King Leopold II - The Horrors of King Leopold II in the Congo Documentary

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@PeopleProfiles 4 ай бұрын

@danielsantiagourtado3430 3 ай бұрын

Love your content guys 😊😊😊❤❤❤

@shayknight9252 3 ай бұрын

Pls!!! Do an episode on Empress Carlota of Mexico soon!!!

@12Skiter 3 ай бұрын

😢

@kb_kato Ай бұрын

Damn, he makes Hitler look like Mother Theresa

@TheProfir 14 күн бұрын

Love your content! Will you be able to do a profile on Dimitrie Cantemir or Basarab I?

@gooblygob 2 ай бұрын

Appreciate that someone is finally bringing to light the reprehensible actions of this canibal of a man. 15 million Congolese perished due to his greed and actions. It's imperative that we persist in revealing the heinous acts perpetrated by colonial powers. Countless Africans have suffered and died as a result of colonial exploitation. It is essential that these historical truths are acknowledged and shared. There are countless documentaries about slavery and the holocaust, but far too few about the attrocities of colonialism.

@nohandle257 2 ай бұрын

It's not that different today. Africa is still being carved up. See: China

@itsme-gv6yh 13 күн бұрын

Think it was 20 million plus

@user-fx3yf3vu8n 3 ай бұрын

It's incredible that for all of the cruelty and greed that Leopold inflicted on the Congo and its people, he never visited it, not even once.

@alexlents4689 2 ай бұрын

There’s definitely a direct correlation there.

@1wun1 2 ай бұрын

Shows that order followers can be idiots. And only officers were Europeans, the rest were locals.

@Guizambaldi 2 ай бұрын

Well, maybe some other million lives were spared because of this.

@1wun1 2 ай бұрын

@@Guizambaldi How is that possible?

@Guizambaldi 2 ай бұрын

@@1wun1 Well, do you think the psycho would have developed empathy if he had gone down there? If anything he would have wanted to kill more...

@sandervr10 3 ай бұрын

The sad thing about Leopold ll is that he wanted everything no matter the price for anyone but him .... And that something we have seen over and over again until today tamped Greed only stopped when its too late

@lucifie 3 ай бұрын

Oh, Leopold II was one of history's greatest villains. I don't see that he made any real contribution to the betterment of the world in general. He simply didn't care how many people had to die for his personal ambitions.

@Kruppt808 3 ай бұрын

The saying "Every man would be a tyrant if he could" Old Leopold said yah? I'll give you one you won't forget 😢😢😢

@Ekkinox04 3 ай бұрын

Country Ambition * He made a lot of things in Belgium with the wealth he gained.

@churblefurbles 3 ай бұрын

@@Ekkinox04Beyond that its fiction "(AltHype) Leopold II's Congo Genocide of 10 Million "

@rubbiegwanzura124 3 ай бұрын

Very evil person

@BamBamGT1 3 ай бұрын

@@churblefurbles Yeah, what you sad is fiction. There never was a genocide. Millions of people dying over the course of a few decades because of varous diseases, isn't a genocide.

@Mrpeace1900 3 ай бұрын

This guy died unpunished, may he rot in hell

@SuperGreatSphinx 3 ай бұрын

Divine Mercy

@malcolmscrivener8750 3 ай бұрын

Don’t you mean BURN in hell ?

@pistongreg 3 ай бұрын

He is probably facing the consequences of his actions now.

@malcolmscrivener8750 3 ай бұрын

No probably about it . Eternal justice and punishment await the evil ones .

@Facts-Over-Feelings 3 ай бұрын

@@SuperGreatSphinx NO SUCH THING

@thegreatresearcher1681 3 ай бұрын

Stanley was not born in the United States. He was born in Wales and migrated to the United States later

@nickdarr7328 Ай бұрын

The next video about famous people in Congo has to be about a man from the land of the midnight sun; Roland the headless Thompson gunner. He killed to earn his living and to help out the Congolese so he must be a hero in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In fact you can still see his headless body stalking through the night and the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun

@shellydistaola2834 3 ай бұрын

So many people don't know about him and what he did in the Congo.

@mmdiane 2 ай бұрын

Do a profile on the brutality of the Arab slave trade.

@aliciaisnumberone69 3 ай бұрын

What gives me pause is all of these societies, makes me wonder what today's charities and societies are up to.

@wt2335 3 ай бұрын

Same inhumanity

@rackss1661 3 ай бұрын

@@wt2335Facts we’re just in a world full of modern technology, internet, and mass media.

@adriannespring8598 2 ай бұрын

Aaaannnd bingo. Missionaries are nothing but terrorists. Just ask Hawaii.

@MysticChronicles712 3 ай бұрын

The documentary sheds light on a somber period in history through its examination of King Leopold II and the colonization of the Congo. To make sure these horrors of the past are never repeated, it is critical to remember them and draw lessons from them. In order to create a more equitable and compassionate world, knowledge is power. 🌍📜

@djolivierastro 3 ай бұрын

Well it's being repeated currently in front of the world since Oct 2023 , Israel kills a child every 10 m and.Belgium supports Israel as well as it arms and supports Ukreich

@marycollins-bastian1569 3 ай бұрын

The brutality of the Belgian forces in the Congo are pretty dismal, compared to the Holocaust of the Jews by the Germans. More than 10 million Congolese either died or were tortured. Men’s hands were cut off to punish theft or so-called laziness.

@Ekkinox04 3 ай бұрын

@@marycollins-bastian1569 The King's army in Congo had more Congoleses in it than Belgians.

@cb6163 3 ай бұрын

There's a movement in the U.S. to suppress these teachings.

@churblefurbles 3 ай бұрын

@@Ekkinox04 Yep, bad history serving an agenda, covered in "(AltHype) Leopold II's Congo Genocide of 10 Million"

@elvisiriowen7194 3 ай бұрын

One interesting thing about these European monarchies is that they were never really indigenous to the country they ruled. They were usually foreigners in the very countries they ruled. No wonder they were so quick to turn use the people they rule to invade other countries at will.

@miguel.ledesmaledesma1790 3 ай бұрын

Very underrated as it pertains to his evilness. Definitely one of the most evil that has ever lived and walked amongst us.

@SuperGreatSphinx 3 ай бұрын

Leopold's administration of the Congo Free State was characterized by atrocities and systematic brutality, including forced labour, torture, murder, kidnapping, and the amputation of the hands of men, women, and children when the quota of rubber was not met. In one of the first uses of the term, George Washington Williams described the practices of Leopold's administration of the Congo Free State as "crimes against humanity" in 1890. These and other facts were established during Leopold's rule by eyewitness testimony, by on-site inspection from an international commission of inquiry, by the investigative journalism and activism of E. D. Morel, and by the 1904 Casement Report.

@rootigaroot9922 2 ай бұрын

What even was the practicality of amputating hands? They can't even work then, it feels like being evil for no reason

@rageius 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your references. For someone new on the subject it gives the original subject matter something to research and read. I have just read excerpts from the Casement report for example, if it were not for you I would probably just hear second hand sources as how much of history is taught now as opposed to reading the original during the time it happened.

@Joe-ul4uz Ай бұрын

@@rootigaroot9922 It was to intimidate those who could work. Many of the amputations were of women and children. There is a famous picture you can google "Nsala hands" and see a father staring at the severed hand and foot of his 5 year old daughter.

@alookabab4810 Ай бұрын

@@rootigaroot9922 Perhaps as a deterrent and 'motivation' for other Congolese to work harder and faster...

@CedricSmith-un6vm 3 ай бұрын

Nice to hear my African history, I know what was happening with my ancestors in South Africa, thank you for this documentary.

@mertalakr573 3 ай бұрын

Leopold was a guy with a heart full of darkness.

@SuperGreatSphinx 3 ай бұрын

Greed

@Kruppt808 3 ай бұрын

@@SuperGreatSphinxmurder, torture, genocide, manipulation, grandiose delusional psychotic individual. Yah plus greed

@XOPOIIIO 3 ай бұрын

More like our knowledge about his heart is full of darkness. He never knew about the situation in Congo, in fact he organized expedition to prove if the rumors were true. I don't think he intentionally caused all these suffering.

@vre7474 3 ай бұрын

He was white

@thedevine7963 3 ай бұрын

@XOPOIIIO yet when he was advised,he did nothing to correct the situation

@vasilisbogodimos8107 3 ай бұрын

Can you make a documentary about king Otto of Greece ? I admire immensely your work.

@fr0gstomp957 3 ай бұрын

If there was ever a person that was the personification of the word “Greed”, it was Leopold II.

@SuperGreatSphinx 3 ай бұрын

Avarice

@pertinaxhaszard3818 3 ай бұрын

I'd say it comes down to Leopold and Cecil Rhodes.

@Kruppt808 3 ай бұрын

Plenty of powerful people in history have been maniacal insane despots where there is no enough.

@churblefurbles 3 ай бұрын

No, certain figures are smeared for a reason, "(AltHype) Leopold II's Congo Genocide of 10 Million"

@Wolffur 3 ай бұрын

Not to mention callousness.

@ASwagPecan 3 ай бұрын

Been waiting for this one

@user-iz8lu8mo4r 3 ай бұрын

AFrica is waiting a chANCE FOR VENGANCE

@kafiswe100 3 ай бұрын

For Congo 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇬🇨🇬

@thebrickton1947 3 ай бұрын

No, against moniarchal control of all people.

@peterc4082 3 ай бұрын

@@thebrickton1947 For Marx, for Stalin

@razor8704 7 күн бұрын

Where?

@syttt7925 2 ай бұрын

Can you also do one on Haiti, because so few people know that they beat the French colonialists during slavery and fought and won against Napoleon but were bankrupted by France who forced the enslaved people to pay reparations to the French slave owners?

@syttt7925 2 ай бұрын

Can you please do one on African independence from France and being forced to sign a treaty for the continuation of colonialisation in order to receive it? I am interested in how France set up the means to have army bases in all of those countries and the right to take action if their interests are under threat, as well as having first rights to minerals and forcing countries to put a significant amount of their GDP into the French central bank.

@susanlett9632 2 күн бұрын

An absolute monster!

@ladymsthing6056 3 ай бұрын

Excellent video as usual!

@blackwidowspider9852 3 ай бұрын

King Leopold Was a monster The torture and murders and disabilities he caused in the Congo Infamous

@tonycatman 3 ай бұрын

Almost all of the stories about him are made up. They come from a book called "Leopold's Ghost", itself based on some fabrications from an early SJW called Alice Seeley-Harris. Among other things, the author relies on his own mistranslations from French, which portray the exact opposite of the original meaning. It was originally a mistake made by the author, and he has acknowledged those mistakes but is refusing to make corrections to the book.

@ruffinc1783 3 ай бұрын

@@tonycatmanhmmmmm interesting

@frannelwokatega4057 3 ай бұрын

All because of wanting to accumulate wealth. Despite all the accumulation, he also eventually died and went to meet all those he killed through his greed.

@SuperGreatSphinx 3 ай бұрын

Memento mori

@mwangimuturi1091 3 ай бұрын

He was indeed a monster

@ailishmccarthy9147 3 ай бұрын

Would love an episode on Lord Mount batten. I think he led an interesting life

@patrickirwin3662 3 ай бұрын

@frednurc4088 3 ай бұрын

Yeah remember that whole India Pakistan thing that he screwed up?

@juliemercer1458 3 ай бұрын

If you call having an unhealthy interest in young boys Interesting then I suppose it was 😮

@patrickhouston2610 3 ай бұрын

@@juliemercer1458 don't forget the wife, FBI have a lot to say about both of them, Charlie boy was instructed by this uncle !

@itsMe_TheHerpes 3 ай бұрын

😂 if you let the media today make a doc about him, it's going to make him a hero, along with his buddy J. Savile.

@BrianJosephMorgan 3 ай бұрын

Fascinating.

@michaelowino228 3 ай бұрын

Good video.

@franciscoguillermojauregui6725 29 күн бұрын

Excellent documentary. Congratulations

@trixielonglegs8320 2 ай бұрын

Great Documentary 👍 👌 A+. ❤ from 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁

@maheryahya 2 ай бұрын

I didn't know about this monster at school.

@groverachristiansen9645 3 ай бұрын

This documentation of the history of Belgium was intense and of an ecellent presentation in how complex the politics are. Every action has consequences noone can predict. King Leopold and his economically prosperity, however, did not have a strict moral and mental diciplin in the aspect of respecting every human rights to be free from all types of slavery at all times. That slipped through his fingers. Gro Vera Neste Christiansen. Norway.

@dalemcilwain 3 ай бұрын

Leopold II, The Belguin Monster.

@JOn87_STRONG Ай бұрын

The greatest Belgium king 🇧🇪

@bluestrife28 3 ай бұрын

As a kid I imagined an island European power that had evolved largely separate from the rest and over the centuries came into conflict with the enslaving West because this nation was completely against the use and abuse of other humans…I guess it is what the US was taught to me as a kid that it was, but it wasn’t. My little stories even carried this nation against Murrca. It can make one pretty sad when they look back and go “where did I come from?” and the answer is: “not from much good.” But we just hope we can be the ones who remember and don’t forget the past.

@Homo.homicidalus 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for this interesting video. But please advise why you report Henry Morton Stanley was "born in America"? Others report Stanley was born as John Rowlands on 28 January 1841 in Denbigh, Wales, UK.

@glennnot5719 3 ай бұрын

Dude was a true baller.

@shayknight9252 3 ай бұрын

Pls!!! Do an episode on Empress Carlota of Mexico soon!!!

@adriannespring8598 2 ай бұрын

Check out the book: "The Crown of Mexico" by Joan Haslip

@AdrianWheeler-xm9ml 3 ай бұрын

inspiration for Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

@ladymsthing6056 3 ай бұрын

Excellent book.

@kevinlockhart4584 Ай бұрын

Wonderful expose on this historic villan.

@brigitteleirens6 3 ай бұрын

Magnifique.

@NapoleonBonaparteMAGA 3 ай бұрын

This is an excellent documentary

@nhva6807 3 ай бұрын

Amazing work again best historical videos on KZfaq can you do Kaizer Wilhelm 1and 2 maybe Otto von Bismarck or archduke franz Ferdinand some of the czars and king George the 5th

@UhriLammas 3 ай бұрын

There's already a video about George V of Britain on this channel.

@Hooibeest2D 3 ай бұрын

Kaiser Wilhelm was a looney, with one arm shorter he couldn't even chop wood alone. Sadly enough this was his main hobby. After a year of exile in the Netherlands he was asked friendly not to chop down any more trees with his small army of lumberjacks he cleared woods like a termite 😂 didn't even use the wood just pasing time.

@V1CT0RIOUS_ 3 ай бұрын

@@Hooibeest2DWhere did you get that from? Vicky? He was capable of chopping wood on his own as he trained his right arm to fulfill the things his left arm was incapable of. His right arm was sad to be so strong that he hurt the hands of those he shook. He was able to perform all of the physical capabilities a young teenager could when he was one as his tutor noted. He could swim, ride a horse and run normally. He was even able to go out hunting and shoot! Also no one requested that he stop chopping down the trees at Huis Doorn, the forest was his property really and no one seemed to mind as he would donate wood to those who needed it.

@rudimesina4016 3 ай бұрын

@ruffinc1783 3 ай бұрын

@@UhriLammasreally 👍

@ketsuekikumori9145 3 ай бұрын

Knowing what this bastard gets up to, not looking forward to the horrors.

@katherinecollins4685 3 ай бұрын

Interesting documentary

@danielsantiagourtado3430 3 ай бұрын

Love your work guys! Leopold I deserved a better heir. Can you make a video on him? Hes a great figure! 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪

@daydays12 3 ай бұрын

A fairly interesting video. Thank you. What did these 'royal' characters ever do except be born and get married?....Where is the art, music, literature, scientific discoveries that any of them ever made?

@OneDayWillFlyAway 3 ай бұрын

You can’t choose your parents. As the video shows, there are many coincidences who marries who, which child survives and which child dies. Sometimes I feel the ones that have died early in life may have been the more fortunate ones. Also we hear about these people, not about the millions unknown people that gave or had to give their lives for the historical persons… I think we are weird to lookup to power. The apes on the rock

@judithgrace9850 2 ай бұрын

Excellent

@nickk6518 3 ай бұрын

As an aside, Henry Morton Stanley's impressive grave is in the churchyard of St. Michael and All Angels, Pirbright, Surrey.

@sylviamawudoku 3 ай бұрын

Leopold the Il was a monster in what he did to Africans The Congo.

@dslapster64 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely

@Real_Claudy_Focan 2 ай бұрын

"in his private backyard"

@annayosh 3 ай бұрын

#25:59 "A Welshman, born in the United States..." - Stanley was not born in the United States; he emigrated there at the age of 18.

@colinritchie1398 3 ай бұрын

I would like you to do A video on the pirate Captain Henry Morgan

@Rizzler2169 2 ай бұрын

and what a bastion of freedom and equality the DRC is ...

@ethanramos4441 3 ай бұрын

“The Congo Free State is unique in its kind. It has nothing to hide and no secrets and is not beholden to anyone expect its founder” Leopold II of Belgium

@staciasmith5162 3 ай бұрын

Europe, Australia, and Canada and the US imperialism and settler colonialism have been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of their victims around the world. It continues til this day. 😢

@SebTheEpixGamer 3 ай бұрын

A very well made video watched throughout whilst building on my Minecraft creative world what an evil man Leopold was

@blaisedonnelly2760 2 ай бұрын

The answer to the final question seems apparent to me.Quite the history.

@bravosierra2447 3 ай бұрын

I’m going to be nitpicky here. Napoleon III of France’s lifespan is shown as “1808 til 1973” (5:29) 😅

@Agencetourix 3 ай бұрын

He found the Fountain of Youth 😆

@larsnienstadt9538 3 ай бұрын

The shock of the Watergate scandal must have done him in 😂

@sharonshea3261 2 ай бұрын

What an enlightening documentary. Leopold II was no doubt both, to answer the question. He did some showy building in Belgium and had political foresight there, but he has responsibility for what happened in Congo since he was the boss. If he didn't know, he should have. Ultimately, that was his responsibility.

@PureWhiteWolf 2 ай бұрын

Leopold II was and will always be BASED!

@yukoncornileus4 Күн бұрын

He was a great man.

@josephsiracusa2618 3 ай бұрын

An excellent historical documentary of an inherently amoral, corrupt monarch. Leopold's contempt for human life, under the guise of protector, is a cautionary tale.

@jayhuxley2559 3 ай бұрын

He must had a proud collection of hands..

@user-uj9zj4uv5r 3 ай бұрын

Leopold was a bad man

@ladymsthing6056 3 ай бұрын

I think he was typical. Poor Africa, always terrible leadership, regardless of race.

@jockspock4233 3 ай бұрын

This channel is my new drug.

@Tom-ri8ws 3 ай бұрын

Ho Chi Mingh of Vietnam 🇻🇳 next?

@kallekas8551 3 ай бұрын

I implored you to do C G E Mannerheim…

@IsntTheInternetGreat 3 ай бұрын

Yes! I visited the Mannerheim museum in Helsinki last year.

@BrewUrOwnBeer 3 ай бұрын

Would love to see you do ep on Joseph Smith

@sjoncb 3 ай бұрын

What a monster.

@fortunatomartino8549 2 ай бұрын

How did king Leopold create the infrastructure to gather all the rubber while killing 10 million people

@XOPOIIIO 3 ай бұрын

Ребята, давайте жить дружно!

@MisterOcclusion 3 ай бұрын

It sounds like all he was concerned about was profit. How it was generated wasn’t on his radar

@deancrabtree9965 2 ай бұрын

I love this guy, I wish I could’ve worked for him in the Congo😂

@iasiaware3797 3 ай бұрын

His grandmother Queen Victoria gave him Congo and Belgium 🤦🏽‍♀️

@commando2113 Ай бұрын

Nope the king of the belgian's was chosen by the peopel of belgium

@steveweinstein3222 Ай бұрын

I consider myself a pretty tough customer, but I had to keep putting down the book King Leopold's Ghost because it was so disturbing.

@oeweka1 3 ай бұрын

Wow....

@nauticdixons 2 ай бұрын

Who are his offspirngs? Do they still use his name? I want to know.

@jeanwilliquet4035 3 ай бұрын

43.51 you show French francs. I doubt we were using those.

@russell2910 3 ай бұрын

Do one on coland " fedsmoker" Peterson

@glenseguin572 3 ай бұрын

Takes his place among the murderous ghouls of history!

@immortalituss 3 ай бұрын

The number of victims of the free state due to lowered fertility disease hunger violence and mass emigration is a population decline of 1.2 million, not 10 as previously claimed. I also want to note the same atrocities were systemic in cabinda, angola, kamerun and french equatorial africa

@dougedoug2105 Ай бұрын

24:56 What city is that?

@drjohnl7524 3 ай бұрын

Horror, horror.

@eduardobagdadi8701 3 ай бұрын

Hi everyone I can't believe the history it never ever leave me me a surprise, a pretty awful the politician behaviors, they are alway a kind of criminals

@childofGodsKingdom 3 ай бұрын

All were indeed greedy, avarious criminals. As the Nazis were...

@silverbearinsights7049 3 ай бұрын

New subscriber here. I don't know if you take requests, but can this channel do a biography on John Dickenson? Please.

@dayshenacleare5667 3 ай бұрын

Sad, fighting over land that didn't belong to them here it is 2024 and they're fighting for the same land.

@emojiking8580 3 ай бұрын

Next 😮

@Congomania 3 ай бұрын

Kongo spirits are him and his associates. The spiritual crimes and legacy shall not be left to rest till Justice is served. Henry Morton Stanley, the agent. The Kongos are seeking Justice. Yengeeeeee

@jambouh8575 3 ай бұрын

There is still streets and avenues in the “ democratic world “ still bearing his name , their is a lot of buildings streets and institutions named after him in Europe that must tell you something.

@handlehaggler 3 ай бұрын

disgusting behaviour. atrocious. How shameful. Towards the planet and the people. Farout. Imagine people put this much effort into the right things

@caraelizabeth7307 3 ай бұрын

Would love to see a video on Roger Casement himself; what a fascinating guy. Was his 'black diary' real? Or was it a smear to destroy his reputation before sending him to the scaffold?

@abdullahkarim4678 3 ай бұрын

Time to give Gold diamond

@Hiphophouse90 3 ай бұрын

King Leopold II was very greedy man and did not care about the human suffering he cause in the Congo and on top that we was big Liar !!! To my Congolese brothers in Belgium currently living there, all those Grand Buildings with the name King Leopold II tag to it just remember that the buildings were build with the sweat and blood of your ancestors .