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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,040 [Music] 2 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,749 [Music] 3 00:00:38,239 --> 00:00:42,920 the German Army suffered terribly during 4 00:00:40,399 --> 00:00:46,239 the first world war and the German 5 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:47,520 Nation also suffered terribly especially 6 00:00:46,239 --> 00:00:50,440 after the 7 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:51,719 war the crippling sanctions enacted by 8 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,719 The Victors with the Treaty of 9 00:00:51,719 --> 00:00:55,160 Versailles threw the country into 10 00:00:53,719 --> 00:00:57,280 serious 11 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:00,840 depression there was chaos on the 12 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:05,000 streets and Anarchy in the air 13 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:07,159 Communists seized many cities including 14 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,360 Berlin while the great wealth of the 15 00:01:07,159 --> 00:01:11,400 nation was bled Away by outrageous War 16 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:14,080 reparations or sucked out by 17 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,410 unscrupulous politicians the average 18 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,320 German was 19 00:01:15,410 --> 00:01:19,960 [Music] 20 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:22,600 impoverished inflation and unemployment 21 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:27,360 soon followed and quickly destroyed all 22 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:27,360 hope all confidence all 23 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:33,119 morality German cities were a wash in 24 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:35,600 pornography and prostitution with even 25 00:01:33,119 --> 00:01:37,360 starving children being bought and sold 26 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:40,759 like sex 27 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:42,280 toys crime was rampant drunkenness and 28 00:01:40,759 --> 00:01:45,880 drug addiction were 29 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:49,439 widespread suicide rates 30 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:54,880 soared the situation seemed 31 00:01:49,439 --> 00:01:54,880 hopeless and then things changed 32 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:59,399 dramatically soon after the national 33 00:01:57,399 --> 00:02:03,000 socialists were elected the German 34 00:01:59,399 --> 00:02:07,319 economy sprang to life unemployment was 35 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:11,000 erased building boomed great projects 36 00:02:07,319 --> 00:02:14,680 began confidence burst to life a new 37 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:17,360 after years of hunger hardship shame and 38 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:19,200 degradation Germany became a happy 39 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:21,680 hopeful Nation 40 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:24,640 again Germany's transformation from 41 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:27,920 squalor and misery to a world superpower 42 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:31,120 was so incredible that the 1938 Time 43 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:33,879 magazine named Adolf Hitler Man of the 44 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:35,720 Year to many it seemed as if a new 45 00:02:33,879 --> 00:02:39,120 cultural economic and political 46 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:41,280 Renaissance for all of Europe was at 47 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:44,080 [Applause] 48 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:47,959 hand but others throughout the world 49 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:51,599 envious powerful but above all fearful 50 00:02:47,959 --> 00:02:54,280 now worked night and day to take Germany 51 00:02:51,599 --> 00:02:57,440 down the second world war was the most 52 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:59,920 deadly and destructive war in history 53 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:01,640 for six long years the unequal struggle 54 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:04,640 pitting Germany against the world 55 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:08,239 continued with first one side then the 56 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:10,400 other on top but at last overwhelmed 57 00:03:08,239 --> 00:03:13,280 Germany was once more 58 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:16,200 defeated this time however the Reich was 59 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:19,080 to be punished not with mere reparations 60 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:22,959 nor loss of land nor with simple 61 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:25,239 decadence and despair no on this 62 00:03:22,959 --> 00:03:28,680 occasion Germany was to be subjected to 63 00:03:25,239 --> 00:03:31,640 Pure hatred hatred of the most vicious 64 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:34,400 evil and depraved kind imaginable 65 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:36,519 Millions upon millions of Germans many 66 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:39,720 of whom had nothing to do with the war 67 00:03:36,519 --> 00:03:42,360 were systematically raped tortured 68 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:45,080 slaughtered and all in the most sadistic 69 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:46,760 and sickening ways imaginable what 70 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,879 happened to Germany and its people 71 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:50,760 during and after World War II has 72 00:03:48,879 --> 00:03:56,640 remained the darkest and best kept 73 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:56,640 secret in world history until now 74 00:04:15,319 --> 00:04:19,560 this film is based upon the book by 75 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:22,479 author and historian Thomas 76 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,680 Goodrich over the past 30 years Goodrich 77 00:04:22,479 --> 00:04:25,840 has written about a number of 78 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:28,880 controversial subjects the American 79 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:30,880 Civil War Abraham Lincoln the American 80 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:33,280 Indian Wars 81 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:36,360 but because World War II remains to this 82 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:39,080 very day a pressing issue the author 83 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:40,560 feels this is by far his most urgent And 84 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:43,000 Timely 85 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,680 book this is the story of the crimes 86 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,440 that were committed against Germany 87 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:49,000 during and after World War 88 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:51,280 II the words you will hear are those of 89 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,440 the victims themselves and the witnesses 90 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:54,639 to these 91 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:56,720 atrocities there will be no attempt here 92 00:04:54,639 --> 00:04:59,240 to present the Viewpoint of the other 93 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:01,800 side anyone seeking the Victor's version 94 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:04,240 of world War II needd only watch any 95 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:06,800 Hollywood movie turn on the TV to any 96 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,960 World War II documentary or visit any 97 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,960 public 98 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:13,800 library this film like the book it is 99 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:15,400 based upon does not concern itself with 100 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:19,759 what the Germans allegedly did to the 101 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:21,560 world during the so-called good war no 102 00:05:19,759 --> 00:05:23,800 the focus here is instead on what the 103 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:26,479 world did to the Germans the crimes 104 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:29,319 detailed here in are so vicious so 105 00:05:26,479 --> 00:05:31,000 massive and so evil that there are no 106 00:05:29,319 --> 00:05:32,560 words in the English language to 107 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,759 accurately describe 108 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:37,080 them these are crimes that have been 109 00:05:34,759 --> 00:05:40,240 buried by The Victors under a mountain 110 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:42,680 of propaganda and lies for now over 70 111 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:44,319 years this film is dedicated not only to 112 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:47,360 the voiceless victims of the world's 113 00:05:44,319 --> 00:05:50,720 worst war but also to Future 114 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:52,759 Generations our hope is that if enough 115 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:54,960 good people in the world are willing to 116 00:05:52,759 --> 00:05:58,720 listen and learn what actually occurred 117 00:05:54,960 --> 00:06:02,720 to these innocent victims men women the 118 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:05,199 old the Young the sick animals then they 119 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:07,160 someday soon will rise up as one and 120 00:06:05,199 --> 00:06:12,280 with United voice demand that nothing 121 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:12,280 like this ever happens again to anyone 122 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:27,840 anywhere during World War II Germany was 123 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:30,720 subjected to an unrelenting assault from 124 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:34,160 the sky the Americans in British called 125 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:35,520 it carpet bombing saturation bombing or 126 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,720 unrestricted 127 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:39,080 bombing however the German women and 128 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,360 children who suffered through this 129 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:43,880 nightmare called it by a simpler more 130 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:46,479 accurate name Terror 131 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:48,759 bombing the terror campaign was no 132 00:06:46,479 --> 00:06:50,919 accident it was the secret plan of 133 00:06:48,759 --> 00:06:53,120 British prime minister Winston Churchill 134 00:06:50,919 --> 00:06:55,280 and air Chief Marshall Arthur Harris to 135 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:57,520 unleash the full power of the royal Air 136 00:06:55,280 --> 00:07:00,360 Force against German civilians to 137 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:03,680 inflict as much damage to destroy as 138 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:06,199 many homes and to kill as many men women 139 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:10,599 and children as 140 00:07:06,199 --> 00:07:14,919 possible jman cities will be subjected 141 00:07:10,599 --> 00:07:16,160 to an ordeal the life of which has never 142 00:07:14,919 --> 00:07:19,520 been 143 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:22,919 experience my country 144 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:26,280 continuity severity or 145 00:07:22,919 --> 00:07:31,520 magnitude to achieve this end there are 146 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:34,240 no lengths of violence to which we will 147 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:38,400 go Church Hills violence was on full 148 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:38,400 display during the night of July 24th 149 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:45,479 1943 to the residents of hurg a city of 150 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:48,240 over 1 million Souls The Raid seemed 151 00:07:45,479 --> 00:07:51,039 initially like a standard bombing run 152 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:54,000 but soon hundreds of enemy aircraft 153 00:07:51,039 --> 00:07:56,879 began raining down tons upon tons of 154 00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:00,240 high explosives on the very heart of 155 00:07:56,879 --> 00:08:03,159 hurg schools churches Hospital hospitals 156 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:04,599 homes ancient art and architecture all 157 00:08:03,159 --> 00:08:07,479 were blown to 158 00:08:04,599 --> 00:08:09,800 bits the onslaught increased in Fury 159 00:08:07,479 --> 00:08:12,240 with each succeeding wave of bombers 160 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,919 building minute by minute into a fiery 161 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:16,960 devastating 162 00:08:13,919 --> 00:08:20,080 Crescendo and then the planes suddenly 163 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:23,240 disappeared the skies were clear again 164 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,240 and All Above was 165 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:28,000 silent when the stunned survivors 166 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:30,360 reemerged from their sellers later that 167 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:34,159 night they saw that their once beautiful 168 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:34,159 city was now a smoldering 169 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:40,919 ruin the following day as firefighters 170 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:43,279 from throughout Northern Germany battled 171 00:08:40,919 --> 00:08:46,800 The Blaze Allied bombers suddenly 172 00:08:43,279 --> 00:08:48,600 appeared over hurg again as planned the 173 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:51,080 Americans surprised not only the 174 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:54,390 emergency workers but Columns of fleeing 175 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:57,600 refugees as well thousands 176 00:08:54,390 --> 00:09:01,040 [Music] 177 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:03,200 perished the next night RAF bombers 178 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:05,440 returned in addition to the normal 179 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,880 payload of high explosives the British 180 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,120 sent down tons of phosphorus bombs to 181 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:12,399 accelerate the 182 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:13,640 fires the resulting configration ignited 183 00:09:12,399 --> 00:09:16,600 a 184 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:19,760 firestorm hurricane force winds created 185 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:22,200 by the intense heat uprooted trees 186 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:25,040 ripped roofs from buildings and sucked 187 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:28,680 screaming victims into the Raging 188 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:30,600 Inferno some who escaped the 150 mph 189 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:33,920 winds in the streets became mired in 190 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:36,120 melting asphalt and quickly burst into 191 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:38,320 flames those who had thrown themselves 192 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:40,760 into the city's canals died of thermal 193 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:43,680 radiation then as they floated on the 194 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:46,440 water's surface they too 195 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:50,920 ignited in the center of the Firestorm 196 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:50,920 temperatures reached 1500° 197 00:09:52,600 --> 00:10:00,760 F when the Great mass of flames joined 198 00:09:55,519 --> 00:10:02,720 they Rose into a column 3 m High 199 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:05,839 the attacks against hurg continued 200 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:08,560 unabated for another week soon there was 201 00:10:05,839 --> 00:10:08,560 nothing left to 202 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:16,600 destroy appropriately dubbed by the 203 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:18,680 Allies as operation Gamora the raids had 204 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:21,120 been a cold and calculated attempt to 205 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:22,079 Scorch hurg and its people from the face 206 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:26,000 of the 207 00:10:22,079 --> 00:10:29,519 Earth the plan succeeded with 13 square 208 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:32,959 miles of total Destruction the 750,000 209 00:10:29,519 --> 00:10:36,040 homeless with an estimated 60 to 100,000 210 00:10:32,959 --> 00:10:40,160 dead mostly women and children hurg for 211 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:42,880 all intents and purposes had ceased to 212 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:44,760 exist it was now clear to all that the 213 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:49,639 Allied air war against Germany had 214 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:49,639 become a war of Massacre and Terror 215 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:07,920 the pattern was repeated time and again 216 00:11:01,959 --> 00:11:11,040 across Germany Hamburg Berlin nurburg 217 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:14,360 darot cologne stutgart 218 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:17,440 verburg Munich all German cities 219 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:19,639 suffered the same after first blasting a 220 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:21,480 town to splinters the Allied bombers 221 00:11:19,639 --> 00:11:23,760 quickly returned in the hope of catching 222 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:26,120 survivors and Rescuers in the open and 223 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:28,279 igniting with firebombs all that 224 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:30,760 remained when the Roaring bombers 225 00:11:28,279 --> 00:11:34,120 released their lethal cargo a veritable 226 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:36,920 rain of fire descended upon a targeted 227 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:39,800 town the thousands of small fires would 228 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:43,639 join together to form one huge Blaze 229 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:46,680 creating an intense Vortex of wind and 230 00:11:43,639 --> 00:11:49,360 Flames I struggled to run against the 231 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:51,760 wind in the middle of the street we 232 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:54,600 couldn't go on across because the 233 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:57,880 asphalt had melted there were people on 234 00:11:54,600 --> 00:12:01,480 the roadway some already dead some still 235 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:04,920 lying alive but stuck in the asphalt 236 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:07,760 they were on their hands and knees 237 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:10,639 screaming some miraculously Survived The 238 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:14,920 Inferno reaching safety in rivers canals 239 00:12:10,639 --> 00:12:16,800 and Parks thousands more however did not 240 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:19,240 when the raids finally ended and the 241 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:21,160 firestorms began to recede rescue 242 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:23,130 workers rushed to free those still 243 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:26,680 trapped 244 00:12:23,130 --> 00:12:29,360 [Music] 245 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:31,279 Underground when Woodby Rescuers finally 246 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:33,959 broke through to buried bunkers they 247 00:12:31,279 --> 00:12:37,320 often found scenes of unimaginable 248 00:12:33,959 --> 00:12:39,920 Horror in cellers suffering direct hits 249 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:44,000 walls were a wash in blood with bone 250 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:44,000 brains and body parts splattered 251 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:49,519 everywhere Rescuers who entered some 252 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:52,680 bunkers found floors covered in up to a 253 00:12:49,519 --> 00:12:55,760 foot of Gracy fat the victims rendered 254 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:55,760 down into a dark 255 00:12:56,360 --> 00:13:01,199 liquid when word first filtered through 256 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:02,839 to the outside world of The Butchery 257 00:13:01,199 --> 00:13:04,880 being visited upon the women and 258 00:13:02,839 --> 00:13:08,560 children of Germany by the Royal Air 259 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:11,120 Force critics of these war crimes spoke 260 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:13,839 out the ruthless Mass bombing of 261 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:15,920 congested cities is as great a threat to 262 00:13:13,839 --> 00:13:18,160 the Integrity of the human spirit is 263 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:21,160 anything which has yet occurred on this 264 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:23,780 planet there is no military or political 265 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:25,480 Advantage which can justify this 266 00:13:23,780 --> 00:13:27,680 [Music] 267 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:29,760 blasphemy although it was considered 268 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:31,880 treasonous for members of the RAF to 269 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:33,880 criticize the bombing campaign the 270 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:36,440 conscience of some was overwhelmed by 271 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:38,600 the hell being Unleashed upon 272 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:41,079 Germany there were people down there 273 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:43,760 being fried to death in melted ashfeld 274 00:13:41,079 --> 00:13:45,800 in the roads they were being burnt up 275 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,040 and we were shuffling in sendry bombs 276 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,560 into this 277 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:51,320 Holocaust I felt terribly sorry for the 278 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:53,600 people in that fire I was helping to 279 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:56,600 stoke 280 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:58,600 up as a symbol of the Third Reich and as 281 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:01,480 the most obvious example of Germany's 282 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:04,399 will to on more bombs were devoted to 283 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:07,279 Berlin than any other German 284 00:14:04,399 --> 00:14:09,279 City it is another place however that 285 00:14:07,279 --> 00:14:11,240 has become most widely associated with 286 00:14:09,279 --> 00:14:14,160 the terror campaign waged against 287 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:16,759 Germany 288 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:19,600 Dresden since Dresden had suffered only 289 00:14:16,759 --> 00:14:21,720 two small raids in the 5 years of war 290 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:24,560 many assumed that the city's salvation 291 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:27,720 was due to its Irreplaceable Treasures 292 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:30,800 ornate palaces world-renowned museums 293 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:33,240 and art galleries its towering centuries 294 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:33,240 old 295 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:38,680 Cathedrals others surmised that since 296 00:14:36,079 --> 00:14:40,600 Dresden had almost no heavy industry and 297 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:43,440 what little it did have had no bearing 298 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:46,519 on the war the enemy simply did not deem 299 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,519 the city a viable 300 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:52,680 Target to some the 26,000 Allied PS 301 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:55,279 intered within the town appeared a more 302 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,279 logical 303 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:01,000 answer still others thought that perhaps 304 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:03,519 it was the estimated half million 305 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:06,040 refugees jamming the city many who had 306 00:15:03,519 --> 00:15:09,519 fled Soviet atrocities in the East that 307 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:12,160 kept Dresden safe from 308 00:15:09,519 --> 00:15:14,839 bombing despite the dire situation as 309 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:17,279 War closed in droners were determined on 310 00:15:14,839 --> 00:15:20,279 the night of February 13th to enjoy an 311 00:15:17,279 --> 00:15:22,800 annual event known in America as mardig 312 00:15:20,279 --> 00:15:25,320 but celebrated in Germany as 313 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:28,040 fashing women and children along with 314 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:29,639 the few remaining men many in costume 315 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:32,440 flooded the streets of Dresden to 316 00:15:29,639 --> 00:15:35,040 celebrate the event one last time before 317 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:38,560 Germany's looming 318 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:41,800 defeat just before 10 pm Sirens began 319 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:43,800 wailing there was no Panic most 320 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:46,319 residents simply ignored the 321 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:48,959 sounds even had there been any air raage 322 00:15:46,319 --> 00:15:51,279 shelters few would have fled to them for 323 00:15:48,959 --> 00:15:54,920 there seemed little doubt On This Cold 324 00:15:51,279 --> 00:15:57,120 Yet cheery night that like the 171 false 325 00:15:54,920 --> 00:16:00,480 alarms which had preceded it this 326 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:03,000 warning too would end in 327 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:05,600 nothing however instead of the all clear 328 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:08,079 siren a short time later Dresden heard 329 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:09,519 another sound a sound similar to a 330 00:16:08,079 --> 00:16:12,600 rolling 331 00:16:09,519 --> 00:16:15,000 earthquake as wave after wave of RAF 332 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:17,959 bombers appeared overhead thousands of 333 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,959 bombs tumbled 334 00:16:18,319 --> 00:16:24,519 down added to the normal payload of high 335 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:27,880 explosives hundreds of 2 and 4 ton 336 00:16:24,519 --> 00:16:30,800 Blockbuster bombs slammed into Dresden 337 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:33,560 obliterating entire ire neighborhoods 338 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:35,880 ancient Cathedrals palaces and museums 339 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:38,600 were reduced to Rubble within 340 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:40,440 seconds at the railroad station hundreds 341 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:42,160 of individuals who had refused to leave 342 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:45,800 their highly coveted train seats were 343 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:48,079 blown to bits at the huge indoor circus 344 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:50,319 Spectators performers and animals were 345 00:16:48,079 --> 00:16:53,120 slaughtered by blast and hissing 346 00:16:50,319 --> 00:16:56,440 shrapnel well-marked hospitals were 347 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:59,440 targeted in the streets on the sidewalks 348 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:02,120 at top the bridges over the elb river 349 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:04,880 costumed revelers with Nowhere to Run 350 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:10,000 were slain by the 351 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:10,000 thousands without letup the massacre 352 00:17:10,039 --> 00:17:16,000 continued and then the roar above ceased 353 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:17,919 the explosions stopped and there was 354 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:20,640 quiet once 355 00:17:17,919 --> 00:17:22,880 more several minutes later the welcomed 356 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:25,280 silence was broken by the even more 357 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:28,319 welcomed sound of the all clear 358 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:30,640 signal what had seemed an allight trial 359 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:34,200 by fire had actually occurred in just 360 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:36,039 under half an hour in those 30 minutes 361 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:38,440 however one of the world's most 362 00:17:36,039 --> 00:17:41,000 beautiful architectural Treasures had 363 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:41,000 all but 364 00:17:42,559 --> 00:17:48,559 vanished fire brigades from surrounding 365 00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:51,120 towns arrived Red Cross workers spread 366 00:17:48,559 --> 00:17:53,039 out to help the victims families 367 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:56,120 screamed for missing loved 368 00:17:53,039 --> 00:17:57,360 ones for many the end of the world had 369 00:17:56,120 --> 00:18:00,400 seemingly 370 00:17:57,360 --> 00:18:03,080 arrived no one however was at all 371 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:06,320 emotionally prepared for what came 372 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:09,120 next at 1:30 a.m. the Earth began to 373 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:12,000 tremble once again as more than a 374 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:15,280 thousand bombers roared overhead a rain 375 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:18,159 of death showered down on 376 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:22,360 Dresden in addition to explosives the 377 00:18:18,159 --> 00:18:25,080 second wave bought tons of incendiary 378 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:26,960 bombs in a matter of minutes the 379 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:29,720 thousands of firebombs ignited the 380 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:31,919 debris and a racing furnace of flame 381 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:34,640 erupted unfamiliar with the bombing 382 00:18:31,919 --> 00:18:35,760 raids and firestorms most droners 383 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:38,400 reacted 384 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:40,559 slowly many sought safety in sellers 385 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:44,320 again not realizing that the terrific 386 00:18:40,559 --> 00:18:46,880 heat would transform their Havens into 387 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:49,720 ovens others ran for safety through the 388 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:53,840 streets only to become mired in melting 389 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:57,039 asphalt or sucked into the Roaring 390 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:59,039 furnace copper roofs melted sending down 391 00:18:57,039 --> 00:19:01,320 streams of molten metal upon on the 392 00:18:59,039 --> 00:19:01,320 people 393 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:06,520 below throughout the night the fiery 394 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,880 hell that was dresed in claimed victims 395 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:12,840 by the thousands by the tens of 396 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:16,109 thousands and by the hundreds of 397 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:16,109 [Music] 398 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:24,480 thousands the following day when the 399 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:27,280 fires had cooled rescue workers went to 400 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:29,840 work never would I have thought that 401 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:32,200 death could come to so many people in so 402 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:34,679 many different 403 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:38,880 ways sometimes the victims looked like 404 00:19:34,679 --> 00:19:41,480 Ordinary People apparent peaceful 405 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:44,840 sleeping faces of others were racked 406 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:47,480 with pain the bodies stripped almost 407 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:50,600 naked by the 408 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:53,919 tornado there were wretched refugees 409 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:56,760 from the East clad only in rags and 410 00:19:53,919 --> 00:19:58,840 people from the Opera in all their 411 00:19:56,760 --> 00:20:02,960 finery 412 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:05,880 here the victims was a shapeless slab 413 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,880 there a layer of 414 00:20:05,919 --> 00:20:12,640 Ashes across the city along the streets 415 00:20:10,039 --> 00:20:15,200 wafted the unmistakable stench of 416 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,200 decaying 417 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:21,240 flesh indeed of all the Hideous scents 418 00:20:18,159 --> 00:20:24,280 wafting through Dresden sulfur gas 419 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:26,440 sewage the heavy stench of cooked flesh 420 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:29,039 blanketed 421 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:30,960 all what were at first mistake taken to 422 00:20:29,039 --> 00:20:33,080 be thousands of burnt logs scattered 423 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:35,720 about the streets were soon found to be 424 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:39,080 charred corpses glued to the surface 425 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:43,080 each reduced to roughly 3 426 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:45,720 ft one shape I will never forget was the 427 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:48,679 remains of what had apparently been a 428 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:51,880 mother and the child they had shriveled 429 00:20:48,679 --> 00:20:55,600 and charred into one pce and had been 430 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:58,880 stuck ridly to the asphalt they had just 431 00:20:55,600 --> 00:21:01,840 been priced up the child must have been 432 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:04,520 underneath the mother because you could 433 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:06,919 still clearly see its shape with its 434 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:09,520 mother's arms clasped around 435 00:21:06,919 --> 00:21:12,080 it aware that those in the old city 436 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:14,240 would flee the Flames to the Open Spaces 437 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:16,799 the RAF had hurled hundreds of high 438 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:20,679 explosive bombs into the huge Central 439 00:21:16,799 --> 00:21:24,240 Park here the slaughter was ghastly torn 440 00:21:20,679 --> 00:21:27,039 off limbs mutilated torsos heads blown 441 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:28,940 from their bodies and hurled away the 442 00:21:27,039 --> 00:21:31,679 nightmare was everywhere 443 00:21:28,940 --> 00:21:34,080 [Music] 444 00:21:31,679 --> 00:21:36,440 I went down on my knees trembled and 445 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:39,320 cried several women laid there with 446 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:41,600 their bellies burst open and one could 447 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:44,720 see the babies for they were hanging 448 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:47,919 half outside many of the babies were 449 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:50,440 mutilated seems like that one I saw 450 00:21:47,919 --> 00:21:54,840 everywhere and very slowly one became 451 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:54,840 numbed one acted like a 452 00:21:55,039 --> 00:21:59,200 zombie the next morning words spread 453 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:02,039 that survivors should assemble in the 454 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:04,000 city park as the suffering Mass climbed 455 00:22:02,039 --> 00:22:05,960 over the debris and the dead they 456 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,679 reached the park as well as the grassy 457 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:13,080 banks of the elb some found missing 458 00:22:08,679 --> 00:22:16,919 loved ones most however did 459 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:20,400 not and then shattering the calm came 460 00:22:16,919 --> 00:22:23,039 the sounds once more the Roar of engines 461 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:25,120 overhead as us bombers began blasting 462 00:22:23,039 --> 00:22:27,000 the rubble to dust American fighter 463 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:29,640 planes zeroed in on the thousands of 464 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:32,480 refugees at the park along the river and 465 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:35,480 in other Open 466 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:37,320 Spaces even zoo animals which had 467 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:40,440 miraculously managed to survive the 468 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:43,000 bombing raids were strafed and 469 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:45,039 slaughtered a weeping zookeeper watched 470 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,799 as an American pilot chased down and 471 00:22:45,039 --> 00:22:50,679 shot his last remaining 472 00:22:47,799 --> 00:22:53,120 giraffe although the raid lasted only 10 473 00:22:50,679 --> 00:22:57,679 minutes the Americans returned the next 474 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:59,799 day and the next and the next seemingly 475 00:22:57,679 --> 00:23:01,600 determined that not a single living 476 00:22:59,799 --> 00:23:04,080 thing should survive in 477 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:06,080 Dresden one of the horrors for those who 478 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:09,000 had survived the nightmare was recovery 479 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:11,080 of the Dead initially bodies were 480 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:13,159 pitched forked onto trucks and wagons 481 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:15,360 and then taken to shallow Graves on the 482 00:23:13,159 --> 00:23:17,919 outskirts of 483 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:19,760 Dresden it soon became clear that such a 484 00:23:17,919 --> 00:23:22,760 slow process could never handle the 485 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:24,640 enormous amount of bodies so huge grills 486 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:26,720 were fashioned from girds in various 487 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,919 parts of town and corpses were stacked 488 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,960 on them like logs 489 00:23:28,919 --> 00:23:33,600 when the piles reached roughly 10 ft 490 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:36,600 high and 30 ft wide flamethrowers were 491 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,600 used to ignite the 492 00:23:37,919 --> 00:23:42,760 mass one month after the massacre The 493 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:45,600 Dresden chief of police reported that 494 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:48,720 over 200,000 bodies had been recovered 495 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:51,600 from the ruins later the International 496 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:55,080 Red Cross estimated that 497 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:57,039 275,000 had died in the raids because of 498 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:58,799 the incredible density of dresden's 499 00:23:57,039 --> 00:24:01,840 population on the night of February uary 500 00:23:58,799 --> 00:24:04,559 13th through the 14th because thousands 501 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:06,200 of victims were refugees with no records 502 00:24:04,559 --> 00:24:08,000 and because many bodies either lay 503 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,559 buried forever in the ruins or had 504 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:12,880 simply melted like Wax other estimates 505 00:24:10,559 --> 00:24:17,120 which place the death toll at 300,000 to 506 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:17,120 400,000 May well be closer to the 507 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:21,679 mark more people died during the 508 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,840 firebombing of Dresden than during the 509 00:24:21,679 --> 00:24:26,840 nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and 510 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:29,440 Nagasaki 511 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:32,039 combined to just over it without 512 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:33,690 opposition felt like murder I felt it 513 00:24:32,039 --> 00:24:35,360 was a cowardly 514 00:24:33,690 --> 00:24:37,840 [Music] 515 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:39,960 War working in tandem with the terror 516 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:44,039 bombing of German cities was the targets 517 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:44,039 of opportunity policy upon the 518 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:48,880 countryside under this order anything 519 00:24:47,039 --> 00:24:53,640 moving in the Reich was fair game for 520 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:56,600 Allied fighter planes ships trucks cars 521 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:59,640 trains ambulances women shopping on 522 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:02,760 bicycles farmers and Fields animals and 523 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:06,080 pastures even children in schoolyards 524 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,080 were targets of Allied 525 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:13,640 aircraft in a flagrant attempt to widen 526 00:25:10,919 --> 00:25:16,440 the war American bombers even attacked 527 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:17,360 zorich basil and other Targets in 528 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,600 neutral 529 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:21,799 Switzerland additionally Winston 530 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:24,240 Churchill made plans to saturate German 531 00:25:21,799 --> 00:25:26,200 cities with poison gas and killed those 532 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:28,720 women and children yet alive amid the 533 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,760 rubble when advisers pointed doubt that 534 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:33,120 Adolf Hitler might reply in kind with 535 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:35,440 his own stockpiles of chemical weapons 536 00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:37,919 the murderous plan was 537 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,799 shelved meanwhile the hell raining from 538 00:25:37,919 --> 00:25:42,799 the clouds mirrored an ongoing hell 539 00:25:39,799 --> 00:25:45,480 rising from the mud as Germans soon came 540 00:25:42,799 --> 00:25:47,600 to realize the Allied Powers sought not 541 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,720 only the physical destruction of Germany 542 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:52,880 but the spiritual Massacre of the nation 543 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,880 as well 544 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:08,279 the evil swept in from the East there 545 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:10,200 were constant rumors and hints about 546 00:26:08,279 --> 00:26:13,520 what might be expected should the Soviet 547 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:14,919 Union overrun Germany most Germans 548 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,919 however remained 549 00:26:14,919 --> 00:26:20,000 hopeful such Notions of Asiatic hordes 550 00:26:17,919 --> 00:26:22,720 many felt were merely the government's 551 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:25,880 attempt to harden their will to 552 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:28,600 resist thus it was that on the night of 553 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:30,679 October 20th 1944 554 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,520 as the village of nammer dorf and other 555 00:26:30,679 --> 00:26:36,000 communities nearest the front slept in 556 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:38,399 imagined security the unthinkable 557 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:41,000 occurred after punching a hole through 558 00:26:38,399 --> 00:26:43,240 the German line the Red Army suddenly 559 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,279 burst into the Reich and swarmed over 560 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,600 the 561 00:26:44,279 --> 00:26:48,880 countryside after several days of 562 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,919 desperate fighting the German verm 563 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,240 regrouped launched a furious 564 00:26:50,919 --> 00:26:56,600 Counterattack and eventually drove the 565 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:59,279 Red Army across the border what German 566 00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:01,679 troops soon found was was 567 00:26:59,279 --> 00:27:04,320 staggering it was at Neer storf where 568 00:27:01,679 --> 00:27:07,480 stunned soldiers first viewed hell on 569 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:09,640 Earth along the roads fleeing refugees 570 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,880 had been overtaken by the 571 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:15,620 Communists the people were pulled from 572 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:17,159 their carts raped then murdered on the 573 00:27:15,620 --> 00:27:20,080 [Music] 574 00:27:17,159 --> 00:27:23,600 spot in the farmyard further down the 575 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:26,039 road stood a card to which four naked 576 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:29,279 women were nailed through their hands in 577 00:27:26,039 --> 00:27:32,600 a cruciform position 578 00:27:29,279 --> 00:27:35,279 Beyond stood a barn and to each of its 579 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:38,360 two doors a naked woman was nailed 580 00:27:35,279 --> 00:27:41,720 through the hands in a crucified 581 00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:45,519 posture in the dwellings we found a 582 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:50,039 total of 72 women including 583 00:27:45,519 --> 00:27:52,440 children and one old man 584 00:27:50,039 --> 00:27:56,679 74 all 585 00:27:52,440 --> 00:28:01,480 dead all murdered in a bestial 586 00:27:56,679 --> 00:28:04,399 manner except only a few who had bullet 587 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,399 holes in their 588 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:12,840 necks some babies had their heads dashed 589 00:28:08,940 --> 00:28:17,159 [Music] 590 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:19,840 in in one room we found a woman 84 years 591 00:28:17,159 --> 00:28:24,600 old sitting on a 592 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:30,120 sofa half of whose head had been shared 593 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:30,120 off with an axe or a spade 594 00:28:30,799 --> 00:28:35,279 old men who had tried to protect their 595 00:28:32,679 --> 00:28:38,000 wives daughters and granddaughters were 596 00:28:35,279 --> 00:28:41,399 themselves knocked down then sawed in 597 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:43,200 half 50 French PS and polish workers who 598 00:28:41,399 --> 00:28:46,440 had instinctively stepped in to protect 599 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:49,000 the people were castrated and 600 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:51,360 killed staggered by the enormity of the 601 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:54,000 crime German authorities requested that 602 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:56,240 neutral observers from Spain Sweden and 603 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:59,399 Switzerland view the sickening Carnage 604 00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:01,320 close up however when the visitors filed 605 00:28:59,399 --> 00:29:05,519 their reports and word finally reached 606 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:08,799 the outside world there was only 607 00:29:05,519 --> 00:29:10,720 Silence by the winter of 1944 The 608 00:29:08,799 --> 00:29:12,840 Vicious propaganda war waged against 609 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:15,840 Germany had been 610 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:18,080 won by that late stage of the conflict 611 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:20,240 the war of words had reached such evil 612 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,960 extremes that few individuals beyond the 613 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:24,399 reich's borders were concerned about 614 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:27,000 brained German babies or crucified 615 00:29:24,399 --> 00:29:29,279 German women by the final months of the 616 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:32,240 war the enemy to be destroyed was not 617 00:29:29,279 --> 00:29:35,039 merely Adolf Hitler the Nazi party or 618 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:37,279 even the soldiers in the field by the 619 00:29:35,039 --> 00:29:39,679 final months of the war the aim of the 620 00:29:37,279 --> 00:29:42,480 approaching allies was nothing less than 621 00:29:39,679 --> 00:29:44,279 the utter extinction of the German 622 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:48,519 Nation every 623 00:29:44,279 --> 00:29:51,240 man every woman every 624 00:29:48,519 --> 00:29:54,640 child fueling the Flames of hate was the 625 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:56,720 Jewish propagandist Ilia aronberg one of 626 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:59,320 the most influential men in the Soviet 627 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:01,360 Union aronberg made sure his message of 628 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:03,440 evil reached every soldier in the Red 629 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,360 Army by ordering that leaflets be 630 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:11,279 dropped from airplanes onto the front 631 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:13,840 lines kill them all men old men children 632 00:30:11,279 --> 00:30:17,360 and the women after you have amused 633 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:20,799 yourself with them kill nothing in 634 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:22,120 Germany is Guiltless neither the living 635 00:30:20,799 --> 00:30:25,320 nor the yet 636 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:28,840 unborn break the racial Pride of the 637 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:32,720 German woman take her as you legitimate 638 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:36,279 booty kill you brave Soldiers of the 639 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:36,279 Victorious Soviet 640 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:42,279 Army soon as the Red Army forced the 641 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:44,399 Vermont back in the East millions of 642 00:30:42,279 --> 00:30:48,320 German civilians suffered the same 643 00:30:44,399 --> 00:30:48,320 ghastly fate as the victims of 644 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:53,720 nemor although first encounters with 645 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:55,519 Soviet shock troops were truly traumatic 646 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:58,760 it was the second wave of soldiers who 647 00:30:55,519 --> 00:31:01,519 delivered hell on Earth in numerous 648 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:03,360 instances before troops pushed on they 649 00:31:01,519 --> 00:31:06,760 turned to the helpless civilians and 650 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:10,000 warned the Mongols are coming very bman 651 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:10,000 you go quick go 652 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:17,600 quick terrified by the news many Germans 653 00:31:14,519 --> 00:31:18,880 did attempt to flee most however found 654 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,399 themselves 655 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:23,679 trapped other than destroy liquor and 656 00:31:21,399 --> 00:31:25,159 hide young girls most could only watch 657 00:31:23,679 --> 00:31:26,279 the clock and pray that their worst 658 00:31:25,159 --> 00:31:29,240 fears were 659 00:31:26,279 --> 00:31:31,600 unfounded after a wait of sometimes days 660 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:33,200 but normally hours the dreaded second 661 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:36,039 wave 662 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:38,639 arrived composed largely of Mongols and 663 00:31:36,039 --> 00:31:40,480 other Asians as well as convicts these 664 00:31:38,639 --> 00:31:43,399 men who formed the second wave of troops 665 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:45,320 were regarded even by their own comrades 666 00:31:43,399 --> 00:31:47,559 as utterly 667 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:49,720 merciless leading this group were the 668 00:31:47,559 --> 00:31:51,919 communist commissars the fanatical 669 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:55,120 political officers composed almost 670 00:31:51,919 --> 00:31:57,120 exclusively of Jews these hate-filled 671 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:59,039 individuals acted as the more than 672 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,919 willing orchest ators of the horrors 673 00:31:59,039 --> 00:32:03,440 that befell the German 674 00:32:00,919 --> 00:32:05,679 people of all the methods used to 675 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:08,070 express its hatred the Red Army said it 676 00:32:05,679 --> 00:32:10,159 best with 677 00:32:08,070 --> 00:32:13,000 [Music] 678 00:32:10,159 --> 00:32:15,240 rape and when the first Russians came 679 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:17,919 the combat troops they came in and 680 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:20,240 wanted to see everything asked about 681 00:32:17,919 --> 00:32:23,320 weapons and soldiers looked at 682 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:25,360 everything closely didn't find anything 683 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:28,360 and were very friendly and then just 684 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,360 left 685 00:32:28,639 --> 00:32:33,919 and then the next lot 686 00:32:31,399 --> 00:32:35,000 arrived the next one took me outside 687 00:32:33,919 --> 00:32:37,720 straight 688 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:41,440 away my mother wanted to throw herself 689 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:44,600 in front of me but she was pushed 690 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:47,279 back and then they took me upstairs and 691 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:49,200 as I tried to defend myself he showed me 692 00:32:47,279 --> 00:32:52,960 his 693 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:54,440 gun and then when I came back down I was 694 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,880 well shocked 695 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:59,679 and but I was just happy that I was 696 00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:02,120 still alive 697 00:32:59,679 --> 00:33:05,720 they said woman come they said it in 698 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,720 German FR in 699 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:11,200 German we were the prize it was always 700 00:33:09,399 --> 00:33:15,320 like 701 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:19,360 that from 8 to 80 years old healthy or 702 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:23,240 ill indoors or out in fields on 703 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:25,799 sidewalks against walls the defilement 704 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:28,120 torture and murder of German women 705 00:33:25,799 --> 00:33:30,000 continued unabated 706 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:32,519 merely because a female had been raped 707 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:37,880 once was also no guarantee she would not 708 00:33:32,519 --> 00:33:41,120 be assaulted again and again and 709 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:45,399 again the Russians were coming and going 710 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:48,000 the whole time they kept eyeing us 711 00:33:45,399 --> 00:33:51,159 greedily the nights were Dreadful 712 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:54,360 because we were never safe for a moment 713 00:33:51,159 --> 00:33:58,559 the women were raped not once or twice 714 00:33:54,360 --> 00:34:01,519 but 10 20 30 and 100 times 715 00:33:58,559 --> 00:34:05,039 and if us all the same to the Russians 716 00:34:01,519 --> 00:34:07,799 whether they raped mere children or old 717 00:34:05,039 --> 00:34:11,599 women the youngest victim in the Raw 718 00:34:07,799 --> 00:34:16,599 houses where we lived was 10 years of 719 00:34:11,599 --> 00:34:19,560 age and the oldest one was over 720 00:34:16,599 --> 00:34:21,839 70 the women of Germany not only had to 721 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:24,720 endure this onslaught of rape torture 722 00:34:21,839 --> 00:34:26,520 and murder but also the humiliation of 723 00:34:24,720 --> 00:34:28,040 having it witnessed by friends and 724 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:30,760 family 725 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:33,079 these atrocity mothers were raped in the 726 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:35,320 presence of their children girls were 727 00:34:33,079 --> 00:34:37,679 raped in front of their brothers when 728 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:41,159 even violated corpses could no longer be 729 00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:42,960 of use sticks iron bars and telephone 730 00:34:41,159 --> 00:34:44,760 receivers were commonly rammed into 731 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:47,560 their 732 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:50,599 vaginas Jewish commissars had a special 733 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:53,320 desire to defile the churches of Germany 734 00:34:50,599 --> 00:34:55,159 soon after the fall of Danzig hundreds 735 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:57,760 of desperate females pleaded with an 736 00:34:55,159 --> 00:35:00,560 officer for protection the Soviet 737 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:02,880 pointed to a Catholic Cathedral after 738 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:05,680 the women were safely inside the officer 739 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:07,800 yelled to his men pointed to the church 740 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:11,839 and with bells ringing and organ pipes 741 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:14,400 roaring the horror continued all night 742 00:35:11,839 --> 00:35:16,720 some women and girls inside some as 743 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:20,200 young as 8 years old were raped more 744 00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:23,240 than 30 times little boys who tried to 745 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:26,000 Shield their mothers were 746 00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:28,880 shocked when Soviet soldiers captured 747 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:31,800 the city of neweton in February 748 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:34,320 1945 they discovered several large camps 749 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:36,640 of the women's Reich Labor Service an 750 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:38,440 organization composed mostly of girls 751 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:41,119 who worked on various projects from 752 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:43,800 nursing to Street repair after 753 00:35:41,119 --> 00:35:45,599 recapturing the area the German soldiers 754 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:48,720 were horrified by what had happened to 755 00:35:45,599 --> 00:35:48,720 the 2500 756 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:59,079 females we had never seen anything like 757 00:35:54,680 --> 00:36:01,839 it utterly and unbelievably monstrous 758 00:35:59,079 --> 00:36:06,119 naked dead women lay in many of the 759 00:36:01,839 --> 00:36:09,720 rooms sostic has been cut into the 760 00:36:06,119 --> 00:36:12,440 abdomen and some the intestines bulged 761 00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:15,760 out breasts were caught 762 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:18,280 up faces beaten to a PP and swollen 763 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:20,599 puffy others had been tied to the 764 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:22,720 furniture by their hands and feet and 765 00:36:20,599 --> 00:36:25,640 massacred a broomstick protruded from 766 00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:28,560 the vagina of one a bom from that of 767 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:30,599 another some mothers had the witness how 768 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:33,359 that 10 and 12-year-old daughters were 769 00:36:30,599 --> 00:36:36,200 raped by some 20 men the daughters in 770 00:36:33,359 --> 00:36:38,520 turn saw their mothers being raped even 771 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,520 Z 772 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:43,680 grandmothers women who tried to resist 773 00:36:41,319 --> 00:36:45,960 were brutally tortured to death there 774 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:48,880 was no 775 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:51,599 mercy so women we liberated were in a 776 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:54,160 state almost impossible to describe 777 00:36:51,599 --> 00:36:56,440 their faces had a confused vacant look 778 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:58,640 some were Beyond speaking to ran up and 779 00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:01,200 down and moan the same sentences over 780 00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,200 and over 781 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:07,359 again having seen the consequences these 782 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:10,160 Beal atrocities we were terribly 783 00:37:07,359 --> 00:37:12,960 agitated and determined to fight we knew 784 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:15,400 as war was past Ving but it was our 785 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:17,640 obligation and sacred duty to fight to 786 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:20,599 the very last 787 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:22,960 bullet while its men fought furiously in 788 00:37:20,599 --> 00:37:25,640 the East Germany was also trying to 789 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:27,680 Stave off Invasion from the West 790 00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,640 unfortunately the Invaders on the this 791 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:32,200 front often did not behave any better 792 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:34,119 than their Soviet allies Battlefield 793 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:37,280 newsmen to the West simply did not 794 00:37:34,119 --> 00:37:39,520 report the crimes as tens of thousands 795 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:41,240 of German raped victims could attest 796 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:43,000 there was no safety among the American 797 00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:45,200 and 798 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:49,160 British Millions 799 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:52,680 massacred Millions raped Millions 800 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:56,920 already enslaved but this was only the 801 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:56,920 beginning of Germany's nightmare 802 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:12,480 with the German Army in headlong Retreat 803 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:14,319 hordes of red soldiers swarmed into 804 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:16,480 great Germany during the last winter of 805 00:38:14,319 --> 00:38:16,480 the 806 00:38:16,599 --> 00:38:22,240 war as word of the Soviet breakthrough 807 00:38:19,319 --> 00:38:24,200 spread millions of Germans hly packed 808 00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:27,520 and fled into the freezing 809 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:30,119 weather most merely packed Farm carts 810 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:32,560 itched horses or cows and set off as 811 00:38:30,119 --> 00:38:36,040 fast as their animals would take 812 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:39,200 them already bitterly cold several days 813 00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:42,160 after the TS began the temperature 814 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:44,040 plunged as a result little children and 815 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:47,000 infants dropped by the 816 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:49,160 thousands with the Earth hard as rock 817 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,640 tiny holes dug in the snow Banks served 818 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:55,200 as 819 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:59,400 Graves it was so terribly cold and the 820 00:38:55,200 --> 00:39:03,119 vent was like ice so snow was falling 821 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:06,200 and nothing warm to eat no mil and 822 00:39:03,119 --> 00:39:09,040 nothing I tried to give Gabby the breast 823 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:12,880 behind the house but she didn't take it 824 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:15,160 because everything was so 825 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:18,160 cold 826 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:18,160 many 827 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:23,960 some given the chaotic conditions and 828 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:26,119 with freezing refugees clogging the way 829 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:29,319 many tracks were quickly overhauled by 830 00:39:26,119 --> 00:39:31,440 the Russians some Soviet tanks crashed 831 00:39:29,319 --> 00:39:34,920 straight through the columns squashing 832 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:39,200 all in their path after heavy traffic 833 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:42,760 the victims men women children animals 834 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:45,200 all were pressed together as flat as 835 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,920 cardboard those terrified survivors who 836 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:49,599 had scattered to the icy Countryside 837 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,599 fell easy 838 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:57,720 prey as always for the females the 839 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:57,720 living death soon began 840 00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:04,040 for millions of Germans cut off on the 841 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:07,160 Baltic Coast only one Avenue of Escape 842 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:07,160 remained the 843 00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:13,200 sea as isolated ver moed units 844 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:16,200 desperately defended their shrinking 845 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:18,920 Baltic Beach heads millions of refugees 846 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:21,400 poured into the coastal enclaves with 847 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:23,839 their backs literally to the Sea only 848 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:28,040 the slow and treacherous evacuation by 849 00:40:23,839 --> 00:40:32,359 boat was an option consequently at memo 850 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:36,240 kbur danzik and other besieged cauldrons 851 00:40:32,359 --> 00:40:39,319 the situation was appalling every alley 852 00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:42,000 every street was packed with their 853 00:40:39,319 --> 00:40:45,200 vehicles people were waiting in every 854 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:47,640 harbored in every wind sheltered Corner 855 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:50,839 among them stood their beasts bleeding 856 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:52,839 snorting blowing the pregnant women 857 00:40:50,839 --> 00:40:55,400 giving birth somewhere in a corner on 858 00:40:52,839 --> 00:40:58,000 the ground in a 859 00:40:55,400 --> 00:41:00,960 Barrack some of them had been raped on 860 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:04,880 their flight and now they were trembling 861 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:07,920 for fear they would give birth to a 862 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:10,440 monster the strangely pale faces of 863 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:14,280 girls going up and down the streets 864 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:18,400 asking for a doctor the wounded and the 865 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:20,920 sick in constant fear they would be left 866 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:22,760 behind concealing weapons under their 867 00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:26,839 blankets to force someone to take them 868 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:27,630 along or to end their own lives if the 869 00:41:26,839 --> 00:41:28,960 Russian 870 00:41:27,630 --> 00:41:31,079 [Music] 871 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:33,560 came the 872 00:41:31,079 --> 00:41:34,720 orphans who had been saved from the 873 00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:37,319 Asylum 874 00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:39,200 somewhere at the last moment and tossed 875 00:41:37,319 --> 00:41:41,880 onto cards with nothing around them but 876 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:43,839 a blanket and who were now lying on the 877 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:47,280 floors with frozen 878 00:41:43,839 --> 00:41:51,440 limbs the old people who had laay down 879 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:55,800 in some doorway at night and had not 880 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:58,760 awakened and the Wildey insane 881 00:41:55,800 --> 00:42:01,800 ones who r rushed from house to house 882 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:04,000 from wagon to Wagon crying for their 883 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:09,440 mothers or the 884 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:11,359 children over it all the gray sky snow 885 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:16,240 Frost and 886 00:42:11,359 --> 00:42:19,800 thaw and thaw and frost and snow and the 887 00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:19,800 chill killing 888 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:26,240 wet when a long sought vessel finally 889 00:42:23,839 --> 00:42:28,800 tied up and lowered the walkways 890 00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:31,200 pandemonium erupted on the 891 00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:33,119 docks because of an order granting 892 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:36,359 priority to those with children the 893 00:42:33,119 --> 00:42:39,400 latter became more valuable than 894 00:42:36,359 --> 00:42:41,480 gold once adults had boarded they often 895 00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:44,960 tossed infants to relatives or friends 896 00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:47,200 Below in hopes they might also bored 897 00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:49,240 many babies died of course either 898 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:51,850 falling into the freezing water or 899 00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:54,440 smashing onto the docks 900 00:42:51,850 --> 00:42:57,920 [Music] 901 00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:59,980 below nearby terribly wounded soldiers 902 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:02,000 quietly awaited their turn to 903 00:42:59,980 --> 00:43:04,400 [Music] 904 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:09,000 board for those who sailed from the 905 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:09,000 besieged ports their prayers appeared 906 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:15,240 answered for those left standing behind 907 00:43:13,319 --> 00:43:19,319 their Doom seemed 908 00:43:15,240 --> 00:43:22,760 sealed many men in a surge of Madness 909 00:43:19,319 --> 00:43:24,960 shot themselves crazed mothers with 910 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:27,119 starvation gnawing and the Red Terror 911 00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:30,520 looming found Cyanide and poison 912 00:43:27,119 --> 00:43:32,599 poisoned their children then themselves 913 00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:36,000 old people merely crawled into snow 914 00:43:32,599 --> 00:43:38,760 Banks fell asleep and never 915 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:41,200 awoke unfortunately for thousands of 916 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:44,640 refugees there was no escaping the 917 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:47,160 nightmare even at 918 00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:49,079 Sea while many Refugee ships 919 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:51,440 successfully traversed the treacherous 920 00:43:49,079 --> 00:43:53,030 Baltic Allied bombers were often the 921 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:55,760 first to greet them when they 922 00:43:53,030 --> 00:43:59,040 [Music] 923 00:43:55,760 --> 00:44:00,720 docked as wi aunda in Northern Germany 924 00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:03,480 the arrival of a frighter loaded with 925 00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:06,480 evacuees coincided almost exactly with 926 00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:08,720 an Allied air raid hardly had the ship 927 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:11,640 docked when a direct hit sent it to the 928 00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:13,530 bottom taking 2,000 screaming passengers 929 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:17,880 with 930 00:44:13,530 --> 00:44:20,960 [Music] 931 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:24,440 it on January 30th 932 00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:27,160 1945 over 60,000 refugees crowded the 933 00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:29,800 docks of Goten hoffen desperately trying 934 00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:31,800 to board the vilhelm gustoff a former 935 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:35,240 Cruise liner designed to accommodate 936 00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:37,079 2,000 passengers and crew by the time 937 00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:40,800 the beautiful white Ship cast off she 938 00:44:37,079 --> 00:44:43,200 had taken on as many as 6 to 8,000 939 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:45,359 refugees as the goose slof backed away 940 00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:47,720 from the port her path was blocked by 941 00:44:45,359 --> 00:44:50,839 smaller craft all jammed with passengers 942 00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:52,960 begging to come aboard Nets were lowered 943 00:44:50,839 --> 00:44:56,160 and an additional 2,000 refugees 944 00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:58,480 scrambled up strained far beyond its 945 00:44:56,160 --> 00:45:01,880 limits the tightly sealed ship filled 946 00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:04,400 with a hot nauseating stench of urine 947 00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:07,280 excrement and 948 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:09,760 vomit the groans of severely wounded 949 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:12,119 soldiers and the screams of separated 950 00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:16,540 families added to the ghastly 951 00:45:12,119 --> 00:45:18,559 horror but the worst was yet to 952 00:45:16,540 --> 00:45:21,839 [Music] 953 00:45:18,559 --> 00:45:24,680 come at approximately 900 p.m three 954 00:45:21,839 --> 00:45:26,960 heavy thuds rocked the goose LOF Panic 955 00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:28,760 stricken thousands below deck stamped 956 00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:31,319 heated through the narrow passageways 957 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:34,400 crushing and clawing in a mad attempt to 958 00:45:31,319 --> 00:45:36,720 reach safety most lifeboats were frozen 959 00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:39,160 solid and even those that could be freed 960 00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:41,200 were mishandled in the Panic spilling 961 00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:42,079 their screaming occupants into the icy 962 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:44,920 black 963 00:45:42,079 --> 00:45:47,200 sea within a few minutes those in the 964 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:49,760 water were 965 00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:51,960 dead while thousands of freezing people 966 00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:54,200 pressed along the decks loud speakers 967 00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:56,319 blured words of comfort assuring 968 00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:59,319 passengers that the ship would not sink 969 00:45:56,319 --> 00:46:01,400 and help was on the way convinced that 970 00:45:59,319 --> 00:46:04,160 the sealed bulkheads had held and that 971 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:06,319 indeed the ship would remain afloat many 972 00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:08,559 refugees fled indoors once more to 973 00:46:06,319 --> 00:46:10,960 escape the razor sharp winds and Theus 974 00:46:08,559 --> 00:46:14,500 20° 975 00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:18,119 temperature the rest bit proved brief 976 00:46:14,500 --> 00:46:18,119 [Music] 977 00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:23,280 however at 10:00 a heavy Tremor ripped 978 00:46:21,240 --> 00:46:26,559 the goose LOF as the bulkheads broke and 979 00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:29,040 the Sea rushed in within seconds the big 980 00:46:26,559 --> 00:46:30,350 ship began to roll on its side then 981 00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:33,400 plunged beneath the 982 00:46:30,350 --> 00:46:36,079 [Music] 983 00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:37,839 waves when rescue ships later reached 984 00:46:36,079 --> 00:46:41,720 the scene they pulled from the icy 985 00:46:37,839 --> 00:46:45,160 waters a mere 900 survivors all else 986 00:46:41,720 --> 00:46:48,480 roughly 7 to 9,000 men women and 987 00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:48,480 children were 988 00:46:50,359 --> 00:46:55,520 lost as many more incidents would prove 989 00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:58,760 the sinking of the goose sloft was no 990 00:46:55,520 --> 00:47:01,280 mistake in a deliberate attempt to kill 991 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:03,400 as many refugees as possible Soviet 992 00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:04,720 submarines struck again and again at the 993 00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:07,640 slow moving 994 00:47:04,720 --> 00:47:10,480 ships soon after midnight on February 995 00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:13,640 10th an old luxury liner the general 996 00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:15,760 stuben was plowing through the icy black 997 00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:18,160 Baltic heavily weighed down with 998 00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,960 refugees and wounded soldiers the ship 999 00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:22,960 was in the midst of its second such 1000 00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:25,920 evacuation in less than a fortnite just 1001 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:28,240 before 1:00 a.m. two Torpedoes slammed 1002 00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:30,720 into the ship's side 1003 00:47:28,240 --> 00:47:33,240 as the sten's stern Rose High out of the 1004 00:47:30,720 --> 00:47:35,240 water hundreds leaped overboard 1005 00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:36,960 including some who were Torn to Pieces 1006 00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:39,680 by the still turning 1007 00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:41,920 propellers within 7 Minutes the ship 1008 00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:44,000 plunged beneath the waves swiftly 1009 00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:46,440 silencing a final Mass scream that 1010 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:50,040 seemed to arise from a single 1011 00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:53,230 voice of the 3500 passengers aboard only 1012 00:47:50,040 --> 00:48:00,440 a few hundred survived 1013 00:47:53,230 --> 00:48:02,319 [Music] 1014 00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:05,240 like some great wild animal the Red Army 1015 00:48:02,319 --> 00:48:06,960 moved closer to the heart of Germany in 1016 00:48:05,240 --> 00:48:09,720 countless German cities and towns the 1017 00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:11,240 pattern repeated itself the bloody 1018 00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:13,119 nightmare which enveloped the Baltic 1019 00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:15,520 Coast was typical of that which 1020 00:48:13,119 --> 00:48:16,760 transpired wherever the Soviets occupied 1021 00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:21,520 German 1022 00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:23,920 soil in many places cicia Prussia 1023 00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:26,920 Pomerania in the German communities of 1024 00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:29,200 Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia Poland and 1025 00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:32,000 hungry a similar horror had been in 1026 00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:35,040 progress for weeks there the Gastly 1027 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:36,960 atrocities actually increased as if red 1028 00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:40,880 soldiers were in a mad race with one 1029 00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:43,800 another to see who could destroy murder 1030 00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:45,680 and above all who could rape the most 1031 00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,359 meanwhile the American and British 1032 00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:50,200 forces punched through the German lines 1033 00:48:47,359 --> 00:48:53,200 in the west unlike the East Front 1034 00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:55,559 however German soldiers were well aware 1035 00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:57,680 that the foes they faced in the west 1036 00:48:55,559 --> 00:49:00,559 were signatories of the 1037 00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:02,559 convention under this agreement captured 1038 00:49:00,559 --> 00:49:03,960 or surrendering German soldiers were 1039 00:49:02,559 --> 00:49:06,319 protected by 1040 00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:08,400 law with the Red Army roaring across 1041 00:49:06,319 --> 00:49:10,400 Germany from the East many Germans 1042 00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:12,640 secretly hoped that the Americans might 1043 00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:15,799 occupy what remained of the Reich before 1044 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:18,119 the Communists did it was no secret that 1045 00:49:15,799 --> 00:49:21,040 Germans high and low considered the 1046 00:49:18,119 --> 00:49:24,280 Americans and British the lesser of two 1047 00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:27,280 evils Unfortunately they were not always 1048 00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,280 right 1049 00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:37,000 in the spring of 1050 00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:39,680 1945 as berliners prepared to defend the 1051 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:42,000 capital from the encircling Soviet Army 1052 00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:44,240 Germans to the West also fought to Halt 1053 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:47,240 the Allied 1054 00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:50,520 tide unlike the howling savagery to the 1055 00:49:47,240 --> 00:49:53,440 east fraught with nightmarish ferocity 1056 00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:55,839 defeat in the west came methodically 1057 00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:57,160 relentlessly and judged by the standards 1058 00:49:55,839 --> 00:50:00,440 of the East 1059 00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:03,240 almost silently as the Western Front 1060 00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:06,240 crept closer civilians anxiously awaited 1061 00:50:03,240 --> 00:50:08,839 the Allied arrival unlike the terrified 1062 00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:11,359 trekers to the east relatively few 1063 00:50:08,839 --> 00:50:14,200 Germans in the west abandoned their 1064 00:50:11,359 --> 00:50:16,799 homes the racial and cultural ties with 1065 00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:18,839 the Enemy particularly the Americans 1066 00:50:16,799 --> 00:50:22,359 were simply too strong to arouse the 1067 00:50:18,839 --> 00:50:22,359 same Terror as the Soviets 1068 00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:28,119 did far from fleeing the advancing 1069 00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:30,960 allies many civilians actually ran to 1070 00:50:28,119 --> 00:50:32,920 greet them little did the Germans 1071 00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:35,480 realize that because of a decade of 1072 00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:39,770 Jewish propaganda the Americans were 1073 00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:41,440 perhaps even more hate filled than the 1074 00:50:39,770 --> 00:50:44,040 [Music] 1075 00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:46,680 Soviets unlike the Wild and almost 1076 00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:48,520 unimaginable Red Army US military 1077 00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:49,960 commanders might have easily prevented 1078 00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:52,760 crimes committed against helpless 1079 00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:57,000 civilians had they only willed it in 1080 00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:58,640 most cases however they did not 1081 00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:01,559 leading the charge against the German 1082 00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:03,599 people was General Dwight D Eisenhower a 1083 00:51:01,559 --> 00:51:06,760 man whose hatred of all things German 1084 00:51:03,599 --> 00:51:09,079 was well known in much the same vein as 1085 00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:11,359 Stalin and Roosevelt Eisenhower 1086 00:51:09,079 --> 00:51:14,359 advocated the outright Massacre of 1087 00:51:11,359 --> 00:51:16,079 German army officers Nazi Party members 1088 00:51:14,359 --> 00:51:19,000 and 1089 00:51:16,079 --> 00:51:21,599 others in all according to the Allied 1090 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:24,559 Commander at least 100,000 German 1091 00:51:21,599 --> 00:51:27,240 leaders should be 1092 00:51:24,559 --> 00:51:29,720 exterminated not surprisingly such 1093 00:51:27,240 --> 00:51:32,520 sentiment from above quickly filtered 1094 00:51:29,720 --> 00:51:35,079 down the only good German is a dead 1095 00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:37,640 German became the pervasive sentiment 1096 00:51:35,079 --> 00:51:40,359 take no prisoners was the tacit 1097 00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:42,240 understanding by the tens of thousands 1098 00:51:40,359 --> 00:51:44,599 captured or surrendering Germans were 1099 00:51:42,240 --> 00:51:47,319 simply slaughtered on the 1100 00:51:44,599 --> 00:51:50,880 spot as American forces swept toward 1101 00:51:47,319 --> 00:51:52,680 Munich in late April 1945 most German 1102 00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:54,160 guards at the concentration camp near 1103 00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:57,559 doow 1104 00:51:54,160 --> 00:52:00,760 fled despite signs at the gate warning 1105 00:51:57,559 --> 00:52:02,559 no entrance tyus epidemic several 1106 00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:04,680 hundred German soldiers were ordered to 1107 00:52:02,559 --> 00:52:07,520 the prison to maintain order and arrange 1108 00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:10,319 the transfer of over 30,000 prisoners to 1109 00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:12,079 the allies when the Americans reached 1110 00:52:10,319 --> 00:52:15,079 daau the following day they were 1111 00:52:12,079 --> 00:52:17,160 horrified by what they saw outside the 1112 00:52:15,079 --> 00:52:19,799 prison sat rail cars full of diseased 1113 00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,799 and starved 1114 00:52:20,079 --> 00:52:25,359 corpses inside the camp a room piled 1115 00:52:23,079 --> 00:52:27,280 high with naked and emaciated bodies was 1116 00:52:25,359 --> 00:52:29,480 also discovered 1117 00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:31,440 unhinged by the nightmare certain that 1118 00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:33,720 DACA was proof of the atrocities they 1119 00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:35,640 had heard so much about in America 1120 00:52:33,720 --> 00:52:38,119 officers turned their enraged troops 1121 00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:40,520 loose on the now disarmed German 1122 00:52:38,119 --> 00:52:41,640 soldiers the men were deliberately 1123 00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:44,359 wounding 1124 00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:47,240 guards a lot of guards were shot in the 1125 00:52:44,359 --> 00:52:49,960 legs so they couldn't move they were 1126 00:52:47,240 --> 00:52:52,400 then turned over to the inmates one was 1127 00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:55,760 beheaded with a Bayonet others were 1128 00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:57,760 ripped apart limb by limb while the 1129 00:52:55,760 --> 00:53:00,319 tortures were in progress a lieutenant 1130 00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:03,319 forced over 300 captive Germans up 1131 00:53:00,319 --> 00:53:06,280 against a wall planted two machine guns 1132 00:53:03,319 --> 00:53:08,119 then ordered his men to open fire those 1133 00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:10,200 still alive when the fusel lot ended 1134 00:53:08,119 --> 00:53:13,079 were forced to stand amid the Carnage 1135 00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:16,520 while the machine Gunners 1136 00:53:13,079 --> 00:53:19,480 reloaded in all over 500 helpless German 1137 00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:22,599 soldiers were slaughtered in Cold 1138 00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:24,599 Blood as a final touch the citizens of 1139 00:53:22,599 --> 00:53:27,119 daau were forced to bury the thousands 1140 00:53:24,599 --> 00:53:30,319 of corpses in the camp thereby assuring 1141 00:53:27,119 --> 00:53:33,480 the death of many more from disease few 1142 00:53:30,319 --> 00:53:35,119 Americans noticed because few cared but 1143 00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:38,119 conditions in German cities and towns 1144 00:53:35,119 --> 00:53:39,920 were not much better than that at dcau 1145 00:53:38,119 --> 00:53:42,280 because of the round-the-clock American 1146 00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:44,880 and British Air attacks week after week 1147 00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:47,559 very little food and almost no medicine 1148 00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:49,720 was arriving anywhere in Germany 1149 00:53:47,559 --> 00:53:51,920 virtually none reached the numerous 1150 00:53:49,720 --> 00:53:54,640 concentration camps where during the 1151 00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:58,079 last days disease and starvation Swept 1152 00:53:54,640 --> 00:54:00,160 Away the inmates by the thousands 1153 00:53:58,079 --> 00:54:04,000 the incident at DACA was merely one of 1154 00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:04,000 many massacres committed by US 1155 00:54:04,010 --> 00:54:07,149 [Music] 1156 00:54:08,240 --> 00:54:14,440 troops we had been held up at a little 1157 00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:16,760 town we were supposed to just walk 1158 00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:20,559 through it and the Germans stopped us 1159 00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:20,559 dead we just couldn't crack 1160 00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:28,359 it eventually artillery came 1161 00:54:24,240 --> 00:54:28,359 in sort of leveled the house 1162 00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:35,960 they finally surrendered and they came 1163 00:54:32,359 --> 00:54:39,119 out and sort of lined up and per usual 1164 00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:39,119 no one knew what was going 1165 00:54:40,559 --> 00:54:47,920 on we had a new Battalion Commander just 1166 00:54:44,839 --> 00:54:51,640 graduated from West Point and he lined 1167 00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:53,960 him up and said I want you to shoot 1168 00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:55,880 him and I was 1169 00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:57,400 horrified quite a few of us were 1170 00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:59,440 horrified 1171 00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:01,599 and I went to him and told him you know 1172 00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:04,119 that this was against all international 1173 00:55:01,599 --> 00:55:07,559 law and 1174 00:55:04,119 --> 00:55:10,400 Humanity my good buddy who 1175 00:55:07,559 --> 00:55:12,559 I'd spent so much time with grab me and 1176 00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:16,119 said this nut will shoot you you better 1177 00:55:12,559 --> 00:55:20,760 quit knock this off and and he got 1178 00:55:16,119 --> 00:55:24,119 enough guys and they shot these about 25 1179 00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:27,280 prisoners it was a terrible thing to 1180 00:55:24,119 --> 00:55:29,359 see and I talked to a lot of my buddies 1181 00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:34,240 who had shot these 1182 00:55:29,359 --> 00:55:34,240 guys and they were horrified 1183 00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:40,880 too unaware of the deep hatred the 1184 00:55:38,079 --> 00:55:43,440 Allies harbored for them when proud SS 1185 00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:45,240 units surrendered they naively assumed 1186 00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,960 that they would be accorded respect as 1187 00:55:45,240 --> 00:55:49,680 the unsurpassed Fighters that they had 1188 00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:51,640 proven to be as soon as they were 1189 00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:52,440 disarmed most were slaughtered where 1190 00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:54,799 they 1191 00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:57,440 stood for those members of the German 1192 00:55:54,799 --> 00:55:59,599 military lucky enough to survive capture 1193 00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:01,319 death often awaited behind the lines 1194 00:55:59,599 --> 00:56:03,920 where thousands more 1195 00:56:01,319 --> 00:56:06,640 perished with General Eisenhower turning 1196 00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:08,680 a blind eye to the Geneva Convention 1197 00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:11,119 only the threat of retaliation against 1198 00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:15,119 Allied PS still held in Germany 1199 00:56:11,119 --> 00:56:15,119 prevented a massacre of prodigious 1200 00:56:15,839 --> 00:56:20,000 proportions soon after us combat 1201 00:56:18,240 --> 00:56:22,559 soldiers moved out of a community and 1202 00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:24,559 the rear Echelon troops moved in the 1203 00:56:22,559 --> 00:56:27,359 reality of occupation became clear to 1204 00:56:24,559 --> 00:56:29,799 the German citizens the second wave of 1205 00:56:27,359 --> 00:56:32,039 soldiers wanting to experience a bit of 1206 00:56:29,799 --> 00:56:34,240 War on their own took out their 1207 00:56:32,039 --> 00:56:39,039 aggression on the helpless Germans by 1208 00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:41,680 looting raping killing and destroying in 1209 00:56:39,039 --> 00:56:43,880 many towns the Invaders unlocked jails 1210 00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:46,640 prisons and concentration camps and 1211 00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:49,760 invited the inmates to join in the 1212 00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:52,799 rry they just opened up the camps and 1213 00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:54,559 let them go the Russians and poles were 1214 00:56:52,799 --> 00:56:56,400 looting the houses and killing the 1215 00:56:54,559 --> 00:56:58,760 shopkeepers 1216 00:56:56,400 --> 00:57:01,680 then they began raping the 1217 00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:03,440 girls similar Mayhem engulfed most towns 1218 00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:06,039 in Western Germany As Americans and 1219 00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:09,440 British pushed 1220 00:57:06,039 --> 00:57:11,400 onward our own Army and the British army 1221 00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:16,119 have done their share of looting and 1222 00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:18,839 raping we too are considered an army of 1223 00:57:16,119 --> 00:57:20,839 rapists although brutal rapes persisted 1224 00:57:18,839 --> 00:57:22,799 against the defenseless females the 1225 00:57:20,839 --> 00:57:24,680 Allied troops quickly discovered that 1226 00:57:22,799 --> 00:57:26,599 hunger was a powerful incentive to 1227 00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:28,359 sexual surrender 1228 00:57:26,599 --> 00:57:31,599 although sex could be bought for a bit 1229 00:57:28,359 --> 00:57:33,599 of food a cigarette or a bar of soap 1230 00:57:31,599 --> 00:57:37,720 some Victors preferred to take what they 1231 00:57:33,599 --> 00:57:41,760 wanted whenever and wherever they 1232 00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:44,680 pleased hunger made German women more 1233 00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:47,440 available but despite this rape was 1234 00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:48,680 prevalent and often accompanied by 1235 00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:51,960 additional 1236 00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:54,640 violence in particular I remember an 1237 00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:57,799 18-year-old woman who had the side of 1238 00:57:54,640 --> 00:58:00,400 her face smashed with with a rifle butt 1239 00:57:57,799 --> 00:58:03,280 and was then raped by two 1240 00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:06,400 GIS even the French complained that the 1241 00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:08,200 rapes looting and drunken 1242 00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:11,359 destructiveness on the part of our 1243 00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:11,359 troops was 1244 00:58:11,599 --> 00:58:15,160 excessive despite the numerous 1245 00:58:13,599 --> 00:58:17,760 atrocities committed on the Western 1246 00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:19,280 Front such savagery never became 1247 00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:21,720 officially 1248 00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:23,640 sanctioned considering the bloodthirsty 1249 00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:26,200 propaganda from the primarily Jewish 1250 00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:27,760 owned media as well as the active 1251 00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:30,359 incitement of their political and 1252 00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:32,480 military leaders the average British and 1253 00:58:30,359 --> 00:58:36,079 American Soldier comported himself 1254 00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:38,440 amazingly well and certainly far far 1255 00:58:36,079 --> 00:58:40,680 better than his Soviet 1256 00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:42,440 counterpart although the Allies in the 1257 00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:44,599 west might have easily pushed on to 1258 00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:47,200 Berlin they were ordered to Halt just 1259 00:58:44,599 --> 00:58:49,480 short of their goal as a token of their 1260 00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:51,559 great love and gratitude Roosevelt and 1261 00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:54,920 Churchill had already awarded the German 1262 00:58:51,559 --> 00:58:56,520 Capital to Stalin as a prize after days 1263 00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:58,960 of hopeless fighting in which little 1264 00:58:56,520 --> 00:59:01,720 boys fought and all too often died like 1265 00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:02,680 men Berlin was finally overwhelmed on 1266 00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:05,960 May 1267 00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:07,760 2nd and with the suicide of Adolf Hitler 1268 00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:10,400 the war effectively 1269 00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:12,480 ended now that there was virtually no 1270 00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:15,680 chance for reprisals against Americans 1271 00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:18,039 held in German P camps Eisenhower's 1272 00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:21,400 pathological hatred of Germans was given 1273 00:59:18,039 --> 00:59:21,400 free reign 1274 00:59:25,730 --> 00:59:35,079 [Music] 1275 00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:36,920 with the final capitulation in May 1945 1276 00:59:35,079 --> 00:59:39,240 the Supreme Allied Commander found 1277 00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:43,240 himself in control of over 5 million 1278 00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:45,079 ragged weary but living enemy soldiers 1279 00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:47,720 since Eisenhower could not kill more 1280 00:59:45,079 --> 00:59:50,160 armed Germans in war the American desk 1281 00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:50,570 General decided to kill disarmed Germans 1282 00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:53,000 in 1283 00:59:50,570 --> 00:59:55,400 [Music] 1284 00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:58,720 peace because the Geneva Convention 1285 00:59:55,400 --> 01:00:00,839 guaranteed PS the same food shelter and 1286 00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:02,839 medical attention as their captors 1287 01:00:00,839 --> 01:00:05,359 Eisenhower simply circumvented the 1288 01:00:02,839 --> 01:00:08,280 treaty by creating his own category for 1289 01:00:05,359 --> 01:00:09,880 prisoners under this reclassification 1290 01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:12,599 German soldiers were no longer 1291 01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:15,520 considered PS but 1292 01:00:12,599 --> 01:00:18,280 DFS disarmed enemy 1293 01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:19,880 forces with this slide of hand and in 1294 01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:22,400 direct violation of the Geneva 1295 01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:25,000 Convention Eisenhower could now deal in 1296 01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:28,720 secret with those in his power free from 1297 01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:28,720 the prying eyes of of the outside 1298 01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:36,079 world even before the war's end 1299 01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:38,480 thousands of German PS had died in 1300 01:00:36,079 --> 01:00:41,880 American captivity from starvation 1301 01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:44,359 neglect and in many cases outright 1302 01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:47,160 murder with the German surrender and the 1303 01:00:44,359 --> 01:00:50,000 threat of retaliation against Allied PS 1304 01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:53,880 entirely erased deaths in the American 1305 01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:53,880 concentration camps accelerated 1306 01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:59,079 dramatically while while tens of 1307 01:00:56,599 --> 01:01:00,920 thousands died of starvation and thirst 1308 01:00:59,079 --> 01:01:03,839 hundreds of thousands more perished from 1309 01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:03,839 overcrowding and 1310 01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:14,640 [Applause] 1311 01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:14,640 [Music] 1312 01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:23,160 disease it's incomprehensible to me how 1313 01:01:21,359 --> 01:01:25,960 we could stand for many many days 1314 01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:28,880 without sitting without lying down just 1315 01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:31,599 just standing there totally soaked 1316 01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:35,039 during the day we marched around huddled 1317 01:01:31,599 --> 01:01:37,400 together to try to warm each other a bit 1318 01:01:35,039 --> 01:01:40,720 the latrines were just logs flung over 1319 01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:43,400 ditches next to the barbed wire fences 1320 01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:45,920 to sleep all we could do was to dig out 1321 01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:48,880 a hole in the ground with our hands then 1322 01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:51,039 cling together in the hole because of 1323 01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:53,920 illness the man had to defecate on the 1324 01:01:51,039 --> 01:01:56,680 ground soon many of us were too weak to 1325 01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:59,799 take off our charleses first so our 1326 01:01:56,680 --> 01:02:01,960 clothing was infected and so was the mud 1327 01:01:59,799 --> 01:02:05,599 where we had to walk and sit and lie 1328 01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:06,680 down there was no water at all at first 1329 01:02:05,599 --> 01:02:09,520 except the 1330 01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:12,799 rain more than half the days we had no 1331 01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:15,960 food at all on the rest we got a little 1332 01:02:12,799 --> 01:02:18,039 K ration I could see from the package 1333 01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:20,640 that they were giving us one/ tenth of 1334 01:02:18,039 --> 01:02:23,839 the rations that they issued to their 1335 01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:26,760 own men I complained to the American 1336 01:02:23,839 --> 01:02:30,400 Camp Commander that he was breaking the 1337 01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:35,000 Geneva Convention but he just said 1338 01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:35,000 forget the convention you haven't any 1339 01:02:36,839 --> 01:02:43,079 rights within a few days some of the men 1340 01:02:40,279 --> 01:02:46,119 who had gone healthy into the camps were 1341 01:02:43,079 --> 01:02:49,079 dead I saw our men dragging many dead 1342 01:02:46,119 --> 01:02:51,359 bodies to the gate of the camp where 1343 01:02:49,079 --> 01:02:56,680 they were thrown loose on top of each 1344 01:02:51,359 --> 01:02:56,680 other onto trucks which took them away 1345 01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:03,279 as if their plight were not already 1346 01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:05,279 hideous enough prisoners occasionally 1347 01:03:03,279 --> 01:03:07,640 became the targets of drunken guards who 1348 01:03:05,279 --> 01:03:11,039 sprayed the camps with machine gun 1349 01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:12,960 fire at one compound amused guards 1350 01:03:11,039 --> 01:03:14,720 formed lines and beat prisoners with 1351 01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:16,839 clubs and sticks as they ran the 1352 01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:20,559 gauntlet for their poultry 1353 01:03:16,839 --> 01:03:24,200 rations at another Camp of 5200 men 10 1354 01:03:20,559 --> 01:03:26,039 to 30 bodies were hauled away every day 1355 01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:29,480 prisoners who did not succumb to hunger 1356 01:03:26,039 --> 01:03:31,640 or disease often died of thirst many men 1357 01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:33,839 were forced to drink their own urine 1358 01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:36,440 even though streams ran a few feet from 1359 01:03:33,839 --> 01:03:38,480 the barbed wire there was no lack of 1360 01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:41,760 food or shelter among the Victorious 1361 01:03:38,480 --> 01:03:44,640 allies actually American Supply Depots 1362 01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:46,760 were bursting at the seams instead of 1363 01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:48,920 allowing even a trickle of this bounty 1364 01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:52,119 to reach the compounds the starvation 1365 01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:54,200 diet was further reduced within full 1366 01:03:52,119 --> 01:03:56,200 view of some camps Americans would 1367 01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:59,559 sadistically burn food that they could 1368 01:03:56,200 --> 01:04:02,000 not eat themselves civilians from nearby 1369 01:03:59,559 --> 01:04:04,079 Villages and towns themselves starving 1370 01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:06,240 were prevented at gunpoint from passing 1371 01:04:04,079 --> 01:04:07,279 their own meager Fair through the fence 1372 01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:10,359 to 1373 01:04:07,279 --> 01:04:12,839 prisoners horrified by the silent secret 1374 01:04:10,359 --> 01:04:15,400 Massacre the International Red Cross 1375 01:04:12,839 --> 01:04:18,799 which had over 100,000 tons of food 1376 01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:20,520 stored in Switzerland tried to intercede 1377 01:04:18,799 --> 01:04:22,520 when two trains filled with supplies 1378 01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:26,440 reached the camps however they were 1379 01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:28,720 turned back by American officers 1380 01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:30,920 many people found no justification 1381 01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:33,200 whatsoever in the massacre of helpless 1382 01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:34,920 prisoners especially since the German 1383 01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:39,279 government had lived up to the Geneva 1384 01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:39,279 Convention as one American put it to a 1385 01:04:39,319 --> 01:04:45,279 te the Red Cross reported that 99% of 1386 01:04:43,079 --> 01:04:47,880 American prisoners of war in Germany had 1387 01:04:45,279 --> 01:04:50,119 survived and were on their way home 1388 01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:52,240 nevertheless Eisenhower's murderous 1389 01:04:50,119 --> 01:04:55,039 program continue to 1390 01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:57,960 Pace some upright generals such as 1391 01:04:55,039 --> 01:05:00,440 general Patton opposed these murderous 1392 01:04:57,960 --> 01:05:02,079 measures but Eisenhower quickly 1393 01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:04,720 overruled 1394 01:05:02,079 --> 01:05:06,680 them while continuing to deny the Red 1395 01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:09,319 Cross and other relief agencies access 1396 01:05:06,680 --> 01:05:12,039 to the camps Eisenhower stressed among 1397 01:05:09,319 --> 01:05:13,760 his Camp commanders the need for secrecy 1398 01:05:12,039 --> 01:05:16,160 to prevent the gruesome details from 1399 01:05:13,760 --> 01:05:18,400 reaching the outside world and Sidetrack 1400 01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:20,359 those that did counter rumors were 1401 01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:22,599 circulated stating that far from 1402 01:05:20,359 --> 01:05:24,279 mistreating and murdering prisoners Camp 1403 01:05:22,599 --> 01:05:26,359 commanders were actually turning back 1404 01:05:24,279 --> 01:05:28,720 release Germans who tried to back in for 1405 01:05:26,359 --> 01:05:28,720 food and 1406 01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:33,880 shelter unlike their capitalist 1407 01:05:31,599 --> 01:05:36,520 counterparts the Soviet Communists made 1408 01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:38,480 little effort to hide their crimes 1409 01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:41,200 hundreds of thousands of Germans toiled 1410 01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:43,599 in the forest and mines of Siberia the 1411 01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:46,200 captives were slaves pure and simple and 1412 01:05:43,599 --> 01:05:49,319 no attempt was made to disguise the fact 1413 01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:51,400 for the enslaved Germans male and female 1414 01:05:49,319 --> 01:05:52,920 the odds of surviving the Soviet gulags 1415 01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:56,079 were even worse than escaping the 1416 01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:59,039 American death camps a trip to Liberia 1417 01:05:56,079 --> 01:06:00,920 was tantamount to a death sentence what 1418 01:05:59,039 --> 01:06:02,599 little food the slaves received was 1419 01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:05,640 intended merely to maintain their 1420 01:06:02,599 --> 01:06:07,119 strength until they were worked to death 1421 01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:11,480 much the same might be said of the 1422 01:06:07,119 --> 01:06:11,480 600,000 German slaves held by the 1423 01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:18,079 French ultimately no fewer than 800,000 1424 01:06:16,279 --> 01:06:20,920 German prisoners died in the American 1425 01:06:18,079 --> 01:06:22,520 and French death camps indeed recent 1426 01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:27,279 estimates place the death toll at 1427 01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:29,720 upwards of 1.5 million and thus in peace 1428 01:06:27,279 --> 01:06:31,400 did Eisenhower murder at least 10 times 1429 01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:33,400 the number of German soldiers than were 1430 01:06:31,400 --> 01:06:35,440 killed on the whole Western Front during 1431 01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:38,520 the whole of the 1432 01:06:35,440 --> 01:06:40,720 war with the once Mighty verock now 1433 01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:42,880 disarmed and enslaved and with their 1434 01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:46,599 leaders either dead or awaiting trial 1435 01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:48,400 for war crimes the old men women and 1436 01:06:46,599 --> 01:06:51,039 children who remained in the dismembered 1437 01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:52,880 Reich now found themselves utterly at 1438 01:06:51,039 --> 01:06:56,200 the mercy of the 1439 01:06:52,880 --> 01:07:00,200 victors unfortunately never the history 1440 01:06:56,200 --> 01:07:00,200 of the world was Mercy in shorter 1441 01:07:11,279 --> 01:07:16,039 Supply soon after their victory in 1442 01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:17,039 Europe the Allied Purge of Nazi Party 1443 01:07:16,039 --> 01:07:20,640 members 1444 01:07:17,039 --> 01:07:22,680 commenced in theory deification was a 1445 01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:25,039 simple transplanting of party officials 1446 01:07:22,680 --> 01:07:26,360 with those of Democratic Socialist or 1447 01:07:25,039 --> 01:07:29,680 communist 1448 01:07:26,360 --> 01:07:32,160 [Music] 1449 01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:34,400 underpinnings in practice The Purge 1450 01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:37,480 became little more than a cloak for rape 1451 01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:37,480 torture and 1452 01:07:37,839 --> 01:07:42,000 death all adult Germans were compelled 1453 01:07:40,440 --> 01:07:43,720 to register at the nearest Allied 1454 01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:45,520 headquarters and complete a lengthy 1455 01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:47,880 questionnaire on past 1456 01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:50,200 activities while many nervous citizens 1457 01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:52,079 were detained then and there most 1458 01:07:50,200 --> 01:07:55,599 returned home convinced that their 1459 01:07:52,079 --> 01:07:57,760 terrible ordeal was over for Millions 1460 01:07:55,599 --> 01:08:01,160 however the trial had just 1461 01:07:57,760 --> 01:08:04,599 begun few German adults Nazi or not 1462 01:08:01,160 --> 01:08:04,599 escaped the dreaded knock on the 1463 01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:10,760 door many people were arrested multiple 1464 01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:12,720 times including Lenny reinstall a 1465 01:08:10,760 --> 01:08:15,080 talented young woman who was perhaps the 1466 01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:18,000 world's most artistic 1467 01:08:15,080 --> 01:08:20,520 filmmaker because her epic documentaries 1468 01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:23,159 Triumph of the will and Olympia seemed 1469 01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:25,520 to glorify not only Germany but national 1470 01:08:23,159 --> 01:08:27,319 socialism and because of her close Rel 1471 01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:30,040 relationship with an admiring Adolf 1472 01:08:27,319 --> 01:08:31,799 Hitler Lenny was of great interest to 1473 01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:35,080 the 1474 01:08:31,799 --> 01:08:37,520 Allies neither my husband nor my mother 1475 01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:40,920 nor any of my three assistants had ever 1476 01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:45,040 joined the Nazi party nor had any of us 1477 01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:47,799 been politically active no charges had 1478 01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:50,920 ever been filed against us yet we were 1479 01:08:47,799 --> 01:08:54,440 at the mercy of the allies and had no 1480 01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:57,880 legal protection of any 1481 01:08:54,440 --> 01:09:00,839 kind as beaten up until they confess to 1482 01:08:57,880 --> 01:09:02,440 having been members of the Nazi party 1483 01:09:00,839 --> 01:09:05,199 The Authority simply assume that 1484 01:09:02,440 --> 01:09:08,400 basically everybody has belonged to the 1485 01:09:05,199 --> 01:09:10,880 party many people die during and after 1486 01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:13,560 these interrogations While others who 1487 01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:16,159 admited once their party membership are 1488 01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:16,159 treated more 1489 01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:22,640 leniently generally after enduring 1490 01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:24,880 blackened eyes broken bones rape 1491 01:09:22,640 --> 01:09:28,159 electric shock to the breasts or in the 1492 01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:30,319 case of and smashed testicles only those 1493 01:09:28,159 --> 01:09:34,120 who took their own lives or died during 1494 01:09:30,319 --> 01:09:34,120 torture failed to sign 1495 01:09:34,600 --> 01:09:39,000 confessions since most Intelligence 1496 01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:41,159 Officers accompanying us and British 1497 01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:44,000 forces were Jewish refugees who had fled 1498 01:09:41,159 --> 01:09:47,239 Germany in the 1930s their knowledge of 1499 01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:49,640 the language and culture was superb with 1500 01:09:47,239 --> 01:09:51,640 old scores to settle the presence of 1501 01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:54,840 these men ensured that there would be no 1502 01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:57,320 mercy shown to Nazis or any German for 1503 01:09:54,840 --> 01:09:57,320 that matter 1504 01:10:00,530 --> 01:10:06,320 [Music] 1505 01:10:04,440 --> 01:10:08,400 during the Nazi war crimes trial at 1506 01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:10,679 nurburg almost any method that would 1507 01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:13,159 obtain a confession was 1508 01:10:10,679 --> 01:10:15,239 employed understandably after several 1509 01:10:13,159 --> 01:10:16,679 such sessions even the strongest 1510 01:10:15,239 --> 01:10:19,679 submitted and signed papers 1511 01:10:16,679 --> 01:10:21,320 incriminating themselves and others in 1512 01:10:19,679 --> 01:10:23,400 addition to testimony given under 1513 01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:25,120 torture those who might have spoken in 1514 01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:27,960 defense of the accused were threatened 1515 01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:31,199 with torture and death themselves 1516 01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:32,600 moreover hired Witnesses were paid by 1517 01:10:31,199 --> 01:10:35,280 the Americans to Parrot the 1518 01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:35,280 prosecution's 1519 01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:41,679 charges horrific as densification was in 1520 01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:43,920 the British French and especially the 1521 01:10:41,679 --> 01:10:45,960 American zones it was nothing compared 1522 01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:48,360 to what took place in Poland behind 1523 01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:50,120 Soviet lines in hundreds of 1524 01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:52,120 concentration camps sponsored by 1525 01:10:50,120 --> 01:10:54,960 something called the office of State 1526 01:10:52,120 --> 01:10:58,880 security thousands of Germans male and 1527 01:10:54,960 --> 01:11:02,280 female female old and young high and low 1528 01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:04,960 Nazi and non-nazi were rounded up and 1529 01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:07,560 imprisoned staffed and run by Jews with 1530 01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:10,239 help from the poles CS Russians and 1531 01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:12,360 other former concentration camp inmates 1532 01:11:10,239 --> 01:11:14,520 the prisons were little better than vast 1533 01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:18,239 torture chambers where dying was a thing 1534 01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:20,440 to be prolonged not hastened while those 1535 01:11:18,239 --> 01:11:22,640 with blonde hair blue eyes and handsome 1536 01:11:20,440 --> 01:11:25,880 features were first to go anyone who 1537 01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:29,880 spoke German would do for these vengeful 1538 01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:33,080 Camp operators no torture no sadism no 1539 01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:36,239 depravity no evil seemed too monstrous 1540 01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:38,199 to inflict on those now in their power 1541 01:11:36,239 --> 01:11:40,679 some Germans were forced to crawl naked 1542 01:11:38,199 --> 01:11:43,199 on all fours and eat their own excrement 1543 01:11:40,679 --> 01:11:44,840 as well as that of others many were 1544 01:11:43,199 --> 01:11:47,159 drowned in open 1545 01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:49,440 latrines hundreds were herded into 1546 01:11:47,159 --> 01:11:53,000 buildings and burned to death or sealed 1547 01:11:49,440 --> 01:11:53,000 in caskets and buried 1548 01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:58,880 alive near Lambs Dorf German women were 1549 01:11:56,400 --> 01:12:00,560 forced to disiner bodies from a Polish 1550 01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:03,320 burial 1551 01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:06,719 site then kiss and make love to the 1552 01:12:03,320 --> 01:12:06,719 putrid rotting 1553 01:12:07,630 --> 01:12:10,770 [Music] 1554 01:12:11,280 --> 01:12:16,239 corpses not surprisingly the mortality 1555 01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:18,840 rate at the concentration camps was 1556 01:12:16,239 --> 01:12:21,280 staggering and of those rare individuals 1557 01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:25,280 who did leave with their lives few could 1558 01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:27,960 any longer be called human 1559 01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:30,760 meanwhile as the judicial charade was in 1560 01:12:27,960 --> 01:12:33,159 progress behind Prison Walls tortures of 1561 01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:35,719 Another Kind stalked the liberated 1562 01:12:33,159 --> 01:12:38,400 German people as the Allied Victors 1563 01:12:35,719 --> 01:12:41,639 enacted their plan to divide Loot and 1564 01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:46,040 utterly destroy conquered Germany in 1565 01:12:41,639 --> 01:12:48,480 late 1944 the so-called Morgan thou plan 1566 01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:50,560 was endorsed by President Roosevelt 1567 01:12:48,480 --> 01:12:54,159 making the Jewish pre-war demand for 1568 01:12:50,560 --> 01:12:56,360 German extermination official named for 1569 01:12:54,159 --> 01:12:59,000 Roosevelt's Secret AR of the treasury 1570 01:12:56,360 --> 01:13:01,280 Henry morgantha but actually conceived 1571 01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:04,120 by the secretary's top Aid Harry Dexter 1572 01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:05,639 white both of whom were Jewish the 1573 01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:07,800 program called for the complete 1574 01:13:05,639 --> 01:13:08,639 destruction of Germany after Victory had 1575 01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:11,280 been 1576 01:13:08,639 --> 01:13:12,920 won in addition to the dismantling and 1577 01:13:11,280 --> 01:13:15,400 destruction of heavy industry and the 1578 01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:16,880 permanent closure of Mines The morgantha 1579 01:13:15,400 --> 01:13:20,840 Plan called for a reduction of the 1580 01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:23,159 reich's land area by 1 half as many knew 1581 01:13:20,840 --> 01:13:25,560 this act guaranteed that roughly 2third 1582 01:13:23,159 --> 01:13:28,159 of the German population or 50 million 1583 01:13:25,560 --> 01:13:30,320 people would soon die of 1584 01:13:28,159 --> 01:13:32,239 starvation with the remnant of the 1585 01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:34,480 population reduced to subsistence 1586 01:13:32,239 --> 01:13:36,880 farming and with the shrunken Nation 1587 01:13:34,480 --> 01:13:39,320 totally at the mercy of hostile European 1588 01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:43,080 neighbors it was estimated that within 1589 01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:45,880 two generations Germany would cease to 1590 01:13:43,080 --> 01:13:48,320 exist when Roosevelt's successor Harry 1591 01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:50,440 Truman met at potam with Stalin in the 1592 01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:53,320 new British prime minister Clement Atley 1593 01:13:50,440 --> 01:13:55,800 in July 1945 most of the teeth in 1594 01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:58,400 Morgan's murderous scheme remained on 1595 01:13:55,800 --> 01:14:00,920 the table with the signature of the big 1596 01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:03,679 three the plan went into 1597 01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:06,400 effect Stalin's methodical looting in 1598 01:14:03,679 --> 01:14:09,360 the Russian occupation Zone became 1599 01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:12,520 prodigious steel mills grain mills 1600 01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:15,120 lumber Mills sugar and oil refineries 1601 01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:16,960 chemical plants Optical Works shoe 1602 01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:19,080 factories and other heavy industries 1603 01:14:16,960 --> 01:14:21,400 were taken apart down to the last nut 1604 01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:23,560 and bolt and sent East to the Soviet 1605 01:14:21,400 --> 01:14:25,679 Union where they were 1606 01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:27,480 reassembled those fact factories allowed 1607 01:14:25,679 --> 01:14:30,080 to remain in Germany were to operate 1608 01:14:27,480 --> 01:14:32,440 solely for the benefit of Russia 1609 01:14:30,080 --> 01:14:34,639 electric and steam locomotives their 1610 01:14:32,440 --> 01:14:37,280 Rolling Stock and even the tracks they 1611 01:14:34,639 --> 01:14:40,320 ran on were likewise sent 1612 01:14:37,280 --> 01:14:42,199 East unlike its primitive Soviet Ally 1613 01:14:40,320 --> 01:14:44,719 the United States had no need for German 1614 01:14:42,199 --> 01:14:46,840 plants and factories nevertheless the 1615 01:14:44,719 --> 01:14:48,880 Americans were Far and Away the most 1616 01:14:46,840 --> 01:14:49,880 zealous at destroying Germany's ability 1617 01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:52,360 to 1618 01:14:49,880 --> 01:14:54,199 recover while the US may have spurned 1619 01:14:52,360 --> 01:14:56,560 German industry they had a great 1620 01:14:54,199 --> 01:14:59,040 interest in the right horde of treasure 1621 01:14:56,560 --> 01:15:01,440 billions of dollars in gold silver and 1622 01:14:59,040 --> 01:15:03,280 currency as well as Priceless paintings 1623 01:15:01,440 --> 01:15:04,880 sculptures and other artworks were 1624 01:15:03,280 --> 01:15:07,520 plucked from their hiding places in 1625 01:15:04,880 --> 01:15:09,960 caves tunnels and salt mines and shipped 1626 01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:12,800 across the 1627 01:15:09,960 --> 01:15:14,719 Atlantic additionally and a far greater 1628 01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:17,199 damage to Germany's future was the 1629 01:15:14,719 --> 01:15:20,199 mental dismantling of the 1630 01:15:17,199 --> 01:15:22,199 Reich tons of secret documents revealing 1631 01:15:20,199 --> 01:15:24,159 Germany's tremendous organizational 1632 01:15:22,199 --> 01:15:25,360 talent in business and industry were 1633 01:15:24,159 --> 01:15:28,080 simply stolen 1634 01:15:25,360 --> 01:15:29,840 [Music] 1635 01:15:28,080 --> 01:15:32,040 hundreds of the greatest scientists in 1636 01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:33,400 the world were likewise compelled to 1637 01:15:32,040 --> 01:15:36,280 immigrate by The 1638 01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:38,880 Victors one man opposed to the Vengeance 1639 01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:42,120 minded program was George Patton 1640 01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:44,760 evidently the virus started by morgantha 1641 01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:47,840 of a Semitic revenge against all Germans 1642 01:15:44,760 --> 01:15:49,840 is still working I can't see how 1643 01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:52,520 Americans can sink so 1644 01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:54,320 low during the first post-war years 1645 01:15:52,520 --> 01:15:56,880 Germany was little better than a vast 1646 01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:59,239 concentration camp coinciding with the 1647 01:15:56,880 --> 01:16:01,600 ruthless Allied program of densification 1648 01:15:59,239 --> 01:16:04,040 and re-education was the American and 1649 01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:05,840 British policy of non-fraternization 1650 01:16:04,040 --> 01:16:07,880 segregating the victors from the 1651 01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:09,960 vanquished in an effort to further 1652 01:16:07,880 --> 01:16:13,840 degrade and demonize Germans and Crush 1653 01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:13,840 what little pride and respect 1654 01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:20,880 remained one year after the war's end 1655 01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:22,960 the former Reich still had Urban 1656 01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:25,840 dwellers clinging precariously to their 1657 01:16:22,960 --> 01:16:28,480 caves and cracks for shelter 1658 01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:30,480 in Berlin alone an estimated 50,000 1659 01:16:28,480 --> 01:16:33,520 orphans struggled to 1660 01:16:30,480 --> 01:16:37,040 survive some of them oneeyed or 1661 01:16:33,520 --> 01:16:39,320 one-legged Veterans of seven or so many 1662 01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:41,719 so deranged by the bombing and the 1663 01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:44,719 Russian attack that they screamed at the 1664 01:16:41,719 --> 01:16:47,840 sight of any uniform even a Salvation 1665 01:16:44,719 --> 01:16:50,000 Army one while occupation troops dined 1666 01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:53,320 on five course meals complete with fried 1667 01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:55,560 sole Dutch steak and ice cream thousands 1668 01:16:53,320 --> 01:16:58,159 of starving children felt fortunate if a 1669 01:16:55,560 --> 01:17:00,480 potato peel or crust of moldy bread was 1670 01:16:58,159 --> 01:17:03,639 Unearthed children who could not live by 1671 01:17:00,480 --> 01:17:05,719 their wits died those who didn't starve 1672 01:17:03,639 --> 01:17:07,440 or freeze were crushed by the walls of 1673 01:17:05,719 --> 01:17:09,400 their caves or torn to shreds by 1674 01:17:07,440 --> 01:17:11,360 unexploded bombs which lay scattered 1675 01:17:09,400 --> 01:17:14,960 across Germany by the 1676 01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:17,440 ton on their own orphans aged fast and 1677 01:17:14,960 --> 01:17:20,040 little girls aged fastest of 1678 01:17:17,440 --> 01:17:22,000 all like their older sisters the 1679 01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:25,199 children soon discovered that selling 1680 01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:27,040 themselves could Stave off starvation a 1681 01:17:25,199 --> 01:17:28,840 concern not only for those who were 1682 01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:32,560 selling themselves but for the millions 1683 01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:34,400 of rape victims was unwanted pregnancy 1684 01:17:32,560 --> 01:17:37,320 thousands who were in fact pregnant 1685 01:17:34,400 --> 01:17:39,960 sought and found abortions thousands 1686 01:17:37,320 --> 01:17:43,600 more lived in Dreadful suspense their 1687 01:17:39,960 --> 01:17:46,639 lives utterly shattered in every way 1688 01:17:43,600 --> 01:17:49,120 imaginable at length Allied soldiers 1689 01:17:46,639 --> 01:17:51,120 reporters and others began to recoil at 1690 01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:51,840 the ruthless reign of terror transpiring 1691 01:17:51,120 --> 01:17:54,880 in 1692 01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:59,360 Germany while the Germans around them St 1693 01:17:54,880 --> 01:18:01,920 carve we rags and live in huels the 1694 01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:04,440 American Aristocrats live in often 1695 01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:07,239 unaccustomed ease and 1696 01:18:04,440 --> 01:18:10,239 luxury they live in the finest houses 1697 01:18:07,239 --> 01:18:13,719 from which they drove the Germans they 1698 01:18:10,239 --> 01:18:16,600 Swagger about in fine liveries and Gorge 1699 01:18:13,719 --> 01:18:18,719 themselves on diets three times as great 1700 01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:21,600 as they allow the 1701 01:18:18,719 --> 01:18:24,920 Germans when we tell the Germans their 1702 01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:27,880 low rations are necessary because food 1703 01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:30,920 is so short they naturally either think 1704 01:18:27,880 --> 01:18:34,040 we are lying to them or regard us as 1705 01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:37,080 inhuman for taking the Lion Share of the 1706 01:18:34,040 --> 01:18:38,600 short supplies while they and their 1707 01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:41,120 children 1708 01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:42,920 starve even as the chorus of critics 1709 01:18:41,120 --> 01:18:46,000 over the sadistic treatment of Germany 1710 01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:47,800 grew a nightmare of almost unbelievable 1711 01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:51,159 proportions was developing behind the 1712 01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:51,159 Iron Curtain 1713 01:18:58,199 --> 01:19:08,000 never mind the five more million 1714 01:19:03,960 --> 01:19:10,960 Jans Stalin will see to 1715 01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:13,440 them with a wave of the hand and a puff 1716 01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:15,520 of his cigar the British prime minister 1717 01:19:13,440 --> 01:19:18,679 thus condoned one of the greatest 1718 01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:20,440 massacres in human history with an 1719 01:19:18,679 --> 01:19:23,239 understanding reached at Yalta then 1720 01:19:20,440 --> 01:19:25,440 signed into law at potam the Soviet 1721 01:19:23,239 --> 01:19:27,960 Union swallowed vast chunks of German 1722 01:19:25,440 --> 01:19:30,320 and polish territory in the east in 1723 01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:32,480 return Poland itself devoured large 1724 01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:35,520 tracks of the former Reich in the west 1725 01:19:32,480 --> 01:19:37,560 including much of Prussia Pomerania and 1726 01:19:35,520 --> 01:19:40,080 the extremely rich industrialized 1727 01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:40,080 province of 1728 01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:46,159 cicia despite solemn reassurances by the 1729 01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:48,840 Allied leaders that the mass expulsions 1730 01:19:46,159 --> 01:19:51,600 would be carried out in an orderly and 1731 01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:53,600 Humane manner shattering glass and 1732 01:19:51,600 --> 01:19:55,320 splintering doors were usually the first 1733 01:19:53,600 --> 01:19:57,520 sounds a victim heard 1734 01:19:55,320 --> 01:20:02,320 soon followed by Angry shouts to clear 1735 01:19:57,520 --> 01:20:05,120 the home in 30 10 even 5 minutes thus by 1736 01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:07,480 10 and 20s by hundreds and thousands 1737 01:20:05,120 --> 01:20:10,440 homeless Germans now began trudging West 1738 01:20:07,480 --> 01:20:12,520 with no clear goal in mind except for 1739 01:20:10,440 --> 01:20:15,199 those able-bodied individuals held as 1740 01:20:12,520 --> 01:20:18,040 slaves and young girls retained for sex 1741 01:20:15,199 --> 01:20:20,600 roughly 11 million truers took to the 1742 01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:22,840 roads thus began the greatest death 1743 01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:26,400 march in 1744 01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:29,320 history as they left town in an endless 1745 01:20:26,400 --> 01:20:32,280 possession polish soldiers fell upon 1746 01:20:29,320 --> 01:20:35,600 them beating and flocking them in a 1747 01:20:32,280 --> 01:20:38,159 blind rage robbed of all they possessed 1748 01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:42,120 and literally stripped of the last of 1749 01:20:38,159 --> 01:20:45,120 the belongings these poor creatures 1750 01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:48,960 trudged along in the wind and the rain 1751 01:20:45,120 --> 01:20:52,560 with no roof or shelter over their heads 1752 01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:55,760 not knowing where they would find a new 1753 01:20:52,560 --> 01:20:57,400 boat of the roughly 11 million victims 1754 01:20:55,760 --> 01:21:00,800 hurled from their homes in Eastern 1755 01:20:57,400 --> 01:21:04,080 Germany an estimated 2 million mostly 1756 01:21:00,800 --> 01:21:06,480 women and children perished equally as 1757 01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:08,840 horrifying though less wellknown were 1758 01:21:06,480 --> 01:21:10,840 the nearly 1 million Germans who died 1759 01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:14,360 during similar expulsions in 1760 01:21:10,840 --> 01:21:15,159 Czechoslovakia Hungary Romania Bulgaria 1761 01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:17,960 and 1762 01:21:15,159 --> 01:21:20,040 Yugoslavia additionally an estimated 4 1763 01:21:17,960 --> 01:21:22,199 million more ethnic Germans were sent 1764 01:21:20,040 --> 01:21:24,280 East to the Soviet Union where the odds 1765 01:21:22,199 --> 01:21:26,560 of surviving as slaves were worse than 1766 01:21:24,280 --> 01:21:26,560 as 1767 01:21:27,840 --> 01:21:34,199 refugees to slice three or four ancient 1768 01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:37,800 provinces from a country then Loot and 1769 01:21:34,199 --> 01:21:41,920 plunder 9 million people of their houses 1770 01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:44,040 Farms cattle furniture and even clothing 1771 01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:47,679 and then expel them from the land they 1772 01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:50,040 have inhabited for 700 years with no 1773 01:21:47,679 --> 01:21:53,000 distinction between the innocent and the 1774 01:21:50,040 --> 01:21:56,880 guilty to drive them like unwanted 1775 01:21:53,000 --> 01:22:00,480 beasts on foot to far off provinces 1776 01:21:56,880 --> 01:22:03,800 unprotected shelterless and starving is 1777 01:22:00,480 --> 01:22:05,760 an atrocity so vast that history records 1778 01:22:03,800 --> 01:22:08,320 none 1779 01:22:05,760 --> 01:22:10,480 vaster while Western leaders such as 1780 01:22:08,320 --> 01:22:11,920 Winston Churchill later feigned surprise 1781 01:22:10,480 --> 01:22:14,360 at the tragedy they had wrought in 1782 01:22:11,920 --> 01:22:16,120 Eastern Germany little was said about 1783 01:22:14,360 --> 01:22:16,920 the deliberate starvation of the rest of 1784 01:22:16,120 --> 01:22:19,600 the 1785 01:22:16,920 --> 01:22:21,440 Reich and utter silence prevailed 1786 01:22:19,600 --> 01:22:24,159 concerning the Allied torture chambers 1787 01:22:21,440 --> 01:22:26,440 in Germany the on thepot Massacre of 1788 01:22:24,159 --> 01:22:28,800 Nazi party members and SS troops the 1789 01:22:26,440 --> 01:22:31,679 death camps run by Eisenhower or the 1790 01:22:28,800 --> 01:22:34,480 hellish Jewish torture pens in Poland 1791 01:22:31,679 --> 01:22:36,560 taken as a whole it is a certainty that 1792 01:22:34,480 --> 01:22:39,639 far more Germans died during the first 1793 01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:41,520 two years of Peace than died during the 1794 01:22:39,639 --> 01:22:45,389 previous six years of 1795 01:22:41,520 --> 01:22:45,389 [Music] 1796 01:22:50,520 --> 01:22:55,440 War World War II was the world's worst 1797 01:22:53,719 --> 01:22:57,360 war 1798 01:22:55,440 --> 01:22:59,400 World War II was the world's worst war 1799 01:22:57,360 --> 01:23:02,639 because of the evil that was Unleashed 1800 01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:05,480 on millions of helpless men women and 1801 01:23:02,639 --> 01:23:07,600 children the Allied war waged against 1802 01:23:05,480 --> 01:23:10,600 Germany both during and after the war 1803 01:23:07,600 --> 01:23:12,400 were evils so vicious and so depraved 1804 01:23:10,600 --> 01:23:14,120 that truly words have not yet been 1805 01:23:12,400 --> 01:23:16,400 invented to describe 1806 01:23:14,120 --> 01:23:19,000 them while one might estimate the 1807 01:23:16,400 --> 01:23:22,000 incredible loss of life during an after 1808 01:23:19,000 --> 01:23:24,560 World War II it is almost impossible to 1809 01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:27,000 calculate the physical and psychological 1810 01:23:24,560 --> 01:23:29,800 suffering caused by the rape torture and 1811 01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:33,120 degradation of the German 1812 01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:36,159 Nation unlike their victims the victors 1813 01:23:33,120 --> 01:23:39,320 faced no post-war prison camps no 1814 01:23:36,159 --> 01:23:42,120 slavery no torture no starvation no 1815 01:23:39,320 --> 01:23:44,960 rapes no trials for the numerous war 1816 01:23:42,120 --> 01:23:48,360 crimes and no vilification campaign that 1817 01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:51,440 persists to this very day quite the 1818 01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:53,960 opposite for the victors American 1819 01:23:51,440 --> 01:23:56,560 generals became American Presidents 1820 01:23:53,960 --> 01:23:59,239 British Prime Ministers became British 1821 01:23:56,560 --> 01:24:02,159 Knights Allied soldiers became the 1822 01:23:59,239 --> 01:24:04,520 greatest generation and The Winning Side 1823 01:24:02,159 --> 01:24:07,679 claimed complete and utter control over 1824 01:24:04,520 --> 01:24:07,679 the history of World War 1825 01:24:07,920 --> 01:24:13,360 II not surprisingly in the Winter's 1826 01:24:10,920 --> 01:24:15,719 expert hands the evil crime that was 1827 01:24:13,360 --> 01:24:17,800 World War II was quickly transformed 1828 01:24:15,719 --> 01:24:20,639 into the crusade in Europe the war to 1829 01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:24,480 end evil and simply the good 1830 01:24:20,639 --> 01:24:27,760 War year after year decade after decade 1831 01:24:24,480 --> 01:24:30,600 a mountain of movies TV shows articles 1832 01:24:27,760 --> 01:24:32,600 books are released with the sole intent 1833 01:24:30,600 --> 01:24:35,639 of heaping crime and guilt on the heads 1834 01:24:32,600 --> 01:24:37,199 of the victims at the same time the 1835 01:24:35,639 --> 01:24:39,800 victors have elevated themselves to 1836 01:24:37,199 --> 01:24:42,040 Paragons of virtue by hiding the very 1837 01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:45,280 real crimes they committed both during 1838 01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:47,000 and after the war anyone who can say 1839 01:24:45,280 --> 01:24:49,520 that the actions of the Allies were 1840 01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:52,119 Justified hopefully has never witnessed 1841 01:24:49,520 --> 01:24:55,000 a screaming child running like a living 1842 01:24:52,119 --> 01:24:56,960 torch through a flaming Street 1843 01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:59,960 never watched as a man drank his own 1844 01:24:56,960 --> 01:25:02,800 urine to stay alive even as a river ran 1845 01:24:59,960 --> 01:25:05,159 just beyond the prison fence never heard 1846 01:25:02,800 --> 01:25:07,639 the animal shrieks of the tortured as 1847 01:25:05,159 --> 01:25:10,000 their genitals are mutilated or the 1848 01:25:07,639 --> 01:25:12,719 groans of a bleeding woman begging for a 1849 01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:13,639 bullet while the line awaiting its turn 1850 01:25:12,719 --> 01:25:15,920 grows 1851 01:25:13,639 --> 01:25:19,000 longer hopefully these people have never 1852 01:25:15,920 --> 01:25:20,880 seen such things for only then one can 1853 01:25:19,000 --> 01:25:23,679 understand how they might par it over 1854 01:25:20,880 --> 01:25:26,600 and over again the standard refrain they 1855 01:25:23,679 --> 01:25:28,280 got exactly what they deserved and never 1856 01:25:26,600 --> 01:25:31,159 lose a moment's 1857 01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:34,159 sleep still if there is one Central 1858 01:25:31,159 --> 01:25:36,360 truth that was born of World War II it 1859 01:25:34,159 --> 01:25:39,719 is that clearly there is no such thing 1860 01:25:36,360 --> 01:25:41,840 as a good War those who say differently 1861 01:25:39,719 --> 01:25:44,199 are either those who profit politically 1862 01:25:41,840 --> 01:25:47,280 or financially from war or those who 1863 01:25:44,199 --> 01:25:50,440 have never witnessed War up close in all 1864 01:25:47,280 --> 01:25:50,440 its horror 1865 01:25:50,810 --> 01:26:06,350 [Music] 1866 01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:10,600 oh 1867 01:26:11,470 --> 01:26:19,920 [Music] 1868 01:26:15,920 --> 01:26:19,920 oh oh 1869 01:26:20,750 --> 01:26:44,340 [Music] 1870 01:26:43,199 --> 01:26:52,709 oh 1871 01:26:44,340 --> 01:26:52,709 [Music] 1872 01:26:54,400 --> 01:26:57,400 oh 1873 01:26:59,430 --> 01:27:09,899 [Music] 1874 01:27:40,560 --> 01:27:43,560 h 1875 01:27:51,860 --> 01:28:20,310 [Music] 1876 01:28:16,230 --> 01:28:20,310 [Laughter] 1877 01:28:20,360 --> 01:28:23,810 oh 1878 01:28:22,950 --> 01:28:24,230 [Music] 1879 01:28:23,810 --> 01:28:47,550 [Laughter] 1880 01:28:24,230 --> 01:28:47,550 [Music] 1881 01:28:49,400 --> 01:28:58,119 oh 1882 01:28:51,740 --> 01:28:59,840 [Music] 1883 01:28:58,119 --> 01:29:09,749 oh 1884 01:28:59,840 --> 01:29:09,749 [Music]130470

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