I know one survivor of Josef Mengels' experiments who was 8 years old at the time, and who has lived as a cripple ever since 1945. She and her mother barely survived Auschwitz, and they lost the whole of the rest of their extended family. The atrocities were worse than most people realise, and some are still suffering from them.
I remember staying up til 2 or 3 and after on Friday or Saturday evening to maybe get lucky on Discovery channel a documentary similar to this in my teens. History channel had just come around as I remember and sometimes catch a good documentary on there about WW2. Around 1995-98. Of all the narrator's I've listened 2 and thousands of documentaries I've watched I would easily say you guys are one of the best if not the best. Thank you so much for keeping history alive.
Until it became more focused on trying to prove the christyun myth. It's name could stay the same just altered a bit: HisStory Channel. The treatment of the second world war events seen here in the video depend on the producers' desire. Whatever slant they wish to give gets inserted as history. TH-cam has several documentary channels other than HisStory Channel that depict events in a matter of fact manner.
@@Cheka__ Thankfully I had a girlfriend through highschool and getting lucky that way wasn't a problem. Hell I was banging our next door neighbor Ms. Jewel. She was 39 and I was 17teen. She looked like Jamie Lee Curtis. Same short hair but blonde and her body was damn close. I even watched the movie Ms. Robinson with her. And she would come over and eat dinner with at our house when we had a get together with my parents friends...🤣😁
Very much appreciate the great care and attention to detail you put into these documentaries. These stories NEED to keep being told, so it can never happen again. Heydrich didn't deserve the quick and easy death he received, if he had lived to be on trial at Nuremberg he STILL wouldn't have deserved the mercy of a quick execution he would received. His atrocities, and those of his fellow elites of the Nazi party, must NEVER be forgotten and will never, EVER be forgiven
As a longtime history professor of Nazi germany and one who has participated in several documentaries, I must say that your facts are always accurate and the narration is top notch. I’ve always wondered what Heydrich could have achieved had he used his great intellect toward a noble purpose. Yet another tragedy of the Nazis that he was lured by their unholy aims which brought his sadistic traits to the fore. What a waste.
That is what I think is the focal point of the fascination with the Nazi's and what they were able to do. Most of the Nazi high command were highly competent, intelligent, educated, and sophisticated individuals. Didn't do them any good as far as morality goes.
@@SonoftheWest316 I know. There were so many brilliant men in the High Command. Goering had an IQ in the 160’s and numerous commanders of the Einsatzgruppen held PhD’s. Can you imagine what they could have done if Hitler hadn’t come along. I blame the Vienna art school.
@@krististigall7464 It's funny you say that because I've claimed for a long time that if that art school would have accepted him thing's would have gone very differently.
Wonder if the person(s) at the Art School who knocked Hitler back twice, lived to see what he became, & did. Amazing how many evil things that have happened in a ‘fabric of time’, could’ve been averted, to the betterment of mankind.
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the accuracy and detail of your documentaries. Your research, writing, and inclusion of less often seen footage set you above the usual, as well as your clear narration and lack of dramatic music score to muddy it. Thank you for producing this quality of material, and telling these stories that must be remembered. You have a new subscriber.🖤🇨🇦
Heydrich seems the epitome of the Nazi superman as outlined by their ideology. He was a poster-perfect image of what an Aryan should look like - tall, blond, blue-eyed, athletic and handsome. His dedication to Nazi ideology was religious and unwavering. His amoral views made him a dedicated and perfect instrument of the bureaucratic machine he helped create. Thank you for this revealing and extremely educational documentary.
Here's a weird thing: there is (silent) colored film of Heydrich chatting with Hitler and Himmler and his hair look very dark brown. Many of the photographs also make his hair look dark brown. I have seen some that show his hair as lighter in color. Was it common for men to dye them back then?
@Jon Hank it's very common for blond hair to darken with age or look dark on film. Mine did. That being said, people have been dying their hair since the bronze age. So it's possible.
Thank to historians like yourselves these events will not be forgotten , you are keeping history alive that will serve as a warning to future generations too come.
Thank you for this documentary. As an ultracrepidarian in Nazi lore, I truly appreciate the prosaic way in which this is presented. No screeching about "evil this and evil that"...we get it!...but a "just the facts" approach that I so truly appreciate. I've definitely subscribed. Please keep up the good work.
Heydrich was the only senior Nazi who actually looked anything like the tall blonde Aryan “superman” of Nazi myth. He was intelligent, athletic, ruthless and had genuine military experience. If he had somehow become Fuhrer, he might have been more popular among the Germans, more competent and therefore more dangerous than even Hitler. Thank God he never did.
A commentary as idiotic as they come. Hitler had iron and concrete BALLS as he proved time and again in the trenches of WWI, taking up what must be one of the most dangerous tasks a soldier could assume, that of amessenger/courier, on foot, amid the enemy fire. He was severely wounded, more than once, yet soldiered on until the very bitter end, which found him in hospital, temporarily blinded and in horrible physical pain. Hermann Göring was a top pilot who despised danger during the war, and many other later National Socialists proved their courage and patriotism in the boiling cauldron of that horrible war. Heydrich could have no true "military experience" in his upward years, since he was a child in WWI. Whatever true "military experience" he could have accrued was, by definition, from 1939 onwards, when he was already well on the top. He had courage, of course, and was a worthy patriot, but his merits can never eclipse or out-do those of his older comrades.
Thats really a myth. For example he always wore a girdle as he had a deep insecurity about his wide, feminine hips and thin shoulders. Of course next to Himmler he looked like a jock. As for "genuine military experience", he was 14 when WW1 ended. He served in the navy in the 20s and then in the reserves in Luftwaffe for a few months. Plenty of top Nazis had PLENTY of actual long-term combat experience: take Goehring who was THE image of good looking aristocratic war hero the party neaded in early 1930s. Next to him Heydrich was a dorky bureaucrat.
@@f4ust85 Heydrich may have had his physical imperfections and been self-conscious about them, but there is no doubt that compared with Hitler, Himmler, Goerring and Goebels he wad much closer to the tall, blonde warrior figure of Nazi myth. If he did wear a corset, presumably it would not have been apparent to others. It was nit unknown for German officers to wear corsets. Von Schlieffen is believed to have worn one. And there is a corset taken by French troops from a German officer on display at the Australian War Memorial. In the navy his service was peacetime, but he served as a signals officer on the SMS Schleswig-Holstein, a pre-dresdnaught battleship which was the flagship of the North Sea Fleet (and fired the first shots of World War II). In the Luftwaffe, he flew almost 100 combat missions in Messerschmidt Bf109s until he was hit by Soviet anti-aircraft fire and ordered by Hitler back to his desk as a senior SS official. It is true that Goerring had a more extensive combat record (as did Hitler, arguably), but Goerring let himself get obese and engaged in dubious antics that led others to suspect him of a “hormone-related malady.”
Well, done, insightful documentaries. I watch them and often listen to them, oddly enough, while trying to sleep. My parents came of age in the mid-forties, and they talked about WWII frequently. In my own mind I simply cannot comprehend how anyone could see Hitler as anything other that a raving lunatic...but then the times we live in are evidence that history repeats itself. Interesting and informative. Thank you!
It seems his falls from positions he enjoyed were brought about by his own overweening arrogance. He clearly had great organising ability and the horror of what he would have inflicted in France unless he’d been stopped doesn’t bear contemplating. How sad those skills weren’t used in the improvement of humanity instead of its reverse.
heydrich has the classic signs of a narcissist and sociopath. the fact he spent days crying in rage after being expelled from the navy for his own actions, his constant philandering and his frequent bursts of rage are pretty clear indicators. unfortunately he was always gonna be like this for whatever reason. we can only thank god he was killed before he could reach his full potential
@Lena Monroe isn't United Snakes of Amerikkka and Canada mostly Europeans now? Well , I guess moving out of iceblock has nothing to do with white population decline!!! Stay home. Miami Beach is now full of newly arrived French, Italians, Germans and Russians. Stay home and practice white supremacy/ racism there. The people of planet has had Enough of this arrogant ideology.
As evil as Reinhard was his brother, Heinz, ended up being a hero who saved the lives of Jews. It’s peculiar how two brothers raised in the same household could turn out to be so different from one another. I wish we could see a documentary about Heinz Heydrich. Heinz was the noble and heroic side of the Heydrich family!
It happens all the time, maybe not THIS starkly, but brothers (or siblings in general) end up being wildly different personalities. Ask me how I know 🤣
Max Schmeling personally saved a number of Jews as well. It’s shitty that history remembers him as the Nazi poster boy, because he was a wonderful human being. He financially helped Joe Louis when he fell into poverty as well and IIRC payed for his funeral.
Throughly enjoyed this documentary. Clear, precise and narrated with intelligence. Far too many other's have extremely and most annoyingly destroyed the narrative by adding overtures of unwanted dramatic music overplay at the detriment of the subject matter.
My 19 year old grandson has studied the WW2 era. He has talked to his friends about WW2, learning they know nothing about WW2 and he has sparked their interest. He feels that we need to know our past so we can recognize the future.
@@donallan6396at least from the 00s on. I think it's sad that with all the tech and knowledge at their fingers these kids will graduate generally dumber than those graduates of 30 yrs ago. Reason why you may ask? The standardized testing BS. I cannot speak for everywhere but every parent I know that had kids In school here in Texas complained about those tests. These poor kids almost completely did review for these tests. We had the teams/taas every 2 years and the only one that really counted was the exit. So our teachers taught us other stuff. Almost all the kids these days do is study for these tests so the districts can get bonuses or wtfe. My son knew so little about the RW...CW ..WW1...OR WW2. EVEN LESS about more recent things. It's really just sad.
Brilliant Documentary, narrated to perfection. It becomes increasingly clear his assassination was one of the most important events of the fight against the Nazis. Had he lived much longer he would have been an absolute chilling killer.
On the 75th anniversary of it's sad destruction a Memorial was built on what was Lidice in memory of those who were murdered as reprisal for Heydrich's assassination around June 2017. After the villagers were either murdered or in the case of the women were deported to Ravensbruck Concentration camp the whole village was literally removed both in physical sense and geographical as it's name was removed from all maps at the time.
@@Theodore_Twombly Those "Limeys" had been at war, suffering immensely, for more than two years by this time, when the USA came in officially. We did appreciate you help, still do, but it came at a cost. The UK simply supported the wishes and intentions of the relevant country.
Excellent production. Because Heydrich didn't live to be at the Nuremberg trials a lot of people do not know just how horrible he really was. I've heard people suggest that after Heydrich was attacked and in the hospital, it actually looked like he was going to make a recovery but Himmler was afraid of Heydrich's growing popularity with Hitler and used this event to make sure that Heydrich never recovered. Who knows, but it sure sounds like something that is possible.
I've heard a similar theory before, publicly Himmler sent his top SS doctors to make sure Heydrich got the best possible treatment but privately making sure his rival & Hitler's protege didn't survive.
Yep could be true.when someone like Hitler calls you the man with Iron Heart you know he must of been was evil individual. I also read about a rumour that the grenade thrown that ultimately killed him was laced with poison ensuring he would get sepsis from the injury and die.
I find your documentaries very informative, thank you for all the time you must put into researching and making these. You also must have a lot of educators watching them as there is a fair amount of grading comments on punctuation and content. Just scroll through all those comments like I do a waste of time reading them.
Heydrich has always been the most fascinating Nazi to me. The man with the 'Iron Heart'. You know you're the pinnacle of pure Evil when Hitler dubs you with such a title. I've always wondered what sort of man he would of been if he had lived to the Downfall, flee or die.
There’s an alt-history book about Heydrich surviving the assassination and ending up being in charge of the Werewolves, the planned Nazi guerrillas for after the war. It’s pretty interesting.
Overlord would have never happened in 1944 if Heydrich had been alive. His purpose was to neutralise resistance movements and foreign intelligence network. Soviets would've got stuck in Bagration which would turn into a stalemate with no territorial changes if there was no Overlord. Heydrich was a necessary target for the British.
I think Heydrich would have made sure the Me 262, the targeting computer for rockets and even the bomb would have been properly funded and prioritized. And if he had, the Nazis would have won.
Thanks to all who work on this channel, your documentary is so clear precise and unbias , pure narration and films i have never seen in all my years watching history is amazing. Thank you for showing real historical facts and education as it should be taught.
@@1sgr1999 if people would just READ and study the Bible it's all in there, enormous suffering is on the way, there are 735 predictions in the Bible in which 596 have already come true. but nobody believes the Bible, sad, sad.
Heydrich was not only cold but also efficient like no other. He no doubt would have transformed French industry to the great advantage of Germany. Just like he did in chekoslovachia. He instead of someone else could have ruled the entire Nazi economy. Had Hitler retired and heydrich taken over WW II may have had a very different outcome.
Herman goring ran the economic side of things if I can remember correctly and he had a personal thing with the air force and dedicated lots rescources to building Germany a new air force seeing as they had previously forfeited the privilege In the treaty of Versailles
Some bad info in this. Goebells was never captured alive. He committed suicide along with his wife and 6 children who were poisoned by their mother, right aftwr AH did, in the chancellors garden. Goering was the highest member arrested but also committed suicide from a cyanide capsule hidden in his hair gel the day before his execution. Heinrich also got his blood poisoning from fabric from the car due to the blast of the explosion.
If I recall, he was at one point the head of the SD & SA. The equivalent of being the head of the FBI & NSA merged into one. The power this man had was scary lol.
Heydrich is almost in a league of his own, when it comes to Nazi evil, and that is saying one hell of a lot. He's a man who at times actually shocked Himmler with his sadistic cruelty and zealotry. There's a saying by historians, "if you want to know what Hitler was thinking, watch what Himmler did." Well, Heydrich was the man actually pushing Himmler to his extremes. He was such a cruel barbarian that Churchill, still steeped in bygone era chivalry, actually okayed the assassination of him. He was the only non battlefield official targeted for assassination in all the war. Even now, most don't know he was the architect of the Holocaust, detailing the framework of it.
Heydrich was not a National Socialist ideologue. He was a technician and a damned efficient one. His driving force was ambition not cruelty. In fact, his treatment of the Jewish question was pragmatic rather than emotional.Suppose he had not been born in Germany. If he had been born in Britain, he could have headed MI6. If born in America, he would have been ideal for the OSS. In either case, he would have utilized his brilliant and efficient mind against the Third Reich with equal fervour. Heydrich was a unique man possessed of many enviable talents.
@@me0101001000 True. Every single thing regarding Mengele was a tragedy, but one of the most terrible things is, he was an absolute quake of a doctor. Just a complete hack. If some of his experiments advanced science in any way, then at least, and can't even word this correctly, some kind of "good" may have come out of his torturous experiments. But, they are absolute valueless garbage that revealed nothing. And that's not even counting that he was one of the primary madmen who worked the selection lines. Interestingly, Auschwitz kept unbelievable records. We know he was actually the man on duty when the train carrying Anne Frank and the others who were in hiding with her in the early morning hours of Sept 6. None of them were sent to the gas chambers directly upon arriving at the death camp, though.
@@jacksonreilly3441 Well put. Ideology was merely a tool for him to advance his career. That is so chilling - that the evil of the holocaust was in large part perpetrated simply for career advancement.
@@jacksonreilly3441 he was uniquely Evil. Now he’s burning in Hell! Right next to Hitler. What I loved is that he suffered before he succumbed to Sepsis and then his death!
when i visited Prague i went to the church and the crypt underneath were the shoot out happened its worth a vist if anyone goes there , gives you shivers that they would of got away if it was not one of them snitching on them, Heydrich may of survived if he did not refuse treatment as he wanted hitlers personnel doctor to treat him the horse hair off the seat in the car caused sepsis
I read a story that the Grenade thrown that ultimately killed Rynhard was laced with poison by the boffins at porton Down, ensuring that the grenade would ultimately do its job. It’s only a rumour a read about by some WW2 historian, so it could be a load of tosh.
Heydrich's decision to ride in an open car is what exposed him to an assassination attempt, which ultimately did him in. At his funeral, Adolf Hitler denounced that move as stupid, too.
@Hope Fliers Czech and Slovak heroes. By the way there is a movie about what the Nazi did to the Czech and Slovak people in revenge. It calls Fall of the Innocent “. I highly recommended to watch it.
Horse hair dosent cause sepis most likely it's the care or lack of care wound received after the attack most sepis is caused by e.coli i.e bacteria from skin or shyt so if someone had simply washed their hands or properly cleaned instruments the wound would have only become mildly infected
Reinhard Heydrich was a good violinist and was brilliant but, unfortunately, he got mixed up with anti-Semitism and other toxic ideologies of the Nazi regime. His worst undoing was riding in an open car, exposed to assassination plots, and it did him in. Even Adolf Hitler denounced that move as "stupid". Thank you for this video of Reinhard Heydrich, the " man with the iron heart" as Hitler described him.
Yes that is correct. Hitler was a narcisstic sociopath and once Heydrich was dead he no longer cared for him and would bad mouth him (despite his belief he was one of his best people when he was alive).
There is a documentary here on TH-cam called "Never our fault." It is a story told from his wife's point of view. If only he hadn't met her. Match made in hell .
She was clearly in denial and went to her grave thinking her husband was a wonderful man and everything said about him was a lie...or maybe she knew and just didn't want to admit it. Didn't she even say he wasn't an anti-Semite? Baffling really. I always wondered what his children and grandchildren thought about what he did.
I honestly believe that if Heydrich had survived he would have gotten rid of Himmler eventually. He might have also tried to overthrow Hitler to become Führer. (This possible plot was seen in Man in The High Castle)
The ambush on Heidrich didn't at all take place on road to the airport but on his usual stretch from where he lived just outside Prague to the Prague castle where he had his office!!!
That's true and this Man The Iron Heart is overrated, he was just young man who because of his wife got into the high archery of The Nazi officials. There were a lot of young German men if you gave the resources and uniform too could of done the same job he did
Quite a while ago, I came across a biography of Heydrich. The narration was terribly strange; there was an inordinate amount of time spent on his playing the violin, & the depiction of him as a husband & father was overtly romanticized. There was also an extended anecdote of him supplying shoes for children enslaved by his labor decrees. Heydrich was not a "complicated man," he was a robot, a sociopath, a black hole.
Sociopath without a doubt. Sadly characteristic's of sociapath can include intelligence and the ability to charm.. It is one of the many reasons they are so fatally dangerous as remorseless murderers. They kill without conscience.
@Lena Monroe : WHAT?? “Colonising Semitics”? The number of Jewish people in every single European country has always, and I mean ALWAYS, been vastly lower than the number of other ethnicities in each country. Use your brains. Try to think about why Hitler chose the Jewish people to annihilate. There were and are a number of reasons, and none of them were “colonising Semitics.” THINK. USE THE BRAINS NATURE GAVE YOU.
On 50:58 you say that the Einsatzgruppen "were essentially SS special units". While it's correct with the word "essential", I think it's noteworthy and more accurate that it overlapped with SS or was led by SS people, but included other police forces and really was formally subordinate to the RSHA. -- Personally, as a German, I only learned about the EG's and the role of the RSHA recently through inspiration by Timothy Snyder. The RSHA to some extent lived on as the West-German Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), in the sense that some people, organizational principles and some of the documents (lists of people) were carried over, which is... in my view quite significant. There was recently a study done by historians, some 10 years ago, about the continuity between RSHA (which is not SS, and which was the umbrella of the EG's), and the West-German BKA. This is - in my personal experience as a German - blurred in history lessons by stating that it these crimes were done by the SS. That is a simplification, and it is hiding, to some extent, that some mini-cogs out of the terrible machinery of the holocaust lived on in West Germany. Just a small mention. I like your documentary and learned a lot already. I appreciate you for it. P.S.: I just learned that the RSHA is part of the SS, which validates your point. I will leave my comment, because I think it may still be interesting. After all, the SS as part of the Nazi party has a totally different legitimacy (basically none), compared with the RSHA, which is essentially a police department on paper and therefore a government institution with proper legitimacy - on paper.
It is also important to add, that thanks to the assassination, the Czechoslovakia was reconsidered as a true ally, the Munich agreement was withdrawn by Great Britain, and it had mayor impact on reconstruction of Czechoslovakian pre-war borders (despite the fact that the USSR annexed part of the Czechoslovakia once Third Reich was defeated).
The United Kingdom declared the agreement invalid on August 5, 1942, on the grounds that Germany itself had already violated it on March 15, 1939, and thus the United Kingdom was no longer bound by the treaty. On 18 September 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stated that her country had failed Czechoslovakia by participating in the signing of the Munich Agreement, adding that she remembered it with a sense of shame. The UK has never officially apologized for the Munich Agreement.
@@LadislavMaterna2 officially yes, however current historian discourse (at least in Czechia) agrees that successful assassination of RH was the key component of Churchill's decision.
It is little known that a second group of assassins were sent in but took no part in the attack on Heydrich as the attack occurred when they had landed. That group were immediately on the run. Two of the four survived. One was my old man.
@@TJ_CrayonBeltFeeder It's hardly a heroic bit of info to pass on. You may think all resistance support to Europe was a success. It wasn't. Survival was in itself a form of success I guess and his survival was thanks entirely to the risks taken by other people.
Wow this was a fantastic documentary! It's very informative very straightforward and very understandable. This is a very tough subject, but I think as a Jewish person looking at this it's easy to think that it's just all evil. You can just say that he was evil and that the Nazis were evil and their cause was evil. Would I have come to realize is that the Nazis provided a shave space for psychopaths to do what only they do best. I mean think about it, if a lot of these head Nazis and people who killed so many without a second thought I just lived in a Germany that was prosperous and didn't subjugate people they would have just been Office clerks and maybe soldiers or high-ranking officials but given the situation they were given a task and they performed it. I think it's been proven that psychopaths can make great CEOs. When social norm's and boundaries shift to such a degree as what happened in the Weimar Republic and incidentally are shifting now given the opportunity sociopaths can really make a huge difference heartless genocidal actions. The thing to never forget is that any culture any culture group can have these sociopaths and psychopaths that can make this kind of genocide possible. So yes on a certain level you have to punished and blame the people who pursue persecute and perpetrate these heinous acts of as they call in humanity but it what is really really important to remember that it is as human as anything else as we cal "inhuman". Psychopaths are the embodiment of "inhuman" cold or robotic calculated, cold bloodedness.
@@kareberntsen7834 and in the anarchy and chaos you end up with someone like Stalin seizing control of the socialist communist movement or someone like Hitler seizing control of one of the many nationalist parties that oppose the socialists communists. All this is happening again today
Amazing historical documentary!👍👏 Truly appreciate the clear narrative. I'm glad this historical video is available online. An educational event I would not have otherwise learned of the extent Hitler's collaborators in the extermination of Jewish people!😢 I'm so saddened especially in the killings of millions of innocent Jewish children. Why?!! Just because of their Jewish ethnicity?! This was madness! Surely God will hold these evil doers accountable for what they have done to all Jewish atrocities!👍🙁😢
I have seen some of his home movies. In one clip taken on the ski slopes he begins to smile for the camera but then looks to the side. You can see he is a man with a lot on his mind.
Must watch this after seeing several of the film's based on the story, all involved were so very brave when taking his life other than the character sorry I've forgotten played by Martin Shaw .
Always a new, interesting tidbit to be found in these documentaries. Had he survived the assassination he would have celebrated his silver wedding anniversary on the day I was born. But he wouldn't have lived as things turned out, and if things turned out differently I may not have been born.
You mean you were born on Dec 26 1956 because he married that day with Lina Osten a good for nothing opportunistic harlot who was looking to get out of her native island of Germany and was hunting for Navy officers and already had a reputation at Fehmarm that's why her father sent her to Kiel where she knew Reinhard she had already has a past and he left a good and respectable girl beautiful rich who really loved for this woman he ditched this girl maybe pregnant but karma came for him four years later she allegedly had an affair with a painter in 1935 after that year whatever feelings he had for her died and he treated her harshly and with coldness most of the time then he found love and was going to dump her before his death at he Czech partisans s hands and her last pregnancy it rumored was not his so what silver wedding anniversary are you talking about had he survived he would yes silver wedding anniversary yes but not with this Nazi sadistic evil trollop
I doubt Heydrich would celebrated his silver wedding anniversary in 1956 with that strumpet Lina he was going to dump her in the end because he fell in love with another woman incredible through it seems
@@ileanaaacotaacosta7769 He would have never lived to see that in the first place because he would have been hanged (rightfully) at Nuremberg if he didn't commit suicide first.
His wife was given a big pension by the German state after the war because of his "service". They also refused to extradite her to Czechoslovakia for some very serious crimes she committed. They haven't changed.
@@pegamini7582 So you are saying I'm as bad as the perpetrators of the holocaust because I believe that these people should not receive a pension. How very German.
It was later determined that the fibers in his Mercedes seats entered his body after the explosion which caused the sepsis , which could have prevented had penicillin , which was only in Britain at that time had been available.
@@Mshi- they are leather or could be a synthetic leather not sure but it wasn't the cover that killed him or could play a roll in it . It's the stuffing they used. Like pillows today have feather stuffing some of them. Back then one of the best fillers did seats were horse hair. It wouldn't mold as easy and kept it's form while still allowing some sponge feel for comfort. It was treated as well not sure what with. You can get an infection very easy in a wound especially one from an explosive device. I'm assuming they patched him up quickly to stop the bleeding as that was probably paramount to saving his life. It festered inside of him and supposedly that's what killed him. Never know with the Nazi's I mean they will use your death ☠️ as am advantage as well. He may have threatened Himmler's total power I mean he shot up the ranks and was the image of the perfect Nazi. Himmler rushed 2 his side supposedly. Maybe 2 finish him off and regain total control. Hitler was supposedly talking 1 on 1 with Ryhaerdt and I'm sure Himmler didn't like that.
Still hasn't watched the whole thing. Reinhard was bullied in school, because his paternal grandmother married a guy who is protestant and had a jewish sounding name? What kind of school was he at? Hell I have had best friends for decades and I don't know a single name of their uncles and aunts let alone the last name of their paternal grandmother's second husband. And I thought data privacy was dead with the internet. 20th century Germany had more data leaks than Facebook and Google after a Russian cyber attack. Really weird stuff.
Excellent observation. However, I checked this out. Reinhard's father Bruno was well known composer, opera singer and conservatory professor who's biography was published in Hugo Riemann's "Musik Lexikon" with information that his real surname was Süß, publicly believed as jewish.Bruno Heydrich's mother Ernestine after death of her first husband married Gustav Süß, who apparently was a protestant. Such gossip was spread out among society who was into music which caused that Reinhard was refused to be a part of Hallenser School students corporation in 1923. Ironically Reinhard typical aryan look contradicted such accusation.
Interesting biography with some fascinating what if's, if Heydrich had used a security detail he probably would have survived, he instilled it into other top Nazis for their safety in Berlin but not himself in Prague where he was so overconfident the Czechs were so afraid of him & would never dare mount such an operation. During the attack, the Sten gun jammed & Heydrich ordered his driver to stop to take on the gunman, he should have told his driver to floor it, then the bomb that was thrown by the 2nd attacker wouldn't have caused the injuries that led to his death. Also if Heydrich had survived he would have probably been sent to France by Hitler to defeat the French Resistance in which case D-Day could have ended up very differently. With all this said, Heydrich would have been executed as a war criminal in 1945 so either way, he would end up dead at the war's end. The Czech Gov in exile in Britain at the time obviously wanted him dead too also knowing that the Nazi reprisals against civilians would be severe, but they wanted to show Britain that they were doing their part too with resistance to the Nazis even though not that much resistance was happening compared to other European occupied countries.
Interesting hypothesis but I don't believe for a moment that Heydrich would have permitted himself to be captured and hauled before the vengeance show trial at Nuremberg. Not lacking courage, he would have fought to the bitter end and, when all was lost, shot himself rather than be taken prisoner. Highly unlikely he would have attempted escape as he was much too high profile and distinctive looking to succeed.
Jackson Reilly, the Nuremberg trials were "show trials" alright, to expose the crimes of the Nazi regime to the rest of the world. The footages of the trials were well-documented, and, remember that the Nazi organizations kept records of their activities during the war. Those very records were collected by Allied forces after the war and used to help prosecute accused war criminals for genocide and other war crimes. There you have it.
After watching this and other good documentaries about that era, Im starting to understand the reality we live in today. Crazy times, just a few generations later.
A Dirty Grub: Heydrich was evil, pure evil fashioned into a military psychopath. As I comfortably sit here in front of my PC in 2022 decadence as a 58yr old home-boy of 1964, its hard to imagine the WWII era 39-45. It was a long time ago, 80 years since hangman Heydrich was assassinated by two very brave Czech commandos Kubis and Gabjec. Bad Times: Its hard to imagine the horror and terror that thrived in those dark, dreadful times of the evil Nazi regime, but I'll tell you what, I'm glad its all over and gone, gone yes but not forgotten. Rejoice In Remembrance: We should always remember the brave men and women of the resistance who selflessly stepped forward to fight Hitler and his evil regime to destroy it and him along with it. All For One: The risk was great, capture meant certain death, ask yourself, would _you_ volunteer to go into harms way? Would you rub the belly of the beast? Then try to stick the knife in. knowing the consequences if you fail? Tough times, tough decisions, tough lives. May the heroes of the plot RIP, aye, all of them, one and all.🌼
I think that Heydrich was a fanatical Nazis and although the assassination was for justified reasons, I think that it would've been better had he not been assassinated. Reason being is because it resulted in the senseless death of many many people who might have survived the war had it not been for the assassination. Also, it neither stopped nor slowed down the genocide at hand. I do commend the assassins for their bravery and their sacrifice. Surely they didn't know what would happen afterwards as a result of Heydrich's assassination.
An interesting hypothesis but you have made one minor error. Heydrich was no fanatic on ideology. He joined the NSDAP at Lina's urging after having been cashiered from the Reichsmarine. He needed a job and the SS provided scope for his organizational talents. He was no ideologue but rather a coldly efficient technician.
And I add he knew about the Nazis before he met Lina that little trollop she always talked about that she urged him to be a Nazi and a SS as for being an SS it was his mother not Lina who contacted her friend Baroness von Ebersteins son Karl Frederick who was an important man at the Nazi party to get her son a job after he was booted out of the Kriegsmarine the Navy and he arranged for Reinhard to have that fateful interview with Himmler and that Lina has nothing to with it she was happened to be around she a supporter but nothing more
From everything I've gathered over the year's. It Seems to me Reinhart's administration was Hitler's Strongest force. He had mastered counter intelligence and indeed had an iron heart which is scary. He's Extremely skilled and rarely made mistakes, the man feared nothing and with good reason. He also had a way of getting through to Hitler, think about that, out of thousands the ONLY person above himself was Himmler and Hitler themselves. That's pretty damm high on the power structure. Thier dominance on the war and in Europe was at it's peak while Reinhart was still alive. I don't see them loosing very many battles with him around....so he had to go...So yes, I agree it seemed at the time it may had not been worth all the trouble at first, but as a long term effect it was. From than on the allies would eventually take control of the war. Hitler himself, flew into a rage that would eventually have him hooked on methamphetamine and morphine's. It's clear that he couldn't get over the loss of his strongest and brightest, most brutal and talented solider, he was indeed the "perfect Nazi" and had it not been for his over confidence he'd might've still lived he can still strike fear in you when you look at his background it's terrifying.
One potential lesson is, beware of bullying psychopathic children or firing crazy.. they may grow up to be mass murderers.. in fact better to not bully anyone.. but that's how humans develop so there is no solution really to prevent this kind of thing.. humans can be are awful creatures.
The scarier thing though is that lots of murderers were never bullied and were even seen as upstanding citizens with no one knowing the hidden darkness.
Great effort here! Please do a similar documentary on the building and operation of Treblinka Nazi death camp, along with the village and train station. Killed more than Auschwitz in only 13 months.
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Heydrich's funeral would have been the perfect opportunity to bomb the Nazi leaders to bits.
I know one survivor of Josef Mengels' experiments who was 8 years old at the time, and who has lived as a cripple ever since 1945. She and her mother barely survived Auschwitz, and they lost the whole of the rest of their extended family. The atrocities were worse than most people realise, and some are still suffering from them.
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After watching the first minute and being German, I am stunned by the good pronouncing of german names by the speaker! Great work!
German guys are fine as hell!❤
@@dianachin4849 Look at that thirsty little demon. LOL
That’s very nice positive feedback. Thank you. 🙂
@@dianachin4849wtf?
@dianachin4849 😅Go to Israel if you think German men like Reinhard are fine. Plenty of Jewish men possess his prominent features.
I remember staying up til 2 or 3 and after on Friday or Saturday evening to maybe get lucky on Discovery channel a documentary similar to this in my teens. History channel had just come around as I remember and sometimes catch a good documentary on there about WW2. Around 1995-98. Of all the narrator's I've listened 2 and thousands of documentaries I've watched I would easily say you guys are one of the best if not the best. Thank you so much for keeping history alive.
I remember taking a week to download them on AOL
@@westtexas806 you Guys
FAKE COMMENT, there are a lot of these comments on this channel. Shady af.
Until it became more focused on trying to prove the christyun myth. It's name could stay the same just altered a bit: HisStory Channel. The treatment of the second world war events seen here in the video depend on the producers' desire. Whatever slant they wish to give gets inserted as history.
TH-cam has several documentary channels other than HisStory Channel that depict events in a matter of fact manner.
@@Cheka__ Thankfully I had a girlfriend through highschool and getting lucky that way wasn't a problem. Hell I was banging our next door neighbor Ms. Jewel. She was 39 and I was 17teen. She looked like Jamie Lee Curtis. Same short hair but blonde and her body was damn close. I even watched the movie Ms. Robinson with her. And she would come over and eat dinner with at our house when we had a get together with my parents friends...🤣😁
Very much appreciate the great care and attention to detail you put into these documentaries. These stories NEED to keep being told, so it can never happen again. Heydrich didn't deserve the quick and easy death he received, if he had lived to be on trial at Nuremberg he STILL wouldn't have deserved the mercy of a quick execution he would received. His atrocities, and those of his fellow elites of the Nazi party, must NEVER be forgotten and will never, EVER be forgiven
Never happen again???? you forget Bosnia and Rwanda
And Gaza @@mickmouse5715
As a longtime history professor of Nazi germany and one who has participated in several documentaries, I must say that your facts are always accurate and the narration is top notch. I’ve always wondered what Heydrich could have achieved had he used his great intellect toward a noble purpose. Yet another tragedy of the Nazis that he was lured by their unholy aims which brought his sadistic traits to the fore. What a waste.
That is what I think is the focal point of the fascination with the Nazi's and what they were able to do. Most of the Nazi high command were highly competent, intelligent, educated, and sophisticated individuals. Didn't do them any good as far as morality goes.
@@SonoftheWest316 I know. There were so many brilliant men in the High Command. Goering had an IQ in the 160’s and numerous commanders of the Einsatzgruppen held PhD’s. Can you imagine what they could have done if Hitler hadn’t come along. I blame the Vienna art school.
@@krististigall7464 It's funny you say that because I've claimed for a long time that if that art school would have accepted him thing's would have gone very differently.
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Wonder if the person(s) at the Art School who knocked Hitler back twice, lived to see what he became, & did.
Amazing how many evil things that have happened in a ‘fabric of time’, could’ve been averted, to the betterment of mankind.
Thé most detailled description of the life and death of Heydrich I have ever seen, my compliments!
You need to get out more then
@@xr6lad I will, promised!
Excellente production comme d'habitude merci
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the accuracy and detail of your documentaries. Your research, writing, and inclusion of less often seen footage set you above the usual, as well as your clear narration and lack of dramatic music score to muddy it.
Thank you for producing this quality of material, and telling these stories that must be remembered. You have a new subscriber.🖤🇨🇦
Heydrich seems the epitome of the Nazi superman as outlined by their ideology. He was a poster-perfect image of what an Aryan should look like - tall, blond, blue-eyed, athletic and handsome. His dedication to Nazi ideology was religious and unwavering. His amoral views made him a dedicated and perfect instrument of the bureaucratic machine he helped create. Thank you for this revealing and extremely educational documentary.
Here's a weird thing: there is (silent) colored film of Heydrich chatting with Hitler and Himmler and his hair look very dark brown. Many of the photographs also make his hair look dark brown. I have seen some that show his hair as lighter in color. Was it common for men to dye them back then?
@Jon Hank it's very common for blond hair to darken with age or look dark on film. Mine did. That being said, people have been dying their hair since the bronze age. So it's possible.
except he was not handsome he was a walking demon in human form
@@hinaynihorvath3926don’t depictions of demons have hooked noses and pointed ears? 🤔
@@hinaynihorvath3926he was handsome but… he has weird features
Your documentaries are absolutely fantastic. These subjects are handled with clarity, insight and vigour. Well done!
Stand out documentary , one of the best I have seen. Great work
Thank you all for this outstanding documentary.
These documentaries are great. I wear my “People’s Profiles” shirt with pride. Thank you for the hard work.
Thanks Matty!
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Likewise!! You guys rock!! Keep on keeping on friendos!!!
Same 😊
Thank to historians like yourselves these events will not be forgotten , you are keeping history alive that will serve as a warning to future generations too come.
Thank you for this documentary. As an ultracrepidarian in Nazi lore, I truly appreciate the prosaic way in which this is presented. No screeching about "evil this and evil that"...we get it!...but a "just the facts" approach that I so truly appreciate. I've definitely subscribed. Please keep up the good work.
That is definitely my biggest gripe with contemporary WWII documentaries.
Wow, these documentaries are a real treasure of you tube!!!! Thank you so much for giving us all this information in a very professional way!😊
Heydrich was the only senior Nazi who actually looked anything like the tall blonde Aryan “superman” of Nazi myth. He was intelligent, athletic, ruthless and had genuine military experience. If he had somehow become Fuhrer, he might have been more popular among the Germans, more competent and therefore more dangerous than even Hitler. Thank God he never did.
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A commentary as idiotic as they come. Hitler had iron and concrete BALLS as he proved time and again in the trenches of WWI, taking up what must be one of the most dangerous tasks a soldier could assume, that of amessenger/courier, on foot, amid the enemy fire. He was severely wounded, more than once, yet soldiered on until the very bitter end, which found him in hospital, temporarily blinded and in horrible physical pain. Hermann Göring was a top pilot who despised danger during the war, and many other later National Socialists proved their courage and patriotism in the boiling cauldron of that horrible war. Heydrich could have no true "military experience" in his upward years, since he was a child in WWI. Whatever true "military experience" he could have accrued was, by definition, from 1939 onwards, when he was already well on the top. He had courage, of course, and was a worthy patriot, but his merits can never eclipse or out-do those of his older comrades.
He was just hitler slave
Thats really a myth. For example he always wore a girdle as he had a deep insecurity about his wide, feminine hips and thin shoulders. Of course next to Himmler he looked like a jock. As for "genuine military experience", he was 14 when WW1 ended. He served in the navy in the 20s and then in the reserves in Luftwaffe for a few months. Plenty of top Nazis had PLENTY of actual long-term combat experience: take Goehring who was THE image of good looking aristocratic war hero the party neaded in early 1930s. Next to him Heydrich was a dorky bureaucrat.
@@f4ust85 Heydrich may have had his physical imperfections and been self-conscious about them, but there is no doubt that compared with Hitler, Himmler, Goerring and Goebels he wad much closer to the tall, blonde warrior figure of Nazi myth. If he did wear a corset, presumably it would not have been apparent to others. It was nit unknown for German officers to wear corsets. Von Schlieffen is believed to have worn one. And there is a corset taken by French troops from a German officer on display at the Australian War Memorial.
In the navy his service was peacetime, but he served as a signals officer on the SMS Schleswig-Holstein, a pre-dresdnaught battleship which was the flagship of the North Sea Fleet (and fired the first shots of World War II).
In the Luftwaffe, he flew almost 100 combat missions in Messerschmidt Bf109s until he was hit by Soviet anti-aircraft fire and ordered by Hitler back to his desk as a senior SS official.
It is true that Goerring had a more extensive combat record (as did Hitler, arguably), but Goerring let himself get obese and engaged in dubious antics that led others to suspect him of a “hormone-related malady.”
Well, done, insightful documentaries. I watch them and often listen to them, oddly enough, while trying to sleep. My parents came of age in the mid-forties, and they talked about WWII frequently. In my own mind I simply cannot comprehend how anyone could see Hitler as anything other that a raving lunatic...but then the times we live in are evidence that history repeats itself. Interesting and informative. Thank you!
Excellent production. Well-written and narrated. Thank you for going the extra mile in your research of this horrible man and era.
horrible man ?... he served our fatherland well.
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It seems his falls from positions he enjoyed were brought about by his own overweening arrogance. He clearly had great organising ability and the horror of what he would have inflicted in France unless he’d been stopped doesn’t bear contemplating. How sad those skills weren’t used in the improvement of humanity instead of its reverse.
heydrich has the classic signs of a narcissist and sociopath. the fact he spent days crying in rage after being expelled from the navy for his own actions, his constant philandering and his frequent bursts of rage are pretty clear indicators. unfortunately he was always gonna be like this for whatever reason. we can only thank god he was killed before he could reach his full potential
The world has always had a healthy supply of such monsters. Thank G.d he was never fuherer.
@Lena Monroe who gives a shit
@Lena Monroe isn't United Snakes of Amerikkka and Canada mostly Europeans now? Well , I guess moving out of iceblock has nothing to do with white population decline!!! Stay home. Miami Beach is now full of newly arrived French, Italians, Germans and Russians. Stay home and practice white supremacy/ racism there. The people of planet has had Enough of this arrogant ideology.
Heydrich was a diehard Nazi fanatic who was probably even more psychotic than Hitler himself.
As evil as Reinhard was his brother, Heinz, ended up being a hero who saved the lives of Jews. It’s peculiar how two brothers raised in the same household could turn out to be so different from one another. I wish we could see a documentary about Heinz Heydrich. Heinz was the noble and heroic side of the Heydrich family!
It happens all the time, maybe not THIS starkly, but brothers (or siblings in general) end up being wildly different personalities.
Ask me how I know 🤣
Hermann Göring's brother Albert also saved Jews. He never got the recognition he deserved and died in poverty.
This is a great idea! How about something on his assassins or something on the Czech resistance.
Max Schmeling personally saved a number of Jews as well. It’s shitty that history remembers him as the Nazi poster boy, because he was a wonderful human being. He financially helped Joe Louis when he fell into poverty as well and IIRC payed for his funeral.
@@oldkingcrow777 Me too, me and my brother are very different lol
Thanks for the diligence and thought you put into these difficult topics
Throughly enjoyed this documentary. Clear, precise and narrated with intelligence.
Far too many other's have extremely and most annoyingly destroyed the narrative by adding overtures of unwanted dramatic music overplay at the detriment of the subject matter.
Great compilation , the information contained gives one an understanding of the man and times . Excellent job .
Top notch presentation. Thank you for the biography on this person.
Thank you for this well organized and well thought out presentation.
My 19 year old grandson has studied the WW2 era. He has talked to his friends about WW2, learning they know nothing about WW2 and he has sparked their interest. He feels that we need to know our past so we can recognize the future.
The last two generations' brains are mush for the most part.
Yeah like now here in the good ol U S. Not here to teach any that do not understand but choose carefully.
@@donallan6396at least from the 00s on. I think it's sad that with all the tech and knowledge at their fingers these kids will graduate generally dumber than those graduates of 30 yrs ago. Reason why you may ask? The standardized testing BS. I cannot speak for everywhere but every parent I know that had kids In school here in Texas complained about those tests. These poor kids almost completely did review for these tests. We had the teams/taas every 2 years and the only one that really counted was the exit. So our teachers taught us other stuff. Almost all the kids these days do is study for these tests so the districts can get bonuses or wtfe. My son knew so little about the RW...CW ..WW1...OR WW2. EVEN LESS about more recent things. It's really just sad.
Another superb effort, gentlemen. Extremely interesting. Keep them coming, please.
Why would you assume that only "gentlemen " were the makers of these documentaries"?? Ignorance perhaps"?
@@user-cg7uv3mh9f No, hope.
@@Tomatohater64 Well, I guess that is all that you have'!
@@user-cg7uv3mh9f I have nothing for an insidious troll.
@@user-cg7uv3mh9fwhy the whinging wtf
Brilliant Documentary, narrated to perfection. It becomes increasingly clear his assassination was one of the most important events of the fight against the Nazis. Had he lived much longer he would have been an absolute chilling killer.
@@clarenceghammjr1326 or a carpet business. Or a farm equipment salesman, as Mengele.
Have more worse could it have been?
He would've came to the U.S. as nuclear scientist! To work on the Manhattan project!🤔🤔☮️
There many others:Eichmann, globodchik to mention 2
Yet another incredibly comprehensive documentary.
Thank you. 👍
Fantastic work,enjoyed this immensely,thank you.
On the 75th anniversary of it's sad destruction a Memorial was built on what was Lidice in memory of those who were murdered as reprisal for Heydrich's assassination around June 2017. After the villagers were either murdered or in the case of the women were deported to Ravensbruck Concentration camp the whole village was literally removed both in physical sense and geographical as it's name was removed from all maps at the time.
Wow
Right. And the Limeys still thought it was worth it.
@@Theodore_Twombly Those "Limeys" had been at war, suffering immensely, for more than two years by this time, when the USA came in officially.
We did appreciate you help, still do, but it came at a cost. The UK simply supported the wishes and intentions of the relevant country.
Yes, the British Imperialists have a great deal to answer for, even to this day.
@@user-cg7uv3mh9f All debts were paid in full - and more besides.
I swear I watch this every night to go to sleep. Its so good!
The narrator's voice is very relaxing, but the subject matter is not. What kind of dreams do you have? Lol
@@nikobellic570 can't remember, usually
You watch this every night to go to sleep?? I hope for your sake that's not really true! 🤔
Excellent production. Because Heydrich didn't live to be at the Nuremberg trials a lot of people do not know just how horrible he really was. I've heard people suggest that after Heydrich was attacked and in the hospital, it actually looked like he was going to make a recovery but Himmler was afraid of Heydrich's growing popularity with Hitler and used this event to make sure that Heydrich never recovered. Who knows, but it sure sounds like something that is possible.
I've heard a similar theory before, publicly Himmler sent his top SS doctors to make sure Heydrich got the best possible treatment but privately making sure his rival & Hitler's protege didn't survive.
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I agree, it definitely sounds plausible. 👍
Yep could be true.when someone like Hitler calls you the man with Iron Heart you know he must of been was evil individual. I also read about a rumour that the grenade thrown that ultimately killed him was laced with poison ensuring he would get sepsis from the injury and die.
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Wow, I never heard about the grenade possibly being laced with poison. That is very, very interesting. Thanks for the insight.
So Himmler DID actually have at least one good quality.
I find your documentaries very informative, thank you for all the time you must put into researching and making these. You also must have a lot of educators watching them as there is a fair amount of grading comments on punctuation and content. Just scroll through all those comments like I do a waste of time reading them.
Yes, small minds vying for attention.
Great production, I really like some obscure references usually left out in other documentaries. Thank you.
Heydrich has always been the most fascinating Nazi to me. The man with the 'Iron Heart'. You know you're the pinnacle of pure Evil when Hitler dubs you with such a title.
I've always wondered what sort of man he would of been if he had lived to the Downfall, flee or die.
I honestly think he's one of the scariest N@zi in that era. His methodical strategies were frightening.
@@Libra_custos88 Wow so edgy. I bet you're a muscle bound specimen of Aryan supremacy and not an overweight virgin at all
There’s an alt-history book about Heydrich surviving the assassination and ending up being in charge of the Werewolves, the planned Nazi guerrillas for after the war. It’s pretty interesting.
Overlord would have never happened in 1944 if Heydrich had been alive. His purpose was to neutralise resistance movements and foreign intelligence network. Soviets would've got stuck in Bagration which would turn into a stalemate with no territorial changes if there was no Overlord. Heydrich was a necessary target for the British.
I think Heydrich would have made sure the Me 262, the targeting computer for rockets and even the bomb would have been properly funded and prioritized. And if he had, the Nazis would have won.
Thanks to all who work on this channel, your documentary is so clear precise and unbias , pure narration and films i have never seen in all my years watching history is amazing. Thank you for showing real historical facts and education as it should be taught.
As a self appointed expert in any subject I wish to comment upon, I say well done
Genius comment
Heydrich's arrogance, thinking he did not need personal security to show people he was in charge, led to his loss. I think that now he knows better...
appreciate the great work, thank you for making this interesting and informing at the same time.
Our past is truly wicked thank god I was born in this time RIP to all the innocent people 😢🙏🏽
You ain't seen nothing yet, wait and see what the future has in store, if you live that long. It ain't gonna be nice.
@@prmayner what do you mean?
@@1sgr1999 The workings of Satan when a world leader will come on the scene and then the wrath of God.
@@prmayner I wish God would hurry up already I am tired of all this suffering going on
@@1sgr1999 if people would just READ and study the Bible it's all in there, enormous suffering is on the way, there are 735 predictions in the Bible in which 596 have already come true. but nobody believes the Bible, sad, sad.
Thank you. Refreshed my ancient memory, and is much appreciated.
A novel by Harry Turtledove called The Man With the Iron Heart is one of my favourite alternative history novels.
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You got it!
It was pretty gutsy to hijack that C-47.
Harry Turtleshead is a great author
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My favourite is The Two Georges
Absolutely.
Heydrich was not only cold but also efficient like no other. He no doubt would have transformed French industry to the great advantage of Germany. Just like he did in chekoslovachia. He instead of someone else could have ruled the entire Nazi economy. Had Hitler retired and heydrich taken over WW II may have had a very different outcome.
Herman goring ran the economic side of things if I can remember correctly and he had a personal thing with the air force and dedicated lots rescources to building Germany a new air force seeing as they had previously forfeited the privilege In the treaty of Versailles
@@ahsanjamal2245 Goering was a fool. He is one of the major reasons for Germany's defeat.
@@thornil2231 you sound a little bitter that Germany lost the war. Closet national socialist?
@@jameshughes525 Found the commie.
@@jameshughes525 nah its just common knowledge
Reinhard Heydrich was also known as: "The Blonde Beast" and "the Butcher of Prague"
effective manager and the best leaders of the Reich. After his death, the Reich began to crumble like the twin towers
Some bad info in this. Goebells was never captured alive. He committed suicide along with his wife and 6 children who were poisoned by their mother, right aftwr AH did, in the chancellors garden. Goering was the highest member arrested but also committed suicide from a cyanide capsule hidden in his hair gel the day before his execution. Heinrich also got his blood poisoning from fabric from the car due to the blast of the explosion.
You don't know that
Where did you get the hair gel info? I've only read that no one had any idea where Goering got his cyanide pill.
If I recall, he was at one point the head of the SD & SA. The equivalent of being the head of the FBI & NSA merged into one. The power this man had was scary lol.
More like the head of FB et al gathering all sorts of data about a population.
Heinrich Himmler was the head of SS..
No, the SS were under the Reichsführer-SS
He was a top nazi not because he did not want to be one you gotta put in work for that
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Heydrich is almost in a league of his own, when it comes to Nazi evil, and that is saying one hell of a lot. He's a man who at times actually shocked Himmler with his sadistic cruelty and zealotry. There's a saying by historians, "if you want to know what Hitler was thinking, watch what Himmler did." Well, Heydrich was the man actually pushing Himmler to his extremes. He was such a cruel barbarian that Churchill, still steeped in bygone era chivalry, actually okayed the assassination of him. He was the only non battlefield official targeted for assassination in all the war. Even now, most don't know he was the architect of the Holocaust, detailing the framework of it.
Heydrich was not a National Socialist ideologue. He was a technician and a damned efficient one. His driving force was ambition not cruelty. In fact, his treatment of the Jewish question was pragmatic rather than emotional.Suppose he had not been born in Germany. If he had been born in Britain, he could have headed MI6. If born in America, he would have been ideal for the OSS. In either case, he would have utilized his brilliant and efficient mind against the Third Reich with equal fervour. Heydrich was a unique man possessed of many enviable talents.
@@me0101001000 True. Every single thing regarding Mengele was a tragedy, but one of the most terrible things is, he was an absolute quake of a doctor. Just a complete hack. If some of his experiments advanced science in any way, then at least, and can't even word this correctly, some kind of "good" may have come out of his torturous experiments. But, they are absolute valueless garbage that revealed nothing. And that's not even counting that he was one of the primary madmen who worked the selection lines. Interestingly, Auschwitz kept unbelievable records. We know he was actually the man on duty when the train carrying Anne Frank and the others who were in hiding with her in the early morning hours of Sept 6. None of them were sent to the gas chambers directly upon arriving at the death camp, though.
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@@jacksonreilly3441 Well put. Ideology was merely a tool for him to advance his career. That is so chilling - that the evil of the holocaust was in large part perpetrated simply for career advancement.
@@jacksonreilly3441 he was uniquely Evil. Now he’s burning in Hell! Right next to Hitler. What I loved is that he suffered before he succumbed to Sepsis and then his death!
when i visited Prague i went to the church and the crypt underneath were the shoot out happened its worth a vist if anyone goes there , gives you shivers that they would of got away if it was not one of them snitching on them, Heydrich may of survived if he did not refuse treatment as he wanted hitlers personnel doctor to treat him the horse hair off the seat in the car caused sepsis
I read a story that the Grenade thrown that ultimately killed Rynhard was laced with poison by the boffins at porton Down, ensuring that the grenade would ultimately do its job. It’s only a rumour a read about by some WW2 historian, so it could be a load of tosh.
Heydrich's decision to ride in an open car is what exposed him to an assassination attempt, which ultimately did him in. At his funeral, Adolf Hitler denounced that move as stupid, too.
@Hope Fliers Czech and Slovak heroes. By the way there is a movie about what the Nazi did to the Czech and Slovak people in revenge. It calls Fall of the Innocent “. I highly recommended to watch it.
Horse hair dosent cause sepis most likely it's the care or lack of care wound received after the attack most sepis is caused by e.coli i.e bacteria from skin or shyt so if someone had simply washed their hands or properly cleaned instruments the wound would have only become mildly infected
would've not would of
Reinhard Heydrich was a good violinist and was brilliant but, unfortunately, he got mixed up with anti-Semitism and other toxic ideologies of the Nazi regime. His worst undoing was riding in an open car, exposed to assassination plots, and it did him in. Even Adolf Hitler denounced that move as "stupid". Thank you for this video of Reinhard Heydrich, the " man with the iron heart" as Hitler described him.
Yes that is correct. Hitler was a narcisstic sociopath and once Heydrich was dead he no longer cared for him and would bad mouth him (despite his belief he was one of his best people when he was alive).
There is a documentary here on TH-cam called "Never our fault." It is a story told from his wife's point of view. If only he hadn't met her. Match made in hell .
She was clearly in denial and went to her grave thinking her husband was a wonderful man and everything said about him was a lie...or maybe she knew and just didn't want to admit it. Didn't she even say he wasn't an anti-Semite? Baffling really. I always wondered what his children and grandchildren thought about what he did.
I honestly believe that if Heydrich had survived he would have gotten rid of Himmler eventually. He might have also tried to overthrow Hitler to become Führer. (This possible plot was seen in Man in The High Castle)
The ambush on Heidrich didn't at all take place on road to the airport but on his usual stretch from where he lived just outside Prague to the Prague castle where he had his office!!!
That's true and this Man The Iron Heart is overrated, he was just young man who because of his wife got into the high archery of The Nazi officials. There were a lot of young German men if you gave the resources and uniform too could of done the same job he did
Quite a while ago, I came across a biography of Heydrich. The narration was terribly strange; there was an inordinate amount of time spent on his playing the violin, & the depiction of him as a husband & father was overtly romanticized. There was also an extended anecdote of him supplying shoes for children enslaved by his labor decrees.
Heydrich was not a "complicated man," he was a robot, a sociopath, a black hole.
It must’ve been some lame attempt by a nazi apologist to humanize the monster.
Sociopath without a doubt. Sadly characteristic's of sociapath can include intelligence and the ability to charm.. It is one of the many reasons they are so fatally dangerous as remorseless murderers. They kill without conscience.
@Lena Monroe you do? I wish war would not happen. I don't wish turmoil or death on anyone but for some reason you do. Huh
@Lena Monroe TWO sides to every story? That's funny.
@Lena Monroe : WHAT?? “Colonising Semitics”? The number of Jewish people in every single European country has always, and I mean ALWAYS, been vastly lower than the number of other ethnicities in each country. Use your brains. Try to think about why Hitler chose the Jewish people to annihilate. There were and are a number of reasons, and none of them were “colonising Semitics.” THINK. USE THE BRAINS NATURE GAVE YOU.
Thank you, this one's much better than the previous. Thank you.
On 50:58 you say that the Einsatzgruppen "were essentially SS special units". While it's correct with the word "essential", I think it's noteworthy and more accurate that it overlapped with SS or was led by SS people, but included other police forces and really was formally subordinate to the RSHA. -- Personally, as a German, I only learned about the EG's and the role of the RSHA recently through inspiration by Timothy Snyder. The RSHA to some extent lived on as the West-German Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), in the sense that some people, organizational principles and some of the documents (lists of people) were carried over, which is... in my view quite significant.
There was recently a study done by historians, some 10 years ago, about the continuity between RSHA (which is not SS, and which was the umbrella of the EG's), and the West-German BKA.
This is - in my personal experience as a German - blurred in history lessons by stating that it these crimes were done by the SS. That is a simplification, and it is hiding, to some extent, that some mini-cogs out of the terrible machinery of the holocaust lived on in West Germany.
Just a small mention. I like your documentary and learned a lot already. I appreciate you for it.
P.S.: I just learned that the RSHA is part of the SS, which validates your point. I will leave my comment, because I think it may still be interesting. After all, the SS as part of the Nazi party has a totally different legitimacy (basically none), compared with the RSHA, which is essentially a police department on paper and therefore a government institution with proper legitimacy - on paper.
You are a highly educated man.
0ne early history of the SS was subtitled " The A.ibi of a Nation "
It is also important to add, that thanks to the assassination, the Czechoslovakia was reconsidered as a true ally, the Munich agreement was withdrawn by Great Britain, and it had mayor impact on reconstruction of Czechoslovakian pre-war borders (despite the fact that the USSR annexed part of the Czechoslovakia once Third Reich was defeated).
The United Kingdom declared the agreement invalid on August 5, 1942, on the grounds that Germany itself had already violated it on March 15, 1939, and thus the United Kingdom was no longer bound by the treaty. On 18 September 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stated that her country had failed Czechoslovakia by participating in the signing of the Munich Agreement, adding that she remembered it with a sense of shame.
The UK has never officially apologized for the Munich Agreement.
@@LadislavMaterna2 officially yes, however current historian discourse (at least in Czechia) agrees that successful assassination of RH was the key component of Churchill's decision.
@Mister Google oh really, so there is probably no Ukraine bordering Slovakia then.
@Mister Google like the British Imperialists, that has never stopped them.
I do think you are richt to think that it was the right way to kill him this way.
It's ironic how the bullying about his ancestory might have influenced how he would later act.
it could of played a minor role honestly
The movie Anthropoid is amazing! Tells of the assassins who killed him. Very interesting
Operation day break is good as well Cam 👍
It is little known that a second group of assassins were sent in but took no part in the attack on Heydrich as the attack occurred when they had landed. That group were immediately on the run. Two of the four survived. One was my old man.
wow!!!
@VinAr Run Nazi troll. Stiffening that butcher was a good act
Bullshit
@@TJ_CrayonBeltFeeder It's hardly a heroic bit of info to pass on. You may think all resistance support to Europe was a success. It wasn't. Survival was in itself a form of success I guess and his survival was thanks entirely to the risks taken by other people.
Wow this was a fantastic documentary! It's very informative very straightforward and very understandable. This is a very tough subject, but I think as a Jewish person looking at this it's easy to think that it's just all evil. You can just say that he was evil and that the Nazis were evil and their cause was evil. Would I have come to realize is that the Nazis provided a shave space for psychopaths to do what only they do best. I mean think about it, if a lot of these head Nazis and people who killed so many without a second thought I just lived in a Germany that was prosperous and didn't subjugate people they would have just been Office clerks and maybe soldiers or high-ranking officials but given the situation they were given a task and they performed it. I think it's been proven that psychopaths can make great CEOs. When social norm's and boundaries shift to such a degree as what happened in the Weimar Republic and incidentally are shifting now given the opportunity sociopaths can really make a huge difference heartless genocidal actions. The thing to never forget is that any culture any culture group can have these sociopaths and psychopaths that can make this kind of genocide possible. So yes on a certain level you have to punished and blame the people who pursue persecute and perpetrate these heinous acts of as they call in humanity but it what is really really important to remember that it is as human as anything else as we cal "inhuman". Psychopaths are the embodiment of "inhuman" cold or robotic calculated, cold bloodedness.
This is an Excellent Documentary! Very Important, and Informative.
Gabcik a Kubis!!!! Real life heroes!!!! And others helping them of course!!!!!❤
It's like the devil himself tried to stop them by making the weapon stuck....but....
I know there would be no LGBTP, Feminism, mass 3rd world immigration without such wonderful people
Another fantastic video, the epitome of excellence
Well said
It's amazing that we can get college level documentaries on TH-cam for free.
@@kareberntsen7834 they push socialist and communist agendas
@@kareberntsen7834 and in the anarchy and chaos you end up with someone like Stalin seizing control of the socialist communist movement or someone like Hitler seizing control of one of the many nationalist parties that oppose the socialists communists. All this is happening again today
@@kareberntsen7834 you know I meant the level of knowledge you're receiving on the subject. Don't be obtuse.
Makes you wonder why most people need colleges anymore.
@@TheManInTheMasks fancy page of paper that posable employers want to see.
He thought he was invincible but he found out
Functioning sociopaths are not good at judging risk/regard. His actions clear show this.
Amazing historical documentary!👍👏 Truly appreciate the clear narrative. I'm glad this historical video is available online. An educational event I would not have otherwise learned of the extent Hitler's collaborators in the extermination of Jewish people!😢 I'm so saddened especially in the killings of millions of innocent Jewish children. Why?!! Just because of their Jewish ethnicity?! This was madness! Surely God will hold these evil doers accountable for what they have done to all Jewish atrocities!👍🙁😢
The pronounciation of names and cities is SO good
Gabčík's name was mispronounced several times, so were Gestapo, Reichstag, Lidice, Stalingrad etc.
@@sylviakewish716 I know but overall way better then in most of the english documentations I saw
@@maikebaier8004agree
Watching from Greece.hi everybody.
Great documentary.
I have seen some of his home movies. In one clip taken on the ski slopes he begins to smile for the camera but then looks to the side. You can see he is a man with a lot on his mind.
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I didn"t know nazis actually thought about anything
Precision precise perfect narration, Vielen Dank🙏
Must watch this after seeing several of the film's based on the story, all involved were so very brave when taking his life other than the character sorry I've forgotten played by Martin Shaw .
Excellent coverage and depth ,ty ms cdf vor
Always a new, interesting tidbit to be found in these documentaries. Had he survived the assassination he would have celebrated his silver wedding anniversary on the day I was born. But he wouldn't have lived as things turned out, and if things turned out differently I may not have been born.
As we used to say, if things were different they wouldn't be as they are
You mean you were born on Dec 26 1956 because he married that day with Lina Osten a good for nothing opportunistic harlot who was looking to get out of her native island of Germany and was hunting for Navy officers and already had a reputation at Fehmarm that's why her father sent her to Kiel where she knew Reinhard she had already has a past and he left a good and respectable girl beautiful rich who really loved for this woman he ditched this girl maybe pregnant but karma came for him four years later she allegedly had an affair with a painter in 1935 after that year whatever feelings he had for her died and he treated her harshly and with coldness most of the time then he found love and was going to dump her before his death at he Czech partisans s hands and her last pregnancy it rumored was not his so what silver wedding anniversary are you talking about had he survived he would yes silver wedding anniversary yes but not with this Nazi sadistic evil trollop
I doubt Heydrich would celebrated his silver wedding anniversary in 1956 with that strumpet Lina he was going to dump her in the end because he fell in love with another woman incredible through it seems
@@ileanaaacotaacosta7769 He would have never lived to see that in the first place because he would have been hanged (rightfully) at Nuremberg if he didn't commit suicide first.
His wife was given a big pension by the German state after the war because of his "service".
They also refused to extradite her to Czechoslovakia for some very serious crimes she committed.
They haven't changed.
@@pegamini7582 So you are saying I'm as bad as the perpetrators of the holocaust because I believe that these people should not receive a pension.
How very German.
@@fintonmainz7845 You are worse yes
Thanks very interesting documentary. Never heard about his role in the war.
He was called The hang man of Prague.
Good afternoon, and Thank You.
It was later determined that the fibers in his Mercedes seats entered his body after the explosion which caused the sepsis ,
which could have prevented had penicillin , which was only in Britain at that time had been available.
Correct and those fibers were from the cushioning inside the seats, made from horse hair.
The fibers I believe were horse hair. Not sure how it's prepared and I'm texting this knowing I'm gonna be googling it next. 😝.
Why not use leather seats?
@@Mshi- they are leather or could be a synthetic leather not sure but it wasn't the cover that killed him or could play a roll in it . It's the stuffing they used. Like pillows today have feather stuffing some of them. Back then one of the best fillers did seats were horse hair. It wouldn't mold as easy and kept it's form while still allowing some sponge feel for comfort. It was treated as well not sure what with. You can get an infection very easy in a wound especially one from an explosive device. I'm assuming they patched him up quickly to stop the bleeding as that was probably paramount to saving his life. It festered inside of him and supposedly that's what killed him. Never know with the Nazi's I mean they will use your death ☠️ as am advantage as well. He may have threatened Himmler's total power I mean he shot up the ranks and was the image of the perfect Nazi. Himmler rushed 2 his side supposedly. Maybe 2 finish him off and regain total control. Hitler was supposedly talking 1 on 1 with Ryhaerdt and I'm sure Himmler didn't like that.
Hope heydrich enjoyed the experience
Still hasn't watched the whole thing. Reinhard was bullied in school, because his paternal grandmother married a guy who is protestant and had a jewish sounding name? What kind of school was he at? Hell I have had best friends for decades and I don't know a single name of their uncles and aunts let alone the last name of their paternal grandmother's second husband. And I thought data privacy was dead with the internet. 20th century Germany had more data leaks than Facebook and Google after a Russian cyber attack. Really weird stuff.
😂 It is ridiculous l like must of been right nosey bastards
Excellent observation. However, I checked this out. Reinhard's father Bruno was well known composer, opera singer and conservatory professor who's biography was published in Hugo Riemann's "Musik Lexikon" with information that his real surname was Süß, publicly believed as jewish.Bruno Heydrich's mother Ernestine after death of her first husband married Gustav Süß, who apparently was a protestant. Such gossip was spread out among society who was into music which caused that Reinhard was refused to be a part of Hallenser School students corporation in 1923. Ironically Reinhard typical aryan look contradicted such accusation.
The best channel on youtube with the best content as always!
Just look at that glorious Old World architecture. Clearly, humanity is devolving in some aspects.
He might have an iron heart but his body cannot stop a bullet…
Very good docu.I could listen to the narrator all night....oh I did...greatings from Norway.
These documentaries are top notch. High shelf. Fuckin dope. 💪 Keep up the awesome work.
Very interesting documentary and really well done. And the narrator's pleasant voice is definitely a bonus!!
Thanks!
Thank you!
Interesting biography with some fascinating what if's, if Heydrich had used a security detail he probably would have survived, he instilled it into other top Nazis for their safety in Berlin but not himself in Prague where he was so overconfident the Czechs were so afraid of him & would never dare mount such an operation. During the attack, the Sten gun jammed & Heydrich ordered his driver to stop to take on the gunman, he should have told his driver to floor it, then the bomb that was thrown by the 2nd attacker wouldn't have caused the injuries that led to his death. Also if Heydrich had survived he would have probably been sent to France by Hitler to defeat the French Resistance in which case D-Day could have ended up very differently. With all this said, Heydrich would have been executed as a war criminal in 1945 so either way, he would end up dead at the war's end. The Czech Gov in exile in Britain at the time obviously wanted him dead too also knowing that the Nazi reprisals against civilians would be severe, but they wanted to show Britain that they were doing their part too with resistance to the Nazis even though not that much resistance was happening compared to other European occupied countries.
Interesting hypothesis but I don't believe for a moment that Heydrich would have permitted himself to be captured and hauled before the vengeance show trial at Nuremberg. Not lacking courage, he would have fought to the bitter end and, when all was lost, shot himself rather than be taken prisoner. Highly unlikely he would have attempted escape as he was much too high profile and distinctive looking to succeed.
Jackson Reilly, the Nuremberg trials were "show trials" alright, to expose the crimes of the Nazi regime to the rest of the world. The footages of the trials were well-documented, and, remember that the Nazi organizations kept records of their activities during the war. Those very records were collected by Allied forces after the war and used to help prosecute accused war criminals for genocide and other war crimes. There you have it.
Yes to your parting questions. Why was Madagascar considered in their answer?
After watching this and other good documentaries about that era, Im starting to understand the reality we live in today. Crazy times, just a few generations later.
Another great People Profile.
A Dirty Grub: Heydrich was evil, pure evil fashioned into a military psychopath. As I comfortably sit here in front of my PC in 2022 decadence as a 58yr old home-boy of 1964, its hard to imagine the WWII era 39-45. It was a long time ago, 80 years since hangman Heydrich was assassinated by two very brave Czech commandos Kubis and Gabjec.
Bad Times: Its hard to imagine the horror and terror that thrived in those dark, dreadful times of the evil Nazi regime, but I'll tell you what, I'm glad its all over and gone, gone yes but not forgotten.
Rejoice In Remembrance: We should always remember the brave men and women of the resistance who selflessly stepped forward to fight Hitler and his evil regime to destroy it and him along with it.
All For One: The risk was great, capture meant certain death, ask yourself, would _you_ volunteer to go into harms way? Would you rub the belly of the beast? Then try to stick the knife in. knowing the consequences if you fail? Tough times, tough decisions, tough lives. May the heroes of the plot RIP, aye, all of them, one and all.🌼
Cheers to Kubis and Gabjec
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Are you Jewish by any chance?
the 'man with an iron heart' never stood under the gallows, so we cannot be sure whether he was actually made of iron
I think that Heydrich was a fanatical Nazis and although the assassination was for justified reasons, I think that it would've been better had he not been assassinated. Reason being is because it resulted in the senseless death of many many people who might have survived the war had it not been for the assassination. Also, it neither stopped nor slowed down the genocide at hand. I do commend the assassins for their bravery and their sacrifice. Surely they didn't know what would happen afterwards as a result of Heydrich's assassination.
An interesting hypothesis but you have made one minor error. Heydrich was no fanatic on ideology. He joined the NSDAP at Lina's urging after having been cashiered from the Reichsmarine. He needed a job and the SS provided scope for his organizational talents. He was no ideologue but rather a coldly efficient technician.
And I add he knew about the Nazis before he met Lina that little trollop she always talked about that she urged him to be a Nazi and a SS as for being an SS it was his mother not Lina who contacted her friend Baroness von Ebersteins son Karl Frederick who was an important man at the Nazi party to get her son a job after he was booted out of the Kriegsmarine the Navy and he arranged for Reinhard to have that fateful interview with Himmler and that Lina has nothing to with it she was happened to be around she a supporter but nothing more
@@ileanaacacostaacosta1813 Wow, that's very interesting to know. I think that Lina enjoyed her privileged life that she had as a Nazis officer's wife.
@@ileanaacacostaacosta1813 Why on earth would you call Lina a "trollop"? Nothing in the historical records indicates that she led an immoral life.
From everything I've gathered over the year's. It Seems to me Reinhart's administration was Hitler's Strongest force. He had mastered counter intelligence and indeed had an iron heart which is scary. He's Extremely skilled and rarely made mistakes, the man feared nothing and with good reason. He also had a way of getting through to Hitler, think about that, out of thousands the ONLY person above himself was Himmler and Hitler themselves. That's pretty damm high on the power structure. Thier dominance on the war and in Europe was at it's peak while Reinhart was still alive. I don't see them loosing very many battles with him around....so he had to go...So yes, I agree it seemed at the time it may had not been worth all the trouble at first, but as a long term effect it was. From than on the allies would eventually take control of the war. Hitler himself, flew into a rage that would eventually have him hooked on methamphetamine and morphine's. It's clear that he couldn't get over the loss of his strongest and brightest, most brutal and talented solider, he was indeed the "perfect Nazi" and had it not been for his over confidence he'd might've still lived he can still strike fear in you when you look at his background it's terrifying.
Such a great and informative video...Thank you so much....
According to Kenneth Branagh, who played Heydrich's role in "Conspiracy", Heydrich was devoid of any emotion. In other words, a psychopath.
One potential lesson is, beware of bullying psychopathic children or firing crazy.. they may grow up to be mass murderers.. in fact better to not bully anyone.. but that's how humans develop so there is no solution really to prevent this kind of thing.. humans can be are awful creatures.
The scarier thing though is that lots of murderers were never bullied and were even seen as upstanding citizens with no one knowing the hidden darkness.
@@coryfice1881 Ya, psychopathy just happens sometimes like other mental conditions
He was also believed to be an expert in fencing from what I’ve heard.
informative and amazing,
would be awesome of a profile on Hans Ulrich Rudel and Michael Wittman
Rudel was magnificent. Only man awarded the Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds!
Great effort here! Please do a similar documentary on the building and operation of Treblinka Nazi death camp, along with the village and train station. Killed more than Auschwitz in only 13 months.
Lol sure
Reinhard Heydrich was, quite simply, an evil person, in the deepest sense of the word.