77. These Bizarre Nazi Documents Reveal The Most Horrifying Secrets | A Day In History

One of the things that often stuns people learning about the Nazis for the first time is the sheer amount of information available to us about them – authored by the Nazis. In this video, we will tell you about five infamous documents detailing the evil of the Nazi regime. One of these documents isn't on paper. Instead, it's on audio tape, recorded in October 1943 in Poznan, Poland. The recording of SSReichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler speaking to an assembled bunch of SS officers is today housed in the US National Archives. We will tell you more about the content of the speech in a few moments.The Marburg DocumentsBefore we tell you about the worst evils of the Nazi regime, let's talk first about some of the political machinations they attempted far away from the battlefields of Europe.Many scandals have rocked the British monarchy in the last four decades, and the royals continue to make headlines today: Prince Harry and Megan Markle and the renunciation of their positions and moving to the United States, and the involvement of Prince Andrew in the Jeffery Epstein scandal. But even these, and the scandal surrounding the late Princess Diana and her death, paled compared to the royal scandal, which exploded into English headlines in 1936. The story of King Edward VIII and the American divorcee' Wallis Simpson is a story in and of itself. For many Englishmen, including Edward's brother, the future George VI, and wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the scandal of the British king being married to an American woman who was divorced was almost too much to bear. The American part was not so bad. Churchill was a member of the aristocracy, and his mother was an American. However, in 1936, the divorce part was BAD. At that time, in that country, in that culture, and in that ultraupper class society – a divorced woman was seen as a "loosewoman" without morals, discipline, or religion. Adding to Mrs. Simpson's problems – she was not wellliked. She was seen as Hitler's personal secretary for the latter part of the war, Traudl Junge, survived the war and gave several interviews about Hitler's last days in the "Fuhrer bunker" before he committed suicide with his new wife Eva Braun. Her character is one of the significant personalities in the famous movie "Downfall" (2004). She was also the focus of the documentary "Blindspot" made just before her death in 2002. Traudl Junge witnessed much of what went on in Hitler's inner circle for the last part of the war and, more importantly, what took place within the bunker as the Red Army closed in.00:00 Start00:55 The Marburg Documents06:50 The Nacht und Nebel Erlass10:03 The Einsatzgruppen documents12:20 Himmler's Speech15:42 Hitler's Last Will and Testament#nazi #history #holocaust #nazisecretsCopyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] by ⁠PodcastPayouts.com⁠ ------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices