Kampf and his driver were captured and executed, his best friend and fellow battalion commander, Diekmann, searched and found what was left, and then took out his rage on Oradour sur Glane. Diekmann was brought up on charges by his regimental commander who did NOT remove him from command as the division was soon to be engaged and told Diekmann after the action he would be tried. Unfortunately for justice, Diekmann was killed in action shortly there after.
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@@jessicapayne8622 The people of Oradour paid the price, not the cowards who carried out the murder. The Maquis disappeared into the countryside leaving civilians undefended.
What is interesting is that Adolf Diekmann, who ordered the Oradour massacre was charged over the killings by SS-Standartenführer Sylvester Stadler but charges were dropped when Diekmann was KIA. Kampfe did not die alone in that ambulance. Injured German soldiers were also murdered in that way. Violence breeds violence.
@@peterc4082 There really is no difference in theory since the Waffen SS was an official fighting force with uniforms etc. So the are classified as combatants under the rule of the conduct of war.
@@doomhippie6673 You can be a combatant and a war criminal at the same time. The one does not preclude the other. The SS was declared a criminal organisation at the Nuremberg War Trials.
Indeed. As I understand it, Resistance groups were generally not protected under the conventions at the time and therefore, it can be argued as to who actually committed the atrocities? I say that as the descendent of two resistance fighters. Both brave, as they know that they could expect no quarter for their actions.
War gets to points of no quarter given. The Japanese would target medics in the pacific war. During very hard battles Stalingrad, Bastogne medics had no respite and from day one in Poland to the end many Red Cross marked buildings, planes, vehicles, and ships were hit by accident or on purpose. Many an air force hit targets marked with Red Cross’s without realizing it during the confusion of aerial ground attacks. It happened a lot.
It took about 50 years before someone mentioned the reason the SS burned the village. In any case, being a member of the Waffen SS does not automatically make Kemplfe a war criminal. I'm sure he committed war crimes (by our definition today), but probably no more than did the Russians and partisans he fought against.
The French "Resistance" were nothing but sadistic Communist thugs. Today we would call the terrorists. Many continued their careers, and ways, in Palestine from 1948 onwards.
My grandmother lived through two occupations in Calabria. Both were ruthless and the British in some ways even more so as they were bombed by the facists relentlessly in Great Britian.
Ever noticed how the narrative about the Oradour atrocity never mentions why the SS went there and massacred the population? Kampfe was a criminal as were the soldiers of the Das Reich that murdered the civilians, but his murder and it was murder. as he was captured along with the ambulance staff offer a true motivation to Oradour. Conveniently this is rarely mentioned.Without perspective and all the facts History is truly written by the victors as always.
@@Jebediah1999 My comment clearly states that the soldiers were criminals and that murder was committed.There is no excuse for war crimes.Regarding kampfe and the ambulance staff,once they were captured it is a war crime to execute them without due process, read the Hague convention.It's irrelevant how odious the captives are, that's why the numerous war crimes trials were initiated.No party can summarily execute prisoners from whatever side.That's war crimes.
Terrible things happen when civilians take up arms against an occupying army . More so in a country where the government has surrendered. Sadly the allies fully encouraged and supported these guerrilla and partisan operations. It came at great cost to the civilian population
Is Kämpfe actually responsible for ordering specific war crimes? My research thus far has not turned up any direct links, but the search continues. I believe Kämpfe, as one of Das Reich's battalion commanders, was scouting the road in his Kübelwagen, ranging ahead of the division en route to the invasion front, when he was cut off and captured. The division had been harassed & delayed by partisans since undertaking its transport, taking several casualties. The killing of the battalion commander was the last straw, for a division not used to such frustrating delays in Russia. The over the top reaction of raising the maquis more than 200 fold the death toll in Oradour, and ~99 civilians in Tulle finally forced the Maquis to suspend further harassment, enabling Das Reich unimpeded march to the front. Even so, i believe the regimental commander, Stadartenführer Sylvester Stadler, when informed of the Oradour massacre, sought court-martial charges against Stubaf. Diekmann. Divisional commander, Brigadeführer Heinz Lammerding approved the courtmartial orders, but Diekmann was already in combat in Normandy, and was shortly after killed in combat there.
Sarlin murdered over 7 million of his own people before the war and god knows how many million after the war. Also, Japan murdered more than 10 million people in China and they now say up to 5 million in other countries in the Far East. Maybe you should talk about this more and more.
We now know where the French got their lessons in torture and brutality which they put into play in Algeria and Vietnam..and ironically used SS troops recruited from the POW camps to fight in Vietnam ..
@@nomdeplume4030 Nonsense. The Germans and Japanese were treated very leniently. If you compare how the Germans treated the Jews, Poles and Russians and how the Japanese treated the Koreans and Chinese and Allied POWs, you'll see that in comparison the Germans and Japanese were treated very well. Many Japanese and German war criminals were not even punished and some even became rich and successful eg von Braun.
@@peterc4082 You’re right that many German war criminals were never punished, but I don’t believe that speaks to the commenter’s point. Not a single Allied or Soviet war criminal has ever been punished, so obviously the perpetrators benefited by being on the winning side. And after the war the Allies/Soviets ethnically cleansed 12+ million Germans, in which some two million simply disappeared. This was a crime against humanity, not lenient treatment, and clearly a consequence of being on the losing side.
At last somebody speaks of the events preceding Oradour sur Glen. Something I had read about some years ago and as I often wondered why such an indiscriminate act was carried out by the SS who were desperately trying to reach the front line at Normandy as quickly as possible. The old BBC TV series "Secret Army" often touched on the problems that resistance groups had with idealogicaly irresponsible communist groups who were happy to bring about reprisals, that sacrificed their own countrymen as in their twisted minds they believed that the ends justified the means and would harden their countrymen's hearts against the Germans. Was the capture of the ambulance a premeditated action IE did they know the seniority of one of the wounded passengers? If so, the cowardly act they did would have been a red flag for reprisals, would it not? There have also been suggestions and testimonies from former SS troops of the Das Reich that there was ammunition and explosives kept in the village and that the events were not quite as how they have since been portrayed. Of course they would say that but then I also have my doubts believing the words of those who would sacrifice their own people for a foreign imported ideology.
@@jamiedalton2623 France invaded Germany first in WWII in an offensive that was filmed, and shortly afterwards pulled back to their original line. The Maquis were also quite happy to kill other resistance fighters on political grounds, the division between the left and right that dogged France pre-war continued through it, and were still present when De Gaulle resigned in 1946 over having to share power with Communists.
@@tashatsu_vachel4477 The Resistance often created more problems for the Allies than they solved. The main thing the Allies wanted them for was to support the Invasion when it actually happened and they struggled to keep them from each other's throats. They were invaluable at the time of the Invasion though.
@@jamiedalton2623read a story about the lady called the "white mouse" who fought against nazis in france. She found some maquis kidnapped french young girls and used them as sex slaves. She released two girls, the 3rd was apparently a german spy, so she killed her. What i mean is, not just germans could be ruthless to the french, apparently the french themselves were the same. Not to mention the shaved women beaten, some even killed after the war bc they slept with germans. Some women had starving children, others may have had a sincere romance. Who is to interfere and stop a woman from loving a better man? What is if her german boyfriend was a better person than many frenchmen? There are plenty of german soldiers who were humane. I do know the french were the ones invaded but i don't see them all as victims.
That's moral relativism. What death camps did the French build? What Einsatzgruppen divisions did the French have? Nobody says war crimes did not occur on all sides but for every Allied war crime the Axis committed a 1000 or more.
What is not mentioned is the argument that the Germans targeted the wrong Oradour for reprisals. The narrative that came to me was that there is a nearby village, with a similar name, which was associated with the group which executed Kampfe. The SS made a mistake in map reading, or in general comprehension, which led to the wrong Oradour being blessed with their attention.
@8:56 I think you meant to say "Sentenced to death, and executed." It's a bit hard to be executed, then sentenced to death afterwards. (Insert all political and government retorts)
The French attacked Germany first in October 1939. As for the Maqui. They were communists, and criminal elements. They burned alive 5 German Soldiers. This was an outrage. The village of Orador Sur Glane had helped the Maqui. Who fought in civilian clothing, which was against the Geneva convention.
@@JoeLukes I asked a simple and direct question. Now we do know Germany created a false flag event to justify the invasion of Poland. Now can you show me evidence that France attacked Germany sir
Are there any war crimes at all being committed by the 3rd Bataillon DF while he was in charge of it ? After all, he was only in charge of around 500 of the more than 12000 soldiers Division Das Reich was consisting of...
Wow, Oradour sounds much like the Mỹ Trạch massacre in French Indochina November 1947 only three years after Oradour. Guerilla warfare is as nasty as it gets.
This was murder..plain an simple...a uniformed soldier..captured (by) a un uniformed mob (fact) and put to death in a bestiary way..not on his own but with other soldiers captured. THATIS a war crime...but it has been looked over. That in International law is a FACT...whether you like it or not..this Major WAS in a recognised uniform at the time and was murdered by people that have maqueraded as "freedom fighters" or "resistance fighter" however..where were they when the "real" soldiers turned up..and did what they did at Oradour? Mummy nowhere to be seen....THEY caused it
This is an interesting story, but you sound really stupid with statements like, "They knew he would probably be killed and slaughtered." and "Helmut Kämpfe would be executed and sentenced to death." It's like you don't understand the words you use.
"we defeated the wrong people" -Patton Listening to this story only backs me up when i defend the Germans of WW2. Holoco$$$$$$t we will be 90 years old still hearing about th holoco$$$$$t
The holocaust is running it's course almost everyone who survived is now dead just as almost everyone who was killed would be dead by now. It's legacy no longer unifies and protects Israel as it did even a few years ago. This was happening anyway and the Hamas attack which exposed dysfunctionality and disunity within Israel and reveals less sympathy internationally even if Gaza is effectively uninhabitable it has broken its grip upon everyone
France and England declared war on Germany who entered France to occupy because they did not want war on two fronts. Germany was forced into WWI & WWII
Why post such uniformed utter BS? A couple of minutes of checking would show that you are completely wrong. Let's be charitable and presume that you are just ignorant rather than being an apologist for the crimes of Nazi Germany. Do better.
You start your story by being carpentry biased towards these SS soldiers who were murdered by the resistance and had they not murdered these SS soldiers that French town would never have been destroyed as the resistance fighters were responsible for destruction of the town by murdering those soldiers reprisal were always carried out and the resistance fighters knew that
If anyone resorts to barbarian actions.....then there no better than the people there fighting.....very sad that the resistance did not choose the remain civilised.....Was anyone prosecuted for war crimes ?
i think the distinction could be made that the SS and their armies invaded the country of the resistance fighters. i hope you don't need to think for a living.
@@Mike___Honcho France declared war on Germany, not the other way around. How does that fit into your argument? And while you're at it, can you explain why the French resistance only became active after June 22, 1941?
@@JoeLukes joe, you are a nazi apologist. france and england declared war on germany because germany concocted the border incursion with poland and invaded poland. of course, you know all this, but you are disingenuous and dishonest in your arguments. go ahead and defend the SS and the nazis all you want. there is no equivalence between SS and french resistance actions, and there is no such thing as france started it. you have the brain power of a beetle.
@@JoeLukes germany started the war with the fake border incident with poland. france and england declared war on germany in response. you are one of a handful of history deniers in the world who think that germany did not start the war. you are disingenuous in your arguments as a nazi apologist, joe.
This is so much AI BS. No living human being a competent English speaker would speak like this.... with so much repetition backtracking, mixing of timelines and padding in a straightforward story...
German - Swiss American here! And FYI, my Great-Uncle died on a beach in Anzio, Italy, on February 19,1944. He was a STAFF SGT in the US ARMY! He was definitely NOT A SUCKER or a LOSER! The LOSER is Cadet Bone Spurs or as I call him A-GOLF TWITLER! 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🪖 🫡🫡🫡At least my Great-Uncle died fighting AGAINST NAZIS!
Don't come to Canada. Their former (and still elected MP within the ruling party) Chrtstia Freeland (former Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister) had a Waffen SS Grandfather of whom she says, quite openly, she admires very much. His name was Michael Chomiac, he was made Chief Editor of Krakia Visti, the anti-semetic German newspaper of a conquered Poland for the duration of WWII.
"Cadet Bone Spurs" how clever and humorous. As you should know Joe Biden's military service record is identical to Trump's record. Both men obtained 4 student deferments. Then Trump caught bone spurs from his draft notice and Biden caught asthma from his draft notice. Both men obtained 4F draft classifications.
He was wounded 10 times in less than six years? Guy apparently missed the day in basic training where they taught trainees how to duck. Was probably in the infirmary - wounded.
You seem to want to justify the murder (not execution) of this soldier by labelling him a 'war criminal'. Do you have any specific evidence that he was personally involved or responsible for war crimes, beyond the innuendos expressed in the video?
Did he have gold teeth think I watched documentary Hitler's death army ,my uncle was on d day so french resistance slowing them down and the fact they couldn't control there bloodlust and sending a message rather than getting somewhere of importance like Normandy probably saved his and others lifes
Because his name was Helmut Kampfe , as like in Hitlers book Mein Kampfe Does that mean his last name was Struggle . If so , how ironic , because i am sure he would have " Struggled " to escape the Ambulance
Mein Kampf means MY FIGHT, so Kämpfe means Fighter (although written in a differnt way, as it should be Kämpfer). The english translation from Kampf to struggle is misleading.
Yes, I would think so.My dad went to Boys Technical Highschool in Milwaukee.Thete was a teacher named Grosskmupf, not sure I, spelling it right.Anyhow the name means Bighead.My dad said German last names can be very descriptive. I remember this because a fellow student wondered what the teacher,s name meant.My brother in law went to college with a woman named Schreckengeist.It means shrieking ghost, or frighting ghost.
@@hildahilpert5018 Could have been Groß/Grosskopp or Groß/Grosskopf or a lot of differnt other spellings, depending on where his ancestors lived (dialect). German names are descriptive: Schwarzkopf, Groß, Klein, Dick, Fett etc. or where your family comes from Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris etc. or your work Schmidt,Schmid,Schmitt or sometimes at what time you had to work for your lord (frondienst Fro (middle high german for Herr (as in master) and dienst -service as in S
People just don’t understand. Being in the SS in Germany was the cultural equivalent to being in the Marines in the US. Many of not most would have given the same service regardless of which side they were on.
You either need meds or a history book. The ss were not even technically a formal part of the military they were more akin to mercenaries that directly served the political party of Hitler and more specifically swore loyalty to Heinrich Himmler. Just to let you know though it's honestly not entirely relevent the modern laws of the United states regarding mercenaries which again the ss were most legally akin to something like this couldn't legally be considered a war crime as mercenaries's human rights weren't protected. Of course these were French resistance during ww2 but still this would have been legally exempt even at the time due to a variety of factors. One rebels are in a similarly legal greyzone. Two Keep in mind individual war crimes like this were actually pretty hard to deal with both due to the general context of WW2 as a war that needed to be fought horribly due to the axis literally shredding their own military rights documents allowing them to technically from a legal perspective be has horrible on the front as warnted. Three and perhaps most importantly why most allied war crimes weren't tried period is that the UN and Geneva conventions weren't truly established until during the war this is the chief reason why Soviet war crimes couldn't be charged but why Germans and Japanese were they would have technically been protected under the league of nations laws only both Germany and Japan deliberately left the league to legally justify the genocides in the event they potentially won WW2. You don't have to like what these French troops did hell you can even feel bad for the victim I don't understand why you would unless you support Nazis but that's well within your right to believe. However you can't complain that the ss were something they weren't if you don't want to be called an idiot nor bigot here's some advice one just don't be a bigot or an idiot two actually learn your history and do some research before you make yourself look dumb. Thank you Merry Christmas.
@@ImperialKnight86❤ Hi. Merry Christmas. Thank you for this educational piece of WW II History. Yes, it's Christmas Day. No partner, No Pet, Not even a picture of a Goldfish. Yes, 2 windows with lights and 2 Santa Decorations waving. 1 tiny Nativity. All good. 5 of my 8 sisters are sick, each is 3 & 6 yrs - 10 years older than me. 2 use walkers. 1 flew to see her son who lives in the Westcoast. I detail the backstory to my "Thank You" bcz people are alone during Xmas/New Years for many different reasons. A life fact which is Sad but True is as we age, 1 by 1, Death shrinks our Family Circle and Close Friends. No one wants to be the Last one standing. Know this one other Truth, once our Dear Parents Pass Away all Holidays are never the same. 😢 A few yrs ago, I attended 3 grief counseling sessions hosted by my Mother's Hospice Nurses for those who had just Lost their Mothers. My point: I am seated beside a man who looked age 80 to 85. He is balling crying. Here he was 82. He had just Lost his Mother. Ready, his Mom was age 105. He was her eldest. The 2 had out lived all but 3 cousins. His Mom buried 5 of her 6 children. This Man was weeping something terrible. Next, all of us are crying. We needed extra boxes of tissues. Age matters not. I end on this note: EACH DAY ABOVE GROUND IS A GOOD DAY! ❤😊❤ HNY 🎉2025. Thanks again. 😊
@@waffleboywonder8868 I am talking about the way they felt about it not some worthless Liberal looking for virtue signal opportunities on social media. You just wasted a lot of writing. Stop and think before you act.
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“He would be executed AND sentenced to death?” 😂
I think its the other way around
Yeah, this dude does say loads of weird, dumb stuff like that. Often lazy with facts. Just kinda sloppy.
My condolences to the ambulance.
Exactly, what the heck did it do! 😢
lol wrong side bud
Kampf and his driver were captured and executed, his best friend and fellow battalion commander, Diekmann, searched and found what was left, and then took out his rage on Oradour sur Glane. Diekmann was brought up on charges by his regimental commander who did NOT remove him from command as the division was soon to be engaged and told Diekmann after the action he would be tried. Unfortunately for justice, Diekmann was killed in action shortly there after.
Or perhaps fortunately for justice because I doubt the SS would have executed one of their own.
Happy Christmas. I've uploaded this on Xmas Day Evening as some of my viewers I know are on their own today, and some normality may be of comfort for them. Happy Holidays all to you and your families.
Merry Christmas 🎅
Merry Christmas to you and yours and thank you for thinking of us who are alone on this festive day .
Happy boxing day 🎁
Your propaganda is bad and you should feel bad. I doubt you celebrate Christmas. ✡
Thank you so much for thinking about the people who are alone on the holidays and trying to do something to make their day better.
You are taking pain out of the world and putting good into the world.
There is nothing as noble as that, and you deserve to have someone tell you this, in case you missed it.
What a waste of an ambulance....
I know. Someone could have needed that ambulance.
@@jessicapayne8622 The people of Oradour paid the price, not the cowards who carried out the murder. The Maquis disappeared into the countryside leaving civilians undefended.
I doubt it was a serviceable ambulance.
@ shhhh!
You need help.
What is interesting is that Adolf Diekmann, who ordered the Oradour massacre was charged over the killings by SS-Standartenführer Sylvester Stadler but charges were dropped when Diekmann was KIA. Kampfe did not die alone in that ambulance. Injured German soldiers were also murdered in that way. Violence breeds violence.
Soldiers or SS?
@@peterc4082 There really is no difference in theory since the Waffen SS was an official fighting force with uniforms etc. So the are classified as combatants under the rule of the conduct of war.
@@doomhippie6673 You can be a combatant and a war criminal at the same time. The one does not preclude the other. The SS was declared a criminal organisation at the Nuremberg War Trials.
@@peterc4082 they weren’t all burned alive, though were they
@@peterc4082 it does not change the fact SS were protected by convention as any other soldier
Merry Christmas to you. Thanks for your videos.
Merry christmas?
Merry Xmas to you..
Merry Christmas 🇮🇪
Really you don’t sound too sure.
Merry Christmas everyone,
I live near where the battle of the bulge took place.
Merry Christmas 🖖
Who committed the war crime of firing on a marked ambulance??
Indeed. As I understand it, Resistance groups were generally not protected under the conventions at the time and therefore, it can be argued as to who actually committed the atrocities?
I say that as the descendent of two resistance fighters. Both brave, as they know that they could expect no quarter for their actions.
War gets to points of no quarter given. The Japanese would target medics in the pacific war. During very hard battles Stalingrad, Bastogne medics had no respite and from day one in Poland to the end many Red Cross marked buildings, planes, vehicles, and ships were hit by accident or on purpose. Many an air force hit targets marked with Red Cross’s without realizing it during the confusion of aerial ground attacks. It happened a lot.
Burned alive in an ambulance ? Oh dear; how sad, never mind
A prisoner of war too
It took about 50 years before someone mentioned the reason the SS burned the village. In any case, being a member of the Waffen SS does not automatically make Kemplfe a war criminal. I'm sure he committed war crimes (by our definition today), but probably no more than did the Russians and partisans he fought against.
The French "Resistance" were nothing but sadistic Communist thugs. Today we would call the terrorists. Many continued their careers, and ways, in Palestine from 1948 onwards.
Acts of resistance cannot be compared to the crimes of an invader. The occupation forces were not invited.
My grandmother lived through two occupations in Calabria. Both were ruthless and the British in some ways even more so as they were bombed by the facists relentlessly in Great Britian.
@@AnEnemy100 tell that to Palestine homie
@@AnEnemy100 Rules of war apply to both.
Fantastic journalism 👏
Ever noticed how the narrative about the Oradour atrocity never mentions why the SS went there and massacred the population? Kampfe was a criminal as were the soldiers of the Das Reich that murdered the civilians, but his murder and it was murder. as he was captured along with the ambulance staff offer a true motivation to Oradour. Conveniently this is rarely mentioned.Without perspective and all the facts History is truly written by the victors as always.
Read your comment again.
Not murder, the Gestapo and SS ruthlessly slaughtered civilians for several years, that is why there was a resistance in the 1st place
".... never mentions why the SS massacred the population?" Are you implying that there was mitigating circumstances justifying the slaughter.
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@@Jebediah1999 My comment clearly states that the soldiers were criminals and that murder was committed.There is no excuse for war crimes.Regarding kampfe and the ambulance staff,once they were captured it is a war crime to execute them without due process, read the Hague convention.It's irrelevant how odious the captives are, that's why the numerous war crimes trials were initiated.No party can summarily execute prisoners from whatever side.That's war crimes.
The resistance was counting on atrocities/reprisals.
Merry Christmas and thank you for all you do to educate
Terrible things happen when civilians take up arms against an occupying army . More so in a country where the government has surrendered. Sadly the allies fully encouraged and supported these guerrilla and partisan operations. It came at great cost to the civilian population
Is Kämpfe actually responsible for ordering specific war crimes? My research thus far has not turned up any direct links, but the search continues. I believe Kämpfe, as one of Das Reich's battalion commanders, was scouting the road in his Kübelwagen, ranging ahead of the division en route to the invasion front, when he was cut off and captured. The division had been harassed & delayed by partisans since undertaking its transport, taking several casualties. The killing of the battalion commander was the last straw, for a division not used to such frustrating delays in Russia. The over the top reaction of raising the maquis more than 200 fold the death toll in Oradour, and ~99 civilians in Tulle finally forced the Maquis to suspend further harassment, enabling Das Reich unimpeded march to the front.
Even so, i believe the regimental commander, Stadartenführer Sylvester Stadler, when informed of the Oradour massacre, sought court-martial charges against Stubaf. Diekmann. Divisional commander, Brigadeführer Heinz Lammerding approved the courtmartial orders, but Diekmann was already in combat in Normandy, and was shortly after killed in combat there.
Sarlin murdered over 7 million of his own people before the war and god knows how many million after the war. Also, Japan murdered more than 10 million people in China and they now say up to 5 million in other countries in the Far East. Maybe you should talk about this more and more.
One of the biggest "crimes" in war is being on the losing side...
We now know where the French got their lessons in torture and brutality which they put into play in Algeria and Vietnam..and ironically used SS troops recruited from the POW camps to fight in Vietnam ..
And the holocaust in Palestine.
@@nomdeplume4030 Nonsense. The Germans and Japanese were treated very leniently. If you compare how the Germans treated the Jews, Poles and Russians and how the Japanese treated the Koreans and Chinese and Allied POWs, you'll see that in comparison the Germans and Japanese were treated very well. Many Japanese and German war criminals were not even punished and some even became rich and successful eg von Braun.
@@peterc4082 You’re right that many German war criminals were never punished, but I don’t believe that speaks to the commenter’s point. Not a single Allied or Soviet war criminal has ever been punished, so obviously the perpetrators benefited by being on the winning side. And after the war the Allies/Soviets ethnically cleansed 12+ million Germans, in which some two million simply disappeared. This was a crime against humanity, not lenient treatment, and clearly a consequence of being on the losing side.
In the context of total war with countless innocents lost to a hateful ideology that this man fought for nothing is 'the most ruthless'
How do you know the ambulance wasn't a Tesla?
Do so much research but can’t speak sense. Killed and executed? Really? Do better
AI written/spoken BS....just rubbish narration by a bot....several comments about it...
At last somebody speaks of the events preceding Oradour sur Glen. Something I had read about some years ago and as I often wondered why such an indiscriminate act was carried out by the SS who were desperately trying to reach the front line at Normandy as quickly as possible. The old BBC TV series "Secret Army" often touched on the problems that resistance groups had with idealogicaly irresponsible communist groups who were happy to bring about reprisals, that sacrificed their own countrymen as in their twisted minds they believed that the ends justified the means and would harden their countrymen's hearts against the Germans. Was the capture of the ambulance a premeditated action IE did they know the seniority of one of the wounded passengers? If so, the cowardly act they did would have been a red flag for reprisals, would it not? There have also been suggestions and testimonies from former SS troops of the Das Reich that there was ammunition and explosives kept in the village and that the events were not quite as how they have since been portrayed. Of course they would say that but then I also have my doubts believing the words of those who would sacrifice their own people for a foreign imported ideology.
There has to be a reason why evidence from the post war investigation/trial is still being kept secret by French authorities.
Video is padded out by constant repetition....
Poor Ambulance
"Would I rather be feared or loved easy both I want people to be afraid of how much they loved me"-Michael Scott the office
The head of the resistance against Kampfe might have been named Luigi
I would think that a skilled leader wouldnt get captured and executed on land that their military controlled.
But that’s just me….
He was in transit with just a driver. Easy to ambush
Poor Ambulance .. Innocent victim ..:(
Sounds fair to me.. evil begets evil.. ruthless marquis were no different to the SS
Who invaded who again?
@@jamiedalton2623 France invaded Germany first in WWII in an offensive that was filmed, and shortly afterwards pulled back to their original line. The Maquis were also quite happy to kill other resistance fighters on political grounds, the division between the left and right that dogged France pre-war continued through it, and were still present when De Gaulle resigned in 1946 over having to share power with Communists.
@@tashatsu_vachel4477 The Resistance often created more problems for the Allies than they solved. The main thing the Allies wanted them for was to support the Invasion when it actually happened and they struggled to keep them from each other's throats.
They were invaluable at the time of the Invasion though.
@@jamiedalton2623read a story about the lady called the "white mouse"
who fought against nazis in france.
She found some maquis kidnapped french young girls and used them as sex slaves.
She released two girls, the 3rd was apparently a german spy, so she killed her.
What i mean is, not just germans could be ruthless to the french, apparently the french themselves were the same.
Not to mention the shaved women beaten, some even killed after the war bc they slept with germans.
Some women had starving children, others may have had a sincere romance.
Who is to interfere and stop a woman from loving a better man?
What is if her german boyfriend was a better person than many frenchmen?
There are plenty of german soldiers who were humane.
I do know the french were the ones invaded but i don't see them all as victims.
@@jamiedalton2623 France declared war on Germany. Newsflash: Rules of war appiles to those invaded as well. Ask the Iraqis...
War crimes on both sides. Who would've guessed?
Partisans are not participants in the Geneva Convention, you must be a Wehraboo
@@pnwesterner6220 What’s your point and what’s a ‘Wehraboo’?
Humans are all capable of extreme violence
No such thing as a "War Crime" unless you win the War and call it a Crime.
There are no winners in war. However the victors always try to exonerate themselves for the crimes they also committed.
bollocks
That's moral relativism. What death camps did the French build? What Einsatzgruppen divisions did the French have? Nobody says war crimes did not occur on all sides but for every Allied war crime the Axis committed a 1000 or more.
war crime vs. war crime 😐
Where is your evidence?
It is not a war crime, partisans are not participants in the Geneva Convention.
@@pnwesterner6220 you dont understand what a war crime is? 🙄
@@benwilson6145 did you actually listen to the upload? 🧐
@@Tal-q3r who cares!
What is not mentioned is the argument that the Germans targeted the wrong Oradour for reprisals. The narrative that came to me was that there is a nearby village, with a similar name, which was associated with the group which executed Kampfe. The SS made a mistake in map reading, or in general comprehension, which led to the wrong Oradour being blessed with their attention.
and now we ' know' the rest of the story.
Nasty stuff, but it is total war.
Why kill ambulance drivers? Because they were german? Thats messed up
All around brutal scenarios.
@8:56 I think you meant to say "Sentenced to death, and executed." It's a bit hard to be executed, then sentenced to death afterwards. (Insert all political and government retorts)
The French attacked Germany first in October 1939. As for the Maqui. They were communists, and criminal elements. They burned alive 5 German Soldiers. This was an outrage. The village of Orador Sur Glane had helped the Maqui. Who fought in civilian clothing, which was against the Geneva convention.
Evidence of that sir
@@thisislaflaretv5250 Let's be real. Are you actually asking for evidence that France declared war on Germany?
@@JoeLukes I asked a simple and direct question. Now we do know Germany created a false flag event to justify the invasion of Poland. Now can you show me evidence that France attacked Germany sir
@@JoeLukes So let's get real sir.
@@JoeLukes well France did in 1939
Are there any war crimes at all being committed by the 3rd Bataillon DF while he was in charge of it ? After all, he was only in charge of around 500 of the more than 12000 soldiers Division Das Reich was consisting of...
Wow, Oradour sounds much like the Mỹ Trạch massacre in French Indochina November 1947 only three years after Oradour. Guerilla warfare is as nasty as it gets.
This was repetative and too long
Interesting topiiiiiiiiics. I just despise the unbearable cadence of the narratorrrrrrrr.
So, harrowing war crimes vs harrowing war crimes. Not different from My Lai.
Very different from My Lai.
War crime on BOTH sides
Terrible times
This was murder..plain an simple...a uniformed soldier..captured (by) a un uniformed mob (fact) and put to death in a bestiary way..not on his own but with other soldiers captured. THATIS a war crime...but it has been looked over. That in International law is a FACT...whether you like it or not..this Major WAS in a recognised uniform at the time and was murdered by people that have maqueraded as "freedom fighters" or "resistance fighter" however..where were they when the "real" soldiers turned up..and did what they did at Oradour?
Mummy nowhere to be seen....THEY caused it
You're insane.
@@sayrerowan734 insane? Why? Give me an explanation why?
@@sayrerowan734 OK...so..in recent past..you see the burning of the Jordanian pilot by ISIS as OK?
@@sayrerowan734 Is that insane? Is that OK for you?
A brutal and barbaric man and recognised war criminal??
Where did you come up with that rubbish.
He was not executed he was ruthlessly murdered by a mob. Which triggered the response.. the French resistance knew what they risked.
This is an interesting story, but you sound really stupid with statements like, "They knew he would
probably be killed and slaughtered." and "Helmut Kämpfe would be executed and sentenced to death." It's like you don't understand the words you use.
"we defeated the wrong people" -Patton
Listening to this story only backs me up when i defend the Germans of WW2. Holoco$$$$$$t we will be 90 years old still hearing about th holoco$$$$$t
The holocaust is running it's course almost everyone who survived is now dead just as almost everyone who was killed would be dead by now. It's legacy no longer unifies and protects Israel as it did even a few years ago. This was happening anyway and the Hamas attack which exposed dysfunctionality and disunity within Israel and reveals less sympathy internationally even if Gaza is effectively uninhabitable it has broken its grip upon everyone
Is the narration done by a human or ai?
that's a WAR CRIME.
Ohhh nooo. Anyway.
Oh darn
France and England declared war on Germany who entered France to occupy because they did not want war on two fronts. Germany was forced into WWI & WWII
Why post such uniformed utter BS? A couple of minutes of checking would show that you are completely wrong. Let's be charitable and presume that you are just ignorant rather than being an apologist for the crimes of Nazi Germany. Do better.
@@knightsnight5929 That France and England declared war on Germany (September 3, 1939) is a simple fact of History, so what exactly are you disputing?
Brave French soldiers😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
You start your story by being carpentry biased towards these SS soldiers who were murdered by the resistance and had they not murdered these SS soldiers that French town would never have been destroyed as the resistance fighters were responsible for destruction of the town by murdering those soldiers reprisal were always carried out and the resistance fighters knew that
If anyone resorts to barbarian actions.....then there no better than the people there fighting.....very sad that the resistance did not choose the remain civilised.....Was anyone prosecuted for war crimes ?
The frwnch initiated oradur
Does anyone know what, 'Peepowe' are. I am having trouble with the voiceover to this video.
Do you have a timestamp where he says it because I have no clue what you're talking about
Well it is clear that those French "resistance fighters" are just the same as this SS guy.
How to tell people you're are a skin head without telling people you're a skin head.
i think the distinction could be made that the SS and their armies invaded the country of the resistance fighters. i hope you don't need to think for a living.
@@Mike___Honcho France declared war on Germany, not the other way around. How does that fit into your argument? And while you're at it, can you explain why the French resistance only became active after June 22, 1941?
@@JoeLukes joe, you are a nazi apologist. france and england declared war on germany because germany concocted the border incursion with poland and invaded poland. of course, you know all this, but you are disingenuous and dishonest in your arguments. go ahead and defend the SS and the nazis all you want. there is no equivalence between SS and french resistance actions, and there is no such thing as france started it. you have the brain power of a beetle.
@@JoeLukes germany started the war with the fake border incident with poland. france and england declared war on germany in response. you are one of a handful of history deniers in the world who think that germany did not start the war. you are disingenuous in your arguments as a nazi apologist, joe.
Apparently Germans weren't the only ones known for their cruelty.
@@Thomas-yr9ln Humans are known for their cruelty.....regardless where they come from
Because no one ist talking about American war crimes.😢 for example Rheinwiesen Camps😢
This is so much AI BS.
No living human being a competent English speaker would speak like this.... with so much repetition backtracking, mixing of timelines and padding in a straightforward story...
@@JohnSmith-pl2bk and bad grammar
Pretty sure weve seen videos of him speakin just like this so....
Its not AI, he talks like this normally and has been doing this stuff for years
@@JS-wp4gsyes, you can tell AI because it can never pronounce names, especially names like Kampfe.
A disgrace. This is an actual war crime.
Only for people that love and idolize Nazis.
This is exactly the same in Ukraine and Gazza.
idiot
Wikipedia must now use notification of the holocaust in Palestine as a warning to viewers.
What holocaust in palestine you mean? The pogroms against Jews in all Arab countries in the 1940s?
German - Swiss American here! And FYI, my Great-Uncle died on a beach in Anzio, Italy, on February 19,1944. He was a STAFF SGT in the US ARMY! He was definitely NOT A SUCKER or a LOSER! The LOSER is Cadet Bone Spurs or as I call him A-GOLF TWITLER! 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🪖 🫡🫡🫡At least my Great-Uncle died fighting AGAINST NAZIS!
Now the USA is supporting Nazis in Ukraine; but it seems not for much longer.
Don't come to Canada. Their former (and still elected MP within the ruling party) Chrtstia Freeland (former Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister) had a Waffen SS Grandfather of whom she says, quite openly, she admires very much. His name was Michael Chomiac, he was made Chief Editor of Krakia Visti, the anti-semetic German newspaper of a conquered Poland for the duration of WWII.
"Cadet Bone Spurs" how clever and humorous. As you should know Joe Biden's military service record is identical
to Trump's record. Both men obtained 4 student deferments. Then Trump caught bone spurs from his draft notice
and Biden caught asthma from his draft notice. Both men obtained 4F draft classifications.
What is a ‘German - Swiss American’? Where were you born? If you were born in America you’re just a plain old American.
This narrator is terrible !!!!!
He was wounded 10 times in less than six years? Guy apparently missed the day in basic training where they taught trainees how to duck.
Was probably in the infirmary - wounded.
You seem to want to justify the murder (not execution) of this soldier by labelling him a 'war criminal'. Do you have any specific evidence that he was personally involved or responsible for war crimes, beyond the innuendos expressed in the video?
Let's be real are you sympathetic to the Waffen SS?
@@thisislaflaretv5250 Let's be real, are you sympathetic to due process?
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@@thisislaflaretv5250 the Waffen ss at that time were a fighting force. Stop letting your heart rule your head
@@thisislaflaretv5250lets be real , are you sympathetic to murder?
Canadian health care when they hear you feel sad
Did he have gold teeth think I watched documentary Hitler's death army ,my uncle was on d day so french resistance slowing them down and the fact they couldn't control there bloodlust and sending a message rather than getting somewhere of importance like Normandy probably saved his and others lifes
Cruel but not unfair
Because his name was Helmut Kampfe , as like in Hitlers book Mein Kampfe Does that mean his last name was Struggle . If so , how ironic , because i am sure he would have " Struggled " to escape the Ambulance
Mein Kampf means MY FIGHT, so Kämpfe means Fighter (although written in a differnt way, as it should be Kämpfer). The english translation from Kampf to struggle is misleading.
Yes, I would think so.My dad went to Boys Technical Highschool in Milwaukee.Thete was a teacher named Grosskmupf, not sure I, spelling it right.Anyhow the name means Bighead.My dad said German last names can be very descriptive. I remember this because a fellow student wondered what the teacher,s name meant.My brother in law went to college with a woman named Schreckengeist.It means shrieking ghost, or frighting ghost.
@@hildahilpert5018 Could have been Groß/Grosskopp or Groß/Grosskopf or a lot of differnt other spellings, depending on where his ancestors lived (dialect). German names are descriptive: Schwarzkopf, Groß, Klein, Dick, Fett etc. or where your family comes from Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris etc. or your work Schmidt,Schmid,Schmitt or sometimes at what time you had to work for your lord (frondienst Fro (middle high german for Herr (as in master) and dienst -service as in S
People just don’t understand. Being in the SS in Germany was the cultural equivalent to being in the Marines in the US. Many of not most would have given the same service regardless of which side they were on.
Lol no. One is a military and the other belongs to a political party with certain beliefs. Not comparable.
You either need meds or a history book. The ss were not even technically a formal part of the military they were more akin to mercenaries that directly served the political party of Hitler and more specifically swore loyalty to Heinrich Himmler. Just to let you know though it's honestly not entirely relevent the modern laws of the United states regarding mercenaries which again the ss were most legally akin to something like this couldn't legally be considered a war crime as mercenaries's human rights weren't protected. Of course these were French resistance during ww2 but still this would have been legally exempt even at the time due to a variety of factors. One rebels are in a similarly legal greyzone. Two Keep in mind individual war crimes like this were actually pretty hard to deal with both due to the general context of WW2 as a war that needed to be fought horribly due to the axis literally shredding their own military rights documents allowing them to technically from a legal perspective be has horrible on the front as warnted. Three and perhaps most importantly why most allied war crimes weren't tried period is that the UN and Geneva conventions weren't truly established until during the war this is the chief reason why Soviet war crimes couldn't be charged but why Germans and Japanese were they would have technically been protected under the league of nations laws only both Germany and Japan deliberately left the league to legally justify the genocides in the event they potentially won WW2. You don't have to like what these French troops did hell you can even feel bad for the victim I don't understand why you would unless you support Nazis but that's well within your right to believe. However you can't complain that the ss were something they weren't if you don't want to be called an idiot nor bigot here's some advice one just don't be a bigot or an idiot two actually learn your history and do some research before you make yourself look dumb. Thank you Merry Christmas.
@@ImperialKnight86❤ Hi. Merry Christmas. Thank you for this educational piece of WW II History. Yes, it's Christmas Day. No partner, No Pet, Not even a picture of a Goldfish. Yes, 2 windows with lights and 2 Santa Decorations waving. 1 tiny Nativity. All good. 5 of my 8 sisters are sick, each is 3 & 6 yrs - 10 years older than me. 2 use walkers. 1 flew to see her son who lives in the Westcoast. I detail the backstory to my "Thank You" bcz people are alone during Xmas/New Years for many different reasons. A life fact which is Sad but True is as we age, 1 by 1, Death shrinks our Family Circle and Close Friends. No one wants to be the Last one standing. Know this one other Truth, once our Dear Parents Pass Away all Holidays are never the same. 😢 A few yrs ago, I attended 3 grief counseling sessions hosted by my Mother's Hospice Nurses for those who had just Lost their Mothers. My point: I am seated beside a man who looked age 80 to 85. He is balling crying. Here he was 82. He had just Lost his Mother. Ready, his Mom was age 105. He was her eldest. The 2 had out lived all but 3 cousins. His Mom buried 5 of her 6 children. This Man was weeping something terrible. Next, all of us are crying. We needed extra boxes of tissues. Age matters not. I end on this note: EACH DAY ABOVE GROUND IS A GOOD DAY! ❤😊❤ HNY 🎉2025.
Thanks again. 😊
They swore loyalty to Hitler @@waffleboywonder8868
@@waffleboywonder8868 I am talking about the way they felt about it not some worthless Liberal looking for virtue signal opportunities on social media. You just wasted a lot of writing. Stop and think before you act.
A name like The Untold Past should be based on objective honesty. LOL
Now he knows how the people felt in the gas vans .
Diesel fumes can't kill you.
Sick
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Waffen ss sounds a lot like the modern IDF
I mean I don’t see ww2 Germany having a terror attack against them starting it 🤷♂️
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Hm... what?
Theres a reason we need US troops there. Who lets this evil shit pass?
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They had a burning desire to get rid of him.
the germans mentioned here is why IGF about magdeburg...
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I remember reading something about the resistance ambushing lorries loaded with gold and kampfe and ss where send to get it back