10 Resistance Fighters Who Assassinated High-Ranking SS Officers
Throughout occupied Europe, the SS and Nazi officials ruled with absolute terror—until the people they sought to eradicate began to strike back. This countdown reveals the incredible true stories of resistance fighters, partisans, and ordinary citizens who assassinated or brought to justice some of the most ruthless commanders of the Third Reich.
Discover the story of Yelena Mazanik, a maid who planted a bomb in the bed of the man orchestrating the Belarusian Holocaust, and the Polish Home Army's meticulously planned Operation Kutschera, which successfully eliminated the "Butcher of Warsaw" in broad daylight. The video details the Jewish combatants who fought back, including Abba Kovner's "Avengers" in the forests of Vilna and Mordechai Anielewicz's heroic stand during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
You will also learn about Marcel Langer's immigrant brigade in southern France, the Dutch Resistance's accidental but devastating ambush on SS leader Hanns Albin Rauter, and how Mietek Pemper used his position as Amon Goeth's secretary to secretly compile the evidence that would eventually hang the camp commandant. These are the stories of the men and women who refused to go quietly and exacted their own justice against the architects of the Nazi regime.
Video Chapters:
00:00 - #10 Friedrich Jeckeln
07:18 - #9 Abba Kovner
16:17 - #8 Mordechai Anielewicz
25:10 - #7 Marcel Langer
32:48 - #6 Operation Kutschera
42:10 - #5 Mietek Pemper
50:54 - #4 Dutch Resistance vs Hanns Albin Rauter
57:55 - #3 Wilhelm Kube
1:06:03 - #2 Georg Elser
1:15:16 - #1 Operation Anthropoid
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