Dr Geoffrey P. Megargee: A Blind Eye and Dirty Hands: The Wehrmacht's Crimes 

Like, yeah, there were cases of people having a conscience, but there was way more people who lacked one or purposely ignored it.

Dr. Szymon Datner docimented the genocidal war against Poland, the first 55 Days of Wehrmacht after 1 sept 1939. Bestial campaigns, mass murder of leadership classes(lists prepared earlier by German Poles, spies, traitors), general policies of terror, brutal lawlessness. Look up Wieluń, Wejherewo massacres, KL Stutthof etc etc. More than 20% of prewar population slaughtered, even more proportionately than Soviet Russia.

@@belmounlv1 Yeah. The Soviets were bad, no question about it, but they were just a generic authoritarian society. The Nazis? They were like a crazed religious cult.

@@evanhunt1863The soviets raped too

@@luigigaudelli2501 The whataboutism is getting old. EDIT: And furthermore, nobody in this comment thread mentioned rape.

@The Richest Man In Babylon I'm afraid not. If they were extreme "right wing" they would have been trying to reinstate the federal monarchy of the German Empire. Hitler and the National Socialists had little to no love for the Prussian nobility or the class-based systems of Imperial Germany.

Right wingers never gonna cope and own up to their side doing horrid shit

He nailed it!

A political cheap shot? Against who?

Seems as if he created that because his political ideology. Therefore too biased to even trust that it was properly researched

The Wehrmacht was ‘in it’ up to the wine-stripped trousers of the General Staff. There were two Holocausts: the one in central Europe proper and the one in the ‘East,’ the Soviet Union. The Wehrmacht was fully aware of, and enabled, carnage and slaughter beginning in Poland in 1939. There was no surprise when Hitler penned War Directives, undated and amplified after the invasion, outlining how cruelly the Slavs, Jews, Communists were to be liquidated as an active policy measure of Barbarossa. The internal dialogue within the Wehrmacht was to try and not get too associated with the atrocities of the SS and Einsatsgruppen. Many generals fully co-operated and assisted the SS in their deadly campaign. Had they lived I believe the Allies, post 1945, would have found it impossible not to have von Reichenau and Model ( among many) join Keitel and Jodl on the gallows. Even everyone’s favourite anti-Hitlerian general, von Rundstedt, was held in full captivity, almost to his death as it was politically opportune not to try him for war crimes but impossible to release him for enabling Einsatzgruppen’s in the Ukraine. Many generals also penned stupid, self incriminating orders to their troops calling on them to aide and abet-clearly criminal-crimes against humanity. Oh and everyone in the fatherland knew the broad outlines on the slaughter in the east. Read the trial transcripts of von Leeb, von Manstein ( who served time) and how the eastern front generals were involved in the commission of war crimes.

You are spot on. I am left feeling ill by the lazy way so-called “academics” label Trump supporters as no different to Hitler’s Brownshirted thugs. The difference is obvious and is so obvious they betray the historical record when flippantly tossing these barbs around. Trumps daughter is Jewish. His son in law is Jewish. He has Jewish grandkids. Let’s compare that to Hitler! Oh yeah there is no comparison. Trumps supporters seem to be vastly supportive of Israel and the Jewish people. Let’s see how that compares! Oh yeah again it doesn’t. The leftist academics who spew this garbage do an incredibly poor job. It makes the truly heartbreaking suffering of people back then seem comparable with our times. How many journalists did trump imprison? None. How many newspapers did he shut down? How many parties did he ban? None. How many wars did he start? None! I could go on and on. Academics will go the way of the dodo if they continue to spew this obvious ahistorical nonsense. The clueless kids in front of them during class may not know any better but someday they will and in between times we all know it’s vile to spread such disinformation. They do NOT get to rewrite history.

Why do you continue to use whataboutism, a logical fallacy, to justify the Wehrmacht’s crimes?

Sorry Wehraboo, but Hans is a war criminal.

Allied war crimes that were neither systematic nor very widespread.

Why would he be talking about Allied war crimes during a lecture about Wehrmacht war crimes? Why is your first reaction to discussion about German war crimes "what about the Allies?"

What war crimes? Did members of allied armies commit war crimes? Yes. Was the entire point of the war from the allied perspective a war crime? No. The German armies entire goal WAS a war crime in and of itself.

@The Richest Man In Babylon Wikipedia is a tainted source controlled by the same scoundrels who own the media and advertising plus more. To rely on them.as a source is ludicrous.

@The Richest Man In Babylon Gassed kids well why then they they have nurseries and classrooms at auschwitz? Look at all the survivors now who were children in the camps some even born there.

LMAO. The Wehrmacht doesn't need any blackening. We all know that it is a criminal organization that is a willing instrument in the various genocides that it did for its Nazi regime during WW2. It's already degraded enough, enough to kiss every demons' asses in hell itself.

Pray tell, who are the usual suspects? By your name "ExRhodesian" I think everyone knows where you are coming from.