The VENGEFUL Execution Of Arthur Liebehenschel - Commandant Of Auschwitz

One of the greatest crimes in History was the Holocaust, in which millions of people were persecuted by the Nazis during the Second World War. The Germans would focus on exterminating the Jews from Europe, and one of the biggest extermination centres and concentration camps was Auschwitz. Auschwitz would develop over a number of years into a huge site and within it over a million people would be brutally murdered by the Nazi regime.
One commandant who oversaw a large part of the killing inside Auschwitz was Arthur Liebehenschel. He was a man who seemingly was more suited to a desk job than running a concentration camp, and under his leadership Auschwitz did continue to massacre millions. Liebehenschel is known for being a weak commandant, and Rudolf Hoss would criticisize him for his siding with the prisoners. He made different improvements to the camp with many of the torture elements of the camp being removed. However the gas chambers continued to see much action as did the crematoria.
Liebehenschel eventually was relieved of his duties inside Auschwitz and was transferred. However he was captured after the Second World War and handed over to the Polish Government who would then sentence him to death for his crimes inside the Holocaust. He was known as a Commandant of Auschwitz, but a rather bizarre one.
So join us today as we look at 'The VENGEFUL Execution Of Arthur Liebehenschel - The Commandant of Auschwitz.'
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[@isaacio8924]

Arthur Liebehenschel was such a bizarre figure. What I got from this video was that he was pretty much an armchair paper pusher that had neither wanted to, nor knew how to run a camp. Due to the absolute lack of evidence that he ever directly ordered, or personally beat and or shot prisoners, his major claim to infamy in the eyes of the tribunal was being the commandant of Auschwitz to begin with. I am in no way defending the man, but we also have the benefit of hindsight. From decades of films, documentaries, and even games we know how evil the SS as an organization was, and what is to me the most frightening about all of this is that most of these people such as Arthur were neither sadists nor psychopaths. Although he did not choose to become the commandant of Auschwitz or Majdanek, he voluntarily chose to join the SS. He most definitely goes on the list of the weirdest of commandants, and one gets the feeling that he seemed perfectly sated to stay in the background doing paper work. But when judging him, one must ask themselves, what could he have done? What words could he have said, what groundbreaking, over arching difference could he have possibly made to shut Auschwitz down completely? The answer would be nothing. The hierarchy of Nazi Germany was a very competitive environment where most people were ruthless careerists. If he had been outspoken it might have been him on the other side of the fence, or more accurately for "subversion of the war effort". Regardless of any crimes he may or may not have committed fate was sealed and predetermined the moment he stepped foot into the camp system.

[@guitarjunkie2065]

@Desert Fox Very well said. Practically no one is either all Good or all Bad. The vast majority of us exist somewhere in between, in some shades of gray. It sounds like this man was a considerably lighter shade of gray than most of his counterparts in the SS. But he did ultimately seal his own fate. His guilt was perhaps primarily passive and of association - but not exclusively; and once he had put himself in position in the SS such that he would have any authority over one of the camps, it would not have been possible for him (even if he had wanted to) to do enough good to outweigh the bad inherent simply in being the man in that position.

[@stevefox8605]

Yes, there's degrees of evil, but evil is still evil. Cheers 👍🏻👍🏻

[@stranraerwal]

The heading "the vengeful execution..." is ridiculous. What was "vengeful "about executing an Auschwitz-Commandant?

[@mandanewiser]

Agreed!.. Click bait.. All their videos are "TRAGIC", "VENGEFUL", "RUTHLESS", "JUSTIFIED'.. They don't really need that I think they do a great job with these videos!.. Vengeful? Oh Hell No.. LOL .. More like expected and necessary.. Now, with that being said.. If I had been in charge it would have been more "VENGEFUL".. I consider they way it was all handled was diplomatic and considerably humane for the crimes they committed.. I would have treated them with the same respect they gave their victims..

[@albertarthurparsnips5141]

No need, surely, to be so picky and finicky. I agree with you. Some of the adjectives used do strike one as odd. Or simply wrong. But please keep in mind what an extraordinary service this gentleman is performing in providing us with footage and information that, lately, has been doing its utmost to expunge. I, for one, salute him.

[@ozdavemcgee2079]

Its an appropriate usage of the noun in English. Seeking to harm someone in return for an injury. Perhaps these complaints stem from bilingual ppl who don't quite understand the nuances of my mothet tounge English. Or indeed bother to use a dictionary, to chech if they, themselves, might be wrong, before opening their dirty stinking rotten mouth. Again, nuance, a common English saying that actually has no malice in it

[@Christof_The_Great17]

It was vengeful... How was it not? I'm confused did he not get executed in an act of revenge for the murder of thousands of people?

[@Christof_The_Great17]

@@mandanewiser doesn't matter how it was carried out. The allies got revenge in a more "humane" way. ... It's literally English lol

[@MrDlt123]

How many extermination camp guards, executioners and commanders were executed? The answer: Not enough. Not even close.

[@olasek7972]

But at least some/many did, nobody however was brought to justice (least executed) in the USSR or China for participating in communist crimes where millions perished (the trial of the so called Gang of Four in China cannot be treated seriously).

[@None-zc5vg]

Many of the killers at the top of the food chain were so well-connected and well-protected that they got away with it: two random examples are Karl Wolff (Himmler's no.2 for years) and Martin Sandberger, an Eichmann-level 'desk murderer' who lived free and in comfort well into his late '90s.

[@achord9204]

@@None-zc5vg yes and also thyssen family I think she was a baroness she arranged shooting parties of Jews. She said she would never be convicted since she had family connections- so true. She was a disgusting example of a human

[@None-zc5vg]

@@achord9204 One of the "top people" involved in WW2 planning and in the admin. of Western Germany was John Jay McCloy, who'd been a U.S. lawyer representing the German I.G.Farben chemicals conglomerate before the war. He nixed the bombing by the U S of the I.G.'s rubber-facility that was attached to the Auschwitz concentration camp (go figure) and was persuaded ('by his conscience') to let industrialists like Krupp, whose plants had worked slave-labourers to death, out of jail after a few years, keeping their considerable assets.

[@68majortom]

And the ones who were convicted were either low ranking Guards or Ukrainians & others from Eastern Nations overrun by the Nazis

[@wendeqallab6656]

Love your channel and your voice. Some of these are painful to watch but we should never forget.

[@seanleblancdualca]

Well said

[@westaussie965]

So you like bad pronunciation?

[@pacificdragon1]

One thing that both makes me sad and angry at the same time, is that there are people who claim this Crime against Humanity never happened or is exaggerated! This is exactly why Eisenhower wanted documentation of the atrocities. All it takes for Evil to take effect is for normal people to ignore or justify the Evil.

[@rickglorie]

The real nazi never denied it happened, only the apologists. They all pointed upwards for the blame though. Don't go up their soapy hill trying to argue with them, there isn't an argument, it happened.

[@romankacin8365]

So, basically a pencil pusher with something of a heart for the time, without the courage to stand up to the Nazi regime.

[@clarkhull7546]

One way to put it

[@humanimal4dub926]

That's genuinely what I got from this.

[@fouadmas5413]

Many of these survivors went to Palistine and persecuted the non Jewish population till this day

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

@@fouadmas5413 Palestinians were on the side of the Nazis

[@geoffbell166]

What do you think would happen to you if you were in the SS and you went against them?!

[@rocketman48]

great info,thanks from Bill in Ireland

[@MrTwotimess]

In another place and time Arthur Liebehenschel would hardly have called attention to himself. Nothing he did could have stopped the ruthless killing of prisoners. He was simply the cherry on top of the cake. But revenge was called for and he was on the wrong side of history.

[@nomadsteve5297]

I disagree, he was a cog in a very large wheel and even in society today he would receive the same punishment as any other camp commander

[@christleoliu2257]

He is Willingly has awful desire to torture and to kill just look at his face with an evileyes show on microexpression

[@horaciolabadie]

Eissenhowers comander camps made the same crimes. And worst.

[@rogersponge6153]

@@horaciolabadie You make an assertion. But provide no evidence.

[@horaciolabadie]

@@rogersponge6153 Bacque. Read the canadian. Read about "prisoner of War" (POW) and the Red Cross, and the new categorie "disarmed enemy forces" created by Eissenhower, that no wan under Red Cross inspection. During de IIWW the Red Cross visited german camps. In the post war, the Red Croos had no permision to visit allied camps. The german youth simply died. Without food, without baths, under the rain, under the snow. All who bring food to german prisoners was executed. This was the Patton desagree with Eissenhower. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Losses, 1.000.000 people evidence

[@thegunslinger1363]

You should do a video on Unit 731. Now that's the stuff of nightmares.

[@clarkhull7546]

That subject has been overlooked for decades now. Can't figure that out.

[@jerryroach7281]

Is it me but u never hear about war crimes about Japan Italy Russia.It always about the Nazis.Not condoning them

[@openmind500]

thanks!!! And yes that´s the stuff people should know. The perpetrator never were charged. US gave them immunity in exchange for the data they gathered with biological and chemical human experementation. Amongst others survivors of a B29 crew who bailed out over japan. They were killed in a hospital in Japan after vivisection...was a branch of Unit 731. 1949 the Sowjets charged and sentenced some members of unit 731 but US did nothing.

[@beccaboo3040]

I never heard of unit 731 until recently and I was very shocked with the shit that went down there. I can't believe they got away with that. More people should know.

[@BrasherFox]

@@openmind500 Mark Felton covers this on his vlogs.

[@julianjv7325]

Was not a vengeful execution, was justice.

[@achord9204]

My thoughts exactly

[@MilesBellas]

9:25 short drop = deliberately prolonged demise

[@stantory1822]

It was not justice.It was his job,nothing else.

[@ertjiesb4158]

Vengeance - punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong.. He has used the word correctly.

[@MilesBellas]

@@ertjiesb4158 Clickbait hyperbole.

[@carlosmontgomery1820]

Seems an interesting case in the sense that in his own mind he was making the camp better but you can't blame them for executing him due to the fact that even if you kill less people your still killing them. I would imagine it came down to the fact that he was willing to make improvements but he was unwilling to stop them.

[@jpturner171]

Another monster removed. 👍🏽 Thank you for your work on this so that we can share it and no one ever forgets what happened

[@lorenzbroll0101]

Blaming the ex-wife for becoming a mass murderer is a pretty weak excuse I would say.

[@beccaboo3040]

Brilliant footage. Thanks untoldpast 👍😀

[@pstrzel]

Always watch out for people and ideologies that invent phrases and meanings of words to mask their criminal intents. History is never kind to them.

[@wekapeka3493]

His daughter, Barbara Cherish, got a free ticket to the USA. She wrote a book explaining how her father improved conditions for prisoners. (He probably had carpet laid on the walkways to the crematoria)! The more of these people the USA let in the more they influenced the decay of their free society. It continues today.

[@oldgysgt]

Arthur didn't realize that if you lie down with dogs, you get fleas.

[@carausiuscaesar5672]

Many high up nazis went on to live satisfying enjoyable lives into comfortable old age because they were useful to the victorious allies whereas the low level privates and corporals were severely prosecuted.The feller shown has a mere three pips on his collar meaning he is a mere captain.

[@fragen999]

He was an untersturmfuhrer the lowest rank of an officer.

[@dianethompson8564]

He was still a monster no matter his rank.

[@zenodotusofathens2122]

My great uncle was kicked to death by a low ranking Nazi. What was your point again?

[@SGTDuckButter]

Adolf Eichmann was only a LT Col. but he was responsible for a lot of deaths, huh. Funny how you learn something new everyday, today I learned you’re not very smart…

[@zenodotusofathens2122]

@@SGTDuckButter Exactly. My great uncle was a US GI. He was captured at the Battle of the bulge. The SS came down to the POW camps for American and British prisoners. In my uncle's case it was Stalag 9B in Frankfurt. They were searching for Jewish servicemen. They found my uncle among others and sent him to a death camp called Berga. He was beaten to death by a low ranking Nazi. How do I know this story. It was kept secret from the American public for decades and the survivors of these atrocities had to sign secrecy agreements. All of this came out about 20 years ago and Roger Cohen wrote a book about it. It is called Soldiers and Slaves. Atrocities were committed by many people.

[@graememorris7820]

I don’t think his execution was “justifiable”. He was just a weak man out of his depth . It may be that many suffered and died whilst he was camp commandant , but the suffering would have been greater were he not .

[@cliffbird7983]

Wow so that makes all the difference he was just misunderstood

[@graememorris7820]

@@cliffbird7983 I don’t think vengeance achieves anything . This man and others like him may have proven of use to humanity in later decades . Maybe they could have helped us understand how normal people can be sucked into maelstroms such as Nazism. I’m inclined to believe that many who advocate executing such people, are actually proclaiming their own moral superiority over them - perhaps they fear that it might be easier to become such a criminal than we’d like to believe . Maybe they fear the demonic options that lie in their own hearts awaiting the man with the right keys to come .

[@BTScriviner]

He was a Nazi and oversaw a death camp. That's what justified his killing.

[@adamford7808]

@Travis Bickle if you were a German in the 1930s, the chances are you'd have been a good Nazi. It's easy to watch documentaries and picture yourself as some kind of Schindler, but the reality is very different.

[@heidimoesgaardlebechhansen9199]

Thanks so much. I have read the book his daughter has written about him and the family history. That book is very well written and very honest.

[@johanvandermeulen9696]

Heidi Moesgaars Lebech Hansen Sind Sie von Schleswig-Holstein oder von Danmark?

[@heidimoesgaardlebechhansen9199]

@@johanvandermeulen9696 I am from Danmark.

[@johanvandermeulen9696]

@@heidimoesgaardlebechhansen9199 Har du laeset bogen af datteren af Arthur Liebehänschel paa dansk eller paa tysk?

[@jaybee9269]

First Nazi I’ve felt slightly bad for. One of Jordan Peterson’s lectures goes like this: “You would have been a Nazi...” I won’t go on at length.

[@Avital4414]

Peterson certainly would have.

[@jaybee9269]

@@Avital4414 >> Oh? Why would you say that? A humanist psychology professor is the very opposite of a Nazi-he would have imprisoned or murdered under that regime since he’s not shy about his principles. Perhaps you should watch some of his lectures; they’re on YT. And I’d be genuinely interested in your considered opinion afterward.

[@klangerklanger8011]

Why name the video incorrectly? You actually recorded with Justified execution at about 10:40 into the video. Just curious?

[@krisushi1]

Honestly, I hadn't heard this man's name ever mentioned before but I am glad he received a fitting punishment. How could he be so blind as to carry on about how nice he was to those interred yet not lift a finger to stop this genocide in any way.

[@rightwingreactionary]

What would you have him do? Speak up and then join the inmates?

[@johanvandermeulen9696]

krisushi Liebehänschel, a beautiful name it means litterally: Liebe Hänslein, Dear little Hans.

[@bennyandersen742]

Alone he could not have done anything to stop the death machinery, it would be pure treason

[@johanvandermeulen9696]

@@bennyandersen742 Are you of Scandinavian origin? Er du dansker?

[@bennyandersen742]

@@johanvandermeulen9696 no, one of the other, have an educated guess 😁

[@jendagesse4524]

You can imagine the smell how bad it was

[@michaelwhisman7623]

It only takes 1 murder to be a murderer.

[@feltwedge]

I wonder how many here would have behaved much differently under similar circumstances.

[@brendanhiggins3442]

Millions sadly covid has shown that.

[@ATPMolloy1]

Am I the only one who finds the words in the titles a little strange - "Vengeful" - I notice in the audio it is changed to "Justified" - There are several others, all of whom seemed to have been edited to "Justified" so I assume that has been addressed in general.

[@davesmith7432]

Can you a video on Von Braun?

[@andrewvanorden2336]

Yes! All the videos I find of him skip over his Nazi past and praise his NASA work. I want to know what he personally did when he worked with the Nazis and if he personally did evil things.

[@letoubib21]

@@andrewvanorden2336 Do you happen to know the four simple words _"reading", "books"_ and _"by yourself"?_

[@andrewvanorden2336]

@@letoubib21 Id rather watch a video from one of my favorite creators instead so you can keep you little opinions to yourself okay buddy

[@moistmike4150]

Dear God. We are capable of so much evil against our fellow human beings. Only Jesus can save us from ourselves.

[@franklipsky3396]

Then why did'nt Jesus save us?

[@moistmike4150]

@@franklipsky3396 He does save us - You just have to accept his gift of salvation.

[@TheMetalMachineMusic]

What more could he have done, realistically ?

[@user-ci7fz5kp8e]

Not join the SS maybe? Not be a commandant of extermination camp?

[@TheMetalMachineMusic]

@@user-ci7fz5kp8e I think the assignment of his Auschwitz role was against his will but I agree, he joined the SS of his own volition.

[@moonshine588]

Gave up the names of people hiding other Nazis

[@robothunter1035]

What am I to do boss? Well, next week you will be fulfilling tasks important to the winning of the war. Cool. Sounds important. It is. It is.

[@harmcity9934]

i love these videos now do some on russian war crimes

[@godfreyberry1599]

Agreed, Russian atrocities during WW2 tend to get glossed over - the sheer scale and level of savagery practiced by the Russian / Bolsheviks against not only German POW's, civilians and their own was on a whole new level.

[@Scroticus_Maximus]

Or American war crimes. Albeit mostly committed after world war II.

[@nickbarsoum352]

@@godfreyberry1599 atrocities against Nazis? Sounds fine to me

[@andrewtanczyk4009]

@@nickbarsoum352 the Holodomor in the Ukraine 🇺🇦 by the Bolsheviks and who they were. Polish deportations, kaytne forrest massacre.

[@JakobSeidl]

@@nickbarsoum352 you don’t seem to know much about history. Most Soviet war crimes were against their own people and Poles.

[@carausiuscaesar5672]

As another commenter noted his rank is that of a mere second lieutenant a very junior officer rank.In films of the time i can see very senior SS generals laughing joking with the highest Nazi leadership and these fellers lived into very enjoyable comfortable old age while the far lower ranks were executed or did long hard time.

[@janehill9764]

that is not true. outside of rudolf hess, erich von dem bach zelewski and two einzatzgruppen officers, no nazi war criminal , regardless of rank,did more than five years jail...and many had their sentences commuted.

[@MrJesuspaco]

yes people

[@mckessa17]

What happened to colonel Klink and Sargent Shultx ?

[@achord9204]

U r right higher ups had higher connections in the Vatican - the worst history of hating and subjugating Jews. The papal lands decreed ghettos, yellow stars and banned Jews from basically public life. They stole jewish children if anyone could prove they were baptized, forbid Jews from working outside ghetto walls, refused them education and tracing and forced them into occupations the church felt was dirty. The church hat a rat line that helped lots of nazis escape to catholic countries in south america

[@achord9204]

@@mckessa17 in your dreams says someone whose father was in at least 5 concentration camps and it’s not funny to make light of the murdering these haters did

[@SKF358]

No pics?

[@andrewvanorden2336]

What was he supposed to do to stop the killing? I'm just curious.

[@grouchyoldman5348]

Made a choice to be a part of the atrocity

[@maxicornejo9675]

@@grouchyoldman5348 he was appointed

[@peace-now]

Turn down the assignment. Do another job like running a stores department. Transfer out of the SS into the normal Army. It may mean a demotion and a less important job. It is the same as civvy life - get a job that doesn't hurt other people and is not dangerous.

[@grouchyoldman5348]

@@maxicornejo9675 still choose to be a part of it

[@thegreat_I_am]

Nothing Arthur could’ve done would’ve prevented the killings, but he could have summoned the courage to refuse to be a part of it. He would probably have been sent to fight on the Eastern front and most likely have been killed there. He knew the murders were wrong, but hadn’t the guts not to go along with it. He deserved to be hanged, but maybe deserves a little understanding too.

[@fragen999]

Sad what happened to your uncle.My point was that the rank patch that was shown was not that of a captain,but of the lowest ranking officer.assuming one can call such killers officers.

[@aDLEuF]

My Neibor had this name, Liebehenschel. I guess it was his son. Architect. He had still the leather Jacket of his father. Its a small and lonely world.

[@6omega2]

What is that @ 2:00? The Nazi SS High School Yearbook or something? LOL!

[@ja19ke82]

If it's justifiable, why is it vengeful?

[@charliebowen5071]

So vengeance can’t be justified?

[@shlomomark2275]

The name Majdanek is pronounced Maydanek

[@ak203]

Thye should have armed the surviving prisoners and let each one kills a guard, personally.

[@TamesideCitizen]

You're a sick psychopath.

[@tugglemiles2991]

Yes Nazi was

[@nickybritain4900]

No, the guards death would have been too quick and easy, no elongated suffering. Better to lock them up without food for a month or two, at least until they all died, 8 or 10 to a cell, but with plenty of water. Maybe add in the incessant replaying of the Nazi national anthem.

[@nickybritain4900]

@@TamesideCitizen How can you say that? What retribution would you suggest knowing this guy murdered countless anonymous people, children included. A bullet to the head is instantaneous death, no pain and suffering. Not good enough.

[@adamford7808]

Do you think they'd have wanted to? I think they may have seen enough death and had enough of a burden to bear.

[@thateffinguy2422]

Do an episode on some of the Mossad raids after episode 2, thatd be a great video or video series!

[@bbsaid218]

👍😎

[@t900badbot]

The Russians were shocked..... But also took notes.

[@chrisleach8009]

So did the Israelis as we can see in Gaza today

[@siriusjean-marie8032]

Les russes ont massacrés tous les officiers Polonais prisonniers dans la foret de Katin !

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

Nazis learned everything inhumane from the USA. Eugenics, Lebensraum, Camps, etc. Everything the Nazis did the Americans did to the blacks and natives. Hitler learned how to be evil from America

[@teresawoods7476]

And im not. Ashamed gor stating this

[@gerhardfleischer441]

good documentation, but very boring, dull and monotonuous voice of the narrator.

[@stacybry29]

He could not have done anything to stop the killing unfortunately.

[@MichaKulczyckiPL]

FYI Regarding "Posen is now Poznań in Poland": it always has been, except for a "brief" episode called partitions of Poland. It was never really German, like e.g. Wrocław (Breslau).

[@Saucyakld]

Painful to watch, hope it never happens again!

[@DonBair]

At 5:52, there is a wild bushy black-haired prisoner. You see him all the time in videos; who is he? I think he was liberated.

[@johnnyhollis9977]

Yeah he looks a bit scary! I expect he was pretty much at the end of his tether and close to a breakdown by the look of him. Poor guy I hope he enjoyed some life after his release from hell.

[@DonBair]

@@johnnyhollis9977 Cool, so I'm not the only person that sees this guy all the time. Someone knows his story.

[@thegreat_I_am]

In any other world Arthur Liebehenschel would’ve been a dutiful middle manager who would’ve turned up for work on time, did the best he could without being exceptional and retired to a quiet life of golf and gardening. I read the book by his daughter Barbara Cherish. Barbara never knew him and could only really base her feelings about him on the surviving photographs which show a sensitive and weak looking guy, who looks like he wouldn’t kill a fly. Arthur deserves to be better known as he’s an example of how ordinary and, dare I say it, nice people can get involved in the most evil things.

[@--Skip--]

Thank G-d my family left Germany (Munich) in the 1800's too!!!

[@A-Grammie-On-the-ROCK]

Look at his cruel eyes

[@adamlunn3071]

Appearance justifies execution? You must be a white American.

[@xzs6ba0]

Stop trying to "Dramatise" the headings... you make it look like "Clickbait"...!!!! Please

[@devanrose4717]

Just subscribed, check new videos and there's a brand new one. Perfect

[@LRBerry]

This is a fascinating and informative channel I've been subscribed to for quite a while. Definitely, the kind of thing I could have done with when I was at school had the internet existed then.

[@lindaarrington9397]

Welcome

[@beccaboo3040]

Welcome to the gang dude. Lee Berry is right this channel's very informative and interesting with out boring you to death.

[@markusd.7409]

Why is this vengeful?

[@Oseiwe]

From the narration, my humble opinion is that his execution was not justified: he was a victim of circumstance. Let the stupid world of dumb people never allow situations like this to ever occur again, where a man is expected to do this kind of job as a matter of course. I know how it feels to be trapped from both sides; you can't win. I'm happy I didn't have to live in that time period at that place. Sad

[@caractacusbrittania7442]

He rose to be deputy inspector of camps... In the ss you did not get to that position by being a victim of circumstance. His attitude only changed when he, Like the others, realised the war was lost, and a reckoning was coming.

[@Bumper776]

It would appear that he was trying to make the best of a bad situation. He apparently saved a few prisoner's lives and made an effort to stop future senseless killings, but what else could he do? Had he gotten much more lenient and he might have been transferred and a much more ruthless and cruel commander been assigned. I think on the final tally, he saved lived and did nothing to promote the further taking of lives so in my opinion, his life should have been spared.

[@n-steam]

Your outro needs a little fix, I keep getting deja vu

[@hmfem3656]

The narrative is too fast making it too hard to follow specially with the strange accent of the narrator.

[@kroxxy123]

What was that guy doing in the beginning? He's spraying smoke on him?

[@noon9856]

Disinfactent

[@tkitty4ever]

Killing lice

[@mikepare1967]

DDT i think

[@lindaarrington9397]

Delousing

[@johnludmon7419]

DDT delousing and preventing typhus.

[@steveembree4411]

The problem with Mr. Felton's video's is that he shows the same footage again and again.

[@dehoedisc7247]

Imagine being the bastard who kicked the stool from under a stranger and wondering when another bastard may someday do the Same for You!

[@101mossie]

Just here for the “vengeful” comments 😂 🍿🍿🍿🍿

[@davids9192]

Interesting channel but the phrasing of the commentary could do with some development.

[@robbob19871]

What could be your defense it u stood by and watched everything happen..

[@BlackTar100]

Jesus christ, how many commandant's were at this camp? I never even heard of this guy.

[@adamkownacki8704]

And me! The worst thing is that he was born in Posen( Poznań) and I am sure that he spoke in Polish language and he knew a lot of Poles before war. Horrible!!! Many of Nazi German SS oficera had Polish surnames Unfortunetly....

[@barrylyndon80]

Three, Höss, Liebehenschel and then Bär

[@barrylyndon80]

The only thing I have heard from him was...he must have been popular amongst staff and inmates....and this sounds so sarcastic and absurd to me regarding being in charge for mass murder

[@BlackTar100]

@@barrylyndon80 Yeah, I have heard of Höss and Bär. This camp had over 4000 employees if I remember right. It was crazy big.

[@barrylyndon80]

@@BlackTar100 And nearly over four years it was a extermination facility where innocent people included children were killed like on a conveyor belt. And most of the staff got used to their sick and perverted jobs.

[@bigbigmurphy]

Unit 731, USS Liberty, USS Pueblo, 2001 Hainan Island Incident.

[@letoubib21]

Why that whataboutery?

[@robertmoser3415]

This is a comment to the creators of the - Untold Past, you stated with some videos by using the word - JUSTIFIED - you must continue this and get rid of the word - VENGEFUL

[@hugo2242]

How about making a series of the unjustifiable executions

[@caractacusbrittania7442]

Unjustifiable....? Which ones.....?

[@hugo2242]

@@caractacusbrittania7442 it would be interesting to see

[@VAMPYBITES]

HOLDING MY TONGUE!!!😋😜

[@octo333]

Keep holding it

[@potatofry1237]

Did they ever get the person or know the person or person who tattooed the numbers

[@audreyharalambos2592]

there is a book published about the guy who was ordered to do the tattooing, he met his wife there when she was tattooed by him i am trying to remember the writers name i will post it when i find the book somewhere amongst all my other books lol x

[@potatofry1237]

@@audreyharalambos2592 wow sounds good did he get in any trouble after the war

[@smitthone]

'he dod nothingto stop,,,,' : could he?

[@ertjiesb4158]

Vengeance - punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong.. He has used the word correctly.

[@moiseiuritskythebutcherofp8469]

In a closed meeting of I sra'eli journalists and diplo'mats, a speaker for the I sra'eli embassy in Germany declared that it was in the best interest of I s'rael to maintain h o lo caust s ensitivity among Germans...As Haa'retz further reported, "The speaker said in clear words that Is rael had an interest in maintaining German f eelings of g uilt. "(Te'll the Tru th and `Sha me the `De'vil by `Ger'ard `Men'uhin, p.43)

[@dianelevesque137]

Yes my god after all they done during the war It was only justice

[@cassiecraft8856]

At least he tried to make a difference. I’m not condoning what wrong he did, and he got what he deserved for being SS, but he was probably the least SS of the SS. I wonder how he even got mixed up with those dogs.

[@gordonis_Artimus]

How many different leads ran Auschwitz ? Was it Hoess? Or the guy in Schindler's list? Or the guy who's the subject of this video? I see so many different "commandant of Auschwitz" mentioned in different reference material. I'm having a WTF moment.

[@moiseiuritskythebutcherofp8469]

Te'll the Tru th and Sha me the `De vil by `Ger'ard `Men'uhin, pp.seventeen thru nineteen. There's a p d f

[@davebarrowcliffe1289]

He had to be done away with... Why keep him alive to give his side of the story and destroy the Soviet narrative?

[@ronalddavis]

sot hey disinfected them with ddt

[@ronalddavis]

they

[@WillyEckaslike]

and the germans were using Zy c10n Bee...this was turned into att ross city pg at the end of the war...the winners write the historrreee bks

[@samdigiorgio4412]

You better believe it was Vengefull !!!!

[@geoffhorgan6822]

How could these people do such terrible things were they psychos of sick people

[@halibut1249]

Once somebody became an SS operative in the Nazi camps it was probably difficult to withdraw. I don't know how the Nazi's would view that. It might have been better to feign incompetence and get transferred out, away from the killing. That tall blonde German camp guard, I forget her name, remarked at her trial that she was afraid not to do her job, lest the Nazi's make her an inmate. That kind of intimidation was prob common. Many, many Nazi's of high rank were released after the war. The more time that passed, the more likely their prison sentences, if they were serving one, would be commuted down to nothing.

[@Daniel-kq4bx]

The Argumentation at the end is super weird. Im not trying to defend him but the first part "He was a nazi [...]" as a justification for the death penalty just is such a meaningless and weak point, except on an emotional level. It puts dirt on the directly following and actually sound argumentation that he ruled over it and by that put guilt over himself. Also id pose the bold question whether if he could have achieved much more leniency than he did. In the end you said he was transferred because of being deemed too lenient. Isn't it then weird to argue against him that he didn't do more?

[@joeyconservative]

Nazi war criminals sure knew how to swing

[@fandangofandango2022]

Disgusting.

[@WillyEckaslike]

so he gave amnesty to prisoners destined to be executed for crimes...removal of standing cells (arrest cells not torture cells)..also removed the wall where executions took place and negotiatd with resistance inside the camp....why would organised resistance groups in the camp be interested in negotiation if 1000s were being gazzed every day....u see when u take a close look at the tale u see it for what it is

[@jeffgilligan2004]

Not the worst.

[@jve89]

Just to let you know. I was subscribed to your channel and I had to subscribe again 🤔 So you're losing subscribers I think 🤔

[@markeddowes1467]

‘Poorly heart’!!!!!! are you 💩me?

[@randymillhouse791]

Why do I keep thinking about the band The Sex Pistols...?

[@statinskill]

Arthur is not pronounced with 'th'. A better approximation of the pronounciation would be the English words are-tour. Some words in German are spelled with th. Often loan words from Greek such as Thron, Theorie, Mathematik or sometimes in regional names like Thüringen. You simply ignore the h, it is silent.

[@franklipsky3396]

and why is grammar more important than the facts?: Scheistkopf?

[@statinskill]

@@franklipsky3396 Because it was more than 75 years ago that this supposedly happened. And because it's hard to give a shit about these sorts of people. Finally, you don't seem to know what you are talking about. Grammar? You are not even anywhere near German grammar when you're merely being asked to not make a fool out of yourself by pronouncing normal everyday words and names like some uneducated Anglo-Saxon proletarian.

[@bobbybates2614]

And all these war criminals would say I was just following orders

[@siriusjean-marie8032]

Ceux qui ont lancés des bombes atomique sur le japon disent ça aussi !

[@letoubib21]

@@siriusjean-marie8032 Quoi ?

[@rosskelly8045]

I wouldn't like to be him

[@ramospk]

Why do you narrate like that??!n It's so super annoying

[@howboutyomama]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@madcat789]

So thats how you pronounce his last name?

[@ZentaBon]

👀

[@Daniel-kq4bx]

Your videos are good but idk, something about your intonation is so off putting. Idk if its a dialect but the fact you raise your voice at the end of every few sentences before a break is kinda weird