Dr. Hans Münch: The Good Man of Auschwitz
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General info:
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Block 10 And Carl Clauberg:
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Josef Mengele: www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...
The Hygiene Institute: auschwitz.org/en/museum/archiv...
The Auschwitz Trials: www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...
Trial, charges, and verdict: www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...
Interview with B Frankfurter and D Ostermann:
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The Auschwitz declaration:
nizkor.com/hweb/people/m/muenc...
Eva Mozes Kor:
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www.chicagotribune.com/suburb...
www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/th...
www.timesofisrael.com/survivo...
Retraction and dementia in old age:
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www.independent.co.uk/news/is...
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link.springer.com/chapter/10....
Further reading: Reports of Trials of Nazi War Criminals:
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3 days ago??
@@surrreallll That's weird.
Wait... 3 days ago?
Simon, if you haven't done Hitlers brother yet. You should, its a very interesting story when you compare the two. Chalk and cheese.
Totally glad you mentioned Mrs kor. I meet her on a field trip. She was a great lady. You should do a video on her. Her story was horrific but great at the same time!
"The Good Man of Auschwitz." Not a title I expected to see.
I believe that Covid19 is actually stirring hatred against people who don’t believe it and refuse to comply. I wish people would wake up and see that the same old prejudices are being awakened in people. It’s easy to look back at the Holocaust and view it in a rather fictional way. The Holocaust didn’t just pop out of nowhere, there was a long process that built up to it. And we need to study not just the outcome but the process that led to it if we want to make sure it never happens again. Remember that people were already angry and oppressed by the Great Depression and the consequences levied on the German nation through reparations. Social unrest was everywhere and you only have to have a very mild antisemetic attitude and it’s enough to be fanned into a raging fire of hatred. So who are the “New Jews” ready for social segregation and from segregation to loosing there rights to even buy food from the shops and unable to travel and from there to forced quarantine. And once they have been all shipped off to quarantine then to be never heard of again? It’s all the new undesirables, those who don’t comply and those who refuse to wear masks and those who are conspiracy theorists and especially the Christians who won’t conform. It’s sounding very similar isn’t it. But we are already very far down the road to this happening right here in old Blighty 🇬🇧 and America 🇺🇸 who will raise there voices to this New and Terrifying machine that’s starting look not to dissimilar to Nazi Germany 🇩🇪.
@@alexandercarder2281 I could not agree more!
@@alexandercarder2281 absolutely well put
Same here...
@@alexandercarder2281 sir this is a wendys
It's terrible that this good man lost his ability to think and remember correctly. Alzheimer's not only takes these away, it denigrates what's left. I hope he has found peace.
I could say if any thing lets hope it helped him for get the horas he faced while surving at the camp.
@@johns3544 Yes, absolutely.
I agree. I was going to say something similar. My grandpa's friend has Alzheimer's; his friend grew up in the Bronx and was involved in crime a lot through out his youth. Now, he's 70-80 and lives in Florida. His brain is convinced he's still in the Bronx. When my grandpa and him get coffee, he looks out the window and starts getting upset at how much "NYC has changed."
Its really upsetting to be around, and it's really upsetting to even hear about. I couldn't imagine going through that. But I don't think he deliberately did it to expose himself as an evil man, I think his brain just convinced him he was still back in that time. I think he was a good guy, and he probably did say a lot of that nasty stuff while being a doctor to keep his career, not because he thought it was true.
@@chompchompchangbin Alzheimer's robs a person of so much of who they were. It's a terrible disease, and I've heard so many stories of those whose loved-ones suffered from it. They don't recognize their own family, their surroundings, and their behavior can shift completely. A friend of mine who's caring for her mother, tells me that her mom even becomes violent - which is the total opposite to how she was before onset of Alzheimer's, when she was always gentle and patient. This poor man was, no doubt, recalling what he heard and saw, and his damaged mind pulled him into that experience.
Me too
I’m so glad this man was completely acquitted of all charges, as I think he perfectly exemplifies the attitude of the articles drafted by the Geneva Convention. He did *not* “just follow orders”. He saw the grotesque acts being asked of him for what they were, and deliberately acted against them with little regard for his own personal safety. He valued human lives over his own skin. And I absolutely DETEST that this is the first I’ve ever heard of him.
I found it really strange that as a man who has a great passion for the history of WW2 and read a lot about it, today is the first time I have ever read about this great man.
I agree. It is terrible not to have known about such a good Doctor in such a terrible place. The Mrs
Hmm it is interesting in his later years that he justified the medical experiments. Was that just confusion from Alzheimer's or was he revealing his true thoughts. I hope it was the former rather than the latter.
Yes, but he was also a lier or better said, he never admitted, that he exactly knew what the Nazis would do to jews and other people. Hitlers speeches about the Holocaust were printed in all regional papers and were played on radio. His rapid advancement in the Nazi system show that he was nothing more than an opportunist, who couldnt turn off his empathy in the end.
Well just remember that in pretty much any war the winners write the history and that propaganda like how evil the germans were is often just that propaganda.
The twist at the end with Alzheimer's is heartbreaking. He was an actual human being who did what most couldn't stomach and went through all of that just to help as many people as he could. I really hope there's a heaven. This man deserves a spot there.
Heaven always came off to me as worst than death/non-existence honestly. I mean... Eternity? No matter how pretty and nice it is seems like torture. Ha
My friend, there IS a Heaven, and YOU can go there! 😊🙏❤️
Just trust in the Lord Jesus Christ with all of your soul, all of your mind, and all of your strength, and you shall see Him in paradise!
@@jonny-b4954
If you put your trust in the Lord, my friend, why wouldn’t you want to spend eternity in Heaven? 😊❤️
This man wasn’t a GOOD person. It’s a myth. It’s proven that he had a choice when he arrived at Auschwitz’s! They explained that they burnt around a thousand people daily and his wife asked him to please go back with her to Berlin and he refused. He said in statements that he stayed because the working condition was right and the equipment was great. He saved people but it wasn’t out of kindness. He is sick and should’ve been in prison for life.
@@theory6366 I didn’t realize you were alive back then or a history expert
I don’t think people understand how important history is because If we forget it will repeat.
Good point.
I just watched an interview with a woman arguing that Nike and some other companies are wrong for including young girls with headscarves in their commercials and on their products. So I'm wondering what exactly is she suggesting when she says something like that?
When good men do nothing evil will succeed
It already has repeated look at china
@@bluelight628 so true
We are repeating history right now here in the US. Almost everything that happened in Germany leading up to the third reich is happening again. Listen to the way the government is talking, its almost identical to what Hitler spoke of in Mein Kampf. Its frightening.
some of his "quotes" just straight up gave me goosebumps. it seems the man tried his best to save people, as a doctor should, while being stationed in the litteral hell on earth. what a man.
Man you came right out and called the deniers "morons".
I dig it
@@AAaa-pm3rr troll
@@AAaa-pm3rr wow so edgy, you come across as so cool (that's sarcasm in case you can't tell).
@@jonathanward3633 The only way to beat them is to starve them. It wants the attention you're giving it, doesn't matter the context of delivery.
v based & cool
@Grozaaïmid europe is one big bloodstain. Created by the tyrants and leaders who aimed to conquer it
Given his Alzheimer's, he probably thought that he had to make those statements or the SS would throw him into a camp.
Who knows? He might have actually entertained some whacked-out ideas in his younger years, without being as extreme as his compatriots.
Or he could have genuinely become an anti-Semite after being entirely surrounded by them for years. People don´t realize that there is a lot of space between "I don´t particularly love these people." and "I want them all to be gassed." When you read some of the stuff Abraham Lincoln said about black people, you almost start wondering which side of the Civil War he was on. Most people, especially the more naive ones, like to think about the world in binary terms, but in reality, there are way more shades of grey than we like to admit.
@@jirkazalabak1514 The thing about dementia is that you tend to re-live the past
@@jirkazalabak1514 that's an extremely good point about Lincoln. I still think he was an amazing president but he did live over 150 plus years ago. We can't compare modern view points to one's 50 years ago let alone 3 times that.
My mother, who had worked with dementia patients for much of her career, had a saying: "The mean ones turn nice, and the nice ones turn mean." My grandmother had Alzheimer's, and it changed her from being a sweet woman to cursing like a sailor and flying into rages. It did not surprise me when Simon started talking about the change in attitude in the last interviews. I am sure that much of what he said came from deeply rehearsed lines meant to keep him safe in his position at Auschwitz so he could continue to help the prisoners. Like Simon said earlier: his kindness and respect to the prisoners was noticed and remarked upon, and that was dangerous for him and everyone he was trying to help.
My father died last year and suffered from dementia... I can attest that there were huge mental changes, he would entertain ideas that he would have violently resisted only a few years before.
The man who I called dad died many years before his physical body did, the person who I cared for, nursed and finally buried last year aged 89 was a totally different person.
it's like these monstrous diseases turn you into the opposite of what you were.
I'm so sorry for your loss. ☹️ I hope you find peace in your good memories together.
It happened to my grandmother. It’s a horrible thing to happen to a person.
I am sorry it happened to your grandma happened to mine too sadly. Its just such a horrible disease
@@Nathan-vt1jz
"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world..."
just sitting here.... staring at this text on my computer screen.... just kinda taking in how perfectly it fits
"So wake up, and smell the ashes"
@@mike87831Mr. Freeman…
Maybe when he had Alzheimer's he became confused and thought he was still in WWII and that he was being interviewed by an SS affiliated reporter to test his 'loyalty' so he played along to not bust his cover
Unlikely, he was visited by his former assistent and inmate Imre Gönczi and seemed quite happy about it.
@@ernieee42 dementia is tricky though. People go in and out of of lucidity and delusion throughout the day. It's not all or nothing
@@ernieee42 yeah my grandmother has it and it's very weird sometimes especially the things they will say.
@Sam Armstrong like it being Christmas tomorrow or she would have conversations with no one
@Sam Armstrong she might have acute psychosis
I worked with patients challenged with dementia, Alzheimer and other organic brain diseases and can say with confidence that what Dr. Hans was saying during his advanced age is absolutely fitting with his diagnosis and I seriously doubt a lucid Dr. Hans would feel this way. I personally admire him and this short documentary brought a tear to my eyes. In my experience it is the small, often overlooked acts of kindness that touch people the most not the big. grand gestures. May he rest in peace along with the millions murdered in the name of fascism and racism.
fascism is race-neutral. It's national socialism that incorporates the race aspect, with the volk. Fascism is based on the nation, which any race can live in. Fascism is corporatism in its extreme, with the nation being one giant union everyone is in. It's basically the exact same thing but the race is the nation instead of a national identy. Blut und boden
Dementia is rough, and Hans Münch was an absolute baller.
@@AR15andGODyou're kind of right. Choosing the Jews, which happened all over Europe and Russia, was a racial move. They're a religion, yes, but most are ethnically Jewish too
I cannot think of how utterly paralyzing it must feel seeing hundreds and even thousands die right in front of you and you really are helpless to do anything about it.
Better than being a prisoner
@@omarcepeda9121 Lol ikr
I think many nazi is good inside. They Just couldn't break free because of fear for their family too.
i think your wrong being a prisoner is the worst way to be in this but being a sane empathetic person trying to help those at risk to yourself is no different unless you take into account the choice he had over the prisoners but ultimately he could have ended up in the same situation off handed comments like this are how things spiral into the depraved @@omarcepeda9121
Seems pretty exploitative to interview a 90 year old man suffering from Alzheimer, and then to go ahead and publish his rantings.
That's how lefty "journalists" work in Germany.
@@wolfgangwust5883 Don't kid yourself, that's how "journalists" work in general. If you think the left or right is more guilty than the other, you're probably a sheep.
@@HoodieProduction the left is more guilty. Educate yourself.
@@honda-akari 🐑
@@honda-akari Guilty of what?
I met Eva Moses Kor before her death. She honestly is one of the most amazing people I’ve ever met. I have chills just thinking about our conversation together.
I like how you speak of her in the present.
A lot of people that survived that conflict are something else. There made of something else. Something stronger.
I got to hear her twice, in person. It seemed clear to me she would probably die while giving a speech somewhere. When she died, she was in Krakow taking a tour of people to see the Auschwitz museum, but she did NOT die at the camp. We all die at some point and I was a bit amused by the fact she died doing her life's work but not at the camp. I love her teachings on forgiveness (different from forgetting). Humbling and powerful.
my history teacher was hoping to have her come speak to some of his classes but unfortunately she passed before it could happen. We did at least get to watch a video of her speaking
I corresponded with her on a regular basis. What a remarkable Lady. I was sad about her passing
The stories of Hans Münch, Oakar Schindler and Franz Stigler warms my heart to see a few decent men against such reckless hate.
I feel Stigler’s case is very different. It was more respect for a fellow pilot and his refusal to shoot a ‘downed’ plane. Albeit, it’s great to hear these stories in such a bleak time
I cried twice.
& I felt like crying at the end. I wasn't there, but he sounded like an unrecognized Hero at the darkest pit of Human History & tried to do what he could without dying himself. Big respect for finding a way not to be involved in the 'Selection Duty'. He did not deserve Alzheimer's. That disorder destroys your mind & then your soul, slowly. A living death.
I remember Witold Pilecki. I will remember Hans Münch too.
It is people like Dr. Münch that remind us that even in history’s darkest moments, there is good.
To be one person and know you alone cannot stop the atrocities, but to put yourself on the 'wrong side' in terms of the nazi's by helping as many people as possible is admirable. To do as much as you could, all while knowing if youre found out youre dead and then there will also be no one to help the prisoners, it must have been a constant feeling of terror
It blows my mind that anyone could use the word admirable to describe this man, It would be laughable if it wasn’t so pathetic that people can praise or make excuses for someone that did such horrible things.
@@amberowen2004
What horrible things did he do? He was a medical doctor, not a Mengele 2, and he saved some of the prisoners
You can deel him guilty for having joined the SS in the first place but I would say that actions speaks louder than his membership
@amberowen2004 didn’t they conclude that he didn’t inject his patients at the trials? What did you expect him to do become Superman single handedly defeat the nazis and save everyone? The man did the best he could to help as many people as he could at the camp and claiming that doesn’t matter is just ignorant.
@@amberowen2004what the nazis did was horrible but I think what this guy did to alleviate and help people, if this story is to be believed, is surely admirable because he did good things to help people when everyone around him were so, so, so horrible
@amberowen2004 if that’s really what you think, then you don’t understand how the world works. Good people do horrible things all of the time, but they don’t do them with glee, that is the difference. There is more testimony of his goodness than there is his role in the atrocities that were going to happen with or without him there to mitigate the damage as much as one man can, better to stay, knowing you at least won’t get off on whatever pain circumstances force you to inflict the way others would, making things orders of magnitude worse for the victims. When evil wins it isn’t because good does nothing, it’s because good blindly acts out of emotion, and winds up eating it, whereas evil plays the long game. This is the long game, this is keeping yourself out of trouble & free so you can keep saving lives, rather than taking a high moral stand every time you’re presented with the opportunity, and eating it accordingly. You’re the type of person who would give away the fact that you’d broken enigma by trying to stop every German attack & save every single allied life, and enigma would be changed, throwing out your advantage; rather than allowing most Nazi attacks to succeed or fail on their own merits, and only acting on your super secret intel when your war effort depends on it. Part of truly being able to have a lasting good effect on this world is knowing when & how to act, Dr. Münch understood this.
"Not all Germans were Nazis and not all Nazis were German". Dr Münch was I feel a patriotic German who did his best to guard his charges against the worst aspects of the Final Solution. That survivors of that horrific genocidal regime were prepared to vouch for his humanity is testimony itself.
Well technically he was still a nazi
Same as Claus Von Staufenberg
@@e_e9496 He most definitely was.
If an SS-Officer, taking part at the Holocaust, in what role ever, can't be called a nazi, whom can?
@@yannick245 A good nazi, I guess
@@felixc.3444 A Notzi.
Eva Moses Kor is really interesting person as well. I read her book. She chooses to forgive Nazis she meets despite everything done to her and her sister. She is a very brave and kind human.
Is she the twin if so brave women 👍🇬🇧
It’s something hard to do. My great grandfather fought in WWII and he had a distrust for Germans for awhile. I honestly don’t know if he ever got over it.
A lotta people can learn from her example. People just don’t want to forgive
If anyone gets the chance watch the last days
I never heard of her before now. Her story somewhat reminds me of Corrie Ten Boom. She and her family worked to hide the Jews in the Netherlands and were eventually caught and sent to prison and eventually Ravensbruck. He lost both her father and her sister. Eventually, later in life, she ran into one of the former guards of Ravensbruck and decided to forgive him.
So I work with the elderly and there's a saying, "you become what you weren't." When talking about alzhimers what this means is that a generally happy and up beat person become angry. Generally also think of it like this when you take care of them its not the 80something man you're taking care of its his 24 year old mind. So honestly while surprised that he said that I don't think he was ever truly like that. It was probably an act that he put up when talking to the other ss personal.
Thank you.
My thoughts exactly.
Good observation
I was thinking the same thing. Things that create an impression with Alzheimer's patients can sometimes crop up incorrectly. He was accused of injecting malaria and the accusation was probably greater in impact than the act of *not* doing it. So the Swiss cheese brain pushes it into an act he did do, and then he had to justify it after the fact
@@stevenbenson9976 so what you sayin? Was he a bad man acting good or what I don't understand..
Never ever heard of this man...glad to have heard about him now. Thank you Simon and your team!
There should be a movie or documentary about his story!
@@beverlyvarnerbvdocumentary yes movie no
I’m so glad to see compassion and understanding about what Alzheimers does to a person...it ran rampant in my mother’s family. My grandparents first fled to America during the Pogroms from Ukraine, and sadly during the war the rest of their family was murdered by the Nazi’s in trucks & ditches.
I don’t think it was right for the French to effectively erase all the decent things Münch tried to do during and after the war based on the rantings of a sick old man. They should have never let him do the interview.
Truth be told he probably didn’t remember why those things were wrong, but he still remembered what happened, without the context of our lives we’d default on that which we know
This man’s trauma was so deep that when everything else was taken from him, it consumed him, and I find that sad
It’s like he was mirroring the men he remembered, because he couldn’t remember himself
@@3adgamd3rI think he thought he was being questioned by the SS. He probably had horrendous PTSD too.
Seeing how he went out of his way to save lives, I guess you could call him the Guardian Angel of Auschwitz to Mengeles Angel of death
A fitting name indeed. I grew up thinking everyone of the ss officers was bad. To hear this at a time where tensions are high was refreshing and gives hope for the future.
@blue what that he got dementia? You dont think his way of speaking then was attributed to the stuff he saw while there?
@@reymilocuevas3485 If you watch documentaries about the concentration camps, the talk about how working there, killing thousands of people, was having a bad psychological effect on them. The guards were getting drunk every night and acting out off duty. While I think most of the SS guards should be held accountable for their actions in taking part in the camps, not all of them were like Mengeles.
@@MsMorri I completely agree. We should all be accountable for what goes on here on earth. Just like the people being decimated atm in China.
Well theres a title I never thought I'd read
I believe that Covid19 is actually stirring hatred against people who don’t believe it and refuse to comply. I wish people would wake up and see that the same old prejudices are being awakened in people. It’s easy to look back at the Holocaust and view it in a rather fictional way. The Holocaust didn’t just pop out of nowhere, there was a long process that built up to it. And we need to study not just the outcome but the process that led to it if we want to make sure it never happens again. Remember that people were already angry and oppressed by the Great Depression and the consequences levied on the German nation through reparations. Social unrest was everywhere and you only have to have a very mild antisemetic attitude and it’s enough to be fanned into a raging fire of hatred. So who are the “New Jews” ready for social segregation and from segregation to loosing there rights to even buy food from the shops and unable to travel and from there to forced quarantine. And once they have been all shipped off to quarantine then to be never heard of again? It’s all the new undesirables, those who don’t comply and those who refuse to wear masks and those who are conspiracy theorists and especially the Christians who won’t conform. It’s sounding very similar isn’t it. But we are already very far down the road to this happening right here in old Blighty 🇬🇧 and America 🇺🇸 who will raise there voices to this New and Terrifying machine that’s starting look not to dissimilar to Nazi Germany 🇩🇪.
@@alexandercarder2281 I'm pretty sure this guy has spent to much time alone.
@@marcus8647 Wonder why?
@@alexandercarder2281 You are trolling the comments with this crap
@@alexandercarder2281 lmao
This has got to be my new favorite episode. It restored a little bit of my faith for humanity
I agree, but I think finding faith in humanity is akin to finding garbage arranged in a beautiful pattern.
You can see that it is beautifully arranged (which is nice), but as a whole in the end, it is still a pile of garbage.
Fun fact: We still haven't found a suitable replacement to Agar agar.
And it is still used
Agar agar is itself a replacement for gelatine, due to its heat resistance when formed. You can't get a better replacement when cooking vegetarian dishes. Creme of tartar has a similar effect in Turkish delight, but the process takes about 4 times as long to complete.
I use xanthan gum
Still used as a culture medium... crazy.
@@cookingonthecheapcheap6921 well agar agar forms a much stiffer and more brittle gel and doesn't hold up to well in a highly acidic application ( its mostly used to make fluid gel because its a thixotropic fluid and doesn't heal) a mixture of apple pectin and high acyl gellan offers a better substitute
Yea, its in my cats food lol
Even in the darkest of times, there will always be the slightest glimmer of brightness and hope
Spoken like a true Irishman!
“Hygiene institute.” Damn that sounds so sinister
😎
*Racial* hygiene is what's terrifying, that just sounds like a normal hospital
@@okidokiliteratureclub706RH doesn't have to be violent or painful or even obvious at all. Just over time the number of desirable healthy people increases steadily while the others gradually fade into the background. Where they are not at all missed and eventually not remembered.
That twist at the end hit hard. It’s sad to see what Alzheimer’s does to a person. Rip
yeah, its sad people started thinking that he actually meant let alone knew what he was saying when he said all of that.
Never heard of this man but he adhered to the oath to do no harm and should be remembered for the acts of kindness he showed to live with the sights and sounds of the camps took its toll in the end on this good doctor.
I literally breathed a sigh of relief when you told us that he was the only defendant in the trials to be acquitted and released. It would have been a fucking travesty if he had been sentenced to death or a long prison stint after all of the good he did... On an unrelated note, where haven't there been any films made about Hans and his heroic actions? We have Schindler's List which is based on the story of him saving hundreds of Jews by employing them in his factory, and this story is equally dramatic and heroic, maybe even more so since he directly stood up to the SS on numerous occasions on top of helping prisoners any way he possibly could. I would watch that movie so fast that it would make the directors head spin
My uncle was in a German work camp from 1939-46, he was captured at age 16 in western Poland. He told me that when the Americans liberated the camp they offered him a rifle to take revenge. He couldn't because not all the Germans were animals and he couldn't bring himself to judge them.
American didn't liberate western poland. Stop lying.
@@mathieubelanger347he said he's uncle was captured in western Poland, not imprisoned there dummy
You mean the soviets? I thought the yanks never stepped into Poland during the war?
There were camps in Germany long before the war started, this is likely where my uncle was sent. He was captured shortly after Sept 1, 39 when the Nazis first invaded. The camps in Poland weren't set up yet. He claimed Americans liberated his camp.@@suhandatanker
@@dawnandy7777 I see, so he was caught in Poland but the camps were in Germany correct?
The story of Dr Hans Muench touched me, especially when the twins were involved in his biography. Eva forgiving her tormentor the angel of death, surprised me.
Stories like these that are unknown to me is why I love all of Simon's channels.
I met a contemporary witness from Auschwitz when I visited the camp with my school in 2018, seeing, meeting and talking to someone who survived the atrocities committed by Nazi-Germany made it feel even more real than any history class, documentary or video could've ever done. I as a German am taught very much and intensively about Nazi-Germany. We strive to keep the memory alive because while what happened is not our fault it is our responsibility to prevent this from ever happening again.
Hearing the survivor talk about how he was forcefully removed from his home, transported to the Camp where he was met with people playing soccer and seemingly enjoying themselves, before quickly realizing that these people were there to portray an act so that people wouldn't get suspicious right away. Hearing first hand how the Nazis separated families, how he still remembers the smell and noise and how he finally managed to escape in a stolen SS-Uniform which the Germans left after fleeing from the red army. I remember hearing and reading stories like this on the internet, but knowing this person right in front of me lived through it was completely different. Standing in the very camp that today is a symbol for the crimes and atrocities committed by Nazi-Germany after hearing and meeting someone who suffered there was an eerie, surreal feeling and an experience I'll never forget.
I am very proud of the German people for your willingness to remember the worst parts of your history and learn from them. Far too many of my fellow Americans get defensive and resist learning about the atrocities committed by our founders. Failure to accept the history of genocide, enslavement, and false imprisonment of minority groups only makes us susceptible to future propaganda.
These biographies are always interesting, but this one was uniquely informative. I'd never heard of this man. I'm glad I know of him now. Thank you.
I feel very fortunate to have the chance to hear a holocaust survivor speak in st. Louis when I was young. I've always remembered how she described her brother and mother being taken away and never seeing them again. The poor woman was only 12. Only her and her father made it out alive.
You ever hear the difference between the holocaust and a cow?
@@LeviForWaifu except there's a difference between milking and telling your story so it never happens again to others
I heard Eva speak, she was so full of energy to get the message out and still so sad at the loss of her sister.
It's inspirational and somewhat sad knowing those things happened. Munch said he lived with the memory everyday. No matter how good we are, our own conscience tends to be harder on us. Towards the end of his life he tortured himself. No one is harder on you than you are to yourself.
If his family knew he had Dementia at the time of these interviews, SURELY, the interviews should NOT have taken place! He wouldn't have been 'Of Sound Mind', due to the Dementia.
Fascinating documentary, Simon. Thank you.
He could not defend himself
What an amazing human. The world needs more people like him.
Carl Clauberg looks like the villain off of centipede 2. Seems fitting for him..
I read somewhere that was the point
You genius that’s hilarious 🤣😂🤣
And also the doctor/physicist in the captain america movie, with the villain called Heydrich right?
I had the same thought. He just 'looks' like a villain.
So nice to hear that in all that horror there were people like this that refused to take part in evil!
I have never heard of him before - this was an incredibly brave man who stood by his principles... thanks Biographics.
It’s honestly incredible how much humanity was still around even in, probably, humanity’s darkest moments
In the Documentary "The Last Days of the Nazis," Hans Munch is one of the people they chose to dramatize. They did this by using transcripts from people's interrogations after the war. It's very well done, and worth a watch.
When I got to the part with the injections... man. Imagine being that patient, returning to the doctors office for the second time. The third time. The feeling of helplessness and dread, of being in the hands of somebody who you've come to realize wants to destroy you from the inside out. To take away parts of you, one at a time until you're no longer sure your humanity remains.
kind of like vaccine mandates these days.
@@lordharry423 How dare you compare such things?
And there is another Jew decided if you are going to gas chamber imagine that , and that nurse is fu..ING doctor so she is not subhuman or other stupidity that nazies believed.
Simon, through my tears, thank you for your unbiased telling of horror and kindness in one place, which could only be compared to hell.
Thanks for the video...It gives me hope. The bits of video footage of the selection process made it especially chilling and brought it home very well.
Some suggestions.
1. Karl XII
2. Frederick the Great
3. Marshall Ney
4. Gustavus Adolphus
5. Suleiman the Magnificent
Simon has given me asynchronous learning material with Mandela and Chiang Kai Shek.
I would love to see Deng Xiaoping and Mikhail Gorbachev to round out the unit.
Also, Petrarch and Johannes Guttenberg from an earlier period.
6. Wilm Hosenfeld
Simon, I actually enjoyed it. The reason, even with the worst of conditions and in the most inhumane places. There are those who will do their best to rise above those conditions and help their fellow man regardless of personal risk
The men who dont become products of the time are just as big of heroes in my eyes.
@@flamcheeseful I agree, the men who keep their values are the biggest heroes
Your vids are always great, but this one was amazing. I don’t think you guys get the accolades you deserve. Great job, and thank you!
One of your best ever episodes, thank you Simon and team. 😔👍🇬🇧🏴
A very well documented story Simon. Thank you.
I was in tears, and I could feel your emotions from your voice, or maybe I am just biased, Simon.
Incredible work! Much appreciated 🙏🏽
Thank you Simon, keep it coming
this man, one of the nicest in history, also the emotion in this video is...wonderful.
Your enunciation, accent and language skills are beautiful to listen to. Thank you sir, you do wonderful work. I've never heard this story. Thanks for sharing.
A super presentation on this troubling topic Simon. Thank you for your empathy and your insight.
Very well produced and researched video. Thank you.
This also shows the tragedy of demenia and Alzheimer's. The true man was completely lost. What he did, what was documented and verified by the participants and witnesses was completely destroyed. He needs to be remembered for who he really was, not what an insididous disease did to him.
Worked in Chicago with a man that was born in Germany. We were tradesman. Hanging doors in office skyscraper all day. So you talk to make the hours go by.
I asked him how the Nazis could make regular Germans turn into cold blooded killers.
He asked me if I knew what the SS was. I told him I heard of them but not really certain who they were. I was a young man at the time. About 20. He told me all about the SS. And that when they came to his parents village towards the end of WW2 they rounded up the villagers and put them to work in a factory. All the fighting age men were already at the front I guess. And his parents were older.
He told me that in this factory you were allowed 2 mistakes in the processing of whatever they were making. The first mistake was a warning. Upon making the second mistake the SS men would come in. Take you to the back of the factory and put a bullet in your brain
I didn’t know what to say to that so I told him that I wouldn’t last until break time before they came to kill me to just make a joke about it and cut the tension a little bit.
If this is how they treated their own people. The Jews and others didn’t stand a chance.
One of the best channels on CZcams .... loads of great informations put in perspective towards the time ....
Highly recommendable not only for geeks but for all
Informative as always Simon & team 🙏
Even in the midst of hell you’ll find a kind soul
A very interesting video. My grandad was a Holocaust survivor and he witnessed many terrible things at the camps. We should never forgot this dark, sad and unpleasant part of human history 😭💔
Wow. I've been watching this show for some time... I think you guys did a magnificent job with this one. First time I've commented too.
Thank you! All of these need to be done as our youth needs to know the past in an effort not to repeat it!
It's nice to hear that there were some on the inside doing what they could, no matter how small, to ease some of the atrocities and horror the Nazis inflicted on those in their camps.
Wow! I had never heard of this man before. A fascinating story!
I love your honest opinions when you let them slip. This is a story that needs to be told, and taught to all. Even in horrible circumstances you can and should do better!
Another great short documentary. Thank you. Now it is time to go get my curiosity subscription.
Controversial:
In a way it does show, you can still be a human no matter what uniform you wear or what beliefs you have. Münch was patriotic, and didn’t believe in inferiority. It seems he took the opportunity to help those when all hope was lost when they arrived at the camps. He gave them dignity in his care.
You get what you give. Everything you do will come back to you. These prisoners were trapped in utter darkness, and yet, this SS guard had a source of light. He did exactly the opposite of all other Nazi guards, and it was for his kindness and help and generosity towards the prisoners that he was acquitted. It's amazing how, no matter how dark it can be, light can be found somewhere. Hans Münch was this.
Thank you for creating this video. Thoroughly inspiring and fascinating
Eva Mozes Kor, her letter of forgiveness brought me to tears. We should all try to be more like her.
Another great informative video many thanks for whole team👍 Please keep them coming👍😊
It would be a splendid idea to make a video about Agafia Lykova, the Siberian hermit. She has a very interesting life story and it would fit the narrative of this channel, if you'd ever decide to create such a video, of course. The quality of your content is impeccable.
Thank you for calling out those completely moronic deniers.
Currently binge watching your videos 👍🏻
I never heard of him. Thank you for the interesting video!
To be good man while being a member of the SS has to be one of the rarest occurrences ever.
@@AirstripOne-nd4duI agreed wholeheartedly, but this man saved lives in a place where it meant nothing to engage the very worst of human behaviour. He then went on to help prosecute sone of these monsters. I don’t know if he was anything like a ‘good man’ , but he had at least tried to do something.
It's always good to know there are good men , we usually only hear about the bad ones.
I am from Poland and I wept tears of appreciation for this man of honor, bravery and kindness.
We should remember people like him more fervently. Those who even in the darkest depths of earthly hell, still carried a torch of hope.
And, to quote one of other commenters _(@DoctorPortal_IX):_ I absolutely DETEST that this is the first I’ve ever heard of him.
Very interesting subject, thank you for your teams research and bringing this story to light.
Kampfgruppe peiper?On a SS video.
Suspect m88
@@nickybower9981 don’t worry about it nick 😉
Gotcha herr kamerad
This museum is in my hometown. Eva was an amazing woman very strong and inspirational.
Brilliant video and content as always thank you for all your hard work so far you never hear much about the good people in wars or opposing sides simple amazing
I got a lot of anxiety when I he was on trial. Because I thought he would get abandoned by the men and women he saved. Jesus Christ, you don't know how relieved I was when he wasn't killed.
Good coverage, Simon. Pray to God the world never sees anything like it again.
Same here, though I don't have much faith that that will be the case. While there has been nothing quite on the scale of the Holocaust since WWII, we have had the Rwandan genocide (in the 1990s, estimated 500,000-600,000 murdered) and the Cambodian genocide (in the 1970s, 1.5-2 million murdered). There have been many, many more smaller scale massacres since WWII (just one example, the Bosnian genocide, where 25,000-30,000 Bosnian Muslims were murdered by Serbian militias, and that was in mainland Europe in the 1990s, with Europeans initially unwilling to do anything about genocide happening in their own backyard).The awful breakup of Yugoslavia is something that haunts me, as I visited the country in 1986 (traveled through what is now Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia). It was a very hopeful place, with a hopeful people, and it was just tragic to see these massacres literally on CNN just a few years later.
it is very important that we keep also the stories of the people who did good even during these times. Even if he is not completely clean of fault but still the good deeds have to count for something.
Great video. Poignant message
I loved the Apocalypse series on curiositystream! Very interesting and informative!
Cant believe i never heard of him, fascinating. Thanks biowankers much appreciated.
Im from Indiana and was at the Candles museum a few years back my family was the only group there and an elderly lady joined us and we talked for awhile it took me about 10 or 15 minutes to realize that she was actually Eva, in hindsight that was genuinely the most incredible encounter I've ever had
Very important video, thanks to the biographics team
Excellent video...bless his soul and his family...
Thanks for the video! I never heard of this doctor until now so it was really interesting....Speaking of good Germans, I think Wilm Hosenfeld would be a good candidate for biographics. You have breifly mentioned him in your top tens channel, as his rescue of Spzilman was what brought attention to him. I read his biography 'I only see a person in front of me' and i feel he really was one of the rare Germans that did their best to help all they could.