How The Holocaust Happened

What drives ordinary everyday people to become mass killers? What are the psychological mechanisms and cultural factors that lead to genocide? What were the causes of the Holocaust? Can we theorize a psychology of genocide? A theory of genocide?
The Holocaust was not perpetrated solely by a few sadistic psychopaths but by tens of thousands of everyday Germans, Poles, Frenchmen, Austrians, Slovakians, in fact, much of Europe took part.
If any of us could be motivated under the right conditions to become mass serial killers, how can we protect ourselves against the threat? How might we innoculate our societies and cutlures from decending into genocide?
There are a number of factors that lead to the Holocaust. Compartmentalization, euphemism, conformity, authority, rationalization, propaganda, anti-Semitism, victimhood, and association, in particular.
Gustav Le Bon, for example, argued that individuals are more likely to conform in a crowd because of anonymity and mimesis. Stanley Milgram’s famous experiments looked at conformity to authority. This combined with rationalisations like ‘its either us or them’ or ‘they won’t survive through the winter anyway.’
There was still a system of belief - an ideology - and almost a decade of propaganda disseminated by the Nazi Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (RMVP). Years of anti-Semitism in Germany and Europe led to conspiracy theories about Jewish world domination. While Britain, the USSR, and America were all consistently associated with ‘Jewish aggressors’.
When a person perceives themselves as a victim and a prisoner as an aggressor in a war of survival and we combine this with the pressure to conform and submit to authority the probability for murder increases. In Nazi Germany, everything was made to fit this formula.
Ervin Staub proposes a model of genocide that has three initial stages:
First, there’s the frustration of basic needs.
Second, An out-group is identified that’s the cause.
Next, The in-group is motivated by a ‘utopian vision’ that excludes a certain group.
And Herbert Kelman has also argued that the requirements are threefold: authorization, routinization, and dehumanization.
How does all of this fit together?
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Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men
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[@firstnamelastname59]

@@itshere3180 I wasn't There, so I can't comment.

[@letosgoldenpath1993]

I cannot believe this was demonitized. This is what is wrong with KZbin.

[@jamesguy1030]

Then & Now ~ Yeah, Thanks for another very interesting video. You should check out Episode 8 of the groundbreaking documentary series called Europa the last battle. You Won’t Be Disappointed.

[@trojanhorse860]

@@firstnamelastname59 History is usually written by the victors, so....

[@belladonna8425]

As I sit and listen from the US, I'm both terrified and enraged by so much of what I see around me. I have a very bad feeling.

[@Illuminatethedark_]

"Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it."

[@1900rugrat]

ye the new hitler… idc i’m sayin it now

[@Semtex_1992]

It's going on right now as we speak....do you read much?

[@AndrewB221]

Do not impose that on me? I actually know a lot about History more than any other subject? But I’m working on that

[@AndrewB221]

Notice? I did not intend to say I’m the smartest? But I’m definitely not a slack in History

[@monterey.harris9126]

@SEMTEX J the political party that does all the fear mongering and pushes hatred and attempts to scare people to death with supposed threats to democracy blah blah blah or the ones that I mistrust because they are misleading and it's not really true..

[@isaacspeyer1129]

Can’t believe that as an American, my chances of witnessing a Holocaust take place are higher than the chances I’ll ever be able to afford a home. Horrific.

[@WaLeeZyyy]

Trump will help with both buying a home and ending the genocide

[@Iyamyuyam]

"We're only deporting them!" AH

[@44rpcapp]

what a time to be alive

[@user-pc9oj9ci1r]

You’re genuinely delusional and out if touch if you think something like the holocaust can happen in America, and even if there was a chance, the 2nd amendment is there for a reason, use your head please and stop watching mainstream media

[@ovr11o80]

​@@44rpcappnot really

[@VampiraVonGhoulscout]

I just cannot get my head around the absolute brain rot from people who believe this never happened. How can you think that?

[@duceydylan4179]

People defend Israel 🤷‍♂️

[@pyrobeagle]

@@duceydylan4179fr, and then they use rhetoric Hitler used to justify the genocide. And saying that “Hamas started it!!” As if Hamas only exists to counteract Israel conquering their land. Israel did it to themselves.

[@aarnio.e3179]

@@duceydylan4179can you explain how this is related to her/his comment

[@duceydylan4179]

@aarnio.e3179 idk, there's alot of people that believe Israel is good. Not doing anything bad at all for 50 years to a certain place, n many oh so many believe they aren't?

[@thebiggestboy0087]

⁠@aarnio.e3179idk maybe because isreal was created after WW2? Zionism is fascism

[@malekelsayyid7994]

Having this video interrupted by an ad for Gaza relief is too relevant

[@pinky3280]

who else is here after the inauguration

[@totallynotdovesalt889]

Me😬 we doomed

[@Omarboyy]

because apparently getting rid of illegal immigrants is the same as wanting to gas jews.

[@mattlibra3139]

@@Omarboyynot just “illegal” immigrants. Soon it won’t matter if someone is illegal or not, the perception of such will cause them to be persecuted, there is another scapegoat in gay and trans people, this was also the way of nazi germany. You need to learn.

[@SadNThik]

Me. The first minute or so of the introduction could’ve been current events 😢

[@UziHoles]

I'm so happy that big daddy Donald will be there to lead us away from what the previous administration was doing.

[@Loots1]

"Many of us like to ask ourselves, “What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?” The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now."

[@landonmartin9337]

Free Palestine

[@dasein9980]

Tf you talking about.

[@superkawaii8315]

Which country is committing genocide outside of unstable Middle Eastern governments?

[@willowway3349]

​@@superkawaii8315is3ral would be unable to do anything and also wouldn't even exist if it weren't for the UK and the USA. Also, there are many Europeans countries that have stayed supporting and funding the g3n0cide, that is actively participating which is just as evil.

[@unityxg]

@@dasein9980 they dont know, they just want to sound smart like they have some kind of smoking gun or something lol

[@scarlettprincess99]

We’re on Step 5 for anyone keeping track edit: 18:35

[@blu3-r41n4]

I came here to learn how similar especially since I know how we already have a blind crowd that will do whatever trump wants

[@blu3-r41n4]

Also what is step 5? I just started watching the video

[@amandaroe2235]

Hey everyone here from 2025! It sucks that we have to be here

[@Omarboyy]

Look what our government is allowing Israel to do to Palestine we're already past step 5

[@laurag7057]

was just thinking the same thing

[@mattyb584]

Can't help but feel like history really is repeating itself..

[@munchbox7446]

Over 800 anti trans or anti LGBT legislation has been introduced into courts across America and hundreds more are on the docket this year alone. If people don't see the parallels of the lead up to the Holocaust they're either ignorant or straight up psychopaths.

[@JaceFincham]

It is. But we've got to keep in mind, it's not the Jews at fault, it's Zionists.

[@danag2841]

Especially now. Save Gaza

[@memberberry8242]

Exactly, Biden needs to be stopped.

[@groggs321]

Time is not a straight line it is circular and in this carnation you are in "A" particular cycle... maybe next time your King or Queen

[@manifestgtr]

This type of stuff is *incredibly* important to discuss. We absolutely MUST study the conditions that lead to such madness. My WW2 vet grandfather instilled some profound historical perspective into me as a young kid. He was a teenager in the army during the war and was assigned a post watching over nazi POWs. The thing that struck me as odd is that he never spoke about them like they were monsters. Many of them were just like him…they were kids, they were scared, they all just wanted it to be over so they could go home…one of them even taught him how to play the harmonica. History is *filled* with regular joes who do the bidding of evil men. Vietnam, both world wars, Korea and the rest of the Cold War madness. It’s too easy to see the other side as being inhuman monsters. We’re ALL just people…the best we can do is study our behavior and try to avoid the awful mistakes that our forefathers made.

[@mightiestalone9851]

Welp, Germany went into Poland to regain lost land and to save Germans from ethnic cleansing that was going on there. Britain declared war on Germany, starting WWII. Moral of the story... just stay out of people's business. A lot less death and destruction would result. And before you start kvetching about gas chambers, look into the Haavara Agreement.

[@juliebone4929]

Lest the sins be visited on the sons.

[@MattieK09]

Great point look at all the idiots that believed in the Covid “vaccine”

[@NoahBodze]

What if none of them were monsters because the Germans just put communists in those camps but because the Germans lost, a whole new and unbelievable story came from it? Because that’s what happened.

[@allangoods8878]

Thanks to people like your grandfather the west is now over run with degenerates

[@pixelbabyasmr]

scary that we americans are all here right now watching this. but also, i love that we are serious about educating ourselves. we have to fight back. we can’t stand here and let this happen.

[@odellewalthers8688]

It's great that this was on my recommended the day after the inauguration LOL

[@Thealpha2656]

Why lol this is a video about the holocaust??

[@amarie020]

@@Thealpha2656because they think trump is hitler and that he’s gonna put people in concentration camps :/

[@caseydonnelly8300]

@@Thealpha2656because Trump obviously pushes the Us vs Them narrative and talks about the disempowering of YT ppl

[@gakpo_era]

Who's here after Elon Musk just threw up the Nazi salute at the inauguration?

[@JustAgorl-oat]

Me but what is an inauguration?

[@ricincoveredroses]

@JustAgorl-oat​​⁠when the next elected official is sworn into power. so for the united states, it is when donald trump was officially given the title of president on january 20th. so its basically the day the next elected person is put into office if that helps any!

[@philip438]

Wtf it was a heart salute 😂😂 you guys want it to be true so badly that it was all you saw

[@gakpo_era]

@@philip438 if you believe this, there is no hope for you. He knew what he was doing. I personally believe he was just trolling and trying to "own the libs" or whatever... But the salute is what it is.

[@swvetpotato]

@@philip438commenting this under this type of video is insane

[@krismoe31]

It is really important to go into depths on why people get convinced to kill, and not dismissing everything with simple explanations like "they were horrible people", "they just didnt like each other" (which was the explanation I was given for the genocides in the breakup of Yugoslavia in middle school when I asked about it), "authority made them do it" or other such crap. Great video!

[@wendychavez5348]

Unfortunately, simple explanations are the most some people can handle. Even this video only touches below the surface of what was done or why, and I appreciate that it goes into the horrors felt by the aggressors as well as the victims. I also appreciate that he helps me feel the ugly without forcing me to actually experience it. Forgive me for such an insensitive remark, though there's no shame in admitting that I wouldn't have survived in any role. Blessings to those who did, and to their descendants!

[@Petal4822]

I couldn’t have killed a child… no propaganda could demonise or justify the killing of a baby or child. It’s not possible they are innocent. How could they have killed babies …they didn’t have the grace of God and they allowed the devil spirit to consume them. The devil in action.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Perhaps the simple answer is that it can't and won't ever be understood WHY. And I have no doubt that if the state of Israel is ever overrun the same thing is going to happen to them, or at least the effort will be made.

[@PBLKW]

@@indy_go_blue6048 The lies you tell

[@robm8067]

The truly scary message is that understanding the holocaust helps us to understand ourselves. Or rather what we have the potential to sink to. Self awareness and self examination is key. Group think is a powerful influence because it’s a human condition to want to belong to some group or be accepted and protected by a tribe.

[@patriciagranados4027]

What is really scary is all this can happen again and again and again

[@GrizrazRex]

...and at the rate things are going, the time is drawing near. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Like the Nazi party itself, the impetus for this horrid history's repeat shall come from the Left.

[@spmoran4703]

And it is .

[@PixieMeat_444]

@@spmoran4703 it is and it will, all I can think is may god have mercy on our souls

[@griefer5846]

it is, people say nothing about all the muslims and people that are getting bombed in iraq, afganistan. And the sad thing is, there are people being killed everyday in those countries and nobody says anything about it.

[@cindys9491]

Unfortunately it has. The Rwandan genocide in 1994, the genocide in Cambodia under Pol Pot, the human rights violations against the Rohingya, etc., etc. Not to mention the mass murder by inaction that some western nations perpetrate on nations suffering from malnutrition, starvation, and diseases that most of us never see. We let it happen to them when we would never tolerate it for ourselves. (Yes, I know there's food aid but if we wanted to we could fix the problem).

[@TheLacedaemonian300]

I'm 40 minutes into this and I had to take a pause. This video is nothing short of brilliant. It has become exceedingly scarce to hear a story told in a creative and innovative way, but here I've found one of those rarities. Before I go back to watching this I would like to thank you for making such an honorable tribute to those who were murdered in the Holocaust. You will never know what you mean to so many of us because there exist no words to describe the feeling, but it is an endless river of gratitude. Let us never repeat the errors of our past and may we all remember too, Never Forget!

Yes, and when they tell you a story that the US landed on the moon you will be a believer for them without asking for facts.

[@firstnamelastname59]

Gggggggg

[@maxmfpayne]

Wish I could like this more than once. I was broken down to tears by 15 minutes in. This puts so much in a human perspective.

[@trojanhorse860]

This guy is full of fancy shit lol, a deluded liberal at a time when the victorious liberalism itself has become *fascist* , ironically enough, while iimposing itself to the whole planet as "the universal bullshit".. Contemptible cultural intellectual political economic.... *Eurocentric* imperialism. *We, the non-western peoples, reject* *the global liberal order & its dogmas,* *as Russia, China.... are doing...*

[@Raykibb1]

Amen, Never Forget!!!

[@MegaCygnusX1]

"The perpetrators of genocide often see themselves as the victims," Never more relevant than today and what's going on in Gaza.

[@Anicius_]

Like the genocide loving maniacs whose very charters say and i quote "Israel (infidels in general) exists and will continue to exist until Islam wipes it out"?

[@The_CrackedPot_Christian]

Gazan citizens are why Hamas is given the mandate to murder Jewish babies and rape Jewish women. They celebrate their atrocities. They are the perpetual victimhood who blames everyone else for their situation. Jordan got rid of them, Kuwait deported 300,000 of them, Egypt closed the border to them, everyone knows they are trouble. And they do want to finish what Hitler started. From the river to the sea. Time to rethink your views

[@alexamorris8411]

This is not the place for this. Shame on you.

[@Pulzyfr]

​@@alexamorris8411this is exactly the place for this. The Israeli government is committing genocide.

[@caresagoring9012]

This is exactly the place. After decades of oppressing, terrorizing and dehumanizing the Palestinians, Israelis finally get to wipe out the human animals right. According to mainstream media, poor Israel. These monsters have the audacity to play the victims. Fucking unbelievable.

[@ShilohAmore]

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me. -Martin Niemöller

[@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.]

Actually Martin Niemöller never used the word "soc ialist" in his poem. He used the word "com munist".

[@ShilohAmore]

@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.With a channel name like yours I’ll take your word for it! Lol I’m back here to rewatch. Hoping I can get some insight in how one of the most oppressed groups of people in human history. Became the oppressor? 😢

[@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.]

@@ShilohAmore: Don't need to take my word for it. It's said in the Wiki also, under the article "First they came..." _"Niemöller is quoted as having used many versions of the text during his career, but evidence identified by professor Harold Marcuse at the University of California Santa Barbara indicates that the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum version is inaccurate because Niemöller frequently used the word "communists" and not "socialists." The substitution of "socialists" for "communists" is an effect of anti-communism, and most common in the version that has proliferated in the United States. According to Marcuse, "Niemöller's original argument was premised on naming groups he and his audience would instinctively not care about. The omission of Communists in Washington, and of Jews in Germany, distorts that meaning and should be corrected.""_

[@ShilohAmore]

@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Either way the meaning stays the same for me. They’re all just spokes on a wheel. This one's on top, then that one's on top, and on and on it spins, crushing those on the ground.

[@dangwood91887]

@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.they are basically the same thing. Democracy inevitably lesss to socialism and socialism inevitably leads to communism.

[@Iyamyuyam]

Well, you see, eggs were a little expensive that year. Those good people had their hands tied.

[@nairobichik]

Nothing can ever justify genocide.

[@axehomicide]

natural selection can

[@danag2841]

Apparently it’s justified if you believe it’s a religious right and the west finds your people weird

[@CarbonVIII]

Unless you're from Israel apparently

[@kale280]

@@axehomicidethat’s not what genocide is buddy

[@CarbonVIII]

@@ymaifiyv6589 oh please don't insult our intelligence.

[@AryandanBarhat]

Donald trump will do same thing with non white immigrants in usa 🇺🇸 😢

[@rickybobby5153]

@KevinSt-m7bThat’s why ICE is arresting veterans

[@Gorlim_the_Unhappy]

I would say that the book "ordinary men" is the most haunting and chilling bit of history I've ever read. The fact that, if you or I could walk away from mass murder with no consequence, it would still happen. Some other ordinary man would carry out the orders. Choosing to be a moral person has no real effect on our history, and that is one of the hardest pills to swallow

[@oxxy6678]

Right, on a larger level, the majority of people have no effect, however, on an individual level, you choosing not to participate in genocide might save several lives. We should all strive to leave the world better. just because you probably can't stop a genocide by yourself, doesn't mean you can't at least have a good impact.

[@ariannatrapani5824]

I agree with you for sure. I read the book more than a decade ago and a question is still firmly embedded in my mind, if in a situation comparable with the one these men of 101 in what group I would be, the few that refused to kill of the majority that get used to it. I'm lucky and don't have to test my moral strenght, but the virtual answer chills my bones. The book is an oustanding historical reserch, for method and interest of the theme.

[@harrisonmccoll1093]

That is absolutely not true, people who hold up morality keep the world from decending into complete chaos. Do you really think the people who have participated in massacres really get off Scott free? Even if you don't get put in jail, you would never be the same and would be tortured by what you did for the rest of your life. I'd argue that is one of the worst punishments of all.

[@mikehawk6563]

Mass psychosis, peer pressure, fear, and cowardness and selflessness is why the "men" you speak of murderer innocent children. Be a horrible slave, don't be afraid to die as you WILL surely die anyway. If the majority fights the majority wins. Unfortunately most people are too selfish to stand up ALONE for what is right, so instead they cower and make good slaves.

[@taylora6087]

I read Ordinary Men at the beginning of the pandemic and immediately saw who the ordinary men & women are in our society. Scared the shite out of me.

[@Spiral.Dynamics]

“It is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they’re being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for their lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.” -Reich Marshal Hermann Göring at the Nuremberg Trials

[@amorosogombe9650]

Thank you for tackling this difficult subject so thoroughly, bravely and honestly. I'm from Kenya (luckily, in this part of the world). I've grown up seeing waves of refugees escaping genocide since I was a child, Eritrea, Tigray, Darfur, Rwanda, the DRC, I was even in the first cohort of African students to go to post-aparthied South Africa for university, a country that very narrowly avoided what might have become the first nuclear genocide, believe it or not. Many don't know how the CIA and South African special forces chased down the apartheid regime's nuclear weapons, finding them across barns and goodness knows where before Mandela was sworn into power. We've lived and continue to live in a seriously disturbed world. We must be grateful to scholars and intellectuals like you for tackling and attempting to understand & so help to heal, these catastrophic social pathologies.

[@lindabest4624]

The CIA is up to a lot of no good.

[@krymxen]

this was beautifully said

[@amorosogombe9650]

@@krymxen Thank you. Kind of you. Super day. 👋🏿

[@thecianinator]

God damn, imagine finding a nuke in an old barn

[@amorosogombe9650]

@@thecianinator Yap. It was a freaking crazy time. And there's more. I could tell you crazy tales all day long. From Winnie Mandela straddling a teenage boy called Stompie and stabbing him to death in a bathtub (which is why Madiba divorced her when he got out of jail) to an SAA flight catching fire and breaking up over the Indian Ocean near Mauritius, carrying radioactive contraband from Taiwan, some say they were cooperating with them on a nuclear weapon and they had stored the enriched U235 rods inadequately shielded and too close to each other, which is exactly how a civilian nuclear reactor generates heat and fire broke out in the cargo hold. When I was a first year in UCT, Grace Mugabe would come to Cape Town on Air Zimbabwe, entire first class booked, of course, for her entourage, to shop, then on the flight back, they would have to wait even if the flight was up to three hours late, for her to finish shopping. A maid once went into her hotel suite to do some housekeeping, thinking she was out. Bad luck to her she found her in the room. She got slapped senseless. Right now the world is polarising along a democracies vs. tyrannies fault line that transcends regions, religions and races. From the times I've lived in, I know what side I'm on. People who live in the free world have no idea what they've got. And I know first hand what I'm talking about. I did my second degree in the UK and I've been lucky enough to travel the world with my work. Sometimes real life is crazier than the movies, you best believe it. It's a mad mad world.👋🏿♡🕊

[@shfsdfhsdfdfnvl3081]

Who else is here in the days after Elon threw a "roman salute" to the crowd?

[@MissChaoticKitty]

“Men and women, but usually men. Like you, and me.” Me: 🧍‍♀️

[@Nexus_pro9373]

Real

[@BlackMountainCycles]

He’s probably writing his scripts based off the analytics that KZbin gives him for his channel.

[@hightechnician]

Thanks. It's such a hot topic here in Germany to even dare try and analyse it. So I'm glad people from the outside are doing it. There are many parallels between the situations of Germans then and Russians now, the same twisted sense of victimization, that isn't even entirely unfounded, just wholey misdirected

[@kkpenney444]

Yes, the parallels are frightening, but I will still maintain that the only real victimizers of the Russians are the Russians themselves.

[@superdiego.g]

The fact that it's a hot topic is concerning, it's usually a hot topic when there are a ton of people who argue for and against it in a nearly proportional quantity. Do they still argue in favour of the nazis over there? If they do, that's really embarrassing.

[@hightechnician]

@@superdiego.g Rather the opposite. It's rather sensitive than hot, but as a german, you can basically just lose when exploring the psychology behind this - it is taken as relativization if you even attempt to think something other than "These people were just evil and inhumane pricks". Germany never really reprocessed the Nazi era. It's still a collective trauma, and it's just easier to say "these were very evil people", make a few memorial sites for the holocaust and air WWII documentaries all day, than to sit and think how this could have happened to people like you and me.

[@floatinggoose9197]

Thank God current day Russia is far less powerful as WW era Germany. Like, not 1% as effective.

[@moridomori]

It's becoming a hot topic in America, it's been growing for a couple of decades now.... We're so fkn dumb I swear

[@randomuser5609]

A good starting point to avoid stuff like this is to remember that people are individuals, not groups.

[@vitalijajonikyte-bacevice9101]

Its happening again Open your eyes!

[@jefftube58]

The Nazis picked up the idea of eliminating certain people groups from American eugenecists. Our country at the time had 26 states with eugenics laws that allowed for the sterilization of people deemed to be unfit or racially inferior.

[@alligatorsarecoming78]

That wasn't the only tactic inspired by this country. Jim crow laws were also looked favorably upon. Hitler also loved the Brits and their colonies. All of these fascist tactics and ideologies existed in the world long before the Holocaust. It just didn't matter to the western world until it happened to white ppl.

[@enterprisingbiosphere3933]

This is what made America "Great"

[@mariannehancock8282]

It's interesting that those who wouldn't participate were called 'weaklings', because they were the only ones who showed any moral courage.

[@Grafganja420]

Its Like the "Chicken one" where one says No to a Dare He knows will hurt him or Others

[@cuntking2965]

Playground tactics

[@dalepower632]

I find it troubling that KZbin would demonetize an educational piece of this nature. It is a warning to us all: Do not become lazy, do not think it couldn't happen here. Do not imagine that we, each of us, would be immune to becoming the evil we fear. I know this is a harsh lesson, but punishing it, and it's creator, smacks of the same attempt to control all information that is mentioned in the video... Oh. I see.

[@garybrunecz7785]

Its already happening here. Divide and Conquer is working like a charm on the dumbed down selfish, self entitled spoiled brats of America. Once the Traitors in the White House brand all Republicans and political critics as enemies of the state and give their Democratic followers a free pass to target and kill us. The bloodshed will be endless.

[@lexinicole4317]

This same video is still being promoted by the algorithm, so no, I don’t think the lack of monetization has anything to do with “big KZbin” wanting to suppress the information. They still want you to watch the video and spend extra time using their app. They just also know most advertisers don’t want their name associated with historical atrocities because it doesn’t exactly make you want a Whopper when a cheery ad for Burger King plays in the middle of your Holocaust educational video. It creates the “wrong” association in the view of the advertisers. If they wanted to suppress this information, I never would have seen it, considering I don’t watch historical channels at all and have never heard of this man until this was recommended to me. Your logic does not line up with reality.

[@Aluttuh]

if you talk about the religious agenda in the talmud/torah you get called anti-Semitic and shadowbanned. nothing new in weimar2.0/1984

[@Hanna-se3vr]

Just remember 1.5 years ago - the unvaxxed are dirty people that should die, not have a job, and not have a place in society. Those who question the vac should be censored and sent death threats. Nothing to see here…..

[@1984Skynet]

Strange no replies here

[@artffan5413]

Relieved ro see the comments. People are realizing who became the monster

[@Nyah86Production]

I read Browning‘s book about the police battalion 101 and the psychology behind the desensitisation of (mass)murder and it deeply affected and horrified me. I think it should be read by more people. I wish we read and analysed it at school because only if you understand the history you can learn from it. I think about this book almost every day.

[@Puppies-z9h]

I appreciate book recommendations, so thanks for this.

[@sayresrudy2644]

💯

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

People are already being desensitized to those in opposition of the system. When people would celebrate the death of someone for simply being on the left or right, id say we’re already there. The new white rose movement is being labeled right wing and assigned all attributes of those on the right and trump supporters. All for being against the system even those on the left hate as well

[@wolfbenson]

I also read it and highly recommend it.

[@faisal.comilla.98]

How is the holocaust different from the genocide conducted by Israel?

[@madisonsmith105]

Watching this now and people still aren’t seeing it.

[@clockworkcookie]

The quality of this channel is simply astounding. Every video is very well researched, thought out and the narration is amazing. I hate that youtube doesn't reward creators like this with monetization just because they touch on sensitive topics.

[@den264]

I look forward to his next documentary highlighting the ethnic cleansing of thousands of innocent Palestinians by the racist Zionists in Israel. Or NOT.

[@ChicanoOne760]

In America they have appointed Mexicans as the enemy.

[@lindabest4624]

KZbin lacks values.

[@gregbors8364]

“The enemy within”… gee, in the US, November 2024, that phrase seems so familiar… like maybe one of our politicians was repeating it during his campaign…

[@razrv3lc]

I literally just saw a MAGAt in this comment section implying that they elected Trump because he stands AGAINST this rhetoric. The people that have fallen for his lies are the same as the German people of the late 1930s that fell for Hitler’s lies.

[@GiveMeLibertyOrGiveMeDeath147]

Yes because the people running the psyop inside the nsa, fbi, and cia are your friends. Orange man is literally Hitler. Rrreeeeeeeeee!!!!

[@Andy-hb3zp]

@@GiveMeLibertyOrGiveMeDeath147 Trump literally said we have an enemy within which is more dangerous than any enemy from outside it has nothing to do with a psyop that's what he fucking said on video

[@las2725]

USA 2025 it’s happening now.

[@ravenblackwing7888]

I’ve never been so impacted by hearing about the Holocaust till now. Hearing the soldier’s stories absolutely breaks my heart. I want to break down and sob and throw up

[@lizgreer6888]

This is why training in the military changed. My husband is retired from the US Navy... if you believe a command from your higher rank is asking you to do something that goes against the Geneva convention, the rules of war, or just plain human decency, you have the obligation to question the command. Simply saying "i was ordered to do it" is no longer a justifiable reason.

[@loudvisions9156]

Words so easy.

[@joaogabrielneto697]

Question it in service and I'm sure you'll be "killed in action"...

[@jalelmiller672]

Terrifying how much this sounds like how trump talks groups he doesn’t like

[@ariann.]

@KevinSt-m7b Your daddy's dog did a nazi salute twice during his speech at the inauguration.

[@LeiFromNowhere]

Well he's like only 3 years younger than Biden, let's hope the years kick in before he does anything 😹

[@ariann.]

@ SpEd.

[@ariann.]

@KevinSt-m7b it's just an observation.

[@steves1015]

Sometimes fear of ending up the same way has been used to get people to do unspeakable things. In the Cambodia genocide in the mid to late 70s, teenagers and young adults were gotten to commit horrendous acts on their fellow countrymen, especially in prisons like S21 - one major reason for them doing such a thing is that if they didn't, or if they messed up on the job (slept on the job, sat down at the wrong time, unauthorised speaking to the prisoners, accidentally killed a prison during torture etc.) then they would be next into the cells to suffer the same treatment. Of the 20,000 people that were known to have gone through that particular prison, only 12 survived. It is now a museum, I would strongly recommend people go to visit it (and the killing fields), it is an incredibly sombre experience to see the multiple photos of the inmates (the Khmer Rouge took meticulous records of whom they imprisoned). One thing we do know is that these genocides are not as rare as we would like them to be - there are many that have occurred since the holocaust.

[@dawnemile7499]

Isn't this happening now in the US and Canada? The propaganda is that white people are bad and therefor they should be replaced by people of colour. However, I fear that because white people are the majority there will be a civil war.

[@jasonwiley798]

We all know that horrible crimes are committed and rationalized by ideology, religion, and racism. The human man and has a seemingly infinite ability justify anything.

[@Cui-bono987]

I’ve been to both places in Cambodia (If S21 is the former school in a Phnom Penh). It changed my life. As you said just because the Holocaust happened in Europe doesn’t mean it was the last genocide. The Rwandan one was absolutely terrifying in terms of speed.

[@TheGalaxyWings]

@@Cui-bono987 *genocide. I'd edit it before someone else points it out

[@Cui-bono987]

@@TheGalaxyWings cheers for that. Auto correct is a pain sometimes.

[@wmgardner87]

Who’s here in 2025??

[@kylee2556]

America.

[@josievaughan5170]

Watching from uk concerned about America

[@wmgardner87]

@ watching from America too because I’m concerned as well!! Thank you for your love!!

[@annzee9306]

@josievaughan5170thank you

[@bobsmith1561]

Me

[@railgun1639]

what a funny little time for my youtube to recommend this to me

[@yakisshi]

The amount of people here in 2025 is pretty telling

[@Oboxed]

Not really. People should just learn about history in general regardless because it is interesting

[@Lyviaalyons]

@@Oboxedyou’re very small minded and immature, the holocaust shouldn’t intrigue you because it’s entertaining or “interesting”, it should intrigue you because it’s mass genocide and many were brutally hurt, tortured, killed, as a human being with morale; that’s why you should care to learn about the history.

[@ang_ro]

​@@OboxedObviously we should always be learning, but clearly most people are choosing this topic right now since the US is on gen*cide watch and fuhrer45 is opening a concentration camp in Guantanamo.

[@ang_ro]

We will be experiencing something similar very soon, despite brainwashed MAGAs denying what's right at our door. It's happening.

[@HelenaHR006]

lol in 2025 this video getting recommended to me... wonder why...

[@tapashyarasaily1373]

that last shot of the headshower in the brausebad says it all. this documentry was so well created, the narrative and sequencing is absolutely perfect. thank you for it.

[@azzy101]

This is exactly what I was looking for, an explanation that would make sense as to how and why this even happened, very well done to the creator. This should have much more views.

[@LDJ-r8e]

Basically, people care so much about being in the IN group, what others think and say about them, how they’re perceived by their peers, what their favorite politicians and celebrities say on Twitter about a given topic, making sure they’re sufficiently at odds with the out group, that they’re willing to do literally anything. I just find that so pathetic. The only thing people should be loyal to is the truth. Find out what’s true and stick to the principles. People should be concerned about what’s true above everything else, especially over “does this help my team or not?”, or “do I like the person or outlet sharing this truth?”. None of that matters until you’ve decided whether the claims of each side are true or not. If one side is 100% correct and telling the truth then that’s the good guys. If the other side is telling lies either by omission or just bold faced lies, then they’re the bad guys. If both sides are lying equally then they’re all bad guys.

[@kikodiekleinekatze3235]

Horrible things are happening to Palestinians. Yet in much the same way a lot of people are either lost in the pro paganda that dehumanizes and justifies the atrocities or are unable to do anything against the power at play.

[@michaelparrella2151]

Every one of those horrible things is the responsibility of Hamas.

[@lena-jh7vi]

exactly. It’s so scary to see people blaming it on anything other than Israeli government and their allies

[@PersonCidacus]

@@michaelparrella2151u do realise you are proving the point of the comment?

[@rrs2854]

@@michaelparrella2151a video should be made about people like you, who watch a one hour meditation on spotting signs of genocide, and still don’t see it. I suppose that too will be made 80 years too late.

[@michaelparrella2151]

@@rrs2854 lol good one. Except if you knew what a genocide was you would be speaking out about the actual ones happening in the Middle East right now. Except you’re an antisemitic online anonymous whose top much of a coward to put his name behind his remarks. Kind of like how hamas hides behind citizens cause they don’t care about them. 🤡

[@seanosull2884]

I'm so glad that this channel is finally starting to get the appreciation it deserves. This man is without a doubt the best video essayist on this platform. So nuanced and well-researched. This is a very difficult topic to talk about, but this was done brilliantly.

[@wendychavez5348]

He's entirely respectful, and humanizes all parties so that we can understand what they might have been thinking and feeling. Not an easy task! I also appreciate the references along the way, partly because I caught a surprise reference to one of my favorite experts.

[@GamerWordDotNet]

Yes, this channel creates the best "Hitler is bad man" videos. Very nuanced! Check out the big brains on these commenters.

[@seanosull2884]

@@GamerWordDotNet Sorry, was this video not pro-hitler enough for you? Not anti-semitic enough? ... and are you based in the UK/Ireland, mainland Europe or North America? Regardless, what are you doing trying to start pro-hitler fights with strangers in the middle of the night on a Tuesday you psycho?

[@johnmc3862]

Maith thú!

[@montchellvonctor]

@@GamerWordDotNet If that is all you got out of this video, then you might be the reason it exists in the first place.

[@fusedruler]

The ways in which the discussed material in this video can be applied to the past 2 years is uncanny.

[@r3ggie25]

Yep…

[@timezone4176]

How so?

[@tomweickmann6414]

Look at your repliers. How they bait you. "How's that?" "Explain you statements" "What do you REALLY mean?" When they know the answer to their own question, they can feel free of shared guilt.

[@traindr12]

​@@timezone4176 uhhh, perhaps the demonization of conservatives......

[@3buddedflwrs]

⁠@@tomweickmann6414why not just answer the question…instead of shaming people for something they might not even understand.

[@Dan-ud8hz]

"He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him." - C.G. Jung, on Hitler and the Shadow

[@SirMuntelot]

That is the biggest cope that I have ever heard.

[@paigetomkinson1137]

@Daniel Duvalle The part for me that is inexplicable is that many people say he wasn't crazy. Yes, crazy is rather obtuse, and non-clinical, but what he did is most definitely not normal behavior. The same goes for all of his crew, too.

[@PBLKW]

You people are such hypocrites. To believe one holocaust happened But choose not to believe Black people in this country are experiencing a holocaust as we speak.

[@Spliced-y2k]

@@SirMuntelot i knowww it’s like when people say the election was stolen

[@IsaRican810]

@@paigetomkinson1137 He was certainly not formulating his beliefs based on an accurate picture of reality so in that way he was certainly deluded, but I think the issue is that calling him crazy can create a false sense of security in people who think “well I’m not crazy” and therefore do not self-reflect as to what could lead them down the same path to being a “good German”. Just look at all the people who consider themselves good people who justify the US’s inhumane border policies. When it comes to innoculating the population against falling for fascist propaganda, simply calling all fascists crazy isn’t helpful.

[@melon7559]

7:50 alright everyone, pull out your pen and paper, let's see how many of these Israel can check off!

[@TheCmmdk]

Feeling like we need to remind the USA about this aswell

[@cartwrightworm1317]

It’s enraging that pressure is being put on people discussing the Holocaust.

[@cartwrightworm1317]

@@jimbobb3509 I'm not going to listen to crap from a Holocaust denier.

[@zachariahwade8482]

Holocaust deniers are the scum of the earth

[@musamusashi]

When the official narrative of any episode, is protected by law from being challenged, every reasonable person should get suspicious.

[@zachariahwade8482]

@@musamusashi There’s no “official narrative”. The Holocaust is studied and the academic consensus has been added to over time. What is unlawful(in some countries) and despised in most, is Holocaust denial and Nazi apologist propaganda. You fall into that group you loathsome pos

[@Noam_.Menashe]

@@musamusashi You can't call a random adult achild murdering pedophile, because that's libel. Nothing to get suspicious over.

[@momojafar9385]

It's happening right now in Palestine. Free Palestine.

[@CuriousCat8010]

Terrifying how much of this applies to Trump,MAGA, and the current situation in the USA. Sickening. Thank you for such a well done, and ever important, documentary.

[@UppersDownersAllarounders]

It's crazy it's happening again. This from a Native American. Really saddens me

[@erberon82]

Where is it happening ? 🤔

[@corneliuspildershmidt]

@@erberon82Palestine?

[@erberon82]

@@corneliuspildershmidt there isnt genocide

[@erberon82]

@@corneliuspildershmidt no its not.Even the numbers of cassaulties are a bunch of lies.

[@WokeandProud]

​​@@erberon82Literally every humans rights organization on the planet and the UN say otherwise cope.

[@slaterrox23]

Can't believe the sheer quality and depth of your videos, seriously they're a gem on this website.

[@firstnamelastname59]

What, a bloke in front of a tripod, with a royalty-free soundtrack? Times be hard in this here world.

[@slaterrox23]

@@firstnamelastname59 Try unmuting it mate

[@firstnamelastname59]

@@slaterrox23 ohhh does a comment section encounter entitle you to friendship too? This world is relentless°°

[@slaterrox23]

@@firstnamelastname59 Ngl I'm confused, but okay. You doing alright there?

[@JR-xy2jo]

@@firstnamelastname59 Damn I bet you’re fun at parties

[@barsukascool]

7:41 I hate it when the Hollowcost is reduced to "Nats1s gassed 6 million Juice". That’s not what happened - firstly, Juice made up about a third of Hollowcost victims with 18 million in total, secondly, the camps weren’t just mass unaliving spots, they were a place of much more suffering - hard work, starvation, inside conflicts and so much more, thirdly, those who didn’t work or were deemed as not useful anymore weren’t just gassed, a lot were mass-hanged with hundreds of people watching, knowing that this may happen to them if they disobey the camp laws or some of the authority. The Hollowcost was much worse than charecterized by statements like these and must be understood as such. And yes, I have to limit my language to satisfy KZbin guideines.

[@theeliblog4559]

I was gonna say maybe don’t call them juice since that can be used as an antisemitic dog whistle until I saw the rest of your comment for context lol, I can’t believe KZbin censors people talking about history as if that’s not what causes a lot of issues to begin with.

[@barsukascool]

@@theeliblog4559 yeah they even use the pack of juice emoji. So dumb to reduce people like that:(

[@anneg5720]

This is crazy, it's very informative to see things from the opposite perspective and how people could comply to such heinous crimes against fellow humans.

[@indogoUI]

Hitler seemed to take his influences from the British

[@darraghwilliamson3689]

Where were you for the covid shots? I learned pretty quick in real time

[@pohjoisenvanhus]

@@darraghwilliamson3689 Yep, the rhetoric back then certainly went in the same direction whenever emotional hotheads got their hands on a mic in public.

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

Look at those easily turned against people on the left or right. Manipulation of public opinion dehumanizing anyone is way too easy. Easy when using organizations people shouldn’t trust who would use peoples fear and or hate against other people or specific groups

[@zark3162]

People who are laughing at the people comparing this to now with trump are the same people who would've supported Hitler

[@amarie020]

Yeah okay keep telling yourself that

[@dr.christopherdiaz4473]

Your vocal tracks would sound much better if you used a parametric eq to cut out the harmonic resonances that are being reinforced by your recording space. Great work! I just wanted to share in case you were trying to fix this.

[@rowanheart8122]

Hey guys, let's see how quickly we get to part 2!

[@Phoenix-vx7kl]

😂😂😂….😐😐….😰😰 trying to laugh it off, god this is scary

[@lemarksolomon3072]

Great work. Your the first person I've heard of that emphasized that reality of the lynchers and Nazis, etc acting largely out of a twisted sense of being a victim. I've came to this in my own individual meditations on the topic. I love how methodical your analysis is.

[@lemarksolomon3072]

@@newadam573 what is Wokeism???

[@MadTracker]

@@newadam573 a race of people who’ve suffered hundreds of years of oppression from a country and it’s systems are the literal definition of victims -unlike the nonsense victimhood claims of the US right who insist they’re being silenced while it’s they who hold the levers of power. You’ve taken the wrong lesson here if you’ve drawn an association between being woke or BLM with the feeling of victimhood the video is discussing.

[@3dPrintingMillennial]

​@@newadam573 just making shit up on the spot, eh? You watched this video and decided to still push Nazi propaganda.

[@richardallen5042]

It must feel sweet having your fantasy realized by a semi popular youtuber.

[@lemarksolomon3072]

@@richardallen5042 I'm not following. Please elaborate.

[@cam9913]

This video made me learn a lot, I honestly LOVE your channel. It does chill me to the core realizing how many patterns certain world superpowers are repeating. The post-modern era will not be a treat to live through.

[@zoeissleepy708]

Juqt look at the modern republican party with their genocidal rhetoric against trans people

[@Petal4822]

I couldn’t have killed a child… no propaganda could demonise or justify the killing of a baby or child. It’s not possible they are innocent. How could they have killed babies …they didn’t have the grace of God and they allowed the devil spirit to consume them. The devil in action.

[@den264]

Post modern super powers like Israel. Who are equally guilty of committing acts of murder against their Arab neighbors the Palestinians.

[@alligatorsarecoming78]

"certain world powers" I think we all know which ones you're talking about.

[@danielgleb]

@@alligatorsarecoming78 crazy to think that Putin is probably close to doing the same thing as Hitler , but this time (ironically) justifying the Ukrainians as nazis

[@carolmckinney3307]

This is happening in Ukrainian lands as we watch this video 😢 it’s amazing to me that the connection is not being made or is it that no one is talking about it and choosing to ignore it 😢 evil is allowed to prosper when good men do nothing

[@georgeboehringer5530]

It’s a great opportunity for Russian and Ukrainian to address the gypsy issue

[@adamiotime]

​@@georgeboehringer5530 I know you're a troll, but this is a disgusting statement.

[@georgeboehringer5530]

@@adamiotime bigoted troll 😈

[@citizenvulpes4562]

​@elesandraele6758 I bet you're the kind of person to believe that there are winners in a war. There's not, there's the dead, and then there's the alive, and some fates are worse than death.

[@kylebond9411]

I cant put into words how amazing and horrifying this video is. It exposes all of us as vulnerable to the hate and evil in which our leaders may impose upon common people. The fact that rationalization intends to justify the actions of something so gruesome as murder reminds me of what FDR once said in his famous speech: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Education is intrinsic for the safety and peace of the world.

[@katelynnehansen8115]

All of us? I don’t agree. There were those who helped hide people. There were those who stepped down and refused orders. Just like those who helped escaped slaves and fought to free them. People like Thomas Paine who were born in a time where slavery and white supremacy were the norm and they still spoke out against it. In any atrocity, you will find those who knew it was wrong, proving it was absolutely possible to know better.

[@kylebond9411]

@@katelynnehansen8115 when i say all of us as vulnerable, im referring to the common person in society who can possibly rationalize actions as just under any circumstance. The people who did participate in such heinous acts were convinced that the terrorization was righteous, trusting their leaders and propoganda, all while under a new standard of conformity. I know there are many people who stood against these horrific crimes, but its intrinsic to understand the history and psychology that answers the questions "why did ordinary people commit genocide?" and "how and what led up to their decisions to murder millions of people?"

[@bwedd3772]

I think it had a lot to do with the times. People’s values, morals and standards were vastly different back then. Propaganda was easier to spread and it unfortunately wasn’t hard to push a racist rhetoric.

[@noneya1238]

​@@bwedd3772Nah, it's still the same today, many things are being justified, and we literally voted in a Hitler wannabe.

[@allanredhill8682]

@@bwedd3772 The way the third reich worked was basically classic cult indoctrination to wich people are absolutely still as vulnerable today as back then. Our culture is different yes but it just takes some very commited and manipulative people to take advantage of current tools and politics to commit similar atrocities. Our values and technologies may change but our psychology doesnt

[@mikaelamonsterland]

I wish I had some kind of means to survive the incoming atrocities

[@rickybobby5153]

Second amendment

[@ryanfinnerty6239]

This account is by far the greatest on KZbin! What a discovery

[@zuhaibamir9482]

The parallels to what you have explained beautifully and what is going on in Gaza is undeniable.

[@spicyramenbowl976]

What is going on in gaza then? Is 2 thirds from 9 million the same as less then 2% out of 2 million is ehat youre implying?

[@goosie8207]

This is always an interesting topic to explore. It would be nice if more people would investigate this topic or understand how things like this happen, particularly with things happening in Gaza, china, republican states and many other places around the world.

[@chemtrails8404]

People who literally collaborated with the third reich and openly asked for an alliance, with the force that ultimately culminated in the mass extermination of European Jewry committing a genocide? No, color me shocked 🤪

[@chemtrails8404]

Let me pretend to be shocked like a European (Americans included) who reaped great benefit from the exact same thing for hundreds of years. "how is this happening" excuse me I'm getting emotional, let me wipe my tears with these greenbacks your sacrifice and natural resources afforded me. It feels so great to be on the "good" team

[@chemtrails8404]

in the words of"the great English 'hero'" Churchil - "I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."

[@xakvra0]

we all know why we're here at the moment

[@misriya4147]

From 18:01 to 18:50 describes everything that the Israelis are doing in Gaza and the West Bank today.

[@bennelong8451]

Imagine attacking a country and being surprised there’s retaliation

[@lananiroua4642]

​@@bennelong8451a terrorist colonial country established on a mass grave of other population and ethnic cleansing and it's politics uses the memory of the Holocaust to justify theirs colonial project .

[@jenthier4076]

It’s scary to see ur own country moving this way in the current days. Yet, people seem oblivious to it

[@karmaalstad5588]

Or brush it off as a joke, a sick joke.

[@drunkenmo]

some utterly unhinged antisemitism and general truther idiocy in these comments. frightening stuff, please be critical of your facts and don't let the fascists win you over.

[@yoloswaggins7121]

Poor Jews. They get antisemitism from every direction, right wing and left wing. And such attitude stretch back centuries. Even the Romans had a particular dictates for Jews.

[@Gateoogaming]

@@yoloswaggins7121 ikr, they’re always the victims, so sad😢

[@sikkableeat5614]

​@@yoloswaggins7121Crazy how everybody in the world and throughout history has despised them, they must be really unlucky or something 😢

[@yoloswaggins7121]

@@sikkableeat5614 Nothing you said is true. Jews were a minority without a state, thus they were easy targets. The same is true of every stateless people, like the Kurds and Gypsies for example.

[@MiloandHoshiShow]

😂😂😂😂 🤡

[@wackyp]

I have watched tons of material on this subject but your video was a unique perspective, told in a unique way.

[@otter8362]

Insane to me that youtube would demonetize this of all content. How can history be so disrespected? These people who work at tech companies like youtube are so out of touch, modern day book burning. Never again, this can never happen again. But if we are dissuaded from learning lessons from history teaches us, we are doomed.

[@justins8634]

16:16 broke me. I was saddened thinking about the increasing callousness of the executions, then seeing the people walking to their deaths, followed by gunshots... I've never cried hearing or thinking about the holocaust until now.

[@stephengoddard5362]

They did this to Germany. Do your own research, those monsters got what they deserved and will again soon. Jews literally declared war on Germany it was self defence

[@dysmissme7343]

💜

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

Given the hate of the right and left amazed anyone even cares at this point 😢

[@pedrito01100]

Amazing job. You outdid many content creators in the task of bringing not just something of relevance and doing it flawlessly, but of a matter that is so much discussed that it becomes tiresome some times. Truly incredible job! Hope you see this coment, you deserve the praise!

[@dirtybossaofficial]

🤣🤣🤣🥴

[@traindr12]

​@DIRTY BOSSA yeah, YOU know the truth....... lmao

[@MRSBREEZE]

Even the circumstances leading up to WWII are aligning almost perfectly with current events....

[@silasreimer7446]

this will continue to repeat until the death of capitalism

[@elzach0]

Never thought id watch a video on a incredibly terrible event. Yet those victims of that terrible event are now the ones committing genocide. Very strange times.

[@emjakos3548]

Don't turn this into antisemitism.

[@piggy743]

Israel doesn't represent every Jew. Some jews support Israel, and some don't (relating to the Isreal-Palestine) conflict.

[@elzach0]

@@emjakos3548 I won't. I'm telling facts. Why is it that any criticism is considered antisemitic? Could it be to keep the wool over the eyes? Mmmmhm

[@TheMuteAssassin7]

@@emjakos3548 insinutating its anti-jew to be against the Israeli state's genocide is actually anti-semitic.

[@Yoo-yooYeshua]

@@emjakos3548 You are 🐜 👁 ✡️’tic

[@aimeeredacted9439]

this is really fucking scarily similar to whats happening in america right now

[@ShikataGaNai100]

Yes, Trump and the GOP have certainly done that to America.

[@stephenkamps8925]

@@ShikataGaNai100 I don't think "right now" refers to a president from 2017-2021, it's time you got into the present. It's 2023 and things have gotten a whole lot worse. Stop coping.

[@JazukaiX]

Yeah, white people simply trying to exist are being exterminated.

[@snowthearcticfox1]

​@@JazukaiX ? Please explain because no one is going after white people lmao

[@aimeeredacted9439]

@@stephenkamps8925 both biden and trump are to blame for putting these policies into place, trump is not a savior, he's an orange toddler in a suit.

[@dennisjohnsen7297]

It’s not a complicated concept. It’s called pragmatism. You are starving today. Tomorrow you have food. You are told the reason you have food. If you don’t want food, then you can defy the process that provides the food. Eat by ignoring your principles and live, or keep your principles and starve.

[@_unicornqueen_4245]

This video clearly doesn't get enough attention. Love the content

[@snoopypoopy1234]

we used to say "how did the world let this happen " and now here we are watching history repeat itself while we carry on with our privileged life

[@obieeetleb7764]

Feels like this is happening again now?

[@danielle-queen]

yep

[@editinglife97]

where?

[@lmaohorsegirl27]

​@@editinglife97 israel/gaza

[@Emolovesrocks]

@editinglife97Israel is the new nazi germany. 100k-500k dead alone in Palestine not including Syria and the other places they bomb. Who may I mention are civilians. They target terrorists, my ass they are the terrorists. Israel is a terrorist regime funded by America into power. It’s crazy when you look into it

[@jacskontyleer1341]

At your moms house

[@JamieVansickle]

History repeats itself.

[@vic_cresss]

17:56 all of these steps sound exactly like what Israel have been doing to Palestinians

[@LarsGsanger]

@@vic_cresss 🙏

[@bigheif]

IDF furiously takes notes

[@banner1864]

That’s not even remotely the same

[@bigheif]

@banner1864 you're right, we didn't support the first one. How times change...

[@banner1864]

@@bigheif im… confused at what you mean

[@bigheif]

@banner1864 in the 1940's we weren't supplying the means to commit these atrocities. We were actively trying to stop it back then 👍

[@bigheif]

@@banner1864 what I mean is, the Anne Frank's of the world are now hiding from the IDF. What a weird turn of events hey! 😢

[@kataminedj]

This video is fantastic! Do you have a log of all the media footage you used? I’m intrigued to find the source material

[@classicblack774]

Wow wow! This was fantastic. With what’s happening in Gaza/Israel right now I feel like there’s a lot to take away from this. I’ve been so curious about the psychology around it all and you touched on many points that I can do further research into. Thank you for this quality video.

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

Look at the hate between the left and the right. Manipulation of public opinion to dehumanize people is way too easy. Especially when trusting organizations people shouldn’t be trusting. Especially when those organizations are focusing on peoples differences. Similarities unite and differences divide. Anyone pointing out peoples similarities?

[@MIS315]

Very sad that many of the survivors and their descendents became nazis

[@ex8280]

Whats strange is that jews and the Palestinians were doing fine together before they decided to make a border. Once they started goingbthis is my land, this is yours was when all hell broke lose.

[@tapesock1387]

@@ex8280it just reinforced the Idea of outgroup vs in group cause now they are literally physically separated

[@jacuzzihot]

Indeed Nazis also played the victim.

[@mangeshrajeghodake]

Creators, what you're doing is simply service to humanity.

[@ieatlolz]

Geez man, I watch a lot of heavy videos but something about the way this was framed had tears running down my face within 5 minutes.

[@johnmc3862]

Your comment saved my life.

[@abraxasfraxinus7744]

Do you cry for the kids being shot to death by Jews while they sleep in bed in Palestine?

[@jennybyrd2818]

Alot of my family members disappeared never to be heard from again. I remember when I was 8 in 1998 and a neonatzi tried to bomb our temple. I never stopped being terrified since. I remember asking my mom why someone wanted me dead because of my religion. The holocaust absolutely scarred all of us enem though we were never in camps I still have a fear it will happen all over again. And to this day I still experience antisemitism. When I was 13 in my small town these kids followed me home throwing rocks and calling me a kike. I just can't fathom how people can do this to other people. Sometimes violence isn't the worst thing in the world, complacency is. So many people looked the other way while my people were brutalized and I know i should forgive to have peace but I can't. At least not right now. If that natzi would not have gotten caught before he planted the bomb i wouldn't be here. I just hope that one day we will all be treated as equal.

[@scoobtube5746]

109 countries can't be wrong.

[@Noam_.Menashe]

@@scoobtube5746 according to the Henley passport index, people in Israel can visit the same amount of countries as people in mexico, with around 40 being banned.

[@scoobtube5746]

@@Noam_.Menashe Can you name any other group of people who have worn out their welcome in so many different countries, LOL?

[@Noam_.Menashe]

@@scoobtube5746 the Mexicans.

[@drpastormartinssempa8994]

@@scoobtube5746 gypsies

[@Modo942000]

How the victim can become the oppressor in a single lifetime....

[@celeritasc9207]

The Zionist movement started long before the rise of Nazi Germany and the Zionists were complicit it stirring up antisemitism to aid in achieving their goal of the colonization of Palestine. At the very least their actions contributed to the number of deaths. I recommend reading Ralph Schoenman’s “The Hidden History of Zionism.” It is available for free online. It is complete with references that substantiate its claims (and quotations). There also other publications that corroborate the historical facts.

[@WHITE-EUROPEANS-ARE-ISRAELITES]

@@celeritasc9207 Don't forget to add the rise of Bolshevism in Russia, and who the leaders of it were of. The "chosen" tribe.

[@lobstertown1826]

Literally what’s happened in Israel. History repeats itself.

[@wesleapenknife1755]

​@lobstertown1826 bullshit

[@spicyramenbowl976]

The victim wont be taken seriously and be made the oppressor, exactly whats happening now and then.

[@aimeekova]

As a keen history buff, I wasn’t sure I would take much from this, but boy was I wrong. Great, thoughtful and important work. Thank you.

[@HailEarendil]

Not too keen, if you think that the history of WW2 as presented by western propaganda is correct.

[@ZackeryCampbass]

Amazing work. You're the only person I've heard of who has stressed the fact that Nazis and lynchers alike acted primarily out of a perverted feeling of victimhood. I've reached this conclusion after reflecting about the subject on my own. How systematic your analysis is, I adore.

[@ailleananaithnid2566]

The perpetual victimhood is a feature of the far right. That’s typical of an authoritarian. They require enemies to hate. For the GOP and Trump it’s the “Marxist, communist radical left” (that doesn’t exist.) Trump never does anything wrong - he and his blind followers are just being victimized by the “radical left” even though Trump is committing crimes and preaching hate. Even when there’s video tape showing him committing crimes, he denied it and his followers believe it.

[@ad8447]

​@@ailleananaithnid2566the radical left amd their gender nonsense is abhorrent

[@philh2932]

Yup it’s true. The biggest genocides were from the Communists that thought they were being victimized by landowners.

[@cannadaddoit7460]

What was perverted about their sense of victimhood? Are you familiar with the bolshevik revolution? Do you know what happened in the holomodor? What about the treatment of German nationals in Danzig? The Weimar degeneracy and perversion of German culture and values? These are all examples of outside forces attempting to alter the course of the German people.

[@The_Reckoning617]

It’s absolutely chilling because we are on this trajectory 😢

[@golirasmonk]

In what way lol

[@janekmundt579]

We are in the genocide right now… People just haven’t realised yet…

[@fluffyraichu9706]

@@golirasmonk Increasing anti-trans sentiment in the US causing horrible bills to be introduced and/or passed that specifically target trans people, the genocide against the Palestinians, the genocides in Myanmar and the Democracy Republic of the Congo among other places, take your pick. There’s a lot of shit happening.

[@z__t9814]

Social media is just constant propaganda. Imagine if hman had access

[@TempinoTuMadre]

​@@golirasmonkGonna guess and say the person you replied to is talking about Trump...the brainrot is real to compare Trump to any kind of Genocidal maniac...

[@NicoMurphy-iq7wb]

We're seeing it repeat on the palestinian people, god help them 😭

[@achikin4466]

No ?

[@Alex-pt6pu]

​@@achikin4466open your eyes

[@stfu8496]

@@achikin4466yes! actually, yes :)

[@achikin4466]

@@stfu8496 there not in camps

[@DarkForcesStudio]

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