The world declared war on Germany, not the other way round. Educate yourself properly.

@@perliva explain that to the people of poland, or holland, or france.... troll.

@@uliwehner Poland desired our _Ostgebiete_ long before the war. Fact.

@@perliva don't be silly. The one in need of education is you. Although I do think that you should start with the first steps all over again.

@@perliva go, sit on a cactus. 'Unsere Ostgebiete'? Mate... grow a pair and get thee to a library.

Of course you can just walk over it. But no Neon color sign on the wall would have the same effect. First you need permission of the owner of the house, instead on a boardwalk it's public property. Then it's a memorial, a Denkmal, (denk einmal darüber nach) a mental cobblestone. Sure with a nationalistic mentality you might urinate over it, God forbid, but as you walk over it you do remember, every now and then. No wonder it's banned in Munich, it would be all over on loads of places.

@@Mayagick banned in Munich... what does that tell us?

@@sisuguillam5109 That the city listened to the jewish that said it is disrespectfull when you can walk over it.

@@sisuguillam5109 back in the day the Nazis called Munich the "capital of the movement", because here the Nazi party started in the 1920s and Hitler lived there. He gathered a huge number of followers there with his speeches in the Bürgerbräukeller, which was a big location for political events together with the consumption of lots of beer. Also in Munich Hitler initiated a coup to overthrow the bavarian government, but miserably failed. This led to his imprisonment in Landsberg, where he then wrote his book "Mein Kampf"

@@ferzbeitel6026 True.

Damn that's deep

@@Jodio-Joestar it kinda is tho

Bei uns war das genauso. Wir haben als Klasse 3 Jahre hintereinander die Stolpersteine unserer Stadt geputzt und am 07.11. jedes Jahr Reden über die einzelnen Ermordeten gehalten. Ich lebe leider in einer der wenigen Städte, die als Versuchsstädte für die Kristallnacht verwendet wurde, weil es damals eine 80%ige Bereitschaft gab, die NSDAP zu wählen. Das bedeutet, dass sich die Kristallnacht in unserer Stadt bereits einen Tag vorher ereignete als im restlichen Deutschland. Deshalb fand ich es besonders wichtig, andere Klassen der Schule und Passant*innen mit Rundgängen durch die Stadt zu informieren. Leider habe ich dieses Jahr die Schule gewechselt, aber ich hoffe, dass dieser wichtige Gedenktag von anderen Klassen fortgesetzt wurde...

War es Sally Perel? Den hab ich auch mal getroffen.

Being proud of stuff you have no influence on just sounds nonsensical to me. Pride should only be a response to something YOU are responsible for imo. It’s literally 100% random where people come from. I’ll never understand how people take pride in that

For a long time (especially during my teenage years) I've believed the Armenian genocide was just a slander made by Armenians to show themselves as victims to the world and ascribe the blame to the "great history of Turkey". I was lucky enough to use my brain and be open to a discussion in history class, which has led me to seek enlightenment. I now find myself in a deep rabbit hole with many other names of genocidal events on Turkish soil. Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds from Dersim, Alevis from Maraş/Çorum/Madimak, and Greek victims of the Istanbul Pogrom, are parts of today's Turkey. Denying the truth, advocating ignorance, and spreading conceit will always pull this country down, due to its blindness and repetition of history. As in today, there is still a present witch-hunt happening since 2013. However, like always people choose to turn their heads in the opposite direction.

So are you a German or a Turk. Why the fuck do they have to call their grandparents serial killers?

​@@casema7477 as a kurd I am stunned reading your comment but at least you accepted the truth.

Respekt für diese Einsicht, sage ich als Deutscher in der 20. Generation 🙂

@@rumpelstilzchen2194 Can any European imagine such freedom? They are the actual liberating army marching into Germany at long last.

Okay, that's a different kind of history experience 😬

@@Muexxxor Apparently you know my family better than I do. Who are you? A relative I haven’t met yet? Do you think his children and grand-children were lying? Do you know the real story? Where do I find it? I have so many questions now. Can we talk? LMAO

@@Muexxxor wait? So you're not a relative? I'm sad now. I was really hoping you could tell me more about my family. I'm really confused. I read the trial papers and his prison sentence and I've also seen the death certificate. What else is there to do? You think he started the war and nobody told me? You think he killed a nation? He was never a soldier because he was the owner of a Dairy shop. Do you think he poisened the milk?

@@SabineThinkerbellum it is a Qanon follower or some right winger trying to relativate the crimes done in that time. You always find these weirdos in the comment section. Just ignore it.

@@Superquerk Ignoring is not an option. Relativazing crimes committed during the Nazi regime is a criminal offense in Germany and will be prosecuted with a possible sentence of up to 3 years in prison or a hefty fine. I notified UKposts about this user.

I also live in Hamburg. I have the impression that just about everyone is paying attention not to step on one of those. It feels wrong, like if you would walk all over a grave...just a lot worse as those people have suffered so much.

I also never tread on them. Very impressive memorials.

I live in Hamburg as well and am always excited to see these "stones". Even when traveling to small unknown villages in Germany I see them.

Lmfao Germany is beyond saving

@@cocacoladog10 elaborate

If it wouldn't be so unsafe I would love for them to be reaching out of the ground a bit to be literally "stumbling" stones ... that make you fall/fail if you dont respect/remember/notice them.

Yeah, I can relate to this a lot. I'm a bit younger, and got onto the internet quite young, but the hatred against german people was insane. As soon as I mentioned I were german, i instantly got called nazi or racist and stuff like that, and it really made me mad all the time since i was the exact opposite. Videos like these kinda fuel my hope in people again, and are so needed. I love it.

I relate to this so much. I‘m German but grew up and live in another country, and it’s insane how many „Fucking Nazi“ comments I‘ve gotten over the years. The worst part is that when I tell other people about it, they are surprised. Like, they have no idea how much hate I‘m getting simply because I‘m German.

@@kajsakonigk1982 yeah its ridiculous. As if we were born to be nazi just because were germans xD Germans can simply not be anything else, it seems. The people before hitler weren't german, couldnt be, they werent nazis!!!! so dumb. We are not at fault for what happened, we are responsible for what is happening now and in the future, but not stuff we couldnt influence in the past especially since we didnt even were ALIVE back then

@@justalittlecucumber Agreed. It feels so unfair that they are mean TO US even though we weren’t even alive back then.

Wow, this black guy is really racist.

Germans talk so much about never again and not repeating all the authoritarian bullshit, however, since two years this country is hell. Not because of its tyrannical government, because its a western phenomenon nowadays everywhere, but the fascist ways people are acting. Segregating others and preaching it, calling for the cancelation of people's basic human rights and worst of all, the german media. The amount of racism and further discrimination I had to endure in the last year by regular people, not some NPD or AfD plebs, I mean normal people and even some so-called leftist from the Grünen and SPD, is not only astonishing, but it also clearly shows the bloody hypocrisy that is going on. Now, we know the regular answer of germans from left to right: ''Oh you foreigner, get the fuck out then!'' Well, no. My great-great parents teached me what they have seen in WW2, how they fought against the nazis and kicked their asses. How they continued fighting communists and socialists. How the provided a future of peace for europeans by destroying the nazis and halting the communist russians from genociding europe. To leave would mean to spit on my ancestors hard work and blood. But most importantly, I'M disapointed that germans are once again being so easily manipulated by tax parasites and pure ''Hetze''. All the talk about not repeating and jews has no value, when the people who gifted you your freedom and wealth, and the people germans persecuted, the jews, see through the facade of hypocrisy. For some reason, most decent germans left this country in the last years and I never understood why. Now I must feel why...

@@saltydunmer3453 Comparing a lockdown as an attempt to stop an epidemic of a potentially lethal and highly contagious disease to the systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ancestry is just wrong.

@@saltydunmer3453 I don't know, but it seems to me that you live in a complitely different Germany than I do... XD

@nastjuschechka it’s probably difficult for you, as a nazi

@@saltydunmer3453 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's a good one. Ein Ausländer-Nazi das funktioniert ja wunderbar von der Logik. Toll gemacht.

I agree. 🌍🤍 Herzliche Gruesse aus Canada.

... Though I recommend to visit the Jewish Museum and on the other hand the "Topographie des Terrors" - if you happen to come to Berlin. The latter gives you an insight into how the terror of the Nazis worked in practice and in detail, the first one shows the history of Jewish life and culture in Berlin over the centuries. The Stolpersteine are reminding us everywhere every day about this part of German history and it's a brilliant idea I think. So all three "elements" together make the most sense to me as you understand how much those singled out and murdered were not strangers but a part of our culture and society. Never forget!

Exactly my thoughts, and... wherever you go and find those stones, you never see people stepping on them, so Munich aouthorities can really lower their panic and put the signs off the walls and put them on the floor again because only then you lower your head in order to read them and deeply bow to the people who got taken away by the fascists.

@@Freddsche Well, I mean, the jewish community of munich has expressed their wish, that it should be done with plaques on wallds, insted of blocks on the ground, so that's something that should be accepted. But elsewhere, there seems to be no diagreement on the side of jewish communities outside of munich of how it's done. So, I guess that's just how it is, munich does it differently and that's fine too.

I agree, if we raised them say waist-high that'd be great.

*cough cough Japan cough cough*

@@PhilipFry. cough cough The US cough cough

Cough cough Great Britain cough cough

@@carlottaspadano5759 as a resident of the UK I say… nah we perfect

I think most countrys have a relative healthy relationship with history. Just some take it abit to far like germany and some ignore it to much like Russia.

Erinnerungskultur is another word that I want to mention when it comes to this aspect. The literal translation is culture of remembrance. It describes the active interaction of the society with their past and history with the goal to keep their history in mind and to prevent the same horrors to happen again.

Nur ein kleiner Anstoß/Hinweis: Weil Vergangenheit nicht „bewältigt“ - also endgültig erledigt - werden kann, wird inzwischen mehrheitlich der Begriff Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung oder Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit vorgezogen.[1] Begrifflich liegt der Schwerpunkt bei der Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit in der Bestimmung von Verantwortung. Zudem setzt man sich beim Aufarbeiten mit der Vergangenheit als einem Prozess der Erinnerungskultur auseinander. :)

Americans are plenty aware about it all. They'd just rather fight each other over it rather than be permanently apologetic for it as Germany does.

@@siyacer While most of my once compatriots don't really recognize the problem, or go into a full denial. Last Saturday was a Holodomor Commemoration Day.

@پیاده نظام خان If it were American elites alone, it would have been great. But no, there appears to be a large proportion of American population simply blinded by their perceived superiority. Universal healthcare? No! Social programs = socialism = communism = atheism = satanism! Bad! Tuition free education? Same thing! I would have never thought that in US they don't have universal healthcare, like that of Germany or Israel or Japan. And yet, it seems that a sizable (though thankfully ever shrinking) part of the US population would rather see people in need die or be enslaved by never-ending loans with interest rather then fall to a "tyranny" of better health for everyone, and call this "freedom".

Es ist traurig aber keine Überraschung. Geschichte wirdvom Sieger geschrieben. History is written by the winner.

@@Sophie-vw5ol I have to say, of historians out there I prefer the German ones. The lesson has been learned by them: history is facts as they are, not as one wants them to be.

That's right. What happened in Germany could and can happen anywhere in the world. In fact, it has happened in many, many places around the world. Not to the same extent as in Germany, but very similar crimes. We should deeply remember the Holocaust as a fall from mankind and respond to it with kindness, compassion and education every day.

@@rolanddeschain6089 It also did not just happen in Germany. WWII and the holocaust is not just 'german history' nor did it just happen in Germany. Though the burden of responsibility is not on them, with many of the victims coming from other countries, and many of the camps built in other countries, it is a horrible part of European and ultimately World History. It's not just that 'very similar crimes' happened in other places. The Holocaust committed by Germans and their allies happened IN Poland, IN France, IN Belarus...all over Europe. It is part of their history as much as ours.

Remember that antisemitism was a european thing and highly integrated in most of the societies all over europe.

111RobinHood You call yourself Robin Hood? LOL... False propaganda from right wing activism, reported. Spread your bs in you cellar, alone, so you don‘t do harm. Disgusting to find this under such a video which is showing up exactly how you should do it: respectfully, remembering the victims - and not spreading lies from the depths of your internet rabbit hole.

@@kaitomikusmom3900 looks like you reporting them worked! The comment is gonna and their name is not linked in your comment, so I assume it got deleted, too. Thank you!

@ Never read so much BS than in your comment... you are feeding lies, so dear readers: Beware of his lies!

@ that somehow being conquered justifies genocide and land theft just because others have done it. That Blacks have more rights than whites. And that because some native people had cannibal rites this justifies them being dislodged from their lands.

@ When were Hawaian people cannibals? Please tell me, im curios. I study this and they were pretty advanced. But if you are in such a "We are better than these wild people"-bubble, Im afraid I cannot help you. And Indian culture died not completely, but it isnt really alife today, too. How could it, if you say to nomads "This is now your land, stay here".

@ it is also ridiculous to say that black people have more rights than whites. There is still a lot of racism in the world that actually lessens chances for people of colour. There are still targeted attacks on people of colour. There is still hatred against people of colour. What you are saying is like saying "jewish people do not face hatred and violence". Just don't say these things please. Genocide, racism, sexism and discrimination is never ok, BUT it is also still existant!!! Denying that is a lie.

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 There was No Land theft. It was war they lost, if you can't protect it Its not yours. Period... The Indians had hundreds of times more forces than the Army and Cavalry put together to EASILY Sweep the invadors into the sea, but they refused to put down their petty squabbles and Unite AND FIGHT TO DEFEND YOUR LAND, PERIOD INSTEAD OF WAGING WARS AGAINST EACH OTHER RIGHT UO

Fühlt sich gut an, gell.

@@mullegegenmobbing160 Fühlt sich mega an.

Schools in the US actually use the German term "Kristallnacht" when they teach about the event, so even though it is not appropriate for a German audience, it's still the word/ term that the US viewers are used to hearing the most. Unfortunately, it seems to be very difficult to get US schools to update their curricula.

@@yomintyfresh I do understand. I think the term "Kristallnacht" was about to change in the 1970s , so, well, USA, you are not so far behind, esp. bc it is a term used by the time back then during 3rd Reich. But the different use shall show the change of perspective. By the way, in 1982 the Cologne band BAP had a Song called "Kristallnaach"(Cologne dialect for Kristallnacht). Read more about it on Wikipedia. The article is also available in English. Take care!

@@brigitteoesterle662, I believe Americans are not able to pronounce the word "Reichsprogromnacht" properly, it's a tongue twister, I write that with respect not to diminish someone or anything,

@@Therawpy You are absolutely right, even for Germans it is one! In both the terms is "-nacht" which is a challenge for any non German speaker. I totally can understand the use of Kristallnacht, just wanted to add the term Reichspogromnacht to the discussion and the point of view behind it.

Jedes Wort hat seine 2 Seiten. Every word can have multiple meanings. For me Kristallnacht has nothing shining, glittering and beautiful because i know exactly what it depicts.

@@perliva Being brainwashed into having emphaty with other humans? I better not ask what ideology you subscribe to.

@@swanky_yuropean7514 Rheinwiesenlager. That is all.

@@perliva One bad makes the other bad less bad? I don't think so.

@@perliva Meine Fresse, in deiner Welt, in der Unrecht völlig ok geht und mit Unrecht gerechtfertigt wird, da will ich echt nicht leben.

@@phil3114 klingt nach Projektion und Sie beschreiben Ihre eigene Welt.

I actually see that in a lot of comments as well.

I love that !

Yes, many people do clean them here in Berlin too. At least one time a year (11/9). I think the Stolpersteine are a great concept.

Every now and then people around here are putting candles next to the Stolpersteine. That way everybody just has to take a look at them.

@@marcorothley6039 that's beautiful

Thank you.

@Steven West weil du aktuell keine Frösche findest an den du sonst leckst, oder was ist dein Auftrag? 🤔 *Kopfschüttel*

They are ment to be walked on. That way they keep their shine. Nobody has to be tend to those stones. We all do that collectively

@@smirglepapier531 That’s deep.

@; Only a guilt cult for those who have good reason to forget the past. Neo-Nazis or AfD fans come to mind.

lmao bullshit

@; I ain‘t talkin to you

@; oh hey how are you

I would never notice something attached to a house wall, because there is so much advertisement for everything on house walls, BUT I always stumble over these "Stolpersteine", even if I can understand the argument against them.

Very well put, Daniel! "Gets in your way" - that's exactly the underlying meaning of "Stolperstein": something that hinders or distracts you from your intended walk. And that they do perfectly imo.

There are actually entire rows of these at the "Hackesche Höfe" in Berlin. A few years ago, I was there to get some Christmas presents for my family when I noticed a tour guide and some kids at the entrance, speaking in English. The guide told them about what had happened to the people living at that place. Some of the kids were wearing kippahs, so I assumed they were from Israel. Unfortunately, the guide hadn't pointed out the stones in the ground to the children, so some of them were just standing on those "Stolpersteine". I kinda wanted to bring them to their attention, but I was a bit too reluctant and the situation felt too awkward for me, so I just left them alone.

actually you are supposed to walk over them, it keeps them nice and shiny,.

I grew up near by Bingen am Rhein in Germany and moved away to Switzerland before the Stolpersteine started. Many, many years later I walked through Bingen and was really shocked. Without the Stolpersteine I would never have realized what happened there.

The thing is, here in Germany ( and, of course, every where else ) they were not "just Jews" ( or political opposition, disabled or otherwise targets of the horrible bloodthirst that swept through Europe ). They were neighbors, friends, colleagues, lovers, relatives and citizens who got murdered by the millions. This is why imo. it is so important to remember them here, where they lived. Not just out of the utmost respect to them, to the people they were but also to never let their suffering become and isolated collection that could one day be ignored or forgotten.

Yeah I remember asking my mom what those shiny stones are for, and what's written on them, it's not another plaque on the wall, this is something different and it stands out. Yeah and I also got taught to never step on them

_„Even today, I always take a closer look at when I pass them.“_ This is what they want you to do. Bow and kneel. „Get down, slave!“

@@herzschlagerhoht5637 von was redest du?

@@perliva Bullshit! what they invite you to do is stop and reflect about the past ....

@@seinerechtehand6316 Es ist keine qualifizierte Antwort zu erwarten. Sinnlos.

@@hannahanna649 hat wahrscheinlich zu viele Facebook Fakten gelesen

Every country has a bad past. You don’t see the Turkish apologise for the actions of the ottomans or the Brits for their empire. Or the Russians for the Soviet union. They murdered more people than the Germans ever did. It’s time Germans stopped holding guilt. It was different back then. All countries done evil things. Look what the allies did to Dresden. No one talks about that

Unfortunately the stubborness is growing in Germany. Looking away instead of acting is quite common, but ignoring is a type of agreeing. We all should have the cojones to act more often.

And small children question what these bronze stumbeling stones are. Especially when they cannot read yet.

When I was in Sarajevo I walked around them & true it seems to me we'll never move forward.

@@CediEntertainment As longer time progresses, the less people will care about it. Thats normal. Because there's far greater distance.

We also watched videos from the concentration camps in 9th grade in Germany... Just in my class one person passed out and another one had to puke afterwards. It was quite the shock therapy, but that's one of the best ways to directly face the past and learn from it.

hey, can you tell me where in Vienna they are?

@@tterexx426 pretty much all over the city. I know there's at least 4, in the 10th district, but I don't have any exact adresses for you. sorry.

@@takktakterakk thanks anyway. Will keep my eyes open for them!

Respekt, ich finde es traurig dass in Österreich die Geschichte nicht wirklich aufgearbeitet wird weil man sich genau wie Italien aus der Verantwortung zieht aber du bist ein tolles Beispiel dafür, dass das nicht bei allen so ist. Danke!

@@ageongki6744 hängt mit Stalin zusammen der es durchbrachte, dass Österreich als Opfer der Nazis gilt und nicht als Täter. Obwohl der Großteil der damaligen Österreicher sich als deutsche sahen und mit Stolz sich dem Reich anschlossen, wird leider häufig nicht erwähnt, dass das Östereichische Selbstbewusstsein als eigenes Volk erst wirklich mit dem Ende des 2. Weltkriegs begann.

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On the other hand, I do not see them for resistance who were also transported to the same concentration camps, tortured and executed, nor for hostages who were executed, nor for political prisoners, gay people, journalists, artists, gypsies and all others who were murdered, because of who they were or what they stood for. Nur für Juden, gives me a very bad feeling, even when intended positive.

@@dutchman7623 i could not tell anything about Stolpersteine in the Netherlands, but in Germany they are for all kinds of Nazi victims. But maybe, you see more jewish ones , because there were more jewish victims.

Uygur genocide CURRENTLY ongoing in china apparently doesn't fit the criteria. It's easy to remember and it's easy to repeat words. Acting on these words is a different matter

You can find that in over 1200 Citys in Germany.

I'm sure now that you know you'll see them everywhere, there are a lot!

Thanks for the big laugh your concluding sentence gave me.

Yet the planning of his own wedding would give us great pleasure!

As soon as the generation that experienced the atrocities dies, so does the lesson, usually.

I would love to hear the students' reaction (and a short feedback whether I messed up the apostrophe or not 😐)

@@andreagliesing3613 it was a really nice conversation starter and, surprisingly, about half the class didn't know about the Stolpersteine. They now have the assignment to keep their eyes open and take a picture the next time they come across one. They especially felt what Nick also said in his video: that it is a much more personal way of remembering than going to a museum. And: your apostrophe is spot on ;)

Thank you for your answer! I think, this lessons might leave a trace in their heads. To see how close those victims actually are. Their grandchildren should be our neighbours, but they were never born.

Sorry but Hegel was right. It's the tendency of fallen human nature. The people who were born some 100 years ago and fought in WW2, if they saw what's going on just this week in Germany, they'd be appalled.

And the horrific thing is that this was said about 250 years ago

@@herbieklein2271 It's human nature, hasn't changed in 3000 years.

@@B.A.B.G. sadly 😢

@@herbieklein2271 There is an option though. Ein Ausweg aus dieser Lage.

Thank you for this post and your reminder that some people seem determined not to learn from the past. And thank you for taking steps to report them.

@@manofkent6560 you are quite out of your mind. Racist are not wanted in tis comment section.

Now you know how Americans feel lol.

@@fupoflapo2386 only that america never faced their past and still teach that the founding fathers were great people, that natives didn't get slaughtered like animals and that throwing nuclear bombs on already destroyed japan is okay.

@@Andreas-pj6np stay deluded my friend. Keep the meme alive.

Japan

@lil slayer If that is a response to my comment, I was not referring to the USA, read my comment again, I clearly refer to "former nazi allies".

I wouldn't say Germany is doing an amazing job in making restitution and reparations at the moment. The genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama is also part of German history. The descendants of the survivors in what is now Namibia have been fighting for recognition and justice for decades, but fully acknowledging the atrocities committed by German colonizers, taking responsibility for them and meeting the requirements of the Ovaherero and Nama seems still impossible for the German government. As a German, this makes me angry and ashamed.

Germany has improved. But it's far from a fantastic country. Is it better than US yes. Absolutely by a long shot. Is it fantastic no. If you dig deep enough you see all the filth. Homeless people living in shelters even tho they have a good paying job because they once had debt and no landlord is wanna take the "risk". It's abhorrent. The whole minimum wage just being a Lil bit more than Hartz 4. Around 50% of Germans don't have enough to actually effecrively save up money. But I guess you never were unemployed for a longer period of time and had to deal with Zeitarbeitsfirmen.

@Steven West könnte es sein das du da aufm Rückweg aus den Niederlanden warst?

Wenn du an der Aufarbeitung von Verbrechen so interessiert bist, solltest du vielleicht Hammer und Sichel in deinem Profilbild Überdenken.

What if you're in a wheel chair? you cant really lift the chair

Some people go out and polish these Stolpersteine, often done around November 9th to commemorate Reichsprogromnacht.

@@silkeesser thanks for the info. What a wonderful thing to do 😊

This is exactly not only my observation but my own behavior. I also explain my children what they stand for and why not to step on them. But I somewhat see the reason why some think to better not put them on the ground.