Allied Death Squad

Viet Cong death squads assassinated at least 37,000 civilians in South Vietnam; the real figure was far higher since the data mostly cover 1967-72. They also waged a mass murder campaign against civilian hamlets and refugee camps; in the peak war years, nearly a third of all civilian deaths were the result of Viet Cong atrocities. CriticalPast is an archive of historic footage. The vintage footage in this video has been uploaded for research purposes, and is presented in unedited form.

Allied Death Squads
Allied Death Squad Movie

Allied Death Squads

Allied Death Squad Movie

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you're the ancient land of Israel modern the stats in Eternal Flame burning get Bears names that once were secret but it now signifies perhaps more than anything else the order that humans can inflict on one another psycho Rebecca watch fits these with the sites of unimaginable crimes against humanity they were the culmination of an Enterprise of dis began with addiction and imprisonment spiraling into Mass execution and Industry of death the Nazis called the final solution today the world remembers it as the Holocaust what makes the Holocaust unique is the sense that this was a deliberate attempt by the legally constituted and elected government of Nazi Germany to exterminate to wipe out an entire race every single Jews get the Hands-On had a death sentence over him and no matter how long they might or might not have survived every Jew was Mom down the debt the Nazis took Extreme Measures to conceal the truth about their final solution despite its unprecedented scope thousands Witnesses Encompass years spent on investigation and research after the war many of its Secrets remain only partially uncovered this is the story of the little known details of how the Nazis crafted there chilling bro through web of deception and the startling facts of how Allied intelligence uncovered the Holocaust almost from the start but did too little too late for its 6 million victims the dark days officially began after the election of Adolf Hitler is chancellor Germany on March 5th 1933 he brought a simple five paragraph bill before the rights not the German Parliament you're not seriously called the enabling what do you propose to lever was to strip the parliament of all its power and awarded to hit to put it simply if the president of the United States where to make up his own laws and the Constitution and the Congress be damned that would be the rough equivalent of what was accomplished by the enabling Act the problem was that Hitler needed a two-thirds majority to pass the law on far more seats than the Nazi party held on its own I am means that was to become a Hallmark of Hitler's political manipulation he developed an unscrupulous plan involving an outrageous crime against the state weeks before the final vote is Stormtroopers broke into the Parliament building and set it Ablaze Hitler blamed the fire on his fiercest political Rivals the Communists thousands of mediately arrested including a Metairie when the enabling act came to the floor on March 23rd If there's main opponents were actually in jail the measure passed 41 volts - 84 soon Hitler began to push through his real than blatant discriminatory legislation all the Nuremberg laws over the next six years the Nazis passed over 400 anti-jewish laws they bar Jewish children from education Jewish lawyers from meeting their clients and Jewish doctors from treating their patients enjoyed they prevented Jews from making a living and eventually from interacting with non-jews at all this is part of a process in order to get the German people and if aim of Wine Dive time went on that could you with somebody who is not trimming who is not even human astonishingly it was all done in public don't public outcry much of the apathy had roots in anti-Semitism all too common in Europe in the United States the time in the United States for example in 1939 of Oprah poll was taken and which only 39% of Americans felt American Jew should be treated just like anybody else approximately 10% felt that the Jew should be deported and 54% said that the Jews only live here under laws that that kept them somewhat separate from everybody else Hitler seized on the anti ISM in his homeland in speech after speech he found the Flames of hatred until they dig naked in millions of Germans but he and his Infamous SS man also orchestrated secret operations to make sure the fire of hate blazed reps the most Warriors game before the war was sparked by a Jewish teenager named Herschel grynszpan Furious that his parents had been expelled from Germany grinspan when do the German Embassy in France and shot in German Diplomat on November 7th 1938 Hitler dispatched his personal doctors to care for the Google not surprisingly died soon the German diplomat that was just what the Nazis needed on November 9th in what was reported to be in spontaneous Uprising riots broke out across Germany roving gangs burned over thousands in God's invaded homes in killed nearly a hundred Jews thousands of Jewish properties were destroyed night was dubbed kristallnacht meaning night of the broken glass for Survivor LL weisberger even in her small town it was terrifying Bibles that I'm 8 years old but it was Mary because we heard the drums coming piano to the house and they started to break the glass that windows and the next day my mother let's go to the gestapo and they hold her for that day they took from her all the bank books and everything in fact the riots were anything but spontaneous Hitler himself at authorize the SS to have its fling but the writing of gotten so out of hand the Gentile businesses and properties were also being destroyed this prompted a 1:20 a.m. secret Telex from SS security and intelligence Chief Reinhard heydrich to all SS officers with what amounted to the rules for the riot it stipulated that among other things that German lives and property were not to be endangered and synagogues burned tell me if the fires didn't threaten me surrounding District as the smoke cleared another problem arose many of the Jewish properties are insured paying the claims would bankrupt some non-jewish insurance companies and spread the cost to all Germans a secret meeting between the cease and the insurer is produced an agreement to collectively find the Jews 1 billion marks for the murder of the Diplomat the claims were confiscated insurance companies were with under the portion of the payments the remainder went into the coffers of the Nazi party for the Jews they lost what's from kristallnacht with three-fold they lost their property they could collect on the insurance for the property that they had lost and finally they were fine collectively that Mark the moment that move from Street violence to organized violence the organized violence was turned over to the cold-blooded professionals CSS before then was the task of leading Germany of Jews cloaked in the deceit of Nazi euphemisms this was called the Jewish question the key role in resolving this issue was given to a rising star in the SS Adolf Eichmann Eichmann was cold unfeeling very calculating and totally amoral I don't fight them in as the type of person who probably I have done what he did even without having been indoctrinated into anti-semitism it was only by chance that Adolf open became the Nazis Jewish expert hoping to become an SS guard he wound up in January 1935 being assigned to SS 112 which gathered Intelligence on the Jews eichmann's answer for creating a Jewish restate was simply forced integration in March 1938 he had an opportunity to put this policy into practice the untruth Germany's annexation of Austria in his new position as head of the office of Jewish emigration in Iceman used SS Terror to help Jews understand that leaving was their only choice then he confiscated on precedent ounce of Jewish property and cash in exchange for their exit visas 45000 people left Austria in the first 6 months there was only one problem with Aikman's plan other countries refuse to admit Jews by 1938 the problem of in Jewish immigration became so acute that Franklin D Roosevelt called an International Conference represent from 32 countries gathered in Evian France to discuss the growing crisis but no Accord was reached immigration quotas only tightened porch in September 1939 Germany invaded Poland marking the start of World War II suddenly there were three million more Jews and what was now called greater Germany the Jewish question that now grown financially but the war or offered advantages that the Germans never had in peace. Hit Drew tension of the world and the German people to the conflict itself which provided a kind of veil behind which Germany could carry other kinds of policies the beginning of the war marked a turning point in the Jewish question what had been single campaign however immoral would soon become an illegal Rampage of subterfuge murder it would also become one of Hitler's most Lee Garden secrets with the annexation of much of Poland in 1939 SS officer 81 needed a solution to the Jewish question one that would take into account the vast increase in the number of Jews now in german-occupied territory the answer was deportation and concentration this was implemented by icon from his new position as head of Jewish affairs Bureau was simply designated for before and purposely buried among hundreds of sub departments in the recently formed Reich main security it ruthlessly transported or hurted hundreds of thousands of Jews in the camps or ghettos the ghettos were these for older sections of cities that essentially became Urban prisons and quickly thereafter death stones by the thousands than tens of thousands Jews succumbed to starvation disease in the movie Random violence in the nuts constant even worse and the activities within the more top-secret the number of temporary camps and holding areas exploded an incomplete Ally temps in Germany in Europe has shown that there were over 10,000 camps in Europe at the time somewhere enormous somewhere small but they were all over there were all over Germany homosexual men were also persecuted in sent to the camps for their failure to propagate the master race odd lady Nazis weren't quite sure what to do about desperate to increase the population ruthless leaders like Heinrich Himmler did between trying to cure them too hard labor and medical experimentation or simply killing them am I was a in Peculiar individual of sexuality authorized experiments to find a cure for homosexuality but he also author the systematic arrest of all homosexual men he also lobbied Hitler to sign a secret directive we're in people who had same sex sex in the Gestapo or the we're not just interned in concentration camps they were killed is terrible as the camps were at the start of the war in 1939 there temp was to house prisoners not the killer the Jewish question had yet to be answered that solution began with a brutal new operation masterminded by SS officer Reinhard High it was launched on June 22nd 1941 with the invasion of the Soviet Union the German order police ordinary police officers who were right behind the Army on the Russian front radio daily reports to their headquarters in Germany British intelligence intercepted these reports in quickly broke the code do their growing surprise each report contained account Jews killed and the numbers were in the thousands in one week alone 12,000 Jews were killed knowing they were make just one eighth of the reports British intelligence very quickly came to the only possible conclusion the middle of September British intelligence analyst concluded that it was perfectly obvious that the Nazis were executing all Jews who fell into their hands in the Soviet territory this is September 1941 this is before the beginning king of operations of the first extermination camp the British had in fact uncovered Germany's death squads gold einsatzgruppen they struck with a swiftness and severity that the world had never seen before this was hydrex new operation and its sole objective was the cleansing of Jews from Eastern Europe the einsatzgruppen March 27th used of freshly dug Graves outside their Villages and shot them within nine months one and a half million Jews were murdered curiously it was in an Oculus error that allowed British intelligence to uncover the mass murder operation as was typical of extermination policy Himmler had issued the order to not use the word Jew in any messages but a commander in the southern sector you get this order it was his reports that the British read in those first days of a Russian invasion the British did little with the information they leaned intelligence analysts fear that any public knowledge of the killings would tip the Germans that the you should broken their codes and they would then lose their military advantage they forbade the release of this information even to the United on the Eastern Front however the mass executions of civilians was taking a toll on German morale many SS men begin drinking some even suicide ironically the same men that had been indoctrinated into believing the Jews were subhuman Ford traumatically in their role is Executioner's many of the people doing the shooting from as little as 510 15 feet away putting bullets in the back of people's necks actually suffered psychological damage because of it many of them seeing their victims had problems after billing 10 dozens hundreds even thousands and for that reason it was not considered very efficient it was much too personal just needed a more distant more efficient way of eliminating the Jews and tracked the groundwork for such a horrific system had already secretly been play cloaked in typical euphemism made it began two years earlier in what was called the national coordinating Agency for therapeutic and medical establishments the therapy it provided was that called mercy killing or euthanasia its victims were the scene insane and mentally disabled orphan children this Nazi propaganda film was produced to illustrate how the program would ensure purity pictures of the Aryan race Hitler himself sign the authorization of the agency under the code T4 nearly 100,000 defenseless Germans became the first victims to be killed in a new efficient and Chile broke away they were gassed and cremated after the death of the victims you would have phony death certificates issue saying that the individual who was killed actually died of pneumonia or heart failure and so the Nazis naturally tried what kind of flies what they were doing despite the extreme secrecy of the program word leaked top 10 popular opposition within Germany soon called for its elimination although Hitler terminated his first mass murder laboratory than Nazis perfected the technology and the system that would provide the ultimate answer to the Jewish question and Hitler took away a separate lesson never again what do you put in authorization for death in writing which capability of mass murder developed what the Germans needed how was coordination of the agencies involved in January 1942 inside this elegant Villa in fancy that it been confiscated Drew Reinhard heydrich called a meeting of leading officials of the Reich hydrocal and the planet formulated with Adolf Eichmann which assumed that the war would be won and all Europe would be Germany's it estimated that 11 million Jews would soon be under German control using the code word evacuation the Muncie conspirators made plans for a secret systematic extermination Pro the Nazis finally had their answer to the Jewish question it was simply called the final solution it was not what one would consider as Sombra type occasion and after it was decided that these people had to be wiped out through the use of gas primarily a giant and toasted themselves with Liquors confident of eminent Triumph the Germans were deliberately about to pursue their policy to its most extreme and murderous conclusion after the van see conference the fate of millions of Jews was sealed by 1942 the Nazis plan for the final solution was underway but it would be executed so secretly that SS Chief Heinrich where would bemoan the fact in his speech to his SS troops when he spoke at pose in the 1943 to a group of ss said that this is something that we have to keep a secret it is one of the greatest pages in German history that will have to rain Unwritten by now the concentration camps were the sites of degradation torture and of course that DSS also use the interns for live Human medical experiments none was more famous than Josef Mengele leaving the genetics twins held the key to a pure Aryan race he reported to the largest concentration camp Auschwitz in occupied Poland in May 1943 very began is chilling experiments subjecting twins to toxic injections radiation and surgery often without ends mangalya was far from alone in experimenting on human specimens for these experiments like all activity in the camps and indeed the Kempston cells were top secret everything that happened inside the camps was supposed to be a secret for the Nazis when was supposed to know what was going on inside the Camp's not the particulars not the experimentation and certainly not the torture and not the murder Nazis did something extremely radical namely the reintroduce slavery into the European continent there over 7 million slaves people would genuinely slave working in the Germany at the end of the war when the state informed them that there was no other Workforce available in Volkswagen group BMW and Mercedes were just a few the large corporations that took advantage of European slaves but none took advantage of it earlier and more completely than the chemical can IG farben the patent holders of the death camp gas Cyclone be they chose to construct a new rubber plant by the outfit sconsin Gap specifically to make use of the slave labor Hitler promised eight to twelve thousand workers at a rate of $0.90 a day for unskilled and a dollar twenty for skilled labor the money of course went to the SS not the slaves Camp commandant promised to contribute the most brutal supervisors in guards the name of the project was IG for the outfit slaves the work was at best a temporary reprieve from death intense heat extreme cold and sadistic guards all made conditions on the barrel or infractions that game with a penalty of beating or death included talking to female inmate eating bones from a garbage pail and warming hands slaves lost 6 to 9 pounds a week from the starvation rations view lasted more than three months before they were so physically depleted they were identified for extermination simply died on the job it was common for a Detachment to be carrying five to 10 corpses on the Four Mile March back to Camp so that all inmates could be accounted for It Roll Call the slave was considered a consumable raw material to be discarded process of manufacture and recycled into the war economy so in essence they treated the slave the way in which we might treat a bottle they didn't read it so the drain that of everything mineral and won the bottle was empty they recycled it you took off whatever you menhir they had because here could be as detonators hair could be used to stuff mattresses and you burn the bodies they didn't make soap from the bodies but they did use them to Salt roads as fertilizer in the end 25,000 slaves died on the project and the SS reach 20 million Himmler and the SS had plans for a vast Empire of business is built on slave labor but his profit motive is overwritten by a much larger agenda the elimination of European jewry this was the apocalyptic fruition of the final solution for this business they built camps designed and operated for the sole purpose of committing mass murder they only way out is the SS man likes to say was up the chimney the entire operation was top secret and it every step of the way the SS went to Great pains to maintain deniability Jews transported to the death camps were deceived right up to the moment gas started pouring in from the shower head Step Up it began at the start of the journey with euphemisms they told the judge that they were being evacuated resettled or getting special the Germans like to say we're transferring you further east to work you'll go to a place where you'll get the Lost and you'll get paid to get new clothes and you'll be able to do real honest work for once in your life since Jews weren't believed to be capable otherwise of honest work unless forced to do so the Jews were told to pack suitcases given train tickets and sometimes leaving receipts for their luggage which was soon to become property that Ike Jews from the Western countries were sometimes transport 10 passenger cars as opposed to cars that were so jam-packed Suffocation was a frequent cause of death upon arrival women were allowed to put on their makeup before they disembarked only to be ordered moments later to strip naked and shortly thereafter marched into so call shower rooms greeted by a sign in German that declared work will make you free even their final walk with an exercise listen deceit then some killing centers one of the staff in a white coat to look like a physician would try to say some soothing words about them and then people were asked to undress check their valuables they would get receipts for their valuables they would leave there listen careful piles so that they would be able to retrieve them later so it was sad a noxious the Germans had a Jewish or extra play Lively selections from coming up already such as The Merry Widow as their newly-arrived Patriots took their final walk gas Chambers were adorned with flower boxes so is to appear all the more innocuous this only surviving model of Treblinka shows how The Killing place the box cars pulled up to what look like an ordinary station to the sound of welcoming music Jews disembarked women in separated from the men clothing and belongings were removed naked the Jews were herded up a pass called the himmel straw the road to Heaven at the end of the pass it was a building with a Jewish star of David on top it was here that the Jews were just with the Nazis many as possible with the point of a bayonet that's took some 20 minutes children were often the last to succumb in the gas the quiet lies serve the Nazis well preventing chaos and more importantly resistance the deception didn't stop once Jews have been gassed however it carried right through the cleanup and disposal of the bodies that was done by other Jewish prisoners who were given some three months of life and then because they had seen too much they themselves were shot for fear that word might get out and they were replaced by another group who lasted another 90 days in Mass Graves were prisoners have been buy bullets Jews were forced to Wixom and burn the bodies the laborers had to dig with their hands and sometimes would recognize the face Iran family among the dead workers who cried we're beat that and no one was allowed to use the word victim or core instead they had to refer to the bodies as pieces of wood Rags or excrement dish these extreme efforts but the Nazis word of the death camps began to filter out by the summer of 1942 American intelligence and learned of the cow I worry enough leaks that the Red Cross demented and inspection of the concentration centers but for this the Germans and prepare their ultimate dis by the summer of 1942 the US state department had learned at the atrocities in german-occupied territories from various sources diplomats the Red Cross Refugee workers the movie underground even trouble Germans got word to the allies the British continue to keep their knowledge of broken German codes in Tire leave of themselves but even without this American intelligence picture of the final solution together the response however could hardly have been more minimal the refugee issue reared its ugly head once more even in the light of mass murder neither the United States nor Britain was willing to accept any policy that would bring an influx of Jews to its oil in fact the US state department went so far as to request did they stop receiving information about the mass exterminations the state department had sent cable to its diplomats in Switzerland saying we're getting into a lot of trouble over these reports of Nazi killings of Jews don't allow the world Congress to use diplomatic channels to send any more such report but by November of 1942 the killings were made pop with articles appearing in American newspapers but between the war and the ambivalent climate of the times the pub was not roused by the plight of the Jews Franklin Delano Roosevelt view was I cannot afford to make this a Jewish War because there's a certain amount of people in this country that I will lose in terms of my ability to fight this worth they think I'm doing it for Jews nevertheless the outcry of private organizations pressured the Nazis into allowing a Red Cross inspection with a concentration camp but the Nazis were prepared even for this they dressed up a concentration camp called Tahitian starred in Czechoslovakia to look like app harmless living environment Eurasian stud was in fact a typical cat it had a crematorium even though it was it did not a death camp like all camps that he should start with terribly overcrowded unsanitary and disease-ridden inmates were star they constructed fake stores Bank going to school either the penalty for anyone caught teaching a Jewish child was death the Nazis went so far as to mintu special currency to the Jews were actually making money they installed fake washrooms planted flowers and even included such convincing the day Rose's signs that stated school was closed during holidays as if inmates ever got a holiday who is potemkin Village a showcase for the world of the Nazis would use to demonstrate that the Jews were actually being treated very you play in order to demonstrate how Humane the treatment was the Nazis first had to kill half of them to reduce the terrible over rowdy The Chosen victims were swiftly deported to Auschwitz the Red Cross visit was for theater both literally and figuratively the children were used to Stage an opera room divider it told the tale of two children who defeat bar in evil organ grinder to save their mother tragically most of the children appeared in this play would never again see freedom of the 15 South children who were interned at that reason started just 100 survived today this tree stands as a memorial to their lives Cemetery by the former cat given the scale of deception nothing changed as a result of the red inspection by 1944 the Germans were waiting on both the eastern and western fronts nevertheless the Caps that remained continued their murderous Rampage right up to the end of for the war's end so many secrets about the Holocaust come to light but many others would disappear give the covert operation who's that help the perpetrators Escape is the yellows converged on Berlin in 1945 they discovered the emaciated dying and dead at the Caps that the Nazis didn't have time to dismantle add disguise even in places like it's where crematoriums were dynamited and gas pipes were shipped away the liberating Russians disc which store houses with over 800,000 women's coats and dresses they also found seven tons of human hair despite their best efforts the Nazis horrifying secret came spilling out this morning buddy. 5000 bodies behind me you can see if it which will contain another $5,000 like it in preparation all these deaths have been caused by systematic starvation and typhus disease helping spread because of the treatment start to these people by the LSS God's immediate task of winning the war the Holocaust became clear the Allies sought to bring the perpetrators to Justice a war crimes tribunal was convened the following year in your the site with the nazi racist policies have been enacted into law years before 20 turn down C leaders face the list of charges that took 4 hours to read all pleaded not guilty for the first time ever people were charged with crimes against humanity after a year-long trial all but three were found guilty and 12 were sentenced to death more than 100,000 Nazis who directly participated in the mass murders only a few thousand were ever caught I need off the uniforms for civilian clothes and disappeared into the citizenry others manipulated the looming dangers of the Cold War America and the Soviet Union were no longer allies in fact both countries aided in recruited escaping Nazis who possessed intific or intelligence secrets is very interesting because on one hand certain groups of the United States Army what catching not season on the other hand others would trying to hide them to Harbor them those Nazis who had something to sell we're the ones who could usually take a manage of this secret Underground developed like Operation Red Line which was run by a Croatian priest who was an ex-nazi securing visas and identification papers from the Vatican and Red Cross these clandestine organizations help many Nazis among the most notorious for Josef Mengele and the architect of the final solution adult icon both fled to America but this was not the end of the story 1948 saw the birth of Israel and want to earliest goals of the Mossad the nation's intelligence agency was to track down Nazi war criminals at the top of their list who is Adolf Eichmann at the end of the war Ackman have destroyed all the photographs of himself agents didn't even know what he look like anonymous tip LED them to this house on Garibaldi Street in Buenos Aires Argentina there in 1960 they captured him and brought him to trial and Israel his defense he was only following orders they said I took an oath a man who takes an oath must keep this word because what good is it off if you don't keep your word have they given me my father to kill I would have killed my father as well the man who designed the industry of mass murder was sentenced to death and executed in 1962 turn 50 years after the holder cost Revelations continue to emerge a number of firms admitted to their use of secret slave in the late 1990s the conspiracy in Silence of Swiss banks was also uncovered at this time technically newt during the war many Swiss officials were in fact heavily involved in business relationships with a Nazis some help from the German war machine how does London money in Goods that they not seasoned stoner and for more than 50 years they silently hung onto Untold Millions deposited by countless victims of the Holocaust prior to the war the children would come why the other relatives and the Swiss would say well give us the account number the person would not know the account number or even if he or she did well we need a death certificate for the Nazis did not exactly right out the certificates at Auschwitz and as a result many of these deposits I would say almost all of them will lost is the archives of the Nations involved are Declassified will no doubt contain further evidence of the Holy costs dark secrets what we've learned in the past four years has play the whole series of myths about the killers about the perpetrators and I imagine that as time goes on and we look more and more at the different phases of the Holocaust not just in German but in other countries we will learn much more that will show that many people contributed to this willingly and with Glee in fact your one secret will never be known what motivated Hitler's maniacal hatred it's one of the most troublesome puzzles are the holder cost we do know this Hitler carried is venomous hatred right up to the moment of his death in the bunker when he was about to commit suicide his last words were word of warning to the German people to continue the noble task of the dilation the eradication the elimination of the Jewish people and tobruk no compromise despite the secrets that went the grave the basis of the Holocaust is clear they Nazis were deliberate efficient and ruthless in his perpetration Allied intelligence and the make new went off of what was going on well before the war was over yet the veil of secrecy was never torn off why because of Al a I will confront we have to reaffirm the innate sake value of every individual human life in whatever youman form attacks black and white Jew and Gentile women and men today as the population of those who suffered rapidly dwindles organizations around the world are working to ensure that the full scope of Deceit is ported for all time one among them is the Shoah Foundation it is captured testimony about the Holocaust for the accounts of the survivors and is a mess the largest Archive of such interviews in the world today's college go to 100 secrets about the Nazis reign of death but only the work of every individual and each generation and ensure that the web of secrecy made the whole Acosta possible is never spawn again