Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "TheUntoldPast" channel.

I wish amateur historians would stop using the word Nazi in their documentaries. It's such a childish insult. They were Germans. The Germans invaded France, not the Nazis. You don't use similar rhetoric when referring to the British or the Americans. Nor do you refer to the Soviets as commies. It irritates me because it's just a hate word that clouds our understanding of important world events.
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They are not just medieval. They are still used today as anyone of the fascists who served at Guantanamo, Abu Graib, the prisons is the Gulf countries and the black sites run by Israel, Britain, France and the USA.
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Actually, the dungeon was probably used initially and for the most part as a storage area, just like the basements of most modern houses and large buildings are today.
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@rosesprog1722 And this American executioner was never punished for any of this, showing by this sadism and needless cruelty that victors justice was often no better than that of those they killed. ▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎ All these people venting their hatred for people and events that occurred before most of them were even born should ask themselves: What happened to the camp commandant of Guantanamo Bay? Or Abu Graib? What happened to the general in charge of cities like Fallujha?
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That wasn't an execution. Murder and arson, but not an execution.
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The word ‘dungeon‘ is misunderstood. A dungeon was simply a castle’s keep, the main fortified building that usually occupied the central space within the castle’s curtain wall and was the last refuge during a siege should enemies manage to break in. It was not the name for a prison cell nor a prison, but rather the name given to the whole building. Only when castles and their keeps (dungeons) fell into disuse as a lord’s primary home or a military headquarters and were put to other uses (including in many cases as prisons) did the word come to be used in the way it is today. Of course, castles did have places where prisoners could and were held (they were, after all, buildings designed to intimidate the local population and as a centre of military rule) and dissidents/political prisoners of conscience would be kept in the most secure place in the castle complex and that was, of course, the castle’s keep/dungeon.
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Sounds just what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians, the only difference being that one is condemned and portrayed as morally censurable while the other is more or less openly condoned and the atrocities largely hidden from view.
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The words 'tens of thousands' would probably have been a better way of phrasing it.
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Say that to a Native American. They'll say the same thing about the English/ Americans.
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Do two wrongs make a right?
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Because she was, shall we say, rather well made (fat, chubby)?
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I do. And the comparative lack of ghost stories from graveyards, execution grounds and prisons, the places where you’d expect the most hauntings.
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@nilswestman4013 if they are from the USA or Canada very probably. A very puritanical lot the Anglo-Saxons, so judgemental and obsessed with controlling other people's sex lives.
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@danmcn61 So does that mean she wasn't his full niece but his ½ or ¼ niece?
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Of the women hanged, how many died instantly by having their necks broken and how many died by strangulation? How long did they take to die from first to last? Are there any photos of the actual hangings 'in progress' or just the 'before' and 'after' photos?
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You can't really blame Hitler (or Himmler) for their beliefs as antisemitism was then rife in Europe at that time and, so I'm told, especially virulent in the late Austro-Hungarian and German empires (indeed, as was what we would now call racism, heterosexism and male chauvinism). I'd be more surprised if Hitler, coming from the social class he did, had not been antisemitic.
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