Belarusian Collaboration with Germany in World War II (1941 - 1945)
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2021
- Belarus during World War II suffered greatly. What about Byelorussian collaboration with Germany? Belarusian collaborators did work as local administrators. There was Belarusian Auxilary Police, the Byelorussian Popular Self-Aid Organization (BNS), the Byelorussian Self-Defense (BSA), the Union of Byelorussian Youth (SBM), the Byelorussian Central Council (BCR), the Belorussian Home Guard (BKA), the 30th Waffen-Grenadier Division der SS (Russian No. 2) and the 30. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (weißruthenische Nr. 1). The BCR (Belarusian Rada, led by Radasłaŭ Astroŭski was the highest form of Belarusian collaboration in WW2. Learn more about Belorussian history: Belorussian collaboration in the Second World War.
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- The Kings and the Pawns: Collaboration in Byelorussia during World War II (Leonid Rein).
- Collaboration in the Holocaust Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941-44 (Martin Dean).
- Foreign Legions of the Third Reich Volume 4 (Littlejohn David).
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I left out the following:
Many Belarussians feared Stalin more than Hitler and since pro-German newspapers published photos and stories of atrocities committed by Soviet partisans, many weren't aware of the fact that German atrocities had claimed many more Belarussian lives.
More on Belarus during WW2:
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Quite right.
@Thanos 6.0 Indeed, well said. Think the Soviet occupation was longer than the German one.
Omstreeks 9:00 komt dit wel degelijk in de video voor :)
Excellent video. Loved the quote “A dark future waited for them, or no future.” Could be a movie quote.
Thanks for your reply, Dan 👌
I am going to enjoy this
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Well made summary of Belorussian history. Use of quotes gives more insight.
Thanks, Marko!
Love your channel! Lots of great information that isn’t talked about much here in America, the Eastern Front was truly horrific beyond comparison and I think it’s important that we learn from those terrible mistakes to make sure it never happens again
Thanks for your reply!
When you are between a rock and a hard place sometimes you have to dance with the Devil.
As always an excellent video BZ
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I really love these. They are such a great break in my often overly busy day. Thanks again for the great work.
Thanks, Brent. Hope you had a good day.
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Nice tip of the hat to you too!!
One of the best productions yet!
They only get better and better!!
Your English is getting rather good!
Becoming a legendary history teacher!
Great you find it improving! :D
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Thanks for another wonderful video, have a pleasant weekend:).
Thanks, have a good weekend!
The women threw flowers at the feet of German advance troops. They thought they were going to be saved from Stalin. After the SS units showed up, there were no more flowers left. They had all been used on graves.
Dark reality.
why ´d SS do it?
@@Adam.G.Trapper is this an honest assumption tho?
@@freckleheckler6311 I am a Belarusian, my grandmother Maryja survived Nazi German and much longer Moscow Marxist (Soviet) occupation, I spent hours and hours listening her WW2 stories before she past away, so I know the drill, so where did you get information about SS units killing random Belarusians villagers? my guess you mistook "SS units " for NKVD bandits . ua-cam.com/video/RmxTyyRvrzI/v-deo.html The video tells about a war - crime in the village of Drazhna (Drarzna) - were 25 civilians killed in 1943 by NKVD "partisans" of three Soviet and one Jewish detachment. ua-cam.com/video/C6CQPHv4M34/v-deo.html
@@HistoryHustle name couple of examples, please, random Belarusian villagers attacked by SS units . my guess you mistook "SS units " for NKVD bandits . ua-cam.com/video/RmxTyyRvrzI/v-deo.html The video tells about a war - crime in the village of Drazhna (Drarzna) - were 25 civilians killed in 1943 by NKVD "partisans" of three Soviet and one Jewish detachment. ua-cam.com/video/C6CQPHv4M34/v-deo.html
This video provides context to why Lukashenko and his regime is calling the white-red-white flag used by the opposition to his regime "fascist", but if it is indeed fascist, then so is the white-blue-red Russian flag and many other currently used.
Yes, indeed!
"white-red-white flag used by the opposition to his regime "fascist"" BS, Whats about Polish, French, Danish etc, Flags ? the similar situation was everywhere in Europe ....
I first saw you when I searched up how germany kept going in ww2. I just wanted to say that I hope you continue with the good content. I wish you well
Many thanks for your reply. Great you're still aboard 🙂
Nice work - as usual - and I mean it as a compliment. It's sad that UA-cam try to censor history (regarding your previous video) it's happening over and over with those who try to educate is about history.
Try to keep up the good work and your head up, we appreciate the time you put into this.
Great to read, thanks for your reply.
Very interesting, description of before war situation in Poland and on Soviet's side quite correct.
Thanks for your reply, Maciej!
Since you talk about axis volunteers now, Please make a video about the Slovenian home guard,they are Slovenian volunteers in the german army.
Sounds interesting. One day.
Keep hustling that history! Great work
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Another very interesting video. Keep up the good work
Thank you, Kiran!
Dear Mr. Hustle, I think you are the Hustlest. I enjoy all the detail, presentation and unique history. Thank you
Thanks for watching.
Mixed of all sorts of feelings with your History channel,with how it makes me feel😪...but Thank you for aiding my knowledge in a simpler way.Take care💚
Thanks as always for your comments, Stella!
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Great accounts of little known WW2 historical events , interesting, refreshing and well constructed commentary , a study by an enthusiastic History teacher, as only a Dutchman can do ,, Outstanding!!
Many thanks for your reply, Tom!
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I have Northern Irish roots ,, perhaps an impartial historical over view of the Dutch DNA , that still exists in all things political ... & is in essence the bedrock of the paramilitary & civil unrest that is in the modern time we live in the rest of Western Europe, still very real , volatile & alive in its 17th century form in the six counties of gods country today ,
Cheers mate
Excellent Content, I only wish you were my History Professor in college ❤️👍Thank you for sharing your wonderful knowledge 💪
Many thanks as ever for your enthusiastic reply! :)
Good stuff. Well researched.
Thank you, David!
Very Interesting as always !
Thanks!
Thank you. I really don't kno much abt eastern Europe during or after wwii. I appreciate your videos. 🐎
You're welcome.
Theres a soviet movie "Come and see". Its about the German army in Belarus
Good movie that is.
@@HistoryHustle yea, i left a link in my comment on this video to it
there is a very good book by Nina Markovna, Nina's Journey, about life in the USSR before and during the war. Safe to say it won't be made into a film certainly not by Hollywood or Russia. Her account of the "liberation" of Feodesia by the Red Army in December 1941 sounds like what millions of German girls would endure several years later. I highly recommend her book.
False, Germanophobic propaganda. In reality it was not the Germans who burnt the village, but Grigory Vasyura's detachment (it was his personal initiative), which consisted of Russians and Ukrainians. The village was also burned by Stalin (order 428, scorched earth). You are recommending a false, propaganda hate film.
@@tylerhiggins3522 dont know about that. What i know is that Dirlewanger was a criminal. If he didnt do it to that village he did it to another ones
Once again, you have delivered the goods! Well done Stefan....Peace from the Republic of Ireland!
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Super informacie, ďakujem 👍✊
Thanks for your reply!
Great channel with very interesting video s , give this man the credits he deserve !
Thank you so much for your praise as always!
Excellent video. Bravo.!!!!
Thank you!
I wish you were my history teacher, so much energy in every video. Keep up the aswome work.
Also do you still teach in school or has UA-cam become full part job?
Thanks for your reply. I work 0,8 as teacher and 0,5 as UA-camr haha.
@@HistoryHustle just remember to take a day off. Dont want you to be burned
Do you know anything about the Dutch Farmers who went to the USSR to farm for the Germans? That would be an interesting story. Thanks for the hard work you do!! Great Channel
Little. I know there weren't many. Perhaps something for the future.
Make a story about Dutch collaboration, and why Dutch had proportionally the highest number of Jews who were deported and murdered. What is very disgusting, that Dutch used Anna Frank to portray themselves as a nation of rescuers, and not a nation of collaborators and mercenaries , who they were.
And what is also disgusting how the Dutch treated Dutch Jews who survived the camps, did not want to give them back their property , did not help with rehabilitation. Demanded taxes to be payed for the property for the time they were in the camps.
At least the Germans were honest - they murdered and stole , your people pretended to feel sorry and stole everything
The myth of the good Lenin and the bad Stalin? Lenin started the crack downs, started the gulags, not to mention the civil war that went on. Lenin was not a reformist. He was a cold blooded murderer and Stalin only built on Lenin"s murderous legacy. Read, "Lenin, Stalin and Hitler" by Robert Gellately.
I'm afraid you draw conclusions too fast. I never claimed Lenin was good. The time period this video started with was after the Polish Soviet War (1921) in which Lenin had introduced the New Economic Policy (NEP). In case you're interested: here's my take on the Bolsheviks:
ua-cam.com/video/LeBaBjVJVTk/v-deo.html
Lenin regretted putting stalin in power at the end of his life. Lenin was much better!
Do you know any real rebellion with success without slaughters and imprisoning your rivals? Lenin was a different person from Stalin and Hitler. You r talking about 2 personalities that murdered combined tens of millions.
Good and informative video!....a forgotten part of WW II history usually not dealt with.....btw, Ostrowski is buried here in my NJ town.
Thanks for your reply.
Could you do a episode about the Cossacks that fought on the axis side please? Keep up the good work! Best regards from the UK.
Will do but you'll have to wait for that since I have other projects first. Expect it after Summer at the earliest.
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Thank you!
Oh pog, new video
Yes, hope you liked it.
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Stalin on one side and Hitler on the other. No wonder they suffered.
(Well presented as ever)
Indeed. Thanks for your reply 👍🏻
Hey Stefan again one of these brilliant historical tutorials for which you have the secret, I hope your pupils are aware about the chance they have.
Thanks for your kind words, Marc!
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English please.
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@@HistoryHustlesome Hitler colloborator's descendant and they use the same flag as their grand-dads
very interesting topic good video make one with Greece i can help you too with images and history of course
Hopefully I will travel to Greece one day to shoot stuff on location!
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To the author.
A good film, but I am afraid that the average viewer will not understand the complicated situation that was in the countries of Eastern Europe.
It was not until the end of the 19th century that Belarus national awareness was awakened.
Belarus never existed as an independent state until 1991, until the collapse of the USSR (there was one very short episode in 1918).
However, Belarusians do not have any political and institutional historical traditions in this regard - it is a rarity in Europe. Yes, there is a regional tradition, culture, art.
As you can see today , Belarusians are still looking for their identity.
Thanks for your reply and your insights on this topic.
The best representation of the Belorussian occupation in WW2 is shown in movie "Come and See" made in Belorussia (still part of the Soviet Union at that time). Also, everything seen there can be applied to the Eastern front and occupation of the Soviet Union in general. Strongly recommended movie, can be found with English subtitles.
Good movie yes.
But be aware, is a very harsh, sad, disturbing movie!
Nope. False, Germanophobic propaganda. In reality it was not the Germans who burnt the village, but Grigory Vasyura's detachment (it was his personal initiative), which consisted of Russians and Ukrainians. The village was also burned by Stalin (order 428, scorched earth). You are recommending a false, propaganda hate film.
@@theodemirweltmann9673 what the hell are you writing?
Both the german dirlewanger brigade and ukrainian collaborators under Vasyura detachment burned that village(in the movie you see that the collaborators are russian liberation army soldiers, wich according to the director it was decided to show them instead of ukrainian collaborators to not ruin the immage of ukrainian-bearusian brotherhood).
Is not germanophobic the way the germans are represented, because the dirlewanger brigade was made of released prisoneers so you can't expect from them to shoot and go away.
Also the order 0428 was implemented mostly during the battle of Moscow in order to make the life of germans uneasy during the winter time by destroying all the villages that could be used by them and evacuate the civilians.
@@tiziogg6350 You are the one writing nonsense and not knowledgeable about the subject. The burning of Khatyn was done by the 118th Battalion, commanded by Vasyura this battalion consisted of ethnic Ukrainians, Russians and other peoples of the USSR. The burning of the village was Vasyura's personal initiative. This is a fact, as is Stalin's order 428 (on scorched earth) and the population was not evacuated. This is Stalin's USSR, not some western country. Are you so stupid as to deny the facts? Dirlewanger's brigade was not just a "unit" but a special punitive unit, which generally had criminals in it. The 118th Battalion was part of the Dirlewanger Brigade. Dirlewanger's battalion in turn was not just used, but used in special operations. So what next? What did you want to say with that comment? Does that invalidate the fact that the film "go and see" is Germanophobic propaganda?
for The Hague court. On 3 July 1974 the British newspaper Daily Telegraph published the following article: «Confusion on Khatyn and Katyn». President Nixon’s visit to the memorial in the Belarusian village of Khatyn has caused a mistaken impression that Russia has erected a memorial to the victims of the wartime massacre of Polish officers in the Katyn forest. In fact, Khatyn and Katyn are two entirely different places; Khatyn, in which the ’kh’ is pronounced like the English ’h’ is a small village some 30 miles to the north-east of Minsk, the capital of Belarus Katyn, which is pronounced as written, is a town about 15 miles west of Smolensk, a provincial city in Russia proper. Khatyn is about 160 miles west of Katyn. When Stalin and Hitler divided up Poland at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, some 240,000 Polish officers and men fell into Russian hands. After Hitler’s invasion of Russia in June 1941, 15,000 were found to be missing and the Russians denied all knowledge of them.
Katyn fell into German hands in the late summer of 1941 and at the beginning of 1943 the German army discovered a mass grave of 4,443 Polish officers and men.
When the Polish Government-in-exile appealed for an international tribunal to determine how the Poles died Stalin broke off relations. After re-taking Katyn the Russians set up their own inquiry and said the Poles had been executed by the Germans.
Later researches by Polish and independent authorities in the west, as well as wartime Foreign Office documents, leave no doubt that the Poles were executed by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD.
The Russians have tried to erase Katyn from maps and history books. The reference to it in the 1953 edition of the Soviet Encyclopedia was dropped in the 1973 edition. No visitors are allowed to the area and no memorial has been erected.
It was not until 1969 that the Russians announced the unveiling of a «memorial complex» on the site of the village of Khatyn. ...
Road to Khatyn
The Russians appear to have chosen Khatyn because of the similarity of its name to Katyn. They hoped in this way to obscure the fact they have erected no memorial to the victims of Katyn, which was no less a crime than the one committed at Khatyn.
Several things about this are interesting to note: President Nixon was taken by the Soviets to Khatyn at the very time the Katyn Memorial Fund was fighting the Church of England for permission to erect the Katyn Memorial in London. The President’s visit received wide publicity, the object so obviously being to occlude the issue and cause people to wonder, perhaps, why there was so much fuss in Britain to erect a memorial to the victims of Katyn when «one already existed in Russia.»
A look at Soviet maps is also revealing:
1954. A map in the Minsk region in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia does not show Khatyn at all.
1956. A map of the Smolensk region in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia shows Katyn
1969. A large atlas of the USSR shows neither Khatyn nor Katyn
1971. A map of the Minsk region in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia shows Khatyn but not Katyn.
It can only be that this extraordinary sleight-of-hand is a device to remove the real Katyn and substitute Khatyn in an attempt, albeit clumsy, yet further to distract and confuse the world as to the whereabouts of massive crimes committed by the Soviets and substitute another alleged crime to Nazi Germany."
unfortunately the west do know very little about Stalin´s crimes in Belarus , pro - Moscow Belarusian regime prefers to hide Moscow war - crimes , Kurapaty, Drazhna, Naliboki , Amerikanka say nothing for majority of westerners...
I find it kinda annoying that you continue to keep copy/paste stuff from other websites. I consider this as spam. Last warning.
Wieder eine gute Sendung.
Danke!
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Thank you for this video, finally a non-biased video about Belarusian collaboration on English
Thanks for replying!
Thanks for your work. Important to educate those who could be deceived….
Thank you for replying.
Can somebody tell me what color of the cuffs and collars were on the Belarusian auxiliary police Uniforms were? I want to make an accurate impression but I can't make the color out.
Can't tell. Sorry!
Excellent presentation. I just got done watching "Come and See" which takes place during the partisan war in 1943.
Thanks for your reply. Very good movie.
Wonderful. Love the outfit
Thanks!
The first Belorussian elementary texbook was composed in Warsaw, by the people who worked at Warsaw University ant University of Technology. Moreover, one oof the most important Polish and Canadian) airlane designers Wsiewołod Jakimiuk, was a Biełorus origin.
Thank you for sharing this, Piotr!
a o kolaboracji holendrów nakręciłeś odcinek ?
what about Dutch collaboration during 2nd WW ? Are You going to make any episide about it ?
English please.
@@HistoryHustle what about Dutch collaboration during 2nd WW ? Are You going to make any episide about it ?
You talk about collaborators with Germany. How about talking about collaborators with Soviet Union, it’s bloody NKVD, the mass expulsions of the locals into the soviet Gulag, etc ? Who among the locals collaborated in these acts ?
This video isn't about the NKVD. If you cared really you would have looked on my channel to find there is plenty about that, which I covered. Lemme help you:
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The Belarusian population saw Germay as a better alternative to Stalinist Soviet rule. Exactly the same as Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian people. This was not politically motivated as Nazi v Soviet but purely as an attempt to end Soviet Russian rule.
Indeed.
What a nonsense! Belorussians put up one of the most fierce resistance to German invasion losing millions of people in that. My relatives from the village near Minsk, father and two sons, younger being 14, joined the Red partisans movement as many other Belorussians. Hitler's collaborators were tiny minority in Belorussia.
Excellent video, though I’m surprised you didn’t mention the Black Cats.
Thanks for your reply. The Black Cats? Feel free to add your insights in the comments.
@@HistoryHustle The Black Cats were a Belarusian SS unit led by Michał Vituška.
Ok thanks for sharing this additional information.
@@HistoryHustle No problem, sir.
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It is true that the extent of Byelorussian collaboration is not complete due to documents lost, etc. But again, just like in your other episodes you understate the role of Jewish collaboration with the soviets in the region in 1939-41 and even during the war. And because, like you said, Byelorussians hated Stalin more than Hitler, they were very willing to collaborate with Germans against Jews (which were perceived as soviet collaborators). The partisan detachment of Bielski brothers is an example. It was Jewish, communist, and operated in Byelorussian forests during the war. It took orders from Moscow and committed atrocities against local anti-communists including massacring entire villages. You should mention these facts otherwise your films distort the truth.
Toddler, child, girls, women , Elderly was evil stalinist????!!!!!????????
Women and children is what the communist propagandists (like you?) always liked to mention about them indeed. But there were also plenty of able men among them. It was them who massacred the entire populations (women, elderly and children among them - several hundreds of souls all together) of villages of Koniuchy and Naliboki during the war. All on orders and with supplies from Moscow. You can easily google these facts.
@@kolezka161You is a true believer of the mass murder political options. What more can I say??
@Like No Other: Your comment comes across an insinuating semi-antisemitic assertion I'd like to distance myself from.
These are true facts however it might come across.
You seemed biased as a historian. You are willing to talk about Byelorussian or Dutch collaborators of a bloody totalitarian regime. But you are afraid to talk about Jewish collaborators of a bloody totalitarian regime. What kind of history teaching is this ?
I love these videos. Ps i am from the hague
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Nice you're trying yourself on German here, and you're doing it pretty well for a non-native speaker.
But I must however say that the correctness of words and grammar is often not given to a higher degree. :(
Just some examples:
- "Rayonbürgermeister" / "Landbürgermeister"
- Dorfälteste
Still, excellent video, but auto correct might help you to some degree ;)
I see, thanks for sharing this.
9:57. Someone knows the name of this vehicle?
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Nice outfit Stefan, what is the German armband?
It was for Hiwis. It's a repro. More on Hiwis here:
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In the service of the German armed forces! Nick.
Can you tell me if their were any Polish units that fought for Germany during ww2? Great vids, ive learnt so much from you. cheers from the UK.
No. Only Poles and Serbs didnt collaborate at all
Iv studied the war sense I was 15 and I haven't seen any evidence of the polish population fighting against the Soviets on the side of the nazis. You may find it on the history channel and if so it probably didn't happen.
Sorry to bug you, do you think that was because the nazis would not accept poles or the poles would not fight for them?
@@petemoss8625 In the second half of the war AH was asked by the generals about permission to form polish units against Soviets. He refused
But around 400.000 Poles fought in the Wehrmacht. They were simply conscripted from areas incorporated into 3rd Reich in 1939. Many fell in the Eastern Front, those sent to the Western front usually deserted
There were no Polish units fighting for Germany. There were Poles from parts of the territories directly incorporated into the Reich, particularly Upper Silesia and Pomerelia, conscripted into Wehrmacht. Also two isolated cases of particular partisan units that were anti-Soviet and anti-Communist as well as anti-German, and at some point made uneasy, temporary alliances with the Germans. Both went back to fighting them after a while. There was also a German attempt to recruit some of the Polish highlanders (Górale), but it failed completely.
hi history hustler could you maybe make a new video about where in the country danish soldiers resisted the german occupying power.
how many dead
could denmark have made a difference at all if they had made more resistance or had the battle already been lost in advance
one can also tell about when the RAF bomb shell house where Danish resistance fighters were tortured and held captive the story there is both a positive and sad side of the story the positive was that Danish resistance fighters escaped and the sad that a French girls school was bombed by mistake and several children and nuns died
I hope you read this I am a descendant of a Danish resistance fighter who was shot at the pole
Hope to cover more about Denmark in the future. For now I have this video for you:
ua-cam.com/video/3k0rltWs214/v-deo.html
On BBC Radio 4 there was a program gently called 'the Nazi next door' about someone who was at the Ukraine in 1941 I believe as an auxiliary fir the Germans. It was a very interesting story.
Sounds interesting yes.
sorry guys, just straight google T, but still all WW2 highlights are here "After World War II, 10-million Belarus was missing about 3 million of its inhabitants, but about 2 million were killed even before the war by the communist NKVD. In Belarus, 70 percent of all Belarusian writers were physically destroyed, scientists and artists were killed. (The troupe of the Third Belarusian State Theater of Vladislav Golubok was arrested in full force. Almost all of them were shot.) They were killed on ethnic grounds. For this, the label "natsdem" was invented (it means - a national democrat, although such a party did not exist). This label was stuck to all Belarusians whom the Stalinists planned to destroy. In the depths of the NKVD, the non-existent anti-communist organization SVB ("Union for the Liberation of Belarus") was invented. Under an invented phantom, the NKVADists carried out arrests, conducted an imaginary investigation, interrogated, tortured, tried, then exiled to Russia and shot innocent people. After the Riga Agreement in 1921, Belarus was divided between Poland and Russia. The division border was drawn not far from Mensk. There was a secret order from the NKVD to destroy the entire Belarusian population along the border. The Russian auxiliaries wanted to create a deserted area here. The destruction was carried out by the border troops. The trustees were given a rifle and a shovel. When such a border guard soldier met in a deserted place (on the road, in a field, in a forest) a lonely Belarusian or Belarusian, or a child, he would shoot a person, immediately dug a hole with a shovel and fill up the corpse.
That was the instruction. The people in the villages were not so afraid of the "man with the gun" as they were the soldier with the shovel. (These facts were published in the Belarusian press in the early 90s.) In the 30s, 95-99 percent (almost completely) was destroyed (exiled and shot) of the Belarusian communist-party and Soviet administration. Even the directorate and economic leaders were destroyed. Russians from Russia were sent to the posts of murdered administrators and communist leaders-Belarusians. Russians (the so-called "promoted") came to Belarus, occupied vacated positions, received benefits, property, apartments and the first thing they did was to close Belarusian schools, translate them into Russian so that their children could study without burdening themselves with studying , as they said, the "unnecessary" Belarusian language. Thus, the invaders created a "Russian-speaking population" in Belarus. Ethnocide, linguacide, mnemacid and genocide were carried out by the Bolsheviks at the same time.
The extermination of Belarusians by the Russian NKVD continued during the time of the German augmentation. In June 1941, in the first days of the war, the communists shot thousands of prisoners in prisons and in stages. Only in the Brest Fortress, where there was a terrible NKVD prison, they did not have time to liquidate all those arrested, some of them fled. Meanwhile, a large group of guards and functionaries of the NKVD was blocked in the fortress by the Germans. They sat there for about a month until they died out. About 20 years after the war, the communists came up with a legend about the "heroic defense" of the Brest Fortress. Attention is drawn to the fact that a broad Soviet partisan movement was organized only in Belarus and partially on the ethnic Belarusian lands that were part of Russia (Smolensk region, Bryansk region). There was no partisan movement in occupied Russia. Why? Yes, because the plan for the destruction of the Belarusian nation continued to operate. Moscow, using the organs of the NKVD, drew the masses of the Belarusian civilian population into the war against the Germans, and thereby exposed the Belarusians to the German attack.
The necessary work of struggle proceeded from an insidious plan and was carried out by vile methods. (Stalin wanted to get a double benefit.) Enkavadists specifically killed a German near a Belarusian village or made another provocation in order to cause a punitive operation of the Nazis (who usually burned the whole village, most often together with people). Thus, by the way, as a result of a special provocation of the Soviet partisans, the famous Khatyn was also burned, which the communists later advertised to the whole world in the 70s as a typical victim of fascist atrocities.
As a result of such communal-fascist joint "work", more than 9 thousand villages were burned in Belarus. Therefore, by the end of the war, as a result of a special operation of the NKVD, many Belarusian commanders were sent to death, removed from command, killed and repressed. Their places were taken by Russians sent from Mosva and loyal NKVADists. In the summer of 1944, when the "Red Army" occupied Belarus, the Russians mobilized into the army on Belarusian territory. Tens of thousands of young Belarusian men, almost without preparation, were thrown into the front line of the front. Russian commanders raised them into unnecessary attacks under the fire of German machine guns, without even giving weapons in hand, or with rifles, but no cartridges. They died in thousands, like grass under a scythe. And those that fled back fell under the bullets of the encavadi "detachments". However, the detachments fired in the back. So the destruction of Belarusians in the war continued, by the hands of the Germans and Russians."
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Thank you for making this. My grandmother was born in western Belarus, the area that became part of Poland after the Polish-Soviet War. She and her brother barely survived the pogroms against Jews that followed this annexation. My grandmother had the good sense to leave the country for Canada in 1927 or thereabouts but her brother, his wife, and their children did not. Fast-forward to Barbarossa and the first visit to their village by an Einsatzgruppe and well… that's why a quarter of my family is dead. (One of them ssurvived and emigrated to Israel after the war and told my dad and I some stories that haunt me to this day.) It's not comforting to learn that their own countymen would turned on them anyway had they fled.
Interesting to read, thanks for watching and take the time to write your reply.
Idea = "I dee ah" and "The USSR"......I really enjoy watching your videos.
Thanks!
During operation Barbarossa at 1941 Jews were shot at hundreds of execution sites all over the newly occupied territories. Famous are places like Babi Yar, Ponary and Fort 9. Later during the war the executions at some of these sites continued. The first two mentioned places even reached a total number of about an hundred of thousand of people getting killed. At Ponary there was a railway tunnel. It happened that the cattle train was driven inside. Both entrances blocked and the tunnel getting filled with exhaust gas from a stationair running truck. People from Western countries aswellendedtheretragically. Not all transports were going to the big concentration camps. Another place where these trains sometimes were sent to was Maly Trostenets in Belarus. Again another execution site hidden in the forests. About Belarus the least information is available. Also many villages were burned down (and the people executed) as anti partisan actions. Belarus was an important railway connection to the Eastern Front so sensitive for sabotage.
Indeed. Babi Yar I visited in 2018 and recorded this video:
ua-cam.com/video/ExX78x_xmMw/v-deo.html
@@HistoryHustle Thank you, very interesting. I was listening to hundreds of testimonies of victims, perpetrators and witnesses during this dark time. There were witnesses of the shootings at Babi Yar who could see the execution site from the attic window of the house. After that large killing of 33k citizens of Kiev the shootings continued for two days a week according to these witnesses who watched from the attic. Also there was a witness at Ponary (Panerai) who wrote it all down and hide these texts in bottles digged in the garden. This witness got shot. Most likely by the Lithuanian collaborators at the Einsatzgruppe because they knew that he saw too much. But the bottles with the texts were found back later luckily. A book is written about it. Absolutely interesting to read.
People watching this get a wrong impression that majority of Belorussians supported Hitler. In reality, they were tiny minority of population. Belorussians lost millions of people fighting against Hitlers troops. They had the most active partisans movement. My relatives out of village near Minsk, father and two sons, were fighting invaders as well. They would not believe how 80 years later some people trying to falsify the history.
Have you actuelly seen the video?
@@HistoryHustle I did and it is good, but when you read the comments you know what people got from it.
When a Belorussian and German youtuber make a collab video: 👁👄👁ч т о?
I see, I'm neither Belorussian nor German.
Is that Nikita Kruschev at 2:32??
Believe so yes!
Just imagine how horrified Eastern European countries were of Stalin that they threw in their lot on Hitler!
Indeed.
Niceeeeeeee
Thanks!
in order to understand extreme brutality of WW2 in Belarus, and Belarusians who fought Muscovite occupiers (not just in 1941-45, but from 1798 to 1991) we have to start with reading stalin´s Torch-men-Order N 0428 "Headquarters of the Supreme Command Order dated November 17, 1941 No. 428
on the creation of special teams for the destruction and burning of settlements in the rear of the Nazi troops
Moscow
The experience of the last month of the war showed that the German army is poorly adapted to war in winter conditions, does not have warm clothing and, experiencing enormous difficulties from the onset of frost, huddles in the front line in populated areas. Arrogant to the point of insolence, the enemy was going to spend the winter in the warm houses of Moscow and Leningrad, but this was prevented by the actions of our troops. On vast sectors of the front, the German troops, having met stubborn resistance from our units, were forced to go over to the defensive and were located in settlements along the roads for 20-30 km on both sides. German soldiers live, as a rule, in cities, in townships, in villages, in peasant huts, sheds, barns, baths near the front, and the headquarters of German units are located in larger settlements and cities, they hide in basements, using them as shelter from our aviation and artillery. The Soviet population of these points is usually evicted and thrown out by the German invaders.
To deprive the German army of the opportunity to settle in villages and cities, drive the German invaders out of all settlements into the cold in the field, smoke them out of all rooms and warm shelters and make them freeze in the open - this is an urgent task, on the solution of which the acceleration of the defeat of the enemy largely depends. and the decay of his army.
The headquarters of the Supreme High Command ORDERS:
1. To destroy and burn to ashes all settlements in the rear of the German troops at a distance of 40-60 km in depth from the forward edge and 20-30 km to the right and left of the roads.
To destroy populated areas within the specified radius of action, immediately abandon aviation, make extensive use of artillery and mortar fire, teams of scouts, skiers and partisan sabotage groups supplied with Molotov cocktails, grenades and subversive weapons.
2. In each regiment, create teams of hunters of 20-30 people each for the explosion and burning of settlements in which the enemy troops are located. In the team of hunters to select the most courageous and politically strong fighters, commanders and political workers, carefully explaining to them the tasks and significance of this event for the defeat of the German army. Outstanding brave souls for their courageous actions to destroy the settlements in which the German troops are located, to present to the government award.
3. In the event of a forced withdrawal of our units in one sector or another, take the Soviet population with us and be sure to destroy all settlements without exception so that the enemy cannot use them. First of all, for this purpose, use the teams of hunters allocated in the regiments.
4. The military councils of the fronts and individual armies systematically check how the missions for the destruction of settlements in the above-mentioned radius from the front line are being carried out. The rate every 3 days with a separate report to report how many and which settlements have been destroyed in the past days and by what means these results have been achieved.
Headquarters of the Supreme Command
I. STALIN
B. SHAPOSHNIKOV
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I see. Thanks for sharing.
Adam G. Trapper I respect your opinions and how you condemn the bolshevic crimes against the belurusian people.
But your statement about the so called order 0428 it doenst convince me.
I'm trying to show a quora link but YouPravda is constantly deleting the link.
I only want to see your opinion about that quora link that "debunk" this order but ad I said before YouPravda ruins everything.
Then I can only say to you, to search on google "Online, I came across Stalin Order 0428 during World War 2 for communist partisans to dress as the German soldiers and destroy their own villages 60km from the frontlines to "ignite hatred against the invaders". Is this true?" and then I'm courious about your opinions about the first answer you see.
Unlucky for any Jewish communities,who did not like you,or people unhappy with their lot or gaining favour with certain powers..awful...so sad...but others suffered too...😪😪
Indeed, a sad history.
My grandpa was a Belo russians collaborator, the other grandpa escaped captivity from the nazis in germany and walked back to Ukraine.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Did you ever met them to talk about their experiences? Love to know.
"My grandpa was a Belo russians collaborator" No, he was a Belarusian patriot ! He wanted only one thing - Belarusian independence from barbarian Moscow occupation . be proud of him
@@eugenlitwin a lot of those belarusians that you consider "patriotis" deserted to soviet partisans and AK.
This forced the germans to brougth lithuanians and ukrainians schuma forces to compensate the lack of belarusian forces caused by costant desertion.
Bro that outfit is so cool, i'm not joking
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IMO you should follow this up with an episode of the Soviet and the Jewish Otriad groups. As shown in the Daniel Craig classic Defiance.
Yeah perhaps one day. Saw the movie long time ago.
Hey history hustle i bought ur book on finland and starting reading it and i was wondering book in background of ur video next to the hemelt
Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East (Stephen G. Fritz).
Chatting to a colleague at work about Europe/East Europe,all the chops and changes..😪some sad your country no longer really excisting or culture.He came from Czechslovakia..which he said did not exist before...his family came from Prussia🤔
Tscheque kingdom was powerful in the high middle ages then became a dependent kingdom of HRE (Saint Empire Germanique) and later Habsburg's Österreich - Ungarn
Btw R.I. P. Prince Philip
Prussia is indeed no longer there..
It is incredible how Poland between the world wars was a multi-ethnical state: Germans (Pomerania and Prussia), Ukrainians, belarussians, and so on.
Indeed. If you're interested, I also cover it here:
ua-cam.com/video/s8rg3q7W_mU/v-deo.html
Maybe off topic but I wonder why the Belarusians are called "White Russians" in Dutch. Honestly caused me a lot of headache when I learned about the Russian civil war.
Belarus means actually White Russian. They don't consider themselves as Russian, but see White Russian as a distinctive group of people. As do I. It indeed shouldn't be confused with the White Movement during the Russian Civil War.
@@HistoryHustle Well, that was big part of the confusion, as I too consider them different people. Thanks for the explanation! :)
it indicates that Dutch is backward, marginal language... shame on you guys !
@@hybridforcesofthegdl3313 You realize that many English and French words are actually Dutch, right? I am not going into a discussion about this, but just to illustrate it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Dutch_origin
@@mathiaspoelman1493 do you You realize the Belarusian state´s official name is Belarus ? and all other forms are just historic errors ?
I see the two German administrators ; Kube and Schenkendorf both died in 1943... a sticky end? ..
This is the question I always have.
Anybody who dies from 37-46.
I would always love the end data in brief!!
Guess so!
Hello Guys , I am a Belarusian, my grandmother Maryja survived Nazi German and much longer Moscow Marxist (Soviet) occupation, I am willing to answer to all your questions , I spent hours and hours listening her WW2 stories before she past away
Thanks for your reply.
Can you summarize her story of who she declared to be more evil and oppressive? Who was more tolerant of the 2? And how did she measure the evil of the Bolshevik or NatSoc regime?
@@freckleheckler6311 "who she declared to be more evil" the answer is very simple : Moscow - Marxist occupiers of ´cos, so called "red partisans " (in reality NKVD terrorists ) . no just she , all Belarusians old people who were in Belarus ´d say it to you. a classical example of Moscow genocide politic against us Belarusians : Drazhna and Naliboki villages " The video tells about a crime in the village of Drazhna - 25 civilians were killed in 1943 by partisans of three Soviet and one Jewish detachment. (in Belarusian) www.youtube.com and Naliboki village (in Polish- Belarusian language ) /watch?v=C6CQPHv4M34&t=9s
@@Adam.G.Trapper can you give me other examples of massacres out of Naliboki(where the victims were polish people) and Drazhna?
Because I clearly see that the only replies that you give is only Naliboki and Drazhna, so your general statement about soviet partisans doesn't convince me.
I also saw in other comments that you said that the soviet partisans operated only in Belarus, when in reality there were partisans even in other parts in german occupied territories.
All my Belorus relatives from Minsk region were Red partisans, father and two sons, younger one being teenager. They are the heroes as most of Belorussian people. Not few of Hitler's collaborators.
The Soviet oppression makes me laugh. Stalin's time were definitely tough but 1960-ies till the end of the USSR was the best times regular people had in all territories of what that time was USSR.
Original Wachmantel?
Repro.
UGH talk about a barbaric brutal struggle- my classmate in graduate school mom’s village was burned down and she was deported to Germany to be slave labor in a German factory. She survived the war and came to America. The German Army enslaved many teenage girls to be used in field brothels especially from villages deemed supporting partisan activity. All in all a land going back and forth from German to Soviet control with all the total destruction that followed from either side!! I hope Belarus does not get sucked in the current crisis in Ukraine by Putin!!
I'm afraid it kinda did... Thanks for sharing this.
Could you tell how many Soviet troops were sent over the frontline to become "Soviet partisans"?
Not sure. Have to research that.
Long Live Belarus ! Down to Moscow horde !
You mean 'down with'?
NEXT VIDEO: Indian collaboration with the germans
Good news: this video has been made.
Bad news: it's planned for the Summer, sceduled for when I am hopefully traveling.
Azad Hind!
Yes.
As a Belarusian its an easy answer we were opressed by the muscovites and we did what our Ukrainian brothers and sisters did we joined the fritz and same is happening today our country is opressed only a few speak Belarusian daily and not even a quarter speaks belarusian at home and some people including me unfortunately are victims of intense russification that we don't even know proper belarusian⚪🔴⚪🇺🇦
Times may have been harsh but from your thumbnail it’s easy see these folks had dress style and a certain panache.
It's a photo of reenactors.
Stephen? Did you ever live in a state controlled by communism? If so how was it?
I visited North Korea. I did record videos and you can find them in the playlist:
ua-cam.com/video/LL3f2PIWcU4/v-deo.html
@@HistoryHustle thank you! You’re great I love the entire history of the Second World War so I appreciate your videos very much.
Thanks an almost forgotten part of the great patriotic war.
Thanks, John!
Great patriotic war?😂😂😂
It's the name they use in Russia and former USSR countries (except the Baltics I believe).
we did nothing wrong, we wanted what you all guys here want , - our own independent European state, not ruled by barbaric Moscow
Sounds very one sided I think.
@@HistoryHustle did we have much choice ?
thank you our grandparents for trying... Long Live Bielarus´ 🏳❤🏳!! couple of comments from Belarusians , the UA-cam video "Вёска Дражна. Відэа са сведкамі забойства сялян партызанамі "
Елена Толстая för 8 månader sedan
Моего дедушку расстреляли партизаны, когда он пришел за своим конем,которого они взяли и сказали прийти забрать самому.Дядя так и не смог найти его магилу.Люди и после войны боялись их.Хотя,то что его расстреляли,многие подтверждали.Дядю поставили к стенке,и если бы бабушка не нашла самогон,то расстреляли бы.Когда это мне рассказывала покойная мамочка,я пионерка,не верила.
Алесь Литвинович för 11 månader sedan (Belarusian language)
Мае бабуля з дзядулям таксама не любілі партызанаў: казалі, што партызаны рабавалі, пагражалі сьмерцю каб ўсё аддавалі, забіралі ўсе харчы што знойдуць. І партызанам было цалкам абыякава, чым сяляне будуць карміць дзетак.
Галина Казимирская
för 7 månader sedan
Моя мама жила в партизанской зоне . Она была ребёнком рассказывала, что партизаны приходили и забирали все, говорили , что всеравно немцам достанется . А некоторые немцы, наоборот , детей подкармливали ,
София Крещенович
för 9 månader sedan
Во время войны партизанами была растреляна семья сестры моей бабушки только за то, что у них была теплица и они выращивали ранние огурцы, а немцы покупали. В то время это было большой редкостью. Муж бабушки сидел в тюрьме за советскую власть, его в деревне даже звали все чекистом после освобожения. Вот в тюрьме он и научился этому. Ночью, когда все спали, ворвались партизаны и растреляли всех. Мужа бабушки, бабушку Феклу, их дочку Марию, которой было 18 лет, сына Павла 16 лет и бабушкину свекровь 80 лет. Мама рассказывала, люди узнали, кто это был и после войны все участники этого убийства умерли не своей смертью. Кто-то от пьянки, кого-то под забором нашли. К сожалению мамы уже нет с нами, но она рассказывала, что в деревне боялись больше партизан чем немцев. К счастью через их деревню не шли каратели, а обыкновенные немцы, которых призвали на войну и заставили воевать.
English please.
All my Belorus relatives from Minsk region were Red partisans, father and two sons, younger one being teenager. They are the heroes as most of Belorussian people. Not few of Hitler's collaborators.
I am watching this from Belarus, and just after the visit of the Gomel war museum. All information in such museums is focused on the local partisan fight against the German invaders, the suffering of the population, Jews and villagers shot or burnt in their houses, prisoner camps with thousands of deaths. Do you know about places to visit in Belarus that still exist, linked to that collaboration? It is true that Belarusians suffered a lot in the pre-war years, due to the NKVD repressions (Kurapaty) and the collectivization, so there must be many locals who hoped that the Germans would liberate them from the Soviets.
Hello Arhen, thanks for your reply. As for places in Belarus I cannot tell yet. I've only been in Minsk myself. I know there is a war memorial about a village that got totally exterminated by the Germans. And of course the Brest Fortress remains in the West of the country.
Belarus, much like Ukraine, was an example of a people sandwiched between two lethal totalitarian regimes and the Jews, as usual, were scapegoated. Thank you for another presentation of this dark period in human history.
Indeed. Thanks for your reply!
Poland and Balarus under Nazi rule were totalitarian as they were under Soviet rule. And by the way, were the Jews the only communists around? Seems to me they were pretty much a minority after the Bolsheviks took over.
" Belarus means White Russia in russian ," no, it doesn't , plus, not "russia" but - "Rus´, 2 different things
Thanks for your reply. Please stop spamming and double posting stuff.