Death of Roland Freisler - Hitler's Fanatical Screaming Nazi Judge - Plot to Assassinate Hitler

Death of Roland Freisler - Hitler's Fanatical Screaming Nazi Judge - Plot to Assassinate Hitler.
When the First World War began on the 28th of July 1914, Roland Freisler was studying law at the University of Jena.
In 1919 Freisler returned to Germany to complete his law studies at the University of Jena and in 1922 he qualified as a Doctor of Law.
In July 1925 Freisler joined the Nazi Party.
After Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party came into power in January 1933, Freisler became a member of the Reichstag - the German Parliament.
Freisler was a committed Nazi ideologist, and used his legal skills to adapt its theories into practical law-making and judicature.
He also strongly advocated for the creation of laws to punish so called “race defilement" which was the Nazi term for sexual relations between "Aryans" and those deemed as "inferior races”. In 1933, he even published a pamphlet calling for the legal prohibition of "mixed-blood" sexual intercourse. Freisler's ideological views reflected things to come, as 2 years later on the 15th of September 1935, the Nazi regime announced two new laws:
The Reich Citizenship Law which defined a citizen as a person who is “of German or related blood.” ; which meant that Jews, defined as a separate race, could not be full citizens of Germany and had no political rights;
and The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor which banned future intermarriages and sexual relations between Jews and people “of German or related blood.” The Nazis believed that such relationships were dangerous because they led to “mixed race” children. According to the Nazis, these children and their descendants undermined the purity of the German race.
World War 2 started on the 1st of September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland.
On the 20th of January 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." The "Final Solution" was the code name for the systematic, deliberate and physical annihilation of the European Jews. Adolf Hitler had authorized this European-wide scheme for mass murder at some still undetermined time in 1941.
At the time of this Wannsee Conference, most participants were already aware that the Nazi regime had engaged in mass murder of Jews and other civilians in the German-occupied areas of the Soviet Union and in Serbia.
On the 20th of August 1942, Hitler named Freisler president of the People's Court.
Under Freisler's rule, the frequency of death sentences rose sharply. Approximately 90% of all cases that came before him ended in guilty verdicts. Between 1942 and 1945, more than 5,000 death sentences were decreed by him, 2,600 of these through the court's First Senate, which Freisler controlled. He was responsible in his three years on the court for as many death sentences as all other senate sessions of the court combined in the court's existence between 1934 and 1945.
When on the 18th of February 1943, Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl were distributing leaflets at the Ludwig Maximilian University, they were reported to the official secret police of Nazi Germany - the Gestapo and then arrested.
Roland Freisler sentenced them to death.
Another of Freisler’s victims was Elfriede Scholz, a sister of German-born novelist Erich Maria Remarque. After a failed bomb attempt to assassinate Hitler on his airplane, Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters.
In the days that followed, Hitler ordered a massive hunt for conspirators which continued for months. In August 1944, some of the arrested perpetrators of the failed assassination were brought before Freisler for punishment. Hitler had ordered that those found guilty should be "hanged like cattle".
In the end more than 7,000 people were arrested. 4,980 of them were executed, often on the barest evidence.
Roland Freisler died on the 3rd of February 1945 when United States Army Air Forces bombers attacked Berlin.
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[@pikiwiki]

Sophie Scholl to Freisler in his own courtroom: "you know the war is lost. Why don't you have the courage to admit it?" Pretty ballsy

[@thecajunphoenix]

Erwin von Witzleben also deserves to be mentioned as well, as he actually told Freisler before he was murdered: "You can turn us over to the executioner. In three months, the outraged and tormented people will call you to account and drag you through the filth in the streets alive." The movie "Valkyrie"'s Erwin von Witzleben's words convey the same message but go as follows: "You may hand us over to the executioner. But in three months' time, the disgusted and harried people will bring you to book and drag you alive through the dirt in the streets." The sad part is, Freisler really did deserve to be dragged alive through the filth on the streets, only for the bombing of the courthouse to beat the disgusted and harried people to the punch.

[@pikiwiki]

Sounds like: first they came for my neighbor, then they came for me@@thecajunphoenix

[@gregpettis1113]

It's interesting that she new that as early as 1943.

[@DCinchi]

@@gregpettis1113 I think the German people did have the news of the Nazi army losing Stalingrad.,

[@martinnoyes8507]

The defeats in North Africa, Stalingrad, the huge loses on the Eastern front, the mass bombing of Germany, all pointers to defeat.@@gregpettis1113

[@Hammerhead547]

The fact that his own family refused too even acknowledge his death and dumped him into an unmarked grave shows exactly who and what he really was.

[@petebondurant58]

That most likely was due to the exigencies of war, as the Soviets were besieging Breslau in the east and the western allies had already entered the Saar and Hunsrück in the west.

[@spaceclown7650]

that holds true for most judges

[@lucasgroves137]

Not really. It just shows they knew he was a widely detested figure and that interring him in a publicly-known grave would invite trouble.

[@jean-louislalonde6070]

A fanatical, despicable rat.

[@infinito2200]

His sons changed their family name after war. They did not wanted even Freisler family name.

[@ridethecurve55]

There was ONE bomb from the 8th Air Force with Freisler's name on it - and it didn't disappoint!

[@Guardmn]

Yeah. I heard the bomb was from a B24 Liberator.

[@gargould7186]

Freisler got off way too easy 🤔

[@joenight9693]

Bastard got off lightly though... He would've deserved way worse a fate.

[@JamesJames-jt3ts]

​@@gargould7186 True

[@JamesJames-jt3ts]

​@@joenight9693 True, he should have been an example

[@ashenshugar8650]

If there was ever a case of poetic justice, this is it. After perverting justice, he's crushed to death by his own courtroom.

[@bobtaylor170]

Ain't it the truth!!

[@TimPerfetto]

Oh yes by his hair his hair was gross to begin with he should have been forced to eat hair from the sewer or maybe a rotting sheep or goat that would be good lots of hair on those things my cat has too much hair he spreads it around and eats it and I guess poops it out idk

[@ashenshugar8650]

@@TimPerfetto Ummm...what the hell are you talking about?

[@TimPerfetto]

@@ashenshugar8650 Oh you know better than I do I saw when you smelled your hair and you did not know I was watching but we were a lot older then so I don't have a clue

[@jeffclark7888]

@@TimPerfettoemotional challenges?

[@charliemarkovic4301]

Such a shame he missed out on the Nuremberg trials.

[@MrDaiseymay]

No---WE missed out. He'd have had his neck stretched alright---slowly.

[@SanitysVoid]

It would have been nice to see the same power of a court turned on his ass. Never knew the guys name but saw the footage of his ravings. I think I would have asked him if I was in front of his court what a raving lunatic acting in such an un professional manner was doing in a court room. Would have pissed him off pretty good.

[@ActiveAussie2024]

Well, he was a "judge" of sorts, and even though he got what he deserved it would have been better if he was put on trial and later hanged. Would have been the way to go for him.

[@chrisholland1504]

He'd have overruled the Allied judges and screamed abuse at them.

[@PaulBrower-py7tv]

At least he stopped murdering people from a judicial bench.

[@SNP-1999]

Not only his death was poetic justice, the fact that the footage of his infamous show trials after the attempt on Hitler's life on 20th July 1944 couldn't actually be "shown" to the German public because his screaming and shouting was even too embarressing for the Nazi regime.

[@diarradunlap9337]

Yeah, I'm thinking that even Hitler reached a point where he thought, "This Freisler guy's an absolute nut-job."

[@guydreamr]

William Shirer was spot on when he described Freisler as "a vile, vituperative maniac."

[@mavjimbo]

Hitler only went as far as he did because of folks like this

[@julesvismale8387]

There were also certain people during the French Revolution who said about Fouquier-Tinville: "He was a vile, vituperative maniac!"

[@serenityflies1462]

What an odious man. I really feel so sorry for the brave men who tried to rid the world of Hitler, God bless them, and the brave brother and sister of the white rose!

[@dudebro3250]

I agree. I learned a lot about him from the Europa the last battle documentary.

[@susangleason3987]

The White Rose was started by (now Saint) Alexander Schmorell (Russian Orthodox) and Hans Scholl (Protestant). Sophie joined later. I've been to their graves in Perlacher Forst Cemetery. Our youth need the courage (and the intellect) the White Rose had. Read "Alexander Schmorell: Saint of the German Resistance " by Elena Perekrestov.

[@julesvismale8387]

Do you also know that Antoine-Quentin Fouquier-Tinville (1745-1795), also a horrible lawyer, sentenced to death during the French Revolution a certain Charlotte Corday (1768-1703), a Girondin girl, because she Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) had murdered in his bath! Marat was one of the ringleaders of the dreadful Terror, and when Corday stood before Fouquier-Tinville, it took him a great deal of effort to condemn her, although he too used a bombastic and aggressive tone against her! For example, Roland Freisler often compared himself to his equally infamous French predecessor and one of his victims, Elfriede Scholz (1903-1943), he compared to Charlotte Corday! In fact, Fouquier-Tinville and Freisler could almost have been related!

[@paulbrower]

May he have found upon his death that God is Jewish. The Almighty has the power to define Himself to serve harsh judgment upon evil-doers. As for being a shape-shifter on theology... when judging Serb butchers of Muslims, God is Allah and Muhammad is His chief Prophet!

[@TheWuschelMUC]

@@susangleason3987 I am involved in politics as a hobby. Occasionally I risked getting sued for insulting a political opponent (up to now nobody ever sued me), but I would never never have risked my life like the "Weisse Rose." They knew what they did and they paid the ultimate price.

[@rebeccaanne9863]

“It is a beautiful day and I must go.” - Sophie Scholl just before being taken to the guillotine

[@pointsofsue2487]

The Scholl children are heroes. They should be celebrated the world over.

[@TheMatrixxandRhodesShow]

There were no tears shed for Roland Freisler.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

No tears shed!

[@nielspemberton59]

Yes, he made an ass of himself. He had also drunk the koolaid !

[@dennisyoung4631]

“Drinking the Magical Elixir” - the Koolaide - was part and parcel of being a “Righteous” Nazi. It is also a current requisite for most modern Authoritarians

[@tancreddehauteville764]

I'm sure his family wept for him.

[@AuH2O]

@@WorldHistoryVideos Not that you would know. He had a family and kids. Tears will usually be shed when family members die.

[@ruhri0411]

A very important and interesting story about Freisler's death is missing. On the day of his death, he was conducting a trial against members of the wider circle of the 20th July 1944 conspiracy. One of the defendants was Fabian von Schlabrendorff, an officer and lawyer. Those who know the film "Valkyrie", he was the officer who smuggled a bomb-prepared bottle of Cointreau onto Hitler's plane, which unfortunately did not explode in the air because the detonator froze in the luggage compartment of the plane. In any case, Freisler was still holding Schlabrendorff's file in his hand when he was found dead in the rubble of the court. Von Schlabrendorff would certainly have been sentenced to death by Freisler that day; the death of this blood judge saved his life. After the war, he made a career as a legal expert in democratic West Germany and was appointed as a judge to the Supreme Court of West Germany 22 years after the war, where he served for 8 years. It is known that no official representative of the Nazi government was present at Freisler's funeral. His shabby body was buried anonymously in his wife's family grave, otherwise his grave would surely have been visited every day by people whose loved ones he had sent to their deaths for trivialities. They would certainly have spat and peed on it!

[@ccrider3435]

I would shed tears on his grave. Oh, and by tears, I mean pee.

[@chouseification]

if I ever get to Germany, his grave is indeed one of the places I'd love to visit... to piss on of course, because he really needs to be pissed on a lot more :D

[@rogersheddy6414]

The pile of poop that would accumulate would be taller than any flowers that would have a chance to try to start to grow....

[@AroundTheWorldWithEase]

Thank you for sharing. Keep it up!😊

[@georgedonaldson1516]

There would be so much urine at his grave folk would think the Rhine had broke its banks.

[@14Aymara]

This monster's death was divine justice. Thank you for another great video, World History ! 🌷💖🌷

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thank you very much

[@gennettor8915]

Alas no. Justice was never done on Roland Freisler.

[@jdrancho1864]

Would have been better had he faced human justice, this time on the opposite side of the bench, trying to hold up his pants to keep them from falling ddown/

[@14Aymara]

@@jdrancho1864 - Oh, yes! I would have loved that!

[@hanseekhoff1093]

@@jdrancho1864 Exactly. He got off easy.

[@sleepingbear1889]

Watch the film Sophie (White Rose) the actor who play him was brilliant. He bought out how evil Freisler was. The actress playing Sophie was brilliant as well, both should have got awards

[@julesvismale8387]

A feature film was once even made about Charlotte Corday, the Girondin girl who had murdered the right-wing radical Jacobin Jean-Paul Marat during the French Revolution! She then had to stand trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal, of which the infamous president Antoine-Quentin Fouquier-Tinville sentenced her to death! Fouquier-Tinville looked just like a sinister gravedigger in his black suit and even he could rage horribly against his victims! By the way, he has sentenced as many people to death as Roland Freisler, at least 2600 people that is!

[@brucemasters3487]

The only unfortunate thing about his death was that he probably knew nothing about it.

[@jguenther3049]

He did know.

[@scottlawton9459]

I love the end line you put in the videos: “In the end, there was no tears shed for…*horrible human being*” it really adds a sense of poignancy to the story. Thank you for adding it. Because, you’re right: in the end, there are no tears shed for these horrible monsters. Be it man, woman, or whatever country you hail from. If you are a horrible, sadistic monster there will be no tears shed for you.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Very correct!

[@stewartmackay]

Yet there are people today who choose to dance with political extremists who unlock monsters like these, even though their choice would lead to their own undoing. I don't know if it's ignorance, ideology or idiocy.

[@jayond3978]

Like alec murdaugh

[@disseminationnetwork]

It is a great line...already a classic in my book!

[@usamazahid3882]

@@WorldHistoryVideos As the old saying goes, *"NO CHANCE IN HELL"*

[@optimusprinceps3526]

If anyone deserved what was coming, it was Judge Roland... Divine Judgement

[@gennettor8915]

I don't agree. He should have been tried and hung. His accidental death was quick and he didn't have to go through a court case which would have exposed his crimes.

[@Johnketes54]

Unfortunately the quick deaths were delivered by the British and often on the worse criminals,The Lynched them,They called it hanging but choking to death for 20 to 30 minutes is Lynching and ofcourse the Russians and Sibera

[@optimusprinceps3526]

@@gennettor8915 not if he was hit by shrapnel and slowly bled out, trapped in his courtroom, perfect Karma for Judge Roland

[@andrewbyrne2173]

Personally I would have preferred a trial, but I'm not going to shed tears for this evil man.

[@chrismc410]

@@andrewbyrne2173 he got one and was judged.....by the Almighty

[@lapensulo4684]

“There were no tears shed for.....”. Excellent ending which I have now heard well over a dozen times!!!!

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Watch our other videos, this ending is typical of our channel.

[@ArnieC1974]

There are tear shed every year and flowers left at the Graves of the heroes Graves are France. You should go visit those graves. It looks better those us graves with lots of personal stuff.... it's an secured by camera's so don't even think of ding something to a grave!

[@carlsowell8099]

Always wondered what happened to the fanatical judge. Thank You for the story.

[@TimPerfetto]

You cant always wonder about anything so very confused what you are talking about. And you are very welcome for the story my cat made it up a few years ago and I figured I would share it with the world so yeah I guess cats are old too or maybe they need less hair not sure if the two are mutually exclusive but yeah ok

[@peterwallace9764]

Me too. He seems to have been a screaming meanie deserving of any grotesque death. ☠️☠️

[@TimPerfetto]

@ManInAmerica Oh

[@jdrancho1864]

@@maninamerica2046 Troll. Ignore him.

[@ArnieC1974]

The truth is that he with Hitler and other great leaders went to Argentina and lived a long and happy life

[@jdrancho1864]

Thanks for that docu. I watched a number of the clips available of Freisler in the court room, and I knew how he ended up dead, but I never heard about his background and upbringing that lead him to his notorious position in the Third Reich. Thanks for enlightening us about that man.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thank you. We are happy that you liked the video. It was very difficult to make ...

[@ArnieC1974]

@@WorldHistoryVideos please keep it to the truth! Think about this, your sister couldn't be your brother and nu they,them and our children would still learn what they should learn and not be brain washed by completely idiots!

[@brianp.5715]

What a monster bastard. Thanks 🇺🇸 USAF

[@joffryvangrondelle]

@@ArnieC1974 what do you mean specifically???

[@ArnieC1974]

@@joffryvangrondelle you can't read? Blind? Brain damage? And I reacted 4 things so what do you want to know? That the US army is made out of losers?

[@michaeltroster9059]

Why would you describe his death as “ horrible”? It’s too bad he didn’t suffer proper justice like so many hundreds of thousands who escaped justice.

[@warrena.7179]

Agree!

[@edward1676]

HOW TRUE..

[@geoffbell166]

It's a pity he was not handed over to the NKVD it could take two weeks to die with most skilled interrogators...

[@keni010-nf4pg]

@@davecopp9356 Such as?

[@reginaldmassey3272]

My thoughts exactly.

[@EricMustardman]

Unfortunately, Freisler was never really brought to justice. He was officially declared "a victim of war" and his widow received a large pension until she died of old age in 1997. The pension was granted due to the reason that Roland Freisler had officially been a high-ranking member of the legal system and had never been sentenced for his crimes against humanity.

[@hans-joachimbierwirth4727]

Two things are infinite: the universe and the number of excuses Germans have for letting nazis escape justice.

[@jgstargazer]

Eric: She got a pension because her husband was a member of the Nazi legal system and recognized by post war Germany? I thought post war Germany did not want anything to do with Nazi atrocities.

[@me-ds2il]

A nation possessed by blood lust

[@mcahtme2977]

@@hans-joachimbierwirth4727 got the complexion for protection 😉

[@sabinegroe2006]

Unbelievable!

[@georgeamanor-boadu6771]

Certainly no tears for him. My only regret is that he didn't get a date with Albert Pierrepoint.

[@chrismc410]

It's safe to say the USAAC did well enough.

[@michaelhughes4466]

A date with the much less efficient American hangman John Woods would have been more deserved.

[@chrismc410]

@@michaelhughes4466 might as well let Oskar Dirlewagner at his cheeks before Woods hangs him. Freisler and Dirlewagner were two people even the Nazis themselves wanted dead but had use for.

[@Fcukthedems]

@@michaelhughes4466on the contrary, Wood knew how to hang a man, he just wanted these assholes to suffer

[@ngozikaonyekwelu4356]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@AlteredStateAdventures]

The way the narrator quotes this judge seems almost alarmingly cruel. Like he really get into character for those moments!

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

It is great, isn't it? :)

[@hassanmohammed8906]

@@WorldHistoryVideos are you British NY g?

[@Fcukthedems]

@@hassanmohammed8906hows that relevant to the narrative of this asshole judge

[@PaulBrower-py7tv]

The great religious prophets never imagined Hitler. many of us become our own theologians when we contemplate the Holocaust. An unending simulation of a painful death would fit. 72 virgins --- but they are hyenas!

[@McDago100]

Kaltenbrunner, Hans Frank, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Wilhelm Frick and Otto Ohlendorf were all lawyers. It is scary the types of people that become lawyers.

[@baronburch6702]

People without integrity find the practice of law easy.

[@McDago100]

@@baronburch6702 In other words, you mean narcissists.

[@stevenmallory3768]

Remember after East Germany joined west Germany, anyone who went to university in East Germany was automatically aloud to have their degrees recognised despite that east Germany university was only really a how to spie school on your friends and family, run by the Stassi

[@billmagowan1492]

And how many members of parliament in the U.K., are lawyers by profession, says it all too….

[@nigelpower1509]

I'm reminded of that arch-narcissist Tony Blair!

[@cheezkid2689]

That end line was absolutely killer. Sounds like something God would say to him before casting him into the eternal suffering of Hell, though even something as horrible as endless agony is too good for a man such as him.

[@michaelsternberg1597]

"There were no tears shed for____" is at the end of every one of these videos.

[@mntryjoseph1961]

Hell fire does not burn forever! That teaching was invented to scare people into going to church. The Bible teaches eternal life, not eternal death! The evil will burn in the Lake of Fire, but only until their flames go out. Several places in the Bible, such as the story of Sodom and Gomorrah states they were destroyed with everlasting fire (Jude 7), but their not still burning today. Everlasting means it will not rise up again. Malachi 4:1-3 states the wicked dead will be ashes under the righteous one's feet. Remember, God is a God of love, not torture (John 3:16).

[@jeanyves5380]

@@michaelsternberg1597And this is very piss borring!

[@MrDaiseymay]

he was sub-human

[@duartesimoes508]

Now you're talking.

[@renee1961]

Good morning, and as ALWAYS, Thank You for your Excellent, Informative, and Well Done videos.

[@murraywilkinson6515]

Poetic justice for a man who was a disgrace to his profession.

[@encomunismo]

The stones of the Court could not bear so much injustice and collapsed on the miserable monster, crushing it.

[@SPQRTejano]

Really wish that the History Channel would have shows like this

[@edward1676]

I agree. History channel a Joke now!!

[@drlca6601]

Memba the 90s and early 2000s?

[@SPQRTejano]

@Edward I don't understand why they kept the name ( history Channel) it is mostly reality TV

[@chad3232132]

Hah, they have too many episodes of Ancient Aliens and Ice Road Truckers to air.

[@SPQRTejano]

@@chad3232132 that is so true!!

[@jasonallen3678]

I liked the fact that those conspirators to the assassination of Hitler roasted that tyrannical monster before they were executed 😂

[@RevHamHead]

Been waiting for something on him specifically. Thank you!

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thank you for watching. It was a long-planned video, we wanted to do it well. We are glad you like it.

[@harryshriver6223]

I love the spirit of the resistance movement White Rose, I am enamored with the chutzpah of Sofie, "I won't betray my brother or my principles. I'll make no bargain with the Nazis!" ❤ That is the kind of determination and courage which I admire and revere, May her spirit be remembered always and may she find peace in heaven.

[@martyisokay]

I'm guessing that's the judge from the movie Valkyrie where he has a brief scene yelling at the accused the courtroom.

[@TheWuschelMUC]

The story was not over on 3 February 1945 when Freisler was killed. Many years later his widow claimed a widow's pension from the Federal Republic. As Freisler could not be indicted any more, he was under the presumption of innocence and the widow's pension was granted with gritted teeth. Afterwards, the cartoonist Horst Haitzinger drew a cartoon of a very elderly Eva Hitler, née Braun, who also wanted a widow's pension.

[@martini3524]

The née Braun lady was, no doubt, very pleased to have had only a short few hours married to the Prancing, Limp-wristed, Hitler.

[@user-kw8ff9ne8l]

Sophie Scholl Light in the darkness!

[@peterwood9034]

A light in the darkness is needed in Russia today

[@graemehancocks4171]

Indeed. I am travelling in Bavaria at the moment and going to visit Sophie Scholl’s (and Hans and Christoph Probts) grave in Munich next Monday (15/5/23).

[@Nightowl76]

Must admit I got a bit teary at the end of that . Lovely heart warming presentation . Thank you .

[@youngmasterzhi]

Those tears better be for the judge's victims!

[@jimbo43ohara51]

IN the case of Freisler there is an old saying that sums it up - empty vessels make the most noise.

[@davidnavarro4821]

That’s a very good documentary. The very first one I saw about Roland Freisler, I knew about him because in history class two students made an exposé on Hans and Sophie Scholl. He was literally Germany’s Vyshinsky! You could make a documentary about Antoine-Quentin Fouquier-Tinville. He was the prosecutor of Paris’ Revolutionary Tribunal in 1793-1794. In 15 months he send the guillotine nearly 3’000 people.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thank you Maybe we will also bring some videos about French Revolution, let's see in the future ...

[@Cromwelldunbar]

Excellent narration, and vocal delivery!

[@conningdale8805]

Interesting video, and well spoken as well!. Thank you for posting.

[@mrfrankiej932]

I think how appropriate that a true pillar of justice must have descended upon him. I just hope it was slow and agonising, not at all instant. As his life flashed before his eyes I hope he saw the faces of all those he'd put to the slaughter. As he fell free into his very own circle of Hell.

[@61diemai]

The scandal is, that his widow has been payed a pension by the Federal Republic of Germany until her death in 1997. The law enabling her to receive this pension , has been changed accordingly right after her death.

[@davecopp9356]

The scandal is that the laws have been changed and are changing in other ways too, especially when it comes to free speech and the lack there of. This is evil and not a good sign of a free society which the west is no longer.

[@JD-tn5lz]

How is that a scandal? That he wasn't prosecuted in the ultimate "absentia trial" or that she wasn't summarily denied benefits? Think about it. You want to punish him and his family (guilt by association) with summary judgment. A bit hypocritical. No, not a bit, extremely. The phrase goes...imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

[@davecopp9356]

@@JD-tn5lz Exactly. People are crazy nowadays. They see a documentary, don´t even know if it is true and under what intentions it was produced, and get railed up and angry and full of hate because of a documentary made by some faceless individue. Amazing. People are getting stupid and emotional.

[@seattlewa8500]

@@davecopp9356 Not surprised you would post that comment, since you obviously are a Nazi supporter.

[@emmanueldidier321]

It was a scandal because most german judges collaborated with the Nazis and practically none was punished after the war. Thus, she knew that her pension had been earned by her husband for murdering thousands...

[@brianvittachi6869]

What a fascinating story. Thanks for the upload.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thank you. Keep watching us, we have many more interesting videos

[@saloriasaxon7323]

"No tears were shed for Roland Freisler"😏😏

[@bobbrowning653]

He actually was running for cover and remembered the files going back and perished.

[@thepianoman1010]

Love it ... just 51 years on our lovely planet!

[@mavjimbo]

Paper work sucks

[@andrewbyrne2173]

It is astounding that an otherwise intelligent man could hold such evil views, and twist logic into unrecognizable shapes. I suspect he would have joined any evil regime, such were his deep flaws of character.

[@missyounorm33]

It’s easy to accept the feeble minded or the under educated as being ripe fruit for the evil to pick and ripen under a twisted sun. It’s much harder for me to see the highly educated become so enchanted with a maniacal dictatorship that was so overt in its hatred and terror. It’s nearly impossible for me to not see it happen again

[@oleriis-vestergaard6844]

He was running with the crowd without taking personel stand to the killings

[@rogerpattube]

People can believe all sorts of crazy things. The problem comes when the state starts enforcing those things.

[@gc4644]

I've said the same thing about ppl I thought were intelligent until i saw they joined the MAGA movement.

[@PaulBrower-py7tv]

As Nazis and Commies show, great intellectual talent with no moral scruples creates some of the most efficient evil. Smart people usually figure that evil is a losing proposition and often get what they want through legitimate means. Smart people with not-so-legitimate purposes, are particularly dangerous.

[@ShoegazingHammer74]

Great stuff as always, thank you. Freisler was often compared to the equally (indeed statistically even more so) odious 'hanging judge' in the USSR, Vyshinsky - I think I've read of Hitler referring to Freisler as 'our Vyshinksky' (much like Stalin referred to Beria as 'our Hitler'!). Aside from the parallels in cruelty, both men could be said to have the Sword Of Damocles hanging over them, in so much as both had a past which could taint them in the eyes of the party and the dictator they served. Freisler's iffy connections to the Communists when young were mirrored in a way by Vyshinksky's prior affiliation to the Mensheviks in opposition to the Bolsheviks - and being a former Menshevik could alone be a death sentence in Stalin's 1930s. Hence it's been argued that both hanging judges over-compensated in their fanaticism in order to prosper or even simply to flat-out survive under their respective capricious dictators. Just a horrid merry-go-round of so much of the worst in human nature.

[@PaulBrower-py7tv]

Fanatics typically have shallow beliefs, They can often go from one extremist cause to another when the first one fails. If you wonder how the Commies were able to find the people to do the large-scale blood work for them in central Europe -- they found ex-fascists. They went from harassing liberals for fascists to doing the same thing for Commies. Communism has a simple catechism, and it replaces one set of heroes with another. Many Nazis and Italian fascists had been Commies. The French collaborationist PPF was lead by a former Commie Doriot, and the organization even had a Commie-styled Politburo. Some neo-Nazis became members of ISIS/Daesh. It is shocking to find that Saddam Hussein's secular Baathists also went over to ISIS, but cruelty seduces fanatics. Fanatics do badly in dealing with subtle ideas. I contrast Judaism, which for over 2500 years has debated the fine points of ethics and responsibility, To put it bluntly there was nothing wrong with the German people in the Nazi era that Judaism would not have solved. All that surprises me about Hitler is that he did not have formal executions by animal attack, impalement in an iron maiden, crucifixion, or by burning. Freisler was enough of a fanatic that he would have used whatever cruel means Hitler asked for. I would not have been surprised if Freisler didn't ask about burnings at the stake, slow slicing, crucifixion, or an iron maiden.

[@razor1uk610]

..and both of them are indirect models of legalism used & abused in Putin's Russia to oppress those Russians whom speak out and/or resist - except many are sent to Wagner to become cannon fodder.

[@ShoegazingHammer74]

@@PaulBrower-py7tv Absolutely - the transposing of Baathists to ISIS isn't that surprising (in fact inevitable) on this basis. Essentially a re-badging of evil - again.

[@emmanueldidier321]

The Baath party was created in 1941 on the model of BOTH the Nazi and the Soviet communist party: Makiya, "The republic of fear". And Isis was managed by Saddam's former Military intelligence staff, from his own tribe.

[@michaelnoonan352]

No, you're wrong, Stalin referred to Beria as, our Himmler. Since they both of them had similar jobs in those respective regimes.

[@kellygreen5556]

Although she would take offense being compared with a Nazi, the way American television Judge Judy insults and screams at people in her courtroom reminds me of Roland Freisler

[@d.s.archer5903]

Which, ironically, has the same title as Freisler's court: "The People's Court."

[@rogerpattube]

Demented Comment of the Day

[@kellygreen5556]

@@rogerpattube don't play yourself. When you have nothing to offer. go back to your war games.

[@cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338]

My elderly father stopped watching precisely for that reason. She seemed to have gotten worse over time.

[@kellygreen5556]

@@cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338 Yes, I only see snipets of it as it is on before the evening news in my area. I don't know who would have agreed to be in her " courtroom".

[@joszoet4003]

Finally Justice for Freisler..

[@robertsansone1680]

Excellent. Thank You

[@tomantush4867]

It's a shame he didn't get the opportunity to defend himself at Nuremberg. Master Sergeant Woods would have been most gentle with him.

[@geraldek4948]

Funny Dude you're all right

[@warrena.7179]

Pierrepoint!

[@russelltofts7233]

@@warrena.7179 Woods hanged those convicted at Nurenberg, but he made a mess of the hangings, possibly intentionally. The drop was too short, meaning that many of the convicted prisoners strangled slowly to death, in some cases up to 20 minutes or so, instead of being killed quickly by a broken neck, and the trapdoor was too small, so that some cracked their head on it as they fell. Pierrepoint was brought in to hang the Belsen guards as the british didn't want a repetition of the Woods fiasco, and he did the job quickly, cleanly and efficiently.

[@edward1676]

Respect..Sgt.Woods

[@cpj93070]

@@russelltofts7233 Yeah Pierrepoint knew how to get it done, was so much better as a hangman than Woods.

[@sisekelohlongwane5388]

Erwin von Witzleben 🙌🙌 love the pius words, died with dignity and with the last word.

[@jguenther3049]

Imagine Witzleben's surprise to find out his judge had been taken off the bench by an act of God.

[@ashcarrier6606]

A master of judicial impartiality! I clicked on this just to see if this guy's end was suitably awful. In my opinion, it was mercifully too quick. But I do appreciate that the Nazi obsession with paperwork led to his demise.

[@hughmungus1767]

One of Freisler's inspirations was the Soviet jurist Andrey Vyshynsky. Vyshynsky's Wikipedia article includes this: Roland Freisler, a German Nazi judge, who served as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice, studied and had attended the trials by Vyshinsky's in 1938 to use a similar approach in show trials conducted by Nazi Germany. Like Freisler, Vyshynsky never stood trial for his abominations of justice. He died in 1954 of a sudden heart attack in New York City where he'd taken the post of permanent Soviet representative to the UN.

[@ericbrunnich5272]

Thx for the interesting history footnote. Too late, he got what he deserved all along.

[@jguenther3049]

Wasn't very permanent, was it? Or maybe he became the permanent Soviet representative to Hell.

[@stevebeckford9418]

Poetic justice the roof collapse on him...Karma...no tears shed for roland .

[@patgalvez4563]

When he yelled at the accused he sounded just like Hitler....

[@satishkamtikar958]

He also sentenced Sophie and her brother to death by guillotine.Their crime ,they circulated pamphlets criticising the Nazi rule.

[@Spike-qt7tx]

One of the Nuremberg trials, were for Judges. Where people like him were held accountable. they made a movie about it, In 2013, Judgment at Nuremberg was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"

[@myassizitchy]

U mean the one with Alec Baldwin ??? Think its js called Nuremberg

[@jgunther3398]

most of the executions of prisoners at the nuremberg trials were of people convicted for executing prisoners

[@jdrancho1864]

There were two movies. The first one starring Spencer Tracy, a more recent remake starring Alec Baldwin. Both worth watching, and can be found on ytube. The older movie is in B/W, the more recent one in color. It also stars Brian Cox, very effective as Hermann Göring, corrupting a young GI prison guard, and planting the seeds of Nazi ideology to live on after his death.

[@davidneumann5175]

The victors write history. This is garbage

[@Spike-qt7tx]

@@myassizitchy no Spencer Tracy

[@TheHesseJames]

Freisler's death was anything other than horrible. It was more a death of undeserved mercy!

[@ericbrunnich5272]

Exactly so.

[@jamesdavis8021]

If you ask me,he got off easy

[@doclawyer]

THEY all got off too easy. Germany should have been wiped off the face of the earth. The Americans were too nice to them after the war.

[@edward1676]

MUCH TO EASY

[@davebroad642]

Maybe, but more would have been condemned at his trials if he wasn't killed.

[@chrisxavier3147]

Hitler once referred to him as "That old Bolshevik"

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

See the video, it is mentioned there

[@optimusprinceps3526]

👍😆 That's hilarious that his Idol couldn't stand him, and thought once a Bolshevik always a Bolshevik

[@prikov1]

Go habs go.

[@chrisxavier3147]

@@WorldHistoryVideos actually typed that before I finished the vid, remembered it from another doc on this figure

[@dpt6849]

@@optimusprinceps3526 they are applying this policy in The Netherlands as well. At the moment far leftist policy and when it goes wrong 'suddenly' move to the right to correct their wrong doing. To claim their policy now as being 'right'.

[@zeppelin2412]

😃 there were no tears shed for Roland Freisler. he now awaits the judgment of the true & supreme judge. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes. 😎

[@jasonbrody1540]

I have a screaming message to Freisler: DEINE PAPIERE NAZI! DEINE PAPIERE NAZI!

[@blueridger28]

The narrator is top level. Right up there with Attenboro,Robert Stack and the They Will Kill You guy.

[@gerald56]

there were no tears shed for xxx ...

[@electrolytics]

Pretty good documentary but there were considerable disjointed timelines and apparently unrelated events. I know you need filler but you have to glue it together more coherently. Narration was clear and concise. Stock footage was engaging. Thank you.

[@mikemontgomery2654]

This video answered the exact question I had about this, plus some. I had seen him in the old show trial videos before, as well as represented in movies. Not surprising to hear that Roland Freisler was just as cruel and odd in his everyday life, as he was in his show trials. Awfully ironic way to go for a joke of a "judicial figure".

[@edzaslow]

What is missing here is that the air squadron that bombed Freisler was commanded by a Jewish officer of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Source: Wikipedia: "On the morning of 3 February 1945, Freisler was conducting a Saturday session of the People's Court when United States Army Air Forces bombers attacked Berlin, led by the B-17 of USAAF Lt. Colonel Robert Rosenthal." G-d's divine justice indeed, Frau Jodl.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Ed, thanks for your comment but remember that we try to keep the videos not too long ... if we wanted to mention every single detail that we know about Freisler, this video would last hours ...

[@malcolmabram2957]

"Doctor, Doctor, Freisler has been severely injured. You must help!" "Who me? No way." "But you have taken the hippocratic oath? You must help." "But I am Hippocrates."

[@dannywachowski5880]

I wish I could find details of which labour camp my dad was in and what he experienced, I should have asked him more about it. Perhaps there are historical archives somewhere after liberation

[@Bronzebk]

One of the best Narrators anywhere.

[@aaronz7056]

He was luckier than he deserved: imagine the look on his face if he had survived and got an actual fair trial from the Allies?

[@kenhaynes]

I love your videos. If you wouldn't mind sharing the information, I am curious as to who the narrator is?

[@krackenagate5606]

I like the idea that the very court he ran crushed him. He ran it to the ground, literally.

[@thecatcameback3921]

My father who was shot twice & returned to duty was a Canadian lieutenant with 25 men under him fighting in North Africa & Europe. It is only NOW that I appreciate what he did for God & country. I never tire of the ''deep'' background music here & the narrator has an excellent voice that flows of conviction.

[@tracybarrie1897]

Probably a chance Your Father met My Father. He was a Sapper in N. Africa then went onto Italy'

[@jeortiz-luis4288]

both of your fathers served under my father's command

[@thecatcameback3921]

@@tracybarrie1897 Could be. I dunno. I think he mentioned Italy. I do know he was tough as hell & it wasn't until I was in my 20's that he spoke of it.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Looks like a 'god' allowed six million Jewish civilians to perish against 250,000 Allied personnel.

[@sherirobinson6867]

Very little quality documentation on Judge Roland. Good job He's actually one of my favorite villains because he was just so insane and contradictory. Goes from communism to Nazism with all the self-promotion in between. For some reason he is a fascinating creature in history for me. Imo

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thank you, we tried hard with this video.

[@denislaferriere2693]

Tu dois avoir un garde robe plein de squelettes pour aimer et admirer ce trou duc

[@indy_go_blue6048]

@Jack O'Bean Fascination is one of those words used when one can't find another appropriate one when dealing with evil. I think a lot of people are fascinated* with studying the evil people; it doesn't mean that one wants to "adopt and adapt" to become one of those people.

[@miel1074]

We were not let down at the end when we were told that no tears were shed for Roland Freisler!!!

[@msgfrmdaactionman3000]

Great bio of this Nazi judge, thanks! I am happy you put the names in print, it lets me look them up for further study. He reminds me of the phrase "Hanging judge." Except they used the guillotine there. The head hunter judge? He met a great ending!

[@640626]

Actually many of the Main defendants in the 20th july plot was hanged with piano wire so that they should be hanged as cattle as Hitler said..

[@iggyarctic5711]

The Germans,then,also hung victims on piano wire to hooks,Hooks,to slowly,strangle their victims. Many of the 'Operation Valkyrie' plotters,suffered this fate.

[@640626]

@@iggyarctic5711 I wrote that in one post above that they used piano wire

[@LethalSaliva]

@@640626 I mentioned in another video that those who were executed by guillotine were the lucky ones. Those executed by piano wire.... prolonged agony.

[@derekheuring2984]

Read 'Under the Bombs: the German home front, 1942-1945' by Earl Beck.

[@sophiegeorge2816]

Oh dear what a shame never mind. He got what was coming to him

[@sisekelohlongwane5388]

Imagine going to bed knowing that you have requested that someone to be killed

[@harrynking777]

He probably thought that those opposed to Hitler were enemies of Germany. After all, he was a Nazi.

[@Ben-rh4lj]

For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble. They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. - Proverbs 4:16-17

[@stevetaylor7403]

One British judge, can’t recall who, always ordered hot buttered crumpets and tea after putting on the black cap.

[@philip5117]

"There were tears shed for Roland Freisler"

[@derekheuring2984]

I first heard of the despicable Roland Freisler while reading Earl Beck's excellent book 'Under the Bombs: the German home front, 1942-1945'

[@johnrossiter3185]

Justice was served. Hear! Hear! Let those beasts rot in Hell.

[@ladycplum]

10:02 THANK YOU for giving us audio of this lunatic. Just wish it was translated.

[@claytonbenignus4688]

As per the Cause of Death, the Acquittal of Fabian von Schlabrendorff is circumstantial evidence that Freisler was wounded in his attempted escape from the Courtroom. Were he actually clutching the Case Files as the Courtroom collapsed due to the Bombing Raid, those files would have been used to convict Schlabrendorf, who actually survived the War.

[@Catquick1957]

It is GODS verdict! That was a brilliant remark. Spot on!

[@shirleytwsw]

Who could give this madman a license to practice law the scales definitely were tilted towards the party !! His conduct in the courtroom was reprehensible yelling and screaming constantly at the accused who were guilty before the trial even started!

[@mattmadden3013]

If I remember correctly his favorite taunt was calling people piles of misery.

[@StephenLuke]

RIH Roland Freisler (1893-1945)

[@gionncaomhinmorpheagh4791]

What was even more perverse was what happened after the war when Freisler was killed by an Allied bomb in February 1945. In 1985, it became known that his widow, Marion Freisler, was not only in receipt of a pension in accordance with the Federal German War Victims Relief Act, but also that she had been awarded a supplementary pension from the Occupational Disturbance Compensation Funds. The quite astonishing grounds given for that additional payment were: “In the case of Roland Freisler surviving the war, he would have achieved a very high income, either as an attorney or as a higher-placed civil servant”. Despite a public outcry, the widow continued to receive her added perks. It wasn’t until 1997 that the law was changed to exclude such grotesque cases. MsG

[@jeffreyschwarz3699]

I call that poetic justice with a touch of karma. Crap happens to crap.

[@deeppurple883]

I hate violence. In his case I make a exception. Devil 👹

[@CharlieBrown-lt3tq]

Who is the narrator of these videos on this channel? Does anyone know?

[@jndoirin]

Who is that brown shirt member shown at 6:13 I always see him in other footages

[@peteacher52]

A fitting punishment would have been exile with his side-kicks to a cold, remote area, given a few basic building and gardening tools and a shank - maybe a few seed potatoes, turnip and kale seeds, then left to fend for and argue amongst themselves. Since there is no honour among psychopaths, they'd soon "final solution" each other.

[@rogerpattube]

A fitting punishment would have been the guillotine.

[@chrisdooley1184]

Spectacular narration. This narrator is top notch

[@ggregd]

I have to disagree. He does have a good voice but his delivery is choppy and affected; and he uses the same cadence in every sentence no matter what he's talking about. I'm distracted by his speaking style.

[@fredbelak8508]

In any society,no matter how much we may say it isn't so in our nation,or even be unaware of it being so,every institution is influenced by the prevailing political,economic and military elites of that nation. With Roland Freisler,you see what happens when that influence reaches that highest form. The complete perversion of in this case the legal system,to where justice is not the end result or desired end result but rather,where law is to being nothing but another frightening instrument of the states power,against its own citizens. It is a lesson and most importantly a warning from history for our own times,never to be forgotten.

[@jeffcool9769]

Fascinating study, thanks for that.

[@thorawilson6253]

T in the trial shown the poor defendant said he didn't believe in the murder of someone or some people, the subject screamed MURDER? MURDER? Yes old man.. MURDER.

[@amendola]

Very good narration.