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Saying Hitler didn't give the order is like saying the King never ordered the assassination of Thomas Beckett. Sure Henry never signed a paper directing a specific subordinate to do something on this date, but he gave plenty of clues and made remarks at the cabinet meetings.
So it was basically do what you think hitler wants and get his approval later when the job is done.... it seems so very ineffective and on one hand doesn't seem to fit with his skill and ability to organize.
it's interesting that people don't wish to see the Nazi's as socialist. Then again we live in a time people think socialism and communism are the same thing.
@@robert48044 they weren’t socialists though. Socialism doesn’t have a main tenet of depriving other ethnic groups of their existence to promote the betterment of one main ethnic group. They supported collectivism, but not marxism, socialism or communism, which they’ve explicitly condemned for going against their far right social views, which isn’t related to socialism. Hitler and his Nazis focused on providing the advancement of the German people specifically, which is why Nazi Germany practiced collectivism. They did not however seek to eliminate the bourgeoisie, but to eliminate non-german people, culture and influence from German society.
@@jtgd Hitler said he was a socialist. Just because the Nazi form was awful doesn't mean their leader didn't see himself as a socialist. You can have social programs for some and hate on another group. He said they weren't capitalist and they weren't communist they were a third type. Just because we want to view socialism as some great thing doesn't mean another group doesn't see their form as a better version even if the rest see's it differently. What's the difference between a Monarch and a Dictator nothing much except it depends how you wish to view the leader (enemy/friend). ua-cam.com/video/eCkyWBPaTC8/v-deo.html
Dear UA-cam: Quit trying to hold my hand, or shield my eyes. I'm a grown-ass man, I'm subscribed to this channel, and I deliberately clicked on the video. Whoever "flagged" this video is in the wrong.
The problem here isn't so much the flagging. It can be pertinent to give a heads-up (even though, in this case, it's quite obvious what you're getting into). What is extremely frustrating is that you can't turn that off. Even if you're a grown-ass man who is prepared to see content like this, you still have to go through that bureaucracy.
I think in actuality that those that might have flagged this video may have been those who would take exception to the dim depiction of the rabid thought process of Nazism described within.
So it was similar to the mafia. The mafia boss doesn't send a signed letter saying, "Kill so and so." He politely asks the underboss, "Could you take care of this problem?" And like the mafia it makes prosecution of their crimes much more difficult. It's a lot harder to point to direct evidence. A picture of context and unspoken rules and subtle meanings has to be created for the true culpability to be appreciated.
Our best prosecution tactics for instances like this remind us of command responsibility. A leader is responsible for the actions of their subordinates. Either that, or the leader is neglecting their responsibilities. Or, the subordinates are committing illegal insubordination. And normally we assume the former in a prosecution case if we can establish some kind of command structure exists at all. Rules like the felony murder rule, and our ability to get those at the lower levels to testify in return for immunity or reduced sentences with witness protection are, when done well, brilliantly capable of bringing down a whole syndicate.
@@robertjarman3703 Too bad the prosecution of war crimes after WW2 was politically motivated instead of being motivated by justice. Were those principles even around 75 years ago?
@@jimbo9305 There were those who had ideas for how to deal with victors justice like the Red Cross. But political expediency came before humanitarianism.
Exactly. Explicit references to the Fuhrerprincipe and its mirroring of mafia-like operations were also made during the neo-nazi Golden Dawn trials in Greece.
I've read _Mein Kampf,_ and - ideology aside - it is not a well-written book. It's a rambling, meandering, stream-of-consciousness text with little to indicate that it was carefully planned and composed. It appears that Hitler just sat down and talked about whatever he wanted to talk about that day and then left the editor to form this into a semi-coherent screed.
These *special episodes* like this one are the ones that I'm really looking forward to because of its in-depth analysis and everything in between. Gotta love *Spartacus* for sharing these with us.
Yeah, one of the things that struck me when I sat down to study this period was the internal conflict and disorganisation of the Nazi Party and movement in general. It's a far cry from the image and legend created around the Nazis especially from the propaganda. As for Hitler himself I got the impression that he couldn't be arsed with hard work of running a party or a state. And he was much happier indulging himself in his nightmarish fantasies of conquest.
And architecture. He even, with Speer at his side, considered construction methods for their “ruin value” - how the buildings would look thousands of years after construction. But serious work like figuring out a sustainable economy? Nah. Let the peons worry about that.
And yet him and his government were only able to be stopped after a world wide effort by hundreds of nations and the two front war with Russia as well as cutting of the supply lines and bombing of the nazis industrial power as well as their airbases which prevented/hindered their use of their sonic jet fighter I think the scary thing should be even with how disorganized, corrupt, incompetent and infighting the nazis party and hierarchy was, defeating them was a massive stretch that required massive effort, sacrifice and still could have gone the other way if anything went wrong.
This ‘H’ guy sounds exactly like trump...’anti beurocratic’ (drain the swamp) yet hugely autocratic...he uses both personas to whip his followers into a frenzy...hey! Like a National Socialist!
These special episodes are what makes World War Two better than the series on World War One (which I loved, btw): the moral certainty of Spartacus is absolutely justified, putting lie to any claims of the Nazis as a beneficial force for Germany let alone the rest of Europe and the world. Thanks, everyone… this is some of the best stuff on the internet and it's most appreciated.
I am hugely appreciative of Spartacus' efforts in both this and the WaH series. I strongly feel that exposing the significant flaws, contradictions and outright inhuman aspects of Nazism as a system of government do so much more in duscouraging people from idolizing it than simply demonizing and dismissing it have ever done. War against Humanity, likewise, makes the evil of things like Genocide, racist policies and the Holocaust more fathomable than they have been before, at least to me.
This stuff isn’t as sexy as tanks planes and big battles. It’s like logistics -without it nothing happens. It’s 2021 now and if you think this isn’t relevant today,don’t say that to my mother and father now in the twilight of their lives who still sweat bullets in their dreams.
@@metal4lifewp Just as there was a Pharaoh that did not know Joseph, there will be Holocaust deniers. Perhaps they will have too much nuclear enrichment on their minds.
I spent more than a year making my moustache pointy and when I look at Spartacus' glorious moustache, I can see that he is a man of character, determination, perseverance and strenght of will. Your moustache points are the pins that holds the memory of humanity's history in our minds.
Tomorrow is the 20th of January. On Thursday January 28, War Against Humanity 027, which would normally cover the second half of January comes out. The first January episode (WaH 026) unusually for a half month episode covered events for all of January... you do the math. ;-)
It is so important to understand this. The hybrid of extreme organization and chaotic banditry seems incongruous but it worked as a terrifyingly unpredictable government
just like the "democratic USA" right now, people are poor and in heavy debt-enslavement and resort to fentanyl imported from the communist China to cope for it.
mad respect for Spartacus. covering the most horrible aspects of ww2 in such a sharp, yet elegant and intelligible way, conveying the heaviness and somberness at all times.
As an American who was born in the Soviet Union in 1975, who’s family members fought and died during the war it was always a shock to me how little most Americans know about the war. Thank you for doing this. If you truly want to know what that war meant to Soviet people watch the UA-cam video called Immortal regiment. It’s very moving
As a historian I tip my hat. This was as brief anyone can get without losing in accuracy. I must admit I could expand on this for hours without being able to add anything essential - and I ' ve probably done so in the past...
Even here in Israel where studying the holocaust is mandatory in high-schools doesn't reach the same level of detail and feeling this show gives me. Keep it on guys! Let me and the rest of us remember to live on for those who have been perished, not repeating the mistakes of the past.
Those who present themselves as 'uniquely gifted' rarely if ever are gifted in any way. Most of the world's geniuses, like great athletes, allow the quality of their work to speak on their behalf, not words of self-glorification. A braggart's words mean nothing to a keen observer of human nature. It's a sure sign of a narcissist, however, who too often believe that they're the brightest bulb in the shed when all evidence points in favor of the opposite argument. Kudos to Sparty, Indie and Astrid for the overall excellence of their work. What an amazing group of gifted people you are. The high quality of your videos continues to amaze me. You seem to raise the bar with every new video series you make.
A side note: I'm not positive but I think when Hitler was in prison he recited Mein Kampf to his loyal Rudolf Hess, who typed it up for him. Amazingly Hess lived 42 years past the end of WWII, killing himself in prison in 1987.
Thank you. Wish I could add an intelligent review of this but unfortunately I’m a man of limited linguistic skills. Love your channel and am so glad that you and some others like you keep this very interesting history alive and fresh in our minds. We must not forget and learn from history.
Don't put yourself down so much Andrew, and anyway, a comment such as yours is the best possible we could receive. We really appreciate your kind words, keep up the support!
Great episode! We tend to have the stereotype of the Germans as obsessed with order and imagine the totalitarian Third Reich as some precise bureaucratic machine. The reality, as usual, is more complicated. This whole system of "controlled" chaos and encouraged rivalry is for example the reason why gauleiters Arthur Greiser and Albert Forster were realizing the task of germanizing the incorporated into the Reich Polish territories under their rule with different methods and policies towards the ethnically Polish (and Kashubian) population.
@@maciejniedzielski7496 Pretty much, or at least Forster was more pragmatic and less racist, so under him you could be pressured to sign the Volksliste, instead of being simply kicked out of your house and deported to the General Government (for Greiser this was a heresy and crime against the purity of the German blood or something and he complained about it to Himmler and Hitler). Of course this ment that now you could be conscripted to the Wehrmacht. I'm also not knowledgeable to tell under whom you would be more statistically likely to be simply shot or send to a concentration camp.
Historians have said that Hitler was lazy. That makes sense considering his aversion to paperwork. Your take paints him as less than a politician and more as an idol or prophet, which also makes sense. After all, prophets are not rational.
That is not an accurate characterization. Hitler and his henchmen knew what they were doing was unethical, immoral, and illegal, which is why there was a lack of paperwork trail, not that he was too lazy to do it. He had plenty of people who could have done the paperwork for him. They were German after all. The mob doesn't take written minutes of their meetings.
interestingly, stalin was the polar opposite of hitler. stalin constantly reformed the state agencies & believed it was perfectly possible to run a state through documents. he would read hundreds of documents (incl written remarks & signoff) during 16 hour workdays. even when he had his 2-3 month summer vacations in sochi he would still receive hundreds of reports daily. he finally reached his limit during the great terror, when he had to appoint plenipotentaries & send them to the republics because he couldn't review all the execution lists himself anymore. (source: 'Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941' by S. Kotkin)
@@jamestheotherone742 They knew it was illegal and other powers, such as the Allies who had signed the Hague convention would execute them all on the spot, even worse with the Soviets. It is why they tried to burn and conceal everything.
As an aside: I am truly...not impressed, but...the fact that they were so successful for so long when the bosses at the top were always at each others throats and throwing each other under the bus. Overlapping commands and areas of influence just to keep them fighting for the number 2 spot. The fact that they could maneuver through all this shows how deeply they wanted to murder people
no, no they were not. That is the mistake people make with understanding history and human behavior. It is the longer, yet more honorable path to be truthful to yourself and acknowledge that such people were not monsters, yet humans. It is much more sobering to understand that humans are able to do such things to one another then to label them as "monsters"
By de-humanizing them as monsters, one will not recognize the nazi in oneself. How can you be a monster, right? You know you are a human only with best intentions.
Remember this German philosopher's insight before labeling people: "“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster . . . when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you”.
In Churchill's "World War II: Their Finest Hour" he made a memo to avoid situations caused by vagueness: "To make sure that my name was not used loosely, I issued during the crisis of July the following minute: '. . . Let it be very clearly understood that all directions emanating from me are made in writing, or should be immediately afterwards confirmed in writing, and that I do not accept any responsibility for matters relating to national defense on which I am alleged to have given decisions, unless they are recording in writing.'"
I truly have a deep appreciation for the work that you guys have done in order to provide us with a compendium of the human atrocities that took place in the two World Wars. I was hooked to Indy neidell's game show host/ radio announcer like delivery in 2014 during the Prelude to World War in the Great War Channel. Thank you all very much from the bottom of my heart.
A rare eye-opening episode that reveals how Hitler's & Nazi minds and spirits work and shed light on human nature too. Keep up the great work Spartacus! From a viewer who comes from a country, Lebanon, that were never reached by Hitler's armies
We've all have that kind of manager who wants everyone to work hard as hell but never does anything, good for giving orders but incapable of having order in their own acts
Not giving written orders and giving contradicting orders to various people meant that Hitler could always blame others for the failure, since they didn't "understand his intentions". I always thought it was a miracle how this mess of a "government" ever got things done but your explanation of how the Nazis sort of implanted their people in pre-existing institutions helped me understand how that happened. Very nice video.
Excellent piece Spartacus! I also thought that the 1941 Einsatzgruppen squads were disastrous for the German cause because it turned millions of people like the Ukrainians, the Baltic States, etc into ardent anti Nazis. They hated the Communist regime in Moscow and could have been used to fight them. Instead, many of them joined partisan movements against the Germans.
It doesn't matter as to who gave the order, because as chief executive of the German government it was Hitler who bore ultimate responsibility. If he was not the one who gave the order then he must have been aware of what was happening, and if he wasn't then he was too lazy to be kept informed of all the things that were being done in his name, and that would make him criminally incompetent. He therefore remains the chief culprit. If a cruise ship sinks with massive loss of life after hitting some rocks while the captain is having sex with a hooker in his cabin, he is still responsible for the consequences, even if it was someone else who steered the ship to the rocks.
This video doesn't seek to pin (ultimate) responsibility on anyone, or to take it away from anyone. It attempts to for a part explain how the mass-murder of the Jews, Roma and Sinti was able to happen, how it spiralled and why there were no breaks as to the depths that the nazis descended in - despite the lack of detailed instructions from the very top.
Hitler is like that one kid who doesn't do give any effort to the group work but give the order and advices to his colleagues and let them sort it off by themselves
Outstanding insight, rational deductive interpretation of history. As an historian I can say this is one of best and most accurate commentary on Nazi policy implementation.
As a Jew who had family members that perished in the Holocaust, never in my Jewish school days I had a THAT clear explanation of who was my enemy really was as I had in this episode ! EXCELLENT VIDEO ! THANK YOU VERY MUCH ! SPARTACUS: YOU ARE THE RIGHT MAN FOR THIS JOB ! YOU MADE ME CRY (LITERALLY !) MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY ALWAYS !
Well done, Mr. Olsson. Somehow I always presumed the Nazi government was a relatively well-oiled machine. This ran counter to most everything I took for granted. Excellent video, sir.
When you study this stuff, it sure looks like people who think of themselves as "uniquely gifted" are actually pretty dumb. Bear that in mind when you encounter people who think of themselves as "uniquely gifted".
It's easy to think that when you haven't achieved anything in your life and cherry pick only the bad, some of the people that have have claimed to be gifted have achieved a lot and just by cherry picking the bad doesn't mean they were stupid for thinking so. That's especially true for the Germans who we owe much of the scientific advancement of the entire 19th and 20th century, on top of that they joined a war against overwhelming odds 20 years prior and it was actually close, just 40 years after becoming a nation. After so many amazing achievements, thinking you are "gifted" is actually a pretty modest reaction.
Absolutely. My Master's thesis supervisor (an astrophysicist who pretty much revolutionized his field) always said "Either you're Martin Rees, whose work speaks for itself to the point where he never has to brag about it, or you're not, in which case there's someone who is far, far smarter than you. Either way, there's no reason to show off". For context, Martin Rees is arguably the greatest theoretical astrophysicist of the second half of the 20th century.
@@Aradim90 I didn't call the Germans dumb, I called the Nazis dumb. And some of the brightest minds of Germany, such as Albert Einstein, were hated by the Nazis for being Jewish.
11:15 The “Well...” that follows is loaded like a gunslinger in an old western who has been insulted for the last time, downs a shot of whiskey, pushes his stool back from the bar, and flicks his eyes in the direction of the poker playing villains. Love it. Keep up the fight, Spartacus & crew.
Very interesting video! This leads us to the question of whether Hitler was a strong or a weak dictator. I would love to hear Spartacus' or Indy's thoughts on this.
The Einsatzgruppen only consisted of in its peak 3,000 men. Not a lot when compared to the sizes of armies in World War 2. And it’s not like they were using that much resources like planes, tanks, artillery, and ships. At most, what they were using was submachine guns and automobiles. Also, the execution squads were radically loyal to the National Socialist cause and had no qualms with executing for Hitler.
The murdering itself did not drain that much resources, nor require fantastic amounts of logistics - using that much ammunition did have material negative effect at the front though, rounding up millions of people to murder them did, creating and maintaining ghettos and camps did, to not mention the effect on morale which was disastrous.
@@WorldWarTwo well on the morale question, it depends. Many of the people doing the killing were not soldiers and were police or civilians so I’d argue it may not have much of an effect
Hitler was reactionary, but to communism, which is a reactionary idea itself. His movement was a reaction to a reaction, like fascism, but still left, not centrist. Collectivist societies - ones based on the state, not the individual - can not be politically, right wing, or even centrist, either. Even fascism is left wing, and National Socialism is to the left of that. If you took the Nazi 25 point plan and replaced "Jew" for Billionaire, then it would be to the left of Bernie Sanders, though Sanders people would still love it. Even WEB Dubois, a black American intellectual, sitting in Berlin in 1936, called Germany the "great exemplar of marxian socialism" second only to the soviet union.
@@NoahBodze When I’m saying centrist here, I’m just trying to note economic policies. The collectivist nature of national socialism was meant to parallel Marxian socialism though.
This is a fantastic episode. There isn't enough content and focus on the chaotic paper shuffling and bottom-up policy creation! Great to see this ep smashing any outdated view of Nazi Germany as some massive united monolith.
@@DarkCylon my daughter is by now a wonderful grownup woman, and she has always had good manners, but 'well behaved' is certainly not a way I would describe her, neither as a child nor a grownup. Her mother says that our daughter has always had me twisted around her little finger - I love her to bits just as she is though.
Hitler as a WW1 soldier was completely involved in directing the fighting in the east which was not going well. He saw himself as a soldier first and most likely left things up to Bormann Himmler and Goebbels. Hermann Wilhelm Göring was always collecting art and hunting and had little interest in the war (which he tried to talk Hitler out of from starting in the east) especially after things started to go bad. We will never know for sure who directed what. We only know the result.
@14:35 This can't be overstated. The diversion of resources and manpower into operations in the rear areas along with the resulting loss of any chance of winning the populations (esp in Ukraine) led directly to the failure of the best (only) chance they had of Barbarossa succeeding. The same psychotic motivation of the enterprise was its own downfall.
@@toastytoast9800 Nazi antisemitism and general selective racism was a rationale that justified (to themselves) the immoral theft of territory and property, which was their principle motivation.
Nice in a nutshell video. Whether or not accurate, it fits my perception of Nazi Germany (the narrator says it better than I ever could) so I really enjoyed it. It shakes the general arguments "I was only following orders" and "I didn't know" to the core. Nazis liked being Nazis because being in the club had great benefits, even freedoms, as long as you stayed within the Nazi playing field. No person of conscience could do it, but it was a license to steal and murder for those with no empathy or sense of personal guilt.
"...keep the memories of our past mistakes and successes alive." Has there ever been a more profound sentiment? It seems to me that today many people (here in the U.S.) want to focus only on our past mistakes while completely ignoring our successes. IMHO, that is as much a departure from the truth as focusing only on our successes while ignoring our mistakes. We must see and accept both, and accept them both honestly, if we are going to advance. Otherwise we will eventually fall into the same trap that devoured Germany, one side gaining supremacy and forcing their beliefs onto the other. I am sure there will be those who say I am a paranoid who sees monsters under his bed. To those I give this quote; "Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it." If you really pay attention, REALLY pay attention, you will see we have not learned and are truly repeating history.
It is possible to make the same video but for fascist Italy, Mussolini came to power 10 years before Hitler, but he had to share some of its power with the king...
I like the dramatic way this speaker tackles the subject matter. Unfortunately i don't voluntarily give money to any causes, programs, or schools at this point in my life.
I got "The Holocaust: A New History" but I haven't got round to reading it yet. It's scary that the majority of those involved in the Holocaust. Had very normal upbringings.
This episode explores the source of nazi policy of which we see the effects in our World War Two and War Against Humanity episodes. The more theoretical and analytical nature of episodes like this may cause more debate than usual. We encourage any civil and well-sourced discussion in the comments. We will not, however, tolerate any comments that are in violation of our rules of conduct. They are posted on our forum and I urge anyone to read hem before heading to the comments: community.timeghost.tv/t/rules-of-conduct/4518
Saying Hitler didn't give the order is like saying the King never ordered the assassination of Thomas Beckett. Sure Henry never signed a paper directing a specific subordinate to do something on this date, but he gave plenty of clues and made remarks at the cabinet meetings.
@@robertjarman3703 Did you even watch the episode?
So it was basically do what you think hitler wants and get his approval later when the job is done.... it seems so very ineffective and on one hand doesn't seem to fit with his skill and ability to organize.
stupid wrong title.
This really reminds of David Irving and his denial that Hitler ordered or even knew at all of the Holocaust.
I like that this channel addresses many of the myths and assumptions surrounding the war, especially Germany during that era.
it's interesting that people don't wish to see the Nazi's as socialist. Then again we live in a time people think socialism and communism are the same thing.
@@robert48044 they weren’t socialists though. Socialism doesn’t have a main tenet of depriving other ethnic groups of their existence to promote the betterment of one main ethnic group.
They supported collectivism, but not marxism, socialism or communism, which they’ve explicitly condemned for going against their far right social views, which isn’t related to socialism.
Hitler and his Nazis focused on providing the advancement of the German people specifically, which is why Nazi Germany practiced collectivism. They did not however seek to eliminate the bourgeoisie, but to eliminate non-german people, culture and influence from German society.
@Joey Dyker ua-cam.com/video/YHAN-RPJTiE/v-deo.html
@@jtgd Hitler said he was a socialist. Just because the Nazi form was awful doesn't mean their leader didn't see himself as a socialist. You can have social programs for some and hate on another group. He said they weren't capitalist and they weren't communist they were a third type. Just because we want to view socialism as some great thing doesn't mean another group doesn't see their form as a better version even if the rest see's it differently. What's the difference between a Monarch and a Dictator nothing much except it depends how you wish to view the leader (enemy/friend).
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@@robert48044 stop participating.
Dear UA-cam:
Quit trying to hold my hand, or shield my eyes. I'm a grown-ass man, I'm subscribed to this channel, and I deliberately clicked on the video. Whoever "flagged" this video is in the wrong.
The problem here isn't so much the flagging. It can be pertinent to give a heads-up (even though, in this case, it's quite obvious what you're getting into).
What is extremely frustrating is that you can't turn that off. Even if you're a grown-ass man who is prepared to see content like this, you still have to go through that bureaucracy.
I think in actuality that those that might have flagged this video may have been those who would take exception to the dim depiction of the rabid thought process of Nazism described within.
Anything against socialism is bad in the eyes of the socialists...
@@randylucas2458 National Socialism isn't socialism tho (Not saying I support socialism, it's a shit ideology anyways).
@Jay Koval UA-cam is run by a bunch of F'N Nazis, you moron. Get it?
So it was similar to the mafia. The mafia boss doesn't send a signed letter saying, "Kill so and so." He politely asks the underboss, "Could you take care of this problem?" And like the mafia it makes prosecution of their crimes much more difficult. It's a lot harder to point to direct evidence. A picture of context and unspoken rules and subtle meanings has to be created for the true culpability to be appreciated.
Our best prosecution tactics for instances like this remind us of command responsibility. A leader is responsible for the actions of their subordinates. Either that, or the leader is neglecting their responsibilities. Or, the subordinates are committing illegal insubordination. And normally we assume the former in a prosecution case if we can establish some kind of command structure exists at all. Rules like the felony murder rule, and our ability to get those at the lower levels to testify in return for immunity or reduced sentences with witness protection are, when done well, brilliantly capable of bringing down a whole syndicate.
@@robertjarman3703 Too bad the prosecution of war crimes after WW2 was politically motivated instead of being motivated by justice.
Were those principles even around 75 years ago?
@@jimbo9305 There were those who had ideas for how to deal with victors justice like the Red Cross. But political expediency came before humanitarianism.
Exactly. Explicit references to the Fuhrerprincipe and its mirroring of mafia-like operations were also made during the neo-nazi Golden Dawn trials in Greece.
@@jimbo9305 Many of those principles have been around for hundreds of years.
I've read _Mein Kampf,_ and - ideology aside - it is not a well-written book. It's a rambling, meandering, stream-of-consciousness text with little to indicate that it was carefully planned and composed. It appears that Hitler just sat down and talked about whatever he wanted to talk about that day and then left the editor to form this into a semi-coherent screed.
I wonder where you can read it? 🤔
@@luxembourgishempire2826 you can obtain "study versions" of it fairly easily online, which include a foreword by academics
@@luxembourgishempire2826 It was published in Swedish in the 1980s because it was considered an important historical document.
Sounds like Atlas Shrugged.
@@luxembourgishempire2826 archive . org
These *special episodes* like this one are the ones that I'm really looking forward to because of its in-depth analysis and everything in between.
Gotta love *Spartacus* for sharing these with us.
He is a great orator, he makes you feel it .
Thank you
@@spartacus-olsson thank you
gosh, Sparty was born for this. the segments are getting better and better everytime!
Thank you!
Agreed. Gripping, informative, not a second wasted. Love it.
Yeah, one of the things that struck me when I sat down to study this period was the internal conflict and disorganisation of the Nazi Party and movement in general. It's a far cry from the image and legend created around the Nazis especially from the propaganda. As for Hitler himself I got the impression that he couldn't be arsed with hard work of running a party or a state. And he was much happier indulging himself in his nightmarish fantasies of conquest.
And architecture. He even, with Speer at his side, considered construction methods for their “ruin value” - how the buildings would look thousands of years after construction. But serious work like figuring out a sustainable economy? Nah. Let the peons worry about that.
And yet him and his government were only able to be stopped after a world wide effort by hundreds of nations and the two front war with Russia as well as cutting of the supply lines and bombing of the nazis industrial power as well as their airbases which prevented/hindered their use of their sonic jet fighter
I think the scary thing should be even with how disorganized, corrupt, incompetent and infighting the nazis party and hierarchy was, defeating them was a massive stretch that required massive effort, sacrifice and still could have gone the other way if anything went wrong.
This ‘H’ guy sounds exactly like trump...’anti beurocratic’ (drain the swamp) yet hugely autocratic...he uses both personas to whip his followers into a frenzy...hey! Like a National Socialist!
@@mamavswild gwendy .. really?
@@mckenzie.latham91 Can you see any comparisons with the USA or China?
These special episodes are what makes World War Two better than the series on World War One (which I loved, btw): the moral certainty of Spartacus is absolutely justified, putting lie to any claims of the Nazis as a beneficial force for Germany let alone the rest of Europe and the world. Thanks, everyone… this is some of the best stuff on the internet and it's most appreciated.
Thanks
Couldn't have said it better. Well done Sparty! And of course the entire crew of Timeghost
@@davidw.2791I know this is really late but look up the great war Indy neidell
I am hugely appreciative of Spartacus' efforts in both this and the WaH series. I strongly feel that exposing the significant flaws, contradictions and outright inhuman aspects of Nazism as a system of government do so much more in duscouraging people from idolizing it than simply demonizing and dismissing it have ever done.
War against Humanity, likewise, makes the evil of things like Genocide, racist policies and the Holocaust more fathomable than they have been before, at least to me.
Thank you - it's comments like yours that keep us going.
It's not enough to say "Nazis BAD". The obvious question that follows it is "HOW exactly were they bad?"
Videos like this one answer that pretty well.
This stuff isn’t as sexy as tanks planes and big battles. It’s like logistics -without it nothing happens.
It’s 2021 now and if you think this isn’t relevant today,don’t say that to my mother and father now in the twilight of their lives who still sweat bullets in their dreams.
Some day there will be people debating if it really happened at all. Or they just don't know because it isn't in their interest.
@@metal4lifewp Just as there was a Pharaoh that did not know Joseph, there will be Holocaust deniers. Perhaps they will have too much nuclear enrichment on their minds.
My friend Henning died in a tragic cabin fire on Saturday. This was is no 1 history channel
I'm sorry for your loss. May I ask if he died in his sleep or was trapped by the flames? I worry about a house fire and how I would respond.
I'm so very sorry to hear that. I wish you and his loved ones all the best in the time to come.
From all of us here at the channel, our deepest condolences.
Spartacus
I'm sorry for your loss
My condolences my friend and your friend will be in my prayers tonight
Finally a historian who can pronounce German words and names correctly.
He still has to study the pronounciation of Fuhrer!
I spent more than a year making my moustache pointy and when I look at Spartacus' glorious moustache, I can see that he is a man of character, determination, perseverance and strenght of will. Your moustache points are the pins that holds the memory of humanity's history in our minds.
Poetic!
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@@lausenteternidad Chill Winston.
Try corn starch. Good for making pointy cooch staches and keeps the ball bag dry from sweating.
In this light, I really hope Spartacus does an in depth look into the Wannsee Conference shortly!
Tomorrow is the 20th of January. On Thursday January 28, War Against Humanity 027, which would normally cover the second half of January comes out. The first January episode (WaH 026) unusually for a half month episode covered events for all of January... you do the math. ;-)
@@WorldWarTwo keep up the great (and important) work guys!
Spartacus is one of the most fair and non-biased people on youtube. I don't know how you walk the tightrope you do so well, but really well done.
Thanks
I have noticed Spartacus' right thumb trembling. I wish him all the best and good health. His analyses are excellent. Thank you.
I have a benign but rather irritating congenital condition that causes my hands to tremble, but thank you for the concern and the kind words.
It is so important to understand this. The hybrid of extreme organization and chaotic banditry seems incongruous but it worked as a terrifyingly unpredictable government
Finally someone explains this mess in an understandable way!!! Thanks for the great job!!!
Thank you
When the wicked rule, the people mourn.
Noooooo they suffer.
just like the "democratic USA" right now, people are poor and in heavy debt-enslavement and resort to fentanyl imported from the communist China to cope for it.
mad respect for Spartacus. covering the most horrible aspects of ww2 in such a sharp, yet elegant and intelligible way, conveying the heaviness and somberness at all times.
Thank you
As an American who was born in the Soviet Union in 1975, who’s family members fought and died during the war it was always a shock to me how little most Americans know about the war. Thank you for doing this. If you truly want to know what that war meant to Soviet people watch the UA-cam video called Immortal regiment. It’s very moving
Irresponsible leaders like Obama and Biden are egging on the American people to go to war against Russia.
@@ednorton47 That is a lie. A right-wing lie.
Wow, last time I was this early, Luigi Cadorna was only on the 4th battle of the Isonzo River ;)
Let's hope he keeps going. I'm not out of popcorn yet.
Wow, that's really early!
99 Battles of Isonzo on the wall.
@@polyhistorphilomath Problem with that song is that it (and friendly casualties) keep going up...
Thank you for this series. It's hard to watch, but it must have been much harder to film.
Never forget.
As a historian I tip my hat. This was as brief anyone can get without losing in accuracy. I must admit I could expand on this for hours without being able to add anything essential - and I ' ve probably done so in the past...
Thank you, from one of our peers that means a lot.
Even here in Israel where studying the holocaust is mandatory in high-schools doesn't reach the same level of detail and feeling this show gives me. Keep it on guys! Let me and the rest of us remember to live on for those who have been perished, not repeating the mistakes of the past.
Thank you
Those who present themselves as 'uniquely gifted' rarely if ever are gifted in any way. Most of the world's geniuses, like great athletes, allow the quality of their work to speak on their behalf, not words of self-glorification. A braggart's words mean nothing to a keen observer of human nature. It's a sure sign of a narcissist, however, who too often believe that they're the brightest bulb in the shed when all evidence points in favor of the opposite argument. Kudos to Sparty, Indie and Astrid for the overall excellence of their work. What an amazing group of gifted people you are. The high quality of your videos continues to amaze me. You seem to raise the bar with every new video series you make.
A side note: I'm not positive but I think when Hitler was in prison he recited Mein Kampf to his loyal Rudolf Hess, who typed it up for him. Amazingly Hess lived 42 years past the end of WWII, killing himself in prison in 1987.
Yup, Hess was his personal secretary at the time and actually co-wrote the whole madness.
Best channel on UA-cam. Here is a nice comment for the algorithm.
Thank you. Wish I could add an intelligent review of this but unfortunately I’m a man of limited linguistic skills. Love your channel and am so glad that you and some others like you keep this very interesting history alive and fresh in our minds. We must not forget and learn from history.
Don't put yourself down so much Andrew, and anyway, a comment such as yours is the best possible we could receive. We really appreciate your kind words, keep up the support!
You are doing an extraordinary job Sparty.
The quality of this channel is superb, it makes history, discovery and other huge productions looks like amateurs
Thank you!
Great episode! We tend to have the stereotype of the Germans as obsessed with order and imagine the totalitarian Third Reich as some precise bureaucratic machine. The reality, as usual, is more complicated.
This whole system of "controlled" chaos and encouraged rivalry is for example the reason why gauleiters Arthur Greiser and Albert Forster were realizing the task of germanizing the incorporated into the Reich Polish territories under their rule with different methods and policies towards the ethnically Polish (and Kashubian) population.
Greiser was worse?
@@maciejniedzielski7496 Pretty much, or at least Forster was more pragmatic and less racist, so under him you could be pressured to sign the Volksliste, instead of being simply kicked out of your house and deported to the General Government (for Greiser this was a heresy and crime against the purity of the German blood or something and he complained about it to Himmler and Hitler). Of course this ment that now you could be conscripted to the Wehrmacht. I'm also not knowledgeable to tell under whom you would be more statistically likely to be simply shot or send to a concentration camp.
Shouldn't it be demonised not demonetised?
Historians have said that Hitler was lazy. That makes sense considering his aversion to paperwork. Your take paints him as less than a politician and more as an idol or prophet, which also makes sense. After all, prophets are not rational.
And this makes sense. Scholars tend to compare National Socialism (and Bolshevism and Italian Fascism for that matter too) to religious movements.
You know, managing to annex 2 countries in Europe without the breakout of war requires some political skills
That is not an accurate characterization. Hitler and his henchmen knew what they were doing was unethical, immoral, and illegal, which is why there was a lack of paperwork trail, not that he was too lazy to do it. He had plenty of people who could have done the paperwork for him. They were German after all.
The mob doesn't take written minutes of their meetings.
interestingly, stalin was the polar opposite of hitler. stalin constantly reformed the state agencies & believed it was perfectly possible to run a state through documents. he would read hundreds of documents (incl written remarks & signoff) during 16 hour workdays. even when he had his 2-3 month summer vacations in sochi he would still receive hundreds of reports daily. he finally reached his limit during the great terror, when he had to appoint plenipotentaries & send them to the republics because he couldn't review all the execution lists himself anymore. (source: 'Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941' by S. Kotkin)
@@jamestheotherone742 They knew it was illegal and other powers, such as the Allies who had signed the Hague convention would execute them all on the spot, even worse with the Soviets. It is why they tried to burn and conceal everything.
Nazis were and are monsters. Let us never forget 🙏
As an aside:
I am truly...not impressed, but...the fact that they were so successful for so long when the bosses at the top were always at each others throats and throwing each other under the bus. Overlapping commands and areas of influence just to keep them fighting for the number 2 spot. The fact that they could maneuver through all this shows how deeply they wanted to murder people
The worst Nazi was still a human being. Calling them monsters is wrong and reductive.
no, no they were not. That is the mistake people make with understanding history and human behavior. It is the longer, yet more honorable path to be truthful to yourself and acknowledge that such people were not monsters, yet humans. It is much more sobering to understand that humans are able to do such things to one another then to label them as "monsters"
By de-humanizing them as monsters, one will not recognize the nazi in oneself. How can you be a monster, right? You know you are a human only with best intentions.
Remember this German philosopher's insight before labeling people: "“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster . . . when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you”.
In Churchill's "World War II: Their Finest Hour" he made a memo to avoid situations caused by vagueness:
"To make sure that my name was not used loosely, I issued during the crisis of July the following minute:
'. . . Let it be very clearly understood that all directions emanating from me are made in writing, or should be immediately afterwards confirmed in writing, and that I do not accept any responsibility for matters relating to national defense on which I am alleged to have given decisions, unless they are recording in writing.'"
I truly have a deep appreciation for the work that you guys have done in order to provide us with a compendium of the human atrocities that took place in the two World Wars. I was hooked to Indy neidell's game show host/ radio announcer like delivery in 2014 during the Prelude to World War in the Great War Channel. Thank you all very much from the bottom of my heart.
And we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your faithful viewership.
Mr Olsson I wish I had you as a history teacher in school
Thank you guys for making these videos they always interest me
A rare eye-opening episode that reveals how Hitler's & Nazi minds and spirits work and shed light on human nature too. Keep up the great work Spartacus! From a viewer who comes from a country, Lebanon, that were never reached by Hitler's armies
In not trying to be funny at all but hitler sounds a lot like my boss and how he works (doesn't work).
work ? That's what you are for
Sound like you work in the White House?
We've all have that kind of manager who wants everyone to work hard as hell but never does anything, good for giving orders but incapable of having order in their own acts
@@cardenasr.2898 "Don't just stand there, do something" is not particularly good order to give.
This sounds like the movie "Office Space".
Not giving written orders and giving contradicting orders to various people meant that Hitler could always blame others for the failure, since they didn't "understand his intentions".
I always thought it was a miracle how this mess of a "government" ever got things done but your explanation of how the Nazis sort of implanted their people in pre-existing institutions helped me understand how that happened. Very nice video.
Excellent piece Spartacus! I also thought that the 1941 Einsatzgruppen squads were disastrous for the German cause because it turned millions of people like the Ukrainians, the Baltic States, etc into ardent anti Nazis. They hated the Communist regime in Moscow and could have been used to fight them. Instead, many of them joined partisan movements against the Germans.
Excellent episode Spartacus ! Very well put together, delivered and with great comments.
thanks
@@spartacus-olsson Thanks for the whole series ! Lived in Stockholm for a number of years and new Indy. Not sure if we ever met.
It doesn't matter as to who gave the order, because as chief executive of the German government it was Hitler who bore ultimate responsibility. If he was not the one who gave the order then he must have been aware of what was happening, and if he wasn't then he was too lazy to be kept informed of all the things that were being done in his name, and that would make him criminally incompetent. He therefore remains the chief culprit. If a cruise ship sinks with massive loss of life after hitting some rocks while the captain is having sex with a hooker in his cabin, he is still responsible for the consequences, even if it was someone else who steered the ship to the rocks.
This video doesn't seek to pin (ultimate) responsibility on anyone, or to take it away from anyone. It attempts to for a part explain how the mass-murder of the Jews, Roma and Sinti was able to happen, how it spiralled and why there were no breaks as to the depths that the nazis descended in - despite the lack of detailed instructions from the very top.
Spoiler: I suspect this is a lead in to a War Against Humanity Special for January 20.
Why?
@@morisco56 just search what happened in january 20 1942
@@hadewanto1898 Wansea (sp?) conference?
Wansee conference
🤫 shhhh
One of the best episodes of the whole series! Thanks!
Hitler is like that one kid who doesn't do give any effort to the group work but give the order and advices to his colleagues and let them sort it off by themselves
that's EXACTLY how he is remembered by close staff members
This might be one of, if not the best, video on this channel!
Great job Spartacus!
That is a huge compliment - thank you.
Phenomenal emotion in this one, conveyed really well.
Thanks
Isn't it ironic that Gobbles's "Eternal Jew" exhibition in late 30' depicted faithfully the Nazis themselves?
How so, exactly?
@@yomama9538 depicting genocidal power hungry people trying to take over the world.
@@thechekist2044 sounds like communism...
@@Made_In_Heavenn Ok nazi weeb vermin.
@@thechekist2044 You identify as a chekist, you absolute fuck. You'll never be right about anything, stupid.
Sparacus you were a pretty damn good host when I started watching you on these videos, but you have somehow gotten better.
One shudders to imagine what may have happened to europe if there had been a succession crisis.
The New Order and Thousand Wek Reich mods allow you to play through that situation....it's a mess
*edit: Hearts of Iron 4 mods
@@alexandercaires5921 TWR > TNO
Infernal460, Putin would love to give us a hand, eh?
@@hughbowden5696 TWR= TNO. TWR have far less content for now
@@alexandercaires5921 Those mods are very historically inaccurate. They are fun great mods, but not something to go off of historically.
Outstanding insight, rational deductive interpretation of history. As an historian I can say this is one of best and most accurate commentary on Nazi policy implementation.
Thank you for your nice words colleague!
This is a super well-made series. Thank you.
Thanks for your appreciation, a lot of work goes into each episode.
To quote rabbi Mendel Kessin, "Hitler was a tremendous traitor to Germany."
As a Jew who had family members that perished in the Holocaust, never in my Jewish school days I had a THAT clear explanation of who was my enemy really was as I had in this episode !
EXCELLENT VIDEO !
THANK YOU VERY MUCH !
SPARTACUS: YOU ARE THE RIGHT MAN FOR THIS JOB !
YOU MADE ME CRY (LITERALLY !)
MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY ALWAYS !
Well done, Mr. Olsson. Somehow I always presumed the Nazi government was a relatively well-oiled machine. This ran counter to most everything I took for granted. Excellent video, sir.
Thank you
it was a huge slow, inefficient bureacratic machine
The novel, Night of the Generals, explains in backdrop to its story, the fractured and often battling components of the Nazi regime.
This theory of Hitler's leadership explains the actions of Rudolf Hess.
As an English person I am told never forget every November and I obey that rule as we must never forget ever
11. November it’s Remembrance Day for all of the fallen that fought so that we might be free they have nothing but my deepest respect
I like this guys vocal intonation... he’s not boring
When you study this stuff, it sure looks like people who think of themselves as "uniquely gifted" are actually pretty dumb. Bear that in mind when you encounter people who think of themselves as "uniquely gifted".
It's the Dunning-Kruger effect running in full force.
It's easy to think that when you haven't achieved anything in your life and cherry pick only the bad, some of the people that have have claimed to be gifted have achieved a lot and just by cherry picking the bad doesn't mean they were stupid for thinking so.
That's especially true for the Germans who we owe much of the scientific advancement of the entire 19th and 20th century, on top of that they joined a war against overwhelming odds 20 years prior and it was actually close, just 40 years after becoming a nation.
After so many amazing achievements, thinking you are "gifted" is actually a pretty modest reaction.
Absolutely. My Master's thesis supervisor (an astrophysicist who pretty much revolutionized his field) always said "Either you're Martin Rees, whose work speaks for itself to the point where he never has to brag about it, or you're not, in which case there's someone who is far, far smarter than you. Either way, there's no reason to show off". For context, Martin Rees is arguably the greatest theoretical astrophysicist of the second half of the 20th century.
@@Aradim90 I didn't call the Germans dumb, I called the Nazis dumb. And some of the brightest minds of Germany, such as Albert Einstein, were hated by the Nazis for being Jewish.
@@thexalon or even somewhat related to Jews, like Enrico Fermi.
11:15 The “Well...” that follows is loaded like a gunslinger in an old western who has been insulted for the last time, downs a shot of whiskey, pushes his stool back from the bar, and flicks his eyes in the direction of the poker playing villains. Love it. Keep up the fight, Spartacus & crew.
We do our best to cowboy up as needed - thanks.
Very interesting video! This leads us to the question of whether Hitler was a strong or a weak dictator. I would love to hear Spartacus' or Indy's thoughts on this.
The Einsatzgruppen only consisted of in its peak 3,000 men. Not a lot when compared to the sizes of armies in World War 2. And it’s not like they were using that much resources like planes, tanks, artillery, and ships. At most, what they were using was submachine guns and automobiles. Also, the execution squads were radically loyal to the National Socialist cause and had no qualms with executing for Hitler.
The murdering itself did not drain that much resources, nor require fantastic amounts of logistics - using that much ammunition did have material negative effect at the front though, rounding up millions of people to murder them did, creating and maintaining ghettos and camps did, to not mention the effect on morale which was disastrous.
@@WorldWarTwo well on the morale question, it depends. Many of the people doing the killing were not soldiers and were police or civilians so I’d argue it may not have much of an effect
Hitler was economically centrist, not reactionary. The National Socialist economic program was not laissez-faire capitalist.
Hitler was reactionary, but to communism, which is a reactionary idea itself. His movement was a reaction to a reaction, like fascism, but still left, not centrist.
Collectivist societies - ones based on the state, not the individual - can not be politically, right wing, or even centrist, either. Even fascism is left wing, and National Socialism is to the left of that. If you took the Nazi 25 point plan and replaced "Jew" for Billionaire, then it would be to the left of Bernie Sanders, though Sanders people would still love it.
Even WEB Dubois, a black American intellectual, sitting in Berlin in 1936, called Germany the "great exemplar of marxian socialism" second only to the soviet union.
@@NoahBodze When I’m saying centrist here, I’m just trying to note economic policies. The collectivist nature of national socialism was meant to parallel Marxian socialism though.
@@NoahBodze The nazis were certainly a radical movement, not a conservative or reactionary one.
Brilliant and masterful analysis! Thank you Mr. Spartacus and Co.! Never forget!
Thanks
You’re very intense when doing these. It’s very well done. We can tell your very passionate about the horror of it all. Good job. Please keep it up!
This is a fantastic episode. There isn't enough content and focus on the chaotic paper shuffling and bottom-up policy creation! Great to see this ep smashing any outdated view of Nazi Germany as some massive united monolith.
Thank you for your kind words!
Truly a fascinating video glad you covered this topic it was quite interesting.
8:44 Spartacus either deepens his voice by 3 octaves or burps when saying "well" xD
Your choice...
Even when it is explained, it is still completely confusing and opaque !
This channel rules, the way this man transmits historical information is very engaging
Thanks, Danny!
I always feel like I've done something wrong after watching Sparty at the end of these videos. I'm so sorry!
You naughty boy!
If Sparty has kids, I'd imagine they're well behaved.
@@DarkCylon my daughter is by now a wonderful grownup woman, and she has always had good manners, but 'well behaved' is certainly not a way I would describe her, neither as a child nor a grownup. Her mother says that our daughter has always had me twisted around her little finger - I love her to bits just as she is though.
@@DarkCylon You will get to meet her once COVID vaccines are widespread!
You have a really calming voice. Love history, especially WW1 and WW2, so this channel is a great fit for me.
This man is fantastic. Truly a worthy cohort alongside Indy.
Thank you
thats a glorious suit and tie. With professional glamour befitting to a gent like spartakus who takes his work seriously. fantastic video as a always.
Recently I am very interested in how Third Reich was governed. Very informative and objective video, thanks!
Hitler as a WW1 soldier was completely involved in directing the fighting in the east which was not going well. He saw himself as a soldier first and most likely left things up to Bormann Himmler and Goebbels. Hermann Wilhelm Göring was always collecting art and hunting and had little interest in the war (which he tried to talk Hitler out of from starting in the east) especially after things started to go bad. We will never know for sure who directed what. We only know the result.
@14:35 This can't be overstated. The diversion of resources and manpower into operations in the rear areas along with the resulting loss of any chance of winning the populations (esp in Ukraine) led directly to the failure of the best (only) chance they had of Barbarossa succeeding. The same psychotic motivation of the enterprise was its own downfall.
it was ingrained in their ideology, the nazi party belived in the stab in the back idea, so they didn't want a repeat
@@toastytoast9800 Nazi antisemitism and general selective racism was a rationale that justified (to themselves) the immoral theft of territory and property, which was their principle motivation.
Nice in a nutshell video. Whether or not accurate, it fits my perception of Nazi Germany (the narrator says it better than I ever could) so I really enjoyed it. It shakes the general arguments "I was only following orders" and "I didn't know" to the core. Nazis liked being Nazis because being in the club had great benefits, even freedoms, as long as you stayed within the Nazi playing field. No person of conscience could do it, but it was a license to steal and murder for those with no empathy or sense of personal guilt.
"...keep the memories of our past mistakes and successes alive." Has there ever been a more profound sentiment? It seems to me that today many people (here in the U.S.) want to focus only on our past mistakes while completely ignoring our successes. IMHO, that is as much a departure from the truth as focusing only on our successes while ignoring our mistakes. We must see and accept both, and accept them both honestly, if we are going to advance. Otherwise we will eventually fall into the same trap that devoured Germany, one side gaining supremacy and forcing their beliefs onto the other. I am sure there will be those who say I am a paranoid who sees monsters under his bed. To those I give this quote; "Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it." If you really pay attention, REALLY pay attention, you will see we have not learned and are truly repeating history.
*Very* insightful video, excellently done.
Freedom of speech and press, presumption of innocence fly out of the window.
It is possible to make the same video but for fascist Italy, Mussolini came to power 10 years before Hitler, but he had to share some of its power with the king...
ua-cam.com/video/O9fCzJR60uQ/v-deo.html
The thematic parallels with the leader of a modern American movement are even stronger than I had realized, just wow.
Stop drinking the kool aid
I forget people actually believe this :/
I like the dramatic way this speaker tackles the subject matter. Unfortunately i don't voluntarily give money to any causes, programs, or schools at this point in my life.
That's not a problem, just watching our videos helps out a bunch!
Suddenly “anarcho fascism” doesn’t seem so strange
You mean it sounds exactly like the operation of the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT?!!!!!
@@tomchastain7931 this has to be ironic
Wow Spartacus really turned it up in this episode
Another very informative (yet emotionally difficult to watch) episode- thank you.👍
This intro statement was savage
"Will no one rid me of these meddlesome people I don't like?"
Another excellent video showing that a lot of time and care was taken in researching, writing and filming it!
Thanks George, we're glad you appreciate the hard work :)
Lol at least in the intro the closed captioning and what Sparty is saying is definitely not matching
Yeah, I kept bouncing back and forth between the two and missed both.
I absolutely love that custom shelf behind you!
Great episode! Made me uncomfortable!
Spartacus got intense in this one. I felt that through my screen.
yay youtube didn't block this video (yet at the time of writing this) man, context is totally lost on the algorithm.
it is just a algorithm, not the best at this job
I got "The Holocaust: A New History" but I haven't got round to reading it yet. It's scary that the majority of those involved in the Holocaust. Had very normal upbringings.
‘Those who have been made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities’
...Voltaire