Liberating Dachau 1945 

Ike knew human nature well.

Including members of our new pro islam pro terrorist pro criminal anti jew leftist government. Very disturbing.

And it still didn’t stop the idiots….

As horrible as the pictures are thank God they were takin so it won't by any sane person claimed false, any form of bigotry is ugly and horrible

It’s sad that what he sad came true.

@Anne5440 I am only 32 and I won’t let it be forgotten

God bless your father. I wish I could thank him for his service.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

@@williamjoyce8842 So you were there at Dachau. Tell us more.

@@williamjoyce8842 So what's your point? It was total war and if it meant Nazis starved to death so be it.

Very glad that she survived!!

I am happy to hear she survived

GOD bless her❤

My father was there with your grandmother. WE know of Schindler's list and I met the man who told that story that later became the movie. Leopold Page told my parents, who themselves were survivors, the tale of the gentile who saved Jews. Leopold said prophetically it would make a great movie. This was 1964. My parents in the car heading home after this Boy Scout meeting said Heck we ALL have an amazing story to tell and so they do!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so glad she survived.

May it never happen again to anyone. anywhere. That's the reason to remember. btw - I lived in Munich in 1960. I saw the price that was paid.

Was "wir" getan haben? Ich bin Jahrgang '87, was habe ich denn getan?

@@__Multipass__ Was das "wir" für jemanden bedeutet, darf jeder für sich selbst herausfinden. Zwar war auch ich noch nicht geboren, aber als Teil eines Genarationen überdauernden Kollektivs, das man als Volk oder Nation bezeichnen mag, ist für mich das "wir" passend. Ich wurde (auch durch die Schule) so erzogen als könne ich mich nicht nur von den Taten der Vorfahren, sondern auch von den Vorfahren selbst so distanzieren, dass ich von ihnen quasi wie von neutralem Boden aus von "ihnen" oder "den Nazis" sprechen könnte und nichts von den Vorfahrenen an Bewußtsein, Einstellungen, Verhaltens- und Denkmuster quasi ererbt hätte. Im Laufe meines Lebens habe ich aber erkannt, dass dies für mich heuchlerisch ist, und noch mehr: Dass die Ablehnung dieser "Nazi-Generation" als Menschen (und nicht nur der Taten) auch meine persönliche Heilung und meine Bewältigung der Verbrechen als Mitglied eines Tätervolkes gerade zu verhindert. Heute lehne ich die Taten ab, nehme aber die Menschen an, und seien die Verbrechen noch so schlimm. All dies oben Gesagte mündet schließlich in das "wir". Wir haben versucht das jüdische Volk auszulösche. Wir.

@@marc-peterschoelermann1949 It's a lesson in how easily evil can overtake any of us. Germany previously had the highest standards of a civilized society, musicians, poets, engineers, doctors, industries, judges who followed the rules of a just society. If it could happen in Germany, it can happen anywhere.

@@marc-peterschoelermann1949 geistiger Dünnschiss. Haben "wir" nicht. Ende. Ps: dein Gesabbel hab' ich mir nichtmal durchgelesen.

My condolences to you and your family.

Mark Felton Productions thank you. He would have loved to have seen this video. It was an incredibly tense day and he was always a very calm and compassionate man. A Dachau guard gave him something for helping him that I still have in my possession to this day. Videos like this are so important. Thanks again, Mark. I couldn’t believe it when this video came up on my subscription page.

@@MarkFeltonProductions the USA strafed that train during their targeting of german supply lines....i am sure u know this so why do u continue to perpetrate untruths

@@WillyEckaslike He's NOT perpetrating untruth Nazi lover. Mark doesn't take any sides or get involved with politics. He just simply presents the facts.

@@WillyEckaslike Whether the engineless train was strafed or not, it's 2000+ occupants were killed by starvation, dehydration & neglect - all of which was caused by the SS. You know this...

great story, thanks for sharing!

Bless you dearly

God bless him for his service. Maybe you can write his story to share with the world. Shalom.

Thank you for sharing.

We don’t hear many of the stories from the men who liberated these camps. The world will never shed enough tears to shed the horrors of this war.

I belief in the Afterlife, and think the prisoners, in their Innocence.will not "remember" their internment, torture and murder.I belong to no church. I am a Christian.

It figures that he never talked about the Silver Star. Real heroes never talk about their own heroism. Be glad you had the privilege of knowing him.

Your dead was lucky to liberate only a labor/prison camp and not a death camp. A death camp was so much worse

God bless your dad for teaching that punk a lesson 🙏

sono furbi I TEDESCHI fino ad una trentina di anni fa' se andavi a visitare il campo c'era un senso di oppressione sentivi che era un luogo maledetto attorno non c'era nulla solo campi ( la campagna ) MONACO A 15 KM adesso DACHAU è ormai parte di MONACO e attorno al campo è sorta una ZONA INDUSTRIALE neanche te ne accorgi che il campo è lì !!! Mi spiego ?

Physical violence over someone laughing? Pretty fascist of your dad. Free speech for me but not for ye, or, something. We weren't there, maybe something about the body was funny.

@@alessandrocarraro6845Not really.

Yes. Well said.

I hate that background music..

No boring old men talking trough the footage! That's the biggest plus for me

It's the real History Channel

I agree, especially the no music soundtrack.

😢 So sorry.

He is hero

He was too young for that horror…❤

Yes, my Dad and Uncle were both medics involved in the release of Dachau. Dad was a 24. He had horrible ptsd from it. Your dad was a hero who paid a terrible price for serving and freeing the world from true monsters.

@@Anne5440_ my brother in law was sent to kuwait during the iraq-kuwait war in the 1990s. He was a medic in our army. We noticed when he came back also he wasnt the same. More quiet. But he did tell us he saw things ordinary humans dont see ! He said he saw legs, hands, bodies without heads, strewn everywhere children suffering…. , bodies blown up! I guess that never leaves you. Now he suffers frm some medical prblms. Still working in his own business. Wont rest. Feel so sorry fr him. He wont talk much abt it all. . Except fr the little he did. 😕😞

Kind of unreasonable

@@wurzel9671 No, it's not

A human reaction.

@@annabellevy3388 If he's a german-american immigrant, how are the nazis "His people" exactly?

@@annabellevy3388 Less than 30% of Germans were actual Nazis. The rest were coerced into support after the Nazis won the elections.

My grandfathers were in WW2 as well. My family thanks your father for his service.

My father also helped liberate Dachau. An American who was of Polish decent and a medic was able to speak Polish to alot of the prisoners. When my dad came home he just wanted to have a quiet life, get married, raise children. That mental and emotional experience beat the heck out of any other dreams of his lfe he had.

Wow! Thanks for posting.

Thank you for your family's service to humanity

Tat what i would have wanted to do

Shutter Island

My doctor when I was young was a army doctor at the liberation, He related his experience there to my father....

I agree, I think he hits that sweet spot of being direct and clear about the horrible events that occurred (little, if any, sanitizing) without crossing over into sensationalism and shock imagery.

@ndestro0r, did you ever wonder when the NEW Dachau Camp, Gaza, will be liberated by the colony of the zionist state in the Middle East, that used to be known as America? Did you know that America executed Germans for what the Israelis now do to the Palestinians? Of course not. Joe Magnets

+ ndestr0yr Dont insult the TV.

Good comment

@@joemagnets9940 Or maybe the Americans should explain Guantanamo Bay and what goes on there. I'm sure that is breaking the rules they persecuted the Nazis for, inhuman treatment, starvation, torture. But these are mostly rumors, because the Allies lie better. Or is it different because there is no "official" bodies? The Allies are the biggest hypocrites of all time. And people like Mark perpetuate the BS they keep trying to feed the world. Sorry Mark, you're a blinkered embarrassment.

Write his stories down. Don't let them die with you.

Please write all those real stories here so that it can be a big proof for our next generation... I'm so sorry for ur Uncle 😔😔😔

Yes please publish them! We have my grandpa's stories of taking back Manila, and after we transcribed his tapes the Library of congress eagerly took the file when we offered. Their stories need to be preserved.

Thank you for sharing and I thank him for his service. I hope his remaining days are filled with peace, comfort and fulfillment. My grandfather escaped in the kindertransport. Other relatives were ruthlessly murdered by the Nazi regime. Sharing the personal stories helps to preserve history and helps us honour our family/ancestors.

Edward! Please thank him for his service we have not forgotten!

@@Lisah707 thank him for me

@@MsBhappy Thank him for his service for me. He is the reason I can sleep peacefully in my bed at night.

Tell him I said thank you

Happy Bday, thank you and my best wishes to him.

And I. would like to thank him for serving the Great Republic.

@Chapman Correct. Hungarian, your dad?

God bless your father and your family.

How long was he in that concentration camp?

Their God is proud of them.....

How can it be, that every American commenter here had a family member that liberated Dachau? Some of you are certainly lying...

@@user-gz1nv6nw3q perhaps that’s the target audience.

@@user-gz1nv6nw3q They're interested in Dachau since their relatives took part in it's liberation and thus searched for videos on Dachau.

@@user-gz1nv6nw3q not EVERY American commenter, but don't you think people related to soldiers who liberated Dachau would be interested in what their family members went through, therefore looking for information on the subject?

Hahahaha "lemme borrow that for a second" - I've got a couple of those I need to handle myself...

Awesome story- thank you for sharing this!

Good therapy for the prisoner

That’s for sure.

Doesn't matter if they're a Nazi, you don't shoot an unarmed man with his hands above his head. If you do that, you're no better than them

history channel has sure gone to the dogs

Great observation Cody!

Sad, but true. The History Channel,has ruined itself. Sad that schools don’t teach history anymore.

The quality of programming on the history channel was never actually good anyway. Lots of misinformation and Nazi sensationalism

@Ortum Lynx 👍👍🙂

Do you mean 'liberation' of the camp instead of capture...

@@epramos6800 they were captured because they weren't liberated, as in set free. The prisoners were malnourished and sick, liberating them would have been a death sentence. I think capture is the proper word in this historical context, where the liberators had a moral obligation to capture the camp in order to eventually liberate the prisoners.

@@mikethunder84 both words are appropriate but in the correct order. I think we know what he meant. My grandfather was one of the British troops who, along with Canadians, captured Bergen-Belsen and liberated the poor souls there. He hated Germans from that moment on so my grandma said, but he preferred not to talk about it.

Dear Heavens ! He needed to SEE a psychiatrist after what he lived through! May God grant him His peace.

Great story.

Yes, exactly! Starving people cannot be fed what I saw them being served -- beans, stew, etc. And for heaven's sake, not all they want. Geez. Teeny, tiny amounts of bland foods, like you would someone recovering from an illness. They have to recover slowly. It's a shame the US was so unprepared to deal with late stage starvation, with the proper foods.

I think they did their best and did not know. I do know as well that many died from eating too much after liberation. @@virginiasoskin9082

Yeah, we've all seen band of brothers dude

​@@virginiasoskin9082not a shame at all, how could they be prepared for the rationing?? They had no idea what horrors they were walking in to!!

@@virginiasoskin9082Most of these soldiers were just young men with no medical training who walked into some unimaginable hell. And you want up criticize them for doing what they thought was kind and merciful?!?

Indeed!.....The prisoners were not the only victims of Dachau....................

When I was stationed in Grafenwoehr, I visited Dachau. It was amazing to know what happened there. They probably told them to cover their patches so the unit couldnt be recognized. RIP to your dad. Him and his buddies did an outsanding job.

@@wolfmp1 Thanks bro. 2 of my brothers and I, 10 years ago, took dad back to Europe for dads 90th birthday. We visited 7 countries and got to see a lot of the places that dad was during the war. We visited Dachau too. We went to a bar in Munich and drank a bunch of beer with some of the locals. I now have the privilege of throwing up on 2 continents.

God bless your father. Respect.

TheBrabon1 no they didn’t

thank you for his service

reminds me of that episode from band of brothers, "why we fight".

Sadly, problem is humans just do not seem to learn.

Happen again? Visit your local 'hospital' and ask to see how many of the unborn boys and girls bodies they ripped apart for the day. 'Oh, I see nothing. '

Yes, there was much of that too.

@Boogie man Errrrrrrr ? It's not difficult to distinguish deaths from hunger, disease, and physical brutality from gunshot and shrapnel injuries ! But then you wouldn't know that would you !

My dad was in the 45th also. He said it was horrible.

simple but profound story. Thank you.

@@adrianmaxwell7483 the story is an epic & tragic adventure through war-torn Germany. Stealing food and clothes from Germans, sleeping in barns. He lived through Hell.

POIGNANT TALE

My dad was at the release of Dachau. During the occupation after the war in Germany, he was a medic who worked with many displaced persons as they were trying to get home. Your grandfather went through many unbelievable trials.

I suspect your grand-père was not a Jewish man. Please, do tell us more. Thank you.

Easy to understand

My father was the same way. He was with the 9th US Infantry and, while he spoke of other memories of the war, the only thing he would say about a “work camp” they liberated was “I’ll never forget what they did to those people.” He said it with such intense sadness that we dared not ask him anything further about it. Same with his veteran comrades I saw at their reunions.

@Johnny Xander what did you say?

@Johnny Xander Why does my dog make statues of you all over my yard???

@@randyw4972 Haven't heard that one before (though I've seen and smelled the statues). Good one.

you're exactly right and I used to love to go to Gettysburg every year and dad would stop when we were driving from Virginia to Pennsylvania just so I could get out of the car if the kid and go over to the wooden fence post they made surrounding the area .they put these logs of there after the war and the land was cleared out and they've got all The Civil War cannons .there was something about that place the first time I went when I was 10 and I've always been pretty keen and insightful to things around me and I didn't know what it was until I was about 30 and I realized I was an empath. I'm not able to feel things that other people do but I can sense things and even in people and read them like a book which is scary sometimes.I would be scared to go to one of these concentration camps because when I went to Gettysburg every year there was this sinking feeling in my heart and in my gut.I was just a kid but I knew enough about the Civil War that it was a nasty bloody battle and Antietam was bad as well but with a draw. there was just something different about Gettysburg and I get this different feeling in my gut when I go to Gettysburg and I don't know how many people died there but it seems to me like it could have been three times more than Antietam because it feels like old souls .a lot of those people were family fighting family just because someone's family lived in Virginia and someone else's family lived in Maryland or another state .what a heartbreaking War ..I would probably collapse going to a concentration camp ..

Respect!

I appreciate both of you for your honorable service. The draft boards quit calling up people the year I turned 18 and got my number.

A father of my friend liberated the camp & he never forgot what he saw & neither did I after I heard his story.

Not to mention the victim's of the camps

My father would often yell out in his sleep from the horrors he saw at this camp.

@@Cissy2cute Oh, I'm so sorry. I can only imagine how that would haunt him.

Yeah this would mess alot of us up..

@shutup Yep, and EVERYONE's grandfather was there and said it was horrible. Uhuh!

@Православни Келт Many shown were the new prisoners,the boxcars were full of dead new prisoners still locked in. The ones who had been there awhile were skeletal. Just his choice of photos.

Im calling bull on your claim

@Православни Келт Some of the prisoners were new arrivals, others had administration jobs - having a job indoors meant that they could organise, acquire and trade things for food and take better care of themselves. As for clean uniforms with all the buttons: there were plenty of uniforms in the stores, which even if they were not new, would have been repaired if needs be

He no doubts are the killing of the German cars. Based on a humanitarian crisis of which the Germans had no control because of allied bombing.

+Nancy Sloan : Dachau is the example how the american soldiers and its goverment try to cover their own WAR CRIMES!!!

We don’t call them our Greatest Generation for nothing! 🇺🇸

@@ActionfigureGeek Well it WAS 'to do with being US' - as this was a specific moment in history that the video is referring to. Compassion is indeed a worldwide behaviour - but the world was at Dachau that say.

Let's remember that the Americans were happy enough to sit out of the early stage of the war. They said it was Europe's problem. When the British gave the Americans reports of horrific events at the concentration camps, work camps and death camps they asked to stop being told about it. Thousands of Jewish refugees were turned away at U.S. ports even when the U.S. government knew that to turn that back was almost certain death. Huge respect.

​@@seanwebb605 There's alot of truth in what you said. People nowadays say the public didn't know; to some extent that's true. The papers withheld the stories, even when a reporter came back from Europe with 1st hand info. But-- it Did slip into the newspapers from time to time. One of the NYC papers published some of the story. On page 7 of all things.

@@user-io9ie5cs8j Rachel Maddow and Ken Burns recently did an interview discussing her book. Apparently the fascism movement in the U.S. was pretty strong leading up to the Second World War. Twelve members of congress helped fund fascist articles and propaganda through their office budgets and ability to use the U.S. Postal Service free or at low cost.

I have respect for your dad and I hope he knows millions of people are proud of him.

@@marianoviking maybe germany shouldn't have attempted to sieze control of europe and should have surrendered earlier then. not like germans didn't bomb europe too

@@marianoviking war is a terrible thing my friends

@@20ZZ20 yes,im not gonna argue your point...i just wanted to say that because i studied the subject,i been in Dachau and Mauthausen too...most of the prisoners died as a result of the massive bomb campaign...no food,no train lines,no nothing.

@@davidbates6565 100% agreed David.

The einzatsgruppen were just pure evil, too.

Wow. Would be so interesting to hear anything these veterans feel comfortable to share. This history is so recent it’s scary. And most people really have no clue how ugly bad ideology can get.

Ben, I spent my early years in the Guard in the 42nd, first in the 42nd MP Co then in the 2/210th Armor back in the '80s. Thank him for his service from this now-retired Colonel (I had moved on to the 26th ID in the early '90s)

@Ron Lewenberg Or maybe it will stir long hidden memories which the poor fella doesn`t want to recall. My own father went right through WW2 and hardly ever talked of the dark moments, only the lighter times. As he aged those memories returned and although he never mentioned them the fact that I saw him weep (something he never did) whilst watching the Armistice day parade on TV showed that the ghosts hadn`t gone away.

@Ron Lewenberg . Yeah, or maybe it will traumatize him,..,,.,?

Wow I'd love to speak to him. I think. God. What sorrow

He was very unusual, my father was on a death March. No one gave them food. There was so much hate.

@@Barbara-ld4ug Gerd Bauer was a special man and I can imagine the same as a young boy that he was. He was from Bodensee and the entire family didnt subscribe to the crazy that was going on. The SS showed up that night, had a serious talk with his father and said if it happened again his uncle would be found hanging from a lamppost. I will never forget the story.... Be safe and be well my freind

Death march the one done to Germans..... there was no other one

@@prophetnozza4150 Not only Germans, many were consist of other countries' citizens, including even their own.

For a minute I thought you where saying that you where an adult living back then and that your landlord was a child lol I was thinking “what the hell” until I realized

They were told by the officials that air raid victims were cremated.

I'm so sorry to hear about your grandfather, but glad to hear his grandchildren is alive and I hope do well in all things, and that you will have grandchildren of your own. Be blessed in all things. Friendly greetings from Alv from Norway.

Petra van der Lugt May your good granddad rest in peace.

I am not 100% sure, but my grandfather was in Dachau too. And he said that a lot of people died soon because they were starving and started to eat a lot. Their body could not handle the amount of food. My grandfather was on recovery for three months, with special diet.

@@ivicabotica1856 A lot of people probably died from 'Refeeding' syndrome'. This is largely caused by a lack of basic minerals in the body which are required in sufficient quantities to process proteins, fats, carbohydrates and other nutrients. For example, the metabolism of vitamin B12 requires potassium and the other B vitamins. If a person is deficient in potassium and is given meat or other protein sources containing high amounts of B12, the person will suffer with severe potassium and B1 deficiency symptoms including heart attacks.

🙏🕉

Yeah, it’s pretty common. One relative of mine served in Vietnam. He doesn’t talk about it.

He must have felt some sort of bond to you. Usually we never talk of such things. That generation will never be forgotten.

Like your Grandfather, my Grandpa also was in Rainbow42. I can't in my wildest nightmare imagine how horrific this was. Rest in Peace Grandpa.

@@tonyhedberg Wow that's awesome, they were a much different breed of men back then. Most 18 yr olds couldn't imagine getting up off the couch and going outside, let alone given an M1 Garand, helmet, and face certain death every day

I remember reading a comment that a family member of the person commenting liberated one of the camps and you could smell it miles away. It happens even with farms or other smelly places, I don't believe for a second the Germans who lived nearby didn't know.

Absolutely, they carried on with their daily lives like nothing happened. ​@@user-is7xs1mr9y

@@user-is7xs1mr9y You don't know what you don't want to know.

THE RESCUERS CANNOT BE BLAMED. FACED WITH THE STARVED, BEGGING--MOST PEOPLE WOULD HAV HANDED OVER FOOD. I AM HE DAUGHTER OF 2 PHSICIANS,AND HAVE READ A GREAT DEAL OF THE LIBERATION.........I LIKE TO THINK I WOUD HAVE PROVIDED SOUP, IN THE NAZI'S FILTHY BOWLS--BUT THE DID SO WANT REAL FOOD......CCO

MY DAD WAS A PHYSICIAN, AND NO, MEDICAL FOLK HADN'T LEARNED THIS UNTIL JUST BEFORE THE END OF HE WAR--INFO DID NOT ALWAYS GET THROUG

Yes they were killed by kindness. It was no-ones fault, they just didn’t know and thought they were doing the right thing.

God bless your dad. A true HERO. Thank you for his service.

+Steve : Dachau is the example how the american soldiers and its goverment try to cover their own WAR CRIMES!!!

@@salvadorvillegas3569 Killing that evil is not a war crime. Get your morals straight my friend. What those son of a bitches did to those prisoners is what got them lined up against a wall and shot or tore up by the prisoners. They got what they deserved.

My father was there with the 45th ID, 19 years old. We visited the camp in 2007 when I was based in Europe (AF). Only the second time I ever saw him cry. I can’t remember ever seeing him tremble like that.

GOD MUST SURELY BE PROUD OF HIM, AND THE FAITHFUL WORLD OF DECENT CITIZENS IS BLESSED TO KNOW HE WAS IN SERVICE,AT SUCH AN EARLY AGE. BLESS HIM....XOXO

Wow. I did not know BMW tried to compensate for the horrors they profited off of. Thank you for sharing.

OMG...i didn't know BMW used prisoners for labour..appalling...and to think I used to want one of their cars...thank god that never came to fruition because i would definitely sell it!

I hear you my dad was a survivor he called it blood money but he felt take the money use it for charity, help someone. The money can never expunge what these low life’s did. There is never an excuse for the hate people received from the Germans and collaborators

@@dawna4185 Most german companies that already existed during the 1930s had a problem working with the government, didnt need to give the workers any rights

@@christophmaier4397 wow...

it really is interesting how a person is willing to let injustice continue, so long as they have to have no direct part in it.

@@albdamned577 As if you would have done any different. Gonna single-handedly take down even that one camp by yourself or die trying? It's not interesting at all. People are rational enough to know when they have no chance to succeed and rather not die for a doomed effort by themselves. What's more interesting is that nobody that heard a man's continued protestations about the injustice and thought there IS a chance to stop it because they AREN'T alone. Or that they heard them just fine, there are actually so many people convinced that it isn't injustice at all and threatened to imprison HIM. The man really IS alone and has no chance to stop it.

In fairness, what the heck was he supposed to do? Strange and dangerous times.@@albdamned577

I wasn't aware of that but of course, not every German was a Nazi or depraved.

Such and incredibly sad and emotional place. I would sob uncontrollably if I'd witnessed what your father did. They were an amazing generation

Great respect for your father and his fellow soldiers. The sight and smell of what they ran into in Dachau must have been like running into hell. Killing the SS guards must have felt a relief.

good man god bless xxxx linda in scotland

I was stationed in Germany from 1984-6 and also went to Dachau in 1985. Our captain put us all in deuces and a halfs and made us go so that we would never forget what happened.

@Alex Snowflakes like you probably wouldn't even defend your own family, you're nauseating.

God rest his soul 🙏🏼. Sending love and prayers to your grandpa.

I'm so sorry 😞

WHAT A TERRIBLE LOSS.

I’m sorry for your loss. So many were close to liberation, but just couldn’t hold on any longer.

@@sharonstonts I am sorry for your loss. May he rest in peace.

That is great, can't imagine the horrors he witnessed, it was so bad that even we the Americans was fighting each other to kill the Nazis, thats crazy, but in war nothing makes sense

My father was also liberated from Dachau. This was a very good production, and explained the day of liberation well. Thank you.

I'm glad your father made it out!

In 1984 I was to ask men in Waycross, GA their remembrances of liberating these camps. Forty years later, all they could do was burst into tears when reminded of this horrific event. The son of one of the liberators told me that he was never the same after this.

🙏God Bless your father sir. If I could. I'd like to recommend an international best seller titled "Light One Candle" by Solly Ganor, another soul liberated from Dachua. It's one of two books that are required reading for German high school students, the other is Ann Frank's Diary. (that saids alot) What's ironic about this story is who liberated him from his Dachua "Death Camp" nightmare, a Nisei soldier - PVT Clarence Matsumura who's own family's "Interment Camp" nightmare existed at the time. (not that you can really compare the two). But non the less highly recommended reading. 🇺🇲Stay well. Go in peace.

I'm so sorry for what your great-grandfather went through at Dachau. I hope he was blessed with a long life filled with good fortunes and happiness! May God bless you and your family!

@@madisondean1074 I was about to write (almost) the same thing... ...and for those who wonder and doubt about "why the nation of Israel exists, and why it needs to continue to exist" have no clue...they need to see these films, and all others like them.

Swedish, May your great grandpa rest in peace. 🥀🌷🏞️

I had a great uncle on my mom's side of my family who worked in the Dutch resistance during WW2. He got into some hot water with the Germans and was told by his family not to return home. He was known to be a very stubborn person and ended up retuning home. He was captured by the Germans and sent to a camp in France before bouncing around from camp to camp and eventually ending up in Dachau. When I visited Dachau, I kid you not the book listing all the known people who died there was flipped open to the exact page where his name was which is how I found out. While he died on new year's eve 1944, his name is listed as dying on January 2nd, 1945 but like many others, that information was wrong since the Germans were likely celebrating the new year and thus recorded the deaths of all 3 previous days on January 2nd instead of their actual dates.

Your great grandfather is an absolute legend for being strong enough to survive Dachau.

NO REASON TO BE MAD=== SHOCK. ........90% OF PEOPLE WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN

Yes, Thankyou

God bless him. 🙏🏼

My dad served in the Royal Navy in WW2. What he experienced he kept to himself.

happening still paul salute to your granda and mine linda in scotland xx

I was a child growing up in the UK during world war 2 , still remember the sound of the German planes overhead as they were constantly trying to bomb the shipyard nearby ...the bombs they had left over theyd drop on our villages and homes..we used the piles of rubble to play on..its nothing we really thought about..it was our lives back then...remember tooo..being wrapped up in eiderdowns at night as we had to visit air raid shelters...also remember the moonlit nights and white frost on the ground...AND FROSTY COLD NIGHTS !!

@Greg Grimer Allied command did see that it was documented. It's expecting too much of a soldier on the ground to be able to talk about such a traumatizing experience. They had to put in a box and not open it. Remember these young men got no counseling or psychological support. Or worse. I had a great uncle who was on a ship hit by kamikazes saw his friends burned up and die horribly and for his PTSD the VA gave him electroshock therapy. I guess just to try to erase the memory of it? A grandfather when he got older would tell me about his time in WW2, he was with the 101st, including once about having to leave a friend he knew would die to keep fighting but only did so when a medic showed up to so he wouldn't die alone. He told me they liberated a camp but would only speak vaguely about it. It's upsetting to learn about third hand many decades later. To be there and smell and see one with no notion that people could possibly be so cruel... the desire for information and details sometimes has to be put aside and it's amazing how much a person can convey by just saying "It was bad."

"When I asked about his experience, he politely refused to talk about it" if you want to know how it was there then you can read Stanisław Grzesiuk book "Pięć lat kacetu" (Five Years in Concentration Camps). But you need to learn Polish first as he was christian guy so you will not gonna be able to find english translation of that book... in this book he is trying to describe his daily life and what he was forced to do to survive five years in camp where average prisoner lifespan was only 90 days(after that time most people were physical too weak to work=instant execution; or mental breakdown = suicide by walk into electric fence).

@ϟϟ Franz schmied 卐 That is ... strange. Those rings were relatively rare to begin with, I don't suppose you know anything more, dates, name and number of units involved?

my first job was at a elderly apartment complex in the mid 90s and i loved talking to the WW2 guys...once i got know them they opened up...one guy was airborne the night before D day and another battle of the bulge....i could listen to them all day...great memories.

@@Grubnar "SS" and "honor" are not words that belong in the same sentence.

My great grandpa was a close friend of Eisenhower's because of his work engineering certain high end military equipment, and my great uncle on the other side worked under Eisenhower for a time when he was president. While I have my great grandpa's rocking chair, kitchen knife and coffee mug, zero documents of any of his work survive. I appreciate that you and your family have taken care of that report, and if by chance it is online and you could link to it I think many of us would want to read it.

That’s so friggin cool. God bless your family and thank y’all for your service.

Sparks was more than excellent, he was amazing. One of the men I wish I could've met.

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Very sorry to hear that, Im glad she survived and made it too America!

I'm so sorry for what your grandmother went through. May God bless her, you and your family with good fortunes and happiness!

Heinrich Himmler was at least just as evil in his own way as Hitler and Goering were. May God bless those who survived Dachau and the other Nazi deathcamps.

I'm sending up prayers to you and family. I'm using other half tablet. My name is JoAnn Sigby. I'm a proud Army brat I also served proudly I have been to Germany 2 times when my Dad was assigned. My first duty assignment was 97th General Hospital Frankfurt. I visited Dachau I was 18 yrs old I'm so sorry to hear about how your step-Grandma had to grew up in a place like this. I'm Native American but my faith is Buddhist. I was chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo the whole time I was walking through. Swiping tears away now I could NOT enter a few areas my heart was breaking thank you for listening. I remember it so cold and very silent no birds. Sending up prayers.

Indeed, we must never forget the horrors of socialism and the terrible things that the Germans are capable of in their endless obsession of dominating Europe.

Roller Ghoster what if German had won the war and came across the American Concentration Camps containing the Japanese Americans?

Del Lawrence Not socialism, fascism! The Nazis sent the German socialists to work camps! The Nazis was a ultra right party, like their buddy Mussolini and Franco. Please don’t try to re-write history!

@@lindanwfirefighter4973 dont even go there. Crawl back to whatever rock you slithered out from under.

@Chandy Alexander They called themselves socialists and they acted like socialists, if it walks like a duck.....

I can't imagine the things he saw. My uncle was there about 2 days after the camp was liberated. After the cleanup had started and it deeply scarred him till the day he died. He would talk openly about all of the other battles he was in. From Sicily and Italy, through France, but he couldn't talk about the concentration camp. The camp gave him awful nightmares of the most horrific kind. Till he was well into his 80's.

I guess another way to look at it is, by then the liberating soldiers -- infantry, no less -- had surely spent months wallowing through all the horrors of war, deaths, maimings, privations, the lot. Yet Dachau was too grotesque for guys like that to stomach. It really puts the sadistic monstrousness of Hitlerism in perspective.

If it was hard on the American liberators try to guess how much more traumatic it was for the prisoners.

My grandfather was an ambulance driver in WWI.. I wish I had known him better, but I was 7 when he died. My mother said he rarely talked about the war, but one of the things they were most frightened of at that time was mustard gas.

And the saddest thing about it is the fact that those piles of eyeglasses, rings, clothing and bodies weren't even the result of the war directly, but of incomprehensible human evil towards other human beings just for not being catholic German.

I was at Dachau about 4 yrs ago. It was a very humbling experience. I could almost imagine all the people whom were starved, beaten, and murdered there. I felt almost guilty walking on the paths due to I might be walking on someone's ashes. The place is heartbreaking.

​@@mickeypopa Catholic priests were also in Dachau dude. Anyone that spoke against the Nazi scum could be put in a camp if they weren't killed on the spot.

@@mickeypopa Just for not being catholic German? Hundreds of Catholic priests were deported to concentration camps, some executed. A major Catholic saint, Maximilian Kolbe gave his life in a camp as exchange for a Jewish prisoner who had a wife and family. Reich leadership considered Catholic priests and certain Protestant clergy to be enemies due to their preaching against the campaign against the Jews.

There's a soldier who openly admitted shooting an unarmed commandant of a concentration camp. He was calmly explaining to him that because of the conditions of the camp and what happened, he was going to be arrested and taken into custody by MPs and go on trial. He spit on him, because he was Black, and the soldier shot him. He said so, unabashedly. The SS were animals; there was no saving most, if any, of them. Himmler had plans to ensure that each person in the SS would have to shoot and kill a Jew as an entry requirement. Beyond sick.

Respects to your English teacher and the veteran who took part in the liberation.

Your whole class gave him a standing ovation?!! Thats wonderful! And here I thought the kids of your generation had forgotten already. Thank you so much, you've just made my day! Be sure to teach your kids someday. ;-)

I know when I was in 8th grade there was a presentation from some WW2 vet's held in the auditorium... I remember next to nothing about it aside from all the cool uniforms and medals they wore. 13 year old me didn't realize how big of a deal it was.

Hearing your story and watching this video makes me wonder how many nightmares the men who liberated Dachau made over the course of their lives. No way something like that doesn't haunt you for the rest of your life.

@@billd.iniowa2263 Nope, in fact, history is more and more remembered BY THE DAY due in part to the internet, it's a blessing and will ensure that we WILL NEVER forget :)

"Good! Then he wasn't lying!" Yep, they talk about it; only once. Just like Vietnam vets. Vets of all wars. Once is enough. But never forget.

TEARS....

A friend of mine didn't know about his father's involvement in the liberation of Belsen (British job) until they cleared his attic following his death. He'd been a medic's assistant and written down notes. Apparently it explained a great deal about his mental health issues that had impacted my friend's family throughout. Poor man hadn't said a word.

My dad was there at the liberation of Dachau that day and was rarely spoken a word about it.

Unfortunately they usually prefer to forget for the sake of their own sanity.

Normal soldiers might have been shocked. But Allied high Command knew very early what's happening there.

I knew that tempers where flying but didnt realized what actually happened on that day before watching this video. Imagine being frontline GI under constant stress of battle coming to the camp and witnessing this horror. It's very difficult to judge if under these circumstances executing surrendering Waffen-SS soldiers was justified or not.

@@acotojest It was not. It was _understandable,_ and I'm certainly not going to judge anyone harshly for reacting that way to such a horrible scene, but that doesn't mean it was _justified._

@@acotojest Of course it's not justified. Murder can never be justified. The question is whether it's excusable.

@@acotojest no matter how the soldiers felt it wasnt justified. If youre going to make excuses and start justifying "your own" for the crimes you executed the "enemies" for, whats the point of these laws? Its obvious the allies wouldnt apply the same laws on this scale to themselves. War is ugly, all sides commit heinous crimes. No point justifying these actions unless you would do this for all sides. History needs to be told and be told unbiased. Ofc the victors will have more sway over how this history will be presented, but at least the lesser evil won and we have the chance to at least try to learn the unbiased truth.

I toured Dachau in 1979 when I was a USN sailor.

Let's MAKE SURE it never happens again, by driving neo-Nazis and fascists driven by race-hate and love of authoritarian dictatorship out of present-day politics.

Wake up out that brainwashing You got took there on an anti white anti German BRAINWASHING COURSE! Your country is lied about! YOU WERE THE VICTIMS OF THAT WAR! WAKE UP!

@@prophetnozza4150 are you nuts?

@@8gbusby No I look outside of what you are told with ZERO proof. People who are nuts believe this anti white hate filled narrative....... can you not see what is happening to your race and your races nations? ...... NO we are not one race, ALL science OUTSIDE of controlled academia by THEM, haplogroups, DNA, hominid records , anthropology and a vast number of other things prove we are NOT one race! LOOK WHATS HAPPENING TO THE EUROPEAN ONE!!!!!! OpEN YOUR EYES!

+Landon Edwards : Dachau is the example how the american soldiers and its goverment try to cover their own WAR CRIMES!!! If you have make holocaustic sightseeing without make any cleverly logical question ...so sorry telling that you have graduated of stupid!!!

If you watch this and other Mark Felton productions, I'm absolutely amazed at how young the colonels were. They look like undergrads! (5:06)

I was stationed at Nurenberg, I visited Dachau also, mid 70s. Horrible place.

I did the same only once. I was stationed in West Germany during the same time. It was a horrible place to see.

Keno Man The bread crusts are an amazing detail. What an insight into how human habits are born and maintained.

I've read a book by a Dahau survivor who was a Polish POW officer sent to Dahau as punishment for refusing multiple offers of German Citizenship since he was born in Berlin while his parents were traveling back to Poland from I think France. He spent 5 years in Murnau POW camp and then 9 last months of the war in Dahau. There were 3 other prisoners sent there with him. The best part of the book was that after his liberation he was hired by the American army to serve in the Guard Companies watching over german POW prisoners. He became a commandant of a camp holding top German officers. The lowest rank in his camp was a major. It had over 50 generals. The book was called "Odwrucone losy", which translate to Reversal of fortune. I don't think it was ever translated in any other language which is a pity. It was fascinating read.

@@Luvurenemy Read a book a couple years ago, wish I could remember the title.....but one passage still haunts me.....a soldier returned home after WW2 ended (think he was in the ETO)....first night home, he tried to sleep in the same bed and bedroom he grew up in. His mother woke up in the night after hearing odd noises, and noticed he wasn't in bed; she went outside, and saw he had dug a foxhole in the yard, draped himself in a blanket and was sound asleep...per the passage in the book, she broke down sobbing at the sight, realizing what he must have been through that made sleeping in a foxhole out in the yard preferable than a warm bed inside his home......

@@notyou6950 What a pity. An English translation would give many more people to read about his experience.

Ron Shouse There are nightmares in our deep evolutionary past that get exposed by stories like this veteran’s experience. His free will was gone. The unconscious took over. What suffering our evolutionary forbearers must have experienced millions of years ago. for this programming to be coded into us. It just sits in our brains waiting to be activated by some calamity. Thanks for sharing.

There was someone in these comments who shared the story of their Dad or Uncle involved in liberating the camp and emancipating prisoners; some of them were too weak to survive but they could at least tell them that they would die free which made them smile. The strength of those people is bewildering. To smile in the face of death after enduring the absolute worst of humanity.

@@jasonlast7091 Agreed.

True History!🤔🇺🇸

Can you imagine taking courses taught by Dr. Felton?

He spoon feeds you history you mean. I learned this in a book years ago. It’s all out there. One just has to look for it, or wait and hope for someone to tell you.

@@SeanRCope What does it matter where the knowledge comes from? If Mark's videos prompt even one person, no matter how they came upon the video, to read and dig more deeply into a subject and try to gain a greater knowledge of how the world they live in came to be the way it is, then I would say he has succeeded beyond measure.

Yea hé is better tegen my history teacher

Yes! My feelings too. I toured Dachau in 2013. I'm still haunted by the memory.

I was just there a week back had to wash myself and pray

Makes it sound like he regrets it

@@Aaron19987 Reading is difficult, isn't it?

Mine too. He was still having nightmares 20 yrs later

As a Vietnam veteran, I understand being haunted. The VA tries to treat for PTSD, but it never goes away.

Poor man, I feel sorry for him. Bless him! Stay safe.

You should also have a ban on Porsche and VW! They were run by many ex SS soldiers after the war!! Jochem Piper the convicted war criminal was one!!

Yes, Mercedes And Porsche were part of the war effort. Here is the Porsche history: Ferdinand Porsche[a] (3 September 1875 - 30 January 1951) was an Austrian-German automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche car company. He is best known for creating the first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle (Lohner-Porsche), the Volkswagen Beetle, the Auto Union racing car, the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, several other important developments and Porsche automobiles. An important contributor to the German war effort during World War II,[1] Porsche was involved in the production of advanced tanks such as the VK 4501 (P), the Elefant (initially called "Ferdinand") self-propelled gun, and the Panzer VIII Maus super-heavy tank, as well as other weapon systems, including the V-1 flying bomb.[2] Porsche was a member of the Nazi Party and was called the "Great German Engineer" by Nazi officials.[3][4] He was a recipient of the German National Prize for Art and Science, the SS-Ehrenring, and the War Merit Cross. Porsche was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1996 and won the Car Engineer of the Century award in 1999. And the Daimler-Benz history in the Nazi-Era: From 1937, Daimler-Benz AG increasingly produced armament items such as the LG 3000 truck and aircraft engines such as the DB 600 and DB 601. To create additional capacity for aircraft engine production in addition to the Marienfelde plant the Genshagen plant was built in a well-concealed forest location south of Berlin in 1936. Armament production accounted for an ever-growing proportion of the company’s revenues up to the start of the war. In the summer of 1941, the Daimler-Benz AG Board of Management, chaired by Wilhelm Kissel, no longer envisaged a swift end to the war or an imminent return to producing civilian vehicles. The most important line of business was truck production, whilst passenger-car manufacture - already limited to military requirements since the beginning of the war - was in decline and virtually came to a standstill by the end of 1942. The company was now focusing on the manufacture and assembly of military components for the army, navy, and air force.

@@bobbybogs6864 @Ripper36068 I think it was more that Mercedes had an actual physical point, like they made the engines. I'm sure he had a terrible view on all of them as a whole but it was just that distinction having a physical thing to hate.

Yep. My Dad and his brothers fought in that war. None of them would ever buy anything German. I'm 53, and I still have never bought a German vehicle- I know it's weird, but I still think about how badly it would have upset my Dad, and he was a good man.

BMW has history of forced labor production during WWII as well

Christians will be next according to the Bible .

Russia is literally shooting civilians in mass graves in Ukraine

Yeah its happening in China

This is the agenda of the UN, the New World Order, WEF. Klaus Schwab is a defendant of the Third Reich. Watch the Rise and Fall of Third Reich on RU-vid and you will be able to spot the similarities going on now. They are starting with the smaller countries they can take over first.

Agreed. We never seem to learn from history.

It happened in the war of 1812. It may have happened in every war.

There were actually a lot of war crimes carried out by the Americans that were hidden especially German prisoners of war but clearly not as many as the Germans had done karma always get you in the end .

Humanity is stupid. They'll do it again... and again... and another ad nauseum...

@John Smith There were war crimes committed by all sides during WWII - it was the nature of the beast. Total, dehumanizing warfare. But in the case of the SS guards at the camps... nah, killing them was certainly not a war crime. Way too many of them got away with their crimes as it was, so those that the Allies and Russians shot out of hand to me was a small counter to that. I know what I'd have done to the bastards.

Tell that to the CCP putting uighurs in "education camps"

A good friend of mine was a combat cameraman in the south Pacific during WW 2. He said all of his buddies wanted good action shots but they were considered targets like any other GI.

This is a fantastic comment. Thank you for making it.

And Eisenhower video taped everything in the camps we liberated

Just think about all the footage of this war that never survived. It's astounding to think of.

@@ridethecurve55 I'm retired from the National Archives and Records Administration. There are hundreds of thousands of feet, perhaps millions, of film in the National Archives. Like Hollywood's storage vaults it was not understood until the 60's that film had to be stored at specific temperatures and levels of humidity to last undamaged. Newer film products have a wider window of survivability but still need fixed conditions to endure. To my knowledge no historical research program has ever addressed the film archives of NARA with a view toward preserving, restoring and perhaps digitizing the whole. Nor have I any idea of what the cost might be for an effort on that scale. The bottom line is that film is perishable, can become unrecoverable before it actually breaks down and those things are happening for lack of outside historical interest. And yes, we still have the Ark of the Covenant in warehouse. 🙄

Amazing story, thanks for sharing. I don't believe in coincidence I think the book showed what you were supposed to learn. Divine intervention.

John Codling, that is so true to this day!! Know your history!!

Not so many pictures were taken of his own 'Rheinwiesenlager' camps postwar. (Not officially POWs but 'disarmed enemy forces')

Are you kidding me???? He knew for years this was happening and didn't do a damn thing to help!!!! He only gave the go ahead to join the war after pearl harbor!!! USA always takes credit for winning WW2 when as a country you killed more of your own soldiers than the enemy!!! USA joined in the last 17 months after it had already been going on for 6 years!!!! USA has no issues starting wars and yet they can't win one!!!

@@oakley3815 now they are being accused for being a warmonger for helping other nation, wtf, other nation will hate everything they do

@Flame Resistant Troll awe truth hurts doesn't it yanky doodle 😂😂