Another week of this series, another week of bird-brained maniacs! I'm kind of baffled that these guys REALLY wanted to be liked despite all of the genuinely sickening things they'd do to others. 😰 Great upload as always, though!
4:53 "As a result, Himmler quietly...'retired' Wiligut to put his focus on more serious scholars. For example, the Witch Division!" I'm loving this series.
For extra context, most witches and clairvoyants are just con men. So what they did is looking at Roman trials of ancient equivalent of Ron Hubbard and Jim Jones, and try to find secret magic knowledge in their records. That's like future geniuses trying to browse Eric Dubay's articles for hidden truth on the shape of the Earth.
I can't help being reminded of how Alistair Crowley's greatest battle basically came down to two LARPers screaming "Fireball!" at each other until one kicked the other in the jaw (See ExtraHistory: Secret Societies playlist for more on that)
The Ancient Aliens theory is just a reskin of Amcient Aryans, still fundamentally based around the deeply racist idea that any culture other than whites was too inferior to have achieved the engineering marvels that we clearly see they did, so it must have been aliens instead.
It's almost like that's not how you're supposed to do it. Maybe you're supposed to doubt until you find something that is not reasonably doubted and construct knowledge from there.
@@Thecontentmustflow Never finished it unfortunately. Became really depressed so I stopped enjoying tv and life. Still really great. I've heard the ending was a bit of a letdown though.
The thing is that Savitri Devi from what I know of her (listened to the Behind the Bastards on her) really didn’t come into the picture as a major player until after WW2…
Disgusting fact about Heinrich Himmler. He got so far into occultism that he believed he was the reincarnation of a Danish prince and dressed up as a knight in a castle.
It's silly but compared to other things he ordered the SS to do probably the least disgusting. I mean if all he had done was play dress up nobody would care.
6:42 You pronounced all the letters in “Antarctic”. I bow to you in gratitude for the solace you have given my ears. You are truly a rare and precious American.
The fact that Matt can say literally any of this with a straight face is amazing. I tried summarizing this to a friend and ended up laughing halfway through.
Some of the more esoteric people around these folks were familiar with mescaline, peyote and obvs mushrooms. Lsd was only known theoretically and probably not studied
@@ArkadiBolschek Which is honestly saying something considering one conversation with the painter made Mussolini feel like he stepped into an alternate dimension of Crazy Town.
Let's be honest: the years between 1910 and 1950 were undeniably difficult and challenging for many, yet they were also an incredibly exciting and transformative period in history.
The world wars where very unique. They where in many ways the climax of human history. I don't think any conflict like them was fought before nor again.
9:20 Tbf, gifting to your boss a leathered report of one work you think is top notch is pretty neat as a show of dedication and a show of how much you think about the importance of your job.
It is, but I think that also just goes to show how much of the entire movement was built on lies. It didn't actually matter what you did, as long as it made the party look good in the end. Even actual dedicated lies, were failures if they weren't grand enough.
10:08 Ukrainians are welcome to correct me if I'm mistaken, but I've heard and read that it was inappropriate to refer to Ukraine as "the Ukraine." I'm guessing based on what I know of the EH team's political views that this was not intentional, though.
We actually don't care, but can play grammar NS just to mess with people, as long as you don't claim the invaders are "brotherly people" anything goes. Except humanizing those who colonized us.
7:16 Weirdly that's reminded me that I've heard about Ernst Shaffer before. It was a random episode of Kevin Smith's podcast like 10-15 years ago. I think they were talking about an article called 'the Ironman of Tibet' or something.
Wow! You know, I have been with you guys since the early days, and I'll be honest with you, nebula wasn't ever on my mind.... But with all the stuff you're offering, heck yeah. I think imma sign.
@@extrahistory Heck yeah 👍 Education is important... I definitely feel like if more of us spent more time learning about history we could avoid a lot of the issues of today... But that looks less and less likely with recent events with our leadership...
Your page is about to become soooooo important now, even colonial williamsburg has already bowed down to Project 2025 and their idea of a purified American history where nothing bad really happened there
Yeah, the purified mythohistory thing is a thing empires try to do to consolidate the power of their elite against criticism sometimes. Never a sign of good times coming; quite the opposite in fact.
6:46 Scandinavian Antarctic? I didn’t know about Swedish Antarctic claims before, but it makes more sense than most other countries wanting to be there
I'm guessing it was mainly a "because noone stopped us". Until the continent unfreezes, we can't really do anything with that claim outside of actual science stuff.
@@oliwierbroda2575now all they have to do is fight the US, Russia, and China at the same time because the UN security council basically decreed the antarctic belongs to no one. It is like claiming the moon. It is all fun and games until you get a knock at your door from the CIA and your plants starts speaking Russian.
2:12 This really makes it sound like Nazium was a cultural version of narcissism. Which, ya, sounds about right. Though less effective than being a CEO inside Capitalism.
The occultism part is fascinating but I blame Dumézil's Trifunctional Hypothesis he was working on in the 1930s for a lot of the weird things happening at this time (and of course previous works by amongst other Olaus Rudbeck with Atlantica in 1677). Don't mind me too much, I'm just ranting a bit.
Keanu Reeves has a role in the second season of the most popular ancient Aryans themed show. Watch Milo Rossi's debunking of Ancient Apocalypse seasons 1, it's GLORIOUS!
@willieclark2256 The vast majority of his content are still tutorials. As for his debunks, they are also very wholesome. He digs into what they get wrong, and talks to actual scientists about where the charlatans go wrong, as seen in his correspondences with them and even interviewing them. Go back to the first video of this arc, and you will hear the lament at the torrent of disinformation we are swimming in today. Those charlatans are responsible for this. Scientists and science communicators are right to be worried about this, and that so many people are falling for the lies.
If they wanted to find a common ancestor they should've looked in Africa. They might've discovered something that supported the "Out of Africa" theory, which still is the most plausible theory on how homo sapiens evolved.
Say what you will, but germans under any regime are fantastic at organizing. And the fruits of discipline are many. Even when said regime is absolutely batshit crazy.
This is a solid series. I would say though, it is important to mention that the germanic people did have a religion pre Christianity. Other than that love this series great work
Bruh, "the Ukraine" was a normal English phrase before the war. It's only become politically charged in the Anglosphere since the invasion. You can forgive an incidental archaism.
But it was only made normal because of the Soviet Union insisting that the world use the Russian versions of Ukrainian place names which includes a false etymology that suggests that Ukraine means "borderland" instead of "in our country". It ignores the fact that Ukraine was named in Ukrainian and not in Russian. It supports the false narrative that Ukraine is a Russian border state.
I'm aware of all that. Nevertheless, it's hardly worth getting in a tizzy over, much less implying that people are Russian agents, as OP is, when someone says The Ukraine instead of Ukraine-or The Sudan instead of Sudan.
I only recently found out about the Ahnenerbe from Lupan III the first. I always that they were just called the Paranormal division like from Wolfienstin.
In the current circumstances facing the free world, it would be cool if you could start focusing on stories about the collapse of democracies throughout history and the rise of fascism.
Yes, though they do need some things to break it up so we don't get too depressed and dark. Though I definitely stories of guerillas, partisans, and resistance movements.
You can watch Nazi Occultism 5 Right now here bit.ly/EHThorsHammer OR Watch Boomers here go.nebula.tv/boomers?ref=extrahistory Thanks for watching!
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This is amazing
Another week of this series, another week of bird-brained maniacs! I'm kind of baffled that these guys REALLY wanted to be liked despite all of the genuinely sickening things they'd do to others. 😰 Great upload as always, though!
Amazing work as always! EH IS THE BEST ❤❤❤❤❤
4:53
"As a result, Himmler quietly...'retired' Wiligut to put his focus on more serious scholars. For example, the Witch Division!"
I'm loving this series.
For extra context, most witches and clairvoyants are just con men. So what they did is looking at Roman trials of ancient equivalent of Ron Hubbard and Jim Jones, and try to find secret magic knowledge in their records. That's like future geniuses trying to browse Eric Dubay's articles for hidden truth on the shape of the Earth.
Same.
"Aryan... why does it always have to be Aryan?" - an archeology student in that guy's class in Indiana Jones, I hope
Why exactly do you hope?
@@alexthedemon2203 they're doing the "why does it always have to be snakes" line
@@Verisimilitude-o3q Then it should have been pluralized but i see it now thank you.
"Anhenerbe... very dangerous... you go first"
TBF most archaeologists focus on one region
It’s like asking an expert on the Sahara to explain the polar icecaps at a similar degree
I know this episode plays on Indiana Jones but that opening to a castle got me feeling more for Wolfenstein for a brief second
Gotta love Billy Blazcowicz
@@EchoByrnes
*sees the real Blazcowizc kill an SS soldier*
"JAA, SIE WERDEN MEIN BLAZCOWIZC"
I can't help being reminded of how Alistair Crowley's greatest battle basically came down to two LARPers screaming "Fireball!" at each other until one kicked the other in the jaw (See ExtraHistory: Secret Societies playlist for more on that)
South Park did something like that with Cartman and the Psychics...
I thought of that episode when I watched the Crowley bit
Just replace Arian with Alien and you have the show “Ancient Aliens”.
Yes all these theories basically are laundered NSDAP pseudoscience
The Ancient Aliens theory is just a reskin of Amcient Aryans, still fundamentally based around the deeply racist idea that any culture other than whites was too inferior to have achieved the engineering marvels that we clearly see they did, so it must have been aliens instead.
You are making a joke, but unfortunately it's true....
@@bawintermage8351I thought they were serious
And now replace ancient with aryan.... Aryan Aliens!
So you’re telling me that they were actually more nuts than in Indiana Jones?
That’s nuts 🥜
Nope, it's nuttier than a pecan-peanut sundae with pistachios sprinkled on the surface.
Reality is stranger than fiction.
@Catalyst375 History doesn't have to make sense to work, fiction does.
Truth is stranger than fiction!
NVTS, nuts!!
this highlights the dangers of engaging with history and science with your mind made up before the research phase.
It's almost like that's not how you're supposed to do it. Maybe you're supposed to doubt until you find something that is not reasonably doubted and construct knowledge from there.
@@timothystamm3200Yes, quite, what an idea, right? Looking at the facts to find your opinion? How quaint; now, where the blazes is my monocle?
I now get where the high from Man in the High Castle came from.
Good show. I enjoyed the first 2 seasons at least.
@@Thecontentmustflow Never finished it unfortunately. Became really depressed so I stopped enjoying tv and life. Still really great. I've heard the ending was a bit of a letdown though.
@@robertdowling4673hope your doing better ❤
Nah bro. That's all the meth they were on 🤣
@@ghostwriterj9421 There were other things, but yeah, that was the most widely used.
Still no Wolfenstein reference
Well it did open on a castle, so there's something I guess
What you waited, Machinen-Soldats from the game?
Pretty sure we live in Wolfenstein now
"MEIN LEIBAN!"
@@Kuzeyman09 iirc the original games did have a bit more of an occult twist to them.
"7 yeats in Tibet" movie hits different with some background - also no Savitri Devi so far that's the really steamy weird and occult part
I love that movie! Really like the monotone style of the protagonist talking in between longer time periods, it's incredibly calming.
Miguel Serrano too.
The thing is that Savitri Devi from what I know of her (listened to the Behind the Bastards on her) really didn’t come into the picture as a major player until after WW2…
@@GamesbiteRtDL read the book. Heinrich Harrer was an incredible writer.
Disgusting fact about Heinrich Himmler. He got so far into occultism that he believed he was the reincarnation of a Danish prince and dressed up as a knight in a castle.
larpers wanna larp
It's silly but compared to other things he ordered the SS to do probably the least disgusting.
I mean if all he had done was play dress up nobody would care.
On the scale of disgusting and/or disturbing facts about Himmler I would rank that pretty low. Still interesting!
Of all the disgusting stuff HH got up to, that one doesn't make it to top 100. It is hilarious, though.
Disgusting? Nah that's just silly.
Racism is what's disgusting.
2:13 and that’s why they hate jojo rabbit but love inglorious bastards. Because of how they are depicted
Please do the 1821 Greek Revolutionary War against the Ottoman Empire next! I've been asking for this since the first episodes of the Sengoku Jidai!
Sounds interesting
Damn, that's a long time with a lot of asking.
They can't. As interesting as it is, they really can't.
@@MothOnWallwhy can't they?
That sounds very interesting
- from Iraq
6:42 You pronounced all the letters in “Antarctic”. I bow to you in gratitude for the solace you have given my ears. You are truly a rare and precious American.
Wait, why is it the "antarctic", shouldn't it be the arctic? Antarctica is at the south pole.
@@ivanvuksanovic1664 By Jove, you’re right! The “Scandinavian Antarctic”?!
The fact that Matt can say literally any of this with a straight face is amazing. I tried summarizing this to a friend and ended up laughing halfway through.
I knew this was gonna get dark, very dark, yet it still hit me.
These guys should’ve tried LSD, the theories would go crazy
Meth
What makes you think they didn’t?
They did try LSD, and just about every other drug known at the time.
Some of the more esoteric people around these folks were familiar with mescaline, peyote and obvs mushrooms. Lsd was only known theoretically and probably not studied
I literally just spent my entire day watching so many shorts from this channel
Thanks for watching!
Austrian Painter making fun of Himmler for his research of ancient Germans will never not be funny to me
The fact that he was actually the _least_ unhinged in the whole gang is pretty mind-blowing.
Same.
@@ArkadiBolschek
Which is honestly saying something considering one conversation with the painter made Mussolini feel like he stepped into an alternate dimension of Crazy Town.
@@prestonjones1653 yeah during their first meeting he said that the Italians were an inferior race because of mixture with Africans 💀
@@prestonjones1653 Ah, yes. The Fez-Wearing Italian Man.
this video belongs in a museum
😂
SO DO YOU!
Let's be honest: the years between 1910 and 1950 were undeniably difficult and challenging for many, yet they were also an incredibly exciting and transformative period in history.
The world wars where very unique. They where in many ways the climax of human history. I don't think any conflict like them was fought before nor again.
@@robertdowling4673 lets hope you are right and no war on this scale will happen ever again!
@@sinistertwister686 the second congo war was the biggest war on earth since ww2
Doomsday weapons are the reason why there wasn't a WW3, @@sinistertwister686.
Yet
@@robertdowling4673 ...climax...? 🤔
...more of a lowpoint...! 😱
9:20 Tbf, gifting to your boss a leathered report of one work you think is top notch is pretty neat as a show of dedication and a show of how much you think about the importance of your job.
It is, but I think that also just goes to show how much of the entire movement was built on lies. It didn't actually matter what you did, as long as it made the party look good in the end. Even actual dedicated lies, were failures if they weren't grand enough.
Love the work you guys have been doing. Genuinely helps people to understand the past and the world we live in
10:08
Ukrainians are welcome to correct me if I'm mistaken, but I've heard and read that it was inappropriate to refer to Ukraine as "the Ukraine." I'm guessing based on what I know of the EH team's political views that this was not intentional, though.
Ukraine as a sovereign country didn't exist at the time, so they might be excused for calling it "the Ukraine". But it is still pretty sus.
This is attempting to force a linguistic debate into a political one, neither Russia and Ukraine use a definite article.
We actually don't care, but can play grammar NS just to mess with people, as long as you don't claim the invaders are "brotherly people" anything goes. Except humanizing those who colonized us.
@@KasumiRINA did bro just say grammar national socialist
It’s really not a big deal, especially before independence.
The animation and narration are second to none! You guys always knock it out of the park! Hearth please ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you!
@@extrahistory np! And thanks
7:16 Weirdly that's reminded me that I've heard about Ernst Shaffer before. It was a random episode of Kevin Smith's podcast like 10-15 years ago. I think they were talking about an article called 'the Ironman of Tibet' or something.
I think 7 Years in Tibet is also based on it
E. Kiss sounds like he needs A. Hug
*rimshot*
Wow! You know, I have been with you guys since the early days, and I'll be honest with you, nebula wasn't ever on my mind.... But with all the stuff you're offering, heck yeah. I think imma sign.
Thank you so much for your support!
@@extrahistory Heck yeah 👍 Education is important... I definitely feel like if more of us spent more time learning about history we could avoid a lot of the issues of today... But that looks less and less likely with recent events with our leadership...
"The Indiana Jones Stuff" Finally lmao
Your page is about to become soooooo important now, even colonial williamsburg has already bowed down to Project 2025 and their idea of a purified American history where nothing bad really happened there
Yeah, the purified mythohistory thing is a thing empires try to do to consolidate the power of their elite against criticism sometimes. Never a sign of good times coming; quite the opposite in fact.
Since I live only 15 km away from the Wewelsburg, this is the closest I will ever be to actually being in a Extra History episode😂
Moin schön das man ein uas der Heimat unter ein englisch sprachigen Kanal trift ^^
1:51 Kudos to the EH team for using the image of the Holy Chalice of Valencia! 😃👏💪
(And again at 3:30!) 😋
6:46 Scandinavian Antarctic? I didn’t know about Swedish Antarctic claims before, but it makes more sense than most other countries wanting to be there
Norway has claims there and they are rather massive.
I'm guessing it was mainly a "because noone stopped us". Until the continent unfreezes, we can't really do anything with that claim outside of actual science stuff.
@@oliwierbroda2575now all they have to do is fight the US, Russia, and China at the same time because the UN security council basically decreed the antarctic belongs to no one.
It is like claiming the moon. It is all fun and games until you get a knock at your door from the CIA and your plants starts speaking Russian.
2:12 This really makes it sound like Nazium was a cultural version of narcissism. Which, ya, sounds about right. Though less effective than being a CEO inside Capitalism.
The occultism part is fascinating but I blame Dumézil's Trifunctional Hypothesis he was working on in the 1930s for a lot of the weird things happening at this time (and of course previous works by amongst other Olaus Rudbeck with Atlantica in 1677). Don't mind me too much, I'm just ranting a bit.
Angry moustache man hated all this. He once said that Kim ler keeps digging huts in search of a civilization and hurting the myth.
Goodness! I can't imagine a world where "alternative facts" are believed over provable science. That would be so silly!
Keanu Reeves has a role in the second season of the most popular ancient Aryans themed show.
Watch Milo Rossi's debunking of Ancient Apocalypse seasons 1, it's GLORIOUS!
Yes, and I'm glad he watched it for us. The snippets of Hancocks theories alone makes you want to beat something!
@fetijajasari9522 i whole heartedly agree!
Awesome series! EH is the BEST history channel 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
That poor kid holding the backpack. They really dragged them around the globe XD
There might have been an Indias valley origin at a point as well.
Makes me want to want to watch some Indiana Jones this morning!
It sounds like the Soviet approach to mainstream religion, but with extra steps.
Thanks For this Guys! EH IS AWESOME 😊😊😊😊❤❤❤
This series started hitting different after this past week.
I am simultaneously watching Professor Dave Explains' debunk videos. All this sounds similar to the tactics of science charlatans today.
Ah yes, prof Dave: preoccupies more with charlatans than scientists. Sure to end well.
@willieclark2256 The vast majority of his content are still tutorials. As for his debunks, they are also very wholesome. He digs into what they get wrong, and talks to actual scientists about where the charlatans go wrong, as seen in his correspondences with them and even interviewing them.
Go back to the first video of this arc, and you will hear the lament at the torrent of disinformation we are swimming in today. Those charlatans are responsible for this. Scientists and science communicators are right to be worried about this, and that so many people are falling for the lies.
Looks like the next episode will show what happens when insanity leads to something nightmarish-ly horrific.
Thanks for the vid!
Edmund Kiss... I was wondering when he would show up.
If they wanted to find a common ancestor they should've looked in Africa. They might've discovered something that supported the "Out of Africa" theory, which still is the most plausible theory on how homo sapiens evolved.
4:04 LOL I recognise that design of the pope xd it was used in the Eleanor of Aquitaine series
I guess in indiana jones they went after the holy grail because it sounds way less crazy than what they were doing in real life
Thanks For this Guys! You always make My day ❤❤❤❤❤❤
5:59 emphasis on the Word TRYING Here! Though that probably shouldent have to be Said! Or at least it HOPEFULLY Shouldent!
7:10 "Ornithologist" birds, enter left.
Say what you will, but germans under any regime are fantastic at organizing.
And the fruits of discipline are many.
Even when said regime is absolutely batshit crazy.
Amazing work
Finally I understand why Flyn called Hancock racist in the Joe Rogan show
Oh the word is Ahnenerbe. Which roughtly translates to Ancestral heritage.
What about Major Rudolf Von Stroheim and his discovery of the Pillar Man, the fight against the vampires, and the ultimate life form?
That only happen in our last timeline lol
@6:29
Ehm, those petroglyphs (helleristninger in Danish), are kinda upside down... they're depictions of bronze age boats and ships.
I've been loving this series
This is a solid series. I would say though, it is important to mention that the germanic people did have a religion pre Christianity. Other than that love this series great work
They did, but it was most certainly not Aryan, as Tolkien mocked them.
I think of Lupin every time he mentions the group he’s covering .
6:46 ah yes, the scandinavian antarctic
That's why the boats were upside down. 6:27
Scandinavian penguins are the deadliest of all penguins.
Psychopaths when they get power....
You always make My day 😊😊😊❤❤❤❤
One of the many groups in Tibet another groups wrote a book which became a movie called 7 years in Tibet
13:05 Your English sounds like fluent, why in the world are you saying "the Ukraine"?
Bruh, "the Ukraine" was a normal English phrase before the war. It's only become politically charged in the Anglosphere since the invasion. You can forgive an incidental archaism.
But it was only made normal because of the Soviet Union insisting that the world use the Russian versions of Ukrainian place names which includes a false etymology that suggests that Ukraine means "borderland" instead of "in our country".
It ignores the fact that Ukraine was named in Ukrainian and not in Russian. It supports the false narrative that Ukraine is a Russian border state.
I'm aware of all that. Nevertheless, it's hardly worth getting in a tizzy over, much less implying that people are Russian agents, as OP is, when someone says The Ukraine instead of Ukraine-or The Sudan instead of Sudan.
@@RickJaeger it was always politically charged, since it implies Ukraine is simply a geographic region, not a national homeland like the others.
@@Game_Hero "in the Anglosphere." Do kindly use your eyes and brain to read the things you are responding to.
That explains so much of the Wolfenstein lore…
Love your content. :)
This is interesting to learn about
What are some of the books you guys got your information from? I'd love to read some of those books to dig deeper into this topic.
Very fascinant 👏 🔥 👏 🔥
If you're talking about Thule, it's pronounced "Too-lee."
Love this, but am just curious why the illustrator doesn’t like drawing arms.
I love how he’s constantly like “this is so silly. Like isn’t this so silly guys?! Like guys this is so 🤪”
I only recently found out about the Ahnenerbe from Lupan III the first. I always that they were just called the Paranormal division like from Wolfienstin.
This is how I found out JoJos part 2 was inspired by Indiana Jones
I can kinda see where the roots of modern historical conspiracy theories started. Seriously, if I was Graham Hancock, I'd be ashamed.
What is the spelling of the organisation that Himmler created Extra History
"Ahnenerbe"
4:12 most people see visions
"Respect, legitimacy, image was super important to them." I'm sorry was this describing 2024 or 1934?
Both!!! Also, everything between, before and possibly after.
Your use of the term Awful Archeology last week made me hopeful that this episode would be a collab with Milo Rossi / Miniminuteman.
Disappointed.
In the current circumstances facing the free world, it would be cool if you could start focusing on stories about the collapse of democracies throughout history and the rise of fascism.
Yes, though they do need some things to break it up so we don't get too depressed and dark. Though I definitely stories of guerillas, partisans, and resistance movements.
5:00 Sorry, which division?
Yes.
Best history channel
This is magical
Anyone else feeling bad for the bag boy, kid seems to be the pack mule no matter where he goes.
Beats the Eastern front, I guess?
misinformation leads to genocide sad tragic
Thank you for making this video so that algorithms don’t have to think I’m anti-Semitic for trying to know about this
Part of me wonder if Edmund Kiss was influence on Conan the Barbarian.
Even if it kinda changed Atlanteans from kingdom to tribal society.
With this series it feels like I have to pauses the video every soften just to let the insanity on this info sink in and even then just ???😵💫😵💫😵💫
How the hell is the mad Furher the same one in this situation?
Growing up Indiana Jones was my #1 job choice !
Imagine if the British searched for evidence for the events and places from Lord of the Rings.
Graham Hancocks grandfather
I find it funny that before the video, I got an ad for BMW.
Scandinavian "antartic"?
2:27 How was this different from the belief of the English, or the Japanese?