The SS : Hitler’s Fanatical Killing Machine (Part 1) | FULL DOCUMENTARY

Central Germany 1933 Hitler has been in power for several months here is one of the first films filmed by the SS the sh stafin or protection squads recognizable by the skulls on their caps and the lightning initials on their flags were not afraid of death, they said neither inflict it nor suffer it all volunteered to join what according to their criteria was a group of superior Nazis verer fuler is a former member of the skull division of the SS he was nine years old when Hitler came to power he is still he knows by heart the Nazi

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y official song The Host ship lead yes he was born in Berlin in 1924 this German lives in the south of England where he married and made a new life at the end of the Second World War he spent several years in prisoner of war camps allies because he had been in the SS, we, Mo, said like this, no, this, and the evaluation was like this, what fascinated me was the military aspect, firm and firm when I said good morning, clicked my heels, nodded and I said H Hitler, the perspective was really great. about life was good, do the work and finish with this

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that takes us to find members of the SS who are still alive to try to understand the incomprehensible.

After several months of research, we discovered more than 20 SS veterans living in different countries in Europe. Words that often impact. Some have broken with Nazism, others have not. This man is one of them. Kurt Bazen is 92 years old. He lives in central Germany. He was also in the Skull Division, whose members often worked in concentration camps, which for us counted above all. the purity of the person who What do you want from life? Secondly, he has a healthy family, he is married, having children is a gift from God, a guarantee of happiness, after that there are people, how did our ancestors live?

What did they believe in? What made them were they real Germans? We, these were our fundamental values, a world that has disappeared as little as ours but at the same time so close, only 80 years separate us from these young people who embraced fanaticism to justify themselves. They all point to 198, when Germany lost the First World War, Versailles, the Treaty of peace took away several border regions from Germany the Versa treaty was a humiliation for Germany a supreme humiliation we Germans had lost we were designated as the only ones responsible just as in the Third World War in addition to the perceived humiliation came the nightmare of the Germany of the 1920s unemployment, poverty and shame when in 1923 the French and Belgian governments decided to cross the border and occupy the rue to claim their war reparations directly from the factories, when seeking to justify their crimes, the SS often pointed out the tribulations of war.

Humiliation of the 20s, yes, now if you are in your own country and someone comes and does bad things to you, you are humiliated, aren't you? They said Nazism restored their dignity. They began to form ranks behind an Austrian World War I corporal, Adolf Hitler. a radical nationalist who promised them that he would erase the shame that we were on our knees, we had been poor and miserable and suddenly became someone again where would this commitment take them, the SS did not know that we were delighted with this change, what they What they What he did know was that their first targets would be the communists, those anti-Germans as they called them, they have been fighting them in the streets since the end of the war, they accused them of betraying the nation and overthrowing the emperor with their Revolution of 1918, while The German army continued the fight against the allies, why did we have to fight them?

Because they wanted to build a workers' state with workers from all countries, including the United States. I remember in Hamburg, as a child, seeing big demonstrations in the street, my father said. if they come to power with screws, I was talking about the Communist Party, National Socialism was more social than Communism and, in political terms, it was dedicated exclusively to Germany, while Communism was directed at the world and was largely led by Jews. The abortionist view that the Jews were the real enemy worse than the communists who said that Hitler was taking over the Jews had benefited from the misery of the German people that they hid everywhere said his Manifesto behind the communists who see the power in Russia in 1917 behind the capitalists in New York who pull the strings of the world economy for the propaganda minister Joseph Geros the hour of the great confrontation was near it was a vengeful visceral hatred repressed for too long born of racist theories of the 19th century a sinister indication of what was to come look at the men of the SS here in In the room it was they who in less than 10 years took the lead role in the murder of millions of Jews since its creation in 1925.

The SS had been Hitler's bodyguards. They stood out in their elegant black uniforms and could be seen everywhere alongside the

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y leaders. They wanted to attract attention to distinguish themselves. I knew it was an elite formation; in other words, they wouldn't accept any Tom Dick and Harry. I wanted to be part of an elite division. They were the showcase of the new regime. New recruits had to be tall at least 5' 6 and young under 23 without Jewish ancestry they had to provide genealogical details dating back to the 18th century Strength Prestige manhood in the Third Reich If you want a successful career If you want a successful life you join to the SS women I was very interested in the idea of ​​meeting the SS men and making friends with them.

They were obviously ideal companions. The SS were in great demand. Marrying a member of the SS was an honor. Of course, they were also known as the Black Order, a name they linked to the Knights of the Middle Ages, when Germanic soldier monks colonized Eastern Europe. They were

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of grandiose ideas that they were the new Lords of Germany who had been entrusted with the task of replacing the old aristocratic elite that had always ruled the country since G is a Protestant minister. The SS unit, Das division, committed numerous atrocities during the war at the age of 17.

He says he joined the SS to defy his parents, who refused to allow a relationship with a young Catholic girl. This led to images in Germany showing a young woman. The man's hand was inscribed in the war for freedom and he knelt before his beloved, who blessed him. All those emotions that I don't think we can understand or express today existed back then. Our motto written on our buckles Bel was my honor. is my loyalty, it meant there was no CEI when facing the enemy, the ideology that Himler had instilled in the US was: you are nothing, your people are everything, you belong to the nation, the nation is, you are you, you are part of the nation.

I wanted to prove it. that I was willing to risk my life for that ideology to rescue a clan the new fearless man capable of eliminating compassion from their hearts the racial spearhead of the German people as they saw themselves this is Heinrich Himler their boss one of the biggest criminals of all In his time he belonged to the educated middle class of Munich, anti-Semitic, anti-communist, anti-Christian, one of the first Nazis and one of the most ambitious. At the age of 23 he participated in the P brewery when Hitler tried to overthrow the German Republic and established a fascist regime as Musolini had done in Rome the previous year.

The coup failed after clashes with the police in Feren Hara Square but Himler took over. notice and from that moment his rise step by step was irresistible 10 years later he was in charge of 50,000 SS he was still subordinate to the room here with his arm raised the head of the sa party militia it was an unbearable position for Himler for months with The help of several Nazi dignitaries tried to persuade the Furer that Rome was conspiring against the government. On June 30, 1934, it was called The Night of the Long Knives. The Men in Black would massacre their own comrades.

Hitler himself triggered the events. by having a room in a Bavarian hotel where he was staying seized and he was transferred to a Munich prison. by the SS and liquidated along with members of his staff with this fratricidal mass. M Himler now under direct orders from Hitler obtained autonomy for the SS in 1936 this uncharismatic man was appointed chief of police for all of Germany, in addition to the SS and its intelligence service the SD now controlled all uniformed police officers, as well as to the Criminal Division and the secret police the wound with the faithful Hinrich as Hitler called him Germany became a state under police control and its young SS as obedient as

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s when you are a soldier you have to follow orders you are not there to think that's how it was Today it is different to build in the moment we said leave the thinking to the horses they have bigger heads we were not telling jokes and laughing pay attention quickly March Left Right an order was an order if someone gave me an order to do then I do it with blood and dirt Himmler's new Creed in exchange for their obedience the SS R offered its men a new imaginary world of German mythology and racial superiority pursuing the slightest trace of exploitable German history created a religion that could replace Christianity a religion based on race with its particular beliefs and rituals here the baptism of a child without a priest the minister is an SS officer and the crucifix has been replaced by a portrait of Hitler this m I found the atmosphere and ceremonial mythology fascinating.

I have never forgotten it. I forgot that the SS were promised healthy, smiling wives before their weddings. The women were sent to courses in Nazi party schools. It was not purely scientific. Wedding plans had to be approved by the SS racial service. Devoting themselves to their husbands and to the procreation of future SS members, these women would join an order of knights and become Nazi fighters themselves. To rise in the ranks of the SS, a member had to marry before the age of 26. having their first child at age 28, then another every 2 years, with at least four in total, unprecedented in any previous political organization.

Himler controlled the private lives of his members. Do not be afraid of death. He told them that the individual dies, but through his children, people will grow. Beyond. life most of the SS we have known were still children in their 30s raised in a totalitarian state they were subjected to Hitler's propaganda one of the most extensive brainwashing of the 20th century this man is a left-wing activist and trade unionist in Hanover He is a former SS man from the Viking division. His now totally repudiated radicalization began in kindergarten when the Nazis made candy for children with Swas stickers.

He was proud to eat those sweets but he was even prouder when he was 5 years old. at school and we would go on walks or visits and I could wear my swastika bracelet. All of this was instilled in America quite deliberately to the point that in 1934, when I was 10 years old, that state of mind with the uniforms and the Hitler salute was quite natural, in fact, I didn't know anyone who was opposed to this. Children were conditioned daily with insidious fascist ideology and shockingly anti-Semitic racism. For Hitler, they were to be considered future soldiers of the Reich with the best of them they were destined to join the SS my parents were devastated I deeply hated Jews I would never have sat next to a Jew at school they were never just not our thing race Jews were an abomination Money-obsessed lazy traitor thieves slit throats in youth organizations Budding SS members received military training from an early age, like in Sparta and ancient Greece, the state educated the children we used to like sing songs The waves will approach them the world is at peace it means the extermination of the Jews who would be drowned annihilated at that time the extermination of Jews was not on the agenda but the barriers were falling like here at a carnival in Nuremberg where an effigy of a Jew was hanged from a float or in this vile racist propaganda film this twisted view of Germany being a victim of its Jewish communities is so profound that it continues to warp the minds of some former SS members.

I don't know if you would like it if when you have a very precise blood type you accepted a race that is fundamentally different in its way of being, its religion and its very conception of life, and who would be as common in society as real Germans. blood that were born here, this Austrian member of the SS never committed any crime, he says, but on its shelves like a shrine. to the Nazi bloodlust are his old dagger and a cruel caricature of an Eastern European Jew there are still our enemies, he says off camera to avoid being sued, he uses a metaphor when you have good apples and you mix them with pears and then you don't you end up without any apples.

No way, that's all. It was at the age of 14 that Herbert von Milenberg saw Hitler for the first time. There was something in his eyes when he looked at us.fascinating we sang we are not going home we are not going home before the fur speaks we were in heaven like idiot football fans in the stadium today Hitler The man who would resurrect Germany was a heady fact the fact is that 6 million unemployed found work in the within 5 years increasing aid to workers engaged in leisure activities previously reserved for the elite and financing massive rearmament and major construction projects through the confiscation of Jewish assets and massive debt Hitler bought the approval of the German people for The SS that we met was a miracle, it was proof that Hitler had fulfilled what he had promised.

The man had guts. He was not a coward. Would you say that Hitler was the man of your life? Yes 100% 100% SS fanaticism born of humiliation, fascination with a savior and an unbreakable feeling of superiority in just a few years this hellish spiral. LED Germany the land of Gerta K and Beethoven on the brink of the abyss an entire people faced oblivion there was a form of ideological blindness I believe that the deeply destructive nature of National Socialism was masked at that time by the success of the repression that began in 1933 political opponents were isolated from the rest of society as a preventive measure without trial the task was entrusted to the sa then the s the pretext was the burning of the rich dog the german parliament

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presented it as the beginning of a new communist revolution the communists want to overthrow the state that they were told that they were considered a danger to the community where they were removed from the community and the community was able to get on with their lives.

I myself noticed that people who had previously expressed their opposition at party meetings had now disappeared, Either the communists joined our movement or they continued to oppose us and were sent to special camps, which were later better called concentration camps. So, since there was almost no opposition in Germany, it was no longer possible. Hera, from a modest family in northern Germany, is a former member of the SS. At age 21 she interrupted her nursing studies to look for work. She was offered a job as a women's prison guard, she owes it to her. She had an appointment at the employment agency with a Mr.

Brfa, he said: m b you are going to be a guard in a concentration camp. I told him what is a concentration camp, it is a camp and you are protecting women oh I can't do that if you refuse they will send you to the camp yourself, my God what could I do? So I went. They were not yet extermination camps, just internment camps, but the SS imposed a regime of Terror on the prisoners, they had to stay outside both in summer and winter, among those who were standing in the cold, some fell, yes, some fell from the blows or they had to stay on their knees I don't know then what you did when you saw so much brutality I turned around I didn't look I couldn't look at that hero who would be sentenced to 10 years in prison after the war has little to say about the brutality this photographic reconstruction made by prisoners after the Liberation shows one of the most common forms of torture at that time with his hands tied behind his back tied to a rope a prisoner has to stand on a stool when he falls exhausted he is suspended by his arms and his shoulders are dislocated but who cared about torture public opinion saw the SS as returning what was deviated to the right path these prisoners in striped uniforms were filmed near the duhal camp the filmmaker a baker who supplied the camp staff with various objects made by the prisoners like these chandeliers, this little horse and these beds, he filmed his friends, including the SS camp officers.

This is the pool where the guards could relax after work. Who could imagine that the prisoners behind the Watchtower seen in the distance were going through hell on the eve of World War II? The SS camps had silenced all opposition, apparently no one opposed the camps if they said God pris to me and told me to go up the tower there is a

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gun and someone tries to escape you shoot them of course I would do it on the 9th November 1938 at the Feld Halla in Munich. Less than a year after the start of World War II and the beginning of the Massacre, these thousands of SS men are about to experience one of the most important events of their lives, among them Ard, a future captain of the SS.

Viking division that was the square. The packed stands were filled with spectators left and right. The oath ceremony began at midnight. I saw Hitler arrive very solemn and then the SS men recited his oath. We speak the words from the heart. Jesus. The phrase until death was a shock, of course. Loyalty to that point is too much, that's going too far, but it was too late. The first large-scale massacre of Jews took place that same night. She would be known as Crystal KN throughout the country. Nazi activists murdered almost a hundred Jews. They smashed storefronts and burned synagogues.

These home movies show firefighters arriving at a fire and the ss men at the bottom of the frame smiling and preventing them from putting it out. Himler had given the order to let the synagogues burn without setting fire to the German buildings as he called them I saw how the shop windows were broken I saw how the Jews were taken away and I saw the Jews mistreated at that moment I did not understand why did I feel anti-Semitic yes, but not in the sense that people use that word today which implies the extermination of the Jews by joining the SS they said they wanted to raise Germany up again and at the same time help themselves to rise above other peoples with the outbreak of the Second World War they would soon go from collective intoxication to mass murder in September 1939 Hitler attacked Poland starting the Second World War in the offensive the SS played a crucial role in justifying the invasion the furer ordered them to fake a Polish provocation the SS simulated a Polish attack a bloody one on the German border Dirty work the The SS had done it from the beginning and would do it to the end The SS also participated in the fighting alongside the regular army Vermont if the SS sacrificed themselves on the front paying with their blood they explained to their leaders that they would have the moral right to lead the repression in Germany to these men destined to fight on the front line himler gave them the name vafan SS the armed SS 800,000 men joined The SS vafan during the war saw themselves as political soldiers and in the eyes of the regime they were reliable Hitler could count on them in case of trouble at home or abroad at the time when there was a recruitment advertisement for armored divisions the vafin SS were armored troops and for me the term armed troops was fascinating here is one of those vafan SS M FR Dina age 16 for this son of Baker from Thuringia it was an opportunity for social advancement with us there was no leftist sir sir yes Captain sir the relations between soldiers and officers were completely different the ass officer could not order a soldier to dig a hole he had to dig himself and there was also the fact that in the school those who volunteered during their last school year they graduated without having to take their exams in other subject units, you needed your exams to be an officer, the VA SS made an exception, even if, since I only had a basic school certificate you could become an officer it was an ideal world a role model For the German people in reality these men were no longer their own masters with a tattoo of their blood group indelibly marked under their left arm they had to become another person once inside the black order there was no way to return here they are again the young people The SS soldiers that we saw in a drill in their barracks are now at the forefront of the invasion of France, since in Poland the SS soldiers committed war crimes and were murderers. rage to which their leaders would turn a blind eye, in particular this boss Zap Dietrich, one of the murderers of the night of the long knives, they knew that for their leaders only victory mattered, the Germans crushed France in 6 weeks, managing to make what the previous generation of 25 years before had not managed to do in four years.

I thought to myself that the French had realized that the Germans, despite the humiliation and despite the Treaty of Versa, had taken the lead again and I thought that must have hurt the French, it was just a step. In June 1941, a year after the victory against France and after having conquered Yugoslavia and Greece, Hitler unleashed his troops on Stalin's American SSR with the aim of destroying communism and conquering a vital space for the Aryan race, the Nazis waged a different war. type against the USSR colored by the indoctrination of the 193 years a war of extermination against the communist Jews and any individual suspected of opposing the Reich this horrible scene was filmed behind the lines by a German with his own cameraman men of Jewish origin executed and buried in a ditch Hans Fedish was in the first SS infantry brigade a few months before his death in 2005.

He confessed on film to his involvement in the murder of several thousand Jews. They were in such a state of shock, so scared that we could do whatever we wanted. They try to imagine that there is a ditch on one side there were people and in front there were soldiers and that was us and we shot those who were hit and they fell into the ditch. What were you thinking and feeling while you were shooting? Can you tell us it was nothing? I just thought I'd aim well so they would be killed with one shot that's my man that was my only thought that was your only thought you didn't have any feelings for the Jewish civilians you were executing no no and why not that's because my hatred towards The Jews was so strong and I admitted that I was wrong to think that I admit it, but what I went through as a child on the farm, what the Jews did to us, that hatred, I will always feel it, I know it's what it did to us. the Jews did to him in his childhood no one knows it is likely that he himself is not sure who participated with so much enthusiasm they were crazy they wanted to be super nais and this meant exterminating non-stop in terms of public opinion when talking to people about the Jews many would say that the only thing we can do is exterminate