Germany’s Fascist Story

[@nuno.peixoto]

"Do not trust people with easy answers for very complex problems" - This is utterly important.

[@xiaoli6532]

There is No easy solution! If you can't explain simple, you can't understand it well enough. So think sophisticate, make it simple, but significant.

[@pneron2032]

Leftists

[@Stan_144]

Best recent example: Donald Trump ..

[@williamgill_esq.6487]

@@Stan_144 Wrong.

[@peitschfamily]

Hope and change etc.

[@KarlMcCleve]

I wish every high school and college student would watch this and really understand the truth of what happened prior to World War II and what could easily happen here in the current state of affairs

[@milfordcivic6755]

You know what you'll get for a response? "Oh, that was before I was born". "History is boring". "Ok Boomer". They're mostly all ignorant these days, which is why we have a criminal elected president.

[@Darkhorse12022]

NEVER thought I would be binge-watching travelogues, but I am utterly addicted to these!

[@joelbedulla4]

Same here

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

Why not? The world is fascinating

[@genestatler2514]

That was very powerful. Thank you Rick for bringing this story to everyone's attention.

[@altmanncahir4456]

Yeah as if it is some kind of new revelation that every kid in europe or u.s don't learn in school or the media can't stop talking about 80 years later

[@PallahDaOracle]

@@altmanncahir4456 said it before I could lol

[@anandwwjd]

@@altmanncahir4456 USA and Europe is not the world... there are still many parts of the world where fascist forces are reigning

[@anandwwjd]

@@rider65 well I don’t know about the true history you are talking about or this guy. But I for sure know and see what fascism can achieve - kill people and freedom with not tinge of remorse; and in the exact same pattern. Perhaps it would help to read about RSS and their inspiration from Nazism

[@Changnoi12]

The "Holocaust education" was and is a psychological war against the Germans. German children have to watch Holocaust films in school or are shown in concentration camps and are told that their fathers and grandfathers were all perverse murderers, since there is no protection of minors, even children from the age of 8 are tortured in this way.

[@TheGetout04]

To be honest I wasn't expecting for Rick to cover such a dark topic in europe but I must say this might be one of the more compelling ones.

[@eshiveley]

Hint: he wasn't covering Europe.

[@srinip]

@@eshiveley I was thinking the same thing.

[@donsplanet]

He's a loser

[@joeyhgimid9959]

@@donsplanet Looks like you are the loser if you cannot recognize Rick's wonderful explanation to rise and fall of fascism through the lens of travel.

[@Dutchy-1168]

@@donsplanet your opinion....he’s worth millions! I’d say he was a winner ‼️

[@tabularasa4492]

As Mark Twain once said: it is easier to fool someone then convince them that they have been fooled!

[@myblueandme]

Mark Twain never said anything such. It's your imagination.

[@chuckkottke]

A lie travels halfway around the world before the truth even gets its boots on.

[@melgibson3928]

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”

[@melgibson3928]

Websites -CODOH -HolocaustHandBooks -Thomas Dalton, PhD

[@Pilotin74]

@@myblueandme - Yes Mark Twain did say such thing but there’s no evidence it was said in those words. He did state: “The glory which is built upon a lie soon becomes a most unpleasant incumbrance. … How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!” - Autobiographical dictation, 2 December 1906. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 (University of California Press, 2013) @Ullib kante, you need to do some research before you accuse someone of imaginary thinking!!!

[@darylwilliams7883]

This program just keeps getting better with time.

[@michaelbrinks8089]

Fascism= Having your paypal and other accounts suspended for "wrong think"

[@crabbyoldman1022]

@@michaelbrinks8089 I don’t think you actually saw the video. Also, a private company suspending someone for violating its terms of service is not fascism. 🙄

[@michaelbrinks8089]

@@crabbyoldman1022 I feel bad for you

[@crabbyoldman1022]

@@michaelbrinks8089 feel bad for yourself. You’re the one who doesn’t know what the words you’re using actually mean.

[@crabbyoldman1022]

@Teutonic Nordwinds fascism is a right-wing ideology, genius. 🙄

[@deadredeyes]

This is one of the most important videos you've ever made, Rick. Thank you so much for teaching people about this.

[@LisettedaSilva]

Actually his video on Portugal is quite good.... :)

[@legesupra4275]

I learnt nothing new from this video nothing that the propaganda channel aka history channel hasn't covered

[@juanfran579]

It always starts with intimidating people. Unfortunately, there are people using the same methods in our times.

[@badassat69]

Yes

[@melgibson3928]

People are also intimidated into never questioning the official narrative, or risk defamation and imprisonment in any one of 20 countries. If the official narrative can withstand scrutiny, it wouldn't be illegal to disagree with.

[@joelbedulla4]

@Teutonic Nordwinds you sure you're not accusing the wrong side? Fascism is always backed by conservatives.

[@tomcarl8021]

@@joelbedulla4 Fascism is a Leftist ideology. I promise, you are closer to one than any conservative.

[@halt6747]

@@joelbedulla4 "National Socialism" doesnt sound very right wing to me. "Champions of the oppressed" and ideological to the hilt, I'd say you're barking up the wrong tree.

[@ThanhNguyen-km8sh]

Just watched this today, a few days after the start of the Russian Ukraine conflict. This history lesson is so timely and never fails to be

[@angellacanfora]

This was amazing! I knew the story but to see it rendered so clearly and succinctly was brilliant. This video is so needed and necessary for our times. I grew up watching Rick Steves and always enjoyed his show, but this is Steves on a whole other level, one I never would have expected from him. I respect him more than ever!

[@tillappelhans4985]

Repeating the same lie over and over and hammering it into their heads......today, maybe Americans have learned that this could happen there as well. I really do hope that this chapter is over, now.

[@pneron2032]

It isn't over. The socialists are on the rise again.

[@olafgogmo5426]

@@pneron2032 Socialists in America??? Come on, there aren't any.

[@pneron2032]

@@olafgogmo5426 Right. Out of a population of 300 million there are no socialists in America. Presumably not even the ones who call themselves socialist...I guess socialists don't exist then. Thanks Olaf, very enlightening.

[@olafgogmo5426]

@@pneron2032 Americans who call themselves socialists (like B. Sanders) would be called social democrats in Europe.

[@noahkidd3359]

@@pneron2032 Trump said there were good people on both sides at a Nazi rally in Charlottesville. Trump also incited a mob to storm the Capitol, Reichstag style. Nice try to deflect, bro, but it's clear which side of America is more inclined to fascism -- Trump and his supporters.

[@Chucksensei]

Your message is loud and clear. Thank you for the masterful job!

[@n.a.mcintosh4697]

thanks for time traveling from 4 months ago to see a vid released yesterday

[@joeyhgimid9959]

Always enjoy Rick's narrative . He does so much research for each episode which helps to navigate the history, culture, geographic significance of each city, not to mention the wonderful scenery. A very helpful short cut for this old man.

[@christopherp.hitchens3902]

@@n.a.mcintosh4697 - This video seems to have had 2 releases. More curious is that the Kehlsteinhaus or...The Eagles Nest has been closed to the public for over a year. Rick seems to have taken liberties here with old film ...as well as blithely mixing up Hitler’s Beghof home videos with almost nonexistent visits by Hitler at the Eagles Nest. Steves either thinks these places are the same or, he just does what he likes without using disclaimers.

[@V5mGpYp]

Thank you Steve for this clear and compelling reminder of why free societies need educated people that care about their future.

[@pneron2032]

It's precisely the "intellectuals" that destroy free societies.

[@floridafamilyfun1597]

@@pneron2032 Did you not watch the part about how Hitler had intellectuals murdered? I think you are on the wrong side of history.

[@pneron2032]

@@floridafamilyfun1597 1) Many top Nazis WERE intellectuals (e.g. Dr Göbles, Dr Mengele etc. ...2) The Nazis persecuted intellectuals who were AGAINST them, not those for them. 3) Intellectuals were pivotal in providing justifications both for communism and Nazism.

[@LisettedaSilva]

THE FUTURE IS MAGA

[@lizkhalifa1233]

I hope this video gets more traction. This opened my eyes to how close we were to repeating history. Same tactics. Thank you for this documentary.

[@LisettedaSilva]

I guess since TRUMP WON it didn't get enough traction as people are tired of being lectured by old rich white men. stick to travel videos.

[@tomarmstrong1281]

The similarities between Germany then and America today are chilling.

[@kennance115]

I would disagree and think they are not similar at all.

[@wastrel09]

True that the Biden/Harris regime is setting the scene for authoritarian rule

[@kuribojim3916]

@@kennance115 They are shockingly similar.

[@CyndiConnard]

​@kennance115 oh it'd definitely similar! Trump is saying it out loud!!!!!!! Trump & The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 is the playbook...feel free to read it!!

[@Anon54387]

@@CyndiConnard What puzzles me are those, such as yourself, who don't understand that it is a contradiction to say those who are working to make the government smaller and less powerful are fascist. That is a unique sort of fascist.

[@leewest356]

As an American by birth, I watch what’s happening in the U.S. from my home abroad, and am frightened by the similarities between what happened in Germany and what is happening in the U.S. and many other Western countries.

[@Jesuslovesyou8525]

Yeah they actually have the camps and coffins made

[@rosem5041]

Especially if you look at how indigenous Palestinians are treated, suffering violent colonial settlers stealing land, lives, resources and war crimes.

[@AndyFromBeaverton]

24:36 As we've seen through the story of fascism in Germany, a charismatic leader rose to power through the democratic process and then seized extra-constitutional power by unlawful means. When citizens allowed this, individual freedoms and rights soon fell by the wayside, and democracy was lost. Steves is such a leftist ideologue, he doesn't realize he's talking about Biden.

[@simonestreeter1518]

@@AndyFromBeaverton I love this string of comments! Thanks!

[@larrybirdainge5951]

agreed. the government-induced poverty and worship of foreigners and homosexuals is very much like Weimar germany.

[@divaskesya]

when travel meets history: only rick steves can bring it thoughtfully yet so incredibly. u did great, thanks for such an amazing documentary, rick!

[@kathybest741]

Rick, I just saw this on PBS and like all your videos, it was very impressive, but also very important. I'm a retired college teacher of German, language and culture, and have used other of your videos. Very gratifying- students were fascinated. Seeing this made me wish, for the first time since I retired, I were still teaching. This is so clear and informative. Students NEED to have seen it.

[@Hiteshshlaki]

" Democracy is fragile "...so participate to protect it.

[@Changnoi12]

Good that you have mentioned the German "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" which is probably unique. A German comedian once said in his program about going to school in the eighties: "... three times per week we had the subject" guilt" and on Friday we had the subject" shame".

[@honestbusiness1371]

And never forget.

[@jamescc2010]

Many western countries are being attacked by fascist dictatorship in their form of governments

[@LisettedaSilva]

YES SO VOTE MAGA TO PROTECT IT

[@johnkitchen4699]

I used to lecture in travel and tourism when I lived in the UK. I ‘discovered’ Rick Steves’s programmes when I retired to the USA in 2009. They are undoubtedly the best travel programmes. Specials such as this one, Luther, Christmas, Easter etc are exceptional pieces of work - straightforward, accessible, understandable and, at the same time, entertaining ((if such a word can be applied to anything to do with fascism) especially from a tourism point of view. I highly recommend his books, too - not just the guide books, which are outstanding, but his books about travel and its benefits way beyond simple pleasure. A master of the art at work, number one in the field.

[@patriciaegan7244]

Hi Rick, thanks for speaking about this subject. My eyes are filled with so many tears. I’ll watch this video again and again, shedding a tear, until each victim of that era are cried for, prayed for, and surviving families are well cared for.

[@larrybirdainge5951]

when is the Rick video on Dunkirk?

[@patricktam4278]

The rhetoric back then, and the rhetoric now are eerily similar. Just replace “Jew” with “immigrant” and it is almost the exact same playbook.

[@ronwagoner8358]

Wow, as a child I enjoyed everything WWII. I never thought I would see its fascist beginnings here in the USA, but here it is.

[@hippiechick2112]

Thank you for this video. It is much needed in these dark days. I am in the US, and MAGA frighteningly reflects this. My God. We cannot return to this.

[@belizarius_997]

So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause - Sen. Padme Amidala

[@vjvierengel1176]

Well done, Rick! Travel is a way to broaden our perspectives. All of your videos achieve that goal. This one, more so, and with more importance.

[@audreyhutchison8159]

Thank you, Mr. Steves, for making this. Sadly we are seeing the shadows of this same process scratching out over America at the moment. God help us.

[@merlingrim2843]

Yep, the authoritarian socialists and communists are hard at it in the USA

[@SuperCal2]

@@merlingrim2843 Oh god there's always one or two people like you in the comments aren't there HAHAAHAHa

[@merlingrim2843]

@@SuperCal2 “like you”? Yeah, thank god for critical thinkers armed with facts and reason (like me). It’s people like me that make the world possible for the willfully ignorant and cognitively impaired to survive.

[@SuperCal2]

@@merlingrim2843 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[@merlingrim2843]

@@SuperCal2 Is that your best impersonation of Kamala Harris?

[@teril733]

Terrifying how history really does seem doomed to repeat itself. I hope Americans, especially, are paying attention.

[@Jesuslovesyou8525]

Nope they're not. Welcome to New Babylon, her cup is filled with the blood of the saints!

[@emmagaier7072]

Have so appreciated this Rick Steves' Europe! I'm using this episode to introduce Hitler's rise to power before my high school students work on a project focused on the topic. Thanks for presenting this information so professionally and in an engaging, applicable way! It is a perfect summary and introduction for my students who often know about Hitler but are surprised to learn the ins and outs of how he gained power. Thanks again!

[@Karen-dq8nw]

Thank you for the valuable history lesson; most of us learned it long ago and many have forgotten. Many still seem unable to really understand...

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

@@rider65 foolish comment

[@caroletomlinson5480]

Thank you,, Rick, for being engaged❤for all of us🤗🤞

[@RobertShrimpton]

Excellent summary, and a reminder to us all to never take democracy for granted - it is something we must constantly defend.

[@alwaysbanned4812]

Although he was democratically elected twice and relaxed various laws for gun rights.

[@ChillAssTurtle]

@@alwaysbanned4812 based^

[@eshiveley]

@@alwaysbanned4812 who?

[@SuperCal2]

@@eshiveley no clue

[@Jesuslovesyou8525]

@@SuperCal2 right, they're obviously talking about Hitler. Found you shill! You're not good at hiding are you?

[@fjp843]

Love this kind of content. Great job and I hope to see more like this in the future.

[@n.a.mcintosh4697]

thanks for time traveling from 5 months ago to see a vid released yesterday

[@fjp843]

@@n.a.mcintosh4697 he must have re-relased it yesterday?

[@n.a.mcintosh4697]

@@fjp843 just what I would expect a time traveler to say! "hope to see more like this IN THE FUTURE" : )

[@noneleevaleros2090]

Thank you for explaining this part of history in a very understandable and direct way.... :D This is very enlightening.

[@lisaann9994]

Really well done presentation. Thank you, Rick Steves and team.

[@anandmulay9677]

Much needed here in India. We are seeing the signs of rising fascist regime. Hope people view this episode more and more. Thank you Steve and team.

[@soheil527]

india with modi;s hindu fascism.

[@catchharish12345]

@@soheil527 so u have proven u know very little about India, modi, hindu or fascism in one line... keep it up

[@jude175]

The best documentary on the rise of Hitler and fascism. It’s so clear and comprehensible. Never ponderous, never glib. It's a genius film.

[@lpnelson6584]

I was always shocked how an educated country could fall so easily to fascism. I am now witnessing it first-hand. Not so shocking anymore.

[@larrybirdainge5951]

watch any video on Weimar, then you'll know how.

[@vanessapierce231]

Rick Steves, I think, does the best job I have ever seen of a traveling reporter. He makes so you can almost smell the grass, feel the temperature, taste the food y learn the language. Why bother going to Hawaii for vacation when you can turn on the remote y kick back y save a buck. Just put on a fan y put a palm tree near by y viola. Rick Steves never fail to entertain y doing it so well.

[@kuribojim3916]

Pay attention, America.

[@paulheydarian1281]

No, thanks!

[@churchofbrap876]

​@@paulheydarian1281u probably have your hand raised shouting Trump 2024 😂

[@LisettedaSilva]

WE DID AND VOTED FOR TRUMP!! YOUR WELCOME BTW

[@kuribojim3916]

@@LisettedaSilva Well, you'll reap the whirlwind. Don't complain when they come for you.

[@Prolifelds]

Trump is not a fscist

[@richardwhytsell7974]

This was a great video and I hope the world will learn from this horrible time and never repeat it again. Mankind needs to learn to live in peace with each other.

[@greatestsportslegends]

It's astounding to me that Jewish people endured the most horrific things, only two or three generations later choosing to doi the same thing to the innocent Palestine people in Gaza and the West Bank.

[@harrok38]

This direction our country has taken did not begin with DT, but has been developing slowly here and nobody wanted to notice it… too inconvenient and too easy to ignore when weekly football and baseball was easily available instead.

[@milfordcivic6755]

"If you have ignorant, selfish leaders, you're going to have ignorant selfish citizens. Garbage in, garbage out" - George Carlin

[@nurcaneroglu2534]

It was a sad story for those who lost their lifes and their families. A similar story goes on in todays Turkey. Democracy is needed for everyone.

[@lourdesyanes5624]

Great video Rick 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@midwesternertk3714]

Fantastic episode. Very well covered and approached. Thank you Mr. Steves.

[@delphinelim9072]

Thank you for this video. It provides great insights. I have just returned from Munich and Berlin.

[@Cornelius___]

Sounds familiar unfortunately, great episode

[@divaskesya]

it also reminds me of another his travel documentary to germany.

[@pneron2032]

Reminds me of "antifa"

[@nicolasviaje7159]

@@pneron2032True! It is a great reminder to always be Anti-Fascist.

[@Wayzor_]

Hey losers. Frump lost and there is STILL nothing you can do about it.

[@Spiral.Dynamics]

“Germany lost the war; fascism won.” George Carlin

[@LauraKM58]

Frightening and eerily similar to current sentiments within the United States

[@MuhammadRizwan-bn9db]

I personally love 💕 these documentaries

[@saikumargorantla]

Okay

[@bayron45]

@@saikumargorantla ?

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

@@saikumargorantla Okay

[@amyrosenold-music-healing-yoga]

Great job of Rick Steves to use his platform for public education that is so necessary to try to cultivate an informed populace, so as to never again allow the horrors of a tyrannical dictator to overthrow democracy.

[@tanaysaxena7860]

I hope some Indians are watching this and can draw parallels with what is happening in our country right now under Modi.

[@RohitDadlani]

couldn't agree more... change the language & dress, but the rhetoric is the same

[@bidenssniffingnostrils5300]

I can surely draw some parallels between Aryabhatta's discovery and your brain cells.

[@brucewilson2763]

WW1 was interesting in that Germany wrecked everything and then was upset about being asked to pay for the restoration. I guess there is no insurance for that. WW2. Upset about paying for the damage, the idea was to go and wreck stuff again.

[@rickhobson3211]

Not your typical Rick Steves program. Thank you for posting this, lest we forget and repeat it.

[@jyrkiimmonen8997]

Great video Rick. This document is one of the best of that sad times in the europe.

[@mihailmanole]

Great info ! So much to learn here about Europe. You are doing a great work. Keep working. May God bless you !

[@LexSijtsma2]

Thank you very much for your videos on fascism in Europe. It never went away and now seems again on the way up. I am impressed by your efforts to warn people about the dangers of fascism and how easy it is to fall for it again. If we do not learn from history we are doomed to repeat it.

[@leonstevens1382]

Thank you Rick, it’s important to remind people of this, while they’re touring today’s Europe!

[@rs6588]

I am visiting Germany for the first time and are watching this program for the second time. Thank you !

[@cailarchitectatopks]

Thank you for doing this Rick, American do need to learn the Make Germany Great Again lesson more than ever.

[@larrybirdainge5951]

and that lesson is, you can defeat deviancy and usury and poverty and decline of culture & demography, but you cant defeat three tyrannical world powers at the same time.

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

@@larrybirdainge5951 you must live in a very strange universe

[@dyeus4464]

We elected a dictator's son in the Philippines (their family actually never left the government). We will learn a lot from Germany.

[@S3aCa1mRa1n]

Anybody know when this episode was recorded?

[@firojmnalam6121]

The third unit is on Geography. It introduces all the basic concepts that are necessary for understanding the earth as our habitat. This section focuses on understanding the relationship between human beings and the environment with respect to variations of the earth's surface. It provides a conceptual link for students between home, school and the world beyond. Special attention has been paid to simplify the maps and diagrams in order to help the students understanding the geographical processes. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@Bobby_the_Brot]

You did just an amazing job this time, with a clear and good message for everyone!

[@trinleywangmo]

Rick, I'm so sorry to hear that you are ill. I pray for your recovery!

[@mikedaniel1771]

Watching this on Nov 6, 2024

[@Q_Agathe]

A very informative video that covers all the most important details. Thanks for making it!

[@7thpowersustainablellc26]

Outstanding as always Rick! An uncomfortable topic, but onw that we ALL need to be reminded of, especially in the USA.

[@7thpowersustainablellc26]

Disturbingly similiar present day lies, right-wing gangs, attempted coups, rallies, and delusional personalities.

[@SanDiegoPsychology]

Rick Steves did a great public service and an important educational one by producing his special travel programs showing the rise of fascism. It was vital the American people see the truth in history as the years 2016-2020 progressed and the obvious parallels became obvious following the former president's open assault on our republic on January 6. Thank you, Mr. Steves.

[@ncstonefab1]

But if you look deeper it's what the Dems are doing. Who has been accused of deaths and imprisonment? who have become millionaires after a few years of service?

[@LiquidDrumnBreaks]

@@ncstonefab1 both sides are corrupted

[@ncstonefab1]

@@LiquidDrumnBreaks @Smiley P oh man, Twitter is exposing everything. Do you feel lied too? I do.

[@radrandall]

Thank you, Rick Steves ... excellent.

[@edwardrodgers9383]

Australia, New-Zealand, Canada, South-Africa, India, France, Belgium, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, England, America: the list goes on!🤺

[@steverhodesvideos6244]

Timely reminder of democracy's fragility, epecially after the events of January 6. Thanks, Rick

[@moonstarstarmoon8754]

Ahh yes, after the Democrats were losing so utterly badly that they had to pretend they stopped counting the votes and only begin to recount once they had enough votes delivered to give them victory in each and every place where they had "stopped" counting. Of course let's ignore the Democrats invading the capital building during the Kavanaugh hearings or how about the Democrat president Bill Clinton pardoning a woman who literally set off a bomb in the capital building.

[@bradmerrell5118]

Reminds you that democracy is weak and corrupt.

[@ncstonefab1]

What is democracy?

[@ncstonefab1]

But if you look deeper it's what the Dems are doing. Who has been accused of deaths and imprisonment? who have become millionaires after a few years of service?

[@henghistbluetooth7882]

This popped into my feed today - November 6th 2024. I wonder why?

[@syedibrahim2876]

Thanks Rick!! incredible content as always

[@alemabreham5469]

l always appreciate some one who presents our past history...good job sir

[@binjeisharkman]

2:24 Wilhelm scream but it's quiet

[@ligeatkwong-jedrzejczak1499]

Unexpected from Rick but what documentary. Thanks you.

[@edwardsbarbara25]

Not so if you read more about Rick. And, yes, many kudos to him

[@baovang1322]

He said I y on my o

[@Amick44]

​@@edwardsbarbara25 it speaks to how much he cares about not repeating the awful past and also serves a warning for citizens bot to lulled to sleep or normalizing poor, delusional "leadership." Well done, Rick!

[@ArtHistoryProfessor]

As I justed stated on Rick Steves' other KZbin channel, the frightening parallels between what led to the events in Italy, Germany, and Spain in the 1920s and 1930s and the outcome of our recent 2024 US elections are both undeniably similar and ominously prescient. Moreover, we've learned nothing from those events, nor have we implemented measures to prevent them from happening again.

[@Anon54387]

Rick is full of frijoles as is anyone else who can state such contradictory things without realizing it, people are calling those fascist who seek to decrease the power of government. Let that sink in a minute.

[@milfordcivic6755]

History will always repeat itself. People are too busy looking at their phones and posting pictures of their dinner.

[@ArtHistoryProfessor]

@milfordcivic6755 , well said.

[@trevorguyRO]

Great video Rick, thank you for creating it!

[@sheilanaduriak1269]

Speak now, or forever hold your piece really hits home in a video like this.

[@laotzu2453]

Hey Steve, you left out, the Allies 1918 "Peace Treaty" of Versailles was harsh and humiliating for Germany and ended with the rise of fascism!

[@christopherauert6634]

This was so educational. A big contrast to his other videos. I hope everyone is able to watch this and learn.

[@patriciagarcia5301]

I have always seen vast similarities between how Nazis treated the others and how high school bullies treat the others. And, the same with political rallies. Never again.

[@TeenMommiefromMars]

ty Rick Steves is keep sharing these & omg praying rn

[@nanettemccall8618]

Thank you Rick 🙏❤️

[@minkastoyanova2161]

In 1939 Hitler AND STALIN invaded Poland! The Germans drew their lessons, the Russians did not. Please, watch the film again and think what happens now in Russia.

[@ericng5707]

If only Japan was as responsible about owning up to its history.

[@helpiamstuckonthismanshead3385]

And red china...

[@andyfidler5022]

@@helpiamstuckonthismanshead3385 China is communist? Wow! Who knew?

[@helpiamstuckonthismanshead3385]

@@andyfidler5022 i say red China becuse taiwan is aslo china and it's flag is mostly blue blue china=Taiwan Red China=ccp china Small china=hongkong

[@eisenritter7805]

Or the USA for that matter

[@ParzivalPlaysAtari]

​@@eisenritter7805 The Americans are intoxicated with their own self-proclaimed greatness. They are blind to their own crimes.

[@Dogmatix-24]

This is bit of surprise coming from Rick. Nevertheless all who value 'fragile' democracy ought to learn the lessons of history as otherwise it would repeat itself. As Sir Winston Churchill once famously said, “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all others.”

[@julianosvonskingrad7009]

Rick Steves is so charismatic, I love his documentaries! And always intersting to hear about our own history from an other angle.

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

Another angle?

[@julianosvonskingrad7009]

@@WouldntULikeToKnow.: There is a difference on how historians explain the history of their very own country and how historians of other countries explain the history of this particular country. In school, we learn much more details about how Hitler came to power within the political system, sometimes leaving out things like Hitlers "Arbeitsprogramme", the work programs he reduced unemployment with.

[@Ginkoman2]

great video and even more important today!

[@jamesweldon7028]

Now let's see a similar documentary on the Soviet Union who carried out these same evils from 1917 - 1991.

[@ryanolyschlager9098]

@@lanabess3673 dont talk about the 10 million deaths in Ukraine during the Holodomor your a joke history is written by the victors

[@abacab87]

Really it continues under Putin.

[@ryanolyschlager9098]

no its not propaganda its a well known fact that's why Ukraine still hates you guys

[@pumas2288]

Great Video!!I 👏👏

[@georgschmidt5281]

The Russians also invaded Poland. He left out that part.

[@faridahdollah5216]

Hi Mr Ricksteves I love watching your Travel Symphonic Historical info& ODE TO JOY which I always hum while doing housechores

[@antoniocjp5824]

Thank you so much for making this video.

[@klaudinegarcia8932]

I should share this with my family and my relatives back home in the Philippines. President Duterte has so much in common with Hitler. I'm so worried about my home country.........

[@tillappelhans4985]

Go on and share the video. There are many leaders currently that obviously found an idol in Hitler.

[@mr.bluegreen3696]

They are more worried of you out there... haha

[@AirsideTravels]

Please do enlighten me.. What do they have in conmon?

[@tillappelhans4985]

​@@AirsideTravels One thing they all do and what Trump as well did, is discredit the free press and suppress free speech. Next is imprison people that have a different opinion (you can see this in e.g. in Turkey).

[@NickandJulie]

​@@tillappelhans4985 are you referring to suppression of press and free speech when twitter and facebook blocked new york post's hunter laptop story? and blocked people who had shared it? by blocking the press on this story they helped one campaign over the other= meddling in the election. that suppression of press and free speech?

[@Romualdomgn84]

Rick, thank you. This video I saw much earlier on your channel, nonetheless it is better to renew it from time to time. Even in XXI century we see the same things like "setting on fire in Reichstag" to undermine reputation of certain people and impose a strict laws, restricting civil rights, which otherwise nation would have never accepted. This example is not the only from Nazi experience, which is used nowadays in different countries. Seizure of power in democratic way and afterwards leading to usurpation we also can find in modern history. "If you take freedom for granted, you can lose it" Greetings from Russia!

[@Feanor1169]

You do realize that powerful globalist forces are trying to undermine Russia under the guise of "freedom" and "democracy"? Check out Yuri Bezmenov's videos. He warned us Americans 40 years ago about the leftist subversion process. It's too late for us, but please save Russia!

[@Romualdomgn84]

​@@Feanor1169 Thank you for sharing this info. I will google this guy, probably in Russian language also some info exists. You know, if you want to communicate - speak English. If you want your words come into the person's heart - speak his own language. For me is Russian language is better option ;-)

[@oduorotieno605]

"Democracy is fragile"

[@MolviesonBikes]

brave man Rick... it was painful and historic.. today saw another side of You... keep us well informed.. :)