Death of Walter Von Reichenau - Fanatical Nazi Field Marshal & Hitler's Protegee - World War 2

Death of Walter Von Reichenau - Fanatical Nazi Field Marshal & Hitler's Protegee - World War 2.
At the beginning of the First World War , Walter von Reichenau served as Adjutant of the 1st Guards Field Artillery Regiment before being transferred to the German General Staff. For gallantry in action, he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class and 1st Class. However, Reichenau was not only progressively minded but also brutal.
He ordered soldiers, if absent from their post without a valid pass, liberty or leave, to be executed even in times of peace.
The First World War ended on the 11th of November 1918 when the German leaders signed the armistice in the Compiègne Forest in France
In the new Weimar Republic, which was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1933, Walter von Reichenau was a General Staff officer with the paramilitary Freikorps units.
In 1919 Reichenau joined in the newly established Reichswehr - the German Army - of the Weimar Republic.
In April 1932, Reichenau's uncle, a diplomat and an ardent Nazi, introduced him to Adolf Hitler. Reichenau joined the Nazi Party, although doing so was a violation of the army regulations. Reichenau himself was an anti-Semite who equated Jewry with Bolshevism and a perceived Asian threat to Europe.
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party came into power in January 1933. In New Nazi Germany, Blomberg became Minister of War and Walter von Reichenau was promoted to head the powerful Ministerial Office, acting as liaison officer between the Army and the Nazi Party.
Along with Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, Reichenau belonged to the "terrible triumvirate” that decided who would or would not die during the Night of the Long Knives..
In 1935, Reichenau was promoted to lieutenant general and was also appointed to command the military forces in Munich. In 1936 he participated in the organization of the Olympic Games in Berlin.
For two weeks in August 1936, Adolf Hitler's Nazi dictatorship camouflaged its racist, militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics.
In May 1939, Reichenau commanded the German Tenth Army with which he took part in the invasion of Poland which began on the 1st of September 1939 and marked the beginning of the Second World War.
Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began on Sunday the 22nd of June 1941.
During the invasion, as commander of the 6th Army, Reichenau led his army into the heart of Russia during the summer of 1941.
Von Reichenau, while in command of the 6th Army had issued the notorious Severity Order, also called the Reichenau Order, which supported Nazi genocidal policies and advocated for punishment against the so called “subhuman species” of Jews and the extermination of Jewish Bolshevism in Europe. The order paved the way for mass murder of Jews and encouraged German soldiers to murder Jewish civilians on the Eastern Front.
As commander of the 6th Army, Reichenau bore co-responsibility for massacres in his area.
On the 10th or 11th of August 1941, Friedrich Jeckeln the Higher SS and Police Leader of Southern Russia, ordered Paul Blobel, commanding officer of the Sonderkommando 4A, to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Bila Tserkva, Soviet Ukraine on behalf of Adolf Hitler.
On the 22nd of August 1941, with the consent of Field Marshal Walther von Reichenau, Blobel’s Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen murdered betweeen 4,000 and 5,000 Jews.
Due to close contacts between Paul Blobel and Walter von Reichenau, there was also close cooperation between the Wehrmacht and the Sonderkommando in the largest massacre in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II.
On the 29th and 30th of September 1941, SS and German police units and their auxiliaries, under the guidance of the members of Einsatzgruppe C, murdered a significant number of the Jewish population who remained in Kyiv. This massacre which belongs to one of many mass shootings perpetrated by the Nazi Germans beginning in 1941, occurred at a ravine called Babi Yar or Babyn Yar.
In November 1941 Hitler relieved Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt from his command of Army Group South and promoted Reichenau to take his place.
On the 15th of January 1942 Reichenau collapsed with a severe stroke. When Walter von Reichenau died on the 17th of January 1942, he was 57 years old.
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there are many more murdered without the holocaust, why are Jews always claiming they are the big sufferes in WW2, Stalin killed 21 million....nazies where small fry

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Of course but these were countries under Nazi German occupation.

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@@barrykevin7658 never forget USSR war crimes, Katin , 20.000 polish officers executed, ok NOT Only Nazis and not ONLY jews many many none jews where murdered , but who cares ??

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@@harryeisermann2784 Yes I absolutely agree and hope it never happens again , but sadly some don't learn from history or care.

[@franc9111]

What is absolutely ironic is that Reichenau is the name of an important and ancient monastery on an island in Lake Constance/Bodensee which was closely associated with the Saint Gallen monastery not very far away in Switzerland.

[@revanofkorriban1505]

Not really. Walther's family just happened to come from there. Yes, I know there were a lot of important monks at Reichenau, like those who helped refine the Western modal system, but you could say similar things if Walther came from Köln.

[@barrykevin7658]

The 90 children's screams while being shot is beyond horror .

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Isn't it fascinating how today's Ukrainians adore the Wehrmacht and the SS?????

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There were diehard Nazi fanatics in the regular German army, and Reichenau was one of them.

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0:30 "Soviet officials and other people with disabilities." Lmfao!

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Why don't you do a video about Max Thomas who succeeded OTTO Rascher as the chief of Einsatzgruppen A or B I don't remember , please

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[@michealanthony2706]

in 1939 began WW2 Hitler invaded Poland 🇵🇱 thank u sir 👍 new video

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yes strange, Ussr invaded from east, and no declaration of war?hypocrisy very strange politicians .... unbelievable lies and history written by the winners

[@bigeye8902]

0:37 That scooter or small motor bike is interesting. Anyone with history of its use in the military?

[@scottmccloud9029]

He may of escaped mans justice but he'll never escape God's judgment.

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God is a buybull fairytale

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what is there to "enjoy". Do you enjoy viewing pictures of the Holocaust?

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@@stranraerwal In response to your question, I enjoyed both the images and the narration from an educational standpoint. This video does not support or glorify the Holocaust so it is possible to say that you like the content without supporting the criminals who are responsible for all the suffering and killing. Of course I do not enjoy seeing the suffering itself and some images are definitely difficult to view but videos like these are meant to inform and to remind people of what is possible if you allow racist and hateful people to rise to power.

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@@kendrahansen1175 well, it seems then to be more of a semantic problem. I would not describe the info as "enjoyable", but maybe "instructive".

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I 've been wondering who the voice of the video reminds me of. Then it came to me. Matt Berry.

[@changopardomuzik4953]

Many of these German family officer class WW2 generals had cozy positions int the military, all desk general staff aid positions

[@jacksonreilly3441]

Judging by the majestic state funeral at which his family were present, it is certain that there were MANY TEARS SHED for the Feldmarschall.

[@ericklein5927]

That's what I was thinking.

[@jacksonreilly3441]

@@tpl608 More accurate to say "no tears shed by the allies for..." I've been teasing this bloke for many months about his little "party piece". It's a silly line but fun to mock!

[@elwin38]

@@jacksonreilly3441 I love it!! There were NO tears shed for the Third Reich!!

[@jacksonreilly3441]

@@elwin38 Well...... not quite. The men who were able to escape after the war to South America certainly shed a few tears, I'll wager. In the German enclaves they used to celebrate the old holidays such as Heldengedenktag, Machtergreifung and Fuhrergeburtstag with lots of beer and bratwurst. Of course they are all dead now. When you think about it, most WWII veterans are gone. I was born during the war and am pushing 80. In any of the armies, Allied or Axis, even a young lad of 16 who joined up in 1945 would be 91 now and the men who escaped were long past 16. They were men who held responsible positions in the Reich. Just a few random thoughts.

[@ileanaacacostaacosta1813]

That's all they have the rest of the world hates and despise and spit on their memory and is sad their children and grandchildren are despised how's that these kind of people like Reichenau seems to think they live alone in the world and owe no explanation to anyone but that's not the case they live in the world and in a society and to that society will make you and yours pay your evil

[@opoxious1592]

The footage of the crashing plane is actually an B-25

[@Tramseskumbanan]

On the contrary, there were many tears shedded for him.

[@danstone8783]

You can be sure that Reichenau had to answer for himself in from of the Judge of Judges. I bet it didn't go well for him.

[@stuartgallacher9949]

How come the judge of judges let the whole horrible atrocity happen in the first place

[@danstone8783]

@@stuartgallacher9949 Because people are given free will and in rejecting God this is the sort of evil that happens. When Christ comes back to physically rule this world such things will never happen again. That will be soon.

[@stuartgallacher9949]

That's the old cop out the free will bit. U might as well say we should have no law enforcement and leave it to the free will of people to do as they please. The truth is there are no god or if your god does exist he is cruel and vicious taking pleasure in the pain and suffering of humanity. As for coming back soon it's constantly predicted and he misses the bus

[@danstone8783]

@@stuartgallacher9949 You go ahead and go with that. Vote more communists in power if you want. That will work out alright I am sure.

[@craigcoletta9380]

Yeah, let's be honest...if there's a god, it let all this happen. As Churchill said on finishing a full read of the bible, "What a shit that god person was."

[@user-ok5jk1vi5k]

One can only wonder whether had Reichneau lived, Germany conduct of the war in Southern Russia would have been different. Without doubt an ardent Nazi, he connived along with Einzasgruppen in many large scale atrocities. Nevertheless, it cannot be doubted he was an extremely capable and efficient military commander who doubtless would certainly have exercised considerable influence on future military strategy on the Ostfront. Certainly an iron disciplinary he had no qualms in executing any soldiers who transgressed army regulations, harshly many believed.

[@Haendelman]

What an War-Criminal in uniform of 1st degree!

[@Hoosier_Daddy69]

I like his eye piece.

[@jamesjwalsh]

He's no Col. Klink.

[@georgeamanor-boadu6771]

Pierrepoint missed this one.

[@mikeprevost8650]

I would have preferred that Master Sergeant Woods do that job. Pierrepoint was too good for this piece of human fecal matter.

[@angelofinaldi5918]

DOA....with monocle.....

[@MrDaiseymay]

I can't watch this, Iknow only too well what happened to these people---

[@janlindtner305]

A really, really, really efficient boy.

[@lucasgroves137]

0:35 "Come on, Hans, you slow bastard! It's supposed to be an invasion! You're making us look bad." 😡

[@tphvictims5101]

0:37 the first scooters.

[@fpscanada3862]

blew my mind when i saw this

[@PaulBrower-py7tv]

So much for the myth of the Clean Wehrmacht.

[@mediocreman6323]

0:39 … what the …? Did this soldier invade Poland on a _scooter???_ I mean, I always knew those things where evil, but I never knew the full extent of it!

[@margarita8442]

I shed no tears for Walter Von Reichenau

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[@honeybee8856]

Well I guess he wouldn’t care about a clown like you anyhow

[@kayvan671]

@@honeybee8856 Du schon wieder? Hahaha Ihr Trolle amüsiert mich richtig

[@honeybee8856]

@@kayvan671 armer lächerlicher Clown muss sich hier mit seinen dummen Kommentaren wichtig machen

[@hobartw9770]

And they used their worst knot tyers.

[@mr6johnclark]

This one got off easy.

[@dpt6849]

3:36 ending him because of the percieved asian threat. Now I like.

[@baubfknownsyou]

@History Channel, this narrator

[@andrewtaylor1671]

Reichenau was hardly Hitler's protege. He was an Olympic delegate before the war and an excellent tennis player. I don't believe he planned or ordered Babi Yar, but nevertheless, he was responsible for things that happened in his theatre of ops. Should remembered he countermanded Hitler's orders as soon as he took over in Jan 42.

[@fpscanada3862]

none of these people want to remember.. they just want people to think of all wehrmacht as cartoonishly evil

[@senorpepper3405]

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[@colder5465]

Nevertheless, there were only two German Field Marshals who were convinced Hitler's followers and fanatical Nazi believers: Reichenau and Model.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

0:11 in concert with the n k v d.

[@jamesmoore3694]

at 34 seconds.... the first scooter on record

[@fpscanada3862]

YO that is actually insane.. blew my mind seeing that total G scooting past the motorbikes

[@jamesmoore3694]

@@fpscanada3862 history has a habit of being quirky. smiles from mt hood

[@hangin-in-thereawesome4245]

Every time I watch one of your videos I learn more and more about the atrocities committed during WWII! Poor Ukraine eighty years later all over again!

[@peterkin1010]

But there were tears shed as he had a state funeral

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Where in Hell? 🔥👿

[@altonkilbourn1595]

Some people tried to say that regular german army didn't have any to do with the holocaust during ww2 that a lie they was just like ss some didn't but most help

[@RobertLewis-el9ub]

Hope his family did not get to keep the blood money.

[@dinadunlap3971]

My mother was a little girl in World War II I'm always interested in things like this. It's really sad because what's going on in Ukraine right now reminds me of these horrific Acts that are going on in Ukraine right now. The work camps prisoners Etc. As United States citizen 🇺🇸I'm truly happy to say we staying with Ukraine.🇺🇦🙏🏽

[@GleppaPigg]

So you are in support of hatred? What about all of those neo nazi groups that Ukraine is arming actively fighting against Russia?

[@KillerofWestoids]

Bro, ukraine has always been a part of Russia.

[@jerrypauling7809]

It's a shame he never met the gallows

[@azyjmexcuseokstop924]

0:31 "[...] soviet officials, and other people with disabilities" sick burn

[@SKF358]

Who kills better?

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[@TheHiltonblake]

Question.. How do you shoot and kill innocent children?.. It defies all logic...

[@sroevukasroevuka]

No great loss.

[@murraywilkinson6515]

If his wife knew of the crimes he had committed I wonder if she would have shed tears for him?

[@robertdlucas7418]

Where did the six million figure come from? There is disagreement over this figure.

[@moshedayan2810]

It's subtraction.. Population before war minus after war=number killed

[@louismart]

Do some more or less make a difference?

[@moshedayan2810]

@@louismart no it does not even if the number had been 1000000 it would not have reduced enormity of the crime

[@kaimalino528]

Oh great, we have .... a Denier. Very soon he will be denying that the Holocaust even happened, or that those Honourable German Soldiers were just protecting European Civilization from those Asiatic Russians.

[@robertdlucas7418]

@@kaimalino528 : Don't be silly. Have you ever heard of the word comprehension?I wanted to know where the figure six million came from and went on to state that there is disagreement over the figure.Why couldn't the figure be 5.96 million? The figure 6 million is too contrived. You need to brush on you use of English.

[@rolo8950]

If you are an English speaker, the German language is actually one of the easiest second languages to learn. English and German languages are extremely close to each other. English is the most like German out of every other language on the planet and German is the most like English. So if you speak English, you could pick up German quite easily. Just a fun fact.

[@PaulBrower-py7tv]

Mastery of German grammar is tricky for a native English speaker, and the hybrid vocabulary of English creates subtle and unpredictable problems.

[@Mark-yy2py]

Dutch is also a 1st cousin of German and English. That’s why most Dutch speak English and many speak German.

[@mikeprevost8650]

@@Mark-yy2py most people consider Dutch an easier language to learn for English speakers. Also, the Netherlands has the highest percentage of English speakers of any non English speaking country--close to 90%.

[@travisreed1730]

Why does Walter Von Reichenau look like every stereotypical Nazi officer ever?

[@picticiousd4853]

And I’m the end they are in their graves laughing away that Germany never ever truly paid for what they did.

[@kaimalino528]

I like to think Germany did pay. Consider those bad Russkies, Yanks and Tommies having their way with German Women after the war while German Men were languishing in prison camps. Entire cities (like Dresden) being flattened. The country being split in two between NATO and the bad Russkies for 40 years, not to mention millions of displaced Germans after the war. The baddest Germans of all, the Prussians, ceasing to exist. Yeah ... Germany paid.

[@francislarv3012]

Yet pampered generations whine about how difficult life is. Teach real history is part of the solution

[@manuel_II]

Victors always used Fanaticism to their losing enemies instead of patriotism.

[@emmanuelnwangwu2795]

There will never be tears to shed for the wicked.

[@emmanuelnwangwu2795]

I love your commentaries.

[@smhaceofspades2813]

That WAS the only way we could guarantee there population not grow further is to get rid of the kids crying or not it was a genius idea.

[@tahmids4082]

Absolutely. Imagine all those kids growing up and living a full life, they'd have been the Zionists we see today

[@khunsiwalai2971]

How about the 1700 Nkvd destruction Battalions with over 270000 Soldiers that slaughtered and destroyed anything of value?

[@kaimalino528]

Whataboutism .... I take it you approve of Herr von Riechenau and consider soldiers such as he "Honourable European Soldiers" as opposed to those nasty commies, Yanks and Tommies. Too bad they didn't exhume his grave and flush his remains down a toilet ... in Israel. That would have been justice.

[@fpscanada3862]

nah.. you see according to history that was all "justified"

[@VilhelmHammershoi1666]

During the first World War even the ordinary German soldier hated the prussians they were viewed as sadistic barbarians

[@kaimalino528]

Isn't that the reason Prussia no longer exists?

[@colinreece3452]

The soldiers that shot the children, how could they live with themselves?

[@GeissnerGauss57]

wer hat meinen stift geklaut

[@eedwards4603]

How is this justice? State funeral and property for his family?

[@kaimalino528]

I would like to think his family lost the lands and fled to "West" Germany, or ended up in the Gulag.

[@colder5465]

​@@kaimalino528As for Gulag for German POWs Now it's portrayed as evidence of Stalin's evil that all German POWs weren't freed after the war immediately (excluding war criminals). Very few know that, I fact, this was agreed upon at Yalta conference during discussions about German post-war reparations . Stalin rightfully rejected any money form for them remembering the story of German post WW1 reparations. The country was largely destroyed and desperately needed workers for restoration. So the Allies agreed that German POWs will be used as workforce as a form of reparations. You may condemn this decision as inhuman but one has to remember that the war in the East was Der Vernichtungskrieg (War on Destruction), that was officially declared by Hitler's leadership. Hence the response

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

0:27, 0:36 proud of his looting some child's toy.

[@nikkibaugher9573]

Why did you even mention Babies Yar? I don't see the connection.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Nikki, it is explained in the text " Due to close contacts between Paul Blobel and Walter von Reichenau, there was also close cooperation between the Wehrmacht and the Sonderkommando in the largest massacre in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II. " Many people forgot about this massacre and it is important to talk about it ... so that we never forget ...

[@luxor-uc2xs]

Babyn Jar, not Babies Yar. lol.

[@balancedactguy]

@@luxor-uc2xs It seems to go by BOTH Names!...🙄🙄

[@marks.3303]

@@balancedactguy Babyn Yar or Babi Yar, never "Babies Yar".

[@balancedactguy]

@@marks.3303 I'm sure Historians the WORLD OVER are breathing a Sigh of Relief now that point has been corrected!

[@josephstabile9154]

He never had a chance for regret, so I assume he went to the hereafter unrepentant. Couldn't happen to a more deserving fellow! : )

[@honeybee8856]

What a stupid comment

[@josephstabile9154]

@Honey Bee Sorry to say, that's all we got--the here & now, and the hereafter. We could dig up his corpse for spite, a la Oliver Cromwell, but I'm betting not too many people would be up for that. We could hunt down all his relatives, but I'm pretty sure modern sensibilities wouldn't see justice in that. Leaving us with the perhaps somewhat less than satisfying realization he didn't get the justice he deserved in this life. Perhaps the next? Quien Sabe?

[@kayvan671]

@@honeybee8856 1945 🤡

[@renemoya6831]

Von Richenau died not long before Reinhard Heydrich. I hope they are both suffering intensely in the fires of hell.

[@alerojas2952]

No such thing as hell

[@renemoya6831]

@@alerojas2952 Ah but there is.

[@fandangofandango2022]

These Creeps Make Great Targets.

[@honeybee8856]

Talking about yourself

[@fandangofandango2022]

Get Real. Their Sadists.

[@kayvan671]

@@fandangofandango2022 He's a 9 year old Troll What do you expect?

[@justforrow]

lol,if death scares you, then maybe their is something wrong with you

[@fandangofandango2022]

@@justforrow That would be the Biggest Brain Dead Answer I have Ever Heard.

[@tonyantoniou9271]

How dare these guys continue to call themselves soldiers once they participated in the mass murder of women and children.

[@tiny7118]

hahahaha rest in piss reichenau

[@hinduindia3834]

What crimes , perpetrated because of one mad, coward.

[@honeybee8856]

You mean Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt ? Yeah I agree

[@kayvan671]

@@honeybee8856 And us Germans. But its okay We lost in 1945 and the only people who are mad about that are non Germans like you. 🤣

[@johnbeardshall2898]

We have your IP number thanks now watch who comes to visit sleep well we're coming

[@justforrow]

Richenhowe was not a ckward check your facts before commenting cow worshipper

[@fpscanada3862]

@@kayvan671 like ah said... "the best ones will have fallen in battle by the end" I have been to germany and it made me really sad how germans have been taught to hate their grandfathers/fathers. I as a someone with deep german heritage believe that the allies and especially the soviets took all their evil deeds and pinned them on the germans.. remember katyn? sooooooooooooo many uncountable lies have been spread about ww2 germans. even in this video. (those lampshades made of "skin", spearing babies out of the air, chimneys attached to what the soviets called "crematoriums" but turns out the chimneys were built by soviets and dont even connect...) and germany is still giving the israelies billions every year.... WHY? ofcourse some german soldiers and SS did bad shlt... So did many soviet soldiers and nkvd. No one cares about that though... Also i believe the germans made an honest preemptive strike on the USSR as they had their armies massed on the border and most likely would have invaded europe by 42 imo

[@ebiyejombo]

"The Devil" had absolutely no part in this!They weren't possessed or suffered from any kind of mental illness! This was human wickedness and pure evil!

[@danij5055]

Exactly! Humans don't need some supernatural super entity to explain the evil. Humans are very capable of such things. Trying to attribute it to anything else takes away from the full responsibilities of people and their actions.

[@hisoverlorduponhigh90]

The real villain was Stalin.

[@markdeegan7268]

A Shame on the Prussian Army

[@kaimalino528]

Soldiers such as Walter are a very good reason why Prussia no longer exists.

[@hansthorsten6264]

Well, I dont cry. But I would shed a tear for this great man.

[@matthewfergusons4318]

In sarcastic being great man that guy a great man are you kidding anybody who shoots innocent woman or child is not a good man great man to me it's just evil so the

[@daviddoran3673]

For his infanticide??? For his friendship with Blobel and Jaeckeln?

[@hansthorsten6264]

@@daviddoran3673 Well, did he do this? Idk.

[@ggregd]

@@hansthorsten6264 He did. It's all very well documented by the Nazis themselves.

[@williamodriscoll5206]

What is great about the scum

[@fnayr00]

The best man to ever step foot in Ukraine 😍

[@kayvan671]

🤡

[@fnayr00]

@@kayvan671 blobel😍

[@kayvan671]

@@fnayr00 Geh woanders trollen! Ihr Trolle amüsiert mich richtig Immernoch sauer das wir in 1945 verloren haben? Ohhhhhh 😝🤡

[@fnayr00]

6 millions souls Wonder why but you know why your grandfather was a héro . Are you?

[@kayvan671]

@@fnayr00 Juckt echt niemanden, Troll Du weißt sowieso nichts über mein Heimatland 😝

[@michaelsternberg1597]

Ukrainian civilians neighbors of those massacred at baba Yar participated and stole their neighbors things.

[@KK-rg1wz]

Do you have a source? No, not the Volker Beobacher, or Signal. A neutral source, ....

[@kaimalino528]

Right... and those Nazis are the reason why (Ras)putin invaded their country .... believable story also known as b.s.

[@graemesmith3000]

MAY HE R.I.P.

[@captainamerica6525]

Hope the bastige rots!

[@kayvan671]

He won't

[@graemesmith3000]

@@kayvan671 i think you mean he isn't.

[@modernista6056]

May he rot in hell

[@kayvan671]

@@graemesmith3000 Er ist in der Hölle Das weiß doch jeder lol