The film crew with Hollywood director George Stevens documents the horrors of National Socialist extermination policy. They also film one of the evacuation transports from the death camps in the East. Stevens: "It was as if we were walking through Dante's visions of hell".
I have studied WW II for 40 years and i had never seen those ME 2 jets parked along that Autobahn. People today think that the past was a bland black and white world but these films bring it to life
I agree.. I think it's the reality of what looks like muck and dirt on soldiers returning from battle in B/W is actually blood in full colour and that hits quite hard on most of us. It finalises what has happened without the use of words.
I love the color restorations and it seems to me that they slow it down and do something to make the films less “herky jerky”. Everything is much clearer and more visceral….and the faces of the men who are all babies to their Mothers. These restored films break my heart.
I can't imagine what it must have been like for these former prisoners, to have to rebuild their lives, their families all wiped out and the decades of PTSD that followed. I hope they lived out their lives in peace and surrounded by love.
I met one. She lived in Melbourne Australia. She got a double pension for the rest of her life. Had the number tattoo on her arm but never spoke of what happened to her.
I had the opportunity to visit my Dad's cousin in the 1980s who lived near Munich. He had fought in WW2 as a young soldier in the German army. When asked about the war, he would remain silent out of the shame he felt and the atrocities he had witnessed. It was heartbreaking to watch.
I have heard rumours of a group of Luftwaffe that came upon a camp and were so horrified at what they saw, that they took the guards, and other German camp staff, prisoner on the spot.
I was stationed in Bamberg for 3 years 1987-1989 and visited Dachau one of the most sobering and moving experiences of my life. I remember two things most: a photograph of an enormous pile of shoes with a caption "the final solution " and the quote about those who cannot remember history are condemned to repeat it.
@ 23:03 As a Rush fan, Lead singer, Geddy Lee's parents both met here and were rescued together, giving the free world, one of the best bass guitarists of our generation - Keep history alive, or we will repeat it!
Only fools think this was the only bad thing that ever happened, or that somehow knowing about them will prevent future bad things. Put on your big boy pants.
There's lots out there if you want to see all the skeletal and burnt bodies. If you want to educate young people (as your comment suggests) than IMO blurring out the severe stuff makes perfect sense, and in fact one may realize serves history better once they get over their sense of personal entitlement (on a free platform, no less lol).
@@casario2808 I do understand what you are saying- there just a lot of denial of the Holocaust going on these days. The frank horror of it all does seem to hurt people..especially those whose families were the victims
@@casario2808 You are missing the point. The money driven corporation that is RU-vid is requiring the whitewashing of actual, historical disturbing events. People need to see these images, not for some cheap thrill, but to bear witness to first hand documentation of these events... before the footage is doctored or manipulated to the point of uncertainty of what was original footage.
My father in law said he was one of the American soldiers who helped to liberate Dachau but beyond saying that it was horrible he would say nothing further. He was 25 at the time and came home safely from the war. Really a nice,nice man!
My grandmother and aunts were liberated from Dachau. Grandma still remembers the American soldier who later allowed her to take a bag of flour from a warehouse in the town.
I visited Dachau in 1995 and I left a different person. If people don’t know about the atrocities, how can we ever hope to prevent them from happening again. Next time, and I feel a “next time” may be coming, it could be us and our families. I feel there is a vested interest in not allowing history to be learned because it empowers the people and “they” don’t want that.
That’s why they still stand today. The Dachaus, the aushwitzs and the buchenwolds are all a reminder of what once happened. My grandfather liberated Dachau in 1945. I actually just posted a comment about him.
Remember this as Anti-Semitism is rising up around the world. First, islam will come for the Saturday people, then they will come for the Sunday people.
Visiting Dachau in 1973 also had a huge impact on me. I had visited Yad Vashem in 1966, but was such a youngster that a fair bit went over my head. Dachau made it all become very real. There was a Protestant church there and a pastor showed me his prisoner tatoo. I think it was Martin Niemoller, but I failed to record his name so am just guessing.
I know quite a few people that have been there and they said the same and were indeed noticeably different upon their return. Some went religious and others said they felt a terrible paranormal presence there (and had to rethink everything) where before they would absolutely mock anything of that nature.
I have seen documentaries in black and white, uncensured a decade ago. Nowadays, it seems they want to keep us away from reality and a past that should not be forfotten.
Given the fact that colour film was exceedingly rare, it may indeed have been filmed yesterday. One wonders about the sudden appearance of colour in all sorts of WWII presentations after so many decades of black and white. Perhaps one should check the files if Hollywood films as sources?
and the russians british canadians australians south africans free french brazillian norwegian polish chzech irish indian and many more who gave their lives
It was NOT all USA They came in the last near end of war Britain was there RIGHT from the start They tried to get USA to come on board for ages but they would not
It's still amazing that one insane monster could deceive millions to end lives of millions more and for what? May it never happen again. Great footage this needs shown in American high schools and Universities.
My father once told me about entering bergan belson and some of the horrors that he witnessed too terrible to repeat and nightmares for the rest of his life and then the other day i heard that ROSEANNE BARR DENIED THAT IT EVER HAPPENED the rage that im still feeling stops me from continuing
Yeah, my grandfather liberated Dachau, he never told anyone about what he saw. He told my cousin and I vaguely. But it wasn’t until years later when I was watching the military channel they showed after the liberation of Dachau and it was horrifying.
TheGermans look shattered and beaten down, but the overwhelming majority of them loved it when Hitles was in power, committing historic atrocities on a scale never before seen.
This stuff should not be censored in anyway. It should be required watching in public/private schools. World leaders should be required to have these videos always playing in their presence. Foolishness that people seem to forget this vile evil took place. Complacent and entitled fools on the left and right. Ignorant equally in their own way about these things. I'm enraged tiktok garbage gets 100,000,000s of views, and these a fraction. We will absolutely repeat the history weak people can't be worried to learn about.
@@brianmaitai7685 Thank you kindly, sir! If we, as a species in the first world countries, saw the absolute horror of war in our formative years, we wouldn't be so gung-ho for more war. In fact, it would likely prevent wars after a couple generations went through seeing those things in their curriculum. To hell with it making people upset. Upset is when those pansies never see it, get drafted, and die on a battle field. All, because they were too sensitive to see the truth of war. The magnitude of impact on our fellow humans. Anyway, thank you and hopefully more and more people will begin thinking this way. It shouldn't take a hundred-million dead war massacre every 50 years to remind us how god awful and insane it all is.
I was born 1949. I saw combat in Vietnam. War is war 🥜. Spent time in Europe too. Reply if you would like. My father fought in WW II. We became buddies by shared terror.
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 FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR HER CHILDREN TO SEE AND LEARN FROM IT AS WELL.
In his 2013 autobiography, Moose: Chapters from My Life, in the chapter entitled, "Dachau", author Robert B. Sherman chronicles his experiences as an American Army servicemen during the initial hours of Dachau's liberation.
I have been to Dachau. I visited in 1995. It literally made me sick! I personally vowed to stand up for the Jewish people and never allow that genicide to happen again!
@@nkel6111and just for a moment what would you do if your family your very right to exist is openly threatened after what happened in Germany & is happening again with their slogan from the river to the sea how can you ask Jews to turn the other cheek when Palestinians will not.
I don’t understand how I’m seeing it if it’s censored. But it raises a red flag. The narrators are British but this script strikes me as US-made in style, tone, syntax, audio selection, level of diction, etc. Also as structurally edited by someone who’s very new at this kind of project.
Criminal exceptions aside, it is interesting to note all the German women walking freely about, unr# ped, and unmolested, among American soldiers. Contrast that with the experience of the German women in Berlin and the Soviet conquered areas, with the 100,000 r# pes in Berlin (with 10,000 dying from these attacks) alone, and up to 2 million women victims in all of Germany. This was not the conduct of a civilized country. It doesn’t speak well of the Soviet Union. I know, I know, the Germans were grossly criminal in the countries they conquered, no arguments, but ask a German woman, attacked by 20-30 men in one day, if two wrongs make a right.
You expected rapes committed by the allies to be shown in this film? And there were many, many indeed. As for the Soviet zone: the question was not if, but how many times a German woman was raped. A nun, a 5-years old girl or 70-years old woman, it did not matter.
RU-vid wouldn't care about the censorship of this video, but advertisers do. No ads for this video would be allowed. Censorship is purely done by the video uploaders in order to retain advertising.
It was really the German soldiers as much as it was the SS it was the SS that were really the ones that the people want dead they were far more corrupt than German soldiers allot of those we were victims. A lot of people forget that, a lot of the people that were in the arm then didn’t like what they were doing. They were forced to be in the army or they would have been killed.
As one of the women in one of the bombed out cities who was clearing bomb rubble said to a British occupation soldier “ If you had surrendered in 1940, non of this devastation would never have had to happen!”
Brutter ready for another depressing thought? Imagine how far world Civilization would have advanced by now if they had just skipped over world War 2 entirely
I got so engrossed, I forgot to like previous episodes. I had no idea, how much rebuilding Germany had to do. I hope our Air Force is more discriminant now. Germany is now a great ally.
Please excuse my comment. This history is so important. We MUST learn from it or be doomed to repeat it. My 90 year old mother lives with me and ADMITTING I will NOT be watching this particular video as this is where my mother & father were POW's at ages 4 & 8 years old. LOVE your documentaries! Just skipping this one.....
After decades of watching things like this,WW2 history, I can’t look at any more concentration camp victims, how much does someone have to see? But to blur the facts out of view isn’t right. Things like this are made to remember and learn from,not to censor. A very bad thing to do.
The guards were Hungarian guards that replaced the German guards. They were told to surrender the camp which they did and were murdered by the Americans. That why SS colonel Peiper who murdered 84 Americans Pows had his death sentence changed to life. He did about 10 years
I've seen George Stevens' unedited film footage of the liberation of Dachau concentration camp before and I agree with the earlier commentator wholeheartedly: censoring it is, in a way, more repellent than exposing the graphic horror. A PG-13 rating? Asinine.
I thank God that Presidents Eisenhower and Truman, and not Obama or Biden, were at the helm during those momentous, horrible days. The decisions they made both during and post-war, brought steadiness and calm to a troubled world.
Don't confuse God, E & T together, and E & T at the helm, give God clear information, thank God you can be clear, neither Obama nor Biden were available for running the world until long after the war. Easily confused, God has been known to blurr war footage and blame mere mortals for doing so, Obama and Biden respectively.
I’ll say to you what I said to another German guy over beers in Spain, way back in 1989. All this happened before you were born. You can’t be responsible for it. What you CAN do is hold yourself accountable to not be silent when the crazies crawl out from under their rocks to pull some crazy stuff again… There’s simply no reason for you to be “ashamed” of being German. In fact, even saying something like that makes you one of the GOOD ones…like Oskar Schindler. Like the White Rose resistance. Like the Kreislau Circle officers…and others who risked, even lost, their lives standing up to this horror but seldom get attention for it. Remember, too, that the German people have done a better job of facing history and not flinching from the bad parts than A LOT of others. So don’t be ashamed of simply being who you are. It’s inappropriate. Okay?
My Father-In-Law was in the 99th Rainbow Division, He was put there right after they found the train of Jews from Dachau! We toured Dachau when my Hubby was in the Army , stationed in Nuremberg! The Jazz Band on Soldier's Field, where we had division picknicks and race car events!
