Nazi Werwolves: Post War Terror - War Against Humanity 135

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  • The guns are silent in Germany but the Allied Forces suffer continue to suffer a flurry of bombings, assassinations, and shootings. Who is to blame? Well, the press suspects the Nazi Werwolves - terroristic bands of men, women, and children determined to carry on Hitler’s war. But just how serious is this violence really, and how many of the attackers are true believing Nazi fanatics?
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Komentáře • 495

  • @WorldWarTwo
    @WorldWarTwo  Před 12 dny +264

    As Sparty laid out at the end of this episode, the end of the war has truly brought about the destruction of Nazism as a political force in Germany. Those now living in the shattered remains of the Third Reich endured nightly bombing, the invasion of their homeland, and will soon have to face the hardship of a harsh winter under occupation. On the whole, they have no time for the people and the ideology that brought this fate upon them.

    • @chins9217
      @chins9217 Před 12 dny +47

      Thank you for not being a passive voice when it comes to the analysis of the Second World War. In an era where fascism and deranged hatred is hidden behind a smirk and a funny meme (especially with young men “interested” in history) your affirmation of these ideologies as inherently wrong and destructive is very much needed and extremely important. I value that fact and it’s why I believe this channel, the people behind it and its impeccable analysis is truly a treasure and beacon of historical morality.

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 Před 12 dny +5

      ​@@chins9217Bro is bringing up memes as a serious issue as if it matters 😭
      Most fearmongering thing I've seen lol

    • @chins9217
      @chins9217 Před 12 dny +33

      @@LordVader1094 of course they matter. How much of the worlds population is on the Internet now? They’re an extremely important tool of communication. What rock do you live under?

    • @Cacciatoredidemoni
      @Cacciatoredidemoni Před 12 dny +26

      @@LordVader1094 Read carefully: he said that the problem is that fascism is often hidden behind funny memes, and therefore is not considered as dangerous and criminal as it was and is.

    • @TheStephaneAdam
      @TheStephaneAdam Před 12 dny +1

      @@LordVader1094 Found the closet Nazi.

  • @YToVSTRoX0
    @YToVSTRoX0 Před 12 dny +307

    In the mid 80"s I met an old free France veteran. His brother had been shot by the German and even 40 years later he had strong anti-German views. He was saying that at the end of the war, he was shocked to see train loads of brand-new civilian equipment for the Germans. He mentioned tractors if I remember right. According to his account, they were going out at night to blow those trains out, out of jealousy. I wonder if some of those actions have been assigned to werewolves.

    • @francisdotso8594
      @francisdotso8594 Před 12 dny +38

      It wouldn't be the first time atrocities were blamed on Germans

    • @Free-Bodge79
      @Free-Bodge79 Před 11 dny +89

      @@francisdotso8594 blowing up trains full of agricultural equipment, isn't a atrocity.
      The German's committed their fair share of real ones though.
      People have long memories especially in regards to ill treatment. !

    • @edwardblair4096
      @edwardblair4096 Před 11 dny +47

      ​@@Free-Bodge79It may not be a direct atrocity like concentration camps, but the destruction of tools used to grow needed food definitely caused additional indirect suffering.

    • @albertarthurparsnips5141
      @albertarthurparsnips5141 Před 11 dny +1

      @@francisdotso8594Anything to be surprised at with that general, nay, universal association of Germans with atrocities !?

    • @dsan8742
      @dsan8742 Před 11 dny

      @@Free-Bodge79
      Lmao, stop justifying terrorism, last I checked the French still had a global empire and would go on to use some lessons taught to them by the Nazis on their indochinese and Algerian subjects. Pathetic imperials

  • @aftershock2222
    @aftershock2222 Před 11 dny +154

    The Werewolves were a sorry joke compared to the Forest Brothers. The Forest Brothers were a thorn in the side of the Soviets for years to come.

    • @nygarmik
      @nygarmik Před 9 dny +14

      Indeed, I thought about them while watching this episode. Some of them persisted until the fifties, I think.

    • @drewstar412
      @drewstar412 Před 7 dny +11

      I never heard of "The Forest Brothers". I hope Time Ghost Army covers their story too!

    • @sanich0811
      @sanich0811 Před 5 dny +7

      Nah. The Forest Brothers were destroyed as a force and those civilians who were involved in connection with them were deported to Siberia under Stalin. Those who remained were only formal members but did not wage an armed struggle in any way, perhaps they were agitating

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Před 4 dny +3

      Harold Cole, a British soldier who turned traitor and collaborated with the Germans, tried to cover himself postwar by killing a former German officer named Georg Hanft, claiming Hanft was a Werwolf. Cole later fled and went underground in Paris but was eventually tracked down and killed in a shoot-out.

    • @bienewolf6917
      @bienewolf6917 Před 2 dny

      I heard about them, Soviet's couldn't deal with them for a decade and longer 😁

  • @matthewmcmacken6716
    @matthewmcmacken6716 Před 12 dny +160

    'I saw a Werewolf drinking a Pina Colada at Trader Vics... his hair was perfect. Yeep!'

    • @karlbrundage7472
      @karlbrundage7472 Před 11 dny

      You know, I am a rather brilliant surgeon. I could fix that.
      Fix what?
      That hump.
      What hump?
      ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Nevermind...................................

    • @SeattleJeffin
      @SeattleJeffin Před 11 dny +9

      "AhWoooooo"

    • @Maynardcomau
      @Maynardcomau Před 11 dny +5

      And all this time I thought it “was purple”. This really is an educational channel.

    • @pnutz_2
      @pnutz_2 Před 11 dny +4

      I saw a werewolf with a chinese menu in his hand

    • @user-ey7mu2dz9c
      @user-ey7mu2dz9c Před 10 dny +2

      Better not let em in!

  • @Free-Bodge79
    @Free-Bodge79 Před 12 dny +65

    Spartacus, sir. You truly are a gentleman and a scholar. It's been a difficult road we've all walked with you, watching war against humanity. Lord only knows how difficult it must have been researching and producing each episode. Just wanted to say, thank you for the way you've presented it . With so much empathy, compassion and sincerity. I've learned a lot from you sir. Many thanks again. ! 👊💛👍

  • @lenjapita
    @lenjapita Před 9 dny +44

    My grandfather told me that his cousin was one of the volunteers who fought against the German werewolves in Belgrade after the communist occupation. Beneath the city is a vast system of ancient tunnels connected to modern sewers. A few hundred Germans remained underground and caused a huge problem. Then the communists promised that they would give a full military pension to all surviving volunteers who freed the tunnels, regardless of age, length of participation in the war and whether they were in the Chetniks before that. Thus, my grandfather's cousin became a pensioner at the age of 26.

  • @svijj_
    @svijj_ Před dnem +4

    My grandfather grew up in 50s Poland, he told me once that the Werewolves became kind of a myth in his town. When he was a kid, his mother would always tell him and his friends to not go too deep into the forest, or the Werewolves will get them. This story has always stuck with me

  • @macmedic892
    @macmedic892 Před 12 dny +83

    Inga: Werewolf!
    Dr. Frankenstein: Werewolf?
    Igor: There.
    Dr. Frankenstein: What?
    Igor: There, wolf. There, castle.
    Dr. Frankenstein: Why are you talking that way?
    Igor: I thought you wanted to.
    Dr. Frankenstein: No, I don’t want to.

    • @c1ph3rpunk
      @c1ph3rpunk Před 12 dny +10

      Frau Blücher

    • @Deridus
      @Deridus Před 12 dny +4

      Suit yourself, I'm easy.

    • @dudesqr
      @dudesqr Před 12 dny +5

      If you're blue and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go where fashion sits?

    • @robertmiller9735
      @robertmiller9735 Před 11 dny +10

      @@c1ph3rpunk (distant whinnying)

    • @Deridus
      @Deridus Před 11 dny +4

      @@dudesqr Puuin on da riiiiz

  • @5chr4pn3ll
    @5chr4pn3ll Před 12 dny +189

    Wehrwolves surely

    • @v_iancu
      @v_iancu Před 12 dny +6

      Lol

    • @michaelsamuel9841
      @michaelsamuel9841 Před 12 dny +4

      Wehrwolves lol

    • @avnrulz
      @avnrulz Před 11 dny +2

      There wolves!

    • @thehellyousay
      @thehellyousay Před 10 dny +1

      took the title from the instruction manual the nazis issued "werwolf: tips for ranger units." displayed and translated @ 4:05 of the video. perhaps if you had watched and listened, ya?

  • @heralds
    @heralds Před 12 dny +194

    nazis had werewolves and zombies

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Před 12 dny +166

      Wait til you learn about the backside of the moon -TimeGhost Ambassador

    • @Soundbrigade
      @Soundbrigade Před 12 dny +31

      @@WorldWarTwoThe base in Antarctica, was that the jump-off base to the Moon?! And are there still SS-penguins left?!

    • @Aeonicentity
      @Aeonicentity Před 12 dny +12

      ​@@Soundbrigadewhy do you think they all still wear those boss suits?

    • @Lonovavir
      @Lonovavir Před 12 dny +6

      The Soviets had the Vampires.

    • @Soundbrigade
      @Soundbrigade Před 12 dny +2

      @@Aeonicentity Defending the icewall and the flat Earth …. I have always suspected that NASA has behind that but …. Werner von Braun … Things start to make sense to me, FINALLY!

  • @stevekaczynski3793
    @stevekaczynski3793 Před 9 dny +10

    When the US declared mission accomplished in Iraq and continued to face attacks, there was a brief flurry of interest in Nazi Werewolves, with the assumption that this was parallel to the situation in Iraq. In reality Iraq 2003 and Germany 1945 were very different.

  • @cdcdrr
    @cdcdrr Před 12 dny +25

    Nazi werewolves sounds so much worse than vampires.

    • @_chew_
      @_chew_ Před 11 dny +7

      It's a matter of perspective, really.

    • @kremepye3613
      @kremepye3613 Před 5 dny +1

      Wait until you hear about nazi zombies

    • @h3069
      @h3069 Před dnem

      Wait until you hear about the nazi cyborg that brought zombies to London to fight the vampires

  • @Lonovavir
    @Lonovavir Před 12 dny +69

    It's okay for the Germans to have werewolves. The Poles had a bear.

    • @Game_Hero
      @Game_Hero Před 11 dny +1

      Werewolfs originate from Poland

    • @BananaRama1312
      @BananaRama1312 Před 11 dny +4

      @@Game_Hero you mean germany and prussia? xd

  • @ssechres
    @ssechres Před 9 dny +5

    My father arrived in Germany in 1946 and was in the Constabulary (American Police for Germany). He talked of being shot at by children.

  • @ives3572
    @ives3572 Před 12 dny +18

    “The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.” - Joyce Carol Oates

    • @aze94
      @aze94 Před 11 dny +2

      And yet almost all wars have ended before that point.

    • @Cancoillotteman
      @Cancoillotteman Před 8 dny

      @@aze94 This notion of unending wars is I think an integrate part of the total wars typical of modern warfare. And when we look at it, past 1905 few peace treaty has really been accepted by the losing side.

  • @AbstractHistory01
    @AbstractHistory01 Před 12 dny +36

    Amazing video as always, also war against humanity is one of my favorite sections of this channel, thank you so much!!

  • @FlavourlessQuark
    @FlavourlessQuark Před 12 dny +14

    Interesting coincidence, I recently submitted a question about werwolves for OOTF. Excellent video, as always!

  • @rumrunner8019
    @rumrunner8019 Před 12 dny +37

    Werwolves? More like " *where* are the *wolves* ?"
    I guess they were supposed to attack and do cleanup for Steiner.
    Also, can we talk about how awesome Spartacus's suit look?

  • @samuelcroll344
    @samuelcroll344 Před 12 dny +50

    They didn't see any irony considering their attitude to partisans?

    • @JurassicClark96
      @JurassicClark96 Před 11 dny +24

      "Rules for me but not for thee" except totally reversed lol

    • @GeertTheDestoyer
      @GeertTheDestoyer Před 11 dny +4

      What irony? Their convictions seem mainly politically driven.

    • @MrPedroleiria
      @MrPedroleiria Před 11 dny

      ​@@JurassicClark96 classic nazi logic.

    • @SkilledKill
      @SkilledKill Před 11 dny

      ​@GeertTheDestoyer yeah it's all gotchas and zingers with these types

    • @SkilledKill
      @SkilledKill Před 11 dny

      Considering the soviet union never signed the Geneva convention and non-uniformed combatants, (,partisans) don't fall under it anyways, there is no irony. Just victors writing history

  • @kidmohair8151
    @kidmohair8151 Před 12 dny +60

    “…but the werewolves were plagued by poor organization, lacked competent leadership,
    were often poorly trained and motivated, and lacked resources…"
    which pretty much sums up the big h's thousand(12)year régime in the final stages of this bloody war.
    I would say "never again" but the forces of fascism are rising once more.
    so I will have to only say,
    never forget.

    • @SkilledKill
      @SkilledKill Před 11 dny

      Yeah, antifa and modern Israel border polices are pretty facist. Could you do something about this with your activism please

    • @oscaranderson5719
      @oscaranderson5719 Před 10 dny +2

      their aesthetics and rhetoric may change, but the results never will. think positively tho- we can learn from the past and fight it in the here and now rather than wait for it to consume an entire continent.

    • @kidmohair8151
      @kidmohair8151 Před 9 dny +1

      @@oscaranderson5719 and so we must.
      the rhetoric they use disguises their true intent.
      that is how fascists entrap those they need to accomplish their drive to dominate.
      metaphorical smoke and mirrors, that will eventually turn into real shattered mirrors and smoking cities.
      fear and division are their tools.

    • @GaiusCaligula234
      @GaiusCaligula234 Před 9 dny +4

      What fascism? Are you okay mate

    • @oscaranderson5719
      @oscaranderson5719 Před 8 dny +2

      @@GaiusCaligula234 if you can’t easily spot it…

  • @darthcheney7447
    @darthcheney7447 Před 10 dny +3

    Never forget. Great job Sparty. Great job TimeGhost.
    "War is all hell."
    -William T. Sherman.

  • @mightymot45
    @mightymot45 Před 12 dny +19

    Always nice to see a video from Spartacus Awesome

  • @RubberToeYT
    @RubberToeYT Před 12 dny +16

    I had never heard of the werewolves before, really interesting video

  • @BELCAN57
    @BELCAN57 Před 12 dny +15

    "Werewolf!"
    "There wolf!!"
    Young Frankenstein

  • @alphamikeomega5728
    @alphamikeomega5728 Před 12 dny +7

    I had wondered why, to my knowledge, die-hard Nazis apparently just gave up when defeated, when other guerrilla forces in other wars carried on. Thank you for explaining how this was not entirely the case, but why at a strategic level, it may as well have been.
    It helped other guerrilla forces (the ones which were successful) that they tended to have foreign support - which of course was not available to the Werewolves.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Před 9 dny +1

      I suspect the most diehard Nazis died in conventional war, or committed suicide at the end. The available pool of recruits for a partisan war was not there.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Před 4 dny +1

      Germany was too profoundly defeated. Quite a few surviving Nazis, in the Western zone at least, repackaged themselves as anti-Communists and took advantage of the Cold War. Hans Fritzsche, acquitted at Nuremberg though he served a short jail term, was along with others involved in infiltrating the Free Democrats party in an attempt to turn it in a Nazi direction. Fritzsche died of cancer in 1953. This kind of thing was more attractive for diehards than guerrilla warfare. So was working for the Gehlen Organisation.

  • @answerman9933
    @answerman9933 Před 12 dny +6

    Volun-told. I learned a new useful word.

  • @markbowles2382
    @markbowles2382 Před 8 dny +1

    Spartacus Olson does one hell of a job - started off enjoying this channel with Indy's snappy cynicism, and admiring the way they represent the dog faces - but Olsons' touch of arbitrary clear headed way of relating is very refreshing to me - he does not lose the essence of common sense in his relating the history that so many others take for granted, well done mr. Olson (and ghost army team)

  • @matthewjay660
    @matthewjay660 Před 12 dny +6

    Hello, Spartacus. 🙋🏻‍♂️ 0:32 I studied that the Werewolves were active until 1947. 🇺🇸🤝🇩🇪

  • @Rom3_29
    @Rom3_29 Před 12 dny +9

    Thank you again SPARTY for an excellent episode.
    I don’t think any historian really investigated Warewulf activities. Just gave glancing false belittling remark. Postwar Nazi terrorist activities. Some went as far as victimizing Nazi criminal activities and cold blooded murders.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Před 4 dny

      Postwar, historians paid little attention to it for the most part.

  • @renoir4964
    @renoir4964 Před 8 dny +2

    Not WW2 but you should do a deep dive on Operation Gladio.

  • @danielwillens5876
    @danielwillens5876 Před 12 dny +7

    Excellent job, as usual. Is there going to be a "Spies and Ties" episode about the Gehlen Organization and the first rumblings of the Cold War? (You mentioned the NKVD trying to shut down Nazi cells in East Germany, and my first thought....}

  • @wfellow1
    @wfellow1 Před 11 dny +3

    Thank you for this video. I learned a lot in this that I didn't know before. Never Forget!!

  • @sankarchaya
    @sankarchaya Před 12 dny +20

    It's remarkable that the Nazi leadership spent so much time on "wonder"-weapons that broke down before they could be fully utilized instead of planning a real partisan resistance that could have been effective. It speaks a lot to how they viewed mass mobilization - it was a tool to gain power, but not something to be sustained beyond hammering loyalty to the state into the heads of citizens. Even though one could argue the same about Stalin's view of mass politics, even the USSR was able to field effective partisan forces of ideologically committed soviet citizens. At the end of the day, fascism of the nazi variety just promised blood and suffering, and perhaps there just weren't enough Germans willing to die for that vision. As Slovenian philosopher Zizek once argued, Stalin promised to do good things and did bad things, while Hitler promised to do bad things and did bad things.

    • @spacemanspud7073
      @spacemanspud7073 Před 11 dny +6

      The Nazis, and the german people as a whole, despised partisans on a ideological level all the way back to the Franco-Prussian war with the fear of the dreaded francs-tireurs. The Nazi's were notoriously brutal against partisans and would react reprisals on all villages in a area of an attack, alot of times killing the entire population of those hamlets. The Nazis adopting such an institution would be a hard break in policy and rhetoric.
      The volkstrum was more a less an answer to utilizing mass mobilization without adopting the hated partisan system
      As for if the German people going for such a program, while the Nazis did promise and deliver some good things to the Germans until the war really started to turn, during the days of the Volktrum many Germans refused to serve without a uniform (Since the Soviets would just summarily shoot them as partisans, and the Nazis did to Soviet partisans). Since non-uniformed volkstrum is essentially partisans, I think it's fair to say the Germans wouldn't go for anything like true state supported partisans.

    • @Infinite_Jester
      @Infinite_Jester Před 10 dny +3

      I'm not really well-versed in National Socialist ideology, but in fascist philosophy a people defeated by strength of arms has no right to exist.
      Such an event is indicative of a lack in "strength of spirit" and, as such, planning for beyond a final defeat is meaningless.

  • @nikolamilivojevic8835
    @nikolamilivojevic8835 Před 12 dny +5

    They tried the same thing in my hometown in 1944/45 but falled by using ex post Office workors with combat experience (Vojvodina, Backa Palanka)

  • @DominicBHaven-qm6nx
    @DominicBHaven-qm6nx Před 11 dny +2

    Somebody once said that the werewolves were neutralized by the economic rebound of Germany (West Germany) after the war ended. I think the rebuilding of Europe is a marvelous story that is overlooked. Of all the homeless people in Germany during the Summer of 1945, how long did it take to get shelter for those people before Winter came?? There must have been temporary housing erected while the cities were being rebuilt. What industries were restarted after the war and what was the employment situation like?? I find it amazing to look at pictures of Berlin, Cologne, Warsaw, and other cities heavily damaged during the war and contrast them with how they look today. What a massive effort it took to make those cities habitable again. One last thought. If the SS was busy telling everyone that wonder weapons would turn the tide of the war before Germany was overrun, then it would have undercut this message if they were preparing for a guerilla war. When you are in a hopeless situation against a numerically superior enemy, neither one of these options is going to help you. Thanks for another great video.

    • @molybdaen11
      @molybdaen11 Před 8 dny +2

      My grandmother feed from the Russians as a child.
      She mentioned that they had to live from the land until sharing tiny rooms which the original German owners.
      Basically everyone who still had a house had to share it.

  • @AceMoonshot
    @AceMoonshot Před 12 dny +16

    Timing is weird sometimes.
    Last night I watched The Aftermath (2019) starring Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgard and Jason Clarke.
    It is set in post war Germany. One of the characters' daughter is friends with a boy that is a Nazi Werewolf.
    It was not the core to the plot but it was important.
    Afaik that is the only film I've watched about Nazi Werewolves. And I watched it less than 12 hours before you gave us this video.
    Timing is weird sometimes...

    • @DeerBoy736
      @DeerBoy736 Před 12 dny +1

      I watched that movie exactly because of it. The romance getting the more focus was aletdown to me.

    • @AceMoonshot
      @AceMoonshot Před 12 dny

      @@DeerBoy736 I had no idea, I watched it blind coming into it. So it came as a surprise at its inclusion.
      And yeah, romantic triangles, cheating etc are meh to me.
      Still, the timing just hit my wtf brain.

    • @DeerBoy736
      @DeerBoy736 Před 12 dny +1

      @@AceMoonshot Same, kinda. All I knew was it's a movie set in post war germany and the werewolf movement is in it so I was intrigued. But it turned out to be as you said love triangles, cheating and an annoying female lead.

    • @KlausVonKuste
      @KlausVonKuste Před 11 dny +1

      Werwolf featuring also in Lars Von Trier's movie "Europa"

  • @rsfaeges5298
    @rsfaeges5298 Před 12 dny +7

    Informative 👍👍

  • @GeertTheDestoyer
    @GeertTheDestoyer Před 11 dny +8

    Doomed effort from the get-go, as the cruelty needed for the critical support was severely lacking. If i have learned one thing from this series, it is that cruelty inspires resistance movements. The allied occupation was never going to be as cruel as German occupation, they lacked that clear racial idiology.

    • @oscaranderson5719
      @oscaranderson5719 Před 10 dny +1

      yet again, not being a massive dick wins out!

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Před 9 dny +1

      Even in the Soviet zone, the authorities distributed food even though the USSR faced famine conditions in a number of places postwar. They did not want an insurgency to develop among Germans out of sheer desperation.

  • @mrmeowmeow710
    @mrmeowmeow710 Před 11 dny +1

    1 hell of a great history video👍👍

  • @villainizing
    @villainizing Před 12 dny +10

    This video certainly explains the popularity of the wulfsangel with neo-nazis and other edgelords

  • @shannonsullivan1968
    @shannonsullivan1968 Před 12 dny +3

    Great video and thank you for sharing. I can certainly see how the German people were really tired of the war and wanted to part in any guerrilla war activity. If only because they viewed WW II as a continuation of WW I - in essence they had been at war since 1914 and they were ready for it to be over. They had no desire to continue a fight they had no hope to win.

  • @Stoner075C
    @Stoner075C Před 10 dny +2

    Them Werwolf dudes sure sound a lot like they are some kind of nazi flavoured Gladio, ain't them?

  • @sailordude2094
    @sailordude2094 Před 11 dny +2

    I don't use Instagram but thanks for talking about the Aachen Operation. Good stuff!

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Před 11 dny

      We also post the day by day series on our website which you can find here: timeghost.tv/blog/ww2-day-by-day/

  • @welcometonebalia
    @welcometonebalia Před 10 dny

    Thank you.

  • @salty4496
    @salty4496 Před 12 dny +5

    A comment to show my support for the channel, and to feed the YT algorithm

  • @sonoftherabbitpeople4737

    Wow! Bad Kreuznach made the news. I lived there for 3 years when my dad was stationed there with the US Army. Didn't think the town important enough to ever get a mention.

  • @philipb2134
    @philipb2134 Před 8 dny +1

    There was an interesting movie, 'Zentropa' (/'Europa' in the US) which dealt with this topic. Enjoy.

  • @brendenstuder6119
    @brendenstuder6119 Před 11 dny +1

    My Grandpa, who served in the Canadian army overseas from October 1944 until the end of the war, and then served in the occupation, said that during the war, he slept with a knife under his pillow. During the occupation, he slept with a pistol under his pillow.

  • @jameskostrewa9861
    @jameskostrewa9861 Před 11 dny +1

    Awesome as usual

  • @frederic-leonpohl9812

    ''Hier spricht der Sender Werwolf, sender der Deutschen Freiheitsbewegung in den vom Feind besetzten Gebieten." I remember hearing that in school in germany. We actually talked about Werwolf a few years later I met an old man who could tell me first hand about it.

  • @GalleryBones
    @GalleryBones Před 12 dny +1

    Great video

  • @nedludd7622
    @nedludd7622 Před 2 dny

    Another group fallout you could look into "Operation Gladio" created by the Allies back in 1948.

  • @shawnr771
    @shawnr771 Před 12 dny +2

    Thank you for the lesson.
    Will this channel be cover atrocities that occured during the Korean war?

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Před 11 dny +4

      All Korean War content will be on the Korean War channel, Sparty may appear a few times to cover war atrocities on there but we don't plan on having a regular series at this time. Sparty will be focusing on our other upcoming series. History of Democracy.

    • @shawnr771
      @shawnr771 Před 11 dny +1

      @@WorldWarTwo Thank you for the answer.
      I am looking forward to the new series.

  • @CaptApple
    @CaptApple Před 12 dny +4

    A captured B-17? Flyable? That must be an interesting story. I can't recall any bomber command airfields getting overrun so how'd that come about?

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Před 12 dny +11

      Planes would occasionally make a crash landing reasonably intact or even surrender if badly damaged in the interests of crew survival.
      It wouldn't be too hard to piece together a working B-17 from successful crash landed planes and other wrecks.
      -TimeGhost Ambassador

    • @janhaanstra2245
      @janhaanstra2245 Před 12 dny

      Google for Kampfgeschwader 200😮

    • @HossBlacksilver
      @HossBlacksilver Před 11 dny +1

      ​@@WorldWarTwo As I recall that's how the Allies got their hands on their first Zero. But then again both sides did that with a lot of aircraft and armor.

    • @MM22966
      @MM22966 Před 11 dny +1

      It crashed mostly intact and they rebuilt it. There were various plans to use it as a weapon, but it mostly ended up sitting at an airfield (if I remember correctly, there is an entry on it the Time-Life WW2 books)

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Před 5 dny

      Many Allied bombers carried a small explosive device. If the plane crash-landed in enemy territory the pilot was supposed to detonate it to destroy key technology like the bomb sight and also render the plane unusable. Even so, intact or repairable planes fell into German hands.

  • @themirror8994
    @themirror8994 Před 3 dny +1

    Late to the party, but heres a personal funny thing. In area where i live, there was a wehrwolf school - yes, literally - on a castle near Aussig. They did some ruckus in 1945, but not much to be said - except for one shootout at old Obergrund train station but thats not whats interesting here - The Red army launched an operation to quell them, together with the red guards of bohemia, and they managed to find full list of equipment hidden in nearby forests - from aprox. 570 caches, to this day only 6 were found by the law enforcement, from that time period and todays one. Metal detector treasure hunting is popular here, and we got our hands on some interesting pieces - from medals dating to the spanish civil war given to the german expeditionary forces, to STG-44, magazines, lugers. you name it.
    No the guns dont work, yes we always call the police if its gun and explosive stuff.
    When it comes to the knives, medals and that kind of stuff... restoration it is!

  • @George-vc9gl
    @George-vc9gl Před 12 dny +1

    thank you...

  • @alexamerling79
    @alexamerling79 Před 12 dny +31

    Yeah for such an intimidating name, they really had little impact lol

    • @Bandog23
      @Bandog23 Před 12 dny +7

      Yeah well it's kinda hard to really do much when you are constantly being hunted

    • @Adonnus100
      @Adonnus100 Před 12 dny +4

      There were a couple hundred of them at most and very few who remained active until 46.

    • @rainkloud
      @rainkloud Před 11 dny

      I’m not so sure. As Sparty mentioned, it made it more difficult to appointment non nazi mayors which meant that some “former” nazis would remain seated in power and wield some degree of influence.

    • @AtlasAugustus
      @AtlasAugustus Před 11 dny

      “Heh 😏”

  • @TheMemeWeaver
    @TheMemeWeaver Před 11 dny

    So I've been a subscriber of The Great War. And THERE'S A SECOND CHANNEL?!

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson Před 11 dny +2

      There’s even a third and a fourth…
      www.youtube.com/@TimeGhost
      www.youtube.com/@TheKoreanWarbyIndyNeidell
      Although I should point out that we don’t produce The Great War channel since 2018, when Indy completed the coverage of WW1.

    • @NicoakaRedCat
      @NicoakaRedCat Před 10 dny

      lucky you, you are in for a hell of a ride

  • @History_with_Sirius
    @History_with_Sirius Před 4 dny

    I've known about these werewolves for years since I'm a scholar of 20th century history but it never fails that I still picture actual werewolves instead of humans 😂
    Ngl would make a cool movie.

  • @AncientRylanor69
    @AncientRylanor69 Před 12 dny +1

    mind blowing video

  • @karoltakisobie6638
    @karoltakisobie6638 Před 11 dny +3

    Soviets and Polish communist government dealt with werewolf the same way like they dealt with Ukrainian armed groups. They locked thousands of civilians in camps and gradually expelled them to Germany and Ukraine respectively. That effectively removed any support for armed resistance.
    Somewhat ironically some camps for German and Ukrainian civilians were staffed by Jewish camp survivors drafted by Soviets. Few camps had very bad reputation for starvation, bad treatment and occasionally torture.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Před 5 dny

      Jews tended to be trusted as their anti-Nazi and anti-German credentials were considered good. For example, Erwin Weit, an Austrian-born Jew whose family moved to Poland before the war, was freed from prison by the Soviets and then given a green questionnaire to complete. He was then told he had just joined the Workers' Party of Poland. His autobiography is rather thin on what he did in the Stalin period but later he was a German-Polish interpreter at high-level talks in the 1950s and early 1960s.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Před 4 dny

      Detention centres for Germans in Czechoslovakia varied from bad to very bad. A camp at Kolin, east of Prague, had an especially bad reputation.

  • @CEOkiller
    @CEOkiller Před 8 dny

    A good “alternate history “ on this is The Man With the Iron Heart by Harry Turtledove.

  • @josepherhardt164
    @josepherhardt164 Před 11 dny +1

    I've often thought that Germany's surrender in May of 45 gave the allies and the rest of the world time to prepare for the upcoming winter. Can you imagine the suffering had Germany survived, say, into September before capitulating?

  • @ericdanielski4802
    @ericdanielski4802 Před 12 dny +13

    Nice video.

  • @theoldar
    @theoldar Před 11 dny +1

    And yet, it raises it's hideous head in our times.

  • @tmclaug90
    @tmclaug90 Před 3 dny

    Nazi gorillas? That is a terrifying thought.

  • @SamuraiAkechi
    @SamuraiAkechi Před 5 dny +1

    16:25 wasn't that the work for SMERSH rather than NKVD?
    18:30 and then we get Gladio and revisionist groups

  • @pepitamapping
    @pepitamapping Před 11 dny +3

    Hey, you should make a video talking about the Anti-Treaty IRA's campaign from 1942 to 1944 in Northern Ireland, aided by the Nazis. The IRA were in a weird position of ideological split at the time which makes it even more interesting, along with both the obscurity and importance of the event in decades to come. It also served as an example of Nazi plans in the UK insurrectional wise.

    • @MM22966
      @MM22966 Před 11 dny +1

      WHAT?!! Irishmen not agreeing with each other?! Faith an' Begora!

  • @jankusthegreat9233
    @jankusthegreat9233 Před 12 dny +13

    U guys are awesome

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Před 12 dny +5

      Thank you, and thanks for watching!

  • @IneverLearn-lg4qc
    @IneverLearn-lg4qc Před 12 dny +1

    Thank you thank you thank you I love you this is the best and I love you have the wonderfulest life !🎉

  • @blackhathacker82
    @blackhathacker82 Před 11 dny +1

    17:21 well said nice video

  • @El_Presidente_5337
    @El_Presidente_5337 Před 8 dny

    4:28
    So we meet again Mr.Skorzeny

  • @Javaman92
    @Javaman92 Před 12 dny +3

    NEVER FORGET

  • @unlvphysics
    @unlvphysics Před 12 dny +25

    Werwolf? There wolf. IYKYK

    • @Soundbrigade
      @Soundbrigade Před 12 dny +7

      Wot about the Whenwolves and How-wolves not to mention the Who-wolves???

    • @JHF_Gaming
      @JHF_Gaming Před 12 dny +5

      What knockers!

    • @WalterReimer
      @WalterReimer Před 12 dny +1

      @@Soundbrigade Why wolves?

    • @keithscott1957
      @keithscott1957 Před 12 dny

      Romeo, Romeo, wherewolf art thou Romeo?

    • @00dawn
      @00dawn Před 12 dny +4

      Why are you talking like that?

  • @impishrebel5969
    @impishrebel5969 Před 11 dny

    Could you guys do a special on lend-lease and the donations made to rebuild Europe? And what happened to the Mothball Fleet. i never hear on those topics and I think it'd be fascinating.

  • @Khaoki
    @Khaoki Před 12 dny +72

    "Nazi Terrorists" is redundant

    • @Bandog23
      @Bandog23 Před 12 dny

      ?

    • @kingericson490
      @kingericson490 Před 12 dny +11

      @@Bandog23 he is saying nazi's are terrorists so there is no need to say nazi terrorists

    • @pyrrhusofepirus8491
      @pyrrhusofepirus8491 Před 12 dny +7

      ⁠@@kingericson490Doesn’t really make sense to me though, before they ascended to power they had elements of it but that was quashed after the Munich Putsch wherein they ran a successful election campaign and got into power that way. They were also considered a legitimate government by the rest of the continent, unlike, say the Taliban who despite diplomatic overtures and offers have been routinely denied purely based on the fact that actually discussing with them would imply they’re legitimate.

    • @Marcus280898
      @Marcus280898 Před 12 dny +6

      I get your meaning but there is a distinction to be drawn between state terrorism, like the kind practiced by the Third Reich, and the actions of a terrorist insurgency.

    • @timmmahhhh
      @timmmahhhh Před 12 dny +4

      Perhaps the term Nazi Guerillas to distinguish them from the Nazi government is in order, because yes.

  • @rullangaar
    @rullangaar Před 11 dny +1

    Werewolves? Paper tigers are more like it.

  • @Makarosc
    @Makarosc Před dnem

    Honestly they mightve been viable if they were concieved at the beginning of the war and where trained less as a sabotours and more infiltrators then they could've maybe pulled a Hydra

  • @chequereturned
    @chequereturned Před 12 dny +6

    Amazing video as always!
    I do find it funny when he always uses the faithful German pronunciations in English even for commonly known cities (but not for all other languages), when Bremen of all German cities definitely has a standard English-language pronunciation when speaking English. Sticks out a bit… When ‘Paree’? ;)

    • @chequereturned
      @chequereturned Před 12 dny

      Jag hoppar at han sägar “Great Britain” - inte ‘“Storbritannien” - när han talar svensk ;)

    • @OllamhDrab
      @OllamhDrab Před 12 dny +3

      Probably cause Sparty's been living in Germany for quite some time?

    • @chequereturned
      @chequereturned Před 11 dny

      @@OllamhDrab Sure, but not questioning why his German pronunciation is good - it's just still a funny choice to use such overtly German names and phonology when speaking English, and it sticks out quite a lot. We don't say 'Britain' or 'United States' when speaking German, nor 'Deutschland', 'Österreich' or 'Braunschweig' when speaking English. Nor do we use the other language's names (with their phonology) when they happen to be spelt the same. Not a serious complaint, just an observation.

  • @TheresaBrown-dc5dt
    @TheresaBrown-dc5dt Před 11 dny +1

    Some escaped to London and were the basis for Warren Zevons song Werewolves of London 😂

  • @jeremybraunscheidel6075

    are you telling me it took until today to find they do WWII videos as well?!

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Před 9 dny

      We are also covering Korea, starting in 4 days! Find it here: www.youtube.com/@TheKoreanWarbyIndyNeidell

  • @patron8597
    @patron8597 Před 8 dny

    Now let me get this out of the way before I actually watch this episode but I remember that "operation" to be a completely over organized failure?

  • @georget8008
    @georget8008 Před dnem

    the werewolf fiasco shows that the guerilla fight does not fit the German mindset. Throughout the war, in the occupied countries, smaller groups with less resources and training achieved better and longer standing results

  • @avanticurecanti9998
    @avanticurecanti9998 Před 12 dny +2

    There wolf! There Spartacus!

  • @dr.vikyll7466
    @dr.vikyll7466 Před 12 dny

    Well they have 1 werewolf yes, but mostly vampires

  • @andrewpearson5504
    @andrewpearson5504 Před 10 dny

    That's it, I'm writing the script WerewolveSS.

  • @jimbo2227
    @jimbo2227 Před 12 dny

    Is it werewolves other than werwolves as it is in the video title?

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Před 11 dny

      "Nazi Werwolves" is the correct spelling, it's just the German spelling of Werewolf.

    • @vaxrvaxr
      @vaxrvaxr Před 10 dny +2

      @@WorldWarTwo Debatable. The German is Werwolf / plural Werwölfe. Yours is some kind of hybridization.

  • @andrewfischer8564
    @andrewfischer8564 Před 12 dny +8

    were there any wehwolves of london? aawhoo

  • @tedmustard2798
    @tedmustard2798 Před 11 dny +1

    Reference Op Karneval, Mayor Oppenhof, a devout catholic who was steadfastly unsympathetic to the Nazi doctrine, only agreed to be mayor of Aachen on the condition that his name was not released by the Allied command. He had relatives living in Germany still under Nazi rule. Dr Saul Padover, an SOE psychologist, led a team of three who were tasked with devising a method of interrogation of Germans which could determine what level of Nazi sympathies the interrogatees had. This was with a view to judging their suitability to form part of a future German government. I think it is likely that Dr Padover did not approve of Mayor Oppenhof and would have preferred a socialist mayor. Dr Padover released Oppenhof's name in a forces newspaper which was leaked to the SS. (Dr Padover was billeted with my parents in Clevedon, near Bristol, England in the weeks leading up to D-Day.)

  • @70galaxie
    @70galaxie Před 6 dny

    good story. G,old veteran

  • @willmills1388
    @willmills1388 Před 9 dny +1

    Never Forget

  • @konst80hum
    @konst80hum Před 11 dny +1

    Never forget. The next wave of fascists will not be so incompetent.

  • @gilwhitmore9682
    @gilwhitmore9682 Před 11 dny

    Sparty has his tan game going on!

  • @lukagalic9533
    @lukagalic9533 Před 12 dny +4

    I am just curious is there any talk about Fascist Italy and the war crimes commited by Fascist Italy ? on this youtube channel.

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson Před 12 dny +9

      Well… browse my 135 episodes and you’ll find plenty.

    • @lukagalic9533
      @lukagalic9533 Před 12 dny +2

      @@spartacus-olsson Thanks

    • @kevinkearns7719
      @kevinkearns7719 Před 10 dny

      What's more surprising is how few videos are dedicated to discussing Soviet and Communist war crimes. I went searching for some and was SHOCKED by how few there are. My Finnish relatives speak often of the war crimes Soviets committed there. I guess it's just not as interesting as Nazi's.

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson Před 10 dny

      @@kevinkearns7719 here too I would advice you strongly to look through my episodes…
      Soviets Hunt Down the Heroes of Humanity - War Against Humanity 128
      czcams.com/video/4RxPhqp5Nk4/video.html
      CENSORED: Red Army Rapes the Reich - War Against Humanity 127
      czcams.com/video/UGgZ1jpkpL8/video.html
      Moscow Invades Poland Again - War Against Humanity 106
      czcams.com/video/_XqkGMsy8Qc/video.html
      Beria’s Reward for Ethnic Cleansing - War Against Humanity 100
      czcams.com/video/Y0GvQRLib_Y/video.html
      Will Stalin Liberate or Occupy Poland? - War Against Humanity 094
      czcams.com/video/bAi0i3wUFHA/video.html
      Stalin Deports An Entire Ethnicity - War Against Humanity 093
      czcams.com/video/lrdrEgpmqOI/video.html
      I could go on… that was just the most recent ones.

    • @martinaustin6230
      @martinaustin6230 Před 5 hodinami +1

      I recommend checking out Between Two Wars series on their other channel Time Ghost. They cover the rise of Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, the politics and other factors that lead to WW2 and more. Its a very underrated series.

  • @maygeror
    @maygeror Před 9 dny +1

    Outstanding video except for the distracting and unneeded backgoune "music".

  • @MrWill9894
    @MrWill9894 Před 11 dny +2

    Lotta nazi apologists in the comments on this one, really sad. You’d think people would put on their thinking caps considering this series is about war crimes, a concept to which Naziism is faithfully married

    • @Veylon
      @Veylon Před 11 dny +1

      The Nazi leaders slinked away to hide when the chips were down or sought to bargain the lives of their subordinates and slaves in self-serving deals. Can't see anything to admire there.

  • @HandyMan657
    @HandyMan657 Před 12 dny +1

    Never.

  • @divarachelenvy
    @divarachelenvy Před 12 dny

    Aroooo, never forget.

  • @golden_smaug
    @golden_smaug Před 4 dny

    What's the difference between 'terrorist' and 'terroristic' ?

  • @scottmwilhelms2437
    @scottmwilhelms2437 Před 12 dny

    Never Again!