Execution of sadistic Nazi director of Mauthausen "Death Quarry" during WW2 - Hans Spatzenegger

Hans Spatzenegger was born on the 1st of March 1900 in Laufen then part of the German Empire. Immediately after Hitler came to power in January 1933, Germany became a dictatorship, and the Nazi regime quickly began to restrict the civil and human rights of the Jews and established the first concentration camps, imprisoning its political opponents, homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses, and others classified as “dangerous”. Unlike prisons with which they are often inaccurately compared today, concentration camps were independent of any judicial review.
The first such camp - Dachau - was established in March 1933, less than 2 months after Hitler became the chancellor and Spatzenegger joined its staff shortly afterwards becoming one of its guards.
As the war progressed, in order to accommodate the prisoners where they worked, the SS established several subcamps.
Commandants of these camps reported directly to German Nazi commandant Franz Ziereis. Newly-arrived prisoners were transferred to these camps from the main camp. During this phase, Mauthausen and Gusen were the concentration camps with the harshest imprisonment conditions and the highest mortality. Those who were ill or deemed ‘useless’ by the SS lived in constant fear for their lives. In 1941 the SS started to construct a gas chamber and other installations at Mauthausen for the systematic murder of large groups of people.
Living and working conditions in Mauthausen, as in Gusen, led to the death by murder, mistreatment, starvation, exposure, and disease of more than half of the prisoners.
At Mauthausen, Spatzenegger became a director of the camps’ quarries.
The work in the quarries - often in unbearable heat or in temperatures as low as −30 °C- led to exceptionally high mortality rates.
The rock quarry in Mauthausen was at the base of the so called "Stairs of Death". Prisoners were forced to carry roughly-hewn blocks of stone - often weighing as much as 50 kilograms or 110 pounds up the 186 stairs, one prisoner behind the other. As a result, many exhausted prisoners collapsed in front of the others in the line, and then fell on top of the other prisoners, creating a domino effect; the first prisoner falling onto the next, and so on, all the way down the stairs. In the quarry, prisoners were forced to carry the boulders from morning until night, while being whipped by the Nazi guards.
Spatzenegger was among the most cruel and feared personnel stationed at the camp. If he thought that the prisoners were not working hard enough, he often staged "show beatings" which he performed with a stick.
Such brutality was not accidental. Former prisoner Edward Mosberg said: "If you stopped for a moment, the SS either shot you or pushed you off the cliff to your death." The SS guards would often force prisoners - exhausted from hours of hard labour without sufficient food and water - to race up the stairs carrying blocks of stone. Those who survived the ordeal would often be placed in a line-up at the edge of a cliff known as "The Parachutists Wall". At gun-point each prisoner would have the option of being shot or pushing the prisoner in front of him off the cliff.
Another Spatzenegger’s specialty was throwing the prisoners on the 380-volt electric barbed wire fence, or forcing them outside the boundaries of the camp and then shooting them on the pretense that they were attempting to escape.
Others were literally torn to pieces by his dog.
On the 6th and 7th of September 1944, Spatzenegger took part in the murder of 40 Dutch and 7 British Special Operations Executive - SOE - agents.
The objective of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially against Nazi Germany.
The 47 agents were brought into Mauthausen and after being killed, their bodies were cremated. With risk for their own lives, Mauthausen prisoners, after seeing what those agents had to endure before being murdered by the SS, then secretly buried the container with the ashes.
Among Mauthausen inmates were also prisoners of war. During the night of the 2nd of February 1945 approximately 500 inmates, almost all of them Soviet officers, attempted to escape from the Mühlviertel subcamp of Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp...
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[@Spaniard022]

My late grandfather and his friend were interned in early 1942 and managed to escape a few days later. After a few days long ordeal, they managed to get back home, then join the Partizans. Not that many were that lucky.

[@debbiehicks288]

Thank you for your time and efforts, and keeping the world aware of these atrocities. The work y'all do is so important.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Debbie, thank you so much!

[@grahamthacker6498]

Nonsense everyone does it, nobody is innocent, just look into history.

[@stewartmackay]

How terrible people can be to other people, undertaking such inhumane acts. Unforgivable.

[@rayjohnson7881]

An immense amount were. Scientists and doctors jump straight to mind.

[@dalvasantos4807]

Estes idiotas se achavam Deuses,

[@stevemuzak8526]

Not that hard when you dehumanize people. To Germans people like Poles etc. were less that animals.

[@AngelOfDeath1986]

History should never be forgotten, whether it's good or bad History.

[@droberts1664]

Youre right. The bad thing is, todays society is trying to bury it. Theyre doing it now with them taking down statues and things from the civil war as if it never happened. Thats going to repeat itself all over again. Hell, there are anti holocoust groups thsy say it never happened. Such a shame that some people can disrespect the dead like that.

[@vasileiosntinas7833]

Seems to many historical facts fade away to distinguish..

[@jamisbillson4872]

Trump is proving that wrong. His treasonous Nationalist cult are so dangerous, not just to America but to the world too. If he wins next years 2024 election there’s little chance he will allow the power to be taken from him again. America will join with China and Russia and only the EU and several small nations would stand in the way of a global nationalist dictatorship. And we know how nationalists treat those who oppose their disgusting policies. I often wondered why, after the war, nationalism and right wing politics were not outlawed. So history should never be forgotten but unless the kids of everyone, and not just those of the elites, are educated a little on how our legal and political systems work, we will always be easily indoctrinated. It’s why Trump said…”I love the uneducated”. He’s too thick to understand how true his comment is but you don’t have to be intelligent to understand enough so as to keep our wonderful freedoms going. Freedom comes with a little responsibility. Brexiters and Trump’s cult abuse these freedoms. Millions paid the ultimate sacrifice fighting German nationalism. So respecting our freedom by simple not abusing people based on racism and bigotries really isn’t much to ask as the small price for Freedom. Rupert Murdoch and his favourite son need jailing along with political traitors. To begin with we need two simple laws. First should be that all politicians must declare their entire wealth. Second new law should be making it a crime to knowingly lie to the public and the media. With a minimum jail sentence of five years for each count. The problems are enormous nationally and globally. But there shouldn’t be these problems. Pollution, poverty and quality of life in a clean green world is not just within our grasp but it’s essential. And this is the reason why Trump’s right wing MAGAmorons and other nationalist idiots despise the idea of a global government. Borders should only be recognised for sports and cultural reasons. Population control and the free movement of Labour along with many other benefits of a global government would see us clean up our planet and end poverty. With I.T (especially AI) growing more influential, its vital we get on top of our worlds issues before a possible Trump victory pushes us toward somewhere approaching our collective visions of Hell. These days have brought together the ingredients that could make this scenario a very real possibility. And we have the answers. But we don’t have the questions. And unless you ask the right questions you’ll find it very hard reaching the right answers. Rant and political (or an extremists?) reality over. Donald J Trump is obviously the new a messiah. Sent by God to save us! And only thick uneducated people don’t see this!!!!!!!!!!!

[@eroldcroft3045]

Shows how stupid America. Remembering history here is called being woke. They don't want woke people thinking.

[@giancarlopegoraro4024]

I will never stop saying that many Nazi criminals fled overseas and lived their life in without punishment.

[@paulfrei4062]

absolutely right and thousands of them have returned to their old professions after the war without punishment, whether in the judiciary, as doctors, civil servants, politicians and in business.

[@toughtittypdiddy4634]

One of their grand daughters is a congresswoman in Florida.. she lied and said she was Jewish to get elected

[@ridethecurve55]

I often wonder how so-called 'normal' people can turn into horrible monsters without coercion. It makes me wonder what will trigger another awful event such as WWII. These videos should be in all civics classes to teach youngsters what evil can be wrought if we do nothing to stop it. Thank You so very much for them!

[@Lulu-if4eg]

Ride..me too, incredible tragedy, if they were normal in head that is a question, a normal person isn't able to commit such of crimes ‼️ like putin now, there are killed thousands of innocent young SOLDIERS and CIVILIANS either RUSSIANS or UKRAINIANS ‼️ INCREDIBLE in 21.century ‼️😱👎🤮👺

[@Strongboy1770]

Civics? Where is civics still being taught? It's been replaced with woke nonsense.

[@TheMatrixxandRhodesShow]

I shed no tears for Hans Spatzenegger.

[@heinrichgafus1495]

Hans Spazenegger war der Vater meiner Mutter, ich schäme mich nicht für ihn, die Menschen machen alles was die Obrigkeit befiehlt, schauen sie doch was auf der ganzen Welt passiert, im Namen der Demokratie, Religion, usw, wer verliert ist immer das Arschloch, ich würde auch nicht um sie weinen, oder für irgendwelche Leute die ich nicht kenne

[@TourAndTravelTV]

Very informative. Great job!

[@renee1961]

Horrifying, and HEARTBREAKING. So much Brutality, and so much DEATH. My heart cries seeing these films, but they're Very Important.

[@renee1961]

Good evening, and as ALWAYS, Thank You.

[@janemarett1885]

This is Austrian history and should never be forgotten what Austrians collaborated with the Nazis. A generation who were caught up in Hitlers regime.

[@elfulano5884]

Austria likes to pretend like none of these atrocities ever occurred.

[@TheRetirednavy92]

As a teen I was indifferent, but any group that burns books is slated for elimination.

[@grahamthacker6498]

Except for the Bible, Koran and all the other lying nonsense.

[@Zebojr2kool]

@@grahamthacker6498 even them. Especially them.

[@Jfreebarr343]

Bible is not a book of lies....

[@user-zy1pd9pu6s]

@@Jfreebarr343 you're right. it's not just a book of lies. Some of them are simple inconsistencies, others are just facts that have been proven untrue. But the rest, the rest is lies.

[@calendarpage]

I wish it could be more. You deserve the support.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thank you very much! We are glad that you see how hard we work on our videos. Greetings to you and your family.

[@ashrakus]

Great video as always! He was criminal. Do not forget!

[@Chrisdebomb]

It's criminal what's happening in Palestine now.... Open your eyes

[@grahamthacker6498]

What about Churchill, Stalin, Eisenhower.

[@l.g.3956]

​@Graham Thacker, those were the worst

[@TheHesseJames]

I am an opponent to the death penalty. However, when it comes to cases like these I am not very principled.

[@gerardgerard5681]

Hmmm, Austria welcomed Germany, invasion without a shot fired?

[@mariolasanda8116]

great video!

[@baptistfernandes2361]

What a pity... Being human......... didn't know that he too born to die. I feel feel pity.. .

[@blackblurable]

It always blows my mind when in the face of death. They show no remorse or conscience. They aren’t people, they’re monsters.

[@tatjanaarandelovic9555]

Thank you again for keeping alive these atrocities that were committed during the Nazi Regime. Wo the heck calls concentration camps 'prisons'??? Spatzenegger is another example of a human monster who when given power will just abuse it and commit horrific crimes against humanity. Oops - his last words 'I am not a war criminal...' shows the absolute lack of any empathy towards the innocent inmates he killed in the most atrocious ways. I shed no tears for Spatzenegger! xxx 🙏

[@marcoschwarz3763]

A small note: Many Austrian soldiers were bewildered and angry at being let in like this. My grandfather cried.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Hi Marco. Tell us more about your father. We hear many contradicting stories - some say that Austrians did not want the Anschluss, then you see those crowds of people happy to see Hitler there and you wonder ...

[@cautionTosser]

@@WorldHistoryVideos well there was that singing family in the hills... they were pretty anti-Nazi :D

[@marcoschwarz3763]

@@WorldHistoryVideos My father was 15 years old in 45.I heard what I wrote to you.Other comrades of my grandfather were bewildered and angry.All of them had been in the Great War

[@marcoschwarz3763]

@@cautionTosser Nice....

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

@@marcoschwarz3763 Marco, great that there were people who saw what was coming ... Thanks God this period is over and hopefully it will never come back ...

[@annabeeamputee]

I’m Slavic Jew and an amputee. I would not do well in this time period 😮

[@joannecarolyn5018]

Very interesting! Thank you for this amazing video 😊❤️

[@saulocpp]

Fortunately it was not Schwarzenegger!!!!

[@NJRacer623]

Even though Arnold's dad was also a Nazi though. But supposedly Arnie didn't have a very good relationship with his father and actually ended up despising him.

[@harryjulien-el5lg]

REALLY LOVE THE NARRATOR VOICE

[@soleknight3212]

Spatzenegger is not a demon. He does not even deserve such an accolade

[@paulfrei4062]

thousands of them have returned to their old professions after the war without punishment, whether in the judiciary, as doctors, civil servants, politicians and in business.

[@MadderMel]

I shed tears for him , because I think he should have been made to carry 100 kilogram rocks up and down the quarry steps for 20 hours a day , every single day !

[@heinrichgafus1495]

Ja so kenne ich die guten menschen, gleiches mit gleichen vergelten, Auge um Auge, und Zahn um Zahn, eure Religions Stifter haben doch recht, und die Worte des Sohnes sind nur hol, Jesus ist nur für euch guten Menschen 😂

[@renee1961]

We Must Never Forget.🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

[@johns2631]

What happens to an unarmed defenseless citizenry subjected to Gun Control.

[@renee1961]

Rest In Peace to the Innocent Victims, and Those That Fought for Them.🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ Prayers Survivors were able to find Peace.💔🙏💔🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🙏🙏

[@felixdk8727]

I shed no tears for Hans Spatzenegger

[@laneo]

That poor man.

[@balancedactguy]

Yes..he was terrible!

[@deisygums3530]

Favor fazer tradução em português

[@kimkelly5512]

There is no excuse for racism!

[@scottmcphee7714]

Good Riddance!

[@justincredible.]

Didn't they burn books..... too??

[@peterkin1010]

Like it or kump it the execution of SOE agents and 'resistance fighters' was legal under the Geneva convention.

[@mtz3843]

didnt see any execution at all, change the title, faults ad.

[@balancedactguy]

You mean you missed it?

[@MadderMel]

Anyone shed any tears for this dude ?

[@redtrees]

watch

[@mikemyers8064]

Is his soul in Hell now suffering for eternity for his crimes

[@fordprefect4345]

Is this a computer automated generated voice

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

No, it is not. This voice has emotions and does not sound low-cost!

[@AlteredStateAdventures]

Stupid comment

[@stevebaker6149]

@@WorldHistoryVideos Agreed! The narrator has the perfect voice for these videos.

[@jackman6256]

Just think this is the path many Americans want thinking that socialist is the way they want

[@randyventresca4152]

The Nazis were a right wing regime. Did you even watch this video?

[@jackman6256]

@Randy Ventresca yes I did but they where socialist by the way they did Just like democrats want to day blame others for things ect ect

[@ladycplum]

@@randyventresca4152 National SOCIALIST Worker's Party=NAZI

[@stevewright201]

I can Understand why they let him because Mr Hitler was a Austrian

[@foucault8964]

My god…he’s related to Swartznegger. 😂

[@joangratzer2101]

MY NEIGHBOR VISITED THE POLISH DEATH CAMPS LAST SUMMER; SHE SAID IT WAS A VERY EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE THAT SHE WILL NEVER FORGET. MATURE MATERIAL FOR ADULTS ONLY BUT SHE FELT THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR HER CHILDREN TO SEE AND LEARN FROM IT AS WELL.

[@bamaaan]

Thank god for Arnold Schwardzenegger and not spatzenegger

[@margarita8442]

was there hatred of trans women like there is today ?

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

I worry it was even worse ... the hatred back then had no limits ...

[@Fre3domAction]

They were sent to concentration camps and I bet sadistic doctors like Mengele and Eppinger did horrible stuff to them

[@donmcc6573]

They hated millions of people based on their religious beliefs, like liberals do today.

[@squeaky206]

Duh...hell yes.

[@zatozatoichi7920]

There's barely any hate towards trans women today, if they are not the totally braindead and utterly delusional SJW types. Or the degenerates who ruin women sports. Back then...you wouldn't want to come out. Especially not in countries under Axis power. Wouldn't have been a long career.

[@zillsburyy1]

censored history

[@martinvickers7349]

Satanic evil Never forget