My Nazi Family | Silent History | Full Documentary

After the WW2, German solders returned home and kept quiet about their actions. What was the price of this silence?
The atrocities committed by the Nazis have been widely discussed at a general level since the Second World War. Less attention has been paid to the fact that the perpetrators of the atrocities have kept quiet about their actions to their own descendants.
This wall of silence has descended around the actions that have been done but that have not been handled and talked about within families. The silence has grown these things into problems that will last for generations.
The documentary My Nazi Family opens perspectives on the consequences of silence and why the antisemitism is growing again. This is reflected in the true stories of the three German families, where the past and the present meet in surprising ways.
The documentary deals with themes of hatred, war and violence and is not recommended for children under 12 years of age
Director: Ruut Ahonen
Interviewees: Jobst Bittner, Frank Pfeiffer, Caroline Hohnecker, Friedhelm Chmell, Rita Kasimow Brown
Length: 45 minutes
Languages: English ja German (subtitled English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese and Finnish)
Published: April 2022
Producer: Mika Ahonen
Production: Hurttimurtti
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[@madonnaroberts8202]

Powerful, moving and hopeful. I had never considered the trauma passed on in perpetrators families. These family members are very courageous for facing the past.

[@applesandpears9756]

True. My father was a Nazi. He never spoke about it.

[@mavjimbo]

No need, move on

[@MaxPower-if3yz]

It took a 30 piece pack of KFC to reach this family,but it wasn't enough, could only make one flight of stairs before I was out of breath and heading back for another 30(before they closed,I was on nights) However after 125 surgery I started to come right, I am feeling a lot better and have nothing to fear now Thanks dad x

[@lucianogardino9339]

Be Proud of your Ancestor... DON'T CRY... THERE IS NOTHING THAT YOU HAVE FEEL ASHAMED... YOU ARE NOT GUILTY...YOU DON'T BELONG TO THE PAST... IS GONE

[@lunakocher1838]

@@lucianogardino9339Non è vero! Cerca solo e trovi informazioni per quello,che succedeva e succede ancora oggi! Bandiera e il nome!

[@kjk8941]

I am German myself. My grandfather was forced to fight on the French front in the Second World War. He was only 15 years old. One day, soldiers came and simply took him away as the eldest son in the family. There was no "I don't want to." You either went with them or you were shot. They are also said to have threatened his whole family, including his younger siblings. His uncle had already "disappeared" at this point after making negative comments about the regime. He only spoke to me once about the war and he was shaking and crying. He was a good person and wasn't a bad father either. I just wanted to say that here. Not all German soldiers were also Nazis.

[@mimithemermaid3860]

I wish they would have included English subtitles when people were speaking German. Danke for sharing ur perspective on it.

[@kayasnyder2042]

i am 100% ashkenazi jewish. i do not hate all the nazis. i was not raised to hate all the nazis. i can not speak for all jews but we are told about our past and the dangers of being jewish in this world but we are also told that even within the parties like the nazi regime there were kind beacons of light and people who only did what they did out of fear and that we should not hate them but instead feel sorry. i do not hate all nazis (i hate many none the less) but more so i hate what the nazi regime did to the german people 🤍 our people work together now and that’s all that matter

[@nikolavasic5903]

Ooo, I'm so sorry about your poor dear grandfather. He was a sweetheart I'm sure.

[@ee-ms9dj]

​You can set the undertitels to english, already available under the settings by the way 😊​@mimithemermaid3860

[@VeronicaMoreno-qd8yh]

@kjk8941, *where I heard that before?? "It was them, not me". Typical German Nazi excuse.*

[@leobell3502]

This is one of the greatest documentaries ever regarding WW2. This is the first documentary that I know of from the perspective of a Nazi family and the painful guilt they're feeling to this very day because of the crimes of the generations before them. The forgiveness that they're asking for for crimes they did not commit, but for the crimes of their forefathers is profound and heart breaking. This documentary, among many others about WW2, should be shown in all history classes throughout the world. It's more than just about the Jews and the Nazis, it's about humanity and how all peoples should treat each other with respect, compassion, tolerance, understanding, foregiveness and even love. Indifference is destructive, muderous and at times castastrophic. Leo

[@johnhenderson131]

This is a perfect example of why history is so important and why we must understand and learn from the past. To ensure such horror, misery, suffering and death is never repeated.

[@wor53lg50]

This saying is getting boring now, think of a new jingle instead of this same boring euphemism that all boring people keep copying and repeating...get creative and mix it up a little...

[@kumarj4693]

Humans only learn one thing from the horrible past and history. How to mix shyte up, continue the same bigotries and biases but added with more intricate twists and spices, cherry pick through data to back their narratives, and repeat history over and over.

[@johnnyc1227]

​@wor53lg50 when we don't have past examples we think our ideas are new & think Communism is an altruistic lifestyle or

[@wor53lg50]

@@johnnyc1227 every swinging dick should and must be expected to fight if their homelands are invaded, even the woke lefty damp turds who use this saying as a cop out?... They either run until cant run no more or collaborate?! , what sort of person chooses those two options anyway?...

[@johnhenderson131]

@@johnnyc1227 You are unfortunately correct.

[@carinfoce9641]

A profound insight. Thank you for sharing. As an Afrikaans South African I relate to this very deeply.

[@user-fd1yc3dd6n]

Are you not ashamed to say this?

[@LibreSAUK]

​@@user-fd1yc3dd6n You appear to be wrongfully jumping to your own conclusions about what this person is saying. I lived through apartheid, I spoke out against it, twice suffering incarceration and a beating at the hands of my captors. Tragically the new South African government is also practicing racially discriminatory policies against all non-black South Africans. Under President Mandela, who I was privileged to meet, they briefly held the moral high ground, they have since completely lost it due to their rampant corruption and destructive racial policies.

[@user-fd1yc3dd6n]

@@LibreSAUK All South Africans ought to be ashamed

[@LibreSAUK]

@user-fd1yc3dd6n All South Africans should be ashamed?? Including those of us that oppose all bigotry, no matter the colour, nationality, or religion of the bigot?? Perhaps you need to look in the mirror before pointing fingers

[@user-fd1yc3dd6n]

@@LibreSAUK All South Africans should be very ashamed you are bigoted racist people

[@patriciastupak3264]

Incredibly brave people to face their families past and to face their own broken hearts.God bless all of you...

[@MsTachke]

Yes they are it's hard to face the past of your family, I will still be guilty for what happened in the past.

[@viriatosilva7451]

@@MsTachke Why???🤔🤔🤔

[@MsTachke]

​@@viriatosilva7451it's a very sad story but my real grandfather was a German officer and he has done a lot of bad things.

[@viriatosilva7451]

@@MsTachke but is not wour fault:🙏🙏🙏

[@MsTachke]

​@@viriatosilva7451that's true but I feel guilty in his place.

[@t.l.1610]

9:56 These clips always hit hard for me. I took care of one of these girls, as an older woman in hospice. She’d have night terrors & rip at her arm, ripping skin off. During the day, she’d talk but often stare off in silence, thousand yard stare. I’ll never forget it. Nothing but respect for these family’s doing this level soul searching and digging for answers to questions they don’t really want the answers to. Gives me hope. ❤

[@CQ-369]

How sad.

[@shaft_raiser]

This is such a refreshing view of WWII from a side you almost never hear about. These men are my father's age and to find out your grandfather was part of the killing machine must be hard to swallow to say the least.

[@susannabonke8552]

So true.

[@anasapsana824]

And yet there are countries with real ex SS members marshing down the streets during parade 😶 like it was in Latvia or Ukraine 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@matthewherringshaw9668]

Why would it be hard.... if my gpa was a nazi it would not effect me just like as an American iv never owned a slave so why would a black man calling me a slaver because im white bother me.... it dont because the modern black man has never picked cotton unless its fro the top of an asprin bottle....

[@martinweber1618]

99% of germans did not commit any crimes tho.

[@eter999]

​@@anasapsana824 Excelent !!!

[@dokskwyr4353]

Powerful, moving, and inspirational. Should be required viewing world-wide. Think of how much suffering it could help resolve.

[@mariesaez236]

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[@debbiemerls]

I am British. My grandparents served during World War Two. This was a very moving and frank documentary. Thank you to the people for sharing what must be very difficult stories.

[@jean6872]

Please tell us what you think of Dresden.

[@viriatosilva7451]

@@jean6872 very good question...🤔🤔🤔😢😢😢

[@Fjodor.Tabularasa]

@debbiemerls Do you feel responsible for the countless massacres of the British over the centuries? Do you feel responsible for the murder of Lizzie van Zyl in a British extermination camp in South Africa?

[@junglegymbali5136]

I feel very sorry about my ancestors did with England and the rest of the world and the Russian did not learn from it right

[@ryanstevens1855]

This is fake news propaganda at its finest. Trash "reporting"

[@chrismack5908]

I learned through tough times that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference. Thank you truly for this video. It touched me deeply.

[@mattiaskaeg9064]

Bei uns ist in der Familie auch nichts bekannt von der damaligen Zeit. Ein Großvater hat Selbstmord begangen und der andere ist in Pforzheim aufgewachsen nach dem Krieg und hat nie etwas über seine Kindheit und Jugend erzählen wollen bis er gestorben ist. Ganz großartige Arbeit und danke für die persönlichen Einblicke an alle Teilnehmer. MfG Matthias

[@rcrinsea]

Wow, it sounds like both your grandfathers may have had skeletons in their closets.

[@mattiaskaeg9064]

@@rcrinsea i would never say that. My granddads are both have been born in 1938. Our country was in ruins after the allies freed the world from the Nazis. Of course Hitler started the war but a first grader doesnt have any guilt.

[@Krzemieniewski1]

​@@rcrinseaYour grandparents, born in 1938, could not have had any part in building the Third Reich. Their parents are different. I know the history of my grandparents and great-grandparents - grandparents, the defensive war of 1939, one finished the war in Berlin with the Red Army, the other in London as an aircraft mechanic. One great-grandfather participated in the Greater Poland Uprising, for which he was recently posthumously awarded. He was also the first mayor after regaining independence. I think it's very good to be able to know the history of your ancestors and I wish you the same opportunity, regardless of what history it is from today's point of view.

[@pinklady5559]

Very sad how hate is passed down through the family line and projected into the world , so much has to change to heal the world .

[@dementedopossum8148]

My father was 15 when the war ended, he never spoke about it but it was clear to see he suffered from survivors guilt. He would watch a war movie and then have nightmares. He was emotionally fairly closed off. No hugs or kisses, no emotions, boys don't cry...

[@elyjane8316]

Same here

[@mapa6772]

Of course there was war trauma in Germany and that is part of a shared human experience. Survivor's guilt is a very unrepentant term. Like they were supposed to have committed suicide like their Fuhrer for a stupid ideology.

[@marlena3789]

Survivors guilt? 🙄. You better do some research about Rheinwiesenlager

[@carpathiangirl8460]

I came across a book written by a descendant of a Hungarian noble family who describes and acknowledges the actions of family members who collaborated with the Nazis in WWII. I thought it was a courageous book. As descendents of ancestors who committed war crimes, we have an obligation to seriously acknowledge the atrocities thst took place and our families role in those atrocities. I also think that we have an obligation to atone for those deeds by ensuring that in our own behaviour we treat all with respect and particularly treat minorities with dignity and respect. The book referred to is by Sacha Bathayany 2017 A Crime in the Family: A World War Secret Buried in Silence and My Search for the Truth.

[@yuliafrik2474]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@ashtonupton413]

Everyone is responsible for their own actions & NOT the actions of family members.

[@isabellajanelee]

Thank you , I will look for this book. ❤

[@serpentines6356]

​@@ashtonupton413 While this is true, I understand the need to ask forgiveness by these decendants of Nazis whose parents, grandparents committed, or looked away from the terrible murdering, torturing, and inhumane treatment of millions of people. To really be able to feel the pain they already had inside of them, and be able to move on from that. Beautiful documentary about people's need to heal, and move towards creating a better life.

[@rameshbhattacharjee4374]

Absolutely Spooky, The 4 Year Old Girl Speaking Her First Sentence "All Jews Must Be Killed", It was like as if the ghost of her grandfather entered her body and started speaking"

[@evangelineniangti4996]

Where there is great pain...there is also great love... So grateful for this documentary and the speakers... it's something I have always wondered...🙏

[@zinam7480]

Beautiful documentary. I don't think that the children and grandchildren are Responsible for their ancestors crimes. But I think it is crucial that the new generations learn their family history so it will not happen again. I think it takes guts and humility to look at their family history as it was.

[@TheMaryk82]

Wow. I'm a 40 year old german woman, my grandmother was born in 1931. Her family was evacuated when war had reached the little village they were living. Our hometown was hit 3 times by allied bombers because the frontline went straight through the village they were living for about 4 month. My grandma was a young girl when they were told to be safe back at home, but they were not. The 3. Attack hit their home an she was burried under the remains of their house for 2 days, until the allied arrived and saved them. My grandmothers family were constantly trying to escape and survive war. Honestly I feel no guild but I feel like I had been in a rush my whole life, I feel like I want to hide because I don't want to bee seen..trying to escape from something I can't see or something I don't know. It took me years to figure out, that granmas emotions are still running through my blood.

[@hernandemornay7559]

Save her ? They try to kill her first, remember the allies target was civilians

[@junglesuperstar9270]

Very very very good that you feel like that .

[@TheMaryk82]

@@junglesuperstar9270 what do you mean by that ? Not every german was evil and not every german was a nazi back in time, lot of german farmers lost their land and existence to build up Siegfried line. Most of them didn't want that war either and were also victims by the nazis, at the end of war they were forced to fight, because no soldiers were left. What choice did they have ? I'm not proud about germanys past, and the bad things wich had happened. I'm feeling sorry for every victim of this horrible and unnecessary war, but I'm feeling also sad for every german, wich lost their life, family or home. And also the ones, who still suffers from the past, on every side.

[@junglesuperstar9270]

@@TheMaryk82 most of them did not want ? You know who else did not want ? My relatives who were killed . Whose towns and villages were burnt. Was Germany burnt to ashes? Nope . Was 26 millions of Germans killed ? Nope again . Yes , I am glad that for all sufferings that Germany caused to my family you are feeling not ok . Ohh. I forgot Germany actually has been involved in a war . Sending weapons and tanks . What’s your excuse ? Germans did not want that . No lesson learnt . Just shame.

[@TheMaryk82]

@@junglesuperstar9270 please learn more about german history, and not the history wich was written by winners. I feel sorry for what happened, but I'm not guilty. Half Europe took part on what happened, by staying silent and doing nothing. And the hate you are carring with you, shows me that you do not know nothing and have not learned anything either.

[@maggietinsley2516]

It brings me such joy to see that Christ is the motivation for many to bring restoration.

[@patriciadaw1210]

This was a great documentary. I had a different experience as an American. When doing family history search I found that my family were from Scotland and Ireland. They immigrated just before the civil war and they never owned slaves and I was very glad to know that. Being from the south though my father was racist. I was always ashamed of that and determined that I would not be that way. I also taught my children that racism is wrong. I wanted to break that generational curse and with Gods help I did. I still carry a lot of sadness and even shame that my country was a place where black people were sold and traded like animals and families were broken apart and treated so badly. It is a stain on our country that needs the same healing from God as the germans in this documentary. I think the reason there is still so much racial tension in this country is because there has never been a genuine repentance from this sin.

[@jasoncarey157]

😂

[@judyplimpton9583]

Amen

[@dennisddd8243]

I to came from Irish and Scottish descendants befor the civil war. I grew up in Northern Middle Tennessee. I understand your comment but I wonder if you do. Tennessee was a divided state when it came to slavery. But like the rest of the country more than 90 percent of the Southern population did not own slaves and most did not agree with slavery.. It was the upper rich class not only from the south and not surprisingly a lot from the north who owned or had investments in slaves and slave plantations that lived in the North. Our very own Irish ancestry once were slaves themselves and were treated worse than probably the slaves in America.. Slavery goes back to biblical days and most countries or civilizations throughout the world at one point of time has a history of slavery or even worst. Slavery is not about the color of your skin ,slavery is about the rich and powerful over the weaker and poor. The civil war was about slavery to a large extent for most people especially the rich and powerful however there were many against slavery who did not own slaves but still fought in the civil war. The war was originally about the south leaving the union of States.. Lincoln himself said and I quote, if i thought that not ending slavery Would end the war then the war could be over tomorrow. It was an agriculture based economy at the time and without the South the north would not be able to fund itself significantly enough and would probably starve. The first spark of the civil war was what the south view has over taxation of Southern ports. But of course slavery was and is an abomination, there were many northerners who supported slavery and we're just as racist as the South. But once America ended slavery in its own country then with Great Britain the US helped bring an end of slavery and slave trading around the world. From the beginning of the founding of our country nowhere else in the world have had a shorter spin of slavery and had fought as hard as fast to bring it to an end.. But make no mistake history repeats itself, slavery is still alive even today. One country in Africa only legally brought an end to slavery until 1985. However they still practice slavery with a type of don't ask don't tell policy especially throughout the Middle East. Slavery is evil and ungodly regardless of the color of your skin, religion, ethnicity.. its ilrational thinking of ruthless and greedy ideals.

[@def6420]

You should give away your posessions then.

[@def6420]

I am Polish we never had colonies, slaves or camps. I would give away everything I have if they did.

[@christineribone9351]

i worked with at a german company. my coworker told me her father was an SS officer. she grinned and said "we were kids, we didnt know." That ear to ear grin told me exactly what she felt. There werent tears or shame like this video shows.

[@christineribone9351]

@@sonjajolovic718 what language is this?

[@christineribone9351]

@@sonjajolovic718Please translate, what is he saying?

[@kommando5562]

Did her grandfather 360 no scope Jeffery Epsteins father?

[@truthhearit1471]

Maybe she will figure it out and revise her thoughts on the subject. I pray she will.

[@christineribone9351]

@@truthhearit1471 she was a grown woman in late 30's. she knew what she was doing.

[@dolldoll2914]

👩🏻‍💻Thank you for a very thought provoking film. As we don't need to repent of others sins and transgressions but we can recognize why they did, what they did, and accept in our own minds how that effected the generations to come and that bleeding needs to stop. This concept can be applied to me as I stopped my ex husband's abusive actions toward our children. I had to understand why he felt that way and I had to look toward his abuser, his father, then to his abuser, the grandfather, ... &c. I had to stand in the way of the abuse spilling over the next generation, my children. Yes, it was hard, but what did my children have to do with generational abuse? I wanted to free them of this scourge, free them to love each other and themselves. Once again thank you for this film and how love and forgiveness can and will change lives from the very foundation of life.🙋‍♀️🥰🇺🇲🇬🇧

[@ifechi3698]

You’re all brave to broach this horrible crime. Your heart is in the right place. We can’t go back to yesterday but you stand as witnesses for both the survivors & those who perished. Forgiveness is a journey. More importantly, it’s action. Brethren you’ve started the journey & your actions say it all. The God of heaven is pleased. We all have a responsibility to stand against evil, to comfort the broken hearted & tend to those who mourn!

[@yuliafrik2474]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@john1606ful]

I am a 72 year old Englishman , who has watched lots of WW2 docs , and still to this day I can't see what the Jewish people did wrong and to be hated by so many people

[@samwinchester218]

No One show what they had do for 1930 that is why all think there good People, it's dumb to think only Jews are great and all other not. It's dumb War Fake News and how cares. We have Problems now and the History of Human is full with War. I don't care longer those Lies.

[@wor53lg50]

You cant live in london then or youd know..

[@uptoolate2793]

I have an English friend who just turned 78. He's quite thick about such things too.

[@edgardoaltmann8619]

Well. They began their russian Revolution shooting 3 millón cristans

[@john1606ful]

As it happens , you couldn't be more wrong , I lived the early years in Islington , where I was born , then moved to Bermondsey , where I am now , so please tell me what I'm missing

[@johnmyszka2749]

Being the son of Polish survivors, my entire life has been shaped by the trauma they endured. My childhood was one of mental and physical abuse on a daily basis. Despite this, antisemitism was unbelievably a part of my upbringing. It is only now in my mid fifties that I can reconcile the hurt, anger, shame and scars that nearly overwhelmed me. It is comforting to know that others are confronting their family history from either side of the holocaust and extending a hand of love and healing. Knowing that you are not alone is so wonderfully comforting. From my perspective, I am a devout atheist. I don't define anyone as being a Jew, Christian, Buddhist or whatever. I only see people, as fallible beings that need my support and love as much as I do theirs. I only mention this as prayer and Christianity is such a prominent part of this otherwise excellent documentary. Other belief systems outside of mainstream religion should be equally recognised and legitimised in this context. Peace and healing to you all

[@judytuhy5287]

29:10

[@johnnyc1227]

The Nazi's denied God as well as Communists & made themselves their own god. They all denied the obvious Creator of creation & made up their own ethics.

[@tlk0216]

Dear atheist. Everything you touch and use every day was designed and made by someone why should you be any different?

[@kinderleichtlerneneasypeas6885]

Dear friend. I understand your argument, but may you think about the reason why this video was made from christians? Maybe the believe in Jesus Christ has sonething to do with foregiveness?

[@venkataramananrengan1913]

These tears prove that humanity will survive as long as human beings live on this earth. A grandson, granddaughter shedding tears for the misdeeds of their forefathers. Doors of heaven wii stay open for people like These ones.

[@marcelbork92]

Als Deutscher habe ich ÜBERHAUPT KEIN "Trauma". Das einzige was ich bedauere ist, daß ich nicht damals gelebt habe.

[@Blonde111]

And yet, antisemitism is rising up again in the world

[@Joe-gp7rz]

@marcelbork92 Als Mittäter ? Als Widerdtänder?

[@Joe-gp7rz]

Widerständer?

[@theresepfister8164]

​@@marcelbork92dann... bin ich so dankbar, dass ich dir nie begegnen muss...(auch wenn ich nicht Jüdin bin. Danke Gott, dass du heute lebst sonst wärest du vielleicht auch zum Massenmörder geworden....

[@nancycrowe9063]

I feel so sorry for these sons and daughters that have to live with this I’m glad they are not following in their footsteps God bless them 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤

[@susannabonke8552]

Thank you so much. Angela Merkel was pro Israel. This is the indicator if Germany stays blessed or not. A chancellor abandoning Israel brings a curse.

[@RedDirtAlleyPhotography]

Wonderful! I cried through the whole thing! Now, if only we could get the entire world to watch it...

[@yuliafrik2474]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@dokskwyr4353]

Agreed. The whole world should.

[@olavwilhelm6843]

is the whole world reading about the massacres on american indians ? is the whole world reading about the terrible things that happened in Belgian Congo ? Napoleon caused 6 million dead in his wars and became a french hero!! We need to stop wining about the past that can't be undone and concentrate on all the problems today

[@Oksana-zn3ib]

​​​@@olavwilhelm6843я не припомню чтобы немцы покаялись за геноцид русского народа, за искалеченные судьбы Как это забыть? миллионов людей.тридцать 0:10 😢

[@hagestad]

But factually incorrect. 3:05 what? In Poland? Historically Poland saved most Jewish and that is recognized by Yad Vashem. Yet Germans are somehow convicted that Polish people have regrets about how they helped Jews. All this years after the war and they are still lying. Oh btw fun fact when Israeli Knesset started in 1948 they were all speaking Polish language since it was most common language in Israel at the time.

[@fly509]

It is impossible to watch a movie without tears! In June 1941, my grandfather was called up from Murmansk to defend our Homeland (USSR). My wife and three daughters (my mother was five years old, my sisters were 3 years old and a year old) were evacuated to the Arkhangelsk region. In 1945, my grandfather was wounded in Poland and met him at the hospital on May 9...And Grandpa never talked about the war. It was such a difficult topic for him! I'm proud of my grandfather! And thank him very much that his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren have a clear conscience! ALL THE WORLD!

[@williamtolbert5011]

Pray for the healing of the mind and spirit of all those who kept silence as those who were considered profaned and unworthy of human life were murdered for an ideology of HATE THY NEIGHBOR. THOSE WHO FORGET THE PAST ARE CONDEMED TO REPEAT IT. VERY POWERFUL DOCUMENTARY. VERY TELLING. MY PRAYER IS THAT THE NEXT GENERATION WILL NOT ALLOW THIS EVIL AND WILL UNDERSTAND THAT WE ALL BELONG TO GOD AND TO EACH OTHER NO MATTER HOW WE FEEL OR BELIEVE. BLESSED BE

[@keridrowatzky9543]

One doesn't have to ask for the forgiveness of past family members and what they did. You only need ask for forgiveness for your own sinful actions and heart.

[@firdoshvirjee3592]

I absolutely with you 💯

[@ccorreialoureiro]

This was one of the most beautiful documentaries I've ever watched, and surely one of the most moving themes on WWII, which still seems to be going on in some ways. Thank you!

[@michaelfrost4584]

Thank you for this video, lm a 66yrs old Australian Military veteran. My German great, great, great Grandmother come to Australia for a better life back in the early to mid 1800s. War is a terrible thing as we know,during the 1st world war l lost a number of great uncles killed by Germans, during the 2nd world war my father and uncles fought overseas. As for me l have served and fought overseas. I have German, Scottish, Irish, English and Spanish in my heritage which lm very proud of. My daughter married a German and lives in Germany, my grandchildren are half Australian and German. I love my son in law , what makes me sad is how he has told me , even today to young Germans are SOOOOOO sorry and ashamed of their past. As l said to him, don't be it's NOT you fault, you are a good person, don't blame yourself for your Grandparents faults. Also let me remind you a lot of Germans were killed because they hated Hitler.

[@dennisgross8061]

Don’t be,it’s not your fault,live teached you nothing,66

[@kinderleichtlerneneasypeas6885]

@@dennisgross8061 Now you have heard it, war is a terrible thing 😞

[@bd12544]

It is uplifting to see people working hard to be better and do better. The world today is full of needless suffering and indifference. It can make you feel defeated spiritually.

[@cesar_145]

My grandfather was of the Spanish and Mexican descent and with his three brothers they enlisted in the Spanish Blue Division and fought for Germany, only three came back and he was very proud that he fought for Germany. He came back with very band grenade wound in his leg that my father gently took care of it.

[@wolfganggugelweith8760]

My father had to join as a young Austrian 🇦🇹 the German army as a mountain ranger and I have no problem with that. He was a good and nice man and he told me that he never did anything against humanity. I believe him till this day. Greetings from Linz Austria 🇦🇹 Europe!

[@pedroviaud1119]

Love is stronger than hatred, love always wins, it takes more courage to love than to hate

[@suegibson9643]

Absolutely incredible. Thank you for sharing your so very personal experiences

[@marioncannon9924]

I have met Germans of my age (born just after WW2) and found them to be the most empathetic, giving people. I am sure this is because of the burden of their parents "sins" that they wish to attone for

[@user-fd1yc3dd6n]

Germans are the Dregs of Humanity

[@megankeil5228]

I think they have plenty to atone for!

[@user-fd1yc3dd6n]

Yes I agree@@megankeil5228

[@lelandroth635]

Or not worth fight the🇮🇱lies? "No German plans, or orders from Hitler, or from Himmler or anyone else have ever been found for an organized holocaust by gas and cremation of Jews. This is extraordinary as such a massive use of resources and transportation would have required massive organization, budgets and resources. What documents do show is Hitler’s plan to relocate European Jews to Madagascar after the war’s end. With the early success of the Russian invasion, this plan was changed to sending the European Jews to the Jewish Bolsheviks in the eastern part of Russia that Hitler was going to leave to Stalin. There are documented orders given by Hitler preventing massacres of Jews. Hitler said over and over that “the Jewish problem” would be settled after the war. It seems that most of the massacres of Jews were committed by German political administrators of occupied territories in the east to whom Jews from Germany and France were sent for relocation. Instead of dealing with the inconvenience, some of the administrators lined them up and shot them into open trenches. Other Jews fell victim to the anger of Russian villagers who had long suffered under Jewish Bolshevik administrators. The “death camps” were in fact work camps. Auschwitz, for example, today a Holocaust museum, was the site of Germany’s essential artificial rubber factory. Germany was desperate for a work force. A significant percentage of German war production labor had been released to the Army to fill the holes in German lines on the Russian front. War production sites, such as Auschwitz, had as a work force refugees displaced from their homes by war, Jews to be deported after war’s end, and anyone else who could be forced into work. Germany desperately needed whatever work force it could get. Every camp had crematoriums. Their purpose was not to exterminate populations but to dispose of deaths from the scourge of typhus, natural deaths, and other diseases. Refugees were from all over, and they brought diseases and germs with them. The horrific photos of masses of skeleton-like dead bodies that are said to be evidence of organized extermination of Jews are in fact camp inmates who died from typhus and starvation in the last days of the war when Germany was disorganized and devoid of medicines and food for labor camps. The great noble Western victors themselves bombed the labor camps and contributed to the deaths of inmates." Paul Craig Roberts "The Lies of WW2"

[@karapana8398]

facism is not a matter of empathy or psychology. It is one way of ruling in capitalism. capitalism in crisis needs fascism. And as you can see, it comes up again. not only in germany!

[@touchedbyfire99]

This was very moving and profoundly insightful! I felt the pain of these poor brave souls in their battle with the legacy of the past. But there is wonderful love and hope here as well and I am glad they are finding peace. Generational trauma is real and it is powerful. We all carry the pain of our ancestors in our souls and maybe even in our dna, and in the cases in this film, where no pain was felt, but should have been.

[@marcelbork92]

Als Deutscher habe ich ÜBERHAUPT KEIN "Trauma". Das einzige was ich bedauere ist, daß ich nicht damals gelebt habe.

[@user-yz8pw9dv2n]

This vitaly important production should be shown on every tv channel and every cinema in the world.Every person should see this,they disturbingly still need to see this and listen and learn from it.

[@RUTH-mb4th]

A very moving account of healing that comes when we bring the sins of our forefathers into the light . Thank you for being brave enough to share your stories Praise Adonai And the love for Israel shines through

[@stevebrindle1724]

Bollocks to Isreal and please help the Palestinian people now being murdered by theNazi swine Help them please they need it now fight the Nazi swine!

[@lynnschaeferle-zh4go]

I truly believe in epigenetics after studying my husband’s German family and my own Hungarian background. My Hungarian grandfather was forced by the Germans at age 13 to fight. He was shot. And my Dutch relatives starved. All 3 of my half German children are on the spectrum; as are all the German men. They are all very good at masking emotion. All of our families came to the U.S. with extreme prejudices.

[@rotkehlchen1881]

Your comment is very interesting. I‘m German, my husband as well. We‘ve got so many problems with our children, especially being bullied at school and even in Christian groups, longing for faithful friends, becoming more and more weak and isolated and late diagnosed with autism…. I still don’t know the origin but even being hung seams to be a topic. Yes, masking they learned perfect, forgetting who they are. Traumatised grandparents….

[@ellacarter1442]

​@@rotkehlchen1881mi

[@gravitypronepart2201]

Hatred of others is a result of sin which effects every human. There's no antisemitism gene, but there is cultural bias passed on from parents to kids. We all need to deal with our own sin, not the sin of our ancestors.

[@lynnschaeferle-zh4go]

@@gravitypronepart2201 I agree and that’s why so many of us have opposite opinions from our families. However now doctors (through statistics) are finding traumatized brains changes the neural network. Like many I have generations of soldiers who were drafted by enemy armies and wounded when they were teens. IMO that’s a great way to become a psychopath, and research says that is inherited.

[@gravitypronepart2201]

@lynnschaeferle-zh4go I don't understand the "inherited" part. Are you saying a child can inheret brain trauma? Because that is impossible. A child can be influenced by the behavior of a traumatized parent, but this isn't the same thing as inheriting physical trauma of any kind.

[@allartmossink1721]

Thank you so much, breathtaking!

[@Steelhorsecowboy]

This has strengthen my resolve to be kind and reject any negative feelings toward different racial or ethnic groups. In the US this is difficult because we are bombarded through political polarization and the popular media with images of other groups victimizing us through crime and corruption. We are constantly being divided for political gain. I need to reject those negative feelings in myself, confront them in others, and remember we are each individual children of God.

[@richardpeychers4076]

Good that you realise you are being politically manipulated especially at this time and can keep an open mind to the truth.

[@michaelrumfelt3106]

us citizen and you are right. both sides play each other and divide us

[@lamontpearce170]

I wish more could see that's what they are doing. Divide and conquer and sadly its working....

[@leeclarke917]

The documentary is good. However the collective guilt trip of asking forgiveness for crimes you never committed is absurd. What your grandfathers or fathers and mothers did. They did, not you. For people who didn’t exist in WW2 to feel guilt or responsibility for it, is insanely saddening. I feel no guilt or personal shame for my grandfathers actions in WW2. He was a British serviceman. He followed orders to bomb civilian targets in Germany. He felt guilt later in life. It had nothing to do with me. Neither me or my parents had been born yet.

[@elisabethguetta9982]

Touchant au cœur. Mais moi,toujours peur d aller en Allemagne.

[@eldaveo9356]

Im a New Zealander. My grandfather fought in the Somme in WW1 as an 18 year old. He came back, but never had any emtional relationships. He had 4 kids but never spoke to anyone and rejected society as a whole. He eventually shot his head off at a family dinner. War is the most disgusting thing to exist. I am still proud of him. He was a kid when he fought that war. A very small percentage of his battalion came home. He saw things no one should ever see. My father said he would shriek in his sleep right untill the end. I hope the world won't enter another war like WW1 or WW2. It destroyed my family, and we are from a tiny island at the bottom of the world. No one will escape it.

[@Hurttimurtti]

Thank you for sharing your story.

[@roberthubal6278]

Amazing documentary. Sins of the fathers

[@R4420o]

It's a very good documentary movie.

[@PatyBN]

I'd never thought I'd see so many Germans crying and saying they were broken.

[@AztlanOz]

I’m not a Christian but I think that it’s good to find that sense of shared humanity any which way it comes, Australia is having s debate on the generational trauma of Indigenous Australians the word “Indifference’ is pertinent in our conversation

[@sheliamaynus9869]

Never have I ever considered the families of the Nazi soldiers. This was a moving video and eye opening. Yes yes yes please let us not suppress or change the record of any history , even our own family history, so that the bad, the evil, the mediocrity, the lack of caring for others , etc. will not perpetuate itself generation after generation.

[@ecuadorexpat8558]

I was born right after the war..my father survived Stalingrad ..To this day I am grappling w the history of the Third Reich and the holocaust..yes the silence of the family was disturbing..until their death they didnt want to talk about it

[@dweamy1]

was the same in my family. I know very little about the life of my grandfather during the war.

[@ecuadorexpat8558]

@@dweamy1 I wish we could get their military records but its to no avail

[@ruthkowalewicz9371]

Just watched this on Shine TV in NZ.What a release and forgiveness for these sons and daughters of the officers in the Holocaust ❤ and bringing together with the Jews.The March of Life was so special.

[@Hurttimurtti]

Thank you for your feedback!

[@ainlawati2946]

Powerful and restorative. A testament of God's love and mercy. Inspite of all our sins and iniquities, if we confess - He is waiting to receive us and cleanse us from all sins. Thank you producers for this gem

[@macolga100]

Well... I'm Russian, My granddad went to the war. And I have exactly the same symptoms.

[@solanjedere]

I'm sorry to hear that but you must be instead proud, thanks of your granpha the nazi regime was defeated.Althought not the ideology.

[@chillonna]

good that u start talking.

[@walthere.r.]

Peleó por un régimen tan asesino como el Nazi o peor.​@@solanjedere

[@kinderleichtlerneneasypeas6885]

It looks as it makes no diffence, war and killing is bad and traumatizes people, even the following generations... So we as children and grandchildren have only the way to turn from the mistakes our forefathers did, and change this in our own lifes...

[@michelepascoe6068]

Thank you for your honesty. I have wondered about the German nation. I was born in 1965 in the Apartheid era in South Africa. Many of us feel "white guilt" because we were so privileged at the cost of others. Families were broken up and people were killed. We live in a broken world where much evil is perpetrated. Thanks be to God who offers forgiveness and atonement to all who repent. The sins of the fathers certainly affect the generations.

[@Froukjelovesmakeupx]

Your comment made me think of a situation when I was in South-Africa. We, a white group of tourists, where guests in a house of group of friends who lived together and made music for tourists. The organised days for tourists to play for them and teach them some music also. One of the men who lived there and was kind of the leader of the group, asked me to sing with him and of course I did. He sang some songs for us which had a theme as the apartheid. And he told us his and his family experiences in the times of the apartheid. I was 14 and really shocked by this. When you are 14 you are sometimes a bit naif as well, and I was raised with the thought that all humans are equal and I only saw this equality in my own environment in a small town in the Netherlands. Till then I never heard people talking about them being victims of discrimination. In asked the guy (sometimes my dad helped me with the translation, because my english was not as good then as it is now): ‘you opened your house for us, you made us feel really welcome, you are so hospital to us and so kind. How is this possible…. After all we have done to you. After all this horrors that you black people had gone through, because of what we did to you’. I will never ever forget his answer.. He said: ‘what have YOU done to me? What have your dad done to me? You haven’t done anything to me at all, so why should I not be kind and hospital to YOU? It really impressed me and still does.. I will never forget it. As I grew older, I also thought: If the people in history would have had the same attitude, the whole apartheid would never have happened.

[@michelepascoe6068]

@@Froukjelovesmakeupx nice that he didn't paint every light skinned person with the same brush. Unfortunately, generalisation is common and dangerous.

[@michelepascoe6068]

@@Froukjelovesmakeupx thanks for sharing. When I was growing up, we weren't even allowed into the townships of "non-whites". They worked in our homes and gardens and businesses, cleaning our streets, emptying our rubbish and delivering our milk and our post. But we never saw how they lived. The apartheid system held many despicable secrets as any evil regime does.

[@barbarayork3675]

My father was in the Wehrmacht. Spoke very little about it. Our family was broken and it was hell growing up in there. I am 68 years old now and will die wondering what really happened. I want to apologize to the world for the atrocities my country committed. 😥

[@noeleneroodt783]

It is heartbreaking to hear your story 😢 I hope you can find the peace that the people in this story did. 🙏

[@skylarkblue4853]

It may help to apologize to God as well as the victims.

[@twinsonic]

Well, don't.. it's not your burden to carry. Sie haben keine Schuld!

[@theacademictaskmaster6481]

I feel sorry for Germans born after WW2. You don't have to carry this guilt of what your forefathers have committed. You did nothing wrong, you can heal from this generational gulit.

[@Grace.allovertheplace]

Hallo, what a powerful video! Thank you all 🫶

[@isabellajanelee]

This documentry is so moving . It just shows how a few people in power can brainwash so many to do harm and such evil to other human beings . Its politics and must never happen again . God forgive them .🙏

[@lisawise9849]

This was a powerful film and I'm glad that The Descendants of Nazis went to the past to see what their grandparents had committed. I am so glad my grandmother immigrated to the United States when she was little girl before the Nazis took over and these atrocities took place.

[@bettyhudson979]

It’s amazing that documentaries can be made and accepted by the American society but the enslavement of African Americans isn’t accepted nor allowed to be taught as part of American History

[@lelandroth635]

🇮🇱version versus the truth?¿ "No German plans, or orders from Hitler, or from Himmler or anyone else have ever been found for an organized holocaust by gas and cremation of Jews. This is extraordinary as such a massive use of resources and transportation would have required massive organization, budgets and resources. What documents do show is Hitler’s plan to relocate European Jews to Madagascar after the war’s end. With the early success of the Russian invasion, this plan was changed to sending the European Jews to the Jewish Bolsheviks in the eastern part of Russia that Hitler was going to leave to Stalin. There are documented orders given by Hitler preventing massacres of Jews. Hitler said over and over that “the Jewish problem” would be settled after the war. It seems that most of the massacres of Jews were committed by German political administrators of occupied territories in the east to whom Jews from Germany and France were sent for relocation. Instead of dealing with the inconvenience, some of the administrators lined them up and shot them into open trenches. Other Jews fell victim to the anger of Russian villagers who had long suffered under Jewish Bolshevik administrators. The “death camps” were in fact work camps. Auschwitz, for example, today a Holocaust museum, was the site of Germany’s essential artificial rubber factory. Germany was desperate for a work force. A significant percentage of German war production labor had been released to the Army to fill the holes in German lines on the Russian front. War production sites, such as Auschwitz, had as a work force refugees displaced from their homes by war, Jews to be deported after war’s end, and anyone else who could be forced into work. Germany desperately needed whatever work force it could get. Every camp had crematoriums. Their purpose was not to exterminate populations but to dispose of deaths from the scourge of typhus, natural deaths, and other diseases. Refugees were from all over, and they brought diseases and germs with them. The horrific photos of masses of skeleton-like dead bodies that are said to be evidence of organized extermination of Jews are in fact camp inmates who died from typhus and starvation in the last days of the war when Germany was disorganized and devoid of medicines and food for labor camps. The great noble Western victors themselves bombed the labor camps and contributed to the deaths of inmates." Paul Craig Roberts "The Lies of WW2"

[@aubreyfitzgerald9800]

Not all Nazi descended families are able to face their darkness. This generation can be a demonic freak show - speaking from experience. ✡️🎖️

[@m42037]

My second grandparents had a shoe store in Warsaw also, sent the children to the state's and my aunt told me grandma said her grandparents were never heard from again. So family knew the Nazis killed them

[@lelandroth635]

@@m42037 Or the Allies by their incessant & unnecessary bombing raids...Sorta like 🇮🇱today in 🇪🇭🔥

[@sharons5074]

Very moving!!! We need to watch these read the history SO THIS IS NOT REPEATED!!!

[@cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338]

I’m so grateful my great grandfather left Berlin at the turn of the century so I wouldn’t have to deal with what he may or may not have done during WWII. 😢

[@kristindewitt9059]

We took a tour of Dachau several years ago. Our tour guide was fantastic. He spoke a lot about how it is still very very difficult for German families to 100% clear their minds of past Nazi indoctrination because of past generations not telling about it but when they did the same thinking was passed down. Our guide said it will probably be another 100 years for it to be “more gone.” 😮

[@coffeecrimegal5968]

It’s never to late to change. And it’s always great to heal even old generational wounds in a family ❤️‍🩹 ✝️💟🔯

[@RUTH-mb4th]

Excellent presentation All pastors should see this as it explains anti Semitism towards the end Thank you so much forcthis xxx❤

[@harpazo1714]

So good and so healing!

[@sharonwhiteley6510]

Our church talks about generational curses. This is a powerful message about healing and love.

[@gailacohenmorrison3108]

Rabbi Nachman said: "There is nothing so whole as a broken heart."

[@louiseju]

My grandfather went to prison after WW2 for his political and business related involvement in Denmark during the war. His children and grandchildren have lived with guilty conscience which still hangs like a big heavy cloud over our family. I choose my children and to start a fresh. I believe Germans knew what happened to jews and other unwanted people back then. People certainly knew in Denmark and other countries.

[@marsattacks7071]

Thank you for that deeply touching documentary. I needed to see that to understand what the German descendants of the Nazis had to go through in their own lives. I now want to know the Germans. I have been evolving myself as a Canadian who had a limited understanding of the German people. Of course, I never had any issues with the Jewish people. I care a lot about them because as of now, they still have to deal big time with that recent history. I just hope that everybody can come to terms in peace and understanding. We must NEVER forget. We must prevent such a horrible thing to happen again.

[@ruthietaylor8756]

And never forgive

[@dokskwyr4353]

@@ruthietaylor8756 Clearly you missed the whole point of this documentary.

[@Lakeslover1]

This was simply wonderful. Liberating.

[@christineduffy9926]

This is. Very powerful documentary and this will never be forgotten

[@lampsaltlight]

Thank you for sharing. This has touched my heart so deeply. So poignant yet so hopeful. ❤️

[@yolyly6095]

Muchas gracias por compartir este documental

[@TheTriplelman]

thank God I saw this, as a Christian, Ive always had a demeaning feeling on the evil of the Nazis and Germans, how elitist evil killers they were. This was therapeutic for me too, the families realizing they were a part of this evil and need forgiveness for it.

[@kommando5562]

I got no feelings of judgment for them after living under Epstein occupation

[@Am_Yisrael_Chai_7]

If your Grandpa killed someone, do you need forgiveness for it? Thats nonsense

[@TheTriplelman]

@@Am_Yisrael_Chai_7 study what epigenetic cognitive is and then you may understand, then again, you can always stay stupid and never learn, as you are now.

[@ruthietaylor8756]

Never forget, never forgive

[@Am_Yisrael_Chai_7]

One shouldn't forget but forgiveness is essential for peace in your heart.@@ruthietaylor8756

[@alicemesa9436]

God help us to realize that one day we shall each stand before The Judge of All the Earth, and we will judged for evetything.

[@crystalflowers5676]

Wow. Heartbreaking.

[@markbackus1449]

Very moving film.

[@mindileaburney5210]

This is the most ugly beautiful truth❤. I mean y'all if this doesn't tell u something, And feel this. I have went to a therapist as a teenager I was abused and my mom was too. The man she married was mean. And my mom always stayed silent she never assured me that it would be ok never acknowledged after he would beat her. She would be so conditioned and I also remember things that my great great grandparents , my great grandparents my grandparents and parents from both sides and some stayed silent. But I however didn't stay silent. It took me intil 22 years of age to go alone to the police station of that county and spent 7 hours acknowledging his abuse to my and then I ask what the statue of limitations for sexual abuse crime that lasted almost 10 years that ended 9 years prior? Well I walked out of that office and never looked back and never got one call. But a yr later that man pled guilty to 2 count of indecent liberties to a minor 16 yrs of age. No the statutory rape could not be proven my word against his and I was not going to testify I couldn't my PTSD was in the most active stage ever and I was deemed through mental health records to have many disorders steming from his abuse towards my mom and me since I was 18 I started mental health it honestly kept me hanging on he got 5 yrs intense probation and 10 yrs registered sex offender and in 2006 he no longer has to register. Threw all this I was well aware of things and my girls never stayed with nobody except my immediate family and also my biological sister disowned us because I took out charges on him and she has 2 daughters that if I had stayed silent two little nieces of my I will probably not know but now my not sister will hopefully think twice and always be supervised and he will think about it and control himself . Thank you Lord Jesus please forgive us our past generations for wrongs we do not believe in and do not share that hatred. And do not share that ideology of any harmful human suffrage please guide us all lord God we our in a global historical time, help us pull together prayers in your son's name Amen

[@darrenhill3514]

I don't like that these people feel like they're to blame for what their family did during that time. Hopefully someone is there to tell them they didn't do the things their family did. It's great they understand the gravity of what occurred and don't agree with Nazism but they shouldn't have to live their lives with guilt for things they didn't do. If my father murdered someone, am I responsible for that killing? No...nor would I feel responsible for it....

[@2and26]

Exactly. Those were the evil choices of their ancestors, not their own choices. In the same vein, it was a bit cringe around 9:27 when "Carolin" expressed wanting to slap a screaming child and related that to her grandmother being a warden for a camp...sounds to me as if Carolin may have anger management issues.

[@user-lp2xt1qr9b]

Not a believer but this documentary was very good. Thank you for sharing. My mother has always been silent about the family so I have no idea what their involvement may have been. She isolated us from everyone so I don't know who to even call or what to do.I will probably always wonder and will never have answers, but maybe I don't want to know. I know that I live very different from her and how her parents were so maybe I broke the cycle. Nevertheless, thank you for the video

[@johnnydixon9903]

Wir können es so langsam nicht mehr hören...

[@semsemeini7905]

In my school in Britain we had a teacher who survived the siege of Leningrad; they were forced to eat horse meat and even human flesh from the dead.

[@marioncannon9924]

I like horse meat. I have had it in France, delicious

[@andreabashirikia1300]

Marion, was für eine dumme Antwort!

[@australiaprisonisland9156]

@@marioncannon9924 What about the human flesh. You didn't mention that?

[@wor53lg50]

Brits had to eat them to in ww1 and ww2 where to you think alot of horses went to when got made redundant in the advent of tractors and machinery due to men who worked the fields going to war, i bet not many people today if they still alive even new they had eaten it,usually ended up in salvation army and red cross soup kitchens...

[@virginiasoskin9082]

The siege of Leningrad was absolutely awful. Add starvation to arctic cold and people just did not have the caloric intake to survive the cold. No fire wood. In apartments, water had to be carried from local pumps outdoors. On the way up interior stairways the water would slosh onto the steps and freeze solid, since buildings had no heat, so apartment stairways were like sheets of ice and very treacherous to step on. You could break your neck! They were boiling wallpaper for the glue used to attach it to the wall. Pets, rabbits, deer, fish, and even rats were decimated so people could eat meat; after all, no food was left for the pets anyway. Horse flesh would have been very good eating compared to rats. Frozen dead bodies littered the streets; they were taken to cemeteries but the ground was frozen solid all winter so they could not be buried. TB, cholera, dysentery, and all those diseases abounded. I am sure that there was cannibalism, but when someone dies of starvation there is no muscle left on their bones, so it was probably not very good nutritionally. We have visited St. Petersburg as Leningrad is now called. It is a beautiful city but we could never travel there today with the political situation being as it is now. We were lucky we got to go. During the war a sign on a wall on one of the buildings on the main drag, Nevsky Prospekt, warned people to walk on the other side of the street as it was less likely that shelling would hit you on that more protected side of the street. You still see an occasional memorial plaque of Lenin. Several of the Russian tsarist palaces were destroyed by the Nazis, who also stole the entire walls of the famous Amber Room, and to this day they are still missing. Artisans restored the room from photographs of the original room and it is drop dead gorgeous -- I really wanted to see that and we did. That Catherine Palace was burnt down to the bricks but was restored, at least the parts open to the public.

[@cyirvine6300]

This is so wonderfully done. The pain lives on for generations and they don't understand why they have these weaknesses, tendencies. Thank you to all who shared their family experiences. It is noble and redemptive. I recently found out Japan teaches almost nothing about their participation in the war. They don't have this desire to understand and that worries me somewhat.

[@susannec659]

Thank you so much for this.

[@richardsimms251]

Amazing video. RS. Canada

[@kelrogers8480]

the Bible is very clear that children are not responsible for the sins of their fathers. Ezk 18: "The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him."

[@LightshamanaDhyana]

Unfortunately this isn't how life works. The fathers and grandfathers and grandmothers sins shaped them and they instilled their own values and beliefs in their children, silently, vocally, or by their behavior. How we nurture our children has deep effect in their lives. It isn't just food and shelter we provide to our children. We give our beliefs, demeanor, values by how we live, act, think and feel. This isn't about responsibility re the offspring, it is about the influence that that ideology affect generation on both side.

[@salyluz6535]

@kelrogers: This is not a film saying God holds us responsible for the actions of our Grandparents and Great Grandparents. It’s saying that hate and sin change people, and impact future generations. There are verifiable epigenetic changes to those who go through great stress, and children learn what they live. When many generations in a row participate in inhumane behavior, or suffer from it, your offspring suffer lack of love, poor communication skills, increased stress, misplaced guilt, abuse, anger and silence in the home, and increased health problems. Many people carry genetic predispositions to specific illnesses and diseases, and stress flips a genetic switch that makes these health problems more common. Sin causes suffering for future generations, and negatively impacts physical and mental health. No one is saying that these grandchildren are responsible, but many inherited and learned hateful and unkind attitudes without realizing it. They decided and chose to be the change they saw that the world needs! They actively chose love and not hate, opening a door for God‘s love to heal them. These people had believed and told many lies about their own family and others, often without realizing it. These need to be confessed and repented of, in order to be free of the generational suffering. These people are choosing love! They are also setting a very good example of how important it is to tell the truth, and not lies- even to ourselves, and most certainly to future generations. They are shining the light into dark places, and being brave enough to speak the truth. By these people telling the truth, they are extending an invitation for others to do likewise, and also find healing! The Truth shall set you free!

[@kinderleichtlerneneasypeas6885]

@@LightshamanaDhyana Every child can learn that something is wrong with the own family. We all have a conscience! We can learn from the bad behavior in our school class that it is wrong... We don' t have to bully a child because all other children are doing so. We can even learn from our own suffering and harm that this doing (they do to us) is bad and that it is not right to do the same to others.

[@Engelhafen]

A lot of these emotionless parents happened in the us and us too - these men went off to war and really didn’t have a normative life - they gave up so much for their country and fellow soldiers and saw horrible things. War effects everyone

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

I grew up in the US. I noticed how tough many of the veterans were. They were very stern with their boys. One of my friends Dad had PTSD from being put into a Ghulag after the war. He locked my friend outside of the house during the winter. He had to survive that night outside.

[@theacademictaskmaster6481]

You can't compare American WW2 vets and Nazis. Kinda disrespectful.

[@kinderleichtlerneneasypeas6885]

@@jamesdellaneve9005 Yes you are right. War makes people hard, their hearts petrify. You can't see all this terrible suffering and death and even kill people yourself and then live happily ever after...

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

@@kinderleichtlerneneasypeas6885 Last year, I went to my 35th High School reunion. We were talking about how many of our Uncles (they were older than our Dads) had PTSD and were angry drunks. We didn’t understand it at the time.

[@richardbennett3368]

LOL! My grandfather was in America when the war started, two of his brothers were at university in Germany. After the war they immigrated to the US. They were two of the best people I know.

[@debrazimmerman7966]

Amen! Powerful moving video - wonderful!

[@loribiehle6125]

Very good video. So interesting. Thank you.

[@joseeprevost4033]

Mon coeur est profondément touché par leurs témoignages et par leur processus de guérison. Bravo ❤

[@Harry-Hartmann]

Ein sehr interessante, und gute Doku 👍🏻

[@rosyrussell5209]

This heartfelt documentary shows the sins of the fathers being passed on. But war changed so many. The horrors are too great for many to handle. And now, October 2023, Hamas has struck Israel in a horrific attack, taking hostages. And the Muslims in Europe are rejoicing! It is unbearable.

[@rodrimoni2079]

Very touching and powerful insight journey! Blessings

[@LuigiRBG]

Thanks for this wonderful documentary

[@sandriagutierrez2605]

This truly is the most moving, and stirring documentary I’ve ever seen on this history! Only God could have revealed this deep rooted hatred for the Jews in their hearts. Not just a change of mind, but of heart.

[@jenniferhorstmann2279]

It is sad that their grandparents apparently never repented and received the forgiveness, healing and salvation that was available to them.

[@joannebattersby8365]

I am a Canadian woman born in 1954. We had no TV until I was 7 and yet , a constant dream of hiding my brothers in the furnace , and the Nazis stabbing the walls with bayonets. My other dream was that I was on a pyre , with skeletal people stacked between the wood, I look over the edge, while the pyre is lit by soldiers and I see a shrieking, skeletal man looking at me as the flames reach him. I believe in reincarnation and also ancestral memory. There is no reason I should dream this- my uncles and aunts were everywhere in the theatre of war - Burma, Africa and Europe. My Uncle saw the fall of Berlin. We have no German heritage ...but I dream of the war- I peed the bed at three yrs old and at 12 because of a terrifying dream of the war- I was so ashamed and my Mom wouldn't believe me ever about dreaming of the camps and if torture and burning.