Aesthetics of Evil - The Nazi Salute

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We take a deep dive into the meaning of social contact, the way we greet and communicate, how ideology influences norms, and a less talked about but incredibly important analysis of how reactionaries transform our very understanding of normalcy. It's history mixed with sociology time!
Main Source:
- The Hitler salute - the meaning of a gesture. Allert Tilman.
- Rudolf Hess - Völkischer Beobachter
- Martha Dodd - Through Embassy Eyes
- German Students league quote on Hitler Salute
- Many others re-quoted from Tilman's excellent book.
Intro song: • Sidtrus - Slap Bass (NOT OWNED BY ME)
Outro song: • Woman on accordion sin... (NOT OWNED BY ME)
I do not own any of these video materials in any shape or form.

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[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

That was the fascist greeting and actually the Roman greeting! The video is superfluous in one sentence!

[@Zorro9129]

@@GreatPolishWingedHussars This video, like so many, exploits historical ignorance by playing on a fetishization of fascism. Watch his fans come to defend him.

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

@@Zorro9129 Good comment! Yes, unfortunately you are right and they don't even know that there is a big difference between German Nazism and European fascism. Which you surely know Fascism is not the same as German Nazism! Nazis was a German special way of fascism! With Nazism, the Germans have developed an ideology that completely contradicts the Enlightenment and made it their state doctrine. A complete break of civilization! Such degree of barbarism has never happened in human history! That was unique in human history. The main difference between European fascism and German Nazism is that the Nazism had an unprecedented and unique drastic nature and ruthlessness. So in summary a ​far greater degree of radicality. Because of the censorship here, I have to split my comment or it will be deleted. So in the next comment is the continuation!

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

@@Zorro9129 The circumstance can also be used to derive the far greater degree of brutality, to deduce the higher degree of barbarism, to deduce the higher degree of dehumanization of the victims, which resulted in industrial mass murder, the higher degree of penetration of society with ideology, deduce the higher degree of willingness to sacrifice of the population, the higher degree of readiness to touse force and violence. The consequences of fascism are also not comparable withthe consequences of Nazism, which is known to include various genocides with millions of murdered children of various nationalities and even Baybies.

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

@@Zorro9129 This is really a crazy censorship here! I had to split my comment or it will be deleted! Especially when One write comments about the Germans and ... the nation with the Star of David. If one replace in this sentence the term Nazis with Germans, the comment will be automatically deleted when you leave the channel. "The Nazis murdered 6 million Polish citizens." Although that's a historical fact that the Germans did that, and not just that.

[@parazitkolol]

My grandfather was drafted by the Ustaše youth around a month before the fall of the Independent State of Croatia. As in the story in the video, he greeted the recruiters with the good old 'Dobar dan' or 'Good day' for you non-Balkaners. They immediately started yelling and sent him out to go back in and greet them 'properly' this time (the Hitler salute and an enthusiastic Za dom spremni!). My grandfather, deeply insulted by this act, left the building but instead of returning and greeting the Ustaše on their terms, just went home. By doing that, he avoided the recruitment into the Ustaše and therefore survived the trials and purges after the war. TL;DR: Through merrit of being a sassy bitch, my grandfather enabled all of you to read this comment today.

[@YUGOPNIK]

Damn, what an incredible story

[@TheWoodstock2009]

"based grandfather"

[@citizenfoffie7605]

Based

[@citymorgue8462]

Says “good day”, refuses to Heil Hitler, leaves, Based Grandpa

[@fantasticbear8045]

Sigma grandfather

[@SecondThought]

This was incredible. Very nicely done!

[@spiderpickle3255]

now all we need is a collaboration

[@americancommunist6076]

Marxist Leninist Second thought??

[@YUGOPNIK]

We already did one haha

[@YUGOPNIK]

Thank you bröder, means a lot coming from you :*

[@spiderpickle3255]

@@YUGOPNIK I was thinking of a single video with both of you together. Perhaps on a topic you two don't fully agree on so it's possible to hear two perspectives at once. In any case you, Second Thought, and Thought Slime are probably my fave leftytubers. Keep it up guys.

[@Bizarro69]

the fact that they didn't make it Heil Deutschland or something of the sort shows how much of a cult of personality it was. amongst other things. of course.

[@exudeku]

Soviet Russia's "For the Motherland" and Imperial Germany's "For the Kaiser and the Fatherland" makes Dripler's infamous greeting looks like a whole joke

[@TDenterpriser]

Yeah it was a cult just like communism

[@kryptexplorer4067]

@@TDenterpriser Ah yes. Another guy who doesn't know what communism is. Let me educate you: Communims is A classless,stateless,moneyless society.

[@pepeokatze]

@@kryptexplorer4067 no lol communism is when socialism which is bad

[@kryptexplorer4067]

@@pepeokatze I hope this is irony.

[@mastermati773]

I have just realized that Nazi swastika as a symbol matches contemporary 'simplified logo' standards: - It's created with exactly 3 leading colors, repeated numerously across nazi symbolism. - It has a lot of contrast even tough it has no details (for default symbol). Objects assigned with the symbol can be very easily created (including virtual e.g. vector graphic), but there is still some space saved for customization and interpretation. - The symbol is also point-symmetrical and 4 axis-symmetrical making it good to look from multiple angles and recognizable from long distance. - The symbol itself (before Nazi) had ALMOST no meaning (in Europe), so it doesn't conflict culturally. Concluding, if Nazis hadn't used it, it would be a good candidate for some corporate logo.

[@finnISHY]

Though swastikas had been used widely in Europe until the late middle ages

[@mastermati773]

​@@finnISHY You are right. But it doesn't disprove my point, because swastikas before Hitler hadn't unified meaning. Nazi party was the first one to 'conquer' this symbol by completely overriding its meaning. Btw assessing different symbols using contemporary standards is also possible: My favorites are Horus eye and Christian cross.

[@JS-cc6dz]

The hankenkreuz is on Roman, Gaulic, Irish, and Synthian artifacts. It originated in South Asia, but it has been in Europe for thousands of years.

[@GamStr-xq3vc]

Who says I CAN'T use it as a corporate symbol

[@davitdavid7165]

There is a reason similiar symbols are still used for other reason. For example, here in georgia, the burjgalo (ბურჯღალო) is still a national symbol, printed on coins and such.

[@carlcarlington7317]

I’ve heard people say “the hitler salute was used as a greeting” but could never cognitively grasp how literal they were. Whenever I imagine how it must’ve been used in the day to day it just seems so cartoonish.

[@deptusmechanikus7362]

I imagine today they would argue that it is better than handshake because if social distancing

[@newjerseyyouth4853]

It’s just like gang signs today.

[@ChairmanPaulieD]

@@deptusmechanikus7362 TRUE fact 🧐 🤔

[@ComradeLuka]

@@deptusmechanikus7362then they would proceed to say COVID is a lie

[@georgeboehringer5530]

I do it too

[@anarchoshulginist7515]

There was a popular (although highly illegal) joke in Nazi Germany: Two doctors meet and one greets: "Heil Hitler!" The other one responds: "Heil' Du ihn doch!" (Cure him yourself!)

[@MrIzo56]

How can a joke be illegal? Or do you mean illegal back in the 30s

[@anarchoshulginist7515]

@@MrIzo56 Yeah back in the Nazi era. Some jokes could land you in a concentration camp

[@TürkTeksaslı]

Soy boys banning jokes pathetic

[@niviera7807]

@Je suis Achmed I’m not really sure they were the first, but they surely weren’t the last.

[@tony_5156]

@@TürkTeksaslı pretty cringe also compelled speech is dumb and annoying

[@warguy1945]

Only Yugopnik could convince me to watch a 30 minute vid on the Nazi salute. Brilliant analysis as always, keep this up comrade, you are giving Zizek (sniff) a run for his money

[@sehithima9018]

The sniff made me like the comment

[@CompletelyNormalHuman]

So on and so on

[@zainmudassir2964]

*Sniff* good video *sniff*

[@dave_riots]

The saddest part about all this is the fact that many of the Nazi war criminals recieved lighter sentences or walked away scot-free while homeless people today recieve heavier punishment just for being homeless.

[@americancommunist6076]

the ones in west germany did

[@dave_riots]

@@americancommunist6076 The majority of them did, but some got off scot-free. That is still a few too many.

[@americancommunist6076]

@@dave_riots actually only 12 nazis were arrested and executed in the nuremburg trails, the rest were reintegrated into the west german army and operation paperclip.

[@jannickmetz3150]

Not only in West Germany Sure in West Germany Persons like Albert Speer, who kn may opion is a war criminal, came free in the 80s I think, but in East Germany also some Nazi Officials got free and were incoperated in the SED

[@stardragon7893]

They got rewarded with jobs at NASA.

[@Xpistos510]

I think that the Nazis themselves called it "the German greeting/salute", and it was ripped off from Mussolini, who I believe called it "the Roman salute". Americans once had the "Bellamy salute" which is oddly similar and was said with the Pledge of Allegiance. Either way, with the exception of Volkish Nationalism and antisemitism, most of Nazism's political and economic ideas were just ripped off of Mussolini and Italian fascist thought.

[@orbit5311]

It was a Roman salute. Look up the painting “the oath of the horatii”

[@McHitman47]

Thing is the Nazi salute is not just the raising of the arm, but also the Heil and the Hitler. Hope he comments on that - since the HEIL itself has a long and rich history inside of Germany pre-WW2

[@YUGOPNIK]

@@McHitman47 This. The "It's the Roman salute" could apply to the Italians, at least partially in their falsification of history. With the Nazis it's a lot more complicated as I hope you will see in the video.

[@minhducnguyen9276]

From the Roman Republic it was meant to be a showing of allegiance to the republic so it they took the inspiration from it. In the practice, it's also a method of propaganda called "Gleichschaltung", I was taught about this in history class in Germany so it's hard to find an equivalent in English. It, alongs with many mandatory social clubs an group that the Nazi party created, is a way for the Nazi to insert themselves into the everyday life of the German people. It's there to get people familiarized with the regime, eventually making people feel like it's an essential part of their lives or in another word, making them an inseparable part of being German.

[@Xpistos510]

@@YUGOPNIK I appreciate your content. Keep it coming!

[@amihart9269]

Fascists love to talk about tradition and culture, but in practice they are the antithesis to these things. Fascists universally have strong hatred towards their own people and their own culture, viewing it as "degenerate" and needing drastic social engineering and often even eugenics to "correct" it. As with Germany, they sought to abolish many German traditions and cultural norms and replace them with idealized versions of what they thought Germans _ought_ to be rather than what Germans _were,_ such as replacing traditional German greetings with the salute. As you pointed out, people pledged their allegiance to the state, not to Germany. Fascism really is not even "ultranationalism" because they do not love the nation but despise it on a deep level and want to drastically change it in a fundamental way and are not reluctant to push people of their own nation into gas chambers to accomplish it. There has never been a fascist who did not hate his own people and his own culture and desperately want to see its destruction. It's a viscerally self-hating ideology that only ends in destruction of the nation it takes hold of.

[@oceanorvital5373]

which ideology do you think cares the most about keeping tradition and culture

[@danielwantstofuckingbattle964]

"ackchyually we r the real traditionalists and ethno nationalists"

[@legateelizabeth]

I wonder if a generalised sense of guilt in recent times has caused the uptick in fascistic ideals. People feeling like they absolutely loathe their nation because of material conditions, a rising awareness of the problems of especially European history like colonialism and whatnot, and all manner of things besides, so just… instead create this hyper-idealised version of what they believe it *ought* to be, and then impose that. Which sounds contradictory to the very definite rise in fascism being from angry white guys who feel like they don’t have “what’s owed to them” because of society taking steps toward social (though most definitely not economic) equality, but both those things can be true. Realising it’s not owed to you, what you have being something tainted, and just… violently rejecting both those assertions in the most destructive way possible. My friends tell me I suffer from a loathing of my own nation and people, so I guess I think about this stuff to make sure I keep away from any fascistic ideals. Good comment, it’s another aspect of how people fall to fascism to guard against on a personal level.

[@monoclesquid9667]

It’s funny, because one of the most fundamental facts about culture is its malleability and response to outside and inside influences. Culture is only interesting because it doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

[@amihart9269]

@@legateelizabeth The problem is fascists equate the state and the economic system with "the nation and people". I want to change the state and the economic system. For the most part, with maybe some exceptions depending on the person, I have nothing wrong with my neighbor's cultural traditions, or religious beliefs, or whatever. It's not my neighbor I despise but the _system_ we live under. Fascists despise their neighbor rather than empathizing with them against the system that oppresses us both, but right-wingers have managed to flip the rhetoric on its head so that empathizing with your neighbor and despising the system that oppresses you both makes you the "self-hating" one.

[@orbit5311]

So hyped for this. Loving this series and I hope you continue it more!

[@georgeboehringer5530]

My hero has a toothbrush moustache

[@vgarzareyna]

We need not only to politicize aesthetics... Aesthetics ARE politics

[@daseapickleofjustice7231]

Sounds like LARPing

[@fun_ghoul]

@@daseapickleofjustice7231 What one LARPs as is as good an indication as any of their politics.

[@TheSorrel]

Thats exactly what someone said on his last Video. To paraphrase: "Nazis where basically LARPers who forced everyone to participate and murdered everyone they didn't want in their club."

[@vgarzareyna]

@@TheSorrel Except they also set the rules for entry waay to strict

[@vgarzareyna]

Also, i got the idea of politicizing aesthetics from another youtuber who talks abut how we make politics into aesthetics and why we should do the opposite

[@owenjauregui]

For those Wondering, The music song in the intro is called Sidtrus - Slap Bass. Up vote so more can see

[@NamesBen]

So nice to see you back in acton comrade, I won't be online during the premier but will catch up tomorrow. You are - still - the voice within the Socialist movement I identify with the most ( being a hungarian named "Tóth" / "Slav" who has a similar appreciation of Alcohol ). Keep up the wonderful work!

[@YUGOPNIK]

Thank you Toth

[@Infotact]

Ah I remember you from facebook comrade

[@cshelley5658]

National SOCIALISM

[@jehdbahs7277]

@@cshelley5658 is the DEMOCRATIC peoples Republic of Korea democratic?

[@cshelley5658]

@@jehdbahs7277 4 hour lecture: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3TOqop4hcaHeZo Fascism borrowed from the Left, Mussolini was a Socialist also. 2. Yes actually, people confuse 'democratic' for a (functioning) democracy, or its evolution a Republic. The word 'Democratic' simply means chosen by the majority of a population. Greek- 'Demos' meaning '[of the] crowd' and if someone can convince a majority of [a crowd] in Chinese Occupied Korea (let's not forget Mao bailed out Kim (born in the USSR not Korea by the way) who was loosing to the US/Commonwealth forces after the Battle of Pusan to vote for Kim Il Sung then its 'democratic'. The will of the people, the fact the 'will of the people' isn't allowed to CHANGE after that is left out by these regimes... TL:DR Most revolutions started out having majority 'crowd' support and that's how they legitimise it- worse in Chinese Occupied Korea the 'people's will", let alone body strength to resist is forcefully static in support of the regime so remains the same 'democracy', 'will of the majority crowd' forced or not. South Korea was also American occupied no popular will in that poor place. ... There's a reason democracy evolved into republics. A democracy is simply popular, things can be popular, good, unite people...like erm... cat videos. Or popular temporarily and bad like Shitler or little Kim. Right wing: Putin, El Sisi in Eygpt |Ect. Left Wing: China Venezuela| Ect. I'm a Historian for part of my living *shrug* comprehension isn't permission.

[@nomecognome794]

Damn for an anti-fascist you really dropped the hardest nazi germany edit

[@TotalWarhead]

I had never seen your channel until yesterday and I am blown away by how much the intro of this video has captivated me. Very well written intro and before that, the editing as the image is smaller than the frame and enlarges along with the transition from soft to hard power in the shown imagery. Keep up the hard work

[@gigi-bl5yu]

It frustrates me that some young folk in my region (which was devastated by the Nazi-fascists) now have the balls to do this disgusting salute and joke about the victims of ww2 and even the holocaust. Whenever I try to explain it to them that what they are doing is wrong, I only get laughed at. My grandmother spent her first years on this planet in a concentration camp. My first great Grandfather died in Dachau, the other died in Neretva. There is nothing to laugh at here. But thank God that I am a member of an anti-fascist family.

[@friedrichbaeker]

This is a joke comment right

[@Sasha-trans-fenix]

@@friedrichbaekerfash?

[@friedrichbaeker]

@@Sasha-trans-fenix commie?

[@XS-03_Apollo]

@@friedrichbaeker im a proud commie

[@friedrichbaeker]

@@XS-03_Apollo how does it feel not having one successful country

[@sleepyhead8681]

More Hakim streams! I'm in poverty but would pay for more I enjoyed how you two play off each other so well. He's almost like the strait man and your the comedic relief in the best way!

[@sleepyhead8681]

@Azhag Dark Hakim still attacked Vaush in 2 video's. It probably ment A lot to Hakim to interview A big name Marxist economist. Who can Hakim talk to who isn't A ML or Anarchist then?

[@the80386]

@Azhag Dark if trying to understand varying viewpoints makes you 'lose all respect', then you didn't have any to begin with. this militant perfectionism mindset is the reason for the current sorry state of leftism. instead of disrupting the already fragmented movement, try to contribute something unifying and meaningful.

[@marcusvergara6193]

@Azhag Dark except he did offer pushback to Vaush, as he made two videos against Vaush. And after that video, critiqued Vaush multiple times on his social media feed. Are you just willingfully ignorant or are you genuine in your stupidity? Also, apparently calling someone an asshole is being nice.

[@TürkTeksaslı]

Good

[@scribeslendy595]

Absolutely phenomenal video; your conclusion about staying vigilant for the social apathy that fascism thrives upon hit the nail right on the head.

[@AugustusOmega]

You are correct, Hitler was inspired by Mussolinis fascists, but the Hitler salute was actually an American gesture towards their flag. The Bellamy salute was devised in the 1850's and it was only after WW2 that Americans completely abandoned their belamy salute for the currently familiar American "hand on heart" when addressing their flag. Barely any imagery has survived of Americans doing their belamy salute. Hitler was inspired by American Eugenics as well.

[@warprecautions631]

No, Hitler wasn't influenced by the Bellamy salute, and the salute existed long before Americans adopted the Bellamy salute. It also became popular in 20th-century Europe following D'Annuzio's siege of Fiume. Hitler's reasoning for adopting the salute: "I made it the salute of the Party long after the Duce had adopted it. I'd read the description of the sitting of the Diet of Worms, in the course of which Luther was greeted with the German salute. It was to show him that he was not being confronted with arms, but with peaceful intentions. In the days of Frederick the Great, people still saluted with their hats, with pompous gestures. In the Middle Ages the serfs humbly doffed their bonnets, whilst the noblemen gave the German salute. It was in the Ratskeller at Bremen, about the year 1921, that I first saw this style of salute. It must be regarded as a survival of an ancient custom, which originally signified: "See, I have no weapon in my hand!" I introduced the salute into the Party at our first meeting in Weimar. The SS at once gave it a soldierly style. It's from that moment that our opponents honored us with the epithet "dogs of Fascists".

[@AugustusOmega]

@@warprecautions631 well slick...I dont read Hitler, the ramblings of a gay little artist with a charlie chaplin mustache strikes me as not a literary giant but a weak worm. I have nothing to learn from Nazis

[@Naheed_Ahmed14]

Mashallah daddy Yugopnik has uploaded

[@tankpiggy]

Mashallah daddy Naheed has commented

[@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777]

Love it Comrade... A lovely video. I've been waiting for it all day.

[@YUGOPNIK]

Glad you like it!

[@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777]

@@YUGOPNIK It was very good. As always I can't wait for the next one.

[@hgsgidshihogs]

Amazing video, very well put together and I appreciate your work. Thank you for this!

[@YUGOPNIK]

Thank you!

[@jacobedward2401]

I was at a metal show for Halloween, lots of Darkthrone patches... Always a fun game of "Nazi or just a fan of Black Metal?"

[@jacobedward2401]

@Azhag Dark it's like... They recognized American economic imperialism and said "the Nazis were better than this" ...which is a good joke, but of course a certain percentage of idiots named Varg take it seriously and fall into all the Hienrich cult shit, which bastardizes the actually cool mythology. And no one knows for sure what ancient Norse beliefs were like... Nazis ruin everything.

[@rtji0]

true tho darkthrone has to be one of the least racist of the bigger bands. i'd be a lot more worried about burzum fans

[@frosty6845]

@@rtji0nah Darkthrone are nazis too

[@thekaxmax]

What amuses is that metal music and the fans would have been considered degenerate by WWII Nazis.

[@nyclurker603]

All the best black metal bands are NSBM

[@liasonlee1248]

It shudders me to see those similarities of German salutes to religions, corporate culture and even modern economy itself. The moral decay of our societies today under the dominance of capitalist economy is terrifyingly unknown of.

[@VegaTakeOver]

LMAO the soviets and communist totally dont fall in this category also

[@jakekaywell5972]

@@VegaTakeOver They don't in any capacity.

[@VegaTakeOver]

@@jakekaywell5972 they do but i wouldnt expect a tankie to recognize or care

[@georgeboehringer5530]

I’m a German and I love to salute

[@liasonlee1248]

@@georgeboehringer5530 do Germans love to talk rubbish like you do?

[@Charles37400]

Maybe its coincodence and im just having a stomach bug, but on seeing how deep that ideology bled into the daily lives of people, it actually sickens me quite literally and my stomach feels like sonething is twisting around in there. It boggles my mind how it could just become a greeting as normal as hello

[@Charles37400]

The last time i felt that was when i saw the evidence footage for the nuramburg trials. Seeing bodies, some dead some alive, stacked up like firewood in a shed, is an image thats burned into my brain

[@saimaberrii]

What's shocking to me is that people are allowed to still support that ideology. Right wing groups should face a lot more repercussions for it but they never do. It's perplexed me since childhood

[@user-lz2ee4ch2n]

@@saimaberriifreedom of speech until you’re a socialist, eh? That seems to be the trend in America

[@saimaberrii]

@@user-lz2ee4ch2n socialism is fine. Perfectly acceptable to propose socialist policies. Fascist and increasingly, conservative policies are toxic and something diverse communities won't accept when they're empowered to act in their own interest

[@JimCorrigan777]

Excited for this channel to blow up, love the format

[@hennoxxx]

I am not entirely sure, but i heard the story, that during the Olympics 1936, the salute the french and the british athletes made was more an "olympic salute" than the Nazi one. The IOC banned the salute after WW II cause of this similarities.

[@GLBHemstreet]

No, you're right- I was about to comment the same thing!

[@l-nolazck-rn24]

I see, new salute to use to do a little trolling kek

[@punishedvenomsnake716]

Love your videos man. It's hard to believe a group like this existed once to be honest. I can't imagine what it would have been like to actually live through this

[@cultural_marxism_fan]

I mean they still exist. Fascism isn't dead unfortunately.

[@eduardstefanmalos3685]

It would be awesome

[@eduardstefanmalos3685]

@@cultural_marxism_fan more like thankfully

[@eduardstefanmalos3685]

@OMEGALUL Clap scary only If youre not based

[@suckston]

@@eduardstefanmalos3685 fascism is inefficient as fuck. its a huge cope for a couple of years until everything starts falling apart. and then you end up on a tree, assuming your friends didnt already label you a sub-human and did that cause you werent needed anymore. it always went like that, pick up a book from someone other than david irving. based my ass.

[@MsElectricsurge]

The intro slaps hard. Concerning the absurdity of inserting the salute into every social situation: my great grandfather was a dean at a university and he had to open and close every meeting and lecture with the nazi salute. He changed it to „heilt Hitler“ which translates to „heal Hitler“ which infuriated the president of the University and he was let go. It was so important to them that my great grandmother feared they would get a visit from the SS. They had to keep my great grandfather around though because he was important to them as a surgeon.

[@oberlion3595]

Please dear Yugopnik, add your music credit. The intro sounds great.

[@sahahorria]

You're currently my favorite political youtuber. Your work is awesome!

[@voidprince2257]

There is an american version of the nazi solute too when you put your hand on your hart and say "god bless america."

[@voodoomagic90]

😂😂😂😂😂👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@xXEvangelXx]

pretty much

[@longlostwraith5106]

Similar, but also very different. Saluting Hitler and saluting "America" are not equivalent. The former is an actual person, while the latter is a nation, an idea.

[@craftpaint1644]

Live with your beliefs though they bother you daily 😁

[@whyythestupidithurts5564]

People often forget the nazi ripped off much from usa ...what usa did to the native Americans was a genocide and where Germans got that "bright idea " ...until we truly look at each dark history of each nation we all will be doomed to see them repeating .

[@arjb1046]

I'm glad I stumbled across your channel, comrade. Please, do continue this series, the more we know of our opponent, the batter we'll become to defeat them.

[@milosstepanovic4299]

Hell yeah boi, new Yugopnik video

[@carlobasilone3133]

That is a beautiful touch to have the young lady from Belgium playing "Bandiera Rossa" from her balcony underneath the credits. I got very emotional when I heard it, I even wondered if somehow KZbin was playing 2 videos at once as I play that one all the time. Thank you for your work "Compagno" and greetings from Canada. Hasta Siempre.

[@georgeboehringer5530]

My hero has a toothbrush moustache

[@carlobasilone3133]

@@georgeboehringer5530Perfect for the simple minded

[@danielefabbro822]

Sei parente di Giovanni? 🤔

[@carlobasilone3133]

@@danielefabbro822 Non ho nessun parente che si chiama Giovanni. Al massimo ho un figlio che si chiama Giancarlo.

[@danielefabbro822]

@@carlobasilone3133 capisco. No durante la seconda guerra mondiale c'era un noto italo-americano che si chiamava John Basilone. Fu un Marine degli Stati Uniti. Il più decorato della guerra. Grande esempio di coraggio e dedizione alla causa.

[@krisfrederick5001]

I always found the Pledge of Allegiance as a child in American schools to a flag that I didn't understand represented as off to me. Not too different. I thought I have seen every aspect until I witnessed this, your interpretation is Ace ♠ Which I have only given to Dr. Mark Felton P.S. I am actually close friends with a descendent of Rudolph Hess, as a World War 2 Historian it was bizarre. The resemblance is uncanny, only in appearance.

[@thijsfranse6956]

'The new normal' where did I hear that before.

[@Warpwaffel]

9:30 Well the headline in this edition of the Völkischer Beobachter is hilarious in hindsight. It's 10/10/1941 and "the campaign in the east has been decided!"

[@onlydogontheleft]

This is ridiculously good. Excellent work.

[@noanimezone3149]

DAMN. Had to take multiple breaks to finish video this just because of how deeply upsetting and sinister this topic is. But you gotta know your enemy in order to fight it. Great video!

[@exudeku]

The usage of the "Heil" salute in Jojo Rabbit shows how actually absurd the usage of this manner of greeting to those who dont believe in the ideology

[@stevetownley5480]

I am not a Nazi but a clench fist salute is pretty stupid as well

[@AbteilungsleiterinBeiAntifaEV]

Watched this in german public transport. I really hope no one looked at my screen and got the wrong idea lol

[@Reichsritter]

*in

[@jakesuper6447]

Oof

[@Mr.Prince_Tunmise]

"I doubt if Hitler did anything Stiff"

[@hughmac13]

I'm no Germanist, but is there at least a philological link between "heil" and "heilige"-"holy"?

[@derfriede]

It's both, maybe. I think the multiple levels of meaning were intended.

[@danieldesavage1848]

Heil can mean something like Blessing so yes

[@letzte_maahsname]

There are multiple words in this category (no linguist here, forgive me): "Heil" (a Greeting), "heilig" (holy), "heilen" (to heal) and composites like "Heiland" (synonym for Jesus). So there indeed might be a link.

[@johnmorgan4124]

Excellent video comrade. My father was in ww2. He is 95 now and recalls how nazi prisoners were beaten by British troops if they gave that salute. That was when they had found out what was going on in the concentration camps. Feelings ran high and nazis were very very afraid, just as they should be. Keep up the great work ✊🏴❤️

[@terry6729]

Doctor: Sand Hitler can't harm you, he doesn't exist Sand Hitler:

[@gabem.5242]

Long story short: - The Romans never used it - It was invented by D'Annunzio for the "Cabiria" movie, as a piece of filmic liberty, way before Fascism was even in power - Almost all of the other Fascist leitmotives come from the Regency of the Quarnaro period: "Eja, eja, alalà!", for example, was a cut version from "Eja, Eja, Alalà! Long live love!" to remark the pacifist intentions of the the Regency. - Hitler, as usual, fucked everything up with pure bullshit and make-believe mysticism.

[@gaiagiomusic]

This is absolute gold. Thank you.

[@StupidPerson-dh9bj]

I remember skit in a movie ( I can't remember which) were several officers enter a room together and the words "Heil-hitler" were uttered no less than 20 times as they greeted on another

[@michaelkelly1267]

Good to see "Swing Heil" got a mention.

[@michaelkelly1267]

Finished it now; that was really excellent.

[@YUGOPNIK]

@@michaelkelly1267 Thank you!

[@eduardstefanmalos3685]

Kinda cringe tbh

[@imeowmeowkat]

Welcome back king. Listening to this at work to undermine the capitalist authority. Love ya lots ❤

[@Zorro9129]

Communism is worse than fascism.

[@basedbulgar5240]

The ones truly fighting against capitalism are fascists, whilst communists let the nation and its people rot away just as the capitalist does. Both of them have the same master

[@eclipse-d6x]

Fascists are anti-capitalism

[@jeremias-serus]

Capitalism is bad brrrrr

[@imeowmeowkat]

ok

[@itacom2199]

I appreciated that you quoted the Italian fascist roman salute as the source of the Nazi salute, but you didn't say that it was inspired by an Italian silent movie, "Cabiria" (1914), screenplayed by Gabriele D'Annunzio.

[@jakesuper6447]

Unfortuantley, the far right is making a resurgence in Italy, including people referring to themselves as fascist and the racist anti immigrant movement Hopefully Italians can remember their partisan legacy and rebuke that

[@andresesparza9484]

They video didn't seem that interesting and it was just on my queue. I was so wrong. Good stuff.

[@YUGOPNIK]

Thanks and welcome to the channel!

[@scoutbane1651]

I see similarities between this, and what used to be the greeting in former Yugoslavia ("Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu" Death to fascism, freedom to the nation), though with meaningful differences. Definitely interesting to see how basic social interactions get changed by the state to suit its purpouses though

[@pejsacek]

I’ve just found your channel and have seen the two nazi themed parts. I like your content, your thoughts and especially mutually shared disgust of nazis, by extension fascism, about which Ive been obsessed from early age on. However. There are several shortcuts on which you build your point which I think are key to avoid and which might allow one to understand the complexity of the matter. There is no time to go through them all so just to name a few from my (subjective) POV: First of all, I very very much dislike comparing the past with the present. It rhymes, not repeats. But the everyday reality of the Weimar Republic was incomparable to anything we live in today. Actual hunger, poverty, brutal unemployment and nation wide shame were imposed on heterogeneous, newly created state by foreign countries. Which brings me to your point on degradation of morality in your conclusion. As stated above, push comes to shovel, when you can’t bring food on your plate, little you care about some abstract concept of morality. This is not applicable for everyone, some don’t fall this low you might say. And you would be right. The favorite line about even nazis winning democratically is laughable. There were four elections in the period of two years (!), heavily influenced, and they still won them in low 30%’s of counted votes, which wouldn’t hold against coalition the left. Nsdap has basically forced itself upon a state officials who, unconstitutionally, picked them as they were not threatening elites contrary to the communists back then. The vast majority of the public which disagreed with nazis seizing power did not really have a choice. This is coming from someone who sees fascists around every corner. Thanks for your vids, kamarade.

[@VectorOfKnowledge]

Not just evil, but miserable evil.

[@trenthobson2756]

That's such a cool greeting. We ought to bring it back! 😃

[@alejandropena9825]

In Mexico we do the Roman/Nazi salute when we pledge allegiance to the flag every Monday, that's in primary and junior high, so ye kinda sus

[@karis2591]

Based

[@greenpill9567]

Based

[@edgychico9311]

Hitler whenever his going to go to work at his office. He's heilling to the taxi and come to pick him up at work.

[@gobogoo2329]

i enjoy watching the fashy nerds seethe in the comments almost as much as i enjoy watching the video itself

[@pezvonpez]

I'm not seeing that many of them Nevermind, there's a few... but how do you enjoy that? It just makes me lose my hope in humanity

[@TriremeBoy]

@@pezvonpez because he know the left has fallen and is enjoying every las moment of it

[@saimaberrii]

@@TriremeBoy yet it's only the right still doing Nazis salutes and idolizing confederacy and Nazi ideology

[@wilikoki_ula2540]

These videos are always very informative and more than a little clever, but the conclusions are always 🔥💥🔥💥

[@agiftfromdracosfather3490]

7:50 I believe this is actually the Olympic salute and it wasn't just the English and French, the Olympic salute actually predates the nazi one but I think is not longer used because it looks so similar

[@Cassedy3]

A thorough and fascinating study, I greatly enjoyed this video.

[@alessandroboccalatte8120]

I think you don't talk enough about other nationalistic societies Especially Fascist Italy as it is the template for all of the others, and has many carateristics in it's birth which may sound strange, as you don't associate them with fascism Also, the Roman salute wasn't done by ancient romans, but the belief was created by a movie by Gabriele D'Annunzio made before ww1, in which he said they did so, and everyone believed him

[@LogicGated]

Love how well researched this series is.

[@oliverfasola19]

That intro music

[@727Phoenix]

The Bellamy salute of the American flag also employed the similarly upraised palm and arm towards the flag until 1942.

[@727Phoenix]

@Azhag Dark No, it was the right hand. But I'm seeing pictures of school children with right arms raised but palms _down._ A little different from what I thought. But they changed it in 1942 because it was too similar to the Heil Hitler salute.

[@spacecadet9663]

Damn, that hard bass song you played to open up this video was fuggin fire. Shit had me breakin in my room

[@ShadaOfAllThings]

Social Systems are just that: Systems. Small parts can have larger effects on the overall machine, whether your machine is made out of gears and belts or social relationships between people and society at large. When most interactions in said systems begin with a greeting it is then noteworthy that the foundation for nearly every interaction will then set the tone for that interaction. In Nazi Germany this salute meant that you were either supportive of the nazis, or were afraid enough that you wanted to look like you were. This being reinforced in literally every social interaction they had means that people will be terrified of the social force that the nazis can look like they project, even if only subconsciously. For the author, a suggestion on the aesthetic presentation of the video: While I think your message is overall good, consider that under the right context your opening is indistinguishable from actual pro-nazi media. It is the kind of thing I'd genuinely see as a red flag if I had just met/saw you, and more importantly I worry that were for some reason this to become popular in nazi circles this could help them up their obfuscation game. As such, I'd recommend doing something to make it more abrasive, aesthetically speaking, towards such groups. Sadly, I have no ideas on how to do that while remaining consistent with your more general aesthetic, other than maybe using more clips from Inglorious Bastards or similar media?

[@Tetragrammaton22]

The video is literally called "Aesthetics of EVIL". I guess if people choose to not read the title they may be confused as to the purpose of the video.

[@trailmix2062]

Get some help bro holy fuck you need to get a grip

[@exaggeratedswaggerofablackteen]

Who knows the intro song ?

[@ThePhatFilosopher]

Should such a serious topic have an intro so catchy??🤔

[@tavomoline4802]

its the most replayed part of the video... yikes 😬😬

[@bbuny10]

As someone who largely listens to Rap, and who has never seen a video on your show I was really Feeling that intro lol not gonna lie, it got me excited. The quality of the video though has me liking and subscribing

[@android65mar]

A thoughtful and incisive dissection of this frightening phenomenon. Thank you again.

[@nemo-no-name]

Awesome examination, keep at it druže! :)

[@Equinsu_Ocha69]

This enraged the allies who punished them severely

[@americancommunist6076]

mostly stalin to be honest

[@RedgraveGilver]

@@americancommunist6076 Thank you Comrade Stalin.

[@attackmaster519]

@@james_chatman *Russian standing in front of 20 million bodies* Yeah! It's the Fascists who only value death!

[@jakesuper6447]

​@@americancommunist6076 Thank you Comrade Stalin

[@sunnyrajput1912]

As an Indian loyalty and oath of allegiance, to a human is unacceptable idea. The oath of loyalty could only be to the nation not the leader. However I reckon there is a practical problem here, the nation doesn't speak or ascribe what constitutes, loyalty to the nation is a personal idea. German by swearing allegiance to Hitler, explicitly told the loyal behavior of the nation is what Hitler ascribes not every decentralized idea of masses.

[@SantaMuerte1813]

While this video makes some good points, I have some addenda or corrections I feel necessary: 1. Discussing the youth organisations: While it is true, that HJ and BdM had a near 100% conscription rate as enlistment became compulsory, participation is another story. Since the opening of the archives, historians found that in many places in the countryside and even in some city districts the local leaders had a hard time getting their members to actually show up. 2. 'Heil' is not used on its own as a greeting in Germany anymore (at least not beyond right wingers). And the 'Heil' used by specific sports might look the same, but is of different origin: the 'Heil' of the nazis was corrupted from a translation of the latin 'ave' as in 'Ave caesar!' - 'Heil Cäsar!' - 'Hail Caesar!'. Through older literary text, we can find examples of that phrase in German, where a 'dir' followed the 'Heil' - either added in or replacing the name of the adressee. That 'dir' is you as an indirect object. So that 'Heil' is short for 'Heil sei dir' - 'May you be well/I wish you to be well' The still common greeting within some sports are however grammatically different. When Fishermen say 'Petri Heil', 'Petri' is latin - a common way of refering to biblical characters in Germany. But since latin declines even its names, we can say that Peter is here in the genitive singular form as a possessive object. So 'Petri Heil' means '[St.] Peter's blessing', and the hunter's 'Waidmanns Heil' - 'Hunter's blessing'. Skiers usually don't hail each other anymore.

[@Bronson37848]

Odlično Yugopnik!

[@BonShula]

I really hate the idea today that the fascist movement was so aesthetic that could drag people in very easily. As we can see today it is still happening through memes.

[@foxovdiler9571]

We are 10% of the population

[@BonShula]

@@foxovdiler9571 Nah, you are just cringe.

[@landonorris6]

They also dragged them in by offering the higher standards of living

[@stevenortiz9008]

@@BonShula you are just black

[@jakesuper6447]

​@bussolini1916 No they didn't lmao, living standards for workers decreased during nazism

[@Uajd-hb1qs]

What I find so ironic about this is how much the nazis tried to ground their regime in politics and science and then they do things like this which is so hilariously religious.

[@Vomitbukkake]

Industrial music in the intro is deeper than you guys know 😂

[@vvirtualvviolence283]

Another absolute banger of a video, tovarich.

[@mr.v6052]

I hope you continue this series one day, Comrade. Maybe look at other countries next time.

[@horrorspirit]

I just binged your aesthetics of evil and i must say it is a remarkably well written series. Interesting to hear about the techniques of social manipulation used to get people to accept the nightmarish regime

[@a_lauscha5604]

A brilliant analysis, as usual. One might also ad the aesthetically pleasing alliteration of the double-h at the beginning of the words. And also its potential to be used - in variations - in mass rituals: Combining it with "Sieg" (victory), as part of an interaction with the crowd: one person shouts the "Sieg", the crowd responses with "heil". Or the crowd simply shouted only the "heil" in a rhythm, like at a rock concert. A truly scary way to induce a sense of belonging that eliminated the individual (and the responsibility of an ethical human being with it). - Very similar to what religion used to do. Philosopher Eric Voegelin coined the term of "political religion" for fascism and socialism, it seems fitting. ... The old socialist systems used a similar method of creating a sense of belonging to a "greater" power. As soviet pioneers we had a ritual of being asked "are you ready?" (to fight for the case of socialism) -- and we had to respond with a shouted "vsegda gotov" / всегда готов / "always ready", while making the pioneer salute. -- In its structure it was the same as the nazi salute, only not as prominent in everyday life... I think it's very important to point out these historical similarities ... and at the same time not to lose sight of what a socialist idea might actually be today. You are doing a fantastic job in this case; keep up the great work!

[@BalkanOdyssey_]

30mins of guaranteed gigachad quality? Sign me up.

[@eduardstefanmalos3685]

More like cringe beta male

[@kobemop]

@@eduardstefanmalos3685 more like gigachad quality.

[@eduardstefanmalos3685]

@@kobemop nope

[@iw3892]

The HH beer glasses makes me think of the Trump merch. Not just clothes and hats, but Christmas ornaments, cups, flags, and even drinking straws. Rather disturbing.

[@craftpaint1644]

So what you're saying is only you should approve how someone campaigns for an office 👩‍🔧🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺

[@ipheclekennedy]

Here from your boys hakim and second thought Subbed The dynamic trio

[@jizburg]

This is probably the most hitler salutes in one place i have heard in a while.

[@crazyandcurious2585]

Thank you comrade Yugopnik.

[@tchumango9131]

Is it weird that I think the beat in the beginning is FIRE?

[@joelwallin6930]

Have played it back ten times now.

[@saimaberrii]

No, the Nazis would've hated it. Called it subhuman culture. You have liberal taste relative to them.

[@luzherrera4463]

The remix at the beginning was so good lol

[@YouHaveAnApeHead]

I like the version of Bandiera Rosa played at the end.

[@mstrshkbrnnn1999]

Intro song?

[@coalhater392]

Wondering the same.

[@hyperion3145]

There is a joke from Italy: Mussolini had the Roman salute use one hand in WW2 because the Italians were tired of holding up both hands in WW1

[@danielefabbro822]

Cant understand why since we won ww1, unlikely the germans... 🤔 Maybe you have to ask them why. Or the austrians. Or the russians. Or the turks. Of course, I cant pretend that you goats can understand that history is a thing, while propaganda is another. Its better leave these things where they are and dont upset the animals from sleeping. 🤗🤭

[@3DeadDucks]

"Changing the world to the better - or worse - has always and will always be at the fingertips of those willing to mold it." - Great quote. Yours?

[@JohnT.4321]

This was a very good learning experience. I already subscribed!

[@pg1448]

Since you take a lot of interest in the aesthetics of Nazism and Facism, the architecture of Nazi Germany, both the realized and the planned mega buildings and cities , is something you could focus on in a future video