Who Started the SS and How Did They Rise from a Handful of Men to Such Extreme Power?

[@OuterGalaxyLounge]

But more importantly, how did one man rise to host all the channels on KZbin?

[@Sandy.J.Lloyd.Sr.]

Who knows what evil lurks in the underbelly of the KZbin algorithm.

[@Eliphas_Leary]

Outer Galaxy Lounge and I, same page!

[@minnumseerrund]

"But they were all of them deceived, for another channel was made."

[@cleverusername9369]

"All that is needed for the triumph of Simon is the inaction of good men"

[@ElTejon47901]

1st, become Police Chief of Prussia.

[@SlightlyShoobie]

I can't believe Shrek helped Hitler. That has to be the biggest plot twist of all time

[@blakegoulds8313]

The traditional German conservative clothes, dislike for mouthy donkeys with minority voices.......it was all there.

[@faeembrugh]

The thing is, if you read about how many of the SS viewed themselves (at least in the pre-war period) it was as idealists, saviours of European culture, crusaders against barbarity, and as one SS general described them, the 'sons of light'.

[@Clonetrooper1139]

Sounds like how the Ku Klux Klan viewed themselves here in the US.

[@kassassin_brahgawk]

That's what the proud boys think too.

[@dannyhima]

@@kassassin_brahgawk so brave

[@kassassin_brahgawk]

@@dannyhima by asserting a fact? I'm confused why you're trying to be edgy. Do you have kinship with them?

[@crammons7330]

​@@kassassin_brahgawkwhat are the proud boys? I'm an American born and raised and have heard this phrase mentioned in name calling online but don't know what they are, and never heard of or met anyone that's ever heard of or met anyone that identifies as a proud boy so I'm curious if it's a group of people it must consist of 3?

[@ComaDave]

“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” - Mark Twain (attributed).

[@projectw.a.a.p.f.t.a.d7762]

Fact! We're watching a form of Fascism trying to take hold and it's known as wokeness/Globalist socio-fascism. It exists within the left/Democrat Party.

[@angeloluna529]

that quote by twain makes more sense than the "history repeats itself" quote. that quote should be used more often than the latter.

[@jayfrank1913]

"Exaggerated masculinity" rhymes with many of the alt-right creators here on KZbin.

[@Darth-Claw-Killflex]

Twain was a blatant racist but, who am I to dictate YOUR idols? You do you.

[@ComaDave]

@@Darth-Claw-Killflex "Twain was a blatant racist but, who am I to dictate YOUR idols? You do you." I just quoted you. Does this make you my idol? Take a guess.

[@Bubbaist]

I met an WWII vet who was among the British shock troops. He saw the bodies of the German soldiers he had killed, many of which had the SS logo on their uniforms. He also entered the concentration camps. He said that he had all kinds of PTSD, but he never lost an hour’s sleep over the SS he killed.

[@gomahklawm4446]

Glad to hear that. They were scum of the highest order.

[@LargeInCharge77]

Shrek was a good movie tho

[@rizzllerr]

​@@LargeInCharge77true, wery true

[@Chosen_Ash]

@@gomahklawm4446ong almost as bad as soviets

[@maxxdahl6062]

An uncle of mine was a bomber pilot bombing the shit out of Germany, stationed in the UK.

[@kepanoid]

"I went throuhg my late grandfather's stuff. Based on the arm band I found, it's obvioud he was an electrician during the war."

[@helenachase5627]

Wow, sorry to hear. I like your delivery though

[@JeremyP-k3n]

😂 was he lol

[@jpmanning2966]

My great grandfather was also an electrician during the war.

[@David-nx2vm]

I had no idea Shrek had such a checkered past. Until this video I knew him only as the beloved cartoon ogre.

[@hornypanda9545]

Your comment made me think that the actual Shrek movie has some sort of connection to the Nazi party . Lol troll

[@AlwaysBolttheBird]

He’s got layers…………..like an onion

[@palmercolson7037]

I always thought that Shrek was named after Max Schrek. His most famous role was as the vampire in the movie Nosferatu in 1922.

[@caleblarsen5490]

@@AlwaysBolttheBird nah man, more like a parfait.

[@TheMastadon1]

Probably why he doesn't want anyone in his swamp, he is afraid of being recognized and caught.

[@KimdraStBiryukova]

My Opa fought in WWII for the Germans. He applied for the SS and was accepted, but he quickly dropped out of training due to the SS being made up of psychopaths (I'm paraphrasing a bit, but the meaning is the same). My Opa had a very bad opinion of the SS and thought they were the absolute worst of the worst.

[@rabidrabbits9258]

may i ask what year he went to training? just curious if late war or not :) they got desperate as hell toward the end of the war

[@serwombles8816]

He probably didn't meet real ss men

[@TanisHalf-Elven]

I call BS. Nobody walked away from the SS and lived to tell about it. To walk away was treason and you are a liar.

[@briancrawford8751]

@@serwombles8816 No true Scotsman, huh? That's pretty lazy.

[@shanebrimble7246]

@@serwombles8816 my grandad met real ss men, he shot them in the head…..

[@glenngriffon8032]

It's honestly absurd how they designed their uniforms as if to say "Of course we're the bad guys. Duh!"

[@richardgilliland7869]

That being said

[@richardgilliland7869]

They were lapdogs. They served their purposes.

[@3goats1coat]

Bet you wear your pants by your knees with a t-shirt 5 sizes over

[@ismarwinkelman5648]

That moment when PRIDE evolves into SHAMELESSNESS 🤓

[@ajaxx9492]

Are we the baddies? But why skulls?

[@adamloadsman2133]

Loved the Mitchell & Webb quote right out of the gate. Such a good sketch.

[@Ostyak_01]

My grandfather fought from Normandy to Aachen, where he was severely wounded. He said he took no pleasure in fighting conscripted Germans, but he did especially enjoy fighting SS soldiers. He carried a BAR, so I’d like to think he took quite a toll, though he never talked about anything like that with us. He always lamented that the 30th Infantry didn’t get the recognition they deserved for breaking the deadlock in the hedgerows of Normandy or holding Mortain while severely outnumbered and outgunned. ✝️ Sgt. Robert C. Peterson (K Company, 120th IR, 30th ID)

[@gaston4269]

Considering your grandfather was 100% a massive racist and held the same views as the nazis, not to mention would have absolutely zero idea what the SS even was this is complete bullshit.

[@MaxAttacks16]

I have watched many yt specials on WWII and the German/Nazi party than most I would assume but this video is probably the best I have ever seen with explaining not only the ss but the “early days” of the party and it’s transformations into what most people that are interested in WWII and more specifically the German side of things , start out studying generally stay in the war years 1939-1944 and don’t care to learn more before or after that. Bravo, very good in detail and going beyond just the popular & already well known events in this part of history.

[@sandhilltucker]

Prison intake: "one wallet, one license, one SSN card." Mr Burns: "that's an S.S membership card you dumbkopf"

[@13minutestomidnight]

Ideological indoctrination and normalisation of violence are necessary parts of such extremist groups, but few have really perfected the entire sick process like the SS. You can see very similar group-building around the world in the last few decades too; bonding a group of people within an authoritarian ideological framework that justifies horrific acts such as mass-murder, terrorism and/or rape, with immense peer pressure for every group member to contribute to these activities. They can develop across a wide variation of cultures and religions, but they maintain the same commonalities and tendencies for oppression, violence, and wiping out undesirables, whether they are extremist Muslim military groups in the Middle East or extremist Christian militia groups in America (like the KKK). Although in truth, any actual religious focus is just a mutated component of their core ideology, and will always involve twisting scripture to suit their ideals - sometimes in completely ridiculous ways that contradict the actual religion.

[@darkgalaxy5548]

Antifa fits in perfectly.

[@JohanHultin]

@@darkgalaxy5548 antifacists? You don't even know what antifa is lmao. Looking at the most violent western country is like looking towards a mirror of history right now. This is the path the US is on. I promise. But please, tell me why facism is good, since you have to think so since you're clearly not anti-facism.

[@Salvothegamer]

@@darkgalaxy5548 nice bait.

[@usonumabeach300]

Don't forget communism

[@markjoseph5733]

Israel

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

Additional Waffen-SS units were added from the Ukrainians, Albanians from Kosovo, Serbians, Croatians, Turkic, Caucasians, Cossack, and Tatars. The Ukrainians and Tatars, who had suffered persecution under Stalin, were likely motivated primarily by opposition to the Soviet government rather than ideological agreement with the SS. The Indian Legion was a Wehrmacht unit formed in August 1942 chiefly from disaffected Indian soldiers of the British Indian Army captured in the North African Campaign.

[@poprocket2342]

Good point. Fascists know that their beliefs are too extreme to gain widespread support without indoctrination and fear. So instead they find allies by positioning themselves as the opposition to an existing or perceived threat (capitalism, Stalinism, LGBT people)

[@MothaLuva]

I don’t agree with “Serbs” and “Croats”. There were 220 Serbs total, mostly ethnic Germans or at least German origin, but not in a separate unit, they were in the 7. SS Gebirgs Division “Prinz Eugen”. Croats had their own units as part of the NDH. What is sometimes wrongly perceived, though the 13. SS Gebirgs Division “Handschar” wore the croat “Šahovnica” (red white chequerboard) arm shield on the left upper sleeve (below the arm eagle), those people were not Croats. Those were ethnic Bosnian Muslims (Croats were mainly Roman Catholic) but since there was no Bosnia (and Herzegovina) back then, they wore Croat insignia and were also, somewhat misleadingly, referred to as “Kroatische Nr. 1”. Also, as far as I know the Cossacks in the German Army were all part of the Wehrmacht (the so called Wlassow Kosaken). I don’t know of any Cossacks in the SS. There was only one cavalry division in the SS, the 8. SS Kavallerie Division “Florian Geyer” (commanded by Hermann Fegelein…). It’s not impossible that there might have been single Cossacks there, but I doubt it. If you know more I’d love to see pics of confirmed Cossacks wearing SS uniform.

[@keithwalmsley1830]

Quite right, did you also know that there was a Britische Freikorps, recruited from disgruntled POW's etc, they were never many in number but have seen photographs of SS soldiers bearing the Union Jack on their shoulders.

[@julianwaugh8221]

Yeah good point the Finns weren't Nazis although they had a swasiika on their flag . It was the cruelty and terror of living under Russian rule be it the tsar or Stalin.

[@Louis_Davout]

​@@MothaLuva Thanks for the info...

[@charlesswan5423]

Armed with a no nonsense attitude and... Guns! Had me in stitches 🤣

[@pinkace]

4:02 please continue to perform such accurate & vivid reenactments in future videos. Thank you.

[@anakamarvelous]

“Presumably it was in slow motion while he screamed NEIGN!”😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Simon is freakin silly

[@chiguy750]

Nein not Neign

[@Gandalf00UK]

My all time favourite line from a Simon Whistler video… “You may be shooting unarmed prisoners in the back but come dinner time you’d better use the right fork for the salad”! The very British deadpan delivery just made me spray tea all over my monitor! 😂

[@nicholasmargagliano1833]

Pretty sure Britain was decimated by the Germans

[@route2070]

I was expecting 3 or 4 writers of this script. Nope, just one, great job Arnaldo!

[@arnaldoteodorani277]

Thank you, much appreciated! I did not enjoy the subject matter, but researching and writing about it was a fascinating process (even if it took forever … )

[@prettyandsick]

​@@arnaldoteodorani277 your work is always appreciated!

[@KytexEdits]

@@arnaldoteodorani277 Are you OK Arnold? It's a horrible fate to be locked into a basement and be forced to write such detailed, well researched and written scripts. Blink twice if you're not being treated well.

[@arnaldoteodorani277]

@@KytexEdits I can’t complain … although I am starting to fear the competition of all those monkey that Simon has handcuffed to typewriters …

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

I never expected how tough Simon is for talking in almost an hour

[@VinnyUnion]

i want to pat that bald head and tell Simon he did well.

[@janiceduke1205]

By the third quarter of 1932, the all-black SS uniform (to replace the SA brown shirts) was designed by SS-Oberführer Prof. Karl Diebitsch and Walter Heck (graphic designer) Hugo Boss company produced these black uniforms along with the brown SA shirts and the black-and-brown uniforms of the Hitler Youth.

[@damintten]

Yelp glad someone said it, also they where given money from many of the top capitalism in German and America hence why they where so well supplied and funded.

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

Just coz you're a racist dick doesn't mean you can't look _fabulous!_

[@tturi2]

IBM also helped organise the Jewish imprisonment

[@MichaelArlt]

Yeah and BMW and Daimler build Motors for War vehicles. A lot of companies made money and had benefits of the war and still do everywhere in the world. Nothing new

[@mpersad]

About the best summary of the rise, conduct and organisation of the SS that I have watched. Excellent research, production and presentation.

[@fusola9612]

I, as a native German (and having a great grand father with some very bad live choices, to phrase it mondainly) would like to call out that the pronounciation is "Shoots Staffel" (for English speakers) i.e. in German "Schutz Staffel" wich is vaguely translated into "security squadron", "protection unit" or something similar. You will also find sources that refer to them as "Saal Schutz" wich means something like "hall guardiance". Just wanted to clearify that 😅😉 it just does not feel right to pronounce their name wrong or in a ridiculous sounding way for the horrible crimes they commited 🙁

[@thomaslienert4225]

So you heard "Stutzstaffel" as well, which would be the Bonsai version

[@bbruggma]

No shade to you or Simon, but Simon is notoriously bad with pronunciations. He does his best, but he absolutely butchers words in every language he attempts. XD

[@GiulioRicciardi]

Good for you. Bet you’re killer in the sack!

[@dannybird4996]

Not all SS committed war crimes

[@fusola9612]

The SS was and is a war crime therefor automatically they commited ALL the war crimes@@dannybird4996

[@the-chillian]

Ironically, the Buddha probably _was_ of Aryan ancestry -- Indo-Aryan, that is, speakers of Indo-European languages who migrated into the Indian subcontinent from around 1800 BC. It should go without saying that the Nordic peoples whom the Nazis liked to call Aryan were in fact nothing of the sort.

[@grapeshot]

Yes my grandfather fought in World War 2 and he said no mercy was shown to the SS. Especially after they heard about or saw their atrocities.

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

Can't blame em

[@ravanpee1325]

​@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 Every foreign soldier was automatically drafted to the Waffen-SS and not to the Wehrmacht. So you had many soldiers who weren't Germans or even volunteers. So your black-white Attitude might be wrong. Also the Wehrmacht had units which did horrible things

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

@@ravanpee1325 I'm talking about us soldiers

[@hansgruber650]

@@ravanpee1325 Allied committed much atrocities including their Russian partner, how can the righteous US partner with a criminal faction like them? Think about it.

[@ravanpee1325]

@@hansgruber650 The US commited war crimes themselves e.g. Nagasaki

[@blockade4961]

Yes most of these men were evil but no one cannot deny the fact that they had some of the nicest uniforms and looks in history.

[@meatman585]

Mad jack was cooler, stay mad

[@blockade4961]

​@@meatman585 why would I be mad lol? I gave my opinion and you gave yours. I respect your view and in return, you should grow up.

[@meatman585]

@blockade4961 cool, but mad jack is better. Cope all you want, but that's how mafia works, lmao

[@3fingerfarm73]

Ah Simon and the writers simply throwing facts out. Making my days informative and entertaining. ❤

[@lemaygaming6952]

Facts like?

[@lemaygaming6952]

@@nickfrito The burden of proof lies with the claimant.

[@gomahklawm4446]

@Lemay Gaming Spotted the nah-tzee supporter. There's at least one in every comment section.

[@DemocracyOfficer2485]

@@lemaygaming6952well you are claiming the video is untrue. So the burden of proof lies with you.

[@lemaygaming6952]

@@DemocracyOfficer2485 The op said they were throwing facts out. I thought they meant they were throwing them away, lol.

[@finitewehosh6542]

TiFo: Let's make an educational video about the rise of Nazism! KZbin: lol, demonetized. TiFo: But it's educational and readily discussed in primary schools? KZbin: lol, video restricted.

[@hughgordon6435]

And ,here in a comedy comment is you tub3s whole publishing ethic?

[@Loralanthalas]

Missed it, since we're here.

[@cotati76]

I used to go to Germany for work and I noticed buildings that had huge divots blasted out of them. After seeing several instances of this I asked my German coworker why that was. He said those buildings were from WWII and the giant gouges in the concrete were where swastikas used to be. They figured the buildings were still good so they blasted the swastikas off of them and continued to used them.

[@katherinetutschek4757]

So much of Germany had to be rebuilt after the war that if a building wasn't wrecked, it was probably logical to keep it. I've heard that a lot of church bells in Germany still have swastikas on them because it is too expensive to replace them.

[@jimdaniel5566]

There's a hilarious side by side photo somewhere out there of a building with the nazi emblem next to a current photo of the same building with the emblem removed and a burger King sign out front. Caption was "Here's your thousand year Reich "

[@cotati76]

@@jimdaniel5566 Germany is a trip. I would go to these small villages sometimes and was probably one of the first Americans they old timers had seen since the war and they let me know by the look on their faces. On the other hand most of the people were super friendly and were a pleasure to be around. The kids were crazy smart and by ten yearly old were already speaking English and Italian or French. It’s expected that they’ll learn an additional language or two but definitely English. I highly recommend people go there. It’s beautiful.

[@cotati76]

@@jimdaniel5566 oh wow I just found the pics you are talking about. Yeah that’s how it is. It’s a trip.

[@AmethystEyes]

@@cotati76do you think they still have a prejudice against Jews? I want to visit but I’m still afraid. 😢

[@amdreallyfast]

Impressive, Simon. This was a big one.

[@l1z4rdon7]

This puts the Twilight Zone episode “Deaths-Head Revisited” in a new perspective for me. The episode’s concept of a purely evil SS officer visiting Dachau after the war to soak in his power, only then to be judged with crimes against humanity by the spirits of his victims who died in his camp with his punishment being insanity, sinks in more with additional historical context. Also to be honest, multiple high ranking SS officers ending up being homosexuals sounds more like yaoi fan fiction than reality. I’m really surprised lol. Life is strange after all it seems.

[@bman6065]

It's not surprising at all. Many die hard homophobes are indeed homosexual. It's very common in the churches.

[@antondovydaitis2261]

Proud Boys, anyone?

[@mikebrase5161]

You are thinking of the SA the SS didn't have Homos. The Commander of the Das Reich tank Regiment killed himself after being accused of being a Homo in Russia.

[@Matt-mg6nu]

u.😊

[@Matt-mg6nu]

😅😅🎉😊🎉🎉

[@Melissa0774]

25:10 - The part where he's talking about how the Nazis would outdrink each other - makes me wonder how many of them developed lifelong alcoholism or drug addictions because of what they did.

[@dark2023-1lovesoni]

Plenty of them developed serious drug habits. They issued methamphetamine regularly to troops. Hitler even got daily injections of it. They also invented most "modern" opioids (oxy/hydro-codone and oxy/hydromorphone). Herman Goring was carrying over 20,000 tablets of dihydrocodeine (an opioid) in a suitcase when captured, according to his own testimony he took 40 tablets a day to "stave off morphine withdrawal". There's a book called 'Blitzed' on the topic of rampant drug abuse by Nazi party officers and the ridiculous over prescribing of mind-altering drugs to their troops.

[@damintten]

You do understand how the famous blitzkrieg was accomplished, well meth, meth, o and more meth to all members of the Nazis.

[@st.ricardomilos5117]

Arnold Schwazeneggar's father was such a person

[@Strider91]

Couldn't happen to nicer s**theads

[@mejuliie]

A lot of them did. The Nazis were famous for "doping" their troops. Methamphetamine, for example, was often given to troops on the front lines, especially to pilots. Not that Germany was the only country to do so - drugs and war have gone hand-in-hand for a very long time. It is very easy to fall into addiction when experiencing the horrors of war. People just want to feel numb. And it's especially easy if the drugs are provided by the government - whether it be cannabis, amphetamines, opiates, tobacco, or alcohol.

[@takingbacktheplanet]

of course i am far from knowing the whole history, but... great overview i think and good refresher of many details that are important to remember if you want to recognize and make sense of this part of our recent, documented human history. i remember watching a documentary about the "Monasteries" and manhunt for Nazi veterans who were in refuge elsewhere, including Klaus Barbi. it was a nice detail to add to the episode, I think.

[@r.kai.v11]

I watch CC, Brain Blaze, and Into the Shadows as well, Simon is an incredible human, we appreciate your work very much!

[@andrewbledsoe131]

Thank you for making me aware of two new channels of his. God damn this dude is a straight up savage with how many shows he hosts on YT

[@badluck5647]

Simon is using cloning technology to make endless KZbin channels

[@Dan19870]

@@badluck5647 Rumor is Simon is setting up a new cloning laboratory in the basement of the house he's renovating. Let's hope he also clones an Arnaldo, a Danny, a Kevin and maybe a Sam.

[@sandybarnes887]

Good thing he has 10 other channels. Check out the video description

[@badluck5647]

@@sandybarnes887 Simon probably came out with a new channel in the time it took you to write your comment

[@egregastandindus1193]

I have a test on this subject tomorrow, so this was a welcome surprise to help with studying.

[@projectw.a.a.p.f.t.a.d7762]

Check out Globalist socio-fascism because it's extremely relevant today. See how it perfectly aligns with wokeness.

[@michaelgarcia5689]

Try to find out why the Jews were so hated. Research the bolshevics.

[@glennllewellyn7369]

How did you go?

[@grejen711]

Halfway through this I'm thinking... Holy Hera what a convoluted cluster of ... Sheesh! What people will do and risk for power. And also... never ever take it as a good sign when your boss tells you to have a quick vacation.

[@Hillbilly001]

Ain't that the truth!

[@spadej791]

Dancing in slow motion in front of the bullets. I feel like Brain Blaze is slowly creeping into all the other channels and it's beautiful.

[@LonelyRanger902]

Tens of thousands of volunteers came forward from every country The Nazis occupied, mostly enthusiastic about fighting communism. They couldn’t be taken into the German army, so the SS formed divisions to incorporate all these people, who fought most successfully I might add. What I found surprising about the Jewish persecution, was the fact that when you watch footage taken in every eastern European nation before the war started, the persecution of Jews by the citizenry is rampant and extremely harsh. This was a situation that was festering in Europe for very many decades prior to world war two

[@legoqueen2445]

Many centuries. What's worse is even after WW2 Jews who survived the Holocaust and returned to their homes faced even more anti-Semitism.

[@tubeguy4066]

Damn. One would wonder why that is ALWAYS the case.

[@kjejon1]

I really enjoyed Simon's pronunciation of "Waffen".

[@MrKawaltd750]

Very good job in such a short time. 👍

[@gabrielharris5446]

Had a cousin who worked in a war museum and got to down to their vault hold some amazing historical weapons including a zweihander and the gun belt buckle that Hitlers closest bodyguards would wear.

[@black_wolf365]

There is no better tour de force of the history and the evolution of the SS, and its many crimes, than this video. Perfectly done Simon! 🍻

[@Shineon83]

….HEYDRICH WAS NOT dismissed from the Navy for “Conduct Unbecoming”-but due to his obnoxious attitude at his hearing & his “blaming the girl”….

[@kaceydillin7367]

12:20 partially correct. Hugo Boss absolutely did receive government contracts to manufacture uniforms for the SS.

[@michaelcoward1902]

That's literally EXACTLY what he said.

[@davidwhitfield6025]

I always found it fascinating that Stennes not only survived his attempted coup but was also allowed to emigrate to China and then served as a military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang until 1949. One wonders how American Generals Stillwell and Chennault felt dealing with an ex-Nazi.

[@Mr--_--M]

If only they could see how the word “ baddies” has evolved 😅💃

[@silvenshadow]

Amazing video on a lot of details. Crazy how bad things got.

[@randyross5630]

I can't wait to find out what happens! When WW2 actually Finally Ends! Considering the Nazis just took on Jewish Identities and went to form Isreal!!!

[@ABC-48483]

Awesome content

[@LemonJackRazer]

No wonder Shrek lived in a swamp, he was trying to escape the trials at Nuremberg

[@LiamDennehy]

Outstanding. I can't imagine how awful the mountain of research required must have been to undertake.

[@dinsdalemontypiranha4349]

That was a terrific video Simon. There was a lot of information in it that I was unaware of. Thanks! My one criticism is that your pronunciation of German words and names was atrocious. In past videos you mentioned that you had a pronunciation dictionary. What happened to that?

[@marklittle2615]

More people should watch this episode than just the ones that subscribe to you because if you don't know history you will repeat it and we're walking a fine line of doing that right now

[@t2av159]

Leftists are truly trying, they even have their own black shirts (antifa)

[@hanknotchinaski8222]

The parallels are far too close.

[@LargeInCharge77]

Not really

[@marklittle2615]

@@LargeInCharge77 I'm sure a lot of people said the same thing in 1923. But I hope you are right.

[@HydrationTechInc.-zf7pb]

​@@marklittle2615Good

[@RRR_Motorsports]

Aye it's that guy from that other channel with the beard Love your work king

[@Donnirononon]

The Totenkopf was also used by Brunswick/Prussian troops as well as WW1 Stormtroopers and is not necessarily a Nazi symbol.-

[@norsecore]

17:36 You're talking about Rohm and the SA, and their political leanings. I thought you were going to completely forget their other leanings. The SA was called "beef steaks" by some (brown on the outside, red inside).

[@thEannoyingE]

A little correcting here, the infamous black uniform, used by the Allegemeine SS, was used only for ceremonial and parade use. Otherwise, they would have wore field grey uniforms. Despite what tv and films depict.

[@patmann9363]

Mmm can I correct you what about the camo field blouse🤔

[@jamesmarciel5237]

A little correction of your correcting. The black SS uniform was used as the primary uniform for a time, 1932-1935. It wasn’t until later in the pre-war period that it was relegated to a ceremonial uniform. Shortly after Himmler obtained control of the Gestapo from Goehring in 1934.

[@patmann9363]

@@jamesmarciel5237 🤔...😅😂.Nice but still what about the camo?

[@angeloluna529]

@@patmann9363 the camo came in late into the war

[@patmann9363]

@@angeloluna529 I...know

[@cherylnashmacisaac5682]

That was a lot of information and wow , thank you ! Glad I found you on you tube land!

[@jamesmarciel5237]

3:06 Emil Maurice was actually Jewish. Hitler actually protected him from the the SS’s pogroms of extermination out of a sense of loyalty. Hitler was known for his loyalty to those who were there with him in the early days of the Party.

[@ThisNinjaSays_]

Fritz Haber was also granted immunity from extermination because of his WW1 military contributions. That immunity did not extend to his family who perished in the Holocaust. Jews who had served in WW1 or Africans who had served in the German empire's colonial wars were spared from the concentration camps. Such cases and the one you mentioned were not the norm in Nazi Germany. They were outliers...and they witnessed their families and neighbors perish in Germany.

[@wisecoonie]

@@ThisNinjaSays_not sure at all that Jews who served during WW1 were spared. Most did end up in the concentration camps, regardless .

[@haronxodus]

Mr. Simon. You had an awesome Haiti video and I sent it to my family but now it says private. How do I get access to it. It was the accurate analysis that I have ever saw concerning Haiti.

[@whimsical_me5135]

I'd try using a VPN..

[@andrewbledsoe131]

I love these longer videos on this channel

[@AnnabelleBeaudoin]

Great video 👍

[@caramelconundrum9280]

Those are Sowilo runes, not lightning bolts.

[@otgenesis7410]

Had to quickly fact check this. I learn something new every day.

[@crow_feather]

Speaking as a Norse Heathen myself, they're lightening bolts. The Nazis stole our faith and bastardized it all to hell while really not giving a damn about the faith itself except for its own utterly fucked up purposes, ones that truly have nothing to do with Norse Heathenry, whatsoever! There's as much in Nazi Germany that's Norse Heathen as there is in a typical Bible study group! By the time the Nazis got a hold of the Runes, the meanings they attached to them had nothing to do with their actual meanings, whatsoever! Especially when you consider that Sowilo is the rune for victory, and the Nazis became the laughing stock of the world the way they damned well deserved to be, there's absolutely nothing about them that screams "victory," whatsoever! So yeah, those two bastardized symbols that that Nazi scum wore on their uniforms? They're lightening bolts, not runes!

[@PeachM0de]

They still look like a bolt.

[@meatharbor]

And not the only runes the SS used, either, with the "Race and Settlement Main Office" employing the Othala rune, as well. Nazis sure do love their pagan iconography despite Hitler's repeated insistence that he, and by extension the party, were Catholic.

[@maverick7291]

​@@meatharbor I don't think he ever mentioned that the Nazis party were a Catholic political party. Especially since half Germany was protestant.

[@kevinsugrue]

Note for the Sound Engineer. Voice volume far too low. When you turn up the volume to a comfortably audible level, you then get painfully loud adverts played during the episode . Awful on earbuds.

[@Hillbilly001]

I love how Simon butchers the pronunciation of just about everything. LoL. German, French,American-english, and every known tongue on the planet. LoL. And that's half the fun. Cheers

[@221b-l3t]

It's the consistency we've come to expect from him.

[@haskellelephant]

At 24:00 I believe you mistakenly say "before and during world war one" when you actually meant "before and during world war two".

[@Eric-the-Bold]

A top presentation, as per the norm, warts and all. 1945 Austria, my fathers UK unit had a large group of Ukraine SS surrender to them. Tito sent envoys to get them sent back to Yugoslavia , this was refused by the UK government, well we needed them for the fight against the new enemy? Details in the war diaries, National Archives Kew London [ my research re dads war] . Funny thing dad said they treated them as just soldiers , having never had contact with the SS in North Africa or Italy.

[@damintten]

Tito was a gorrila fighter a anti-facist or in other words a Communist. Why would he want German SS spiders? other than to kill them for the war crimes they committed in Yugoslavia.

[@hazzardalsohazzard2624]

Do you think the guy who got applauded by the Canadian Government was one of them?

[@arachn01d]

The background music is really distracting; not loud enough to hear, not quiet enough to ignore!

[@PWizz91]

Today I found out…… Simon has yet another channel?!

[@sandybarnes887]

He only has 14 active, a few others

[@mcstabba]

Simon will not give up until he is the host of every channel on KZbin.

[@Rathewitch]

I've been watching you for years on KZbin and kept up with your videos and I've somehow nevwr caught your face before!!! That was such a unexpected but satisfying reveal for me!

[@alteredbeast7145]

My favourite story from ww2 is the Americans and the Whermact fighting together to storm a castle in Austria and kill all the SS, freeing Olympians and various aristocrats. I love the story because it showed how the regular German army hated the SS

[@rizzllerr]

That's badass

[@tubeguy4066]

Litteraly was just like 5 German traitors

[@alteredbeast7145]

@@tubeguy4066 cool I found one

[@straitbeats]

You need to clip the audio on your S’s. The whistles you make are brutal

[@Ruosteinenknight]

08:52 "If I looked like Himmler, I wouldn't talk about race." - Gauleiter of Danzig-West Prussia Albert Foster about Himmler in discussion with Obergruppenführer Richard Hildebrandt, when Himmler had complained about Foster's assimilation policies.

[@JjjHjj-qz4fg]

Good Video, Just one friendly hint in German ie (like you did) and ei (pronounced like "eye") are pronounced differently. So you made out of "Leibstandarte" ( roughly translated "bodysquad") Liebstandarte (love or lovely squad)

[@desperateambrose5373]

"When democracy granted democratic methods for us in the times of opposition, this was bound to happen in a democratic system. However, we National Socialists never asserted that we represented a democratic point of view, but we have declared openly that we used democratic methods only in order to gain the power and that, after assuming the power, we would deny to our adversaries without any consideration the means which were granted to us in the times of opposition." ~ Josef Goebbels

[@craighohmann9534]

That’s scary, USA is mirroring Nazis Germany. No accountability for torturers or genociders of kids. All ordinances ,regulation , zones, permits, licenses, fees, utilities, taxes ,HOA and freedoms lost. All is mirroring a bureaucratic Nazi. Please, Vote this government to the America’s Tribes.

[@marianotorrespico2975]

OH MY. YOU ARE AWESOME . . . in your moral cowardice; how Wikipedian of you. Are you in the wheelchair-bound Nazi or are you the blond boy who pushes the wheelchair-bound Nazi?

[@TheKaiKer]

Your videos should be used in luie of school history lessons, I'm reasonably knowledgeable about history in a broad sense, but I've learned more in depth specifics from your videos than I ever did in school and in a fraction of the time I spent in those lessons. Granted, I left school a while back so I can't attest to what the lesson structure is like now. But either way, cheers for the videos.

[@thomaslienert4225]

*lieu (french place)

[@TheKaiKer]

​@@thomaslienert4225 yes, alas typos happen. I guess its a shame they don't also do language and spelling lessons 😆

[@OldMusicFan83]

In the middle 80s I was based in the old SS barracks In Berlin. Spooky place at night when the fog shrouded the place.

[@mikebrase5161]

Lichterfelde?

[@OldMusicFan83]

@@mikebrase5161 Lichterfelde.

[@mikebrase5161]

@@OldMusicFan83 sweet! When I was stationed as OPFOR at Hohenfels I went down to Bad Tolz on a weekend just to see the Eagle outline at the entrance to the Kaserne. I took a bunch of pictures of the outlines of stuff and how they tried to cover stuff up without completely destroying it after the war. When I did an MWR trip to Normandy I was surprised to to see the Metal fist of Gotz von Berlichingen on a wall of a Farmhouse passing through a village.

[@OldMusicFan83]

@@mikebrase5161 Once in a while I will see a documentary on the SS and it will show them marching out the front gate. I guarded the same gate after the La Belles bombing in 86.

[@rory4016]

amazing video

[@Abby_Liu]

Simon's videos are really getting way too quiet. the ads are overwhelmingly loud now.

[@northidahoshorts]

Mark felton did a very good breakdown as well

[@jaws666]

Anyone notice in the original starwars movies imeperial stormtroopers had black working dress uniforms (ss) and imperial officers had gray uniforms (whermacht)

[@mikebrase5161]

And MG-34 laser blasters.

[@jaws666]

@@mikebrase5161 true.

[@whimsical_me5135]

Of course they did, it's no secret that the stormtroopers were based on the ss.

[@DrDeuteron]

And darth Vader literally means dark father

[@carltonleboss]

Fascinating video

[@O-plaat]

There is still a annual festival honoring the Belgian Waffen SS members that died against the Russians. Prominent Belgian ministers bring flowers to the graves of the SS leaders on annual basis and the City of Antwerp has a museum dedicated to the Belgian leader of the SS that refuses to list any of his war crimes.

[@gabrieltrollinger2103]

Like for real, how many channels do you have bro?

[@johnny5805]

If only Simon could make a video that combined the SR-71 Blackbird AND the Nazis, he'd be SO happy ! 🙂

[@MothaLuva]

Not necessary. The SR-71 WAS built by Nazis anyway.

[@SCP.343]

"The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. An advanced, long-range strategic reconnaissance aircraft, capable of Mach 3 and an altitude of eighty-five thousand feet!"

[@bigdukesix4161]

Nice job sir.. ty

[@KytexEdits]

When you said minimum requirement of 5 feet 8 inches for the SS I got curious, cause you know Himmler wasn't that tall, and as I suspected he was only 174, no surprise he chose the number of 172cm as a minimum LOL.

[@mikebrase5161]

Sepp Dietrich the leader of the Leibstandarte was short AF as well.

[@221b-l3t]

The entire leadership was about as un-aryan as you could imagine. Goebbels? Barely looks human. Himmler was small, Goering massively obese and addicted to morphine and Schnitzel, almost none of them even blonde. Must've been awkward at times, every SS man towering over Hitler and the others. Probably selected smaller SS guys for Hitlers guard to make him look at least not short.

[@holyheretic3185]

"what's so great about a sickle?" "well nothing, and if there's one thing we've learned in the thousands miles of retreating, it's that Russian agriculture is in dire need of mechanization." Americans should look up David Mitchell his rants are a treat. Sucks we can't have that kind of comedy on our TV nowadays

[@thebagelsproductions]

That clip is from a BBC sketch show broadcast on TV

[@milaahrens9171]

36:30 Himmer*s suicide is debated tho. See the video with the same name from "Mark Felton"

[@jonathanpitcher5229]

I love these videos my only correction would be that calling him a painter is a bit misleading as he was also a wwi veteran I think that carried some weight

[@MrTea101]

"How they rise to power"? SS = Stylish Soldiers. They march looking good, they die looking good.

[@rzpogi]

They got Hugo Boss making their uniforms though.

[@meatman585]

They look pretty fruity honestly

[@austinrohrs6841]

Since the SS and Gestapo rounded up Catholics along with the “undesirables”, how did the alliance between the Catholic Church and the Nazi party begin? That would be an interesting topic to dive into

[@hansgruber650]

Did they also round up their Catholic soldiers? Don't believe the Bolshevik narrative.

[@221b-l3t]

With great difficulty and threats. Hitler begrudgingly accepted the cooperation because it was useful but Germany had the upper hand, the Vatican was more of a frightened lapdog. It was politically useful but there wasn't a lot of love between them. Much like woth Stalin.

[@wisecoonie]

The Gestapo only arrested Catholics who spoke out or publicly opposed the nazi regime, they didn’t threaten the priests and bishops who ‘stood in line’. Hitler despised catholicism but needed the support of the German episcopal community, especially in rural areas such as Bavaria, where the catholic church still had a lot of support. He ‘wooed’ the pope into an agreement whereby the German catholic church was ordered to stay out of political State affairs. Later on, the German catholic church was put under the rule of 1 national ‘nazi bishop’.

[@SWProductions100]

There have been recent papers released by the Vatican that shows the pope then was in an unenviable position of trying to plan for a future where the Nazis won (since that was a possibility at that point) - attempting to ensure the churches survival. Now, people are still sifting through the released Vatican papers, and it's possible more unflattering documents haven't been released. And antisemitism wasn't out of the picture for the decisions of the Catholic leadership. Still, this might help explain the alliance that formed. It's not as black-or-white as one might initially think, though there were some not great elements to it as well. (Edit: Spelling)

[@BlackMarvel25]

How many shows is this man on? I thought this was warographics and then see this is a different channel

[@nicholausbuthmann1421]

Thank You Simon for intelligent subject matter that sadly in this particular one still haunts us today !

[@olive6366]

Great video, the pronounciation of german words is quite off but very informative

[@thomasseery7570]

The SS attire was based on the Massachusetts Police Force uniform

[@glennllewellyn7369]

Interesting.

[@gideonhorwitz9434]

3:17 even more decorated than Herman Goiring didn’t think such a thing was possible

[@Fleato]

I think it really says a lot about the German people to keep the camps as a historic landmark to serve as a reminder of what happens when hatred is allowed into power. Many places wouldn’t want that in their homeland ex: the confederate statues in the US.

[@nathanielthompson7967]

The difference is that those statues were built to honor those Confederate traitors, while the camps are kept around to show people the horrors of the Holocaust

[@eliecerquintero2646]

Only difference is the majority of the confederate statues were built during segregation. They are not historically built by any means. I mean the Robert e Lee statue was put up in 1924, 60 years after the war. It was all to fear monger black people.

[@HotEatTheFood]

Plantation homesteads are still everywhere in the US. What you’re comparing is like saying Germany should have kept statues of hitler and the nazis up.

[@gdaycunt2001]

​@@HotEatTheFoodit has nothing to with that but keep thinking that with you're own narrative...

[@Fleato]

@@HotEatTheFood eh it's not meant that way. cause the German people keep things like Auschwits around as a reminder of what happened the the people taken there, not to glorify Hitler. It serves as a reminder of an atrocity in history. My instinct would be to burn it to the ground and spit on it. but that would only fuel my distain and remove it as a real place to be to get a sense for the horror that happened there for people later in time who might not be as conected to those events as we are even 80 years later.

[@janodjano5828]

Been watching a few of your videos, thanks. But I think you are talking to fast for my mind to follow/appreciate. Guess I will have to watch/listen 3 more times, or find something else. Enjoy 😊

[@reilley26]

Surreal realizing how many Star Wars terms came from real life things like the Nazis....

[@LargeInCharge77]

Yeah like light saber

[@ryantannar5301]

Star Wars named stuff after WWI German things. The Nazis did the same. Star Wars didn't take anything from the Nazis, they just both copied off the same guy's test. WWI Germany was no better or worse than any other nation in that war.

[@omega1231]

​@@ryantannar5301Well they were worse in that they orchestrated the entire start of the war with Austria, just because Austria wanted to invade Serbia. But other than that no, the Germans definently weren't nazis during WW1.

[@221b-l3t]

​@@LargeInCharge77 And the wookies based on British special forces.

[@wisecoonie]

@@ryantannar5301totally untrue. Under the rule of the Kaiser Wilhelm II the country was a scheming, war mongering european superpower which allied with the Austrian Hungarian empire in the hope of becoming the major European force. Much like Hitler wanted his Reich to be at the end of the thirties. Germany was a big bully towards its European neighbours, before the Second ánd before the First World War.