Life and Death at the heart of Nazism - On the Homefront 018
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- The Nazis love to spread the myth that they have transformed the German capital from a city of sin, unemployment, and Marxist street violence to the centre of a glorious new Reich. But the reality is that right now, Berliners are trapped between the Allied bombing and the Nazi regime’s tightening grip. And yet, the men and women of Berlin continue to support this war. For them, it’s a war of survival.
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Talking about Berlin and the German civilian experience of the war always provokes an interesting discussion. As Anna said, before, during, and after the war, most civilians just want to get on with their lives. Those who remain in the city, who are not on the list of the Nazis’ racial or political enemies, are mostly free to do so - as long as they stay within the increasingly strict rules. But that raises the question - where is the line drawn between victimhood, passivity, and complicity? And does any of that matter if we consider that, whether motivated by survival, support for Nazism, patriotism, or any other reason, most people in Berlin still support the war?
Good questions that need to be asked. Also today, for example the lack of protest and action for all the refugees that drown in the Mediterranian Sea, because Europe builds walls and doesn't help to solve the underlying problems.
As someone who would have been executed for about 8 different reasons, they are all fucking complicit. It takes a special kind of evil to sell your soul, even for your "family" at the expense of others who may never again see their families
Why did "most people in Berlin still support the war?" Because most people are followers. That is the herd instinct dictators rely on. When the nation is at war, the herd instinct intensifies. That, plus the leaders of opposition parties are quickly decapitated, while their followers "who are not anti-social enough to be liquidated in concentration camps, are sent to forced labor camps." Dictatorships are therefore like logs that burn themselves up from the inside out. They maintain a veneer of crusty bark on the exterior until their inner resources are burned away, then they collapse. Nazi Germany did not collapse until it was conquered and dissected, thereby giving the illusion that the people supported its war, even though they were acting on herd instincts after those who opposed the war were killed or incarcerated.
@@julianshepherd2038 The Germans terror-bombed London in WWI, but did not terror bomb London with airplanes (only with V-1s and V-2s) in WWII, although the lack of accuracy in bombing the ports and industries of the East End had that effect. But the Germans did terror-bomb Dutch and Polish cities early in the war. The Americans did not terror-bomb German cities, although the inaccuracy of bombing from 30,000 feet had the same effect. The British did make the mass destruction of German cities by indiscriminate bombing their objective. But remember that the British did not know if they were going to conquer the Nazi regime. For all they knew, the war might end in an armistice with Germany intact, as WWI had. Thus, they may have reasoned that they had to make the war so hard on Germans, they would not restart it later on, if an armistice was the best peace that could be obtained for now. Thus, some strategic logic, plus moral equivalency in "giving the Germans a dose of their own medicine."
I missed that final line from episode 16, Rosi the Riveter and the energetic RING THAT BELL - Jawoll !
During the Depression, in Berlin in particular, the unemployed were encouraged to play chess, and in parks of the city it was common to see chessboards set up. The idea was that playing chess is a good way to kill some time, for people who had too much time on their hands.
Is that why nyc and other cities had chess tables also?
Wow 😻😇
@@tomhenry897 Might have been, although NYC was famous during the Depression for the sight of people selling apples, often women in fur coats.
It's been a while since the last Homefront series video from Anna. This is quite an interesting insight into the lives of Berliners during this era. Thank you Anna and team as always.
It's a bit disappointing, though rather expected, how much less popular On the Homefront is than the main series, even War Against Humanity. People find it uncomfortable (perhaps boring) to think of civilians also being part of the war experience, that everyday life must go on and there's more to it than heroic deeds and gruesome deaths. There's also gender politics involved - it is after all a stereotypically female thing to think about home while the man is away on his adventures.
@@Medytacjusz These On The Homefront episodes are often fascinating. It is perhaps not surprising they get fewer views. I feel closer to them in a way - I had older relatives who lived through the war and though no longer around, their descriptions of life were interesting - generally life was austere, trying to stretch things with the rationing system was a constant struggle and people did not know what would happen from one day to the next.
Thank you for the kind comment.
I would have liked to see Weimar-era Berlin's nightlife at first hand. The Roaring Twenties roared a little louder there, by all accounts.
So nice to see the intelligent and lovely Anna again! Love her style and she always blesses us with an amazing and enlightening episode! I just love this channel!
Thanks for watching!
2:07 “WUT?”
My reaction as well.
He liked the view?
Göbi was fist up wearing Metallica T-shirt and singing "smoke on the water" : Dun-dun Dundundun da-da-dada dundun -dun-dun-dun
Anna can always throw a dagger into the heart. I really appreciate the look into German society that challenges the western textbooks I grew up on. That's one reason I enjoy this whole channel!
reminiscent of "You Are There" - which somehow in the mid 50's, missed debunking that Disney glorification of "The Alamo" -talk about media bias and a vindictive mouse > ua-cam.com/video/xgYaeHNGJ08/v-deo.html
Amen.
The Italian Director Roberto Rossellini made a film "Germany 1945" filmed right after the fall of Berlin. It was
similar to his great film "Rome Open City"
Germany Year Zero - a startlingly depressing film.
I went on a history trip to Berlin in my last year of school in early 2020 (just a month before the first lockdown). During the trip we visited a former underground bomb shelter beneath a modern day train station. It was interesting to see what kind of conditions the city's civilians experienced during air raids
That sounds like a rather eye opening experience. A interesting way to connect with the past and a glimpse into the realities of wartime. Thanks for sharing.
@@WorldWarTwo no problem
THANK YOU!!! I was reading a book by a girl in Hamburg, and she said even after a bombinbg, trucks would show up with their ration of food, that was very generous. She said she didn't go hungry. That no one worried about the war, until Stalingrad. Though when the US joined, her own parents told her "Things will change"
My aunt who turns 100 in less than 2 months, had family in Berlin. Last time she was there was in 1943. Her uncle was a mason so had an essential job in Berlin. When I showed her pictures of Berlin in 2016. She was surprised how many buildings were still
The lesson seems to be: kill someone's mother and turn their house to rubble - they will join ANY cause, no matter how horrible, so long as that cause is against you. Revenge, frustration, hatred - all seem to be some of the strongest motivations for all humankind. The ideological justification becomes just a post-hoc rationalisation.
The US learned this in Vietnam.
They didn't care what kind of government just as long as the United States wasn't associated with it.
I didn't say they applied the knowledge or even cared.
And now the people are slowly starting to realize these corporate wars are not getting the desired results which is a democratic society.
The government could keep doing this as long as a new vibrant democracy is created.
Excellent point. I wonder where we (USA) will next fail to learn it? But it won't really matter as long as there's money to be made by the 1%, while it's the soldiers from the 99% who will be maimed and killed.@@GaldirEonai
Anna, I love your material, but there's a very major fault with it...There simply isn't enough. Your certainly as knowledgeable, well informed, and historically entertaining as any of the other presenters...and certainly easier on the eyes than Indy !!! ( not meant as an insult to Indy, just doing my best to get Anna more screentime)
When the people abandon power to a fanatical minority...
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My cousin transcribed the letters from my Grandmother to my Grandfather in the early 1940s in Vienna. This was before the big bombing campaigns started, but it already gives a glimpse on the hardships that war brings to civilians. And be it only, that she was left at home, with five children, newborn to teens and had to organize their daily life.
And when the bombing campaigns came, I remember the stories, when her older children were at school and with an air raid alarm you did not know for hours if they were alive and ok (they were). Must have been a horror but still, although brought up a devout catholic, she also supported the regime.
I always think about those "catholics" in Germany from 1933-1945. RCC excommunicated Nazis in 1933 and bashed them countless times later but still these people... Money and the social, cult of men blinded them...
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"although brought up a devout catholic"? As someone whose Polish-Jewish relatives were murdered en-masse, I wonder if you meant to say "because brought up as a devout catholic."
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I'm glad to finally see the return of On The Homefront. Obviously as the war progressed how people lived underwent major changes, and there's a lot of material to be covered there.
Indeed there is, thanks for watching.
Anna's Reaction at 2:11 just made me completely lose it
Maybe this was some kind of reacted improvisation
Excellent video ...thank you to Anna and everyone else involved in it's production.
Glad you enjoyed it so much, thanks for watching!
Walking through Berlin these days you can still occasionally see the covers for mini air raid shelters imbedded in the sidewalk. I don’t remember the street but the one I saw was in Weißensee. It had stamped on it the word Luftschutz.
In British cities it was possible to see well into the 70's (and still is to a lesser extent) where bombing had 'removed' buildings and conspicuous later-designed ones filled in the gaps that had been left. Next-door-but-one to my Mum's house is such a building, it was hit by the first of a stick of bombs the rest of which disintered some of the occupants of the local cemetery.
@@alfnoakes392 Wow. Thank you for sharing this.
Oh Anna! How wonderful to see you! On the Homefront is one of my favorite segments and I’ve missed your presentations. How the average citizen fares in the war is the most under-reported areas of all sides of all wars. Thanks for presenting stories of average people during wartime! ❤️❤️
Thank you for the kind comment ❤
14:30 It strikes me that this era of history maybe more than any other was an era of individual moral choices. Whether to blast civilians in a plane or not was one pilot's choice to make. Previously, the firepower for one individual on this level didn't exist, and today, there is far more accountability and constant information flow. There is something eerie about that fact which adds to my overall perception of the war.
Excellent video. Cleansing the streets of crime, eradicating unemployment, all sounds very attractive until you see how ugly the 'solutions' are.
Really ? See SF LA Portland
@@NineInchTyrone Are you saying Las Angeles is worse than a concentration camp? Please go touch some grass sir.
Sometimes a worrying analog to the politics of modern cities, which I sometimes have involvement in. A lot of media (not even just "one side") depict urban areas similarly as full of crime and homelessness. But a faction of people also scoff at ideas to help. And if you don't like the problem, and don't want to help, then forced removal starts to become the only remaining option.
It's sad. The Nazis destroyed Germany not just because of the bombs (of which the allies hold some responsibility too). The cleansing of the undesirables set back culture itself. Populations and identities were decimated, new ideas forcefully crushed. All from people so afraid of a new world they brought destruction upon their current one.
She’s so beautiful 🤩
Excellent video as always! From the information to the presenter all top notch.
Thank you to everyone involved in getting these videos to us! You guys are the best!
Amazing to hear you enjoyed it so much, thanks for watching!
Wish the ladies on the BBC radio talked so clearly and able to understand.
It’s Great to see Anna again
Very interesting, esp the part about Hitler not being in Berlin much.
I'm having some trouble phrasing this so that it can not be read in a way I certainly do not intend, but: Sometimes I do wonder if the Nazi's ever did _anything_ even arguably positive at all. And that, if the answer to that question is: _"No. No, they didn't, doofus."_ - How on Earth they succeeded in duping even their *enemies* into thinking otherwise for generations?
... Maybe believing the lies was convenient too, for a post-war West that wanted to offer defeated Germany a path to redemption.
Yet people continue to follow these types of people into war.
How accurate is Downfall?
Fairly accurate
Hey, dunno if you are gonna see this but i have two diaries of my grandma who was in Berlin the entire War and my Grandpa who fought in russia and France and got captured shortly after DDay and i thought you may like some information about the war of the view of some "normal" people
That photo of Tolischus isn't the most charming!
He looks like a potato with ears.
What is the definition of cowardice? When a Berliner volunteers for the front!
(A German joke about the bombing of Berlin reported by Victor Klemperer in his diaries.)
There were a lot of wartime jokes. One that ridiculed the effectiveness of the anti-aircraft batteries in Berlin claimed a particularly heinous murderer had been chained to the top of a tall pillar and flak guns fired at him. A few weeks later, a plane flew low overhead and found the murderer had died of starvation.
See Robert Evans The Third Reich At War for more jokes. The Germans called the V1 Versanger Nr1 (failure Nr 1).
@@caryblack5985 One joke claimed that Goering had taken to walking around Berlin naked except for a wrapping of cellophane. He wanted to remind Berliners what two sides of ham looked like.
Well done Anna, to you and your writers and production staff. This is your best piece ever in my opinion.
I'll pass on the kind words, thank you very much for watching!
- Jake
_Bomber_ by Len Deighton. Gives a great synopsis of a night under RAF bombing. Too bad it's out of print.
An impressive book. I first read it in a Reader's Digest condensed version.
Just been reprinted
8:40 The exact same pattern as today's US. Extreme right-wing foments in the rural areas as the cities were more left-wing. Ah, history repeating itself.
The rural-urban split has always existed. Even in Rome.
Excellent work, Anna and team
Interesting. These people had somehow detached themselves from the fact that the Nazis were waging war in their name, and that there was a price to pay. Similarly, many Muscovites will need to pay a very heavy price for what their leaders are doing.
Karma is a bitch. Or, as the Bible puts it, those who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind (Hos 8:7).
Arthur "Bomber" Harris quoted that line. He was very good at making Germans reap the whirlwind, although his RAF Bomber Command aircrews suffered horrendous losses doing so. However, especially post-war when the Cold War descended and it became necessary to get Germans on their side, as opposed to killing them, Harris and RAF Bomber Command became controversial. A statue to Harris, who died in 1984, was not dedicated until 1992 and has often been the target of vandals. A major London monument to Bomber Command was not unveiled until 2012, by which time most surviving Bomber Command aircrew were dead.
around 2:00 mark, all we can say is "WHAT!?"
That was excellent.
Enjoyed the video and presentation. It's refreshing to know the German's perspective on WW2.
Long time since the last one! Glad to see you and your section again!
Excellent presentation. The accounts of experiencing bombing brought to mind my grandmothers description of the German bombing in her area early in the 39-45 War.
Great work Anna, cool there is another episode!
I'll pass on the kind words, thank you for watching!
@@WorldWarTwo I can't believe the Beerfest was almost a year ago already 🙂
Hi Anna
Its nice to have you back.
Lots of innocent people died because of nazi.
But war is going to send soon. Hope is around corner.
Thanks for the video.
Not if Steiner can save the Reich!
it is so neat to watch something i am interested in, told to me by a pretty woman. Ty World War Two!
great to see Homefront back, been a long time between episodes. this one was strong, and a bit dark, almost a Humanity episode. very well presented and some interesting info on real life in Berlin prewar. i always assumed Weimar Berlin was a 20th century Sodom & Gomorrah from the way it's been depicted. excellent video Anna, look forward to more.
. . . or now". Excellent job Anna . . . will we ever really, really learn? . . . especially here in Europe! : )x
Anna Denhardt it's a pleasure to see you again. We don't get enough of you on this channel.
"Ich will 'Meyer' heißen, wenn es auch nur einem aliierten Bomber gelingen sollte, auf Reichsgebiet einzufliegen."
Das fand Göring bis 1942 sicher noch lustig.
2:12 lol wat 😂
"then, or now?" Shivers.
Very impressive pictured, that Anna painted here. 👍🏻
Eine tolle producktion Anna,Berin ist eine mein lieblingsstadte in Europe ...gut gemacht
Work camps during depression weren't exclusive to Germany. They were present in Canada and USA where they had pretty bad reputation. I'm sure they were present in other western countries. They sure were in operation for a decade after war in eastern European communist countries.
There were "hobo camps" in the USA but they don't seem to have been government-mandated. Basically all sorts of wanderers gathered there. They could be pretty unpleasant places.
Anna thank you. Amazing episode. Greetings from Brazil🇧🇷
Welcome back Anna, interesting to see the take on the bombing through the eyes of Berliners.
Anyone wanting a vision of what Berlin was like in the 1920’s and early 1930’s should watch Babylon Berlin. It’s a fictional representation but portrays actual events. If you’re an English speaker make sure to watch the subtitled version, the dubbed version is not done well.
The Jason Lutes graphic novel trilogy "Berlin" is pretty good on the atmosphere of the time.
@@stevekaczynski3793 I’ve always been fascinated by that period. I’ll definitely have to check it out.
"You may call me 'Mayer'..."
The coming of war 1941_44 Hitler is only 8 weeks ten days in Berlin, 1940 dancing returned after prohibited swing kids, no rationing, then 1940 June French armee del Air and later British, sadly German children now saw the truth black out windows, 1943_44 Allied US and RAF continue to pound Berlin, German defense were now being quashed, allied fighters made attacks? Berliner were dressed for war threw out bombs?
Anna Deinhard.....another brilliant video...thank you!
A small taste of things to come.
It's truly amazing that you released this video as I am on a holiday in Berlin. Incredibly fascinating video!
Great Video as always ❤
Thanks for watching ❤️
Thank you for the lesson.
My wife's grandfather and his brother, who lived outside Berlin and were communists, were first sent to a concentration camp and then to a punishment battalion on the Eastern Front. They have no known graves.
Is this Episode 18 of “On The Homefront”? I’ve missed some. I need to catch up!
Another great video
2:12 " wut " lol
During WW1 years, the Germans population was completely destroyed economically and socially. All kinds of bad behaviors practiced widely. While Vaimar Republic jumped over chaotic circumstances and deeply separated between severely poverty and semi illiterate youth generations in cities .who embraced the left-wing political ideologies in cities and closed industry workers due to Anton sanctions and punishments on the Vaimar Republic .Vaimar Republic partials radical right-wing political groups and elites. Organized former para military forces by gathered and conscripted of retired and deserted soldiers, officers, and directors them against left wing protests and partials...Nazism militarized countryside peoples and subdued cities residents and drove both of them to battlefields
A bomb started the war and a bomb ended the war.
If you only look at bombs sure. Technically it started with a false flag attack on a news station. And it ended a bit after Nagasaki and not only because of the nukes.
Anna could portray Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia just by her appearance.
Anna is a Queen! Thank you!
always love seeing the Homefront thank you
Thank you for watching, happy to hear you enjoy on the Homefront series a lot!
2:14 "whut?"
A very interesting and balanced video.
Live how your hand movements are the same as who I assume is your mum
Great. Can you maybe talk some more about the life during the warsaw uprising. This episode seemed kind of odd but I can't put my finger on it.
You’re new here, right? Warsaw uprising? Here you go:
War Against Humanity 106
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Week 258 - The Warsaw Uprising Begins! - WW2 - August 5, 1944
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War Against Humanity 108
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More to follow on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday this week, and then every week at least once until the week of October 3.
We cover the war in its totality, not only the part one faction or the other likes better, and we do not avoid any topic - however difficult.
So Berlin was damaged ALMOST as badly as Warsaw...
But where did they put all the homeless??
Not in homes
Wehrmacht
In some places at least, tented encampments were set up.
@@stevekaczynski3793
Did you go to Uncle Ted's funeral?
@@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 Nah, I went to a reception given by Uncle Jaroslaw.
Very informative. Good video.
"What?" 🤣😂
I feel terrible thinking that the movie theatre newsreel look was great despite the difficult content.
Very well done Anna God bless you!!✌️🇺🇲
Seems like there's a lot of correlation to today's American society
Excellent video, Anna.
Good one Anna!👍🤔
Thank you Anna. Another great video with an quite an ominous end.
In war there are no victors, just victims on both sides.
Alot of people simping hard for Anna in the comments i see😆
But how many adult German men were left in Berlin and not in uniform?
Not very many.
SPOILER
And the formation of the Volkssturm will reduce their number still further, though many Volkssturm could not be issued a uniform and will wear armbands.
Even before the war there were jokes about how many people, not just men, were in a uniform of one kind or another. Like that the best way to stand out in a crowd was to wear civilian clothes.
Yay! Anna is back!
🥳🥳🥳
My weekly fix - thank you so much
YAY!!! I love this "From the homefront"
I don't get the gloves, but great job.
That mug, very nice touch ❤
It's interesting thar Germant did not seem mobilize their women for industry like the US did.
Or the Soviets. The Nazis had rather traditionalist ideas about the role of women. They were supposed to maintain homes, bear and raise children, and going out to work was not something the Third Reich encouraged, though more and more did work in factories and so on.
They did eventually to some degree, but only after the war had turned against them.
Kinder, Küche, Kirche was the lot of German women, having children, making a home and believing in God (or Hitler).
@@har3036 Bringing in foreign workers was a preferred solution for the Third Reich. Rather than sending German women to work in factories. Women from Poland or the Soviet Union were encouraged to come to the Reich to work as maids to help out in families. (Some actually did this work but others were used as sex slaves, in brothels and so forth.)
More WW2 on the home front please! This is such an interesting and important series to give perspective of the billions of civilians the war affected.
Well Done!