A lot of German soldiers claim that they were just following orders during the massacre and genocide

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Thomas: but.... But I don't want it! Gordon: shhhh little Thomas, You must not resist him, remember what happened to Edward, Henry and Toby?

I just found this, but this is some great voice acting

Fucking hell this is awesome if a little dark especially the Deaths head SS on the fat controllers hat. It actually sound's like somebody being tried for crimes against humanity

Nice one

Hey, only just found out this existed now two years later but I'm the author of the comment this was based on. Thanks for making this, glad so many people have enjoyed my take on the original video!

Can i use this video's audio for a video? Ill give credit to you

Tonight Gonna leave that nine to five upon the shelf And just enjoy yourself Groove Let the madness in the music get to you Life ain't so bad at all if you live it off the wall

Is he copying hotline bling at the end cuz he likes minors like drake

You need an Oscar

song?

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The original video is way better

I come back every now and again to get a good dark laugh. But seriously I dont think how horrible of a delimma it would be to have to sit and be told/reminded that I personally aided in the suffering and deaths of countless scores of people. Its the same thing as being part of corporations or governments that aide and abade atrocities. Does it ever haunt people like Rawandan Genocide or Yemen or Mayanmars ethnic cleansing or even in Gaza rigbt now

H Christ man this is so good it’s fuckin art, your talented man

Excellent performance, I was in the edge of my seat the whole time

the Schindler's List music is perfect

A whole another world

This brought me to tears. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

Thomas's last words before he was hanged "FOR DEUTSLAND!!!"

Poor Thomas He dissevers better!

The List music. Good work, many followed this same path. We sit in judgement, Thomas was right.

Gold pure fucking GOLD

"All I wanted was to be a useful engine. Useful engines always arrive on time. Useful engines follow orders." "And were you aware of where you were taking the people you transported?" "I had only a vague idea sir. I knew they were prisoners. I never knew what was going to...I just...I had my orders and I followed them sir. useful engines follow orders." "And you never once asked about your orders? Who these people were? Where you were taking them, and why?" "Useful engines don't ask questions. It wasn't my job to know. It was my job to arrive on time." "Did you ever consider why the carriages were full on the way there, and always empty on the way back?" "..." "Thomas?" "I am around coal-powered tank engines all day, every day. I know the smell coal makes when it burns. I knew that the smoke in that place wasn't coal." "And you took thousands of people there every day, for two full years?" "Those were my orders. If I didn't follow them I would be dead too. A useful engine always follows orders, and there was no place in the Reich for useless engines." "So you valued your life over the lives of the countless innocent people you carried to their deaths?" "Do you think they would still be alive if I didn't? Don't you think they would have found another engine to arrive on time? Those people were dead before they even stepped on the platform. Nothing I could have done would have changed that. The only difference between me and them was that I had a choice; a choice to move forward and live, or stay put and die. I made the choice for the lowest possible number of people to die. Is self-preservation a crime?" "If you knew what was happening, why did you agree to take the job in the first place?" "You think I knew then? All anyone knew then was that things were better than they had been. The trains were running on time and if you didn't ask too many questions you could have a good life. We were still confident that victory was on the horizon. I only found out what was going on when it was too late for me to say no. There were no choices left for me then - move forward or stay put; live or die." "Why do you think you were given the job you were given? Why not transporting troops or supplies to the front? What do you think they saw in you that made you suitable?" "I was never there first choice! The Allies had bombed the Reich's infrastructure to smithereens, there was nobody else left. You bombed Herr Gordon, Herr James, Herr Percy. They chose me because they had to choose someone and their first choices were all dead." "So you were the last resort?" "Everyone else was gone. I only survived because I kept my head down and followed orders, like a useful engine should." "So if you were truly the last engine they could call upon, you could have saved those people?" "What? I never said that. What are talking about? They were already dead, all I could do was follow my orders." "And if you refused to follow them, there was nobody left to replace you?" "..." "Is that not what you said Thomas? You were never the first choice? Everyone else was gone? Move forward or stay put, and you chose to go forward?" "...Useful engines follow orders and arrive on time." "And it didn't matter what you were useful for, as long as you were useful for something?" "Useful engines follow orders." "Was it useful for the people you carried to the camp?" "..." "Thomas?" "You would have done the same. You all would." "I'm sorry? What do you mean by that?" "The only difference between you and I, sir, is that I can see the tracks I follow. If you were on the tracks, you'd have followed them too." "Do you regret what you did?" "..." "Thomas? Do you regret it?" "...I see those gates every time I close my eyes. Every time I sleep I hear the crying children and smell the..." "The crying children, Thomas." "..." "Do you still feel like useful engine now, Thomas, because you followed orders and arrived on time?" "..." "Thomas?" "Kill me or let me go. You punish me either way. I can only follow the tracks, I don't get to decide where they lead."

Sir Topham Hatt as a Death's Head SS guy is genius

I just checked out the holocaust museum in Chicago. That makes it this is so much better and worse at the same time

The minute we forget the crimes we are doing we are doomed to repeat them.😢

Thomas did nothing wrong.

This is really good, it’s fascinating to see Thomas and friends in this perspective due to Thomas and friends story books being an escape from the war I love the voice acting on this, you did a great job

i read that comment every time i stumble on that video. great job voicing it.

100 thousand likes on a comment. That was a masterpiece. Voice cover is a surprise, but a pleasant one.

this quote hits too hard for me , "I can only follow the tracks, I don't get to decide where they lead."

Rumors tell that Thomas is barely able to run, still carrying the weight of thousands. Others say that the voices of the damned still linger in his mind, calling, screaming, for someone, anyone, to help them.

"Useful engines follow orders" That's what every soilders say for their crimes but the uniform doesn't make you above any morality

He moved to England ?

Tomas Von Wagner was one of the most prolific criminals of the Nuremberg trials. Between the years of 1943-1945 Carried an estimated 485,000 men women and children to their deaths in labor camps, death camps, or to unmarked burial grounds keeping them in inhumane conditions where survivors recounted being forced to stand on the bodies of dead passengers and their own excrement. In a harrowing recounting by one survivor "After I regained enough strength I swore Id never eat another cow or pig again. How could I after i was thrown into that godforsaken train? We were treated as less than the cattle sent to slaughter the nights i spent having to stand in darkness hearing the whimpering of starving babies and the groans of dying people under us will never leave me when i smell garbage left out in the sun it takes me back to the smell of rotted bodies of vomit and excrement Im sorry I cant say more"

From a comment to a full video. I have been looking for it but it disappeared

I am so happy someone voiced that comment

He was following orders all he could do was follow the tracks.

*nkp 765 go brrrr in the background*

You never questioned... Did we ever question as the migrants were herded into our own concentration camps? Did we ever question as African American kid after African American kid were gunned down by the police? Did we ever question Milton Friedman as our checks got smaller and the cooperations profits got larger? Did we ever question as climate change continued to happen? Did we ever question when Trump got elected... and then tried to stay by whatever means necessary? Yes, many did; but not enough. We'll be judged just as harshly as they were.

Anyone know the background music?

😘. Think for Yourselves. 💝

Thomas left his job incomplete.

They convicted thomas, but put the engineers that assembled him into witness protection and gave them government jobs in America.

My God. Wow

And ever since then, to pay tribute to what has happened, german trains never arrive on time. It all makes sense now.

Me: alright whats this about... Me after: oh Thomas, what did you do. 😢

The amount of emotion in each line is solid af bravo my guy.