WW2: When Did the Holocaust Officially Start? | Unpacked

After World I, the German economy was in shambles and the nation was dejected. Hitler manipulated this state of affairs to legally rise to power and systematically strip German Jews of their rights. This slow increase in oppression culminated on Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, the night that the Nazi Party realized it could get away with genocide.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:31 Boiling Frog Syndrome
01:36 How did the Holocaust start?
02:00 Aftermath of WW1
02:44 The Jewish scapegoat
03:19 Nazi rise to power
05:28 Legalizing Jewish discrimination
07:27 The death of Paul von Hindenburg
08:06 Herschel Grynzpan
09:20 Kristallnacht / the Night of Broken Glass
09:43 International reaction
10:29 When the Nazis realized they could get away with genocide
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[@carlygadi9970]

I hope everyone is watching. I’m ashamed to say that wwII and things happening today are staring to mirror, I pray I am wrong.

[@DankNSpank]

"When things are bad, being different is dangerous." So true.

[@jenniferbreaux7385]

It is so important that we don't forget. Those who forget past, are doomed to repeat it.

[@hashimaliahmed3675]

The same people are decimating gazans

[@hashimaliahmed3675]

It will repeat inshallah

[@Chiefrocka.]

​​​@@hashimaliahmed3675because gazans wanted to repeat the Jews genocide but now the Jew have powerful army and they can defend themselves

[@anitamwd]

@@hashimaliahmed3675really? What about Hamas? Are they helping their own people? And the same Gazans were allied to the Nazis during WWII.

[@Jonathan-hq8gl]

I agree with that. Very smartb

[@HistoryfortheAges]

I made a video about this topic a couple years ago. It boils down to a few key things 1. The loss of freedom in a society 2. No independent state of Israel to defend the Jewish people 3. The silence of good people 4. The way people just followed orders see the milligram experiment There are of course several other reasons aa well.

[@blankblank7016]

1. The loss of freedom in a society 2. No independent state of Arab willing to defend the Palestinians people 3. The silence of good people 4. The way people just followed orders see the milligram experiment

[@user-mk1oz8ef3c]

Sadly, soo soo sadly. The very same thing happened to the Palestinian today 😢

[@HistoryfortheAges]

@user-mk1oz8ef3c what? The population of the Palestinians has gone up. Israel does what they can in a war to avoid civilian casualties, more so then any other nation did during WWII. All while Hamas uses their own people as human shields. Your statement is just objectively false. I hope it's simply from a lack of understanding history and not from worse motivation.

[@Billioncompany786]

​​@@HistoryfortheAgesTell that to 10000 deaths and 5000 of them children killed by the genocide. I have a question for you what If Hamas gone hiding into some big Hospital in Israel?

[@aslampervez2294]

Israel is new Nazi, continuously bombing hospitals, school refugee camp etc in gaza.

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

"Never again" was the call in 1945, but see what's now shamefully happening in countries from which men and women fought and died to end the regime which perpetrated the Shoah . . .

[@Jonathan-hq8gl]

For your next video can you please talk about Berek Josielewicz

[@Jonathan-hq8gl]

And the Jewish role in the uprising

[@jonathanmendez4891]

super great video and well explained!!

[@user-fm3td1io1n]

Very Good. Keep it up Unpacked Team.

[@charleshewitt6180]

Your videos are absolutely outstanding.

[@allrack1]

Thanks

[@Hchris101]

Why does the thumbnail change every hour

[@calebisdisposable]

Bold of y’all to post this now

[@bighand1530]

There is people currently who has a Nazi like mentality when it comes to Jews.

[@thoughtcheese7310]

Why?

[@RedmanFacturer-ej6cl]

Shouldn't have used human shields am i righr

[@DankNSpank]

Not just the "uniformed" masses. Countless everyday civilians had their right arms raised as well. Men, women, even children. Actually lots of children.

[@marcusm663]

"You and I know what children must learn. Those to whom evil is done, will do evil in return" - W.H. Auden

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

In his book, "Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949", David Cesarani OBE is at pains to relate how puzzled were the Jews at the increasing amount of hateful legislation coming their way. They couldn't fathom it, for they were hard-working, law-abiding citizens of Germany. For the first few years, it could not be comprehended, for nothing like it had happened [save for the episodes in Armenia and SW Africa, then barely known about] and eventually even WW1 veterans were included.

[@ScottSherman1]

Another excellent video about this subject. Thank you! (Todah)

[@UNPACKED]

Thank you!

[@babybison2881]

Too bad you're wrong

[@chriss2452]

​@@babybison2881How is he wrong?

[@johnwilsonwsws]

There were two elections in 1932 in Germany. In the Nov-‘32 election the N@zi vote fell by 2 million from the Jul-‘32 election and, significantly, its vote was now lower than the combined vote of the social-democrats (SPD) and communists (KPD). This is rarely reported because it runs against the standard narrative that agrees with the N@zi mythology that Hitler’s government represented the “will” of the German people. This video tacitly repeats this standard myth. It is notable that this video makes no mention of the use of force, violence and terror against the KPD and SPD. Anyone who opposed the new government faced concentration camps in 1933. But the greatest absence is that the leaderships of both those “socialist” parties passively capitulated to Hitler’s regime despite a widespread anti-fascist sentiment. The SPD even used the fatalist slogan “After Hitler, we come” (“Nach HItler, Kommen Wir”) and as late as April 1, 1933 (after the KPD had been made illegal) the Comintern said “The establishment of an open Fascist dictatorship, which destroys all democratic illusions among the masses, and frees them from the influence of the social-democrats, will hasten Germany's progress towards the proletarian revolution.” [Twilight of the Comintern (EH Carr) p.90] Stalin instead sought friendly relations with the new government in Berlin and said the repression of the KPD was not a barrier to this! It is urgent that these matters are studied in detail and the lessons learned. The following on the WSWS is essential reading: The Myth of “Ordinary Germans”: A Review of Daniel Goldhagen’s Hitler’s Willing Executioners David North 11 April 1997

[@johnwilsonwsws]

Stalin obliviousness to Hitler’s promise to destroy “Jewish-Bolshevism” wasn’t unique. On has to ask as well how the following could have happened: On June 22, 1933, the leaders of the Zionist Organization for Germany sent a memorandum to Hitler, which declared: Zionism believes that the rebirth of the national life of a people, which is now occurring in Germany through the emphasis on its Christian and national character, must also come about among the Jewish people. For the Jewish people, too, national origin, religion, common destiny and a sense of uniqueness must be of decisive importance to its existence. This demands the elimination of the egotistical individualism of the liberal era, and its replacement with a sense of community and collective responsibility. From WSWS: Genocide in Gaza: Imperialism descends into the abyss David North 19 November 2023

[@Kratosfallinmemeiscool]

It should be said that in Germany and Austria, we dont call it "Kristalnacht" anymore, rather we use the name "Novemberprogrom" imstead, because the name Kristalnacht only gives away the Vandalism and Arson that happened on Nov. 9th, Even though the Novemberpogrom killed anywhere from 100-1500 Jews

[@Vanillevirus]

Or 'Die Reichspogromnacht'

[@IvoWhitehall]

Great video. Never again for ANYONE

[@AshishAcharyaalex]

Holocaust is the most horrible thing human being has done to one another and it should never happen again. Regarding that frog analogy. I just saw a tiktok of this probably Chinese lady ( because the description was in Chinese letters) frying frog alive. This analogy made me remember that and I almost puked. I am not trying to lessen the suffering of Jewish people during Holocaust by bringing up this anecdote. If I offended anyone, I apologize.

[@The9thMahatma]

I have to argue a little here. What the Roman Catholic Church did through the use of the Spanish to conquer and create conquest in north and South America actually makes the holocaust pale in comparison though equally horrible. The holocaust wasn’t the only time in human history where massive genocide has been perpetrated. Hitler was installed by the Roman Catholic Church by Roman learning Germans. The Roman Catholic Church is far more horrible and yet no one mentions their atrocities. In my opinion no organization that has that type of blood on their hands should ever be allowed into positions of power. Especially an organization that’s perpetuated these horrible acts for over 2500 years yet no one mentions a word. They are just left to continue without question.

[@trythis2006]

religion does horrible things and i dont know why people still follow these ancient illusions @@The9thMahatma

[@c.f.okonta8815]

Slavery was worse

[@seansmith5468]

I’m still wondering why they trick kids into war

[@BeenNoticing]

Ukraine, 1929.

[@rfe8nn2]

May God bless the Jewish people!!! Evil may have been allow done until you but remember God will never Abaddon you!!! The book of Daniel is a good book when it comes to evil.

[@conscientiousobjector5988]

Do you understand that in addition to the atrocities we see levied upon the Palestinians by the Israelis day after day after day, within the past decade, it was revealed the Israelis had been sterilizing African women without their knowledge or consent (so they could not nake more of themselves)? You must open your eyes to what is happening, you are viewing things from the exact opposite side than you say you are and it that is chilling.

[@gabrielalpert6631]

You should do a video focusing on how the Holocaust effected Eastern European Jews. Since this mostly focuses on German Jews ❤

[@sarahmanly7322]

I think that's the entire point.... Its talking about how a regime can destroy the minds of its own people who are susceptible to violent and inhumane ideals due to social unrest and in general a hard hard life. Just like Gazans and Palestinians.

[@fartnutssupreme4930]

Whew….thought they were gonna blame Israel for this too.

[@ted1091]

What else would fartnutsupreme think?

[@NeverAUsername181]

History gonna repeat

[@Rash7rome7]

Just like how no one is doing anything about what’s happening in xengean , soon they will do the same but this time it feels like nothing will ever happen in response.

[@Nikolai9510]

Sounds a lot like whats happening now

[@teaburg]

A frog will jump out of the water once it gets too warm. It's alright as an analogy, but not alright as a fact. Informative video about Kristallnacht.

[@chriss2452]

And you know that because..? 😮

[@abu.ibrahim]

Everything sounds very similar to what we see these days. "People animals", "nuke them all" etc.

[@Chiefrocka.]

Hamas are animals for what they did there's no doubt about that

[@abu.ibrahim]

@@Chiefrocka. don't act as Israelis starting from the president and ending with lot of people on the social media didn't say that Palestinians are animals. Rabbis, journalists and lot of other people in prime time on TV. I'm not even talking about Hamas. They are military group, so here I can see the sentiment, but for the people living in the city. "Show no mercy" is Israeli way to do things there. And that's the definition of nazism.

[@Chiefrocka.]

@@abu.ibrahim Israel is not fighting the citizens unlike Hamas, Israels goal is to destroy Hamas and they only referred to them as animals because hamas targeted civilians in the most barbaric ways.

[@anitamwd]

@@abu.ibrahimif you think all Jews and Israelis think the same way as Netanyahu, people will have the right to think that all muslins are terrorists/ animals.

[@manofculture584]

@@abu.ibrahimyeah certain Palestinians are animals...Hamas and their supporters.

[@narhem123]

I watch this and realize that the current islamic regime in Iran is similar to the Nazi regime in so many ways as if they both came out of the same mold.

[@aneliyageorgieva5352]

Never again to us ,never again to noone I hope.

[@syedemtiazhossain7384]

Hey you guys wanna make a video about khan yunis massacre of 1956, just curious.

[@Aanypatel]

🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱😢❤️❤️❤️

[@KonekAnuarBusuk]

Then israhell claim that palestine their land .

[@syppy7416]

when Liberty died, and truth was denied

[@lestercheng1454]

Sent away on train on a one way trip to hell Enter the gates, Auschwitz awaits When freedom burns The final solution Dreams fade away and all hope turns to dust When millions burn The curtain has fallen Lost to the world as they perish in flames

[@florberlinski613]

NEVER AGAIN IS NOW!!!🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 AM ISRAEL JAI 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 WE STAND WITH ISRAEL FOREVER 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

[@rfe8nn2]

Blessed of those who stand with my people and curse those who stand against my people-God Almighty God of Abraham.

[@stephenwright8824]

Take it from the grandson of a Catholic Irish girl who emigrated in 1908. Palestine should not exist. FWIW I'm an ex-Protestant atheist.

[@BBWahoo]

I can't tell if this video upload is in good or bad timing 😂

[@Elias-Mesias-Meshi]

The Jewish people will survive this Hamas brutal massacre civilians. Israel ❤

[@Adam-326]

@@BBWahoo No, they will submit, by force or otherwise. The State of Israel isn’t going anywhere. 🇮🇱

[@harlowida]

Except the only massacre being carried out is against innocent Palestinian civilians

[@harlowida]

@@Adam-326”by force” you mean terrorism? No wonder you ppl are so sick

[@BBWahoo]

@@Adam-326 It's historically only lasted about 80 years tops, so we'll see how things go within the next 10. Regardless, I'd like peace, and it would've been nice if the Israeli govt had a program to convert palestinians into Jews, seeing as a lot of them are from Judea and aren't even aware of that fact.

[@marwanmoallem8537]

I watched your video with closed eyes , thought that you are talking about what ‘’Israel’’ is doing to the Palestinians right now

[@Rinna.likes.noodles]

Exactly. They caged them, they are exterminating them, they are starving them.. The pics and videos from Gaza are like from nazi Germany but high quality 🫤 It’s so bizarre.

[@PaworWeiss]

First

[@jrmx31]

bro

[@elliottharris9015]

After WW2, the Mossad hunted down those Nazis. Peace to Israel!

[@basant2159]

It's exactly what is happening right now in Gaza. No one taking action and no country try to stop the atrocities, prevent the genocide or even trying to allow aids!!. only just a protests and even these protestors are being accused of terrorism. It's too irony how Jews do that while they know and experienced this suffer before.

[@jasonsmall5602]

They are in no way comparable.

[@pieegee8532]

The idf tries their best not to hurt civilians

[@pieegee8532]

And hamas encourages the civilians to ignore the idf's warnings and phone calls

[@harlowida]

@@pieegee8532yet somehow 95% of their victims are children and the only excuse they’ve for it is lame old ‘human shield’

[@deborahfreedman333]

All the atrocities took place on October 7. The IDF tries really hard to not kill civilians. Contrast this to the Arab invaders and occupiers, who delighted in torturing and killing innocents, even infants.

[@blackrussian7968]

Ask us if we care

[@RedmanFacturer-ej6cl]

We don't care

[@tusgal]

It started when you kill your messiah. “Let his blood be on our hands and our children children’s .” In the Bible that they ignored.

[@NG-cf7zh]

Matthew 27:25

[@doityourselfpakistan6535]

There must be a reason that people hated them and they were expelled from many countries , i am not saying its a good thing and should happend , just saying there much be a reason .

[@PatGilliland]

And I'm just saying that you are parroting anti-semitic bullshit. Humans have always had a fear of "the other" and used other people as scapegoats: Roma across Europe, Hindus in Pakistan, Muslims in India. Those in power have always found it useful to have someone to blame all their problems on.

[@manofculture584]

So if you have a "reason" what difference does it make? This is more reason why they need their own state

[@bengalkityy2594]

what a stupid thing to say are you really so empty headed that you would believe that? If everyone said Pakistani people were bad would you start to believe it too ?

[@doityourselfpakistan6535]

i dont have a reason i was asking what can be the reason ,Also i dont have issue with them having a state , but i have issue with removing people from a place by taking and destroying there homes and keep the invasion going for about a century now ,even god never gave them already "inhabited"the land in past @@manofculture584

[@PatGilliland]

@@doityourselfpakistan6535 So like Partition, the Bangladesh War of Independence and genocide?

[@filiptyc7406]

Please identify the perpetrators as Germans, not Nazis. The extermination camps were not Polish but German.

[@seananthony7494]

I love Jews

[@DP-tf7qb]

Seems a bit unreasonable to love an entire group of people indiscriminately. Likewise to hate an entire group indiscriminately.

[@MilkTheMilkManFRFR]

They have experienced the cruelty of genocide, but now they are committing genocide against Palestine. So sick in the head

[@user-je1kb8pq2p]

When Did the Holocaust Officially Start? Its origins can be traced back to 610 A.D. which is when the Prophet Muhammad first saw the Angel Jibril and shared the words of Allah.

[@markhellman-pn3hn]

you forgot the most important point !! ... BLAMING SOMEBODY ELSE FOR YOUR MISTAKES !! ... the whole planet has been doing this for 5,000 years... unfortunately, we'll be doing this for ANOTHER 5,000 years !!!

[@oldluke7653]

Let's put Trump in prison 😮

[@MusingsFromTheJohn00]

I've watched a few of your videos and I believe you are very biased in favor of Israel, blinding yourself to any wrong Israel does. In effect it feels like you primarily only see the good while ignoring the bad for Israel while for Palestinians you only see the bad while ignoring the good. I'd like to see you reverse then roles and positions of Jews and Palestinians over the past 75 years, from May 14, 1948 to present day. Pretend it was Palestinians who founded Israel to be ruled by Palestinians for Palestinians, and when that resulted in war, hundreds of thousands of Jews were ethnically cleansed from the land and refused the right of return. Make this exchange of roles throughout the past 75 years of the Israeli Palestinian conflict and see if it does not fit a slow burn to genocide like the Nazis were doing, but much slower. Pretend for the past 20 years that Palestinians were the Israelis and the people living in Gaza were Jews, with the blockades beginning when, 2005 and never ending since? Making Gaza into something very much like the closed Jewish Ghettos the Nazis made? Then, with that exchange of names go back over the details of the past 20 years with your extreme biased flipped because it would be Jews in Gaza and Palestinians in Israel. I am not saying Hamas is good, far from it. Hamas is very, very evil. But, Israel created Hamas, made sure Hamas gained political power in Gaza, helped Hamas grow in power within Gaza where Hamas as ruled as dictators, and the Hamas fighters account for only ~1.1% of the population of Gaza while Israel right now, this instant, is waging an ethnic cleansing genocidal campaign against the 95%+ civilian population of the ~2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza. Imagine if some powerful terrorist group put a tunnel and some rooms deep underground below a very large refugee camp which was over flowing with Jewish civilians and the Palestinians bombed that crowded area of Jews to hopefully kill some of the terrorists in the tunnels below them. Imagine if these powerful terrorists had a hand full of members take an ambulance and go to a major hospital where well over 10,000 Jews were at while Jewish doctors were arranging a convoy of Jewish patients to leave from the north of Gaza to the south of Gaza and the Palestinians bombed that convoy of ambulances full of Jews and the surrounding crowd of Jews in order to kill that handful of terrorists. Imagine if Palestinians cut off power supplies, fuel supplies, medical supplies, food supplies, and water supplies to 2,200,000 Jewish civilians to get at 25,000 terrorists within the population. Imagine is Palestinians killed 10,000+ Jewish civilians including 4,000+ Jewish children in retaliation for terrorists killing 1,400 Palestinian civilians including 30 Palestinian children. *** What is happening between the Israelis and Palestinians is a 75 year slow burn to committing genocide, and it is beginning to boil right now *** Israel can still stop before this comes to a full boil.

[@OnlyJesus-Saves]

I wish there were unbiased people 😢 I want to know the truths from both sides since both sides need to be heard no matter what.

[@sherisutherland1416]

All of this...

[@MusingsFromTheJohn00]

@@OnlyJesus-Saves I do not believe in your God. Sorry. But, I do believe the physical bodies we exist within are just vessels for what is truly important, our minds, our personalities, our spirits, our souls. What physical body you wear is not important... it is your soul that is important. So all this STUPID discrimination over race, color, nationality, etc., is just that, STUPID. Human beings are human beings, and as such all human beings should have equal human rights. Israel was founded on Jewish Supremacy, that Jews are the chosen of God and therefor better and have more rights than non-Jews. Hamas and similar extreme groups are based on Supremacy For Their Group. The leadership of both sides is equally evil, but Israel is thousands of times more powerful than all the Palestinians combined. The greater responsibility lies with who is by far the stronger side.

[@MusingsFromTheJohn00]

@@sherisutherland1416 you wrote "All of this..." ... SUCKS !!! It all sucks !!! From all sides, Israeli, Palestinian, third party... it all SUCKS !!! This evil idea of supremacy which the leaders of both sides have is something that only leads to great suffering and harm. Humans are humans, regardless the mostly dirty bag of water a human spirit wears. It does not matter the physical body, it matter the spiritual mind.

[@MusingsFromTheJohn00]

@@sherisutherland1416 I'd like to stress that the horrendous problems going on between Israel and the Palestinians is also playing out repeatedly across all of humanity. This is NOT just a Jewish/Palestinian problem. We have groups of humans all over the modern world who believe themselves superior and that then gives them the right to treat the inferior as less than human. This is a humanity wide crisis because our technology has advanced far faster than our social emotional maturity. That is like giving irresponsible bad acting toddlers weapons allowing for mass murder. Humanity needs to grow up.

[@karlshaner2453]

Anyone who is willing to learn from history, will be very afraid of what Donald Trump would do if given power again.

[@robertgallagher7734]

Except that it is leftists screaming pro Hamas slogans & calling for the blood of Jews while the Biden administration lectures us on Islamaphobia.

[@c.f.okonta8815]

Trump 2024 💪

[@nadirhasan2397]

Bassem youssuf in his interview with piers morgan have said that israel has forcefully sterilize Ethiopian woman, you guys like say something about that.

[@UNPACKED]

We made a video about that if you're curious to learn more: instagram.com/reel/CnR9JSAtr4i/

[@nadirhasan2397]

@@UNPACKED Thank you for your reply.

[@johnwilsonwsws]

@@UNPACKEDYou should post it as a KZbin short. Your video explained what happened. I was trying to find something that explained what happened yesterday but they were all superficial tabloid stories that begged a lot of questions.

[@SIAHTHAGOD]

the world recognises that this exact explanation is what israel are doing to palestinians. which is crazy to me.

[@deborahfreedman333]

No, this is exactly what the Arab invaders, aka Falestinians, are still doing to the Jews.

[@Adam-326]

You guys should take this video down. It’s not a good look for you and it’s not helping our cause. The masses are too ignorant and this will only fuel their opposition towards us.

[@kalpanavij3492]

ISRAEL - STOP THE GENOCIDE

[@kaziabdullahaljunaid4347]

what are currently happening in al shifa will come as a curse..to jewish people..moses,jacob solomon teaching were not that

[@sarahmanly7322]

Hmmm.... Similarities abound.

[@adivshtein2054]

Would you please elaborate on the similarities?

[@bighand1530]

@@adivshtein2054 There is people that has a Nazi like mentality when it comes to Jewish people.