The HORRIFIC Execution Of The SS Commander Burned Alive By The French Resistance

During the Second World War, the SS became executioners across Europe and they were responsible for the concentration camps. The most senior SS commander captured by the French Resistance was Helmut Kämpfe, who experienced a terrible execution. He was a very well thought of SS commander, but he fell into the hands of the French Maquis, who then carried out a snap execution, but it was a public execution that those witnesses would never forget.
Helmut Kämpfe was locked inside of a Field Ambulance, and then the French Resistance members set this on fire. Following the discovery of his remains, the SS brought brutal reprisals to the nearby village of Oradour-Sur-Glane, and they carried out a war crime that resulted in the deaths of over 600 French civilians.
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[@brndxt]

No tears shed for the SS.

[@susannebuchholz72]

Thank you very much for uploading! 👍🏻

[@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists]

This is why it is said revenge is a dish best served cold. Had they just been able to contain their rage until the area was secured by the allies, the result would have been much better.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

war is murderous, rabid, foolish rage unbound.

[@anthonyscott5134]

Lol. REALLY? You think they knew when the allies would arrive to save them? REALLY? You don’t sound like you’ve studied very much of WWII history. The SS were horrific sadistic animals. Just for taking the General and not giving them back they may have raised the village for that! These resistance fighters most likely saw the horrific acts these SS troops inflicted on many occasions. It’s sadly hilarious for you, in this time period, to think that you know how they should have acted, especially since it seems you haven’t done your homework on WWII history and the brutality the SS inflicted on civilians and whole towns of civilians more much much less than this.

[@luxmajor7151]

Results would be better isn’t what they had in mind- preferring the results of unbounded rage let loose- like the Dogs of War👿

[@sylvestro09]

That's why I mentioned this insident to another video.I have excellent information about it after reading a book about the 2nd SS Das Reich by Max Hastings.The guerillas knew that by doing such a horrible act they would provoke the most fanatic devision to act so.Bearing also in mind that the Germans were outraged because of the sabotaged railways which delayed them to reach the front in Normandy.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

@@luxmajor7151 Of the same political persuasion with those who murdered Mussolini in such needless ignoble manner.

[@TellySavalas-or5hf]

Usually we don't hear about why Oradour sur glan was wiped off the map. But that explains a lot. And Dieckman was killed in the D-Day battle when he got shrapnel in his head. He is buried in La Cambe the German soldiers cemetery.

[@bobbarker6929]

I visited Dachau when I lived in Germany. Awful.

[@TellySavalas-or5hf]

@@bobbarker6929 Dachau was Hell on earth, yes.

[@simonsobo4644]

How the hell do the French allow Hitlerites to rest in peace in their country? That’s even worse than the many rednecks here in America admiring Confederate soldiers who were in reality traitors.

[@etubrutus3501]

I have heard of this massacre and the brutality of the SS killing civilians. However in that version of this story they never explained why.

[@johnzubil2875]

so it makes it ok?

[@Bahamut3525]

@@johnzubil2875it makes it understandable. Americans did worse in Vietnam whenever Vietcong attacked them. Leveled countless villages, raped women, etc,

[@hans-jurgenwiegand7465]

It was uncivilized, and why we have laws & war criminals.

[@markwilliamwestonwilson1503]

@@johnzubil2875yes tit for tat

[@tomperkins5657]

Of course, I did not experience the horrors of the SS, and hindsight is always 20/20, yet, it's hard to believe the Resistance would not know there would be reprisals. 600 innocents for 1 wicked SS.

[@elpatron7916]

So you are blaming the resistance?😢

[@fastyaveit]

@@elpatron7916 No he isn't, but the price of victory had to be paid, unfortunately, civilians paid the price, as they do today, and they will do tomorrow and forever 🤦‍♀🤷‍♀

[@tomperkins5657]

@@elpatron7916 If you read the comment carefully, I am asking if the price was worth it. Ask yourself this: If the Resistance did not execute the SS officer and other soldiers (in such a horrific way) would those 600 men, women, and children be alive? If it was your family that was burned alive how would you respond. Keep in mind I think the Wehrmacht, and specifically the SS were horrific, and the personification of evil.

[@Patrickstarrrrr69]

The ss were doing god’s work

[@tomperkins5657]

@@Patrickstarrrrr69 Is that a small or large G?

[@quaver1239]

Knew none of this. Utterly horrible. Thank you for adding to our knowledge.

[@sonnyburnett8725]

As someone who watches a lot of WWll history on TV and the internet, I’m surprised that I’ve not seen your movie clips before.

[@Cenotaur1]

I've seen documentaries about the villagers being burned alive but you, Untold Past, are the first to give important information as to why the German's chose that method. I'm disappointed that such an important aspect of the story is largely omitted from popular tellings of the story.

[@simonsobo4644]

Are you seriously blaming the French for the Germans' atrocities?

[@nastypiglosi1788]

@Simon Sobo he's seriously saying history should not be revised

[@hans-jurgenwiegand7465]

2 wrongs don’t make a right. Where were the clergy? A crowd gathered for entertainment purposes, so the clergy knew what was going to happen! Shame on both sides!

[@philstrachan]

"History is written by the winner" - Napoleon

[@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

the resistance must have known what would happen by burning him alive

[@Bahamut3525]

They don’t care. Partisan groups often from different region and in case of ftp are communists who often even hated local French population

[@michaelripley9507]

Many different facets to war. The occupiers need to break the will of the occupied. This was viewed as extreme even by Nazi standards.

[@triangleofdeath6246]

If I recall, this massacre was considered to be horrible enough to even make the Nazis declare that dickmann went too far. He and his unit were to be court Marshaled , but they died in battle before that could happen.

[@alonzocalvillo6702]

It’s “court martialed”.

[@Bahamut3525]

Thing is legally the conventions were vague on partisans, said that reprisal actions could be legally taken. But up to the victim of partisans to decide how much. In case of Germans they adopted severe policy, often hundred killed for every German killed. This is what happens when conventions are vague, which is why they were updated after ww2

[@percussion44]

@@Bahamut3525 Thank goodness! Hopefully now if partisans murder a regular soldier only 10 civilians can be executed. 20 civilians if the murdered was an officer.

[@drmarkintexas-400]

🏆🤗🙏🇺🇲🎖️ Thank you for sharing

[@adelaidesngan604]

America cowards and opportuniste

[@billmagowan1492]

The Heer did not become the Wehrmacht, the Wehrmacht was the organisation encompassing the Heer, the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe, as in OKW, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the high command of the armed forces- the SS were a separate entity with their own command structure

[@crosbonit]

I wonder why they didn't get rid of the evidence and just left him lying around? Would've taken 30 minutes to strip him and bury him.

[@828enigma6]

It was a message to the Nazis. The French Resistance was not to be trifled with. These was also psychological value to the method . No Nazi was safe.

[@spacies8882]

good reading and very interesting!!!!

[@gordonspicer]

"who massacred hundreds of thousands of mostly Jewish civilians" would be much more accurate please . The Marquis were supplied by air mostly by British SOE. Your report is rather "apologic" of the SS considering their brutal history. There is no proof whatsoever of the body being transfered to Orador. What is your reference for this ?

[@josephstabile9154]

So, for some immediate gratification, the Maquis--pronounced mah-kee, not mah-kwee--burned Kampfe, his driver & orderly alive. And then, in a show of complete underestimation of their known enemy, and a wilful display of hubris, left the bodies & burnt-out ambulance IN Oradour, effectively blowing a rasberry at the SS, and directly implicating Oradour. I ask, since the Maquis knew an SS division was in their vicinity en route to Normandy, what could possibly go wrong with their plan (assuming the idiots had a plan)? The SS find the ambulance, enter the town, and essentially mete out the same punishment to the townsfolk. Only, because they're SS, the victims are innocent of the Maquis' crimes, and there are way more victims than Kampfe's group. Good job, Maquis. What were you thinking? Upshot was that Maquis gets it through their thick skulls that one doesn't trifle with the SS, and they offered no more resostance to German units moving toward Normandy. The Maquis damned well knew who they were dealing with, but their egos were writing checks their bodies couldn't cash. A terribly sad tragedy, made all the more sad because it was totally preventable.

[@Bahamut3525]

If you understand how these communist groups operate you would understand their reasoning, they probably don’t care if French local civilians are hit. Actually many of these communists were in French jails or protests before the war so it’s not like they like many locals.

[@josephstabile9154]

@NB I know, across all anti-facist partisan groups, from Western Europe to the Far East, the communist components were often the most implacable in their hatred and viciousness. Not entirely surprising given that their marching orders usually oriented with Moscow's directives, and Moscow was playing the long game.

[@seanohare5488]

Very interesting well done

[@SuperCryptical]

It is not for any of us, who were not there and did not live through these times, to sit in judgement of ANYONE.

[@greenflagracing7067]

Sure it is. Watch this: nazis suck and if one got charbroiled, stick a fork in him, he's done.

[@johnsmith1474]

What? It is absolutely our ethical obligation to judge everyone who killed in the process of war. You must be a drunk.

[@davestewart3401]

@@johnsmith1474 crap

[@RSF-DiscoveryTime]

re: "our ethical obligation to judge everyone who killed in the process of war" What's funny is that he actually posts, "You must be a drunk" after posting that.

[@SuperCryptical]

@@RSF-DiscoveryTime just another example of what Bill Maher calls 'presentism'.

[@tomhansen6115]

The quintessential WWII documentary series The World at War begins with the Oradour sur glane incident. They curiously leave out the fact that it was reprisal for the SS guy.

[@johnzubil2875]

so

[@jamesclancy8091]

The German rapists, murderers and thieves shouldn't have been there.

[@GeorgeHutchins]

They have always left this story out, concerning the reprisal of the close-by French village. Being burnt alive would inspire harsh revenge.

[@4700_Dk]

Never forget ! Always remember !

[@Warriorking.1963]

Great video, but you did make one small error. You claimed the Heer became the Wehrmacht, but this isn't quite right. "Wehrmacht" was the name of the combined military forces (Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine), a bit like saying the British Army is party of the British Armed Forces or Defence Forces. But I'm being picky, you did a great job mate.

[@sheldonwheaton881]

The village was used in the opening of the "World at War" series.

[@ulpolo2]

I don't know if this version of the massacre is correct, but it is certain that the communist partisans (at the time dedicated to Workers' Paradise, Stalin's USSR where the commanders and above all the political commissars had been educated in special schools to become agents and cadres of the Communist takeover in their countries of origin) used the strategy of making the war cruel by provoking German reprisals which, being always disproportionate, aroused the hatred of the local populations and made it impossible for any peaceful coexistence between populations and occupiers

[@gordonspicer]

The French Resistance was composed not only of communists (who were the most effective) from about 1943. The rest of what you wrote is pure invention.

[@ulpolo2]

​@@gordonspicer I would argue that you should study the "partisan" phenomenon starting from the Comintern and the ideological and military preparation, with Spain as a testing ground, for those military and political cadres (revolutionaries by profession, these were the communists and nothing else) brought up in specialized Soviet schools, elements which are then found in all the movements of resistance in managerial, organizational, specialist and training roles ( are men who are found in almost all communist resistance movements: those later exalted in the iconography of the resistance, as "freedom fighters, already from the Spanish war against the fascists", forgetting to say that in Spain those same men rather than against the fascists also fought Trotskyists, anarchists, in short, anyone who did not submitted to Stalin's communist plans). So I would argue that you should study the "partisan" phenomenon, with attention and a critical spirit, from the USSR to France itself (where for several episodes has been raised even the suspicion that it was the communists who denounced elements of the non-communist resistance to the Germans, a suspicion that is encountered in almost all the different occupied countries; in various other episodes it has been noted that communists partisan attacks against the occupiers took place precisely when the leaders of the non-communist resistance - on whom the retaliation would obviously have fallen- were in German captivity ; the Germans in their first reprisals shot the partisan elements already captured, so that was a good way for Communists to eliminate political opponents).

[@Bahamut3525]

@@gordonspicerbut commies are most radical of French resistance, rest of French résistance rarely kill German only sabotage.

[@jayo3074]

Yeah this was absolutely disgusting from the French resistance. The life of this despicable SS man was not worth the sacrifice of hundred do innocent women and children. Why couldn't they just wait for the allies to relieve them?

[@Cenotaur1]

The leader of the local Resistance was a Communist. Nazi's and Communists hated each other (still do). Plus, the SS man was paraded through the village before being burned: he wouldn't have received any sympathy from them.

[@frankdillon7958]

And innocent men , sexist !

[@dwight4626]

The “ Resistance “ spent more time arguing amongst the different factions than they did fighting the Boche

[@annbretagne2108]

not.....RAISED to the ground..... but RAZED.

[@Bahamut3525]

That’s because how you want communists and monarchists for example to cooperate, when communist literally hates monarchist more than German and vice versa.

[@charlesciminera5881]

What did you expect from the French?

[@Bahamut3525]

@@charlesciminera5881 Let's see how much you americans cooperate between liberals and republicans, blacks and whites, when war happens lol.

[@jeanclaudedamamme9874]

@charlesciminera. Insulting fool.

[@frankdillon7958]

A good reason for no more wars

[@user-ht9op9tf4k]

Вечная память вам мои великие предки🙏💐✨✨✨

[@JMark-zk5pj]

The maquis prosecuted their war knowing full well that the french civilians would pay the price.

[@allangilchrist5938]

I find it interesting the lack of items on KZbin to do with the barbarities of every Communist regime you care to name. Also, little about the savages of the NKVD/KGB. Frankly, these organisations could make the Gestapo look like boy scouts. Just the usual obsession with the Nazis.

[@johnroddy8756]

One can understand the desire to kill such a man,But never worth it to many died innocent people they must have known a heavy price would be payed

[@einerreklov4304]

No excuse and no comparison of killing an entire town of innocent civilians over the actions of combatants. None.

[@LKaramazov]

Of course there is, this was war, and it was guerrilla war. What about how america napalmed and carpet bombed all of south Vietnam? What’s the SS supposed to spend time and energy trying to find the specific people who actually tied the guy up and burned hiM? I guess that after they captured them, the SS was also supposed to get them a lawyer? Get outta here with that b.s.

[@willemventer3935]

He was not some trooper but a senior officer and the way of the execution was barbaric, also the maquis were not a legale army. its government did not exist at the time, thus they were terrorists.

[@PiedPeiper]

Resistance members were on combatants!

[@einerreklov4304]

Revolutionaries commit acts of warfare - basic definition. Citizens not affiliated with the military proper or revolutionaries, guerillas, terrorists etc, are non-combatants. I know it's confusing, what with the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Putin's policy of carpet bombing - military, militias, insurgents and civilians be damned. Is that clear enough?

[@LKaramazov]

@@PiedPeiper you mean non combatants? They were spies and partisans according to the rules of war.

[@danielmorris4676]

Present-day Germans must be, or should be, absolutely ashamed of the barbaric brutalities carried out by the German armies is World War 2. It is understandable that Kampfe was burned alive. Hundreds of thousands more of your German grandfathers should in recompense have suffered the same fate. This realization must be an humbling experience for Germans nowadays.

[@---rz5th]

Off topic a bit here but in Roman times you killed a Roman soldier and the whole village/town would be delt with. Rocky and Joe correct.

[@crpth1]

That was the core of "pax Romana" i.e. Roman peace. Or in other words, If you wipe out all your enemies. you'll have peace...

[@HO-bndk]

Not only off topic but totally untrue also.

[@Bahamut3525]

Romans exterminated entire tribes because a single group rebelled. Gaul is an example.

[@dovidell]

this behaviour by the French ,must be taken into context , it was by all accounts, an aberration , but an expected one after several years of brutal occupation , whereas the behaviour/retribution of the SS would have been considered normal by their " standards" .The Dirlewanger Brigade by no means , held the dubious " honour" of being the only "loose canon" unit amongst the SS - recruits were SCHOOLED in brutality , believing themselves to be ironically " the gold standard of humanity " . The SS Division Hitlerjugend or 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" were some of the most brutal and " dedicated" soldiers in the German/Nazi armed forces , because they had been brainwashed from youth - they were responsible for the Ascq massacre of 86 French men on 1 April 1944 in Ascq, France, in a reprisal against the civilian population after the railway they were on was sabotaged.( no German casualties listed )

[@gordonspicer]

Just after D Day the SS was responsible for killing Canadian POW's. Thereafter the Canadians repaid them triple fold.

[@intercommerce]

You know it's pronounced 'Mak-Kee', not 'Mac-Kwee', right?

[@MrChewbone69]

He is a robot, fake digital voice...now ya know..

[@intercommerce]

Well, that would explain it!

[@Laurent-gv7dc]

Bonjour quelle est votre source ? Cela ressemble plutôt à un argument produit par des SS pour justifier le massacre des civils...il n'y a aucune référence historique sérieuse.

[@jamesbancroft7023]

Exactemente. Un mal estile de parle de l'histoire sans investigacion serieuse et de bons sources.

[@jensenwilliam5434]

Interesting times . A

[@ralphe5842]

Well just practice for his future

[@ruxrox]

I wouldn't march behind someone who has a weapon, POINTED AT ME!

[@ericroger926]

Oradour sur Glanes is one atrocious episode of the many villages entirely massacred during the WWII. For one in France, how many in Ukraine, Belarusia, Baltic countries, etc … Germans assassinated about 1.5 mil of Jews in less than a year and half. That was before the industrialisation with the extermination camps. In Kiev only they assassinated 33,000 Jews by bullets in only 2 days ! I am trying to imagine this and each time it frightens me …

[@simonsobo4644]

My father arrived at Auschwitz on May 22, 1944, at which time my grandparents were murdered by the Germans. Some 40 years later, during the 1980s, my dad told me that he still can’t believe it happened. Even though he went through it the depravity of the Hitlerites was still unfathomable to him.

[@1960caroline]

Many of those countries were openly supportive of the nazi cause! Especially the Ukraine.

[@rockyrowlands3652]

The narrative omitted to mention that injured and sick German soldiers in an ambulance column was also slaughtered. Not excusing the massacre of the small French town, but atrocities are committed by all sides in a war. The victor merely chooses which atrocities to document and highlight and which ones to ignore.

[@fanda789]

Ano,válka je hra bez pravidel.

[@ralphe5842]

They deserve it sick and injured get better to fight again and France didn’t invade Germany they weren’t murdering nazis. Germans got off easy for all the crimes they committed oh and by the way my mother was German I’d personally wish the same death to any of my relatives did any of these crimes they deserve no sympathy

[@dovidell]

this channel has on occasion , highlighted atrocities perpetrated by the allies

[@mirquellasantos2716]

Germans were so evil that they even tortured and gassed millions of children and babies. That's cruelties to the core.

[@rockyrowlands3652]

@@dovidell That a Fair and Objective

[@LaHayeSaint]

What can i say? These things happen in war. It is up to local commanders to rise above the crowd baying for blood and do the right thing. One example would be to pass the prisoner up the chain of command, regardless of a commander's personal distaste for a particular prisoner. Some circumstances will not allow this and the crowd demand that the prisoner be handed over.

[@Bahamut3525]

These partisan groups often radical communists had no order just hatred and violence. You can’t compare them to normal army like us army with chain of command, regulations,etc

[@LaHayeSaint]

@@Bahamut3525 NB -- I don't condone brutal reprisal acts by the Resistance, but I can strongly sympathise with them, especially if your family had been carted away to Auschwitz-Birkenau where no one ever came back. Women SOE spies working for British Intelligence would often be burned alive in the crematoria, after first administering a muscle relaxant so you couldn't move. But you could feel the pain. The Nazis were brutal beasts and I have little sympathy for them.

[@jhanes3791]

Be Careful, Uncle Vlad....

[@john0597]

The person who made the first comment is absolutely right as you could well appreciate these resistance fighters have seen their country occupied by a brutal enemy many resistance fighters have been executed by the Nazis in the most horrific and terrible way I guess they just thought we can do the same to your soldiers and that is exactly what they done all war is bad no one really wins

[@user-rd4mm3yz6q]

SVP EN FRANCAIS MERCI BEAUCOUP.

[@damonmelendez856]

Was he burned alive and then executed? So basically he was killed twice?

[@blackllama4602]

war crime. Thats why the town (that has become a tourist spot )was burned to the ground. The town residents cheer while the officer and soldiers were burned to death....KARMA

[@markprange2430]

0:45 "tough occupation"?

[@user-yr1jo2ss6k]

English subtitle, please.

[@billysmith5721]

WAS A MONSTER HATTCHED FROM AN EGG

[@tonyfrench2574]

What's with the Eccles intonation ?

[@bulletman124XXL]

France, you better not forget the great sacrifices. Countries gave many lives for you. You'll see next time if you side with the enemy what happens. No one will be there because you turn away from the ones that gave everything for you, how could you ever forget

[@buttyboy100]

What are you on about?

[@declissonolivier9376]

Bullshit.... You don't know anything about french history... Let me guess.... You're american... Search for La fayette... You're english... Search for Dunkerque, and Bir-Hakeim.

[@phlm9038]

And who sided with the enemy during the pre ww2 years ? The French should have got what they wanted during the negotiations of the Treaty of Versailles : they wanted a permanent military occupation of the Rhineland. It was the only way to avoid another invasion of France by the Germans. "The United States are far away and protected by an ocean; England is hard to reach, even Napoleon couldn't. You are both protected" - Georges Clemenceau to Woodrow Wilson and David Lloyd Georges in April 1919. France didn't want another world war because they knew they wouldn't be able to fight it. France was victorious in 1918 but seriously weakened and wounded at its core. WW1 took place on its soil with a lot of destructions, Germany was undamaged. The French tried to warn their American and British allies, but they were suffering from blindness, it seems : "This is not peace, this is an armistice of 20 years. Next time, the Germans won't make any mistake. They will invade France from the north and will take over all the ports on the English Channel (French side) in order to initiate attacks against England." A very accurate prediction from Marshall Foch made in 1919. I forgot to mention how the American Ally succeeded in making France to accept to withdraw their request to a permanent occupation of the Rhineland. By promising they would get their support in case of another invasion by the Germans. Later they made a complete U-turn and this clause was invalidated. France found themselves without any strategic position on the Rhine and without British/American support. You also have to realize that between the two world wars, the British Government saw the French as the enemies, not the Germans. Their biggest fear was that France would become the first power of Europe, what was not possible considering that France was weakened after ww1 and didn't make a secret of it. What about the "Appeasement Policy" of the British Government between the two world wars that consisted in complying with Hitler's wishes. Between the two world wars, USA+UK dit everything they could to weaken France even more while they helped Germany to recover. Though I have to admit that changed a little bit with the arrival of Chamberlain. He believed in the "Appeasement Policy" but didn't try to arm France. That's when France aligned themselves with the British and it was a little bit as if UK ruled France (lol). Then Churchill came to power and changed the game. "You were given the choice between dishonour and war. You chose dishonour and you will have war" - Winston Churchill to Neville Chamberlain (after the signature of the Munich agreements). "Have we had 3,000 or 4,000 planes, there would have been no Munich agreements" - Edouard Daladier (French Government) to William C. Bullitt (Embassy of the USA in Paris) - October 1938. "We are at war again because for twenty years we have taken the French for Germans and the Germans for French" - Robert Vansittart (British diplomat) - September 1939. The French might have messed up during the battle of France, but who messed up between the two world wars ? Well Robert Vansittart gave the answer.

[@danieltossounian1962]

I knew of this horrible event , but didn’t know why …revenge. 600 for one . Not good math . Was it helping the war effort for the FR to do that ?

[@Occident.]

France declared war on Germany first. France attacked and invaded Germany first. The Saar offensive of September 1939. France started the conflict with Germany, not vice versa.

[@pieterzwaan4451]

Thank youfor this explanation ,probably you studied the work of dr goebbels

[@knutn]

The fuck they did

[@andreasjacovides4800]

Beautiful

[@ub1953]

"Revenge is a dish best served cold" except in this deserving case.....

[@joelex7966]

During the search of the towns they found many weapons caches and identified numerous resistance foghters. The resistance fighters themselves were considered war criminals by the Geneva Convention so killing them in itself was not a war crime. Killing civillians definetly was though. That unit of Das Reich was not long away from the Eastern Front where atrocities committed by both sides were a daily occurrence.

[@chriscarroll8223]

I bet he's still on fire.....

[@tonyfederici1961]

And so are the terrorist resistance fighters too.

[@Mshi-]

So are the Jews

[@talonanthony]

Now children,hell isn't real.

[@barsixful]

I do wonder if Germany will ever get past the dark stain of ww2. Humans are strange buggers

[@billysmith5721]

CIVILIZED PEOPLE STILL REMEMBER AS FAR BACK AS HISTORY KEEP DOCUMENTATION OF WARS TILL THE TRUTH BECOMES LEGEND. NOT IN MY LIFETIME

[@danieleacquavera4107]

Helmut, maki, turingen...

[@petekdemircioglu]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@bouchacourtthierry8506]

Burn alive is a infamy ... is that true ? Is that historical true ?

[@eoinmurphy210]

the germans,and especial the ss were treated far too well after the war,i still have no time for krouts.

[@mirquellasantos2716]

The problem is that Germans are cowards. After they committed all those horrible atrocities they didn't want to face their victims- Russians. They waived little white flags like true cowards and hid in the feet of Americans who were happy to babysit them. Americans didn't allow the proper punishment for those monsters. Americans treated the enemies like gold while mistreating the black American soldiers who fought in ww2.

[@frankdillon7958]

Krauts

[@johnhawkinshawkins1284]

your down speak is a refreshing change from the USA & Australian upspeak, but after a while it becomes just as tedious.

[@trevorthompson7604]

Karma served him right

[@SRW_]

I knew the story of dietrich. But did not kno the reason behind the town massecre.

[@uknighthuntingvision93]

Clearly the French resistance knew the Germans would exact huge revenge on the innocent civilians. They also knew it was unlikely they themselves would be harmed for the brutal execution of a high ranking German Nazi. Therefore it seems to me the main blame for the expected actions of the Nazis in their revenge falls solely on the French resistance; making them as bad as the Nazis!

[@phlm9038]

No, the sources used in this video are outdated. The SS have falsified documents to explain the massacres.

[@Kubelwagen41]

Poorly researched as the Das Reich Division was refitting in the SOUTH of France! One look at the map tells your where Oradour sur Glane is. Repeating the "legend" of Oradour doesn't make it so. Note the lack of information on the Alsatian members of Diekmans detachment, you know, the ones that were released after the war by the French. No mention of the fact that the records surrounding Oradour are still sealed by the French Government. No testimony about SS soldiers HELPING french women and children out of the church. Nothing at all about the Maquis halting all operations after Oradour, but hey "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." ! Works every time!!!

[@gordonspicer]

The Das Reich Division was based near Montauban not far from Toulouse. Its location & purpose was to be able to move south or north depending on where the allied landed. It was refitting and lacked for tanks & other equipment, but it was still a formidible fighton tank division. The original plan was to use flat wagons to carry the tanks, men & equipment. It would take about 2 days. However, many of the wagons were destroyed by the Resistance & SOE Wheelright reseau and they were obliged to travel by RN roads. They were obstructed again by the Resistance & SOE and suffered quite serious losses and delay. You are right to note that the French, wanting "peace & harmony " rather too quickly with Germany after the war treated the French SS Alsatian members involved in the massacre very leniently in their, I believe 1952 trial in Bordeaux. After all De Gaulle "kicked out" British SOE groups within weeks of his return !!

[@Kubelwagen41]

@@gordonspicer I’m very familiar with the movements of the DR Division. I’m just saying that you are putting out the standard line on the events at Oradour neglecting a lot of the information out there. Such as the order from OKW West on how to deal with Maquis that came out in February. Orders from the Army, not the Waffen SS. No mention of the fact that the Maqui had no legal status under the Geneva Convention, that they were Partisan, pure and simple. No mention of the Maquis massacre of German Army Soldiers at the town of Tulle nor the reprisals. Nothing about the weapons found in almost all of the houses in Oradour (many provided by the SOE). Army directive, burn the houses and shoot occupants. The report of Obersturmfuhrer Gerlach to both Stadler and Diekmann that he was held in Oradour by the two known Maqui commanders before he escaped. That many women were dress in uniform parts and sporting helmets. What about the fire in the church being started by the brands flying from burning homes and again, Waffen SS soldiers helping women and children escape from the church, until of course there was an explosion ( another Maqui arms cache?). With all of the Oradour “history’s” out there, they all fail to mention that the official records are still sealed by the French government. What are they hiding?

[@gordonspicer]

@@Kubelwagen41 I've read English & French books on the Oradour massacre but have never come across any of the specific details you refer to (eg. arms being found in the village, uniforms etc). They maybe "standard" but how come the various historians have lissed these salient details ? Whether the French records are open or not you insinuate a "cover up". Is this your intention ? And then you arrive with lot's of additional information which would indicate the village was, indeed, invoved in the Resistance. and ipso facto meiited being attacked as we know well. So please inform us your specific sources & references for these allegations? Not just ramblings as this is a VERY serious historic event for France in particular. You can , if possible, shine an alternative light on his event which will be appreciated by all concerned?

[@Kubelwagen41]

@@gordonspicer As a historian, I read about a subject from ALL sides. You read the English and French, did you try any German sources or are they to be dismissed out of hand? While I understand that Vincent Reynouard has been branded and convicted of doubting the events surrounding Oradour and the Holocaust in general, did you at least read anything from him regarding Oradour? He makes some good points as a forensic observer. Not only the actions of the French government against this man, but it is a fact that the records surrounding Oradour are sealed until 2039....makes me wonder WHY? What is the point, waiting until all the participants/witnesses are dead? As for German sources: I first heard of it when I was reading Otto Weidinger's volume V of his history of the Division "Das Reich" during WW2. This volume deals with the final years of the war. Then I found another book written by him (he was after all brought up on charges at the trial in Bordeaux and found innocent.) entitled "Tulle and Oradour, a Franco-German Tragedy". An earlier book entitled "Wo is Kain" by Herbert Taege.

[@frankvandergoes298]

​@@gordonspicer Das Reich did not suffer quite serious losses and delays at the hands of partisans. There losses were minimal, they lost no heavy equipment or armoured vehicles. Between 1st March till June 30 Das Reich suffered 100 killed in action with partisans, hardly heavy losses.

[@pobinr]

I think it was unwise. He may have deserved his fate, but resistance must have known hundreds of civilians would die in reprisal. They should have imprisoned him or bumped him off more discreetly

[@PiedPeiper]

This was not an "execution", it was a barbaric and cowardly crime of the resistance. The victims of reprisal action /revenge were the innocent inhabitants of Oradour.... What did the resistance members expect?

[@sonnyburnett8725]

Maybe they did that because the SS would burn French resistance members in a pit/room in Paris during the occupation.

[@peterhughes8699]

This video should have started at 5 mins in. The 1st 5 mins were a waste of time telling us the ABC of WW2. This should be assumed knowledge. The video should then have started with detail on how/where Kampfe was captured by the Maquis. Then also ditch the summary at end - no need for this either.

[@davemashinter5218]

Looked good one that ss general,time caught up with him,rot in hell forever!

[@dovidell]

should I shed a tear after watching a video about what the notorious 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich did in Oradour-Sur-Glane ?

[@SRW_]

All countries burn villages is reprisal for killings. America, soviet union, viet kong, south africa.

[@jensenwilliam5434]

No!

[@CrocodileWhispers]

you should put some padding on the walls of whatever room you are recording from.

[@pef1960]

Maquis = "Ma-kee"...

[@willemventer3935]

It looks like the french committed the a war crime and should have known what the german reaction would have been.

[@TellySavalas-or5hf]

Hard against hard and Telly then says Evil versus Evil.

[@Cool-Lake]

A heavy price to pay for a man whose soul had a special place in hell waiting for him.

[@simonmartin5324]

Nothing new in this video if you’ve read about the Das Reich Division

[@jackhouston357]

victim ??

[@mecho68]

I am not a fan of Germans, and even less of former SS units. However, nothing from Kampfe biography prove war crimes on the Eastern front or France. But even if had been proven as a criminal, executing somebody by burning and ignoring possible retaliation from his colleagues on civil population means that French Resistance was no better than the Nazis.

[@jthomas4361]

All allied forces committed atrocities

[@snigie1]

The resistance weren't the hero's they're portrayed as, they only started resisting after 41!

[@stephengunrunnerhanson3550]

There was bad things done by all the sides The Russians murdered all them Polish officers and then blamed the germans but it was proven to be done by them then there is the bombing of civilians and fire storms then all the two atomic bombs bad things and there was the nutters that used the knife and they knifed every one and cut the ears off and alot was done by every one

[@pointsofsue2487]

All members of the SS committed war crimes, and there shoulde have been no mercy for any captured SS sadist. They are murderers and rapists. They murdered mrn, women and children and if someone is stupid enough to believe the allies did the same, then all I can advise is you throw your arm up higher in A NAZI salute.....as you obviously are an apologist for the murdering nazis. Shame on you.

[@pointsofsue2487]

​@@jthomas4361 stop beiing a NAZI apologist...its disgusting.

[@HO-bndk]

This was a lynching by a cowardly mob, not an "execution".

[@MrDaiseymay]

GUD

[@ChairmanPaulieD]

There we’re No Tears Shed for Waffen SS Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe 🥺😢😭

[@peace-now]

Such brutal and needless displays of cruelty by these French war criminals resulted in the destruction of Oradour-Sur-Glane and its innocent inhabitants.

[@mole389]

After four years of surrender and collaboration the French were in a grumpy mood.

[@renejean2523]

Justifiable grumpiness.

[@---rz5th]

HO -bridk if you look it up on thrn internet it is in black and white,

[@828enigma6]

Hard to consider him a victim, but we should be careful what we do, lest be become what we abhore.

[@ericbarker5197]

Imagine how many would be burned if they set Hitler alight!

[@Garfield7250]

what accent is this ??

[@tltc191]

Typical SS. All tough against women and children. Against a well trained army, not so much.

[@Bob31415]

Just like the criminal Russians in Ukraine.

[@gordonadamson5854]

So when they show this village, which is now a ghost village, I think they should remember that they started it with the murder of this SS officer along with his men

[@jamesclancy8091]

They should also remember that the German rapist, thieves and murderers should not have been there

[@colinwatkins2950]

if it was upto me germany would be one big fruit and vegetable growing land and no germans mate.

[@SittingAndThinkin]

He was a victim of the French resistance? He was a homicidal psychopath who was put down like a mad dog.

[@PiedPeiper]

Bullshit - you don´`t know anything about history and this special case! Gear up your brain before posting.

[@mirquellasantos2716]

Too bad innocent people paid the price and too bad that most Germans got away with their crimes cause they (as true cowards) hid under the feet of Americans who truly protected them.

[@WillyEckaslike]

actually many french people said that during the German occupation their soldiers acted very honorably unlike when the allies came....history would be a wonderful thing if only it were true Tolstoy

[@fernandoruizbrana7629]

The larguen genocide in thr hitori was hiroshima que NAGASAKI but noone to blame write about thatyou mooron

[@joejohnson4183]

Just shows how brutal man can be no matter what side they are on . And the French were notorious for shooting captured German soldiers after D-Day just because they were German . So all sides committed war crimes .

[@greenflagracing7067]

tough shit, you wannabe.

[@mirquellasantos2716]

You just can't compare the atrocities committed by Germans with the few atrocities committed by the allies, never. An American soldier stated that he entered a concentration camp and in a room he saw thousands and thousands of small shoes. He said that he cried cause he knew that that Germans tortured and gassed small children and babies. Only the worst kind of monsters can do such things to children and Germans have no problem with that. Germans were evil to the core.

[@Zaen89]

No tears where shed for Kampfe