How Did the Allies React to the Death Camps (1942 - 1944)?

During World War II the Germans wanted the death camps in Eastern Europe to be a secret. Yet, in 1942 most of the world was aware of what was going on in the camps in German-occupied Poland. How did Allied leaders react to this horrible discovery? Were there any plans to save the Jews of Europe? And why didn't the Allies bomb the death camps?
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[@HistoryHustle]

What Germans knew about the death camps: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXLciKilqq6SnK8 How did the secret of the death camps leak out? kzbin.info/www/bejne/qojJc6qQlLd-Y5I

[@horsefish2525]

The photo with the woman in the checkerboard coat has nothing to do with Holocaust. It comes from Palmiry massacre of Poles en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmiry_massacre. The mention of non-Jewish victims as victims of Holocaust arouses protests among Jews, and that the definition of the Holocaust as the annihilation of European Jews is closely guarded by Jews, it would be appropriate to apply the same principle in reverse.

[@horsefish2525]

@gatherington The only moment Jews could be saved was September 1939 when GB and France would move their asses when Poland was fighting

[@anthonyferris8912]

@@horsefish2525 Yes’ it took them a whole 2 days to react… 🤣

[@alex_poly1147]

@gatherington after loosing 3times. Sore loosers

[@romanlegionary6376]

Can you do a video on Jews who where highly skilled and how they avoided the death camps?

[@danielhammersley2869]

The crime was so incredibly vast, it defied imaginations. Tragically, as stated in your video, *"by then millions, not hundreds of thousands"* had already been killed when the Allies condemned it initially. The excuse making for not taking action followed afterwards. Superb, and succinct again, Professor!

[@daviddoran3673]

The very concept of "concentration and/or death camps" is daily degraded by the wests constant false accusations levelled against innocent countries....this, along with frivolous claims of countries using chemical and nerve agents....simply to manufacture consent for sanctions, military strikes etc.....

[@danielhammersley2869]

@@daviddoran3673 sometimes you have to SHOW the people who are asleep the truth. Explaining it/ claiming it is not enough.

[@HistoryHustle]

More about the American perspective soon.

[@eleanorkett1129]

You have covered a topic which is so heartbreaking and controversial to this day. In such cases it is much easier to turn a blind eye to evil. Thank you once again for your work. I could just imagine how much you invest in trying to present evil and how the world responds to such horror.

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍👍

[@davidbarr9343]

The reaction of allied soldiers when liberating "concentration camps" tells you all you need to know about the total abhorrence that the Nazi regime was held in. Many of our soldiers were "scarred for life" because of what they saw, which , after all they had been through in combat since D-day, says it all.

[@badgerstatebard320]

When I was in Elementary school (about the time I first started getting interested in WWII), there was this teaching aide whom was assigned to me who's father served under Patton in the war. She said he was involved in liberating Dachau and that it was something he never liked to talk about in any detail.

[@davidbarr9343]

@@badgerstatebard320 I am not surprised,it must have been a traumatic experience for him. I am sure that the teacher's assistant was proud of her father's service to his country. All of us should be grateful for the service and sacrifice of Allied personnel during WW2. We owe them a debt that can never be repaid. "Lest we forget".

[@alex_poly1147]

Bullshittt. The concentration camps where east of the Berlin wall so in communisme part. Everything west was liberated by Americans or English. That's what the last battle was for. So you are actually believing Russians who where under stalin. Stupid

[@alex_poly1147]

It was the Russian who started the story about concentration camps. And then also the german soldiers who turned them self's in. Where put in a camp without food or water. Pff but there a lot of testimonials of people who said they played football with the germans. How to do that with no energy

[@HistoryHustle]

The liberations were in 1945. Indeed, many were scarred.

[@tng2057]

I recall for quite a good few years after 75 when Phnom Penh Cambodia fell to the Khmer Rouge, the western world was dead quiet about the Khmer Rouge atrocities. Despite news from Thailand refugee camps as early in 76 about the genocides that was happening, most western media and western governments chose to ignore them, with Readers Digest being a notable exception. The traditionally ‘humane’ Sweden even sent a delegation to Cambodia around 78 to film Cambodia under KR rule and idealized the country to KR’s tune. Even when Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 78/79 deposing the KR, the west - maybe as part of their appeasement to China - chose to express outrage at Vietnam invading Cambodia instead of Khmer Rouge conducting genocides, and the west and China subsequently backed the KR as being part of the exiled ‘Coalition Government’ well into the 90s. Sickening you may think.

[@deltanovember1672]

Let’s not forget though, the Swedes declared themselves neutral during WWII but continued to supply the Nazis with iron ore throughout the war. Neutral my arse.

[@daviddoran3673]

The humanitarian and Democratic west also ignored the Rwandan genocide but have no reservations about accusing China of committing genocide even though they clearly arent.

[@tng2057]

That Swedish delegation who went to Cambodia in 78 consisted mostly of former anti-Vietnam War activists. They received red carpet welcome, dined with Pol Pot, and then declared everything was fine in KR controlled Cambodia (ie no genocide). Very fortunately Vietnam did the dirty work for everybody soon after in removing KR and these Swedes at least did the right thing in repenting when the KR genocide became fully exposed and undeniable.

[@kwd3109]

During WWII, Winston Churchill famously said of Sweden...."They ignored the greater moral issues and played both sides for profit"

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

Pol Pot was backed by the CIA

[@williamromine5715]

You have more guts than any other U-tuber that I know of. You have the ability and strength of character to tackle things that others are afraid of. And, you do it carefully and deliberately, but don't sugar coat the topic. I have great admiration of you. Please continue telling us about history the way it really happened! Thank you, from a subscriber in America, who in his 80's, still has a lot to learn.

[@HistoryHustle]

Great to read. Many thanks for replying!

[@binaway]

In early 1942 many POW's in Munich were sent to work in Poland. Dad was loaded into a France cavalry train wagon. Designed for about 8 horses and 16 men. Better with a toilet, suspension and better conditions than the box cars usually used it was loaded with 75 men. The inside walls were covered in writing. Some of the British POW's could read Yiddish and said the writers knew where they going and what would happen to them.

[@jayjayson9613]

Wow, that's heartbreaking.

[@HistoryHustle]

Sad indeed.

[@TCW838]

Charles Lindbergh was a 'great admirer' of the Luftwaffe. Henry Ford was at a minimum sympathetic to Nazi Germany and it's new found efficiency. Both of these attributes have at least minimal accuracy. Many civilians of some esteem saw attributes in the mechanics of Nazi Germany in the prewar years. It's a tribute to what willing blindness can achieve. I love how you don't shy away from covering even the most delicate topics. This is what keeps me returning to your channel.

[@dentoncrimescene]

Nazi efficiency is a propaganda myth, no?

[@deltanovember1672]

The Swedish chap that founded IKEA was an ardent Nazi.

[@alswann2702]

Add to that many British royals and lots of others around the world.

[@kylebritt1225]

Some people like order! They don't care or comprehend that unjust order is not sustainable and causes disorder. Order/normalcy must be based on broad based prosperity and realistic opportunity to participate in that prosperity. Not Communism but participatory rather than predatory Capitalism.

[@A_10_PaAng_111]

Lets also keep it real folks. Some of the biggest antisemites and pro Nazis were Jews themselves sorry to say. A few of Nazi Germany's top industrial leaders were also Jews. The Allies did it right. Focus on preserving freedom and fighting tyranny. This way everyone was focused on the task at hand, fighting for the same cause. Then once Nazi Germany is defeated we'll address the death camps.

[@JenniferinIllinois]

"Things like this don't happen in the 20th century" - tragically, they not only happened but happened repeatedly.

[@HistoryHustle]

Not as bad as in WW2. But yes, still very bad things happened and are happening.

[@mikefay5698]

The 1M Deaths of Armenians by the Turks is still denied!

[@HowlingWo1f]

I’m glad you cover such topics which many KZbinrs would simply choose to avoid. & As a Jew, Thank you. “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your message!

[@johnusa3150]

@ Zev V Do you know that by 1952, West Germany was already paying reparations to Israel for the Holocaust? By 1960, West Germany was secretly supplying US made M-48 Patton tanks from the Bundeswehr to the Israeli Army. This was eventually exposed by the media, but the shipments continued publicly.

[@HowlingWo1f]

@@johnusa3150 Reparations, If I by that you mean to reimburse for All the physical wealth And property which were stolen is one thing. But So-called reparations for The pain and suffering of the holocaust. There’s not enough gold, silver, and diamonds in this world to make up For the genocide that was done to our family and 6 million others. Personally I would find any offer of reparations insulting. Although out of principle, I do hope to travel to Germany one day To have my grandfathers home returned back in to the hands of our family.

[@johnusa3150]

@@HowlingWo1f I have seen documentaries about reparations between West Germany and Israel. They were paid to Israel between 1953 and 1963. In 1952 over $800 million was agreed upon Also, many German made trains, trucks, buses, and heavy equipment were sent to Israel. People who have been to Israel have said there are alot of Mercedes-Benz taxis there. Back around 1995, there was controversy over the Swiss banks and gold and valuables trusted to them, by those that never returned after the war. At the time (1952) this was extremely controversial in Israel, with many people being opposed to it, considering the Holocaust survivors now trying to rebuild their lives in a new country. If you lived in Israel today, I'm sure you could find out from older people if at that time the reparations were a good idea or not.

[@HowlingWo1f]

@@johnusa3150 This is true, although I believe it was only for Those victims of the holocaust whose families were completely wiped out with no surviving family members, to where so-called reparations were paid out to the Jewish state of Israel. Regardless it does not absolve Germany of Responsibility for the crimes and atrocities they have committed.

[@tomfrazier1103]

My Grandpa's best friend in the War was a Jewish guy. Grandpa encountered a little antisemitism and anti Catholicism in the U.S. Army. Grandpa was half Sicilian/North Italian, and had encountered prejudice within his own community. Later in the CCCs he got to see Jim Crow regions of the U.S. and was Not Impressed.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing.

[@tonnywildweasel8138]

Even if the facts are uncomfortable for some, they just need to be addressed. Always. Great vid again Stefan! Greets from the Netherlands 🌷, T.

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks, T.!

[@Emil-Sinclair_and_Don-Quixote]

I wish this channel had more success

[@HistoryHustle]

Feel free to share.

[@mhart62]

Another enlightening episode on a tough topic. Really appreciate your work on these videos!

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks!

[@robertm.8653]

Thank you for making this video Stephan! It is a heavy subject that has to be remembered, that brutality on such a scale could exist in so called modern nations should be a warning that we should strive to be open, understanding and kind to each other. Have a great week

[@HistoryHustle]

You as well Robert. Cheers!

[@Jazzavi12]

Exceptional Video by Stefan. He deals with these contentious and sensitive topics with scholastic candor and very evident impartiality; His only purpose is to present the known and well documented facts with courage and honesty, and to invite others' views on these staggering, mind numbing atrocities which happened no so long ago. One of the BEST channels on recent history on KZbin especially on WW2.

[@bert2530]

Great video again. Never back off in case of any possible controversy!

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍👍

[@ShamileII]

Great video! I enjoy "truthful" history lessons....no matter where it takes us.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply.

[@jonny46ba]

Well researched and presented as ever, I wish I'd had a history teacher like you/

[@HistoryHustle]

Great to read. Thanks!

[@jh2309]

I did have a history teacher like him and I am grateful. Because of my teacher I am now a historian trying to teach others that we must learn from history or repeat it. This is a lesson that we must learn because the world cannot afford to repeat it. Also I am confused why anyone can honestly say this didn’t happen. I had a family member that was in the army during the liberation of Buchenwald by General Patton. It affected until he died. Also a lot of camps still stand. Just because you don’t believe it didn’t happen doesn’t mean that it didn’t. Look at the evidence

[@mikefay5698]

In Denmark History Teachers are being sacked if they don't present a comment on the Ukraine that does not meet US Propaganda!

[@jackthebassman1]

Thank you for yet another excellent piece of important history.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks Jack!

[@jlpack62]

Thanks for this video. It needs to be heard.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks John.

[@spib65]

Hi Stefan, yet another very interesting video. A tricky subject for sure. It never cease's to amaze me just how complex WW2 was. I'm learning a great deal here, keep up the fine work! .

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching.

[@jonathangat4765]

You did a very good job covering a very difficult subject in 13 minutes. Well done.

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks for commenting!

[@JohnnoDordrecht]

Great episode and a very good topic

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks!

[@Rednecknerd_rob9634]

Thanks for these kinds of videos.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you for watching!

[@jessicanone4202]

Love history! My 7th grade history teacher started the passion in me and it's stuck every since. History teachers rock!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks!

[@mikefay5698]

Not by Nationalist History Teachers!

[@jamesbodnarchuk3322]

Informative as always!❤️🇨🇦

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks James.

[@marcoskehl]

Supporting the Freedom Convoy from Brazil, brother! 🇧🇷

[@phyllishershkowitz3806]

Thank you for this video. I have often thought why the world was silent.... this was quite a presentation... I have subscribed!

[@HistoryHustle]

Great Phyllis, welcome to this channel!

[@joanhenschel3511]

Excellent! Thanks for making this clear to me, I've been perplexed about the lack of intervention for these victims.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing this! Today a follow-up.

[@lolitaboykins4834]

Thank you for the historical context.

[@HistoryHustle]

👌

[@nickpapagiorgio5056]

Thank you for this video professor Stefan, as appalling and horrific as this part of history was it is important that it is talked about now and for years to come so that something like this god willing NEVER happens again. I also feel that talking about this respectfully helps honor those millions of people that suffered this awful tragedy. May they all Rest In Peace forever. 😞😞🙏🏼🙏🏼💙💙

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks for replying Nick!

[@christopherqueen3194]

A very tough subject. I think you covered it well. What could the Western Allies do? Yes, bombing the camps and the railroads feeding them might have bought time for some people. Certainly the railroads. But there was an actual shooting war going on, and strategic bombing was only being tested for the first time in history. Certainly winning the war as quickly as possible was the correct answer. BTW: I like your tie, Stefan.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you, Chris!

[@mikefay5698]

The reason Churchill and Roosevelt thought was that they didn't want Soldiers to think they were fighting the War for Jews. They were well aware that they were being killed en mass!

[@will9605]

Thank you Stefan for broaching such a difficult topic. I sometimes get into conversations with friends about why the allies didn't do much to help the Jews during the war. Here you've explained the reasons very thoroughly as to why. I will be using this video as a reference when this topic comes up again as I'm certain that it will. Thanks again for doing what you do!

[@HistoryHustle]

Great to read, thanks for your reply Will!

[@criplexxx]

Thank you very much for teaching

[@HistoryHustle]

You're welcome 👍

[@logya]

Hi , as usual a nice video . Hard subject , and an informative vid to give us food for thoughts . Thanks . Have a nice day . ; )

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply!

[@1015SaturdayNight]

Excellent teaching.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you Emily.

[@RachelDerGolem]

Greetings from Israel. Thanks for this enlightening video.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply!

[@vaidyasantosh8559]

Thks 4 info

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@Artur_M.]

The ending reminds me about the meeting between Jan Karski and the US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, who was "unable to believe" what he was hearing.

[@HistoryHustle]

Indeed.

[@8000296]

humans are complex beings. This is one of your videos that gives the viewer food for thoughts. Thank you Stefan!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for replying!

[@novadhd]

Good insightful video Stefan. I believe the Allies really didnt want to get involved until they were basically at their front door.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks! Well, the Germans were never 'at the front door' of both Britain and the US. All is explained in the video.

[@gibraltersteamboatco888]

A difficult subject. Thanks BZ The Soviets found undeniable proof when they liberated Majdanek in July 44. Along with the Poles they investigated and published their findings also in 1044. Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission for Investigating the Crimes committed by the Germans in the Majdanek Did this have any impact?

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks BZ! Hope to cover more on that later.

[@krisfrederick5001]

Perconte: "Uh, Major Winters, sir. Uh, we found something, out on patrol, and, uh, we came across this." Winters: "What? What? Frank, Frank, what is it?" Perconte: "I don’t know sir, I don’t know..." -Band of Brothers

[@HistoryHustle]

Yes, very impressive scene. Often showed it in class.

[@jzwillows]

Excellent.

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@travisreed1730]

NICE suit, Stefan!

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@katemaloney4296]

If your atrocity is so evil it brings tears to George Patton's eyes, you have achieved a level of evil so completely different that it will never be matched.

[@HistoryHustle]

Indeed.

[@Benetkabc2nd]

Amazing

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@mattosullivan9687]

Stefan, good work as always. I think of the voyage of the SS St Louis. When no one let them in and they had to go back to Germany that told Hitler all he needed to know

[@robertmendick3195]

The 1976 movie Voyage of the Damned showed the tragic story of the Jewish passengers on the SS St Louis that occured in 1939. They were first denied entry into Cuba, and then by the US and Canada. The ship and passengers returned to Europe where most of the passengers didn't survive the war.

[@mattosullivan9687]

@@joekavanagh8997 No can you let me know about it?

[@mattosullivan9687]

@@joekavanagh8997 OK I did but that was after ww2

[@A_10_PaAng_111]

@@joekavanagh8997 I have!!!

[@HistoryHustle]

Interesting.

[@jokodihaynes419]

Awesome video mate keep it up the only video game that included a scene from a concentration camp is call of duty ww2

[@HistoryHustle]

👍 Never played that game by the way.

[@patriciapalmer1377]

My parents, teenagers at this time, said they knew little. They both said they had a vague idea of a prisoner of war, labor camp type of situation for dissidents, intellectuals, religious clerics and gypsies from their priests. The newspapers were filled with war news, people read them avidly, and this topic was never covered.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing this Patricia!

[@yisroelkatz3723]

History Hustle you present this topic in the most sensitive and understanding way possible! You did a great job and I respect you for this! You presented material that no one else ever discusses but I was well aware of! Being an Orthodox Jew my community is well aware of what you presented in this video and what you said was completely accurate! 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply!

[@Richarddraper]

Thank you, that was a sensitively presented and well researched video on a very difficult subject. My opinion is that by the time that the death camps and mass executions in the occupied Soviet Union became known to the Western Allies, the window for saving the Jews on any reasonable scale was long closed. The crime so great that it's difficult to comprehend was taking place and the greatest priority had to be defeating the Nazis as quickly as possible.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for replying.

[@mikefay5698]

Napoleon noted that" all History is mainly lies that everyone agrees upon" In fact History is no longer taught in many schools. The Internet will put the world right unless the USA changes it's constitution on free speech which I admire!

[@maddyg3208]

I studied German history in Melb, Aust in the mid 80s. There was a mature-aged student called Cliff, who had been a digger in WW2. I remember that while I was 19 and didn't react emotionally to what happened in the camps, his reaction was very visceral, which he said was what it was when he first heard about them in 1945.

[@HistoryHustle]

Interesting to read. Thanks for your reply.

[@kommissarkillemall2848]

Wederom een informatieve, zij het controversiele post. Blij dat meer mensen dingen nuchter en relativerend durven te benoemen. Ik waardeer je werk erg, en volg je dan ook graag als een mede-geschiedenis geinteresseerde. Groet uit Den Haag.

[@HistoryHustle]

Goed om te lezen. Bedankt voor je bericht!

[@nickyoung4799]

Brilliant video on a very difficult subject. Nice tie 👔

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks, Nick!

[@lenwilkinson672]

As a youngster of 14 years old in 1943 I was 14 years old 93 now,and have a damn good memory.we were unaware of any concentration death camps.When Pathé Newsreels in cinemas showed Belsen and Buchenwald that was the first time we were shown the horrrors of such places.Auschwitz was not shown or mentioned.

[@randyhavard6084]

I can say I would not want to be in the position to have to make those decisions. They really had only one option like you said, win the war. The suit and tie is a good look for you and your channel.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks Randy!

[@buddhastaxi666]

Massive battle hardened British Sergeant Majors wept when liberating the death camps. I knew one, Sergeant Major Logsdale of St Martins Shropshire. Liebenstraum was a cover story from Hitlers denial structure. Basically the ptsd veterans of WW1 with so much unresolved angst went on a rampage. This would explain the high risk invasions , the escalations, the deliberate terror and murders.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing.

[@buddhastaxi666]

@@HistoryHustle Holocaust deniers need refuting. The guys who liberated the genocide camps are all dead now. I knew a witness to the awful crime....he and his sons worked for my grandfather timber cutting. Im nearly 70 and humans can forget the lessons of history....being unconcious players in samsara.

[@gerry4b]

Such an important topic to cover! Your assessment is spot on! Anti-semitism was, and still is a worldwide phenomenon. Another contributing factor in Roosevelt’s attempts to rally US support for the war was the simple fact German Americans were the largest ethnic group in the country. It was perhaps bad PR to spend to much energy exposing the inhumanity of the current German regime…?

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for replying Gerry!

[@Grandtrunk]

Spot on

[@mikefay5698]

German Americans were unlikely to be anymore anti-semitic than anyone else! They did put Japanese - Americans in concentration camps but not Italian and Germans?

[@gerry4b]

@@mikefay5698 Is your subconscious responding? Where do imply increased German anti-Semitism? I mention Roosevelt coveting German votes as “another contributing factor.” “Another” practice your words.

[@mikefay5698]

Well Eisenhower was of German descent. I fact most of the Northern European descended US Citizens. I don't think that in India and China there is much in the way of Anti semitism. Mind you Jeremy the British Labour leader was expelled from the Labour Party for not hooting for Israel. Israel is the main US Implant to control the Middle East and the oil. Harry Truman was a Member of the KKK when Israel kicked off in the 50's! The KKK hated Negros Catholics and Jews!

[@hayleyxyz]

This is a great video. Really helps to understand the attitude and consciousness of the citizens and leaders of western allied countries. Looking back it seems mad how the extermination was downplayed and not really talked about, but we have that opinion because we're looking at it through the lens of what we now know about the holocaust.

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks for your reply and support Hayley!

[@snakemanmike]

You are the first non Jewish historian that I have seen address the antisemitism among the Western allies. Thank you. Some of the Western allies actually were sympathetic to the Nazis' extermination of the Jews. Few want to talk about that. The British, in particular were worried that if too many Jews survived they would want to immigrate to Palestine, which was under British rule, and they didn't want that problem.

[@deltanovember1672]

Yes, Christian churches, the Roman Catholic Church in particular, vilified the Jews. Two millennia of this helped solidify antisemitism in the West.

[@HistoryHustle]

Hi Michael, Yes, there was antisemitism among the Allies but do notice that doesn't equal approval of mass murder.

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

Please visit allied military cemeteries in France and reflect upon the sacrifice made by so many US and Commonwealth families. They fought and died to destroy Nazi Germany. And just like Jewish families who lost members in the Holocaust each and every victim was a beloved and precious son/father/brother. What about the dozens of countries that did nothing to end Nazi tyranny? Are they exempt from Jewish anger? Will Jews / Israel ever say thank you for your sacrifice? 70 years later the answer is probably no.

[@dzmitrym2483]

Goede middag Stefan. Ik wow al langer vragen over jou sjaal. Ik ben een Wit-Rus van Antwerpen en ik herken de ornamenten... Ik wil ook zo eentje kopen. ) Waar heb je die vandaan?

[@HistoryHustle]

Het is een sjaal uit Letland. In Riga op straat gekocht.

[@dzmitrym2483]

Koel! Nu weet ik het wel,thnx. En ook thank voor de hustle man, keep doing those great videos.

[@dzmitrym2483]

Ik heb ook een gevoel dat geschiedenis ' repeats 'zich zelf in een absurde manier. Vroeger was Hitler's Deutschland en nu is putins Russia.. spijtig er was Nürnberg voor de Duitsers maar geen ene voor de Bolsheviks.

[@mariahamilton5305]

Fascinated by the map behind you which has "NORDIRELAND" printed across Wales and England! Where does the map come from?

[@HistoryHustle]

This German map gives the name of the whole country: "England and Northern Ireland". The letters of the latter word ended up over England.

[@SaulKopfenjager]

I feel this is a much larger topic than is paid attention to it; how soon & how much the allies knew & how the soldiers found out & felt over the course of the war, well before they started liberating camps. Also there must have been a lot of allied people with connections or in places with closer connections to Germany & Europe such a ports, refugee suport, POW guards & services etc that might have heard the rumours or came into contact to more substantial information that is buried in history.

[@HistoryHustle]

It is a much larger topic and this here is the third video about it.

[@vsekvsek]

My best friends grandfather was a “conscientious objector” in Germany. Then one day the Gestapo cam and dragged him away to be a gaurd at Dachau. After three months they sent him to Russia and told him “that place you where at...if we hear anout you surrendering or not fighting...your whole family will get sent there.” Heard it from his own mouth. So yeah...to you doubters out there....your lost

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing. These objectors had a hard fate. Some were even executed.

[@wordcarr8750]

REf: 2:06 The declaration mentioned here must have been from what was known then as the *League of Nations* and not the *United Nations* , which was not formed until Oct 1945.

[@HistoryHustle]

The Declaration by United Nations became the basis of the United Nations (UN), which was formalized in the UN Charter, signed by 50 countries on 26 June 1945.

[@marknelson6777]

Very informative as always, what did the SOVIET UNION know ?. I realize they let the Germans wipe out the Warsaw uprising, when they could have intervened.

[@nickc7320]

The NKVD trained the SS/gestapo agents before the war on how to run a concentration camp. There Soviets had been running gulags since the 1917 revolution

[@deltanovember1672]

@@nickc7320 That’s interesting, any sources for that?

[@HistoryHustle]

During 1939-41 there indeed were Gestapo/NKVD conferences.

[@daviddoran3673]

Remember...concentration camps were first used by the democratic and humanitarian British empire in South Africa....out Democracy also had a number of concentration camps for their Japanese population after Pearl harbour....

[@marcoskehl]

@@HistoryHustle "During 1939-41 there indeed were Gestapo/NKVD conferences." Nothing more mafiose than this. 🏴‍☠

[@marcusfranconium3392]

Another great video , well done . Just a question ,i always wonderd why didnt the germans use poison gass in the east . I know Churchil at one point wanted to use poisen gas early on in the war , and was only stopped by his generals and schiefs of staff. But with the eastern front it was a total different war . where well all rules of civil conduct was out of the window. Even when nazi germany collapsed they did not use poison gas or biological warfare . I always wonderd about that . In the same way as in ww1 it was commen practice to mine underneath trenches and blow the enemy up . why didnt the germans do the same at the beaches at the atlantic wall or strategic locations . filling tunnesl with high explosives or bombs and blow them up . It seems a lot of ww1 tactics of defense and offence had been forgotten.

[@HistoryHustle]

Hi Marcus, thanks for your reply. Good question: I think that poison gas and mobile warfare didn't go hand in hand.

[@markoz6744]

Hitler experienced firsthand poison gas in WW1 and it wasn't pretty. A lot of collateral and unintentional results.

[@candydonnelly7543]

I pray we all learn from history, not to repeat this horror.

[@HistoryHustle]

Indeed.

[@66kbm]

Moving from 1 sort of Camp to another .Can you do a program on the POW Camps in the Netherlands..ie Kamp Amersfoort and others please.

[@HistoryHustle]

One day.

[@pollyrigo6174]

I remember my father discussing these information discussed in this video . He also did not likeLindbergh because of his liking the Baxis,

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply.

[@xvsj5833]

Stefan, good & painful story, many fail the victims of the holocaust. The perpetrator’s along with leaders turning their back on the innocent. Will be held accountable at another place in time. 💪

[@HistoryHustle]

👍Many thanks for replying once again.

[@davidraper5798]

One of those awkward and horrifying subjects that needs to be remembered because it is so hard to believe but it did happen.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for replying.

[@marcoskehl]

6:42 When I see pictures like this, I can not disagree that it was a genocide too. 💥 🔥Never forget! Obrigado! 🇧🇷

[@HistoryHustle]

Strategic bombing of Germany was terrible, but wouldn't call it a genocide. If Germany would've surrendered the bombing would've stopped.

[@marcoskehl]

@@HistoryHustle I respect and understand your opinion. By the way, beautiful tie. 👔

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Please do a video on how soviet and germany collaborated after molotov ribbon trop pact

[@HistoryHustle]

Already did.

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@@HistoryHustle ok

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Sad that people made anti-semitic comments this is the last place I expect it Your a doing great work keep going

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply!

[@Vladymir_Putin]

Polish soldier of underground - WITOLD PILECKI - was a VOLUNTEER in Auschwitz! He menaged to escape and describe all what was going on there. So western soldiers could know what to expect, if not it's only because western governments haven't tell them.

[@HistoryHustle]

Pilecki was a true hero if you ask me.

[@jokodihaynes419]

Allied soldiers was full of rage and sadness the dachau executions is a testimony to that

[@HistoryHustle]

That was 1945. The video covers 42-44.

[@flooreveraerts7091]

If you want to know how the holocaust developed, from hate to murder is a big step, I can recommend the following book. Black Earth The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder. Snyder teaches at Yale covering the history of Eastern Europe. Not just another writer. My personal opinion: Do not forget the influence of Stalin. The crimes against the Russian people were well known to the British and Americans. By pointing to the Nazis, questions could also be asked as to why there was cooperation with the Russians. Thanks for the video Stefan.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply Floor!

[@johnhough7738]

Seems like there's a song there ... "Things like that don't happen in these times, doo-dah, doo-daaaaahhhh ..." (Not bloody much, they don't!)

[@HistoryHustle]

Don't know the song.

[@RieCeleste]

I've watched many videos regarding about the death camps. My conclusion after I watched those videos was why didn't they take action immediately? Why they allowed this to happen to those helpless civilians? They could help them including those people who are mentally incapable. They only take action when it was already too late. Even right now,they kept doing it.

[@HistoryHustle]

Right now?

[@dogman-fx9ub]

Davon haben wir nicht gewusst von Peter Longerich und Die Deutschen und der Holocaust von Bernward Dörner sind nützliche Bücher für dieses Thema.

[@HistoryHustle]

English please.

[@dogman-fx9ub]

@@HistoryHustle "We didn't know about that" (sarcastic title referring to Germans claiming not to know about the Holocaust) by Peter Longerich and "the Germans and the Holocaust" by Bernward Dörner are useful books for this topic. Both books are sadly only available in German.

[@dogman-fx9ub]

@@HistoryHustle Love your videos keep up the good work. Sorry for any confusion I wrote the comment for any German speakers who came to this video but I should have mentioned it in English too.

[@elizabethwakefield8894]

Oh my holy God! All this was known in 1942 and NOTHING was done?!! 😡 How many lives could have been saved if something was done then? How heartbreaking and disgusting 😢

[@HistoryHustle]

That's where it came down to yes.

[@elizabethwakefield8894]

@@HistoryHustle, it's probably weird to you, but as horrific as the Holocaust was, the fact that people knew this for so long somehow disgusts, and distresses me even more 😢💔

[@glen7318]

what do you think could have been done

[@thebunkerparodie6368]

can you do a debunk on eric zemmour rhetoric that the vichy regime saved french jews (they didn't and even if they did, it doesn't make them more sympathetic, you still got laval speech "je souhaite la victoire de l'allemagne", the participation to the holocaust, they still sended foreign jews to the camp, the STO and all the crime against the resistance+if the nazi wons, vichy would be OK deporting them and denaturalisation need to be taken in account too) please?

[@HistoryHustle]

Hope to cover more on Vichy later.

[@jokodihaynes419]

Rage and sadness

[@HistoryHustle]

Well, you'll be surprised. Lemme know what you think of the video.

[@marcoschwarz3763]

Soldiers are not to be confused with their government. We know how US soldiers reacted at Dachau and the British at Bergen-Belsen.

[@HistoryHustle]

Indeed, that was in 1945. Hope to cover that later.

[@cherylmoss3632]

What could they do. But war against them. But they should have condemned it most openly.

[@HistoryHustle]

Agree.

[@sirdarklust]

This is a difficult question. Ultimately, if measures were taken to prevent people being shipped to death camps, the Nazis could have gone back to just killing masses of people in fields, as they had started earlier on. Maybe less efficient, but still practical, as had been shown already. The fact is that when Himmler (and his gang) maneuvered themselves into being Hitler's most trusted people, there was no going back. Remember that German military leaders even complained as to how they were unable to move men and equipment around at times because trains they needed were being used to transport Jews. We can say that the genocide was more important to the Nazi leadership than even military necessity, and contributed to Germany losing the war. Could the Allies have known this and secretly not wanted to stop transportation of Jews because it could have meant a more difficult struggle in the long run? An idea to ponder. Anyway, you take care and double ding dong for this excellent video.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing your insights. Ding dong!

[@JW-yt7lr]

We have to hope that , ' things like this ' don't happen in the 21st Century either .

[@HistoryHustle]

True.

[@charlesvan13]

It would have been impossible to not know. In occupied and Vichi France they were loading people on freight trains. And they exploited anti-Semitic elements of some occupied countries.

[@HistoryHustle]

Also true.

[@hornet370]

the soviets literally had their own in their backyard

[@HistoryHustle]

True.

[@rokadaprliinnysystemyaczno4761]

Stefan, "sensitive" topics are: " new facts surrounding Poland's role at Munich and the carve up of Czechoslovakia.. Secret talks in 1939 between Poland and Germany after mid September to form an alliance ... Polish attempts to form a Vichy style collaboration government during the war.... that's enough for you to think about today.

[@flooreveraerts7091]

Not so secret at all but not wat you are sugesting. Poland was a very Antisemitic country before the war and had lots of talks with Nazi germany. However, Poland did not want an agreement with the Nazi's because they were afraid of the Russian reaction. Poland had to balance between the Nazis and the Communists. This balancing act took Hitler too long and he therefore decided to attack Poland.. Ironically, together with the Russians.

[@rokadaprliinnysystemyaczno4761]

@@flooreveraerts7091 ah well not quite anti semitic. Maybe you also believe in "Polish" death camps? The poles were anti communist not anti Jew. If you want a history lesson check out who Menachem Begin was and who trained and armed his group of freedom fighters in the 1930s, you will be very surprised.... history is not the shit they write in history books. And the secret talks? Look forward to your episode on the topic....you will be surprised how deep the rabbit hole goes.

[@flooreveraerts7091]

​@@rokadaprliinnysystemyaczno4761 I wear the insignia of 1 Polish Armoured Division on my uniform, which was given to me by Polish people in order to make the Polish story in the war better known. In my opinion, no nation was hit so hard by WW2 as the Polish people. The Nazis were responsible for the extermination camps without any discussion. The death camps are located in an area occupied first by the Russians and then by the Germans. This double occupation is one of the main reasons why these camps were set up there.The Russians had already completely wiped out the ruling layer (administration, teachers, pastor and anyone with moral influence). Before World War II there was a lot of anti-Semitism in Europe, in Germany, in France but also in Poland. It may surprise you that the first Jewish settlers were trained in Poland. I recommend you read the book I mentioned earlier. It will provide you with a lot of independent information and maybe a different point of view.

[@rokadaprliinnysystemyaczno4761]

@@flooreveraerts7091 I would agree with you and what you say confirms what I said. Poland suffered terribly...as they betrayed the Nazi's and then we're stupid to resist them. If they pretended to have a resistance movement (like most European countries) many lives would have been saved. How stupid bathe Warsaw Uprising was....200,000 innocent civilians killed for 1,700 Germans !

[@HistoryHustle]

In Poland there was antisemitism too but I wouldn't put it on a par with the Nazis. Collaboration on state level was no option I think (looking at the brutal conduct of the Germans from the moment they invaded) but we'll never know.

[@andrewelie8687]

Your video touched several very relevant points about propaganda. The claims about death camps would strike many as black fantasy, because they had not seen any proof up to that point. There was also disbelief in propaganda, given the events of the first world war. Societies had large anti-semitic elements to them. Discrimination and exclusion were not only commonplace, but also permissible under the law in western countries at that time. Look no further than institutionalized segregation in the USA, which continues to this day in the form of "white proms" and "black proms", as part of the end of high school in some states in which racial laws were very much pernicious. German POW's had more rights than black Americans in some locations! During the occupation of many countries, locals assisted in the identification, arrest, deportation and murder of Jews. Such people did so out of hate, likely passed down within their own families. Gay people still fight for basic acceptance in many parts of the world. As a gay man in his 50's in Toronto, Canada, I can say that I still experience discrimination - mostly from men in my own age group and older. I can also remember hearing that a prominent country club in north Toronto did not admit Jews as recently as the 1980's. This was a very good video. Thank you!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you for sharing your insights.

[@johnhough7738]

I imagine, before viewing this-that the Allied reaction was one of polite disbelief? Possibly along the lines of "Oh no, the Germans are civilised people so this must be propaganda!"

[@HistoryHustle]

Lemme know your thoughts after watching.

[@nerozero8266]

👍

[@HistoryHustle]

😎

[@HeadPack]

Good points are made in the video. However, it seems one aspect would deserve consideration - Stalin's death camps. Could it be the Western allies didn't want to alienate him over the matter of camps?

[@HistoryHustle]

It was an alliance born out of necessity.

[@grossdeutschlandpanzerdiv.1086]

Should not have been a surprise. Considering Britain and America refused to let refugees in 1936-8. What was shocker?

[@HistoryHustle]

Please watch the video.

[@karollorak7490]

There is a Dutch movie (Süskind) in which you can see a scene where Amsterdam Jewish leaders agree to deport Jews thinking they are going to work and explaining to others that the Germans need their manpower that murdering them, some say, would be impractical. If it was possible to convince the Jews themselves, what were people outside the occupied countries to think? thank you for your movie Stefan

[@HistoryHustle]

Still have to see that one!

[@carolbell8008]

You have a good brain, Professor. Churchill. also gave away too much of their land

[@HistoryHustle]

Please explain.

[@carolbell8008]

@@HistoryHustle When Israel became a Nation, he took over half of their Land and gave it to Jordan. You can check it out, I admired him greatly before I learned that. God judged England for that as the kingdom shrunk in the following years.

[@Qwertycritical]

In the beginning the UK actually contained many refugees that were German Jews on the Isle of Man. Not because they were Jews, but German. They didn't know the the significance of them being Jews as far as Nazi Germany goes. As the war progressed it came clear something was happening, but I'm not sure the allies knew everything until after they had occupied. It did come as a bit of a shock to those on the ground for sure. I think the overall aim to win the war as quick as possible was probably the best way forward seeing as the majority of the actual industrialised death camps were far away in occupied Poland. I'm not sure precision bombing was accurate enough even with Mosquito squadrons, but it might have sent a clear message to the Nazi hierarchy to tell them that the allies knew what they are up to. This in itself is a gamble though and they might have accelerated the genocide to quickly do everything to cover it all up? I think they were faced with a very difficult situation on balance on what to do.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing.