10 SS Officers the Resistance Hunted Down and Killed
World War Legends
336,011 views
Going up against the most feared institution of the Third Reich required nerves of steel, but actually striking down its senior commanders demanded something far rarer: patience, planning, and the will to pull the trigger. This countdown tells the staggering true stories of ten resistance groups and underground networks who hunted SS officers, Gestapo chiefs, and Nazi enforcers across occupied Europe, dismantling Hitler's machine of terror from the shadows.
Discover the cold-blooded precision of the Holger Danske Liquidation Group, the Danish underground duo known as "The Flame and the Citron" who became the most wanted men in occupied Denmark. Uncover the story of Belgian Group G, the university students who blacked out the entire industrial grid of Belgium in a single coordinated night. The list delves into the audacity of Operation Heads, the Polish Home Army campaign that systematically eliminated Gestapo torturers on the streets of Warsaw, and the legendary assassination of SS Brigadeführer Franz Kutschera, the "Executioner of Warsaw," gunned down in his own limousine in broad daylight.
From the Belarusian partisans who killed Generalkommissar Wilhelm Kube in his bed using a bomb smuggled past every checkpoint in Minsk, to the Norwegian resistance fighters who ambushed Karl Marthinsen weeks before the war's end, to the Greek ELAS partisans and Slovak insurgents who turned occupied territory into a graveyard for the SS, these are the narratives of the men and women who refused to let the swastika rule unchallenged.
Video Chapters:
00:00 - #10 Holger Danske Liquidation Group (Denmark)
06:48 - #9 Belgian Group G
13:39 - #8 Greek ELAS Partisans - Karl Schumacher
19:58 - #7 Belarusian Partisans - Wilhelm Kube
27:16 - #6 Slovak Partisans
33:31 - #5 Norwegian Resistance - Karl Marthinsen
39:48 - #4 Ernst Wefels - Pawiak, Warsaw
46:41 - #3 Helmut Kämpfe - Das Reich
54:14 - #2 Franz Bürkl - Operation Heads
01:02:06 - #1 Franz Kutschera - Executioner of Warsaw
#WW2 #Resistance #SSOfficers #Assassination #MilitaryHistory #OccupiedEurope
Disclaimer: The narratives presented in this channel are based on historical records and period accounts, which can be searched in the war memorial websites. Some passages may contain slight dramatic adaptations for the sake of narrative fluidity. This content is strictly documentary and educational in nature and does not necessarily reflect the personal opinions or beliefs of the channel creators.
20 Comments
They will remain Heroes forever!
Mads Mikkelsen plays Citron. Definitely worth a watch. My favorite line is "You bought a hat!"
I had an uncle that served in the SAS in Europe during the war. His stories were the most anxiety inducing thing I've ever heard.
He spoke fluent French & German because he spent several years of his youth working for a German butcher in a mainly French speaking town in Canada before the war. As a result he got to participate in operations DEEEEP in occupied Europe. He told me the best operations were the ones when they delivered material to resistance fighters. He called them the bravest people he ever met.
There were more than 300,000 Germans occupying Norway. With most of them, Norwegians had little trouble. They left them alone if they could, and the Germans mostly did the same. The Gestapo and the SS were very different. All the stories we hear about them are true. They were true monsters. When the war finally ended, Norway told the Germans in the country to go home. How they got there was their problem. It was a different story with the Gestapo and SS. The resistance did not want them to escape. Over fifty of them were taken captive in Western Norway. There were no trials, there was no publicity. The only question for the captives was if they had the right person. They were taken into the countryside, killed, and buried. No one outside of those who killed them knows where they are buried.
This story is not in any books. I was at first shocked when I heard the story, killing prisoners without trials, but then I thought about what it must have been like to have one's friends tortured and killed by the worst of the fascists. In Eastern Norway the fascists had trials. A few of them were executed. Most of them got life sentences, but by the mid 1950s most of those had been set free. The resistance leaders in the west of the country did not want the monsters to go free.
10 SS Officers the Resistance Hunted Down and Killed
World War Legends
336,011 views
Going up against the most feared institution of the Third Reich required nerves of steel, but actually striking down its senior commanders demanded something far rarer: patience, planning, and the will to pull the trigger. This countdown tells the staggering true stories of ten resistance groups and underground networks who hunted SS officers, Gestapo chiefs, and Nazi enforcers across occupied Europe, dismantling Hitler's machine of terror from the shadows.
Discover the cold-blooded precision of the Holger Danske Liquidation Group, the Danish underground duo known as "The Flame and the Citron" who became the most wanted men in occupied Denmark. Uncover the story of Belgian Group G, the university students who blacked out the entire industrial grid of Belgium in a single coordinated night. The list delves into the audacity of Operation Heads, the Polish Home Army campaign that systematically eliminated Gestapo torturers on the streets of Warsaw, and the legendary assassination of SS Brigadeführer Franz Kutschera, the "Executioner of Warsaw," gunned down in his own limousine in broad daylight.
From the Belarusian partisans who killed Generalkommissar Wilhelm Kube in his bed using a bomb smuggled past every checkpoint in Minsk, to the Norwegian resistance fighters who ambushed Karl Marthinsen weeks before the war's end, to the Greek ELAS partisans and Slovak insurgents who turned occupied territory into a graveyard for the SS, these are the narratives of the men and women who refused to let the swastika rule unchallenged.
Video Chapters:
00:00 - #10 Holger Danske Liquidation Group (Denmark)
06:48 - #9 Belgian Group G
13:39 - #8 Greek ELAS Partisans - Karl Schumacher
19:58 - #7 Belarusian Partisans - Wilhelm Kube
27:16 - #6 Slovak Partisans
33:31 - #5 Norwegian Resistance - Karl Marthinsen
39:48 - #4 Ernst Wefels - Pawiak, Warsaw
46:41 - #3 Helmut Kämpfe - Das Reich
54:14 - #2 Franz Bürkl - Operation Heads
01:02:06 - #1 Franz Kutschera - Executioner of Warsaw
#WW2 #Resistance #SSOfficers #Assassination #MilitaryHistory #OccupiedEurope
Disclaimer: The narratives presented in this channel are based on historical records and period accounts, which can be searched in the war memorial websites. Some passages may contain slight dramatic adaptations for the sake of narrative fluidity. This content is strictly documentary and educational in nature and does not necessarily reflect the personal opinions or beliefs of the channel creators.