Execution of Nazi Commander who massacred 97 British Soldiers - Fritz Knöchlein
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Fritz Knöchlein was born on 27 May 1911 in Munich, then part of the German Empire. On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. The Second World War started on 1 September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. During the invasion, Knöchlein led a unit of the SS-Standarte "Upper Bavaria," and after the Polish campaign, he took command of the 3rd Company in the 2nd Motorized SS Regiment, which was part of the 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf." The SS Division Totenkopf, also known as the Death's Head Division, was an elite unit of the Waffen-SS, the military branch of the SS. This division was strongly indoctrinated with Nazi Party ideology by its commander, Theodor Eicke. The German invasion of France through the Low Countries began on 10 May 1940, and one of the participating forces was the SS unit commanded by Fritz Knöchlein. The Battle of France was the SS Division Totenkopf's first major engagement of the Second World War, during which the Totenkopf soldiers fought fiercely throughout the campaign, suffering higher death rates than other German forces.
Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment and the 8th Lancashire Fusiliers, who were tasked with defending the French villages of Riez du Vinage, Le Cornet Malo, and Le Paradis. On 27 May, the Totenkopf troops, including Knöchlein’s 3rd Company, attacked the British at Le Cornet Malo, resulting in the deaths of 150 men from both sides.
Meanwhile, the Norfolks had set up their headquarters at a farmhouse just outside Le Paradis. The company commanders had been informed by radio that their units were isolated and would receive no assistance. During the battle, the Germans under Knöchlein's command attacked the farmhouse with mortars, tanks, and artillery shelling, which destroyed the building and forced the defenders to relocate to a cowshed.
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My father fought as part of the BEF with the Royal Ulster Rifles. They fought the SS at a river crossing and beat them back but my father did say they were tough soldiers. He eventually got away via Dunkirk but returned on D Day and fought tight through France until he took part in the Crossing of the Rhine
All brave men. My mate’s father was also in Dunkirk and back on D Day with the Royal Ulster Rifles.
Also an identical massacre at Wormhoute
my dad and was in the RN seen some action but survived like your dad
Crazy guy, crazy period! This was madness. Thank you World History for great documentary.
Crazy guy? Nazis were bloody fanatics none crazy amongst them.
Crazy guy? Don't you mean EVIL!!!
My wife's grandfather John Martin aged 36 was Regimental Sergeant Major in the Royal Scots. He was killed on 27 May 1940 defending the left flank of Le Paradis where he is buried in the local cemetery alongside those 97 of the Norfolk Regiment who were murdered by the SS. He was mentioned by Major J. Bruce of the Royal Scots in his report as having contributed great assistance and behaved with distinction during the fighting. We have visited the cemetery twice and the place where the 97 Norfolk Regiment soldiers were murdered. There is an excellent book detailing the massacre called " The Vengeance of Private Pooley". Well worth a read.
It has always touched me deeply, that every year at Arnistice Day, the relatives of a Private Fred Bradley of the Norfolk Regiment, still leave a small placard remembering him, on the War Memorial in front of the Norwich City Hall. "Always Remembered"
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Tingly I was reading a book called Dunkirk about the retreat and rearguard. In Wormhout where the Royal Norfolks were captured the same thing happened
. A German SS soldier was ordered to take part and he and a comrade refused point blank. He could not prevent it but it bothered him so badly that when he was captured by the British he immediately asked to see an officer and told his story so he probably was one of those who testified.
Wormhout massacre involved the Royal Warwickshire Regt- not the Norfolks.
@@liverpoolscottish6430 yes your right my mistake
An ss commander complaining about how he's being treated as a prisoner...oh, the irony.
Did his captors sign the articles of the Geneva Convention? If so he should not have to ask to be treated accordingly.
12:55 "....the English hangman Ted Roper."
A case of nominative predetermination there.
We have heard much about the inept American hangman, Sergeant Woods.
If the case of truth being stranger than fiction. 😅😅
Film footage bears little resemblance to the story line.
11:43 He was 37,I'm 44 and and look 20s . I find it interesting how so don't age while others look way older than their official age.
Perhaps his long combat history might have been a factor.
Les Griffiths
My uncle Jim Knight was captured at Dunkirk sent to a POW camp The Nazis wanted to send him to a coal mine He refused and was tortured physically and mentally After his release came back to Ireland He had a very special medal for bravery too young to recall what one but when I asked he said I ran faster than the Germans
That survivor has just recently died
A lucky Escape .My Irish father in law Edward ,came over to the UK and joined up, with his mates . He was posted to France in Febuary 1940, as part of the Royal Engineers,General Construction Company building an airstrip at Grévillers. 10th May bombed, then three companies were off to Boulogne on 17th May. 21st May Two officers plus ten OR`s [Edward] plus two lorries were sent off North to obtain trenching materials. Nb did they think it was WW1? Later they made their way via Le Paradis, and were told to leave Hazebrouck, as they were not front line troops , and make there way to Dunkirk, they joined up with other RE`s 26th May 1940, Not making trenches the Tanks were on there way? No transport was available until 1300 hours, when they embarked in a small drifter (small fishing boat) . Edward back to France 17th July 1944,
Danke für diesen Zeugniss! Interesting
I have not heard any stories or charges of German officers being "tortured" in confinement at any English prisons after the War. Maybe it happened in "isolated" circumstances, but I have never heard it. In Russia, German prisoners were treated very badly. Not always because they were being "tortured" but mainly because there was no food to feed them. But there wasn't much food for Russian civilians after the war either.
I think it is possible he was lying about the torture. Even as he explained it, it was NOTHING compared to the concentration camps who murdered millions, including enemy combatants. Ultimately, he was FIGHTING for a very, very criminal Reich. If the Allies also committed atrocities (and likely they did), they were isolated occurrences and were NOT combat policy.
The American hangman who hung the prisoners of the war-crimes trials was not expert and botched them. So some things happened that were not always according to the rules of war.
Correct me if you think I am wrong.
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@sanjosemike3137 I think it very unlikely that Knochlein was tortured. He was sent to an English country house that was deliberately made comfortable and relaxed in order that senior German officers would talk freely. Every room and virtually every tree in the garden was bugged and listened in to by a large number of German speakers (mainly Jews escaped from the Nazis) in the basement of the country house!
There was a rogue senior MI5 (Security Service) officer who set up a secret interrogation centre where German prisoners were treated roughly. His activities were discovered and he was thrown out of MI5 and the interrogation centre closed down. I don't know if he was prosecuted for his illegal activities.
@@stevebarlow3154 You have seen too many movies.
@@waynec9444 Do a bit of research, both those stories are true. I'm not sure if either have featured in a film, but both have been mentioned more than once in TV documentaries.Both are also mentioned in the book 'British Interrogation techniques the Second World War' by Sophie Jackson.
Well, this isn't the whole story. In his book, Herbert Brunnegger describes the fighting that preceded the massacre. The Royal Norfolk and the Royal Scots Regiment probably used a fighting style that was not exactly the fine English way.
1. An English pilot flew a reconnaissance aircraft with a German national insignia over the German positions several times a day and directed the English artillery.
2. English riflemen shoot from the roofs of the place we attacked and cause considerable casualties.
The wounded lie behind their weapons with terrible wounds.
When we try to care for the wounded, we find that they have small bullet holes going into their bodies and hand-sized wounds coming out of their bodies. Due to the use of dumdum bullets, which are banned under international law, the wounded were usually unable to be saved. They bled to death under our hands.
3. When a group advances through a small forest, they penetrate an enemy position. The English surrendered after a short melee and asked for care for two wounded men lying under blankets. As the group moved on, the supposedly wounded men threw hand grenades at the soldiers who had spared them.
4. The wounds caused by special ammunition and the reports from the wounded sober us and make us see the enemy in a new light.
5. A comrade told me the following: A group of English soldiers surrendered from a stable building by waving a white flag, whereupon the fire was stopped. As the Germans approached without cover, they were machine-gunned from the other side of the stable.
6. When the fierce battle for the La Bassee Canal and Le Paradis is over, the English wave white towels and surrender. The surviving Englishmen emerge from their positions in barns, attics and cellars. When we think the village has been cleared of the enemy, unexpected machine gun fire starts falling. An Englishman had reoccupied a machine gun that had previously been abandoned and opened fire again. Three of my comrades died.
One does not mess with a hangman with the name of Roper !
"Leaving less for tomorrow."
6:03: "The BRITISH captives....". That's a FRENCH captive.
Oh dear God can’t listen to this AI. It’s dreadful.
The voice ist horrible!
Why do they always get mixed up with England and Britain.
Mainly because the Germans made no distinction. They would hardly if/ever refer to Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland. We were all simply Englanders as far as they were concerned.
@@richardhebden5603 Wrong,because the English media and hierarchy have always projected it round the world that England is Britain.Same with royalty..
@@johnfitzpatrick4007In Germany today they call us all Englanders or “Island Monkeys” 😂
Awful computerised voiceover. It's a "No!" from me.
Bollocks.
The UK, and France, declared war on Germany, not the opposite. So...
The AI VO is f'in awful on this channel, totally over the top, really bad grammar and punctuation ...so bad I watched with audio off and read the subtitles.
Yep. Sounds like recordings of Lord Haw-haw.
that part about KZ-officers being trained in Braunschweig seems suspicious, since they, along with the rest of KZ-personnel were being trained in Dachau before being transferred to other camps.
The person/bot is awful telling this story
F'in awful isn't it totally over the top !!
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Read up on the Biscari Massacre and the Laconia Incident.
oh that poor dear forced to march in circles and doused with cold water. If he'd simply confessed to everything from the start there's a chance he might have been given a life sentence instead of the death penalty as terrible things always happen in war. But possibly he actually believed his orders were justified and that he acted rightly. ⚛
Rep what you sow SS
This voice is real turn off
probably AI
History is written by the victors
Hangmen also die.
Good information but your presentation stinks. Either narrate or put text on the screen, but not both.
_How many British commanders like Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer [Jallianwala Bagh massacre] & Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener [concentration camps 2nd boer war] were punished for their atrocities in the British colonies?_
Victor history so presented as saviors.
Churchill himself committed atrocities
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Change this voice, or no more clicks.
" Totenkopf" has an umlaut over the " o".......The " o"should sound like " er"
Les Griffiths
Never seen Totenkopf spelt with an Umlaut. if it did the O would be pronounced oe not er. My name should have an umlaut but we dont use it in the UK
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It's berg not borg
The narrator has perfect pronunciation & diction, as always.
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I know this is off the subject, but I just found a couple of almost 2" hairs on my lower back, its really crazy. Right above my just say no to crack. Such a crazy place to find a few long hairs, they aren't that thick, like they aren't pube-like or anything, maybe slightly whispy, but they are long! Why are they so freakishly long?
Maybe you are turning into an ape?