Maximilian Grabner was born on 2 October 1905 in Vienna, then part of Austria-Hungary. After Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, he fully intended to bring about an Austro-German union.
The Anschluss, as it became known, took place over three days between the 11th and 13th of March 1938. 6 months later, at the beginning of September 1938 Grabner joined the SS and rose to the rank of SS-Untersturmführer, which was equivalent to the 2nd Lieutenant. The Second World War began on the 1st of September 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. From November the same year, Grabner worked as a criminal secretary at the State Police Office in Polish Katowice, which was annexed by the German Reich. At the end of May 1940, he became head of the Political Department in the newly established Auschwitz concentration camp, as it was located in his police district. His position in the camp hierarchy was ambivalent, as on one hand he had to follow the disciplinary and administrative orders of the camp commandant, but on the other hand, he was only subordinate to his superior Gestapo departments in the performance of his official duties. Grabner’s staff carried out the “intensified interrogations” he ordered on suspected prisoners, during which they were systematically tortured and then imprisoned in the bunker of Block 11.
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I can't help but compare the roots of these horrible people to those of MAGA in the U.S. there are so many similarities.
The Victor's never have large war crime trials against them. Funny how that happens.🤔
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Typical bully
How do the Germans of today rationalize their past history?
If he was "lucky" Albert Pierrepoint administered his execution. I don't know if it was Albert or not. We are quite pleased he suffered terror at his execution. The same was true with Leventry Beria, the head of Stalin's secret police, when he was about to have a bullet installed through the back of his head in Russia.
Beria collapsed in tears and raging and screaming for his life. Finally, one of his guards stuffed a rag up his mouth. It would have been interesting to ask Beria if he was more "terrified" of the bullet, or immediately AFTER the bullet. Beria had to "wonder" if he was going to face judgment. Same with Grabner. We just assume these people are atheists.
Most atheists are "normal" people who just don't believe in God and probably have no particular history of personal sin. They just assume there will be nothing after their death. For atheists, it's not much of an issue. Most atheists are kind, decent and normal people.
But the whole pattern is different for a monster. They may/may not have to face judgment. It certainly is a huge gamble for them.
Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
And it will happen again if we allow the convicted felon draft dodging racist bone spur coward Dictator wannabe Trump to be in the White House! Project 2025!!
he looks like steven miller, trumps greasy little weasel
You could show this at all of Trump's hate rallies and not one of the MAGAt fascists there would see all the parallels between the rise of Hitler and Cheeto Mussolini. 🤬👎🤮🤡
Why does every World History video start out with “The first of September, 1939”?
NEVER FORGET!!
Ein Schwein der größte Art!
my how times have changed! Fast forward to Gaza! Germans have NOTHING of Israelites! They are the height of evil! There is no more Oh The Poor Jews
German, Germany, and GERMAN GOVERNMENT, is a hypocritical, condescending nation, people, and regime today after the defeat of Nazis Germany. German, as a race, shall never again gain respect from any other nations and people for what they have committed during Nazis Regime. Their cruel, bestial barbarism cannot be described in any civilised language. As for Austrian, a willing collaborator, sympathiser and accessory to Holocaust, they too, are equally EVIL and UNFORGIVABLE.
Just another loyal soldier wrongfully treated by an unlawful "court".
Inglorious b was a good film.
can you make a video about alexander uspensky and his anti-semitic purge in the nkvd?
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Hitler used his power in the wrong way
Today, German Nazi party AFD praises officially Hitler and denies the Holocaust. I'm both disgusted and afraid whats going on especiwlly in the eastern part of our country.
I'm having a hard time in understanding why Nazis are constantly blasted in these documentaries whereas the communists conveniently forgotten. Communism did and is still causing incomparably greater number of victims than fascism did. Is it because the entire planet is under a authoritarian form of communism?!?!
his real nature as others criminals of war
No tears indeed!
Good Men have to take care that the hearts and minds of their neighbors do not stray towards evil. Remember that these people ( Nazis) were mostly raised in Christian homes in a professed to be, Christian Nation. They committed atrocities that make even Atheist and Agnostic people physically ill. We as a Society, regardless of Religious beliefs or lack of belief in a higher power at all MUST beware of our own darkness inside of us. This propensity to dehumanize our fellow man. ANY philosophy or belief system that espouses that certain members of OUR race the human race are lesser beings and less than human is EVIL and an unacceptable fractured philosophy which fails on its face and is anathema to goodness and righteous belief in the truth of mankind. If we do not prevent such evil, degenerate belief from poisoning the truth, compassion, human understanding and care of which the human race is capable it will choke out any and all of what remains of our good tendencies and ultimately lead to the destruction of all.
USA not talk about how they working whit Nazis and war criminels from Unit 731 from japan USA is the land of war crimes worldwide and dobbelt standart fore wars and war crimes right now USA help Israel whit war crimes
The Nazi's were truly evil…. It took the rest of the world to stop them though…..