10 Odd and Fascinating Facts About the Third Reich

the national socialist german workers party first called nazis to liken them to backwood unlearned workers by those resisting the movement were behind abuse and genocide on an unprecedented scale in addition to the tragedy are many odd puzzling and occasionally conflicting facts and hidden truths that even the most casual student of history should know yet even the well studied may not be aware of the facts that we are about to cover about the third reich itself number 10. hitler's immunity what is the first rule of poisoning a victim in a hollywood movie whilst don't drink the poison yourself while adolf hitler unleashed his murderous regime aided and abetted by numerous strategic and opportunistic henchmen and conspirators the most disdainfully remembered of military aggressors and war criminals actually had the pseudo-scientific and absurdly racist laws of nazi germany written in such a way as to exclude the possibility of adolf hitler being persecuted as a jew if he were somehow found to be of jewish heritage what exactly was going on in his mind well an english article had been published in 1933 by the london daily mirror which depicted a gravestone located in bucharest jewish cemetery in the graveyard was a memorial to a man also named adolf hitler in addition to the name on the stone the relic also happened to include inscribed letters that were of the hebrew language in his fear resulting from the surprising discovery of the unrelated yet uncomfortable namesake hitler had the reich laws that defined a jew under nazi policy written to exempt jesus christ and just in case there was a connection adolf hitler himself 9. joseph goebbles was half dutch we already know that the nazi regime is notorious for having participated in aggressive military actions either to add territory through hostile acts address conflicts and grievances or persecute identifiable groups one of the victims of nazi aggression was the netherlands a country unfortunately remembered for being violently invaded by nazi-backed german forces while brutal oppression of minority groups ensued however what might come as a surprise is that while germany invaded the netherlands the man doing the yacking behind the nazi war machine propaganda minister joseph goebbels was actually born to a dutch-born catholic woman named maria katharina goebbels who had married his german father gobel suffered from significant disability stemming from contracting polio that lasted throughout his life and was also known for an exceptionally disturbing ability to make hate speech a matter of popularity to what some people might consider a surprising degree despite his role as perhaps the most vocal and strident of anti-semitic supporters of hitler the man who had an exceptionally distressing dedication to promoting hitler's regime received much university training under a revered jewish professor known for his mastery of the works of goethe number 8. eva braun's background check eva braun remains a mysterious secret to a fair degree primarily due to the fact that her very existence and presence in the fuhrer's life was a secret of the nazi state this is because hitler was supposed to be married to the reich according to twisted nazi doctrines a particular interest is that hitler's romance with brawn was not the usual romantic pursuit after becoming fascinated with brawn some would say smitten hitler studied her in a rather creepy way and then proceeded with his interest in her by ordering ss investigations into her heritage to see if she happened to be of jewish background once hitler was satisfied this possibility was not the case as far as the results of the investigation were concerned the romance between the austrian-born german nationalist fanatic and the german woman carried on without any issue that seems to be the danger of courting a nazi leader the reality that one may have fanatical background checks run behind your back over the course of braun's short life with hitler she seemed to have a full range of benefits of domestic life when it came to material provisions possibly due to her two suicide attempts number 7. werner goldberg the jewish nazi postchild the mad policies of the third reich were enabled by a curious mix of strong men intimidated common folk complying with aggression and violent sanctions criminals seeing a chance to take a piece of the action and opportunistic everyday villains and lackey weaklings who did the bidding of their fanatical higher-ups in a bizarre twist of irony the image selected to represent the ideal german soldier of nazi propaganda ideals on a widely flaunted nazi poster was one of a young german-born man with the name werner goldberg who had become a german vermont officer after entering army service because surprise surprise neither he nor his father could obtain employment because of their jewish heritage goldberg himself was half jewish despite that goldberg entered the army and participated in the invasion of poland and was photographed by a german army photographer who passed the photos onto a large berlin news outlet when hitler saw the image he was delighted forced out of the army when his jewish identity came to public glide goldberg and his father escaped from a hospital goldberg survived until 2004. number 6. dr edward block hitler's jewish doctor hitler may have been history's worst mass persecutor of jews yet few people know that he and the rest of his family were taken care of medically by a jew throughout his entire childhood dr edward block was hitler's family physician and such was the regard in which hitler held him that he had arrangements made to ensure his protection among the senseless horrors of the holocaust born in what is now part of the czech republic bloc treated hitler as a child and was also the doctor to his mother clara caring for her as she died of cancer hitler made a postcard and gave the doctor gifts the year after his mother died later as he established the virulent nazi regime life began to get hard for block under the blanket of persecutions against jewish people as people joined hitler to promote nationalism and glorify themselves at mother's expense most opportunistically block wrote to hitler to ask for some reprieve hitler had described the doctor as a noble jew in response to the doctor's request hitler had blocked put under gestapo protection allowing the doctor and his wife to remain in their home before immigrating to the united states after the end of world war ii number five hitler's chauffeur emil maurice is notorious as one of the founders of the ss who formed a close relationship with hitler prior to world war ii helping to produce hitler's book mein kampf maurice also served in a leading bodyguard role and was known as one of hitler's most trusted chauffeurs morris was the first of three shiffers engaged by hitler and also played a leading role in early revolutionary activities that grew the weight-throwing ability of the nazi party and spawned the thuggish sa and the brutal ss the catch elmill morris a trusted confidant of hitler was actually in fact partially of jewish descent the virulent anti-semitic heinrich himmler wanted maurice out but despite raging anti-semitism hitler had him protected and he remained in service the work of maurice while in prison with hitler for attempting revolutionary violence involved writing down lots of hate speech against those of jewish heritage all conflicting connections aside maury says violent agitation was unmitigated as he fed the growth of the nazi party number four the jewish baby what's the most ironic part of the nazi regime well competing for that would certainly be the fact that they held up some jewish people as representations of their aryan ideal while werner goldberg suffered jewish identity-based persecution but was later accidentally held up by the nazis as a symbol of their very physical and military ideal another jewish person had their image unintentionally used by the nazis to depict their vision of an aryan baby as part of their senseless propaganda machine born in 1934 in berlin a baby named jesse levinson's taft had her image entered in an aryan baby photo contest by a photographer who wanted to effectively troll the nazis while the stance certainly played the nazi party it is also true that the action may have put the baby's safety in danger from the brutal regime the baby's image was selected by goebbels himself as the winning photo the child survived the war left germany and at least as of 2014 was a chemistry professor working in the united states number three the peculiar story of rudolf hess rudolf hess is one of the most significant yet mysterious figures in the history of the third reich hitler's exceptionally devoted deputy hess was firstly not born in germany but in alexandria in egypt to german parents one of the earliest proponents of german aggression in the second world war and a close compatriot of hitler hess helped him prepare mein kampf while they were in prison together becoming a leading nazi party member deputy and secretary hitler has developed concerns in 1940 over the german plans to engage in a war of aggression on both the western and the eastern fronts by 1941 hess succeeded in arranging a plan to engage in negotiations to break off hostilities with the british the plan involved getting flying lessons beginning in 1940 received from no less than the chief test pilot at the messerschmitt after receiving his flight training on may the 10th 1945 hess got into a plane and flew to scotland where he attempted to negotiate with the british to end the war however he was imprisoned he ended up serving the remainder of his life in prison following findings of guilt in the nuremberg trials for fostering a war of aggression number 2. hitler's asian admiration hitler is notorious for his conceptions of the authority of a germanic master race but in fact his very words were quite contradictory to some of his actual beliefs yes he wanted to build a thousand year reich and advance the interests of eugenically advanced german people but his own statements show a very different perspective hitler is quoted as considering east asian superior in their cultural evolution to germans hitler considered chinese and japanese to be honorary aryans and sought cooperation with china to a large degree and also japan but ultimately went with japan as an allies hostilities between china and japan fested while hitler is better known for pro-indo-european sentiments and statements he stated in a racist but still admiration-filled quote the following pride in one's race and that does not imply contempt for other races is also a normal and healthy sentiment i have never regarded the chinese or the japanese as being inferior to ourselves they belong to ancient civilizations and i admit freely that their history is superior to our own they have the right to be proud of their past just as we have the right to be proud of the civilization to which we belong indeed i believe the more steadfast the chinese and the japanese remain in their pride of race the easier i shall find it to get on with them while an anti-semite it might not be technically correct to classify adolf hitler as a typical white supremacist due to his views on a superior asian history however it is true to say that he wanted to eugenically select germanic races to achieve world supremacy number 1. the strange case of albert and hermann goering hermann goering is known to be one of the worst offenders of the nazi regime standing behind the aerial assault on britain the gestapo and anti-semitic statements and directives that cost countless lives however what is less known is that he had a brave and ardently anti-nazi younger brother who went to significant lengths in a bid to save jews targeted by the nazis albert goering drew on his profound dislike of the violent persecutions carried out by the nazis and used the goring last name to obtain exit permissions on travel documents allowing escapes from nazi germany an even cleverer tactic was to request labor from concentration camps send trucks and then have the prisoners released once taken away interestingly it has been suggested by some that albert goering said to have quite a different look from his brother might possibly have been the child resulting from an affair between the children's godfather a jewish physician named hermann von epstein and the boy's mother throughout the war albert engaged in many efforts to rescue prisoners which caused gestapo reports to be filed against him however his family connections allowed him to escape and continue the rescues so i really hope you found that video interesting if you did please do hit that thumbs up button below don't forget to subscribe brand new videos just like this every day of the week and if you're looking for something else to watch right now videos 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Published: Sat Dec 01 2018