Many of the footages are taken in the concentration camp Buchenwald. If it's used symbolic, it's okay. Thanks for telling this story

New studio! So you're not in the shed/Sparty's house anymore?

I love the new studio! It was surprising at first to not see the well known surroundings, but it is definitely interesting and cool. You know, it's always good to see my money really makes difference (both here and on ww2 channel). 🙂

The truth why Pileckis story is not lifted by huge companies is that he is political incorrect. He was patriot Pole. Hated russian communism which he saw during war in 1918-1921 and german nazism during ww2. He was killed by stalinist gouverment in Poland after 1945. After WW2 Poland were under heavy russian occupation it gone softer after Stalins death 1952. All polish resistance movement were placed in former Nazi prisons or camps in almost same conditions like under SS mangement. Even Aushwitz almost after taken by Russians were used to concentrate there Polish patriots. What is worser for this topic loots of communist judges on trials were jewish(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Michnik or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Woli%C5%84ska-Brus.) There were of course also Poles among stalinist murders. But you know it is quite political incorect especially after holocaust to say that stuff. Pilecki told to his wife after being beating and torture during "investigetion" that "Aushwitz was trifle in comparison to being "treated" by stalinist gouvermant". It is unpopular story. Why? Stalin was good uncle Joe for american president F D Rosewelt. Russians were treated as good guys in that times, who beated Third Reich and conquer Berlin. USA and Brits did nothing after seeing raports about holocaust in Aushwitz. Today Poles are very often accused by western media to create "Polish concentration camps" even Obama used that hurtfull words kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p76Yn7d8ttvKgJs.html during celebrating another infiltrator hero - Jan Karski. Jan Karski infiltrated German Nazi Ghetto in occupied by Germans Warsaw and told what he saw directly to F D Rosewelt. Here you may see how Karski tells his story of meeting with FDR in White House during WW2 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pseAY5WG2J6nqYE.html. The main core of reaction of FD Rosevelt about killing Jews in Warsaw Ghetto by Germans were short "Justice will be done bla bla bla" and "hey dude Poland before war were agricultural country, so you have horses??" It was all reaction what could be made by most powerfull man on the world hearing about holocaust in Treblinka Belzec Sobobor and Aushwitz during WW2. See on vid especially Karsis emotions in that interview. Showing Pileckis story or Karskis story is full of incorrect and hurtfull facts will be not welcome among looots of peoples. I hope I wont be treated as antisemic. My grandfather were jew. So it would be also unfair. PS For example one from polish meber of resistance were kept in same cell after war with German SS officer Jurgen Strop. Same monster who comanded Germans during Ghetto Warsaw Uprising in 1943 and destroying last Warsaw Jewish community. Strop was hangt of course but after realeasing free that guy created book - interview from talks with Strop. This book is called en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_with_an_Executioner and shows what was in mind of commander of SS squads during genocide in Warsaw Ghetto.

@joe bloggs Uhm...what? 😮

National-Socialism and Communism are almost a full circle, especially in their inhumanity.

yea, fought with two socialists that hated each other, survived one, didn't survive other

Brown and Red Socialists spent quite long time cooperating together against other non-socialist states.

He actually said just before his execution in the last meeting with his wife that "Auschwitz was a kindergander in comparison to communist prison". Really puts things into perspective.

I clearly don't want to disrespect him, but he was sent to Auschwitz just because he was polish, and he was killed by Soviets for espionage, which was the truth. For example, Carl Hans Lody was killed when he was caught in Britain during first world war, but you don't call it a murder. Double standard? Also, as much as i hate Soviets, i clearly understand why this happened and it's not related to socialism at all, it's just history and it's "presents", so it can be justified by times as i live in Russia and know history of my country.

I was thinking more like Pilecky would say, "hold my beer"

XD

@@ghostnappa2012 "Hold my food"

Pilecky would just say "So have I"

Different kind of hell. Audie Murphy was a warrior, not an agent.

You can even go deeper with a book i read called the volunteer

Now I understand the pause with a bell in the song. That¨s the moment he's out and seeing the idealistic and absurd society, compared to what the reality actually is.

@@aidan8830 There's a reprint on Amazon called The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery.

@@vanyasecundus4684 hmm ill have to read it. I just got the standard version at my library

I've read The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery. Indy does not go into anywhere near the level of horror it did. That said, it is a difficult, but amazing read.

Thank you for sharing his story and song!

@@SabatonHistory this I’m guessing

Rotmistrz. Prawdziwy bohater.

Check our Ryszard Kukliński aka Jack Strong, Marian Rejewski and Polish cryptologists and Jan Karski and Lords of humanity

69 likes, nice

It might seem weird (or maybe even inappropriate given the subject) but apparently, in 2002 Greeks actually made a stage musical "Mala, The Music of the Wind" based on the tragic story of Mala Zimetbaum, which includes a sort of romance with another inmate Edward "Edek" Galiński. They escaped together but got caught, brought back to the camp and killed.

Starting a girl named Anna. That somehow sound familiar to be frank. Sounds like a well known story with a biography of sorts being quite popular.

"The Gulag Marriage" will finish the trilogy

"Eva and Adolf: A Love Story"

See Mala Zimetbaum or the film The Last Stage (1947)

Not for nothing, Pilecki himself writes in The Auschwitz Volunteer that later in his incarceration men and women did meet and relationships did happen. He didn't go into much detail, but since the book was written like a military dispatch, it was stated more or less as a statement of observation.

I like Indy's face when he said it, you could see when it hit him actually what a horrible, insensitive movie idea he'd actually thrown out and probably wanted to take back but to little to late lol

Very true because you would have no idea if you were next to die. When I found out about this man oh I was slack jawed that someone would willing risk his life to enter the death camp to gain info. In my eyes wiltold pilecki went above the call of duty.

@@cutlawquane6301 "Above the call of duty" doesn't work at this level. This is something that I don't know if humanity has been able to define.

Garret LeBuis your right. But all I’m saying is that Witold had the courage and will that few men or none could do. Which was to infiltrate the death camp with the risk of possibly dying if he was caught or worse chosen to be killed.

I feel like you guys still don't get it fully. I guess at the beginning Mr. Pilecki didn't know what he was getting himself into. But staying two years in this hell and keep up figthing is beyond what I thought is possible. As Joakim said: WTF? This is not about fearing to die tommorow. Lots of soldiers have gone through that. Without diminishing their bravery, this is on an entire different level! This is about working to exhaustion, going hungry, beeing beaten, beeing humilated and then trying to get 5 hours of sleep knowing that all this will start tommorow again. Living under this conditions most people will see death as a liberation. Mr. Pilecki went through it and never lost his will to resist. I wonder what kept him going. But it is clear why the communists killed him. He would have never stopped to give them hell!

Not like he knew what kind of hell he was packing into, True madladism was willingly staying there for 2 years instead of breaking out after first month

For many of us, WW2 truly ended only in 1989

If i can suggest you something watch "Unconquered" The animation. Our history in animated version

Puckosar and yet poles are still some of the happiest people I’ve met. (Granted I haven’t met many poles)

especially when we were sold by Churchill for "better relations with USSR". Still Pilecki got mooooore balls in hes small finger that we all have between our legs together!

Puckosar think about that next time you hear some woke Communist call the Pols “racist” or “fascist” when they refuse to trust outsiders or Europe. The Pols have many, many reasons to for the way they are. And it all started September 1, 1939.

Yup.

Well he saw a free poland before the war

@@aidan8830 Yes, but I meant he didn't live enough to see Poland to be free again.

Amazing comment

Yes! These series need to be a thing!

Especially a national hero and patriot being executed for treachery is well... hideously ironic

@A random fat shyboi With interent access why

The SS officers tried to smash them with a sledgehammer and the sledgehammer broke

Breaking news Poland sinks into the ground because of this guys massive balls

Not disagreeing with you and he's probably the highest example of a hero throughout human history. These kinds of stories, for some reason, give me hope in humanity despite the heroes being caught in the most inhuman of times.

Jesus Christ, this legend just changed one Hell for another. I can't imagine that.

To hell and back... To another hell and then killed

or you shoudl say, he changed hell for summer holiday with communists

I think Pilecki`s quote " compared to Soviet Prisons Auschwitz was a game" was the result of being in Aushwitz and conditions that occur to him during Warsaw uprising. Starvation, loots of PTSD combined with loosing loots of men surely weakened Pileckis body. In time being tortured and "judged" he had 47 years. I have today 36 years my back hurts, my teeth also shows some issues, same story with broken in accident bones and I `ve never been on any war not mention German death camp or full of hunger Warsaw uprising. So that 47 years done some job in that quote.

@@JK-cl3sj I think it's more about that the Soviet tortures could be more individual. In the camp there were many people they had to torture and it could be more like mechanical, just beating up etc. another nameless prisoner and also war was still on so they have "bigger" problems to deal with in general. During Soviet occupation there wasn't any war in Poland, they could take their time in torturing and "have fun" while doing that and only their imagination limited them in new ways of doing that. It was like in the "1984" but with physical tortures.

It's not very comfortable for the Brits (for instance) to admit how Polish pilots helped save their ass*s in the Battle of Britain you see. Or the role of Polish mathematicians in cracking the Enigma code. The Brits would rather say they did it all alone. Because Britain did not have its finest hour when they sold us to Stalin at Yalta and refused Polish troops to join the victory parade. They were unable to fight Stalin at the time, which doesn't mean it wasn't a shameful betrayal that cost us 50 years of progress. 50 years! Now people joke that Poland is oh so backward compared to Germany or France without understanding why. Both countries had a lot of financial aid to help them rebuild, for decades. We had Stalin. Polish soldiers also fought for the liberation of France, Holland, and Belgium. They fought in Libya and the Battle of the Atlantic. I'm telling you this but the heroes that did it wouldn't be happy about it. For their generation fighting for their country was as natural as breathing air. They didn't do it for glory. And you know, after the communist government took over a lot of those soldiers were tortured and executed for being Polish patriots. Buried in unmarked graves. This is why my grandfather removed his POW tattoo and therefore never received any compensation for being a prisoner in two camps. Anyhow, thanks for listening to my TED talk.

They nor the indians And the british war crimes

There is also a story about a Polish resistance fighter who dressed as an SS man and rescued his Jewish wife and daughter from a concentration camp.

@@ronaldostrowski4014 That's the power of love.

@@ronaldostrowski4014 Do you have the name of that man. That sounds amazing

What’s the word for when you laugh and groan at the same time, so all that comes out is a weird turkey-gobble sound? Because that’s what you just made me do. Props. 🤣👍

LMFAO

We know his name.

@@KyleJordanGaming I never heard about him. And I studied about the Holocaust .

He hides behind 4859.

It is sad. I don't recall his story being covered in school ever.

I'm an American, and am all too familiar with revisionist history (native Americans, slavery, the civil war, etc) and even though I fully support the right to freedom of speech, when I hear people questioning the Holocaust or even denying that it happened it's hard not to support laws similar to ones in Europe where it's illegal to publicly question the Holocaust

just like Schindlers List.

Even Scarier is that the dude said the soviet prisons were even worse, and the soviets just got away with it

@@wardeni4806 were Soviet prisons worse than Nazi prisons? you're such a storyteller

Well i for example, dont deny it, but believe it was more forced work and death by working inhumane conditions and long hours than gas and burning , think about it logical, why kill them when you could work them to death?

*Vyraj*

Absolute mad lad and in a good way

Good thing you have now!

Hollywood will not touch his story because the judge who sentenced him for death and the executor were Jewish. The Jew who executed him moved to Israel and died there.

I didn't heard about it, what source?

@@mrMajeq yeah I'd love a source.

I saw a video released from Russian archives. Roosevelt ordered Patton and his men to go to Moscow and make friends with Russian troops. Patton and troops standing across from Russians and could see Patton not happy and there was no conversations. Patton had replied, "I will go but after I saw what these savages did to the Polish people, I will not make friends. We were on the wrong side. He was quite outspoken and upset about fact the American people were told we were going to war to free the people from Communism and you left the Polish and East Germany behind Communist rule.

@@mrMajeq "Butt source." - Adam Mickiewicz

Same I've been waiting to hear the story on this one

ComissarYarrick *and* a WatchmasterOfKrieg? Guardsmen, look sharp! For The Emperor!

Not like anyone know wtf happans here, think that he chose to stay there for 2 years instead of running at first opportunity

Był z krwi i kości żołnierzem.Brak mi słów.Jestem polskim patriotom,ale z własnej woli nie miałbym odwagi wejść do tego piekła!

Sadly, yes

culture.pl/en/article/15-historical-quirks-that-make-poland-so-different-from-the-rest-of-europe

@@Werdingo Dankeschön 👍🏻😊

yess, i'm always impressed with Indy's pronunciation!

@@annar6294 this is a great channel and I am big fan of it, they are very good and doing great stuff 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@@poisonvenom7044 both Sabaton and Indy are amazing. I've known Sabaton for a while but I like them even more now knowing how passionate they are about the history and the research they do for the songs. And I can listen to Indy for hours, I love his other channels too.

@@annar6294 yeah, you have an absolutely right, listen to them music when you know how history passionate they are is truly amazing. They know what they are singing about. Great band. What is your favorite song? I like Winged hussars, my personal hit

@@poisonvenom7044 it's hard to pick just one song, there's so many great ones😁 but I guess I'd pick Uprasing. I used to have Nuclear attack as my alarm clock for a while 😂

That's part of our job!

Your right Those eye just say it's too much

Read about the torture methods used against the perceived state enemies in Peoples Republic of Poland back then. It's astonishing they didn't break down Pilecki and didn't make him cooperate. Some of the prosecutors working for the state were former soldiers of the Polish Home Army, who betrayed...

Witold Pilecki was to be completely forgotten. His grave has not been found to this day. During the period in which the communists strengthened their power over Poland, especially during the Stalinist period of their rule, they buried murdered Polish patriots in landfills, in cesspits, in rubbed-out wells, in the cellars of their prisons, and (what a perfidy!) under the graves of communist dignitaries ! But the truth ultimately prevails ...

Either the tab of a zipper or wrist buttons.

Yes, it is one of the buttons i think, they are right next to the mic.

Ditto. I knew what I was in for with this episode, but hearing all this and seeing that footage, it's always horrifying. To think people could do that to each other. Such barbarity, such evil. May the world never again suffer industrial murder and the victims rest in peace.

What's really disturbing is that some very prominent people are trying to convince people this never happened. And Israel is taking similar actions against Palestinians. And Trump is building yet another wall based on ignorence and fear. I think too many politicians has forgotten what made Hitler and Third Reich possible.

@@johan.ohgren let me know when Biden gets nominated for 2 Nobel peace prizes.

@@blakedurston The Nobel prize has lost all its credibility. It's all politics now. And anybody can be nominated.

Thank you!

Thanks! The background really makes the song come to life

Fuck Stalin and USSR and CCP

DC4 Pilecki was asked before his escape whether it was possible for a man to escape, he said, “Its possible for one man.” And escaped.

@@foxstar612 he said “one can” I think he meant like “someone can” not “only 1 can”.

Thank you! Indy has had practice on The Great War and World War Two.

@@SabatonHistory Przemyśl Fortress :)

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