Hitler, Nazis And World War II: How Germany Deals With Its Dark Past | Meet the Germans 

Mit der Geschichte hat Deutschland ganz gut getan!

Sie sprechen ausgezeichnete Deutsch, Rachel!

@@edjohnson1788 Danke :D

They still have a long way to go. Look at how they segment Kinder mit Behinderung into different schools... I live here, I know. It's awful....not in every case... But inclusion still has a long way to go.

@@dieubermenschisthier well i visited a school where they did not do that and it was horrible, the teachers cant deal with them they cant get the care they need and they stop "Normal" kids from learning, mentally handycaped people get thier own school cause its the better solution for everyone

Japan, Russia, France, China, UK, Turkey, USA, Spain, Belgium*

@@fatmanwalking8610 China have a dark now

@@fatmanwalking8610 In fact the spanish inquisition and the atrocities in America are really exagerated

All powerful countries did dark past

You just forget brazil... Killed 90% of paraguayan people during war

And on that note, we have an episode on German bread coming up very soon ;)

It's a well known fact that German bread is awful. 😂😂😁

@Rick K🤨 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C0ztDJhL77Y.html 😉

@@RachelStewart04 You can talk about why we all miss the bread sooooo much!

@Rick K How can you annoy a dutchie? Serious question. Though I´ll probably never be able to annoy a dutchie, bc you are amazing people. sorry^^ Greets from your annoying neighbours :-)

In our area, the main attractions are the train museum and firing pits in the surrounding villages. They were laying tiles near the monument and I dug out someone's knee (knee bone). There was no time to bury it and I threw it into the bushes.

Down in Ohio swag like Ohio

Sounds like a joke.

And it was fun actually - said the Russian, I will figure something out.

God my Ancestors gave so much for the fatherland and ppl still think they're the bad guys but actually they were only serving their country. I have the same uniform and rifle (Kar98) that my great great great grandfather used and it has the marks of how many Americans/Russian life's he ended with it. That's a piece of history. Yeah it's sad what he was doing but he was 17 when he first joined, but if only I could find his the relative of the one American soldier he spared. That he wrote about in his little book. American name was pvt. John C. Burnmen I think that's how u spell his guys last name.

Germany forced to apologize.

@@ballfred2302 According to the video, their examination of the past began 14 years after the war ended. How is that forced?.

Take responsibility how? Allowing a million gold diggers into the country in 2015? Watch how their women get molested in the thousands? Trucks of peace driving through a crowd of people at a Christmas market? That's their way of taking responsibility?

@@strife2746 Are you seriously blaming germans for HELPING Syrian people that needed help? "women get molested in the thousands" ... Keep reading the US papers. It's laughable at best. Germany doesn't have a problem with muslims or refugees, like the west media is trying to push the narrative.

@@strife2746 "a million gold diggers" foh So you want to let them die at the borders? That's exactly NOT taking responsibility.

Well having an autocrat in power don't help them...but some people do acknowledge it

@Barney The Dictator yeah but at what price? You almost had no real liberties. My girlfriend is from Russia and told me that her parents always got a ton of limitations despite having those advantages. Not to mention the fact that changing a job or choosing a career path wasn't properly a "Free choice". E.G. if you were born in a mining area, you had 0 chances to succeed to relocate

@Barney The Dictator yes, for few years of her life. And yes I do criticize (and majority of Russians do the same today - been to Russia and not just the big cities, 8 times) such system. The 80% you mention are people anyway in the range of 60 years old of age Min, as even the 50 were the 20 years old when USSR collapsed.

@Barney The Dictator and lastly: you could have a career if you succeeded in your field, but in the end the competition was huge and not that different from a capitalist stand POV. Just decide by the state and not with that much of meritocracy (like in Capitalism, essentially) Welcome anyway mate :)

@Barney The Dictator Who are you shitting? USSR had huge gdp made of Military and heavy industry avg engineer got 150roubles a year while LAda cost was 9000, and cost of levis 501 was 300, while cost of 1 kg of salami was 10. USSR's life standard was beyond shit

Actually some of the Japanese apologised and some don't, I really focused on the the ones that apologised because at least they admit it.

unit 731 romusha invasion thats u dont know why

@@mr.ignorant3585 an official apology or payment has to be made by the Japanese government towards the unethically harmed people during the war. That is the only way I will consider justice served.

@@zombies4evadude24 I see

@@zombies4evadude24 as if someone cares what u think ,USA should pay reperations to Japan for destroying two cities and killing millions of innocent people

aka they do nothing about it, same with russia

Or turkey

What would you like them to do?

@@emmajanewatts4388 They can start by teaching it in schools, they don't have to focus on it but don't hide anything. Not for propaganda, not for moral. Just tell the truth. It's not the fault of kids, but if history isn't taught, then it can be repeated. Germany can do a little to far, but they admit it and their people know about it, they don't feign ignorance or spin it, the can responsibility. Not a easy thing to do, but it's a start.

@@CondemnedInformer Interesting thoughts

Is. And please. NEVER FORGET. NEVER FORGIVE.....that really brings peace. And cover your own wrong doings....that ought to make you feel really good.....alles liebe

It is the same thing that the Spanish did in Latin America, they murdered and blew up 50 million indigenous people and now we all carry the blood of murderers and rapists.

*USA, UK....

@@zimtschnecke9284 But no one teaches that national hero churchill held pretty much the same views as hitler. Hitler considered the slavic people as "subhuman' while churchill considered indians and Africans as "subhuman". Historians have proven it beyond doubt that churchill was a complete racist.

@@zimtschnecke9284 ok cool. Why is ur name german? Haha

BRITAIN???

Turkey???

@Royal Satan Wow. Are you British?

In Italy we considerate that we lost the war to be honest...

Turkey: what Armenian genocide?

Great Britain: What does colonization even means?

What reparations??? Poland is still waiting

yes true. i mean people became crazy and it is hard to understand how they act and think.. god bless u and ur family ich bin kein Deutsch und ich lebe in Deutschland seit einer Weile. also ich glaube rassismus gibt es nicht in Deutschland oder anders gesagt ich habe nichts von rassismus erlebt seitdem ich in deutschland lebe. ich habe nur schwerigkeiten, ein Job zu finden. ich weiß es nicht, ob das was mit rassismus zu tun hat. vielleicht wollen die Arbeitsgeber nur Deutsche einstellen bzw. aufnehmen?? ich habe gar keine ahnung aber i am tired

@@abysswatchers3501 Thank you very much. Oh, I understand. Trust me it’s not only hard for you even Germans have a hard time finding a job because of COVID and a lot of other reasons. I don’t think it’s because you’re not german it’s probably because you don’t speak or maybe not that good. But don’t give up I’m sure u gonna find something soon! 👍 Liebe Grüße ❤️

Exactly, as a Native American, I had so many Americans try to justify my people's genocide and also justify the African slave trade. The glorification of it is deeply engrained in American culture that if you question this issue, you're the problem and the enemy of the American ways. Revisionist history here is also a huge issue. Many subjects are heavily redacted and censored, some teachers have been fired for even attempting to teach this dark past. Even today many parents protest against schools teaching kids about Americas past in any way, shape or form. It's all wrong and seeing Germany take many steps to confront the past, instead of hide from it, is a practice we need to desperately duplicate here.

You were taught the politically correct narrative. Argue against it and you are imprisoned.

Americans are tired of being told to be ashamed of their country’s past. We don’t care about our countries dark past, what happened happened, nothing is gonna change the past.

beautiful comment

@Hannes Naumann responsibility means preventing it from happening again. Guilt is being blamed for what already happened

@@brown22sugar25 It takes two to fight

@@fredo69ification Then let's compare fight records: Germany🥊 generally acknowledged the dark past, stays aware of it and banned antagonistic perceived symbols vs USA🥊 Sill embraces confederate flags and statues of slave owners, if you kneel during the anthem to protest peacefully against police brutality about 50% literally behaves as if the world was going down. I think a on history well educated society wouldn't react this way. From my slightly biased referee corner here in Germany: Winner by KO 1st round Germany

@@tyronevaldez-kruger5313 There is no such thing as systematic oppression in the USA, coming from an immigrant of color and English as a second language in the USA. The people now have no responsibility for what happened in the past whether you like it or not.

@@fredo69ification "There's no such thing as systematic opression...coming from an immigrant of colour and having English as a second language in the USA" Not even systimatic oppression by law inforcement? Well that's your subjective pov... Kanye said slavery was a choice with a MAGA hat covering his genius scull. Freedom of Speech, I get it! It's not that important wether I like it or not, anyone is free to take responsibility or to lean back and let the ignorants lead us . I'm an African who's certainly more privileged than most blacks I have met who really feel the struggle in their day to day life. Do you really believe that all blacks in America are equally privileged? No difference between Kanye vs black guy in the hood? That's nonsense coz there's more or less disproportion in all races.

The UK is the biggest mischief maker on the face of this planet, right behind their daddy america. I hope for the fall of these wicked countries and what they have done for centuries

@@icekoldcilla8470 America is Britain’s son. If England didn’t exist, the U.S. wouldn’t exist cause there’d be no colonies.

@@zombies4evadude24 ayyy so Son saved daddy from Uncle Germany's Underwater toys

Yeah the country with 13 colony doesn't know what dark past means.

@@johannsebastianbach9003 The conflict was more complicated than that. Russia's involvement in WWII split the German forces onto two fronts and aided in a large way to defeat the Nazi regime.

no it doesn't, 1914-1945 is all that german history is, no one cares about what they were known for before 1914

Thanks for sharing your experience, Rebecca :)

What is a KZ?

@@edwinholcombe2741 A german Short for the death Camps in WW2. KZ= Konzentrationslager = Concentration camp

You were lied to. To ask serious questions about the allegations of those times will get you imprisoned.

@@edwinholcombe2741 It's the abbreviation for "Konzentrationslager" (= concentration camp).

if you can't invade some country with war, invade them with their economy

Please notice the fact that (Western-)Germany got tremendous financial support from the US after the war. And many companies still had assets gained from forced labor done at Nazi times.

@@TheRaeffel True, had the "Marshall Plan" not come to pass, Germany would still be in unsurmountable debt. Uncle Sam wanted a strong and economically flourishing Germany as a reliable ally in central Europe. That's why we originally came to be economically successful here. Today, many people forget that our wealth also has its history and feel threatened by foreigners or refugees and that they could take away from "all the things we achieved". It's sad and arrogant and not very reflective.

@@graymalkin7645 there where a lot of funds put into western egrmany but the things where acived by germans (at least untill the Gastarbeiter came) from that point onwards it was still acived by germans cause tehy quickly became germans themselfs, and i for my part like a good Döner

@@TheRaeffel But there weren't really any good alternatives to that. They either had a choice to let all of Germany fall under the influence of the Soviet Union or to keep West Germany in the influence zone of the western powers, changing the country to become a reliable partner in the future. The first option would have further threatened the rest of west Europe and it was decided to not let that happen and to install the Iron Curtain in the middle of Germany instead. And how bad unfair peace treaties can turn out to be in the future, was already on display after the failed Threaty of Versailles. People should also keep in mind, that Germany was pretty much the major doomed area on the direct border between super powers challenging each other during the Cold War for almost 50 years after WWII. If this situation would have changed into a hot war - and there were plenty of chances for this to happen - all of Germany would have turned out to be a nuclear wasteland. The defeated Germans turned out to be a very comfortable safety zone for the western powers and it's army as necessary cannon fodder during the first days and weeks in that horrible szenario. I'm pretty sure the Marshall Plan was a good deal for all western nations after all.

Actually, many Germans make jokes about Hitler and the Nazis

@@Keyt.. Thats like the greatest part of dark jokes XD

An American, an Englishman and a German standing at the port. The American says "our submarines can stay under water for one week". The Englishman starts laughing and says "our submarines can stay under water for a whole month!" Then a submarine shows up at the port. A man is getting out and asks "Hitler? Is the war already over?" So yes we do jokes about war...

@@moritzrothacher2669 versteh ich nicht🤔

@@fridolin1561 wie kannst du den net verstehen 🤣

Aye. Learning from the past so that something like it never happens again. But also looking forward is important.

By the time it was declared "total war" the number was closer to 80 million, plus the amount forcefully drafted from occupied countries. And things like that always go step by step. Let's not forget that the man with the mustache was elected into office, stayed there through "emergency edicts" due to war and never let go until his death, causing destruction not only to all those people he waged war on, but the germans as well. There is a reason german politics are so complicated now, with so many safeties and backups, never giving too much power to a single person.

Yea they had around 13million during ww2 then they got demilitarized now they only got around 100k soldiers because of demilitarized

@RYY1N at the start, they had less than the French

And what did that do for them? They attacked the soviets and in return got occupied for decades

@@TheMolabola In your opinion then, the Germans should have left the Soviets free to invade Germany and western Europe? Germany struck preemptively to stop this invasion. The book "Icebreaker" by Viktor Suvorov covers this issue.

You've been to Goethe School in Rosario?

My god... I'm speechless too

Nice one

Oh yikes he got folded like a paper

I actually got goosebumps right now.

cough Japan Cough

True

*looking sideways at US natives and slaves*

cough USA cough

@@ThePixel1983 or the countless interventions creating military dictatorships out of young democracies in south america. Or the united fruit company (now chuiquitta) basically enslaving many south americans, these south american countries are still called banana republics.

Americans are too cowardly and egocentric to do that.

They rebuilt Germany by having stripped off their wealth all the countries they tortured. If you want to see how Greece’s loans started you need to go back to Nazi occupation when they emptied Greek vaults, indebted a country to finance their war and left a country in ruins and extreme poverty. Oh and ofc never paid anything back cause Europeans cared more for Central European countries, not Balkans.

LOL you think its their money?

@@hoangminh2540 It was certainly their industriousness and inventiveness.

@@hoangminh2540 its economy was kicked off by the allies but they were able to transform it into one of the world leading ones

Zniszczyli innym gospodarkę a na wojnie się wzbogacili.

lol

Lol

cringe

Wow that was mean

Kid:Can you tell me who is Hitler sir? Historian:Uhh now kid i want you to know something...he is bad guy...you don't want to be like him right? Kid:I don't wanna be a bad guy Historian:Good, now study kid cause if you fail at art school you will ended up like Hitler

*Grüß Gott ;)

@@dheemanrajkhowa3976 why Switzerland? They were neutral and never a part of the third Reich.

Griaß eich! (also a gretting) :) Yes Hitler was born in Austria and most of us don't like that fact, but it is true. But he became a german citizen in 1932 (before the WWII started) and yes we were involved in the WWII in a bad way. And it was Austria who started the first WW, because someone killed Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand (heir to the thron). We know all about it and we are not afraid to talk about it. The Austrian Monarchy wasn't always a good thing.

@@kaispantsincallmebaby965 I was always very sceptical about this greeting phrase. I mean, "Grüß Gott" literally means "Greet God". And when in your life you have the chance to do that? Exactly, when you die and go to heaven. So, if you think about it "Grüß Gott" means "I hope you die". That is why I sometimes feel a bit unwelcome in Austria :P

@@Mis7erSeven Inaccurate. "Grüß Gott" is short for "[Es] Grüße Sie Gott", which would rather translate to "blessings to you". They wish for you to be greeted by god, which means blessed, or received, by god. You're trying way too hard to find evidence for evil in the German ways ;) Grüß Dich.

They are aware, but when it comes to war reparations, for example for Poland, they are not so aware. Poland received no compensation. My mother told me that even in the 1960s people collected funds and collected bricks for the reconstruction of Warsaw. And this whole European Union in which we are, the Germans did not do it for peace, but for cheap labor. That's my opinion.

@@tiktak9827 You are talking about policymakers, I however am not. But I understand what you say.

​@@tiktak9827I am sorry but I dont think you are well informed about how often Germany asked Poland if they accept money after the war but they refused so why do you guys still talk about that like, the topic ist over

@@narutoushiha441 After the war, we were not a free country, but we could say that we were part of the USSR.

@@tiktak9827 Apperantly Poland has been asked after the USSR fell too but the government didnt.want it then neither

it goes deeper for germans, as we are proud of ot being proud for our country. patriotism is still heavily stigmatised with nationalism, and nationalism is a big nono in germany. and what can you love about a country? that things other do? the things you do? patriotism is a kind of proudness when you nothing for yourself to be proud

@@nodruj8681 im a gay male, i support cimate protests and i like meat, that is my identity i guess.

i went to college in Russia... i was quite surpised to find out how much German influence was there; and the biggest surprise was when i discovered recently that картофель is actually a german word...

@@pqrstsma2011 Anyone brave or stupid enough to invade our country gains respect. French and Germans have respect of Russian people.

Are you falling into a myth of good Germany which only had some bad episodes in their history? The nazism was a new way to move forward the old nationalistic dream of the world dominance. Now they do it through EU.

@@VotanLoad Hmmm I don‘t think so.

Me to I respect the Germany

@Israel Huh? 😂

@Israel Lmfaoa

@bayard01 I really recommend you the movie "Schindlers List". Its about a German factory manager who rescued thousand jewish men women and childrens from the holocaust.

Yeah sureee @bayard01, go ahead and shrug off approximately the 15,003,000 to 31,595,000 people who were killed in the war and by the industrial genocide complex that Germany created; in order, to make this some some kind shared history lesson for all the countries involved. Good job buddy, some countries (i.e. German, Russia, Japan) hold more responsibility for their crimes against humanity and deserve to bear the guilt more than the Allied powers .

my wife is from peru... what did the spanish and portugese there...? what did england in australia, india, america...? what did the frensh, netherlands, belgian in africa, asia or south america and and and... not one bigger country in europe can throw the first stone...

Thanks @Jonathan Lewis, stay tuned for further exciting euromaxx stories!

Anything said about Germany and the two WW needs to be taken with a pound of salt. DW would get shut down or the staff fired should they try to tell the unvarnished truth.

🥲

i'm learning german as an american, and i'm impressed aswell

Ey digga wat meinst de denn damit? Geht disch garnet an wie die hippen Idioten schnacken! (I absolutely hate it when (young) people talk in a stupid way (Most often with artificial turkish accent) and the worst part of it is that they do it on purpose to be "cool". )

@@lenschwedt9646 bin selbst zwar noch jung, kann dieses künstliche türkisch-deutsch oder "cooles" Gerede garnicht ausstehen. Dialekt ist ok, jedoch lieber normales Hochdeutscg

@@luishorvath8443 Dito. Ich kann einfach nicht verstehen warum das einige so cool finden.

@@lenschwedt9646 ich auch nicht. Es klingt einfach....ungebildet. also halt wenn man hier aufgewachsen ist. Wenn man die sprache erst lernt ist da ja noch oj

You should read the American cross report on number that died. Or the newspaper in 1933 totaling the amount of jews in all of Europe alive at the time. Which you know, was way less than was ever “killed”. Logical

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Not just holocaust and Germans should know： In Russia you could steal , rape and murder without any punishment , because of the Führerbefehl . He told us , that most soldiers wouldn't have done it normally , but they almost did never anything against these crimes , and sometimes they helped or even joined , because of peer pressure . Some commanders forbade their soldiers to rape and kill civilians , but the only thing they could do was to put these soldiers into other units The Full stoey is here： According to user @Heinisauerkraut said: My Grandpa was a military pastor with a rank of a major in the German Wehrmacht . Then | was a young boy ( about 1980 , I was 10 ) he took me and my older brother hiking , because he mapped wild graves of unknown soldiers who were fallen in the last days of the war , mostly from strafing fighter planes . He organized that they were put in proper graves in local graveyards and was later honored for this work . There he told us many stories about the war , especially in the east . Until almost the end of the war he had no own front line experience , but many soldiers came to him to confess their own experience to get some relive from the horrible things they saw or did . It took some years to really understand the things he told us . He told us , that the main difference between the campaign in France was , that you were at risk to get court martialled and shot if you stole only a chicken . In Russia you could steal , rape and murder without any punishment , because of the Führerbefehl . He told us , that most soldiers wouldn't have done it normally , but they almost did never anything against these crimes , and sometimes they helped or even joined , because of peer pressure . Some commanders forbade their soldiers to rape and kill civilians , but the only thing they could do was to put these soldiers into other units . And even the commanders who acted against rapes and murders , allowed or even encouraged to confiscate any food from the civilian population , so that they were condemned to starve to death . The result was almost the same in the end . He told us , which is now in accordance to my own experience , that were are only a few people are really evil , but on the other side there are also only a few people morally good . Most people are opportunists , and they act according to the circumstances , and if the circumstances allowing to do otherwise socially unacceptable acts , they will do it , if they get an advantage from that . So my Grandpa really know about the crimes on the eastern front , and because of that he tried not to get in soviet captivity . 1945 he was on leave at home south of Frankfurt , then he decided to dessert and hide in the woods . A thing he only told his children and later his grandchildren , and did not even write in his own memoirs . That is telling something about the German mindset , even long after the war . It was counted as more shameful to desert your unit , than to obey orders from a criminal regime . The military police told my grandmother , that if he returns he wont be shot , and in the end the pressure on was to high , and he surrendered two weeks before the Americans occupied his viage . He was court martialled ,degraded to the lowest rank and put into a penal battalion . His unit stand against the " Russians " in the area around Berlin . The Russians used loud speakers to demand the surrender , and after that someone in the unit shot the commanding officer , and the whole unit surrendered without a fight . My Grandpa was at this time quite sick from his time in the woods , and then they were inspected by a soviet female doctor , she asked him if he has children . He answered correctly that he has 8 children and showed photos of them . After that he got his release papers , and was allowed to go home . So in a lucky twist of fate , he survived his short time as soviet POW . If he were captured as military pastor in a rank of major , his fate would have been for sure much darker . I am very thankful for that experience with my grandfather . But even for me , it took some time , to remember the stories of my grandpa , then in the late 80's the discussion about the crimes of the Wehrmacht came up . This was the first time realized the full weight of the information in my head . Maybe it was so convenient to blame the SS and other nazi party organisations for all the bad things happened in the war

@@htosz1305 Thanks for sharing your story with us. It's always interesting to hear story from another side and hope this thing will never happen again.

embrace is not a good thing lol

Say what?

@@lloydparker472 It's a famous quote from a Holocaust survivor: "You are not responsible for what happened. But you are responsible for making sure it never happens again."

Who me!? Shhhh mann... Thats alot of pressure.. why's it gotta be me I can't keep track of everybody

Hey Romulus I'm gonna change my cat's name to Remus now.

Dieser Satz kann so gefährlich sein... viele Missverstehen diesen nämlich, sie glauben das so eine Gefahr nur noch von rechts aus gehen kann und legen ihren ganzen Fokus darauf während die andere Seite erstarkt und wirken kann wie sie will, die bösen sind ja auf der rechten Seite.

Same in the Netherlands WWII everywhere. Like all of us where victims, having our own SS brigade defending the border against the allies. And than one obscure lesson: 'yeah and we did some colonizing too, and fought a little war after the second world war to get our colony in Indonesia back.' But we'll just call those police actions and not speak on it further.

Grusse mein freund . It is good that you learn world history, the German, it is rare that a war has produced positive results. It is not your fault that maybe your grandfather was a Nazi. It is good to analyze the terror of the Nazi's to know that this action is verbotten! Machts gut! Junger,stiete Stolz das Sie sind ein mench

@@julianwaugh968 the thing is there was a significant difference between wehrmacht soldiers and nazis back then

@@lightup6751 but regular soldiers and pilots also killed numerous people. How did they feel about that and their responsibility ? That's an important question

Did you ask your grand parents about their level of implication and about their acts during that period ? What did they answer to you ? Thanks.

I doubt they would ever talk about the dark side of their troops during ww at school. Those who don't learn the past will deem to repeat it.

your education is in part your responsibility

When does she say Don't mention the war to Germans"?

Lol

@@Miguel-th3wx 0:07-0:20

@@Your_moms_today Yeah from a British Comedy series

Well to late I'm kiwi German and I Just watched the video

Antarctica Edit : this is a joke ik it's not a country

We should start a country in antartica, there's still a huge chunk of antartica not claimed by country's

Sweden hasn't neither has vietnam or mexico or uruguay or colombia if I'm not mistaken

@@inary682 true. There's potential for settlement but the lack of resources are a huge off-putting factor

@@rey4874 oil, coal and minerals are no problem Food and cloth are no problem too

Craigslist ad: WW2 French Battle Rifle for sale. Dropped once but never fired!

Probably because his joke was funny and yours wasn't.

@@MarkAnderson-ng8vc ??

Too be fair, even though Mongolians killed alot, Genghis Khan killed for a good reason, but he still killed, just goes to show if you want peace, you have to pay it with blood

@@rocketjupiter4579 Yeah Sacked whole cities for good reason?

And This ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dQw4w9WgXcQ.html

@@zainkhalid3670 i said he killed for a good reason, I never said he sacked cities, where does it say he sacked cities

@@rocketjupiter4579 Besides Outstanding Battle tactics, The Mongols biggest weapon was Terror. The gave every city in their path an Ultimatum. Either surrender or suffer absolute distrustions. Initially almost all cities resisted, And Mongols fulfilled their promise of absolute destruction. Later when cities started surrendering then Mongols made sure that those cities were not harmed. I've read extensively about the Mongol sacking of Baghdad. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol_Empire www.realclearhistory.com/articles/2018/02/15/10_major_cities_sacked_by_the_mongols_267.html www.historytoday.com/archive/baghdad-sacked-mongols

Auch wenn man ein sogenannter Deutschamerikaner ist, wird man so beleidigt, vor allem, wenn er Deutsch spricht, Deutschland liebt usw. Es gab eigentlich kurz vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg mehr tägliche Zeitungen in New York als in Berlin. Aber dann kam die antideutsche Hetze und die antideutschen Gesetze überall. Die deutsche Sprache wurde überall verboten und wir Deutsche wurden als rote Teufel angesehen, die sogar Babys ermordeten. Und die antideutsche Propaganda geht weiter, jedes Jahr gibt es mehrere Filme, Videospiele, viele Bücher usw. über die 'bösen Deutschen'. Und heute sprechen fast keine der 40 Millionen 'Deutschamerikaner' die Sprache ihrer Vorfahren.

@@josephrichter2104 kek

Teammates: "Where are you from?" Me: "Germany" Teammates: "Hitler Kaputt"

LOL

@Al Smith That's funny I get the same response when I bring up sir Jimmy Savile to Brits, or Epstein to Americans.

"Examined honestly"??? You are imprisoned if you try to do so.

@@BasementEngineer You seem to of been there, so I will defer to you for information on the NAZIES. I reckon if you win a conflict you get to make the opposing side to re-evaluate it's ideology .Otherwise you have to subjugate an entire Country. Eisenhower had an idea make Germany an aggrerian country. Which would you prefer?. I love Germany and the German people who have every right to be who they really are. Good people who never hide from their past. Fearless is the word.

@@matttippo8325 Why should we believe liars? Theres a photo of US soldiers in crowded bunks posted in the NYT magazine back in May 1941 that was later doctored to add a malnurished man standing by a pillar, this image is still commonly found in History text books today regarding the topic of camps. The initial claim was that all camps were death camps but after Major Miller investigated he noted that in all camps, gas seemingly was only used in interrigations. Miller later threatened [group] that if they continued to lie they would be punished. [Group] later changed their story and claimed that it was only a handful of camps in Soviet held territory that were death camps, this had allegedly been invstigated by the Soviets however, at the time roughly 80% of the Soviet leadership belonged to [group] so that investigation in my eyes doesn't hold much validity. If they told the truth why is it that any criticism is met with being labelled a "anti-semite" and in some cases even results in a Prison sentance? Moreover, why is the fact that nearly all of the Marxist leadership during 1919 belonging to [group] never discussed or if it is its anti-semitic? Why is it never mentioned that in 1935 they boycotted German owned businesses and refused to buy German product despite it being their host country? If the answer is due to the 1932 attacks of the SA then why did they expect no reprocussions after the mostly [group] leadership of the German Communist Party orchestrated multiple attacks on political rivals?

And other European countries ignore their past too along with the British.

As a brit I completely agree with you. It's every country's responsibility to teach its dark past so we can always learn from them, don't just teach the good bits.

@@72mossy just remember not to blame all brits. blame british monarchy and rule

Which one killed 6 million jews and 5 million dissidents?

@The Valkist Yes and that's disappointing. Swedes should learn about the Swedish colonial empire.

When you actually go mingle with the ordinary people you might be pleasantly surprised. That is true. But it takes even more effort to see what is not so good about your own people. No, I am not talking about Jews actually, but about my very own countryfolk. I do realize that we have numerous shortcomings but once this is evident, you start to notice that the really vile and deplorable are a margin on the fringe of minority. It is the cynical demagogues bending popular perception to their ends who associate the entire nation with, say, antisemitism. Since you discovered that the Germans are not as bad as they are believed to be, you might question popular perception present in Israel about other nations too. Oh, did I fail to mention what my country is? It is Poland.

I hope that you actually go back to your country and fight for the recognition of the palestinian people and the palestinian state as much as how much you respect the germans becaus Israel is on the same path nazi germany was on when it came to the jews.

Can you broker something with BLM?

@@OskarVanBruce Oh it must be great being an European (Dutch supposedly) and harrasing people with Nazi-comparisons whenever they see the name of the country Israel. I do think Palestine needs to be discussed, but at another place, not under this video. It is toxic not to let people from Israel talk, and he didn't even mention his own opinion about Palestine, how can you accuse him then? Please look for a more appropriate platform to dicuss palestine and question your own prejudices, when you hit any Jew with the term Nazi.

Shame you didn't stay there.

Abiturient here, you have some more 3 years to deals with that topic in history

@@checkcommentsfirst3335 Na hervorragend. Egal, immerhin find ich das thema ganz interessant

Im sorry that people try and hurt, but its from a direct consequence of the evil actions that your predecessors took. Imagine for a moment what you would be doing now had your predecessors been successful. You may not have known what a jew is. You would not have known/learned about Stephen hawkings-he would have been considered a useless eater & killed. You would have been taught that only arians/whites are the only race that should exist. Dont get me wrong, lots of other countries, my own included (USA) have made horrible, sickening things, but it was only in your country that an entire group of nations from around the world joined in an alliance for the sole purpose of defeating one country, yours, and its axis allies. All because of the very real possibility that it was succeeding in its agenda of dominating the world with very evil ideals. An entire nation dominated by hate and anger towards entire groups of people. About 75 million, dead. All this less than 100 years ago. You are not to blame, you are not to be put to shame, or hurt. But it is a weight that you and your fellow peers have to bear because of evil choices your generation before you made. Its a lesson to all. In USA now we are putting a similar weight of blame to anyone who is white because of the evilness that all their ancestors caused to so many blacks & other groups of people and that to this day they still cause. We here have this scar and like you I have to bear its weight because i was born here & the world has a certain connotation about my countries history. But there is hope! Make good choices, be a good human being. Help those who need it and stand up against all evil things men want to bring to ensure it never happens again. These scars will someday die off so that you future children's children wont have to feel the way you have.

Exactly the same here, im 15 too, and there are so many cliches about Germany and Nazis

@@omarsanchez9709 Are you ashamed of the atrocities committed by your ancestors and people of your race?

Whataboutism.. killing six million is in not even in the same league as the bad things most other countries have done. I see all that school education hasn't really changed you people much..

@@jujijiju6929 and you didnt even get education, because enslaving millions is better?? And 100 Years later in your point of view we are the same who killed 6 million people?

@@PerfectStuff Thank you very much, many Germans come to visit Italy, and even famous German poets like Goethe praised Italy's beauty qualities when they came to visit.

@Alex S True. 😊 Actually I love Italy so much and it’s people. I admire the brilliant craftsmanship of Italian products be it fashion, art or cooking. In our home we mostly cook the Italian food. ✨😊✨🌸✨💖✨🍫✨☀️✨

@@PerfectStuff Hello, in my city being millenary, there are many artifacts from the past, both of Roman civilization, and even of the previous ones. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palermo

@@EdwardCohen190 Hi, I'm very happy with that :) Grüße aus Italien.

@Alex S 😊🌸 Herzlich Grüsse. And Chef Gennaro Contaldo is the best Italian Chef in the world. ✨💖✨😊✨👑✨🍫✨

LMAO I live in Germany and if you talk about it in public too much you can get fined

This is actually not true for me and I am a german too

Yes, we could learn a lot from our failings just like an individual can

@@JoshTheFrosch07 Was faselst du bitte für einen Schwachsinn, das ist ja zum fremdschämen.

@@JoshTheFrosch07 not true

I thought this too

That's one of the reasons I am always annoyed when other countries, that get criticised by Germany, say something along the lines of "you're responsible for the holocaust, so be quiet". Modern Germans aren't responsible for what had happened in WW2, but we sure as hell are responsible when we turn a blind eye to history being repeated somewhere. When we warn someone from discriminating (or even murdering) a group of people, we do so cause we know, how fast it can snap into something like WW2 and how future generations might feel due to the choices made today. We warn someone, because we have been that country and nobody warned us back then in time, not because we think we are better than them.

@@buecherdrache1 Really ? And tell us about the family who own BMW ?

@@amblincork You mean the Quandts? They have earned most of their money during the WWII through forced labor and were supporters of the Nazis. And? We can't blame their ancestors choices onto the new generations. I agree, that they need to openly accept their ancestors actions instead of denying them and maybe help/support the families of their 'slaves', that suffered due to their ancestors actions, but what else should they do? Just like the US needs to openly accept, what they did to the natives and openly apologize as well as lend support to make them equal inhabitants of the US. And since when does one family represent an entire country?

@@buecherdrache1 Yes, I agree with every of your point. That's why I hate Merkel acting too weak and coward towards CCP, the Chinese Communist party. Germany should make it clear that the Europe stands with US, against the evilest autocracy which has killed over 40M people in the history while saying it is the savior to Chinese people, still torturing and killing people in Xinjiang, censoring domestic medias, oppressing human rights lawyers in China... the list can keep going.

Congratulate him, he is a German hero who fought against communism and for his country

Ah, you know Winston Churchill only won cuz of Poland 303 Division. For idiot's who don't understand this, Division 303 defendet London from Luftwaffe attack's, thanks to them.

It's hard to rewrite this history

Not like britain massacred over 45mil+ Africans and Indians which was over 5x the Holocaust. No country is clean of crimes. Sorry for my bad English, I am from Korea

@@verpix4956 i agree

Hello

Thank you from Germany. But there are still some topics to talk about. The history of colonisation is still not wellknown (e.g. the genocide of the Hereros and Namas).

Also thank you for your kind words

@@kilsestoffel3690 this is in fact still a Stiefkind in memory, very sad. But there are also very good documentations if people want to watch them

As a German historian I would disagree in one aspect, we still don't talk about ALL topics. While we talk about what we did to the Russians, we don't talk about what the Russians did to us (not even the professionals often). And we also don't realy talk about the trauma, the people of all ages got. This Trauma is still here and many familie pass it down from generation to generation not even knowing that it is there.

@@stricknitt0184 natürlich haben sie recht, ich habe ihn heute eine Analyse gelesen , welche Nationen pro Kopf am meisten vergewaltigt haben, schon interessant natürlich nicht sehr überraschend die Wehrmacht dann aber die Amerikaner vor allem auch französische Frauen, eigentlich Verbündete erst an dritter Stelle die Russen, verbürge mich nicht dafür, habe es nur gelesen

Not me, mate, but don't let that stop your generalising opinions.

But then again the empire brought more good than bad to the world.

@Blaster Master wasn't that during a war?A war to decide the fate of humanity. Oh and I'm pretty sure Churchill wasn't the only reason for that.

@Blaster Master He only wanted war with the Germans because he knew what was coming.

@Blaster Master and no one cares whether he was Jewish or not. A man's heritage doesn't decide a man's future.

And the consequence which is taught is, that we should always pay attention on the extreme opinions in our society. Something like in 1933 shouldn't happen again. We know where it leads.

Mussten wir, alles gut ;)

Thank god the rest of central Europe doesn't have to read that. Greetings from the south east.

@@teodor181 its a good book ;)

@@FAL87 too bad that there are no books about what the Soviets did to Poland,Finland,Romania and Germany...if such a book was to be written about ww2 alone it'd be over a thousand pages long,starting with the criminal Molotov Ribbentrop pact and then continuing with the annexation of Karelia,Bessarabia,Bukovina,the Russians literally moving Poland to the west...and don't even get me started on what the reds did to the poor women and children in here...sadly nobody cares about the Germans from Breslau,Konigsberg,Stettin etc. Or about the Romanians from Bessarabia...or about the poles from lviv and Galicia..or about the Finns.

Imperial Germany contained about 90% of the same ideas and ideology that the Nazis did, so not them either.

To be fair it is not just the Naziperiod that was bad in German history. Under Wilhelm II Germany became an imperialist nation with all the bad sides. Commiting even the first genocide in the 20 century in Namibia which killed nearly half of the population of the Herero and Nama tribes.

What does patriotism bring us? I mean we also stick together without him. Patriotism turns too quickly into nationalism and we definitely don't want that again.

@@zara2442 you dont stick togheter without it. Patriotism is identity and Germany has a identity crisis

*12 Years

And they like to mention other countries and not begin with themselves.

@@Gaminglife-sf1oz exactly😆

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You should be! It's a wonderful country with a great culture. I love your; automotive industry, music,dark humour, scientists,inventors, beer, architecture and the language sounds nice to my ears. Respect to you guys from the UK.

Thats good you should be. Germany has some great people and good history and culture and food 😋 and 🍺 big list 👍 From 🇺🇲

Ich auch 👌

Be proud of your country, never entangle patriotism with partanship. Love your country btw, will probably visit one day.

@jinn جن ekhm, Albert Einstein * was * German? I think you might have overdosed on quantum theory today.

@jinn جن sigh another conspiracy theorist

that's about the best comment here. the banality of evil. single pathological humans manipulating the masses by knowing their cravings, acting thanks to passivity and shocked stupor, pushing the boundaries further and further. Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Orban, Kaczynski... all of them so obviously emotionally distorted!

@jinn جن The genocide of until 14 million germans after the "Liberation" is fact.

@jinn جن Yes that's true.

Actually, you were against the Herero and Nama genocide.

Get rekt

And FRANCE 😂

Or Japanese which is a more comparable case since they were allies with Germany.

And from the protesting 3 months ago in Britain, a lot of them held signs saying "UK is not innocent" and saying Churchill was a racist" are you sure about the Brits?

Oof Germany just hates herself

Hurr durr multCULTi uber alles!

They never Deal Past with Poland. They killed to much Polish citzens as Jews in holocaust but they only look at Jews

Unlike brits, they’re so proud of their empire 😑 They don't even know their past!

@@polishrepublic5055 Because the polish are white.

@@polishrepublic5055 we do talk about that a lot too. We talk about the whole second world war about 3 times in school and it gets more intense with more detail every time

You're an inspiration friend.

I personally hope, that the fascism and Nazi Idiotism never comes back

@@averagewehraboo1509 This is what social media can be good for. Thank you for sharing.

Nazism is worse than cancer.

Im glad for u! Congrats from Russia! I hope, one day Russia will become such a good country as Germany nowadays

That actor played Hitler better than Hitler

Absolutely recommend this movie, it really shows best in any movie about ww2 and all how it really was, and Bruno Ganz (the actor of Hitler) did a fantastic job in portraying him

@@jackstarr4726 How is it over the top? It just shows desperation, and finally accepting they had lost the war.

I agree. The fact even the actors resemble the people they play says something about how accurate they wanted it to be

I gotta watch the Downfall then. But what about "Der Untergnang"? I watched it, how accurate was it?

And japanese

Oh boy those nations have one shady past

*British Raj flashbacks*

Well Anglos tend to shove it rather in a some form of debate group, Anglos misdemeanour are well known and doccumented but people tend to have opinions and its rather drowned in those topics

Id be happy to read all the atrocities that the british empire has commited if people want to list them here, but I'm going to say Britain did not invent empire nor did it invent slavery and I feel zero shame as a Briton living in the modern day.

Japan: "No"

@@foty8679 Britian also no. USA also no. Australia very reluctantly, but getting better. There are others.

You mean the Armenian Genocide of 1918 committed by Turkey ?

@@sylvesterpatrick3403 That would be the one ...

@@Bernie8330 Argentina also no. The federal govt of Argentina still doesn't talk too much about the Conquista del Desierto and some other campaigns in which most of the indigenous peoples of the country were exterminated.

People just pick the WW2 card if the have no arguements or want germany to do something like: greece asking for Money germany doesnt want to give it: do you remember what happend ww2?

Israel wants the world to only talk about Germany.....but look at what Israel does to Muslims people in Palatine today? Very similar to what was done in the 1940's Israel does today to people they don't like. Hypocrites!

Logan Frost exactly

@Felix Roblek , interesting. I just watched videos of Joerg Haider bc of you. Thank you! Sad, it looks like a great leader ahead of his time was lost. Suspicious of that car accident. Very sad. Thanks again for the information.

My country was ruled by British colonies and Japanese in WW2. It was a terrifying era. My country is Myanmar

Unless you do not understand pain , you can not understand true peace . ~ Pain(Naruto)

Also keeps those reparation payments coming from a destroyed ethnostate in Europe to prop up a new ethnostate in the Middle east.

Glad your travels have sparked such an interest in the continent🙂 Regarding WW2 in conversation - it, of course, depends on the person, but Germans are generally open to frank discussions about their history. They are taught about it from an early age.

@@dweuromaxx They are taught political correctness, which has nothing to do with the truth.

@Cleetus Farragamo yes it is: *Look who's back* by Timur Vermes.

Honestly, the first thing I think about is their culture and their recent cold war history, the Nazis don't come into my head because I know all Germans alive now had nothing to do with it.

The same. The thought has never once occurred to me with all the Germans I've met in my life. We usually end up talking about beer or mountaineering

Exactly the same...the first subject is usually football, most Germans who are old enough to remember still aren't over losing 4-2 to England in the 66 World Cup Final!

@@Northstander thanks to the russian linesman who allowed that stupid goal lmao

first thought? On my part, My first thought always goes to how my belgian beers were better than german ones. (Don't be mad German, I still love your autos. ❤)

@So Who's the Dummy Now? The bad thing is, you really belive what you say. And that's why the US will fall. I wish you another 4 years of Trump. After that, maybe even you will be able to see that you are wrong.

@So Who's the Dummy Now? Oh boy, the "signs" are there for ages. Just the other way round. Disavowing that you just admit your another white surpremacist. Happily your kind is on the dying branch. Donald Trump and his fellows are the last jack up of an already dead society. Sadly it will cost a lot of lives to get rid of you once and for all. But in the end. You will vanish!

@So Who's the Dummy Now? Please tell me where BLM advocates for state ownership of the means of production and distribution.

@So Who's the Dummy Now? Because somehow, protesting for the right not to be murdered by police for your skin colour means you advocate for racial supremacy.

Why doesn't Germany address issues relating to German colonization like the Namibian genocide?

Glad you like it!

Ww1 and 2 are not comparable the second one was one were (from today's point of view) you could easy draw a line between the good side and the bad. But in the first every country just fought each other because interests and alliances.

The Second World War was the true ending of the First one. There won’t be another (not in Europe).

But not about educating the European public on real and true history of colonization.

actually, that's not at all what "they" said after the first one...

Today if germany want to did the same, who they did it, France UK and Russia would nuke them

@Registeel on RU-vid yep those too. Also Pol Pot in Cambodia

Josef Stalin has joined the chat

did somebody say Belgian Congo

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@Alex Reinheart Don't forget the bombing of Dresden at a time the war was more or less already won by the allied forces.

@@harrydehnhardt5092 That was a disgraceful act indeed. I mean, seriously? February 1945? As much as I like our British friends (leaving Brexit aside), their mass bombing was a bad, really bad thing. The Blitz was a joke compared to that.

@Alex Reinheart Azerbaijan and kakzakhstan aren't part of the middle east

Western colonialism

@Alex Reinheart wait really? How?