Brutal Massacre of German Waffen SS Soldiers by their Americans Captors - Chenogne Massacre - WW2

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  • On 17 December 1944, the 1st SS Panzer Division, commanded by Joachim Peiper, was heading west from Büllingen, Belgium. This movement was part of the general German advance during the Battle of the Bulge. At the same time, a US convoy of thirty vehicles and nearly 140 men of the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion was heading south from Hürtgen Forest toward Ligneuville. The two forces converged just before noon at the crossroads hamlet of Baugnez, 4 kilometers south of Malmedy. SS soldiers immediately began firing upon the US troops, who panicked. Those who did not escape, including medical personnel, quickly surrendered. After being searched and relieved of their personal possessions, the US soldiers were lined up in eight rows in a field at the crossroads. Survivors of the atrocity recalled that a group of approximately 120 U.S. prisoners of war stood in the farmer's field when the SS soldiers fired machine guns at the grouped Americans.
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  • @DeepTexas
    @DeepTexas Před 20 dny +57

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  • @mickeysplane7980
    @mickeysplane7980 Před 12 dny +32

    Joachim Peiper was sentenced to death but excaped the rope with a reduced sentence. He later worked for Volkeswagen. He was assinated in France in 1976.

    • @MrShenyang1234
      @MrShenyang1234 Před 7 dny +1

      Joachim Peiper was a German Soldier, obeying orders from his Superiors. If he had chosen to disobey those orders, he would have been shot by his own military. Allied Troops did the exact same thing. A few were even executed for Desertion. Very sad.

    • @tasteofyourmedicine
      @tasteofyourmedicine Před 3 dny +1

      ​​@@MrShenyang1234No, he was SS. You don't just get drafted into SS, you undergo extensive training, filtering of too unfit/not tough enough people, and multiple tests to see if you'd faithfully carry out orders. You literally have to prove over and over that you're Super into being a Nazi, so they don't risk desertion.
      Wehrmacht is what you're talking about, but the myth of "clean Wehrmacht" only circulated once their superiors were captured... Hmm... 😂

    • @LK-bz9sk
      @LK-bz9sk Před 3 dny

      @@tasteofyourmedicineYes. That is the difference.

    • @conveyor2
      @conveyor2 Před 2 dny

      @@tasteofyourmedicine By war's end the majority of the SS wasn't even German.

  • @TyrantOFynder
    @TyrantOFynder Před 19 dny +50

    The saddest thing is the world is slowing getting closer to another Radical Regime not further away.. despite history's lessons.

    • @HedgeWalker
      @HedgeWalker Před 16 dny

      So, having paedophiles in power who just ‘vaxxxxxxed’ the western world isn’t a radical regime!?

    • @chrisBaxter-ly8or
      @chrisBaxter-ly8or Před 11 dny +1

      which one ?

    • @ryanm4013
      @ryanm4013 Před 8 dny

      @@chrisBaxter-ly8orThe one taking over college campuses with acts of violence while supporting terrorists and at the same time denying that their side raped, beheaded or kidnapped anyone

    • @johncasamassa462
      @johncasamassa462 Před 6 dny +6

      I can only imagine you are speaking of the Biden Administration with their willing fellow travelers...the RINOs.

    • @johnnyssik
      @johnnyssik Před 4 dny +1

      Trump wants to be like Hitler. History will not be kind..

  • @bruce8321
    @bruce8321 Před 14 dny +77

    The 12th SS did the same to 156 Canadian soldiers in several areas of France. When word got out the Canadians took no more prisoners again.

    • @jimmycapps7263
      @jimmycapps7263 Před 12 dny +2

      i've read about this massacre on These Canadian soldiers ,one SS officer was reported to be laughing as they sent the Canadian body's floating down the river!

    • @jamesdellaneve9005
      @jamesdellaneve9005 Před 11 dny +12

      Back when Canada still had men.

    • @johanderuiter9842
      @johanderuiter9842 Před 10 dny

      Neither did the Waffen SS for that matter.

    • @MrShenyang1234
      @MrShenyang1234 Před 7 dny

      The 12th Panzer Division was the Hitler Youth Division. That makes it all the more horrific that young boys would do this type of thing.

    • @jensgaus781
      @jensgaus781 Před 6 dny +1

      @@jimmycapps7263 The Canadians were notorious for killing German POW, partically Waffen - SS soldiers. Reactions could be expected. Killing POWs is ALWAYS a war crime, doesn't who committed those.

  • @user-hb8bt2hg1x
    @user-hb8bt2hg1x Před 20 dny +25

    This is an event I never knew about. Thanks for making this video.

  • @KohalaLover
    @KohalaLover Před 20 dny +70

    I shed tears for all civilians, Holocaust victims, Allied soldiers & even the animals from WWII. I feel zero sympathy for Nazi’s. Americans weren’t perfect but tell me who involved was? As the stellar World History narrator said: “there were no tears for Nazi murderers”.

  • @3idraven714
    @3idraven714 Před 11 dny +9

    My Grandpa (7th Armored Div) said they took NO SS prisoners during St. Vith (Battle of the Bulge).

  • @fredsimmons2793
    @fredsimmons2793 Před 20 dny +17

    Theres plenty of blame for everyone of humanity to go around,ultimately.We need to be reminded of this every so often as your presentation so ablely provides.Great work.

  • @kodiakkeith
    @kodiakkeith Před 15 dny +12

    My father was 30th Division which moved into a line between Stavelot and Malmedy on the day after the massacre, trapping the 1st SS armor in a pocket with the Ambleve river at their back. They soon knew about the massacre and stopped taking SS prisoners as they reduced the 1st SS, but I came across an interesting entry in the 30th Medical Department Diary a couple of weeks later. As they pushed the Germans back towards St. Vith a Sgt. Rice makes an entry in the journal that Wehrmacht prisoners are showing up in the rear with frost bitten feet because the GIs are taking their boots away before marching them to the rear. He says they are doing this to "make them sorry they are Germans." The massacre at Baugnez crossroads was repaid to German prisoners for the rest of the war. War is hell, as they say.

  • @jeffdevlin8022
    @jeffdevlin8022 Před 13 dny +32

    My dad was in Burma and there was a private order given out within the troops NO PRISONERS.

    • @fastyaveit
      @fastyaveit Před 10 dny +4

      Well the Japanese were a different kettle of fish

    • @jjbrbberg
      @jjbrbberg Před 10 dny +4

      Japan fought a different a very different war with no regard to any life. And no surrender!

    • @markbriten6999
      @markbriten6999 Před 9 dny

      ​@@jjbrbbergwell the Germans did the same ...... except for themselves

    • @christophed4579
      @christophed4579 Před 9 dny

      basically, these troops were "Einsatztruppen".

  • @sham421
    @sham421 Před 19 dny +21

    I agree with the American soldiers who believed that it would not be possible to commit a “war crime” against SS or IJA soldiers.

  • @BrooklynRedLeg
    @BrooklynRedLeg Před 12 dny +5

    When your enemy has Black Flag policy, they can't very well complain when they receive no quarter in return.

  • @jackmoorehead2036
    @jackmoorehead2036 Před 13 dny +4

    This trial is exactly why the SS should never have been taken in alive.

  • @markvandenbossche3812
    @markvandenbossche3812 Před 13 dny +7

    Peiper and his unit carried out similar atrocities in Russia, he must have had something of a death wish, moving to France.

  • @peace-yv4qd
    @peace-yv4qd Před 15 dny +7

    War can drive even decent Men into doing things they would never do in civilian life. Least we judge them until we've walked in their shoes and seen what they have seen.

  • @Bumper776
    @Bumper776 Před 19 dny +7

    Can anyone answer what the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion's job was? I was in the Field Artillery back in 1971-1973 and we had Forward Observer teams that were sent out attached to Infantry and Armor units but they consisted of usually an officer, a sergeant and an enlisted man as an RTO (Radio Telephone Operator), I went out as an RTO myself a few times when they needed a replacement. That said, why did they need an entire battalion of observers? This has always puzzled me.

    • @robertsettle2590
      @robertsettle2590 Před 19 dny +2

      They were having a convention and were out for a bit of sightseeing.

    • @tanker335
      @tanker335 Před 13 dny +3

      They weren't all observers. The battalion would have included maintenance, medical, communications, cooks, security etc. They were designed to be as self sufficient as possible. Remember that old adage. For every one guy on the line, there are 10 behind it supporting him one way or another.

  • @andyleonard7219
    @andyleonard7219 Před 19 dny +21

    you should have no pity for SS troops

  • @johncox2865
    @johncox2865 Před 20 dny +13

    To paraphrase R.E. Lee:
    “It is good that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond if it”.
    If you truly want to “end all war” - you don’t- then make it as horrible as you possibly can.
    Your attempts at making it conform to politeness are misguided.
    All you do is to bring about its sooner return.

    • @rodneyscott7108
      @rodneyscott7108 Před 12 dny

      After watching the Army of the Potomac make repeated frontal assaults against his dug-in forces, taking horrible losses at the Battle of Fredericksburg.

  • @bruiser0159
    @bruiser0159 Před 10 dny +3

    My Grandfather was part of Pattons 3rd Army in the 2nd Armored Division and He told me how the Americans felt after hearing of the Melmedy Massacre and it wasn’t pretty..

  • @woodb51
    @woodb51 Před 7 dny

    What were those rows of ring like looking things on the front of some of the Panzers?

  • @billm777
    @billm777 Před 16 dny +77

    In the early '80's I was working in Germany and had a German girlfriend. One weekend, her father came to visit us. I casually mentioned that I was recently in Washington State to visit my sister. My girlfriend's father then stated that he too had been to Washington State. I asked, "Oh, were you on vacation?" His face immediately turned bright red, and he slammed his fist on the table while screaming - "No! I was a prisoner of war!" I looked at my girlfriend standing behind him and she signaled for me to drop the subject. I did ask what he did as a POW, and he said that he picked apples. I was very tempted to say, "Well pal, that was a whole lot better than working in a dank coal mine in Siberia as a Russian POW, wasn't it?", but I kept my mouth shut. There was no doubt in my mind that he was STILL a Nazi, and probably served in the SS. I wondered about how many Americans that he had killed, before he was captured. I thank God that he didn't become my father-in-law.

    • @454FatJack
      @454FatJack Před 14 dny

      Third Utah wife ,

    • @jeremyhill2243
      @jeremyhill2243 Před 14 dny

      You should have said HITLER IS KAPUT!!!!

    • @thomaspearson1919
      @thomaspearson1919 Před 13 dny +2

      @@454FatJack Mormonism before 1978 where racist i wonder why.? find the truth and you will find the answer.

    • @harrykrumpacker871
      @harrykrumpacker871 Před 12 dny +10

      Imagine his relief you weren't his son in law. Ever wonder just why the Germans fought so hard for us? Take a good look around at the ongoing shit show for your answer.

    • @thomaspearson1919
      @thomaspearson1919 Před 11 dny

      Black people were treated like garbage in America long before the civil rights movements began. You should get that big fat head out of the sand.
      The Mormon church allowed slavery into that Mormon territory in 1852.
      So glad i am NOT American.

  • @BigArnieNumeroUno
    @BigArnieNumeroUno Před 20 dny +119

    Quid pro quo. No sympathy at all for the animals in the SS.

    • @simonacinghita7719
      @simonacinghita7719 Před 20 dny +10

      Really? Does quid pro quo make you morally right, or does revenge nothing but justify more violence and rancour until the end of time?

    • @fleshboundtobone
      @fleshboundtobone Před 20 dny +4

      @@simonacinghita7719 I mean the Nazis were comprehensively beaten within a year of this incident and haven't piped up since, so..

    • @BigArnieNumeroUno
      @BigArnieNumeroUno Před 20 dny +10

      @@simonacinghita7719 If my comrades had been murdered by the SS, I would have no qualms in seeking retribution. Despite their many well documented brutal war crimes most escaped any repercussions.

    • @simonacinghita7719
      @simonacinghita7719 Před 20 dny +1

      @@BigArnieNumeroUno You mean the SS, of course 🙂SAS was notoriously British!

    • @BigArnieNumeroUno
      @BigArnieNumeroUno Před 20 dny +2

      @@simonacinghita7719 Edited accordingly - no comment re SAS

  • @go4broke407
    @go4broke407 Před 7 dny +2

    War is hell. Is not to be taken on lightly

  • @sam555537
    @sam555537 Před 20 dny +9

    What goes around comes around...

  • @williamgriffin5503
    @williamgriffin5503 Před 13 dny +6

    My father is a WW2 vet. He stated that all SS had tattoos identifying them as SS on their arm. They would search every German soldier looking for the tattoo. Some SS would try to burn the tattoo from their arm, which automatically gave them away. The SS were given a special kind of treatment. Not the kind anyone would want.

  • @markwarnberg9504
    @markwarnberg9504 Před 7 dny +2

    Atrocities were commited on all sides. War brings out the worst in some people.

  • @mirquellasantos2716
    @mirquellasantos2716 Před 20 dny +27

    The sad part is that Americans treated German prisoners like kings while black soldiers were treated like dogs. German prisoners had full rights and were able to enter theaters, bathrooms, hospitals...... Black American soldiers who fought in WW2 were denied all rights and banished from theaters, bathrooms, hospitals..... Even German soldiers criticized such discrimination.

    • @gingerbreadman6657
      @gingerbreadman6657 Před 19 dny +1

      Because the Constitution was written by Caucasians, for Caucasians. All other races are inferior. Sounds familiar ?

    • @jimmycapps7263
      @jimmycapps7263 Před 12 dny +3

      That's a different discussion for another video, but agreed!

    • @jamesdellaneve9005
      @jamesdellaneve9005 Před 11 dny +4

      Woodrow Wilson re-segregated Federal Employees. Harry Truman de-segregated the military in 1948. It was dumb to lose all of that talent. Gotta give black Americans credit for serving their country though. Most of them did it gladly. They believed in the US in spite of the progress yet to be made.

    • @xiongmatt
      @xiongmatt Před 10 dny

      Bingo! Just like Americans treated japs humanely then chinese. Smh

    • @MorganOtt-ne1qj
      @MorganOtt-ne1qj Před 10 dny

      Blame the cause: Democrats.

  • @user-td4zp4gq2p
    @user-td4zp4gq2p Před dnem +1

    My uncle said after the SS killed those men at malmedy, if the SS gave any resistance they were killed. He said he used a bayonet and took their medals and Lugers. He was 17th ABD Artillery and was at the Bulge.

  • @frankbaine3918
    @frankbaine3918 Před 20 dny +17

    Not the ideal response, perhaps, but understandable at that moment, and undoubtedly 99% of these Waffen SS murdered unarmed enemy soldiers, partisans & civilians on both fronts at some point. And we see how ineffective the war crimes "trials" ended up being. The nazi Peiper of all people was released after 12 years and had to be finally dealt with extra-judiciously with a very fitting and unpleasant ending because military lawyers & judges were too stupid to do it properly straight away. So, as the narrator frequently opines..."no tears shed."

    • @searchingforvalhalla
      @searchingforvalhalla Před 20 dny

      The americans are no better than nazis they massacred native Americans the murdered and segregated blacks the waged war in the east for oil money then there's Vietnam

    • @patrickmccrann991
      @patrickmccrann991 Před 20 dny +3

      Peiper wasn't even at the Malmedy Massacre. The SS troops involved were not part of Peiper's Kampfgruppe which had already advanced 8 miles farther down the road.

    • @frankbaine3918
      @frankbaine3918 Před 20 dny +2

      Other accounts indicate otherwise. He may well not have been personally there, but his men were so he's in the soup with them. His trial indicated his guilt. Then there's the 99% rule for the SS. 99.9% for the Allgemeine SS. Nobody jumped in at the trials or well after saying, "It was me, and my SS verbande, not Joachim!"
      As for the element of the 11th US Armor? A travesty they did not face accountability as well. People unjustly escape accountability for massacres temporally all the time. Ultimately, they do not. Every move, every thought, every utterance is recorded for the final review.

    • @patrickmccrann991
      @patrickmccrann991 Před 20 dny +2

      @frankbaine3918 His trial was a shame. The troops that shot these prisoners were from the 1st SS Reconnaissance Battalion, which were not part of his command. None of his troops were even still at the crossroads, they were 8 miles further down the road. This was known and confirmed before his trial even started. I am not saying he was a Saint, far from the truth. However, he was not responsible in any way for the Malmedy Massacre.

    • @patrickmccrann991
      @patrickmccrann991 Před 20 dny +2

      @@frankbaine3918 The officer in command had been killed and therefore couldn't come to Peiper's defense even if they would. A U.S. Army officer did testify that he and his troops were treated well while with Peiper's command, Major Hal McCown.

  • @tonimonteith8125
    @tonimonteith8125 Před 20 dny +108

    Are you kidding me? We’re talking about a people that murdered 11 million human beings. I’m suppose to feel sorry, HELL NO! 🇺🇸

    • @Carolinel673
      @Carolinel673 Před 19 dny +8

      27 million Russians ALONE . NOT 11 million .

    • @martyn6792
      @martyn6792 Před 18 dny +12

      Do I have sympathy for the SS soldiers, no, there were still many who weren't punished for their crimes that got to live after the war

    • @philipnestor5034
      @philipnestor5034 Před 18 dny

      This title of this video is like saying…. Unbelievable Terrible massacre of KKK members!!!
      Pa….Lease! Who cares! The hell with them. Most of them lived long lives in German Austria and Ukraine etc living to old age talking with friends about the “ good old days”.

    • @anxeltorrente4041
      @anxeltorrente4041 Před 17 dny

      You're correct No one feels sorry for what the Soviet Jewish controlled Bolsheviks did. Causing the death of millions of Ukrainians and thousands of people from the Baltic countries are horrible deeds.

    • @jamesgilliam5278
      @jamesgilliam5278 Před 17 dny +10

      My Uncle was in Patton's Army he would talk about it whenever asked. He hated the SS. Even more than the regular Soldiers. He said they made every attempt to kill as many SS as possible.

  • @dirtyharrydefeatsislamblmt6900

    Way before '45 SS were almost never taken alive or allowed to surrender alive, fair enough

  • @ronaldtoros8510
    @ronaldtoros8510 Před 11 dny +1

    This is the closest we will ever get to a time machine these old films

  • @CruiseDude1
    @CruiseDude1 Před 15 dny +24

    Oh gosh, the Allies were so mean to those poor Nazis.

  • @jonathansmith4306
    @jonathansmith4306 Před 15 dny +1

    I remember seeing a documentary about Joachim Piper and stated he was liviing in France on mainstream in 1975; in died in 1976 under suspicious circumstances

  • @yuppy1967
    @yuppy1967 Před 10 dny +3

    Murder of unarmed surrendered pow’s is still murder. Period

    • @yuppy1967
      @yuppy1967 Před 9 dny

      @@TheGreatCornholio1 what would you like me to tell them, God made an exception to murder? “Vengeance is mine” says the Lord.

  • @kevinkranz9156
    @kevinkranz9156 Před 5 dny +3

    PEIPERS HOME WAS BURNT DOWN WITH HIM IN IT

  • @hungarianhillbilly4144
    @hungarianhillbilly4144 Před 5 dny +1

    The U.S. started murdering German P.O.W's first. On 14 July 1943, soldiers of the Oklahoma Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 180th Infantry Regiment brutally murdered more than 70 German and Italian prisoners of war in two separate Incidences.

  • @BrokenWrenches
    @BrokenWrenches Před 11 dny +1

    in war sometimes its an eye for an eye in matters like this.

  • @anthonyiocca5683
    @anthonyiocca5683 Před 20 dny +3

    The treachery and deceit,
    9AD Teutoburg forest.
    A date of infamy…

  • @yeildo1492
    @yeildo1492 Před 12 dny

    Bummer.....

  • @Flylow310
    @Flylow310 Před 20 dny +93

    Soo what!!!?? Are we supposed to have sympathy for them? 🤬

    • @janpierzchala2004
      @janpierzchala2004 Před 20 dny +12

      First of all we need to know. Emotional reaction is individual.

    • @Disco-Mike
      @Disco-Mike Před 20 dny +9

      Oh... Those people didnt Had anything to do with crimes. Those were young boys mostly.

    • @snoox27
      @snoox27 Před 19 dny +8

      It's about knowledge, not sympathy.

    • @formwiz7096
      @formwiz7096 Před 16 dny

      @@Disco-Mike Who do you thinK gunned down our guys at Malmedy? Who dropped the Zyklon-B at Auschwitz?

    • @tigertiger1699
      @tigertiger1699 Před 15 dny

      ?

  • @harrykrumpacker871
    @harrykrumpacker871 Před 12 dny +3

    Isn't that a war crime?

  • @spanglestein66
    @spanglestein66 Před 14 dny +7

    The first casualty of war is truth ….both sides thought they were the good guys ….both sides had brave and honourable soldiers
    And both sides had their villains…god bless them all

    • @carlloccisano8849
      @carlloccisano8849 Před 14 dny

      Ethnic Germans have always been easily brainwashed, with a higher degree of psychopaths than in other nations.

    • @jeffrey7938
      @jeffrey7938 Před 14 dny +2

      OMG! Buddy, you have no idea what you are talking about.

    • @rolandgeorgschramm1839
      @rolandgeorgschramm1839 Před 13 dny

      ​@@jeffrey7938Only your opinion , which goes in 1 ear out the other.

    • @BeannieRey
      @BeannieRey Před 12 dny +1

      Oh, puhlease! The Nazis absolutely knew they were the bad guys. They even dressed like cartoon villains. All they needed to do was look at the death head prominently displayed on their clothing.

    • @giansala7409
      @giansala7409 Před 10 dny

      ​@@BeannieReyBut don't be silly, think about what we did in Vietnam!We don't even know the exact number of how many civilian and military people we killed, and for what?What had they ever done to us?

  • @joehayward2631
    @joehayward2631 Před 10 dny +2

    Ok am i suppose to feel bad about SS.

  • @ronisilva4477
    @ronisilva4477 Před 20 dny +13

    "Good nazi ,is a dead nazi"(Inglorius Bastars)

  • @ladycplum
    @ladycplum Před 20 dny +11

    It's spelled K-A-R-M-A.

    • @DT-wp4hk
      @DT-wp4hk Před 19 dny +3

      No it is called hypocrisy

    • @ladycplum
      @ladycplum Před 19 dny +2

      @@DT-wp4hk No, it's called "Payback"

    • @DT-wp4hk
      @DT-wp4hk Před 19 dny +1

      @@ladycplum 'pay' back. Always about money. It is even embedded in the language🤣

  • @rudytagala7076
    @rudytagala7076 Před 10 dny +1

    ... what a shame for earlier breed of humans on this planet to do such acts ...

  • @josephperreault997
    @josephperreault997 Před 14 dny +1

    It would have taken a brave soldier not to return evil for evil but I can't pass judgment on those who did either because maybe their friends were on the receiving end at some point. War is horrible.

  • @stevemarshall4822
    @stevemarshall4822 Před 7 dny +1

    A modern Canadian force would likely help the SS, as the PM seems to applaud them.

  • @cobraferrariwars
    @cobraferrariwars Před 10 dny

    "That men do not learn from History is the most important of all lessons that History has to teach." Aldous Huxley. It will all happen again -- different place, different time, same human nature.

  • @giovannidepetris6335
    @giovannidepetris6335 Před 7 dny +2

    Isn t any massacre brutal? When anything is titled brutal massacre I just doubt the education of the writer

  • @hagechin
    @hagechin Před 6 dny +1

    Young men killing young men they don’t know on behalf of old men who do know each other.

  • @Willy32226
    @Willy32226 Před 9 dny +1

    This sounds like it’s narrated by The secret millionaire.

  • @user-so8ei2td1d
    @user-so8ei2td1d Před 15 dny +11

    TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE IT RIGHT....

    • @jamesdellaneve9005
      @jamesdellaneve9005 Před 11 dny +4

      No one is saying that. We are just saying that we don’t grieve for the SS.

  • @studiohost
    @studiohost Před 6 dny

    When I joined the 82nd Airborne Division my 1st sergeant told me “war is hell ,but battle is a mother…” he was right .

  • @silkkdread
    @silkkdread Před 20 dny +12

    It always amuses me how Nazis initially committed all the atrocities but play victim when it happens to them 😂😂😂

    • @DT-wp4hk
      @DT-wp4hk Před 19 dny

      The eternal victim = 🔯

    • @markbriten6999
      @markbriten6999 Před 9 dny +2

      Very similar to Israel today, I expect to get banned any second

  • @formwiz7096
    @formwiz7096 Před 16 dny

    OK, first, the "witness" never saw it happen. Second, Ike sent the 11th Armored CO home as soon as he heard about it since it was the CO who apparently gave the order, so, clearly, somebody did pay.

  • @user-ky3vp2hu8s
    @user-ky3vp2hu8s Před 7 dny +2

    His neighbours were SS also they killed his dog his son is a lawyer in the America he has all his medals you people know nothing .

  • @andrewmkopnicky4921
    @andrewmkopnicky4921 Před 19 dny +12

    Have no sympathy for the SS.

  • @blackchairman2271
    @blackchairman2271 Před 20 dny +6

    This goes to show war is a vicious and sicking endeavor on both sides. Many people were killed just for being at wrong place and wrong time. To much anger and hatred on both sides. There is no sympathy for the nazi ss troops. It just crazy that neighbors can not get along because of race,religion, political views. That is the most sickest part.

  • @TheGV50
    @TheGV50 Před 11 dny +2

    Wasn't there a saying In the Waffen SS "The Joy Of Killing" ?

  • @BillyRice-kg7nk
    @BillyRice-kg7nk Před 12 dny

    Yes..I have heard that the ss was so hated..some where shot on site.👀

  • @44522
    @44522 Před 20 dny +7

    That hatred still exists today in our own back yards waiting to show there true colors.

  • @janpierzchala2004
    @janpierzchala2004 Před 20 dny +7

    The Bulge or Ardennes offensive in Dec 1944 is the last major offensive of Hitler's Germany anywhere, not only on the western front.

  • @gordonwalker7792
    @gordonwalker7792 Před 11 dny

    Just war I assume, strange how U.S. film makers don't show their soldiers commiting acts like this(!?) Apart from a mention to a similar event in 'Band of Brothers'

  • @lukgos9609
    @lukgos9609 Před 11 dny +2

    Funny thing is no one from us UK or french end up on the war crimes court......

    • @giansala7409
      @giansala7409 Před 10 dny +1

      History is written by the winners...

    • @andywells397
      @andywells397 Před 10 dny +1

      So ????

    • @markbriten6999
      @markbriten6999 Před 9 dny

      And how many instituted death camp that killed millions of people , ifiot

    • @sugarnads
      @sugarnads Před 5 dny +1

      So? We won. Tell us you approve of the camps and the ovens without telling us.

    • @hyacinthlynch843
      @hyacinthlynch843 Před 4 dny +2

      Because none of the three that you mentioned committed genocide.

  • @wtfman5313
    @wtfman5313 Před 14 dny +10

    Sad, but we have a modern day SS forming right here in America on college campuses. Be vigilant and remember history.

    • @eliot1970
      @eliot1970 Před 13 dny

      You can't be serious...

    • @shekelberggoldstein1387
      @shekelberggoldstein1387 Před 12 dny +2

      I'm pretty sure those are Marxists not Nationalist..

    • @samgunn12
      @samgunn12 Před 12 dny

      Yeah. The Marxists are in colleges. The Nazis are in Congress.

    • @kirbyculp3449
      @kirbyculp3449 Před 6 dny

      Red Guards. Mass psychosis.

    • @RT-mm8rq
      @RT-mm8rq Před dnem

      ​@@shekelberggoldstein1387
      Biggest lies being taught on Amercan college campus.
      That Marxism/socialism creates a society of equals devoid greed and corruption, a " workers paradise " when in fact it creates slaves.

  • @SeanRCope
    @SeanRCope Před 14 dny +1

    It’s funny, comparing the actions of the “Blowtorch” Battalion or 2nd SS PzDiv to any allied formation. Talk about a false equivalence.

  • @MrShenyang1234
    @MrShenyang1234 Před 7 dny

    Regardless, of which side willingly shot Prisoners of War, it was wrong to do so. Although, one might think differently had they been present and witnessed the Executions of their Comrades. Hindsight is only reserved for those who manage to survive. War is Hell.

  • @mikekensington1705
    @mikekensington1705 Před 11 dny

    History is written by the victors. We know who the true monsters were.

  • @sophiegeorge2816
    @sophiegeorge2816 Před 18 dny +2

    One of my great uncle’s was working in a prisoner of war camp in Australia with Japanese prisoners and someone told them that the war was over and they were free to go
    The war wasn’t over and as soon as they walked out they were shot
    93 were killed

    • @beachbum433
      @beachbum433 Před 16 dny +1

      The Cowra Breakout as it is called was hastily planned. On August 4 1944, Sergeant Major Kanazawa called a meeting of 20 hut leaders, because the Aussies were going to transfer junior ranks to another camp. On August 5, at 2.00 am, about 1,000 Japanese stormed the perimeter fence. 234 Japanese died. 4 Aussie guards were killed. Many Japanese who actually got out committed suicide by jumping in front of trains or hanging themselves. There is a beautiful Japanese cemetery at Cowra maintained by both Japanese & Aussie governments. War is SO pointless, is it not?...

    • @thomasswafford250
      @thomasswafford250 Před 14 dny

      I believe when the Japanese prisoners was trying to warn the Australians what was going to happen but wasn't able to in time. One of the guards knowing they were going to be over ran took out the firing pin out of the machine gun and hit it so the Japanese couldn't use it.

  • @briandenison2325
    @briandenison2325 Před 20 dny +2

    Were’s the background music?

    • @WorldHistoryVideos
      @WorldHistoryVideos  Před 20 dny +2

      Well ... obviously an error during the export of the video ... sorry for that

    • @briandenison2325
      @briandenison2325 Před 20 dny +3

      @@WorldHistoryVideos that’s fine with me I don’t like background music playing in videos, it’s distracting when watching the video.

    • @akorn5800
      @akorn5800 Před 20 dny

      @@WorldHistoryVideosplease tell us the background music

    • @WorldHistoryVideos
      @WorldHistoryVideos  Před 16 dny

      @@briandenison2325 Brian, thanks for letting us know. From now on we will have music in our videos again (sorry for that). Please, always tell us when you see something strange :)

  • @davidbell3016
    @davidbell3016 Před 11 dny

    The SS shot British troops in 1940. You will find all SS were routinely shot, not a lot survived, and why should they have. Das Reich murder spree moving from southern France towards Normandy was rather brutal.

  • @zhuseppoh3271
    @zhuseppoh3271 Před 4 dny

    If you lived under German rule and japanese rule, you wouldn't be so merciful so sweet to them,,,, you would singing a very different song,,,

  • @denisgiles2418
    @denisgiles2418 Před 7 dny

    Well the first half describes the brutal execution of US troops which makes war to be brutal for all .

  • @wkeckeisen
    @wkeckeisen Před 19 dny +2

    Advancing troops in major battles were given orders to not slow down for rounding up prisoners. These orders were issued to US paratroopers on DDay and Peiper’s troops. Both killed POWs but only the Germans were tried for war crimes. More civilians were killed by US bombers at Stavelot and Caen than by SS troops. War is hell.

  • @MiguelSanchez-uy4ir
    @MiguelSanchez-uy4ir Před 9 dny

    Los Alemanes sólo fusilaban a Guerrilleros o Miembros de la Resistencia que eran capturados con las armas en mano...
    No asesinaban a combatientes uniformados...

  • @Leif-ig4xu
    @Leif-ig4xu Před 20 dny +1

    Ist SS Panzer Divison LSSAH was commanded by Theodor Wisch (D-Day) & then Wilhelm Mohnke (battle of the bulge).

  • @LesterJohnson-zb5sg
    @LesterJohnson-zb5sg Před 4 dny +1

    America America God will Judge soon for all her Dirty Deeds

  • @TopHotDog
    @TopHotDog Před 20 dny +1

    War is war.

  • @dharmindercheema8842
    @dharmindercheema8842 Před 17 dny +1

    Kon right c kon galt eh rabb jane par marr de lok he ne ik bol da oh galt c ta kita eh kuch nale Birtsh nu pata be kise nu badnam kis tara karna fake history bna ke india vich be kafi kuch kita ehna ne

  • @raymondkurtyka754
    @raymondkurtyka754 Před 3 dny

    crime what crime?

  • @darklight8713
    @darklight8713 Před 8 dny

    Well no matter how ppl personal feelings are, you cant call the other side war criminals and when your side does it, its retribution. Either both are warcrimes and or non is. You cant cherry pick on the subject.

  • @darylhoskins5696
    @darylhoskins5696 Před 19 dny +1

    Watch the Movie Fury and the tankers feelings about the SS!

    • @alfienokes4036
      @alfienokes4036 Před 14 dny

      What would they know? Fury is fake Hollywood shite. Sherman would have been full of holes like Swiss cheese.

    • @josefkopacz1144
      @josefkopacz1144 Před 2 dny +1

      B/s of Hollywood.

  • @scottnolan2833
    @scottnolan2833 Před 11 dny +1

    Nope. Ridiculous AI voice is too ridiculous to spend any of my time on.

  • @philipjubileo.omonoji8151

    We can now look back and want to criticize the American soldiers? Folks fail to understand that soldiers are HUMANS who will gladly die just so their comrades will live. To hear your brothers in arms will killed despite have surrendered, you will be a coward to not want to avenge your brother (if the tables were turned, those brothers of yours who were killed will avenge you and you know it!) Even if senior commanders had attempted to stop a revenge, it would have been v bad and such would have failed. I am not saying the actions of these soldiers were right or excusable, rather I am saying ALL PARTIES MUST adhere to the rules of war cos failure of doing this will have grave repercussions on you too. See ALL the lives lost and destructions of WW2 could have been avoided if Hitler and his cohorts were never entertained by the great people of Germany. I am not saying the German folks are to blame, certainly not! Hitler is to be blamed!! However, the Great Germans should have taken care of business inhouse. Well, the beloved who died in WW2 will hope and pray that me and you will learn and live life more peacefully, we are better together, brothers and sisters, beautiful human race

  • @marksolarz3756
    @marksolarz3756 Před 11 dny

    FU!

  • @70stunes71
    @70stunes71 Před 5 dny

    Who gives A F? .. It was war, can you really blame either side?.. Not hardly.

  • @adambane1719
    @adambane1719 Před 8 dny

    Please cover the US run POW camps on the Rhine River after the wars end in 1945. Where America genocided over 1million German POWs after the wars end. The Rhine River Death Camps

  • @TheDigitalApple
    @TheDigitalApple Před 20 dny +7

    Various massacre against Italian civilians were also committed by American forces, even less people know of them.

    • @TheRetirednavy92
      @TheRetirednavy92 Před 20 dny +4

      please enlighten us.

    • @TheDigitalApple
      @TheDigitalApple Před 20 dny

      @@TheRetirednavy92 The biggest was the Canicattì massacre. During the allied invasion of Sicily in the city of Canicattì, after the bombing of a local production factory locals were scavenging the ruins for soaps, food and anything useful in war time. Lt. Colonel George Herbert McCaffrey,(who was appointed Military Governor of the Palermo region) along with US troops and military police arrived and told the civilians to disperse yet none did.
      McCaffrey would then order the troops to fire on the civilians to get them to leave, eight civilians were killed, the youngest was an eleven year old girl. Though the total number dead is disputed by historians believing there to be more victims.
      Nobody knew such an event occurred, with McCaffrey dying from a heart attack in 1954 during a doctors visit to treat his tuberculosis escaping justice for his massacre of innocent civilians. The public then learned of this war crime due to it being published by Joseph S. Salemi after his own father who was a witness to the event would tell him about it.

    • @mikelachey824
      @mikelachey824 Před 20 dny +1

      @@TheRetirednavy92 I will. The Italian people backed a monster by the name of Mussolini. That is what happens when you follow a dictator thinking you are better than all others.

    • @DT-wp4hk
      @DT-wp4hk Před 19 dny +1

      French Africans behaved like Lavrenti BeriA

    • @darylhoskins5696
      @darylhoskins5696 Před 19 dny

      Oh the other Axis Country!

  •  Před 20 dny +7

    sounds like my waistline all my life battle of the bulge

  • @rogeliodegala9550
    @rogeliodegala9550 Před 3 dny

    During the battle of arden Forrest the so called battle of the bulge many us soldiers massacred by ss troops of nazi germany it was winter month of December the nazi got a dose of thier own medicine
    Like wise when the Red Army entered Berlin they also got revence for what the nazi soldiers did to Russian women and civilians when they exicuted operation barbarosa

  • @bensamuels4976
    @bensamuels4976 Před 12 dny

    No tears for Nazis

  • @mapachehombre1581
    @mapachehombre1581 Před 6 dny +2

    You can always rely on the Americans to flee in panic

  • @jensgaus781
    @jensgaus781 Před 6 dny +2

    The victors write history ... still after 80 years. Everything the Western Allied did has being excused ...

  • @harrykrumpacker871
    @harrykrumpacker871 Před 12 dny +1

    Nazis bad - Commies good - duh...

    • @josefkopacz1144
      @josefkopacz1144 Před 2 dny

      Yeah and the Dumbo's don't know Nazi's and commo' s are virtually the same . National Socialist = Nazi while the Commos were international. Massacre of unarmed prisoners only leads men to fight longer and harder even in hopeless situations situations.

  • @bigalon3wheels
    @bigalon3wheels Před 7 dny

    The SS troops were brutal and many muderers, do not view thw allied troops killing them as a bad thing because we were not there and have no right to do so.

  • @joeswampdawghenry
    @joeswampdawghenry Před 6 dny

    Shit happens...

  • @andrewclough9717
    @andrewclough9717 Před 6 dny

    No sympathy for SS.

  • @georgewilkie3580
    @georgewilkie3580 Před 13 dny

    'A