Germany: The Dark Secrets of the Super Rich

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  • @UndercoverDog
    @UndercoverDog Рік тому +18347

    Never ask a woman her age,
    a man his salary
    and a German company what they did between 1933 and 1945

    • @Alina-bv4de
      @Alina-bv4de Рік тому +223

      💀

    • @bactrosaurus
      @bactrosaurus Рік тому +674

      This isnt even a joke💀

    • @adipaul9424
      @adipaul9424 Рік тому +585

      Don't ask Americans about separation rules
      Etc.
      Every country has a dark history.

    • @Mate_Antal_Zoltan
      @Mate_Antal_Zoltan Рік тому +138

      my favorite part of this is that in one movie, they both claimed that the minions always followed the most evil person they could, but they also just happened to be in cryostasis until the 60s

    • @markolinir3945
      @markolinir3945 Рік тому

      @@adipaul9424 But Bill Gates closest relatives weren't members of the KKK - were they? The elite in America is much younger, except of Hollywood there are barely companies and families where you can draw a line from slavery to the richest families today. Despite, the poverty was really inherited in that way (like in every country since slavery has been abolished).

  • @CordeliaWagner
    @CordeliaWagner Рік тому +7412

    Keep in mind that Germany is one of the most open and honest countries when it comes to their dark times in history.
    That deserves a lot of respect.
    Most countries choose to ignore their dark parts of the past.

    • @Mate_Antal_Zoltan
      @Mate_Antal_Zoltan Рік тому +930

      Right. This is only a problem *because* Germany recognises her past. But Japan, which hides all of her actions during WWII, never seems to get this. Even though Japan also had companies and they were also active during WWII.

    • @KunoKnalles
      @KunoKnalles Рік тому +230

      but still not honest enough

    • @apollyon2049
      @apollyon2049 Рік тому +393

      @@KunoKnalles What have you done in vietnam though?

    • @thorH.
      @thorH. Рік тому +42

      @@KunoKnalleswhy?

    • @moshcorerider
      @moshcorerider Рік тому +485

      The US just left the chat

  • @victortabacaru7438
    @victortabacaru7438 Рік тому +1200

    It is also important to remember that after the war the occupying western allies purposefully did not prosecute some "minor" nazis, since they needed a "strong West Germany" against the soviets. That meant that alot of former nazis were in government, justice system, police, business and so on

    • @TheHk1966
      @TheHk1966 Рік тому

      Well unless you wanted to blacklist 3/4 of the adult population at the time you just simply had to accept that quite a number of low and mid level officials would reinvent their lives after the war. History has proven this out as the correct course of action. Just think when the Soviet Union collapsed we in the West didn’t demand everyone a member of the Communist party be tarred and feathered either.

    • @bobdollaz3391
      @bobdollaz3391 Рік тому

      No one ever prosecuted Soviet criminals. Funny that. Jews did love the USSR

    • @takispapas9887
      @takispapas9887 Рік тому +65

      Very true. And one of the main reasons de-nazification never really happened in Germany until the 80s and maybe beyond

    • @damonroberts7372
      @damonroberts7372 Рік тому

      Don't forget Operation Paperclip. The US went to the Moon with the help of Wernher von Braun and Kurt Debus... war criminals who, in creating the V-2 rocket, participated in deliberate and massive attacks on civilian populations.

    • @whoknocks7
      @whoknocks7 Рік тому +28

      germans are what made the space race possible...

  • @moritzheidenreich8511
    @moritzheidenreich8511 11 місяців тому +882

    Amazing video, you should do a similar video looking into the British and other colonial empires and the origins of their wealth as well

    • @CroatiaTom
      @CroatiaTom 10 місяців тому +61

      And also maybe look into the owners of the slave trafficking ships?

    • @bobbysands6893
      @bobbysands6893 8 місяців тому

      @@CroatiaTomoy vey, you dang noticer

    • @highestpeeqs9532
      @highestpeeqs9532 7 місяців тому +9

      Jesus loves yall, died for us, and rose again! Jesus calls for all of us to repent! He's coming back..

    • @coopercorcoran2841
      @coopercorcoran2841 7 місяців тому

      @@highestpeeqs9532 shuddup

    • @Abo-almzn
      @Abo-almzn 6 місяців тому

      @@highestpeeqs9532 Jesus is a prophet of god peace be upon him. He prayed and worshipped god our creator why dont you dp the same? The bible has many versions because its been corrupted. The quran is the last revelation only one version no contradictions many scientific and linguistic miracles in it. I invite you to watch the one message foundation and or The muslim lantern on youtube if you want the truth.

  • @TheBrezelboy
    @TheBrezelboy Рік тому +2018

    As a German I’ve always found it interesting that we have the supposed reputation of coming to terms and being honest with our past. The more you dig into it, you realize there’s a lot that was swept under the carpet. Many people from the nazi time period kept silent, and honestly I think most Germans including myself don’t have a clue what our grandparents or parents really did or how they felt during this time. I’ll never know because they’re now dead

    • @lh9497
      @lh9497 Рік тому +56

      my grandmother tell me, , when I was a child, not,everything was bad,during the NS regime..she didn'tsee the bigger picture. .really sad 😔

    • @fuwahaschi
      @fuwahaschi Рік тому +65

      You can write to the Bundesarchiv and get informations about your grandparents

    • @alixmordant489
      @alixmordant489 Рік тому +80

      Great comment. From my experience, I absolutely agree. Even the grandparents who were too young to have served in Nazi times, sometimes made comments that showed sympathy for the Nazi ideology or even Antisemitism. But rarely, because the consensus was to hide those sentiments and not to talk about that time. Germans know very well, when they have to halt die Klappe, be silent. And since the Wirtschaftswunder gave them anyway what the Nazis promised, a very high rank in the world, Exportweltmeister etc., it was comfortable enough to shut up. They could look down on other people anyway, all those lazy, faule, and incapable nations.
      Remember that it was a US television show from 1978, with Meryl Streep, called Holocaust that showed average young Germans what their ancestors did to the Jews in WWII. It was an outcry against that show from big parts of German society. Those people did want to forbid its airing in Germany. Completely censure it. At the end, it was moved from a prime spot on the ARD to the so called third programs. But in the end that show made a difference. Since then we have all that shows on TV and learn about it in school. E.g. my mother, born 1954, did not learn that.

    • @kevinshephard8279
      @kevinshephard8279 Рік тому +53

      Your grandparents a are no different from the people here in the United States who will jump on the side of anybody that seems to be winning in public opinion.. the fact that we had people calling people murderers and wishing them dead because they would not take an experimental medicine shows that we here are just as capable and will side with people doing atrocities if it's in our best interest or if we have to participate ourselves!

    • @sabine3769
      @sabine3769 Рік тому +21

      So true. My family refused to talk about Hitler. I often wonder how oinvolved they were. It was a code of silence

  • @morboed96
    @morboed96 Рік тому +2168

    Judge: "You are sentenced to pay a fine of 2000 Reichsmark"
    Finck Sr.: "But my knee hurts"
    Judge: "Oh, damn, I'm so sorry to hear that, mate. You know what, don't worry about the fine, just concentrate on getting better."

    • @Bremberry
      @Bremberry Рік тому +107

      You do realize that 2000 Reichsmark in that time must have been equal to about an hours' worth of income for the poor man? :p

    • @sockosophie3132
      @sockosophie3132 Рік тому

      the bitter part is that his barely humanoid piece of a son finances todays nazis and libertarians... the mthrfckr should be in jail

    • @mehcutcheon2401
      @mehcutcheon2401 Рік тому +33

      Affluenza... glad to see it's not just a problem in the US.

    • @Olek-te4tn
      @Olek-te4tn Рік тому +40

      After he said that they instead should have kicked him in that knee at least 2000 time

    • @lukewilliam4208
      @lukewilliam4208 Рік тому +23

      @@Bremberry You do realize that, if anything, this makes it even more ridiculous? :p

  • @fpst
    @fpst Рік тому +3577

    You just saved my day. It's raining all day and this is the last day of the summer vacation. Thank you.

    • @PeacefulNomadz
      @PeacefulNomadz Рік тому +131

      Same are u a German living in NRW by any chance 😅

    • @UndercoverDog
      @UndercoverDog Рік тому +82

      Yeah, NRW POV

    • @stiopka8120
      @stiopka8120 Рік тому +55

      @@UndercoverDogscheiß Wetter, ich kann’s nicht mehr sehen

    • @dusenkarotte007
      @dusenkarotte007 Рік тому +34

      Ha ich hab noch 4 ganze Wochen

    • @roflkopter
      @roflkopter Рік тому +26

      @@dusenkarotte007 BW and Bayern moment

  • @RADsLife
    @RADsLife 10 місяців тому +647

    Y'all did a deep dive into rich Nazis but oddly left out any mention of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab and his familial origins.. we definitely need a part 2

    • @ROALD.
      @ROALD. 10 місяців тому +54

      and von der Leyen, queen of Europa

    • @carinarilk89
      @carinarilk89 10 місяців тому +18

      ​@@ROALD.The QUEEN OF LICHTENBERG AND WEF, USA TOO.
      BUT NEVER FOR THE EU OR GERMANY.
      I REMEMBER THE PFITZER AFFARE.
      WAR IN THE UCRAINE.
      BUT MRS MELONI, MACRON TOO.

    • @nicknolte8671
      @nicknolte8671 10 місяців тому +7

      Oswald Spengler, an intellectual which inspired the Nazis and gave them an air of respectability early on:
      "In Spengler’s Prussian utopia, the workers can hence look forward to working even on Sunday. It need hardly be said that progressive taxation and political pressure to increase wages are detestable in Spengler’s eyes. He expends great energy in denouncing what he terms the current Lohndiktatur or Lohnbolschewismus (“wage-dictatorship” and “wage-bolshevism”) of the trade unions; similarly, in a 1924 lecture dedicated to the issue of taxation, he excoriates the imposition of taxes on the rich, which has become nothing short of a “question of life and death” (Spengler 1933c: 299).
      He there equates the “West-European taxation policies” with “dry Bolshevism, which threatens to level down everything which protrudes above the masses” (309). In terms difficult to tell apart from those of a stringent economic liberal, he concludes this address by pressing to eliminate the political-democratic administration of taxation and-looking ahead to such organizations as The World Trade Organization or The International Monetary Fund?-to entrust all decisions on such matters to economic experts, a “world conference of insiders to the economic life.”
      “The more ‘just’ a tax is,” he avows, “the more unjust it is today. In the evaluation of such things the economy has the first word, not the jurist, the professional politician or the fiscal civil servant” (310)."
      --Ishay Landa, "The Apprentice's Sorcerer"

    • @theresurrection33
      @theresurrection33 10 місяців тому

      Left out that they fund israel now who genocides Palestinian 30k children killed.

    • @kimvalpy
      @kimvalpy 8 місяців тому

      🧡 EXACTLY,, WHO?¿
      They lost the war ONLY to put EVERYONE of them in high-position's around the world,, even USA took all scientists & changed there names...
      That Claus still thinks he's Mr it & Billy gee ate that gives WHO all the money,, that wants to get rid of us all...
      Love to "ALL" from New Zealand...😎

  • @bs2931
    @bs2931 Рік тому +630

    It's a good documentary. One suggestion. Make a documentary about the connection of American capital with companies in Nazi Germany almost until the end of WWII. It wouldn't be a bad idea to do a film about the connection of the English aristocracy with the Nazi Germany.

    • @stevejaubert2892
      @stevejaubert2892 9 місяців тому

      Be careful what you ask for as it may turn you hard to humanity. The truth is these collaborators, manipulators, whatever you want to call them - you do not need the name of their clubs nor orders nor anything. They are there and have been for much longer than we probably know. They turn our world into what it is daily and its why we see it like we do and wonder why it can't get better. But that's all just conspiracy - so I'm told.

    • @bobbysands6893
      @bobbysands6893 8 місяців тому

      oy vey, please don’t notice the banker tribe who funds both sides of every war

    • @Shadow-dl2iz
      @Shadow-dl2iz 7 місяців тому +18

      By the fall of 1945, German scientists starting arriving on U.S. soil. Not all the men recruited were Nazis or SS officers but the most prominent and valued among them were, having worked either directly with Hitler or leading members of the Nazi Party, such as Heinrich Himmler and Herman Göring.
      Wernher von Braun, a rocket engineer, was instrumental in developing the first U.S. ballistic missile, the Redstone, and later the Saturn V rocket while serving as director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. As a Nazi ideologue and member of the SS, he traveled to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he "handpicked slaves to work for him as laborers," said Jacobsen in a 2014 interview with NPR. this might be what you're reffering to

    • @highestpeeqs9532
      @highestpeeqs9532 7 місяців тому +4

      Jesus loves yall, died for us, and rose again! Jesus calls for all of us to repent! He's coming back..

    • @a_lethe_ion
      @a_lethe_ion 7 місяців тому

      @@Shadow-dl2iz yes. Action Paperclip.
      They also gave Japan amnesty for the brutal crimes committed in china for the microfilm. For research purposes, especially for the experiments with the plague and other highly contagious diseases they spread in the society.
      The data was worthless uncontrolled slaughter.
      But even if it hadn't.

  • @gianlucapistoia8993
    @gianlucapistoia8993 Рік тому +2430

    As a German who had the topic "Nazi regime and the third Reich" present every year in school, these were again interesting details into the corporate history of these companies. Even though we Germans know a lot about this topic and many of the big global German companies cooperated in some way with the state (not all voluntarily) it is very important that this history is not forgotten and that we deal with it. Sehr gutes Video! Danke

    • @sockosophie3132
      @sockosophie3132 Рік тому

      Volkswagen... nothing more to say, they were criminals in the third reich where they used jewish forced labor in the concentration camps, now the use the muslims in chinese concentration camps :D. Never change a running system, i guess

    • @vffa
      @vffa Рік тому +72

      It's important to remember that while some families and company leaders might have been Nazis, not all were members because they wanted to be. Many were members because they feared for the lives of their families and I doubt many people today would behave in any other way.

    • @johngrimes412
      @johngrimes412 Рік тому

      This is pushed by German rivals to make Germans hate themselves as retaliation. All whites get this treatment by descendants of the Rothschilds and other connected groups. You'll never hear about any crimes if it is a rabbai. The co-owner of a major adult platform is a rabbai as an example. They want to exploit guilt to destroy your kind. They want to rule without competition. This platform isn't good for stating specifically what I want to say without the comment being removed. That's just a gist. The USA has been taken over by this group, and basically we get fired from our jobs (economic warfare) if we ever call them out. They want to cherrypick past wrongdoings as a weapon.

    • @rgboss1337
      @rgboss1337 Рік тому

      Even tough it´s kind of unfair that people who had money and shares of those big companies, got away with their actions after the war. The inheritants of those bad people own money that was probably generated with forced labour and the German goverment should really do some research again.

    • @TheBlackfall234
      @TheBlackfall234 Рік тому

      Most Germans know nothing about the Third Reichs, other then "wanted to conquer the world and kill all jews".

  • @lllifted
    @lllifted Рік тому +967

    The statement of Sven Quandt gave me literal shivers...
    “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana

    • @Bassalicious
      @Bassalicious Рік тому

      Saying this as somebody who inherited a fortune with Nazi ties makes this so much worse too. Either this is a capitalist statement that tries to whitewash their company's (and the entire country's) history purely for better profits or it's ideological in nature. Either way is disgusting as it belittles the atrocities committed and discredits the victims.

    • @germaniatv1870
      @germaniatv1870 Рік тому +12

      You dont even know where it starts... how could you know when it happens again...

    • @brainthesizeofplanet
      @brainthesizeofplanet Рік тому

      ​@@germaniatv1870well the AfD certainly is steering in that direction, those little fuckers ..

    • @DerKnusperhase
      @DerKnusperhase Рік тому +4

      bible stronker then sveny boy. it says: there is nothing new under the sun ! what was, will happen again

    • @haruhisuzumiya6650
      @haruhisuzumiya6650 Рік тому

      ​@@DerKnusperhaseand we shall rise up to fight it again and again

  • @1pierosangiorgio
    @1pierosangiorgio Рік тому +34

    are you saying that German companies misbehaved at some times during history? as an Italian, Dr. Oetker pizzas ARE a crime against humanity.

    • @heierkaseandergabel2821
      @heierkaseandergabel2821 7 місяців тому +2

      true...

    • @Baeumchenn
      @Baeumchenn 7 місяців тому

      Nice. Poor country like yours get Our money, so stfu

    • @Megadextrious
      @Megadextrious Місяць тому +2

      Never heard of it, but it looks very similar to the brand DiGiornio here in the US; it’s the worst, bland and tasteless “pizza” I’ve ever had. The crust is either cardboard or yoga mat filler, I stg. Their food is a war crime 😖

    • @malignant6752
      @malignant6752 13 днів тому

      ⁠rip their pizza’s are so good

  • @philiphembluck7312
    @philiphembluck7312 Рік тому +1011

    I love listening to you when you say german words with a dutch accent and people of every other country are probably like: yes perfect pronunciation
    ... also great video love your content

  • @duckyduck3375
    @duckyduck3375 Рік тому +65

    Intro (Bahlsen) : 0:00 - 4:16
    Chapter 1 (Dr. Oetker): 4:17 - 11:03
    Advertisement (Incogni): 11:04 - 12:03
    Chapter 2 (Mövenpick/von Finck): 12:04 - 18:14
    Chapter 3 (BMW): 18:15 - 27:55

  • @linksel3034
    @linksel3034 Рік тому +1927

    It's incredibly important to be aware of the ways these dark times still effect us and who still makes a profit off of them. I love this channel and I appreciate this video

    • @strandkorbst9643
      @strandkorbst9643 Рік тому +11

      Affect*

    • @niccomachiavelli
      @niccomachiavelli Рік тому +31

      Fortunately, today's billionaires are all enlightened people who promote and love democracy.
      What a beautiful time we live in.

    • @vahlen5281
      @vahlen5281 Рік тому +1

      ​@@niccomachiavelliTrue, just as it is always the good guys who win in history.

    • @kggupta3643
      @kggupta3643 Рік тому +5

      ​​@@niccomachiavelli really just say to me you are throwing a curve ball by your comment and not really believe in what are you saying😢

    • @niccomachiavelli
      @niccomachiavelli Рік тому

      @@kggupta3643 A billionaire might believe that, which I am definitely not!
      The days where I had such small amounts in the account are long gone^^

  • @GydoMans
    @GydoMans Рік тому +54

    These documentary's you never see on Discovery Channel, i wonder why :))) Awesome work! Congratz

  • @mr.f716
    @mr.f716 Рік тому +126

    4 videos, 130k subs and still underrated

    • @Archbtw_
      @Archbtw_ Рік тому +18

      This is a branch of a German channel called "Simplicissimus" with more than a million subs. Therefore they already have a bunch of experience.

    • @stavas05
      @stavas05 Рік тому +37

      @@Archbtw_it is a cooperation between simpli and hoog Not just a branch of simpli

  • @janschesch3609
    @janschesch3609 Рік тому +288

    The 'Kunsthalle' Art Museum in Bielefeld (where Dr. Oetker is from) has been named 'Richard Kaselowsky-Haus' from its opening 1968 until 1998 because Dr. Oetker sponsored its construction and provided loan art. After they renamed it 'Kunsthalle Bielefeld' the relationship between city and company has been strained until quite recently

    • @xxXNaokiKunXxx
      @xxXNaokiKunXxx Рік тому +3

      Why until recently? What happened?

    • @janschesch3609
      @janschesch3609 Рік тому +36

      @@xxXNaokiKunXxx With splitting the company among different shareholders, which of course are still descendants of the Oetker Family and Rudolf-august and Kaselowsky getting more distant in their family tree the topic is discussed less emotionally and as said in the video a hint of awareness and processing is sensible. Although in 2017 Maja Oetker (Rudolf-august 's wife) was still pissed off about the city replacing a whitewashed memorial plaque about Kaselowsky in the Kunsthalle with a factual one, which mentions his controversy

    • @fruchtig241
      @fruchtig241 Рік тому +7

      @@janschesch3609fuck I live in Bielefeld and didn’t know that lol, that building is just not really interesting to be inside

    • @skorp5677
      @skorp5677 Рік тому +14

      Also, Dr. Oetker hat a small museum "discussing" their past in Bielefeld, where they talk a lot about Backpulver (backing soda invented by an Oetker) and frozen pizzas but not their Nazi past. A lot of schools visit the mueseum and have backing lessons in a show kitchen there afterwards.

    • @syntonox4582
      @syntonox4582 Рік тому +19

      ​@@fruchtig241Bielefeld dosen't even exist.

  • @markolinir3945
    @markolinir3945 Рік тому +126

    August von Finck Junior did not only silence the past, he organized a gold shop for the AfD party, giving them millions for electory campaigns. Also, his company was involved in the "Prospérta" project in Honduras, which tried to set up a kind of neoliberal dictatorship there.

    • @Yul_B_Awright
      @Yul_B_Awright Рік тому

      and the satirical party "Die Partei" made a parody on them, selling 100€ bills for 100€ each and write the "profits" in their books to provoke the legislation to make a law against it, which also made the Afd goldshop illegal as means to fund the party. I think fern should cover "Die Partei" in a future video, because it is probably a unique phenomenon in politics to have a satire party that actively pushes against Nazis in such a creative way :D

    • @mo-s-
      @mo-s- Рік тому

      I hate that fascists always get sponsored by rich fucks ._.

    • @Praisethesunson
      @Praisethesunson Рік тому +13

      German Capitalist making a try at imperialism in the Americas

    • @sunesunee879
      @sunesunee879 Рік тому +2

      Look Up the Name of this gold company (Degussa/degesch).
      He payed 2 Million for the Name rights......

    • @markolinir3945
      @markolinir3945 Рік тому

      @@sunesunee879 Yes, also good point. (For the others, that was the name of the company, which was among others famous for "recycling" the golden teeth of murdered prisoners during the "3rd Reich" and producing gas for the concentration camps)

  • @ashrafifaiyad-q2d
    @ashrafifaiyad-q2d Місяць тому +17

    It is only war crime if you lost the war

  • @goofygoober779
    @goofygoober779 Рік тому +146

    All of these German born rich yacht enjoyers, should know that if they flaunt their wealth to the less fortunate, someone is going to dig up exactly how their grandparents made that fortune.

    • @gur262
      @gur262 Рік тому +16

      Well they know. When did you last see a stupid tweet about boxing from the owners of Aldi? Most rich people know better than to be famous

    • @yvonnehorde1097
      @yvonnehorde1097 Рік тому

      @@gur262 Aldi did not exist in the Nazi time though, they are children of the economic miracle.

    • @SuperCatacata
      @SuperCatacata 6 місяців тому +5

      To be fair, she was definitely just repeating what her parents had told her since birth. Not saying that excuses her for not doing her own research. But like many, she just accepted what she was taught from her family as the truth.
      There are millions of Germans alive today who had Nazi grandparents. I'd bet very few of them take the time to research all the atrocities they committed either. They'd much rather pretend it didn't happen.

    • @blowfishfootman
      @blowfishfootman 5 місяців тому

      @@SuperCatacataits a little different when ur part of the leadership

    • @jimsonjohnson3761
      @jimsonjohnson3761 5 місяців тому

      Oh well. I highly doubt she cares. Nor do I really.

  • @EUROLILADOLLAR
    @EUROLILADOLLAR Рік тому +103

    I wish @Simplicissimus would make a second part of this story with some other dynasties in german language

  • @metro294
    @metro294 Рік тому +23

    It’s interesting how no sanctions were put on these companies

    • @swagkachu3784
      @swagkachu3784 Рік тому +10

      They were developed and encouraged by the us government

    • @csabaszabo8624
      @csabaszabo8624 10 місяців тому +3

      are there sanctions to American companies involved in genocide and wars?

    • @zenmonk5403
      @zenmonk5403 Місяць тому

      The sanctions were: welcome in a bombed-to-shit country. If they did the same again as with Versailles, we would've had WW round 3 already.

    • @thor.halsli
      @thor.halsli Місяць тому +1

      It's soon to be a hundred years ago man. Eat your frozen pizza and move on

  • @RokasSondaras
    @RokasSondaras Місяць тому +1

    When speaking about Jurnalism, I see this channel as golden example of how it should be done. Every reference is documented in the left bottom corner, everything very concise and informative, straight to the point. 3D animations ins mesmerizing. It's as free as it cloud get in this day and age. Amazing job, I hope to see this channel have much greater following.

  • @NXNX7
    @NXNX7 Рік тому +126

    Love the animations of your videos. They are uniquely tailored to what is being discussed. So much easier to pay attention to details. Unlike pretty much every other educational video on youtube that uses stock footage that is usually only mildly relevant to what is being said and often highly distracting.

  • @NoamK24
    @NoamK24 Рік тому +77

    Hugo Boss is also a family owned compony. They produced the SS uniform.

    • @MsGyzy
      @MsGyzy Рік тому +7

      That's not a problem! 😂😂😂

    • @DominicSanfredo
      @DominicSanfredo Рік тому +11

      They wanted to be fashionable.

    • @bobbysands6893
      @bobbysands6893 8 місяців тому +4

      based.

    • @nanasfigtree
      @nanasfigtree 8 місяців тому

      Commissioned for their services vs. In- cahoots with nazi ideology and politics

    • @peterfireflylund
      @peterfireflylund 7 місяців тому +6

      And what a gorgeous uniform it was!

  • @FreyasArts
    @FreyasArts Рік тому +111

    Great video, I wasn't aware how much is owned by families here in Germany. Just a quick tip: We try to avoid the name "Kristallnacht" (night of the broken glass), since it's a term used by Nazis to glorify the events of that night. Instead we call it "Pogromnacht" or "Novemberpogrome" (November pogroms)

    • @skorp5677
      @skorp5677 Рік тому +20

      Pretty sure they are aware of this, but thid is (sadly) what it is known to lots of non-Germans, cf. english Wikipedia. Thanks for the note though.

    • @serebii666
      @serebii666 Рік тому +23

      It is universally known as Kristallnacht in other languages. In my experience I can confirm it for Czech, French and English. It is a similar case for the "Night of the Long Knives".

    • @sit-insforsithis1568
      @sit-insforsithis1568 Рік тому +8

      @@astridliliencronI just hope one time they will acknowledge the Armenian genocide but my hopes are not high with erdogan

    • @maxmusterkann6057
      @maxmusterkann6057 Рік тому

      @hansgans297 Halt deine fresse! Was hast du für eine Mutter

    • @SethTraplifeGLO999
      @SethTraplifeGLO999 Рік тому +8

      ​@hansgans297lol milkshake duck really is racist

  • @nandhan6637
    @nandhan6637 Рік тому +26

    incredible quality and pleasant to watch and listen.. thanks man

  • @SemiIocon
    @SemiIocon Рік тому +534

    Thanks for bringing this to an international audience. It's important to be aware of these ties. There were also a lot of nazis making a career in post-war Germany in the justice system, education system and law. "Der lange Schatten", the long shadow of Nazi Germany.

    • @rgbled4778
      @rgbled4778 Рік тому

      They even continued in politics like the Austrian President in 86-92 (former member of Wehrmacht and SA) Kurt Waldheim. And the Auatrian extremist right wing party FPÖ was founded directly by and for Nazis (it was called VDU then)

    • @Rasakson
      @Rasakson Рік тому

      konrad adenauer hat dazu mal gesagt das es nachdem krieg keine andere möglichkeit gab als ex parteimitglieder in diese positionen zu stecken da schlicht und einfach die leute nicht vorhanden waren, entweder im krieg verheizt oder nicht alt genug/ohne erfahrung um sie in hohe ämter zu stecken

    • @achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233
      @achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233 Рік тому +12

      And in the post-war World in general.

    • @ClaireMonica-Art
      @ClaireMonica-Art Рік тому +18

      Yes, a lot were invited to work for the US gov/NASA etc + EU founding partners…a lot to unravel and look into - worth another video (s) right!?

    • @JackFN_VR64
      @JackFN_VR64 Рік тому +8

      what is the point though? what now? what are we supposed to to do with this information?

  • @CArnoldi1
    @CArnoldi1 Рік тому +18

    That older documentary about the Quandt family is called "Das Schweigen der Quandts" - "The Silence of the Quandts".

  • @Aleksandr.........
    @Aleksandr......... Рік тому +180

    I'm so glad I discovered this channel, incredible quality of investigative journalism and production. Can't wait to see what comes next!

    • @itseamuscallan7004
      @itseamuscallan7004 Рік тому

      Canadas SHAME ..
      Hochtief AG of Essen Germany . This Company created its start up Capital operating eleven slave labour Death Camps for the Nazis. They sucessfully safeguarded their Blood money after WW2 and subsequiently funded corporate criminality in South Africa / Greece / Australia . Notwithstanding , Hochtief AG entered Canada and took control of one of Canadas largest Construction companies ( Clark Builders ofEdmonton ) Hochtief AG is now funded by Canadian taxpayers through Federal and Provincial GVMNT Contracts
      Reply

    • @NazzTR
      @NazzTR Рік тому

      Not really, because you will never ever see stuff like „dark side of jew rich families“ or dark side of US army actions“ fuck the nazis and their leftovers, today the worlds richest people are jews but none puts a video about them lol kinda weird isnt it?

    • @jonathanbush6197
      @jonathanbush6197 Рік тому

      Yeah me too

  • @GeogieKristali
    @GeogieKristali 9 місяців тому +27

    Thanks for the video

    • @AnnaLizzy-nk9sl
      @AnnaLizzy-nk9sl 9 місяців тому

      Sometimes i wonder how people get
      rich at these days.

    • @judemichael8370
      @judemichael8370 9 місяців тому

      if you want to be successful have the
      mindset of the rich,spend less.

    • @lemdennis862
      @lemdennis862 9 місяців тому

      invest more. don't give up your dreams.
      people wants to do what the 99% does
      but wants to get results that are fit for
      the 1% but it doesn't work that way.

    • @jacobinsstephen8217
      @jacobinsstephen8217 9 місяців тому

      i advice everyone to start investing and
      never rely on just salary. No billionaire
      made it through salary.

    • @TomJessica-mm4hl
      @TomJessica-mm4hl 9 місяців тому +1

      Yes that's true

  • @_Devil
    @_Devil Рік тому +55

    Never ask:
    A woman, her weight
    A man, his height
    Klaus Schwab, what his father did between 1933 and 1945

    • @InnoPulsLab
      @InnoPulsLab Рік тому +2

      Hahaha 🤣 Good one 👍

    • @reditoao
      @reditoao Рік тому +1

      Never ask a German what their ancestors did in WW2. Bunch of Nazis descendants in denial.🤣😂🤣😂

    • @MsGyzy
      @MsGyzy Рік тому +3

      Also George Soros! 😂😂

  • @bluecoke6828
    @bluecoke6828 Рік тому +94

    It is so crazy to me how far above all of this happened, even so far that the "average" Person like me never even knew, or just a bit, about the way they got their wealth and the way they handled it

    • @BigManFloyd
      @BigManFloyd Рік тому +2

      nose

    • @watchRedIceTV
      @watchRedIceTV 10 місяців тому

      Germany's unforgivable crime before WW2 was its attempt to loosen its economy out of the world trade system and to build up an own exchange system from which the world-finance couldn't profit anymore.

    • @whome6618
      @whome6618 10 місяців тому +3

      Behind a mass fortune there is a high crime.

  • @ellamoony15
    @ellamoony15 5 місяців тому +9

    Please part 2! This was very interesting and eye opening.

  • @st_420
    @st_420 Рік тому +34

    By far your best video yet. Thank you for your research.

    • @LightPink
      @LightPink Рік тому +2

      The "research" is talking to one guy and reading his book.

    • @st_420
      @st_420 Рік тому +5

      ​@LightPink Bro, the Sources are in the description...

  • @ARTQTCA
    @ARTQTCA Рік тому +52

    Off brand German (Austrian) here - this video reminds me of when I had friends who worked at the Allianz insurance company at vocational school - every presentation about the company's history by those classmates made sure to mention where *that party* and its involvement with the company. It was shocking the first time I heard it but it just made a lot of sense that other companies who are still thriving also had party involvement - be it by choice or by coercion.

  • @floriangsks.8786
    @floriangsks.8786 Рік тому +49

    Its easy to forget these companies and their bad history while it is still influencing the society today. Thanks for the video

    • @cerenaseawell5753
      @cerenaseawell5753 Рік тому +1

      All wars are bankers' wars. The current Nazification of Ukraine was accomplished by the American and European Jews. The collaboration of American Jews with Banderites (self-proclaimed Ukrainian Nazis) was first manifested when the Kagans clan invited the prominent Banderite Dobriansky to sign PNAC (the neo-Talmudic project of world domination). Later on, Wolfowitz became involved with the Banderites as well. The 2014 regime change in Kiev was run openly by zionist Nuland-Kagan in collaboration with Parubyj, the founder of the Ukrainian Nazi Party. Immediately after the zionist-nazi putsch, the CIA helped to initiate a civil war against the people of Donbas. Mr. Kolmojsky, the President of the Jewish Community of Ukraine, founded and funded four Nazi battalions (including the Azov battalion loved by the Jewish Lobby) to protect his properties in Donbas. Ukraine was looted by Jewish oligarchs like Kolomojsky and Nazified by the US State Department (see NED) to be used as a patsy in a war against Russia.

    • @csabaszabo8624
      @csabaszabo8624 10 місяців тому

      are there sanctions to American companies involved in genocide and wars?

    • @zeeshanali2805
      @zeeshanali2805 20 днів тому

      Ask about British and American company involved in colonial and involvement in every war crime

  • @YuzuAndGin
    @YuzuAndGin 6 місяців тому +3

    I think I've binge watched this entire channel over the past 3 days. Does anyone have recommendations for similar channels?

  • @zv7ws
    @zv7ws Рік тому +39

    Just found out about this channel. If this is the standard you're setting then you've found a new fan. Good documentary, very interesting.

    • @vgames6792
      @vgames6792 4 місяці тому

      Not really just a "sophisticated" smear piece against AfD

  • @karius85
    @karius85 Рік тому +7

    "Some information should stay private, such as your personal data..." ...what a transition... I'm sure the Oetker family would argue that their data should remain "private" as well!

    • @tenderlovellcare
      @tenderlovellcare 7 місяців тому +1

      Absolutely agree with you here. They deserve their privacy. The same of their grandparents should not be placed on them.

  • @TakkuTK
    @TakkuTK Рік тому +47

    "Wer ohne Zwangsarbeit reich geworden ist, der werfe den ersten Bahlsenkeks."
    ("let him who got rich without forced labor cast the first Bahlsen cookie.")

    • @Kai-fk9jd
      @Kai-fk9jd Рік тому +11

      Don't tell this the USA, France, China, Great Britain, any country in the middle East

    • @christianmuller3814
      @christianmuller3814 Рік тому +3

      @@Kai-fk9jd and Japan, old Sovjet Member States, Spain etc.

    • @atlas956
      @atlas956 Рік тому +4

      even Sweden, Finland and Norway have some REALLY dark chapters regarding horrifying mistreatment of native populations…

    • @thewaldfe9763
      @thewaldfe9763 Рік тому +3

      Well, it's certainly true that hardly any of the super rich of today anywhere in the world have made their wealth without either themselves exploiting people or having inherited their wealth from such ancestors (aristocracy, colonialists, slave drivers, etc.).
      But it is very disturbing, that so many of them didn't get arrested during the Nuremberg trails!

  • @Matteo_depetris
    @Matteo_depetris 5 місяців тому +4

    Bro as a musician I gotta say your voice fits perfect to listen to for these type of videos

  • @mr_excellent3339
    @mr_excellent3339 Рік тому +8

    i came from simplicissimus and i love seeing the development of this channel.
    keep it up

  • @BjarneLiv
    @BjarneLiv Рік тому +29

    I literally had a Dr. Oetker advertisement the second you spoke the name 'Oetker'.

    • @aesopwolf3126
      @aesopwolf3126 2 місяці тому

      Bro its in the Video 💀💀💀

  • @Semicolon_0
    @Semicolon_0 Рік тому +59

    Its a shame, that companies or private property that were "germanised" (in german "Arisierung") while ww2 and taken from their owner and their new owner often didnt have to pay

    • @imGeistevereint
      @imGeistevereint Рік тому +4

      Why should these companies have to pay anything when the germanisation was forced upon them?

    • @Jesus_Kistus
      @Jesus_Kistus Рік тому

      Germanasation means that companys and private property where taken away from jews who got deported and killed and given to germans ( often high ranking nazi party members ) for free.

  • @heritagehomesJapan
    @heritagehomesJapan 10 місяців тому +4

    Emile Zola teaches us: ‘Behind every great fortune lies a great crime’
    They don’t come much greater than these.

    • @nicknolte8671
      @nicknolte8671 10 місяців тому

      I'm pretty sure Balzac wrote that, not Zola.

  • @devdeev3675
    @devdeev3675 Рік тому +10

    huge props for putting out such quality vids so quickly

  • @speed_freak_1001
    @speed_freak_1001 Рік тому +16

    “A little humility goes a long way.” Billionaires’ kids should learn that right from day one.

    • @DreamersOfReality
      @DreamersOfReality 5 місяців тому

      Impossible. In order to stay billionaires, the wealthy must remain corrupt, and willing to do whatever it takes to stay on top. There are no ethical billionaires. Somewhere down the line, there are always people or countries being squeezed for all their blood. That is just the truth of empire.

  • @JustPyroYT
    @JustPyroYT Рік тому +38

    I'm honestly speechless...
    I haven't seen such a good video in a very long time.

    • @camorraII1
      @camorraII1 Рік тому

      It's not very in-depth though. Good video, but it would be interesting to go about more than just three families and also to dig deeper! Im sure a lot of declassified CIA documents from the time can be found!

    • @rinmartell2678
      @rinmartell2678 10 місяців тому

      @@camorraII1They portrayed three corporates / families as an example. It helps to paint the picture. If you want to evaluate every german company, you would need a series with every video discussing another family. At the end of the day you can google it. Just google German brands and what they did during WWII

  • @DostoevskyGrandson
    @DostoevskyGrandson Рік тому +10

    it's not only in Germany, it's in every country that suffered destruction from war. That chaotic period allows people to gain companies, lands, properties for very low ammounts of money. Who wants a company in a country aflicted by war. I'm from Croatia and here the same happened, many people got very very rich because of war.

  • @nicki419
    @nicki419 Рік тому +7

    I had a two week internship at the Varta Plant in Hannover, now Clarios. I was actually told about the history, though not in great detail. It was mentioned rather superficially.

  • @yikangyap5253
    @yikangyap5253 Рік тому +37

    This has to be another case of how companies got too big and a country wldnt survive without them, just like how America had to literally save GM and Lockheed Martin

    • @highestpeeqs9532
      @highestpeeqs9532 7 місяців тому +1

      Jesus loves yall, died for us, and rose again! Jesus calls for all of us to repent! He's coming back..

    • @koalaplays8855
      @koalaplays8855 5 місяців тому +4

      @@highestpeeqs9532stop copy and pasting this over and over again, it makes your religion look bad and it’s really annoying.

  • @nsch9868
    @nsch9868 Рік тому +6

    High quality production video! More please!

  • @Givemeanamebruh
    @Givemeanamebruh 5 місяців тому +3

    Great vid. The pronunciation of german was so pleasing to hear too.

  • @changedname2244
    @changedname2244 Рік тому +14

    It's not only the billionaires though. There was a concentration camp in my hometown and the local companies (ex. bakery, a gmbh that owned and leased a residential quarter etc.) also used forced labor. And they also still exist and of course don't try to draw attention to their crimes.
    People are often in denial that the population knew about the camps but it is just not true. Unless the camp had an extra train station, prisoners first had to walk from the local train station to the camp. You simply can't miss that for years.
    Most of my city's tourists are here for the memorial and they walk the same path those prisoners had to walk, right through the center.
    Everybody knew. There have even been records of a child asking sb from the SS about murderings of prisoners of war.
    Internationally Germany may be praised for the "Erinnerungskultur" but it's really not enough. I suppose it beats persecuting those who expose their country's war crimes or pushing national pride instead of teaching their own wrongdoings, too.

  • @-kittn-
    @-kittn- Рік тому +9

    Certified Fern gang classic

  • @genie9262
    @genie9262 Рік тому +9

    I appreciate the efforts you put into making these videos , thank you

  • @_framedlife
    @_framedlife 8 місяців тому +18

    British companies have a similar dark history of slave labor in Asia and Africa. would love to see a video on that too

  • @mxfoedl5448
    @mxfoedl5448 Рік тому +18

    Once again an amazingly edited video.
    I really like your style of telling stories.

  • @ian01gd10
    @ian01gd10 Рік тому +9

    Danke dass mir das englische Simplicissimus empfohlen wird. Feier euch Jungs ☺️

    • @skorp5677
      @skorp5677 Рік тому +5

      Dieser Kanal ist eine Kooperation mit dem Niederländischen UA-camr Hoog. Sein Content könnte dir auch gefallen :)

  • @Mollikar
    @Mollikar Рік тому +9

    LOL well JP Morgan/Chase and New York Life both accepted African slaves as property and collateral and they dont get any crap for it, hell we bailed them out.

  • @sadfacethebum5249
    @sadfacethebum5249 Місяць тому

    This might be the best UA-cam channel I've never watched before today

  • @guitarsounds.
    @guitarsounds. Рік тому +19

    This video is very interesting. The information is well researcht and well sumerized. I like such videos about the mysterious hisory which contains so much information. We should learn from the past in order to avoid such terrible incidents. In the future we should try to end slave labor because there is still child and also slave labor in the world.
    Thank you for this nice video.

  • @ixian_technocrat
    @ixian_technocrat Рік тому +4

    This explains why the Nazis tried so hard to keep the Soviets at bay as long as possible while not putting that much effort to combat the West in the latter part of the war. The Soviet confiscated all of this Nazi family wealth, whereas in Western Germany, things stayed the same for top class.

  • @Fer-wj6uv
    @Fer-wj6uv 7 місяців тому

    you're actually so underrated your content is so entertaining

    • @toreadoress
      @toreadoress 7 місяців тому

      The guy has almost a million subscribers and has millions of views on plenty of his videos, plus it's still relatively new channel under a year, his last video is under 2 days old and already has almost 400k views in less than couple of days. I don't question the quality of his content, because it's truly great, but that's definitely not what "so underrated" means.

  • @rudynathan8852
    @rudynathan8852 Рік тому +16

    My dutch grandfather from rotterdam was a forced laborer in Germnay together with 50.000 other able bodied men from the city of Rotterdam. This is never really talked about.

  • @omarbahrour
    @omarbahrour Рік тому +7

    Very interesting, and in my opinion very well prepared and presented by you. This is the type of longer video I’m always hoping to find on UA-cam.

  • @jamescagney1965
    @jamescagney1965 Рік тому +28

    A similar investigation into the history of Germany's current poltical parties would also be very interesting. The Nazi's didn't disappear after WWII, they just re-branded.

  • @heidekathrine4433
    @heidekathrine4433 9 місяців тому +4

    It's really wonderful to come across people who freely share valuable information online. You never know what kind of knowledge you might stumble upon that could have a lasting impact on your life.

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      @ferdihendrik8086 9 місяців тому

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      @ferdihendrik8086 9 місяців тому

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      @jeanneberengere8063 9 місяців тому

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      @ferdihendrik8086 9 місяців тому

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      @ferdihendrik8086 9 місяців тому

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  • @CancermanPL
    @CancermanPL Рік тому +2

    This is how you source and present the sources!

  • @WeItenspinner
    @WeItenspinner Рік тому +20

    This video should be also available in German. It is important to understand, where the privat money the AfD has came from.

    • @Steindaemon
      @Steindaemon Рік тому +15

      It has subtitles for german so everybody who is interested should be able to watch it

  • @DDxRaptor
    @DDxRaptor Рік тому +17

    One of the main issues that arose after WWII was that the people/companies in question with big names in the german industry were "used" to build up the country again. In Germany, we call the time of the 50's/60's the years of the "Wirtschaftswunder" (economic miracle) where the country managed to rebuild its' industry in a comparatively short time and grew ~185 % between 1950-1963. Companies like BMW, Schwarz, Dr. Oetker and others were also responsible for this.
    When I think about it, it almost feels like that back in the 50's, agreements had been made between the occupation forces, the new german government and the biggest names in the german industry, whitewashing roles (and sometimes crimes) of influencal people in the time of the 3rd Reich in exchange of helping Germany to get the economy running again. It's dirty, but I guess it was also a more or less necessary evil for Germany as a whole. Interesting and disgusting enough, the same is true for many politicians, doctors, judges and other people in that time period, many of these people had roles in the NSDAP and/or the Nazi system before the end of WWII. Those people were often kept in their former positions because there haven't been that many people left that could do those jobs since the Nazis got rid of a large part of their internal enemies.

    • @Rasakson
      @Rasakson Рік тому +3

      thanks for your insight, this is exactly what many people seem to forget

    • @astupiddvdcase
      @astupiddvdcase Рік тому

      Probs similar stories in postwar japan

  • @jerd739
    @jerd739 Рік тому +9

    Great video!!!

  • @karakadir8860
    @karakadir8860 2 місяці тому

    this guy‘s documentaries are such high quality and so informative

  • @CaptCanuck4444
    @CaptCanuck4444 9 місяців тому +2

    This was very well done. Subscribed.

    • @vgames6792
      @vgames6792 4 місяці тому

      well i just unsubscribe, i had bad feeling when he mentioned belincat as a source of information in other episode, and this was just anti AfD piece

  • @kalankaneni
    @kalankaneni Рік тому +4

    Problem is not with the heirs It's the fact that the "upper class" always get away with actual murder

  • @MyReiners
    @MyReiners Рік тому +5

    Why is that so surprising? Of course, what do people believe the NAZI regime fell and there were no more former leaders with NSDAP? Of course, a lot of business leaders during the war were also after the war. Al lot of Japanese companies have a WWII past and as such families as the Toyoda family. You can also say that the British and Dutch royal family wealth has links to slave trade. The Belgian royal family have links with Colonial Congo as a lot of Rich families today in Belgium. Also a lot of industry in Germany was already there before WWI like the Thyssen and Krupp families. So it goes way back towards the 19 century. Supporters were also the von Opel family, von Finck family. You can also say this for the Ford family (also used Used slave/forced labor), or the share holders of IBM

  • @-ilham1371
    @-ilham1371 8 місяців тому +1

    I usually never subscribe to youtube channels but this channel deserves it

  • @OleJanssen
    @OleJanssen Рік тому +33

    Well, I am not surprised. At the time, being a Nazi was such an economic advantage that it is only natural that so many of those who embraced their ideology had great economic success during the Nazi era.
    Also, I don't think there are many German companies that existed at the time and weren't involved in forced labor, as it was very convenient for businesses and socially accepted at the time. And those few who decided they wanted nothing to do with forced labor would easily be outcompeted by those who employed prisoners.
    I was born into a family of farmers, and I can assure you, literally every farm in Germany had one or two prisoners at the time.
    Additionally, I think that everyone should have a look at their own family history, as almost every German has at least a couple ancestors who were Nazis, Nazi beneficiaries, or war criminals, and I believe that this is also true for people from other countries and their respective atrocities.
    This is also why so many Nazis didn't receive a lot of punishment after the war. If everyone actually got the appropriate punishment for their crimes, they would have had to lock up basically every single businessman, teacher, official, politician, etc.

    • @motionpictures6629
      @motionpictures6629 Рік тому +5

      You're right, every German should take a look into his family. I found two very interesting people: My 1/4 Jewish great-grandmother Dorothea Auguste Tietz and her son, Wilhelm Max Schindke, a Nazi war criminal and head of the Gestapo in Amsterdam, who become a rich industrialist at the end of the war. Two sides of the story in just one branch of my family tree.
      I can't prove it but according to my DNA, it is quite likely that the guy who arrested Anne Frank was a 1/8 Jewish SS guy who was a fourth grad cousin of Anne Frank and Charles de Gaulle
      The Tietz family was a famous Jewish family from a suburb of the city of Schneidemühl/Pila where my great-grandmother was born and a lot of the Jewish genes I inherited are shared with Jews called Frank who life in New York.
      It is just circumstantial evidence, but it is a crazy story.

    • @alixmordant489
      @alixmordant489 Рік тому +7

      Absolutely. Most people were guilty. But everyone knew at least someone who actively participated. My family is no exception. I know very little. But enough to know that Germany got away with it in a way, thanks to the Cold War and the attention focusing on Stalin and Co.

    • @nedthestaffieegan3452
      @nedthestaffieegan3452 Рік тому +2

      I am not German, I'm Irish. I'm genuinely impressed with a lot of the comments here, and the overall sentiment of wanting to know the truth of one's ancestral origins. This takes courage, as it's unknown what might be uncovered and shows integrity. This is not something that is reflected in my country, as there is more of a culture of glossing over the past and avoidance of the darker aspects of our history. This is a genuine question and I don't wish to cause offense, but is it really worthwhile to go digging into what our grandparents might have been involved in? The reason I ask is that my impression of the German people (from an outsiders perspective and a generalisation) is that they have done a great deal of soul searching to try and reconcile the past. I'm not sure if any other nation have collectively faced their past and brought the darkness out in the open. It's possible that a certain number of older generations who were adults at the time might have been sympathetic or actively involved in what was going on....but is there any point in everyday individuals who aren't billionaires dredging up the past, and potentially bringing up trauma for their families? This is in no way supporting avoiding the past or exonerating those who were guilty of wrongdoings, but it's more about allowing successive generations some peace. There's nothing wrong with conducting investigations as a part of historical research, but when it comes to normal folk who are just trying to exist, I think they deserve some peace. The unfortunate reality is, if there weren't any business people to keep things going, there is no way Germany would have survived in any economic sense. Yes, there were some beneficiaries and opportunists who profited enormously....but that is better than the whole economy collapsing where it might never have recovered. I have a soft spot for Germany and German people, as I admire their willingness to confront reality and be forthright. There's not many countries that would have pulled out of such a disaster after WW2, only to build the economy into one of the strongest in Europe.

    • @motionpictures6629
      @motionpictures6629 Рік тому +1

      @@nedthestaffieegan3452 yes, everybody should know. Why would it be traumatic to know?
      The story about my 1/4 Jewish great-grandmother and her Nazi son taught me a lot about human nature.
      He either had cognitive dissonance or overcompensated being German.
      How can you hunt Jews and fell good about it when you know that your own mother would be categorized as a Jew for having one Jewish grandparent and a Jewish surname.
      Additionally, you realize that you can't blame whole families, the brother of the Nazi talked proudly about his famous Jewish ancestors at a time when most Germans still hated Jews.
      He always said he would go shopping at Tietz, the former Jewish name of Germanys biggest department store and the maiden name of his mother. The stores were "arianist" and renamed into Kaufhof in the 30s.
      The Nazi brother died alone, in his massive mansion, without any family,
      the other son had two kids, 8 grandkids when he died surrounded by a loving family.

    • @OleJanssen
      @OleJanssen Рік тому +5

      @@nedthestaffieegan3452 This is not about feeling guilty for what our ancestors have done, nor do I personally think it is a psychological burden.
      We Germans spend so much time and resources researching and analysing our nation's past, and therefore to me it seems only logical to know my own connection to all of this.
      Also, I feel like this gives a whole new perspective on the kind of people that did those atrocities. After all, it is fairly easy to just stamp all Nazis as pure evil. But looking at my family history, I clearly see that they still were loving parents and grandparents like any other.
      That in my opinion is actually very helpful to understand National socialism on an individual level. People often look down onto history from a bird's eye view, knowing the larger events and stuff, but don't really analyse a contemporary individual's point of view. And that in my opinion is important to prevent history from repeating itself.

  • @dwightchaos9449
    @dwightchaos9449 Рік тому +7

    I knew Quandt family family in Wisconsin where I grew up. The area was known for having many German immigrants settle there:
    I wonder if they were related?

  • @kolisri
    @kolisri Рік тому +6

    id just like to point out that the term kristallnacht is euphemistic so the use of reichspogromnacht for example would be much more appropriate

  • @kkon5ti
    @kkon5ti Рік тому +4

    I can only recommend „Krupp - eine deutsche Familie“ (a German Family)

  • @hackerman.1337
    @hackerman.1337 Рік тому +10

    Idk why no one talks about Oppenheimer and America, thy also killed a lot of people in Hiroshima and always take as excuse that they had to fight the Nazis, but are as same as bad a Germany, and there are a lot of other countries that also did very bad things.

    • @csabaszabo8624
      @csabaszabo8624 10 місяців тому +1

      lets not forget the American companies involved in producing killing machines (guns, armies) and in wars (Vietnam, Iraq, Cambodia, Serbia killing millions).

    • @ratedRblazin420
      @ratedRblazin420 2 місяці тому

      Lol 😆

  • @Nrwspg
    @Nrwspg Рік тому +7

    Nice video, love the quality

  • @blackkite-studio5423
    @blackkite-studio5423 Місяць тому +1

    You fogot the big fish : Ferdinand Porsche

  • @insertacoin738
    @insertacoin738 Рік тому +5

    Magnificent production quality, keep it up

  • @rexrina
    @rexrina Рік тому +4

    Thanks for the Video. It’s very Important to never forget what they did

    • @myleghurts3546
      @myleghurts3546 Рік тому

      Lets all remember what the jews are doing too: always claiming they were victims. There were much more people than them who died but who cares about non-jews, right?

  • @dimiili7212
    @dimiili7212 Рік тому +5

    Every nation has dark points of their history: think about Vietnam war, first use of Nuclear weapons....

    • @asdfasdfsf7177
      @asdfasdfsf7177 6 місяців тому

      China and Korea still don't view the first use of atomics as dark considering what Japan did to them.
      And you won't find a single historian able to claim that a mainland invasion of Japan would've caused fewer innocent deaths.
      History isn't black and white and war is a terrible thing.

  • @Smkpt42
    @Smkpt42 8 місяців тому +2

    I've watched bout half your videos.
    Slowly becoming one of my fav channels.

  • @viktorpetukhov727
    @viktorpetukhov727 Рік тому +5

    You know, if I were a pow from eastern front, I'd rather be used as forced labor on a cookies factory, than at a coal mine or steel production.
    Dark times are not a topic to hide if you don't want it to repeat

  • @carocardozo1507
    @carocardozo1507 11 місяців тому +7

    Finally somebody talks about it. When I was in germany they would never accept that their actual economy is based on forced labor during wars and even after. They were so many work camps around germany and all of them where always picture for them as "way better than concentration camp" like is that suppose to make it less awful???

  • @donaldcunningham7490
    @donaldcunningham7490 Рік тому +8

    Forgot about Klauss Schwab

  • @TianmingHu-y8c
    @TianmingHu-y8c 19 днів тому +1

    Every large business definitely has some kinds of concealed or already revealed dark history

  • @zhhey
    @zhhey Рік тому +5

    Informative, now make one on Japan

    • @mitonaarea5856
      @mitonaarea5856 Рік тому

      You can read on wiki on what happened to the Zaibatsu. Most of them were forced to renounce their family business. There is a good video on Asianometry "how Japan eat the rich" or something like that. You should watch that video.

    • @justsomeguywithoutamustach9322
      @justsomeguywithoutamustach9322 Рік тому +2

      Include US too

  • @kenyox3547
    @kenyox3547 Рік тому +6

    Great video. I am german and I had no clue that so big companys where involved in this.

    • @Steindaemon
      @Steindaemon Рік тому

      I think the only reason why those big companies survived the Nazi "clean ups" was that they supported the regin

    • @eyeswideopen7777
      @eyeswideopen7777 Рік тому

      Such ignorance but you guys patronise strangers for not being educated 😅😅😅

  • @splintervanderhorst8941
    @splintervanderhorst8941 4 місяці тому +1

    i really admire the work you put in your videos, the detail and explanation.
    edit: are u dutch?

  • @nutzeeer
    @nutzeeer Рік тому +17

    germany seems like the only country being willingly conscious about the past as being thr bad guys.. a world wide unique trait.

    • @rexthewolf3149
      @rexthewolf3149 Рік тому +1

      Because Germany wronged Europeans and as a result they were forced to be repentant. The west could care less about what happened elsewhere.

    • @swagkachu3784
      @swagkachu3784 Рік тому

      ​@@rexthewolf3149nobody is forced since 30 years

    • @SirCavas
      @SirCavas Рік тому

      @@swagkachu3784 13 years*

    • @tedbed1389
      @tedbed1389 Рік тому +1

      The "openness" is only nominal. They are still trying to rule Europe. Playing powergames with Russia like the good ol' 1930's or 1700's

  • @TrueLoveGuard
    @TrueLoveGuard Рік тому +5

    I think one of the more brazen lies told to people is that war has no victors. Interesting how we talk about the unpunished profiteers of the past. But what about those who profit of wars right this moment?
    Good video. Take it as a lesson for today.

  • @leonhardschmidt9506
    @leonhardschmidt9506 Рік тому +9

    This is a really great video. Forme personally it is also posted at a perfect timing. I just went last week to Ravensbrück near Berlin where one of the biggest women Working Camps still stands to this day. There for example Siemens used slave labour and just started uncovering their nazi past after they were pressured into it.