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@samwamm85

11 ай бұрын

an ancestor of mine was a jewish survivor. they tried to gas him in the back of a van but when they opened the doors again he blew them away with a conceiled deringer that was loaded via chain. says he lured an inportant nazi party member into his ghost town and shot him by standing in the road in front of his car. he also helped many people escape across the border via an underground tunnel but the nazi denied it despite their gene pool being found there today. his name was Hugo Probst the second. yes. THAT hugo. not sure if he's related to Christoph though. probably a coincidence. after he died from 'influenza' in the 1960's after being injected with drug withdrawal medications. the area he died was quarantined for a smallpox epidemic. wonder where that came from. and his house was raided and burned to the ground by the Trump family (not related to the former president). they were looking for some documents about some machines that were to be patented. these were. a kind of boot that enabled a person to leap further known as a "goose kicker". and a type of all-over body armor that bares a striking resemblance to a bomb disposal suit.

@ricardobimblesticks1489

11 ай бұрын

Nord is horrid, they stealth bundle their products, because few people want their subpar software. Updating your motherboard software? Careful you don't accidentally install Nord, as they have paid your mb manufacturer to try and install their software, software that in most cases is absolutely unnecessary to remain secure.

this is why things like the mass student walk-outs in response to "don't say gay" bills hits so hard. these are the people who will be inheriting the world we live in, and while we can't just wash our hands of problems and hope the next generation will fix everything, the way kids and teenagers fight for each other is truly inspiring

Mad respect for those who resisted the madness and tyranny in any shape or form. I am Jewish and I can tell you that if the situation was opposite and Christians/Muslims were prosecuted just for being such I would hide them at my house even if it means certain death if I get caught. No matter who you are nobody deserve to die in such a horrible way.

@fluffybunny5518

11 ай бұрын

Thank you. Hearing such conviction gives me hope for humanity and that the world will become better a little bit every day. Long live the human rights movement.

@eranshachar9954

11 ай бұрын

@@fluffybunny5518 I appreciate that it makes my heart warm and I truly meant it. I am not saying for God bids that I am a perfect person because I am not but I am a good person. Seeing innocent people get hurt is something I can't ever tolerate.

@arrow1414

11 ай бұрын

I applaud your conviction, I hope to do the same when the chips are down, but keep in mind it could not only be you, but your family to suffer. That is what Totalitarian dictatorships do. Just ask people from North Korea and China today.

@eranshachar9954

11 ай бұрын

@@arrow1414 Thank you. You know my country now is in a risk to turn into dictatorship. Right now I am proud to call myself Israeli but if my country will change it's face I would be ashamed to live here. My grandparents from both sides came from Romania. However I was born here in Israel, I could never see any other place as home. I can't imagine how difficult it is for people from N. Korea and China. I saw few documentaries about it but I believe it's only an ice tip compared to the big picture.

@kitefan1

11 ай бұрын

@@arrow1414 I just watched a truly harrowing documentary on N Korea from the BBC. People are starving, even worse than the last time.

The story of the White Rose, as a Canadian student, resonated long and loud enough to haunt my dreams. I still cannot understand why "Never again" does not resonate so loudly with others as it did in me.

@fluffybunny5518

11 ай бұрын

Do not despair. The growls of the selfish and the silence of the apathetic can be deafening. So much that we often overhear the voices of those who stand up for all of humanity. You are not alone. The sacrifice of those brave few inspires more people than you ever will meet in your life. Share their story. Contribute that their legacy won’t be forgotten. For a better future that includes everyone. - Someone faceless from the fast emptiness of the internet who wishes you the best. I thank you for sharing your thoughts, showing me as well that I’m not alone either. There is hope for humankind. -

@tjrune3432

11 ай бұрын

@@fluffybunny5518 Noted. Will do. -An equally anonymous internet lurker in the void of human sentiment.

My paternal Granfather was 15 when he entered the Belgian resistance.

@jannetteberends8730

11 ай бұрын

My parents, Dutch, were also of that age. Never realized how young they were until now. My mom must have been round 14, my dad 16. They had guns and rifles.

@satanicturtle9929

11 ай бұрын

Based

@elbalirachid2658

11 ай бұрын

Hero!

@davidcomtedeherstal

11 ай бұрын

@@elbalirachid2658 Thank you.

@fluffybunny5518

11 ай бұрын

@david and @jannette: If your grandparents are still alive, give them a salute. Takes bravery to stand up against a racist autocratic terror regime.

I saw "die Weisse Rose" and "Swing Kids" as a teenager and was so impressed with the strength, conscience, and bravery of those young people that it defined a huge portion of my young and adult personality. I am still in awe of the power of young people.

@melindaschink6072

11 ай бұрын

We watched Swing Kids in my German class in high school. Amazing movie

@kitefan1

11 ай бұрын

I went to see Swing Kids with a friend in my early 30s. A week or so before we had planned to go to a movie but the Waco Siege-David Koresh standoff (Feb 28, 1993) was live on TV. I think we went a few days later because because she wanted to watch the TV then.

Hans and Sophie Scholl were some of the bravest people in the history of mankind. They knew their actions will bring them almost certain death and yet did what they had to do unarmed without ever hoping to be able to retaliate.

@KiraFriede

11 ай бұрын

But they were also a bit risky. I mean, Christoph Probst had to die, because Hans Scholl had a manuscript with his name on him when Hans and Sophie were arrested.

@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883

11 ай бұрын

​​@@KiraFriedeCourage is not lessened by a random dude playing the "Coulda, woulda, shoulda" game 80 years later.

@fluffybunny5518

11 ай бұрын

​@@KiraFriede Maybe, maybe not. I don't know the detailed circumstances to judge this. But I do know who didn’t take any risks. The masses of sheep who applauded the autocratic terror regime for executing the brave children just for speaking up, and then immediately turned, assuring they never supported the nazis and pointing with the fingers at scapegoats. I understand what you are saying. I agree with you that risk should be minimized. But this is often easier in hindsight, then when in the midst of the struggle. Sometime you have to take the jump into the darkness and fight for what it righteous. Unfortunately that comes with unforeseen risk.

@arghyachatterjee3008

11 ай бұрын

@@fluffybunny5518 There are situations when you have to take a stand and face the consequences for what you believe to be moral just and true. Rare, but they do happen.

@arghyachatterjee3008

11 ай бұрын

@@KiraFriede They took a moral stand and faced the consequences. They will inspire generations to come.

I'll always be grateful to my 9th grade history teacher for introducing me to the White Rose. He assigned us to do book reports, wheeling out a cart of WWII themed books, but pulled me aside to personally recommend a dense book on this subject. How well he judged me! The piece that stands out clearest is something Sophie wrote before her execution, of a dream she had. To paraphrase, she wrote that in her dream she was walking along a path, holding the hand of a child. Disaster struck, the ground shook and spit open. She had just enough time to set the child with her safe on the other side before she was swallowed up. She wrote she believed that child to be the cause of the White Rose and the surety that her death was not to be the end of the resistance and hope for freedom.

@emilyrln

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing! Legit brought tears to my eyes.

Thank you for educating us about these absolute legends! These young people were incredibly brave going against the Nazis. It’s so sad that they ended up being martyred for their beliefs, but I’m really happy that I now know about what they did to stand up to Hitler and the Nazis!

Would have been good to mention 1993's "Swing Kids" A completely under-rated and sadly dismissed movie when it came out. But definitely something to watch, learn a seldom told history. And realize that Captain America's Dr. Erskine was correct: the first country the Nazis invaded was Germany.

@audreymuzingo933

11 ай бұрын

I didn't realize until recently that Christian Bale was in it! I saw it back when it came out, but he wasn't famous yet.

When he was reading those letters it’s like “dang tell us how ya really feel” so proud of them for showing their true beliefs

This is so inspiring. These kids stood up for what was right even in the face of national social pressure and the threat of death. Amazing.

My mother spent her entire life believing that she was German. After she had an ancestry test, it was found that she was almost entirely Polish. Both of her parents have passed, so questions concerning her heritage may forever go unanswered…

@awsumaustin7650

11 ай бұрын

Well Poland is really close to Germany... so maybe her parents just moved there before she was born. Or after.

@almunoz2475

11 ай бұрын

DNA tests don't show nationality nor do they account for historical border changes. Whatever the "Ancestry Test" companies want us believe, there's nothing genetic about nationality. If a test shows a high percentage of "polish", all it means is that that DNA sample is most similar to DNA samples from test takers currently located in Poland... Also, Polish borders changed dramatically during the first half of the 20th century. Many polish towns were officially part of Germany before WWII. That way, the birth place of many Germans born in the 20s and 30s, are now located in Poland (and the DNA ancestry of their descendants may show up as 'polish' rather than 'german). To add to the confusion: in those times 'German' and 'Polish' were frequently understood as linguistic ethnicities (what language do you speak) more than as national citizenship (what country do you vote in or have a passport from). Having that in mind, I wouldn't worry too much about the ancestry test if I were your mother... (Sorry for the long answer. Hope it helps).

@ThePittsburghToddy

11 ай бұрын

@@almunoz2475 Thank you for the information. I know little about DNA testing and such. The test did also indicate that my mother was a fair amount Norwegian. Again, I have no idea how accurate this stuff is. I just found it odd that it determined that my mother was zero percent German. Cheers 🍻

@Lodrik18

11 ай бұрын

@@ThePittsburghToddy The Germans took "Aryan" kids from polish families and gave them to German families during WWII but your mother is probably to young for that. A DNA test shows you to whom you are related (extended family), so dont read to much into anything other then that (sometimes they uncover that children were switched at birth, sometimes its complete nonsense)

@woeshaling6421

11 ай бұрын

@@ThePittsburghToddy For the majority of history, tribes and peoples migrated greatly in europe. Nationalism as we know it is barely 150 years old. Before that people identified with their town or region. The Baltic region around Poland was for a long time the Holy Roman Empire, then Prussian/Polish before becoming Germany and only after WW1 became Poland. Border regions on either side of the border are often more alike than different, with the only difference being primary language and passport. Having a single European national heritage is in of itself absurd. WIth the exception of Conan O'Brien, apparently he's 100% Irish.

28:02 "Nazis be damned." quote for the ages

Not even a mention of the grey ranks? The outlawed polish scouting movement that turned into some of the best trained troops in the Polish resistance, to the point that a group of 17 year old managed to steal a panzer tank and liberate a concentration camp

@MrMiddleWick

11 ай бұрын

Great topic for a video, but completely irrelevant to this one.

@rachelsoland419

11 ай бұрын

While the Grey Ranks were a resistance group, they used military resistance to combat German military occupation, not the Nazi mission specifically. There were many paramilitary resistance movements around Europe at the time, but I wrote this episode to specifically focus on the anti-Nazi resistance movements.

@griffinmckenzie7203

11 ай бұрын

Of course there's no mention. It has absolutely nothing to do with the video topic.

@sharontabor7718

11 ай бұрын

@@rachelsoland419 Good grief. The person isn't upset. Just merely mentioning another situation where young people helped change the outcome of a horrible event.

@mwdouglas3794

11 ай бұрын

​@@sharontabor7718Good grief, she never said anyone was upset. She just made clear what this episode was supposed to be about.

Every day, I watch my fellow Americans walking down a similar path. Democracy is very fragile, folks!

The Pirates & Zazaou sound wonderfully punk rock. I saw Swing Kids in high school and was so impressed with the bravery of these kids in Nazi Germany. White Rose group are truly incredible martyrs.

you fucking pull it out of the bag when I'm least expecting it...wasn't sure what to expect tbh, then I get half hour of of a compelling af story BEING TOLD WELL! Thank you for making the effort when it matters, truly. You do the subjects justice.

These deep dives into the society of Nazi Germany on TIFO are top notch. The first about the German public's knowledge of the Holocaust is chilling but Witold Pilecksie's story is a beautiful addendum

I remember watching that movie Swing Kids it came out when I was serving in the army. Watched it at the Post Theater it was quite interesting.

@jewel65

11 ай бұрын

I love that movie!

Thank you for this documentary. I am now.fearful of the Far Right in the UK. I do what little I can against this plague in our country from 2016 to today and work to defeat it. These children/teenagers show us the path today.

@RoseNZieg

10 ай бұрын

you're hilarious. uk far right is like moderates in the usa. you will never know true far right unless a certain protected groups in the uk take over.

These young people went up against a giant and knew what would happen to them when they were caught. Their bravery is unmatched.

Sure did go down in history! 👏🏻 Thank you Simon for teaching me about these young heroes legacy.

This is something we all need to be watching. If you're in North America, like me, you can probably see the rights attempt to bring this world in

@AB-un4io

9 ай бұрын

Well, historically speaking? The totalitarian regimes are begun by the leftists. The claim that the countries and the citizens within would be so much “better” if only socialism could be ushered in is textbook propaganda used by the left to cajole folks into the acceptance of fascism. It’s mentioned in any decent history book.

I met a man many years ago researching his family tree. He was explaing the difficulty because his family migrated from Germany to the US and back, several times over several generations. He had dual citizenship. As a teenager the familiy was back in Germany and he was slated for Hitler's Youth. He managed to evade the organization knowing he would eventually be found out - he had Jewish ancestry. He was constripted into the German Army and sent to serve on the Russian Front - he was a US citizen. After the war he returned to the US as quickly as possible.

Thank you for educating us about these absolute legends, Simon.

Pure, unadulterated, badasses. May you never be forgotten. 🍻

Thank you, Simon. This video should be shown in high school classes.

Man that was a super powerful episode

This was a fantastic episode. That last line both hit me in the gut and gave me goosebumps.

Why didn’t you mention the 3rd Scholl sibling to participate with the White Rose? I know she got off for being so young, but come on, she still helped with the cause. She too deserves recognition for the part she played.

Thank you for educating us about these young heros. This is so inspirational. As a Jewish person I always want to learn about the people who had the courage and bravery to resist the Natzis. These people are forever true heros

I changed the playback speed on this video. I like Simon, but his normal speaking speed is so fast I usually finished each of his narrations having only a sketchy idea of what he covered. if you noticed the same thing, try setting the speed to .75 or "normal". Enjoyed this one. From New Hampshire, Patricia.

@PhilBertran

11 ай бұрын

I normally listen at x2 and had to lower it to x1.5 to understand.

@alicemilne1444

11 ай бұрын

Yes. Simon is a gabbler.

The expressions on the faces of the three executed people is astonishing. Pure defiance and calmness despite knowing they were soon to die.

These kids deserve their own Hollywood movies

@alicemilne1444

11 ай бұрын

Not Hollywood, please! Hollywood puts its own spin on things. There is already an excellent film about the Scholls made by Germans.

Can't believe the Edelweiss Pirates are not a movie.

I urge anyone interested to watch Swing Kids with Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, Noah Wyle and an uncredited appearance by Kennith Branagh. It is one of my favorite movies.

I've learned a lot about this period of history but never have I heard the story of these brave people. They spoke so truly to the heart of the matter and defied the oppressive hand of a dictatorship in the face of death and, arguably, worse.

Swing Kids is such a good movie.

In March 1993 a Hollywood film about the Swing Kids was released in the United States.

Reminds me of an episode of Mock The Week when a news article claimed that youngsters today were the worst behaved ever, and one comedian commented 'I think you'll find the Hitler Youth were quite naughty..' Incidentally this was a time when the father of a family in /all/ societies tended to be obeyed or at least condoned, not just German society.

I appreciate this video very much. It comes at an auspicious time, when we now face a resurgence of fascism all around the world, & young people trying to wrangle with how to best combat it.

7:33 These guys could see pretty well for their respective ages. It's too bad the older adults weren't listening.

Love all your work and channels simon!😊😊😊😊❤❤❤

These are amazing people not to be forgotten. I never knew them, but I love them.

„Swing Kids“! Love that movie ❤

I have never heard "apparel" pronounced like this

Services like Netflix and Hulu now block access if you're using a VPN. This defeats the purpose of most VPN applications. 0:41

We watched a movie on the White Rose during a college history class. It was a something I hadn’t heard about before in previous classes and something that will stick with me for a long time.

All absolute heroes.

Great documentary with a lot of interesting facts! They were really heroes, but at the same time just normal young people who lived in this terrifying regime. Actually, Sophie Scholl's best friend, Susanne Zeller-Hirzel, who was sentenced to 5 months in jail for assisting the White Rose, stood with the islam-critical movement "Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa" in her last years. She said she saw many similarities between the ideologies of national socialism and political islam, like the concept of a "führer" figure and blind obedience, the hatred of Jews etc., and to her, islam growing in Europe was a great threat.

I learned about Die Weiß Rose in German class and have always wanted to learn more. When I saw this video, I was begging for it to be about them. I’m so happy it is! Die Weiß Rose is truly a group to look up to. Die Sonne scheint ☀️

Thank you, Simon, this was excellent. Sophie's alleged last words made me cry. And the gay man who was devoured by dogs, Jesus Christ.

Pretty sure he meant “apparel” in the last one when talking about their American singers clothes, haha

You do powerful work. Keep on keeping on.

Around 29:00 “ahp parrel” hahaha the pronunciation of apparel

All it takes for evil to win is for good men to do nothing

It’s a shame that with how brutal WW1 was, no survivor who was ‘in the trenches’ could describe how much of a hell on earth it was. I think that helped to fuel the generational disconnect in Germany in the 1920’s -30’s, as it did in many other countries involved. The generation that fought in the trenches is known as the ‘lost generation’, because many on both sides were either killed in masses and barely 20, and the ones who came home were never quite the same. There was a lot of substance abuse due the trauma, and mental health wasn’t even a thing back. It was often the case where adults in their 30’s -40’s would sound crazy and paranoid at times to their children. There’s a scene in downfall that demonstrates this perfectly where a man who’s probably in his 40’s was trying to take his son home, but was met with resistance of those not even a full 20 years old. The man was trying to tell the actual children in SS getup who were ‘defending’ Berlin that they were basically f*cked, and to go home to have a chance of avoiding the Russians. It wasn’t explicitly said, but I think he had an idea of what the Russians would do to the city and much of the civilian population.😔

"Nazis, I hate these guys," - Indiana Jones, based

This dude's got balls, starting with an ad.

These kids are absolute legends

2:40 "making their country great again" I think I heard someone say something similar recently. I wonder how it turned out for them?

Great video!

The Edelweiss Pirates would make a killer punk band name.

Excellent video.

I like videos on resistance movements. Those people have to be so brave. But it’s also complex since they’ll be considered by traders of their own country I’d like to see more resistance videos for other countries as well.

Swing Kids is also a great band!

19:45 Nice!

Inspiring!

Excellent script, Rachel 👍

I knew of some of these groups of brave young folk but not in this detail. I am actually struggling not to let tears show as I sit and listen to this whilst at work and I can only imagine the courage it must have taken to stand against the Nazi tide.

Please do a biographics on the scholl siblings!

@elihenley6982

10 ай бұрын

I think he has or someone else has they’re really interesting. I know I found out about them on KZread though so don’t quote me on him making that vid

26:55 It's all about the music!! Way to go, German hippies in the 1930s and 1940s! 😀👍👍

Thank you Rachel

The way Simon pronounces "apparel" reminds me of the way people who go on "gapyeah" say "Parah". So posh.

Oh god, finally some good perspective

@jasonbrown372

11 ай бұрын

Some of my skinhead friends from the mosh pit quantified themselves further as "S.H.A.R.P.s": Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice, and we had laughs when they visited me as a student at the Institute of American Indian Arts, that's for sure.

Both the Scholls and the Rommels lived in Ulm. Hans, Sophie and the legendary field marshal all became disillusioned with Hitler and the Nazis.

This is a great video that gives a lot of texture to what life was like in Nazi Germany, but I also can't get over how you pronounced "apparel"

The Swing Kids movie is pretty cool. It's almost akin to one of those old movies about those crazy kids and their new music and the crusty old adults who just don't get it, only since in this movie, the crusty old adults are literally Nazis, it raises the stakes considerably.

I found it funny and admirable how there are history parallels of my country and World War II's Germany... The White Rose are like our propagandistas, fighting with pen and paper. The Pirates are like the Youth Milder Version of Bonifacio's early Katipunero days...

Cant help but find it a bit comical that literal nazi's felt threatened by... Jazz

I already watched the movie, thanks.

I always wonder which VPN Simon uses.

Let us not forget.

I've seen that movie

I need to tell my kids about these kids

Wish i learned about the Swing kids at school.

Sophie Scholl is my hero.

There was a pretty good 1993 film, with Christian Bale, set in this milieu, titled, "Swing Kids."

For more on this subject go read 'Teenage: the creation of youth 1875 - 1945' by Jon Savage.

And indeed they did, in fact, go down in history. Such courage and dedication to the future generations is badly needed today. Let us take an example from them, remember them, and honor them, by becoming like them.

Never forget this. Throughout time, all those in the wrong denounced the concerns of the youth. Anyone that talks shit on the newer generations are villains. "Kids nowadays" is the talk of shitheads, regardless of the generation.

This video's word... "Apparel". I see you.

It's AMAZING how prescient some of those writings were/ are. Saying that the path they're on will end with Russians sitting in Berlin was, I think, the first _Fulfilled Prophecy,_ and they just kept coming after that!! At one point, however, one of them says something about there being 300,000 Jews killed in Poland. That's only 5% of the actual number (the final number of the final solution), but then again, it wasn't written in 1945, so it might have been an accurate count at the time. What I'd like to know is, where did they get those numbers from???? I seriously doubt that the Nazi party published updates of "Total number of Jews killed." If they did that, there would have also been "Jews Killed Today" lists as well as "Goal For Number of Jews Killed Tomorrow." It's ridiculous to think that the Nazis would publish such lists. So where then, did this group get the number of murdered Jews from?

@user-jt7bx3ek8w

11 ай бұрын

They where active military youth (they serve sporadically, and not for long stretches). in different fronts and military groups, they did there thing when they where off duty. (they are more or less and active military intelligence/resistance group with eye and ears every where) they know more then the common person even more then the common foot soldier.

“History doesn’t repeat itself but it very often rhymes.”

@Spiral.Dynamics

11 ай бұрын

2:35

@Spiral.Dynamics

11 ай бұрын

Maga = fascism

Petty Me: Mispronuciation of basic words such as "ap·par·el" irks me and I'm reminded that Simon is a talking head. It's clear he's reading from scripts he doesn't quite understand and has even said he forgets almost everything the moment after the reads it.

Certain adults nowadays should look up to those kids

Wait. I've discovered this guy in two different channels with the exact same premise and content type. Pretty sure this is a common question, but... how do you manage it and why?

@kitefan1

11 ай бұрын

Did you look at the list in the description? 15. 😁

@NewplayerXL

11 ай бұрын

@@kitefan1 Wait no WAIT I didn't see that what in the GODDAMN HELL is THAT?!? Is this dude for real?! HOW 🤯

@kitefan1

11 ай бұрын

@@NewplayerXL Push the "more..." in the description. He's actually a team of people but he narrates an awful lot of it. If you read the comments in various videos people remark on some aspects of it. In one of the comments for this one someone told a team member nice script. 😁

Making the country Great Again. Take note.

The lyrics of "Zaz Zuz Zaz" say that the phrase is meaningless, but it swings. By adopting it, the Zazous showed that a rejection of politics can itself be political.