Eichmann: Mass Murderer or Train Conductor?

Eichmann: Mass Murderer or Train Conductor? - WW2 Biography Special

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3 жыл бұрын

Adolf Eichmann was one of the masterminds behind the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question'. Or was he? In his trial, he argued to be merely a bureaucrat who was following orders. This episode attempts to shine a light on the real role of this controversial figure.
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Written by: Joram Appel
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Sound design: Marek Kamiński
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- Yad Vashem: 3887/1, Y69EO4_, 1605/1431, 102co3, 76/68, 4229/59, 29/56, 73GO3_, 74AO9_, 1922/6, 2749/3, 2986/71, 4229/61, 03/198, 4613/789, 73AO6, 1572/17,
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@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Some might have noticed that the way we approached our Biography specials changed a bit over the last couple of months. We figured that covering all people of interest is impossible within the limited amount of specials slots we have for the duration of the war. So we're grouping individuals together in so-called 'gallery episodes', which we did for the camp commandants for example. Biography episodes, like this one and the one we did on Phibun, don't just cover one individual, but a broader theme as well (Logistics of Holocaust, Thailand during WW2). This truly is a community-effort. We wouldn't able to do any if this without our TimeGhost Army. Become a part of that effort by joining The TimeGhost Army over at patreon.com/timeghosthistory or timeghost.tv Please read our Community Guidelines before commenting: community.timeghost.tv/t/rules-of-conduct/4518

@QuizmasterLaw 3 жыл бұрын

Richtige Antwort? Todesschaffner

@taufiqutomo 3 жыл бұрын

Does that mean this channel will still upload videos after the war ends? Might also do animals of WW2 gallery episodes once we see Wojtek?

@shwetaseth1352 3 жыл бұрын

India in World War 2 can you make a video

@shwetaseth1352 3 жыл бұрын

@@QuizmasterLaw hi

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

@@taufiqutomo disregarding Wojtek for now... As to your question; most certainly not - we're already making post-war plans... our own sort of ongoing Potsdam Conference if you like. WW2 is a cornucopia of topics to cover, but let's get through the war years in chronology first.

@paulabbott2022 3 жыл бұрын

Spartacus mentions Franz Novak. Novak was arrested after Eichmann was captured and, after many trials, he was sentenced to nine years and served five. Simon Wiesenthal calculated that he served 3 minutes and 20 seconds of time for every person he transported to their deaths. It's disturbing how many of these monsters got a slap on the wrist or nothing for their crimes. Thank you again, Spartacus and all involved

@mikiroony 3 жыл бұрын

Germany had to move on. And many of the individuals in the Party were the only ones that could work with the US and the Allies vs. the communists. Theodor Heuss, First President of the Federal Republic of Germany had voted in favour of the Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz), so it was more a policy of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". The same happened with collaborationists in France. The bigger fish went to trial, but the local pencil-pusher got a slap in the wrist.

@kaltaron1284 3 жыл бұрын

@@mikiroony It also happened to an even larger extend in Japan. Not so much in the GDR though. Although there they used the opportunity to cleanse non-Nazi political enemies as well.

@TLTeo 3 жыл бұрын

@@kaltaron1284 And it also happened in Italy as well. Lots of former fascist party members went on to found political parties which are still powerful in the country to this day (looking at you, MSI/AN/FdI).

@kaltaron1284 3 жыл бұрын

@@TLTeo It probably helped that Italy didn't lose the war as they switched sides in time. I'm sure there was some clean-up/revenge against Mussolini's clique.

@TLTeo 3 жыл бұрын

@@kaltaron1284 There was, between 1945 and 1946 thousands of people were murdered with no due process, after being accused of either being collaborators or members of the Repubblica di Salo' government. A general amnesty was proclaimed in June 1946, which is considered to be the end of the Italian Civil War; some violence continued, but it died down eventually. People who survived that were not trialed after the war, even those who in the Repubblica di Salo' participated actively in the Holocaust. And as I said, some of these people went on to start very influential parties. Oh and the whole switching sides thing is wrong. The South tried joining the Allies, but they were never really accepted as part of the coalition. Mostly their goal was to support Italian soldiers and partisans in the Balkans and in Greece. The North stayed with the Axis for the whole war, and in fact after the split is when Italians started collaborating closely with Nazis in committing atrocities like the Holocaust.

@mrwaves6863 3 жыл бұрын

Could we get a special episode on Albert Speer? I’ve always wanted to know more about his role in Holocaust

@chriscarlone527 3 жыл бұрын

Have you read his memoirs? I enjoyed them, even if he embellished a fair bit of it. I'm sure these guys will cover it at some point.

@Kyle-gw6qp 3 жыл бұрын

As far as I'm aware Speer was not involved in the extermination of the Jews. He "just" worked them to death.

@djquinn11 3 жыл бұрын

He got off easy, he was an evil man.

@har3036 3 жыл бұрын

A total technocrat, indifferent to the suffering the Third Reich caused to millions of people.

@morisco56 3 жыл бұрын

Speer hoodie speer hoodie

@OldSarge 3 жыл бұрын

One sincere comment: it's refreshing to hear a KZfaq contributor make the effort to pronounce the German names and institutional titles properly. All too often, one hears people stumbling over German, Russian, etc., when just a little effort would show the speaker the proper and respectful way to say what they have to say. It's a joy to listen not only to the facts presented, but to the way these facts are presented. Kudos!

@varana 3 жыл бұрын

Spartacus lives in Germany, though, so it's no wonder he can do that. He's somewhat inconsistent, in turn, with the Polish names (not that other KZfaqrs would get those correct, either). :D

@EJ_Red 3 жыл бұрын

A question for Spartacus or the World War Two group in general. To help counter the depression that the War Against Humanity series may bring you and those watching, have you considered making a series where individuals or groups fought back and/or resisted the atrocities committed during WW2 when the main series or WAH finishes? You could cover people like Oskar Schindler and call the series "When Humanity Fought Back" or something, it's just an idea I had.

@shrillbert 3 жыл бұрын

In many ways, because of what WaH encompasses, those will likely be in WaH themselves, since it also discusses those who fought back.

@janSimiman 3 жыл бұрын

that a good idea, i often skip the wah episodes because it is so depressing. Incuding more 'positive' stories would make it more watchable.

@johns8364 3 жыл бұрын

@@shrillbert I mean, Mossad sneaking a drugged up Eichmann onto the airplane Weekend at Bernie's-style to his trial is a pretty lighthearted part of this story. They should do something about that.

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

As stated above. We already cover resistance inside the WaH episodes - it's just that in early 1942, there isn't much to cover. We do make difference between partisan warfare, espionage, and resistance 'proper' The first belongs to the Weekly warfare episodes with Indy, the second will be covered in Astrid's Spies and Ties, and the latter by Spartacus in Specials and War Against Humanity.

@podemosurss8316 3 жыл бұрын

@@WorldWarTwo I'm also thinking about not only "resistance" as such but more like acts of "war FOR humanity", such as diplomats using their powers to save Jews from the holocaust (this happened with a Spanish ambassador in Hungary whom became known as the Angel of Budapest, he was able to save thousands of Jews by giving them Spanish passports and other measures, even despite pressures from both the nazi authorities and his own government).

@AlexPeace246 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know who edits these and the War Against Humanity episodes, but I respect you as much as Sparty, keep up the great work! Thank you all.

@Semper_Iratus 3 жыл бұрын

This history can not be forgotten.

@WaltherMotU 3 жыл бұрын

Never forget!

@shawnr771 3 жыл бұрын

@Travis Johnson What, that facillitating murder is bad?

@ottovonbismarck1352 3 жыл бұрын

@Travis Johnson if you have a charge to make then make it. Don’t be so cowardly as to mask what your trying to say.

@cv4809 3 жыл бұрын

@@shawnr771 the facilitating murder of a specific group is bad

@shawnr771 3 жыл бұрын

@@cv4809 The facilitating murder of anyone is bad. Worse when an entire group of people is scapegoated, dehumanized and then eliminated.

@mark.m4954 3 жыл бұрын

Of course the Mossad acted illegally, but otherwise Eichmann would have never been judged. Sometimes this is necessarly.

@Kriegter 3 жыл бұрын

honestly most intelligence agencies do illegal stuff

@Kriegter 3 жыл бұрын

DGSE, SIS, SVR, CIA and of course Mossad

@Jay-ho9io 3 жыл бұрын

@@Kriegter All do. That's kinda of their job.

@petersaint5581 3 жыл бұрын

@@Kriegter duh. If you aren't stealing information illegally you're a journalist, not an Intel agent. Nobody needs to break the law to get what is open to all

@dovidell 3 жыл бұрын

there is actually a paratroopers jump tower in Israel called " Eichmann" because of its long drop !!

@theirishempire4952 3 жыл бұрын

Im not even mad

@jimmyseaver3647 3 жыл бұрын

Fair enough.

@surferdude44444 3 жыл бұрын

Snap.

@jimmyseaver3647 3 жыл бұрын

@MRGRUMPY53 At the end of the day, he's dead. He's paid for his sins.

@TLTeo 3 жыл бұрын

@@jimmyseaver3647 I'm not so sure. I don't think anything could be done to people like Eichmann to truly make them pay for these crimes. They are just too many and too horrific.

@superadventure6297 3 жыл бұрын

A quick note on that manifest from 1942: it says there- "With the reduction of the transport of potatoes". There was a food crisis after the invasion of USSR; and because of having to supply the army there were food shortages in Germany. So what that document actually is saying is that they're going to reduce the shipments of food, so that they can use the trains instead to send people to be exterminated.

@kaltaron1284 3 жыл бұрын

Noticed that as well. The Nazis weren't very rational in the spending of their limited resources. Maybe we should be thankful for that. OTOH they used what they had for horrific stuff.

@superadventure6297 3 жыл бұрын

@@kaltaron1284 I wouldn't say we should be thankful, because of what they did with their resources. It was very 'rational', they knew exactly what they were doing and Mr Eichmann was clearly quite proud of himself and his role.

@kaltaron1284 3 жыл бұрын

@@superadventure6297 Of course not really but hadn't they done so many racially motivated wastes and blunders they might actually have won and that's not a pleasant thought. It was rational if your goal is to fulfill your racist bullshit dreams but not if you want to win a war, that's what I meant.

@nathanweitzman9531 2 жыл бұрын

@@kaltaron1284 If I remember correctly, a lot of what Wannasee was about was literally 'eliminating undesirable population' to free up food for 'desirable' populations in an attempt not to repeat the mass starvation of WWI in the next war. So yeah, there's a heavy element of 'rationality' behind the horror of that little line "with reduction of transport of potatoes".

@kaltaron1284 2 жыл бұрын

@@nathanweitzman9531 It was also blatantly about "cleaning up the racial blood" and stuff like that. But yes, there were some real and rational reasoning behind some of the decisions.

@gunman47 3 жыл бұрын

He was one of those that managed to escape to Argentina after the war, but eventually Israeli Mossad agents managed to track and capture him and bring him back to Israel for trial, where he was ultimately executed by hanging. This series of events is well portrayed in the Netflix film, Operation Finale.

@stc3145 3 жыл бұрын

But why didint Argentina arrest these criminals and hand them over?

@thegunslinger1363 3 жыл бұрын

That's an excellent film. Ben Kingsley did a fantastic job.

@MovieGuy 3 жыл бұрын

The film operation Finale is extremely interesting and surprisingly accurate. I did a whole video in my channel on it, in Hebrew.

@teogonzalez7957 3 жыл бұрын

@@stc3145 the Argentinian regime at the time was sympathetic to the nazi cause and protected their nazi refugees. There’s a reason it was such an attractive location for nazi refugees.

@Alex-fv2qs 3 жыл бұрын

@@mangonel The president of Argentina in 1960 was the progressive Arturo Frondizzi, who had been democratically elected 2 years earlier and he was not a nazi sympathizer or far right in any way, shape or form, in fact he was planning a trip to Israel when the kidnapping happened He was unaware that Eichmann was living in Argentina

@Jordan-Ramses 3 жыл бұрын

One thing that isn't mentioned is that German logistics was awful and they needed every available train for the military or heavy industry. They needed much more than they actually had. To use trains for this shows how committed they were to genocide. It actually hurt the war effort.

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atKDdtGA0dq9lI0.html

@aromero385 3 жыл бұрын

I remember being a boy, in early 1960s, going around, where this guy Eichmann used to live, town of El Talar, a neighborhood at the north outskirts of Greater Buenos Aires. Those days we didn't realize this infamous guy lived there neither what the Israeli crew pick him up from his home.

@theeaselrider4032 3 жыл бұрын

Even after a couple of years of watching these, and being interested in the subject since I was young, what I find most astounding is not just the scale of the Holocaust, but the efficiency with which the Nazis conducted it. When you think about the number of people that had to be involved to make those plans work on the scale that it did, and if those people were not involved in the Holocaust, but were instead committed to the German war effort in general - how much of an effect would that have had on the outcome of the war? Even to this day, I just can't wrap my head around the concept of putting so much time and logistics into the extermination of an entire peoples. But we have to remember. Otherwise we run the risk of someone trying it again.

@samuelkatz1124 3 жыл бұрын

Among those who testified at Eichmanns trial was Abba Kovner, who either you or Indy mentioned when discussed the start of the FPO. His testimony is absolutely terrifying.

@naoyanaraharjo4693 3 жыл бұрын

The holocaust broke him. Making him wants only revenge. Nothing else

@AnEnemy100 3 жыл бұрын

Seems reasonable.

@chiron14pl 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for clarifying his role as more than as a mere banal bureaucrat. I still like the phrase "the banality of evil," though. It emphasizes the way bureaucracies can do horrible things yet keep emotional distance from the reality

@mammuchan8923 3 жыл бұрын

It is an exceptionally descriptive phrase and he was the embodiment of this

@jimmyhaley727 3 жыл бұрын

jussst the way our US politicians age going/and doing

@glenmartin2437 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Keep up this work.

@padawanmage71 2 жыл бұрын

Would love to see a miniseries, like the Cuban Missile Crisis or Sue Canal, where you look at the time table and all the steps taken by the Mossad to track, find and take Eichman from Argentina. I’ve seen the movie ‘Operation: Finale’ but i love your attention to detail and present the info as it happened.

@alexmclean760 3 жыл бұрын

Spartacus I enjoy this break down of the crimes from all sides I can imagine how tough this is to cover but enjoy your coverage and your wife's ties and spies and even ww2 in real time

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@thebunkerparodie6368 3 жыл бұрын

My recension of the channel is finally in truck & tank(number 83, had a hard time finding this one, for some reason not a lot of shop had it), what email can I use to send the page to you? by the way, can I change my mail on the timeghost forum in my profile or not? thanks for your answer!

@MrTomkan 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the interpretation after 10:00. I've recently watched several hours of the famous trials and I almost got to the same conclusion as Hannah Arendt, but I vaguely remembered from my history courses, that her views were later disputed. Thanks for clearing up my mind for what a criminal Eichmann was. In the trials I saw on KZfaq he put up a really good defense, which would almost make him seem innocent (or just another link the chain). Seems like Ian Kershaws "working towards the Furher" would be more appropriate to explain him.

@neptune3569 3 жыл бұрын

Eichmann's trial resulted in more than just justice. My grandfather, who's still alive, is a victim of the Holocaust in Chernowitz. When I asked him how Jews who weren't in the Holocaust perceived Jews who were, He said that the Holocaust stories weren't really believed, until Eichmann's trial. And after the trial, how European Jews were seen changed. The Jews who lived in British Palestine before the Holocaust and the North African Jews now opened their eyes to the horror that happened in Europe.

@JaimeMesChiens 9 ай бұрын

@neptune3569. Thank you so much for sharing this. My uncle came from Demblin, Poland. The pain and trauma he saw, endured, and experienced are beyond horrifying. He did not speak about his experiences for decades. I was not-yet born during Eichmann trial, but he did say that this trial changed how survivors were viewed and treated. He died a few years ago, well I to his nineties. If you search his name, you can find his interview, done at the Yiddish Book Center in Massachusetts. His name, of blessed memory, is Bernie Frydenberg. A finer man I have never known.

@redangel745 3 жыл бұрын

Good job, great vid

@Madikowka 2 жыл бұрын

If you look closely at the background, any time the narrator is speaking, the clock is showing 12. It is an allegory of the doomsday clock, where 12 is the worst hour possible. Nice touch!

@harryjanssens4415 3 жыл бұрын

Again a great addition to all the good historical videos you make! Spartacus, I sincerely respect you for enduring the hardships, together with your team ofcourse, to produce all this. I can imagine it frequently is heartbreaking and at times nearly impossible to do...my greatest respect to all the team! Specialist Harry Janssens

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Thank You Harry!

@sankarchaya 3 жыл бұрын

I think it's safe to say that Arendt was right to propose her idea of the banality of evil, but wrong to be so credulous to believe Eichmann's legal defense that she applied the concept to him.

@jeanrenecarvalhocourcy1340 3 жыл бұрын

I'm here as a volunteer of the ghost army of the algorithm

@BlueVentricle 3 жыл бұрын

First thought that popped in my mind is the 2006 movie "Der letzte Zug" "The Last Train" which I watched last year, even though the movie is nothing compared to how it really was, i just wanted to share this one of many movies regarding the trains that were used. Again thank you for the hard work you guys are doing

@the1ghost764 3 жыл бұрын

EXCELLENT documentary.

@paulbeesley8283 22 күн бұрын

Watching the Kenneth Branagh drama of the Wannsee Conference, I got the distinct impression that what was being portrayed was not a conference. There was no conferring, no real discussion and no mutually agreed decision. The "Conference," certainly as depicted here, was actually a relaying of orders, to enact a policy that had already been agreed elsewhere. Where and by whom should be obvious.

@solarisengineering15 3 жыл бұрын

His final act in the war against humanity was to curse the people who he despised. It's chilling. Those words remind me of every time I hear about a war, a totalitarian nation, hatred, or the grim shuffle of nuclear warheads aboard submarines, bombers and transports between silos. I can only hope that one day his curse will ring hollow in a world free of war. No Eichmann, we're not going to follow you.

@petersaint5581 3 жыл бұрын

Amen

@CivilWarWeekByWeek 3 жыл бұрын

Eichmann is such a disturbing figure especially after reading Ardent’s work even if you don’t agree with all of it.

@QuizmasterLaw 3 жыл бұрын

Arendt spells her name that way. my friend FELIX however says she is Not credible!

@batrachian149 3 жыл бұрын

@@QuizmasterLaw Why should we believe your friend Felix?

@wh8787 3 жыл бұрын

I think dispelling the myth of Eichmann as just a boring, unimaginative bureaucrat is one of the most valuable things to do. He was a calculating, ambitious monster whose own prejudices coincided with the monstrosity of the regime he served perfectly. I'm sure there were plenty of unimaginative bureaucrats in Nazi Germany, but to say Eichmann was one of them reduces his guilt far too much.

@oliversherman2414 2 жыл бұрын

Keep up the great stuff

@WorldWarTwo 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Oliver

@oliversherman2414 2 жыл бұрын

No worries. So tragic to hear about these things yet it's also very interesting. I really appreciate this kind of content that digs deep into wartime atrocities and how we should avoid it in future

@gwine9087 3 жыл бұрын

I would not have cared if he really was 'just a bureaucrat'. Ask three questions: "did you control the trains?" "Did you know where the trains were going?". "Did you know what would happen when they got there?"

@vladimpaler3498 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone at Wannsee knew what was going to happen. He wrote up the minutes of the conference. So Eichmann would have to answer yes to all your questions.

@gwine9087 3 жыл бұрын

@@vladimpaler3498 Exactly.

@liverworm9917 Ай бұрын

Bureaucracy is fascinating in that it's practically designed to hide insanity beneath a thin crust of shallow logic. Technically, he did not pull the trigger; and so he would argue that all day as his excuse. We all know that he killed them, that he's responsible, but he'd become stuck on this one point as a way of separating himself from the deed... What a sad, vile man.

@JGlennFL 3 жыл бұрын

He was played exceptionally well by Stanley Tucci in the HBO film "Conspiracy".

@Tramseskumbanan 3 жыл бұрын

And was played by Gerd Böckmann in the much better movie “Die Wannseekonferenz”.

@thegunslinger1363 3 жыл бұрын

Played brilliantly by the German actor Thomas Kretschmann. In the film Eichmann. Which you can watch on Amazon Prime.

@Zen-sx5io 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@BenGrem917 3 жыл бұрын

Great work. Top notch. Simply wonderful! To the whole team, you're the best!

@remastered_tp6898 3 жыл бұрын

Again the temperature in my room dropped by 10 degrees celcius

@heart0fthedrag0n 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should take a hot shower instead? *...inappropriate place for that joke?

@remastered_tp6898 3 жыл бұрын

@@heart0fthedrag0n Yikes dude...

@jonkline709 3 жыл бұрын

Very well done

@TrialzGTAS 3 жыл бұрын

Quality and quantity. Man I love this channel! Would love to hear more about the mission with the Israeli agents extracting Eichmann! I’ve seen some videos about it, but your style is really fulfilling.

@stuart8663 3 жыл бұрын

Theres some terrific Kindle books about the subject, most amazing dedicated Mossad team members with one end-goal.

@PJL3791 3 жыл бұрын

I see the clock on the left of Spartacus is set to Doomsday time...

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

In is indeed doomsday o'clock - also known as midnight in the garden of beasts.

@somoanuevos 3 жыл бұрын

where do you situate Shirer's assertion that Eichmann said "he would leap laughing into his grave because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction.’”" ?

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Speculative in as much as that he went very unwillingly to the gallows, correct in as much as that he cursed booth his victims and his jurors with his last words.

@thebunkerparodie6368 3 жыл бұрын

why not special regarding each government concerned by the war? Will do some "on location" video after covid like you did in the great war?

@atharva_kari 3 жыл бұрын

Oh a new video! A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

@bobharvey6957 3 жыл бұрын

Once again a very well made vidéo

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@katydid5088 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely riveting episode, Time Ghost Team. As ever there is only so much detail a history course can ask of and teach to such a wide body of students with their own time limits in place. Thank you for your team's work researching and bringing details of this topic to light. On a happier note, excellent choice of glasses and tie today.

@tobster1499 3 жыл бұрын

brilliantly presented video on vile character

@JoeyOnly 3 жыл бұрын

Good episode, thank you Sparty and TG!

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Osterbaum 3 жыл бұрын

Eichmann may not have been a good example of the "banality of evil". I feel like the theory or idea is still very useful in that it took the tacit approval and co-operation or passiveness of many people "just following orders" for all of this to be possible.

@organizedanarchy2745 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for pursuing this.

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching this

@residentgeardo 3 жыл бұрын

Small error @ 0:44 the name of the Austrian town is "Linz".

@657449 3 жыл бұрын

Eons ago, I got a book off of the sale table by Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower. It was a story of pre WW1 Europe. I got fascinated by the war and the aftermath. Even earlier I causally picked up an old history book from 1919 and skimmed through it. I remember it because of one thing. The author predicted that if the peace treaty failed, there would be another war. Unfortunately he was right. What would the world be today if events changed and there was no assassination attempt of Franz Ferdinand?

@M4ruta 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting fact: before he became a famous novelist, Harry Mulisch was present at the Eichmann trial as a journalist. He wrote a short book about it, 'De Zaak 40/61' (tr.: 'The Case 40/61') in which he comes to the same conclusion as Hannah Arendt, namely that Eichmann was a boring nobody, an empty shell of a man who had no personal affiliation with the job he was doing.

@hojoj.1974 3 жыл бұрын

Horrific subject and a horrific human being. I am however glad that I can leave a comment and add a like to this video. Your work is so damned important. Please keep it up.

@stevekaczynski3793 3 жыл бұрын

@Uncle Joe In the TV movie "Conspiracy" (2001) Stanley Tucci plays him as competent if unpleasant middle management, efficient at running the Wannsee meeting, polite to the female help but when a male kitchen attendant drops plates, he demands that it be taken out of his wages. Rather like the sort of workplace supervisor most people have encountered, but hardly demonic evil.

@srbtlevse16 3 жыл бұрын

such good and well researched vid

@faunbudweis 3 жыл бұрын

he was proud his trains were still running while there were none left for Wehrmacht in the final months of the war..

@vksasdgaming9472 3 жыл бұрын

He was unwilling participant of Unternehmen Saublöder Arsch.

@multiversalman4270 3 жыл бұрын

@@vksasdgaming9472 what was that

@vksasdgaming9472 3 жыл бұрын

@@multiversalman4270 Secret plan by Hitler to start a war, lose it about as badly as any country ever has lost a war and cause as much suffering and devastation as possible while at it. Very convoluted plan to annihilate Germans as political and national entity.

@multiversalman4270 3 жыл бұрын

@@vksasdgaming9472 can you send a link?

@multiversalman4270 3 жыл бұрын

@@vksasdgaming9472 ohh I see what it means

@gianniverschueren870 3 жыл бұрын

Simple but lovely tie to commemorate one of the most gruesome parts of the war. Reviewing these always feels a little off. 3/5, and another great episode

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

It's never off - even the worst of our videos require dress decorum out of respect for the victims, and you keep us on the straight and narrow by playfully pointing to that. It's a motivation for us to see beyond the dredge.

@clasdauskas Жыл бұрын

Sorry if this has been covered - early in the video you mention that Eichmann attended the same school as Hitler had years earlier. (Another comment below mentions another prominent Nazi, Kaltenbrunner?, also attended it). Is this significant? Was there an important teacher or someone similar who influenced them?

@1uk3d5h 3 жыл бұрын

I am happy to hear that you are sharing the sad parts of history. I hope nothing like this happens again.

@naveenraj2008eee 3 жыл бұрын

Hi sparty You explained this episode clearly.. Thanks

@AllanGoodall 3 жыл бұрын

I just came across this channel a couple of weeks ago. It's an amazingly well presented program. A 21st century successor to the World at War series. And, yes, never forget!

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Allan

@johncoffin9354 3 жыл бұрын

The photograph captions are important, and deserve to be more visible. Even with my display set to 'theatre mode' its quite a job to read them.

@AlexPeace246 3 жыл бұрын

Love ya Sparty! Keep up the good work!

@FreeCandyGuy 3 жыл бұрын

Once again, this channel has done an excellent job of showing that it is in fact possible to be on the wrong side of history.

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the positive feedback, we appreciate it.

@klangerklanger8011 3 жыл бұрын

I am an older Catholic and I will never forget! Thank you for using this platform to educate.

@Obadiah50 3 жыл бұрын

" I hope you all will fallow me." From the devil himself. Chilling...

@youngimperialistmkii 3 жыл бұрын

Indeed. Was he saying he wanted us to be like him. Or was he wishing us dead, like he would be moments later?

@dawood121derful 3 жыл бұрын

I’m sure his unrepentant time in hell is very special.

@mikiroony 3 жыл бұрын

@@dawood121derful That is not for us to judge, thankfully. But what we can judge, his actions in this world, left a man deprived of humanity. Many say the nazis were a possessed bunch. I reflect on it and it's no exageration...

@youngimperialistmkii 3 жыл бұрын

@@johnhall8364 Ok dude, this video is about one of the architects of the Holocaust. And you end up talking about the Democratic party. Get your head out of your arse.

@lewisirwin5363 3 жыл бұрын

@@youngimperialistmkii Considering he met his fate in Israel, I'd say he was cursing that nation to death.

@pontusbratan4246 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, next time you make ww2 biography can you make it about Genreral Carl Gustav Fleischer who was the first general to win a battle against Germany. He also commited suicide in 1942

@pnutz_2 3 жыл бұрын

10:20 "all policy is wrong, but frightfully well carried out"

@thijsminnee7549 3 жыл бұрын

At 8:26 you can see a girl standing with her had slightly out in a train wagon by camp Westerbork. It's rather well known picture of the holocaust. I've been to camp Westerbork and there's a prettt long story about that girl. That girl was Settela Steinbach. The girl held her had out for pretty long time, almost till the point the train started (or maybe the train was already moving). Now apparently she stood oud there for so long that her mother told her to ged back or she might catch a cold. She would be killed in Auschwitz only days later. It just goes to show how little these people knew what was about to happen once they would arive at there next destination.

@yourstruly4817 3 жыл бұрын

"Oh my, look at Eichmann's lovely, long and thin tie! 4.5/5"

@kevindoyle1884 3 жыл бұрын

That was chilling

@lwilton 3 жыл бұрын

These were truly unpleasant people doing truly unpleasant things in a truly unpleasant time. My mother escaped from Warsaw in late 1939. I have a scrapbook of hers showing burning buildings, people cheering around the burned corpse of a Luftwaffe pilot from a nearby crashed and burned plane, and Nazis pushing a clothing rack through town with a number of the more prominent Warsaw citizens hung from it by the neck. It bears a sign that says approximately 'do what we say or this will be you'.

@stevekaczynski3793 3 жыл бұрын

The Germans set aside sections on trains and trams that were "only for Germans". The Polish underground sometimes wrote "only for Germans" on the walls of cemeteries.

@garyleeson 3 жыл бұрын

Powerful stuff .

@christianmartinez6161 3 жыл бұрын

Can you guys do an episode on Raul Wallenberg? He was amazing and saved many lives during the Holocaust

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

We definitely will when the time comes - right now he's still in Sweden, not knowing anything of his future fate.

@NathanDudani 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@bobbrown5460 3 жыл бұрын

It still surprises me that it was not open season on individuals like him that got away after the war.

@superadventure6297 3 жыл бұрын

The problem was, that the conquering western powers had no gripes with them. I don't know if it was secret sympathy with nazi ideology or the fact that we were not the ones they oppressed, or the fear of Soviet expansionism and that they were anti-Soviet (the old "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" canard) but the US in particular protected many of them- we even promoted some of them like Werner Von Braun the head of our space program, and released a bunch of them like Guderian without trial. But the Russians took them out on sight- which is why the remnants of the German army tried to break out and surrender to US forces in 1945- they knew they'd be safe.

@capriracer351 3 жыл бұрын

A paragraph on the front cover of "Eichmann in my Hands" explains beautifully why this would have been wrong. "Since Malkin (Peter Z Malkin, the Mossad agent who captured Eichmann) had lost so many of his own family in the Holocaust, his first desire was to kill his target. But because he was a professional-and as Uzi (Rafi Eitan?) reminded him- because there was a difference between them and men like Eichmann."

@bobbrown5460 3 жыл бұрын

@@superadventure6297 true and that working for new employers was and is a very strange thing it just goes to show how badly all the powers wanted any advanced technology and the person who dreamed it up. But I was mainly talking about a "nongovermental" response to the people who propagated the eradication of entire groups of people.

@stevekaczynski3793 3 жыл бұрын

In the immediate post-war days some were lynched after capture but the circumstances are uncertain because they were so unofficial - for example Oskar Dirlewanger and Silesian Gauleiter Karl Hanke. The former may have been killed by French troops, the latter by Czechs.

@superadventure6297 3 жыл бұрын

@@stevekaczynski3793 Yes from what I've read, the Czechs took out a few hundred in the chaos after the Prague campaign; and this would be AFTER V.E day, the May 7-15th period

@George_M_ 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for not playing into the old banality narrative. Philosophically I'm sure there were people it applied to, but Eichmann was clearly ideologically driven and enthusiastic.

@bobbylasley2612 2 жыл бұрын

@Mr.science I hate wehraboos but you can't really blame them the German army was cool

@gregcampwriter 3 жыл бұрын

Eichmann is what happens when small minds are given a lot of power. By himself, he would have been merely pathetic. When handed the machinery of the state that had not only eliminated protections against evils but instead actively desired them to be committed, he was able to be a monster.

@PeaceGuyForEarth 3 жыл бұрын

So youtube doesn't have a content warning for videos like these about nazis but does have one for the war against humanity episodes about the Holocaust.... Interesting....

@myszowaty93 3 жыл бұрын

"funny" fact the surname Eichmann is connected with killing machines of the two XX century totalitarianisms: One is Adolf Eichamn and the other Fiodor Eichmans - commander of the first soviet lager and killing center on the Solovki island. They were not related tho

@johnh6524 3 жыл бұрын

I think you need to look at Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem (on the banality of evil) again, she is quite clear that Eichmann is overwhelmed by his Nazi ideology, which he embraces and this motivates him and strips him of his limited humanity and makes him banal. She also recognises his pride and boasting, particularly in the deportation of the Hungarian Jews and at the final stages of the war. She is probably most interesting in how and why Europe surrenders it's Jews to Eichmann and the final solution. Eichmann in Jerusalem does not make Eichmann a victim - Arendt agrees with his death sentence. But it does show he is not a Voldemort, but uninteresting and hollowed out by his own willing embrace of Nazi ideology, and "winged words", that allow him to metamorphose into the proud, but ultimately banal, boring bureaucrat of death. I think think a more disturbing analysis of evil and more pertinent to our current time.

@TheGrinbery 3 жыл бұрын

sometimes, when I hear his name, I think about his place of "burial"... or rather how after his execusion he was cremated and his ashes scatered across Yarkon river.

@stuart8663 3 жыл бұрын

His ashes were scattered in the Mediterranean Sea, beyond the territorial waters of Israel, lest any memorial to him remain.

@TheGrinbery 3 жыл бұрын

@@stuart8663 yeah right, I mistook it with a criminal who was murdered and burnt some time later. my bad '^^

@garrett8732 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent explanation of the twisted and demented views of a true monster. People often wonder how a relatively “normal” person finds themselves doing these unspeakable things, sadly it’s all too possible.

@johnye4433 3 жыл бұрын

Eichmann was a calculated murderer whose weapon was bureaucracy’s infrastructures. Killing someone by writing their death sentence is still murder if you know it is unjust, not to mention 11 million death sentences including children.

@josedavidgarcesceballos7 3 жыл бұрын

Just in case, have you seen " Eichmann’s Dream" by Michel Onfray? Highly recommended in case of interest

@guitaristAustin 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you world war 2 staff. I first learned some of this tragedy in high school (I was lucky enough to have a Holocaust class growing up in Oregon) and I am grateful that there are free resources like yours available online. I will debate contributing.

@kylianvanhoorn2859 3 жыл бұрын

Will we maybe ever see a guns of ww2 series or something in that direction, just like we had on the great war channel with c&rsenal. Perhaps if possible again with c&rsenal( because i hear they are going to be finalizing their ww1 series this year, so they might be available) or perhaps something with Jonathan ferguson of the royal armories, because he has also been doing a lot of work on KZfaq recently, it would be fun to see those types of videos again i think. Well anyway i have been a fan of these videos ever since the great war channel so keep it up

@BleedingUranium 3 жыл бұрын

I'd also love to see more collaborations with ForgottenWeapons or C&Rsenal again.

@jankowalski3496 3 жыл бұрын

Stanley Tucci in "Conspiracy".

@martinkandell5295 3 жыл бұрын

Are you going to do an episode covering Operation Anthropoid for May 27?

@stidark9954 3 жыл бұрын

A biography special about Mannerheim?

@SlapInTheFaceForMora 3 жыл бұрын

I commend Sparty and the crew for their professionalism in dealing with these uncomfortable topics. It's something that we need to be reminded of in a factual manner, regardless of how difficult it may be to think about.

@TheCurlsCrazy 3 жыл бұрын

KZfaq, you shoud help spred these videos my part for the algorithm

@jimmypenrose1401 3 жыл бұрын

It might sound ironic but one of the most chilling portrayals of Adolf Eichmann was done by Werner Klemperor - of Hogan's Heroes Fame - in a 1961 film called "Operation Eichmann". John Banner (sgt. Schultz) was also in the film, but neither were portrying the goofy characters you got to know in Stalag 13 - they were downright evil. Here's a clip of the January 1942 meeting: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ps6SdNlpyc6ZfYE.html

@jonL88 3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Little Oggie’s channel. 👍🏻

@jimland4359 3 жыл бұрын

I think I would have a hard time watching that movie appropriately. Just like I can't not laugh at the meme scene of Hitler in Downfall.

@kaltaron1284 3 жыл бұрын

Why not both? Does anyone know Baccano?

@Depipro 3 жыл бұрын

Just some technical feedback: I really like how Spartacus is using his voice in this video. Earlier, he would often use it to almost literally hammer his points home, which on me has an adverse effect, as I at some point hear mainly the hammering and not the points. In this video, he is doing full justice to the seriousness of the topic in a way that actually keeps me listening to content, rather than shutting him out because of form. Please, keep doing it this way, Sparty!

@superadventure6297 3 жыл бұрын

I first started watching this channel last year because of Sparty. I like the way he talks, with or without emphasis, he can convey desperate emotions extremely well. I actually thought he was the main presenter at first and was thrown off when Indy came on, but after a couple with him was hooked. Their Pearl Harbor special was superb. These guys are the new History Channel

@Depipro 3 жыл бұрын

@@superadventure6297 I do realize that, with my musician's ears, I am more sensitive to this sort of thing than most.

@Okido24 3 жыл бұрын

Good job Sparty! (Yes I send that message every episode you make).

@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods 3 жыл бұрын

Hagh sameach. It's a good time to remember. I'd recommend watching on KZfaq the sessions of Eichmann's trial - especially the testimony of the victims, and those who tried to save them.

@Alex.HFA1 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting fact - Eichmann travelled to British Palestine in 1937, to negotiate with the Jewish authorities. He spent the night in Haifa and was kicked out of the country by the Brits.

@stefanhaagedoorn3690 3 жыл бұрын

How ''honest'' would you say the idea was to emigrate the Jewish populations (Madagascar, Palestine)? In other words; were these serious considerations that failed due to changing circumstances or just minor roadblocks on the path to the ''final solution'' of genocide?

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Serious is a vague word in connection to Nazi plans. Their ideas often tended to be extremely outlandish, insane, and horrific to the point of being unbelievable, but then they carried them out anyway. The Madagascar plan was thoroughly contemplated and part of several outlines put forward. The idea was only really scrapped when it became clear that the Royal Navy was not anywhere close to being defeated anytime soon, meaning that Axis full control of the Indian Ocean would be impossible.