Dirlewanger didn't die of natural causes - he was arrested, handed over the the French and they stuck him in prison - but they 'just happened' to stick him in a wing with Polish guards and Dirlewanger was beaten to death... Given the atrocities he comitted against the Poles he got off lightly....
You might have to rethink yhat & do a little bit more research because i read of Durning & was found to have lied about being at Malmedy. He said he was Wounded so he'd have been awarded a Purple Heart, but wasn't on any Recorde, there was also something about his name being different? I always had this story tucked away but couldn't ever remember the Actors Name? ✌️
The 12th SS massacred 156 Canadian prisoners after D-Day. It should be no surprise that Canadians refused to take SS prisoners. Why Kurt Meyer served 9 years for this crime is an injustice.
If the band of brothers scenes could be held to account the massacres weren't one sided.even regular german army suffered the fates that the SS did,especially in the days after Dday.
A NEEDLESS WAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, HAD THE BRITISH NOT DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY. ENGLAND AND THE USA WERE BOTH MANIPULATED INTO WW II, BY THE SAME TRIBE WHICH DID 911 AND IS NOW KILLING THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS 24/7.
So, no justice then. All these death sentences commuted, converted to life sentences and then commuted again, released in a couple years for the torture rape murders they committed. Sickening.
We keep the evil safe and amongst us all. Then we wonder what has happened to the world. Modern man is blind deaf but they speak as if they can see and hear everything
Not all got off with light sentences but I think a good portion did. Here are a few that were executed and they were Hans Frank, Ernst Kartenbrunner, Arthur Seay’s-Inquart, Irma Grese, Rudolph Hoess, Herman’s Goring was scheduled to be executed but cheated the hangman by committing suicide, Dorothea Binz, Maria Mandell, Johanna Borman, Franz Bottger, Karl Brandt, Wilhelm Dorr, Adolf Eichmann, Amon Goth, and many others but yes most got off scott free while others were sentenced to life and got released in less than 10 years while others sentenced to death had sentences commuted. Way too many got off way too easy especially Sepp Dietrich and many others while others were assisted in escaping to S America with help from Bishop Hudal at the Vatican who was a Nazi sympathizer and he got them the necessary documents to go to S America via the so called “rat lines”.
7:08 that’s not Himmler. It’s not even Hitler but a look a like. Also when the bridges were bombed they didn’t have to swim across. They built pontoon bridges. I think even the Russians got across without swimming.
People need to read, 'Murderous Elite: The Waffen-SS and Its Record of Atrocities' by James Pontollilo. It documents the crimes of every Waffen-SS division. It's a fascinating read, and a very hard one too. These men were.....well, buy the book.
My father (a WWII Infantry officer) told me long ago that they would rather face an SS unit than a standard Wehrmacht unit. The SS (mostly) were not elite fighters, and the Wehrmacht saw far more combat than the SS did. One thing the SS was was dedicated, so they didn't surrender easily - but that didn't make them elite units, just more ideologically driven. I worked with a couple of SS vets while stationed in Germany. One was an officer who had taught at their officer (Junker) school in Bad Tolz during the war. He was cleared by the US Army to work for us, so I gotta think his record was clean. BUT, he was a member of the SS, so not pure as the driven snow either. Most folks in my unit were unaware of his past - he just did his job and went home at the end of the day. Dude was married, but at his funeral all SEVEN of his mistresses and a ton of his children were there for it.
@@Headloser The SS were more of a political entity. Their training was different from the regular troops, and their leadership wasn't as good. Some units fought well, but most were not as effective as the Wehrmacht.
Not really, waffen ss is a paramilitary group, its different than the normal SS. They were better equiped than the normal Wehrmacth and the training also was tuffer than the normal WM.
While stationed in West Germany at Smith Kaserne in Aschaffenburg situated northwestern Bayern. Our barracks was a former SS base. There were still iron rings morticed in the walls of the motor pool where they tethered their horses. The fanatical unit there as well as the town avidly nazi gave a great fight to Patton and his forces trying to capture the city. The battle began on March 25, 1945 and after ten hard fought deadly days the SS stronghold finally surrendered. The combined forces of the 7th and 3rd Armies suffered 3,000 KIA, WIA, and MIA. In a news conference on April 7th 1945 Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson noted, "There is a lesson in respect to [fighting to the end] in Aschaffenburg. There nazi fanatics used the visible threat of two hangings to compel German soldiers and civilians to fight for over a week."
I was stationed in a former SS army barracks. It had the marks of a deadly fight in its walls - no SS survivors. We were told that after the massacre of POWs by the SS, Eisenhower gave orders to take no SS prisoners. The Russians had the same orders - no prisoners with SS insignias. I'm not sure what US troops actually did, but the Russians mowed them down and did the same to German regular army.
@@cruelpirate78the video said that the Waffen SS was part of the army which it isn’t. That’s the one I caught anyway. I’m about halfway through and he said that Himmler committed s*icide and showed a dead Hitler look alike that wasn’t either of them. Also said that when the bridges were taken out they all had to swim across the river. Those rivers were huge and many men probably didn’t know how to swim but the US built pontoon bridges. They didn’t swim across.
so true" Just remember when the US killed journalists in Afghanistan and even people who wanted to render First Aid to them. That´s a war crime and a crime against humanity. YT is full with US videos showing how they murder injured enemy fighters in masses.
@@adriannarobeson4758 You must be blind or gullible. Harris is beating Trump in every poll. Face reality or live in your world of delusion and stupidity.
Yes! My university didn’t allow wiki as a legitimate source. Wiki is full of lies and misinformation. In this case, they are actually noting something that some under 40 people are not aware of (what a failure of our public school system). But current crappola is also referenced because google (TH-cam) thinks we’re stupid, and they get it wrong. Often.
A NEEDLESS WAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, HAD THE BRITISH NOT DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY. ENGLAND AND THE USA WERE BOTH MANIPULATED INTO WW II, BY THE SAME TRIBE WHICH DID 911 AND IS NOW KILLING THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS 24/7.
If the story I heard is true they were murdered in a very horrible and sadistic fashion. The Allies unfortunately also decided to take no prisoners on some occasions
Someone please explain to me why Hitler did what he did on 3:04. The soldiers were surrounded, they decided to retreat and fight for another day, and Hitler's epic idea to "punish" them was to strip them of a stupid arm band indicating they are elite soldiers. Like do politicians think petty stuff like these matter? Someone is dying and their worry is the arm band on their uniform that says whatever?
In reality they were probably long past caring at that point but unit morale is often tied up with traditions. One of the first things the Soviets did upon taking Berlin was rounding up all the ceremonial flags of various German units they could find and parading them. There is a photo of many of these flags and standards being held pointing to the ground by a line of soviet soldiers who are turned to face the camera. The Liebstandarte division were also ordered to remove their cuff which bore the signature of Adolf Hitler rather than the unit's name. As a bit of trivia, the name liebstandarte means life regiment and essentially bears the same name as the senior regiment of the British Army, the Life Guards. The Swedish Army also has a unit called the Life Regiment Hussars going back to a common theme amongst European armies.
@@AntonioPeralesdelHierro With all due respect to the British people, Churchill was a flawed individual on so many levels. He just happened to be a high social class boy at the right place at the right time. Good thing they got rid of him soon after the war ended, he could have destroyed Europe by waging war on the now over-powered communists.
The SS was NOT the ELITE of the German Army. The German Army was the Wehrmacht, while the Waffen-SS constituted a separate paramilitary body,much like the Praetorians of Rome. They took a special oath of obedience to the Führer. They were quite similar to the Janizzaries,or the Jesuits. The Jesuits take a special FOURTH VOW of obedience to the Pope.
@@paulgentile1024 I know. It's funny, though, that Stalin was a student in a religious seminary,...of all places. Look at his fanatical group.🙄 Mao Tse Tung was a librarian🤯
I was married to a Peiper and his father was a phyco and an animal I always wonder if he came to South Africa after the war ! Lots of the Germans went there and had a safe life !
got off with a bad start there...already in the first sentence...SS was NOT part of the german army...it was it own,separate, army, not under Wehrmacht control.
Yes, 'their' actions are unforgivable. And most of 'them' are dead. WWII ended 79 years ago today. How many German WWII veterans do you imagine are still alive? German civilians were brutalized by both Allied AND German soldiers at the close of WWII. Germany today is not the Germany of the 1940s. It happens to be a beautiful country. Why wouldn't people visit?
The Waffen SS was a criminal gang with a gang leader to whom they all swore loyalty and total obedience to commit whatever crime they may have been ordered to. AND they all had an identifying tattoo so when the end came they were easy to find and deal with, ridding the world of the SS. Today we have(had?) the criminal gangs of El Salvador….nowhere near as bad as the SS but they too have the Tattoo and it has made them easy to find and deal with in a country where just “being a member” is crime enough for long long prison sentences…makes them easy to round up. El Salvador is practically crime free now, apparently.
the allies murdered more German civilians, woman and children than the waffen SS ever did to allied POWs look up allied fire storm bombings on hamburg, Dresden ect when at wars end, only months weeks left, for no reason the allies kept carpet bombing German city's creating firestorms , killing tens of thousands old men , woman, and children not one allied officer charged with war crimes for thousands of deaths due to these bombing raids
BS. As this video documents, the SS WWII survivors did everything they could to get "quarter". All SS members should have been turned over to the USSR after the war.
Dirlewanger was beaten to death in French captivity. When I was a kid I talked with German relatives who were occupied by the French after the war. They received harsh and brutal treatment, and were rigidly oppressed.
American soldiers were told not to take waffen SS prisoners, the aftermath of such things like malmedy, and they shot unarmed surrendering German SS soldiers. Thousands were killed. You haven't mentioned this atrocity. The russians did the same thing too.
Much as the British soldiers, Black and Tans, and the notorious Auxiliaries who committed atrocities in Ireland after WW1 and later during the 'Troubles' were never even put on trial.
Because they didn't commit atrocities on an industrial scale doesn't absolve them of guilt. Look at the concentration camps in South Africa during the Boer War. It's a pattern. No country is willing to admit its own crimes which is hardly surprising. Britain likes to portray itself as decent and fair, admitting to their mistakes would undermine the image that they want to propagate. All Nations have the potential to follow the path of Nazi Germany. All countries.
@@tigerland4328 No, they were worse. They never showed a bit of remorse over the killings of innocent women and children. The British government told them it was proud of what they had done. Mountbatten ordered the machine gunning of peaceful protesters, all of them women and children and was proud of it. The official count was in the hundreds, but the British only counted those who died in hospitals or on site. Many hundreds more died at home and were never counted. Mountbatten afterwards said, “ They were traitorous Irish dogs and deserved whatever they got.” The royal family blocked most of the inquiry into the deaths and still blocks inquiries even today. Mountbattens actions exacerbated the troubles and extended them for decades. The fact that the policy of no inquiries into atrocities committed by the army became standard procedure didn’t help.
The fact that the British didn't commit atrocities on an industrial scale doesn't make them less guilty. Even now they are covering up war crimes their soldiers perpetrated in Afghanistan, with the government refusing to give details and, be open and honest about it. The British have always sought to present themselves as decent and fair. 'The Good Guys' .To admit their dreadful deeds would reflect badly on them. Look at the concentration camps they ran in South Africa during the Boer War. Its a pattern of behaviour. These horrors too have been swept under the carpet. If we don't talk about them they never happened, and we can go on deluding ourselves. In not delivering real justice the Germans could pretend that their husbands, brothers and sons were also merely doing their duty, no more. This kind of behaviour is universal. All countries are capable of this kind of behaviour. All countries.
@@richardbeckenbaugh1805 but the British never attempted to wipe out the Irish people for ideological reasons like the SS did in Poland and the soviet union. There was no British extermination camps in Ireland,the Irish people were never subjected to inhumane medical experimentation and the British never attempted to murder the entire Irish race for the benefit of themselves. Anyone who thinks the British are worse or equally as bad as the Nazis doesn't know history.
Not exactly correct on survival rates for POWs. Axis soldiers captured by the Soviets had a survival rate of about 60% whereas a Soviet soldier captured by the Germans has a survival rate of about 40%. No which way you paint it the nazis were assholes.
Of the German POWs that made it to Soviet POW camps in the rear areas over 80% survived. The death toll is skewed by the high percentage of Stalingrad POW fatalities due to their starvation before capture. It was the prisoner taking and initial processing that was the most lethal for any German combatant. There seemed to be an unofficial order to shoot anyone caught with death head symbols on their uniforms. A policy which proved deadly for a lot off Panzer troops who had a different death head emblem from the SS.
well many if not all found gainful support and employment with the amerikkkan cold war machine and the south american and arab dictatorships gave many new homes and again gainful support and employment
Many SS went to Ukkkraine and started Nazi organization again, Azov Battalion with 40 million members. 3 millions regular/POC in ukkkraine who being suffering by them.
@@arnerusbjerg9138 yep it’s true. Videos all over to prove. Azov is a largest Nazi organization, praising Adolf Hilter. They all love to put their arms in air like Adolf did. Videos are evidences and your words aren’t evidences
Far from a oxymoron. There's plenty of righteous reasons for war. The man who doesn't believe anything is worth going to war for is much worse than the soldier fighting for what's right.
@@kuwaitisnotadeployment1373 A NEEDLESS WAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, HAD THE BRITISH NOT DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY. ENGLAND AND THE USA WERE BOTH MANIPULATED INTO WW II, BY THE SAME TRIBE WHICH DID 911 AND IS NOW KILLING THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS 24/7.
My great uncle, that would be my grandfathers brother served in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. He was a tank commander towards the end of the war and he survived the war. As a young kid, we all heard what he endured. What I can tell you is this, the first casualty of war is the truth. First of all, the Waffen SS weren't some superhuman elite killing machine nor did they believe that propaganda BS, what they were, was a dedicated fighting force that didn't cower or run. They weren't some fanatical hyped up drugged lunatics. The US military today has a branch very close to what they were, they are called US Marines. Second, were war crimes committed by the Waffen SS ? Of course there were, but it wasn't policy nor was that crap ordered. Here is something to think about, all sides committed war crimes, you just don't hear about it, the reason you don't hear about it is because the Allies won, so you can only read about the victors version of history. No war ever fought was clean or fair nor will any future be fought fair and clean.
The SS were also an industrial power within the Reich in that they had control of forced labour, who died in their millions manufacturing weapons and war material for the SS. For every SS man who was killed in action, far more civilian PoWs died in SS run camps. Every SS unit had blood on it's hands from the start of the war to the very end.
Whatever. The allies had morals and a Biblical worldview and the Germans supported the hate and evil of the NAZI party and the 3rd Reicht. No true Nazi beleiver deserves to live. And they were drugged up lunatics....on Methamphetemines ....a fact. The SS were pure evil. Your BS is just that.
The Waffen S>S was not part of the German army, it was a seperate militarised political organisation. The traditional army resented, even hated them. They were not even elite just driven.
That's an interesting assertion. It looks to me like fascist mentality is Alive and Well in the so-called neoliberal Progressive movements of america. In other words, fascism basically meaning that you force or make certain points of view become accepted and you simply do not tolerate and you wish to cancel out anyone else who has an opposing point of view. I actually see that coming way more from the left. But one thing is for sure, anything one extreme side of the political spectrum is guilty of, you can find evidence on the other. Yeah, I got a real kick out of people that just try to say Trump is a fascist without any real logical backing up behind it
The "elite" status of Waffen SS units was more a wishful thinking. These units were more fanatical and ruthless than well trained elite soldiers, like early Fallschirmjäger troops. But imagine a bunch of ruthless men charging without care at your position... A lot of normal soldiers, not trained for this kind of assault woug crumble and run. This is what made the Waffen SS's reputation. Up to Bbarbarossa the Wehrmacht was furious abot SS losses! What surprises me, is the fact, many people frommallied nations consider their own troops war crimes justice, rather criminal murder! Even George S. Patton mentioned this and covered up war crimes by troops under his command. Not even war crimes in retaliation are just, they are still war crimes... It is also interesting that every (!) nation celebrates actions, when their Military inflicts enormous losses on their adversaries, but cry out, when on the receiving end...!?! And innocence is always the first victim in a war...
Oh shut up. Jesus Christ. I doubt you pronounce foreign languages perfect 😂 with these A holes I'll call them how ever I want 😂 the "shit shuuffle" of the "wawafen ess ess" plz corrext my french lol😂😂😂😂😂
Soldiers are soldiers, and just like everyday people some are monsters hiddenin plain sight. Not all German soldiers were monsters, but the monsters that that were soldiers were some of the worst.
@@Charles-xy5jd A NEEDLESS WAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, HAD THE BRITISH NOT DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY. ENGLAND AND THE USA WERE BOTH MANIPULATED INTO WW II, BY THE SAME TRIBE WHICH DID 911 AND IS NOW KILLING THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS 24/7.
@@Charles-xy5jd In every war , whatever country, at the moment, it’s Russian soldiers, against Ukraine, ask ether side who’s going to win 🏆, I bet they both say we will , unfortunately, for someone to win 🥇, there has to be a losing side, take to Naziss , they never ever in there wildest dreams thought they were going to be the loser, but as I said , it’s all history now ,ask yourself this , is there really any winning side in war ?..?
People joined the waffen SS for better equipment, cool uniforms and the sense that they were elite. That’s it. Same way a US marine thinks (minus the better equipment part lol). And as far as lowlife camp guards go that’s where the dregs went. It was an entirely different branch of the SS and one that the average German citizen knew nothing about. I will say this, my name is my real name and my grandmother (a Gräfin) was boiling grass and eating it to stay alive so the rations to feed pow‘s simply wasn’t there
Then they shouldn't have taken the POW's, they should have kept their bloody pervert business at home. The stupidity, barbarity, and arrogance are incredible.
Shut up. Like you'd do better 😂😂😂 I love when Germans get offended that foreigners mispronounced their typewriter language. It's not special 😂 just pig latin
*It is a mistake to confuse fanaticism with elitism. Many of the 𐌔𐌔 men mentioned in the various divisions in this video were not even Germans but Dutch and Scandinavian volunteers as well as Muslims from Bulgaria and French. Some were children just out of school as in the 𐌔𐌔-Hitler Jugend. They were provided with the latest and best tanks Germany could still produce and their high death toll had more to do with depleted units and insufficient training. Hardly elitist troops as claimed at the beginning of this video.*
There was no such thing as the "𐌔𐌔-Hitler Jugend" - there was only the "Hitler Jugend" (Hitler Youth) who mostly were drawn into Wehrmacht (regular army) duties. The SS also never was an elite group. It was a bunch of people who took the SS as an alternative career, when they fucked up elsewhere. The best example was Reinhard Heydrich, who was dishonorably discharged from German Navy and then applied for the SS. Himmler gave him a high rank because of his military training, but his morals were too bad and considered a burden vor german navy. Most of the Waffen-SS members had no real military training. Wehrmacht usually didn't consider SS as "real army" but as a bunch of blood thirsty murderers, their tactics during war often were chaotic and based on no military tactics at all. Also many pictures shown in the video above shows normal Wehrmacht soldiers.
@@isherwood9321 You are mistaken in your belief that the 𐌔𐌔-Hitler Jugend did not exist. Bear in mind that I was translating from the German language. The 12. 𐌔𐌔-Panzerdivision "Hitlerjugend" or the 𐌔𐌔-Division Hitlerjugend was a German armoured division of the Waffen-𐌔𐌔 during World War II. The majority of its junior enlisted men were drawn from members of the *Hitler Youth* while the senior NCOs and officers were from other Waffen-𐌔𐌔 divisions. Most of the enlisted men were teenagers, starting from the ages of 16 or even 15. Please see the official designation in the German language as to "Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv" in Freiburg im Breisgau, stores of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-𐌔𐌔.
@@jeanthomassen7338 I never mentioned Dirlewanger whose death has no official record. The French occupation authorities at Altshausen prison camp, Upper Swabia (Baden-Württemberg), simply record Dirlewanger's death as due to "natural causes". Polish communist guards working with the French are rumored to have neaten the war criminal to death in June 1945 based on the testimony of his cellmate Luftwaffe lieutenant named Anton Füssinger.
A NEEDLESS WAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, HAD THE BRITISH NOT DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY. ENGLAND AND THE USA WERE BOTH MANIPULATED INTO WW II, BY THE SAME TRIBE WHICH DID 911 AND IS NOW KILLING THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS 24/7.
A Swedish volunteer to the Waffen SS ended up in the Wiking division. He had been an NCO in the Swedish Army and was disgusted by the amateurs in the division. They had enthusiasm, but lacked knowledge in most aspects of soldiering. That was both officers and regular soldiers.
As for Oskar Dirlewanger's death, he did not die of natural causes! There are several versions of events, but the most common one states that he was captured by French soldiers in Germany in May 1945. He was then placed in an internment camp in Altshausen. There, according to reports, he was beaten to death by Polish or other prisoners who were likely former prisoners of war or concentration camp inmates and recognized him as one of their tormentors. There are also accounts suggesting that French guards may have contributed to his death. Ultimately, Dirlewanger was brutally beaten to death in early June 1945, which can be seen as an ironic justice for a man responsible for countless atrocities and war crimes.
American troops committed at least two massacres of German troops including SS and Wehrmacht in late 1944 but that is usually glossed over or ignored. Many ethnic Germans who were born outside of the Reich could not join the Wehrmacht but had to join the SS,
@@nanxey1829 no. I won't "respect warriors no matter what they believe in". If they believe in r*pe, murder and more it makes as much sense as... the genocide they actually allowed.
@@nanxey1829 They didn't bother much about blacks. They didn't round them up either. The very few blacks in concentrationcamps all were there for other reasons than their race. You would have been safe then but frowned upon and certainly not accepted. But nobody would have cared about you really back then. Back in the day you would have been treated worse in the USA with their race laws.
No , I disagree . 🧐 These assholes murdered people who surrendered , old men and women , children , making career moves in cruelty . Those are not the acts of soldiers . Those are acts of EVIL 🤨 The SS set the key tone for the war . “ Give death and take death “ The Russians gave them plenty of both , having 26 million dead of their own 😧 No , I disagree . 🧐 These assholes murdered people who surrendered , old men and women , children , making career moves in cruelty . Those are not the acts of soldiers . Those are acts of EVIL 🤨 The SS set the key tone for the war . “ Give death and take death “ The Russians gave them plenty of both , having 26 million dead of their own 😧
Dirlewanger didn't die of natural causes - he was arrested, handed over the the French and they stuck him in prison - but they 'just happened' to stick him in a wing with Polish guards and Dirlewanger was beaten to death... Given the atrocities he comitted against the Poles he got off lightly....
american actor charles durning was shot at malmady and some how survived.... he also was the only survivorof his landing craft on dday
You might have to rethink yhat & do a little bit more research because i read of Durning & was found to have lied about being at Malmedy. He said he was Wounded so he'd have been awarded a Purple Heart, but wasn't on any Recorde, there was also something about his name being different?
I always had this story tucked away but couldn't ever remember the Actors Name? ✌️
@@68majortom im not saying the internet never lies. but so far i can only find that he did survive malmady
The 12th SS massacred 156 Canadian prisoners after D-Day. It should be no surprise that Canadians refused to take SS prisoners. Why Kurt Meyer served 9 years for this crime is an injustice.
If the band of brothers scenes could be held to account the massacres weren't one sided.even regular german army suffered the fates that the SS did,especially in the days after Dday.
@@susandaniels9733l’armée allemande était partie prenante des assassinats nazis.
Cf l’ouvrage de wolfram wette: les crimes de la Wehrmacht .
Pas une injustice: une hypocrisie .
A NEEDLESS WAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, HAD THE BRITISH NOT DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY. ENGLAND AND THE USA WERE BOTH MANIPULATED INTO WW II, BY THE SAME TRIBE WHICH DID 911 AND IS NOW KILLING THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS 24/7.
@@richardbeckenbaugh1805 Please provide ANY evidence to support this claim.
So, no justice then. All these death sentences commuted, converted to life sentences and then commuted again, released in a couple years for the torture rape murders they committed. Sickening.
Yeah, and that’s just the French and Americans.
Just like today as the UK releases 2000+ prisoners who only served 35% of their sentence!!!
That said,those uniforms were sharp af…
We keep the evil safe and amongst us all. Then we wonder what has happened to the world. Modern man is blind deaf but they speak as if they can see and hear everything
Not all got off with light sentences but I think a good portion did. Here are a few that were executed and they were Hans Frank, Ernst Kartenbrunner, Arthur Seay’s-Inquart, Irma Grese, Rudolph Hoess, Herman’s Goring was scheduled to be executed but cheated the hangman by committing suicide, Dorothea Binz, Maria Mandell, Johanna Borman, Franz Bottger, Karl Brandt, Wilhelm Dorr, Adolf Eichmann, Amon Goth, and many others but yes most got off scott free while others were sentenced to life and got released in less than 10 years while others sentenced to death had sentences commuted. Way too many got off way too easy especially Sepp Dietrich and many others while others were assisted in escaping to S America with help from Bishop Hudal at the Vatican who was a Nazi sympathizer and he got them the necessary documents to go to S America via the so called “rat lines”.
None of them should have been released 😞
Pipers house was set on fire in france in 1976 he was found dead inside with a pistol and rifle trying to defend himself
7:08 that’s not Himmler. It’s not even Hitler but a look a like. Also when the bridges were bombed they didn’t have to swim across. They built pontoon bridges. I think even the Russians got across without swimming.
People need to read, 'Murderous Elite: The Waffen-SS and Its Record of Atrocities' by James Pontollilo. It documents the crimes of every Waffen-SS division. It's a fascinating read, and a very hard one too. These men were.....well, buy the book.
My father (a WWII Infantry officer) told me long ago that they would rather face an SS unit than a standard Wehrmacht unit. The SS (mostly) were not elite fighters, and the Wehrmacht saw far more combat than the SS did. One thing the SS was was dedicated, so they didn't surrender easily - but that didn't make them elite units, just more ideologically driven.
I worked with a couple of SS vets while stationed in Germany. One was an officer who had taught at their officer (Junker) school in Bad Tolz during the war. He was cleared by the US Army to work for us, so I gotta think his record was clean. BUT, he was a member of the SS, so not pure as the driven snow either. Most folks in my unit were unaware of his past - he just did his job and went home at the end of the day. Dude was married, but at his funeral all SEVEN of his mistresses and a ton of his children were there for it.
I have heard many other experts say the same thing. The SS were nowhere near the fighting force the Wehrmacht was.
Wow, didn't realized about the combat ability.
@@Headloser The SS were more of a political entity. Their training was different from the regular troops, and their leadership wasn't as good. Some units fought well, but most were not as effective as the Wehrmacht.
Not really, waffen ss is a paramilitary group, its different than the normal SS. They were better equiped than the normal Wehrmacth and the training also was tuffer than the normal WM.
While stationed in West Germany at Smith Kaserne in Aschaffenburg situated northwestern Bayern. Our barracks was a former SS base. There were still iron rings morticed in the walls of the motor pool where they tethered their horses. The fanatical unit there as well as the town avidly nazi gave a great fight to Patton and his forces trying to capture the city. The battle began on March 25, 1945 and after ten hard fought deadly days the SS stronghold finally
surrendered. The combined forces of the 7th and 3rd Armies suffered 3,000 KIA, WIA, and MIA. In a news conference on April 7th 1945 Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson noted, "There is a lesson in respect to [fighting to the end] in Aschaffenburg. There nazi fanatics used the visible threat of two hangings to compel German soldiers and civilians to fight for over a week."
A lot of them found shelter in South America....
I was stationed in a former SS army barracks. It had the marks of a deadly fight in its walls - no SS survivors. We were told that after the massacre of POWs by the SS, Eisenhower gave orders to take no SS prisoners. The Russians had the same orders - no prisoners with SS insignias. I'm not sure what US troops actually did, but the Russians mowed them down and did the same to German regular army.
Well, that's calles war crimes. Unfortunately this never applies to the winners of a war...
Inaccuracy within the first 2 seconds, didn't bother watching the rest.
indulge me.
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Indulge you?
The SS was not part of the German Army. It was a special "Army".
Where he said the Waffen SS was part of the army? They are not part of the army
@@cruelpirate78the video said that the Waffen SS was part of the army which it isn’t. That’s the one I caught anyway. I’m about halfway through and he said that Himmler committed s*icide and showed a dead Hitler look alike that wasn’t either of them. Also said that when the bridges were taken out they all had to swim across the river. Those rivers were huge and many men probably didn’t know how to swim but the US built pontoon bridges. They didn’t swim across.
Crimes against humanity goes mostly unpunished 😢
so true" Just remember when the US killed journalists in Afghanistan and even people who wanted to render First Aid to them. That´s a war crime and a crime against humanity. YT is full with US videos showing how they murder injured enemy fighters in masses.
No Justice for the dead and tortured by the hand of these bastards...
Murderers who took pride in being murderers.
Nennt man Soldaten du dumme Nuss 🎉
@scotthill there were murderers on both sides!! Go watch something else! Lefty libitard.
Not just mass murderers. They were elite mass murderers.
Not just mass murderers. They were elite mass murderers.
Name me a country that's called liberators in the history books
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Evil wears many faces and decive many.
We now refer to those people as Trump supporters.
@@NeilNBlomewhat a asinine comment, especially when Trumps approval ratings are soaring.
@@adriannarobeson4758 You must be blind or gullible. Harris is beating Trump in every poll. Face reality or live in your world of delusion and stupidity.
@@adriannarobeson4758Sure they are in an alternate universe.
@@backagain5216 I can only imagine where you get your bogas information from.
Why is wikipedia considered a source of reliable information?
Yes! My university didn’t allow wiki as a legitimate source. Wiki is full of lies and misinformation. In this case, they are actually noting something that some under 40 people are not aware of (what a failure of our public school system). But current crappola is also referenced because google (TH-cam) thinks we’re stupid, and they get it wrong. Often.
Not perfect but compared to what else? (Besides good academic studies)
It’s better than AI!
Resoundingly... no. It's a controlled and manipulated source of information, essentially no better than propaganda at this point.
Because in 2024 it is well-maintained, articles critically reviewed by peers and sources usually reliably quoted.
Zero sympathy.
They joined to fight communism
Also !
A NEEDLESS WAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, HAD THE BRITISH NOT DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY. ENGLAND AND THE USA WERE BOTH MANIPULATED INTO WW II, BY THE SAME TRIBE WHICH DID 911 AND IS NOW KILLING THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS 24/7.
Unfortunately many of them after the war did not receive any punishment for the crime's they did when they did get sentences often they were too short
The 1st SS Panzer Division under Piper. Massacred 11 black POWS of the 333rd field artillery regiment in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge.
If the story I heard is true they were murdered in a very horrible and sadistic fashion. The Allies unfortunately also decided to take no prisoners on some occasions
@@armstronggermany2995I would have liked to have read joachims memoirs.
Someone please explain to me why Hitler did what he did on 3:04. The soldiers were surrounded, they decided to retreat and fight for another day, and Hitler's epic idea to "punish" them was to strip them of a stupid arm band indicating they are elite soldiers. Like do politicians think petty stuff like these matter? Someone is dying and their worry is the arm band on their uniform that says whatever?
In reality they were probably long past caring at that point but unit morale is often tied up with traditions. One of the first things the Soviets did upon taking Berlin was rounding up all the ceremonial flags of various German units they could find and parading them. There is a photo of many of these flags and standards being held pointing to the ground by a line of soviet soldiers who are turned to face the camera.
The Liebstandarte division were also ordered to remove their cuff which bore the signature of Adolf Hitler rather than the unit's name. As a bit of trivia, the name liebstandarte means life regiment and essentially bears the same name as the senior regiment of the British Army, the Life Guards. The Swedish Army also has a unit called the Life Regiment Hussars going back to a common theme amongst European armies.
@@damionkeeling3103 Its called "Leibstandarte" as in "Leib" which means body.
Not "Liebstandarte" as in "Lieb" which means love.
The said order, was NEVER passed on to the troops.
Churchill owned the same arrogance. The British military (and U.S. as well, likely), had to keep an eye on his constant meddling.
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With all due respect to the British people, Churchill was a flawed individual on so many levels. He just happened to be a high social class boy at the right place at the right time.
Good thing they got rid of him soon after the war ended, he could have destroyed Europe by waging war on the now over-powered communists.
Piper should not have been released
A dispassionate telling of a vile reality, thanks
The SS was NOT the ELITE of the German Army. The German Army was the Wehrmacht, while the Waffen-SS constituted a separate paramilitary body,much like the Praetorians of Rome.
They took a special oath of obedience to the Führer. They were quite similar to the Janizzaries,or the Jesuits. The Jesuits take a special FOURTH VOW of obedience to the Pope.
both cults
@@paulgentile1024 I know. It's funny, though, that Stalin was a student in a religious seminary,...of all places. Look at his fanatical group.🙄
Mao Tse Tung was a librarian🤯
Wow you know so much about them. You must be sad they sucked ass
I was married to a Peiper and his father was a phyco and an animal I always wonder if he came to South Africa after the war ! Lots of the Germans went there and had a safe life !
They were criminals
got off with a bad start there...already in the first sentence...SS was NOT part of the german army...it was it own,separate, army, not under Wehrmacht control.
Those guys should never have been allowed to form groups after the war. How dangerous of move that was!!
What an awful nation. There are still people who visit their country. Their actions are unforgivable.
Eh? So all the German people suffer because of the War? Stupid comment!
Yes, 'their' actions are unforgivable. And most of 'them' are dead. WWII ended 79 years ago today. How many German WWII veterans do you imagine are still alive? German civilians were brutalized by both Allied AND German soldiers at the close of WWII. Germany today is not the Germany of the 1940s. It happens to be a beautiful country. Why wouldn't people visit?
Many just got away clean. Even got back into public service.
The Waffen SS was a criminal gang with a gang leader to whom they all swore loyalty and total obedience to commit whatever crime they may have been ordered to. AND they all had an identifying tattoo so when the end came they were easy to find and deal with, ridding the world of the SS. Today we have(had?) the criminal gangs of El Salvador….nowhere near as bad as the SS but they too have the Tattoo and it has made them easy to find and deal with in a country where just “being a member” is crime enough for long long prison sentences…makes them easy to round up. El Salvador is practically crime free now, apparently.
the allies murdered more German civilians, woman and children than the waffen SS ever did to allied POWs
look up allied fire storm bombings on hamburg, Dresden ect
when at wars end, only months weeks left, for no reason the allies kept carpet bombing German city's
creating firestorms , killing tens of thousands old men , woman, and children
not one allied officer charged with war crimes for thousands of deaths due to these bombing raids
The Black Guard, No Quarter Given None Expected.
BS. As this video documents, the SS WWII survivors did everything they could to get "quarter". All SS members should have been turned over to the USSR after the war.
Very well produced and presented video. This has become my favorite war history channel. 👍
Because you´re an history ignorant who can not judge what is a fact in this videos and what is utter BS.
Seems like a lot to go through just because you like waffles
Going to a Waffle House today is almost as dangerous.
Such grandiose superiority matched only by their sadistic evil.
Very Interesting.
Dirlewanger was beaten to death in French captivity.
When I was a kid I talked with German relatives who were occupied by the French after the war. They received harsh and brutal treatment, and were rigidly oppressed.
American soldiers were told not to take waffen SS prisoners, the aftermath of such things like malmedy, and they shot unarmed surrendering German SS soldiers. Thousands were killed. You haven't mentioned this atrocity. The russians did the same thing too.
Much as the British soldiers, Black and Tans, and the notorious Auxiliaries who committed atrocities in Ireland after WW1 and later during the 'Troubles' were never even put on trial.
The British were not on the same level as the SS ...not even close lol
Because they didn't commit atrocities on an industrial scale doesn't absolve them of guilt. Look at the concentration camps in South Africa during the Boer War. It's a pattern. No country is willing to admit its own crimes which is hardly surprising. Britain likes to portray itself as decent and fair, admitting to their mistakes would undermine the image that they want to propagate. All Nations have the potential to follow the path of Nazi Germany. All countries.
@@tigerland4328 No, they were worse. They never showed a bit of remorse over the killings of innocent women and children. The British government told them it was proud of what they had done. Mountbatten ordered the machine gunning of peaceful protesters, all of them women and children and was proud of it. The official count was in the hundreds, but the British only counted those who died in hospitals or on site. Many hundreds more died at home and were never counted. Mountbatten afterwards said, “ They were traitorous Irish dogs and deserved whatever they got.” The royal family blocked most of the inquiry into the deaths and still blocks inquiries even today. Mountbattens actions exacerbated the troubles and extended them for decades. The fact that the policy of no inquiries into atrocities committed by the army became standard procedure didn’t help.
The fact that the British didn't commit atrocities on an industrial scale doesn't make them less guilty. Even now they are covering up war crimes their soldiers perpetrated in Afghanistan, with the government refusing to give details and, be open and honest about it. The British have always sought to present themselves as decent and fair. 'The Good Guys' .To admit their dreadful deeds would reflect badly on them. Look at the concentration camps they ran in South Africa during the Boer War. Its a pattern of behaviour. These horrors too have been swept under the carpet. If we don't talk about them they never happened, and we can go on deluding ourselves. In not delivering real justice the Germans could pretend that their husbands, brothers and sons were also merely doing their duty, no more. This kind of behaviour is universal. All countries are capable of this kind of behaviour. All countries.
@@richardbeckenbaugh1805 but the British never attempted to wipe out the Irish people for ideological reasons like the SS did in Poland and the soviet union. There was no British extermination camps in Ireland,the Irish people were never subjected to inhumane medical experimentation and the British never attempted to murder the entire Irish race for the benefit of themselves. Anyone who thinks the British are worse or equally as bad as the Nazis doesn't know history.
branded is wild
they never found mueller
Not exactly correct on survival rates for POWs. Axis soldiers captured by the Soviets had a survival rate of about 60% whereas a Soviet soldier captured by the Germans has a survival rate of about 40%. No which way you paint it the nazis were assholes.
The SS where never part of the german army.
Your right. The Weirmach came very close to open combat with the SS on the retreat thru Poland.
@@Charles-xy5jdreally?
SS appears to me to be a more fanatical group based upon the concepts of Aryan supremacy.
Wermacht appear as genuine German national soldiers.
All part of the Third Reich. Paychecks, weapons, clothing and orders, all came from the same place.
@@russellcollins6718 erm……..
Next lie @10:07: " The SS began recruiting soldiers in 1943".
Of the German POWs that made it to Soviet POW camps in the rear areas over 80% survived. The death toll is skewed by the high percentage of Stalingrad POW fatalities due to their starvation before capture. It was the prisoner taking and initial processing that was the most lethal for any German combatant. There seemed to be an unofficial order to shoot anyone caught with death head symbols on their uniforms. A policy which proved deadly for a lot off Panzer troops who had a different death head emblem from the SS.
well many if not all found gainful support and employment with the amerikkkan cold war machine and the south american and arab dictatorships gave many new homes and again gainful support and employment
@10:10: "if he was a higher SS-officer he was interrogated and EXECUTED"
Rather murdered as POW than executed which needs a lawful ground/conviction.
How was that justice they should still be in prison.
Hmmm. Are you American by any chance? Recall My Lai massacre by any chance? Guess not but not surprised regardless.
Canada and Poland called them the Geneva Suggestions during WW2
Get your facts straight. You show Hans Dorr and say it's Hans Geissendorf. lol. I didn' bother to view the rest.
Many SS went to Ukkkraine and started Nazi organization again, Azov Battalion with 40 million members.
3 millions regular/POC in ukkkraine who being suffering by them.
Bullshit, fake news.
@@arnerusbjerg9138 yep it’s true. Videos all over to prove.
Azov is a largest Nazi organization, praising Adolf Hilter.
They all love to put their arms in air like Adolf did. Videos are evidences and your words aren’t evidences
War crimes? What an oxymoron 😮
Far from a oxymoron. There's plenty of righteous reasons for war. The man who doesn't believe anything is worth going to war for is much worse than the soldier fighting for what's right.
Spoken like and ignorant jerk who knows nothing about WWII.
@@kuwaitisnotadeployment1373 A NEEDLESS WAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, HAD THE BRITISH NOT DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY. ENGLAND AND THE USA WERE BOTH MANIPULATED INTO WW II, BY THE SAME TRIBE WHICH DID 911 AND IS NOW KILLING THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS 24/7.
My great uncle, that would be my grandfathers brother served in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.
He was a tank commander towards the end of the war and he survived the war.
As a young kid, we all heard what he endured.
What I can tell you is this, the first casualty of war is the truth.
First of all, the Waffen SS weren't some superhuman elite killing machine nor did they believe that propaganda BS, what they were, was a dedicated fighting force that didn't cower or run.
They weren't some fanatical hyped up drugged lunatics.
The US military today has a branch very close to what they were, they are called US Marines.
Second, were war crimes committed by the Waffen SS ? Of course there were, but it wasn't policy nor was that crap ordered.
Here is something to think about, all sides committed war crimes, you just don't hear about it, the reason you don't hear about it is because the Allies won, so you can only read about the victors version of history.
No war ever fought was clean or fair nor will any future be fought fair and clean.
"The US military today has a branch very close to what they were, they are called US Marines." - bull's eye.
demonic bastards that murdered
The SS were also an industrial power within the Reich in that they had control of forced labour, who died in their millions manufacturing weapons and war material for the SS. For every SS man who was killed in action, far more civilian PoWs died in SS run camps. Every SS unit had blood on it's hands from the start of the war to the very end.
Whatever. The allies had morals and a Biblical worldview and the Germans supported the hate and evil of the NAZI party and the 3rd Reicht. No true Nazi beleiver deserves to live. And they were drugged up lunatics....on Methamphetemines ....a fact. The SS were pure evil. Your BS is just that.
Are you not aware of the SS atrocities in concentration camps?So you think your great uncle is a hero?Was he part of mass execution?
oh they killed innocent people lets let them live what a Fing joke
No glory with these people, pure hate.
NOT TRUE.
@@user-yh8qq4qf9fvery true. Lol they even wrote it down in journals. You must be brain damaged.
The Waffen S>S was not part of the German army, it was a seperate militarised political organisation. The traditional army resented, even hated them. They were not even elite just driven.
Amerikkka brought them stateside. Hence the USA's current spiral towards fascism.
I think poor education and Xtian religion is responsible for the current right wing in America
That's an interesting assertion. It looks to me like fascist mentality is Alive and Well in the so-called neoliberal Progressive movements of america. In other words, fascism basically meaning that you force or make certain points of view become accepted and you simply do not tolerate and you wish to cancel out anyone else who has an opposing point of view. I actually see that coming way more from the left. But one thing is for sure, anything one extreme side of the political spectrum is guilty of, you can find evidence on the other. Yeah, I got a real kick out of people that just try to say Trump is a fascist without any real logical backing up behind it
Correct. The Fascists are alive and well in the Democrat party.
@@brocklanders6969 democrat(communist party)
THERE’S NO “K” IN AMERICA!!!!
The "elite" status of Waffen SS units was more a wishful thinking. These units were more fanatical and ruthless than well trained elite soldiers, like early Fallschirmjäger troops. But imagine a bunch of ruthless men charging without care at your position... A lot of normal soldiers, not trained for this kind of assault woug crumble and run. This is what made the Waffen SS's reputation. Up to Bbarbarossa the Wehrmacht was furious abot SS losses!
What surprises me, is the fact, many people frommallied nations consider their own troops war crimes justice, rather criminal murder!
Even George S. Patton mentioned this and covered up war crimes by troops under his command. Not even war crimes in retaliation are just, they are still war crimes...
It is also interesting that every (!) nation celebrates actions, when their Military inflicts enormous losses on their adversaries, but cry out, when on the receiving end...!?!
And innocence is always the first victim in a war...
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I look at some of these photos, some of the German soldiers look like they're 10-12 years old. My parents age. Some could be alive.
how old are you then? -20 or are your parents child rapists?
It's pronounced Vaffen SS. Basic stuff you should get right. And Wiking is also pronounced
with a V. Really annoying. Not wery good at all. Ian Dee.
Are you German?
My grandparents also pronounce the “W” as a “V” but they are not Germanic
Oh shut up. Jesus Christ. I doubt you pronounce foreign languages perfect 😂 with these A holes I'll call them how ever I want 😂 the "shit shuuffle" of the "wawafen ess ess" plz corrext my french lol😂😂😂😂😂
You think Americans or Russians always took prisoners? 😅
Too many generalizations . It was way more complex.
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The Peiper story was curiously terminated,as was he without warning...is this AI in action,is the narrator computer generated?Do I care really?...No.
10:45 Yeah right! Read the book “Other Losses”
work of fiction. Long discounted by credible historians.
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0:42 Correction: bravely
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What's with the followers
Total BS! One day, the world will know the truth!
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Soldiers are soldiers, and just like everyday people some are monsters hiddenin plain sight. Not all German soldiers were monsters, but the monsters that that were soldiers were some of the worst.
They just thought they could not lose , unfortunately they did, the rest is history,
WHAT!
@@Charles-xy5jd A NEEDLESS WAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, HAD THE BRITISH NOT DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY. ENGLAND AND THE USA WERE BOTH MANIPULATED INTO WW II, BY THE SAME TRIBE WHICH DID 911 AND IS NOW KILLING THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS 24/7.
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In every war , whatever country, at the moment, it’s Russian soldiers, against Ukraine, ask ether side who’s going to win 🏆, I bet they both say we will , unfortunately, for someone to win 🥇, there has to be a losing side, take to Naziss , they never ever in there wildest dreams thought they were going to be the loser, but as I said , it’s all history now ,ask yourself this , is there really any winning side in war ?..?
People joined the waffen SS for better equipment, cool uniforms and the sense that they were elite. That’s it. Same way a US marine thinks (minus the better equipment part lol). And as far as lowlife camp guards go that’s where the dregs went. It was an entirely different branch of the SS and one that the average German citizen knew nothing about. I will say this, my name is my real name and my grandmother (a Gräfin) was boiling grass and eating it to stay alive so the rations to feed pow‘s simply wasn’t there
@@rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185 real💯
the dutch were eating daffodils and dies through posioning
Then they shouldn't have taken the POW's, they should have kept their bloody pervert business at home. The stupidity, barbarity, and arrogance are incredible.
So even now you have no other thoughts except this. Hmm
Yes he sounds like the American military. They constantly use excuses for their bad acts also
The pronunciation of German terms in this production is APPALLING
Who cares.. the crimes they committed are a little more appalling
Shut up. Like you'd do better 😂😂😂 I love when Germans get offended that foreigners mispronounced their typewriter language. It's not special 😂 just pig latin
It's pronounced Vahffen, FFS.
It's pronounced "IDGAF" learn it.
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The Waffen-SS was NOT Part of the regular German Army. That is very important to understand.
But they were Nazis with weapons who killed women. And children as policy. I'm glad your comment cleared things up
What a load of crap.
*It is a mistake to confuse fanaticism with elitism. Many of the 𐌔𐌔 men mentioned in the various divisions in this video were not even Germans but Dutch and Scandinavian volunteers as well as Muslims from Bulgaria and French. Some were children just out of school as in the 𐌔𐌔-Hitler Jugend. They were provided with the latest and best tanks Germany could still produce and their high death toll had more to do with depleted units and insufficient training. Hardly elitist troops as claimed at the beginning of this video.*
There was no such thing as the "𐌔𐌔-Hitler Jugend" - there was only the "Hitler Jugend" (Hitler Youth) who mostly were drawn into Wehrmacht (regular army) duties. The SS also never was an elite group. It was a bunch of people who took the SS as an alternative career, when they fucked up elsewhere. The best example was Reinhard Heydrich, who was
dishonorably discharged from German Navy and then applied for the SS. Himmler gave him a high rank because of his military training, but his morals were too bad and considered a burden vor german navy. Most of the Waffen-SS members had no real military training. Wehrmacht usually didn't consider SS as "real army" but as a bunch of blood thirsty murderers, their tactics during war often were chaotic and based on no military tactics at all. Also many pictures shown in the video above shows normal Wehrmacht soldiers.
@@isherwood9321 You are mistaken in your belief that the 𐌔𐌔-Hitler Jugend did not exist. Bear in mind that I was translating from the German language. The 12. 𐌔𐌔-Panzerdivision "Hitlerjugend" or the 𐌔𐌔-Division Hitlerjugend was a German armoured division of the Waffen-𐌔𐌔 during World War II. The majority of its junior enlisted men were drawn from members of the *Hitler Youth* while the senior NCOs and officers were from other Waffen-𐌔𐌔 divisions. Most of the enlisted men were teenagers, starting from the ages of 16 or even 15. Please see the official designation in the German language as to "Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv" in Freiburg im Breisgau, stores of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-𐌔𐌔.
You come with wrong information. Oskar Dirlwanger was beaten to dead! He was recognize as that terrible murderer from Poles.
@@jeanthomassen7338 I never mentioned Dirlewanger whose death has no official record. The French occupation authorities at Altshausen prison camp, Upper Swabia (Baden-Württemberg), simply record Dirlewanger's death as due to "natural causes". Polish communist guards working with the French are rumored to have neaten the war criminal to death in June 1945 based on the testimony of his cellmate Luftwaffe lieutenant named Anton Füssinger.
A NEEDLESS WAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, HAD THE BRITISH NOT DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY. ENGLAND AND THE USA WERE BOTH MANIPULATED INTO WW II, BY THE SAME TRIBE WHICH DID 911 AND IS NOW KILLING THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS 24/7.
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The Schutz Staffel was roughly equivalent to the Marine Corps,they were elite German Soldiers.
A Swedish volunteer to the Waffen SS ended up in the Wiking division. He had been an NCO in the Swedish Army and was disgusted by the amateurs in the division. They had enthusiasm, but lacked knowledge in most aspects of soldiering. That was both officers and regular soldiers.
Not soldiers!. Paramilitary.
@@DonLeist rubbish
As for Oskar Dirlewanger's death, he did not die of natural causes! There are several versions of events, but the most common one states that he was captured by French soldiers in Germany in May 1945. He was then placed in an internment camp in Altshausen. There, according to reports, he was beaten to death by Polish or other prisoners who were likely former prisoners of war or concentration camp inmates and recognized him as one of their tormentors. There are also accounts suggesting that French guards may have contributed to his death. Ultimately, Dirlewanger was brutally beaten to death in early June 1945, which can be seen as an ironic justice for a man responsible for countless atrocities and war crimes.
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American troops committed at least two massacres of German troops including SS and Wehrmacht in late 1944 but that is usually glossed over or ignored. Many ethnic Germans who were born outside of the Reich could not join the Wehrmacht but had to join the SS,
After they found out Germans massacred civilians and soldiers. Grow up.
so thats alright then.ffs
They did not HAVE to join anything - they VOLUNTEERED for the SS.
Wow 2 massacres? How many did the germans commit in just Italy?? Plz answer I'll be waiting
respect warriors no matter what they believed in
@@nanxey1829 no. I won't "respect warriors no matter what they believe in". If they believe in r*pe, murder and more it makes as much sense as... the genocide they actually allowed.
Ya and it definitely won't happen again.
@@williamberry8895 i would hope so im black😂 and they weren’t very kind to my race
@@nanxey1829 They didn't bother much about blacks.
They didn't round them up either.
The very few blacks in concentrationcamps all were there for other reasons than their race.
You would have been safe then but frowned upon and certainly not accepted.
But nobody would have cared about you really back then.
Back in the day you would have been treated worse in the USA with their race laws.
No , I disagree . 🧐
These assholes murdered people who surrendered , old men and women , children , making career moves in cruelty .
Those are not the acts of soldiers .
Those are acts of EVIL 🤨
The SS set the key tone for the war . “ Give death and take death “
The Russians gave them plenty of both , having 26 million dead of their own 😧 No , I disagree . 🧐
These assholes murdered people who surrendered , old men and women , children , making career moves in cruelty .
Those are not the acts of soldiers .
Those are acts of EVIL 🤨
The SS set the key tone for the war . “ Give death and take death “
The Russians gave them plenty of both , having 26 million dead of their own 😧
Unfortunately too many of them survived from the sentences.
The same information that have 25 other canals. 🥱