A Warning to Those Visiting Auschwitz 

Some people would, sadly. During my grandpa-in-law's funeral ceremony, two of his grandchildren were full on french kissing their partners. May I add they were grown adults and sat in the front rows of church.

off topic but the last vid I came from was Scotland v Wales highlights and I just saw one of your comments

Some people don’t know how to process emotions, especially kids. Also, you don’t know the context of the kissing couple. They could have been Jewish and kissed because they were thankful they didn’t live in that era. People are too complex to get mad at them right away.

True it's a place of mass murder not a romantic place

@@Lisa-el7zo eh, that could be their way of comforting each other. Can't blame them if we can't understand how they are feeling or how they cope with it

Humanity is a pretty long time, it's a bold statement to say it was the worst. It definitely the worst thing to happen within recorded history, but to say it's the worst thing to happen to humans is a baseless statement.

@@watson1381 Fine, if you really want to play the semantics game. Imagine being surrounded by monuments of death and some of the worst things humanity has done and being like "time to smooch". Happy now?

Sadly this is not surprising. I've seen similar behavior at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, and while there were far less victims than the Holocaust and those that died were primarily military personnel, each one of those people that died was still a father, or a son, or a husband, or a brother, or a friend whose life was cut violently short. That event would also expand the war and lead to even greater suffering and grief. Memorials to tragic events should be treated with some solemnity and reflection by those that visit, but to some it is unfortunately just another tourist attraction.

Methinks some of the ignorant dipshits who visit there and display such behaviour are of the "holocaust denier" variety.

@Trey Stephens Some people never change

Neither is Dachau. My mom and maternal aunts visited during the last leg of their sightseeing tour of Austria and Germany in July 2011. The railroad tracks stood out to my mom.

@DjAcesOfficial In 8th grade, we took field trip to the Museum of Tolerance (about the Holocaust). Three of my worst behaved classmates were NOT allowed to go. My teacher also threatened that anyone who misbehaved, would receive a failing grade in the class, which prohibits participation in the graduation ceremony. After learning more and more about this terrible time in history , I now understand why my then teacher was so strict about it.

We all possess every heritage when we see the world as Ours.

No we don't!

You seem to have a wise aunt.

If you can be quit, if you can be compassionate and thoughtfull of what happened at that place, you can go there. I went to Theresienstadt as a Teenager with my class when we visited Praque. It was a cloud free, warm summerday but the mood was diferent, hard to explain. The feeling is kinda like when you walk into a really really big church, you feel small and insignificant compared to what the place you are at has to tell. Maybe Auschwitz is on another level than the camp i visited, sadly i cant compare them yet. I can only recommend visiting at least one of the camps, if you want to go there not for Instagram or Facebook, but for yourself. Its strange to call it a "great memory". Because it wasnt fun or its not something i am proud of but its definetly an important memory for me.

I went when I was 17, I wasn’t ready then and I’m not now. It is a place you are never ready to go, but everyone should so long as they are respectful.

I was 16 when I was in Dachau. Didn't scar me, didn't kill me, didn't scare me, didn't hurt me in any way. Doesn't mean I can't comprehend what happened and be respectful or trying to prevent it ever happening again. It just means I don't think or act as if I could change the past or as if the past would care...

@@ExtremeDeathman i like your take on it. really have nothing else to say rather than i understand and appreciate your way of thinking.

Million?

Gràveyard?

@@omega0195are you asking me to explain?

@dhouse I can’t even imagine how difficult their job is let alone dealing with people who don’t take it seriously enough! Absolute respect to them.

@@lily.pollard.01 🎶 What do you mean?🎶

What's a docent?

@@adods9824 Teacher

@@adods9824 in this case, the docents were volunteers at the war memorial. These particular docents were military veterans, at least on the day we were there.

I was in Edinburgh Castle several years ago. There was a sudden downpour of rain, which led to dozens of people running to find shelter - into the National War Memorial. A couple of Asian young women then got stuck onto their packed lunches. I was so angry, I had to 'get them telt'. They just stared back, as if I was stupid.

​@@LowSkillFunIt's not a Scottish word, I lived there most of my life and never heard of it before.

It's to ask for the wifi but that phrasing is terrible

@@That_Mazzini_Fan didn't know its forbidden by law to install Internet infrastructure on structures that exceed the age of 82 years

@@That_Mazzini_Fan my house is older than that and it has good wifi. I don't see how age effects the quality of wifi.

I would’ve responded “no there’s no wifi, but in the early 1940s, millions of people were lumped together here, and senselessly beaten, starved, forced to live out in the cold with barely any clothes, and then murdered and when Adolf Hitler told them they were taking a shower.”

if something like that bores you, you should leave. And see a therapist.

"But our love burns just as bright as the victims did. That is our form of paying respect you know." -These people probably

why?

@@brokkoli3245 Cause that's a place of death, not a place of love. The entire camp is a place of death.

@@sofiachelli26 so is kissing in the supermarket also not ok? because its a place of trade and not of love? why is it bad to kiss where people died (or died in masses, because otherwise you couldnt kiss anywhere).

@@brokkoli3245 you're comparing a supermarket with a torture camp, it's enough to understand

You're a better man than me, I'd never be able to enter. Viewing from the car park would be enough for me .... 🇦🇺

Exactly. Outrageous people showed no respect for the suffering.

Being a photographer I just did the job but when I got back to the Hotel and saw the shots, I broke down.

The people who run the camp now should insist on everyone turning their phones and or cameras off and handing them in. They can write the owners name on a self adhesive label so the owner gets the right phone or camera back when they leave.

Womp womp

The world has become “desensitized” respecting human life, sadly. After all, when policies are brought forth to turn women’s own wombs into death chambers and concentration camps then eventually respect for humanity slowly becomes diminished and respect for human life is not worth recognizing. There is a greater being “watching” and He is God. And yes, there is the great deceiver and destroyer of humanity, too. That being is called the devil, or satan, who the great deceiver of mankind. The way to destruction is “wide and easy” says the Lord. Don’t be on the path of destruction and don’t listen to people who want to deceive you, even politicians etc. who encourage the culture of death.

We Will Remember Them. LEST WE FORGET 🇦🇺

Unlike our 🤡president who embarrassed us all by ignoring the people who died there, instead praising the Ukrainians (thereby insulting our WW2 Ally, Russia).

​@@karstenerdinger2167Boy, that was very well-said. The imagery you gave about death chambers was powerful. I agree totally. Among feminists, having an abortion is like a badge of honor instead of murder. Except for 2 early miscarriages, I birthed all my babies, even when times were tough. People don't seem to realize: after the initial shock of an unplanned pregnancy wears off, you have 7 or 8 months to get it together and prepare for the new arrival. My babies always had a crib, blankets, clothes and diapers waiting for their homecoming. I loved them all from the moment of their conception. My youngest daughter thanked me for having her. What? She said well, you didn't have to. It was legal back then. I said, do you really think I could have destroyed your life?? Thanks a lot for the (lack of) respect for me, your mother. 💔

​@knitwit7082 no please rethink. No one is saying abortion is something good. No one is forcing someone to abort. But they should be a choice. Please, please don't say thing's like this.

Paul Schneider They may not care, I would probably be happy that they are able to jump around and be idiots care free rather than being shoved into a death pit, but yes... it is still disrespectful

@Abraham Shekelbergstien Go troll somewhere else!

I think they'd be sick that people wanted to visit such a place. It's absolutely horrible. It isn't "honoring" people to visit a place where people were tortured. It's honoring to make sure NOBODY GOES THROUGH IT AGAIN. We all know the story. Not many people KNOW that WE (through operation Paperclip) brought a lot of those Nazi monsters over here and cleared their backgrounds in exchange for their work. WE DID THAT. THE UNITED STATES. W. T. F! Fluoride is bad for the brain. educate-yourself.org/cn/genociderockefellernazis2apr03.shtml

That Gall my point was that the couple, kissing, were acting inappropriate and disrespectful. My comment had nothing to do with taking pictures of human remains. In fact, I agree with you, pictures or photos document and show the atrocity, and are not exploitative

If the dead could speak, most of them would probably be saying, "Help! Somebody get me out of this box! I can't breathe in here!"

i feel as if kids, even though unruly and young, do have an inner sense of when to stop messing around, that way for example kids older than 8 will be quiet at funerals and in places where they know horrible things happened

We did the same except some of the guys thought it was funny to draw the swastika symbol into the dirt when the guide and teachers weren't looking... It's hard to put into words how deeply disturbed and appalled I am at their behaviour

And that is how it's meant to be.

@@knappedennis please tell me they got sanctioned for their disrespectful actions.

@@caincawkwell8092 did u mention the wrong person?

Very well said, I am going to visit the tour in a couple of weeks and I can’t lie visiting the gas chambers terrifies me. I cannot begin to imagine the desperation and suffering of those poor innocents lives just gasping for air! I get teary eyed at times just thinking about it.

While I get the sentiment that everyone must go, not everyone in reality should. We'd ideally believe otherwise, but there are those that are simply not capable of feeling empathy or understanding the reality of what happened so many decades ago. I feel like the only way to put an end to such outlandish behavior is to be stringent on who is allowed to visit the camp.

@@nahor88 true, I guess there will always be exceptions.

I would like to go there to pray for all of the lives taken and pay my respects. Rest in peace 🙏

​@@awolf913What must have been the worst of the suffering was the "intermittent reinforcement." When people went in, some of them were gassed and some got real showers. You never knew which you would get. No, the poor children and pregnant women are the ones that chill my blood. I couldn't stand to go to a camp. Not all of us need that humbling experience.

This comment needs to be pinned!!! This is EXACTLY how I {would} feel if I'd ever went to one of the concentration camps, especially Auschwitz, and how I felt when I saw Schindler's List for the first time. It's how I would imagine any sensible human being with a shred of decency would feel if they visited any of the death camps.

Beautifully said.

I want to meet the Jewish lady whose job it was to go through the clothes of the victims to find valuables to turn over to the guards at the end of the day. One day, she secreted some lovely jewelry on her person, dug a hole and buried it after her "workday" was over. She had just decided that by God Almighty, they were not going to get it ALL! That must have been an empowering act of sabotage. Like Mr. Schindler's factory where he had miscalibrated the machines so that the products they made were useless! You go, Mr. Schindler!

Well said. I have not visited any of those places but I did visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington. It was extremely difficult to keep it together.

Your soul cries out for them. You gave words to my devastation as I listen to survivor's experiences, go to Dachau, try to wrap my mind around something that is incomprehensible. I fear for the future.

people are old enough they shouldnt have to be told that. Its like a known thing,( like when u go into a library and automaticaly speak quieter than you usually do) The people that act this way are going to do that were ever they go. Theyve heard about it, seen the movie, got dragged there by someone and dont really care.

Why the hell did you have a field trip to the cemetery. I feel bad for your school.

@@samtdl8639 I don’t remember, but I think it had to do with a book we were reading at the time.

Why the hell was your field trip to a cemetery

@@iliketurtles2187 as I mention to tie in with a book we were reading I think, but I don’t remember honestly and it was in middle school so we were old enough to handle it

yea

Definitely I’ve never been to the camp but I know what happened to the victims that were sent there Edit: I shouldn’t be calling it “the camp” because it makes it sound like a pleasant place to go to when it’s not

They should also have them pay a fine if they do something disrespectful. It’s fair

I agree

@Queue Kumber Well said

i always wonder if they give free soup samples, but i guess this guy will not like that...

@Blades I second that ...

100%

That’s honestly a great idea

@John Who No! Not stupid! Solid! Who are other people to tell how to behave? If you do not want other people to do what they do you are a Nazi as well! Idiot! Being free and to do what you want is where lots of people died for against Hitler!

Thank you for the advice! I actually want to visit a concentration camp out of respect for my grandmother, who passed in 2019 and was able to share her stories with me and her experience in the war a few months before it happened. Maybe once COVID is over and we're free to travel again, I'll be able to finally do something and pay respects to both my grandmother and the thousands of others who were murdered. Your words are very appreciated, and the insight was very helpful ^-^

Although I do agree some of these POS people that are out chasing likes and comments on social media will do anything for it. And it's disgusting

Love that advice

Honestly... there are three th8ngs I generally think about when it’s really cold, and really hot... ppl in the concentration camps going without next to nothing, soldiers during the wars, and the homeless population. I never... ever, complain on Remembrance Day because I know there’s an end to my discomfort after the parade and there’s food and drink. How can I bitch and complain when I know I’ll have a roof, and a warm place to sleep with lots of food at the end of it all? I can’t. So, I might let myself make a passing comment but then remember it’s not forever.

I did it, and you know what, my mood went down after the visit. Thankfully, I was able to recover quickly; I don’t think I can go there again.

Same speech should be given before visiting the Museum of Tolerance. When we took a class trip there, My 8th grade teacher uninvited a few kids who typically misbehaved in class. Which is smart. I couldn’t imagine being in a Holocaust themed museum with kids acting out of line.

I agree

Except people dont go to funerals to be entertained

It is sad, I think I'd be to scared to go to Auschwitz even if I had the money.

@@detonatingpunch381 You need to pay for the Vistit, really?! That's naughty

@@curtisjackson40 not really. The money they make from the tickets probably goes towards upkeep of the buildings and such. They need to take care of them or they'll crumble eventually, instead of being a stark reminder of one of the worst tragedies to ever occur

We had a german class over for an exchange for a week when I was in high school (I'm from Belgium). Their teacher insisted on visiting the former German camp of Breendonk, were prisoners of war were held and often executed. They all came out pale as corpses. You can say a lot about Germany, but it is one of the few countries on the planet that truly accepts and deals with the horrible stuff they did in the past. Can't say the same about Belgium to be fair. We were just as horrible in Congo.

I experienced the same. I went there too with my class in high school and everyone was so respectful and quiet, even the class-clowns and the douchebags who usually don’t care about other people’s feelings. The bus ride home was way quieter than the bus ride in the morning.

You guys are being dramatic and exaggerating

@@omega0195 No they are not that's just called respect my guy. Something you clearly know nothing of.

@@omega0195 no you just dont have any respect for the victims of the holocaust, there is no exaggeration here

My 8th grade teacher straight up uninvited the badly behaved kids when he took a class trip to the museum of tolerance back in 2003 or 2004. She didn’t take any chances, which is smart.

Yeah teachers do not us let have fun (just kiding) my class back then tried to behave as good as 13 year olds can behave

Yeah it went unspoken really. Also when I went it was mostly Jews that went. The two that wernt were me and an Asian guy

@@johnnysalami27 bro where u from? “Mostly Jews”, haha here in Sweden I have never meet a Jew, never even heard about Jews (in my city)

@@felixbb1445 you would be surprised but there are jews that still live to this day that visit auschwitz, it has nothing to de with one's heritage

Adults are way More ignorant

It’s so sad to see what a lack of respect people have. Props to the tour guide.

Give that man a raise

I think I would have said the same to them I think it’s important to call people out on disrespectful behaviour

He probably wont be alive then

@@silverzombo3915 well there is a little tip that you can do to shorten someones life

Then why pay for admittance?

@@Garl_Vinland to learn about the horrific things committed there, it's not a place for jokes and laughs, if you think that way then your dense

@@vBlinz aw please shut the fuck up this stupid guy is saying it’s bad to take photos and tbh no it’s not it’s the memory “take a picture it will last longer” for a couple to kiss maybe they were kissing to comfort each other maybe they knew sum1 who was killed there and got sad and kissed to cheer each other up? People can also make jokes and laugh because some ppl like to laugh instead of cry snd some ppl makes jokes to cope with certain terrible events nun of that is disrespectful..if they were laughing AT the ppl who died or making fun of The people who died yes it’s disrespectful it’s not disrespectful to kiss or laugh or joke if u don’t intend to offend or be disrespectful it’s how people are so shut up and this guy can get off his fucking high horse THE GUY LITERALLY HAS DRONE FOOTAGE OF THE FUCKING CAMP AND HES GIVING OUT ABOUT PEOPLE TAKING PHOTOS FUCKING HYPOCRITE OF THE CENTURY

@@halol229 I also took a few pictures there but not from the hair and clothes. The guide literally says that you shouldn’t take pictures from it then why still do it. He calls out these people not people who take normal pictures.

@@halol229 your Irish you wouldn't know anything about this. Its highly disrespectful for someone who knows relatives who have suffered in these places. And if you think its acceptable to laugh/make jokes, make out in there and just being disrespectful then you might wanna get yourself checked. Also the guy was filming for a documentary and they allow that except for the things like the hair and clothes which he specifies. Get a grip would ya.

These are the same people who call themselves "woke"

@@marcosmacedo9801 I mean, just don't act like an ass when standing in a mass graveyard. Not hard lol

You're correct. That place is heavily distorted

@@marcosmacedo9801 I'm not sure about that statement. Seems like a blind generalization.

Lack or does not have common sense or may i say rare sense.

That, too, is my fear though I think I must conquer it.

I want to go. I know I would cry. But I would respect it

Read an Anthropology theory article from my last class in Uni, but it revolves around the idea of "affect" in that a place's meaning/historical context give off a certain feeling depending on the person and their relationship to it. Auschwitz has a collective humanity-level affect on us all, more so if you had family/friends who died in it or were religious/Jewish.

@@jeremyjackson7429 wow, that person deserves to be smacked.

Just saying, if a bunch of teenagers with hormones flowing through them like the Nile River, can act with more respect than adults if they needed to, that’s saying something about our adults.

I may be biased here, but that doesn't surprise me. At least in my school, our teachers helped us understand the weight of atrocities like this. I think because we're exposed to more, and the media is more (keyword more, it's comparative) sensitive, we're able to be more empathetic. I can 100% see my dad just completely dismissing this and not even listening.

@@KingLimeIX that's a great point. We as human race go through downfall or ascent, collectively; even, if remotely something bad or good is happening, respectively on this Earth (which is like a collective human consciousness).

Quite

I agree

well said, sir

Alfred Leicher "no restaurants" yeah just like how they starved the Jews. I can't tell if you're a troll or not if you aren't a troll I don't know what to say to you.

Alfred Leicher yes, no restaurants, days of starvation, months, mental and physical pain. Those people didnt deserve the torture, and yet you don’t take it seriously

Trevor Gale That’s an excellent idea

Amanda Adrienne I agree wholeheartedly.

Why don’t they?

I guess once upon a time people understood what horror this place stood for and why it is there and had empathy for the victims. These days we have generation X-Y-ME. So maybe some pre-education is now required.

Ban cell phones and cameras instead.

There are signs everywhere telling you that you should not take photos of certain things.

@@bennuballbags2 Yes, but selfies are more important these days.

they should make every person who enters turn off their cell phone and then remove the visitor from the site if they use their cell phone. I know when I visited the National Archives, the guard there made it very clear if he sees anyone lifting their phone and taking a picture or a flash going off, that would be IT.

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Great call.....

Wait in the uk schools we send 13 year olds out the country to Spain and Poland for school trips like once or twice a year

@@GunkedUpGoober then you should be happy that you live in a rich country that can afford this, also if someone is from the us its harder from him to visit other countries as usa itself is big and its far from the "tourist" countries

@@Your_nearest_toyota_dealer Honestly tru it’s just odd seeing that us country don’t have as much out of country stuff as Europe does

@@GunkedUpGoober well usa is a big country which simply allows it to have many interesting things in it

@@Your_nearest_toyota_dealer Europe is the same-ish size of america and is so much more historical

I have a feeling social media has something to do with it.

@@DevineInnovations Yeah, I think that anybody taking selfies at this place should have the cellphone smacked out of thier hands then stomped on. I personally belive that taking a selfie here or anywhere else that has ties to the holocaust should be punished with a hefty jail sentance, like maybe 7 years of jail time, but no, 90% of the world's population is Jake Paul and I hate it...

@@redzgaming6880 Jail is a bit too harsh but yeah they should be kicked out immediately

Same thing I experienced at Pearl Harbor, unfortunately it was an older generation than I continuously being noisy. Sad to see teenagers being more respectful than 30 year olds

@@redzgaming6880 I don't know about jail, or even forbidding pictures..... I know people who took photos. It can be done tastefully and with respect. Maybe have an area where people can take that, "I was here" photo? Idk.... But the Instagram turbothots getting "sexy" pics ain't the right way to do it.

it's all horrible but alot of people died in ww11 they are ignored though i disagree we need to have pics of horrible place like this to have proof

I’m part polish too, it’s so sad to me that some of my relatives probably died there, or relatives friends, etc. etc. having family from Poland or being Polish means that whether you want to be or not, you are connected to the Holocaust, I would like to go sometime, to pay respects.

I’m polish German and Italian and my bf is Jewish so same.

Same part polish here to

As a german i agree with you

My great grandparents moved to the US because of the horrible history of WW2. If they never moved to the US, I wouldn't be here today...They were Polish and I couldn't imagine what they had to go through.

Fascinating! How old are you now (if you don’t mind me asking) and when did your parents meet / get married? Apologies if this is too personal.

I cannot imagine what your parents seen and gone through. She's right about to remember your past and to share with her heirs. I'm sure they're in heaven and looking out for you as their angels did.

What a shame your mother survived the camp. To be in a camp, indicates filthy blood, and that you are a Jew. As such, you should be shot and tossed into a ditch with haste. Filth

No shit

We are reliving it. The media and academics are doing everything they did in 20s germany to grow a hardcore reaction. Problem is we arent told the truth of how the NSDAP came about so we now just relive it

I’d rather die than associate with those types of assholes.

You know, I'm in India. We have people taking pictures and videos of dying road accident victims. Here the police is not so good, ut takes very long to arrive. That's the ultimate shameless.

Arjun...I'm so sorry behave so horrible.

Chan Roobi Why would a Jew be offended if a pic was taken of there shoes? Stop getting so offended. If anything the people ruthlessly made as slaves and killed would want people to see and know the horrors that they had to endure. And People that can’t make it to Auschwitch Need to see the truth and how bad it really was. How are ppl supposed to see the reality of it all if there’s no visual evidence it’s DEFINITELY not for amusement it’s for the history behind the pictures.

@@thatgall900 Sir, she means taking pictures for amusement. In a light hearted way.

It was very much the same when I visited about 3 years ago, at least in our tour group. But there were others there whom I saw taking selfies and taking smiley group photos. I don't understand why they thought that was accetable.

You are lucky.

no pictures?

Cemetery

@@mark_dyl bruh

@@mark_dyl bruh

@@mark_dyl bruh

@@mark_dyl bruh

oh my god that would be very sad and I bet it has happened too :(

Most if not all of the tour guides are local Polish people, so there is a very high likelihood that they are the descendants of those people.

@@jprodell the fact that I may be accidentally right just makes these tourists all the more disgusting IMO. No respect for the dead, no respect for the living, just no respect

Not even "just" grandchildren, there could be children and siblings of prisoners or even survivors themselves. People often forget WW2 ended only 75 years ago, thats not actually that long.

I would have been mortified

Merky Water definitely needs more awareness, a lot of things do ;(

@@kyranclear6022 so does this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-j6p1zxKnDeM.html

KatynMermaid 187 your really commenting on a video about a place where millions were murdered trying to push your political agenda. That’s really fucked up

@@joshwiner1411 this is a video with a clear political agenda

Imagine making that joke comment below this video

Disrespect and self entitlement are rampant.

1:13 Even tough apathy is bad I don't think its the worst thing that has happened there. Exaggeration and overreactions can make people dislike things even if they agree completely.

Holocaust deniers and Instagram "influencers" probably.

@@urhop1999 hey, he wasn't saying that was greater than the original tragedy. he was pointing out how angry he was in the moment and how he didn't even do anything

Anti-Semites? Far right extremists? Who knows, there are some sick people out there.

That’s fine than, don’t go

@@mr.channel6467 thank you for your priceless input. Where would we be without you stating the blatantly obvious

@@SlamDunkPyro no need to be rude.

@@_s-p-e-c-t-r-a_music_ i don’t think it was him being the rude one

@@kaiservonpanzer213 hmm, maybe I read the convo wrong but I thought that the original reply that Caledon made was replying too was just a simple reply telling the op to not visit the camp. What they said did seem condescending to me, but I'd just rather forget that I made this comment in the first place.

I agree

I fully agree. There should be personnel on the lookout so that this distasteful behavior is not allowed.

Fck yeah.

Aren't they

@Registeel on RU-vid The comment you replied to has unfortunately been deleted but what I’m guessing he meant was that the mongols were way more brutal than the Nazis and that Genghis Khan killed 6 times more people.

it's all horrible but alot of people died in ww11 they are ignored though i disagree we need to have pics of horrible place like this to have proof

There are people who take photos and still have the greatest respect for the camp I took photos for 2 people 1 jewish who asked me to as they will never get there And for myself to look back on as I have MCI and I forget things So I can remember that I have been there So do not judge everyone for taking photos you do not know the reasons why

it's all horrible but alot of people died in ww11 they are ignored though i disagree we need to have pics of horrible place like this to have proof

@@julielawlor5482 exactly

When we were little like 5 or something me and my brother climed the Berlin holocaust Memorial, a police man pulled us down took us too our parents and my dad told us what it stood for and showed us some pictures, we never even touched the stones again. And then I see teens or even adults playing around, jumping from block to block it pisses me off because me and my brother didn’t know what it stood for and did it with out any knowledge of nazi crimes. This is not the case with these people. They know but just don’t care

I constantly see people being photographed in them...

I ran ontop of them with my sister when I was younger and my parents dragged us off because we didn’t know it was a memorial

i actually was on a class trip to berlin, we were there too, and the lazy girls just used these cement blocks as something to sit on

@@bsmith483 Most Muslims are not racist.

Did they start smoking, or become better humans?

@@saltyalts602 Those two things are not mutually exclusive. I can't speak to any internal impact it may have had on others but I know it made me more empathetic, understanding, and accepting of differences in others. The kids who started smoking did so, I assume, out of a great sense of shared stress and trauma.

Damn you going to different countries for school trips?!? Bruh the last time I had a school trip was year 4 I'm 20 btw

@@debilduzy134 When I was a kid school trips consisted of class picnics to a classmates farm. We never got more than 10 miles from the school...and it only happened twice in 10 years.

@@howardkerr8174 Yeah legit

I went to the ossuary at Kutna Hora near Prague. My friend who I love dearly walked out of there crying because she heard me say these alleged skulls from hundreds of years ago showed signs of gunshot wounds. But I never picked them up that's just disgusting.

I mean that's fucking metal as hell

forget illegal that is unsanitary

that should literally be illegal

@@guywelsh9589 Oh boy would you hate forensics

Jews and Polish Jews and, more to be honest.

vakio manki menee 45 stop crying

@@parabellum1488 go fuck yourself

@@parabellum1488 you are beyond horrible. Im so disgusted

ParaBellum go fuck yourself

@PaganHammer7 hahahha nope 😂

@PaganHammer7 GDAŃSK were german. But Yalta makes this city Polish ....

@PaganHammer7 same situation with WILNO and LWÓW. Polish cities. Now in ukraine and lithuania.

Berlin is Austrian land

yeah

Your grandfather has my utmost respect for what he did my friend :)

You sure had an amazing Grandfather

@@SVD978 tyvm he was a great man

@@macks-how-tos i could not agree more , and he was humble about it

I couldnt imagine what it was like for him to go through that, or you now having to live with that. Your grandfather must have been very brave man

People fail to realize that not all of the victims of these atrocities were the ones having the pain inflicted upon them, but those who inflicted the pain. I refuse to believe that every person who committed such horrible things were all believers of it. I am so sorry for not only you and your uncle, but also every other man forced into such horrible, dehumanizing things.

@@somerandombetafish7866 that's a stupid thing to say because the only times things change for the better is when the inderviduals stand up for what they believe in So either they are evil or cowards.

@@morrobarry sure, because one man standing up against the atrocities can have an impact, especially when there's thousands of troops willing and able to execute them for treason, on the spot. If you were running the furnaces and decided enough was enough, the guards would simply detain you or kill you then send in a new person in your place, one who didn't rebel. An individual has no power in these situations, aside from the ability to choose whether to obey or die

@@turbomega3907 You´re correct. Liberty Lovers Uncle was a prisoner most likely inducted immediately upon arrival at the camp and forced into the position under death threat. The first task was usually to dispose of their predecessors. This group of prisoners was called Sonderkommando. Their job was to clean out the gas chambers and the crematoriums and dispose of the corpses. Just imagine their horror of finding their own family members amid the bodies. They had no way of refusing or resigning other than suicide and even though the Sonderkommandos were kept isolated from the rest of the prisoners, the Sonderkommando were considered Geheimnisträger - bearers of secrets by the Nazis so according to SS policy every third month the Sonderkommando was gassed themselves and replaced with new arrivals to ensure the Nazi mass extermination remained a secret from the rest of the prisoners in the death camps.

@@morrobarry the sonderkommandos had to inflict pain and they didn't want to

Damn tourists! They ruined tourism!

Eddy Belteu. they're a bag of dicks. we went to casa batlló and there were so many rude people.

@@hedleypeters7299 It's a serious problem, since the tourists do not know the burden of carrying such a dark event of Mankind's History. Like it was said in the video, this is not to be considered like a normal tourist destination, its a lesson about how cruel we have been, as humans.

Asian Tourists

Ha 97 Entitled people come from all over the world. T

Bob I mean selfies are awful like wtf but I understand taking pics there I would probs take pics there but not of the human hair but if it was for like a class or a memory then that’s understandable but kissing and just taking selfies is like awful

I couldn't agree more. I shall be visiting this site once the pandemic has ceased and if I see this sort of behaviour, I will bring it to the attention of the tour guide. Utterly disrespectful.

I absolutely agree. If it’s come down to collecting phones of adults, then so be it. You’re there to pay your respect, not to be on a vacation.

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@@jamie25288 You mean lies and propaganda that you like to bathe in without doubt and with blind belief

@@glimoreganajai2206" And those wicked souls who know history and repeat are the source of chaos"

This small thread of comments is so true. As someone who has massive respect for the people who sacrificed their lives to save jews aswell as jews, Ukrainians, Austrians , Hungarians etc.. its makes me upset thinking about my own class who only know the things i tell them yet they take it as a joke. They don’t take it seriously when i say the Nazi’s killed over 6 million INNOCENT PEOPLE!!

@@kayleekirkpatrick9193 true

@@kayleekirkpatrick9193 Wtf, wich country do you live in?

@@liamdahlberg1332 Canada. Im only in 6th grade so in my school we havent learned about it yet.

I didn't visit Auschwitz, but my class went to Dachau once. We all behaved and were respectful. I think a big reason why people are disrespectful is that many people never really learned about what was going on and when they go there they also don't listen to the guide.

I am actually going on the same trip, to Poland and Auchwitz with my school at the same age (15-16). I am glad that I got to see this video before im going off. I will be much more cauceous when visiting now. Btw, sorry that my typing is bad, Im norwegian not english

This is sickening I highly recommend all of you to watch a*dolf h*tler the greatest story never told on internet archive and find out the truth

@@ArrowMaster_ Er norsk jeg og! 👍 Fantastisk at det fortsatt er en greie, det er så, så viktig. Håper du og klassen får en fin tur og at dere kommer hjem med masse inntrykk!

@@skauing Tusen takk! Jeg gleder meg masse, jeg tror det kommer til å bli en fantastisk opplevelse🤩

@Jurg Schupbach huh ? Try making sense before talking sis'

It’s sympathy genius. People lack sympathy

yep and selfies is not for nothing sounding the same as selfish ,they do not care for others at all

And it's only going to get worse, as the young people only know about the past from history books. Millennials just don't get it anymore, as it is too far removed from their reality. No wonder to them it becomes a tourist attraction on their bucket list. I dread the time, when millennials take over the system. They don't have those alarm bells anymore, that start ringing for all of us older people, when things start going wrong. Millennials are all to willing to sacrifice the most important democratic principles (like freedom of speech) in order to push through with their supposed truths. Imagine some people actually demanding, that those with a different opinion on climate change should be silenced by the law. Millennials demand just that, because they haven't understood that this is the first step into totalitarianism. Us older people are still somehow in shock after the 3rd Reich (my parents experienced it first hand, we their kids experienced the aftermath, so it's in our bones as well. When I was born, the Holocaust was just 20 years ago, that was the spirit in which we were raised) We should all think about the famous Voltaire quote more often: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

@Zenbun Katatakala You are a wonderful example of why abortion should be legal.

Good for your Dad!

Massive respect for your dad

Picknicing in a place like this is probably the worst "innocuous" thing you could do.

Who the fuck would have a picnic in a fucking concentration camp?

Picknik in a concentration camp??? Wtf!!! I went to one and felt sick of my stomach the whole time🤢

ioana Maria classic Americans.

@@oliverstvchannel6442 not just Americans but tons of other people

Yeah the thing with WW2 was that a lot of people were murdered everywhere. By your logic people should never kiss in the streets of london

@@BurningWidow that is a very irrelevant thing to say. The streets of London are not a museum dedicated to those who died. There is no hairs or shoes of the dead. If u go to a ww 2 or 1 or whatever war museum in London that is dadicated to always remembering how people sacrificed, you should pay your respects. A lot of people always die, and your grandparents are just one of them. That doesn't mean people are allowed to kiss at their funeral or take photos of their hair and shoes and post them on social media. It shows respect. That my dude is the difference.

@@ioanamaria7178 Auschwitz is designated as a tourist location. It is not a grave yard but a museum. People take pictures and kiss and everything else in other places with those same designations. People can kiss at my grandparents funeral or grave site if they want to. Kissing is a wonderful thing. It's beautiful. I don't see how that is disrespectful, Karen.

@amanita333 fuck off

@amanita333 fuck you

@amanita333 Stubborn twelve year old kid.

@amanita333 You want to know why photo is not taken in some museums? Because banning photographs is believed to boost security by preventing thieves or terrorists from visually capturing and pinpointing weaknesses in alarm systems and surveillance cameras and taking photographs often violates copyright protections.

@amanita333 Yes. I did.

johanna torang sometimes, its good to laugh at bad things. yes, its awful, very awful. though thats why people listen to upbeat music when they feel down, to help take their minds off of what they are thinking about and raise their spirits. my grandpa fought in a war, and sometimes i laugh about it and joke around. i do this to take my mind off it whenever i start to think about how i could have lost him and wouldnt be able to talk to him like i did just yesterday. it helps me, and i havent thought about that in a while.

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Wenigstens warst du vernünftig genug und hast dich da benommen. Scheiss auf diese Menschen. Die machen das nur um ''cool'' zu wirken bei seinen Klassenkameraden. Ich glaube du weisst worauf ich hinaus will. Ich bin stolz dass du genug Empathie hast um nicht so ekelhaft zu sein wie deine Klassenkameraden. Ich hoffe du konntest deine Zeit da trotzdem sinnvoll benutzen um vieles zu Lernen und zu fühlen.

@Robert William Rosswhy do you think that ? how old are you and how educated are you, wanna know what kind of person is so gullible? Have you read real history or do you only read historical revisionism and far right blogs.

@Robert William Ross If I had been Indian you would have broken your own rule. I'm not Indian.

Those people were told not to take photos. There’s nothing we can really do to stop them.

@@EperogiLimousine Trust me, if I had been there, they’d have stopped.

Cap bro@@wordscapes5690

I had the same with the graveyards in Normandy when I was younger. My parents took me and my brothers there and it was so eye-opening. To respect those who have fallen, that's the reason you should go to these places

Exactly. Having it on one's bucket list doesn't necessarily mean that one lacks the respect and solemnity for the place.

@@riddhiroy7 Bucket list is an informal word, it makes visiting the Auschwitz seem like a personal goal, an achievement, rather than a real tribute. You've got to remember he is speaking out of anger in this video. However, I know what you mean though, as in its a tribute you wish to partake in, just in my own opinion, I would not refer to it as a bucket list.

@@seeme8080 Yes, I understand. The 'personal goal' view is another way of looking at it which I hadn't thought of earlier :) Regardless, I do realise the significance of the site and fully respect it.

I see a bucket list just as 'things I want to do in my lifetime' I think it's perfectly reasonable to want to go to historic places (respectfully). Though I do understand how the phrasing can seem rude/insensitive