It makes me angry that this video has so few views. It is no surprise that to this day a lot of people still believe in the so called myth: "The clean wehrmacht".

@re1010

4 жыл бұрын

Like, yeah, there were cases of people having a conscience, but there was way more people who lacked one or purposely ignored it.

@belmounlv1

3 жыл бұрын

Dr. Szymon Datner docimented the genocidal war against Poland, the first 55 Days of Wehrmacht after 1 sept 1939. Bestial campaigns, mass murder of leadership classes(lists prepared earlier by German Poles, spies, traitors), general policies of terror, brutal lawlessness. Look up Wieluń, Wejherewo massacres, KL Stutthof etc etc. More than 20% of prewar population slaughtered, even more proportionately than Soviet Russia.

@evanhunt1863

3 жыл бұрын

@@belmounlv1 Yeah. The Soviets were bad, no question about it, but they were just a generic authoritarian society. The Nazis? They were like a crazed religious cult.

@luigigaudelli2501

3 жыл бұрын

@@evanhunt1863The soviets raped too

@evanhunt1863

3 жыл бұрын

@@luigigaudelli2501 The whataboutism is getting old. EDIT: And furthermore, nobody in this comment thread mentioned rape.

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How about cleaning in front door? Plenty of stuff, starting with 1ww&2ww...

The Nazis weren't quite "right wing" by German political standards at the time. Other than that, great lecture.

@redaug4212

Жыл бұрын

@The Richest Man In Babylon I'm afraid not. If they were extreme "right wing" they would have been trying to reinstate the federal monarchy of the German Empire. Hitler and the National Socialists had little to no love for the Prussian nobility or the class-based systems of Imperial Germany.

@alias6967

Жыл бұрын

Right wingers never gonna cope and own up to their side doing horrid shit

I remembered there was comment on here where some was defending Trump and the person who was against got into an argument.

I just want to know accurate facts about WW2 so I can better understand this terrible period in history. I can recognize the difference between right and wrong on my own . As in WW2, when certain people used propaganda as a weapon against others, they undermined truth and supported suffering. Leave out the hateful political rhetoric. You only undermine yourself.

In the Netfix series Greatest Events of WWII Dr. Megargee states: "Really, if you had to identify a theme for Hitler's election campaigns, It would have been" 'Let's make Germany Great again." In my view, Dr. Megargee's noteworthy academic and research achievements are tarnished by what I consider to be a political cheap shot.

@youbidoubidou

2 жыл бұрын

He nailed it!

@honved1

2 жыл бұрын

A political cheap shot? Against who?

@andrewtanczyk4009

2 жыл бұрын

Seems as if he created that because his political ideology. Therefore too biased to even trust that it was properly researched

@bohemiancorporal

2 жыл бұрын

The Wehrmacht was ‘in it’ up to the wine-stripped trousers of the General Staff. There were two Holocausts: the one in central Europe proper and the one in the ‘East,’ the Soviet Union. The Wehrmacht was fully aware of, and enabled, carnage and slaughter beginning in Poland in 1939. There was no surprise when Hitler penned War Directives, undated and amplified after the invasion, outlining how cruelly the Slavs, Jews, Communists were to be liquidated as an active policy measure of Barbarossa. The internal dialogue within the Wehrmacht was to try and not get too associated with the atrocities of the SS and Einsatsgruppen. Many generals fully co-operated and assisted the SS in their deadly campaign. Had they lived I believe the Allies, post 1945, would have found it impossible not to have von Reichenau and Model ( among many) join Keitel and Jodl on the gallows. Even everyone’s favourite anti-Hitlerian general, von Rundstedt, was held in full captivity, almost to his death as it was politically opportune not to try him for war crimes but impossible to release him for enabling Einsatzgruppen’s in the Ukraine. Many generals also penned stupid, self incriminating orders to their troops calling on them to aide and abet-clearly criminal-crimes against humanity. Oh and everyone in the fatherland knew the broad outlines on the slaughter in the east. Read the trial transcripts of von Leeb, von Manstein ( who served time) and how the eastern front generals were involved in the commission of war crimes.

@quentinquentin6752

2 жыл бұрын

You are spot on. I am left feeling ill by the lazy way so-called “academics” label Trump supporters as no different to Hitler’s Brownshirted thugs. The difference is obvious and is so obvious they betray the historical record when flippantly tossing these barbs around. Trumps daughter is Jewish. His son in law is Jewish. He has Jewish grandkids. Let’s compare that to Hitler! Oh yeah there is no comparison. Trumps supporters seem to be vastly supportive of Israel and the Jewish people. Let’s see how that compares! Oh yeah again it doesn’t. The leftist academics who spew this garbage do an incredibly poor job. It makes the truly heartbreaking suffering of people back then seem comparable with our times. How many journalists did trump imprison? None. How many newspapers did he shut down? How many parties did he ban? None. How many wars did he start? None! I could go on and on. Academics will go the way of the dodo if they continue to spew this obvious ahistorical nonsense. The clueless kids in front of them during class may not know any better but someday they will and in between times we all know it’s vile to spread such disinformation. They do NOT get to rewrite history.

What's your point ? Every Military on Earth has committed crimes from the beginning to current . I don't think any Group or single person believes that the German army was crime free, ask any Viet Nam veteran what was done to POW's when Americans were found in the field besides the search and destroy body count system.

...Why do we continually avoid discussing the war crimes and atrocities committed by the Allied high command? When? When will it be time to hold them accountable?

@joeylonglegs4309

2 жыл бұрын

Why do you continue to use whataboutism, a logical fallacy, to justify the Wehrmacht’s crimes?

@condedooku9750

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry Wehraboo, but Hans is a war criminal.

@obiwaankenobi4460

2 жыл бұрын

Allied war crimes that were neither systematic nor very widespread.

@redaug4212

2 жыл бұрын

Why would he be talking about Allied war crimes during a lecture about Wehrmacht war crimes? Why is your first reaction to discussion about German war crimes "what about the Allies?"

@Rokaize

Жыл бұрын

What war crimes? Did members of allied armies commit war crimes? Yes. Was the entire point of the war from the allied perspective a war crime? No. The German armies entire goal WAS a war crime in and of itself.

All the work that has gone into blackening the name of the Wehrmacht makes me conclude it is a huge distortion produced by the usual suspects. I bet this chap has made a good living, yeah his bosses must be very pleased.

@ExRhodesian

Жыл бұрын

@The Richest Man In Babylon Wikipedia is a tainted source controlled by the same scoundrels who own the media and advertising plus more. To rely on them.as a source is ludicrous.

@ExRhodesian

Жыл бұрын

@The Richest Man In Babylon Gassed kids well why then they they have nurseries and classrooms at auschwitz? Look at all the survivors now who were children in the camps some even born there.

@modest_spice6083

Жыл бұрын

LMAO. The Wehrmacht doesn't need any blackening. We all know that it is a criminal organization that is a willing instrument in the various genocides that it did for its Nazi regime during WW2. It's already degraded enough, enough to kiss every demons' asses in hell itself.