Disappointing. This video does not anwser its own question. It mentions that Nazis escaped via rat lines, it mentions that the Catholic Church was involved, but it spends all of its time describing the trials, and no time at all describing how those rat lines worked or how the Catholic Church smuggled them out of Europe and into (essentially) South America.
Bishop Hudal of the catholic church in Rome got catholic passes made by other priests to allow the war criminals to escape to south America. The main route was known as the "rat line" and the Americans compromised the situation by sending Nazis that worked for them like Klaus Barbie the butcher of Lyon to south America. Barbie was eventually brought back to France for trial but only when he was no longer of any use to the Americans. Even Otto Skorzeny head of the so called Odessa network was asked to help Barbie escape justice but said "no I won't help a swine like him". Albert Speer should have swung from a rope in Nuremberg but he was smart for he knew how to warm to the Americans and tell them what they wanted to hear as he was the only Nazis that took responsibility but only up to a point enough to save his own skin. The Russians wanted to hang him but the Americans got their way and spared his life. They hanged Fritz Saukel instead being Speer's partner in crime for Speer did his upmost to put the noose around Saukels neck and not his and the Americans bought all of Speer's BS. The Russians were furious. The weak British and French towed the American line.
By the tens of thousands, directly via the Vatican with the Pope's full knowledge. From there the Redcross took over and supplied everything required to help them escape and start new lives.
Ruldolf Hess was not an escapee, he flew to Scotland in 1941 in some whacky attempt to negotiate peace with Britain, he was tried at Nuremberg and received a life sentence, that he served in Spandau prison, Berlin, until his apparent suicide in 1987. From 1966 he was the only inmate at Spandau.
I think the narrator just got mixed up with Rudolf Hess and Rudolf Hoss. It’s understandable as Hess is famous and Hoss not so much but someone should have picked it up.
@@requiscatinpace7392 I actually have to edit this comment. You guys got it wrong, they did indeed mean Rudolf Höß, and they actually pronounced his name right(while sometimes mispronouncing others). The pictures also depict Höß and not Hess.
There’s a great series on Prime about this. I can’t think what it’s called but it’s something like Chasing Hilter or something like that. It goes into detail and has a ton of evidence
The title is accurate. The question gets answered. Some "escapes" aren't exciting, but are grindingly, illusively unsatisfying. Relinquishing retribution and justice to a higher power means no escape, ever.
@@josephhunter1627 yeah ur right but don.t fotget 1 thing:-all emperies raise & fall! This time ur country.s divided & is in grave dangerof falling! The USA empire, can be take over by it.s enemies!
I pressed the wrong button, People should look into Books like Gulag Archipelago from Solzhenitsyn and one would see that not only the Krauts were Devils but not one was innocent, France was at the Table condemning the Germans, and half of France during the War would help Germany, I could go on forever.
The title is accurate. The question gets answered. Some "escapes" aren't exciting, but are grindingly, illusively unsatisfying. Relinquishing retribution and justice to a higher power means no escape, ever.
Not all of them did.I knew the sons of some of them.I work with them in the City of Chicago. Also knew some Jewish underground guys that were looking for them. It's kind of weird being in the middle of all that.
I believe that that is the hardest thing to swallow. I don’t know war, but I do think both sides did horribly things. I believe that the difference is that the allies did it to end it, where the Nazies (note, not the Germans) did it to exterminate a population. Not men, not women, but children as welll. And though some trials were held, a lot of the scientists that constructed the most deadly weapons, were indeed welcomed by the allied forces.
Wait a minute, you stated that Hess was hiding as a gardener. Is this the same Rudolph Hess that flew to Germany and tried to convince the Brits to a peace deal. For which he spent the rest of his life in prison, dying in an enormous prison, and when he died he had been the only inmate of that prison for years... That Rudolph Hess?
The British, French and Soviets called Nazis the torturers of humanity while committing the same atrocities themselves. British and French did for 500 years while Nazis only did it for about 10ywars.
The bodies were burnt just enough to be idenified. Look at the pictures and you will see a destroyed city, and WOOD from the building is everywhere ! It would have been easy to throw all that wood into the fire so Nothing would have been left of the bodies. He escaped to Spain.
Actually you're getting him mixed up with the other Rudolf Hoess, the commandant at Auschwitz. The Hess they refer to, former deputy fuhrer, did indeed pronounce his last name as Hess, just like it looks
The mix up comes from the British accent of the hosts. They essentially try to mimic a proper German pronunciation, but they can‘t help but to add a tad of britishness to it and add an „e“ in the vowel sound of the surname, which totally makes it sound like Hess instead of Hyoss (where the „y“ is very soft to non-existing).
@@JamesA1102you're right, I didn't watch the WHOLE thing. I stopped after about 15 minutes because there's only so much nonsense I tolerate. As a WWII historian, the one part of the war that fascinates me is the period immediately following the cessation of hostilities. It is necessarily clouded in mystery and intrigue. Sussing out what really happened is always a challenge, even for those who were there. I'm willing to sit through things I'm already familiar with in order to maybe hear something I haven't heard before. After a while, however, you can tell whether something is likely to be worthwhile or not. For me, this was likely not.
LOL yeah that is the part they want people to think, there were a lot that got away even when they were captured. America shipped a of them that were interesting to them not caring what they had done!
The guilty didn’t get away with their crimes given that there are spiritual laws.. After death, they had to be accountable and responsible for their horrific crimes.
That’s what people don’t get. Nobody escapes Justice. Imagine being Mengele, running in your final years but knowing your deeds will ultimately be weighed and it will not be good. Terrifying to even contemplate.
How many of them served US ,UK, and USSR weaponry technologies, or they served CIA, MI6 intelligences around the world forwhile before Mossad hunted them down one by one ...tribeno justice ⚖️ is the gray color justification.
Nice picture of Mr Hesses terra cotta pots and leaking garden hose This is where I exit For some reason this dubbing irritates me Up till then an ok documentary
Such loyalty too each other until the end neared then they betrayed each other like all criminal cowards, faced with knowing a noose would be around their necks they committed suicide and murdered their children In due course such a supreme race .
Weirdo, so I guy you must believe the super duper good guys won and since the other side lost they’re the bad guy criminals. How low of an IQ must one have to obtain to see the world in such shrewd black and white? I’d hate to see a list of the war crimes against the allies if the tables were turned, you might even call them criminals themselves! Imagine that.
This is so sad! So inhumane; the cruelty of the Nazis was beyond imagination! What pains me the most is to witness a second holocaust perpetrated against innocent Palestinians by a the State of Israel!
Many here in the U.S. collected SOC. SEC. benefits. OSS, a forerunner of the CIA Chaired by Wild Bill Donovan feared we'd be at war with Russia, and used high ranking SS and Gestapo agents who had files on Russian Intelligence agents, and techniques to extract information. ie waterboarding etc.
"A lot of Nazis got away with it, scot-free!" We can't let that happen with the current genocide. Hope we live to hear these words: "Benjamin Netanyahu: First count: Nature of Offence: Crime against the Palestinian People..."
@@SweetChicagoGatorSure, but it’s a documentary, not some TikTok short. They should make sure to pronounce those names correctly since many people actually learn from this.
He didn't have his government round up people to murder them... false equivalency.
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I wonder if Joseph and Magda 'Goebbels' (pronpiounced GABLES by an American narrator) were any relation of the USA starlet Betty Gables ???????????????
