HORRIBLE Crimes of Erhard Milch - The ONLY JEWISH Field MARSHAL in NAZI Germany - German Luftwaffe

HORRIBLE Crimes of Erhard Milch - The Only Jewish Field Marshal in Nazi Germany - German Luftwaffe. Erhard Milch was born on the 30th of March 1892 in Wilhelmshaven then part of the German Empire. On the 15th of September 1935 the Nazi regime announced two new laws : “The Reich Citizenship Law” which declared that only Aryans could be citizens of the Reich; and “The Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor” which forbade marriages and extramarital sexual relations between Germans and Jews, the employment of German maids under the age of 45 in Jewish homes and the raising of the German flag by Jews. These laws informally became known as the Nuremberg Laws or Nuremberg Race Laws because they were first announced at a Nazi Party rally held in the German city of Nuremberg.
The Nazis enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which became the legal basis for the racist anti-Jewish policy in Germany, because they wanted to put their ideas about race into law. They believed in the false theory that the world is divided into distinct races that are not equally strong and valuable. The Nazis considered Germans to be members of the supposedly superior “Aryan” race. They saw the so-called Aryan German race as the strongest, and most valuable race of all.
World War 2 started on the 1st of September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. The campaign in Poland ended on the 6th of October the same year with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of the country.
During the invasion of Denmark and Norway which was codenamed Operation Weserübung, Milch commanded Luftflotte 5, which was one of the primary divisions of the German Luftwaffe in World War II formed in April 1940 for the invasion of Norway.
Nazi Germany invaded Denmark and Norway on the 9th of April 1940. Strategically, Denmark's importance to Germany was as a staging area for operations in Norway.
In Norway, Germany sought to secure naval bases for use against the British fleet in the North Sea and to guarantee vital iron-ore shipments from neutral Sweden on which Nazi Germany was dependent.
While the invasion of Denmark lasted less than six hours and was the shortest military campaign conducted by the Germans during the war, Norway surrendered to Germany only after 2 months on the 10th of June 1940.
Weakened by disease, starvation and lack of medical care during the encirclement, they were sent on foot marches to prisoner camps and later to labor camps all over the Soviet Union. Some 35,000 were eventually sent on transports, of which 17,000 did not survive. Most died of wounds, disease - particularly typhus, cold, overwork, mistreatment and malnutrition. Some were kept in the city to help rebuild it.
Only 5,000 to 6,000 would return to Germany after the war.
From March 1944, Milch, together with Speer, established a Fighter Staff committee - a task force to increase the production of fighter aircraft, in part by moving the production facilities underground. In cooperation with the SS, the task force played a key role in the exploitation of slave labour for the benefit of the German aircraft industry and the Luftwaffe.
Production of German fighter aircraft more than doubled between 1943 and 1944. The growth, however, consisted in large part of models that were becoming obsolescent and proved easy prey for Allied aircraft.
The SS provided 64,000 prisoners for 20 separate projects for various concentration camps including Mittelbau-Dora. Prisoners worked for Junkers, Messerschmitt, Henschel and BMW, among others. By 1944, 140,000 people were working in Speer's underground factories which were death-traps. Discipline was brutal, with regular executions. Such was a case of the Mittelbau-Dora underground factory - there were so many corpses that the crematorium was overwhelmed. Speer's own staff described the conditions there as "hell".
In 1944 Milch sided with Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister and Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, in attempting to convince Adolf Hitler to remove Göring from command of the Luftwaffe. However, Hitler refused and Göring retaliated by forcing Milch out of his positions as State Secretary and Chief of Procurement and Supply on the 20th of June 1944.
In August of the same year Milch was appointed as Speer's deputy, but was sidelined and achieved little.
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[@jasonlemoine8739]

I shed no tears for any of them Nazis

[@kenm3943]

@Aya Then why would these same white supremacists declare war on a country(Germany) that never attacked them then? 🤦

[@ashleyleonard8148]

@Aya it was sadly nothing to do with America. It had to do with the crushing consequences of WW1 The Versailles Treaty costed Grrmany everything I don't agree with their actions of course, but War of that caliber (around 3.million dead Germans) created bitterness. Their POWs were tortured under the Bolsheviks. Their military ranks were forcefully limited so they couldnt protect themselves (surrounded by Russia, Poland, France etc who slaughtered them in WW1) they also had crops burnt. Land confiscated and given to the Victors. Annexing German citizens to other countries. This was long before any type of Nazi beliefs. It came out of anger. That's why war benefits NO ONE. ALL it does it create more death and enemies. Regardless of who seems "vindicated" by their reasoning; no matter how good their intentions.

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[@harryeisermann2784]

there where Nazi in many countrys not only in Germany. even in ur country. in GB it went to the highest aristocracy, say no more

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[@xander9564]

Actually, Milch was half-Jewish. According to the Nazi Nuremberg race decrees, a Jew was defined as "a person who has three or more Jewish grandparents." When Göring was once asked how he could work with the "Jewish" Milch, he replied, "I decide who is and isn't a Jew."

[@saulweinstein1027]

I am astounded that I did not know of Milch’s Jewish background, this being an area of especial interest to me - proof once again that you can never know too much history - This is an excellent channel that performs an important public service in bringing stories such as this to light - Thank you to the authors of this video and this channel

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Don't be so astonished, they were behind it all from Get-2-Go.

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[@zeppelin2412]

This evil monster lived too long !!! No tears shed for this demon. 😁😁😁

[@kingofsnakes1000]

He also had his interim Marshals baton broken over his head by a very angry British Brigadier.

[@nealgrimes4382]

To good for him.

[@richardshiggins704]

For his incomprehension of the rules of cricket .

[@agems56]

And his head?

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Such a satisfying moment I'm sure..

[@Peter_Gehlen]

The cowardly limeys have always been brave - but only against defenseless prisoners.

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The Jewish police in the Warsaw Ghetto...the Chairman of the Jewish council in the Lodz ghetto who supplied his people to the gas chambers...

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[@jamesruddy9264]

He wan't a Jew, he self-identified as a pure Aryan.

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[@larrybritzman9448]

Hitler had 15 Jewish generals. Two were field marshals

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[@olikah4667]

It is so disappointing to learn that there were Jews who willingly participated in the murder of their people. I appreciate this channel for the continued education.

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[@TheDigitalApple]

The Jews are simply people and in times of crisis people are known to commit actions to save their own skins.

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[@MrSparkums]

See if you find any of those allowed here in videos about the Holodomor, which is an "undeniable" deliberate genocide..

[@franzheuer1966]

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Indeed,you do make a compelling point Any nation given an abundant amount of power can suddenly become full of themselves Their people usually become like their leaders I like one WW2 video where the narrator is carrying on about Hitlers attack on the Soviet Union “was now thought of as a catastrophic blunder…… Almost the work of a madman……. (pause while the video was showing the Germans in full retreat) But that’s not what people were thinking at the time” Then it shows people and how they were celebrating the conquest of the Nazis 😅.. In other words seemingly something successful is always a great idea until it’s not It’s always that way The Nazis were terrible but at least for the most part didn’t just torture their people like the other societies If you were on board with them then everything was copacetic If not then look out!!..

[@drm9979]

wondering what Asian country you live in? the Japanese atrocities in China match the Nazis in evil and barbarity. This (if I understood correctly) is the analysis of the great Dennis Prager a practicing Jew and Holocaust historian. (Also witness the rape of Nanking discussed in video by this same channel.) Mao's mass starvation of his own citizens is evil incarnate. Also wonder why you consider USA a warmonger? US tried to stay out of both World Wars, only entered late or when it had no real choice. US fought for South Korea a defensive war that one only needs to look at life in North Korea to justify. it was a selfless war, of little actual benefit to the US but immeasurable benefit to South Koreans. the Vietnam War was similarly well-intentioned, but did not end well. US took up the defense of Kuwait, more than justified. the second Gulf War was a terrible mistake, is it on the basis of that war that you call the US a warmonger? I do not seek a mean-spirited or angry debate, just wondering why you make that charge.

[@richarddelgado2723]

@@drm9979 Clearly there is no logical refute to anything you’ve read if it’s all the truth The U.S. has always painted a “Gee all we were trying to do was help” narrative Most of the world disagrees and thinks of the U.S. as a bunch of buttinsky’s that have no real intentions of keeping the planet safe or free from tyranny but rather are In for their good only Why Iraq 🇮🇶 because of the oil Why Japan 🇯🇵 during WW2 ? Oh because war helps us with economy Why North Korea 🇰🇵 Vietnam 🇻🇳? Why help Ukraine 🇺🇦? Idk but you get the idea… C.C.N. paints a glorious portrait of the United States 🇺🇸 well the rest of the planet 🌎 are nothing but a bunch of conspiracy seeking dogs…. The bottom line is everyone wants the U.S. to just mind their own business however (and this is just my own opinion ) without U.S. intervention this planet would turn topsy-turvy and if we just allowed everything that goes on to just go on?….. Well then the next thing you know guys like Fidel Castro would be sitting in the White House 🏠….

[@rogerr2796]

Did Milch escape punishment for his many crimes? Of course he did. He was sentenced to life imprisonment (which was a gift). But he served less than 10 years. Common thieves have served longer terms. It’s a disgrace.

[@johnarmstrong1356]

😅ìĵi

[@DarthBaras13]

Interesting fact: Milch held a personal grudge against Willy Messerschmitt when Milch's friend, test pilot Hans Hackmack, died while test flying the BFW M.20 for Lufthansa. Even though the official accident report shows that there was no proof that structural weaknesses had caused the BFW M.20 to crash, Milch personally blamed Messerschmitt for his friends death and made it his goal to ruin Messerschmitt. Even going so far as to keeping Messerschmitt from taking over BFW until 1938, hence the reason why the designation "Bf" was affixed to early designs of the fighter plane.

[@joshualeal6606]

Interesting!

[@IgnoredAdviceProductions]

Funny seeing you here lol

[@TheMatrixxandRhodesShow]

I shed no tears for Erhard Milch.

[@daviddoran3673]

12.46 exactly...over/behind Hitler's left shoulder...Hermann Fegelein...married to Eva Brauns sister, formerly of the SS cavalry brigade who slaughtered 1000's of civilians in the Pripyet marshes...and executed by firing squad on Hitler's order in April 1945....look at his cocky sneering expression...perfect take..

[@Panguman]

I do, good man. An actual patriotic Jew. Literally one of the only guy to disprove the stereotype of Jews aren't patriotic

[@tancreddehauteville764]

@@Panguman He was fanatic and betrayed his family!

[@Panguman]

@@tancreddehauteville764 No

[@MrSmiley1964]

@@Panguman What makes you say that? Do you have some special insight in the faith you care to share? Are you an Anti-Semite? Or just a troll?

[@diaquallo]

I shed no tears for him.

[@michaelpreston233]

Nor any of his Vile Kind.

[@nealgrimes4382]

I am sad he got off so lightly, he should never have tasted freedom.

[@peterkin1010]

I bet he shed no tears for you

[@jacksonreilly3441]

I'm happy for you.

[@jacobhamblin4255]

@@michaelpreston233Nazis?

[@ReyOfLight]

And here I am, watching this video on the 25th of March, 76 years later in 2023. And indeed, no tears shed for this guy! How he could betray his own people like that is just unimaginable evil! Though that being said, he does remind me a lot of Umbridge from Harry Potter, she kinda did the same thing as Milch, only Umbridge is a character in a story, Milch was a real person

[@SuperBROKEN81]

Look at what George Soros did

[@michaelgerardi2126]

Reminds me of how George Soros betrayed his own people. But he got away with it and went on to wreak havoc.

[@aryanscience]

He considered himself more of a loyal son of the Fatherland than a member of a ridiculas religious cult. Sadly the Reich chose to not use this valuable resource.

[@LeeZaslofsky]

Milch did not identify as a Jew, and was not considered Jewish under Nazi law. He did not "betray his own people". He took part in the Nazi campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe not as a Jew, but as an "Aryan".

[@douglasjones2570]

Painful to watch. But thank you for posting this!

[@mrmiltonarie]

Your narration is so clear that I can understand most of it.

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We also have Spanish, Czech and German versions of our channel :)

[@renee1961]

How could he?? My GOD! Devastating!

[@LeeZaslofsky]

He wasn't a Jew. He was defined as an "Aryan" under Nazi law. He himself did not identify as a Jew, nor did anyone consider him to be a Jew.

[@poppi510]

⁠@@LeeZaslofskythat was irrelevant to the NSDAP. You can’t be an „Aryan“ if you have a Jewish dad according to the ideology. It just shows how stupid and scared the people were. I think that many didn’t really believe in this BS especially the more educated people. There were enough people who thought Hitler was an imbecile. They just used him for their benefit. The problem was that the masses were so easy to be manipulated. It’s scary.

[@breatharian2009]

He lived to see the establishment of the state of Israel. That's a sweet vengeance.

[@vangestelwijnen]

I knew of the 'vague origin' of Milch, but it is very disturbing that a life sentence became 15 years and ended after 7 or so. They were al forgiven, time for the new enemy. Sad.

[@nancymilawski1048]

Yes I agree. They all showed no mercy for their victims. He should have been sentenced to death. (He helped work to death tens of thousands civilians. Albert Speer's sentence was to light too, he should have gotten 25 or 30 years, not 20 years. )

[@AFE1312]

@@nancymilawski1048​Most of the things Speer did that would have gotten him sentenced to death after the Nuremberg Trials were not known yet.

[@peterschulze9041]

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[@andrejsurdevics6476]

My Father guarded Milch during the Subsequent War Trials. Milch was convinced that he would only get 10-15 years in prison and even when he got life he was certain he would get out much earlier than would normally be expected.

[@larrydewein]

@@nancymilawski1048 I agree Nancy! This was a terrible INJUSTICE to all Jews and others who died in those camps!

[@monoecumsemper]

To Nazi ""ideology"" just like to Rabbinian Law, real Jews were only those by maternal line in the first and second degree, meaning if your mother was Jewish, you were Jewish. If your grandmother was Jewish, you were 1/2 Jewish. But as to those who only had a Jewish father (like Milch), they were not considered as Jewish, until in 1943 - 8 years after the "Nuremberg" laws - a law was passed that all children by Jewish fathers be rounded up and put in concentration camps as well, except Milch, who was in a high position. Sadly enough, the video doesn't seem to know anything about this.

[@LeeZaslofsky]

FALSE. The Nuremberg Laws defined a Jew as anyone who had more than 2 Jewish grandparents, or who was involved in the Jewish community and considered him or herself to be Jewish. Those who had two Jewish grandparents were classed as "MIschlinge First Class" -- half Jews; those with one Jewish grandparent were classed as "MIschlinge 2nd Class). Mischlinge First Class were allowed to serve in the Wehrmacht, but not allowed to command others. Mischlinge Second Class were considered to be Aryan. Jews are not bound by "Rabbinical Law" unless they willingly accept it as their code of conduct. Orthodox Jews (about 10% of the total) try to live according to the laws of the Torah, as elaborated in the Talmud. Thus most Jews do not regard "descent through the mother" as the only way to define a Jew. The question "What is a Jew?" has been debated for a long time. The Nazis' answer to it was the Nuremberg Laws and its various interpretations and revisions. The Nazi answer is of course NOT regarded as binding by Jews.

[@heniakonas9439]

There was a Jewish SS group, called the 13 , operating in Warsaw . They were greatly feared by both Jews and Gentiles as they could recognise a Jew by turn of phrase etc. During the German occupation, in Poland, being caught harbouring a Jew was a mandatory death sentence, not only for the person but the whole family, even the minors. The 13 were expert at pretending to be Jews needing help and then reporting to the Germans. What happened to them is not clear. Does anyone know?

[@xander9564]

From Wikipedia: In July 1941, Group 13 lost its political status to the Judenrat, and its Office to Combat Usury and Profiteering was taken over by the Jupo police force. Subsequently, the remaining members of Group 13 centered on Gancwajch, and concentrated their efforts on setting up their own infirmary and ambulance service (the so-called Emergency Service, or the First Aid Station), which was created in May 1941. The organization's purpose was quickly subverted, and its resources were used predominantly for smuggling and contraband. They ran other illegitimate operations, such as a brothel at the Britannica Hotel, and had near-total control over horse-drawn carriages and all other transportation within the Ghetto. In April 1942, many former Group 13 members were executed in Operation Reinhard. In mid-1941, shortly before the Office was closed, there was a split in the Group leadership, when Morris Kohn and Zelig Heller broke with Gancwajch and established their own organizations. Kohn and Heller ultimately outlasted the Group. Their demise only came during the mass deportations of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Nazi Treblinka extermination camp in the course of Grossaktion Warsaw in July 1942, during which German Nazis murdered approximately 2,000,000 Polish Jews. Gancwajch and surviving members of the group later re-emerged posing as Jewish underground fighters, though in reality they were hunting for Poles in hiding or supporting other Nazi collaborationists. After closing the Jewish Gestapo, Gancwajch remained in Warsaw, outside the Ghetto, where he continued working for the Nazis. He was rumored to have died in 1943; a hypothesis about his post-war collaboration with the NKVD was never confirmed.

[@bobhope4949]

@@xander9564 goes to show it don’t pay to be a brown noser🤗

[@hangin-in-thereawesome4245]

Enjoyed learning about this horrible person!

[@hannahp1108]

It just boggles the mind. He would know better than the vast majority of people what would be happening to his father's family and he still actively supported Hitler

[@tomcolosimo697]

Milch received a life sentence on German soil and later released! How extraordinary he escaped the hanging gallows!

[@markdean1984]

Field Marshal Von Manstein was Jewish too. Very open I might say. So were at least other 20 very high ranking officers and 200000 soldiers. Jewish was also the poster face with join Wehrmacht and SS, or the guys running army brothels, or the hospital with Jewish doctors and nurses few hundred yards away from Hitler’s bunker, or Eva Brown. We should mention also the most popular song of the times, Lili Marleen, which tells the love story between a Jew and a gentile.

[@LeeZaslofsky]

Manstein was not Jewish. Nor were any of the high ranking officers, nor were any soldiers in the Wehrmacht. You are an anti Semitic BS artist trying to blame Nazi Germany on the Jews. Not one word you wrote is true. You are a rabid anti Semite and you don't belong on KZbin.

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

English, David Irving managed to meet Milch and borrowed his diaries for his book: The birth of the Luftwaffe. It was Milch that made Germany able to produce more planes in 1944 than ever before. But luckily, the production quality, and lack of fuel and pilots made the effort be in vain.

[@LeeZaslofsky]

FALSE. The man in charge of war production was Albert Speer, and it was he who claimed credit for increasing German production of airplanes.

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

@@LeeZaslofsky Well Speer mostly made a harvest from the work Milch had prepared, though it wasn't Milch that was the leader any more.

[@peterschutzek325]

Do you have a Video about Erwin Lahousen? If not it would be worth. He was the first witness for the prosecution at the nuremberg trials, his prominence due to being the sole survivor of the 'Abwehr resistance'

[@melodygreen5029]

How disturbing! I wonder how his offspring feel about his treacherous betrayal

[@jacksonreilly3441]

Whichever side he picked, the other side would have accused him of betrayal.

[@renee1961]

Good evening, and Thank You. The title alone Shocked me! Unimaginable!

[@LeeZaslofsky]

Unimaginable and FALSE. Milch was not a Jew.

[@renee1961]

He was Paroled????!!! My GOD! How could he be???!!!

[@larrydewein]

Ridiculous! ABSOLUTELY ridiculous!!

[@frankkoslowski6917]

Very good. Concise as well as compelling. 🤔

[@noname2490]

I love this channel for shinning the light of truth in the dark in total willing ignorance. I would love to see if you could find enough info to do a series on Japanese War crimes.

[@jacksonreilly3441]

Not likely! Only Germans were war criminals. Allies and bolsheviks were pure as the driven snow. If you point fingers at Japanese, you will be accused of racism!

[@Patrick_Cooper]

The way the awesome narrator says the name "Milch" like trying to spit out a bite of moldy bread, or his mother-in-laws cooking, just shows the disdain he and every Nazi hating human alive feels...

[@LeeZaslofsky]

Maybe the narrator has a distaste for milk, which is what "Milch" means in German.

[@joshuakruty6967]

Number one for no tears shed. The this guy says his name at the end makes the whole video.

[@davidphelan7514]

The narrators voice is awesome.

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

Oh, I always thought being Jewish by birth went through the mother.

[@LeeZaslofsky]

The Nazis defined a Jew as a person with more than two Jewish grandparents.

[@Loner-Wolf]

Iv seen many documentaries about the Nazis and world war two and to be honest I'm more interested in that side of world war two then the allied side. This is the first time I have heard a story about a nazi officer being Jewish and a full participant in the atrocities against other Jews. This is truly shocking stuff.

[@LeeZaslofsky]

Milch was not Jewish. No Jew was allowed to serve in the German government or the Wehrmacht. Like some others, he had some Jewish ancestry, but not enough to meet the definition of "Jew" under Nazi law. His Jewish ancestry was not an issue in his career.

[@Loner-Wolf]

@@LeeZaslofsky Jewish ancestry? Did you not watch the documentary? His dad was Jewish man that isn't ancestry.

[@LeeZaslofsky]

@@Loner-Wolf Having a Jewish father and a Gentile mother meant that Milch was a Mischling First Class. Ancestors are the people you are descended from. Your parents are your ancestors. Milch was not raised as a Jew and did not consider himself to be a Jew. Nor was he a Jew under Nazi law. As a Mischling, he was allowed to serve in the Wehrmacht, but not to command other soldiers. No doubt his early activities as a Nazi and as a soldier overcame this rule, which was adopted in 1935.

[@conningdale8805]

Excellent video. I like the story of Mills-Roberts hitting Milch over the head with his field-marshal's baton. And what a hide of Milch's family to contest ownership of the baton when it came up for auction!. Sentenced to life in 1947, commuted to 15 years in 1951, and paroled in 1954. He has 18 years of freedom before his death in 1972. I wonder did he ever regret the misery he caused?

[@RaiderDeepBall]

Every group has traitors unfortunately.

[@peatyporkstar3948]

what cry over spilt Milch?

[@nealgrimes4382]

Ha good one, i wish i'd thought of that.

[@tatjanaarandelovic9555]

What I don't understand is that this former Field Marshal was not condemned to death. Life imprisonment - then 1951 in West Germany 15 years but got out in 1954? He lived his life until his end as a free man although he had inflicted hell on earth on others. That the British official lost it I can understand - Belsen was hell on earth and when the British entered the camp they were overwhelmed by what they saw there. I shed no tears for this monster xxx

[@larrydewein]

Correct! It's ABOLUTELY RIDICULOUS and UNFORGIVEABLE that he was not condemned to death!! Shame on those who made that decision. I'm beginning to wonder if they were PAID OFF somehow to do this or were just plain stupid!!

[@tatjanaarandelovic9555]

@@larrydewein I read a lot about these trials- especially the ones held in Germany after the war into the 60's. They were PLAIN STUPID. The attitude was- let's get over it as quickly as possible. Unforgivable!

[@samkohen4589]

John McCloy, the US administrator for Germany pardoned all the Nazi war criminals in 1954 feeling that these were in fact really nice guys

[@LeeZaslofsky]

The start of the Cold War changed the American view of how to deal with former Nazi leaders. The idea was that it was necessary to integrate Germany into NATO, so as to resist the Soviets. As part of that policy, it was decided to go rather easy on the former Nazis. Thus we see many of the lengthy prison sentences were reduced due to "illness", and many war criminals were released after serving only part of their sentences. The idea was that now the USSR was the enemy, and let's not upset the Germans too much, because we need them on our side.

[@kennedysingh3916]

Watched from Jamaica. Their will always be traiters in this world ontill God come.

[@jonmcgee6987]

3:03 I wonder how many other ground crew accidents happened?

[@JJ.-Jura_Jodel]

German casualties of 147,000 in Stalingrad is the lowest estimate I have heard

[@larrydewein]

I can't believe that Milch was not executed but able to serve prison time and live out the last portion of his life as a free man! Ridiculous and a further slap in the face of all those Jews and others who died in those camps!

[@jamesbodnarchuk3322]

Well I wonder if his father will forgive him?

[@REIVAXMEELAS]

If his father has any respect for himself he wouldn't.

[@LeeZaslofsky]

Did his father identify himself as a Jew? Was Milch raised in the Jewish faith and community? No, of course not. His Jewish ancestry was not an issue for him. He regarded himself as an "Aryan" and a Nazi.

[@Copfiless]

Great video, well done 👏🏽

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thank you very much. Keep watching us :)

[@ak99-to1gz]

Dear Sir, Mills Roberts has my salute.

[@dreamingflurry2729]

Sadly I think that there were tears shed - by German Neo-Nazis (as much as it pains me to say that as a German! Note: No, I don't think Germany should act like we, after war generations, share some war guilt, but we also shouldn't forget this!)

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

Everyone and everything eventually die, even these war criminals.

[@arielquelme]

I actually enjoyed ur accent in ur video narrations Is that German accent?

[@alanle1471]

He was Not Jewish. His father was allegedly Jewish. If his father was Jewish , his mother was Gentile and he was raised as a Gentile, that would make him a Gentile. He definitely knew about the extermination of Jews.

[@anthonynarozniak9725]

This dude did more in WW1 than Hitler ever dreamed of doing.... And if you know anything about Hitler during World War I you know what I'm talking about....

[@LeeZaslofsky]

Hitler was a courier in WWI, carrying messages from unit HQ to the front and back. He was regarded by some soldiers, who were stuck in the trenches -- as having a relatively cushy job. However Hitler carried out his duties and was awarded the Iron Cross on the recommendation of his (Jewish) company commander, Captain Gutman. So what are you talking about?

[@anthonynarozniak9725]

@@LeeZaslofsky I got to admit you're right, he did do his job.....

[@renee1961]

Our Channel is Outstanding!! Excellent in every way!

[@RamblerTurbo]

A lot of disgust in the pronunciation of his last name. Deserved, for sure.

[@lymarie1974]

My stars... he really murdered his own. 😢

[@LeeZaslofsky]

Milch was not a Jew, did not consider himself a Jew and was not considered Jewish by others. The idea that Jews were involved in the Holocaust as perpetrators appeals mostly to anti Semites who try to blame the Holocaust on the Jews. They even claim Hitler was Jewish. Such is the insanity which anti Semitism can cause.

[@siredith8846]

There…were many tears shed, for Derek Mills-Roberts 😢

[@jacksonreilly3441]

Mills-Roberts was a disgrace to his rank and uniform. An officer who could not differentiate between a Luftwaffe Feldmarschall and an SS Camp Commandant should have been severely disciplined and reduced in rank.

[@siredith8846]

@@jacksonreilly3441 Monty didn’t seem to think so.

[@jacksonreilly3441]

@@siredith8846 He displayed a perverse sense of humour and a distinct lack of class.

[@siredith8846]

@@jacksonreilly3441 hmmm, I heard he was also a paedo

[@jacksonreilly3441]

@@siredith8846 You could be right. I just never heard that before and I was in the army as a young man.

[@thomaskeil1437]

There are definitions which individuals can not assume as black and white. The Nazis did not appreciate much in the way of gray areas.

[@jeroensprangers8468]

In the 'making of" the Battle of Britain movie from 1969 there is a short interview with Erhard Milch. You can find it on YT

[@krakensic669]

Thanks for the content #world_history

[@janetblanc7658]

I believe that for one to be considered Jewish he or she must have had a Jewish mother.

[@daviddoran3673]

20.46...beside Himmler...Hermann Fegelein.

[@douglasjones2570]

Madness!

[@santoshjoshi2695]

Shocking.

[@lucasgroves137]

The freaking Nazis.

[@Haaroinarm]

Are y’all every gonna do any other part of world history I’m sorry it’s just that I scrolled through your channel and it’s only about ww2

[@Panguman]

No, they won't. All they care about is NAZI BAD

[@jacksonreilly3441]

He has a morbid fascination with Germans and concentration camps. Oh yes, and NOT SHEDDING TEARS. So childish!

[@Haaroinarm]

@@jacksonreilly3441 dude I’m sorry I thought this channel was like literally the history channel and I was scrolling though and was like damn I guess they are posting ww2 info but it kept going and going and it’s all there is

[@joejohnson6321]

This is the piece of history they don’t want you to know.

[@LeeZaslofsky]

Who "doesn't want you to know"? Milch was not a Jew, was no considered a Jew under Nazi law, and did not consider himself to be a Jew. Some German soldiers had Jewish ancestors, but the definition was "more than two Jewish grandparents". Men with one Jewish parent, who did not identify as Jewish, were defined as "Mischlinge", and were allowed to serve in the Wehrmacht, though not in positions of command. In 1942 Hitler ordered that Mischlinge be discharged from the Wehrmacht. Milch was not defined as a Mischling, hence he continued to serve.

[@nealgrimes4382]

I really like the background of world war 2 that you do before you get to the main story, as i have short term memory problems, and so it helps me to commit it to long term memory as i watch more of your vids, so thanks.

[@user-ox7xr8nu4t]

You know practically zero about the backgrounds of WW2 other than what H🔯llywood movies told you. 😂

[@nealgrimes4382]

@@user-ox7xr8nu4t Can i ask would you be on the side of the Nazis and facism.

[@nealgrimes4382]

@@user-ox7xr8nu4t Also everything i have said is accurate.

[@nealgrimes4382]

@@user-ox7xr8nu4t Are you by any chance a holocaust denier ?

[@user-ox7xr8nu4t]

@@nealgrimes4382 The correct term is National-Socialism or National-Socialist, not Not-see.

[@paweltrawicki2200]

He was not Jewish because his mother was not Jewish. I am not a Jew,but Iknow that much.Get it right

[@mikeycraig8970]

That's by the stipulations of the Jewish faith that the mother has to be Jewish. But Hitler did it by blood, so ANY Jewish parent makes them a Jew. Get it right! Dyk

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

8:19 it's incredible that there could be someone (Marschall Sperrle 2nd from left) that out-Goeringed Goering in corpulence.

[@johnsmith-mq4eq]

about 150,000 jews were in the German armed forces during World War 2

[@LeeZaslofsky]

FALSE. No Jew was permitted to join the Wehrmacht. Even half Jews were prohibited from commanding other soldiers. Some soldiers had some Jewish ancestry, but were not defined as Jews under Nazi law. Many of these soldiers were unaware of having Jewish ancestors until they had to fill out the form required by the Wehrmacht to prove that the person was eligible to serve. Just having some Jewish ancestors does not make someone a Jew. The idea that any Jews willingly served Hitler is FALSE and demeaning to Jews.

[@tallspaniard1]

This really bothers me . The fact that this murdering scum only got 15 lousy years and then to add insult to injury release like a regular dude that maybe was drunk driving or stealing groceries …. God can be forgiving , I am a lowly human . I would have tortured this Puto for a few years , then drain his blood and given him the firing squad …. No mercy for Sadist 😢😢

[@larrydewein]

Correct! This is a total DISGRACE to all who died in those awful places as well as an INSULT to them. SHAME on those who made this decision. I'm beginning to wonder if they were PAID OFF somehow to make this decision or just plain STUPID!

[@nofrackingzone7479]

Ah, mmm, there are distinct races. Beat him with his own stick and then a champagne bottle. How British of him

[@edzaslow]

Milch denied that his father was jewish. His mother said that her uncle was the real father. So his interesting ancestry is in dispute. So in the absence of DNA results, no one really knows for sure.

[@lethalwolf7455]

3:02😂

[@wn8022]

He got off lucky. Like a-lot of them.

[@paweltrawicki2200]

It is always Mama's baby but .....

[@HellJustFroze]

no one: absolutely no one: not one living soul I swear: the closed captioning at the end: *_f o r e i g n_*

[@Cheka__]

Two wrongs don't make a right.

[@gijsv8419]

It was Goering who said to Hitler the German Airforce could take England. It was Goering who could not support the army in Russia. So Udet, Milch and Speer were to blame for that too.

[@LeeZaslofsky]

In 1942 the US produced 50,000 aircraft, and produced more in the succeeding years. The USSR outproduced the German aircraft industry in 1942. The Germans caught up with the Soviets in 1944. Germany did not have the resources to produce enough aircraft, provide enough fuel, and train enough pilots to compete with the Allies. No one was to blame for this -- it was simply the reality of Germany being a medium sized country fighting three much larger countries AT THE SAME TIME. It was Hitler who made the decisions that led to that impossible situation.

[@nancycrowe9063]

How could he do that to his own people I guess power spells it all right?

[@harryeisermann2784]

Hypocrisy is comon in any culture.

[@gennettor8915]

When watching documentary videos it's very pleasant when the narrator (even if he is artificial) speaks clear English with a lively intonation like he does here and not with that extremely annoying, dreary and toneless (Northern?), accent that the narrator of "TheUntoldPast" videos adopts, which makes those documentaries almost unbearable to endure.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Hi. Thank you for your kind words. We are so happy that you like our videos and yes, we love our narrator, he is amazing!

[@TariAkpodiete]

I often play videos at 1.25 or 1.5 speed, especially makes robotic voices more bearable

[@gennettor8915]

@@TariAkpodiete it wouldn't make any difference for "TheUntoldPast" videos of which the narrator is human but has a terribly annoying (Northern?) accent virtually without intonation.

[@gennettor8915]

@@WorldHistoryVideos That wasn't my issue. You probably use an artificial narrator as well. But I'm glad you're happy.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

@@TariAkpodiete FYI - we do no use robotic voice!

[@rainerstahlberg2486]

It seems that guy was out of office when Speer used slave labor on a massive scale. Other reports say that Milch was offered lenient treatment if he would be a witness against Goring. He refused and was charged. The British had always the best reasons for mistreating prisoners of war like this lofty dude with the approval of Montgomery. After victory they no longer had to fear retaliation like in Africa. Anyway, a matter of controversy is whether they put Galland on trial or not. In his memories he wrote that he escaped from Nuremberg. Any evidence for or against that?

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

I read somewhere that the nazis didn’t consider you Jewish if you had only one jewish grandparent. Is this correct?

[@Bigtimecharliepotatoes]

Monty always the joker 😂

[@kylemendoza8860]

They could have just declared him an honorary Aryan.

[@stevegarrett6198]

I enjoy your videos,but your pronunciation of ch In German is painful🙊Erhard Milch,is pronounced Milsh,unless your from Austria or a southern farmer 😉. Also it’s Henkle, not Henshel,K !

[@Warriorking.1963]

Off topic here Steve, but could you explain how to pronounce the name of the German heavy cruiser Blucher? Some say it's Blusher, others say Blueker.

[@Cat-and-mouseyjdm]

Stece Garrett....yeah, does sound a bit like a cat heaving up fur balls. Still, that is the way it is probably pronounced.

[@stevegarrett6198]

@@Cat-and-mouseyjdm Dear Joy, I was raised by a German mother…. And an American father so…,,.,,,,,, I might know more than your “probably”…what right do you have to interject yourself into this conversation ?!!

[@stevegarrett6198]

@@Warriorking.1963 the word Blucher is pronounced correctly in “Young Frankenstein”, if you’re not familiar👀😉👏It’s a Subtlely rolled ch sound😉The gutteral ch isn’t Hoch Deutsch or High German, i.e. correct German.

[@Cat-and-mouseyjdm]

@@stevegarrett6198...... Every damn right! This is a public forum and that is my opinion. You can agree or not agree. I could say what right do have to be so highnhanded? I don't give a damn if you are German/American. You can be a Martian for all I care, but bringing up rights over this is just too precious. Get a grip. Besides where is this so called conversation? It's only people's opinions.

[@valeriemarott1923]

Will you answer once and for all the name of the narrator? And if it is an AI voice, tell us that too. I need to know if I'm in love with a machine.😅😮😊

[@donnpatez101]

A tree so brainwashed that it was even convinced to be in favor of deforestation.

[@opieshomeshop]

*_If his mother wasn't jewish then he wasn't jewish. He had jewish background because of his dad._*

[@LeeZaslofsky]

The Nazis did not follow Jewish customs. They defined a Jew as someone who had more than two Jewish grandparents, or someone who identified as a Jew and was involved in the Jewish community. Milch was not defined as a Jew under that standard; nor was he a Jew according to Jewish custom. In other words, the video is FALSE.

[@user-qb9lu8ln1e]

Göring: "I'll decide who's a Jew"

[@thomascieslak7956]

Germany lost that war because of there lack of respect for life

[@jimbo43ohara51]

The Nuremburg Laws could be described as complete mumbo jumbo. How the Germans ever reached these conclusions is beyond comprehension. Perhaps we could get Kant to right a treatise on racial equality.

[@mscorrell]

As Milch's father had an Iron Cross they may be Aryan?

[@steveneltringham1478]

WTF's a Governor-General?

[@MrSparkums]

Abraham was a Sumerian of Ur, an Indo-European people, aka Aryan..

[@rikb728]

I love this narrator