Kristallnacht: The Beginning of the End

In the dark hours of 9th November 1938, Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were vandalized and set aflame, marking a terrifying new phase of Nazi persecution: Kristallnacht. Discover the chilling events.
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[@juliapalmer2344]

My father served under Patton he landed on Normandy. He broke his back and got shot with scrap metal during the battle of Ardennes but kept fighting until the end. He even took photos when he could. They liberated a concentration camp that was the worst part of the whole war for him. He rarely talked about the concentration camps. He did tell me that the towns nearby had to know what was going on. The smells were horrible. They had a gallery of lampshades made out of human skin. It infuriates me that their are people now even US politicians that say the Holocaust never happened.

[@deadby15]

I read that within months after the Rwandan genocide, those who initiated the mass-killing and escaped to a nearby country started to claim the genocide never took place and everything was a lie. Some people try to rewrite history in any shameless ways, as long as that benefits them.

[@orno8906]

God bless your father for his service. My dad also served under General Patton, even though he didn’t initially land with D-Day. He was shot twice in 1944 fighting to retake a town that General Patton had already captured, but had to pull back because of no petrol. Germans retook the town and dug in so fighting was house to house. They were indeed the greatest generation!!!

[@crimsonking440]

Even had they not known about the chambers themselves, it must have been glaringly apparent that SOMETHING was happening to all the people they kept pouring into the camps, considering none ever got to leave and the camps never became full. The people can't just disappear into thin air.

[@itsblitz4437]

Well that and big multi-million/billion dollar corporations like Google and by extension KZbin.

[@elizabethsohler6516]

​@@itsblitz4437True.

[@geordiecanuck2696]

I am a 54 year old Canadian. I have a German aunt who was forced into the Nazi Youth at 6 years old, and another German aunt that got her concentration camp tattoo at 14 years old. Both outstanding humans, one for rebellion against her parents for not understanding why she couldn't play with her best friend anymore, the other for surviving Hell on Earth. The simple tale of one family. NEVER FORGET.

[@jennyanydots2389]

They got internet up in Canada?

[@sapphirejade5029]

Holy crap! That's an insane story!

[@triggeredcat120]

@@jennyanydots2389Your comments are pure trolling.

[@jennyanydots2389]

@@triggeredcat120 Brugh... don't jerk me down son.

[@triggeredcat120]

@@jennyanydots2389 I absolutely will bro

[@terryenby2304]

Learning can be very uncomfortable, but it’s so very important.

[@eatonkuntz]

You won't learn much from Simon. He just reads from a web search and Wikipedia. Real learning is earned by researching unknown truth.

[@major_kukri2430]

​@@eatonkuntzare you some sort of sharleton for conspiracy theories?

[@squeaky8761]

@@eatonkuntz real learning is falling for 85+ year old nazi propaganda?

[@realsamhyde]

Learning fake facts lol

[@realsamhyde]

​@@major_kukri2430bro thinks everything he read in a history book is real. Cute naivete

[@josefinecarlsgart]

Thank you for this episode. Never thought the day would come to see my jewish friends and colleagues get harassed on the streets of Copenhagen and Gothenburg! It's bloody shameful. 🤯

[@rtyrsson]

This episode is very timely, especially now that there are many demonstrating in city streets for basically a repeat of the same. Yet I lived in Germany for a long time quite a ways back when there were still plenty of people that remembered those days. Not all Germans were like that. Not at all. There is a small church in the village of Kappel, in the Hunsrück, and there are two memorial stones in the front garden. One has engraved the names of their men who fell in WW1, the second has two columns... those who fell in WW2 and those who fell in the German resistance. And yes, there was a resistance. It became forgotten because there was no scenario envisioned at the end where the allies (rightfully so, perhaps) wanted the German people to escape judgement. But fact remains... the resistance list is twice as long as the soldiers on that second stone. My landlady told me of when the SS and Gestapo came into the village one night, because the resistance was so broad and active. By morning only the very old men and small boys remained of the males. Her father and brother were among the taken. But when I was going to the bus stop to go to school in front of the church one morning was an old American man paying his respects at that stone. I was a precocious kid and asked. He had been a downed pilot that was saved by the resistance there and was paying his respects. Though the Nazis always kept fine records, the idea that Germans opposed them meant that they hid even that and so is little known. Less so now.

[@eifelitorn]

there are people demonstrating for deporting or killing Jews?

[@laurajaneluvsbeauty9596]

Cohencidence? I think not

[@michaelbarnes5223]

If I ever hear someone try to defend these kinds of acts against people based solely on their identity, I remind them of a good friend of mine who will never know his family because they (along will all records of their existence) were burned and destroyed by the Nazis. All because his family was Jewish in 1930s Germany, their name has been wiped from public record.

[@johndillinger4007]

What did the Juden do to make entire countries, not just Germany, hate them?

[@Max88188]

Like how muslims hate jews?

[@qjames0077]

Umm...who the heck is defending this stuff? 😂

[@b1646717]

​@qjames0077 Sadly, you would be surprised. It doesn't take a lot of digging 😒

[@b.j.880]

@@qjames0077 There are people who think the holocaust didn't go far enough. It goes beyond defending it, it's believing it to be *too* tame for their liking.

[@lawliet6910]

Everyone scared of this happening again, as we all should be: you have more in common with your neighbor than with politicians. Be unconditionally kind. We are all human. No group is to blame for failures of the state and nobody is inferior. Anyone teaching otherwise has an agenda and shouldnt be believed. Start by being kind and not letting rhetoric hijack your brain from the plain truth that most people are basically decent and we should all be kind to each other

[@hadara69]

Although I appreciate your “be kind” sentiment, that’s not what’s needed right now in America, IMHO. We need to do the OPPOSITE with MAGA and get in their faces, for real. I don’t mean provoking violence, nor do I mean trying to provoke THEM to do so, I mean getting serious with Conservative Americans we love and care for about what’s happening and WHY they still trust Trump (a criminal, liar, and textbook Fascist!). It’s heartening to see that Kamala’s popularity is rising fast (now that Biden did the right thing!) and Trump is more than nervous, but MAGA is still MAGA and they enjoy certain protections from the rest of us for some reason. THIS SHOULD NOT BE! I think we should be debating, arguing, interviewing, and confronting MAGA Republicans wherever we see them, even in our own homes. It’s those intense, serious, and very focused conversations at kitchen tables and around water coolers with these cult members (no insult! REALITY!!) which will make the real difference now in America and keep THIS HORROR far from our country. THAT or we can all just sleepwalk right into Nazi Germany 2.0 out of FEAR OF OFFENDING them. Which sounds more sensible to you?

[@multiyapples]

The awful thing is it’s happening right now. We have genocides going on right now.

[@jays.6843]

Remember this whenever a politician tries to claim an entire group of people are hurting your country.

[@tetherblows]

unless hes talking about politicians X D

[@ladymacbethofmtensk896]

What if that group is defined by crossing the border illegally?

[@risebellthesummoner]

What is this even supposed to mean? There are better ways to dispose of problem groups. Like deportation. Criticism of ethnic groups isn't the same as mass murder.

[@EchoMountain47]

When that group is designated based on race, gender, nationality or some other identity characteristic, I would agree. However, when that group is designated by their beliefs, such as the Nazi movement in Germany or the current Maga movement in the US, it makes sense to call out these groups as a whole

[@noName-kn1lx]

@@ladymacbethofmtensk896 Its ok as long as they vote democrat

[@jamesbeeching6138]

My step gran escaped from Germany with her sister in August 1939...Luckily coming to London...sdadly her parents couldn't escape and were murdered...along with 99% of their community...During the NAZI persecution of the 30s only 1 German actually helped Helen..An ex teacher who carried on teaching her a bit at home....EVERYONE ELSE turned their backs and let it happen....😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

[@TheSandwichMonster]

Yet you folks can't see the intolerance of the Left bringing it back? We already see many Democrat supporters demonize, attack and dehumanize those on the Right. Where's all the Right-leaning riots? Where's the government sanctioned Anti-Left legislation or laws? Who get shouted down when speaking publicly? The left has always been a repository of racism and hate. You have to look at the extremes to find these people on the Right, but from progressives to Liberals, it's all welcome and practiced on the left. I watch racism accepted on MSNBC and CNN but never seem to see the "pro racists" stuff on conservative news.

[@jennyanydots2389]

My step-tran didn't escape the Jay's wrath. The Jay's were false flagging this one up back then. A.H. was actually a plant by the Jay's themselves brugh!!

[@Sad_bumper_sticker.]

@@jennyanydots2389

[@7996hobguy]

Source: Trust me bro

[@jennyanydots2389]

@@7996hobguy Thanks for trusting me brugh.

[@elizabeth-brittanycadet9998]

Let’s not forget, Hitler was inspired and empowered by Jim Crow laws here in the United States. He saw how successfully we created and maintained second-class citizenship here and wanted that for Germany too. Mass murder like this doesn’t happen overnight. It’s insidious & it required a deep kind of evil that I still do not understand to this day

[@BatCaveOz]

Sources please.

[@meeeka]

Firstly, read the transcripts of the Wannsee Conference, (available online, translated transcripts OR adapted into full blown dialogue, for 2 films about the meetings at which all was openly discussed. at which legal experts seated at the meeting table, acknowledged how, when faced with the need for "quick and tried racial legislation" it was just easier to copy the already extant US legislation and film in holes as they popped up. Secondly, " Nuremberg was the setting for the September 1935 “Party Rally of Freedom,” at which a special session of the Reichstag passed, by acclamation, legislation that disqualified Jews as Reich citizens with political rights, forbade them to marry or have sex with persons identified as racial Germans, and prohibited any display by Jews of national colors or the new national flag, a banner with a swastika. Just eight days after the Reich Citizenship Law, the Law on the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, and the Reich Flag Law were formally proclaimed by Adolf Hitler, 45 Nazi lawyers sailed for New York under the auspices of the Association of National Socialist German Jurists. The trip was a reward for the lawyers, who had codified the Reich’s race-based legal philosophy. The announced purpose of the visit was to gain “special insight into the workings of American legal and economic life through study and lectures,” and the leader of the group was Ludwig Fischer. As the governor of the Warsaw District half a decade later, he would preside over the brutal order of the ghetto." And finally, a young Nazi lawyer named Heinrich Krieger, for example, who had studied at the University of Arkansas as an exchange student, and whose diligent research on US race law formed the basis for the work of the Nazi Ministry of Justice, Prof Ira Kaztnelson Depts of Poli Sci and History. The Atlantic November 2017❤

[@ladosis5596]

James Q. Whitman. Hitler's American Model. Standford University Press. 2017

[@user-dj7wv5ok2x]

@@BatCaveOz I know it'd be difficult to get through the illogic of "Mein Kamph", but HITLER HIMSELF mentions that he was greatly inspired by American history, especially pertaining to slavery and the extermination of the indegenous peoples. Now, what source could be better than right out of the horse's ass?!

[@mpoharper]

Not to mention the US stance on eugenics. 😢

[@meine-lieblinge]

Today, it is usually refered to as "Reichspogromnacht" in Germany. Kristall (or Crystal) is something beautiful, nice and desirable. That night wasn't any of that.

[@Zenith118]

@@meine-lieblinge what is the exact translation of reich?

[@Bewohner]

​@@Zenith118Reich as in 3rd Reich meaning empire.

[@Sttennie]

Das erste mal das ich das Wort höre...

[@meine-lieblinge]

@@Sttennie Das wurde irgendwann in den 2000er Jahren geändert. Hat sich auch nicht auf einen Schlag durchgesetzt, weil die alte Bezeichnung noch in vielen Köpfen steckt.

[@ryanparker4996]

Stop self flagelating, hans.

[@stephendavies6949]

"All our problems are due to that lot over there!" All right-minded people need to stand up to such hate speech whenever it is uttered.

[@ThirtytwoJ]

Sounds like our gov lately...

[@bkos1917]

Ironically being "right-minded" means opposing the right wing.

[@stephendavies6949]

It means open minded, reasonable and capable of critical thinking, and judging people on what they do, not who they are, in my opinion.

[@eatonkuntz]

What if it was true? You don't believe in accountability?

[@vivianskylaryeaman7255]

​@@eatonkuntzit's never true. Problems are due to individuals, not large groups of people. Name one time in history when an entire group was singled out for their beliefs, identity, or race and it was a correct decision... You can't.

[@Jnp366]

I always wondered why more Jewish people didn’t leave Germany before WWII started as it was becoming clear that they were being targeted I always thought “surely the rest of Europe would see this persecution and welcome Jews with open arms”….i guess that was naive of me

[@ChristiaanHW]

unfortunately a lot of Jews were able to get out. they fled for example to France, the Lowlands or Poland. little did they know that they Holocaust would follow them to their safe havens and take them all the same. so many people that fled Germany between 1930 and 1940 ended up in the same camps as there neighbours that weren't able to flee. (like the family of Anne Frank)

[@RudolfStern3399]

No country wanted to accept jewish refugees and a lot of jews didn’t want to leave their country

[@warringtonfaust1088]

Consider today where refugees simply walk across our Southern border.

[@sherrykathman3309]

You know the story of Ann Frank? She was actually on a refugee ship that was searching for safe harbor literally anywhere in the world, but nobody would allow the ship to dock. Not even the USA. The ship returned to Germany and most, if not all, of the refugee were murdered in the Holocaust.

[@A2D4]

In all the documentaries and histories I’ve seen or read, I never heard that she was on that ship to relocate. I always thot her father moved them from Germany straight to Holland for refuge, where they eventually hid.

[@nuancolar7304]

While it's true it was orchestrated from the very top, I don't think the Jewish population realized that until it was too late. It would be easy for shopkeepers, business owners, and any German citizen of Jewish descent to assume these acts were localized and they probably held to the belief that higher authority would ultimately intervene and stop it. A lucky few were quick to see what was happening and managed to get out of Germany, but most stayed. It must have been a horrific realization when Jewish people realized it was all sanctioned, and about to get far worse.

[@jennyanydots2389]

The Jays were really shifty though, some people say they orchestrated the whole thing behind the scenes and that A.H. and J.G. were actually plants by the Jay's themselves.

[@lechenaultia5863]

And there you have it. Jenny, you are officially an antisemite

[@Sad_bumper_sticker.]

@@jennyanydots2389

[@Hotshot2k4]

@@jennyanydots2389 Only the most brain dead and dishonest people "say" that; i.e., absolutely no one worth listening to. The same people who gleefully ignore history in order to support their horrible ideologies.

[@prof.scheere6933]

​@@jennyanydots2389bigot

[@joshreichardt2485]

My maternal great grandfather was arrested during Kristalnach and taken to Dachau my great great grandmother was a well known figure in their town and a feirce matriarch without fear she went to the police station apparently they feared her and told her were he was taken then they were able to verify that he was a veteran of WW1 and had earned the iron cross that got him out of Dachau my faniky was able to flee Germany to Sweeden with the help of the Quakers. My grandmothers family was lucky that they stayed mostly in tact after the Shoah.

[@ringlhach]

I kind of wish this had been published in November, but I'm glad it's out there at all. Kristallnacht is not talked about anywhere near as much as it should be, even among history buffs.

[@user-dj7wv5ok2x]

Much less the AMERICAN version, that was inflicted upon Blacks and indegenous natives over several MONTHS, and not just a single night....

[@stelladonaconfredobutler9459]

Well done and very timely, Simon. Heartbreaking.

[@ZomBeeNature]

Unfortunately there are crazy people like this still around.

[@Hackenschmidt.]

Not crazy just rational.

[@triggeredcat120]

@@Hackenschmidt.You’re disgusting and absolutely brainwashed by hate.

[@woodchild2093]

Take one look at the pro Hamas kids at all the US universities at the moment basically saying kill the Jews

[@55squire]

​@@woodchild2093 anti-genocide, not antisemitic

[@triggeredcat120]

@@Hackenschmidt. Clown. Grade A clown.

[@zephiask1758]

In Germany we prefer to call that day the Reichs-Pogrom-Nacht or November-Pogrome; as "Crystal-night" is almost a euphemism for what horrible things happened that time.

[@ChadSimplicio]

Remember this when we watch today's conflicts.

[@Flies2FLL]

The administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who is a hero of mine, made many mistakes. One of then was turning away the M.S. St. Louis, which anchored in the harbor of Miami and then sat. It was turned away and went to Cuba, where it was again turned away again. In the end, it wound up back in Germany and the passengers all wound up in concentration camps.

[@rustyshackelford3371]

You must have a very low standard for heroism.

[@shanerasmussen5225]

FDR was a racist wanna be dictator and the reason why there is a two term limit in law for the presidency (should be a 1 term limit on all elected positions for life). If he's a hero of yours, I bet you'd like Rudolph Hess, FDR did.

[@leahp1765]

Why didn't they go to Africa. Ethiopia jews would have accepted them they too are part jews and not against them so....

[@paulamarentette695]

Not all of the passengers ended up in concentration camps. A lucky few were granted asylum in Great Britain, but the vast majority ended up in countries that later were overrun by the Nazis and ended up dying.

[@Zenith118]

Unfortunately this was far from an isolated incident, it happened in the Russian Empire, in post WW2 Poland, and several times prior to this in Germany.

[@jorgelotr3752]

And since the Midddle Ages all throughout Europe. Pogroms were almost like a hobby for certain people, or so does history leads me to believe.

[@Zenith118]

@@jorgelotr3752 correct. The Black Plague, the Crusades, cholera, the bl00d libel

[@mayapilkey3577]

And people wonder why they want to return to Judea

[@AnimeShinigami13]

Don't forget the black death. V.V;; "we're all dying, including Jews, SO THE JEWS MUST BE DOING IT!!!!" fucking irrational sunuva *censored censored censored*

[@Wulfjager]

we are still the same humans we have always been. never forget that humanity hasnt changed even if we are more connected. this can and most likely will happen again

[@puhbrox]

Remember, it was wasnt just Jews, but also anyone considered gypsy or homosexual.

[@MichellePaulette79]

They also went after trans people with vigor as well. As a matter of fact, the Institute of sexology was the first place to recognize that trans. People were separate from homosexuals. One of the most famous pictures of the Nazis burning books, was outside of the Institute of sexology where they raided the institute, use the records to track us down, and burned all the literature and research done on this very subject. Under the Weimar Republic , trans people were beginning to get some level of acceptance., until the Nazis seized control. This is why many people within the trans community are very much worried that it is happening again. Much of The same rhetoric can be seen now that we are once again starting to gain acceptance. It is no coincidence that we have Nazis and fascist here in the US once again demonizing LGBTQ+ people and elected officials banning & in some cases ,burning literature supportive of LGBTQ people. Those who do not learn from their history are condemned to repeat it

[@Its_Daniel113]

@@MichellePaulette79they also went after black people gypsy people. I’m actually from Europe. They were after everything not German.

[@user-dj7wv5ok2x]

@@MichellePaulette79 SHEEEEIITT! The USA was a repository of knowledge for Hitler and his Nazis when it came to inflicting evil upon those deemed to be "undesireable". The United States was using poison gas similar to Zyklon B to kill people BEFORE even Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor of Germany.

[@TroysSweetCornhole]

People are so toxic these days theyd be cheering this on

[@Zenith118]

They already are look at the clowns in the comments

[@littlerave86]

There's a German movie called "Er ist wieder da" (= "he's back"), in which (for some unexplained reason irrelevant to the plot, it's also a parody so it doesn't really matter there) Hitler wakes up in modern days trying to get a grasp on modern society and tries to get back into the swing of things, i.e. figure out whether he could reestablish his ideology politically and socially. His verdict at the end, he could work with it. And that was a movie from 2016, it's not gotten any better since.

[@FBNJ90]

This kind of shit is the next step in MAGA's evolution.

[@Zenith118]

@@FBNJ90 it's the left celebrating Oct 7th and cheering for more Islamist terrorism on college campuses. Try again.

[@mayapilkey3577]

They did on October 7th and 8th

[@avilehrer9030]

AS a Jewish grandchild of Holocaust survivors, I grew up in America, believing that could never happen again. Over the past several months, I have been convinced that it can.

[@midnite_rambler]

Because it is. Just not to the Jews this time. It is the Palestinians that are being exterminated.

[@PM-4564]

Maybe vote republican?

[@midnite_rambler]

@@PM-4564 Who? No party called that here.

[@Noneofyourbusiness_.I._]

🤢🤮

[@avilehrer9030]

@@PM-4564 I do.

[@Ussonan-Foderation2016]

"For the first time ever, I am ashamed to be German." Wilhelm II upon hearing about this

[@sventer198]

Good on you for bringing this back into focus.

[@swj719]

What horrifies me os that im not sure that something similar couldn't happen again. We all like to say wed stand up against it, but would we? Would we really? I dont know if i would. I lole to think i would, but none of us know.

[@btimbyindy]

The problem is that the perspective of the past is much clearer than that of the current. Most would not even realize the truth of what was happening. Imagine I told you ten years ago about everything that would happen in the US. Would you believe me? Unless you are very well informed you probably wouldn't believe much of what I would tell you now.

[@adamredwine774]

Yeah, what @@btimbyindy said is spot on. There are thousands of people in the West who think that they are "opposing genocide" as they literally chant in support of a genocide. The propaganda by a group of literal slave holders, who literally throw LGBTQ+ people off of rooftops, and literally live-streamed snuff as the r@ped and t0rtured women has been swallowed whole without even a moment of critical thought.

[@Its_Daniel113]

Nobody would. Jews were immigrants too. Look at how they look at “all immigrants”.

[@charlesachurch7265]

Another great presentation Thanks xxx

[@Hackenschmidt.]

You believe a propagandists

[@archstanton6102]

​@@Hackenschmidt. And your fact checked evidence and peer reviewed sources that prove your claim are where?

[@cotati76]

The first time I went to Germany I felt weird walking around the streets of Nuremberg knowing what happened there.

[@tommywolfe2706]

Thats strange. Bad things happen everywhere. Locations like Nuremberg have seen so many things, that doesnt define the city. You could just as easily see that city as the site of the trials for the nazi criminals.....so.....a site of justice after all. That is one of the worst things about the nazis.....they took things and used them and tarnished them. Like the swastika. Indians....both from India and Native Americans, had been using the swastika for hundreds and thousands of years before the Nazis. But now? Of course.....you cant see it and not think of those scumbags. I dont believe in guilt by association, especially when it comes to locations....landmarks, cities...etc....

[@Zenith118]

@@cotati76 as a Jewish person I'd feel far safer in modern day Germany than France, Spain, or any Arab country.

[@dr.christopherdiaz4473]

@@Zenith118Germany has done something that almost zero countries ever do. Admitting fault, accepting responsibility, and making a sincere apology has shown to be more successful than financial reparations, when it comes to trying to right a wrong done on behalf of a nation.

[@Zenith118]

@@dr.christopherdiaz4473 meanwhile Poland made it illegal to say they had any fault in the Holocaust (they 100% did) and expelled the remaining Jews in 1968.

[@kansmill]

@@Zenith118It saddens me that such a statement carries so much weight and truth.

[@ellieshine]

I appreciate this channel for airing the dirty laundry of history

[@ThisisBrandi]

Thank you for these. There is so much history I was never taught and these are tremendous on helping me learn more about the world and all cultures as a whole. It’s been incredibly eye opening and has really encouraged me to show more kindness to more people day by day.

[@eatonkuntz]

History is not the study of the past. It is the study of the records. A lot of times those records are biased. They wrote down what they want you to remember. So try to get a full understanding by looking at opposite opinions. Then you can show true kindness because you see the whole truth.

[@CalamitasBrimstoneWitch]

Half-Jew here, my grandma had to run when she was literally a child. It's... Honestly scary to think that people can do this kind of thing.

[@pioneercynthia1]

Half Jew? Are you practicing your faith? I am a student of Judaism and it saddens me when I visit families and they have _almost no knowledge_ of their faith.

[@Take-the-Ticket]

My grandmother too! Escaped through a crop field while being shot at. She took some pellets but made it.

[@RandomApril]

It's even more sad that the victims are now the perpetrators

[@mystuff9999]

@@pioneercynthia1Since „Jew“ does encompass more than just praying to an invisible Sky Daddy that sounds like a you problem.

[@Zenith118]

@@RandomApril objectively false

[@frankherbert3005]

Im a 40 yo American of German descent. Raised Christian, I’ve always seen the Jewish people as brothers of a sort… I’ve read the Torah, the Sepher Yetzirah and many others… I’m currently learning German and, despite learning Spanish and sign language and remembering it as fun and exciting, learning German has been humbling… I’ve heard of the night of broken glass, but this was the first time encountering the word kristallnacht…yet I knew it’s meaning immediately. My venture into the German language, my birthright, is so heavy with guilt for sins I never committed. I have my sons name tattooed on my neck in Hebrew… his name is Adam. With the current antisemitism in regards to Palestine, I hide this tattoo in fear… Please don’t let us repeat the past… I’m of the opinion that our Father in Heaven has broken his people enough!!!

[@spondoolie6450]

I'm a 43 year old American of Central European Jewish descent and I'll be dead in the ground before I start hiding my identity in fear of the blue-hair crowd. Not to try to sound like a tough guy, but I'm strong supporter of the ENTIRE constitution and in here in Florida we have no duty to retreat .... and I have no intention of retreating.

[@MichellePaulette79]

People objecting to what the far right wing government under Netanyahu along with the IDF is doing to the Palestinian people, is a far cry from antisemitism. My sister-in-law is Jewish, and she agrees and wholeheartedly condemns what is going on there as well. Killing 15,000 children is not self-defense. Some of the most outspoken critics of what is going on in Palestine are Jewish. A significant portion of American Jews are against this, so I think it’s rather unfair, insincere, and disingenuous to characterize any criticism of Israel’s government and actions as automatically anti-Semitic. There’s also a sizable portion of Israeli citizens that object as well. Many of which objected to the treatment of the Palestinian people well before October 7. Equating the Israeli government to all Jewish people is anti-Semitic. Full stop. Just like Equating all Palestinian people to Hamas is equally as ignorant and hateful.

[@leahp1765]

Stop being odd. Christians Palestinians exist and have nothing against Christians jews. So....find a Christian you should be safe.

[@jameswright4420]

You should do a video on the night of the long knives (if you haven’t already).

[@cjaquino28]

What sickens me and sends chills down my spine is that history has a tendency to repeat itself. Antisemitism is almost a trend these days. I don't believe that we would get to a Holocaust level of hatred, but things don't look exactly good right now.

[@midnite_rambler]

Anti genocide is NOT anti-semitism. Just remember despite what your government and the media are telling you. Palestinians are also a semitic race. So it cannot be anti-semitism.

[@cjaquino28]

@@midnite_rambler Well, good lady, Israel is no saint, but by definition, they are not committing genocide in Gaza. Civilian death as collateral is bound to happen, specially when HAMAS is purposely hiding among the population. And if it is genocide, well USA spent 10 years doing the same between Afghanistan and Iraq, yet I don't see any student protesting against the US. Oh, and Semitic and Semitism are not the same. You are right in stating that the Palestinians are a Semitic group, but Semitism is the "fact or quality of being Jewish", quote taken from the Oxford Dictionary.

[@midnite_rambler]

@@cjaquino28 Where are you getting this pile of rubbish from? You gotta be from the US to believe this.

[@midnite_rambler]

@Almora-gp3hs Also sounds like you support the Israelis murdering civilians.

[@cjaquino28]

@@midnite_rambler I am from an island in the middle of The Caribbean; never been to the US. Would you like me to provide links to the Oxford Dictionary, where all my "rubbish" is written?

[@string_fellow_hawk]

The darkness the human species has invented to hurt each other 😢😢😢❤❤

[@afrikasmith1049]

Remember this so we may never repeat history again.

[@marcushenning3594]

Ok when the music became upbeat toward the end, I legit thought Simon was going to transition into an ad for Ridge Wallet or something. I was just thinking "oh no this is going to come across as insensitive". All we need is "What the Jews wish they had was a Ridge Wallet. Its sleek design makes it perfect for hiding it from Nazi shakedowns" 😂.

[@EchoMountain47]

Yeah that was a bit of a jarring tone switch there lol

[@ThisisBrandi]

😂😂😂

[@jemkey6930]

My 6th grade spelling teacher said something about movies that has stuck with me over the years. I can't repeat what she said here but the movies she referenced were 'Roots' and 'Schiller's List'. She had watched both in that order and had profound feelings for the latter. She finished with "And just think that was just a movie. Imagine what it was like for real."

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

Schindler's List

[@btimbyindy]

Real life would be slow and drawn out. Incremental, almost to the point of not noticing. A movie compresses everything for emotional effect.

[@rustyshackelford3371]

​@@EllieMaes-GrandadI like OP's title.

[@kierstyngodenzi-stanard4813]

Highly recommend the book "What We Knew - Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday life in Nazi Germany." First hand accounts. If you are a history buff of WWII this is a mandatory read IMO.

[@johnlansing2902]

Almost looks like meetings at universities …….. hmmmmmm

[@Mikkelltheimmortal]

This is a video I have been anticipating and waiting for with baited breath. Finally the Whistlerverse is covering the sad night known as Kristallnacht. I personally know very little so I'm hoping this video is informative in a useful manner. I'll let you know after I watch it.

[@AJGeeTV]

Insane that we are seeing disillusioned students today repeating this...

[@bushmanPMRR]

And given the current events in the Middle East I can only shake my head in sad disbelief when some refer to the Jews as Nazis. Some people have absolutely no idea and the world becomes a sadder place every day.

[@HyBr1dRaNg3r]

It’s happening today.

[@gmoney5506]

Where?

[@tomhenry897]

College campus

[@oliverpapai6011]

u drop a video like this and they really expect me to study for my exams man

[@shaneeslick]

Hey Simon & Oliver, Emotional videos like this one make it hard for my usual Aussie G'day, because it is not a Good Day but solemn & heartbreaking remebering these Attrocities. Watching the news I see similar situations escalating in many countries again, groups Denying the rights of others & when there is backlash complaining they are the victims of persecution... & the scariest part is that these people denying the rights of others have infiltrated Govenments & using that power to Legislate their Hatred into Law.

[@gabzilla8316]

🙄

[@lukeymuffler6265]

Future vids like this won't just be about Nazis anymore.

[@archstanton6102]

There have been numerous genocides throughout history.

[@Marty_Soundwerk]

Damn, Whistleboy, you got so many interesting channels / videos. How long do you spend each day recording them to keep up with your upload schedule?

[@richardevancrist7122]

I bet he does about 8 hours a day. Hes doing multiple takes of these as well and some episodes probably dont even come out😂

[@kennethnielsen3864]

Thanks for sharing.

[@rhynelinker7922]

Seeing this episode only serves to remind how badly anti-Semitism is rearing its head again. Go to any loosely moderated forum or website and you'll see levels of Jewish hate that may have still existed but has not been as publicly accepted or vocal in decades. Its really sad that certain groups can still be so viciously targeted. I unfortunately grew up in a place in the US South that is still incredibly racist towards African-Americans and it makes me sick to hear the slurs and supremacy that people spout from their asses with no regard whatsoever.

[@Robert_Douglass]

SA - Sturmabteilung (Storm Division) SS - Schutzstaffel (Protection Squad or Protective Detail)

[@johnthomas4081]

Slow down the velocity of your speech. You are a great narrator.

[@EchoMountain47]

See, we rightfully condemn somebody like Netanyahu for what’s going on in Gaza, but then people start generalizing that anger toward the Israeli people or Jews more generally, and that’s where these things get really dangerous

[@eloquentia7207]

I know. In Canada jews, who've never been to Israel, are harassed just because they are jews.

[@raylouis7013]

Also when people like Netanyahu describe protests against the Israeli government as being antisemitic. Which he has done.

[@EchoMountain47]

@@raylouis7013 yes. That’s seriously messed up, painting all protesters as antisemites when the vast majority of them are objecting to obvious human rights violations. The news media feeds into that. They need to do a better job of showing that there are plenty of Jewish Israeli citizens protesting against the genocide

[@midnite_rambler]

@@raylouis7013 Because he is trying to make it as though it is the Jewish people being persecuted when this time it is a bunch of Zionist Jews persecuting the Palestinians who are also Semitic. By crying antisemitism, not only does it tug at the world's guilt feelings over the Holocaust, but it also makes the world believe that only Israelis are Semitic. Which by the way, most aren't. Most Israelis came from the Ashkenazi Jews of Europe, and are not of a Semitic race.

[@mr.nemesis6442]

It’s because of propaganda. Propaganda got people to murder millions during the Holocaust and propaganda is getting people to support Islamic extremist zealots who murder infants in their cribs. If it weren’t for Hamas’s terrorist attack then Gaza wouldn’t be suffering the consequences of eradicating Hamas.

[@eifelitorn]

The way you pronounced "Wannssee" :D

[@dr.christopherdiaz4473]

The fact that our American cops are so politically aligned scares me to death. I only have one cop family member. I don’t talk to him because he’s a sociopath. I can’t help but feel that he’s not the only one.

[@mr.nemesis6442]

One party has supporters who cheer on cops being murdered by thugs while the other party condemns cops being murdered by thugs. I wonder why cops are siding with the latter political party.

[@adamredwine774]

That college campuses are so politically aligned is even more scary.

[@dragonmaster613]

As someone with blood on both sides (jewish and Na'zi), I'm haunted by this every time America threatens to repeat this series of atrocities 😢

[@btimbyindy]

How exactly has America done that?

[@dragonmaster613]

@@btimbyindy have not seen anything to do with politics for the last 20+ years. Every election year, some dingbat claims they want to do this evil to some other group (migrants, POCs, LGBT+, etc). You are either blind or part of their cult, hopefully former and not the latter.

[@metsman328]

@@btimbyindythe multiple pastors and politicians that literally say “We should kill all (insert group of specific people who should just be able to live their life)” I’m not saying it’s all of them, it most certainly isn’t all, but there’s still the percentage that do

[@sparky7915]

Shortly after Adolf Hitler got elected Albert Einstein left Germany.

[@docnightfall]

Human suffering is totally my jam. Loved the aesthetic of this presentation.

[@onlyalisaawilliams]

This type of thing is currently happening to another group of people , and the world was led to believe never again meant never again to anyone “that was lie”.

[@gmoney5506]

Oh really? What group

[@gabzilla8316]

“Led to believe”? By whom? Are you referring to most European and middle eastern nations who gleefully murdered, ghettoed and drive out Jewish refugees for centuries. Pretty sure Jews have learned not to trust empty promises by those countries

[@kassienova]

leaving the comments on was a mistake

[@andrewsabin729]

Everything changed when Germany started losing the invasion in Russia.

[@fredrodriguez8372]

And noone learned anything from it.

[@zachurich5046]

These just look like mostly peaceful protests to me...

[@allighast9714]

Hey look, parallels

[@potatoproductions4098]

Parallels to what?

[@Zenith118]

To Oct 7th yes

[@mishaspencer4377]

@@Zenith118when did Jews occupy more than half of Germany and constantly kill them in racist attacks? I fail to see any parallels here.

[@joscha9805]

Kristallnacht is actually viewed as trivializing in germany since ot refers to the shards of Glass having the beauty of Chrystalls. The term Reichpogromnacht is told in schools with Pogrom better describing the horrific events of that night.

[@samuelkletz6708]

Let me ask my grandma who was in an orphanage in Berlin that night and they tried to burn the place to the ground.

[@7996hobguy]

"Sacred Torah scrolls were desecrated". Did they burn the part that said: "The non Jew is to be used as cattle"?

[@ChristiaanHW]

(almost) every religion has bad phrases about other people in their religious texts. but the important part is what do the followers do with them, do they try to make them true, or do they acknowledge that it was written in a different time and those phrases are to be left in the past and not be made real. we can either erase those phrases and act like they were never there, or we raise above them.

[@7996hobguy]

@@ChristiaanHW That would make sense, if we weren't being treated as cattle. AIPAC is the one that chooses our presidential candidates. Who owns our banks, media, pharma? Half of congressmen hold dual citizenship with a certain foreign country. Same country that Epstein was working for.

[@ChristiaanHW]

@@7996hobguy well that all seems like USA problems. so it probably not due to one group of people but more because of badly written laws and an outdated constitution. things like the Holocaust begin by placing the fault of everything at the feet of one group of people. and (in this case) by placing it at the feet of the Jewish community, you are actively putting them in a bad light. and if enough people are fooled into the same ideas it ends up with things like the Holocaust. blame the person not the community that one bad apple (says he/she) belongs to.

[@Grassy_Gnoll]

The parallels between Nazis and Zionists is uncanny! Using an attack that was precipitated by oppression to inflict more oppression sounds particularly familiar.

[@tomhenry897]

Yet it’s the Palestinians calling for Jewish genocide

[@Zenith118]

@@Grassy_Gnoll who perpetrated Oct 7th again?

[@Phil-D83]

Even now, this can happen to anyone, and at anytime, if the situation is right for it. Pray that you are never on the receiving end of it or something similar to it.

[@nbarnes6225]

Prepping myself for when this happens in the US. Cuz we certainly seem to be following the same path, step-by-step.

[@prismpyre7653]

Will you do a story about April-Summer of 1933, when most of the LGBTQIA population was rounded up and sent to the camps and being Queer was criminalized? And most of the world, the Jewish groups etc all said NOTHING about it until it was THEM in danger.

[@margaretthatcher6828]

People still believe this story....wow.

[@MikeCosling]

I'll respect your opinion please don't tell me you support what Hitler did.

[@Conman-xc8px]

Isn’t it wierd that the USA had segregation 25 years after ww2 tho? I just thought of that

[@EchoMountain47]

It’s hard for us to imagine something like this happening today in modern western Society, but we need to remember that this kind of atrocity is only a few steps away at any given moment. You see the way people talk about the LGBTQ community, for example, with Increasingly dehumanizing language. That’s how these things start. Always question leaders who offer simple solutions and scapegoat other groups for the country’s problems

[@themouthofsauron6926]

Synagogue in LA was attacked yesterday

[@johi367]

​@@themouthofsauron6926They were protesting the selling of occupied Palestinian land in the west bank and East Jerusalem, which is an International Crime.

[@themouthofsauron6926]

@@johi367 in LA?

[@EchoMountain47]

@@woodchild2093 i’ve never heard of that but yes, bigotry can exist against any group. However, there’s a power dynamic at play when one group is the dominant group and another is not. I mean think of it like this: some employees might lash out at their bosses, but who holds the power to make that employees life a living hell? Their boss. Black people or LGBTQ people or whichever group were talking about can certainly hold bigoted views of the dominant groups, or even perpetrate violence against members of those groups, which is not OK, but ultimately that doesn’t translate into a fundamental changing of the structures of discrimination. I probably could have explained that better. I gave it a shot lol

[@Zenith118]

@@johi367 actually that land was sold legally to Jews between 1890 and 1920.

[@HowardCountyHerald]

Simon does so much nazi content he's giving the History Channel a run for its money.

[@adamredwine774]

He needs to start doing shark week...

[@zoltankaparthy9095]

After Kristallnacht all Germans knew.

[@CheekClapper69420]

OY VEY

[@docholiday5682]

If you think this can't happen in America then you need to do research on project 2025

[@AB-ee5tb]

Real question: How many KZbin channels does this guy have? I’ve counted 5 so far, but I’m sure I’m missing some

[@raitchison]

Every time someone asks this question Simon creates another channel.

[@AB-ee5tb]

@@raitchison god help us. Is this guy even a HUMAN BEING?

[@meeeka]

Wasn't sure, but wasn't he Friedlander related, (formerly married ?) to Magda Goebbels' mother? After he opened his home, protected and educated that "fine Lady" bringing up Magda and her sister in safety and luxury as his own kids?

[@courtneycooper4905]

History repeats itself..

[@waynerooney9661]

The similarities of how the Nazis treated jews in the 1930's to how Israel treats Palestinians today is sadly very grim and alarming!

[@tomhenry897]

It’s the Palestinians that attacked Israel and have Jewish genocide in their constitution

[@Zenith118]

@@waynerooney9661 lol what similarities? I don't see any

[@blingbongodaddy3011]

⁠​​⁠​⁠ you’re trying convince the grandchildren of holocaust survivors that Gaza is a concentration camp. How dare you use holocaust inversion to justify antisemitism. I don’t EVER recall concentration camps having beach’s, businesses, markets, food, vaccines, or humanitarian safe zones. You have no place to talk about Jewish suffrage, bastardise our culture, use our history, and then using our own suffering against us while denying our connection to it. Again, you are trying to convince grandchildren of REAL concentration camp survivors that what’s happening is the same. What’s happening is awful but nowhere close to concentration camps and the holocaust. Shame on you. You can condemn what’s happening without invoking the holocaust.

[@midnite_rambler]

I am ethnically Jewish, as my Mother was Jewish. Most of my direct family on her side were murdered. In the late 1800's her grandfather came to Australia as a teen with his parents and siblings, to escape persecutions that were happening then in parts of Europe. Unfortunately almost all my other relatives stayed and were murdered by the Nazis. While I support there being a Jewish state, I will never support Israeli occupation of anywhere. I am a pacifist, so I condemn what is happening in Palestine. Murder of a population is NEVER okay. No matter what the pretext or justification.

[@Zenith118]

So you support the existence of a Jewish state, you just don't want one that physically takes up space? Yeah that sounds about right.

[@adamredwine774]

"... I support there being a Jewish state, I will never support Israeli occupation of anywhere..." So... you just like the idea of a Jewish state, but not the reality of it. Like.. you do realize that for a state to exist, it does have to exist somewhere right?

[@midnite_rambler]

@@adamredwine774 And it does. Israel was given Arab land in 1948 by the UK. That doesn't give it carte blanche to invade, and occupy anywhere else. Which Israel has done since 1967 and the 6 day war. And you know as well as I do that there is a huge difference between being given a country to live in, Israel, and Occupation of a country that is not yours, Palestine. So don't be obtuse.

[@adamredwine774]

​@@midnite_rambler >Israel was given Arab land in 1948 by the UK. False. > That doesn't give it carte blanche to invade, and occupy anywhere else. Of course, even if your claim were true, which it is not. > Which Israel has done since 1967 and the 6 day war. False. > And you know as well as I do that there is a huge difference between being given a country to live in, Israel, and Occupation of a country that is not yours, Palestine. Israel was not "given" a country to live in. Israel stopped occupying Gaza in 2005. > So don't be obtuse. When you stop spreading ignorance and calling for my death, I'll consider caring about your opinion. Not until then.

[@Noneofyourbusiness_.I._]

🤢🤮

[@justinakers3196]

I'm proud of myself for remembering "the night of broken glass" and deducing it from the German spelling since I can't speak German for shit

[@Matt-mj2iv]

What about the night of the Long knives

[@1FokkerAce]

This video was brought to you by Magnus Hirschfeld.

[@Patrick_919]

The books the Nazis burned were about sex changes and other depraved things.

[@Noneofyourbusiness_.I._]

They never really tell you why it happened

[@dabidibup]

Somehow the people who smashed businesses as a political move gained support.

[@chericoffman6321]

And like the dog that returns to its own vomit, so fools return to their own folly.

[@gavinmyloff2230]

We're heading towards it again, every single weekend in my local city centre i hear the chants from thousands who justify it by blaming Israel for fighting for its innocent civilian hostages back, i always thought antisemitism was overplayed until 7th October 2023, nope it wasnt overplayed it had just been waiting on its calling for the antisemities to come out of the woodwork like cockroaches on mass, im not jewish & where i live in dundee have never met a jew yet i fear for that community with great dread & will stand by them even against my own so called Liberal family members who march against the jews at every opportunity claiming to be kind when really they are juat justifing hate, it has shattered my relationship with them but so be it #standupforjews 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 🤝 🇮🇱 ✡️ 🕎

[@Zenith118]

Some of us have been calling out antisemitism on the left for over a decade yet nobody wanted to listen

[@infinitivez]

As a Jew, I do not support what the state of Israel has wrought against the Palestinian people. It is not a "defense", it is a planned and systematic genocide. Don't stand for it. We are not a people of a regime who defends the slaughter of innocent civilians in the name of revenge. Don't make the mistake of defending us wholesale. As with any people, we are capable of being wrong. In the case of Israel, there is a big difference between that of a Jew and that of a Jewish state controlled by a butcher.

[@Zenith118]

​@@infinitivez I've never met an 'as a Jew' that wasn't either a Messianic or an Islamist propagandist.

[@noxe6413]

🍉

[@Zenith118]

@@noxe6413 stunning and brave

[@rogerpenske2411]

It sounds pretty much like any given day and any American college campus

[@claywest9528]

Ironically, Vom Rath was actually sympathetic to German Jews.

[@BMWE90HQ]

Not much has changed. 2020 “summer of love” sounds similar to.

[@philmanson2991]

It will be a joyful day when humans move past silly sky-god myths.

[@Zenith118]

@@philmanson2991 r/atheism r/iamverysmart called

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

Such a confession of ignorance and inadequacy impresses nobody but you. Better to keep quiet, be thought a fool, than speak up and remove all doubt.

[@archstanton6102]

​@@EllieMaes-Grandad You think a god exists? Please present any fact checked evidence and peer reviewed sources to support your claim?

[@Orbis92]

What does the unspeakable crimes of the Nazis have to do with any god(s)? Existing or not... The Nazis didn't ask anyone if they belief in god, they went through birth certificates, ancestor records and so on to find every last member of a group of people they used to create a common enemy so they can change laws, overtake businesses and create a slave work force for their war efforts regardless if they belief in god or not. I don't get it, do you really think the killing of millions of jews could have been prevented if "they didn't belief in (a) god" or what do you want to say? It would just have hit any other minority if religion wouldn't exist...

[@musashi939]

​@@EllieMaes-Grandadit impresses nobody but a statement of fact got you triggered.

[@tomambrosio5527]

Unfortunately, american universities want to reenact to this event today.

[@midnite_rambler]

Anti genocide is not Antisemitism. And the Palestinians are a Semitic people. Semitic does not equal Jewish.

[@onlyalisaawilliams]

The students are protesting against genocide/ ethnic cleansing/ they want to slaughter to stop.

[@mr.nemesis6442]

@@midnite_ramblerthere is no genocide. If the war in Gaza was a attempt at genocide then the Israelis are doing a comically bad job at it.

[@adamredwine774]

@@midnite_rambler If the college N4ZIs were "anti-genocide," they would be calling for an end to Hamas whose charter literally calls for gen0cide and whose supporters continue to call for gen0cide with chants of "intifada." The people you are talking about are literally pro-gen0cide.

[@tomhenry897]

Yes it is

[@michelvondenhoff9673]

German band BAP made a really good song about this topic. Kristallnaach (Cologne dialect).

[@jennyanydots2389]

This is when it got real shifty brugh.

[@cojanemanuel8319]

Jews were always prosecuted through history and I really dont understand why..

[@raitchison]

@@cojanemanuel8319 Because Jews have been a religious minority in every country they've existed in for most of recorded history. Makes them convenient scapegoats.

[@jaybone305]

Will you do a video on the Gazan Genocide?

[@HikuroMishiro]

Considering Simon is literally a Mossad asset, never.

[@Zenith118]

No, this is a nonfiction channel.

[@Hammerhead547]

No such thing is happening. Hamas shouldn't have started a war and then hid behind their own citizens, treating them as human sheilds.

[@dreamthief22]

It's so funny how every channel that covers dark topics about history, suddenly after years of existence, you are now deciding to talk about what the germans did to the jews. As if, as if Gaza isn't bombarded every day since October, right? Right? As if we didn't see parts of kids here and there, and the pain and the fear in their eyes. As if we didn't see their parents screaming with dead bodies of their kids in their hands, dead because of the bombings? The bombings that hmmmmm those that you now try to make us feel bad for, did. You should be ashamed. If you want to talk about atrocities, go on , talk about Gaza.

[@talkowalski6930]

He should be ashamed of not exactly covering your whims and desires? and with your political spin on the narrative? If I claim you should be ashamed for not blaming Hamas for the Palestinian misfortune, the lack of responsibility taken from them, or from those who funded the Gazan war machine that started this, will you? Will you listen and respect me more if I demand my perspective and your cooperation? grow up.

[@dreamthief22]

@@talkowalski6930 are you even able to read and understand?

[@talkowalski6930]

@@dreamthief22 yes

[@dreamthief22]

@@talkowalski6930 it doesn't really seem like it.

[@talkowalski6930]

@@dreamthief22 Well I read and answered your bs, didn't I?