How The Holocaust Happened

What drives ordinary everyday people to become mass killers? What are the psychological mechanisms and cultural factors that lead to genocide? What were the causes of the Holocaust? Can we theorize a psychology of genocide? A theory of genocide?
The Holocaust was not perpetrated solely by a few sadistic psychopaths but by tens of thousands of everyday Germans, Poles, Frenchmen, Austrians, Slovakians, in fact, much of Europe took part.
If any of us could be motivated under the right conditions to become mass serial killers, how can we protect ourselves against the threat? How might we innoculate our societies and cutlures from decending into genocide?
There are a number of factors that lead to the Holocaust. Compartmentalization, euphemism, conformity, authority, rationalization, propaganda, anti-Semitism, victimhood, and association, in particular.
Gustav Le Bon, for example, argued that individuals are more likely to conform in a crowd because of anonymity and mimesis. Stanley Milgram’s famous experiments looked at conformity to authority. This combined with rationalisations like ‘its either us or them’ or ‘they won’t survive through the winter anyway.’
There was still a system of belief - an ideology - and almost a decade of propaganda disseminated by the Nazi Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (RMVP). Years of anti-Semitism in Germany and Europe led to conspiracy theories about Jewish world domination. While Britain, the USSR, and America were all consistently associated with ‘Jewish aggressors’.
When a person perceives themselves as a victim and a prisoner as an aggressor in a war of survival and we combine this with the pressure to conform and submit to authority the probability for murder increases. In Nazi Germany, everything was made to fit this formula.
Ervin Staub proposes a model of genocide that has three initial stages:
First, there’s the frustration of basic needs.
Second, An out-group is identified that’s the cause.
Next, The in-group is motivated by a ‘utopian vision’ that excludes a certain group.
And Herbert Kelman has also argued that the requirements are threefold: authorization, routinization, and dehumanization.
How does all of this fit together?
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  • @ThenNow
    @ThenNow2 жыл бұрын

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  • @firstnamelastname59

    @firstnamelastname59

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@itshere3180 I wasn't There, so I can't comment.

  • @letosgoldenpath1993

    @letosgoldenpath1993

    2 жыл бұрын

    I cannot believe this was demonitized. This is what is wrong with KZread.

  • @jamesguy1030

    @jamesguy1030

    2 жыл бұрын

    Then & Now ~ Yeah, Thanks for another very interesting video. You should check out Episode 8 of the groundbreaking documentary series called Europa the last battle. You Won’t Be Disappointed.

  • @trojanhorse860

    @trojanhorse860

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@firstnamelastname59 History is usually written by the victors, so....

  • @belladonna8425

    @belladonna8425

    2 жыл бұрын

    As I sit and listen from the US, I'm both terrified and enraged by so much of what I see around me. I have a very bad feeling.

  • @Illuminatethedark_
    @Illuminatethedark_ Жыл бұрын

    "Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it."

  • @1900rugrat

    @1900rugrat

    Жыл бұрын

    ye the new hitler… idc i’m sayin it now

  • @-BUILT_LIKE_A_BAG_OF_MILK

    @-BUILT_LIKE_A_BAG_OF_MILK

    Жыл бұрын

    It's going on right now as we speak....do you read much?

  • @Evilkid2363

    @Evilkid2363

    Жыл бұрын

    Do not impose that on me? I actually know a lot about History more than any other subject? But I’m working on that

  • @Evilkid2363

    @Evilkid2363

    Жыл бұрын

    Notice? I did not intend to say I’m the smartest? But I’m definitely not a slack in History

  • @monterey.harris9126

    @monterey.harris9126

    Жыл бұрын

    @SEMTEX J the political party that does all the fear mongering and pushes hatred and attempts to scare people to death with supposed threats to democracy blah blah blah or the ones that I mistrust because they are misleading and it's not really true..

  • @mattyb584
    @mattyb5843 ай бұрын

    Can't help but feel like history really is repeating itself..

  • @munchbox7446

    @munchbox7446

    2 ай бұрын

    Over 800 anti trans or anti LGBT legislation has been introduced into courts across America and hundreds more are on the docket this year alone. If people don't see the parallels of the lead up to the Holocaust they're either ignorant or straight up psychopaths.

  • @JaceFincham

    @JaceFincham

    2 ай бұрын

    It is. But we've got to keep in mind, it's not the Jews at fault, it's Zionists.

  • @danag2841

    @danag2841

    2 ай бұрын

    Especially now. Save Gaza

  • @memberberry8242

    @memberberry8242

    2 ай бұрын

    Exactly, Biden needs to be stopped.

  • @groggs321

    @groggs321

    2 ай бұрын

    Time is not a straight line it is circular and in this carnation you are in "A" particular cycle... maybe next time your King or Queen

  • @nairobichik
    @nairobichik3 ай бұрын

    Nothing can ever justify genocide.

  • @astaroth2797

    @astaroth2797

    2 ай бұрын

    natural selection can

  • @danag2841

    @danag2841

    2 ай бұрын

    Apparently it’s justified if you believe it’s a religious right and the west finds your people weird

  • @CarbonVIII

    @CarbonVIII

    2 ай бұрын

    Unless you're from Israel apparently

  • @kale280

    @kale280

    2 ай бұрын

    @@astaroth2797that’s not what genocide is buddy

  • @ymaifiyv6589

    @ymaifiyv6589

    2 ай бұрын

    Genocide is never acceptable. But what Israel is doing in Gaza is NOT genocide. It’s an act of self defense and self preservation. I urge all of you to learn more about this conflict before you raise your voice

  • @psychedelicartistry
    @psychedelicartistry5 ай бұрын

    Those 5 things he listed at the end are all very prevalent today.

  • @danag2841

    @danag2841

    2 ай бұрын

    Save faza

  • @manifestgtr
    @manifestgtr Жыл бұрын

    This type of stuff is *incredibly* important to discuss. We absolutely MUST study the conditions that lead to such madness. My WW2 vet grandfather instilled some profound historical perspective into me as a young kid. He was a teenager in the army during the war and was assigned a post watching over nazi POWs. The thing that struck me as odd is that he never spoke about them like they were monsters. Many of them were just like him…they were kids, they were scared, they all just wanted it to be over so they could go home…one of them even taught him how to play the harmonica. History is *filled* with regular joes who do the bidding of evil men. Vietnam, both world wars, Korea and the rest of the Cold War madness. It’s too easy to see the other side as being inhuman monsters. We’re ALL just people…the best we can do is study our behavior and try to avoid the awful mistakes that our forefathers made.

  • @mightiestalone9851

    @mightiestalone9851

    Жыл бұрын

    Welp, Germany went into Poland to regain lost land and to save Germans from ethnic cleansing that was going on there. Britain declared war on Germany, starting WWII. Moral of the story... just stay out of people's business. A lot less death and destruction would result. And before you start kvetching about gas chambers, look into the Haavara Agreement.

  • @juliebone4929

    @juliebone4929

    Жыл бұрын

    Lest the sins be visited on the sons.

  • @MattieK09

    @MattieK09

    Жыл бұрын

    Great point look at all the idiots that believed in the Covid “vaccine”

  • @NoahBodze

    @NoahBodze

    Жыл бұрын

    What if none of them were monsters because the Germans just put communists in those camps but because the Germans lost, a whole new and unbelievable story came from it? Because that’s what happened.

  • @allangoods8878

    @allangoods8878

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks to people like your grandfather the west is now over run with degenerates

  • @krismoe31
    @krismoe312 жыл бұрын

    It is really important to go into depths on why people get convinced to kill, and not dismissing everything with simple explanations like "they were horrible people", "they just didnt like each other" (which was the explanation I was given for the genocides in the breakup of Yugoslavia in middle school when I asked about it), "authority made them do it" or other such crap. Great video!

  • @wendychavez5348

    @wendychavez5348

    2 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately, simple explanations are the most some people can handle. Even this video only touches below the surface of what was done or why, and I appreciate that it goes into the horrors felt by the aggressors as well as the victims. I also appreciate that he helps me feel the ugly without forcing me to actually experience it. Forgive me for such an insensitive remark, though there's no shame in admitting that I wouldn't have survived in any role. Blessings to those who did, and to their descendants!

  • @Petal4822

    @Petal4822

    Жыл бұрын

    I couldn’t have killed a child… no propaganda could demonise or justify the killing of a baby or child. It’s not possible they are innocent. How could they have killed babies …they didn’t have the grace of God and they allowed the devil spirit to consume them. The devil in action.

  • @indy_go_blue6048

    @indy_go_blue6048

    Жыл бұрын

    Perhaps the simple answer is that it can't and won't ever be understood WHY. And I have no doubt that if the state of Israel is ever overrun the same thing is going to happen to them, or at least the effort will be made.

  • @PBLKW

    @PBLKW

    Жыл бұрын

    @@indy_go_blue6048 The lies you tell

  • @robm8067

    @robm8067

    Жыл бұрын

    The truly scary message is that understanding the holocaust helps us to understand ourselves. Or rather what we have the potential to sink to. Self awareness and self examination is key. Group think is a powerful influence because it’s a human condition to want to belong to some group or be accepted and protected by a tribe.

  • @randomuser5609
    @randomuser560911 ай бұрын

    A good starting point to avoid stuff like this is to remember that people are individuals, not groups.

  • @MegaCygnusX1
    @MegaCygnusX16 ай бұрын

    "The perpetrators of genocide often see themselves as the victims," Never more relevant than today and what's going on in Gaza.

  • @Anicius_

    @Anicius_

    6 ай бұрын

    Like the genocide loving maniacs whose very charters say and i quote "Israel (infidels in general) exists and will continue to exist until Islam wipes it out"?

  • @ferventheat

    @ferventheat

    5 ай бұрын

    Gazan citizens are why Hamas is given the mandate to murder Jewish babies and rape Jewish women. They celebrate their atrocities. They are the perpetual victimhood who blames everyone else for their situation. Jordan got rid of them, Kuwait deported 300,000 of them, Egypt closed the border to them, everyone knows they are trouble. And they do want to finish what Hitler started. From the river to the sea. Time to rethink your views

  • @alexamorris8411

    @alexamorris8411

    5 ай бұрын

    This is not the place for this. Shame on you.

  • @Pulzyfr

    @Pulzyfr

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@alexamorris8411this is exactly the place for this. The Israeli government is committing genocide.

  • @caresagoring9012

    @caresagoring9012

    5 ай бұрын

    This is exactly the place. After decades of oppressing, terrorizing and dehumanizing the Palestinians, Israelis finally get to wipe out the human animals right. According to mainstream media, poor Israel. These monsters have the audacity to play the victims. Fucking unbelievable.

  • @patriciagranados4027
    @patriciagranados4027 Жыл бұрын

    What is really scary is all this can happen again and again and again

  • @GrizrazRex

    @GrizrazRex

    Жыл бұрын

    ...and at the rate things are going, the time is drawing near. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Like the Nazi party itself, the impetus for this horrid history's repeat shall come from the Left.

  • @spmoran4703

    @spmoran4703

    Жыл бұрын

    And it is .

  • @PixieMeat_444

    @PixieMeat_444

    Жыл бұрын

    @@spmoran4703 it is and it will, all I can think is may god have mercy on our souls

  • @griefer5846

    @griefer5846

    Жыл бұрын

    it is, people say nothing about all the muslims and people that are getting bombed in iraq, afganistan. And the sad thing is, there are people being killed everyday in those countries and nobody says anything about it.

  • @cindys9491

    @cindys9491

    Жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately it has. The Rwandan genocide in 1994, the genocide in Cambodia under Pol Pot, the human rights violations against the Rohingya, etc., etc. Not to mention the mass murder by inaction that some western nations perpetrate on nations suffering from malnutrition, starvation, and diseases that most of us never see. We let it happen to them when we would never tolerate it for ourselves. (Yes, I know there's food aid but if we wanted to we could fix the problem).

  • @TheLacedaemonian300
    @TheLacedaemonian3003 жыл бұрын

    I'm 40 minutes into this and I had to take a pause. This video is nothing short of brilliant. It has become exceedingly scarce to hear a story told in a creative and innovative way, but here I've found one of those rarities. Before I go back to watching this I would like to thank you for making such an honorable tribute to those who were murdered in the Holocaust. You will never know what you mean to so many of us because there exist no words to describe the feeling, but it is an endless river of gratitude. Let us never repeat the errors of our past and may we all remember too, Never Forget!

  • 2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, and when they tell you a story that the US landed on the moon you will be a believer for them without asking for facts.

  • @firstnamelastname59

    @firstnamelastname59

    2 жыл бұрын

    Gggggggg

  • @maxmfpayne

    @maxmfpayne

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wish I could like this more than once. I was broken down to tears by 15 minutes in. This puts so much in a human perspective.

  • @trojanhorse860

    @trojanhorse860

    2 жыл бұрын

    This guy is full of fancy shit lol, a deluded liberal at a time when the victorious liberalism itself has become *fascist* , ironically enough, while iimposing itself to the whole planet as "the universal bullshit".. Contemptible cultural intellectual political economic.... *Eurocentric* imperialism. *We, the non-western peoples, reject* *the global liberal order & its dogmas,* *as Russia, China.... are doing...*

  • @Raykibb1

    @Raykibb1

    2 жыл бұрын

    Amen, Never Forget!!!

  • @twokindsofovenfries32
    @twokindsofovenfries329 ай бұрын

    This video is fantastic! Do you have a log of all the media footage you used? I’m intrigued to find the source material

  • @azzy101
    @azzy1018 ай бұрын

    This is exactly what I was looking for, an explanation that would make sense as to how and why this even happened, very well done to the creator. This should have much more views.

  • @joleaneshmoleane8358

    @joleaneshmoleane8358

    2 ай бұрын

    Basically, people care so much about being in the IN group, what others think and say about them, how they’re perceived by their peers, what their favorite politicians and celebrities say on Twitter about a given topic, making sure they’re sufficiently at odds with the out group, that they’re willing to do literally anything. I just find that so pathetic. The only thing people should be loyal to is the truth. Find out what’s true and stick to the principles. People should be concerned about what’s true above everything else, especially over “does this help my team or not?”, or “do I like the person or outlet sharing this truth?”. None of that matters until you’ve decided whether the claims of each side are true or not. If one side is 100% correct and telling the truth then that’s the good guys. If the other side is telling lies either by omission or just bold faced lies, then they’re the bad guys. If both sides are lying equally then they’re all bad guys.

  • @Gorlim_the_Unhappy
    @Gorlim_the_Unhappy Жыл бұрын

    I would say that the book "ordinary men" is the most haunting and chilling bit of history I've ever read. The fact that, if you or I could walk away from mass murder with no consequence, it would still happen. Some other ordinary man would carry out the orders. Choosing to be a moral person has no real effect on our history, and that is one of the hardest pills to swallow

  • @oxxy6678

    @oxxy6678

    Жыл бұрын

    Right, on a larger level, the majority of people have no effect, however, on an individual level, you choosing not to participate in genocide might save several lives. We should all strive to leave the world better. just because you probably can't stop a genocide by yourself, doesn't mean you can't at least have a good impact.

  • @ariannatrapani5824

    @ariannatrapani5824

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree with you for sure. I read the book more than a decade ago and a question is still firmly embedded in my mind, if in a situation comparable with the one these men of 101 in what group I would be, the few that refused to kill of the majority that get used to it. I'm lucky and don't have to test my moral strenght, but the virtual answer chills my bones. The book is an oustanding historical reserch, for method and interest of the theme.

  • @harrisonmccoll1093

    @harrisonmccoll1093

    Жыл бұрын

    That is absolutely not true, people who hold up morality keep the world from decending into complete chaos. Do you really think the people who have participated in massacres really get off Scott free? Even if you don't get put in jail, you would never be the same and would be tortured by what you did for the rest of your life. I'd argue that is one of the worst punishments of all.

  • @mikehawk6563

    @mikehawk6563

    Жыл бұрын

    Mass psychosis, peer pressure, fear, and cowardness and selflessness is why the "men" you speak of murderer innocent children. Be a horrible slave, don't be afraid to die as you WILL surely die anyway. If the majority fights the majority wins. Unfortunately most people are too selfish to stand up ALONE for what is right, so instead they cower and make good slaves.

  • @taylora6087

    @taylora6087

    Жыл бұрын

    I read Ordinary Men at the beginning of the pandemic and immediately saw who the ordinary men & women are in our society. Scared the shite out of me.

  • @hightechnician
    @hightechnician Жыл бұрын

    Thanks. It's such a hot topic here in Germany to even dare try and analyse it. So I'm glad people from the outside are doing it. There are many parallels between the situations of Germans then and Russians now, the same twisted sense of victimization, that isn't even entirely unfounded, just wholey misdirected

  • @kkpenney444

    @kkpenney444

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, the parallels are frightening, but I will still maintain that the only real victimizers of the Russians are the Russians themselves.

  • @midleno8364

    @midleno8364

    11 ай бұрын

    The fact that it's a hot topic is concerning, it's usually a hot topic when there are a ton of people who argue for and against it in a nearly proportional quantity. Do they still argue in favour of the nazis over there? If they do, that's really embarrassing.

  • @hightechnician

    @hightechnician

    11 ай бұрын

    @@midleno8364 Rather the opposite. It's rather sensitive than hot, but as a german, you can basically just lose when exploring the psychology behind this - it is taken as relativization if you even attempt to think something other than "These people were just evil and inhumane pricks". Germany never really reprocessed the Nazi era. It's still a collective trauma, and it's just easier to say "these were very evil people", make a few memorial sites for the holocaust and air WWII documentaries all day, than to sit and think how this could have happened to people like you and me.

  • @floatinggoose9197

    @floatinggoose9197

    11 ай бұрын

    Thank God current day Russia is far less powerful as WW era Germany. Like, not 1% as effective.

  • @moridomori

    @moridomori

    11 ай бұрын

    It's becoming a hot topic in America, it's been growing for a couple of decades now.... We're so fkn dumb I swear

  • @intrusive-th0t
    @intrusive-th0t7 ай бұрын

    Also: 1) the Nazis and the Japanese Imperialists widely used methamphetamines to increase aggression and stamina in their soldiers 2) concentration camps and genocide had already been “trialed” in Africa, and the Nazis were inspired by the US eugenics movement and likely the genocide of the Native Americans and enslavement of Africans 3) the Jews were not the only group targeted for genocide, there were also the Poles/other Slavs (Generalplan Ost), Roma, the disabled, homosexuals, etc

  • @dangwood91887

    @dangwood91887

    3 ай бұрын

    You forgot Christian’s…

  • @MarylandMarshmallow

    @MarylandMarshmallow

    3 ай бұрын

    For point 2 I don’t get it. Genocide had been taking place in many places other than Africa. And concentration camps as well. And slavery…. 😭 most of the world around us was built on the backs of “slaves” not just African ones. Seems like point 2 was a bit of race baiting just a bit.

  • @adrianarison

    @adrianarison

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@dangwood91887wrong

  • @wellbi

    @wellbi

    3 ай бұрын

    No, Nazis were really inspired by “racial philosophers” and quacks like Houston Chamberlain, Arthur de Gobinau or Adolf Wahrmund. And these guys were inspired the most by German philosophers, Richard Wagner’s works , and Hindu mythology. (Which was the reason why swastika was one of the core symbols of Nazism. Why the whole “Aryanism” thing was a thing. Why Germans were destined to conquer the lesser races. etc.) The US slavery/racism issue was awful, but it definitely wasn’t a significant mover in German volkisch movement and ideology.

  • @intrusive-th0t

    @intrusive-th0t

    3 ай бұрын

    @@wellbi Nazis were into a lot of occultism but Hindu mythology isn’t what gave them their ideas about genetics causing disease or criminality, that all came from the US-born eugenics movement. Race also did not really exist as a concept until the birth of slavery in the US. Much of America was pro-Hitler or ambivalent about him up until the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and even after the war the US govt recruited many Nazis to work for them. It was always a largely friendly relationship

  • @tapashyarasaily1373
    @tapashyarasaily13738 ай бұрын

    that last shot of the headshower in the brausebad says it all. this documentry was so well created, the narrative and sequencing is absolutely perfect. thank you for it.

  • @amorosogombe9650
    @amorosogombe9650 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for tackling this difficult subject so thoroughly, bravely and honestly. I'm from Kenya (luckily, in this part of the world). I've grown up seeing waves of refugees escaping genocide since I was a child, Eritrea, Tigray, Darfur, Rwanda, the DRC, I was even in the first cohort of African students to go to post-aparthied South Africa for university, a country that very narrowly avoided what might have become the first nuclear genocide, believe it or not. Many don't know how the CIA and South African special forces chased down the apartheid regime's nuclear weapons, finding them across barns and goodness knows where before Mandela was sworn into power. We've lived and continue to live in a seriously disturbed world. We must be grateful to scholars and intellectuals like you for tackling and attempting to understand & so help to heal, these catastrophic social pathologies.

  • @lindabest4624

    @lindabest4624

    Жыл бұрын

    The CIA is up to a lot of no good.

  • @krymxen

    @krymxen

    Жыл бұрын

    this was beautifully said

  • @amorosogombe9650

    @amorosogombe9650

    Жыл бұрын

    @@krymxen Thank you. Kind of you. Super day. 👋🏿

  • @thecianinator

    @thecianinator

    Жыл бұрын

    God damn, imagine finding a nuke in an old barn

  • @amorosogombe9650

    @amorosogombe9650

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thecianinator Yap. It was a freaking crazy time. And there's more. I could tell you crazy tales all day long. From Winnie Mandela straddling a teenage boy called Stompie and stabbing him to death in a bathtub (which is why Madiba divorced her when he got out of jail) to an SAA flight catching fire and breaking up over the Indian Ocean near Mauritius, carrying radioactive contraband from Taiwan, some say they were cooperating with them on a nuclear weapon and they had stored the enriched U235 rods inadequately shielded and too close to each other, which is exactly how a civilian nuclear reactor generates heat and fire broke out in the cargo hold. When I was a first year in UCT, Grace Mugabe would come to Cape Town on Air Zimbabwe, entire first class booked, of course, for her entourage, to shop, then on the flight back, they would have to wait even if the flight was up to three hours late, for her to finish shopping. A maid once went into her hotel suite to do some housekeeping, thinking she was out. Bad luck to her she found her in the room. She got slapped senseless. Right now the world is polarising along a democracies vs. tyrannies fault line that transcends regions, religions and races. From the times I've lived in, I know what side I'm on. People who live in the free world have no idea what they've got. And I know first hand what I'm talking about. I did my second degree in the UK and I've been lucky enough to travel the world with my work. Sometimes real life is crazier than the movies, you best believe it. It's a mad mad world.👋🏿♡🕊

  • @Nyah86Production
    @Nyah86Production Жыл бұрын

    I read Browning‘s book about the police battalion 101 and the psychology behind the desensitisation of (mass)murder and it deeply affected and horrified me. I think it should be read by more people. I wish we read and analysed it at school because only if you understand the history you can learn from it. I think about this book almost every day.

  • @MissTryALot

    @MissTryALot

    7 ай бұрын

    I appreciate book recommendations, so thanks for this.

  • @sayresrudy2644

    @sayresrudy2644

    5 ай бұрын

    💯

  • @pitchforkpeasant6219

    @pitchforkpeasant6219

    5 ай бұрын

    People are already being desensitized to those in opposition of the system. When people would celebrate the death of someone for simply being on the left or right, id say we’re already there. The new white rose movement is being labeled right wing and assigned all attributes of those on the right and trump supporters. All for being against the system even those on the left hate as well

  • @wolfbenson

    @wolfbenson

    4 ай бұрын

    I also read it and highly recommend it.

  • @faisal.comilla.98

    @faisal.comilla.98

    4 ай бұрын

    How is the holocaust different from the genocide conducted by Israel?

  • @user-sn4jp3cu4j
    @user-sn4jp3cu4j8 ай бұрын

    Well done to the inventor, this is exactly what I was hoping for-an explanation that would make sense as to how and why this even occurred. This ought to receive a lot more views.

  • @IwillGetyou00000
    @IwillGetyou000004 ай бұрын

    This is the best intro that I have ever heard. Great work!

  • @dalepower632
    @dalepower632 Жыл бұрын

    I find it troubling that KZread would demonetize an educational piece of this nature. It is a warning to us all: Do not become lazy, do not think it couldn't happen here. Do not imagine that we, each of us, would be immune to becoming the evil we fear. I know this is a harsh lesson, but punishing it, and it's creator, smacks of the same attempt to control all information that is mentioned in the video... Oh. I see.

  • @garybrunecz7785

    @garybrunecz7785

    Жыл бұрын

    Its already happening here. Divide and Conquer is working like a charm on the dumbed down selfish, self entitled spoiled brats of America. Once the Traitors in the White House brand all Republicans and political critics as enemies of the state and give their Democratic followers a free pass to target and kill us. The bloodshed will be endless.

  • @lexinicole4317

    @lexinicole4317

    11 ай бұрын

    This same video is still being promoted by the algorithm, so no, I don’t think the lack of monetization has anything to do with “big KZread” wanting to suppress the information. They still want you to watch the video and spend extra time using their app. They just also know most advertisers don’t want their name associated with historical atrocities because it doesn’t exactly make you want a Whopper when a cheery ad for Burger King plays in the middle of your Holocaust educational video. It creates the “wrong” association in the view of the advertisers. If they wanted to suppress this information, I never would have seen it, considering I don’t watch historical channels at all and have never heard of this man until this was recommended to me. Your logic does not line up with reality.

  • @Aluttuh

    @Aluttuh

    11 ай бұрын

    if you talk about the religious agenda in the talmud/torah you get called anti-Semitic and shadowbanned. nothing new in weimar2.0/1984

  • @Hanna-se3vr

    @Hanna-se3vr

    10 ай бұрын

    Just remember 1.5 years ago - the unvaxxed are dirty people that should die, not have a job, and not have a place in society. Those who question the vac should be censored and sent death threats. Nothing to see here…..

  • @1984Skynet

    @1984Skynet

    10 ай бұрын

    Strange no replies here

  • @clockworkcookie
    @clockworkcookie2 жыл бұрын

    The quality of this channel is simply astounding. Every video is very well researched, thought out and the narration is amazing. I hate that youtube doesn't reward creators like this with monetization just because they touch on sensitive topics.

  • @den264

    @den264

    Жыл бұрын

    I look forward to his next documentary highlighting the ethnic cleansing of thousands of innocent Palestinians by the racist Zionists in Israel. Or NOT.

  • @ChicanoOne760

    @ChicanoOne760

    Жыл бұрын

    In America they have appointed Mexicans as the enemy.

  • @lindabest4624

    @lindabest4624

    Жыл бұрын

    KZread lacks values.

  • @lizgreer6888
    @lizgreer68887 ай бұрын

    This is why training in the military changed. My husband is retired from the US Navy... if you believe a command from your higher rank is asking you to do something that goes against the Geneva convention, the rules of war, or just plain human decency, you have the obligation to question the command. Simply saying "i was ordered to do it" is no longer a justifiable reason.

  • @capeda9942
    @capeda9942Ай бұрын

    Very similar to what's going on in Gaza today. Very sad that humans are repeating these atrocities.

  • @erberon82

    @erberon82

    Ай бұрын

    not similar in any kind.

  • @capeda9942

    @capeda9942

    Ай бұрын

    @@erberon82 Sure it is. Both are ethnostates that are doing a genocide. They are REMARKABLY similar. It's doubly sad what Israel is doing considering they just escaped the Holocaust, but hopefully we step in soon to make the Gaza Holocaust stop (by force if necessary).

  • @EnTiempo824

    @EnTiempo824

    Ай бұрын

    ⁠@@capeda9942 The government of Israel and nationalists are different than the Jews who survived the Holocaust. Not every Jew and Israeli is a nationalist either/supports Israel being formed as a state. I do hope they stop it, but the world is also pretty ugly for so many nations to just let it happen.

  • @rrs2854

    @rrs2854

    29 күн бұрын

    @@erberon82you’ve learnt nothing from this video, and you’ve wasted one hour of your life.

  • @steves1015
    @steves1015 Жыл бұрын

    Sometimes fear of ending up the same way has been used to get people to do unspeakable things. In the Cambodia genocide in the mid to late 70s, teenagers and young adults were gotten to commit horrendous acts on their fellow countrymen, especially in prisons like S21 - one major reason for them doing such a thing is that if they didn't, or if they messed up on the job (slept on the job, sat down at the wrong time, unauthorised speaking to the prisoners, accidentally killed a prison during torture etc.) then they would be next into the cells to suffer the same treatment. Of the 20,000 people that were known to have gone through that particular prison, only 12 survived. It is now a museum, I would strongly recommend people go to visit it (and the killing fields), it is an incredibly sombre experience to see the multiple photos of the inmates (the Khmer Rouge took meticulous records of whom they imprisoned). One thing we do know is that these genocides are not as rare as we would like them to be - there are many that have occurred since the holocaust.

  • @dawnemile7499

    @dawnemile7499

    Жыл бұрын

    Isn't this happening now in the US and Canada? The propaganda is that white people are bad and therefor they should be replaced by people of colour. However, I fear that because white people are the majority there will be a civil war.

  • @jasonwiley798

    @jasonwiley798

    Жыл бұрын

    We all know that horrible crimes are committed and rationalized by ideology, religion, and racism. The human man and has a seemingly infinite ability justify anything.

  • @Cui-bono987

    @Cui-bono987

    Жыл бұрын

    I’ve been to both places in Cambodia (If S21 is the former school in a Phnom Penh). It changed my life. As you said just because the Holocaust happened in Europe doesn’t mean it was the last genocide. The Rwandan one was absolutely terrifying in terms of speed.

  • @TheGalaxyWings

    @TheGalaxyWings

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Cui-bono987 *genocide. I'd edit it before someone else points it out

  • @Cui-bono987

    @Cui-bono987

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TheGalaxyWings cheers for that. Auto correct is a pain sometimes.

  • @PORRRIDGE_GUN
    @PORRRIDGE_GUN Жыл бұрын

    What was interesting and often overlooked by those studying the results of the Milgram experiments was that those who were more likely to refuse to carry out orders they were led to believe caused pain and suffering were from 'lower socio-economic groups', the insulting term used by many to describe the working class. Managers and professionals on the whole carried out the instructions with fewer qualms. Ergo the rich are powerful find cruelty and oppression easier to rationalise and accept.

  • @factbeaglesarebest

    @factbeaglesarebest

    Жыл бұрын

    How is that an insulting term? It’s simply an analysis of one’s social level and economic status. You just STATED IT yourself… low SOCIO (meaning one in a lower portion of the social stratum) and economic; less money. This is something unequivocally observable in every society in history. Not everyone can be the richest , by definition, nor the most powerful, again by definition.

  • @johngalt97

    @johngalt97

    Жыл бұрын

    The Milgram 'whatever it was' has been exposed as fraud.

  • @PORRRIDGE_GUN

    @PORRRIDGE_GUN

    Жыл бұрын

    @@johngalt97 I think you mean the Rosenhan experiment. But some say that it isn't a fraud at all, and that is an accusation peddled by the psychiatric specialty to cover up their own questionable theories and diagnoses.

  • @thejohnbeck

    @thejohnbeck

    Жыл бұрын

    @@factbeaglesarebest I believe he's talking about the smug way the "rich and educated and good" describe those "beneath" them. Consider the word socioeconomic. It's not just about money, it's about society, group and class.

  • @cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338

    @cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338

    Жыл бұрын

    That’s a bit of a leap there. Managers and professionals aren’t necessarily rich and powerful. Perhaps they’re more likely to do what they’re told without question which is why they’re more successful than the other cogs in the machine.

  • @medusa5472
    @medusa54723 ай бұрын

    I wanna thank you as many others in thr comments already did. I'm German, in my 30s and after discussing WWII, Hitler and the Holocaust in depth in school I finally feel like I'm old enough to really understand and want to work through reasons that led to those horrific actions. Your video helped me understand a lot better and I think I might reread The Wave by M. Rhue now as it ties in nicely with the topic of manipulation and in- and outgroups. Thanks again. :)

  • @xtevetyler5332
    @xtevetyler5332Ай бұрын

    An incredibly intuitive analysis and presentation of what is widely known of yet rarely understood, it places one at the core of the system to reveal how ordinary people can function as a seemingly outragious monster, with simple human rationalisation, The scary thing about all that is one can see how such a system could easily arise again, it just takes not learning from our past, recent and ancient, a disregard for anothers life and throw in a charismatic figurehead with grieviences, make him a genius then surround with a set of other misogeniest men there you go, and so a program such a this is essential in highlighting the possible past triggers in the past. Well done i subscribed too you.

  • @lemarksolomon3072
    @lemarksolomon3072 Жыл бұрын

    Great work. Your the first person I've heard of that emphasized that reality of the lynchers and Nazis, etc acting largely out of a twisted sense of being a victim. I've came to this in my own individual meditations on the topic. I love how methodical your analysis is.

  • @lemarksolomon3072

    @lemarksolomon3072

    Жыл бұрын

    @@newadam573 what is Wokeism???

  • @MadTracker

    @MadTracker

    Жыл бұрын

    @@newadam573 a race of people who’ve suffered hundreds of years of oppression from a country and it’s systems are the literal definition of victims -unlike the nonsense victimhood claims of the US right who insist they’re being silenced while it’s they who hold the levers of power. You’ve taken the wrong lesson here if you’ve drawn an association between being woke or BLM with the feeling of victimhood the video is discussing.

  • @3dPrintingMillennial

    @3dPrintingMillennial

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@newadam573 just making shit up on the spot, eh? You watched this video and decided to still push Nazi propaganda.

  • @richardallen5042

    @richardallen5042

    Жыл бұрын

    It must feel sweet having your fantasy realized by a semi popular youtuber.

  • @lemarksolomon3072

    @lemarksolomon3072

    Жыл бұрын

    @@richardallen5042 I'm not following. Please elaborate.

  • @seanosull2884
    @seanosull28842 жыл бұрын

    I'm so glad that this channel is finally starting to get the appreciation it deserves. This man is without a doubt the best video essayist on this platform. So nuanced and well-researched. This is a very difficult topic to talk about, but this was done brilliantly.

  • @wendychavez5348

    @wendychavez5348

    2 жыл бұрын

    He's entirely respectful, and humanizes all parties so that we can understand what they might have been thinking and feeling. Not an easy task! I also appreciate the references along the way, partly because I caught a surprise reference to one of my favorite experts.

  • @GamerWordDotNet

    @GamerWordDotNet

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, this channel creates the best "Hitler is bad man" videos. Very nuanced! Check out the big brains on these commenters.

  • @seanosull2884

    @seanosull2884

    Жыл бұрын

    @@GamerWordDotNet Sorry, was this video not pro-hitler enough for you? Not anti-semitic enough? ... and are you based in the UK/Ireland, mainland Europe or North America? Regardless, what are you doing trying to start pro-hitler fights with strangers in the middle of the night on a Tuesday you psycho?

  • @johnmc3862

    @johnmc3862

    Жыл бұрын

    Maith thú!

  • @mitchellgenesse2866

    @mitchellgenesse2866

    Жыл бұрын

    @@GamerWordDotNet If that is all you got out of this video, then you might be the reason it exists in the first place.

  • @momentswithyahya4239
    @momentswithyahya42398 ай бұрын

    May I please ask what footage is this that you used? Is this actual footage of Holocaust victims or or it reenactment? Thank you 🙏🏽

  • @Laureee578
    @Laureee57811 ай бұрын

    This is a brilliant analysis. It makes me scared about the prospect of being influenced to do something like this, in fear of losing your job, being ostracized or losing your livelihood/life yourself. I guess you have to think if someone in a position of authority asks you to do something you feel is wrong or don't feel comfortable with, you should refuse. With this regime it was weird how it started out slowly with a drip drip drip of making people's lives better, and then they were instructed to do evil acts which they complied with. This is hard to watch because it makes you realise that all or most people could be complicit in doing horrendous evil acts.

  • @mikefitzgerald6897

    @mikefitzgerald6897

    10 ай бұрын

    The USA murdered 70,000 children broadcast nearly live around the world for no reason other than oil contacts yet zero remorse or sense of shame. The power of televisión coupled to public education equals yes it not only can happen it is happening. How many police pull people over for Driving While Black. Who says shit about it?

  • @Siegfried5846

    @Siegfried5846

    10 ай бұрын

    You've been lied to about them. They never did these things

  • @shakey3306

    @shakey3306

    10 ай бұрын

    Things are so simple in your minds 😂😂

  • @shakey3306

    @shakey3306

    10 ай бұрын

    You are exactly the type of people that will comply with the establishment

  • @TheFlyingBrain.

    @TheFlyingBrain.

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@shakey3306Laugh while you can, monkey boy. You have a lot to learn. Quit throwing mud at what you don't understand anyway and pull the mote out of your eye. This person is learning something, and all you know how to do is practice one of the most obvious of ignorant attitudes that leads to holocausts and genocides: They-ism.

  • @fusedruler
    @fusedruler Жыл бұрын

    The ways in which the discussed material in this video can be applied to the past 2 years is uncanny.

  • @r3ggie25

    @r3ggie25

    Жыл бұрын

    Yep…

  • @timezone4176

    @timezone4176

    Жыл бұрын

    How so?

  • @tomweickmann6414

    @tomweickmann6414

    Жыл бұрын

    Look at your repliers. How they bait you. "How's that?" "Explain you statements" "What do you REALLY mean?" When they know the answer to their own question, they can feel free of shared guilt.

  • @traindr12

    @traindr12

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@timezone4176 uhhh, perhaps the demonization of conservatives......

  • @enzl4493

    @enzl4493

    4 ай бұрын

    ⁠@@tomweickmann6414why not just answer the question…instead of shaming people for something they might not even understand.

  • @pedrito01100
    @pedrito011003 жыл бұрын

    Amazing job. You outdid many content creators in the task of bringing not just something of relevance and doing it flawlessly, but of a matter that is so much discussed that it becomes tiresome some times. Truly incredible job! Hope you see this coment, you deserve the praise!

  • @dirtybossaofficial

    @dirtybossaofficial

    Жыл бұрын

    🤣🤣🤣🥴

  • @traindr12

    @traindr12

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@DIRTY BOSSA yeah, YOU know the truth....... lmao

  • @ArielleBiscayart
    @ArielleBiscayart6 ай бұрын

    This is such an incredible- in depth and incredibly clear explanation of how an ordinary / often well educated human being can become a barabarian involved in a a genocide and within a local, domestic or international context of propaganda, rationalization, need for conformity and economic or/ans social frustration. This is chilling yet brilliant and I will look into your Patreon link. Are you located in the UK? Thank you🙏🌟

  • @igordevisate1494
    @igordevisate149410 ай бұрын

    you truly are a great storyteller. thanks for that.

  • @cam9913
    @cam99133 жыл бұрын

    This video made me learn a lot, I honestly LOVE your channel. It does chill me to the core realizing how many patterns certain world superpowers are repeating. The post-modern era will not be a treat to live through.

  • @zoeissleepy708

    @zoeissleepy708

    2 жыл бұрын

    Juqt look at the modern republican party with their genocidal rhetoric against trans people

  • @Petal4822

    @Petal4822

    Жыл бұрын

    I couldn’t have killed a child… no propaganda could demonise or justify the killing of a baby or child. It’s not possible they are innocent. How could they have killed babies …they didn’t have the grace of God and they allowed the devil spirit to consume them. The devil in action.

  • @den264

    @den264

    Жыл бұрын

    Post modern super powers like Israel. Who are equally guilty of committing acts of murder against their Arab neighbors the Palestinians.

  • @alligatorsarecoming78

    @alligatorsarecoming78

    Жыл бұрын

    "certain world powers" I think we all know which ones you're talking about.

  • @soulofglebb

    @soulofglebb

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alligatorsarecoming78 crazy to think that Putin is probably close to doing the same thing as Hitler , but this time (ironically) justifying the Ukrainians as nazis

  • @anneg5720
    @anneg5720 Жыл бұрын

    This is crazy, it's very informative to see things from the opposite perspective and how people could comply to such heinous crimes against fellow humans.

  • @indogoUI

    @indogoUI

    Жыл бұрын

    Hitler seemed to take his influences from the British

  • @darraghwilliamson3689

    @darraghwilliamson3689

    11 ай бұрын

    Where were you for the covid shots? I learned pretty quick in real time

  • @nyrtzi

    @nyrtzi

    7 ай бұрын

    @@darraghwilliamson3689 Yep, the rhetoric back then certainly went in the same direction whenever emotional hotheads got their hands on a mic in public.

  • @pitchforkpeasant6219

    @pitchforkpeasant6219

    5 ай бұрын

    Look at those easily turned against people on the left or right. Manipulation of public opinion dehumanizing anyone is way too easy. Easy when using organizations people shouldn’t trust who would use peoples fear and or hate against other people or specific groups

  • @C-Span222
    @C-Span2225 ай бұрын

    The way that you have broke this down is absolutely heartfelt and brilliant. Thank you!

  • @karinababy6557
    @karinababy655711 ай бұрын

    Your channel is one of the best on KZread. ❤

  • @paigetomkinson1137
    @paigetomkinson11372 жыл бұрын

    This is excellent work. It can be very challenging to describe all of these factors, and pull them all together into a coherent whole. I've watched this video, and looked over others on the channel, subscribed.

  • @Spiral.Dynamics
    @Spiral.Dynamics Жыл бұрын

    “It is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they’re being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for their lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.” -Reich Marshal Hermann Göring at the Nuremberg Trials

  • @zillastudios8430
    @zillastudios843011 ай бұрын

    34:28 What's the song here?

  • @s-c..

    @s-c..

    11 ай бұрын

    Try Guillaume Tell: Overture, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, about 3 minutes 40ish in.

  • @The_Reckoning_Is_Here
    @The_Reckoning_Is_Here7 ай бұрын

    It’s absolutely chilling because we are on this trajectory 😢

  • @golirasmonk

    @golirasmonk

    3 ай бұрын

    In what way lol

  • @janekmundt579

    @janekmundt579

    3 ай бұрын

    We are in the genocide right now… People just haven’t realised yet…

  • @fluffyraichu9706

    @fluffyraichu9706

    3 ай бұрын

    @@golirasmonk Increasing anti-trans sentiment in the US causing horrible bills to be introduced and/or passed that specifically target trans people, the genocide against the Palestinians, the genocides in Myanmar and the Democracy Republic of the Congo among other places, take your pick. There’s a lot of shit happening.

  • @z__t9814

    @z__t9814

    3 ай бұрын

    Social media is just constant propaganda. Imagine if hman had access

  • @TempinoTuMadre

    @TempinoTuMadre

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@golirasmonkGonna guess and say the person you replied to is talking about Trump...the brainrot is real to compare Trump to any kind of Genocidal maniac...

  • @ieatlolz
    @ieatlolz3 жыл бұрын

    Geez man, I watch a lot of heavy videos but something about the way this was framed had tears running down my face within 5 minutes.

  • @johnmc3862

    @johnmc3862

    Жыл бұрын

    Your comment saved my life.

  • @abraxasfraxinus7744

    @abraxasfraxinus7744

    Жыл бұрын

    Do you cry for the kids being shot to death by Jews while they sleep in bed in Palestine?

  • @_unicornqueen_4245
    @_unicornqueen_42452 жыл бұрын

    This video clearly doesn't get enough attention. Love the content

  • @corvinius4609
    @corvinius460911 ай бұрын

    How long does it take to cremate a body?

  • @clarenceghammjr1326

    @clarenceghammjr1326

    3 ай бұрын

    Ask my god,google

  • @rorykesson6469
    @rorykesson646911 ай бұрын

    “C. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part” damn that really seems like Britain and Europe right now 😢

  • @anielalibicz9980
    @anielalibicz9980 Жыл бұрын

    I could not stop listening to this! You presented this in such a captivating way that when the entire video finished I could not believe I sat for an hour, simply hanging onto every word! Phenomenal work!!!!

  • @scottflanagan2006
    @scottflanagan2006 Жыл бұрын

    This is amazing. I don’t think I’ve ever been more interested from another KZread video in my life. The explanations and information is presented so well it was effortless to thoroughly understand. Thank you

  • @ShikataGaNai100
    @ShikataGaNai10011 ай бұрын

    Tasteful, insightful commentary; good job.

  • @slaterrox23
    @slaterrox233 жыл бұрын

    Can't believe the sheer quality and depth of your videos, seriously they're a gem on this website.

  • @firstnamelastname59

    @firstnamelastname59

    2 жыл бұрын

    What, a bloke in front of a tripod, with a royalty-free soundtrack? Times be hard in this here world.

  • @slaterrox23

    @slaterrox23

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@firstnamelastname59 Try unmuting it mate

  • @firstnamelastname59

    @firstnamelastname59

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@slaterrox23 ohhh does a comment section encounter entitle you to friendship too? This world is relentless°°

  • @slaterrox23

    @slaterrox23

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@firstnamelastname59 Ngl I'm confused, but okay. You doing alright there?

  • @JR-xy2jo

    @JR-xy2jo

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@firstnamelastname59 Damn I bet you’re fun at parties

  • @mariannehancock8282
    @mariannehancock8282 Жыл бұрын

    It's interesting that those who wouldn't participate were called 'weaklings', because they were the only ones who showed any moral courage.

  • @leftiesarepedophiles

    @leftiesarepedophiles

    11 ай бұрын

    like what happens today with the woke cult. you should want to date men pretending to be women or you are a bigot. you should trans kids or you are a bigot. same tactics.

  • @ausnetscience
    @ausnetscience3 ай бұрын

    This is always an interesting topic to explore. It would be nice if more people would investigate this topic or understand how things like this happen, particularly with things happening in Gaza, china, republican states and many other places around the world.

  • @user-sn4jp3cu4j
    @user-sn4jp3cu4j8 ай бұрын

    Amazing work. You're the only person I've heard of who has stressed the fact that Nazis and lynchers alike acted primarily out of a perverted feeling of victimhood. I've reached this conclusion after reflecting about the subject on my own. How systematic your analysis is, I adore.

  • @ailleananaithnid2566

    @ailleananaithnid2566

    7 ай бұрын

    The perpetual victimhood is a feature of the far right. That’s typical of an authoritarian. They require enemies to hate. For the GOP and Trump it’s the “Marxist, communist radical left” (that doesn’t exist.) Trump never does anything wrong - he and his blind followers are just being victimized by the “radical left” even though Trump is committing crimes and preaching hate. Even when there’s video tape showing him committing crimes, he denied it and his followers believe it.

  • @ad8447

    @ad8447

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@ailleananaithnid2566the radical left amd their gender nonsense is abhorrent

  • @philh2932

    @philh2932

    5 ай бұрын

    Yup it’s true. The biggest genocides were from the Communists that thought they were being victimized by landowners.

  • @cannadaddoit7460

    @cannadaddoit7460

    3 ай бұрын

    What was perverted about their sense of victimhood? Are you familiar with the bolshevik revolution? Do you know what happened in the holomodor? What about the treatment of German nationals in Danzig? The Weimar degeneracy and perversion of German culture and values? These are all examples of outside forces attempting to alter the course of the German people.

  • @melloone611
    @melloone611 Жыл бұрын

    First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me. -Martin Niemöller

  • @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.

    @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.

    Жыл бұрын

    Actually Martin Niemöller never used the word "soc ialist" in his poem. He used the word "com munist".

  • @melloone611

    @melloone611

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.With a channel name like yours I’ll take your word for it! Lol I’m back here to rewatch. Hoping I can get some insight in how one of the most oppressed groups of people in human history. Became the oppressor? 😢

  • @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.

    @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.

    6 ай бұрын

    @@melloone611: Don't need to take my word for it. It's said in the Wiki also, under the article "First they came..." _"Niemöller is quoted as having used many versions of the text during his career, but evidence identified by professor Harold Marcuse at the University of California Santa Barbara indicates that the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum version is inaccurate because Niemöller frequently used the word "communists" and not "socialists." The substitution of "socialists" for "communists" is an effect of anti-communism, and most common in the version that has proliferated in the United States. According to Marcuse, "Niemöller's original argument was premised on naming groups he and his audience would instinctively not care about. The omission of Communists in Washington, and of Jews in Germany, distorts that meaning and should be corrected.""_

  • @melloone611

    @melloone611

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Either way the meaning stays the same for me. They’re all just spokes on a wheel. This one's on top, then that one's on top, and on and on it spins, crushing those on the ground.

  • @dangwood91887

    @dangwood91887

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.they are basically the same thing. Democracy inevitably lesss to socialism and socialism inevitably leads to communism.

  • @Phi792
    @Phi7923 жыл бұрын

    I love this video!! Could you put timestamps for the chapters in the description?

  • @modernmyth9050
    @modernmyth90505 ай бұрын

    How did it happen? Good question which we aren't allowed to freely discuss for some mysterious reason? 🤔

  • @dangwood91887
    @dangwood918873 ай бұрын

    Gets a like and sub just for the intro music… amazing.

  • @lmartinson6963
    @lmartinson6963 Жыл бұрын

    This video is absolutely terrifying. Everything described seems normal, like the kind of things I might hear anyone else say. Even in first world countries, the narrative of "we are victims, surrounded by enemies, we need to fight back and eliminate them" is entirely common, to the point of being the widely accepted viewpoint. It makes me start to wonder why every country isn't genocidal.

  • @muzasbar

    @muzasbar

    Жыл бұрын

    Correction, every country HAS BEEN genocidal at one point of their history or another

  • @rjagad

    @rjagad

    Жыл бұрын

    Why is it that people are not allowed to Deny this event but other genocides are commonly denied. Just a thought as I hear people denying the holodomor without trouble.

  • @KremWorld

    @KremWorld

    11 ай бұрын

    @@rjagad I've seen this too. Either it's outright denied or "it wasn't as bad." It's sickening.

  • @citizenvulpes4562

    @citizenvulpes4562

    11 ай бұрын

    ​​@HULK_SMASH_THAT_ASSOh calm down pseudo intellectual, and be happy that people are actually researching the topic, instead of being on your ASPD high horse acting like you're better than people just because you stumbled on a gore site. Grow up.

  • @bdarecords_

    @bdarecords_

    11 ай бұрын

    Because the holodomor was more complicated and even on Wikipedia it is not called genocide.

  • @ryanfinnerty6239
    @ryanfinnerty62392 жыл бұрын

    This account is by far the greatest on KZread! What a discovery

  • @scottspa74
    @scottspa747 ай бұрын

    For more context in this, I suggest a book called, 'we thought we were free', by a German who fled Germany in 33, and went back decades later to interview Germans. Or, maybe it's titled, 'they thought they were free'. Either way, it's a great read.

  • @sovietmudkip18
    @sovietmudkip183 ай бұрын

    Crazy how many times we repeat past mistakes smh we never learn

  • @one-eyedwillie6476
    @one-eyedwillie6476 Жыл бұрын

    This video deserves 4 million views. Creative and very informative on a subject that seems seldom touched on. Excellent video

  • @aimeekova
    @aimeekova Жыл бұрын

    As a keen history buff, I wasn’t sure I would take much from this, but boy was I wrong. Great, thoughtful and important work. Thank you.

  • @HailEarendil

    @HailEarendil

    3 ай бұрын

    Not too keen, if you think that the history of WW2 as presented by western propaganda is correct.

  • @daipastels9662
    @daipastels9662Ай бұрын

    we used to say "how did the world let this happen " and now here we are watching history repeat itself while we carry on with our privileged life

  • @tedcleveland8488
    @tedcleveland84885 ай бұрын

    For some weird reason , this on the recommendation for many days now

  • @EC-ki5wv

    @EC-ki5wv

    5 ай бұрын

    Rise of the Jewish Nazis

  • @bewers93
    @bewers93 Жыл бұрын

    Really well put together and structured. Thorough. Shame we can’t get docs like this produced by big names anymore. You’ve expertly picked up the slack of discovery and history channels.

  • @9000ck
    @9000ck2 жыл бұрын

    It makes me wonder about Heidegger and Wittgenstein. And Arendt. Freud and Jung. What a strange time they lived. What a strange time we live in now.

  • @Dr.acai.jr.
    @Dr.acai.jr.3 ай бұрын

    I look forward to digesting this. Have you read the book by Drs Michael Parenti and Noam Chomsky? Have you watched Michael Parenti's The Real Causes of WW2? If yes, would you mind sharing your thoughts about them. If no, can you please respond with a no, just so I know you've read this. I would like to discuss your work with you but don't want to make any effort to be wasted. Many thanks.

  • @GoreMetal
    @GoreMetalАй бұрын

    Im just glad you're not allowed to criticize the modern genocide happening rn by those people you're not allowed to talk about.

  • @russellfrancis813
    @russellfrancis813 Жыл бұрын

    If anyone wants even more detail, read The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. Even today this seminal work is widely regarded as one of the most important texts on the subject. Nice video.

  • @giannagiavelli5098

    @giannagiavelli5098

    10 ай бұрын

    No thanks if I want communist propaganda I'll turn on the tv

  • @thebritishbookworm2649
    @thebritishbookworm2649 Жыл бұрын

    An excellent presentation of a extremely difficult subject. One of the best I have seen.

  • @fenlandwildlifeclips
    @fenlandwildlifeclipsКүн бұрын

    I think it's happening again. The scariest thing of all is that people just can't see it.

  • @3brenm
    @3brenm7 ай бұрын

    This was a wonderful analysis

  • @graemelaubach3106
    @graemelaubach31063 жыл бұрын

    Some of the highest quality content on all of KZread by FAR. This man is brilliant. Very heavy shit though.

  • @cartwrightworm1317
    @cartwrightworm13172 жыл бұрын

    It’s enraging that pressure is being put on people discussing the Holocaust.

  • @cartwrightworm1317

    @cartwrightworm1317

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jimbobb3509 I'm not going to listen to crap from a Holocaust denier.

  • @zachariahwade8482

    @zachariahwade8482

    Жыл бұрын

    Holocaust deniers are the scum of the earth

  • @musamusashi

    @musamusashi

    Жыл бұрын

    When the official narrative of any episode, is protected by law from being challenged, every reasonable person should get suspicious.

  • @zachariahwade8482

    @zachariahwade8482

    Жыл бұрын

    @@musamusashi There’s no “official narrative”. The Holocaust is studied and the academic consensus has been added to over time. What is unlawful(in some countries) and despised in most, is Holocaust denial and Nazi apologist propaganda. You fall into that group you loathsome pos

  • @Noam_.Menashe

    @Noam_.Menashe

    Жыл бұрын

    @@musamusashi You can't call a random adult achild murdering pedophile, because that's libel. Nothing to get suspicious over.

  • @bobwisdom7749
    @bobwisdom77498 ай бұрын

    Have you mentioned hitlers shrinking markets problem and that lord baron keyens came up with the idea that the treaty of versaille was harsh.

  • @ImSpun13
    @ImSpun133 ай бұрын

    I feel like *everyone* should have to watch this in junior high and again in highschool.

  • @Nicolos117

    @Nicolos117

    3 ай бұрын

    To be brainwashed? Hell no

  • @kylebond9411
    @kylebond9411 Жыл бұрын

    I cant put into words how amazing and horrifying this video is. It exposes all of us as vulnerable to the hate and evil in which our leaders may impose upon common people. The fact that rationalization intends to justify the actions of something so gruesome as murder reminds me of what FDR once said in his famous speech: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Education is intrinsic for the safety and peace of the world.

  • @katelynnehansen8115

    @katelynnehansen8115

    Жыл бұрын

    All of us? I don’t agree. There were those who helped hide people. There were those who stepped down and refused orders. Just like those who helped escaped slaves and fought to free them. People like Thomas Paine who were born in a time where slavery and white supremacy were the norm and they still spoke out against it. In any atrocity, you will find those who knew it was wrong, proving it was absolutely possible to know better.

  • @kylebond9411

    @kylebond9411

    Жыл бұрын

    @@katelynnehansen8115 when i say all of us as vulnerable, im referring to the common person in society who can possibly rationalize actions as just under any circumstance. The people who did participate in such heinous acts were convinced that the terrorization was righteous, trusting their leaders and propoganda, all while under a new standard of conformity. I know there are many people who stood against these horrific crimes, but its intrinsic to understand the history and psychology that answers the questions "why did ordinary people commit genocide?" and "how and what led up to their decisions to murder millions of people?"

  • @bwedd3772

    @bwedd3772

    Жыл бұрын

    I think it had a lot to do with the times. People’s values, morals and standards were vastly different back then. Propaganda was easier to spread and it unfortunately wasn’t hard to push a racist rhetoric.

  • @noneya1238

    @noneya1238

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@bwedd3772Nah, it's still the same today, many things are being justified, and we literally voted in a Hitler wannabe.

  • @Martin666Taylor
    @Martin666Taylor2 жыл бұрын

    As many other viewers have observed, this is an excellent documentary. It is well researched, well paced and well explained. This channel definitely deserved a higher profile and more subscribers.

  • @WastingTime1878
    @WastingTime18787 ай бұрын

    This was an eye opening video.

  • @daydays12
    @daydays126 ай бұрын

    I have already read Christopher Browning's remarkable book. I would have appreciated some original research on your part, Mr 'Then and Now'.

  • @woolzem
    @woolzem2 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely amazing doc. Thanks for all the work you put in

  • @justins8634
    @justins8634 Жыл бұрын

    16:16 broke me. I was saddened thinking about the increasing callousness of the executions, then seeing the people walking to their deaths, followed by gunshots... I've never cried hearing or thinking about the holocaust until now.

  • @stephengoddard5362

    @stephengoddard5362

    10 ай бұрын

    They did this to Germany. Do your own research, those monsters got what they deserved and will again soon. Jews literally declared war on Germany it was self defence

  • @dysmissme7343

    @dysmissme7343

    10 ай бұрын

    💜

  • @pitchforkpeasant6219

    @pitchforkpeasant6219

    5 ай бұрын

    Given the hate of the right and left amazed anyone even cares at this point 😢

  • @user-wr2cd1wy3b
    @user-wr2cd1wy3b6 ай бұрын

    a chilling and comprehensive view in ww2, well done video.

  • @LadyC0bra
    @LadyC0bra4 ай бұрын

    Excellent piece on a difficult subject.

  • @eorobinson3
    @eorobinson33 жыл бұрын

    mass psychological conformity is an ageless phenomena...

  • @sergiozambrano9419
    @sergiozambrano9419 Жыл бұрын

    Very informative video! Thanks for taking the time to complete such an insightful masterpiece. It's pretty crazy how some of these tactics are currently being used in today's US politics.

  • @micheal3985

    @micheal3985

    Жыл бұрын

    Ttue

  • @spmoran4703

    @spmoran4703

    Жыл бұрын

    And in Britain

  • @justafish9618

    @justafish9618

    Жыл бұрын

    Sadly neo Nazis and their rethorics are on the rise and growing... It's terrible...

  • @susanbuck4897
    @susanbuck48975 ай бұрын

    Excellent presentation! Thank you.

  • @anaiscoulin202
    @anaiscoulin2027 ай бұрын

    This song by Jean Jacques Goldman: Born in '17 in Leidenstadt If I'd been born in '17 in Leidenstadt On the ruins of an old battle site Would I have been a better or worse person Had I been born a German? Cradled in hate, ignorance, and humiliation Nourished by dreams of retaliation Would I have had one of those offbeat consciences, A simple teardrop amid raging torrents? If I'd grown up around the docklands of Belfast Soldier on behalf of a faith, of a caste Could I have found the force to help betray a friend, To stretch out a friendly hand? If I'd been born white and rich in Johannesburg Where fear and rod's the only word Could I have heard the cry of change blow in the wind? Nothing will be the same ever again... We'll never really know what we hold inside our hearts Behind all those fronts of ours Do we hide The soul of a hero, a conspirator, or a torturer? Either the ugliest or the loveliest? Would we be fighters or like sheep in a flock If it meant more than just talk? If I'd been born in '17 in Leidenstadt On the ruins of an old battle site Would I have been a better or worse person Had I been born a German? And hopefully, we may be spared from having to decide for a long time... What shall be our side. lyricstranslate.com

  • @lorddonnel
    @lorddonnel3 жыл бұрын

    Incredible content, keep it going! You’ve single handedly prevented me from entering a state of panic when I was asked to write about critical theory on modernity by my University.

  • @puppetperception7861

    @puppetperception7861

    3 жыл бұрын

    Take a look around the office and realize that only a prisoner would comply with such things. Then realize that most people don’t and it is not because you have some special abilities.

  • @tawdryhepburn4686

    @tawdryhepburn4686

    3 жыл бұрын

    What Uni? And what is the paper about, specifically?

  • @tawdryhepburn4686

    @tawdryhepburn4686

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@puppetperception7861 most people don’t comply? Or most people don’t realize? And is the special ability the capacity to see the invisible walls of the (monstrous) social contract? Or... what you write is interesting, but I don’t think I understand.

  • @puppetperception7861

    @puppetperception7861

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tawdryhepburn4686 there is much less a distinction between compliance and realization than this dichotomy you presented. Our realizations occur as a result how we comply through the reciprocation of any understanding of reality. To comply is to consent through reciprocating what new information has caused that understanding to be realized within the domain of the observer.

  • @puppetperception7861

    @puppetperception7861

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tawdryhepburn4686 see Roger Ellis, top-down causation as a definition for realization

  • @darkviolet
    @darkviolet2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this well-researched video. I'm a history teacher and this was very useful to me

  • @GamerWordDotNet

    @GamerWordDotNet

    Жыл бұрын

    Imagine being a history teacher and not able to understand history or comprehend the fact that America was an evil super power that uses false flags and blatant lies to justify each war? WW2 isn't special in this regard. If anything, it's the worst offense.

  • @darkviolet

    @darkviolet

    Жыл бұрын

    @@GamerWordDotNet do you mean to say I don't understand history because you don't agree with me that this was well researched? I'm not American but European so Americas side isn't exactly something that I focus on for that matter.

  • @LkwdTrauma
    @LkwdTrauma7 ай бұрын

    As an Orthodox Jew I must say this is quite accurate. I have a slightly dif view of the holocaust as it was me and my (lack of an) extended family who was affected, but overall this is good.

  • @culleno872

    @culleno872

    7 ай бұрын

    Then why don’t you start your own research and come out with your own Holocaust video from your point of view?

  • @avi8trix
    @avi8trix3 ай бұрын

    brilliant! thank you. i was in disbelief once living with younger roommates who came home while I was watching a documentary about Hitler’s secretary who was unaware of what was happening. The girls came in and I was explaining it and was literally unable to answer them saying “Hitler?”

  • @davidmartini2757
    @davidmartini27572 жыл бұрын

    Excellent documentary. Understanding why the Holocaust happened is such an important issue to understand. With the throw away line "never let it happen again" there is humanity's intent to not allow another holocaust. However it is looking at the cause and reasons why it happened and how it became a self perpetuating system under Nazi Germany that allows us today to truly understand history and have the intellect and understanding to give meaning to the words "never let it happen again" when they are said. Unfortunately as stated towards the beginning of the documentary we live in one of the most violent periods in history where genocide and ethnic killings is now common place in theatres of conflict.

  • @papaofthejohns5882

    @papaofthejohns5882

    2 жыл бұрын

    We live in one of the most violent periods of time? Really?

  • @trojanhorse860

    @trojanhorse860

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@papaofthejohns5882 Really. Have you been living under some rock lately? Watch the news then.

  • @Jcaeser187

    @Jcaeser187

    Жыл бұрын

    Something happened? Idk man

  • @Petal4822

    @Petal4822

    Жыл бұрын

    I couldn’t have killed a child… no propaganda could demonise or justify the killing of a baby or child. It’s not possible they are innocent. How could they have killed babies …they didn’t have the grace of God and they allowed the devil spirit to consume them. The devil in action.

  • @PBLKW

    @PBLKW

    Жыл бұрын

    Lies You tell.... A holocaust and genocide is literally happening to black people everyday in America. But you don't see that as the same. Why what makes those people so special?

  • @EmperorsNewWardrobe
    @EmperorsNewWardrobe Жыл бұрын

    This was incredibly well researched and put together, and I appreciate it being an hour long. This is a cautionary tale about the human condition for anyone worldwide to hear

  • @classicblack774
    @classicblack7745 ай бұрын

    Wow wow! This was fantastic. With what’s happening in Gaza/Israel right now I feel like there’s a lot to take away from this. I’ve been so curious about the psychology around it all and you touched on many points that I can do further research into. Thank you for this quality video.

  • @pitchforkpeasant6219

    @pitchforkpeasant6219

    5 ай бұрын

    Look at the hate between the left and the right. Manipulation of public opinion to dehumanize people is way too easy. Especially when trusting organizations people shouldn’t be trusting. Especially when those organizations are focusing on peoples differences. Similarities unite and differences divide. Anyone pointing out peoples similarities?

  • @MIS315

    @MIS315

    5 ай бұрын

    Very sad that many of the survivors and their descendents became nazis

  • @ex8280

    @ex8280

    4 ай бұрын

    Whats strange is that jews and the Palestinians were doing fine together before they decided to make a border. Once they started goingbthis is my land, this is yours was when all hell broke lose.

  • @tapesock1387

    @tapesock1387

    3 ай бұрын

    @@ex8280it just reinforced the Idea of outgroup vs in group cause now they are literally physically separated

  • @jacuzzihot

    @jacuzzihot

    3 ай бұрын

    Indeed Nazis also played the victim.

  • @mikeveis6393
    @mikeveis639311 ай бұрын

    The music is Moonlight Sonata from Beethoven.