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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
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.
The shifting of the wealth and power is a flipping non-stop merri-go-round... it never falls into the hands of the poor though... we are the ones forever labouring along for someone elses greed, as each century goes by
@@woodennecktienice to pick on China. It’s the Western world that slaughtered occupants of the rest of the world as colonises . But that was done with the approval of the Church. Africa was robbed of its wealth and Human Resources. Just look around and see how many countries -China invaded, or India or African countries. In short the Western countries are all over the world, from north to south , east to west. They so well economically and advanced in their development as opposed to the countries they invaded.
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.
@@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 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.
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.
@@tonycatman there is much documentation...AND many photographs; even during his time other Europeans were repelled by what they saw happening under his direct control.....but, go ahead...protect the monster who destroyed his papers rather than let people see the extent of his cruelty & culpability 💥 Half the native people of that country 'disappeared' because...well, like YOU, who cares? They were not really human anyway......
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.
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.
@@Rootiga 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.
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.
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.
Congo was and is a place of horrors. Leopold’s rule was a short episode. Before Leopold’s rule, there was slave raiding by the Luba and Lunda tribes. Arabs and Swahili tribes raided the East. Villages were destroyed and many murdered. And eaten: the warrior tribes like Batetela and Zappo-Zap practiced cannibalism. Leopold weaponised the Ngala and Zappo-Zap. He did not invent their cruelty… it was their culture and he knew that. The horrors of Leopold have been told over and over - but it is not told that he effectively stopped slave raiding. After the colonial period, which was more or less calm (humiliating but calm), Mobutu killed and tortured political opponents and left the country destitute and in chaos. Possibly millions died and still die as the consequence of this cruel mismanagement and corruption. Atrocities continued (still). Militias scourge and plunder. A genocide against the Efe by militias took place. Please stop ranting and whining about the past: look at what happens NOW and what can be done.
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
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
Thank you for sharing this history with present generations. He wasn't a wise king. Where is he today to reap all that so many Congolese and others have lost theirs lives forever. Was it worth it? The past of the Belgium nations is the disgrace of the present generations. May the Lord rest the souls of those adults and children's whose lives that has been brutally killed. No amount of compensations is enough to pay for their lives. So very sad.
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?
Your history is way off. The Haitian slave revolt was successful but also genocidal against the whites on the island, all of whom were murdered except a small population of Poles. Napoleon never went to Haiti but did send an army of 15,000 men there who were devastated by disease and left the island after defeating the rebels several times. The French did return later and demanded an indemnity for the independence of the island, equal to half the revenues generated annually prior to independence. The rulers of Haiti, invaded the Dominican Republic and then reinstituted slavery. They were massively corrupt and evil men down to the present day. The only time since the Revolt that Haiti has had a modicum of prosperity and good rule was when the American Marines invaded and stabilized the island. Today Haiti is a failed state run by drug and arms gangs. None of the problems of the island are due to France and reparations.
@@thomassenbart You forget the many whites who joined the ex-slaves, so clealry the Haitians went after the racists who enslaved them. I will still say they fought Napoleon because he was in charge of the armed services. They also had to fight off many many white countries who did not want to see them win because of the consequences on their own countries, including the USA - you know the enslavers. European countries also made sure they did not buy the produce from Haiti in order to make it a failed state - that was until the people were forced to take on the debt heaped on them by France You write as if you would prefer the Haitians to remain enslaved. Do you imagine that the enslavers would have freed the enslaved if they asked nicely? They did no different than the poor did in France during their revolution.
@@JOn87_STRONGwe think different about this individual here in Belgium, and he was not the last Belgian king with blood on his hands and diamonds in his pockets like the rest off the upper class political and industrial thieves.
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.
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 .
“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
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
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.
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.
Two points i’d like to make. Firstly, the actions done by Leopold and the state of Belgium were horrific. Secondly, it is comical to glorify the US and UK involvement in the DRC as standing up for human rights when the US was participating in slavery and the UK was also engaging in their own brutal colonial projects in India. While the humanity in me would like to believe the first narrative we must acknowledge that their pressure on Belgium was primarily used to advance their own economic advancements. These are politicians not people.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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!!
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.
Henry Morton Stanley was not born in America, he was born in Denbigh in Wales, these docs are great but a few of them are littered with very basic errors
For most people outside the Congo, things have changed ever since the Absolute Monarch abandoned his private domain, but for most Congolese, atrocities have only changed hands or better modernized. Today, those who took over Congo are worse than the cruel King. Poverty and misery are rampant and the new King’s agents are local puppets.
You should read about the vile slavery in the Americas done to the Native of the so called new world and Africa. This history will make Arabs look childish. The most evil and vile slavers in human history are western nations of European origins. And the fact that these people are still living off the fat of these people they murdered to this very day. Why don’t you read about that. Now they also living off the dead fat/ oil of the Arabs
And then one about the depopulation and genocide of the americas, they largest ever in history. If we want to whatabout, that is, but that would be a disgusting, deplorable and inhumane reaction to this video, wouldn't it?
While this is indeed a deplorable chapter of history, what followed afterwards was by no means exemplary democracy. Unfortunately, it was yet another form of dictatorship and the atrocities didn’t end with the Belgians, rather they were perpetuated by the domestic population and authorities.
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.
Could anyone not already familiar with the subject absorb and retain one quarter of the facts rattled off in that lifeless long narration? I appreciated the reader's desperate attempts to put some energy into it.
Yes Leopold was the typical monster of history you would find raping parts of the world for his & his nation's prestige, but... You won't find a massive amount of difference between him & the other big colonial powers that had hitherto jostled for supremacy around the globe. With their own interests, insofar as their versions of brutality on their respective indigenous folk that they laid claim to. As far as my history knowledge as a South African, We now know of the atrocities brazenly committed by the British not only in South Africa under the Union flag, but in bright pink across Africa and in its vast territories around the globe on which the sun was never meant to set. I cannot help but think that even though Leopold was that typical colonial minded European of the day who didn't grieve it because his eye didn't actually see it - there were exactly the same amount other empire building nations who's dinosaur minded leaders felt exactly the same way & that many people involved in these atrocities simply didn't feel too bad about what they were doing. However knowing what we now know - The British saw Leopold as a scapegoat for their own atrocities committed as they were since the earliest days of their much longer reigning & brutal international empire. As far as we now of the British - In some ways they liked to be seen playing fair where it suited them, but in this regard they were even worse than Leopold as they would have happily snatched the Congo freestate from him & merrily carried on in the very same way, playing their own version of "fair"
why do people say this as if school is supposed to teach you everything. of course, you weren’t taught this in school, it;s not important to know in the grand scheme of things and was probably only taught in higher education such as ap european history if at all
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.
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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...
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
Until today?SO WHAT IS ISREAL DOING TO PALISTINE, LEBANON,OR SYRIA?
@@michaelguy5151palastine attacked first
@@michaelguy5151 that's another theme, and anyway, @choser1 is correct.
The Bible states God promised that land to the Jewish. People, the only land where they are welcomed. It is the Promised Land.@@michaelguy5151
Nice to hear my African history, I know what was happening with my ancestors in South Africa, thank you for this documentary.
An absolute monster!
Yup 💯
Can you make a documentary about king Otto of Greece ? I admire immensely your work.
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.
the other interesting thing is , other parts of the world did the same in their regions and china is doing it right now still in 2024
The shifting of the wealth and power is a flipping non-stop merri-go-round... it never falls into the hands of the poor though... we are the ones forever labouring along for someone elses greed, as each century goes by
The entire history of mammals is tribal. The ENTIRE history of the ENTIRE mammal species.
@@scorpionformula your quality of life is 1,000 times better than your great-grandparents.
@@woodennecktienice to pick on China. It’s the Western world that slaughtered occupants of the rest of the world as colonises . But that was done with the approval of the Church. Africa was robbed of its wealth and Human Resources. Just look around and see how many countries -China invaded, or India or African countries. In short the Western countries are all over the world, from north to south , east to west. They so well economically and advanced in their development as opposed to the countries they invaded.
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.
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.
Not true, he made diamonds trendy in Belgium 😂
Been waiting for this one
AFrica is waiting a chANCE FOR VENGANCE
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"
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
@@tonycatman there is much documentation...AND many photographs; even during his time other Europeans were repelled by what they saw happening under his direct control.....but, go ahead...protect the monster who destroyed his papers rather than let people see the extent of his cruelty & culpability 💥 Half the native people of that country 'disappeared' because...well, like YOU, who cares? They were not really human anyway......
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.
@@Rootiga 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.
@@Rootiga Perhaps as a deterrent and 'motivation' for other Congolese to work harder and faster...
Not true, all of these accusations are fabrications by Hochschild in his book. It never happened.
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
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.
No, certain figures are smeared for a reason, "(AltHype) Leopold II's Congo Genocide of 10 Million"
Not to mention callousness.
No the Caucasian race is the personification of greed not leopold
Outstanding presentation.
Good video.
Leopold was a guy with a heart full of darkness.
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.
@XOPOIIIO yet when he was advised,he did nothing to correct the situation
@vre7474 And ?
I see what you did there. Colonel Kurtz has entered the chat. The horror... The horror...
Fascinating.
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
Think it was 20 million plus
Who is more evil; the person that committed the atrocity, or the person who gave the order?
Slavery WAS part of Colonial atrocities.
While they doth protest on Hitler
Leopold the Il was a monster in what he did to Africans The Congo.
Absolutely
"in his private backyard"
But were you there!?
Would love an episode on Lord Mount batten. I think he led an interesting life
!!
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.
Excellent video as usual!
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Excellent documentary.
Congratulations
Thank you
For Congo 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇬🇨🇬
No, against moniarchal control of all people.
@@thebrickton1947 For Marx, for Stalin
Where?
Congo was and is a place of horrors. Leopold’s rule was a short episode. Before Leopold’s rule, there was slave raiding by the Luba and Lunda tribes. Arabs and Swahili tribes raided the East. Villages were destroyed and many murdered. And eaten: the warrior tribes like Batetela and Zappo-Zap practiced cannibalism. Leopold weaponised the Ngala and Zappo-Zap. He did not invent their cruelty… it was their culture and he knew that. The horrors of Leopold have been told over and over - but it is not told that he effectively stopped slave raiding. After the colonial period, which was more or less calm (humiliating but calm), Mobutu killed and tortured political opponents and left the country destitute and in chaos. Possibly millions died and still die as the consequence of this cruel mismanagement and corruption. Atrocities continued (still). Militias scourge and plunder. A genocide against the Efe by militias took place. Please stop ranting and whining about the past: look at what happens NOW and what can be done.
Magnifique.
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
Anyone seen me head ?
Stanley was not born in the United States. He was born in Wales and migrated to the United States later
and he was not the only one
Pls!!! Do an episode on Empress Carlota of Mexico soon!!!
Check out the book: "The Crown of Mexico" by Joan Haslip
So many people don't know about him and what he did in the Congo.
Meh. Congo Rwanda Burundi continue to maintain a cultural tradition of social violence, genocide and inter-ethnic conflict all by themselves.
@@rudeigin guess who is behind that?? I'm Congolese I know who is really behind those wars so don't be a hypocrite.....
@@Nubialady32who ? China ?
@@Nathansss365 The West..
Just stop figlting youre own people. But for money..@@Nubialady32
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
Thank you for sharing this history with present generations. He wasn't a wise king. Where is he today to reap all that so many Congolese and others have lost theirs lives forever. Was it worth it? The past of the Belgium nations is the disgrace of the present generations.
May the Lord rest the souls of those adults and children's whose lives that has been brutally killed.
No amount of compensations is enough to pay for their lives. So very sad.
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?
Happy Haiti?
Your history is way off. The Haitian slave revolt was successful but also genocidal against the whites on the island, all of whom were murdered except a small population of Poles. Napoleon never went to Haiti but did send an army of 15,000 men there who were devastated by disease and left the island after defeating the rebels several times. The French did return later and demanded an indemnity for the independence of the island, equal to half the revenues generated annually prior to independence. The rulers of Haiti, invaded the Dominican Republic and then reinstituted slavery. They were massively corrupt and evil men down to the present day. The only time since the Revolt that Haiti has had a modicum of prosperity and good rule was when the American Marines invaded and stabilized the island. Today Haiti is a failed state run by drug and arms gangs. None of the problems of the island are due to France and reparations.
@@thomassenbart You forget the many whites who joined the ex-slaves, so clealry the Haitians went after the racists who enslaved them. I will still say they fought Napoleon because he was in charge of the armed services. They also had to fight off many many white countries who did not want to see them win because of the consequences on their own countries, including the USA - you know the enslavers. European countries also made sure they did not buy the produce from Haiti in order to make it a failed state - that was until the people were forced to take on the debt heaped on them by France You write as if you would prefer the Haitians to remain enslaved. Do you imagine that the enslavers would have freed the enslaved if they asked nicely? They did no different than the poor did in France during their revolution.
All western nations were complicit, refusing to trade with Haiti until said debt was paid
Is that why they still behave like animals to this very day?
Leopold II, The Belguin Monster.
The greatest Belgium king 🇧🇪
@@JOn87_STRONGwe think different about this individual here in Belgium, and he was not the last Belgian king with blood on his hands and diamonds in his pockets like the rest off the upper class political and industrial thieves.
Yess monster thief and pedo
Knowing what this bastard gets up to, not looking forward to the horrors.
I've visited the Royal Museum of Central Africa at Tervuren, just outside Bruxelles. Fascinating place.
Great documentary, thanks for sharing.
A very well made video watched throughout whilst building on my Minecraft creative world what an evil man Leopold was
This channel is my new drug.
I would like to see more stories from African historical figures on your channel
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.
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.
#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.
Nice documentary
Sad thing is, at various times, in many areas of the Congo things did not get much better.
Wonderful expose on this historic villan.
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 .
Some people have an eye for good things....
“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
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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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
Two points i’d like to make. Firstly, the actions done by Leopold and the state of Belgium were horrific. Secondly, it is comical to glorify the US and UK involvement in the DRC as standing up for human rights when the US was participating in slavery and the UK was also engaging in their own brutal colonial projects in India. While the humanity in me would like to believe the first narrative we must acknowledge that their pressure on Belgium was primarily used to advance their own economic advancements. These are politicians not people.
Interesting documentary
Love your work guys! Leopold I deserved a better heir. Can you make a video on him? Hes a great figure! 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪
and what a bastion of freedom and equality the DRC is ...
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.
The answer to the final question seems apparent to me.Quite the history.
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 😂
Ho Chi Mingh of Vietnam 🇻🇳 next?
I am floored at how watered down the slavery elaboration is.
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
Very underrated as it pertains to his evilness. Definitely one of the most evil that has ever lived and walked amongst us.
Not true. Read my analysis above.
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.
Real life lore did one on that, it's not to bad if a little short
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
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
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!!
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.
Henry Morton Stanley was not born in America, he was born in Denbigh in Wales, these docs are great but a few of them are littered with very basic errors
For most people outside the Congo, things have changed ever since the Absolute Monarch abandoned his private domain, but for most Congolese, atrocities have only changed hands or better modernized. Today, those who took over Congo are worse than the cruel King. Poverty and misery are rampant and the new King’s agents are local puppets.
“Worse?” This dude killed the vast majority of the Congo population. It hasn’t gotten worse than that. JS
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.
art and architecture have purposes beyond their own sakes
Do Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose please! Just as important to India's founding as Mahatma Gandhi! Love your work and loyal subscriber also!
Sad, fighting over land that didn't belong to them here it is 2024 and they're fighting for the same land.
Dude was a true baller.
You must hustle if you want chop
Leopold was a bad man
I think he was typical. Poor Africa, always terrible leadership, regardless of race.
It's amazing how much that region of Europe has done such a 180 in modern times in terms of it's foreign policy
I just love the way the narrator lay the foundation by portraying Leopold as a wonderful humanitarian but calling his atrocities as allegedly.
I implored you to do C G E Mannerheim…
Yes! I visited the Mannerheim museum in Helsinki last year.
Look at the native rulers after the Europeans and look at that part of Africa today
The reason Africa is unstable is because of how Europe ruined it.
Colonialism has lasting negative socio economic effects
It’s not even that far fetched to think of that
He is right up there with Hitler.
That's a reach
Do a profile on the brutality of the Arab slave trade.
And how Blacks sold each other I to slavery.
Thomas Sowell took down a history of slavery video because of YT's censoring and blanking audio.
You should read about the vile slavery in the Americas done to the Native of the so called new world and Africa. This history will make Arabs look childish. The most evil and vile slavers in human history are western nations of European origins. And the fact that these people are still living off the fat of these people they murdered to this very day. Why don’t you read about that. Now they also living off the dead fat/ oil of the Arabs
Oh, and have them document and narrate the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade of Africa, done by the Saudis.
And then one about the depopulation and genocide of the americas, they largest ever in history. If we want to whatabout, that is, but that would be a disgusting, deplorable and inhumane reaction to this video, wouldn't it?
He was indeed a monster
No, he was not.
Exactly .. Caught up
Would love to see you do ep on Joseph Smith
Leopold had that grindset mindset
While this is indeed a deplorable chapter of history, what followed afterwards was by no means exemplary democracy. Unfortunately, it was yet another form of dictatorship and the atrocities didn’t end with the Belgians, rather they were perpetuated by the domestic population and authorities.
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.
Could anyone not already familiar with the subject absorb and retain one quarter of the facts rattled off in that lifeless long narration? I appreciated the reader's desperate attempts to put some energy into it.
They got rich of the blood of black people
Yes Leopold was the typical monster of history you would find raping parts of the world for his & his nation's prestige, but... You won't find a massive amount of difference between him & the other big colonial powers that had hitherto jostled for supremacy around the globe. With their own interests, insofar as their versions of brutality on their respective indigenous folk that they laid claim to. As far as my history knowledge as a South African, We now know of the atrocities brazenly committed by the British not only in South Africa under the Union flag, but in bright pink across Africa and in its vast territories around the globe on which the sun was never meant to set. I cannot help but think that even though Leopold was that typical colonial minded European of the day who didn't grieve it because his eye didn't actually see it - there were exactly the same amount other empire building nations who's dinosaur minded leaders felt exactly the same way & that many people involved in these atrocities simply didn't feel too bad about what they were doing. However knowing what we now know - The British saw Leopold as a scapegoat for their own atrocities committed as they were since the earliest days of their much longer reigning & brutal international empire. As far as we now of the British - In some ways they liked to be seen playing fair where it suited them, but in this regard they were even worse than Leopold as they would have happily snatched the Congo freestate from him & merrily carried on in the very same way, playing their own version of "fair"
Ignorance is bliss
I didn't know about this monster at school.
why do people say this as if school is supposed to teach you everything. of course, you weren’t taught this in school, it;s not important to know in the grand scheme of things and was probably only taught in higher education such as ap european history if at all
Anybody know the title of that 219-page pamphlet and where I could find it?
Was there Leopold da Turd
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.
Can anyone recommend a nother doc on his atrocities?
It sounds like all he was concerned about was profit. How it was generated wasn’t on his radar
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What a monster.