This reminds me of a story of a Polish Priest who became a saint. He was of german ancestry and refused to sign the Deutsche Volksliste after Germany occupied Poland which would have given him full German citizenship and who ended up in Auschwitz for vehemently opposing Nazi ideology and sheltering Polish Jews. At the camp he would work the hardest of any prisoner and freely gave his rations to his fellow inmates. When a couple of inmates escaped, the Nazi administrators decided to randomly pick a group of people for collective punishment by starving them to death in a cell. He volunteered to switch places with a man who cried he had a family. Out of everyone in that cell he would become the last survivor as he prayed the marian prayers with the fellow condemned cellmates. The Nazi's got so frustrated with his persistence in being alive for over a week they injected his arm with carbonic acid which then killed him. His name was Maximilian Kolbe and it is a great sense of irony that the Nazis killed a man who was their ideal description of what was set on the front gates to Auschwitz.

@eze8970

Жыл бұрын

A sad story, but testament to the mans' character & integrity that we're discussing his brave actions all these years later. 🙏🙏

@Dario-uj6qo

Жыл бұрын

I guess that happend because he refused to conform to their ideology, the work is not the objective but a meaning to an end, as much as he did the correct work he still refused the point why he was there and the "enlightment" so I guess it makes sense in their twisted and horrific point of view

@rebeccaconlon9743

Жыл бұрын

If its true...

@Old299dfk

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for teaching me about this amazing human being. I hope you are well Maximilian, wherever you are. You are a truly great member of our society.

@Highlander1432

Жыл бұрын

Nice fairy tale Good bedtime story Lol

I think the socialism in National Socialism cuts a little too close to the heart for many historians, so they'd either rather not talk about it, or even outright deny it.

@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623

Жыл бұрын

It is the biggest trick the left has managed to pull on the world. And not just the world. Actual Neo-Nazi's don't think they're socialists but the complete opposite.

@achair7265

Жыл бұрын

Even those who despise both Marxism and nazism for some reason can't accept it.

@jamesespinosa690

Жыл бұрын

They are absolutely desperate to make sure that normal people don't make the association. I've been doing my best to help educate people.

@markushaahr9194

Жыл бұрын

It’s kind of like seeing the Socialism in Cultism. It’s kind of unfair alignment. The Socialism in National Socialism is a means of control. Like in a cult. Socialism is usually about worker rights, but often gets corrupted without democratic processing, which the Nazis got rid of, the first chance they got.

@ArgentWolf95

Жыл бұрын

that's possible, especially now with the woke/ intersectional ideology being dominant in the west.

Hi! As a polish citizen who live and spend his whole live in Galicien, roughly 100km from K.L. Auschwitz, i would like to pinpoint one very important fact. Common mistake is to call Auschwitz a extermination camp, while the truth is, that it has, just like other german prison camps, its own sub-camps. The phrase "Arbeit Macht Frei" was placed above the entry gate of Auschwitz main camp. That one was actually used as forced-labor camp, and germans were imprisioning here people rather from western europe and Poland. I read few books from people, who survived the camp. The mention, that there was few larger groups from countries like : France, Holland, Germany, Dennmark besides the majority of poles. Brutality and death was every day routine here, but those, who survived, said that it was much much 'better' that in famous sub-camp no 2 - Birkenau. And subcamp Birkenau was actual 'death factory'. Check the death tolls of each subcamp if you want to see the scale of difference by your own eyes. Many have left Auschwitz alive, serving their sentence full or even shortened, and upon leaving they were forced to sign paper, that they will never say anything about what they witnessed or suffered here. Birkenau on the other hand, was considered as near-guaranteed death sentence. It was there, were the trains stop, and where jews were immidiately exterminated in gas chambers. Kampkommendant 'welcomed' selected ones to inform them, that while they avoided the chamber, they are sentenced to die within three months. And basicly that is what then happened, extermination by starving, beating etc. I hope I gave you another point of view about the case, regards.

@unlearningcommunism4742

Жыл бұрын

Hello from Yugoslavia. In our country, un-survivable camps no longer exist, because there is nothing left to be seen. There was nothing special to begin with. Truly un-survivable camps were makeshift structures, improvised places next to some sink holes, or just some random buildings. Those would be used for a few days, and all the prisoners would perish. There were some impossible stories, but the survival rate was maybe 0.1%. Those were the places of true horror. What we see today as "tourist camps" had both dark moments and pitch black moments. It all depended... Who, when, in which building...

@Aurora..Borealis

Жыл бұрын

Birkenau must be the sadest place I've ever experienced. Standing at the place where people were selected for extermination... I cannot begin to describe that feeling... let us never forget what some humans are capable of. This is such an awful place, and I really have the utmost respect for the Polish people for keeping it as a stark reminder, instead of just demolishing it. Even if it is such a painful part of their history.

@kamilwachel2832

Жыл бұрын

@@unlearningcommunism4742 german death camps from ww2 period in Poland were left to exist (and if needed had their damage repaired, in case of germans trying to cover up things with blowing stuff up) because of sheer scale of terror. Poland had kind a 'unique' status in soviet block, close to NATO countries, similar to east germany at that time... also note, that having exisiting example of german crimes made hiding their own crimes easier, but thats another story.

@kamilwachel2832

Жыл бұрын

@@Aurora..Borealis for me, as I was standing halfway from entrypoint and zone in Birkenau, most crushing was realising, that this place would be absolutely horror even if was chicken plant, slaining chickens for food. fact, that peoples were slain here, in such horryfing way and in vast numbers, is why these special type of german camps are called "factories of death" in Poland. Name pinpoints the industrial and technical approach of their makers, with clear intentions. one type of camp to work (and die certainly, after a calculated predicted average time) one type of camp to serve as political prision (and place of eliminating anone with high spirit physically, by killing him and placing 'heart attack' in papers sended to family) one type for russian pow`s, after Barbarossa start... type designed to finish all of captives, kill them with unhuman starvation - hard work - beating combo.. after all of them had been killed, those camps were mostly converted as force labor / prision cams finally - death factories, optimised by sience and psychology, medicine places of mass murdering process... no, that do not describe it... its hard to find a fair name for places like Birkenau, and Birkenau itself is 'top of the top' of its kind, with following camps differ in death score greatly.. it was ULTIMATE place of ANNIHILATION man enters, smoke lefts

@Aurora..Borealis

Жыл бұрын

There is a type of info board next to the railway lines with photos showing the women, children and elderly being selected for extermination... it was a death machine and it was intentially, very efficient. Standing there is a life altering event. Thank you for your reply.

This is mind blowingly good. I took a class on Nazi Germany and they glossed over ideology without taking on the roots of phrases such as arbeit macht frei. TIK never ceases to ameliorate my knowledge on what really happened in the past

@volkerxd8821

Жыл бұрын

If we only had a thousand TIKs lol for each and every subject in history could you imagine how much more we would understand.

@LiftOffLife

Жыл бұрын

They never taught you the truth of why Hitler really hated the Jews.

@mrblack888

Жыл бұрын

All formal classes on Nazi Germany are intended to propagate the jewish version of history, you're not supposed to learn anything or think about it. Just repeat the mantra.

@therooster1339

Жыл бұрын

It's glossed over because most of the claims about WW2 Germany aren't true. People believed the far fetched nonsense when they started making the claims in the late 1950's, but in today's age of modern technology people have the ability to do their own research; so listening to the claims in detail only prove how ridiculously utter nonsense they are. If you really researched what AH says about them, you would realize he's not lying; unlike them. Still with that being said, they still didn't gas 6,000,000 of them like they claim

@Val81121

Жыл бұрын

It's because academics are socialist and they don't want you to tie Fascism with their flavor of totalitarianism.

I remember as a 12 year old in 1988 visting Dachau concentration camp with my family and seeing the gates phrase 'Work sets you free'. My father explained to me that political prisoners where sent there in the early period and later the Jews. Your explanation makes total sense. Thanks.

@freakyflo369

Жыл бұрын

The “Slogan” of Dachau is not “Arbeit macht Frei” which they have standing there, but is more associated with Auschwitz. in Dachau the gate says “Jedem das seine” which is translated to “everyone gets what they deserve” which is straight up satanic for a place like that to have this on the gates.

@keksi6844

Жыл бұрын

'Work will set you free" is also GOP campaign slogan.

@jacquesstrapp3219

Жыл бұрын

@@keksi6844 The Democratic party used to be the party of the working man. The abandonment of that base in favor of representing special interests is one of the stupidest political decisions in history. Judging by your inaccurate comment, you must be one of those "special" people.

@pugsymalone6539

Жыл бұрын

​@keksi6844 when and where have you seen that?

@jacquesstrapp3219

Жыл бұрын

@@pugsymalone6539 He's making that shit up. These fools are incapable of honesty.

Fascinating. These videos really put TV documentaries in their place. Exploring all sides on the most difficult of topics in the pursuit of greater understanding

@MrAllanGA

Жыл бұрын

One thing I’ve never understood, if all of the Jews who were being sent here were being gassed, how are there so many Holocaust survivors?

@j3i2i2yl7

Жыл бұрын

I find this description of the evolution Nazi concentration camp system much more beleivable, but also much more troubling than the common post war narritives. Instead of csrtoonish evil, It is a narative of people who convinced themselves that each step they took was a step towards heaven and were tollerant of all the injustice along the way.

@vitman2409

Жыл бұрын

​@@notskulls Just because TIK speaks a little bit of truth here and there doesn't mean he's truthful. I appreciate his development in these questions throughout the years and can see how he's moving closer and closer every day to being cancelled off KZread for his, consciously or not, attempt to disrupt deliberately false history for true history. But for us who know's what the "holocaust" was really about, and the authenticity of it, know's he's lacking some major points regarding this topic. I think you understand what I mean, and that's why I put the word holocaust within quotation marks. I can't write it outright here, because it will lead to my comment being shadow banned. I don't care what your point is about the topic and how far you've come in your understanding, and I won't argue. I know what I know, because I seek the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it is for some. Maybe TIK will eventually reach to that point, maybe not, but speaking too much truth will eventually get him off this platform as a content creator, and that will be another awakening for him.

@TheImperatorKnight

Жыл бұрын

@@vitman2409 Since you seek the truth, I'm just going to leave this here for you kzread.info/dash/bejne/kYp_q5iEZd2-ZtI.html (The Curious case of Former Holocaust Denier Eric Hunt)

@j3i2i2yl7

Жыл бұрын

@@notskulls yes, how does a society of real people evolve from "reeducating" to large-scale gas chambers. They had the same model of brain that we were born with. Once a person has dehumanized others in their mind, empathy is lost. There does not seem to be a bottom to that pit.

I don't normally comment but I thank you for the work you put into your videos. I feel like your one of the only informative channels that explains stuff like this which is very important. I'm very glad your channel exists honestly you cover the topics which quite a lot people overlook. It's important that we keep these discussions and the actual history relevant which this video does well and actually made me understand more about Nazis and the concentration camps. Thank you, TIK

@santsipahicentralfloridanews

Жыл бұрын

Well said!

@Dar-oi3tw

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, these videos have revealed many different facts and historical events that I have never heard or thought about. I even remember reading a history book in middle school that outright says that the Nazi's were not Socialists. Now after watching Tik's video's, I can safely say that that book was either wrong or lying, my middle school years were from 2009-2013 so I don't know if the historians of that time were under the control of Leftist Gnostic thinking, or were merely following what they thought were legit and good sources at the time.

@Powertuber1000

Жыл бұрын

Because YT has deleted the accounts of all the other truth-tellers over the past 7 years.

@youtubehatesus2651

Жыл бұрын

agree 100%, good for inquiring minds, a tonic

@jrton1366

Жыл бұрын

Hi TIK. Can you provide one source that evidences that Hoß, the leader of the camp, was a Gnostic? If not - you're entire video is a baseless theory is it not? Could you also confirm what the reason is that you didn't mention that membership of the DAF was mandatory when you said that 40%+ of the German population were members? This is such a fundamental omissions it is difficult to believe someone would make it by accident. Thanks @tikhistory

I lost count of how many "aha" moments I've had from this ideology series. Keep up the good work. Thank you.

In the Czechoslovakia, in the 50's, on the gates of the uranium mines/work camps (where ended many of WW2 heroes from western front, as well as other political prisoners) was: "Prací ke svobodě", literally "Through work to freedom". I never got how somebody can say that there is a difference between nazis and communist when they are using the same mottos.

@readypetequalmers7360

Жыл бұрын

I don't remember who said it, but an evolutionary biologist mentioned that people's ability to see differences is pretty bad... the closer two things are the more extreme of focus we give them. When two things are very far apart we recognize they are different and don't put the focus on it. In other words, yes the two ideologies have the same core, but people would point to some minor difference and pretend it is a huge difference... many get caught up with that saying "yeah it's clear this group didn't think like that" while ignoring that it may have been just a minor disagreement not a major ideological difference. In other words, it's important we remember how bad as humans we are at this and make sure we don't get tricked by it.

@tomaskling2429

Жыл бұрын

Socialism is socialism. Its all about controll over the people by the elite.

@cyphi474

Жыл бұрын

That was pretty much any Gulag motto. Submit, or die.

@elLooto

Жыл бұрын

@@readypetequalmers7360 The best analogy I can think of for Communist/National Socialist/Fascist is the Protestant/Catholic situation. Almost identical but warring over what are, from the outside, small things.

@think2invest

Жыл бұрын

Because it doesn't matter if it's a national socialist dog or a international socialist dog. They bark the same socialist line.

Eric Hoffer, in The True Believer (1951), noted that the NSDAP was able to convert communists into Party members. Converting a Communist or Party member into a libertarian was a more difficult effort. Hoffer believed that being a radical was a trait that could easily change the superficial content of their belief system, but not having a desire to believe.

@GeneralProfessor

Жыл бұрын

"Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will."

@Nukestarmaster

Жыл бұрын

Both communism and fascism are dialectical progressive ideologies, moreover since fascism is the dialectical synthesis of communism and fascism, it is - by the dialectical method - the natural successor to communism. It is not the case that a radical is easily able to be converted to some random radical ideology, but converting someone from a radical ideology to a closely related ideology is comparatively easy.

@lloydgush

Жыл бұрын

So why are we being nice to these people?

@fakeorchestra4260

Жыл бұрын

People will do anything to push off existential crisis. And libertarianism doesn't provide with an easy system to push your fears onto. At least it provides it less than other systems.

@adarret

Жыл бұрын

Shouldn’t be that hard to convert a National Socialist into an International Socialist, all you really have to do is turn them on to a more Globalist view of the State/Party…

Hi Tik, native German speaker here… „aufheben“ doesn’t mean transcend or ascend. It means „pick up“ (from the ground) or two things that cancel each other out. Ascend or transcend could be translated to „erheben“. Similar but different.

In Lithuania, I was even taught in high school, not too long ago, that the party was socialist with socialist economy and so on. It's crazy to see that there is so much debate else where in the world about this.

@achair7265

Жыл бұрын

Good on Lithuania's part.

@MichelleHell

Жыл бұрын

Why did they imprison communists?

@achair7265

Жыл бұрын

@@MichelleHell Because socialists eat other socialists. It's par for the course of any socialist ideology. In Hitler's case he saw Marxism as a Jewish falsehood, not real socialism. Ironically just like how today people deny that him and nazism were socialist.

@AdrianOkay

Жыл бұрын

​​@@MichelleHellbecause germany had to withdraw from ww1 because their country was at the brink of a communist revolution, and thus commies getting blamed from losing ww1

@Bluz1

11 ай бұрын

@@MichelleHell Because they were a different type of socialists (Marxist).

Tik I find your material informative and helpful to understand what different ideologies today are trying to accomplish today from seeing what ideologies did and why in the past

"Work sets you free" was a phrase used by a lot of Labor based Prisons. Including the Gulags. In America it was part of the idea of "Rehabilitation." Prisons were actually used in the USA as cheap SLAVE labor for generations. Road Building Projects, cutting grass and picking up trash. Making License Plates, etc etc etc. STATE owned Slavery using Prisoners in short to do often some of the most mundane work.

@classicalextremism

Жыл бұрын

Yes, because nothing says "rehabilitation" like forcing someone to sit languid in a small cubby staring at a concrete wall. Doing nothing. Looking forward to nothing. Breaking the monotony with nothing. Well, aside from maybe making a shiv and shanking someone in the showers. Giving people something constructive and productive is to do with their time is far more beneficial to them as a person than letting them stew and rot. What you propose is simply cruel and unusual.

@gargravarr2

Жыл бұрын

"were"? Prisoner labor is still a major industry in the USA. It's one of the reasons why the country has such a massive prison population. The 13th amendment explicitly allows the enslavement of prisoners.

@twt000

Жыл бұрын

It's also an ethnic nationalist slogan (Deutsche Schulverein organization).

@Alte.Kameraden

Жыл бұрын

​@@gargravarr2 I'd say YES and NO. 1. A lot of prisons have been corporatized outside the direct control of the Federal Government. 2. These "Business" like Prisons wouldn't get away with Enslavement like the Federal Government could back in the day. 3. Some Federal Prisons still exist, and still use prisoners for labor. Generally though Labor anymore in the prison system is frowned upon. If it exist it's often voluntary definitely in the Corporate style Correctional Facilities as they nicely call themselves. Which prisoners even get paid for it, though not much. Basically a prisoner can voluntary to work and get paid, being they have no living expenses it's not a bad deal for someone waiting out a prison sentence. Prisons also offer educational routes as well, if you didn't have a GED you can earn a GED while in Prison, and some college courses are also available to prisoners. It's not like Shawshank Redemption stereotypical days in short. But there was a period in American history starting some time in the late 19th Century which Forcing Prisoners to Work was considered necessary for Rehabilitation. As it was deemed someone who is stealing instead of working to earn their bread must be broken, so they must be fixed, sending them prison, learning how to "WORK" was the cure for their decease. It's no different than the Gulags in this context which Capitalist and those deemed enemies of the Working Class were enslaved and forced to "WORK" or die in the process, if they learned to work, they could be set free. Though sadly for many that didn't happen. They would often get set free in LABOR colonies so they could be continually exploited by the Soviet Government even after Stalin's death. So the idea/principle is sadly far more universal than just the Nazis or Communist. But I'd say the Nazis and Communist were the absolute worst as they'd work people to death. American prisons wouldn't get away with that has they would have to contend with the Court of Public Opinion, and worse.... being elected out of office. OH the HORROR.

@classicalextremism

Жыл бұрын

@@Alte.Kameraden The private prison system holds only a small portion of the total prisoners. Does not determine who is sent into them. Does not determine how long they stay. Operates on a tighter budget reducing the cost to the state, to the people, for housing the same prisoner. Crime rates declined when the prison population increased through the 80s-00s. If you want to reduce crime overall, you have to attack the cultural belief structure of the groups committing the crimes. Its a very small subset of the population that is responsible.

I would recommend reading the book about Ravensbruck by Sarah Helm. It's pretty obvious that, during the early years, it was expected that the women sent there would be reeducated from being "dissolute" and turn into upstanding members of German society. Working them till they dropped would not achieve this. But once the war started things steadily went to pot, as everywhere else.

@TheImperatorKnight

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out when I get a chance.

@blondequijote

Жыл бұрын

If only they went to pot instead of amphetamines. Maybe they would have chilled tf out.

@jeanpierre5941

Жыл бұрын

My grandmother’s friend were in ravensbruck, not a lot of people know that name anymore.

Excellent, insightful presentation. It uses those few words "Work shall set you free" --- which had long piqued my curiosity --- to open a big window into the thinking that went inside the Reich. Thank you for being creative in thinking of these topics that the rest of us had wondered about.

@udirt

Жыл бұрын

The translation is roughly correct but not completely. There is no 'you' in that sentence for a reason. The message was just as much to people outside the camp. A stupid but believed-in motivational quote, a justification for the camps' existence and it's cruelties, a report on its importance. I mean, you can still see those nutjob work mottos on posters in documentaries about north Korea. Any murderous work cult can't resist telling it's victims and the bystanders how this exploitation is for a greater good.

@alansewell7810

Жыл бұрын

@@udirt thank you for that explanation. It makes sense as a bogus "justification for the camps' existence and cruelties, and importance." People in authority often do put much thought into the words they leave as a permanent record of what they do. The Nazis were very intellectual in a brutal way. It makes sense that they would have wrote those words with meaning rather than just bandying them about as idle words.

The low death tolls of the early years of the camps especially when compared to the appalling figures of the last 12 months of the war, is likely due to a difference in circumstances. In 1933 the Reich was at peace, the camps and the people in them weren't a drain on resources. But by the time of Wannsee, there were massive shortages of food and fuel, so all these undesirables in the camps who had been removed from society were seen as a drain on the Volk. Because even the more radical members of the Reich probably would have balked at full-scale extermination in 1933. Many simply had this idea of excluding them from politics, but then that became restricting their activities, but even that was not enough they had to then remove the undesirables from society and put them somewhere, but what would they do there, would the Volk have to support them forever? Of course not! So then we get work camps, but there are simply too many to manage, too many dependents, too little food as even Ayran stomachs' growl, so we must remove the mouths that steal the Volk's food. The path to extermination is not instantaneous, people do not become murderers or accomplices overnight, it is a grotesquely long path of rationalizing away someone's humanity and right to live and fooling ourselves that everything would be better if they just did not exist. That is the lesson the Holocaust has for us in the modern day. The perpetrators were human just like us, they dehumanized their fellow man to the point they felt nothing of committing cold-blooded slaughter. We all can become like that if we aren't vigilant .

@smokeyplane3285

2 ай бұрын

words of truth

Thank you for the video. It really held my attention when I wasn't expecting the subject would. I will have to check out some of your other videos.

@TheImperatorKnight

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! The channel has a mix of military and non-military videos, so be sure to check out the playlist in the description for more videos on this particular subject.

@ricardokowalski1579

Жыл бұрын

You will be glad you spend time on TIK's videos. Happy trails.

The thing about the idea of struggle that although it definitely has gnosticism in it, it was actually also somewhat influenced from German paganism because Nordic and Germanic cultures had this idea since basically forever but in a far different form. Which is why Tolkien absolutely despised the Nazis because they took an idea he loved and moved it past the point of usefulness into insanity.

@Reaper08

Жыл бұрын

Doesn't TIK also say this in his video about Himmler?

@Caligula138

Жыл бұрын

I get the feeling Tolkein would of been Anti Trump and suffer from TDS.

@MoonPhantom

10 ай бұрын

@@Caligula138 That's very hard to say as Tolkien was absolutely a product of his own time and experiences, and Lord of the Rings cuts so deep because it IS Tolkien own experiences put on paper. Him fighting on the ground in the first world war definitely shaped his worldview, and the horrors of war depicted in the book, as well as powerful men who all think they are the ones who can hold the power without being corrupted, but of course nobody can and it always ends in horrific disaster. Is Tolkiens own observation of the world and the time he lived in. Also he lived at the tail end of the industrial revolution and saw the rapid changes of the world around him, becoming more mechanical and moving away from the idyllic country life, so he had a fear that the English shires could be lost to this, and we already mourning that potential loss and warning us about it. He was alive in a time of rapid changes and massive conflict, and it all affected him on a very personal level and formed his worldview that went into Lord of the Rings. By comparison, all the people who suffer from TDS today, are always people who grew up in isolation and never had to face any real hardship or conflict first hand. they are people who never had to suffer and thus were soft... They are also products of their own time. So basically.... Had Tolkien been alive today he wouldn't have been able to write Lord of the Rings in the first place, as Lord of the rings is a direct product of the life experiences he had in the world he lived in at the time. If Tolkien was able to time travel however, and jump from the past into the present.... he would probably be utterly disgusted by everything and the state of the West. he was a very traditional Englishman after all. He would look at the state of England and mourn... So... yeah.

@charlottegranger1449

10 ай бұрын

Tolkien was very Christian and WW1 was a major influence on him as was Nordic pagan mythos. It is most likely that Tolkien would have supported Hitler & the nazis as most Christians did at the time. Most Christians hated Jews fir years prior to Hitler & during Hitler’s time. Also those who blamed Jews of the inflation Germany experienced after WW1 would led to economic downfall, poverty, & starvation. Tolkien was also an artist a writer and most of them support socialist causes as it helped pay for shelter food and health expenses why they had then the time to work on their art . Also this guy is wrong about socialist countries being always associated with either atheism or paganism. in the 30’s & 40’s Germany was mostly Christian Hitler was openly Christian and supported by the pope, Mein Kamph is full of quotes expressing jow Christianity strongly influenced Hitlers views. Atheism & Paganism were not popular in Germany at the time. Also Russian Soviets have strong beliefs in Orthrodox Christianity to this day and many are very conservative. Christianity had a huge influence of the anti semitism of the time period. So Tolkien veing a devout Christian likely would have supported nazism.

My great grandfather a Pole from modern day Belarus was sent to a work camp in the Sudetenland during the war. Thank you for highlighting that non-jews were also forced to work in inhumane conditions as slaves.

@averagebohemian5791

Жыл бұрын

my Slovak great great uncle died in a camp too. Germany is a nation of thieves and murderers

@Occident.

Жыл бұрын

Many of the So-called "forced Labourer" were actually volunteers who went to Germany to work and make money. Only when Germany had lost the war, did these people claim to be forced Labourers. It was an alibi, to stop accusations against them of collaboration with the Germans.

Thank you, Mr. TIK, that was fascinating. If I may add my two cents worth: "Work liberates" or "Work is liberating" is probably better translation of "Arbeit macht frei." The usual English translation, "Work sets you free," is a little off mark, not least because there is no "you" in the original German. So "Work makes free" = "Work liberates/is liberating." Of course, in my own country of Russia, the Communists were way ahead of the Hitlerites by some years when it came to humiliating prisoners through ironic slogans, and I suspect the Germans simply copied the Russian Communists in this instance. Men and women entering the GULAG were greeted with mocking slogan over gates; "Труд в СССР есть дело чести, славы, доблести и геройства," which means " Labour in the USSR is a matter of honour, glory, valour and heroism." Quite clearly the cynicism of both terrible regimes knew no bounds.

@J1mston

Жыл бұрын

The parallels between the USSR and Nazi Germany really are endless.

Curious. I always understood it simply as "We'll set you free by working you to death" and never looked for a deeper meaning.

@Shauma_llama

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be surprised of that's what they really meant, in that context. The Nazis were assholes after all.

@kxkxkxkx

Жыл бұрын

You have been very thoroughly conditioned, along with most people...I wonder why that is?

@tendaisagwete4584

Жыл бұрын

@@kxkxkxkx Are you an antisemite?

@KopperNeoman

Жыл бұрын

@kxkxkxkx Because Nazism is alive and well - it calls itself Stakeholder "Capitalism" now.

Bruno Bettelheim, a Jewish Psychoanalyst, was sentenced to serve time in Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, before being released in 1939. He believed that having people returned into society, having clearly gone through dreadfull experiences, was an important aspect of control by the State. This was different from, but laid the groundwork for, the "Final Solution", which came later.

@ricardokowalski1579

Жыл бұрын

The "return to society" is what Orwell's ending of 1984 is all about. It is not good enough to kill the "trouble-makers", there is a risk they become examples, or martyrs. The goal is to break the *will* of the individual, and parade him as a useless wretch in front of all his acquaintances. Everybody must know that there are consequences, that the consequences are severe, and that it is futile to challenge the status-quo. The objective is a prision of the mind in every cranium Respectfully

@unlearningcommunism4742

Жыл бұрын

That was done in Yugoslavia, during the 50's when the Communists split into two groups, pro Tito (Yugoslavia) and pro Stalin. Those who were too enthusiastic for USSR were sent to a deserted island (Goli Otok). After serving the sentence they returned, half-mad, petrified... According to their comrades, the majority was 100% innocent. However, as you said - it served the purpose

In Cuba they changed it to "work will make men of them". (El trabajo los hara hombres) The "them" were homosexuals.

@YaBoiBaxter2024

11 ай бұрын

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Growing up we had a family friend from Lithuania which was forced to work in the German tank factory as a foreman. Once the war ended he moved to Australia with his wife and started making tractor cabins in western Victoria. That was the first time cabins were seen on tractors and made a lot of money until they were copied by dealerships . His surname was Uldrikus first name Julius , Horsham Victoria. The family eventually moved to Geelong Victoria where he worked in a foundry near the Geelong show grounds until he died in his late 80's.

@algorithmgeneratedanimegir1286

Жыл бұрын

Yep that's how it works. Doesn't matter if you have a good idea, some one richer will take it.

I recently left a company which recently implemented a DEI committee. The CEO of the company said that the purpose of starting the committee was to encourage to "do the work" of "liberating their emotions, and I thought to myself, "Do the work...of liberating... does he not hear himself?" I have been wondering about the actual intention of the Notzees behind this meaning, so this video is quite timely. I wondered this because you could call work a way of expending energy now to make life easier later, but the intent of the NSDAP, and now the Woke with them, is clearly sinister.

@neilreynolds3858

Жыл бұрын

Their intention is, like the Nazis, to remake humanity in the image that they find acceptable so they redefine words so that sounds like a worthy goal. It doesn't sound sinister to them even though the consequences will be horrific. The actual purpose of the committee is to keep the government off their back and make sure they can get loans to keep the business running. There's a lot of Newspeak being used.

Another great video Tik! I was wondering if you could make a video about Otto Strasser and the Black Front, I’ve always felt that this wing of Nazi ideology was never fully fleshed out by any historian I’m aware of. The different strands of socialism within the nazi party would make a fascinating video, thanks!

Regarding the Arbeit Macht Frei sign itself, notice that the 'b' character has been written upside down. According to some sources, the prisoners, forcely fabricating the sign, protested that way.

@johnnyxmusic

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that a few years ago… And I was going to comment upon it again in this video.

Living in Germany, coming from Poland. One of mz supervisors, verz nice and friendly man once threw to me "Arbeit macht frei" and I'm sure he didn't mean anything bad. For, sadly, slowly passing generation of Germans work is a virtue and something one should be proud of. Or from another perspective: nobody cared to talk with normal Germans yesterday, what they would mean with those words.

@jasoneel76

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps he was being sarcastic , like “don’t work so hard”

@MOS-rs8bt

Жыл бұрын

@@jasoneel76 it's illegal to do humor in workplace in Germany

Well done as usual. As you and others have pointed out truth is more interesting and more unexpected. People repeat all sorts of myths: Madman Hitler, oil irrelevant to war etc... Your story is an example that while survivor testimony has its value, camp prisoners were not in a position to know much past the barbed wire: something like the origin of the front gate sign at Auschwitz for example.

@TheImperatorKnight

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, and we obviously shouldn't dismiss the survivors testimony, as that's what they believed. We just need to understand that the Nazi point of view was different from that of the victims point of view, and so we need to look into that as well.

@christiangudmundsson8390

Жыл бұрын

@@JB-uu8kh Was Levi wrong about the slogan though? These are his words in an interview (translated obviously): Tranfaglia: You were saying that there was the slogan, Work sets you free, placed over the Lager and that this slogan was perceived…. Levi: By us as a savage piece of irony, but probably it was not perceived like that by those that had written it. T.: In what way wasn’t it? L.: In the sense that the official Nazi ideology really believed that work is liberating, in the sense that it integrates you with the Vaterland [the fatherland], the country where you are living. It was the only way that a citizen who is not a warrior could contribute to the strength of the country. There is nothing new or controversial about this, it is the mainstream academic view.

Fact: (A) was a work camp

I used to think it was a German's attempt at making a joke.

@corneliussulla9963

Жыл бұрын

No. German jokes go like that: *I dated this jewish girl the other day and on the way home I asked for her number. Suddenly she started yelling "WE HAVE NAMES NOW!"*

@bernhardjordan9200

Жыл бұрын

We don't joke

@psikogeek

Жыл бұрын

Ditto. Germans being comedically challenged and all...

@jacklaurentius6130

Жыл бұрын

In Germany, Jokes are seen as unnecessary because it does not contribute to economic production. So they don’t joke.

@prakkari

Жыл бұрын

It’s impossible. Germans don’t have a sense of humour. Something genetic I guess. A German stand up is just a German standing up. There are though cases of Americans loosing the sense of taste and smell after getting Covid. A worse and more common side effect was that millions lost their sense of humour permanently.

Its not rocket surgery. It was literally built as a labor camp.

What struck me is that what Hitler said about the Jewish people, is exactly the same sentiment that many have when talking about capitalism. Think about things like "Eat the Rich" because all they do is profit off the labor of others without doing any real labor themselves. When you apply that Hitler directly correlated capitalism with being a purely Jewish construct and an inherent part of Jewish culture...

@fatpig8989

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, and he was right.

@newperve

Жыл бұрын

"Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools." Ferdinand Kronawetter, or August Bebel

@fatpig8989

Жыл бұрын

@@newperve You can be a socialist and anti-Semitic. They are not mutually exclusive.

This just reflects the low level of education standards today. The concept of "re education, or rehabilitation" through work or incarnation had been around since the late nineteenth century,(workhouses in Britain for the poor for example). People used to know that the holocaust didnt start on January 30 1933. And that 99% of camps on German territory were not "death camps".

It probably explains why most - if not nearly all - Germans (old school Germans) have a very strong work ethic. I know this from first-hand experience.

Your historical work is the best on youtube mate.

@carlrichieukmusic

Жыл бұрын

What about Zoomer Historian?

@l337pwnage

Жыл бұрын

lol, way to set the bar low.

A parallel with regards to "work" can be seen in Marxism. The Marxist argument is this: 1) Marx was a Materialist and a Determinist. (Scientific Socialism). 2) He believed that an Individual's thoughts and ideas were "determined" by one's Class. 3) And the thoughts and ideas of one's Class were determined by the material relations (work/physical labor) to the means of production. 4) The gulags were to be places where a bourgeois citizen would be, through physical labor, reformed or "conditioned" into becoming a member of the proletariat. 5) This is what Marx meant when he claimed that he turned Hegel's (idealistic) dialectic on it's head.

@4mazIngxXGamEr

Жыл бұрын

"He believed that an Individual's thoughts and ideas were "determined" by one's Class." No. He believed that material conditions influence how people think, not out of a direct determination but of how power is accumulated and reinforced in their beliefs. " And the thoughts and ideas of one's Class were determined by the material relations (work/physical labor) to the means of production." Lol. Citation needed. Marxists including his contemporaries had a distain for peasant workers and believed them to be backwards thinking. He believed that the working class could achieve a greater conciousness of their conditions, but it wasn't innate to their socio-economic condition. What is more the Marxists after Lenin basically believed workers were incapable of achieving this consciousness and had to be guided by vanguards. "The gulags were to be places where a bourgeois citizen would be, through physical labor, reformed or "conditioned" into becoming a member of the proletariat." I'm not going to sit here and say the exact reasons for the gulags, especially considering they existed before the revolution with the use of Katogas. But almost all Marxists, including Lenin and his successors knew that class was directly linked to one's ownership over the means of production. The gulag was for dissidents, not an entire class of individuals who could easily have their land seized and their factories confiscated. " This is what Marx meant when he claimed that he turned Hegel's (idealistic) dialectic on it's head." No. Just no. Or are you referencing 2... because that would be sort of right barring the already misunderstanding you have about it. Hegel believed ideas shaped circumstances. Marx believed circumstances shaped ideas.

@jmarz2600

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@@4mazIngxXGamEr "Lol. Citation needed. From Marx's, "The German Ideology." The fact is, therefore, that definite individuals who are productively active in a definite way enter into these definite social and political relations. Empirical observation must in each separate instance bring out empirically, and without any mystification and speculation, the connection of the social and political structure with production. The social structure and the State are continually evolving out of the life-process of definite individuals, but of individuals, not as they may appear in their own or other people’s imagination, but as they really are; i.e. as they operate, produce materially, and hence as they work under definite material limits, presuppositions and conditions independent of their will. The production of ideas, of conceptions, of consciousness, is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men, the language of real life. Conceiving, thinking, the mental intercourse of men, appear at this stage as the direct efflux of their material behaviour. The same applies to mental production as expressed in the language of politics, laws, morality, religion, metaphysics, etc., of a people. Men are the producers of their conceptions, ideas, etc. - real, active men, as they are conditioned by a definite development of their productive forces and of the intercourse corresponding to these, up to its furthest forms. Consciousness can never be anything else than conscious existence, and the existence of men is their actual life-process. If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from their physical life-process. In direct contrast to German philosophy which descends from heaven to earth, here we ascend from earth to heaven. That is to say, we do not set out from what men say, imagine, conceive, nor from men as narrated, thought of, imagined, conceived, in order to arrive at men in the flesh. We set out from real, active men, and on the basis of their real life-process we demonstrate the development of the ideological reflexes and echoes of this life-process. The phantoms formed in the human brain are also, necessarily, sublimates of their material life-process, which is empirically verifiable and bound to material premises. Morality, religion, metaphysics, all the rest of ideology and their corresponding forms of consciousness, thus no longer retain the semblance of independence. They have no history, no development; but men, developing their material production and their material intercourse, alter, along with this their real existence, their thinking and the products of their thinking. Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life. In the first method of approach the starting-point is consciousness taken as the living individual; in the second method, which conforms to real life, it is the real living individuals themselves, and consciousness is considered solely as their consciousness. This method of approach is not devoid of premises. It starts out from the real premises and does not abandon them for a moment. Its premises are men, not in any fantastic isolation and rigidity, but in their actual, empirically perceptible process of development under definite conditions. As soon as this active life-process is described, history ceases to be a collection of dead facts as it is with the empiricists (themselves still abstract), or an imagined activity of imagined subjects, as with the idealists. Where speculation ends - in real life - there real, positive science begins: the representation of the practical activity, of the practical process of development of men. Empty talk about consciousness ceases, and real knowledge has to take its place. When reality is depicted, philosophy as an independent branch of knowledge loses its medium of existence. At the best its place can only be taken by a summing-up of the most general results, abstractions which arise from the observation of the historical development of men. Viewed apart from real history, these abstractions have in themselves no value whatsoever. They can only serve to facilitate the arrangement of historical material, to indicate the sequence of its separate strata. But they by no means afford a recipe or schema, as does philosophy, for neatly trimming the epochs of history. On the contrary, our difficulties begin only when we set about the observation and the arrangement - the real depiction - of our historical material, whether of a past epoch or of the present. The removal of these difficulties is governed by premises which it is quite impossible to state here, but which only the study of the actual life-process and the activity of the individuals of each epoch will make evident. We shall select here some of these abstractions, which we use in contradistinction to the ideologists, and shall illustrate them by historical examples.

Well done! You don't make it look it easy, you make it look honest.

In Poznan, Poland there is a statue of Hipolit Cegielski (1813+1868) with the engraved phrase " Labor Omnia Vincit".

So much misery has come to mankind by people who were so convinced they were right.

@douglasstrother6584

Жыл бұрын

One of the many prior examples of "Cancel Culture".

@ArgentWolf95

Жыл бұрын

this is why "but is this really the case?" needs to asked much more often, even when asking yourself things.

@mrblack888

Жыл бұрын

Everyone is convinced they are right. Always. Your statement is nonsense.

@rebeccaconlon9743

Жыл бұрын

​@mrblack888 so the concept of self reflection, questioning one's self and self doubt don't exist? Opinions are incapable of change? Etc. Its those who no longer possess the capability of self reflection and change are those who are so stuck into their dogma that they are then incapable of seeing a possibility that they could be wrong.

@ArgentWolf95

Жыл бұрын

@@rebeccaconlon9743 he's not saying that doesn't exist, read the whole sentence. "by people who were so convinced they were right." This doesn't mean he thinks no one has self reflection. He's saying the misery comes from people who were so indoctrinated they were incapable of self reflection.

Best modern history channels, TIK ane The Great War. You guys are the teachers we all wanted to have

It means "work creates freedom". There's no second person (ie "you") mentioned. It doesn't mention who, if anyone, will be free. That makes a big difference if you are analysing the intent of the phrase. I would argue that this wording is more suggestive of work creating a free society, not any individual or group being set free.

Say that you were taught by socialist without saying you were taught by socialists... Looking through the comments, I can see I'm not the only one that through school were taught about the nazis and somehow they left out the socialist/worker/party the "collectivist" bits...

TIK, since you made many videos on the Holocaust, could you make one for the Holodomor, please?

TIK, great video! But I have to (kinda) correct you on the term "aufheben". Youre translation was correct but if you do "aufheben" it more like the following: It is used for an item which you do not need right now and do not need in the immediate future, but you don't want to throw it away because it has an emotional value for you or you might need it in the future. For examples in germany many wifes keep their wedding dress, and then you say: Sie tun ihr Hochzeitskleid aufheben. So aufheben is used more in a storing sense. Bedside that: Great video keep up the good work!

@TheImperatorKnight

Жыл бұрын

So, is this how Hegel was using the term?

@davidrossa4125

Жыл бұрын

„Aufheben“ can mean both „lift up from the floor/ground“ and „keep“ as the Original Comment said. „Das sollte ich aufheben.“ can mean, I should pick that up. I should keep that. Also: „Sie tuen aufheben“ Lassen sie das bloß nicht den Deutschlehrer hören.

@dergfmmodel8379

Жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight well kinda. First of all: "aufheben", depending the kontext, has multiple meanings in german. From the things I could find Hegel was using "aufheben" in three ways: 1. In the Höhe heben means basically: elevare 2. Aufheben as conserve as I already told you 3. Aufheben as in: Verbote aufheben. Which means basically: Lift restrictions/prohibitions So "aufheben" is used by him as a word for making something legal which was forbidden or restricted.

Interesting video, never thought about this subject with this angle before. Great work!

I remember standing in front of this very gate, thinking about the terrible irony these words conveyed. Auschwitz Birkenau is a black hole of sadness. A stark reminder of the madness of Nazi Germany and why we should always be aware of any form of social 'reformation', 'justice' and 'engineering'...

@AGenericFool

Жыл бұрын

And of populist politicians giving lofty promises and radical change while the country is economically and culturally struggeling, which was the case with Hitler and many after. And hopefully won't/will be repeated less, looking at you america and Mr.Makeamericagreatestagainandmagicallyfixallsocietalissues Im just glad that dude, after the americans somehow electing him and then weirdly still asking us how our ancestors could vote for Hitler, was way too simple minded and him and his toddler vocabulary could not pull of a insurrection and overthrow the american government throwing the whole globe into turmoil. Its bad enough already that still so many follow quasi fascists like him blindly, or that they way too often get lucky, like him and his presidency where he himself did almost no work and passed no policy by his own pushing, instead having 3 president old staff in the white house get shit done. Then Biden comes fast tracks the distribution of a vaccine that saved millions of lives, gets the fucking russia invasion war, global economy takes a shit etc. BUT he makes good policy against it and for example stops, trough himself and his team instead of sheer circumstance, the prognosed hardcore negative gdp "growth" of the US and makes it into a 2% positive growth. Yet people think that hes worse than Trump, since its smaller growth than under Trump, while ignoring the context and reality that Trumps sheer luck meant he could do nothing at all, which he did policy wise and still get higher GDP growth, meanwhile Biden and his team did great work instead of nothing, just to pull out of a harder financial crisis. Point is people really gotta think critically about their leaders, LOOK UP what they are doing, see if their motives align with what they say the do, take into consideration the context of the wider world and its current status, always avoid getting their info esp. if poltical from one source/one sided sources etc. Cause at the end of the day the leader get voted in by the people. But as the very real saying goes, "the people" are dumb as fuck. So every single one of us has to do their part in trying to stay educated AND unbiased. xoxo

@kreuner11

Жыл бұрын

whats wrong with justice

@PotatoeJoe69

Жыл бұрын

​@@kreuner11Nothing. What's actually wrong is the injustice that's done in the name of 'justice'. The concentration camps existed because Hitler was getting his 'justice' against the Jews. Let that sink in for a minute.

@slabofmadness

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@@kreuner11 Sometimes people call unreasonable actions justice like mass murder of persons. Author does not suggest there is something wrong with justice, they suggest that we should be aware of what might be hidden beneath the words of "social 'reformation', 'justice' and 'engineering'...".

@kreuner11

Жыл бұрын

@@slabofmadness if you want I can explain what social engineering is, it's usually lumped in with hacking

Ah made my day again mate! By the way, I'm reading Hitler's Beneficiaries finally (found it in the "forgotten books" magazine in the public library) and so far I'm just blown away by how their whole system worked. The robbery by means of inflation, controlled exchanged rates etc all rings a bell to the modern world too. It's just a lot to take in in one go, but I'm already addicted after 90 pages, and will do some more titles you advised. Thank you very much, and keep up the good work! (Will comment on video later, first things first)

@BasementEngineer

Жыл бұрын

Inflation during the NSDAP government years??? You don't know what you are talking about.

@nationalpropagandist

Жыл бұрын

​@@BasementEngineerThere was NO Inflation in Germany from 1933 on. One of few reasons Why they got into war.

@BasementEngineer

Жыл бұрын

@@nationalpropagandist Agreed, that's what I was trying to say, hence the question marks behind my statement.

@nationalpropagandist

Жыл бұрын

@@BasementEngineer Inflation is nothing Else but Putting Money from pockets of the poor into pockets of the rich. Check Out Sklavenvolk speech by Goebbels.

One of your best. I really enjoyed this one.

What i find stupid, is to put a label "evil" to something without research it. Thats why i find Hitler, Stalin and many more big history names story behind them interesting. When you remove the propaganda, the politics and logics behind many of their deeds, you find them to be fascinating and curious

Tik! Thank you for you work! I can't support you financially but I repost your videos since you opened my eyes on various topics (I was ukrainian ultra-nationalist for 5 years and then commie for 6 years in a row). Again thank you for your work

@joshualoganhoi4

Жыл бұрын

Bandera's strongest soldier has been TIKpilled, beautiful.

@unlearningcommunism4742

Жыл бұрын

Greetings from Serbia. Your case is very unusual for me. I have heard many times that people switch from Communism to National-Soc, but in your case it was the opposite. What made you a Communist? P.S. I hope that you are not participating in this chaotic madness. So many lives wasted...

@redwalkie3552

Жыл бұрын

@@unlearningcommunism4742(I'm sorry for a lot of text ) I always liked the idea of the society that unites to help each other and russians with ukrainians that speaks in russian are against us ( at first, I thought that ukrainian nationalism was the way out ). But then, I saw the evil side of it and turned to internationalist marxist-leninist and saw Ukrainian SSR as the peak of the well being of our country and socialism as a good way to unite people against capitalism (I was taught that every problem in the world comes from greedy capitalists since "The state is the instrument of suppression in the hands of the ruling class", and since the rulling class (supposedly) are capitalists we must unite each other against bourgeoisie. I read a lot of Marxist works and was denying every bad example of socialism (starvation and millions of deaths), because the main idea of the leftist revolution is " Those people died to build the NEW WORLD, NEW SOCIETY" (this idea was very inspiring, and every marxist that I know justified revolutionary robbery and millions of deaths, because you see, we kill in honor of the revolution. In short, it really turned out to be a religion, and a very bad one at that....

"Труд есть дело чести, дело славы, дело доблести и геройства" - the phrase upon the gates of some Soviet GULAG camps according to Varlam Shalamov.

Videos are getting shorter but better. Keep it up! Work shall set you free

I have a confession to make. I'm a career construction and have a dark sense of humour. "Hard work will set you free" is a line I've used many times on the job. 😎

Hoss misspoke, he meant to say "Work Means Freedom for Me, Not For Thee"

Very insightful. I like that your videos are interconnected, which creats a form of pedagogy and a sound narrative (source based). Keep it up.

@ArgentWolf95

Жыл бұрын

I don't think Pedagogy is the thing TIK is doing here mate. He's not deceiving like Paulo Friere.

@vonliberte9063

Жыл бұрын

@@ArgentWolf95 I will only respond once to your comment. His videos give me valuable knowledge, and his method of asking questions, which he answers, while referring back to earlier videos and definitions makes his videos (and his message) very easy to understand and follow (pedagogical).

@ArgentWolf95

Жыл бұрын

@@vonliberte9063 ah so that's what you meant, sorry, I tought you meant it in the form of Critical Pedagogy. Tik is a fantastic teacher, I agree.

This is a much needed part of understanding both the ideology, and this specific part of the context of the Holocaust that I believe that should be told. I understood the words on Auschwitz said, but I never understood why it said this, and re-examining it after listening to James Lindsay and your videos on the history of philosophy that led to the Nazis, and this vide, I think I have a better understanding. Thank you for all you do. I hope youtube lets you do more videos on the Holocaust, because if there is one historian who can cover it with accuracy and honesty, as well as the respect it deserves, it's you mate. Not saying others haven't, it's just you are the example that needs to be followed when dealing with the truth of the Socialists.

@TheImperatorKnight

Жыл бұрын

I too hope KZread doesn't suppress these videos. We'll see. But I've not monetized this video as I don't want to give them any excuses to suppress it. That said, I'm really glad all this is making sense to people because I think we're onto something big here. This religious aspect to the ideology explains practically everything.

@ArgentWolf95

Жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight I appreciate you're testing it this way, I've been watching a lot of James Lindsay's work since your videos introducing the concept. Thank you for opening that door that time. It's helped me understand a lot more of not just history, but other things I'm learning as well, including some research into China's camps. Like the Nazis, they seem to re-brand them as well.

@sdrc92126

Жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight "religious aspect to the ideology explains practically everything." A perfect explanation of how I feel and was driving me crazy for years. I was sure that it had something to do with theosophy, even before I knew anything about the nazis.

Im begging for a proper holocaust series and the psychology behind it

@TheImperatorKnight

Жыл бұрын

That depends entirely on corporate KZread and their algorithm. This video isn't monetized, and I'm curious to see if they suppress it, which they've done to similar videos on this subject in the past. If they don't suppress it and people are interested, then my intention is to do more videos on the Holocaust.

@scottwillie6389

Жыл бұрын

Impossible to do in an honest way on KZread. And if you published it on Rumble as stand alone piece the people who police these matters are petty enough to use that to get his YT channel nukes. Just not worth risking his channel over. Let folks who publish exclusively on alt platforms handle that topic

Watching your newer stuff after binging James Lindsey stuff and doing some personal research into Hegel, Kant, Rousseau and even post modern Marxists like Paulo Freire and Herbert Marcuse is really revealing. Looking at the post modern Marxists shows and comparing their work to Mein Kampf should be enough to have anyone scared.

I always assumed it meant that they believed that the Jewish people owed the German people a debt that could only be paid in hard labor, specifically a labor that would serve the Reich in globalization (via the current wars that were going on). Thus they could be free of this debt in the eyes of the German state if they worked hard and productively for the war effort in said camps. The freedom wasn't a physical freedom but more of a freedom from an ethnic debt that the German believed was owed to them due to the wretched state bankers and money changers had placed onto the volks during the Weimar period. I never considered it to be an irony as that was never how the Germans phrased things or operated. They were very serious about their mission and such humor not only didn't before the German psychology of the time but was completely incongruous with the 3rd reichs philosophy. I am glad I was more right on that note. Seems like presentism to claim it was a sick joke tbh

wasn't expecting this amount of brainrot in one single video

@rickglorie

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's enough internet for me today

Alternative Video title: "how to get demonetized any% speedrun". But in all honesty I love your content, keep up the good work

It’d hilarious how socialists continue to label capitalists as National Socialists in 2023. Thank you for the education, I’ll be using it to help correct the record.

It can simply apply to the Soviet Union, but with different religious goals.

@SvetlanaVladimirova8590

Жыл бұрын

Well said!

I love hearing your opinion on everything you talk about because it’s simply about as unbiased as you can get because you rely on the facts and ask “but is this really the case?”. You’ve definitely expanded my mind TIK ❤

@Ratselmeister

Жыл бұрын

Where is this guy unbiased? He is clearly pro britain and totally biased. Never heard him talk about british war crimes and the antigerman politics of england pre war.

This was uploaded while I am still at work! Rats! I will watch later, however.

I'd largely agree, but as a German I think the use of the phrase on a Vernichtungslager is intended to be cynical. The explanation of the origin of the phrase is correct, though. The Nazis had no intent to reeducate the Jews but put it there to remind them of their "sin".

Binged the last 3 months of content. Just have to say THANK YOU for all your hard work. The stuff you do on ideology and religion really starts putting things into perspective. Your videos on tanks and banks tells us how things happened, and the videos on ideology and religion gives us clues as to WHY things happened. It makes the whole "why prioritise the death trains when you have a logistics crisis" more "understandable". These people actually thought that they were fighting Satan, and that killing the Jews was to an extent more important than winning the war. Killing the Jews and securing the survival of the German people was the main goal. Indeed the goal was world domination, because how can you make sure you kill all the Jews unless you control the whole world. It's still bat shit crazy, but it's at least more understandable now.

@roberthartburg266

Жыл бұрын

The goal was never world domination, but autarky from global trade because the Nazis were believing in the socialist shrinking markets theory. To save the German people you don't have to kill every Jew in the world, just the ones in the lands that Germans inhabit. Until Germany lost the war, they just planned to deport the Jews to some other corner in the world. The "Last Solution" wasn't the final goal of the Nazis, but the last solution after all other solutions failed. You have to remember that Germany back then wasn't the only antisemetic country on earth, Antisemitism was a view of the mainstream in Europe. The horror scenario for the Nazis was to lose the war and then for Germany to have to take in all the Jews from all over Europe as a punishment by the other European countries.

If I remember correctly, TIK made a video on Himler's occult beliefs and explained why he allowed non-aryans/non-germans to form volunteer formations within the ss. One reason was that as they fought and died, the 'aryan blood' would be purifed from the 'non-aryan blood'. Since some jewish people had non-jewish ancestry, especially german jews, perhaps part of "work makes you free" could relate to 'purifing' the 'contamined' blood allowing the aryan 'blood' to be free and pure once more.

@TheImperatorKnight

Жыл бұрын

Yes, that's part of it

I don't know why many people think "arbeit macht frei" was supposed to be some kind of a cruel joke. Meaning "We are generous enough to let you gain spiritual freedom by letting you work yourself to death in a work camp. " To me "Arbeit macht frei" really just meant : "If you work hard, you can regain your freedom" in order to appease the newcomers. Thats it. The Evilness of the germans is misunderstood by many. It was not that twisted and vindictive evilness but a mundane and insanely boring bureaucratic evilness of pushing papers while blocking out the horrors that were happening. they were convinced they did the right thing. Normal people , without a sadistic bone in their body committing genocide. Who else would psychologically train the KZ-guards to deal with the guilt by idolizing them as martyrs who Took on the unforgivable task of killing women & children for the greater good.

And there are people who want to forbid books like Mein Kampf. One who does not know History tends to repeat it.

Brilliant as always TIK, it's somehow more terrifying to know that the Nazis actually believed that they were doing the right thing instead of outright being malicious (in their minds)

@lamwen03

Жыл бұрын

Well, stripped of it's racial dominance and hate, don't all states ( and individuals, too ) consider work to be honorable and positively contributing the well-being of the person, AND the community? The Protestant work ethic? Isn't it kind of a trope to dismiss managers, politicians, bankers, and capitalists as mere leeches on the 'working class'?

@neilreynolds3858

Жыл бұрын

Everybody thinks they're doing right. It's the most common human delusion.

@WatchmyPlaylist.

Жыл бұрын

This will never make sense to you. To any of you. Because you've been spoonfed the Victor's version of history. And you're still buying it.

@lamwen03

Жыл бұрын

@@WatchmyPlaylist. You are wrong, of course. Some, perhaps many, will be able to take this parallax view and change their minds, at least to a certain extent. You should never use absolutes. /s

@joaodorjmanolo

Жыл бұрын

@@WatchmyPlaylist. who da frick is Victor?

Very well explained, thank you

Ch in german is pronounced H not C,Arbeit Macht Frei is Pronounced Arbait Maht Frai. Interesting video,it really brings out the german phylosophy and makes you think that reaching God through work and purifying yourself from sin through work,isnt wrong at all. Without the racial elements germans didnt have such a bad ideology.

One of the early camp commandants said after the war that the meaning came from the fact that ORIGINALLY, it was felt that the men could be reformed by means of hard work and iron discipline, as “That was the way we ourselves had been raised.”

While I think this video had to be made precisely because no one I'm aware of had made such an analysis... I think the initial conception of it being intented as a sadistic joke towards the jewish people and others still stands. Precisely because of the analysis you've made. It wasn't so when originally intended for germans, but precisely because of the original meaning of it and the nazis' views of jews it's even more obvious that it was then indeed meant as a sadistic joke for the jews who read that. So it's like an evil inside joke for those who were part of the nazi cult and knew the nazi ideology. We're talking about Nazis here, they were brilliant in their evilness. And I say this as a jewish person. Also, didn't that quote of Primo Levi you brought up somehow adressed the original meaning of the phrase in question? 10:35 P.S. Now that I think about it that was probably exactly the point you were making: he understood the nazi ideology but he didn't connect it with the ''arbeit macht frei'' phrase. Although he probably did, but he also saw that since that meaning wasn't valid for jews, he saw the other meaning that the nazis meant for jews and the others who weren't meant to survive. Which was indeed, in my opinion, an evil sadistic joke related to their ideology. But it's true, this version of its meaning took too much space at the expense of a sober analysis of the nazi ideology. Which is in my opinion much more important as a collective life lesson as it adresses the origin of such an incredible loss of life.

TIK man, you’re killing me by not talking about Tom Sowell’s theory on middleman minorities. It ties PERFECTLY with Hitler’s “unproductive interest charges” crap.

@sld1776

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. After reading his 'cultures' trilogy I see it everywhere.

You are so smart, so many books about Stalingrad. I read two sentences and forget EVERYTHING. I listend to your 5h video on Socialism and Hitler and I am stunned I can only speak about it for 5 minutes,

Very informative Lewis. I understand there were many German Jews which your choice of words didn't recognise. I'm guessing this was unintended but could be confusing, especially for younger generations. You talked as though they were 2 different things, which they weren't until the Nazi's changed the law and rescinded their citizenship rights. In a similar manner, I believe it's quite likely the Nazi's intended the phrase to have a double meaning, given their predilection for sadistic cruelty and for double standards. I commonly use words and phrases with double meaning and we see it particularly in poetry, and ironic comedy. Nothing funny about this topic, but I can imagine the Nazi Guard's going 'on stagg' each morning with a smirking grin when they walked past this sign. I was a British squaddie for 14 years and we had institutionalised sick sense of humour, normalized homoerotic traits and a very edgy / socially unacceptable brotherhood. I can only imagine/ shudder what the SS mindset was by 1941 😢

German Worker's Socialism sounds kind of awesome, and that's the whole point. Don't you want to be a man! Do hard work and prove your worth?! Be a warier?! Well don't you! Plus you get these real snazzie uniforms too. No wonder they gained popularity so quickly.

Just found your Channel, I like it.

To this Day i still question how people could still be Neo-Nazis no matter how gruesome the Nazis were.

@thegodofalldragons

11 ай бұрын

Even from a totally amoral perspective, they were losers. Their "Thousand-Year Reich" (tm) barely lasted a decade, and half that was only because they cannibalized the rest of Europe to prop up their failing socialist economy. At least the commies lasted for the good part of a century before keeling over.

Never thought about this subject before, but I am happy to learn something new. Thank you, Tik!

Perhaps I missed it, but could there have been any connection conscious or unconscious with the phrase "work is prayer" (laborare est orare)? This supposedly came from the monks of old. They saw the holiness and virtue building value of work. Excellent video again.

@udirt

Жыл бұрын

That's wrong, laborare et orare. Not est. Working and praying. Benedictine monks say that.

@greyone40

Жыл бұрын

@@udirt Thank you. I see references to both. It's kind of found all over the place. I do have a copy of the Rule of St. Benedict, so I'm going to read that and see what's in there. These videos always expand my reading list.

You’re a true thinker. I admire you bringing it onto KZread although it’s definitely not for majority or mainstream society, they’re too dumb or brainwashed to comprehend anything. Keep on doing it, it’s very important.

It might be worth noting that the majority of the Dachau inmates were not Jews in the early days and not a majority in the KL within Germany generally. When Auschwitz main camp was established in 1940. The inmates were all Poles. During that time the majority of Polish Jews were in Ghettos in the Government General along with those expelled from the Warthegau as it was incorporated into the Reich. West European Jews would fill the Ghettos further prior to the establishment of the Aktion Reinhard camps.

@alanpennie

Жыл бұрын

As TIK says in 1933 most camp inmates were Communists, rounded up under The Reichstag Fire Decree. Most were soon released and in later years the camp population became much more mixed.

The American equivalent is referred to as "the American Dream" -- work hard and your dreams of a better life for you and your family will be realized.

I had no idea there was an amnesty or that the camp population ever decreased in a way other than the darkest. Interesting research. I'll have to read Gellately.

@TheImperatorKnight

Жыл бұрын

Gellately's book is really impressive and he doesn't pull punches. I kinda hope he watches my stuff because I'd love to see him look into the gnosticism elements.

This kinda reminds me of the reason why priests burned sinners on stakes. You would think just to be cruel but the twisted idea behind it was that the prisoner in the last moments of their lives would feel the fire of hell and thus seek absolution from god in like a few seconds? thus making a last attempt at conversion and 'redemption'. Yeah, nat socialism is a religion, and these people were zealots..

It's really good that you keep pointing put the "socialism" and "worker" parts of the ideology. It was truly socialist. And that should give socialists pause.

@Ratselmeister

Жыл бұрын

NS wasnt socialist as the bolchewiki and marxists use this term.

Actually, when the camps were first built, they were lauded, internationally, by criminologists, as an enlightened approach to penology. It wasn't until well into the war that they were employed for their better known nefarious purpose.

@MrAllanGA

Жыл бұрын

One thing I’ve never understood, if all of the Jews who were being sent here were being gassed, how are there so many Holocaust survivors?

I think your German perspective is spot on. I’ve noticed on so many pictures from german KZ camps, that ‘Arbeit macht frei’, ‘Keep yourself clean, keep diseases away’ and similar advice written on the walls and what not. Thanks for all your good work TIK.

Ley's organization "Kraft durch Freude" (Strength through Joy) was one of the reasons why the Germans had so much sympathy for their government.

32 millions of workers in the DAF, 42% of the German population at the time, it doesn't mean 42% of the workers in the DAF, it means ALL German workers at the DAF. Remember, you don't have 100% of the population composed of workers. There are the retired and the underage (toddlers, children and teens). And there will be those outside of the labor market for whatever reason - disables, housewives, homeless, prisoners - and those that don't join the regular labor market like priests, bureocrats or military personal. Therefore, the DAF composed ALL of the German workers.

Great episode again. Your channel is very valuable, and also an island of sanity in an ocean of madness.

Auschwitz had an art museum, a library, regular concerts and sporting events, soccer fields, a theater for music and drama, a swimming pool which was sometimes used for water polo.

@Occident.

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget the hospital and the crèche.

A biography of Rudolf Hoess would be good , he fought WW1 in Turkey , wounded several time becoming the youngest NCO of the Reichswehr , rising o the rank of company sergeant-major and the youngest decorated with the iron cross first and second class at the end of hostilities , he told his superiors and men of his unit than he wouldn't surrender , if they would follow him he would take his unit , back to Germany all the men of his unit , all older than him ,volunteered to follows him in a mad adventure worthy of Xenophon "Anabasis" they made it ......to everybody surprise

"Work _will set_ you free" It's by no means a literal translation (which would be "Work makes free"), but it's a much more apt use of English to convey the message from German, especially as it makes the entendre much more clear.

@unlearningcommunism4742

Жыл бұрын

Nothing is translatable to English X) English is the worst language ever invented. Sorry Tik and other Englishmen, but your language is only good for the basic communication

Hi tik another great video and your point at the end about historians not telling the truth reminded of a conversation with my 13 year old daughter when she said how can we learn from history if it’s not the truth She is having lots of arguments with her teachers at the moment about the Nazis being right wing not left wing. She has been taking notes from your videos to show the teachers but they still say they were right wing and want her to write papers towards her exams saying that they were right wing she’s worried if she explains that they are left wing in the paper it will be marked wrong as the teacher will only go by the curriculum

@TheImperatorKnight

Жыл бұрын

You've inspired me to make a video that I've been meaning to make for a while... I don't know when it'll publish it, but I will reply to you.

@davidlewis2447

Жыл бұрын

Hi tik thanks for the reply il look forward to watching that I can’t thank you enough for all work you do in making this videos my daughter has found you videos very helpful for her course work

@browngreen933

Жыл бұрын

​Excellent!

@nicolastroncoso9390

Жыл бұрын

Socialism is not synonymous with leftism. The Nazis were not the first nor the last members of the right to apply social politics, Bismark, Disraeli, Primo de Rivera, Antonio Mauras are an example of this, even Marx spoke of the existence of a reactionary socialism. the Nazis formed a coalition government with the rest of the right-wing parties, as did the Italian fascists.

@Sceptonic

Жыл бұрын

​@@nicolastroncoso9390Bismark and socialism?