans can do this to their own species is incredibly depressing. Even now in 2022 we are living through what appears to be yet another attempt by one country (Russia) to eradicate the people of another country (Ukraine). It's sad to say, but I fear we will never learn our lessons from history (even though we often say 'never again') and the appalling behavior of Hitler and his followers will continue to perpetrated in one way or another by future monsters and criminal leaders.
That's because you enjoy tales of the macabre. Seems to be a British affliction. Nothing you mentioned is proof of anything, except that there had been a barber shop. Imagine the horror! Prisoners got their hair cut and their shoes repaired.
I studied history at university, coincidentally in Austria, and I'm really really terrified at the ease of how easily someone is called a nazi nowadays. Sure, if someone is a racist, call them out, but don't call them a Nazi cause naziism was so much more and worse than just racism. If you use a word with such an overwhelmingly negative meaning as Nazi just to win an argument or have a counter or whatever when you just disagree with someone, you're part of diminishing and diluting the sheer terror of what happened under the "proper" Nazis...
The sad thing is that the people who use that term tend to be the same ones exhibiting some of the horrific behaviors and beliefs that led to the atrocities committed by the Nazis.
Indeed, i agree. Nowadays, people use the term “Nazi” without much thought whatsoever, and that scares me. If you’ve notice, some of the internet’s netizens are using the term “Nazi” to show someone’s extremism, for example “YOU’RE A GRAMMAR NAZI”.
I agree
If you're a white supremacist, you're as good as a Nazi and deserve the dirt. If multiple different people are calling you racist, you're a fucking racist lmao.
I disagree. Nazism and white supremacy are on the rise in many countries around the world, and often people wringing their hands over mislabeling people as Nazis allows actual Nazis, and their adjacent, to carry on with business as long as they aren’t goose-stepping. Nazis will always hide their true beliefs and identity until it’s politically convenient, so the goal shouldn’t be to identify them anyway, but to identify who’s spreading their ideology. That being said we can’t be afraid to call a spade a spade.
"Weird history's" lighthearted way of looking at history, didn't seem appropriate here.
Agreed.
Back in high school I got to attend a field trip to the Zekelman Holocaust memorial center in Farmington Hills Michigan. It was incredible and heartbreaking at the same time. I am pretty sure they also have a virtual tour option to check it out without having to travel here.
Sure it was! That was it's purpose! However. was a single solitary bit of verified forensic evidence offered to prove the allegations?
@@BasementEngineer what?
The "YES, we have no bananas" sign is brilliant because when you do finally get bananas in you could just paint over the word 'no' with white paint.
Would you do a video on the Maginot Line @WeirdHistory?
What is regular life under the CCP (Mao Zedong's rule)
Man, that was something. Brutal, sad, repressive at the same time. Never forget.
i admire how you have the mental capacity, and the gall to put your trademark spin of hilarity on any subject matter, including life/death under Nazi occupation. you make trolling look easy, good Sir.
The saddest part in our recent history is the Great Leap Forward famine in the 50s to 60s… please think about the 15 to 15 million lives lost for so called human advancement…. Bless all of those souls who are equally important
What do you mean "could it happen again"? YES! It is literally happening right now in occupied Palestine and several African countries. We should not ignore genocide just because people are brown.
What's with the "like a stray animal" line? Not cool Weird History.
You helped me prove a point Thank you
My father fought at Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. He would never talk about the war and horrors he saw. As I grew up and understood what happened, I always wondered why Hitler got away with this and wasn’t stopped.
I'm glad you touched on the east of europe and northern africa. I feel like they're often ignored when talking of world war 2. If you guys could do an episode on the less talked about victims (like the gays, the disabled and the political opposition), I'd be thankful
Who ignores Eastern Europe in world war 2 referencing? It’s more spoken about than say occupation of Belgium/Netherlands etc
Video idea: life in Soviet Ukraine or the Holodomor
One of the scariest things I learned about the Nazi occupation were "Łapanki" (could be translated to "the catching") (That's how it was called in Poland) Nazis would randomly drive a truck somewhere, get out, and start detaining random people. These people would then be sent to forced labour camps, or publicly executed as revange for partisant operations. you could be minding your own business, walking on the street, and germans pull up, start rounding up people (and shooting everyone trying to run away), loading them into a truck, and driving off. Could happen at any place, any time.
The fact that people are dismissing the Holocaust as a conspiracy theory or “made-up government propaganda” absolutely saddens and horrifies me. They are forgetting history.
You can't forget what you never learned about and never understood. People want to believe that nobody knew, nobody could have known, they couldn't have done anything had they known. And it simply wasn't true then and it isn't true now.