World War Two
Published 15 Oct 2020

The Wehrmacht is deeply involved with the Nazis’ War Against Humanity. They are complicit in the murder of thousands of Jews in the “Holocaust of Bullets”, and the severe treatment of Soviet Prisoners of War. In October 1941, Wehrmacht General Walther von Reichenau issues the “Severity Order”, taking away any ambiguity there may be as to the Wehrmacht‘s vision.

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Hosted by: Spartacus Olsson
Written by: Joram Appel and Spartacus Olsson
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer
Creative Producer: Maria Kyhle
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Research by: Joram Appel
Edited by: Miki Cackowski
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

Colorizations by:
Mikolaj Uchman
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Julius Jääskeläinen – https://www.facebook.com/JJcolorization/
Norman Stewart – https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/

Sources:
Berkhoff, Karel (ed.), Basic Historical Narrative of the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (2018).
Desbois, Patrick, The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews (2008).
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Mitter, Rana, Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945 (2013).
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Paine, S. C. M., The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 (2012).
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Rutherford, Jeff, Combat And Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantry’s War, 1941-1944 (2014).
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Porter, Thomas Earl, “Hitler’s Forgotten Genocides: The Fate of Soviet POWS”, in: Elon Law Review 5/259
Walter E. Grunden, “No retaliation in Kind: Japanese Chemical Warfare Policy in World War Two”, in: One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences (2017) 259-271.

Visual sources:
Yad Vashem 4216/18, 4360/123, 7904/245, 143BO2, 6584677, 4147/65, 1044/148, 75FO4, 4220/2, 1249/67, 3745/140, 5705/34, 2725/23, 5705/47
USHMM
Bundesarchiv
www.auschwitz.org
FOTO:Fortepan — ID 73897, ID 28024
Picture of corpses of Auschwitz prisoners in Block 11 (Auschwitz I), courtesy of USHMM, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej
from the Noun Project: Skull by Muhamad Ulum, can by CCCHOI, gas bomb by Mete Eraydın from the Noun Project, Injury by Adriano Emerick

Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound:
Fabien Tell – “Never Forget”
Wendel Scherer – “Growing Doubt”
Jon Bjork – “Icicles”
Farrell Wooten – “Blunt Object”
Peter Sandberg – “Document This 1”
Gunnar Johnsen – “Not Safe Yet”
Andreas Jamsheree – “Guilty Shadows 4”

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From the comments:

World War Two
7 hours ago (edited)
Two years into the World War Two channel, we’re still often confronted with stubborn myths regarding the responsibility for the crimes committed against humanity during the Second World War. We have already seen time and time again how the Wehrmacht is actively and passively complicit to the harsh treatment of civilians, the mishandling and killing of PoWs, the murder of local non-combatants, and the genocides committed by Nazi Germany. Let this episode be nail in that myth’s coffin. There is, unambiguously and unequivocally, no doubt about the Wehrmacht‘s awareness, intentions, actions, effects and complicity in the War Against Humanity.

For our Polish speakers: while Spartacus’ less than perfect pronounciation of Polish names is usually at least an attempt, the pronounciation of Belzec is on pupose the English way of saying it, since the Polish pronounciation is not familiar to almost all non-Polish speakers, and it needs to be clear of what place he is speaking of.