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Hitler's soldiers commit one of the biggest massacres in history.
During WWII, Hitler put the SS in charge of exterminating the designated enemies of the regime.
In good conscience and thinking they were defending Germany, a large number of young SS volunteers executed communists and Soviet Jews.
Hitler's soldiers commit one of the biggest massacres in history.
During WWII, Hitler put the SS in charge of exterminating the designated enemies of the regime.
In good conscience and thinking they were defending Germany, a large number of young SS volunteers executed communists and Soviet Jews.
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00:06They were, they thought, the Third Reich's racial elite.
00:12Men superior to others.
00:16Ready to do anything for the triumph of National Socialism.
00:24Men Hitler could count on to the death.
00:31To apply their racial theories, they were prepared to eliminate their adversaries.
00:38To decimate the Jewish people.
00:41To massacre civilian populations.
00:51Over 70 years later, some of them are still living among us.
01:14This is the story of SS Fanaticism.
01:20Bloodlust and Terror.
01:33Tolled from the inside.
01:53Summer 1941.
01:57Hitler has unleashed his troops on the Soviet Union.
02:05In order to kill Jews, the Nazis had already formed special units.
02:12The Einsatzgruppen.
02:14Detachments of killers made up of SS members, police and locally recruited auxiliaries.
02:22Here is one of their leaders.
02:25SS General Jekylln.
02:29He would be hanged by the Allies in 1946 for the murder of more than 100,000 people.
02:38His method of execution?
02:41Sardine packing.
02:44He applied it here, in the Babayar Ravine where he executed more than 30,000 Jews.
02:54They were laid on top of one another and shot.
02:57Then buried in layers like sardines.
03:02Men.
03:05Women.
03:07Children.
03:09Men.
03:11Women.
03:12Children.
03:13Men.
03:14Westernern Arkham.
03:16Women.
03:16Men.
03:16Women.
03:17Avengers.
03:23Men.걸
03:26They're
03:27worn out their chin. Mary.
03:31of theorp. And rape.
03:35Angry Musik.
03:37Jupy Brahmany.
03:41Every船.
03:42was that the SS didn't see themselves as criminals but as victims, soldiers
03:48defending themselves. Oskar Gröning, one of the last Auschwitz SS men still alive.
03:58He believed at the time that it was the Jews who had brought the world to wage
04:03war against Germany.
04:09Wir waren der festen Überzeugung, das war unsere Weltanschauung, wir Deutschen, wir sind
04:15im Grunde genommen betrogen rings von der Welt und das ist eine große Verschwörung des
04:20Judentums gegen uns.
04:23Die Kinder sind im Moment noch nicht der Feind. Der Feind ist das Blut in ihnen, der Feind
04:31ist das Nachwachsen zu einem Juden, der gefährlich werden kann. Deswegen sind die Kinder mit
04:41beinhaltet.
04:46Executioners, victims, switching the roles authorized every crime. Not every SS man
04:57took part, but many agreed with it.
05:08In the view of the SS Chief Himmler, those who killed Jews were carrying out indispensable
05:15work for the survival of the country.
05:20He wanted to attend a massacre and see for himself hundreds of bodies piled up in a ditch.
05:28He said to have felt queasy seeing the blood spurt from the bullet wounds, but his demands
05:34for executions only increased.
05:39Listen to his voice as he speaks to his generals.
05:46Wir haben das moralische Recht. Wir hatten die Pflicht unserem Volk gegenüber das zu uns.
05:52Dieses Volk aus uns umbringen wollte, umzubringen.
05:59Von euch werden die meisten wissen, was es heißt wenn hundert Leichen beisammen liegen.
06:04Wenn fünfhundert da liegen oder wenn tausend da liegen.
06:11Und wir haben diese schwerste Aufgabe in Liebe zu unserem Volk getan.
06:21Und das durchgehalten zu haben, anständig geblieben zu sein, hat uns hart gemacht und ist ein niemals
06:37genanntes und niemals zu nennendes Ruhmes Platz.
06:51Und das durchgehalten zu werden.
06:53Für 11 Millionen Europäische Jews, according to the SS' own calculations, Himmler appointed
07:01a technocrat of crime.
07:06SS member Reinhard Heydrich.
07:09The man with the iron heart, as Hitler called him.
07:15The genocide, it's him.
07:21A four officer expelled from the Navy, he ran the RSHA, the Reich's Central Security Office,
07:29in charge of all state security.
07:35One of his sons gave us his family films, notably these holiday movies.
07:45Married to an aristocrat from northern Germany, he embodies the ideal SS man.
07:50A cold blooded, athletic and efficient Nazi.
08:00With his secret police force, he had files on millions of Germans, notably the Jews, whom
08:07he divided into several racial groups.
08:10100% Jewish, mixed blood, etc.
08:17It was a formidable system, and the first step towards extermination.
08:37For his services, Hitler made him head of Bohemia Moravia.
08:43You can see him here at home in Prague Castle.
08:47The former residence of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor.
08:53A king surrounded by his court.
09:05When she learned of his nomination, his wife Lina was overcome.
09:13I was submerged by a feeling of exultation, she wrote.
09:18I said to myself I was no longer a mere mortal, but a princess.
09:24And that I was living in a fairy tale.
09:34Throughout Europe, the new Nazi lords took over the finest homes.
09:44Another castle was occupied in Krakow, Poland.
09:48It was here that Hitler's former lawyer lived and worked.
09:52Hans Frank, Poland's governor-general.
09:58The Jews.
10:00This stupid-grunt-guards.
10:04This barbarous murder, the innocent-guards.
10:10This evil-gain-guards.
10:15This evil-gain-guards.
10:18This evil-gain-guards.
10:23This evil-gain-guards.
10:26we met his son, the writer Nicholas Frank.
10:33He remembers the SS who guarded him in Krakow during his childhood
10:37as mediocre individuals.
10:56He had a total peace.
10:57And he could buy everything on the black market.
11:02And then I would let a few people
11:05at the lanterns hang on,
11:08when I know I can live here.
11:11What do they do?
11:12They are just the people.
11:18The secretaries were named
11:22General-Governotten.
11:28There was a huge sexual treading
11:32there.
11:33What is also a form of
11:35from this
11:38violence atmosphere
11:40at least a few orgasms
11:43to forget
11:46that we had nothing in this country
11:48lost.
11:57That they had been
12:02in the world.
12:02I have been shown to myself in the real world.
12:06widerwärtige kleine Spießer.
12:10Das war mein Vater.
12:14Ein absoluter Depp.
12:30Schon am 10. Mai 1933
12:32waren die großen Bücherverbrennungen
12:34von all unseren tollen Schriftstellern.
12:41Eigentlich hätte er da schon sagen müssen,
12:43das kann doch wohl nicht wahr sein.
12:49Da kann ich als Humanist,
12:51der ich den Faust von Goethe auswendig kenne,
12:54der ich Shakespeare liebe, der ich glänzend Klavier spiele,
12:58der ich jeden Abend, wenn's irgend geht,
13:01ins Theater gehe.
13:02Da kann ich nicht mitmachen.
13:08Und der hat mitgemacht,
13:10nicht zuletzt auch wegen
13:11der persönlichen Karriere.
13:27Er war nicht der einzige.
13:30Viele Menschen benefited von der Krieg.
13:36Die Waffen SS-Soldier,
13:38für die,
13:38zum Beispiel,
13:39die Risscrosser Europäer von einem Konkwesten
13:41nach der anderen,
13:44für sie,
13:45es war wie eine große Glückwunsch.
14:04As the Jewish people gradually disappeared, the SS profited and dreamed.
14:16Himmler had promised them the brightest of futures.
14:22The Third Reich would last a thousand years, he tells them.
14:29As Greece fought Rome, as Rome conquered Carthage and Jerusalem,
14:35so Germany will crush the Judeo-Bolshevik USSR.
14:44It is the last war, he tells them, so we may as well win it swiftly.
14:53It will put an end to centuries of racial strife.
15:02These are arguments that hit home.
15:10The SS wanted to believe that in conquered Soviet land, Himmler would give them vast agricultural holdings,
15:19where thousands of Slav workers would work for them as slaves.
15:29Like the Teutonic Knights of old, the new lords would defend German civilization against the barbarians.
15:49The idea was, Jews were out, Jews were out.
15:54You can see how Himmler thought.
15:59He was the greatest asshole of all time.
16:02Himmler was a good man. Himmler had a good character. Himmler wanted for the German people the best.
16:15And apparently not only for the German people.
16:20From 1940, with the aim of founding a German Empire,
16:25he opened the doors of the SS to the inhabitants of several defeated countries.
16:31The Danes, the Norwegians, the Dutch.
16:36They were all Germanic, said Himmler.
16:42As the war continued, the SS opened up also to the French-speaking Belgians,
16:47the French themselves, and the Italians, Latin peoples,
16:52to whom Himmler gave the hope of entering into the Nazi elite.
17:00The entry into the SS was a promotion for us.
17:06I was in Germany.
17:08They told me that the Germans were under-alimented,
17:11which was wrong.
17:13They were poorly dressed, which was wrong.
17:18All I saw in Germany, that was better for me,
17:24that was an excellent model.
17:27The National Socialist Party was a party that led a lot of good
17:31to Germany, to workers,
17:35to work, to participate,
17:38to build houses, gardens, etc.
17:41And we thought that it was the model, yes.
17:44Exactly.
17:45My dream at the time was to see Germany win the war,
17:48for me, because Germany was the supreme nation of Europe.
17:52When I entered the war in the SS,
17:55I considered myself as one of them.
18:00An illusion.
18:03None of these non-Germanic, Latin, or here,
18:06Muslim Slav peoples would ever actually belong to the Black Order.
18:12Attracted by the wages and the family allowances,
18:16they wore the uniform, but were cannon fodder.
18:23For every foreigner who dies, said the head of recruitment,
18:28no German mother cries.
18:38One of these Muslim volunteers met Himmler,
18:41who was more calculating than ever.
18:45He loved the Islam.
18:48He loved the Islam.
18:49The soldiers would have the heavens,
18:51if he was in the camp,
18:53he would have no ideology on the whole world,
18:57also Nationalsozialism not.
19:00He could do something like that.
19:02He could do something like that.
19:04He could do something like that.
19:04He could do something like that.
19:05He could beden,
19:05and he can say come to the heavens,
19:09and come do something like that.
19:11He could do something like that,
19:12so you are trying to protect the Restaurants
19:14andNADIille.
19:15This is Adrian Himmler.
19:21The Fuhrer's residence in Bavaria
19:25Here are the architects of the final solution
19:29Himmler the cynic in the company of Reinhard Heydrich
19:33His dark shadow
19:39Confidence on their faces
19:42In 1942, the Nazis controlled a large part of Europe
19:47And were putting into practice their racial theories
19:53They believed they would soon defeat the USSR
19:59They knew, however, that their death machine
20:03Would not be sufficient to complete the extermination
20:08And that some of their men were disgusted by the tasks they were being asked to perform
20:20Behind the lines, the Waffen-SS were now fighting against Stalin's partisans
20:26Soldiers in civilian clothing
20:28Who, according to the Nazi propaganda
20:30Failed to respect the laws of war
20:35You could never tell whether it was a partisan or not
20:38You think you're in a quiet position
20:43And suddenly there is all hell got loose
20:47The partisans come and they were shooting right, left and center, you know
20:53Sie sind keine Soldaten
20:55Sie kämpfen aus dem Interhalt und müssen beseitigt werden, Punkt
21:01Ich als Einzelner stehe dem Wehrlust gegenüber
21:06Und das ist ein Gleist, das ist ein Gleist im Zweiten Weltkrieg
21:12Auf voller Seite
21:14Wenn Sie angehörfen werden von Partisaden
21:18Sind Sie, weil Sie im Zivil sind
21:22Und weil Sie, wenn Sie auftreten, überraschend auftreten
21:27Und dann dürfen Sie auch auf Zivilisten schießen
21:35Da passieren Dinge, die man sich gar nicht rausdenken kann
21:40An ordentliche Jew
21:42To go and kill him
21:44No, I didn't
21:44I can stick
21:48It's out there
21:49I can stick my hand on the Bible
21:52And swear to it
21:53I didn't
21:56I had no occasion
22:02I was lucky that
22:04I didn't have to
22:08If you had been ordered to do that, would you have done it
22:15Now you ask me, I think I would
22:22Because an officer ordered me to do
22:26And an order is to be obeyed
22:30Even shooting civilians
22:32Or children
22:34Or women
22:35With no weapon
22:36Oh no
22:37No
22:40No, not that
22:48In 1942
22:50There were still some 10 million European Jews left to kill
22:55According to Heydrich's calculations
23:01After several experiments
23:03The SS leaders believed they'd found the solution
23:07How to kill far more people while sparing their troops
23:13Death camps
23:18This amateur footage shot by SS guards
23:22Shows the inside of the Pozen camp
23:25One of the first in occupied Poland
23:30In turning undesirables
23:32As in the 1930s
23:33Was no longer enough
23:35They were to be killed
23:39In the greatest secrecy
23:41The SS tested toxic gas
23:43An especially built gas chamber
23:47Hidden behind these outer walls
23:50They had already eliminated 400 mentally ill prisoners by 1939
24:05Gassing was a gentler form of death, they said
24:10Particularly for the killers
24:16And so the SS now use this technique
24:19To relaunch their killing machine
24:23Targeting all European Jews
24:33In a few months
24:34Himmler's men set up a new network of death
24:37A sophisticated sinister web on a vast scale
24:43From the Atlantic coast
24:45To the plains of Poland
24:47They ferried their victims to the camps
24:50Where they were exterminated
24:56Europe was a prison
24:58It became a morgue
25:02Antiseptic
25:02And efficient
25:10See how calm these SS men are
25:14They have partially delegated everyday tasks to deportees themselves
25:24And are content just to survey events and keep their hands clean
25:29Unsullied
25:32Distant
25:34Superior
25:37And more cynical than ever
26:05Most would be sent to the slaughterhouse
26:07Notably to Auschwitz
26:13These photos taken by an SS guard
26:16Show the arrival of prisoners and their sorting
26:19By SS doctors
26:23On one side are the young and healthy who will work
26:27On the other
26:29Those who will be killed in the coming hours
26:34Once they were designated
26:36The SS guards avoided them
26:38They merely supervised the killing process
26:42Dropping toxic gas canisters into the gas chamber via a hatch
26:48Then other prisoners removed
26:50And burnt the bodies in ovens
27:01What do the Auschwitz SS guards feel?
27:05How could they live amid such slaughter?
27:13We sought to meet some of them
27:15Recently targeted by the German judiciary
27:39The only ones willing to speak about Auschwitz are the Waffen SS who weren't even there
27:46And who don't believe it happened
27:52And who don't believe it happened
27:56And who don't believe it happened
28:40Inadmissable insults to the victims
28:42A denial of reality
28:45Despite the countless proofs of genocide committed against those
28:49The Nazis judged undesirable
28:54Here, for example, with the deportation of Dresden's Jews
28:59Almost all would die in Auschwitz
29:01An unbearable truth for most SS veterans
29:06It ruins the dreams of their youth
29:16Hertha Bote could not deny the existence of the camps
29:21She worked in several before moving to Bergen-Belsen
29:27Der erste Einblick war nicht schlecht
29:30Da rief gleich ein SS-Mann-Unterschaftsführer
29:34Hallo, da kommt meine Blondie
29:37Das war ja schon ganz gut
29:39Als junges Mädchen
29:43Mit den SS-Manninnen kam ich gut zurecht
29:48Die wollten sich wichtig tun
29:51Wir haben sie mit den Höflingen gemacht
29:52Was sie wollten
29:56Ja, und dann war noch eine Aufsehen-Kopf
29:59Und Aufsehen-Kopf war ein Biest
30:01Als Aufseherin
30:04Ihr Verlobter war als Chauffeur bei Otto Fittler
30:09Die hat gedacht, sie kann sich alles erlauben
30:19Most of the SS guards in the camps
30:21Experienced a feeling of power
30:27Many were delighted to be appointed there
30:31The camps were a safe haven
30:34The staff were not risking their lives
30:37And Himmler had made sure they'd be comfortable
30:42Like here at the Reichhof-Kamp
30:45120 miles from Auschwitz
30:50The Auschwitz-Kamp itself was much sought after
30:54It was here, to this 470-acre-Komplex
30:59That Oskar Gronig was sent as an accountant in 1942
31:05Auschwitz, das Stammlager war eine kleine Stadt
31:08Mit seinem Klatsch und Tratsch
31:10Es war eine Stadt, die einen Gemüseladen hat
31:13Wo man Knochen kaufen konnte
31:17Seitdem man sich noch eine Brühe fertigen konnte
31:19Es gab eine Kantine
31:21Es gab ein Kino
31:24Es gab ein Theater mit regelmäßigen Vorführungen
31:28Es gab einen Sportverein
31:30In dem ich auch war
31:33Es war Juhel, Trubelheiterkeit
31:35Wie eine Kleinstadt
31:42They even had a rural leisure resort
31:4420 miles from the camp
31:52Da hat der Alkohol eine große Rolle gespielt
31:54Denn wir kriegten ein gewisses Quantum jeden Tag
31:58Das war gar nicht mehr abholten
32:00Und manchmal abholten
32:01Und ein großes Aufklärer gemacht
32:09Oskar Gronig war, he claims
32:11Disgusted by the Massacres
32:13And asked for a transfer to the front
32:16Two years after his arrival
32:20Although he too has retained
32:22Some fond memories of his times at the camp
32:43The men and women of the SS
32:45Who behaved like monsters
32:47Were human beings
32:52And there lies the problem
33:00July 20th 1944
33:04The beginning of the end
33:07This time their idol was almost eliminated
33:12At a senior staff meeting
33:14Hitler's bunker was blown apart by a bomb
33:20A Wehrmacht officer from Germany's old elite
33:24Was behind the attack
33:27Hitler was only slightly wounded
33:29But everyone was deeply affected
33:31The Third Reich
33:34Supposed to last a thousand years
33:36Was under threat
33:41The Normandy landings are now a month old
33:45In the east
33:47In the west
33:48Everywhere the Germans are retreating
33:53To try to shore up their crumbling front lines
33:56Hitler scales up the deployment
33:59Of the Waffen SS
34:00The frontline firemen
34:03As they call them
34:05The front was on the east
34:06Die front was on the east
34:10This部分 was on the east
34:12This part was on the east
34:13We were defending us
34:14Einen verzweifelten
34:15Kampf geführt
34:17And there I thought
34:18Now we have been
34:20Through the eigenkräfte
34:22Verraten
34:22Now we have not only
34:24The overmecting
34:25Feind
34:26Against us
34:27To verteidigen
34:28Now we have been
34:29Im Rücken
34:30Verraten
34:31We were
34:35The SS know they have everything to lose.
34:42Since the 1930s, they've staked everything on Hitler.
34:49If he falls, they fall with him.
34:55That was the war. That was the total war in which the human himself played no more.
35:03The main question was how this war should be won. That was the question.
35:13Better kill 1.000 Russians too many than one too few, their leaders on the Eastern Front told them.
35:22Confronted with a similar insurrection in France, they applied the same terror.
35:27To dissuade the population from supporting the resistance.
35:32At Oradour, the Das Reich Division assassinated 642 people.
35:39SS soldier Gour was six miles away at the time, he says.
35:45From the village Oradour, I didn't know anything about it.
35:51As a partisan, you have to know that you have to know that you can't react with all the weapons.
35:59You have to know that you can't react with all the weapons.
36:09You have to know that you can't react with all the weapons.
36:10I saw civilians pinned to the trees, the lamps.
36:15They said, you know what we do. If you do something against us, we will kill you.
36:23Certain Waffen SS soldiers from the Das Reich Division were forcibly enrolled.
36:29Nothing like the others who were volunteers.
36:33From the Alsace border region, they were born French, but the Nazis saw them as German.
36:39They were called the Malgranu, against our will.
36:46In 1944, as the army withdrew, they discovered from the inside the pitiless methods of the Black Order.
36:56All that was not with them, they were against them.
36:59Here, we shot traitors, resistors, civilists.
37:03There, you fling them, except for the Blacks.
37:07They said, the Blacks don't give a ball.
37:09They took their head under the arm and fed their crâne with the gun.
37:14We felt fanatism in their gestures.
37:24The Blacks don't give a ball.
37:24I saw a man, he got a obus, he fell.
37:27He said, he said, he's the arms.
37:29He said, I'm not going to give a ball.
37:34He said, I'm not going to give a ball.
37:35He said, it's like this.
37:36He said that the whole world was against us, but they were killing it.
37:41Until now everything went great.
37:43Everything went well.
37:43They thought that it would continue, and that Hitler would do the necessary for...
37:49Well, now we are in retirement, but there will be a moment where he will make the wall, where we
37:54will move forward.
38:00Born and bred on Nazism, these SS men couldn't imagine their Führer's demise.
38:09Or their own.
38:14Their leaders warned them, German civilization will disappear if the Jews and the Communists prevail.
38:27To replace Heydrich, executed in Prague by the Czech resistance, Himmler appointed another SS officer, Koltenbrunner.
38:39And the reign of terror continued unabated.
38:46For some time now, reality had no longer concerned them.
38:56At the end of 1944, their demise was certain, but they hung on nevertheless.
39:04Hitler had promised miracle weapons, devastating rockets that would turn the tide of the war.
39:17The V-2s caused havoc in England, but nothing actually changed.
39:28Himmler continued to send reinforcements to the front.
39:42Himmler continued to send reinforcements to the front.
39:47seen .
39:49The attack gut war and the defense was all the way around, outside they went on to pass the time
39:53off,
39:53they kept the assist of the two or three brothers who had to defend us.
40:02They didn't have any fuel to defend us.
40:06We had no way to defend ourselves.
40:08We had no way to defend ourselves.
40:10We had no way to defend ourselves.
40:13They sacrificed us.
40:21Of course, on the front,
40:24everyone shot their hands full.
40:25We had no way to defend ourselves.
40:25We had no way to defend ourselves.
40:34We had no way to defend ourselves.
40:39January 1945.
40:42Himmler, who wanted to erase all traces of the genocide,
40:47ordered that Auschwitz be evacuated.
40:52An amateur film,
40:54shot by a member of the Czech resistance from his window,
40:58shows the last train leaving the camp bound for Germany.
41:06On board the open cars in temperatures of minus 5 Fahrenheit
41:11are SS guards and their prisoners.
41:15thousands of Jewish deportees,
41:18who have escaped the gas chambers.
41:29It was in liberating the camps
41:31that the Allies discovered the massacre committed by the SS.
41:396 million Jewish victims.
41:43Hundreds of thousands of prisoners assassinated.
41:48Homosexuals.
41:50Priests.
41:52Gypsies.
41:54Disabled people.
42:00Only some of the 40,000 SS guards were arrested and identified.
42:06These men, who thought they were superior to others,
42:10looked very ordinary.
42:13Some were disguised as prisoners,
42:16in striped uniforms,
42:18in an attempt to pass unnoticed.
42:28Most of them were identified by the blood group tattoo under their arms,
42:33stamped when they first joined the SS.
42:37A mark they could never wash off,
42:40even if they cut and re-stitch their skin.
42:52Among them were 3,000 female camp guards,
42:56including Herta Bota.
43:01For two days, the Allies made them bury their victims.
43:07Interviewed over 50 years after the event,
43:10Herta Bota had not one word to say about the dead prisoners in the camps.
43:17She believes she was the victim.
43:26She was the jaxs of the
43:51I was only there, and I had to do everything like that, as they wanted.
43:58Have you felt guilty?
44:03No, I felt guilty myself not, because I said,
44:07I can't do anything, I can't help you,
44:10otherwise I would go myself.
44:23They had been the new lords, they had become pariahs.
44:32Until the bitter end, most of them continued to fight on the front,
44:38or what was left of it.
44:42Living the legend, remaining pure.
44:49I remember, it was called Battery Halbkreis,
44:53that means, all of them have to be in half a circle.
44:56And the chief said,
45:01he said with dry words,
45:05how it came to the network,
45:09Hitler is in Berlin gefallen.
45:13Konsequence,
45:14you are from Fahneid,
45:16in terms of Hitler,
45:18but not in terms of the German people.
45:22That was all,
45:23and we went out of silence.
45:26I was relieved,
45:29because I was still alive.
45:31I stood there and asked me,
45:34so Bernwald,
45:36what are you doing now?
45:39Yesterday,
45:40you were something else,
45:41some people,
45:42some uniforms,
45:44and stars,
45:46and today,
45:47you are nothing.
45:51May 8th, 1945.
45:55Germany surrenders.
45:59The SS were moved into prisoner of war camps,
46:03where they would spend months,
46:05even years.
46:12Disguised as a police sergeant,
46:14their leader, Himmler,
46:15hid among the crowd.
46:17After several weeks of wandering,
46:20he was arrested by the Allies,
46:22and committed suicide with a cyanide capsule.
46:34They were always fanatic,
46:36not that they believed,
46:39they said,
46:40what were they for idiots?
46:44And you must imagine,
46:46how dumb it is,
46:47that we have in Germany
46:48the Jews with Ratten
46:50verglichen.
46:51How stupid were we actually?
46:56Some of them were sentenced to death,
46:59by the Allied courts.
47:01Like these Waffen SS soldiers,
47:04accused of executing American prisoners,
47:07in 1944.
47:11Convinced they were right,
47:13they refused to listen to their sentences,
47:15to the end.
47:32The justice of conquerors, they say.
47:36Because the atrocities committed by the Allies,
47:39the bombings of Japanese and German cities,
47:41went unpunished.
48:12But they were all arrested.
48:19That the Germans were all punished,
48:22is a myth maintained by all the veterans.
48:25Apart from a few leaders,
48:28most of the SS slipped through the net.
48:32As if only one man should really pay the price.
48:37Hitler had me told me.
48:44He had led me to a new place.
48:48He had led me to a new place.
48:52He had led me to a new place.
48:55He had then
48:56that with such a crime,
49:00that I could only be told
49:02that I could only be told.
49:03better.
49:07A good SS member must be able to wipe out
49:10even his close family,
49:12if they rebel against Adolf Hitler's ideas.
49:15So said their generals.
49:19I would say for those years,
49:22of course,
49:22they were all over the years.
49:23I had taken a lot of money and worked with.
49:27I had to take a lot of money.
49:29I didn't want to miss a second.
49:39they missen
49:39non aucun regret n'aucune façon et je ne doute pas un instant que si c'était
49:46à refaire j'aurais fait exactement le même chemin aucune raison d'abandonner
49:53mes idées oui et c'est pas le moment de changer d'avion
50:03spring 1945 the last pictures of the ss
50:12act on this man mocks they're american soldiers disguised as ss for them the black order has
50:22become the butt of jokes
50:42for germany one of the cradles of humanism and european culture the discovery of the
50:49extent of nazi crimes was traumatizing
51:03on a shame to be a german wrote one munich citizen on may 28th 1945 on the ruins of the
51:12feldenhalla
51:13the place where the ss had once sworn their allegiance
51:23but how to get out of the cult
51:36eberhard header a captain in the viking division abandoned his racist convictions and pursued a career in the army of
51:46the federal republic of germany
51:50eckhard guhr a member of the ss's das reich division who dreamed of chivalry became a pastor
52:05egon coon became a trade unionist speaking tirelessly of the brainwashing he had received in his youth
52:16but they were exceptions
52:20many of them would remain incorrigible and nostalgic
52:23many of them would remain incorrigible and nostalgic
52:23often joining waffen ss veterans associations
52:28which still exist today
52:32like manfred diner
52:33or kurt bockhausen
52:36whose speeches are still used by extremist networks
52:45herbert von mildenberg
52:47set up businesses in south america
52:50while maintaining relations with several notorious revisionists
53:00in the midst of the cold war
53:02verner falkner
53:03after having spent several years in a prisoner of war camp
53:07joined the british army
53:10to finish the job against the russians he said
53:18it was until 2015
53:20that the former auschwitz accountant
53:23ss sergeant groenig
53:25was tried by the german courts
53:29he was sentenced to four years in prison
53:32for complicity in the murder of 300,000 jews
53:40pending appeal
53:42pending appeal
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