When people now a days say they're having a "bad" day, phones battery died, gas is expensive...they have no clue how bad shit can be or get...my mom was a teenager in Osaka during WWII and remembers "shiny silver" bombers over the city. So, if you think things are bad, it can get a whole lot worse.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars For more REAL ww2 history, you might start with the meticulously well-documented book "Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government" by Evans, M. Stanton
@@stephandrake What did the Soviets have to do with the Japanese in this war? In fact hardly anything! Furthermore, the decisive factor in Europe was the German raid against Poland and the shameful betrayal of the Polish allies in 1939.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars Sigh. Again, you urgently need to solve the problem of your hollyweirded history simply by discovering the truth for yourself and drawing logical conclusions from what you learn. Think about the irrefutable fact that the US government was entirely under the control of Soviet agents from start to finish. THINK. Another excellent book was one of the first ever banned by Amazon and is now easily found as a PDF: "The Myth of German Villainy" by retired US Navy pilot Benton Bradberry. The antidote to the poison of Hollywood's fictional, comic book history is to put out the energy to discover the truth -- assuming you can handle it.
A mio parere lei ha ragione! Le divise sono certamente tedesche ed il fatto che il fucile mitragliatore sia di produzione ceca non vuol dir niente. I Nazisti usavano molte armi ceche , come il carro Skoda T 38 .
@@peterwalker7761THE BRITISH EMPIRE HAD IMPLEMENTED THAT. THEY IMPLEMENTED SINCE WE CAN'T BEAT THEM, LET'S MAKE THEM FIGHT AND KILL EACH OTHER AND WITH THAT PLAN DIVIDE AND CONQUER WE RULE THE WORLD AND SUBMITTED (SUBJUGATED), NATIONS, COUNTRIES AND OUR COLNIES. THE BRITISH EMPIRE HAD INVETED, IMPOSED AND IMPLEMENTED THAT PLAN.
You know this is a very complicated case to judge that easily. My great-grand aunt Hildegard König lived along with her Czech mother Františka and her German father a Wehrmacht officer Karl König in former Czechoslovakia back in the 1920's and 30's. Her father Karl died in May 1939 in the Slovakian city Piešťany at local spa as a result of his Tuberculosis. Hildegard (we called her Hilda) survived the inferno of the WW2 and in June 1945 was expelled along with her mother and brother Florian from Czechoslovakia to Frankfurt am Main where she lived until her death in 2002 (with a lil break between April 1944 - June 1945). She visited her native house in Olomouc next to the train station where they used to live as frequently as possible but it was pretty difficult for a stranger to visit Czechoslovakia in the time of reign of communists (1948-1989). Especially for former Sudenten(Germans) who had been considered traitors due to their infamous "Heim ins Reich" quote and their actions against Czech people in September 1938. My mother remembers she never said a bad word about Czechs or Czechoslovakia in general even tho she could have told many sad stories about 1945. She spoke fluently Czech, German, English and French sadly she never married in order to care of her ill mother who lost her leg during British bombardment in March 1944. History plays a dirty game with all of us at times I would say.
When I was stationed in Germany, I rented an apartment from a family in Kaiserslautern. The grandmother had been born in Czechoslovakia, but eventually arrived in West Germany. She and her family were some of the Sudeten Germans that the narrator speaks of. The grandmother told me that when the Red Army arrived in her village, they proceeded to murder all of the German families. Her family survived, only because her sister had either studied the Russian language, or was a teacher of the language. She was able to speak to the Russian soldiers and the officers in charge of the unit, who decided her family would be spared, for the fact that one of them spoke Russian. The remaining Germans were executed.
Stalin famously told his armies (I'm paraphrasing) the war won't be measured in miles, or months, or national borders; the war will be measured in German blood.
@@lloydchristmas1086he might be Soviet scum, but those Czechs who help the Germans round up Jews, dissidents, and resistance fighters are scum too. The extremes of politics, the far left & the far right are just the same as each other. Politics is like a clock face, at the top at 12 o’clock sits the average middle of the road person, the extremes of politics meet each other down the bottom down at 6 o’clock, Stalin, communism, Hitler, Nazism, Mussolini, facsimile, Chairman Moa, Pol Pot, idi Amin, Xi Jinping, Hideki Tojo, etc, etc.
It is amazing, so Czechoslovakia was occupied by two countries, Germany and some "Nazi country"? I have never heard of the second country. BTW I certainly do not like what was done to Germans after 9 May 1945, that is for sure. Just for comparison, Germans killed 300 - 350 000 people from area of current Czech Republic. My father survived 6 May only because od Germans decided to murdre everyone in next street (that time Usobska, now its name is "Obeti 6. kvetna), not in his. 54 people were murdered there including one 16 years old German girl.
It is always terrible to kill civilian people, in fact war is stupid in its principle. I just would wish that everybody who sees this also put it in the context, Nazis killed entire villages in Czech like Lidice, including children... not speaking about others. So once a nation/army cross certain threshold in cruelty, the people became animals and act likes animals, on both sides. We were not there, but I could imagine how Czechs would feel for the revenge... If they would kill your kids or family? It is not an excuse, just be sure to put it in context, if Nazis would not start act like animals, the rest of the world would not be pushed to act like animals as well...
Heydrich was killed by the resistance. This was why Lidice was destroyed and its inhabitants killed. Everybody should know that one had to obey the occupying force - in this case the Germans - and any resistance would be met with severe punishment for the civilians. If the resistance had not killed Heydrich this atrocity would not have happened. This does not excuse what happened in Lidice but it is common knowledge that any resistance against any occupying force which is a dictatorship is met with severe punishment for civilians.
@@giorgosfylaktou2610 Partisans are nothing but terrorists and murderers. They have no protection under martial law. By the way, the French Resistance killed more French people than Germans. The partisan attacks were also the trigger for the attacks on civilians. The Allies acted similarly with partisan raids.
It's coming back again in Europe and America and Russia, millions of people accross the world will be killed trying to save freedom and democracy and humanity from these Scumbags, this time the nazis will be offered no quarter and No mercy not even one of them. The world will have to Cleanse itself of these monsters.
The Germans at least resettled their people in Germany.. They haven’t kept them in refugee camps for 80 years in the hope that they will one day go back to their homes in the Sudetenland or East Prussia.
The Germans were the aggressors in WWII. They invaded Eastern Europe, including the USSR and Czechoslovakia, to ethnically cleanse those countries, by terrorism and mass murder, to make way for German settlers, and to plunder resources. The proto-Israeli settlers were the aggressors in Palestine. Most individuals came simply for a better life, or for safety, but their leadership moved to ethnically cleanse Palestine, by terrorism and mass murder, to make way for Israeli settlers, mostly from Europe, and to plunder resources.
As a Czech it's a bit worrying how so many of Czechs don't know about these horrible acts or even try and say they were justified. This should be shown in every history class. And all of this happened because of a number of grudges (Czechoslovakian politics was very anti German pre ww2, then the Germans started to be heavily involved with Nazis) that came with the concept of national states. Germans, Czechs, Jews... every common citizen lived peacefully until politicians started to want "clean states" with only one ethnicity, this lead to so many genocides, just horrible.
I think you're a bit shortsighted and naive. It is the Nazis who FIRST violated Geneva convention and started indiscriminately bombing metropolitan cities with no military significancy and carelessly executing civilian in occupied lands! Do you know nazis made captives digging their own graves and shot them to death?? (Where do you think the Czechs learned from???) Do you know the nazis killed thousands of Czechs following Reinhard Heydrich assassination?? Do you know the nazis allowed millions of Russians POW to die in the cold without food or water?? Do you know nazis doctors had inhumane and barbaric medical experiments on civilian captives?? and do you know they (nazis) operated gas chambers and killed many in them!! Do you know nazis worked civilian captives to death in various industries? Now, If you know all the question above then you should understand why Czechs people reacted that way. And, even if Czechs knew or didn't know about atrocities of their fellow citizens towards German citizens, it won't make any difference since their own country men and women were treated even more barbaric by the Nazis occupiers.
We should not judge past events through the prism of contemporary standards and contemporary circumstances. Civilization and compassion ends when you see a dead and tortured body of someone you knew or loved, or if a violent foreign invader to your lands treats you like a subhuman for six years. We can't blame the desperate victims for craving for revenge. From their viewpoint, their acts were justified. We were not there to judge, and we should not judge from the peaceful comfort of our armchairs and by the standards of today.
Will you equally condemn the British soldiers and liberated prisoners of Dachau concentration camp who slaughtered the German guards even though they surrendered? It was certainly not "proper" but it is entirely understandable given their horrific experiences. It is a mistake to judge past events by our contemporary standards and under incomparable circumstances. Violence breeds violence. Civilization and compassion ends when you see a dead and tortured body of someone you knew or loved, or if a violent foreign invader to your lands treats you like a subhuman for six years. Unspeakable acts bring unspeakable acts of revenge. We can't blame the desperate victims for craving for revenge. Many of us probably would, too.
But on occasions, evil people have to accept their fate when the tables are turned. Of course the guards were going to surrender. If the British troops hadn’t discovered and liberated the death camp the guards would have continued their despicable acts of cruelty and murder. You must be in some sort of fantasy world if you think the victims would instantly find forgiveness. Get real.
@@DessieTots Didn't I make it obvious enough that I am NOT on the side of the guards? I don't understand why you feel the need to accuse me of being in a fantasy land. Get off your high horse and re-read my comment carefully. I am sorry if it sounds too complicated to you.
Actually, Dachau was liberated by the US Army and it was Americans who stood aside and let inmates kill guards and, in at least one case, machine gunned several themselves. Court Martial charges were started, but then ignored. Sadly violence and cruelty generally begets more violence and cruelty. Near the end of WWII the Luftwaffe anti-aircraft troops would send men out to retrieve shot down bomber crews before the German civilians could catch them and murder them. When peoples families are killed they are quite likely to seek revenge. One of the biggest problems I have with some of our drone strikes is the simple fact that all too often there is "collateral damage". I can't help but think every time that occurs we create more "terrorists" out of the relatives of the "damage".
As far as I know the American Army shot these guards and not the British Army. Most of these guards were of Eastern European origin. Most of the German guards fled when the US Army approached the concentration camps.
@lapdog5067 It's easy for you to preach from the moral perspectives of our times, but if you lived in an era where collective guilt was the norm (and the Germans started this - look at Lidice or Oradour-sur Glane) and if your country was being raped for six years by folks of one particular nationality, you, too, would feel vengeful towards them all. You would not consider them "innocent". You would consider them all collaborators - which they mostly were. And if someone from your close family died at the hands of the Gestapo or in a concentration camp, then you too would shoot.
they had coloaborated with Nazis and supported them. Sometimes they were more cruel than Nazis. Many people were sent to concentrations camps due to colaborations of german minorities in Poland or Czech.
And your point is ? Germans nazis were horrible with occupied countries' populations ,just savage and barbaric. You can't expect that when seeing Germans routed by Soviets they were not to take their revenge. The Sudeten problem was solved by expulsing Germans from Sudeten to Germany. War is dirty.
German civilians who may have been instructed, possibly forced to reside in conquered lands by the Nazi government were not criminals. Soviets also took advantage of the confusion to eliminate civilians who may been able to offer resistance to their occupation that crushed Eastern Europe for almost fifty years.
@@offlimits4635 Those are not civilians. They are Nazi soldiers disguised as civilians and the rest were collaborators who helped the Nazis in their conquest by torturing and killing Czech children and women. The men were sent to concentration camps. Nobody will be as evil as the Nazi not even Stalin who was a monster.
Czechs had good reason, The Germans perpetrated countless massacres of locals including, a *full day after* they surrendered. Massacre in Běloves and the Burning of Lejčkov, both May 9 1945.
@@giorgosfylaktou2610 me and you both...and for what they did to the Jews and Slavic people...i'm not a lover or a hater of Jews...neither am i religious...but they did not deserve that
the so called Sudetenland had been settled by German speaking people for many hundreds of years. They were never asked if they wanted to be Czech people after WW I. Many wanted to be part of a German state. Unfortunately political decisions after a war have very rarely taken into account what the people want.
The post war tragedy of ordinary Germans has barely been told. It's OK to talk about the crimes of the nazis, and it is just that nazi war criminals were tried and executed. But it is also fair to mention that an estimated 14 million Germans were violently expelled from what for the most part had been their ancestral lands for centuries. Not only from the Sudetenland, with an estimated three million Germans, but also from the German eastern provinces ceded to Poland: Silesia, Pomerania and East Prussia, where ca. nine million Germans had lived since the 13th and 14th centuries. Add to that a couple of million that for almost two centuries had been invited to settle in the underpopulated areas around the lower Danube, in Romania, Yugoslavia and Hungary. This has been the largest forced population migration in human history. Estimates vary, but between half a million and two million are believed to have died from violence, starvation and disease. Many more would die upon their arrival in what was left of Germany, under allied occupation, where everyone was subject to the vindictive rule of 1000 calories per day at least until 1947. It is true that the crimes of the nazis are without parallel in history because of their odious and racist nature, but anyone who says that the German people didn't suffer enough simply doesn't know about this obscure chapter if the post war history.
history does not excuse modernity there is perpetuation or realization. two of those lead to war and two do not. over explaining yourself beyond this point provides the emotional insulation to not realize those factors and repeat the cycle. if you don't see the lesson the Jewish people have been sending for almost 100 years that wars and the excuses for them are atrocious. history is poignant not provocative
Very sad but doesn't surprise me. Certainly there was a loss of the rule of law and due process just as during the Nazi regime. But then this has been a recurring theme, even recently as well long ago. Look happened in Canada during the early 1700s where thousands of French Acadians expelled from the Maritimes to Louisiana and other areas
There were no independent, real justice within 6 years of German occupation of the Czech lands. That war experience had shaken or even destroyed the sense of justice and morals in some % of both German & Czech population.
As a Czech, I say that it was wrong to do this to the German-speaking Czechs, but I certainly don't think it was wrong to expel the Sudeten Germans, on the contrary, they can be glad for the expulsion because according to the law they faced the death penalty. The Sudeten Germans were a political party that had the support of the majority of German Czechs and actively collaborated with Hitler. Henlein, as the head of the Sudeten German Party, declared the liquidation of Czechoslovakia on 17 September 1938, and thus the party committed treason, which in the Czechoslovakia was punishable by life imprisonment or death. Yes the lynching (like any lynching) was wrong because as always it was mainly the innocent who suffered. Guilt and punishment should have been decided in court. Unfortunately to convict every German-speaking resident separately would have been somewhat complicated especially in the conditions that prevailed after the war and so anyone who was part of the Sudeten German Party or volunteered for German citizenship in 1938 was deported on that basis, so Czech traitors were also deported alongside Germans. On the other hand, those Germans who were useful to the Czechoslovakia remained. (I feel most sorry for the German democrats who remained loyal to the republic, but since the communists were already preparing to take over, they were expelled along with the Nazis and traitors.) So if someone calls himself a Sudeten German without being originally from the historical Sudetenland (the northern mountain range stretching between the Ore Mountains and Jesenik) he is in my opinion a Nazi because only the Nazis referred to the entire German-speaking Czech borderlands as the Sudetenland and they enforced this term in Munich on September 30, 1938. So if people cannot paint a swastika because it is a symbol of Nazism the term Sudeten German should not be used because it is a Nazi term for Czech Germans.
Rubbish. The Germans who lived in Sudetenland were living there for hundreds of years. The Sudetenland is a recognised and fully acknowledged territory and I was taught about it in school ......and I am not a Nazi.
Just NSDAP members?????. Sudeten Germans were involved in the Selbschutze militia which hunted down and killed Czechs. Henlein was of course a traitor even though he was a naive fool who never realized the consequences of his actions. Even former Czech pm Emil Hacha had to face charges for his spineless caving in to Hitler's demands although Hacha wa already suffering dementia. My grandfather Amil Visov from Easter Slovakia was murdered by the Nazis for being in the former Hapsburg officer corps and being deemed and "unassimilable Eastern Slav."
You mean as normal germans,wich betrayed their czech neighbours?You mean normal germans,wich tocked a part of the stolen thinks from their jewish neighbours by the SS and the german soldiers?You mean normal germans,wich have seen hanging young girls by the german solders and by the SS? Did you mean normal germans,wich were lying about their neighbours,waiting that they get deported,tortured or killed by the SS and the german solders,And than getting a part of their household and money?Read well history,to understand that not only the nazis and the ss was cruel,also the biggest part of the germans,also in the zcech republic had always they hand full of blood of innocent sloughtered humans,childrens,girls grand fathers.
On first photo image you have showen exsecution of Slovenians by German police and SS in prison Stari pisker in Celje town. In German occupation of Slovenija between 1941 - 1945 many thousands of prisoners has been killed who were civil hostages males and females as an retribution for partisans resistance action in this area.
The Red Army kept out of the Killings of Sudetan's , these Germans had Loved the Heil Hitler's in 1938 when Hitler annexed the Sudetanland. why bother about these!
My late fiancé's parents were many of the thousands of Sudeten Germans who were forced from their homes after the end of WWII. Her father did not suffer at the hands of the so-called liberators as he was a POW in one of the satellite camps around Fort Campbell, KY but her mother and grandmother were summarily evicted from the home where they and their predecessors lived for over a hundred years and forced onto the road with whatever they could carry on their backs or in a small hand-pulled wagon. They eventually settled in a small town outside of Ansbach, Germany because my fiancé's parents knew Americans were close and they would protect them.
A v r.38 bylo němci ze sudet vyhnáno 260 000 čechů kteří zam žili po staletí,to ti babička zapoměla říci,Také to že 95% němců v sudetech vstoupilo do NSDAP
The German minority in the Sudentenland greeted the entering German troops with enthusiasm. It was similar in Poland, where the local Germans in September 1939 pointed out Polish patriots to the invaders. I regret that we did not settle accounts with them like the Czechs.
of course. When Germans democratically chose to be reintegrated into what is rightfully theirs, what i assume is an upholder of democracy such as yourself, will of course play the victim and willfully look the other way, crying in his victimhood as he bashes whom he was made to believe is the unequivocal villain. I regret that Poland was not all but entirely wiped out.
@@ablazedguy whatever you do... Never look up Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Scythian,indo-european, Greek, Roman, Mongolian, or any people's History that ever had an empire, ever... Everyone until ww1 and ww2 always held hands and was always happy and nobody ever invaded anyone else! Fool.
They were Chech people with german ancestry, they did not kill anyone...check out the video ''Töten auf Tschechisch'' Why would you shoot women and children and run them over with tanks? Punishing somoen for their ancestry? that is what the Nazis did.
actually germans were quite polite to Czechs during ww2 cause half of the Czech repuublic were actually germans and wanted to be under the reich management
@@Luis-bo2uj This was a popular hoax spread among the German war generations. The Nazi occupiers were so "polite" that the Czechs were persecuted, expelled from their homes, murdered, sent to KT. The Germans were about 1/3 population - a significant deal of the most excellent personalities of them being the German-speaking Jews. This % was reduced within the war - the Jews were murdered or in exile. And many German men died fighting in Wehrmacht, and most Nazi families fled to Germany to save their family members from punishment for their war crimes.
It is not quite surprising that after the horrors of Nazism, some excesses against Germans occurred. These crimes cannot be made equal to order of magnitude higher crimes of Nazis. Many perpetrators were prosecuted. There was no systematic killing of Germans - eye for eye would meant 300,000+ Germans killed, corresponding to Czech losses during the German occupation. Nazi criminals were duly judged according to the law.
@@MikaelFlyer Very True, One of the stated aims of German Govt was the extermination of all non Germans in the occupied countries. Were these Germans the ones that lived there before Hitler? Were they the Germans that proudly welcomed the German Army? Were they the Germans that Came from Germany after the invasion and forced the non Germans out of their homes? Were these the Germans that turned in hundreds of thousands of Jews and other undesirables? Were these the Germans who lived good lives while the rest of the population suffered? I am not attempting to justified what was done, but I also did not live for 5 years under the German boot-heels. If I had maybe I would see it as justified. This kind of reprisals against the German Civilian invaders took place in many of the occupied areas of eastern Europe.
Is angering some people the problem? As a native German with a “displaced” grandmother and mother from the Sudetenland, I had a very tight history curriculum. Expulsion was only briefly mentioned, if at all. And just like that, school was completely over and done with. Everything that happened after World War II we learned next to nothing. Talked very briefly about the alleged "denazification" ... but that many German refugees came to the remaining Germany - and I was one of them - we didn't learn that at all. I didn't even know the story of my maternal line and my grandmother with her 4 small children about the expulsion from their homeland Sudetenland and their difficult life afterwards! It only started very slowly when she dealt with it in her old age and wrote her book about it. For other reasons (“anti-socials in National Socialism”) I dealt with this period - we never dealt with this topic at school, although the “anti-socials” were THE FIRST victims of the Nazis. Does the school's tight curriculum allow for this? - or is that only reserved for a few people who study it “extracurricularly”? Although it would be very important and we should learn from the experiences of the past - and yet we have more and more similar times to 1933 and after...
The Germans of Czechoslovakia welcomed the Germans and for the most part were happy to be part of that brutal regime. It is hard to feel any sympathy for them. What the Czechs did pales in comparison to what the Germans did, Considering their crimes, the Germans got off pretty easy.
Those executed did not get off easy. Strange in this day of 2023 someone is justifying executing innocent people. You should punch yourself in face really hard.
No, the Germans did not get off easily. It was obvious that the Germans in Czechoslovakia welcomed the Nazis because they were Germans too. Apart from this how must the Czech state have treated the ethnic Germans before the Nazis took the Sudetenland when the ethnic Germans happily welcomed them?
I think people who have not lived in the shoes of those who lived under German rule during WW2 .... have no right to judge the actions of those who did after the war. Sometimes reprisals are justified based upon what went before. It truly is time to let World War 2 go and forget what happened and focus on the here and now. People who refuse to let go of what happened - relive it every day. We are now a different time and a different people.
Isn't this photo of civilians in front of the wall some kind of cuckoo's egg? Aren't the civilians on the photo Slovenes executed by Germans in Ljubljana (if I still remember well)???
Well a bit logical after 6 years after terror. And again the ''international powers nor league of nations'' didn't want to burn their hands nor take responsibility in that part of Europe.
Who can condemn them? Not only did the Czechs suffer greatly, but all the countries that the Germans occupied,. If it was horrible, it was. all the people they killed, whether soldiers or civilians, behaved exactly as the Germans did, like animals, murderers. But I understand them... Everyone wanted to get rid of the Germans as soon as the war ended, even civilians, because these civilians, many of them, even though they weren't even Nazis, just because they were Germans were already privileged. and even though many didn't even care, many other Germans used this as a privileged tactic. If we look at it, many German civilians supported the Nazi government and many were aware of the extermination camps, even if they were not participants, they were aware. and that generally made a big difference. But we are only talking about a small part. Look at the part of the German civilians who were killed by the Russians and that doesn't even appear in the news. After a deadly war like this, the nation that occupied (in this case the Germans) and that lost, are hated by the nations that were occupied. And right at that very moment when the war was over and the Germans were being expelled, hatred was present for anyone who even spoke German. Hatred for the Germans was much stronger than it is today, but even today there is a strong embarrassment against the Germans. I give an example of this when I went to Stettin in Poland, which was once German, a city about a few km from the German border. Not being German but living in Germany and speaking this language, of course when I got there it was the language I spoke. Because I thought that in a town about 16 km from the German border, I would find someone who spoke German. I wasn't shocked but very surprised to find no one speaking German, If I didn't speak English I would have had problems, because Polish is not an understandable language, and even though I spoke English I had problems meeting someone. But I started in English because I saw that there was a resentment towards that language. Because when I said if someone spoke German, I noticed a slight, but when they spoke English, they were more understandable. So even if someone says, Oh, the war ended a long time ago, that doesn't exist anymore. I say it's a lie, the grudge still exists in that nation against the Germans.
@@offlimits4635 oh these poor innocent civilians that knew nothing of the atrocities being committed by their fellow germans and just stood by. Maybe you should do a little research on how the german civilian population conducted themselves during the war
@@ericwieboldt7042 I have - you know nothing about these civilians, you have no right to judge. The murderers were no different from the Nazis. \It is you who needs to research
I don't believe an eye for an eye but I can't judge these victims either cause people will do horrible things when they are wounded and hurt. These Germans collaborated with the Nazis to torture and kill Czech children and women. The men were sent to concentration camps.
The Red Army copied from the most evil people that ever existed- Nazis. When Germans entered the Soviet Union they killed and raped more than 20 millions children, women and old people. The Soviets were evil cause they learned from the best teachers, the Germans.
Obviously you known nothing about history. Perhaps you can have a look what Ukrainians, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian SS units did. Also you have never heard about Nanking, did you? Or Agent Orange, napalm bombing of Vietnam.
czechs with british help killed heydrich but karl herman frank who replaced him was worse. what the czechs did to german civilians doesnt make it right either , it was last place in europe for the fighting to carry on few days after ve day had finished
Most of these "german" Chechs had in fact many hundreds of years of heritedge in Böhmen Mähren. In fact hundreds and in some cases, theire ansestery where more than thousen year before the so called "protestantiche semiten" had come to the areas then beeing Tchecoslovakia. And not a few, of these "new protestants", and new Catolics, where in fact relative newcommers to the country. And among them were not "that few" that were not only collaboratoers with the Nazi germany and the industrial financial elites that had payed for and "ordered" the occupation and the "seizing" of assets belonging to both civilians, companies, as to the state, but in fact organizers of said actions and theft. .
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CZECHS....you really do look stupid writing names incorrectly like that. Jeeez
Do you expect a people who were brutalized so badly were just going to say "everything is all right". Revenge is expected. War criminals or not. The Germans didn't give a darn about the civilian populations. What goes around comes around.
Every German who greedily moved onto forcibly taken land & every German soldier who fought for the Nazi party get no sympathy from me. Deserved I say. They knew what they were doing. The same will happen to the Russians soon enough. Have the courage to turn on Putin to right the wrongs or die in retribution after the war.
They had lived there since about 1200 AD. Russians in Crimea for about 200 years. You are obsessed more with artificial borders established by some elite in recent times.
I don't believe in executing someone just because of their race or nationality, this goes for Germans that were never tried for any crimes, the Czechs and the Red Army had become guilty of what they accused the Nazis of doing!
Truthfully, I couldn't for the life of me tell the difference between a Czech and a German. To play it safe, I would have just sieg heiled during the Nazi occupation, and then shouted "down with the Germans" by May of 1945.
The German citizens turned a blind eye to what was going on because it wasn’t happening to them. Hitler made no bones about what was going to happen. You going to try and tell me with the burning of the bodies, people in towns nearby couldn’t smell it? They are just as culpable.
They might have been just innocent civillians or they might have been people who commited some crimes before, we will never know. If there were - for example - german soldier who changed to civillian clothes to escape the Red army - we cannot recognise it from the footage. There might have even been some Czechs among those people too, there was so little needed for someone to get executed in those days. Someone else just pointed at you and said: "It's a Nazi collaborator" and you would be taken to be either shot or imprisoned in conditions that made you wish you had been rather shot right away. They were real collaborators arrested like that and also people who just had a car or nice furniture someone wanted, or maybe knew something on someone and that someone didn't want that something to come out. A thief calling: "Catch the thief!" is a common thing, after all. Also an innocent German person might have been just wearing a wrong coat, for example. Clothes were rationed during the war and Germans were very thrift, so when they executed a Czech freedom fighter, for example, they didn't just trow away their possesion, they gave it to the German citizens in need. A person with German citizenship could come and pick things from the possesions of the executed people. So if you were a poor German and were wearing a coat in which someone recognised a coat of their executed friend, I can imagine it could very well got you shot on a spot, unjust as it was.
Well, u can't blame d civilians 2 hate so much Germans peoples for it's there response of what Germans soldier's did when they forcibly invaded Czechoslovakia, wherein they brutally executed without mercy of unarmed Czech civilians.
30% of Bohemia & Moravia were ethnic German before the outbreak of world war two. 1% 117,000 people of the 10,000,000 population were Jewish 1%. The Sudetenland was a majority German population that was incorporated into Czechoslovakia after WW1 when the allied powers blamed Germany for the first world war. Sometimes I wonder if the allies have ever been correct about anything at all?
Germany never owned Sudetenland and it was great defensive line against potential German aggresion. If only Allies didn't give that line to Germany without a fight ...
My family lived in Sudetenland and were expelled in 1946. In their town before the war the majority were germans only a minority maybe 20% were czechs. They did not do anything to each other. During the war the german part did not do anything to their old neighbours, the same the local czechs did not do anything to their old german neighbours. Committing crimes were all done by czechs coming from outside and having never lived before there
Huh? Even before Germany got Sudetenland there were many cases of local Germans attacking their non-german neighbours resulting in death, there are even cases of attacks on local police stations and executions of those officers. This got so bad that the army had to intervene. Later when Sudetenland became part of Germany most non-germans were kicked out, but not by any orders, but by decision of local Germans, who were usually more than happy to kick their sub-human neighbours out. There was so many refugees (including anti-fascist Germans) that our republic wasn't able to take them. Germany banned Czech language, all Czech organizations too and slowly even property of all remaning Czechs was nationalized with plan to not have any Czechs there at all... So its not shocking that actions of "evil Czechs" was done by Czechs coming to Sudetenland rather than by those already living there, by 1945 there basically weren't any...
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 Most of the Sudeten Germans voted for Henlein, K H Frank, Hitler knowing they prefer criminal dictatorship to democracy. They became NSDAP, SS, SA, Wehrmacht during the war 😞
Contrary to the propaganda of the victorious side, WW2 was never a war between angels and devils .In the 20th century Europe people butchered each other so much in ww1 and ww2 that bitter and untold horrific stories are still being discovered .It is interesting that a the same time the Europeans called the poor hardworking people of Africa and Asia wild and uncivilized !!
.....the difference is that Asian and African people can be very barbaric in war times whereas the Europeans don't display such an amount of barbarism in wars.
What happened in WW1 & WW2 such as the bombardment of Dresden in Germany , concentration camps and use of chemical weapons in WW1 were not barbaric ?! @@monikaquinton
Around 12 million Germans and ethnic Germans, civilians, died at and after the end of the war. The concentration camps didn't close when the war ended. They were filled with German civilians. The actual fighting continued after the war ended. In Eastern Europe the fighting didn't stop until the early 50s. Some German soldiers refused to surrender as they knew what awaited them. The Czechs were particularly brutal and vicious to German, ethnic German civilians.
I REALLY DON'T BLAME CZECH PEOPLE FOR TAKING REVENGE AGAINST GERMAN PEOPLE. THEY SUFFERED A LOT AGAINST NAZI GERMANS AND SOLDIERS. AN EYE FOR AN EYE. LONG LIVE FRENCH GREEK AND CZECH RESISTANCE. NO MERCY, NO REGRETS NO REMORSE.❤❤😂😂👍👍
Good people don't execute people without a trial, and sure as hell don't execute people because of their nationality, the Czechs and the Red Army in this instance had become Nazis themselves!!!!!!!
So you agree with the things the Nazis done if you copied them there’s no difference. As a young Irish man I fought in Bosnia and cruelty is a sickness that young men take to Easley, they are also the cowards unprofessional ones who run during contact I noticed this very fast. All the young new flash ones always in a hurry to kill somebody, usually a man tied up was there preferred target. I’m Irish such cruelty I’d never seen from all sides a friend of mine who worked Africa said he couldn’t believe European folk could be so nasty. 30 years later I’m 60 and I remember them cruel young men.
@@patkearney9320world war 2 was not Bosnia. I was in Afghanistan. You didn't know if a child was gonna run up to u with a bomb strapped in their backpack. I'd show no loyalty to people who kill their own children. Sorry not sorry. Different opinion here. 🇺🇲
From what I understand the Czechs were abusing the German populations before the war and was one reason Hitler invaded there. So the Czechs just went back to doing what they liked doing before the war.
@@bernhardnizynski4403 Czech militia occupied the German-speaking areas at gun-point to create “facts on the ground” before the decisions of the (1919) post-WW1 “Peace Conference” were even made final. Peaceful protests were suppressed violently. The “Revolutionary National Assembly”, consisting solely of Czechs and a few Slovaks, then passed a number of drastic laws that bore heavily on the German and other minorities. It also enacted a constitution which was never subjected to referendum. The country was named after its largest (Czech) and third-largest (Slovak) minorities, thus expressly excluding the second-largest minority (German) from its identity. Its revered “founder” Masaryk even referred to the German minority as “colonists”, despite the fact that they had lived on the land at least as long as the Czechs. The German population was effectively excluded from participating in the country’s affairs from day one. That’s not propaganda.
@@JoeLukes - any persecution is deplorable. My mother lived in an area where there was a very high population of Germans, and there was no persecution - I think a lot depends on the calibre of the individuals!
@@bernhardnizynski4403 I don’t disagree, but I wasn’t talking about persecution per se. I was trying to point out that there were systemic issues long before Hitler came on the scene. Another general example is that around 1930 the unemployment rate was 15% among the German minority and 3% among Czech-Slovak majority, yet government relief programs did not address that disparity.
My grandmother was born in Russia, under the Czar's rule. In 1918, where she lived became Czechoslovakia, and she moved to the US shortly after. She HATED the Russians, and Germans, with a passion. That part of Europe changed hands VERY frequently..and was always accompanied by war crimes.
@@aiziszizis2536 - Of course she was Russian..but all her life she claimed to be of Czechoslovakian ancestry. I think that's because she came to the US about 1919, and the Soviets were not really looked upon favorably.
Nothing new, this went on all over Europe, Yugoslavia was another example, the war had ended but the killing of innocent civilians and former combatants went on well into 50s and 60s and forced relocation of ethnic Germans from the north of the country went on. Often just to take their lands and possessions. It was a bad time to be living.
I disagree with narrator's description of the Czech's being "as ruthless as" the Nazis. I can agree that it wasn't justice, just plain revenge. That's as far as that depiction should go.
I REALLY DON'T BLAME THE CZECHS TAKING REVENGE AGAINST GERMANS. THEY SUFFERED A LOT AGAINST NAZIS AND I AM GLAD THEY EXECUTED GERMAN PEOPLE, AN EYE FOR AN EYE. LONG LIVE FRENCH GREEK AND CZECH RESISTANCE.❤❤👍👍
germans were the least bad ones in the war of cource and thats a fact, even tho numerous attrocities took place, there is simply no comparison to the brutality and inhumanity of allies.
@@Wubby805 when you grow up 1 day and are old enough to read books (if you ever open a serious book on the subject) you will not have the same ignoramus naive child reactions as this isnt even an opinion but an easilly verifiable fact.
Keep in mind that these Germans chose to move to occupied territory. They knew what the German Army was doing in the country and they cheered the genocide on and supported it anyway. I'm not saying that this was morally right or anything, just that Czechoslovak citizens probably had the best reasons to commit immoral acts. It was understandable. One of those things that you know is wrong but look away anyway because what the Nazi's did was 1,000 times more ruthless and bloody than this. I disagree that this matched the ruthlessness of the Nazi's.
I was never there, I have never experienced the suffering or fear people faced under the Nazis. I honestly don't know if I would be one of those to seek reprisals. How do any of us know?
I guess I have misunderstood the nature of the Sudatenland, I thought that was German territory lost in the treaty of Versailles and the original occupation was of proper German land. Then Hitler took Czechoslovakia illegally. War is waste.
You still misunderstand. The area called the Sudetenland was part of the Kingdom of Bohemia for hundreds of years and Bohemia was a kingdom within the Austria-Hungary Empire before WWI. Not part of Germany. After WWI, when the winners carved up Europe and laid the foundations for WWII they took Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia (previously part of Hungary) and created Czechoslovakia. The ethnic Germans wanted to be added to German speaking Austria, but their wishes were ignored.
Hungraians were also executed just becasue of theire language. The Benes racist decrets are so deeply embeded in the culture of the Czechs and Slowaks, that even today they regularly provocate Hungarians or Germans, if they hear their speaking. No other language hurts them, just these two languages, the Hungarian and the German. Slowaks were not like that, they were educated by the Czechs, in the last 100years to hate the non slavik citizens of theire country. It's realy funny, how they confront now with Russia, which is actually the mother of panslavismus, and without the Tsar non of these nations would have a place on the map of Europe now. Brusilow and Stalin should have a monument in all of the towns and villages of these countries.
It is called justice. Not only the SS committed crimes but the vast majority of the Germans fully supported the Nazis. Especially the Sudeten Germans. Bear in mind that prior the invasion when the Czechoslovaks enjoyed a democracy, a nazistic political party existed taking over 90% of the votes within the German community of Czechoslovakia. The truth is that the Germans were not innocent at all. Actions of revenge, were justified
Apparently people are forgetting the Sudetenland had been part of AUSTRIA from1526 to 1918. The vast majority of people there for centuries were AUSTRIANS. The allies allowed the border areas of Hungary populated mostly by Austrians to become part of Austria in 1919 BUT NOT southern Bohemia and Moravia. What is the difference? None. The new Czech boundaries after 1918 were ethnically wrong. Austrians in these areas wrote Woodrow Wilson about their right to self determination. He ignored them. All of this is related to what happened in 1938 to 1945, ending with the murders of Sudetan Austrians whose ancestors had lived there FOR CENTURIES. Just one of many examples the city with the now Czech name of Cesky Krumlov had been almost 100% Austrian. It is now a "Czech" tourist destination. It's history for at least 4 plus centuries was Austrian in every way. Read and learn your history.
As a Czech, Czechoslovakian government was very anti German before ww2, instead of coming to terms with the Sudetenland they cut them off and empoverished them. "O nás bez nás" ale vůči Němcům.
The Czechs also evicted all Germans from Western Bohemia where they had lived in harmony with Czechs for hundreds of years. That de-populated region was later repopulated by Sinti and Roma people for the most part.
well we have seen it happen recently in Ukraine, many cases of ukraine civs murdered on spot by other ukraine paramilitary groups under the accusation of being russian collaborators. It happened a lot in kiev during the first weeks of the war
The Sudeten Germans cheered Germany's takeover of Czechoslovakia. They were Hitler's 5th column. If a few thousand of them were killed after the war by Russians and Czechs, so what? It's small potatoes compared to what the Germans did. In war, stuff happens.
Czechoslovakia was an artificial creation after WWI, the Sudentens had lived there since the 1200s. "Few thousand"...more like 100 times that but that's still small potatoes to you. Kunkel (sounds German) is a very small potato. BTW everything in Czechia was built by Germans. Prague, Brno, Pilsen, glass industry, breweries, steel works. I guess the Czechs better get rid of all that and build their country from scratch.
@@conveyor2 EVEN IF GERMANS BUILT ALL THOSE BUILDINGS AND INFRASTRUCTURE, THERE IS NO EXCUSE FROM NAZI GERMAN SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS TO MISTREAT AND EXECUTE CZECH POPULATION DURING NAZI OCCUPATION ON WW2 SO I DON'T BLAME CZECHS TAKING REVENGE ON SUDETEN GERMANS. BESIDES SUDETEN GERMSNS HAVE WELCOMED ADOLF HITLER AND GERMAN SOLDIERS WITH OPEN ARMS AND RAISED HANDS AND DENIED AT THE SAME TIME THE CZECH CITIZENSHIP. LONG LIVE CZECH GREEK AND FRENCH RESISTANCE.
What did these German civilians expect ? They knew what they're military had done to defenceless civilians, so why didn't they retreat with everyone else ?
I'm an American who visited Prague, Sudetenland, and Cesky Krumlov. I am not Czech or German. . The native Czechs do not forget and to this day they do not like Germans. They tell jokes about Germans to belittle them.
@@marcblank3036good take the Germans money and do the crappiest job possible. I see the new neo nazi movement going on in Germany. The world sees it. What now Germany is having rallies to kick out immigrants. Eh eh. The world won't let that movement happen. Germany will be speaking English in 30 years if they try some shit again.
@@marcblank3036 Little people? What? You have some nerve coming from the same people who committed the worst atrocities ever known to humanity. You can't help being racist and cruel. It's in your ADN.
@@marcblank3036 I heard the Czech economy is booming...of course it's not on par with the German's but they are growing.I doubt that there is an excessive Czech immigration going on to Germany....on the other hand Europe is flooded with German goods whether we want it or not😀
@@Boo-dawg. No, not at all. In fact all of my relatives were in service during WWII. I'm just saying, one of the big reasons the Germans lost so badly was due to bad leadership re their air force. Certain "kinds of people" will betray your trust somehow and from hindsight, that looks like what one of their problems was from a historical pov.
@@DD-cf1pl If Hitler hadn't dedicated so much of his time troops and logistics to murdering the Jews in Europe instead of directing all those much needed resources to the front line...the outcome would/could have been very different...
I'm curious about what the Germans were doing in Czechoslovakia during World War II. It's known that up to 320,000 Czechoslovakian citizens were murdered by the Germans. However, this documentary fails to clarify why some Germans were later put against the wall and shot. If the motive was revenge, the number of executions seems relatively small in comparison. But the documentary doesn’t provide any real answers. We understand why the Germans committed atrocities and killed millions of people, but the reasons behind the retribution against the Germans remain unclear. What is the documentary trying to convey? Even in cases like the Ústí massacre, where it's reported that up to 120 people were lynched, the scale of the violence pales in comparison to the broader atrocities. The disproportion in numbers is staggering.
There was a thousand-year German penetration into the lands occupied by Slavs. They never assimilated, required special laws for themselves, behaved as superiors and oppressors.
They were hardly persecuted -rather they were rebuilt with the wealth of generous Western Nations. With BRAND NEW machinery. And half their war criminals were excused of crimes. (see Einzatzgruppen trials)Had we treated Germany the way THEY treated others Germany would be a shit hole today.
The world is filled with people who would love to say this about Americans. Just ask anybody in Niger right now, what they would do to you if they could? You benefit from more oppression of foreign nations than you realize. Don't be too harsh on the Germans. Historically speaking, you might be next.
@jennacoryell4160 save your liberal feelings, and narrative. Bless your heart, you are welcome to leave for any of those socialist paradises that you support.
There is a huge difference in the Gestapo, Waffen SS, Kriegsmarine, Wehrmacht (and especially civilians). They all had completely different roles, the overwhelming majority of Kriegsmarine, Wehrmacht and ordonary citizens knew nothing of the atrocities. You cannot paint them with the same brush, particularly civilians.
@@blackbeard4203 I'm not liberal at all. And I'm not supporting commies. Where did you get that from? I love our nation's ideals, I just wish we weren't toppling and installing puppet governments all over the world just to keep our gas prices down.
This should serve as a warning to the Russians who have moved to the Crimea. When the Russians are removed from the Crimea, expect similar retribution to those from Siberia and heartland Russia who settled by the coastal areas in Crimea for better climate and life. People should always think of the return trip if they have any left. Nothing has changed in history cruelty is endemic and inherently part of human nature when pay back time is afforded to the oppressed
Should serve as a warning to ukrainian banderite nazis who tried genocide on the Donbas Ukrainians who just happened to speak russian when the map was redrawn when Ukraine was told to separate from soviets, they had no choice , but Zelenski is a racist nazi and of course has proven it to the world by writing his own version of mein kamph
@@antoinemozart243 The russian minority was all take and no give. And for their trouble, they will lose everything and be barred from returning forever.
When people now a days say they're having a "bad" day, phones battery died, gas is expensive...they have no clue how bad shit can be or get...my mom was a teenager in Osaka during WWII and remembers "shiny silver" bombers over the city. So, if you think things are bad, it can get a whole lot worse.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars For more REAL ww2 history, you might start with the meticulously well-documented book "Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government" by Evans, M. Stanton
@@stephandrake What did the Soviets have to do with the Japanese in this war? In fact hardly anything! Furthermore, the decisive factor in Europe was the German raid against Poland and the shameful betrayal of the Polish allies in 1939.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars Sigh. Again, you urgently need to solve the problem of your hollyweirded history simply by discovering the truth for yourself and drawing logical conclusions from what you learn. Think about the irrefutable fact that the US government was entirely under the control of Soviet agents from start to finish. THINK. Another excellent book was one of the first ever banned by Amazon and is now easily found as a PDF: "The Myth of German Villainy" by retired US Navy pilot Benton Bradberry. The antidote to the poison of Hollywood's fictional, comic book history is to put out the energy to discover the truth -- assuming you can handle it.
As the saying goes: *_"A day of war breeds a hundred years of hatred."_* People speak too lightly of war...
The Nazis were burglars, rapists, thieves, lawless murderers, and they reaped only a tiny fraction of the damage they inflicted
It doesn't help that its sanitised in the media. People never see the actual horror. If they did there would be much more opposition to it.
The governments count on it.
The ones who speak lightly of war, most of the time have never experienced violence like war.
War id very very popular on utube / media 👹
The photo of people in front of the wall is from Celje, Slovenia (Yugoslavia at that time)... it is a Prison known as Old Pot (Stari pisker)
First image is definely not from Czech republic but taken in Slovenia, prison in Celje. Showing Germans shooting civilian hostages!
A mio parere lei ha ragione! Le divise sono certamente tedesche ed il fatto che il fucile mitragliatore sia di produzione ceca non vuol dir niente. I Nazisti usavano molte armi ceche , come il carro Skoda T 38 .
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Those were definitely not germam uniforms
Divide and conquer - it applied then and it still applies now.
@@peterwalker7761THE BRITISH EMPIRE HAD IMPLEMENTED THAT. THEY IMPLEMENTED SINCE WE CAN'T BEAT THEM, LET'S MAKE THEM FIGHT AND KILL EACH OTHER AND WITH THAT PLAN DIVIDE AND CONQUER WE RULE THE WORLD AND SUBMITTED (SUBJUGATED), NATIONS, COUNTRIES AND OUR COLNIES. THE BRITISH EMPIRE HAD INVETED, IMPOSED AND IMPLEMENTED THAT PLAN.
If I recall the Germans executed 1600 Czechs in only one village in 1942....
Ed allora? 😅
Giochiamo a Chi ha fatto piú uccisoni? 😂
The place was called Lidice.
Мистики
eye for an eye
Well why, what did they do?
You know this is a very complicated case to judge that easily. My great-grand aunt Hildegard König lived along with her Czech mother Františka and her German father a Wehrmacht officer Karl König in former Czechoslovakia back in the 1920's and 30's. Her father Karl died in May 1939 in the Slovakian city Piešťany at local spa as a result of his Tuberculosis. Hildegard (we called her Hilda) survived the inferno of the WW2 and in June 1945 was expelled along with her mother and brother Florian from Czechoslovakia to Frankfurt am Main where she lived until her death in 2002 (with a lil break between April 1944 - June 1945). She visited her native house in Olomouc next to the train station where they used to live as frequently as possible but it was pretty difficult for a stranger to visit Czechoslovakia in the time of reign of communists (1948-1989). Especially for former Sudenten(Germans) who had been considered traitors due to their infamous "Heim ins Reich" quote and their actions against Czech people in September 1938. My mother remembers she never said a bad word about Czechs or Czechoslovakia in general even tho she could have told many sad stories about 1945. She spoke fluently Czech, German, English and French sadly she never married in order to care of her ill mother who lost her leg during British bombardment in March 1944. History plays a dirty game with all of us at times I would say.
When I was stationed in Germany, I rented an apartment from a family in Kaiserslautern. The grandmother had been born in Czechoslovakia, but eventually arrived in West Germany.
She and her family were some of the Sudeten Germans that the narrator speaks of.
The grandmother told me that when the Red Army arrived in her village, they proceeded to murder all of the German families. Her family survived, only because her sister had either studied the Russian language, or was a teacher of the language. She was able to speak to the Russian soldiers and the officers in charge of the unit, who decided her family would be spared, for the fact that one of them spoke Russian. The remaining Germans were executed.
I agree they should have done all german devils!@@AntiCommunist-w4t
Stalin famously told his armies (I'm paraphrasing) the war won't be measured in miles, or months, or national borders; the war will be measured in German blood.
I've read of a little girl in Slovakia getting syphilis from a liberating Soviet.
@@AntiCommunist-w4tsovjet scum
@@lloydchristmas1086he might be Soviet scum, but those Czechs who help the Germans round up Jews, dissidents, and resistance fighters are scum too. The extremes of politics, the far left & the far right are just the same as each other. Politics is like a clock face, at the top at 12 o’clock sits the average middle of the road person, the extremes of politics meet each other down the bottom down at 6 o’clock, Stalin, communism, Hitler, Nazism, Mussolini, facsimile, Chairman Moa, Pol Pot, idi Amin, Xi Jinping, Hideki Tojo, etc, etc.
It is amazing, so Czechoslovakia was occupied by two countries, Germany and some "Nazi country"? I have never heard of the second country. BTW I certainly do not like what was done to Germans after 9 May 1945, that is for sure. Just for comparison, Germans killed 300 - 350 000 people from area of current Czech Republic. My father survived 6 May only because od Germans decided to murdre everyone in next street (that time Usobska, now its name is "Obeti 6. kvetna), not in his. 54 people were murdered there including one 16 years old German girl.
It is always terrible to kill civilian people, in fact war is stupid in its principle. I just would wish that everybody who sees this also put it in the context, Nazis killed entire villages in Czech like Lidice, including children... not speaking about others. So once a nation/army cross certain threshold in cruelty, the people became animals and act likes animals, on both sides. We were not there, but I could imagine how Czechs would feel for the revenge... If they would kill your kids or family? It is not an excuse, just be sure to put it in context, if Nazis would not start act like animals, the rest of the world would not be pushed to act like animals as well...
I AGREE 👍 WITH YOU. LONG LIVE FRENCH GREEK AND CZECH RESISTANCE. NO REGRETS NO REMORSE AND I DON'T REGRET SAYING THAT.❤❤❤
Heydrich was killed by the resistance. This was why Lidice was destroyed and its inhabitants killed. Everybody should know that one had to obey the occupying force - in this case the Germans - and any resistance would be met with severe punishment for the civilians. If the resistance had not killed Heydrich this atrocity would not have happened. This does not excuse what happened in Lidice but it is common knowledge that any resistance against any occupying force which is a dictatorship is met with severe punishment for civilians.
@@giorgosfylaktou2610 Partisans are nothing but terrorists and murderers. They have no protection under martial law. By the way, the French Resistance killed more French people than Germans. The partisan attacks were also the trigger for the attacks on civilians. The Allies acted similarly with partisan raids.
What a terrible time to be alive
It's coming back again in Europe and America and Russia, millions of people accross the world will be killed trying to save freedom and democracy and humanity from these
Scumbags, this time the nazis will be offered no quarter and
No mercy not even one of them. The world will have to Cleanse itself of these monsters.
The Germans at least resettled their people in Germany.. They haven’t kept them in refugee camps for 80 years in the hope that they will one day go back to their homes in the Sudetenland or East Prussia.
The Germans were the aggressors in WWII. They invaded Eastern Europe, including the USSR and Czechoslovakia, to ethnically cleanse those countries, by terrorism and mass murder, to make way for German settlers, and to plunder resources.
The proto-Israeli settlers were the aggressors in Palestine. Most individuals came simply for a better life, or for safety, but their leadership moved to ethnically cleanse Palestine, by terrorism and mass murder, to make way for Israeli settlers, mostly from Europe, and to plunder resources.
@@GT-mm9ne Read "Zionism versus Bolshevism: the struggle for he soul of the Jewish people " by Winston Churchill. You don't know history.
As a Czech it's a bit worrying how so many of Czechs don't know about these horrible acts or even try and say they were justified. This should be shown in every history class. And all of this happened because of a number of grudges (Czechoslovakian politics was very anti German pre ww2, then the Germans started to be heavily involved with Nazis) that came with the concept of national states. Germans, Czechs, Jews... every common citizen lived peacefully until politicians started to want "clean states" with only one ethnicity, this lead to so many genocides, just horrible.
I think you're a bit shortsighted and naive. It is the Nazis who FIRST violated Geneva convention and started indiscriminately bombing metropolitan cities with no military significancy and carelessly executing civilian in occupied lands!
Do you know nazis made captives digging their own graves and shot them to death?? (Where do you think the Czechs learned from???) Do you know the nazis killed thousands of Czechs following Reinhard Heydrich assassination?? Do you know the nazis allowed millions of Russians POW to die in the cold without food or water?? Do you know nazis doctors had inhumane and barbaric medical experiments on civilian captives?? and do you know they (nazis) operated gas chambers and killed many in them!! Do you know nazis worked civilian captives to death in various industries?
Now, If you know all the question above then you should understand why Czechs people reacted that way. And, even if Czechs knew or didn't know about atrocities of their fellow citizens towards German citizens, it won't make any difference since their own country men and women were treated even more barbaric by the Nazis occupiers.
The opposite is equally true
didnt commies do this? once you become a communist you transcend being of a nationality and just become a ghoul
We should not judge past events through the prism of contemporary standards and contemporary circumstances. Civilization and compassion ends when you see a dead and tortured body of someone you knew or loved, or if a violent foreign invader to your lands treats you like a subhuman for six years. We can't blame the desperate victims for craving for revenge. From their viewpoint, their acts were justified. We were not there to judge, and we should not judge from the peaceful comfort of our armchairs and by the standards of today.
@@befeleme TY
Too many repeats not enough detail
Will you equally condemn the British soldiers and liberated prisoners of Dachau concentration camp who slaughtered the German guards even though they surrendered? It was certainly not "proper" but it is entirely understandable given their horrific experiences. It is a mistake to judge past events by our contemporary standards and under incomparable circumstances. Violence breeds violence. Civilization and compassion ends when you see a dead and tortured body of someone you knew or loved, or if a violent foreign invader to your lands treats you like a subhuman for six years. Unspeakable acts bring unspeakable acts of revenge. We can't blame the desperate victims for craving for revenge. Many of us probably would, too.
But on occasions, evil people have to accept their fate when the tables are turned. Of course the guards were going to surrender. If the British troops hadn’t discovered and liberated the death camp the guards would have continued their despicable acts of cruelty and murder. You must be in some sort of fantasy world if you think the victims would instantly find forgiveness. Get real.
@@DessieTots Didn't I make it obvious enough that I am NOT on the side of the guards? I don't understand why you feel the need to accuse me of being in a fantasy land. Get off your high horse and re-read my comment carefully. I am sorry if it sounds too complicated to you.
Actually, Dachau was liberated by the US Army and it was Americans who stood aside and let inmates kill guards and, in at least one case, machine gunned several themselves. Court Martial charges were started, but then ignored.
Sadly violence and cruelty generally begets more violence and cruelty. Near the end of WWII the Luftwaffe anti-aircraft troops would send men out to retrieve shot down bomber crews before the German civilians could catch them and murder them. When peoples families are killed they are quite likely to seek revenge. One of the biggest problems I have with some of our drone strikes is the simple fact that all too often there is "collateral damage". I can't help but think every time that occurs we create more "terrorists" out of the relatives of the "damage".
As far as I know the American Army shot these guards and not the British Army. Most of these guards were of Eastern European origin. Most of the German guards fled when the US Army approached the concentration camps.
@lapdog5067 It's easy for you to preach from the moral perspectives of our times, but if you lived in an era where collective guilt was the norm (and the Germans started this - look at Lidice or Oradour-sur Glane) and if your country was being raped for six years by folks of one particular nationality, you, too, would feel vengeful towards them all. You would not consider them "innocent". You would consider them all collaborators - which they mostly were. And if someone from your close family died at the hands of the Gestapo or in a concentration camp, then you too would shoot.
they had coloaborated with Nazis and supported them. Sometimes they were more cruel than Nazis. Many people were sent to concentrations camps due to colaborations of german minorities in Poland or Czech.
How do you know? You don't because none were given a fair trial!
The betrayed Czechoslovakia.
@pawelkkkk7103 Finally the voice of reasoning..........
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@@aberger6666 Its no secret that 99.9% of Sudeten Germans supported the Nazis and collaborated with the Nazis.
And your point is ? Germans nazis were horrible with occupied countries' populations ,just savage and barbaric. You can't expect that when seeing Germans routed by Soviets they were not to take their revenge. The Sudeten problem was solved by expulsing Germans from Sudeten to Germany. War is dirty.
German civilians who may have been instructed, possibly forced to reside in conquered lands by the Nazi government were not criminals. Soviets also took advantage of the confusion to eliminate civilians who may been able to offer resistance to their occupation that crushed Eastern Europe for almost fifty years.
these civilians were not the oppressors - their murder makes the perpetrators every bit as evil as the Nazis
Nonsense!
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
@@offlimits4635 Those are not civilians. They are Nazi soldiers disguised as civilians and the rest were collaborators who helped the Nazis in their conquest by torturing and killing Czech children and women. The men were sent to concentration camps. Nobody will be as evil as the Nazi not even Stalin who was a monster.
Czechs had good reason, The Germans perpetrated countless massacres of locals including, a *full day after* they surrendered. Massacre in Běloves and the Burning of Lejčkov, both May 9 1945.
FYI : A lot of these German Civilians were Czechs but they give up their Czechs citizenship to become German Citizens and Aided the Germans .
AND THEY PAID THE PRICE AFTER THE WAR AND I DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR THEM. NO MERCY NO REGRETS NO REMORSE. LONG LIVE FRENCH GREEK AND CZECH RESISTANCE.
@@giorgosfylaktou2610 me and you both...and for what they did to the Jews and Slavic people...i'm not a lover or a hater of Jews...neither am i religious...but they did not deserve that
the so called Sudetenland had been settled by German speaking people for many hundreds of years. They were never asked if they wanted to be Czech people after WW I. Many wanted to be part of a German state. Unfortunately political decisions after a war have very rarely taken into account what the people want.
@@giorgosfylaktou2610 What's wrong with you? Women, children and older people?
@@doomhippie6673 Α
The post war tragedy of ordinary Germans has barely been told. It's OK to talk about the crimes of the nazis, and it is just that nazi war criminals were tried and executed. But it is also fair to mention that an estimated 14 million Germans were violently expelled from what for the most part had been their ancestral lands for centuries. Not only from the Sudetenland, with an estimated three million Germans, but also from the German eastern provinces ceded to Poland: Silesia, Pomerania and East Prussia, where ca. nine million Germans had lived since the 13th and 14th centuries. Add to that a couple of million that for almost two centuries had been invited to settle in the underpopulated areas around the lower Danube, in Romania, Yugoslavia and Hungary. This has been the largest forced population migration in human history. Estimates vary, but between half a million and two million are believed to have died from violence, starvation and disease. Many more would die upon their arrival in what was left of Germany, under allied occupation, where everyone was subject to the vindictive rule of 1000 calories per day at least until 1947.
It is true that the crimes of the nazis are without parallel in history because of their odious and racist nature, but anyone who says that the German people didn't suffer enough simply doesn't know about this obscure chapter if the post war history.
Yes, we did expel the Germans. That was good; we did need some more Lebensraum.
Not all Germans were nazies but all nazies were Germans
And The Austrians had no Nazis?, Check your facts before you spew stupid crap like this.@@billchalmers6695
history does not excuse modernity there is perpetuation or realization. two of those lead to war and two do not. over explaining yourself beyond this point provides the emotional insulation to not realize those factors and repeat the cycle. if you don't see the lesson the Jewish people have been sending for almost 100 years that wars and the excuses for them are atrocious. history is poignant not provocative
@@billchalmers6695 Sadly there were (and still are) many Nazis in other European countries. Collaborators, and some who joined the German army.
How about Oradour Sur Glane, Lidice?? Germany??
Very sad but doesn't surprise me. Certainly there was a loss of the rule of law and due process just as during the Nazi regime. But then this has been a recurring theme, even recently as well long ago. Look happened in Canada during the early 1700s where thousands of French Acadians expelled from the Maritimes to Louisiana and other areas
By the inventors of the concentration camp, the Brits...
There were no independent, real justice within 6 years of German occupation of the Czech lands. That war experience had shaken or even destroyed the sense of justice and morals in some % of both German & Czech population.
Good point. Loss of due process lost over time from the rise of power of the Nazis in 1933@@bjetkabathory5185
that because you cant trust the french
As a Czech, I say that it was wrong to do this to the German-speaking Czechs, but I certainly don't think it was wrong to expel the Sudeten Germans, on the contrary, they can be glad for the expulsion because according to the law they faced the death penalty. The Sudeten Germans were a political party that had the support of the majority of German Czechs and actively collaborated with Hitler. Henlein, as the head of the Sudeten German Party, declared the liquidation of Czechoslovakia on 17 September 1938, and thus the party committed treason, which in the Czechoslovakia was punishable by life imprisonment or death.
Yes the lynching (like any lynching) was wrong because as always it was mainly the innocent who suffered. Guilt and punishment should have been decided in court. Unfortunately to convict every German-speaking resident separately would have been somewhat complicated especially in the conditions that prevailed after the war and so anyone who was part of the Sudeten German Party or volunteered for German citizenship in 1938 was deported on that basis, so Czech traitors were also deported alongside Germans. On the other hand, those Germans who were useful to the Czechoslovakia remained. (I feel most sorry for the German democrats who remained loyal to the republic, but since the communists were already preparing to take over, they were expelled along with the Nazis and traitors.)
So if someone calls himself a Sudeten German without being originally from the historical Sudetenland (the northern mountain range stretching between the Ore Mountains and Jesenik) he is in my opinion a Nazi because only the Nazis referred to the entire German-speaking Czech borderlands as the Sudetenland and they enforced this term in Munich on September 30, 1938. So if people cannot paint a swastika because it is a symbol of Nazism the term Sudeten German should not be used because it is a Nazi term for Czech Germans.
Rubbish. The Germans who lived in Sudetenland were living there for hundreds of years. The Sudetenland is a recognised and fully acknowledged territory and I was taught about it in school ......and I am not a Nazi.
This was a genocide and cannot be justified in any way.
Just NSDAP members?????. Sudeten Germans were involved in the Selbschutze militia which hunted down and killed Czechs. Henlein was of course a traitor even though he was a naive fool who never realized the consequences of his actions. Even former Czech pm Emil Hacha had to face charges for his spineless caving in to Hitler's demands although Hacha wa already suffering dementia. My grandfather Amil Visov from Easter Slovakia was murdered by the Nazis for being in the former Hapsburg officer corps and being deemed and "unassimilable Eastern Slav."
No Germans moved to Czechia during the war, only soldiers, or SS members. Normal German people were still living there over centuries.
Well, it was only right that the master race was flushed out of Czech.
sudetenland was german for hundreds of years
You mean as normal germans,wich betrayed their czech neighbours?You mean normal germans,wich tocked a part of the stolen thinks from their jewish neighbours by the SS and the german soldiers?You mean normal germans,wich have seen hanging young girls by the german solders and by the SS? Did you mean normal germans,wich were lying about their neighbours,waiting that they get deported,tortured or killed by the SS and the german solders,And than getting a part of their household and money?Read well history,to understand that not only the nazis and the ss was cruel,also the biggest part of the germans,also in the zcech republic had always they hand full of blood of innocent sloughtered humans,childrens,girls grand fathers.
the Sudetes were mostly german people living there, thats why Hitler won the elections ovver Sudeteland
..but the Sudeten Germans were among the most avid Nazis.......
Making them dig their own grave. It sounds cliche' but it was revenge in a brutal time.
ISIS did that game too.
The soviets execucted war criminals and its BRUTAL
The US executes war criminals
And its Justified.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Whataboutism much? What Americans did in Vietnam and many other countries is as if not much worse than this.
They weren't 'war criminals' they were civilians. They didn't have a trial. Even Goering got a trial.
On first photo image you have showen exsecution of Slovenians by German police and SS in prison Stari pisker in Celje town. In German occupation of Slovenija between 1941 - 1945 many thousands of prisoners has been killed who were civil hostages males and females as an retribution for partisans resistance action in this area.
It's ignorant to think that you can pull the pendulum far in one direction and then have it only return to center once released.
It goes almost as far PAST center!!
The Red Army kept out of the Killings of Sudetan's , these Germans had Loved the Heil Hitler's in 1938 when Hitler annexed the Sudetanland. why bother about these!
My late fiancé's parents were many of the thousands of Sudeten Germans who were forced from their homes after the end of WWII. Her father did not suffer at the hands of the so-called liberators as he was a POW in one of the satellite camps around Fort Campbell, KY but her mother and grandmother were summarily evicted from the home where they and their predecessors lived for over a hundred years and forced onto the road with whatever they could carry on their backs or in a small hand-pulled wagon. They eventually settled in a small town outside of Ansbach, Germany because my fiancé's parents knew Americans were close and they would protect them.
The Sudeten Germans were Nazis
And were fortunate enough to escape with their lives no complains about itZudenten Germans were nazis
@@ileanaacacostaacosta1813 And how many Jews had lived there for centuries and were slaughtered there too?! War IS Hell!
A v r.38 bylo němci ze sudet vyhnáno 260 000 čechů kteří zam žili po staletí,to ti babička zapoměla říci,Také to že 95% němců v sudetech vstoupilo do NSDAP
The German minority in the Sudentenland greeted the entering German troops with enthusiasm. It was similar in Poland, where the local Germans in September 1939 pointed out Polish patriots to the invaders. I regret that we did not settle accounts with them like the Czechs.
of course. When Germans democratically chose to be reintegrated into what is rightfully theirs, what i assume is an upholder of democracy such as yourself, will of course play the victim and willfully look the other way, crying in his victimhood as he bashes whom he was made to believe is the unequivocal villain. I regret that Poland was not all but entirely wiped out.
Your post explains why the executions took place. You have learned nothing.@@wulfkassebaum
@@wulfkassebaum I deeply regret that the Russians did not exterminate your kind.
@@wulfkassebaummoving to another person's home and calling it your own, the German and Russian way..
@@ablazedguy whatever you do... Never look up Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Scythian,indo-european, Greek, Roman, Mongolian, or any people's History that ever had an empire, ever... Everyone until ww1 and ww2 always held hands and was always happy and nobody ever invaded anyone else! Fool.
They were Chech people with german ancestry, they did not kill anyone...check out the video ''Töten auf Tschechisch'' Why would you shoot women and children and run them over with tanks? Punishing somoen for their ancestry? that is what the Nazis did.
Cruelty begets cruelty.
the excuse of murderers
actually germans were quite polite to Czechs during ww2 cause half of the Czech repuublic were actually germans and wanted to be under the reich management
@@Luis-bo2ujYeah, germans also wanted to get rid of slavs in the end since czechs ARE slavs and Hitler described them as subhuman.
@@Luis-bo2uj This was a popular hoax spread among the German war generations. The Nazi occupiers were so "polite" that the Czechs were persecuted, expelled from their homes, murdered, sent to KT.
The Germans were about 1/3 population - a significant deal of the most excellent personalities of them being the German-speaking Jews. This % was reduced within the war - the Jews were murdered or in exile. And many German men died fighting in Wehrmacht, and most Nazi families fled to Germany to save their family members from punishment for their war crimes.
@@Luis-bo2uj Well...there was the massacre of Czech civlians by German troops in Lidice...
It is not quite surprising that after the horrors of Nazism, some excesses against Germans occurred. These crimes cannot be made equal to order of magnitude higher crimes of Nazis. Many perpetrators were prosecuted. There was no systematic killing of Germans - eye for eye would meant 300,000+ Germans killed, corresponding to Czech losses during the German occupation. Nazi criminals were duly judged according to the law.
Dig a little deeper in the History books. Germans were being brutalized by the Poles among others and was a reason Hitler invaded.
Stop trying to justify the shooting of civilians. In fact huge numbers of German CIVILIANS were shot by foreigners.
@@SanitysVoidPerhaps. But the Germans took it to excess - Auschwitz etc etc etc…….
So Hitler pretended.@@SanitysVoid
I can see that Goebbels, despite being ashes is still the master of your weak mind, little Nazi.
There is also a video of civilians (Germans) run over by cars. This is said to be after the war. Obviously not a war crime or anything else
They were forcibly settled at the expense of Czech.
@@MikaelFlyer Very True, One of the stated aims of German Govt was the extermination of all non Germans in the occupied countries. Were these Germans the ones that lived there before Hitler? Were they the Germans that proudly welcomed the German Army? Were they the Germans that Came from Germany after the invasion and forced the non Germans out of their homes? Were these the Germans that turned in hundreds of thousands of Jews and other undesirables? Were these the Germans who lived good lives while the rest of the population suffered? I am not attempting to justified what was done, but I also did not live for 5 years under the German boot-heels. If I had maybe I would see it as justified. This kind of reprisals against the German Civilian invaders took place in many of the occupied areas of eastern Europe.
There were no innocent countries in that war.
of course it was a crime
Yes it’s horrific I seen the video a truck runs slowly over German civilian’s, one man has his hands joined in prayer.
This period in history is not taught in schools around the world simply because it might offend some students.
Is angering some people the problem? As a native German with a “displaced” grandmother and mother from the Sudetenland, I had a very tight history curriculum. Expulsion was only briefly mentioned, if at all. And just like that, school was completely over and done with. Everything that happened after World War II we learned next to nothing. Talked very briefly about the alleged "denazification" ... but that many German refugees came to the remaining Germany - and I was one of them - we didn't learn that at all.
I didn't even know the story of my maternal line and my grandmother with her 4 small children about the expulsion from their homeland Sudetenland and their difficult life afterwards!
It only started very slowly when she dealt with it in her old age and wrote her book about it.
For other reasons (“anti-socials in National Socialism”) I dealt with this period - we never dealt with this topic at school, although the “anti-socials” were THE FIRST victims of the Nazis.
Does the school's tight curriculum allow for this? - or is that only reserved for a few people who study it “extracurricularly”?
Although it would be very important and we should learn from the experiences of the past - and yet we have more and more similar times to 1933 and after...
@@martinandreas-bergmann3053 Was your grandmother’s book published. If so I would be interested in getting a copy.
Some very smart man once said: Those who forget history are bound to repeat them.
let him who is without sin cast the first stone...
Czechs should not ever forget the German atrocities, nor should the Chinese forget the atrocities committed by the Japs.
I agree
The Germans of Czechoslovakia welcomed the Germans and for the most part were happy to be part of that brutal regime. It is hard to feel any sympathy for them. What the Czechs did pales in comparison to what the Germans did, Considering their crimes, the Germans got off pretty easy.
Does not matter.The war is over.Let people reside in piece.Benes was a war criminal who should have been strung up from his balls!!! Nbbb
Those executed did not get off easy. Strange in this day of 2023 someone is justifying executing innocent people. You should punch yourself in face really hard.
@@garywenzlaff6918 So do you advocate letting people reside in "piece" (sic) or do you want want revenge. Make up your mind.
ΣΥΜΦΩΝΏ ΑΠΌΛΥΤΑ ΜΑΖΊ ΣΟΥ.👍👍
No, the Germans did not get off easily. It was obvious that the Germans in Czechoslovakia welcomed the Nazis because they were Germans too. Apart from this how must the Czech state have treated the ethnic Germans before the Nazis took the Sudetenland when the ethnic Germans happily welcomed them?
Killing innocent people is murder.
I think people who have not lived in the shoes of those who lived under German rule during WW2 .... have no right to judge the actions of those who did after the war. Sometimes reprisals are justified based upon what went before.
It truly is time to let World War 2 go and forget what happened and focus on the here and now. People who refuse to let go of what happened - relive it every day. We are now a different time and a different people.
A people never change, only situations, circumstances, and the value of our currency.
Isn't this photo of civilians in front of the wall some kind of cuckoo's egg? Aren't the civilians on the photo Slovenes executed by Germans in Ljubljana (if I still remember well)???
This guys reading style is just obscene. Like water torture. Couldn't finish.
LIDICE
LEŽÁKY, JAVOŘÍČKO, PLOŠTINA....and I could go on forever baby!
Well a bit logical after 6 years after terror. And again the ''international powers nor league of nations'' didn't want to burn their hands nor take responsibility in that part of Europe.
Who can condemn them? Not only did the Czechs suffer greatly, but all the countries that the Germans occupied,. If it was horrible, it was. all the people they killed, whether soldiers or civilians, behaved exactly as the Germans did, like animals, murderers. But I understand them... Everyone wanted to get rid of the Germans as soon as the war ended, even civilians, because these civilians, many of them, even though they weren't even Nazis, just because they were Germans were already privileged. and even though many didn't even care, many other Germans used this as a privileged tactic. If we look at it, many German civilians supported the Nazi government and many were aware of the extermination camps, even if they were not participants, they were aware. and that generally made a big difference.
But we are only talking about a small part. Look at the part of the German civilians who were killed by the Russians and that doesn't even appear in the news. After a deadly war like this, the nation that occupied (in this case the Germans) and that lost, are hated by the nations that were occupied. And right at that very moment when the war was over and the Germans were being expelled, hatred was present for anyone who even spoke German.
Hatred for the Germans was much stronger than it is today, but even today there is a strong embarrassment against the Germans. I give an example of this when I went to Stettin in Poland, which was once German, a city about a few km from the German border. Not being German but living in Germany and speaking this language, of course when I got there it was the language I spoke. Because I thought that in a town about 16 km from the German border, I would find someone who spoke German. I wasn't shocked but very surprised to find no one speaking German, If I didn't speak English I would have had problems, because Polish is not an understandable language, and even though I spoke English I had problems meeting someone. But I started in English because I saw that there was a resentment towards that language. Because when I said if someone spoke German, I noticed a slight, but when they spoke English, they were more understandable. So even if someone says, Oh, the war ended a long time ago, that doesn't exist anymore. I say it's a lie, the grudge still exists in that nation against the Germans.
Remember Lidice
as well as Babi Yar...those pictures of women holding their babies next to that massive pit awaiting their turn to be shot...the epitome of evil
Remember Lezaky?
two wrongs dont make a right
@@Luis-bo2ujI'm sorry, but the Germans got away with literal murder. That country didn't suffer enough.
I'm a firm believer in an eye for an eye.
but it was not - these were civilians
@@offlimits4635 oh these poor innocent civilians that knew nothing of the atrocities being committed by their fellow germans and just stood by. Maybe you should do a little research on how the german civilian population conducted themselves during the war
me too...this was totally justified imho.....as well as the raping of German women in Berlin for what the Einsatzgruppen did to the Russians
@@ericwieboldt7042 I have - you know nothing about these civilians, you have no right to judge. The murderers were no different from the Nazis. \It is you who needs to research
I don't believe an eye for an eye but I can't judge these victims either cause people will do horrible things when they are wounded and hurt. These Germans collaborated with the Nazis to torture and kill Czech children and women. The men were sent to concentration camps.
These were collaborators....the Germans themselves always happily shot collaborators..along with endless thousands of other people...!!!!
Nothing in comparison to what the Red Army did to the German civilians when they entered East Prussia.
Nothing compared to what the Germans did to Russia in St Petersburg and Moscow.. Russia lost more people in WWII than any country...by far.
The Red Army copied from the most evil people that ever existed- Nazis. When Germans entered the Soviet Union they killed and raped more than 20 millions children, women and old people. The Soviets were evil cause they learned from the best teachers, the Germans.
Thank you!!!!!!!
Obviously you known nothing about history. Perhaps you can have a look what Ukrainians, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian SS units did. Also you have never heard about Nanking, did you? Or Agent Orange, napalm bombing of Vietnam.
Yes and the millions killed by Communists in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos the list goes on @@pavelneuzil6457
This makes those responsible as bad as those who oppressed them..two wrongs dont make a right.
Cry about it
cry me a river
Yeah I feel so terrible for Hitler supporters.
I don’t see two wrongs
Oh? So dragging civilians out of a theatre and shooting them in the street is 'right'? In what way? I call it murder.@@osricwolfing4553
czechs with british help killed heydrich but karl herman frank who replaced him was worse. what the czechs did to german civilians doesnt make it right either , it was last place in europe for the fighting to carry on few days after ve day had finished
Most of these "german" Chechs had in fact many hundreds of years of heritedge in Böhmen Mähren.
In fact hundreds and in some cases, theire ansestery where more than thousen year before the so called "protestantiche semiten" had come to the areas then beeing Tchecoslovakia.
And not a few, of these "new protestants", and new Catolics, where in fact relative newcommers to the country.
And among them were not "that few" that were not only collaboratoers with the Nazi germany and the industrial financial elites that had payed for and "ordered" the occupation and the "seizing" of assets belonging to both civilians, companies, as to the state, but in fact organizers of said actions and theft. .
CZECHS....you really do look stupid writing names incorrectly like that. Jeeez
These so called Germans were as much victims of German aggression as the Czechs. Unfortunately, in a war Murder begets Murder.
Do you expect a people who were brutalized so badly were just going to say "everything is all right". Revenge is expected. War criminals or not. The Germans didn't give a darn about the civilian populations. What goes around comes around.
100%!
Keep preaching.......
Evil tends to perpetuate evil. But it does not make it 'right' - it is still evil.
@@jasondrummond9451ΑΝΤΕ Α'Ι' ΣΙΧΤΗΡ ΒΡΕ ΒΛΑΚΑ ΚΑΙ ΗΛΙΘΙΕ. ΖΗΤΩ Η ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΓΑΛΛΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΤΣΕΧΙΚΗ ΑΝΤΙΣΤΑΣΗ ❤❤
Every German who greedily moved onto forcibly taken land & every German soldier who fought for the Nazi party get no sympathy from me. Deserved I say. They knew what they were doing. The same will happen to the Russians soon enough. Have the courage to turn on Putin to right the wrongs or die in retribution after the war.
They had lived there since about 1200 AD. Russians in Crimea for about 200 years. You are obsessed more with artificial borders established by some elite in recent times.
@@conveyor2 and I’m sure it happened long before that too, but you have to stop somewhere & cease being a barbaric savage.
You have no clue, only emotions. What was the event that caused the war between Ukraine and Russia?
Doświadczyli na sobie tego ,co robili ich ubermensche w Polsce...
otóż to.
44% społeczeństwa zagłosowało na NSDAP w 33'. NIGDY to nie byli wszyscy Niemcy.
Słaba historia, logika oraz przecinki też źle stawiasz.
@@piotr_jurkiewicz U nas też całe społeczeństwo nie głosowało na KPZR ,a cierpieli wszyscy....
Wybielanie szwabów to nie jest dobry pomysł....
I don't believe in executing someone just because of their race or nationality, this goes for Germans that were never tried for any crimes, the Czechs and the Red Army had become guilty of what they accused the Nazis of doing!
Do not even think of comparing the Czechs to the Nazis!
You are correct. What the Czechs did was cowardly and a crime of ethnic murder.
Truthfully, I couldn't for the life of me tell the difference between a Czech and a German. To play it safe, I would have just sieg heiled during the Nazi occupation, and then shouted "down with the Germans" by May of 1945.
@@091053JG Killing civilians is always wrong, regardless who the victims are and who does the killing.
The German citizens turned a blind eye to what was going on because it wasn’t happening to them. Hitler made no bones about what was going to happen. You going to try and tell me with the burning of the bodies, people in towns nearby couldn’t smell it? They are just as culpable.
Question: How many Studeten Germans fought with the Czech underground/partisans or with Czech freedom fighters or join Soviet troops?
Some did and they were to stay.
They might have been just innocent civillians or they might have been people who commited some crimes before, we will never know. If there were - for example - german soldier who changed to civillian clothes to escape the Red army - we cannot recognise it from the footage. There might have even been some Czechs among those people too, there was so little needed for someone to get executed in those days. Someone else just pointed at you and said: "It's a Nazi collaborator" and you would be taken to be either shot or imprisoned in conditions that made you wish you had been rather shot right away. They were real collaborators arrested like that and also people who just had a car or nice furniture someone wanted, or maybe knew something on someone and that someone didn't want that something to come out. A thief calling: "Catch the thief!" is a common thing, after all.
Also an innocent German person might have been just wearing a wrong coat, for example. Clothes were rationed during the war and Germans were very thrift, so when they executed a Czech freedom fighter, for example, they didn't just trow away their possesion, they gave it to the German citizens in need. A person with German citizenship could come and pick things from the possesions of the executed people. So if you were a poor German and were wearing a coat in which someone recognised a coat of their executed friend, I can imagine it could very well got you shot on a spot, unjust as it was.
Humans most dangerous species in the world
Well, u can't blame d civilians 2 hate so much Germans peoples for it's there response of what Germans soldier's did when they forcibly invaded Czechoslovakia, wherein they brutally executed without mercy of unarmed Czech civilians.
Thank for your videos.
30% of Bohemia & Moravia were ethnic German before the outbreak of world war two. 1% 117,000 people of the 10,000,000 population were Jewish 1%. The Sudetenland was a majority German population that was incorporated into Czechoslovakia after WW1 when the allied powers blamed Germany for the first world war. Sometimes I wonder if the allies have ever been correct about anything at all?
Germany never owned Sudetenland and it was great defensive line against potential German aggresion. If only Allies didn't give that line to Germany without a fight ...
Sudeten Germans raised their arm in Nazi salute and cheered when the Nazis entered the Sudetenland.
And so did the Czechoslovakians.
a mor0nlc comment from every prespective.
Also the American olympic Team in 1936 did that. Time Magazin in 1938 nominated AH as man of the year
@@d.k8746 Why is it moronic, when it is a fact? Give us one perspective that supports your emotional statement.
My family lived in Sudetenland and were expelled in 1946. In their town before the war the majority were germans only a minority maybe 20% were czechs. They did not do anything to each other. During the war the german part did not do anything to their old neighbours, the same the local czechs did not do anything to their old german neighbours. Committing crimes were all done by czechs coming from outside and having never lived before there
Huh? Even before Germany got Sudetenland there were many cases of local Germans attacking their non-german neighbours resulting in death, there are even cases of attacks on local police stations and executions of those officers. This got so bad that the army had to intervene. Later when Sudetenland became part of Germany most non-germans were kicked out, but not by any orders, but by decision of local Germans, who were usually more than happy to kick their sub-human neighbours out. There was so many refugees (including anti-fascist Germans) that our republic wasn't able to take them. Germany banned Czech language, all Czech organizations too and slowly even property of all remaning Czechs was nationalized with plan to not have any Czechs there at all... So its not shocking that actions of "evil Czechs" was done by Czechs coming to Sudetenland rather than by those already living there, by 1945 there basically weren't any...
Don't start wars because if you lose bad things might happen to you and your people.
sudetan germans did nothing
They loved Hitler. That's something.@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356
Tell that to the supporters of HAMAS
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 Most of the Sudeten Germans voted for Henlein, K H Frank, Hitler knowing they prefer criminal dictatorship to democracy. They became NSDAP, SS, SA, Wehrmacht during the war 😞
The fools say art of war.--- war is the height of human evil.😢
Contrary to the propaganda of the victorious side, WW2 was never a war between angels and devils .In the 20th century Europe people butchered each other so much in ww1 and ww2 that bitter and untold horrific stories are still being discovered .It is interesting that a the same time the Europeans called the poor hardworking people of Africa and Asia wild and uncivilized !!
Every war is like that. Just horrible.
.....the difference is that Asian and African people can be very barbaric in war times whereas the Europeans don't display such an amount of barbarism in wars.
What happened in WW1 & WW2 such as the bombardment of Dresden in Germany , concentration camps and use of chemical weapons in WW1 were not barbaric ?! @@monikaquinton
now you know what happened to east prussians
The toxic militarism put an end to their culture. Lesson: Don't start wars, you may lose.
Around 12 million Germans and ethnic Germans, civilians, died at and after the end of the war. The concentration camps didn't close when the war ended. They were filled with German civilians. The actual fighting continued after the war ended. In Eastern Europe the fighting didn't stop until the early 50s. Some German soldiers refused to surrender as they knew what awaited them. The Czechs were particularly brutal and vicious to German, ethnic German civilians.
I REALLY DON'T BLAME CZECH PEOPLE FOR TAKING REVENGE AGAINST GERMAN PEOPLE. THEY SUFFERED A LOT AGAINST NAZI GERMANS AND SOLDIERS. AN EYE FOR AN EYE. LONG LIVE FRENCH GREEK AND CZECH RESISTANCE. NO MERCY, NO REGRETS NO REMORSE.❤❤😂😂👍👍
Bullshit
Not only they lost the war, but they lost Germany to Russia!
Fake news; a few hundred thousand lost their life... do you have a source? Which Nazi concentration camp was not closed?
@@stevensteelforce2701They lost Gemany to the USA, that keeps more than 200 military bases in their remaining territory today.
Czechs are good people. Can't say as I blaim them for their actions.
Are you right in the head nutter
they murdered these people, on what planet is that 'good' ?
Good people don't execute people without a trial, and sure as hell don't execute people because of their nationality, the Czechs and the Red Army in this instance had become Nazis themselves!!!!!!!
So you agree with the things the Nazis done if you copied them there’s no difference. As a young Irish man I fought in Bosnia and cruelty is a sickness that young men take to Easley, they are also the cowards unprofessional ones who run during contact I noticed this very fast. All the young new flash ones always in a hurry to kill somebody, usually a man tied up was there preferred target. I’m Irish such cruelty I’d never seen from all sides a friend of mine who worked Africa said he couldn’t believe European folk could be so nasty. 30 years later I’m 60 and I remember them cruel young men.
@@patkearney9320world war 2 was not Bosnia. I was in Afghanistan. You didn't know if a child was gonna run up to u with a bomb strapped in their backpack. I'd show no loyalty to people who kill their own children. Sorry not sorry. Different opinion here. 🇺🇲
From what I understand the Czechs were abusing the German populations before the war and was one reason Hitler invaded there. So the Czechs just went back to doing what they liked doing before the war.
That was the typical propaganda Hitler used for invading those countries!
@@bernhardnizynski4403 Czech militia occupied the German-speaking areas at gun-point to create “facts on the ground” before the decisions of the (1919) post-WW1 “Peace Conference” were even made final. Peaceful protests were suppressed violently. The “Revolutionary National Assembly”, consisting solely of Czechs and a few Slovaks, then passed a number of drastic laws that bore heavily on the German and other minorities. It also enacted a constitution which was never subjected to referendum. The country was named after its largest (Czech) and third-largest (Slovak) minorities, thus expressly excluding the second-largest minority (German) from its identity. Its revered “founder” Masaryk even referred to the German minority as “colonists”, despite the fact that they had lived on the land at least as long as the Czechs. The German population was effectively excluded from participating in the country’s affairs from day one. That’s not propaganda.
@@JoeLukes - any persecution is deplorable. My mother lived in an area where there was a very high population of Germans, and there was no persecution - I think a lot depends on the calibre of the individuals!
@@bernhardnizynski4403 I don’t disagree, but I wasn’t talking about persecution per se. I was trying to point out that there were systemic issues long before Hitler came on the scene. Another general example is that around 1930 the unemployment rate was 15% among the German minority and 3% among Czech-Slovak majority, yet government relief programs did not address that disparity.
My grandmother was born in Russia, under the Czar's rule. In 1918, where she lived became Czechoslovakia, and she moved to the US shortly after. She HATED the Russians, and Germans, with a passion. That part of Europe changed hands VERY frequently..and was always accompanied by war crimes.
Your grandmother wasn't Russian, just born in Russia?
@@aiziszizis2536 - Of course she was Russian..but all her life she claimed to be of Czechoslovakian ancestry. I think that's because she came to the US about 1919, and the Soviets were not really looked upon favorably.
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I see... Interesting... it saddens me that she hated her people...
@@aiziszizis2536 - From 1920 all the way to now, Soviets and Russians have been the enemy of America. I can see why she did it..especially after WW2.
To be like the evil , in seeking revenge the same way you become just the very same.. That sadly is a fact…
Yes. A thousand times yes.
Nothing new, this went on all over Europe, Yugoslavia was another example, the war had ended but the killing of innocent civilians and former combatants went on well into 50s and 60s and forced relocation of ethnic Germans from the north of the country went on. Often just to take their lands and possessions. It was a bad time to be living.
I disagree with narrator's description of the Czech's being "as ruthless as" the Nazis.
I can agree that it wasn't justice, just plain revenge. That's as far as that depiction should go.
REVENGE is soooooo sweeeeet!
I REALLY DON'T BLAME THE CZECHS TAKING REVENGE AGAINST GERMANS. THEY SUFFERED A LOT AGAINST NAZIS AND I AM GLAD THEY EXECUTED GERMAN PEOPLE, AN EYE FOR AN EYE. LONG LIVE FRENCH GREEK AND CZECH RESISTANCE.❤❤👍👍
germans were the least bad ones in the war of cource and thats a fact, even tho numerous attrocities took place, there is simply no comparison to the brutality and inhumanity of allies.
@@d.k8746 🤣😅😆
@@Wubby805 when you grow up 1 day and are old enough to read books (if you ever open a serious book on the subject) you will not have the same ignoramus naive child reactions as this isnt even an opinion but an easilly verifiable fact.
Next will be a cry for Reparations from the descendants of the Germans.
Keep in mind that these Germans chose to move to occupied territory. They knew what the German Army was doing in the country and they cheered the genocide on and supported it anyway.
I'm not saying that this was morally right or anything, just that Czechoslovak citizens probably had the best reasons to commit immoral acts. It was understandable. One of those things that you know is wrong but look away anyway because what the Nazi's did was 1,000 times more ruthless and bloody than this. I disagree that this matched the ruthlessness of the Nazi's.
So right
How do you know? These Germans were never given a fair trial, all the Czechs and Red Army did was the same as what the Nazis did during the war!
no, most of them lived there before the war, there was always a German minority there. The murderers were as evil as the Nazis
@MasterAdam100: Finally another voice of reasoning........
Ethnic Germans had been living in that area for CENTURIES.
I was never there, I have never experienced the suffering or fear people faced under the Nazis. I honestly don't know if I would be one of those to seek reprisals. How do any of us know?
You are right. I would probably feel rather strongly about that and I can understand the feeling. Still the behavior is criminal.
Don't get mad. Get even.
The day of revenge will come.
@@Occident. Yup, just ask the Germans.
I guess I have misunderstood the nature of the Sudatenland, I thought that was German territory lost in the treaty of Versailles and the original occupation was of proper German land. Then Hitler took Czechoslovakia illegally. War is waste.
You still misunderstand. The area called the Sudetenland was part of the Kingdom of Bohemia for hundreds of years and Bohemia was a kingdom within the Austria-Hungary Empire before WWI. Not part of Germany. After WWI, when the winners carved up Europe and laid the foundations for WWII they took Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia (previously part of Hungary) and created Czechoslovakia. The ethnic Germans wanted to be added to German speaking Austria, but their wishes were ignored.
Lidice 5000 innocent civilians, call it retribution,so what!!!!!!
Brits had Heydrech killed to make and end to czech frienship with nazis brits knew what would happen
Hungraians were also executed just becasue of theire language. The Benes racist decrets are so deeply embeded in the culture of the Czechs and Slowaks, that even today they regularly provocate Hungarians or Germans, if they hear their speaking. No other language hurts them, just these two languages, the Hungarian and the German. Slowaks were not like that, they were educated by the Czechs, in the last 100years to hate the non slavik citizens of theire country. It's realy funny, how they confront now with Russia, which is actually the mother of panslavismus, and without the Tsar non of these nations would have a place on the map of Europe now. Brusilow and Stalin should have a monument in all of the towns and villages of these countries.
It is called justice. Not only the SS committed crimes but the vast majority of the Germans fully supported the Nazis. Especially the Sudeten Germans. Bear in mind that prior the invasion when the Czechoslovaks enjoyed a democracy, a nazistic political party existed taking over 90% of the votes within the German community of Czechoslovakia.
The truth is that the Germans were not innocent at all. Actions of revenge, were justified
not justice at all - it was murder. Try listening - most of those murdered were innocent. The perpetrators were as evil as the Nazis
Not it not, it’s called murder, period. Killing innocents for revenge is a war crime
Apparently people are forgetting the Sudetenland had been part of AUSTRIA from1526 to 1918. The vast majority of people there for centuries were AUSTRIANS. The allies allowed the border areas of Hungary populated mostly by Austrians to become part of Austria in 1919 BUT NOT southern Bohemia and Moravia. What is the difference? None. The new Czech boundaries after 1918 were ethnically wrong. Austrians in these areas wrote Woodrow Wilson about their right to self determination. He ignored them. All of this is related to what happened in 1938 to 1945, ending with the murders of Sudetan Austrians whose ancestors had lived there FOR CENTURIES. Just one of many examples the city with the now Czech name of Cesky Krumlov had been almost 100% Austrian. It is now a "Czech" tourist destination. It's history for at least 4 plus centuries was Austrian in every way. Read and learn your history.
@stef67gr: Finally the voice of reasoning......
As a Czech, Czechoslovakian government was very anti German before ww2, instead of coming to terms with the Sudetenland they cut them off and empoverished them. "O nás bez nás" ale vůči Němcům.
The Czechs also evicted all Germans from Western Bohemia where they had lived in harmony with Czechs for hundreds of years. That de-populated region was later repopulated by Sinti and Roma people for the most part.
They cheered the Nazis when they entered the Sudetenland.
would happen today with same scenario
well we have seen it happen recently in Ukraine, many cases of ukraine civs murdered on spot by other ukraine paramilitary groups under the accusation of being russian collaborators. It happened a lot in kiev during the first weeks of the war
The Sudeten Germans cheered Germany's takeover of Czechoslovakia. They were Hitler's 5th column. If a few thousand of them were killed after the war by Russians and Czechs, so what?
It's small potatoes compared to what the Germans did.
In war, stuff happens.
But the war was fkn over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AGREE 👍 WITH YOU
Czechoslovakia was an artificial creation after WWI, the Sudentens had lived there since the 1200s. "Few thousand"...more like 100 times that but that's still small potatoes to you. Kunkel (sounds German) is a very small potato. BTW everything in Czechia was built by Germans. Prague, Brno, Pilsen, glass industry, breweries, steel works. I guess the Czechs better get rid of all that and build their country from scratch.
@@conveyor2 EVEN IF GERMANS BUILT ALL THOSE BUILDINGS AND INFRASTRUCTURE, THERE IS NO EXCUSE FROM NAZI GERMAN SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS TO MISTREAT AND EXECUTE CZECH POPULATION DURING NAZI OCCUPATION ON WW2 SO I DON'T BLAME CZECHS TAKING REVENGE ON SUDETEN GERMANS. BESIDES SUDETEN GERMSNS HAVE WELCOMED ADOLF HITLER AND GERMAN SOLDIERS WITH OPEN ARMS AND RAISED HANDS AND DENIED AT THE SAME TIME THE CZECH CITIZENSHIP. LONG LIVE CZECH GREEK AND FRENCH RESISTANCE.
The Czechs should have been given community awards
That's right, I agree. That mother and her two kids deserved to die because they were German.
Are you serious ?
@@stefanbunkenburg6464 I'm not serious, but I think @jason-AG34 is.
@@stefanbunkenburg6464YES IDIOT. LONG LIVE CZECH GREEK AND FRENCH RESISTANCE, NO REGRETS NO REMORSE
ppl like you make wars possible, thank you so much, now I feel better about myself
There is no mercy for the looser...
The Czechs suffered the most under Reinhardt..no wonder they took it out ethnic Germans after the war..never end..
Remember Lidice!
What did these German civilians expect ?
They knew what they're military had done to defenceless civilians, so why didn't they retreat with everyone else ?
They didnt
I'm an American who visited Prague, Sudetenland, and Cesky Krumlov. I am not Czech or German.
. The native Czechs do not forget and to this day they do not like Germans. They tell jokes about Germans to belittle them.
Yes, little people always do that and then they go to Germany and work. Meanwhile complaining when locals do not like them
Diese tschechischen Schweinereien sind im deutschen Volk nicht vergessen. Man wird sich Wiedersehen.
@@marcblank3036good take the Germans money and do the crappiest job possible. I see the new neo nazi movement going on in Germany. The world sees it. What now Germany is having rallies to kick out immigrants. Eh eh. The world won't let that movement happen. Germany will be speaking English in 30 years if they try some shit again.
@@marcblank3036 Little people? What? You have some nerve coming from the same people who committed the worst atrocities ever known to humanity. You can't help being racist and cruel. It's in your ADN.
@@marcblank3036 I heard the Czech economy is booming...of course it's not on par with the German's but they are growing.I doubt that there is an excessive Czech immigration going on to Germany....on the other hand Europe is flooded with German goods whether we want it or not😀
That all happened after the war, beginning in May 45. The bloody summer 1945. About 200000 were killed, mostly civilians.
The problem with the German army was that the head of their air force was a big "you-know-what."
That was the least of the problem. They didn't need to exist. You sound disappointed that they didn't win.
@@Boo-dawg. No, not at all. In fact all of my relatives were in service during WWII. I'm just saying, one of the big reasons the Germans lost so badly was due to bad leadership re their air force. Certain "kinds of people" will betray your trust somehow and from hindsight, that looks like what one of their problems was from a historical pov.
I don't know what
@@DD-cf1pl If Hitler hadn't dedicated so much of his time troops and logistics to murdering the Jews in Europe instead of directing all those much needed resources to the front line...the outcome would/could have been very different...
I'm curious about what the Germans were doing in Czechoslovakia during World War II. It's known that up to 320,000 Czechoslovakian citizens were murdered by the Germans. However, this documentary fails to clarify why some Germans were later put against the wall and shot. If the motive was revenge, the number of executions seems relatively small in comparison. But the documentary doesn’t provide any real answers. We understand why the Germans committed atrocities and killed millions of people, but the reasons behind the retribution against the Germans remain unclear. What is the documentary trying to convey? Even in cases like the Ústí massacre, where it's reported that up to 120 people were lynched, the scale of the violence pales in comparison to the broader atrocities. The disproportion in numbers is staggering.
Most Germans of Eastern Europe lived there more than 500 years before.
There was a thousand-year German penetration into the lands occupied by Slavs. They never assimilated, required special laws for themselves, behaved as superiors and oppressors.
Big crimes have been commited against Germans in Yugoslavia too.
There were no crimes committed against Germans in Czechoslovakia.
Crimes beget more crimes. Don't start crimes, you may become a victim of crime. Just ask the Germans.
Germans are amazing people, after their post war persecution, they came back to be a world power.
@@AS-ty7ncusa made most profit from ww2
🤣Think about it: The top 3 economies in the world within about 20 years or so of the War's end were; USA, Japan and Germany ! @@Eric-kn4yn
True.
Marshall plan made it happen. Without American money they would have never gained so much power again. Germans should kiss American asses all day long
They were hardly persecuted -rather they were rebuilt with the wealth of generous Western Nations. With BRAND NEW machinery. And half their war criminals were excused of crimes. (see Einzatzgruppen trials)Had we treated Germany the way THEY treated others Germany would be a shit hole today.
Czecho-Slovakia stoped to exists on March 14th 1939. We had free Slovak state.
You forgot to mantion it was Nazi Slovac state.
"Free". Yeah, uh-huh, right. Puppet state.
'We had free Slovak state' Yes, allied to Nazi Germany fighting with them in Soviet Union.
Absolutely no sympathy for these German people, they got a small taste of what was done to millions on their behalf!
The world is filled with people who would love to say this about Americans. Just ask anybody in Niger right now, what they would do to you if they could? You benefit from more oppression of foreign nations than you realize. Don't be too harsh on the Germans. Historically speaking, you might be next.
@jennacoryell4160 save your liberal feelings, and narrative. Bless your heart, you are welcome to leave for any of those socialist paradises that you support.
I am not even German, but this eye for an eye thing HAS left us all blind.
There is a huge difference in the Gestapo, Waffen SS, Kriegsmarine, Wehrmacht (and especially civilians).
They all had completely different roles, the overwhelming majority of Kriegsmarine, Wehrmacht and ordonary citizens knew nothing of the atrocities.
You cannot paint them with the same brush, particularly civilians.
@@blackbeard4203 I'm not liberal at all. And I'm not supporting commies. Where did you get that from? I love our nation's ideals, I just wish we weren't toppling and installing puppet governments all over the world just to keep our gas prices down.
This should serve as a warning to the Russians who have moved to the Crimea. When the Russians are removed from the Crimea, expect similar retribution to those from Siberia and heartland Russia who settled by the coastal areas in Crimea for better climate and life.
People should always think of the return trip if they have any left.
Nothing has changed in history cruelty is endemic and inherently part of human nature when pay back time is afforded to the oppressed
In your imagination, ukronazi !
Should serve as a warning to ukrainian banderite nazis who tried genocide on the Donbas Ukrainians who just happened to speak russian when the map was redrawn when Ukraine was told to separate from soviets, they had no choice , but Zelenski is a racist nazi and of course has proven it to the world by writing his own version of mein kamph
@@antoinemozart243 The russian minority was all take and no give. And for their trouble, they will lose everything and be barred from returning forever.
Lmao, cope harder hohol
@@ctherats6023 You need to get your prescription changed.