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Just to share a bit of modern-day clarity, while I would never say that the miraculous rescue of the Rabbi there and then had been in any way the negative outcome.. the Chabad-Lubavitch Movement, certainly today anyways (I'm assuming for some time now) has been *vehemently opposed* to any form of Palestinian statehood. And by the fact of that insensitive kak, alongside that of the Israeli-made mega-ghetto, Gaza, there is no moral part of me that can justify congratulating the CLM for having got their top guy back. Personally, perhaps if the present time weren't these days already, I'd rather have heard about the rescue of one of those poor nobodies who'd trolled the Abwehr men and the Hamburglar about agreeing to shave off their beards and join the Wehrmacht, to their faces. Balls o steel, and quite fascinating! And for an additional bit of clarity for those knee-jerk reactionaries: FUCK HAMAS. Atm, I'm a Fatah guy, only because I hadn't found any better organization out of that wholentire catastofuck. Please just freak out at yourselves maybe for a change! ✌
As a Chabad Lubavitcher myself it's incredible how historically accurate you made the video. This rescue of the Frierdeker Rebbe was a unique phenomena that rarely happened during that time period. Great work Simon wishing you all the best!!!
Just some comments that expand or add interesting rarely brought this interesting history story 1. At the :19 second mark. Excellent historic fact. The cooperating Nazis and the Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union already in a pact that can be best summed up as, 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend" both decide to carve up Poland. You know another way to look at this partnership is to say, German non-Jewish socialist secularists of the Nazi party worked in conjunction with more than a few high placed Bolshevik Soviets of Jewish extraction to carve up Catholic Poland. The Soviets and the Nazis being no friend of the Catholic Church or Poles. These Bolsheviks well aware of Nazi policies towards Jewish people either gave no thought to what would happen to Polish Jews under Nazi control, or did not care, because gaining parts of Poland was of higher priority. And let's not forget what happened to Polish Jews at the hands of Soviet Bolsheviks at Katyn Forest. 2. between about the 1:30 mark up to 4:11 minute mark. What is interesting about Chabad Lubavitchers is that their belief about resurrection and an eternal after life is more in line with Christianity and even more in common with Messianic Jews, who are Jews disdained by conventional Judaism for belief in Jesus as Messiah and an eternal afterlife. Lots of branches of Judaism on that Judaism tree only one of the branches is vilified by conventional Judaism and that is the Messianic branch. A perspective on defining Judaism seems to bring in closer to be defined as a feature of Judaism is to deny Christ as the Messiah and all else seems secondary. What lies at the core of Judaism is a neglected or deliberately forgotten conviction that God, is as much One, as God is a singular multidimensional God in the Tankakh (Old Testament) as represented by Christians in the New Testament as Father-Son-Holy Spirit. Now if that seems too partisan, and I get that, then I would recommend Alan Segal's book, "Two Powers in Heaven." Seal was not a Messianic Jew. 3. 4:16 minute mark. You spend some time mentioning antisemitic activity in Russia against the Jews but fail to mention what provoked this antisemitism. And I think what provoked was Jews active in political actions that led to more than a little bloodshed against the government. Antisemitism just doesn't spring up like a virus (otherwise don't you think there would be an immunization against it? By now!) 4. 4:30 mark, is that revolutionary surprise best and in this case summed up by The Who in the song, "Won't Get Fooled Again," "Meet the new boss same as the old boss." What is strange is I don't think the Russian Bolsheviks, many of them Jewish, hid their disdain for many things religious, and many things Jewish. How could anyone have been surprised by that!? 5. 4:40 - 5:32. Many of the CHEKA were Jewish Bolsheviks and being Jewish might mean they had more a calendar grasp of Jewish holidays I think many of them were on these raids to snuff out the good work of the rabbi. I mean come on a simple Russian peasant Bolshevik what would that person know about Jewish holidays? Surprisingly, the quote you give about the rabbi when arrested sounds similar to Jesus advising His followers not to fear those who can hurt the body and be extra wary about those trying to hurt your soul. See how Jewish Jesus is? 6. If antisemitism was so widespread in the non-Jewish world, in this specific history case, the cultural Christian West, why was there ever, and even, a protest about the treatment by the Bolsheviks of Jews and the Chabad rabbi? I wonder did any Bolshevik Jews, at this time, in this chapter, appeal to non-Jewish Stalin of the Bolsheviks about the mistreatment of Jews in the Soviet Union? 7. At or about the 7:00-7:39 comes cruel irony, because the non-Chabad Jewish community in America more so than the non-Jewish Americans what The Rebbe out of America. 8. 7:39 - 7:44 mark and the term "progressive American values." Who started that for America? I mean America of that time is often regarded as Christian values, and someone seems to have wanted Americans to trade in their Christian values for "progressive American values." And foolishly Americans did just that, traded in their Christian values for "progressive American values." The Coen Brothers made an interesting movie about that called, "Hail Caesar." Wrapping up the rest. Jewish Americans alert non-Jewish Americans in the United States Government to begin a rescue of Chabadniks in war torn Nazi and Bolshevik occupied Europe. That is an unusual reaction by antisemitic America, is it not? Maybe the antisemitism is overrated? I am going to mention some names you mention, at or about the 8:57 mark to the 11:00 minute mark, and after I mention the names, I am going to ask a question. Rabbi Israel Jacobson, Max Rode, (spelling mine) Felix Frankfurter, Louis Brandies, Saul Bloom, Robert Wagner and Father Coughlin. The question: which of the aforementioned had a KKK cross burned on his yard? The answer, Father Coughlin, ironic is it not? By the way when Lindbergh mentioned in 1938 at a speech in Iowa that there are elements trying to get the United States in another European war, he, Lindbergh did mention the Jews, just as he mentioned the Anglo Saxons of the United Kingdom are doing the same, along with a few other non-Jewish culprits. Would Lindbergh's reputation be more intact if just omitted the Jews? As you mention the honorary Aryan status that more than a few, like about 150,000 German Jews, were able to achieve by a stroke of the pen, you seemed to find that ironic, while somehow forgetting when non-Jews coverts to Judaism there is a very similar thing! Further confusing this is that even today in the 21st century in Israel if a Messianic Jesus believing Jew wants to move to Israel and be a citizen it is a very difficult thing because the mostly non-religious, mystical Israeli Supreme Court suddenly believes in the metaphysical and believe that a Jesus believing Jew cannot be Jewish anymore, as if something biological happens to a Jew when making that religious decision. Weird and peculiar kind like the Mischling thing done by the Nazis 80-90 years ago. It bothers me because the Nazi gives as a good explanation to that transition as does the Jew. There are some uncomfortable commonalities between Zionists and Nazis, such as blood and soil, and the importance of a mythical narrative. Weird, yes? By mythical narrative I don't mean the Bible, but more the secular Zionist narrative of the founding of the modern state of Israel. Much like the Manifest Destiny narrative of the United States. At the 13:47 mark you get a laugh out of the boots on the ground German private named Hamburger and this strange because earlier when you mentioned Felix Frankfurter you didn't find that as humorous? Ah, but, well, humor is a subjective thing. If I sum up the story, non-Jews, or mischlings, do the actual rescuing of the Rebbe, while supposedly antisemitic non-Jews in the west, listen and act upon what Jews alert them to as a serious problem. Do I have that right?
this guy sounds like a Holocaust denier, don't you see ? He's trying to re-write how the public see what happened to us, making it seem the Nazis "weren't so bad".
My family! I’m a grand daughter of rabbi schneur zalman of Liadi, also known as the Alter Rebbe, the author of the Tanya. Thanks for covering this so thoroughly and accurately!! I will be sharing this with my friends and family, I hope you gain many followers through this! -Musia Schneerson- Wilhelm (I’m named after rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Schneerson’s daughter, moussia) ❤❤❤
As someone who grew up in the lubavitch movement in crown heights, ive never seen coverage on chabads history as well put, anywhere else. Ive been following Simon since his early single channel days, and im impresssed with the background of understanding he has here, like he even simplified "chochmah, binah, daas", the fundamental principles of chabad, this is uniquely impressive Simon, thank you.
to Simon : Admiral Canaris was not hanged. Having been arrested and sentenced to be hanged, while awaiting execution he did not stop shouting day and night to the prison wardens from his cell that they had no honour, that the holocoust was unGerman, that the nazi party was a bunch or thieves ... shouting so loud and for so long pushed the prison wardens to escalate, and they were told to 'solve it'. Canaris was strangled in his cell because he would not stop telling their captors how low the German government had fallen.
@@castorpollux3389 That is inaccurate. Hamburg was known for minced meat dishes, particularly what was effectively a big meatball with sauce or gravy on it. So any sort of grilled minced meat was called a "hamburger" at various times in different places even though Hamburg wasn't the only place that grilled minced meat. What we know as a hamburger now, as in a flattened patty made of minced beef between bread halves was definitely invented in the US in early diner culture. This is because the modern concept of the sandwich became a large part of American food culture and the modern hamburger was just a logical outcome of that. There was a period of time where Americans stuffed everything into a sandwich. Thankfully some of those ideas are long dead...
In addition Wilhelm Canaris participated in the rescue of 14 Jewish people from Germany. Between August and September 1942 he along with two other Abwher agents named Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans Von Donyhal who like him opposed the Nazis formed an operation to rescue two Jewish families by smuggling them to Switzerland. As part of the operation Canaris, and Donyhal removed the families from deportation lists, made them agents of the Abwher, and persuaded Swiss officials to accept them in the country and Bonhoffer arranged visas and sponsors for the families. Hans Donyhal even covertly went to Switzerland to make sure the 14 individuals would be admitted into the country and also ensured that they would receive money to support themselves. The 14 individuals were then smuggled into Switzerland where they survived the war. This would mean that in total Wilhelm Canaris saved the lives of 533 Jewish individuals.
Hans Von Donyhal was recognized as righteous among the nations in the early 2000s. Unfortunately Bonhoffer wasn’t recognized as righteous among the nations which is surprising considering that one he was among the earliest opponents of Nazism opposing as early as 2 days after Hitler came into power opposing the Nazis persecution of Jews and disabled people and two by helping those Jewish individuals he was risking his own life as if the Nazis who already hated him due to his known opposition to them and their policies had found out about his true intentions towards the Jewish individuals ie that he was helping them the Nazis would have probably either killed him outright or sent him to a concentration camp which considering the notorious horror happening inside them could have easily resulted in him being killed. Bonhoffer almost certainly knew that and he still did it anyway because he knew that helping those families was the right thing to do. I also don’t know exactly why Canaris hasn’t been recognized by Yad Yashem.
@@Jaxson-q3d Might be because he was the guy who suggested the yellow star badges and was kinda buddy-buddy with Reinhardt Heidrich. while doing all he could to stop him.
Well done. How did you come across this subject? I've watched quite few of your videos across your channels over the years. Wishing you continued success.
Thanks! When researching one thing you inevitably come across many other things or just wonder about things etc. Topics are infinite really that way. It's rare to do one topic and not find or think up multiple others. :-) -Daven
Simon, just a tip: any time you see a name in transliterated Hebrew with "CH", it's the same "CH" as in "loch" from the Scottish accent (or like a G in Dutch). Wikipedia calls it "Voiceless uvular fricative" with the sign "χ". So, Menachem is "me-NAH-χem", Tzemach Tzedek is "TSE-maχ TSE-dek", Yitzchak is "YITS-χak".
To be fair, he pronounced “Chabad” correctly in this video. In the last video I watched of him, he pronounced the “ch” like in “Charzard.” So props to him for making progress
Sicherheitsdienst is pronounced with the "ch" in a similar fashion. The dienst, however, is pronounced, deenst. Meaning service. Sicherheit, meaning security. So, security service in English. Sicherheit can also mean safety. Gebracht ins sicherheit. Brought into safety.
0:48 The Polish government didn't capitulate; rather, it attempted to exit the country through neutral Romania to allied France. A government-in-exile was formed in Paris and later London and Poland continued to fight the Axis as an Allied nation. However, the Soviet Union maintained that the exile was a form of de facto capitulation, precipitating the Soviet invasion to secure their zone of control; back in Poland, on the other hand, individual armed forces still resisting capitulated piecemeal (Lwów garrison on September 22., Warsaw garrison on September 28., Hel stronghold on October 2.)
In Germany there is a major city called hamburg. The German word for people living in that city is "hamburger" i.e. "Er ist ein Hamburger" = "He is from Hamburg"
I was recommended this after watching your videos of Jews whom the Nazis unknowingly propped up as perfect aryans. I notice that between that video and this one, you learned how to pronounce “Chabad” properly lol. Good on ya.
That rabbi had some tough talkin' to the guy with the gun. Lynyrd Skynyrd was pissing his pants! I'd be in stitches too, but your subject matter is super heavy. What a story! Where's the movie?
Hey Simon, ive been following your content for awhile and am a practicing Chabad Orthodox Jew myself, so thank you for this content. Very cool to see a video like this so properly well done. Just a note on Rabbi Shmaryahu Gurary - he was Rabbi Schneerson's (Frierdiker/Rayatz) eldest son-in-law, not his grandson. Other that that, fantastic video. Thank you.
@@lindafranco9194 so it's been awhile since I've reviewed this particular chapter of Chabad lore, but as far as I can tell, Simon got all the details right. There definitely was an SS Officer named Bloch who assisted the Rebbes escape to the US and all the other names mentioned definitely ring a bell, so yes.
@@MisterK-YT good question, though as a rule, we do not. The main reason for this being that Hanukkah (along with Purim) are rabbinical holidays, not biblical ones, and so they are not treated with quite the same level of respect and integrity as biblical holidays (although still very important and part of Jewish Life and Culture
As a native Yiddish speaker, the fact that you kept it going till you get to the German name Hamburger (a very common theme in German last names: the city where a family originates), is deeply appreciated...
Come on, guys! Give him some slack for mispronouncing words...he's already having difficulties pronouncing "Hamburger" without laughing for Pete's sakes.
I'd like to make a correction. you mentioned at the beginning (approx. 2:00) that "the movement preaches 10 basic mitzvot..." these are the 10 mivtzoim (מבצים) not mitzvot (מצוות). mitzva and mivtza do sound similar, but while one means commandment and other means an operation [an intruction to do something. or something lile that. (you could look it up to see the full meaning)].
Wow! So thorough and well done. Missed no detail including various very Jewish pieces on info like earlier heads of the movement (tzemach tzedek, etc) and names of books.
Thank you for this fantastic video! In the future, if you have a set of Hebrew terms/words in your video, I would love to help you with the pronunciation of each term - as your channel has a massive reach (which is well deserved), and I'd imagine that for many of your viewers, this is the deepest they've ever dug into Judaism!
His pronunciation of German words is really off as well. Some years ago I wrote them an E-Mail offering help in working on the pronunciations (I am a German native speaker), but never got any reply
@@MisterK-YT Yeah but in this same vid, he pronounces "Chinuch" (Hebrew for "education") with the wrong ch sounds. He's making progress, but still has a way to go.
Schneerson was all over the news in 1994, which was how I found out, here in California, that resurrection was still a tenet of Judaism. It was so exciting! Was he going to rise from the dead in America? I don’t recall seeing anything about our favorite bad guys. Thanks for this!
Simon, German phonetics, in starkest possible contrast with English, are so strict an intellectual like yourself can learn them in an afternoon and sound like a native speaker for the rest of your life. (Yiddish is a medieval dialect of High German.) Jahrzeit is year-time. Remember Zeitgeist? Ei is always “I” and ie is always “ee.”
It's really not surprising when you look at Eva Braun. She did not age well. She was butt ugly for most of their relationship, which Hitler tolerated as long as she didn't chunk up. Traditionally there's nothing you can do about your ugly face, but your physical fitness is usually within your control. That says a lot about Hitler's values which he sometimes applied to his relationship with the Jews. He had sweeping prejudices but he also recognized individual Jews who made individual pro-Nazi choices. It was divide and conquer I guess.
The Nazis started out as a political party that drew people in with the promise to return Germany to the greatness it had before WWI. Not everyone who was a Nazi on paper agreed with the way they planned on doing this once all was out in the open. You can condemn the Nazis as an evil movement while understanding that some individuals who were technially Nazis on paper didn't agree with everything, with some even trying to act against it. Oscar Schindler was technically a Nazi. Another Nazi tipped off the Danish Jews of their impending arrest, which lead to around 95% being saved. Other technical Nazis helped here and in other situations. Individuals are rarely purely good or evil. However, ideologies and movements can be depending on their end goals and effect on human society.
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEYOND BELIEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LONG LIVE THE JEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHALOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My grandfather brought his father and younger siblings to the US after WWI. Unfortunately the US was not "religious enough" for his father and he took his family back to Europe against their wishes. Unfortunately there was no high level intervention that saved them from their eventual fate.
Really interesting piece. Some inaccuracies at the beginning regarding the Einsatsgruppen who were not activated until June of 1941. When Germany invaded the USSR, Einsatsgruppen units entered the Jewish population centers that were under Soviet control and shot them en masse.
Fascinating story! Never heard about this before. On a side not, Simon, you've mispronounced a few words here, rendering various instances of 'ch' like that in 'chat' or 'cheese', when they should've been said the same as the 'ch' in 'loch', or indeed the same way you pronounced 'Chabad', 'Chassidim', and 'Chaim'. Examples are 'chinuch' at 2:05... _both_ should be like 'loch', 'Yitzchak' at 9:21, and 'Tomchei' at 7:28.
@Aboz for sure...but the fact is that he can plainly pronounce the 'ch', just was apparently unaware that those other cases of 'ch' should also have been said in the same way.
I'm not sure saying "the ch in 'loch'" is as clear as you think it is. English has its own valid pronunciation of that word: /k/ just like in 'lock.' Also, since English literally does not have that sound in it, his brain doesn't perceive it as having linguistic meaning and ignores it. His brain doesn't consider it a speech sound, so it doesn't bother paying attention to it. If that sounds weird, it's the reason Japanese speakers have trouble distinguishing /l/ and /ɹ/ (upside down r): their language doesn't distinguish between those sounds (there are no JP words that differ solely by the L or R sound), so their brains perceive them the same. Their /r/ sound is actually pretty close to halfway between an English L and R, which doesn't help
@ManfredDudesonVonGuy saying 'loch' as 'lock' is just people who can't pronounce it as it's meant to be said; approximating as best they can. If you call me Flan when my name is Flinn, just because you can't hear the difference, or are incapable of saying it, it doesn't mean that my name is now Flan. Perhaps if he was incapable of hearing/pronouncing the different ways of saying 'ch'...but the fact it is that Simon _can_ pronounce the 'ch' correctly, as he demonstrates many times in the video, so I don't see any issue with what I wrote.
@@FlinnGaidin My original point--before I got sidetracked by phonetics nerdery--was that saying the 'ch' "should've been said the same as the 'ch' in 'loch'" is unclear because most English speakers reading that would think you meant /k/. It's not that they can't pronounce that sound (they can't, but it's not relevant here), it's that they think the sound should be /k/ because it is in English. The brain stuff was going into why his brain perceives the correct ch differently than the English ch and why the usual pronunciations outcompete--for lack of a better term--the correct one. Then I got sidetracked and lost the thread, just a hair.
around min 8 you say that he hid in warsaw jewish ghetto during German invasion .... there was no jewish getto in warsaw before the German occupation Ghetto was German invention during occupation.
Thank you for this short doco living within the Chabad community including my one son, I should know the background story but until now only knew about his release from prison which is celebrated annually.
Let’s not forget the Jewish Doctor Who served Clara Hitler Adolf’s mother when he was a young boy when he ultimately took power and when Austria or Hungary was absorbed into the Reich Hitler himself arranged for this Jewish Doctor Who served and treated his mother before her death to be Transported out of the Reich and to the west and he ended up in America. I’m not saying that Hitler was a good guy he was not. I’m not saying that he was an antisemite. He was definitely one of those. I’m not saying he was a good person. He was definitely not one of those but the fact that he saved a single Jewish Doctor and that doctors immediate family Says it was more like an obligation because this Doctor helped Hitler’s own mother when she was sick and was the course the family Doctor. There is a lot of surprising stories that come out of World War II that Nazis would save a Jewish rabbi is surprising that Hitler would arrange for the deportation to America of his family’s Doctor Who was Jewish is also surprising. Well, I guess a broken clock is right twice a day.
Well kinda, but also not really; Hitler’s thing was a passion to do away with all Untermenschen, of which Jews were; to deport them rather that the alternative (yk what I mean) isn’t paradoxical, least of all surprising; he did contemplate uprooting them en masse at some point, but the issue with that was foreseeable precariousness, so he resolved on the ultimatum that is the final solution- to avoid uncertainty, but to settle on the alternative selectively wouldn’t imperil his ideal, so it was granted at times. To liken it to a broken clock isn’t sensible, given it implies a sense of coincidence, which plainly wasn’t the case. Part of the rationale for precluding them in the first place was an assumption of inherent connivance, and to be selfless was to him a break from that mold- a demonstration of being relatively bearable, which justified their revision.
Nice bit of history. Just a couple of slight corrections in pronunciation. There is no ch sound in Hebrew. It's a guttural sound like the ch in Loch Ness, not ch like in church. Also Lubavitch (Yiddish aka Jewish) is a sect of the Chasidic ultraOrthodox movement, is pronounced Lou BAH(stressed syllable) vitch. He was a LuBAHvitcher (or also LuBUHvitcher) rabbi. More modern transliterations of Hebrew words are now frequently using kh instead of ch to indicate the guttural sound in Hebrew, so as not to confuse the English ch sound with the Hebraic one. Today we might spell Chanukah(Hanukkah) as Khanukah, if it weren't so widely known with the earlier transliteration spelling.
It wasnt "Nazis" saving the Rebbe. On the contrary Canaris and Bloch were both from the Abwehr - the military intelligence arm of the German army & opposed the Nazis
Great video. thank you! it would just be better, if you spoke a little slower it is hard to understand for non english natives to understand in this speed.
If you prefer to, you can use the TH-cam settings to slow down the video. I personally was fine putting the video on 1.75 speed, but I do speak English well.
"loo-BAH_vitch", "yeh-SHEE-vah (or, "yeh-SHEE-vote")" "YART-zite" Louis "BRAN-dyce" (Hey, I volunteer to give you pronunciation guides for any future Hebrew/Yiddish pronunciations)
For those who think he did a great job getting through the Hebrew and Yiddish words, let me fill you in. Not really. I wouldn't of said anything, but everyone's making it sound like he did. TIFO, pm me in the future, I'll help you out before you post😊
Fun fact: 75% of Cheka in Ukraine was jewish and NKVD as well as Gulag system was run by jews. Some names: Genrikh Yagoda, Naftaly Frenkel, Boris and Matvei Berman, Israel Pliner and many more
Hi Simon i love your videos but i’ve been noticing as of late that your footage looks a bit wierd. Think it’s your focus that seems too far back and maybe it could be the color grading? Just felt like pointing it out cuss didn’t know if u noticed, other then that i still love watching your videos and learning about all kinds of cool history facts
Ohhhhhhhhhhaaaaaahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha The Hamburger Bit was almost ALL of us. This is why I adore these channels. Great story telling and relatable reactions 🎉🎉🎉
Hamburger, as in from Hamburg, just like a Frankfurter is from Frankfurt; my goodness. Only Europeans [perhaps just the British actually] make this big of a deal out of someone else's language.
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Just to share a bit of modern-day clarity, while I would never say that the miraculous rescue of the Rabbi there and then had been in any way the negative outcome.. the Chabad-Lubavitch Movement, certainly today anyways (I'm assuming for some time now) has been *vehemently opposed* to any form of Palestinian statehood. And by the fact of that insensitive kak, alongside that of the Israeli-made mega-ghetto, Gaza, there is no moral part of me that can justify congratulating the CLM for having got their top guy back. Personally, perhaps if the present time weren't these days already, I'd rather have heard about the rescue of one of those poor nobodies who'd trolled the Abwehr men and the Hamburglar about agreeing to shave off their beards and join the Wehrmacht, to their faces. Balls o steel, and quite fascinating!
And for an additional bit of clarity for those knee-jerk reactionaries: FUCK HAMAS. Atm, I'm a Fatah guy, only because I hadn't found any better organization out of that wholentire catastofuck. Please just freak out at yourselves maybe for a change! ✌
I wonder,how many takes did it took to make the video,when you name every single jewish word 😅 i can't even say it that fast without any mistake
TNX and next time investigate who's secret naZZIES jewsh hitles special batalion
Or taboritsky
Khazarian mafia
As a Chabad Lubavitcher myself it's incredible how historically accurate you made the video. This rescue of the Frierdeker Rebbe was a unique phenomena that rarely happened during that time period.
Great work Simon wishing you all the best!!!
Lol. Accurate. 🤣😂🤣
You fkn guys are the craziest things.
Must be those high lvls of mental instability that allows you to believe anything. 🤭
Just some comments that expand or add interesting rarely brought this interesting history story
1. At the :19 second mark. Excellent historic fact. The cooperating Nazis and the Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union already in a pact that can be best summed up as, 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend" both decide to carve up Poland. You know another way to look at this partnership is to say, German non-Jewish socialist secularists of the Nazi party worked in conjunction with more than a few high placed Bolshevik Soviets of Jewish extraction to carve up Catholic Poland. The Soviets and the Nazis being no friend of the Catholic Church or Poles. These Bolsheviks well aware of Nazi policies towards Jewish people either gave no thought to what would happen to Polish Jews under Nazi control, or did not care, because gaining parts of Poland was of higher priority. And let's not forget what happened to Polish Jews at the hands of Soviet Bolsheviks at Katyn Forest.
2. between about the 1:30 mark up to 4:11 minute mark. What is interesting about Chabad Lubavitchers is that their belief about resurrection and an eternal after life is more in line with Christianity and even more in common with Messianic Jews, who are Jews disdained by conventional Judaism for belief in Jesus as Messiah and an eternal afterlife. Lots of branches of Judaism on that Judaism tree only one of the branches is vilified by conventional Judaism and that is the Messianic branch. A perspective on defining Judaism seems to bring in closer to be defined as a feature of Judaism is to deny Christ as the Messiah and all else seems secondary. What lies at the core of Judaism is a neglected or deliberately forgotten conviction that God, is as much One, as God is a singular multidimensional God in the Tankakh (Old Testament) as represented by Christians in the New Testament as Father-Son-Holy Spirit. Now if that seems too partisan, and I get that, then I would recommend Alan Segal's book, "Two Powers in Heaven." Seal was not a Messianic Jew.
3. 4:16 minute mark. You spend some time mentioning antisemitic activity in Russia against the Jews but fail to mention what provoked this antisemitism. And I think what provoked was Jews active in political actions that led to more than a little bloodshed against the government. Antisemitism just doesn't spring up like a virus (otherwise don't you think there would be an immunization against it? By now!)
4. 4:30 mark, is that revolutionary surprise best and in this case summed up by The Who in the song, "Won't Get Fooled Again," "Meet the new boss same as the old boss." What is strange is I don't think the Russian Bolsheviks, many of them Jewish, hid their disdain for many things religious, and many things Jewish. How could anyone have been surprised by that!?
5. 4:40 - 5:32. Many of the CHEKA were Jewish Bolsheviks and being Jewish might mean they had more a calendar grasp of Jewish holidays I think many of them were on these raids to snuff out the good work of the rabbi. I mean come on a simple Russian peasant Bolshevik what would that person know about Jewish holidays? Surprisingly, the quote you give about the rabbi when arrested sounds similar to Jesus advising His followers not to fear those who can hurt the body and be extra wary about those trying to hurt your soul. See how Jewish Jesus is?
6. If antisemitism was so widespread in the non-Jewish world, in this specific history case, the cultural Christian West, why was there ever, and even, a protest about the treatment by the Bolsheviks of Jews and the Chabad rabbi? I wonder did any Bolshevik Jews, at this time, in this chapter, appeal to non-Jewish Stalin of the Bolsheviks about the mistreatment of Jews in the Soviet Union?
7. At or about the 7:00-7:39 comes cruel irony, because the non-Chabad Jewish community in America more so than the non-Jewish Americans what The Rebbe out of America.
8. 7:39 - 7:44 mark and the term "progressive American values." Who started that for America? I mean America of that time is often regarded as Christian values, and someone seems to have wanted Americans to trade in their Christian values for "progressive American values." And foolishly Americans did just that, traded in their Christian values for "progressive American values." The Coen Brothers made an interesting movie about that called, "Hail Caesar."
Wrapping up the rest. Jewish Americans alert non-Jewish Americans in the United States Government to begin a rescue of Chabadniks in war torn Nazi and Bolshevik occupied Europe. That is an unusual reaction by antisemitic America, is it not? Maybe the antisemitism is overrated?
I am going to mention some names you mention, at or about the 8:57 mark to the 11:00 minute mark, and after I mention the names, I am going to ask a question. Rabbi Israel Jacobson, Max Rode, (spelling mine) Felix Frankfurter, Louis Brandies, Saul Bloom, Robert Wagner and Father Coughlin. The question: which of the aforementioned had a KKK cross burned on his yard? The answer, Father Coughlin, ironic is it not? By the way when Lindbergh mentioned in 1938 at a speech in Iowa that there are elements trying to get the United States in another European war, he, Lindbergh did mention the Jews, just as he mentioned the Anglo Saxons of the United Kingdom are doing the same, along with a few other non-Jewish culprits. Would Lindbergh's reputation be more intact if just omitted the Jews?
As you mention the honorary Aryan status that more than a few, like about 150,000 German Jews, were able to achieve by a stroke of the pen, you seemed to find that ironic, while somehow forgetting when non-Jews coverts to Judaism there is a very similar thing! Further confusing this is that even today in the 21st century in Israel if a Messianic Jesus believing Jew wants to move to Israel and be a citizen it is a very difficult thing because the mostly non-religious, mystical Israeli Supreme Court suddenly believes in the metaphysical and believe that a Jesus believing Jew cannot be Jewish anymore, as if something biological happens to a Jew when making that religious decision. Weird and peculiar kind like the Mischling thing done by the Nazis 80-90 years ago. It bothers me because the Nazi gives as a good explanation to that transition as does the Jew.
There are some uncomfortable commonalities between Zionists and Nazis, such as blood and soil, and the importance of a mythical narrative. Weird, yes? By mythical narrative I don't mean the Bible, but more the secular Zionist narrative of the founding of the modern state of Israel. Much like the Manifest Destiny narrative of the United States.
At the 13:47 mark you get a laugh out of the boots on the ground German private named Hamburger and this strange because earlier when you mentioned Felix Frankfurter you didn't find that as humorous?
Ah, but, well, humor is a subjective thing.
If I sum up the story, non-Jews, or mischlings, do the actual rescuing of the Rebbe, while supposedly antisemitic non-Jews in the west, listen and act upon what Jews alert them to as a serious problem. Do I have that right?
@@butchsanchez8683 You went on and on...
So, what's your point?
Briefly.
this guy sounds like a Holocaust denier, don't you see ? He's trying to re-write how the public see what happened to us, making it seem the Nazis "weren't so bad".
you
e a freaking 1diot, let me tell you that
My family! I’m a grand daughter of rabbi schneur zalman of Liadi, also known as the Alter Rebbe, the author of the Tanya. Thanks for covering this so thoroughly and accurately!! I will be sharing this with my friends and family, I hope you gain many followers through this! -Musia Schneerson- Wilhelm (I’m named after rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Schneerson’s daughter, moussia) ❤❤❤
As someone who grew up in the lubavitch movement in crown heights, ive never seen coverage on chabads history as well put, anywhere else. Ive been following Simon since his early single channel days, and im impresssed with the background of understanding he has here, like he even simplified "chochmah, binah, daas", the fundamental principles of chabad, this is uniquely impressive Simon, thank you.
Credit to the author of this video Gilles Messier
to Simon : Admiral Canaris was not hanged. Having been arrested and sentenced to be hanged, while awaiting execution he did not stop shouting day and night to the prison wardens from his cell that they had no honour, that the holocoust was unGerman, that the nazi party was a bunch or thieves ... shouting so loud and for so long pushed the prison wardens to escalate, and they were told to 'solve it'. Canaris was strangled in his cell because he would not stop telling their captors how low the German government had fallen.
Canaris was a traitor
@@helmortkuper2626 By definition, yes. However, a traitor to Nazi Germany can only be seen as a positive.
@helmortkuper2626 so was your mother.
No he was not! Hitler was a traitor and a lunatic.
@@helmortkuper2626 to whom???????????????
Gets through like 8 straight minutes of Jewish/Yiddish names and words without skipping a beat and loses it because of a German guy named "Hamburger".
Yeah... his Yiddish and Hebrew were said quickly, some were even correct.
Giggling over the holocaust disclaimer at the bottom... tsk tsk
😂😂😂
After all, the hamburger is not an American recipe, but the sandwich is German and comes from the city of Hamburg.
@@castorpollux3389 That is inaccurate. Hamburg was known for minced meat dishes, particularly what was effectively a big meatball with sauce or gravy on it. So any sort of grilled minced meat was called a "hamburger" at various times in different places even though Hamburg wasn't the only place that grilled minced meat.
What we know as a hamburger now, as in a flattened patty made of minced beef between bread halves was definitely invented in the US in early diner culture. This is because the modern concept of the sandwich became a large part of American food culture and the modern hamburger was just a logical outcome of that.
There was a period of time where Americans stuffed everything into a sandwich. Thankfully some of those ideas are long dead...
"You can't miss him, he looks just like Moses."
Pmsl 🤣🤣
Best line, way funnier than the hamburger name..😂
In addition Wilhelm Canaris participated in the rescue of 14 Jewish people from Germany. Between August and September 1942 he along with two other Abwher agents named Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans Von Donyhal who like him opposed the Nazis formed an operation to rescue two Jewish families by smuggling them to Switzerland. As part of the operation Canaris, and Donyhal removed the families from deportation lists, made them agents of the Abwher, and persuaded Swiss officials to accept them in the country and Bonhoffer arranged visas and sponsors for the families. Hans Donyhal even covertly went to Switzerland to make sure the 14 individuals would be admitted into the country and also ensured that they would receive money to support themselves. The 14 individuals were then smuggled into Switzerland where they survived the war. This would mean that in total Wilhelm Canaris saved the lives of 533 Jewish individuals.
Still can't understand Why he(And His associates weren't/) wasn't accepted by Yad Vashem as a among the Righteous*( Gentiles )!?
Hans Von Donyhal was recognized as righteous among the nations in the early 2000s. Unfortunately Bonhoffer wasn’t recognized as righteous among the nations which is surprising considering that one he was among the earliest opponents of Nazism opposing as early as 2 days after Hitler came into power opposing the Nazis persecution of Jews and disabled people and two by helping those Jewish individuals he was risking his own life as if the Nazis who already hated him due to his known opposition to them and their policies had found out about his true intentions towards the Jewish individuals ie that he was helping them the Nazis would have probably either killed him outright or sent him to a concentration camp which considering the notorious horror happening inside them could have easily resulted in him being killed. Bonhoffer almost certainly knew that and he still did it anyway because he knew that helping those families was the right thing to do. I also don’t know exactly why Canaris hasn’t been recognized by Yad Yashem.
@@Jaxson-q3d Might be because he was the guy who suggested the yellow star badges and was kinda buddy-buddy with Reinhardt Heidrich. while doing all he could to stop him.
Still doesn’t explain why Bonhoffer wasn’t recognized as righteous among the nations.
Well done. How did you come across this subject? I've watched quite few of your videos across your channels over the years. Wishing you continued success.
Thanks! When researching one thing you inevitably come across many other things or just wonder about things etc. Topics are infinite really that way. It's rare to do one topic and not find or think up multiple others. :-) -Daven
And, 2579 Catholic Priests opposed the Nazis directly and sentence to Dachua
Well, Hitler, Goering, Himmler & Goebbels were all catholics, a case of catholic infighting perhaps?
Simon, just a tip: any time you see a name in transliterated Hebrew with "CH", it's the same "CH" as in "loch" from the Scottish accent (or like a G in Dutch). Wikipedia calls it "Voiceless uvular fricative" with the sign "χ".
So, Menachem is "me-NAH-χem", Tzemach Tzedek is "TSE-maχ TSE-dek", Yitzchak is "YITS-χak".
To be fair, he pronounced “Chabad” correctly in this video. In the last video I watched of him, he pronounced the “ch” like in “Charzard.” So props to him for making progress
Sicherheitsdienst is pronounced with the "ch" in a similar fashion. The dienst, however, is pronounced, deenst. Meaning service. Sicherheit, meaning security. So, security service in English. Sicherheit can also mean safety. Gebracht ins sicherheit. Brought into safety.
Yep, in Hebrew to make the “ch” sound it’s kinda like you’re hocking up a loogie.
@@josiahtaylor wow, you nailed it. I was trying to explain it in writing and couldn't. Besitos 🥰
It was great to see this story of the Frierdiker Rebbe but I wish someone had prepared him properly. Every ch made me cringe
Maybe its the lighting but sometimes these videos feel like simon recorded them in bulk years ago and just drip releases them 🤣
That wouldn't be even remotely surprising to anyone.
Maybe not years but Simon has been pretty open but how the releases can be months after filming.
IDK about years ago but he definitely records them way ahead
A lot of creators/channels do that.
doesn't. it's exactly that.
0:48 The Polish government didn't capitulate; rather, it attempted to exit the country through neutral Romania to allied France. A government-in-exile was formed in Paris and later London and Poland continued to fight the Axis as an Allied nation. However, the Soviet Union maintained that the exile was a form of de facto capitulation, precipitating the Soviet invasion to secure their zone of control; back in Poland, on the other hand, individual armed forces still resisting capitulated piecemeal (Lwów garrison on September 22., Warsaw garrison on September 28., Hel stronghold on October 2.)
Very serious until 14 minutes in and the last name of Hanburger just breaks Simon.
In Germany there is a major city called hamburg. The German word for people living in that city is "hamburger"
i.e. "Er ist ein Hamburger" = "He is from Hamburg"
@ fascinating I had no idea.
It made me laugh too! I was so into the story and when he lost it I did too haha
bürger(German) burger(Dutch) is the word for inhabitant or resident
Brain Blaze Simon came out for a minute there
If there would be a director who can be historicaly accurate,this story would make a great movie
I was recommended this after watching your videos of Jews whom the Nazis unknowingly propped up as perfect aryans. I notice that between that video and this one, you learned how to pronounce “Chabad” properly lol. Good on ya.
Can we appreciate what he told them when they pointed a gun at him.
HELLO!!!!
That rabbi had some tough talkin' to the guy with the gun. Lynyrd Skynyrd was pissing his pants! I'd be in stitches too, but your subject matter is super heavy. What a story! Where's the movie?
Simon's voice and Giles' writing. What a combo!
Hey Simon, ive been following your content for awhile and am a practicing Chabad Orthodox Jew myself, so thank you for this content. Very cool to see a video like this so properly well done.
Just a note on Rabbi Shmaryahu Gurary - he was Rabbi Schneerson's (Frierdiker/Rayatz) eldest son-in-law, not his grandson.
Other that that, fantastic video. Thank you.
A little early, but chag sameach (chanukkah). Do we even say chag sameach for Hanukkah, given it’s not a yom tov-type holiday?
@jipdet just sent this to a chabad friend how accurate is this video
@@MisterK-YT. We say hag sameah. Without the ch
@@lindafranco9194 so it's been awhile since I've reviewed this particular chapter of Chabad lore, but as far as I can tell, Simon got all the details right. There definitely was an SS Officer named Bloch who assisted the Rebbes escape to the US and all the other names mentioned definitely ring a bell, so yes.
@@MisterK-YT good question, though as a rule, we do not. The main reason for this being that Hanukkah (along with Purim) are rabbinical holidays, not biblical ones, and so they are not treated with quite the same level of respect and integrity as biblical holidays (although still very important and part of Jewish Life and Culture
So fascinating!
Hollywood needs to make a movie about this rescue mission.
I wasn’t going to laugh at the guy’s last name being Hamburger until Simon lost it. Then I started cracking up.
Tefillin arm is dominant hand dependent. A lefty uses his right arm.
As a native Yiddish speaker, the fact that you kept it going till you get to the German name Hamburger (a very common theme in German last names: the city where a family originates), is deeply appreciated...
When Simon starts laughing, I can help but to crack up laughing too 😂
Admiral Canaris was a survivor of the battle of the Falklands! Could we get an episode about that?? No not the Margaret Thatcher one.
Great video per usual! Just still coming across even more channels Simon hosts. I think I’m at like 13 now
Nooo waaaay wtf lmaooo I’m like at 6-7 or so n thought I had found em all n still thought this was way too many😮😮😂😂😂🫡🫡
@@Moes2326you have no idea Simon is half of TH-cam I believe
The Rebbe Rayatz is such an amazing man. Truly one of the most holy men in modern history
Come on, guys! Give him some slack for mispronouncing words...he's already having difficulties pronouncing "Hamburger" without laughing for Pete's sakes.
the picture of the rebbe yosef yitchak shneursin with police officer at 4:18 is in new york being escorted off the boat
Shmaryahu Gurary was his son in law. His grandson was Barry Gurary.
the story about the "toy" is actually while he was in prison not when he was being arrested
13:55 Simon, keep it together this is not Casual Criminalist!
I'd like to make a correction. you mentioned at the beginning (approx. 2:00) that "the movement preaches 10 basic mitzvot..." these are the 10 mivtzoim (מבצים) not mitzvot (מצוות). mitzva and mivtza do sound similar, but while one means commandment and other means an operation [an intruction to do something. or something lile that. (you could look it up to see the full meaning)].
www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/108410/jewish/The-Ten-Mitzvah-Campaigns.htm
www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/62228/jewish/10-Point-Mitzvah-Campaign.htm
Wow! So thorough and well done. Missed no detail including various very Jewish pieces on info like earlier heads of the movement (tzemach tzedek, etc) and names of books.
As a follower of Chabad, I am pleasantly surprised to see this story here!
Thank you for this fantastic video! In the future, if you have a set of Hebrew terms/words in your video, I would love to help you with the pronunciation of each term - as your channel has a massive reach (which is well deserved), and I'd imagine that for many of your viewers, this is the deepest they've ever dug into Judaism!
Simon's pronunciations of Hebrew & Yiddish words are sooo off, but he probably knows that.
His pronunciation of German words is really off as well. Some years ago I wrote them an E-Mail offering help in working on the pronunciations (I am a German native speaker), but never got any reply
He isn't Hebrew or German is he?
He’s made progress since the last video. He previously pronounced Chabad like “ch” in “cheese.” This time he got the ch right. Props to him.
@@MisterK-YT Yeah but in this same vid, he pronounces "Chinuch" (Hebrew for "education") with the wrong ch sounds. He's making progress, but still has a way to go.
The German has issues, too. I can imagine it's hard to get Hebrew correct since it's a non-roman alphabet.
Schneerson was all over the news in 1994, which was how I found out, here in California, that resurrection was still a tenet of Judaism. It was so exciting! Was he going to rise from the dead in America? I don’t recall seeing anything about our favorite bad guys. Thanks for this!
Simon, German phonetics, in starkest possible contrast with English, are so strict an intellectual like yourself can learn them in an afternoon and sound like a native speaker for the rest of your life. (Yiddish is a medieval dialect of High German.) Jahrzeit is year-time. Remember Zeitgeist? Ei is always “I” and ie is always “ee.”
Shows how things were more complicated and not everyone was the same, even amongst this diabolical machinery.
it's so annoying when today, years after the fact when people affect self righteous attitudes.
It's really not surprising when you look at Eva Braun. She did not age well. She was butt ugly for most of their relationship, which Hitler tolerated as long as she didn't chunk up. Traditionally there's nothing you can do about your ugly face, but your physical fitness is usually within your control. That says a lot about Hitler's values which he sometimes applied to his relationship with the Jews. He had sweeping prejudices but he also recognized individual Jews who made individual pro-Nazi choices. It was divide and conquer I guess.
The Nazis started out as a political party that drew people in with the promise to return Germany to the greatness it had before WWI. Not everyone who was a Nazi on paper agreed with the way they planned on doing this once all was out in the open. You can condemn the Nazis as an evil movement while understanding that some individuals who were technially Nazis on paper didn't agree with everything, with some even trying to act against it. Oscar Schindler was technically a Nazi. Another Nazi tipped off the Danish Jews of their impending arrest, which lead to around 95% being saved. Other technical Nazis helped here and in other situations. Individuals are rarely purely good or evil. However, ideologies and movements can be depending on their end goals and effect on human society.
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEYOND BELIEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LONG LIVE THE JEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHALOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another Simon Whistler production, this will be good. Very good production Mr. Whistler. You usually make very good to excellent videos.
My grandfather brought his father and younger siblings to the US after WWI. Unfortunately the US was not "religious enough" for his father and he took his family back to Europe against their wishes. Unfortunately there was no high level intervention that saved them from their eventual fate.
great presentation
Great man and show!
Really interesting piece. Some inaccuracies at the beginning regarding the Einsatsgruppen who were not activated until June of 1941. When Germany invaded the USSR, Einsatsgruppen units entered the Jewish population centers that were under Soviet control and shot them en masse.
The second I saw the thumbnail, the first thing I thought was "This was a Canaris operation." Thank the heavens for Wilhelm Canaris.
Fascinating story! Never heard about this before.
On a side not, Simon, you've mispronounced a few words here, rendering various instances of 'ch' like that in 'chat' or 'cheese', when they should've been said the same as the 'ch' in 'loch', or indeed the same way you pronounced 'Chabad', 'Chassidim', and 'Chaim'.
Examples are 'chinuch' at 2:05... _both_ should be like 'loch', 'Yitzchak' at 9:21, and 'Tomchei' at 7:28.
I think he did remarkably well with pronunciation for a British gentile. I've heard fellow Jews have trouble with the ch sound.
@Aboz for sure...but the fact is that he can plainly pronounce the 'ch', just was apparently unaware that those other cases of 'ch' should also have been said in the same way.
I'm not sure saying "the ch in 'loch'" is as clear as you think it is. English has its own valid pronunciation of that word: /k/ just like in 'lock.' Also, since English literally does not have that sound in it, his brain doesn't perceive it as having linguistic meaning and ignores it. His brain doesn't consider it a speech sound, so it doesn't bother paying attention to it.
If that sounds weird, it's the reason Japanese speakers have trouble distinguishing /l/ and /ɹ/ (upside down r): their language doesn't distinguish between those sounds (there are no JP words that differ solely by the L or R sound), so their brains perceive them the same. Their /r/ sound is actually pretty close to halfway between an English L and R, which doesn't help
@ManfredDudesonVonGuy saying 'loch' as 'lock' is just people who can't pronounce it as it's meant to be said; approximating as best they can.
If you call me Flan when my name is Flinn, just because you can't hear the difference, or are incapable of saying it, it doesn't mean that my name is now Flan.
Perhaps if he was incapable of hearing/pronouncing the different ways of saying 'ch'...but the fact it is that Simon _can_ pronounce the 'ch' correctly, as he demonstrates many times in the video, so I don't see any issue with what I wrote.
@@FlinnGaidin My original point--before I got sidetracked by phonetics nerdery--was that saying the 'ch' "should've been said the same as the 'ch' in 'loch'" is unclear because most English speakers reading that would think you meant /k/. It's not that they can't pronounce that sound (they can't, but it's not relevant here), it's that they think the sound should be /k/ because it is in English.
The brain stuff was going into why his brain perceives the correct ch differently than the English ch and why the usual pronunciations outcompete--for lack of a better term--the correct one. Then I got sidetracked and lost the thread, just a hair.
around min 8 you say that he hid in warsaw jewish ghetto during German invasion .... there was no jewish getto in warsaw before the German occupation
Ghetto was German invention during occupation.
Amazing episode. Thanks!
Thank you for this short doco living within the Chabad community including my one son, I should know the background story but until now only knew about his release from prison which is celebrated annually.
Hi Simon. First time I see a video that covers the miraculous escape from Nazi Europe. Very well done!
It’s okay Simon. We laughed too.
I LOVED HIS laughter!!!!! I have read the book Simon is talking about!
13:41 😂😅😅 Lol.
Let’s not forget the Jewish Doctor Who served Clara Hitler Adolf’s mother when he was a young boy when he ultimately took power and when Austria or Hungary was absorbed into the Reich Hitler himself arranged for this Jewish Doctor Who served and treated his mother before her death to be Transported out of the Reich and to the west and he ended up in America.
I’m not saying that Hitler was a good guy he was not. I’m not saying that he was an antisemite. He was definitely one of those. I’m not saying he was a good person. He was definitely not one of those but the fact that he saved a single Jewish Doctor and that doctors immediate family Says it was more like an obligation because this Doctor helped Hitler’s own mother when she was sick and was the course the family Doctor.
There is a lot of surprising stories that come out of World War II that Nazis would save a Jewish rabbi is surprising that Hitler would arrange for the deportation to America of his family’s Doctor Who was Jewish is also surprising. Well, I guess a broken clock is right twice a day.
Well kinda, but also not really; Hitler’s thing was a passion to do away with all Untermenschen, of which Jews were; to deport them rather that the alternative (yk what I mean) isn’t paradoxical, least of all surprising; he did contemplate uprooting them en masse at some point, but the issue with that was foreseeable precariousness, so he resolved on the ultimatum that is the final solution- to avoid uncertainty, but to settle on the alternative selectively wouldn’t imperil his ideal, so it was granted at times. To liken it to a broken clock isn’t sensible, given it implies a sense of coincidence, which plainly wasn’t the case. Part of the rationale for precluding them in the first place was an assumption of inherent connivance, and to be selfless was to him a break from that mold- a demonstration of being relatively bearable, which justified their revision.
Nice bit of history. Just a couple of slight corrections in pronunciation. There is no ch sound in Hebrew. It's a guttural sound like the ch in Loch Ness, not ch like in church. Also Lubavitch (Yiddish aka Jewish) is a sect of the Chasidic ultraOrthodox movement, is pronounced Lou BAH(stressed syllable) vitch. He was a LuBAHvitcher (or also LuBUHvitcher) rabbi. More modern transliterations of Hebrew words are now frequently using kh instead of ch to indicate the guttural sound in Hebrew, so as not to confuse the English ch sound with the Hebraic one. Today we might spell Chanukah(Hanukkah) as Khanukah, if it weren't so widely known with the earlier transliteration spelling.
Great work 👏 👍
Thank you and many blessings upon you 🙏
Religious jew here.
Was getting ready to comment that pronunciation was pretty good, then it all went to shit😂😂😂😂😂
Loved the video though
It wasnt "Nazis" saving the Rebbe. On the contrary Canaris and Bloch were both from the Abwehr - the military intelligence arm of the German army & opposed the Nazis
Awesome show! Your program reminds me of the Sherwin-Williams logo of paint covering the Earth!
Great video. thank you!
it would just be better, if you spoke a little slower it is hard to understand for non english natives to understand in this speed.
If you prefer to, you can use the TH-cam settings to slow down the video. I personally was fine putting the video on 1.75 speed, but I do speak English well.
And who can forget the Frankfurters.
"loo-BAH_vitch", "yeh-SHEE-vah (or, "yeh-SHEE-vote")" "YART-zite" Louis "BRAN-dyce" (Hey, I volunteer to give you pronunciation guides for any future Hebrew/Yiddish pronunciations)
Well presented
The arrest photos is crazy - Russian police had absolutly different appirance :-)
True... it's actually the photo of the tebbe arriving in nyc, being escorted by the nypd
there is a movie in order here, Saving Jewish Rabbi.
I'm high, but that name is hilarious: "yo, haves a hamburger"
he went back, no fear when light needs to be spread.
For those who think he did a great job getting through the Hebrew and Yiddish words, let me fill you in. Not really. I wouldn't of said anything, but everyone's making it sound like he did. TIFO, pm me in the future, I'll help you out before you post😊
be nice he's British he's physically incapable of pronouncing words correctly in any language including English
...I wouldn't have... not "of."
@ltcterry2006 Yeah, I know. I was baiting an A-hole. I do that sometimes. Thanks for playing.
Wow! I'm impressed! You did quite an impressive deepsive!
Thank you!
W is pronounced as a “vl in German
I was reading a copy of Rees's Cyclopedia and came across a Profeffor Hamburger
I was a telemarketer for several years. One time I called a lead whose surname was Fingerer.
I had a principal named Hamburg,it's not as funny as Hamburger but still slightly funny haha
Shouldn’t be hard to find; literally looks like Moses…
Quite a good job though you should have contacted someone who speaks Hebrew/Yiddish about pronunciation
Another sad chapter in human history 😞
I laughed at his render of Taharas hamishpocho
Wish he would slow down his speech so that I can understand him better
13:46 I love Simon
Fun fact: 75% of Cheka in Ukraine was jewish and NKVD as well as Gulag system was run by jews. Some names: Genrikh Yagoda, Naftaly Frenkel, Boris and Matvei Berman, Israel Pliner and many more
The party that keeps on giving.
Surely not the National Socialist German Workers Party ??? 👀
Extraordinary story
Peter would have vomited on the Vatican
What do you know about Moses?
@ Read the Bible.
Incredible video. Thank you for this.
Talk about the players going on an unexpected side quest. I bet the DM was surprised the entire time.
14:00 There's the Fact Boy I know.
don't normally see fact boi breakdown on this channel...ha!
Dont give the nazis a nice excuse
Saying Rebbe like Gibby says Gibby
Hi Simon i love your videos but i’ve been noticing as of late that your footage looks a bit wierd. Think it’s your focus that seems too far back and maybe it could be the color grading? Just felt like pointing it out cuss didn’t know if u noticed, other then that i still love watching your videos and learning about all kinds of cool history facts
I have no idea how he read all that lol what a mouthful
Ohhhhhhhhhhaaaaaahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha The Hamburger Bit was almost ALL of us. This is why I adore these channels. Great story telling and relatable reactions 🎉🎉🎉
Awesome video.
(75% of the pronunciation of the jewish names and terms mangled. But to be fair- they’re hard to pronounce)
Deer Simon,
"Hamburger".
Mesmo os produtores de melhor qualidade insistem em usar essa montagem com dedo/pistola desenhado a lápis.
Incredible story, God Almighty the master of the universe truly works in mysterious ways. Am Yisrael Chai
Hamburger, as in from Hamburg, just like a Frankfurter is from Frankfurt; my goodness. Only Europeans [perhaps just the British actually] make this big of a deal out of someone else's language.
and you're a shitty actor, Simon... stick to what you know.
What’s wrong with your light balance ???
Been a while since Simon 2.0 has almost Windows blue-screen crashed due to giggle malware...🤣