How Ordinary Men Became Nazi Killers - Prof. Jordan Peterson 

Terrifying book

They were bored as fuck, shallow, empty, godless, power tripping control freaks, taught the THEORY of (d)''evolution''. JUST LIKE TODAY(or any period really).

I will buy the book, but it wont be from an 'affiliate' channel like youres. YOure a piece of lazy shit trying to make money off of someone else content. Please fuck off asshole.

@Whoa Guy Ad blocker you inbred.

How ordinary men becomes NATO killers?

30 is the new 20

@johnmann I get your point and you are right especially in todays times, but dont forget the white race was pretty brutal, I mean killing off aborigines, native americans, Hitler and his fellas, slavery just to name a few. BLM and all these BS movements are obviously forced or lets call it artifical.

@@kamilmusalat that may be true but history has also shown that brutality comes from all people as a whole not just whites, the only thing we can do now is to learn from these acts of injustice and not only stop it but try to improve from it, which is how all these SJWs came about (which ironically have taken it too far) but at least some movements are legitimate. The real problem is the human rights issues that are happening right now as we speak, like Uyghur mistreatment in China, imposing national security law in hong kong which is basically removing their citizens' rights and freedoms etc. I mean, there's only so long someone can be accountable for their mistakes right. Imagine if someone says that you're a crybaby, based on your time as a baby when you were crying a lot.

...one pill at a time...

johnmann based

Got that right! Millennials in their 20’s now are fucking brainwashed.

It's a young age when you have to start brainwashing them with your ideology. People in their 30's could very well have experienced the woke message in their college years. "Wokeness" didn't spring up in the last few years. It started out years ago with extreme progressive professors pushing their message as part of the classroom. We now have a generation of people who have embraced this ideology and have pushed it to the extreme of any differing opinion is a nazi.

Onichan agreed

Rambo, John J. Technically millennials would be late 20’s/30’s but message received nonetheless. Hopefully we can get through this intersectionality war

Andrew Morr Well, whatever the generation in their early 20’s is technically considered.... “Generation social media?” is even worse. I work with a few, that despite being very nice people, have 0 common sense. They walk place to place, even at the office, with their heads down staring at their cell phones. Every other word out of their mouths are “literally”, “actually”, “like so” , and “really?”. Generation “Clueless”?

- doesn't seem that extreme yet to me, but im guessing many said the same thing throughout history.....

@@Babidi111 "YET". This is exactly the same path trump has started. The more video that emerges, the more everyone that hasn't drank the kool-aid will see it.

@@gwkdad It isn't Trump or Trump supporters who are calling for "re-education camps" or taking children away from their parents if the parents are Trump supporters. The kool-aid is being given to you every day by the MSM.

@@Babidi111 Antifa and BLM are the globalists brown shirts.

Where do you see that happening?

Much agreed.

Very good book. I too highly recommend it.

On his Website he has a list of book recommendations with about 80 books or so if you're interested

@grumpy old fart they make sense on some level

read excerpts from this book in 10th grade history

Or supporting em

I remember a study we covered in psychology when I was in college that showed roughly 63% of people will follow whatever an authority figure tells them to do, even if they completely disagree with it to the point where they are crying while doing it. This result held true no matter which country they did the experiment in. I believe it was the Milgram experiment. Pretty sad to to know that almost 2/3 of any population will just do what they are told, even if they don’t agree with it.

You're too pussy for that. Don't worry

Same. I read it as part of either a European or German History class, I don't remember. But it was fascinating how easily ordinary people became stone cold killers. I think if I remember the first couple of days and weeks they struggled with it. Nightmares, drinking, throwing up, but by the end it was so simple and easy for them to execute on their orders.

I saw a photo advert of an Irish nurse today ..in a mask, recommending she inject your children without parental permission. And most likely without their permission too. How many 'steps' is that, do you think?

Watch "Come and see" from 1985. It touches Einsatzgruppen topic and also is the best anti-war movie.

The first stage is to dehumanise the other group. It is happening now. The MSM are doing it all the time and hypocritically blaming other people , ie the “out group”; falsely of “hate speech”.

@@arthurdick9553 CNN and Fox in the US, both MSM, are both contributing to the "other side" blaming and dehumanizing. Any time we watch them, we're helping them stay powerful.

And demoralize their brainwashed sheep

@@arthurdick9553 This past week on CNN they were comparing Trump supporters to Isis and Al-Qaeda. Then AOC goes on there and suggests we build "deprogramming camps". I've heard this somewhere, but where was it? Ahh yes, Nazi Germany.

Tracy An extremely valid point.

@ricky gore Really? How does that work? Prove it.

ricky gore You have a very jumbled thought process.

Amen God bless you Tracy Thanks for sharing WISDOM

God hardened ramses heart against moses. .. God HARDENED Ramses heart against MOSES ....and then , turned them loose on each other. .. let that sink in

A lot of the death squads deployed in Poland and Russia from 39-42/43 had doctorates, and pretty much all of them were higher educated men with the exception of a few units (Dirlewanger who were just sadists). It’s always so crazy to think how intelligent people can do those things to the extent that they did

@@JoshDeCoster That's not entirely accurate. Many of the officers in charge had doctorates, but the units themselves were largely taken from the Waffen-SS, Gestapo, SD and different branches of the police. They intentionally recruited intelligent men with military backgrounds and commitment to the cause to organize the Einsatzgruppen, however the rank and file of those groups had a military or police background and were not higher educated men

Yes.

Literally exactly what I thought. Frustratingly bad title.

No both ways are acceptable prose

@@alexb6821 maybe so, but only one gives the viewer clarity of meaning.

@@alexb6821 One is clearly more ambiguous than the other though.

@Paulie Walnuts Are you this boring in real life or do save this catatonic dreariness for your online presence exclusively?

@Paulie Walnuts YAWN

@@SimDeck youre even worse than she is. What a dork lmao

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My husband joined the US Army at 17, and was sent to combat in Iraq at 19. He served as a recon scout in the 82nd Airborne Division. He is now 100% disabled due to ptsd. I have a front row seat. 😔

Well I guess I'd ask them politely to let us sleep in the barn and give us some food and maybe send over some girls that are willing to take one for the village if you know what I mean. I'd promise to shoot any of my men if they treated those girls badly and I'd do it. Then I would warn the villagers that the alternative is to face destruction. Offered is the same as served.

We are all someone Monster.

@@contemporaryconundrums93lmfaoo

Speak for yourself! I know EXACTLY how I would react!

@@_DB.COOPER Thank you, @_DB.COOPER! “Not knowing how we’d react” is a cop-out. IF you know your head from your ass, then we should all be able to say “BULLSHIT! I WILL NEVER commit immoral acts against anyone!”

It's the polar opposite of the slippery slope fallacy The slippery slope says "one step in that direction I inevitably takes you all the way there" People who respond the way you describe probably unconsciously believe in the slippery slope, and can't imagine evil occurring in gradual steps

Not unlike, say, the road to recovery. A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. Unfortunatly, for some, the downward spiral often seems to begin in small increments, for others it is an ambition. Some people look at themselves in disgust and despise what they have become, others...

It's like how legit concerns about the LGBT movement were dismissed as bigotry. A few years later and we have drag queens giving lectures to young children, young children at gay pride parades, young kids being introduced to trans propaganda, young teens being given hormones to "change genders" etc.

@@SeanConneryPimpShlap Oh no! Young people at gay pride parades! That might lead to them thinking that gay people are human beings or something

He never said they weren't human beings.

Not to mention the downright stupid. A lot of whom are still in higher education.

Not even close as much as having money and corrupt/blackmail people, it is always because of the dependency of money, they didn't think "Damn russians, damn jews, they all have to die", they all though "If I don't obey, I will lose my job (later life), I will lose my income and my family will die from hunger homeless". Idiologies serve only for rationalization "It's they own fault to be russians, to be jews" like the rapist who tells himself "If she didn't dress like a sl... I wouldn't rape her".

Easy to control maybe do u think its easy to make them understand???

Like Fox news viewers...

The republican moto.. keep the public ignorant and afraid

Alan Davis Did you fight? …

@@south1328 had no choice in the matter. One side trying to kill you and the management on my side didn't care if you got killed as long as the mission was accomplished.

@@alandavis9644 no…..you were trying to invade them. So you had a choice not to fight. They didn’t because they were protecting themselves. All who fight and kill unnecessary are cowards I see you’ve joined that camp.

@@south1328 They were Communists. It was seen as a matter of survival for the west. Vietnam slowed down the onslaught and eventually the USSR collapsed.

​​@@normanwells2755 So communism was the reason to murder 2 million innocent people? How many people did capitalists murdered, start with colonialists, fascism, KKK, proxy war's ect ect. Look at the war inUkrain, who started it? The Washington in 2013-2014 during MaidanCoup. Who murdered people in Iraq Lybia Syria Afghanistan Yugoslavia ect ect... USSR didn't enslave people, USSR won the WW2, so you can be free today!

I find it very interesting that most people don't get to read or hear important pieces and speeches like that in schools. There's a lot of important stuff most people never get to read or hear about, leading to a sense of things becoming forgotten.

Most people would rather belong to the fictions and Lies of World than God.

Thank you stranger! You have made my day! And probably changed my life quite a bit....

This is why collectivism is evil. Act for yourself and not for others.

@@jameswa4013 That was Alistair Crowley's mantra. Collectivism takes what is good about family and clan mutual support to a dark place in a subservience to a grand collector, eg Babel. Your form of individualism is the very definition of Satanism

It's interesting analysing the men on the ground physically carrying out the actions and how any population is vulnerable to that under similar circumstances (the book JP recommends is good, I've read it a couple times now), but also with figures like Eichmann, who arguably would have been a meek, white collar Administrative worker in any other circumstances. It's a strange juxtaposition where I believe a lot of these men who played an administrative role in the industrial scale killing probably detached themselves from what was happening on the ground entirely. In the sense that for Eichmann I imagine he saw numbers on a page, reports, documents, maps - and his work with those documents gave him personal satisfaction via promotions, and actually some self worth in the sense he wasn't just dispensable. It's almost like it reached the point where there was no difference to him between overseeing the death of millions, or overseeing the efficient transport and storage of various commodities. It's not that he was inherently some pinnacle of evil, just that his mind had jumped through so many hoops to convince itself all he was dealing with was just paperwork. He thrust himself into his work and was consumed by it on a surface level to the extent that the direct result of his work no longer mattered - as long as everything tallied up and the numbers he wanted up went up, and the ones that he needed down went down, and he got a pat on the back it didn't matter - that was that. The gravity of what he actually was partaking in probably never really hit at that time, and I imagine that is why there was a lot of euphemism with the orders themselves. However, I'm really not trying to remove the blame from him, don't get me wrong, and I'm say ''poor guy had NO idea what he was doing''.

I'm always wary of people who say, or give the impression, that they would have been 'good' in Nazi Germany. I suspect that anyone who devotes their energy to trying to convince everyone else how wholesome and virtuous they are would have been equally as devoted to proving how good a Nazi they were under those circumstances. Like most people, I'd like to think I wouldn't have bought into it, but being raised by Hitler-loving parents, and undergoing indoctrination at school, and then possibly Hitler Youth, and being bombarded by Nazi propaganda 24/7, there's no saying how anyone would turn out. I do find it interesting that many of the 'good' Germans I know of were already brainwashed, so to speak, by religion, and the Nazi brainwashing didn't work on them.

Yes but it always an organized group/state vs freedom (of speech, buying/selling, movement etc) in essence. Now we see it again with this covid tyranny.

Groups are formed under ideologies, so I don't think it's fair to divorce something as integral as that. It's the core of any cause that gives rise to groups.

Do you think German were some kind of uneducated, uncivilised cavemen? For your information, what happened was an excess of civilisation, cleanliness, and civil and military obedience. I know because the man who raised me was there.

@@MarvinHartmann452 That is an interesting perspective. You seem to think the Holocaust occurred due to too much civilization and cleanliness in Germany. I can see the existentialism behind your assertion and I guess it has some merit, but think it mostly racism which stems from lack of education.

It may sound crass but we wonder if the Germans didn't offer extra rations of schnapps for doing such barbaric things?

@@Araconox They did. So much so that it became an issue. Execution commandos would be wasted or on drugs constantly, suffer PTSD and a strange coincidence of sensitivity to light and migraines/cluster headaches. These units started acting out and negatively affecting the war effort. This led to the idea of Industrialised Mass killings that necessitated less manpower.

@@marcellang2277 and there was this high suicide rate of people that worked in that "industry".

There’s a specific point in the beginning of the book where it is offered. However I believe it was offered like directly before it happened, thus leaving the men flustered and taken aback. They then go directly and the killing begins. I only say this as I’m reading it now

“Trapp then made an extraordinary offer to his battalion: if any of the older men among them did not feel up to the task that lay before him, he could step out. Trapp paused, and after some moments, one man stepped forward. The captain of 3rd company . . . began to berate the man. The major told the captain to hold his tongue. Then ten or twelve other men stepped forward as well. They turned in their rifles and were told to await a further assignment from the major.”

The world is full today with a full participation in false compassion. Unreal.

I've thought about this with doctors. My husband is chronically ill and they really aren't compassionate. I think they will break if they become emotionally invested. If theu actually cared if he died

@@goodolearkygal5746 That is a sad story. I hope his doctors aren't the kind to promote MAID's too quickly.

@@Mrskateboardboy he's a quadriplegic so some doctors have already tried to do things like that. It's horrific to see a guy on a ventilator making jokes with the nurse and she leans over and says he can give up anytime he wants. He was disheartened, he thought he was getting better (and he was) then she said that. He did make it home, he got off the vent. But the amount of nurses and docs that tried to tell us how we would want to live our lives was awful, for some reason THEY just knew that WE would be better if they killed him. That was 2019

@@goodolearkygal5746 If he still has his sense of humor, keep telling them to stuff their MAID's suggestions.

My great grandpa I guess died by the hands of some great ppl

I am seeing the prevalence of a pathology of sickness in American society that expresses mental illness in our culture. We are in the decline of our empire and like the Weimar Republic , we have a hard right that’s desensitized and looking for the “other” to blame. Our lack of education and no real manufacturing and industry has wiped out our middle class. “El Duce “said that corporatism is fascism. Hopelessness,violence, and economic collapse are its sources. . Here we go boys and girls. Hold onto your hats because it’s going to be bad. Eric Voegelin wrote Stupidity is a “loss of reality”.Voegelin was a political philosopher commenting on Hitler And The Germans’.

@@rebeccaweil1 Absolutely. We are going down and the government is sabotaging our own country.

They were obviously not great people, maybe they are now since everyone can chance and be redeemed; however, in the past, they made the choice to believe Hitler, and that corrupted their hearts, turning them into bad people. Doctrination is not an excuse, since God gave us free will we are responsible for our actions.

@@sanf7191 amen and it seems like we be repeating ourselves rn

Yes, when are they paying us reparations?

Pure propaganda.

The height of hypocrisy of the Samurai is the entire nation of Japan surrendered unconditionally, yet few took their own lives. So have the Japanese paid for their sins? Hardly, as Emperor McArthur gave them a free pass. In fact, the monster doctor that ran the notorious Unit 731 where they conducted inhuman medical experiments (disembowel captives) on hapless Chinese civilians (screams can be heard miles away) became the head of Japan's Ministry of Health a decade after the war.

Culture of Thanatos is a sign of Shintoism. It’s just so evil but normal to them at the time. Dignity derived from honorable Seppuku or painful suicide was preferable to capture.

@@pickyogum3684 the sins of the father should not be on the sons. Most people from that time that are still alive today were literal children at that time. Its like blaming a seven year old because their father was a rapist, molester, abuser, murderer, torturer, a monster in every sense of the word and then coming to that child later as an adult saying: "its you're fault, and you personally need to pay for the sins of your father" its fkd up, at some point you have to take the L and move forward. Hell, China has the second largest econ in the world right now. They commit various human rights violations daily. If anything, China owes a lot of people for the sins they commit currently. Like those concentration camps where they experiment on muslims, TODAY. Hell, they take north korean escapees, especially the women and sell them as slaves to Chinese farmers, CURRENTLY. But people would rather focus on easier targets with mostly peaceful countries that haven't to my knowledge, started any wars for the past 50 years. Why? Because they know China doesn't gaf about their sins, and has the world by the balls currently with all the world powers invested in them in some way. They could pull back at anytime and the world economy would suffer.

Beyond amazing. He is spot on every time he opens his mouth it seems. An absolute bottomless well of common sense and knowledge.

meh, he just mentioned and summarised a famous book

@@jimhabsfan I've read the whole book and written an essay on it, so I do have the ethos to pronounce that all Peterson did was simplisticly summarise the ideas of the book. I would plead in response: Stop praising him as some kind of god.

@@puglosipher1666 Don't you think there could be a context of doing that in a 40-50 min lecture?

@@puglosipher1666 the problem with this guy and how he lets his audience feed.. like he is some kind of modern God hahah its insane

He told everyone to"just go get the bloodey vaccine"...Beware The Expert.

Hi, diden't read that one but isen't it not about give a small man power to ?

This is true, you see so many people on RU-vid making excuses for these mass murderers saying that if they didn’t shot men women and children they would’ve shot. Nothing is further from the truth. Himmler passed an order that any soldier that didn’t want to kill civilians could just be reassigned somewhere else. Very few as you say asked to be reassigned somewhere else, I have read in some books that the Germans just didn’t want to be called a baby or a sissy by their fellow killers for not shooting children. What twisted thinking from twisted people.

The covid pandemic was a real test of character for every nation and some failed the test miserably. If the people of these nations had any sense they would uproot these barbarians they call leaders and replace them with more worthy men and women. However in order to do that they must first learn how to uproot the evil in their own homes and doorsteps.

I was really shocked at AUS and NZ during covid. Crazy stuff.

The Victorian premier was the worst and he since got voted back in. So either the people in Victoria are incredibly stupid or the election was rigged. I’d believe either scenario, the premier is the biggest snake you’ll ever seen.

Did they line them up a shot them.

@@MegaReception1 Heaven forbid of course not , they were all politicians , honest law abiding folk . Some of them even got re elected !!!

Dear drew, The first step into the darkness was becoming a police officer. Frank.

I left my home country for one of the first world, and still I can't convince my family and friends there that they are living in a shit hole.

There was a soldier during the Civil War whose last words were tell my family I was facing my enemy. There are still people of honor out there you have to look a little harder.

@@artjinks2935 That's not honor. That's just caring about one's reputation. A different thing.

Everyone is capable as there are examples of it from all around the world, Europe, Asia, Africa, Americas. Not to mention, so many Americans descended from Germans..

Dont forget the Milgram experiment

Apollon Abaddon Wow your response is brilliant, what an intellectual you are.

Yeah if you don't follow the mob. You get expelled . Same behaviour in cancel culture

I hate doing Peterson's work for him, but don't want to think of your father being terrified. It took TWELVE YEARS for Hitler and Co to turn the good people of Germany into Narzees. (Despite my virulent anti narzee stand, I cannot spell that word correctly without being bunked off. Perhaps I know too much.)

Yeah, as we have seen, "Make america great again" turns into "Blood and soil!" very easily...

@@mani225456 I was thinking about the riots in twin cities that were fueled by frustration. I think that the BLM movement might also contain parallel narratives. What's your take?

We have a pretty good idea. History has countless examples of those who did nothing, and very few examples of those who stood up.

True enough unfortunately.

that is not true, plenty of the story was told by the losing side , we have their diaries , confessions and interviews , some of them are still alive , so that is simply not true.

Yeah, as we have seen, "Make america great again" turns into "Blood and soil!" very easily...

@@mani225456 The thing is North America is a huge exception to the rest of the world. Except for maybe the natives nobody really has a long established "nationality" here the way a German would or anyone in the "old world" really. What is an "American?" Its ultimately a very loose label and even racial views in north america go only about as deep as skin colour because there is no dominant ethnicity even among those broadly "european" If there is blood and soil it wont be in the preservation sense like Hitler but in the sense of some kind of establishment of a new nation and nationality.

@@user-xg8yy7yl1d Are you people all high on fumes or something? I can't tell anymore if I'm dealing with a fascist "hiding his power level" or a delusional centrist. Stop pretending there isn't a massive fucking problem or trying to rationalize it and explain it away. Significant fraction of US population is in favor of nazi regime, did I dream Charlottesville? Am I dreaming the viewer number Tucker Carlson gets on average?

@@mani225456 You’re delusional. Media driven. Little capacity for independent observation and thought. All the fanatical authoritarianism today is coming from the left. The right just wants to be left alone.

@@docholiday7758Troglodyte thinking a single thought in his empty head is original. Free thinking conservative is an oxymoron.

Yes he did

He was a conniving slime ball who would do anything for power. A little like my husbands ex brother in law.

Personally being a National Socialist, seeing the amount of hypocrisy is kinda ironic. We are apparantly not humans with empathy.

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Professor Jordan is the 1st level of listening. Ben Shapiro is the last one. After years learning by myself, I finally made it with Shapiro's videos LoL. I recommend you to take a look to his speeches (in case you don't know him). Greetings from Colombia.

@@juandavidcaicedo5696 I am glad the west has intellectuals like Jordan and Shapiro,I got fed up and pist off with liberals and woke whom were using the same stupid words and arguments for decades,day by day they are becoming shameless with absurdity!

Speak for yourself.. I would turn a gun on myself before another.

You shouldn't always draw conclusions from yourself about others.