There are government trends around the world including here in the US and Australia to erase history whether in the form of statues or artifacts. If young people have no historical reference then they are more likely to accept despotism or even genocide. And I think that's their hope.
My father brought back a star with the word "Juif" on it. He and my mother donated it before they died. In the late '80s, I was acquainted with a rabbi that ran a Holocaust museum and research center in St. Louis, MO. I asked him how my father may have obtained the star and he told me that, as the war was ending and the Germans were being pushed back, people simply tore them off, threw them away, and they were lying around everywhere.
That doll is creepy. Can’t imagine having that in my house starring at me. Thank you for sharing this unboxing. The stars were sad knowing were they come from has to break your heart. 😢
That doll was made by someone on the side that you think is good. Just another propaganda lie. Do you know that we are still dealing with propaganda from that war?
I feel the same about both of my grandfathers. One was in France, and the other in the Pacific theatre. They both passed before I turned 15. As a 40yo woman now, I have a million questions.
Everyday we get further away from those dark days of human history and yet, when you see items like this it's as though it all happened yesterday. It's a chilling reminder to never let that darkness descend again upon mankind.
Very interesting. Studying these kind of artifacts gives you a glimpse to those horrible and tragic times. All aspects of history should be studied, no matter how disturbing.
Thank you for sharing. I enjoy learning more of history whenever I can. Don't like the doll he is a bit much, I understand it was a toy but what it represents is madness. I have many family members that have fought in the war and some of the memories are just beyond words of what they saw. You have a great day
When I was maybe 8 years old I saw an old book sitting on our dining room table. I remember opening the cover and a signature, Adolf Hitler was written in pencil. At that age I didn’t know much about the Holocaust. When I was in my 20s my dad and I were talking about WWII. He mentioned he had a friend who was in the military and brought home items from the war. This friend had recently died and his wife asked my dad to take a look at some of his WWII items to see if any of it might be worth something. Long story short, my dad contacted a museum in DC who bought the book for their collection and my dad gave his friend’s wife all the money from it. He refused to take any money (the wife offered him a generous amount for helping her) but he declined. The BIG shock was the book had actually belonged to Himmler (museum researched and confirmed). My dad did keep a genuine Nazi flag (his friend gave it to him before he died) which has been in storage for years. I still can’t believe I touched something so historical and had no idea what it was.
In one episode, Erik was asked what his most important artifact is, and he mentioned that he has the only known sample of Hitler’s blood on a cloth. With all the advances in DNA, I can see that being a really important scientific ‘sample.’ Maybe the DNA analysis of it will discover something interesting in the future.
Legitimately, a chill ran down my spine when he opened the book. Holy moly. This is a disturbing and yet moving episode when you think about everything that happened during the World War II era to Jewish people. Powerful and important.
What was actually disturbing is what happened to the German people. They were the true victims of that war. Lets not forget that war was declared AGAINST Germany first.
@choossuck7653 what's disturbing is you, with your fake history lesson, you didn't mention Czechoslovakia or Poland invaded by your nazi friends and the already victimisation of german Jews and the already murdered mentally ill in the T4 program...I feel sorry for people like you
one day ill make it to gettysburg and get to see this wonderful museum in person,but for now ill just live it through JDs capable eyes and hands ,thanks for another great video JD and Eric
Thank you for always stating that you don't support or endorse the Nazi ideology. I never thought for a moment you did - but in this day and age it is important to remind people how horrific that ideology was/is. Also - I really enjoyed this video. I got a particular chill when the doll was revealed. Trying to imagine every giving my daughter or my very young grandchildren something like it. Couldn't - just couldn't. I love your channel. Thank you for all you do.
Great video! My wife, daughter, and I just visited the museum as we were passing through this weekend. I was absolutely blown away seeing this stuff in person, the artifacts there were incredible. I didn't get to talk to Erik unfortunately while I was there but that's okay, I'll definitely be going back! Could you tell us more about the expansion Erik was talking about in the video?
I´ve handled a few of those Jewish stars and the blue and white striped clothes that many wore in the camps amongst other things. It is a truly bone chilling reminder and a sort of a reality check of sorts. We have all heard the stories. Heard the witnesses and the one´s who did the deeds. We have all seen the places where the atrocities happened, watched the movies and documentaries. Read the books. We think we understand, but still it´s hard to grasp. But when one sees or handles the real deal stuff like this it all becomes very real indeed. Very close, very personal. Yet so hard to believe all the evil. That doll though.... Great video as always.
I wonder what the person who was packaging that doll for shipment to the museum was thinking. That had to a be a "They don't pay me enough" moment for that person.
As a Dutchman it is kind of bizarre to see these symbols of evil displayed like valuable collectibles. Over here collecting this stuff is highly controversial and will raise questions about whether you're a nazi. I know there are collectors for this stuff over here as well. But you wouldn't see a video like this, casually displaying nazi memorabilia, on Dutch tv. I guess it's different in the US, because most of this stuff are war trophies brought back by GI's and you don't have the history of being occupied by the nazis and having your citizens brutally murdered in concentration camps. But it somehow still gives me the creeps.
I totally believe in saving history. I am a history fanatic especially with the Dakota uprising because I lost my grandfather in that war. What I don't believe in is the selling of these WWII products especially certain ones too civilians a museum is made to look at these historical pieces not purchase them. But again kudos to another great video love your videos. We're just living in a time right now in our own country where it's kind of scary and they say is history repeats itself. And skinheads scare the hell out of me and I'm a blond-haired blue-eyed All American girl
Those artifacts make a very powerful statement on a dark stretch of human history. Each has their own story to tell, but the pick of the litter (for me) was the signed copy of Mein Kampf.
Hi buddy, your Dutch is very well!!! The word Jood ( is indeed the dutch word for Jew), so the star is a dutch "jodenster" so you called perfect in Dutch! My compliments greetz from Tilburg ( Nederland)
My grandpa was in the Navy in WW2 but I think more of the Pacific theatre... I wish I could have talked to him about some of that stuff but its a conversation he wasn't having
Not to be trite or disrespectful (given the subject matter of these artefacts) but it must be a bit like Christmas every day for you guys at the GMOH ! Cheers Erik & JD - keep on educating us all 👍
Too bad we'll never know the stories from the two people who wore those stars on their garments. Hopefully they survived and didn't suffer the same fate as millions of other Jewish people.
HOLY CRAP a signed copy of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler? 😳 I see copies of this book every time I'm in Barnes and Noble, and get creepy feelings when just passing it on the shelf. And I agree with other comments, that that S.S doll is creepy, but also intriguing. It looks like it has a gun in its saluted hand? And to think that parents, and their children at that time were totally brain washed into thinking this was normal and ok, is sickening. It also makes me feel grateful and blessed to be alive today. 80 million people dead. A horrid World War because of one man's evil ideology. In J.Ds words, Holy Moly. It's mind blowing. Its hard to imagine what it was like for those poor people having to wear those stars, knowing their lives meant nothing is SO sad. This is REAL History, and just like you guys said, while it sickens us today, this is STILL History, and it is fascinstimg all at the same time. I love your videos, keep 'em coming!!!
In Australia: From the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, He noted there was legislation before the federal parliament to ban the public display and sale of Nazi symbols. The bill, introduced in mid-June, will make it an offence to seek to profit from such material in stores or online. It will not ban private ownership or transfers of artefacts that are not for profit. Under the Albanese government’s laws, selling Nazi memorabilia would attract fines of up to $16,500 and apply to the Nazi swastika, known as the Hakenkreuz, and insignia relating to the Schutzstaffel (SS), Adolf Hitler’s paramilitary force. The bill would not prevent private ownership of the Hakenkreuz or SS material, or their display as war memorabilia in museums.
I don’t think you should have to justify your video every time you show Nazi artifacts. No honest person would really think you’re a Nazi. You’re just telling the story of what actually happened through artifacts from the era.
I got a medal a lapel pin and another pin thats looks maybe gold. And an armband my grandfather brought home. I'm told by people at militeria events that armbands were never stamped with maker marks. I thought some did.
Wow, those are valuable pieces and rare. We've been through the Houston Holocaust Museum, During the The War and Dr. Seuss exhibit (he did cartoons for the war) I took a class on the T-4 project and the "Jewish Problem" there. We had a 2 hour lecture and then a talk by someone that night for another couple of hours. The class was made up of a class on Medical Ethics from one of the medical schools here and my class, an English class (for some reason, but I wanted it for the history since that was my major). I thought the class was fascinating. A semester later I had a "capstone" class on Europe 1930-1945 that covered life outside the military and how the people were dealing with the whole NSDAP situation. That one was a presentation with two hours of round table discussion. We also went to a museum in San Diego that had one of Hitler's uniforms set up and a lot of other things we had never seen. This was 20+ years ago and I can't remember the name of the museum.
@@TheHistoryUnderground Yes, that is true, I am just remembering an older man I used to visit with a lot before he passed away. He was a Jewish Resistance Fighter during WWII. His name was Max Federmann. And his wife Lydia.
The desk eagle is poignant, many Germans owned such items with that slogan who stated post war that they did not support the fuhrer. Maybe they hoped their fuhrer would allow them to choose their "one leader". But I suspect that they knew herr hitler was that "one leader. They did support war for lebensraum and were willing to turn a blind eye to atrocities in exchange. Recently I have fallen down the rabbit hole of WWII German soldier diaries. None claim to have had any involvement with the Holocaust and out of a dozen or so only one witnessed mass Jewish executions, this one in Russia, though his commentary on the incident was not for off from that of himmler's when the later attended a mass Jewish execution, this particular soldier found it repulsive and thought the troops doing the killing were going to corrupt German society after the war. No mention of his feelings on the dozens of men, women and children he just witnessed mowed down with machine guns... All others had no idea that Jews were being slaughtered wholesale, but all were fine with the public treatment of the Jewish peoples and didn't question where the Jews went when they disappeared. Though all seem to know Jews were slave labor in some munitions factories, some even witnessed emaciated Jewish slave labor on work gangs being brutalized by their ss guards. Many knew of Germans who bought out Jewish businesses for reichspfennigs on the reichsmark. Or bought homes stolen from Jews. From these diaries I get the feeling that the staged polish attack on the German radio station was known by most Germans to be a lie. Yet the German youth still lined up to join the Wehrmacht because of the perceived threat of communism. And yet when they marched into Russia and discovered how ill prepared the Russian army was for war they still believed the propoganda that Russia was imminently poised to invade Germany. It's scary how easily a nation can fall for a despotic leader. And how persuasive propoganda can be on a population in real or perceived despair.
Seeing these artifacts has me wondering… Did the US have stuff like this? I’m talking about the desk Eagle and the desk medal. Was there something that people in the US had. I’m not in any way romanticizing or condoning anything about the Third Reich, but it seems like these items show an intense pride in their country… The desk Eagle is such a powerful symbol, again not romanticizing it, just wondering if there are artifacts like this from the Allies.
I feel quesy when i see nazi artifacts but I know your purpose is to preserve history and bad things remembered ..maybe wont repeat. The jewish stars that absolutely needs to have the history remembered.
"To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time." - Elie Wiesel,
There are government trends around the world including here in the US and Australia to erase history whether in the form of statues or artifacts. If young people have no historical reference then they are more likely to accept despotism or even genocide. And I think that's their hope.
And then there's Palestine.
@@KJ-gc8oqall Jews are not one Jew. I hope you understand that. Unless you think all of Germany or German people are 1940s Germany.
The people who wore those stars lived every day with terror that we cannot even begin to imagine. Every waking minute.
My father brought back a star with the word "Juif" on it. He and my mother donated it before they died. In the late '80s, I was acquainted with a rabbi that ran a Holocaust museum and research center in St. Louis, MO. I asked him how my father may have obtained the star and he told me that, as the war was ending and the Germans were being pushed back, people simply tore them off, threw them away, and they were lying around everywhere.
That doll is creepy. Can’t imagine having that in my house starring at me. Thank you for sharing this unboxing. The stars were sad knowing were they come from has to break your heart. 😢
That doll was made by someone on the side that you think is good.
Just another propaganda lie.
Do you know that we are still dealing with propaganda from that war?
Truly makes me realize what my uncles were fighting for in WWII, I wish I had asked more questions while they were still with us.
They were fighting for the enemy. Granted, they had no idea but still
Same! My grandfather was a hero and I didn't even know it until he died and we found his "archives"
I feel the same about both of my grandfathers. One was in France, and the other in the Pacific theatre. They both passed before I turned 15. As a 40yo woman now, I have a million questions.
@@choossuck7653 Can you expand on why they would be fighting FOR the enemy rather than against?
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Everyday we get further away from those dark days of human history and yet, when you see items like this it's as though it all happened yesterday. It's a chilling reminder to never let that darkness descend again upon mankind.
Very interesting. Studying these kind of artifacts gives you a glimpse to those horrible and tragic times. All aspects of history should be studied, no matter how disturbing.
Thank you for sharing. I enjoy learning more of history whenever I can. Don't like the doll he is a bit much, I understand it was a toy but what it represents is madness. I have many family members that have fought in the war and some of the memories are just beyond words of what they saw. You have a great day
This is by far the best episode of American Artifact yet!!! Wow man! Awesome job and episode!
When I was maybe 8 years old I saw an old book sitting on our dining room table. I remember opening the cover and a signature, Adolf Hitler was written in pencil. At that age I didn’t know much about the Holocaust. When I was in my 20s my dad and I were talking about WWII. He mentioned he had a friend who was in the military and brought home items from the war. This friend had recently died and his wife asked my dad to take a look at some of his WWII items to see if any of it might be worth something. Long story short, my dad contacted a museum in DC who bought the book for their collection and my dad gave his friend’s wife all the money from it. He refused to take any money (the wife offered him a generous amount for helping her) but he declined. The BIG shock was the book had actually belonged to Himmler (museum researched and confirmed). My dad did keep a genuine Nazi flag (his friend gave it to him before he died) which has been in storage for years. I still can’t believe I touched something so historical and had no idea what it was.
In one episode, Erik was asked what his most important artifact is, and he mentioned that he has the only known sample of Hitler’s blood on a cloth. With all the advances in DNA, I can see that being a really important scientific ‘sample.’ Maybe the DNA analysis of it will discover something interesting in the future.
Fascinating artifacts! That doll is the most disturbing. Thank you for explaining the language on the stars, I didn't have to look it up myself :)
Legitimately, a chill ran down my spine when he opened the book. Holy moly. This is a disturbing and yet moving episode when you think about everything that happened during the World War II era to Jewish people. Powerful and important.
What was actually disturbing is what happened to the German people. They were the true victims of that war. Lets not forget that war was declared AGAINST Germany first.
There is alot of history that you were lied to about. Who owns most of all media? That should tell you everything right there
I agree
@@choossuck7653 Let's not forget that Germany invaded Poland first.
@choossuck7653 what's disturbing is you, with your fake history lesson, you didn't mention Czechoslovakia or Poland invaded by your nazi friends and the already victimisation of german Jews and the already murdered mentally ill in the T4 program...I feel sorry for people like you
one day ill make it to gettysburg and get to see this wonderful museum in person,but for now ill just live it through JDs capable eyes and hands ,thanks for another great video JD and Eric
Thank you for always stating that you don't support or endorse the Nazi ideology. I never thought for a moment you did - but in this day and age it is important to remind people how horrific that ideology was/is. Also - I really enjoyed this video. I got a particular chill when the doll was revealed. Trying to imagine every giving my daughter or my very young grandchildren something like it. Couldn't - just couldn't. I love your channel. Thank you for all you do.
Thank you.
Seeing the stars gave me chills, when I saw it was Nov 9th, that was pretty incredible.I hope you guys get them for the museum.
For a person that has always found dolls creepy, that doll takes it to a completely different level!
We need to see this. I think without
acknowledgement of the past we are doomed to repeat it. Hooe you're doing well. JD. God bless
So much history. People really need to know history,good and bad.
Those stars I think are the most powerful of the pieces unveiled. So extremely powerful and moving.
My friend, we both know I could have sat there all day. Awesome 👍😎. You guys are an awesome team.
Probably one of your most important and poignant episodes I've seen! Excellent work on both your parts!
As a history buff myself, the most chilling item I've personally seen was an SS uniform with the skull and crossbones on it. I believe it was SS-TV.
Glad you clarified on the stars. When he listed them I was wondering why the text on them were different
That eagle is amazing. Aside from the obvious, their pieces of art in themselves
Great video! My wife, daughter, and I just visited the museum as we were passing through this weekend. I was absolutely blown away seeing this stuff in person, the artifacts there were incredible. I didn't get to talk to Erik unfortunately while I was there but that's okay, I'll definitely be going back! Could you tell us more about the expansion Erik was talking about in the video?
A dark time indeed. But so much can be learned from this period.
I´ve handled a few of those Jewish stars and the blue and white striped clothes that many wore in the camps amongst other things. It is a truly bone chilling reminder and a sort of a reality check of sorts. We have all heard the stories. Heard the witnesses and the one´s who did the deeds. We have all seen the places where the atrocities happened, watched the movies and documentaries. Read the books. We think we understand, but still it´s hard to grasp. But when one sees or handles the real deal stuff like this it all becomes very real indeed. Very close, very personal. Yet so hard to believe all the evil. That doll though.... Great video as always.
This was really interesting and well made 👍🏻
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Thank you for teaching us more history on WW11
Wife and i will be leaving for 4 nights in Gettysburg in 3 weeks. Can't wait to stop by the Museum and meet Eric!
The opening dialogue was magnificent JD. I'm guessing your wife helped you with that😂 The items were definitely intriguing. Nice video 👍🏼😎
The book and the doll. Chilling.
I wonder what the person who was packaging that doll for shipment to the museum was thinking. That had to a be a "They don't pay me enough" moment for that person.
I would be so scared to handle those artifacts without gloves!
I didn´t realize they made those dolls for kids, that is very disturbing how twisted their ideology was.
As a Dutchman it is kind of bizarre to see these symbols of evil displayed like valuable collectibles. Over here collecting this stuff is highly controversial and will raise questions about whether you're a nazi. I know there are collectors for this stuff over here as well. But you wouldn't see a video like this, casually displaying nazi memorabilia, on Dutch tv. I guess it's different in the US, because most of this stuff are war trophies brought back by GI's and you don't have the history of being occupied by the nazis and having your citizens brutally murdered in concentration camps. But it somehow still gives me the creeps.
Another great reason visiting museum. Love shirt JD
The impact of all the artefacts is heartbreaking - but dear god - why isn't he handling them with gloves???
Props for preserving these artifacts.
For Sure JD!! Never Forget!
A doll far creepier than Chucky.
excellent episode.
I totally believe in saving history. I am a history fanatic especially with the Dakota uprising because I lost my grandfather in that war.
What I don't believe in is the selling of these WWII products especially certain ones too civilians a museum is made to look at these historical pieces not purchase them. But again kudos to another great video love your videos.
We're just living in a time right now in our own country where it's kind of scary and they say is history repeats itself. And skinheads scare the hell out of me and I'm a blond-haired blue-eyed All American girl
God is in control. Bible prophesy will happen like it has in the past. Jesus is Lord and we can trust him for our salvation
Great episode guys
Thank you, great video!
There is a good chance that book was signed in Munich as well.
Incredible.
Very interesting. Are these gonna be on display?
JD again another awesome video thank you I absolutely enjoyed every single second of it and Greetings from United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Those artifacts make a very powerful statement on a dark stretch of human history. Each has their own story to tell, but the pick of the litter (for me) was the signed copy of Mein Kampf.
Amazing stuff!
Thank you so much for your videos. They are invaluable.
I have a signed copy of the 2nd NHVI Regimental History from Martin Haynes, the author, to his niece that is my best historical artifact.
Hi buddy, your Dutch is very well!!! The word Jood ( is indeed the dutch word for Jew), so the star is a dutch "jodenster" so you called perfect in Dutch! My compliments greetz from Tilburg ( Nederland)
Thanks!
My grandpa was in the Navy in WW2 but I think more of the Pacific theatre... I wish I could have talked to him about some of that stuff but its a conversation he wasn't having
Not to be trite or disrespectful (given the subject matter of these artefacts) but it must be a bit like Christmas every day for you guys at the GMOH !
Cheers Erik & JD - keep on educating us all 👍
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing
I was very distracted because I wanted you to put on gloves. Now I need to watch it again for the actual history.
I believe Erik explained in a previous video as to when and where and why to use gloves or not to. It seemed plausible
Too bad we'll never know the stories from the two people who wore those stars on their garments. Hopefully they survived and didn't suffer the same fate as millions of other Jewish people.
The doll ! Creepy stuff!
Well done.
HOLY CRAP a signed copy of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler? 😳 I see copies of this book every time I'm in Barnes and Noble, and get creepy feelings when just passing it on the shelf. And I agree with other comments, that that S.S doll is creepy, but also intriguing. It looks like it has a gun in its saluted hand? And to think that parents, and their children at that time were totally brain washed into thinking this was normal and ok, is sickening. It also makes me feel grateful and blessed to be alive today. 80 million people dead. A horrid World War because of one man's evil ideology. In J.Ds words, Holy Moly. It's mind blowing. Its hard to imagine what it was like for those poor people having to wear those stars, knowing their lives meant nothing is SO sad. This is REAL History, and just like you guys said, while it sickens us today, this is STILL History, and it is fascinstimg all at the same time. I love your videos, keep 'em coming!!!
That's a stunning desk eagle! The detail is superb. Will it be for sale on your site?
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In Australia: From the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, He noted there was legislation before the federal parliament to ban the public display and sale of Nazi symbols. The bill, introduced in mid-June, will make it an offence to seek to profit from such material in stores or online. It will not ban private ownership or transfers of artefacts that are not for profit. Under the Albanese government’s laws, selling Nazi memorabilia would attract fines of up to $16,500 and apply to the Nazi swastika, known as the Hakenkreuz, and insignia relating to the Schutzstaffel (SS), Adolf Hitler’s paramilitary force.
The bill would not prevent private ownership of the Hakenkreuz or SS material, or their display as war memorabilia in museums.
They should not be considered controversial, they are a reminder of what happened.
JD.. what are your next travel plans for this great channel?
Oh, I’ve got a few things brewing. 🙂
Very interesting
Sehr interessant ,weiter so
I don’t think you should have to justify your video every time you show Nazi artifacts. No honest person would really think you’re a Nazi. You’re just telling the story of what actually happened through artifacts from the era.
Amazing
I got a medal a lapel pin and another pin thats looks maybe gold. And an armband my grandfather brought home. I'm told by people at militeria events that armbands were never stamped with maker marks. I thought some did.
" little Nazi kids" man that's unsettling when you say it.
Thanks for sharing!!✌️🇺🇲
The English king, Edward I (also known as Edward Longshanks) who reigned from 1272 to 1307, was the first to put yellow stars on the jews.
One medal said, "Only brave people have history."
Enjoyed the video mate really interesting mate really horrifying can't wait for the next video mate
Wow, those are valuable pieces and rare. We've been through the Houston Holocaust Museum, During the The War and Dr. Seuss exhibit (he did cartoons for the war) I took a class on the T-4 project and the "Jewish Problem" there. We had a 2 hour lecture and then a talk by someone that night for another couple of hours. The class was made up of a class on Medical Ethics from one of the medical schools here and my class, an English class (for some reason, but I wanted it for the history since that was my major). I thought the class was fascinating. A semester later I had a "capstone" class on Europe 1930-1945 that covered life outside the military and how the people were dealing with the whole NSDAP situation. That one was a presentation with two hours of round table discussion.
We also went to a museum in San Diego that had one of Hitler's uniforms set up and a lot of other things we had never seen. This was 20+ years ago and I can't remember the name of the museum.
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Great episode,but I wouldn't want these things in my stuff. Why couldn't they catalog some, but destroy the rest?
Because destroying history is bad regardless of how uncomfortable it is.
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Yes, that is true, I am just remembering an older man I used to visit with a lot before he passed away. He was a Jewish Resistance Fighter during WWII. His name was Max Federmann. And his wife Lydia.
Erik pretty moving those Jew Stars. JD great stuff. Thank you for sharing 💯👍
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What is a table medal? first time hearing this
JD, Is there an idea of how many signed copies of the book there are?
It is up!!! Hopefully it can be monetized!
That doll is creepy as fuck
The desk eagle is poignant, many Germans owned such items with that slogan who stated post war that they did not support the fuhrer. Maybe they hoped their fuhrer would allow them to choose their "one leader". But I suspect that they knew herr hitler was that "one leader. They did support war for lebensraum and were willing to turn a blind eye to atrocities in exchange.
Recently I have fallen down the rabbit hole of WWII German soldier diaries. None claim to have had any involvement with the Holocaust and out of a dozen or so only one witnessed mass Jewish executions, this one in Russia, though his commentary on the incident was not for off from that of himmler's when the later attended a mass Jewish execution, this particular soldier found it repulsive and thought the troops doing the killing were going to corrupt German society after the war. No mention of his feelings on the dozens of men, women and children he just witnessed mowed down with machine guns... All others had no idea that Jews were being slaughtered wholesale, but all were fine with the public treatment of the Jewish peoples and didn't question where the Jews went when they disappeared. Though all seem to know Jews were slave labor in some munitions factories, some even witnessed emaciated Jewish slave labor on work gangs being brutalized by their ss guards. Many knew of Germans who bought out Jewish businesses for reichspfennigs on the reichsmark. Or bought homes stolen from Jews.
From these diaries I get the feeling that the staged polish attack on the German radio station was known by most Germans to be a lie. Yet the German youth still lined up to join the Wehrmacht because of the perceived threat of communism. And yet when they marched into Russia and discovered how ill prepared the Russian army was for war they still believed the propoganda that Russia was imminently poised to invade Germany.
It's scary how easily a nation can fall for a despotic leader. And how persuasive propoganda can be on a population in real or perceived despair.
Wow amazing video
Totally cool.
Have you ever come across any Bonhoeffer or Confessing Church items from the Hitler era in Germany?
Seeing these artifacts has me wondering… Did the US have stuff like this? I’m talking about the desk Eagle and the desk medal. Was there something that people in the US had. I’m not in any way romanticizing or condoning anything about the Third Reich, but it seems like these items show an intense pride in their country… The desk Eagle is such a powerful symbol, again not romanticizing it, just wondering if there are artifacts like this from the Allies.
What does 'kaput 1944' mean?
There should be a museum for American dark history as well. Just saying
The Gettysburg Museum of History is about as close as you can get.
that doll reminds me of that movie jojo rabbit for some reason
Wow,I can't believe that Nazi toys were a thing lol
That doll is SA! Brown shirts
The early SS uniform was a brown shirt.
I think your tan is awesome I like history
Your channel is awesome I like history
Sorry, I meant to say your channel is awesome
I feel quesy when i see nazi artifacts but I know your purpose is to preserve history and bad things remembered ..maybe wont repeat. The jewish stars that absolutely needs to have the history remembered.
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