Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "World History" channel.

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  9. They were not a military force. They were often just men in their 30s that were too old for being considered top quality soldier material (for such you rather want men in their 20s, or at least that seems to be how the Germans then looked at it). The men in the einsatsgruppen were also given captured surplus weapons from countries that Germany had conquered, while the best German weapons were given to troops who were fighting in the frontline. The guards at the camp did not have to risk their own lives at the frontline. They got well paid. They got much free time and being able to visit their family often - unlike the troops who were fighting in the frontline against the allies. The did wear an uniform and tried to lie to themselves that their job was just as important for Germany and that they too were defending Germany against its enemies. But I guess that even an idiot would have had a hard time believing that. Some of those men hated their job and got drunk to get rid of the pain from all the unforgivable things they had done, while others became insane sadists who became more and more mentally distorted and started to lack any sense of empathy at all and had no problem with killing people every day of the week, like the guy in this video. They were cowards that did not serve in the frontline. And some young guards loved to wear their uniform because it made them feel cool and feel like a soldier. But their contribution to the war effort was none. Having people guard 13.000 concentration camps was just a dumb pointless distraction and did not help Germanys war effort one bit.
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  26. It is believed that somewhere between 8 and 14 million people died in the holocaust. And while I have a great deal of respect for this channel and the research done and the quality video images... I do here disagree with one statement. And that is that most people died in gas chambers and fewer died from bullets. In reality things are the other way around (I use the book of Artur Szulc as my source here). Most people were killed in mass shootings like that at Babij jar. And many people were also killed inside gas vans that the Einsatsgruppen brought with them to Eastern Europe. Most people died this way, but it was not an effective killing method from the nazis perspective. The men got psychological problems from seeing their victims they were killing and felt horrible about it. And driving around and kill people did cost fuel and ammunition. So therefore was it decided that the victims would be transported by rail to top secret places where they could be killed with no eye witnesses around the place to see. And the killers did not have to see women and children in the face when they killed them. And no bullets had to be wasted, but instead could extremely cheap poison gas be used to kill people. In 1942 did the nazi-state supported mass murder reach its peak. When the year was over had about 80% of all jews that the nazis would kill during the war died. Most of them had died in mass shootings. But many were also killed at Germany's six death camps: Sobibor, Majdanek, Treblinka, Belzec and Chelmno. The last camp Auschwitz were still under construction so it was not used that much at this point of time. But by 1944 it had become the largest factory of death in world history, and capable of killing more people than all the 5 other camps combined in a single day. It could kill 6000 people inside its gas chambers all at once. While the other camps could "only" kill 500. Auschwitz-Birkenau was nazi-Germany's perfection of all the lessons learned in how to kill people. But this monster only really came to be used at a very late stage in the holocaust. And by then had most jews in Poland already been murdered so there was no need to keep all other death camps, so they were closed down while Auschwitz was large enough to replace all those other camps for the remaining goals that the nazis had, such as murdering Hungary's jewish population - which could be done in record time at Auschwitz. So could the holocaust have been stopped? - I don't think so. There was no allied bombers with the range to reach all nazi death camps that were located in Poland and far away from any allied airbases in England. And flying without fighter escort would have anyhow been suicidal in 1942 when the German airforce still was strong and powerful. And finding the targets would have been difficult, and hitting the targets would have been almost impossible. And even if say a railway track leading to a death camp would have been destroyed, it would likely have been repaired within 2 weeks. And meanwhile could the nazis just transport their victims to some other death camps or sent out an einsatzgruppen to kill off the jews that the allied bombs had saved. Since 80% of all victims had died by the start of 1943, I don't see how much could have changed. Even if allied leaders like Churchill and Roosevelt could have been conviced that a genocide was going on and that it was super-important to stop it immidietly, I don't think they would have had the power to do so in 1942. Especially not when the Einsatzgruppen made most of the killings.
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  42. The nazis had a state apparatus and Germanys industrial might behind them to help them do their killing. They tried all kinds of methods of killing people. And they managed to kill a lot of people. But in the end did they end up with a very simple solution of killing people - they transported thousands of people to top secret camps with barbed wire and guard towers with machine guns. And then they lied to people and told them to take a shower. And once everyone was inside they "shower room" they locked the door and threw in poison gas. Once everyone inside was dead they did throw the bodies into ovens and burned them into ash - ash which then was thrown into rivers or used as fertilizer. Every victim would be dead so there would be no eyewitnesses left to tell the truth, and all bodies would be eliminated so no evidence would be left behind.. But many mistakes were made by the nazis. A hundred thousand victims managed to survive the horrors at Auschwitz and could tell the world about the truth. The camp Majdanek was conquered before it could be destroyed, so now the world know what a German gas chamber looklike. A recording from the Wansee conferance was unsuccesfully destroyed, so now people know about the German plans. And many photos from the holocaust were taken despite the German state had absolutly forbidden any photos from being taken inside the death camps. And a few nazis have testified how the mass murder were taken place - most of them in an naive attempt to save their own life from the gallows, while a rare few others were perhaps struck by some regret, shame, and guilt and tried to repair a wound that can never be made undone... Today we know a lot about the holocaust. But there is also a huge amount that we do not know. Only 2 people survived a place like Belzec where half a million people died. Same goes for Chelmno. And it would not surprise me if there are thousands of mass graves in eastern Europe that few are aware of. We will not know how many reacted the last minutes of their lives when the gas was pumped inside the room. Or what people thought about as they worked as the first Sonderkommandos and was forced to carry out all the innocent dead bodies of children and women from the gas chambers and then burn them. How would one feel after seeing foreigners gassing your own people to death? The Tattooist of Auschwitz said that he passed out after he saw the Germans force a large number of jews inside a bus with , and then they locked the door. And a guy climbed on top of the roof and threw in some poison into the bus... and heartbreaking scream was heard... And the man witnessed this passed out, and was a mental wreck for the coming two weeks and unable to work and had to be kept hidden by his friends for that time. Personally I think I would feel sick an vomit 🤮🤮 after seing such awful evil sh*t being done. I think killing people with gas is just an unnecessary cruel way of killing someone. Cruel to the victim to spend minutes in pain. Cruel to the slave who have to despose the dead body. And cruel to the killers who have to hear all screams. But for Germany who needed ammunition, morphine to treat injured soldiers, and fuel for trucks, and had a large chemical industry that could produce large amounts of poison gas from chemical waste products it was perhaps a logical economic choice.
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