First line of the video: "The man known to history as Ernst Kaltenbrunner.." One could more simply say "Ernst Kaltenbrunner." By unnecessarily complicating the subject, this video reveals it is source is German in the very first line.
Three times I heard the verbum "orchestrate". An absurdity in connection with these antihuman monsters. WHY? A weird and perverted modern use of language.
Thank you for creating these series- the reminder to the world that democracy always should be chosen over dictatorship regime to avoid tyranny and tragedies
Not immaterial at all. Studies were conducted following the Nuremberg trials which prove that people do, in fact, generally follow orders regardless of how controversial they are. If yoir choices are fighting on the front in a losing war vs. engaging in heinous acts that are far less risky to life and limb, you will probably choose the latter.
The scar is referred to as a "Schmiss". It was a sought after and honored scar/ proof of a fencing battle with a sharp weapon in fencing in a so-called "Schmeissende Studenten Verbindung", a university students house that has real fencing battles. They were declared illegal some time after WWll. Most of those scars can be found on men of the upper class from ca. 1900 on. They almost always are on the left cheek and aline from the area of just below of the eye to the mouth. Many Nazis had them and if one looks at old pics, plenty show them. It sure was not a scar from a "car accident". One of the brothers of my grandmother had it and many of his friends did, too. I grew up with plenty of old men with scars singing temperamental songs, drinking beer. BTW, those Student Verbindung were at all major universities in Germany and Austria.
Many will be surprised as to how many senior SS men were in fact not Germans, but Austrians. The Austrians did their best after the war to convince everybody that their country had also had been a victim of Hitler's expansion policy, but the truth is that the great majority of Austrians welcomed the "Anschluss" in 1938, and many Austrians rose high in the ranks of the SS and the Wehrmacht. Oh, and not to forget that the big Nazi boss himself, Hitler, was also an Austrian!
Also the western Germans always said the bad Germans were from eastern Germany but when you studied history actually a lot of southern Bavarians were hardcore SS . Which I always argued that point 43 years ago when stationed there .
Austrians are ethnic Germans, just like the Prussians were. The only reason why Austria and Germany didn’t end up in one state after the WW1 was that the allies didn’t allow it. They didn’t want to reward Germany with more territory after lost war.
The Anschluss was not only bloodless, my mother was by coincidence on holiday in Salzburg when it happened and she always said that the Austrians were ecstacic and totally supported the Union with Germany.
The world was a different place, whilst we can judge, we must understand the financial difficulties, Germany promised peace, and financial stability. They lied through their teeth, but this is at a time where reading and arithmetic weren't expected from the working class.
My uncle was a crew member on the plane that flew Kaltenbrunner and a few others to the Nuremberg trials. I have an old photo of the group that was being taken to the trial as well as an original flight manifest that lists those who were on the plane. Loved this documentary and thought you might like a little more information. Would love to share these images with you. Not sure how to do it.
Yeah. It never occurred to me either. But in our defense we probably just assumed that they were all monsters doing monstrous things and the who wasn't really important? But now we know.
It's funny how people are saying that to avoid such regimes ones must study to be knowledgeable so nothing like this happens again. Here the guy even studied at the university and earned Phd , still committing huge crimes against humanity.
Henry Kissinger is also a Phd holder and an advocate of the current US policy in Ukraine that has led to the death of over 500,000 men there, mainly Ukrainians.
They’d have us believe that the poor and uneducated perpetrate these atrocities. In fact it’s the opposite and they just get others to do their dirty work.
@@GeorgeKopelasYou forgot that Russia invaded illegally Ukraine and that Russia broke several treaties and violates international law. Any reason why you missed that illegal invasion of Russia?
@@Roz-y2dWho is that they? We have detailed records and it is public knowkedge what backgrounds they have. It is in dizens of pubkications of historians
The narrator asked why Kaltenbrunner was chosen for his high job... In nazi hierarcy one had to look around and especially behind to make sure any party "genosse" is not trying to get his office. So one possibility is that K was chosen because he was tought to be "safe", not trying to elbow his boss out...
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Orator presented the documentary very well. Class A research project.
He was a monster towards the defenceless. With such people, at the end he was a coward for lying to disassociate himself from his crimes. May he rot in hell.
I picked up a comment somewhere that Kaltenbrunner said, when sentenced to 'Death by Hanging' that 'It's very bad, no-one in our family has ever been hung before'.
@@OpalBLeigh Isn't the difference this? The man hung from a rope (was hanging there) because someone hanged him there? To hang someone not being the same as hanging somewhere.
Although Kaltenbrunner wasn't present at the infamous "Wannsee Konferenz" in January 1942, during which the socalled "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (die Endlösung der Judenfrage) was debated and resolved, it came as no surprise to me that he was also a lawyer, as were about two thirds of the participants at the conference, some having even Doctorates, including SS Standartenführer Dr. Rudolf Lange, the commander of the SS execution squads in Estonia and Lettland.
Walter Shellenberg head of the unified German secret services(after the arrest of Admiral Canaris) in his memoars gives a detailed account of his portrait, 'Heydrich- complex' and countless incidents after his appointment as Chief of the Sd.
@@xminusone1 It all depends on location and time. Nowadays people in Europe are on average taller than during WWII. Also on average people in western Europe are taller than in the USA. And on average people in The Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Germany are somewhat taller than in France.
@@leighlowe1069 It all depends on location and time. Probably the type of food plays the biggest role in the size difference of people in the USA and in western Europe for instance. Here in western Europe every generation is slightly bigger than the last on average. Visiting the USA I feel big with my 6 foot 4 but in Western Europe I do no stand out. Many here have my size or more.
Not in defense but only to put things in perspective. The attitudes towards homosexuality, (chemical) castration, etc. weren't that much different in Britain at the time. I would just like to refer to the fate of Alan Turing (mathematical genius of Bletchley Park renown) after the war.
No but they lost the war so they were sent to a trial and condemned to death. Meanwhile stalin was doing way worse for years before and after and was praised for it.
Trying and imprisoning Alan Turin was disgraceful. However, in England it wasn't common practice, to torture and murder homosexual persons, so it is not correct to say things were the same, is it.
Perhaps the most detailed summary of how much slack Britain and France gave Hitler in the beginning. Excellent history. Takes this long before all of the dead are allowed to speak.
Facial scars from fencing duels were a long tradition in Prussian society… as a mark of manhood. Those anticipating a military or political career would acquire them deliberately before leaving school.
@@richardtorr4553 ? You are unaware of the proliferation of tattoos, piercings, and scarification in todays culture? I’m unaware of any Prussian with studded tongue or genitalia. Perhaps the twisted mentality has increased?
@@mirekmontepuro5330 Yes you are right. Those rapier swords were lightning-fast and so deadly in real combat. A small but fast and agile person was at a great advantage to the bigger, perhaps less fast opponent.
@@richardtorr4553 Nah, it's totally understandable from a social/interpersonal point of view. It projects some kind of authority/power, a hardened image.
I doubt that will ever happen!....Although the truth is (as they say) out there,however,not to be found in Europe or anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere!
@Syd McCreath Hitler, Stalin, Saddam, Ayatollah, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Mussolini Tojo. That's over 100,000,000 dead right there. You have the temerity to shit talk a Democracy for using Nukes to end a war it didn't start. Your are hilarious.
@Syd McCreath are you actually being serious? Every civilization that has resulted in 10’s of millions of its own people being killed has always been from a dictatorship. I know you woke folks look for any reason to demonize the west but please do a little homework.
If you get a chance read "The Nuremberg interviews" It's a collection of interviews by American psychiatrist Leon Goldensohn of the major war criminals in the trial. Fascinating read.
This monster of human being was a psychopath who felt honored to cause the massive killing of innocent people. He pushed this forward, he didn't simply go along. This was extremely interesting. . Thanks for posting it
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It's an unfortunate fact of Norwegian history that Norway had many sympathizers and traitors who stood with Germany. Some Norwegian generals supported Germany and didn't want to fight German troops. Norway also made no real attempt to save its Jews, unlike many other countries in Europe. The dirty secret that no one in Norway today wants to talk about is that many Norwegians supported the Holocaust and turned Jews over to the Gestapo. Even Finland protected its Jews; when Hitler asked Mannheim about his 'Jewish problem', he said "We have no Jewish problem.'
@@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz I am Norwegian, and I can verify what you are writing. The jews in Norway were arrested by totally ordinary Norwegian policemen. Very few policemen sabotaged the roundup and deportation order.
This may have just been a rumor, but it was said that both Heydrich and Kaltenbrunner, although tough and frightening looking were actually whining and self-pitying, often complaining and claiming that everyone was against them.
Propaganda! Reinhard was neither whining nor self-pitying evidenced when badly injured by grenade shrapnel he still bravely chased his assassins until he collapsed from loss of blood.
Personally I think he was already a nut case by the time he was appointed to the position, so the fact that he not only continued the reign of terror already in place but made it even more ruthless and oppressive really isn't too surprising for me. Frankly ANYONE who would willingly look the other way at stuff like this and say nothing against it is a nut case much less someone willing to be involved in the activities of such horror and they ought to take a good look at themselves.
For me, Kaltenbrunner is the most terrifying of all the top ranked nazis, surpassing even Himmler and Heydrich. One fact not mentioned here: Kaltenbrunner's connection to the infamous Dirlewanger brigade.
No one topped Heydrich in the realm of evil. All top Nazi's were afraid of him. After hearing of his assassination, the first thing Himmler did was go hunting for his files. He kept a file on everyone. William L. Shirer called him a "long--nosed, icy-eyed, killer", and it fit. He was the ultimate Nazi.
@@jamiegumm4398 They were ALL the epitome of evil, each in his own right. One not less than the other. They were all brutal massmurderers and staunch antisemitism, extremely cruel, murdering millions of innocent hyman beings, including children, babies, infants, old and frail, all just because they were Jewish in the cruelest undescribable methods only sick minds ad THESE names could have invented
History is repeating itself. Concentration camps were an invention of the British in South Africa where they imprisont women and children in concentration camps, starved them to death in an attempt to subjugate the Boers between 1899 and 1902. Look at what China CCP is doing to specific minorities nowadays and it becomes obvious that history is still repeating itself.The jewish community is trying to remind the world that such crimes should never be repeated, but narrowminded poeple only have the tunnel vision that these attempts of the jewish communities and the State of Israel are only focused on crimes against Jews, which is not the case.
If he knew earlier what his destiny was I wonder if he would have chosen the same career path? I doubt it, people like him trample on anyone to get promoted . What is really sinister is that he came from a privileged background, and had all the advantages in life yet he still knowingly chose to be a mass murderer, really scary to think all this horror is continuing all around us today, if you don't believe me just watch the news....young teenagers forced to face machine guns against their will, so sad. I wonder how many young students, still only boys, have to die before the politicians are satisfied? Do we really want a third world war? We have only just finished paying for the last one!
Most informative video about this historical person( Ernst Kaltenbrunner 👌 👏🏻 👍🏻 & his foot steps inside Nazism political & prosecution's current in ( Austria 🇦🇹, Germany 🇩🇪 ,Czechoslovakia)..too much interested coverage especially labeled to severe competition between Nazi party ( Austrian branches& Fascist party pro Italy ( Austrian Front fatherland party)over Austrian territories before formed annexation in 1939 ..allot thanks for sharing
Watching Hitler: The Rise of Evil - I'd love it if you guys could do a docu on Ernst Hanfstaengl. He seems like a very interesting person, his background, supporting Hitler, then the turning on him
heydrich was assassinated in /Prague itself not outside as the Narrator states though he lived outside Prague in a Operation Daybreak film is pretty accurate using exact locations in Prague1
Well if you want to get technical about it he was probably assassinated in the hospital by Himmler, who was fearful of his growing power and influence.
Far be it from me to question those learned jurists who sat on the bench during the Nuremberg Tribunal. Well, the US, UK, and French ones anyway. The Soviets didn’t want the trial at all and only wanted summary justice for their enemy and were completely unfamiliar with a real justice system that wasn’t controlled to elicit confessions and hand down party-approved sentences, but in the end acquiesced to American and British demands. I still have never been given a logical reason that the French were accorded co-equal “victor” status after the war, they didn’t do squat during it. That said, I can’t think of why anyone could question Kaltenbrunner’s fate. He earned it, let justice be done. And it was. Great video! Thank you.
And bring them together at the same time to enable the horrific events that followed. All the little coincidences that had to happen, it's mind boggling.
Totally fencing scars, and not that small sword/foil (French style) shown in the video. But long sword fencing (German) like Joachim Meyer (a Swede) School of fencing.
The Nazis had planned to invade Russia in April. There was an uprising in Yugoslavia which needed quelling which took until late May. This had a strong impact on delaying the invasion into places east of their Reich; a point generally forgotten.
Nice Video, thanks to author! Just one thing-I don't think it's correct to talk about "Russians". Soviets would be more reasoneable. Soviet Union itself was including not only Russians, but many other nationalities as well, which also played important role in WWII.
BOTH! In any militarized service regular or paramilitary, there is a machine with ongoing processes that you are just a part of when you enter - regardless of rank. He WAS, however, put in a position to steer policy. So, regardless, he is every bit ruthless and guilty as Heydrich was.
There are some anecdotal stories that Himmler was terrified of Kaltenbrunner and even complained to Hitler that he has to deal with him. Well done documentary, though.
27 million people were killed during ww2. That is over twice the population of Canada in 1945. Imagine the population of an entire country gone within 6 years.
I used to play "King of the Hill" when I was a youngster, which included knocking others off of the top of the dirt hill to finally be the triumphant one. It was fun as a youngster, but became a dumb idea as I grew up. Too bad grown men still play the same game they call war.
Many of the nazis said, "I was only obeying order" and were hanged. Later some medical doctors performed research in the USA which was of the same type as done in the concentration camps by doctor Mengele. Soldiers in Europe and USA are now told to question orders which are below the standard enforced, usually at home lest they become liable to be hanged for their actions.
Am I missing something or where is the content of the successor as per the video subject matter. 😝 This story lacked any sense to me with very few references to the content with the exception of the last few minutes. 😜
Adolf Hitler did NOT attend the Linz Gymnasium. Only the brightest primary school pupils of the Linz area would have gone there, roughly the top 10% if statistics for the whole of Austria are applicable to this region. Adolf Hitler didn't even make the next tier: Hauptschule Gruppe A. In fact, he entered the Realschule Linz as a Gruppe B student, the third cut. Below this group were only those pupils with no academic ability, (very few), and they were sent to Berufsbildende Höhere Schulen, which taught specific job skills, such as those used in the construction industry - not academic subjects. The Realschule Linz was NOT the Linz Gymnasium. Hitler insisted that his mother enrol him at the Realschule Steyr for his fifth and final year of "Middle School". He only earned the Realschule certificate of education after passing supplementary exams in French and mathematics, having failed these subjects first time. His physics, chemistry, geometry, and German were all at the lowest passing level. In other words, Adolf Hitler managed to obtain a Gruppe B (third tier) school certificate by the skin of his teeth. He was at the bottom of Gruppe B. Feel free to check these facts!
Imagine if he’d had a brain would he might of accomplished……mind you his puppet master’s wouldn’t want a freethinking tyrant …..after all they where calling the shots. 🤔
To respond to the question posed at the end of this excellent documentary, I feel that Kaltenbrunner was every bit as responsible as Heydrich for the atrocities of the Nazis. You just have to consider his lifelong adherence to extremism and his love of Nazi ideals. In no way was he simply a passive individual who was merely continuing the "work" of Heydrich. In fact, I believe that he would have been even worse (if that's possible for a senior Nazi) had he been given greater responsibility sooner.
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Terrible people freaking scumbags
Freaking killing innocent people I wish I met them bastards
Informercial producers should not be upvoted ever and should never be subscribed to.
First line of the video: "The man known to history as Ernst Kaltenbrunner.."
One could more simply say "Ernst Kaltenbrunner."
By unnecessarily complicating the subject, this video reveals it is source is German in the very first line.
Three times I heard the verbum "orchestrate". An absurdity in connection with these antihuman monsters. WHY? A weird and perverted modern use of language.
Thank you for creating these series- the reminder to the world that democracy always should be chosen over dictatorship regime to avoid tyranny and tragedies
Whether he was a functionary following order or an enthusiast is immaterial. He knew what he was doing.
Not immaterial at all. Studies were conducted following the Nuremberg trials which prove that people do, in fact, generally follow orders regardless of how controversial they are. If yoir choices are fighting on the front in a losing war vs. engaging in heinous acts that are far less risky to life and limb, you will probably choose the latter.
The scar is referred to as a "Schmiss". It was a sought after and honored scar/ proof of a fencing battle with a sharp weapon in fencing in a so-called "Schmeissende Studenten Verbindung", a university students house that has real fencing battles. They were declared illegal some time after WWll. Most of those scars can be found on men of the upper class from ca. 1900 on. They almost always are on the left cheek and aline from the area of just below of the eye to the mouth. Many Nazis had them and if one looks at old pics, plenty show them. It sure was not a scar from a "car accident". One of the brothers of my grandmother had it and many of his friends did, too. I grew up with plenty of old men with scars singing temperamental songs, drinking beer. BTW, those Student Verbindung were at all major universities in Germany and Austria.
If he got it whilst fencing that is.
Excellent information
Smüsse..many were cosmetic
That was a very interesting read. Thank you
Are Russia and Germany secretly in love? Russia is the motherland and Germany is the fatherland. But neither 1 has a child yet. 😢
The Austrians are a versatile people. They have convinced the world that Beethoven was Austrian and Hitler was German.
Hahaha. That’s funny but true.
Many will be surprised as to how many senior SS men were in fact not Germans, but Austrians. The Austrians did their best after the war to convince everybody that their country had also had been a victim of Hitler's expansion policy, but the truth is that the great majority of Austrians welcomed the "Anschluss" in 1938, and many Austrians rose high in the ranks of the SS and the Wehrmacht. Oh, and not to forget that the big Nazi boss himself, Hitler, was also an Austrian!
Sweden also provided the Nazis with much help
Many of the occupied countries had its Nazi sympathizers or collaborators with the exception of Denmark. They saved their Jews from the Germans.
Austrians or German. Non Germans were in the SS.
Also the western Germans always said the bad Germans were from eastern Germany but when you studied history actually a lot of southern Bavarians were hardcore SS . Which I always argued that point 43 years ago when stationed there .
Austrians are ethnic Germans, just like the Prussians were. The only reason why Austria and Germany didn’t end up in one state after the WW1 was that the allies didn’t allow it. They didn’t want to reward Germany with more territory after lost war.
The Anschluss was not only bloodless, my mother was by coincidence on holiday in Salzburg when it happened and she always said that the Austrians were ecstacic and totally supported the Union with Germany.
Yes, after end of the war they
played the victims of NS, not
to pay the war damages!
Many patriotic Austrians were enraged, to the extent that they actually enlisted in Allied armies and fought against Germany.
After facing the prospect of communists taking cover, can you blame them?
The world was a different place, whilst we can judge, we must understand the financial difficulties, Germany promised peace, and financial stability. They lied through their teeth, but this is at a time where reading and arithmetic weren't expected from the working class.
Very well done and informative. Thanks. GB
My uncle was a crew member on the plane that flew Kaltenbrunner and a few others to the Nuremberg trials. I have an old photo of the group that was being taken to the trial as well as an original flight manifest that lists those who were on the plane. Loved this documentary and thought you might like a little more information. Would love to share these images with you. Not sure how to do it.
Wow
Should have just chucked them all out when they reached altitude.
@@admiralbenbow5083 Yes - but who would have flown the plane...!?
o/
@@samulelawless The pilot.
Please get into contact with me. I am writing a book about Kaltenbrunner
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I had heard of the name but had no knowledge of the depth of his involvement .Excellent profile and documentary
Heydrich was such a monster yet I never considered who replaced him. Thanks for the history.
Yeah. It never occurred to me either. But in our defense we probably just assumed that they were all monsters doing monstrous things and the who wasn't really important? But now we know.
A thorough and detailed look at a man whose name I knew , but nothing more. Excellent and riveting!
as if they know much about him
yes idiots are dime a dozen@user-tu3bm6yq1b
Very well done! Thank you for these full length in depth documentaries.
What happened to his family, like brothers and parents, I seem to remember a wood machinery manufacturer with the same name.
Thanks!
Thank you!
Excellent documentary. Thanks so very much.
It's funny how people are saying that to avoid such regimes ones must study to be knowledgeable so nothing like this happens again. Here the guy even studied at the university and earned Phd , still committing huge crimes against humanity.
Henry Kissinger is also a Phd holder and an advocate of the current US policy in Ukraine that has led to the death of over 500,000 men there, mainly Ukrainians.
They’d have us believe that the poor and uneducated perpetrate these atrocities. In fact it’s the opposite and they just get others to do their dirty work.
@@GeorgeKopelasYou forgot that Russia invaded illegally Ukraine and that Russia broke several treaties and violates international law. Any reason why you missed that illegal invasion of Russia?
@@Roz-y2dWho is that they? We have detailed records and it is public knowkedge what backgrounds they have. It is in dizens of pubkications of historians
Some people never learn.
One of your best episodes TPP crew. Excellent stuff.
Crew? They didn’t make these films
Who did then?
@@trj1442 that’s a good question since if you search for this title on IMDb, you will find nothing
Never mind certain historical inaccuracies
You don't become complacent with genocide unless you're severely overcome by hatred.
Brainwashing goes a long way.having a less than intelligent and critical mind helps too
The narrator asked why Kaltenbrunner was chosen for his high job... In nazi hierarcy one had to look around and especially behind to make sure any party "genosse" is not trying to get his office. So one possibility is that K was chosen because he was tought to be "safe", not trying to elbow his boss out...
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Orator presented the documentary very well. Class A research project.
He was a monster towards the defenceless. With such people, at the end he was a coward for lying to disassociate himself from his crimes. May he rot in hell.
Oh he's burning all right. Being tormented for all eternity by his deeds. What a filthy skumbag human being. A complete failure of existence.
He is!
He could have turned to Jesus Christ repented and got saved you don't know if he did
@@chesterswortham5197Delusional
I picked up a comment somewhere that Kaltenbrunner said, when sentenced to 'Death by Hanging' that 'It's very bad, no-one in our family has ever been hung before'.
Isn't it, "hanged"?
@@jrt818 Both but "Hung" sounds better.
Pictures are hung; people are hanged!
@@OpalBLeigh Isn't the difference this? The man hung from a rope (was hanging there) because someone hanged him there? To hang someone not being the same as hanging somewhere.
@@OpalBLeigh He was hung years ago .
Watching from Greece.hi everybody.
Great documentary.
Very well put together..I loved it
Although Kaltenbrunner wasn't present at the infamous "Wannsee Konferenz" in January 1942, during which the socalled "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (die Endlösung der Judenfrage) was debated and resolved, it came as no surprise to me that he was also a lawyer, as were about two thirds of the participants at the conference, some having even Doctorates, including SS Standartenführer Dr. Rudolf Lange, the commander of the SS execution squads in Estonia and Lettland.
just found this channel-brilliant!
I love this channel. You might want to peep out absolute history as well
Welcome!
@Syd McCreath es ist eine Redewendung😀
I really enjoyed watching this documentary…. Well done 👍🏻
Excellent documentary!
Walter Shellenberg head of the unified German secret services(after the arrest of Admiral Canaris) in his memoars gives a detailed account of his portrait, 'Heydrich- complex' and countless incidents after his appointment as Chief of the Sd.
This guy was huge physically compared to Hitler and the other Nazis. He had to have custom-made uniforms. He was nearly seven feet tall.
6 ft 4
These higher ranking people all have custom made uniform. And he was 6.4. It's the same height as I am and it's not exceptionally tall.
@@xminusone1 It all depends on location and time. Nowadays people in Europe are on average taller than during WWII. Also on average people in western Europe are taller than in the USA. And on average people in The Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Germany are somewhat taller than in France.
@@leighlowe1069 It all depends on location and time. Probably the type of food plays the biggest role in the size difference of people in the USA and in western Europe for instance. Here in western Europe every generation is slightly bigger than the last on average. Visiting the USA I feel big with my 6 foot 4 but in Western Europe I do no stand out. Many here have my size or more.
@@OStam slavs and germanics (exception of brits who has same height as frenchies) are taller than any latin country
Not in defense but only to put things in perspective.
The attitudes towards homosexuality, (chemical) castration, etc. weren't that much different in Britain at the time.
I would just like to refer to the fate of Alan Turing (mathematical genius of Bletchley Park renown) after the war.
really ! Think you need to review the actions of the state in those countries …
He's right on that point.
No but they lost the war so they were sent to a trial and condemned to death. Meanwhile stalin was doing way worse for years before and after and was praised for it.
@@allenomalley4014 Turing was forcibly castrated cuz he was gay...
Trying and imprisoning Alan Turin was disgraceful. However, in England it wasn't common practice, to torture and murder homosexual persons, so it is not correct to say things were the same, is it.
He was just as cruel and merciless as Heydrich and deserved his own fate
Austrians are mean people.
I was writing the same thing,
when I read yours!
Oh shutup...
@@SwuaveWEB We do not
shut up, on the opposite we
write the truth even if you do
not like it!!
@@robertomeneghetti6215 Oh shutup.
great narrator. great channel!
Thanks
Thank you!
Perhaps the most detailed summary of how much slack Britain and France gave Hitler in the beginning. Excellent history. Takes this long before all of the dead are allowed to speak.
I heard about Operation Long Jump approx. one month ago for the first time, very interesting, thx for mentioning.
Excellent insight, danke!
Facial scars from fencing duels were a long tradition in Prussian society… as a mark of manhood. Those anticipating a military or political career would acquire them deliberately before leaving school.
My god, who on earth would want an ugly scar on their face? It's a wonder they were not blinded too, they must have been really mentally twisted.
@@richardtorr4553
? You are unaware of the proliferation of tattoos, piercings, and scarification in todays culture? I’m unaware of any Prussian with studded tongue or genitalia. Perhaps the twisted mentality has increased?
@@richardtorr4553 They protected their eyes.
@@mirekmontepuro5330 Yes you are right. Those rapier swords were lightning-fast and so deadly in real combat. A small but fast and agile person was at a great advantage to the bigger, perhaps less fast opponent.
@@richardtorr4553 Nah, it's totally understandable from a social/interpersonal point of view. It projects some kind of authority/power, a hardened image.
Thanks for posting.
You guys need to do a video on Hans Kammler
I doubt that will ever happen!....Although the truth is (as they say) out there,however,not to be found in Europe or anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere!
Excellent documentary
Himmler's last dirty trick..he left Kaltenbrunner holding the bag
Yes, but he didn’t last long, did he?
@@Roz-y2d No he did not Praise God!
This hits different in todays climate. History repeats itself, same play with different actors.
Western leaders killing people and putting them into camps to starve?
Yeah, Biden and the woke brigade. I'd include Harris but she's too stupid to even know she's vp of the USA.
@sydmccreath4554 You're an i diot if you think Iran is a Democracy.
@Syd McCreath Hitler, Stalin, Saddam, Ayatollah, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Mussolini Tojo. That's over 100,000,000 dead right there. You have the temerity to shit talk a Democracy for using Nukes to end a war it didn't start. Your are hilarious.
@Syd McCreath are you actually being serious? Every civilization that has resulted in 10’s of millions of its own people being killed has always been from a dictatorship. I know you woke folks look for any reason to demonize the west but please do a little homework.
I've actually got a biography of him on my bookshelf. It's an interesting read.
@Frank Skoda-Simmons Sure. It's called "Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Ideological Soldier Off the Third Reich", by Peter R. Black.
He is my hero. He was best man ever. A true loyal soldier serving his country and fuhrer to the end
If you get a chance read "The Nuremberg interviews"
It's a collection of interviews by American psychiatrist Leon Goldensohn of the major war criminals in the trial.
Fascinating read.
@@snapmalloy5556 I've got that one too.
I'll have to look it up. How far does it dig into his background and personal life?
Danke!
This monster of human being was a psychopath who felt honored to cause the massive killing of innocent people. He pushed this forward, he didn't simply go along. This was extremely interesting. . Thanks for posting it
Psychopathy seems to be a common trait among Germans.
Soviet Union invaded Poland from the East as Germany invaded from the West. Why is this hardly ever mentioned in 'History' programs.
Yes Stalin murdered over 60 million people compared with Hitlers 6 million
Even if he was only a replacement for Himmler or Heydrich, when you see what he done there is no question that he got the death penalty in Nürnberg
Dave Kivlen: Ernst was jailed in Austria for the Nazi cause and Hitler, who also had been jailed might have pushed for him replacing Heydrich.
I can listen to your voice forever, so comforting😊 you need to read bedtime stories for adults😂
yes, he's the best narrator on this channel.
Isn't it a computer generated voice though?
Bought a ‘98 Dodge 4 door in Highline trim new. I went for the 5 speed manual. I upgraded over the 8 years I had it by adding factory custom 5 spoke polished aluminum rims, performance engine parts and a factory spoiler. It took the SOHC up to the power of the DOHC and maybe a bit more. It handled great and was pretty quick. I even once managed an actual 50mpg on the highway. The only issue I had was leaking A/C and power steering rack and had to have both replaced. Rust was another issue even with dealer rust protection (always a joke). The engine was starting to clatter in the mornings but had about 175,000km. Unfortunately it was stolen and trashed. It was recovered but written off by insurance. Not a good pic though for collision safety though so not sure I would get another one. It worked at the time I needed it.
Bitte deutsche Übersetzung! Ich weiß, das wollen die Österreicher nicht, aber das muss auf den Tisch!
Denmark surrenderd the same day they got invaded, but Norway held out from 9th april. until june 10th. Infact longer than france heldout.
Because of landscape not because of norway's bravery lmao.
Yeah, Norway is over 1200 km long. Denmark is tiny.
Norway was still occupied when the war ended, the last country to be freed.
It's an unfortunate fact of Norwegian history that Norway had many sympathizers and traitors who stood with Germany. Some Norwegian generals supported Germany and didn't want to fight German troops. Norway also made no real attempt to save its Jews, unlike many other countries in Europe. The dirty secret that no one in Norway today wants to talk about is that many Norwegians supported the Holocaust and turned Jews over to the Gestapo. Even Finland protected its Jews; when Hitler asked Mannheim about his 'Jewish problem', he said "We have no Jewish problem.'
Shocking but true.
@@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz I am Norwegian, and I can verify what you are writing. The jews in Norway were arrested by totally ordinary Norwegian policemen. Very few policemen sabotaged the roundup and deportation order.
Superbly narratted
This may have just been a rumor, but it was said that both Heydrich and Kaltenbrunner, although tough and frightening looking were actually whining and self-pitying, often complaining and claiming that everyone was against them.
Propaganda! Reinhard was neither whining nor self-pitying evidenced when badly injured by grenade shrapnel he still bravely chased his assassins until he collapsed from loss of blood.
@@gerhardheydrich3146 he was a hero who could also play beautiful violin,his wife was a walkure also
that"s what psychopaths do they are wimps when they get the same treatment they dish out
@@paulx3827 Oh, well that’s alright then. All is forgiven if he could play beautiful violin. Hero my arse. 🤣🇬🇧
Personally I think he was already a nut case by the time he was appointed to the position, so the fact that he not only continued the reign of terror already in place but made it even more ruthless and oppressive really isn't too surprising for me. Frankly ANYONE who would willingly look the other way at stuff like this and say nothing against it is a nut case much less someone willing to be involved in the activities of such horror and they ought to take a good look at themselves.
Hahaha. You sound like an English schoolteacher. 🤣
@@Roz-y2d ha ha you think so? Just an american housewife right now, but I would like to study forensics psychology one day
I'm a big fan of his music. Kaltenbrunner has the dopest sets!
Good work 😄
At 43:39 one can see Stalin give a quick two hand signal.
For me, Kaltenbrunner is the most terrifying of all the top ranked nazis, surpassing even Himmler and Heydrich. One fact not mentioned here: Kaltenbrunner's connection to the infamous Dirlewanger brigade.
the butcher of Warsaw, austrian nazis were the bloodiest, that's for sure
He's burning in hell for all eternity now. God reigned this skumbag in delt with this German pos properly.
ALL of thrm were dispicsble barbaric mass murderer, I don't think one was less than thr other.
No one topped Heydrich in the realm of evil. All top Nazi's were afraid of him. After hearing of his assassination, the first thing Himmler did was go hunting for his files. He kept a file on everyone. William L. Shirer called him a "long--nosed, icy-eyed, killer", and it fit. He was the ultimate Nazi.
@@jamiegumm4398 They were ALL the epitome of evil, each in his own right. One not less than the other. They were all brutal massmurderers and staunch antisemitism, extremely cruel, murdering millions of innocent hyman beings, including children, babies, infants, old and frail, all just because they were Jewish in the cruelest undescribable methods only sick minds ad THESE names could have invented
Awesome story well done history that should not be forgotten or it will be repeated sadly ☠☠thank you for sharing this 👍👍
History is repeating itself. Concentration camps were an invention of the British in South Africa where they imprisont women and children in concentration camps, starved them to death in an attempt to subjugate the Boers between 1899 and 1902. Look at what China CCP is doing to specific minorities nowadays and it becomes obvious that history is still repeating itself.The jewish community is trying to remind the world that such crimes should never be repeated, but narrowminded poeple only have the tunnel vision that these attempts of the jewish communities and the State of Israel are only focused on crimes against Jews, which is not the case.
Really 😁😁😁
58:00 - Who are those people marching with crosses and shovels? Looks sinister.
He was a monster. What else can one say?
Who let him be a monster in full daylight?
Serial killers "work" more in the dark.
If he knew earlier what his destiny was I wonder if he would have chosen the same career path? I doubt it, people like him trample on anyone to get promoted . What is really sinister is that he came from a privileged background, and had all the advantages in life yet he still knowingly chose to be a mass murderer, really scary to think all this horror is continuing all around us today, if you don't believe me just watch the news....young teenagers forced to face machine guns against their will, so sad. I wonder how many young students, still only boys, have to die before the politicians are satisfied? Do we really want a third world war? We have only just finished paying for the last one!
@@ulrikjensen6841 Until they are given a chance to do everything legally and on larger scale and are encouraged to do so.
@@richardtorr4553 I am not quite sure which teenagers you are referring to: in Myanmar? Africa? Palestine? There are so many. It is sad.
@@tamaliaalisjahbana6849 well said!
Wow they were so tough and bad when things were going their way but became cowards when it can crashing down on them.
Did you know that in the movie return of the living dead, the guy that ran the funeral home was named Ernie Kaltenbrunner
Ernie is short for ernest and ernst is the German equivalent
+georgedunn7825. There’s also an Austrian football trainer named Ernst Kaltenbrunner. I wonder how he likes his name.
Doon Calfa RIP...and yes of course I did Jesus...!
Right on for mentioning Canadian troops
Most informative video about this historical person( Ernst Kaltenbrunner 👌 👏🏻 👍🏻 & his foot steps inside Nazism political & prosecution's current in ( Austria 🇦🇹, Germany 🇩🇪 ,Czechoslovakia)..too much interested coverage especially labeled to severe competition between Nazi party ( Austrian branches& Fascist party pro Italy ( Austrian Front fatherland party)over Austrian territories before formed annexation in 1939 ..allot thanks for sharing
Watching Hitler: The Rise of Evil - I'd love it if you guys could do a docu on Ernst Hanfstaengl. He seems like a very interesting person, his background, supporting Hitler, then the turning on him
heydrich was assassinated in /Prague itself not outside as the Narrator states though he lived outside Prague in a Operation Daybreak film is pretty accurate using exact locations in Prague1
Well if you want to get technical about it he was probably assassinated in the hospital by Himmler, who was fearful of his growing power and influence.
Thank you ever so much for this profile. Brilliant!! Any chance of Edmund Heines....maybe....
Simply brilliant documentary
Far be it from me to question those learned jurists who sat on the bench during the Nuremberg Tribunal. Well, the US, UK, and French ones anyway. The Soviets didn’t want the trial at all and only wanted summary justice for their enemy and were completely unfamiliar with a real justice system that wasn’t controlled to elicit confessions and hand down party-approved sentences, but in the end acquiesced to American and British demands. I still have never been given a logical reason that the French were accorded co-equal “victor” status after the war, they didn’t do squat during it. That said, I can’t think of why anyone could question Kaltenbrunner’s fate. He earned it, let justice be done. And it was. Great video! Thank you.
neurenberg trial was a sham,with their pygmee heads and lamb shades
it 's actually frightening what kinds of pathological personalities Society is able to bring forth!
there are plenty here in australia
And bring them together at the same time to enable the horrific events that followed. All the little coincidences that had to happen, it's mind boggling.
So jews are soo innocents..? These people were evil..but only they are..? Definitely not
Napoleon Bonaparte, please 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🙏
It's called Mensur. It's German sword fighting and they end up with nasty facial cuts. It's still around.
Totally fencing scars, and not that small sword/foil (French style) shown in the video. But long sword fencing (German) like Joachim Meyer (a Swede) School of fencing.
The Nazis had planned to invade Russia in April. There was an uprising in Yugoslavia which needed quelling which took until late May. This had a strong impact on delaying the invasion into places east of their Reich; a point generally forgotten.
Nice Video, thanks to author!
Just one thing-I don't think it's correct to talk about "Russians". Soviets would be more reasoneable. Soviet Union itself was including not only Russians, but many other nationalities as well, which also played important role in WWII.
Interesting documentary
Superb!
BOTH! In any militarized service regular or paramilitary, there is a machine with ongoing processes that you are just a part of when you enter - regardless of rank. He WAS, however, put in a position to steer policy. So, regardless, he is every bit ruthless and guilty as Heydrich was.
There are some anecdotal stories that Himmler was terrified of Kaltenbrunner and even complained to Hitler that he has to deal with him. Well done documentary, though.
Have heard the same elsewhere, also have heard that they were _all_ afraid of Heydrich.
When one studies the man, even lightly, one can see why.
I'm convinced that this man was the inspiration for the Grand Moff Tarkin character in Star Wars.
What the hell were they teaching in that school?
Apparently how to be fascist dictators, it’s like Harvard for those types.
27 million people were killed during ww2. That is over twice the population of Canada in 1945.
Imagine the population of an entire country gone within 6 years.
Dude it was over 65 million... not 27... 27 million would be just USSR
Very very interesting 🩷🩷🩷👍
I used to play "King of the Hill" when I was a youngster, which included knocking others off of the top of the dirt hill to finally be the triumphant one. It was fun as a youngster, but became a dumb idea as I grew up. Too bad grown men still play the same game they call war.
Many of the nazis said, "I was only obeying order" and were hanged.
Later some medical doctors performed research in the USA which was of the same type as done in the concentration camps by doctor Mengele.
Soldiers in Europe and USA are now told to question orders which are below the standard enforced, usually at home lest they become liable to be hanged for their actions.
Excellent documentary. I wonder what ever happened to his family
Also not very much is commented about the role of Walter Shellenberg,
Am I missing something or where is the content of the successor as per the video subject matter. 😝 This story lacked any sense to me with very few references to the content with the exception of the last few minutes. 😜
What happened to in depth documentary?
Not very much about Kaltenbrunner. Rather the old artwork that we can see day after day from all available channels.
Never anybody named more appropriately, as cold as they come
I bet he didn’t ride around in an open car.
Herr Kaltenbrunner was in “OVER” his head !!!. Yours truly Will VanNess
Adolf Hitler did NOT attend the Linz Gymnasium. Only the brightest primary school pupils of the Linz area would have gone there, roughly the top 10% if statistics for the whole of Austria are applicable to this region. Adolf Hitler didn't even make the next tier: Hauptschule Gruppe A. In fact, he entered the Realschule Linz as a Gruppe B student, the third cut. Below this group were only those pupils with no academic ability, (very few), and they were sent to Berufsbildende Höhere Schulen, which taught specific job skills, such as those used in the construction industry - not academic subjects. The Realschule Linz was NOT the Linz Gymnasium. Hitler insisted that his mother enrol him at the Realschule Steyr for his fifth and final year of "Middle School". He only earned the Realschule certificate of education after passing supplementary exams in French and mathematics, having failed these subjects first time. His physics, chemistry, geometry, and German were all at the lowest passing level. In other words, Adolf Hitler managed to obtain a Gruppe B (third tier) school certificate by the skin of his teeth. He was at the bottom of Gruppe B. Feel free to check these facts!
Imagine if he’d had a brain would he might of accomplished……mind you his puppet master’s wouldn’t want a freethinking tyrant …..after all they where calling the shots. 🤔
There is no Umlaut in Kaltenbrunner... so it's no Kaltenbrünner.
Reinhard Heydrich and Kaltenbrunner were afterbirths their mother's forgot to flush because she didnt look down when sitting on the toilet.
Great.
To respond to the question posed at the end of this excellent documentary, I feel that Kaltenbrunner was every bit as responsible as Heydrich for the atrocities of the Nazis. You just have to consider his lifelong adherence to extremism and his love of Nazi ideals. In no way was he simply a passive individual who was merely continuing the "work" of Heydrich. In fact, I believe that he would have been even worse (if that's possible for a senior Nazi) had he been given greater responsibility sooner.
I think so too.
So what did they think was going to happen to them when they lost the war and they could see that they were losing