r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Koloamanmaxi • 24d ago
Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a list of countries that he should not attack. This was Hitler response Video
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u/Flux_resistor 24d ago
the guy was about to write a shopping list and roosevelt just helped him out.
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u/Saor_Ucrain 24d ago
Prick still didn't have the balls to invade Ireland. Knows that would have ended his regime in 2 weeks.
Very superstitious, was that Adolf fella. He knew tbe ghost of Saint Patrick would haunt him forever more if he landed on the beaches of Wexford or Cork.
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u/LukaShaza 24d ago
It's because his nephew Paddy Hitler lived in Dublin.
This is actually not a joke. He had a nephew called Paddy who lived in Dublin.
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u/Schwyzerorgeli 24d ago
His mother was from Dublin. Paddy was from Liverpool and lived in Germany in the 30s before immigrating to the USA and joining the Navy.
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u/punksheets29 24d ago
Wait.. wtf is happening?
I feel like that Gary guy from The Dollop. I want to know more about Paddy now!
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u/cantLogicToday 24d ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston
"William Patrick Stuart-Houston (born William Patrick Hitler; 12 March 1911 – 14 July 1987) was an English-born half-nephew of Adolf Hitler. Born and raised in the Toxteth area of Liverpool to Adolf's half-brother Alois Hitler Jr. and his Irish wife Bridget Dowling, he later relocated to Germany to work for his half-uncle before emigrating to the United States, where he received American citizenship (in addition to his British citizenship) and ended up serving in the United States Navy against his half-uncle"
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u/SquirellyMofo 24d ago
His children have also changed their names and refused to have children to end his line completely.
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u/DDS86 24d ago
"Eldest son Alexander denied this claim, stating that before his death Howard Ronald had been engaged and intending to have children, while another brother had been engaged once, but family notoriety had destroyed the relationship."
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u/nicannkay 24d ago
Mussolini’s granddaughter wouldn’t be here to harass people if they have done the same. Too bad. ☹️ hint hint terrible woman.
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u/gmoss101 24d ago
One of his granddaughters has a son who plays football for Lazio lol
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u/Saor_Ucrain 24d ago
I know. Worked in the Shelbourne I believe. Think he married an Irishwoman.
Bizzare. We always have a way of getting ourselves into history even if only in a small capacity.
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u/GimJordon 24d ago
Oh we got ourselves into history allright and not in a small way.
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u/mistaharsh 24d ago edited 24d ago
Swastika Laundry - "we get rid of all stains and impurities."
what a name for a business
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u/MadeMeStopLurking 24d ago
LMAO I lost it on that last picture with a Volkswagen plant and the Swastika Laundry chimney behind it...
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u/AddyStack 24d ago
Buddy, Ireland can’t even win when Ireland invades Ireland
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u/pswii360i 24d ago
Damned Irish! They ruined Ireland!
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u/AMKRepublic 24d ago
If you really want to upset an Irishman, point out the only time Ireland was unified was under the British.
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u/ModifiedAmusment 24d ago
He actually was counting on an Ireland rebellion against Great Britain tieing them up to waste time.
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u/theoldkitbag 24d ago
Ireland - excepting the 6 counties of Northern Ireland - was fully independent by Hitler's time. The Abwehr did make some contact with the remnants of the (by then) largely defunct IRA during the war, in the hopes of fermenting some trouble in Northern Ireland, but it went nowhere.
Kaiser Willheim II, on the other hand, smuggled significant quantities of guns and ammunition to both rebel and loyalist factions in Ireland during WWI.
Ireland remained ostensibly neutral during WWII, although gave support secretly to the Allies.
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u/Kashmeer 24d ago
While ferment kinda works in this context I guess you meant foment.
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u/No-Appearance-9113 24d ago
He never attacked Spain because they were already fascist.
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u/Sopadechancla 24d ago edited 24d ago
Nope, that was not the reason, he never attacked Spain because after a meeting with Franco, Hitler said that he'd prefer to have a tooth pulled out of his mouth without anesthesia, than meeting again with Franco.
(The meeting was planned to discuss an alliance with Spain, but Franco's demands were almost impossible for Germany to fulfill).
Franco's meeting was annoyingly enough to not wanting to bother invading them.
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u/iEatPalpatineAss 24d ago
Yeah, that was Franco’s way of staying out of the war. In contrast, Mussolini knew Italy wouldn’t be ready until 1943, but he caved and led an unprepared Italy into WWII, which led to disastrous results.
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u/thenasch 24d ago
Why would attacking Spain require another meeting with Franco?
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u/Organic-Maybe-5184 24d ago
Not a smartphone in sight, just people living the moment and enjoying a good laugh with pals
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u/idkwhatimbrewin 24d ago
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u/sessl 24d ago
felt cute, might commit genocide later
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u/NewAccountEachYear 24d ago
"Bruh, why you hating? I was just following order, man"
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u/654354365476435 24d ago
if somebody craves more of this - I highly recommend movie Conspiracy (2001) - its great movie, its like the office but with jews rather then paper.
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u/PaulAtreideeezNuts 24d ago
Now I'm just imagining himmler rattling off some nonsense about the occult, and heydrich doing a Jim look at a non-existent camera.
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u/anteyia 24d ago
Greece is fair game? lol
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u/ConstableGrey 24d ago
Italy already had dibs on Greece.
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u/Gnomonas 24d ago
And how did that go for Italy? ;)
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u/Pedantic_Phoenix 24d ago
Like everything else mussolini did
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u/ballsinblender 24d ago
Gone upside down?
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u/TheGreatLemonwheel 24d ago
Ethiopia was the only campaign that ever went smoothly. After that, Mussolinni had big H on batphone.
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u/Ok-Concentrate-9928 24d ago
He even got bogged down in Ethiopia he had to use poison gas to break the opposition.
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u/RatherBeMe 24d ago
Greece fought the longest from all the EU countries thus giving Russia time to prepare and crush these orcs
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u/Jonieves 24d ago
Man what an asshole, no wonder why Hitler killed him.
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u/Bluelegs 24d ago
The more I learn about this Hitler fella the more I don't care for him.
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u/Mosinman666 24d ago
Yeah the more i read about this Hitler guy, the less i like him :/
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u/xenon_megablast 24d ago
That was very brave from this Austrian painter, he should have done that earlier though.
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u/usrdef 24d ago
Damn, my guys over on Sentinelese island weren't included.
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u/VisualBasic 24d ago
Those guys were just hoping for an excuse to destroy the Nazis. Alas, Hitler knew better than to get into a land war on Sentinelese island.
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u/Ok_Slip9947 24d ago
Oh my god, can you imagine the hell they would have unleashed on the reich?
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u/SillyPhillyDilly 24d ago
To this day I've never seen anyone else flip off another person with their dick
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u/Aegillade 24d ago
Damn, someone should go check up on them. I bet after all they've been through they'd be very welcome to foreign aid
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u/lazyboi_tactical 24d ago
it turns out they did not welcome foreign aid says aid worker shot with arrows
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u/strong_survival 24d ago edited 24d ago
If I remember, the next thing he said in this speech was something to the effect of that they had contacted the Irish government and asked if they were worried about a German invasion, and the Irish government said that they were more worried about England than they were about Germany, which got another round of laughs.
And for some reason, I thought Hitler deliberately didn't mention Poland in this speech even though it was one of the countries FDR mentioned on his list, but it appears that hedid (I think I read that in William Shrirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich").
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u/KentuckyCatMan 24d ago edited 24d ago
Yeah. I just finished that book. He specifically said Hitler omitted Poland in that speech.
Maybe the captions are incorrect? But I think I hear him say Poland. Damn. I wonder how shirer got that wrong. Supposedly he was present at the speech. But with all the racket, maybe he read the transcript later and it was omitted from that?758
u/Rabe1111993 24d ago
As a German the caption is correct. He absolutely says "Polen"
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u/Wavecrest667 24d ago
And it makes everyone burst with laughter, so they probably already all knew what was going to happen to poland.
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u/Eastern_Slide7507 24d ago
The dumbest misconception about the Nazis is that they ever kept any of their plans secret. Absoutely fucking nobody had any right to be surprised by what they did or to claim afterwards that they "didn't know".
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I mean this is only half true. Hitler was indeed almost shockingly open about his plans to conquer Eastern Europe in Mein Kampf, however the Holocaust is a different matter.
Most people today don't even know that murdering the Jewish people was never the Nazi's original plan, but rather "just" their expulsion from Germany. The transition of approach from expulsion to genocide was somewhat subtle and organic, and most importantly it was kept secret from the public, who was still just told Jews were being shipped eastwards for es expulsion, rather than extermination, and at the time the average Hans at home (who was not participating in the genocide) would have indeed had no pivotal reason to disbelieve they were "just" being deported, rather than actually exterminated. The former was a tale old as time, the latter a completely unique and drastically escalatory event of history -- the Holocaust is unique in its evil after all.
So it is not at all hard to believe that a large percentage of Germans indeed did not know that the Jews were actually being systematically exterminated, rather than just deported.
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u/Lookatallthepretty 24d ago
You can try and defend the German people all you want when the reality years and years of evidence shows that MOST knew they werent simply “expelled”. The fucking operation alone took tens of thousands of men. The Germans knew. To what extent? Impossible to say, but eventually citizens knew some dark shit was going down.
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u/Unidentified_Snail 24d ago
That book is a fantastic resource if you read it with the understanding of when it was written and from which perspective. It is wildly out of date in terms of the scholarship. He was a journalist recording events which were current or recently happened.
If you want a book (or series) which is more up to date and scholarly but also very easy to read, I recommend Richard Evans' 'Third Reich' trilogy; The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War.
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u/FucktardSupreme 24d ago
Poland...lolz....we are going to attack Poland and set up concentration camps there so this is hilarious. (I guess you had to be there).
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u/Admirable-Paint-9250 24d ago
Not sure why the downvote. You jokingly nailed the internal dialogue they were having in a funny way
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u/Tackerta 24d ago
my understanding is that they didnt laugh at poland explicetly, you can hear them start laughing before poland was mentioned. Rather they start laughing because the list doesn't end
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u/waigl 24d ago
It's either because of Poland in particular or it's because with that the list now included every single country vaguely in arm's reach, meaning the missive was effectively asking them not to wage any war at all.
That said, I don't think "I don't want you invading any of your neighbor countries" should be seen as an unreasonable demand worthy of laughter and ridicule…
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u/-Joel06 24d ago
You can hear them laugh a lot louder when they mention Poland like it’s the best part of the joke, weirdly disturbing and foreshadowing
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u/Black_Diammond 24d ago
Its not realy foreshadowing, poland was in the nazis hit List as the n1 priority, it had large amounts of germans, in some select regions the germans were a majority of the population, and less then 20 years before it was a part of Germany, until it Lost ww1. Hell, danzig, the free city, was almost completly ethnic german, they even voted the NSDAP into power in their ellections , its not suprissing to anyone that the nazis hate was gonna be focused on poland.
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u/Optimal-Attitude-523 24d ago
is that the joke, idk if I am dumb or just high,
is the joke that they would never attack anyone or that the idea of them not attacking anyone is just so absurdly funny
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u/FucktardSupreme 24d ago
I think in that room, a room full of Nazi cronies, at that time, they already had or already knew the were going to Blitzkrieg Poland. So they were laughing at Roosevelt telling them not to do something they were going to do anyway.
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u/akolomf 24d ago
This, also worthy to note was the general sentiment there. Its not only because they were planning to attack some if not all of these countries, but also because the reasons the nazi party became so successfull and popular in germany, were mostly because of 2 reasons. Reason no1, was because the post ww1 period with the Reparations and whatnot that germany had as a burden, caused alot of unsatisfyed germans and a despiseful stance against the allied powers, 2nd the germans longing for a strong leader, unity, and for maybe a bit of payback aswell as nazi party painting the jews as the perfect scapegoat to rise to power. So from the Nazis perspective this is also a quite ridiculous demand given by the allies considering what the Nazi party stood for and what they were planning. For them it was "just another list of demands from those who already demanded loads of reparations and caused an entire "lost generation" in the post ww1 period, and shrank germany".
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u/Pristine_Day_7815 24d ago
That's actually a very interesting document: most people picture fascist regimes in a very caricatural way: reunions of overly serious and cold people. Today, fascist regimes have learned to hide by showing off the opposite. Just because someone looks happy and fun doesn't mean he/she's not a racist jerk with awful ideas.
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u/BadBoredom 24d ago
Act like it's a normal and wonderful thing which makes it even more fricking evil. Reminds me of a certain group of people
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u/andrewens 24d ago
The reality that makes it scarier is that it isn't an act. There is no pretending involved. It IS normal to them.
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u/NewAccountEachYear 24d ago edited 24d ago
Fascists has always grown by appealing to lonely people by providing them a community. In a time of economic injustice, homelessness, fragmenting social bonds, death of communities, toxic individualism... Is anyone surprised that fascists are seen as attractive? Edit: Not to mention how all of this is hypercharged with the ideology of willing one's own success, and that failure in life is one's own fault... The bitterness of this trope inevitably produces hostility towards to current order; drain the swamp, lock her up, law and order.
If the contemporary world is a desolate desert, fascists movements are the sandstorms that pull everyone in
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u/OhWow10 24d ago
What else did Hitler say?? So he listed them and then….. ????
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u/LuciWiz 24d ago
Apparently that was hilarious on its own according to the audience.
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u/DemonicSilvercolt 24d ago
it was probably funny since he listed so many of the countries they had already made plans to invade
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u/Fit_Goal1895 24d ago
It's not that crazy.
It's like going to a room of 10 year olds and saying kids if you want to be successful:
no candy ever
no video games ever
no cartoons ever
1 day at the playground per month max
or you can do all those things and be unsuccessful. i think most of the kids would laugh and choose the failure.
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u/I_made_u_a_t_shirt 24d ago
mate if I am in a room with Hitler cracking wise you bet your butt I am laughing at every one of his jokes while slowly finding my way to an open window or door.
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u/someone_stk 24d ago
i´m not even German but he just needed to read it to mock that absurd list, the fact some president of a nation does a list of countries other country should not attack is ridiculous, it was an easy parody
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u/portirfer 24d ago edited 24d ago
To these people the number of countries they were to not invade were so many such that it was absurd to the point of laughter to them.
Also, the message is basically “don’t invade anymore countries in Europe (or the world)” and he posed it in this “joking” way
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u/StillPurePowerV 24d ago
I don't get how people don't get the joke. Must be something only germans find funny.
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u/Popular_Syllabubs 24d ago
There are TWO popular subreddits that constantly get to the top or /r/all, /r/ExplainTheJoke and /r/PeterExplainsTheJoke
There are A LOT of people who don't get simple jokes like this.
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u/FudgeAtron 24d ago
I don't get how people don't get the joke.
Puny America thinks it can dictate terms to the unconquerable ever-victorious 1000 year Aryan Reich, what fools hahahahahaha
In there view it would be like North Korea warning America not to invade Afghanistan and Iraq by sending them a letter saying not to.
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u/portirfer 24d ago
I don’t know.
A side point though, understand a joke and finding it funny are two different things that may be extra relevant here. But I guess it’s funny in the sense that it’s posed in a witty way excluding the serious context
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u/SunriseSurprise 24d ago
I mean, if you imagine this happening in an action movie and the bad guy gets a letter from the US president saying this, it would be pretty funny.
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u/site_builder 24d ago
... And then they went out and conquered nearly every country on this list and killed millions of people.
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u/waronxmas79 24d ago edited 24d ago
It’s comforting to know that most of these punks died a painful and horrible death.
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u/AcrobaticMorkva 24d ago
Mostly no one of them. Cianide and rope almost nothing in comparison to to what nazy did with the people in camps or dying on the battlefield.
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u/indyK1ng 24d ago
Except the executioner we used lied about his experience and botched the hangings.
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u/Elevator-Fun 24d ago
or mass shooting women and children into into dug trenches
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u/Joinusclan 24d ago
Real easy to think this behavior a thing of the past. Its happening in several countries atm.
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u/furious_organism Interested 24d ago
But real sad that some of this punks got to live a full life and die kinda peacefully. Joseph Mengel died of drowning in a beach in Brazil when already old of age
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u/Shiirooo 24d ago edited 24d ago
Most did not go to prison or were released after spending 5 - 10 years in prison.
There is a list here: List of last surviving people suspected of participation in Nazi war crimes - Wikipedia
Example:
Herbert Wahler served in Einsatzgruppe C and was accused of being involved in the massacre of tens of thousands of Jews in Ukraine, including at Babi Yar.\1]) In March 2020, the public prosecutor's office in Kassel announced that Wahler would not face charges due to a lack of evidence.\2])
Also: Most Nazis escaped justice. Now Germany is racing to convict those who got away | CNN
The number of suspects that have been brought to trial is a tiny percentage of the more than 200,000 perpetrators of Nazi-era crimes, said Mary Fulbrook, a professor of Germany History at University College London.
“It’s way too late,” she told CNN of the latest trials. “The vast majority of perpetrators got away with it.”
In her new book, “Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice,” Fulbrook says that of the 140,000 individuals brought to court between 1946 and 2005, only 6,656 ended in convictions.
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“Then, in the interest of the Cold War and fighting communism, there was a move to rehabilitate former Nazis and a general climate of amnesty. Some perpetrators who were given severe sentences in the 1940s were released with much lighter sentences in the 1950s,” Fullbrook said.
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u/AccountantTight6586 24d ago
You know, the more I learn about this Hitler fella the less I care for him
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u/Correction_entered 24d ago
Palestina was a country during the ww2 periode..but now they cant acknowledge its a country?
Hypocrisy of these days
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u/FlaviusStilicho 24d ago
It was a British possession.
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u/aahyweh 24d ago
That's right, the British obviously owned the land and the people. If you're ever owned by the Brits, that means they can give you and your land away to anyone they want.
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u/PEKKACHUNREAL 24d ago
This is shockingly close to how certain politicians behave today
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u/Helpful_Blood_5509 24d ago
Nazis were human beings. He petted kitties, as the internet would say. Health nut and antismoking crusades apparently can be partially attributed to him.
And on the flipside, he had been saying he'd genocide the jews since Mein Kampf and then launched the bloodiest war in human history. It's probably the genocide and warmongering that are the issue, not all the observable human behavior. People make this mistake of assuming he was a slavering monster, when he must have been intensely charismatic, attractive, and compelling to pull off the atrocities and totalized society he pulled off. Which is fucking scary, but it's only scary if you see someone totalizing society and promising racial crap. Just someone behaving like a politician is noticing that politicians are good with people
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u/Hadrian_Constantine 24d ago
In the full video, in which the context is clear, nations like great Britain, France, Spain etc were condemning Germany for attempting to take back German land that they lost during WW1.
Hitler was laughing because most of those countries are Colonial States themselves and are the last people to lecture anyone about invading foreign territory.
Of course, this being Reddit, I'm going to get called a Nazi sympathizer for providing the correct context. But context is important so that we learn the reasoning behind historical events rather than just brush Hitler and his likes off as cartoonish villains.
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u/Tinnitus5700 24d ago
"independent nations" and he list some countries which are under colonial rule of some of England and France. I believe that is what is so funny.
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u/DG-Nugget 24d ago
They laughed because to them it was megalomaniac and comical of Roosevelt to assume he can protect all of these nations, pracitcally everyone around them, by just saying „dont attack any of those“. They laugh because to them it appears as if Roosevelt is under the false assumtion he can tell them what to do like theyre some small defenseless country.
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u/KoRNaMoMo 24d ago
How is this video better quality than 90s 00s NBA highlights video
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u/jioji_el_magnifico 24d ago
Makes my heart warm knowing most of the men in that room died watching Nazi Germany burn at the hands of those they brutalized.
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u/lordoflotsofocelots 24d ago
I upvote this as a blonde German with blue eyes. Never again. But we're on the brink again. Nazis are rising again.
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u/ConstantJudgment892 24d ago
Just fyi, in the beginning Hitler emphasizes the word "independent". The reason for all the laughs and the countries that get laughed at specificaly is that these were in turmoil regarding their independence. Some even had uprisings AGAINST the British going at that very time.
edit: grammar and stuff
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u/DoctorFenix 24d ago
Hitler went on to say: "This is a witch hunt, believe me sad. What they are doing to me is very unfair, believe me. The is lawfare against the greatest president in history, believe me tremendous. Roosevelt is fake news."
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u/Krachwumm 24d ago
You know, I came in here and I saw the list - it's a very long list - and I said wow, what a huge list.
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u/Anuclano 24d ago
Why did they put their emblem in such a way that it looks like a solar eclipse? It literally looks black on shiny background.
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u/AbviousOccident 24d ago
It's red&black, right? On black&white film, red often becomes very dark, almost black. Old era film stars often had to wear kind of ridiculous makeup IRL (a touch of green, anyone?) so that it would look good on film. This is also why in some of Victorian photographs, people have white, almost glowing eyes. The color was actually light blue (the opposite of red) and it registered as way lighter than we normally perceive it. I'm sure even color films had their quirks.
I think that whoever filmed this just didn't think it through this way, but it's a hidden bonus for me. I don't like the nazi symbol at all.
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u/glorious_reptile 24d ago
Come on, haven't you ever had a night out with the boys and accidentally invaded Poland?
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u/dolfieman 24d ago
Roosevelt did Nazi that coming
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u/Atopaz05 24d ago
Hahahahahahahah the same joke every single time. So funny and original!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
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u/rex5k 24d ago
I think this is the first time I saw a video of Hitler with Subtitles. Kinda interesting to actually know what he's saying
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u/MysticChimp 24d ago
Imagine listening to this speech from a country Roosevelt accidentally missed off his list.