Learn more about the last campaigns of the Eastern Front (1944-1945): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ms6Kp8R3uN7TdZ8.html
@CalebNorthNorman3 жыл бұрын
👍 i like it. Good Job
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
@@CalebNorthNorman Thanks!
@CalebNorthNorman3 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle So welcome
@chipo88773 жыл бұрын
Why did you delete my comment that I made several minutes ago? Its because you did not like what I wrote?
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
@@chipo8877 YT deletes a lot of comments by itself. If you wrote harsh language or hate-speech I also might have deleted it.
@josephlaferriere4515 Жыл бұрын
Years ago, I was taking a class at the University of Rhode Island, a class on the German language. The teacher told us she had been born in East Prussia. She was 10 years old at the end of the war. Troops came to the house and told the family "You have one day to leave this home. Take whatever you can carry and head west." So, they loaded belongings into an ox-drawn cart, climbed on, and rode off into the sunset. The teacher said that she was excited about going on a trip to new places. She was 10 and did not understand the situation. The family eventually made it into what became West Germany. Eventually, she married an American who brought her to the USA. Very nice lady. I learned a lot from her, a lot more than just the language.
@HistoryHustle Жыл бұрын
Very interesting to read. Thanks for sharing.
@alijumc10 ай бұрын
It is very painful when you are forced to leave your home. Many cities in Germany commemorate this. A lot of orphans came long way.
@mirektobiasz74206 ай бұрын
How easy it is to forget who started WWII, and what Germans did to occupied nations. So, don't make aggressors a victims. OK.
@Steve14ps5 ай бұрын
@@mirektobiasz7420 Politicians started the war, ordinary people suffer. Cities bombed, Warsaw, Dresden, Rotterdam, Danzig, Coventry, Hamburg, Liverpool, Berlin, the list goes on
@mirektobiasz74205 ай бұрын
@@Steve14psordinary Germans supported Hitler. Don't forget about it.
@peterjansen38462 жыл бұрын
My mother was 12 years old when her family fled their farm in East Prussia. The family all survived but the horrors they witnessed scarred them for life. My mother never really recovered and died from overdose exactly 20 years later.
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing.
@patriciabrenner9216 Жыл бұрын
Well they should have ''witnessed'' what Germans did in Sobidor, Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen. What happened to them was nothing.
@Kris-ek1id Жыл бұрын
Being ethnic Germans(not Nazis though), My Grandmother took my Mom and 2 sisters and escaped Danzig in 1945. My Grandfather was marched off to Siberia. He escaped and eventually found his family in Germany at a Red Cross camp. My Mom was only 7 in '45 but the trauma was carried by her for a lifetime. The Russia generals took over my Grandmother's house and made her cook for them. The Russians would get drunk and point guns at them all the time. They raped everybody. I went with her in the mid 90s back to Gdansk (formerly Danzig). First time back for her and she remembered everything like it was yesterday. She remembered the songs the German soldiers sang as they were marched off to Siberia. She pointed at trees where people were hanged and remembered the hellfire that consumed the city as it was bombed into oblivion. The stories were just incredible. She ended up in the US.
@patriciabrenner9216 Жыл бұрын
@@Kris-ek1id Not nazis? ROFLOL. The German in Gdansk elected a pro Nazi government in 1937.
@buzz2393 Жыл бұрын
@@Kris-ek1id it's almost like if you invade a country and kill off 13% of their population, they'll get mad! No sympathy for germans.
@redsocks77111 ай бұрын
One note on East Prussia Gauleiter Erich Koch. He gave the order stay and fight (build defensive works), meanwhile he himself fled from the area knowing the Soviets were close by.
@Oliver1977-rw8qr5 ай бұрын
Er ist sogar noch mal in den Heiligenbeiler Kessel geflogen....
@schizomonika3 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't blame them for fleeing; I would flee myself not wanting to have any possibility of being violated and or killed. At their hands that is, I'd rather die fleeing than after being violated like that. Edit: the fact people replying to this have attempted to justify these acts is disturbing and saying I should've have "faced" it too is sick.
@schizomonika3 жыл бұрын
@@rosesprog1722 it makes me feel awful.
@schizomonika3 жыл бұрын
@@user-ue4nq3kc3j Then don't be? It's just worrying when you hear about the things that happened and you supposedly feel nothing for them. That's worrying, as a human, to feel nothing as you hear accounts of brutal rape, murder and soldiers of the Red army looking on and laughing. Yet you feel nothing? Worrying and actually leaves me a bit disturbed. Yes, some probably supported the regime. The regime did terrible things unthinkable things. That in no way justifies these horrors, just as nothing can justify what the German regime did. NOBODY deserves this treatment, Germans, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, NOBODY does. If you feel nothing for the victims, fine. But just know that the Germans probably felt the same when commiting their own numerous atrocities. No sympathy, just thinly veiled justification. Now, I come from a German family. So maybe I feel more personal about this just as someone who is from Eastern Europe may, but we should look beyond that and all agree of the atrocious nature of these acts and aim to be better.
@schizomonika3 жыл бұрын
@@user-ue4nq3kc3j Also, reading further into what you said... Justice? If that's your idea of justice then just don't continue replying because I won't justify any reply with my own. I personally find that horrendous.
@user-ue4nq3kc3j3 жыл бұрын
@@rosesprog1722 "It should have been Mihailović." Well that is shocking and shows that you know nothing about Balkans during WW2. He was a Nazi colaborator and commited some of the worst crimes in Yugoslavia. Dozens of my familly members were forced into a mosque and then burned alive by his forces for example. Do you really think that British would have supported Communists if Mihailović who was a royalist didn't colaborate with Nazis and commit brutal war crimes.
@schizomonika3 жыл бұрын
@@rosesprog1722 I wouldn't bother responding to someone who would justify war crimes so blatantly.
@wengsoonyuen2086 Жыл бұрын
In 1998 when I titled my master thesis in international relations, the Forgotten Holocaust (the expulsions of the Germans from Eastern Europe) and how it affected the relationships between West Germany/Germany and the affected East European countries, my West German born professor simply threw my thesis proposal onto the floor in front of the class. He then added that the term "holocaust" could not be used for the German experiences because they more or less deserved it. I delayed my graduation by not writing the thesis until 2 years later. By then Gunther Grass had won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999 and I had a more sympathetic Swedish professor as my thesis advisor who had no "emotional/political" baggage to reject my use of the "controversial" term. I graduated in 2000. Iris Chang had used the terms "The Forgotten Holocaust of the Second World War" for her book about the Nanking Massacre by the Imperial Japanese Army in WW2.
@patriciabrenner9216 Жыл бұрын
Your ptofessor was right. Using the term Holocaust for the nGermans should be a no no. And let us not forget that Gunther Grass served in the Waffen SS.
@houssemmasri9861 Жыл бұрын
@@patriciabrenner9216 What did the jews do after the Holocaust? Where did they go? And, what did they do there?
@patriciabrenner9216 Жыл бұрын
@@houssemmasri9861 They went to their country of Israel and developed it something no Arab country ever did. The colonizers that came with Omar can go back to Arabia.
@houssemmasri9861 Жыл бұрын
@@patriciabrenner9216 That's why i'm at least neutral about the Nazis
@patriciabrenner9216 Жыл бұрын
@@houssemmasri9861 Oh that Arabs were allies of the Nazis, we know. As despicable. And I love that you the Egyptiands have lost 4 wars against the Yahood. My husband was stationed for months in Faid.
@strychnyne35302 жыл бұрын
My grandmother spoke about this. My grandfather was killed and my grandmother had to evacuate by vistula lagoon. Each family would position themselves about 30 yards apart. As they crossed in the dead of night she would hear the ice crack and families fall thru. They had wagon carts and she would hear cries of people and horses. Nobody could do anything but hope they made it accross. 50 years later and my grandmother could still hear those cries.
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Harrowing account. Thanks for sharing.
@mirquellasantos2716 Жыл бұрын
If that was your grandmother imagine the Jews, Poles, Russians, handicapped people, gays....... Those were brutally tortured and killed by Germans.
@cavemandude2579 ай бұрын
@@mirquellasantos2716 disgusting how you just jump over one misery to point out another. BUT Stalin is proud of you I guess maybe you join him in hell
@mirektobiasz74203 ай бұрын
@@mirquellasantos2716agree with you. Aggressors portraited as victims. Didn't they welcome their fuhrer when Free City of Danzig was "reunited" with Reich.
@mirektobiasz74203 ай бұрын
And of course, they didn't know anything about concentration camps.
@alexanderrohde-calleja38433 жыл бұрын
My father (then 12 years old) and my grandmother escaped just as you said from Bartenstein (North of Allenstein) to the frozen Vistula lagoon and from there to Danzig where a German minesweeper loaded with refugees took them to Pomerania/Denmark. He always remembered how they used ropes to tie one another because the Soviet planes overflew and shot on the frozen Lagoon breaking the ice. If nobody could pull you out, you'd be frozen in no time.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing.
@patriciabrenner92163 жыл бұрын
Fine. They got exactly what the German planes did when people fled Warsaw.
@romanalexandrovich97853 жыл бұрын
Der FSB wurde zum 75. Jahrestag der Gründung der Region freigegeben und an die Regionalarchive übergeben. Die Gräueltaten der Deutschen werden in Gang gesetzt. Ein wesentlicher Teil der veröffentlichten Dokumente zeugt von den Verbrechen der deutschen Nationalsozialisten gegen die Gefangenen der Lager. Auf dem Gebiet Ostpreußens gab es fast fünfzig Lager (auch für Kriegsgefangene), von denen sich 17 in Königsberg befanden. Insbesondere monströse Gräueltaten wurden von den Deutschen im ostpreußischen Zweig des Konzentrationslagers Stutthof, einer großen "Todesfabrik", begangen. Das Lager Stutthof, fünfzig Kilometer von der polnischen Stadt Danzig entfernt, wurde am 2. September 1939, einen Tag nach Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs, gegründet. Hitlers Ärzte verwendeten Gefangene als Testpersonen in ihren Experimenten und stellten Seife aus menschlichem Fett her. Ein Stück solcher Seife wurde später bei den Nürnberger Prozessen als Beispiel für die Wildheit der Nazis gezeigt. Stutthof hatte mehrere Dutzend Niederlassungen auf dem Gebiet des polnischen Pommern, Ostpreußens und Ostpommerns. Die brutalen Massaker an den Deutschen gegen die Zivilbevölkerung werden in einer Sonderbotschaft erwähnt, die von Oberst Isaac Iofis verfasst wurde, der vom Volkskommissariat für innere Angelegenheiten der UdSSR für die 43. Armee autorisiert wurde und an den NKWD gerichtet ist, der für die 1. Baltische Front, den für Sicherheit zuständigen Kommissar Ivan, zuständig ist Tkachenko (der später den Regimedienst des ersten sowjetischen Unternehmens zur Gewinnung von Plutonium für Atomwaffen in der Stadt Tscheljabinsk-40, heute Ozersk, leitete). Wie Iofis berichtete, wurden am 15. Februar 1945 in der Nähe der Stadt Kumenen in Ostpreußen über hundert brutal gefolterte Zivilisten - Russen, Juden, Franzosen, Rumänen - in einer Waldschlucht gefunden, und die Mehrheit der Getöteten waren Frauen von 18 bis 35 Jahren. In den Taschen einiger der Getöteten befand sich spärliches Essen - kleine Kartoffelknollen, Hafer, Weizenkörner und Becher, Tassen und Holzlöffel waren an ihren Gürteln festgebunden. Wie von einer Sonderkommission festgelegt, handelte es sich um KZ-Häftlinge. Es stellte sich heraus, dass alle von den Deutschen "während des hastigen Rückzugs der Deutschen unter dem Ansturm der Roten Armee" erschossen wurden.
@patriciabrenner92163 жыл бұрын
@@romanalexandrovich9785 My Husband's aunt was in Stutthof... :-(
@romanalexandrovich97853 жыл бұрын
@@patriciabrenner9216 I feel sorry for her, such things should never repeat again.
@discoverynorthcarolina98243 жыл бұрын
A dark time in human history, you did a excellent job in explaining it.....
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@charles25212 жыл бұрын
Have you ever noticed that the crime of certain peoples is always the fault of all humanity, even when it is only they who do it?
@marusdod36855 ай бұрын
@@charles2521which crime have only germans committed?
@charles25215 ай бұрын
@od3685 I'm trying to help you think with your head, not to manipulate you. Pay attention to the pattern that the narrative "this is a problem for all of humanity" is only used to refer to the problems of a specific people. But false accusations used to defame other people, even when they are psychological projections, are never considered "problems of humanity".
@peterl58043 жыл бұрын
My aunt left East Prussia when she was 3 and made it to the Rhineland. When she was 4 years old people still had to tell her not to drink out of the street gutter as she was used to. As Easterners in an area where nobody had any food they had a hard time on arrival. The war created many random and innocent victims.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing, hard times these were.
@patriciabrenner92163 жыл бұрын
Innocent? No German was innocent.
@peterl58043 жыл бұрын
Interesting comment. Just call yourself lucky you weren’t born in Germany in 1925 then.
@patriciabrenner92163 жыл бұрын
@@peterl5804 As a Jew, wouldn't have changed my vision of Germany!
@peterl58043 жыл бұрын
But following your own logic you’d be guilty as a person born German, as you suggest that ethnicity rather than personal behaviour makes you guilty or not. That it a bizarrely nationalist way of looking at the world.
@sumitschitoll3 жыл бұрын
Well done video mate , it’s sad no one talk about this part of history in Germany, what Germans suffered in east Prussia and expulsions of German , lost lands , all got hidden under biggger war guilt, Nevertheless Germany has suffered a lot and it’s not political but a normal person during war
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comment. Do understand that many East Prussians did support Hitler. And don't forget to bigger suffering of the Eastern Europeans at the hands of the Nazis.
@danielbishop18633 жыл бұрын
It was true that a majority (56.5%) of East Prussians for the NSDAP in the March 1933 election. But it was also true that a majority of Hannoverians (54.3%) voted for the NSDAP, and they got to keep their land after the war.
@vegemarkr45823 жыл бұрын
actually i learned about it school. We had an entire section of our book dedicated to it. Of course we talked more about the stuff the nazis did because that was obviously worse. But our goverment said that kicking people of their land, where some of them probably fought against the nazis, is worth mentioning.
@Janoip3 жыл бұрын
@@lukei6255 dafuq
@theangrylizard19902 жыл бұрын
The Germans suffered during the war because they started the war. They never would have suffered if they did not start the war. They were not martyrs in this. Equivocating between their suffering and the suffering the inflicted on others only shows your allegiance to them and your approval of the crimes of Nazi Germany. Nothing more. Nothing less. Nothing else. You are on the wrong side of history. You lost. You deserved to lose. The whole world knows this. Get over it.
@fghelmke6 ай бұрын
80 years ago. Today their grandchildren live a prosperous life instead of spending money on tunnels and revenge.
@Goaner89 Жыл бұрын
My uncle was one of the children who stayed with his mother in east prussia. They got seperated and he wandered around with other children. I think they are called "wolfs-kinder" in german. They begged and stole food and slept in the woods or ruins. Only authority were some Red armie, they always avoid them and most soldiers didnt care about them. He came to modern germany in 1947 I think and was reunited with the family
@stephengoodwin64033 жыл бұрын
some of my ancestors were in those crowds,(the ones that weren;t killed),and I know a few survivors,one lady from Insterberg,another from Memel
@kevinmarrs33723 жыл бұрын
My grandfather was born in Memel in 1942
@krakataukrakatau91373 жыл бұрын
Where do they live now? Where did the majority of East Prussians, Silesians and Pomeranians settle after the war?
@ende45213 жыл бұрын
@@krakataukrakatau9137 my great grandfather had no home to go back to and didn't get recompensed for lost property there, he was working in the UK as a POW after being transferred by the soviets and just stayed in the UK
@ottovonostrovo14863 жыл бұрын
@@krakataukrakatau9137: Our family were from East Prussia and Pomerania and they spread themselves across mostly West Germany while my parents moved to Canada. When I visited and lived for a year in Germany in the early 1970s our relatives were spread across Germany from Schleswig-Holstein to the Pfalz (Palatinate) a relative had even settled in communist East Berlin, I wasn't allowed to visit them. Oddly no close relatives settled in Bavaria. My fathers family was expelled from Posen Province following WW1, opa finally found a job and died before the war in Kolberg but in 1945 my oma was forced to flee again this time from Kolberg on the last German ship evacuating civilians and any surviving soldiers. I know that she never killed ANYBODY!! My fathers best friend and my godfather who also emigrated to Canada after WW2 was originally from Allenstein!
@LTPottenger3 жыл бұрын
European refugees get torpedoed, everyone else gets put up in a hotel and free meals and wifi.
@andrescha82683 жыл бұрын
Well, the Red Army not only raped German women but also Polish, Hungarian and others. Pure revenge cannot be the reason for this brutalities and it doesn't explain, why soldiers carried out brutalities though coming from a part of the USSR that wasn't occupied by the Germans
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
The brutalities in East Prussia were different because revenge played a role (so did it against Hungary).
@davidraper5798 Жыл бұрын
One of those often overlooked aspects of World War II, the suffering of the civilians caught up in the maelstrom of war.
@HistoryHustle Жыл бұрын
Indeed.
@patriciabrenner9216 Жыл бұрын
German civilians cheered the war while the Germans were murdering millions of civilians. They deserve zero pity.
@emiliechoquette8483 жыл бұрын
Didn’t know you were a teacher, lucky students!
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
:D
@benbarber68183 жыл бұрын
Would love of being teached by this guy so much I dident no about some of these subjects thank you very much my freind keep up the good work 👍
@Janko6303 жыл бұрын
Chances are you already had a remarkable teacher. You just didn't realize it.
@emiliechoquette8483 жыл бұрын
@@Janko630 None of my teachers edited youtube videos on their spare time
@paulmattt3 жыл бұрын
Soviets did not only tape German women. They treated the same way Polish women as well. Thousands upon thousands were raped.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
That's true, but this video is about East Prussia.
@paulmattt3 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle you suggested that it was done out of revenge for Nazi atrocities.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
And that's true. It doesn't mean other women were safe.
@Theorbe1003 жыл бұрын
@History Hustle : One small correction - Marion, Countess Donhoff was BORN in Schloss Friedichstein, and lived there as a child, but during the war she managed the estates at Schloss Quinttainen, south of Elbing near Mohrungen. She tells how she went to the Kreisstadt Preussich Holland to ask permission from the Kreisleiter to evacuate, but found that all the party "Bonzen" had already left, leaving the population to their fate. Her workers thought they would be safe, but urged her to go, because she was an aristocrat, and she rode 700 kilometers on her horse from Quittainnen to Westfalen. One of the houses at Quittainen is still intact, but the other is still a ruin. There is no trace of Schloss Friedrichstein at all. There is an interesting, and moving, account of her return there with Juri Ivanow in his book "Von Kaliningrad nach Konigsberg", how he allowed her to go alone from his car to the site of her birthplace. I have over 700 books about all this, and many films and documents, here in England, and have visited many of these places during the last 23 years. Thank you for the film.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your reply.
@RamblingRecruiter3 жыл бұрын
Would love to know more about how the Germans who got caught on the wrong side of the wall felt about the DDR.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Something for a future video.
@Rebel-Rouser2 жыл бұрын
What a terrible time in human history. I just finished the Guy Sajer book "forgotten soldier" and it speaks of the horrible memel evacuation... Such misery and sadness.
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Indeed.
@Wolf-hh4rv10 ай бұрын
Yes I read that too. Memel just north of Konigsberg, a living hell for German civilians and soldiers
@omarkraidie11 ай бұрын
WWII was insane I cannot stop reading WWII books. Currently reading The Fall of Berlin 1945 by: Antony Beevor.
@HistoryHustle11 ай бұрын
Good read 👍
@shylockwesker553011 ай бұрын
Ethnic Poles, Masurians, SIlesians and Kashubians were not exempt from atrocities and rapes. Any village on the way of the Red Army was lucky to escape with their lives, but women and girls suffered greatly and homes and farms were robbed. The Russians didn't ask questions.
@user-ne9ko1ew3q4 ай бұрын
Это ваше враньё
@johannusverhoeff4911 Жыл бұрын
The argument of revenge is what is always used. That is a dumb argument. The guilty must pay for a crime, not family members or friends of the guilty. I knew Russians who have been saved by Germans and saw them as liberators. Russians were not treated nice by the Soviets either. War allows the criminally insane to do things they could not get away with in peace time and then be called heroes. Rape becomes revenge, plunder becomes revenge, murder becomes revenge. It is the argument given by the the true guilty ones, the insane one. Innocent folk are innocent. There is no excuse.
@HistoryHustle Жыл бұрын
Never excused. I explain. Thats a difference.
@patriciabrenner9216 Жыл бұрын
The guilty didn't pay. This is why I applaud revenge which Bacon defined as wild justice.
@elliem90086 ай бұрын
Oh wow my mom was born there! She remembered running in the trees from the Russians and then being put into a warehouse of some sort. I would listen to her stories along with my uncles and aunt but never really put it all together until recently. Thank you for this video.
@HistoryHustle6 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching.
@the1ghost7643 жыл бұрын
I have visited this City Olsztyn. The Masurian region known for it’s lakes.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Yes, indeed. I had a great stay there.
@miliba3 жыл бұрын
I study geography and one of my lessons is about how the lakes were formed by glaciers
@zbigniewdomozych57442 жыл бұрын
This is the town I was born in. Beautiful place to grow, study and work.
@hydrogenone68663 жыл бұрын
Even the Slavic people weren't spared from the Red Army's brutality.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Many weren't indeed.
@robrobski94453 жыл бұрын
Because red army were controlled by Zionist
@patriciabrenner92163 жыл бұрын
@@robrobski9445 oh an antisemite... They are all around.
@annivlaflipfan9184 Жыл бұрын
Incidentally, German communists and Jews were not spared interrogation, torture and imprisonment in the camps, because anyone who showed a KPD membership card or a Jewish star was immediately accused of collaborating with the Nazis, because otherwise they could no longer be alive, according to the NKVD.
@fidei8294 ай бұрын
@@patriciabrenner9216Oh, a member of the tribe which took over Russia. They are all around.
@daucuscarota6602 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video. My mother experienced the flight from East Prussia via Königsberg and Pillau with her family when she was nine years old. She recently passed away, but I can only imagine what she may have seen during the journey of several months before the family finally arrived in West Germany. When you hear eyewitness accounts from that time of what they experienced .... , it is sometimes unbearable what humans can do to other humans. The people of East Prussia had to pay the price for the crimes of the Nazis without, in their vast majority, having been personally involved in them. For Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill, East Prussia was simply an amorphous piece of land that could be freely distributed according to the interests of great power politics.
@HistoryHustle Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing.
@patriciabrenner921610 ай бұрын
This of course is false. The people of East Prussia looted the wealth of theor Polish and Jewish neighbors, voted in majority for the Nazis etc. They were criminals. They paid, not enough.
@christineeleonorepoppe67452 жыл бұрын
My grandma was from east Prussia but she never talked about that time...we got told to never ask her because it was so traumatic... I'm from Germany and i found it sad that we never learned anything about that part of the war it was only talked about how terrible the Jew's were treated and I'm not disagreeing but there is so much more to the war that should be teached in our Schools
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
I understand. Thanks for replying.
@patriciabrenner92162 жыл бұрын
Yes maybe how Russians were treated or Poles. How Germany looted the whole of Europe.
@byngostar68952 жыл бұрын
Father's mother’s family were from Prussia since 1535...here comes anger and angry comments...but first I will watch more of your enjoyable videos❤️
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
👍
@magdalenamrowka4734 Жыл бұрын
I come from Olsztyn and greatly appreciate the remains of Prussian architecture. I know that German citizens suffered a lot in the area, which is a great shame... All wars have the greatest impact mainly on civilians. Olsztyn had some beautiful architecture, which was almost entirely erased by the so-called `liberators`. This can be observed again nowadays, unfortunately ... May those who died rest in peace.
@HistoryHustle Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your response.
@Wolf-hh4rv10 ай бұрын
Horrific end to a 1000 year old civilisation. Not a peep of an apology from the Soviets or Russians
@tatyanaishchenko34569 ай бұрын
@@Wolf-hh4rv извинения? Только сожаления что Сталин проявил милосердие и не стер Германию с лица земли. Что б больше никакая зараза оттуда не лезла.
@sacWeapons7 ай бұрын
@@Wolf-hh4rv Well shouldn't have invaded us
@Wolf-hh4rv7 ай бұрын
@@sacWeapons Still tragic. Over one million German civilians killed by bombing, a tragedy. That 4 year child burned alive
@jackullla872 жыл бұрын
I am a 3rd generation of Poles who moved to Stolp (todays Slupsk ) in West Prussia in 1945. I study history of my region for good few years now as i wanted to understand my origins. It it important to underline that NSDAP was always scorring high votes in these rural regions. In General People of both West and East Prussia watched the war from the back seat until 1944/1945. There was no fighting or bombing going on and they have followed Hitlers army sucess in the newspapers or radio only. Life stayed pretty normal apart from few youngsters coming back in coffins from time to time. During the first 4-5 years of war Prussians quite activly used slave workforce from Poland and other conquered contiries. Peaople also stayed neutral or some even took active part in extermination of Kashubians ( Piasnica forrest massacre ) or Jews ( Stuthoff concentraction camp near Gdansk) . Only when thirsty of blood and revange Red Army started to knock their door they have experienced what their support to Hitler lead to. I used to feel some sort of simpathy and nostalgia to germans in my town Slupsk, but not any more. They have deserved punishment and horror they had to go though. I hope they have learnt the lesson, which they have passed onto their chrildren and grand children. The lesson is - who figths with a sword , dies from the sward. Obviously not every german was bad, but the beauty of democracy is that majority decides no matter how wrong the goverment they chose can be. This may be the lesson for all of us.
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your insights.
@Ghreinos Жыл бұрын
What do you mean with democracy? The NSDAP was the only party left, how is this democracy?
@annivlaflipfan9184 Жыл бұрын
@@Ghreinos Before that it was a democracy and in Pomerania and East Prussia the NSDAP had the most votes. The peasants, for example, voted for the NSDAP because it gave them advantages.
@Ghreinos Жыл бұрын
@@annivlaflipfan9184 Yes, but in the state parliament they only got a majority after banning all other parties. And yes you are right, most just wanted a stable Germany.
@Oliver1977-rw8qr5 ай бұрын
Warum sie erst jetzt Groll gegen deutsche haben und früher nicht ist komisch. Es gab schon Bombenangriffe auf Stettin und nicht zu vergessen der tragische 1944 im August der Briten auf Königsberg mit modernsten Brandstrahlbomben, die Engländer flogen über Schwedisches Gebiet. Ca 5000 Königsberger starben etwa 200000 wurden Obdachlos.
@robertfraser4994 Жыл бұрын
If this revenge (for family members being killed by an enemy) reason is valid then the only army not allowed to act this way is the US armed forces, but then I’ve read that they too carried out the odd revenge killing. They did it because, “one of their buddies copped a German bullet!” Well the Germans started it……? Or did the German soldier of WWII have the right to commit atrocities as he had had family members killed by Great Britain’s blockade in WWI which caused the death by starvation of at least 800,000 German civilians, especially the aged and young children? The blockade not only killed German civilians, but those allied to Great Britain, Denmark, Belgium and occupied France as they too were effected by the blockade. And can we go back further for a revenge reason that Great Britain had for their blockade? Why can’t we just stop making excuses for war crimes committed by any country’s soldiers? Their is no legal code in any civilised country that I know of where revenge is counted as a mitigating circumstance which would allow a court not to convict a murder or a rapist. Or is it true the old saying of ‘Winners justice’? Regards, Robert
@niklasciccone27243 жыл бұрын
Great explanation from both sides very entertaining, keep up the good work.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks as always, Niklas!
@hollybeckermeyer70722 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this explanation. My mother's family is from this region, we're part of this evacuation. You're explanation is very good, I learned a lot.
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Holly.
@Kommentator100010 ай бұрын
Es ist gut, dass das Thema wenigstens hier aufgenommen wird. In Deutschland wird es gerne verschwiegen oder abgetan. Es gab sogar ein Lernprogramm über die Flucht . Weil es gewissen Leuten nicht politisch korrekt genug war ( Deutsche dürfen keine Opfer sein), wurde es abgeschafft.
@HistoryHustle10 ай бұрын
I understand. Thanks for your response. Hope you found the video interesting.
@jiritichy796710 ай бұрын
Hundreds of years ago, Germans moved east, usually on the pretense of spreading Christianity, occupied Slavic and Baltic lands, suppressed and assimilated the local population. Their expansion (drank nach Osten) continued for a thousand years. The war reversed this expansion and considering the German atrocities, it is not surprising that the revenge was somewhat cruel.
@GunnyKeith3 жыл бұрын
Great coverage & commentary
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@luxembourgishempire28263 жыл бұрын
Honestly History Hustle, all of your video topics I know and I kind of know what you say but you always seem to keep it entertaining and so therefore I so love watching them. Please keep it up. :)
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
:D THANKS
@t.jjohnson63173 жыл бұрын
Thank-you for the history we never hear about
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
You're welcome, thanks for your message.
@johnsnowkumar3593 жыл бұрын
Kaliningrad:: The second world war cost a lot of lives of military military and civilian lives to the Soviet Union. Many German war criminals were not punished in the eastern front, as most German prison guards and other soldiers agreed to join communist parties in their home villages in Germany. Only those Nazi soldiers who admitted to extensive war crimes were jailed till 1955 and released. After ww2, Soviet Union wanted an ice free port town to keep an eye on militarily over ambitious Germany. Only region of Germany the Russians of Imperial Russia of the Romanov era had a claim of past (back in history) ownership to, was Kaliningrad (Konigsburg). Different groups owned Kaliningrad in the past. Medieval templar knights owned Kaliningrad for about 500 years, Germany owned Kaliningrad for about 900 years, WHILE Russia owned Kaliningrad for all of 6 years in about 1775 at about the time of American independence. See the battle of Eylau, in Kaliningrad in historical battles between Russia and Napoleon in Eylau, Kaliningrad in youtube, for ownership of Kaliningrad. When Russia owned Kaliningrad in about 1777 or so, a Kaliningrad German civilian delegation visited Saint Petersburg to have an audience with the king, met the czar and requested the Czar in writing to make Kaliningrad a part of German province, as Russia was already big. The Czar agreed, and Russian troops and civilians vacated Kaliningrad in about 1780 or so, give or take a decade, or two. So all three groups have a right to visit Kaliningrad, including the templar knights and Germany and Russia.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your inisights on this.
@bartoszpankiewicz80313 жыл бұрын
Good video, it's interesting that even after the relocation of Poles to General Governance, southern part of East Prussia was in big part inhabited by Poles and they also fell victim to Soviet atrocities.
@IK-so2bm3 жыл бұрын
Soviet atrocities? Mild, compared to the barbarian SS fanatics who killed millions of innocent Russian civilians and buried them en mass in huge trenches dug by the victims themselves. If you don't believe me check out the films the Germans shot themselves and laughing while watching their helpless victims crawl in horror.
@TheFoxyPlayer3 жыл бұрын
@@IK-so2bm Check out the Katyn Massacre, if you think soviet attrocities were so mild.
@bartoszpankiewicz80313 жыл бұрын
@@TheFoxyPlayer Or Polish Action by NKVD
@pathfinder37543 жыл бұрын
@@TheFoxyPlayer bingo. As an example
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Yes, also Poles fell victim to the Soviets.
@Ekatjam3 жыл бұрын
my grandfather disappeared fighting in Konigsberg in April ,1945. The Germans were still getting the mail out by sea and we have letters from him stating to the effect he is never coming home. I like to think people escaped because his comrades and himself held out.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this.
@theangrylizard19902 жыл бұрын
Tell us about the Jews your grandfather killed, who did not escape.
@vitalymaliarov69611 ай бұрын
Hmmmm... so your grandpa was a Nazi?
@johterrianevans34803 жыл бұрын
First view and first comment and first like. Great content entertaining and informative enough to play while I'm playing minecraft.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Number #1
@Pain-of-the-akatsuki3 жыл бұрын
Will you do a video on the atrocities the western armies committed in europe in ww2(nice vid stefan)
@Pain-of-the-akatsuki3 жыл бұрын
@Angel Navarro true
@abuzuhm3 жыл бұрын
which ones do we mean in this case?
@Pain-of-the-akatsuki3 жыл бұрын
@@abuzuhm the ones that were committed by the us,french and british you know the ones that don't get talked about alot
@abuzuhm3 жыл бұрын
@@Pain-of-the-akatsuki Cool. I know what you mean.It would definitely be a good video topic.
@vanmanrick13 жыл бұрын
@@Pain-of-the-akatsuki You are talking about the side that did not start the war? Known as the allies?
@bircottage2 жыл бұрын
A grim period. My aunt managed to escape from a hellhole called Memel - I think. I wished I had asked here more before she died, but she never spoke about it.
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this.
@torstensigulsson45792 жыл бұрын
Memmel is now part of Lithuania and I believe Klaipeda is the largest city in what was previously called Memmelland. Maybe you should travel to it and check it out 😊
@Wolf-hh4rv10 ай бұрын
Yes the Population of Memel suffered horrors as the Soviets surrounded the town. In Guy Sajer’s book he describes the carnage when a boat filled with civilian refugees was hit by a shell.
@raphlvlogs2713 жыл бұрын
Germany was tragically destroyed by losing ww2.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
It lost land in the east and was carved up. Now it's reunited.
@lothar36103 жыл бұрын
More than Poland and USSR??? I dont think so.
@bayern14453 жыл бұрын
@@lothar3610 ussr Was the bad guy
@bayern14453 жыл бұрын
@Marko Topic shut up serb
@3dcomrade3 жыл бұрын
@@bayern1445 considering what the Nazis did at the balkans i can understand that
@tomricketts782111 ай бұрын
Can understand the Russians desire for revenge the Germans behaviour in Russia was total barbarism even though two wrongs don’t make a right
@HistoryHustle11 ай бұрын
Me too.
@beltransalasgarcia60052 жыл бұрын
Prussia was the state that united Germany, and East Prussia was Prussia's birthplace, so its a little bit sad that Germany's "birthplace" isn't german anymore.
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Prussia indeed is off the map.
@patriciabrenner9216 Жыл бұрын
Prussia also gave the militarism to Germany. It is just it disappeared.
@Larkinchance2 жыл бұрын
Talking about the current conflict in Ukraine a friend say to me, "Borders are sacred!" People today have not aware of the 1939 German/Russian partition of Poland... I claimed, "The history of this whole area is complex. The conflict is waking disputes and ethnic hatreds of the past." Not wanting to hear any of it, my friend said, "That was then and this is now!" My response, "NATO/US is digging up the ghosts of WW2. (Thank you for your videos)
@patriciabrenner9216 Жыл бұрын
They never were put to rest in Eastern Europe.
@Larkinchance Жыл бұрын
@@patriciabrenner9216 my point exactly
@patriciabrenner9216 Жыл бұрын
@@Larkinchance with the fall of communism, what were latent hatred came out to the surface. Just look at what happened in Yugoslavia! Western Europe dealt with the hatred. Eastern Europe didn't.
@Larkinchance Жыл бұрын
@@patriciabrenner9216 Ms Brenner, that's a good question. Yugoslavia charted a separate course from Russia but they were both authoritarian... More to the point, why did NATO go into Serbia and Bosnia?
@nobodycares94943 жыл бұрын
This is simple and I really do hate to do "if", but here we go : if there was no Hitler there would be still East Prussia. Great material. Thank you!
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your reply and I agree.
@mpravica11 ай бұрын
Thank you for acknowledging the unprecedented pain and genocide inflicted by the German people on the Slavs whom they have historically hated. Though revenge killing should never be justified, understanding the motives for revenge are important if we are to escape this horrific cycle of vengeance in Europe.
@HistoryHustle11 ай бұрын
Thanks for your reply.
@asaadezzaher21873 жыл бұрын
These are terrible crimes against humanitiy and atrocities on a massive scale. I dont agree at all with your conclusion. The crimes of the german army against ukrainian and russian civilians do not "excuse" or "mitigate" the terrible and deliberate crimes of the russian army against german civilian. This would be tribalism. I hope that they will be recognised world wide.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.
@MrKakibuy3 жыл бұрын
I can hardly imagine the German commanders having pikachu faces when they found Nemmersdorf. Everyone knew what they were in for now that the soviet union came on top.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Fair point.
@bernardobiritiki3 жыл бұрын
probably had seen and done alot worse back in the soviet union no suprise for them at all
@MrKakibuy3 жыл бұрын
@@bernardobiritiki Yes, there is no way they participated in the invasion of the soviet union and didn't expect something like this to happen
@bernardobiritiki3 жыл бұрын
@@MrKakibuy even the civilians many of witch had family memeber fighting in the eastern frount, probably had some picture of the monstrosities going on in the east by the hand of the german army. You dont need to be very smart to know those people would want revenge
@Cjnw3 жыл бұрын
Normie
@JohnnoDordrecht3 жыл бұрын
Very good subject , keep on hustling mate
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
3 жыл бұрын
8:02 While I understand what you mean there is not justification for this move, because of two things: another ones evil doesn't make my evil good and also because it was still about gaining/keeping the territory that the Soviets got by the Molotov Ribbentrop pact.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Agree. I made this statement because of many dumb one-sides comments that appear where people overlook the German warcrimes and only blame the Soviets. Anyhow, the dumb polarized comments did appear anyway.
@nowy53 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle Evil requires a penalty, after the WWI Germany did not get a serious penalty, so they started the WWII, during the WWII penalty was mostly painful (mainly bombardment), so now nobody in Germany happily thoughts about the WWIII.
@fordhipo14933 жыл бұрын
@@nowy5 Both wars were started by Austria Prove me wrong.
@patriciabrenner92163 жыл бұрын
@@fordhipo1493 You are wrong.
@jadephantom89153 жыл бұрын
@@nowy5 Germans had no more fault in WW1 then anyone else did. WW1 started when serbian nationalists killed the Austro-Hungarian achduke. Then Austria declared war on Serbia and the Russia joined the war to help Serbia so Germany joined the war to help Austria-Hungary. How was WW1 the germans fault
@Artur_M.3 жыл бұрын
Even when you make videos on topics I'm familiar with I can learn something new and interesting from them, like about Marion Dönhoff in this case. I might add that the Masurians - an ethnic group living in the South of East Prussia, speaking a dialect of Polish suffered pretty much the same fate as their German neighbors. There's a quite good Polish movie from 2011 _Róża_ (Rose) about this topic. Fair warning, there are some scenes that are hard to watch.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the additional information. See if I can check the movie you refer to!
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Just watched the movie. Indeed a good movie, but intense to watch yes.
@Artur_M.3 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle I'm glad you liked it!
@brettanthonypalmer29562 жыл бұрын
yep, ALL Prussian Peoples suffered
@Marzelmusik9 ай бұрын
Funnily enough, most of the Masurians also fled to Germany. Even after 1945 many left Poland in the following decades. I even know one personally who left with her family in the 70ies.
@hermes1123 жыл бұрын
Nice music choice, and interesting topic!
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@AlejandroGonzalez-fs5ez3 жыл бұрын
Great work, amigo! Saludos from México!
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@thorstenriedel31522 жыл бұрын
Yes, thanks for keeping the memory alive
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching.
@ottovonostrovo14863 жыл бұрын
Many if not most of my fathers family were from Ost Preussen from Neidenburg in the south to Treuburg (Maggrabowa)in the mid-east to Koenigsberg in the north. About half of his background was Masurian Preussen, Protestant Kaschuben and Protestant German the other half. My oma died within days (19/3/1945) after she landed in Brandenburg on a battleship after escaping from Kolberg.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing!
@lottivonhesse9382 Жыл бұрын
Hallo, Otto - it's just terrible what the poles and other allies committed against our Volk! I am so sorry to read about your Oma, and what happened. I love our Volk more than ever, Otto - may your Oma, rest in peace.
@stephengoodwin64033 жыл бұрын
didn't the brave Erich Koch retreat to the relative safety of Pillau? The siege of Konigsberg was a grim battle
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Koch retreated indeed. Love to cover the battle for Königsberg on location some day.
@annivlaflipfan9184 Жыл бұрын
@stephengoodwin6403 I would put the word "brave" in inverted commas. ;)
@annivlaflipfan9184 Жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle 👍
@decentman3181 Жыл бұрын
He did, and kept a naval craft on standby to evacuate him from Pillau should the Red army ever come near. While he exhorted the military and civilians in Koenigsberg to fight on and never yield an inch of ground, he himself lived lavishly and safely at Pillau. Today, in Koenigsberg, there is a museum in the command bunker of General Lasch, the military commander in Koeninsberg, where the defence of the city was planned. The Russian guides speak respectfully of Lasch, a brave man who never deserted his post or his troops, but are rightly disparaging of Koch, a coward who was captured after the war and spent the rest of his lie in prison in Poland.
@alisongorski36643 жыл бұрын
I have ancestors in East Prussia, now I know what happened to them. Thank God my grest grsndfsther left in the late 19th century.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Yes indeed. Thanks for sharing.
@user-pz6ls4uk8k11 ай бұрын
Германцы должны быть благодарны России что многим мы сохранили жизнь несмотря на зверства что они творили в России
@HistoryHustle11 ай бұрын
Think it's more nuanced.
@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.78603 жыл бұрын
There's a very good book about the sinking of the Gustloff ( a refugee ship that left gotenhafen ) called Im Krebsgang by Günter Grass.
@JDSFLA3 жыл бұрын
Yes, 9,400 people died, the most ever for a single ship sinking. That is about the same as the sinking of six Titanic's - where in comparison 1,500 lost their lives.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
A tragedy indeed.
@shirleybalinski45352 жыл бұрын
Not the only ship that sank. There was another nearly as loaded as the Gustav & several other smaller ones. The Gustav & the other large ship both sunk.
@64maxpower3 жыл бұрын
You do excellent work
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@CHAR0N_193 жыл бұрын
I hustle history Foh Yuuh!! legendary
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
😎😎😎
@jeroenburlage89063 жыл бұрын
steven , jij maakt werk van een onderwerp . respect
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Bedankt, Jeroen!
@user-bt7my8tx4m3 ай бұрын
Wow! Fair and ballanced account of those tragic times (if there can be any).
@HistoryHustle3 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching.
@hscollier3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, except the ‘background’ music is SO LOUD that it made it difficult to hear what you were saying. I do appreciate your covering facets of WWII history that most leave out. I am constantly learning something significant and interesting from you.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Okay, thanks. I'm decreasing the music recently.
@Paris-xv9sj3 жыл бұрын
Why this channel didn't got 100k subscribers yet?!
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Feel free to share! :)
@realhomosapien3 жыл бұрын
You did make a video about Indonesian revolution againts the Dutch and you are a Dutch but you also know about Indonesia history, can you speak Indonesian? A bit at least? Kinda curious as a Chinese living as a largest minority in Indonesia :)
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Yes, here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNKDi8Sbrc-0hYk.html Differs. Few words.
@xvsj-s2x3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant research 👍
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@janherburodo80703 жыл бұрын
Cool video, northern Poland is beautiful in the summer, worth a visit. You can enjoy both history and nature, hope you liked your trip.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thank Jan, it was a great trip!
@mercomania3 жыл бұрын
Only Poland since 1945.
@mariusd864911 ай бұрын
@@mercomaniawell, not really.
@mercomania11 ай бұрын
Well really, when did was this region in a country called Poland?@@mariusd8649
@mayormc3 жыл бұрын
Well done presentation. My mother and her family fled Gdynia/Gotenhafen in 1945. My grandfather got out on the Cap Arcona.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your reply 👍
@patriciabrenner92163 жыл бұрын
1939 By the outbreak of war the city has rapidly grown to the 6th largest in Poland with the 12th largest population of over 120,000 people. September 1st - 19th sees a heroic defence of the city. Nazi Germany incorporates Gdynia to the Reich, expels the local population and renames the city Gotenhafen. So its name was always Gdynia and I would guess your family preyed on the property of expelled Poles or murdered Jews.
@mayormc3 жыл бұрын
@@patriciabrenner9216 My grandfather was half Polish. He was held by the Gestapo for three days. They killed his best friend who was a Captain in the Polish Navy. The war years were certainly no grand time for him as you would so luridly imagine. Sorry to disappoint you.
@patriciabrenner92163 жыл бұрын
@@mayormc then why did he run? They didn't expell Poles.
@mayormc3 жыл бұрын
@@patriciabrenner9216 Why is it that you so desperately want to see the worst in people based on so little information?
@joyzamoyskikoch434 Жыл бұрын
Your introduction is historically incorrect. Poland had ceased to exist as FDR & Churchill betrayed the nation that fronted the 4th largest Allied Army. They sentenced Poles to suffer under the Soviet Totalitarian Regime
@jaduzink3 жыл бұрын
Very informative.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
👍
@thatsnodildo19743 жыл бұрын
You get a war crime You ger a war crime You get a war crime *EVERYONE GETS A WAR CRIME*
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
I don't get it 🤔
@madhie-kun86143 жыл бұрын
Yeah your right...
@thatsnodildo19743 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle the Soviets committing war crimes because of Nazi war crimes
@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.78603 жыл бұрын
I'm re-reading the fall of Berlin. Goes into detail about these events.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Great read.
@user-pz6ls4uk8k11 ай бұрын
Вы мало говорите о зверствах немцев в России. Германцы начали войну и за это платят и сейчас. Великодушие и доброта русских поражает
@HistoryHustle11 ай бұрын
Because that is not the scope of this video. See title. I mention in the video the atrocities done by the Germans but the focus in 1944-45.
@mabbrey3 жыл бұрын
great stuff hus
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@TheMexxodus3 жыл бұрын
Wasn't Koch the gauleiter that fled in his private yacht to go and boost his morale far away outside his gau as quickly as he could?
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Koch fled yes. He was ended up in jail and wasn't executed despite being in charge of occupied Ukraine and largely responsible for the horrors committed there.
@zosimus2.18i23 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle And he was not executed because of the beginning of the Cold War. That would require his extradition to a potential enemy and Americans could not allow it.
@theangrylizard19902 жыл бұрын
@@zosimus2.18i2 Look up "Peck Panel." The German-American communities morally opposed any acts of justice against German war criminals and they were largely successful in influencing authorities to as nany reduce prison sentences as possible.
@PRLcafe3 жыл бұрын
Kind of looking what your your point is? You ever heard oldest expression “ you reap what you sow”....? It’s not like adorable Germans arrived in Poland and Russia with cookies and olive branches amigo, right?
@daniel60093 жыл бұрын
What do you mean by 'looking what his point is?' He's reporting, not arguing. Also noone doubts the evils of the Nazi regime during ww2. Still, one evil doesn't justify the other. While I definitely understand the hatred of the red army towards the German population, rape and murder is still evil.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
A polarized subject this seems to be. History is about exploring the details. You can consider it a science. It can also be a moral compass. One could argue that the Soviets had "the right" to take revenge on the Germans. I refrain from such statements. I do not believe in revenge. I explain it as why it happened. Therefore it can be understood. Whether a person then states this was 'the right thing' is up to him or her.
@Brunek7747 ай бұрын
My grand grandfather with all his family (including my 5yo grandma) was forced to work on German farm in Eastprussia (close to Hitlers residence) durig the war. Before the war they lived near Warsaw. German farm owner died on eastern front. His wife and kids lived quite peacefully with my grandma's family during the war. They were forced to work but they received some money to buy boots for kids and even some sweets. When the soviets came all the Germans disappeared. Russians stayed for 1 night , killed all the farm animals, left some pork for my grandma family and went further west. My grandma's family took 2 week walk in the winter, to get back home, all the road trenches were full of frozen bodies.
@simonyip59782 жыл бұрын
Fun fact : in the Lector Hannibal series of books (Red Dragon/Silence of the Lambs/etc), The childhood experiences of Lector Hannibal are set during the last few months of the war, when the Soviets were invading East Prussia.
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Didn't know this. Still have to see the movies.
@georgschmidt46703 жыл бұрын
Like General George Patton said ''' We fought the wrong enemy". He was correct. We had a long cold war with Russia and we are still not buddies with Russia. 12 years after the war i was in a USA tank battalion on maneuvers training side by side with a German tank battalion. We could see the Russians over on the Czechoslovakia side. Crazy world.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
No he wasn't correct. Bot fighting Germany would have led to a New Order in which millions of people would perish and live under tyranny, even worse than the USSR.
@georgschmidt46703 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle No don't think so
@user-mh2uj7ns6h3 жыл бұрын
@@georgschmidt4670 God punished USA for its crimes against humanity. You're now 3rd world country.
@boki1519 Жыл бұрын
USA after war gave a shelter to more nazis than they killed them in war. So americans did not fight wrong enemy they are same as nazis nowadays we see that clearly.
@Clint-zs4rqАй бұрын
@@HistoryHustleyes he was correct and you Danes would have been speaking Russian if not for Germany defending Europe from the Communist hordes. You are ignorant.
@noahbpeters3 жыл бұрын
I live in a region called Emsland located at the border to the Netherlands. The peoples here often have mixed ancestry
@Karakulimbro3 жыл бұрын
Foreign, hostile troops entered the territory of Poland and murderous foreign governments ruled. You would try to live here for a while, maybe then whatever you would know and understand. There is a prospect that when ISIS installs its caliphates for you, then you will feel what bondage means....
@noahbpeters3 жыл бұрын
@@Karakulimbro how is this connected to my comment?
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Love to cover more of these border areas.
@noahbpeters3 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle I would be very grateful if you could find something about it
@premaldevi54773 жыл бұрын
My grandfather was evacuated in ww2 and flee from the Sudetenland
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing.
@patriciabrenner92163 жыл бұрын
Most of the Sudeten Germans approved the taking by the Nazis of the area. So they were properly expelled by the Czech as traitors.
@christopherellis26632 жыл бұрын
My former wife's mother was from Breslau, and her father was a "good German ". You left out the ships that were sunk.
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Believe I mention this.. but if not there you go.
@andysm19643 жыл бұрын
did you mention,Memeland in East Prussia,became Lithuanian ssr and now part of Independent Lithuania ? great series,pal
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks and yes, Memelland was taken by the Germans in WW2 and is now part of Lithuania.
@andysm19643 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle true,.but the area was part of East Prussia until 1919,when it gained the same status under Treaty of Versailles as say,Saar..in fact it was Prussian from I believe 15th century. My partner, she is from this area of modern Lithuania and loved your presentation. Cannot wait for more Hustles of history..
@bruderspatzlemitso9303 жыл бұрын
Yeah but to be fair, Memelland was heavily populated by Lithuanians
@andysm19643 жыл бұрын
@@bruderspatzlemitso930 only after this territory was handed to Lithuania-when part of East Prussia,it was made up of :Poles;German`s and Lithuanian- that`s coming from my partner,she is Lithuanian/Russian/German(from the Soviet days)
@Oliver1977-rw8qr5 ай бұрын
Die deutschen haben dort Niederdeutsch gesprochen
@Caleidus3 жыл бұрын
Can you make a video about the mass murder and eviction of Italians from Istria (modern day Croatia) after WWII, please? Thank you
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
If I would make such a video, I would make that on location. As of now I have no plans of travelling due to Covid :(
@thetruthseeker55492 ай бұрын
When we say the Soviets were "out for revenge", it suggests that the Germans had started the brutality. It should be remembered that brutality by others and against others had been taking place in eastern Europe before any German military expansion occurred.
@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW03 күн бұрын
Yes europeans were even crazier back then
@user-pz6ls4uk8k7 ай бұрын
Удивляюсь доброте русской армии
@HistoryHustle7 ай бұрын
I see.
@jordanwilson78443 жыл бұрын
I love history thanks for the video! Will definitely like and subscribe (i don't like these tragic parts tho)
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks and welcome to the channel!
@steelhelmetstan73053 жыл бұрын
Another great video, top channel. What happens to civilians in war is always terrible, as you stated the reason the Russians acted that way was revenge. The story of the German population of Prussia and of ethnic germans in the east in 1945 is a tale of sorrow, but as you state the driving force behind the victors actions was nazi atrocities in the barbarossa campaign, still the suffering of the civilian population of germans is a tale not widely known, at least by the general population. Great historical video that shows what happened in Prussia 🙂
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your message 👍
@stargazerspark44992 жыл бұрын
"atrocities" -- what utter tosh!
@RottiDog1003 жыл бұрын
The forced expulsion of people is classified as genocide under international law. They dont teach about the forced expulsions from the east in history class because the ciriculum is so politicised.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Says a user named Erich von Manstein...
@pork86363 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle Why does that matter?
@messidor43993 жыл бұрын
Excellent videos. Thanks
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Appreciate your reply!
@waynecameron33433 жыл бұрын
Comes around goes around
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
One could argue that the Soviets had "the right" to take revenge on the Germans. I refrain from such statements. I do not believe in revenge. I explain it as why it happened. Therefore it can be understood. Whether a person then states this was 'the right thing' is up to him or her.
@a.rodimtsev94463 жыл бұрын
They were no innocent refugees, they were trying to escape their fate for they knew very well about the atrocities Germany had committed in Poland / S.U. Also, the killing of SU POW in East Prussia did not go unnoticed by the local population. It was guilt that drove them away from their homes.
3 жыл бұрын
Sure children as guilty, everyone that didn't was a Nazi is guilty...
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
One could argue that the Soviets had "the right" to take revenge on the Germans. I refrain from such statements. I do not believe in revenge. I explain it as why it happened. Therefore it can be understood. Whether a person then states this was 'the right thing' is up to him or her.
@theangrylizard19902 жыл бұрын
@ The children's ought to have known that this was going to happen. If you feel the need to blame anyone for .any harm that happened to the children, look at their parents. If it was bear season and you leave your children out at twilight and let them use honey and salmon as face lotion, don't blame the bears if your children get eaten.