The Hidden History About Germany By Thomas Sowell REACTION 

This proves again that the "winners" create history unfortunately, and how little it takes to get these kind of extreme situations happening. Fortunately I knew a bit about it, but even here in the Netherlands (at least in my school times) we are/were not being taught about this perspective. Thank you Mert.

Thank you and the makers of the original video. I was brought up in Germany but I learned much in this video. I feel a bit better about our dark past now. If anyone is interested how something like the Nazi regime can happen even today, read the book „The wave“ by Todd Strasser (pen name Morton Rhue). It‘s about a real life experiment done by history teacher Ron Jones in California in 1967 which was called „The third wave“ We had to read it in school in Germany. It‘s eye opening.

Very good video. I saved it to view it several times. A very deep and neutral analysis on German history, reviewing all sides, the good, the bad and the ugly. The anti-slavery aspect, particularly in the US was also new to me. Very interesting.

thank you for this very interesting video. I follow a couple of channels with reaction videos on German stuff. I don’t get it why some of them have so many more follwers although your videos are much better 😢. I really hope you keep on going and you will be more appreciated 👍

Germans have been the second largest ethnic group in Czechoslovakia, before the Slovaks. They did NOT only live in the surrounding regions that the Nazis called "Sudetenland". Once Prague was the capital of Germany. The Black Sea Germans have been transported to Germany before the war as a policy of Hitler to avoid confrontations ("Heim ins Reich"). They could not welcome German forces. Also other German minorities in the Soviet Union (German Volga Republic) have been forcefully brought to Asia before the German army could go there.

I think the history and lessons should be taught in every school in all countries, since the preconditions and mechanismens potentially apply to all countries and human beings. Have you ever seen the film "the wave"? We watched it in school and it explains it quite well imho.

Great reaction. I learned a lot about that part of our history in school. Really a lot! I didn't know too much about Germans in other countries or societies, the focus was set diffently. But every german student should know what happened and why things turned out to Hitler. That is what makes us be aware of things gaining and leaves a responsibility to the future. That's the misconception we have to struggle sometimes. We are not responsible nor guilty for what happend but for what is to come.

Refusing to greet any official person with "the salute" or answer a salute without saluting yourself could land you in the camps. The grandfather of my husband worked for the train system as a gatekeeper and was obliged by his superiors to greet every citizen with a salute and the words "Heil H.". For months he mumbled in his beard "Drei Klicker" which sounds almost the same as what was mandated to him but it means "three marbles" indicating that Germany lost it's marbles in 1933. He was in Dachau for one year.

Very interesting post. I'm German and even though I was only born in 1964, I suffer a lot from our Na3i history and I'm ashamed. And this story of ours makes me deeply sad, because I know that otherwise Germans could have done a lot of good for the world. But our reputation was destroyed by H!tler. That's one of the reasons why I hate Na3is so much. They actually turned good into bad and tarnished our reputation for a long time.

If you are interested in the topic, I can recommend looking up for videos about the white rose (a student-antinazi-group during the war), explicitly Sophie und Hans Scholl

Interesting! Thank you... Seems there are some little things, that can make a German more proud to be a German. I'm 41 now. And only heard/lived as a guiltily German (born in the GDR on Top). But of course, no German would talk that way about it, because of the danger of "whataboutism". But it also has erase many other/good steps/ways/directions Germany has done in there history at the same time. We only remind on bad things/failures, to do not the same mistake again. What is right, so far... But we don't remind any actions/partial successes from the past, to prevent somewhat with actions! Because wishful thinking, without actions, brings nothing! It only make, that you live your life, with the feeling, "your are in team" badboy" for every Foreigner, and you have to feel that way... And you must pay for that/them, forever...

A lot of this isn't taught in Germany. It's always guilt, "never forget, never repeat"... and looking at election results, that lessons doesn't appear to stick either.

Alright, that was fairly interesting to those who didn't know all of that before, but I am missing the inevitable question: If the Germans were neither more anti-Semitic and hostile towards other minorities nor particularly over-patriotic at the time of Hitler's rising, how could he be elected and become the dictator who would suppress and orchestrate masses? Despite the well-known picture of the Roaring Twenties Germany was in deep trouble after WWI. The country was pretty much stripped of all significant industry and other active values due to the Treaty of Versailles by the victorious allies. The number of unemployed were legion, so was the number of damaged veterans. Add that to a young and therefore imperfect democratic system with a whole bunch of democratic parties, that were busy fighting each other instead of finding compromises to keep extremist parties at bay. Then comes a guy with simple answers to all of the peoples problems. National economics is down? It's all the Jews', the Sinti', the socialists', the gays' fault! Let's build tanks and ammunition! Let's make Germany great again! Does that sound familiar to anyone? It's up to this day exactly what populists do everywhere.

as a german, i can say we never really learn about those good sides that germans did in that time period, which is totally okay and fine, it helps remind us of waht happened and that it shouldnt repeat itself. But i do feel proud now beeing a german after learning this. Thanks for the reaction.

I was nine when the Wall in Berlin fell. I didn't learn a lot because of German history, because in the GDR a lot of things were taught from the Soviet point of view. And after the fall of the Wall, the curricula were adapted several times. I had to read up on a lot of German history. And, if you're interested, I can recommend the videos by MrWissen2Go.

I dont understand youtube Numbers. How can this Video have over 100k likes but only 10k people have watched it?

Overall I can`t find a singled out fact that was wrong, but a in Germany nobody would ever depict these aspects without the also true antipode and how masses would act with a permission structure. Produced ba a German this would be considered apologetic and thus rather right wing as a discurs. Maybe I only think that way because Sowell singeled out exampels that support his claim. I very much agree though that you can learn about, say in the US, how a rather small group can tip over half the country and move the boundaries of what is acceptable in no time, without everbody agreeing (even within the acting party).

One thing to add. Hitler's party never reached a real majority. The Nazi-Party was the strongest party elected in 1933, however with just 33%. To claim power Hitler formed coalitions with conservatives to get elected as the Chancellor and then used para-military forces to kill (yes, kill) political opponents. He then worked on influencing the reigning President Hindenburg, who wasn't a fan of Hitler at first. But when the President died he named Hitler is successor. So Hitler claimed the two mightiest positions in the Republic and became the de-facto Dictator. Even the constitution of the Republic remained in place until the end of WWII. I think, this is good example that shows how fragile any Republic / Democracy... can become.

Thomas Sowell is an outstanding historian and independent thinker who underlines every claim with solid facts, never giving into any agenda. That is so impressive.

Most people don't know these facts. How the German people changed from being the the people of "poets and thinkers" into the people of jewish murdering monsters. Mainly because of the one-sided portrayal in history class and even more so in American / British movies and documentaries ( yes, I know there is Schindler's list and please don't point out that movie where Tom Cruise pretends to portray Stauffenberg). The typical German in movies is this almost unhuman blond robotic cruel man barking in German instead of speaking it. And I think this is really wrong and dangerous. Right now in the USA and Britain and many other western democracies history seems to repeat itself. When you look at republicans and brexiteers, tories or the pissparty in Poland then they are showing all the signs of fascism and in several accounts allready have fascist policies in place or using exactly the same tactics as the NSDAP did in Germany before during and after their rise to power. But because they have this picture of Nazis in their head they assume they are not. Usually they are the ones banging on how they defeated the Nazis, how the Germans are still Nazis or want to start a 4. Reich ( something I get a lot from Polish and Hungarians). Suella Braverman cannot be a Nazi. Just look at her. It can't be. I am not a fascist, white suprimasist or however they are called today because I don't bark orders like a German and I love my family and don't really dislike jews. Yes, I want to opress homosexuells,transgenderism, ban books I don' t like , kick womens rights to the dust, think it' s ok to put children in cages as long as they are not white, building a wall is great, policemen shooting black people at will is fine, selfsabotageing my country by voting for brexit because, you know, forriners and taking back control.......And most of them would really oppose the killing of the people they dislike. As the great majority of Germans did. They didn't vote for that. They didn't vote to be opressed but it is what they got. That's why it is so important to show this side of history. Not for whitewashing or to excuse the German people or denying anything. But to show e.g. republican voters, who are not yet in the maga cult and just say, ya, but he doesn't mean that and I don't like banning books but you know economy and anti establishment, leftist bla bla bla, that is how it started in Germany in 1933.

it's all nice and well that slave traders were hanged in the german colonies in africa... but the german empire also comitted a flat out genocide in it's east african colonies. so.... opposed to slavery, yea. not opposed to genocide. and that's not just my selfdeprecation as a german. it's history.

deep talk, which brings besides Schindlers list a different perspective to the nazism... Hope, you're doing well atm :D

as a german, i like the the man seen at min 4:10 the only one in the croud not lifting his arm. i adore him despite no one today knows his name. so you could resist the nazi propaganda.

Its always nice to see videos and historical analysis from US-RU-vidr about racism and oppression. Interestingly they are always talking about the holocaust and the really unbelivible and the terrible crimes against the jewish, russian and a lot of other groups. They are talking about the Nazi-belife into a master race and that all the others are born to live as slaves. But i never saw a comparison with their own "glory" country. Whats about the black slavery for centuries? And how is the social status from black, mexican, native americans or latin people in the past AND today? Ok, its much easier to talk about other crimes as about the own ones. And the word "Nazi" in the videoheadline is still a guarantee for a lot of clicks. The fact that german people who lived in other free countries during the WW2 were not really fans of the nazi regime is really interisting. Maybe these people were ready to open their mind and dont refused to get integrated into the new home. Today the situation here in Germany is different. A lot of people from other countries are living here. Some of them since the 1960th and their childs and grandchilds are born here. But especially a lot of people with russian or turkish or arabian roots are talking like they are not born and living here. My president Erdogan is great, Putin is the best, german rules and the german society don't apply to me. Apparently some people were smarter and more open 80 years ago than they are today

Talking about Nazi Germany without discussing fascism as a political movement is rather misleading. Not every fascist is a Nazi, but every Nazi is a fascist.

This Video tells Just the Story written by the ones who claimed to be the victors. It is Not really the half of the Story… there are much better researched analysis… but ok, it is a beginning. Go further, there are much More Layers of the history, and much More Parties involved!

It is important to distinguish different phases of the Nazi's campaign against jews. Between 1933 and the beginning of WWII the Nazis mainly relied on discrimination against jews, particularly by laws excluding jews more and more from public and civil life in Germany. Additionally after the first boycott against jewish shops and businesses - which didn't resonate as well as expected by the Nazis with the German population - and a first round of very light sanctions against Germany by the USA, UK, France and some other countries the Nazi government sought to keep their measures against jews mostly hidden from observation by foreign countries and their press. An important reason for that has to be seen in the aim of making a positive and convincing impression on the world as conductor of the Olympic Games in 1936. That was - among several other aims - supposed to distract from a massive rearmament program started by the Nazis right from the beginning in 1933. Hitler was determined to start a war and had secretly informed the general staff of the German armed forces about his intentions and quite elaborate plans on that in 1933 already. The Olympic Games in Berlin 1936 didn't fail its propagandistic purpose and presented Nazi Germany as a new political, economic and military power to be reckoned with. This is difficult to understand without taking into account events in Russia since the Russian Bolshevic Revolution in November 1917 and beginning of the USSR as the leading communist power in the world. Their massive anti-capitalisic and atheist anti-clerical stance became more and more evident with every wave of violent persecution and of ensueing emigration. Communism and the USSR in particular was increasingly seen as a serious challenge to the established capitalistic systems west of the USSR, the British Commonwealth and in North America - particularly since recessions and the economic crisis in the late 1920ies had made more and more people susceptible to follow political parties claiming to realize the ideas of Marx and Engels. Applying the pattern of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" western governments subdued their concerns about the German Nazi government as long as it was presenting itself staunchly anti-communist (which it was as proven by the earliest political persecutions against members of socialist and communist parties immediately since January 1933). The success of the Olympic Games 1936 emboldened Hitler not only to increase the rearmament and militarisation of Germany but also to increase efforts of persecution of political opponents, Jews, Sinti and Roma people and other targeted minorities within Germany. Additionally the Nazi regime became more hostile to members of the Christian churches which refused to show support for the Nazi movement as expected. In this regard the year 1936 can be seen as a turning point after which the Nazi regime became increasingly oppressive inwardly. One example of that development is the field of eugenics where plans of euthanasation of physically and mentally impaired persons proceeded towards their realisation around the end of 1939. Although propaganda tried to prepare the population about it in general terms the Nazis avoided to explicitly mention intentionally killing such people. However, that was exactly what was happening and parts of the public became suspicous and anxious for their relatives and friends. Since many medical and social institutions were either owned, managed or at least supported by members of the Christian churches more and more rumors were taken seriously by some Christian leaders eg bishops causing them to go public with their findings and concerns. Particularly in overwhelmingly catholic regions that started to turn sentiments of a significant part of the population against and even conflicts within the Nazi movement. The program was mainly stopped and the lesson learned was "Keep bad things secret". As a result its no surprise that some protagonists of the program were later reactivated for the establishing the first extermination camps far away in eastern Europe (Sobibor, Treblinka and Majdanek; Operation Reinhardt). The Nazis planned to exploit Poland economically by harsh rule and to make it a new area of settlement for Germans. The Polish people were supposed to become servants and slaves for the superior Arian race. After the invasion 1939 assault units of the Wehrmacht were slowly withdrawn and replaced by special police units, units of the SS and tactically less important units of the Wehrmacht. One part of that plan was concentrating jews from all over Europe in Poland as slave workers on minimum supply and care. As WWII was progressing the jewish ghettos in Poland became overcrowded and unmanageable. Like the resettlement of Germans program the Nazi's plans of simply exploiting suppressed people didn't work as expected and culminated in such failure and conflict within German authorities that in 1941 the so called "Final Solution" was decided upon at the infamous Wannsee Conference to which SS officer Reinhard Heydrich contributed with the most radical ideas (assisted by Adolf Eichmann). The initial step was Operation Reinhardt by which the first concentration camps were established farther east in order to avoid a similar response from the German population as that to the euthanasia program. As a result the extermination program and its realisation was essentially kept secret until the end. Rumors and bits of news from foreign radio broadcasts were subdued by Nazi propaganda and severe punishments for spreading enemy propaganda. Later some of the rumors seemed so horrific that neither civilians nor members of persecuted parts of society could believe them. But even if somebody tried seriously there wasn't much to do about it since large parts of Europe had become part of an oppressive police state assisted by collaboration with Nazi and other fascist authorities. Help and support for persecuted persons had to happen very secretly and was highly dangerous in most areas. In memory of all victims of oppression and persecution. In admiration of the brave people who opposed, restisted and fought against totalitarianism.

As a German I tell you there is a BIG diffrence between not knowing and I don't want to know it!!! My grandparent shurly didn't know the hole picture... But everybody could see that neighbours disapear in thin air... It's a bit like today. Everbody knows about climatechange and what it will chause... or at least could read about it...but still everybody takes a plane for a holidaytrip.

I will always stay true to my German heritage. 2k of amazing history & everyone just thinks of the last 60 years. Meh. Fatherland, holy roman empire, kaiserreich. ❤🎉❤🎉

I'm always surprised when Sowell is quoted on things related to Germany. His knowledge about Germany in general and the third Reich in particular seems to very limited. To give one example: He categorizes Hitler as a nationalist. Nothing could be further from the truth. According to Hitler, countries come and go. In his deranged mind, there wasn't a 'struggle' between countries, but between races. For him, a country as such didn't mean anything. Boosting Nationalism was merely a tool to solidify his position of power and help him achieve his main evil goal: 'free' the world of 'jewish' ideas such as capitalism and communism by the eradication of the 'jewish race'. That's just one example of how far off Sowell often is in his analysis'. Don't waste your time with him, listen to Timothy Snyder instead, his understanding is much broader and actually worth the while.

Well, actually... I don´t believe it...

germany is the oldes and the first democraty in this world, germany did foundet democraty, also commedy, germans did do it first, in times, as other countries had no streets...., anyway, also for us germans but also for all the other western countries, did remember your own history and keep good thigs.., its worth to die for..., its real, stay questioning but never ever forghet your comming from, it could supprised you and enspires you also....