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Totally glad you mentioned Mrs kor. I meet her on a field trip. She was a great lady. You should do a video on her. Her story was horrific but great at the same time!
It's terrible that this good man lost his ability to think and remember correctly. Alzheimer's not only takes these away, it denigrates what's left. I hope he has found peace.
I agree. I was going to say something similar. My grandpa's friend has Alzheimer's; his friend grew up in the Bronx and was involved in crime a lot through out his youth. Now, he's 70-80 and lives in Florida. His brain is convinced he's still in the Bronx. When my grandpa and him get coffee, he looks out the window and starts getting upset at how much "NYC has changed." Its really upsetting to be around, and it's really upsetting to even hear about. I couldn't imagine going through that. But I don't think he deliberately did it to expose himself as an evil man, I think his brain just convinced him he was still back in that time. I think he was a good guy, and he probably did say a lot of that nasty stuff while being a doctor to keep his career, not because he thought it was true.
@@chompchompchangbin Alzheimer's robs a person of so much of who they were. It's a terrible disease, and I've heard so many stories of those whose loved-ones suffered from it. They don't recognize their own family, their surroundings, and their behavior can shift completely. A friend of mine who's caring for her mother, tells me that her mom even becomes violent - which is the total opposite to how she was before onset of Alzheimer's, when she was always gentle and patient. This poor man was, no doubt, recalling what he heard and saw, and his damaged mind pulled him into that experience.
some of his "quotes" just straight up gave me goosebumps. it seems the man tried his best to save people, as a doctor should, while being stationed in the litteral hell on earth. what a man.
I believe that Covid19 is actually stirring hatred against people who don’t believe it and refuse to comply. I wish people would wake up and see that the same old prejudices are being awakened in people. It’s easy to look back at the Holocaust and view it in a rather fictional way. The Holocaust didn’t just pop out of nowhere, there was a long process that built up to it. And we need to study not just the outcome but the process that led to it if we want to make sure it never happens again. Remember that people were already angry and oppressed by the Great Depression and the consequences levied on the German nation through reparations. Social unrest was everywhere and you only have to have a very mild antisemetic attitude and it’s enough to be fanned into a raging fire of hatred. So who are the “New Jews” ready for social segregation and from segregation to loosing there rights to even buy food from the shops and unable to travel and from there to forced quarantine. And once they have been all shipped off to quarantine then to be never heard of again? It’s all the new undesirables, those who don’t comply and those who refuse to wear masks and those who are conspiracy theorists and especially the Christians who won’t conform. It’s sounding very similar isn’t it. But we are already very far down the road to this happening right here in old Blighty 🇬🇧 and America 🇺🇸 who will raise there voices to this New and Terrifying machine that’s starting look not to dissimilar to Nazi Germany 🇩🇪.
I worked with patients challenged with dementia, Alzheimer and other organic brain diseases and can say with confidence that what Dr. Hans was saying during his advanced age is absolutely fitting with his diagnosis and I seriously doubt a lucid Dr. Hans would feel this way. I personally admire him and this short documentary brought a tear to my eyes. In my experience it is the small, often overlooked acts of kindness that touch people the most not the big. grand gestures. May he rest in peace along with the millions murdered in the name of fascism and racism.
fascism is race-neutral. It's national socialism that incorporates the race aspect, with the volk. Fascism is based on the nation, which any race can live in. Fascism is corporatism in its extreme, with the nation being one giant union everyone is in. It's basically the exact same thing but the race is the nation instead of a national identy. Blut und boden
@@AR15andGODyou're kind of right. Choosing the Jews, which happened all over Europe and Russia, was a racial move. They're a religion, yes, but most are ethnically Jewish too
I feel Stigler’s case is very different. It was more respect for a fellow pilot and his refusal to shoot a ‘downed’ plane. Albeit, it’s great to hear these stories in such a bleak time
@@wolfgangwust5883 Don't kid yourself, that's how "journalists" work in general. If you think the left or right is more guilty than the other, you're probably a sheep.
"Not all Germans were Nazis and not all Nazis were German". Dr Münch was I feel a patriotic German who did his best to guard his charges against the worst aspects of the Final Solution. That survivors of that horrific genocidal regime were prepared to vouch for his humanity is testimony itself.
I agree, but I think finding faith in humanity is akin to finding garbage arranged in a beautiful pattern. You can see that it is beautifully arranged (which is nice), but as a whole in the end, it is still a pile of garbage.
@@okidokiliteratureclub706RH doesn't have to be violent or painful or even obvious at all. Just over time the number of desirable healthy people increases steadily while the others gradually fade into the background. Where they are not at all missed and eventually not remembered.
In the Documentary "The Last Days of the Nazis," Hans Munch is one of the people they chose to dramatize. They did this by using transcripts from people's interrogations after the war. It's very well done, and worth a watch.
Worked in Chicago with a man that was born in Germany. We were tradesman. Hanging doors in office skyscraper all day. So you talk to make the hours go by. I asked him how the Nazis could make regular Germans turn into cold blooded killers. He asked me if I knew what the SS was. I told him I heard of them but not really certain who they were. I was a young man at the time. About 20. He told me all about the SS. And that when they came to his parents village towards the end of WW2 they rounded up the villagers and put them to work in a factory. All the fighting age men were already at the front I guess. And his parents were older. He told me that in this factory you were allowed 2 mistakes in the processing of whatever they were making. The first mistake was a warning. Upon making the second mistake the SS men would come in. Take you to the back of the factory and put a bullet in your brain I didn’t know what to say to that so I told him that I wouldn’t last until break time before they came to kill me to just make a joke about it and cut the tension a little bit. If this is how they treated their own people. The Jews and others didn’t stand a chance.
I believe that Covid19 is actually stirring hatred against people who don’t believe it and refuse to comply. I wish people would wake up and see that the same old prejudices are being awakened in people. It’s easy to look back at the Holocaust and view it in a rather fictional way. The Holocaust didn’t just pop out of nowhere, there was a long process that built up to it. And we need to study not just the outcome but the process that led to it if we want to make sure it never happens again. Remember that people were already angry and oppressed by the Great Depression and the consequences levied on the German nation through reparations. Social unrest was everywhere and you only have to have a very mild antisemetic attitude and it’s enough to be fanned into a raging fire of hatred. So who are the “New Jews” ready for social segregation and from segregation to loosing there rights to even buy food from the shops and unable to travel and from there to forced quarantine. And once they have been all shipped off to quarantine then to be never heard of again? It’s all the new undesirables, those who don’t comply and those who refuse to wear masks and those who are conspiracy theorists and especially the Christians who won’t conform. It’s sounding very similar isn’t it. But we are already very far down the road to this happening right here in old Blighty 🇬🇧 and America 🇺🇸 who will raise there voices to this New and Terrifying machine that’s starting look not to dissimilar to Nazi Germany 🇩🇪.
I got a lot of anxiety when I he was on trial. Because I thought he would get abandoned by the men and women he saved. Jesus Christ, you don't know how relieved I was when he wasn't killed.
God Bless Dr. Hans Münch and Albert Günther Göring and all lives lost and affected by this hideous act. Thank you for telling and sharing these stories of need to know history.
And Heinz Heydrich. He was initially an enthusiastic Nazi, but when he learned about the Holocaust after his brother's death, he resolved to help as many Jews as he could. He committed suicide in 1944 when he thought the Gestapo had caught onto his actions in order to protect his family from being sent to the camps. In truth, they never suspected a thing.
It was nice to know that there were actual decent people in these camps. It also highlights how degenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s can really impair one’s judgment
Another John Rabe or Schindler, Love video like this. It shows how benality can allows atrocities to happen and the how good people even when powerless can still resist or fight back, but most importantly it shows the complexity and difficulties of such positions and the confusing nature of one's humanity.
My initial (uneducated) thought is that his alzheimers made him revert to the false persona he absolutely had to adopt in order to not only survive but to continue trying to help. His final interviews imo only attest to the horror this decent man must have had to endure all thru his life. I hope a movie is made that honour him someday..
On the one hand I feel that the German people were complicit in the holocaust and should feel shame for that, but on the other hand and I can only imagine how terrible it was living in Nazi Germany. I often wonder what I would have done. I think most people would play along to keep themselves and their family safe
@@yoloswaggins7121 I guarantee you'd and many more would go along. That's how the human mind goes. You will object but go along with it and perhaps even delude yourself into agreeing eventually. The core want of all people is to have or strive for a content life. That's it. And if it was being a nazi or being imprisoned or worse. Most would be a nazi.
Good observation, I think that was likely the case as well. His mind had deteriorated and he has likely assumed he had to put on a cover to protect himself from forces that no longer existed
@@yoloswaggins7121 not all nazis were german and not all germans were nazis. Sadly most people tend to forget that, because they only see the surface (aka my side vs your side), even with stuff that happens today, right now as we speak (Rus - Ukr, Venezuela- Colombia, Spain- Cataluña) Thats why history its really important, yet never taken seriously by those in real power.
I get irritated with animated Simon and his slapping. then I come here or to his other channels such as xplord and then I get mad because where is all the drama and flare LOL
Thank you for this. Without doubt, too far left and too far right are often swung by intempered human ego when feeling anxious and lost. Hatred breeds hatred. But, empathy with love always looks to find connection. And the crazy thing? Nearly every single one of us knows this ... but fear and anxiety can lead us astray and march us into hate. We must all stand guard at the door of our minds.
With what’s happening in Texan schools right now, it’s kinda surprising that y’all haven’t done a video on Sophie scholl. Please do a video on her and her brother. Their stories are amazing and sad.
Bernard Simon Whistlervitz was born to a middle class family outside of Omaha, Nebraska. He was often teased in school for his premature bald head and facial hair. This hardship led him to develop a smooth, but phony British accent. He would also adorn trendy, but understated clothing.
As a gay, disabled, descendant of Romanis affected by the Holocaust I was very hesitant to click on this video. I believe with my entire soul that the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. But I have clearly only thought in today’s standards. Today bein a Nazi is an informed decision. They know exactly who they are and what their group has done/wants to do. But back then it seems so much more nuanced. Can we even call that man a Nazi when everything he did defies the regime? I personally don’t believe so he used his status to save others even though it could’ve gotten him killed at any time. A good man. A horrible Nazi.
my grandma had experiments done on her in Auschwitz. They cut open her back and did somethings. She never went into detail, as she had horrible ptsd from the war. But it made her back permanently deformed, and she walked with a hunch afterwards. Its a shock she didn't die of infection after they sent her back to her barracks. She lived to be 100. She had a long life, and a tough life. Life after the war wasn't easy neither. Communism took over and that opened a whole new can of worms.
I been reading Park Yeonmi's work and watching her channel. I need this video to alleviate some of the pain and horror. Thank you Basement team and Simon xxx
People who support the Nazis today must be calling him a coward and a traitor.. But it takes a lot of courage and humanity to keep one's morals in such an environment as Auschwitz of all things.. God bless him..
There is a book by Wm H. Burke “Thirty Four the Key to Goerings Last Secret” about his brother Albert who saved countless Jews at risk to his own life.
I still don’t understand how some people still don’t believe in the horrors of what happened in those camps. Everytime I hear someone deny it my blood boils
Simon. As time goes on and i watch more of your videos on the various platforms you host, i like and respect you more and more, for the passion you show and the anger that bubbles up, over the myriad of disgusting human behaviour over time immemorial.
I’ve been studying the Holocaust for quite some time, I plan on majoring in it for when I eventually go for my masters and one day perhaps teach it to future generations. I’m always learning something new and your videos definitely help me stay in the pursuit of knowledge on the subject of the Holocaust.
@@Mixedpixie at the college I go to they have a Holocaust/Genocide studies masters program and I really want to take that up when I eventually go for my masters then as my minor go for Jewish studies. for now I’m a history major minoring in Holocaust/Genocide studies
Could you do a segment on Dr Hans Conrad Julius Reiter? He was a relative of mine and an SS doctor who served in KZ camps. He named the disease Morbus Reiter (a form of arthrhitis). Would like your take on it
I was not aware of this good man, I'm sorry to hear dementia in the end robbed him of what little peace he might have had in his experiences. It is sadly so that we are all at heart very evil and it takes a genuine act of will to be good. As a doctor myself I have witnessed time and again the loss of intellect to dementia and in the process the loss of the veneer of good much to the horror of relatives who can't understand why the lovely person they remember has become so horrible in their confusion - the pleasantly demented elder person is sadly a very rare exception. If I might say anything positive it is in spite of our darker nature revealed in Dr Münch's last days his life and actions demonstrated that even in the worst of circumstances we can all choose to be good. As an aside I would also contend that his actions are proof that while each of us might point to reasons for the things we do there are never any excuses. We each live by the tolerance and forgiveness of others only.
That is not true. Dementia ‘reveals’ nothing. Dementia is brain damage and literally damages the parts of your brain that are your goodness, empathy, etc. It changes you, not reveals you.
Such atrocities and inhumane atmosphere would certainly have negative effects even to the most saintly of person. Maybe not immediately, but gradually... Subconsciously.
There is a similar story about a Nazi female prison guard who was fired from her position at a concentration camp and ejected from the Nazi Party for being too nice to the female prisoners for refusing to beat them and attempting to ease their suffering. I can't remember her name.
I’m so glad this man was completely acquitted of all charges, as I think he perfectly exemplifies the attitude of the articles drafted by the Geneva Convention. He did *not* “just follow orders”. He saw the grotesque acts being asked of him for what they were, and deliberately acted against them with little regard for his own personal safety. He valued human lives over his own skin. And I absolutely DETEST that this is the first I’ve ever heard of him.
I found it really strange that as a man who has a great passion for the history of WW2 and read a lot about it, today is the first time I have ever read about this great man.
Hmm it is interesting in his later years that he justified the medical experiments. Was that just confusion from Alzheimer's or was he revealing his true thoughts. I hope it was the former rather than the latter.
Yes, but he was also a lier or better said, he never admitted, that he exactly knew what the Nazis would do to jews and other people. Hitlers speeches about the Holocaust were printed in all regional papers and were played on radio. His rapid advancement in the Nazi system show that he was nothing more than an opportunist, who couldnt turn off his empathy in the end.
Well just remember that in pretty much any war the winners write the history and that propaganda like how evil the germans were is often just that propaganda.
Or he could have genuinely become an anti-Semite after being entirely surrounded by them for years. People don´t realize that there is a lot of space between "I don´t particularly love these people." and "I want them all to be gassed." When you read some of the stuff Abraham Lincoln said about black people, you almost start wondering which side of the Civil War he was on. Most people, especially the more naive ones, like to think about the world in binary terms, but in reality, there are way more shades of grey than we like to admit.
@@jirkazalabak1514 that's an extremely good point about Lincoln. I still think he was an amazing president but he did live over 150 plus years ago. We can't compare modern view points to one's 50 years ago let alone 3 times that.
My mother, who had worked with dementia patients for much of her career, had a saying: "The mean ones turn nice, and the nice ones turn mean." My grandmother had Alzheimer's, and it changed her from being a sweet woman to cursing like a sailor and flying into rages. It did not surprise me when Simon started talking about the change in attitude in the last interviews. I am sure that much of what he said came from deeply rehearsed lines meant to keep him safe in his position at Auschwitz so he could continue to help the prisoners. Like Simon said earlier: his kindness and respect to the prisoners was noticed and remarked upon, and that was dangerous for him and everyone he was trying to help.
The twist at the end with Alzheimer's is heartbreaking. He was an actual human being who did what most couldn't stomach and went through all of that just to help as many people as he could. I really hope there's a heaven. This man deserves a spot there.
Heaven always came off to me as worst than death/non-existence honestly. I mean... Eternity? No matter how pretty and nice it is seems like torture. Ha
My friend, there IS a Heaven, and YOU can go there! 😊🙏❤️ Just trust in the Lord Jesus Christ with all of your soul, all of your mind, and all of your strength, and you shall see Him in paradise!
This man wasn’t a GOOD person. It’s a myth. It’s proven that he had a choice when he arrived at Auschwitz’s! They explained that they burnt around a thousand people daily and his wife asked him to please go back with her to Berlin and he refused. He said in statements that he stayed because the working condition was right and the equipment was great. He saved people but it wasn’t out of kindness. He is sick and should’ve been in prison for life.
Good point. I just watched an interview with a woman arguing that Nike and some other companies are wrong for including young girls with headscarves in their commercials and on their products. So I'm wondering what exactly is she suggesting when she says something like that?
We are repeating history right now here in the US. Almost everything that happened in Germany leading up to the third reich is happening again. Listen to the way the government is talking, its almost identical to what Hitler spoke of in Mein Kampf. Its frightening.
Maybe when he had Alzheimer's he became confused and thought he was still in WWII and that he was being interviewed by an SS affiliated reporter to test his 'loyalty' so he played along to not bust his cover
I cannot think of how utterly paralyzing it must feel seeing hundreds and even thousands die right in front of you and you really are helpless to do anything about it.
i think your wrong being a prisoner is the worst way to be in this but being a sane empathetic person trying to help those at risk to yourself is no different unless you take into account the choice he had over the prisoners but ultimately he could have ended up in the same situation off handed comments like this are how things spiral into the depraved @@omarcepeda9121
So I work with the elderly and there's a saying, "you become what you weren't." When talking about alzhimers what this means is that a generally happy and up beat person become angry. Generally also think of it like this when you take care of them its not the 80something man you're taking care of its his 24 year old mind. So honestly while surprised that he said that I don't think he was ever truly like that. It was probably an act that he put up when talking to the other ss personal.
I was thinking the same thing. Things that create an impression with Alzheimer's patients can sometimes crop up incorrectly. He was accused of injecting malaria and the accusation was probably greater in impact than the act of *not* doing it. So the Swiss cheese brain pushes it into an act he did do, and then he had to justify it after the fact
I met Eva Moses Kor before her death. She honestly is one of the most amazing people I’ve ever met. I have chills just thinking about our conversation together.
I got to hear her twice, in person. It seemed clear to me she would probably die while giving a speech somewhere. When she died, she was in Krakow taking a tour of people to see the Auschwitz museum, but she did NOT die at the camp. We all die at some point and I was a bit amused by the fact she died doing her life's work but not at the camp. I love her teachings on forgiveness (different from forgetting). Humbling and powerful.
my history teacher was hoping to have her come speak to some of his classes but unfortunately she passed before it could happen. We did at least get to watch a video of her speaking
My father died last year and suffered from dementia... I can attest that there were huge mental changes, he would entertain ideas that he would have violently resisted only a few years before. The man who I called dad died many years before his physical body did, the person who I cared for, nursed and finally buried last year aged 89 was a totally different person.
I’m so glad to see compassion and understanding about what Alzheimers does to a person...it ran rampant in my mother’s family. My grandparents first fled to America during the Pogroms from Ukraine, and sadly during the war the rest of their family was murdered by the Nazi’s in trucks & ditches. I don’t think it was right for the French to effectively erase all the decent things Münch tried to do during and after the war based on the rantings of a sick old man. They should have never let him do the interview.
Truth be told he probably didn’t remember why those things were wrong, but he still remembered what happened, without the context of our lives we’d default on that which we know This man’s trauma was so deep that when everything else was taken from him, it consumed him, and I find that sad It’s like he was mirroring the men he remembered, because he couldn’t remember himself
To be one person and know you alone cannot stop the atrocities, but to put yourself on the 'wrong side' in terms of the nazi's by helping as many people as possible is admirable. To do as much as you could, all while knowing if youre found out youre dead and then there will also be no one to help the prisoners, it must have been a constant feeling of terror
It blows my mind that anyone could use the word admirable to describe this man, It would be laughable if it wasn’t so pathetic that people can praise or make excuses for someone that did such horrible things.
@@amberowen2004 What horrible things did he do? He was a medical doctor, not a Mengele 2, and he saved some of the prisoners You can deel him guilty for having joined the SS in the first place but I would say that actions speaks louder than his membership
@amberowen2004 didn’t they conclude that he didn’t inject his patients at the trials? What did you expect him to do become Superman single handedly defeat the nazis and save everyone? The man did the best he could to help as many people as he could at the camp and claiming that doesn’t matter is just ignorant.
@@amberowen2004what the nazis did was horrible but I think what this guy did to alleviate and help people, if this story is to be believed, is surely admirable because he did good things to help people when everyone around him were so, so, so horrible
@amberowen2004 if that’s really what you think, then you don’t understand how the world works. Good people do horrible things all of the time, but they don’t do them with glee, that is the difference. There is more testimony of his goodness than there is his role in the atrocities that were going to happen with or without him there to mitigate the damage as much as one man can, better to stay, knowing you at least won’t get off on whatever pain circumstances force you to inflict the way others would, making things orders of magnitude worse for the victims. When evil wins it isn’t because good does nothing, it’s because good blindly acts out of emotion, and winds up eating it, whereas evil plays the long game. This is the long game, this is keeping yourself out of trouble & free so you can keep saving lives, rather than taking a high moral stand every time you’re presented with the opportunity, and eating it accordingly. You’re the type of person who would give away the fact that you’d broken enigma by trying to stop every German attack & save every single allied life, and enigma would be changed, throwing out your advantage; rather than allowing most Nazi attacks to succeed or fail on their own merits, and only acting on your super secret intel when your war effort depends on it. Part of truly being able to have a lasting good effect on this world is knowing when & how to act, Dr. Münch understood this.
A fitting name indeed. I grew up thinking everyone of the ss officers was bad. To hear this at a time where tensions are high was refreshing and gives hope for the future.
@@reymilocuevas3485 If you watch documentaries about the concentration camps, the talk about how working there, killing thousands of people, was having a bad psychological effect on them. The guards were getting drunk every night and acting out off duty. While I think most of the SS guards should be held accountable for their actions in taking part in the camps, not all of them were like Mengeles.
Eva Moses Kor is really interesting person as well. I read her book. She chooses to forgive Nazis she meets despite everything done to her and her sister. She is a very brave and kind human.
It’s something hard to do. My great grandfather fought in WWII and he had a distrust for Germans for awhile. I honestly don’t know if he ever got over it.
I never heard of her before now. Her story somewhat reminds me of Corrie Ten Boom. She and her family worked to hide the Jews in the Netherlands and were eventually caught and sent to prison and eventually Ravensbruck. He lost both her father and her sister. Eventually, later in life, she ran into one of the former guards of Ravensbruck and decided to forgive him.
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3 days ago??
@@surrreallll That's weird.
Wait... 3 days ago?
Simon, if you haven't done Hitlers brother yet. You should, its a very interesting story when you compare the two. Chalk and cheese.
Totally glad you mentioned Mrs kor. I meet her on a field trip. She was a great lady. You should do a video on her. Her story was horrific but great at the same time!
It's terrible that this good man lost his ability to think and remember correctly. Alzheimer's not only takes these away, it denigrates what's left. I hope he has found peace.
I could say if any thing lets hope it helped him for get the horas he faced while surving at the camp.
@@johns3544 Yes, absolutely.
I agree. I was going to say something similar. My grandpa's friend has Alzheimer's; his friend grew up in the Bronx and was involved in crime a lot through out his youth. Now, he's 70-80 and lives in Florida. His brain is convinced he's still in the Bronx. When my grandpa and him get coffee, he looks out the window and starts getting upset at how much "NYC has changed."
Its really upsetting to be around, and it's really upsetting to even hear about. I couldn't imagine going through that. But I don't think he deliberately did it to expose himself as an evil man, I think his brain just convinced him he was still back in that time. I think he was a good guy, and he probably did say a lot of that nasty stuff while being a doctor to keep his career, not because he thought it was true.
@@chompchompchangbin Alzheimer's robs a person of so much of who they were. It's a terrible disease, and I've heard so many stories of those whose loved-ones suffered from it. They don't recognize their own family, their surroundings, and their behavior can shift completely. A friend of mine who's caring for her mother, tells me that her mom even becomes violent - which is the total opposite to how she was before onset of Alzheimer's, when she was always gentle and patient. This poor man was, no doubt, recalling what he heard and saw, and his damaged mind pulled him into that experience.
Me too
some of his "quotes" just straight up gave me goosebumps. it seems the man tried his best to save people, as a doctor should, while being stationed in the litteral hell on earth. what a man.
"The Good Man of Auschwitz." Not a title I expected to see.
I believe that Covid19 is actually stirring hatred against people who don’t believe it and refuse to comply. I wish people would wake up and see that the same old prejudices are being awakened in people. It’s easy to look back at the Holocaust and view it in a rather fictional way. The Holocaust didn’t just pop out of nowhere, there was a long process that built up to it. And we need to study not just the outcome but the process that led to it if we want to make sure it never happens again. Remember that people were already angry and oppressed by the Great Depression and the consequences levied on the German nation through reparations. Social unrest was everywhere and you only have to have a very mild antisemetic attitude and it’s enough to be fanned into a raging fire of hatred. So who are the “New Jews” ready for social segregation and from segregation to loosing there rights to even buy food from the shops and unable to travel and from there to forced quarantine. And once they have been all shipped off to quarantine then to be never heard of again? It’s all the new undesirables, those who don’t comply and those who refuse to wear masks and those who are conspiracy theorists and especially the Christians who won’t conform. It’s sounding very similar isn’t it. But we are already very far down the road to this happening right here in old Blighty 🇬🇧 and America 🇺🇸 who will raise there voices to this New and Terrifying machine that’s starting look not to dissimilar to Nazi Germany 🇩🇪.
@@alexandercarder2281 I could not agree more!
@@alexandercarder2281 absolutely well put
Same here...
@@alexandercarder2281 sir this is a wendys
I worked with patients challenged with dementia, Alzheimer and other organic brain diseases and can say with confidence that what Dr. Hans was saying during his advanced age is absolutely fitting with his diagnosis and I seriously doubt a lucid Dr. Hans would feel this way. I personally admire him and this short documentary brought a tear to my eyes. In my experience it is the small, often overlooked acts of kindness that touch people the most not the big. grand gestures. May he rest in peace along with the millions murdered in the name of fascism and racism.
fascism is race-neutral. It's national socialism that incorporates the race aspect, with the volk. Fascism is based on the nation, which any race can live in. Fascism is corporatism in its extreme, with the nation being one giant union everyone is in. It's basically the exact same thing but the race is the nation instead of a national identy. Blut und boden
Dementia is rough, and Hans Münch was an absolute baller.
@@AR15andGODyou're kind of right. Choosing the Jews, which happened all over Europe and Russia, was a racial move. They're a religion, yes, but most are ethnically Jewish too
The stories of Hans Münch, Oakar Schindler and Franz Stigler warms my heart to see a few decent men against such reckless hate.
I feel Stigler’s case is very different. It was more respect for a fellow pilot and his refusal to shoot a ‘downed’ plane. Albeit, it’s great to hear these stories in such a bleak time
Seems pretty exploitative to interview a 90 year old man suffering from Alzheimer, and then to go ahead and publish his rantings.
That's how lefty "journalists" work in Germany.
@@wolfgangwust5883 Don't kid yourself, that's how "journalists" work in general. If you think the left or right is more guilty than the other, you're probably a sheep.
@@HoodieProduction the left is more guilty. Educate yourself.
@@honda-akari 🐑
@@honda-akari Guilty of what?
"Not all Germans were Nazis and not all Nazis were German". Dr Münch was I feel a patriotic German who did his best to guard his charges against the worst aspects of the Final Solution. That survivors of that horrific genocidal regime were prepared to vouch for his humanity is testimony itself.
Well technically he was still a nazi
Same as Claus Von Staufenberg
@@e_e9496 He most definitely was.
If an SS-Officer, taking part at the Holocaust, in what role ever, can't be called a nazi, whom can?
@@yannick245 A good nazi, I guess
@@felixc.3444 A Notzi.
This has got to be my new favorite episode. It restored a little bit of my faith for humanity
I agree, but I think finding faith in humanity is akin to finding garbage arranged in a beautiful pattern.
You can see that it is beautifully arranged (which is nice), but as a whole in the end, it is still a pile of garbage.
These biographies are always interesting, but this one was uniquely informative. I'd never heard of this man. I'm glad I know of him now. Thank you.
“Hygiene institute.” Damn that sounds so sinister
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*Racial* hygiene is what's terrifying, that just sounds like a normal hospital
@@okidokiliteratureclub706RH doesn't have to be violent or painful or even obvious at all. Just over time the number of desirable healthy people increases steadily while the others gradually fade into the background. Where they are not at all missed and eventually not remembered.
In the Documentary "The Last Days of the Nazis," Hans Munch is one of the people they chose to dramatize. They did this by using transcripts from people's interrogations after the war. It's very well done, and worth a watch.
Worked in Chicago with a man that was born in Germany. We were tradesman. Hanging doors in office skyscraper all day. So you talk to make the hours go by.
I asked him how the Nazis could make regular Germans turn into cold blooded killers.
He asked me if I knew what the SS was. I told him I heard of them but not really certain who they were. I was a young man at the time. About 20. He told me all about the SS. And that when they came to his parents village towards the end of WW2 they rounded up the villagers and put them to work in a factory. All the fighting age men were already at the front I guess. And his parents were older.
He told me that in this factory you were allowed 2 mistakes in the processing of whatever they were making. The first mistake was a warning. Upon making the second mistake the SS men would come in. Take you to the back of the factory and put a bullet in your brain
I didn’t know what to say to that so I told him that I wouldn’t last until break time before they came to kill me to just make a joke about it and cut the tension a little bit.
If this is how they treated their own people. The Jews and others didn’t stand a chance.
Well theres a title I never thought I'd read
I believe that Covid19 is actually stirring hatred against people who don’t believe it and refuse to comply. I wish people would wake up and see that the same old prejudices are being awakened in people. It’s easy to look back at the Holocaust and view it in a rather fictional way. The Holocaust didn’t just pop out of nowhere, there was a long process that built up to it. And we need to study not just the outcome but the process that led to it if we want to make sure it never happens again. Remember that people were already angry and oppressed by the Great Depression and the consequences levied on the German nation through reparations. Social unrest was everywhere and you only have to have a very mild antisemetic attitude and it’s enough to be fanned into a raging fire of hatred. So who are the “New Jews” ready for social segregation and from segregation to loosing there rights to even buy food from the shops and unable to travel and from there to forced quarantine. And once they have been all shipped off to quarantine then to be never heard of again? It’s all the new undesirables, those who don’t comply and those who refuse to wear masks and those who are conspiracy theorists and especially the Christians who won’t conform. It’s sounding very similar isn’t it. But we are already very far down the road to this happening right here in old Blighty 🇬🇧 and America 🇺🇸 who will raise there voices to this New and Terrifying machine that’s starting look not to dissimilar to Nazi Germany 🇩🇪.
@@alexandercarder2281 I'm pretty sure this guy has spent to much time alone.
@@marcus8647 Wonder why?
@@alexandercarder2281 You are trolling the comments with this crap
@@alexandercarder2281 lmao
I got a lot of anxiety when I he was on trial. Because I thought he would get abandoned by the men and women he saved. Jesus Christ, you don't know how relieved I was when he wasn't killed.
He was a good man, and he was human and had empathy towards these poor people. God bless him
Thank you for calling out those completely moronic deniers.
Eva Mozes Kor, her letter of forgiveness brought me to tears. We should all try to be more like her.
God Bless Dr. Hans Münch and Albert Günther Göring and all lives lost and affected by this hideous act. Thank you for telling and sharing these stories of need to know history.
And Heinz Heydrich. He was initially an enthusiastic Nazi, but when he learned about the Holocaust after his brother's death, he resolved to help as many Jews as he could. He committed suicide in 1944 when he thought the Gestapo had caught onto his actions in order to protect his family from being sent to the camps. In truth, they never suspected a thing.
Thank you. I will have to look him up and read about him. Thanks for bringing him up.
@@SilentMasquerade No problem
Even in the midst of hell you’ll find a kind soul
It was nice to know that there were actual decent people in these camps. It also highlights how degenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s can really impair one’s judgment
This museum is in my hometown. Eva was an amazing woman very strong and inspirational.
I was in tears, and I could feel your emotions from your voice, or maybe I am just biased, Simon.
Was Munch declared as "Righteous among the Nations" like Schindler was?
Nah, Sch-indler is part of the Noahide Tribe.
Those weren’t war crimes, they were crimes against humanity.
A man who succumbed to illness but was still a good man
It is happening again. That is why we should keep these memories alive to ensure that it will NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!
Another John Rabe or Schindler, Love video like this. It shows how benality can allows atrocities to happen and the how good people even when powerless can still resist or fight back, but most importantly it shows the complexity and difficulties of such positions and the confusing nature of one's humanity.
Speaking of former Axis with a heart of gold, Do Eiji Tsuburaya and Ishiro Honda
My initial (uneducated) thought is that his alzheimers made him revert to the false persona he absolutely had to adopt in order to not only survive but to continue trying to help. His final interviews imo only attest to the horror this decent man must have had to endure all thru his life. I hope a movie is made that honour him someday..
On the one hand I feel that the German people were complicit in the holocaust and should feel shame for that, but on the other hand and I can only imagine how terrible it was living in Nazi Germany. I often wonder what I would have done. I think most people would play along to keep themselves and their family safe
@@yoloswaggins7121 I guarantee you'd and many more would go along. That's how the human mind goes. You will object but go along with it and perhaps even delude yourself into agreeing eventually. The core want of all people is to have or strive for a content life. That's it. And if it was being a nazi or being imprisoned or worse. Most would be a nazi.
Good observation, I think that was likely the case as well. His mind had deteriorated and he has likely assumed he had to put on a cover to protect himself from forces that no longer existed
@@yoloswaggins7121 not all nazis were german and not all germans were nazis.
Sadly most people tend to forget that, because they only see the surface (aka my side vs your side), even with stuff that happens today, right now as we speak (Rus - Ukr, Venezuela- Colombia, Spain- Cataluña)
Thats why history its really important, yet never taken seriously by those in real power.
Very interesting subject, thank you for your teams research and bringing this story to light.
Kampfgruppe peiper?On a SS video.
Suspect m88
@@nickybower9981 don’t worry about it nick 😉
Gotcha herr kamerad
Elie Wiesel should be next. A survivor from Auschwitz and Buchenwald and author of the novella, “Night.”
1:20 - Chapter 1 - A reluctant party member
3:40 - Chapter 2 - An eager volunteer
7:05 - Chapter 3 - Humanity out of place
10:05 - Mid roll ads
10:40 - Chapter 4 - Block 10
15:05 - Chapter 5 - Trial in Karkow
22:45 - Chapter 6 - Never forget
Its kinda odd to see Simon so calm after i've been binging business blaze
I get irritated with animated Simon and his slapping. then I come here or to his other channels such as xplord and then I get mad because where is all the drama and flare LOL
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Allegedly
How many channels does this guy have lol keep hearing his voice
ending with a somber moral was a great way to end this video.
He chose to serve humanity instead of himself. Not just the good man of Auschwitz, just a good man period.
Thank you for this.
Without doubt, too far left and too far right are often swung by intempered human ego when feeling anxious and lost. Hatred breeds hatred.
But, empathy with love always looks to find connection.
And the crazy thing? Nearly every single one of us knows this ... but fear and anxiety can lead us astray and march us into hate.
We must all stand guard at the door of our minds.
With what’s happening in Texan schools right now, it’s kinda surprising that y’all haven’t done a video on Sophie scholl. Please do a video on her and her brother. Their stories are amazing and sad.
Who ?
@@abysswalker2594Google The White Rose Group
Not sure if you'll see this (or if you had addressed it already: at 18:34 the text says June, 1956 but it appears youve said 1946
I am in absolute awe at the strength to be able to forgive the evil that took place there. Very moving
I have long admired Eva Moses Knor. She passed on recently, and Humanity lost a Star.
I couldn't change my misspelling of her name. I tried
Bernard Simon Whistlervitz was born to a middle class family outside of Omaha, Nebraska. He was often teased in school for his premature bald head and facial hair. This hardship led him to develop a smooth, but phony British accent. He would also adorn trendy, but understated clothing.
As a gay, disabled, descendant of Romanis affected by the Holocaust I was very hesitant to click on this video. I believe with my entire soul that the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. But I have clearly only thought in today’s standards.
Today bein a Nazi is an informed decision. They know exactly who they are and what their group has done/wants to do. But back then it seems so much more nuanced. Can we even call that man a Nazi when everything he did defies the regime? I personally don’t believe so he used his status to save others even though it could’ve gotten him killed at any time.
A good man. A horrible Nazi.
I met Eva Kor when I was in middle school. She told us her story, and it scarred me just hearing it. I had nightmares for weeks.
Brave man. My granny suffered from Alzheimer’s. It’s a very terrible disease 🦠
my grandma had experiments done on her in Auschwitz. They cut open her back and did somethings. She never went into detail, as she had horrible ptsd from the war. But it made her back permanently deformed, and she walked with a hunch afterwards. Its a shock she didn't die of infection after they sent her back to her barracks. She lived to be 100. She had a long life, and a tough life. Life after the war wasn't easy neither. Communism took over and that opened a whole new can of worms.
Dude at the time agar was used? it’s still widely used in labs for plating bacteria
21:08 ...I love that line...
Saw the title and new it would be an ad free viewing.
Justice for the Uighurs
The Uighurs already have justice
@@Brick-Life Remember Tiananmen Square
I been reading Park Yeonmi's work and watching her channel. I need this video to alleviate some of the pain and horror. Thank you Basement team and Simon xxx
GOD picks the Most unlikely people show his Love and Mercy.
Yes we may never forget this. Never never forget. 🙏🙏🙏
People who support the Nazis today must be calling him a coward and a traitor..
But it takes a lot of courage and humanity to keep one's morals in such an environment as Auschwitz of all things.. God bless him..
It is truly an inspiration that people such as this existed.
Never forget - but the same atrocities are going on now - the appalling way the Uyghur people are being treated by the Chinese government.
Very impressive story. Much food for thought.
Hey thanks for all these videos.
Making sure history isnt forgotten or rewriten
thanks
11:27 Never heard or saw a syringe that long.
aravush
Love to see something on Richard the Second... separate out the Shakespeare.
Trialed and falsely accused by Alzheimers, freed by compassion, witnesses and the truth. May the real Dr Hans always be cherished.
There is a book by Wm H. Burke “Thirty Four the Key to Goerings Last Secret” about his brother Albert who saved countless Jews at risk to his own life.
I still don’t understand how some people still don’t believe in the horrors of what happened in those camps. Everytime I hear someone deny it my blood boils
Probably because they don’t believe humans could do such a thing so fast.
SOOOOOO SORRY KIDS..... GREAT DOCUMENTARY AND MANY MANY THANKS Y'ALL 👍👌👏👍👌👏👍👌👏
Simon. As time goes on and i watch more of your videos on the various platforms you host, i like and respect you more and more, for the passion you show and the anger that bubbles up, over the myriad of disgusting human behaviour over time immemorial.
I’ve been studying the Holocaust for quite some time, I plan on majoring in it for when I eventually go for my masters and one day perhaps teach it to future generations. I’m always learning something new and your videos definitely help me stay in the pursuit of knowledge on the subject of the Holocaust.
Would that be major in history? The holocaust is just one part of WW2
@@Mixedpixie at the college I go to they have a Holocaust/Genocide studies masters program and I really want to take that up when I eventually go for my masters then as my minor go for Jewish studies. for now I’m a history major minoring in Holocaust/Genocide studies
Thank you for doing this video. I pray that man will never treat another as horribly as the victims of the 3rd Reich were treated.
Kudos for using the word Shoa... this was informative, thanks 🙏🏼
With all I learnt at school about Auschwitz, I never learnt about Dr Münch.
It can happen, even here. Remember that, we're not immune.
ONLY 1 OUT OF ALL OF THEM WAS ACQUITTED AND RELEASED 🙌🙌🙌🖤✨
If there’s a man worthy of the nickname Good Doctor. It’s this man.
Very important video, thanks to the biographics team
Good message Simon.
I suggest you do Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto.
you should do a video on John Paul Jones
Could you do a segment on Dr Hans Conrad Julius Reiter? He was a relative of mine and an SS doctor who served in KZ camps. He named the disease Morbus Reiter (a form of arthrhitis). Would like your take on it
I was not aware of this good man, I'm sorry to hear dementia in the end robbed him of what little peace he might have had in his experiences.
It is sadly so that we are all at heart very evil and it takes a genuine act of will to be good. As a doctor myself I have witnessed time and again the loss of intellect to dementia and in the process the loss of the veneer of good much to the horror of relatives who can't understand why the lovely person they remember has become so horrible in their confusion - the pleasantly demented elder person is sadly a very rare exception.
If I might say anything positive it is in spite of our darker nature revealed in Dr Münch's last days his life and actions demonstrated that even in the worst of circumstances we can all choose to be good.
As an aside I would also contend that his actions are proof that while each of us might point to reasons for the things we do there are never any excuses. We each live by the tolerance and forgiveness of others only.
That is not true. Dementia ‘reveals’ nothing. Dementia is brain damage and literally damages the parts of your brain that are your goodness, empathy, etc. It changes you, not reveals you.
Such atrocities and inhumane atmosphere would certainly have negative effects even to the most saintly of person. Maybe not immediately, but gradually... Subconsciously.
Herman Goering younger brother....now thats a story .....!
It would cool if you did an episode on a survivor of the camps too. Like Eli Wiesel or Ruth Kluger. Or maybe Ottla Kafka.
There is a similar story about a Nazi female prison guard who was fired from her position at a concentration camp and ejected from the Nazi Party for being too nice to the female prisoners for refusing to beat them and attempting to ease their suffering. I can't remember her name.
GREAT DOCU SIMON thank you!
I’m so glad this man was completely acquitted of all charges, as I think he perfectly exemplifies the attitude of the articles drafted by the Geneva Convention. He did *not* “just follow orders”. He saw the grotesque acts being asked of him for what they were, and deliberately acted against them with little regard for his own personal safety. He valued human lives over his own skin. And I absolutely DETEST that this is the first I’ve ever heard of him.
I found it really strange that as a man who has a great passion for the history of WW2 and read a lot about it, today is the first time I have ever read about this great man.
I agree. It is terrible not to have known about such a good Doctor in such a terrible place. The Mrs
Hmm it is interesting in his later years that he justified the medical experiments. Was that just confusion from Alzheimer's or was he revealing his true thoughts. I hope it was the former rather than the latter.
Yes, but he was also a lier or better said, he never admitted, that he exactly knew what the Nazis would do to jews and other people. Hitlers speeches about the Holocaust were printed in all regional papers and were played on radio. His rapid advancement in the Nazi system show that he was nothing more than an opportunist, who couldnt turn off his empathy in the end.
Well just remember that in pretty much any war the winners write the history and that propaganda like how evil the germans were is often just that propaganda.
Given his Alzheimer's, he probably thought that he had to make those statements or the SS would throw him into a camp.
Who knows? He might have actually entertained some whacked-out ideas in his younger years, without being as extreme as his compatriots.
Or he could have genuinely become an anti-Semite after being entirely surrounded by them for years. People don´t realize that there is a lot of space between "I don´t particularly love these people." and "I want them all to be gassed." When you read some of the stuff Abraham Lincoln said about black people, you almost start wondering which side of the Civil War he was on. Most people, especially the more naive ones, like to think about the world in binary terms, but in reality, there are way more shades of grey than we like to admit.
@@jirkazalabak1514 The thing about dementia is that you tend to re-live the past
@@jirkazalabak1514 that's an extremely good point about Lincoln. I still think he was an amazing president but he did live over 150 plus years ago. We can't compare modern view points to one's 50 years ago let alone 3 times that.
My mother, who had worked with dementia patients for much of her career, had a saying: "The mean ones turn nice, and the nice ones turn mean." My grandmother had Alzheimer's, and it changed her from being a sweet woman to cursing like a sailor and flying into rages. It did not surprise me when Simon started talking about the change in attitude in the last interviews. I am sure that much of what he said came from deeply rehearsed lines meant to keep him safe in his position at Auschwitz so he could continue to help the prisoners. Like Simon said earlier: his kindness and respect to the prisoners was noticed and remarked upon, and that was dangerous for him and everyone he was trying to help.
Man you came right out and called the deniers "morons".
I dig it
@@AAaa-pm3rr troll
@@AAaa-pm3rr wow so edgy, you come across as so cool (that's sarcasm in case you can't tell).
@@jonathanward3633 The only way to beat them is to starve them. It wants the attention you're giving it, doesn't matter the context of delivery.
v based & cool
@Grozaaïmid europe is one big bloodstain. Created by the tyrants and leaders who aimed to conquer it
The twist at the end with Alzheimer's is heartbreaking. He was an actual human being who did what most couldn't stomach and went through all of that just to help as many people as he could. I really hope there's a heaven. This man deserves a spot there.
Heaven always came off to me as worst than death/non-existence honestly. I mean... Eternity? No matter how pretty and nice it is seems like torture. Ha
My friend, there IS a Heaven, and YOU can go there! 😊🙏❤️
Just trust in the Lord Jesus Christ with all of your soul, all of your mind, and all of your strength, and you shall see Him in paradise!
@@jonny-b4954
If you put your trust in the Lord, my friend, why wouldn’t you want to spend eternity in Heaven? 😊❤️
This man wasn’t a GOOD person. It’s a myth. It’s proven that he had a choice when he arrived at Auschwitz’s! They explained that they burnt around a thousand people daily and his wife asked him to please go back with her to Berlin and he refused. He said in statements that he stayed because the working condition was right and the equipment was great. He saved people but it wasn’t out of kindness. He is sick and should’ve been in prison for life.
@@theory6366 I didn’t realize you were alive back then or a history expert
I don’t think people understand how important history is because If we forget it will repeat.
Good point.
I just watched an interview with a woman arguing that Nike and some other companies are wrong for including young girls with headscarves in their commercials and on their products. So I'm wondering what exactly is she suggesting when she says something like that?
When good men do nothing evil will succeed
It already has repeated look at china
@@bluelight628 so true
We are repeating history right now here in the US. Almost everything that happened in Germany leading up to the third reich is happening again. Listen to the way the government is talking, its almost identical to what Hitler spoke of in Mein Kampf. Its frightening.
Maybe when he had Alzheimer's he became confused and thought he was still in WWII and that he was being interviewed by an SS affiliated reporter to test his 'loyalty' so he played along to not bust his cover
Unlikely, he was visited by his former assistent and inmate Imre Gönczi and seemed quite happy about it.
@@ernieee42 dementia is tricky though. People go in and out of of lucidity and delusion throughout the day. It's not all or nothing
@@ernieee42 yeah my grandmother has it and it's very weird sometimes especially the things they will say.
@Sam Armstrong like it being Christmas tomorrow or she would have conversations with no one
@Sam Armstrong she might have acute psychosis
"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world..."
just sitting here.... staring at this text on my computer screen.... just kinda taking in how perfectly it fits
"So wake up, and smell the ashes"
@@Garrett_HawkeMr. Freeman…
I cannot think of how utterly paralyzing it must feel seeing hundreds and even thousands die right in front of you and you really are helpless to do anything about it.
Better than being a prisoner
@@omarcepeda9121 Lol ikr
I think many nazi is good inside. They Just couldn't break free because of fear for their family too.
i think your wrong being a prisoner is the worst way to be in this but being a sane empathetic person trying to help those at risk to yourself is no different unless you take into account the choice he had over the prisoners but ultimately he could have ended up in the same situation off handed comments like this are how things spiral into the depraved @@omarcepeda9121
So I work with the elderly and there's a saying, "you become what you weren't." When talking about alzhimers what this means is that a generally happy and up beat person become angry. Generally also think of it like this when you take care of them its not the 80something man you're taking care of its his 24 year old mind. So honestly while surprised that he said that I don't think he was ever truly like that. It was probably an act that he put up when talking to the other ss personal.
Thank you.
My thoughts exactly.
Good observation
I was thinking the same thing. Things that create an impression with Alzheimer's patients can sometimes crop up incorrectly. He was accused of injecting malaria and the accusation was probably greater in impact than the act of *not* doing it. So the Swiss cheese brain pushes it into an act he did do, and then he had to justify it after the fact
@@stevenbenson9976 so what you sayin? Was he a bad man acting good or what I don't understand..
I met Eva Moses Kor before her death. She honestly is one of the most amazing people I’ve ever met. I have chills just thinking about our conversation together.
I like how you speak of her in the present.
A lot of people that survived that conflict are something else. There made of something else. Something stronger.
I got to hear her twice, in person. It seemed clear to me she would probably die while giving a speech somewhere. When she died, she was in Krakow taking a tour of people to see the Auschwitz museum, but she did NOT die at the camp. We all die at some point and I was a bit amused by the fact she died doing her life's work but not at the camp. I love her teachings on forgiveness (different from forgetting). Humbling and powerful.
my history teacher was hoping to have her come speak to some of his classes but unfortunately she passed before it could happen. We did at least get to watch a video of her speaking
I corresponded with her on a regular basis. What a remarkable Lady. I was sad about her passing
My father died last year and suffered from dementia... I can attest that there were huge mental changes, he would entertain ideas that he would have violently resisted only a few years before.
The man who I called dad died many years before his physical body did, the person who I cared for, nursed and finally buried last year aged 89 was a totally different person.
it's like these monstrous diseases turn you into the opposite of what you were.
I'm so sorry for your loss. ☹️ I hope you find peace in your good memories together.
It happened to my grandmother. It’s a horrible thing to happen to a person.
I am sorry it happened to your grandma happened to mine too sadly. Its just such a horrible disease
@@Nathan-vt1jz
I’m so glad to see compassion and understanding about what Alzheimers does to a person...it ran rampant in my mother’s family. My grandparents first fled to America during the Pogroms from Ukraine, and sadly during the war the rest of their family was murdered by the Nazi’s in trucks & ditches.
I don’t think it was right for the French to effectively erase all the decent things Münch tried to do during and after the war based on the rantings of a sick old man. They should have never let him do the interview.
Truth be told he probably didn’t remember why those things were wrong, but he still remembered what happened, without the context of our lives we’d default on that which we know
This man’s trauma was so deep that when everything else was taken from him, it consumed him, and I find that sad
It’s like he was mirroring the men he remembered, because he couldn’t remember himself
@@3adgamd3rI think he thought he was being questioned by the SS. He probably had horrendous PTSD too.
To be one person and know you alone cannot stop the atrocities, but to put yourself on the 'wrong side' in terms of the nazi's by helping as many people as possible is admirable. To do as much as you could, all while knowing if youre found out youre dead and then there will also be no one to help the prisoners, it must have been a constant feeling of terror
It blows my mind that anyone could use the word admirable to describe this man, It would be laughable if it wasn’t so pathetic that people can praise or make excuses for someone that did such horrible things.
@@amberowen2004
What horrible things did he do? He was a medical doctor, not a Mengele 2, and he saved some of the prisoners
You can deel him guilty for having joined the SS in the first place but I would say that actions speaks louder than his membership
@amberowen2004 didn’t they conclude that he didn’t inject his patients at the trials? What did you expect him to do become Superman single handedly defeat the nazis and save everyone? The man did the best he could to help as many people as he could at the camp and claiming that doesn’t matter is just ignorant.
@@amberowen2004what the nazis did was horrible but I think what this guy did to alleviate and help people, if this story is to be believed, is surely admirable because he did good things to help people when everyone around him were so, so, so horrible
@amberowen2004 if that’s really what you think, then you don’t understand how the world works. Good people do horrible things all of the time, but they don’t do them with glee, that is the difference. There is more testimony of his goodness than there is his role in the atrocities that were going to happen with or without him there to mitigate the damage as much as one man can, better to stay, knowing you at least won’t get off on whatever pain circumstances force you to inflict the way others would, making things orders of magnitude worse for the victims. When evil wins it isn’t because good does nothing, it’s because good blindly acts out of emotion, and winds up eating it, whereas evil plays the long game. This is the long game, this is keeping yourself out of trouble & free so you can keep saving lives, rather than taking a high moral stand every time you’re presented with the opportunity, and eating it accordingly. You’re the type of person who would give away the fact that you’d broken enigma by trying to stop every German attack & save every single allied life, and enigma would be changed, throwing out your advantage; rather than allowing most Nazi attacks to succeed or fail on their own merits, and only acting on your super secret intel when your war effort depends on it. Part of truly being able to have a lasting good effect on this world is knowing when & how to act, Dr. Münch understood this.
Never ever heard of this man...glad to have heard about him now. Thank you Simon and your team!
There should be a movie or documentary about his story!
@@beverlyvarnerbvdocumentary yes movie no
Seeing how he went out of his way to save lives, I guess you could call him the Guardian Angel of Auschwitz to Mengeles Angel of death
A fitting name indeed. I grew up thinking everyone of the ss officers was bad. To hear this at a time where tensions are high was refreshing and gives hope for the future.
@blue what that he got dementia? You dont think his way of speaking then was attributed to the stuff he saw while there?
@@reymilocuevas3485 If you watch documentaries about the concentration camps, the talk about how working there, killing thousands of people, was having a bad psychological effect on them. The guards were getting drunk every night and acting out off duty. While I think most of the SS guards should be held accountable for their actions in taking part in the camps, not all of them were like Mengeles.
@@MsMorri I completely agree. We should all be accountable for what goes on here on earth. Just like the people being decimated atm in China.
It is people like Dr. Münch that remind us that even in history’s darkest moments, there is good.
Eva Moses Kor is really interesting person as well. I read her book. She chooses to forgive Nazis she meets despite everything done to her and her sister. She is a very brave and kind human.
Is she the twin if so brave women 👍🇬🇧
It’s something hard to do. My great grandfather fought in WWII and he had a distrust for Germans for awhile. I honestly don’t know if he ever got over it.
A lotta people can learn from her example. People just don’t want to forgive
If anyone gets the chance watch the last days
I never heard of her before now. Her story somewhat reminds me of Corrie Ten Boom. She and her family worked to hide the Jews in the Netherlands and were eventually caught and sent to prison and eventually Ravensbruck. He lost both her father and her sister. Eventually, later in life, she ran into one of the former guards of Ravensbruck and decided to forgive him.