By the way. Don't use hello fresh unless you're ready to sign up for life. I still get spam calls and emails from them. They outsource so it'll possibly be an Indian woman questioning why you would ever consider not signing back up.... Grrrr
I remember hearing that the Rape of Nanking, perpetrated by Imperial Japanese forces, was so brutal that even the Nazi attaché was shocked and appalled. It is sickening what human beings can do to each other.
Many of those Japanese that participated in Nanking still felt no remorse decades later when interviewed. Just shows the power of brainwashing from a young age.
What about the unit 731? They tested on civilians and pow, weapons, put them in centrifuges till they ripped, in pressure chambers till they exploded, in freezing water to test how to treat it, bayonet training, sewing bodyparts from other people to others without any form of painkillers, cutting babys out of the mother without any painkillers and much much worse. They all got away in exchange for the data. None of them spend a day in prison. Same as the usa accepted all nazi scientist in project paperclip to build nasa
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These war crimes were standard on the Eastern front and somewhat tame compared to what the Japanese did to the Chinese and Koreans. When you think there is a limit to the darkest corners of humanity, it eventually has ways of reminding you of your own lack of imagination.
It's not like the Soviets didn't do the same kinds of things to their own people. Stalin was just as, if not more, ruthless and homicidal than the Nazis. Both communism and fascism are horrific ideologies.
Im from Germany and we went to oradur sur glane for a school trip and to speak with a survivor of that town, its incredible that he was able to impart wisdom and knowledge to the descendants of those who massacred all the people he had known, it felt surreal to learn what had happened and today still im at a loss for words
@@jamestaylor841 we also met with a white rose survivor, a friend of Sophie scholl, I dont think it's certain generations that r incredible but rather the circumstances they're forced into that dictated the way they had to live
I remember watching a documentary about a village in greece the SS burned to the ground because it was sheltering rebels, it was narrated by a woman who was one of the few survivors, she and her mother fled early to nearby woods at the behest of her father, the germans corralled the men in a warehouse sealed it and burned them alive, the next day when that woman 4 years old at the time returned with her mother to look for survivor's, when they found the warehouse she noticed a brick was loosed on one of the walls and an arm was sticking out, by some sick twist of fate she realized that it was her fathers and when she tried to hold it, it fell off because the rest of his body was ash. I have never felt more disturbed in my life.
Do a little more research on those villages. It all usually starts with the village being encircled and a patrol being sent in to speak with the residents, the patrol almost never comes back and is usually found brutalized. With no entry or exit, you’ve found a source of war criminals (Non-uniformed Combatants). This was EXTREMELY common on the eastern front, and women were usually the worst of the worst when it came to war criminals.
I’m very impressed by the little boy who both got shot and kicked, and yet still had enough restraint and coherence to remain silent and still until he could escape. I hope he made it somewhere safe
there is a point after the pain where moving around is possible but articulating your pain in a vocal way is too draining.. not one being capable of feeling should be brought to this point ever.
They did this in Poland too they came into my mum’s village But my gran took her children with a horse and cart and fled to the woods to hide in the Baltic winter. My mum was 9 my aunt was 4 and my last remaining aunt was 8 months old They survived.
@@kittylover62 gosh I never asked my mum when she was alive. I think they just burned the barns not the entire village. My dad saw the take his dad and brother who was 16 and crying because he knew he was not coming back they shot them in the woods. My dad was 15 and forced to wear a German uniform and work for a German farmer.
Here's the thing: the SS had been doing that sort of thing on the Eastern Front for years up to that point, 627 villages were burned and razed like this in Belarus.
@@Sarah-ue7to Yeah, this is a clickbait title. And it's an injustice to all the people in the eastern front that were burned alive along with their villages.
The horrifying part to me is that this wasn't even too unusual, the Nazis were shocked by it mostly because it was one of very few not to happen in the East. I often remember the infamous figure "628 Byelorussian villages were burned to the ground, with all their inhabitants." Anyone who hasn't already, the film Come and See depicts this cruel reality better than any other film ever made, and it's an extremely important watch for anyone who wants a glimpse of the generational trauma that the Soviet Union had towards the war
In Yugoslavian city of Kragujevac, 21.10.1941 the germans shot almost 3000 civilians (including ~150 high school boys) as a reprisal for 10 kiled and 26 wounded german soldiers. There was a ratio for reprisals applied in the eastern europe. Yeah, it happened all over the east, but not many germans care about that, especially early on when they are winning. In 1944 after the alied landings, it's all about court marchaling the ss... damn I hate the nazis
Yep, the asshole from the SS Das Reich did spend a lot of time slaughtering eastern villages. For them the slaughter at Oradour sur Glane was business as usual, they were also the one behind the mass murder at the town of Tulle, 99 men hanged. Everyone forget about the eastern victims.... I am sad to say, that as a french I recognised Oradour right away
@@charlescalthrop2535 The issue here is that they were fellow “European Caucasians” and these levels of reprisals were practically unheard of in Western Europe.
Right? LMFAO it's funny at least 😆Sort of like telling a joke and then explaining it when you get crickets. Like, did you see that dad? 😂 (I have a toddler lmao that face is familiar to me lol)
Soooo you're saying the part about shooting all the men and burning them in barns OR all the women and children being shot and burn alive in a church OR that a baby was crucified...wasn't the most disturbing part to you??
And the award for "most blatantly Stateside comment in the thread" goes to... @@shadowmatrix0101 But seriously, I fucking knew that recognition of shit like precedent was basically going extinct, but what the FUCK???
I'm french and I visited Oradour sur Glane with one of my aunt some years ago. I felt opressed by the deathly atmosphere and horrible silence surrounding this small village. The worst part was entering the remains of the church.I will never forget it but I will not visit there again.
UA-camrs: "We're going to talk about something so horrible and sobering to the soul that it might give you nightmares. But first here's a bunch of cool and adorable shit for you to buy"
Well, im.glad they are compensating him for putting together the mini doc for us to learn from. Fail to see a problem. Unless you want to single handedly fund the man STFU! And appreciate the program.....Richard Cranium.
@@vincentrusso4332 this man is merely a paid actor to read this script, he works for many different channels. Other people produce everything and he performs it.
@@ZebraJess92 The difference is that he's very blatant about it here. Imagine if a narrator for a holocaust documentary suddenly went off on a tangent at the start and went something like, "....but first who doesn't love krispy kreme?"It's very insensitive. At the very least he could've saved the promo for the end of the clip.
I am impressed at how it's just been left alone. There are still tons of abandoned things just strewn about. I'm sure it was mostly looted back during the war but still.
Their only crime was that they made the mistake of doing it in Western Europe. The SS committed many such massacres in Eastern Europe during the war. The outrage of Rommel and the Nazi high command was fake and also influenced by the knowledge that the war was lost.
The tv series “Mysteries of the Abandoned” had an episode that included an examination of the ruins of this village. The story behind the ruins is some seriously chilling and enraging stuff. The people involved in that slaughter share a special place in the darkest pit of hell, you can guarantee that. The reason you mentioned- misidentification of the village site- is exactly the reason for that place being targeted. An interrogation of one of the involved officers revealed that later.
As I understand the story, the SS were looking for resistance members who had been attacking the column as they moved north to head off the Normandy invasion and had done a fair amount of damage to them. It was thought that some of the assailants had fled to that village and they were out for revenge.
@@bwhog that is correct, yes. When the officer in charge of the search realized he had the wrong place he ordered it’s destruction and the killing if the people anyway. Even Hitler himself was upset about it.
@@bwhogAs the story is taught in France. The SS didn't bother looking for any maquisards or weapons cache, they slaughtered everyone because that what they usualy did on the eastern front, where they spend almost all the war. They were seen leaving Oradour the next morning singing and playing the accordeon, after looting the town. They had a lot of fun, that's what they cared about, they didn't care much about fighting La résistance.
Every time I watch videos like this I'm incredibly grateful for the decisions my family made before and during the war. My grandfather was born and raised in Saxony, and like everyone else, he was forced into the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) at a young age. There he was "tested" for his "aryan" traits and heritage. Due to him being a straight A student, and what the NSDAP considered to be of ideal German heritage he was deemed a prime candidate for the SS. It was decided that he was to be conscripted into a Napola (Boarding school grooming kids/teens for becoming officers in the SS). Luckily his parents despised Hitler, the NSDAP, and everything they represented and decided that they would do everything they could to keep him from being sent to the SS boarding school. They succeeded. On Febuary 12th, 1945 his Hitler youth group was ordered to help the war effort in Dresden, and he was ordered to be at his local train station that morning. When he got there he noticed that he was the only one from his group that showed up. He saw his group leader he went to him and asked where everyone else was, and the disillusioned group leader told him: "Go home, boy. The war is lost and there isn't anything you can do that would change that." He followed orders and went back home. A day later Dresden was bombed... In a blink of an eye he could have been forced into the SS, and the atrocities they committed. He probably wouldn't have survived the war, but he did. He's still alive today and I couldn't be more grateful! No matter how I look at it, he had some divine intervention in his life.
Did you see Jo Jo Rabbit? While a comedy, it does have some realistic details like what being in the Hitler Youth was like and indoctrination of the young and near the end of the war throwing CHILDREN at the enemy without any chance of winning. "Help the war effort in Dresden" God only knows what they actually would have done with him and the other kids if they'd have gone. Maybe charging the enemy with a gun you just got handed 5 minutes ago. Saw a piece of real documentary footage with Hitler a few days before he killed himself shaking the hand of15 year olds who were getting medals for valor in defending Berlin when Berlin had NO HOPE of stopping the advancing Allies.
@@jacquelinecallejas1390 *soviets, the allies entrusted the march of Berlin solely to the soviets, given how much cassualties suffered by the soviet union alone.
while on a vacation in france, me, my parents and my two lil sisters, (we're german) visited oradour-sur-glane, its memorial center and walked its streets. That is one of the most dreadful experiences I've had in my life and it will stay with me til I die. the village has such a thick air of despair and awful silence. It's so so so sad and tragic and terrible. We all cried so much at the memorial with the victim's names on it. This was almost 10 years ago now, but to this day, talking about this, hearing about it, watching this video, it all brings back that thick feeling of utter disgust and helplessness and despair that humans could be so cruel and cold and dark and terrifying... and it always makes me cry
You are one sick puppy! Has anyone ever told you that France (and Britain) declared war on Germany, and invaded first? Perhaps you ignoramus would have rolled over???
Yeah the fact there's no birds singing there it's eerie. You don't see a loving thing except the other tourists. It's surreal and I think the French leaving it as was is probably the best way to commemorate the murdered citizens.
Try researching the evils committed against Germany especially what the evil British did to Dresden. It's truly horrific and the British to this day haven't apologized.
I was pregnant many years ago with my first child . As I walked round I found it an Extremely emotional place and felt overwhelmed with emotion when I saw the pram. Everyone should visit and notice the silence and a heavy presence of ‘something’ . No I didn’t see or hear any birds either. Strange
I visited this village when I was younger. It was harrowing. There's something haunting about walking through a ghost village, seeing the old bakery or the old train tracks and knowing what happened there. It nearly feels like theres evil in the air. It was 40 degrees celsius that day but I was shivering.
In Dresden the people where liquified, literally molten, boiled to human soup in the cellars....and not "just" 25.000. Mentioning 25.000 should IMHO normally be punished with at least 150 years imprisonment. Completely psychopathic/satanic. Kurt Vonnegut Phd. ('Slaughterhouse Five') described the same feeling when he visited "Dresden" in the sixties.
@@addrakettp Well, we cannot argue or bargain with psychopaths of course. But if a nation (or a Jimmy Savile like psychopathocracy) goes on the war *CRIME* path murdering civilians (and telling their own civilians/workers otherwise using the MSM), they are also going to cremate alive their own POW's (e.g. telling the parents their beloved son died in the "Battle of the Bulge"), forced laborers from other nations in Nazi Germany....but also inhabitants, having nothing to do with voting for mr. Hitler c.s.....and so on and so forth.....
A similar massacre was perpetuated in December 1943 in the town of Kalavryta in Greece, this time by the 117th Jäger Division of the Wehrmacht. The Germans machine-gunned the men and the boys, rounded up women and children into a primary school and then set it ablaze, and then looted and burned the town. However, the women and children managed to escape the burning school, reportedly as a result of an Austrian soldier leaving a door of the school unlocked, since he couldn't bear to kill women and children. In total 693 civilians were massacred. The similarities with the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane is stunning!
I visited the village , The French have kept it untouched, There is a museum .But Walking through the village is very moving. The whole experience is deeply sad.
My S/O put something on my phone after I asked them to pass me something. When I complained about it, I got told "That's what you get for watching British V-Sauce"
Some of the shit the Japanese did made this massacre look like a mercy killing by comparison. That's not to downplay the horrific cruelty of the Nazis nor what they did to these (and so many other) innocent people, just to put the Japanese military at the time in the correct perspective. I don't like relaying some of what they did, as it's so disturbing, just mentioning it lodges it in the forefront of the mind where I can't seem to get rid of it for days. People can be unimaginably cruel and fucked up. Jesus... I need to watch a dumbass movie now and get this shit out of the noggin'. Maybe a crazy-awesome porn... I'm feeling better already! Ah, the power of trim...
This crime was horrific enough when you hear what happened, but when you hear of the baby that had been crucified, it's almost impossible to understand how anyone could have done such a thing.
@@trapskilla What the Japanese did to the Chinese villages they raided was some of the most vile and monstrous things I've ever seen. I don't understand how anyone could ever want to do what they did. According to my history teacher some Japanese troops would throw babies in the air and shoot them
You can visit the town still. It’s been left untouched since the war. When you see the bullet holes in the church you realise why nobody would ever want to come back and live there.
Violet, I didn't see your post, but just wrote one of my own a couple seconds ago regarding that. I totally agree with you. And I don't think it's because I talk slow myself because I don't; he really speaks as though he was feeling obligated to get so many thousands of words in 16 minutes....or else, lol.
I visited Oradour-Sur-Glane about 5 years ago. Still a teenager, I couldn’t fully grasp the magnitude of the atrocities but I’ll never forget the sombre atmosphere. We were probably there around 2 hours and no one said a word. It was gut wrenching and profound.
My family is from a town not far from here and this is a story I heard a lot from my grandmother growing up. I'm glad that more people are finding out about it, it was atrocious.
@@thecoffeebreakclub8138 Talk is cheap. If you seriously accuse someone, verifiable evidence of the forensic and documentary type is necessary. Where is this evidence?
My in-laws happen to live not too far away from this village and we went there last time i visited France. The silence that was around the place was daunting, and the church where the set it ablaze has a melted church bell imbedded in the ground from how hot it was. Horrendous stuff; their Dad lived around 20 miles away, could supposedly see a large smoke cloud in the distance where the village was. True evil intent.
I’ve been avoiding this video, I accidentally stumbled across this village on a self-guided battlefield tour in 2016. It’s never been fixed up, it’s stands as a permanent memorial and reminder of what pure evil can do.
Been a while since this came out, but it just popped up in my feed today. Excellent content. The speaking cadence is a bit fast as I had to keep skipping back to replay for clarity. My uncle (which I never met) is believed to have been executed by SS in the response to what would be called the battle of the bulge. He was 19 with a pregnant wife at home in Arizona. Hopefully I can catch more of this content in the future.
@@keineahnung6124 the Japanese attempted several times to surrender to the US on the condition that the emperor wouldn't be hurt, but the US used the opportunity to test the weapons to force an immediate and unconditional surrender before the Soviet Union could invade Japan. Civilians died so the US could effectively kick off the cold war. Of course, there's always more to the story, including bureaucratic nonsense in the Japanese military brass, but that's essentially what it boils down to. Eisenhower insisted that the nuclear bombs not be used on civilians, but when he died, the new president caved to generals. The reason they dropped two nuclear bombs is because one had a uranium warhead, and the other one had plutonium. They wanted to see which one killed more. That's not even to mention the fire-bombing of Tokyo, which saw massive civilian casualties and the razing of an entire city. The US is just as culpable for atrocities as the Germans, the Japanese, the RAF pilots who bombed German civilians, the Red Army who made massive land grabs, etc. There were no good guys or bad guys. War isn't cut-and-dry like that. Fascism definitely needed to fall, but American imperialism and exceptionalism is almost as bad. Winston Churchill greatly contributed to the use of chemical weapons in India before WWII. The war wouldn't be the last time the US attacked a nation on the brink of stabilization or surrender. The CIA campaign to overthrow Central and South American elections was as brutal as it was all-encompassing. North and South Vietnam were on the cusp of signing a peace treaty before the US attacked and dropped more bombs in the neighboring neutral country of Laos than all bombs dropped by everybody during WWII. Don't defend an evil, imperialistic nation. You have nothing to gain from doing as much.
@@collinbeal No, the U.S had to bomb Japan to prevent the war that lasting many more years with huge collateral damage from an indoctrinated nation that would never give up. Only the power of the atom was able to bring the Japanese to heel. The U.S casualties would have been awful. This reliable report estimates battle casualties alone surpassing 1 million (for the U.S). On the other hand, U.D bombing raids on Japan caused 387,000 deaths. Sounds like a good deal to me. For more info research Operation Downfall. theamericanpresident.us/images/projections.pdf
@@collinbeal Eisenhower was not the president who died before the use of the nuclear bombs: that was FDR, Eisenhower was the Allied Commander in Europe.
The world didn’t actually care about the genocide. It was Hitlers attack against the world bank that pissed them off. If he left the world bank alone the world would have let them continue to this day. That’s the part of these stories that pisses me off. Everyone acts like the allies were “saviors” they did this for themselves.
Really brings into perspective the levels of depravity that humanity can achieve. How many humans walking around today would commit these types of crimes given the opportunity? They say it's always the last people that you would suspect. We as humans must always strive to keep evil from attaining any amount of power. "The only thing that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing"- E. Burke.
He was a 12 year old boy scout, when my grandfather and his troop cleaned out and buried the charred body out of the church. He's still alive today. Jean-Robert Larbaneix is his name.
@@noanyabizniz4333 I am not sure how you can reconcile being a trans and a muslim or why you needed to make this comment about your hate towards a country like America when you adhere to the most oppressive to gays religion on earth. There's not one islamic country where LGBTQ live free or free of danger. My guess is you're a troll with a sad life.
@@noanyabizniz4333 the fact that nobody cares and are annoyed that you’re making this tragedy about you, says something. just live your life like everyone else because nobody really gives a shit about you or me or anyone but themselves and if you can’t live with that than tough. there is a difference between being “open” and “openly annoying” GOOD DAY MAM
It is still mind boggling how any human being can be so evil and cruel towards another and have no empathy at all. Scary actually. We should never forget this and always be on guard for the signs of anyone else ever rising up like this again and take them out before they can get there. Unfortunately people like this exist around the world they just haven't quite gone this far yet.
Not one “Humanity being restored” video will ever restore my faith humanity. Sure, it’s nice of them, but I can never forget the horrors I know of. Never.
Years ago my friend and I were in a vegetable shop in St Tropez when I noticed the owner had a photo of the queen, which I commented on. The next thing the owner came over and asked if he could shake our hands we said yes. He then explained that during the war some British soldiers had saved his family from the Nazis, he explained anything we wanted from his shop would be free. Needles to say we paid for our vegetables. Thought it was a lovely gesture from him.
@@BasementEngineer Please explain since the shop owner offered any goods would be free to the people . So how or what did the shop owner do to make your claim or are you just a troll ?
@@joejohnson4183 St Tropez was in Vichy France, ie. that part of France that was not occupied by Germany. So how could the shop keeper claim, with a straight face, that during the war some Brits saved his family from Nazis?
@@BasementEngineer You do realize that the Germans had their personnel including troops and the Gestapo , the SD and the SS in Vichy , France . Just because it was in territory of Vichy , France does not mean the Germans let the French do as they wanted and the Germans did not trust the Vichy French either .
I applaud the French for leaving the town exactly as the Nazis did after the tragedy. It is wise to let people see the carnage of war without tidying things up and leaving a pristine marker or museum.
@@logon235 You`re right, they named a school a decade or so ago Husein ef Djozo, after a guy at the center of the photo at 3:00, in Gorazde , Bosnia. The school was previously named Nikola Tesla whose almost entire family was butchered by Nazi Ustashe regime.
@@trueheartintent let’s me see the radical leftists-some anarchist and Marxists Let’s see some radical rightist-literal nazis, fascist and race supremacist Seems like left is dangerous to society isn’t they? Stop the bullshit.
I am South African and have visited this area of rural France many times. I know about the church massacre and the fact it has been left as it was in order to remind all of humanity of this disaster. Perhaps one day I will visit the village but I still lack the mental strength because I know it will be an ordeal for me.
I still remember realising the holes in the walls of the village were bullet holes . Still have goosebumps to this day when I think about my visit there
Those were not paratroopers, but 2 members from the resistance, armed with a stengun and a pare of handgranate's. When the moment was there, the stengun blocked. However, the other guy threw quikly a granate in the open car of Heydrich, who was severly wounded. Heydrich had an open wound in his back, wich became more and more inflamed. The German SS-doctors didn't had something like penicilline. After 3 days fighting for his life, Heydrich died. He was replaced by Ernst Kaltenbrünner.
@@Kirovets7011 Well, they were members of Czechoslovakian army-in-exile, so they were soldiers and they jump from plane, so you can call them paratroopers. I see your point though, they were not trained paratrooper units per se. Beside their basic training they were trained as special unit for espionage, sabotage and such.
My grandmothers friend told me about the Wołyń massacre one day. She was a little girl at the time but her family ran for days until they found a unit of German soldiers. They said nothing but remained in close proximity. They followed them as they marched to a local town just to get away as they were followed by Banderas men who done the killings on polish civilians during Ww2. She was shaking when she told me this and I was only 7 at the time. She didn't get into any detail. Just that she had to ran from bad men. And I understand why she didn't get into detail. If you can picture hell and horror on earth i always think of Wołyń.
My mother's family is from Oredour-sur-Glane and Limoge. My Great Aunt Anna used to write weekly letters to her brother (my grandfather), here in the states. My mother wasn't told why her aunt's letters suddenly stopped until she was well into her twenties. Many of my family members were murdered that day. What I want to point out is that there were far more heinous acts carried out that day than you seem to be aware of. Once you know all of those facts, you'll find it even easier to understand why the slaughter of this town was very different. Please, find the facts. There are multiple sources to pull from and my family, along with all of the other victims deserve for these crimes not to have been forgotten, or glazed over and softened. However, I do want to thank you for scratching the surface and opening the conversation.
I'm sorry that happened to your family. I'll look it up. I hadn't heard about this before today. My guess is that UA-cam doesn't like too many graphic details, or they delete videos. I'll absolutely read more, grateful that I'm aware of this horrific barbarism, now. That the channel had to tone it down, or gloss over it is sad. But at least we know.
@@wingding6758 I suggest you research it. It was quite horrific. The brutality was as bad as it was for no other reason than that the people who were there could be as brutal as they wanted, and chose to put the true depth of their evilness on display.
@@kennedyminiatureconstruction Thank you for sharing your story, as much as you could. As I said I would, I did research this more, and read for hours, well into the night, and far into the next day. Your family's story, and that of their friends and neighbors will stay with me. While disturbing, it's the least I can do, to carry their story with me, and remember them. They mattered then, and they still do today.
yes, I agree, it's really annoying and distracts from the story. Also, Glane is pronounced glannnnnn, with the "N" sound. the nasalization of the "an" sound is only if there is no "e" following, that is if it were written "glan" instead of "glane"
Thanks for the quick pronunciation correction. I watch these for educational purposes, so a little more information is always appreciated. Especially since I have trouble pronouncing Taco Bell words right. (Seriously, and I now live in an area where "everyone" speaks Spanish.)
German pronunciation tip for you (and Simon) then: ü = y So the town of Düsseldorf is pronounced Dysseldorf. Funny thing is that y is actually present in the German alphabet 🤷♂️
I first visited Lidice with a former member of the Czechoslovak Squadron of the Royal Air Force. We also visited nearby Terezin (Theresienstadt), where his mother had been beaten to death--oddly enough not for the fact that she was Jewish, but because she was actively involved in the Czechoslovak Resistance. Hearing about these atrocities from a man who was there at the start of the war and then returned as soon as it ended--only to be thrown into jail by the commies as an enemy of the state--was a fascinating and profoundly saddening experience. I recommend visiting these places as often as you can. Never forget.
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When you take a moment to realize that French and German peoples had lived side by side for centuries and were, in fact, inter related to a large extent, they murdered their own blood when they pulled that stunt. German, French, English, Dutch, Russian and more of those countries of Europe, had once been ruled by Cousins in royal families in all of those countries. They married their children into one those other royal families regularly. They would rather engage in what was clearly nearly incestuous relationships, rather than mix their blood with commoners. I know, I am the result of one such coupling performed by my 12th great grandfather King James II and VII of England, Scotland and Ireland. You want to talk about horrible executions... study my family history in such matters... it is enough to keep you awake at night thinking and wondering how mankind could ever be so cruel to one another. It is a shame, really, that after hundreds of years, we are no better as a human race now than we were so long ago. We really need to examine our societies to determine exactly what it is that keeps us acting so savagely to each other, even today, in our so called "advanced and cultured society".
One of the biggest enablers here is authority. By projecting the accountability on someone else many people are able to commit much more heinous deeds then thier own personality would ever let them do.
I live is the US, and I had a grandmother whose family came from Lidice. My daughter got to spend a quarter studying abroad in Prague, and her professor took her to the museum at Lidice. The professor told me about a book called HHhH by Laurent Binet that tells about the events leading up to the assassination, the destruction of Lidice and the aftermath. The ending literally had me awake reading all night.
When you hear stories like this I find it hard to believe that it only happened 20 years before I was born and that it was by an apparently civilised country.
@@travistea There's a super long explanation involving neuroscientists, anthropologists, and sociologists, but long story short, the human brain is hardwired to only have empathy for, and see only 150 other human beings as actual, living, breathing human beings. That's why if we hear about a school bus full of kids buying it in an accident, we think, "Wow. How sad! Hey, should I pick up milk on the way home from work?", but if our best friend's elderly father dies, we're devastated. The *real* humans, though, try to break that limitation so we can feel empathy for all. Anyone who doesn't is just a naked ape.
I have visited this place and it’s unbelievable. When I had gone there it was a lovely, hot day. As soon as you enter, the chirping of the birds suddenly disappeared, a wave of grey clouds surrounded you and a chilling breeze overwhelmed everyone. Childrens prams are still there, destroyed and you can see many other everyday objects ruined.
I visited about 15 years ago. It’s such a strange place, its eerily quiet. The most hitting thing for me, is in the church. In one corner sits the twisted melted cross that used to sit on the roof and in the other a wooden confession box. I’m not a religious person but this community was and I can only imagine that all those woman and children must have felt a false sense of security when herded into the church, because who would do anything in a church. You can walk around the whole village and go into essentially every building. Apart from making it safe, putting up information signs and building a memorial wall, it’s untouched.
People would be shocked. As part of the human race I can say we have some terrible beings on this planet Dylan roof being one of them plus the kkk being another group of them its crazy people do that stuff especially in a place of worthship. The human race has been known to be pretty savage and brutal. I mean look at the medieval ages of medieval England if you seen someone to torture devices they used 1000's of years ago u would be shocked its good vs evil think with people and its never a winning side because people still die only thing that makes a difference between making something good or bad is what its being done for.
I heard about this story after watching a documentary on WWII that only briefly mention it. I then read the Wikipedia article and was horrified :( Those poor peoples
I have to disagree. I think it's FAR better to die in a few minutes, then suffer every moment of your life for 80 years in pain, as most of humanity does, b/c life is mostly cruel even in the best of situations. HOW unbearable is life? MILLIONS OF HUMANS every year go to the EXTREME of MURDERING THEMSELVES TO ESCAPE this living hell.
Yes, absolutely - if only it did, it would make some sense in the world, it really doesn't does it...terrible things happen to lovely people and great happens to absolute shits. History sadly just repeats itself because as humans we have those who want to be the best, they want to win and destroy and I don't see evolution changing this awful human characteristic any time soon. Yet....enjoy your life and others best you can I would say, who needs karma?
I've been to this town, and in the church ruins, it was extremely moving/emotional reading about the horrors that happened their whilst actually standing on the spot it took place. Highly recommend visiting and paying your respects
I recall my great-grandparents pouring scorn on the official line that the Holocaust was only known after the war. This is an example (that a British serviceman was among the escapees) of how we knew about the Nazis' crimes long before they were officially recognized.
You can literally spend a few minutes looking at headlines in the New York Times from 1898 through 1939 and see repeated claims of 6 million and holocaust before WW2 and even NAZIs even existed. But you won't bother. No one actually cares about facts where the sacred race exists. Communism won WW2. Today is proof across every crumbling western country.
A lot of civilans around the world didn’t believe in the death camps and other Nazi atrocities, not until the war was over and the Allies began liberating the camps. It’s a bit of a Chicken Little situation, because the world had been inundated with anti-German (often untrue) propaganda for decades, during World War I through the interwar period. Thus, the masses presumed these stories about the Nazi camps, gas chambers, and human experiments to be exaggerations or lies. They thought it was all just more anti-German wartime propaganda.
A lot of these crimes reached the Allied soldiers at the time. I've listened to plenty of veterans who refused to take SS prisoner. I remember one veteran whose unit were bayoneting a bunch of Germans as they were SS. One was so young he felt compassion so pretended to kill him and told him to stay still on the ground so his mates wouldn't kill him.
my dad was a special ops of the day SS hunter...he rode a motorcycle all around the world hunting them..i still have his first Trophy patch he took..he was a War Hero....but his heart & spirit were broken when he saw the united states import 1000's of them here after the war & gave them positions of great power & control..via paperclip
@@NuLiForm That's very interesting. The only special ops group that were doing anything like that were X Troop , part of 10 Commando, mostly German and Austrian Jewish refugees operating with fake British identities. Not sure if they went all around the world though.
@@drinkingup2157 Yes. My brother was also Spec Ops in Vietnam, Bravo. He never came back. We are a family of sharp shooters, etc. Lineage is Native & Celtic. The Mil CO's seem to like that combo for reasons they claim but never explained. & Yes..my bad.."Around the world" was my poor choice of words, i apologise..he just said "Some of them Scattered. To get all my targets I ended up in some unlikely places." He was Great on a motorcycle, even when with that sidecar, but also underage when he signed up. His birthday was Dec 7th.. & he took it personal..Only 16, but very muscular & graceful, he lied to get in, & eventually they found out, but they let him go anyway because he had a natural instinct for 'hunting' & that "fit their Requirements". He served for 7 years, even after the war 'ended'..as you know, hunting the runners didn't happen overnight.
I was taken to Ouradour sur Glane by French friends when I was about 14. The silence and atmosphere were almost physically tangible. As we walked down the ruined village street the very air seemed to get heavier. I can never forget how shocked I was to see a group of German tourists or holiday makers talking in normal voices while the rest of us were finding it difficult even to breathe with ease. Many years later I took my teenage children to the village without much description of my experience. They were equally badly affected and almost had difficulty walking down to the church. I quietly translated anything they asked for. Once again there were German tourists.
May I ask a question as a person from Germany? What exactly is your issue with German tourists visiting places where atrocious Nazi warcrimes happened? Don't you think that it is actually a really good thing that Germans deal with their past and acknowledge what their ancestors did? Should German tourists be excluded from visiting monuments that deal with WW2? Are you aware that the war has been over for almost 80 years and that hardly anyone who did something bad during the war is actually still alive?!
Okay, but please don't make it out like every German alive today has the same sentiments as the SS officers who destroyed that town, or that they must necessarily be indifferent to what happened.
Most people don’t even know what happened. They believe a cartoon version where Hitler is evil and Jews are innocent. Human life is more complicated and the winners write the history to favor themselves.
@@HeaanLasai the common man fights the wars that the rich , privileged, egotistical, don't dare to put on a uniform to fight. To many young men fight a war that old men start. I know this isn't 100% but it happens to much.
@@jamesharrison1143 "To many young men fight a war that old men start" - thats because older men are often seen as wiser , behind most companies, football/soccer/any sports team, is an often older manager - its life that makes it this way - not some devious plan - its life that generals are "often" older than captains, older than sergeants, older than corporals, then recruits......ever wonder why young people dont win quiz shows? because they arent wise enough yet ...not saying they were all wise = wise sometimes - stupid - i dont like the way people are saying you think that was bad - these guys did this!! its puts too much of a light note on all these bad things - bad is bad good is good. there is no shades of bad unless in a sick competition.
@@deadnow2486 1) YOU HAVE IT PERFECTLY BACKWARDS. It's not even a SECRET that kids have all the wisdom, while ALL ADULTS shut off their brains before they left high school, b/c IGNORANCE IS BLISS and you can't make it in society if you're smart. 2) YOU GAVE AN EXAMPLE THAT PERFECTLY DEFEATED YOUR ENTIRE POINT: if EACH WAR later came out as FAKE, than all the GENERALS MURDERED THEIR OWN TROOPS....FOR NOTHING. (Sorry, but the Pentagon Papers and Afghanistan Papers ended this debate long ago. The Pentagon ADMITS they can NEVER beat 2,000 guys in caves in Afghanistan!) EVEN W. BUSH CAME OUT AND SAID OOPS THERE WERE NO WMDs. EVEN THE EXPERTS, every single time, say in the end "um, the 13 year old liberals were FAR smarter than all our experts combined!" HELL, it was VIETNAMESE KIDS who killed your Amerikkkan Army, ha ha ha ha! YOU: "OLDER PEOPLE ARE WISER, THAT'S WHY MURICA HAS TO BORROW TRILLIONS FROM COMMUNIST CHINA EVERY YEAR TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ON!" Your math is awful!
@@WobblesandBean But one can be practically forgotten since it was done by the winners. And since the soviets did it for the "good of the People" then it's all good, don't'cha know.
Been there 3 times, my dad lives nearby, second time a German family were removed for allowing their children to play in the rubble of the houses. The church is very poignant, but the story I knew from locals slightly different, the Germans set up a machine gun in the doorway and opened fire, then burnt the bodies, I’m not dismissing your story in anyway, it’s an example maybe of how history alters with its retelling. The boy still lived in the village which was rebuilt, well he did in 2009. Not sure if he’s still alive.
There was a Nazi member named John Heinrich Detlef Rabe who witnessed the Rape of Nanking by the Japanese first-hand and helped establish the Nanking Safety Zone which sheltered approximately 200,000 Chinese citizens. He used his Nazi Party influence to help as many Chinese citizens as possible and is credited for rescuing between 200,000 and 250,000 Chinese people. When he eventually returned to Germany and wrote to Hitler imploring him to put an end to the Japanese atrocities he was sadly detained by the Gestapo to keep him quiet and it is believed his letter never reached Hitler; it would have been interesting to know if anything would have been done if Hitler had received that letter.
@@hanbyeol12 nvm that was china before japan attacked them n fucked them up so Germany switched and allied with Japan instead because they were more superior
@@Jacob-ge1py He is so famous that he was rated as the 2nd most humane person from outside of china, who helped chinese, only after a communist doctor. And this as a official member of the nazi party, while china is under a communist rule.
I went on a school trip there when I was thirteen. I only live an hour away and I can tell you visiting Oradour-sur-Glane was hard, especially at that age. It’s eerily quiet, and the atmosphere is just uncomfortable. What’s more is that if you go to the edge of the town you can hear the new town just further down the road.
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US only it seems, not UK.
I tought that this was a video on Jasenovac massacre.
The fire bombing of Dresden puts this quaint story to shame.
The 2nd wave Communist invasion would make Nazis blush.
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@@justarandomname420 the death camps in Croatia were for kids....
I remember hearing that the Rape of Nanking, perpetrated by Imperial Japanese forces, was so brutal that even the Nazi attaché was shocked and appalled. It is sickening what human beings can do to each other.
The Nazis were post-mediaeval industrial, not mediaeval. He was shocked by the lack of order.
Many of those Japanese that participated in Nanking still felt no remorse decades later when interviewed. Just shows the power of brainwashing from a young age.
Why would you consider them human? Then again I can't compare them to animals because animals don't torture,just kill
They have a statue in Nanking of that Nazi diplomate who used his status saved people from being raped and butchered.
What about the unit 731? They tested on civilians and pow, weapons, put them in centrifuges till they ripped, in pressure chambers till they exploded, in freezing water to test how to treat it, bayonet training, sewing bodyparts from other people to others without any form of painkillers, cutting babys out of the mother without any painkillers and much much worse. They all got away in exchange for the data. None of them spend a day in prison. Same as the usa accepted all nazi scientist in project paperclip to build nasa
I mean, when I think Nazi atrocity, I think Hello Fresh
Thought I was the only one
It's does tie in nicely with the hitler being a vegetarian.
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I will now forever associate "Hello Fresh" with Nazi warcrimes.
Me too
I think that's what they were going for
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I appreciate how he took the time to say the full names of so many of the victims.
These war crimes were standard on the Eastern front and somewhat tame compared to what the Japanese did to the Chinese and Koreans. When you think there is a limit to the darkest corners of humanity, it eventually has ways of reminding you of your own lack of imagination.
It's not a game of Top Trumps
@@emmaisalone You're not wrong. What they did to that one man who died slowly of radiation is reason enough alone to pass judgement on their people.
@@WobblesandBean Well, the Japanese do have a reputation for being....quite over the top. Something that they are still known for to this day.
It's not like the Soviets didn't do the same kinds of things to their own people. Stalin was just as, if not more, ruthless and homicidal than the Nazis.
Both communism and fascism are horrific ideologies.
Just like Guantanamo these days.
Im from Germany and we went to oradur sur glane for a school trip and to speak with a survivor of that town, its incredible that he was able to impart wisdom and knowledge to the descendants of those who massacred all the people he had known, it felt surreal to learn what had happened and today still im at a loss for words
I had a similar experience with a Hollocaust survivor that generation was incredible
@@jamestaylor841 we also met with a white rose survivor, a friend of Sophie scholl, I dont think it's certain generations that r incredible but rather the circumstances they're forced into that dictated the way they had to live
That's why it's so sad to US politicians calling neo nazi's and white supremacists, 'good people.' Something which is actually illegal in Germany.
@@alexandersiebert2868 agreed
@@rcisneros8567 Who is calling them good people? People call communists good people and that needs to end.
I remember watching a documentary about a village in greece the SS burned to the ground because it was sheltering rebels, it was narrated by a woman who was one of the few survivors, she and her mother fled early to nearby woods at the behest of her father, the germans corralled the men in a warehouse sealed it and burned them alive, the next day when that woman 4 years old at the time returned with her mother to look for survivor's, when they found the warehouse she noticed a brick was loosed on one of the walls and an arm was sticking out, by some sick twist of fate she realized that it was her fathers and when she tried to hold it, it fell off because the rest of his body was ash.
I have never felt more disturbed in my life.
Jesus...thats...horrifying..
Fuck…
Do a little more research on those villages. It all usually starts with the village being encircled and a patrol being sent in to speak with the residents, the patrol almost never comes back and is usually found brutalized. With no entry or exit, you’ve found a source of war criminals (Non-uniformed Combatants).
This was EXTREMELY common on the eastern front, and women were usually the worst of the worst when it came to war criminals.
@@poltpickle2530 good... SS members deserved it.
@@poltpickle2530 Why are you saying it like you feel sorry for the Nazi's? They were pure evil.
Imagine doing something so bad and evil that even the nazis are like "bro wtf is wrong with you?"
Croatia moment
khmer rouge can relate
the guys that did it were also nazis
@dankovac1609 this was nothing compared to ustasha's.
Replace Nazi's with the Balkans then you know it's bad
I’m very impressed by the little boy who both got shot and kicked, and yet still had enough restraint and coherence to remain silent and still until he could escape. I hope he made it somewhere safe
Yep, it's almost unbelievable..
@@jadeharvey1265 almost
@@jadeharvey1265 but sir... 12 million?
there is a point after the pain where moving around is possible but articulating your pain in a vocal way is too draining..
not one being capable of feeling should be brought to this point ever.
I'd say he obviously made it somewhere, as that's the only possible way we would know it happened.
They did this in Poland too they came into my mum’s village
But my gran took her children with a horse and cart and fled to the woods to hide in the Baltic winter.
My mum was 9 my aunt was 4 and my last remaining aunt was 8 months old They survived.
That's insane! Did the village survive or was it at least rebuilt?
@@kittylover62 gosh I never asked my mum when she was alive. I think they just burned the barns not the entire village.
My dad saw the take his dad and brother who was 16 and crying because he knew he was not coming back they shot them in the woods. My dad was 15 and forced to wear a German uniform and work for a German farmer.
Your Gran definitely had it together.
@@Brembelia I think she just wanted to survive with her kids
Yup, many who were smart, knew their only chance was to hide in the woods.
Here's the thing: the SS had been doing that sort of thing on the Eastern Front for years up to that point, 627 villages were burned and razed like this in Belarus.
Exactly, thank you. For those of you reading this I recommend the movie Come and See for a visceral portrayal of these atrocities.
@@Leandro-bj6jh great film. the nazis weren't shocked by these actions when they were done to 'less valued' people in their mind; slavs, jews, etc.
@@Leandro-bj6jh great movie, I have an english sub version in my favourites.
You saw come and see didn’t you?
@@Sarah-ue7to Yeah, this is a clickbait title. And it's an injustice to all the people in the eastern front that were burned alive along with their villages.
The horrifying part to me is that this wasn't even too unusual, the Nazis were shocked by it mostly because it was one of very few not to happen in the East. I often remember the infamous figure "628 Byelorussian villages were burned to the ground, with all their inhabitants." Anyone who hasn't already, the film Come and See depicts this cruel reality better than any other film ever made, and it's an extremely important watch for anyone who wants a glimpse of the generational trauma that the Soviet Union had towards the war
That’s a good point, had this been a Russian town no one would’ve batted an eye at the brutality
In Yugoslavian city of Kragujevac, 21.10.1941 the germans shot almost 3000 civilians (including ~150 high school boys) as a reprisal for 10 kiled and 26 wounded german soldiers. There was a ratio for reprisals applied in the eastern europe. Yeah, it happened all over the east, but not many germans care about that, especially early on when they are winning. In 1944 after the alied landings, it's all about court marchaling the ss... damn I hate the nazis
Yep, the asshole from the SS Das Reich did spend a lot of time slaughtering eastern villages.
For them the slaughter at Oradour sur Glane was business as usual, they were also the one behind the mass murder at the town of Tulle, 99 men hanged.
Everyone forget about the eastern victims....
I am sad to say, that as a french I recognised Oradour right away
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@@easterworshipper730 That's never stopped anybody
"We just slaughtered hundreds of men, women and children!"
"Were they Jewish?"
"No"
"Going to have to submit you for disciplinary action then"
This sort of thing happened hundreds, perhaps thousands of times on the Eastern front. Slavs and Poles were just as much a target as Jews.
We got motorways and vws out of em.
@@charlescalthrop2535 The issue here is that they were fellow “European Caucasians” and these levels of reprisals were practically unheard of in Western Europe.
@@Barabel22 are you serious? England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales all murdered each other on our tiny part of the world.
@@Sandwich13455. Atrocities on the scale of what happened in the East were practically unknown for a long time.
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Right? LMFAO it's funny at least 😆Sort of like telling a joke and then explaining it when you get crickets. Like, did you see that dad? 😂 (I have a toddler lmao that face is familiar to me lol)
Sam with a channel called Half As Interesting has picture perfect Segway. Almost more impressive than the videos themselves.
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I imagine the hello fresh CEO sitting there with his mouth open in shock and horror....
The fact that almost everyone, INCLUDING THE MAN WHO ORDERED THE KILLINGS, was pardoned is the most disturbing part of this horrific story.
Soooo you're saying the part about shooting all the men and burning them in barns OR all the women and children being shot and burn alive in a church OR that a baby was crucified...wasn't the most disturbing part to you??
They answer to a much higher court upon death.
bro did yu listen to any of the video
@@Catquick1957 I don't think a corpse can answer to anything.
And the award for "most blatantly Stateside comment in the thread" goes to... @@shadowmatrix0101
But seriously, I fucking knew that recognition of shit like precedent was basically going extinct, but what the FUCK???
I'm french and I visited Oradour sur Glane with one of my aunt some years ago. I felt opressed by the deathly atmosphere and horrible silence surrounding this small village. The worst part was entering the remains of the church.I will never forget it but I will not visit there again.
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Well, im.glad they are compensating him for putting together the mini doc for us to learn from. Fail to see a problem. Unless you want to single handedly fund the man STFU! And appreciate the program.....Richard Cranium.
@@vincentrusso4332 this man is merely a paid actor to read this script, he works for many different channels. Other people produce everything and he performs it.
When I watch documentaries about these things on TV there are multiple commercial breaks, too. I don't see any difference.
@@ZebraJess92 The difference is that he's very blatant about it here. Imagine if a narrator for a holocaust documentary suddenly went off on a tangent at the start and went something like, "....but first who doesn't love krispy kreme?"It's very insensitive. At the very least he could've saved the promo for the end of the clip.
Wow, the fact that they could allow those murderers to go free is shocking and a crime in itself.
They must’ve went to work at NASA
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I visited this place a couple of years back and it was the weirdest and most sobering experiences I've ever had. Well worth it .
I am impressed at how it's just been left alone. There are still tons of abandoned things just strewn about. I'm sure it was mostly looted back during the war but still.
When were you there? I was there for the 75th anniversary I’d be curious if we were there at the same time
Should look into the pla you would be surprised at what they are doing basically modern day nazi Chinese edition
@@yhn970609 time will bring light and light will bring truth. One can only hope that sunrise is soon.
@@TheRogueX I want to visit when the pandemic is over. Where is this? How do you get there? Is there a tour?
Pretty sad when you do something so messed up, even the Nazi’s are like, “whoa, chill man.”
Their only crime was that they made the mistake of doing it in Western Europe. The SS committed many such massacres in Eastern Europe during the war. The outrage of Rommel and the Nazi high command was fake and also influenced by the knowledge that the war was lost.
Why didn't the nazis say "whoa, chill man about all the lives they messed up?
Yep.
The Katyn massacre was like that. Russians in German uniforms killing thousands and thousands of people. It wasn't found out about for decades either.
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The tv series “Mysteries of the Abandoned” had an episode that included an examination of the ruins of this village. The story behind the ruins is some seriously chilling and enraging stuff. The people involved in that slaughter share a special place in the darkest pit of hell, you can guarantee that.
The reason you mentioned- misidentification of the village site- is exactly the reason for that place being targeted. An interrogation of one of the involved officers revealed that later.
As I understand the story, the SS were looking for resistance members who had been attacking the column as they moved north to head off the Normandy invasion and had done a fair amount of damage to them. It was thought that some of the assailants had fled to that village and they were out for revenge.
@@bwhog that is correct, yes. When the officer in charge of the search realized he had the wrong place he ordered it’s destruction and the killing if the people anyway. Even Hitler himself was upset about it.
@@bwhogAs the story is taught in France.
The SS didn't bother looking for any maquisards or weapons cache, they slaughtered everyone because that what they usualy did on the eastern front, where they spend almost all the war.
They were seen leaving Oradour the next morning singing and playing the accordeon, after looting the town.
They had a lot of fun, that's what they cared about, they didn't care much about fighting La résistance.
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Every time I watch videos like this I'm incredibly grateful for the decisions my family made before and during the war.
My grandfather was born and raised in Saxony, and like everyone else, he was forced into the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) at a young age. There he was "tested" for his "aryan" traits and heritage. Due to him being a straight A student, and what the NSDAP considered to be of ideal German heritage he was deemed a prime candidate for the SS.
It was decided that he was to be conscripted into a Napola (Boarding school grooming kids/teens for becoming officers in the SS).
Luckily his parents despised Hitler, the NSDAP, and everything they represented and decided that they would do everything they could to keep him from being sent to the SS boarding school. They succeeded.
On Febuary 12th, 1945 his Hitler youth group was ordered to help the war effort in Dresden, and he was ordered to be at his local train station that morning. When he got there he noticed that he was the only one from his group that showed up. He saw his group leader he went to him and asked where everyone else was, and the disillusioned group leader told him: "Go home, boy. The war is lost and there isn't anything you can do that would change that." He followed orders and went back home.
A day later Dresden was bombed...
In a blink of an eye he could have been forced into the SS, and the atrocities they committed. He probably wouldn't have survived the war, but he did. He's still alive today and I couldn't be more grateful! No matter how I look at it, he had some divine intervention in his life.
Did you see Jo Jo Rabbit? While a comedy, it does have some realistic details like what being in the Hitler Youth was like and indoctrination of the young and near the end of the war throwing CHILDREN at the enemy without any chance of winning. "Help the war effort in Dresden" God only knows what they actually would have done with him and the other kids if they'd have gone. Maybe charging the enemy with a gun you just got handed 5 minutes ago. Saw a piece of real documentary footage with Hitler a few days before he killed himself shaking the hand of15 year olds who were getting medals for valor in defending Berlin when Berlin had NO HOPE of stopping the advancing Allies.
@@jacquelinecallejas1390 *soviets, the allies entrusted the march of Berlin solely to the soviets, given how much cassualties suffered by the soviet union alone.
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while on a vacation in france, me, my parents and my two lil sisters, (we're german) visited oradour-sur-glane, its memorial center and walked its streets. That is one of the most dreadful experiences I've had in my life and it will stay with me til I die. the village has such a thick air of despair and awful silence. It's so so so sad and tragic and terrible. We all cried so much at the memorial with the victim's names on it.
This was almost 10 years ago now, but to this day, talking about this, hearing about it, watching this video, it all brings back that thick feeling of utter disgust and helplessness and despair that humans could be so cruel and cold and dark and terrifying... and it always makes me cry
You are one sick puppy! Has anyone ever told you that France (and Britain) declared war on Germany, and invaded first?
Perhaps you ignoramus would have rolled over???
I’ve visited Oradour-Sur-Glane too. You’re absolutely correct about the silence. I was left feeling heavy.
Yeah the fact there's no birds singing there it's eerie. You don't see a loving thing except the other tourists. It's surreal and I think the French leaving it as was is probably the best way to commemorate the murdered citizens.
Try researching the evils committed against Germany especially what the evil British did to Dresden. It's truly horrific and the British to this day haven't apologized.
I was pregnant many years ago with my first child . As I walked round I found it an Extremely emotional place and felt overwhelmed with emotion when I saw the pram. Everyone should visit and notice the silence and a heavy presence of ‘something’ . No I didn’t see or hear any birds either. Strange
I visited this village when I was younger. It was harrowing. There's something haunting about walking through a ghost village, seeing the old bakery or the old train tracks and knowing what happened there. It nearly feels like theres evil in the air. It was 40 degrees celsius that day but I was shivering.
Same here. It was eerie and sad at the same time
My mother also when young, visited the village and felt the same thing and knew someone who escaped and lived in Britain.
In Dresden the people where liquified, literally molten, boiled to human soup in the cellars....and not "just" 25.000. Mentioning 25.000 should IMHO normally be punished with at least 150 years imprisonment.
Completely psychopathic/satanic.
Kurt Vonnegut Phd. ('Slaughterhouse Five') described the same feeling when he visited "Dresden" in the sixties.
@@magisterhpp unfortunately the people of Dresden cashed the check written when they put the Nazis in power
@@addrakettp Well, we cannot argue or bargain with psychopaths of course. But if a nation (or a Jimmy Savile like psychopathocracy) goes on the war *CRIME* path murdering civilians (and telling their own civilians/workers otherwise using the MSM), they are also going to cremate alive their own POW's (e.g. telling the parents their beloved son died in the "Battle of the Bulge"), forced laborers from other nations in Nazi Germany....but also inhabitants, having nothing to do with voting for mr. Hitler c.s.....and so on and so forth.....
A similar massacre was perpetuated in December 1943 in the town of Kalavryta in Greece, this time by the 117th Jäger Division of the Wehrmacht. The Germans machine-gunned the men and the boys, rounded up women and children into a primary school and then set it ablaze, and then looted and burned the town. However, the women and children managed to escape the burning school, reportedly as a result of an Austrian soldier leaving a door of the school unlocked, since he couldn't bear to kill women and children. In total 693 civilians were massacred. The similarities with the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane is stunning!
I visited the village , The French have kept it untouched, There is a museum .But Walking through the village is very moving. The whole experience is deeply sad.
He looks like he would start the video with, “Hey VSauce, Michael here”
Hahaha was about to comment that
My S/O put something on my phone after I asked them to pass me something. When I complained about it, I got told "That's what you get for watching British V-Sauce"
Or "Hey guys, welcome to Binging with Babish"
Hey VSauce, Michael here,
You Nazis thought you have captured me,
Or did you...
But Sounds like he would start the video with “thoughty2 here”
I feel like this man is speaking in cursive
Forreal, I had to use the subtitles. I couldn't tell if he was speaking in different languages. lol
@@5651cbanks go back to school
@@5651cbanks He has a posh English accent. You might want to brush up on your English if you can’t understand him.
@@PorWik that's not nice
I feel like he's speaking in adderall
You went from some random UA-camr with a few good videos to a UA-camr I would die for. Respect bruddah
It's like basic Monday for Japanese troops.
Sadly enough, it's true
As a Japanese American I think it is very important to acknowledge the atrocities that Japan committed.
@@heasne1738 true and lots of weebs gets triggered whenever we put up that fact
and soviet troops
Some of the shit the Japanese did made this massacre look like a mercy killing by comparison.
That's not to downplay the horrific cruelty of the Nazis nor what they did to these (and so many other) innocent people, just to put the Japanese military at the time in the correct perspective.
I don't like relaying some of what they did, as it's so disturbing, just mentioning it lodges it in the forefront of the mind where I can't seem to get rid of it for days.
People can be unimaginably cruel and fucked up.
Jesus... I need to watch a dumbass movie now and get this shit out of the noggin'. Maybe a crazy-awesome porn... I'm feeling better already! Ah, the power of trim...
This crime was horrific enough when you hear what happened, but when you hear of the baby that had been crucified, it's almost impossible to understand how anyone could have done such a thing.
Look up the Rape of Nanking. You'll lose your lunch.
@@trapskilla What the Japanese did to the Chinese villages they raided was some of the most vile and monstrous things I've ever seen. I don't understand how anyone could ever want to do what they did. According to my history teacher some Japanese troops would throw babies in the air and shoot them
You can visit the town still. It’s been left untouched since the war. When you see the bullet holes in the church you realise why nobody would ever want to come back and live there.
@@trapskilla I've read about that utter hell on earth.
@@birdbrain6503 exactly lol, my old relatives said that they would burn missionaries and priests alive whilst tied onto huts
imagine having this guy as a teacher and trying to take notes while keeping up with his speaking pace
Honestly I get like that they talk relatively fast since most people talk too slow
Violet, I didn't see your post, but just wrote one of my own a couple seconds ago regarding that. I totally agree with you. And I don't think it's because I talk slow myself because I don't; he really speaks as though he was feeling obligated to get so many thousands of words in 16 minutes....or else, lol.
If he was a teacher there would be no need for notes lol
plus his thick british accent
He is a youtube teacher. Hit pause.
The main takeaway from this video is that *Nazi warcrimes are sponsored by Hello Fresh*
"...even the Nazis were like "woah this is some crazy shit...
...but first, this video is sponsored by hello fresh!"
yup, 2020 just kept going
2020 died of old age already. What are you on about?
@@nickspanlopis9342 its a zombie
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I visited Oradour-Sur-Glane about 5 years ago. Still a teenager, I couldn’t fully grasp the magnitude of the atrocities but I’ll never forget the sombre atmosphere. We were probably there around 2 hours and no one said a word. It was gut wrenching and profound.
My family is from a town not far from here and this is a story I heard a lot from my grandmother growing up. I'm glad that more people are finding out about it, it was atrocious.
Do you find it as atrocious as what the Nazis did to their victims?
@@thecoffeebreakclub8138 Talk is cheap. If you seriously accuse someone, verifiable evidence of the forensic and documentary type is necessary. Where is this evidence?
My in-laws happen to live not too far away from this village and we went there last time i visited France. The silence that was around the place was daunting, and the church where the set it ablaze has a melted church bell imbedded in the ground from how hot it was. Horrendous stuff; their Dad lived around 20 miles away, could supposedly see a large smoke cloud in the distance where the village was. True evil intent.
"Hans? are we the baddies?"
If you know, you know. Just need to find a way to get those RAF pilots in on it now.
"But why skulls?"
Ja
What is that skit haha. So many skulls. Are we the bad guys?
@@mikeknight42 I think they're called "That Mitchell and Webb Look". XD
I’ve been avoiding this video, I accidentally stumbled across this village on a self-guided battlefield tour in 2016. It’s never been fixed up, it’s stands as a permanent memorial and reminder of what pure evil can do.
"The truth about Oradour" is not a new book. It could also fix the Dunning-Kruger effect inside you. At least partially.
He speaks like the student who put an entire paragraph on a single presentation slide and try to read the whole of it as quick as he can.
Fair enough hahahah
I had never been able to put it into words before...
I enjoy the pace tremendously
I thought the same dude was flying through this!
one difference, this guy is actually eloquent
Been a while since this came out, but it just popped up in my feed today. Excellent content. The speaking cadence is a bit fast as I had to keep skipping back to replay for clarity. My uncle (which I never met) is believed to have been executed by SS in the response to what would be called the battle of the bulge. He was 19 with a pregnant wife at home in Arizona.
Hopefully I can catch more of this content in the future.
"The Nazi War Crime That Shocked Even the Nazis"
Unit 731: Hold my sake.
America: 500 civilian casualties? Weak. Look at these new bombs
@@collinbeal the Japanese were forewarned,they didn't believe,
The blame falls on their own government and fanatism.
@@keineahnung6124 the Japanese attempted several times to surrender to the US on the condition that the emperor wouldn't be hurt, but the US used the opportunity to test the weapons to force an immediate and unconditional surrender before the Soviet Union could invade Japan. Civilians died so the US could effectively kick off the cold war. Of course, there's always more to the story, including bureaucratic nonsense in the Japanese military brass, but that's essentially what it boils down to. Eisenhower insisted that the nuclear bombs not be used on civilians, but when he died, the new president caved to generals. The reason they dropped two nuclear bombs is because one had a uranium warhead, and the other one had plutonium. They wanted to see which one killed more. That's not even to mention the fire-bombing of Tokyo, which saw massive civilian casualties and the razing of an entire city. The US is just as culpable for atrocities as the Germans, the Japanese, the RAF pilots who bombed German civilians, the Red Army who made massive land grabs, etc. There were no good guys or bad guys. War isn't cut-and-dry like that. Fascism definitely needed to fall, but American imperialism and exceptionalism is almost as bad. Winston Churchill greatly contributed to the use of chemical weapons in India before WWII. The war wouldn't be the last time the US attacked a nation on the brink of stabilization or surrender. The CIA campaign to overthrow Central and South American elections was as brutal as it was all-encompassing. North and South Vietnam were on the cusp of signing a peace treaty before the US attacked and dropped more bombs in the neighboring neutral country of Laos than all bombs dropped by everybody during WWII. Don't defend an evil, imperialistic nation. You have nothing to gain from doing as much.
@@collinbeal No, the U.S had to bomb Japan to prevent the war that lasting many more years with huge collateral damage from an indoctrinated nation that would never give up. Only the power of the atom was able to bring the Japanese to heel. The U.S casualties would have been awful. This reliable report estimates battle casualties alone surpassing 1 million (for the U.S). On the other hand, U.D bombing raids on Japan caused 387,000 deaths. Sounds like a good deal to me. For more info research Operation Downfall.
theamericanpresident.us/images/projections.pdf
@@collinbeal Eisenhower was not the president who died before the use of the nuclear bombs: that was FDR, Eisenhower was the Allied Commander in Europe.
The SS: “I can excuse genocide, but I draw the line against killing innocent French villagers”
The World: “you can excuse genocide?”
It’s like the Abed of antisemitism! Oh god it’s like the Abed of antisemitism...
I mean, it's the SS. Of course they can excuse genocide. It's just not an excuse that will be taken as eligible, but it is an excuse
If you can't excuse genocide you've never played starcraft against koreans.
At least they have commitment
The world didn’t actually care about the genocide. It was Hitlers attack against the world bank that pissed them off.
If he left the world bank alone the world would have let them continue to this day.
That’s the part of these stories that pisses me off.
Everyone acts like the allies were “saviors” they did this for themselves.
Just wanted to give you guys a shout out for all of your amazing and educational content. You do a great job!! Please keep it coming!
Really brings into perspective the levels of depravity that humanity can achieve. How many humans walking around today would commit these types of crimes given the opportunity? They say it's always the last people that you would suspect. We as humans must always strive to keep evil from attaining any amount of power. "The only thing that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing"- E. Burke.
Kind of funny how he’s talking about something so horrible and then goes “but let me tell y’all bout this fresh food right here”
People like him have no shame and will do anything for money
@@badxradxandy I myself must say otherwise. It's how he makes a living
@@badxradxandy it's how people make money smh
@@badxradxandy everyone wants food on the table, that makes the situation no different for anybody else
@@badxradxandy yeah, screw him for doing his job!
He was a 12 year old boy scout, when my grandfather and his troop cleaned out and buried the charred body out of the church. He's still alive today. Jean-Robert Larbaneix is his name.
And now, as a trans, Muslim, woman of color, I feel myself in the same danger by living openly as who I am in America. This land was built on hate.
@@noanyabizniz4333 these two situations do not compare at all
@@noanyabizniz4333 I am not sure how you can reconcile being a trans and a muslim or why you needed to make this comment about your hate towards a country like America when you adhere to the most oppressive to gays religion on earth. There's not one islamic country where LGBTQ live free or free of danger. My guess is you're a troll with a sad life.
@@noanyabizniz4333 the fact that nobody cares and are annoyed that you’re making this tragedy about you, says something. just live your life like everyone else because nobody really gives a shit about you or me or anyone but themselves and if you can’t live with that than tough. there is a difference between being “open” and “openly annoying” GOOD DAY MAM
@@noanyabizniz4333 The fact that you complain says something and isnt being trans against the teachings of Quran
Wow. You know, it's good that these events are recorded and remembered because we tend to forget how cruel and barbaric humanity really is.
Are you hungry?
Doctors always forget and are not interested in history. A good example currently is Putin inhilating Ukrainians. Very sad.
Sorry I ment dictators
It is still mind boggling how any human being can be so evil and cruel towards another and have no empathy at all. Scary actually. We should never forget this and always be on guard for the signs of anyone else ever rising up like this again and take them out before they can get there. Unfortunately people like this exist around the world they just haven't quite gone this far yet.
Not one “Humanity being restored” video will ever restore my faith humanity. Sure, it’s nice of them, but I can never forget the horrors I know of. Never.
thank - you . ( A British documentary series includes a piece called : " Remember " which showed colour video of the village . )
The World at War.
SS: " We committed the worst atrocities in the war!"
Unit 731: "Hold my sake!"
It’s honestly a tie between the two.
Is it odd that I learned about the 731 through pokémon myth videos?
Lol.
So right. I just learned about that horror today. WTF
Shoulders involved in nanking massacre - are you both joking ha ha ha
Years ago my friend and I were in a vegetable shop in St Tropez when I noticed the owner had a photo of the queen, which I commented on. The next thing the owner came over and asked if he could shake our hands we said yes. He then explained that during the war some British soldiers had saved his family from the Nazis, he explained anything we wanted from his shop would be free. Needles to say we paid for our vegetables. Thought it was a lovely gesture from him.
He sure saw you coming when the shop owner made that claim! Some people will believe anything!
@@BasementEngineer Please explain since the shop owner offered any goods would be free to the people . So how or what did the shop owner do to make your claim or are you just a troll ?
@@joejohnson4183 St Tropez was in Vichy France, ie. that part of France that was not occupied by Germany.
So how could the shop keeper claim, with a straight face, that during the war some Brits saved his family from Nazis?
@@BasementEngineer You do realize that the Germans had their personnel including troops and the Gestapo , the SD and the SS in Vichy , France . Just because it was in territory of Vichy , France does not mean the Germans let the French do as they wanted and the Germans did not trust the Vichy French either .
@@joejohnson4183 that basement engineer shut you down
Spending all day researching war crimes and atrocities really gives me an appetite. That’s why I use Hello Fresh!
There’s your transition
That “you won’t be needing it anymore” about the bicycle broke my heart
This was the first thing you saw in the series World at War with the haunting opening words "Down this road on a summer day in 1944 the Soldiers came
I was going to say the same thing. As haunting now as when I first saw it in the 70's.
@@numbskullhusband4275 I never saw it in the 70s but when I first saw it it gave me goosebumps and it still does
You know it's crazy when the nazis said it was crazy. Same for the Soviets.
Thank you John F Kennedy, very cool
JFK were have you been hiding
@John F. Kennedy You could say this video made you go back... and to the left.
What if the CIA says it’s crazy?
How was your sunday drive?
I applaud the French for leaving the town exactly as the Nazis did after the tragedy. It is wise to let people see the carnage of war without tidying things up and leaving a pristine marker or museum.
That still will not convince the Neo-Nazi revisionists.
@@logon235 won’t convince the more bountiful left-wing extremists, socialists, neo-Marxists, and communists either.
@@trueheartintent they don't need convincing. They already know. Who do you think was the Nazi's greatest enemy?
@@logon235 You`re right, they named a school a decade or so ago Husein ef Djozo, after a guy at the center of the photo at 3:00, in Gorazde , Bosnia. The school was previously named Nikola Tesla whose almost entire family was butchered by Nazi Ustashe regime.
@@trueheartintent let’s me see the radical leftists-some anarchist and Marxists
Let’s see some radical rightist-literal nazis, fascist and race supremacist
Seems like left is dangerous to society isn’t they? Stop the bullshit.
I am South African and have visited this area of rural France many times. I know about the church massacre and the fact it has been left as it was in order to remind all of humanity of this disaster. Perhaps one day I will visit the village but I still lack the mental strength because I know it will be an ordeal for me.
I still remember realising the holes in the walls of the village were bullet holes . Still have goosebumps to this day when I think about my visit there
I felt the exact same thing when I visited.. The church felt so "heavy"
I have never been, but all over Europe the scars of war are left as they are as a reminder...which is a GOOD thing.....
@@muskokamike127 indeed.
@@muskokamike127 yes, if we all forget the horrible past, it is bound to happen again
From the many stories I've seen of Pearl Harbor, many of the buildings that are still standing from that era still have bullet holes showing in them.
Just a minor point: Those paratroopers that assassinated Heydrich were Czechs AND Slovak.
Those were not paratroopers, but 2 members from the resistance, armed with a stengun and a pare of handgranate's. When the moment was there, the stengun blocked. However, the other guy threw quikly a granate in the open car of Heydrich, who was severly wounded. Heydrich had an open wound in his back, wich became more and more inflamed. The German SS-doctors didn't had something like penicilline. After 3 days fighting for his life, Heydrich died.
He was replaced by Ernst Kaltenbrünner.
@@Kirovets7011 Well, they were members of Czechoslovakian army-in-exile, so they were soldiers and they jump from plane, so you can call them paratroopers.
I see your point though, they were not trained paratrooper units per se.
Beside their basic training they were trained as special unit for espionage, sabotage and such.
My grandmothers friend told me about the Wołyń massacre one day. She was a little girl at the time but her family ran for days until they found a unit of German soldiers. They said nothing but remained in close proximity. They followed them as they marched to a local town just to get away as they were followed by Banderas men who done the killings on polish civilians during Ww2. She was shaking when she told me this and I was only 7 at the time. She didn't get into any detail. Just that she had to ran from bad men. And I understand why she didn't get into detail. If you can picture hell and horror on earth i always think of Wołyń.
@irishmetalfan film name?
@@rockbottom9887 "Wołyń", copy and paste that into search and write the word film after it
The promo of Hello Fresh on such a story as this is the most grotesque thing I've ever seen on UA-cam!
This is the most grotesque thing Dr Fiendish has ever seen on UA-cam?
You’re not looking hard enough, herr doctor.
My mother's family is from Oredour-sur-Glane and Limoge. My Great Aunt Anna used to write weekly letters to her brother (my grandfather), here in the states. My mother wasn't told why her aunt's letters suddenly stopped until she was well into her twenties. Many of my family members were murdered that day. What I want to point out is that there were far more heinous acts carried out that day than you seem to be aware of. Once you know all of those facts, you'll find it even easier to understand why the slaughter of this town was very different. Please, find the facts. There are multiple sources to pull from and my family, along with all of the other victims deserve for these crimes not to have been forgotten, or glazed over and softened. However, I do want to thank you for scratching the surface and opening the conversation.
I'm sorry that happened to your family.
I'll look it up. I hadn't heard about this before today. My guess is that UA-cam doesn't like too many graphic details, or they delete videos.
I'll absolutely read more, grateful that I'm aware of this horrific barbarism, now. That the channel had to tone it down, or gloss over it is sad. But at least we know.
My God... How much worse could it possible get then to cruxify a baby on a cross...
@@wingding6758 It can get worse. I can't say in this forum....so horrific.
@@wingding6758 I suggest you research it. It was quite horrific. The brutality was as bad as it was for no other reason than that the people who were there could be as brutal as they wanted, and chose to put the true depth of their evilness on display.
@@kennedyminiatureconstruction Thank you for sharing your story, as much as you could. As I said I would, I did research this more, and read for hours, well into the night, and far into the next day. Your family's story, and that of their friends and neighbors will stay with me. While disturbing, it's the least I can do, to carry their story with me, and remember them. They mattered then, and they still do today.
These are the stories we need to know to help stop history from repeating. Cheers TIFO gang
With all the censorship going on lately I doubt it. Every is all roses apparently
@@raydn23 This.. Many times this.
Absolutely. Those who forget history are destined to repeat it.
@@raydn23 you sir are absolutely right. All Censorship is wrong. No matter how bad someone hurts your “feelings”
Sadly in vain
Not making much of a difference, but "Diekmann" is pronounced "deek-mann". "ie" is always "ee", and "ei" is "I"/"eye"....
I'm just going to call him Dick-man. Anyone know where his grave is? I need to relieve my bowels.
yes, I agree, it's really annoying and distracts from the story. Also, Glane is pronounced glannnnnn, with the "N" sound. the nasalization of the "an" sound is only if there is no "e" following, that is if it were written "glan" instead of "glane"
Thanks for the quick pronunciation correction. I watch these for educational purposes, so a little more information is always appreciated. Especially since I have trouble pronouncing Taco Bell words right. (Seriously, and I now live in an area where "everyone" speaks Spanish.)
German pronunciation tip for you (and Simon) then:
ü = y
So the town of Düsseldorf is pronounced Dysseldorf.
Funny thing is that y is actually present in the German alphabet 🤷♂️
When i & e go walking, the second one does the talking.
I first visited Lidice with a former member of the Czechoslovak Squadron of the Royal Air Force. We also visited nearby Terezin (Theresienstadt), where his mother had been beaten to death--oddly enough not for the fact that she was Jewish, but because she was actively involved in the Czechoslovak Resistance. Hearing about these atrocities from a man who was there at the start of the war and then returned as soon as it ended--only to be thrown into jail by the commies as an enemy of the state--was a fascinating and profoundly saddening experience. I recommend visiting these places as often as you can. Never forget.
Most disgusting war crime ever... brought to you by Hello Fresh Meal Kits!!! Jesus, Simon. You need to pick your sponsors for these dark videos
Could have been worse. Hello Fresh could have been the sponsor of an episode about cannibalism.
@@jliller Imagine them sponsoring the Ask A Mortician video about "the real Moby Dick."
"Are you hiding out in a building in fear of an implacable menace that threatens to bring more death and suffering? Would you like a box of steaming mystery shoved in the door to 'take care' of you and your family? Have I got the sponsor/story for you!"
Lowe him everyones going through some tough times right now let him get the bag
@@jliller it could have been in Simon's video about the Russian cannibal island 😆
Diekmann: hey i killed a bunch of french people in a town
Stadler: what the fu-
When you take a moment to realize that French and German peoples had lived side by side for centuries and were, in fact, inter related to a large extent, they murdered their own blood when they pulled that stunt. German, French, English, Dutch, Russian and more of those countries of Europe, had once been ruled by Cousins in royal families in all of those countries. They married their children into one those other royal families regularly. They would rather engage in what was clearly nearly incestuous relationships, rather than mix their blood with commoners. I know, I am the result of one such coupling performed by my 12th great grandfather King James II and VII of England, Scotland and Ireland. You want to talk about horrible executions... study my family history in such matters... it is enough to keep you awake at night thinking and wondering how mankind could ever be so cruel to one another. It is a shame, really, that after hundreds of years, we are no better as a human race now than we were so long ago.
We really need to examine our societies to determine exactly what it is that keeps us acting so savagely to each other, even today, in our so called "advanced and cultured society".
Insane what human beings are capable of doing to one another.
"One another".
Yeah those shot children, men and women didn't harm anyone though.
Its usually a percentage of the people that can do such.
One of the biggest enablers here is authority.
By projecting the accountability on someone else many people are able to commit much more heinous deeds then thier own personality would ever let them do.
You'd probably have done the same in the same circumstances.
Read up on Unit 731. These guys ain’t got s*** on the Japanese that ran Unit 731!
@@stevewilson4514 They do take the trophy for sheer brutality.
I will forever associate "hello fresh" with deliciously served war crimes.
I live is the US, and I had a grandmother whose family came from Lidice. My daughter got to spend a quarter studying abroad in Prague, and her professor took her to the museum at Lidice. The professor told me about a book called HHhH by Laurent Binet that tells about the events leading up to the assassination, the destruction of Lidice and the aftermath. The ending literally had me awake reading all night.
As a Czech, I was there on a school trip, the village was burned down and most of the civilians were killed.
When you hear stories like this I find it hard to believe that it only happened 20 years before I was born and that it was by an apparently civilised country.
by a democratically elected leader too.
I, uh, take it you haven't been paying attention to the news for the last four years.
@@jessehenson8923 we're talking about good old adolf and the fact that the german people voted him and his genocidal friends into power...
@@travistea There's a super long explanation involving neuroscientists, anthropologists, and sociologists, but long story short, the human brain is hardwired to only have empathy for, and see only 150 other human beings as actual, living, breathing human beings. That's why if we hear about a school bus full of kids buying it in an accident, we think, "Wow. How sad! Hey, should I pick up milk on the way home from work?", but if our best friend's elderly father dies, we're devastated. The *real* humans, though, try to break that limitation so we can feel empathy for all. Anyone who doesn't is just a naked ape.
@@jessehenson8923 ‘If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only statistics’
I have visited this place and it’s unbelievable. When I had gone there it was a lovely, hot day. As soon as you enter, the chirping of the birds suddenly disappeared, a wave of grey clouds surrounded you and a chilling breeze overwhelmed everyone. Childrens prams are still there, destroyed and you can see many other everyday objects ruined.
😢😢😢
I had never heard of this tragedy until today. Thank you for explaining it so well in the video. More people should know about this!
"NAZIS...I hate these guys." - Indiana Jones.
*_SNAKES...I HATE SNAKES!_*
Obligatory snakes on a plane reference 😂
@@IveGotItTwisted no indy did it first, and it's funny too
But he was so proud when he got Adolfs autograph
"I hate Illinois Nazis!" -- Jake Blues
I visited about 15 years ago. It’s such a strange place, its eerily quiet. The most hitting thing for me, is in the church. In one corner sits the twisted melted cross that used to sit on the roof and in the other a wooden confession box. I’m not a religious person but this community was and I can only imagine that all those woman and children must have felt a false sense of security when herded into the church, because who would do anything in a church.
You can walk around the whole village and go into essentially every building. Apart from making it safe, putting up information signs and building a memorial wall, it’s untouched.
People would be shocked. As part of the human race I can say we have some terrible beings on this planet Dylan roof being one of them plus the kkk being another group of them its crazy people do that stuff especially in a place of worthship. The human race has been known to be pretty savage and brutal. I mean look at the medieval ages of medieval England if you seen someone to torture devices they used 1000's of years ago u would be shocked its good vs evil think with people and its never a winning side because people still die only thing that makes a difference between making something good or bad is what its being done for.
I heard about this story after watching a documentary on WWII that only briefly mention it. I then read the Wikipedia article and was horrified :( Those poor peoples
People*
Glad you've done some thorough 14 minutes of research 👏
The documentary was The World at War
@@farpointgamingdirect on national Geographic
I have to disagree.
I think it's FAR better to die in a few minutes, then suffer every moment of your life for 80 years in pain, as most of humanity does, b/c life is mostly cruel even in the best of situations.
HOW unbearable is life?
MILLIONS OF HUMANS every year go to the EXTREME of MURDERING THEMSELVES TO ESCAPE this living hell.
I will never get the correlation between Nazis and Hello Fresh out of my head.
“Let’s look at nazi war crimes leaving bodies everywhere”
“But first! Hello fresh bring you tasty food”
I mean... It's always been about making shekels and nothing else, so...
hahaha it's funny because it's true!
getting more commercial by the day....almost like watching regular TV...shit
Only Raid Shadow Legends would've made it funnier.
"Down this road, on a summer's day, the soldiers came..." The opening line, as narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier, of the series "The World At War"....
“Down this road, a summer’s day in 1944, the soldiers came”
Kind of ironic that France,supposedly a victim,declared war on Germany for bs reasons.
The opening of the great The World at War series. Narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier.
@@alejandrobustos693 Since when is declaring war on a country that invaded an ally bs?
@@hds66nl29 Agreed. And "supposedly a victim"? He's just a troll I guess.
@@roderickcampbell2105 Thought that as well or a very poor understanding of WW2 history
This, amongst countless other examples, is why I get so annoyed by idiots making out Karma exists.
So many examples to the contrary.
Yes, absolutely - if only it did, it would make some sense in the world, it really doesn't does it...terrible things happen to lovely people and great happens to absolute shits. History sadly just repeats itself because as humans we have those who want to be the best, they want to win and destroy and I don't see evolution changing this awful human characteristic any time soon. Yet....enjoy your life and others best you can I would say, who needs karma?
I've been to this town, and in the church ruins, it was extremely moving/emotional reading about the horrors that happened their whilst actually standing on the spot it took place. Highly recommend visiting and paying your respects
I recall my great-grandparents pouring scorn on the official line that the Holocaust was only known after the war. This is an example (that a British serviceman was among the escapees) of how we knew about the Nazis' crimes long before they were officially recognized.
Well, Britain and the British are known as Perfidious Albion for a very good reason.
You can literally spend a few minutes looking at headlines in the New York Times from 1898 through 1939 and see repeated claims of 6 million and holocaust before WW2 and even NAZIs even existed.
But you won't bother. No one actually cares about facts where the sacred race exists. Communism won WW2. Today is proof across every crumbling western country.
A lot of civilans around the world didn’t believe in the death camps and other Nazi atrocities, not until the war was over and the Allies began liberating the camps. It’s a bit of a Chicken Little situation, because the world had been inundated with anti-German (often untrue) propaganda for decades, during World War I through the interwar period. Thus, the masses presumed these stories about the Nazi camps, gas chambers, and human experiments to be exaggerations or lies. They thought it was all just more anti-German wartime propaganda.
A lot of these crimes reached the Allied soldiers at the time. I've listened to plenty of veterans who refused to take SS prisoner. I remember one veteran whose unit were bayoneting a bunch of Germans as they were SS. One was so young he felt compassion so pretended to kill him and told him to stay still on the ground so his mates wouldn't kill him.
my dad was a special ops of the day SS hunter...he rode a motorcycle all around the world hunting them..i still have his first Trophy patch he took..he was a War Hero....but his heart & spirit were broken when he saw the united states import 1000's of them here after the war & gave them positions of great power & control..via paperclip
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@@NuLiForm My dad invented the motorcycle
@@NuLiForm That's very interesting. The only special ops group that were doing anything like that were X Troop , part of 10 Commando, mostly German and Austrian Jewish refugees operating with fake British identities. Not sure if they went all around the world though.
@@drinkingup2157 Yes. My brother was also Spec Ops in Vietnam, Bravo. He never came back. We are a family of sharp shooters, etc. Lineage is Native & Celtic. The Mil CO's seem to like that combo for reasons they claim but never explained. & Yes..my bad.."Around the world" was my poor choice of words, i apologise..he just said "Some of them Scattered. To get all my targets I ended up in some unlikely places."
He was Great on a motorcycle, even when with that sidecar, but also underage when he signed up. His birthday was Dec 7th.. & he took it personal..Only 16, but very muscular & graceful, he lied to get in, & eventually they found out, but they let him go anyway because he had a natural instinct for 'hunting' & that "fit their Requirements". He served for 7 years, even after the war 'ended'..as you know, hunting the runners didn't happen overnight.
I was taken to
Ouradour sur Glane by French friends when I was about 14. The silence and atmosphere were almost physically tangible. As we walked down the ruined village street the very air seemed to get heavier. I can never forget how shocked I was to see a group of German tourists or holiday makers talking in normal voices while the rest of us were finding it difficult even to breathe with ease. Many years later I took my teenage children to the village without much description of my experience. They were equally badly affected and almost had difficulty walking down to the church. I quietly translated anything they asked for. Once again there were German tourists.
May I ask a question as a person from Germany? What exactly is your issue with German tourists visiting places where atrocious Nazi warcrimes happened? Don't you think that it is actually a really good thing that Germans deal with their past and acknowledge what their ancestors did? Should German tourists be excluded from visiting monuments that deal with WW2? Are you aware that the war has been over for almost 80 years and that hardly anyone who did something bad during the war is actually still alive?!
Okay, but please don't make it out like every German alive today has the same sentiments as the SS officers who destroyed that town, or that they must necessarily be indifferent to what happened.
If we do not remember and learn from our history, we will be doomed to repeat it.
Thus, Donald Trump. Not even a century after the end of WW2.
Most people don’t even know what happened. They believe a cartoon version where Hitler is evil and Jews are innocent. Human life is more complicated and the winners write the history to favor themselves.
Yea there have been like 15 genocides afterwards
@@elizabethsohler6516 A truly idiotic comment.
@@halloweenjack8655 they share the same ideology. far right nationalism, white supremacism. how is that an idiotic comment, cletus?
Meanwhile on the eastern front: millions executed in systematic slaughter
Germany: Good job
Those were Slavs, so it's ok to the Aryan.
@@HeaanLasai the common man fights the wars that the rich , privileged, egotistical, don't dare to put on a uniform to fight. To many young men fight a war that old men start. I know this isn't 100% but it happens to much.
@@betos-08 seems that no matter what we find reasons to kill each other on a whole sale basis , it's a crying shame
@@jamesharrison1143 "To many young men fight a war that old men start" - thats because older men are often seen as wiser , behind most companies, football/soccer/any sports team, is an often older manager - its life that makes it this way - not some devious plan - its life that generals are "often" older than captains, older than sergeants, older than corporals, then recruits......ever wonder why young people dont win quiz shows? because they arent wise enough yet ...not saying they were all wise = wise sometimes - stupid - i dont like the way people are saying you think that was bad - these guys did this!! its puts too much of a light note on all these bad things - bad is bad good is good. there is no shades of bad unless in a sick competition.
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YOU HAVE IT PERFECTLY BACKWARDS. It's not even a SECRET that kids have all the wisdom, while ALL ADULTS shut off their brains before they left high school, b/c IGNORANCE IS BLISS and you can't make it in society if you're smart.
2)
YOU GAVE AN EXAMPLE THAT PERFECTLY DEFEATED YOUR ENTIRE POINT:
if EACH WAR later came out as FAKE, than all the GENERALS MURDERED THEIR OWN TROOPS....FOR NOTHING. (Sorry, but the Pentagon Papers and Afghanistan Papers ended this debate long ago. The Pentagon ADMITS they can NEVER beat 2,000 guys in caves in Afghanistan!)
EVEN W. BUSH CAME OUT AND SAID OOPS THERE WERE NO WMDs.
EVEN THE EXPERTS, every single time, say in the end "um, the 13 year old liberals were FAR smarter than all our experts combined!"
HELL, it was VIETNAMESE KIDS who killed your Amerikkkan Army, ha ha ha ha!
YOU:
"OLDER PEOPLE ARE WISER, THAT'S WHY MURICA HAS TO BORROW TRILLIONS FROM COMMUNIST CHINA EVERY YEAR TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ON!"
Your math is awful!
horrible war crime but this was repeated on a massive scale in Russia
No one talks about it, because they didnt target based on race. They targeted everyone. They systematically tortured and killed their own people.
One atrocity can never diminish another.
@@WobblesandBean But one can be practically forgotten since it was done by the winners. And since the soviets did it for the "good of the People" then it's all good, don't'cha know.
Then again in Nanking.
* Anti-Semitism & the Left ua-cam.com/video/umcgriP_6Eo/v-deo.html
The World at War - BBC TV 1979's series devoted one episode to this atrocity. It has remained untouched as a French National Monument.
A video made by a British man living in the Czech Republic, published via a US company, me a man from Germany in 2021 this brought tears to my eyes.
These stories must be re-told and re-told to remind us of what evil humans can do to each other, may we never forget
Those who do not study history are bound to repeat it.
It has already been repeated, many times.
* Anti-Semitism & the Left ua-cam.com/video/umcgriP_6Eo/v-deo.html
I live near Oradour sur Glane, we call it Le Village Martyr. You can walk through the old streets, as peaceful as they are disturbing.
I'm on my history shit again and UA-cam plopped you in my recommended and I can't stop watching.
Been there 3 times, my dad lives nearby, second time a German family were removed for allowing their children to play in the rubble of the houses. The church is very poignant, but the story I knew from locals slightly different, the Germans set up a machine gun in the doorway and opened fire, then burnt the bodies, I’m not dismissing your story in anyway, it’s an example maybe of how history alters with its retelling. The boy still lived in the village which was rebuilt, well he did in 2009. Not sure if he’s still alive.
If the locals told it differently then it contradicts the narrative of this video. So skepticism should be used.
Imagine what the Nazi's would've thought if they found out what the Japanese did.
There was a Nazi member named John Heinrich Detlef Rabe who witnessed the Rape of Nanking by the Japanese first-hand and helped establish the Nanking Safety Zone which sheltered approximately 200,000 Chinese citizens. He used his Nazi Party influence to help as many Chinese citizens as possible and is credited for rescuing between 200,000 and 250,000 Chinese people. When he eventually returned to Germany and wrote to Hitler imploring him to put an end to the Japanese atrocities he was sadly detained by the Gestapo to keep him quiet and it is believed his letter never reached Hitler; it would have been interesting to know if anything would have been done if Hitler had received that letter.
@@bobthebuilder1360 Source?
@@hanbyeol12 nvm that was china before japan attacked them n fucked them up so Germany switched and allied with Japan instead because they were more superior
@@Jacob-ge1py He is so famous that he was rated as the 2nd most humane person from outside of china, who helped chinese, only after a communist doctor.
And this as a official member of the nazi party, while china is under a communist rule.
Imagine if they knew Mao.
I went on a school trip there when I was thirteen. I only live an hour away and I can tell you visiting Oradour-sur-Glane was hard, especially at that age. It’s eerily quiet, and the atmosphere is just uncomfortable. What’s more is that if you go to the edge of the town you can hear the new town just further down the road.