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It's quick, painless and very unlikely to fail and just maim. The Guillotine unlike electrocution or lethal injection cannot torture you, it either decapitates you or you just raise the blade again. As weird as it sounds it was the most efficient and human death penalty method.
Death by hanging is intended to break the executee's neck, killing them instantly. It didn't always do that though. Firing Squads are supposed to aim for the heart, which would kill the executee instantly. Key word is supposed to.
The Youngest German resistance leader to be executed by guillotine was 17 year old Helmuth Hubener of Hamburg Germany. His family was notified of his execution on his mother's birthday.
2:18 I have to correct you on this one: The members of the white rose weren't executed at Berlin Plötzensee, but at Munich Stadelheim. Also, the execution took place the same day as the Volksgerichtsholf sentenced them to death. Furthermore, you said before that every prison was equipped with a Fallbeil aka Guillotine. That's also not correct, only those who were designated as a central execution site for a certain district had one (like Munich Stadelheim, Berlin Plötzensee or after the annexation the Prison in Vienna)
Interesting timing. I just watched "Alone in Berlin" last night, about a guy whose only son died in the early stages of WWII, and he spends the next three years writing anti-Hitler postcards and leaving them in various places for people to pick up. The movie ends with him and his wife getting caught and guillotined. I wondered about that, I had no idea the Nazis guillotined people in WWII.
So long as the blade hits between the spine bones. I remember reading something back in highschool that if it hit bone you had a fairly low chance of actually being beheaded if the blade was light and dull.
Yea but it also highlights how brave and selfless a human can be as they’d risk a horrible death to speak out against the atrocities of the ruling power.
I’m glad their animation has only gone up since their first videos. The attention to smaller details, better animated characters and details in the backdrops and background characters (different faces, equipment, facial features, clothing etc.) and not making each action a repetitive loop as much as they did before.
Saw it being used in one of the biggest dutch movies about the second world war when i was younger. So thats how i knew they used them which i found quite interesting since it was so "outdated"
The guillotine was created as a means to make executions more humane as axe men executioners would often get drunk and take several swipes to decapitate someone. The inventor of this device made a machine that could take off a head with one motion, less than a second long and they were deceased. As opposed to hanging, electrocution, and even current forms of lethal injection or gas chambers which are longer ordeals and much more agonizing.
Could it be the same people that wanted to put people in camps have travel permits and mandates during the woo flu of 2019-2020 or the failed presidential candidate that wants to put their political opposition in re education camp recently?
Hi there are two mistakes here: there wasn't a guillotine in every german prison, Johann Richard carried a portable one with him. And thee Scholl siblings weren't executed in BerlinPlötzensee but in Munic Stadelheim But great work anyway :)
Well, i realy like episodes about war crimes and untold stories of ww2, but i wish we got more vids about allies war crimes since they are much rarer topic
Robespierre: Oof, expressing sympathy to the people who die? To the guillotine! Chop, chop, chop, chop, chop chop! Later* Winston Churchill: I was saving the planet from an Axis of Darkness, while you were back home opening National Parks! Yes!
The monitor at U-Tube are probably going to demonitize this because of its nature, but we'll researched and truth shouldn't be forgotten, pushed aside, and how about you do one on the Alis did during WW2. because of the fact that there was things that we want to forget about that was done.
Over the summer I visited Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Berlin, and it was without a doubt the most horrific experience I ever had. It was extremely haunting, and I felt emotionally numb after leaving. The most horrific part about this camp is that it is considered as one of the more "tame" camps used. It was sickening, but extremely important to visit this camp to know these horrific atrocities so we don't commit them again.
A far more interesting and definitely "forgotten" chapter of prisoner abuse actually took place after the war, along with the open air camps throughout Europe where Wehrmacht prisoners were denied their rights and starved by the allies calling them "Disarmed Enemy Combatants" as opposed to POWs in order to ignore the Geneva Convention, or the tens of thousands of Europeans Axis Soldier and Civilian alike that disappeared post war to the Gulags and secret prisons around the USSR never to be seen again, the most interesting to me anyway is what happened at the "Bird Cage" in London, a secret interrogation and T*rture site.
. “…war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.”
I had hoped, that what happened in the 30s and 40s wouldnt repeated in the modern times. Sadly after hearing and seeing the attrossities from the invasion of ukrain and now gaza, makes me realize, every person contains a monster, only the height of the fence to keep it contained differs.
Hans and Sophie Scholl were actually executed at Stadelheim Prison in Munich, wich used to be the Prison responsible for executions in the district Munich belonged to
@@aleksandarvil5718 They warned Japan of an imminent bombing - they even dropped pamphlets warning of the coming bombing, Japan refused to surrender and the cities targeted were valid military targets. It's unfortunate that the stubborn Japanese government cost thousands of their own civilians' lives, but a swift show of air superiority and capabilities put an end to what would have been an even longer mainland invasion that would have ultimately cost more civilian deaths and displacements.
Not just the Nazis, but when you look back through the ages at some of the forms of torture and execution, it makes you wonder how humans as a species can be so barbaric towards one another.
It also must be know that allies also had brutal methods, which also must be remembered lest we believe ourselves beyond reproach. Always remember that we can be just as brutal, and that we must always make sure that brutality from any group, even our own, must be stopped
I'm glad that you mentioned the allies in hanging. What about the shootings? I know Americans and Canadians shot the SS what about shooting The concentration guards both sides, Axis and allies committed numerous atrocities, including rape.Don't forget history is written by the victors
I myself served some time in _Plötzensee_ prison mentioned from 01:50 onwards - the execution chamber is still there, unchanged to this day kept as a memorial.
@boskobuha6321 Yup, damn sure - but not quite so when it comes to why anybody would want to make up something like that. Substitute prison sentences in Berlin get served there, and the city's main juvenile detention center is located there as well, just as the detention hospital for all correctional facilities of the State of Berlin as you can easily find out for yourself. Not that unlikely that somebody from a 4 million metropole could have been there at one point, right?
Rest easy in the thought that Klaus Barby will prevail in many a french police department today, unable to get rid of him, poisoned by him till the end of time... "Ici on noie les Algériens"
I'm interested in videos about the war crimes committed by the allied powers. For example, the Laconia incident or the Dresden bombing. Have you already made one about it?
The most famous recent use of the Gallows from what I could remember was when Saddam Hussein was executed back in 2006 after he faced trial for Crimes against Humanity.
4:45 don’t leave out soviet pows in ww2 germany. Out of the 5.7 million soviet pows taken, 3.3 million died. A higher death rate than western allied pows in Japan.
Yes, dear ol Hitler thought Slavic people were a lower form of life, so Soviet POWs got tiny rations and were often confined outdoors so they would die of exposure. Hitler never had to explain how the Soviet people were able to produce all those nearly-indestructible T-34 tanks that enabled their army to chase the Wehrmacht all the way back to Berlin.
When one considers how brutal the Japanese were to POWs it somewhat makes sense why some GIs would collect skulls off of fallen soldiers but it's not justifiable.
Allies: Y’all are guilty of so many war crimes! Axis: Yeah, but what about your war crimes? Allies: We won, so they aren’t crimes, more like, misdemeanours.
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I feel like in comparison to other methods the guillotine seems pretty quick
True
It is.
Especially as before 1936 the preferred method of beheading in Germany was manually by axe.
It's quick, painless and very unlikely to fail and just maim. The Guillotine unlike electrocution or lethal injection cannot torture you, it either decapitates you or you just raise the blade again. As weird as it sounds it was the most efficient and human death penalty method.
Death by hanging is intended to break the executee's neck, killing them instantly. It didn't always do that though.
Firing Squads are supposed to aim for the heart, which would kill the executee instantly. Key word is supposed to.
The Youngest German resistance leader to be executed by guillotine was 17 year old Helmuth Hubener of Hamburg Germany. His family was notified of his execution on his mother's birthday.
what th😢
Weren’t they also charged for the execution?
So the allied terrorists killed a child. Rest in peace warrior, you stood no chance against the terrorists. 88
@@extantfellow46you cannot worship jesus and rest in peace at the same time
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MA !!!
RIP to the soldiers who suffered and passed away from this. Glad I was able to be early to learn about this. Thanks Simple History!
Pour a 4 for the homies if u mean it.
Just remember their only crime was being born male. Female privilege is vile
War was a nightmare for everyone, then and now. Life can be cruel, even during war.
I sometimes think war isn’t nightmare for those who wage it until they loose.
2:18 I have to correct you on this one: The members of the white rose weren't executed at Berlin Plötzensee, but at Munich Stadelheim. Also, the execution took place the same day as the Volksgerichtsholf sentenced them to death.
Furthermore, you said before that every prison was equipped with a Fallbeil aka Guillotine. That's also not correct, only those who were designated as a central execution site for a certain district had one (like Munich Stadelheim, Berlin Plötzensee or after the annexation the Prison in Vienna)
Interesting timing. I just watched "Alone in Berlin" last night, about a guy whose only son died in the early stages of WWII, and he spends the next three years writing anti-Hitler postcards and leaving them in various places for people to pick up. The movie ends with him and his wife getting caught and guillotined. I wondered about that, I had no idea the Nazis guillotined people in WWII.
Sadly that was *very* accurate. The last time the guillotine would be (legally) used would be in 1977.
@@girl1213 not guillotine submisson used by Roman Reigns
It looks absolutely barbaric to the observer, but the guillotine is actually quite human as far as methods of execution go.
What about the 20 seconds when you realize that you're now just your head?
@@axonice A parting gift...
@@axonice it's like 3 or 4 sec max.. often not even, once the brain loses access to oxygen, you go to sleep right away
untill you realise that death is not instant when the head is removed from the body
but more human than other methods
So long as the blade hits between the spine bones. I remember reading something back in highschool that if it hit bone you had a fairly low chance of actually being beheaded if the blade was light and dull.
"War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst." - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Absolutely horrific deaths, really shows how twisted the human mind can be.
Yea but it also highlights how brave and selfless a human can be as they’d risk a horrible death to speak out against the atrocities of the ruling power.
Rest in peace to all the people suffering from the evils of war. This we pray, amen.
Prayer does nothing.
Amen brother.
@@Indy_Bendyok so? Wth leave ppl be.
@@Indy_BendyNot to you, maybe, but it does for us, let us do our thing
Amen
@@karpfenenjoyerhow many wars and subsequent deaths are due to religion?
damn imagine getting captured and they tell you your gonna get the french king treatment
‘Ve vill treat you like a king!!’
Garbage commie revolutionaries that started a Catholic genocide
that's British
I’m glad their animation has only gone up since their first videos. The attention to smaller details, better animated characters and details in the backdrops and background characters (different faces, equipment, facial features, clothing etc.) and not making each action a repetitive loop as much as they did before.
The Japanese got off WAY TOO EASY.
The Japanese should have heavier punishment
Absolutely
@@hugod8238ベトナム戦争、ソンミ村虐殺
We gave them the sun twice. I say they paid their debt lol
@@hugod8238 I mean 2 of their cities got nuked
You should make a video about Puyi. He was the last emperor of China
5:55 it was George H.W. Bush, the father of GWB
Yes the senior
Saw it being used in one of the biggest dutch movies about the second world war when i was younger. So thats how i knew they used them which i found quite interesting since it was so "outdated"
Once again great video Simple History, well done🎉
The guillotine was created as a means to make executions more humane as axe men executioners would often get drunk and take several swipes to decapitate someone. The inventor of this device made a machine that could take off a head with one motion, less than a second long and they were deceased. As opposed to hanging, electrocution, and even current forms of lethal injection or gas chambers which are longer ordeals and much more agonizing.
How man executioners have committed murder I wonder?
There are just as many people today who are eager to commit these same atrocities. We all know who they are.
oy vey cool it with the anti-semitism
I would much rather us use the guillotine or firing squad instead of lethal injection
You mean Biden supporters.
Could it be the same people that wanted to put people in camps have travel permits and mandates during the woo flu of 2019-2020 or the failed presidential candidate that wants to put their political opposition in re education camp recently?
Who?
After watching this after hearing of the events happening in Israel, I've learned history always repeats itself and people never learn
anti-Semitism runs deep. Since before the beginning of time as we know it.
"Hopefully, you weren't eating something while watching."
Ironically, I was doing _precisely_ that during my first viewing of this video.
I actually got hungry watching the video....
Hi there are two mistakes here: there wasn't a guillotine in every german prison, Johann Richard carried a portable one with him.
And thee Scholl siblings weren't executed in BerlinPlötzensee but in Munic Stadelheim
But great work anyway :)
Guilotine is in fact really ethical, it's certain and painless.
The first three were considered among the most merciful deaths a person could face though.
was waiting to see what video simple history had planed for October
My great grandfather survived Bataan. The Native American way of life is what saved him. I was told he hated the Japanese till the day he died.
Well, i realy like episodes about war crimes and untold stories of ww2, but i wish we got more vids about allies war crimes since they are much rarer topic
fun fact: Sir Christopher Lee (Actor of Count Dooku and Saruman) was present during the last execution with a guillotine
In Memory the king of horror in Hammer Sir Christopher Lee
Nice video as always
Robespierre: Oof, expressing sympathy to the people who die? To the guillotine! Chop, chop, chop, chop, chop chop!
Later*
Winston Churchill: I was saving the planet from an Axis of Darkness, while you were back home opening National Parks! Yes!
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
Then it became unoriginal again..
*One of the GREATEST voice actor/narrators of all time!* ❤
R.I.P everyone who died in the Great Wars.
You missed the Japanese draining an airman's blood and infusing sea water back into his veins.
What the Japanese didn't do during the war ? No wonder why the atom bomb had so much support…
@julosx they dead lucky more bombs weren't dropped than the 2 original ones otherwise the Japanese as a race would've been extinct.
@@julosx ugh I'm sure the Americans did some messed up stuff too....
@@julosxin more recent times.....abu grabe..Guantanamo.
@@NathanBee3 During the war, naw. Since then, yeah
The monitor at U-Tube are probably going to demonitize this because of its nature, but we'll researched and truth shouldn't be forgotten, pushed aside, and how about you do one on the Alis did during WW2. because of the fact that there was things that we want to forget about that was done.
I have no respect of the Angle of death for what he did
I don't think you're the only one
Still voting in for a unit video on 'MACV-SOG'
from call of duty black ops?
@@cobracommando74 yes, real badass unit in nam
5:04 I love the reference to Unbroken! (or atleast thats what I think it is)
It's probably not a reference because Japan would do that to alot of prisoners
Hey Chris. I love history very much. Even the not so nice parts of it, because thwy are parts that shouldnt be forgotten. Thank you.
Fun fact- Sir Christopher Lee "sarumon and count dooku" was present at the last public execution in france.
How are people saying they already watched it when it hasn’t even been out long enough 💀💀
Could be members
This was a series of shorts
Over the summer I visited Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Berlin, and it was without a doubt the most horrific experience I ever had. It was extremely haunting, and I felt emotionally numb after leaving. The most horrific part about this camp is that it is considered as one of the more "tame" camps used. It was sickening, but extremely important to visit this camp to know these horrific atrocities so we don't commit them again.
Cool. Can you do one on the allies too please?
A far more interesting and definitely "forgotten" chapter of prisoner abuse actually took place after the war, along with the open air camps throughout Europe where Wehrmacht prisoners were denied their rights and starved by the allies calling them "Disarmed Enemy Combatants" as opposed to POWs in order to ignore the Geneva Convention, or the tens of thousands of Europeans Axis Soldier and Civilian alike that disappeared post war to the Gulags and secret prisons around the USSR never to be seen again, the most interesting to me anyway is what happened at the "Bird Cage" in London, a secret interrogation and T*rture site.
Indeed I was eating, but remembering the horrible history of what these monsters did is a little more important
Are you going to do a video on allied war crimes?
it would pale in comparison to axis war crimes
. “…war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.”
I noticed Arnold Toht and Takeo Masaki made their cameo so um well done
I had hoped, that what happened in the 30s and 40s wouldnt repeated in the modern times. Sadly after hearing and seeing the attrossities from the invasion of ukrain and now gaza, makes me realize, every person contains a monster, only the height of the fence to keep it contained differs.
its wild how the jews keep ending up in the center of all these conflicts.
Agreed
@@fauxtool952Jews in Russia and Ukraine started the conflict? You got a source or evidence of that claim.
#PrayForGaza
#MalaysiaSupportUkraine
@@danielnavarro537poor Israel
I wonder what Allied punishments looked like. Not just Soviet, but the rest as well. Would love a video of it as a sequel to this.
Nah what the Japanese did to that soviet officer was disrespectful
Yeah what a horrific way to die compared to those in ww2
Can you pls do the Nanking massacre. Thanks, love your videos.
Hans and Sophie Scholl were actually executed at Stadelheim Prison in Munich, wich used to be the Prison responsible for executions in the district Munich belonged to
make one about the allies next
8:55 well when that heals he will have one of the most epic scar possible
« Horrific use of the guillotine » proceeds to tell that the guillotine was used as it should…
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
4:10 I like that, the ultimate "screw you!"
Do allies next
we need a video talking about the allied war crimes
Simple history already made one , titled The Biscari Massacre led by general Patton .
Razing of Dresden (February 1945); napalm bombing of Tokyo (March 1945); atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ☢️☢️(August 1945)
@@aleksandarvil5718 The atomic bombing was not a war crime.
@@richardsamuelgustavo Civilians : *ARE WE A JOKE TO YOU?!*
@@aleksandarvil5718 They warned Japan of an imminent bombing - they even dropped pamphlets warning of the coming bombing, Japan refused to surrender and the cities targeted were valid military targets. It's unfortunate that the stubborn Japanese government cost thousands of their own civilians' lives, but a swift show of air superiority and capabilities put an end to what would have been an even longer mainland invasion that would have ultimately cost more civilian deaths and displacements.
Didn't realize till the end that I was casually eating a pulled pork sandwich while watching...
Keep uploading the good stuff... Keep up 👍
The Japanese were more brutal than Nażis.
Not just the Nazis, but when you look back through the ages at some of the forms of torture and execution, it makes you wonder how humans as a species can be so barbaric towards one another.
Bruh I just finished eating 2 burgers and I already feel sick about what the Japanese did to POWs
Italy also did some horrific stuff in the balkans and at the rab concentration camp.
okay, now do one on allied war crimes.
It also must be know that allies also had brutal methods, which also must be remembered lest we believe ourselves beyond reproach. Always remember that we can be just as brutal, and that we must always make sure that brutality from any group, even our own, must be stopped
I'm glad that you mentioned the allies in hanging. What about the shootings? I know Americans and Canadians shot the SS what about shooting The concentration guards both sides, Axis and allies committed numerous atrocities, including rape.Don't forget history is written by the victors
Excellent dudes!!
This is going in my nightmares tonight
I myself served some time in _Plötzensee_ prison mentioned from 01:50 onwards - the execution chamber is still there, unchanged to this day kept as a memorial.
Sure.......
@boskobuha6321 Yup, damn sure - but not quite so when it comes to why anybody would want to make up something like that. Substitute prison sentences in Berlin get served there, and the city's main juvenile detention center is located there as well, just as the detention hospital for all correctional facilities of the State of Berlin as you can easily find out for yourself. Not that unlikely that somebody from a 4 million metropole could have been there at one point, right?
I was eating steak and potatoes while watching and felt fine. I’m not sick just not Squamish and this is all In simple cartoon style.
I was eating Chinese food. Glad it wasn't Japanese.
@TomFromTH-cam its the same thing dude 😂
@@bornfromforeign racist!!!!
Simple History: "We just really hope you were not eating something while watching this video"
Me eating pizza: "Oh ok"
Guillotine is pretty humane. Far more humane than the modern Lethal Injection or Electric Chair.
Rest easy in the thought that Klaus Barby will prevail in many a french police department today, unable to get rid of him, poisoned by him till the end of time...
"Ici on noie les Algériens"
Can you do a video on allied war crimes. I think it is important for us to remember that the allies committed some atrocities as well.
I actually I am eating something,but I have a strong stomach so
Same😂
9:22 How unlucky for me: I was eating lunch while watching this. Understandably, I felt sick and couldn’t eat anything else.
A video about the history of the Jasudowicz family would be awesome, couldnt find much information about them anywhere
I'm interested in videos about the war crimes committed by the allied powers. For example, the Laconia incident or the Dresden bombing. Have you already made one about it?
"We just hope you weren't eating something while watching this"
Me this Mozzarella sticks: "Damn that's crazy"
"we are so advanced we use the best and up to date techniques unlike those SAVAGES in other countries"
meanwhile still using the guillotine
😂
The most famous recent use of the Gallows from what I could remember was when Saddam Hussein was executed back in 2006 after he faced trial for Crimes against Humanity.
Make one about the allies next.
4:45 don’t leave out soviet pows in ww2 germany. Out of the 5.7 million soviet pows taken, 3.3 million died. A higher death rate than western allied pows in Japan.
Yes, dear ol Hitler thought Slavic people were a lower form of life, so Soviet POWs got tiny rations and were often confined outdoors so they would die of exposure. Hitler never had to explain how the Soviet people were able to produce all those nearly-indestructible T-34 tanks that enabled their army to chase the Wehrmacht all the way back to Berlin.
When one considers how brutal the Japanese were to POWs it somewhat makes sense why some GIs would collect skulls off of fallen soldiers but it's not justifiable.
6:04 i see you Takeo!!!
You forgot forced marches during the Bataan Death March...
0:19 oh no the guy from blue's clues 1996!
The Allies committed war crimes too. But the victors are always able to cover them up.
If you know them there was no cover up then, or maybe only for a few years.
I am eating right now
dont meniton unit 731..................
Allies: Y’all are guilty of so many war crimes!
Axis: Yeah, but what about your war crimes?
Allies: We won, so they aren’t crimes, more like, misdemeanours.
I hope no one was eating sushi or something like that while watching this doesn't sound like a good time but great video even for the topic
I was actually eating dinner during watching
Just a small note, but the helmet on the soldiers on the Thumbnail is Swiss.
Hold on.....execution took less than a month? Damn, now we have to wait 2.5 years minimum. What happened
Now do allied and soviet