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@gamehacker5692

9 ай бұрын

Can we get a mega projects on the newsport shipping fry dock (where the ford carriers are being built) ?

@borovik8714

9 ай бұрын

Once again, great work. Thank you. To put some optimism: every Polish child knows his name. His doughter (born in Wilno, nowdayes Vilnius) now still lives in Warsaw, age 90.

@adampe6717

9 ай бұрын

It’s Hess not Hoss

@jonslg240

9 ай бұрын

*Simon, please listen to me, I'm begging you to, and it's for your own good + the good of those who love your videos:* PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE TURN UP THE VOLUME GAIN IN YOUR VIDEOS. Make them 30% louder. People can always turn their volume down, but those of us who watch from our phones can only turn our volume up so much, and this video is far too quiet for about 30% of us. *All you have to do is turn up the volume gain by about 30%. It's very easy to do, and many people who suffer through it don't say anything about it.* The people who just stop watching because the volume is too low definitely don't say anything about it. They just stop watching. I truly hope you'll take this advice to heart. It costs you nothing. It costs many of your viewers everything because they don't get to watch your videos. Do everyone a favor, even yourself, and just turn up the volume by 30%. If it's too loud, it's super easy to turn the volume down. It's almost-impossible for us to turn the volume up. *It requires us to use 3rd party applications that drain battery life & steals our personal information to use those 3rd party apps. Please..don't make us choose between not hearing your videos, not watching your videos, or downloading an exploitative third-party app to watch them.*

@archstanton6102

9 ай бұрын

​@@adampe6717Rudolph Hoss was tne Camp Commandant. Hess was Hitler's deputy who fled to UK

The absolute balls this man had are incomprehensible by todays standards

@Eirikr69

9 ай бұрын

They are incomprehensible by any standards, be that his time or ours.

@SoundShinobiYuki

9 ай бұрын

I read about deep-cover agents who go into massive criminal operations or violent extremist groups who would be killed if they were found out (they often have to go into witness protection when they’re done)… and that still pales in comparison to a guy making himself into a freaking concentration camp prisoner.

@b1646717

9 ай бұрын

I thought he would be easy to catch. How could he run with those things?

@metzli5797

9 ай бұрын

The real reason the nazis never executed him is his balls would not fit into the furnaces.

@davidng8870

9 ай бұрын

⁠@@SoundShinobiYukiyeah that is the crazy thing, at least in those scenarios the undercover agent probably thinks at least that he has a chance of escape and/or success. In this case there was not even a plan, the chance of him either escaping or succeeding in getting word out could only reasonably be objectively assessed as minimal. It’s mind boggling to be willing to volunteer for functional or actual torture in the hope of realising such a slim chance. Not only his courage but his self belief is truly remarkable. Tbf he may not have accepted the mission if the camp had been what it came to be, or had he apprehended its true nature from the outset, but it is amazing even so that he volunteered and that he succeeded. The only thing remotely similar that I can think of is the sole survivor of the Paria sea pipe incident who risked torturous death over and over to get out and then volunteered to go back for his coworkers. The risk to him was obviously not as high the second time round or as in this case but that man knew fully the terror he had faced and was willing to do it again. I think it’s comparable. It’s heartening to know there are still people like this in the world.

"Inmate in hell or a hero imprisoned? Soldier in Auschwitz, we know his name! Locked in a cell, waging war from the prison Hiding in Auschwitz, he hides behind 4859!"

@EaSkateVideo

9 ай бұрын

Hello fellow Sabaton fan! 👋🏻

@MadJustin7

9 ай бұрын

🤘🤘🤘🤘

@danielortman2534

9 ай бұрын

This song makes me cry.

@dannybrien4704

9 ай бұрын

This is why I’m in the comments

@DarkJediPrincess

9 ай бұрын

Well that didn’t take much scrolling to find XD

The Swedish power metal band 'Sabaton' has a wonderful song called 'Inmate 4859', written as a tribute to this heroic individual. 🤘

@hotrdchvy350

9 ай бұрын

Came here to say this lol

I remember reading about this exact story in middle school, in a book called “A Rebel in Auschwitz.” It’s incredible how much this man sacrificed just to be mostly ignored by the Allies when he told them of the inhumane conditions he and his fellow inmates faced.

@FT4Freedom

8 ай бұрын

Excellent middle school reading.

Another of the figures from Sabaton's Hero's album covered on a Simon channel. It does good to know his story is becoming more well known. The things he did, and went through are more than most people could ever go through, the mental fortitude it took was....unreal. A salute to him.

@rened.5998

9 ай бұрын

And I like the tasteful connection to it aswell. Quoting the song would have been quite tasteless. That would better fit for something like ghost division again (hint hint). These ones are to important for that.

@michaelfields4536

9 ай бұрын

I haven't had a chance to hear that song, which one is it. Simon dose love greatest history band of all time

@christiang.6729

9 ай бұрын

@@michaelfields4536 its called Inmate 4859, like the title of the video here; its hauntingly beautiful.

@michaelfields4536

9 ай бұрын

@christiang.6729 thank you brother

@ArathirCz

9 ай бұрын

@@michaelfields4536 I also recommend watching the Sabaton History video about Witold (Episode 42), although it goes into more gruesome detail what he and other prisoners had to go through, so "viewer discretion is advised."

Thank you for covering this story. For anyone who wants more information I would highly recommend the book, 'The Volunteer: One Man, and Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz'

@feartheamish9183

9 ай бұрын

Just the whole polish resistance is worth a good read. From Enigma, and the holocaust reveals to the Grey ranks (boy scouts and girl scouts) during the uprising. Just an amazing people with larger than life stories.

@austinrhodes2963

9 ай бұрын

@swampfox That book is amazing! It is without a doubt one of the most incredible true stories a person can ever read.

@swampfox984

9 ай бұрын

I finally finished watching the video and want to add three things that they didn't cover. 1. Some of the resistance guys managed to build a radio in the camp so they could get news from outside. 2. They managed to assassinate SS officers without retribution by putting typhoid infected ticks on the collars of their coats. The officers would get typhoid and never suspect they had basically been poisoned. 3. He tried to convince the allied armies to just bomb Auschwitz off the face of the earth. He knew how many Jews were being murdered and decided it would be better if they killed everyone there with bombs then to let it continue to exist and kill thousands of people everyday. Sadly, the allied armies didn't heed his pleas.

@badofcheese

9 ай бұрын

@@swampfox984I’m not at the end but 1. and 2. have already been mentioned.

@duncancurtis5108

9 ай бұрын

Aren't we doing biographics anymore?

As a person who was born and raised in Poland. It’s so heart warming to see all these comments! Thank you for so good video on this topic. Our story is hard one and getting walked over by other countries many times but against all odds Poland still fought back no matter the situation. Thanks again for the video!

@Zonerunner

9 ай бұрын

You Poles are a different breed. From the breaking of The Siege of Vienna, to the Piorun facing off with the Bismarck, and the deeds of the crew of the ORP Orzeł. You lot have an indomitable spirit that I admire greatly.

@Brembelia

8 ай бұрын

I am at a complete loss to understand the basis for German hatred and condescension towards Poland and her people. I have never met a Pole who was not kind, warm, welcoming, and hard working. I can only think that it's like the difference between the Right and Left wing people in America, that those who want to take away everything and have an overlord class of abusers, and those who believe in equality, sharing, caring, and lifting people up. Other than this, I can find no justification for such a hostile and contemptuous attitude. And nothing I have ever read has explained or stated anything other than some irrational notion that Polish people are somehow inferior. This is pure ridiculousness based only in narcissistic arrogance.

@jaypowell3527

8 ай бұрын

Dude we're Americans we have no idea what you've went through what your country went through I guess that's kind of what's good and bad about the usa

@jaypowell3527

8 ай бұрын

Another thing I don't get isn't all Europe just like white people in America Anglo-Saxon anyway I mean One Way or another we're All Jew in German and Poland and I mean go back far enough we're all cousins I don't really get all the racist bulshit I mean literally pure bloodlines means inbred and that doesn't work out well like obviously through science I don't understand people wanting to keep a picture pure bloodlines when is obvious in science Angus from the eye test that pure blood is bad

Absolutely incredible story... A true hero of humanity, one whose story absolutely needed to be shared. May his memory live on forever.

One last thing to note about poletzki. He was accused on four crimes that led to his execution. And admitted guilt on two. But. He denied the accusation of treason and espionage. He claimed himself not guilty. Because as a man of his military standing. He had always been allowed access to the documents acquired against the communist regime, and that he had never once been a man. To deny. Or betray. His beloved country. I remember watching this prisoners story in another documentary. And wanted to share his final claims before his death. He was truly a one of one of his kind.

@fornito530

7 ай бұрын

Pilecki just so you know how to spell it haha

I'm an international student in Warsaw, Poland. Witold Pilecki's posters and memorabilia are everywhere.. Respect to this courageous man 🙏🏼

This dudes probably one of the most bad ass humans that’s ever lived! The level of bad assery a person has to possess to fight in 2 world wars and face down the Nazis and then the Soviets after that is simply unbelievable!

Sent to the prison where the heroes are judged as traitors Accused of treason by his own Sentenced by countrymen under pressure of foreign influence Men he once fought to free…

@itspandasman3040

9 ай бұрын

Inmate in hell or a hero in prison Soldier in Auschwitz Who know his name?

@nicelborg5267

9 ай бұрын

@@itspandasman3040locked in a cell waging war from the Prison.

@cjdent90

9 ай бұрын

Hiding in Auschwitz, he hide behind 4859! Sabaton is an incredible band!

Learning about WW2 as a Pole is interesting at first, then you realise how extremely unfair life can be. My heart is so glad that some heroes live long enough to be recognised as heroes. Others were killed or had to abandon their homeland.

Thanks for the awesome video Simon. Please make one about Kazimierz Piechowski - the guy who donned an SS uniform with two other poles and a ukrainian and audaciously drove out the front gate with confidence and swagger in a stolen staff car!

@SoundShinobiYuki

9 ай бұрын

I heard about that, that was crazy! And a top tier example of “Nobody suspects you don’t belong there if you act confident”.

@badofcheese

9 ай бұрын

It’s mentioned in this video. He said if you want to see a video on that, say so in the comments. Mission accomplished 👍

@Theresa0617

9 ай бұрын

​@@SoundShinobiYukiI like your comment! It sounds like those prisoners pulled of the most daring, dangerous con of the century. I'm catching up on history and I need to read that book p0SN is talking about. I need to learn more about the things they don't even teach at university.

Pilecki went above and beyond in serving his country and humanity. God bless him

“I've been trying to live my life so that in the hour of my death I would rather feel joy, than fear.” - Witold Pilecki. Heroes never truly die.

Incredible heroicism, bravery, and compassion. Truly moving. And some poeple truly are selfless in their nature to help others. I'm a grown ass dude and this story brought tears to my eyes.

Yeah so we're gonna need that video about the escape in the commandant's car 😂

@amrastheluckywoof5524

9 ай бұрын

Yes, we do

@EmielTalen

9 ай бұрын

Yup

Inmate in hell or a hero imprisoned?

@IBioPoxI

9 ай бұрын

100% expected Sabaton

@ZeroResurrected

9 ай бұрын

Soldier in Auschwitz. We know his name

@sbcee2220

9 ай бұрын

Are they mutually exclusive in this instance?

@funky.bandit

9 ай бұрын

both

@IntrepidIanRinon

9 ай бұрын

Locked in a cell, waging war from the prison

INMATE IN HELL OR A HERO IN PRISON...

i am so grateful that you are doing a video on Witold Pilecki. such an extraordinary humanbeing who deserved so much more than what ultimately happened to him. i read the book called "The Volunteer" because it was in my library in highschool and my god... nothing can describe the courage of him. it was because of your channel that i really started to get into learning about the holocaust (amongst other things) but i am proud to say that because of your work, i am now in 1st year university currently doing a subject called "The Holocaust" this term. keep up the great work of imortalizing history and historical figures such as Witold Pilecki.

I'm so glad the memory of this man and his heroic deeds eventually resurfaced. It makes me wonder how many other lives have been forgotten, lives which could have been just as heroic as his was, because they didn't have the opportunity to write it down or there was no one left to tell their story.

@frogdogink4415

8 ай бұрын

May I suggest a book. 'The Librarian of Auschwitz' by Antonio Iturbe. Based on prisoner Dita Kraus. ❤️‍🔥

This should absolutely be made into a movie. His story needs to be told. What an incredible man.

He is such a legendary great man, sad to not have a giant Hollywood movie about him. I am glad to have heard his story from Sabaton and the Sabaton History video with Indy Neidell. Thank you for giving even more insight into his unbelievable journey!

@16mopey

9 ай бұрын

I think a movie like this could be interesting but at the same time i feel like it could be to dark for any big company to greenlight and a smaller one probably wouldn't be able to do it justice

@lewycraft

9 ай бұрын

Actually, there is currently a movie about him in development

@andrewcgoetz

9 ай бұрын

Love Sabaton. So many great stories told through great songs.

@BadWebDiver

9 ай бұрын

I was just thinking this guy deserves his own biographical movie.

Yes! I would like to hear about the group of inmates who escaped with the commandant’s car! This is a great video. I’ve never heard any of this before!

@badofcheese

9 ай бұрын

Me too! I was told some of this story by a tour guide at the camp. It’s even more harrowing and impressive hearing it in the location that it happened.

The dawn of century a boy born by a lake Resettled from karelia's plains Go to a man in exile as the Great War came Unleashed a shadow on his world

Thank You for posting this on KZread Simon....Wiltold was an forevermore will be known as a man of courage and honor.

Great story. Thank you. His life should be made into a movie for all to see what he did.

@theawesomeman9821

9 ай бұрын

And Spielberg should direct it.

1:45 - Chapter 1 - In defense of poland 2:35 - Mid roll ads 4:00 - Back to the video 7:05 - Chapter 2 - Inside auschwitz 12:35 - Chapter 3 - A cursed spy 22:30 - Chapter 4 - Escape 27:50 - Chapter 5 - Back into the fray

I think it's extremely important, especially right now, to remember that war is a despicable horror visited on the vulnerable by the powerful or desperate.

I think it was a Royal Navy admiral who said, regarding the Poles, something to the effect of: I’m glad they’re on our side as they would be a nightmare to fight. Basically history seems to consistently say that you don’t mess with the Polish. I’m pretty sure you’d see Pilecki’s name if you look up the phrase “Super Human” in a dictionary, this guy basically couldn’t be stopped, contained or broken unless he willed it, even by the most brutal, evil regimes in history!!

🎵Inmate in hell or a hero in prison? Soldier in Auschwitz, we know his name Locked in a cell waging war from the prison Hiding in Auschwitz, he hides behind 4859🎵 - Sabaton, “Inmate 4859”

@amrastheluckywoof5524

9 ай бұрын

There it is 😂 You can always count on it with these videos.

@aq5426

9 ай бұрын

@@amrastheluckywoof5524 Sabaton always delivers.

@mitchellneu

9 ай бұрын

@@amrastheluckywoof5524 you know it friendo 😁

I'm disgusted by what Soviets did to this man! He was too brave to believe

@moomoo____

9 ай бұрын

you can’t have independent thinkers in a regime like that, he should have been praised as a war hero and a symbol of polish triumph

As what probably applies to many outside of Poland, I know about this absolute legend of a man because of Sabaton. I heard the song and the second I figured out the story, I gained the deepest respect for the man. Long live the memory of Pilecki, one of the bravest men to ever live.

Everything about this video is incredible, and incredibly well summarized too, warographics will never cease to amaze me

Your closing statements on videos like this are so powerful, they never fail to bring me to tears.

I never considered that some of the guards were also prisoners in a way. It's hard to imagine who the Nazi party would deam unworthy of being a bullet sponge and instead have them be prisoner guards. I knew that many guards were not as willing as others, but actual prisoners, it's beguiling.

@bluewizzard8843

9 ай бұрын

Not all the Guards we're German. They used Hilfstruppen. Actually there we're jews who we're conducting the gasing of their own people on behalf of the Nazis. Also the cleaning of the gas Chambers and the burning of the corpses we're carried out by them , a work far to filthy, hard and depressing for the germans.

@gabrielleperson4794

9 ай бұрын

The "guards" as Simon says, who were reluctant sadists, were Kapos or Block Elders, not camp guards or SS. They were often criminals rather than political prisoners.

@Mikkelltheimmortal

9 ай бұрын

@@gabrielleperson4794 they make sense to me. But I'm thinking more about the regular soldier who was assigned there, and once there doesn't want anything to do with what's happening, but the commander gives him the ultimatum 'Either follow orders or join them'. I'm confident that in the beginning their numbers were high but by 1943 the number of people who voiced their opinion on being posted at one of these camps was practically nothing. There are a few books that contain the accounts as told by the unwilling guards, but like I said few. I know I rhetorically asked what would make them less qualified to be a bullet sponge and that's on me. I honestly think that it's just the logistics of the military machine that found those men there in the beginning. They were most likely weeded out of the prison camp system by early 43 because it seems that from 43 to 45 there were less guards protesting against the camps. But let us not forget and overlook the men and women who put themselves directly in the line of fire to infiltrate, sabotage and flat out destroy the labour and concentration camps. It's these actions and the many sacrifices made by the people of the era that earned them the well deserved title of "Greatest Generation".

@Mikkelltheimmortal

5 ай бұрын

@@katkacerasvs that's for sure 100%

This was incredibly interesting! I've never heard of this story! Thank you Simon and team!

I love this channel great work Simon and team. My fellow countrymen and women suffored tremendously with the evil that was aushwitz and I feel for everyone that didnt make it. My grandmother was helping people escape the nazi roundups and when they'd come thru looking for jews. It's important to keep this info alive to remember how sick and evil humans can really get and to not end up like this ever again Long Live Poland 🇵🇱 Polska Króluje a Reszte Są Huje!

Unbelievable. Thank you for making this video on such an incredible person.

Thank you so much for covering my hero! I don’t know if this was directly inspired by my recommendation to cover this story on your Verdun video, but I hope so. I also thank you for making an effort on the Polish pronunciation, many don’t try

This is one of the most amazing stories I've ever heard, thank you

I don't need to see the name to know it's my favorite Polish badass, Witold Pilecki.

We need that second story ! This man’s work is truly remarkable. Thanks for bringing it to light fact man

An incredibly brave and resourceful man. A pity it has taken so long for his story to be heard I’m sure very few would have made the willing choice to be sent into what was bad at the start but then became a adjunct of hell RIP.

I'm a 31 year old father of two girls under 10 years old. I'm from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 I've lived here all my life. I'm ethnically half English and half Romany (Gypsy/Traveller). All my Romany family have lived in England for generations. As far as I know none of my relations where murdered in the Holocaust (Poraimos in Romany), but as someone who was raised in both cultures, the Second World War atrocities really hit home and strike a cord with me.

This is just brilliant, i was hanging on every word!! Yes we need the video on the escaping of the commandants car.

That thought experiment made me shiver and gave me goosebumps.

What a brave and courageous man! May his memory live on and lessons learned. If you could do the other video you spoke of I’d be really thankful

This is truly a bizarre story, thank you so much for covering it

Great video. We hear so few escape stories. Please bring any you may have!

Amazing. Thanks crew.

glad to see your still here Simon and not that other guy...

@Grizzbit

9 ай бұрын

Who was the other guy? Am I dense

@aq5426

9 ай бұрын

@@Grizzbit They're referring to Karl, who's doing hosting on Biographics, Geographics, and a couple others Whistlerverse channels.

@resileaf9501

9 ай бұрын

@@aq5426 Biographics, Geographics and Top Tenz. Those are not Whistlerverse channels, as although he was the host for them, he was not the owner. The other channels he appears on, he's the owner (I think).

Thank you - please produce a video on the group of 4 escape.

Thank you for covering his and his cohorts story.

Simon's voice keeps me interested it doesn't matter what channel he's involved with I like him as a host or a channel

One of the most beautiful and amazing videos I have ever seen. Content like this is an example of KZread as art.

God damn! I wish the term 'legend' didn't get thrown out so often on Simon's channels. Cuz this man is a legend in every sense of the word.

Jesus.... that was a cold open for Into the Shadows.

I remember reading something about Wiltold and thinking he was simply an urban legend or a sort of propaganda figure. I’m glad to know that he was a real man. A real man’s whose courage we can only dream to copy

I would absolutely love the follow up video you mentioned!

Thank you for this video.

He was an incredible hero, thank you for sharing his story!!!

Wow Christmas is early! Thanks for this and Salute to Witold Pilecki!

Inmate 4859.... Definitely a tale that I am glad to have learned. Without a doubt he was a legendary hero. I would also love the Aushchwitz prisoner escape in the guards' uniforms as a video! ❤

Thank you for your work

Amazing story, thank you!!!

What an incredible story!! Thank you for sharing so that we can all honor Pilecki!

Amazing story and video. Thank you. :-)

Wow, just wow. Human courage to do the impossible and unthinkable will leave me in awe forever 💔

Such a well put together story.

I clicked on this story and was delighted to see Simon. How many channels do you have dude? Lol

Takes me back to his Biographics days!

I would love to see an episode on the escape you mentioned Simon.

Thank you very much for the video. I would like to ask, if you thought of making video about Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler. Thanks Simon, writers and everyone again for amazing work

Interesting timing for this video...

Baruch Hashem!!!! Thank you Simon. .. .......Thank you.

The word hero is so often overused nowadays... but in this case, for Witold Pilecki, it is _extremely_ fitting & possibly understated

Wow. Nothing but respect and awe to the man.

Definitely want to see a video on the escape attempts

I have never heard this story before. What an incredible man.

This story needs to be made into a miniseries asap.

crazy to think the meaning of hero went from what this man did to throwing spaghetti on the Mona Lisa, we’ve definitely gone downhill🤣

Excellent story of one of the ballsiest dudes alive. A lot of people probably only know the saboton song. But it helps to really tell the story of somewhat forgotten heroes like this man

Great video Simon! Please do a video about the prisoners escaping in the SS colonels car!

I like how you do Sabaton songs. Those are all worthy topics for this channel.

Incredible episode.

Would love to hear the story of the person who escaped in the commandant’s car! Thank you for sharing your knowledge

Pilecki once said ''Auschwitz was just a playground'' when he got in soviet hands. This is truly sad story of one of humanity greatests heroes...thank you Simon for this

I don’t know what happens after life but I sure hope he is at peace. The world will likely never see another man like him.

What an incredible person.

This is an awesome and little know story

I don't think courage is an apt enough term to describe this man's persona. But he was courageous more so than the average personality to be found, nowadays. I find it difficult to even comprehend such bravery in modern world today. Thank you 💛 Simon for the wonderful lesson in history today.

Now this man needs a movie.

Stunning.

The story about the escape in the SS commander's car would be great.

Could you do a video of the “Forest Brothers” in Lithuania . It’s something that a lot of people don’t know about but it’s an amazing story

The term "Badass" is frequently overused today, but not in this case.

Mind-blowing!