King Leopold II & Colonialism in the Congo Documentary
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Damn, he makes Hitler look like Mother Theresa
It's incredible that for all of the cruelty and greed that Leopold inflicted on the Congo and its people, he never visited it, not even once.
There’s definitely a direct correlation there.
Shows that order followers can be idiots. And only officers were Europeans, the rest were locals.
Well, maybe some other million lives were spared because of this.
@@Guizambaldi
How is that possible?
@@1wun1 Well, do you think the psycho would have developed empathy if he had gone down there? If anything he would have wanted to kill more...
Oh, Leopold II was one of history's greatest villains. I don't see that he made any real contribution to the betterment of the world in general. He simply didn't care how many people had to die for his personal ambitions.
The saying "Every man would be a tyrant if he could"
Old Leopold said yah? I'll give you one you won't forget 😢😢😢
Country Ambition * He made a lot of things in Belgium with the wealth he gained.
@@Ekkinox04Beyond that its fiction "(AltHype) Leopold II's Congo Genocide of 10 Million
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Very evil person
@@churblefurbles Yeah, what you sad is fiction. There never was a genocide. Millions of people dying over the course of a few decades because of varous diseases, isn't a genocide.
The sad thing about Leopold ll is that he wanted everything no matter the price for anyone but him .... And that something we have seen over and over again until today tamped Greed only stopped when its too late
Leopold's administration of the Congo Free State was characterized by atrocities and systematic brutality, including forced labour, torture, murder, kidnapping, and the amputation of the hands of men, women, and children when the quota of rubber was not met.
In one of the first uses of the term, George Washington Williams described the practices of Leopold's administration of the Congo Free State as "crimes against humanity" in 1890.
These and other facts were established during Leopold's rule by eyewitness testimony, by on-site inspection from an international commission of inquiry, by the investigative journalism and activism of E. D. Morel, and by the 1904 Casement Report.
What even was the practicality of amputating hands? They can't even work then, it feels like being evil for no reason
Thank you for your references. For someone new on the subject it gives the original subject matter something to research and read. I have just read excerpts from the Casement report for example, if it were not for you I would probably just hear second hand sources as how much of history is taught now as opposed to reading the original during the time it happened.
@@rootigaroot9922 It was to intimidate those who could work. Many of the amputations were of women and children. There is a famous picture you can google "Nsala hands" and see a father staring at the severed hand and foot of his 5 year old daughter.
@@rootigaroot9922 Perhaps as a deterrent and 'motivation' for other Congolese to work harder and faster...
Stanley was not born in the United States. He was born in Wales and migrated to the United States later
This guy died unpunished, may he rot in hell
Divine Mercy
Don’t you mean BURN in hell ?
He is probably facing the consequences of his actions now.
No probably about it .
Eternal justice and punishment await the evil ones .
@@SuperGreatSphinx NO SUCH THING
Leopold was a guy with a heart full of darkness.
Greed
@@SuperGreatSphinxmurder, torture, genocide, manipulation, grandiose delusional psychotic individual. Yah plus greed
More like our knowledge about his heart is full of darkness. He never knew about the situation in Congo, in fact he organized expedition to prove if the rumors were true. I don't think he intentionally caused all these suffering.
He was white
@XOPOIIIO yet when he was advised,he did nothing to correct the situation
What gives me pause is all of these societies, makes me wonder what today's charities and societies are up to.
Same inhumanity
@@wt2335Facts we’re just in a world full of modern technology, internet, and mass media.
Aaaannnd bingo. Missionaries are nothing but terrorists. Just ask Hawaii.
If there was ever a person that was the personification of the word “Greed”, it was Leopold II.
Avarice
I'd say it comes down to Leopold and Cecil Rhodes.
Plenty of powerful people in history have been maniacal insane despots where there is no enough.
No, certain figures are smeared for a reason, "(AltHype) Leopold II's Congo Genocide of 10 Million"
Not to mention callousness.
The documentary sheds light on a somber period in history through its examination of King Leopold II and the colonization of the Congo. To make sure these horrors of the past are never repeated, it is critical to remember them and draw lessons from them. In order to create a more equitable and compassionate world, knowledge is power. 🌍📜
Well it's being repeated currently in front of the world since Oct 2023 , Israel kills a child every 10 m and.Belgium supports Israel as well as it arms and supports Ukreich
The brutality of the Belgian forces in the Congo are pretty dismal, compared to the Holocaust of the Jews by the Germans. More than 10 million Congolese either died or were tortured. Men’s hands were cut off to punish theft or so-called laziness.
@@marycollins-bastian1569 The King's army in Congo had more Congoleses in it than Belgians.
There's a movement in the U.S. to suppress these teachings.
@@Ekkinox04 Yep, bad history serving an agenda, covered in "(AltHype) Leopold II's Congo Genocide of 10 Million"
Can you make a documentary about king Otto of Greece ? I admire immensely your work.
For Congo 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇬🇨🇬
No, against moniarchal control of all people.
@@thebrickton1947 For Marx, for Stalin
Been waiting for this one
AFrica is waiting a chANCE FOR VENGANCE
Very underrated as it pertains to his evilness. Definitely one of the most evil that has ever lived and walked amongst us.
Nice to hear my African history, I know what was happening with my ancestors in South Africa, thank you for this documentary.
Can you also do one on Haiti, because so few people know that they beat the French colonialists during slavery and fought and won against Napoleon but were bankrupted by France who forced the enslaved people to pay reparations to the French slave owners?
All because of wanting to accumulate wealth. Despite all the accumulation, he also eventually died and went to meet all those he killed through his greed.
Memento mori
King Leopold Was a monster The torture and murders and disabilities he caused in the Congo Infamous
Almost all of the stories about him are made up. They come from a book called "Leopold's Ghost", itself based on some fabrications from an early SJW called Alice Seeley-Harris.
Among other things, the author relies on his own mistranslations from French, which portray the exact opposite of the original meaning. It was originally a mistake made by the author, and he has acknowledged those mistakes but is refusing to make corrections to the book.
@@tonycatmanhmmmmm interesting
Fascinating.
As a kid I imagined an island European power that had evolved largely separate from the rest and over the centuries came into conflict with the enslaving West because this nation was completely against the use and abuse of other humans…I guess it is what the US was taught to me as a kid that it was, but it wasn’t. My little stories even carried this nation against Murrca. It can make one pretty sad when they look back and go “where did I come from?” and the answer is: “not from much good.” But we just hope we can be the ones who remember and don’t forget the past.
Excellent video as usual!
One interesting thing about these European monarchies is that they were never really indigenous to the country they ruled. They were usually foreigners in the very countries they ruled. No wonder they were so quick to turn use the people they rule to invade other countries at will.
So many people don't know about him and what he did in the Congo.
Would love an episode on Lord Mount batten. I think he led an interesting life
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Yeah remember that whole India Pakistan thing that he screwed up?
If you call having an unhealthy interest in young boys Interesting then I suppose it was 😮
@@juliemercer1458 don't forget the wife, FBI have a lot to say about both of them, Charlie boy was instructed by this uncle !
😂 if you let the media today make a doc about him, it's going to make him a hero, along with his buddy J. Savile.
Can you please do one on African independence from France and being forced to sign a treaty for the continuation of colonialisation in order to receive it? I am interested in how France set up the means to have army bases in all of those countries and the right to take action if their interests are under threat, as well as having first rights to minerals and forcing countries to put a significant amount of their GDP into the French central bank.
Excellent documentary.
Congratulations
Good video.
Great Documentary 👍 👌
A+.
❤ from 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁
Appreciate that someone is finally bringing to light the reprehensible actions of this canibal of a man. 15 million Congolese perished due to his greed and actions. It's imperative that we persist in revealing the heinous acts perpetrated by colonial powers. Countless Africans have suffered and died as a result of colonial exploitation. It is essential that these historical truths are acknowledged and shared. There are countless documentaries about slavery and the holocaust, but far too few about the attrocities of colonialism.
It's not that different today. Africa is still being carved up. See: China
Magnifique.
Dude was a true baller.
This documentation of the history of Belgium was intense and of an ecellent presentation in how complex the politics are. Every action has consequences noone can predict. King Leopold and his economically prosperity, however, did not have a strict moral and mental diciplin in the aspect of respecting every human rights to be free from all types of slavery at all times. That slipped through his fingers. Gro Vera Neste Christiansen. Norway.
Europe, Australia, and Canada and the US imperialism and settler colonialism have been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of their victims around the world. It continues til this day. 😢
Leopold the Il was a monster in what he did to Africans The Congo.
Absolutely
"in his private backyard"
Wonderful expose on this historic villan.
Amazing work again best historical videos on UA-cam can you do Kaizer Wilhelm 1and 2 maybe Otto von Bismarck or archduke franz Ferdinand some of the czars and king George the 5th
There's already a video about George V of Britain on this channel.
Kaiser Wilhelm was a looney, with one arm shorter he couldn't even chop wood alone. Sadly enough this was his main hobby. After a year of exile in the Netherlands he was asked friendly not to chop down any more trees with his small army of lumberjacks he cleared woods like a termite 😂 didn't even use the wood just pasing time.
@@Hooibeest2DWhere did you get that from? Vicky? He was capable of chopping wood on his own as he trained his right arm to fulfill the things his left arm was incapable of. His right arm was sad to be so strong that he hurt the hands of those he shook. He was able to perform all of the physical capabilities a young teenager could when he was one as his tutor noted. He could swim, ride a horse and run normally. He was even able to go out hunting and shoot! Also no one requested that he stop chopping down the trees at Huis Doorn, the forest was his property really and no one seemed to mind as he would donate wood to those who needed it.
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@@UhriLammasreally 👍
Knowing what this bastard gets up to, not looking forward to the horrors.
Pls!!! Do an episode on Empress Carlota of Mexico soon!!!
Check out the book: "The Crown of Mexico" by Joan Haslip
Do a profile on the brutality of the Arab slave trade.
Love your work guys! Leopold I deserved a better heir. Can you make a video on him? Hes a great figure! 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪
Excellent
A fairly interesting video. Thank you. What did these 'royal' characters ever do except be born and get married?....Where is the art, music, literature, scientific discoveries that any of them ever made?
You can’t choose your parents. As the video shows, there are many coincidences who marries who, which child survives and which child dies. Sometimes I feel the ones that have died early in life may have been the more fortunate ones. Also we hear about these people, not about the millions unknown people that gave or had to give their lives for the historical persons…
I think we are weird to lookup to power. The apes on the rock
He was indeed a monster
Interesting documentary
inspiration for Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Excellent book.
This is an excellent documentary
I would like you to do A video on the pirate Captain Henry Morgan
As an aside, Henry Morton Stanley's impressive grave is in the churchyard of St. Michael and All Angels, Pirbright, Surrey.
“The Congo Free State is unique in its kind. It has nothing to hide and no secrets and is not beholden to anyone expect its founder”
Leopold II of Belgium
The next video about famous people in Congo has to be about a man from the land of the midnight sun; Roland the headless Thompson gunner. He killed to earn his living and to help out the Congolese so he must be a hero in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In fact you can still see his headless body stalking through the night and the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
Thanks for this interesting video. But please advise why you report Henry Morton Stanley was "born in America"? Others report Stanley was born as John Rowlands on 28 January 1841 in Denbigh, Wales, UK.
Leopold II, The Belguin Monster.
The greatest Belgium king 🇧🇪
#25:59 "A Welshman, born in the United States..." - Stanley was not born in the United States; he emigrated there at the age of 18.
An excellent historical documentary of an inherently amoral, corrupt monarch. Leopold's contempt for human life, under the guise of protector, is a cautionary tale.
A very well made video watched throughout whilst building on my Minecraft creative world what an evil man Leopold was
and what a bastion of freedom and equality the DRC is ...
What an enlightening documentary. Leopold II was no doubt both, to answer the question. He did some showy building in Belgium and had political foresight there, but he has responsibility for what happened in Congo since he was the boss. If he didn't know, he should have. Ultimately, that was his responsibility.
The answer to the final question seems apparent to me.Quite the history.
Ho Chi Mingh of Vietnam 🇻🇳 next?
His grandmother Queen Victoria gave him Congo and Belgium 🤦🏽♀️
Nope the king of the belgian's was chosen by the peopel of belgium
I’m going to be nitpicky here. Napoleon III of France’s lifespan is shown as “1808 til 1973” (5:29) 😅
He found the Fountain of Youth 😆
The shock of the Watergate scandal must have done him in 😂
This channel is my new drug.
Leopold was a bad man
I think he was typical. Poor Africa, always terrible leadership, regardless of race.
King Leopold II was very greedy man and did not care about the human suffering he cause in the Congo and on top that we was big Liar !!! To my Congolese brothers in Belgium currently living there, all those Grand Buildings with the name King Leopold II tag to it just remember that the buildings were build with the sweat and blood of your ancestors .
Wow....
He must had a proud collection of hands..
I am horrified by the crimes committed under the reign of this despite! I did my schools in Belgium but this history was NEVER taught. Great the truth is slowly surfacing to educate us and show the horrors committed in our past. May we learn from this dark period!
How do expect a history like this to be taught in Belgium Schools? It was too sadistic to be exposed. And to think that Leopard or leopold was fighting against slavery! What a deceptive hypocrite!! That is why trusting the Europeans and Westerners at large has always been an issue to me
Palestine?
I implored you to do C G E Mannerheim…
Yes! I visited the Mannerheim museum in Helsinki last year.
Recently I watched the development of the Treaty of Versailles and opined my disgust for the immature and irresponsable behavior from dignataries of the most powerful nations. They bickered and fought as teenagers would if allowed by their superiors, only this lot were the superiors for the western world acting as spiteful teenage girl and mendaceous teenage boys. The conflicts between European royals and their carpriciousness one hundred years prior clearly explains the dignataries, if we could call them so, behavior. The royals, as much as the dignataries, demonstrated absolute contempt for life, whether it was their own citizens or natives to the land they claimed as colonies. Their arrogance is unmatched and their inhumanity, exemplary! Mind You, this is at the end of the enlightment era, and royals suposedely were 'la creme de la creme' of Europe and the world. The hipocracy is astounding, the cinicism complete. They were doing humanity a favor with their mere presence...
Being the great grandchild of Alsaceans emigrated to Perú just prior to WWI, I now understand my grand parents, and my parents, attitude towards natives Peruvians. Even my siblings and cousins have remnants of this despicable feelings. I must have been adopted, for I feel contempt and pity for such short sighted feelings, and I find the natives love, and unity, for their family, especially their children, which the have plenty, and their kin, admirable!!
24:56 What city is that?
I consider myself a pretty tough customer, but I had to keep putting down the book King Leopold's Ghost because it was so disturbing.
Next 😮
It sounds like all he was concerned about was profit. How it was generated wasn’t on his radar
Sad, fighting over land that didn't belong to them here it is 2024 and they're fighting for the same land.
Who are his offspirngs? Do they still use his name? I want to know.
Ahhh the good old days. Just imagine those good old days of the mid to late 1800s. All those unsettled lands full of natural resource wealth and no one of any consequence living there. What a bully and grand time for civilized man in Africa, the American West, Australia, India, South East Asia and China.
A V A R I C E
Those people do not have limits, they believe they were at the top of the evolution. They did not create cities, they do not worried to integrate the native people. They only were worried to extract natural resources. British empire, French empire, US Americans did the same, follow by Argentinians "conquering" the Patagonia, Chileans the Araucanian and Mexicans fighting the Yakies.
Then here comes Japan
Do one on coland " fedsmoker" Peterson
There is still streets and avenues in the “ democratic world “ still bearing his name , their is a lot of buildings streets and institutions named after him in Europe that must tell you something.
Would love to see you do ep on Joseph Smith
Power - Greed - Destruction
Kongo spirits are him and his associates. The spiritual crimes and legacy shall not be left to rest till Justice is served. Henry Morton Stanley, the agent. The Kongos are seeking Justice. Yengeeeeee
What an odd statement, “a Welshman born in the United States”. I believe if he was born in the United States that makes him an American. I believe it should say “a Welshman who emigrated to the United States at age 18”.
Leopold massacred 20m Congolese and the west rarely speak about it just like the British government that massacred over 10m in it's former colonies.
Horror, horror.
General Henry Shelton Sanford, founder of the city of Sanford, FL.
Time to give Gold diamond
I didn't know about this monster at school.
Hi everyone I can't believe the history it never ever leave me me a surprise, a pretty awful the politician behaviors, they are alway a kind of criminals
All were indeed greedy, avarious criminals. As the Nazis were...
The number of victims of the free state due to lowered fertility disease hunger violence and mass emigration is a population decline of 1.2 million, not 10 as previously claimed. I also want to note the same atrocities were systemic in cabinda, angola, kamerun and french equatorial africa
My planet
Let's remember that many of the Europeans heads of state during Leopold's time were also guilty of colonialism yet many of those heads of state are celebrated in the media. Leopold wasn't the only guilty one. An example is Victoria of Britain. The media even fondly calls that period the Victorian Age. Imagine calling an age the Leopold Age.
When we see the pretext of the Belgian king to stop slavery in Africa, we Ethiopians are right to suspect every European coming to us as having hidden mission. In history, that was true, for instance, James Bruce from Scotland came to Ethiopia to discover the source of the Blue Nile (pretext); however, his true reason was to search for the Ark of the Covenant. Interesting.
That's exactly what I said of all their missionaries and "non profits" still working in the continent today.
43.51 you show French francs. I doubt we were using those.
What a monster.
Leopold II was and will always be BASED!
King Leopold II is the first chapter of the atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩
New subscriber here. I don't know if you take requests, but can this channel do a biography on John Dickenson? Please.
How did king Leopold create the infrastructure to gather all the rubber while killing 10 million people
Absolutely based