I'm Italian, about 10 years ago i was in the erasmus student program in a belgian university. During a class we had to form teams and i ended with a german and a japanese exchange student. So i said that WE HAD to call ourselfs the Axis team, the japanese student thought that it was hilarious and agreed, while the german was horrified and was awkward all the time and stopped talking to us after that class. I still find it funny after so many years. 😅
Jo Jo Rabbit was on TV recently. It came out four years ago but made with mostly British actors & actors from other English speaking countries. The mother in that was secretly against the Nazis as she hid a Jewish girl in her attic & passed her off as her dead daughter. She was pleased that Italy had joined the side of the allies. The main character was ten years old & joined the Jungvolk which was the junior version of Hitler Youth. Boys as young as ten were fighting on the streets of Berlin by the time the allies & the Russians had invaded.
Most Germans I know would sooner complain about how poor the subtitle translation was than concern themselves with the storyline... Agreed. Strange people at times.
@@GratDuForloradeArgumentet I‘m german and it‘s really hard for me to understand his speeches. It was a different kind of german and definitely completely different in the speeches too. So rather just read translations of them ^^
As I read your comment: "Damn I can tell I'm getting r/whooshed..." Then my eyes wandered over to the recommended vids column and directly next to your comment was a vid with THAT logo in the graphic. Like, how did the YT algorithm know I wouldn't get the joke??!!😯😯
My grandfather fought in the war, Spitfire pilot (British RAF). He didn't speak much about it but what he did say was harrowing. He never resented the Germans and viewed them as being similar to the British, he had a great respect for them. After the war he met veterans from both Germany and Italy in later life, they shared drinks together and enjoyed sharing stories.
Adolf Galland took his friend and former RAF ace Douglas Bader to a reunion of Luftwaffe officers. Upon entering the room, Bader said "I didn't realize that we left so many of you bastards alive." :-)
It's not the first time I hear such stories. In Argentina former Malvina's war soldiers gathered together with british in peace and have drinks and talks like folks. I think only a soldier ay war can understand and feel what an enemy camarade is going through.
@@lucianamazza9196 The ones who complain the most are the ones who have never seen a day of battle or it's horrors; yet, they are the loudest about who should be shamed.
Meanwhile the same scenario in soviet Russia, British empire, U.S.A: War crimes? What war crimes? Not to mention these country's regimes numerous genocides in peace times. Manicheism keeps judging only others but never looks at itself.
Im sure like 3/4 of the audience thought the same including me haha , I guess that would have been very predictable and that's why maybe this dude went for other ending
We are not responsible for what our ancestors did, and we should not feel guilty. We are responsible only for ourselves. But, it's worth remembering the history in order not to make the same mistakes. Because everything repeats itself, like a spiral. And people repeat and repeat their mistakes
u are only not respoonsible for us ancestors actions once u have accepted them, then u are free, but if u refuse to accept anything they did was bad, then we have situation (japan, turkey)
@@stormstriker2000 Why should we accept and approve of what our ancestors did? They are responsible for themselves, and I am personally responsible for myself and for my actions. We are not responsible for what our ancestors did. But that doesn't mean we approve of everything they did. The most important thing is not to do yourself what goes against your conscience, listen to that quiet voice inside yourself. Because we always feel what goes against our conscience, what is bad, what we should not do... But people often prefer to be obedient and do the terrible things that your superiors order you to do.
@@ЗонаНагваля Because what your ancestors did is like a heritage passed through the generations and is part of what forge your history We should give the Germans credit for acknowledging that and should do the same, especially their former allies during WW2, instead of harassing them with their Nazi past
@@goldflo91 ahah..you didn't understand what I was writing about..but nothing really matters..morality, decency, honesty, responsibility, good/bad - all these are tools in the hands of smart manipulators
@@yellowwbunnyAfter the liberation of the Jews, and the fall of the Nazi regime, many of the German soldiers eluded capture and exiled to other countries such as Brazil & Argentina, therefore avoided being tried and hanged for war crimes.
@@yellowwbunny (“opa” means grandfather or smt like that) there’s this theory that Hitler didn’t commit suicide and instead escaped from Germany to a small populated area in Argentina. He also changed his name. But no one knows.
@@yellowwbunny several Nazi members and war criminal managed to escape and fled to Argentina where several persons with links to the Nazi party NSDAP had established organisations and circles of like-minded people. The most prominent refugee of that kind in Argentinia was probably Adolf Eichmann who was discovered and abducted by Israeli agents. However, Argentinia wasn't the only country known as a refuge for inculpated Nazi criminals. For example Klaus Barbie was living in Bolivia - he even lived for some time in the USA.
I am Danish and my father was a communist fighting in the Danish resistance movement against the German occupation forces during WWII. He absolutely HATED everything German right after the war. However, over the years he grew up (!), learned the German language and ended up with German friends and always found a reason to go visit ……. Germany 😊 No more war, but peace 🇩🇰❤️🇩🇪
Thanks for posting this. Great to hear, especially for me as a German absolutely loving the Scandinavian states. Have a wonderful Christmas and best wishes for 2025 🫶🇩🇰🇩🇪
@@michael2704My great-grandfather fought the austrians=preussians in 1864, and was wounded at Dybbøl. I have been on four international missions where I have worked with German colleagues…absolutely fantastic and very professional guys, who I always could rely and depend upon. Watch your six and take good care of yourself and your loved ones. Merry Christmas and a happy and safe 2025 from 🇩🇰 🎗️ 🇩🇪
Yes it's good that they can laugh about it a little now. But let's look at some things. It is true that there were wars in other places, but still we know that the Holocaust was unique, other wars were nothing like what happened in Germany. It was like the devil looked up at the German people and said these are my guys, Unfortunately even Germans now seem cold to those innocent people dying, and most likely if they were there, would have supported Hitler and his thugs. Not being unkind, just sees factual, this is one reason why the Holocaust is so unique. However, the good thing is, yes, never again. It would be suicide and the total wiping of a nation from the face of the Earth if the Germans attempted this again against the Jews, because they would lose terribly to Israel and other nations who still remember what happened, all coming together. Were it not for someone like Schindler, too extremely rare, Germany could be considered a place with a people of complete unhumanity, but hopefully the youths will simply try to be better people than their nation's past, in their hearts.
I can't stop laughing. I watch you all the time but never comment. You're making it hard for me to resist Germany. If I end up there someday, it's because of you. 🤣
@@RadicalLiving I watched that video, too. Laughed at how you used bread to hammer a nail to a wall. Can you just make a movie already ala Monty Python. Oops, hope I didn't trigger you there. 😃
@@aniketmane6232by that logic, then you should also not be PROUD of your nation's accomplishments. The way most modern germans under sixty years old, see it is you have to be ashamed of the nazi area, but can still be proud of positive adpects of your history, but you MUST look very introspectivly at both goOd AND BAD!! that introspective duality is part of german national identity, something I think americans, English, French Spanish, japanese, russians etc should also adopt
@@friedrichmatthies6065 if you HAVE to be ashamed of something YOU didn't do, then you're not living in a free society brother😊. And yes the Japanese, Russians and Americans are proud of their history. Even the Japanese who committed so many war crimes during WW2, they don't regret or feel ashamed of it.
As a Polish person I find this pretty accurate. During my Erasmus exchange that was their usual reaction when it came down to this conversation. Except for parties, a little bit of alcohol can work miracles no matter the topic 😅 But yeah, I miss my German friends, we had some great time together.
i olso can confirm as a romanian afther the germans guys had some alchool they started to describe how back then "we will had kill you all.....because you are slavs". They trigered me and start to explain how Romania is Latin nation
When you ask a Germany about World War 2 there are three types of Reaktions 1. Oh i forgoht to buy the beer i will be right back 2. Yea IT was teriblie and we did horrible stuff 3. Ahh yes the good old Times i really miss them...
@@mbl1154 nah the worst one is the guy asking the question, what kind of lunatic would you go to random people to speak about genocides ? Imagine going to an American to ask him about how horrible is his country to have wiped out so many natives with no context whatsoever Only lunatics would do that
@@KaotikBOOO man, but there are a lot doing it. Trust me, have german friends. Tbh I did too, but it‘s a special reason. I knew him since very long time, and he often talked about his grandpa.
3rd scenario is the least likely because you could go to prison for saying that in most of Europe. I believe the only places in Europe that can say that are Spain, Finland, and Ukraine.
@Useryoal In a war there is no winner. It´s no game of soccer. Everybody is a looser in a war. They all loose lifes. Sometimes of valuable people and somestimes of people who do nothing but warmongering and evil things.
@@JAKEAVALON-rg8xm A border town that used to be part of Bavaria. A 200m wide river does not define nationality despite what some nationalists may think.
American : "did you ever talk to your grandfather about how it was to be on the evil side in ww2" ? German : "I don't know, did you ever talk to yours about the villages burned in Vietnam" ?
Did you ever talk about (or even bother to educate yourself about) the Hue Massacre, during the Tet Offensive, when the Viet Cong deliberately executed between 3,000 and 6,000 civilians and prisoners of war before retreating? EVERY war will have crimes committed by individuals soldiers or individual small units. That is different than having massacres ordered by the highest levels of command.
@@riveraharper8166 Or the Gulag Archipelago in Russia? Or all of Mao’s famine victims in China? Or the killing fields of Cambodia? Or the hundreds of thousands murdered by the NVA after the fall of Saigon? Or the Kim family’s death camps in North Korea?
I'm Austrian and noone I know would run away from a convo like this. We very much are aware of what has happened, we covered it in schoo for several years and we know and all feel how horrible and gruesome it was and I'm lacking the words tbh to describe how bad we all feel about it. There are still many memoriams and events and movies (f ex "Das weiße Band" is famous) and museums dealing not only with it but reminding us everyday: *"never frogive, never forget"* We don't, however, feel guilty, though, as we didn't fight in the war, but it is out duty that things like that will never happen again. kind regards from Austria!
On behalf of the global community, I implore you Austrians, please do not hurt delicate feelings of the people of art. I also suggest to keep passing grades low, especially in schools of art, just for extra safety.
you are austrian and you are still evil. whole Europe knows that Austria was and still is friendly to russia. you havent changed, still you are not able to choose good side of the history, still you choose evil. Europe will remember the second world war and how austria was acting when russians invaded ukrainians. do austrian children know how many ukrainian childen were raped by russian soldiers ??
@@hurtigheinz3790 as I said, that's how we learn it in school already ;) we are very much aware and the older theory abt the anschlss that was supposedly forced upon us-we know that's bs
I was stationed in northern Germany 1985, to 1987, German tv would occasionally have a WWII documentary on. But mostly for younger Germans at the time they would rather forget that it ever happened. I would spend most my free time with Germans because I as trying to learn the language and they are really nice people. I did have a few good conversations with older WWII generation Germans who a fought on the eastern front they were not shy about talking about fighting the Russians one old guy even showed me pictures he had taken in Russia.
Мой дедушка защищал свою страну. Два его старших брата погибли. Он дошёл до Берлина и вернулся домой только в 1947г. Нам с братом он никогда не рассказывал о войне, ненавидел немецкую речь. У него 3 медали "За отвагу" и осколок около сердца, который беспокоил его всю жизнь. Я очень любила своего дедушку. Мы в России бережом память о погибших в этой войне и с большим уважением вспоминаем тех, кто воевал, выжил, а потом построил огромную сильную страну.
Occasional WWII documentaries? Switch through 100 channels there will always be 2-3 channels no matter what time of the day which show ww2 related stuff.
"Hans"... As a German, I feel a little offended, not all of us got the name Hans. Some of us are named Fritz. Just kidding, I'm not offended, Germans don't have feelings. Außer den Wunsch, Weißbier zu trinken, of course.
@@thesmithersy well, I'm a Russian and let me count my Red Army relatives. 3 Great-Grandfathers fighting (tanker, artilleryman, railroad fighter - they had armoured trains). 1 GGF military surgeon and my GGM as his assistant. Two of her brothers fighting in the army and killed. The artillerist's brother served and also died in the war, and his wife's brother also served died in the war, so I do have nine in that war. Maybe even more, because my grandmother has a lot of relatives. And you? For the next generation of Russians it could easily be 8 soldiers plus a female nurse/doctor/sniper/pilot/battlefield paramedic (sanitary instructor their official name is)/intelligence agent/ whatever as straight ancestors. I
@@annasolovyeva1013 Westeners haven't heard of the Immortal regiment and how great is Victory day!! Everyone owes to Russia and the rest former Soviet Countries
It is happening as we speak actually. Just 2,000 km further East....a land whose economy is supported and weapons supplied by an even greater Mordor-like land of 1.5 billions brainwashed nationalistic race supremacist thugs.
@rawdata7569 The world has seen plenty of genocides before and after 1933-45 with similar scope. Probably starting with the unrest during bronze age in the eastern Mediterranean, annihilation of Carthage by the Romans, the conquest of the Americas up to Atrocities of the Khmer Rouge or the Rwanda genocide. Numbers of direct and indirect victims of stalinism and maoism are also impressive. So of course, while everyone of these (and numerous other) events does have special and unique aspects, they all show that groups of humans are always capable of organising the killing of a large part of members of other groups of humans. And this is definitely not meant to be an excuse for the atrocious holocaust. It's just that apparently genocide can happen everywhere....
I think the events of 2020-2022 proved you completely wrong on that. It was very clear no one in Germany could ever be convinced to hate a sub-group of the population and blame all of their problems on them ever again.
The humor brings truthful simplicity and I like it. Germans do talk about WW2 stuff every now and then, but they 'kindly' unwelcome it when coming from strangers. As of Erika, it was also featured in Schindler's List, I think that makes it additionally strong of a reference. Kudos!
They should not be "unwelcome" of someone pointing out the past ... its not like they are saying "they are still the same" and nobody born today is responsible for it .. are they
@@IainMcGirr well some people apparently still think Germans are guilty and blame them when most around today haven't done anything I've heard this ober the years
There's an obsession with it in the UK at the moment as the last veteran soldiers & Holocaust survivors are dying off so it's endless films about it being repeated such as Odette, Land Girls, Schlinder's List & Dad's Army & documentary series. To keep it fresh in the minds of the next generation. But it was the English who invented the concentration camp & eugenics in the first place. Holocaust Day is marked each year when it should be Holocausts Day as there was more than one in history such as the one under the Pol Pot regime. We can't be dining out on winning both world wars forever. We need to improve the economy as well & life in the UK.
@@yulee3266 Yeah I include my British English Cousins with that unfortunately whilst not understanding their own imperial past and the crimes . You dont get an Empire by being nice. I have found and if you think about it those whom go ON about Germans being bad for WW2 even today tend to come from former imperial power countries or have a shady past themselves ..ponder on that so their history circulum reflects that. I dont know one Person on mainland UK whom knew that in their own country Northern Ireland foreigners Irish Nationals NEVER got a vote until 1970s and it was a Apartheid state run in good old UK ... even if born there etc. you had no rights unless of a certain group of people FACT .. . nor do you cover the famine in Ireland or elsewhere . Nor do they learn anything negative which Churchill did.. Nor do they cover Stalin much post the war and killing over 20 million ... Nor do they cover what was done in Indian . nor what was carried out in Africa. .I could go on but it proves my point. Said people for former imperial places just LOVE to bash Germans TODAY for WW2...
I think you should make a video on how to make foreigners uncomfortable on WWII. I remember walking around Berlin with a friend, not talking about anything to do with WWII, we just happened to be walking through all of the memorials... He then just announced "we do too much to remember all of this, it takes so much support from taxes, we have felt guilty long enough." 😶
The memorials are not there for us feeling guilty. They are supposed to remind us of what might happen, when we neglect history. The rise of the neo-nazis really scares me. 🍒
@@ladynori What rise of communism? The world is ruled by companies and capitalists like it has been in the last couple of centuries. Nothing has changed. All the things right wingers cry about (i. e. the so called "woke" movement) don't put the capitalism in danger, on the contrary, they are used by companies to get more benefits.
Germans shouldn't feel guilty about this, after all many were born decades after that, you guys should be proud of the country you were born in especially such an important central European country to history like Germany
No one is responsible for where they were born, nor for what happened there. I find it strange to include that in one's own person and identity. I know that in countries with a strong sense of nationality, to which society usually ascribes many “positive attributes”, this is of course a comfortable overall package that offers you a prefabricated identity. However, accepting this offer is lazy and means equating the state of one's country with one's own emotional state. If this is coupled with a lack of education, you are highly susceptible to manipulation by populists who pretend to act on behalf of the people and the country and usually only have their own interests in mind at the expense of the people. You are your own person. Build your own identity and think beyond the borders of your country. Then you will be free.
For me there is no being proud of my country or feeling guilty about it. There is just evaluating the currant development as positiv or not positiv according to my value system.
For me, there is no pride in my country or feelings of guilt. There is only an evaluation of its development as positive or negative, depending on my value system.
Hitler war früher Links, er hat von Sozialismus geredet und zusammen halt, Nazis waren Nationalsozialisten, er hat Juden beschuldigt Befürworter des Kapitalismus zu sein, seine damalige Begründung war das es Juden nicht passt anders Leben zu wollen weil Sie sonst nicht profitieren. Würde man heute Hitlers reden abspielen würden sie gut zur heutigen zeit passen. Selbst ein Linker würde den inhalt zustimmen, dabei sagt er er sei für Frieden und sie wollen keinen Frieden und sagt seht wie ich für euch gearbeitet habe und wenn ihr das gut findet dann wählt mich. Später wurde alles komplexer, er sagte auch damals nichts über juden wirklich, man bekommt keine Juden Hetze rede über Hitler im Internet zufinden, leider, in der Deutschen Schule wird streng jede Meinung von Hitler niedergeredet, das Hitler nur böse war, dabei war Hitler am Anfang gut sonst hätte er nie so viel Zuspruch bekommen. Nun entzwischen Wissen wir das es viele lügen von den Nazis gibt also wurde Nationalsozialismus missbraucht von Kapitalistischen Menschen. Gut ich weiß es nicht wirklich da vieles zensiert wird über Hitler um die Tatsächlichkeit aufzuklären, jetzt führen Juden Krieg mehr weiß ich genau auch nicht, ob es tatsächlich damals logisch und berechtigt war weiß ich nicht. Ich leugne nicht den Krieg, ich weiß bloß nicht ob alle Behauptungen stimmen. Ich gehe davon aus das Nazis von jemanden Missbraucht wurden oder vielleicht Hitler selbst von Jemanden oder Jemanden Missbraucht, provoziert wurde. Den ganz logisch sind die ganzen Aussagen nicht von Hitler. Er hat geniale reden gehalten, wo ich nicht weiß ober jemand anderes Sie geschrieben hat. Ich weiß es nicht wirklich.
@@DouglasJones-wg6xh nah bro. We just want what they take from us and did to our fathers. Enormous percentage of their economy is based on people loss and suffering.
@DouglasJones-wg6xh it's not my fault germans destroyed Poland the most. They paid for their actions to every country, but not Poland. They used our, Polish people workforce the most, mostly in their, german concentration camps and their wealth is based hugely on it. Germans paid a lot to Israel, while that time Jews were Polish citizens. Germans just don't want to take responsibility for their actions, even though ⅕ of germans and austrians had some members of their family as a Nazi army or police. It's their problem, not us, how much they have to pay us, they should be happy they still exist as a country and that in August 1945 the USA bombed Japan and not germany.
@@ImerLU I have a friend in Canada whose Polish mother was a forced laborer during the war. She got compensation from the German government for her unpaid work in the 1940s.
It's not your fault. But not taking History seriously - as a source of wisdom - scares me. Seeing the YT videos with ignorant US teenagers, makes me even more scared. I feel sorry for the US school system...
WW2 ... was that the Überfall from France and GB against Germany or the Überfall from Japan against China or the Überfall from UDSSR against Finland and Poland ... did i forget something .... i slept at the beginning from history classes.
I’m American and I’ve loved learning about history (especially WWII history) even since elementary school. I grew up as an US Army brat and lived in Germany two separate times as a kid and my mom is a history major who took me to lots of historical places and encouraged me to read a lot outside of school assignments. I was given tons of nonfiction books growing up because I was so curious about so many things and my parents couldn’t answer many of my questions, so they gave me books and I read without be forced to by school. That being said I never asked sensitive questions to Germans about WWII, because I have tact (and I’m shy).
If i get asked "are you Feeling guilty about ww2" i awnser the question, with a counter question: "youre feeling guilty about nativ americans, Guantanamo, iraq, Vietnam, syria, Afghanistan and slaves?
That only works against Americans. Also, except for the native americans, all of thouse pale in comparison to the Holocaust and other warcrimes during WW2. So just say the native americans. Also, why Syria?
Or every single nation, ethnic group or tribe, since the invention of agriculture basically. But hush...this is not woke to say. Native Americans happily slaughtered each other before the "white" man came. Mayans and Aztecs? Would make Sade horrified Iraq. Syria: You mean fighting since the days of Ur and Babylon? Slavery: Ask all these aforementioned people before how they enjoyed it. Fun Fact: Many Native Americans did own black slaves! The truth is the horror of Nazism is that it was committed by one of the most advanced, most sophisiticated cultures in the world. We should all remember that this monster is inside all of us.
I'm German. I was born in 1975. People who actively experienced the Second World War are now over 80 years old. Almost all the people who actively fought died. How about asking Southern Americans if they enjoyed owning slaves? How about asking Americans if they have a problem with living on land they stole from indigenous people? How about asking if they are proud of having shot their brothers and relatives during the Civil War? Do current US citizens feel responsible for the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam and the consequences for the population? If you go back in history, there will hardly be a people whose history has not involved crimes. My grandfather was a driver in the Wehrmacht, and he talked about it a lot. I know a lot about the Second World War, but I don't know what it felt like to have fought there. I also bear no personal responsibility for this war. You learn in history lessons how the Second World War came about and that it was actually a continuation of the First World War. One can debate for a long time which side was good and which side was evil. Before you point your finger at other peoples, you should first sweep your own door.
Erika "Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein" English translation On the heath, there blooms a little flower and it's called Erika! Eagerly doted on by a hundred thousand little bees, this Erika! For her heart is full of sweetness, a tender scent escapes her dress of blossoms. On the heath, there blooms a little flower and it's called Erika! Back at home, there lives a maiden and she's called Erika! That girl is my faithful little darling and my happiness. Erika! When the heather blooms in a reddish purple, I sing her this song in greeting. On the heath, there blooms a little flower and it's called Erika! In my small chamber, there also blooms a little flower and it's called Erika! At dawn, it looks at me, as does it at dusk. Erika! And it is as if it spoke aloud: "Don't you dare forget your little bride. Back at home, a maiden weeps for you and she's called Erika!" -------------------------- German original Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein und das heißt: Erika! Heiß von hunderttausend kleinen Bienelein wird umschwärmt Erika! denn ihr Herz ist voller Süßigkeit, zarter Duft entströmt dem Blütenkleid. Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein und das heißt: Erika! In der Heimat wohnt ein kleines Mägdelein und das heißt: Erika! Dieses Mädel ist mein treues Schätzelein und mein Glück, Erika! Wenn das Heidekraut rot-lila blüht, singe ich zum Gruß ihr dieses Lied. Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein und das heißt: Erika! In mein'm Kämmerlein blüht auch ein Blümelein und das heißt: Erika! Schon beim Morgengrau'n sowie beim DämmerscheinTemplate:0 schaut's mich an, Erika! Und dann ist es mir, als spräch' es laut: "Denkst du auch an deine kleine Braut?" In der Heimat weint um dich ein Mägdelein und das heißt: Erika!
If you don't know the origin, you could mistake it for an old folk song but it actually has been composed in the 1930s by a Oberstfeldmeister from the NS-Reichsarbeitsdienst
@@eljanrimsa5843 Wrote "If you don't know the origin, you could mistake it for an old folk song but it actually has been composed in the 1930s by a Oberstfeldmeister from the NS-Reichsarbeitsdienst" What are you trying to say? Are you saying that the song is a Nazi song?
Thing is that as an American, I know that we weren’t exactly the best either (enter Iraqi war). Which is exactly why I personally think that in order for our nation to move on from our past atrocities we need to address them to the world and to our own citizens.
The difference is that almost no Germans defend Germany's actions in WW2. On the other hand I've seen Americans still defending the Iraq war. Even worse, I've seen people defend the Vietnam war. The mentality is very different.
You are right. There’s no moving on from the past without acknowledging it, admitting it happened and atoning for it. Germans want to be remembered only for the greats like Beethoven, Goethe, Einstein, but they want to erase Hitler from the history records which is disrespectful towards the millions of victims who were traumatized for life if they were lucky enough to have survived. Not to mention they haven’t paid the war reparations and haven’t given back what they have stolen. No, we can NOT just forget about it. Until that self-realization and owning up to their ancestors' crimes happens, the past is going to come back to haunt them. Now look at what is happening today. They still want to dominate Europe through EU. They still want to tell the member states what they can or cannot do. And if the member states dont listen, they support all the sanctions to be imposed on them. They still support shutting down of businesses in other member states, like coal mines for example, while they keep opening their own, monopolising the member states. Seems like the same thing over again, just this time it is formally legal. Smart move. And what ancestors are talking about? The many of those who are still alive and doing perfectly well, never having faced the consequences of the crimes they committed and living on pension paid for by the tax payers? And their pensions are ample, they live like kings. The german state rewards them for their crimes. And may nobody tell me that Germans do not endorse what happened in WW2. I know germans who still believe in Hitler's propaganda justifying the invasions of other countries. They have no idea what really happened. Not to mention that many of the older Germans now denouncing it and claiming they have never supported nazism, back then supported it en masse. That was the main party in Germany back then. They are still alive. Ask your Oma and Opa about their early life memories, what was their world view. You may be surprised what you'll hear if they even want to talk.
@@Xyxz-q5lyes,its what all this soo called "Japanese war crimes" just stupid propoganda,after all,if Japanese bad and brutal then how bad and brutal Europeans are?
As a Ukrainian I spent 6 months in Germany before I accepted an offer from UK company. For the whole 6 months Germans only could raise the topic of war In Ukraine after 3-4 beers in a row because probably they know this topic reveals so many terrible emotions that it is not worth to touch. But In UK whenever Brits get to know that I'm Ukrainian 100 questions come up. How is ur family? How is ur friends? Was ur neighborhood bombed? I really do believe it is just curiosity and some sort of British small talk culture, but still pretty taught
@@Skinok_skin it would the most stupid scenario to answer actually. They are curious what is going on right now in Ukraine, and probably they would like to hear it out of Ukrainian, not from the news. Yeah, Brits in such questions are a bit more straight forward than Germans, they are ignoring the possibility that I just could lose someone in the war and maybe I don't want to talk about it with every stranger only to feed his curiosity
Yeah, honestly, as a German, I really try to avoid the war with the Ukrainians I talk to and let them start the topic if they want to. I'm relatively educated about the current events in the war (thanks to Denys Davidov), especially comparing my knowledge to basically everyone I know, and it's an interesting topic, but I really avoid it with Ukrainians. I don't want to make anyone feel uncomfortable because I know that what's happening already puts a big toll on them, so I don't need to immediately remind them whenever they managed to forget about the situation for a few seconds.
I feel you. That's why I didn't come to UK, because I had a feeling they would treat as some exotic thing , not caring for my emotions. That's so inappropriate to ask personal questions that can be triggering.
Why are you spreading Anti-Serbian propaganda? This comment is hateful and hating. It is far from accurate. Are you some kind of crazy anti-Slavic hater?
@@MisterAAnderson That makes you seem like a nice person. Stay safe in these turbulent times, don't let the Russians invade Moldova further than Transnistria.
They are not hiding it. Some of the concentration camps have been turned into museums (that's why the other guy wanted to go and see it), and they are learning about it in school. It can still be uncomfortable for the Germans, if you insist on talking about their family's role in WW2 and the like.
@@Donnah1979 idk I don't think Germans should feel guilty for what happened. If Germans won, England, France and USA would now feel guilty. It's the winning side that writes the history books
@@hhhhhbztb Well, other parties did not yell they are willing to annihilate some nation. But yes, war crimes are what both sides do in the war, and there are no pure angels during such things.
@@hhhhhbztb But no nation should be forced to feel guilty, it's more about understanding your history, and other's history. There are no good and bad countries, just good and bad decisions, really bad sometimes, that need to be understood so that we don't do them twice
@@neogeor2011 the holocaust was the most systematically planed and efficient genocide in the history of mankind. they fucking made lamps and many other items out of jews skin, nothing else beats this kind of fucked up and cruel behaviour.
Well now, we have thousands of migrants from the Middle East who scream during demonstrations: "Hamas, Hamas, jews belong into gas!" And if you dare to critizise them, you're labeled NZI. Isn't that disturbing?
@@jorgebarriosmur Blame Hamas for starting the war. It is similar to this: there were millions of German civilians suffering in the WW2. Was it the alllies to be blamed for that or rather the German leaders who had started the war (with support of millions of German civilians, btw.)?
I'm not German but I'm watching this video on December 20, 2024, a few hours after the shocking terrorist attack in Magdeburg in which a man crashed his car into a crowd at the Christmas market. At this point the media haven't yet announced the full body count. I think it's high time Germans stopped feeling guilty about WWII and started feeling guilty about their new state ideology of 'tolerance to the death' which leads to the sacrifice of their own population of good, kind, hard-working individuals. 😢 Wake up, people. You can still save your beautiful country and yourselves. 🙏🏻
@@AceBadguy72no he was a radical Muslim from Saudi Arabia His X account written in Arabic told many radical ideas Now it's closed but independent journalists in Germany put in online to look German media is lying just like Russian 😂 and everywhere Rich German people make 5x the money renting to " Flüchtlinge " migrants as they are called in Germany Than renting to germans Its a big big business that's why they want it to continue In rich areas they are no migrants No crime Life is good for the rich as always Poor people get the problems 😂
The k!ller was an atheist from Saudi Arabia, who requested political asylum in Germany. The Saudi government repeatedly requested his extradition, but Germany refused. He is a supporter of the Alternative for Germany party and calls for the expulsion of Muslims. What he did was a reaction to the German government, which has received millions of Muslim refugees from countries such as Syria...
Lol the same awkward moment happens with my german friends when we pass neo nazi graffiti. I get the same awkward situation when I meet someone who is Italian and I say I am Ethiopian. And they apologise to me for the past, which is sweet but Im like er do you want me to tell my great grandma you're sorry? Cuz it's been a long time and hasnt affected me personally. Maybe someone else family experienced the trauma more in 5 year occupation but I guess it is good people are conscious of its existence and not have 'get over it' attitude towards it. It depends from person to person so I dont try to ask people unless they bring it up 😅
In Spain, we had a civil war just before the WWII. It was an ugly mess. My grandfather refused to choose sides (and was punished for it after the war), while 3 of his brothers joined the republican side, and one the fascist one. Long story short, the fascists won, two brothers were executed , and one had to go to exile to avoid the same fate, while my grandfather spent 3 years in jail for the crime of not wanting to fight against his own family. The brother on the "winner" side, seized all family properties, and ensured that the remaning relatives (except his wife and children) lived their lives in poverty, hardship, and humiliation.......... A decade ago, I went to the village where they were born to see the house where my grandfather and his brothers lived their childhood, and tried to reconect with that side of the family. It was imposible. They avoided me like I was going to ask them to give my grandfathers rightfull inheritance back! Don`t know if they are ashamed or hold a grudge against me and my side of the family. In my opinion, their only "crime" is to have loved their grandfather, and they are not accountable for his actions, but I never got to explain it to them........
@@andymckay7803 Not that directly. Of course they profited but Wernher von Braun directly worked on the American space program with all his staff. Only after the Soviets launched their sattelte first.
I’m English but my Great Aunt in law was German, she used to be in the Hitler youth. She told me it was like the scouts, a lot of hikes in the valleys and camping, but there was a lot of Social Darwinism (bigger kids were virtually encouraged to bully weaker ones, with the logic being that the weak kids would toughen up or be left behind) and heavy amounts of racial science.
ANGEL MERKEL IS RESPONSABLE FOR NOT ACCEPTING UKRAINE IN NATO IN 2008. SO ARE ALL GERMANS WHO VOTED FOR HER (AND FOR GERARD SCHROEDER). IN NORD STREAM 2 YOU HAD BLOOD OF UKRAINIAN CHILDREN. DO GERMAN CHILDREN KNOW HOW MANY UKRAINIAN CHILDREN WERE RAPED BY RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ??
Also as a German, I wouldn't have a problem talking about it. Why should I? We talked about this stuff at school tons and tons and tons of times. I wasnt born yet, not even my parents were born.
Honestly, for me it makes no difference if someone is German, French or English..... Or Spanish & Portuguese. They all colonized countries and Germans had their moment with France and Poland and they enslaved people they deemed inferior. I don't personally find the Nazis unique for that at all. Concentration camps or plantations are all the same shit to me.
Now France occupied a part of Germany and Poland a large part, they prosecuted Germans and forced them to become French/ Polish - and that was very long before the war. It is random to pick on Germans for such things today.
@@Taiyou536 Where are else did the British have concentration camps apart from those erected in South Africa between 1899-1902? (I note they were condemned by many in the UK at the time.)
@@Ester_Brainheart i loved that program who do you think you are. Some people had family members who were degenerates and some people had family members who although didn’t go down in history were really brave and stood their ground in difficult times. John Stamos grandmother was a good example in a episode
Now this is understandable and funny, but also a bit sad for me bc I'm a Russian currently genuinely interested in Germany's reception of war (and that's not just an idle curiosity, if you know what I mean 💀). Rn I'm studying Exil- und Kahlschlagliteratur (trying to improve my German at the same time) and seeking for strategies to get over grief and guilt. Maybe this is a kind of therapy for me. And as this is a sore subject for me, I would just randomly start talking abt it with almost every person I meet. And if they are Deutsche... I won't be able to keep my mouth shut at all :')
Go to a university and find some historians specializing in WW2 and the 30s and 40s in Germany. They will gladly discuss their research topics and opinions with you.
akward moment: When a person from Kosovo told me proudly that their grandfather was fighting for the SS in WW2 against serbian partizans and that the german occupation was the first time in history they didnt feel opressed
A lot of people hated their neghbours more than the invaders, and were happy to join them, as long as they could leash out on the ones that "had been wronging them since before the dawn of civilization". Kinda what happened to my spanish ancestors, when they arrived in Mexico. No way they could have defeated the mexicas (an empire that could field 100.000 warriors, if needed) with only 500 men, some war-dogs, horses, metal-swords and armours, and primitive arquebus. They only succeded because the rest of what is today Mexico hated the Mexica-confederation SO BADLY, that they joined the invaders in flocks, up to an army of tens of thousends of warriors........ (they probably regreted it later, but that`s another story)
As a person who is born in a nation with zero hard feelings toward Germany, I say now I can understand how annoying it is, have been all these years, besides if the new generation of Germany are responsible for what their ancestors did in the past, then we are all war criminals, and perhaps not a single nation is free of the guilt.
@@koschmx So they must either be children at that time or they are at least 100 years old now. not that you are wrong, but all decision-makers and stage managers have been replaced multiple times.
@@koschmx I can understand the psychological impact of the global conflict that lingers to this day, all I was trying to say is that not every nation in the world hate Germany for WW2, the Soviets and the British invaded my country(Iran) that was not even an ally of axis powers, they committed all kind of atrocities, concentration camps, executions, burning down houses etc... they exploited the country's resources indiscriminately that caused famine and chaos that continued even for a few years after the war, it is interesting that nobody talks about that, perhaps because they were winner of the war the so called "GOOD GUYS". anyway my best wishes for Germany and its proud people, your nation deserves to be recognize by the masterful engineering, industry and its humble brilliant minds.
The German governor of Poland said at Nuremberg that a thousand years could pass and Germany would still have guilt for what they did. I agree. But this is not unique to Germany. The British in their empire. Soviet Empire. Chinese empire. Japanese empire. Crusades. Conquistadors. Americans in Vietnam and Iraq (among other places). The nuclear arms race. "History is a catalogue of crimes." - Sting
@@markrobinowitz8473 The British Empire can rightly be criticised. However to see an equivalance with the German treatment of Poland and Poles is truly bizarre.
I'm American but of German and English heritage, in 1997 my girlfriend and I went out with a group of her coworkers to a Japanese steak house and I was seated next to a guy from former East Germany...I was only curious and did not mean to place any guilt on him at all, he had nothing to do with it of course. After dinner when we were all walking down a long sidewalk that led to the parking lot I asked him something about ww2 and he immediately said I'm sorry if you had a grandfather that was killed in the war and ran away from me to his car. I felt horrible from bringing it up after that and my girlfriend yelled at me for asking. You guys really portrayed the reaction accurately. Wow
I have traveled a lot and the topic comes up in almost all conversations with new people. I never ever evaded the conversation or felt uncomfortable. Actually, I thought most Germans felt a weird sense of pride for the way the country tried to assume responsibility and acknowledge what happened. I was under the impression that most share stories of how they visited concentration camps in highschool.
Many European colonizers did same things all over the world. Germans just defeated them all initially. For us, they all had same history of killings, british, German, spanish..
It didn't involve wholesale murder of seven or eight million people based on race or religion, being gay, being handicapped, or just living in the wrong country. Or annexing any land. But most of us other than right wingers think that and Iraq were totally wrong and stupid.
I have the utmost respect for the German people today and feel that they should not feel guilty about something they had no part in but have learned the lessons that history tries to teach all of us....
I am from Bulgaria and all the german people who I know are ashamed because of Hitler and their past.I told them that we are not North Korea to judge people 3 generations backward or forward .Of course Modern people are innocent,but it is still difficult for Germans to forget. I hope one day Russians will feel the same shame because of Putler .
Just for the records: Hitler killed 20 million people, Stalin killed 30 million, and Mao killed 50 million. I am German, and I don't feel ashamed at all. Why should I, I was born 30 years after the war ended. But I know a lot about WW II and Hitler.
wrong. See the difference with WWI. French here. WWI and II are behind us just like Bismarck, Napoleon or Louis XVI. Our common enemy is clear and lies further east of Berlin and Warsaw.
Britain and France also caused several issues. Like pillaging other nations, taxing the poor, and being brutal to the uncivilised, which they call Barbadians or horrible people who don’t belong
Undoubtedly Britain and France have cases to answer for their treatment of other peoples and nations. But they didn't kill people on a planned, industrial scale for no other reason than they existed.
I might be living in a different Germany but from what I have experienced for ALL my life Germans love to talk about the WW II, they love to read about it, they particularly love to watch movies and documentaries about it… there’s entire TV channels that seem devoted to this topic. I’ve never met anyone to shy away from the conversation… this video is highly confusing. Also, people need to stop with the ‘grandparents’ nonsense, today’s grandparents were born way after the war.
I don’t talk to that many Germans. But if I was I wouldn’t really mention World War 2 unless the conversation was naturally brought up. I do think German history is quite fascinating and I like to learn bits and pieces of it. :)
Satirical, I realize, but the unwillingness of any Germans to talk about the war is understandable. Years ago I assisted teaching English to German students and I was told to ask them about the war. They hated every minute of it and told me that at the time they had lessons about it almost every day. It may be different now, as this was a very long time ago, but imagine if a close relative of yours had been a violent criminal, but served his full prison sentence and decades later people still thought it was okay to ask you how you felt about the relative's behaviour.
There is a very dark joke in Austria - a country that was in in much greater denial than Germany after the war - about the participation of our ancestors. When someone brings it up you'd say: "Well you know, my Great-Grandfather too died in a Concentration Camp." "WHAT! I am so sorry! How did this happen?". "He was drunk and fell from the watchtower".
Ein Kollege von mir ist Italiener. Eines Tages arbeiteten wir schließlich zusammen und ich sagte: "Okay! Achsenmächte im Haus!" Viele übersehen, dass Italien auch eine Achsenmacht war.😏
Блин у меня тоже был случай я поздравлял с 9 мая свою подругу из Германии. Она сказала они не празднуют этот день и её дедушка был электриком во время войны , две молнии на мундире.
There were german soldiers who were honorable and even did some heroic deeds. Why always point out the bad. Germany was suffering greatly from Versailles treaty. Did any allied nations have mercy on them and help them.? These self righteousness people created the conditions for hitler amd ww2. It is you who should feel guilty. Why didnt allies help german resistance? The victors write history, so the good done by germans usually overlooked.
I was born and raised in the United states. The town I live in has a lot of German culture (I too have German heritage), but due to our Academic requirements the holocaust is a big thing to learn in 8th grade, while the rest of the war is in World History class in the high school.
In Germany, they told us actually not that much about WWII in history class, cause it was "just the war" but they told us A LOT about the rise of the NSDAP and the holocaust cause its more important nowadays than the war
@@fevohav14 yeah we do a lot of in depht analysis on how the nazis got power, about what they did to people during the shoah and the war is just not important
It's one thing to be - again and again - tought about the failure of the German people 80 years ago and another to damn your own grandfather, because he fought on the wrong side in WW II.
germans are probably the most educated about it cuz while most countries mainly learn their countries involvement in ww2 and ww1 ie america and japan focusing on the nukes, germans go in extensive detail on it from every side
I'm Italian, about 10 years ago i was in the erasmus student program in a belgian university. During a class we had to form teams and i ended with a german and a japanese exchange student. So i said that WE HAD to call ourselfs the Axis team, the japanese student thought that it was hilarious and agreed, while the german was horrified and was awkward all the time and stopped talking to us after that class. I still find it funny after so many years. 😅
Italian here two and had your exact experience while studying in Japan 😂. Are you three still in touch?
Jo Jo Rabbit was on TV recently. It came out four years ago but made with mostly British actors & actors from other English speaking countries. The mother in that was secretly against the Nazis as she hid a Jewish girl in her attic & passed her off as her dead daughter. She was pleased that Italy had joined the side of the allies. The main character was ten years old & joined the Jungvolk which was the junior version of Hitler Youth. Boys as young as ten were fighting on the streets of Berlin by the time the allies & the Russians had invaded.
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😂 thanks for sharing that story
@@tomstan6785 average Polish chap. Give them some vodka and they'll forget everything. No hard feelings lad 😉
The worst thing you can say to a German is; “it must be so cool being able to watch WW II documentaries without subtitles”
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I try not to mention it. Would sooner talk about Angela Merkel, Boris Johnson or Tony Blair.
Most Germans I know would sooner complain about how poor the subtitle translation was than concern themselves with the storyline... Agreed. Strange people at times.
☠️ That one is dark.
I wish I could understand Hitlers speeches, that would awsome. :) I might learn german just to understand it
@@GratDuForloradeArgumentet I‘m german and it‘s really hard for me to understand his speeches. It was a different kind of german and definitely completely different in the speeches too. So rather just read translations of them ^^
My grandfather was a German electrician as I found his old uniform and it has two lightning bolts on his cap
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As I read your comment: "Damn I can tell I'm getting r/whooshed..." Then my eyes wandered over to the recommended vids column and directly next to your comment was a vid with THAT logo in the graphic. Like, how did the YT algorithm know I wouldn't get the joke??!!😯😯
Worth A LOT of cash nowadays original uniforms !
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The two lighting bolts on his uniform is .. SS
My German friend on this topic said "actually Hitler was an Austrian" 😄
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That's a good one!
Well, he was.
My great grandpa used to call him "the Austrian sergeant" 😂
@@javiercmh He was actually a Gefreiter; and Hindenburg referred to him as “Osterreichiche Gefreiter”
My grandfather fought in the war, Spitfire pilot (British RAF). He didn't speak much about it but what he did say was harrowing. He never resented the Germans and viewed them as being similar to the British, he had a great respect for them. After the war he met veterans from both Germany and Italy in later life, they shared drinks together and enjoyed sharing stories.
Adolf Galland took his friend and former RAF ace Douglas Bader to a reunion of Luftwaffe officers. Upon entering the room, Bader said "I didn't realize that we left so many of you bastards alive." :-)
It's not the first time I hear such stories. In Argentina former Malvina's war soldiers gathered together with british in peace and have drinks and talks like folks.
I think only a soldier ay war can understand and feel what an enemy camarade is going through.
@@lucianamazza9196 The ones who complain the most are the ones who have never seen a day of battle or it's horrors; yet, they are the loudest about who should be shamed.
He never got to see London turned into New Mecca did he? Guess Patton was correct ...
@@larebear1902 What an odd, off topic thing to say
Merry Christmas tho I guess
Meanwhile the same scenario in Japan: War crimes? What war crimes.
Meanwhile the same scenario in soviet Russia, British empire, U.S.A: War crimes? What war crimes?
Not to mention these country's regimes numerous genocides in peace times.
Manicheism keeps judging only others but never looks at itself.
I think it's quite the same for Italy as well. Total opposite of Germany 😆
It's a broom sweeping dirt under the carpet... With America's assistance, as it's their new version of Japan. Next topic please.
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Meanwhile Americans ,,native Americans? What about them?,,. Most of countries have bad history. Germans just have too much counsions
I was kinda expecting that the guy would follow Hans in the rocket...😂
SAME,
what a coincidence
Same here 😆
Yeah that'd be in part 2
I like the music Erika
Im sure like 3/4 of the audience thought the same including me haha , I guess that would have been very predictable and that's why maybe this dude went for other ending
We are not responsible for what our ancestors did, and we should not feel guilty. We are responsible only for ourselves. But, it's worth remembering the history in order not to make the same mistakes. Because everything repeats itself, like a spiral. And people repeat and repeat their mistakes
Or the mistakes of others.
u are only not respoonsible for us ancestors actions once u have accepted them, then u are free, but if u refuse to accept anything they did was bad, then we have situation (japan, turkey)
@@stormstriker2000 Why should we accept and approve of what our ancestors did? They are responsible for themselves, and I am personally responsible for myself and for my actions. We are not responsible for what our ancestors did. But that doesn't mean we approve of everything they did. The most important thing is not to do yourself what goes against your conscience, listen to that quiet voice inside yourself. Because we always feel what goes against our conscience, what is bad, what we should not do... But people often prefer to be obedient and do the terrible things that your superiors order you to do.
@@ЗонаНагваля Because what your ancestors did is like a heritage passed through the generations and is part of what forge your history
We should give the Germans credit for acknowledging that and should do the same, especially their former allies during WW2, instead of harassing them with their Nazi past
@@goldflo91 ahah..you didn't understand what I was writing about..but nothing really matters..morality, decency, honesty, responsibility, good/bad - all these are tools in the hands of smart manipulators
NEVER ASK:
A Woman - Her Age
A Man - His Salary
A German why his Opa is from Argentina
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@@yellowwbunnyAfter the liberation of the Jews, and the fall of the Nazi regime, many of the German soldiers eluded capture and exiled to other countries such as Brazil & Argentina, therefore avoided being tried and hanged for war crimes.
@@yellowwbunny (“opa” means grandfather or smt like that) there’s this theory that Hitler didn’t commit suicide and instead escaped from Germany to a small populated area in Argentina. He also changed his name. But no one knows.
@@yellowwbunny several Nazi members and war criminal managed to escape and fled to Argentina where several persons with links to the Nazi party NSDAP had established organisations and circles of like-minded people.
The most prominent refugee of that kind in Argentinia was probably Adolf Eichmann who was discovered and abducted by Israeli agents. However, Argentinia wasn't the only country known as a refuge for inculpated Nazi criminals. For example Klaus Barbie was living in Bolivia - he even lived for some time in the USA.
I am Danish and my father was a communist fighting in the Danish resistance movement against the German occupation forces during WWII.
He absolutely HATED everything German right after the war.
However, over the years he grew up (!), learned the German language and ended up with German friends and always found a reason to go visit ……. Germany 😊
No more war, but peace 🇩🇰❤️🇩🇪
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Thanks for posting this. Great to hear, especially for me as a German absolutely loving the Scandinavian states. Have a wonderful Christmas and best wishes for 2025 🫶🇩🇰🇩🇪
@@michael2704My great-grandfather fought the austrians=preussians in 1864, and was wounded at Dybbøl. I have been on four international missions where I have worked with German colleagues…absolutely fantastic and very professional guys, who I always could rely and depend upon.
Watch your six and take good care of yourself and your loved ones. Merry Christmas and a happy and safe 2025 from 🇩🇰 🎗️ 🇩🇪
@@tinojensen7473 Same to you, thank you very much, stay healthy
This is the way to go, props to your Dad, thank you/Danke/Mange tak ❤❤!!
Your acting gives us laugh and joy, never ending happiness when we watch your videos. You deserve 1M+ subscribers.
thanks Shakil, glad to hear 😄
Yes it's good that they can laugh about it a little now. But let's look at some things. It is true that there were wars in other places, but still we know that the Holocaust was unique, other wars were nothing like what happened in Germany. It was like the devil looked up at the German people and said these are my guys, Unfortunately even Germans now seem cold to those innocent people dying, and most likely if they were there, would have supported Hitler and his thugs. Not being unkind, just sees factual, this is one reason why the Holocaust is so unique. However, the good thing is, yes, never again. It would be suicide and the total wiping of a nation from the face of the Earth if the Germans attempted this again against the Jews, because they would lose terribly to Israel and other nations who still remember what happened, all coming together. Were it not for someone like Schindler, too extremely rare, Germany could be considered a place with a people of complete unhumanity, but hopefully the youths will simply try to be better people than their nation's past, in their hearts.
I can't stop laughing. I watch you all the time but never comment. You're making it hard for me to resist Germany. If I end up there someday, it's because of you. 🤣
@@denniszenanywhere glad to have you 😄 come to Germany! We've got the best bread 😋
@@RadicalLiving I watched that video, too. Laughed at how you used bread to hammer a nail to a wall. Can you just make a movie already ala Monty Python. Oops, hope I didn't trigger you there. 😃
the best chase filmed by a single person ever
As a german i would have zero problems with his questions xD
Same but my german ancestors worked against the Nazis in Romania therefore I feel proud and not ashamed.
because u signifies your ancestors
Proud of you man, you should not be guilty for something which you never did.
@@aniketmane6232by that logic, then you should also not be PROUD of your nation's accomplishments. The way most modern germans under sixty years old, see it is you have to be ashamed of the nazi area, but can still be proud of positive adpects of your history, but you MUST look very introspectivly at both goOd AND BAD!! that introspective duality is part of german national identity, something I think americans, English, French Spanish, japanese, russians etc should also adopt
@@friedrichmatthies6065 if you HAVE to be ashamed of something YOU didn't do, then you're not living in a free society brother😊. And yes the Japanese, Russians and Americans are proud of their history. Even the Japanese who committed so many war crimes during WW2, they don't regret or feel ashamed of it.
As a Polish person I find this pretty accurate. During my Erasmus exchange that was their usual reaction when it came down to this conversation. Except for parties, a little bit of alcohol can work miracles no matter the topic 😅 But yeah, I miss my German friends, we had some great time together.
Are they lefties "linksgrüne" how the most peole on german Unis, or you meet some rare conservatives?
I remember a polish person always tried to talk about it at parties and stuff and it was so awkward as a german.
i olso can confirm as a romanian afther the germans guys had some alchool they started to describe how back then "we will had kill you all.....because you are slavs". They trigered me and start to explain how Romania is Latin nation
That was their usual reaction? How long did it take them to return from Mars? 😅
What weird Germans did you encounter? Why would they have a problem with this? I find this very unusual
There are two types of germans: Those who want to ignore it and are pissed off when someone talks about WW2, and those who will tell you EVERYTHING.
Fawlty Towers The Germans
When you ask a Germany about World War 2 there are three types of Reaktions
1. Oh i forgoht to buy the beer i will be right back
2. Yea IT was teriblie and we did horrible stuff
3. Ahh yes the good old Times i really miss them...
the worst one is the first
@@mbl1154 nah the worst one is the guy asking the question, what kind of lunatic would you go to random people to speak about genocides ? Imagine going to an American to ask him about how horrible is his country to have wiped out so many natives with no context whatsoever
Only lunatics would do that
@@KaotikBOOO man, but there are a lot doing it. Trust me, have german friends.
Tbh I did too, but it‘s a special reason. I knew him since very long time, and he often talked about his grandpa.
4th one: yeah the 3rd empire was bad but the wanzi did not commit any crimes.
3rd scenario is the least likely because you could go to prison for saying that in most of Europe. I believe the only places in Europe that can say that are Spain, Finland, and Ukraine.
You can't change past, but you can change future.
if change present, change past, if change past, change future
Yes, thus time Germans will not lose
@Useryoal In a war there is no winner. It´s no game of soccer. Everybody is a looser in a war. They all loose lifes. Sometimes of valuable people and somestimes of people who do nothing but warmongering and evil things.
I love that quote. I think there's a book named after it too. :D
Change the past by winning this time in future
It's important to remember not all Germans were Nazis and not all Nazis were German.
ya, but like 99% was.
@@UlasMT No it was a bit less than half.
Yes Hitler not even German
@@JAKEAVALON-rg8xm A border town that used to be part of Bavaria. A 200m wide river does not define nationality despite what some nationalists may think.
@UlasMT More like a third of the population.
American : "did you ever talk to your grandfather about how it was to be on the evil side in ww2" ?
German : "I don't know, did you ever talk to yours about the villages burned in Vietnam" ?
Did you ever talk about (or even bother to educate yourself about) the Hue Massacre, during the Tet Offensive, when the Viet Cong deliberately executed between 3,000 and 6,000 civilians and prisoners of war before retreating? EVERY war will have crimes committed by individuals soldiers or individual small units. That is different than having massacres ordered by the highest levels of command.
Or the british about the death camps ín the boer War?
@@riveraharper8166 Or the Gulag Archipelago in Russia? Or all of Mao’s famine victims in China? Or the killing fields of Cambodia? Or the hundreds of thousands murdered by the NVA after the fall of Saigon? Or the Kim family’s death camps in North Korea?
Or Iraq?
Or Hiroshima???
I'm Austrian and noone I know would run away from a convo like this. We very much are aware of what has happened, we covered it in schoo for several years and we know and all feel how horrible and gruesome it was and I'm lacking the words tbh to describe how bad we all feel about it. There are still many memoriams and events and movies (f ex "Das weiße Band" is famous) and museums dealing not only with it but reminding us everyday: *"never frogive, never forget"* We don't, however, feel guilty, though, as we didn't fight in the war, but it is out duty that things like that will never happen again.
kind regards from Austria!
An Austrian who says "we" when it comes to WW2 instead of "the Germans". As a German, I appreciate that. ;)
On behalf of the global community, I implore you Austrians, please do not hurt delicate feelings of the people of art. I also suggest to keep passing grades low, especially in schools of art, just for extra safety.
you are austrian and you are still evil. whole Europe knows that Austria was and still is friendly to russia. you havent changed, still you are not able to choose good side of the history, still you choose evil. Europe will remember the second world war and how austria was acting when russians invaded ukrainians. do austrian children know how many ukrainian childen were raped by russian soldiers ??
I'm Austrian too, but obviously much older than you.When I went to school in the 70ies and 80ies WWII wasn't covered at all.
@@hurtigheinz3790 as I said, that's how we learn it in school already ;) we are very much aware and the older theory abt the anschlss that was supposedly forced upon us-we know that's bs
I was stationed in northern Germany 1985, to 1987, German tv would occasionally have a WWII documentary on. But mostly for younger Germans at the time they would rather forget that it ever happened. I would spend most my free time with Germans because I as trying to learn the language and they are really nice people. I did have a few good conversations with older WWII generation Germans who a fought on the eastern front they were not shy about talking about fighting the Russians one old guy even showed me pictures he had taken in Russia.
USA nazi and German nazi brothers forever
Мой дедушка защищал свою страну. Два его старших брата погибли. Он дошёл до Берлина и вернулся домой только в 1947г. Нам с братом он никогда не рассказывал о войне, ненавидел немецкую речь. У него 3 медали "За отвагу" и осколок около сердца, который беспокоил его всю жизнь.
Я очень любила своего дедушку. Мы в России бережом память о погибших в этой войне и с большим уважением вспоминаем тех, кто воевал, выжил, а потом построил огромную сильную страну.
@@Nata-nsk now putin is the new hitler 😢
@@Nata-nskWe don't care about your commie grandpa Russ
Occasional WWII documentaries? Switch through 100 channels there will always be 2-3 channels no matter what time of the day which show ww2 related stuff.
"Hans"... As a German, I feel a little offended, not all of us got the name Hans. Some of us are named Fritz. Just kidding, I'm not offended, Germans don't have feelings. Außer den Wunsch, Weißbier zu trinken, of course.
Work will set you free?🧐
I think there are a few Klaus or Werners.
"How many of your ancestors fought in the war?" "Nein!"
"Nine? Well, that must have been a bit awkward....."
@@thesmithersy well, I'm a Russian and let me count my Red Army relatives.
3 Great-Grandfathers fighting (tanker, artilleryman, railroad fighter - they had armoured trains). 1 GGF military surgeon and my GGM as his assistant. Two of her brothers fighting in the army and killed. The artillerist's brother served and also died in the war, and his wife's brother also served died in the war, so I do have nine in that war. Maybe even more, because my grandmother has a lot of relatives. And you?
For the next generation of Russians it could easily be 8 soldiers plus a female nurse/doctor/sniper/pilot/battlefield paramedic (sanitary instructor their official name is)/intelligence agent/ whatever as straight ancestors. I
@@annasolovyeva1013 Westeners haven't heard of the Immortal regiment and how great is Victory day!! Everyone owes to Russia and the rest former Soviet Countries
@@G7YNWAyeah. And now russia becomes 4th reich.
@@lpi3 🤡🤡🤡
The generations of Germans since the war are blameless for the sins of their grandparents.
The truth is this. What happened in Germany in the 1920s to 1940s can happen in any country. We need to learn from history or we will repeat it.
It is happening as we speak actually. Just 2,000 km further East....a land whose economy is supported and weapons supplied by an even greater Mordor-like land of 1.5 billions brainwashed nationalistic race supremacist thugs.
Well, I don't think so, this was a bit overboard to say the least. I doubt we repeat this one.
@rawdata7569 The world has seen plenty of genocides before and after 1933-45 with similar scope. Probably starting with the unrest during bronze age in the eastern Mediterranean, annihilation of Carthage by the Romans, the conquest of the Americas up to Atrocities of the Khmer Rouge or the Rwanda genocide. Numbers of direct and indirect victims of stalinism and maoism are also impressive.
So of course, while everyone of these (and numerous other) events does have special and unique aspects, they all show that groups of humans are always capable of organising the killing of a large part of members of other groups of humans.
And this is definitely not meant to be an excuse for the atrocious holocaust. It's just that apparently genocide can happen everywhere....
I think the events of 2020-2022 proved you completely wrong on that. It was very clear no one in Germany could ever be convinced to hate a sub-group of the population and blame all of their problems on them ever again.
@@MrHarumakiSensei
American here. Sadly watching our country repeating the same mistakes.
The humor brings truthful simplicity and I like it. Germans do talk about WW2 stuff every now and then, but they 'kindly' unwelcome it when coming from strangers. As of Erika, it was also featured in Schindler's List, I think that makes it additionally strong of a reference. Kudos!
They should not be "unwelcome" of someone pointing out the past ... its not like they are saying "they are still the same" and nobody born today is responsible for it .. are they
@@IainMcGirr well some people apparently still think Germans are guilty and blame them when most around today haven't done anything I've heard this ober the years
There's an obsession with it in the UK at the moment as the last veteran soldiers & Holocaust survivors are dying off so it's endless films about it being repeated such as Odette, Land Girls, Schlinder's List & Dad's Army & documentary series. To keep it fresh in the minds of the next generation. But it was the English who invented the concentration camp & eugenics in the first place. Holocaust Day is marked each year when it should be Holocausts Day as there was more than one in history such as the one under the Pol Pot regime. We can't be dining out on winning both world wars forever. We need to improve the economy as well & life in the UK.
@@lemsip207 you have a point
@@yulee3266 Yeah I include my British English Cousins with that unfortunately whilst not understanding their own imperial past and the crimes . You dont get an Empire by being nice. I have found and if you think about it those whom go ON about Germans being bad for WW2 even today tend to come from former imperial power countries or have a shady past themselves ..ponder on that so their history circulum reflects that. I dont know one Person on mainland UK whom knew that in their own country Northern Ireland foreigners Irish Nationals NEVER got a vote until 1970s and it was a Apartheid state run in good old UK ... even if born there etc. you had no rights unless of a certain group of people FACT .. . nor do you cover the famine in Ireland or elsewhere . Nor do they learn anything negative which Churchill did.. Nor do they cover Stalin much post the war and killing over 20 million ... Nor do they cover what was done in Indian . nor what was carried out in Africa. .I could go on but it proves my point. Said people for former imperial places just LOVE to bash Germans TODAY for WW2...
I think you should make a video on how to make foreigners uncomfortable on WWII. I remember walking around Berlin with a friend, not talking about anything to do with WWII, we just happened to be walking through all of the memorials... He then just announced "we do too much to remember all of this, it takes so much support from taxes, we have felt guilty long enough." 😶
The memorials are not there for us feeling guilty. They are supposed to remind us of what might happen, when we neglect history. The rise of the neo-nazis really scares me. 🍒
@@theworldaccordingtokirsch neo nazis will get a good old ass whooping..... what do you know about scoring a hat-rick?
@@theworldaccordingtokirsch and the rise of communism scares me
Fair enough 😂
@@ladynori What rise of communism? The world is ruled by companies and capitalists like it has been in the last couple of centuries. Nothing has changed. All the things right wingers cry about (i. e. the so called "woke" movement) don't put the capitalism in danger, on the contrary, they are used by companies to get more benefits.
Germans shouldn't feel guilty about this, after all many were born decades after that, you guys should be proud of the country you were born in especially such an important central European country to history like Germany
No one is responsible for where they were born, nor for what happened there. I find it strange to include that in one's own person and identity. I know that in countries with a strong sense of nationality, to which society usually ascribes many “positive attributes”, this is of course a comfortable overall package that offers you a prefabricated identity. However, accepting this offer is lazy and means equating the state of one's country with one's own emotional state. If this is coupled with a lack of education, you are highly susceptible to manipulation by populists who pretend to act on behalf of the people and the country and usually only have their own interests in mind at the expense of the people. You are your own person. Build your own identity and think beyond the borders of your country. Then you will be free.
For me there is no being proud of my country or feeling guilty about it. There is just evaluating the currant development as positiv or not positiv according to my value system.
For me, there is no pride in my country or feelings of guilt. There is only an evaluation of its development as positive or negative, depending on my value system.
Hitler war früher Links, er hat von Sozialismus geredet und zusammen halt, Nazis waren Nationalsozialisten, er hat Juden beschuldigt Befürworter des Kapitalismus zu sein, seine damalige Begründung war das es Juden nicht passt anders Leben zu wollen weil Sie sonst nicht profitieren. Würde man heute Hitlers reden abspielen würden sie gut zur heutigen zeit passen. Selbst ein Linker würde den inhalt zustimmen, dabei sagt er er sei für Frieden und sie wollen keinen Frieden und sagt seht wie ich für euch gearbeitet habe und wenn ihr das gut findet dann wählt mich. Später wurde alles komplexer, er sagte auch damals nichts über juden wirklich, man bekommt keine Juden Hetze rede über Hitler im Internet zufinden, leider, in der Deutschen Schule wird streng jede Meinung von Hitler niedergeredet, das Hitler nur böse war, dabei war Hitler am Anfang gut sonst hätte er nie so viel Zuspruch bekommen. Nun entzwischen Wissen wir das es viele lügen von den Nazis gibt also wurde Nationalsozialismus missbraucht von Kapitalistischen Menschen. Gut ich weiß es nicht wirklich da vieles zensiert wird über Hitler um die Tatsächlichkeit aufzuklären, jetzt führen Juden Krieg mehr weiß ich genau auch nicht, ob es tatsächlich damals logisch und berechtigt war weiß ich nicht. Ich leugne nicht den Krieg, ich weiß bloß nicht ob alle Behauptungen stimmen. Ich gehe davon aus das Nazis von jemanden Missbraucht wurden oder vielleicht Hitler selbst von Jemanden oder Jemanden Missbraucht, provoziert wurde. Den ganz logisch sind die ganzen Aussagen nicht von Hitler. Er hat geniale reden gehalten, wo ich nicht weiß ober jemand anderes Sie geschrieben hat.
Ich weiß es nicht wirklich.
I am German and I really have no problem to talk about it with foreigners. Just recently with a Polish Jewish friend. Just living reconciliation. ❤️
So when do you, as a nation, plan to pay compensation to Poland like you do for Israel, the UK, France and other countries?
@@ImerLUbro y’all want too much money 😭
@@DouglasJones-wg6xh nah bro. We just want what they take from us and did to our fathers. Enormous percentage of their economy is based on people loss and suffering.
@DouglasJones-wg6xh it's not my fault germans destroyed Poland the most. They paid for their actions to every country, but not Poland. They used our, Polish people workforce the most, mostly in their, german concentration camps and their wealth is based hugely on it. Germans paid a lot to Israel, while that time Jews were Polish citizens. Germans just don't want to take responsibility for their actions, even though ⅕ of germans and austrians had some members of their family as a Nazi army or police. It's their problem, not us, how much they have to pay us, they should be happy they still exist as a country and that in August 1945 the USA bombed Japan and not germany.
@@ImerLU I have a friend in Canada whose Polish mother was a forced laborer during the war. She got compensation from the German government for her unpaid work in the 1940s.
We Americans hate History Class, but we do this kind of history crap to others. To the world: I am so sorry.
It's not your fault. But not taking History seriously - as a source of wisdom - scares me. Seeing the YT videos with ignorant US teenagers, makes me even more scared. I feel sorry for the US school system...
WW2 ... was that the Überfall from France and GB against Germany or the Überfall from Japan against China or the Überfall from UDSSR against Finland and Poland ... did i forget something .... i slept at the beginning from history classes.
I’m American and I’ve loved learning about history (especially WWII history) even since elementary school. I grew up as an US Army brat and lived in Germany two separate times as a kid and my mom is a history major who took me to lots of historical places and encouraged me to read a lot outside of school assignments. I was given tons of nonfiction books growing up because I was so curious about so many things and my parents couldn’t answer many of my questions, so they gave me books and I read without be forced to by school. That being said I never asked sensitive questions to Germans about WWII, because I have tact (and I’m shy).
Maybe in class, but there are so much interesting documentaries on history. Very entertaining and educational.
If i get asked "are you Feeling guilty about ww2" i awnser the question, with a counter question: "youre feeling guilty about nativ americans, Guantanamo, iraq, Vietnam, syria, Afghanistan and slaves?
Good counter^^
@@RadicalLiving thx ✌️
That only works against Americans. Also, except for the native americans, all of thouse pale in comparison to the Holocaust and other warcrimes during WW2. So just say the native americans. Also, why Syria?
What if hes not American?
Or every single nation, ethnic group or tribe, since the invention of agriculture basically. But hush...this is not woke to say.
Native Americans happily slaughtered each other before the "white" man came.
Mayans and Aztecs? Would make Sade horrified
Iraq. Syria: You mean fighting since the days of Ur and Babylon?
Slavery: Ask all these aforementioned people before how they enjoyed it.
Fun Fact: Many Native Americans did own black slaves!
The truth is the horror of Nazism is that it was committed by one of the most advanced, most sophisiticated cultures in the world. We should all remember that this monster is inside all of us.
Radical living, you still owe us those 2 hundred billion euros from world war 2
To which country?
I'm German. I was born in 1975. People who actively experienced the Second World War are now over 80 years old. Almost all the people who actively fought died. How about asking Southern Americans if they enjoyed owning slaves? How about asking Americans if they have a problem with living on land they stole from indigenous people? How about asking if they are proud of having shot their brothers and relatives during the Civil War? Do current US citizens feel responsible for the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam and the consequences for the population? If you go back in history, there will hardly be a people whose history has not involved crimes. My grandfather was a driver in the Wehrmacht, and he talked about it a lot. I know a lot about the Second World War, but I don't know what it felt like to have fought there. I also bear no personal responsibility for this war. You learn in history lessons how the Second World War came about and that it was actually a continuation of the First World War. One can debate for a long time which side was good and which side was evil. Before you point your finger at other peoples, you should first sweep your own door.
The Germans have nothing to ashamed of. Leave them alone.
... Danke
❤
Erika "Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein"
English translation
On the heath, there blooms a little flower
and it's called Erika!
Eagerly doted on by a hundred thousand little bees,
this Erika!
For her heart is full of sweetness,
a tender scent escapes her dress of blossoms.
On the heath, there blooms a little flower
and it's called Erika!
Back at home, there lives a maiden
and she's called Erika!
That girl is my faithful little darling
and my happiness. Erika!
When the heather blooms in a reddish purple,
I sing her this song in greeting.
On the heath, there blooms a little flower
and it's called Erika!
In my small chamber, there also blooms a little flower
and it's called Erika!
At dawn, it looks at me,
as does it at dusk. Erika!
And it is as if it spoke aloud:
"Don't you dare forget your little bride.
Back at home, a maiden weeps for you
and she's called Erika!"
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German original
Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein
und das heißt: Erika!
Heiß von hunderttausend kleinen Bienelein
wird umschwärmt Erika!
denn ihr Herz ist voller Süßigkeit,
zarter Duft entströmt dem Blütenkleid.
Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein
und das heißt: Erika!
In der Heimat wohnt ein kleines Mägdelein
und das heißt: Erika!
Dieses Mädel ist mein treues Schätzelein
und mein Glück, Erika!
Wenn das Heidekraut rot-lila blüht,
singe ich zum Gruß ihr dieses Lied.
Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein
und das heißt: Erika!
In mein'm Kämmerlein blüht auch ein Blümelein
und das heißt: Erika!
Schon beim Morgengrau'n sowie beim DämmerscheinTemplate:0
schaut's mich an, Erika!
Und dann ist es mir, als spräch' es laut:
"Denkst du auch an deine kleine Braut?"
In der Heimat weint um dich ein Mägdelein
und das heißt: Erika!
Beautiful reminds me of Edielweiss song🌼
If you don't know the origin, you could mistake it for an old folk song but it actually has been composed in the 1930s by a Oberstfeldmeister from the NS-Reichsarbeitsdienst
@@eljanrimsa5843 Wrote "If you don't know the origin, you could mistake it for an old folk song but it actually has been composed in the 1930s by a Oberstfeldmeister from the NS-Reichsarbeitsdienst"
What are you trying to say?
Are you saying that the song is a Nazi song?
@@pamspencer5733"Eidelweiss" was written for the musical!
Beautiful song..🙂
Thing is that as an American, I know that we weren’t exactly the best either (enter Iraqi war). Which is exactly why I personally think that in order for our nation to move on from our past atrocities we need to address them to the world and to our own citizens.
The difference is that almost no Germans defend Germany's actions in WW2. On the other hand I've seen Americans still defending the Iraq war. Even worse, I've seen people defend the Vietnam war.
The mentality is very different.
US even did something much worse in Vietnam, it's called "Agent Orange".
And I am still amaze it receive less popularity despite it's brutality
@@lotrlmao1648 it was the cold war that time was different than ours with different values
You are right. There’s no moving on from the past without acknowledging it, admitting it happened and atoning for it.
Germans want to be remembered only for the greats like Beethoven, Goethe, Einstein, but they want to erase Hitler from the history records which is disrespectful towards the millions of victims who were traumatized for life if they were lucky enough to have survived. Not to mention they haven’t paid the war reparations and haven’t given back what they have stolen. No, we can NOT just forget about it. Until that self-realization and owning up to their ancestors' crimes happens, the past is going to come back to haunt them.
Now look at what is happening today. They still want to dominate Europe through EU. They still want to tell the member states what they can or cannot do. And if the member states dont listen, they support all the sanctions to be imposed on them. They still support shutting down of businesses in other member states, like coal mines for example, while they keep opening their own, monopolising the member states. Seems like the same thing over again, just this time it is formally legal. Smart move.
And what ancestors are talking about? The many of those who are still alive and doing perfectly well, never having faced the consequences of the crimes they committed and living on pension paid for by the tax payers? And their pensions are ample, they live like kings. The german state rewards them for their crimes.
And may nobody tell me that Germans do not endorse what happened in WW2. I know germans who still believe in Hitler's propaganda justifying the invasions of other countries. They have no idea what really happened.
Not to mention that many of the older Germans now denouncing it and claiming they have never supported nazism, back then supported it en masse. That was the main party in Germany back then. They are still alive. Ask your Oma and Opa about their early life memories, what was their world view. You may be surprised what you'll hear if they even want to talk.
“Good guys can do anything rotten.”
Hawkeye (Alan Alda) Pierce, in an episode of M*A*S*H.
Japan: what evil side?
That's actually the real answer for such questions
@@Xyxz-q5lyes,its what all this soo called "Japanese war crimes" just stupid propoganda,after all,if Japanese bad and brutal then how bad and brutal Europeans are?
@@Xyxz-q5lthe evil side is always the one that lost. It's funny how things work out like that.
@@Xyxz-q5l dont be an Anime lover Japan is worst than Germany
Japan may not be as self-hating as Germany, but still lost sovereignty and national pride just like Germany.
1:07 You don't have to salute while calling your german friend.
But what it was A.H on other side? u have to !
Abe Simpson: "Where were you during the war?!"
German guy: "I wasn't born yet"
Abe Simpson: "ah.. it'impressive how many germans answer like that"
As a Ukrainian I spent 6 months in Germany before I accepted an offer from UK company. For the whole 6 months Germans only could raise the topic of war In Ukraine after 3-4 beers in a row because probably they know this topic reveals so many terrible emotions that it is not worth to touch. But In UK whenever Brits get to know that I'm Ukrainian 100 questions come up. How is ur family? How is ur friends? Was ur neighborhood bombed? I really do believe it is just curiosity and some sort of British small talk culture, but still pretty taught
@@Skinok_skin Ah man the crusades, good old times. Just let me get my old pictues.
@@Skinok_skin it would the most stupid scenario to answer actually. They are curious what is going on right now in Ukraine, and probably they would like to hear it out of Ukrainian, not from the news. Yeah, Brits in such questions are a bit more straight forward than Germans, they are ignoring the possibility that I just could lose someone in the war and maybe I don't want to talk about it with every stranger only to feed his curiosity
It's curiosity/empathy. By asking they want to show that they know what's happening and they care.
Yeah, honestly, as a German, I really try to avoid the war with the Ukrainians I talk to and let them start the topic if they want to. I'm relatively educated about the current events in the war (thanks to Denys Davidov), especially comparing my knowledge to basically everyone I know, and it's an interesting topic, but I really avoid it with Ukrainians. I don't want to make anyone feel uncomfortable because I know that what's happening already puts a big toll on them, so I don't need to immediately remind them whenever they managed to forget about the situation for a few seconds.
I feel you. That's why I didn't come to UK, because I had a feeling they would treat as some exotic thing , not caring for my emotions. That's so inappropriate to ask personal questions that can be triggering.
Meanwhile in Serbia "My dad is a war criminal"
Why are you spreading Anti-Serbian propaganda? This comment is hateful and hating. It is far from accurate. Are you some kind of crazy anti-Slavic hater?
@@gnekoneko1 I'm a moldovan anti-war hater. The price of NEUTRALITY
@@MisterAAnderson That makes you seem like a nice person. Stay safe in these turbulent times, don't let the Russians invade Moldova further than Transnistria.
And they can say about the war in Ukraine it's not just the Balkana gangstanovicha you know
Embrace history, don't hide it
They are not hiding it. Some of the concentration camps have been turned into museums (that's why the other guy wanted to go and see it), and they are learning about it in school.
It can still be uncomfortable for the Germans, if you insist on talking about their family's role in WW2 and the like.
@@Donnah1979 idk I don't think Germans should feel guilty for what happened. If Germans won, England, France and USA would now feel guilty. It's the winning side that writes the history books
@@hhhhhbztb Well, other parties did not yell they are willing to annihilate some nation. But yes, war crimes are what both sides do in the war, and there are no pure angels during such things.
@@hhhhhbztb But no nation should be forced to feel guilty, it's more about understanding your history, and other's history. There are no good and bad countries, just good and bad decisions, really bad sometimes, that need to be understood so that we don't do them twice
@@neogeor2011 the holocaust was the most systematically planed and efficient genocide in the history of mankind. they fucking made lamps and many other items out of jews skin, nothing else beats this kind of fucked up and cruel behaviour.
Well now, we have thousands of migrants from the Middle East who scream during demonstrations:
"Hamas, Hamas, jews belong into gas!"
And if you dare to critizise them, you're labeled NZI.
Isn't that disturbing?
What I find disturbing is the 40.000 woman and children murdered in Gaza, and not by Hamas......
It's ironic after all those in Germany from Africa and Asia aren't going to be at all fussed about WW2 goings on and can't be guilt tripped
@@jorgebarriosmur Source?
@@jorgebarriosmur Blame Hamas for starting the war. It is similar to this: there were millions of German civilians suffering in the WW2. Was it the alllies to be blamed for that or rather the German leaders who had started the war (with support of millions of German civilians, btw.)?
@@cosmaspragensis2363 Sorry but YOU started the war back in 1947.......never forget that........
I'm not German but I'm watching this video on December 20, 2024, a few hours after the shocking terrorist attack in Magdeburg in which a man crashed his car into a crowd at the Christmas market. At this point the media haven't yet announced the full body count. I think it's high time Germans stopped feeling guilty about WWII and started feeling guilty about their new state ideology of 'tolerance to the death' which leads to the sacrifice of their own population of good, kind, hard-working individuals. 😢 Wake up, people. You can still save your beautiful country and yourselves. 🙏🏻
Spot the "I have my own agenda so I'm going to completely change the subject and post something off topic" guy...
That murderer was ADF ... a group popular with some in djt's circle ( musk )
@@AceBadguy72No, he was an arab immigrant.
@@AceBadguy72no he was a radical Muslim from Saudi Arabia
His X account written in Arabic told many radical ideas
Now it's closed but independent journalists in Germany put in online to look
German media is lying just like Russian 😂 and everywhere
Rich German people make 5x the money renting to
" Flüchtlinge " migrants as they are called in Germany
Than renting to germans
Its a big big business that's why they want it to continue
In rich areas they are no migrants
No crime
Life is good for the rich as always
Poor people get the problems 😂
The k!ller was an atheist from Saudi Arabia, who requested political asylum in Germany. The Saudi government repeatedly requested his extradition, but Germany refused. He is a supporter of the Alternative for Germany party and calls for the expulsion of Muslims. What he did was a reaction to the German government, which has received millions of Muslim refugees from countries such as Syria...
“Will you please stop talking about the war!”
“You started it!”
“No we did not!”
“Yes you did, you invaded Poland!”
Aaah, "Basil!!!"
best refefrence evah
Japan casually invading manchuria: Sweating noises
Soviet who invaded Poland at the same time and ocuppy the land after the war ended
Soviet : We saved europe.
Lol the same awkward moment happens with my german friends when we pass neo nazi graffiti. I get the same awkward situation when I meet someone who is Italian and I say I am Ethiopian. And they apologise to me for the past, which is sweet but Im like er do you want me to tell my great grandma you're sorry? Cuz it's been a long time and hasnt affected me personally. Maybe someone else family experienced the trauma more in 5 year occupation but I guess it is good people are conscious of its existence and not have 'get over it' attitude towards it. It depends from person to person so I dont try to ask people unless they bring it up 😅
Ethiopia has the Ark of the Covenant so there's that.
In Spain, we had a civil war just before the WWII. It was an ugly mess. My grandfather refused to choose sides (and was punished for it after the war), while 3 of his brothers joined the republican side, and one the fascist one. Long story short, the fascists won, two brothers were executed , and one had to go to exile to avoid the same fate, while my grandfather spent 3 years in jail for the crime of not wanting to fight against his own family.
The brother on the "winner" side, seized all family properties, and ensured that the remaning relatives (except his wife and children) lived their lives in poverty, hardship, and humiliation.......... A decade ago, I went to the village where they were born to see the house where my grandfather and his brothers lived their childhood, and tried to reconect with that side of the family. It was imposible. They avoided me like I was going to ask them to give my grandfathers rightfull inheritance back! Don`t know if they are ashamed or hold a grudge against me and my side of the family. In my opinion, their only "crime" is to have loved their grandfather, and they are not accountable for his actions, but I never got to explain it to them........
1:32 So! That is where V2 rocket program went! :)
It went into the American space program.
@@wolfgangpagel6989 And the Soviet space program.
@@andymckay7803 Not that directly. Of course they profited but Wernher von Braun directly worked on the American space program with all his staff. Only after the Soviets launched their sattelte first.
I’m English but my Great Aunt in law was German, she used to be in the Hitler youth. She told me it was like the scouts, a lot of hikes in the valleys and camping, but there was a lot of Social Darwinism (bigger kids were virtually encouraged to bully weaker ones, with the logic being that the weak kids would toughen up or be left behind) and heavy amounts of racial science.
As a German i can confirm this would be our reaction to people asking how we feel about ww2
ANGEL MERKEL IS RESPONSABLE FOR NOT ACCEPTING UKRAINE IN NATO IN 2008. SO ARE ALL GERMANS WHO VOTED FOR HER (AND FOR GERARD SCHROEDER). IN NORD STREAM 2 YOU HAD BLOOD OF UKRAINIAN CHILDREN. DO GERMAN CHILDREN KNOW HOW MANY UKRAINIAN CHILDREN WERE RAPED BY RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ??
Also as a German, I wouldn't have a problem talking about it. Why should I? We talked about this stuff at school tons and tons and tons of times. I wasnt born yet, not even my parents were born.
Honestly, for me it makes no difference if someone is German, French or English..... Or Spanish & Portuguese. They all colonized countries and Germans had their moment with France and Poland and they enslaved people they deemed inferior. I don't personally find the Nazis unique for that at all. Concentration camps or plantations are all the same shit to me.
Concentration Camps are a British Invention for the Colonies !
Now France occupied a part of Germany and Poland a large part, they prosecuted Germans and forced them to become French/ Polish - and that was very long before the war. It is random to pick on Germans for such things today.
@@wolfgangpagel6989 Thank you ! This is how it is .
@@Taiyou536 Where are else did the British have concentration camps apart from those erected in South Africa between 1899-1902? (I note they were condemned by many in the UK at the time.)
@@wolfgangpagel6989 However the French did not rape, torture and murder the Germans for no other reason than they existed.
Most people I know learnt to lie "our ancestors did bad things, but mine was an exception☝️"
@@Ester_Brainheart i loved that program who do you think you are. Some people had family members who were degenerates and some people had family members who although didn’t go down in history were really brave and stood their ground in difficult times. John Stamos grandmother was a good example in a episode
Leave them alone for God's sake!
This generation is not responsible, damn it.
Now this is understandable and funny, but also a bit sad for me bc I'm a Russian currently genuinely interested in Germany's reception of war (and that's not just an idle curiosity, if you know what I mean 💀). Rn I'm studying Exil- und Kahlschlagliteratur (trying to improve my German at the same time) and seeking for strategies to get over grief and guilt. Maybe this is a kind of therapy for me. And as this is a sore subject for me, I would just randomly start talking abt it with almost every person I meet. And if they are Deutsche... I won't be able to keep my mouth shut at all :')
Go to a university and find some historians specializing in WW2 and the 30s and 40s in Germany. They will gladly discuss their research topics and opinions with you.
The US has done a lot but I don’t think they feel shame or guilt ( the government )
... you would be wrong , come to the US , there are many more voices speaking out on injustice than those who look the other way .
Nah we just don't give a damn in the USA. The USA has brought much more good into the world than bad, unlike Germany.
akward moment: When a person from Kosovo told me proudly that their grandfather was fighting for the SS in WW2 against serbian partizans and that the german occupation was the first time in history they didnt feel opressed
It was often like that.
A lot of people hated their neghbours more than the invaders, and were happy to join them, as long as they could leash out on the ones that "had been wronging them since before the dawn of civilization".
Kinda what happened to my spanish ancestors, when they arrived in Mexico. No way they could have defeated the mexicas (an empire that could field 100.000 warriors, if needed) with only 500 men, some war-dogs, horses, metal-swords and armours, and primitive arquebus. They only succeded because the rest of what is today Mexico hated the Mexica-confederation SO BADLY, that they joined the invaders in flocks, up to an army of tens of thousends of warriors........ (they probably regreted it later, but that`s another story)
@@jorgebarriosmurIm happy the Spanish invaded Mexico and convinced the other natives to join them because we would still be sacrifice people ….
Your channel makes me so happy … and I’m Polish ;), pls never stop these videos !
Glad to hear that^^ no intention of stopping 😄
As a person who is born in a nation with zero hard feelings toward Germany, I say now I can understand how annoying it is, have been all these years, besides if the new generation of Germany are responsible for what their ancestors did in the past, then we are all war criminals, and perhaps not a single nation is free of the guilt.
" I can understand how annoying it is", the video doesn't depict being annoyed, it's about being uncomfortable
@@koschmx So they must either be children at that time or they are at least 100 years old now. not that you are wrong, but all decision-makers and stage managers have been replaced multiple times.
@@tomservo5007 What's the difference?
@@koschmx I can understand the psychological impact of the global conflict that lingers to this day, all I was trying to say is that not every nation in the world hate Germany for WW2, the Soviets and the British invaded my country(Iran) that was not even an ally of axis powers, they committed all kind of atrocities, concentration camps, executions, burning down houses etc... they exploited the country's resources indiscriminately that caused famine and chaos that continued even for a few years after the war, it is interesting that nobody talks about that, perhaps because they were winner of the war the so called "GOOD GUYS". anyway my best wishes for Germany and its proud people, your nation deserves to be recognize by the masterful engineering, industry and its humble brilliant minds.
@@tomservo5007as a german i find it annoying i know it by now
As an Englishman, I thought I was immune from these questions. But then, somebody on Twitter asked me about The British Empire.
If you bring bad things up in a calm tone for a reason, it should be ok. But you should always be aware, what might be sensible.
You mthrfkr british are main culprit of All the ww1 and WW2 as well as colonialism you started al these
For me, Germany is Bach, not Hitler.
Greetings to Germany from Slovakia.
Thanks! - Slovakia was a german ally... But it is clearly better to talk about nice things. ;-)
So if all Germans should forever feel guilt, what must an english person feel for their empire?
And the Americans for slaves, Ku Klux Clan and murder of Native Americans.
The German governor of Poland said at Nuremberg that a thousand years could pass and Germany would still have guilt for what they did. I agree. But this is not unique to Germany. The British in their empire. Soviet Empire. Chinese empire. Japanese empire. Crusades. Conquistadors. Americans in Vietnam and Iraq (among other places). The nuclear arms race. "History is a catalogue of crimes." - Sting
@@markrobinowitz8473 The British Empire can rightly be criticised. However to see an equivalance with the German treatment of Poland and Poles is truly bizarre.
You see hans doesnt regret ww2. he regrets he lost.
I'm American but of German and English heritage, in 1997 my girlfriend and I went out with a group of her coworkers to a Japanese steak house and I was seated next to a guy from former East Germany...I was only curious and did not mean to place any guilt on him at all, he had nothing to do with it of course. After dinner when we were all walking down a long sidewalk that led to the parking lot I asked him something about ww2 and he immediately said I'm sorry if you had a grandfather that was killed in the war and ran away from me to his car. I felt horrible from bringing it up after that and my girlfriend yelled at me for asking. You guys really portrayed the reaction accurately. Wow
This guy is genius
Check out the Key & Peele 'I said biiiitch' skit if you like this
I have traveled a lot and the topic comes up in almost all conversations with new people. I never ever evaded the conversation or felt uncomfortable. Actually, I thought most Germans felt a weird sense of pride for the way the country tried to assume responsibility and acknowledge what happened. I was under the impression that most share stories of how they visited concentration camps in highschool.
Many European colonizers did same things all over the world. Germans just defeated them all initially.
For us, they all had same history of killings, british, German, spanish..
Do Americans feel guilty about Vietnam?
Only the cowardly ones just like the cowardly Germans feel guilty about ww2
we kinda dont talk about it, same with Iraq
It didn't involve wholesale murder of seven or eight million people based on race or religion, being gay, being handicapped, or just living in the wrong country. Or annexing any land. But most of us other than right wingers think that and Iraq were totally wrong and stupid.
Actually, YES, many of us do. Many of us, myself included, marched in protests to end the war. I was beaten by cops for my protests.
@@emjayayWhats, about the the american natives? How many dies, because occupation?
In 2040 you will be asking that to an Israeli.
asking today, too.
"Why don't you have a statue of Adolf Hitler anywhere?"
Adolf Hitler was a criminal. As far as I am informed there is no statue of Al Capone in the US.
I have the utmost respect for the German people today and feel that they should not feel guilty about something they had no part in but have learned the lessons that history tries to teach all of us....
I am from Bulgaria and all the german people who I know are ashamed because of Hitler and their past.I told them that we are not North Korea to judge people 3 generations backward or forward .Of course Modern people are innocent,but it is still difficult for Germans to forget. I hope one day Russians will feel the same shame because of Putler .
Every nation has done some messed up shit in the past, times were different with different values
The editing is so good
thanks^^
Just for the records: Hitler killed 20 million people, Stalin killed 30 million, and Mao killed 50 million.
I am German, and I don't feel ashamed at all. Why should I, I was born 30 years after the war ended.
But I know a lot about WW II and Hitler.
Russia lost 30 mln ppl in ww2, because of insane führer. And now you are lying about Stalin's repressions.
One difference is that Stalin and Mao mainly killed their own peoples. Hitler mainly killed the people of other nations.
There is a huge difference between killing people and get killed in a war.
Asked an old German questions like this when I was a kid.
He said "France was too good to be left to the French!"... 🙄😄👍
Some people say, Germans only apologized because they lost
winners never apologize 😅
@@RadicalLiving history is written by the winners
wrong. See the difference with WWI. French here. WWI and II are behind us just like Bismarck, Napoleon or Louis XVI. Our common enemy is clear and lies further east of Berlin and Warsaw.
Britain and France also caused several issues. Like pillaging other nations, taxing the poor, and being brutal to the uncivilised, which they call Barbadians or horrible people who don’t belong
Don't forget Belgium in the Kongo , Italy in Ethiopia , France in Algeria and UK half over the world - oh yes and Turkey with the Armenians .
@ Yeah yeah. That too
Undoubtedly Britain and France have cases to answer for their treatment of other peoples and nations. But they didn't kill people on a planned, industrial scale for no other reason than they existed.
I might be living in a different Germany but from what I have experienced for ALL my life Germans love to talk about the WW II, they love to read about it, they particularly love to watch movies and documentaries about it… there’s entire TV channels that seem devoted to this topic. I’ve never met anyone to shy away from the conversation… this video is highly confusing. Also, people need to stop with the ‘grandparents’ nonsense, today’s grandparents were born way after the war.
Both my grandfathers were fighting in that war. One lost his life later because of it.
@@wolfgangpagel6989 did he felt from watchtower in concentration camp when he been drunk?
It makes it even better that he has blond hair and blue eyes
I don’t talk to that many Germans. But if I was I wouldn’t really mention World War 2 unless the conversation was naturally brought up. I do think German history is quite fascinating and I like to learn bits and pieces of it. :)
Your humor is so brave and original !! Excellent! 👍
0:38 the way you filmed it as if there were 2 identical motorbikes in the garage 😂
maybe there were 😋
That Erika song was a true plot twist . I expected something like this and I am not disappointed 🤣
Meanwhile, serbian sings proudly about his war criminal father
Satirical, I realize, but the unwillingness of any Germans to talk about the war is understandable. Years ago I assisted teaching English to German students and I was told to ask them about the war. They hated every minute of it and told me that at the time they had lessons about it almost every day. It may be different now, as this was a very long time ago, but imagine if a close relative of yours had been a violent criminal, but served his full prison sentence and decades later people still thought it was okay to ask you how you felt about the relative's behaviour.
One thing Germans have taught me: Don't always follow orders.
There is a very dark joke in Austria - a country that was in in much greater denial than Germany after the war - about the participation of our ancestors. When someone brings it up you'd say: "Well you know, my Great-Grandfather too died in a Concentration Camp." "WHAT! I am so sorry! How did this happen?". "He was drunk and fell from the watchtower".
😂😂😂
Ein Kollege von mir ist Italiener. Eines Tages arbeiteten wir schließlich zusammen und ich sagte: "Okay! Achsenmächte im Haus!" Viele übersehen, dass Italien auch eine Achsenmacht war.😏
Блин у меня тоже был случай я поздравлял с 9 мая свою подругу из Германии.
Она сказала они не празднуют этот день и её дедушка был электриком во время войны , две молнии на мундире.
Germany acknowledges the dark part of their history. Canada recently did too. It's about time the U.S. did.
Idk.. last time i was reading a German comment about ww2 he said that poles stole their lands and they should take it back 💀
There were german soldiers who were honorable and even did some heroic deeds. Why always point out the bad. Germany was suffering greatly from Versailles treaty. Did any allied nations have mercy on them and help them.? These self righteousness people created the conditions for hitler amd ww2. It is you who should feel guilty. Why didnt allies help german resistance? The victors write history, so the good done by germans usually overlooked.
Nothing like guilting a nation that lost millions of innocent people for lies written by the winners.
Don't worry the Turks Somali Vietnamese etc in Germany won't be inheriting it at all
Millions of Germans fought with desperate courage.
People forget that it was a Dictatorship !
I was born and raised in the United states. The town I live in has a lot of German culture (I too have German heritage), but due to our Academic requirements the holocaust is a big thing to learn in 8th grade, while the rest of the war is in World History class in the high school.
In Germany, they told us actually not that much about WWII in history class, cause it was "just the war" but they told us A LOT about the rise of the NSDAP and the holocaust cause its more important nowadays than the war
@@fevohav14 yeah we do a lot of in depht analysis on how the nazis got power, about what they did to people during the shoah and the war is just not important
Holocaust in Yiddish means burnt off and not genocide.
@@UltimateXsusanno200 my history teacher says that's why we should say Shoah, apparently that means something like a big bad (?)
I´m German and I don`t feel guilty! I was born in 1960! 😉👍
It's one thing to be - again and again - tought about the failure of the German people 80 years ago and another to damn your own grandfather, because he fought on the wrong side in WW II.
The irony that Von Braun was an SS officer who used concentration camp labor
But the USA did not care as long as he was useful for them ! Same with other War Criminals !
It must be really awkward to introduce yourself as a German from Argentina..
😅 better not tell them your last name
So few people will actually get the dark humour at the end. Nice touch.
it's all about the details 😄
@@RadicalLiving Ja, so ist das mit den Kleinigkeiten. Das Stuek mit dem Serbe war ausgezeichnet.
My grandpa returned from the War with one leg. Years later after his death we could not find out whose leg it was.
germans are probably the most educated about it cuz while most countries mainly learn their countries involvement in ww2 and ww1 ie america and japan focusing on the nukes, germans go in extensive detail on it from every side