0:00 What Did the German Public Know About the Holocaust During WWII? 53:37 How Do the Japanese Teach About WWII? 1:05:53 The Wild Story of the Biggest POW Camp Breakout of World War II 1:19:45 A Dinner Jacket, the Nazis, the “British” Accent, and What This All Has to Do With the BBC News 1:26:13 How a WWII Famine Helped Solve a 2,000 Year Old Major Medical Mystery 1:35:10 That Time the US Government Teamed Up with the Mafia to Defeat the Nazis 1:47:26 That Time the British Pitted a Few Canoeing Commandos against a Fleet of Nazi Ships... And Won 2:01:13 Argentina's Secret Nazi Fusion Lab 2:16:46 The Forgotten Nazi Holocaust Plan Before They Decided On the Holocaust 2:28:02 The Young War Gamers Who Changed the Course of WWII 2:40:24 That Time British Witches Tried to Stop a Nazi Invasion Using Magic 2:49:57 The Nazi Interrogator Who Killed Them with Kindness
Do Israeli’s know about the mass graves being found in Gaza right now? Maybe that should be your next video. Can an ethno-state whose constitution upholds the supremacy of one ethnic-group’s rights over all others be considered a democracy? What are the views of the average Israeli on the seizure of Palestinian land by Israeli settlers (aka fascists)?
I don't hate my job but I'm a union crane operator. 70% of my day is hurry up and wait. It's amazing background noise and occasionally I can actually watch the videos. I'm convinced Simon is 90% of youtube channels now
The most important takeaway from this subject should be how 98% of people today believe they would have been immune to the indoctrination and/or stood up against the system
@tomchelle1 ...What? I mean,in general,we are all much more connected by the internet,then we ever have been in person.You will always find people who will have,and will always fall for such a thing,but I think the majority of people who are better connected will see right through any lies being told to them.They would likely have direct contact with the groups of people being targeted,and would be able to easily sympathize,and side with any targeted groups of people.
@@jeffdroogcept when google fakes the answers and they dont realize the concen camps of today are just prisons with less deth and more forced labor and resource extraction of the inmates.
Video topic request: I recently found out that there are radiation eating fungi in Chernobyl that arent just growing despite the radiation, but are actually thriving because of it. After doing a little research, apparently the radiation does something to their metabolism that makes them multiply faster, and these fungi arent just growing around the affected area, theyre actually growing on the graphite rods that held the nuclear fuel. I grew up hearing about how nature overtook the city and how animals were rapidly evolving to live with the radiation, but the idea that a fungus was actually feeding off radiation seemed like some internet bs. That being said, i think it would make for a fascinating episode to focus on the various ways that nature and humanity has adapted to deal with radiation, from our learning curve with our discovery of xrays to not so simple natural selection.
It is interesting but mushrooms aren't mammals and the mammals that are living at Chernobyl aren't human. The animals living at Chernobyl have much shorter lifespans than humans and therefore they can reproduce and create new generations relatively quickly before long-term cancers can kill them. Also, since there are no humans there to kill them and the environment is allowed to be wild and free from human hunting/building/destroying, animals can survive without human intervention mixed into the equation. What we have learned is that radiation causes cancer in humans and the less we are exposed to it, the better. Humans haven't adapted well to increased radiation in the environment as evidenced by the increased incidence of CANCER in the general population and as evidenced by those who were exposed during nuclear accidents like Chernobyl or direct atomic attacks like Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Some animals have evolved to be better able to manage radiation in their systems but honestly, they most likely feel like garbage. It's never going to be like The Hulk, it's just going to be more cancer, birth defects and autoimmune diseases. As for mushrooms, they don't need to worry about cancer and in fact certain fungi can lead to cancer in humans. In the end, humanity hasn't adapted to deal with radiation, we just get more and more cancer/other devastating diseases (especially in children). Chernobyl wildlife is indeed fascinating in a wonderous way but the human victims (especially the children) of Chernobyl are just evidence of the devastating effects of radiation on people.
I had a friend who was one of the British troops who were first to enter Bergen-Belsen. Even 60 years after the event, if it was ever mentioned his face set in stone. Goodnight and God bless, Jim.
Knowing almost nothing about this, I’m at about the one hour mark, and it’s absolutely horrific. Thank you Simon and team for such a riveting documentary, about a topic that should have never happened in any circumstance. Well said and well done captain Pladski. When people are dropped into impossible situations, the good ones become heroes, the bad ones gets worse, and the cowards pass away.
And in 1948 the new polish regime tried him for espionage and he was executed. As happened to quite a lot of heroes like him. Betrayed by their own people.
I threw the "What a coincidence" flag in 2015 when the Baltimore Uprising happened and they staged events at Penn / North. The "Hold the Line" was drawn right in front of Solomon Etting's grave. He was a "Patriot" of that Battle in Baltimore, which provided The Flag and The National Anthem to the Americans. He became the first "Hebrew" in Public Office after the 1826 Maryland Jew Bill. Now, the Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed, but it was "Just an accident" - no coincidence that Dali painted "The Broken Bridge and The Dream"
@@ms.donaldson2533 I think you should take your conspiracy theories elsewhere. Simon is kind of not fond of conspiracy theories or spreading misinformation
Thankyou for mentioning the Nowra Japanese Memorial and gardens. To any Japanese who cannot come to see the memorial please take heart that these gardens are beautiful and your ancestors are well cared for 💜🇦🇺
this is so informative that everyone should watch. As someone of German ancestry I don’t believe for a minute that they didn’t know what was going on, but the fear of their own deaths and survival had to be their first priority.
As a German I can tell you: most people knew, many were okay with it, but most were also not fully able to really comprehend what the things they in theory agreed to actually ment. Think of it like the meat industry, we all know it, most of it kinda think it is not ideal, but when we are shown the horrors of what it actually means we are still horrified... until we compartmentalise again. Just with humans, but frankly humans that were pretty much dehumanised over years.
@@readtherealanthonyfaucibyr6444the Germans had months to set up this propaganda, it seems incredible but it was achieved. Even the prisoners weren't but aware of anything strange as they had come straight off the trains and most hadn't been in the "real" camps and thought this was normal so we're able to act quite naturally. Propaganda is an incredible tool, no-one is immune and when your not looking to be duped it is very easily done.
A few years ago I worked for an elderly lady that had lived through WW2 from a teen to a young adult. The topic was never mentioned except for one time when she sternly rebuked a documentary on television quite firmly and said, " we just did what we had to do to survive!" When I queried this she simply said, "we didn't ask anything about anything because if you did you disappeared, being a good Arian German didn't necessarily protect you." That was it and she wouldn't explain anymore ever again. She was 94 when this happened and the anger and emotion was still a very present thing to her.
I worked with a German woman and one day we were talking and happened to say “it must have been so hard on you and your family during the war” she replied “oh, we had no idea there was a war, we just kept farming” I wanted to say “you’ve got to be kidding me”, but just nodded and moved on. I understand it’s probably very hard for them to talk about it and being judged.
@@JukeBoxDestroyer seriously? You can't understand paraphrasing. Besides, that's an actual quote from the diary of Richard Winters. Just most people know of the series compared to the actual people of the 101st so I used it as a place holder. Use your head before opening your mouth
@@MikkellTheImmortal Gotta be a smart ass here. Don't tell people to think before the open their mouth, It's better if they can feel free to say it and get more information. You refrence such a good source, why try to prevent yourself from educating someone. I mean, being told to think more about it will only result in, not saying the thing and you not sharing the thing and them not learning the thing! 🎉No stupid questions🎉
@@rodepet you would be right if not for the fact that he did not ask a question. All he did was attempt to belittle me, as you are now doing. It's equivalent to the people who tell me to read a history book. Which one!? There are literally billions of history books and none of them agree on anything. If you have an actual question I can answer it. But if you just come blasting at me like a fool, I'm going to call you a fool. You yourself need to give your head a shake and not read things that aren't written. And yes, there are Stupid Questions. I'm asked them constantly, because there are so many stupid humans around.
That must have been terrifying though, even for regular citizens. I suppose it didn't matter who knew, because everybody who knew, also knew what would happen to them if they even dared speak out; because if they spoke, they would be next.
My Grandfather fled Germany in the 1930's right before the rise of Hitler. My family passed down religion through female line. So my English Grandmother was Catholic and her sons were Catholic but it assumed that my Grandfather was Catholic. My mother is Church of England High Anglican and so I was baptized as such. Religious views passing down through the maternal line is a Jewish belief and not the Christian one. Meaning Christian passing down religion is paternal.
My father was born in 1925 and he told me that those, who wanted to know, knew. Whoever says they had no clue is lying. Did they know all the details, everything, the whole scope? Probably not. But they all knew enough or could have known enough.
@WhitneyAllisonGG Roman Catholic here. Actually, according to Canon Law the children of a Catholic are to be raised in the Catholic spouse's religion unless the couple can't agree. Only then are the children to be raised in the father's religion whatever it may be.
How's that going for you now? Yk with knowing of people beheaded by bombs and burned alive with the help and unconditional support of Germany (and the Netherlands too) I'm Dutch. It makes me extremely uncomfortable as someone whose grandparents were alive back then (born in 1928 and 1929) And so many people are protesting in the streets but all the countries leaders and parliaments just continue to send more weapons
My grandmother was a young girl during both the depression and ww2. Which for Germany lasted longer then for us good old united states fellows. I interviewed her for my AP history class in high school. She remembered Crystal nacht but had no idea her Jewish friends all went to die. She held a deep sorrow in her heart. She was a young kid and teenager during the war. And a woman. She had to work in an ammunition factory and saw her close friend die because of a factory explosion. She was 16. She preferred it to picking hops. All I can say is we see the same fear and hopelessness in North Korea, Russia, and Iran. If we aren't careful it can happen to all of us.
To be fair, at the moment of Kristallnacht there was no plan of killing the jewish people. The intend was at that point to seggregate them in Ghettos, and then later to make them move else where, the plan to kill them all came a lot later when the war was in full swing and the party had to provide a solution, because there was no place for the jews to go, and the Nazis had also convinced themselves that the jews were such a force of power and danger that extermination had to be the logical end goal. (as it allways happens when you prop up a group of people as this sinister force that undermines the very soul of your people)
I know you probably wont see my comment but let me just say your polish pronunciation in this video was better than anything you did before and it was honestly pretty good. Clearly you made an effort to do it as well as you can and we appreciate it
@@musicalcomputernerd6474 I'm so glad I'd seen the comments first, because it would have thrown me for a loop as well - he looks so different without his beard.
DAMN they should be teaching what Teddy Roosevelt said in school paraphrasing "treat every individual on their merits give them no more or no less" that's the jist of it and his exact words moved me.
@@Zulimi2 Teddy Roosevelt didn't. He was overtly racist. He said, “the great majority of Negroes in the South are wholly unfit for the suffrage” and that giving them voting rights could “reduce parts of the South to the level of Haiti.” He claimed, wrongly, that the Buffalo soldier “Negro troops were shirkers in their duties and would only go as far as they were led by white officers,” He said “I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian, but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian."
11:15 if Teddy had Steven Tyler as a speech writer it would have sounded more like, “if you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin, mister you’re a better man than I.”
My mother was a 19 year old in WW2. Her stories, and her terror at the memories of the bombings, are what she told us of the war. Food was something civilians would kill you over near the end of the war, concentration camps were at the bottom of the food supply chain. Graft was rampant, food was money, buildings, railroads and highways were all broken. People were too busy trying to survive.
Thank you so much for all your fantastic documentaries. I would love to use them in my English teaching lessons, but you speak so quickly (but very eloquently) that even I, as a native English person ,living 30 years outside Britain, find you difficult to comprehend. Please could you slow down a touch? Thank you. Richard
Oh yes, Simon is so good in bed he puts me to sleep with a smile on my face. Sometimes I fall asleep first but I don't mind. Simon knows he can keep going to the end.
Though it makes you wonder why a genocide that is far from the worst in the 20th century is talked about more than all the others from the same time period. Even further, the people who were victims of this one actually were heavily involved in creating the ones in the 20th century that were much worse.
NO! Part of my wife’s family lived just a couple miles from Belsen, they were actively discouraged from asking questions. It was a SS camp, would you ask questions about what the SS were doing? Ask questions and you soon become part of the disappeared.
As an Australian, I grew up with some of my elders bearing the scars of t0r7ur3…. Burns to their faces, legs and arms, missing all of their finger and toe nails, lash scars across their backs, eating disorders, extreme ptsd etc. The scars left by what the Japanese did to our Australian men. It was surreal, it still is surreal. We always were told the stories, grew up knowing the whole disturbing truth. But the interesting thing about Aussies is that we do not hold grudges. Just as I was taught about what happened to our people, I was also taught about what we did along with America in retaliation. And that was so extreme that my entire generation, my parents and my grandparents all carry that guilt for eternity. May humanity never again do something like that, I pray. Fortunately Australia and Japan are now close friends. I love Japan, we all do. I did an exchange to Japan during my school years and arrived there carrying a bag of gifts and letters of apology sent with me by grandmother. Our nations now stand united, in love, trust and deep respect. ❤
There was also a lot of POW's that were killed by U.S. and Australian bombings because Japan refused to mark the ships as POW/AID ships. As for dropping the atomic bomb. At the time the military was estimating 4 million casualties if they invaded Japan, with 3 million of those being Japanese. I don't agree with the bombing of the cities, whether it was Japan, England, France or Germany because it was proven to have not had much of an impact on shortening the war. Neither Getmany nor Japan surrendered until they were basically overran.
My Granddad was an Officer in a pioneer detail in the east. He said after the war when my dad asked him about all of it: "we all knew. We knew at the front, people knew in Germany. We all knew."
I interviewed a former Hitler Youth in the late 2000s and he said the same. People knew people were being killed but most civilians in big cities had no idea how it happened (mainly because the big death camps were not in Germany itself). He seemed to be under the impression they were just worked to death in work camps but he was 16 when the war ended. Most civilians were being somewhat worked to death as well though, so while they knew the KZs were worse than their life, everyone was struggling and this was what those people 'deserved' for not believing in the leader. Honestly the mindset is not far off the mindset you see today in America when you talk to them about building a public health system and they say they're not paying big money to keep other people alive when they're already paying more than they would for a public health system - I'm suffering so everyone should suffer too. Plus this is what they deserve for being Jewish/Romani/Eastern European/or just too poor or mentally ill.
We all knew, and it didn't stopped us from sending our neighbors into the camps because of a drunk mishap or maybe being a little bit nice to some slave laborers. And that is what never ever was talked again. Unfortunately.
We all know it’s happening in China now too. 2 Australian’s are the only people in the world who have sacrificed themselves to try to do anything about it. People don’t change.
Something we have to remember is what you know and what you can do tends to be 2 vastly different things. Like many today know of bad things their gov or others do but realistically they can't do anything about it. Yes some even "support" whatever actions like treatment of homeless, how prison systems work, etc. But their "support" means nothing at the end of the day. It will happen no matter if they wanted or not.
Basically.. they learned how far and fast they can take it and what excuses to use, without the world rising up against em. Mustashe man would be astounded by our prison and military complexes and frantically taking notes, im sure.
As an American I felt our history books covered more on the rest of the world during WW2 but barely taught about Japanese Camps here in the U.S. during that time. Maybe 2 or 3 paragraphs, if that.
Love all these videos, very in depth and thorough. With that said at first I thought the mispronunciation of different locations and things were just little slips, regional dialect and what not, but now I feel it has to deliberate. That's just my little criticism. Thank you for putting in the time to do these, it is appreciated.
"That any civilized people could allow something like this to go on seems unthinkable to our modern selves." Ummm I think not. Disturbing? Shocking? Yes. Unthinkable? As of 7 months ago, definitely not. It's literally happening right now...except this time it's being livestreamed so literally the whole world knows.
Yeah, almost every single action described in this video has been done by the Israeli government and army. Some of the most horrific atrocities the IDF is doing right now weren’t even done by the Nazis, not to say the Nazis were less brutal than the IDF but it seems like the IDF is in a competition to find the most depraves and evil ways to execute children and families. When they were using ai to bomb families, they had some level of separation where they could convince people into believing they weren’t targeting civilians, but now after finding mass graves of children with their hands bound, footage of Israeli soldiers burying Palestinians alive with bulldozers, torturing a 6 year old girl surrounded by her dead parents and killing the medics coming to rescue her, chasing down and targeting a convoy of aid workers, with cars clearly marked to avoid being targeted as they ran car to car, making sure every one was killed, this is the most horrific shit in modern human history and they still try to claim they’re a civilized/humane society. America needs to pull all support from Israel and watch how quickly they fall apart without our billions of tax payer dollars funding their universal healthcare system and genocidal army. Maybe then, the Netanyahu regime and those connected to him, the elites who rule Israel will finally face justice.
@@HotEatTheFood Ummm…before 1933 there were 9.5 million Jews. After 1945 there were 3 million. Take any 12 year span in Palestine. The population has always gone UP! You CANNOT have a “genocide” when the population does nothing but rise. You’re just not being factual. I think this channel tries to stay away from rhetoric and emotional dramatics.
Man, that first quote about “if they’d come to power they would have had our heads cut off” reminds me a LOT of a certain country that exists right now in the news.
The left has hidden their antisemitism for decades. Now it's out in the open. When will our Jewish friends realize that their party is the enemy? Soon, I hope.
My grandfather was the last US commanding officer before Dachau was returned to German control. My father grew up as a child in the camp. When he started there someone before him had ordered several buildings including crematorium to be destroyed. He refused and ordered them rebuild restored and kept so that they would not be forgotten. His last act before he left the camp was to rehang the front gate.
I feel like that was the whole point of the girl in the red coat in Schindler’s List. We saw what was going on, we *knew* what was going on, but we did nothing. We stood there watching, letting such atrocities play out.
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me - Pastor Martin Niemöller The Netherlands is now remembering their WWII dead and their liberation from the Nazis. Just recently they made the archives concerning WWII collaborators public. At the end of the war, the people who cooperated with the Nazis had a day of reckoning. Their remaining neighbors did not forgive them for it.
This one sentence stands out: "...Palestine which was one place that was taking a relatively large number of Jewish immigrants compared to most states."
Interesting note. In Sweden, we learn about WWII. However, our guilt and cowardly behavior are seldom mentioned-the excuse: we save Sweden by letting Germany use our railways. Hence, the national pride is none existent.
I have many stories of interaction with Germans of that era. I lived there for a couple of years and fell in love with the country and its people. Went back last year.
I love learning about history, and this topic is a very important topic. It should be discussed more in our schools, so that everyone can understand just how horrible it was.
Simon, your fatual briefs are a breath of fresh air. Thank you for educating us on such diverse and important topics. This was a lovely and informative compilation. And we Polaks forgive your horrid pronunciation!
Did they know specifically what was happening? Probably not. They had to know SOMETHING was happening to all those people though. They didn't just disappear into thin air. All those trains full of people enter all those camps and none of them ever leave but more just keep coming and it never gets full. It doesn't take a mathematician to work out that addition.
I mean you get war camps where prisoners are forced to work and killed some living near it probably thought it was just that and they’d be next trying to speak out about it 👍
The" Final Solution" wasn't started until after the war began. Meaning the Nazis were firmly and completely in charge of every level of power. You're German. What do you do? A few did stand up and quickly found themselves in prison awaiting execution. It's real easy saying I'd do something different, seventy years after the last Nazis were hanged at Nuremberg.
I am German...and hell everybody knew...you can argue that at some point it was impossible to fight against it...but everybody knew... and denazification was a joke by the allieds..sadly...
The arabs who collaborated with nazi Germany were mainly anti British. Which is understandable after the British refused sovereignty to Arab nations. Yes, there was a bit of anti semitism involved, but it was anti British sentiment that fuelled the arab collaboration.
I can only cite my father, who was born 1929 and grew up in a small town area near the Czech border in Bavaria. . „End of the world“. He knew the war was going to be lost in 1942 as a 13 year old, having access to globe and some books. And he tells me: we didn’t know about Auschwitz , but you knew Dachau existed and you certainly didn’t want to end up there. And you felt something evil behind the whole system.
Enough of the public knew what was going on. Soldiers can't keep secrets for long and a lot of them talked. Why do you think they feared the Soviets so much. They knew what was coming.
They feared the Soviets for other reasons. But they also knew in a way what was going on. Not exactly the same, but think of it, like we all know what goes on in the meat industry, but most of us spend our days not thinking about it. Its called compartmentalisation.
@@burtonkephart6239 soviets were beasts in the bad way, Königsberg bad. They weren't beasts at war, they lost 10 times as many soldiers as the Germans. Germans just ran out of gas and ammo. Germans didn't have the USA to give them everything they needed.
They had other reasons to fear the Russians. The top one was the treatment of the civilians the German Army did. If their supply lines or depots were attacked by "partisans" it wasn't unusual for the military to destroy the closest village along with the civilians in it. The reasons I put partisans in quotation Mark's is because most of the partisans on the eastern front were Russian soldiers that had been bypassed by the German Army in their invasion.
When we don’t learn from the past we are doomed to repeat it 😢. If anyone doesn’t want to watch this then go else where❤. I watched and listened until the end, yes I’ve seen this type program, but I never want this to happen again while staying silent❤ and a 3 hour program seems a second in time compared to being in concentration camp and dying there since we can leave at anytime when the prisoners could not
I'm an hour in. I'll watch it until the end. I like coming to the comments to see what others think. Sadly, from what I'm reading, we seem unable to learn from our past mistakes.
The shame of eugenics is that artificial selection does, in fact, work. The issue is purely ethical in that no one should have the power to control human evolution.
Only short term and only with a highly certain understanding of downstream repercussions..that we still arent even close to. Frankly we only have grasp of obvious cause and effect on the most obvious conditions, anything nuanced, multifactoral, or down under layer 1 is mostly speculstive. Long term it bottlenecks and makes everyone weak to the same problems and cripples evolution potential. Maybe in 10 generations you wipe out a handfull of cancers, and maybe that makes 100 percent of the population subject to a virus, bacteria, fungus, parasite, or other cancer that wipes out everyone, or unable to adapt to something unexpected like exposure to a disinfectant, drout, or sun exposure. Or you just end up like chyna where everyone is a brainwashed coward that cant innovate or even grasp basic morality the same way others do.
How do you know it works? What exactly does it work to do? So far the only thing it works to do is get rid of people who don't physically look like you it doesn't make the population healthy or better off. Alot of the time they are just killing off the working class too which puts them in a worse spot in the long run. People live in fear of speaking out and have way higher amounts of stress. So please explain to me what evidence you've seen of eugenics doing anything good for the people and nations involved?
If you ever get a chance to visit Thierenstadt, do it. As for how much the Allies knew or should have known: honestly, it doesn't matter, what could they have done about it? The camps were well within German controlled territories. How much did the German people know? I think that's complicated. Some didn't want to know; why would you want to see what's happening, especially when you can't stop it? Others supported it, or at least thought that those in the camps surely did things to bring it upon themselves. Btw, I don't think we can ignore the fact that in places like Babi Yar, sadly the Nazis found many willing collaborators in Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia etc.
Do you mean million? And isn't that strange considering the death number was officially lowered to 1.2 or 1.3 million? You can look that up and verify. Now compare that to other 20th century genoicdes and that one is not close to the top.
What? There's 25000 pairs in the birkenau exhibit (granted that was one days worth of shoes taken from victims). Did you actually think there was an exhibit with billions of shoes?
Antisemitism was popular in Germany long before the second World War. The reason the holocaust happened is not because humans can look away from atrocities if they are not committed against them. It is because antisemitism is the oldest hatred there is, and is deeply engrained in western culture because of the Catholic Church. The nazis just made it acceptable enough for the German public to be open about their hate.
This was a subject that sensible Germans did not speak of out of fear for the possible consequences if they spoke out either way about the holocaust. This has been true among people who lived under a tyrannical regime since tyranny was employed by leaders disinclined to permit free speech.
The compliance during covid measures really scared me. I know it's not comparable at all, but we did see the majority of people comply with governments taking away freedoms and executing discrimination. It gave me a better understanding of how the holocaust happened. It also scared me a lot, because it shows that we still have the human tendencies to let these kind of things happen.
It’s a lot easier to be ignorant of military war crimes happening overseas than within your own borders, the general public in Germany was largely on board with the holocaust, just like how the majority of Israelis support the genocide of Palestinians. In Japan, I don’t think it was quite that simple, average citizens of Japan didn’t know about the nanking massacre for example, until much later. Another important point is that the Germans put Hitler in power, he was popular among Germans even as the war and holocaust raged on, the Japanese imperial army and empires weren’t elected by the people, so their actions were definitely less reflective of Japanese society as a whole. That’s not to say it didn’t reflect the public wishes at all, Japan was heavily nationalistic but the amount of information Japanese citizens received was minuscule compared to the information Germans had. Both the nazis and the imperial Japanese government were pushing strong propaganda to ensure public support for the war, but the control of information in Imperial Japan was tighter, and being on an isolated archipelago made it a lot easier to restrict the exchange of information from outside of the country. The enslavement of Koreans/comfort women is the main war crime/atrocity that occurred within their own borders in the 1900s at least. This was horrific and awareness of it was like much greater than of the war crimes happening in China for instance, and the crimes the Japanese imperial forces did were just as horrific and unforgivable as the Nazis for sure but you’re equating situations that are really not comparable in a lot of ways. Japanese imperial power was so separate from daily civilian view, genuinely most of the awareness of what the Japanese Imperial Government and armies actually did, wasn’t information that the public had any awareness of until after the war and reconstruction began. Imperial Japan was no doubt guilty of some of the worst atrocities in human history, but I think as this video highlights, Germans knew a LOT more both in electing hitler (something japanese citizens had no power to do) and looking the other way as their former friends and neighbors were ripped from their homes and sent to gas chambers. The trouble these days comes from Japanese nationalists now, like former PM Shinzo Abe who try to erase or gloss over Imperial Japan’s history of evil, just like how American nationalists are fighting to prevent children from learning about slavery, the Tulsa massacre, the reality about the Vietnam war and America’s direct role in the death of millions worldwide. In Cambodia, Indonesia, across the Middle East, overthrowing thriving socialist governments with coups and assassinations. Propaganda can allow governments to do stuff like this with almost complete impunity. This is a major part of why the US government wants (and seemingly will succeed) to ban TikTok, they need to be able to control the narrative and the idea of millions of Americans being exposed to information that can’t be controlled is scary to both republican and democrat establishment and the extreme wealthy who have been diverting blame for peoples’ suffering from themselves to scapegoats like Mexicans, trans people, china, etc.
@@freshtoast3879 np! I don’t want to come across as defensive of imperial Japan in any way because they were absolutely just as bad as the Nazi parties but I think the distinctions between the situations are important when making comparisons because most of what’s described in the video above differed heavily, largely in how the Japanese government functioned and the information citizens were given, and geographically it was a lot easier to control information when they were such an isolated nation. Japanese people were no doubt very nationalistic and we can’t say how much they would go along with if they’d known more, but there’s a difference of being nationalistic + supporting the idea of an empire, versus electing a leader who dehumanized your neighbors, published mein kamf, spoke of a plan to eradicate the Jews called the final solution, witnessing a genocide unfold first hand and looking the other way which is what average Germans by and large did. The situations were quite different. Im not totally aware how much the japanese public knew about the comfort women enslavement at the time so I don’t mean to downplay that if there was wider awareness of that than the rest of Japan’s war crimes, that seems a bit more likely mainly because Korean slaves were brought to Japan. I believe what awareness Japanese people had of wartime atrocities had to come solely from word of mouth, there were millions of soldiers so I’m sure people heard many conflicting stories secondhand from soldiers, so I can’t say for certain how much information was able to travel in that way, but it’s still worth noting that the emporer and generals were unelected so the public had far less say than the Germans did.
Agreed but to be fair personally I think every single official narrative of any event gets tampered with by lots of different contributors at some point along the way.
SOME did that. One particular nasty person picked prisoners based on their tatoos for that purpose. It was not an industry though, and not a thing they bragged about even among other Nazis. But due to ressource shortages, the ashes and fatty remains (when you burn people the can be collected) from killed people were very much used to make soap out of afaik. And Bones were partially grinded down as chalk fertiliser.
This is just a myth. There was never any evidence of any of these stories. Ed Gein did that. And he was a nazi sympathizer. Thats why the story gets messed up and exaggerated.
@@hannajung7512correct. If I remember correct, it was a woman. She was the wife of a high profile Nazi and she would chose prisoners on their tattoos that she wanted turned into “furniture”…
The problem is... what can we do? we protest, we donate, we condemn, short of picking up weapons ourselves what CAN we do? Many Germans might have abhorred the goings on but what could they do? Write a strongly worded letter to the Nazi party asking them to stop? And if the people within the offending country can't or wont do anything what hope does anyone else have? These days we have The Palestinian Genocide and again we protest, we donate and we condemn but our governments dont act... so what now?
What we can do? We can ask for evidence before we believe insane stories. As for the situation today, we can replace our politicians with decent and honest people.
A prison in Cuba. Keeps people the US doesn't want to provide constitutional rights too. Torture and all that for whatever reason they want to do it for. Very little is hidden there, it's all come out. Why don't you know anything about it?
0:00 What Did the German Public Know About the Holocaust During WWII?
53:37 How Do the Japanese Teach About WWII?
1:05:53 The Wild Story of the Biggest POW Camp Breakout of World War II
1:19:45 A Dinner Jacket, the Nazis, the “British” Accent, and What This All Has to Do With the BBC News
1:26:13 How a WWII Famine Helped Solve a 2,000 Year Old Major Medical Mystery
1:35:10 That Time the US Government Teamed Up with the Mafia to Defeat the Nazis
1:47:26 That Time the British Pitted a Few Canoeing Commandos against a Fleet of Nazi Ships... And Won
2:01:13 Argentina's Secret Nazi Fusion Lab
2:16:46 The Forgotten Nazi Holocaust Plan Before They Decided On the Holocaust
2:28:02 The Young War Gamers Who Changed the Course of WWII
2:40:24 That Time British Witches Tried to Stop a Nazi Invasion Using Magic
2:49:57 The Nazi Interrogator Who Killed Them with Kindness
Do Israeli’s know about the mass graves being found in Gaza right now? Maybe that should be your next video. Can an ethno-state whose constitution upholds the supremacy of one ethnic-group’s rights over all others be considered a democracy? What are the views of the average Israeli on the seizure of Palestinian land by Israeli settlers (aka fascists)?
@@Noodles1771 Let's do it Simon
Maybe began with what started this in Israel with the murder of civilans in Israel
WOW my comment seemed to disappear 😢I had no idea you censored comments
3 hour answer… Bravo to you sir! 🫡
Don't hate my job but find a listen to Simon a lot while I'm working.
He's good background noise
I fall asleep listening to him 😅
Same, working now lol
Same
I don't hate my job but I'm a union crane operator. 70% of my day is hurry up and wait. It's amazing background noise and occasionally I can actually watch the videos. I'm convinced Simon is 90% of youtube channels now
The most important takeaway from this subject should be how 98% of people today believe they would have been immune to the indoctrination and/or stood up against the system
Well,we have much more access to correct information nowadays...Its hard to lie to people who can Google the truth lol
@@jeffdroog if what you are saying is true then more people would realize how susceptible they are
@tomchelle1 ...What? I mean,in general,we are all much more connected by the internet,then we ever have been in person.You will always find people who will have,and will always fall for such a thing,but I think the majority of people who are better connected will see right through any lies being told to them.They would likely have direct contact with the groups of people being targeted,and would be able to easily sympathize,and side with any targeted groups of people.
While contributing to and begging for it... Sounds like most of the US in one form or another.
@@jeffdroogcept when google fakes the answers and they dont realize the concen camps of today are just prisons with less deth and more forced labor and resource extraction of the inmates.
Video topic request:
I recently found out that there are radiation eating fungi in Chernobyl that arent just growing despite the radiation, but are actually thriving because of it. After doing a little research, apparently the radiation does something to their metabolism that makes them multiply faster, and these fungi arent just growing around the affected area, theyre actually growing on the graphite rods that held the nuclear fuel. I grew up hearing about how nature overtook the city and how animals were rapidly evolving to live with the radiation, but the idea that a fungus was actually feeding off radiation seemed like some internet bs. That being said, i think it would make for a fascinating episode to focus on the various ways that nature and humanity has adapted to deal with radiation, from our learning curve with our discovery of xrays to not so simple natural selection.
I implore you not to eat those mushrooms.
@@kevinrusch3627but I yearn for the elephant's foot mushroom
It is interesting but mushrooms aren't mammals and the mammals that are living at Chernobyl aren't human. The animals living at Chernobyl have much shorter lifespans than humans and therefore they can reproduce and create new generations relatively quickly before long-term cancers can kill them. Also, since there are no humans there to kill them and the environment is allowed to be wild and free from human hunting/building/destroying, animals can survive without human intervention mixed into the equation. What we have learned is that radiation causes cancer in humans and the less we are exposed to it, the better. Humans haven't adapted well to increased radiation in the environment as evidenced by the increased incidence of CANCER in the general population and as evidenced by those who were exposed during nuclear accidents like Chernobyl or direct atomic attacks like Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Some animals have evolved to be better able to manage radiation in their systems but honestly, they most likely feel like garbage. It's never going to be like The Hulk, it's just going to be more cancer, birth defects and autoimmune diseases. As for mushrooms, they don't need to worry about cancer and in fact certain fungi can lead to cancer in humans. In the end, humanity hasn't adapted to deal with radiation, we just get more and more cancer/other devastating diseases (especially in children). Chernobyl wildlife is indeed fascinating in a wonderous way but the human victims (especially the children) of Chernobyl are just evidence of the devastating effects of radiation on people.
@@angelzer0_ the elephant's foot mushroom yearns for you.
Very magic mushrooms
the algorithm can/will literally play simon’s voice in the background all day long 24/7/365 with the amount of videos he narrates.
I had a friend who was one of the British troops who were first to enter Bergen-Belsen. Even 60 years after the event, if it was ever mentioned his face set in stone. Goodnight and God bless, Jim.
Knowing almost nothing about this, I’m at about the one hour mark, and it’s absolutely horrific. Thank you Simon and team for such a riveting documentary, about a topic that should have never happened in any circumstance.
Well said and well done captain Pladski. When people are dropped into impossible situations, the good ones become heroes, the bad ones gets worse, and the cowards pass away.
The story of the polish officer that went to Auschwitz concentration camp, Pilecki is shocking. Important to remember people with such bravery.
And in 1948 the new polish regime tried him for espionage and he was executed.
As happened to quite a lot of heroes like him. Betrayed by their own people.
The parallels in this story to modern events.
It's really bum chilling.
it's been happening in china for a while.
I threw the "What a coincidence" flag in 2015 when the Baltimore Uprising happened and they staged events at Penn / North. The "Hold the Line" was drawn right in front of Solomon Etting's grave. He was a "Patriot" of that Battle in Baltimore, which provided The Flag and The National Anthem to the Americans. He became the first "Hebrew" in Public Office after the 1826 Maryland Jew Bill.
Now, the Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed, but it was "Just an accident" - no coincidence that Dali painted "The Broken Bridge and The Dream"
Yup, but this time instead of brown shirts, the hitler youth are wearing face masks.
@@ms.donaldson2533 I think you should take your conspiracy theories elsewhere. Simon is kind of not fond of conspiracy theories or spreading misinformation
@@Jason-eo5bv Unless it's conspiracy theories about the death of Epstein...
Thankyou for mentioning the Nowra Japanese Memorial and gardens. To any Japanese who cannot come to see the memorial please take heart that these gardens are beautiful and your ancestors are well cared for 💜🇦🇺
this is so informative that everyone should watch. As someone of German ancestry I don’t believe for a minute that they didn’t know what was going on, but the fear of their own deaths and survival had to be their first priority.
As a German I can tell you: most people knew, many were okay with it, but most were also not fully able to really comprehend what the things they in theory agreed to actually ment.
Think of it like the meat industry, we all know it, most of it kinda think it is not ideal, but when we are shown the horrors of what it actually means we are still horrified... until we compartmentalise again.
Just with humans, but frankly humans that were pretty much dehumanised over years.
They were being deported. The red cross and other humanitarian organizations visited those encampments and found no issues. Strange, huh?
@@readtherealanthonyfaucibyr6444 'Things that didn't happen' for 200 Reichmarks, Adolf.
@@readtherealanthonyfaucibyr6444the Germans had months to set up this propaganda, it seems incredible but it was achieved. Even the prisoners weren't but aware of anything strange as they had come straight off the trains and most hadn't been in the "real" camps and thought this was normal so we're able to act quite naturally. Propaganda is an incredible tool, no-one is immune and when your not looking to be duped it is very easily done.
A few years ago I worked for an elderly lady that had lived through WW2 from a teen to a young adult. The topic was never mentioned except for one time when she sternly rebuked a documentary on television quite firmly and said, " we just did what we had to do to survive!" When I queried this she simply said, "we didn't ask anything about anything because if you did you disappeared, being a good Arian German didn't necessarily protect you." That was it and she wouldn't explain anymore ever again. She was 94 when this happened and the anger and emotion was still a very present thing to her.
Oh I'm shocked. I'm watching while having a breakfast. I thought it's 10-16 minutes video. Then i realize my bar is still on the far left 😂
great quality video though so im sure it was a pleasant shock
I worked with a German woman and one day we were talking and happened to say “it must have been so hard on you and your family during the war” she replied “oh, we had no idea there was a war, we just kept farming” I wanted to say “you’ve got to be kidding me”, but just nodded and moved on. I understand it’s probably very hard for them to talk about it and being judged.
To quote Band of Brothers "Bull shit you didn't know! You can smell the damn place from here!"
yeah, cause movies never lie, right?
@@JukeBoxDestroyer seriously? You can't understand paraphrasing. Besides, that's an actual quote from the diary of Richard Winters. Just most people know of the series compared to the actual people of the 101st so I used it as a place holder. Use your head before opening your mouth
@@MikkellTheImmortal Gotta be a smart ass here. Don't tell people to think before the open their mouth, It's better if they can feel free to say it and get more information. You refrence such a good source, why try to prevent yourself from educating someone.
I mean, being told to think more about it will only result in, not saying the thing and you not sharing the thing and them not learning the thing!
🎉No stupid questions🎉
@@rodepet you would be right if not for the fact that he did not ask a question. All he did was attempt to belittle me, as you are now doing.
It's equivalent to the people who tell me to read a history book. Which one!? There are literally billions of history books and none of them agree on anything.
If you have an actual question I can answer it. But if you just come blasting at me like a fool, I'm going to call you a fool.
You yourself need to give your head a shake and not read things that aren't written.
And yes, there are Stupid Questions. I'm asked them constantly, because there are so many stupid humans around.
@@rodepet also, free speech is not free from consequence. And no one has the right to be hurtful to anyone using words. We call it tact
Good timing on this one
Not at my job…listening to fall asleep to. His voice is soothing😁😁
They knew. My grandmother Was born in 1922 and she always told us: Everybody knew. Everybody who says different ließ.
I'm german
That must have been terrifying though, even for regular citizens. I suppose it didn't matter who knew, because everybody who knew, also knew what would happen to them if they even dared speak out; because if they spoke, they would be next.
My Grandfather fled Germany in the 1930's right before the rise of Hitler. My family passed down religion through female line. So my English Grandmother was Catholic and her sons were Catholic but it assumed that my Grandfather was Catholic. My mother is Church of England High Anglican and so I was baptized as such. Religious views passing down through the maternal line is a Jewish belief and not the Christian one. Meaning Christian passing down religion is paternal.
My father was born in 1925 and he told me that those, who wanted to know, knew.
Whoever says they had no clue is lying. Did they know all the details, everything, the whole scope? Probably not. But they all knew enough or could have known enough.
@WhitneyAllisonGG Roman Catholic here. Actually, according to Canon Law the children of a Catholic are to be raised in the Catholic spouse's religion unless the couple can't agree. Only then are the children to be raised in the father's religion whatever it may be.
How's that going for you now? Yk with knowing of people beheaded by bombs and burned alive with the help and unconditional support of Germany (and the Netherlands too) I'm Dutch.
It makes me extremely uncomfortable as someone whose grandparents were alive back then (born in 1928 and 1929)
And so many people are protesting in the streets but all the countries leaders and parliaments just continue to send more weapons
My grandmother was a young girl during both the depression and ww2. Which for Germany lasted longer then for us good old united states fellows. I interviewed her for my AP history class in high school. She remembered Crystal nacht but had no idea her Jewish friends all went to die. She held a deep sorrow in her heart. She was a young kid and teenager during the war. And a woman. She had to work in an ammunition factory and saw her close friend die because of a factory explosion. She was 16. She preferred it to picking hops. All I can say is we see the same fear and hopelessness in North Korea, Russia, and Iran. If we aren't careful it can happen to all of us.
To be fair, at the moment of Kristallnacht there was no plan of killing the jewish people. The intend was at that point to seggregate them in Ghettos, and then later to make them move else where, the plan to kill them all came a lot later when the war was in full swing and the party had to provide a solution, because there was no place for the jews to go, and the Nazis had also convinced themselves that the jews were such a force of power and danger that extermination had to be the logical end goal. (as it allways happens when you prop up a group of people as this sinister force that undermines the very soul of your people)
You know that the second World War ended the great depression?
@@Martin_Koepl so war is the answer is it !
@bunyipdragon9499 think youre taking their comment a bit out of context mate
@@jadesx96 I found the comment obnoxious, pal.
I know you probably wont see my comment but let me just say your polish pronunciation in this video was better than anything you did before and it was honestly pretty good. Clearly you made an effort to do it as well as you can and we appreciate it
Love the long videos and on such a fascinating topic as always.
Oh god. The sudden, without warning appearance of BEARDLESS SIMON
Oh dear god - I haven't gotten there yet, now I'm going to be waiting for the jump scare 😂
@@kimwilding8444is that who that weird guy was? I didn’t realize! I thought it was just some random dude
@@musicalcomputernerd6474 I'm so glad I'd seen the comments first, because it would have thrown me for a loop as well - he looks so different without his beard.
I love these long form videos.
DAMN they should be teaching what Teddy Roosevelt said in school paraphrasing "treat every individual on their merits give them no more or no less" that's the jist of it and his exact words moved me.
Teddy R was racist. He stole native American land, calling them "squalid savages". He did not think that black people should be allowed to vote.
No child left behind my guy
That's pretty much how I treat folks. I see you as an equal until you show you are an awful person, then I just stop associating with you.
@@Zulimi2 Teddy Roosevelt didn't.
He was overtly racist.
He said, “the great majority of Negroes in the South are wholly unfit for the suffrage” and that giving them voting rights could “reduce parts of the South to the level of Haiti.”
He claimed, wrongly, that the Buffalo soldier “Negro troops were shirkers in their duties and would only go as far as they were led by white officers,”
He said “I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian, but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian."
What difference would that make?
11:15 if Teddy had Steven Tyler as a speech writer it would have sounded more like, “if you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin, mister you’re a better man than I.”
My mother was a 19 year old in WW2.
Her stories, and her terror at the memories of the bombings, are what she told us of the war.
Food was something civilians would kill you over near the end of the war, concentration camps were at the bottom of the food supply chain.
Graft was rampant, food was money, buildings, railroads and highways were all broken.
People were too busy trying to survive.
Except that they were THRIVING before the Nazi's started losing the war, I guess that part is easy to forget?
@@pegacorn13You aren’t German so you would have been persecuted in the Third Reich
@@dslmodem9014 Well sure but I'm pretty sure I was referring to the actual German citizens
@@pegacorn13some thrived, many were oppressed.
The child of abuser is still a victim, even if the house they live in is a mansion
Thank you so much for all your fantastic documentaries.
I would love to use them in my English teaching lessons,
but you speak so quickly (but very eloquently) that even I, as a native English person ,living 30 years outside Britain, find you difficult to comprehend.
Please could you slow down a touch?
Thank you.
Richard
Just watch in a slower speed
Anyone else get on YT, see a 3hr video of this man talking, and go “yep, that’s what I’m listening to to fall asleep.”
Oh yes, Simon is so good in bed he puts me to sleep with a smile on my face.
Sometimes I fall asleep first but I don't mind. Simon knows he can keep going to the end.
Thank you for this content.
Though it makes you wonder why a genocide that is far from the worst in the 20th century is talked about more than all the others from the same time period. Even further, the people who were victims of this one actually were heavily involved in creating the ones in the 20th century that were much worse.
NO! Part of my wife’s family lived just a couple miles from Belsen, they were actively discouraged from asking questions. It was a SS camp, would you ask questions about what the SS were doing? Ask questions and you soon become part of the disappeared.
Yes but there was a lot of evidence of something foul going on. It was too large to Hide.
So. . . They knew what was happening there then. Good to know, they wouldn't have been afraid of they thought it was just sun shine and rainbows
As an Australian, I grew up with some of my elders bearing the scars of t0r7ur3…. Burns to their faces, legs and arms, missing all of their finger and toe nails, lash scars across their backs, eating disorders, extreme ptsd etc. The scars left by what the Japanese did to our Australian men. It was surreal, it still is surreal.
We always were told the stories, grew up knowing the whole disturbing truth. But the interesting thing about Aussies is that we do not hold grudges. Just as I was taught about what happened to our people, I was also taught about what we did along with America in retaliation. And that was so extreme that my entire generation, my parents and my grandparents all carry that guilt for eternity. May humanity never again do something like that, I pray.
Fortunately Australia and Japan are now close friends. I love Japan, we all do. I did an exchange to Japan during my school years and arrived there carrying a bag of gifts and letters of apology sent with me by grandmother.
Our nations now stand united, in love, trust and deep respect. ❤
There was also a lot of POW's that were killed by U.S. and Australian bombings because Japan refused to mark the ships as POW/AID ships. As for dropping the atomic bomb. At the time the military was estimating 4 million casualties if they invaded Japan, with 3 million of those being Japanese. I don't agree with the bombing of the cities, whether it was Japan, England, France or Germany because it was proven to have not had much of an impact on shortening the war. Neither Getmany nor Japan surrendered until they were basically overran.
@@samuelhowie4543the beauty of hindsight hey.
Why are you scared to write torture?
My Granddad was an Officer in a pioneer detail in the east. He said after the war when my dad asked him about all of it: "we all knew. We knew at the front, people knew in Germany. We all knew."
Interesting. Thank you for sharing, my friend.
I interviewed a former Hitler Youth in the late 2000s and he said the same. People knew people were being killed but most civilians in big cities had no idea how it happened (mainly because the big death camps were not in Germany itself). He seemed to be under the impression they were just worked to death in work camps but he was 16 when the war ended. Most civilians were being somewhat worked to death as well though, so while they knew the KZs were worse than their life, everyone was struggling and this was what those people 'deserved' for not believing in the leader. Honestly the mindset is not far off the mindset you see today in America when you talk to them about building a public health system and they say they're not paying big money to keep other people alive when they're already paying more than they would for a public health system - I'm suffering so everyone should suffer too. Plus this is what they deserve for being Jewish/Romani/Eastern European/or just too poor or mentally ill.
We all knew, and it didn't stopped us from sending our neighbors into the camps because of a drunk mishap or maybe being a little bit nice to some slave laborers. And that is what never ever was talked again. Unfortunately.
We all know it’s happening in China now too. 2 Australian’s are the only people in the world who have sacrificed themselves to try to do anything about it. People don’t change.
Something we have to remember is what you know and what you can do tends to be 2 vastly different things. Like many today know of bad things their gov or others do but realistically they can't do anything about it.
Yes some even "support" whatever actions like treatment of homeless, how prison systems work, etc. But their "support" means nothing at the end of the day. It will happen no matter if they wanted or not.
Basically.. they learned how far and fast they can take it and what excuses to use, without the world rising up against em. Mustashe man would be astounded by our prison and military complexes and frantically taking notes, im sure.
As an American I felt our history books covered more on the rest of the world during WW2 but barely taught about Japanese Camps here in the U.S. during that time. Maybe 2 or 3 paragraphs, if that.
Love all these videos, very in depth and thorough. With that said at first I thought the mispronunciation of different locations and things were just little slips, regional dialect and what not, but now I feel it has to deliberate. That's just my little criticism. Thank you for putting in the time to do these, it is appreciated.
Wow ... I was not expecting to hear about Witold Pilecki
❤
Boy, was I bewildered by the way Simon changed in the mid of the video @1:20:00
"That any civilized people could allow something like this to go on seems unthinkable to our modern selves."
Ummm I think not. Disturbing? Shocking? Yes. Unthinkable? As of 7 months ago, definitely not. It's literally happening right now...except this time it's being livestreamed so literally the whole world knows.
Yeah, almost every single action described in this video has been done by the Israeli government and army. Some of the most horrific atrocities the IDF is doing right now weren’t even done by the Nazis, not to say the Nazis were less brutal than the IDF but it seems like the IDF is in a competition to find the most depraves and evil ways to execute children and families. When they were using ai to bomb families, they had some level of separation where they could convince people into believing they weren’t targeting civilians, but now after finding mass graves of children with their hands bound, footage of Israeli soldiers burying Palestinians alive with bulldozers, torturing a 6 year old girl surrounded by her dead parents and killing the medics coming to rescue her, chasing down and targeting a convoy of aid workers, with cars clearly marked to avoid being targeted as they ran car to car, making sure every one was killed, this is the most horrific shit in modern human history and they still try to claim they’re a civilized/humane society. America needs to pull all support from Israel and watch how quickly they fall apart without our billions of tax payer dollars funding their universal healthcare system and genocidal army. Maybe then, the Netanyahu regime and those connected to him, the elites who rule Israel will finally face justice.
Yeah, it’s unfortunate that this channel basically avoids anything related to the genocide and acts like it isn’t happening
Same thing with Ukraine and Sudan but yeah, let's focus on Oct 7th shall we?
I think a really good insight as to why that topic is avoided on this channel can be found on the video "Israel made me an offer!" by reallygraceful.
@@HotEatTheFood
Ummm…before 1933 there were 9.5 million Jews.
After 1945 there were 3 million.
Take any 12 year span in Palestine. The population has always gone UP!
You CANNOT have a “genocide” when the population does nothing but rise.
You’re just not being factual.
I think this channel tries to stay away from rhetoric and emotional dramatics.
Man, that first quote about “if they’d come to power they would have had our heads cut off” reminds me a LOT of a certain country that exists right now in the news.
It’s happening again.
Ironically by Jews in Israel and Gaza.
The left has hidden their antisemitism for decades. Now it's out in the open. When will our Jewish friends realize that their party is the enemy? Soon, I hope.
You're funny little guy
Free Palestine
@@Scxoop123genocide is never funny.
My grandfather was the last US commanding officer before Dachau was returned to German control. My father grew up as a child in the camp. When he started there someone before him had ordered several buildings including crematorium to be destroyed. He refused and ordered them rebuild restored and kept so that they would not be forgotten. His last act before he left the camp was to rehang the front gate.
I feel like that was the whole point of the girl in the red coat in Schindler’s List. We saw what was going on, we *knew* what was going on, but we did nothing. We stood there watching, letting such atrocities play out.
love the various simon eras in this video 😭😭😭
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
- Pastor Martin Niemöller
The Netherlands is now remembering their WWII dead and their liberation from the Nazis. Just recently they made the archives concerning WWII collaborators public. At the end of the war, the people who cooperated with the Nazis had a day of reckoning. Their remaining neighbors did not forgive them for it.
My grandfather (my dad) took part in the liberation of some camps with his homeboys. I miss him terribly.
Not only did you cover one of my favorite humans (Pilecki), but you answered many of my questions. Thank you.
This one sentence stands out:
"...Palestine which was one place that was taking a relatively large number of Jewish immigrants compared to most states."
Didn't know what was coming for them..
like adopting a child and he/she grows up murders you, your family and your neighbors, then lives in your house.
Interesting note. In Sweden, we learn about WWII. However, our guilt and cowardly behavior are seldom mentioned-the excuse: we save Sweden by letting Germany use our railways. Hence, the national pride is none existent.
I have many stories of interaction with Germans of that era. I lived there for a couple of years and fell in love with the country and its people. Went back last year.
I love learning about history, and this topic is a very important topic. It should be discussed more in our schools, so that everyone can understand just how horrible it was.
Nah they want smoothe brain infantile adult sheeple.
I'd enjoy seeing Simon wear a dinner jacket for all his presentations.
I'll pitch in on a pipe.
I love you on the pod, wasnt sure what to expect from this but had a good laugh. Looking forward to more
Seeing old bearless simon footage is so weird
That was a jump scare
I was listening to the video for the first hour, can you tell me where to look for the Beardless Simon?
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Simon, your fatual briefs are a breath of fresh air. Thank you for educating us on such diverse and important topics. This was a lovely and informative compilation.
And we Polaks forgive your horrid pronunciation!
The parallels to current year are rather striking
This is great stuff. Sometimes Simon trips over complications in the script, but this is well-done.
Did they know specifically what was happening? Probably not. They had to know SOMETHING was happening to all those people though. They didn't just disappear into thin air. All those trains full of people enter all those camps and none of them ever leave but more just keep coming and it never gets full. It doesn't take a mathematician to work out that addition.
They knew just didn't care.
I mean you get war camps where prisoners are forced to work and killed some living near it probably thought it was just that and they’d be next trying to speak out about it 👍
Just like everyone knows what really happened January 6th... except the public wasn't allowed to see the evidence and the court cases are all sealed.
The" Final Solution" wasn't started until after the war began. Meaning the Nazis were firmly and completely in charge of every level of power. You're German. What do you do? A few did stand up and quickly found themselves in prison awaiting execution. It's real easy saying I'd do something different, seventy years after the last Nazis were hanged at Nuremberg.
I am German...and hell everybody knew...you can argue that at some point it was impossible to fight against it...but everybody knew...
and denazification was a joke by the allieds..sadly...
Can you cover the collaboration of Arab countries with Nazis, before during and after WW2? Al Husaini in Jerusalem.
The same alliance is currently forming. It will be exiting to see the fruits of this.
The arabs who collaborated with nazi Germany were mainly anti British. Which is understandable after the British refused sovereignty to Arab nations. Yes, there was a bit of anti semitism involved, but it was anti British sentiment that fuelled the arab collaboration.
The information was there, people just chose to not look too closely. Not just in Germany but around the world. They chose to close their eyes to it.
I can only cite my father, who was born 1929 and grew up in a small town area near the Czech border in Bavaria. . „End of the world“. He knew the war was going to be lost in 1942 as a 13 year old, having access to globe and some books. And he tells me: we didn’t know about Auschwitz , but you knew Dachau existed and you certainly didn’t want to end up there. And you felt something evil behind the whole system.
Law and order is not evil.
@@Willy_TepesYou would be very quiet if you would be visiting Dachau or any other concentration Camp or Extermination Camp.
@@dslmodem9014 I have researched this in detail, I have seen everything.
Therapist: Beardless Simon isn't real, he can't hurt you.
TIFO: 1:19:45
Me: 😮
Jesus, a pre-beard factboi in the wild
Awesome
Enough of the public knew what was going on. Soldiers can't keep secrets for long and a lot of them talked. Why do you think they feared the Soviets so much. They knew what was coming.
Everybody feared the Soviets they were beasts !
They feared the Soviets for other reasons. But they also knew in a way what was going on. Not exactly the same, but think of it, like we all know what goes on in the meat industry, but most of us spend our days not thinking about it. Its called compartmentalisation.
Everyone feared the Soviets because their genoicdes began in the very early 20th century and were much worse.
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soviets were beasts in the bad way, Königsberg bad. They weren't beasts at war, they lost 10 times as many soldiers as the Germans. Germans just ran out of gas and ammo. Germans didn't have the USA to give them everything they needed.
They had other reasons to fear the Russians. The top one was the treatment of the civilians the German Army did. If their supply lines or depots were attacked by "partisans" it wasn't unusual for the military to destroy the closest village along with the civilians in it. The reasons I put partisans in quotation Mark's is because most of the partisans on the eastern front were Russian soldiers that had been bypassed by the German Army in their invasion.
3 hrs 👀
Simon is clearly a Zionist.
When we don’t learn from the past we are doomed to repeat it 😢. If anyone doesn’t want to watch this then go else where❤. I watched and listened until the end, yes I’ve seen this type program, but I never want this to happen again while staying silent❤ and a 3 hour program seems a second in time compared to being in concentration camp and dying there since we can leave at anytime when the prisoners could not
How have you watched it to the end? it's 3 hours long and was uploaded 35 minutes ago
@@HysteriaForeversorry misspoke I will watch until the end❤
I'm an hour in. I'll watch it until the end. I like coming to the comments to see what others think. Sadly, from what I'm reading, we seem unable to learn from our past mistakes.
To be fair, when we do learn from the past we still do the same stuff anyway.
@@HysteriaForever this is a compilation of previous uploads.
3h with Simon? Awesome :D
The shame of eugenics is that artificial selection does, in fact, work. The issue is purely ethical in that no one should have the power to control human evolution.
Only short term and only with a highly certain understanding of downstream repercussions..that we still arent even close to. Frankly we only have grasp of obvious cause and effect on the most obvious conditions, anything nuanced, multifactoral, or down under layer 1 is mostly speculstive. Long term it bottlenecks and makes everyone weak to the same problems and cripples evolution potential. Maybe in 10 generations you wipe out a handfull of cancers, and maybe that makes 100 percent of the population subject to a virus, bacteria, fungus, parasite, or other cancer that wipes out everyone, or unable to adapt to something unexpected like exposure to a disinfectant, drout, or sun exposure. Or you just end up like chyna where everyone is a brainwashed coward that cant innovate or even grasp basic morality the same way others do.
They also suck at it. Sabotaging the marketplace is the path of ruin.
How do you know it works? What exactly does it work to do?
So far the only thing it works to do is get rid of people who don't physically look like you it doesn't make the population healthy or better off. Alot of the time they are just killing off the working class too which puts them in a worse spot in the long run. People live in fear of speaking out and have way higher amounts of stress.
So please explain to me what evidence you've seen of eugenics doing anything good for the people and nations involved?
@@PhotoJeticPoet because chihuahuas exist.....seriously? Did you skip biology?
@@jamesoverholt878this is so right. great rebuttal point! king charles spaniels and pugs too
HOT DAM 3 hours!!!
If you ever get a chance to visit Thierenstadt, do it.
As for how much the Allies knew or should have known: honestly, it doesn't matter, what could they have done about it? The camps were well within German controlled territories.
How much did the German people know? I think that's complicated. Some didn't want to know; why would you want to see what's happening, especially when you can't stop it? Others supported it, or at least thought that those in the camps surely did things to bring it upon themselves.
Btw, I don't think we can ignore the fact that in places like Babi Yar, sadly the Nazis found many willing collaborators in Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia etc.
Sorry to be that person, but it's Theresienstadt or Terezin.
Other than that, you're spot on
New fear unlocked: Simon without a beard
ive never heard Dachau pronounced with the "ch", as it would be in the word "chair". ive always heard the "k" sound, like the word "crack"
Because the correct pronunciation is 'duhck-ow'. Bless Simon, but he needs to brush up on his German.
I thought it was supposed to be pronounced as a single h like in how? So Dah-hau
Yup, it's neither "chair" not "crack", it's read like h in "heist"
As a brain blaze listener. This is damn impressive simon. And legitimately informative. Anyone know if he has writers for these or write it himself?
Simon has a number of different writers. He usually credits the writer at the beginning of each episode.
So Germany framed what they did as a "right to defend itself". Sounds familiar
Did this channel already cover this?
You keep saying “Teddy Roosevelt”, but this is WWII. I think mean Franklin Roosevelt?
In the eugenics part? I'm pretty sure he was referring to what Theodore Roosevelt was saiyng while he was alive
Short answer.
Yes.
Been there, seen the shoes. 12 billion of them in each museum.
Okay nazi
Do you mean million? And isn't that strange considering the death number was officially lowered to 1.2 or 1.3 million? You can look that up and verify. Now compare that to other 20th century genoicdes and that one is not close to the top.
What the what?
What? There's 25000 pairs in the birkenau exhibit (granted that was one days worth of shoes taken from victims). Did you actually think there was an exhibit with billions of shoes?
@@lifes2short4aname "Ackchyually !"
Love how UA-cam’s context is off by years
Looking at the world today, wouldn't they have just ignored it anyway?
They knew about Eisenhower's death camps.
Antisemitism was popular in Germany long before the second World War. The reason the holocaust happened is not because humans can look away from atrocities if they are not committed against them. It is because antisemitism is the oldest hatred there is, and is deeply engrained in western culture because of the Catholic Church. The nazis just made it acceptable enough for the German public to be open about their hate.
This was a subject that sensible Germans did not speak of out of fear for the possible consequences if they spoke out either way about the holocaust. This has been true among people who lived under a tyrannical regime since tyranny was employed by leaders disinclined to permit free speech.
The compliance during covid measures really scared me. I know it's not comparable at all, but we did see the majority of people comply with governments taking away freedoms and executing discrimination. It gave me a better understanding of how the holocaust happened. It also scared me a lot, because it shows that we still have the human tendencies to let these kind of things happen.
I have been to that island, it's surreal.
"The Hun is either at your throat or at your feet".
The BBC is about as unbiased as the daily wire, just in a different direction
Internment without trial existed in Northern Ireland from Monday August 9th 1971 until Friday December 5th 1975
It existed in all countries during WWII.
Nice.
The Japanese did the same thing in their conquered countries, yet they were never vilified the same as the NAZIs.
Asia isn't really as important on a global scale as Europe, it seems.
It’s a lot easier to be ignorant of military war crimes happening overseas than within your own borders, the general public in Germany was largely on board with the holocaust, just like how the majority of Israelis support the genocide of Palestinians.
In Japan, I don’t think it was quite that simple, average citizens of Japan didn’t know about the nanking massacre for example, until much later. Another important point is that the Germans put Hitler in power, he was popular among Germans even as the war and holocaust raged on, the Japanese imperial army and empires weren’t elected by the people, so their actions were definitely less reflective of Japanese society as a whole. That’s not to say it didn’t reflect the public wishes at all, Japan was heavily nationalistic but the amount of information Japanese citizens received was minuscule compared to the information Germans had. Both the nazis and the imperial Japanese government were pushing strong propaganda to ensure public support for the war, but the control of information in Imperial Japan was tighter, and being on an isolated archipelago made it a lot easier to restrict the exchange of information from outside of the country.
The enslavement of Koreans/comfort women is the main war crime/atrocity that occurred within their own borders in the 1900s at least. This was horrific and awareness of it was like much greater than of the war crimes happening in China for instance, and the crimes the Japanese imperial forces did were just as horrific and unforgivable as the Nazis for sure but you’re equating situations that are really not comparable in a lot of ways. Japanese imperial power was so separate from daily civilian view, genuinely most of the awareness of what the Japanese Imperial Government and armies actually did, wasn’t information that the public had any awareness of until after the war and reconstruction began.
Imperial Japan was no doubt guilty of some of the worst atrocities in human history, but I think as this video highlights, Germans knew a LOT more both in electing hitler (something japanese citizens had no power to do) and looking the other way as their former friends and neighbors were ripped from their homes and sent to gas chambers.
The trouble these days comes from Japanese nationalists now, like former PM Shinzo Abe who try to erase or gloss over Imperial Japan’s history of evil, just like how American nationalists are fighting to prevent children from learning about slavery, the Tulsa massacre, the reality about the Vietnam war and America’s direct role in the death of millions worldwide. In Cambodia, Indonesia, across the Middle East, overthrowing thriving socialist governments with coups and assassinations. Propaganda can allow governments to do stuff like this with almost complete impunity. This is a major part of why the US government wants (and seemingly will succeed) to ban TikTok, they need to be able to control the narrative and the idea of millions of Americans being exposed to information that can’t be controlled is scary to both republican and democrat establishment and the extreme wealthy who have been diverting blame for peoples’ suffering from themselves to scapegoats like Mexicans, trans people, china, etc.
@@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss thank you for the long comment. I do enjoy reading the longer informative comments like yours.
@@freshtoast3879 np!
I don’t want to come across as defensive of imperial Japan in any way because they were absolutely just as bad as the Nazi parties but I think the distinctions between the situations are important when making comparisons because most of what’s described in the video above differed heavily, largely in how the Japanese government functioned and the information citizens were given, and geographically it was a lot easier to control information when they were such an isolated nation.
Japanese people were no doubt very nationalistic and we can’t say how much they would go along with if they’d known more, but there’s a difference of being nationalistic + supporting the idea of an empire, versus electing a leader who dehumanized your neighbors, published mein kamf, spoke of a plan to eradicate the Jews called the final solution, witnessing a genocide unfold first hand and looking the other way which is what average Germans by and large did. The situations were quite different. Im not totally aware how much the japanese public knew about the comfort women enslavement at the time so I don’t mean to downplay that if there was wider awareness of that than the rest of Japan’s war crimes, that seems a bit more likely mainly because Korean slaves were brought to Japan. I believe what awareness Japanese people had of wartime atrocities had to come solely from word of mouth, there were millions of soldiers so I’m sure people heard many conflicting stories secondhand from soldiers, so I can’t say for certain how much information was able to travel in that way, but it’s still worth noting that the emporer and generals were unelected so the public had far less say than the Germans did.
@Kdkjdjewerdnxa interesting take on the events, I'm not sure what nations you meant when you said thriving socialist nations, though?
Beardless Simon isn’t real. He can’t hurt you.
Lil Whistler, however…
When youtube puts a little message on the top you know the official narrative is not quite accurate.
Agreed but to be fair personally I think every single official narrative of any event gets tampered with by lots of different contributors at some point along the way.
1:19:47 OMG a beardless Simon i didn't even know that existed lol 😂
Crazy that the hate against the Jewish people today..cant we all just get along
Jews from Europe are doing a holocaust in the middle east right now. It's not crazy at all.
@@SublimeNotionsand so now you don’t want people to talk about the actual Holocaust.
Ironic how they're now the ones DOING the genocide, huh?
Maybe its because of their secret services motto?
Oh no simons learned about reupload/compilations
I saw a program that the nazis made lamp shades and book covers from human skin
Yes, true. Joseph Mengele and his gang of monsters.
SOME did that. One particular nasty person picked prisoners based on their tatoos for that purpose.
It was not an industry though, and not a thing they bragged about even among other Nazis.
But due to ressource shortages, the ashes and fatty remains (when you burn people the can be collected) from killed people were very much used to make soap out of afaik. And Bones were partially grinded down as chalk fertiliser.
This is just a myth. There was never any evidence of any of these stories.
Ed Gein did that. And he was a nazi sympathizer. Thats why the story gets messed up and exaggerated.
@@SuperKasper333
No it’s not. Mengele was a doctor. He did messed up biological studies.
He liked twins. Not lampshades.
Don’t perpetuate nonsense.
@@hannajung7512correct. If I remember correct, it was a woman. She was the wife of a high profile Nazi and she would chose prisoners on their tattoos that she wanted turned into “furniture”…
The problem is... what can we do? we protest, we donate, we condemn, short of picking up weapons ourselves what CAN we do? Many Germans might have abhorred the goings on but what could they do? Write a strongly worded letter to the Nazi party asking them to stop? And if the people within the offending country can't or wont do anything what hope does anyone else have?
These days we have The Palestinian Genocide and again we protest, we donate and we condemn but our governments dont act... so what now?
What we can do? We can ask for evidence before we believe insane stories. As for the situation today, we can replace our politicians with decent and honest people.
What does the american public know about Gitmo?
A prison in Cuba. Keeps people the US doesn't want to provide constitutional rights too. Torture and all that for whatever reason they want to do it for. Very little is hidden there, it's all come out. Why don't you know anything about it?
Many people doesn't knew, but many did and supported it is scary
Kind of like what’s happening now in gaza
Just a compilation of existing videos - misleading description giving the impression it’s a longer version of the video from a year ago
Thank you. I thought it was but needed confirmation.