What They Didn't Tell You About Concentration Camps 

What happened to "Never Again?" Concentration Camps are used in China for the "reeducation" of the Uyghurs. The names and language may be different, but the story remains the same.

I visited Auschwitz a few years ago, and I saw the gas chambers myself. Even after so many years, they still are terryfying. Also huge shout out to Witold Pilecki, a polish soldiers who willingly had himself imprisoned in Auschwitz to witness it all and then describe it to the allies. After escaping by himself (he was promised help, but it never came), he told the allies how many horrible things happened there, but they refused to believe him because they couldn't believe thay someone would do that to fellow humans. After the war, he was viewed as an enemy to communism and therefore executed by communists. Unfortunately, to this day he doesn't get the recognition he deserves.

I can’t imagine the fear and pain of being separated from your parents or children in that cold cruel place

I went to Germany for the first time this year and I visited the Dachau concentration camp memorial. I can't begin to describe what that experience was like. Unless you see something like that with your own eyes it's hard to put into words. The hardest part was walking into the crematorium building. I had to walk back outside because I was almost overcome with emotion. Knowing I was in a place where there was so much cruelty, so much death, I almost couldn't take it. But, looking back on that experience, I'm glad that I went there. Because in a way, the many prisoners that were there, were telling me there stories. And it's a story I will never forget.

My grandpa has those tattoos, he is a survivor, and he also hates the people who get these tattoos on purpose, because they will never know what its truly like to be treated like an animal. He was 5 when he was brought in, in 1940, and i am grateful and amazed he survived it

I remember I toured Dachau when I visited Germany years ago. Our tour guide was excellent: passionate and professional. He had all of our questions answered before we’d even thought of them. He mentioned that up until 20-30 years ago survivors of the camp were the tour guides. So as a result he and the current tour guides feel a great responsibility to honor them.

What's really worrying is that this could all happen again. There are always people who are willing to do dreadful things to other human beings. Especially when built around a cultural society that demands it.

What's also ridiculous Is the fact that there are people on this planet that deny any of this happened 💀. It's crazy to think about.

My mother is 99 and has her Auschwitz forearm tattoo. Both her parents, all 4 of her grandparents, all her aunts and uncles were gassed, along w nearly all her cousins. A brother was arrested and beaten to death in the second ghetto they were moved to, right before her mother was taken away (her father was taken away earlier). My father, who passed away 12 years ago had basically the same story, both of his parents and his sister were gassed at Auschwitz along with five out of his seven aunts and uncles (along with all of their children). He didn't have a tattoo because his number was on his uniform, as your video states. Nearly all the prisoners my father came in contact with were Jews, in the work camps he moved around for almost 3 years. My mom was taken out of Birkenau (the worst part of Auschwitz) in 1944, after witnessing weeks of train loads going straight into the gas chambers and crematoria on the same day they arrived at Auschwitz. She was moved to the work camp portion of Auschwitz and stayed there until she was taken out by the Nazis along with hundreds of other prisoners as human shields while they traveled West toward the Americans (who might imprison the German soldiers) and away from the Russians (who would certainly just execute all the German soldiers). She was liberated by the Russians at the Elba River, not long before the European part of the war ended. My parents spent the rest of their lives in a close-knit group of about 25 other Jewish survivors like them, who all had the same experience - many had it worse than they did. These were almost all the 'family' I knew, growing up in NYC.

My grandfather was captured at Dunkirk. He spent 5 years in a German POW camp. He was one of only 14 soldiers from his unit (51st Queen's Own Highland) at the camp to survive. He never spoke to me about it... He told my Mom and Granny a few stories. But what I've learned is absolutely heartbreaking. I love him and miss him.

What’s even more sad and rather disgraceful is the fact that people willfully deny that the holocaust ever happened. I used to be friends with someone who’s grandmother had a tattoo with numbers from being in a concentration camp. She was lucky to have survived and made it out of there.

My maternal grandfather was one of 11 children. He was the only one to survive.

Absolutely insane that this happened. Even more insane that humans did this. And even MORE so that people still think this way.

“ … history must be examined thoroughly to never again be repeated.” That is so very true. I’m 75, and it seems to me that in someways, basic Fascist, Totalitarian, and Authoritarian hatreds of our time haven’t really changed all that much from the past century. I read a lot of history and feel, as do others, that “hatred” is part of our Human Nature. If that is true, then how do we go about mastering that part of us, or do we really want to? In his essay, “Notes On Nationalism,” Orwell says we first need to confront the biases that we all have. Not an easy task. If it were, there’d be little need for psychologists. Once identified, we need to work at modifying them, so our conscious minds can put them in a better perspective. Orwell says this takes concerted moral effort. In other words, you just can’t claim to be Tolerant and expect it to happen. You actually have to BE Tolerant. It is the ones who wear Tolerance as an armband, who are the most need of this. “‘Tolerance’ is where you tolerate things that actually bother you.” by Alex Tabarrok

I can’t believe some people deny this utterly horrifying event

My great grandparents had own a Jewish bakery in Berlin, and had everyone of their kids to help out with everyday business. In March 1939 after the Nazi's raided the bakery, both of my grandparents were sent to different concentration camps not knowing if they would ever see any of them again. After the war had ended, Both of my great grandparents were the only ones who had survived the camps, even though I have never once heard either one of them are willing to talk about their experiences. One time when I had caught a quick glimpse of the tattoo on my grandmother arm not realizing what it had meant until my aunt had explained what happened to my grandmother when she was younger

A few points you missed: -Prisoners didn't just have their heads shaved, they had all of their body hair shaved. -Not all prisoners were given showers, and even if they did, it was the last one they would get for years -numbers weren't just tatued on their arms, in some camps they were carved into their abdomens -the first extermination were carried out on the disabled in institutions in the T4 program, where the process of gassing was "perfected" -medical experiments were carried out on Jews and Gypsies in several camps -women with babies, children, the elderly, and people who were to sick or unable to work were exterminated upon arrival at most camps, or sent directly to extermination camps to get gassed or shot. -guards in many camps were actually expected to fulfill a quota of prisoners to be killed -epidemics of diseases ran rampant throughout the camps due to poor sanitation, starvation, and exhaustion

What hurts me the most is the children that had to endure this. It’s really hard to believe that a group of people even small enough while controlling the camps thought it was okay to separate young children from their parents for them to suffer alone. It’s extremely cruel and reminds me why I don’t care for people too much. It’s honestly wild to think of how of all species it’s us the humans who are crueler than any other.

My great grandpa was a Polish prisoner he was caught giving the prisoners bread but thankfully he he made it out

My grandma who was able to speak German said her two brothers fought in world war II against the Germans and was captured in Africa. The two brothers first decided not to acknowledge the other ones existed afraid that the Germans would use one against the other so they never acknowledged and talk to each other or anything. According to what my grandma said that the two brothers they spent such a long time in the pow camp never acknowledging the other existence or talking to to the other brother persisted after they came back and started farming again. Grandma said that they had to walk all the way back from where they was captured to German POW camp other than when they had to cross a big body of water where they got a riding across in a ship. Conditions in the pow camp for what grandma said was the Germans hardly give them any food to eat they had to eat any bugs or rats or mice that they could get. The Red Cross packages the Germans would go through them and take anything good out of them and then the prisoners would get the rest. The prisoners would take anything that was partially edible like toothpaste and make one big cake out of it and everybody would get a small slice out of that. I was very young when Grandma was telling me that and I never thought of any questions unlike now I had to have a few more questions than I did when I was a kid.

I'd like you to make a video on 2 similar cases: 1.Bengali genocide by the Pakistani Army. 2.Uyghurs genocide by People's Republic of China.

My grandmother survived a concentration camp, she was 19 years old when she was liberated but died at age 76 still traumatised by what happened. She had her number tattooed on her arm. It’s horrific for me to watch videos like this knowing my little 5ft grandmother went through this.

I visited Auschwitz the other day, and it was 100 times worse than you could ever imagine, I thought I would cry when visiting that camp but I was so emotionally numb and cold because it’s impossible to comprehend the suffering that took place

My grandfather on my dad’s side was a survivor or these camps. When he met my mother for the first time he noticed that she would occasionally act in similar ways to the officers at the camp, as well as looked like one very specific officer who gave him the hardest time of all the officers there. Months later he met my mother’s dad, he had been a officer at the same camp as my dad’s dad had been at. (I am not proud of my mother’s side of the family, nor have I spoken to them since I found out what happened at these camps and what my mother’s dad did to my grandfather. I left my mother when I was 6 to live with my dad. That was the last time I ever came into contact with my mother.)

My grandpa was in concentration camp in Dachau, because he refused to work in german factory and ran back to Czechoslovakia but germans captured him and sent him to Dachau. But in 1944 he managed to escape again with 2 friends and until the end of war partisans provided them a shelter.

I went to the Saxonhausen death camp with my school. It was the first time I’d felt an energy, like a supernatural presence. Not like ghosts but a lingering sense of dread as if something evil was stalking you. The atmosphere changed too. It was like walking under a large glass dome. Even the birds seemed to stop singing when you walked through the gates.

It’s hard to believe this happened less than 80-90 years ago man…

This makes me so mad, those poor innocent people

Met a man who liberated one of these camps. He pulled out a picture of the day he liberated the camp. It was horrible. He said he carried it arround to show to people who believe the holocaust never happened. Note I am not now nor have I ever been q holocaust denier. He showed it to me while we were talking about it.

The ironic thing about them was that the prisoners saw "Work Makes You Free", ("Arbeit Macht Frei"), in German over the gates. A better greeting would have been "Laciat ogni, spirana voy choi ch'entrate", ("All Hope Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here'), that would have been more appropriate.

My grand-grandmother from russia 🇷🇺 got in a concentration camp ⛺️ and is now 97 knew that her mother died of loneliness 2 YEARS LATER 😢 she met her brother after 20 years😮

Crazy part is this video was in my for you page while I am learning about WW2 and Concentration Camps at school.

what’s even more sad is that there are concentration camps in the world still right now

The last 20 seconds couldn’t be more important. Thank you so much for making thing informational videos!

Learned a few things from this video just like all your videos. Tho you might wanna fix that "star of David" you got in there.

Thanks!

7:38 Imagine doing a holocaust video and mixing up the star of David with a pentagram...

Just today a former Concentration Camp guard was sent to prison for five years in Germany. Also every 29th January we remember the horrible crimes of the Concentration Camps. Let's never forget this horror!

Can you guys talk about the Soviet camps? I’ve always wanted an in-depth video about them

TY for the animation. It helps to deal with the awfulness!

Thank you for the video!At school we are often told of the number of people that died but never went to full detail to describe how horrible their treatment by not just Nazis but fellow human beings who viewed them inferior!It's hard to believe or even think humans could really do this to each other but we must learn,scrutinize and make every horrible details public knowledge to ensure we never repeat this crimes

Apparently Disneyland Paris has a lot of really strict rules. The employees and cast members started calling it Mousechwitz. The higher ups heard about this and threatened to fire anyone who used that name. Within the next few hours the staff called it Duckau

I remember walking the gas chamber area....you feel the death.....imagine your government being completely taken over and hunting anyone that's not blonde hair blue eyed looking.....harsh

When I was 18 I'm 53 now I worked on a house for a Jewish lady who lived through a camp she made bread every day feed us huge lunch an sent bread home with us. She was a true American an left a huge mark on me wish I could see her now I'm sure she has passed but she lives on in me

I had an uncle who was a minesweeper for the army during WW2. When he & his platoon broke into Auswich, the carnage he saw haunted him for years. In fact, my middle name of Rae (Raymond) honors his heroic acts because he saved his platoon.

My great grandpa died in a concentration camp. My other great grandpa survived 18 years and then was released

This will help me in history bro thank you so mutch

thank you for this video! I notized something, maybe not just me - There is a typo at the beginning where the gate reads "Arbiet macht Frei". it is called "Arbeit".

History should always be remembered so it isn't repeated but sadly today it is slowly being erased.

This is perhaps one of the worst moments in human history. I have relatives who had to go through the concentration camps. May this never happen again in human history.

the fact that this still happens in todays time with the uyghur muslims being treated like absolute animals but nobody is willing to talk about that

My great grandad died in one of those. We only recently discovered what had happened to him because he was living in countryside in a very rural area and one day he just didn't come home. The family assumed he was killed but never knew how. Just recently my aunt found a goodbye letter from the camp (apparently one of the guards was human enough to pass it to the family) and in this letter he said he was gonna get killed but he was innocent. It's really sad, for years there was no record of him and I can only imagine how many families has those loose ends when they can only assume what happened but never knowing for sure

I visited the first one that served as a blueprint while in highschool and it was so eerie there. You can feel the oppression and torture that went on there, it was very depressing but as said in the beginning of the video we have to look at these things to learn to never commit such heinous crimes again.

7:38 that's not a star of David, it's a 5 point star depicted, the star of David has 6 points. Also I don't know if it's the animation software or something but the star's lines shown on screen are curved which is odd. If you have a limited graphics package (or only access to the most simple of shapes) what you can do is insert two equilateral triangles, one facing up and one facing down. you can then move them to overlap each other with the hypotenuse of each triangle being in the middle of the other. Makes a perfect star David every time!

The Holocaust was appallingly horrific - you’d have thought we would have learnt not to treat people like that . . . but sadly it seems we learnt nothing.

I learned something new today. Thanks for teaching me the term Roma.

When you know what you know after watching this (there's always more to learn on the camps), it makes it even more sad that some people still take selfies and artifacts from these camps.

The most disturbing thing about this video, in my opinion, is that people don't know this happened. Those that don't know history are doomed to relive it.

If there's any haunted places on earth, there's no way every single one of the camp sites aren't one of them.

So sad ,it makes me cry!😭💔

The Infographics is a GREAT show !!! There seems to be no bias, which is extremely rare. Thank you :)

History must be examined again and again to never repeat itself.....this is the most important statement of the day...

You would think this format has its limits, but no, every single face is haunting... its very effective, even in its grade-school level teaching style

Neither the evil nor the inhumanity shall ever be forgotten. May the memories of this atrocity be taught to every human being who walk this earth

Thank you for covering this, schools like to not teach this and pretend it didn't happen, but if we don't teach what happened in the past we are doomed to repeat it.

Yesterday I was in Dachau and it broke my heart the stories that I heard there

I had a nightmare I was Jewish and alive during those years and it was very scary since I have been looking into this history how could someone hate people so much…?

Do a video on Janusz Korczak, the only man to have a free pass out of the Warsaw Ghetto. He declined it and was gassed in Treblinka. Korczak was a advocate for children's rights, pediatrician, author, ran the largest orphanage in Warsaw.

If you're interested, the book Escape from Camp 14 is a very interested and detailed book about the North Korean camps that exist to this very day. The book is written about an escapee from the highest security camp.

I visited a concentration camp in Czechia last week as a tourist and it was so sad.. Its such a shame these people had to go through torture for no reason other than someones hatred.

Portraying the Shoah in corporate Memphis illustration style is such a touching tribute

When I was in school, we had a lady come in to talk about the Holocaust and the death camps. She was in Auschwitz Birkenau. She showed us the faded, but still legible tattoo on her thin, wrinkled forearm. The most amazing thing? She never harbored any hatred or sense of blame towards those Nazis who were in charge of her abusive incarceration. I recall that, vividly. She said:" They were just boys. Scared boys. They followed orders because they were afraid of what might happen to them or their families if they didn't." Many German adults simply 'disappeared'...and you had better ask no questions if you didn't want to disappear, too. In my younger life, I was employed as both an in-home caregiver,& a terminal/dementia caregiver in facilities. I chose the 'graveyard' shifts, because that was when one might experience conversations with elderlies during a rare moment of lucidity. More than a dozen times, I heard how they were the only survivor of a family. A lady whose blue eyed and blond haired family was a subject for 'breeding experiments' lost an older cousin who was savaged by an adult male chimpanzee. "They wouldn't let us see her body..." Man's inhumanity to man knows no bounds. And, unfortunately, it continues today, in different places all over the world. The main reason we know so much about the experiments,& the "Final Solution" is due to obsessive documentation by the Nazis themselves,added to the evidence and testimony provided by some very courageous individuals. May they all find peace.💔🙏

Its still unbelievable to me that anything like this happend. The cold calculated planing that must have taken place, the massive amount of people involved willing to do such things, it chilling.

I like this youtube channel because he explains it very well to comprehend

Thank you for this video. I visited Dachau when I was little.

visited dachau with my school class . what happenend there was truly horrifying . INSANE

I am Greek and because I read a lot of comments saying we don't learn these at schools, here in Greece we actually do and in small age. And no one as I remember was surprised, and we actually preferred this because teachers displayed videos of concentration camps. We even learned that they were making carpets from hair of prisoners. I think we were calm because, all the Greek history is even more violent.

You should do a video looking at camps prior to the nazis. They might not have gassed people, but didn't Britain use camps in conquering parts of Africa?

The movie the hiding Place is a really good illustration of this whole video

When I was young, 1967, there was a couple in their 30s down the street from us that had their ID numbers tattooed on their arms. They were at Auschwitz as teens where they met and they got married shortly after the camp was liberated. Very friendly and kind people.

So important to understand the past in order to learn and grow from it.

With a German born Father and twin, my Uncle, in 1911, they grew up in Germany, but they didn't want any part of it, and left by the mid 1930's when things got worse. My Father was able to go to Zurich, and met my Mother, born there, and Jewish. In 1939, they went to the UK, London, and my Uncle too, whereby my Father and Uncle being German aliens, when France fell in 1940, we're then sent to Canada for 3 years, returning in 1943 to Isle of Man, then to London, and my parents were married in 1943, and I was born there in 1944. We we're bombed still, until the war ended in 1945, and came to the US in 1949, on the Queen Mary ship, and lived out their lives here, as I still do. I was in the USAf from 1969 to 1973, during the Vietnam War, now being 78, and a 100% Disabled Veteran.

„History must be examined thoroughly to never be repeated“

I see alot of comments saying this wasn't covered in schools I was born and raised in Michigan and learned about the camps in school.. I'm native American and what wasn't taught was stuff like residential schools which both of my grandparents were kidnapped and taken to.

Anyone else notice at 7:38 that that's not actually a star of David?

This man is amazing

I went to Dachau this past summer, it was such a sobering experience. I think everyone should go to a camp, solely so they can learn and know how hellish it was.

My great grandfather was a medic in WW2. I have his picture in uniform here but sadly that's all I have. He died when I was still a child due to cancer. His wife (my great grandmother) and him had met after the war. During the war, my great grandmother had a sweetheart that was a pilot. He died in the war and she named their first born son after him. Her brother was 16 and lied about his age, joined the war, and sadly died as well. Her 2nd son she named after him. When she first met my great grandpa she told him she refused to date him if he was a German, because of her resentment for losing her brother and sweetheart in the war. So my great grandpa lied to her until he knew he wanted to marry her one day. I guess she got over it.

For anyone willing to learn more, read the stories of Tadeusz Borowski, such as "Proszę państwa do gazu" (Go to the gas, please) and "Ludzie, którzy szli" (People, who were walking). It gave me a completely other view on those camps, as I've always imagined them as the most horrible places, where any insubordination would mean lead to the head or something similar. Meanwhile it had the traits of your stereotypical prison, you could "sort something out" with the guards, like "staynumers" (one of the first prisoners with the smallest numbers) being able to rob newcomers of food, clothing and similar (but for stealing gold you guessed it, lead to the head).

Reading the Hiding Place is eye opening. I recommend the book to anyone who is interested in this topic.

History is never a one-sided story

No words or imagination to express the pain and torture those people have suffered, it shouldn't happen to any human being irrespective of religion, region, caste ☹️

תודה שהקדשת מזמנך להעריך אותנו

Everyday we re discovering something terrible about concentration camp

Please, cover King Leopoldo and the Congo genocide

My grandmother was born in one of these camps. My great-grandmother (her mother) did not teach her kids of her Jewish heritage because of this, and she developed an anti-Semitic view of Jewish people. She also regularly said "why won't God just take me" in broken English.

What stuns me about how horrific these places were is that most officers had to get drunk to work the selection (the moment when they would decide who would work and who would go to the chambers). Imagine a place so horrific, that despite these officers living there every day, and being monsters, they still have to get drunk to do it. Well, aside from joseph mengele. He was always completely sober

Been hearing about them my whole life!

Do a video on the holodomor now and who perpetrated it.

Hey great videos. Can you please do one on the Khazar people who converted and migrated to europe!? That would be cool!