As a kid, one of our neighbors, Mr Wiess was a holocaust survivor. He was one of the very few surviving sondorkommandos. He was a very kind person. The only one of his entire family to survive. He said he had 14 brothers and sisters and countless aunts, uncles and cousins. All dead on one single day. So sad
Single day? How would you or him know when and where they died? If he had like 50 family members chances are they were not all sent at the same place at the same time.
My friends grandfather and his twin brother were sent to a camp. The brother did not survive. However grandpa is alive and well and productive to this day.
My grandfather was among the first ones who entered Belsen-Bergen. He never, ever talked about what he had seen, but I remember my grandma saying he was never the same again once he came home. I was warned never to ask him about it. I hope I never have to experience anything like the things he must have.
So many survivors never spoke about it. Also the survivors often sit in dark. I know many children of the survivors and they all tell the same thing about their experiences with their parents.
@MarkWilliams-rn5xe switch those terms around to say Bergen-Belsen. Perhaps your grandfather was a member of the sonderkommamdo going around killing his fellow Jews, and others. For an additional food ration and to live a comfortable life while others suffered. Like why was he in the camp to begin with was he Jewish, or a homosexual, a regular criminal, or some other reason?
Growing up, the couple who lived in the house next to us had been in the camps, both had numbers tattooed in their forearms. My Mom somewhat explained about the Holocaust, and told me never to ask them about it, unless they first brought it up. We moved when I was 12, and I now regret never being able to hear about their experiences. They were a lovely couple and great neighbors.
I'm a child of Holocausts survivors and was born in USSR, believe me when I tell you, you are lucky you didn't ask . It's a horror story and I wish I never knew some of the stories . What Nazis did make Devil look holy.
@@elainemarten that's what my Mom thought . She always said to ever ask them about their tattoos or being in the camp, unless THEY brought it up first.
@@placestogoandplacestosee8355 I am so sorry your parents were forced to endure what all they had to. In one way, I suppose I'm grateful I never did hear their experiences. As a naive , innocent girl, I would've been more than shocked to know the details of how humans could do such things to each other.
We cannot let future generations forget these atrocities. My friend’s father in law lost his entire family in Auschwitz and other camps. After the war he lost all hope when he would follow a lead only to find they died. He wandered around Europe for several after that feeling lost. He knew he had no future returning home so he managed to get enough to come to America. Even then he felt he was just existing. He said it was at this point he met the woman that became his wife. He felt her to be a great blessing. Then they found out she was pregnant. He said received another blessing, his daughter Sharon. He felt he had been blessed with so many gifts and a new purpose for his life. He made such an impression on me. Now when I see these documentaries or see a movie about the camps, I remember him.
But we did , now we are headed back down the same road. Don't believe me , just open your eyes to what is happening now, right out of the same playbook. What will happen if people don't start collectively standing up will make the Holocaust seem like a weekend at the beach.
Looking back on the past does nothing to open their eyes to present day it keeps them in a perpetual state of grief and makes them easy targets for whats happening now. We must stop being victims and take control of our destiny @@DSSweet33
@@DSSweet33 I'm afraid of a global disaster, like nuclear war, or even some volcano somewhere. You saw what people were like during COVID, hoarding toilet paper, then, when the crisis was over, trying to return it for their money back. People are inherently assholes, don't try to tell me otherwise. Why, of all the things anyone could hoard, did these people choose toilet paper though? I bought a bidet, lots of dried lentils and tinned food, and just chilled.
“Forget the dead.”? For me it wouldn’t be possible. When I was a very young child I was often told by my grandmother that I had a very strong resemblance to my father’s grandmother. Being Italian-American I never thought too much about what that meant. As I grew up and went to school after a few years I began noticing that a good many of my friends were Jewish. Eventually I asked my dad about this. His response? “That’s what they told me.” For decades now the Star Of David has hung around my neck, only being removed by an X-Ray Technician last week to allow the Radiologist to make a more accurate diagnosis. I feel the need to express myself at this time because I can tell you that the SLIGHTEST drops of Jewish blood have more than reached a point in my life where they have taken over! 💐
I once took care of a patient that was in a camp and bless her heart she had night mares of the stay at that place .She would never gain weight no matter what she ate or how much .I felt so sorry for her she had surgical scars all over her bodyfrom all the experiments that the Germans performed on her .
I was taken to belson as a 12 year old. My dad tried to explain what had happened. I am now 58 & will never forget the feeling of that place I hope we never forget
Absolutely NEVER forget these atrocities. We MUST keep telling the stories especially to the new generations. The reply above that says “Forget What?” Is a prime example of a person who is either truly clueless, or is a very dispassionate human. An example of the very type of people who would be easily manipulated into following a Dictator such as the one that started all of this. Despicable. NEVER EVER EVER FORGET THE FACT THAT A LEADER OF A COUNTRY WAS CAPABLE OF BRAINWASHING MILLIONS TO FOLLOW HIS LINE OF THINKING. EDUCATE YOURSELF ABOUT THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST, American Indian Holocaust, African holocausts and there are more going on to this very day that all countries are turning their heads on. WHY? $$$$$ READ ABOUT ALL OF THEM. If you have no clue it even happened then we are doomed to fall for it again. THAT is why we say NEVER FORGET. ❤ G-d Bless all survivors from a Christian sister that respects, hurts for you, with so much sadness for the ones who died and the ones who were murd-ered. Shalom 🙏🏻 Sorry for any mistakes in grammer etc. I’ve yet to sleep and not going to edit. Goodnight ❤
My uncle filled a rowing boat with a jewish family and pushed it out into the English channel. I don't know what hapened to them but my uncle was arrested and sent to Auschwitz. Years later, I saw numbers tattooed on his wrist and asked about them. He quickly covered them up. He said they were his shame. They counted the number of people he failed to save. He died of a lung condition caused by prolonged starvation in 1992. He never once asked for recognition, that wasn't the kind of man he was, but was always glad to see others who did similar acts get recognition and thanks. With respect to my uncle's wishes, I won't reveal his name, but I would like to hope that the family escaped and survived.
My father-in-law was a Germany new who escaped a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, then joined the Army and fought Nazi. His sister survived witnessing her husband and children killed in Auschwitz. The experience broke her mind and heart. Such hate when we are supposed to be helping each other.
We can help these survivors by muddling and suppressing Bolshevik crimes against Christian Russia and post-war Europe - which are the greatest crimes in human history, yet unpunished and unpublished!
Russia And China said to Iran this Type of Racism is Far Worse than American Racism Foreign Racism Always Was and is Worse than it's American Counterpart Of Racism
Russia And China Said to Iran don't try a 2.0 Auschwitz Via a Nuclear Bomb or Artificial intelligence as a Warning Islamic Extremists would want 2.0 Auschwitz they are that Evil Which is Terrifying
My Grandpa actually opened one of the doors to a camp and watched barely alive people eating grass and raw flour as soon as they step out of the horrible place. The Nazis are the most horrible people of the 20th century in my opinion. 😢🙏
@@JulieSesco-jp7yf Yeah if we go through another one every average person will die and the world as we know it will be over the heads of state in the opposing countries are all egotistic nut cases with nuclear weapons!
I totally agree with you. My grandad liberated one of the camps. He was happy to serve but I felt he never got over what he saw. They are defo the most EVIL people of the 20th century.
My uncle was one of the British service men who helped liberate one of the concentration camps. It changed him - forever. So I can’t imagine how truly awful it must have been for the people he helped to liberate. I have many, many Jewish friends whom I love dearly. I will never understand the Nazi’s hatred of them. 😞💔
I read The Diary of Anne Frank when I was about her age when they went into hiding. I could never understand why the Nazis were killing people that were doing no harm. They were just trying to live and do the best for their families. They also wanted to kill children. What did the children do except be alive.
I went to Dachau. No birds sang< no noise, just sorrow, I cried…..two men escaped and went to the United Nations and told them, according to a book , I read. The Pope in 1940 knew, the people in the cities knew. Many of these Drs.etc. Arrived in the U. S.A. And lived here. this is so terrible
Yes, it most likely would have been the league of nations, but you are certainly right about the wealth of people that knew what was going on. And with so few wonderful exceptions they all did nothing, from the pope to a president to a prime minister to a dictator to just about everyone... if not now when and if not me than who took on a whole new meaning
And yet these same hells ( which they really didnt go into or except for the photo of that poor emaciated old man at the beginning, was the common appearance of All the inmates) were'nt the sad norm! Neither do they touch on the death marches, the first systematic mass murders of the elderly, disabled, depressed, and mentally handicapped. Similar to the assisted suicide groups in Canada, started by trudeau, also recently brought to vote in N.M. by a bill written by a dem senator and voted down. ( Luckily. As the bill called for systematic extermination of the elderly by force) very few people in germany were even aware that their 15yr old daughter severly traumatized by rape and handed over by her loving family for help, had actually signed her death warrant, started. Or that the mass murder of 18 million jews, gays, Russians, etc. was only made possible by propaganda showing they were dirty, infested, violent, lazy, etc, etc, and thus must be weeded out and destroyed.( But playing on the ignorance and stupidity of the people by indoctrination, was the only way it could have succeded. Sounds real familiar to me, hmmmmm!
Such was the cruelty that the Germans never bothered to defend themselves, preferring instead to be bombed and subjugated, placed into DEF camps and starved and raped by Allied and Red Army soldiers, their whole country looted, 5 million deported to the USSR as slave labor and never heard from again, etc..
Racism Never got this Bad in the USA Like it was in Poland and Nowadays In China and Russia and Iran People who say America is Racist has Never Been to Another Country
A truly engaging documentary on this subject and far more interesting than many I've seen. You should do one on the Japanese medical experiments of ww2 as well
I remember a story my friends great grandmother told me once when she found out I was gay. She told me about how her, her 2 brothers, and her mom and sister were all sent to camps. Her brothers and mom were sent to different camps while her and her sister were together. She was still in her teens, while her sister was in her twenties. While they were at the camp her sister usually looked out for her and protected her from guards, which sadly put her in danger often. She told me that her sister had a really close friend that would always take care of them both. At one point she learned that her sister and her friend were actually in love and hoped to be a free couple. Apparently it happened with a lot of the women in the camp. She told me how nice it was to have the sense of family, and love amongst it all. Quite a few of the women at their camp survived, including her, her sister, and her sisters girlfriend. Once free they thought their family had all died, but found out one of their brothers was alive in the hospital. Her sisters girlfriend had also found out her aunt was still alive aswell. They all ended up moving to Britain. 3 years later they ended up finding out her sisters girlfriend had lung issues that were thought to have come from making string and clothes, and she passed away due to complications. Her sister never got in another relationship after that and got buried with her girlfriend when she passed.
My father was driving the tigertank ..in the 2.ww..i am 61 now ...many times my mum told me when i was around 12 year's old ; you kids don't know a good life you have ''..they are both in heaven sins Many years...rip ..mum and dad... now i know they live hell on earth..😢how cruelty Humens can be ...thanks god i was the last child of the family...and that war was over already !!!...and thanks god i never knew what it means to starve for days !!! not even water !!!!..omg ...😢bless them who survive that madness !!!😢...❤and all the others r.i.p 😢😢!!
My paternal grandgather ( now passed away) was fluent in numerous languages. Due to that, he was seconded to help translate interviews with those emanipated from the death camps soon after their release. He spoke about his time as a rear gunner in the RAF during WW2...but never spoke of those last few months of his service. He ended up demobbing a long time after his comrades. What he saw, heard, and wrote down, must have haunted him to his last day...yet he never shared the burden.
Many wouldn’t talk about the war in general. My grandad didn’t he said literally two stories in my lifetime, They were both just funny anecdotes nothing heavy, We still hung on every word shocked to hear something about it from him at all.
Wait until you hear what the Japanese did to the chinese. Makes this look like alice in wonderland. And none of the monsters truley responsible for this were ever held accountable.
My dad served in the 1st division. He was in the battle of the Buldge. After the war was over, his unit was in charge of guarding the Nuremberg prisoners for their trials
And those war criminals excuse was always, ' I was only following orders!' Have to say that this just barely touches on the reality of these camps. Maybe because the real truth would be considered a gross exageration!
There is no upper limit to the courage and goodness that humans can show and there is no lower limit to the cruelty and horror we can sink to. Let's never forget those 2 stunning facts about being human. Let's just be good people.
Exactly. It's up to us whether we live in Nirvana or Hades. But it means we must remain vigilant over those who are Hitler wannabes. His megalomania did nothing but destroy everything he came in contact with, including himself in a bunker.
Let's Not be Like Vladimir Putin Or XI Jinping or The Iranian Leadership the Civilians of these Countries are innocent Like American Civilians the Real Monsters are their Corrupt Politicians Germany and Japan Learned the Lessons of History so did Italy but Iran China and Russia Leaders Didn't Unfortunately
Russia And China Leadership is Semi Hitler Wannabes but Iran is the Worst Among the Dictator's Speaking of the Jew's The Islamic Extremists are Not to be Trusted and they are Chinese and Russian Allys Russia and China Warned Them don't Try a Another Auschwitz
MY NEIGHBOR VISITED THE POLISH DEATH CAMPS LAST SUMMER; SHE SAID IT WAS A VERY EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE THAT SHE WILL NEVER FORGET. VERY MATURE MATERIAL FOR ADULTS ONLY, BUT SHE WANTED HER CHILDREN TO SEE AND LEARN FROM IT AS WELL.
I was stationed in Germany with my husband and when my in-laws came to visit us they wanted to take a trip to Auschwitz and we agreed to make the trip without our children. When we finally arrived to the site and parked, an overwhelming feeling of dread came over me! I could not go in. I became sick and started trembling. I refuse to leave the car and sat by myself as the rest went inside. It seemed that they were gone a long time and I fell asleep.When they came back my mother-law was crying and said "I should't have gone in! It was horrible!" I never forgot our stint in Germany. We lived in Bitburg where we were told horrible stories. Everytime we had to use the rail to travel, a lump in my throat would appear as I remembered all the hundreds of people that traveled those rails in box cars to meet their death.
What happened to Jews was awful but what happened to Germans was worse. That's how bad it was. Two nations almost destroyed. German speakers were some of the most talented ones so you would think this is to save everyone.
What?? You can not compare what happen to the german people worse then what happened to the jews!! They were rounded up tortured, killed by gas chambers and denied life! The German people did not suffer the way they did! Any one who went along with hitler lived a life far easier than the jews or anyone who defied that mad man! @@AmyAmy-er8bp
This is difficult to watch but we must. We cant forget how cruel and demonic people can be and Never Never forget how this happened. For each life that was lost we all lost part of our humanity. The history must be shared. 😢
I’m sorry. Look, I’m Muslim. They say Jews & Muslims are against each other… fine - but this ? I’m just gutted to be honest. No words. I had to pause this video to go puke up & am not watching it anymore. Indeed Allah is the only judge of all. This cruelty will not be forgotten & a price will be paid for what was done to these poor souls. My sincere & most faithful condolences to those who lost friends, family. - This should be a lesson to stop hate with hate. Only love can do that.
It never ceases to amaze me how an enlightened, cultural, and educated people can be brainwashed by a delusional madman. Does that remind you of someone? Stop danger at the door!
You need to read the factual issues NOT on RU-vid! At some point IF any one resisted Hitler they ended up in camps as well. Esp with brainwashed children informing on their OWN parents!!! Long ago - My x in NYC had a father who was of the Nazi Party (anyone in Germany was at that time) Once he learned what was going on (as it was kept in secret much of the time), he fled with his family and Jewish neighbors (over land so on) -If cought ALL would have been killed.
My uncle was in a Russian gulag for 18 years as a POW. Soviet Union killed more people than the nazis ever did. Mao in China killed more people than the Nazis ever did- and still to this day imprison Chinese Muslims.
This is truly grim but revitting story narrated by "The Dairy of Julius Caesar" right from start to end. very chilling testament quoted from many individual prisoner diary,
And cruelty and torture are going on in many countries today, Falun Gong for example. China and many other countries will do this as long as the world ignores it . The future of the world looks bleak as many refuse to acknowledge the past . And it can happen here in America with what is now happening in Israel and Gaza . Prayers that God enters all men’s hearts and stops the wars and evil . 👿😡😢❤️🙏🏻
How could such evil atrocities have ever been allowed to exist and been committed to these beautiful beautiful people. How my heart bleeds for their horrendously cruel suffering. How much these poor courageous souls endured.
@@Cadzan if you Read the Bible the Suffering of the Jews is Something that has happened Throughout Human History I cannot Understand why God Keeps Allowing it Century after Century People will Call Him Evil for Allowing it for so Very Long and Jesus is Called Evil for Allowing Satan to Continue to Exist after all these Years
My grandpa was a pow in ww2 for his involvement in the enigma project before he died he could never speak of his days in the camp if it weren’t for his scarred back and my moms memory of him I wouldn’t have ever learned about what he went through to this day we don’t know the entirety of the horrors inflicted on him past the lashings, burnings, and the repeated breaking of his legs
My great grandpa had to help bury the dead in one of those camps he was so astounded he never rly talked abt it so I’ve been told it’s crazy how much they suffered rip to everyone
My grandfather was there when they liberated Belsen. He banned us all from ever going there. I went to one while on a tour of Berlin&Prague and couldn't stop crying from beginning to end. The sadness there was awful. Never forgotten it and that was 10 years ago. :(
It was so good to hear stories from the victims and survivors. Many channels concentrate on the nazi perpetrators and their unimaginable crimes. We need to know those things in detail too, I understand that. But we need to hear the victims point of view too. It's important. It kind of uplifted me in a strange sort of way. Those people were heroic.
It´s really sad that the perpetrators get all of that attention and we remember their names but very few of the victims. They are the ones that should be remembered imho. 💔
I’m one of those rare people who actually appreciates profiles of miserable individuals like these Nazi monsters, because if you listen to enough of them, you learn to recognize patterns. Learning how to recognize bad people is a crucial life skill that I think is sorely lacking in good human beings. Or even half decent ones. Nice guys finish last because they can’t imagine how manipulative and cruel assholes can be. It’s lost to their nature.
@@BeckBeckGoWell said , it's that good people say nothing , turn a blind eye , don't act that enables monsters to act out their monstrous crimes , we mostly just don't have that ruthless streak in us to stand up en masse & deal with them , some isolated brave souls try & are quickly dealt with , it's why we're doomed to see it happen again & again
Well, that's American Western Christian "it's wrong when _they_ do it" culture in a nutshell, ain't it? You cannot find a single social media anything where all the comments aren't 100% about something being wrong or bad for the sole reason that it is someone they don't identify as being part of "their group" doing it. No one on Western society will acknowledge any action can be morally wrong. How could one justify Guantanamo Bay while talking about the evils of "those" camp guards without Western Christian hypocrisy? It's impossible.
I will never forget my visit to Dachau. As I entered that place I felt the souls of the murdered pulling me forward and their voices calling me as if saying "Come, come see what was done here to us." I roamed the camp alone. I read every word infront of me. I looked at every artifact, every ledger even a small place of worship that was allowed by the Nazis just to prove God could not help them and there was no hope. I believe God was there. I can't explain God's reasoning for allowing such suffering and it did leave me asking why. And then I saw a suitcase with my initials and full last name. It could have been me. I will never forget the men, women and children who parished there. Ever! Shalom Shalom ✡️
This story must keep being retold so it doesn’t happen again, or be allowed to happen again! Thank you for telling it. Love and light always to the victims.
Or *what* will be allowed to happen again? Amazing how everyone pretends they're moral while spouting the emptiest of memes, then ignoring things like Guantanamo Bay, the illegal plastic cluster-bombs the U.S. military uses to target children but think they're moral because they Have Privilege.
@@ann-mariebaker118 And, some who were young teens, 12 yr olds and participated in the deaths r still alive 2day and using billions to bring about the same thing on a scale not imagined. You should do research and see who they r.
@@ann-mariebaker118 The Spirit of the Antichrist they say is very Alive and not just in WW2 even the Roman's weren't this Mean to the Jews This is why We Need to Watch Russia and China's Allys Like Iran Because if you Look at Human History up to Current Time's The Jews have been the Victim's for Many Century's But Was No Where That Bad until WW2 Days
given the right circumstances, people can be very cruel. When Japan invaded asia also treat the prisoners horrible. They will think of all ways to torture the person, they kill babies by throwing them at mid air and poke them with their spear weapon. Till now when i see japanese, i will think of history, but i tell myself to forget, this person is not the one who commited the crimes.
Block 11 Courtyard...the hanging posts are gone...a single post with a "nail" pounded into it about 2m/7' high at a 45 degress angle...they bound inmates hands behind their backs and ankles together...hanged them from their hands on the "nail" until they died. The pain...
My grandfather was in a political camp, in 1940. In '44 they let him go. He was very malnourished, but he had to walk to his home in the Netherlands. When we, grandkids, were little my grandpa never wanted a bird in a cage. Why not, opa, we asked? Because I had been in a camp with iron bars, I had no freedom! Freedom is the only thing that's worth to fight for!!!! Thank you so much, dear grandpa, I always love you!!! 🫠🩷🕊🦜🙏🏻
How did people nearing death survive.the holocaust. And live to tell their story.godbless them.and Godbless those who died may they be united with their loved ones again 🙏🕊🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🦋🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
It was propaganda that German had blamed Jews raping Germany of its culture that had spread in Germany long before hitler even took charge. Germany was talking about removing Jews before hitler got in office.
His name was Rudolph 'HESS' not Hoss!!!! Im surprised at how many people are commenting about how awful it was when in reality it went into very little detail. (It contained nothing new to me). Dont the American media or the educational establishments in your country mention what happened? I'm English but I was aware of what happened when only a child. In fact when i was aged ten i attended a lecture by a contemporary of Anne Frank and she signed a book I bought of her life in the Camps. I urge viewers to read prisoners own transcripts and do their own research on this subject.
Rudolf Hess was Hitler's right-hand man until he flew to England to try and convince Churchill to make peace with Germany. He ended up being imprisoned for the duration of the war, and was executed afterwards. Rudolph Franz Ferdinand Hoss (with the umlaut over the o) was the commandant of Auschwitz mentioned in this documentary. I read the book he wrote when I was very young. It was written between the time of his arrest in 1945 and his execution in 1947 (appropriately hanged at Auschwitz). Somewhat amazingly he seems pretty honest in confessing his brutal actions while commandant, although he probably minimizes his guilt to some degree. My father, being a decorated WWII veteran, collected many books on the Holocaust and I was exposed to the subject from childhood. BTW I'm American, and it's true that young people here know little about this subject.
Well here's something new to you. His name WAS Rudolph Hoss (Commandant of Auschwitz), Rudolph Hess was Deputy Fuhrer until '41.(only one of the most famous people in the 3rd reich) They're 2 different people! I suggest you do a lot more research before you start blowing your own trumpet!
I can not phantom what it must have been like for the prisoners of any age🫣😥. Or the minds of humans to come up with such horrible horrible was to torture another 😢 Seeing just briefly what was done & tactics used has made me physically ill 🤢 Bless all prisoners 🙏🙏👵🏻👩🌾❣️
deecooper ... Maybe you should have a look into what the Japs did during and after the war too. Some were a lot worse that the Nazis. (Block 741? I think)
Especially the children... I am a mother, so every child that ever lived feels like my child. Knowing so many were ripped from their families and immediately executed disturbs me in a way that I can't put into words. If that were my daughter, I think you'd have to shoot me dead. Because I will never let go of that little hand. Even when she gets to an age where she insists I do.
I tell you something very few people know. Close to Auschwitz is Monowitz and close to Monowitz ist the Polish sand desert called Pustynia Błędowska, in this "sand desert like zone" not very different to Los Alamos, in late 1944 (October) Germans built a "special camp", filled with 20000 jewish women and children. This horrible camp in the polish desert only served one purpose, to test the newest german secret weapon built nearby in Monowitz by IG Farben and the Reichspost. (Manfred von Ardenne was the leading scientist) This special weapon was dropped on a parachute from a plane that came from the near UDETFELD airfield (today part of Katowitz airport). When the special bomb exploded it caused a giant shockwave and heat over 5000 degrees and in an instant flash of light all those poor victims were vaporized. This was the most horrible crime of the Germans.
At the recommendation of my therapist I read Man’s Search for Meaning during a two month stay in substance abuse rehab. There are many things written within those pages I’ll never forget. The word “suffering” paradoxically loses its meaning when it is so severe that it overshadows existence itself. In a roundabout way suffering is the best, and sometimes the only way we survive. I would highly recommend it to anyone struggling mentally with their own existence.
Very good insight on the horrible concentration camps with a few mistakes. Mentioning Maria Mandl and at the same time showing the picture of Irma Grese is such a little mistake. These were two different women guards, both extremely brutal! But the whole video is extremely important for history as it gives a deep insight in the darkest time of European history!
Yes, I agree with you. With so many deniers constantly misrepresenting facts, we have to be extremely diligent to make sure there are no mistakes we present this history.
Where do you FIND these commentators? The Polish name Palecki is pronounced "Paleki" instead of the correct "Paletski." Hoess (Höss) is oronounced "Hoss" instead of "Herss." To name but two. Is it so difficult to get this right?
It never ceases to amaze me how humbled the survivors are, through all the torment of their time imprisoned against their wills they still had so much strength to go on. It still to this day deeply deeply saddens me that the nazis could do such a thing to their fellow people. Regardless of race/religion we’re all human beings. I remember learning about the holocaust in year 8 and I cried in class I remember getting picked on, my only last back was how can nobody not feel any sympathy/sadness to those affected. Rest in peace to all who perished you will forever be in my thoughts
i went to a catholic grade school in usa and the nuns there never even mentioned none of this stuff to us kids and i still wonder why?? in fact they would never mention ww2 and why it happened.
I was also in Catholic school and the only thing they worried about was my being left handed. Never WW2 I am now ambidextrous and found out that I had quite a bit of family their fighting for everyone and freedom.
When i was a kid my new favorite band was Slayer. along with the other big four. I didn't know about the monsters of that time like that. So in school i got in trouble with a Jewish teacher cause i started singing the song Angel of Death. "Auschwitz! the meaning of pain! the way that i want you to die........slow death........" anyways that was my introduction to the history of it all. This was a great video.
There's a Song Named after this Auschwitz it's Metal Music Russia and China Iran But it's 2010s it's Mainly for Shock Value and isn't Nazi Black Metal most Black Metal Bands aren't Political for a Reason
Meh. Stalin's gulags took some 20 million lives, the Holodomor an estimated 7 million to 10 million, Mao's agricultural revolution took some 65 million.
If you used pre-archival data then sure..... Nove, Alec ("Victims of Stalinism: How Many?" in J. Arch Getty (ed.) Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives, 1993): 9,500,000 "surplus deaths" during the 1930s. Cited in Nove: -Maksudov, S. (Poteri naseleniya SSSR, 1989): 9.8 million abnormal deaths between 1926 and 1937. -Tsaplin, V.V. ("Statistika zherty naseleniya v 30e gody" 1989): 6,600,000 deaths (hunger, camps and prisons) between the 1926 and 1937 censuses. -Dugin, A. ("Stalinizm: legendy i fakty" 1989): 642,980 counterrevolutionaries shot 1921-53. -Muskovsky Novosti (4 March 1990): 786,098 state prisoners shot, 1931-53. Gordon, A. (What Happened in That Time?, 1989, cited in Adler, N., Victims of Soviet Terror, 1993): 8-9 million during the 1930s. Ponton, G. (The Soviet Era, 1994): cites an 1990 article by Milne, et al., that excess deaths 1926-39 were likely 3.5 million and at most 8 million. MEDIAN: 8.5 Million during the 1930s. Holodomor? 3.1-3.2M in Ukraine, 1933. Was the Holodomor a Genocide??? "However, there is no documentation showing that he intended to starve Ukraine, or that he intended to starve the peasants. On the contrary, the documents that we do have on the famine show him reluctantly, belatedly releasing emergency food aid for the countryside, including Ukraine. Eight times during the period from 1931 to 1933, Stalin reduced the quotas of the amount of grain that Ukrainian peasants had to deliver, and/or supplied emergency need."
It's necessary to see yourself as the oppressor in this documentary, if ever you are keep from committing its crime again. Maybe that's why israel is doing similar to Palistinians today.
ONE of humanities darkest hours. Mao and Stalin killed many more people. Cambodia comes to mind. So there are a number of “darkest hours” to chose from. This was but one of them.
None. Any research they would've done would've been useless, since the subjects they tested on were not healthy. The concentration camp prisoners used in these experiments were grossly underweight, and often ill, which is not representative of most of the population who would normally take medication or benefit from those experiments.
If I had been one of the soldiers liberating one of these camps I would have wasted every guard I came in contact with. Or I would give them to their former prisoners.
I took care of a lady who was in a consentration camp. She had dementia and Azl . She had the tattoo on the inside of her leg and we were told that she was used by the natzi s for comfort. They always dressed her in red . She would go crazy if we painted her nails red or dressed her in something red . She only spoke German and would talk to you but none of us understood her .
@@SigKyle-pm4fb no. Many actually think they are still there. They revert back to some of the most disturbing times of there lives. They are not psychos and can usually remember many years ago but can’t remember what they ate for breakfast. Read about dementia. Knowledge is power. It’s Better for a fool to hold their tongue than opening their mouths and leaving no doubt. 🙏🏻
The disrespectful cartoon photo and 1.5 minutes at the start of this otherwise excellent film were a poor choice and give a bad first impression which almost made me decide not to see the video at all. The authors should remove them from the video and post a respectful, more authentic beginning.
Yet this evil doctor was allowed to die of natural causes and never punished at all. He was on the run and he must have experienced anxiety after Eichman was captured, tried and hung and he was unable to practice his profession but he still should have been captured, tried, convicted and hung, cremated with his remains thrown into the ocean at an undisclosed place lke Eichmans ashes were. His grave was exhumed and his skeleton examined but he did not suffer physically.
I've never heard that those who were incarcerated would eat 'weeds' that would seed themselves there. Does anyone know if the Romani or the Jewish who survived ever do that?
How was it possible for the Allied governments of this era to let all these crazy murderes go? I think because when they came into the camps everyone was so exhausted and so physically and mentally tired and grateful to be rescued that at the time they didn't care who was killing them.for all those years but when they getting there strength back is qhen people started remember and by this time everyone fled South America.
The Allies (or the Americans, to be exact) let Dr. Shiro Ishii go. If you are not familiar with Dr. Ishii, look him up on Google, but only if you have a strong stomach. What Shiro Ishii and his colleagues--or rather, his fellow ghouls--did at Unit 731 makes Mengele and his fellow reprobates look like altar boys in comparison. Not only were the experiments conducted by Mengele at Auschwitz and Ishii at Unit 731 utterly unconscionable, but they were also a mockery of the scientific method. What Mengele and Ishii were doing was not proper science--it was merely sadism fueled by ghoulish curiosity and permitted under regimes that elevated twisted men to positions of power and authority who would have otherwise been locked up in prisons and asylums in saner nations. Now, why did we let these bastards go instead of hanging them from the gallows after the war? There are a few reasons for this. First, some of the data which Mengele et al. found _was_ of some interest. For example, Mengele conducted experiments to determine the effects of high altitude and cold exposure on the human body... by subjecting prisoners clad in experimental PPE to hypobaric chambers and freezing water until they died. Understanding how the human body reacted to high altitude and freezing temperatures was obviously of interest to militaries worldwide. Similarly, Dr. Ishii's investigations of biological warfare (tested, of course, on live prisoners exposed to pathogens such as plague, botulinum bacteria, and anthrax) was also of great interest to the Allies working clandestinely on their own biowarfare programs. Second, right after WWII, the Cold War began, and dealing with the Soviets--our erstwhile co-belligerents--was a bigger concern than bringing every last fascist murderer and killer to justice. Heck, some of the former fascists were quick to make themselves useful to _both_ the Western Allies *and* the Soviets in terms of scientific know-how and technological development. For instance, whilst Werner von Braun was certainly not a murderer, he, or at least his rocket production facilities *did* make use of forced labour to produce various components which would technically make him culpable for slavery. But Dr. von Braun's expertise in rocketry made him too useful to have him rot behind bars. Heck, actual, bona fide SS men like Klaus Barbie were employed directly by the CIA, so it's not surprising that quite a few of these monsters slipped through the cracks.
