And Hirohito, possibly the greatest war criminal of WW2 went scot-free!

@antongromek4180

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately not the only monster who never paid...

@RossM3838

2 жыл бұрын

Hirohito was really a figurehead. He was really useful in transitioning to a post war Japan. Sometimes reality takes over from ideals. I e Warner von Braun the brilliant physicist.

@daveanderson3805

2 жыл бұрын

I often wonder why, compared to the tens of thousands of Germans who were prosecuted for war crimes, relatively few japanese were tried Also, when the allies became tired of the trials,the west german government took over In Japan the whole issue of japanese war crimes was swept under the carpet For some reason the allies treated Germany much harsher then Japan Of course,in Germany there were four zones of occupation,the allied control commission and all the rest In Japan there was only MacArthur, acting as some modern day Shogun He was soft on the japanese,and one has to wonder what he got out of it

@kennygottlieb3628

2 жыл бұрын

@@daveanderson3805 one should wonder what they get out on getting so harsh on Germany.. they maybe lost the War but won the moneyrace.. haha no. 2 only second to those who stole their Gold after ww2 in goldreserves… they maybe won the peace to haha…

@derekhieb7458

2 жыл бұрын

@@daveanderson3805 remember that many took their own lives for "honor" or disgrace hopefully for what they did they and knew was wrong.

Interesting, informative and worthwhile video.

Thanks for the video !

I like how Wilhelm Keitel and Gerd von Rundstedt are visually indistinguishable from one another.

@gregoryschnacky9837

2 жыл бұрын

You noticed that too

@wfranceschi3606

2 жыл бұрын

That's real I got them confused on few occasions

@sobelou

2 жыл бұрын

Really? They look different to me...

@wr1120

2 жыл бұрын

Von Rundstedt never smiled. That's how you can keep them apart.

@wfranceschi3606

2 жыл бұрын

@@wr1120 von rundsted was shorter and an aristocrat Wilhelm on the other hand was blue collar all the way .von rundsted was highly decorated knights cross and all keitel had decorations but his were from commendable feats of organisation and logistics beans bullets and bad guys not combat but he was, next to borman Hitler's main YES man.

One of four of the Downfall Dudes, alongside Jodl, Krebs & Burgdorf 🤣

@billh230

2 жыл бұрын

"DAS WAR EIN GEFEHL!!!" ("That was an order!!!")

@niranjansrinivasan4042

2 жыл бұрын

@@billh230 BEFEHL

@billh230

2 жыл бұрын

@@niranjansrinivasan4042 Thanks. I should know better.

@niranjansrinivasan4042

2 жыл бұрын

@@billh230 It's either sarcasm/ somebody who is extremely rare in YT comment section

Great read as always, thank you for your hard work👏👏👏👏

very interesting video. can you make a video with the ranking of the number of deaths at the end of the Second World War divided by nationality?

Thank you for sharing. Very informative and well presented. I look forward to your next video..👏👏👏👏....P

keitel was just a ruthless careerist yes man, was not a general in the field like rommel or guderian

@paulbrower3297

2 жыл бұрын

Rommel put victory over slaughter of defenseless people. Guderian simply moved the troops around.

@jamaphy8621

2 жыл бұрын

Rommel is so overrated

@Rick-zw9kp

2 жыл бұрын

Anyone who says Rommel is overrated has not read his book about his exploits in WW1

@jameshodgkins559

2 жыл бұрын

Tony Blair got more blood on his hands

@krisrao1928

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rick-zw9kp “Rommel, You Magnificent Bastard. I Read Your Book!

The Germans missed a great opportunity in handling occupied areas with a fist. As the Germans entered Russia, the mostly ethnic populations actually hailed their arrival. Instead of expanding on that liberation image, the evil from the top down and a feeling of superiority doomed Barbarossa from the very beginning in spite of their speedy advances in the first few months.

@billbogg3857

2 жыл бұрын

Yes their ideology prevented them from getting the indigenous population on their side.

@maconescotland8996

2 жыл бұрын

The Germans were guilty of widespread atrocities in the newly liberated areas within the USSR that initially welcomed their arrival in 1941. The anti Communist/Soviet local population there simply exchanged one suppressive regime for another.

@angloaust1575

2 жыл бұрын

One could say same in vietnam The hearts and minds failed there!

@bigverybadtom

2 жыл бұрын

@@angloaust1575 No, we didn't conquer anyone in Vietnam. We simply helped an existing nation not get run over by another nation before we deserted them. Ironically Vietnam's former benefactor China would soon afterward invade them and cause a fair amount of death and destruction. At least China was genuinely provoked by Vietnam's behavior.

@bigverybadtom

2 жыл бұрын

@Tavo Tamm Oh, the indigenous population was on America's side in these conflicts, certainly to the point where they knew the alternative was worse. In fact, when South Korea's ruler Syngman Rhee was deposed in 1960, American property was protected. And though the Iraqis were unhappy with American troops, they definitely did not want a return of Saddam! BTW the other ethnics did not necessarily love the Germans but they definitely did not welcome the Russians, and even fought an organized resistance against them for several years.

Nothing new I've learnt from the video but good content overall. Keeping history intact is what I will and always will respect.

Damn good show mate 😃👍

I've just become a subscriber based on this very informative presentation. The photographs shown helped colour the story. Thank you.

@RK-ut8ss

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty much the same recycled phots you see in any WWII doc.

Genuinely look forward to your videos!!! Interesting content as always and great research

Hess and Goring sitting beside each other!! I could only imagine the conversation!! Goosebumps!!

@BigLisaFan

2 жыл бұрын

Ach, Rudolf, did you stop at the duty free store for my schnapps on the way here?

@BigLisaFan

2 жыл бұрын

@paul A bit off the wall at times. Just filling in an imaginary conversation. Bet the real one was good though.

@pauldh62

2 жыл бұрын

Goering was deeply embarrassed by Hess' rantings and told him to "Shut up" while he was in mid flow.

Pierrepoint didn’t have much trouble with the drop method.

@schizoidboy

2 жыл бұрын

Comparatively speaking, from what little I know about Pierrepoint he had a more professional outlook to his job, whereas the executioner here was allegedly kicked out of the pre-war Navy for having sociopathic tendencies. I think he got the job because no one else wanted to be an executioner. I also don't think anyone cared if he did a good job or not, just so long as they got executed.

@Sturminfantrist

2 жыл бұрын

Many executioners in the states had "much trouble" too when they executed "criminals" in the States, with the electric chair they often barbeceued the condemend, thats american tradition from the old west lnych mob times, "let em suffer"

@chrismc410

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sturminfantrist the U.S. nearly always had been better at the firing squad as opposed to hanging inherited by the British. Not all of the original 13 colonies hanged. It was pretty much an even split between hanging and the firing squad. Whilst traditionally being shot was for the military, more than a few colonies and later territories as expanded westward applied it equally to civilian, soldier, sailor militiamen alike. One territory in particular, the Utah territory and the present-day State of Utah, the firing squad was used almost exclusively for all condemned to death, civilian or otherwise. They still do it today as a secondary option per the condemned's choice between that and Lethal Injection. I would have had it so if Pierrepoint wasn't available, a firing squad was on standby at all times ready to carry out death sentences.

@haroldofcardboard

2 жыл бұрын

i just read that three direct relatives on the pierpoint family were all hang men. WOW! father son and uncle!

Proof positive that being a lackey has it's perils....."I just signed whatever was put in front of me" doesn't cut it.....

@stevenrowlandson4258

2 жыл бұрын

Consider how many lackeys, war criminals and political criminals there are on the anti nazi side to this very day. They are legion.

@muskokamike127

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevenrowlandson4258 Not following you.....not sure there are ANY anti nazis who are war criminals....what do you mean?

@bigverybadtom

2 жыл бұрын

@@muskokamike127 You never heard of the Soviet Union? And yes, the Allies did bad things in their colonies too.

@paulx3827

2 жыл бұрын

the allies were experts in the war ''gegen frauen und kinder''

@paulx3827

2 жыл бұрын

@@muskokamike127 history is written by the victor. people seem to think you cannot commit crimes against germans or even nazis. we are not allowed even to think that.(ANY anti.......)

@2:24 Hitler did not seize power in 1933! He was appointed Chancellor by an aging President Paul Von Hindenburg who thought he could control Hitler! Hitler did not seize power until Hindenburg died in August 1934! Keitel's death was a joke! Why didn't any Russian generals face any war crimes trials for invading 5 countries before June 22, 1941? Or for the brutal murders of 25,000 Polish officers and politicians in the 1940 Katyn Massarce? Also the Soviets did not comply with Geneva Convention rules on German POW's!

@paulcrooks6008

2 жыл бұрын

Well said! The media never talked about 7 million Ukrainian people starved to death at gunpoint by Stalin in the early 1930's! Or the plan to invade Germany! H____ beat them to the punch! If you win the war you get to write the history books! WWII was a battle in an ongoing war to destroy Western Civilization.

@Deckers2006

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulcrooks6008 For sure, there were millions of people that had already been through the Prussian Empire desecration. Praying to "Satin" is a dip into the future guardians of your LIFE. And their panic about persons perpetrating the exact same wrong ideals as those AGAIN in error for the people that didn't pray for and endless assault upon even Desault!

@Fos3tex

2 жыл бұрын

Because it was ultimately U.S.S.R. that reached Berlin first and effectively ended the war. Remember, they made a treaty with the Nazis that was supposed to stop the Nazis from invading the U.S.S.R.! The Nazis didn't keep that treaty.

@JayJay-ii5un

2 жыл бұрын

Russia won. That's it.

@wfranceschi3606

2 жыл бұрын

Still nazi scum no matter what the Russians did or didn't do and it sure as all hell ain't gonna somehow exonerate no nazi scum. nazi scum communist scum F...them both! LOMFL

Historic videos keep knowledge alive

I don't think Keitel hit his head on the trap door, but rather the trap door swung back and hit him in the face. John C. Woods was incompetent. He didn't know how to tie the proper knot and placed it at the back of the head, which forces the head to bend forward. That doesn't break the neck, but forces the tongue out. The knot should be placed under the left jaw to throw the head back, which snaps the 2nd and 3rd vertebrae.

@maxmorgan2297

2 жыл бұрын

Spot on, Sounds like Pierrepoint;)

@waffencamo

2 жыл бұрын

A man of culture I see...

@baronedipiemonte3990

2 жыл бұрын

Actually from what I've read (two books by US Army doctors - one MD and one psychologist, both of whom had daily interaction with the Nuremberg defendants) Woods was to be the executioner of convicted war criminals for US Army in Europe. It's believed that the inconsistencies were intentional, and he was relieved of duty. I've seen a morbid photo of him posing with a noose (half of it shown here 7:47). Geneva Convention... Only the Allied powers adhered to the provisos of the GenCon

@greenrosenz

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed Albert Pierpont was the master of this particular trade

@Smudgeroon74

2 жыл бұрын

Bit of a hanging expert are we LOL

I wonder if the "botched" executions really were botched or were done that way intentionally to cause suffering?

@kevinramsey417

2 жыл бұрын

Who cares?

@BigLisaFan

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinramsey417 Don't really care either, just wondering?

@georgequalls5043

2 жыл бұрын

No, it was just incompetence.

@rightwingreactionary

2 жыл бұрын

@@georgequalls5043 Woods was a sociopath.

@iangarner8857

2 жыл бұрын

Nah John Woods was just incompetent and a sociopath as someone else pointed out. Pierrepoint would have done a more professional job.

Glad you call them Germans and not Nazis. It would be like calling the US or Australian armed forces by whichever government party was in power.

@scharfoskar3254

2 жыл бұрын

LISTERN AGAIN .... KEITEL killed 5000 Germans .... I call American Nazis trump supporters

@rtauzin64

2 жыл бұрын

Kietel was a nazi party member

@bigverybadtom

2 жыл бұрын

@@scharfoskar3254 No, it is the Trump haters who are the real nazis.

@unappreciatedtreehouse821

2 жыл бұрын

@@scharfoskar3254 Nazis were Socialist.

@paulbrower3297

2 жыл бұрын

@@unappreciatedtreehouse821 Nazis turned industrial workers into serfs. That is no more socialism than is the plantation system of a slave society.

Great! This made my day. Good job John Woods!

Please comment.. Any comment raises a video up in KZread's algorithm, and more people will see it. And more people DO need to see this great series. Thank you.

Keitel hit his head on the trapdoor as he fell ? This makes me feel so sad .... not.

Killing the Killer to Prevent Killing. Humans enjoy their own misery and suffering very, very much.

Keitel wasn't called the 'Nodding Donkey' by other generals for nothing.

@philipmorgan6048

2 жыл бұрын

He was known as "The Lackey".

@Sturminfantrist

2 жыл бұрын

@@philipmorgan6048 No he was known as Lakeitel (Lackey is Lakai in german) and Hitler was known in the german military as "Austrias revenge for Königgrätz"

All this started with the Sarajevo assassination. What would had been happen if WW1 would not had been started?

@georgesouthwick7000

2 жыл бұрын

@david toler When you compare the terrible suffering and destruction involved in both wars, you have to wonder if the advances in technology are worth the cost? The technology would have happened eventually. The horror of two world wars seems like a terrible price to pay, just to get the technology sooner.

@allangibson2408

2 жыл бұрын

@david toler The major items that came out of WW1 were tanks, sub-machine guns and poison gas. WW2 gave us atomic bombs, nerve gas and ballistic missiles. The Nazi party gave us industrialised mass murder. The Japanese gave us biological warfare as a routine exercise. Everything else existed before the related wars.

@torstenkiessling2933

2 жыл бұрын

@Dan Beech I think may be. The german King Wilhelm2 was partly disabled with his arm. He did compensate it with military attitude. At the other hand he was grandson of Queen Viktoria. What would happen if grandma would have had better contact to her grandson? Usualy you do not Visite your relatives with batleships.

@allangibson2408

2 жыл бұрын

@@torstenkiessling2933 Victoria had been dead for 13 years when WW1 started. Germany had been attacking France about twice a century and it had become a tradition…

@torstenkiessling2933

2 жыл бұрын

@@allangibson2408 Hi Allan, i did not know, that Queen Victoria pased away allready long before WW1. As I learned at Google even the mother of Wilhelm2 was british. Yes the conflict between prusia and france is a point. As I learned at school. Since france was a centralized state. Germany was Split in various small parts. There was also the austria hungarian empire as Part of the game. As Napoleon attacked Russia in 1812 part of german countries joyned Napoleon side, while others did fight together with russia. This history is still allive between East and West Germany. Prussia with Bismark unified Germany by several wars. Germany was founded in Versailes in 1871. This conflicts are allways at the expence of somebody else.

Very interesting

@TheUntoldPast

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :)

What baffles my mind is, he went to the signing a condemned man. He knew it and he still went. The Soviets and allies shook his hands knowing they were going to execute him shortly thereafter. Its just mind boggling

@Artoootube

2 жыл бұрын

Shaking hands with such scums is mind boggling indeed.

@CbsOmegaOmniX

2 жыл бұрын

@@Artoootube I don’t think they did shake Keitel’s hand, I mean I know they didn’t return his salute which is basically the same kind of gesture.

@onlinegigpay710

2 жыл бұрын

@@Artoootube you probably shake hands with scum everyday and not know it

@utk.k

2 жыл бұрын

Wht other option he had....None!!!

@roguetrader33

Ай бұрын

2+ years later

All the brains of a cinema usher. Poor old Keitel.

@renemoya6831

2 жыл бұрын

But loyal as a dog. Hitler was called "The Bohemian Corporal" by some Generals including Friedrich Von Paulus. Gestapo Müller had called Hitler "the unemployed house painter and Austrian draft dodger".

@obesetuna3164

2 жыл бұрын

@@renemoya6831 Churchill would have also attracted some unpleasant comments in his time.

@paulbrower3297

2 жыл бұрын

To be in Hitler's inner circle one needed to suppress intellectual and moral judgment. One needed do little thinking in that coven of demons.

@bigverybadtom

2 жыл бұрын

@@renemoya6831 Hitler certainly didn't dodge the draft if you look at his World War One service.

@CbsOmegaOmniX

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigverybadtom He dodged the Austrian Draft and instead served in the German army, remember Hitler was born in Austria.

The "hoist" hanging method is far more satisfying than the "drop" method.

@remember_Pat_Tillman

2 жыл бұрын

Spoken like a true psychopath.

@archenema6792

2 жыл бұрын

@@remember_Pat_Tillman Replied to like a domesticated house pet.

@remember_Pat_Tillman

2 жыл бұрын

@@archenema6792 derp derp.

@archenema6792

2 жыл бұрын

@@remember_Pat_Tillman Devastating reply. No doubt indicative of the the wit and perspicacity passed on by your ancestors. I'm sure your people will master fire and sharpened stones any day now. Considering the stilted and atonal narration, the gloss of pre-packaged material written in an idiom obviously unnatural to the speaker, his difficulty pronouncing common terms, and the general lack of theme or direction in the presentation of both opinions and facts, you seem to fit right in here. Special Ed class in the basement for Special Jim.

@remember_Pat_Tillman

2 жыл бұрын

@@archenema6792 all those words and you said less than nothing.

He was an armchair general. Unfortunately for us all, most of today´s armies are filled with Keitels. Sending drones thousands of miles to their targets to kill people like it were a video game. Cowardice as a military tradition. No war can be won with these armchair, video-gaming officers like we have now.

@chrisholland1504

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't know they had armchairs in the WW1 trenches

@renemoya6831

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the current Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff Milley and Lloyd Austin Defense Sec'y.

@lex1945

2 жыл бұрын

And what about politicians that start wars, sending in other people's kids instead of their own?

@rtauzin64

2 жыл бұрын

Or draft dodging presidents. Which general are you talking about, and what years did you serve?

@bradhanley8368

2 жыл бұрын

@@rtauzin64 you are referring to William Jefferson Clinton aren't you right?

Those trap door can be dangerous. Be careful…

As Clausewitz said, "War is the continuation of policy by other means." It is not the function of military officers to determine a nation's foreign policy. It is the function of military officers to prepare the military operations required by that foreign policy. WW2 was not the first time that the victors forgot this reality. After WW1, the Allies wanted to try at least 850 Germans for war crimes. It never happened because the German and Dutch governments refused to cooperate.

@rogernicholls2079

2 жыл бұрын

@ I guess he figures planning genocide is part of a soldiers job!

@roberthudson1959

2 жыл бұрын

First, the armed forces of the USA did not begin requiring servicemembers to disobey illegal orders until AFTER Nuremberg. Second, the Final Solution was an SS operation, not an OKW one. Keitel was executed for losing.

@billh230

2 жыл бұрын

@ That was after WW2. The idea of refusing illegal orders didn't come about until the war crimes trials, with many defendants stating some variation of "I was following orders".

@mathiasbartl903

2 жыл бұрын

That's definitely not how Clausewitz handled things, he was quite political.

@Sturminfantrist

2 жыл бұрын

@ yeah and we all know what happend when Capt. Medina and Lt. Calley gave orders to kill more then 200 Women and Children in My Lai VN or what the MPs in Abu Ghraib did .

Amazes me how a common non aristocrat rose to such a high level. Good video

@rg20322

2 жыл бұрын

Same as Hitler

The worst day in the life of Keitel was not when he died by hanging but when he was forced to sign Germany's surrender in front of french general,Delattre de Tassigny.He would have said : "That's all we needed ! "

Basically he was clearly guilty - he signed several ilegal orders against the Geneva convention and knew what he was doing.

@asm1

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I can't fathom this "Vengeful" crap... he was executed because he condoned/was complicit in the comission of war crimes. Misleading title, he's not a victim of some sort of "revenge".

@bossderbosse9939

2 жыл бұрын

The orders he signed were mainly against the Sovietunion. But the Sovietunion never signed the geneva convention so germany was not bound to fulfill it. Sorry for my bad english

@boozolini4465

2 жыл бұрын

@@bossderbosse9939 oh well then everything is ok, and of the thousands of innocent dead who cares, right?

@bossderbosse9939

2 жыл бұрын

@@boozolini4465 No i just sayed that most of the orders were legal but that doesn't mean they were not bad

@boozolini4465

2 жыл бұрын

@@bossderbosse9939 come on

I often thought the hangman, Woods, was given the title of executioner since he was known for being incompetent and did not have a clean record. Ironic to say, if it was intentional, it would be fitting for a criminal executioner to kill another and do a piss poor job of it

@michaelmarks5012

2 жыл бұрын

Ironically he met an early demise as well. While serving with the 7th Engineer Brigade in Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, on July 21, 1950, Woods died from electrocution while attempting to repair an engineer lighting set.

@iangarner8857

2 жыл бұрын

They should have let Albert Pierrepoint do the executions, he always did a professional job lol

@CS-zn6pp

2 жыл бұрын

It's a stain on the "justice" of the trials that their sentences could not be carried out humanly. It should also be noted that several allied generals also ordered the execution of uniformed POW's at various points without sanction either at the time or after the war.... Remember people, history is never black and white but rather a kaleidoscope of grey....

@bradhanley8368

2 жыл бұрын

@@CS-zn6pp they got what they deserve.

@bradhanley8368

2 жыл бұрын

@@iangarner8857 na, Wood did a good job, they hot what they deserved.

There was nothing vengeful about Keitel's execution.

@patriciabrenner9216

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheUltimateTroll9 He was a criminal who got his proper reward: death!

Any chance on a video on Albert Pierrepoint

@TheUntoldPast

2 жыл бұрын

Coming soon!

@HarshmanHills

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheUntoldPast outstanding!

John C. Woods sounds like the Jack Ketch of his day.

@jamieholtsclaw2305

2 жыл бұрын

If you had to be executed, you didn't want this guy. How bad do you have to be to screw up a hanging?

'Nodding Donkey' or not, he showed true character at the time of his execution. I wonder how many would equal him in similar circumstances.

@whyyeseyec

2 жыл бұрын

Well, Keitel always did do what he was told....

@Johnnycdrums

2 жыл бұрын

He went like a man, he deserved Albert Pierrepoint, not the alcoholic and idiot Sgt. John C. Woods, who had previously been kicked out of the Navy for being a “head case”.

@pigslefats

2 жыл бұрын

@@Johnnycdrums Yes he was an incompetent buffoon who got himself electrocuted in the Far East. Poetic justice!

@moiraclegg3380

2 жыл бұрын

@@Johnnycdrums I, too, feel sad for Keitel's slow death, and thought of Albert Pierrepoint. Why was Pierrepoint not available?

@virgenrodriguez9405

2 жыл бұрын

Zoydian: He had no other choice but to resign himself to what was waiting.. You probably never been at the edge of death. But believe me after you try everything and fail you know is the end.. That is when you start accepting what is coming.. I been in that position believe me.. And the last thought I had were of resignation to the inevitable. Always trying to look my best! I was lucky and do not know how... But here I am!

He was supposedly just a yes man and went along with Hitler no matter how dumb or unreasonable the orders were. I think he was just happy being so close to Hitler and wasn't totally willing to accept the crimes against humanity that his beloved Furher was involved in.

@Strawhalo

2 жыл бұрын

America has done mass murder to black people for 500 years yet no one talks about that

@jeffreyval9665

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strawhalo so has pretty much every other country and for alot longer also. The U.S. is probably closer to 300-350 years. It took a really long time to even create anything close to a stable environment to live in after it was discovered.

@laza6141

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffreyval9665 That is not true , all countries have a bad past but not everyone had slaves. Plus the US had official racist laws until 1960's , many countries didn't have that.

@jeffreyval9665

2 жыл бұрын

@@laza6141 yeah the world was a tough place for alot of people for many years. Trying to overcompensate for things that happened in the past that we had nothing to do with isn't right either.

@WSFM

2 жыл бұрын

He tried to resign 3 times but Hitler wouldn’t let him. The fact is that if he had refused to follow orders he would’ve been executed anyway. He had no chance of avoiding execution either way

Dictators are only dictators with the support of the army.

@paulbrower3297

2 жыл бұрын

The US Army turned against Trump on January 6. It knew what he was up to.

@JamesAlexander14

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulbrower3297 They didn’t know what that TWAT Biden was up to, did they?

@paulbrower3297

2 жыл бұрын

@@JamesAlexander14 General Milley made it abundantly clear: that Joe Biden had been lawfully elected President and Kamala Harris was lawfully elected Vice-President, and their terms in office would begin on January 20 no matter what President Trump did. Joe Biden didn't exercise any power because he had no Presidential powers at the time.

It's ironic that many Nazis invoked God's name before being lynched from the gallows.

@CbsOmegaOmniX

2 жыл бұрын

@paul For any that were truly remorseful and accepted Christ as their savior yes they would be forgiven. I know it’s not something people want to acknowledge but if you believe in religion it’s the truth. According to the Bible Jesus sacrificed himself to save sinners, Nazis were sinners it really is as simple as that.

@CbsOmegaOmniX

2 жыл бұрын

@paul Gerecke and O’Connor walked out of the gym, back across the wet yard, and into the prison corridor where they waited for the signal to bring in the next man. Speer again heard Andrus from the second tier. “Keitel!” Again, the cell door opened, and Gerecke walked in to pray with the man he would later call “my friend.” The general chose the Bible readings, hymns, and prayers for the ritual and read them aloud. He kneeled by the cot in his cell and confessed his sins. “On his knees and under deep emotional stress, [Keitel] received the Body and Blood of our Savior,” Gerecke wrote later. “With tears in his voice he said, ‘You have helped me more than you know. May Christ, my Savior, stand by me all the way. I shall need him so much’.” “Our period of prayer in his cell was drenched with his tears,” Gerecke later wrote. As they walked through the courtyard, Keitel recited Bible verses in German that Gerecke couldn’t decipher. He also all but hummed the melody to Johann Friedrich Raeder’s nineteenth-century hymn, “Harre, Meine Seele” (“Await, My Soul”). At the top of the gallows, Keitel said his final words, and then he recited a prayer that his mother taught him when he was a child. Gerecke’s mother had said the same prayer with him when he was young, and now the two men prayed it together: “Christi Blut und Gerechtigkeit, das ist mein Schmuck und Ehrenkleid; darin will ich vor Gott bestehen, wenn ich zum Himmel werd eingehen. Amen.” “Christ’s blood and judgment are my adornment and robe of honor; therein I will stand before God when I go to Heaven. Amen.” Keitel turned to Gerecke. “I thank you, and those who sent you, with all my heart,” he said. An excerpt from Mission at Nuremberg by Tim Townsend www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00ENGZLN8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=.

@CbsOmegaOmniX

2 жыл бұрын

@paul I’m assuming your responding to me I don’t know why the @ name is so screwed up though. I mean as far as I can tell Keitel and a number of others grew up as Christians and Catholics but lost their way later on believing in Hitler’s/The Nazi lies and accepting his/it’s offers.

@mathewm7136

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, well, historically, more people have been killed in the name of "God" than all other reasons combined.

@josef-peterroemer6235

2 жыл бұрын

@paul I really get sick of hearing the Chosen People!, Chosen by Whom?

Proverbs 11:21 Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished, but those who are righteous will go free.

@gabrielbalbec883

2 жыл бұрын

How profound that is. "All darkness is the moonless night, and all whiteness is the spotless snow." Me, proverbs 1, verse 1.

If they didn't follow Hitler's orders they would have been killed along with their family. This happened to my grandmothers first husband, he was against the Nazi's and refused to kill unarmed civilians so he was killed and Gestapo was sent after his family but my grandmother fled into hiding with her two children.

@guineanord

2 жыл бұрын

@Dan Beech Just because you want something to be true doesn't make it true, I also have no sympathy for those Nazi's, or anyone for that matter because I'm a sociopath, so you're wrong again.

@HedserWijbenga

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like bullshit to me!

@louismart

2 жыл бұрын

The question is rather whether you aspire to get a high position in the army of an obviously criminal regime or whether you have the ethics to refrain from it. No one gets his position without wanting it.

@guineanord

2 жыл бұрын

@@louismart He was in the German Army before the war and comes from a military family.

@louismart

2 жыл бұрын

@@guineanord no excuse. Lucid people knew the criminal character of nazism long before WW2

Those who were responsible needed to be held to account and many were Keitel was one of them along with Jodel.

@rwood87

2 жыл бұрын

Tuskagee shot program.

Good to hear he suffered...bit tricky to use "following orders" as a cop out when you're very near the top!! Excellent video, thank you 👍🏻👍🏻

@teutonicAnon

11 ай бұрын

Jewish fingers typed this

Patton, Eisenhover could never become the standard with Keitel around.

@IBroLLyISePhIrOtH

2 жыл бұрын

Patton, Eisenhover could never become the standard with Keitel around.

This guy John C Woods has somehow stepped into my sympathy

Hitler did not "seize control" in 1933. He was legally elected and legally replaced Paul von Hindenburg, when von Hindenburg could no longer carry out his duties, as the civil head of the German Government. Please be more accurate in your future narrations.

@goolag6536

2 жыл бұрын

ALSO HE MENTIONS THE GENEVA CONVENTION AND SOVIET POWS. BUT FAILED TO TELL THAT THE SOVIETS DID NOT SIGN THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS SO UNDER THE RULES OF WAR THE SOVIETS WERE NOT PROTECTED UNDER THE GENEVA CONVENTION.

@Carryon392

2 жыл бұрын

Of course, the Reichstag fire had nothing to do with anything.

@mathewm7136

2 жыл бұрын

True. But that's where his legitimacy ended. During the next eighteen months, Hitler eliminated nearly all sources of opposition, both within the Nazi Party and in Germany. By August 1934, he had declared himself Führer - the sole leader of Germany.

@goolag6536

2 жыл бұрын

@@mathewm7136 His legitimacy ended? In what way? What state did not recognize him as the legitimate leader of Germany? And under what rules? Rules under the so called "Weimar Republic"? The circus that was.

@mathewm7136

2 жыл бұрын

@@goolag6536 Good, bad or somewhere in the middle, the Weimar was the Democratic government in place. He used his position to destroy it. In August, 1934, he used his position as chancellor to declare himself the sole leader - termed "Fuhrer" - of Nazi Germany for life. That's one of the classic signals of a dictatorship. He was able to enforce his declaration by completely eliminating the democratic system that he used to get into the Chancellors position in the first place. All other countries were forced to recognize him because they had no choice what so ever.

Vengeful? Maybe you should study what the nazis actually did.

@Pablo-kw5jb

2 жыл бұрын

And the allies too. ! War crimes like Biscari

@SaintlyAussie

2 жыл бұрын

Agree. Rather stupid title on this video.

@chrispatten3482

2 жыл бұрын

@@SaintlyAussie And he's used it before. It also brings out the fascists who attempt to equate Allied behaviour with the systematic atrocities of the Germans, Italians & Japanese.

@cirrus1964

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pablo-kw5jb Where, when... Biscari was not general behavior. And as far as I recall, action was taken to those responsible. Further, the USA didn't start the war.

@chrispatten3482

2 жыл бұрын

@Max Power Only because you don't understand the concept correctly.

9:40 who is on the other side of Keitel?

🙋🏻‍♂️ Hello from Sweden 🇸🇪

Hearing the hanging didn't go smoothly put a smile on my face .Nazis killed both my grandfather and his dog and my dad witnessed it all at the age of 7 .

@sayeager5559

2 жыл бұрын

I think about families like yours when I watch these videos.

@kevinramsey417

2 жыл бұрын

When it comes to that lot there's no such thing as unnecessary suffering.

@BigLisaFan

2 жыл бұрын

A grandmother I never knew and some neighbours of hers were killed by a flying bomb in July 1944 so I don't feel much sympathy for the top Nazis. I don't even build models of their WW II equipment.

@gurjeetsingh-gd1wr

2 жыл бұрын

Which place?

@BigLisaFan

2 жыл бұрын

@@gurjeetsingh-gd1wr Just outside London in Britain. My grandfather was at work on the London docks, my aunt was away in the service, my mother had gone out to work. When she came home for lunch I believe, police barriers and no house.

Keitel signed operational orders-including directives authorizing the shooting of allied commandos or soviet political commissars taken prisoner in uniform and other directives making it possible to detain civilians without due process.

@gyasikrasineb4808

2 жыл бұрын

Keitel was one who served in the army of whom had the mission of getting rid of communism. The United States of America has the same stated goal and so does the western world so why was one like Keitel executed seeing that the aims of the so called victorious alliance were the same as the defeated axis powers? What is it that is not being declared here?

@geertdecoster5301

2 жыл бұрын

@@gyasikrasineb4808 Gosh, you're clearly in total denail there then. Some in my family were commandos at that time. Even American ones were simply executed on the spot or put in concentration. The guy was a war criminal. End of story.

@geertdecoster5301

2 жыл бұрын

@Tavo Tamm Rules of warfare? The Geneva convention? War crimes? One convicted Nazi found guilty?

@paulbrower3297

2 жыл бұрын

Summary executions are not the American way of dealing with its ideological enemies. The USA did that to neither Commies in neither Korea nor Vietnam nor to Ba'athists in Iraq. The Soviet Union at least went through a legal process (flawed as one would expect in view of the system) with war criminals caught in the field and with Nazi collaborators. Membership in the Nazi Party was never grounds in itself for execution. The legal status of Soviet commissars was shaky unless they actually were combatants. The Commissar Order was deemed criminal in nature. To be sure, neither the USA nor the UK had them but both concurred that summary executions of people for their political beliefs and affiliations was wrong. The Commissar Order was well known, and it may have kept beleaguered Soviet units fighting longer than otherwise because the Commissar knew that he would be murdered.If you really want to be more successful in waging war, then you must make surrender easier and less objectionable. The Commissar Order may have allowed the Red Army to fight harder than otherwise and take a heavier toll of German troops than otherwise. It was both a blunder and a crime. That is Keitel for you.

@dirkdewolf9074

2 жыл бұрын

Luckely those things we're never done by the allies....

So was his execution VENGEFUL or righteous? Please adjust the title

@jacksonreilly3441

2 жыл бұрын

It would depend on who won. Had the Axis been victorious, Th British, American and Russian High commands would have likely been executed by firing squad.

Sehr interesant!

@kayvan671

2 жыл бұрын

Nein... Das ist Hochinteressant!

8:09 Wilhelm Keitel got it worse than anyone else in the Gallows at Nuremberg, 28/24 (some sources say it was 24 minutes and others say 28 minutes I’m not sure which is right) minutes is a VERY long time to strangle to death. Jodl’s face looked quite bruised up but Keitel’s face literally looked like someone tried to cut it off and gave up half way through. I find it ironic that Keitel suffered the most of all the defendants when he was perhaps the most remorseful of all the Nazis condemned (according to his interpreter Lion Le Tanson he cried when shown pictures from Dachau Concentration Camp of Holocaust victims needing to be scrapped up into piles with bulldozers as though they were just garbage) to death admitting his (as well as making his peace with God through the help of Protestant Chaplain Henry Gerecke) guilt, accepting execution as his consequence and acknowledging his failure to see that there is a limit even for a soldier’s performance of duty which involves obeying orders.

@Schneter

2 жыл бұрын

I do really pity Keitel.

@kevinramsey417

2 жыл бұрын

He was a fascist and deserves no pity.

@louissteven8862

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinramsey417 True fascist doesn't need pity. Hitler was a real Nietzschean fanatic, he would spit at pity.

@kimmarsh5987

2 жыл бұрын

Is remorse and acknowledgement of guilt enough to atone for crimes? Or is punishment still an essential?

@CbsOmegaOmniX

2 жыл бұрын

@@kimmarsh5987 I think punishment is still essential as well yes and Keitel certainly received his earthly punishment.

May I suggest you change the word “ Vengeful “ in your introduction to each story . It sounds like you think these people did not deserve what they did . It was a punishment for what they did . C.

Rudolph Hess ...he was the only man , who inspite of being innocent for all war crimes, suffered most and lastly killed by Allied ...

John C Woods - The last war criminal of WW II.

Vengeful?? the man had rivers of blood on his hands

so who prosecuted the USSR generals who invaded Poland in 1939? I guess the concept of kangaroo courts was still popular in both the east and west. show trail???

@mathewm7136

2 жыл бұрын

To the victor goes the spoils. But, hey, good luck with that. Let me know how it turns out.

@dp-sr1fd

2 жыл бұрын

Yes you are right, the victorious Allies in many cases were a bunch of hypocrites when it came to punishing war criminals. If they were any use post-war against the Communist Bloc or weapon development they got away with murder, German or Japanese.

@mathewm7136

2 жыл бұрын

@@dp-sr1fd eh, the cases weren't that many. And, as the saying goes "No matter how many innocent people lost their lives, killing one guilty person more ain't going to bring a single sole back."

@mikebellis5713

2 жыл бұрын

And not only Poland - Baltic States, part of Finland. And the the whole of Eastern Europe

@bobfinkenbiner2539

2 жыл бұрын

@@dp-sr1fd it was simply vengeance. the moral element was empty. not saying that the guilty didn't deserve killing, but they missed all of Uncle Joe's murdering, raping clan.

The title is click-bait. Where was the controversy or discussion of vengeance? Sounds like he read Keitel’s Wikipedia page.

@almighty5839

2 жыл бұрын

He most likely did lol

Hilarious!! The nodding donkey toy !!

I keep seeing different account of the execution of the Nuremburg war criminals, this says it was a guy named Woods who did a bad job, but other accounts I hear say the British executioner named Pierpont who evidently was a more competent professional. Which was it?

@stevenwhitaker595

2 жыл бұрын

Pierpoint was the executioner for the British of the host of lesser war criminals such as camp guards. He was a thorough professional. If he had been used for the top rank there would have been no botched executions.

@41hijinx90

2 жыл бұрын

Woods kept a piece of the rope he used to hang each of the condemned as a souvenir.

@simonh6371

2 жыл бұрын

Pierrepoint didn't execute any of those sentenced to death at Nuremburg or anywhere else in the American occupied sector. He executed those condemned in the British sector such as those in the Bergen-Belsen trial, who were hanged in Hamelin prison.

Keitel was known even in the Wehrmacht as 'Lakeitel', a play on words as 'lackey' to Hitler. He was utterly complicit and not some scapegoat.

@xminusone1

2 жыл бұрын

He was the worst Hitler yes man indeed.

Wilhelm Keitel was born and raised in Bad Gandersheim in the village of Helmscherode.

Never become a yes man

This guy was know as "The Lackey" by other generals.

@TheUntoldPast

2 жыл бұрын

Love the nickname 'Lackeitel' Proper banter.

@CbsOmegaOmniX

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheUntoldPast Apparently it was also a reference to a Latin word meaning slave/servant , in other words Keitel was a slave/servant to Hitlers will.

@sergeipohkerova7211

2 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile, real-life cinema ushers are like c'mon bruh, don't put me in the same league as this Chav...

Keitel was Hitler’s ‘lackey’ who had no backbone to resist Hitler’s appalling criminal directives during the conquest and occupation of central and Eastern Europe. As Hitler’s puppet, he signed’ a number of criminal military orders from April 1941.The orders went way beyond established codes of conduct for the military - and broadly allowed the execution of Jews, civilians and non-combatants for any reason. Keitel went along with all of Hitler’s directives by ignoring the Geneva Convention. He ordered officers to use the utmost severity in stamping out resistance (coded language for mass murder) in Russia and in other occupied countries. He also sanctioned the practice of taking - and executing up to 100 communists for every German soldier killed. He endorsed Hitler’s ‘Night and Fog’ order, where foreign nationals could be deported to Germany and tried by special courts, or in some cases be picked up by the Gestapo, who would then send them to a concentration camp, without any reason. The fate of these foreign nationals would be kept a secret. Keitel, also in October 1942, signed the Commando Order, that authorized the killing of enemy special operations troops, even when captured in uniform. Keitel signed scores of orders where captured solders based on his signature, called for soldiers and political prisoners to be killed or to ‘disappear.’ Keitel’s behaviour was cowardly and despicable. He was fully aware of the consequences of the orders he was signing. His execution was inevitable and justified.

@CbsOmegaOmniX

2 жыл бұрын

A pretty extensive list of his crimes, the only other things I can think of to add is that he also was was involved with reprisals to a certain extent after the 1944 July plot on Hitler’s life and he was in charge of harsh discipline near the end of the war, offering bounties to hunt down deserters, everyone that was left in Germany was to fight to the bitter end or else. Keitel never ever told Hitler NO while he was in power, blinded by the notion of obedience and loyalty as a soldier which was instilled in him at an early age. Keitel (along with Jodl) needed to be made an example of at Nuremburg and the fact that somebody who was as lost as him could self reflect and change his mind before it was (death) too late I think can only be a good thing.

I saw him as a liaison , you have someone to relay orders.

Was Keitel the highest uniformed officer to be executed (as opposed to Goering, who cheated death?).

@fatdaddyeddiejr

2 жыл бұрын

I believe so

It was not 'vengeful', it was totally justified.

@pauldh62

2 жыл бұрын

Could it not be both vengeful and justified?

@brianfarris5676

2 жыл бұрын

I believe you use the word justice rather than vengeance when it's a sentence passed down by a court.

@imedi

2 жыл бұрын

@@pauldh62 was he an ss officer though . Think alot got off Scott free who were in the SS compared to this guy

@kristijanfranjoivancic6769

2 жыл бұрын

Of course you BOLSHEVIK !

@brianfarris5676

2 жыл бұрын

@@kristijanfranjoivancic6769 you seem to be replying to the wrong comment, friend

Please excuse me if I don't shed a tear for how keitel died.

@rwood87

2 жыл бұрын

Tuskagee shot program

You are brilliant, but please please please please slow down, you talk so so quickly, you are impossible to understand, I even tried to slow down the speed on KZread, but that just creates drag

Hirohito and Speer were more deserving of the title " war criminal "..

@vivekrai1986

2 жыл бұрын

Hirohito is not a war criminal .The greatest war criminal is Winston churchill , a cruel murderer who was responsible for millions of death in india due to famine and war ,whereas the japanese tries there best to liberate india from the cruel monsters.

EXTREMELY GOOD NARRATIVE 👍🎯.

@TheUntoldPast

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

The enemy of something evil is not necessarily something that is good.

great job just read up on the hang man John C Wood. That guy was a piece of work. And the U.S. Army sure dropped the ball and left it there when they took him on as thier hang man. WOW!

Post sentencing they's take them right out from the door we see, and boom, over.

These “Loyal Dogs” truly believed that “I was only following orders” was a legitimate explanation for their inhuman actions. This is how they were raised from feudal times to the modern age; one did not question established authority.

@bigverybadtom

2 жыл бұрын

It didn't help that the Allied nations practiced their own brutalities on the nations they themselves colonized.

@bigverybadtom

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanjrod And it will always exist.

That’s what happened when you lost the war.

@davidhoward437

2 жыл бұрын

When you lose the war you started.

@jacksonreilly3441

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidhoward437 Correction. Britain and France issued the first declaration of war on Sept. 3, 1939, so technically they started the European conflict. Japan did not bother with such niceties. She simply attacked America with no declaration on Dec. 7, 1941.

السؤال / كيف استطاع توقيع الاستسلام وذهب بدون ان يقبض عليه ، وماهي التفاصيل حينما قبض عليه ، من الذي قبض عليه وكيف ادار المشهد العسكري بعد اناحار هتلر وقبل الإستسلام

Era chiamato "la kaitel" per la sua devozione acritica ad Hitlel e per questo disprezzato da tutto l'OKW.

... I mean, if he didn't do his duty to his Gov't someone else would've. There was no room for negotiations or objections with Holter. Come on let's be realistic not idealistic

@paulbrower3297

2 жыл бұрын

This is like a shoplifter saying that if he doesn't steal an object on display, then some other thief will. That is one of the weakest excuses possible.

@rackcity5981

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulbrower3297 yikes...that is a horrible example.

@jkorshak

2 жыл бұрын

@paul Sorry, I meant to respond to @rack city. My bad.

@jkorshak

2 жыл бұрын

@@rackcity5981 You need to educate yourself to exactly WHAT Keitel was charged with, his "defense" of his actions in context to the crimes he was charged with, and the prosecutor's summation of the crimes Keitel was found guilty of. No one has a "duty to his Gov't" to commit crimes when a govt orders them to commit crimes. You would do well to educate yourself before commenting next time.

@rackcity5981

2 жыл бұрын

@paul all war is murder. State sanctioned murder

Step by step we all have to face our own destiny.

I wonder what it would be like, to be person #10 on a day with 10 executions.

What about the Weapons of Mass Destruction.

@simonh6371

2 жыл бұрын

Yep an illegal war of aggression based on (knowingly) falsified ''evidence'' which led to the deaths of half a million innocent civilians. Politicians and generals involved should face the same fate if the same standards are applied.

Keitel was as guilty as any. Botched executions are a separate issue and not something which should have been allowed to occur.

@OkurkaBinLadin

2 жыл бұрын

Its hard to believe they were "botched" as executioners did nothing to mitigate the issue after the first case. You have opening in the hole, that is way too small for an adult AND rope, that is too short. You can botch one, not both at the same time. I hardly can believe it myself, since it cheapens whole affair.

@biffo1963

2 жыл бұрын

@@OkurkaBinLadin Pierrepont was always extremely scathing about the American method of hanging using the traditional wild west noose and a fixed length of drop.

Pierrepoint was a professional executioner, Woods was an amateur.

@wfranceschi3606

2 жыл бұрын

So what make no diff I ain't talking bout no careers man it's all about making the Nazi scum feel a lil of the pain and humiliation they inflicted upon innocent folks .god dam good work sargent woods .

@randymillhouse791

2 жыл бұрын

God bless Woods then, eh?

@wfranceschi3606

2 жыл бұрын

@@randymillhouse791 f......eh! My man

@MrDaiseymay

2 жыл бұрын

@@wfranceschi3606 ABSOLUTELY, IN MY OPINION, THEY SHOULD HAVE ALL, BEEN BURNT TO DEATH, SLOWLY.

@MrDaiseymay

2 жыл бұрын

Well, how do you become an expert, and proffessional, without practice ? he just needed a little longer at it, thats all, like a few thousand Nazi necks.

Why do you use the word "vengeful" in the title? Do to not consider that Keitel received a fair trial and sentence that was commensurate with the charges that had been found proven?

Should had become an electrician

If not forced to comit suicide, would Rommel have faced trial for warcrimes?

@alexanderv7702

2 жыл бұрын

Nein!

@ellenmorse8559

2 жыл бұрын

No

@josef-peterroemer6235

2 жыл бұрын

Nope! He did not commit any war crimes

@WilloSNoack

2 жыл бұрын

No: Rommel had been only the commander of divisions and the corps in Lybia. His superior commanders were Generalfeldmarschall Keitel and Generalcoronel Jodl, who did not command fighter units. And he never ordered to kill captured enemies and innocent Jews. After the defeat of his "Afrika Korps" in May 1943, he was reduced to inspect the Wehrmacht in France under the command of the Generalfeldmarschalls von Rundstedt and Kluge and to make propaganda for Hitler. Generalfeldmarschall von Rundstedt was never charged for warcrimes. After the invasion in France in 1944 Rommel critized Hitler openly on behalf the mistakes in the war and demanded for surrender of the Wehrmacht. Therefore he was forced to comit suicide.

@williamgallop9425

2 жыл бұрын

@@WilloSNoack Thanks.

I also know somethings about the 2nd world war and some of your videos really help me understand the war more better and i thank u ❤️

@coco_2466

2 жыл бұрын

@paul true

There is nothing 'vengeful' about this at all.

This was disgraceful this man should have been jailed . The mad scientists where saved