One aspect of this event not mentioned but important, is that it also marked a seminal turning point in terms of how the Western democracies viewed the Nazis. Kristallnacht sparked a wave of general disgust and fury around the world and is widely perceived, along with Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia in March of 1939, as marking the beginning of the end of excusing Nazi aggression and violent excesses. In the United States FDR was so shocked that he recalled the US Ambassador to Berlin. Large scale anti-German protests and boycotts swept America. International public opinion was now shifting irretrievably against Hitler and the Nazis. (Note: I slightly copy edited the above comment.)
Charles Lindbergh, who controversially had some admiration for the Third Reich, reacted to the Kristallnacht in his diary by wondering what the Nazis were playing at.
The comment is true, but American and British disgust was hollow as it contained no actions to make these crimes against humanity painful for the German government and society. It is really disgusting in itself that no diplomatic relations were broken, and sanctions of some sort were brought to bear against Germany.
The West did nothing because their populations were still sick of war. They still had not recovered from WW1. This is also why the Japanese, Italians and the Soviets were able to conduct their crimes.
I’m ASTOUNDED by the fact that this wasn’t demonetized and I saw an add before this video. I hope it stays that way because I love this channel but I’m not in the financial position to support on patreon. Good luck Indie and team.
It may still be demonetized, youtube routinely plays adds on videos they have demonetized, they are still videos people will watch, youtube is just doesn't want creators to benefit from some videos.
Indy, your passion for this project shows itself ever more and more as you close the episodes. Especially ones like this where real vile, disgusting, and inexcusable acts against innocent people are talked about. Yes, all true historians are passionate about events of the past, but I’ve seen very few who show the real emotion that you do. Thank you for what you, the Time Ghost team (and Sabaton!) are doing! 👍🏻😁😎
This is all so scarily similar to what's happening in India right now. Thugs and nationalist mobs persecuting a religious minority and the government silently sanctioning it and doing its best to strip said minority of their rights and citizenship The old adage is correct: those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it and those who do learn are doomed to watch as others repeat it.
The BJP has been described as Hindu fascism, and its youth wing is connected to the same Hindu supremacist group that shot Mahatma Gandhi for being soft on Muslims.
@@MrRjh63 The Indian Government is currently constructing concentration camps across the country to intern the majority of the soon to be stateless Muslim population of India, which is around 200 million people. Opposition to Modi is considered opposition to the country and is treated as treason by his supporters. The world's largest democracy is having its democratic and secular values degraded by fascist nationalism while the government is priming and prepping the population for what could well become the largest forced migration and/or genocide this world has ever seen.
There is a big difference, Muslims and Hindus have fighting each other in India for centuries . Partition and the creation of Pakistan was an attempt to find a solution but many Muslims remained and there has been increasing friction. History is repeating itself. Throughout Europe we are seeing ever increasing Muslim militancy.
The outside world did not make it particularly easy. Immigration restrictions were not relaxed in the USA and other places. A Turkish satirical magazine published a cartoon in the late 1930s or early 1940s showing a ship with Jewish refugees approaching Turkey. The ship's flag has a question mark, alluding to Jews having no country. A spokesman calls out to Turks on shore, "Let us on shore for just five minutes so we have an opportunity to make ourselves rich."
Steve Kaczynski The British issued a moratorium on refugees to Palestine not long after this as well. The Yishuv Government then adopted a policy of defying the ban and sneaking in while collaborating with Britain in the fight against Germany. But the Revisionists refused and kept targeting the British.
Same my great great granddad grabbed all the family he could , got to America thru pluck and luck and then his son ( my great granddad ) joined the army became a paratrooper and went back to say hi to those fascist pricks
Its crazy to see a state implement this in a cold calculating manner. The constant progression to make a part of their population legally nonexistent. Turning citizens into subjects. Thank you Timeghost team for this excellent video series!
I really enjoy how in your series you take them year by year instead of the event as a whole. It really adds more perspective and understanding of the events your videos describe.
A friend of mine has a staggering family story to tell. His father studied in Freiburg im Breisgau for a period in the late 1930s. He was on his way home and was to stay overnight in a Berlin hotel on the very night of what was to become "Kristallnacht". Regardless of how planned and coordinated the actions were, the word on the street obviously was out somehow, because my friends dad was told by the hotel clerk that "it might be a good idea to remain at the hotel tonight". So my friends dad heard noise, shouting and commotion going on in the city, but he never got out. The following day on the way to the station all was quiet, but some places that had evidently been looted and destroyed could be seen. Imagine having that kind of experience as a young man and being able to tell your children and grandchildren about it.
Thank you for speaking so at length about this. Hearing it play out year by year instead of all at once really drives home how the escalation of political violence leads to greater tragedies. This is a very important video.
The "Citizenship Laws" is eerily similar to the one being pushed forward by the Modi government of India right now, just replace "Germans" with "non-Muslims". As well as inciting violence against Muslims while distancing themselves with plausible deniability. History might never repeat itself but it's shocking how much it rhymes.
"The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 was passed by the Parliament of India on 11 December 2019. It amended the Citizenship Act of 1955 by providing a path to Indian citizenship for illegal migrants of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian religious minorities, who had fled persecution from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan before December 2014. Muslims from those countries were not given such eligibility." That doesn't sound even close to what happened in Germany. Did you watch the whole video?
@@Gonza-lh2vo It's true that thugs like the Nazis will always live among us. That's why it's important to be vigilant and protect our democracies and never again allow them to take over.
@@gmodrules123456789 Seconded. People often just read the name of legislature and don't even bother to look into the actual content. Mainstream media coverage often exploits the ignorance of the general public to create manufactured outrage and draw false comparisons to Hitler.
Wow. You learn about Kristallnacht and the persecution of Jews in school but you don't realize how creeping it was, kind of like the proverbial frog in slowly boiling water. I wish we had learned this history with this amount of detail. You guys do a great job! Thanks so much for producing these videos!
@@Nudnik1 Ok, didn't know that since there's few trustworthy sources of translated copies I can obtain as I don't know German. But I was more questioning that the OP learned about the Kristallnacht in school when my school barely mentioned either world war at all, let alone about interwar atrocities.
@@randomlyentertaining8287 What you learn in school depends a lot on what state you live in. One year the one history book approved by the Texas Schoolboard omitted Thomas Jefferson. I hear they're real picky about math books in Florida these days.
@@randomlyentertaining8287 really? Are you American? I know this thread is two years old, but i live in Florida now, And grew up in Pennsylvania. I've never known anyone who didn't learn about 20th century history. In fact, we were taught a basic overview about both wars in 7th grade history, and then in 11th grade we spent an entire semester and n the years 1900 through 1950.
It is always painful to re examine Kristallnacht. It will 82 years ago this November 9th, and so many people have forgotten, so many of the witnesses and victims have past, so much still to document. Never forget. Thanks for this episode, TimeGhost History.
The irony of all those Jewish emigrations was that many of those people were scientists and physicists who would later on work on the Manhattan Project.
3:26 ratcheting up anti-Semitism blunted the ability of foreign powers to act, because Hitler's anti-Semitism appealed to many powerful people in England and France.
Interactions between Nazis and Romani are interesting, and definitely deserve a video. The Nazis were effectively stealing the Aryan identity for themselves and their ethnicity. At the same time, the Romani were the only Aryans permanently residing in Europe.
"To forget the victims means to kill them a second time. So I couldn't prevent the first death. I surely must be capable of saving them from a second death."
@@TimeGhost On my screen there's an extension under the video with the term "Context" underneath and a link to the Encyclopedia Britannica's page on the Holocaust. It wasn't surprising to me knowing UA-cam, but at the same time it bugs me to see that on this video.
Indiana Neidell I apologize I didn’t mean to distract by the seriousness of the topic from this episode this episode was very well done like all the other between 2 episodes, and everything else on here and the channel World War II and everything you have done in general let’s be honest haha. I love history so any bit of history I’ll definitely watch and especially with that voice you have been dear it’s it’s pure but I was curious to say about that because I am also a white connoisseur and it was hard to notice it from the video but I saw the bezel on the strap and I was quite intrigued but that is a nice watch
Lisa P I mean yeah they could cover it here in Time Ghost, but with them having their “War Against Humanity” Series in World War 2 channel, it would most likely be covered there, also they have pretty much not shy away from the horrors of the era be it the Holocaust or the Rape of Nanking.
It's good to know you're learning from this channel but this is not the position of TimeGhost at all. Some general points to remember are that: Anti-capitalism ≠ socialism. Nationalist conceptions of horizontal comradeship ≠ socialism. More state ≠ socialism. We have some videos on this so have a look if you're interested in learning more about the topic: ua-cam.com/video/t9PYCxIyyF8/v-deo.html. ua-cam.com/video/YHAN-RPJTiE/v-deo.html.
Thank you, I’ve watched them both already, as is the case with most of your videos. What I meant is how both the people of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union became obsessed with utopian ideologies and found enemies of that dream wherever they looked. For the nazis it was the Jews, for the communists it was the kulaks, and all the evils they did, they justified by their end goal. I’m not sure if this is possible but I would love a video about Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, though that would be more appropriate on your Cold War channel perhaps.
Socialism/Communism is the exact opposite to nazism/fashism. The nazis are racists/fashists/white nationalists while communists are exactlly antifashists, antiracists internationalists.
Torben Fischer Communists treat the kulaks like the nazis treat the Jews, both are massmurderous when you implement them and both are authoritatian and utopian delusions. Their differenses are very similar in a scary way.
TimeGhost History Absolutely spot on. I know it’s not your style and you’ve covered the topic perfectly in your other videos, but would you consider doing a reply video to TIK’s absurd “the Nazi’s were far Left Socialists “ video ?? He usually does great work but that video was a real headscratcher.
I remember watching the BBC's "Days That Shook The World" on Kristallnacht when I was younger and being taken aback with just how reprehensible how the order came from the top was, how it was essentially just Goebbels' own self-centered ambitions that caused so much suffering and destruction. Goebbels is a prominent candidate for the single most detestable person in human history.
DarthVaderReviews Truly. And the final act of mind blowing self centeredness that seals his candidacy for this title- murdering his own children so they won’t have to live in a world that is intolerant of his brand of intolerance.
It's chilling to think that, extremely odious as he was, Goebbels was often a bit of a moderate by Nazi standards, although that was more out of pragmatism than out of ideology.
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
I learned about this in school; but from this series you follow the events year by year, and slowly watch the state and society unravel, watch as authoritarianism and the atrocities become more bold, and watch the mind being warped do you realize that this can happen anywhere and to anyone. It's messed up; well done with the video.
Some country forcibly moving masses of people not being its citizens towards border with other country/countries who is/are known not to let those masses into... How about some Turkish sweets and Greek or Italian wine before I can remember where it happened?
I have German heritage. I have no Jewish family member. Yet this is the most heartbreaking thing. I pray that each generation does not lose touch of the evil atrocities that were done. History can and will repeat itself if evil leaders are allowed to hate at this level.
It’s a Dutch 18th masonry heater, also called ceramic heater that was originally in a mansion in Munich until WW2. It was then disassembled and stored in a cellar to preserve it from the wartime bombing. When Munich was being rebuilt the owners ended up never reinstalling it and instead sold it, so that in 1947 it was installed here. The mason who installed it turns 96 this year and two years ago he came to visit when he was on a tour together with his daughter to see all the masonry heaters he had installed during his career one last time. He installed this one and two more in the house we film in, one of them is a 19th century high end ceramic wood stove which is a miracle of technology - Spartacus still cooks on it once in a while.
I hope there is one more episode on Soviet union, Stalin, the purges and the GULAG archipelago. The two earlier episodes were revolving mostly around the economic policies.
Charles Lee Ray so... anti-Semitism is also connected to a weakness in reading comprehension. Come to think it of it, it’s not that astonishing, being an idiot is never restricted to only one part of the brain.
@GaslitWorld f. Melissa B I'd imagine that deity would be very disappointed in us right now, to have given us free will and this world just to watch us tear it apart and hoping that we correct course before it's too late. Perhaps it knows that there is hope for us and it knows what we have to do to get there, but wants us to figure it out on our own before it intervenes.
zdívek Everyone can use music to create powerful emotions. Very few can use silence with as much effect. I think silence following the description and pictures of how Nazi Germany deprived a religion of their dignity and even with their lives has a much more powerful effect, don’t you?
I just wanted to take the time to thank you guys for taking care of the comment sections in your videos. I am not pro-censorship (certainly not obligatory government mandated) and I will hear out opposing views and listen at least, BUT it's super obvious that there are people being PAID (probably foreign governments seeking to "sow" public discord) to leave useless flame comments of jewhatred all over the webs - that means you guys are constantly having to take time to remove obvious junk it's not unnoticed - you guys are great people ❤️
Thank you - we don’t approve of censorship either, what we do is an effort to remove comments that are obviously aimed at promoting oppression, violence, and murder. Unfortunately there are a lot of them... but given the topics we cover we see it as essential, and it’d also a matter of respect for the victims of hatred, suppression, and oppression from the past.
COVID is raging in Europe & Sweden... are you alright Indy & co.? It's been more than a week since this upload, and without hearing any news I'm worried about your health.
I hope in your next episode you'll find room to talk about the Kindertransport and Sir Nicholas Winton; terrible as these times were, they were not without hope.
Note well the "boil a frog" process of implementing antisemitism. As said, there were still limits at first as to how badly you could treat Jews, etc. (Added about 5 min later). Also Barbara Coloroso spoke of the Rwandan Genocide; saying that name-calling of Tutsis "cockroaches" by Hutus. Granted there's only so many parallels here with Nazi Germany, but there are some common themes about how dehumanization can lead to persecution and even murder of the disfavored group.
As a jew I visited Munich on the anniversary of this date the night of November 9th in 1990 I was shocked that nothing was done officially accross the city to remember the date.I had thought shops and places of entertainment would have closed for that night.But no nothing had changed from the every day and night.I was shocked and worried for the german nation as well as for us jews.What and where is Germany as a country going.
I have mixed feelings for this video- and it's an overall good episode. Lots of mixed feelings, though some are dependent on what might be coming up in the next few episodes as the series closes. 1) it might have been interesting/important to talk about what those economic incentives to get Jewish people of Germany to leave looked like. The discussion around the havaraa agreement shows a lot of the tension you're trying to describe about german Jewry, antisemitism, economic life, the nazi party, and their bad economic policy. But since this whole shpiel might come up if you do a video on the Evian conference and the Kindertransport, I'll give it a pass. 2) There are definitely editing changes that I think should have been made/calls for outreach because you're over-relying on the Bundesarchiv, which in this period is problematic. The reason it's problematic is because of an effort to make Jewish people seem weird, they took a lot of pictures and film of Jewish people being overly separatist seeming. To explain - one of the first videos, with the minyan (them praying), is very clearly a super-orthodox congregation EVEN for this time period in Germany based on the dress. I know this because when my grandfather died, I finally got to look at some family pictures - including family pictures of my grandmother, her sister, and her parents, taken in Berlin in the 1930s. They were orthodox - but in their family portrait, you would have never known. They look like an exceptionally average middle-class Berlin family. And the reason was outside of being orthodox Jewish, they were. It would have looked more tragic(?) had there been a tad more legwork there, since it is really hard to express the level of normalcy and integration by this point in Germany and western Europe of jewish people into everyday life. And it is a pity, especially in a discussion of German Jewry, since they were heavily secular especially compared to Eastern European brethren (which explains why there was so much discussion around who is Jewish) And it isn't like these photos don't exist: I would bet good money that the Roman Vishniac Archive at ICP would have been happy to talk to you, especially because they are trying to identify people in the photos. (Eg: this photo www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/physician-examining-a-patients-chest-in-a-jewish-health-clinic-berlin-0 or this one www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/children-wrestling-outside-a-jewish-soup-kitchen-berlin-0 or this one www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/emigration-applicant-meeting-with-a-representative-of-the-hilfsverein-der-1 or this www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/boys-learning-metalwork-techniques-niedersch%C3%B6nhausen-an-occupational-training or this one of german Jewish refugees in france www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/students-learning-metalwork-techniques-society-for-trades-and-agricultural
Dear Shana, thanks for elaborate response and apologies for my late reply. My name is Wieke Kapteijns and I am in charge of the post-production, so image research and editing (though I am a historian myself as well). I will mostly respond to issue 2 and 3, which are in my opinion, legitimate issues you are raising here. You are right that for our episodes concerning Germany, we use a lot of images from the Bundesarchiv. Because of a very limited budget we can only have one contract with Screenocean, which allows us to use their news reels. For the rest we depend on images / films that are in the public domain or have a copyright which allows for educational purposes. That severely limits our range of archive. The limited budget also means we have a short timespan to produce episodes, which leads that we have very little time to contact separate archives. It would mean contacting and contracting hundreds of archives throughout the world. I would love to do that, but the lack of time has prevented that. But yes, you are right, more diversity and more objective collections of pictures would have helped this episode enormously. I thank you for the Roman Vishniac Archive, I didn't know that one yet, and I will definitely contact them. For Bernard Wasserstein's On the Eve, I am not super sure if Spartacus has that book, but I will forward it to him. Thank you for that suggestion. We can't go without our dedicated, and maybe even more importantly, critical community. Your feedback really helps us and will make us improve with the production of every single video. Thank you for this Shana.
@@TimeGhost 1) Thank you and don't worry about the CX 2) I'm sort of working right now, and this deserves a longer reply about many ways I and possibly others can help - that will come later 3) The reason I'm writing right now is there's grant money available around some of these issues, which I will delve into more later -However - one specific grant's application, the Claims Conference, closes on April 1 www.claimscon.org/update-march-2020/ I will have another comment later addressing what you said and some thoughts about how I personally see this, how I can help, ect. See you!
Excellent episode. Always fascinated by this topic, how could a society allow such an atrocity to go on. But I am seeing it happen in the US right now and I hope the similarities I am seeing are stopped before it get out of hand.
Dear timeghost, I just finished watching a US national archive vid, know your enemy (Japan). I thought it was an excellent vid and a subject worth making, a more modern vid. Hoping you would be up to the task, although somewhat daunting I acknowledge. I was especially struck, by the extreme level of socialism, in the vid I watched and it amazes me, how things have changed in Japan. The process of the ideological changes, from the way of Bushido and, Shinto based doctrines, abused by the state and forced on the masses. To the democratic liberalism modern Japan enjoys. And the radical change from Feudalism to Nationalism. What it would of been like, for the people of Japan to go through these changes, I can only imagine. The realisation dawning on the Japanese collective consciousness, that they're not really gods destined to rule over the planet. Reconciliation of surrender to the allies with the Bushido - Shinto doctrine. The origin of the doctrines. The distortion and abuse of them by the authoritarian state. Many thanks for all the vids you make and the work that all the people put in, to make them possible.
@@heathercontois4501 it's here. ua-cam.com/video/bvLT8U0-_lI/v-deo.html Funnily enough, it's made by Frank Capra, yes, that Frank Capra. The socialism theme is a running thing throughout the main set of films he made in for the war department (see this list en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Fight )
Althought I liked your narration (And of course I love your channel) I cannot bring myself to push the like button because I'm in awe of the violence .. :( I got chills (not the good ones) for the duration of this video :( Not your fault, the topic is brutal on its own, keep up the good job !
Events like Kristallnacht are why it sickens me when people throw around terms like Nazi and Fascist so loosely and compare politicians to Hitler. Evil on this level should never be trivialized unless you want a repeat of it.
Ever since it started on Kristallnacht '38, when Liberty died and truth was denied. Sent away on trains, sent on a one way trip to Hell. Enter the gates, (You know what) awaits. Never before have those lyrics meant so much. Thanks, TimeGhost and Sabaton. I will never forget how the road to something so horrible was paved.
R. V. Datmir Jews are an ethnicity. Judaism is the ethnic religion of the Jewish people. Hence, there is most definitely “such a thing” as Jewish blood.
I have watched all your videos Indy, and I must admit there is one detail I found it weird that was not even mentioned- the Anglo-German naval treaty of 1935. Was it (if that's even possible, you and Sparty are super-knowledgeable) an oversight?
Only one complaint: long bearded German Jews are overrepresented in this video. German Jews of the time were very assimilated and tended to look down on the ultra-religious, considering them out of date and not modern. Likewise, Jews from Eastern Europe who has immigrated into Gemany after 1918 were considered culturally backward by German Jews who tended to think of them as something of an embarrassment. This immigration stoked German anti-Semitism of the time and native-born German Jews were aware of this and feared it.
So true. Most of the recent documentary videos use Nazi propaganda films as if they portray ordinary Jews of the time. They were originally chosen or staged to make the Jews look weird or shifty or ridiculous.
@@Conn30Mtenor I was referencing a sabaton song called Rise of evil about the rise of the third reich. Also can I just say that every country in the west had a history of that albit no nation ever had a genocide on such an industrial scale that I am aware of.
Staatsorgane und Behörden haben im großen ganzen bereitwillig und in vorauseilendem Gehorsam dabei geholfen, jüdische Bürger zu entrechten, obwohl sie laut Gesetz verpflichtet gewesen wären, sie zu beschützen. Rechte auf dem Papier zu haben hilft nicht.
@@drakon5076 Meine Übersetzung hatte keinen inhaltlichen, sondern einen sprachlichen Kontext - ich dachte nämlich, dass sich der ein oder andere fragt, was da auf dem Schilde stand. Die jüdischen Bürger wurden jedoch nicht entrechtet, sondern quasi "entbürgert", so dass sie die damaligen Bürgerrechte erst gar nicht in Anspruch nehmen konnten.
@@11Kralle Das hatte ich nicht realisiert, aber ich finde es immer wieder unglaublich schlimm, wie die Gesellschaft so abdriften konnte. Gab es eine endgültige Ausbürgerung? Die diskriminierung war ja ein zunehmender Prozess, ab '35 waren Juden offiziell Bürger 2. Klasse, mit massiven Einschränkungen (Wahlrecht, Arbeitsrecht, Familienrecht). Aber eine völlige Rechtsfreiheit, die sie "Vogelfrei" machte hat es doch offiziell und per Gesetz nicht gegeben. Trotzdem ignorierten die Strafverfolgungsbehörden was sich da abspielte, der "Kotau" vor den Machthabern.
@@drakon5076 In der Rechtsgeschichte gibt es bei der Auslegung von Gesetzen zwei Traditionen: den Laxismus und den Tuitismus (hoffentlich wird das wirklich so geschrieben). Im Falle der deutschen Juden kann ich nur vermuten, dass diese ab 1935 nicht auf laxen Gebrauch der Rechtsnormen spekulierten. Man darf da nicht das öffentlichkeitswirksame Inanspruchnehmen von Rechtsstaatlichkeit mit der alltäglichen Realität verwechseln. Allein der Umfang des Gesetzeskanons unseres Staates (z.B.) sollte in einem die Frage aufwerfen: 'Wie kann ich mich richtig verhalten, wenn meine Lebenszeit nicht dazu ausreicht alle mich betreffenden Gesetze auch nur durchzulesen (geschweige denn zu verstehen)?'
It was mentioned briefly, but one reason why the Nazis were initially reluctant to allow SA thugs and others to act on their own randomly was that the Nazis had sworn to restore law and order. Now, most Germans probably wouldn't see thugs in brown uniforms destroying shops and beating people up as "restoring law and order". This is not to say that the Nazis were somehow less anti-jewish in the beginning, but they were quite aware that they hadn't Germany and the Germans under complete control the first years (the episode about "Gleichschaltung" is very informative about this), so they were a bit careful to begin with. I'm sure there were those who would have loved to do a "Kristallnacht" already at the beginning of their reign, but the top Nazis most of the time knew exactly how far they could go at any given time.
This seems like it would have been a good episode to explore the Haavara Agreement a little bit, it always seems to get omitted from history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
Perhaps - but we purposefully avoided the positive migration efforts, as this episode is first and foremost about the violence against the German Jewish population in November 1938.
@@TimeGhost Thanks for taking the time to respond to my comment, and thank you for the honesty of your answer. I have to say I'm a bit disappointed that your feel the need to purposefully avoid certain topics, I think retelling history as it happened would be giving both your viewers and history a lot more credit.
You misunderstood us. This decision was not made for ideological, or historiographical reasons. We can’t just open up a topic and then not pursue it. If you talk about the ‘successful’ migration events, you also have talk about the vast majority of migration events that were terribly unsuccessful, to not mention explain the Nazi oppressive migration philosophy which lay at its foundation. This would explode the episode and make it too long. Therefore we restricted ourselves to only mentioning that the goal of the Nazis is to force migration, and that this has the effect of increased number of Jews leaving Germany. The episode is first and foremost about the policy of anti-Semitic street violence that culminates in Kristallnacht.
@@TimeGhost but if you don't discuss the haavara agreement you'll have a hard time discussing Britain's posture during the Evian conference (if that is going to be a freestanding episode, which for now I am assuming not. Besides which, if you talk about the haavara agreement, it makes talking about the internal jewish politics which is important background for elements of the free french, non-Ashkenazi experiences of the holocaust, the warsaw ghetto uprising, and a bunch of in concentration camp uprisings.
You’re absolutely right Shana, but like we said this episode focuses on the escalation of anti-Semitic violence in Germany in the 30s as a precursor to the a Holocaust. We will be documenting the position of international powers on the situation of the Jewish population trying to flee the Nazis in War Against Humanity on WW2. There, we will of course also return to the background from these years to explain the chain of events.
Because after 1935 antisemitism in Poland was on the rise. Look here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_20th-century_Poland#Rising_Anti-Semitism
One aspect of this event not mentioned but important, is that it also marked a seminal turning point in terms of how the Western democracies viewed the Nazis. Kristallnacht sparked a wave of general disgust and fury around the world and is widely perceived, along with Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia in March of 1939, as marking the beginning of the end of excusing Nazi aggression and violent excesses. In the United States FDR was so shocked that he recalled the US Ambassador to Berlin. Large scale anti-German protests and boycotts swept America. International public opinion was now shifting irretrievably against Hitler and the Nazis.
(Note: I slightly copy edited the above comment.)
yet Jewish refuges are still refused by the west
Charles Lindbergh, who controversially had some admiration for the Third Reich, reacted to the Kristallnacht in his diary by wondering what the Nazis were playing at.
The comment is true, but American and British disgust was hollow as it contained no actions to make these crimes against humanity painful for the German government and society. It is really disgusting in itself that no diplomatic relations were broken, and sanctions of some sort were brought to bear against Germany.
@@acfalk3 That's what I'm interested in. Not the official narrative but the dirty parts of history most would rather be forgotten.
The West did nothing because their populations were still sick of war. They still had not recovered from WW1. This is also why the Japanese, Italians and the Soviets were able to conduct their crimes.
I’m ASTOUNDED by the fact that this wasn’t demonetized and I saw an add before this video. I hope it stays that way because I love this channel but I’m not in the financial position to support on patreon. Good luck Indie and team.
I had an ad for some warship game. I suppose those advertisers deliberately chose to appear on content such as this somewhere.
no add at all
I still get one, World of Warships.
I still get an ad, from a tutoring company
It may still be demonetized, youtube routinely plays adds on videos they have demonetized, they are still videos people will watch, youtube is just doesn't want creators to benefit from some videos.
It is very good that you speak plainly about what happened.
Never Forget
With basically no sensationalism - their crimes speak for themselves.
@@TimeGhostI’ll never forget why they’ve been kicked out of every country that hosted them. They’re a problem.
Gotta say Between 2 Wars is my favourite series with Indy so far. Learning so much in every episode!
Indy, your passion for this project shows itself ever more and more as you close the episodes. Especially ones like this where real vile, disgusting, and inexcusable acts against innocent people are talked about. Yes, all true historians are passionate about events of the past, but I’ve seen very few who show the real emotion that you do. Thank you for what you, the Time Ghost team (and Sabaton!) are doing! 👍🏻😁😎
This is all so scarily similar to what's happening in India right now. Thugs and nationalist mobs persecuting a religious minority and the government silently sanctioning it and doing its best to strip said minority of their rights and citizenship
The old adage is correct: those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it and those who do learn are doomed to watch as others repeat it.
The BJP has been described as Hindu fascism, and its youth wing is connected to the same Hindu supremacist group that shot Mahatma Gandhi for being soft on Muslims.
Can someone explain?
Wow i hadnt heard about this. I know about the crisis in kashmir but didnt know that india was heading down this dark of a pth.
@@MrRjh63 The Indian Government is currently constructing concentration camps across the country to intern the majority of the soon to be stateless Muslim population of India, which is around 200 million people.
Opposition to Modi is considered opposition to the country and is treated as treason by his supporters. The world's largest democracy is having its democratic and secular values degraded by fascist nationalism while the government is priming and prepping the population for what could well become the largest forced migration and/or genocide this world has ever seen.
There is a big difference, Muslims and Hindus have fighting each other in India for centuries . Partition and the creation of Pakistan was an attempt to find a solution but many Muslims remained and there has been increasing friction. History is repeating itself. Throughout Europe we are seeing ever increasing Muslim militancy.
This was about the time some of my extended family got the hell out of Dodge. The few who stayed disappeared.
The outside world did not make it particularly easy. Immigration restrictions were not relaxed in the USA and other places. A Turkish satirical magazine published a cartoon in the late 1930s or early 1940s showing a ship with Jewish refugees approaching Turkey. The ship's flag has a question mark, alluding to Jews having no country. A spokesman calls out to Turks on shore, "Let us on shore for just five minutes so we have an opportunity to make ourselves rich."
Steve Kaczynski The British issued a moratorium on refugees to Palestine not long after this as well. The Yishuv Government then adopted a policy of defying the ban and sneaking in while collaborating with Britain in the fight against Germany. But the Revisionists refused and kept targeting the British.
Same my great great granddad grabbed all the family he could , got to America thru pluck and luck and then his son ( my great granddad ) joined the army became a paratrooper and went back to say hi to those fascist pricks
While it is true that Turkey was antisemitic, it did a lot better at accepting refugees than some other countries.
Its crazy to see a state implement this in a cold calculating manner. The constant progression to make a part of their population legally nonexistent.
Turning citizens into subjects. Thank you Timeghost team for this excellent video series!
I really enjoy how in your series you take them year by year instead of the event as a whole. It really adds more perspective and understanding of the events your videos describe.
A friend of mine has a staggering family story to tell. His father studied in Freiburg im Breisgau for a period in the late 1930s. He was on his way home and was to stay overnight in a Berlin hotel on the very night of what was to become "Kristallnacht".
Regardless of how planned and coordinated the actions were, the word on the street obviously was out somehow, because my friends dad was told by the hotel clerk that "it might be a good idea to remain at the hotel tonight". So my friends dad heard noise, shouting and commotion going on in the city, but he never got out. The following day on the way to the station all was quiet, but some places that had evidently been looted and destroyed could be seen.
Imagine having that kind of experience as a young man and being able to tell your children and grandchildren about it.
Sounds like the word was getting out and there was some disapproval of it, resulting in people sometimes being tipped off.
Thank you for speaking so at length about this. Hearing it play out year by year instead of all at once really drives home how the escalation of political violence leads to greater tragedies. This is a very important video.
Thank you - we think so too.
The "Citizenship Laws" is eerily similar to the one being pushed forward by the Modi government of India right now, just replace "Germans" with "non-Muslims". As well as inciting violence against Muslims while distancing themselves with plausible deniability. History might never repeat itself but it's shocking how much it rhymes.
That's because it's not something unique to the Nazis. Tribal behavior is a characteristic of all human societies.
"The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 was passed by the Parliament of India on 11 December 2019. It amended the Citizenship Act of 1955 by providing a path to Indian citizenship for illegal migrants of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian religious minorities, who had fled persecution from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan before December 2014. Muslims from those countries were not given such eligibility."
That doesn't sound even close to what happened in Germany. Did you watch the whole video?
@@Gonza-lh2vo It's true that thugs like the Nazis will always live among us. That's why it's important to be vigilant and protect our democracies and never again allow them to take over.
@@soulscanner66 Remember, Nazism didnt rise up from violent coup. They rose to power by democratic means. Everything they do is legal at that time.
@@gmodrules123456789 Seconded. People often just read the name of legislature and don't even bother to look into the actual content. Mainstream media coverage often exploits the ignorance of the general public to create manufactured outrage and draw false comparisons to Hitler.
Its easy to look away when it is not directly hurting you.
Wow. You learn about Kristallnacht and the persecution of Jews in school but you don't realize how creeping it was, kind of like the proverbial frog in slowly boiling water. I wish we had learned this history with this amount of detail. You guys do a great job! Thanks so much for producing these videos!
You learn about it in school? I never did. They barely mention WW1 or WW2 at all.
@@Nudnik1 Ok, didn't know that since there's few trustworthy sources of translated copies I can obtain as I don't know German. But I was more questioning that the OP learned about the Kristallnacht in school when my school barely mentioned either world war at all, let alone about interwar atrocities.
Randomly Entertaining where did you go to school?
@@randomlyentertaining8287 What you learn in school depends a lot on what state you live in. One year the one history book approved by the Texas Schoolboard omitted Thomas Jefferson. I hear they're real picky about math books in Florida these days.
@@randomlyentertaining8287 really? Are you American? I know this thread is two years old, but i live in Florida now, And grew up in Pennsylvania. I've never known anyone who didn't learn about 20th century history. In fact, we were taught a basic overview about both wars in 7th grade history, and then in 11th grade we spent an entire semester and n the years 1900 through 1950.
It is always painful to re examine Kristallnacht. It will 82 years ago this November 9th, and so many people have forgotten, so many of the witnesses and victims have past, so much still to document.
Never forget.
Thanks for this episode, TimeGhost History.
2 uploads in one day. I am impressed
This guy displays the naked truth with so much charisma and confidence. Love it!
Thank you, Indy, for your passionate speech about Kristallnacht. Never again! Nie wieder!
Sicher!
The irony of all those Jewish emigrations was that many of those people were scientists and physicists who would later on work on the Manhattan Project.
Tamara de Lempicka is the artist who painted the portrait in the background if anyone is interested.
The left-hand painting is called 'Portrait of a Young Girl in a Green Dress' and the right-hand one is titled 'Portrait De Madame Boucard'
thanks for the info, it led me down a wonderful wormhole, which brought me back to WW2
G3 Heathen Oh yes! Thanks for pointing that out. I have a book of hers; an amazing and under appreciated artist.
@TimeGhost History and @World War Two you guys do great content keep up the good work 👍🏼
Thanks Brian
@@TimeGhost Your welcome
3:26 ratcheting up anti-Semitism blunted the ability of foreign powers to act, because Hitler's anti-Semitism appealed to many powerful people in England and France.
Have you ever considered doing a video on the Roma story from WW2 ?
Interactions between Nazis and Romani are interesting, and definitely deserve a video. The Nazis were effectively stealing the Aryan identity for themselves and their ethnicity. At the same time, the Romani were the only Aryans permanently residing in Europe.
"To forget the victims means to kill them a second time. So I couldn't prevent the first death. I surely must be capable of saving them from a second death."
the ely weasel con?
Another excellent video!! Thank you for all the time and hard work that I am sure is put in to produce such informative and excellent videos!!
I love how UA-cam is trying to provide context to a fully developed and in-depth video about Kristallnacht.
what do you mean 'trying to provide context'? As far as I can see UA-cam hasn't placed anything with this video?
@@TimeGhost On my screen there's an extension under the video with the term "Context" underneath and a link to the Encyclopedia Britannica's page on the Holocaust. It wasn't surprising to me knowing UA-cam, but at the same time it bugs me to see that on this video.
Bots
@@TimeGhost Yup, likely.
love Indy's watch, and as always his commercial voice.
Got that watch from my Dad when I turned 50. He got it back when he turned 30. It's a Rolex Air-King from the 1940s.
Indiana Neidell I apologize I didn’t mean to distract by the seriousness of the topic from this episode this episode was very well done like all the other between 2 episodes, and everything else on here and the channel World War II and everything you have done in general let’s be honest haha. I love history so any bit of history I’ll definitely watch and especially with that voice you have been dear it’s it’s pure but I was curious to say about that because I am also a white connoisseur and it was hard to notice it from the video but I saw the bezel on the strap and I was quite intrigued but that is a nice watch
@@Southsideindy you're over 50!? no way
@@ShanaCarp Yep. All that clean, healthy liv- oh, wait... no, that can't be it. But I'm 52.
@@Southsideindy if you had not said this, I would not believe it. You look at least a decade younger. Now I am curious what you did
Will the Soviet-Japanese border conflicts have its own standalone episode on TG?
Lisa P most likely in World War 2 “War against Humanity”
The Soviet Japanese conflict will be part of our final episode in this series ;-)
Lisa P I mean yeah they could cover it here in Time Ghost, but with them having their “War Against Humanity” Series in World War 2 channel, it would most likely be covered there, also they have pretty much not shy away from the horrors of the era be it the Holocaust or the Rape of Nanking.
Top quality content... thank you.
Thanks for the kind words! We try our best!
The more I learn from this channel, the more the similarities between the nazis and the communists become clear
It's good to know you're learning from this channel but this is not the position of TimeGhost at all.
Some general points to remember are that:
Anti-capitalism ≠ socialism.
Nationalist conceptions of horizontal comradeship ≠ socialism.
More state ≠ socialism.
We have some videos on this so have a look if you're interested in learning more about the topic:
ua-cam.com/video/t9PYCxIyyF8/v-deo.html.
ua-cam.com/video/YHAN-RPJTiE/v-deo.html.
Thank you, I’ve watched them both already, as is the case with most of your videos. What I meant is how both the people of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union became obsessed with utopian ideologies and found enemies of that dream wherever they looked. For the nazis it was the Jews, for the communists it was the kulaks, and all the evils they did, they justified by their end goal. I’m not sure if this is possible but I would love a video about Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, though that would be more appropriate on your Cold War channel perhaps.
Socialism/Communism is the exact opposite to nazism/fashism. The nazis are racists/fashists/white nationalists while communists are exactlly antifashists, antiracists internationalists.
Torben Fischer Communists treat the kulaks like the nazis treat the Jews, both are massmurderous when you implement them and both are authoritatian and utopian delusions. Their differenses are very similar in a scary way.
TimeGhost History
Absolutely spot on. I know it’s not your style and you’ve covered the topic perfectly in your other videos, but would you consider doing a reply video to TIK’s absurd “the Nazi’s were far Left Socialists “ video ?? He usually does great work but that video was a real headscratcher.
I remember watching the BBC's "Days That Shook The World" on Kristallnacht when I was younger and being taken aback with just how reprehensible how the order came from the top was, how it was essentially just Goebbels' own self-centered ambitions that caused so much suffering and destruction. Goebbels is a prominent candidate for the single most detestable person in human history.
DarthVaderReviews Truly. And the final act of mind blowing self centeredness that seals his candidacy for this title- murdering his own children so they won’t have to live in a world that is intolerant of his brand of intolerance.
It's chilling to think that, extremely odious as he was, Goebbels was often a bit of a moderate by Nazi standards, although that was more out of pragmatism than out of ideology.
More than a few candidates for that title within both the era and Germany at the time
A classic tie with understated colours and the type of pattern my grandfolks would be proud of. 3/5
One of your best episodes. Thanks.
why is the red terror not mentioned
The Germans sent legal experts to the United States to learn from American racial laws.
its fucking depressing that they have to ensure that everyone is on the same page at the start of the video
That is unfortunately the state fo the world
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
@Michal Blaszczak the nazis
I learned about this in school; but from this series you follow the events year by year, and slowly watch the state and society unravel, watch as authoritarianism and the atrocities become more bold, and watch the mind being warped do you realize that this can happen anywhere and to anyone. It's messed up; well done with the video.
Thanks!
what about the romani people? is there a video covering them?
You can find them in our World War Two channel, here: www.youtube.com/@WorldWarTwo
This was very well narrated mate thanks
This channel is great! It deserves at least 10,000,000 subscribers, if not more! Thanks for all you do, Indie.
I had an AD before a video about the Holocaust?? How TF did you guys pull that off??
16:45 Huh, this reminds me of something... like a very recent event. Can't put my finger on what though...
Damn
Some country forcibly moving masses of people not being its citizens towards border with other country/countries who is/are known not to let those masses into...
How about some Turkish sweets and Greek or Italian wine before I can remember where it happened?
Really enjoyed this video, it was really informative! Can you perhaps provide your bibliography for further reading?
I have German heritage. I have no Jewish family member. Yet this is the most heartbreaking thing. I pray that each generation does not lose touch of the evil atrocities that were done. History can and will repeat itself if evil leaders are allowed to hate at this level.
Awful inhuman politics and should never be forgotten - thank you for recognizing the importance of this awful part of our history
What is that huge thing behind Indy? I've been wondering for over a year now.
It’s a Dutch 18th masonry heater, also called ceramic heater that was originally in a mansion in Munich until WW2. It was then disassembled and stored in a cellar to preserve it from the wartime bombing. When Munich was being rebuilt the owners ended up never reinstalling it and instead sold it, so that in 1947 it was installed here. The mason who installed it turns 96 this year and two years ago he came to visit when he was on a tour together with his daughter to see all the masonry heaters he had installed during his career one last time. He installed this one and two more in the house we film in, one of them is a 19th century high end ceramic wood stove which is a miracle of technology - Spartacus still cooks on it once in a while.
@@TimeGhost Oh cool, thanks! Never even knew such a thing existed!
Thanks a lot for the Hard work you put into these videos!
Thank you for appreciating it!
I hope there is one more episode on Soviet union, Stalin, the purges and the GULAG archipelago. The two earlier episodes were revolving mostly around the economic policies.
Next episode...
@@TimeGhost ha, nice :)
Charles Lee Ray so... anti-Semitism is also connected to a weakness in reading comprehension. Come to think it of it, it’s not that astonishing, being an idiot is never restricted to only one part of the brain.
The German word "Kristallnacht" actually translates into English as "Night of Crystal".
sad how inhumane human history is.
@GaslitWorld f. Melissa B interesting question
@GaslitWorld f. Melissa B I'd imagine that deity would be very disappointed in us right now, to have given us free will and this world just to watch us tear it apart and hoping that we correct course before it's too late. Perhaps it knows that there is hope for us and it knows what we have to do to get there, but wants us to figure it out on our own before it intervenes.
What happened to the beautiful outro music you always use in the end of your videos?
We didn't think it'd fit well with this one.
zdívek Everyone can use music to create powerful emotions. Very few can use silence with as much effect. I think silence following the description and pictures of how Nazi Germany deprived a religion of their dignity and even with their lives has a much more powerful effect, don’t you?
excellent and telling set props (especially the 3 skeletons)
I just wanted to take the time to thank you guys for taking care of the comment sections in your videos.
I am not pro-censorship (certainly not obligatory government mandated) and I will hear out opposing views and listen at least,
BUT it's super obvious that there are people being PAID (probably foreign governments seeking to "sow" public discord) to leave useless flame comments of jewhatred all over the webs - that means you guys are constantly having to take time to remove obvious junk
it's not unnoticed - you guys are great people ❤️
Thank you - we don’t approve of censorship either, what we do is an effort to remove comments that are obviously aimed at promoting oppression, violence, and murder. Unfortunately there are a lot of them... but given the topics we cover we see it as essential, and it’d also a matter of respect for the victims of hatred, suppression, and oppression from the past.
COVID is raging in Europe & Sweden... are you alright Indy & co.? It's been more than a week since this upload, and without hearing any news I'm worried about your health.
I hope in your next episode you'll find room to talk about the Kindertransport and Sir Nicholas Winton; terrible as these times were, they were not without hope.
That man is worthy of a special episode. Untold thousands of people are alive because of this man.
Ever since it started, Kristallnacht 38, when liberty died and truth was denied...
It is because of this channel do I have a more clear understanding of what happened, how and why. Really good stuff.
it's not road, it's rails.
It's horrible how easily evil can spread if it's not contained.
Note well the "boil a frog" process of implementing antisemitism. As said, there were still limits at first as to how badly you could treat Jews, etc. (Added about 5 min later). Also Barbara Coloroso spoke of the Rwandan Genocide; saying that name-calling of Tutsis "cockroaches" by Hutus. Granted there's only so many parallels here with Nazi Germany, but there are some common themes about how dehumanization can lead to persecution and even murder of the disfavored group.
A touching close, thanks for that.
The studio decor is fittingly stark and grim in today's episode.
As a jew I visited Munich on the anniversary of this date the night of November 9th in 1990 I was shocked that nothing was
done officially accross the city to remember the date.I had thought shops and places of entertainment would have closed for that night.But no nothing had changed from the every day and night.I was shocked and worried for the german nation as well as for us jews.What and where is Germany as a country going.
Please do one on the Nazi persecution of the Freemason, 50.000 of them died during the Holocaust
I have mixed feelings for this video- and it's an overall good episode. Lots of mixed feelings, though some are dependent on what might be coming up in the next few episodes as the series closes.
1) it might have been interesting/important to talk about what those economic incentives to get Jewish people of Germany to leave looked like. The discussion around the havaraa agreement shows a lot of the tension you're trying to describe about german Jewry, antisemitism, economic life, the nazi party, and their bad economic policy. But since this whole shpiel might come up if you do a video on the Evian conference and the Kindertransport, I'll give it a pass.
2) There are definitely editing changes that I think should have been made/calls for outreach because you're over-relying on the Bundesarchiv, which in this period is problematic. The reason it's problematic is because of an effort to make Jewish people seem weird, they took a lot of pictures and film of Jewish people being overly separatist seeming.
To explain - one of the first videos, with the minyan (them praying), is very clearly a super-orthodox congregation EVEN for this time period in Germany based on the dress. I know this because when my grandfather died, I finally got to look at some family pictures - including family pictures of my grandmother, her sister, and her parents, taken in Berlin in the 1930s. They were orthodox - but in their family portrait, you would have never known. They look like an exceptionally average middle-class Berlin family. And the reason was outside of being orthodox Jewish, they were.
It would have looked more tragic(?) had there been a tad more legwork there, since it is really hard to express the level of normalcy and integration by this point in Germany and western Europe of jewish people into everyday life. And it is a pity, especially in a discussion of German Jewry, since they were heavily secular especially compared to Eastern European brethren (which explains why there was so much discussion around who is Jewish)
And it isn't like these photos don't exist: I would bet good money that the Roman Vishniac Archive at ICP would have been happy to talk to you, especially because they are trying to identify people in the photos.
(Eg: this photo www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/physician-examining-a-patients-chest-in-a-jewish-health-clinic-berlin-0 or this one www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/children-wrestling-outside-a-jewish-soup-kitchen-berlin-0 or this one www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/emigration-applicant-meeting-with-a-representative-of-the-hilfsverein-der-1 or this www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/boys-learning-metalwork-techniques-niedersch%C3%B6nhausen-an-occupational-training or this one of german Jewish refugees in france www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/students-learning-metalwork-techniques-society-for-trades-and-agricultural
You should start your own UA-cam history channel I would patreon the crap out of it. Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge kind stranger.
@@timc7825 you're welcome? I don't think I am qualified for this
Dear Shana, thanks for elaborate response and apologies for my late reply. My name is Wieke Kapteijns and I am in charge of the post-production, so image research and editing (though I am a historian myself as well).
I will mostly respond to issue 2 and 3, which are in my opinion, legitimate issues you are raising here. You are right that for our episodes concerning Germany, we use a lot of images from the Bundesarchiv. Because of a very limited budget we can only have one contract with Screenocean, which allows us to use their news reels. For the rest we depend on images / films that are in the public domain or have a copyright which allows for educational purposes. That severely limits our range of archive. The limited budget also means we have a short timespan to produce episodes, which leads that we have very little time to contact separate archives. It would mean contacting and contracting hundreds of archives throughout the world. I would love to do that, but the lack of time has prevented that.
But yes, you are right, more diversity and more objective collections of pictures would have helped this episode enormously. I thank you for the Roman Vishniac Archive, I didn't know that one yet, and I will definitely contact them.
For Bernard Wasserstein's On the Eve, I am not super sure if Spartacus has that book, but I will forward it to him. Thank you for that suggestion.
We can't go without our dedicated, and maybe even more importantly, critical community. Your feedback really helps us and will make us improve with the production of every single video. Thank you for this Shana.
@@TimeGhost 1) Thank you and don't worry about the CX
2) I'm sort of working right now, and this deserves a longer reply about many ways I and possibly others can help - that will come later
3) The reason I'm writing right now is there's grant money available around some of these issues, which I will delve into more later -However - one specific grant's application, the Claims Conference, closes on April 1 www.claimscon.org/update-march-2020/
I will have another comment later addressing what you said and some thoughts about how I personally see this, how I can help, ect. See you!
Excellent episode. Always fascinated by this topic, how could a society allow such an atrocity to go on. But I am seeing it happen in the US right now and I hope the similarities I am seeing are stopped before it get out of hand.
Thanks!
Guys, could you please correct a mistake in subs: at 12:31 it should be “Gustlof’s anti-Semitism”, not “Frankfurter’s”
That's an error, our bad. It has been fixed now.
Dear timeghost, I just finished watching a US national archive vid, know your enemy (Japan). I thought it was an excellent vid and a subject worth making, a more modern vid. Hoping you would be up to the task, although somewhat daunting I acknowledge.
I was especially struck, by the extreme level of socialism, in the vid I watched and it amazes me, how things have changed in Japan. The process of the ideological changes, from the way of Bushido and, Shinto based doctrines, abused by the state and forced on the masses. To the democratic liberalism modern Japan enjoys. And the radical change from Feudalism to Nationalism.
What it would of been like, for the people of Japan to go through these changes, I can only imagine. The realisation dawning on the Japanese collective consciousness, that they're not really gods destined to rule over the planet. Reconciliation of surrender to the allies with the Bushido - Shinto doctrine. The origin of the doctrines. The distortion and abuse of them by the authoritarian state.
Many thanks for all the vids you make and the work that all the people put in, to make them possible.
Japan was never socalist.
Where is this vid? I would like to see it also.
@@heathercontois4501 it's here. ua-cam.com/video/bvLT8U0-_lI/v-deo.html Funnily enough, it's made by Frank Capra, yes, that Frank Capra. The socialism theme is a running thing throughout the main set of films he made in for the war department (see this list en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Fight )
Whats the music from 4:40?
Althought I liked your narration (And of course I love your channel) I cannot bring myself to push the like button because I'm in awe of the violence .. :( I got chills (not the good ones) for the duration of this video :(
Not your fault, the topic is brutal on its own, keep up the good job !
I like the fact this got published, not that its contents happened.
Every like, like every Jewish life saved or lost, counts
Don't you find it strange the same problems are occurring today?
One light bulb valiantly hanging on...
Did those Bavarian Catholics miss "Salvation comes from the Jews" in CCD?
Events like Kristallnacht are why it sickens me when people throw around terms like Nazi and Fascist so loosely and compare politicians to Hitler. Evil on this level should never be trivialized unless you want a repeat of it.
It makes me angry as well.
Broken glass everywhere
Atleast in germany it is called Progromnacht today. Kristallnacht is a bit frowned upon.
Ever since it started on Kristallnacht '38,
when Liberty died
and truth was denied.
Sent away on trains,
sent on a one way trip to Hell.
Enter the gates,
(You know what) awaits.
Never before have those lyrics meant so much. Thanks, TimeGhost and Sabaton. I will never forget how the road to something so horrible was paved.
That episode was epic! My heart goes out to the Jewish people that have suffered.
It’s so weird me and my mom both have Hebrew origin names yet not a single drop of Jewish blood (ancestry DNA says at least) just realised that
Those DNA tests aren´t as accurate as the companys claim
R. V. Datmir Jews are an ethnicity. Judaism is the ethnic religion of the Jewish people. Hence, there is most definitely “such a thing” as Jewish blood.
wasn't the last name (thats a whole ehtnic grab bag of celts) its the Jesse part lol
Props for the; hear no evil, speak no evil and see no evil skeletons, but where are the 'do no evil' skeleton?
Thank you.
"See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil"
The start of one of the most black chapters of humankind must never be forgotten!
NEVER Forget!
I have watched all your videos Indy, and I must admit there is one detail I found it weird that was not even mentioned- the Anglo-German naval treaty of 1935. Was it (if that's even possible, you and Sparty are super-knowledgeable) an oversight?
It could have been included in the appeasement episode - but otherwise there was not really an episode where it fitted in properly.
I think it was briefly mentioned in the episode about the Bismarck. Or maybe im mistaken.
Anyway, good job.
Only one complaint: long bearded German Jews are overrepresented in this video. German Jews of the time were very assimilated and tended to look down on the ultra-religious, considering them out of date and not modern. Likewise, Jews from Eastern Europe who has immigrated into Gemany after 1918 were considered culturally backward by German Jews who tended to think of them as something of an embarrassment. This immigration stoked German anti-Semitism of the time and native-born German Jews were aware of this and feared it.
So true. Most of the recent documentary videos use Nazi propaganda films as if they portray ordinary Jews of the time. They were originally chosen or staged to make the Jews look weird or shifty or ridiculous.
A Nation in despair. Weakened by war - defeated.
With a long history of anti-Semitism.
@@Conn30Mtenor I was referencing a sabaton song called Rise of evil about the rise of the third reich.
Also can I just say that every country in the west had a history of that albit no nation ever had a genocide on such an industrial scale that I am aware of.
From oppression to atrocity
~1:45min "Ich werde mich nie mehr bei der Polizei beschweren!" (I won't complain to the police no more)
Staatsorgane und Behörden haben im großen ganzen bereitwillig und in vorauseilendem Gehorsam dabei geholfen, jüdische Bürger zu entrechten, obwohl sie laut Gesetz verpflichtet gewesen wären, sie zu beschützen. Rechte auf dem Papier zu haben hilft nicht.
@@drakon5076 Meine Übersetzung hatte keinen inhaltlichen, sondern einen sprachlichen Kontext - ich dachte nämlich, dass sich der ein oder andere fragt, was da auf dem Schilde stand. Die jüdischen Bürger wurden jedoch nicht entrechtet, sondern quasi "entbürgert", so dass sie die damaligen Bürgerrechte erst gar nicht in Anspruch nehmen konnten.
@@11Kralle Das hatte ich nicht realisiert, aber ich finde es immer wieder unglaublich schlimm, wie die Gesellschaft so abdriften konnte.
Gab es eine endgültige Ausbürgerung? Die diskriminierung war ja ein zunehmender Prozess, ab '35 waren Juden offiziell Bürger 2. Klasse, mit massiven Einschränkungen (Wahlrecht, Arbeitsrecht, Familienrecht). Aber eine völlige Rechtsfreiheit, die sie "Vogelfrei" machte hat es doch offiziell und per Gesetz nicht gegeben. Trotzdem ignorierten die Strafverfolgungsbehörden was sich da abspielte, der "Kotau" vor den Machthabern.
@@drakon5076 In der Rechtsgeschichte gibt es bei der Auslegung von Gesetzen zwei Traditionen: den Laxismus und den Tuitismus (hoffentlich wird das wirklich so geschrieben). Im Falle der deutschen Juden kann ich nur vermuten, dass diese ab 1935 nicht auf laxen Gebrauch der Rechtsnormen spekulierten. Man darf da nicht das öffentlichkeitswirksame Inanspruchnehmen von Rechtsstaatlichkeit mit der alltäglichen Realität verwechseln.
Allein der Umfang des Gesetzeskanons unseres Staates (z.B.) sollte in einem die Frage aufwerfen: 'Wie kann ich mich richtig verhalten, wenn meine Lebenszeit nicht dazu ausreicht alle mich betreffenden Gesetze auch nur durchzulesen (geschweige denn zu verstehen)?'
It was mentioned briefly, but one reason why the Nazis were initially reluctant to allow SA thugs and others to act on their own randomly was that the Nazis had sworn to restore law and order. Now, most Germans probably wouldn't see thugs in brown uniforms destroying shops and beating people up as "restoring law and order". This is not to say that the Nazis were somehow less anti-jewish in the beginning, but they were quite aware that they hadn't Germany and the Germans under complete control the first years (the episode about "Gleichschaltung" is very informative about this), so they were a bit careful to begin with. I'm sure there were those who would have loved to do a "Kristallnacht" already at the beginning of their reign, but the top Nazis most of the time knew exactly how far they could go at any given time.
This seems like it would have been a good episode to explore the Haavara Agreement a little bit, it always seems to get omitted from history.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
Perhaps - but we purposefully avoided the positive migration efforts, as this episode is first and foremost about the violence against the German Jewish population in November 1938.
@@TimeGhost Thanks for taking the time to respond to my comment, and thank you for the honesty of your answer. I have to say I'm a bit disappointed that your feel the need to purposefully avoid certain topics, I think retelling history as it happened would be giving both your viewers and history a lot more credit.
You misunderstood us. This decision was not made for ideological, or historiographical reasons. We can’t just open up a topic and then not pursue it. If you talk about the ‘successful’ migration events, you also have talk about the vast majority of migration events that were terribly unsuccessful, to not mention explain the Nazi oppressive migration philosophy which lay at its foundation. This would explode the episode and make it too long. Therefore we restricted ourselves to only mentioning that the goal of the Nazis is to force migration, and that this has the effect of increased number of Jews leaving Germany. The episode is first and foremost about the policy of anti-Semitic street violence that culminates in Kristallnacht.
@@TimeGhost but if you don't discuss the haavara agreement you'll have a hard time discussing Britain's posture during the Evian conference (if that is going to be a freestanding episode, which for now I am assuming not.
Besides which, if you talk about the haavara agreement, it makes talking about the internal jewish politics which is important background for elements of the free french, non-Ashkenazi experiences of the holocaust, the warsaw ghetto uprising, and a bunch of in concentration camp uprisings.
You’re absolutely right Shana, but like we said this episode focuses on the escalation of anti-Semitic violence in Germany in the 30s as a precursor to the a Holocaust. We will be documenting the position of international powers on the situation of the Jewish population trying to flee the Nazis in War Against Humanity on WW2. There, we will of course also return to the background from these years to explain the chain of events.
Police doing nothing....this won't happen in the US.
Portland just called and they have a bone to pick with you!
History is repeating itself. This is happening in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in India right now. Almost to the T
16:27 I have to ask: why? (Why didn't the polish want to let polish people in?)
Because after 1935 antisemitism in Poland was on the rise. Look here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_20th-century_Poland#Rising_Anti-Semitism
My grandfather was a Mischlinge degree 1. Would you guys be willing to do an episode on .mischlinge one and 2? Thank you.
In War Against Humanity on WW2 we have already started dealing with all that horror.
Those protests in Germany were largely peaceful though, right?
What does that matter? You heard that many mobs did force jews out of restaurants and their like.
Harassing unprotected people and violently pushing them to a neighbouring country. What year is this?
History repeats itself, just in different countries. It happened before and it happened after that. It is always terrible.
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Ha, I like this