My father fought as part of the BEF with the Royal Ulster Rifles. They fought the SS at a river crossing and beat them back but my father did say they were tough soldiers. He eventually got away via Dunkirk but returned on D Day and fought tight through France until he took part in the Crossing of the Rhine
@joemdee2 ай бұрын
All brave men. My mate’s father was also in Dunkirk and back on D Day with the Royal Ulster Rifles.
@honeybadger63132 ай бұрын
Also an identical massacre at Wormhoute
@chazboyle94562 ай бұрын
my dad and was in the RN seen some action but survived like your dad
@aliwhitwell2 ай бұрын
My wife's grandfather John Martin aged 36 was Regimental Sergeant Major in the Royal Scots. He was killed on 27 May 1940 defending the left flank of Le Paradis where he is buried in the local cemetery alongside those 97 of the Norfolk Regiment who were murdered by the SS. He was mentioned by Major J. Bruce of the Royal Scots in his report as having contributed great assistance and behaved with distinction during the fighting. We have visited the cemetery twice and the place where the 97 Norfolk Regiment soldiers were murdered. There is an excellent book detailing the massacre called " The Vengeance of Private Pooley". Well worth a read.
@GilbertdeClare07042 ай бұрын
It has always touched me deeply, that every year at Arnistice Day, the relatives of a Private Fred Bradley of the Norfolk Regiment, still leave a small placard remembering him, on the War Memorial in front of the Norwich City Hall. "Always Remembered"
@ashrakus3 ай бұрын
Crazy guy, crazy period! This was madness. Thank you World History for great documentary.
@2155raulito2 ай бұрын
Crazy guy? Nazis were bloody fanatics none crazy amongst them.
@1960caroline2 ай бұрын
Crazy guy? Don't you mean EVIL!!!
@honeybadger63132 ай бұрын
Inters Tingly I was reading a book called Dunkirk about the retreat and rearguard. In Wormhout where the Royal Norfolks were captured the same thing happened . A German SS soldier was ordered to take part and he and a comrade refused point blank. He could not prevent it but it bothered him so badly that when he was captured by the British he immediately asked to see an officer and told his story so he probably was one of those who testified.
@liverpoolscottish64302 ай бұрын
Wormhout massacre involved the Royal Warwickshire Regt- not the Norfolks.
@honeybadger63132 ай бұрын
@@liverpoolscottish6430 yes your right my mistake
@mnpo89872 ай бұрын
An ss commander complaining about how he's being treated as a prisoner...oh, the irony.
@hansgruber650Ай бұрын
Did his captors sign the articles of the Geneva Convention? If so he should not have to ask to be treated accordingly.
@franc9111Ай бұрын
@@hansgruber650 The SS and the Wehrmacht certainly didn't - we know that because of witness statements from survivors and from the tapescripts from Trent Park. It's all there in the archives.
@hansgruber650Ай бұрын
@@franc9111 Germany signed the Articles, RUSSIA did not, wth.
@franc9111Ай бұрын
@@hansgruber650 Well perhaps the Weimar Republic signed up for that, but the Nazi Third Reich didn't think it was bound by them. The evidence is there that they didn't with all the consequences that it entailed.
@hansgruber650Ай бұрын
@@franc9111 Germany signed the Articles of Geneva Convention in 1929 and stayed in effect thru WWII.
@geraldnesbitt21232 ай бұрын
My uncle Jim Knight was captured at Dunkirk sent to a POW camp The Nazis wanted to send him to a coal mine He refused and was tortured physically and mentally After his release came back to Ireland He had a very special medal for bravery too young to recall what one but when I asked he said I ran faster than the Germans
@paulbeesley82833 ай бұрын
12:55 "....the English hangman Ted Roper." A case of nominative predetermination there.
@sampsonroofing73772 ай бұрын
We have heard much about the inept American hangman, Sergeant Woods.
@kylemendoza88602 ай бұрын
If the case of truth being stranger than fiction. 😅😅
@renee19613 ай бұрын
Good afternoon, World History. I hope you're doing well. Thank You, as ALWAYS, for your Very Important, Informative, and Excellent videos. My Absolute Favorite History Channel!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
@jonathannixon86523 ай бұрын
11:43 He was 37,I'm 44 and and look 20s . I find it interesting how so don't age while others look way older than their official age.
@lesgriffiths85232 ай бұрын
Perhaps his long combat history might have been a factor. Les Griffiths
@Eric-the-Bold2 ай бұрын
A lucky Escape .My Irish father in law Edward ,came over to the UK and joined up, with his mates . He was posted to France in Febuary 1940, as part of the Royal Engineers,General Construction Company building an airstrip at Grévillers. 10th May bombed, then three companies were off to Boulogne on 17th May. 21st May Two officers plus ten OR`s [Edward] plus two lorries were sent off North to obtain trenching materials. Nb did they think it was WW1? Later they made their way via Le Paradis, and were told to leave Hazebrouck, as they were not front line troops , and make there way to Dunkirk, they joined up with other RE`s 26th May 1940, Not making trenches the Tanks were on there way? No transport was available until 1300 hours, when they embarked in a small drifter (small fishing boat) . Edward back to France 17th July 1944,
@jeroenvandenberg57502 ай бұрын
Danke für diesen Zeugniss! Interesting
@angelabushby18912 ай бұрын
That survivor has just recently died
@sanjosemike31372 ай бұрын
I have not heard any stories or charges of German officers being "tortured" in confinement at any English prisons after the War. Maybe it happened in "isolated" circumstances, but I have never heard it. In Russia, German prisoners were treated very badly. Not always because they were being "tortured" but mainly because there was no food to feed them. But there wasn't much food for Russian civilians after the war either. I think it is possible he was lying about the torture. Even as he explained it, it was NOTHING compared to the concentration camps who murdered millions, including enemy combatants. Ultimately, he was FIGHTING for a very, very criminal Reich. If the Allies also committed atrocities (and likely they did), they were isolated occurrences and were NOT combat policy. The American hangman who hung the prisoners of the war-crimes trials was not expert and botched them. So some things happened that were not always according to the rules of war. Correct me if you think I am wrong. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
@stevebarlow31542 ай бұрын
@sanjosemike3137 I think it very unlikely that Knochlein was tortured. He was sent to an English country house that was deliberately made comfortable and relaxed in order that senior German officers would talk freely. Every room and virtually every tree in the garden was bugged and listened in to by a large number of German speakers (mainly Jews escaped from the Nazis) in the basement of the country house! There was a rogue senior MI5 (Security Service) officer who set up a secret interrogation centre where German prisoners were treated roughly. His activities were discovered and he was thrown out of MI5 and the interrogation centre closed down. I don't know if he was prosecuted for his illegal activities.
@waynec94442 ай бұрын
@@stevebarlow3154 You have seen too many movies.
@stevebarlow31542 ай бұрын
@@waynec9444 Do a bit of research, both those stories are true. I'm not sure if either have featured in a film, but both have been mentioned more than once in TV documentaries.Both are also mentioned in the book 'British Interrogation techniques the Second World War' by Sophie Jackson.
@franc9111Ай бұрын
@@stevebarlow3154 Absolute rubbish. What happened at Trent Park and other locations where Wehrmacht officers were held was NOT a rogue operation. British counter inteligence were perfectly entitled to do what they were doing. This has since been extremely well documented, videos have been made, that available on KZbin, the German Jews such as Lustig have told their story, books have been published by historians and as the files of transcripts are so enormous, research is on-going, including by German historians such as Professor Sônke Neitzel. The absolute scandal happened at the end of the War, when there was an almighty row in the Cabinet. Many of the ministers there wanted the Nazis to be prosecuted for the war crimes that they had so freely admitted to, but MI5 didn't want their methods to be revealed. Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia had done exactly the same thing. I also want to make it absolutely clear that the Wehrmacht were implicated in war crimes just as much as the SS were, and very often they participated in atrocities with the SS. One thing that did happen at the end of the War, the Wehrmacht officer POWs were shown newsreel of the liberation of the concentration camps. One of them remarked that Germany would be known not for the thousand year reich but for the concentration camps for a thousand years.
@fasthracing2 ай бұрын
Film footage bears little resemblance to the story line.
@hans-1940Ай бұрын
Well, this isn't the whole story. In his book, Herbert Brunnegger describes the fighting that preceded the massacre. The Royal Norfolk and the Royal Scots Regiment probably used a fighting style that was not exactly the fine English way. 1. An English pilot flew a reconnaissance aircraft with a German national insignia over the German positions several times a day and directed the English artillery. 2. English riflemen shoot from the roofs of the place we attacked and cause considerable casualties. The wounded lie behind their weapons with terrible wounds. When we try to care for the wounded, we find that they have small bullet holes going into their bodies and hand-sized wounds coming out of their bodies. Due to the use of dumdum bullets, which are banned under international law, the wounded were usually unable to be saved. They bled to death under our hands. 3. When a group advances through a small forest, they penetrate an enemy position. The English surrendered after a short melee and asked for care for two wounded men lying under blankets. As the group moved on, the supposedly wounded men threw hand grenades at the soldiers who had spared them. 4. The wounds caused by special ammunition and the reports from the wounded sober us and make us see the enemy in a new light. 5. A comrade told me the following: A group of English soldiers surrendered from a stable building by waving a white flag, whereupon the fire was stopped. As the Germans approached without cover, they were machine-gunned from the other side of the stable. 6. When the fierce battle for the La Bassee Canal and Le Paradis is over, the English wave white towels and surrender. The surviving Englishmen emerge from their positions in barns, attics and cellars. When we think the village has been cleared of the enemy, unexpected machine gun fire starts falling. An Englishman had reoccupied a machine gun that had previously been abandoned and opened fire again. Three of my comrades died.
@johnzajac98492 ай бұрын
"Leaving less for tomorrow."
@richardshiggins704Ай бұрын
One does not mess with a hangman with the name of Roper !
@novalight213826 күн бұрын
Always remember only one side committed war crimes.
@sugarkane48302 ай бұрын
Oh dear God can’t listen to this AI. It’s dreadful.
@blackwatchberlin2 ай бұрын
The voice ist horrible!
@alexclement72212 ай бұрын
6:03: "The BRITISH captives....". That's a FRENCH captive.
@alistaircombe3963Ай бұрын
My Uncle Andrew Combe who was in the Royal Scots also died at La Paridis , visited his grave a couple times at Le Paradis church cemetery
@stevensteptoe6822 ай бұрын
Awful computerised voiceover. It's a "No!" from me.
@davidhoward47152 ай бұрын
Bollocks.
@TheGhostofCarlSchmitt3 ай бұрын
that part about KZ-officers being trained in Braunschweig seems suspicious, since they, along with the rest of KZ-personnel were being trained in Dachau before being transferred to other camps.
@johnfitzpatrick40072 ай бұрын
Why do they always get mixed up with England and Britain.
@richardhebden56032 ай бұрын
Mainly because the Germans made no distinction. They would hardly if/ever refer to Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland. We were all simply Englanders as far as they were concerned.
@johnfitzpatrick40072 ай бұрын
@@richardhebden5603 Wrong,because the English media and hierarchy have always projected it round the world that England is Britain.Same with royalty..
@forsdykemontague10172 ай бұрын
@@johnfitzpatrick4007In Germany today they call us all Englanders or “Island Monkeys” 😂
@gonzalesfrederic6213Ай бұрын
The UK, and France, declared war on Germany, not the opposite. So...
@allanxxxxxxxx2 ай бұрын
The person/bot is awful telling this story
@the_grand_tourer2 ай бұрын
F'in awful isn't it totally over the top !!
@the_grand_tourer2 ай бұрын
The AI VO is f'in awful on this channel, totally over the top, really bad grammar and punctuation ...so bad I watched with audio off and read the subtitles.
@TheRunereaper2 ай бұрын
Yep. Sounds like recordings of Lord Haw-haw.
@janlindtner3053 ай бұрын
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@Marcfj2 ай бұрын
Read up on the Biscari Massacre and the Laconia Incident.
@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd2 ай бұрын
oh that poor dear forced to march in circles and doused with cold water. If he'd simply confessed to everything from the start there's a chance he might have been given a life sentence instead of the death penalty as terrible things always happen in war. But possibly he actually believed his orders were justified and that he acted rightly. ⚛
@louisdemarco74172 ай бұрын
Rep what you sow SS
@richardwoolley27922 ай бұрын
This voice is real turn off
@thedisabledwelshman92662 ай бұрын
probably AI
@richardvanbesauw12292 ай бұрын
History is written by the victors
@andrewkonopko7072 ай бұрын
Change this voice, or no more clicks.
@davidsigalow73493 ай бұрын
Hangmen also die.
@neilmarsh19042 ай бұрын
Good information but your presentation stinks. Either narrate or put text on the screen, but not both.
@lesgriffiths85232 ай бұрын
" Totenkopf" has an umlaut over the " o".......The " o"should sound like " er" Les Griffiths
@IntrinsicSV2 ай бұрын
Never seen Totenkopf spelt with an Umlaut. if it did the O would be pronounced oe not er. My name should have an umlaut but we dont use it in the UK
@atharvatoskar16332 ай бұрын
_How many British commanders like Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer [Jallianwala Bagh massacre] & Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener [concentration camps 2nd boer war] were punished for their atrocities in the British colonies?_
@hansgruber6502 ай бұрын
Victor history so presented as saviors.
@anonymomableАй бұрын
Churchill himself committed atrocities
@SheenaStandring-qd4krАй бұрын
@@anonymomablebollocks
@Aron-79Ай бұрын
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@alexandraglammer67713 ай бұрын
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@popcornhead34793 ай бұрын
It's berg not borg
@KohalaLover3 ай бұрын
The narrator has perfect pronunciation & diction, as always.
@dernvader68763 ай бұрын
I know this is off the subject, but I just found a couple of almost 2" hairs on my lower back, its really crazy. Right above my just say no to crack. Such a crazy place to find a few long hairs, they aren't that thick, like they aren't pube-like or anything, maybe slightly whispy, but they are long! Why are they so freakishly long?
@waynec94442 ай бұрын
Maybe you are turning into an ape?
@crumplezone1Ай бұрын
They are are there because we descend from apes so the odd hair in some areas of the body are normal