The Nazis meticulously planned and documented their acts of mass murder. They were just as meticulous when it came to covering their tracks. Their systematic, cruel methods are a chapter of war history that’s still largely unknown.
On their advance to the east, Nazi perpetrators initially buried the victims of their executions in mass graves. But after the war seemed lost, following the Red Army counter-offensive, they feared their atrocities would be discovered. They began using more sophisticated methods to remove incriminating evidence.
The systematic way the “bureaucrats of mass murder” went about erasing their tracks and the gruesome, inhumane methods they used is still a largely unknown chapter of World War Two history. Many relatives of Jews, Sinti and Roma, partisans or civilians killed in the conflict are still waiting to this day for any information about the whereabouts of their loved ones’ remains, so that they can at least be given a dignified memorial.
The documentary film accompanies the French organization Yahad-In Unum as it conducts research in Ukraine. In the Lviv region, researchers attempt to identify the locations of mass shootings and find any eyewitnesses who might still be alive and able to recount what they saw. The film also tells the story of Rüdiger Schallock, whose grandfather Walter was a member of the SS. Rüdiger Schallock is also in Lviv searching for information about his grandfather’s involvement in Nazi crimes. The deeds of Walter Schallock still cast a dark shadow over the family to this day.
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DW, how come you dont do a piece on the Herero peoples Massacre in Namibia?
America was founded on the mass graves of Native Americans.
Ahhyes there it is ☝🏻.. that old familiar Wikipedia link attached to the video. Says all anyone needs to know IF they know what it means to see it attached to every debated historical video. Watching these people investigate other peoples "crimes" against even more of "their" people tells me that it's precisely the exact same thing as when law enforcement officers here in the United States commit rights violations and worse only to find out the internal affairs department is the same exact people that committed the rights violations and worse..in the first place. Sad to think people can be that way. There's your REAL evil.
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It feels like lies because when one tells someone something from true memories instead of scripts.. there is zero reason why they would ever need someone else to write everything down so they can re-read it out loud under oath as if it's their own words from memory. That is folly and most certainly not trust or truthful testimony
@28:05 so very very much obvious that they coached this "witness" and then wrote down the script that he was personally intended to read out loud under oath. Other people other than just people like myself see these things and deep down.. I just know in my own heart that they themselves just know it in their own hearts. But wait a minute.. Why though 🤔
Churchill Killed Millions in Bengal, Japan Killed Millions, Raped Chinese & Korean women why is it that no one talks about this. Why do people traget what they like & feed aother people the same. I mean germans killed jews at last still people says nazis killed them😂😂 west is full of lies & hypocrisy.
don't show this to Elon
DW, you now need to do a film on your Uncle Joe, the Holodomor.
I don't know how you or UT deleted my previous comment, but you have done it before.
Stop with the censorship!
Stop genocide war crime atrocities in Gaza. Stop the apartheid genocide regime in Gaza.
A truthful show of a documentary about Nazism regime systems atrocities against several groups of human beings … documentary shared by an amazing ( DW) documentary channel.
Those "State Department" spooks at the end were like creepy ghouls wow.
Israel doing the same thing.
As a human race have we learnt anything. We aid and abet crimes against humanity, and being extorted or held to ransom by perpetuating this currently.
This is now the far right!
it almost looks like ISRAEL / US genocide. The similarities in their brutalities and cover-up are striking.
Is it sort of like how some modern pro-war governmetns today conceal their atrocities?
Just like to say DW you are making some of the most interesting ww2 war documentary. I consider myself education on history. But never even heard of this before extremely interesting.
“The biggest insult to the memory of the Holocaust is not denying it but using it to commit genocide against the Palestinian people.”
– Norman Finkelstein
"The nazis made me afraid of being Jewish and the zionists made me ashamed of being Jewish."
– Israel Shahak
If nature wasn’t so forgiving (regenerating) I highly doubt these minds would be at war
I wonder why they hate juice.
Respect how germans repent their past deeds while japanese are busy trying to distort and deny their warcrimes
This was hundred years ago…. Think they should think of what's being done in the east….no difference I'm afraid.
Mind blowing documentary 👌 🙌 👏 🙏
Search up Japanese Unit 731 and you will see what they did in WW2.
Free Ursula
Ironically there is a good chance that Hitler was 25% Jewish, his father's parentage would make a good documentary.
This documentary is amazing, as I listen to the narration gives me goose-bumps. Another outstanding research and reporting of the DW team.
We also need to remember how some of the perpetrators were protected after the war by governments and the catholic church. And if caught the pathetic sentences the low hanging fruit received, the bigwigs got away scot free, Albert Speer for one , and really only Eichman paid the price.
The Nazis were not the only ones to commit atrocities. Almost every nation committed them in one form or another.
This Holocaust story is told way too many times. Movies, documentaries etc… There are many other atrocities that happened in history that don't get told.
Please Document on South Africa and the recent discovery of illegal Lybian military training camps.
Please dub the documentaries into Brazilian Portuguese. Excellent work DW
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I lived 12 years in Switzerland, I found out that many Germans Swiss and Austrians are very proud to be Nazis, they try to show the world otherwise but they are Nazis in their hearts and minds. Is sad but apart of Berlin I don’t think people has real regrets or are conscious how the world is messed up today duo to their entitlement and nazi mentality.
This is a very important documentary. Many people have scant knowledge regarding what happened to approximately 6 million Jews during WW2. Most people think of Auschwitz Birkenau and gas chambers. A third or nearly a third at least were killed by bullets and all in the East from Poland and beyond, and mostly before the organised murder in gas chambers began.
This is proof that the SS, Gestapo and SD knew that they had to conceal these crimes before it became apparent that the war was beginning to turn against Germany.
To Hitler, who suggested Genocide of Jews?
Colonia Dignidad has a city with enormous amounts of Nazis that does there , even war criminal officers. Very sickening
And how you guys are conciling Israeli’s.
Always on the wrong side of history these Germans
Just ask Israel what they are doing to the innocent Palestinians and how they are getting away with it ?
Germans and their guilt complex. Enough already.
Free Palestine
Right wing England needs to watch and learn.
I had no ideia! Thanks again DW for releasing these docs on YT.
Do you think that the Nazi Germany did care about what they were doing against Jews and others?
Of course Not beside they were proudly about it so why they were trying to hide it.
Very appreciative of the research here—thank you for helping me learn these details about the Shoah that I wasn't aware of. It's never too late to bring open discussion to (and thereby healing from) these wrongs or to help people see and understand how bureaucracy and active violence are both part of genocide.