Waaaaay better than most of other types of the channels these days. Great documentary I must say. Very educational. 5 hours, no problem. You are AWESOME!
Excellently put together some otherwise little known facts about these historical figures together with some valuable analysis of the outcome of the period. Thank you!.
The most frightening thing about many of the Nazi leaders is how "normal" many of them were. Pop-culture has almost completely mythologized them to the point that it's easy to forget how easily something like the holocaust could happen again.
That's the true horror of the Nazis - the fact that they *weren't* obviously monsters from the outset. It's a commonly overlooked part of the story, but possibly holds the most important lesson. The reality is that we'll likely not see the next holocaust coming until it's already happening.
Well done! The portrait art is striking. I remember von Braun from my grade school reader and from TV. He seemed to adapt well to American celebrity culture. When the image of him and Johnson came up, it made me wonder who talked more during that encounter.
Wernherr von Braun is more a forgotten hero in American culture. He was essential for the rise of the US space program and less important historic figures are more remembered than him today. Probably due to the fact that he was connected to Nazi crimes and yet got away because his engineering knowledge was useful to America.
I wish I had TH-cam when I was in school and learning both ancient and modern history. I was at school in 70's and 80's. I barely remember anything I learned but everything I learn from sites like this fascinates me and I remember for ever. I've learned more from these sites than anything I did from school. Here, I actually WANT to learn! Thank you!!
I was in school the same time period. I'm a life long DC resident and we were taught a wide range of history. I know understand why American history wasn't covered much, it was and still is whitewashed and inaccurate. We learned black history that included MLK, Harriet Tubman, Dr. Charles Drew, Dr. George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, Ralph Bunche, Adam Clayton Powell, Gen Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., Gen Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Sojourner Truth, and countless others. I was learned further black history when my parents bought me books and when I went to the library. My late maternal grandmother is from the Cherokee Nation and needless to say I knew the Anglo version of Native history was b.s. I knew of the Holocaust when I was a child but I couldn't comprehend what was being taught. I visited The National Holocaust Museum here in DC on it's grand opening in 1995. I was so grieved and depressed afterward, I have never gone back to that museum and don't plan too in the future. The only bright part was the young woman in the card I was given survived the Holocaust. It wasn't until last summer that I started searching on TH-cam everything I could find relating to the Holocaust a.k.a. The Final Solution To The Jewish Question. The atrocities we're so evil that my mind can't comprehend what I know is truth, what my eyes have seen in Holocaust documentaries and yet I'm still finding new information that I didn't know until this year. I am in no way a historian of the Holocaust but I am grateful that I didn't let the minute lessons that were barely taught in my schools didn't cause me to be disinterested in what was the root cause, individuals participating in, the victims, and the outcome of that genocide that I am reminded to "Never Forget". I can't forget nor would I want to.
@@AirForceFalcons_9922 oh my goodness!! We could get together and have really long conversations. Im not from the U.S, but from Australia. The past few months I have been educating myself in history. I have learned about the true history of the United States, yes, not the white-washed white supremacy version of the "hard working pilgrims", but of the genocide of the native indians, the economic expansion of capitalism through the slavery of African people, and the theft of land and resources of the native indians of the Mexico region. Also, since Russia invaded Ukraine I have been studying World War 2 and the Holocaust. I have watched lots of videos of interviews of concentration camp survivors, and of the camps themselves, watched documentaries of how the war played out and listened to historians give a biography of the key players of the war (from all sides) like Hitler, Dr Mengele, Goering, Goeth, President Roosevelt, Reinhardt Heydrich and Stalin. I will NEVER forget what I learned from the Holocaust. I even researched what the signs are to look out for to know if another Nazi like party is potentially moving into power. I am concerned with what is happening now in the US with the trans gender identity ideology and the recent Roe vs Wade decision. I think these judges are going to be turning towards removing same-sex marriage, contraception, black rights next. I think they are just the beginning. The worl is a very dangerous place right now. We dont even know if a nuclear war is coming.
This guy could read me a cookbook and I'd still be hanging on every word. Lol. Love his voice! Edit: I'm referring to the first narrator. I hadn't yet known there were multiple episodes as opposed to one really long episode. 😁
@@sinbadsailor1963same here, his voice sounds like an out of work over actor , whereas the second narrator has a very relaxing perfectly English clear voice.
I can see it being very relevant if certain people are elected, the Nazi ideas will certainly be here again. People never learn from history. Mob hysteria, mob rule, mob thought processes. Can you see it? I hope so.
This must have taken a very long time, to put together and it is done so Professionally. Moments had me spell bound & the rest was just Fantastic ! 2nd to none. Really looking forward to the second part. Thank You and appreciate your hard work. ✌️🏴
Someone who met more than a few nazis back during hitlers time, including some ss, noted what is really scary is how normal some of them are... how people who are otherwise relatively unassuming and normal can be persuaded to become monsters and murderers, that is what the person found to be the real scary part
An example, not as a extreme, are the people that were demonizing the unvacced and being ok with them losing their jobs. Some people are herd animals and will take part in any government atrocity
This video is amazing and extraordinary. This video make my day thank you for amazing video and stunning video but brother when will the video on Skanderbeg come?
Me, German, having seen years worth of WWII and Nazi-Party stuff: Sees "Leaders of Nazi Germany Part One", 5 hours. All right, son of a b1tch I'm in......
She was sickened by war. It made her so sick that she decided to make more propaganda until her safety was affected and then went on a date with Hitler before getting her background actors from a concentration camp. Never have I seen a woman more appalled by the horror of wars.
Three five-hour documentaries got lined up in my playlist so fast, three b2b - this is a great deal right here. Long docus get my attention every time. Now if I can get used to the overly exuberant Brit narration . . . Edit: Oh, it did change. Excellent! I browsed your shop. And I am subbed, many thanks!
Anyone else watching now in 2024? Extra algorithm push! Each episode is very well put together with information. And love them all put together in this longer form back to back. I wish back in my day something like this was available when I was studying at school… who am I kidding TH-cam wasn’t even invented, and running windows 95 on one computer when I was at school 😂😂
Thank you for all who recognize how "normal people" can do, accept and participate in horrifying and inhumane activity when things get desperate. History ahould never be forgotten.
Without Von Braun and the other German scientists, both in America, and those who ended up in Russia. Human achievement in Space probably would have taken decades more to become reality. If there was ever anyone who deserved forgiveness for what they were coerced to do during war time. It would be Von Braun. His contribution to science is near priceless.
I understand your point but I have grave doubts the POWs that were worked to death at Dora would take much solace from the space advancements. Suggest you research “Operation Paperclip”. Take care. 3:31:31
Hitler tolerated Rohm and homosexual relationships. He caved into pressure from the rest of his inner circle. Rohm was the only one who could call him Addy. Hitler always considered his betrayal of Rohm as one of his greatest sacrifices for Germany
The narrator of this documentary has a great voice. That he speaks ”real” English (as opposed to our United States American English), lends to the topic a sense legitimacy, knowledge and gravitas. I’m certain that more than a few US English speakers with take umbrage with my assertion. Still yet, I find that most educated US American English speakers feel as I do. Good work!
Rohn truly wanted what he thought was best for Germany. Jealousy of his friendship with AH and his immense popularity put a huge target on him. Goering was nearly inept and had many issues. Himmler seemed mostly concerned with Himmler.
Taking them all separately, it’s interesting to see what their separate personalities are, rather than just lumped together as nazis. Wonder what they would have become without the nightmare that was to come. War brings out the worst in people but also the best. They all chose the worse path 👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
I feel Göring would've worked in the air industry and bought art or he would've died from his morphine addiction. Speer would've been a moderately successful architect and possibly a teacher. Himmler most likely would've worked in government back then before getting tired of the ineptitude of post WW1 Germany and most likely turning into a drunk.
@@PyrrhusBrinand Goebbels wouldve gone on to work for the government manipulating public opinion the same way Edward Bernays and Walter Lippman did in the US. Over a century ago and still goin
A group of despots and uneducated thugs riled up the people by lying to the workers promising everything. But once they gained power gave them nothing. In fact they starved the people. Then a man with less than an 8th grade education had the leadership murdered, gathered the power and wealth for himself and the rest is history .. there. Bolchivic revolution in a nutshell .
Why was Ernest Röhm collar tabs so different from every one else. Even SS-Reichführer H.Himmler collar tabs were basically the same as other SS Generals
@@MR-lx3nm I know Röhm was SA I mentioned it because SA & SS collar tabs were not that different both had the laces and pips & oak leaves depending on rank.And even Reichsjugendführer ( Reich youth leader ) basically had the exact same shoulder boards & collar tabs as the SS-Reichführer. But Röhms are the only collar tabs & shoulder boards with stars on them in the Third Reich era that I know of. Almost like he designed the Insignia himself
WWII buff, I remember reading somewhere a long time ago that Goering did indeed design his own uniform. As I recall I read this in a book where the author had taken excerpts from a number of private diaries. Also, I seem to recall that the justification for some of Goering's personal privileges had to do with whatever authority he had in Baviara.
@@petervonstamer7859: When Roehm served as a military advisor in Bolivia, he liked the insignia the army used. After Hitler recalled him to Germany and put him in charge of the SA Roehm created his own title of Stabschef der SA and designed his own personal insignia. Until the Night of the Long Knives, all other uniformed party formations were in one way or another subordinated to the SA, including the SS. That's why SS and SA started with parallel rank titles and insignia.
I think he wanted just to build rockets and work he didn’t care who for any thought a lot because he was extremely intelligent and he didn’t care where the Rockets were going because he got to do it.
I understand Hitler used to put Bormann on a leash and take him for walks in the forest to dig out truffles with his snout. Hitler had to muzzle Bormann to stop him from gobbling down the truffles he routed up! 3:25:31
I like these long series I listen to them at work. On the rocket scientist I get why they brought them over. It’s how we got are rocket programs and also are nuclear bombs we used on Japan.
Except we brought them over after the war ended, we dropped the bombs on Japan in august of ‘45 where as the war didn’t officially end until September of that year
I do believe he used the Nazis to further his work. I also believe he would have worked for the Russians if they had got ahold of him for the same reasons. He was dedicated to his dream of space flight, and he did seek out the allies at the end of WWII. For these reasons and the benefits to humanity he contributed, I'd have to give him a pass on his past and shake his hand.
imagine you're listening to this (super nice) documentary, when suddenly you learn that göring was discharged from the air force in your home town. there is always something new to learn (•_•)
Homosexuality and masculine militarism is an ancient combination. Look especially at the Greeks and Roman's. In sparta a man had a wife at home and would look to his fellow citizen soldiers while on campaign. Many speculate on the effects this had in battle. They were not only fighting for themselves and their brothers in arms but their 'partners' as well.. you can go into the weeds on this subject and find yourself learning about relationships dealing with children..mainly young males.. especially in rome.. and to this day they carry on the tradition.
@@Yomi4D yes.. you haven't heard anything about the thousands of cases of child abuse and pedophilia that take place in the Vatican? They think it's okay because they've been doing it for thousands of years.
Although the name appears to have been been chosen arbitrarily, the expression in the German language does refer to an act of vengeance, and in other languages too has other relative meanings such as a hired hand to do some dirty job- a long knife- or an avenging sword that wipes out some vile act such as treason which in this case was Hitler's excuse for carrying out this purge of "traitors" conspiring for some alleged violent power grab.
@@dicktator8802 Okay, that brings me closer to the meaning. Basically, the real reason Hitler went after Roehm is the fact of the S.A. challenging the power of the German Army. The S.A. being a revolutionary-style army, that is. The Wehrmacht was backed by Krupps, I.G, Farben, and other deep-pocketed institutions. The excuse that Roehm was gay was just an excuse at best. I know that Roehm was ramping up the situation with a lot of talk about a power grab, which speaks to what you have mentioned above. Thank you adding to my knowledge of the situation.
On Wikipedia it states “ The phrase "Night of the Long Knives" in the German language predates the killings and refers generally to acts of vengeance.”.
@@PaulWildstar actually that name was given to this event way later. The Nazis called it the ‘Röhm Putsch‘. And as a German native I’ve never seen anybody use “long knifes“ as an expression of vengeance. This is used to discribe multiple historical events when politics lead to radical actions (many of them bloody, some of them not) and there is no connection to vengeance.
I would feel sorrier for Roehm, since he got a really bad deal, but he was such an unpleasant character, and doubtlessly would have turned out as evil as the rest of them.
Just past the 3 hour point in your compendium. So far, I've enjoyed all of the biographies, except for that of Von Braun. After an interesting start (I like the way you weave history into your biographies), his bio degenerates into a boring hagiography. You treat him as if he were "Hermann The Wonderful German", so to speak, without whom America's space programme would never have got off the ground. I don't buy that. In my view, he was responsible for the deaths of possibly tens of thousands of people, I believe that he should have been brought to some accounting for his work in developing the V2. As you state in the video, the slave labourers who built the V2 died in greater numbers than people who were killed by V2s unleashed on London. It's interesting to note that he was marginalized for a time shortly after he was brought to the USA. Perhaps he should have remained so. His attempts to justify what he was doing during the war start sounding, at least to my ears, like "I was only following orders." Yes, at least you do mention the moral ambiguity of accepting his work & help. I'm off to see who's next on your list. Kudos. As a whole, I have a lot of respect for your work.
Yeah Braun was a legit Nazi. He would hang the 5 slowest jews outside his Berlin factory to increase production and frequently never provided the safety equipment needed to produce the weapons he was making, among others. POS through and through.
I have always been nauseated by Von Braun, he got a big time pass for his Nazi activities. We truly made a deal with the Devil in order to get Nazi technology. He deserved to be hung with the rest of his murderous fellows. In that era I would have been a 3 time loser. Trans, Jewish and a Free Mason.
How pissed would you be if you hired a narrator for your 5 hour long documentary video, and then a crazy circus announcer showed up with this? It wasn't all bad though. Good info.
There are things that make me not so sure about reifenstahl. Her propaganda movies for the nazis were done without the input of goebles who she seems to have hated and would do anything to keep him away from her work. Goebles was not stupid and he knew American film well and especially he and reifenstahl would have been aware of how the films would have had an entirely different effect on the minds of Americans and even The English who through our long Anglo Saxon history have both a culture able to absorb outsiders without being changed by them accept in the ways that they contribute positively. Also Anglo Saxon people's are highly focused on individual rights and responsibilities and the duty of the head of state to serve the people in exchange for his power which resides with the people and is merely on loan to the executive. This being especially true in The American Republic. I think riefenstahl knew that it would serve as perfect propaganda for Germans who were knew to unity and Republican style governance and would be deeply moved and filled with delusions of grandeur with films like triumph of the will. I think she also knew that without any editing it would have the absolute opposite effect on American audiences. It would seem insane and ludicrous too us as we are a huge and mighty power with unstoppable industrial strength and the potential to quickly raise an army larger than Germanys by a factor of ten easily. It would seem like madness to us. Goebles would have known this too. Plus she never joined the party. I think she was cynically hegeing her bets and in a tongue in cheek way knew triumph of the will was double propaganda meaning opposite things depending on who watched it. If the Germans won she was a great film maker. If the allies won she was all set to show she was no willing nazi and her propaganda could even be said to show that in a sly way. She was a fence rider...waiting to see which rancher would win before deciding which side of the fence to jump to.
"our long Anglo Saxon history have both a culture able to absorb outsiders without being changed by them accept in the ways that they contribute positively" That is the reassuring American civil mythology, the reality is far more complex.
Leni directed that movie in 1935. Having a female director back then was rather progressive😊. Goebbels allegedly studied Bernays, whom I studied among others. Bernays worked for both government and corporations. Manipulation of public opinion has been going on for over a century
NAZIS AND DAD. Excitedly watching a gleefully smiling, lionized Von Braun on tv in the early 60s, I looked over at my normally animated Dad in frozen faced silence. Dad ! You love this stuff, what ? He looked off quietly saying, he's a goddam Nazi, that's what. Back then, it was like saying Abe Lincoln was, and a pregnant one too. Stopped in my tracks, Dad, please...he then explained Paperclip, Penamunda, the thousands of scientists, some of them he knew here, the rat lines, the priest in Genoa, the Wansee Conference, in the early 60s mind you. Years before that became public, He was a former decorated WW2 fighter pilot and over years, related much more info about other things decades before it came out. I think he did a lot more in the war & after than we'll ever know.
@@Little_Bitz He'd had 2 years of college, enlisted in the Army Air Corps and became a pilot before he was 20. Shot down over the Pacific, he made it to an an atoll and old women and children kept him alive. A Navy destroyer rescued him, he spent a year and a half in the hospital and went right back out and flew !! None of us knew much about this until he received the awards he never got in the haste of war, in a ceremony at the Air Force Academy, where we were flown in as guests !! Self effacing, tall, handsome, an MIT graduate, he was and remained our hero and role model his entire life. Thank you ! Pat
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Really had high expectations for this, but the seriously affected fake accent is like nails on a black board
Waaaaay better than most of other types of the channels these days. Great documentary I must say. Very educational. 5 hours, no problem. You are AWESOME!
I’m definitely a fan of these longer formatted videos, please do keep them coming. Subscribed
So am i :-)
I'll second that. I particularly liked the Kings of England one.
Excellently put together some otherwise little known facts about these historical figures together with some valuable analysis of the outcome of the period. Thank you!.
Part 1, 5 hours. I'll never complain again about documentaries being too short!
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The most frightening thing about many of the Nazi leaders is how "normal" many of them were. Pop-culture has almost completely mythologized them to the point that it's easy to forget how easily something like the holocaust could happen again.
Think Sean Hannity. He'd make a good one.
That's the true horror of the Nazis - the fact that they *weren't* obviously monsters from the outset.
It's a commonly overlooked part of the story, but possibly holds the most important lesson. The reality is that we'll likely not see the next holocaust coming until it's already happening.
@@cyrusdubash3097or even wolf blitzer. Or both. The Nazis were a combination of both left and right wing.
@@cyrusdubash3097him and Gavin Newsome
This was the greatest collection of documentary work I've ever seen on these people and I'm a historian so well done guys
Youve got to research your use of commas, guy!
No, no unnecessary commas!
Well done! The portrait art is striking. I remember von Braun from my grade school reader and from TV. He seemed to adapt well to American celebrity culture. When the image of him and Johnson came up, it made me wonder who talked more during that encounter.
Wernherr von Braun is more a forgotten hero in American culture. He was essential for the rise of the US space program and less important historic figures are more remembered than him today. Probably due to the fact that he was connected to Nazi crimes and yet got away because his engineering knowledge was useful to America.
I wish I had TH-cam when I was in school and learning both ancient and modern history. I was at school in 70's and 80's. I barely remember anything I learned but everything I learn from sites like this fascinates me and I remember for ever. I've learned more from these sites than anything I did from school. Here, I actually WANT to learn! Thank you!!
I was in school the same time period. I'm a life long DC resident and we were taught a wide range of history. I know understand why American history wasn't covered much, it was and still is whitewashed and inaccurate. We learned black history that included MLK, Harriet Tubman, Dr. Charles Drew, Dr. George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, Ralph Bunche, Adam Clayton Powell, Gen Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., Gen Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Sojourner Truth, and countless others. I was learned further black history when my parents bought me books and when I went to the library. My late maternal grandmother is from the Cherokee Nation and needless to say I knew the Anglo version of Native history was b.s. I knew of the Holocaust when I was a child but I couldn't comprehend what was being taught. I visited The National Holocaust Museum here in DC on it's grand opening in 1995. I was so grieved and depressed afterward, I have never gone back to that museum and don't plan too in the future. The only bright part was the young woman in the card I was given survived the Holocaust. It wasn't until last summer that I started searching on TH-cam everything I could find relating to the Holocaust a.k.a. The Final Solution To The Jewish Question. The atrocities we're so evil that my mind can't comprehend what I know is truth, what my eyes have seen in Holocaust documentaries and yet I'm still finding new information that I didn't know until this year. I am in no way a historian of the Holocaust but I am grateful that I didn't let the minute lessons that were barely taught in my schools didn't cause me to be disinterested in what was the root cause, individuals participating in, the victims, and the outcome of that genocide that I am reminded to
"Never Forget". I can't forget nor would I want to.
@@AirForceFalcons_9922 oh my goodness!! We could get together and have really long conversations. Im not from the U.S, but from Australia. The past few months I have been educating myself in history. I have learned about the true history of the United States, yes, not the white-washed white supremacy version of the "hard working pilgrims", but of the genocide of the native indians, the economic expansion of capitalism through the slavery of African people, and the theft of land and resources of the native indians of the Mexico region. Also, since Russia invaded Ukraine I have been studying World War 2 and the Holocaust. I have watched lots of videos of interviews of concentration camp survivors, and of the camps themselves, watched documentaries of how the war played out and listened to historians give a biography of the key players of the war (from all sides) like Hitler, Dr Mengele, Goering, Goeth, President Roosevelt, Reinhardt Heydrich and Stalin. I will NEVER forget what I learned from the Holocaust. I even researched what the signs are to look out for to know if another Nazi like party is potentially moving into power. I am concerned with what is happening now in the US with the trans gender identity ideology and the recent Roe vs Wade decision. I think these judges are going to be turning towards removing same-sex marriage, contraception, black rights next. I think they are just the beginning. The worl is a very dangerous place right now. We dont even know if a nuclear war is coming.
Me too. I missed out on allot of history back in the day. I'm immersed in it now. 😊
@ViewGlueTube the irony is not lost in Palestine.
This guy could read me a cookbook and I'd still be hanging on every word. Lol. Love his voice! Edit: I'm referring to the first narrator. I hadn't yet known there were multiple episodes as opposed to one really long episode. 😁
I hate the first narrator.
@@sinbadsailor1963same here, his voice sounds like an out of work over actor , whereas the second narrator has a very relaxing perfectly English clear voice.
Then don't listen to any former videos on this page
Thank you for this! I’m visiting my dad soon and now we’ll have five HOURS of WWII to watch.
Since then, there have been 2 more, 5-hour long segments made. Part 2 and Part 3.
@@deanstrand1664 thank you!
@@cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338 You're welcome! I hope you and your dad both enjoy them. 😀😀
Thank you very much for the video, it was well put together, keep up the good work.
Holy shit snacks! I need to clear a whole day/night to watch all of this!!!
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All they did was fight, and war, kill people, and be miserable. And they are still killing , and ruining this 🌎world. 😈Evil never stops!
Well said Pam Poovey
The people that call everyone a Nazi these days seriously need to brush up on their history
That's something a nazi would say
“Seriously need to” that makes you a nazi smh lol
the GOP is getting really god damn close to fascism though
I can see it being very relevant if certain people are elected, the Nazi ideas will certainly be here again. People never learn from history. Mob hysteria, mob rule, mob thought processes. Can you see it? I hope so.
@@pikachuichooseyou4273 a lot of neonazis in ukrain.
2:09 Ernst Rohm
8:52 Kurt Eisner
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This must have taken a very long time, to put together and it is done so Professionally. Moments had me spell bound & the rest was just Fantastic ! 2nd to none. Really looking forward to the second part. Thank You and appreciate your hard work. ✌️🏴
Holy love this. Thank you for putting this together.
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Part One... 5 hours long. I love it.
Watch "Europa the last battle" for the truth about WWII
GREAT STUFF MATE , LUV THE LONG DOCOS
this is amazing 5hours of just amazing documentary work
Someone who met more than a few nazis back during hitlers time, including some ss, noted what is really scary is how normal some of them are... how people who are otherwise relatively unassuming and normal can be persuaded to become monsters and murderers, that is what the person found to be the real scary part
An example, not as a extreme, are the people that were demonizing the unvacced and being ok with them losing their jobs. Some people are herd animals and will take part in any government atrocity
Yup. It's amazing what people will do if you appeal to a need, or offer them power.
5 hours, and only part one? This'll be a great documentary. I appreciate this.
This video is amazing and extraordinary. This video make my day thank you for amazing video and stunning video but brother when will the video on Skanderbeg come?
Too many videos
Great documentary - very well written and narrated.
Watch "Europa the last battle" for the truth about WWII
Me, German, having seen years worth of WWII and Nazi-Party stuff: Sees "Leaders of Nazi Germany Part One", 5 hours. All right, son of a b1tch I'm in......
How did you find it?
She was sickened by war. It made her so sick that she decided to make more propaganda until her safety was affected and then went on a date with Hitler before getting her background actors from a concentration camp. Never have I seen a woman more appalled by the horror of wars.
The only 5hr documentary I'd happily watch twice.
Rohm wasn't built in a day.
But he sure was taken out in a day
Three five-hour documentaries got lined up in my playlist so fast, three b2b - this is a great deal right here. Long docus get my attention every time. Now if I can get used to the overly exuberant Brit narration . . .
Edit: Oh, it did change. Excellent! I browsed your shop. And I am subbed, many thanks!
Absolutely brilliant👍👍
Anyone else watching now in 2024? Extra algorithm push! Each episode is very well put together with information. And love them all put together in this longer form back to back. I wish back in my day something like this was available when I was studying at school… who am I kidding TH-cam wasn’t even invented, and running windows 95 on one computer when I was at school 😂😂
Hermann Goering was a morphine addict since he was young it's amazing how these people made it to the positions they did
Thank you for all who recognize how "normal people" can do, accept and participate in horrifying and inhumane activity when things get desperate. History ahould never be forgotten.
Without Von Braun and the other German scientists, both in America, and those who ended up in Russia. Human achievement in Space probably would have taken decades more to become reality. If there was ever anyone who deserved forgiveness for what they were coerced to do during war time. It would be Von Braun. His contribution to science is near priceless.
Unsure if sending rockets into space whilst our planet dies was worth the millions of lives brutally lost. Just me though.
So I’m going to assume you’re okay if the next great genius sacrifices those near and dear to you as long as their contribution to science is great.
I understand your point but I have grave doubts the POWs that were worked to death at Dora would take much solace from the space advancements. Suggest you research “Operation Paperclip”. Take care. 3:31:31
Great history lesson… Thanks 👍
Watch "Europa the last battle" for the truth about WWII
Excellent documentary. Head and shoulders above some tv ones I've seen on the same topic.
Brilliantly done bud!
When is part 2 coming? Love the content
Timestamps for each person plz!!! Great work
People just don’t know when to stop…selfishness and greed will always be the downfall of those that doesn’t know when to stop…😡😡
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Hitler tolerated Rohm and homosexual relationships. He caved into pressure from the rest of his inner circle. Rohm was the only one who could call him Addy. Hitler always considered his betrayal of Rohm as one of his greatest sacrifices for Germany
Excellent content as always Great
The narrator of this documentary has a great voice. That he speaks ”real” English (as opposed to our United States American English), lends to the topic a sense legitimacy, knowledge and gravitas.
I’m certain that more than a few US English speakers with take umbrage with my assertion. Still yet, I find that most educated US American English speakers feel as I do. Good work!
Rohn truly wanted what he thought was best for Germany. Jealousy of his friendship with AH and his immense popularity put a huge target on him. Goering was nearly inept and had many issues. Himmler seemed mostly concerned with Himmler.
Rohn? Do you mean Roehm?
Rohm was a monster, just like the others the man's primary concern was himself and power.
Ernst Rohm is like: who tf are they staring at?? 😅
Let’s see…Bannon!
I'm loving the heavily detailed historical content presented.
Taking them all separately, it’s interesting to see what their separate personalities are, rather than just lumped together as nazis. Wonder what they would have become without the nightmare that was to come. War brings out the worst in people but also the best. They all chose the worse path 👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
I feel Göring would've worked in the air industry and bought art or he would've died from his morphine addiction. Speer would've been a moderately successful architect and possibly a teacher. Himmler most likely would've worked in government back then before getting tired of the ineptitude of post WW1 Germany and most likely turning into a drunk.
@@PyrrhusBrinand Goebbels wouldve gone on to work for the government manipulating public opinion the same way Edward Bernays and Walter Lippman did in the US. Over a century ago and still goin
Imagine the 🌟 stars coinciding to bring these *characters* together at the same time. My mouth tastes like ashes🤯
Why do you work in a crematorium 😂
Watch "Europa the last battle" for the truth about WWII
Its a megadeth song. ashes in your mouth.
Thank you for this documentary. I was born in 1950 after the war but have always been interested in history and what happened during that time.
This was enjoyable. Where's Pt 2?
How about doing a documentary on Bolshevik revolution.
It'll be butchered. They always are.
Absolutely agree!
@@purplesnails22 sure dude
@@purplesnails22 they do have them but always leave out ye old perpetrator so too speak even denying it for them
A group of despots and uneducated thugs riled up the people by lying to the workers promising everything.
But once they gained power gave them nothing. In fact they starved the people. Then a man with less than an 8th grade education had the leadership murdered, gathered the power and wealth for himself and the rest is history .. there. Bolchivic revolution in a nutshell .
5 hours?!?!?!? Awesome!
Why was Ernest Röhm collar tabs so different from every one else. Even SS-Reichführer H.Himmler collar tabs were basically the same as other SS Generals
Because he was SA and not SS
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I know Röhm was SA I mentioned it because SA & SS collar tabs were not that different both had the laces and pips & oak leaves depending on rank.And even Reichsjugendführer
( Reich youth leader ) basically had the exact same shoulder boards & collar tabs as the SS-Reichführer. But Röhms are the only collar tabs & shoulder boards with stars on them in the Third Reich era that I know of. Almost like he designed the Insignia himself
WWII buff, I remember reading somewhere a long time ago that Goering did indeed design his own uniform. As I recall I read this in a book where the author had taken excerpts from a number of private diaries. Also, I seem to recall that the justification for some of Goering's personal privileges had to do with whatever authority he had in Baviara.
@@petervonstamer7859: When Roehm served as a military advisor in Bolivia, he liked the insignia the army used. After Hitler recalled him to Germany and put him in charge of the SA Roehm created his own title of Stabschef der SA and designed his own personal insignia. Until the Night of the Long Knives, all other uniformed party formations were in one way or another subordinated to the SA, including the SS. That's why SS and SA started with parallel rank titles and insignia.
Basically bolivian general´s collartabs
Top of the line documentaries
Very educational , nice documentary well done .
Do you have another channel with similar documentaries ?
Fantastic video👍🌅🇸🇪💪
absolutely brilliant - fascinating viewing - thankyou for posting.
Rohm defo Benny Hills doppelganger on 1 of the pictures.
I think Goring should be featured as a mad lad on Count Dankula's Mad Lads series.
I think he wanted just to build rockets and work he didn’t care who for any thought a lot because he was extremely intelligent and he didn’t care where the Rockets were going because he got to do it.
This was Hitler's first major act of disloyalty.
good documentaries combine gavel to gavel in depth analysis with the flesh & bone essence of historical perspective.
Very Good !
I understand Hitler used to put Bormann on a leash and take him for walks in the forest to dig out truffles with his snout. Hitler had to muzzle Bormann to stop him from gobbling down the truffles he routed up! 3:25:31
I like these long series I listen to them at work. On the rocket scientist I get why they brought them over. It’s how we got are rocket programs and also are nuclear bombs we used on Japan.
He helped none in the Manhattan Project as at the time he was still A NAZI lol
Except we brought them over after the war ended, we dropped the bombs on Japan in august of ‘45 where as the war didn’t officially end until September of that year
5 hours plus, and it´s only part one, reminds me of MauLer! :)
Great documentary
I find it remarkable that she lived until the 2000's
*How did all these guys fund themselves on the way to become bigtime politicians?*
wow. I was stationed in Ft Bliss but had no idea he was imprisoned there. No wonder why there is a Von Braun building that was named after him.
Its 0155 on 10-28-2021.....I wont have enough time watching this. I love it lol
Hitler was not shot in the attempt putsch of 23
I do believe he used the Nazis to further his work. I also believe he would have worked for the Russians if they had got ahold of him for the same reasons. He was dedicated to his dream of space flight, and he did seek out the allies at the end of WWII. For these reasons and the benefits to humanity he contributed, I'd have to give him a pass on his past and shake his hand.
One of those documentaries where you fall a sleep or wake up too.
I'll do my best tho 😌
This 1 nd 2 others is mine go to
18 hours background noise
Handy (even when I am away)
imagine you're listening to this (super nice) documentary, when suddenly you learn that göring was discharged from the air force in your home town. there is always something new to learn (•_•)
Homosexuality and masculine militarism is an ancient combination. Look especially at the Greeks and Roman's. In sparta a man had a wife at home and would look to his fellow citizen soldiers while on campaign. Many speculate on the effects this had in battle. They were not only fighting for themselves and their brothers in arms but their 'partners' as well.. you can go into the weeds on this subject and find yourself learning about relationships dealing with children..mainly young males.. especially in rome.. and to this day they carry on the tradition.
To this day???
The scared band of Thebes were 150 gay couples and what you said is right on.
@@Yomi4D yes.. you haven't heard anything about the thousands of cases of child abuse and pedophilia that take place in the Vatican? They think it's okay because they've been doing it for thousands of years.
@@FINNIUSORION The Vatican isn't exactly the Italian Army or is it?
Dont forget to use the toilet. Helps the voice to relax.
Why do they called it "The Night of the Long Knives"?
Although the name appears to have been been chosen arbitrarily, the expression in the German language does refer to an act of vengeance, and in other languages too has other relative meanings such as a hired hand to do some dirty job- a long knife- or an avenging sword that wipes out some vile act such as treason which in this case was Hitler's excuse for carrying out this purge of "traitors" conspiring for some alleged violent power grab.
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Okay, that brings me closer to the meaning. Basically, the real reason Hitler went after Roehm is the fact of the S.A. challenging the power of the German Army. The S.A. being a revolutionary-style army, that is. The Wehrmacht was backed by Krupps, I.G, Farben, and other deep-pocketed institutions. The excuse that Roehm was gay was just an excuse at best. I know that Roehm was ramping up the situation with a lot of talk about a power grab, which speaks to what you have mentioned above. Thank you adding to my knowledge of the situation.
Long knives means death reaches anyone, anywhere.
On Wikipedia it states “ The phrase "Night of the Long Knives" in the German language predates the killings and refers generally to acts of vengeance.”.
@@PaulWildstar actually that name was given to this event way later. The Nazis called it the ‘Röhm Putsch‘.
And as a German native I’ve never seen anybody use “long knifes“ as an expression of vengeance.
This is used to discribe multiple historical events when politics lead to radical actions (many of them bloody, some of them not) and there is no connection to vengeance.
Martin Boorman, if he could be given a D&D Alignment, would be called Neutral Evil.
I would feel sorrier for Roehm, since he got a really bad deal, but he was such an unpleasant character, and doubtlessly would have turned out as evil as the rest of them.
Here it spelt ROHM.
As in Ernst ROHM that's how you spell his name, yeah.
@@corkystephan5073 Röhm, when lacking an ö, oe is used instead...
Imagine Batman and Spiderman in that universe... what a show.
... and then there was Rudolf, the Wizard....
And only part one!!! Woohoo!
Just past the 3 hour point in your compendium. So far, I've enjoyed all of the biographies, except for that of Von Braun. After an interesting start (I like the way you weave history into your biographies), his bio degenerates into a boring hagiography. You treat him as if he were "Hermann The Wonderful German", so to speak, without whom America's space programme would never have got off the ground. I don't buy that.
In my view, he was responsible for the deaths of possibly tens of thousands of people, I believe that he should have been brought to some accounting for his work in developing the V2. As you state in the video, the slave labourers who built the V2 died in greater numbers than people who were killed by V2s unleashed on London. It's interesting to note that he was marginalized for a time shortly after he was brought to the USA. Perhaps he should have remained so. His attempts to justify what he was doing during the war start sounding, at least to my ears, like "I was only following orders."
Yes, at least you do mention the moral ambiguity of accepting his work & help.
I'm off to see who's next on your list. Kudos. As a whole, I have a lot of respect for your work.
Yeah Braun was a legit Nazi. He would hang the 5 slowest jews outside his Berlin factory to increase production and frequently never provided the safety equipment needed to produce the weapons he was making, among others. POS through and through.
can this man talk normal?
Is this the review section of IMDB? Rotten Tomatoes?
I have always been nauseated by Von Braun, he got a big time pass for his Nazi activities. We truly made a deal with the Devil in order to get Nazi technology. He deserved to be hung with the rest of his murderous fellows. In that era I would have been a 3 time loser. Trans, Jewish and a Free Mason.
@@kaptainkaos1202 color me shocked
How pissed would you be if you hired a narrator for your 5 hour long documentary video, and then a crazy circus announcer showed up with this? It wasn't all bad though. Good info.
Which 3 are these? I don't see any description. From the artwork I recognize 2 😊✌🏼
Two minutes in is where the narrator starts absolutely butchering the spelling of "Röhm". The german Ö is not an O.
Speaker keeps using "new innovations" ... LOL
Excellent
It is Leni Riefenstahl not Lenny. 😊
Timestamps are not optional on 5 hour videos...
I enjoy these Documentaries but the Narrators voice is irritating
fock has got to be the greatest last name ever
No hate but that first narrator has a voice that’s impossible to fall asleep to
There are things that make me not so sure about reifenstahl. Her propaganda movies for the nazis were done without the input of goebles who she seems to have hated and would do anything to keep him away from her work. Goebles was not stupid and he knew American film well and especially he and reifenstahl would have been aware of how the films would have had an entirely different effect on the minds of Americans and even The English who through our long Anglo Saxon history have both a culture able to absorb outsiders without being changed by them accept in the ways that they contribute positively. Also Anglo Saxon people's are highly focused on individual rights and responsibilities and the duty of the head of state to serve the people in exchange for his power which resides with the people and is merely on loan to the executive. This being especially true in The American Republic. I think riefenstahl knew that it would serve as perfect propaganda for Germans who were knew to unity and Republican style governance and would be deeply moved and filled with delusions of grandeur with films like triumph of the will. I think she also knew that without any editing it would have the absolute opposite effect on American audiences. It would seem insane and ludicrous too us as we are a huge and mighty power with unstoppable industrial strength and the potential to quickly raise an army larger than Germanys by a factor of ten easily. It would seem like madness to us. Goebles would have known this too. Plus she never joined the party. I think she was cynically hegeing her bets and in a tongue in cheek way knew triumph of the will was double propaganda meaning opposite things depending on who watched it. If the Germans won she was a great film maker. If the allies won she was all set to show she was no willing nazi and her propaganda could even be said to show that in a sly way. She was a fence rider...waiting to see which rancher would win before deciding which side of the fence to jump to.
"our long Anglo Saxon history have both a culture able to absorb outsiders without being changed by them accept in the ways that they contribute positively"
That is the reassuring American civil mythology, the reality is far more complex.
@@michaels4255 Nothing is ever as complex as we'd prefer.
Watch "Europa the last battle" for the truth about WWII
Leni directed that movie in 1935. Having a female director back then was rather progressive😊. Goebbels allegedly studied Bernays, whom I studied among others. Bernays worked for both government and corporations. Manipulation of public opinion has been going on for over a century
NAZIS AND DAD. Excitedly watching a gleefully smiling, lionized Von Braun on tv in the early 60s, I looked over at my normally animated Dad in frozen faced silence. Dad ! You love this stuff, what ? He looked off quietly saying, he's a goddam Nazi, that's what. Back then, it was like saying Abe Lincoln was, and a pregnant one too. Stopped in my tracks, Dad, please...he then explained Paperclip, Penamunda, the thousands of scientists, some of them he knew here, the rat lines, the priest in Genoa, the Wansee Conference, in the early 60s mind you. Years before that became public, He was a former decorated WW2 fighter pilot and over years, related much more info about other things decades before it came out. I think he did a lot more in the war & after than we'll ever know.
@@Little_Bitz He'd had 2 years of college, enlisted in the Army Air Corps and became a pilot before he was 20. Shot down over the Pacific, he made it to an an atoll and old women and children kept him alive. A Navy destroyer rescued him, he spent a year and a half in the hospital and went right back out and flew !! None of us knew much about this until he received the awards he never got in the haste of war, in a ceremony at the Air Force Academy, where we were flown in as guests !! Self effacing, tall, handsome, an MIT graduate, he was and remained our hero and role model his entire life. Thank you ! Pat
Ok boomer. Thanks for wrecking my country
38:00 "Addi?" A.H. let him call him Addi? Lol
Love these documentaries. I didn’t think I could be prouder to be American more than I am.
@L M Remember, not all Americans are the same.
bahaha you funny.
@@christiandemarco4699what nation would be comprised of people who are all the same? Weird