Nazi officer who killed children in front of their parents - "The Beast" of Sobibor Gustav Wagner

Death of Gustav Wagner - Bestial Nazi Sobibor Officer Known as the "The BEAST" and "Wolf".. Gustav Wagner was born on the 18th of July 1911 in Vienna, then part of Austria-Hungary, and was a mechanic by profession. From 1928 he served as a soldier in the Austrian army and his main political goal was the annexation of Austria to the German Reich. He shared this goal with the German Nazi Party which he joined in on January 19, 1931. Beginning in May 1933, the Austrian Nazis waged a propaganda and terror campaign which was encouraged and funded by Germany. The Nazi goal was to undermine the regime of the Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss by making it look incompetent. They staged disruptive protests and brawled with political opponents and the police. Austrian Nazis set off explosives and tear gas bombs in public places and Jewish-owned businesses. In June 1933, in response to a fatal Nazi bombing, the Dollfuss regime banned the Austrian Nazi Party and its affiliates. Although the Nazi movement became illegal in Austria, the Austrian Nazis continued to operate illegally within the country.
In 1934, Wagner fled to Nazi Germany after serving his time in prison for daubing Swastika graffiti and putting up Nazi posters. There he joined the SA, a paramilitary organization protecting Adolf Hitler and his party in the yearly years of the Nazi regime and in the late 1930’s he became a member of the SS under Heinrich Himmler.
After the Second World War began on the 1st of September 1939, Wagner started to work for the Nazi Euthanasia Program, code-named T4, which was the systematic murder of institutionalized patients with disabilities in Germany. The patients were transported by bus or by rail into 6 killing centers where they were murdered. In these centers the Nazis gassed, shot, or killed by lethal injections those who were deemed “unworthy of life “such as residents of welfare institutions, some concentration camp inmates, the chronically sick, the mentally and physically disabled, homosexuals, and even sick German soldiers. Wagner worked at Hartheim killing center near Linz and his duties included cremating the bodies of murdered victims.
The T4 program predated the genocide of European Jewry, the Holocaust, by approximately two years. Historians estimate that the program claimed the lives of 250,000 men, women, and children. In the fall of 1941, Nazi Germany implemented a plan to systematically murder the 2 million Jews living in German-occupied Poland. This plan was codenamed Operation Reinhard and as part of this action, three killing centers were established: Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka.
Because of his experience in the T4 program in March 1942 he was sent to the Sobibor concentration camp where he worked as a deputy commandant.
German SS and police officials conducted deportations to Sobibor between May 1942, when the regular gassing operations began, and the fall of 1943. Most of the Jews brought to Sobibor were immediately gassed by carbon monoxide which had been piped into the gas chambers from an engine. About 250,000 victims were murdered in this killing center...
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[@_GeneralMechanics_]

The only thing worse than the atrocities these men committed is the fact they escaped after the war.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

You can thank the Vatican and the Pope for that... Catholics DESERVE all the guilt they play at. ;o)

[@thomasweatherford5125]

Thanks to the catholic church and their rat lines. Reprehensible

[@chriswick7987]

Exactly. The fact that they lived lives relatively undisturbed, when they should have been constantly hunted like the dogs they were. Towards their ends they were hunted down, and that’s somewhat of a comfort

[@_GeneralMechanics_]

@@chriswick7987 Justice delayed is still justice denied. No matter, for everything they had done they deserved worse.

[@Petal4822]

Thousands of Nazis with the help of the Catholic Church, escaped to Argentina via the Rat-lines.

[@pingamalinga]

When you relearn about the Holocaust as an adult it hits differently. The logistics involved for an entire nation state during a war. Its almost unbelievable, let alone the inhumanity of the sick behavior.

[@OblivionBones]

What if america did this to.blacks. epuld you care?

[@memorylane9557]

@@pingamalinga if the nazis' hadn't put so much effort and resources into murdering innocent people they might of had more success in war.

[@johnscanlon2598]

It’s been said that the massive effort the NAZIS made to kill off (in their eyes the undesirables ) it tied up valuable war supplies and helped bring on their downfall measurably faster

[@joejones9520]

look up pol pot, mao and stalin...for some reason theyve been swept under the rug of history...

[@Relentless_Venture]

​@@user-un8ug7lx6clol there is always one of you trying to equate others to the policies that germans put in place. no one knew??? Give me a break. german pows were allowed in theatres in the USA where black soldiers were not even allowed I wonder if the Germans held the same for their prisoners? Especially their Jewish and Russian prisoners.

[@lennyramon622]

This guy had a scary gaze! A dark story extremely well told!!! This is hard work to be respected and admired. THANK YOU 🙏 GREETINGS FROM TINY LUXEMBURG 🇱🇺

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thank you so much. We really put a lot of effort into our videos, glad you see it ...

[@MichaTheLight]

You can't look into this eyes it's repelling also without knowing the story. The contrast of the very light blue eyes create in combination with far away set eyes is not bearable.

[@a.f.7246]

​@MichaTheLight the communists killed a lot of ppl too. But Germany gets more exposure

[@maryroberts2099]

@@MichaTheLightthe ideal Aryan

[@Luca_Brasi_881]

There are rumors that Wagner was in fact murdered by Stanisław Szmajzner, a former Sobibor prisoner

[@soeffingwhat]

Szmajzner certainly found him in South America. I would hardly blame Szmajzner if he did do it.

[@sassycat6487]

How?

[@soeffingwhat]

@@sassycat6487 What do you mean "how"?

[@johnmanning5568]

@@sassycat6487Wagner was stabbed to death. The official cause of death was suicide! I wonder why? So as to not give a reason to pursue Stanislaw for murder.

[@billfarley9167]

@@johnmanning5568 I would certainly hope so.

[@georgebrown8312]

How depraved the SS guards were to abuse, starve, and murder their innocent victims in concentration camps. May those murderous beasts go down in infamy, reproach, and utter shame upon their names for all time on this earth. Thank you for this eye-opening video showing the utter, sickening, and infuriating depravity of the Nazi regime and its beastly murderers, including the SS and Einsatzgruppen murder squads.

[@Manwendlil]

not only SS guards where capeable to commit such atrocities; every man (and woman) is able to murder, abuse and starve their fellow men...

[@achord9204]

I spot on them

[@Espiritu-o7x]

Agree, but can you imagine that the Soviet Russians were far worse than Hitler. Our family can imagine yes far too well. Russia was an Allied power so their own atrocities were buried along with the bodies of their very own Russian Soviet citizens.

[@oliversherman2414]

​@@Espiritu-o7x The Soviets were bad, yes, but they were a necessary ally to defeat Germany

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

People support that same depravity today from Hamas

[@MrAuldphart]

When I was about 25 years old, I visited my Mum and Dad and whilst there, I saw a lady named Denise over the road pruning her roses. I went over to say hello and then I saw it,. A tattoo on her left arm. I had no idea that her and her husband were POW’s of Auschwitz. It brought tears to my eyes.

[@marlena3789]

Auschwitz was not what the Allies tell everybody.

[@nievaconsing3344]

RIP 💐 🙏 Victims of Gustav Wagner ❤ 🕊🇵🇭

[@mattnorcia5593]

RIP to all those poor people 😢 no human being deserves this. I hope karma got all those and their families who committed such horrible wrongs

[@Kathy-ut9kf]

A non-redemable, sociopath with no trace of human qualities. The face of evil itself.

[@Cristian-x1h6n]

These monsters are now in hell paying for their atrocities.

[@annsam2111]

Exactly!

[@Mcfads999]

🔥🔥🔥

[@Matthew-sw4ie]

And you know that for a fact right

[@Frogman1943]

along with all those soviets

[@christophe3281]

Nah, most of them went to Canada, US and became teachers, officers, government officials and so on.

[@TheMatrixxandRhodesShow]

I shed no tears for Gustav Wagner.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

The same here!

[@Manwendlil]

one should not be overjoyed by the death of a human being, but also not overwhelmed with grief about the demise of this specimen...

[@SOUL-KING-93]

​@@ManwendlilMeh I don't know about that

[@margiesoapyhairbillian4754]

Agree. Totally

[@jacksonreilly3441]

I am sincerely happy for you.

[@davewilson9738]

In several of those pictures, he resembled Buster Keaton. Unlike Keaton who brought joy, Wagner deserved to suffer so much pain.

[@jeroenvandenberg5750]

You're right there is a faint resemblance

[@makaha5750]

I was thinking that he resembled another 'Buster': Linden 'Buster' Crabbe, who played 'Flash Gordon'.

[@a.f.7246]

The partisans, who were the communists, killed 450,000 Hungarians. The partisans were instigators

[@kimbradley9595]

No way

[@marlena3789]

​@@kimbradley9595us killer

[@paulthompson6284]

"There were no tears shed for Gustav Wagner." You're damn right! Sounds suspiciously like someone caught up with him and put him out of his misery! 😎👍

[@paulthompson6284]

@charlessutton7081 quite likely so... 😎👍

[@darrylslaughter649]

@@charlessutton7081 Good job in getting rid of this insane satanic person.

[@ChairmanPaulieD]

@@charlessutton7081 IF you ever watched the 1987 movie “Escape From Sobibor” it was clear that Stanisław Szmajzner aka “Szlomo”wanted to get Wagner personally to avenge his family’s deaths. There was a scene in the movie where his little brother “Moses” was getting a piece of gold from compound lll which was the gas chambers area of Sobibor and Moses who was probably only aged 9-10 years old saw with his own eyes 👀 the people from the mid morning transport were all naked standing in lines waiting to be showered but (gassed and exterminated) he apparently witnessed a little boy trying to escape by running but a SS officer/ guard unleashed his German shepherd and the boy got mauled by the dog to death ☠. Moses then returned to where his brother Szlomo was in Camp ll and he told him what he had witnessed. I believe ever since Szlomo was told by his brother Moses that their parents and sister were exterminated he def swore to kill Gustav Wagner and as many of the death camps SS detachments as much as possible. I read in an online article where Gustav Wagner was in custody in San Paulo police department in Brazil and Szlomo paid him a visit to confront Wagner. And Wagner said to Szlomo “I kept you alive for a very specific reason because you were Sobibor’s goldsmith and I really wanted to kill you and your brother after you weren’t needed but Commandant Reichleitner and Commandant Stangl reassigned you and your brother to a different position in the camp” .. I believe that what Wagner said to Szlomo was actually recorded by video cameras 🎥 by the press. I believe that Szlomo just needed to know where Wagner was residing in the German territory of Brazil and he traced his residence down and planned his secret mission to killing Sobibor’s MOST DANGEROUS war criminal. I even read that the knife 🔪 that Wagner allegedly had in his chest was actually in his back. How can his lawyer actually vouched for war criminal/ client that he committed suicide. It was stated in Bill O’Reilly’s book (Killing The SS) that the knife 🔪 was in Gustav Wagner’s back NOT in his chest and I can personally believe that Stanisław "Szlomo" Szmajzner killed him and avenged his family’s death in Sobibor.

[@balancedactguy]

@@charlessutton7081 Yes...I hope the Mossad did it. Still seems like he got off too easy living as a free man for so many years after the war as he did.

[@ladycplum]

@@charlessutton7081 I wouldn't have put it past Sobibor survivor Shlomo Sjmazner to have killed him. He emigrated to Brazil after the war too, and when he found out Wagner was there "breathing the same air" as him, he went berserk.

[@madness8556]

The novel and 1987 film, Escape From Sobibor provide graphic detail of what occurred in that diabolical place. May all the victims rest in peace.

[@amansrivastav2417]

Where I can get this book ...

[@madness8556]

@@amansrivastav2417 Amazon

[@novadhd]

Amazon. One of the best books I have read but not for faint of heart@@amansrivastav2417

[@GeorgeBeckwith-k3u]

The character in the movie doesnt really conflict with what he,d actually done in the camp in real life tbh

[@tantebaguette]

Wagner was confronted by Szlomo Smazner in 1979 in Brazil (a Jewish Sobibor survivor who worked as goldsmith). The horror is beyond comprehension.

[@viniciogomescompositor]

Aparentemente Szlomo o matou. O Supremo Tribunal Federal brasileiro que fora ágil na deportação de Stangl 12 anos antes, não agiu da mesma forma com relação a Wagner. Wagner pressentiu o perigo e pediu proteção. Por fim, foi encontrado morto em sua casa, esfaqueado. A polícia brasileira fez vista grossa e, praticamente, não investigou o crime. Crê-se que foi Szlomo quem o matou. Curiosidade o fato de que o ministro do STF que negou a extradição de Wagner era tio de um ministro do recente governo de extrema direita de Bolsonaro. As decadas de 60 e, principalmente, a de 70, foram um período negro para a América Latina, graças a LBJ, Nixon, Kissinger & Cia (ou eu poderia dizer Kissinger e CIA)...

[@johnmanning5568]

@@tantebaguette a year later Wagner was dead. Coincidence?

[@tantebaguette]

@@johnmanning5568 Wagner was an accomplice in genocide.

[@ericisave]

@@tantebaguette the young man with a brother? Watched the movie

[@Thomas-yr9ln]

It scrambles my brain to understand how anyone could be that cold and I'm German. It has to be a mental illness.

[@minoozolala]

Psychopathy.

[@erwingernert-dj9tz]

A real mental and spiritual illness

[@kimbradley9595]

Can't comment

[@marlena3789]

​@@kimbradley9595who cares, your grandfather probaly killed innocent Germans

[@marlena3789]

Well if you believe all the lies, Thomas... i dont

[@Icarianbrother]

It is happening now. Censorship does not change the reality of what is occurring.

[@johnlennon8653]

Censorship is only done to change the course of history for those who have even more dastardly desires in mind.

[@Relentless_Venture]

Like calling black slaves "volunteer workers" it sounds better than slavery.

[@marlena3789]

Yep. Look at Israel. Always the killers

[@marleneprice2835]

Exactly!

[@MrSmiley1964]

Sounds like he was a coward who only wanted to kill himself when faced with the possibility of facing his accusers. I doubt he had the courage to commit suicide with nobody coming for him. I hope the person who stuck the knife in the bastard's chest did it SLOWLY as he looked him in the eye and told him there would be no tears shed for him.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Good one!

[@lilybond6485]

@MrSmiley1964: Yeah. Slow while twisting it.

[@user-un8ug7lx6c]

@@lilybond6485 Oh the irony. Lost on you, is it?

[@user-un8ug7lx6c]

Oh the voice of humanity. And you wonder why such people exist...

[@novadhd]

Thank you for posting this. I liked it almost immdediatly. Just to note survivor Shlomo Sjmazner was the one who ID'd him in Brazil and may or may not had something to do with his death.

[@ericisave]

@@novadhd sad he never reunited with his brother in the woods after the mass break-out. And his lover too. I watched the 1987 movie.

[@novadhd]

@@ericisave yeah not a lot of people survived the ordeal

[@stellarwind1946]

The TV movie Escape from Sobibor gives a good portrayal of Gustav Wagner. He was the primary villain of Sobibor. The Jewish/Russian prisoners specifically planned their escape on a day that he was not present because of his shrewd attention to detail and overall brutality.

[@lastdaycults]

That was such a great movie!!

[@louisavondart9178]

It was just luck that he was on leave. The prisoners knew that the camp was going to be liquidated so they did what they had to do.

[@novadhd]

yes correct. The movie was good but book goes into detail

[@andrewmcinnis1123]

​@user-jd4cs8sb1u a great portrayal of Wagner! Hartmut Becker did a great job in the role!

[@joannecarolyn5018]

Awesome video and photos I always learn new info from your videos ❤️ Thank you to the team for all your hard work and dedication 😊🙏 Gustav Wagner got what he deserved 💪🏻🗡️

[@justsayin2049]

Funny how upon being caught, these so called men ran like cowards

[@josiel152]

sad this monster was able to live a somewhat normal life in Brazil until his death.. This man said he just killed men woman, children with no emotions just a job, what a total monster.

[@wildheartxxx135]

Trust me Germans are still the same today, europe is the same!

[@CathyJacobsen-ep2bd]

They may have escaped Germany but they never can escape God’s punishment.

[@laurentcherrier8492]

😂

[@ojj3340]

@@laurentcherrier8492what are you laughing at?

[@lorenzbroll101]

Wow - arms with hands that almost touched his knees! They obviously recruited the most horrible people they could find to terrify the victims?

[@Tigger_34]

I am glad he used the word murder, that is what is was.

[@Unpainted_Huffhines]

I'm glad he used the word "bestial", because he uses it in almost every thumbnail.

[@ridethecurve55]

This story made me horrified, and then rejoice, all in the same hour. I had no tears for this sub-human scum.

[@therationalistparty9742]

Just the title of this video broke me down when my 13 year old sons face popped into my head. There are simply no words to describe the sorrow I feel for these families.

[@shatbad2960]

Wooden "air tight" doors, millions of disappearing bodies, lampshades and soap, death rollercoasters: it's just all so incredible......

[@projekt-ill117]

Ou Vey ...

[@CringeModeActivated]

Thank you for another great video 👍👍

[@wojciechkozlowski6147]

Mossad sorted him out

[@savannahdavison1581]

Makes me ashamed to be a human being. So much cruelty in this world and the capacity of doing this to other people on the command of following orders. Only blessing is they are all at peace now God rest their souls.

[@HoboEAT]

Hell awaits for the finale..............................

[@lilybond6485]

@HoboEAT: I have become convinced that this IS hell.

[@14rnr]

I think he was mentally unstable from day one not just when he got caught.

[@renee1961]

Good evening, and as ALWAYS, Thank You.

[@victorialobb7210]

I'm a strong believer in karma and hell.

[@carolinehops]

There no devils in hell they’re all down here.

[@Defied_-vw2jz]

yea

[@Steve-bi2wo]

Evil incarnate.

[@AlanTFitch]

How evil!

[@lubberwalker]

It's those who knew what was happening but kept it quiet, who are the real monsters.

[@yasirnazirbutt8240]

9:52 This guy seriously thought they would spare him if he looked like Hitler.

[@juannlja]

This monster died in year 1980. It is not known whether he killed himself or was murdered.

[@yesm2302]

Sorry, sounds like Wagner was capable of plunging the knife in himself. He had two suicide attempts before. Either way he’s in hell. Thanks for the happy ending 😊

[@tomperkins5657]

My faith journey says this guy, and many others, did not escape justice. There is a terror unspeakable for this man that will last an eternity. Even Jesus said that there is a separate hell for those that harm children. As I write this, he is experiencing that in the present tense.

[@chairde]

There is no escape from justice. Either someone gets revenge or you are haunted by your actions.

[@minoozolala]

And then you go to hell.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

No tears shad for this human devil 1:42

[@jacksonreilly3441]

How can you possibly know that?

[@rubenlarotin3141]

orphaned : parents passed, widowed : husband passed widower : wife passed : child passed no words to describe grief

[@terry_willis]

That pasted-on perpetual snickering smile of Himmer makes me ill.

[@JonnyRobert-f5g]

It was a huge mistake not to put ALL German war criminals to justice by the allies including those hid in Argentina. America had like 20 airplain carrier group in case argentina had to be visited by force.

[@1aikane]

Thanks for keeping this significant history accessible.

[@semsemeini7905]

So many of the cruelest were Austrians. To think my mother lived among them but luckily fled in October 1937 because her father saw the handwriting on the Wall.

[@jeffreyjacobs390]

The fact is that a MASSAD team set a trap for this piece of work ...... barbarian and worthless devil ..... lying in wait for him they took him down and gave him a swift ed he did not deserve !

[@Avatar24-bb8cu]

When Wagner was confronted by Jewish survivor Szlomo Smazner he told Szlomo that he should be greatful that he let him live..

[@McCarthy0000]

I still cannot believe this happened not all that long ago….this was primitive medieval violence, not 1940….such horror.

[@joynz1]

So tragic may all the innocents RIP.

[@user-mx1rh1xe8u]

I want to enjoy the work you’ve put in, but I can’t read the text and listen to the commentary at the same time! Can you incorporate the text or slow down!

[@Avatar24-bb8cu]

Have some common sense and pause the video and read the text and just be greatful for what we've been given.

[@loriar1027]

It's a shame he was able to live so long after the war.

[@Izannaziza]

What about Alois Karl Hudal, Austrian bishop and the organisation he worked for.

[@andyplus1352]

This is a very dark chapter of europe. This history news reminds us of the needs to live in peace.

[@karlabritfeld7104]

Who did all the filming while Germany claimed to know nothing that was going on??

[@Emy53]

It's difficult to imagine that humans can hate this deeply, especially to innocent children.

[@JeremyArnold-y9u]

Everything you’ve been taught is a lie. This video is a lie.

[@stan6]

I watched a Brazilian documentary about this, he get crazy after go to the police department

[@chetyoubetya8565]

What kind of country doesn’t extradite a war criminal

[@berhanekidane5572]

Bravo Mr Simon Wiesenthal ! Catholic Priests...! Who are not different from the Islamic Jahadists/Da´äshs

[@paulbeesley8283]

Alois Hudall, the Austrian priest who helped the escapees, went on to become a cardinal.

[@grapeshot]

We like our Nazis where we can identify them. Yep that's some of your best work yet.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thank you

[@renee1961]

The films, and pictures are So Very Heartbreaking! I cry for the Innocent Victims, Survivors, and Those That Fought for Them.🥀🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏🙏💔💔💔💔🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

[@jacksonreilly3441]

Don't forget to pass the crying towel!

[@goodoldbubba6620]

Why don't you discuss those who succeeded in escaping, and those who helped them?

[@truthteller8459]

There are no tears shed for the HORRIBLE monotone voice of the moderator of this channels video either including me.

[@gottardofanatic]

He was problaby killed by Schlomo Smajzner with a knive so he did not committ suicide. Smajzner was a prisoner in Sobibor and managed to escape. He is also portrayed in Escape from Sobibor. And thanks to a grandson of Johann Niemann we can conclude that Demjanjuk was INDEED in Sobibor. A photographic specialist has confirmed that the man on the photos was indeed Demjanjuk. Thus Demjanjuk lied and his son also lied to the US authorities. Also was the famous Trawniki document no forgery by the KGB but genuine.

[@novadhd]

well they were tyring to implicate his as "Ivan the terrible" which dont believe he was. He was at Sobibor though.

[@sammik3959]

You often hear german language in the Hell..

[@margarita8442]

justice failed

[@ChairmanPaulieD]

Hi @margarita8442 👋🏽 I remember you commenting on another video of @WorldHistoryVideos 😊

[@theharpsichordofmozart4258]

Toys of murdered Children to give their own Children. .. That really had an impact on me.

[@MrMickthemonster]

Look at the eyes on it....

[@me-ds2il]

In his 69 y.o pic I don't see that his hands extended down to his knees. In any case his death bad as it was, was too quick & easy compared to what he should have suffered so much more

[@TheYutongCaptain]

I'm not sure how you as the creator of this channel can equate or justify that the deaths of Nazi war criminals as brutal, when measured against the atrocities and brutality that millions of prisoners suffered at these evil perpetrators hands,it appears, unintentionally to trivalize their deaths and suffering. Nazi war criminals reaped what they sowed for which their deaths were not brutal, just justice being served, for some death was quick by comparison.

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

Its hard to imagine a human being is capable of sick evil deeds, but some are.

[@RustyR3volva]

I always love your outro's, especially for the Nazis (well besides the few good ones), it makes it even better that they failed at what they wanted.

[@sanderdeboer6034]

The Catholic church should be tried as a criminal organization! All their possessions should be sold and the proceeds given to all of their victims!

[@ojj3340]

The Catholic Church, catholic priests and catholic nuns did so much to help the Jewish people during the IIWW. Plenty were tortured and killed in concentration camps for helping their fellow brothers and sisters.

[@sanderdeboer6034]

@@ojj3340 I was talking about the Catholic CHURCH! Not what individual members did or didn’t do. I am talking about the criminal Catholic Church that is run from the Vatican. Agreed that many individuals including Catholics saved many lives including many Jews. However this was not just done by Catholics but als by Protestants (like my uncle Pieter Hartog), communist (like here in the Netherlands with our most famous resistance fighter Hannie Schaft) and people with other or no religion. Please lookup what role the Vatican and the Catholic Church played in the so called rat lines. Where the Catholic Church helped many Nazi criminals escape. Catholic priest helped people like Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Walter Rauff and thousands more to escape prosecution. But I didn’t even mention the many crimes the Catholic Church committed during WW2, and they were many! Plus the Catholic Church p,aged a pivotal part in the cause of the holocaust. It has demonized Jews for over thousand years, which was the reason the Nazis (most of whom where Catholics, including Hitler) had an easy time carrying it out. Plus the Catholic Church has been demonizing Muslims as well. But the crimes of the Catholic Church are plentiful, like the child abuse scandal, the fraud at the Vatican bank, the fact so many poor people paid for its wealth, the role the church played in the AIDS epidemic by lying about condoms not working, it’s horrible stance on abortion and a bit further back, the Inquisition and the thousands of women being burned because of supposedly being witches. Today the church still has a very negative influence in both South America and especially Africa. One of the most horrible examples being the genocide in Rwanda. For which pope Francis asked for forgiveness. Also for the many children who died in catholic institutions. The list of crimes is much longer than what I stated here. The argument there are good Catholics or that Catholics have given to charity doesn’t make the Catholic Church itself any less criminal. I highly recommend you watch the debate with the title ‘The Catholic Church is a Force For Good in The World’ where Christoper Hitchens and Stephen Fry show it is NOT a force for good in the world.

[@achillesheel7314]

Thank you very much for this detailed history and description of Sobibor death camp lest we forget

[@Unpainted_Huffhines]

Very good. "Beastial" = Like.

[@AlcibiadesMD]

Sadder than than the atrocities these barbarians committed is the fact that ecclesiastical leaders from the Catholic church helped them with money and passports to escape and established new identities in places like Argentina and Brazil. Please 🙏🏼 let’s not forget all the innocent lives taken in this dark period in history.

[@LoriDunbar-on9nl]

That is what I found so disgusting. Men who hide behind God. Blood was on their hands..

[@jonathanreeves5927]

The narrator has the best story telling voice

[@Tramseskumbanan]

How come you haven’t produced an episode about Wirth yet?

[@michaelluna1968]

There's a movie called Escape from Sobibor where 600 made a go for escape and approximately 300 made it out.

[@tammanyfields3583]

Ironic he had deformities and yet, he slaughtered those also with deformities. Very sad and hard to even fathom.

[@oliversherman2414]

It's disturbing to think so many of these war criminals got away with their crimes one way or another

[@John-ws5oh]

No 1 ever mentions the Russian invasion of Poland at the same time. They definitely didn't use kid gloves

[@DerGlaetze]

He vacationing with Charlie Manson, forever.

[@theharpsichordofmozart4258]

The vast majority of them got away with it.

[@emil_rainbow]

"animal-like"? Human, you mean human.

[@finalname-hs1ov]

They called him Beast today we know him as Mr Beast

[@IRSH-sy5jn]

I could not understand when Poland was liberated. At the end of World War two. Poland Joining the European Union. Which Germany dominates.

[@Buppasiri1]

We hear today about atrocities in Ukraine. We really have to solve how people can do those things to eachother and stop war at all costs thats enabling evil acts.

[@NickD13]

Id really hate to be that guy when he faces jesus on judgement day

[@roserand639]

I hate the enjoyment the SS Soldiers had in committing these horrific acts

[@roberteckhardt6653]

Pure evil

[@BMarie774]

4:09 two days before his first birthday..

[@vascompsousa]

What ? " the honking of the geese would obscure the cries of victims grom those still sitting in the locked rail cars as they were being beaten ... "

[@renee1961]

Thanks!

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Hi Renee, thank you very much. We hope you are well.

[@alxp-zd1zj]

Wagner groups Wagner got anything to do with this psychopath?

[@Thora-i6n]

Why did the Germans AND Russians hate Poles

[@meinolfwestig9463]

Even Churchill called Poland "the Hyena of Europe ".

[@Thora-i6n]

@meinolfwestig9463 I still don't understand though. Cracow was modern, they had a large population of farmers, many small villages, many Jews but they got along OK before Hitler. I've heard many poles hunted Jews for bounty and helped in camps. That couldn't be a majority. 9 million poles were murdered- not counting the Jews that were put in camps. Europe is so confusing and complicated. So many wars have been fought between the countries that you almost can't count them.

[@robertbernard6410]

Mossad put the knife in his chest