The Nuremberg Trial

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  • @UmVtCg
    @UmVtCg 5 років тому +23477

    The city of Nuremberg (also known as Nurnberg) in the German state of Bavaria was selected as the location for the trials because its Palace of Justice was relatively undamaged by the war and included a large prison area. Additionally, Nuremberg had been the site of annual Nazi propaganda rallies; holding the postwar trials there marked the symbolic end of Hitler’s government, the Third Reich.

    • @davidneuhoff5455
      @davidneuhoff5455 5 років тому +1477

      Besides that Nuremberg was also the place where the first laws were passed which officially discriminated jews in 1935.

    • @MrSniperdude01
      @MrSniperdude01 5 років тому +386

      Actually that's the primary reason Nurnberg was chosen, at least according to US accounts like Justice Jackson. The British were eager to make examples of the defeated Nazis, Churchill even posed the idea of rounding them up & summarily shooting them all.

    • @Cityinlead
      @Cityinlead 5 років тому +144

      And who said Politicians and Generals had no sense of humor or a taste for irony

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  5 років тому +742

      As a small bit of trivia: They also considered Luxembourg City because it's relatively small and so wouldn't be a statement of power.
      The Soviets wanted Berlin to be the place where they'd be held.
      In the end they decided to do the trials in Nuremberg but the official home of the tribunal authorities would be in Berlin.

    • @dee-tx5jd
      @dee-tx5jd 5 років тому +15

      @@davidneuhoff5455 Nürnberger Rassegesetze

  • @QemeH
    @QemeH 3 роки тому +7832

    These trials actually spawned a law that is on german books until today. Since then it is not only *allowed* for any soldier to disobey illegal and/or immoral orders, they are actually *legally compelled* to do so.

    • @QemeH
      @QemeH 3 роки тому +507

      @@Sionnach1601 Huh? I mean, I'm not an expert in US law, but I am quite certain that nurses and doctors can decline to adhere to illegal guidelines and/or orders. Who would even have the power to give doctors ANY orders pertaining to patient care? They are ultimately responsible, are they not?
      Again, I'm german, so I only know the german laws - but here a nurse is not only allowed to refuse illegal orders, she's obliged to do it (if and when she can be expected to know it's illegal).

    • @gearf8910
      @gearf8910 3 роки тому +7

      Yet they didn't

    • @musoehcr
      @musoehcr 3 роки тому +372

      @@QemeH they may be talking about the whole COVID ordeal most conservatives are off their rockers with that shit.

    • @lolstalgic9602
      @lolstalgic9602 3 роки тому +64

      @@musoehcr Not just conservatives. Most channels talking about it are Centrists, Libertarian, and other Third Parties

    • @IssasHusband
      @IssasHusband 3 роки тому +48

      Isnt murder immoral? Warfare is inherently immoral, cant german soldiers just not fight in a war because its immoral?

  • @diegoandrade467
    @diegoandrade467 5 років тому +21261

    High ranking Nazis when shown a picture of Hitler:
    I’ve never seen this man in my life

    • @brycehiggins1660
      @brycehiggins1660 5 років тому +262

      Lmaooooo

    • @kcasc_hd
      @kcasc_hd 5 років тому +345

      But actually every German when asked with a gun that was born before ca. 1936: yeah I´ve seen that guy...

    • @213kilacali
      @213kilacali 5 років тому +38

      😂😂😂

    • @mortalclown3812
      @mortalclown3812 5 років тому +41

      😂 Waiting for that to be heard locally and soon.

    • @maxdalhaus8555
      @maxdalhaus8555 5 років тому +29

      U can't say that every German from this time period would say that. Sure some people who can't think of a better excuse, but the most likely given answer was:,, I'm not a nazi"

  • @Meadras
    @Meadras 5 років тому +24308

    It's gotta be so bizarre being sentenced for invading Poland by the same Russians who helped you invade Poland just a few years earlier

    • @ericgulick2749
      @ericgulick2749 5 років тому +1702

      That's how #Propaganda works! How many history books tell you that Germany recreated Poland during 1916 rather than the French and British at Versailles? All the French and British did at Versailles was expand the German territory given to Poland...to equal the same size as germany....that is ridiculous and egregious

    • @КанадаКреативно
      @КанадаКреативно 5 років тому +626

      You are not so bright eh? Russians knew the war would begin soon. They did split Poland to keep Germans farther from their border. That's all. Poland is a little thing in WW2. Nobody cared about Poland like Britain or France who had to defend Poland based on agreements.

    • @yogurtslayer2358
      @yogurtslayer2358 5 років тому +205

      Don’t forget that stalin did not know Hitler would betray him or know of his hatred for the communitsts and the allies Joined up with the soviets as it was a powerful ally and could help in winning the war

    • @smokeymcpot5705
      @smokeymcpot5705 5 років тому +556

      Robin Kummer Signing a non-aggression pact doesn’t make Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union allies. Had they been allies the Soviet Union would’ve entered the war on the side of the Nazis in 1939.
      There’s a difference between agreeing not to fight each other and having each other’s back.

    • @aksmex2576
      @aksmex2576 5 років тому +238

      Yeah I thought that too and the fact that all the British and Americas killed a few million with aerial bombings of cities were not on trial is also weird.

  • @Betrunkenes.Huhn.
    @Betrunkenes.Huhn. 2 роки тому +960

    Another interesting thing about Karl Dönitz (The Head of the German Navy) is that, his order not to help the survivors of sinking ships was an immediate reacion to something called the "Laconia-incident", where the captain of the German submarine "Laconia" had ordered his men to rescue the survivors and even send messages to British and US-ships about it and the current coordinates of the ship. The US-Navy however completely ignored the rescue and sent bombers to attack the Laconia using said coordinates, as a result the captain of the submarine ordered to abord the mission and stopped the rescue. Due to that reaction of the US, Karl Dönitz gave the order to not rescue survivors onwards.

    • @shaansingh6048
      @shaansingh6048 Рік тому +6

      you mean abort? i got confused.

    • @Betrunkenes.Huhn.
      @Betrunkenes.Huhn. Рік тому +103

      @@shaansingh6048 Yes, they did abort the rescue due to the US attacking them.

    • @shaansingh6048
      @shaansingh6048 Рік тому +6

      @@Betrunkenes.Huhn. oh alright you said abord in the comment and I thought you meant aboard

    • @thereisnocarolinHR
      @thereisnocarolinHR 10 місяців тому +70

      Don’t you ever make me side with a Nazi again ya hear

    • @mazsterr
      @mazsterr 8 місяців тому +3

      Yeah we aint falling for that oldest trick in the book 😂

  • @mar6co200
    @mar6co200 4 роки тому +6988

    "i'm sorry"
    Speech 100

    • @k0mentator507
      @k0mentator507 4 роки тому +188

      If it works it works

    • @DanaWhite1488
      @DanaWhite1488 4 роки тому +96

      “I’m sorry for my shitty meme” Reddit Cringe 100

    • @RUSTYCHEVYTRUCK
      @RUSTYCHEVYTRUCK 4 роки тому +143

      Honestly they probably let him off for saying something other than “the mustache man made me do it” I would be sick of hearing that over and over for 3 days

    • @k0mentator507
      @k0mentator507 4 роки тому +51

      @@RUSTYCHEVYTRUCK also given that he was only an architect, they probably thought he wasn't that bad compared to what they had seen

    • @eavyeavy2864
      @eavyeavy2864 4 роки тому +4

      @@RUSTYCHEVYTRUCK usa ATF use "we are just following order" as excuse to gas and burn 80 people alive lmao

  • @felix4645
    @felix4645 3 роки тому +2571

    Speer: “I’m Sorry”
    Judges: Damn it!

    • @plarteey1316
      @plarteey1316 3 роки тому +48

      Phoenix Wright: Gottem again!

    • @Canadianvoice
      @Canadianvoice Рік тому +95

      Unit 731: "We're sorry?"
      U.S. government : "don't apologize"

    • @cdhilton7124
      @cdhilton7124 Рік тому +2

      @@Canadianvoice 😂😂😂

    • @genericnameuwu8339
      @genericnameuwu8339 Рік тому +26

      Bro had Saul goodman as a lawyer

    • @shaansingh6048
      @shaansingh6048 Рік тому +18

      @@genericnameuwu8339 it was the navy guy who really had saul goodman

  • @themonke6250
    @themonke6250 3 роки тому +2711

    "Sir, these are the Nurnberg trials. Pleading that your client was "based and redpilled" is not an adequate defense for crimes against humanity."

    • @fortblocks
      @fortblocks 2 роки тому +1

      In fairness your honor, what would you do if you were ratio-Ed by a Jew?

    • @epiccrusadr8583
      @epiccrusadr8583 Рік тому +62

      Based

    • @luisf2793
      @luisf2793 Рік тому +239

      “And no, saying they were totally cringe isn’t a good defense to committing mass genocide”

    • @R_lulu
      @R_lulu Рік тому +53

      ​@James A, "He made some mistakes, but who didn't? Life doesn't have an instructions manual"

    • @inigochicano
      @inigochicano Рік тому +6

      How can you misspell "Nuremberg"

  • @1KDybdahl
    @1KDybdahl 4 роки тому +4963

    My grandfather was one of the interpreters for the US at Nuremburg. He spoke English, Swedish, German, and Russian.

  • @psyxypher3881
    @psyxypher3881 4 роки тому +13066

    "Hans, do we have a Lawyer? They're all dead? How could that have-...oh."

    • @mohammadjavadsalehi3227
      @mohammadjavadsalehi3227 4 роки тому +1241

      No one get this joke?so underrated!!

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  4 роки тому +1449

      Good point. Heart reacted it

    • @Karlos1234ify
      @Karlos1234ify 4 роки тому +766

      Jewish people make great Lawyers.

    • @ohadgoldhagen1095
      @ohadgoldhagen1095 4 роки тому +205

      Karlos1234ify the stereotype is that they do

    • @4600norm
      @4600norm 4 роки тому +95

      Many of the SS were lawyers. The ones who created the final solution.

  • @Carter4240
    @Carter4240 5 років тому +6432

    Prosecutor: can you describe the camps
    Nazi: *describes camp*
    Stalin: WRITE THAT DOWN
    Churchill: why would you do that
    Stalin: it's a surprise tool that will help us later

    • @williamworth2746
      @williamworth2746 5 років тому +244

      History is written by the victor

    • @itzikashemtov6045
      @itzikashemtov6045 5 років тому +348

      @@williamworth2746 Funny that Stalin and the soviet trash were not better then the Nazis, Both attacked all it's neighbors, Both executed countless of people, Both putted people into concentration camps and worked them to death or just killed.
      USSR was lucky that Hitler was a psychological imbecile and ended up fighting each other, So it saved their own ass with a nice amount of propaganda hiding the equally soviet cruelty to other nations.

    • @julialight2612
      @julialight2612 5 років тому +23

      @@williamworth2746 history is written by the New World of Human Values

    • @iamstuff4478
      @iamstuff4478 5 років тому +17

      @Ethan Weight So true.

    • @LazyAndFabulous
      @LazyAndFabulous 5 років тому +42

      @@Boooooooooo541
      Don't worry there's just communist boos thinking they're real commies just because the meme got popular which is stupid, but we might get wooshed..

  • @arhabersham
    @arhabersham 2 роки тому +609

    I am as impressed with the narrator's flawless german pronunciation, as I am with the high-quality, detailed, and yet succinct nature of this amazing video. Subscribed

    • @z3pedro
      @z3pedro Рік тому +7

      Not very good German pronunciation....if you don't believe me ask a German native speaker...😊

    • @arhabersham
      @arhabersham Рік тому +13

      @@z3pedro I guess my German is not as great as I thought then! Amazing content, tho

    • @LukeSaward
      @LukeSaward Рік тому

      @@z3pedro stfu

    • @walterbravohill1130
      @walterbravohill1130 Рік тому +9

      That's a nasty comment. You should be reported for discrimination. That's is wrong. Learn from the past.

    • @LukeSaward
      @LukeSaward Рік тому +5

      @@walterbravohill1130 who tf cares

  • @lillyie
    @lillyie 5 років тому +8178

    Austria started two world wars:
    First by attacking Serbia
    then not accepting Hitler into art school

    • @iTekk3rzv
      @iTekk3rzv 5 років тому +81

      @@alexanderedinger What are you talking about Beerus killed the dinosaurs.

    • @jesseberg3271
      @jesseberg3271 5 років тому +247

      Frankly, to hell with killing baby Hitler.
      Go back in time and convince some rich Viennese art collectors to buy his shitty paintings: moral dilemma solved!

    • @khadizaahmed8989
      @khadizaahmed8989 5 років тому +32

      @@jesseberg3271 actually the WW2 would still happen because of the grandfather paradox!

    • @jesseberg3271
      @jesseberg3271 5 років тому +53

      @@khadizaahmed8989 the grandfather paradox assumes several things about the nature of the universe that cannot be tested at this time. Specifically, it assumes that we do not exisit as part of a quantum-multiverse, and that causality can flow both ways through a time travel event.
      If time moving forward is a fundamental principal of the universe, and not just a product of our perspective, then it is possible that causality could only pass one way through a time travel event, breaking the time line any time a traveler went back in time, and effectively making most paradoxes meaningless. In essence, a time traveler would appear at the moment of their arrival, but the nature of that arrival would disconnect them from their previous existence, due to causality traveling in only one direction. This traveler would have effectively destroyed the previous time line, simply by their existence in the new one. Causality then flow from that moment forward, with no concern for where the time traveler came from.
      On the other hand, if we are part of a quantum-multiverse, then all possible varients would exisit simultaneously. Under that circumstance, the act of time traveling would create a cascade of new universes, were causality could flow backwards into another universe, thereby defanging the paradox. In that circumstance, since every version of the outcome will exisit, each in its own universe, the only choice we have is, which version of ourselves will we attempt to be?
      Will it be the version that kills baby Hitler? The one which seeks a non-violent alternative? Or the one who does nothing, unwilling to bear the responsibility of changing history?

    • @christopherblackhall2832
      @christopherblackhall2832 5 років тому +19

      Lunatic Lunala it was actually Serbians that started the wars

  • @MarcMagma
    @MarcMagma 5 років тому +6807

    Stalin: "How dare you kill so many people in death camps?"
    Also Stalin: "Btw, I need a full list on how you did it. For, uhm, the trials?"

    • @devonalexreckon6048
      @devonalexreckon6048 5 років тому +203

      The germans killed millions in death camps as if it was a factory business , the gulags , even if they where harsh , didn't kill millions of people , in fact most came out alive

    • @MarcMagma
      @MarcMagma 5 років тому +341

      First: This was about making fun about the fact that the Soviets had their own Death Camps with basicly the same function the Concentration Camps had before they were used for the Holocaust.
      Second: Yes, most came out alive. Yes, Hitler and his Concentration Camps killed more. However, the gulags still killed millions. Though I do have to admit that during my research for proof, I've stumbled on many different counts of "millions". Yet since they all referre to the death toll as "above a million", it's safe to say that it were at least one million who died.
      "The total figure for the entire Stalinist period is likely between two million and three million." (www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/03/10/hitler-vs-stalin-who-killed-more/)
      "Western scholarly estimates of the total number of deaths in the Gulag in the period from 1918 to 1956 ranged from 1.2 to 1.7 million."
      (www.britannica.com/place/Gulag)
      "The result of the analysis is a posterior probability distribution; the obtained posterior 95% credible interval of the number of deaths is (9.7 million, 16.7 million)"
      (www.jstor.org/stable/2986039?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents)(though given that this came out in 1995, I personally hold it as "less credible" than the other sources)

    • @mortalclown3812
      @mortalclown3812 5 років тому +61

      Asking for a friend.

    • @theoutdoorcollector460
      @theoutdoorcollector460 5 років тому +309

      Marc Magma dude tries to tell you Stalin didn't kill millions 😂 um yeah he most certainly did he actually killed about as much as hitler did due to his power trips and "cleansing" of the country aka taking out anyone that doesn't worship you

    • @AlexanderNuts667
      @AlexanderNuts667 5 років тому +25

      Most of the deaths in the gulags were due to starvation caused by the nazi invasion

  • @scarts777
    @scarts777 5 років тому +5838

    The whole trial:
    “The mustache man told me to do it!”

    • @yowtfputthemaskbackon9202
      @yowtfputthemaskbackon9202 5 років тому +349

      and stalin: write that down, write that down!

    • @samfisher2306
      @samfisher2306 4 роки тому +21

      Funny isn't it? A lot of them committed suicide b4 being arrested too lol

    • @Karl_der_Genosse
      @Karl_der_Genosse 4 роки тому +111

      @@ajhiep4447 He was one of Hitler's most important men. He was basically Hitlers Right Hand. I don't call that innocent.

    • @DaveSCameron
      @DaveSCameron 4 роки тому +1

      Really?

    • @1k5yu9i105
      @1k5yu9i105 4 роки тому +2

      pringles ?

  • @normansilver905
    @normansilver905 Рік тому +66

    One of the most important witnesses against the Nazi's was Gen Paulus who explained under oath how the system worked. He had served before being sent to Russia as the High Command's recorder and he spoke with authority and told investigators where certain documents could be located.

  • @ej8530
    @ej8530 3 роки тому +6367

    At the Nuremburg trials.
    "I am more than aware that my client is responsible for the death of millions, and subjected millions more to torturous conditions. However, one must also account for the fact that my client is simply a Pisces, and according to AstrologyWeekly, they can lose their temper sometimes"

    • @chilledstainned1189
      @chilledstainned1189 3 роки тому +141

      Amazing

    • @carlbrenston8436
      @carlbrenston8436 3 роки тому +28

      Typhus

    • @exoticmemes3144
      @exoticmemes3144 3 роки тому +55

      Underrated comment

    • @Fred_the_1996
      @Fred_the_1996 3 роки тому +32

      Fascinating

    • @demon_xd_
      @demon_xd_ 3 роки тому +123

      The judge who is secretly a time traveler form the ➕2000s:
      *ok *throws all other evidence in the trash because she’s an asparagus, the natural friend of pisces**

  • @fishbuddy547
    @fishbuddy547 3 роки тому +2712

    "Sorry about the mass genocide, my bad guys."

  • @Irochi
    @Irochi 3 роки тому +2223

    "The Germans document everything"
    As a person living in Germany for 10 years already, sometimes I have to find a copy of some legal/registry document of mine from 9 years ago and that was lost after a moving.
    I can say that this is also 100% true nowadays. (And I'm glad it is)

    • @Sionnach1601
      @Sionnach1601 3 роки тому +12

      And...?

    • @bigbenhgy
      @bigbenhgy 2 роки тому +11

      @@Sionnach1601 if you know you know, or you can search it.
      Sadly no one can help you from here.

    • @phillipp5538
      @phillipp5538 2 роки тому +16

      Everything but the holocaust apparently.

    • @Zakrovik
      @Zakrovik 2 роки тому

      Why would you live in that horrible country? Germans are evil.

    • @JJ-ft6jb
      @JJ-ft6jb 2 роки тому +5

      @@phillipp5538 What are you talking about

  • @Stoneworks
    @Stoneworks Рік тому +186

    Wow I'm really surprised that these trials only had 24 people prosecuted, I always thought it was hundreds of officials and officers here. I guess it lives large in the memory of history.

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  Рік тому +75

      There were several other trials, but they had different names. In total hundreds of thousands of people were put on trial ranging from the top all the way to the bottom.

    • @Awaken15
      @Awaken15 Рік тому +3

      Hey stoneworks Iam a huge fan can you please reply it would make my day 😊

    • @deusex9731
      @deusex9731 Рік тому +2

      i think this puts it into scope how important these people were

    • @Kdog-rh5qm
      @Kdog-rh5qm Рік тому

      The high ranking Nazi wasn’t on trail because they was in the us or Russia Protected

    • @hemankpie0656
      @hemankpie0656 10 місяців тому +2

      @@HistoryScope So even the most gruesome war crimes committed are given say 10 years in prison. The low ranking officials and soldiers or most who committed war crimes would likely get 2-3 years in prison 🤷‍♂️

  • @AimeeColeman
    @AimeeColeman 3 роки тому +3453

    There are people in America who are/were imprisoned for selling a drug that is currently legal in their state for longer than the person who ordered slave labour to be used because they said sorry.

    • @johnnywhitsel1583
      @johnnywhitsel1583 3 роки тому +31

      Ya? And they should probably be released.... however, now that it is legal doesn't change the fact they broke the law of the time. Nor do you take into considering their past offences. To be fair: I would have executed all these people indicted at Nuremberg.

    • @Rottengoal
      @Rottengoal 3 роки тому +365

      Some of the worst Nazis that were responsible for thousands of the most brutal murders, experiments and tortures on men, women and children.
      Were welcomed by the United States of America and lived good lives as University professors or researchers.

    • @fuhrerreicht2413
      @fuhrerreicht2413 3 роки тому +93

      @@Rottengoal I mean America has their history of cruel experiments .for both animals and humans. Practically all major HIC’s currently which participated in WW2 have done cruel experiments.

    • @l0lan00b3
      @l0lan00b3 3 роки тому +39

      @@fuhrerreicht2413 he's referencing operating paperclip here but you're both right

    • @hunterjohnson1706
      @hunterjohnson1706 3 роки тому

      Lol

  • @BVBrocks927
    @BVBrocks927 4 роки тому +6806

    what a joke giving some of these guys 10 years. People in the united states get longer sentences for a little bit of weed

    • @lauriruukki5702
      @lauriruukki5702 4 роки тому +531

      BVBrocks927 Well that is the American justice system for you. Also the only thing why Dönitz got only ten years was thanks to Chester Nimitz who testified that American subs also didn't pick up crew from sunken ships.

    • @FelipePetersBerchielli
      @FelipePetersBerchielli 4 роки тому +402

      that shows how America justice system is one of the worst in existence

    • @ps4tv614
      @ps4tv614 4 роки тому +35

      What if it was because back then they didn’t have proper rules it was the first time

    • @camdionne4669
      @camdionne4669 4 роки тому +41

      Because the laws of war were only made after the world War 1 and were not yet complete on what the laws are and because they never would have thought to make a law about something they never thought would happen

    • @SlimeMasterNate
      @SlimeMasterNate 4 роки тому +184

      @@FelipePetersBerchielli The American Justice SYSTEM itself is one of the most fair and just in the world. But the laws that the system has to follow, the corruption of judges (which every justice system to some extent is susceptible to), and most often the corruption of police/prosecution in certain parts of the country leads to most of the failings of it. Rarely is the failure of the American Justice System the fault of the system itself.

  • @redlock1815
    @redlock1815 4 роки тому +988

    "Useful engines follow orders"
    -Thomas

    • @rag.animations
      @rag.animations 3 роки тому +40

      I see a man of culture

    • @boomboone47
      @boomboone47 3 роки тому +5

      Thomas the Thermonuclear bomb.

    • @rag.animations
      @rag.animations 3 роки тому +23

      @@boomboone47 no, Thomas the Auschwitz worker

    • @lardlover3730
      @lardlover3730 3 роки тому

      @@rag.animations indeed.

    • @katherynj7263
      @katherynj7263 3 роки тому +24

      The worst part wasnt the screams, it was the silence, because in the silence I was left alone, alone to contemplate my thoughts.

  • @redblaze8700
    @redblaze8700 2 роки тому +128

    All of those who were sentenced to prison went to the same jail, but after Speer and von Schirach were released in 1966, Hess became the only prisoner there until his suicide.

    • @shaansingh6048
      @shaansingh6048 Рік тому +13

      must have been pretty crazy having a bunch of nazis put into a prison. need a sitcom.

    • @limepop340
      @limepop340 Рік тому +17

      @@shaansingh6048 the prison’s wikipedia article goes a bit into the ensuing drama, if you’re interested. I can 1000% see it being a sitcom

    • @Littlemissdirtbag
      @Littlemissdirtbag Рік тому +8

      I always thought it sounded crazy that he waited decades, even after he was the only prisoner in the prison, to kill himself.

    • @youngsong2254
      @youngsong2254 5 місяців тому

      @@Littlemissdirtbag Keeping Hess to 93 years old as all alone after all prisoners' released in 1966 is an barbarian's treatment in modern day ! Many of the prisoners were released earlier because of their ill health !

    • @youngsong2254
      @youngsong2254 5 місяців тому +1

      Keeping Hess to 93 years old as all alone after all prisoners' released in 1966 was an barbarian's treatment in modern day ! Even Russia wanted to release before his suicide. Many of the prisoners were released earlier because of their ill health !

  • @spectifyydev
    @spectifyydev 3 роки тому +1008

    My great grandfather was a guard at the trials, there is a picture that features him in it. it’s strange to think about him being there, hearing all of this while it was happening.

    • @musoehcr
      @musoehcr 3 роки тому +13

      Did he ever speak to you about this in depth ? Or just mentioned he was there. It’s so surreal when you think about how not that long ago this happened Jen I was a kid this felt like forever ago now I realize how little time has passed between now and insane eras

    • @spectifyydev
      @spectifyydev 3 роки тому +77

      @@musoehcr he himself never really spoke about, he didn’t like talking about the war much. actually, how we found out he was there is the fact that there is a picture with him in it. without us find that we probably never would have known he was there.

    • @musoehcr
      @musoehcr 3 роки тому +3

      @@spectifyydev that’s crazy

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE Рік тому

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    • @Tenchi707
      @Tenchi707 Рік тому +1

      How did an SS guard skip prosecution, I'm curious

  • @snakey934Snakeybakey
    @snakey934Snakeybakey 5 років тому +2438

    9:36
    Nazi guy who committed genocide: I'm sowwy
    Judge: okay, that's good enough for me.

    • @osomolane4964
      @osomolane4964 5 років тому +65

      well he didnt really do genocide only approved it

    • @snakey934Snakeybakey
      @snakey934Snakeybakey 5 років тому +136

      @@osomolane4964 fair point... Still, the dude got off really lightly

    • @snakey934Snakeybakey
      @snakey934Snakeybakey 5 років тому +45

      @Koehli _ also true. Especially considering the crimes of Stalin and the Soviet Union, and the crimes of non-German nazi proxies in the Baltic, Balkan, and Arab lands that went virtually ignored; not to mention the atrocities committed by imperial Japan and their proxies, the separate Chinese factions committing atrocities against their own people and betraying each other to the Japanese, and many many more crimes that we're ignored at the end of the war; the post-war prosecution was only able to scratch the surface.
      Still, the Nuremberg trials are very interesting.

    • @theeternalslayer
      @theeternalslayer 5 років тому +22

      They found out he had more evidence that should have given him a life sentence or even a death sentence. He plead guilty to get a lighter sentence, hess basically did the same but admitted he knew what he did and didn't have any regrets life sentence. goring thought he could mock the trial as a hypocritical kangaroo court and he almost beat them at their own game, but the evidence was too great and he was dangerous to be left alive even in prison.

    • @snakey934Snakeybakey
      @snakey934Snakeybakey 5 років тому +2

      Hey, what happened to that response I left Koehli? It seems to have disappeared.

  • @harz632
    @harz632 5 років тому +2001

    You are sentenced to death for making a treaty that gave Stalin half of Poland.
    Stalin just whisteling in court.

    • @liuyinchen7644
      @liuyinchen7644 5 років тому +66

      H Arz It's true, Ribbentrop should not be hanged, if that was the only crime mentioned in the trial, then what he did was nothing compared to some of the defendents not sentenced to death.

    • @joelschittenhelm5571
      @joelschittenhelm5571 5 років тому +17

      @@liuyinchen7644 Indead and sadly he died the slowest of em all

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  5 років тому +283

      He did a bit more than just signing a treaty. He didn't try to stop any of the atrocities while having the power to do so.

    • @harz632
      @harz632 5 років тому +195

      @@HistoryScope Still find it pretty funny how Stalin a man who did more attrocities then most of these men combined sits there and everyone is pretending it didn't happen.

    • @noodlesausage4233
      @noodlesausage4233 5 років тому +45

      @@HistoryScope I didin't hear you mention that some of the prisioner were beat up for confessions.

  • @KourZ_13
    @KourZ_13 2 роки тому +257

    My great grandfather was one of the prosecutors , his name was John Lewis , he was friends with Ben ferencz the last living prosecutor of the trials , my grandmother got to see Ben and he was in great health, wishing the best for Ben , and hope you like the info

    • @Teub03
      @Teub03 Рік тому +4

      may he rest in piece :(

    • @_exolite
      @_exolite Рік тому +4

      He died a hero. I feel like holding Nazis accountable is the most honourable thing ever

    • @myname604
      @myname604 Рік тому

      @@_exolite Holding them accountable for the crimes that never happened while using the show trials to cover up the allied crimes that did happen.

    • @HedgehogZone
      @HedgehogZone 9 місяців тому +1

      He is now burning in hell, where he belongs!

    • @EvelynElaineSmith
      @EvelynElaineSmith Місяць тому

      Perhaps he knew my dad, Walstein Smith (1920-1998)?

  • @clascaulfieldjr3653
    @clascaulfieldjr3653 3 роки тому +848

    “Well, show me the laws that say you CAN’T enslave and torture an entire population.”

    • @owenmartin-lynch6196
      @owenmartin-lynch6196 3 роки тому +13

      ayo!?

    • @therealspeedwagon1451
      @therealspeedwagon1451 3 роки тому +57

      That should honestly be a universal law, even then that’s basic common sense

    • @emilal
      @emilal 3 роки тому +7

      @@therealspeedwagon1451 it is.

    • @BigWheel.
      @BigWheel. 3 роки тому +27

      One thing to remember is the nazis had an incredibly behind the times veiw of politics.
      Rudolph heß, flew to Scotland, to meet the Duke of Hamilton, because he was under the impression the British still ruled via monarchy, and that Duke could give him an "In" for peace/cooperation.
      Many of them weren't building the future, but were trying to modernize a backwards past.

    • @Wickedonezz
      @Wickedonezz 2 роки тому +2

      @@therealspeedwagon1451 tell that to Beligum, France, Britian amd the soviets

  • @falopencio5396
    @falopencio5396 5 років тому +1175

    Some of them simply went to Argentina

    • @kingmichealthefirstofroman2278
      @kingmichealthefirstofroman2278 4 роки тому +89

      To be either killed or captured by the nazi hunters of the isreali mossad

    • @scottishjedi1522
      @scottishjedi1522 4 роки тому +92

      søren Hulemose Not Josef Mengele, the chief doctor of Auschwitz. He died in 1979 having never been put on trial for his horrific experiments

    • @kingmichealthefirstofroman2278
      @kingmichealthefirstofroman2278 4 роки тому +15

      Scottish Jedi what about aloph eichmann he died in 1962 in the isreali gallows

    • @Rasmusnilsenbie
      @Rasmusnilsenbie 4 роки тому +10

      Others like Josef Terboven simply commited suicide days before their trials

    • @meer9159
      @meer9159 4 роки тому +19

      @@kingmichealthefirstofroman2278 Eichmann was the only one caught and brought to israel

  • @tardarsauce1842
    @tardarsauce1842 3 роки тому +692

    Germany and Japan: gets heavy war crimes
    Fascist Italy: *You guys have war crimes?*

    • @felinesmite5170
      @felinesmite5170 3 роки тому +101

      Italian resistance killed Mussolini and the upper echelons of the Fascist Party before the Nuremberg Trials.

    • @felinesmite5170
      @felinesmite5170 3 роки тому +59

      @Lo Fell Dude. While undoubtedly the Italian Communist Party was responsible for rising and organizing many partisan groups, resisting against Fascism was actually the common point between a variety of different political forces (and actually the only thing Italian Communists and Italian Chatolics ever agreed about). The Fascist Party obtained power by maliciously using the loopholes of Italy's democracy, and kept it through violence, segregation and propaganda. There's no doubts that Fascism was a violent dictatorship or that Italian communists participated in the toppling of this violent dictatorship without putting another violent dictatorship in its stead, and gladly accepted Italy becoming a democracy after WWII.
      Classifying a person or a group as 'good' or 'bad' according to their political label is simplistic, especially when that political label spans several decades and its claimed by tens of different parties and groups with very different end goals in mind.
      Saying that Italian Communist groups played an important role in liberating their country from oppression, doesn't absolve other Communist groups for the atrocities they committed in the name of their ideology, including later Italian radical communist groups who committed act of terrorism to further their political goals. Viceversa, doing good things in the interest of the common people like establishing a public welfare and retirement system, doesn't absolve Fascism for its crime against humanity during WWII or for later Italian Fascist groups who committed acts of terrorism to further their political goals.
      We can celebrate good and heroic acts regardless of the political label used by who did them.
      And killing Fascist leaders was absolutely a good thing to do in Italy in 1945.

    • @phillipq5814
      @phillipq5814 3 роки тому +7

      Meanwhile evil fascist Spain stayed out of the war. Being neutral.

    • @thedevil2411
      @thedevil2411 3 роки тому +8

      @@felinesmite5170 Dude. Now you’re just stating your political opinion. I mean I’m all in for Mussolini to pay the price for what he did to his country in ww2. But killing him without an trial is straight up barbaric. And for the record, he was toppled by his own Fascist party’s members.

    • @blauwbeer556
      @blauwbeer556 3 роки тому +3

      What did Italy even do? Besides the war what did Benito actually do??

  • @WaldoBagelTopper
    @WaldoBagelTopper 2 роки тому +40

    This was a marvelous undertaking for the time. Especially the part where they had to consider real time translation for 4 languages.

  • @rudecrok4734
    @rudecrok4734 5 років тому +3674

    Me: *bragging about my killstreak*
    Everyone else at nuremberg trial:

  • @trobertt7271
    @trobertt7271 5 років тому +3198

    *Correction to the title : How we punished Axis war criminals
    Remeber that the laws of war only apply to the losing side.

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  5 років тому +261

      I recently changed the title to see if I could improve it... I will take your suggestion under advisement :)

    • @trobertt7271
      @trobertt7271 5 років тому +45

      History Scope - I’m glad you do! Thx.

    • @Hsdias
      @Hsdias 5 років тому +38

      trobert t would you rather we didn’t punish them at all? Or would you have them hang Roosevelt and Stalin along with the others?

    • @trobertt7271
      @trobertt7271 5 років тому +12

      Henrique Dias honestly i don’t know.

    • @erinong193
      @erinong193 5 років тому +88

      @@Hsdias i mean roosevelt was already dead at that time?

  • @Anacronian
    @Anacronian 4 роки тому +4067

    Stalin: "yes crimes against humanity..we can't have that 👀"

    • @abinashtarai6067
      @abinashtarai6067 3 роки тому +64

      Gulag also

    • @nxthy6978
      @nxthy6978 3 роки тому +272

      This applies to the USAs Japanese internment camps, the UKs involvement in the Bengali famine and Frances on going oppression in its colonies

    • @vankhaan9303
      @vankhaan9303 3 роки тому +136

      This is an another example of 'history written by the victors'.

    • @bigpig2709
      @bigpig2709 3 роки тому +15

      @@nxthy6978 also applies to the Bataan Death March

    • @thishandleisnotavaliable
      @thishandleisnotavaliable 3 роки тому +9

      @@vankhaan9303 Actually in this case no.
      The Nazis and Americans were in cahoots with each other and funnily enough alot of Nazi commanders memoirs are non-fiction and these were treated as fact until 1991 , where Soviet documentation of Nazi war crimes were released and thus the full scale of the Nazis were known.

  • @CarlosRamirez09
    @CarlosRamirez09 Рік тому +86

    I remember reading about Albert Speer’s son who is himself an architect and they asked him about his dad. He said “it’s like my business partner said to me. Would you have rejected the opportunity to build all the buildings you dreamed to build as an architect?”

    • @TheTrickster923
      @TheTrickster923 Рік тому

      Albert Speer Jr's last work was the World Cup stadia in Qatar... built by slave labor. Like father like son, I guess.

    • @TheTrickster923
      @TheTrickster923 Рік тому +18

      If my father was infamous for spending his architectural career building monuments to dictators with slave labor, I would simply not spend my own architectural career building monuments to dictators with slave labor, but what do I know

    • @supermemeposting8216
      @supermemeposting8216 7 місяців тому

      ​@@TheTrickster923
      No you wouldn't lmao

    • @corporalzeph2518
      @corporalzeph2518 26 днів тому +3

      ​@@supermemeposting8216 "When you stand before God, you cannot say, 'But I was told by others to do thus.' Or that, 'Virtue was not convenient at the time.' This will not suffice."
      -King Baldwin IV, Kingdom of Heaven

  • @fortherepublic9878
    @fortherepublic9878 5 років тому +1559

    Soviet official: “How dare you persecute people in camps with forced labor and extermination processes? You are sentenced to death!!!”
    Meanwhile in Moscow, USSR
    Stalin: “Hey Beria, how are the Gulags going?”

    • @kirillassasin
      @kirillassasin 5 років тому +85

      America and Britain: wow someone using our technology

    • @kalpeshmanna7233
      @kalpeshmanna7233 5 років тому +4

      😂

    • @yulusleonard985
      @yulusleonard985 5 років тому +19

      The problem is that The soviet using soviet forced labor while the Germans use soviet forced labor.

    • @jordanred3273
      @jordanred3273 5 років тому +28

      @@MaidenLover13 good effort commie

    • @jordanred3273
      @jordanred3273 5 років тому +19

      @@ThatCamel104 care to elaborate? Do you have an opinion to state or something?

  • @cryingcatgoesbark310
    @cryingcatgoesbark310 4 роки тому +1760

    “I was only following orders.”
    My mum if she heard this:
    *if your friends told you to jump off a bridge, would you?*

    • @georgealderson4424
      @georgealderson4424 3 роки тому +40

      My mum said the same thing so it must be in the mum's "What to tell your kids" book!

    • @tgc5663
      @tgc5663 3 роки тому +65

      My response: *I'd be the one to jump first*

    • @thejummyjum6207
      @thejummyjum6207 3 роки тому +99

      If your friends held you at gunpoint to jump off a bridge, would you?

    • @georgealderson4424
      @georgealderson4424 3 роки тому +45

      @@thejummyjum6207 I would give serious thought to changing my friends!

    • @sssinfullyyours
      @sssinfullyyours 3 роки тому +59

      It’s way deeper than that. They were fed constant propaganda years before the war started.

  • @antina888
    @antina888 4 роки тому +352

    1:53 I love how Stalin was not opposed to the death by order plan. I bet he was like "Guys hear me out, we could just kill them."

    • @musoehcr
      @musoehcr 3 роки тому +84

      He’s probably the man that brought it up 😂

    • @JatPhenshllem
      @JatPhenshllem Рік тому +2

      @@musoehcr Yeah 😂

    • @games-dv3gy
      @games-dv3gy Рік тому +5

      I mean he was right, the amount of crimes was insane.

    • @Ghostly_writer
      @Ghostly_writer Рік тому +3

      ​@@games-dv3gyno?? If that's the case he should be indicted as well. Killing thousands who most likely were not even aware of what the camps actually did is horrible. You shouldn't commit a second genocide to deal with first

    • @games-dv3gy
      @games-dv3gy Рік тому +2

      @@Ghostly_writer I was speaking about the high ranks, not basic german soldiers. Now high ranks were totally aware of what they were doing, and fully supported the genoside of ethnical minorities.

  • @richardnoah2922
    @richardnoah2922 Рік тому +21

    Hess: Tries to make peace, Britain: "and i took that personally"

  • @porter5224
    @porter5224 6 років тому +4830

    "I dIdNt KnOw WhAt ThEy WeRe DoInG"
    -High-ranking Nazi who knew what they were doing

    • @porter5224
      @porter5224 6 років тому +251

      yes, because they let it happen

    • @unematrix
      @unematrix 6 років тому +215

      @Cosmic Rift If my friend was raping and murdering people in the other room, I would be complicit to the crime because I didn't try to stop it and I did not go to the police. This is very similar to that.

    • @BR0984
      @BR0984 6 років тому +48

      Porter "iF yOu'Re DepReSsed, JuSt dOn'T Be." That's what your comment was

    • @TheRealMaysao
      @TheRealMaysao 6 років тому +30

      there are reports of nazi officers who refused to kill innocents and didnt got punished by the regime.

    • @nicholasadams5429
      @nicholasadams5429 6 років тому +1

      @@BR0984 exactly

  • @Sliqhs
    @Sliqhs 6 років тому +2589

    Best lawyers they could find, aka the ones they didn't kill

  • @darthrevan8737
    @darthrevan8737 5 років тому +723

    Roosevelt and Churchill: against the executive order of killing.
    Stalin: *whistles*

    • @simonh6371
      @simonh6371 5 років тому +7

      He sounds more Dutch to me.

    • @cyclopsslug3737
      @cyclopsslug3737 5 років тому +1

      @@simonh6371 Finally someone who knows common sense

    • @Atesz222
      @Atesz222 5 років тому +23

      Those people in India just decided to die of hunger because they were bored I guess :'D

    • @Atesz222
      @Atesz222 5 років тому +1

      @@ihavenosociallifedaddy0253 :O

    • @Chuked
      @Chuked 5 років тому +1

      I have no social life Daddy025 yeah they are the most populated country

  • @jackcassidy7317
    @jackcassidy7317 Рік тому +12

    I’m re-watching all of my liked videos starting from the beginning and I’m about halfway through. This video and the video on the Tokyo trials were incredibly interesting and taught me a lot about topics I didn’t know much on.

  • @donarsenault2327
    @donarsenault2327 4 роки тому +182

    My father,who passed 2 months ago, was a guard in the courthouse in 1946. I wish I could get more information or better photos of the guards. I’d like to see a photo of him in his younger days while performing his duty at such a historical event.

    • @bruv2249
      @bruv2249 2 роки тому

      uhhh, sorry to say this but... im pretty sure the Waffen S.S guarded the nuremburg trials

    • @Austin-5098
      @Austin-5098 Рік тому +8

      @@bruv2249 there were some, but it was mostly MPs from the various allied nations that guarded it iirc, mainly US MPs

    • @DedRamOfficial
      @DedRamOfficial Рік тому

      @@bruv2249 Estonian Waffen S.S

  • @lordmustafa3309
    @lordmustafa3309 4 роки тому +3362

    Prosecution: shit we have no evidence
    Germany: don't worry bro we documented all our crimes
    Edited: thanks guys for 1k likes

    • @Bjionin
      @Bjionin 4 роки тому +173

      lmao
      Towards the end of the war many of the officers knew they were going to get caught so they prepared to burn all the documents of the atrocities that was related to them and there other friends. Some failed due to them being apprehended by one of the armies

    • @filip9564
      @filip9564 3 роки тому +3

      Smoort

    • @triplewhoppper
      @triplewhoppper 3 роки тому +8

      Did they?

    • @SspaceB
      @SspaceB 3 роки тому +19

      Not even close to reality

    • @monchyd6519
      @monchyd6519 3 роки тому +38

      Germans be like „hans, we gonna kill, torture and gas a lot of ppl“
      *Looks at hans
      Hans:“you know what That means“
      Peter:“imma use the kamera, Ur writing is better“

  • @heathdionne7717
    @heathdionne7717 6 років тому +1846

    "but how could any country consent to such a course of action?"
    *Japan and America look around nervously*

    • @alfredospautzgranemannjuni5864
      @alfredospautzgranemannjuni5864 6 років тому +134

      23:59-Oh my god, they are killing people based on their religion and race!
      00:00- Who the fuck is that black Muslim over there? *silently calling FBI*

    • @AMuffler
      @AMuffler 6 років тому +25

      Alfredo Spautz Granemann Júnior bruh you tripping dog

    • @the_negativereview
      @the_negativereview 6 років тому +93

      > not mentioning ussr
      > Or Britain
      > Or France

    • @Altermerea
      @Altermerea 6 років тому +39

      Yeah because American, German and Japan crimes are COMPARABLE... right.

    • @kidkool1530
      @kidkool1530 6 років тому +49

      @@Altermerea well America did kill tons of innocent people by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • @bjornboi1175
    @bjornboi1175 2 роки тому +457

    I watched the 57 minute documentary about the camps and it is the most gruesome and horrifying thing I've ever and will see.
    I broke down it in tears when the video ended.
    R.i.p to all those innocent people who were killed in such brutal ways.

    • @alyssarichardson2544
      @alyssarichardson2544 2 роки тому +1

      if the nazi genocides made you break down in tears, just wait til you find out about communist genocides...

    • @Daveforever
      @Daveforever Рік тому +5

      Too bad the rats survived.

    • @Johndoe14812
      @Johndoe14812 Рік тому

      It’s all lies were are the bodies were are the ash deposits

    • @lizc6393
      @lizc6393 Рік тому +9

      I watched it when I was 16. Definitely messed me up a bit.

    • @elaleron2583
      @elaleron2583 Рік тому +21

      @@Daveforever yeah some nazis survived

  • @promosolo
    @promosolo 5 років тому +203

    I've seen many documentaries about the atrocities of World War 2 and the Nuremberg Trials, but few are as succinctly presented as this one. Thank you.

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      @EEEEEEEE Рік тому

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  • @moonnoonoom5992
    @moonnoonoom5992 4 роки тому +1695

    Stalin: “would you please state for the court how you built and operated your camps? Also, please write it all down here on this piece of paper that I will keep for private use for no reason at all.”

    • @doktorkritzisch
      @doktorkritzisch 3 роки тому +123

      *Stalin would later become the villain in the sequel*

    • @AustinRBa
      @AustinRBa 3 роки тому +29

      @Fella Truth Close, but these camps and the many imprisonments were put into place and operated under Lenin. Stalin was certainly the worse of the two, but Lenin is undoubtedly responsible for its existence.

    • @blauwbeer556
      @blauwbeer556 3 роки тому +4

      In a way, the gulags are worse than concentration because you are gonna die faster in concentration camps so that you don't have to suffer as long

    • @IgorCoolikov
      @IgorCoolikov 3 роки тому +40

      @@blauwbeer556 1. Almost all of the prisoners in the gulag were criminals (There were innocent people, but there were very few of them. By the way, there are far more innocent people in Russia today than in "the bloodiest" years of the Soviet regime).
      2. Gulag - it's not a camps but a Glavnoye Upravleniye Lagerey, "chief administration of the camps". The government agency in charge of the Soviet network of forced labor camps.
      3. In the Gulag, prisoners were paid wages (above the national average, where 1/5 went as a tax to the state).
      4. The most difficult year was 1937, which saw "local excesses" thanks to Yezhov (He was shot by the way. Then Beria rehabilitated all innocents in 1940).
      5. In the gulag, people worked as drivers, accountants, doctors, locksmiths, etc.
      They not only dragged stones and worked in the mines, lol.
      It was the innocent who were imprisoned in the Nazi camps. Not only criminals, not war criminals, but ordinary people. You shouldn't compare two completely different things if you don't know how it really was.

    • @blauwbeer556
      @blauwbeer556 3 роки тому +1

      @@IgorCoolikov there were definitely innocent people in there but I think that was during and a little after the purge, plus I was talking about how hospital it was, not if it was morally correct

  • @unseendawnproductions8267
    @unseendawnproductions8267 5 років тому +899

    So killing 1 person gives you 20 years in prison but 12 million gives you 10?

    • @Veknr44
      @Veknr44 5 років тому +17

      @Jim McCracken lol

    • @Kog233
      @Kog233 5 років тому +13

      That’s like saying 1 life=24,000,000

    • @Echo5427_
      @Echo5427_ 5 років тому +46

      @Jim McCracken when millions die*

    • @bigiron1311
      @bigiron1311 5 років тому +7

      Each person should be punished for the whole?

    • @okretard8285
      @okretard8285 5 років тому +9

      oy vey

  • @xevoprime5273
    @xevoprime5273 2 місяці тому +38

    16:48 The sentence “Such as the Soviet Union committed many of the same atrocities but were not put on trial.” Really got me. It shows that the History is written by the victors. Soviets were as guilty as Nazis, but they were the victors.

    • @natalijajevtic1585
      @natalijajevtic1585 19 днів тому

      @@xevoprime5273 are u ok

    • @ecernosoft3096
      @ecernosoft3096 8 днів тому

      @@natalijajevtic1585 he is talking about the purges. They were terrible things too. It wasn’t as bad because it wasn’t based on race or religion, but Stalin ordered anyone who was suspected to be working against him to be purged or sent to the gulags which were basically forced labor camps.

  • @hentehoo27
    @hentehoo27 6 років тому +2125

    Europe in 1945:
    *GERMANY*
    *WILL*
    *BE*
    *DIVIDED*
    Europe in 1990:
    *GERMANY*
    *WILL*
    *BE*
    *UNITED*

    • @jacintovski
      @jacintovski 6 років тому +18

      Mentality changes

    • @jacintovski
      @jacintovski 6 років тому +71

      The Germans weren't Nazis anymore

    • @incendiarybullet3516
      @incendiarybullet3516 6 років тому +49

      João Jacinto -
      We know. It’s a joke.

    • @Modern.Millennial
      @Modern.Millennial 6 років тому +45

      There was actually some uncomfortable conversations in London and Paris in 1989-90 regarding German reunification. It was significant enough that the West German chancellor bypassed the UK and France and initially told the US and USSR.

    • @jacintovski
      @jacintovski 6 років тому +1

      @@incendiarybullet3516 no shit.

  • @petartoshkov2076
    @petartoshkov2076 4 роки тому +427

    12:50 "Joachim von Ribbentrop - guilty of building up a treaty of dividing Poland, sentenced to death"
    Vyacheslav Molotov: *cha cha real smooth*

    • @iamsearchingforthefiletmignon
      @iamsearchingforthefiletmignon 3 роки тому +9

      They divided Germany. So is it any different

    • @vedeeski
      @vedeeski 3 роки тому +32

      @@iamsearchingforthefiletmignon He was refering to the molotov-ribbentrop pact which was about Germany and Ussr invading and divding Poland in 1939

    • @navonmyhand7999
      @navonmyhand7999 3 роки тому +16

      Lmao this one is really funny, when you think of all the people that technically got away with crimes just because they weren't Nazis it's almost silly.

    • @nicolaiandersen1402
      @nicolaiandersen1402 3 роки тому +9

      @@navonmyhand7999 Well... the victors are the ones who write history

    • @b_de_silva
      @b_de_silva 3 роки тому +18

      @@nicolaiandersen1402 ehhh no, in fact most of what western schools teaches we're based on german generals that survived the war, which is why they always blame hitler for the bad decisions in the war, history is written by historians, who use data from both side of the war, if history was written by the winner you would never even heard of things like dresden, those trials didn't include allied generals because how the fuck do you convince your allies to execute their own generals? the reality is that sentencing allied generals was impossible since the allies won, but that is not winners writing history, its winners getting away with the bad stuff they did.

  • @rheivenjunoblianda6989
    @rheivenjunoblianda6989 4 роки тому +449

    "It's not a warcrime if you are the winner of the way"
    ---- *Sun Tzu*

  • @lorimeyers3839
    @lorimeyers3839 Рік тому +16

    Excellently put together video with tons of good information. I study WW2 on the Eastern Front and have been for over a decade now. Nuremberg I can say I’m somewhat familiar with, but I wasn’t aware of how Doenitz got off so easy, that his attorney saved his neck. I enjoyed how you sort of jumped all over the place with your facts and stories. Entertaining. Nice work.

  • @leocarlsson3753
    @leocarlsson3753 6 років тому +181

    This is absolutely fantastic. Brief, but not too brief to just gloss over the important subject. You speak clearly, yet nuanced. And at the same time you summarise excellently what I had 6 hours of university lectures going through.

  • @noctain6683
    @noctain6683 4 роки тому +726

    They should have made these rules after WW1.

    • @kaidenhall2718
      @kaidenhall2718 4 роки тому +33

      They kinda tried a little tiny little bit

    • @quasar7951
      @quasar7951 4 роки тому +31

      The Germans did no-no stuff in Belgium and the Ottomans did no-no stuff in Armenia

    • @quasar7951
      @quasar7951 4 роки тому +1

      @@aldoushuxley5953 still not exactly a crime that should go unpunished either

    • @quasar7951
      @quasar7951 4 роки тому

      @@aldoushuxley5953 I know I was just listing the atrocities that came to my head at that moment, I was trying to think of some entente ones but couldn't think of any

    • @quasar7951
      @quasar7951 4 роки тому

      @@aldoushuxley5953 I wasn't meaning to compare the two on the same levels

  • @AdamDguitars
    @AdamDguitars 4 роки тому +937

    Most common excuse at the trials: “I was just following orders.”

    • @bluesrike
      @bluesrike 3 роки тому +117

      If they said that today, the response would be "If the furher ordered you to shoot your family, friends and/or loved one's, would you?"

    • @blauwbeer556
      @blauwbeer556 3 роки тому +32

      It is more psychological rather than a real excuse, somebody tried an experiment to see wtf is happening

    • @commisaryarreck3974
      @commisaryarreck3974 3 роки тому +88

      @@bluesrike
      "Do you have a gun to your head and a guarantee that they'll be shot regardless of your actions"
      Cowards will say they'd never do that. Reality is most people will just follow orders, out of fear or because it's an authoritative figure

    • @The_Smiurgh
      @The_Smiurgh 3 роки тому

      @@bluesrike true

    • @RollingBobbyJones
      @RollingBobbyJones 3 роки тому +3

      I know yall dumb but uh
      if someone was holding you at gun point would you follow orders?
      not just you before you say yes, but your family too?
      Authoratian Governments: Not even once

  • @andramcdowell3193
    @andramcdowell3193 2 роки тому +14

    I really enjoy your narration and voice. I don’t like loud noises. Very well explained and calm. Thanks so very much. New subscriber. Already watched 3.

  • @michasbagietka8281
    @michasbagietka8281 5 років тому +706

    This dude sounds like a german Obi-Wan Kenobi

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  5 років тому +50

      Many likes this comment has. Not expect it, I did.

    • @michasbagietka8281
      @michasbagietka8281 5 років тому +14

      History Scope - Avery Thing ok Yoda 🤣

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  5 років тому +24

      Oh right, Yoda is a different character... My bad :D

    • @Puppy_Puppington
      @Puppy_Puppington 5 років тому +9

      History Scope - Avery Thing ive got a bad feeling about this ;d

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  5 років тому +8

      Damnit, chewy! Get back to Alderaan!

  • @starmanjr.5785
    @starmanjr.5785 5 років тому +992

    When you are executed for crimes against humanity that the Soviet Union also committed.
    Stalin: *Laughs in mustache* no, I would NEVER kill people for their beliefs.

    • @MoffatLee
      @MoffatLee 5 років тому +34

      @Brandon Rozman True, but many of the people punished at Nuremberg weren't punished for their part in extermination camps but for their part in the concentration camps using slave labour... like the gulags.

    • @MSM4U2POM
      @MSM4U2POM 4 роки тому +3

      Look at the title of the London Charter, mate. It might be a clue...

    • @bokbok5737
      @bokbok5737 4 роки тому +49

      Be like Stalin, he kills indescrimantly

    • @rizzo9748
      @rizzo9748 4 роки тому +15

      @@MoffatLee Gulags never used the same treatments as Nazi did. Why are you so silly guys?

    • @rizzo9748
      @rizzo9748 4 роки тому +15

      Nazi killed people not for their beliefs but for their nationality

  • @XBBBBBXx
    @XBBBBBXx 6 років тому +267

    i took 4 years of history classes in germany talking about ww2 and yet these 17 minutes taugth me a ton of things i did not know. good job

    • @Alexis2andsoOn
      @Alexis2andsoOn 6 років тому +4

      well, you could've just looked it up on wikipedia...

    • @u.h.forum.
      @u.h.forum. 6 років тому +4

      Ezio Auditore 4 years of ww2 lessons in Germany?

    • @kampfmuffin3535
      @kampfmuffin3535 6 років тому +1

      These things are just small details who have little to non effects on the big picture. Thats the reason stuff like that isnt thaught in school

    • @timowagner1329
      @timowagner1329 6 років тому +1

      You didnt know about the nuremberg trials???

    • @kampfmuffin3535
      @kampfmuffin3535 6 років тому +1

      @@timowagner1329 i do but i think he meant stuff like how they defended them selfes

  • @TelmenBudsuren
    @TelmenBudsuren Рік тому +12

    your honor my client was following orders from funny mustache man because he failed to get into artschool

  • @elcompagenito3250
    @elcompagenito3250 4 роки тому +156

    "Hanz quick the last boat to Argentina is leaving!!"

    • @The_Smiurgh
      @The_Smiurgh 3 роки тому

      XD

    • @silverbloodborne9495
      @silverbloodborne9495 3 роки тому +1

      Nur eine Sekunde, ich muss sicherstellen, dass die Amerikaner nicht wissen, dass wir zuerst die Atombomben gemacht haben

  • @oncetimeuse3083
    @oncetimeuse3083 4 роки тому +380

    That Wikipedia video has the most disturbing images I've ever even imagined.

    • @Soulus101
      @Soulus101 3 роки тому +27

      @Lo Fell A lot of people write comments without reading through others to check for similar ones in existence. Have done this myself. On popular vids especially, there's a strong chance your thought isn't original.

    • @lostgem8225
      @lostgem8225 3 роки тому +4

      @Lo Fell ... a are you an andriod

    • @Soulus101
      @Soulus101 3 роки тому +8

      @Lo Fell lmao, I took you for a misguided good Samaritan, clearly just a troll.

    • @lostgem8225
      @lostgem8225 3 роки тому +9

      @Lo Fell I'm pretty sure your the bot around here

    • @emingmann1400
      @emingmann1400 3 роки тому +1

      @Lo Fell Is the comment exactly the same character for character? If not then it's no big deal man

  • @kaizoulol
    @kaizoulol 5 років тому +620

    Lmfao
    Hitler: Attacks literally everything in reach
    Sweden: Lmao why y’all complaining we chilling

    • @prolainen8997
      @prolainen8997 5 років тому +161

      Switzerland: bruh just be neutral lmao

    • @arjanwilbie2511
      @arjanwilbie2511 5 років тому +25

      The Dutch tried to stay neutral, did not work.

    • @Jvincent044
      @Jvincent044 5 років тому +14

      Arjan Wilbie only didn’t work cause they believed the uk were going to invade them first to take resource supplies from the Germans both countries had plans to invade if the other did and when the Germans thought the UK were going to attempt it they invaded first, during that though the uk thought the Germans were sending their navy to the Atlantic to hurt trade and had no intention of invading at that time

    • @MoffatLee
      @MoffatLee 5 років тому +18

      @@Jvincent044 Yep, similar story with Norway too, Germany invaded Norway then left a garrison of around 500k men to prevent the UK from threatening German access to Swedish steel among other things. The UK intentionally leaked plans for moving on Norway in order to spread the German forces and supplies more if I remember right.

    • @athena1428
      @athena1428 5 років тому

      Spain and Portugal: sleeping peacefully

  • @user-fu7eh2mk5n
    @user-fu7eh2mk5n 8 місяців тому +4

    I watched the video of the camps in Wikipedia, its been over a year since i last remembered crying. That video is indescribable man, God bless all those families whom met that fate.

    • @mightyparrot1139
      @mightyparrot1139 8 місяців тому

      my family members where slaughtered in the holocaust, thank you for the blessings.

  • @StufiBuy
    @StufiBuy 5 років тому +440

    ‘Ok, I need a good lawyer. Wait, what happened to all the good attorneys in Deutschland? Before the war, we had so many good lawyers. What happened to them all?’
    🤦🏼‍♂️ Scheisse!

    • @__Gum__
      @__Gum__ 5 років тому +10

      Underrated

    • @KCCC326
      @KCCC326 5 років тому +3

      Send this to Seth macfarland

    • @bman228899
      @bman228899 5 років тому +28

      When you need a good lawyer to defend yourself from accusations of crimes you did during and before the war which killed those good lawyers.

    • @mecca777
      @mecca777 5 років тому

      lol that was a good one!

    • @Fred_the_1996
      @Fred_the_1996 5 років тому +1

      *schweiße, not scheisse

  • @Turntapp
    @Turntapp 6 років тому +447

    *Released in [Insert Year Here] due to ill health*

    • @jarjarbinkssithlord834
      @jarjarbinkssithlord834 6 років тому +39

      Then died a few years latter so I think they got the timing of the ill health correct...

    • @lachieclements6859
      @lachieclements6859 6 років тому +3

      SkyZhakarov Sadly true.

    • @mosherosenthal4321
      @mosherosenthal4321 6 років тому +1

      @@kushantaiidan you sound like a total moron. Read a textbook. You're an idiot

    • @bar3ly.s3nt13nt
      @bar3ly.s3nt13nt 6 років тому +4

      @@mosherosenthal4321 *you're

    • @Logan-oh2eg
      @Logan-oh2eg 6 років тому +4

      weird how they were sentenced to life in prison but released right before they died

  • @rickymelchor1411
    @rickymelchor1411 5 років тому +465

    I think every soviet was looking around nervous

    • @toxicatto6074
      @toxicatto6074 5 років тому +30

      'Every soviets'? You mean every allied power?

    • @jasonbrody1540
      @jasonbrody1540 5 років тому +40

      Of course they were. After all they assisted Hitler and the Nazis to start the war.

    • @technopriest6708
      @technopriest6708 5 років тому +13

      Taking that they ended up killing twice as many its probable

    • @johanreillo8403
      @johanreillo8403 5 років тому

      Spartan Moreno exactly they were the ones that do the most of the killing and dying

    • @natedlc854
      @natedlc854 4 роки тому +3

      We shouldnt have stopped in Berlin and Tokyo. We should have kept going until the Pacific and European armies met in Siberia.

  • @Afrikitty
    @Afrikitty Рік тому +4

    An informative video on the Nurenberg Trials. My grandfather, a veteran of both world wars used to regale us with these stories. He was a pilot in the British airforce and they emigrated to South Africa in 1947 with the whole family and it is there that I was born in Cape Town. I had hoped to see a visit to that city, as I now live in the USA. Maybe another day. (^_^).
    Thank you.
    Kind regards.
    Liz.

  • @uncle6550
    @uncle6550 3 роки тому +516

    imagine having the last name as "Frick". that in itself, is a war crime.

  • @eurasianlynx5584
    @eurasianlynx5584 6 років тому +166

    I love how often black white red were used!

    • @finnishwehraboo8377
      @finnishwehraboo8377 6 років тому

      Ehehehhhhh

    • @legacylegacy3627
      @legacylegacy3627 6 років тому +2

      Eurasian Lynx many German like that flag cause it reminded them of German were at the height of everything before ww1 and eventually Turing a Reich that thought they could do that again

    • @raphaelalexandreyensen6291
      @raphaelalexandreyensen6291 6 років тому

      The red black and white as a very nice touch

    • @thefloysie8742
      @thefloysie8742 6 років тому

      Eurasian Lynx they were used as a flag of the German empire in world war 1

  • @TyudroWymoreEdgartyu2
    @TyudroWymoreEdgartyu2 6 років тому +385

    Just a quick note: Germany never invaded Finland. The USSR did.

    • @matiasdelapena7521
      @matiasdelapena7521 6 років тому +12

      True that, but we are talking about Nuremberg and ww here, not the winter war.

    • @TyudroWymoreEdgartyu2
      @TyudroWymoreEdgartyu2 6 років тому +47

      @@matiasdelapena7521 I was just mentioning the animation in the beginning where Germany's old flag invades Europe. The problem I was pointing out was that he also highlighted Finland, which just meant to me that this video was implying that Adolf put German boots on Finnish soil, which never actually happened. It was purely a Russian v Finland war, completely separate from the other warring parties.

    • @matiasdelapena7521
      @matiasdelapena7521 6 років тому +20

      @@TyudroWymoreEdgartyu2 Yeah but Finland had an "informal alliance" with the Axis during ww2, invaded the USSR in the eastern front and signed a separate peace treaty

    • @notsogoodgamer5818
      @notsogoodgamer5818 6 років тому +6

      @@TyudroWymoreEdgartyu2 I mean he did put germans in finland. They even fought against eachother

    • @censored4680
      @censored4680 6 років тому +1

      @@matiasdelapena7521 shit is anyone seeing a trend with people taking the enemy of my enemy is my friend to the extreme I'm sure that the finns were not found of Hitler and the allies certainly didnt like stalin meanwhile the axis all realy didn't like each other at all like when Germany kept advisors in China during the Japanese invasions and Hitler being like "ok japan we don't get along but your at the top of your race ok but to Italy yall inferior" and so on and so forth

  • @ItsAxeI
    @ItsAxeI 16 днів тому +5

    When the head of the German navy was presented with war crimes he said “haha yeah you guys did that too” and was given a lesser charge.
    Funny.

  • @fifervonpiper6707
    @fifervonpiper6707 4 роки тому +909

    Option 2: death sentence for everyone
    "This was disliked by Churchill and Roosevelt at that time."
    The USSR meanwhile: *Laughs in Option 2*

    • @tesso.6193
      @tesso.6193 4 роки тому +47

      figures Churchill would dislike it. he put people in concentration camps and committed genocide himself but the victims were people of colors so everyone still considers him a hero.

    • @streamlinedengine
      @streamlinedengine 4 роки тому +47

      Oh please, not this nonsense again.
      I’ll list out some major offences of Churchill to save you the trouble:
      - Famine in India, but he still wants them to ship food to Europe
      - Gallipoli Campaign
      - Gas used against Iraq
      Now tell me when he organised concentration camps, darling?

    • @WolfbloodJakeWilliams
      @WolfbloodJakeWilliams 4 роки тому +18

      The gas used was tear gas, Churchill actually advocated for its use since the other option was bullets. People think it was chlorine or mustard gas, but it wasn't what was used in WWI, it was what is still used by police forces all around the world.

    • @mikegordon4903
      @mikegordon4903 4 роки тому +5

      USSR was hanging them at the camps before anyone else got there.

    • @depressedmidlifecrisistimm3043
      @depressedmidlifecrisistimm3043 4 роки тому +2

      @@streamlinedengine Did you literally just say darling? Don’t say that, please. Change your reply. I don’t like your point because of that word.

  • @mixrable1212
    @mixrable1212 4 роки тому +128

    0:45 I love how Switzerland is sitting there untouched

    • @deg6788
      @deg6788 3 роки тому +5

      Swiss 🧀 is highly protected

    • @therealspeedwagon1451
      @therealspeedwagon1451 3 роки тому +10

      No one would dare to attack Switzerland, they’re too much trouble for what the place is worth

    • @zaidnava562
      @zaidnava562 3 роки тому

      @@therealspeedwagon1451 but not invincible. If Germany won, then Switzerland will fall

    • @shikikankillzone4239
      @shikikankillzone4239 3 роки тому +12

      @@therealspeedwagon1451 here's a funny (Though probably fake) story
      Hitler once threatened Switzerland saying: _"You merely have a small militia comprised of 500,000 men, what would you do if I ordered a million soldiers to invade your country?"_
      And the Swiss minister of defense said: *"We'd shoot twice and go home"*

    • @therealspeedwagon1451
      @therealspeedwagon1451 3 роки тому +6

      @@shikikankillzone4239 you don’t need much when your country is nothing but mountains which are easy to defend

  • @Sonu-tz2js
    @Sonu-tz2js 4 роки тому +143

    I *searched for Nuremberg trials* & this video came up. I was learning about *Medical Human Experiments* that are considered unethical because I wanted to make a playlist of such videos. What you have covered here is instrumental in creating an understanding on such unethical & historical topics. Thanks a lot!

    • @plarteey1316
      @plarteey1316 3 роки тому +7

      It only takes one to wonder what he thinks and plans with such information. Oh well

  • @flickcentergaming680
    @flickcentergaming680 Рік тому +22

    The translation system they thought of is absolutely brilliant! I had no idea that that was how international legal proceedings are carried out.
    Edit: spelling

  • @blazeiscrazy8737
    @blazeiscrazy8737 6 років тому +1135

    Funny how the Allies declared war to aide Poland but ended up just giving Poland to the U.S.S.R like they didn't exist.. lol.

    • @TheMax6808
      @TheMax6808 6 років тому +166

      Yeah its like they didn''t start the war to help Poland after all, kinda like they had ulterior motives 🤔

    • @johnfrancisdoe1563
      @johnfrancisdoe1563 6 років тому +18

      maskence Well, at least they gave Poland a similarly sized piece of Germany in exchange for the part taken by the USSR. I'm unsure how different the current east border of Poland is from the pre-WW1 west border of Russia (back then Poland had no land). It's obviously different from the borders of Poland-Lithuania at it's most powerful.

    • @halismeful
      @halismeful 5 років тому +32

      Churchill did want to declare war on the soviet union to liberate Poland, which was the UK's condition for entering WW2, but not the US's. As such, the US wouldn't back the plan and it was called "Operation Unthinkable", because it wouldn't have worked and just allowed the Soviets to take over the rest of Europe by creating another war.

    • @benadam7753
      @benadam7753 5 років тому +26

      @Incerthose A. IntoBee It's not that the Allies wanted it, World War 2 was declared on Germany to protect Polish sovereignty so only a free Poland was the acceptable outcome. Giving Poland to the brutal dictator Stalin was a total contradiction for the declaration of war!

    • @chases7941
      @chases7941 5 років тому +7

      Given that the allies just fought a world war, I doubt they saw any political gain at the time in fighting another so soon with a fully charged meat grinder.

  • @moosecat
    @moosecat 3 роки тому +53

    One of the people who testified for Admiral Donitz was Admiral Nimitz of the United States Navy. Early in the war, the German U-boats were attempting to follow the existing treaties. However, when some of the U-boats involved in rescue efforts came under fire from Allied forces (which was a violation of those same treaties), Admiral Donitz made the command decision not to sacrifice his men.

    • @FoxLosst
      @FoxLosst Рік тому +2

      Out of interest, how early in the war was this? It's not a very strong defense if it was Raeder was the one in charge at that time

    • @Cyanide_and_Loneliness
      @Cyanide_and_Loneliness Рік тому +10

      To be honest both sides of the war were committing war crimes and atrocities. Its just that Germany was committing them on a larger scale

    • @jamescrab4110
      @jamescrab4110 Рік тому +5

      @@FoxLosst the laconia incident is a great example of rescue efforts being violated.

    • @bldontmatter5319
      @bldontmatter5319 Рік тому

      ​@@Cyanide_and_Lonelinesswere they really? Because after Germany was retreating, the slaughter was immense from the USSR. My wife is a Russian and her ancestors and her friends ancestors have kill counts of the thousands just mowing people down due to the vendetta placed on Germany.

    • @ckhpersonal670
      @ckhpersonal670 9 місяців тому +3

      never knew theirr names would be so similar

  • @regularhuman6414
    @regularhuman6414 5 років тому +164

    Stalin: stop stealing my kills!

  • @AwesomeDude799
    @AwesomeDude799 Рік тому +5

    Found another great History channel. Thank you.

  • @jannikraeder8464
    @jannikraeder8464 3 роки тому +119

    i watched this video as part of research for an assignment on "evil" in psychology class.
    when i saw erich raeder at 13:44 i jumped to the edge of my bed.
    my last name is extremely rare, even in germany. and he looked very similar to my grandfather.
    my grandfather died a couple of years ago, but i asked my grandmother, and she confirmed that i am indeed related to him.
    apparently it was kept a secret in the family. besides my grandmother and my grandfather, only my uncle knew about it.
    if you wanna talk about being wierded out or mind blown, try finding out that you are actually related to the last leader of the third reich, and finding several pictures on the internet of your great grandfather hanging out with Adolf Hitler.
    what's even more wierd is that the topic of my assignment was primarely about how genetic heritage and cultural influence plays a significant role in human evil.
    as you can imagine, i'm pretty much having an existential crisis right now.

    • @blauwbeer556
      @blauwbeer556 3 роки тому +7

      Dunno seems kinda cool to me in a weird way. I ain't no nazi but it is like learning you are related to Churchill, I don't care what he did to the Indians, it is still kinda cool

    • @Velu0
      @Velu0 3 роки тому +8

      I just imagined it right now and this must be... wierd, scary, mad and exciting (and many more) at the same time...

    • @historynerd8373
      @historynerd8373 2 роки тому +25

      The only thing to keep in mind is that you control your destiny. It can be up to you to pick up the name that has been kicked in the mud.

    • @havensohn3821
      @havensohn3821 Рік тому

      Idk I'd feel pretty compelled to marry a Jew and make sure that I expel the evil out of me by doing the opposite of my ancestors. These coincidences leading to your existential crisis is a chance to be better than any of your asshole ancestors.

  • @timoh1712
    @timoh1712 5 років тому +384

    Man... They committed horrible crimes, but dangling for half an hour before dying is rough

    • @unclejoeoakland
      @unclejoeoakland 5 років тому +89

      Think of it as a temporary suspension of sentence.

    • @dragonmandestructinator2847
      @dragonmandestructinator2847 5 років тому +190

      I've heard theories that some people pulled some strings and got those executions botched on purpose.

    • @unclejoeoakland
      @unclejoeoakland 5 років тому +8

      @@dragonmandestructinator2847 i like how you think

    • @pumpkin6429
      @pumpkin6429 5 років тому +26

      lol not long enough. 😂

    • @shanewright2772
      @shanewright2772 5 років тому +131

      He just wanted to hang around a little bit longer.

  • @CrazyCraftersBDH
    @CrazyCraftersBDH 5 років тому +27

    This is by far my favorite video of yours. Because you explain it the best in such a simple way, so all people can understand it.

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  5 років тому +2

      Next video will be about the Tokyo Trials, which will be similar to this one.

    • @CrazyCraftersBDH
      @CrazyCraftersBDH 5 років тому

      @@HistoryScope can't wait :D

  • @redwards5000
    @redwards5000 Місяць тому +8

    Justice through prosecution, not persecution 2:13

  • @mycattypedthis2827
    @mycattypedthis2827 5 років тому +27

    I'm an interpreter and we've never been taught the proper history of simultaneous interpretation in my university. We've only been told something vague like "yeah it'd been used for a while and became widely used when EU was formed". I wish I had known this back then...

  • @maxmoore497
    @maxmoore497 5 років тому +614

    Who else came here after “Thomas was only following orders”

  • @TheLolzKnight
    @TheLolzKnight 5 років тому +421

    Well, I'm drunk, it's 3 AM and people have been pissing me off, so it's time for a rant!
    A common complaint I've seen throughout the comment section is that the soviets were guilty of committing exactly the same crimes as some of the people they were prosecuting, implying rank hypocrisy.
    Yes! You're right! The Soviets, Stalin especially, were VERY guilty of mass-rapes, the Polish occupation, slave labor and using camps. We all know that! We all think it's awful! I at least think they should have had their own trial too! But it was politically impossible! The only people who COULD be tried for their atrocities were the Nazis who had lost. When people constantly go on about the hypocrisy of it all, it makes me think what they want. Should the Nazis not have been tried because it was hypocritical? I Don't think so. I think getting as much justice as was possible was the right thing to do. And seeing as we're still bitching about the hypocrisy of it all 70 years later history was clearly not written by the victor, and plenty of historical condemnation is to be had. I just hate it that people seem to get more caught up in the "They did it too" mindset than in contemplating and learning the lessons about Genocide, War, Mass murder and the frankly indescribable evil perpetrated by the Nazis on trial. About how governments set up conspiracy for evil on that kind of mass scale. I feel people should focus more on the people who were lost than the monsters who inflicted harm: Those people are dead now. We've condemned their memories (NB I know some are still glorified, but I mean we should make sure they're condemned. Stalin's pretty in the shitter in my circles at least). We can't do anything else to them. We can make sure we don't let the victims suffering be in vain by letting it happen again.
    Another note: I dislike it that some people (you know who you are) keep uttering the Allied war crimes in the same sentence as the Soviets and Nazis. It irritates me because it's an unfair comparison and a false equivalence. The difference between the two is IMO, substantial. The Nazis and later Soviets and institutionalized top to bottom campaigns that were explicitly war crimes and crimes against humanity. Those are their government's fault, and high ranking officials can and should be blamed. In the Allies cases, it was mostly Homo Homini Lupus crimes (Man's a wolf to man, people can be shit essentially). It's a familiar problem that Vietnam vets saw. Troops commit war crimes, government covers it up. If we were talking about government liability for letting troops do awful things, and that all troops need body cams and strict controls, in that context I would rant about the evils of allied soldiers with you all day and night. Fuck any troops that committed war crimes, no matter on which side.
    But we're not in that context.
    The context we're in, we're talking about government level mass crimes against humanity. The kind you can try high officials for at, say, A Nuremberg trial! When you bring up allied war crimes, you muddy the water by changing the context and set up a false equivalence between the two sides that simply doesn't exist. No allied commander got orders from Washington to execute German troops and had to go Rommel on them. Stop comparing them and bringing it up. Talk about it somewhere else, before people who don't know the difference start associating the two. Cause then we lose the valuable context needed to have a good conversation about either. It becomes impossible because people lose the distinction and are no longer having the same conversation. It's why having a good debate in the internet is like finding rooster teeth. Too much random crap gets thrown in and muddies the water, killing intelligent discourse.
    Fuck sake.
    I feel less angry now. Wake me up tomorrow with water please.

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  5 років тому +149

      Here's you glass of water

    • @TheLolzKnight
      @TheLolzKnight 5 років тому +58

      @@HistoryScope Thanks. Sorry about necro posting. I get particularly wordy when drunk and bored. Good video btw, like your channel.

    • @Jackhooks1
      @Jackhooks1 4 роки тому +51

      I'm so happy to find a comment like this in an inane thread. Yes the USA and UK comitted war crimes, however their crimes (mainly related to bombing civilian and industrial targets) are not equal to the mass, government organized, genocide of "undesirable" elements in Nazi Germany.

    • @TheLolzKnight
      @TheLolzKnight 4 роки тому +16

      @@leonardodavid2842 I agree with this guy. Less bad =/= not bad. And most of the mass bombing campaigns of the war are so controversial that I'll leave it at that. The original comment was mainly about shades of grey. People love touting about that old phrase, but seems to forget that black and white still exist at both of those spectrum, and thus can be used comparatively.

    • @edmiesterful
      @edmiesterful 4 роки тому +15

      there is no equivalence between red army and nazi war crimes in ww2 either, the soviets did not exterminate millions of people in a genocidal invasion

  • @johannsebastianbach9003
    @johannsebastianbach9003 3 роки тому +33

    Every German General in Nuremberg
    *see's an image if Hitler*
    German Generals: *I have never met this man in my life*

  • @biffman6
    @biffman6 6 років тому +148

    2:03 I'm sure that was Stalin's favorite option out of the three

    • @user-fu2pl7jc9j
      @user-fu2pl7jc9j 5 років тому +12

      It was actually the French that suggested it...

    • @JerzyFeliksKlein
      @JerzyFeliksKlein 5 років тому +1

      @Félix Sánchez They actually haven't. They recruited former Nazis to serve in the new communistic secret police Stasi. That way they knew they will be loyal and obiedient because they could be killed at any moment for simply being Nazis during the war. Also, they were highly trained and qualified having served in the Nazi war machine. That's why Stasi became even better than KGB over time.

    • @alcabone1126
      @alcabone1126 5 років тому +1

      To be fair 20-30 million russians died

    • @syntheticvocalist-p472
      @syntheticvocalist-p472 Рік тому

      @@user-fu2pl7jc9j that still makes a lot of sense.

  • @deakenwylie3819
    @deakenwylie3819 5 років тому +33

    Thank you for posting this. It does, as you yourself say (and as, in fact, it simply must), gloss over some things, but I found it educational and a good starting point to do more reading. Again, thanks.

  • @Green4CloveR
    @Green4CloveR 4 роки тому +265

    "Discount anything awful you hear or read about the Nazis. It’s worse than you could ever imagine." -Audrey Hepburn

    • @eavyeavy2864
      @eavyeavy2864 4 роки тому +33

      History is written by winner

    • @SomethingBizzare60
      @SomethingBizzare60 4 роки тому +39

      @@eavyeavy2864 lol uh oh

    • @yoboyluis3926
      @yoboyluis3926 4 роки тому +73

      @@eavyeavy2864 found the sympathizer

    • @doktorduggieducker9615
      @doktorduggieducker9615 3 роки тому +17

      @@yoboyluis3926 found the blinded fool

    • @lukefreeman828
      @lukefreeman828 3 роки тому +56

      @@doktorduggieducker9615 lmfao, whats 'blinded' about it exactly? Nazi ideology is utterly indefensible, but I'm sure you've found some fellow plebs on the internet that want to believe otherwise.

  • @nothappierthanme6146
    @nothappierthanme6146 11 місяців тому +60

    Its kinda funny how the USSR sentenced others for crime against humanity

  • @dieziy8162
    @dieziy8162 5 років тому +148

    I watched about 20 mins of the footage used for evidence, i am a pretty desensitized guy and i was starting to see shit that made me tear up and made me sick

  • @blibdo3216
    @blibdo3216 4 роки тому +70

    Now I understand Thomas was only following orders. Thank you so much.

  • @mikenoakes5036
    @mikenoakes5036 6 років тому +601

    UA-cam really wants me to watch this, I guess.

    • @JoviaI1
      @JoviaI1 6 років тому +5

      I really want to watch this!

    • @mikenoakes5036
      @mikenoakes5036 6 років тому +3

      Honestly I thought it was well done. I always like learning new things in a visual format from Kurzgesagt and others. :D

    • @williamcooper8599
      @williamcooper8599 6 років тому +2

      +Arya Sattya How is it propaganda. I'm not doubting you I just seek truth.

    • @Jonathan-pz6ws
      @Jonathan-pz6ws 5 років тому

      Yeah.. Even though I already watched this trial on Netflix :)

    • @jimboramba
      @jimboramba 5 років тому

      Not good enough. Watch again.

  • @LoneTiger
    @LoneTiger Рік тому +5

    From the Judgment at Nuremberg movie, that last line at the end:
    Janning: _"the reason I asked you to come, those people, those millions of people... I never knew it would come to that. You must believe it."_
    Judge Haywood: _"Herr Janning... it came to that the first time you sentenced a man to death... you knew to be innocent."_