During the last months of World War 2, when it was evident that Nazi Germany had lost, Adolf Hitler issued a decree that would have surely doomed his own people.
In order to avoid benefitting the Allies as they advanced to Berlin, the dictator issued an order to destroy all German infrastructure at the expense of the country’s future.
Hitler’s “Nero Decree” was issued on March 19, 1945. The order was termed after the infamous, and some might say insane, Roman Emperor Nero who allegedly ordered much of his own capital burnt to the ground. Both possessed by paranoia and obsessed with conspiracies against them, the parallels between Nero’s and Hitler’s final days were stark.
Many of Hitler’s closest officials were convinced that the Nero Decree would bring devastating and pointless ruin. Albert Speer, Hitler’s Minister of Armaments and close friend, was left to carry out the task. To fail to do so would mean risking everything and committing high treason against the man Speer had been so devoted to for many years…
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Not gonna lie tho, that’s a boss pic of that soldier lighting his cig with the flamethrower lol
I fucking love your voice so much. It’s so relaxing and calming. I can listen to you talk about anything for hours & hours!!!!
Is it much different to the Russians tactics of burning and looting villages down before the enemy can take them?
Execute Order 66!
Hitler's Nero decree without thought to the implications on the German people?, that's how you know someone who is inherently evil.
Luckily the red wolves got there before it burned.
If they actually go threw with this are there enough nazis left for America to still take and lead us to where we are now or would that have simply be the end of all nazis
Regarding the thumbnail, I always believed that the role of the flame thrower was to light cigarettes. Good to see that verified here.
I do not believe Hitler killed himself. The picture the Russians
showed of his corpse was absolitely not him. And why
would they set his corpse on fire, when propaganda was
the greatest tool of the communists…Hitlers body on display
would be no different than how Stalin's corpse was displayed
for all to walk by.
It had to be Stalin who ordered "scorched earth" policy not that people did that voluntarily.
There was an idea to turn Germany into a cabbage patch.
You present Speer a bit to much as "the good nazi"
Thats exactly what Speer wanted after the war. Sure he saved much of Germany of total destruction during the last weeks of the war and clearly wasn't the worst of the nazu government
But he was still a nazu after all
All the slaves in his factorys for example
12 years of insanity.
Another person who burned it all down was geoege washington. The natice americans gave him the name the "Village Burner". He would wait until all the men left the village and then kill and rape the women and old people left and even the children. But america just ignores this and says nazi germany is bad. But 500 years of racial oppression here is nothing compared to the few years nazi germany was in power.
He should have been stopped in the beginning
#fr33pal3stina
You Bastards don't understand Hitler , you have very shallow information about this historical figure , Lack of knowledge and wisdom
The whole world sees Hitler and the Nazis as war criminals, which they obviously were. But the truth is we have a large number of war criminals, even evil doctors that conduct wide scale experiments with untested medicines on unwhitting subjects, right here in the United States government today. I think its time we hold Nurenbergh 2.0 trials, before it gets much much worse. Prophanda, war crimes, treason, and criminality are present and widely spread through the government today. In many cases actually funded and ran by former Hitler youth such as Klaus Swabb, and Nazi collaborators such as George Soros.
Translating everything except “goodbye” is very jarring. Don’t do that
Speer should have hung with the others why was he spared
I'm pretty sure the Democrats have a plan like that in place.
As a matter of fact, they are doing as much damage as they can before they get ousted as we speak.
Speer did state that Hitler ordered everything to be burned down, then proceeded to cancel the order 17 times in the space of a week. Hitler himself was very on the fence about it. He was eventually persuaded not to go ahead with it. The argument was that if they retook the ground lost they would need the factories to continue fighting. Insane.
Here's a scary thought what if Hitler at first had only attacked Russia and left he West alone. They probably would have over run Russia built up their army and went for the world
Russia has only one strategy, retreat, to vladivostok if you have to! They are a paper tiger, but that doesnt mean that you cant trip on your own feet.
This decree just shows that the Nazis were really just a cult. The NAZIS weren’t even a party. Just sheep following one man.
I wonder if a professional lip reader has ever deciphered Hitlers conversations
I always wondered if the national regime wasn't so evil and insane ideology, would the Western powers accepted a deal with Germany to turn east and fight together against the soviet Union, just a thought but maybe it could have been possible.
Americans. Should have immediately trained the French to fight in the pacific
Love him or hate him, Albert Speer was ultimately loyal to the German people rather than the Führer. He had the wherewithal to realize that the supreme leader's mental state and capacity to command had severely diminished. The same can't be said about most other high-ranking Nazi officials and officers—most of whom followed Hitler to the grave through the same method as he.
Scorched earth on his own cities .
Proof that Hitler was a sore loser.
Bit of more than he could chew