Painful execution of Hitler's Nazi General & War Criminal - Alfred Jodl - Nuremberg Trials - WW2

[@stephenpaget1517]

Jodi : I object to being executed! Judge : You’re a war criminal! Jodi : I was just following Dolfy’s orders! Judge: That’s not good enough! You’re getting executed whether you like it or not! Ahhh…..I love Downfall parodies.

[@carlsacel7222]

jodl: I object not being good enough

[@MrBrixey-s6j]

Jodl should’ve objected to his execution 😂

[@Andrew_Alxf]

Surprised, Jodl did not object to his execution

[@99mrpogi]

😂😂

[@Blue2crows]

Sad, mankind has not learned anything from war. The millions of men, women and children who died in war. It’s 2022 and look at the world now. RIP

[@enjolras76]

Yes yes yes!! Agreed!

[@1982asd]

This world is currently going to be destroyed by severe environmental pollution and human overpopulation (mainly by India and China) and by the trampling American-Assrael capitalism that only cares about money and more money, even if this Earth will die even then, the Earth will disappear even from this universe called planet, not wars, will destroy it Although maybe if a war starts and nuclear bombs are used "in the name of peace" then this planet and humanity will be completely wiped out

[@jeffdarnell7942]

Learned ANYTHING from war?? WWII is honestly, one of the most RECENT Wars of the Planet, and it was, by far, the worst. Barely 75 years ago, and one People is trying... LITERALLY...to wipe another religious Body, off the face of the planet!!! Being advanced in Science and in the Mechanized world, obviously, shows no level of humanity, or intelligence. It just shows how hard headed of a creature we are. This PLANET.... would be better off without the human race to ruin it, and blow it up.

[@dannyhudson3184]

History will repeat itself

[@HarrelSantis]

@@dannyhudson3184 It already is.

[@bluemut55]

Keitel: Watcha going to do after the war Alf? Jodl: I think I'll hang around Nuremberg for a while.

[@reubenkinsey2947]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@1982asd]

AFTER ALf? HAHAHA Are you mentally ill? Take your meds Jodl was wrongfully sentenced to death because they could not present any evidence on any of the charges (crimes against humanity, war crimes, crimes against peace, conspiracy against others) and yet the court found him guilty of all charges and sentenced him to death and who was carried out The execution of the hanging itself is questionable, as Jodl was deliberately hung incorrectly Because in the case of Wilhelm Keitel, the trapdoor was too small and he actually crushed his whole face, the blood poured from his entire face and head when he fell down with the rope around his neck and hit his head in the trapdoor, then he agonized for 24 long minutes on the rope before he died

[@hamishanderson6738]

That's noose to me.

[@jamesgilliam5278]

@@hamishanderson6738 that's amazing.

[@MegaMesozoic]

Wonder if the result would have been the same if Jodl had worked on the rocket systems, like Von Braun?

[@grottu]

he would be living in Los Angeles villa till his old age :D Dont forget that 80% of post war germany officials or even ambassadors was former german nazi party members or even SS soldiers.....all joke

[@timothycampbell495]

But, he didn't.

[@georgschenkfilm]

I doubt he would have contributed a lot to the rocket project

[@John77Doe]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kidd32888]

Instant US citizenship

[@cottoncatt1186]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the facts that : - The french judge during the nuremberg trial wasn't convinced of his guilt - A West-German denazification court later stated that he wasn't guilty of any breaking of international law. This decision only being revoked under pressure from the USA (and from the US only).

[@tenngirl4trump]

Who's he? ALL 10 of the architects of Nazi policy were hanged one by one. Hermann Göring, who at sentencing was called the “leading war aggressor and creator of the oppressive program against the Jews,” died by suicide by poison on the eve of his scheduled execution (Hitler in the end was a pussy)! Nazi Party leader Martin Bormann was condemned to death in absentia; he is now known to have died in Berlin at the end of the war. NONE OF THEM WERE INNOCENT! THEY ALL HAD A HAND IN MURDERING JEWS, GYPSIES, BLACK PEOPLE, AND GAY PEOPLE... NONE OF THEM WAS INNOCENT! DON'T BLAME MY COUNTRY. WE HELPED THE RED ARMY FREE THEM!

[@cottoncatt1186]

@@tenngirl4trump I was taking about Jodl ... What I was saying wasn't an opinion nor a judgement about him or his actions during the war : historicaly, it is a fact that there was, even at the time, some doubts about his guilt and the sentence he was given. I was only pointing out that this was missing in the video.

[@william-michaelcostello7776]

The West German Court was made up of former Nazi judges.

[@brianl.8723]

But you know? LMFAO

[@cAse332ti]

There was and there is no doubt of his immeasurable guilt. Stop relativizing Nazis and Nazi crimes.

[@holydolly9223]

Its time to bring back The Nuremburg Trials!Politicians and Highly placed Civil Servants! Who are corrupt need to be punished!

[@PlanetBlake]

When you consider how long it took for those poor innocent people to die in those gas chambers, and for other to be starved or beaten to death, I’d say he got what he dished-out. A long suffering end.

[@bobbyhanly3466]

Well done. You know your Hollywood movies well.

[@BeeG758]

@@bobbyhanly3466?

[@bobbyhanly3466]

@@BeeG758 Sweet Caroline?

[@BeeG758]

@@bobbyhanly3466 lmao idk what you’re saying man

[@DieWolf57]

I truly hate this sort of victor mentality. Jodl was a soldier and made a good job of it. His main fault was that he stood on the loser side. What about the horrid crimes of Stalin - no one talks about them. Of course there is no place for glorification but fairness is something that every enemy deserves. And as far as strangulation is concerned: Once the carotid arteries are occluded and bloodflow to the brain has stopped You lose consciousness within seconds and convulsions merely reflect actions of brainstem´and upper spine. I'm pretty sure he didn't suffer - and to anyone who likes the idea of having Jodl suffer in agony for 15 minutes - I ask: Who are You ? Are You really any better than Jodl ?

[@jacksonreilly3441]

You are right on target. Further, the whole show trial was based on ex post facto law. In other words, the laws the men were charged with breaking were not promulgated until August 1945, three months after the surrender! One of them is so silly it always makes me laugh ------ "planning, initiating and waging an aggressive war". Tell me, how does one plan, initiate and wage a non=aggressive war? As the Romans used to say ------ VAE VICTIS!

[@samar949]

i totally agree bro. people tend to like narratives that show only a select few responsible for turning the gears and having the steering to control the fates of many. this is only partly correct, in reality once a society start to move in a particular direction the sheer momentum the inertia of it forces most normal individuals with it. Yes there are few twisted enough to enjoy it like the ones who joined the ss and enjoyed killing other but most people just go with the flow. Only a select few are able to resist and they are mighty strong minded people. most show varying degrees of compliance and defiance. 90% only look out for themselves and its normal human nature. I think even i am normal in this regard and infact most people commenting here otherwise will also fall victim to this wave if it comes which i hope does not come. We should read history to draw lessons, not to inflate our egos, condemn others or prove how the modren values are superior. Lastly i would like to clarify i do think jodl should have been hanged but not made to suffer like this.

[@rebekahlikesmusic2723]

Well said

[@jacksonreilly3441]

@@samar949 You had me in agreement up to the last sentence but I must state that in my view the entire Nuremberg farce was a clown show staged partially for revenge and partly for entertainment of the victors. Let me explain. First, the tribunal was not bound by technical rules of evidence, (per the London Charter). Second, the defendants were not permitted to invoke the "tu quoque" defence. Third, one of the judges was General Iona Nikitschenko, one of Stalin's Red Army butchers, whose hands were dripping blood from his judgements at Stalin's show trials during the Great Purge. Fourth, The blame for the massacre at Katyn was laid to the Germans when in fact it was a crime of the NKVD, as was admitted by the Russian government many years later after the fall of communism. Fifth, Julius Streicher, (while admittedly an odious man) was hanged, not for murder or war crimes but for publishing DER STUERMER, an anti-Jewish propaganda newspaper. He was executed for uttering WORDS! Sixth, three men, (Schacht, von Papen and Fritsche) were included among the accused for no perceptible reason except to be acquitted, since there was no possibility of convicting them. Their only purpose was to give the show trials a semblance of impartiality. "You see folks, the trials were really fair; we even let three of them go!" Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the defence lawyers were totally reliant on the trial authorities for any documentation needed to advance the cases of their clients. Years later it was discovered that evidence which could have proven favourable to the defendants was deliberately withheld. None of those men should have been tried, much less executed. There is a lot more but if you do some research, you'll be surprised at what you find. I've read many books on this subject but the best by far was "Nuremberg, the Last Battle" by David Irving.

[@nickjohnson710]

Exactly!!! But people don't want to hear that

[@leslieackerman4189]

Human condition. It will never change. Very good chronology.

[@catherinejohnson1354]

As a descendant of a Polish army POW my heart doesn't break for the few moments of suffering these criminals suffered in the end

[@wytche3546]

Yeah no doubt, at least they weren't sentenced to death by being kicked in the nuts. You know that would REALLY suck.

[@jimmysmith9273]

Poland is 1 one beacon of strenth Rebuilt .they have helped UKRAINE Russia Even Fears Poland Now! PAY BACK TIME you VERMIN

[@benadam7753]

And what do you feel about the Soviets that invaded Poland on September 17, 1939 and than massacred 25,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Forest? No Soviets ever faced a tribunal for crimes against peace against Poland and the Katyn massacre!

[@jamesgilliam5278]

Yes most of my grandmother's family disappeared from Holland. There's never been anyone that I'm aware of that was heard from again. I would look myself but I don't know the names. So much was lost

[@heinzhachler5972]

@@wytche3546 ... she may have married a Johnson?

[@jacquelinekrench96]

Compare to what was done to millions of innocents people his suffering was of no comparison

[@dandable]

I’m glad to see history being taught in this crazy world as those that would have us repeat it want nothing more than this history be forgotten. We must never forget!

[@pollyrigo6174]

I too, enjoy these historical videos. Reminds me of he stories my uncle talked about how WWII began in Europe and western z Russia Russia . 🎃

[@BROKEN-PILOT]

The US has already began, although figuratively, book burning. Now, state governor's (Florida's DeSatanic) want to ask/document the menstrual cycles of young ladies in secondary school. The US is only one treaty away (like Versailles), 20-years of a second Great Depression and one orange monster from perpetrating the same horrors. "Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen." ("Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too").

[@thepalebluedot4171]

വലിയൊരു വിഭാഗം മനുഷ്യർക്ക് വന്യമൃഗങ്ങളുടെ സ്വഭാവസവിശേഷതകൾ ഉള്ളതിനാൽ ഈ ജീവിതകാലത്ത് യുദ്ധം അവസാനിക്കാൻ പോകുന്നില്ല. വീട്ടിൽ നിങ്ങളുടെ കുടുംബാംഗങ്ങൾ തമ്മിലുള്ള ലളിതമായ വഴക്ക് നിർത്താൻ നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ബുദ്ധിമുട്ടാണ്, പിന്നെ എങ്ങനെയാണ് യുദ്ധം എന്ന സാമൂഹിക പ്രതിഭാസം നിർത്താൻ കഴിയുക എന്ന് നിങ്ങൾ കരുതുന്നു? മനുഷ്യവംശം അവസാനിച്ചാൽ യുദ്ധവും അവസാനിക്കും

[@BROKEN-PILOT]

@@thepalebluedot4171 മംഗലാപുരം? യുഎസ്എ, ടെക്സസ്! താങ്കൾ മഹാഭാരതം വായിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ടോ?

[@zoso73]

@@BROKEN-PILOT "Now, state governor's (Florida's De[Santis]) want to ask/document the menstrual cycles of young ladies in secondary school." False. The Florida High School Athletic Association is weighing the recommendation from an advisory committee, but no final decision has been made. DeSantis’ education commissioner is a member of the association’s board of directors and the commissioner also appoints three others, but the association is a private nonprofit organization, not a state agency under the purview of the governor’s office.

[@Glacytale_]

I love your channel! I like learning more about the second world war with these videos And I find history interesting. I don't really have patience to read history books all the time so these vids are really helpful :D Thank you so much! And the narrator has a beautiful voice!

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thank you so much! :) Keep watching us :)

[@reneerichburg8023]

Love your channel 👍👍👍 AWESOME WORK KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK 👍👍👍

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

@@reneerichburg8023 Thank you so much :)

[@Matthias-sl6jr]

​@@WorldHistoryVideosYou should do 1 of these on Erich VoπManstein admittedly 1/2 jewish Field Marshal units responsible for most civilian executions on eastern front.somehow avoided hangmans noose became 1st commander of πato.

[@skykat1525]

bot

[@pauloblack5225]

"in the path of fighting monsters beware of not becoming a monster yourself..."

[@helencheung2537]

Yes. Two wrongs don't make a right.

[@MorganHayes_Composer.Pianist]

uncommonly wise words.

[@adilO.o]

This is exactly what I thought when I heard about the 18 minutes execution.

[@jean6872]

The Versailles Treaty helped create the conditions necessary for the rise of Nazism.

[@lucasgroves137]

That's a genius comment; you need to write a book.

[@jean6872]

@@lucasgroves137 The Versailles Treaty was brought up in the commentary and there was a failure to mention how it contributed to the prevailing political conditions in Germany. I corrected this. Many young people watch these videos who, unlike you, do not know a complete history of WWII and my comment was meant to balance the commentary and not aimed at you who already knows it all.

[@lucasgroves137]

@@jean6872 You make what I suspect is a baseless assertion. Where did you get your information? Or is it just a series of dots that you connected yourself?

[@jean6872]

@@lucasgroves137 Why did you not challenge my assertion that the Versailles Treaty contributed to the conditions necessary for the rise of the Nazis if you so doubt me? I learned it from books and documentaries some of which are here on KZbin.

[@lucasgroves137]

@@jean6872 You are mistaken about which part of your comment I disbelieve. Yes I know about the effects of the Treaty of Versailles; my point is that those effects are very widely known. You didn't correct a failure of the video to mention it, because it probably didn't need mentioning. Plenty of "young people," as well as other kinds of people, know all about it. If someone makes a history video that you think should have additional content, go right ahead and produce it; I'm sure it'll receive plenty of well-deserved Likes.

[@JustT123]

Jodl has objected

[@Nora-xk5tf]

My Father was a Waist Gunner on a B24 with the 389(H), 8th Air Force. He was in a famous Air battle over Germany. They were based out of England. He rarely spoke about his WW2 Experience. He saw many planes shot down.

[@wtffrank]

Probably firebombed women and children refugees in Dresden, what a hero

[@MachineHead-tm5zg]

My grandfather was a waist gunner on b24 Delectable Doris. Ironically that was my grandmothers name.

[@Gigantore-u4z]

@@wtffrank It was the best technology than had at the time, sorry you disapprove of it.

[@annanderson7]

My father was in WW2 in Europe. He rarely ever got angry, but he never spoke of what he saw. He was a medic, so I know he saw some horrific things. He also served in Korea.

[@shepardsmith3235]

That generation said little but they all suffered from what they saw and were put though and all because the leaders of England and France were cowards and did nothing to stop Hitler before it was too late. And that included a lot of the aristocracy in England including king Edward who should have been hanged as traitor. He was directly responsible for allowing Hitler to remilitarize the Rhineland. Once this happened it was all over.

[@heavyrightfoot7947]

If that were the case Stalin,Eisenhower, Tony Blair, George Bush to name a few should be before a court or is it just political opponents?

[@Votereform81]

I just came on here to same the same Blair and bush have blood on there hands and there celebrated it makes me sick

[@joeylamuel5828]

The truth is if the Axis had won the war, Eisenhower,Stalin, Patton, Montgomery, and all Allied leaders would've been executed. Sadly,it's only a war crime for the losing side.

[@leiflohne3096]

It is soothing to know that these creatures died in pain and fear ❤️❤️

[@DonWan47]

Is it? We mustn’t take joy in suffering no matter who we are dealing with. If we do, what makes us different from the Nazis?

[@leiflohne3096]

@@DonWan47 as one sow so must one reep. Cruel actions demand cruels deaths

[@DonWan47]

@@leiflohne3096 A rather cowardly mantra but you do you.

[@leiflohne3096]

​@@DonWan47 war is hell. Warcriminals are worse. Their fear ought to calm us by making us know we've done right 👍👍

[@DonWan47]

@@leiflohne3096 Since when has fear stopped war criminals? USA in Vietnam, Russia in Ukraine, etc.

[@walterscogginsakathesilver6246]

Saddam Hussein got the same ending story.

[@johnLennon255]

Saddam was brought to justice, Hitler escaped

[@backdraft57]

@@johnLennon255he’s burning in hell

[@Andrew-df1dr]

I am pretty certain his wife would have shed tears for him.

[@ligmaballs1233]

Lmao

[@greigallan5845]

Yes, that closing remark doesn't really work.

[@Andrew-df1dr]

@@greigallan5845 It even said in the video that his wife was part of the legal team.

[@ITIsFunnyDamnIT]

She not only shed tears. She yodeled for him too.

[@thegreenbird795]

@@ITIsFunnyDamnIT lol

[@tj1923]

ive bin studying ww2 for years both my grandads served, its very interesting

[@Steve-vf7se]

These men deserve a prize. If only one soldier still lived today, like maybe in his 80s.

[@Lenzer1]

Math is not your forte, right?

[@joan5856]

​@@Lenzer1I am 89, and remember the day my Father came home and told my mother that war had been declared. Those were the days before radio contact was readily available.

[@elfrad1714]

Actually, most losses on both sides of WW1 were neither caused by machine guns nor poison gas but by artillery.

[@Ourladyrules]

debatable indeed.

[@ilyakaminsky466]

You're definitely speaking about losses of military. What about losses of civilians?!?

[@kimchipig]

It was about 80% in both wars. There are endless documentaries about tanks and small arms but it's the artillery that does the killing. Indeed, civilians are also killed in large numbers by artillery. When an army is being shelled, nobody cares if there are civilians mixed up. Most of the wreckage in downtown Berlin wasn't do to bombing but due to the fact the Red Army had blasted the place down block by block. It's industrialised murder on a grand scale, and quite underrated.

[@onlythewise1]

its was the poison gas did the most tortures things to humans out lawed in ww2 thank god

[@jaru75]

Very true actually in the current Ukraine and Russia conflict artillery accounts for the cause of highest mortality on both sides. Worse still that now we have laser and GPS guided shells.

[@thisislaflaretv5250]

" There were no tears shed for so and so". I like that part

[@tomasjodl5249]

well, his wife did

[@violetraysgarage1765]

Maybe his family?

[@bobnorris9465]

No it sounds morbid, perverted and sadistic when commenting on an execution. If executions are cool, why are they not being practised nowadays In many countries in the West? The guy sounds like a weirdo IMO.

[@MultiWalrus1]

You finish by saying "there were no tears shed for Alfred Jodl". Well, his wife certainly shed tears for him. She was devoted to him till the end.

[@PaulA-pg7jm]

What he is saying is that majority of people were not saddened by Jodl's

[@PaulA-pg7jm]

As I was pointing out most people were not saddened by Jodl's death. That's the narrator's point. Besides it sounds cool.

[@MultiWalrus1]

@@PaulA-pg7jm yes, I get the fact that “most people were not saddened” 😂 it would be a surprise if “most people” were saddened by the execution of a Nazi war criminal, don’t you think? My point was about his wife, who was indeed faithful to him until the last gasp.

[@hunkhk]

@@MultiWalrus1 i agree its a bit misleading

[@synthhero1347]

She doesn't deserve a mention

[@robertglisson6319]

One can always determine the objectivity of a documentary by a quick look at their sources...

[@glenn6583]

“Always?”

[@triciajohansen7124]

You have done your homework very well! Excellent presentation!

[@Orleans_]

Keep up the good work ive been waiting for this vid for a while Love from poland

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Pozdrawiamy to Poland :) Thanks for watching our videos and we are glad you like this one, it took us a lot of time to make it well :)

[@Orleans_]

:)

[@HarrelSantis]

Yes, remember the heroic Warsaw Uprising! And the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising a year earlier!

[@91mrpogi]

Hey Dolfy, watcha planning? Alfred Jodl when Hitler is planning But Dolfy, I object to your plans Alfred Jodl objecting to Hitler's plans

[@deonellis8577]

In war, nobody wins

[@davedraycott5779]

Yes they do. The allies did be glad.

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

The Nazis lost

[@kaylakurucz7214]

And the Japanese, Italy also lost

[@stevehammond9156]

In the words of the great Chinese philosopher, Confucius, "War never determine who is right, only who is _left_ " 🙂

[@StephenLuke]

@@stevehammond9156 True.

[@nancycrowe9063]

Please keep showing these clips our younger generation need to hear and see these so they know what happened to their family’s may all the victims rest in peace🙏🙏🙏😇😇😇

[@paddypleiner5518]

I think, whoever states Operation Weseruebung, should not forget, that British Operation Winfried with the same objective started 2 days earlier, but failed... both Nations had the exactly same objective, Britain to take out Norway as ore shipper to Germany, Germany to protect the ore shipments from Narvik... just from a purely military point of view

[@thedrinkinggamemaker9749]

Did he object to the execution? 😂

[@99mrpogi]

Hey dolfy, watcha planning?

[@14Aymara]

Another excellent video. Thank you, World History.👏👏👏

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thank you so much!

[@wolfgangschulze2343]

"If the law of the Nuremberg trials were applied, then every post-war president of the United States would have to be hanged. By breaking the laws of the Nuremberg Trials, I mean the same types of crimes for which people were hanged in Nuremberg and Tokyo.” - Noam Chomsky [

[@dancingkitty11]

No ropes were injured in the hangings.

[@erepsekahs]

Poor ole Alfie. I bet his family had tears.

[@robertburk5550]

Jodl wasn't nearly as bad as many many others and suffered an inhumane death. He was in principle a soldier, simply making battle plans due to the orders of his leader, which is done today on a DAILY basis. It isn't like he was out there shooting children and hanging pregnant women with glee in his eyes. The allies intentionally shortened the drop to not hang them but slowly choke them to death, which is far worse than what he did. You can't blame a general for being good at his job because of orders given him. His job was only military planning, he had no ties in with concentration camps or murdering civilians, he made the plans, laid out the strategy. Those below him and those under Hitler's orders are who made innocents suffer. For me, he deserved a small jail time, a few years at most as he was already old and then let go. The problem is he was a "big name", and people wanted even MORE blood even after world war 2. So they put together every scapegoat possible to appease the crowds. Anyone else ever heard about the unqualified hangman from America, who lied his way in and intentionally shortened the ropes of every convicted person? Does that make the allies better? Sadly, for me anyways, it shows how deep the evil is in all of mankind, and makes it hard to tell anymore who is good or evil as we all seem the same really. Evil begets evil.

[@HarrelSantis]

"You can't blame a general for being good at his job because of orders given him." Yes, you can. If those orders are illegal the general can certainly be held accountable. All the more so because he is a high ranking officer aware of all the implications of what his own orders mean. Generals or not mere messenger boys of criminal politicians.

[@demsandlibsareswinecancer4667]

Nothing amuses me more than self-righteous, sanctimonious clown shoes like yourself who actually believe themselves to be someone's moral superior. Why don't you keep menstruating really hard like a woman about this and we will keep mocking and shaming you mercilessly for it okay?

[@comparedtowhat2719]

Jodl was not old. He swung at age 52.

[@rickjensen2717]

Unfortunately countless axis and allied war criminals were never put on trial for their crimes and got away with it.

[@onlythewise1]

whats a crime is a opinion dork try to talk above a dork

[@jsldj]

Same thing in Japan. Countless war criminals got away with it!

[@allanfarr]

Same with FBI DOJ CDC / NIH Clinton’s and other Demon leaders

[@tonyclough9844]

@@jsldj the most generals in Japan got away with war crimes. The crimes against the Chinese were never prosecuted.

[@onlythewise1]

@@jsldj on both sides

[@andrewg.carvill4596]

Did you really need to finish with the cheap shot: "There were no tears shed for Alfred Jodl". You told us that his wife not only stood by him but (courageously I would say given the circumstances) joined his defense team. He was still a human being and no doubt his wife did shed tears for him.

[@jamesparker1063]

that's TRUE! His widow was a talented singer; apparently, she not only "shed tears", but yodeled for him, after he was gone....

[@tatestrickland7956]

Well said.

[@randlemcmurphy2672]

Tears were shed from the smell of his trousers after swing for18 minutes.

[@Lubytoons1]

Are you for real? No tears for scumbag murderers.

[@candicecoffyne5263]

He was subhuman, not human. No tears required.

[@giorgiobucci1737]

I just don't get it. The title of the videos says "...horrible execution of ...." And the video talks about the General execution non the last 30 seconds. I don't like it.

[@Gaston413]

Always keep in mind only war criminals of a loser side will be sentenced. In general the ones of the winner side won't even be sued.

[@gyrthez246]

Shout out to Sgt Wood for making sure they felt something.

[@rescuepetsrule6842]

IKR! I hope he was promoted. :)

[@reyganbriggs6785]

@@rescuepetsrule6842 he actually got fired. He was convicted at a general court martial and subsequently examined by a psychiatric board on April 23, 1947. He was diagnosed with "Constitutional Psychopathic Inferiority without Psychosis", was found "poor service material" and discharged.

[@oldcremona]

There was no official plan for his poor technique that extended the suffering of convicted criminals. He was just shitty at his job. He also hanged American soldiers convicted of crimes, and botched a number of them, too. He was an idiot and incompetent, and no one in charge bothered to replace him.

[@Matthew-hb9ff]

@@rescuepetsrule6842 Sgt Woods died a few years later . He was electrocuted , I’m sure his chilling in hell

[@Mshi-]

@@rescuepetsrule6842 he got barbecued himself lol

[@keijolehtinen5668]

Posthumous legal action On 28 February 1953, after his widow Luise sued to reclaim her pension and his estate, a West German denazification court posthumously declared Jodl not guilty of breaking international law, based on Henri Donnedieu de Vabres's 1949 disapproval of Jodl's conviction.[25][26] This not guilty declaration was revoked by the Minister of Political Liberation for Bavaria on 3 September 1953, following objections from the United States; the consequences of the acquittal on Jodl's estate were, however, maintained.[27]

[@rackcity5981]

History has taught me...might is always right. If your gonna fight, you better win

[@samar949]

some really wise lines, mate.

[@WW2warcrimestrials]

You are, of course, right. Julius Caesar recognised that. He said that “War gives the right to the conquerors to impose whatever conditions they please upon the vanquished.” (de Bello Gallicom 1.36)

[@AjitMD]

The harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles got a lot of Germany radicalized. Got the Nazis elected. Dragged the military into rearmament and WWII. Allies won the war, but it led the rise of USSR, plus the liquidation of the British and French Empires. WWI should have been avoided or stopped early. Wars have unintended consequences, most are bad. As for the hangings? That is what happens when a country looses war. I suspect it would have happened if there were no atrocities. At least they did not get hung, drawn and quartered like the Brits used to do. A lot of German high command committed suicide. They were all issued Potassium Cyanide vials. Or should have had an exit strategy. U-boat to Argentina? Type iX or XXI? Type VII would have made it too.

[@Johnketes54]

I can see they are Roman numerals and the values,But what are you explaining by quoting numbers?

[@miketrusky476]

How nice you didn't say one word about the dead French PEOPLE the Germans of WWl murdered long before the war ended. And Germany had money to rearm but not repay.

[@dingotopruc9642]

@@Johnketes54 Those are the different model numbers given to U-Boats as they were made, each representing a new and improved version. The latter had a longer range that permitted them to cross the Atlantic without refueling.

[@AjitMD]

@@miketrusky476 Neither French, British, Spanish, Portuguese - Let alone the Germans - are innocent of committing mass murder or genocide in recent history. French pursued a murderous war in Indochina after WWII and later in Algeria…. all those countries wanted was independence. We are not even talking about the unprovoked Napoleonic Wars. Brits massacred millions via famine in India plus fighting revolts for independence, plus in Africa and against the Irish people. Spain massacred and pillaged the Americas. Portuguese did the same in India and Africa. Again, war has unintended consequences. Many negative and against the victors. Best to avoid the root causes of these wars.

[@miketrusky476]

@@AjitMD ha ha ha, Hitler got 1/3 of the votes. There were mass demonstrations against him. Then he had the Reichstag burned down to declare Marital Law, traitor trump was to do the exact same thing on Januay 6th. 2021. The majority of Germans had no use for him!

[@nievaconsing3344]

RIP 💐 🙏 Victims of Alfred Jodl ❤ 🕊 🇵🇭

[@tim7052]

FYI, the final payment made by Germany under the Treaty of Versailles was transacted on the 3rd of October 2010.

[@robertgedzelman380]

With US President Hoover's insistence, payments were essentially stopped in 1930, and then Hitler cancelled all payments sometime in 1933. After the war, West Germany agreed to resume some payments "contingent upon reunification", which occurred in 1995. Your comment could be misunderstood by some that Germany made payments from 1930 all the way into 1995. In 1995, Germany paid the U.S. $ 94 million - about the price of anywhere between one or perhaps two fighter jets, or 18 M1A2 Abrams tanks.

[@tim7052]

@@robertgedzelman380 Well my friend your knowledge is more in depth than mine, but I didn't intend any inferences other than the final payment made by Germany. On another issue, under the WWII "Lend Lease" agreement Britai made its' final payment on the 29th of December, 2006.

[@mrunning10]

All paid in full? Including adjusted for inflation? Please post some reference and links please.

[@tim7052]

@@mrunning10 Look it up on the internet - it's all there.

[@tonyryan1574]

Wasn't that the final payment Great Britain made to the United States?

[@jimcoop5663]

....18 minutes....that is still letting him off easy. War criminals deserve the same amount of compassion they give their victims.

[@mariajoaoalmeida4]

Agreed!

[@ipreet6850]

"I salute you, my eternal Germany..." his last words

[@martinjiranek5915]

Sick to the very end.

[@Dawg99999]

I salute you, my eternal Russia.

[@stevehammond9156]

@@Dawg99999 Who is in the Ukraine illegally. Putin was KGB and a leopard cannot change his spots.

[@-andreiDNA]

@@martinjiranek5915 how is loving your country sick

[@lindamariacarrillo1697]

I wonder what his first words in Hell were.......

[@kennethzullick6897]

But as victors the allies hid all their war crimes.

[@darkknight1340]

But as usual that is never spoken about,the level of hypocrisy displayed by the allies was disgusting.

[@darkknight1340]

@@kolju It won't be long before that policy blows up in their faces.

[@triggerfish999]

The policy of 'area bombing' was certainly questionable, but it was dwarfed by the wholesale extermination committed by the Nazis. And you are right..because country who got away without any restribution for wholesale massacres and annexation of foreign lands was good old Russia and Uncle Joe. Now they are at it again.

[@billpugh58]

@@kolju the multi Kultis are behind you and in your head madis, they are all around you, the will get you madis!

[@vchk5330]

@@darkknight1340 cry more neo

[@vampire443]

I love the closing line!!! great videos and so informative, thank you for your work!

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thank you so much

[@lindacole4387]

No tears for anyone who killed a Jew back then. They did nothing to Germany.

[@neilfoster814]

So, as a military commander, married twice to two different women, no children, was firing blanks! Oh, the irony of that! 😂😂😂

[@Johnketes54]

And executed for what? What great crime did he commit? Being a commander? That's a "terrible" crime

[@HarrelSantis]

@@Johnketes54 Being a commander who ordered the following: 1) The principal charges against him related to his signature of the Commando Order and the Commissar Order, both of which ordered that certain classes of prisoners of war were to be summarily executed upon capture. 2) He was found guilty of unlawful deportation and abetting execution. Presented as evidence was his signature on an order that transferred Danish citizens, including Jews, to Nazi concentration camps.

[@susancampbell4062]

Bravo for your excellent narration of these historical events. It's a very good thing that these criminal monsters are now open to public knowledge.

[@davidstovell4084]

Idiotic comment - this is a ridiculous video. Deliberately executing anyone to make it last as long as possible is pretty much a criminal act - the american hangman Woods should have been executed himself for that.

[@afsheenchitnis9669]

What about the monsters today? Bush former president of state killed hundreds of thousands and there was no trial for him.

[@babarmatin6872]

And what about the brutalies on muslims in bosnia and palestine.

[@xoyo2703]

And what about the massacres perpetrated by the syrian regime and the palestinians on the Lebanese Christians in Damour in January 1976?

[@mirkotorca1950]

Jodl was an office general. He didn't see the action unlike Von Manstein, Guderian, Rommel, Von Kluge and others.

[@010bobby]

Yet as a general staff officer, he give Hitler’s orders to Field marshals thereby they’re subordinate to him..

[@haithsrus6511]

What does being an office general have to do with? He signed the papers to kill all commandos instantly without trail to name one. He may not have seen action in WW2 but he committed war crimes.

[@bradleybailey6254]

He saw a lot in WW1

[@benadam7753]

@@haithsrus6511 What do you mean by commandos? Do you mean partisans?

[@maxwellfan55]

@@benadam7753 Special forces including SAS, Royal Marine Commandos etc. and allied equivalents mainly operating behind enemy lines.

[@oliversherman2414]

I can't think of Jodl without imagining his Downfall actor saying "I object to this plan!"

[@gabigolding186]

People are different, there are many different culture's, look after your own culture, be respectful to other cultures, and understand you are not always right, you might learn something

[@lawrencetierce8244]

We definitely need to close the US southern border!!

[@kevmehl]

@@lawrencetierce8244 Didn't Trump build a wall? Why isn't that working?

[@lawrencetierce8244]

@@kevmehl part of a wall but you know that A hole. Why do you want to keep pushing your radical views?!

[@kevmehl]

@@lawrencetierce8244 What radical views do I keep pushing?

[@lawrencetierce8244]

@@kevmehl democrat views

[@robertomeneghetti6215]

Treaty of Versailles was the cause of the war... and how generously Russia was handled by Germany just a year before in Brest-Litovsk? The poor German victims...

[@Kaiserbill99]

You have a child like grasp of history.

[@jamesmaybrick2001]

you are naive or just misinformed.

[@robertomeneghetti6215]

@@jamesmaybrick2001 I feel that you didn't realize the meaning of my comment! Please just leave it.

[@TheMatrixxandRhodesShow]

I'm sure there were no tears shed for Alfred Jodl.

[@14Aymara]

@@tsarbomba01 - If he had been part of my family, I would have shed many tears not for his justified death, but long before, knowing that a monster like him was somehow related to me.

[@robertwilliamson6121]

His wife and family cried tears when he was executed.

[@14Aymara]

@@robertwilliamson6121 - His fault. He chose to be what he was. Quite an inheritance to leave for his family.

[@HarrelSantis]

@@robertwilliamson6121 So what? My in-laws were survivors of Jodl's war machine, having had their entire families rounded up and sent to the gas chambers. They grieved every day until their deaths 78 years later. I spit on Jodl's memory and am glad to have learned that he and the other Nazi pigs suffered at their demise.

[@yeaboi7500]

@@robertwilliamson6121 Crocodile 🐊 tears

[@vincentyeo88]

Neave, Airey, Nuremberg: A Personal Record of the Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals in 1945-6, London: The Quality Book Club, 1978, pp348, Hardback.

[@georgemargaritis2392]

His pain was nothing to the pain millions of people suffered because of him

[@uweyaa]

What your nation do to Viet Nam, Combodscha, Irak, Syria,Lybia??

[@georgemargaritis2392]

@@uweyaa Greece 🇬🇷? Nothing

[@WW24343]

Agree monster got what he deserved should hang 50 more time....bastard

[@aguyonasiteontheinternet]

*insert downfall parody joke about him being bald here*

[@markhansen4258]

Originally execution was intended to punish not by death, but by intense pain and suffering leading up to death - death by public torture. Modern humane execution is more of a release for criminals than it is a punishment. The deterrent effect is mostly gone.

[@demef758]

Drawing and quartering would have been far more appropriate deaths for these animals.

[@Cohen.the.Worrier]

@@demef758 With four limp donkeys.

[@xr6lad]

@@demef758 I think we understand your need to virtual signal.

[@jamesbinns8528]

@@demef758 Amen.They were guilty of worse.

[@clarenceghammjr1326]

Yes, should have used the living Gemini method of Roy Demeo

[@cor2250]

Thanks for the video ! Love history

[@kaiserahmed7276]

After watching the international criminal courts way of justice in Bangladesh, I would rather say this all ware and are a part of game. Govt in power and the winners are always the decision maker's. Saw twice and still carring the memories. No mighty powerful country's or the UN or human rights people stands for the falsely convicted innocents and their family's.

[@siadhcsf9263]

Judiciary is different kind of stand up comedy. If you disecern .

[@anildharan]

Rather unfair, I think, as there was no Proof of his oppressing civilians or being inhuman. For the rest, he was just a soldier who fought for his country. His only mistake was being on the losing side.

[@WW24343]

This monster wasn't fighting a war like a real soldier they were mass murderer of men women & children's...they all living in denial while in Nuremberg facing the court That bastard got what he deserved bunch of Cowardly punk

[@WW24343]

Can't expected anything better from some of you Nazi sympathized Evil people's who grow in a racist household thought to hate some of you are pure Evil

[@bloodybones63]

His wife might have shed a tear.

[@larifari4371]

She would have probably been the only one, though.

[@mrunning10]

She knew what she was marrying. They should have fired up one of the Auschwitz incinerators and thrown him into it alive head first. Intercourse the Nazis.

[@WilliamDraper-ym3nv]

Nice program.

[@margarita8442]

I shed no tears

[@ronnieverhagi5607]

Victor's kangaroo show trial justice.

[@mtlb2674]

He was a soldier doing his duty, not a criminal. He was found not guilty at crimes against humanity in 1954. Sadly it was just too late for him.

[@theyangview1898]

He knew what Hitler was doing to the Jews. He deserved every minute it took to snuff out his worthless life. God rest the souls of those he was complicit in killing

[@HarrelSantis]

Just a 'soldier doing his duty' for a criminal regime that committed a pre-meditated, industrialized multi-continental genocide primarily against the Jewish people, but also against the Roma people. The army under his command murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians throughout Nazi-occupied Europe, carrying out collective punishment including mass executions of civilian in 'retaliation' for the activities of Partisans and underground fighters in France, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, etc. Soldiers are human beings, he was raised in a society guided by Christian values and he should have known better. Other German officers followed their conscience and did try to assassinate Hitler, still others defected, and still others (though precious few) refused to obey the immoral orders they were given. Stop making excuses for this and other Nazis.

[@mtlb2674]

Those german officers that tried to assassinate Hitler were traitors, not heros. Soldier obeys his orders, not his conscience. Hitler, Himmler and other nazi leaders were guilty to those horrible crimes, not those men who followed their orders.

[@HarrelSantis]

@@mtlb2674 international law does not support your position, which rejected the "only following orders" argument made by the Nazi defendants. A soldier that shoots civilians, that participates in genocide, whether a general or a lowly private, is culpable for his/her criminal actions. Full stop. Your position is immoral.

[@mtlb2674]

I agree that you are right what you said about international law. Immoral, maybe. For my point of view there is just no place for morale in life.

[@TheShonkyone]

The Versailles treaty was the catalyst for what the world would become. Germany were punished for starting a war after members of their royal family were assassinated (which given the demographic of things in the early 20th century seems only fitting). Imagine if a British royal was assassinated in that same era. Due to that treaty which took an awful lot from Germany it allowed radical movements like Nazism to come to power based on pure nationalism. If a treaty was done correctly there would of been no nazi’s and the USSR would not of turned all of the eastern block and China to communism which has since become a serious problem world wide for infrastructure in other countries. It’s amazing what a ripple effect can cause.

[@markpalka6382]

The agonizing death of Alfred Jodl and the others condemned to death is not what I would wish on anyone but they deserved it! On the other hand, Hans Frank, the Nazi governor of Poland, was likewise condemned to death, yet came to trust Jesus Christ as Saviour two weeks before his execution and faced death sure of his salvation, and among his last words was his honest admission that his punishment was just!

[@forfacebook604]

Wow.

[@dabsafe]

So he became delusional.

[@CLOCKWOrk53]

@@dabsafe in the eyes of the unanointed, yes.

[@markpalka6382]

@@forfacebook604: Right you are! I myself could not have expressed it any better!

[@markpalka6382]

@@dabsafe: Think what you will, but that is a fact! Buy it! You might sleep better!

[@douglasturner6153]

Sgt John Wood. Legendary Craftsman. He look's a bit tipsy and giddy in that photo of him holding the Noose.

[@robertwilliamson6121]

It's not even a proper hangman's noose that he is holding. Sgt. John Wood should have learned the trade from Albert Pierrepoint, England's great hang man executioner. Albert Pierrepoint never bungled an execution. He was a master of the trade.

[@douglasturner6153]

@@robertwilliamson6121 Well, Sgt Wood is what we call "A Good Ol Boy"! Don't need any fancy Brititish Tutor. Anyway you can't argue the fact he succeeded even if he was slower than Pierpont. Probably the time lapse allowed him a few stiff drinks in between.

[@Johnketes54]

@@robertwilliamson6121 Some FOOL in power decided the Americans can hang them,The FOOL didn't understand it's a science not just putting rope around someone's neck is LYNCHING strangulation a slow death,The British hangman was a professional and the Americans should have been allowed the CHAIR, Instead of some interfering FOOL making decisions beyond his understanding

[@oldcremona]

@@douglasturner6153 Woods also executed American soldiers convicted of crimes, and botched a number of those, extending their suffering. He was an idiot and incompetent but no one cared.

[@douglasturner6153]

@@oldcremona Death is going to be painful anyway just getting pulled out of the body people are so attached to. Bad hangings are just another indignity on the way.

[@thegreenbird795]

The only crime in war is losing...

[@fatgreta1066]

I am 13 minutes in to this video and so far it’s a simplistic overview of the history of war in Europe in the 20th century. Are we going to get to the execution in the final two minutes? Who thought of the title?

[@vivians9392]

No tears shed for him? What about his wife? I'm sure she shed tears. Your remark assumes more than you can prove...

[@14Aymara]

Vivian S - I'm sure many more tears of joy were shed knowing he paid for the atrocities he commited, than for his death.

[@demsandlibsareswinecancer4667]

And so does yours but what's funny is you have the nerve and the pompous idiocy to pretend you're not also guessing. And what about his wife? F*** that b****. Apparently she had tears for him but not tears for all the victims? Then who gives a damn about her tears as they are selective and useless. Meaningless.

[@jacksonreilly3441]

It is just his little "party piece" he likes to lugubriously intone each time he covers an execution. I don't believe he realizes how stupid he sounds.

[@dannyarcher6163]

Thank you for highlighting the war crimes of Imperial America and her allies.

[@sandrahatherley2184]

?

[@colindant3410]

The gravity of what those executed actually did is irrelevant. It was victors' justice. However justified their executions may have been, they wouldn't have occurred had they been on the winning side.

[@limf.m.4823]

He was made a fall guy.

[@Olliethesnowman]

I’m confused I guess the Germans where like “ f it we can do whatever “

[@danpride2804]

The problem is we have no pictures of them showing fear in their eyes, or pain. All the images are of commanding figures in fancy uniforms surrounded by adoring crowds. No wonder we are dealing with modern verions of the same thing

[@mrktyb]

racist

[@danpride2804]

@@mrktyb bot

[@taizecellist]

How low can you go? If you want to get off on nazis humiliated, there is always the execution of Höss. Enjoy!

[@danpride2804]

@@bksvdb Hiding stuff only helps the bad guys.

[@garys8415]

Overcome evil by doing good.🕊

[@andreaskreitmeier345]

executing jodl and awarding for example stalin and bomber harris says EVERYTHING about war-justice... jodl was not guilty. so said f.e. patton and other high allied soldiers.

[@scottbrower9052]

I didn't know about the shallow drops. What a wonderful, delightful, awesome story! 🤗

[@katemaloney4296]

I hate to nitpick, but I think you're missing a few keywords in your video title. It should be: "The Excruciatingly Painful and Well-Deserved Execution of Alfred Jodl". I hope you correct it.

[@MIB_63]

I have no doubts that the nazis comitted terrible war crimes but still we should always bear in mind the words of Napoleon: "History is written by the victors".

[@someguitardude8462]

5:30 slight correction: only ONE government in the entire planet protested: Mexico, under Lázaro Cárdenas. To commemorate this, there is a square in Vienna named Mexikoplatz.

[@ronniebishop2496]

Well as a Vietnam war veteran I am ashamed of our military for hanging people like that. That puts us down on their level and I’m not on their damn level and neither was my family that fought in WW2, or my kids in the military now! I don’t blame the young GIs because I was just 19 years old and had no idea what was really going on, but I do blame high command because they are old lifers and should know better. Our military industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about in his farewell address is out of control, we killed 2 million people in Vietnam in 15 years and then just left, we killed people for 20 years in Afghanistan and then just left, now we’re in cahoots with another idiot in Ukraine that’s now calling for American soldiers to come fight and die for him. HELL NO!

[@rheinmoses29]

There is information that it is the US who encouraged the Ukraine to provoke the conflict with Russia

[@terradaktal8318]

Well he lived a full life and almost conquered the world... had Hitler listen and let his generals run the show..

[@judydavenport9636]

If only he did. We'd be speaking German and Japanese today. I was stationed in Germany in the 80s and a platoon mate married a german lady. Many times We'd as a platoon would sit around and chat. The ww2 always came up and the fact that Hitler didn't listen to his generals.

[@Johnketes54]

@@judydavenport9636 You wouldn't be speaking anything,You would not have been born,Your forefathers would have been wiped out for being "inferior" only ARYANS were fit for this world blond hair,blue eyes,Any deformed babies instant death

[@HarrelSantis]

Am I to read this as a wish for a Nazi victory in WWII? Are you aware at all of what that regime did to millions of innocent people? Do you know about the Nazi Endlösung der Judenfrage (Final Solution to the Jewish Question) which murdered some six million Jews in death camps, slave labor camps, concentration camps, medical experiments, mass execution of entire towns and villages? Have you any awareness of the horrific Lebensraum policy of forcefully removing millions of Poles from western Poland, executing Polish priests, nuns, professors, writers, politicians, teachers? Are you somehow unaware of Nazi racial 'theories' that classified "non-Aryans" (Jews, Slavs, Arabs, Africans, Asians) as "untermenschen" (sub-humans)? Do you not have a conscience? Shame on you for such superficial and racist thinking.

[@bigvinnie3]

@@judydavenport9636 That's not strictly true, not all of Hitlers decisions were bad and not all his generals choices good. His want to prioritize the south for its economic resources was pretty spot on and his generals instance at moscow was not correct. Or his stand fast order outside moscow which likely saved the bulk of army group center whos generals wanted to retreat almost back to the border. Germany's problems stemmed from a few things. Namely lack of resources, an overstretched logistics system and having to garrison the west as the same time. I'm not saying they couldn't have pulled out a victory but I am saying it was pretty unlikely and the war would have had to have been pursued from day one with the ideas of a long war in mind. His generals were great tactical thinkers but strategists and logisticians most were not.

[@HarrelSantis]

@@bigvinnie3 Hitler and the Nazis were not a normal government pursuing mere national self-interests. At the heart of Nazism was a racist ideology that imagined the world to be a competition between "races" and only the "Herrenvolk" (Master Race) of white "Aryans" should rule the world over all the other untermenschen (sub-humans). The Nazis believed "die Juden" (the Jews) were an inferior but diabolical race conspiring to destroy "white civilization", a "gegenrasse" (anti-race) that needed to be destroyed. That is the basis of Nazism. That regime had to be stopped and destroyed. Hitler started a world war that killed not only 6 million Jews in an industrialized pre-meditated genocide, but millions of other civilians, and soldiers. A Nazi victory would have meant completing the anti-Jewish genocide, and the enslavement of millions upon millions of other groups. Your "analysis" is amoral, at best. Honestly it sounds like you are even wishing Hitler had won.

[@lorenzoward946]

Sorry folks but Jodl was a staff Wehrmacht general with no direct connection to war crimes. The facts related here are distorted to fit the story. Really questionable why he was executed. Get your facts right?

[@OleLeik]

He had more than his fair share of direct connections to war crimes, Among other acts he passed on the commissar order and the commando order. But nevertheless he should have been judged and sentenced for his ill deeds somewhere else than in Nurnberg. There were quite a few people who were against that trial of Jodl at the time as he did not fit into the crowd charged there,. The critic had little to do with Jodl being decent and clean or not (IMHO he was not) or having knowledge of something or not (IMHO he had). But much about that particular court was more about the nazi regime, SS, Holocaust and such than specific breaches of the Hague and Geneva conventions. Basically he was hanged for the crimes of the entire Wehrmacht apparatus , thought others were more complicit in their guilt.

[@glenn6583]

I have sometimes been deliberately bad at my job, like hangman Wood! That is OK this time!

[@orielsy]

You missed the post trial and judgment. Don't you think that bears at least a mention? Anyone reading should look into what happened to his case after the execution.

[@scottmccloud9029]

18 minutes for years of suffering and death? Seems fair.

[@emkkahn]

Technology changes, fashion changes, the idea of what fun changes, but Human Nature will NEVER change. And death is the ONLY thing that keeps a murderer from murdering.

[@VinhNguyen-fb9lk]

John Wood is da man! Ultimate avenger

[@williamkinkade2538]

He did not take his craft seriously, Albert Pierpoint was an professional.

[@Johnketes54]

@@williamkinkade2538 He couldn't take seriously because he didn't know what he was doing,The Americans had the chair but were deprived of that by some FOOL who wanted to match the brits but didn't understand what it entailed,Putting a rope around someone neck and letting them dangle is not skill

[@oldcremona]

@@williamkinkade2538 You are correct. Woods also hanged American soldiers convicted of crimes, and botched a number of those. You don't see anyone here celebrating that fact.

[@VinhNguyen-fb9lk]

@@oldcremona think it’s a deliberate act..purposely to make those war criminals suffered..no quick death

[@benadam7753]

@@VinhNguyen-fb9lk No, he just sucked at what he did as he botched hangings of US soldiers.

[@TheNinyo77]

The American hangman was a psychopath, if he did indeed purposely prolonged these hangings !!!! , I didn't see any war crimes courts for Iraq or Afghanistan ????.

[@OleLeik]

Apparently he was just a vulgar brute, incompetent and reckless to the max, who did not care about what happened after he pulled the lever one way or another . After the spectacle at the gallows in Nurnberg he become a ex-hangman and eventually exited himself from life while attempting to repair a powered on high voltage device

[@georgenorris2657]

There probably were tears shed for this man. His second wife seemed quite devoted. I see no reason why he should not have been allowed a death by firing squad. He was strictly a military man so far as I can judge from this video

[@jacksonreilly3441]

You are right. Luisa Jodl was a loving wife and a faithful widow who never remarried. She died in 1998. Although the General was spitefully denied a proper funeral, there is a Grave of Honour stone in his memory alongside her grave in Chiemsee.

[@yeaboi7500]

@@jacksonreilly3441 6 million Jews were denied a proper funeral just before Jodl was denied

[@jacksonreilly3441]

@@yeaboi7500 What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? Different subject. General Jodl was Wehrmacht, not SS and had nothing to do with the ubiquitous "H" word, (capitalized of course).

[@lindamariacarrillo1697]

The Polish would differ in opinion.