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The Potter Who Baked 31 SS Soldiers Alive in His Kiln After They Made Him Cremate His Brothers - 6,342 views Aug 6, 2026 #Kolpa #WW2History #Yugoslavia #Slovenia #WaffenSS #WW2History He set three witness cones in a pat of soft clay and pressed each one until they leaned to the same angle. It was a gesture he had made ten thousand times, and his hand did not shake. Jakob Praprotnik, fifty-six years old, was a potter and tile-maker at a bend in the Kolpa in southern Slovenia, at a works his family had run for a hundred and eight years. He knew every soft brick in the chamber wall, every drip line where the salt had come through, the exact sound the kiln made at soak. He had slept beside that sound all his life. This documentary tells the story of two bodies laid out straight on the drying-shed floor, forty metres from the kiln, their hands crossed and their eyes closed by someone who was not him. They were his brothers. Lovro, thirty-four, who had taught himself the accordion at fourteen and never played it well and played it anyway. Vinko, twenty-nine, who had their mother's brown eyes. An SS officer named Muhlhaus told Jakob, in the flat voice of a foreman explaining a rota change, that he would fire his own kiln on the Tuesday and cremate his brothers inside it, and sign a certificate to say the work was properly done, and that Muhlhaus would counter-sign it. Refuse, and another kiln and another potter would be brought up from Metlika, and Jakob would be shot on the works road at the same spot as his brothers, and the certificate would be signed anyway. Jakob nodded once. Nodding, he knew, was not agreement. It was only the movement his neck made because the alternative was to fall down. Discover how a man who could read a fire by its colour turned the one machine he understood better than anyone in the valley against thirty-one soldiers, why a downdraught bottle kiln seals itself before every firing like a lidded pot and is opened again only with a hammer and chisel, and what he knew about which single brick to knock from the wicket wall that none of the men who made him light that fire could ever have known. 🔥 In this video: - The Certificate: An SS officer, a flat voice, and an order to cremate his own brothers. The Bottle Kiln: Six metres of brick that seals every firing and is unbricked with a chisel. Reading the Fire: Cones, soak, and the difference between temperature and heatwork. One Brick: The exact course, the fresh clay-slip joint, and the mason's hammer set flat. The Stack Still Stands: A grey-green glaze, a drift of ash, and the honest smell of a firing. Sources of Where I get my facts: - Kranjc, G.J. (2013) To Walk with the Devil: Slovene Collaboration and Axis Occupation, 1941-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Tomasevich, J. (2001) War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: Occupation and Collaboration. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Pavlowitch, S.K. (2008) Hitler's New Disorder: The Second World War in Yugoslavia. London: Hurst & Co. Shepherd, B. (2012) Terror in the Balkans: German Armies and Partisan Warfare. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Mazower, M. (2008) Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe. London: Allen Lane. Disclaimer: This video is a dramatized historical narrative set against documented events of the Second World War, intended for educational purposes. Characters, dialogue and specific incidents are reconstructed for storytelling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBkFceGj1fk #Slovenia #WaffenSS #WW2History #Yugoslavia #Resistance #History #Occupation #Kolpa