The JUSTIFIED Execution Of The Female Guards Of Stutthof Concentration Camp
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- Following the Second World War, a number of high profile war crimes trials took place to bring the perpetrators of the atrocities committed during the conflict to justice. The most high profile trials were the Nuremberg Trials, that brought Hitler's remaining inner circle and Nazi government in front of judges to face up to the crimes committed. But there were also a number of other trials that took place to ensure that the guards who committed barbaric crimes at specific concentration camps were punished. One set of trials that took place was the Stutthof Trials, which were called to bring the guards and staff who worked at Stutthof Concentration Camp to justice.
It was a camp where much horror occurred within the barbed wire fences. Dozens of thousands of prisoners died at Stutthof through beatings, executions, starvation and mass killings. Thousands more died on the death marches and many were shot after being force marched into the sea. Stutthof was a barbaric camp, and during the post-war trials, what shocked many was that a number of the defendants who faced the first trial were young women, young women accused of such brutality and murder with their own hands. These women were, Jenny Wanda Barkmann, Elisabeth Becker, Wanda Klaff, Ewa Paradies and Gerda Steinhoff.
All of these women were accused of crimes against humanity, and they were sentenced to death. They were taken to a hill outside of Gdansk, and on there stood a number of huge gallows. The women were placed onto trucks and then the executioner placed a noose around their neck, when the trucks drove off they were killed. There was a huge crowd of around 200,000 people who came to see the proceedings that day.
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It always amazes me that people are shocked at crimes or cruelty by women. Gender and age has absolutely nothing to do with the capability for such crimes.
Some people are just evil man or woman unfortunately
Golden.Lights.
I think many people are shocked upon hearing that women who behave in such an abhorrent & sadistic manner.
I believe most men look at women as nurturers like their mothers or girlfriends who tend to have a more tender side.
It would be horrible if we weren't shocked by such brutality coming from women.
Just as you would be shocked if a woman defeated Mike Tyson in his prime for the Heavyweight Championship.
Nadia Murad as an ISIS prisoner, and she said despite all the atrocities she suffered at the hands of muslim men, her biggest suffering and atrocities were at the hands of muslim women.
I think it's because we hold women to a higher standard. It's disappointing when anyone behaves in such a cruel way, but especially women who inherently have a mothering, caring nature.
@@fightevil.readbooks.5076 I agree, but must point out that women do not use violence the same way in their cruelties. Women can be sadistic, cruel, and murderous, but not the same kind of violence we think of from men.
One experience I had that demonstrated to me how people can act when they gain power. I joined the Army Reserve in the late 60s with a bunch of guys from the same city. I wasn't a good soldier and never gained much rank, but some of the other guy really got into it. When some of them gained just a little rank they turned into little tyrants. I would tell them to 'cool it', we were only in for 6 months of active duty. But, they loved the power that I believe they never had. So, I learned how regular people can become monsters.
I agree totally...and in our British Army..the bullying that went on in the 1980’s into the early 90’s....UNDER the noses of the Officers who wanted an easy lfe
I worked with this guy a year younger than me in an off licence 1990. Manageress was off so he was deputy. He was also BNP and had to cover his tattoos. She didn't know. He'd push you faster than you could run and loved the power. Used to come out pub toillets deliberately bumping into ppl to cause trouble on nights out. Didn't say how tough they were though.
Delivery day. Battered my head off a beam because of him.
Anyway he was stealing stock so i grassed him up. David Milligan of Clarkston Glasgow was his name. Cost him a career in the Marines. When the cops arrested him he was DWARFED even if he was 5ft 10. He looked like a pathetic little schoolboy. Two weeks previously, he was "a scary guy". All bullies are cowards who need a back up.
You see that type of behaviour in the workplace too. Some people can't handle being given authority - it just goes to their heads and they are a real pain to people who have dealings with them
@@wendychan6679 So true. Another problem is, the people over them allow it.
Very true. Not only does that hold true in the military, but in the political and work world as well.
My father did time in Stuthoff and escaped on a work detail when they took him outside. I went back to revisit it with him back in 84 when he was still alive.
What was your dads reaction when he visited the place in 84 ?
So your age now would be? It feels so spl to hear from a person who personally visited the camp. Chilling it was to even watch it in a video. Love from India 🇮🇳
@@---nu4ed 😆😆😆
What was he in for?
I am glad that he made it alive 🙏 and back to his family and friends ❤.
War is hell on earth 🌎.
Be nice to each other, God is watching.
What breaks my heart the most, are all those who died, not knowing that the Nazis would lose, never knowing anything but that the world was a dark and irredeemably evil place. What a sad death. It is absolutely appalling that anyone can treat anyone else with so much inhumanity. Appalling.
What if they didnt lose?
@@nancyslaststand in what way did they not lose
@@buzz2393
They came here
@@nancyslaststand citation needed. not only did the Germans lose, all of Europe's descendants lost to a nomadic desert tribe bent on genocide
@@BannedHistory very true but a large number cane here to set up the programs of mind control that they needed to ensure all humanity would give up their lives by consent that would be either collected via blackmail and contact to submit forever and act as directed against theyd own family sacrificing some, selling some into slavery or death cult, being led by worship of money, materialism that ends up blocking out spiritual light and allowing for darkness to spread and these recent discoveries of ancient examples of black goo under ice and black holes in universe that ks dead and no life is fake and all they are saying is to make us believe we deserve to be slaves and ask to die for our sins. We have been conned and it's time to take authority each of us being entitled.
If nothing else please remember this phrase; "Those who do not learn from History are condemned to repeat it. "
How absolutely true............
Atrocities and barbaric acts have been going on since the beginning of time and will go on until the end.
Just because you're a woman doesn't mean you can just escape punishment for crimes against humanity.
Males are bullied from birth to play gender politics. Why do mothers get such Madonna treatment? Childbirth ? My ex wife secretly aborted 2 of my babies so that would disqualify her from Madonna status. Unless of course you want to argue for Mary's right to an abortion
As time goes by, we forget the struggles and triumphs that have taken place. The horror of man's inhumanity during this period should never be forgotten if we never want to revisit it again
Don´t forget what happened in the Soviet Union and then, later, in China and Cambodia. So it DID happen again.
@@peterwest5525 or in Bosnia or Rwanda during my time of serving in the US Military 92-97.
@@fluffyusa the Serbs still deny the genocide they committed
Monsters can be any age and gender.
I’ve been to Stutthof. The vast numbers of barracks that once housed those imprisoned are mostly gone, but it’s still one of the most horrific places I’ve ever been. I was the only visitor during the time I was there, but I felt crushed, an overwhelming crush of humanity.
Or was it simply my heart crumbling to pieces.
i know that there are evil places in the world, that had to be one of them; but to experience the other side of the coin, one must visit the Kotel aka wailing wall in Jerusalem i was overwhelmed by God's presence in that spot.
@doug cool story bro.
Yeah those who cause mischief are locked up during wartime. Just like old Churchill locked up his troublemakers including some MPs. In Rhodesia we had thousands on ice, we should have just killed them on the spot but oh no old Smithy was too kind.
@@dougreynolds2813 uhh that aint God bro, that's someone else running that spot
Judging by the way the world leaders are currently treating their people, I’m thinking they must of forgotten what happens to tyrants....
Yes they need a reminder.
@@glennsankey8186
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Do you mean Bubbly Boris?
What happen to tyrants? They live happy ever after, mostly...
@@pawelsawicki1750 smart tyrants were mao,stalin hoxha etc
But most of them,mussolini hitler etc got a terrible ending (they gad it coming)
My grandmother survived Stuttof. She told me the guards shot the prisoners with machine guns into massive pits, she jumped in and pretended to be dead, hid under the dead bodies for hours. I guess this was during the march since it was in January 1945.
Holy crow! Glad she survived! What a tale! I bet she could have wrote a book!
How did she survive after she escaped? How did she get food and shelter?
Stories like your grandmas are the reason l feel no remorse for what happened to these women Nazis.
Yes during the death marches the guards murdered many thousands of prisoners- forcing many into the freezing Baltic sea where they were machine gunned
@@vivians9392 She found shelter in a farm. A Polish farmer took pity on her and let her stay in the barn. She was pregnant with my father at the time. I wish I knew the farmer's name.
The saddest part of this is these terrible treatment of civilian prisoners still continued after these executions. Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, India-Pakistan, Pakistan-Bangladesh, Biafra, Zaire, Southern Rhodesia, Uganda, Sudan, Iran-Iraq, Mozambique, Angola, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia Central African Rep, Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia and the sad list still goes on...
And Palestine.
phr1525 - yes it’s terrible what hamas is doing to it’s own people isn’t it
By now, Zaire is no longer Zaire... Take it from a Belgian....
And China. Currently. Ethnic cleansing, forced organ harvesting, mobile execution vans…
@@jaybee9269 falungong lol
One of the reasons why I love your channel so much is that you select to report stories that aren't usually reported on. Not stories revamped and retold.
Not to mention very properly researched and told.
Spot on👍👍👍
Really? The script is repetative and mistakes are made with the verbal narrative. You haven't been paying attention properly if you think it is "very properly researched and told". It is not. See 6:00 where he states the camp was liberated on the 9th March. It was actually 9th May as per the written caption.
This is a second rate snapshot overview.
@@apollomemories7399 Thx you for your opinion.Im definitely entitled to mine not to mention I like the channel very much. Happy Holidays.🎄
@@joylives_4her668 It's not an opinion, but a statement of fact.
@@apollomemories7399 👌🏽
Even a humiliating death like this was too good for these monsters who inflicted so much torture, pain, misery, and death upon innocent people.
@@speakwithonevoice636 Because you know what it's like to go through the misery that they inflicted on the inmates of the camp on a daily basis. Keep on hugging your keyboard like a safety blanket
Yes they were monsters, for being so humane with these Nazi scum. I would have dragged the proceedings out a bit
@@Bobbydazzllaloop
@@speakwithonevoice636 they got less than what they deserved. Did you not listen to what they did to the prisoners?
@@speakwithonevoice636 Monsters for dispensing justice on these female monsters? What the fuck, dude?
My mother was a guard there. She left my father in the early forties and went off with another women who was also a guard there. They were mean women. I am glad she left. My father had a happy life for the next 3 years until he got run over by a German tank. I wish I had more time with my father. I am now 87 and still miss him. I remember him saying like it was yesterday "Vertraue niemals einer Frau, tier"
i am sorry for your awful memories, but i hope you managed to make good ones as well
Thank you for your honesty
You’re 87, and you know how to post on youtube. Wow!
J Mark,
Thank you for sharing your deeply personal story. May I ask a very personal question, what happened to your mother? Did she go on trial? Or possibly survive the war?
And your dearest father, was he part of the infantry? What year did he pass away.
And lastly, would you feel up to translating your last sentence?
I think you have lived a Heroic life. And you have so many treasured stories to tell. I think you would be a wonderful friend to have. I could visit with you for ages.
I Trust God has Blessed you with his tender Grace's as he watches over you.
God Bless You. Merry Christmas.
@@Me-fm9zk You make it sound like it's astrophysics
This may start to happen again if governments don't back off.
Guess what?! My comments about the truths were just DUMPED by THE YOU TUBE 'GODS'.
Gee,,, what a sirprise....NOT !
THIS commitment prob. won't stay up long eighter. Save your life DON'T take ANY COVID SHOTS OR BOOSTERS. If you have get your arms scanned at a hospital. Just do it.
(For the You Tube 'GODS', who like to dump comments just know that you won't win. There's more of us than there is of you.)
Take your 'shots', (contain Graphen Oxide which is used to make bullet proof vests and it distorys the lungs causeing deaths with fatal blood clots and many other medical problems as well.
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This comment will be dumped by the Commie Gods....maybe...but the fight will continue. I might die but it will be standing up fighting , not knelling like a covid shot ZOMBIE.
@@ghostcityshelton9378 You know what Shelton, we know who you are. And you will be dealt with in the appropriate manner. February 2.
@ Pfft.
Are u going to be silent when ppl are executed under the new world order?
No doubt about it
I visited this camp in 2019. Unbelievable what was done even at this small camp. I am a strong person…but both my wife and I were crying while seeing this.
70 years old and seen a lot.. but this? Words can not describe emotions felt then and even til this day when looking at photos we took.
I am so sorry Richard ..... you did not visit the Stutthof Concentration Camp ..... you just visited MAUSOLEUM !!!! The camp as it was right away after the war was over, was standing there untouched to the end of 1960-sh ..... later on, it was partially demolished, cleaned up and the Mausoleum (the memory ground) was made out of it !!!!
Haven't you ever seen or read to cry with your wife on the plight of the Palestinian people suffering at the hands of the IDF today in the illegally occupied PTs in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Mr. Richardsmith?
Go, read on it.
Watch over it on documentaries.
Visit the Levent to witness the sepentine aparteid wall built by Israel with cement and blue metal gifted by the US as not only alms but also as arms to Israel in its geopolitic self-centered rendezvous.
Oh, poor Mr. Richardsmit!
Don't cry. Turn your head around and then spill your tears.
I am sure both of your eyes would pop out in disbelief if you see the other side of the story that the Quartet cooks to keep Israel as it lapdog. Don't be parochial. Don't be lopsided. Terrorist Israel is terrorizing the world today. For last 75 years Israelis are hoodwinking their crime on humanity under the thick veil of the US and the UNO.
Dare speak on it, Mr Richard Smith?
@@sachidhananthanarayanan2270 *
@@dasboot5903 fine. Thank you.
the one element which people handle the least well is power over other people
The sons of Leah have finally overplayed their hand. There will be no survivors.
That's an interessing thought.
It would become quite a chaotic world, if no one would have power over other people, and we all would be completely autonomous 100 % free folks. Most adults are too immature to handle that freedom. You can see it everyday in trafic and on social media.
@@Retroscoop Disagree strongly. A few DO have power over the many and it IS a chaotic world as a result.
It's not only that, but once a person has been dehumanised, then people do not feel it is wrong to torture or murder that person No need to consider whether or not that person has caused or is likely to cause the slightest harm to anyone any more than we would feel sympathy toward an ant we step on in the road, or a rat we find in our house.
The government and the media can and frequently do dehumanise a whole category of people, and are doing so today. Native Germans had been brainwashed into viewing Jews (and homosexuals) just before WWII with similar hatred as many people today have been brainwashed into viewing illegal immigrants and paedophiles, and so believed that the treatment they received in the concentration camps was fully justified.
It's the same story that has repeated time and time again throughout history, and actively encouraged by those in power. The easiest way to control people is to frst make them fear and/or despise "the other," then once enough hatred has been generated, promise some sort or radical solution to punish or eliminate "the other". Meanwhile all the problems in society can conveniently be blamed on "the other" so people do not blame their leaders. This is also the first thing that the military does to its soldiers in war situations. De-humanise the enemy so the soldier will not hesitate to kill them. They are not loving husbands, fathers or sons, but ragheads, kikes, gooks etc. who are not the same as "us" and do not deserve fair or humane treatment.
My father was drafted at 18. I believe he was in what they called the Rainbow division, an infantry division. He was one of the first into Dachau and it screwed him up for life from what he witnessed. I remember him telling us that at least on one occasion he and his buddies gathered up some Nazis and let prisoners get their hands on them. He said the prisoners were so weakened they couldn’t do much but at least they were given a chance
I guess your daddy escape to South America after killing also.
Can’t you read ass%@#$? Don’t u know history? The nazis r the ones who escaped to s. America DS!
@@feliciahilaski7677 watch for that high blood pressure. We don't wanna anyone to have a heart attack.
@@diego5125 watch your own blood pressure @#$wipe. Where from Diego
@@feliciahilaski7677 I think you're from Texas. Lost of those people are very violent. I guess you're showing your ancestors inheritance.
The neatly mowed lawns and the preserved buildings give a strange contrast to the horrors carried out so many years ago.
They kept the gardens Immaculate even while they were murdering thousands every day....
Murdering thousands everyday really? Your sources? Fighting a 2 front war against the USA, British empire and Soviet Union. Already massively short on man power but decided to kill thousands of them every day! Wake up.
@@djharto4917 Very easy to murder millions of imprisoned people.
Believe it if you want. Most deaths occurred from the allied blockade of Germany. Thousands of Germans starved to death how could they feed pows?
@@djharto4917 Oh well, don't start nothing won't be nothing there Adolf.
Very nice of the hangman to let the ladies go first. Chivalry is such a lost art today… 😏
The camp commander P.W. Hoppe, a much worse type than these low ranked personnel, got away with it. How unjust is that.
@Sim Sala Bim I would call it luck.
Most of them got away with it. Only small percentage were punished.
Too many “got away with it”, particularly those who escaped along rat lines that were provided by those even more evil.
@@wekapeka3493 Like the Catholic church.
Paul Reynolds absolutely Paul!!! Some in the Catholic Church have a lot of questions to answer🤔
As always an extremely enlightening video. I had never heard of this camp. Thank you for keeping history alive.
OCCUPIED PALESTINE . It still goes on.
I Just noticed that there have been thousands of camps, big and small in this war!!!
Recently there have been a few trials held in Germany for former workers at concentration camps. The law was changed so that it is ot necessary to prove direct involvement in the killings, but only to show complicity. However, the defendants are now very old. It tskes years to bring a case and witg each year, witnesses are also dying and are harder to find. I can't help feeling that it is too late to give real justice. Defendants can't even be named under German law, and any sentences given are trivial in relation to the crimes committed.
Perhaps no answer, but some of the 'workers' would have been executed themselves had they not obeyed orders from above.
Dragging seniors in their late 90s even even 100 years old into court because they played a minor role such as being a teenage secretary in a camp is really quite shameful but typical of today's warped German moralism. This is the same country that absolutely refused to prosecute or extradite notorious war criminals such as SS Commander Heinz Reinefarth who was in charge of putting own the Warsaw ghetto uprising and responsible for the Wola massacre. This man became mayor of a ritzy island resort town in 1951 and in 1962 a member of state parliament. He was never convicted of anything. And now the German ministry of 'justice' is going after any small minion who ever peeled a potato in a concentration camp.
God bless the Allied Soldiers for their sacrifice in giving us the" Free World" we live in today!
I was born in 1950 and my parents served in WWII and though they briefed me on it, I never knew such retribution took place!
As a German I feel pretty ashamed of almost everything my ancestors have done during the 3rd Reich.
The people must have been so brainwashed in order to commit those atrocities.
On the other hand I feel so grateful for living in a period of peace. Our generations have the opportunity to meet and get in touch with people from other countries so easily and get our own view about the world.
the best comment ever sir
Yes
The same could have been done (and has been done) by many cultures in human history. We should never forget how easily it happened in a civilised country, and remember that it could easily be us today if we are not vigilant.
As a woman I am ashamed that any woman would commit such atrocities. We give life. We should not take it away.
Germans today are different. My great Uncle was an American soldier captured at the Battle of the Bulge. He was sent to Stalag 9B outside of Frankfurt.
The SS came looking for Jewish soldiers. My uncle was one who they segregated out and sent him to a death camp called Berga.
This story is well-documented in a book by Rodger Cohen called Soldiers and Slaves and in a PBS documentary called Soldiers of Another War.
He died at age 21 murdered.
Really enjoy your vids. I look forward to every one. Thank you!
History always repeats itself
UA-cam comments always repeat themselves.
When this guy will cover the 4 million Indians executed by Churchill? Not to mention other European empires did between XVI-XIX centuries on Africa, Oceania, Asia, the whole America and how much north-americans murdered on late XX century?
@@MarcusSantAnna maybe you should start a channel and cover those things, this guy seems pretty busy already I'd say.
Even at public executions, it's always, "Ladies First." Chivalry knows no bounds, lol.
Good quote!😂💄💁
And it isn't even correct. The Men started executions that Day. The Commanders Andjutant Pauls was the first, followed by 5 (male) polish Kapos. The Commander Hoppe got away and died in 1974. It is not that hard to read the polish Newspapers from that Day as a Source instead making yourself a Clown.
@@TheMave34 Clown is a bit harsh. Need to lighten up a bit.
Consistent quality videos every single time. Excellent work!
Too much moralising though. We don't need to be reminded like children if an execution is justified.
If you check the Sources, the Quality of this Channel is rather slim. Most of the Informations don't hold stand a double Check like a professional historician would do.
According to Wikipedia Soviet forces liberated Stutthof on 9 May 1945, rescuing about 100 prisoners who had managed to hide
Stalin wacked millions of his own.
@@silent1967 yes he did...so your point is that we should have continued the war to usurp stalin...or what u r doing is trying to minimize the horrors of the civilized german killing machine
I do not support the death penalty then or now but in cases such as this I can at least understand it!
So many more should have been called to justice .
Yeah!! and look at the United States nazi judge and Nazis jury let Nazi ar 15 kill Kyle Rittenhouse free.... The white Nazi Justice Administration in the US you really have to watch out for.....
God will distribute JUSTICE.
Having had so much power, granted by the government, I assume those women didn't really think anything was going to happen to them. This is an excellent example of groupthink, where you only surround yourself with those who think like you, and you wind up with a really distorted view of anything. What they did, I bet, became 'normal' to them because nobody was telling them it wasn't. When they realized the allies WERE going to hang them, I bet that came as one heck of a surprise
Cool story bro.
Today everybody feels bad for the perpetrators of a crime, not for the victims. No mercy for murderers, death penalty is correct.
It’s a terrible world and mans evil should never be underestimated. When threatened kil! Simple as that ,stand for what you believe in and administer your own judgement. When your family friends and life is threatened you kill! God will be the judge let no man !
I was born in March of 1945 and always wondered if my time of birth had to do with my interest in what happened during this time in history and my empathy for those who either suffered or lost their lives under this mad man. For those who like to deny this ever happened, all you have to do is to look at the pictures and see what one evil man can do to a nation and almost to the world. The Antichrist is going to try to do the same thing but the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, Jesus Christ, is coming just in time to put an end to him and his tyranny and save Israel from annihilation.
Cool story sis.
Do you know what Carol i am exactly like you although I was born 1948 i allways have had a big interest on this subject i went to Austwich this was do to family telling me what they had seen it was appaling thanks fo r your comment xx
Why in the heck would Christ try to save Israel. It makes no sense. Israel does not recognize Christ as a savior or his principles.
tRUMP
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''Just following orders" has historically proven to be a bad defense
and my sheeple colleagues think that this could never happen again
if we can't see what is happening around us today what hope have we got good luck everyone.
First, let me state that I do not condone any of the actions of the guards, many low ranking German soldiers were placed in a no-win situation. Follow orders of those above you and carry out atrocities, or defy orders and be shot. Remember, at that time, especially in the Nazi regime, there was no such thing as an illegal order that didn't have to be followed.
Again, I'm not trying to minimize what any of the prisoners went through, as it was humanity at it's worst. I just wanted to provide a little perspective on "following orders." In the military, as a low rank, you don't really have a choice. It's not like a civilian job where you can quit. At least since then there have been changes made which make certain military orders illegal.
Although it is some brief visceral act of righteous justice to witness those murdering women hanged, together with the other postwar convictions of Nazi war criminals, it still can’t level the scales for the absolute and totally shameful behavior of an organized group of contemporary human beings during those horrific years.
God help us if we ever forget….
Victor's Justice is disgusting!
@@benjamindouglas862 What should be done, then? Maybe we should tell them: _"You've been very bad boys and girls. For shame! Don't you ever do that again, you hear me? Now, run along... and have a nice day!"_
These executions were not so much for retribution (although there was certainly an element of revenge). Rather, they were intended to show the victims and everyone else that there is at least some justice in the world. It was also a warning to others who might be so inclined - as if these executions deterred others who thought they could get away with similar behavior.
Public executions deter no one, as history shows: In England iduring the Middle Ages picking pockets was a cpital offense, but pickpockets were very active during execution spectacles..
For a modern example, do a search for Idi Amin. For a more recent example there's mainland China's president and Politburo, which routinely authorizes the vivisection of political prisoners - while the prisoner is conscious! The Chinese get a twofer: the elimination of political opposition - and the sale of their organs is highly profitable. It's the Chinese version of _'Win-Win!'_
Many other heads of state and/or their subordinates often become sadistic as soon as the opportunity arises to do what'ever lurks in their evil hearts. As Macchiavelli wrote: _"Men are evil unless compelled to be good."_
Who was there to compel these prison guards to be good girls? They had no compulsion to rein in their sadistic tendencies - in fact, they were rewarded for expressing them. The more sadistic, the faster they got promoted!
Abraham Lincoln observed that _"Nearly all men can stand adversity. But if you want to test a man’s character, give him power."_
True dat, Abe... Any citizen mistakenly arrested for the first time is made to understand right quick who's in charge - and more often than not, the one in charge (the one with the gun, the billy club, the taser, the mace) salivates for an opportunity to emphasize the distinction.
Any cop with even the tiniest inclination to issue extra-judicial punishments has free rein to express himself - and that's just on a municipal level. Is it surprising that on the national or international level that when they're given power it's simply ratcheted up? Their power morphs from one-on-one with a gun, to using an army on their (perceived) enemies.
Doesn't that explain a lot of the endless little wars that jack up our taxes, but never really resolve anything? And what could be safer for a bully than crushing an opponent with a military thatás one-twentieth the size of ours?
The problem isn't only in these criminals; it is a part of our human nature. So, what can be done?
I have no workable answers, but I'll sit up straight and pay attention to anyone who has a reasonable solution to the problems that always arise whenever an individual is given power over others.
How can society compel someone with power to be good, instead of evil?
My dad helped hunt down and bring to trial some of these Nazis to Nuremberg. He was the liaison between French and American intel because he spoke fluent French. I clearly remember him telling me, when I was 11 years old "Son don't let anyone ever tell you this never happened. I saw it with my own eyes.'
I'm a ww2 buff (my grandfather was a bomber pilot) so I've devoured info...but for some reason, hearing that so many were killed just to be turned into soap has got to be one of the more haunting details....
Nothing should go to waste
Y el jabon...servia ?
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and lampshadess.
@Tony Tucker
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@@BrianLee-qw7vc
Lampshades are important.
Little known fact : some concentration camps were reopen by the Soviets once the war over (including Buchenwald) , where the conditions were barely better than during the Nazi Era... it would be nice to see a video on this topic some day, few people know about it
I’ll have a look into this.
It would be banned by UA-cam. Marxism is great
Buchenwald was called NKVD Special Camp Nr 2, and it was used until 1950, but I don't have many informations because the Soviets are not of the talkative kind
Here's the new boss, same as the old boss.
Soviets got away with mass murder.
Thank you for seeking out and making videos of the justice that so righteously was meted out to these horrific "human beings" .They deserved every thing they were given,and with so much less the terror and pain they inflicted on the prisoners.What they did was deliberate, evil and cruel..and totally barbaric..because they had that cruelty and evil inside them.
As if your opinion matters.
Just a observation, the video spoke of the females who were hung
off the back of trucks that drove away. That means that their necks
were not broken in a quick death. They hung in the air and remained
there until they strangled to death. A fitting death for what they did.
In the Gods kingdom humans are most savage animals
RIP poor INNOCENT souls 😔😔
It surprises me that there was female nazi guards. Schools never taught us this but it doesn’t shock me because I know how cruel women can be. Looking at these women’s faces I can just tell they were evil. There is no life behind their eyes.
I do hardly comprehend English aurally, but pictures speak volumes of these women... maybe even more accurate than any word could...
All faces sombre and sinister, marked by dumb cruelty, without even single hint of intelligence, reflection or remorse lighting them up. Almost all of them look notorious and completely incorrigible.
@@nikita70 Becouse they new their trials where a farce and already lost. They didnt commit any of the crimes they where accused of.
Women are incredibly evil especially because we usually never hold them accountable and they get away with so much and know they can ruin lives and manipulate the system, best to keep your distance like you would with a mountain lion
I've never been so relieved to hear that someone got the "short drop " and not the " long drop".
Justice being served, sadly too many escaped the hangman's noose. Regardless, they will face eternal judgment.
They deserve every inch of suffering that they inflicted on the prisoners
May this never happen again
Research the prisons in Asia
Or elsewhere in 3rd world.
Trust me.. It's still going on today
where you there, i hope god reserves a special judgement for you, you shall not judge other people, that is gods commandment
Would you inflict suffering on animals that killed? torcher them?
@@etelonlongbows exactly these blood thirsty revenge seekers are worse than the worst nazi could ever be, they are total scum and if they were in the same unfortunate position as these gaurds they would have been the worst of them
History never fails to repeat itself
The American Nazis wanted my Grandfather to join them, he said no. He became a US citizen in 1941 and had 3 sons in the war.
So he said yes.
@@janee7995
WTF?!
Fine example of someone trying to be a smart@ss without being smart.
Ag nee..wat sê die vent..
@@janee7995 😅😅😅
America never had Nazis, Germany did !
The hope remains that each had time after the truck drove away to consider what they did.
unlikely
Hard to say if they reflected on what they did to the camp inmates. Nothing truely attoned for their sins againt humanity.
@Tony Tucker of course, you have all the real facts.
Unlikely. At that point, their consciousness was probably completely occupied with physical process of dying.
I appreciate these detailed short docs very much. I've learned so much
Wish I was there to see them swing
then you are no better than them
me too
One thing that befuddles me: why the manufacturers of the death gas were never put on trial. They cannot have been oblivious to its use.
Operation Paperclip.
Should a knife maker be put on trial because his knife was used to murder someone? Just because someone else misuses your product doesn't make YOU responsible.
@@deusvult7559 Now, I am sure that is NOT the case of IG Farben, the company that manufactured and supplied Zyklon B to those camps. On second look, I do find there had been a trial on them, with maximum sentence less than 10 years and most getting out free. Those guards were sadistic murderers for sure, but it was brains like IG Farben that enabled the genocide.
IG Farben Trial - Wikipedia - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben_Trial
IG Farben - Wikipedia - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben
@@deusvult7559 well knives you can use for cutting. Cant really use death gas for much else besides causing death. So yes the maker should most definitely be prosecuted for making that shit in the first place
@@mirnasimmi4901 Google is your friend...use it. Zyclon B was originally made as an insecticide for killing lice.
Please continue this untold story. Your works are revealing, healing through truth. Continue your good work my good Rabbi.
There's a German saying that translates as "Caught together, hanged together".
Never heard that German saying. And were those caught indeed all hanged ?
@@Retroscoop It was something like "Mitgefängt, mitgehängt", which literally means "Caught up, hung up", but I can't find it on Google. To answer your second question: No. Definitely not. Many got away with murder for the rest of their lives. Even high-profile ones like Dr. Josef Mengele. After the War, everyone had had enough of killing, I think.
Benjamin Franklyn was much funnier. In the 2nd Continental Congress (I think) someone else mentioned that they should all hang together. Franklyn: “Indeed. Or we will certainly be hanged separately.”
@Tony Tucker by who?
In the 60s after getting out of the RAAF I worked in a design Office of the Public Works as an Engineering Assistant (going to Uni at the time). Most of the design staff were European professional engineers. One chap I worked with became the temporary boss and then started to order me around. I told him to get stuffed and not talk to me in that manner. However to be fair to him this was the way they were taught as most were attended Uni in Germany and worked there. The were from various European countries. One chap was Polish who had served in the British army and he said to me one day that he was the only one in the office who fought with the Allies. Never did ask where the others were during the war. All of course were displaced persons
I worked with some when I was young. They were pigs no doubt about that.
I have read that many of the female guards were country girls to whom killing animals was normal, and these monsters were taught that their victims were sub human animals. A total moral vacuum creates monsters. Hope they suffered.
Thankfully, they did suffer!
Normally, a hanged person drops through a trapdoor and the sudden jolt at the end of the fall causes the neck to break (this is the reason that the noose is so shaped, so that it will immediately cause the fatal fracture when the rope becomes taut).
These condemned Nazis were standing on a flatbed truck when the noose was placed aroung their necks, and when the trucks drove away, they were left dangling in mid air, writhing around in a futile attempt to free themselves.
Their last moments were not sudden or painless, the very reason the Soviets chose this specific method of execution!
Given the savagery of the Nazis, especially to Soviet captives, these were quite mild means of execution...
Dehumanising, defined as *the psychological process of demonizing a person, making (s)he seem less than human and hence not worthy of humane treatment* always come before any atrocity can start. It is a neccesary process to enable one group of people to exploit/exterminate another group of people without remorse.
@@poonoi1968 The Nazis made it state policy.
@@felixcat9318 They certainly did.
@Tony Tucker Wouldn't know. I'm not religious.
The Germans will never be able to wash themselves away from these crimes.
So does the British, French, Spanish, Portugese, Russians and Belgiums.
So whats your point?
Thanks for the great channel!
Thanks for your kind words.
Perhaps the horror of public execution would deter others from committing such inhumane crimes.
Thanks for your videos and work on this one in particular.
The narration with historical details was most interesting & helps to better understand what took place in these "camps."
As always: well put together mini documentary. Well written lesson Narrated with class. Thank you for being my Eye to The Past.
My parents were prisoners of bergen Belsen. I still cannot believe that my parents survived it.
This is an example of the horrors of indoctrnating the collective societal psyche with the belief that certain people are " less than". It becomes subconciously acceptable for insecure people to abuse and destroy them through subjective comparison leading to dehumanization
Fascinating video thank you 👍👍
This was very hard to watch. It hurts my soul to know how evil humanity can be!
Own it! This includes you
Well deserved justice.
However what of the industrialists, bankers and academics that played key roles in creating this horror ?
There is even a German aristocrat who just recently is demanding the return of his seized family estates.
Many of the same " great families" continue to rule having suffered few consequences , if any.
Justice ?
Every last Man,woman and child new what was going on in those camps,therefore complicent in the crimes.
@@brianmcnevin1419 I would not ho that far.
BUT , certainly the elites did , witness the slave labor for THEIR corporations as , of course did the bankers as well as the acacademics who preached the vile hate.
Almost none paid any price and most resumed their lives running the " New Germany".
Hanging a few foul guards was not the answer.
@@brianmcnevin1419 they might have had some idea of what was happening, but what could they have done about it? I don't think Himmler would have taken kindly to them suggesting that the 'final solution' was unjustified; to the contrary, I think the answer would have been "if you're so concerned about the Jews, you're welcome to join them".
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co built the railroad to Auschwitz. American industrialists were responsible - Hitler was another patsy. Wake up FFS!
It is actually an ongoing phenomena today in Sweden,, The "rich" are creating a dangerous situation that easily can escalate in to serious unrest.
I have watched these kind of documentary for many years but only once in a while one will tye the past to the present or more recent past such as what is going on present day china with the weagers and organ harvesting by the hundreds of thousands and the same cruelty on north corea or the atrocities in Yugoslavia in the 90s and. The very untalked about atrocities ofthe 80s in south and central America or the killing field's of paul pot. And so on and so on remember the past and work to stop it today and in the futute. Remember the biggest killers in the world are goverments
I've been to that camp in the seventies. Still remember the horror of what I saw there.
The sad thing is humans will always be humans they will never really change.
One of the greatest scandals of the second world war is how fue Nazi war criminals were punished. After 1948 usa and Britain viewed the cold war as a more important thing to concentrate on. They actively stopped prosecution's of war criminals and actually used some like otto scorzeny as agents. Many war criminals from the Baltic states came to Britain and lived their lives in Edinburgh unmolested Britain didn't have a war crimes act until relatively recently and only one prosecution was ever carried out.
What war crimes did Skorzany do?
@@jimusgrimus bugger all in reality I meant claus Barbie or the intelligence Man gehlen.
Well the more recent crimes is about killing civilians with drones. Who is going to charge us and uk about that ?
Some would say we are still paying for those sins. Idk but it is possible.
@@johnthomson6507 Klaus, not "Claus"
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Those death marches were new to me. Those who grew up in US should know about the ones American Indians were subjected to & I know that early in USSR there was one, but hadn’t heard of these. “Let’s make them walk till they die since were short on other means. Oops ran out of land guess will have to use some precious ammunition after all”.
Trail of tears .
@@fightback397 People are jkust cruel soetimes. SO, in that vein. The Cherokee and other Indians, forcablyremoved from thier homes TOOK THEIR BLACK AFRICAN SLAVES WITH THEM on the march. Still lawsuits about it today. Cherokee Freedmen. Check it out.
This is the history we never heard. Good job 👏 👍
Though war isn't pretty ,it is history .I have found your channel recently and love history. I have an intelligent autistic nephew who has taken great interest in the 2nd ww in the past year ,cannot wait to share this insight .
A lot of these criminals got away with murder but the ones that they were able to catch all had justifiable executions. We know very well the world is not a fair place.
Tell us something else we don't know.
@@clintfalk maybe you're the one who has to tell us. So tell us something that we don't know.
And it should NOT be!The world is world,just accept it!
@@pedrochanganaqui1623 I think you're a little off into your fantasies telling me to accept the world as it is. What's your problem? Looking for attention?
The quality of content on this channel is excellent. The only thing letting it down is the narrator’s voice. Using a trained voice actor would make this channel truly world class.
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it...
thank u so much to show us the history
As I understand it, after the camps were liberated by the Allies, the local citizenry always claimed to be innocent of and ignorant about any of the atrocities that happened inside these camps. The American and British commanders knew their claims were pure nonsense and would make all the local citizenry tour the camps to see firsthand all the horrors done to their fellow human beings right under their noses. I could be wrong but I believe some of the footage shown in this video was of that happening.
My father served in a medical unit in Patton's Third Army. After they had liberated one of the Buchenwald sub camps the officer in charge rousted the citizens of the town and marched them into the camp to bury the dead. He rarely spoke of the war, but he shared his memory of the Burgermeister's wife stretchering corpses while wearing her fox stole. To an individual they all claimed that they had no idea of what was going on behind the wire,even though my dad claimed that they smelled the stench of death miles before they got there
where did all these pictures come from? Obviously there was access. How could they not have known? The lake of fire is reserved for the cowardly.
Often makes me wonder how many of the allies would have been executed for war crimes if Germany had won the war ?
Shhh don't go there......We are the good guys remember. Wouldn't want to actually know the facts would we?
Have to be that guy and say that was never going to happen…the Allies had several times the military potential of the Axis and their industrial potential was even greater.
Germans started 2 world wars-with austria.They brought this upon themselves.Besides you should not "wonder"about what might have happened-only what did happen
Bomber Harris?
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Thank you!!!
Thank you!!
History, know it and look for reoccurrence pattern and you’ll be informed.
I see it, i see it........
Just because this happened 80 or so years ago does not mean we've moved on from this kind of thinking. It can happen again. Be wary of demagogues. Be wary of anyone who likes to tell you only the things you want to hear. Be wary of anyone who spreads hate and lies.
Do not mistake salesmanship for leadership - they're not the same thing.
It's happening in china right now
@@seangelarden8753
It's happening in America right now.
Here in the UK they are trying to delete History, but if you delete History then you are doomed to repeat it, history is there to learn from but if not there then how would future generations know any different
Excellent
Thank you for this lesson.
I will look forward to your excellent 50-part series of how the Soviet Secret Police, the Cheka, then the NKVD slaughtered more Russians and Eastern Europeans than the NAZIS, could even dream of.
As atrocious as it was for all the victims in the Nazi camps....it pales.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn estimated in his writings, that conservatively, well over 100 million died just under Stalin, 6 million being Ukrainians in one year, the 1932-1933 Holodomor alone. ....then after the holidays, you can start working on Mao Zedong.
Happy Christmas🎄
Can the contributor please provide his sources, many thanks.
One memory I will never forget, guarding a lift as it opened and Hess sitting in a wheelchair staring at me from about six feet away.
Thanks it was a good program.
9:19 Ladies first!
As always very important. I watched a video the other day of the execution of some of the SS who operated Dachau. It just struck me that anybody who belonged to the SS and worked at one of those camps should have been at the very least sentenced to long and harsh prison sentences. I would even say that allowing any of the SS camp workers to not be prosecuted was a much worse crime than the deaths of a handful of SS guards at the hands of their overwrought captors and their former prisoners. I wonder how the allied tribunals decided to allow any of them to go back to a normal life. I understand that they wanted to allow Germany to rebuild instead of having another Versailles treaty forming the basis for yet another war, but still in America we sentence people to long long harsh sentences for crimes that in comparison are totally nothing.
I am german and i personally know that this question runs way deepter then you think. Many SS Guards and Members but also GESTAPO officers went directly after WW2 back into working for either the soviets/us or the new german gouverment. Reasons for that are quite simple they where needed but also controllable and reliable in the eyes of the new rulers.
10-20 years later huge protestes started originating from german university students about the poor "entnazifizierung" and that many nazi officials still working for the german gouverment.
@@marc6344 I can see the students point. Oddly enough I have been exposed to a great deal of residual anger that the British have for the US (not mentioned by either politicians) that the Marshall plan to rebuild Europe helped continental Europe but abandoned our allies. Some of our politicians were smart enough to see that leaving Europe devasted and bringing draconian punishments on Germany after the war would simply lead to another war as did the treaty of Versailles. I don't know how you would feel about this but we also handled Japan better than many in the US thought they deserved. Of course, many of the wealthy in this country were more afraid of the commies than the axis countries.
@@aldenconsolver3428 I understand the points u are making and i think the lack of prosecution has mostly with the fact to do that like you said they wanted to build resistance to stalin in the East as fast as possible and needed the know how from nazi war criminals for that. I can tell you from my family, from 3 of the sons my grandma send into WW2 , 2 were killed in action on a battle ship and 1 was captured in Stalingrad and was held from 1944-1954 in a soviet gulag. I can tell you from his storys that 10 years gulag are equal to a death sentence/life in prison.
@@marc6344 My heart goes out to your grandmother. I lost a brother in Vietnam and my mother never really recovered. 2 sons and one sentenced to 10 years in living hell is almost unimaginable. I wish there was some kind of rule that before a young person is shipped off to war their parents had to agree. That would put a fast stop to most of that hatefulness. And thank you for your correspondence with me. Mögen Sie schöne Feiertage haben (after 3 semesters of German I still have to look up even simple phrases
@@aldenconsolver3428 Thats for sure. I wish you also happy christmas and a good new year.
Sorry for the loss of your brother.
I think we would have a really interesting talk... I would love to hear more what you think about the relationship between perpetrator and victims since u know both sides. On the one hand there was the war against us, good against evil (germans) and then 20 years later the "bad americans" against "the freedom fighters of vietnam"...
Good show!
My grandson wanted us to go there. I said OK son. So I did a we bit of investigation about the place. and it was so horrific for what went on there. I could fell myself breaking down. O my god how can people be so cruel. I told my grandson what went on there. he replied. Forget about grandad. I don't think I could sleep if I went. May all there soals rest in peace. God bless them all. Paddy from Belfast Ireland.]
could you possibly put together a video about the executions of Nazi guards by the liberating soldier's and prisoner's that couldn't contain there emotions? having witnessed and experienced such horrific treatment of people
I remember seeing footage of something quite similar back in the 60s. This was a bunch of female inmates taking revenge on their female guards, beating them, throwing them into mud puddles, you name it. The ones who decided to let the others have their fun grabbed bottles of chlorine and set about trying to clean the filthy surroundings in which they had been living. To tell the truth, I would have been hard pressed to decide exactly which group I would have joined.
@@miriambucholtz9315 An interesting observation. Both sides demonstrated the depths of barbarity to which human beings were capable of descending.
This is nothing more than a perverted request for imagery of gratuitous violence. It suggests a fetish for watching humans torture and kill other humans. The torture and extra-judicial killings of human beings is a violation of international law, both then and now. To seek delight in watching such barbarity is repugnant to the vast majority of decent, sane people.
Don't bother; they're out there but they are highly censored. Suffice to read that they were, and trust that when the censorship to protect our delicate sensibilities don't turn into full blown fascist/communist censorship, which it already is heading that way with the wokies in charge.
@@moonlightpegasus Your crude attempt to equate the Allies with the Nazis is disgusting. What the hell is wrong with people like you?
My heart goes out to all the people affected by this how dare anybody deny it
becouse there was no proof
@@sulevss Testimony. Documents.
I wish they would also publicise the mass murders by Stalin, Mao & Pol Pot.
Only disappointment is that more guards weren’t executed.
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