Can we get a mega projects on the newsport shipping fry dock (where the ford carriers are being built) ?

Once again, great work. Thank you. To put some optimism: every Polish child knows his name. His doughter (born in Wilno, nowdayes Vilnius) now still lives in Warsaw, age 90.

It’s Hess not Hoss

*Simon, please listen to me, I'm begging you to, and it's for your own good + the good of those who love your videos:* PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE TURN UP THE VOLUME GAIN IN YOUR VIDEOS. Make them 30% louder. People can always turn their volume down, but those of us who watch from our phones can only turn our volume up so much, and this video is far too quiet for about 30% of us. *All you have to do is turn up the volume gain by about 30%. It's very easy to do, and many people who suffer through it don't say anything about it.* The people who just stop watching because the volume is too low definitely don't say anything about it. They just stop watching. I truly hope you'll take this advice to heart. It costs you nothing. It costs many of your viewers everything because they don't get to watch your videos. Do everyone a favor, even yourself, and just turn up the volume by 30%. If it's too loud, it's super easy to turn the volume down. It's almost-impossible for us to turn the volume up. *It requires us to use 3rd party applications that drain battery life & steals our personal information to use those 3rd party apps. Please..don't make us choose between not hearing your videos, not watching your videos, or downloading an exploitative third-party app to watch them.*

​@@adampe6717Rudolph Hoss was tne Camp Commandant. Hess was Hitler's deputy who fled to UK

Came here to say this lol

They are incomprehensible by any standards, be that his time or ours.

I read about deep-cover agents who go into massive criminal operations or violent extremist groups who would be killed if they were found out (they often have to go into witness protection when they’re done)… and that still pales in comparison to a guy making himself into a freaking concentration camp prisoner.

I thought he would be easy to catch. How could he run with those things?

The real reason the nazis never executed him is his balls would not fit into the furnaces.

⁠@@SoundShinobiYukiyeah that is the crazy thing, at least in those scenarios the undercover agent probably thinks at least that he has a chance of escape and/or success. In this case there was not even a plan, the chance of him either escaping or succeeding in getting word out could only reasonably be objectively assessed as minimal. It’s mind boggling to be willing to volunteer for functional or actual torture in the hope of realising such a slim chance. Not only his courage but his self belief is truly remarkable. Tbf he may not have accepted the mission if the camp had been what it came to be, or had he apprehended its true nature from the outset, but it is amazing even so that he volunteered and that he succeeded. The only thing remotely similar that I can think of is the sole survivor of the Paria sea pipe incident who risked torturous death over and over to get out and then volunteered to go back for his coworkers. The risk to him was obviously not as high the second time round or as in this case but that man knew fully the terror he had faced and was willing to do it again. I think it’s comparable. It’s heartening to know there are still people like this in the world.

Hello fellow Sabaton fan! 👋🏻

🤘🤘🤘🤘

This song makes me cry.

This is why I’m in the comments

Well that didn’t take much scrolling to find XD

Excellent middle school reading.

Just the whole polish resistance is worth a good read. From Enigma, and the holocaust reveals to the Grey ranks (boy scouts and girl scouts) during the uprising. Just an amazing people with larger than life stories.

@swampfox That book is amazing! It is without a doubt one of the most incredible true stories a person can ever read.

I finally finished watching the video and want to add three things that they didn't cover. 1. Some of the resistance guys managed to build a radio in the camp so they could get news from outside. 2. They managed to assassinate SS officers without retribution by putting typhoid infected ticks on the collars of their coats. The officers would get typhoid and never suspect they had basically been poisoned. 3. He tried to convince the allied armies to just bomb Auschwitz off the face of the earth. He knew how many Jews were being murdered and decided it would be better if they killed everyone there with bombs then to let it continue to exist and kill thousands of people everyday. Sadly, the allied armies didn't heed his pleas.

@@swampfox984I’m not at the end but 1. and 2. have already been mentioned.

Aren't we doing biographics anymore?

And I like the tasteful connection to it aswell. Quoting the song would have been quite tasteless. That would better fit for something like ghost division again (hint hint). These ones are to important for that.

I haven't had a chance to hear that song, which one is it. Simon dose love greatest history band of all time

@@michaelfields4536 its called Inmate 4859, like the title of the video here; its hauntingly beautiful.

@christiang.6729 thank you brother

@@michaelfields4536 I also recommend watching the Sabaton History video about Witold (Episode 42), although it goes into more gruesome detail what he and other prisoners had to go through, so "viewer discretion is advised."

You Poles are a different breed. From the breaking of The Siege of Vienna, to the Piorun facing off with the Bismarck, and the deeds of the crew of the ORP Orzeł. You lot have an indomitable spirit that I admire greatly.

I am at a complete loss to understand the basis for German hatred and condescension towards Poland and her people. I have never met a Pole who was not kind, warm, welcoming, and hard working. I can only think that it's like the difference between the Right and Left wing people in America, that those who want to take away everything and have an overlord class of abusers, and those who believe in equality, sharing, caring, and lifting people up. Other than this, I can find no justification for such a hostile and contemptuous attitude. And nothing I have ever read has explained or stated anything other than some irrational notion that Polish people are somehow inferior. This is pure ridiculousness based only in narcissistic arrogance.

Dude we're Americans we have no idea what you've went through what your country went through I guess that's kind of what's good and bad about the usa

Another thing I don't get isn't all Europe just like white people in America Anglo-Saxon anyway I mean One Way or another we're All Jew in German and Poland and I mean go back far enough we're all cousins I don't really get all the racist bulshit I mean literally pure bloodlines means inbred and that doesn't work out well like obviously through science I don't understand people wanting to keep a picture pure bloodlines when is obvious in science Angus from the eye test that pure blood is bad

Pilecki just so you know how to spell it haha

Yes, we do

Yup

Inmate in hell or a hero in prison Soldier in Auschwitz Who know his name?

@@itspandasman3040locked in a cell waging war from the Prison.

Hiding in Auschwitz, he hide behind 4859! Sabaton is an incredible band!

100% expected Sabaton

Soldier in Auschwitz. We know his name

Are they mutually exclusive in this instance?

both

Locked in a cell, waging war from the prison

May I suggest a book. 'The Librarian of Auschwitz' by Antonio Iturbe. Based on prisoner Dita Kraus. ❤️‍🔥

I think a movie like this could be interesting but at the same time i feel like it could be to dark for any big company to greenlight and a smaller one probably wouldn't be able to do it justice

Actually, there is currently a movie about him in development

Love Sabaton. So many great stories told through great songs.

I was just thinking this guy deserves his own biographical movie.

I heard about that, that was crazy! And a top tier example of “Nobody suspects you don’t belong there if you act confident”.

It’s mentioned in this video. He said if you want to see a video on that, say so in the comments. Mission accomplished 👍

​@@SoundShinobiYukiI like your comment! It sounds like those prisoners pulled of the most daring, dangerous con of the century. I'm catching up on history and I need to read that book p0SN is talking about. I need to learn more about the things they don't even teach at university.

Me too! I was told some of this story by a tour guide at the camp. It’s even more harrowing and impressive hearing it in the location that it happened.

And Spielberg should direct it.

There it is 😂 You can always count on it with these videos.

@@amrastheluckywoof5524 Sabaton always delivers.

@@amrastheluckywoof5524 you know it friendo 😁

you can’t have independent thinkers in a regime like that, he should have been praised as a war hero and a symbol of polish triumph

Who was the other guy? Am I dense

@@Grizzbit They're referring to Karl, who's doing hosting on Biographics, Geographics, and a couple others Whistlerverse channels.

@@aq5426 Biographics, Geographics and Top Tenz. Those are not Whistlerverse channels, as although he was the host for them, he was not the owner. The other channels he appears on, he's the owner (I think).

Not all the Guards we're German. They used Hilfstruppen. Actually there we're jews who we're conducting the gasing of their own people on behalf of the Nazis. Also the cleaning of the gas Chambers and the burning of the corpses we're carried out by them , a work far to filthy, hard and depressing for the germans.

The "guards" as Simon says, who were reluctant sadists, were Kapos or Block Elders, not camp guards or SS. They were often criminals rather than political prisoners.

@@gabrielleperson4794 they make sense to me. But I'm thinking more about the regular soldier who was assigned there, and once there doesn't want anything to do with what's happening, but the commander gives him the ultimatum 'Either follow orders or join them'. I'm confident that in the beginning their numbers were high but by 1943 the number of people who voiced their opinion on being posted at one of these camps was practically nothing. There are a few books that contain the accounts as told by the unwilling guards, but like I said few. I know I rhetorically asked what would make them less qualified to be a bullet sponge and that's on me. I honestly think that it's just the logistics of the military machine that found those men there in the beginning. They were most likely weeded out of the prison camp system by early 43 because it seems that from 43 to 45 there were less guards protesting against the camps. But let us not forget and overlook the men and women who put themselves directly in the line of fire to infiltrate, sabotage and flat out destroy the labour and concentration camps. It's these actions and the many sacrifices made by the people of the era that earned them the well deserved title of "Greatest Generation".

@@katkacerasvs that's for sure 100%

Every nation has something interesting about them, but poles are the ones that keep popping up in all kinds of different places and ages, altering the course of world history.