Now... this is a tough episode. It's also tough to illustrate with images. Many of the events we speak of were, for obvious reasons not documented at the time. As a result we have had to resort to using some imagery that is form later dates when similar events, or the after effects fo these events were documented on film and photo. WE have labeled these images as best we can when it is relevant. Last but not lest... do please remember our rules, especially on an epode like this one. Respect the dead and never forget that the only way we can make them justice is to remember their loss and sacrifice. RULES OF CONDUCT STAY CIVIL AND POLITE we will delete any comments with personal insults, or attacks. AVOID PARTISAN POLITICS AS FAR AS YOU CAN we reserve the right to cut off vitriolic debates. HATE SPEECH IN ANY DIRECTION will lead to a ban. RACISM, XENOPHOBIA, OR SLAMMING OF MINORITIES will lead to an immediate ban. PARTISAN REVISIONISM, ESPECIALLY HOLOCAUST AND HOLODOMOR DENIAL will lead to an immediate ban.
I remember seeing alot of these pictures when I was in college doing a detailed semester on the holocaust. They still haunt me to this day. The depravity, cruelty and heartbreak is always hard to watch but must be seen lest it happens again
I absolutely adore your work, Spartacus. By showing the gradual buildup to genocide, I hope you can build a better understanding of how it came to death camps. My grandfather was lucky enough to be one of the kindertransport, and I would love if you did a special episode on these children.
@@takasmaka820 I have a lot of respect for the Poles' role in the downfall of the USSR and their current defiance of Brussels, so this kind of comment is disappointing. I understand the Poles' frustration with the notion that they were as a nation accomplices in the nazi genocide, but it is no less false history to deny that antipathy toward the Jews was widespread in Poland, just as it was in the Baltic states and Ukraine.
I respect how you have Spartacus narrating the darkest side of WW2, in a very respectful way, leaving Indy to handle the military aspects. I know the difficulty with this side of WW2, and TH-cam will be watching., but I think this will work. We need to know the truth, somehow.
My grandfather was a guard in Bergen/Belsen. After the war he was ashamed for the rest of his life and would cut any talk about the war at the table short, sometimes with violent outbursts. We only really found out after his death, when we found his diaries and personal effects from the war. It was quite shocking really.
@@EJ_Red Difficult to put this into a simple comment here really. Suffice to say that it was quite disgusting. I mean he did had a good education and was in all other ways well mannered, but the way he wrote about other peoples lifes was shocking. So detached and emotionless. A bit like a farmer who writes about cattle that has to be slaughtered.
The Great War was a war of empires. The Second World War was a war of ideologies. The Great War had figures like Conrad, Luigi and Sir Douglas that we could laugh at and question their policies. The Second World War had Eichmann, Heydrich and of course Hitler, all evil figures. There is no laughing or making light of what they did. This had to be a difficult episode to make. Spartacus, you did a great job.
@@bunnyfreakz - No. It will be a world wide civil war where indigenous peoples attempt to take back their nations from the third world hordes the globalists flooded them with. And it's not far off....
@@56squadron in a way it's true but mainly it would be a war just like world war 1.... you see in world war 2 there was one goal to defeat Germany since Germany mainly started the war but with world war 1 it was a mess of alliances and imperialism mixed with nationalism and greed. I would say world war 1 could've become a war without end if it wasn't for the British naval blockade and the starvation that Germany suffered. world war 3 will a war without end
I am amazed at the quality of those episodes, and impressed by the genuine fire in Spartacus' voice when he discusses the situation. This really should be trending on YT!
Its a real shame that this episode is not as popular as the regular ones. It is just as intresting. But because its not talking about war, people simply dont watch as much. Keep up the great work !
i suggested sparticus do a video for prageru but without concentrating so much on the historical aspects, as history turns so many away out of disinterest. the subject is simply too important.
It's remarkable how much better the translations are today than when we laughed about them 10 years ago because of how inaccurate they always were. It can even detect some German words when the context is in English.
What kind of moderation is going on by the way? I hope we're talking about very limited moderation, as censoring difficult conversations/arguments isn't getting us anywhere good, and it seems quite unpleasantly ironic that we would use censorship as a way to counter those who question a narrative or even vehemently oppose it. The west should stand for open discussion. I'm kind of worried that the comment I left will get cut out because it's going against the grain slightly (and no, not in some neo-nazi way at all haha)
This is a great episode Spartacus. The outrage and intensity oozing through you betrays the restrained commentary and it just goes to show a lot about you as a person. Thank you for doing this. I would like to know if you will also cover the "man-made" Bengal famine of 1943?
I myself live and study in Łódź. The city is still bearing the markings of history. Both the German and Soviet occupation turn the city to the shadow of its former shape and it is still visible today. As a "fun" fact I may add that our History Institute is located in a building that served as Gestapo prison. Many of our professors' offices were previously been used as prison cells. BTW, it's stunning how this myth of supposed Jewish wealth is still a thing. Many Jews were wealthy, that's true but people must know that many Jews in the XIX and XX century ended up in Poland because they were forced to leave (deported) Russia. Most of them were very poor.
Greetings to Łódź from here n Bavaria, the region form where arguably your city's suffering originated. Glad to think that 79 years later we're voluntarily part of the same nation.
Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I know the whole mythos of jewish wealth is based or partly originates from the racism that plaqued them during the middle ages. If I remember correctly Jews were not allowed to work certain jobs or own certain property in various kingdoms etc. They were not allowed to become soldiers, shop owners, doctors(medicus) etc. Some started to work in the banking business since it was one of the few “jobs“ that was not forbidden. The lending and obviously expectation of being paid back created hatred and disgust towards the Jews as they “exploited“ the “common people“ to slowly steal their wealth. This was further intensified since the jews were already seen as lesser people undeserving of the treatment christians would receive. I want to add that it has been a long time since I had anything to do with this whole aspect of history so if there are misconceptions or blatantly false statements in my comment pls tell me.
Kamil Szadkowski you just contradicted yourself. you just stated that many jews were wealthy but then say that most of them were poor. which one is it??
Very hard to watch, very hard to fathom. Yet, I think it is MOST important to come to grips with this aspect of this horrible war. We can get so caught up in which army led which attack, which tank was best, who was most clever, who was most lucky, who was an idiot, etc. But in the end, we absolutely HAVE to understand WHY this war happened, and WHY so many atrocities were committed. This is the most important lesson to be learned. Otherwise, these same things are sure to happen again, and probably sooner than we care to imagine. Thanks so much for putting out this content.
You're welcome. You're absolutely right that it's easy to get caught up in troop movements, tactics, equipment etc etc. but we need to remember what was behind all this and that real people were effected by it all. It's important this is never forgotten and that's why we're making this series.
It's probably true in many areas, but there are also still areas where ethnicity is real and not much mixing happened. My own ancestors for at least a dozen generations are Serbian on both father's and mother's side, apart from 1 great grandmother who was croatian, but converted when she married great grandfather (and thats same dna and origins anyways). This is how far church books go, and in family tradition and research I did its pretty safe to say this pure ethnic background goes much further in the past. And its normal, because even with all the chaos of Balkan history, my ancestors came from rural areas where the mixing across ethnicity or religion was very rare, if not unthinkable.
I have studied history all my life, and none of what this episode said was new to me...yet I wept. Powerfully, masterfully and horrifically well done. Keep up the good work. Keep up the good fight, lest we forget. Keep up the hope of building a world without hate. Greetings and respect from Freiburg, Germany.
It's not just politics, sports, schools, even inside military units, company vs company or division vs division. Friendly or other wise. "Us versus Them" can be useful lead to a healthy sense of community and competition, but more often it goes to far.
It's part of Humans' tribal nature. Gotta remember how many thousands of years we lived in small tribes where other tribes were often hostile. That kinda mindset ends up evolved into our software.
"Us vs. them" as explanation for the indoctrinated mindset leading to the holocaust is simplistic left leaning nonsense. For instance, division into competing groups of people necessarily implies "us vs. them" but doesnt lead to killing each other but competition, efficiency and steady progress. Or take the unit "family". Forming a family implies us vs. other families. On the other hand, the foundation for indoctrinatiion must be given before someone can be indoctrinated. For example the more or less subliminal aversion against Jews was long there before National Socialists started full scale indoctrination of the German people and likely starts with the crucification of Jesus Christ and further developed over time with differences between Christianity and Judaism like the (in)ability to take interest rates. And then there were also specific German factors that laid the foundation for successful indoctrination. Especially the end of WWI and the inter war period provided a lot of recent factors for the German people to further disiike Jews. Like who was to blame for losing WWI, after WWI-propaganda steadily reported winning German troops on all fronts and actually winning on the eastern front? Who was to blame for the Treaty of Versailles, hyperinflation in the early twenties and the great depression of the early thirties? It was easy to blame Jews for all these events thus providing further foundation for the full scale indoctrination leading to industrial extermination of people associated to Judaism. Again, "us vs. them" is simplistic left leaning nonsense.
Actually, this is not the reality anymore. As in, there are self identified "wellfair states" that put their money where their mouth is, and reverse this idea completely. Part of this is history... the factories needed people that were able to read and write... so the industrial revolution raised the literacy rates from 40% to 97% during one generation(30 years) in England. And this was in the 1850's. Imagine how things changed when that population was given worth from their "indidual value". Meaning that if you educate a person, and that process costs "you" 100 000 $, then their individual value is that exact fact ....100 000 $ to the sociaty. Kill him and it's worth -100 000 $. The wellfair states today count every individual to be of same value... and so educate them from age 6-7 to 15-16 for "free" or more like out of pocket, as a loan, and so ... killing people begins to cost you a quite lot if you enmass them. Tie in with nearly free healthcare, and insurance. And the people get to be worth something. And so, what ever policies you need to make, you get to weight in with a scale of human cost, that's real in scale and scope. Todays, and future real politic is just "us".
@Jarno Mikkola, these state still make a distinction between citizens and foreigners and immigrants, and as far as they're concerned illegal immigrants are treated as second class citizen at best. Unfortunately we still work with this us them mentality, only the name change.
Thank you soo soo much for producing this really difficult subject in such an uncertain time. We must never forget the past and remember the slippery steps that led to that awful war.
I remember my great grandma's stories of how she was forced to leave her hometown in the Greater Poland (Wartheland) and what the Nazis did to her family. One of the worst stories was how some SS officer ordered every sick person to be brought outside and how one after the other the SS would walk up to them and shoot them.
Blade57331 The germans, my country, pretty much decimated the east in an attempt to completly wipe out eastern europe. Maybe they were nice to your family but you only have to look at the list of war crimes comitted by the army to see the destruction and tragedy they brought to eastern europe
I'm not usually an emotional person but it's videos like this that show and tell the story of the horrors of what happened to all these people that always find a way to get to get to me. I'm glad you're doing this series so we can all learn the full scope of what occurred in those times.
Thanks for this Spartacus I know that talking about these subjects is hard, thanks for your professionalism while talking about this topic great video!
I've heard the stories of nazi atrocities all my life. They made sure we learned them well in school. But every time I hear them again the brutality and inhumanity shocks me to my core. It makes me sad how in the modern era Nazi's are sometimes depicted as somewhat of a caricature, almost cartoon like villains. It makes people forget what monsters they really were and thus opening the door to indifference or even closeted acceptance of them.
What bothers me is how quickly people label anyone who disagrees with them, including both right and left, as Nazis. This only trivializes what the actual Nazis did.
Least you learned about them in school. I never did. They hardly even mention WW2. So imagine the mood when I had to tell a Holocaust survivor "We don't learn about the Holocaust anymore."
do me a favor. if either or (preferably) both are still with you, give them both a big hug. if not, just know that a complete stranger is joyous at their survival.
This video is well written, well produced and presented by Spartacus in compelling narrative. Certainly one of the best videos I have ever seen on this tragic subject. Thank you.
Clicking like on this type of video is more of a sign that you want more of that type of content imo, I dont like that that happend but I like learning about it and how to see it and stop it from happening again
Thank you for tirelessly working against ignorance and falsehoods. Sadly, looking at the state of things (in many places around the world), it would seem that the farther we are from the time of the Third Reich and WWII, the easier it is to forget the horrors that occured. I was horrified to see neo-nazis march openly in my own country (Finland) on Independence Day last year *with the hakenkreuz flag.*
They're a small fringe element here though, along with the anarchists. Usually they import their Swedish counterparts to fill in the ranks at their marches. And because they support the creation of federal nazi state which would consist of all the nordics, even other far-right people dislike them. tl;dr En olisi huolissani.
@@hazzmati that's a fucking lie, the germans gave equipment to the finns, sure, but it was such a small amount it doesn't even matter, the finns fought mostly with their own weapons, the m-28 mosin nagant variants, the suomi smg's and others, actually one of the main guns used by the finns (the bofors 40mm cannon) was used against soviet tanks (and it was made by the western powers) if anything the significant amounts of german equipment arrived only during the continuation war, after the winter war...
@@hazzmati That's absolute bollocks if we are talking about the Winter War. Germany didn't help us in any way, in fact they made things more difficult by forbidding the transit of armaments and war equipment through their territory (the occupied areas included). Before the war they made the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact that redefined the borders in the Eastern Europe. Without the non-aggression pact the Soviets probably wouldn't have dared to invade the Eastern Europe in the first place - not at least in 1939.
The swastika (although slightly different from the one the Nazis used) still is a symbol that is frequently used in some symbology, including Finlands air force. However, the Nazi Swastika could as well be used in a Nazi context, also in modern day Finland.
A shorter version for neurology of hate quoted the famous german comedian Volker Pispers: "If a human beeing knows his daily enemy, then his/her day will get structure!" THX for this emotional episode.
Your group does uniformly excellent work. I'm very grateful for it. And, Mr ( Dr? ) Olsson, I particularly appreciate the humanitarianism you have brought to this episode.
Been a Patreon since the WW1 Centennial livestream. Haven't even started WW2 in real time because I just finished The Great War. Great content gents, keep it up
I dont think it's based on todays political climate, I think it's more to do with depth. If I tell you "antisemitism is bad" from a young age, which more of the west does today, you dont quite understand *why* it's so nonsensical and dumb. You can run it through the ol logic machine, but, most of the people that dont understand why are undereducated teenagers wishing to rebel, not the most logical of folks. I'll always say telling someone why something is bad is better than telling them it is bad. You can add things people wouldnt think of, like racism. It's bad because you're judging someone on characteristics outside their control that has no bearing on how they act. That's the logical reason. But if you were to have a professional explain it, it goes a lot deeper. It's wrong because it facilitates and artificial us vs them with people that you need to work with, it contrives a superiority complex that can often lead to problems in life, and the list goes on. Sorry if I didnt explain that well though
My grandfather escaped a ghetto, went east and joined the soviet army. He fought as a tank commander and participated in Stalingrad. My grandmother escaped a ghetto and lived in the forest for 3 years in an all jewish partisan group.
My grandad and his family were from Lódz. They were all lucky to survive, my grandad fought in the British Army and I think at least one of his brothers fought for the Red Army.
i read the diary of Rutka Laskier - a girl who lived in the Bedzin ghetto until everyone in it was exterminated. Despite almost 80 years, her words make her come alive. She could never have guessed people would be reading her diary 80 years into the future and commenting on it on a medium like the Internet she could never have dreamed of. It really made me wonder where people go after they die. If they simply disappear into nothingness, that would be such a tragedy.
@@WorldWarTwo I just officially joined the mighty Time Ghost specialist army this week but I should not be saying that if I want to be a good fighter/spy heheh :)
@@WorldWarTwo Also, since I am a favourite fan now ;) (THANKS!) could you please make an episode on: the Mexican Escuadron 201, and one on the Navajo relatives who were code talkers? I am Indigenous Nahua Mexican and would love to share both our stories :) Tlasohkamate. Thanks! :)
@@WorldWarTwo Appreciated :) I know you do listen to everyone and that is why I follow, too. I was kidding about being 'favourite' hehe :) Thanks for considering my request. Both are very unacknowledged or dismissed :)
thanks spartacus, I love how you can explain everything in such a calm way but you can also get wound up about the futility of some of the practices carried out by the nazis
Sparty, if you were never to produce another second of media, you could look at this video and realise you had done something very important. I can’t praise this episode enough, one of the most powerful deliveries I’ve ever watched. Well done my friend.
Thank you for making this series. I have always avoided the subject of World War 2 until recently, mostly because the emotions involved scared me away. Now it's time to let that go and learn more about what actually happened. Really appreciate you Timeghost crew, keep it up.
@@brianwhite2104 It's a comeback to the medieval times when monks wrote only seldomly but when they did, they made extra sure their writing felt beautiful and unique. And others were used to having to read texts written in alphabets that looked totally different from one another.
Thank you for this. I have so much to say, but most of it has already been succinctly expressed in other comments. To think that there are still people who deny this ever happened!!
sparticus, i really appreciate the passion and objectivity you approach this subject with. you do not proselytize, you simply relate the facts as they happened unblinkingly in a reasoned, logical manner. thank you for enduring the obvious emotional cost. thank you all. seriously, you should consider getting with prageru to do a video on the subject but without focusing on the historical aspects as much. i fear you are preaching to the choir here. those that need to hear this subject dealt with in this manner will not watch it. those that watch it already know where the path leads and at least some of the causes. any mind reached is a victory over hate.
@@MrCordycep I did not meant that he said it wrong but he says it just like I do which is not exactly right. I live in France so I don't say it a lot but I know there is a slight difference. I don't know why I even said this because it was good and people usually don't event try.
This is perhaps the most affecting, powerful thing i have seen in all of my life. Thank you for your courage, your erudition, your honesty, and most of all your compassion. You have a beautiful heart, Spartacus. Thank you. Never forget.
I thought I would not like War Against Humanity... Then I found it was probably one of the most important series of videos on TH-cam today, especially with everything going on right now.
You are a hidden gem Mr Olsson! Could listen to you speak all day, such passion, empathy and respect. Definitely engaging in style without the sensationalism at the same time. Keep up the good work 👍🏻
Not Sparty but Joram here. It is. It's important to engage with our community and allow for debate - within the bounds of our guidelines. We read every single one of them to minimise the room for revisionism or apologists. Other than that, we do highly value and encourage interaction with us and each other, also (or especially) when the topic is tough.
Thank you so much for this episode. Sparty, it is difficult to imagine how much strain it must have caused you to research, narrate and word this video. You have a new follower. Now checking out how to support you in the best way possible. Kudos
Absolutely love the cross section of psychology and history in this video - the two are intertwined and understanding how both play into each other is integral for coming to informed conclusions. Kudos!
Thank you John! Very glad you enjoyed it. I hope you'll check out all our weekly and special episodes, we're already in the fifth year of war in our weekly coverage with no end in sight!
@@danielcadwell9812 sorry, you might get this wrong. Of course its better than it was before but in the last years it seems to get more and more accepted again
Back then it was the jews now it the Mexican and Muslim and the refugee crisis should be blame on the US because America destabilize the middle east and interfering with the politic in South America look what invading Venezuela going to do
Can relate. In current Spain ethnic minorities are constantly used on politics. We, basques, used to be the primary target but catalans have now taken the spot. Independist movements have even been called as "enemies of the state". They use the unity of Spain and the division between "Spanish patriots" and "Separatists" to gain support, create a scapegoat for the issues of the state and deviate attention from those issues.
Thank you for this episode. As someone who's lost a large portion of their family to the Nazis - largely in the camps - but also have family members who had survived the Holocaust, it never gets any easier seeing the footage or visiting the locations in person. For instance, I paid a visit to both Auschwitz (Auschwitz I and II - Birkenau) and Mauthausen in different years; my grandfather was in both camps and was liberated from the latter just three days before the Nazis surrendered (the last camp to be liberated). To Sparty's statement that no one knew for sure when the Final Solution was decided upon, it is known, however, that this was officially executed after the Wannsee Conference in early-1942, hence why the majority of death camp and extermination camp murders of Jews occurred roughly between then and late-1944.
I wonder how often this kind of history repeats itself, not just with Jews but with any minority ethnic group that is ostracized in a "us vs them" mentality. Great Job Spartacus, again in showing the social psychology surrounding the final solution.
I'd just like to take a moment to appreciate how well Spartacus pronounces all the names, places and stuff. I am terrible with languages and hearing these things said with such expertise is a joy :-)
Thank you, I take great joy in foreign languages, so I try my best. To be fair though I'm a native speaker of English and Swedish and fully fluent in German, and French, so those don't really count, but the Polish ones were a bit tougher.
It’s really easy to boil down the atrocious loss of life to numbers, but remember that every one lost was an individual, feeling, thinking person. Keep that in mind for the Holocaust when the numbers were so horrifyingly large.
Videos like this are very instructive and necessary. Specially today when new fascist-like movements are again on the rise on Europe, lets hope history doesn't repeat itself. PD: Are you going to cover the Holodomor in between two wars? Seems to be a less covered subject but comparable in some ways to the Holocaust.
In terms of numbers, Holodomor is the second deadliest genocide in history. And we all know that "second largest" events are often overlooked by history.
Fascist-like movements? What are you talking about? What is wrong with protecting your people against very real demographic threats? It's simple. Poland is for the Poles, Sweden for Swedes, France for French, Britain for Brits, Japan for Japanese, China for Chinese and so on. If you want immigration to any country and replace the native population (i.e. exterminate them, immigration over the long term is just that, extermination, look at what happened to for instance the Prussian tribe or the Amerindians), you're the fascist. The fascists today call themselves anti-fascists. Besides, you should look into Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, the father of the European Union. In his "Praktischer Idealismus" he states: "The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today's races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals." His plan if you can call it that (more of a blueprint for Europe) is being executed today by people such as George Soros, Angela Merkel and Emanuel Macron. People are sick of being told to give up their nations and peoples (being replaced by non-natives). Orban and Salvini are heroes fighting against this great threat to all European peoples. The Polish anthem has the line (paraphrasing): "Napoleon has shown us how to win." Today a more apt line would be: "Orban has shown us how to win."
My father was with the 42nd Rainbow Division when they liberated Dachau. What he witnessed there affected him deeply his whole life. Ah totalitarianism...
While watching this excellent documentary. I never understood why the children of the greatest generation that fought and died fighting fascists around the globe. Some of those children have cast aside their parent's sacrifices to support another fascist. They should be ashamed.
My grandmother sister was killed at the potato field, it was harvest time. She was killed by German soldiers who suddenly decided to practice shooting, there were only my grandmother and her sister at the field, they were 12 and 8. My grandmother said: "it was easier to hit the older one as she was taller..."
These ordinary people were absolutely NO threat to Hitler or Stalin’s reign. This was pure, evil, inhumane, hatred. It sickens me every time I refresh myself about this dark period of history. But I force myself to watch through my tears because if it is forgotten, or purposely ignored..... it WILL happen again.
@@xappgametvx Wrong. Germany has the usual share of anti-semites and holocaust deniers (which is illegal in Germany, by the way) you'll find in any country but the vast majority of Germans would not contest this video. So look elsewhere. Greets from Berlin.
Antisemites... From the far left, the far right, the Radical Islamists who believe that the (Jews)/ Zionists are controlling world... They hate this sort of stuff.
Anyone with a substantial knowledge of psychology is disgusted by this attempt to abuse the history of such crimes in order to sell stupid pseudo science talking points and ideology.
The Einzatsgruppen weren’t the only nazi mobile death squads in Eastern Europe. The so called police battalions which consisted of far many more personnel than the Einzatsgruppen operated mainly in the areas under civilian nazi administration while the Einzatsgruppen operated in territories under army control.
In 1956 when I was 5 year old my parents took me to visit Dachau. My father was stationed near there as part of the Royal Canadian Air Force contribution to the pot war forces. I knew that evil things went on at Dachau over a decade previously. The place still stank of the rancid human fat that was baked right into the bricks of the ovens. There was imaginable horror committed there by civilized human beings. Yet as we lived among the German people who were some of the finest people I had ever met, I could never make a connection how these same nice people bred those also capable of such horrible acts. Even then I knew damn well that some of those 40+ German men I saw, many of them the parents of the German kids I hung out with, were the perpetrators of such horror. This is a lot to have dumped onto a 5 year old kid from western Canada. I would hear my father and his Air Force buddies, who also served in WW2, many of them American as well, how suddenly in 1945 the Nazis all disappeared and there was not a person to be found who was a Nazi. Ex regular Army or Luftwaffe yes. But no Nazis or SS. No uniforms. No insignia. No papers. No flags. When I was there I knew damn well what Nazi symbols looked like as I saw them in the WW2 comics I read. There was not a thing of that time to be seen. It was when I started to become a cynic about human nature. To this day all I can think of, having never experienced military basic training, is how good the military is at taking out the free will they are of new recruits and turns them into robots capable of following orders no matter how horrific. But that there were officers even that could pass those orders down and in large enough a supply even was beyond me. And now I am seeing the same thing from Between the Wars happening in the USA right now. I am amazed how many Americans are turning the same way. All I can say that I fear for the future of the USA if the wrong person wins re-election again in late 2020 in the USA. How soon people forget their history. It especially disturbs me to see people marching with Nazi flags in the USA. You would think they could at least come up their own symbols instead of the ones where so many Americans and other peoples paid such a high price in blood and treasure to put down.
Now... this is a tough episode. It's also tough to illustrate with images. Many of the events we speak of were, for obvious reasons not documented at the time. As a result we have had to resort to using some imagery that is form later dates when similar events, or the after effects fo these events were documented on film and photo. WE have labeled these images as best we can when it is relevant. Last but not lest... do please remember our rules, especially on an epode like this one. Respect the dead and never forget that the only way we can make them justice is to remember their loss and sacrifice.
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I remember seeing alot of these pictures when I was in college doing a detailed semester on the holocaust. They still haunt me to this day. The depravity, cruelty and heartbreak is always hard to watch but must be seen lest it happens again
I absolutely adore your work, Spartacus. By showing the gradual buildup to genocide, I hope you can build a better understanding of how it came to death camps.
My grandfather was lucky enough to be one of the kindertransport, and I would love if you did a special episode on these children.
@@takasmaka820 I have a lot of respect for the Poles' role in the downfall of the USSR and their current defiance of Brussels, so this kind of comment is disappointing. I understand the Poles' frustration with the notion that they were as a nation accomplices in the nazi genocide, but it is no less false history to deny that antipathy toward the Jews was widespread in Poland, just as it was in the Baltic states and Ukraine.
You mispronounced the words "financiers", "annihilate", and "insidious".
@@clazy8 it still is, hue hue
I respect how you have Spartacus narrating the darkest side of WW2, in a very respectful way, leaving Indy to handle the military aspects. I know the difficulty with this side of WW2, and TH-cam will be watching., but I think this will work. We need to know the truth, somehow.
The truth is Hate drove the ideology of the third Reich. The lack of care for human life is to revert back to animalistic ways.
My grandfather was a guard in Bergen/Belsen. After the war he was ashamed for the rest of his life and would cut any talk about the war at the table short, sometimes with violent outbursts. We only really found out after his death, when we found his diaries and personal effects from the war. It was quite shocking really.
If it's not too personal, what did thoughts and opinions did he write down? If I'm invading privacy, feel free to say no
@@EJ_Red Difficult to put this into a simple comment here really. Suffice to say that it was quite disgusting. I mean he did had a good education and was in all other ways well mannered, but the way he wrote about other peoples lifes was shocking. So detached and emotionless. A bit like a farmer who writes about cattle that has to be slaughtered.
@@AeonVoom So he felt that in some ways the war and the Holocaust never truly ended for him?
@@AeonVoom dissociation is a hell of a thing
and yet there are many who still deny that these atrocities happened... especially here on TH-cam... it's disgusting, really
The Great War was a war of empires. The Second World War was a war of ideologies. The Great War had figures like Conrad, Luigi and Sir Douglas that we could laugh at and question their policies. The Second World War had Eichmann, Heydrich and of course Hitler, all evil figures. There is no laughing or making light of what they did.
This had to be a difficult episode to make. Spartacus, you did a great job.
The Third World War will be war of profit.
You forgot Stalin.
@@bunnyfreakz - No. It will be a world wide civil war where indigenous peoples attempt to take back their nations from the third world hordes the globalists flooded them with. And it's not far off....
@@56squadron in a way it's true but mainly it would be a war just like world war 1.... you see in world war 2 there was one goal to defeat Germany since Germany mainly started the war but with world war 1 it was a mess of alliances and imperialism mixed with nationalism and greed. I would say world war 1 could've become a war without end if it wasn't for the British naval blockade and the starvation that Germany suffered. world war 3 will a war without end
@@alexanderthom4618 tbh if WW3 occurs I expect it to end pretty quickly with humanity's existence ending as well.
Sparty’s back and looking sharper than ever. What a treat on a saturday!
Why thank you!
He's looking mighty dapper as usual! 😀
And he is so rational! I love it. I see less and less rational people in the UK recently. So much emotion and stupidity.
I am amazed at the quality of those episodes, and impressed by the genuine fire in Spartacus' voice when he discusses the situation. This really should be trending on YT!
Thanks! Spread the word! And link!
45 minutes of WW2 content in one evening!
Easter gift
It's a great evening!!
Lol its my birthday present
Belated happy birthday p0xus
@@WorldWarTwo Thanks!
Its a real shame that this episode is not as popular as the regular ones. It is just as intresting. But because its not talking about war, people simply dont watch as much. Keep up the great work !
Give it some time its the weekend, most people are off having fun. Im sure it will get more views because it deserves it
i suggested sparticus do a video for prageru but without concentrating so much on the historical aspects, as history turns so many away out of disinterest. the subject is simply too important.
I actually believe that World War II is too summarized. I absolutely love how this channel analyzes every single detail they can get. It's amazing!
@@thurin84 Why would anyone want to publish their content on PragerU?
@@Wimbold because of its reach and reputation for insightful and researched commentary.
Turned on the auto English caption, it says "I'm Spartacus Awesome"
Google knows
It's remarkable how much better the translations are today than when we laughed about them 10 years ago because of how inaccurate they always were. It can even detect some German words when the context is in English.
@@DirtyPoul Unfortunately captions get lost when it's time to make "Einsatzgruppen" and a bunch of other words appear...
And "Effectivness instilled by IKEA" :D
Moderating the comments for this type of series must be nightmarish. Godspeed to anyone doing it!
What kind of moderation is going on by the way? I hope we're talking about very limited moderation, as censoring difficult conversations/arguments isn't getting us anywhere good, and it seems quite unpleasantly ironic that we would use censorship as a way to counter those who question a narrative or even vehemently oppose it. The west should stand for open discussion. I'm kind of worried that the comment I left will get cut out because it's going against the grain slightly (and no, not in some neo-nazi way at all haha)
@@tommeakin1732 It seems to me they're only removing the really harmful stuff like holocaust denial or nazi apologists. Fine by me!
Tom Meakin Denial of the holocaust isn’t just ‘another opinion’, though. Nazi apologism isn’t just ‘another opinion’.
@@bombermanguy8888
Second verse same as the first but a bit redder and worse.
@@cwovictor3281 Why should they? Censorship of any form is evil.
This is a great episode Spartacus. The outrage and intensity oozing through you betrays the restrained commentary and it just goes to show a lot about you as a person. Thank you for doing this.
I would like to know if you will also cover the "man-made" Bengal famine of 1943?
Thank you on Sparty's behalf - we will most certainly cover the Bengal Famine in 43 (2022).
I myself live and study in Łódź. The city is still bearing the markings of history. Both the German and Soviet occupation turn the city to the shadow of its former shape and it is still visible today. As a "fun" fact I may add that our History Institute is located in a building that served as Gestapo prison. Many of our professors' offices were previously been used as prison cells.
BTW, it's stunning how this myth of supposed Jewish wealth is still a thing. Many Jews were wealthy, that's true but people must know that many Jews in the XIX and XX century ended up in Poland because they were forced to leave (deported) Russia. Most of them were very poor.
Greetings to Łódź from here n Bavaria, the region form where arguably your city's suffering originated. Glad to think that 79 years later we're voluntarily part of the same nation.
Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I know the whole mythos of jewish wealth is based or partly originates from the racism that plaqued them during the middle ages.
If I remember correctly Jews were not allowed to work certain jobs or own certain property in various kingdoms etc.
They were not allowed to become soldiers, shop owners, doctors(medicus) etc.
Some started to work in the banking business since it was one of the few “jobs“ that was not forbidden.
The lending and obviously expectation of being paid back created hatred and disgust towards the Jews as they “exploited“ the “common people“ to slowly steal their wealth.
This was further intensified since the jews were already seen as lesser people undeserving of the treatment christians would receive.
I want to add that it has been a long time since I had anything to do with this whole aspect of history so if there are misconceptions or blatantly false statements in my comment pls tell me.
Kamil, Jews were migrating from Central Europe to Eastern Europe, not backward. Just saying...
Interesting about Soviet occupation in Poland . At least Soviets did not kill Jewish, right.
Kamil Szadkowski you just contradicted yourself. you just stated that many jews were wealthy but then say that most of them were poor. which one is it??
Very hard to watch, very hard to fathom.
Yet, I think it is MOST important to come to grips with this aspect of this horrible war.
We can get so caught up in which army led which attack, which tank was best, who was most clever, who was most lucky, who was an idiot, etc.
But in the end, we absolutely HAVE to understand WHY this war happened, and WHY so many atrocities were committed. This is the most important lesson to be learned.
Otherwise, these same things are sure to happen again, and probably sooner than we care to imagine.
Thanks so much for putting out this content.
You're welcome. You're absolutely right that it's easy to get caught up in troop movements, tactics, equipment etc etc. but we need to remember what was behind all this and that real people were effected by it all.
It's important this is never forgotten and that's why we're making this series.
"Sexual attraction is the great equalizer." God the amount of truth in one sentence. Amazing series, can't wait for next month's episode!
It's probably true in many areas, but there are also still areas where ethnicity is real and not much mixing happened. My own ancestors for at least a dozen generations are Serbian on both father's and mother's side, apart from 1 great grandmother who was croatian, but converted when she married great grandfather (and thats same dna and origins anyways). This is how far church books go, and in family tradition and research I did its pretty safe to say this pure ethnic background goes much further in the past. And its normal, because even with all the chaos of Balkan history, my ancestors came from rural areas where the mixing across ethnicity or religion was very rare, if not unthinkable.
I have studied history all my life, and none of what this episode said was new to me...yet I wept. Powerfully, masterfully and horrifically well done. Keep up the good work. Keep up the good fight, lest we forget. Keep up the hope of building a world without hate.
Greetings and respect from Freiburg, Germany.
still today core of every politics is "us vs them"
It's not just politics, sports, schools, even inside military units, company vs company or division vs division. Friendly or other wise. "Us versus Them" can be useful lead to a healthy sense of community and competition, but more often it goes to far.
It's part of Humans' tribal nature. Gotta remember how many thousands of years we lived in small tribes where other tribes were often hostile. That kinda mindset ends up evolved into our software.
"Us vs. them" as explanation for the indoctrinated mindset leading to the holocaust is simplistic left leaning nonsense.
For instance, division into competing groups of people necessarily implies "us vs. them" but doesnt lead to killing each other but competition, efficiency and steady progress. Or take the unit "family". Forming a family implies us vs. other families.
On the other hand, the foundation for indoctrinatiion must be given before someone can be indoctrinated. For example the more or less subliminal aversion against Jews was long there before National Socialists started full scale indoctrination of the German people and likely starts with the crucification of Jesus Christ and further developed over time with differences between Christianity and Judaism like the (in)ability to take interest rates.
And then there were also specific German factors that laid the foundation for successful indoctrination. Especially the end of WWI and the inter war period provided a lot of recent factors for the German people to further disiike Jews. Like who was to blame for losing WWI, after WWI-propaganda steadily reported winning German troops on all fronts and actually winning on the eastern front? Who was to blame for the Treaty of Versailles, hyperinflation in the early twenties and the great depression of the early thirties?
It was easy to blame Jews for all these events thus providing further foundation for the full scale indoctrination leading to industrial extermination of people associated to Judaism.
Again, "us vs. them" is simplistic left leaning nonsense.
Actually, this is not the reality anymore. As in, there are self identified "wellfair states" that put their money where their mouth is, and reverse this idea completely. Part of this is history... the factories needed people that were able to read and write... so the industrial revolution raised the literacy rates from 40% to 97% during one generation(30 years) in England. And this was in the 1850's.
Imagine how things changed when that population was given worth from their "indidual value". Meaning that if you educate a person, and that process costs "you" 100 000 $, then their individual value is that exact fact ....100 000 $ to the sociaty. Kill him and it's worth -100 000 $.
The wellfair states today count every individual to be of same value... and so educate them from age 6-7 to 15-16 for "free" or more like out of pocket, as a loan, and so ... killing people begins to cost you a quite lot if you enmass them. Tie in with nearly free healthcare, and insurance. And the people get to be worth something.
And so, what ever policies you need to make, you get to weight in with a scale of human cost, that's real in scale and scope.
Todays, and future real politic is just "us".
@Jarno Mikkola, these state still make a distinction between citizens and foreigners and immigrants, and as far as they're concerned illegal immigrants are treated as second class citizen at best.
Unfortunately we still work with this us them mentality, only the name change.
Thank you soo soo much for producing this really difficult subject in such an uncertain time. We must never forget the past and remember the slippery steps that led to that awful war.
Thank you.
It's daunting, amazing, humbling, and downright frightening to think it wasn't even a full century ago that these atrocities took place.
I remember my great grandma's stories of how she was forced to leave her hometown in the Greater Poland (Wartheland) and what the Nazis did to her family. One of the worst stories was how some SS officer ordered every sick person to be brought outside and how one after the other the SS would walk up to them and shoot them.
Stories such as these are hard to fathom today but we must never forget that it actually did happen only a few generations ago.
Blade57331 The germans, my country, pretty much decimated the east in an attempt to completly wipe out eastern europe. Maybe they were nice to your family but you only have to look at the list of war crimes comitted by the army to see the destruction and tragedy they brought to eastern europe
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Was it plazow. Camp?Sturmfuhrer amon Goethe.
I'm not usually an emotional person but it's videos like this that show and tell the story of the horrors of what happened to all these people that always find a way to get to get to me. I'm glad you're doing this series so we can all learn the full scope of what occurred in those times.
Thanks for this Spartacus I know that talking about these subjects is hard, thanks for your professionalism while talking about this topic great video!
Thank you!
@@spartacus-olsson Oh wow you answeared yourself! Keep up the good work :D
I've heard the stories of nazi atrocities all my life. They made sure we learned them well in school. But every time I hear them again the brutality and inhumanity shocks me to my core.
It makes me sad how in the modern era Nazi's are sometimes depicted as somewhat of a caricature, almost cartoon like villains. It makes people forget what monsters they really were and thus opening the door to indifference or even closeted acceptance of them.
What bothers me is how quickly people label anyone who disagrees with them, including both right and left, as Nazis. This only trivializes what the actual Nazis did.
Indeed. It has become a common slur. It's like people don't even know anymore what actual Nazi's are.
Least you learned about them in school. I never did. They hardly even mention WW2. So imagine the mood when I had to tell a Holocaust survivor "We don't learn about the Holocaust anymore."
my grandmother survived Auschwitz and my grandfather managed to run away from gulags and get back to Europe.
Wow
Their lives must be sort of epic, if although tragic, to have survive the terrible event.
do me a favor. if either or (preferably) both are still with you, give them both a big hug. if not, just know that a complete stranger is joyous at their survival.
boo hoo
This video is well written, well produced and presented by Spartacus in compelling narrative. Certainly one of the best videos I have ever seen on this tragic subject. Thank you.
Thank you
The tone and balance of this video is essentially perfect. Thankyou for your efforts
Clicking "Like" feel wrong some how. I got to know 2 survivors of the camps and for them, I thank you for these episodes that keep their story alive.
Many years ago a Holocaust survivor came to my school and told her story. I will never forget that.
Clicking like on this type of video is more of a sign that you want more of that type of content imo, I dont like that that happend but I like learning about it and how to see it and stop it from happening again
See the like as a support to the video and the channel.
@Danny M Maybe.
@@comradesam3382 They need a 3rd option, "Too Important To Forget".
Ok 2 uploads back to back good job!
UPDATE: 3 uploads now!
Well done mate. Seriously like how you can't hide your anger. Because there is no way how to describe these atrocities without emotions. Great job!
Thanks!
its easy to get caught up in the WW2 battles and war history but its incredibly important to cover the topics of this video.
Indeed
All of you at TimeGhost are incredible. So much thoughtful research and what an excellent delivery.
Thank you for tirelessly working against ignorance and falsehoods. Sadly, looking at the state of things (in many places around the world), it would seem that the farther we are from the time of the Third Reich and WWII, the easier it is to forget the horrors that occured.
I was horrified to see neo-nazis march openly in my own country (Finland) on Independence Day last year *with the hakenkreuz flag.*
They're a small fringe element here though, along with the anarchists. Usually they import their Swedish counterparts to fill in the ranks at their marches. And because they support the creation of federal nazi state which would consist of all the nordics, even other far-right people dislike them.
tl;dr En olisi huolissani.
Lmao epic
@@hazzmati that's a fucking lie, the germans gave equipment to the finns, sure, but it was such a small amount it doesn't even matter, the finns fought mostly with their own weapons, the m-28 mosin nagant variants, the suomi smg's and others, actually one of the main guns used by the finns (the bofors 40mm cannon) was used against soviet tanks (and it was made by the western powers) if anything the significant amounts of german equipment arrived only during the continuation war, after the winter war...
@@hazzmati That's absolute bollocks if we are talking about the Winter War. Germany didn't help us in any way, in fact they made things more difficult by forbidding the transit of armaments and war equipment through their territory (the occupied areas included). Before the war they made the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact that redefined the borders in the Eastern Europe. Without the non-aggression pact the Soviets probably wouldn't have dared to invade the Eastern Europe in the first place - not at least in 1939.
The swastika (although slightly different from the one the Nazis used) still is a symbol that is frequently used in some symbology, including Finlands air force. However, the Nazi Swastika could as well be used in a Nazi context, also in modern day Finland.
This was a very respectful handling of these events. Great job with the writing and narration!
A shorter version for neurology of hate quoted the famous german comedian Volker Pispers: "If a human beeing knows his daily enemy, then his/her day will get structure!" THX for this emotional episode.
You're on flippin fire Sparty. Amazing video's to bring you down to earth on a Saturday night :p
Somehow I keep Forgetting how uncompromisingly Brutal the Nazis were. Thank you for sharing this video. It's Important people know about this.
@James Livingston Thank you for watching. We believe strongly in teaching history so that we may learn from the past. Never forget
Your group does uniformly excellent work. I'm very grateful for it. And, Mr ( Dr? ) Olsson, I particularly appreciate the humanitarianism you have brought to this episode.
The last part made me tear up. The next time someone talks bs about any genocide for people show them this
It took several takes to get the ending right as he got stuck on the words with emotion, so you're not seeing things that aren't there.
I am in despair to listen again what happened with my grandmother family in Poland. Terrible.
This is an excellent summary of a tremendously difficult and horrible chain of events. Well done.
An excellent video. Thank you for gravitas and compassion in your delivery.
Thank you for supporting us and keeping up with our content!
Been a Patreon since the WW1 Centennial livestream. Haven't even started WW2 in real time because I just finished The Great War. Great content gents, keep it up
Brodie Kirkpatrick thank you for your support!
@@spartacus-olsson yessir
Thank you very much for supporting us and I hope you enjoy the content
10:43
The "Painfully obvious"
A total debunk of anti-semitic conspiracy theory nonsense.
Hell, it could make a nice title for a book or a documentary.
This guy is good at this. He brings the right amount of anger and intensity when he's talking about the evil shit. You can see it in his eyes.
Maybe the greatest thing you guys do in this series is dispel such prevalent, horrible and stupid misconceptions. Bless you.
Thank you! 🙏
Kind of upsetting he had to go over why anti-semitism is nonsensical. In today's climate, I get why he had to do that though.
@@The4thDRO its not hard to do so!
I dont think it's based on todays political climate, I think it's more to do with depth.
If I tell you "antisemitism is bad" from a young age, which more of the west does today, you dont quite understand *why* it's so nonsensical and dumb. You can run it through the ol logic machine, but, most of the people that dont understand why are undereducated teenagers wishing to rebel, not the most logical of folks.
I'll always say telling someone why something is bad is better than telling them it is bad. You can add things people wouldnt think of, like racism. It's bad because you're judging someone on characteristics outside their control that has no bearing on how they act. That's the logical reason. But if you were to have a professional explain it, it goes a lot deeper. It's wrong because it facilitates and artificial us vs them with people that you need to work with, it contrives a superiority complex that can often lead to problems in life, and the list goes on.
Sorry if I didnt explain that well though
@@jynexe3056 very well said but at the same time it eerily follows the same path abit not the same way
There will always be things that divide us the day that stops is the day we all lose our individuality
My grandfather escaped a ghetto, went east and joined the soviet army. He fought as a tank commander and participated in Stalingrad.
My grandmother escaped a ghetto and lived in the forest for 3 years in an all jewish partisan group.
Respect.
This episode affected me. I think it is a valuable lesson for all those today. These horrors happened. Don't forget.
Every person should watch this, when they are old enough to understand it. Thank you for putting together such a powerful, moving series
Thank you for your support!
My grandad and his family were from Lódz. They were all lucky to survive, my grandad fought in the British Army and I think at least one of his brothers fought for the Red Army.
i read the diary of Rutka Laskier - a girl who lived in the Bedzin ghetto
until everyone in it was exterminated.
Despite almost 80 years, her words make her come alive.
She could never have guessed people would be reading her diary 80 years into the future and commenting on it on a medium like the Internet she could never have dreamed of.
It really made me wonder where people go after they die.
If they simply disappear into nothingness, that would be such a tragedy.
Thank you Sparty. This is officially my favourite episode. Tough. Much solidarity
@Faithy You're officially our favorite fan. But don't tell anyone else
@@WorldWarTwo I just officially joined the mighty Time Ghost specialist army this week but I should not be saying that if I want to be a good fighter/spy heheh :)
@@WorldWarTwo Also, since I am a favourite fan now ;) (THANKS!) could you please make an episode on: the Mexican Escuadron 201, and one on the Navajo relatives who were code talkers? I am Indigenous Nahua Mexican and would love to share both our stories :) Tlasohkamate. Thanks! :)
We're always open to suggestions for specials whoever they are from. Both have been added to our list for potential future episodes 😉
@@WorldWarTwo Appreciated :) I know you do listen to everyone and that is why I follow, too. I was kidding about being 'favourite' hehe :) Thanks for considering my request. Both are very unacknowledged or dismissed :)
thanks spartacus, I love how you can explain everything in such a calm way but you can also get wound up about the futility of some of the practices carried out by the nazis
Spartacus is handling the covering of the darkest parts of WWII amazingly well. I'm legitimately surprised at how great he's doing
I can't decide where to start FeelsBadMan
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This one also hit me right in them feelz, bro.
Tak!
Outstanding video. Thank you so much for this, hope to see more.
Sparty, if you were never to produce another second of media, you could look at this video and realise you had done something very important. I can’t praise this episode enough, one of the most powerful deliveries I’ve ever watched. Well done my friend.
Thank you Mark - I'm humbled by your praise!
Thank you for bringing up how tacit support is crucial when it comes to dehumanization. Lest we forget.
Thank you for making this series. I have always avoided the subject of World War 2 until recently, mostly because the emotions involved scared me away. Now it's time to let that go and learn more about what actually happened. Really appreciate you Timeghost crew, keep it up.
I'm glad you decided on that. Important things are not always pretty. Thanks!
Just a tip: be careful with the use of blackletter (or gothic font) as around 5:09, it's difficult to read even when pausing the video.
Noted
But it helps to set the tone for this historic period. Blackletter was commonly used in 1940s Germany. (It also looks really cool, in my opinion)
@@brianwhite2104 It's a comeback to the medieval times when monks wrote only seldomly but when they did, they made extra sure their writing felt beautiful and unique. And others were used to having to read texts written in alphabets that looked totally different from one another.
Excellent episode. Absolutely horrific what people can do to each other.
Thank you for this. I have so much to say, but most of it has already been succinctly expressed in other comments.
To think that there are still people who deny this ever happened!!
You're welcome. Thanks for the support!
sparticus, i really appreciate the passion and objectivity you approach this subject with. you do not proselytize, you simply relate the facts as they happened unblinkingly in a reasoned, logical manner. thank you for enduring the obvious emotional cost. thank you all.
seriously, you should consider getting with prageru to do a video on the subject but without focusing on the historical aspects as much. i fear you are preaching to the choir here. those that need to hear this subject dealt with in this manner will not watch it. those that watch it already know where the path leads and at least some of the causes. any mind reached is a victory over hate.
Thanks on behalf of Sparty! Our comment section suggests that those who need to hear this subject do watch our videos.
He tried to say Łodz correctly so I like this channel even more and it was good so I nearly have a semi (in France they never try to try)
The correct pronunciation is a revelation to me.
How is it actually meant to be pronounced?
I think Nico isn't saying he tried and failed, judging from other comments on this video.
Huh? What was wrong with his pronunciation? It's very close to how a Polish TH-camr (Marbozir) pronounces it.
@@MrCordycep I did not meant that he said it wrong but he says it just like I do which is not exactly right. I live in France so I don't say it a lot but I know there is a slight difference.
I don't know why I even said this because it was good and people usually don't event try.
This is perhaps the most affecting, powerful thing i have seen in all of my life. Thank you for your courage, your erudition, your honesty, and most of all your compassion. You have a beautiful heart, Spartacus. Thank you. Never forget.
Thanks Paul
And to think there are those today in the world who believed it never happened. Insane.
This episode is incredibly brutal, but thank you for sharing. I cried.
It is always hard to hear but we cannot forget.
10:00 and following: It truly is sad that those word have to be said in 2019
I thought I would not like War Against Humanity... Then I found it was probably one of the most important series of videos on TH-cam today, especially with everything going on right now.
I wish everyone in the world would view this.
Spread the word
You are a hidden gem Mr Olsson! Could listen to you speak all day, such passion, empathy and respect. Definitely engaging in style without the sensationalism at the same time. Keep up the good work 👍🏻
Thank you ever so much!
I know it's a heavy subject but damn is this an interesting subseries.
Horrifying but necessary to be told. Thank you for all your hard work in creating and issuing these videos.
Spartacus you are one brave soul to put this up, I'm wondering if it's such a good idea to open it to comments?
I indeed think he already prepared his umbrella for the shitstorm of the braindead horde.
@@dusk6159 so far there's either been no s#storm, or Sparty's watching the comments like a hawk.
Not Sparty but Joram here. It is. It's important to engage with our community and allow for debate - within the bounds of our guidelines. We read every single one of them to minimise the room for revisionism or apologists. Other than that, we do highly value and encourage interaction with us and each other, also (or especially) when the topic is tough.
Thank you so much for this episode. Sparty, it is difficult to imagine how much strain it must have caused you to research, narrate and word this video. You have a new follower. Now checking out how to support you in the best way possible. Kudos
I am going just to say that you did a great job. It's hard to talk about those things
It is, thank you.
Absolutely love the cross section of psychology and history in this video - the two are intertwined and understanding how both play into each other is integral for coming to informed conclusions. Kudos!
Thank you John! Very glad you enjoyed it. I hope you'll check out all our weekly and special episodes, we're already in the fifth year of war in our weekly coverage with no end in sight!
Very informative. Keep up the excellent work!
Thanks
Brilliant episode. Hats off to you Sparty! Looking forward to the next one.
Cosmin Mahalu thx!
It is scary how people dont seem to learn. Hating certain minorities seems to be more accepted these days
You've got to be joking it is way better now than it ever has been in history
@@danielcadwell9812 sorry, you might get this wrong. Of course its better than it was before but in the last years it seems to get more and more accepted again
Back then it was the jews now it the Mexican and Muslim and the refugee crisis should be blame on the US because America destabilize the middle east and interfering with the politic in South America look what invading Venezuela going to do
Ryan Swaggert The best thing you can do it make them have a conversation with a minority
Can relate. In current Spain ethnic minorities are constantly used on politics. We, basques, used to be the primary target but catalans have now taken the spot. Independist movements have even been called as "enemies of the state". They use the unity of Spain and the division between "Spanish patriots" and "Separatists" to gain support, create a scapegoat for the issues of the state and deviate attention from those issues.
Thank you for this episode. As someone who's lost a large portion of their family to the Nazis - largely in the camps - but also have family members who had survived the Holocaust, it never gets any easier seeing the footage or visiting the locations in person. For instance, I paid a visit to both Auschwitz (Auschwitz I and II - Birkenau) and Mauthausen in different years; my grandfather was in both camps and was liberated from the latter just three days before the Nazis surrendered (the last camp to be liberated).
To Sparty's statement that no one knew for sure when the Final Solution was decided upon, it is known, however, that this was officially executed after the Wannsee Conference in early-1942, hence why the majority of death camp and extermination camp murders of Jews occurred roughly between then and late-1944.
I wonder how often this kind of history repeats itself, not just with Jews but with any minority ethnic group that is ostracized in a "us vs them" mentality. Great Job Spartacus, again in showing the social psychology surrounding the final solution.
Indigenous peoples around the world are a great place to start as well.
I'd just like to take a moment to appreciate how well Spartacus pronounces all the names, places and stuff. I am terrible with languages and hearing these things said with such expertise is a joy :-)
Thank you, I take great joy in foreign languages, so I try my best. To be fair though I'm a native speaker of English and Swedish and fully fluent in German, and French, so those don't really count, but the Polish ones were a bit tougher.
@@spartacus-olsson Your dedication certainly shows :-)
Well done with spelling city name Łódź ,it can be pretty hard to read some polish city names for foreigners, keep up your very good job, greetings.
It’s really easy to boil down the atrocious loss of life to numbers, but remember that every one lost was an individual, feeling, thinking person. Keep that in mind for the Holocaust when the numbers were so horrifyingly large.
Videos like this are very instructive and necessary. Specially today when new fascist-like movements are again on the rise on Europe, lets hope history doesn't repeat itself.
PD: Are you going to cover the Holodomor in between two wars? Seems to be a less covered subject but comparable in some ways to the Holocaust.
We are definitely going to cover the Holodomor in B2W.
In terms of numbers, Holodomor is the second deadliest genocide in history. And we all know that "second largest" events are often overlooked by history.
Fascist-like movements? What are you talking about? What is wrong with protecting your people against very real demographic threats? It's simple. Poland is for the Poles, Sweden for Swedes, France for French, Britain for Brits, Japan for Japanese, China for Chinese and so on. If you want immigration to any country and replace the native population (i.e. exterminate them, immigration over the long term is just that, extermination, look at what happened to for instance the Prussian tribe or the Amerindians), you're the fascist. The fascists today call themselves anti-fascists.
Besides, you should look into Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, the father of the European Union. In his "Praktischer Idealismus" he states:
"The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today's races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals."
His plan if you can call it that (more of a blueprint for Europe) is being executed today by people such as George Soros, Angela Merkel and Emanuel Macron. People are sick of being told to give up their nations and peoples (being replaced by non-natives). Orban and Salvini are heroes fighting against this great threat to all European peoples. The Polish anthem has the line (paraphrasing): "Napoleon has shown us how to win." Today a more apt line would be: "Orban has shown us how to win."
My father was with the 42nd Rainbow Division when they liberated Dachau. What he witnessed there affected him deeply his whole life. Ah totalitarianism...
Brilliant video!!!! Thank you for this!
Thank you
While watching this excellent documentary. I never understood why the children of the greatest generation that fought and died fighting fascists around the globe. Some of those children have cast aside their parent's sacrifices to support another fascist. They should be ashamed.
*Jews* : Boy, it sure is nice being alive in 1939 Poland!
*Nazis* : allow us to introduce ourselves
USSR: HOLD MY BEAR
@@kaelsun Where is this info
No Jew has ever said that about life in Poland
@@ohadhoffman7078 true but at least they were alive
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proc%C3%A8s_du_Talmud
My grandmother sister was killed at the potato field, it was harvest time. She was killed by German soldiers who suddenly decided to practice shooting, there were only my grandmother and her sister at the field, they were 12 and 8. My grandmother said: "it was easier to hit the older one as she was taller..."
I think it would be nice ro make a video about Dr Sauerbruch, wo managed to keep his humanity and still treated jews.
These ordinary people were absolutely NO threat to Hitler or Stalin’s reign. This was pure, evil, inhumane, hatred. It sickens me every time I refresh myself about this dark period of history. But I force myself to watch through my tears because if it is forgotten, or purposely ignored..... it WILL happen again.
Who dislikes a video about facts?!?
Lixi Germans
@@xappgametvx Wrong. Germany has the usual share of anti-semites and holocaust deniers (which is illegal in Germany, by the way) you'll find in any country but the vast majority of Germans would not contest this video.
So look elsewhere. Greets from Berlin.
Antisemites... From the far left, the far right, the Radical Islamists who believe that the (Jews)/ Zionists are controlling world... They hate this sort of stuff.
Anyone with a substantial knowledge of psychology is disgusted by this attempt to abuse the history of such crimes in order to sell stupid pseudo science talking points and ideology.
You present contents with great passion ! Thank you.
A very dark subject very well presented this should be shown in schools along with the rest of the Ww2 series. To try and stop it happening again
Thank you
The Einzatsgruppen weren’t the only nazi mobile death squads in Eastern Europe. The so called police battalions which consisted of far many more personnel than the Einzatsgruppen operated mainly in the areas under civilian nazi administration while the Einzatsgruppen operated in territories under army control.
I like the image of Hans Oster in the back, he was an absolute hero who met his end way to soon thanks to the Nazis
Excellent episode. Thanks guys
In 1956 when I was 5 year old my parents took me to visit Dachau. My father was stationed near there as part of the Royal Canadian Air Force contribution to the pot war forces. I knew that evil things went on at Dachau over a decade previously. The place still stank of the rancid human fat that was baked right into the bricks of the ovens.
There was imaginable horror committed there by civilized human beings. Yet as we lived among the German people who were some of the finest people I had ever met, I could never make a connection how these same nice people bred those also capable of such horrible acts.
Even then I knew damn well that some of those 40+ German men I saw, many of them the parents of the German kids I hung out with, were the perpetrators of such horror. This is a lot to have dumped onto a 5 year old kid from western Canada.
I would hear my father and his Air Force buddies, who also served in WW2, many of them American as well, how suddenly in 1945 the Nazis all disappeared and there was not a person to be found who was a Nazi. Ex regular Army or Luftwaffe yes. But no Nazis or SS. No uniforms. No insignia. No papers. No flags. When I was there I knew damn well what Nazi symbols looked like as I saw them in the WW2 comics I read. There was not a thing of that time to be seen.
It was when I started to become a cynic about human nature.
To this day all I can think of, having never experienced military basic training, is how good the military is at taking out the free will they are of new recruits and turns them into robots capable of following orders no matter how horrific. But that there were officers even that could pass those orders down and in large enough a supply even was beyond me. And now I am seeing the same thing from Between the Wars happening in the USA right now. I am amazed how many Americans are turning the same way. All I can say that I fear for the future of the USA if the wrong person wins re-election again in late 2020 in the USA. How soon people forget their history.
It especially disturbs me to see people marching with Nazi flags in the USA. You would think they could at least come up their own symbols instead of the ones where so many Americans and other peoples paid such a high price in blood and treasure to put down.
Excellent episode, Spartacus !