How the hell do all of these former German soldiers look so healthy and seem so mentally sharp into their 80s/90s. They literally seem 20 years younger!

What's so incomprehensible? Look at what's happening today .

It wasn't just the Germans who hated the Jews and communists. Everybody did then; the French, the English, Spanish, Russians, Italians, etc.

This is by far the BEST Documentary channel and the BEST documentary on the SS. I learned A LOT from watching these. Keep up the great work with these videos!!

Wow I’ve seen a thousand war documentaries and this one is solid footage I’ve not seen.

Their uniforms are most badass military uniforms even until today

superb documentary, hooked from the beginning. glad this has the popularity it deserves

This is one one heck of a different experience... like never before.. is unreal how much raw footage this has.. unbelievable. Well done!

I was impressed by the presentation of the documentary style. The actual interviews with former S.S. personal. Bravo 👏

That guy has some nerve talking about someone coming into your country and doing “bad things” to you and asking how that would feel 🤯

I was surprised at how great this was. Not sure if this channel is the creator but well done to all involved 👏

I honestly never thought these people were still alive, it's good to hear from each sides of the story.

In 80 years we are going to have documentaries like this, about the people who are in power now. I'll let you decide who I'm talking about.

The crazy thing is that the very thing these men feared is actually happening today....

Wow this documentary is so good and well put

This is 1 of the better in-depth documentaries if you're not into a bunch of intensive reading!

This documentary is INCREDIBLE. Every high school student should watch this in history class.

It's endlessly ironic to me that none of the Nazi hierarchy met the standards of the SS.

The truly terrifying thing is that this can happen so easily again, we live in hate filled days............

Incomprehensible? If you were going through a great depression, and you could barely afford underwear and socks, much less a loaf of bread, this dude comes along and says hey, I have a job for everyone and by the way, we're going to make the best military ever and then they create this Military force that is known throughout the country as an elite unit with really sharp looking uniforms, and only the best of the best join and you volunteer, you pass basic training, and you become part of a brotherhood like any other elite military force and then you go home on leave And you see all of your friends who are admiring you you walk by that girls house that you had a crush on, I imagine that after basic training a Waffen SS LAH soldat, probably felt a really big sense of pride, especially as a young man I would be staring at myself all day and that uniform it's been almost 100 years and the Germans still had the best uniforms. And they didn't make that training easy from what I've seen. I don't think men today could handle that type of rigorous training that they put the SS through maybe some of our Special Forces but it didn't look easy at all. So I imagine for the men at that time, and the guys that were just old enough to join the army. It probably was a sense and matter of pride they probably wanted to make their country proud, since Germany has a long tradition of love for your country and they probably wanted to make their parents proud And challenge themselves It's not a huge mystery. Why people join certain military elite groups The sense of belonging to something that not many people belong to makes you feel important, honorable and brave but I'm pretty sure they didn't think they were gonna have to commit mass genocide but not every division did that. There's a difference between Nazi, political soldier, and a German soldier.

not just the what, but the why, is what was so superlative about this 50 minutes of my life...

good documentary very good good to hear the other side for a change

I wished I had known about this channel. From now on I won't be watching any Netflix or Prime on weekends. Great work.

by far the most in-depth with real time footages that I've actually never seen before

40:01 It is a wide misconception and false Western propaganda that it was only Hitler that invaded Poland. We have to remember that Stalin took his slices of the cake.

The shots and videos in this, I consider myself a casual historian but there was almost 30% of clips I never seen before...thank you for shedding more light on these crimes against humanity

Hugo Boss did brilliant job on those uniforms.....

The man at the end who was asked “ THAT WAS YOUR ONLY THOUGHT!? YOU DIDN’T HAVE ANY FEELINGS FOR THE PEOPLE YOU WERE EXECUTING!?” He did what he was told. He literally said before that he thought to himself “ Aim well, so they would be killed with a single shot “ sounds to me like that’s a feeling of compassion , in a weird way, is it not? Otherwise he could have made the other person suffer excruciating pain.

Stunning! a truly stunning documentary, Very well done.

Kurt Barkhausen has not changed. He still lives in the world of the SS. You can see it in his eyes.

Hello, what year did the interviews had been made ?

Awesome anecdotes.

What a fantastic documentary. So much footage I’ve never seen in 1000 others docs and in color as well. Super impressive. Subscribed and following.

My mind is blown. This is an amazing documentary. Reminds me of The History Channel. Very informative and the footage is great. Beautifully made

For some reason I can kinda understand the nazis and how they felt

i really like the vibe of the narrator's voice and imagery

Gotta love how the “Full Documentary” cuts off in the middle.

8-10k of these SS soldiers were first moved to England and then to the US and Canada after WW2. One of them was also given 2 standing ovations in the Canadian parliament.

Damn and I thought Apple users had the highest degree of fanatical brand loyalty

"When justifying their actions, the SS would point to the tribulations of the 1920s." I always wonder how these Germans think that they were the only group of people suffering or humiliated. My Germanic parents' families (who left Western Europe during the Reformation period) were living in the Soviet Union during the reign of Stalin. They went through not only poverty but starvation and executions in gulags. My parents were among the ones who came to Canada as refugees but remained extremely poor through the 1930s up until the 1950s. During the Great Depression period was worldwide and there were many innocent victims.

Amazing documentary. I have been watching alot of Documentaries but I have never seen a good one like this. Thanks alot for sharing this!

Interesting documentary. Thanks for uploading. When was it made? 2010? (80 years + 1930s?)

So from my understanding is ww2 MIGHT not have happened if Germany had been punished fairly instead of taking all the blame?

This was an excellent documentary, it had lots of footage that I had not seen before.

Excellent video. I watch and read a lot of history and I haven’t seen about 30 %of the clips ♥️🇨🇦

Superb documentary and the production that went for this, so many raw footages that shows the life under the nazi regime.

Thanks

Excellent video!! Thank you.

One of the most impressive and factual documentaries on Nazi Germany I have ever watched. Finding former SS members today is like finding a needle in a haystack. Excellent coverage and rare footage of that time. Bravo!!!

"There are two Hitlers, the Truth and the Hollywood." I write about the Truth, that's why there are cops at my door. " David Irving (English writer)

How can a so called civilized society think what they were doing to innocent people was justified....I can never comprehend that thinking...I mean you have to already have a cold heart to perform such horrid acts...normal people just dont do these sort of things...It is mind boggling to me that a nation could be convinced that this was O.K..Too bad every soldier involved in these monstrous acts could not be held accountable...and to even think that in the later years of their life they still believed what they did was acceptable is very disturbing

Well constructed documentary. Hearing testimony from former SS men is both chilling and informative

Truly breathtaking footage! The colorization is superb and I'm sure some upscaling must've been used because some of those scenes have tremendous quality! Well done!

Thanks!

I went to Germany in 1995. I was 20 years old and was heading to visit family I had never met in Slovenia. I thought it would be cool to see dachau as I’m a ww2 buff but I must say it was the most depressing experience of my life

The past is the crystal ball to the future, i have said this for years.. it seems people forget what we should never forget.

I did four military tours of NI in the early 80s, and I was absolutely shocked by how the Protestant and Catholics totally despised each other, being a English catholic myself, I found it best to keep one's religion to ones self. I always felt that the majority of the people of NI I delt with, pleasant though they where, where actually no different than those on the main land ie they just wanted to get on with their lives. Religion again causes so many issues around the world, as it did in NI. This was a very informative documentary and explained the history of the troubles which though I was sent there, I didn't know. It's nice to see NI at peace, and I hope it remains.

5:30 How the kid took off his hat immediately....never seen footage before!

This is incredible. I haven't seen a lot of this film.

Great documentary, haven't seen this footage in god knows how long, how'd you get it? :>

this documentary was amazing

so disgusting to see these faces in the first minutes monsters living normal lives im disgusted

Holy shit . When is part two?!? This was fascinating !!

Verry good documentary , many things i never hear or seen before! thank you for sharing .

When was this filmed please?

WTF HAB ICH GERADE GESEHEN? diese videoauschnitte hatte ich noch nie zuvor gesehen! von wo haben die all diese filmauschnitte herrangeschafft? unglaublich!

Excellent video. it really gives me the chills hearing the testimony from these former SS Officers. But, the ending seems kind of abrupt. Is there are Part 2 of this video?

Look at that footage, no phones, just young men living in the moment 😂

Wow danke für das Video, wollte schon immer wissen was mit ihm geschah. Danke

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Special thanks to veteran soldiers sharing personal information pertaining to knowledge/experiences of life in Germany ( 1933 to 1945 ). Making this documentary more authentic and possible -!!!

Excellent, somehow doesn't do this documentary justice. Superbly made! Bravo!

Where do I sign up???

Truly an impressive documentary, it makes me understand the cruelty way better. Very impressive how the nazi’s did all of this. Great video!

Very fascinating documentary! Also, thank you for leaving the footage unedited.

Excellent documentary

Minute 5:50 talking about someone coming into Germany and humiliating them, which is what they did in the 1st and 2nd world war. Ironic

Wow. I thought I have seen all the footage of WW Two. And to give this per perspective. I think it said. 5 Millon were working with in 5 years. And how it all started. And ended so fast. Thank God.

Brilliant documentary ,so much footage I have never seen before and. Soooo scary

Excellent video

At 5:31 did the editor really put that 'smack' sound effect in there? you kidding me right? >.>

They had to be tall "5'6" wtf is this comment. Had me rolling.

There are a few declarations here that are historically incorrect. The booming economy had nothing to do with public works projects or anything other than rearmament. The arms industry which was paid by hidden debt allowed for temporary gains. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, cooked the expenditures out of the GDP and off the banks books for a decade. Once the debt had to be accounted for, Hitler refused, and wanted to draw down billions more. This, along with ideological considerations, is why he resigned in 1939. I can’t provide exact citation, but I recommend reading “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by William L Shirer. I do believe an audio version is on YT for free.

Fascinating video. Very well done.

Shows that humans are easily turned into drones.

Is this also available without the English dub ?

I thought I had consumed all of the publicly available footage surrounding WWII. However, Im seeing a plethora of footage in this documentary that ive never seen before! Amaziing. Im very grateful.

It would be very interesting to see the entire interview of each German SS soldier rather than a selected few excerpts.

This is old. Show us the modern IDF uniforms.

What a beautiful song. 24:10

Fantastic documentary, thank you very much for this!

Weird how you left out what was going on in Weimar before WW2 and what people like Magnus Hirschfeld were doing there. Weird.

Wow this is heavy.

At 41.21 just like Air Ministry ( Luftwaffe) building that exists today in Berlin one of only a few buildings that actually survived devastation during Berlins bombardment at end of war - The stone sentry gate posts are there still today but totally encased in concrete

This is something else!!! Been watching War Docs since the 70s and Wow!! Creepy. Eye opening!!

"Hans, are we the baddies? I mean we have skulls on our caps."

If you like Hugo Boss then he’s your man for SS fashion….nailed it

That horse chugging a beer was unexpected.

This is a great documentary of videos. It has a bit too much political editorial, but one can ignore that and see the history in the videos.

the SS woman definately wasn't forced to work in the concentration camp.. Throughout the entire war there was actually never a reported instance of any German soldiers or ss being punished or killed for not following orders, no matter how gruesome those orders were. It was actually known that you wouldn't be punished for abstaining from carrying out certain orders, like executions. So yeah the whole idea that most Germans were forced into doing these things is completely false. Most enthusiastically and unquestioningly followed these orders, especially when we are talking about SS die hards

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