The JUSTIFIED Execution Of Ansgar Pichen - The EVIL Cook Of Belsen

During the Second World War, as the Allies and the Red Army took over large amounts of Nazi-occupied territory, they came across huge concentration camps. It was here where the Holocaust was carried out, and where the true evils of the Third Reich and Hitler's regime occurred. Many of the soldiers who liberated the camps were haunted for lives by the images they saw, but after World War 2 many of the main perpetrators of the Holocaust were place on trial.
Bergen-Belsen was one of the largest concentration camps liberated, and the British who liberated the camp were horrified by what they saw. They had around 60,000 starving prisoners to help many of whom were suffering from diseases such as typhus. Within the prisoners were a number of SS guards and the concentration camp staff who decided to stay at the camp, and one of these was Ansgar Pichen one of the cooks. Pichen himself had only been at the camp a few months, however he was alleged to have shot prisoners in cold blood who were stealing food out of desperation.
Pichen was placed on trial in the Belsen Trials, and evidence was placed forward against him about his crimes. He denied any ill-treatment however was sentenced to death and in Hamelin Prison he was executed by Albert Pierrepoint.
So join us today as we look at, 'The JUSTIFIED Execution Of Ansgar Pichen - The EVIL Cook Of Belsen.'
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[@janetturner7489]

I met a Hungarian Jewish lady who survived Belsen after having been in Theresienstadt and Herne. She was too weak to get water from the British and was taken to the hospital and treated and recovered from TB. A true hero of WW2, she lived until she was 92.

[@lillithshadows714]

Love your videos. Im a huge ww2 buff and ive never seen alot of these videos. This should never be forgotten.

[@zibabird]

Thank you and as always, shared.

[@TheUntoldPast]

Thanks!

[@EnDB]

Conscripted, with a guy who shot a guy, didn't have weapons??? Meanwhile, unit 731 skated on vivisection and worse.

[@itwasnteveryfloor5038]

I dont know why, 'a guy who shot a guy' made me laugh so hard.

[@chrisdeal9945]

If he was Japanese he could have starved whole camps to death and got a pensiom

[@benbunyip]

Right about Unit 731. Most of them got away with it.

[@kevinmunday5782]

Yea and the experiments were totally depraved and horrific too

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

@@benbunyip The helped put "B" in our NBC program.

[@tammymorris5475]

My cousin visited one of the camp and told his mother my aunt that the smells were still there and it was eerie being there such evils were perpetrated in these camps

[@MultiMoo20]

Interesting as always. Thanks for posting ✅❤️

[@Guvnor100]

Shame for him he wasn't a scientist. They would have paperclipped his ass. He'd be living the dream in America.

[@liquidtopaz6903]

White house cook

[@historyandhorseplaying7374]

Well, there IS a difference between a cook who can offer nothing to humanity, and engineers who literally built the first machine into space.

[@Guvnor100]

Even though they took part in despicable activities? I believe nobody should be above the law and escape justice. Even if they can advance mankind. Man's progression is inevitable anyway. What's not, is man's ability to look back and say it was all done fairly.

[@historyandhorseplaying7374]

@@Guvnor100 which despicable activities are you talking about? Enslavement of blacks, or killing of Indians?

[@Guvnor100]

Neither, I'm talking about the German regime during the 1940s

[@MelchizedekKohen]

The camp was so badly infested with disease and decay they had to literally burn all the evidence. must of been quite a sight to see when they got liberated. God bless them all

[@Coolerman565]

My Dad was one of the British troops who entered that camp with his unit,he never forgot the horror,i still have some photos he brought back,terrible mass graves and some pictures of the SS Guards including the camp Boss Kramer,then he had to move on but returned a couple of weeks later and the Lothian regiment were burning the camo down with flame throwers,he once told me he could wake up many years after the war and smell that place,it was like Hell.

[@beckyfarley60]

Check out who helped with the railway system, who helped with the vehicles, who helped with the oil, then when all was said and done the American government took the top scientist to work for OUR government.

[@muskokamike127]

I JUST said the same thing....if you're going to execute the cook, why not the stokers or oilers who worked on the trains? or the men who repaired the tracks?

[@elyanae9588]

Yes, and they created NASA.

[@MistyRedSpread]

For fear the commies would get and use them first...

[@ok-kk3ic]

@@elyanae9588 von braun ☺️

[@peteralleyman1945]

It was not because he was the cook, it was because he shot people himself. And what actually was the crime of Werner von Braun? And how does that compare to inventing an atomic bomb and throwing it on a Japanese town?

[@jamesk370]

Other incriminating evidence against him included his mustache.

[@galiciadabest]

🤣

[@nathanadams6648]

Yeah, hard to beleive "i am not a nazi" with that stache

[@uralbob1]

What about those friggin' ears!

[@megancrager4397]

@@uralbob1 he can help the mustache, he can't help the ears 😅

[@Goodiesfanful]

@@nathanadams6648 I imagine Hitler made the toothbrush moustache very popular in Germany.

[@warrenkimble4578]

Good shows mate bring more on 👍😃

[@steffannystad]

Suspect of this conviction. Debatable.

[@alliecollin1748]

The bar in those kitchens was obviously LOW!!! 😡🇬🇧

[@roberttelarket4934]

There were other guards who were far more brutal than this one!

[@vastwasteland77]

How do you "rank" brutality? You think he should have been pardoned for being "less" brutal? Are you a Nazi apologist?

[@roberttelarket4934]

@@vastwasteland77: Look compared to the other Untold Past videos this Angsar seems tame.

[@olliefoxx7165]

@@vastwasteland77 Of ffs, no one can discuss anything without you people crying. Are you that way with the cruelties and horrors the Japanese committed? No. Just this one.

[@evamarek5205]

16-y/o Anne Frank and her sister died of Typhus in Bergen-Belsen. Horrible place. The birds don't sing in or around that place. They know it's solemn ground.

[@winnifredforbes1114]

I was at Mathausen many years ago. I noticed the same thing. No birds. Don’t forget, animals sense death. The very air is dead.

[@WillyEckaslike]

your statement about the birds know sums up the HC...its a religion thats based largely on l eyes fantasy hearsay and doesnt stand up to close inspection

[@kieranororke620]

@@WillyEckaslike Just like your mental state then I suspect.

[@craigwin3685]

@@winnifredforbes1114 I actually felt that way all throughout Germany.

[@WillyEckaslike]

@@kieranororke620 i have studied this era of history for 10 years..u have watched band of brothers and YT ideos from people with a computer trying to make a bit of cash...history is a set of l eyes agreed upon ..nap oleon

[@gallagjg]

Thank you for this serious- This is exactly what we need to make sure that never again means never again.

[@donethat6147]

Wish my history teacher was so interesting and presenting such a compelling evidence. Watching your videos and giving you likes at the beginning, so not to forget. Thanks for a great job.

[@scottlarson1548]

I'm glad my history teacher didn't speak in a monotone like this.

[@goodtoGoNow1956]

Compelling? The guy literally says this: "The evidence against him must have been overwhelming".

[@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13]

I just don't understand this level of evil.

[@isabellamusulo9190]

Cool Breeze 2.0: Read about primary and secondary psychopathy. Andrew M Lobaczewski´s book "ponerology" (the science of evil) is also helpful.

[@salus1231]

Some people, whilst looking human, are not. Some evil entity entered them at some stage in their life and that force takes them over. Many psychiatrists who have worked with maximum security prisoners have said the same but using different language to say it. I want this statement to be true because if not it is more spine tingling thinking about it as it supposes that we can all be turned into one of these monsters

[@isabellamusulo9190]

@@salus1231 I´m quite convinced that primary psychopaths are literally born evil (without a conscience combined with sadism). A brain defect? (They know exactly what they are doing, but they don´t care). Moral insanity. Human body with an inhuman psyche. Dr. Robert Hare calls them intraspecies predators.

[@salus1231]

@@isabellamusulo9190 Yes there is evidence of people having their pre frontal cortex damaged and turning into violent and sadistic people were they were not before. Henry the VIII was one. After a bad jousting accident knocked him unconscious for hours he awoke to be a tyrant killing thousands were before he had a reputation of being even tempered. So perhaps it is a damaged or not fully working or formed PFC. Evil entities do exist though .

[@Thraith]

If you find yourself in a situation like war, you will.

[@davidcorden]

And once again that you for watching.

[@gazza2933]

Misquoted

[@stukaman1162]

The problem with this video is that the tile never materializes - we never see the "justified execution" of anyone. Plenty of repeated images, but no firing squad or hangman's noose.

[@abdulmehmood7438]

Great video i never knew about this guy and way more eg Karl Gebhardt great video I enjoy them all 😊

[@stevefox8605]

Thank you. Would like to see you cover Pierrepoint 👍🏻👍🏻

[@rightwingreactionary]

One of the most prolific murderers in British history.

[@stevefox8605]

@@rightwingreactionary or a hero, depending on your perspective 😉👍🏻

[@Johnnycdrums]

@@stevefox8605 ; Technically murder, as written on death certificates in the U.S. following the execution of death sentences. I don’t think he’s making a value judgement one way or the other, just stating a fact.

[@stevefox8605]

@@Johnnycdrums 🤯 Pierrepoint was British.. 🇬🇧

[@Johnnycdrums]

@@stevefox8605 ; Yes, I saw that movie too, Pierrepoint was a real professional. Unfortunately we got stuck with a drunk who had previously been kicked out of the Navy for being a mental case. Definitely a low point for the U.S. Army.

[@marcomcdowell8861]

I wonder how many people toed the line between complicit and compelled. As in many conflicts, there are people with two options: Aid or die themselves. This may have been a guy with only the first option. Sounds romantic to stand up and say no and meet your death...until that reality dawns on you. Then again, he may have reveled in the power afforded him as a army cook and truly relished the brutality.

[@tpxchallenger]

He was working in Dachau. He carried a sidearm and shot two people to death. From what I've read about the camp workers it was considered an easy gig. No combat and very corrupt, with a lot of opportunity for theft and bribery.

[@muskokamike127]

@@tpxchallenger NOW, from a purely rational standpoint, the food stores were for all the prisoners. Yes, when you're starving, you do whatever you can to survive but as a cook, he was responsible to make sure the food they had, was distributed to all. So if those two prisoners stole 10 turnips. That meant that maybe 30 others didn't get anything. This is a tough call. I would have leaned more towards life in prison but considering what others did, and the punishment was the same, this was relatively minor.

[@wendeln92]

I thought the same thing. The place he lived was overrun by the Nazis, he was then conscripted into service. IMO he never had a real choice in what he had to do or where he could go, it was his dumb luck that he ended up working in the concentraton camps. He still had to do what he was told and if he didn't he could end up in the same situation as the prisoners, turns into simply keep your head down and do what you need to do to to survive. Even though he had a position of power over the prisoners his life was not much different than theirs, he was basically in prison with them. I feel that since he stayed and didn't flee with the rest of the army / guards, etc. he probably felt he had nothing to fear from the Allies because in some ways she was a victim of the Germans himself.

[@Milliardo5]

@@wendeln92 I feel that Nuremberg in some ways is more of a revenge than real justice. Sure, a number of those tried and executed were real monsters and deserved their fates, but there are those like this whose participation in Hitler's genocide was questionable at best. In time I think a reappraisal of the war and its participants would be made, but then the strong lobby by those who are pro-Israel remains strong and will keep the current narrative for years to come.

[@ryanpiercy3390]

@@Milliardo5 I'd be fine with reevaluating evidence and what not, but the reality is, too many people want to essentially erase the real atrocities committed by real nazis. I do think that he probably shouldn't have been executed, the fact he stayed at the end indicates to me that he actually did care to avoid the deaths of his charges. Additionally, the Germans often destroyed what they could not take when retreating, they probably did not leave much in the line of supplies behind and this cook has to try and make what he still has feed the residents until liberation, a feat not helped by food thefts. I don't know the details but it seems in his case he may have been trying to keep everyone alive and thefts jeopardized that effort, so he made an example of 2 to save 200. maybe I missed a part where it says otherwise but from what i can piece together, his only real crime was killing two thieves who may well have endangered hundreds of other lives by their theft.

[@kaushiksheshnagraj7176]

Very nice work. This work tempt me to leave an appreciative comment on your comment box

[@TheMrcassina]

His defense at the trial when asked about the mustache "I am a lifelong Charlie Chaplin fan your honor"

[@leemaeganonkiu5325]

Your 2.1k like :)) great vid!

[@Bumper776]

They executed the janitor and the yardman too but pardoned the gardener because he grew such good cabbages.

[@Mercmad]

My 1st wifes father was one of the first to discover Belsen. It was off the radar of the allies until the smell was noticed and some Americans ,who my late father in law was seconded too went looking and found the camp.

[@rogue1968]

My grandad was an rsm in the ordnance Corps and it was his unit that liberated the camp buddy not the yanks you’ll find

[@rebelusa6585]

This guy should not get executed, he should be a chef for those people on trial for war crimes.

[@Patrickrooney1962]

Another absolutely amazing presentation. Very informative. I look forward to seeing your videos. They are very insightful. Well done again and I look forward to seeing your next video..🙏👏👏👏👏….P

[@pawelpap9]

Easy defeat of Poland is a relative term. The campaign lasted two weeks and Polish forces had to cope with Germans and layer also with Soviets. To keep things in perspective, it took Germans to defeat Danes, Dutch, and of course very well equipped joined French and British forces in below seven weeks.

[@philipnestor5034]

You have it backwards, Germany invaded Poland Sep1st 1939 and the Polish forces surrendered on September 27th but some Polish forces kept fighting into October. It was France in May of 1940 that actually surrendered after two weeks when Germany invaded France in May in 1940. My father was in Warsaw 1939 fighting the Germans, he was captured and eventually escaped and made his way to Northern France to join the Polish Army there .He was captured there after two weeks fighting. He told me that fighting in the streets of Warsaw was brutal and he told me that when the Polish Army was going to the front in Northern France French troops were already running away. He was captured again but escaped a POW camp and eventually got to England and joined the Polish First Armored Division for the rest of the war.

[@petertaras7669]

Poland was also prevented to fully mobilize by Britain and France so that it would not give Hitler a reason to invade (go figure).

[@philipnestor5034]

@@petertaras7669 Hi Peter, My father told me how they were hoping that after England and France declared war on Germany on September 3rd. they would come and help Poland but nothing happened. I think this is the period that historians called the Phony War. Germany eventually invaded France ( with British troops stationed in Northern France along with Polish troop) in May 1940.

[@tpxchallenger]

@@philipnestor5034 Amazing! The contribution of Poles to victory is too often overlooked.

[@tpxchallenger]

@Ghost fan Not a chance was Churchill Jewish. His mother Jenny Jerome was not Jewish, nor was her mother, family name Hall. You have a Jewish mother or you convert to Judaism, there is no other way to become Jewish. Barry Goldwater, for instance, was not Jewish, whereas Uma Thurman is Jewish. Churchill's family tree includes the Duke of Marlborough and the Spencers. Same Spencer family as Princess Di, one of the few hundred aristocratic families that had been ruling Britain since William The Conqueror. You do know that Chamberlain declared war, not Churchill? Churchill was a back bencher in September '39. Chamberlain wasn't Jewish either. Britain declared war in 1939 for the same reason they did in 1914. Self preservation.

[@garylawless3608]

I love your channel and I am a subscriber, but please find some different WW2 footage to accompany your videos. The same old clips get a bit tired after a while.

[@originunknown3209]

Great work again! Cheers!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏

[@Brianvanmoustache]

The evil doctor the evil guard, why not the evil cook

[@lonelysith66]

Because why not?! 8D

[@elfulano5884]

Why not? He was the real "Soup Nazi."

[@jon9021]

@@elfulano5884 stupid comment from a stupid person.

[@ozdavemcgee2079]

@@elfulano5884 clever lol

[@WillyEckaslike]

next the justified execution of the camp cat .....the more this joker talks about the injustices of what happened to the germans at the end of the war the more it becomes obvious it was just a witch hunt with money political gains to be made

[@jackkunkel]

They executed the cook? They must have been hard up for camp guards to execute!

[@TheWolfsnack]

...perhaps his menu items were a war crime?

[@WillyEckaslike]

u only had to have some l eying )uu accuse u of something and u were a gonna bcause the Nberg rules at the trials took hearsay evidence as enough to condemn u to desth

[@WillyEckaslike]

@@deejs8652 ok here are some of the Nberg rules...u really think that these people gota fairtryal? The Tribunal shall not be bound by technical rules of evidence. It shall adopt and apply to the greatest possible extent expeditious and nontechnical procedure, and shall admit any evidence which it deems to be of probative value Article 20. The Tribunal may require to be informed of the nature of any evidence before it is entered so that it may rule upon the relevance thereof. . Article 21. The Tribunal shall not require proof of facts of common knowledge but shall take judicial notice thereof.

[@von-Adler]

Some of the tower guards that remained in place AFTER the liberation were Hungarian Army.

[@WillyEckaslike]

@@von-Adler personnel stayed on at the camp because they hadnt done anything wrong...if u were guilty of the things u were accused of u would have run for the hills before the allies got there..sadly most of thebozosthatwatchthisandothersimilarchannels arentcapable of criticalthinking

[@gowdsake7103]

I wouldn't say its justified at all, why were no generals who executed soldiers with shell shock executed ?

[@prsee5969]

Preach it

[@lynnmeyers8433]

Because PTSD or shell shock not considered psych damage but cowardice then by most. Eisenhower thought not with Patton but not everyone agreed. Germans didnt. Im sure Stalin didn't if he would execute for surrendering. People forget that was nearly 100 years ago in 1939(82 anyway). Expecting people to be as we are now is ridiculous. Prince Charles divorcing was almost sympathized with by many. Edward's divorce shocking. Medicine was very primitive before WW2. AND if there was chauvinism, it was much worse. Its why few know about the prostitution of women inmates of camps in WW2. Who wanted to be demonized after just surviving; and frankly, while Poland got a raw deal, they hardly have made up for governments which confiscated Jewish property before cold war and WW2. Not being complicit til after occupations. They must feel guilty or they a wouldnt impose prison on people for saying "Polish" in connection with camps. But you cant tell me there were no collaborators or just people who took advantage, like the food merchants of the ghetto residents. I saw this Polish grocer in documentary who acted like exploiting ghetto residents was a must--like because "everyone" profited, it was ok to charge 1,000 or 10,000 times value of bread because his family could. He even smirked as he discussed it. He said,"that is how life is!" over & over. Polish grocer and then soldier. Collaborators are among us all. Not all done as selfishly but they are there. Some probably feared Germans but there were those who saved and helped Jews in all Europe. Like the Polish girl who saved 17 Jews. She and her little sister. HIDDEN IN SILENCE is a film about it. She risked her life and limb, even when she felt overwhelmed she prayed and carried on. I think she is "righteous among the nations." Now Poland waited decades and did that shameless deed of prosecuting those who misspeak. Pope JP II wouldnt approve, but Poles arent as devout as they once were. Noone is.

[@lonnietimms2614]

Karens whine when he uses the word "vengeful." Karens whine when he uses the word "justified." Poor guy can't win.

[@prsee5969]

@@lynnmeyers8433 fuck me. This lady had said that she had spent all the money she had on a ... Probably very small amount of pork. And the butcher put it on the scale, checked the price, charged her that much, then the butcher took her knife and cut the (probably the part she wanted the most) nice piece of fat that was about 1/3 of its weight. Want your money back? Someone else will pay for it. They don't care. Godamn history is the saddest thing on earth.

[@brendamcondliffe476]

Hitler in his final year (continued right to the last days) of the war had his own "traitor" Generals shot. Think Rommel...Stalin shot his own BEFORE the war...Google it

[@ronaldwhite1730]

thank - you .

[@tomweickmann6414]

I doubt if the Russians really gave a crap about the prisoners when they found the camps. More of an opportunity to take notes on cruelty for Uncle Joe Stalin and Beria, his little Himmler.

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

right

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

Yep. Ol Joe wasn't exactly a fan of Hebrews either. (Than again, given thier conduct throughout Europa, that isn't a suprise.)

[@muskokamike127]

To be honest, there are plenty of videos of the russian solders helping the inmates.

[@user-mw2vn7pv8n]

@@jed-henrywitkowski6470 Seriously? In a video about nazis you have the audacity to revive their bullshit?

[@user-mw2vn7pv8n]

@@muskokamike127 Of course the common soldiery probably did care. Their leaders certainly did not.

[@SDeww]

i find the evidence against him very VERY thin!, i dont think he deserved to be executed!. if we take his case and put it in modern times, their seems to be a overwheling lack of evidence!. so the justified exection, does not seem so justified to me!. in arabic countries they cut your hand off for stealing, is that a war crime too??, or simply applying the law of the land?? i have my doubts about this one!

[@coveyking]

many people do agree with this opinion.... sometimes, we must do what is hard and end the viscous cycle.

[@justmeeagainn]

Sounds like he got a raw deal, but during a war crimes trial, you never know what’s going to turnip.

[@wattyler9806]

Oh I saw you did there. Very good.

[@jeffblacky]

My field chow when I was in the Army in the 80’s , the cooks that feed us should of been put on trail for war crimes

[@billywalker9223]

You mean the cooks who looked like Barry White, who asked you how you liked your eggs, and then gave you the opposite? Harmony Church, Fort Benning.

[@jeffblacky]

@@billywalker9223 Ft Lewis was as bad when i went though in 2004 to train up for our OEF mission , horrible chow SoS and sometimes they change up with ToT Turds on Tarpaper

[@mrvonbehr]

LOL but I must say I was worked so hard in the field, any chow was a feast.

[@bkreed27]

Served in the 11th Cav in Germany in the '80s. Great chow at the Eaglehorse Inn. Especially breakfast.

[@badbotchdown9845]

In the Swiss army we have canned rations as cooked pork with vegetables with sauce. Once we have to reheating this with solid alcohol pocket stove, we must open up before with few holes with the pocket knife. Me going trough the other company who eat close to us with a closed can looking up how many time and effects it will be After ten minutes or so the can have exploded projecting her content all around with several. gross words from them and Us laughing like hell.

[@dinos6231]

Do you also narrate the channel bedtime stories?

[@kurthasedd7923]

As far as war crime acts of wwii go, this one was pretty light. You had men in Croatia boasting about how many throats they slit in a day, soviet NKVD officers casually taking interrogated POW's out being the shed and shooting them, hundreds of people being brought out to a ditch by a few guys to be gunned down etc. I was expecting this guy to have cut up inmates and feed them to the others or poisoning food whenever he was in the mood. A cripple who shot a few people stealing from a supply that fed other prisoners isn't so bad... well, it's execution bad but not previously mentioned examples bad

[@olliefoxx7165]

I know right? Thought the same and the guy was really just a cook.

[@Stripedbottom]

While I'm not saying that Pichen should have walked free, I find it absurd that someone like him, in the context of WW2, would get executed for shooting a couple of prisoners for stealing food, while the financers, speculators, political backers, and other true enablers of Hitler's terrible terrible regime, walked away scott free with nothing but a slap on their wrist, if even that - and in most cases, even got to keep the massive profits they had made from the war!

[@lynnmeyers8433]

Speer hid his. He had Jewish paintings hidden in a friend's garage in GERMANY. He had to split it 50-50. Each got a million dollars. D ont think it was known at Nurenberg at the time. He did serve 20 years. Mengele had family business supporting him.

[@Stripedbottom]

@@lynnmeyers8433 I'm not even talking about household names like Speer or Mengele. I'm talking about the names that no-one even knows for the very reason that they got acquitted, served a symbolic sentence, or were not prosecuted at all, and the whole thing was hushed up and silenced to death after the war.

[@ComtedeMonteC]

In this series "the justified execution of..." these people today wouldn't executed here in France as capital punishment has been abolished. A case in point is the Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie who after many years of being tracked was extradited from Bolivia and tried in France. He was responsible for the deaths of thousands. Barbie was sentenced to life imprisonment.

[@davidwhite4874]

Total hypocrisy.

[@VinhNguyen-fb9lk]

They hung this cook and let Guy Fiery who charged 30 bucks for a burger live? Wtf

[@graememceachren1118]

Good to know that I’m not the only one that’s tired of Guy F. They can drop his fat @$$ off at ‘Flavour Town’ anytime.

[@albertross252]

There is something Pythonesque about convicting a cook of shooting 2 prisoners in a death camp

[@SLACKPLAN9]

I've been in restaurants like this, where the COOK deserved JUSTIFIED EXECUTION.

[@jasonsabourin2275]

"Hey Drummer boy....... Give this man a Rimjob...I mean Rimshot" --- Tesco Vee

[@tomweickmann6414]

"Hey it wasn't my fault. The stove wasn't hot enough and the duck alaorange came out a little raw......just a little!"

[@TheAsa1972]

There is an interview of a British Army Major that tells a different story about Belsen

[@gowdsake7103]

Would this be on a par with service people saying they are flattards ?

[@TheAsa1972]

@@gowdsake7103 Not sure but he was there

[@steelcurtain2576]

There is a lot of footage from Buchenwald in this video ,isn`t this video about Bergen Belsen?? ;)

[@janetturner7489]

I noticed that too, yes.

[@karstenjackson-lange5516]

That say that was justice but Tony Blair is still walking around and living the high life with his money after he did worse atrocities

[@knightowl3577]

Deaths in warfare are only atrocities if you are on the losing side.

[@nmr6316]

In American courts this wouldn't have held up without physical evidence. Two jewish prisoners vs a polish cook who was conscripted. I have my doubts about this one, the evidence seems flimsy.

[@tapsars7911]

It is a tragedy that he was executed by Albert Pierrpoint . He deserved to be executed by some clumsy , unprofessional idiot who would botch up the procedure and prolong the agony of the convict . Sadists like this did not deserve the mercy that Pierrpoint afforded his 'clients' .

[@Goodiesfanful]

I wonder who the woman crying into the hand of the Allied soldier is and what happened to her? That’s one of the most emotional bits I’ve seen at Belsen.

[@schorpioen7466]

4:12 ? Probably an unknown woman who survived the camp

[@Goodiesfanful]

@dhouse I doubt it. Anne Frank had died some weeks before. Her poor body was among the rotting corpses left to pile up until the Allies press-ganged the Germans to bury them.

[@robdean704]

You know what they say about the course for military cooks, toughest in the military and no one has ever passed

[@berzerker1100]

Death from within 🏴‍☠️🍴🥄🔪🍽🤮

[@ttestates1]

Ya know, you don't see that mustache much anymore

[@1953dan]

That style of mustache originated from the first world war and was worn by both sides. Poison gas was used and a soldier had to be able to put on a gas mask quickly. Having a full mustache prevented the gas mask from sealing properly, so, the soldiers trimmed it down.

[@chevinbarghest8453]

Take it you don't get to too many insurrectionist rallies then... lol

[@J0E-THEDOH]

The cook of Belsen... I'm surprised there was any food there to cook. My great uncle was in Belsen, and survived, only just. He was 6 ft tall, and weighed 7 stone.

[@SDeww]

7 stone... we are not living in the stoneage buddy, you can use kilo or pounds... we civilized people found a way to measure weight a long time ago, without using stones....

[@J0E-THEDOH]

@@SDeww look up the NHS website for measuring BMI index, and stones is what we in the UK use. If you don't like it, you nobody you, see if you can change it. Nobodys can't change things.

[@mountainguyed67]

@@J0E-THEDOH So that is 98 lbs.

[@J0E-THEDOH]

@@mountainguyed67 NHS weight check uses stones, lbs, kg all 3 legit

[@certaintngs2000]

And that is why Justice always has a set of scales and a blindfold covering her eyes. Why are the eyes of the condemned covered?

[@leftboot83]

Except she doesn't always have a blindfold. Perhaps the most famous Justice statue at the Old Bailey has her eyes uncovered

[@stevesloan7132]

I think it is to help the condemned keep their nerve.

[@evanwilliams3645]

Eyes could possibly pop out whilst hanging.

[@johnthomson6507]

Always amazes me the disparity of justice. The fact the commanders of sobibor and Treblinka one died in their 🛏️ never seeing justice for his crimes and the other only spent a year in prison and died of natural causes. Where as someone like this is small fry. Although he probably deserved his punishment.

[@wyattalvarez4880]

Right? Not defending his actions here, and he certainly deserved what he got but it’s insane that the guards who daily participated in actions far worse then his were all allowed to leave and rejoin German society.

[@susi4989]

The war was finished. So why allies keep killing people. Don't they killed enough during the war? Half of my family was killed by the allies, ( women and kids) and we never recibe any justice, justificacion o compensation. Look like the allies was allowing to kill everybody without any punishment.

[@wattyler9806]

I think being court sporting that mustache was a mistake.

[@ralpsimpson3925]

I think yu meant "caught!"

[@europaeuropa3673]

You can see the same evil in some young people today.

[@stevesloan7132]

In people of every age today.

[@rtauzin64]

Donald trump is old as hell!! Bill O'Reilly, David Duke, Sadam hussein, Harvy weinstein, Mike pence. You know they wanted to hang him. Right? Pat Robertson is ancient. Many old turds are terrible

[@aloysiusdevanderabercrombi470]

@@rtauzin64 You mean Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, etc.

[@cursuspublicus4302]

@@rtauzin64 Yeah, I don't think Pat Robertson is on the level of Saddam Hussein because he runs the 700 club and you disagree with him. Just because you disagree with someone does not make them evil or on the level of a genocidal war criminal. Not to mention Saddam is not living today.

[@pawelpap9]

@@rtauzin64 Do you really would personally execute everybody you disagree with? What your psychologist has to say about it?

[@MS46Z]

Great series! So how many Nazis were executed at the end of WW II? An overall video on that would be great.

[@WillyEckaslike]

go back to reading your Sven Hessler books...all of these people who worked in the camps were killed as reprisals and to justify penshons..the war....15 ray1

[@uralbob1]

No where near enough. There should have been hundreds and hundreds. I know how those bastards thought.

[@SDeww]

@@uralbob1 and all the top SS and nazi of any value went to america and soviet russia to work for them!!.. it seems all the little people got punished, but the higher ups with valueble information got a a "leave jail for free" card!. and a job in a other counry, mostly america and russia!, infact the whole Nasa was created by a nazi werner von braun, a nazi put the americans on the moon, the same nazi who bombed London causing massive deaths, and wounded got off scot free, got taken to america, and he continued his work with a fat salery to boot!, its unbelieveble!, that is a warcrime! sheletering war criminals!!!!

[@uralbob1]

@@SDeww You are absolutely correct.

[@catherinejohnson1354]

Not enough

[@roberttelarket4934]

He was a complete fool! Not shaving his moustache and just leaving the camp. He was very low level-a nobody. He could have gotten away.

[@letoubib21]

At least he wore a úniform of the Wehrmacht, the collar patches are telling so *. . .*

[@mikehoare6093]

Well done as usual, mate ! What I personally like, in this age of whitewashing and revisionism, is how you explicitely say JUSTIFIED !

[@Goodiesfanful]

What was the state of that prison camp kitchen anyway? I would be surprised if it passed muster with Gordon Ramsay.

[@Sennmut]

Or Martha Stewart.

[@muskokamike127]

Even if you know what slop they were fed, and how little, even 1 meal a day, feeding 65,000+ prisoners was a monumental task. Even just feeding the guards. The amount of food required was astronomical. From what I've read, the "soup" was mostly just hot water but even if you consider a bowl is maybe 5 oz of water, 65,000 bowls = 300,000 oz or about 2400 gallons per meal.

[@soapsoup6666]

Just imagine how you'd feel if you were a cook and somebody stole your turnips with supper due for an entire camp in just a couple of hours.

[@sachavere220]

Exactly what kind of supper were these people going to look forward to? When you are hungry you will go to any lengths to survive!!!

[@soapsoup6666]

@@sachavere220 With their turnips stolen the rest of the camp would have little supper if any. Imagine the outrage!

[@RicTic66]

It was the British who liberated Belsen. And the other camps were not "liberated by the allies and the Red army" The Red army were the allies too, not a separate unit.

[@TheWalrusWasDanny]

What about the countless members of the Police Groups (101?)...murdered countless people and after the war continued with their lives as normal. Danny

[@chopperaxon6171]

Oh dear, so sad, never mind.

[@martincook318]

My late Farther was one of the first British Soldiers to liberate Belsen Barden and I Couldn't Understand why he had Nightmare's for over fifty years until his own Death in 1996 until I saw the old film from that Camp and that Must not be allowed to happen again in any Country because if it does God knows what will happen

[@ralphe5842]

You got to admit guilty as he’s was so many that were so much worse got off scot free or very little punishment and some rewarded for knowledge they had

[@discocrisco01]

This is second-degree murder. Probably 50 year sentence with 10 years that could be reduced for good behavior.

[@queencerseilannister3519]

Have you done Amon Göth yet?

[@queencerseilannister3519]

@insanity wolf Awesome thx!

[@spoutnikum538]

Just two questions: 1) Is that true the prisonniers in the germans camps were dying because the Allies were bombing all the rail ways and supplies for the camps? 2) Do we already have the right to make these questions after 80 years past, or is it still not allowed?

[@jasonladd6400]

Hardly the worst

[@drkresearch2945]

Who called the cook a bastard? -Who called the bastard a cook?

[@The000clash000]

Interested as to why some of the guards and ss staff stayed at the camp at the end?

[@letoubib21]

First the Rosbifs promised all the soldiers their free retreat. *But* lateron they didn'r consider the Totenkopf-SS men as real soldiers. Bad luck for them *.. .*

[@The000clash000]

@@letoubib21 so, you are Saying the British (roast beefs) allowed certain camp guards and admin to escape, but not some ss. Hmm, sorry that doesn't make sense. It is a genuine question as to why some germans stayed at their posts in the camp?

[@muskokamike127]

There's various trains of thought on this from what I've learned: Some actually didn't think they were doing anything wrong and thought they'd be treated like any other POW. That's how delusional they were. Then there are some stories I've read where some that stayed, did so to continue to "care" for the prisoners the only way they knew how. Then there's some who had the sense of duty to their very core. Their "job" was to do x at the camps so they stayed there out of a sense of duty.

[@The000clash000]

@@muskokamike127 yeah that all makes sense. Then I guess there were the low ranking, guards at the dirty end, (from the conquered territories) that were no told about the leaving plans.

[@jasonweaver6524]

As usual, not a word about the reasons for the horrific conditions in Belsen in 1945, which were caused primarily be relentless Allied bombing of railways and roads, disrupting supplies of food and medicine to the camp.

[@theranjithjay]

1940- 1945 WW2- Ansgar Pichen the cook of Belsen Concentration Camp was executed for crimes committed! Ansgar killed prisoners in cold blood for stealing food from the kitchen and for starving prisoners to death.

[@brentbaker4489]

Helmut Oberlander it's living a Charmed Life in Kitchener Ontario I would love to see him swinging like his buddies

[@texx1985]

if it's really a war criminal, just report it to Mossad. Simple

[@anthonydavella8350]

The beast of Belson was never guilty of any acts of cruelty against his prisoners. Nor was he to blame for most of the conditions. Most of those poor souls were dropped off in Belson already starved and near death. Kramer is one of the few that was known as a nice guy. He would have been found not guilty in Nuremburg

[@123sssfddd]

GB is on the island, no one can beat her quickly..

[@umarb7325]

That hitler moustache though. Safe to guess he had a signed copy of Mein Kampf somewhere in his home.

[@aloysiusdevanderabercrombi470]

It was one of the fashions of the time.

[@alfredagain]

If he lived in Germany it was compulsory.

[@ener5361]

Charie chaplin also then?

[@Yasser.Osman.A.Z.]

It took couple of witnesses who hated everything that is German, jewish witnesses, exactly and literally two witnesses to execute a human being YET a man Shpeer walked with twenty years in a mansion prison Its was a mess and the allies committed as much horrible horrific actions as the axes powers did, but the winner get to win it all Now in 2021 the victims became perpetrators and the world is blind again. Mark my words now. Its gonna horribly backfire, just wait for it Peace to the Peaceful World ✌❤

[@WillyEckaslike]

a voice of truth in a sea of idiots

[@graememceachren1118]

The Russians ran Spandau. Pretty sure it wasn’t a mansion.

[@Yasser.Osman.A.Z.]

@@WillyEckaslike ✌. Takes one to know one. Peace sir👍

[@Yasser.Osman.A.Z.]

@@graememceachren1118 I saw the documentary, it wasn't that bad too. If the cook was to be executed, so what the best friend of hitler, should get?! That is if it was even rightful to execute enemies. Bottom line, the allies are worst criminals on all levels, or deserves the same as the Germans, least to say. They were not guardian angels, they had many many chances to save millions of lives from both sides, and they willingly chose not.

[@anti7928]

He had a awesome mustache..

[@thebunkreport]

Even their cooks were vicious animals.

[@rijndertdoting8667]

So they judged the cook?

[@maxcoatlhunter4322]

I have always wonder..when this came to light..what was the feeling of the German people or civilians, did they were aware of what was happening? Did they knew what their goverment was doing?

[@propagandalf123]

yep. most were. My Grandma (born 1935) told me, she never knew anything, but most adults knew "something". They comforted themselves with the lies the nazis provided them with

[@maxcoatlhunter4322]

@@propagandalf123 thanks.

[@seang5284]

They knew the camps existed, and they knew what the Nazi Party did to people it considered "Lebensunwurtes Leben" (Life unfit for Life). I doubt many knew the full extent of what was happening in the death camps, but the Nazis had public-knowledge euthanasia campaigns for the mentally challenged, insane, etc. That's how they started, with a comparatively small crime, then they took it further, and further. By the way, they sold the public on the Euthanasia of the mentally challenged by calling it "Compassion".

[@muskokamike127]

many denied having any knowledge of what was going on, even those who lived nearby. It was generally believed by the allied forces that many "Knew" but didn't want to know. It's impossible to not realize what was going on when you saw box cars of people going into a complex and empty ones coming out. Not to mention the smell. Not to mention the number of civilians who provided services to the camps. How would they not tell anyone about what they saw? Then there was the ashes from the crematoriums. Some towns (supposedly) constantly had a shower of ashes coming out of the smoke stacks. If you've seen schindler's list, or the pianist, the warsaw ghetto for example, there's no way you could wall off an entire section of a city, put a million people in there, then one night, they're all gone? If you've ever seen Band of Brothers there's a scene where the major went into a posh German home to steal booze and the woman of the house looks down upon him. Then the next scene is her working at the camp helping dispose of the bodies. Then you have things like Krystal Nacht where they literally burned out jewish businesses, burned down synagogues, and burned books. Then you have all the newspapers promoting anti semitism. No way they didn't know what was going on. The issue is: normal civilians who were against it, publishers, businessmen etc, they were simply executed by the SS so even if you knew, if you spoke out, you were ratted out and you too would disappear. There are all kinds of stories where some Germans helped hide jews but they were few and far between.

[@martinwagner7361]

The full extent of what went on in Auschwitz at the time of Ww2 wasn't known by most Germans. However it was very apparent that Jews and political Opposition were imprisoned and persecuted, Neighbors started to disappear, their possessions, houses etc. were sold in public auctions, discrimination was omnipresent and most Germans were aware that Jewish Lives were destroyed and concentration camps existed - sometimes within the sight of the German People although the biggest annihilation camps like Auschwitz were quite veiled in the remote polish Countryside.....but Rumors existed.... Most Germans were busy with Survival the last 2 years of the war and didn't really want to dig any deeper, especially as it was clear that this could quickly get you into difficulties....everybody was clear that the Nazis weren't having any scruples to execute whomever they considered to be enemies of Germany.... As well Germans were quite scared of the Russians taking revenge for the war crimes committed by Germany.....

[@nonamegame9857]

None of those that served the Nazis as far as working in those camps were innocent. Zero, nadda, zilch.

[@nonamegame9857]

@Ghost fan first of all, the talking point on this was not about the war in the Pacific where my father dodged kamikazes from the deck of the USS Saratoga. The talking point was about the disgusting, dehumanizing and downright nasty people known as Nazis. I also thank you for putting me in the Boomer box because apparently you like to put people into certain little boxes so that your knowledge never increases. Good job 🙄

[@clarkhull7546]

Could have been Hitler's brother with big 👂 ears

[@RottiDog100]

Charlie Chaplin had a moustache like this as well.

[@mikefitzgerald41]

If Prince Charles and Hitler had a baby Would look like this cat

[@dr.honorable141]

Justified punishment for horrible food

[@muskokamike127]

I have to say, considering the crimes of others, what this guy did seemed like a drop in the bucket. Not defending him at all, it's just that shooting two prisoners who were caught steeling, considering others literally chose people to die on a whim, seems like death by hanging is a little over the top. Did they also go after the train engineers who operated the trains that moved all the prisoners to the camps? How about the switch men? The stokers? the mechanics who kept those trains running? How about the men who repaired the tracks? Meanwhile on D day, the allies, in many cases, took no prisoners and executed those they captured. Considering the brutality of war, if anything, this is a life sentence not execution.

[@mob3144]

The victors decide who lives or dies, no evidence needed it seems. Everybody in britain should have hanged for what they did in India and Ireland.

[@muskokamike127]

@@mob3144 Well, no actually. Just because you're a citizen of a country doesn't mean you're automatically guilty of a crime. If you're a cobbler on bleeker street soling shoes, what crime are you guilty of? Being the same nationality of someone who committed a crime? Gimme a break, you're stretching it there bud.

[@MrSniperdude01]

@@muskokamike127 Wrong. What happened with Ireland & India lasted for centuries, down generations. That cobbler on Bleeker Street may not have been deployed, but odds are high they got a Grandfather, Father, Uncle, Cousin, or even Son who was. Might seem like excuse for blood guilt, but in nature people will generally defend those near & dear, no matter what the charges are.

[@muskokamike127]

@@MrSniperdude01 LOL you're funny. You're literally trying to tell me that every single person in the UK had someone in the military at some point therefore they're guilty. I guess that means that if ANYONE in YOUR family's history committed a crime, YOU should be punished for it. Pull your head out of your ass......

[@mob3144]

@@muskokamike127 Maybe not everybody in britain had a family member in the military during the glorious british empire but I would say it was very few. I can tell you this that Everybody in India, Ireland and many other countries suffered at their hands. I think you should pull your head out of your ass and take a less arrogant view of something you obviously know little about. Everybody in Britain assisted in the war effort and were proud to a man of their contribution in building their empire. There were more atrocities committed by the british than an other country in history and they are proud of it.

[@ubergeek1968]

My Great-Aunt Eday was born in Poland and arrested for being a Jew in 1939 and sent to Bergen-Belsen in 1942. She was 15. She was forced to become a "comfort girl" for the Nazi Guards and twice miscarried a baby. In 1945 she gave birth to boy just three days before the camp was liberated. As the Allies approached the Camp Commandant grabbed the baby and smashed his head against a wall, then threw him into a fire. Eday was forced to watch. I asked her about her tattoo when I was 6 years old and she told me the story. She had been befriended by a British soldier that later married her and moved to the States.

[@von-Adler]

Forgive me if I question this account. For example Belsen prisoners had NO number tattoos.

[@oldfogey4679]

This has nothing to do with this video! But I found it disturbing that shortly after the war the us captured and released Josef mengela! ( think i misspelled his last name) plus if this guy killed 2 prisoners during the war isn't that just what one does? So I'd say his execution might be a bit murky?

[@muskokamike127]

The thing about the camps, the final solution etc, you cannot ignore the fact that if Germany hadn't spent so much money, time, manpower and resources on it, they probably would have won. There were stories that a lot of war materials couldn't be shipped to the front lines because trains were allocated to moving prisoners. Even if you consider the prisoners were forced to work in plants producing war materials, the amount of resources that went into building the camps, the crematoriums, not to mention the number of guards.

[@cr250rry]

Have wondered about this myself. Maybe they saw the threat of internal subversion by the groups they didnt like, as a justifiable reason to expend so much effort on the program ?

[@markanderson3949]

He was killed for the stash

[@catman8670]

99.9 % of guilty escaped justice

[@ericmurray770]

Even the cook was evil, wtf world 🌎

[@Brianvanmoustache]

That's what I thought too. Evil Dr evil teachers why not evil cook

[@spellerlittlewing]

That’s why I don’t eat out

[@WillyEckaslike]

why do people believe stuff just because someone with a computer and a YT account tells them its true?

[@dufus7396]

That moustache probably didnt help his case