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Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HWxKahieBY&t=11154s&bpctr=1529040620 00:00:01,021 -> 00:00:03,061 part 12 Adolf Hitler - the gretest story never told! 00:00:08,703 -> 00:00:10,855 On 25 July 1943, italien leader Benito Mussolini is overthrown and imprisoned. 00:00:10,879 -> 00:00:12,810 Over the next few weeks he will be held in several top secret locations 00:00:12,834 -> 00:00:14,792 on the orders of the new italien government. 00:00:17,226 -> 00:00:19,544 A hand-picked ss squadron, along with members of luftwaffe, 00:00:19,568 -> 00:00:21,224 are given the task of finding and rescuing him 00:00:21,248 -> 00:00:22,768 before he can be handed over to the us. 00:00:23,081 -> 00:00:25,313 Hitler had personally interviewed three men to led squadron. 00:00:25,337 -> 00:00:27,137 The men he chose was... Captain Otto skorzeny. 00:00:32,791 -> 00:00:35,809 With time runing out, Mussolini's whereabouts are finaly discovered at campo imperatore 00:00:35,833 -> 00:00:37,393 high in the apennine mountains of Italy., 00:00:37,513 -> 00:00:39,833 The plan is to land the commando unit there and assault it. 00:00:41,104 -> 00:00:43,695 German military expert warn Hitler of the high probability of failure 00:00:43,719 -> 00:00:45,319 and to expect an 80 % casaulty rate. 00:00:45,976 -> 00:00:47,776 The codename for the mission is operation oak. 00:01:04,025 -> 00:01:07,223 The 12th of September 1943, central Italy. 00:01:07,949 -> 00:01:09,737 High above mount gran sasso. 00:03:38,664 -> 00:03:40,839 The most daring and spectacular raid of world war two was completed 00:03:40,863 -> 00:03:42,943 in just 12 minutes without a single shot being fired. 00:03:45,440 -> 00:03:47,466 Captain skorzeny greeted Mussolini with now immortal words... 00:03:47,490 -> 00:03:49,290 "Duce, the furer has sent me to set you free!" 00:03:50,690 -> 00:03:51,758 To which Mussolini replied... 00:03:51,782 -> 00:03:53,542 "I knew that my friend would not forsake me!" 00:03:54,419 -> 00:03:56,342, On his return, captain skorzeny was promoted by Hitler to the rank of major 00:03:56,366 -> 00:03:58,926 and awarded the knight's cross of the iron cross with oak leaves, 00:03:59,325 -> 00:04:01,565 the highest order a German military officer could obtain. 00:04:03,194 -> 00:04:05,154 Mussolini awarded him the order of 100 musketeers. 00:04:06,093 -> 00:04:09,053 The allies would come to know skorzeny as the most dangerous man in Europe. 00:04:21,890 -> 00:04:24,091 At the nuremberg trials, skorzeny was accused of war crimes but acquitted. 00:04:24,115 -> 00:04:26,195 Whilst awaiting a further trial, he escaped to Spain. 00:04:27,397 -> 00:04:29,216 He then moved to Argentina but return to establish a successful 00:04:29,240 -> 00:04:31,640 construction company that would make him a multi-millionaire. 00:04:32,484 -> 00:04:35,484 Otto skorzeny finally succumbed to cancer on 5 July 1975, aged 67 in Madrid. 00:04:36,333 -> 00:04:37,793 His ashes were later flown to viena, Austria to be interred 00:04:37,817 -> 00:04:39,783 in the skorzeny family plot at döblinger friedhof. 00:04:58,748 -> 00:05:00,588, Otto skorzeny the most dangerous man in Europe. 00:05:05,142 -> 00:05:08,064 1943 operation gomorrah 00:05:11,872 -> 00:05:18,913 on Saturday, July 24th, 792 raf bombers readied for a night attack on Hamburg. 00:05:21,314 -> 00:05:25,143 Each loaded with tons of high explosives and incendiary bombs. 00:05:28,142 -> 00:05:32,462 It was the first of a series of attacks that would continue for an entire week, 00:05:33,868 -> 00:05:36,705 codenamed operation gomorrah. 00:05:43,424 -> 00:05:45,032 By 1943, the us had finally rearmed the British. 00:05:45,056 -> 00:05:47,322 Now the countries of capitalism and communism and those they dominate, 00:05:47,346 -> 00:05:49,542 will combine to seek the total annihilation one of most advanced civilisation 00:05:49,566 -> 00:05:50,773 the world had ever seen. 00:05:51,443 -> 00:05:52,929 Under national socialism, 00:05:53,426 -> 00:05:55,160 Germany in a few short years had arisen 00:05:55,195 -> 00:05:56,875 from financial ruin and social degradation,, 00:05:57,076 -> 00:05:59,316 to lead Europe in science, technology art and literature. 00:05:59,470 -> 00:06:00,790 It will now be surrounded. 00:06:01,584 -> 00:06:03,855 The Germany wil eventually be attacked by over 50 countries 00:06:03,879 -> 00:06:05,599 led by the Soviet union, britain and the us. 00:06:07,019 -> 00:06:08,698 Over Hamburg, the Americans will strategically bomb 00:06:08,722 -> 00:06:10,750 industrial plants during the day, whilst the British will purposely 00:06:10,774 -> 00:06:13,094 target civilians at night, aiming at the tighty-knit houses 00:06:13,186 -> 00:06:14,557 of the working class communities. 00:06:16,233 -> 00:06:18,443 In what was a heious and barbaric war crime of epic proportions, 00:06:18,467 -> 00:06:20,947 insigned by Churchill and raf commander Arthur "bomber" Harris, 00:06:20,979 -> 00:06:23,179 over 50.000 will be incinerated in the ensuing firestorm 00:06:23,393 -> 00:06:25,488 that will become known as Germany's "Hiroshima". 00:06:29,012 -> 00:06:31,012 The allies exepect the war, to be over by Christmas, 00:06:31,068 -> 00:06:33,503 confident that the firebombing of other cities will force the Germans 00:06:33,527 -> 00:06:35,551 to turn over Adolf Hitler and the third reich. 00:06:38,429 -> 00:06:40,543 Yet, no matter how many bombs allies drop on German cities, 00:06:40,567 -> 00:06:42,819 there will never be a hint of an upraising against führer. 00:06:46,292 -> 00:06:49,047 "People were sitting there in the cellar trembling, 00:06:49,432 -> 00:06:53,542 and we saw the walls shivering. 00:06:54,127 -> 00:06:56,300 As it was, but trembling, and... 00:06:57,955 -> 00:06:59,883 Those nights we can never forget in our lives. 00:07:00,171 -> 00:07:01,417 I cannot forget it ever. 00:07:03,579 -> 00:07:06,573 We asked ourselves, why are they doing this to our führer? 00:07:06,600 -> 00:07:09,015 And we were told by everyone, 00:07:09,407 -> 00:07:11,694 because they hated the führer. 00:07:11,935 -> 00:07:14,678 Because the führer wanted, to create a better world. 00:07:16,701 -> 00:07:18,853 Maybe Churchill and Roosevelt 00:07:19,463 -> 00:07:22,401 thought they could demoralize the German people with bombing? 00:07:23,040 -> 00:07:27,768 And make them surrender? But he reached the opposite of it." 00:08:02,627 -> 00:08:05,225 In the aftermath of the firestorm, 00:08:05,572 -> 00:08:08,249 almost a million refugees fled Hamburg 00:08:08,855 -> 00:08:10,996 and took with them stories of the most terrible 00:08:11,924 -> 00:08:13,401 horror that they'd witnessed. 00:08:13,914 -> 00:08:16,000 This caused a panic across Germany, 00:08:16,511 -> 00:08:19,149 which was unlike anything that they'd ever experienced before. 00:08:21,658 -> 00:08:25,435 In the aftermath of the Hamburg attacks, the American and British commanders 00:08:25,850 -> 00:08:28,665 remained committed to their sharply divergent strategies. 00:08:30,962 -> 00:08:34,226 Eaker continued to press precision attacks on industrial targets. 00:08:34,737 -> 00:08:35,737, Major general ira c. Eaker 00:08:36,754 -> 00:08:39,800 Harris championed the bombing of cities. Air chief marshal Arthur "bomber" Harris 00:08:39,824 -> 00:08:42,629 and the city he was focused on - Berlin. 00:08:42,660 -> 00:08:43,660 Operation "thunderclap" 00:08:44,865 -> 00:08:46,625 the total devastation of the center of Berlin 00:08:50,947 -> 00:08:52,739 the red terror moves west 00:08:55,219 -> 00:08:58,996 Stalin's military troikas come in the wake of the resurgent red army. 00:09:00,371 -> 00:09:02,970 They tour a land scorched by the departing Germans, 00:09:03,601 -> 00:09:05,240 convening kangaroo courts 00:09:05,613 -> 00:09:09,590 to purge partisan units of nationalists, anti-communists. 00:09:19,815 -> 00:09:22,361 There is no hiding place for Nazi collaborators. 00:09:22,991 -> 00:09:25,646 The white card of betrayal hangs round their necks 00:09:25,991 -> 00:09:27,645 as they pay the price of treason., 00:09:37,206 -> 00:09:39,946 There is no pity for the young boys who flocked in innocence 00:09:40,276 -> 00:09:41,533 to join the Hitler youth. 00:09:43,062 -> 00:09:45,455 His desperate plea for clemency will be in vain. 00:10:02,330 -> 00:10:04,161 The flight from communism 00:10:12,257 -> 00:10:14,494 as the communists begin to recapture territories formerly occupied by the Germans, 00:10:14,518 -> 00:10:17,158 more and more refugees flee west in a desperate bid to rich safety. 00:10:20,621 -> 00:10:23,531 However, the exodus bring with it poverly, over-crowding and malnutrition. 00:10:23,555 -> 00:10:26,064 These conditions are the perfect breedig ground for what has become known 00:10:26,088 -> 00:10:28,048 over the centuries as the "war disease"... typhus. 00:10:31,190 -> 00:10:32,750 A typhus epidemic had already broken out 00:10:32,980 -> 00:10:35,217 during the summer of 1942 at the Auschwitz-birkenau pow camp, 00:10:35,241 -> 00:10:37,542 when between 1-19 August, over 4.000 deaths were registered, 00:10:37,566 -> 00:10:39,225 at an average of 216, prisoers a day. 00:10:40,326 -> 00:10:42,506 The Germans managed to save thousands during the outbreak 00:10:42,530 -> 00:10:44,650 using pesticide zyklon b, but the disease is so deadly 00:10:44,905 -> 00:10:47,015 that the victim's clothing had to be removed after death 00:10:47,039 -> 00:10:48,996 and burned to destroy the typhus-bearing lice. 00:10:49,181 -> 00:10:51,768 In 1943, potentially devastating epidemics in sicily and throughout Italy 00:10:51,792 -> 00:10:54,032 were only averted by cocerted American delousing campaign 00:10:54,248 -> 00:10:57,012 using the recenty-invented compound called ddt. 00:11:17,556 -> 00:11:21,426 "Germany at that time already was besieged by 51 countries, 00:11:21,722 -> 00:11:23,202 they were struggling for their lives. 00:11:23,521 -> 00:11:24,544 And they took us in. 00:11:27,638 -> 00:11:31,645 We were all put into what looked like a great big bathroom. 00:11:32,055 -> 00:11:35,631 And what happened eventually is that they rained soap and water on us., 00:11:35,983 -> 00:11:38,792 And the reason for that was that we had to be deloused. 00:11:39,118 -> 00:11:40,803 We were so full of lice. 00:11:41,819 -> 00:11:45,059 So, when I hear about the shower heads in the holocaust, and all of that, 00:11:45,403 -> 00:11:46,483 I know exactly what it was. 00:11:46,639 -> 00:11:49,631 That was soap and water raining down on us to delouse us. 00:11:50,084 -> 00:11:51,277 To wash us down like dogs. 00:11:54,086 -> 00:11:55,406 The same for the cutting of hair. 00:11:55,700 -> 00:12:00,099 I mean we were all shorn bald in order to stop the lice. 00:12:00,399 -> 00:12:01,900 Everybody had lice in the war, 00:12:02,261 -> 00:12:03,916 and this was just common knowledge. 00:12:06,890 -> 00:12:10,583 We considered ourselves lucky if we could ride those cattle cars. 00:12:11,002 -> 00:12:13,927 And yes, they were crammed full of people, and yes it was very difficult, 00:12:14,925 -> 00:12:16,491 you know, to travel like that., 00:12:16,893 -> 00:12:18,496 You couldn't... Often you could not sit, 00:12:18,902 -> 00:12:21,204 you had to stand because they were crammed full. 00:12:21,853 -> 00:12:23,496 This is how it was in those years. 00:12:23,838 -> 00:12:25,438 People were hanging on those cattle cars. 00:12:25,627 -> 00:12:27,814 When you see those pictures, that could have been us. 00:12:28,406 -> 00:12:29,406 We were like that. 00:12:31,184 -> 00:12:32,584 The same when you see the bunk beds. 00:12:32,976 -> 00:12:36,056 My goodness, we were lucky if we had bunk beds where you could sleep at night. 00:12:36,379 -> 00:12:39,062 It meant we did not have to sleep outside in the snow." 00:13:05,712 -> 00:13:07,568 To be continued]

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