Somber Relics of the Holocaust | American Artifact Episode 63
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- Опубліковано 2 лют 2023
- Artifacts are physical and tangible connections that we have to history. Even the parts of history that are more unpleasant. We're back in The Gettysburg Museum of History where we're pulling a few items from the archives that are connected to the Holocaust in general and the Dachau concentration camp in particular.
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My Maternal Grandmother wore the yellow triangle with the P.
I have already subscribed for many
Thank you for keeping history, no matter how unpleasant, alive. We must remember what we did in the past to help keep from repeating the evil that mankind is capable of doing.
Amen
People need to keep in mind that if they chase these monsters in to one corner of the room for too long, different types of monsters may pop up in the other corner of the room.
They are already striking the stuff from history class I remember being a little kid or 6th 7th and 8th grade of being little kid but we learn this all of history class in what they did for you guys managed to show us into days the same amount of material. Thanks for the hard work the dedication it takes
This comment is literally under every video lol. Do y'all copy paste that or what
The can of zyklon B is truly the most moving and terrifying artifact in all of your exhibits. The fact that the top was punctured tells me that it was actually used during the Holocaust which is even more frightening and horrifying. To know that people were exterminated by the contents of that can truly makes it a macabre piece. 😪 My condolences to all of the victims and survivors of the greatest crime in history.
This is such an important series that you have done, can't thank you enough!
It's important because you are Jewish?
@@JohnPiper04 no because these atrocious acts against innocent people need to be remembered and the victims should never be forgotten. I'm surprised I even need to type that to you
@@JohnPiper04 LMAO they might have a dog in this fight eh?
@@Greeneggs-pi9ihYou sound like a disturbed guy.
@@solvingpolitics3172 I'm disturbed at how ignorant you are
Erasing history erases the lessons learned. I think we honor the Holocaust victims by listening to their stories even if it's painful to us.
I have a friend whose grandfather liberated Dachau. This grandfather was also an honor guard at general Patton's funeral that even have the paper from there
And what would that man do to the USA right wing now? They are the closest thing to the Nazis we’ve ever seen and becoming more radicalized by the day. Their entire news realm they consume and live in is 99.9999 percent Nazi style propaganda.
I think I speak for us all when I say that I appreciate what you do. You share information in which I wouldn’t of known without your help. Keep doing what you’re doing! Every story matters.
God bless You for taking an interest! When i was 11 or 12 years old i read a book called, I Survived Hitler's Ovens. i'm 60 and i've never stopped learning about WWII and the Holocaust. Remembering that these things happened and how and why they happened is the only hope we have of preventing these kinds of atrocities from happening again!! Your comment has given me hope for the future !:-) 🙏
@@barrydysert2974 I’ve carried an interest since I was 4 years old, only 23 but still learning today!
I knew a few camp survivors. Not a single one showed even a trace of bitterness toward their captors. Sadness, yes, but zero bitterness. Better people than most of us.
Amazing strength.
You can feel the heaviness in Erik’s voice describing the artifacts.. so moving.
A sombre reminder of Europe's dark recent past. Thanks for keeping these events in our memories.
Not just Europes Dark past. The Second World War spread to Africa, the Pacific and Asia. As well as the horrific crimes against humanity carried out by the Nazis, the Japanese also committed unspeakable atrocities on Allied servicemen as well as hundreds of thousands of non-combatants.
@@RobinHullBuilds wonder why jews were persecuted?
Was going to say not just Europe. Remember American families were hit hard by this war.
@@RobinHullBuilds of course there was the Far East but thats another subject. We are talking about the war in Europe in these videos not the war against Japanese Empire.
@BonnieDragonKat the war compares little to the damage eastern European jews have done to America since.
I had the pleasure of knowing 2 Holocaust survivor's, one was actually a good friend of the family and they were both wonderful guys. One was interviewed by Steven Spielberg for the movie Shindlers List. I know one of them passed away but not sure of the other but I'm glad they were able to survive and live out their lives.
Does the UA-cam filter team actually watch these videos? Or is it just a robot that auto-bans any video containing certain words? If they'd actually watch the videos, they'd see how well-done this video was and the lessons it's trying to teach. Great video!
Thanks. It's both AI and a human review team.
Just like almost everything else these days, computers do the first cut. You can hardly imagine how much trouble AI has distinguishing between a common nickname for "Richard" and a crude nickname for a male body part.
@@roberthudson1959Yeah, those bots are total Richardheads.
Thank you for keeping history, alive, and all you do! The worlds tragedies should not be forgotten, or they will be repeated
It’s so hard to believe that in one small span of time so much evil existed at once!
That evil hasn’t left. It just hasn’t been tapped into yet. But we are heading towards this kind of evil today. With the anti white woke left. Who are definitely full of hatred and conviction.
So much war and killing. As we uncover the history of our farm it’s incredible how many connections there are to war. Thank you
Some things are worth fighting for. Making darn sure this story is told is one of them. Thanks, JD.
While the topic of the Holocaust has always been a sensitive subject it must be discussed so generations of humans know what mankind is capable of and the evil that follows it. Part of the discussion is showing relics that pertain to one of the darkest periods of world history so that way it's never forgotten and hopefully never repeated again and we keep and remember the memories of those who vanquished alive within us from that evil.
Agreed.
Humbling, Can't even imagine the Hell they went through! We should Never Forget! Thank you for keeping History Alive!!!! Great Job JD and Eric!
My son went to college in Lyon, France. He rented a room in a very old chateau owned and operated by an elderly French woman. It was her family chateau, the only reason why it stayed in her family was the Nazi's decided to seize the one next door instead. This elderly woman was a young teenager during the occupation, she told my son about her experience living thru it firsthand. She told him that one day, she was close enough to see her front door, when she was stopped on her bike by a teenaged Gestapo who told her she was under arrest for going too fast, and that he had to see her papers. Shaking, she fumbled to retrieve them from her jacket, staring at her front door thinking she was going to be hauled away and that her family would have no idea what happened to her. Instead, this Gestapo laughed, told her he was joking around and let her go. She decided to not tell her father, her father was already forced to work as a surgeon for the occupation and she did not want to anger him into doing something he would end up being killed for. She told my son that she could hear screams every night from the underground tunnels, and that they had no meat whatsoever to eat during the entire occupation because all meat had to be given to the occupation. She also told my son that she harbored hatred for all Germans afterward until only recently. She realized that not all Germans were for the occupation, but it took most of her life to understand this.
My son returned to France a couple years after graduating to work in Paris for 6 months under a Fellowship program. One night, he and a female friend of his visiting from the states were out at a nightclub. They saw a young woman their age sitting alone, and invited her to socialize. She told them that she had recently found out that her grandfather was a secret police, and how horrible this was for her to learn, that she was struggling to imagine being related by blood to someone who engaged in such cruelty that she did not want to have anything to do with. Meanwhile, in the states, we have these misguided people who were not in the position that this young woman was in, making up stories that somehow some of these secret police, Gestapo, Nazi S.S., etc. were not always mean to those citizens they were in charge of during occupation, that they were somehow 'nice'. No they were not. They may not have wanted to treat the civilians they were occupying in such a cruel manner, but they were definitely not nice. At a minimum, they seized property and food from the citizens of the place they were occupying. There is nothing 'nice' about occupation. If the Gestapo who was joking around actually decided to arrest my son's housemother, they could have and her family would be helpless to do anything about it. And she was French only, not a Jew. It was cruelty, plain and simple.
I've heard similar stories from My grandma's best friend she grew up in occupied France and even now she still gets freaked out by sirens because they remind her of the air raid sirens
There were a few who became nazis before finding out what they got into. One alerted the Danish government and saved 95%of the Jewish population. Another became the head of a concentration camp and when put on trial the jews in his camp testified for him. He used his own money to buy them food and arranged for them to have good medical care. He also warned them to hide their kids and build places for the kids to hide. Most of the ones who listened to him survived despite the nazis trying to liquidate the camp.
Thank you for keeping these stories alive. My wife's grandmother survived Auswitz, so it's really important for us personally to remember and never forget
Now I fervently believe that the Holocaust should be taught in schools.
As we approach the 100th anniversary of the start of the 2nd world War, I am glad that UA-cam has many videos on this horrific period in world 🌎 history.
I am very proud and thankful that UA-cam let's people like you spread the word so we don't forget the people who suffered needlessly.
Thank you for playing a part in spreading the knowledge that human beings are extremely cruel and we're the only species that kills each other.
I am surprised that human beings are still living on this planet.
The schools stoped teaching it 20 years ago. The focus in history is slavery and Vietnam and 9/11. Other topics are not discussed in detail.
I am not a FT teacher, but was a summer tutor in history using approved texts.
How dare anyone say something witnessed by millions did not exist, especially genocide!!! Many of us knew or knew of someone who survived this evil part of history. Education kids, always keep learning. Thank you for this.
Is that why they had to pass laws saying you couldn’t say that? I mean, if it happened exactly like they say then those laws would be unnecessary
A defining moment in world history regardless of what the revisionists say. We must remember so we don’t erase, sanitize or forget. Thank you for your invaluable contribution in keeping this chapter of history alive. NEVER FORGET 🙏
Thank you for the video and for the direct language you used in it. It is truly sobering, all these decades later, to see the evidence of a crime that deprived the entire world of millions of lives and the great things those lives may have achieved. We must keep these stories alive and these artifacts safe.
Thank you for keeping this history alive for the younger generations
Thank you for all you do, history is so important
Really good content man. Keep doing what you're doing, JD. The way you present topics like this is with great reverence and respect for the subject matter.
So pleased that you are keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive. We must never forget.
I went to the Holocaust museum in Michigan in 2008. Cried and cried. Heard a survivor speak. The artifacts are heartbreaking, but a very worthwhile trip. Story must be told and retold. Evil cannot win
Evil will not win. One of the reasons is people like you who educate yourself. And other reason is people like my family who are descendants of Holocaust Survivors who are the voices of our families.
Ohh JD! Your content is out of this world! Thank you! 🙌🏻
I appreciate that!
Happy Friday! It's a great day to binge-watch History Underground! (But then again, every day is good for that)
Thank you JD and Eric!
The yellow stars were reused over and over. As in the case at Treblinka forced labor (Sonderkommandos) were specifically tasked to seek out the stars in the piles of abandoned clothing so they could be accounted for and reissued to future prisoners. So it is conceivable a single cloth star may have belonged to many individuals in a few years time.
My dad was a veteran of the war in Europe
CEF🇨🇦
He saw first hand the terrible legacy of the Nazi regime
Hard stuff to comprehend 😢
like what?
Thank you, Eric. I am proud of the work you and J.D. are doing, and very grateful.
Sobering to realize some poor soul wore that to be shamed as a certain type of prisoner. So very few years to wreak so much destruction. On a lighter note…whom ever made this coat did a good job. I am a seamstress and notice things like stripes lined up. Love your videos.
Wow! I teared up! I agree…NEVER AGAIN!! Frankly JD I think the entire series should be titled NEVER AGAIN!
It happened many times since, wars are profitable
@@brianpreston8483 sadly, however, the Holocaust has not happened again. Not on the same level as WW2. Tyrants will alway use genocide against their enemies. However, we must promote education or it will happen again. No matter how large or small it should never be allowed!
Awful.
@@TheHistoryUnderground it really is awful 😢 I am grateful that you and Erik keep their memories told!
@@1psychofan not on that level but it is going on right now, I would encourage you to look it up
First a thank you to both this channel and the museum. A couple of observations. I just spent many hours at the Auschwitz exhibit at Union Station here in Kansas City last year where they had over 800 artifacts on display. While not an expert. That garment looks very clean, unsoiled and free of any wear or tear vs what the exhibit had on display. Again, not an expert, but this garment doesn't look lived in at all. Out of respect, I will just leave it at that. That can however is without a doubt genuine. I know, I saw the same exact item at the exhibit with more or less the same age, wear and patina. it's indeed very chilling. Not to focus too much on the authenticity of those items, I will say that I totally agree that this story needs to be told. @The History Underground. Please try and attend this exhibit if you are given the chance. I believe there are 2023 dates. I do not think they allow video recording or photography tho which doesn't help this channel from a content perspective. I hope that Google / UA-cam is accommodating to this channel in allowing this story to be told in terms of not demonetizing these videos. Good luck.
The schools stoped teaching it 20 years ago. The focus in history is slavery and Vietnam and 9/11. Other topics are not discussed in detail.
I am not a FT teacher, but was a summer tutor in history using approved texts.
JD and Eric..Thank you both for continuing to educate everyone on this subject! Unbelievable that anyone would deny the evidence presented proving of such horrible crimes against humanity!
Thank you, JD and Erik. Important artifacts to preserve.
Your really winning the internet with this channel! Every day I’m getting awesome content and it’s appreciated…
thank you so very much for every vid that you all post, our family loves each one and never miss any of them, thank you again
Thank you for a very important video.
Thanks for your work.
One of my family members was at a concentration camp, and later died of the consequenses. He had been part of a network to smuggle people out.
I still have an item he brought back, a ceramic measuring cup for their rations (250 ml). As far was told, these were "a luxury" only given in the earlier years to the prisoners.
Nobody in the family wanted it, but I keep it in honor. After me, I don't think that anybody will.
So it's good to know that people like you keep this ugly part of history alive.
Somber in deed, but these dark times need to be talked about in order to never let it happen again. Thanks for taking us along JD. 🫶🏼
Agreed. Thank you.
As long as I am alive I will fight to keep all history alive.
👍🏻
Zyklon B, got chills up my spine seeing that can.
Thanks again for all the effort you put into teaching us history.
Love your footage and how you bring the feeling of these places to us, thank you for your work
Thank you.
Thank you for showing this article in the most tasteful, respectful way possible.
It's amazing that anyone have denied this happened with all the documentation. My mother had a friend who was a survivor who had her identity number still on her arm how do you deny that.
Atleast know what they're denying if you're gonna bring up holocaust denial lmao
@@Greeneggs-pi9ih there’s people denying anything and everything
@@mgway4661 never seen that, idk if you're familiar with the topic or what
@@mgway4661 People deny that Man landed and walked on the moon. People deny Osama bin laden was the 9/11 mastermind. What is the solution ?
@@Greeneggs-pi9ih Some people even deny Christ lived. Those people are insane as it gets.
been obsessed w this channel since the beginning, but i would REALLY love some longer videos 😢
fantastic work! i just want moreee(: but if that means watering down content, then just keep doing what you’re doing! quality, not quantity (:
The museum owner/curator, Eric, is truly knowledgeable and interesting. I appreciate you letting him present without interruption.
Thank for helping ensure this horrendous blot on human history is not forgotten or denied.
Thank you sirs both of you for teaching me and expanding my knowledge of this terrible time. Thank GOD it is history
Wow very powerful to look at Thanks JD and Eric i really enjoy the relic videos
Thank you!
It's actually really sad that they're not teaching this stuff in schools anymore. Deniers should visit the camps and see for
Themselves
Agreed. Hopefully, people are sharing these videos.
It’s taught in German schools.
I did my masters thesis on wartime atrocities. These included the Nazi's making shrunken heads as well as their widespread practice of making lampshades and soap from humans. Hundreds of cases of the soap were found after the war.
Women and children were forced to ride on top of railroad cars carrying ammunition so the cars, would not be bombed.
There was also at least one small zoo in one of the camps, that housed bears and inmates who were caught trying to escape, or engaged in theft were thrown into the zoo enclosure.
The Dr Mengele experiments were too numerous to mention. He was able to hide all evidence and was not prosecuted.
Truth be spoken, knowledge is at the all time low and denial is at an all time high ; the truest of true words could not have been spoken any better
Love your videos,as soon as I get a notification,I can't wait to watch,never been to dachau,I went to Auschwitz 3 months ago to pay my respects & it was the most moving experience ever,R.I.P to all the poor souls,thank you for keeping history alive ❤️❤️
Thank you for bringing the Holocaust to more viewers.
Fantastic content as always JD
This should not be forgotten!
Amazing pieces
Keep up the good work I will watch your content in order help support you and your efforts to teach the uneducated about history and it's lessons.
How can anyone claim it's a hoax, it never happened? How on Earth would you get so many people from all over to go along with it? It's just impossible.
It’s the same people who think the earth is flat.
Thank you for the education at the end.
Love love love your videos (especially the videos pertaining to WWII)… thanks so much
Thank you so much for sharing ❤️...
Thank you and Erik for sharing the evil that has become the greed to master and fulfill their greed to own all of Europe. And a lot of people yet need to know the sorrowful pain that these prisoners and families endeared. Even after they returned home. Thank you gentlemen
It's so important to show these videos to what occurred so much Hate and Evil of what these poor people went through god bless you for keeping it real
As always,,You guys do a great job,,,Thanks for posting
Well said and documented, guys
It is truly a mystery why we people just can´t get along. Right... Politics, religion and economy all blended up has a great deal to do with it but still... War, as here in Europe now, politic unrest or just a divided country like yours is just a shame. Politics are like fashion. Yesterday´s ideas does come back, it all revolves and the only thing that we seem to learn from it is that we are not able to learn from it.
It seems like we are going politically to the extreme right again, just to try it out again. It was only some 80 years ago a nutjob in Europe tried the formula. It didn´t work out. Mankind could behave so much better. Great video!
I don't get how people can walk around and say that it never happened. I don't know what bus they got off at, but it truly doesn't make sense to me. I had relatives that lived over there and witnessed the war and the things that were happening there. It doesn't make sense to me. I love what you do even if it is darker in this episode, we need to see it we need to remember what happened so history doesn't repeat itself.
I feel like I’m addicted to these.
Absolutely amazing.
I’ve personally met two (2) Holocaust survivors and one was at Dachau and the other was at Auschwitz-Birkenau “he was apart of the Sonderkommando unit” and he visited my High School in 2003. He told me and my World History class that he first got to Auschwitz’s in MID to LATE 1942. Just after when SS- ObergruppenFuhrer Reinhard Heydrich was killed on May 27, 1942 - June 4, 1942 dying from his wounds. The man was forced to help with the construction of the gas chambers and crematorium 4 & 5 he somehow survived by being assigned from Auschwitz’s Birkenau to Auschwitz’s Camp 1 & Camp 2 bc the SS always killed off the Men that we’re in the Sonderkommando units every 3 - 4 months and we’re always replacing the units with NEW men from the incoming transports
As always, very well done.
Love your videos
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
Never Forget
Can't wait for the next video mate
I really like this channel..thank you
Just sends chills and to think that could happen to us in this time period 😞😓😥
I 💯 percent agree! The real enemy is right before our eyes here in the .U.S. and it's our Leftist Government!
In a few of the other videos I was taken back by how little care there seemed to be for the grounds of Dachau. The memorials seemed weathered and not taken care of either. Some of the areas seemed to be let go and the vegetation was permitted to run wild. Things like that aid in the holocaust denial. The videos showing it helps keep it alive. Never forget!!!!
The site was mostly bulldozed after the war, and a few of the buildings were built as they were pre 1945.
Thank you. We shall never forget.
That color coding system is just crazy. Along with the zylone B can. I don't see how anyone can deny that ever happened in my opinion
They deny it because they don't want to believe humanity capable of such depravity and evil.
@@maxsmith695 Because there are Nazi groups today pushing the same hate and attitudes today. Example was Charlottesville.
@@maxsmith695 it cannot be anti-Semitism seeing as both people's are descended from Shem (hence Semitic people's). We'd all do well to stay out of their beef tbh. It's an ancient family squabble carried over into present day.
@@maxsmith695 your question didn't mention Russians. Weirdo.
@@maxsmith695 You don't remember Charlottesville? The jack booted brown shirts with the swastika armbands? Chanting "a Jew will not replace us", "blood and soil" and "Heil Trump". Short memory.
Wow, thank you for sharing and what you all do. Never Forget. Never Again 💔🥲💔🥲🙏🏻💙💞💙💞💙💞💙✡️✝️
Thank you
Thanks!
Thank you!
It’s crazy to think that nearly an entire countries populace was convinced to go along with this.
I think most didnt really know or cared for that matter. They believed the jews were spreading communism and they knew what happened in Ussr regarding the genocide of christians.
If you go to the Gestapo museum in Berlin you will see, amongst other things, what happened to those Germans that spoke out against the Nazis. In a dictatorship, you have no legal protection, no human or civil rights, no justice.
Excellent videos as always. God bless there souls, God bless you as well 👌🙏
Very surreal.
Pretty heavy.
Thank you for the story…No matter what UA-cam says!
Dragonman has a bunch of those poison jars(Zyklon B) but they are brand new never opened. His collection in Colorado Springs is actually insane.
I have my 17 year old grandson watch many of your videos. His normal response is "I have heard something about this but they don't teach it in school ". JD as a teacher can you explain why some schools don't do this?
Only around 84 years ago, yet I think we could slide back into it in a weekend.
We must not forget. Also consider the American Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. It too is absolutely chilling.
There is a Vietnam Holocaust museum in Hanoi of what American military did to the people of Vietnam in the war. Truly horrifying.