BRUTAL Death of Adolf Diekmann - Bestial NAZI SS Officer who Killed 642 People in France in 1day

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  • čas přidán 27. 02. 2024
  • Adolf Diekmann was born on the 8th of December 1914 in Magdeburg then part of the German Empire. Although his father was a primary school teacher, Diekmann left school in 1932 at age 17.
    On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. In April 1933 Diekmann joined the Nazi Party and in May of the same year he became a member of the SS. He then completed his high school education at a Nazi secondary boarding school, in Naumburg, earning his degree in December 1935.
    When in August 1938 Diekmann completed a course and was promoted to Second Lieutenant, he then became a part of the so-called SS-VT unit, which was a mechanized infantry unit at the disposal of the Führer, Adolf Hitler.
    The SS-VT served as a small, elite unit within the SS, separate from the regular German Army and after the outbreak of Second World War it was expanded and reorganized into the Waffen-SS, which was the military branch of the SS.
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Komentáře • 108

  • @scratchsescape1978
    @scratchsescape1978 Před 2 měsíci +59

    Years ago I read an interview with Diekman's son in a German Magazine. He became a medical doctor and didn't know the extent of his father's crimes until medical school. During a break one of his classmates visited Oradour-sur-Glane and when the classmate discovered that Diekman was this guy's father, he never spoke to Diekman's son again. The son mentioned that once he ask his grandfather why they never talked about his father and the grandfather replied that his father had done something terrible . Later in life he visited Oradour-sur-Glane on multiple occasions.

    • @454FatJack
      @454FatJack Před 2 měsíci +1

      🫡his father. Terrorist think again about attacking illegally on military unit.

    • @ronaldmessina4229
      @ronaldmessina4229 Před 2 měsíci +1

      In my humble opinion, it is and was a very terrible situation that caused the brake up of the family, this due to the fact that w.w. 1 / 2 separated many family members who, in many cases, had no, or very little, part of the situation 😢

    • @patterdale4332
      @patterdale4332 Před 2 měsíci +19

      You cannot blame the son he was only a child

    • @jammer3618
      @jammer3618 Před 2 měsíci

      Fat jack above seems to know little about the law of proportionality. Or he is simply an SS apologist.

    • @legoninjagirl
      @legoninjagirl Před 2 měsíci +6

      Sins of the father, in my opinion, should not hold the son responsible

  • @TheDigitalApple
    @TheDigitalApple Před 2 měsíci +54

    If I remember correctly Oradour-sur-Glane is still uninhabited to this day, still abandoned 60 years later after the brutal massacre as a war memorial.

    • @ladycplum
      @ladycplum Před 2 měsíci +9

      It is. It has been left as a memorial.

    • @fieracarmen4713
      @fieracarmen4713 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Au trecut 80de ani de la masacrul de la Oradour-sur-Glane nu 60!

    • @jollcheist1443
      @jollcheist1443 Před 2 měsíci +6

      A new Oradour sur Glane was rebuilt next to the old one which was kept as a memorial.

    • @thorawilson6253
      @thorawilson6253 Před 2 měsíci +2

      True

    • @simonshiels1
      @simonshiels1 Před 2 měsíci +2

      It's definitely worth visiting to reflect on a terrible time in history

  • @DeepTexas
    @DeepTexas Před 2 měsíci +31

    One the most informative WW2 channels on any platform. Consistent and prolific excellence.

  • @417jumps3
    @417jumps3 Před 2 měsíci +30

    One of my uncles was part of the first wave on Omaha beach. He said it was horrible. I didn’t know anything about this until about a month before he died. When cleaning out the house my mom came across a photo album filled with pics you don’t see in the documentaries. Even after 70yrs it’s still emotional and difficult to keep a dry eye. Those men were truly amazing!! It’s difficult to comprehend and put into words the thanks for what they experienced in order to free a world gone half mad.

    • @nanabutner
      @nanabutner Před 2 měsíci +2

      My dad was one of five in his squadron of Glider Pilots who survived their D-DAY LANDINGS. He too never said much about that war or what those men witnessed! After reading EXDOUS as a teenager, I became very interested in the concentration camps, the medical experiments, as well as the horrendous torture inflicted upon the inmates. Also having a grandfather who was a pure German, I became very interested in the people rather than the actual battles.
      You are so correct--the debt we owe those brave men and women for their sacrifices can never be repaid!

    • @417jumps3
      @417jumps3 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@nanabutner it’s impossible to comprehend what those men and women witnessed on a daily basis….

  • @amandarobb2856
    @amandarobb2856 Před 2 měsíci +6

    Thank you so much for mentioning our Canadian 🇨🇦 troops that were part of D-Day! So often we are left out of documentaries that we were very much a part of!

    • @melodyszadkowski5256
      @melodyszadkowski5256 Před měsícem +2

      The Canadian forces were a critical part of the D-Day invasion and many gave their lives in the effort. They deserve just as much recognition as the others.

    • @francoisregis2155
      @francoisregis2155 Před 12 dny

      Indeed we don’t hear too
      Many things about our 🇨🇦 troops
      Im a french Canadian and I have heard some stories about a french 🇨🇦 who was kinda Rambo guy
      I also heard a story were SS murdered 🇨🇦 soldiers on D-Day

  • @lorenzbroll0101
    @lorenzbroll0101 Před 2 měsíci +22

    Horrible & gruesome. From what I can read though it seems that anyone joining the SS mob did not have a very good chance of battle survival anyway. An almost self-destructive syndicate of brutes.

  • @joshrabatin
    @joshrabatin Před 2 měsíci +5

    What a Diek...

  • @ridethecurve55
    @ridethecurve55 Před 2 měsíci +19

    Thank You for bringing this to our attention. The massacres at the hands of the SS should Never be forgotten!

    • @454FatJack
      @454FatJack Před 2 měsíci

      D-Day US Para no prisoner’s order. Is US as such ok war crime to do❤

    • @winstonwhiteside9525
      @winstonwhiteside9525 Před 2 měsíci

      ​​@@454FatJackWhy don' t you go back to school and learn two things: (1) history, (2) how to write a clear and coherent sentence in English.

  • @fieracarmen4713
    @fieracarmen4713 Před 2 měsíci +11

    Nu a mai trăit mult acest individ, după atrocitățile de la Oradour-sur-Glane! După plată și răsplată!

  • @renee1961
    @renee1961 Před 2 měsíci

    I sent a " thanks". I really appreciate your Channel. It's my Favorite History Channel.

  • @ladycplum
    @ladycplum Před 2 měsíci +12

    I remember reading somewhere that it was actually in the village of Oradour-sur-Vayres that Kampfe was taken, but the Nazis got the names mixed up. I don't know about the validity of this, though. (But on another note, normally your pronunciation and diction are normally outstanding, but in this case you completely mispronounced "guerillas". It's pronounced like the animal. Simple as that.)

  • @colinwinship1231
    @colinwinship1231 Před 2 měsíci +7

    Why are the executions of these unfeeling killers always described as " brutal "

  • @jasonmiller5369
    @jasonmiller5369 Před 2 měsíci +9

    Unbelievable horror, this is evil of the worst kind Judgement day these bastards will pay the ultimate price for these horrific crimes!

  • @keithwald5349
    @keithwald5349 Před 2 měsíci +6

    I'm descended from Polish Jews, but this is about much more than just Jews, Slavs, "others"... and the nazis. This is about a problem that we humans have with each other. Unless and until we find a way to solve it, this kind of horror will continue happening.

  • @Mach5Johnny
    @Mach5Johnny Před 24 dny +1

    There’s a very good reason why Oradour-Sur-Glane was left untouched and was made into an Open-Air Museum and Memorial…. It was kept as a constant reminder that such horrific atrocities would never happen again!

  • @louniece1650
    @louniece1650 Před 2 měsíci +10

    I wonder how many of these monsters' ideologies continue in their descendants today? The spawn of the spawn of their spawn. 🥶

  • @malic_zarith
    @malic_zarith Před 2 měsíci +4

    Is extreme dislike of nazis deemed inappropriate in the comments? My language talking about nazi war criminals is a bit colorful, but I don't get why it keeps getting filtered out. I mean, we know the gravity of what these individuals did from the videos.

  • @davidgaine4697
    @davidgaine4697 Před 2 měsíci +7

    I found the narrators’s intonation and pronouncement of the Nazi’s name interesting and almost comical. The vitriol in his voice intensified the crimes he was describing that were perpetrated and the justice of an early death the German experienced. The Maquis were known for their fierceness and for putting at risk other partisans who committed acts of lessor sedition through pamphleting and listening to the BBC on the radio for news of the war. The common mistake the Nazis made was underestimating the hatred they engendered by their random acts of cruelty. They thought they were untouchable for their crimes against humanity. Eugenics has a lot to answer for.

  • @renee1961
    @renee1961 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Good day, and Thank You.

  • @jammer3618
    @jammer3618 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Is it any wonder the 80th infantry division refused, for the most part, to take SS prisoners.

  • @TellySavalas-or5hf
    @TellySavalas-or5hf Před měsícem

    the movie "Le Vieux fusil" (1975) is about these WW2 episodes in Oradour.

  • @Salamanders01
    @Salamanders01 Před 2 měsíci +4

    There’s actually a movie covering this horrific event in it, can’t recall the name sadly but the movie captured the pure horror and genuine cruelty of this tragedy.
    Edit: it’s called Come and See (1985)

    • @Nameless_Night
      @Nameless_Night Před 2 měsíci +1

      Is it "A cry in the night"? I know sort of what you mean but it's been so long, I don't recall accurately

    • @tomrobertson3444
      @tomrobertson3444 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Mel Gibson transposed it to America and had the 'redcoats' doing it in "The Patriot" because that's how seriously he takes historical accuracy.

    • @Salamanders01
      @Salamanders01 Před 2 měsíci

      @@Nameless_Night FOUND THE MOVIE! Called “come and see” from 1985, brutal movie that captures the true horror and hell that occurred.

    • @Nameless_Night
      @Nameless_Night Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@Salamanders01 THANK YOU!!!!

  • @janlindtner305
    @janlindtner305 Před 2 měsíci +5

    👍👍👍

  • @andyplus1352
    @andyplus1352 Před 2 měsíci +1

    He is a namesake to Adolf Hitler by the first name.
    He might want to say as a defense that he was obeying Hitler 's order.

  • @roaropgard8575
    @roaropgard8575 Před 2 měsíci +4

    D-day

  • @JohnC-pt1iw
    @JohnC-pt1iw Před měsícem

    A planet earth not worthy living on it.

  • @alexjordi4739
    @alexjordi4739 Před 2 měsíci +5

    "What have we achived until 1939? The envy of the makers of democracy grew. The same people that put Germany in the Great War started this war! Mr Chrchuil and Mr Eden started to be worried. They asked me why do I have the SS if I want peace? Because there are people that dont want it!!! The creators of democracy are the ones who turn brothers against brothers. They arr the ones who start and end the wars. This is the war of Nacionalism vs globalism"
    Austrian Painter 1940 (Germany)

    • @lorenzbroll0101
      @lorenzbroll0101 Před 2 měsíci

      Democracy only works when everyone wants to pay that game.
      When they dont...

  • @kenrudd6362
    @kenrudd6362 Před měsícem

    undoubtedly the most terrible tragedy here is his last name

  • @jonathannixon8652
    @jonathannixon8652 Před 2 měsíci +1

    4:53 Why did he have three s' on his calor? Never seen that before. †

  • @blaircalvin5025
    @blaircalvin5025 Před 2 měsíci

    Diekmann evidently committed suicide by intentionally not wearing a helmet during artillery bombardments.

  • @Fre3domAction
    @Fre3domAction Před měsícem

    Bad record for such a renown division like Das Reich...

  • @francoisregis2155
    @francoisregis2155 Před 12 dny

    Oradour story is so sad and tragic

  • @Neil-Aspinall
    @Neil-Aspinall Před 2 měsíci

    You can still go there today. It is as it was.

  • @richardbale3278
    @richardbale3278 Před 2 měsíci

    Warriors. The ones that I know, anyway. Submit to a code. One of the principle parts of that code is that you are not allowed to harm children...ever! In fact, you are required to protect them at the risk of your own body, regardless of where they came from.

  • @a.m.c.a1362
    @a.m.c.a1362 Před 2 měsíci

    Yeah nah.

  • @carstenmanz302
    @carstenmanz302 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Are there any other topics in the channel besides just Nazi, Nazi, Nazi? As if there had been no other dark chapters, tyrants, dictatorships, mass murders and genocides in world history - I just remember the near-extermination of the American natives from Canada to Chile/Argentina, the slave trade with Africans or the Jewish Bible story about the “Conquest of Canaan”!

    • @williampawson5476
      @williampawson5476 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Well...... YOU could make a channel to cover those topics.... anytime you want to....

    • @carstenmanz302
      @carstenmanz302 Před 2 měsíci

      @@williampawson5476 Hitler wrote his infamous book 100(!) years ago, the Holocaust was 80(!) years ago - how long do you want to keep "discovering" this scary story again and again?? The communist Soviets had eliminated almost all of the German-Jewish communists who had fled to Moscow before World War II and killed many more civilians than even the Nazis, not to mention communist China!

    • @seattlewa8500
      @seattlewa8500 Před 2 měsíci

      @@carstenmanz302You seem upset that your Nazi heroes are being exposed. Get over it.

  • @renee1961
    @renee1961 Před 2 měsíci +1

    The number of Innocent Children, Women, and Men is Horrifying! Unimaginable, and Unforgivable! Prayers 🥀🥀🥀🥀🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🙏🙏🙏🙏💔💔💔💔

  • @infrared2084
    @infrared2084 Před 2 měsíci

    Who’d think the record would be broken in 2023/2024
    Humans - failed

  • @balancedactguy
    @balancedactguy Před 2 měsíci

    At 11:32 he looks like he was a wimp!

  • @robertomeneghetti6215
    @robertomeneghetti6215 Před 2 měsíci +5

    Brutal death? Too soft...

  • @tombristowe846
    @tombristowe846 Před 2 měsíci +1

    What a ridiculous talkover voice, doing a sort of Lord Hawhaw impression. And quote; "...born in Magdeburg, then part of the German Empire..." as though it was some distant Baltic enclave, when it is in fact a major city right in the middle of Germany to this day. And do we need the entire history of WW2 just to lead up to this particular incident ? Low brow rehash for the unthinking.

  • @nattygsbord
    @nattygsbord Před 2 měsíci +4

    The content on this channel are good, but i think this much commercials is harmful. I was getting interrupted by adds 3 times just for a 10 minute video! If I get interrupted 5-6 times in a 20 minute video I will not bother watching it. I will boycot it as a matter of principle

    • @kuriburger
      @kuriburger Před 2 měsíci +6

      CZcams places the ads not World History.

    • @talibandzant9867
      @talibandzant9867 Před 2 měsíci +4

      Channel has nothing to do with ads

    • @nattygsbord
      @nattygsbord Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@kuriburger
      If that is the case then CZcams is killing itself. I cannot even watch my own videos here on youtube without seeing lots of ads.
      And I get comments removed on my own channel from youtube censors - despite according to other users they didn't write anything offensive.

    • @davidpearson3304
      @davidpearson3304 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Don’t be so cheap, get CZcams premium and there are no commercials. Haven’t seen a commercial on here in years

    • @Tommy-zg1yd
      @Tommy-zg1yd Před 2 měsíci

      CZcams premium! No commercial

  • @rijndertdoting8667
    @rijndertdoting8667 Před 2 měsíci

    The vcoice- over has an intonation that seems to be not enterily impartial..🤔

    • @seattlewa8500
      @seattlewa8500 Před 2 měsíci

      Why would the person be impartial for someone who slaughtered 642 people?

  • @trevormitson6026
    @trevormitson6026 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Interesting pronunciation ''Moscow''???

  • @ingridjernej6361
    @ingridjernej6361 Před 2 měsíci

    Can you imagine you show this video in israel tv and compare this men to nethanyahu - this would fit the situation done by israel 1
    000%

  • @DT-wp4hk
    @DT-wp4hk Před 2 měsíci

    Diekmann stadium was the stadium of Fc Twente

  • @rhondatracey6377
    @rhondatracey6377 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Wow good history lesson about giving into a country (germany) germany that was teaching hard core socialist values to their youth and then of course germany just wants to take one country back “they say” to only then wage war against those countries that agreed to let them have that country(In this instance germany wanted to take back Czechoslovakia) then ww2 had began the following month
    Sound familiar in 2024 ? Crimea now Ukraine ???

    • @nattygsbord
      @nattygsbord Před 2 měsíci

      yes we know that putlerites are modern day nazis. thats why ukraine gets weapons

  • @davidgaine4697
    @davidgaine4697 Před 2 měsíci +7

    I found the narrators’s intonation and pronouncement of the Nazi’s name interesting and almost comical. The vitriol in his voice intensified the crimes he was describing that were perpetrated and the justice of an early death the German experienced. The Maquis were known for their fierceness and for putting at risk other partisans who committed acts of lessor sedition through pamphleting and listening to the BBC on the radio for news of the war. The common mistake the Nazis made was underestimating the hatred they engendered by their random acts of cruelty. They thought they were untouchable for their crimes against humanity. Eugenics has a lot to answer for.

    • @georgebrown8312
      @georgebrown8312 Před 2 měsíci

      Well, the Nazis should have learned that when they would stir up hatred that it would get out of control and lead to destructive repercussions against them, just like playing with fire would get you burned sooner or later.

    • @robertomeneghetti6215
      @robertomeneghetti6215 Před 2 měsíci

      They felt themselves "Uebermenschen"... 🤔🤔🙄🙄😄😄😒😒

    • @TellySavalas-or5hf
      @TellySavalas-or5hf Před měsícem +1

      Narrated by Dan Aykroyd.