Nazi Einsatzgruppe commander who executed 100,000 lithuanian women, children and elders

Martin Weiss was born on 21 February 1903 in Karlsruhe, then part of the German Empire. On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. In 1934, Weiss joined the SS, and three years later, he became a member of the Nazi Party.
The Second World War started on 1 September 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, and several days later, Weiss was conscripted into the German army. On Sunday, 22 June 1941, under the codename Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The following month, Weiss arrived in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, a city known as the "Jerusalem of the North" for its vibrant Jewish culture and religious life.
The Jews of Lithuania had a rich and distinct culture, characterized by a unique dialect of the Yiddish language. Lithuanian Jews were influential in various Jewish ideologies, including the Jewish workers' movement, Zionism, and rational religious thought. Before the Second World War, the Jewish population in Lithuania was around 160,000, making up about 7 percent of the total population. Weiss arrived in Lithuania as a member of the Einsatzkommando 3, a mobile killing unit responsible for carrying out mass executions of Jews, political prisoners, and other groups deemed undesirable by the Nazi regime. In the following weeks, he was part of the unit dispatched to various locations in the country, where, according to his own testimony, they conducted "clearing operations in the rear of the front lines." In October 1941, Weiss was transferred to the office of the Commander of the Security Police and the Security Service in Vilnius. Several weeks later, he participated in the 'Yellow Permit Operation,' the first major shooting operation in which he was directly involved, conducting the selections. During the operation, around 3,000 Jews in the Vilnius Ghetto received work permits, marking them as "essential" laborers. However, those without these yellow permits-approximately 3,700 individuals, including the elderly, sick, children, and others deemed "unfit for work"-were condemned to death. Under Weiss's supervision, these individuals were forcibly rounded up and taken to the Ponary massacre site, located about 10 kilometers southwest of Vilnius, where they were systematically shot.
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[@michaelmoses5833]

Why was this butcher let free?

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

We ask the same question!

[@mrbluefalconia]

@@WorldHistoryVideos and you know the answer just as well as we do. the cold was,was running high.. People had lost the interest in the war,and wanted to move on. Besides a lot of them was hired as agents,to fight the communism,

[@chrisratboy479]

the same reason we release them now, weak western leadership

[@astralclub5964]

The advent of the Cold War! The US needed the cooperation of German scientists and massive numbers of professionals and administrators to fight the Soviet Union. Nazis were forgotten when the Commies needed fighting. It was Real Politic!

[@weet-bix1965]

Protection from above

[@vewilli]

How is it possible that the murderer Weiß wasn‘t brought to just punishment, the death penalty? How is it possible he grew over 80 years and died as a free man?

[@goodoldbubba6620]

There is no actual proof anything stated here happened.

[@bukboefidun9096]

Ask a democrat in the US. They study and want to emulate thus nan

[@rosebay44Evergreen-ti3zl]

Troll

[@moonshine9902]

Listening to this is sickening as the Jews are doing the the same and even worst to the Palestinians, at this very moment in time.

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

Very few of them did get punished and most that did got minimal punishment.

[@davidharrowe4083]

As long as humans are humans, whatever has happened in the past can happen again.

[@nickjanssens]

Not to Israel it won’t.

[@Buppasiri1]

That's the horrible insight and humanity is in many ways depressing. 😢

[@Islandnomad1.-._]

Israelis of today are new Nazis of today

[@brandonkew9122]

The Germans were well assisted by Lithuanians, Latvians, Ukrainians and Poles and often oversaw their operations, rather than being the ones carrying out the executions. The number of people that were killed in the East was only possible because of this assistance.

[@partymariner]

Bullshit! Poles were fiercely patriotic and did not collaborate with the Nazis! The majority of Ukrainians fought for the USSR, even after the Holodomar, due to German brutality against Slavs! How about Jewish participation with the murderous NKVD?

[@mirquellasantos2716]

The worst ones were the Lithuanians cause they exterminated 85% of the Jewish population and they did it themselves. They were so cheap that they did it just to steal their shoes, clothing, shirts, boots......

[@wertyks508]

Poles? Show me only one that case. Jews added Poles to the list after the war

[@ltu4772]

proud to be Lithuanian

[@brandonkew9122]

@@wertyks508 catholic Poles often gave away locations of hiding Jews to avoid trouble with the Germans. No one in Europe is innocent.

[@richardkeilig4062]

The list of murderers: Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho, and all the rest through history must be remembered for how cruel they were.

[@Marcelo-ft3pm]

I would add, Clinton, Tony Blair, the Bushes, Obama and a few more.

[@markl4673]

good list. what are the counts?

[@kylemendoza8860]

​@@Marcelo-ft3pm I don't like them but they don't belong in that list. Neither one is comparable

[@layuponthedownlow]

U forgot the bankers.

[@Thehistory-lover]

The real list of murderers : Stalin , Mao , Polpot, Leopold of Belgium , W Chruchill ( Plz search Bengal famine ) , George Bush n Obama ....

[@richardshiggins704]

At least Mossad captured , abducted and summarily executed Herberts Cukurs in Montevideo . He was renowned for his cruelty in the Vilnius ghetto ; he was a Lithuanian air ace .

[@tranqy01]

No, he was latvian and was renowned in Riga ghetto.

[@thepub245]

A perfect storm of hatred, organised depravity, lawlessness, the absence of any perceived consequences and a collective inhumanity. Terrible.

[@version736ha2]

Sounds like Croydon

[@thepub245]

@@version736ha2 Yeah, I guess some of the conditions for socieital breakdown are developing in England, while the likes of Starmer and his cabinet carry on the shit show, apparently regardless.

[@dinkohrvat344]

perfect description .

[@northlandrider5396]

Zionist Israel, in other words.

[@Pauline-h3u]

So many got away with murder,

[@thepub245]

Yes I think the actual percentage of those who committed serious crimes and who were bought to justice was unbelieveably low, like 4% or something.

[@markdunigan805]

Many thousands that participated weren't even pursued because after a near decade of war everyone just wanted to rebuild and move forward.Even Nuremberg where the leaders were tried was scaled back because of the limited number of seats.

[@DT-wp4hk]

C19 one global crime

[@Chukz05]

@@thepub245that’s actually insane

[@thepub245]

@@DT-wp4hk A bit off topic but yeah, k*ng flu came from a chink lab. Then they made a fortune selling the world PPE.

[@davidharrowe4083]

If the State becomes immoral, many of its subjects do likewise.

[@bukboefidun9096]

Look at K0omrade's party over in the US... they are studying what H1tler did. They will go after American Jews first, then wh1te people.

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

I think it goes the other way around. My two baselines for political thought are 1. A Government should be better than the people at large. 2..I'd prefer no corruption, but barring that I'll take corruption that be benefis the many over corruption that b3nefits the few.

[@robertbruce7686]

​@@FrithonaHrududu02127so how do you view the UK?

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

@@robertbruce7686 I'll admit I'm an anglophile.

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

I will never understand the self flagellation...what good does focusing on the bad aspects of one's own history do, because the rest of the world doesnt do it...acknowledge sure, don't gloss over sure but why teach self loathing. I noticed your handle so I'm guessing you're on the chillier side of Hadrians Wall

[@donhansen5677]

Liberated by the Red Army? An interesting choice of words, given that you acknowledged they were brutally annexed by Russia in 1940. A better choice of words might be that they were reoccupied by the Red Army.

[@nasapayrollsystem8701]

He died as a free man 81 years old . That sentence is incomprehensible to me

[@renee1961]

I haven't started this yet, but it's already Heart Shattering! My God, Children, Women, and Elders?? So many Innocent Lives Stolen! And the Horrific Suffering! God Bless All of The Innocent Victims, Survivors, and Thise that Fought for Them.🥀🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏🙏💔💔💔💔🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

[@Itoe-pj6ek]

Degaulle bush, obama all us président

[@Izannaziza]

Lithuanians played a big role in all of this as did many of peoples/countries.

[@bukboefidun9096]

Ukrainians were very much involved in murdering Jews. Putin accurately describes Ukrainians as naz1s

[@dinkohrvat344]

French were particularly bad and Dutch too . Very keen to inform on Jews in hiding.

[@dinkohrvat344]

@@jfournerat1274 Totally disagree .Anne Frank was betrayed in the last months and her story was repeated in France Belgium and Netherlands many times. Mass deportations from France could not have happened without civil service collaboration. The French collaboration was completely appalling .

[@DT-wp4hk]

Because the bolsjewics never suppressed people, right?

[@DT-wp4hk]

​@@jfournerat1274you pay taxes you collaborate

[@hannibalbarca4372]

Martin Weiss isn't an exception : the majority of Nazi, SS, Wehrmacht officers and soldiers whom committed atrocities and war crimes against various populations in Eastern Europe were actually never persecuted, some of them even intended high post in Business, political, civil and military administration in West Germany, some of them, (like Werner Von Braun) were honored multiple times by the US Government...

[@Yes.We.Cannibis]

Would you rather see Werner von Braun work for Stalin?

[@oscaralegre3683]

@@Yes.We.Cannibis what would change if that happened?.

[@Yes.We.Cannibis]

@oscaralegre3683 We get hit with Soviet missiles much more sophisticated than anything imaginable! Soviets get to the moon not America or Britain!

[@oscaralegre3683]

@@Yes.We.Cannibis reaching the moon has no scientific worth. There is nothing valuable in the moon. Is just a huge rock.

[@brandonkew9122]

Very few if any of the Latvians, Poles, Ukrainians, Lithuanians etc that helped the Germans carry out executions were prosecuted.

[@kdfulton3152]

Keep this History alive. It needs to be told over and over again where hate and prejudice can lead humanity. Well supposedly “humanity”. WW2 should never be forgotten and should be learned from. At least one could hope 🙏

[@patriciaselby636]

How do you get probation/release for 30,000 murders!

[@BrianHayter-zl2uc]

Much love & respect for all the victims, never again ever.❤️❤️❤️❤️🔯🔯🔯🔯🙏🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@MrKMFrederiksen]

And yet the jews are now doing the same in Gaza

[@mariolasanda8116]

The list of Nazi criminals is, as it seems, never ending ... Thank you for this video, it's the first time I hear about the Holocaust in Lithuania. God bless all the victims. Thank you for your work. Regarding quality of narration and footage, your content is incomparable to your competitors. Great job.

[@oscaralegre3683]

me too. First time I heard there was Jewish people in Lithuania.

[@johncitizen3927]

Sadly, less than 4%, were punished.

[@timothyknight2236]

Germany will never live down their actions during WWII.

[@deanjericevic8912]

How low does mankind stoop in war! Well, it goes to show, "every dog has its day"! This comparison of Martin Weiss to a dog though is derogatory to the dog.

[@nikolairomanoff6969]

I am so appalled by these gentiles who have collaborated with the Nazis and their monstrosities, which were all over Europe

[@MarkHower-ne5zc]

Lithuanian women are beautiful. At least the several I've met !

[@kylemendoza8860]

Lithuania wasn't liberated by the red army. The occupation changed management.

[@faridsafazadeh1137]

As they always say there is no Justice there is only LAWS not Justice!! Look at the fate of this Evil creature!! Shame on the people who were responsible for this verdict. May God bless the souls of his victims...

[@davidgladstone6588]

HOW DARE YOU LEAVE OUT TTHAT IT WAS 100,000 LITUANIAN JEWISH WOMEN AND CHILDREN THAT WERE KILLED, NOT LITHUANIAN CHRISTIANS!

[@luongo7886]

Are you freaking kidding me!?!?!? Where were the Mossad and Israeli forces? How could they let this monster escape so easily?

[@BobMercury-n9w]

Never forget......

[@user-op6eu3tt9j]

This is a superb channel. Short to the point and great commentary. 😮

[@nickjanssens]

I hope now people understand why Israel collectively think this will never happen again.

[@user-dt8vy2yb3d]

Never forget the Lithuanian women & children, either

[@woodenseagull1899]

What is it about Germans that made them so evil? ... I am still not sure they grasp even today, the extent of such cruelty known. 80 years on these awful people still being uncovered. One can only guess what the world be like today if Germany had NEVER existed!

[@LINAZAS]

how about russia and their president putin , only one side is responsible.

[@jesusismyhelp9005]

There would still be war

[@Buppasiri1]

It's not about countries, it's about humanity.

[@renee1961]

Hello, World History, and again, Thank You for your Excellent, Important, and Informative videos. Impeccable Research, Outstanding Work, and Efforts are Greatly Appreciated.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@carriechinn8104]

Im surprised our government didnt hire him like they did so many of these monsters...

[@tonydevos]

and yet there are people amplified by tucker carlson and elon musk who claim that the holocaust was just a misunderstanding

[@mickparker3726]

Neither Carlson or Musk have ever denied the holocaust and the amount of people murdered at the hands of the scum Nazi’s

[@JosephMagda-p5w]

Just like our Marxist liberal universities are joining with muslims to hate Jews today! Muslims aided the Nazis to murder Jews in WWII! Check out muslim cleric Amin al-Husseini on how he went to visit Hitler to kill Jews.

[@danielbrunner8745]

Who are these people? I don't think there are any! Elon and Carlson never ever said that , dirty lies you are absorbing here , you should be ashamed!

[@ianmcculloch8531]

I'm always amazed at how many of those mass murderers got to live an easy life after the war.

[@rabbiddog]

He wasn't a free man, for HE knew what he had done. That knowledge you can not escape.

[@Zinovy-x6g]

Если бы не банкиры, то немцы не имели бы чем травить евреев в концлагерях.

[@markjamison9677]

Never put yourself in a vulnerable situation especially with Germans .

[@kalash5694]

“World history channel” only talks about axis war crime and not allies war crime…

[@renee1961]

Why was he Released?! Life is supposed to mean LIFE! He Seved a few years,! Definitely not Life! He got to Live! His Defenseless Victims didn't!

[@Charles-t7z]

I'm surprised there weren't Jewish Vengeance squads created and let loose after the war. They surely would have got to Weiss after his release to make sure he didn't live as a free man.

[@fulknerra6116]

there were. Read Michael Elkins book 'Forged in Fury'

[@renee1961]

​@@fulknerra6116Hello. Thank you, I'll look for it.

[@alfredpetrie7920]

Very tough with a rifle and a gang of other cowards behind them

[@ProPatria1919]

Actually Russian didn't liberate Lithuania in 1944. Just next occupier came in place of previous. The result of liberation should be freedom but Russian denied freedom not only their own people but to all neighbouring countries they managed to occupy. And not only in 1944 but also czarist times and right after so-called October revolution. it is safe to say that Russians and freedom are the most opposite things possible. Considering the time span, Russians and their inhuman ideologies have caused much higher human loss than Third Reichs nazism.

[@Chiefredcloud1922]

Pure drivel. Lithuania and Lithuanians exist only thanks to the liberation by the USSR. Germans were gonna kill all of them. And the Nazis were definitely worse in every way imaginable. They started the deadliest war in history which has at least 40 million casualties in Europe.

[@roaropgard8575]

Rest in peace for the victims

[@paulsmith1981]

At the end of every conflict in history the victors have always vilified the vanquished.

[@ashishjoshi8148]

The monsters they live among us. They may be ordinary, everyday people and you would never suspect a thing!

[@andyplus1352]

Thanks for the Second World War History News.

[@user-gl1uj4ce3i]

The smirk that Weiss has on his face in his portrait makes him kind of resemble Eichmann . I wonder if they were related .

[@bubbapacha7672]

Gonna have to disagree. Dude lived 80+ yrs. ? See this is where we get crossways. If dude lived to 81 years there definitely at least SOME TEARS!!!!!

[@jaroslavpenkava]

140 000 Lithuanian fought on Germany nazi side.

[@robertcoane9167]

“WHAT ALL SCHOOLCHILDREN LEARN, THOSE TO WHOM EVIL IS DONE DO EVIL IN RETURN." W. H. AUDEN (1907 - 1973) British poet “HUNTING JEWS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A EUROPEAN SPORT. NOW THE PALESTINIANS, WHO NEVER PLAYED IT, ARE PAYING THE BILL.” ~ EDUARDO GALEANO (1940 - 2015) Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist

[@Thomas-yr9ln]

The Angel of death Mengele had a reason he had a mental illness inherited from his mother. Growing up he said his mother would go to his work place and scream at him telling him how worthless he was. His coworkers seen her coming they think o no here she comes. My how point is I wonder if a mentally ille mother caused it or father.

[@ricky-6657believe]

May God have mercy on us all for not doing more in the past for what has happened to his priests, who if not for them we would not know God and the trials that are yet to come.

[@craig1479]

Babble away.

[@jesavino1255]

May Jehova God Bless them all and remember them at the RESURRECTION I ask this in Jesus's Name Amen

[@gibraltersteamboatco888]

Jager Report, extremely detailed account of Einsatzkommando 3 Kauen's 137,346 victims. This is for one Einsatzgruppe, in a five month period,

[@michaelcase8574]

His photo looks amusingly like our speaker of the house Mike Johnson! No relation I assume. LOL

[@tancreddehauteville764]

He was just an opportunist murderer. A casual monster who was drugged by the power he exerted.

[@Islandnomad1.-._]

After this brutally on Jewish people...how they can come to arabs to do the same brutality...all the history Jewish people and arab Muslims were living in peace... Human kind is a beast kind

[@jameshoyle5918]

Awful narration. Sounds like AI. Can’t watch

[@Zinovy-x6g]

СССР жестоко аннексировал Литву, где были убиты литовцами около полумиллиона евреев. Но пришли немцы и литовцев спасли.

[@ELN355]

He was pardoned in 1977..... Insult to the victims.

[@esterrios3998]

And he lived!!!!!

[@DarlowMaxwell]

Locals supplied many peoples who share just as heavily

[@RedLanternFrank]

He has a family in Northern California. There where tears.

[@Coolerman565]

Yet each year in Lithuania and the other Baltic States the SS volunteers are celebrated and this is a Country that is in the EU and NATO, go figure.

[@treplan01]

Who has heilp him to go to Argentina ? I think what a holy state in Italy.

[@josephstabile9154]

...and, very little justice Meter out to Martin Weiss

[@musfikinsan3423]

İronicaly ,Weiss looks like a standart european jew.

[@fatenbreft]

واليوم تقوم إسرائيل بنفس الفعل النازي ضد الشعب الفلسطيني

[@grodnobuddy]

How many of the SS had a comfortable life in Argentina, Canada?

[@jorgefiguerola1239]

And they say there is a God?

[@user-cm9pt8bo3l]

War was declared on September 3.

[@divacroft1034]

FAKE.

[@elizabethszwed7851]

WHy GOD ?😭

[@artfasil]

The AI voice sounds so lol.

[@jurijradovich]

Not Lithuanian, but Jewish, be accurate.

[@p51nion]

At 00:28 the image of the vehicle is printed backward. Why?

[@jonglewongle3438]

Doctored footage.

[@scottfay3553]

ukranians did worse

[@Aron-79]

🫡🇷🇺🪖🪖⚓️

[@hopsta5628]

Reminiscent of Gaza and the West Bank, people denied basic human rights, starved, tortured and murdered while being terrorized by a violent military force.

[@erikabimbo7555]

Is it just me, or does the narrator of these videos sound kind of evil?

[@vergilito1]

They fled to Israel and immediately began their own oppression

[@ladyjane8023]

And yet today's Lithuanians destroying the monuments of the Soviets soldiers who liberated them from those Nazis.

[@AB-mw8oz]

"Liberated"

[@Chiefredcloud1922]

​@@AB-mw8ozIt absolutely was liberation. Lithuania owes a debt that can never be repaid to the brave men and women who fought in the Red Army. Germans planned for up to 90% percent of Lithuanians to be exterminated in Generalplan Ost. Just like how the they murdered 90% of the Jews in Lithuanian.

[@NnNn-yr7mu]

Alady are you sure they were actually liberated or just re captured ?

[@RB-wu4us]

😢

[@margarita8442]

I shed no tears darlinks

[@lukaszlimanowski4737]

😊

[@geordiejones2]

Martin Weiss was a soldier doing his duty as ordered by his superior's, Monty killed just as many when ordered by his Superior Churchill, why was he not imprisoned ??? Or is this just another case of victors justice.

[@mickeysteiner9629]

🤪

[@tattie278]

Don’t be an ass 🤦🏻‍♂️.

[@geordiejones2]

@@mickeysteiner9629 Sorry i have no idea what your cartoon picture means, if your thirsty what has this got to do with this vlog ??

[@rosebay44Evergreen-ti3zl]

Did Monty burn prisoners in huge ovens, I think not.

[@tattie278]

@@geordiejones2 I’ll say it again, don’t be a complete and utter dick 🤦.

[@user-sm9us7rb9c]

What about the 20 thousand Polish officers murdered by the Russians in 1940?