@@EXCEDRIN10 exept from my Insane granddad.......but they seated him on the wrong coast were he could not harm...... ✌😁

@@EXCEDRIN10 They were the best trained and best fighting army. But they were defeated, and surrendered unconditionally to the poorly trained and lousy fighting enemy. How do you explain this? Perhaps their Chief Strategist was an incompetent fool who managed to unite the whole world against Germany, in a suicidal bid for world domination? Maybe they should never have obeyed the orders of this fool! Maybe they should have gone on strike the minute he demanded that they swear total obedience to him personally, instead of to the Constitution? No doubt that would have caused angry outbursts in the Chancellery and threats to resign and go back to painting postcards instead of taking on the burden of telling the ungrateful German people to worship him. But it would have saved many millions of lives, including those of millions of German soldiers and civilians. Instead of refusing to obey the fool, however, they chose to follow his suicidal orders, and died in their millions to please him. In the end, he wrote off the Germans as "unworthy of me" because they lost the war, which showed they weren't good enough to rule the world.

@@EXCEDRIN10 id join the wehrmacht, i heard they hand out cocaine tablets

@@EXCEDRIN10 But Germany DIDN'T have the resources the Allies had! And Germany knew that from the start! But Germany still started the war. A good army doesn't go to war when the odds are so heavily against it. That's bad, suicidal strategy. It doesn't matter if the troops are well trained if they don't have the material to fight with. That's like a basketball player who doesn't have a ball, or a pole vaulter without a pole. They may be well trained, but they will LOSE. Besides, Germany is a midsize country that attacked major powers like the British Empire, the USSR and the US. Its economy was nowhere near the size of the Allies' economies; they lacked oil; their balance of payments was a disaster, and their command structure was dominated by a fake "warlord". Hitler's "strategy" was to bring down upon Germany the full power of the rest of humanity, so that Germany would lie in ruins. At the last moment, Hitler intended to commit suicide while his country burned and starved and bled to death, in a magnificent Gotterdammerung. In his last days he said "We will go down. But we will take a world with us." That was his lifelong dream! The good training and ready obedience of the German soldiers only made things worse.

@@monke5723 Pervatine go pills.

Some very interesting insights! Thanks for sharing these!

Du machst dich besser bereit, wenn dir dein Land nicht komplett egal ist. Ich bin genau so gegen den Nazi Mist, weil es letztendlich Europa und Deutschland geschadet hat . Warum ein Nicht Deutscher das Recht hatte uns deutschen zu sagen wer deutsch ist und wer nicht und auch noch absolute Macht über unser Militär bekommen hat, werde ich auch nie so ganz verstehen. Die Österreicher würden jedenfalls einen deutschen, der sich zum Kanzler ernennt aus dem Amt raus jagen. Wir deutsche müssen endlich selbstständig unser Land leiten, zusammen halten und unsere eigenen Interessen vertreten. Das geht sehr wohl auch ohne dabei auf eugenisches Halbwissen zugreifen zu müssen. Grüße aus dem Süden! sicherlich kein Nazi, aber garantiert auch nicht Anti Deutsch.

I'm French, and I'm sick to read/ hear how unfair Versailles treaty was for the poor Germany after WW1. France has been deprived from a part of its territory after 1870 war, and this territory was important for heavy industry and had to pay a war compensation to the Prussian on top of that. France was the battlefield during WW1, with heavy destruction and a huge demographic bleeding on a smaller population compared to the Germany of the time. At the end, the Versailles treaty was a pain in the ass of the Americans, because money going to France for reparation didn't went to USA for business. And the Germans were eager to seek revenge because the civilian population didn't saw the war destruction at home. Between the 2 wars, Germany went bankrupt because of close ties with US economy and 1929 crisis, and the Soviets were messing with internal politics in Germany. But everyone keep blaming France who had a 1/4 of the territory destroyed during WW1, 1 million casualties and many more injured... I get this was the thinking of German population of the time. But this kind of thinking keeps being pushed forward even today...

@@JoJo-vm8vk no worries France is a permanent member of UNSC alongside Russia China England USA. Germany will never be a member of that club.

It would be nice to hear more stories from the German perspective. We know there were good, decent soldiers, but they seem to be forgotten and overlooked. I only found 1 book similar to this, would love to learn more!

Total shame of the Allies firebombing cities that had no military importance.

@@mercomania Who started it? "They sowed the wind; let them reap the whirlwind".

@@catherinelw9365 Just like testing Atomic weapons on civilian cities. So pure and clean of war crimes.

@@catherinelw9365 actually Judea started it in 1933 when they waged war on Germany

@@mercomania "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else and nobody was going to bomb them..."

In Russia you could steal , rape and murder without any punishment , because of the Führerbefehl . He told us , that most soldiers wouldn't have done it normally , but they almost did never anything against these crimes , and sometimes they helped or even joined , because of peer pressure . Some commanders forbade their soldiers to rape and kill civilians , but the only thing they could do was to put these soldiers into other units The Full stoey is here： According to user @Heinisauerkraut said: My Grandpa was a military pastor with a rank of a major in the German Wehrmacht . Then | was a young boy ( about 1980 , I was 10 ) he took me and my older brother hiking , because he mapped wild graves of unknown soldiers who were fallen in the last days of the war , mostly from strafing fighter planes . He organized that they were put in proper graves in local graveyards and was later honored for this work . There he told us many stories about the war , especially in the east . Until almost the end of the war he had no own front line experience , but many soldiers came to him to confess their own experience to get some relive from the horrible things they saw or did . It took some years to really understand the things he told us . He told us , that the main difference between the campaign in France was , that you were at risk to get court martialled and shot if you stole only a chicken . In Russia you could steal , rape and murder without any punishment , because of the Führerbefehl . He told us , that most soldiers wouldn't have done it normally , but they almost did never anything against these crimes , and sometimes they helped or even joined , because of peer pressure . Some commanders forbade their soldiers to rape and kill civilians , but the only thing they could do was to put these soldiers into other units . And even the commanders who acted against rapes and murders , allowed or even encouraged to confiscate any food from the civilian population , so that they were condemned to starve to death . The result was almost the same in the end . He told us , which is now in accordance to my own experience , that were are only a few people are really evil , but on the other side there are also only a few people morally good . Most people are opportunists , and they act according to the circumstances , and if the circumstances allowing to do otherwise socially unacceptable acts , they will do it , if they get an advantage from that . So my Grandpa really know about the crimes on the eastern front , and because of that he tried not to get in soviet captivity . 1945 he was on leave at home south of Frankfurt , then he decided to dessert and hide in the woods . A thing he only told his children and later his grandchildren , and did not even write in his own memoirs . That is telling something about the German mindset , even long after the war . It was counted as more shameful to desert your unit , than to obey orders from a criminal regime . The military police told my grandmother , that if he returns he wont be shot , and in the end the pressure on was to high , and he surrendered two weeks before the Americans occupied his viage . He was court martialled ,degraded to the lowest rank and put into a penal battalion . His unit stand against the " Russians " in the area around Berlin . The Russians used loud speakers to demand the surrender , and after that someone in the unit shot the commanding officer , and the whole unit surrendered without a fight . My Grandpa was at this time quite sick from his time in the woods , and then they were inspected by a soviet female doctor , she asked him if he has children . He answered correctly that he has 8 children and showed photos of them . After that he got his release papers , and was allowed to go home . So in a lucky twist of fate , he survived his short time as soviet POW . If he were captured as military pastor in a rank of major , his fate would have been for sure much darker . I am very thankful for that experience with my grandfather . But even for me , it took some time , to remember the stories of my grandpa , then in the late 80's the discussion about the crimes of the Wehrmacht came up . This was the first time realized the full weight of the information in my head . Maybe it was so convenient to blame the SS and other nazi party organisations for all the bad things happened in the war

None have done as the fascists have done. They are literally the worst of humanity, the dregs, the waste, the absolute, most evil filth. There is nothing even remotely comparable to the tens of millions of lives killed by the fascists during WW2.

@@modest_spice6083 Found the jew.

​@@modest_spice6083the tankies: why did you leave me out 😢

Yeah cause look at our country we are such a shining light of exemplary leadership and human kindness and not corrupted at all 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

They were both.. Criminals and Soldiers. You can't put everybody in one pot.. That doesn't work. Although I think most officers were really bad.. But not every soldier. There was a big difference between Nazi, German and Wehrmacht soldier. Your reality = "The common soldiers of the wehrmacht murdered 1.5M jews 3.3M POWs + 5-7M Non-Jewish" " Wehrmacht troops would entertain themselves with the so-called 'jew games' where they would torture or kill jews for fun, one of these games had them rounding up jews, taking them to the forest and releasing them before hunting them down like they were animals " My words = It is absolutely fatal to bring all the soldiers of the Wehrmacht under one roof. My grandfather fought in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front and reported that many Wehrmacht soldiers were disgusted by the SS and their actions against Jews. Let's look at Rommel or Stauffenberg. These were extremely high-ranking people in the Wehrmacht and even they recognized the truth and didn't like the Nazis. Then the general foot soldier will notice this too. But of course I agree with you that there were also soldiers who liked the Nazis and their ideology. But these were mostly officers who gave the orders. On the next point: There are an enormous number of stories and reports of Wehrmacht soldiers who gave chocolate or other food to children or prisoners in the occupied territories. Many American soldiers described the Wehrmacht soldiers as the bravest and nicest soldiers they had ever met. That somehow doesn't fit your description. So my conclusion is that everyone sees what they want in the Wehrmacht, including me. I'm definitely no exception to false facts and propaganda, but neither are you. So I will explain my interpretation: I think that both existed in the Wehrmacht. I think that many many Wehrmacht soldiers didn't like Jews, mainly because of thousands of years of anti-Semitism. You can understand why the common people didn't like Jews. It was just jealousy. Because many Jews have always been very rich merchants. Which of course doesn't justify the actions. But I believe, as with Ford, that if many normal soldiers had seen the mass killing machines and how the SS treated Jews, many normal soldiers would find it disgusting. But of course there were also the other soldiers who probably played games like that. We will never know whether that was the minority or the majority. But you also have to consider the human aspect. Nobody is in the mood for war, especially not the frontline soldiers. Many of the soldiers were probably afraid of not following an order, that's human. Especially when you have seen what the SS does. I also believe that many soldiers only received orders without knowing what the end goal was. The ordinary soldiers didn't know that. They thought it would be over after the French campaign (many of the Wehrmacht soldiers also celebrated the French campaign, understandable because that was the place where they failed) but then they said they were heading east. Especially at the end of the war, many of the Wehrmacht knew Soldiers that it was over.. For most soldiers it was ultimately about protecting the people in the Reich, because they knew if the Russians got through the same thing would happen to the people that many Wehrmacht soldiers did in the East. Once again you have to see the human aspect here. The war makes you cold and sick. About the numbers... I believe, as I said, that the Wehrmacht soldiers followed orders without knowing the end goal. As you said, we don't know if there were punishments for soldiers who didn't follow orders. But if we take into account the human part and the brutal Iron Fist of the Nazis, the answer should be clear to me. That normal soldiers, not higher-ranking people, were punished or killed. In the end it was said, you kill this Jew now or you're gone. It's war.. And no front-line soldier is so keen on killing all these POWs or Jews with pleasure.. That would mean that every single soldier had as much hatred for POWs or Jews as the Nazis, or simply a psychopath was. But that's not true. There were those too, but not all of them. In addition, Hitler was more likely to get psychopaths for the SS

maybe they're not so virtuous then. Honor, Duty, they all mean nothing if they don't serve good

and a million likes too.

The first 5-6 comments makes me think the production team ran over here to praise themselves.

Excellent detail in a 30 min video

And a super-awesome microphone.

The only reason that waging war itself is not a "crime" is because the same people (governments) who start wars also get to decide what is or isn't a crime. One rule for us, another for them.

Best explanation, and the by standers that weren't there love to point the finger, it makes them feel superior.

Except that the Germans and the Japanese committed war crimes as national policy. That's the difference.

Excusing the massive, planned out genocides of Nazi Germany with whataboutism. The state of Nazi Germany planned out their genocide of Jews, and other undesirables, and Eastern Europeans in general, in great detail. They had organized shooting squads whose only purpose was rounding up and efficiently executing populations. By plan and policy, these populations were hearses into ghettos, put on trains, and transported to extermination centers, to be efficiently gassed as cremated to eliminate entire populations. This is what genocide is. To equate this with incidents of individuals or certain units committing crimes, is stupid and dishonest.

They were both.. Criminals and Soldiers. You can't put everybody in one pot.. That doesn't work. Although I think most officers were really bad.. But not every soldier. There was a big difference between Nazi, German and Wehrmacht soldier. = "The common soldiers of the wehrmacht murdered 1.5M jews 3.3M POWs + 5-7M Non-Jewish" " Wehrmacht troops would entertain themselves with the so-called 'jew games' where they would torture or kill jews for fun, one of these games had them rounding up jews, taking them to the forest and releasing them before hunting them down like they were animals " My words = It is absolutely fatal to bring all the soldiers of the Wehrmacht under one roof. My grandfather fought in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front and reported that many Wehrmacht soldiers were disgusted by the SS and their actions against Jews. Let's look at Rommel or Stauffenberg. These were extremely high-ranking people in the Wehrmacht and even they recognized the truth and didn't like the Nazis. Then the general foot soldier will notice this too. But of course I agree with you that there were also soldiers who liked the Nazis and their ideology. But these were mostly officers who gave the orders. On the next point: There are an enormous number of stories and reports of Wehrmacht soldiers who gave chocolate or other food to children or prisoners in the occupied territories. Many American soldiers described the Wehrmacht soldiers as the bravest and nicest soldiers they had ever met. That somehow doesn't fit your description. So my conclusion is that everyone sees what they want in the Wehrmacht, including me. I'm definitely no exception to false facts and propaganda, but neither are you. So I will explain my interpretation: I think that both existed in the Wehrmacht. I think that many many Wehrmacht soldiers didn't like Jews, mainly because of thousands of years of anti-Semitism. You can understand why the common people didn't like Jews. It was just jealousy. Because many Jews have always been very rich merchants. Which of course doesn't justify the actions. But I believe, as with Ford, that if many normal soldiers had seen the mass killing machines and how the SS treated Jews, many normal soldiers would find it disgusting. But of course there were also the other soldiers who probably played games like that. We will never know whether that was the minority or the majority. But you also have to consider the human aspect. Nobody is in the mood for war, especially not the frontline soldiers. Many of the soldiers were probably afraid of not following an order, that's human. Especially when you have seen what the SS does. I also believe that many soldiers only received orders without knowing what the end goal was. The ordinary soldiers didn't know that. They thought it would be over after the French campaign (many of the Wehrmacht soldiers also celebrated the French campaign, understandable because that was the place where they failed) but then they said they were heading east. Especially at the end of the war, many of the Wehrmacht knew Soldiers that it was over.. For most soldiers it was ultimately about protecting the people in the Reich, because they knew if the Russians got through the same thing would happen to the people that many Wehrmacht soldiers did in the East. Once again you have to see the human aspect here. The war makes you cold and sick. About the numbers... I believe, as I said, that the Wehrmacht soldiers followed orders without knowing the end goal. As you said, we don't know if there were punishments for soldiers who didn't follow orders. But if we take into account the human part and the brutal Iron Fist of the Nazis, the answer should be clear to me. That normal soldiers, not higher-ranking people, were punished or killed. In the end it was said, you kill this Jew now or you're gone. It's war.. And no front-line soldier is so keen on killing all these POWs or Jews with pleasure.. That would mean that every single soldier had as much hatred for POWs or Jews as the Nazis, or simply a psychopath was. But that's not true. There were those too, but not all of them. In addition, Hitler was more likely to get psychopaths for the SS

And Stalin? 20 million dead, 6,000 Polish military massacred in Katyn, Red army raping anyone they could... should we ignore or forget that the Russians were a damn sight worse than than the Nazis

@@MaryMantous these bolschevist apologists aint never gonna acknowledge the brutality of the marxist regime But we've finally realized who were the TRUE enemy

@@MaryMantous nice whataboutism, we're not discussing Soviet war crimes

the same way the British empire is "Clean" for Indians and Africans 😅

@@MaryMantous Yes, the soviet union committed many atrocities. Now can we continue discussing the nazis without you derailing the conversation?

Unfortunately, I don't think the algorithm likes me very much, the more controversial topics and symbols I throw into my videos! It has a rather complicated love-hate relationship with me.

Whataboutism

@@maxgrozema1093 No, perspective on historical reality to learn from it. Politicians put soldiers into inhuman conditions and then prosecute them for acting inhumane. Germany forced the soldiers to live off the land, so civilians were cast out of their homes and their food confiscated. Einsatzgruppen were special units sent to execute partisans and others. The Wehrmacht soldiers were ordered to kill civilians and it is known Wehrmacht leadership objected strongly to this. Therefore the notsee leadership created the Einsatzgruppen. You can see interviews of US soldiers who openly speak of prisoners being executed as well. Check out the Biscarri massacre as an example.

@@fazole Generalplan Ost was drawn up by the german military leadership in part because they decided they simply couldn't supply their army fast enough for the blitz. It was a war crime part of their strategy to win, with the added goal of the natsocs to depopulate the east. Germany didn't force shit, they planned for this. The original comment trivialized how war crimes (which at the time were also already classified as war crimes) were an inherent part of the goals of the german regime and part of their overall strategy. It is not about the individual soldiers, it's about that Wehrmacht as an organization willingly planned and participated in war crimes, and that war crimes were part of their strategy. Oh, and einsatzgruppen and similar units were already a thing since the invasion of Poland, the army leadership complained that their soldiers had to assist them, and that it costed to much ammunition and manpower, not because they had pity for the victims.

Very well put. The victors WRITE the history, especially if they CONTROL the press. We NEVER hear ANYTHING regarding the 10's of Millions of civilians starved, worked to death in Gulags and outright MURDERED by that Bolshevik regime. Did Hitler's campaign kill, work and starve people to death in the German camps, of course. THAT is only half the story. The is WHY I say a solemn prayer for those killed, especially those mostly slaughtered, Caucasian and Christian. After the Bolsheviks reached the Polish border in 1944 (and in '39-'40), A blind eye at the very least was turned to their behavior. After they reached Germany, the rapes and murders sky-rocketed. You will read that the soldiers had a 'Right" to seek "Retribution". How can you claim morality when YOU (NKVD) participate in the same barbarism as your enemy? There wasn't much control, in some instances, condoned at the highest levels. READ what Alexandr Solzhenitsyn has to say about this and draw your OWN conclusions. Don't trust the media, they only want you to have sympathies for what they write about, not the whole story!

@@annapolismike you don't cite sources and the victors write history is not a fact or can be used to present 'facts', it's just a quote by Winston Churchill (among alleged others) used for propaganda. Alexander Solzhenitsyn is not a historian, but a valuable eyewitness report about life in a gulag. The right to seek retribution came from soviet propaganda and the leadership of the soviet union was shocked when they heard about the rapes and murders, this is why the NKVD was send in (there are multiple accounts about NKVD mission statements used in multiple books, like Berlin by Anthony Beevor and The End by Ian Kershaw). Also through its whole runtime, No 10's of millions died in the gulag system, through it's whole runtime I believe it was at most about 4 million, look up the black book of communism debunked, you see that a lot of soviet brutality myths stems from that book. Were the soviets brutal authoritarians? Yes. Were they the moral equivalent of the germans during ww2? No, not by a long shot.

Idk why people still call the soviets as liberators.

@@Brslld And research western allies war crimes. They committed the same even after WW2. Look up William Toel and what he revealed the last years. The allies planned in Bletchley a genocide on germans and committed it after war. And because it was so good they put it on all other western countries to destroy all culture and living. You don't believe I know. Look it up! Research. Patton for example was a war criminal. Wake up and see that they let us fight each other for centuries. We must unite and face them together.

Thanks again for helping out! Much appreciated!

@@Hipstorian You're welcome!

That is very interesting. Your whole family seemed to sum up the attitudes of the war in microcosm.

In Russia you could steal , rape and murder without any punishment , because of the Führerbefehl . He told us , that most soldiers wouldn't have done it normally , but they almost did never anything against these crimes , and sometimes they helped or even joined , because of peer pressure . Some commanders forbade their soldiers to rape and kill civilians , but the only thing they could do was to put these soldiers into other units The Full stoey is here： According to user @Heinisauerkraut said: My Grandpa was a military pastor with a rank of a major in the German Wehrmacht . Then | was a young boy ( about 1980 , I was 10 ) he took me and my older brother hiking , because he mapped wild graves of unknown soldiers who were fallen in the last days of the war , mostly from strafing fighter planes . He organized that they were put in proper graves in local graveyards and was later honored for this work . There he told us many stories about the war , especially in the east . Until almost the end of the war he had no own front line experience , but many soldiers came to him to confess their own experience to get some relive from the horrible things they saw or did . It took some years to really understand the things he told us . He told us , that the main difference between the campaign in France was , that you were at risk to get court martialled and shot if you stole only a chicken . In Russia you could steal , rape and murder without any punishment , because of the Führerbefehl . He told us , that most soldiers wouldn't have done it normally , but they almost did never anything against these crimes , and sometimes they helped or even joined , because of peer pressure . Some commanders forbade their soldiers to rape and kill civilians , but the only thing they could do was to put these soldiers into other units . And even the commanders who acted against rapes and murders , allowed or even encouraged to confiscate any food from the civilian population , so that they were condemned to starve to death . The result was almost the same in the end . He told us , which is now in accordance to my own experience , that were are only a few people are really evil , but on the other side there are also only a few people morally good . Most people are opportunists , and they act according to the circumstances , and if the circumstances allowing to do otherwise socially unacceptable acts , they will do it , if they get an advantage from that . So my Grandpa really know about the crimes on the eastern front , and because of that he tried not to get in soviet captivity . 1945 he was on leave at home south of Frankfurt , then he decided to dessert and hide in the woods . A thing he only told his children and later his grandchildren , and did not even write in his own memoirs . That is telling something about the German mindset , even long after the war . It was counted as more shameful to desert your unit , than to obey orders from a criminal regime . The military police told my grandmother , that if he returns he wont be shot , and in the end the pressure on was to high , and he surrendered two weeks before the Americans occupied his viage . He was court martialled ,degraded to the lowest rank and put into a penal battalion . His unit stand against the " Russians " in the area around Berlin . The Russians used loud speakers to demand the surrender , and after that someone in the unit shot the commanding officer , and the whole unit surrendered without a fight . My Grandpa was at this time quite sick from his time in the woods , and then they were inspected by a soviet female doctor , she asked him if he has children . He answered correctly that he has 8 children and showed photos of them . After that he got his release papers , and was allowed to go home . So in a lucky twist of fate , he survived his short time as soviet POW . If he were captured as military pastor in a rank of major , his fate would have been for sure much darker . I am very thankful for that experience with my grandfather . But even for me , it took some time , to remember the stories of my grandpa , then in the late 80's the discussion about the crimes of the Wehrmacht came up . This was the first time realized the full weight of the information in my head . Maybe it was so convenient to blame the SS and other nazi party organisations for all the bad things happened in the war

@@didih3339 This is truly an amazing and captivating story. I'm certain it is all truth and fact. It chills me when as I read this. Thank you very kindly for taking the time to share it. If only the history books had been compiled from first-hand truth like this, from people who suffered through it, we would perhaps be much wiser for it today. Greetings from Alaska.

@@Shipfixer Yes，But It’s shocked me that the Germans still refuse to admit it. Just like this chaplain, He didn’t write it in their memoirs. His grandson also deleted this story recently. Fortunately, I saved a screenshot before.

Doing what they were ordered, yeah sure. That's no excuse for committing war crimes. I'm reminded of a story I read about a German soldier who bayonetted a little Jewish girl to death because he was just "following orders". Though I don't believe in Hell I really wish it were real sometimes. The German Army was very much involved in exterminating Jews and other people they saw as "inferior" to them. The average German soldier probably didn't think much of it because he'd been brainwashed by Nazism. Also the average European back then very much hated Jews.

I would definitely not want to know anyone who fought for the Nazis during WW2 because the chances they'd participated in a war crime would be much much higher than someone who fought for the allies.

Partisans in the movies are the good guys but soviet partisans in Finland and the baltic states just managed to rape rob and murder the locals

from a law point of viiew the romanians were right since partisans had no rights to be taken prisoner or rights in general when caught it could be argued the village elders were partisans themselves or atleast were aiding the partisans by hiding the son sad story

@Thunder Cloud That movie is nothing but disgusting Nazi propaganda. It is one long series of lies.

Can u even fly the current German flag? My German friend said her father took a lot of contempt for daring to fly the BRD flag on his farm in the 90s. I did see Merkel throw it aside in some kind of ceremony.

@@fazole The BRD (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) used the "Black Red Gold" flag, and that flag is still the German flag. Someone has been telling you fibs. You could have checked it very easily, but you couldn't be bothered.

@@leezaslofsky4438 nope its true acually back in the day you were already susbiciouce when flying the german flag in your garden or so in german culture it only realy suddently seems okay to do that if its football worldcup at the moment otherwise its allways seen as a little weird

@@tavish4699 Yeah. Uh huh. Sure. No doubt about it. Yes sir. Right you are. "Back in the day" things were all screwed up, that's for sure. I don't need evidence because I trust you.

I got an impression that he is German himself (hence the pronounciation), but I may have misunderstood.

@@pultsari9036 i think he is from limburg

Lovely accent you have...New Jersey?

They were both.. Criminals and Soldiers. You can't put everybody in one pot.. That doesn't work. Although I think most officers were really bad.. But not every soldier. There was a big difference between Nazi, German and Wehrmacht soldier. Your reality = "The common soldiers of the wehrmacht murdered 1.5M jews 3.3M POWs + 5-7M Non-Jewish" " Wehrmacht troops would entertain themselves with the so-called 'jew games' where they would torture or kill jews for fun, one of these games had them rounding up jews, taking them to the forest and releasing them before hunting them down like they were animals " My words = It is absolutely fatal to bring all the soldiers of the Wehrmacht under one roof. My grandfather fought in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front and reported that many Wehrmacht soldiers were disgusted by the SS and their actions against Jews. Let's look at Rommel or Stauffenberg. These were extremely high-ranking people in the Wehrmacht and even they recognized the truth and didn't like the Nazis. Then the general foot soldier will notice this too. But of course I agree with you that there were also soldiers who liked the Nazis and their ideology. But these were mostly officers who gave the orders. On the next point: There are an enormous number of stories and reports of Wehrmacht soldiers who gave chocolate or other food to children or prisoners in the occupied territories. Many American soldiers described the Wehrmacht soldiers as the bravest and nicest soldiers they had ever met. That somehow doesn't fit your description. So my conclusion is that everyone sees what they want in the Wehrmacht, including me. I'm definitely no exception to false facts and propaganda, but neither are you. So I will explain my interpretation: I think that both existed in the Wehrmacht. I think that many many Wehrmacht soldiers didn't like Jews, mainly because of thousands of years of anti-Semitism. You can understand why the common people didn't like Jews. It was just jealousy. Because many Jews have always been very rich merchants. Which of course doesn't justify the actions. But I believe, as with Ford, that if many normal soldiers had seen the mass killing machines and how the SS treated Jews, many normal soldiers would find it disgusting. But of course there were also the other soldiers who probably played games like that. We will never know whether that was the minority or the majority. But you also have to consider the human aspect. Nobody is in the mood for war, especially not the frontline soldiers. Many of the soldiers were probably afraid of not following an order, that's human. Especially when you have seen what the SS does. I also believe that many soldiers only received orders without knowing what the end goal was. The ordinary soldiers didn't know that. They thought it would be over after the French campaign (many of the Wehrmacht soldiers also celebrated the French campaign, understandable because that was the place where they failed) but then they said they were heading east. Especially at the end of the war, many of the Wehrmacht knew Soldiers that it was over.. For most soldiers it was ultimately about protecting the people in the Reich, because they knew if the Russians got through the same thing would happen to the people that many Wehrmacht soldiers did in the East. Once again you have to see the human aspect here. The war makes you cold and sick. About the numbers... I believe, as I said, that the Wehrmacht soldiers followed orders without knowing the end goal. As you said, we don't know if there were punishments for soldiers who didn't follow orders. But if we take into account the human part and the brutal Iron Fist of the Nazis, the answer should be clear to me. That normal soldiers, not higher-ranking people, were punished or killed. In the end it was said, you kill this Jew now or you're gone. It's war.. And no front-line soldier is so keen on killing all these POWs or Jews with pleasure.. That would mean that every single soldier had as much hatred for POWs or Jews as the Nazis, or simply a psychopath was. But that's not true. There were those too, but not all of them. In addition, Hitler was more likely to get psychopaths for the SS

And Stalin? 20 million dead, 6,000 Polish military massacred in Katyn, Red army raping anyone they could... should we ignore or forget that the Russians were a damn sight worse than than the Nazis

They were both.. Criminals and Soldiers. You can't put everybody in one pot.. That doesn't work. Although I think most officers were really bad.. But not every soldier. There was a big difference between Nazi, German and Wehrmacht soldier. Your reality = "The common soldiers of the wehrmacht murdered 1.5M jews 3.3M POWs + 5-7M Non-Jewish" " Wehrmacht troops would entertain themselves with the so-called 'jew games' where they would torture or kill jews for fun, one of these games had them rounding up jews, taking them to the forest and releasing them before hunting them down like they were animals " My words = It is absolutely fatal to bring all the soldiers of the Wehrmacht under one roof. My grandfather fought in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front and reported that many Wehrmacht soldiers were disgusted by the SS and their actions against Jews. Let's look at Rommel or Stauffenberg. These were extremely high-ranking people in the Wehrmacht and even they recognized the truth and didn't like the Nazis. Then the general foot soldier will notice this too. But of course I agree with you that there were also soldiers who liked the Nazis and their ideology. But these were mostly officers who gave the orders. On the next point: There are an enormous number of stories and reports of Wehrmacht soldiers who gave chocolate or other food to children or prisoners in the occupied territories. Many American soldiers described the Wehrmacht soldiers as the bravest and nicest soldiers they had ever met. That somehow doesn't fit your description. So my conclusion is that everyone sees what they want in the Wehrmacht, including me. I'm definitely no exception to false facts and propaganda, but neither are you. So I will explain my interpretation: I think that both existed in the Wehrmacht. I think that many many Wehrmacht soldiers didn't like Jews, mainly because of thousands of years of anti-Semitism. You can understand why the common people didn't like Jews. It was just jealousy. Because many Jews have always been very rich merchants. Which of course doesn't justify the actions. But I believe, as with Ford, that if many normal soldiers had seen the mass killing machines and how the SS treated Jews, many normal soldiers would find it disgusting. But of course there were also the other soldiers who probably played games like that. We will never know whether that was the minority or the majority. But you also have to consider the human aspect. Nobody is in the mood for war, especially not the frontline soldiers. Many of the soldiers were probably afraid of not following an order, that's human. Especially when you have seen what the SS does. I also believe that many soldiers only received orders without knowing what the end goal was. The ordinary soldiers didn't know that. They thought it would be over after the French campaign (many of the Wehrmacht soldiers also celebrated the French campaign, understandable because that was the place where they failed) but then they said they were heading east. Especially at the end of the war, many of the Wehrmacht knew Soldiers that it was over.. For most soldiers it was ultimately about protecting the people in the Reich, because they knew if the Russians got through the same thing would happen to the people that many Wehrmacht soldiers did in the East. Once again you have to see the human aspect here. The war makes you cold and sick. About the numbers... I believe, as I said, that the Wehrmacht soldiers followed orders without knowing the end goal. As you said, we don't know if there were punishments for soldiers who didn't follow orders. But if we take into account the human part and the brutal Iron Fist of the Nazis, the answer should be clear to me. That normal soldiers, not higher-ranking people, were punished or killed. In the end it was said, you kill this Jew now or you're gone. It's war.. And no front-line soldier is so keen on killing all these POWs or Jews with pleasure.. That would mean that every single soldier had as much hatred for POWs or Jews as the Nazis, or simply a psychopath was. But that's not true. There were those too, but not all of them. In addition, Hitler was more likely to get psychopaths for the SS

I agree

Very true and our own government is guilty of crimes against humanity and atrocities during ww2 and every war since including Iraq and Afghanistan most of the suicides by American soldiers are because of the guilt and atrocities that they were involved in not just because of post traumatic stress of their friends being killed it was because of the mental problems that they are having from their own crimes and atrocities against the people in the country they invaded. Sad but true

@@jamescreek1319 Vietnam.

It took years/decades of German society teaching that other groups were subhumans or Germans superhumans to allow the average German to either want to participate or turn a blind eye to what happened during WW2. Brainwashing children who would become soldiers and pervasive Völkisch propaganda. The Japanese had a similar route. While war crimes can be attributed to other armies throughout history, they are often isolated, whereas for German and Japan, they were typically part of the main agenda during the war.

@@cecil123 True

Ww11 when was ww3?😂

Bruu

Respect to you

Do you also bless their victims for sure!?

And Stalin? 20 million dead, 6,000 Polish military massacred in Katyn, Red army raping anyone they could... should we ignore or forget that the Russians were a damn sight worse than than the Nazis

@@MaryMantous I guess historians must think its not worth talking about if you murder your own people

Well, considering the British colonial history and the for example the man-made famine in UK controlled India during ww2, I'm not sure that they were very different.

@@azzazel225 They're the same. Not to underplay what Germans did, they were as-holes beyond anything ever occurred, but I can see why British, the Right wingers have "respect" for Nazi German army. They think it's some kind of game.

Looking at the content of this video, I can see you're not very sharp.

@@agarlicsorbet6482 looking at the content of you comment, i can see you don't have any arguments to criticize it, and have decided to simply vent your frustration.

@@agarlicsorbet6482 the British were doing similar stuff all over the globe for centuries. They were the ones who invented concentration camps.

Because we were their allies lol.

@@Daniel-nb2sb Well, Romanians were useful collaborators of the N@zis.

yes and then the romanians turned over night jumped into the german postions and cut the throughts of their comrades who they had shared a beer with and laughed the night earlier

Haha! You don't sound bad at all! Did you hear me in most of my videos? I sound pretty constipated myself!

Very well said! Herd mentality certainly seems to have played a large part in this - and often has throughout history in either joining the bandwagon or looking the other way.

Free discussion of ideas? Does that include Nazi ideas? Secondly, wouldn't this suggestion only work if it applied to armies? The Armed Forces and contractors commit war crimes up to this day, and most people don't speak up today. Would you say we need a more democratic armed forces in order for the ability to speak up to work? Because people in the armed forces didn't just choose not to speak up, they were suppressed, by their commander. Even if they spoke up to their officers, it was worthless, those were the orders. You could probably convince your squad and rebel, but can you really get enough to match the army, atleast in the local area? Probably not. I think much more important is to resist racism and racist parties when they present themselves. Once in power Hitler would be difficult to dislodge, and so the main aim should be to focus on making sure nobody like Hitler rises again, ie essentialist racial ideologies and obedience to the state. This would probably require conservative parties to boycott any alliance with extremist groups, especially if they are similar in these ways. Another interesting thing was how the German Nazi party's agenda was not resisted by the high up generals. These were the people with the actual power to resist Hiter's objectives, but they didn't because many of them were "politically conservative, ambitious, obedient, ultra-nationalist, anti-semitic and racist with a long-standing tradition of anti-semitism and anti-communism and authoritarian leanings" (24:03) This suggests to me that these are ideas that need educating against on a wider scale as well as requiring some people who are willing to stand up against these things amongst the department of defense.

yet the small hats who run google, etc. don't allow anything to contradict their narrative.... wonder why?

@@lrw3984 Ah great, what we needed on this video comment thread about the horrors of the ww2, someone spreading anti-semitic conspiracy theories about "small hatted" (kippa) wearing people "controlling google, etc" for a "narrative." Would've worked better in the past - who the fuck wears hats nowadays? Try harder next time, nazi.

@@JukeboxTheGhoul The Furrier paid off his generals to go along--basic bribery! So much for the honourable Prussian nobleman officer!

About the US in Vietnam

@@ededketra1 Pierre??!... The French were there 1st... I understand that the u.s.government is wicked... all governments are wicked... and wickedness supports wickedness! It's we the people who suffers... #Animal Farm!

you shouldve asked him where all the jews in Estonia went

The Russians were not even aware of what the NKVD was doing, everyone in the USSR knew it existed, but not what they were up to. Which is why Khrushchevs secret speech was such a dividing moment within the USSR and the communist world as well.

BS, Estonians would execute prisoners of war.

Good example of this is found from Finnish - Russian war where Finnish MG troops had mental distortion because they had to keep shooting assaulting Russians who came in huge numbers, the amount of dead enemies were so great that these MG troops literally became mad from killing them. The true horror of war is that you have to dehumanize the enemy, you don't see them as humans so you are able to kill them. On top of this Finnish people really didn't have any love or sympathy towards Russia because of the history before the war (Russians committed several genocides in Finland in time span of 200 years), and yet the Finnish soldiers couldn't mentally cope the sheer numbers they had to kill Russians. Also in my opinion it is pointless to talk about German, Russian, US, UK or any war crimes of WWII. All countries has blooded hands and none of them are innocent what comes to war crimes. Killing and destroying the enemy is the essence of the war, it is horrible business and doesn't have anything to do with human rights nor laws. It is simply kill or be killed and only through complete destruction of the enemy you find victory. What comes to POW's, the war time priority goes like this: 1. army, 2. civilians, 3. prisoners, 4. POW's This means food, hygiene etc. conditions.

No allied army, besides maybe the red army came close to what the Germans did

@@ATFshootsdogs The Germans? You gotta specify a bit which part of the germans the Wermacht or SS?

@@donaldhysa4836 both

@@ATFshootsdogs You cant put the peole guilty for the Holocaust and the people guilty gor Soviet Style reprisals on civilians in the same bucket

@@donaldhysa4836 no but they both committed war crimes, the Wehrmacht killed, tortured and raped their way through the Soviet union, France and many other countries as did the SS