Hitler Never Gave the Order - So Who Did?

Hitler Never Gave the Order - So Who Did? - WW2 Special

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3 жыл бұрын

The structure of decision-making in the Nazi Party and the German government is clouded in ambiguity and implicit power-structures. We explore how this leads to a. rat-race, resulting in an endless spiral of irrational decisions and violence.
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@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

This episode explores the source of nazi policy of which we see the effects in our World War Two and War Against Humanity episodes. The more theoretical and analytical nature of episodes like this may cause more debate than usual. We encourage any civil and well-sourced discussion in the comments. We will not, however, tolerate any comments that are in violation of our rules of conduct. They are posted on our forum and I urge anyone to read hem before heading to the comments: community.timeghost.tv/t/rules-of-conduct/4518

@robertjarman3703 3 жыл бұрын

Saying Hitler didn't give the order is like saying the King never ordered the assassination of Thomas Beckett. Sure Henry never signed a paper directing a specific subordinate to do something on this date, but he gave plenty of clues and made remarks at the cabinet meetings.

@JoramAppel 3 жыл бұрын

@@robertjarman3703 Did you even watch the episode?

@jboss119 3 жыл бұрын

So it was basically do what you think hitler wants and get his approval later when the job is done.... it seems so very ineffective and on one hand doesn't seem to fit with his skill and ability to organize.

@QuizmasterLaw 3 жыл бұрын

stupid wrong title.

@YiannissB. 3 жыл бұрын

This really reminds of David Irving and his denial that Hitler ordered or even knew at all of the Holocaust.

@firingallcylinders2949 3 жыл бұрын

I like that this channel addresses many of the myths and assumptions surrounding the war, especially Germany during that era.

@robert48044 3 жыл бұрын

it's interesting that people don't wish to see the Nazi's as socialist. Then again we live in a time people think socialism and communism are the same thing.

@jtgd 3 жыл бұрын

@@robert48044 they weren’t socialists though. Socialism doesn’t have a main tenet of depriving other ethnic groups of their existence to promote the betterment of one main ethnic group. They supported collectivism, but not marxism, socialism or communism, which they’ve explicitly condemned for going against their far right social views, which isn’t related to socialism. Hitler and his Nazis focused on providing the advancement of the German people specifically, which is why Nazi Germany practiced collectivism. They did not however seek to eliminate the bourgeoisie, but to eliminate non-german people, culture and influence from German society.

@Healermain15 3 жыл бұрын

@@robert48044 Because they're not. It should be no suprise that the violent, dictatorial conspiracy theorists were happy to lie and present themselves as something they're not. See also all their other propaganda.

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

@Joey Dyker kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j65xgZCDtbC4mXk.html

@robert48044 3 жыл бұрын

@@jtgd Hitler said he was a socialist. Just because the Nazi form was awful doesn't mean their leader didn't see himself as a socialist. You can have social programs for some and hate on another group. He said they weren't capitalist and they weren't communist they were a third type. Just because we want to view socialism as some great thing doesn't mean another group doesn't see their form as a better version even if the rest see's it differently. What's the difference between a Monarch and a Dictator nothing much except it depends how you wish to view the leader (enemy/friend). kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m6mbrLpztce4c2w.html

@SigEpBlue 3 жыл бұрын

Dear KZfaq: Quit trying to hold my hand, or shield my eyes. I'm a grown-ass man, I'm subscribed to this channel, and I deliberately clicked on the video. Whoever "flagged" this video is in the wrong.

@joaohumbertogomes8051 3 жыл бұрын

The problem here isn't so much the flagging. It can be pertinent to give a heads-up (even though, in this case, it's quite obvious what you're getting into). What is extremely frustrating is that you can't turn that off. Even if you're a grown-ass man who is prepared to see content like this, you still have to go through that bureaucracy.

@donfeeney6153 3 жыл бұрын

I think in actuality that those that might have flagged this video may have been those who would take exception to the dim depiction of the rabid thought process of Nazism described within.

@randylucas2458 3 жыл бұрын

Anything against socialism is bad in the eyes of the socialists...

@atheistyoda8915 3 жыл бұрын

@@randylucas2458 National Socialism isn't socialism tho (Not saying I support socialism, it's a shit ideology anyways).

@steveguild871 3 жыл бұрын

@Jay Koval KZfaq is run by a bunch of F'N Nazis, you moron. Get it?

@jimbo9305 3 жыл бұрын

So it was similar to the mafia. The mafia boss doesn't send a signed letter saying, "Kill so and so." He politely asks the underboss, "Could you take care of this problem?" And like the mafia it makes prosecution of their crimes much more difficult. It's a lot harder to point to direct evidence. A picture of context and unspoken rules and subtle meanings has to be created for the true culpability to be appreciated.

@robertjarman3703 3 жыл бұрын

Our best prosecution tactics for instances like this remind us of command responsibility. A leader is responsible for the actions of their subordinates. Either that, or the leader is neglecting their responsibilities. Or, the subordinates are committing illegal insubordination. And normally we assume the former in a prosecution case if we can establish some kind of command structure exists at all. Rules like the felony murder rule, and our ability to get those at the lower levels to testify in return for immunity or reduced sentences with witness protection are, when done well, brilliantly capable of bringing down a whole syndicate.

@jimbo9305 3 жыл бұрын

@@robertjarman3703 Too bad the prosecution of war crimes after WW2 was politically motivated instead of being motivated by justice. Were those principles even around 75 years ago?

@robertjarman3703 3 жыл бұрын

@@jimbo9305 There were those who had ideas for how to deal with victors justice like the Red Cross. But political expediency came before humanitarianism.

@molieros 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Explicit references to the Fuhrerprincipe and its mirroring of mafia-like operations were also made during the neo-nazi Golden Dawn trials in Greece.

@RainingPiggies 2 жыл бұрын

@@jimbo9305 Many of those principles have been around for hundreds of years.

@nipulkradmsinatagras8293 3 жыл бұрын

These *special episodes* like this one are the ones that I'm really looking forward to because of its in-depth analysis and everything in between. Gotta love *Spartacus* for sharing these with us.

@ronnietarnacke5153 3 жыл бұрын

He is a great orator, he makes you feel it .

@spartacus-olsson 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@ronnietarnacke5153 3 жыл бұрын

@@spartacus-olsson thank you

@johnkochen7264 3 жыл бұрын

Finally a historian who can pronounce German words and names correctly.

@argr 3 жыл бұрын

He still has to study the pronounciation of Fuhrer!

@oscarsusan3834 3 жыл бұрын

This stuff isn’t as sexy as tanks planes and big battles. It’s like logistics -without it nothing happens. It’s 2021 now and if you think this isn’t relevant today,don’t say that to my mother and father now in the twilight of their lives who still sweat bullets in their dreams.

@metal4lifewp 3 жыл бұрын

Some day there will be people debating if it really happened at all. Or they just don't know because it isn't in their interest.

@maxhouse2409 2 жыл бұрын

@@metal4lifewp Just as there was a Pharaoh that did not know Joseph, there will be Holocaust deniers. Perhaps they will have too much nuclear enrichment on their minds.

@cainsy8124 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, one of the things that struck me when I sat down to study this period was the internal conflict and disorganisation of the Nazi Party and movement in general. It's a far cry from the image and legend created around the Nazis especially from the propaganda. As for Hitler himself I got the impression that he couldn't be arsed with hard work of running a party or a state. And he was much happier indulging himself in his nightmarish fantasies of conquest.

@dogcarman 3 жыл бұрын

And architecture. He even, with Speer at his side, considered construction methods for their “ruin value” - how the buildings would look thousands of years after construction. But serious work like figuring out a sustainable economy? Nah. Let the peons worry about that.

@mckenzie.latham91 3 жыл бұрын

And yet him and his government were only able to be stopped after a world wide effort by hundreds of nations and the two front war with Russia as well as cutting of the supply lines and bombing of the nazis industrial power as well as their airbases which prevented/hindered their use of their sonic jet fighter I think the scary thing should be even with how disorganized, corrupt, incompetent and infighting the nazis party and hierarchy was, defeating them was a massive stretch that required massive effort, sacrifice and still could have gone the other way if anything went wrong.

@mamavswild 3 жыл бұрын

This ‘H’ guy sounds exactly like trump...’anti beurocratic’ (drain the swamp) yet hugely autocratic...he uses both personas to whip his followers into a frenzy...hey! Like a National Socialist!

@TheGixernutter 3 жыл бұрын

@@mamavswild gwendy .. really?

@TheGixernutter 3 жыл бұрын

@@mckenzie.latham91 Can you see any comparisons with the USA or China?

@LuGer212 3 жыл бұрын

gosh, Sparty was born for this. the segments are getting better and better everytime!

@spartacus-olsson 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@dogcarman 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Gripping, informative, not a second wasted. Love it.

@Professor_sckinnctn 3 жыл бұрын

These special episodes are what makes World War Two better than the series on World War One (which I loved, btw): the moral certainty of Spartacus is absolutely justified, putting lie to any claims of the Nazis as a beneficial force for Germany let alone the rest of Europe and the world. Thanks, everyone… this is some of the best stuff on the internet and it's most appreciated.

@spartacus-olsson 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@hoopsmcgee8272 3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't have said it better. Well done Sparty! And of course the entire crew of Timeghost

@jokerman9623 Жыл бұрын

@@davidw.2791I know this is really late but look up the great war Indy neidell

@Valdagast 3 жыл бұрын

I've read _Mein Kampf,_ and - ideology aside - it is not a well-written book. It's a rambling, meandering, stream-of-consciousness text with little to indicate that it was carefully planned and composed. It appears that Hitler just sat down and talked about whatever he wanted to talk about that day and then left the editor to form this into a semi-coherent screed.

@luxembourgishempire2826 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder where you can read it? 🤔

@zendon3 3 жыл бұрын

@@luxembourgishempire2826 you can obtain "study versions" of it fairly easily online, which include a foreword by academics

@Valdagast 3 жыл бұрын

@@luxembourgishempire2826 It was published in Swedish in the 1980s because it was considered an important historical document.

@timothyhouse1622 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Atlas Shrugged.

@tomservo5007 3 жыл бұрын

@@luxembourgishempire2826 archive . org

@zendon3 3 жыл бұрын

In this light, I really hope Spartacus does an in depth look into the Wannsee Conference shortly!

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Tomorrow is the 20th of January. On Thursday January 28, War Against Humanity 027, which would normally cover the second half of January comes out. The first January episode (WaH 026) unusually for a half month episode covered events for all of January... you do the math. ;-)

@zendon3 3 жыл бұрын

@@WorldWarTwo keep up the great (and important) work guys!

@hiltibrant1976 3 жыл бұрын

I am hugely appreciative of Spartacus' efforts in both this and the WaH series. I strongly feel that exposing the significant flaws, contradictions and outright inhuman aspects of Nazism as a system of government do so much more in duscouraging people from idolizing it than simply demonizing and dismissing it have ever done. War against Humanity, likewise, makes the evil of things like Genocide, racist policies and the Holocaust more fathomable than they have been before, at least to me.

@spartacus-olsson 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you - it's comments like yours that keep us going.

@SamaritanPrime 3 жыл бұрын

It's not enough to say "Nazis BAD". The obvious question that follows it is "HOW exactly were they bad?" Videos like this one answer that pretty well.

@juliuswalsetveit329 3 жыл бұрын

My friend Henning died in a tragic cabin fire on Saturday. This was is no 1 history channel

@robert48044 3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for your loss. May I ask if he died in his sleep or was trapped by the flames? I worry about a house fire and how I would respond.

@JoramAppel 3 жыл бұрын

I'm so very sorry to hear that. I wish you and his loved ones all the best in the time to come.

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

From all of us here at the channel, our deepest condolences. Spartacus

@SirGaryofOak 3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for your loss

@matthewrobinett1012 3 жыл бұрын

My condolences my friend and your friend will be in my prayers tonight

@lausenteternidad 3 жыл бұрын

I spent more than a year making my moustache pointy and when I look at Spartacus' glorious moustache, I can see that he is a man of character, determination, perseverance and strenght of will. Your moustache points are the pins that holds the memory of humanity's history in our minds.

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Poetic!

@lausenteternidad 3 жыл бұрын

@Scott Levy ?

@suffolk6311 3 жыл бұрын

Try corn starch. Good for making pointy cooch staches and keeps the ball bag dry from sweating.

@KOMEKON67 3 жыл бұрын

I have noticed Spartacus' right thumb trembling. I wish him all the best and good health. His analyses are excellent. Thank you.

@spartacus-olsson 3 жыл бұрын

I have a benign but rather irritating congenital condition that causes my hands to tremble, but thank you for the concern and the kind words.

@kuroazrem5376 3 жыл бұрын

Finally someone explains this mess in an understandable way!!! Thanks for the great job!!!

@spartacus-olsson 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@ernestbatiy1070 3 жыл бұрын

It is so important to understand this. The hybrid of extreme organization and chaotic banditry seems incongruous but it worked as a terrifyingly unpredictable government

@mbryson2899 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this series. It's hard to watch, but it must have been much harder to film. Never forget.

@doubledouble4g379 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, last time I was this early, Luigi Cadorna was only on the 4th battle of the Isonzo River ;)

@kaltaron1284 3 жыл бұрын

Let's hope he keeps going. I'm not out of popcorn yet.

@TheCimbrianBull 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's really early!

@polyhistorphilomath 3 жыл бұрын

99 Battles of Isonzo on the wall.

@doubledouble4g379 3 жыл бұрын

@@polyhistorphilomath Problem with that song is that it (and friendly casualties) keep going up...

@PierceSexingtonIV 3 жыл бұрын

Really, really good video- mythbusting like this is so powerful because means its so much harder to defend aspects of the criminal regime. The work channels like you and Military HIstory Vizualised do debunking myths like this, the 'Clean Wermacht', or even the superiority of the German military machine or tank design is really important. I really hope that this doesn't lead to your channel being demonitised like the WW1 channel- stuff like this is vital in fighting disinformation.

@celticman1909 3 жыл бұрын

I think these videos are demonitized , especially the graphic "war against humanity" series. Spartacus and Indy relay on Time Ghost Army donations to make up for that.

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

We're not demonetised as a channel, but many of our videos are. Indeed, most of our War Against Humanity episodes are demonetised. They don't give us any revenue but more importantly their reach I surpassed by the YT algorithm - less people get to see them.

@celticman1909 3 жыл бұрын

@@WorldWarTwo Your commitment to educating on the subject is noble and needed. I fear that this history is not taught anymore as it should be. The ignorance of younger people today coupled with online Holocaust deniers is frightening. I saw a comment made elsewhere by someone that attributed it to Voltaire; Those that can be convinced of absurdities can be convinced to commit atrocities. I probably butchered the quote but you get the meaning. Very true, I must say.

@PierceSexingtonIV 3 жыл бұрын

@@WorldWarTwo I'm glad to hear its not the whole channel, just a couple of videos. Really frustrating to see the algorythims stife your work- am a history grad and am just so impressed with how well researched your videos are. I spend a deal of my time trying to deradicalise people online and being able to counter their narratives with hard facts like those you put out is invaluable. It's only by engaging with their talking points that you can make headway, not just calling them nasty names and banning them from places.

@tyvernoverlord5363 3 жыл бұрын

@@WorldWarTwo Maybe in the future you guys could make a CD box collection or do something to get a wider and more mainstream reach across more people. Cause the people that helm google and the KZfaq division are on a warpath against informative information that isn’t coming from the mainstream super media corporations. This series as a whole with WWI, WII, War Against Mankind, and the interwar period have really helped me learn even further than just learning more into the minutia of what I already knew.

@medplutonium8932 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you guys for making these videos they always interest me

@Daniel-kq4bx 3 жыл бұрын

You are doing an extraordinary job Sparty.

@sturmkindtraum 3 жыл бұрын

mad respect for Spartacus. covering the most horrible aspects of ww2 in such a sharp, yet elegant and intelligible way, conveying the heaviness and somberness at all times.

@spartacus-olsson 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@stevenleslie8557 3 жыл бұрын

When the wicked rule, the people mourn.

@eddykelly4082 3 жыл бұрын

Noooooo they suffer.

@steamengine4719 Ай бұрын

just like the "democratic USA" right now, people are poor and in heavy debt-enslavement and resort to fentanyl imported from the communist China to cope for it.

@RobTzu 3 жыл бұрын

Spartacus is one of the most fair and non-biased people on youtube. I don't know how you walk the tightrope you do so well, but really well done.

@spartacus-olsson 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@kingotime8977 3 жыл бұрын

This might be one of, if not the best, video on this channel! Great job Spartacus!

@spartacus-olsson 3 жыл бұрын

That is a huge compliment - thank you.

@GreaterGermanRepublic 3 жыл бұрын

Truly a fascinating video glad you covered this topic it was quite interesting.

@hoopsmcgee8272 3 жыл бұрын

Best channel on KZfaq. Here is a nice comment for the algorithm.

@artawhirler 3 жыл бұрын

One of the best episodes of the whole series! Thanks!

@andrewrolfe4334 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Wish I could add an intelligent review of this but unfortunately I’m a man of limited linguistic skills. Love your channel and am so glad that you and some others like you keep this very interesting history alive and fresh in our minds. We must not forget and learn from history.

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Don't put yourself down so much Andrew, and anyway, a comment such as yours is the best possible we could receive. We really appreciate your kind words, keep up the support!

@el_rod 3 жыл бұрын

Even here in Israel where studying the holocaust is mandatory in high-schools doesn't reach the same level of detail and feeling this show gives me. Keep it on guys! Let me and the rest of us remember to live on for those who have been perished, not repeating the mistakes of the past.

@spartacus-olsson 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@riddleof 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent episode Spartacus ! Very well put together, delivered and with great comments.

@spartacus-olsson 3 жыл бұрын

thanks

@riddleof 3 жыл бұрын

@@spartacus-olsson Thanks for the whole series ! Lived in Stockholm for a number of years and new Indy. Not sure if we ever met.

@D.Appeltofft 3 жыл бұрын

As a historian I tip my hat. This was as brief anyone can get without losing in accuracy. I must admit I could expand on this for hours without being able to add anything essential - and I ' ve probably done so in the past...

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, from one of our peers that means a lot.

@tannhauserr 3 жыл бұрын

Hitler is like that one kid who doesn't do give any effort to the group work but give the order and advices to his colleagues and let them sort it off by themselves

@FlagAnthem 3 жыл бұрын

that's EXACTLY how he is remembered by close staff members

@jeremiahhuckleberry402 3 жыл бұрын

Those who present themselves as 'uniquely gifted' rarely if ever are gifted in any way. Most of the world's geniuses, like great athletes, allow the quality of their work to speak on their behalf, not words of self-glorification. A braggart's words mean nothing to a keen observer of human nature. It's a sure sign of a narcissist, however, who too often believe that they're the brightest bulb in the shed when all evidence points in favor of the opposite argument. Kudos to Sparty, Indie and Astrid for the overall excellence of their work. What an amazing group of gifted people you are. The high quality of your videos continues to amaze me. You seem to raise the bar with every new video series you make.

@richiew71 3 жыл бұрын

The quality of this channel is superb, it makes history, discovery and other huge productions looks like amateurs

@spartacus-olsson 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@dentoncrimescene 3 жыл бұрын

In not trying to be funny at all but hitler sounds a lot like my boss and how he works (doesn't work).

@tomservo5007 3 жыл бұрын

work ? That's what you are for

@RiderOftheNorth1968 3 жыл бұрын

Sound like you work in the White House?

@cardenasr.2898 3 жыл бұрын

We've all have that kind of manager who wants everyone to work hard as hell but never does anything, good for giving orders but incapable of having order in their own acts

@vksasdgaming9472 3 жыл бұрын

@@cardenasr.2898 "Don't just stand there, do something" is not particularly good order to give.

@TheCimbrianBull 3 жыл бұрын

This sounds like the movie "Office Space".

@pyatig 3 жыл бұрын

As an American who was born in the Soviet Union in 1975, who’s family members fought and died during the war it was always a shock to me how little most Americans know about the war. Thank you for doing this. If you truly want to know what that war meant to Soviet people watch the KZfaq video called Immortal regiment. It’s very moving

@ednorton47 3 жыл бұрын

Irresponsible leaders like Obama and Biden are egging on the American people to go to war against Russia.

@romeomatei5692 3 жыл бұрын

@@ednorton47 That is a lie. A right-wing lie.

@RaymondCore 3 жыл бұрын

This is a super well-made series. Thank you.

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your appreciation, a lot of work goes into each episode.

@dyerex54 3 жыл бұрын

Mr Olsson I wish I had you as a history teacher in school

@ashcatthedude 3 жыл бұрын

I truly have a deep appreciation for the work that you guys have done in order to provide us with a compendium of the human atrocities that took place in the two World Wars. I was hooked to Indy neidell's game show host/ radio announcer like delivery in 2014 during the Prelude to World War in the Great War Channel. Thank you all very much from the bottom of my heart.

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

And we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your faithful viewership.

@georgewilliams8448 3 жыл бұрын

Another excellent video showing that a lot of time and care was taken in researching, writing and filming it!

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks George, we're glad you appreciate the hard work :)

@mudcatfrank7537 Жыл бұрын

In Churchill's "World War II: Their Finest Hour" he made a memo to avoid situations caused by vagueness: "To make sure that my name was not used loosely, I issued during the crisis of July the following minute: '. . . Let it be very clearly understood that all directions emanating from me are made in writing, or should be immediately afterwards confirmed in writing, and that I do not accept any responsibility for matters relating to national defense on which I am alleged to have given decisions, unless they are recording in writing.'"

@michaelkovacic2608 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting video! This leads us to the question of whether Hitler was a strong or a weak dictator. I would love to hear Spartacus' or Indy's thoughts on this.

@Artur_M. 3 жыл бұрын

Great episode! We tend to have the stereotype of the Germans as obsessed with order and imagine the totalitarian Third Reich as some precise bureaucratic machine. The reality, as usual, is more complicated. This whole system of "controlled" chaos and encouraged rivalry is for example the reason why gauleiters Arthur Greiser and Albert Forster were realizing the task of germanizing the incorporated into the Reich Polish territories under their rule with different methods and policies towards the ethnically Polish (and Kashubian) population.

@maciejniedzielski7496 3 жыл бұрын

Greiser was worse?

@Artur_M. 3 жыл бұрын

@@maciejniedzielski7496 Pretty much, or at least Forster was more pragmatic and less racist, so under him you could be pressured to sign the Volksliste, instead of being simply kicked out of your house and deported to the General Government (for Greiser this was a heresy and crime against the purity of the German blood or something and he complained about it to Himmler and Hitler). Of course this ment that now you could be conscripted to the Wehrmacht. I'm also not knowledgeable to tell under whom you would be more statistically likely to be simply shot or send to a concentration camp.

@susansinsua5583 3 жыл бұрын

Shouldn't it be demonised not demonetised?

@PlatYellow 3 жыл бұрын

Sparacus you were a pretty damn good host when I started watching you on these videos, but you have somehow gotten better.

@gardreropa 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant and masterful analysis! Thank you Mr. Spartacus and Co.! Never forget!

@spartacus-olsson 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@snakehead404 3 жыл бұрын

Phenomenal emotion in this one, conveyed really well.

@spartacus-olsson 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@girininkasable 3 жыл бұрын

Recently I am very interested in how Third Reich was governed. Very informative and objective video, thanks!

@pongthrob 3 жыл бұрын

*Very* insightful video, excellently done.

@magnoliamike 3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love that custom shelf behind you!

@tomgjgj 3 жыл бұрын

One shudders to imagine what may have happened to europe if there had been a succession crisis.

@alexandercaires5921 3 жыл бұрын

The New Order and Thousand Wek Reich mods allow you to play through that situation....it's a mess *edit: Hearts of Iron 4 mods

@hughbowden5696 3 жыл бұрын

@@alexandercaires5921 TWR > TNO

@Claytone-Records 3 жыл бұрын

Infernal460, Putin would love to give us a hand, eh?

@naoyanaraharjo4693 3 жыл бұрын

@@hughbowden5696 TWR= TNO. TWR have far less content for now

@dylanroemmele906 3 жыл бұрын

@@alexandercaires5921 Those mods are very historically inaccurate. They are fun great mods, but not something to go off of historically.

@lynnwood7205 3 жыл бұрын

The novel, Night of the Generals, explains in backdrop to its story, the fractured and often battling components of the Nazi regime.

@darrinwebber4077 3 жыл бұрын

Ok! Dude! Excellent. Well done. You have earned a subscription. Looking forward to watching other of your videos. Thank you.

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@vedranv6579 3 жыл бұрын

Great episode!

@derin111 3 жыл бұрын

Even when it is explained, it is still completely confusing and opaque !

@timothyhouse1622 3 жыл бұрын

Spoiler: I suspect this is a lead in to a War Against Humanity Special for January 20.

@morisco56 3 жыл бұрын

Why?

@hadewanto1898 3 жыл бұрын

@@morisco56 just search what happened in january 20 1942

@DavidChipman 3 жыл бұрын

@@hadewanto1898 Wansea (sp?) conference?

@airborne31582 3 жыл бұрын

Wansee conference

@matthewrobinett1012 3 жыл бұрын

🤫 shhhh

@SilentHotdog28 Ай бұрын

You have a really calming voice. Love history, especially WW1 and WW2, so this channel is a great fit for me.

@chrism9374 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent and informative video. Thanks!

@spartacus-olsson 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@gregwalker1913 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent piece Spartacus! I also thought that the 1941 Einsatzgruppen squads were disastrous for the German cause because it turned millions of people like the Ukrainians, the Baltic States, etc into ardent anti Nazis. They hated the Communist regime in Moscow and could have been used to fight them. Instead, many of them joined partisan movements against the Germans.

@ClaireR3 3 жыл бұрын

Lol at least in the intro the closed captioning and what Sparty is saying is definitely not matching

@andyreznick 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I kept bouncing back and forth between the two and missed both.

@Scrubbiestscrub 3 жыл бұрын

8:44 Spartacus either deepens his voice by 3 octaves or burps when saying "well" xD

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Your choice...

@pauls7863 2 жыл бұрын

This theory of Hitler's leadership explains the actions of Rudolf Hess.

@gefilte86 3 жыл бұрын

Isn't it ironic that Gobbles's "Eternal Jew" exhibition in late 30' depicted faithfully the Nazis themselves?

@yomama9538 3 жыл бұрын

How so, exactly?

@thechekist2044 3 жыл бұрын

@@yomama9538 depicting genocidal power hungry people trying to take over the world.

@Made_In_Heavenn 3 жыл бұрын

@@thechekist2044 sounds like communism...

@thechekist2044 3 жыл бұрын

@@Made_In_Heavenn Ok nazi weeb vermin.

@NoahBodze 3 жыл бұрын

@@thechekist2044 You identify as a chekist, you absolute fuck. You'll never be right about anything, stupid.

@Vyril447 3 жыл бұрын

You’re very intense when doing these. It’s very well done. We can tell your very passionate about the horror of it all. Good job. Please keep it up!

@PunaSquirrel 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing video. Thanks.

@terrystephens1102 3 жыл бұрын

Another outstanding episode, thank you. 😃👌👌👌👌

@ballsszy 3 жыл бұрын

What happened to the 'On the Home Front' series? Was it just not popular enough or is it difficult to film because of Covid? It was a really interesting series!

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

The series will return when the covid restrictions will be lifted

@peterbinkley7545 3 жыл бұрын

I always feel like I've done something wrong after watching Sparty at the end of these videos. I'm so sorry!

@TheCimbrianBull 3 жыл бұрын

You naughty boy!

@DarkCylon 3 жыл бұрын

If Sparty has kids, I'd imagine they're well behaved.

@spartacus-olsson 3 жыл бұрын

@@DarkCylon my daughter is by now a wonderful grownup woman, and she has always had good manners, but 'well behaved' is certainly not a way I would describe her, neither as a child nor a grownup. Her mother says that our daughter has always had me twisted around her little finger - I love her to bits just as she is though.

@thebog11 3 жыл бұрын

@@DarkCylon You will get to meet her once COVID vaccines are widespread!

@rabihrac 3 жыл бұрын

A rare eye-opening episode that reveals how Hitler's & Nazi minds and spirits work and shed light on human nature too. Keep up the great work Spartacus! From a viewer who comes from a country, Lebanon, that were never reached by Hitler's armies

@guitaristAustin 3 жыл бұрын

Nice. I found my favorite new channel. This is the same people that did the Great War channel right! I was just asking myself the other day if they were going to do ww2 and I’m so happy.

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

@Dev_Six 3 жыл бұрын

Freedom of speech and press, presumption of innocence fly out of the window.

@gawaineross7607 3 жыл бұрын

Historians have said that Hitler was lazy. That makes sense considering his aversion to paperwork. Your take paints him as less than a politician and more as an idol or prophet, which also makes sense. After all, prophets are not rational.

@alexandershtumpf9373 3 жыл бұрын

And this makes sense. Scholars tend to compare National Socialism (and Bolshevism and Italian Fascism for that matter too) to religious movements.

@filipkopec525 3 жыл бұрын

You know, managing to annex 2 countries in Europe without the breakout of war requires some political skills

@jamestheotherone742 3 жыл бұрын

That is not an accurate characterization. Hitler and his henchmen knew what they were doing was unethical, immoral, and illegal, which is why there was a lack of paperwork trail, not that he was too lazy to do it. He had plenty of people who could have done the paperwork for him. They were German after all. The mob doesn't take written minutes of their meetings.

@Rapid1453 3 жыл бұрын

interestingly, stalin was the polar opposite of hitler. stalin constantly reformed the state agencies & believed it was perfectly possible to run a state through documents. he would read hundreds of documents (incl written remarks & signoff) during 16 hour workdays. even when he had his 2-3 month summer vacations in sochi he would still receive hundreds of reports daily. he finally reached his limit during the great terror, when he had to appoint plenipotentaries & send them to the republics because he couldn't review all the execution lists himself anymore. (source: 'Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941' by S. Kotkin)

@YekouriGaming 3 жыл бұрын

@@jamestheotherone742 They knew it was illegal and other powers, such as the Allies who had signed the Hague convention would execute them all on the spot, even worse with the Soviets. It is why they tried to burn and conceal everything.

@josedavidgarcesceballos7 3 жыл бұрын

Great description that of the marketplace of terror. Nailed it.

@bestman002 3 жыл бұрын

Cool videos about the war keep it up

@alundavies8402 3 жыл бұрын

As an English person I am told never forget every November and I obey that rule as we must never forget ever

@alundavies8402 3 жыл бұрын

11. November it’s Remembrance Day for all of the fallen that fought so that we might be free they have nothing but my deepest respect

@jliller 3 жыл бұрын

"Will no one rid me of these meddlesome people I don't like?"

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 3 жыл бұрын

too nice video with clear explaining of situation

@andersondossantosoliveira2772 3 жыл бұрын

thats a glorious suit and tie. With professional glamour befitting to a gent like spartakus who takes his work seriously. fantastic video as a always.

@greenkoopa 3 жыл бұрын

Nazis were and are monsters. Let us never forget 🙏

@greenkoopa 3 жыл бұрын

As an aside: I am truly...not impressed, but...the fact that they were so successful for so long when the bosses at the top were always at each others throats and throwing each other under the bus. Overlapping commands and areas of influence just to keep them fighting for the number 2 spot. The fact that they could maneuver through all this shows how deeply they wanted to murder people

@Masada1911 3 жыл бұрын

The worst Nazi was still a human being. Calling them monsters is wrong and reductive.

@zaxxxppe 3 жыл бұрын

no, no they were not. That is the mistake people make with understanding history and human behavior. It is the longer, yet more honorable path to be truthful to yourself and acknowledge that such people were not monsters, yet humans. It is much more sobering to understand that humans are able to do such things to one another then to label them as "monsters"

@eck3319 3 жыл бұрын

By de-humanizing them as monsters, one will not recognize the nazi in oneself. How can you be a monster, right? You know you are a human only with best intentions.

@vksasdgaming9472 3 жыл бұрын

Remember this German philosopher's insight before labeling people: "“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster . . . when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you”.

@jamestheotherone742 3 жыл бұрын

@14:35 This can't be overstated. The diversion of resources and manpower into operations in the rear areas along with the resulting loss of any chance of winning the populations (esp in Ukraine) led directly to the failure of the best (only) chance they had of Barbarossa succeeding. The same psychotic motivation of the enterprise was its own downfall.

@toastytoast9800 3 жыл бұрын

it was ingrained in their ideology, the nazi party belived in the stab in the back idea, so they didn't want a repeat

@jamestheotherone742 3 жыл бұрын

@@toastytoast9800 Nazi antisemitism and general selective racism was a rationale that justified (to themselves) the immoral theft of territory and property, which was their principle motivation.

@456dave7 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, this is such an insightful video

@ChannelRandomMy 3 жыл бұрын

Spartacus got intense in this one. I felt that through my screen.

@tomjustis7237 3 жыл бұрын

"...keep the memories of our past mistakes and successes alive." Has there ever been a more profound sentiment? It seems to me that today many people (here in the U.S.) want to focus only on our past mistakes while completely ignoring our successes. IMHO, that is as much a departure from the truth as focusing only on our successes while ignoring our mistakes. We must see and accept both, and accept them both honestly, if we are going to advance. Otherwise we will eventually fall into the same trap that devoured Germany, one side gaining supremacy and forcing their beliefs onto the other. I am sure there will be those who say I am a paranoid who sees monsters under his bed. To those I give this quote; "Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it." If you really pay attention, REALLY pay attention, you will see we have not learned and are truly repeating history.

@PlanckRelic 3 жыл бұрын

The thematic parallels with the leader of a modern American movement are even stronger than I had realized, just wow.

@dr.lyleevans6915 3 жыл бұрын

Stop drinking the kool aid

@dylanroemmele906 3 жыл бұрын

I forget people actually believe this :/

@DeadChavez 3 жыл бұрын

Subscribed

@styx4947 2 жыл бұрын

The question I always tell people to ask themselves is, "would Hitler have shut down the camps if he saw them?"

@thexalon 3 жыл бұрын

When you study this stuff, it sure looks like people who think of themselves as "uniquely gifted" are actually pretty dumb. Bear that in mind when you encounter people who think of themselves as "uniquely gifted".

@TheRetu81 3 жыл бұрын

It's the Dunning-Kruger effect running in full force.

@Aradim90 3 жыл бұрын

It's easy to think that when you haven't achieved anything in your life and cherry pick only the bad, some of the people that have have claimed to be gifted have achieved a lot and just by cherry picking the bad doesn't mean they were stupid for thinking so. That's especially true for the Germans who we owe much of the scientific advancement of the entire 19th and 20th century, on top of that they joined a war against overwhelming odds 20 years prior and it was actually close, just 40 years after becoming a nation. After so many amazing achievements, thinking you are "gifted" is actually a pretty modest reaction.

@TLTeo 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. My Master's thesis supervisor (an astrophysicist who pretty much revolutionized his field) always said "Either you're Martin Rees, whose work speaks for itself to the point where he never has to brag about it, or you're not, in which case there's someone who is far, far smarter than you. Either way, there's no reason to show off". For context, Martin Rees is arguably the greatest theoretical astrophysicist of the second half of the 20th century.

@thexalon 3 жыл бұрын

@@Aradim90 I didn't call the Germans dumb, I called the Nazis dumb. And some of the brightest minds of Germany, such as Albert Einstein, were hated by the Nazis for being Jewish.

@TLTeo 3 жыл бұрын

@@thexalon or even somewhat related to Jews, like Enrico Fermi.

@ZugloHUN 3 жыл бұрын

Great episode! Made me uncomfortable!

@dannyc8876 3 жыл бұрын

This channel rules, the way this man transmits historical information is very engaging

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Danny!

@pnutz_2 3 жыл бұрын

you know it's going to be important when there's a special headed by spartacus

@rtsgod 3 жыл бұрын

yay youtube didn't block this video (yet at the time of writing this) man, context is totally lost on the algorithm.

@toastytoast9800 3 жыл бұрын

it is just a algorithm, not the best at this job

@lamarepository248 3 жыл бұрын

Suddenly “anarcho fascism” doesn’t seem so strange

@tomchastain7931 3 жыл бұрын

You mean it sounds exactly like the operation of the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT?!!!!!

@dylanroemmele906 3 жыл бұрын

@@tomchastain7931 this has to be ironic

@zoomonkeydotcom2005 3 жыл бұрын

I like this guys vocal intonation... he’s not boring

@audreygatey1274 2 жыл бұрын

Last 7 minutes: sounds like Orange Donnie.

@TheOdions 3 жыл бұрын

Kinda scary when comparing CCP with the Nazi party there can be found a lot identical behaviour. Never forget but it seems some have

@caryblack5985 3 жыл бұрын

All dictatorships have this in common: perpetuate their power and destroy their enemies, usually by execution.

@cliffa2901 3 жыл бұрын

Martin's you could say the same thing about the way the USA . The way it's heading at the moment.

@trisblackshaw1640 3 жыл бұрын

In my local (Eastern Australia) time zone, it is 20 January, the date of the Wannsee Conference in 1942. I presume this will be discussed at some point over the next week as it is a crucial event in the War Against Humanity.

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Next episode of War Against Humanity

@trisblackshaw1640 3 жыл бұрын

@@WorldWarTwo Thanks for getting back to me!