The HORRIFIC Executions Of The German Civilians Shot By The Czechs
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- čas přidán 10. 05. 2024
- Following the Second World War, there were many executions carried out of people who were in the wrong place. Czechoslovakia during the conflict had been occupied by the Germans and the Nazis, and with the end of the war many Germans who had moved into this region were expelled from lands that had been conquered. But inside of Czech lands, over 30,000 German people were executed or died during the forced expulsions. Some of these were more violent than others, but in the Prague district of Borislavka there were around 40 Germans who were slaughtered.
The Germans were gathered in a cinema and they were then taken out to a wall next to a road where executioners stood with their weapons. It's not entirely known who these executioners were, and also who the executed were but it was a horrific execution of people who should have been spared.
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As the saying goes: *_"A day of war breeds a hundred years of hatred."_* People speak too lightly of war...
The Nazis were burglars, rapists, thieves, lawless murderers, and they reaped only a tiny fraction of the damage they inflicted
It doesn't help that its sanitised in the media. People never see the actual horror. If they did there would be much more opposition to it.
The governments count on it.
The ones who speak lightly of war, most of the time have never experienced violence like war.
War id very very popular on utube / media 👹
When I was stationed in Germany, I rented an apartment from a family in Kaiserslautern. The grandmother had been born in Czechoslovakia, but eventually arrived in West Germany.
She and her family were some of the Sudeten Germans that the narrator speaks of.
The grandmother told me that when the Red Army arrived in her village, they proceeded to murder all of the German families. Her family survived, only because her sister had either studied the Russian language, or was a teacher of the language. She was able to speak to the Russian soldiers and the officers in charge of the unit, who decided her family would be spared, for the fact that one of them spoke Russian. The remaining Germans were executed.
I agree they should have done all german devils!@@user-kg5ew9mf8t
Stalin famously told his armies (I'm paraphrasing) the war won't be measured in miles, or months, or national borders; the war will be measured in German blood.
I've read of a little girl in Slovakia getting syphilis from a liberating Soviet.
@@user-kg5ew9mf8tsovjet scum
@@lloydchristmas1086he might be Soviet scum, but those Czechs who help the Germans round up Jews, dissidents, and resistance fighters are scum too. The extremes of politics, the far left & the far right are just the same as each other. Politics is like a clock face, at the top at 12 o’clock sits the average middle of the road person, the extremes of politics meet each other down the bottom down at 6 o’clock, Stalin, communism, Hitler, Nazism, Mussolini, facsimile, Chairman Moa, Pol Pot, idi Amin, Xi Jinping, Hideki Tojo, etc, etc.
When people now a days say they're having a "bad" day, phones battery died, gas is expensive...they have no clue how bad shit can be or get...my mom was a teenager in Osaka during WWII and remembers "shiny silver" bombers over the city. So, if you think things are bad, it can get a whole lot worse.
As a Czech it's a bit worrying how so many of Czechs don't know about these horrible acts or even try and say they were justified. This should be shown in every history class. And all of this happened because of a number of grudges (Czechoslovakian politics was very anti German pre ww2, then the Germans started to be heavily involved with Nazis) that came with the concept of national states. Germans, Czechs, Jews... every common citizen lived peacefully until politicians started to want "clean states" with only one ethnicity, this lead to so many genocides, just horrible.
I think you're a bit shortsighted and naive. It is the Nazis who FIRST violated Geneva convention and started indiscriminately bombing metropolitan cities with no military significancy and carelessly executing civilian in occupied lands!
Do you know nazis made captives digging their own graves and shot them to death?? (Where do you think the Czechs learned from???) Do you know the nazis killed thousands of Czechs following Reinhard Heydrich assassination?? Do you know the nazis allowed millions of Russians POW to die in the cold without food or water?? Do you know nazis doctors had inhumane and barbaric medical experiments on civilian captives?? and do you know they (nazis) operated gas chambers and killed many in them!! Do you know nazis worked civilian captives to death in various industries?
Now, If you know all the question above then you should understand why Czechs people reacted that way. And, even if Czechs knew or didn't know about atrocities of their fellow citizens towards German citizens, it won't make any difference since their own country men and women were treated even more barbaric by the Nazis occupiers.
The opposite is equally true
didnt commies do this? once you become a communist you transcend being of a nationality and just become a ghoul
We should not judge past events through the prism of contemporary standards and contemporary circumstances. Civilization and compassion ends when you see a dead and tortured body of someone you knew or loved, or if a violent foreign invader to your lands treats you like a subhuman for six years. We can't blame the desperate victims for craving for revenge. From their viewpoint, their acts were justified. We were not there to judge, and we should not judge from the peaceful comfort of our armchairs and by the standards of today.
@@befeleme TY
Divide and conquer - it applied then and it still applies now.
Who was dividing and conquering? Please.
@@peterwalker7761THE BRITISH EMPIRE HAD IMPLEMENTED THAT. THEY IMPLEMENTED SINCE WE CAN'T BEAT THEM, LET'S MAKE THEM FIGHT AND KILL EACH OTHER AND WITH THAT PLAN DIVIDE AND CONQUER WE RULE THE WORLD AND SUBMITTED (SUBJUGATED), NATIONS, COUNTRIES AND OUR COLNIES. THE BRITISH EMPIRE HAD INVETED, IMPOSED AND IMPLEMENTED THAT PLAN.
No Germans moved to Czechia during the war, only soldiers, or SS members. Normal German people were still living there over centuries.
Well, it was only right that the master race was flushed out of Czech.
sudetenland was german for hundreds of years
You mean as normal germans,wich betrayed their czech neighbours?You mean normal germans,wich tocked a part of the stolen thinks from their jewish neighbours by the SS and the german soldiers?You mean normal germans,wich have seen hanging young girls by the german solders and by the SS? Did you mean normal germans,wich were lying about their neighbours,waiting that they get deported,tortured or killed by the SS and the german solders,And than getting a part of their household and money?Read well history,to understand that not only the nazis and the ss was cruel,also the biggest part of the germans,also in the zcech republic had always they hand full of blood of innocent sloughtered humans,childrens,girls grand fathers.
the Sudetes were mostly german people living there, thats why Hitler won the elections ovver Sudeteland
..but the Sudeten Germans were among the most avid Nazis.......
My late fiancé's parents were many of the thousands of Sudeten Germans who were forced from their homes after the end of WWII. Her father did not suffer at the hands of the so-called liberators as he was a POW in one of the satellite camps around Fort Campbell, KY but her mother and grandmother were summarily evicted from the home where they and their predecessors lived for over a hundred years and forced onto the road with whatever they could carry on their backs or in a small hand-pulled wagon. They eventually settled in a small town outside of Ansbach, Germany because my fiancé's parents knew Americans were close and they would protect them.
The Sudeten Germans were Nazis
And were fortunate enough to escape with their lives no complains about itZudenten Germans were nazis
@@ileanaacacostaacosta1813 And how many Jews had lived there for centuries and were slaughtered there too?! War IS Hell!
A v r.38 bylo němci ze sudet vyhnáno 260 000 čechů kteří zam žili po staletí,to ti babička zapoměla říci,Také to že 95% němců v sudetech vstoupilo do NSDAP
The photo of people in front of the wall is from Celje, Slovenia (Yugoslavia at that time)... it is a Prison known as Old Pot (Stari pisker)
First image is definely not from Czech republic but taken in Slovenia, prison in Celje. Showing Germans shooting civilian hostages!
A mio parere lei ha ragione! Le divise sono certamente tedesche ed il fatto che il fucile mitragliatore sia di produzione ceca non vuol dir niente. I Nazisti usavano molte armi ceche , come il carro Skoda T 38 .
It is always terrible to kill civilian people, in fact war is stupid in its principle. I just would wish that everybody who sees this also put it in the context, Nazis killed entire villages in Czech like Lidice, including children... not speaking about others. So once a nation/army cross certain threshold in cruelty, the people became animals and act likes animals, on both sides. We were not there, but I could imagine how Czechs would feel for the revenge... If they would kill your kids or family? It is not an excuse, just be sure to put it in context, if Nazis would not start act like animals, the rest of the world would not be pushed to act like animals as well...
I AGREE 👍 WITH YOU. LONG LIVE FRENCH GREEK AND CZECH RESISTANCE. NO REGRETS NO REMORSE AND I DON'T REGRET SAYING THAT.❤❤❤
Heydrich was killed by the resistance. This was why Lidice was destroyed and its inhabitants killed. Everybody should know that one had to obey the occupying force - in this case the Germans - and any resistance would be met with severe punishment for the civilians. If the resistance had not killed Heydrich this atrocity would not have happened. This does not excuse what happened in Lidice but it is common knowledge that any resistance against any occupying force which is a dictatorship is met with severe punishment for civilians.
My grandmother was born in Russia, under the Czar's rule. In 1918, where she lived became Czechoslovakia, and she moved to the US shortly after. She HATED the Russians, and Germans, with a passion. That part of Europe changed hands VERY frequently..and was always accompanied by war crimes.
let him who is without sin cast the first stone...
Czechs should not ever forget the German atrocities, nor should the Chinese forget the atrocities committed by the Japs.
I agree
FYI : A lot of these German Civilians were Czechs but they give up their Czechs citizenship to become German Citizens and Aided the Germans .
AND THEY PAID THE PRICE AFTER THE WAR AND I DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR THEM. NO MERCY NO REGRETS NO REMORSE. LONG LIVE FRENCH GREEK AND CZECH RESISTANCE.
@@giorgosfylaktou2610 me and you both...and for what they did to the Jews and Slavic people...i'm not a lover or a hater of Jews...neither am i religious...but they did not deserve that
the so called Sudetenland had been settled by German speaking people for many hundreds of years. They were never asked if they wanted to be Czech people after WW I. Many wanted to be part of a German state. Unfortunately political decisions after a war have very rarely taken into account what the people want.
@@giorgosfylaktou2610 What's wrong with you? Women, children and older people?
@@doomhippie6673 Α
It is amazing, so Czechoslovakia was occupied by two countries, Germany and some "Nazi country"? I have never heard of the second country. BTW I certainly do not like what was done to Germans after 9 May 1945, that is for sure. Just for comparison, Germans killed 300 - 350 000 people from area of current Czech Republic. My father survived 6 May only because od Germans decided to murdre everyone in next street (that time Usobska, now its name is "Obeti 6. kvetna), not in his. 54 people were murdered there including one 16 years old German girl.
Making them dig their own grave. It sounds cliche' but it was revenge in a brutal time.
ISIS did that game too.
Too many repeats not enough detail
Very sad but doesn't surprise me. Certainly there was a loss of the rule of law and due process just as during the Nazi regime. But then this has been a recurring theme, even recently as well long ago. Look happened in Canada during the early 1700s where thousands of French Acadians expelled from the Maritimes to Louisiana and other areas
By the inventors of the concentration camp, the Brits...
There were no independent, real justice within 6 years of German occupation of the Czech lands. That war experience had shaken or even destroyed the sense of justice and morals in some % of both German & Czech population.
Good point. Loss of due process lost over time from the rise of power of the Nazis in 1933@@bjetkabathory5185
that because you cant trust the french
What a terrible time to be alive
It's coming back again in Europe and America and Russia, millions of people accross the world will be killed trying to save freedom and democracy and humanity from these
Scumbags, this time the nazis will be offered no quarter and
No mercy not even one of them. The world will have to Cleanse itself of these monsters.
The post war tragedy of ordinary Germans has barely been told. It's OK to talk about the crimes of the nazis, and it is just that nazi war criminals were tried and executed. But it is also fair to mention that an estimated 14 million Germans were violently expelled from what for the most part had been their ancestral lands for centuries. Not only from the Sudetenland, with an estimated three million Germans, but also from the German eastern provinces ceded to Poland: Silesia, Pomerania and East Prussia, where ca. nine million Germans had lived since the 13th and 14th centuries. Add to that a couple of million that for almost two centuries had been invited to settle in the underpopulated areas around the lower Danube, in Romania, Yugoslavia and Hungary. This has been the largest forced population migration in human history. Estimates vary, but between half a million and two million are believed to have died from violence, starvation and disease. Many more would die upon their arrival in what was left of Germany, under allied occupation, where everyone was subject to the vindictive rule of 1000 calories per day at least until 1947.
It is true that the crimes of the nazis are without parallel in history because of their odious and racist nature, but anyone who says that the German people didn't suffer enough simply doesn't know about this obscure chapter if the post war history.
Yes, we did expel the Germans. That was good; we did need some more Lebensraum.
Not all Germans were nazies but all nazies were Germans
And The Austrians had no Nazis?, Check your facts before you spew stupid crap like this.@@billchalmers6695
history does not excuse modernity there is perpetuation or realization. two of those lead to war and two do not. over explaining yourself beyond this point provides the emotional insulation to not realize those factors and repeat the cycle. if you don't see the lesson the Jewish people have been sending for almost 100 years that wars and the excuses for them are atrocious. history is poignant not provocative
@@billchalmers6695 Sadly there were (and still are) many Nazis in other European countries. Collaborators, and some who joined the German army.
Thank for your videos.
Most of these "german" Chechs had in fact many hundreds of years of heritedge in Böhmen Mähren.
In fact hundreds and in some cases, theire ansestery where more than thousen year before the so called "protestantiche semiten" had come to the areas then beeing Tchecoslovakia.
And not a few, of these "new protestants", and new Catolics, where in fact relative newcommers to the country.
And among them were not "that few" that were not only collaboratoers with the Nazi germany and the industrial financial elites that had payed for and "ordered" the occupation and the "seizing" of assets belonging to both civilians, companies, as to the state, but in fact organizers of said actions and theft. .
My grandfather came over here to the US after the war. He was in the Czech military. He's been dead for over 20 years, but he had no problem talking about his time there. He was a mean man, not towards us, but you could tell he had done some bad things, but I'm pretty sure he was just that way naturally, not because of the war. A sniper took off his first finger off, but otherwise, he would have taken a bullet somewhere in his body.
Remember Lidice
as well as Babi Yar...those pictures of women holding their babies next to that massive pit awaiting their turn to be shot...the epitome of evil
Remember Lezaky?
two wrongs dont make a right
@@Luis-bo2ujI'm sorry, but the Germans got away with literal murder. That country didn't suffer enough.
Will you equally condemn the British soldiers and liberated prisoners of Dachau concentration camp who slaughtered the German guards even though they surrendered? It was certainly not "proper" but it is entirely understandable given their horrific experiences. It is a mistake to judge past events by our contemporary standards and under incomparable circumstances. Violence breeds violence. Civilization and compassion ends when you see a dead and tortured body of someone you knew or loved, or if a violent foreign invader to your lands treats you like a subhuman for six years. Unspeakable acts bring unspeakable acts of revenge. We can't blame the desperate victims for craving for revenge. Many of us probably would, too.
But on occasions, evil people have to accept their fate when the tables are turned. Of course the guards were going to surrender. If the British troops hadn’t discovered and liberated the death camp the guards would have continued their despicable acts of cruelty and murder. You must be in some sort of fantasy world if you think the victims would instantly find forgiveness. Get real.
@@DessieTots Didn't I make it obvious enough that I am NOT on the side of the guards? I don't understand why you feel the need to accuse me of being in a fantasy land. Get off your high horse and re-read my comment carefully. I am sorry if it sounds too complicated to you.
Actually, Dachau was liberated by the US Army and it was Americans who stood aside and let inmates kill guards and, in at least one case, machine gunned several themselves. Court Martial charges were started, but then ignored.
Sadly violence and cruelty generally begets more violence and cruelty. Near the end of WWII the Luftwaffe anti-aircraft troops would send men out to retrieve shot down bomber crews before the German civilians could catch them and murder them. When peoples families are killed they are quite likely to seek revenge. One of the biggest problems I have with some of our drone strikes is the simple fact that all too often there is "collateral damage". I can't help but think every time that occurs we create more "terrorists" out of the relatives of the "damage".
As far as I know the American Army shot these guards and not the British Army. Most of these guards were of Eastern European origin. Most of the German guards fled when the US Army approached the concentration camps.
No I would not shoot innocent men, woman and children. There is no justification of these horrific acts.
As a Czech, I say that it was wrong to do this to the German-speaking Czechs, but I certainly don't think it was wrong to expel the Sudeten Germans, on the contrary, they can be glad for the expulsion because according to the law they faced the death penalty. The Sudeten Germans were a political party that had the support of the majority of German Czechs and actively collaborated with Hitler. Henlein, as the head of the Sudeten German Party, declared the liquidation of Czechoslovakia on 17 September 1938, and thus the party committed treason, which in the Czechoslovakia was punishable by life imprisonment or death.
Yes the lynching (like any lynching) was wrong because as always it was mainly the innocent who suffered. Guilt and punishment should have been decided in court. Unfortunately to convict every German-speaking resident separately would have been somewhat complicated especially in the conditions that prevailed after the war and so anyone who was part of the Sudeten German Party or volunteered for German citizenship in 1938 was deported on that basis, so Czech traitors were also deported alongside Germans. On the other hand, those Germans who were useful to the Czechoslovakia remained. (I feel most sorry for the German democrats who remained loyal to the republic, but since the communists were already preparing to take over, they were expelled along with the Nazis and traitors.)
So if someone calls himself a Sudeten German without being originally from the historical Sudetenland (the northern mountain range stretching between the Ore Mountains and Jesenik) he is in my opinion a Nazi because only the Nazis referred to the entire German-speaking Czech borderlands as the Sudetenland and they enforced this term in Munich on September 30, 1938. So if people cannot paint a swastika because it is a symbol of Nazism the term Sudeten German should not be used because it is a Nazi term for Czech Germans.
Rubbish. The Germans who lived in Sudetenland were living there for hundreds of years. The Sudetenland is a recognised and fully acknowledged territory and I was taught about it in school ......and I am not a Nazi.
The problem with the German army was that the head of their air force was a big "you-know-what."
That was the least of the problem. They didn't need to exist. You sound disappointed that they didn't win.
@@Boo-dawg. No, not at all. In fact all of my relatives were in service during WWII. I'm just saying, one of the big reasons the Germans lost so badly was due to bad leadership re their air force. Certain "kinds of people" will betray your trust somehow and from hindsight, that looks like what one of their problems was from a historical pov.
I don't know what
@@DD-cf1pl If Hitler hadn't dedicated so much of his time troops and logistics to murdering the Jews in Europe instead of directing all those much needed resources to the front line...the outcome would/could have been very different...
Don't get mad. Get even.
The day of revenge will come.
Doświadczyli na sobie tego ,co robili ich ubermensche w Polsce...
otóż to.
Well a bit logical after 6 years after terror. And again the ''international powers nor league of nations'' didn't want to burn their hands nor take responsibility in that part of Europe.
This period in history is not taught in schools around the world simply because it might offend some students.
Is angering some people the problem? As a native German with a “displaced” grandmother and mother from the Sudetenland, I had a very tight history curriculum. Expulsion was only briefly mentioned, if at all. And just like that, school was completely over and done with. Everything that happened after World War II we learned next to nothing. Talked very briefly about the alleged "denazification" ... but that many German refugees came to the remaining Germany - and I was one of them - we didn't learn that at all.
I didn't even know the story of my maternal line and my grandmother with her 4 small children about the expulsion from their homeland Sudetenland and their difficult life afterwards!
It only started very slowly when she dealt with it in her old age and wrote her book about it.
For other reasons (“anti-socials in National Socialism”) I dealt with this period - we never dealt with this topic at school, although the “anti-socials” were THE FIRST victims of the Nazis.
Does the school's tight curriculum allow for this? - or is that only reserved for a few people who study it “extracurricularly”?
Although it would be very important and we should learn from the experiences of the past - and yet we have more and more similar times to 1933 and after...
@@martinandreas-bergmann3053 Was your grandmother’s book published. If so I would be interested in getting a copy.
@Theuntoldpast love the videos but any chance you can do a nice long one for me please
I was never there, I have never experienced the suffering or fear people faced under the Nazis. I honestly don't know if I would be one of those to seek reprisals. How do any of us know?
You are right. I would probably feel rather strongly about that and I can understand the feeling. Still the behavior is criminal.
i will tell you how: use your brain, your spine, backbone, character nd not be a pathetic coward who hurts innocent women and children? that cant be this difficult can it now? if it is work on it now
After I retired I got a teaching credential and were generally the substitute I did have two long-term jobs. One of them was in a preschool. I spent two summers in one full year there. One of the women that work there was a Sudeten German who married an American soldier. Obviously she had to have been a small child but what she remembers is rather interesting. Church bells ringing and everyone leaving their houses immediately. I suppose this her parents hadn't voted with their feet. They would still be in Czechoslovakia or rather the Czech Republic.
And your point is ? Germans nazis were horrible with occupied countries' populations ,just savage and barbaric. You can't expect that when seeing Germans routed by Soviets they were not to take their revenge. The Sudeten problem was solved by expulsing Germans from Sudeten to Germany. War is dirty.
German civilians who may have been instructed, possibly forced to reside in conquered lands by the Nazi government were not criminals. Soviets also took advantage of the confusion to eliminate civilians who may been able to offer resistance to their occupation that crushed Eastern Europe for almost fifty years.
these civilians were not the oppressors - their murder makes the perpetrators every bit as evil as the Nazis
Nonsense!
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
@@offlimits4635 Those are not civilians. They are Nazi soldiers disguised as civilians and the rest were collaborators who helped the Nazis in their conquest by torturing and killing Czech children and women. The men were sent to concentration camps. Nobody will be as evil as the Nazi not even Stalin who was a monster.
And hitler in hell was laughing his head off . How he must have hated the germans for losing his war .
If I recall the Germans executed 1600 Czechs in only one village in 1942....
Ed allora? 😅
Giochiamo a Chi ha fatto piú uccisoni? 😂
The place was called Lidice.
LIDICE
It is not quite surprising that after the horrors of Nazism, some excesses against Germans occurred. These crimes cannot be made equal to order of magnitude higher crimes of Nazis. Many perpetrators were prosecuted. There was no systematic killing of Germans - eye for eye would meant 300,000+ Germans killed, corresponding to Czech losses during the German occupation. Nazi criminals were duly judged according to the law.
Dig a little deeper in the History books. Germans were being brutalized by the Poles among others and was a reason Hitler invaded.
Stop trying to justify the shooting of civilians. In fact huge numbers of German CIVILIANS were shot by foreigners.
@@SanitysVoidPerhaps. But the Germans took it to excess - Auschwitz etc etc etc…….
So Hitler pretended.@@SanitysVoid
I can see that Goebbels, despite being ashes is still the master of your weak mind, little Nazi.
Big crimes have been commited against Germans in Yugoslavia too.
There were no crimes committed against Germans in Czechoslovakia.
they had coloaborated with Nazis and supported them. Sometimes they were more cruel than Nazis. Many people were sent to concentrations camps due to colaborations of german minorities in Poland or Czech.
How do you know? You don't because none were given a fair trial!
The betrayed Czechoslovakia.
@pawelkkkk7103 Finally the voice of reasoning..........
Source: trust me bro
@@aberger6666 Its no secret that 99.9% of Sudeten Germans supported the Nazis and collaborated with the Nazis.
It's ignorant to think that you can pull the pendulum far in one direction and then have it only return to center once released.
It goes almost as far PAST center!!
Some would say they got away lightly all things considered
Damned are (no matter who) those who unjustly start a war and take the lives of the others/innocent!
......and damned are those who take revenge on the innocent.
Cruelty begets cruelty.
the excuse of murderers
actually germans were quite polite to Czechs during ww2 cause half of the Czech repuublic were actually germans and wanted to be under the reich management
@@Luis-bo2ujYeah, germans also wanted to get rid of slavs in the end since czechs ARE slavs and Hitler described them as subhuman.
@@Luis-bo2uj This was a popular hoax spread among the German war generations. The Nazi occupiers were so "polite" that the Czechs were persecuted, expelled from their homes, murdered, sent to KT.
The Germans were about 1/3 population - a significant deal of the most excellent personalities of them being the German-speaking Jews. This % was reduced within the war - the Jews were murdered or in exile. And many German men died fighting in Wehrmacht, and most Nazi families fled to Germany to save their family members from punishment for their war crimes.
@@Luis-bo2uj Well...there was the massacre of Czech civlians by German troops in Lidice...
I guess I have misunderstood the nature of the Sudatenland, I thought that was German territory lost in the treaty of Versailles and the original occupation was of proper German land. Then Hitler took Czechoslovakia illegally. War is waste.
You still misunderstand. The area called the Sudetenland was part of the Kingdom of Bohemia for hundreds of years and Bohemia was a kingdom within the Austria-Hungary Empire before WWI. Not part of Germany. After WWI, when the winners carved up Europe and laid the foundations for WWII they took Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia (previously part of Hungary) and created Czechoslovakia. The ethnic Germans wanted to be added to German speaking Austria, but their wishes were ignored.
Nothing new, this went on all over Europe, Yugoslavia was another example, the war had ended but the killing of innocent civilians and former combatants went on well into 50s and 60s and forced relocation of ethnic Germans from the north of the country went on. Often just to take their lands and possessions. It was a bad time to be living.
The soviets execucted war criminals and its BRUTAL
The US executes war criminals
And its Justified.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Whataboutism much? What Americans did in Vietnam and many other countries is as if not much worse than this.
They weren't 'war criminals' they were civilians. They didn't have a trial. Even Goering got a trial.
The Germans at least resettled their people in Germany.. They haven’t kept them in refugee camps for 80 years in the hope that they will one day go back to their homes in the Sudetenland or East Prussia.
My Dept. Boss at Lufthansa Reservations in London 1969-1992 was a Sudetenlander from Pilsen. He and his brother were forcibly conscipted into the Wehrmacht in 1938 despite them being teenagers and both sent off to fight in Russia. He told me a few things about his life, ending up as a Pow in England and allowed to stay after WW2 as he became sstateless.Human history has always been written blood.
My family, grandparents aunt and my mother were Sudetenland Germans west of Usti nad Laben. (Formerly Aussig). Luckily they got out with what they could carry, warned to take no valuables. There were reprisals and also, in Germany, they weren’t exactly welcome at first since there was little food and housing. Eventually they ended up in France near Lilles. My grandfather working in the coal mines for about 5 years before getting papers to emigrate to Canada.
My German grandmother spent part of the war in a concentration camp in Yugoslavia. Her sister disappeared one night never to be seen again and her best friend also died. She never talked about it.
now you know what happened to east prussians
Evil can evolve in each side
During our vacation in Bohemia (around 1975), we made a day trip to Marienbad. There, a man accosted us in German and complained about the way the Czeck government treated the Sudeten.
They might have been just innocent civillians or they might have been people who commited some crimes before, we will never know. If there were - for example - german soldier who changed to civillian clothes to escape the Red army - we cannot recognise it from the footage. There might have even been some Czechs among those people too, there was so little needed for someone to get executed in those days. Someone else just pointed at you and said: "It's a Nazi collaborator" and you would be taken to be either shot or imprisoned in conditions that made you wish you had been rather shot right away. They were real collaborators arrested like that and also people who just had a car or nice furniture someone wanted, or maybe knew something on someone and that someone didn't want that something to come out. A thief calling: "Catch the thief!" is a common thing, after all.
Also an innocent German person might have been just wearing a wrong coat, for example. Clothes were rationed during the war and Germans were very thrift, so when they executed a Czech freedom fighter, for example, they didn't just trow away their possesion, they gave it to the German citizens in need. A person with German citizenship could come and pick things from the possesions of the executed people. So if you were a poor German and were wearing a coat in which someone recognised a coat of their executed friend, I can imagine it could very well got you shot on a spot, unjust as it was.
There is also a video of civilians (Germans) run over by cars. This is said to be after the war. Obviously not a war crime or anything else
They were forcibly settled at the expense of Czech.
@@mikaelflyer6482 Very True, One of the stated aims of German Govt was the extermination of all non Germans in the occupied countries. Were these Germans the ones that lived there before Hitler? Were they the Germans that proudly welcomed the German Army? Were they the Germans that Came from Germany after the invasion and forced the non Germans out of their homes? Were these the Germans that turned in hundreds of thousands of Jews and other undesirables? Were these the Germans who lived good lives while the rest of the population suffered? I am not attempting to justified what was done, but I also did not live for 5 years under the German boot-heels. If I had maybe I would see it as justified. This kind of reprisals against the German Civilian invaders took place in many of the occupied areas of eastern Europe.
There were no innocent countries in that war.
of course it was a crime
Yes it’s horrific I seen the video a truck runs slowly over German civilian’s, one man has his hands joined in prayer.
My grandparents were expelled from the Cheb region. Traumatized until the end of his life .1945 after the end of the war
There is no mercy for the looser...
Revenge is a terrible thing, and makes people become no better than the people who victimized them in the first place.
Agree that revenge is a base human behaviour, but damn it must feel good though! After years of study, travel, sitting across the conference tables from the Japanese, I can't get over my hatred of what they did to China, Asia and wherever they may have touched. Bestial? Check! Perverted? Check!
To be like the evil , in seeking revenge the same way you become just the very same.. That sadly is a fact…
Yes. A thousand times yes.
Question: How many Studeten Germans fought with the Czech underground/partisans or with Czech freedom fighters or join Soviet troops?
Some did and they were to stay.
“ Daddy, we hardly knew you “…..Ms Greer.
The Red Army kept out of the Killings of Sudetan's , these Germans had Loved the Heil Hitler's in 1938 when Hitler annexed the Sudetanland. why bother about these!
What about the 400 german soldiers who were POW's who had been kept in a castle but then taken forced to dig a huge pit and then shot! Pictures exist and there is a plaque at the Castle!
Just remember that there is always someone out there in the world pissed off at you for no other reason than they loosely associate you with some bastard that did them wrong.
There is a good book "The Czech-German Drama . Establishment and collapse of a multinational state as a prelude to the Second World War.1918-1939
I don't believe in executing someone just because of their race or nationality, this goes for Germans that were never tried for any crimes, the Czechs and the Red Army had become guilty of what they accused the Nazis of doing!
Do not even think of comparing the Czechs to the Nazis!
You are correct. What the Czechs did was cowardly and a crime of ethnic murder.
Truthfully, I couldn't for the life of me tell the difference between a Czech and a German. To play it safe, I would have just sieg heiled during the Nazi occupation, and then shouted "down with the Germans" by May of 1945.
@@091053JG Killing civilians is always wrong, regardless who the victims are and who does the killing.
The German citizens turned a blind eye to what was going on because it wasn’t happening to them. Hitler made no bones about what was going to happen. You going to try and tell me with the burning of the bodies, people in towns nearby couldn’t smell it? They are just as culpable.
would happen today with same scenario
well we have seen it happen recently in Ukraine, many cases of ukraine civs murdered on spot by other ukraine paramilitary groups under the accusation of being russian collaborators. It happened a lot in kiev during the first weeks of the war
Czecho-Slovakia stoped to exists on March 14th 1939. We had free Slovak state.
You forgot to mantion it was Nazi Slovac state.
"Free". Yeah, uh-huh, right. Puppet state.
'We had free Slovak state' Yes, allied to Nazi Germany fighting with them in Soviet Union.
Honest history is the way to go. Each country should be heald up to scrutiny by independent unbiased professionals who have pass certain bar's in their profession. ✊ ☘️
Germans are amazing people, after their post war persecution, they came back to be a world power.
@@AS-ty7ncusa made most profit from ww2
🤣Think about it: The top 3 economies in the world within about 20 years or so of the War's end were; USA, Japan and Germany ! @@Eric-kn4yn
True.
The atrocities committed by the allies needs to be known about also in order to show the futility and insanity of war. However there is one very glaring mistake here. You state that the czec germans were driven from their homes. Most of them were homes stolen from the Czechs.
Nothing much, but you should look into the Russians in Germany, then isis, taliban, al queda, hamas and all the rest of them.
@@jamesb.9155You need to look into who created the conditions that allowed these incorrigible to exist. $$$
When I was in Elementary school I had a teacher who represented herself as a Polish refugee, from the war, but her facial features were German not West Slavic
In the mid 2000s I saw a brief film about her living out of the back of a caboose car somewhere in post war Germany it was 100 percent her, just younger. She was actually a Ethnic German from now polish territory ceded to Poland right after the war
As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
I was not familiar at all with these incidents before this.
This should serve as a warning to the Russians who have moved to the Crimea. When the Russians are removed from the Crimea, expect similar retribution to those from Siberia and heartland Russia who settled by the coastal areas in Crimea for better climate and life.
People should always think of the return trip if they have any left.
Nothing has changed in history cruelty is endemic and inherently part of human nature when pay back time is afforded to the oppressed
In your imagination, ukronazi !
Should serve as a warning to ukrainian banderite nazis who tried genocide on the Donbas Ukrainians who just happened to speak russian when the map was redrawn when Ukraine was told to separate from soviets, they had no choice , but Zelenski is a racist nazi and of course has proven it to the world by writing his own version of mein kamph
@@antoinemozart243 The russian minority was all take and no give. And for their trouble, they will lose everything and be barred from returning forever.
Lmao, cope harder hohol
@@ctherats6023 You need to get your prescription changed.
The Czechs also evicted all Germans from Western Bohemia where they had lived in harmony with Czechs for hundreds of years. That de-populated region was later repopulated by Sinti and Roma people for the most part.
They cheered the Nazis when they entered the Sudetenland.
Did you know one of the forced cheq workers sabotaged the rounds and a surviving b17 had 11 undetonated rounds in its fuel tank, and when one was cut open, it's had a note saying this is all i can do for now
When you plan on revenge, dig TWO graves.
This guys reading style is just obscene. Like water torture. Couldn't finish.
I think people who have not lived in the shoes of those who lived under German rule during WW2 .... have no right to judge the actions of those who did after the war. Sometimes reprisals are justified based upon what went before.
It truly is time to let World War 2 go and forget what happened and focus on the here and now. People who refuse to let go of what happened - relive it every day. We are now a different time and a different people.
A people never change, only situations, circumstances, and the value of our currency.
Death does not stop when one's soul leaves the body, it continues to exist depending on one's works there is a literal hell and heaven
Ordinary people are perfectly capable of the most heinous crimes under a reign of impunity.
This makes those responsible as bad as those who oppressed them..two wrongs dont make a right.
Cry about it
cry me a river
Yeah I feel so terrible for Hitler supporters.
I don’t see two wrongs
Oh? So dragging civilians out of a theatre and shooting them in the street is 'right'? In what way? I call it murder.@@osricwolfing4553
Nothing in comparison to what the Red Army did to the German civilians when they entered East Prussia.
Nothing compared to what the Germans did to Russia in St Petersburg and Moscow.. Russia lost more people in WWII than any country...by far.
The Red Army copied from the most evil people that ever existed- Nazis. When Germans entered the Soviet Union they killed and raped more than 20 millions children, women and old people. The Soviets were evil cause they learned from the best teachers, the Germans.
Thank you!!!!!!!
Obviously you known nothing about history. Perhaps you can have a look what Ukrainians, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian SS units did. Also you have never heard about Nanking, did you? Or Agent Orange, napalm bombing of Vietnam.
Yes and the millions killed by Communists in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos the list goes on @@pavelneuzil6457
The fools say art of war.--- war is the height of human evil.😢
The Dallas Cowboys are forced to wear stars.
The Czechs suffered the most under Reinhardt..no wonder they took it out ethnic Germans after the war..never end..
Remember Lidice!
Killing innocent people is murder.
A Seventh Day Adventist family who were Sudeten Germans were told at the end of the war: "You want to be German, it's that way" pointing toward Germany. The Germans didn't want all these people coming in to be settled on their land; these people who had lived for generations on land which had been owned by first one country's king and then another but were 'German' or Polish or Alsatian.
In the heart of every man & woman lies the heart of a beast & angel. The one we feed is the one that wins.
The German minority in the Sudentenland greeted the entering German troops with enthusiasm. It was similar in Poland, where the local Germans in September 1939 pointed out Polish patriots to the invaders. I regret that we did not settle accounts with them like the Czechs.
Poles also pointed out Jews to the Germans and raided their houses after they were arrested.Had the Poles been treating the Jews fairly: i.e. no racism, no pogroms,they wouldn't have any need to immigrate to Palestine
of course. When Germans democratically chose to be reintegrated into what is rightfully theirs, what i assume is an upholder of democracy such as yourself, will of course play the victim and willfully look the other way, crying in his victimhood as he bashes whom he was made to believe is the unequivocal villain. I regret that Poland was not all but entirely wiped out.
Your post explains why the executions took place. You have learned nothing.@@wulfkassebaum
@@wulfkassebaum I deeply regret that the Russians did not exterminate your kind.
@@wulfkassebaummoving to another person's home and calling it your own, the German and Russian way..
Contrary to the propaganda of the victorious side, WW2 was never a war between angels and devils .In the 20th century Europe people butchered each other so much in ww1 and ww2 that bitter and untold horrific stories are still being discovered .It is interesting that a the same time the Europeans called the poor hardworking people of Africa and Asia wild and uncivilized !!
Every war is like that. Just horrible.
.....the difference is that Asian and African people can be very barbaric in war times whereas the Europeans don't display such an amount of barbarism in wars.
What happened in WW1 & WW2 such as the bombardment of Dresden in Germany , concentration camps and use of chemical weapons in WW1 were not barbaric ?! @@monikaquinton
What did these German civilians expect ?
They knew what they're military had done to defenceless civilians, so why didn't they retreat with everyone else ?
They were executed by the wall were they, walls are dangerous beings
And there were no tears shed.
These were collaborators....the Germans themselves always happily shot collaborators..along with endless thousands of other people...!!!!
Kocár do Vídne (Ein Wagen nach Wien) Regie: Karel Kachyna, 1966
That all happened after the war, beginning in May 45. The bloody summer 1945. About 200000 were killed, mostly civilians.
I'm a firm believer in an eye for an eye.
but it was not - these were civilians
@@offlimits4635 oh these poor innocent civilians that knew nothing of the atrocities being committed by their fellow germans and just stood by. Maybe you should do a little research on how the german civilian population conducted themselves during the war
me too...this was totally justified imho.....as well as the raping of German women in Berlin for what the Einsatzgruppen did to the Russians
@@ericwieboldt7042 I have - you know nothing about these civilians, you have no right to judge. The murderers were no different from the Nazis. \It is you who needs to research
I don't believe an eye for an eye but I can't judge these victims either cause people will do horrible things when they are wounded and hurt. These Germans collaborated with the Nazis to torture and kill Czech children and women. The men were sent to concentration camps.