"God bless our Vets", can only happen if we honor ALL their sacrifices, by not allowing it to so easily happen here, by those who are of No Accountability Entitlement, to usher in Autocrat Trump, and MAGA.
My partner’s father was in 2 concentration camps & he said the US troops were like angels from the sky when they liberated the camps. Makes me proud to be an American. Thank you for your service…
They should have thanked the Russians. It was the all female battalion of 17 year old girls that cleared the way into Germany and cleared the path for Patton's tanks to roll in like they did something. Then, they got no credit at all.
Sir, thank you for the freedoms we currently experienced today. I agree with you on where our country is and what the goal is. I believe the 9million illegals, mainly fighting age men/soldiers are here to take us over.
@@phillipstroll7385just out of curiosity, are you talking about the all female artillery brigade that were just out of high school during the battle of Stalingrad?
@@phillipstroll7385 mass rape of even concentration camp women took the shine off their endeavors. Read the eye witness accounts of Ravensbruck survivors of Russian Army.
This decorated veteran is very intelligent and full of wisdom! 97 years old and barely has a wrinkle on his face. Thank you Sir for your service to our country.
Now TooDough having our Young Guys heading into another Tissue covered Cesspool because History repeats itself and People never learn from Historical Atrocities. Greedy Agenda's financing the Killing Machines.
I wonder what he would make of current events today. He probably recognizes the signs of how things could go south; as he has already lived through a similar circumstance & time before.
@chrishernandez4266 the last few minutes are him discussing current events of today. He talks about what we must do to ensure democracy stands against the tyranny we are about to face.
Thank-You Sir!!!! For ALL those that say there was NO HOLOCAUST, let them watch this. My father was in WWII. He was Navy. I have his Flag, and Cherish it.
@@swivk4917Not enough dope slaps and face palms in the world .... I kinda wish the earth was flat for one day, and all the cats on earth knew their job & mark😹😼
My father was at Burgan Belson in 1945 when war ended they liberated the camp and rounded up the guard's he and one other drove the bull dozers to fill the mass graves. He only talked about what he had done a few weeks before he passed away aged 80 years old. RIP.
God bless him. My Great Uncle Jimmy didn't say much about it. He was a corpsman and mentioned the frail people that walked up to the fence and how thin they were. That's all he spoke of. That was a merciful thing your father did. He took that burden upon himself. Your father is a good man.
My father was also at Belsen with the Canadians. He told us how they made the guards go through the piles of bodies where some were still alive but he said they didn’t last long. He said they could smell Belsen for a miles before they got there. Whenever we watched a war movie with him he’d always say they never got the noise or smell right.
My father was British special services and stumbled on Belsen Bergen while on reconnaissance. His words.." we peeped carefully over a hill and saw lots of smoke and a horrible smell like roast flesh similar to pork but horrible...the bastards were burning as hard as they could go..." He never spoke of anything else in the war ever. I have since confirmed with his regiment this account to be true but his papers remain sealed. His task was to hunt and interrogate SS and Gestapo. We were shielded from the horror of war in the time he told me the internet didn't exist or utube. Now I have some understanding of the hell our soldiers went through along with the horror of innocent people who were tortured and murdered by the Nazis. Apparently we have not learned because I see humans still doing the same in other countries today...and the world just sits by😢Ukraine Syria, china Africa north Korea Russia ect ect...we DON'T learn. Mankind is EVIL to the core😢
Sir, you spoke and look way younger than the age of 97. You look sharp in your Uniform, and I thank you and the Producer of this Interview. It is deeply valued and a blessing to listen to you. I can only pray so many more listen and heed the warnings and words of wisdom from your experiences! This Interview you gave this world was definitely an investment most seriously necessary for these times. Thank you once again for contributing to the U.S.A., for freedom, and for the care of Democracy and betterment of mankind.
My amazing father was in the D-Day Invasion and then the Battle of the Bulge. The men got off the landing craft wearing wool uniforms and carrying 40 lbs. of equipment. Many just sank in the cold North Atlantic waters. It wasn't until after his death that I understood why he disliked Christmas so much. The weather during the Battle of the Bulge was so severe no supplies could be flown in. They were low on everything from food to medical supplies and ammunition and just plain cold. He was wounded in Belgium and spent the better part of a year in a military hospital in Texas. He was a 22-year-old sergeant that year and was told he would never walk again. When he returned to college, he changed his major from premed to prelaw and retired as a judge. He regained full use of his legs and lived to be 93. He talked very little about his war experiences until he was in his 80's. My brothers and I recorded his account of these pivotal battles. The experiences were still vivid and disturbing. We must remember these stories. They put a face on war.
My grandfather was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge on 3rd January 1945. He got half his face shot off by a mortar. They built him a new cheek from his hip bone and he lost his eye. My granny was told not to cry as my mum was only 2 months old and her milk would dry up if she got upset, so she never cried. My grandad was in hospital so long that my mum was 2 years old when he first saw her. I always knew him as a kind, gentle man with one eye and a funny face, but he was my hero.
I met a veteran of WW2 at a veterinary clinic I worked at, he told me how they just came and took you out of school and enlisted you. I asked him ,,, “Weren’t you terrified ?” His response was that you didn’t have time to be terrified. He was a lovely man. I am forever proud and thankful to our military.
My grandfather was liberated from Dachau in april 1945. He stayed behind to die, and then the Americans came. On behalf of our family: Thank you, you're in our hearts forever ❤
@@GameChanger597 assuming the Germans marched the other people away to hide them to try to prevent people from knowing what they had done but they likely thought this person wasn’t going to make it.
@@GameChanger597he wasn’t one of the people on the death marches. The nazis left behind the prisoners who were too sick to make the march at camps and actually those people ended up surviving most of them because most of the people on the death marches died since it was like a 30 mile march. Imagine, malnourished from the camps already and having to march 30 miles. Very few made it
My father was in the army during Vietnam but was stationed in Germany. He had gone to a concentration camp and was horrified even though it was 25yrs after they were liberated. He said you could still smell the death. He didn’t like talking about it, it made him upset. My great grandmother was also in a Jewish nursing home in Brooklyn for many years up until her death; I remember going to visit her and they had patients there that survived concentration camps. Anyone who argues that what happened during WWII is a falsehood has obviously never talked to or been around someone who lived through it, or someone who saw the horrific aftermath of it.
My father was born in Poland in 32 . He was 7 years old when the war started . He used to tell me about his childhood ,while walking me to school . Needless to say ,but I grew up at a very young age ,listening to things most adults wouldn't want to know . I learned about what it meant to have to be an adult ,at a young age ! I remember a girl in Jr. High school asking me why I looked so serious all the time . I didn't know how to answer ,because I didn't know I looked serious !
@@pinkiesue849There is. I was based next to Bergen Belsen concentration camp whilst in the British Army in 2013-2015. I was in Cambell barracks which is where the Nazis housed Polish prisoners. The negative energy round the whole barracks was horrible. It was very freaky, especially in winter. In 2015 we handed the camp back over to Germany as it had been 75 years. There was still swastikas on our camp they had been pained over obviously, however a very strange experience. Was so glad when the posting was over.
I visited Dachau in 1967 while working in Germany. I most definitely felt an aura in that place. It frightened me. The precision of killing people is what bothered me most. It was so very organized. In the museum, every photo of Hitler had been disfigured. And this was long after (25+ years) everything. I just cannot imagine being these American troops opening the camps. It must have been awful.
So long ago but his memory is still vivid. Think about having to live with what you have seen and went through for so long. God bless this men and all those who fought in that war.
@@Roger-wf8sjSTFU. THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS ISSUE. THE HOLOCAUST KILLED MILLIONS OF JEWS. IT'S NOTHING TO JOKE ABOUT. THIS MAN IS A HERO!!! YOU NEED TO GROW UP AND SHOW RESPECT FOR OUR VETERANS.
I don’t think they’re different. People today just haven’t experienced things that traumatize and change them, for better, and for worse. It’s important that we have faith in our fellow humans, even if they don’t deserve it all the time.
They were brought up strict matured at 14 was never pampered that's why they were diferent I'm 1950 babe we left school at 15 on Friday started work on monday
@tamaramorton8812 They were different. They came up during the Depression, nearly starved to death, were scrabbling for work and thankful to get it. They worked from sunup to sundown. They were the polar opposite of the spoiled, entitled, resentful, emotionally fragile kids of today
@@jeanettereynolds3151my dad was born in 1917 his parents were very strict he didn’t have much of a childhood like kids do now . I wrote a short Amazon book on him called “The man behind the mufflerman “because after he grew up he made iconic fiberglass statues like Paul Bunyan,Bobs big boy and several others which are all over the world.
I used to have a substitute teacher that would share his stories every time he would teach. It never mattered which subject he was subbing, it turned into history class. There wasn't a single student that would disrespect that man, and it was an honor to have him share with us.
In the 9th grade I had a substitute teacher frequently. He always had a black suit on and a white shirt. He would pull his sleeve up on his arm, and show us numbers etched in his flesh. Believe it or not, I didn't understand then he was Jewish. I'm gentile. After world history I put it all together.
I also had a sub teacher that escaped a concentration camp with her family she was 3 years old at the time, they were put in for their political views and she remembered everything
I had a sub who was so old that her grandfather had been in the Civil War. He was only 14, but he was made a captain because he could read, but he also had to have his "boy" with him because he couldn't lace up his own boots. She knew Kingfish Louis and sat in on the Watergate hearings. She was so old that she falsified her age to be able to keep subbing/teaching. She was so beloved that no one cared.
Mother was a British nurse in WWll and said she cried when she saw the returning soldiers come in from the concentration camps. She never forgot those images. Thank you for your service and I am happy you returned home safely.
@@donalexander53 My father-in-law was with the 81st Engineer Combat Battalion, 106th Infantry Division (Golden Lions), during the Battle of the Bulge, at St. Vith, Belgium. His name was John H. Atsatt. He was one of 350 engineers that defended the two roads leading into St. Vith for five days, holding the Fifth Panzer Army. After the Bulge, because the 106th was decimated, he was transferred to the 104th and went into the Nordhausen camp. He also remembered the stacked bodies and skeletal living men.
Note US shouted loudly and photographed the dead bodies at Nordhausen BUT what they didn't say was as the accommodation was 2 storeys barracks the US HAD HEAVILY BOMBED IT - THINKING IT WAS ARMY BARRACKS!
Told a ww2 vet years ago that he will forever be a hero of mine and he replied that he was no hero, that all the heros died in the war. That will always stick with me.
My father-in-law, with the 104th Infantry Division, was a liberator of the Dora-Mittelbau slave labor camp near Nordhausen, Germany. Three thousand corpses, as at Ohrdruf, as this gentleman indicates. My father-in-law never forgot the horrors he witnessed. He never forgot what he saw and was also an angry witness to the effects of the Holocaust.
@yvonnelashford2969 Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots. In the old days most Americans knew who that is and the terrible actions this system has pulled. Please look it up
My grandfather also liberated Dora-Mittelbau. I was a young kid when he spoke with me once about it and all he mentioned were the few starving survivors. He had tears in his eyes. Until the day he died he would go into a rage at the mention of Nazis. He would be absolutely heartbroken and livid if he knew most of his grandchildren voted for Trump.
My father was in the 71st Infantry Division when they stumbled across the camp at Gunskirchen, Austria in May 1945. This was a small camp compared to most, actually an overflow camp of Matthousen. The guards had abandoned it leaving piles of bodies and 15,000 prisoners to starve or die of disease. My dad rarely talked about the war but I found his unit history book and saw photos in it of this camp and asked him about it. He said it was the worst thing he'd ever seen and he could never forget it. He also said I would run into people who would deny these things ever happened but they would be wrong.
My father Dick Rosenback was also in the 71st. He never spoke of this until I was doing a report on WW2. It was the liberation of Gunskirchen lager. He gave me the book and said..this is why we fight wars. Simply the best of men!!!
This beautiful soul live on this planet for 97 years, and have seen so much. We are losing treasures like this man with each passing day, and it is a wonderful thing that he is sharing his story with the world.
He is from the greatest generation...fought for our freedom...they came homeafter all this AND for our future,, infrastructure invented and caused to function a productive America.. God bless them all! God Bless America 🇺🇸
My dad was in WWII Army Air Corps. He had survivor's guilt all his life: why did his buddies die and he didn't? They were the Greatest Generation. May God rest them.
My father-in-law, of blessed memory, escaped from Lithuania but the rest of his family was killed in the pogroms. He never got over his guilt that he survived and they were slaughtered.
My uncle died in WW2 George Beinlich Jr. KIA on the Western Front of Germany 1944. It must have been horrific to see in person what the Nazi's had done to other humans, living and dead.
My father in law was 97 when he passed from COVID, also a WW2 veteran who saw the camps. I will fight anyone who calls him a liar by saying it didn't happen. My grandfathers were also soldiers in WW2. We owe these people a debt we can never repay for what they did to combat that evil.
One of my best friends grandfathers was in charge of cleaning up the camps when they liberated them. He was required to document while clean up was going on. It definitely happened. I saw the pictures. It was horrific. He also has German SS helmet with a bullet hole in it I’m assuming he took from a dead SS at one of the camps. He died back in the 90’s. Never got a chance to ask him the story behind the helmet.
I completely agree with you! We can never repay our debt of gratitude to those who gave so much. The scars they carried, and in my grandpa-in-law still carried are beyond comprehension. I’m so grateful to the greatest generation for the freedom we enjoy today!🇺🇸
Im only 64 but I had three uncles who were in WWII, two in europe, one was in the pacific in the Navy, these were men of integrity and when as a young ignorant teenager I tried to get them to tell some stories most times they would refuse the gory details except to say something like "lotta walking, shooting and dying" etc but when I would ask for more they simply would not say a word and if I pushed they would either look away or give me a look that spoke volumes - as if to tell men sternly to let it go. As I got older I learned that anyone who has been in a war carries demons with them and reliving it is something most try not to do but some cannoth help reliving it in nightmares, - after many years some do it just for historic record but you can tell its not easy. But there are mountains of evidence in captured documents of the gas chambers and ovens and of Joseph Mengeles medical / genetic experiments & atrocities on babies and children in concentration camp memorials around the world, actual videos of atrocities like making Jewish families and children dig mass graves then line them up on the edge of the pit and shoot them all in the head so they fell into the hole - then other Jews would fill it in and be ordered to dig their own graves and the process repeated. I have one very hard to watch VHS video thats a compilation of US soldiers liberating the camps and captured german films showing executions, gas chambers, ovens and torture footage thats just not to be believed - I only acquired it because even I thought the stories were exaggerated, but if anything many times they are glossed over ignoring the absolute evil people like Mengele etc. and others like Himmler, Reinhardt Heidrich etc who were I believe in charge of the camps and the so called "final solution" to the Jewish problem with others and one of the most horrific things was how easy it was in some cases to find people who happily committed these evil acts. Of course if you refused the execution duty you were usually shot yourself - but heres something - at one point the duty of shooting Jews around the clock became so mentally crippling and demoralizing even for some of the SS that it was causing them mental breakdowns and fresh soldiers had to be called in to continue. Oh it happened folks, LETS NEVER PRETEND IT DIDNT because if weve learned anything from war atrocities history has a way of repeating itself.
As an American who wasn't yet born during WWll and one who makes an effort to know our history I salute this man for his contribution to the freedom I enjoy today. I didn't need him to advise me to not trust politicians because I have never trusted them but I'm glad he said it because his word carries more weight than mine when voicing that sentiment.
God Bless you Sir! My uncle was a rifleman in the 325 Glider Infantry Regiment which was part of the 82nd Airborne. He saw combat for the first time in the Battle of the Bulge and was shot a few months later in a fight that wiped out half of his division. Shortly after he returned to duty he was part of the division that liberated Wobbelin concentration camp on May 2, 1945. I can't imagine the horrors he saw and went through while he was over there. How does a 20 year old process seeing his friends killed and the faces of the dead and dying in that concentration camp? My mom was very young when he came home in 1946 and she says that she remembers him waking up screaming because of nightmares for years. He died last June and to my knowledge he couldn't talk about his experiences in the war until much later in his life. The men who fought in WWII might not think of themselves as heroes but I certainly do. Our world would be a much different place without them!
When a close person like a family member is very quiet about his war service, like my father, the one question I found would get them to vent their memories, “did you have any best friends that did not make it back?” Have them open up about tragedies, NOT about himself, herself! By the way, what is not talked about are the Gold Star and Blue Star families, who worried every minute of every day, about their loved ones. God forbid, the sight of a military sedan driving up, and men in uniform walking up and handing them a telegram….. Death for the mother and Father and Siblings! And never talked about!
So sad that a 97 year old veteran who fought Nazis to liberate so many people that were put into death camps is worried about it happening again in our own country. I worry about this very much with the way politics is going these days.
We must stay vigilant, we must keep fighting for equality- human rights and for that freedom our past Vets fought so hard for. RIP to our fallen. My family lost a few Vets who served in Vietnam. Cancer- complications from mustard gas and other toxins used ❤ we will never forget them, as long as we spread that history, that knowledge and the truths of their time. Their experiences are unimaginable until you hear it from their own mouths. You can see it, picture it- feel it from their voice and their expressions alone. They’re the bravest people and many who have passed were such phenomenal heroes
Every year after WW2 my grandfather received a Christmas card written in Hebrew. He kept them in a box in his closet. I found the box one year while looking for a place to hide Christmas presents. When I asked him about them he told me he was part of an Army unit that found one of the concentration camps. The cards were from a woman who was rescued from the camp as a child. She sent one to each man from his unit for the rest of their lives.
I can rember when I was young, my Stepfather having nightmares for years and his screamng waking the house. These men went thru horrors more than any today can belive.
I wonder what they dreamed about? Being near death and a buddy dying instead? I mean the camps were hideous but I wonder if you picture that. I always have flashbacks of things I couldn't control.
Thank you Mr Kongable for your service to our country, for the unknown sacrifices which you and families, the holocaust victims, and the killed in action soldiers. You are very wise, and correct that our country’s leaders are on the wrong path. Our basic morals and ideals are no longer respected Thank you for these interviews
We cannot flourish at all without men of his moral compass and utter integrity. My dad was cut from the same golden cloth as theirs. Our beloved country has become a sewer of moral degradation and a. mountain of government corruption, on every level. John Adams said, “ America will be great just so long as she is good.” ( I greatly admire our current veterans in Congress, those who joined after the horrific attacks on 9/11/2001. Now some of our youth are being taught that Osama bin Laden was a hero. May God deliver us from the evil controlling far too many of our citizens.
In an interview with a Jewish woman who were 17 at the time of her liberation, she said that she laid dying on the side of the road from one of the death marches when she was discovered and rescued by an african-american plutoon I think it was. They nursed her back to life and when she moved to the US later, she joined the Civil rights movement and marched together with Martin Luther King❤ That was her way of paying back and thanking them for what they had done for her and her people❤
So sad considering the POC soldiers had to return to Jim Crow America and racism. The soldiers thought they would stop being treated as lower caste yet Jim Crow mentalilty amd violent pogroms prevailed.
He may not think so but anyone who had a part in the liberation of Europe is a hero. His advice for future generations about the politics in America right now makes him a Super Hero in my opinion!!! God Bless you sir 🇺🇸
My late father in law was a paratrooper who liberated a concentration camp. We got very little info from him, he took the details to his grave. He said words could not describe it.
I got Goose bumps reading your story. My parents were silent, but men would get together in different homes ate and drank. They didn't realize children were listening. For them it was their therapy, they had to survive. I seen pics, that was enough for me. "It's not what humans should do to one another. They had a trial for those left behind to finish people off, as well as serve as guards. The Germany women were also committing atrocities, there was no emotions, regrets for what they done. They were hung, and there was many Getman monsters that escaped to other countries, eventually caught and brought to justice. The horror is beyond human comprehension.
Im having dinner tonight with an RN who was in Vietnam. I met her on a neighborhood app. These people are walking history books, and we are so blessed to meet them! So brave! 🇱🇷
Each year, in May, I travel from Europe to the USA -Arlington-, to pay my respects to all those brave men who sacrificed their lives to free us from the nazis. Eternally grateful for the US military. Thank you for your service, Sir! ❤
I know and there's photographs and lots of other evidence. The tattoos. Everyone's stories. Ridiculous amount of denial to deny the Holocaust. I wonder if people deny just to upset others or something?
That is not the only evidence. The Germans were very methodical in keeping records. Anal if you will. The footage here on youtube is available if you can stomach it. The testimony of survivors. My grandfather was a survivor of Auschwitz probably the worst death camp. Slavery? Blacks have nothing on the slavery of the Jews in concentration camps. The museum in Washington has all the evidence from the third reich. There is no refuting the massive evidence. ua-cam.com/video/xy_xWKJubuY/v-deo.html
Thank you for presenting this incredible man to us. They walked all that way, didn't bathe for a month and had lousy food!! How few complaints so many of us should have!
@@harrynutsackk What? People who fought in WW2 are called the Greatest Generation. The parents of them, who fought in WW1, are called the Lost Generation.
@@spencerfrankclayton4348 Ask any WW2 Vet and they will tell you the Greatest Gen is Their Parents. I don't give a rats ass what your Govt Media programs you to believe. They were also the LAST GENERATION to KNOW WHAT LAW IS........unlike to today.
@@harrynutsackk its been changed, but it used to be the wwii ( parents of boomers were greatest as they grew up during and survived the great depression, saved us from germany, the silents were their parents, silent film era, seen but not heard era. but because the Brits call their wwi guys the greatest gen as they called that ''the great war'' i think is why it got changed, but i still call them what they used to be called, wwii, parents of boomers were / are the greatest, and the wwi / early 1900s gen was the silents.
I CANNOT begin to IMAGINE the horrors these guys went thru mentally...psychologically seeing what they walked into....OMG.....RIP to all the Holocaust victims
I was born in 51 and knew a few men veterans of WW II , 3 uncles and some fathers of neighbor kids I played with whose Dads were either in the Pacific war or in Europe. Some enjoyed telling their stories, and others did not talk about it much if at all. It’s an honor to hear this Gentleman speak on here!!!! Thank You sir for your service!❤
I cannot express how grateful I am towards Bill for being willing to step forward and tell us his story about what he saw. Being able to speak about the horror of both WW2 and the Holocaust is nothing short of 100% pure strength. Let alone describing it all in such detail. Even though a long time has passed since witnessing these horrors, the memory of it stayed behind. Physical evidence will vanish over time, but the memories will not. God bless this man's soul alongside those who did not come home, the concentration camp victims, and those who did live to tell the tale about the horrors of Nazi depravity! Although my great-grandfather was a WW2 veteran himself, he however, served in the Pacific Theatre of WW2. No matter where you are, any war can still create an impact on the world.
He has been living with these horrific memories for 70 years. How is it even possible to go back to a "normal life" after a war, after seeing things like that.
Thank you Mr. Kongable for your service to our country. I hope that we never, ever have to see, or go through something like this again. I've heard it many times that unless you learn from history, it's bound to repeat itself. God bless you Sir, and your family, and all those who didn't make it home, and for all those who perished in the camps. Those who did this will one day be judged for their crimes, but not by a jury here on earth.
I watched Saving Private Ryan with a very dear friend who'd participated in the D-Day assault on Omaha Beach. After the 20-minute opening sequence, I asked him if it was accurate. He said, "Yes, everything except the smell." I'll never forget his words. He was Jewish and was also present at the liberation of a concentration. Stunning. We only spoke of these things as his death drew near... '
This man is a real life legend and hero!!! Wow, to be just 19 and go through that kind of warfare. I'm in absolute awe of this man's courage. God bless you Sir❤ Thank you for your service and my freedom I hold so dear today. I pray we can make this a better world and only be deserving of what all you brave men went through so we can live the lives we live today. They don't make men like this anymore. Thank you for making sure his story was documented before they are all gone😢
My father Robert Vincent was in war two, he went missing in action in Hong Kong, no dogs were found, he has an unknown grave in Hong Kong, his brother Ken Vincent was keep a prisoner of war, was let go in 1945 when war was over! War is not the answer, and to this day war is all about money and power! ❤is the answer ❤
Thankyou for your service . My father was in WW11 he went out with 50 in his platoon and returned with 5 . Hè didn’t talk about it much . He passed away at age 49 of heart attach. I enjoyed your story very much. Thanks.
My great Grandfather was an ambulance driver in the Finnish army during WWII and the wars against the Soviet Union in Finland. Driving back and forth between the front and hospitals with wounded comrades and Soviet prisoners of war during bombardments, while my grandmother together with her siblings and her mother, had been sent away from the cities to the countryside as internal refugees. According to my grandmother he never spoke much of his experiences, but he could wake up screaming and soaked in sweat from terrible nightmares. To calm down from the nightmares he had to chainsmoke cigarettes
Just saw this and I cannot THANK YOU enough for doing this. Much respect to these men. Videos like this should be shown in history classes so kids can know the truth and the horrors of war. You are fantastic for taking the time with these heroes!
How come he didnt talk about the millions of german women that they raped ? Or the 2 million innocent people that they killed on an open field at Rheinwiesenlager
He served and that equals hero in my book .. my papa served navy in Vietnam era, he didn’t go over seas but he was a mechanic for air planes that were in war and he would repair them so they were able to continue the fight for our country
This veteran is a gift to us all! To be blessed to hear his words & feel his pain & understand what took place should never be forgotten! Bless you, Sir, for your service & your sacrifice to this day!
Your clarity from your memory is astounding. You are a testimony for us. Thank you Sir!!!! What a memory to share. May we be removed from this inhumanity and horrific occurance! May this never, ever, ever happen again. 😢
I just want people like Bill, to live forever. I want to hug him. I am in my 60's, and had parents who lived through both world wars. It was never far from their minds. The ones that saw the worst of it, would not speak about it.
Sir, you have a wonderful Birthday in February. I thank you for taking the time to tell us of your experience and i am so ever grateful you came home and lived a nice long life. Your an inspiration to all. You do not look your age. Your BEAUTIFUL! YOU ARE A WAR HERO! GOD BLESS YOU AND THANK YOU.❤🙏
There are no words I know to thank you for your service to our country. Thank you beyond belief for sharing your stories. We must rely on these stories to learn the whole truth of the horrors you saw and they felt. My father served in Italy and he wouldn't say anything. An uncle was in the Pacific, Leyte Gulf, on the Ste Lo survived. I now am in my 80's and so appreciate your service and, again, thank you from the heart! Not knowing these things, we are bound to repeat the mistakes. GOD forbid disasters like that will happen again and worse! The talking from you are fascinating. I'm printing it to keep.
A true war hero, more people need to hear these war experiences and the horror's that go with it. Real people killing each other is nothing like a computer games. 😢
My great grandfather never got to meet my grandmother because his plane, The Yankee Belle got shot down flying an Operation over France. Only two guys from his plane survived. My grandma never got to meet her father and our family lost a certified helluva guy. All my great grandma had was his newspaper articles and the letters he sent home. Tragic. 😊❤
Thankful for this gentleman sharing this as the veterans I knew growing up never would talk about what they saw. One of these men was seriously mentally affected for the rest of his life from seeing this camp. History has to be shared so we do not forget.
My grandpa was in ww2 and Vietnam my mom told me he never talked about it but by the time I was born my pop pop was in his late 60s early 70s and he would tell all us grandkids the stories the things he told from actually seeing hitler once to having to kill kids is still mind blowing
It’s so awesome that this man is willing to tell his story. It’s sad that so many young people lost their lives and the remaining ones are left traumatized from the encounters and what they had to do and go through. I wish many more wonderful years to this man and thank him for his service to our country ❤
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You are lying banker puppets
God bless the veterans!!! 🙏🏻🪖🎖️
"God bless our Vets", can only happen if we honor ALL their sacrifices, by not allowing it to so easily happen here, by those who are of No Accountability Entitlement, to usher in Autocrat Trump, and MAGA.
Send me your money.
we know the us Govt. will not blesss them!
This gentleman's testimony should be made compulsory to be shown in every school, college, university , and media world wide. God bless him.🙏
Those who are protesting against Israel today should listen to this testimony.
Well said!
Y. Tantas. Viejitas. Alemanas. Que. Nooo. Fue. Así. Los. Campos. De. Concentración. Nazis. !!!!!🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥
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My partner’s father was in 2 concentration camps & he said the US troops were like angels from the sky when they liberated the camps. Makes me proud to be an American. Thank you for your service…
They should have thanked the Russians. It was the all female battalion of 17 year old girls that cleared the way into Germany and cleared the path for Patton's tanks to roll in like they did something. Then, they got no credit at all.
Sir, thank you for the freedoms we currently experienced today. I agree with you on where our country is and what the goal is. I believe the 9million illegals, mainly fighting age men/soldiers are here to take us over.
@@phillipstroll7385just out of curiosity, are you talking about the all female artillery brigade that were just out of high school during the battle of Stalingrad?
@@badlandblades no. Never heard of them but I'll look into them. I was referring to the all female aviation brigade 588th. The night witches.
@@phillipstroll7385 mass rape of even concentration camp women took the shine off their endeavors. Read the eye witness accounts of Ravensbruck survivors of Russian Army.
This decorated veteran is very intelligent and full of wisdom! 97 years old and barely has a wrinkle on his face. Thank you Sir for your service to our country.
after ww2 we seemed to have lost our way however..
@@danholm4952 good point but wrong time dude
Thank you, sir, for your service. 97 is the new 67. You look wonderful. Stay healthy and strong.
How can he be that old?Thank God this man is able to tell us eye witness testimony.
More amazed of his memory
This Man IS a Hero not only for his WWII service but also for his timely warnings to us regarding politicians.
Now TooDough having our Young Guys heading into another Tissue covered Cesspool because History repeats itself and People never learn from Historical Atrocities. Greedy Agenda's financing the Killing Machines.
I wonder what he would make of current events today. He probably recognizes the signs of how things could go south; as he has already lived through a similar circumstance & time before.
@@chrishernandez4266 i THINK HE WAS VERY AWARE OF WHAT WAS GOING ON WHEN HE WAS INTERVEIWED.
@chrishernandez4266 the last few minutes are him discussing current events of today. He talks about what we must do to ensure democracy stands against the tyranny we are about to face.
A real American hero. 19 years old going to war. Literally unimaginable. What humans have gone through in our lifetime is insane.
Going through* 🫠
It really is. What a world we would be living in if those young guys had not fought.
It doesn’t belong to earthly man to direct even his own steps. Jeremiah 10:23. Mankind’s history proves this over and over again.
My father was in the same situation......went in as soon as he was 18 and in high school. Every man was needed.
And this guy has to see what Gen Z is doing. SMH
It’s amazing how sharp this man is at 97
Thank-You Sir!!!! For ALL those that say there was NO HOLOCAUST, let them watch this. My father was in WWII. He was Navy. I have his Flag, and Cherish it.
🙄 the poor Germans were raped and killed by the us/ russian soldiers. Wake up
My grandfather as well, was in WW two in Europe. Most definitely my hero, God rest his soul.
There are flat earthers, dinosaur deniers, and now Holocaust deniers? Crazy world we live in.
@@swivk4917Sadly there have been Holocaust deniers for decades
@@swivk4917Not enough dope slaps and face palms in the world ....
I kinda wish the earth was flat for one day, and all the cats on earth knew their job & mark😹😼
My father was at Burgan Belson in 1945 when war ended they liberated the camp and rounded up the guard's he and one other drove the bull dozers to fill the mass graves. He only talked about what he had done a few weeks before he passed away aged 80 years old. RIP.
God bless him. My Great Uncle Jimmy didn't say much about it. He was a corpsman and mentioned the frail people that walked up to the fence and how thin they were. That's all he spoke of. That was a merciful thing your father did. He took that burden upon himself. Your father is a good man.
My father was also at Belsen with the Canadians. He told us how they made the guards go through the piles of bodies where some were still alive but he said they didn’t last long. He said they could smell Belsen for a miles before they got there. Whenever we watched a war movie with him he’d always say they never got the noise or smell right.
My father was British special services and stumbled on Belsen Bergen while on reconnaissance. His words.." we peeped carefully over a hill and saw lots of smoke and a horrible smell like roast flesh similar to pork but horrible...the bastards were burning as hard as they could go..." He never spoke of anything else in the war ever. I have since confirmed with his regiment this account to be true but his papers remain sealed. His task was to hunt and interrogate SS and Gestapo. We were shielded from the horror of war in the time he told me the internet didn't exist or utube. Now I have some understanding of the hell our soldiers went through along with the horror of innocent people who were tortured and murdered by the Nazis. Apparently we have not learned because I see humans still doing the same in other countries today...and the world just sits by😢Ukraine Syria, china Africa north Korea Russia ect ect...we DON'T learn. Mankind is EVIL to the core😢
Sir, you spoke and look way younger than the age of 97. You look sharp in your Uniform, and I thank you and the Producer of this Interview. It is deeply valued and a blessing to listen to you.
I can only pray so many more listen and heed the warnings and words of wisdom from your experiences! This Interview you gave this world was definitely an investment most seriously necessary for these times.
Thank you once again for contributing to the U.S.A., for freedom, and for the care of Democracy and betterment of mankind.
My amazing father was in the D-Day Invasion and then the Battle of the Bulge. The men got off the landing craft wearing wool uniforms and carrying 40 lbs. of equipment. Many just sank in the cold North Atlantic waters. It wasn't until after his death that I understood why he disliked Christmas so much. The weather during the Battle of the Bulge was so severe no supplies could be flown in. They were low on everything from food to medical supplies and ammunition and just plain cold. He was wounded in Belgium and spent the better part of a year in a military hospital in Texas. He was a 22-year-old sergeant that year and was told he would never walk again. When he returned to college, he changed his major from premed to prelaw and retired as a judge. He regained full use of his legs and lived to be 93. He talked very little about his war experiences until he was in his 80's. My brothers and I recorded his account of these pivotal battles. The experiences were still vivid and disturbing. We must remember these stories. They put a face on war.
Wow what an amazing man. Thank you for sharing this. Please continue to tell your father’s story.
My grandfather was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge on 3rd January 1945. He got half his face shot off by a mortar. They built him a new cheek from his hip bone and he lost his eye. My granny was told not to cry as my mum was only 2 months old and her milk would dry up if she got upset, so she never cried. My grandad was in hospital so long that my mum was 2 years old when he first saw her. I always knew him as a kind, gentle man with one eye and a funny face, but he was my hero.
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My dad was at the Battle of the Bulge and liberated Daucheu .
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I met a veteran of WW2 at a veterinary clinic I worked at, he told me how they just came and took you out of school and enlisted you. I asked him ,,, “Weren’t you terrified ?” His response was that you didn’t have time to be terrified. He was a lovely man. I am forever proud and thankful to our military.
What side was he on once he was drafted?
@@Puppy_Puppington American
@@Puppy_Puppington Yep, I question that story !
Today's woke high school boys would be terrified
@@Roger-wf8sj I agree, they would be crying and trying to find ways out.
My grandfather was liberated from Dachau in april 1945. He stayed behind to die, and then the Americans came. On behalf of our family: Thank you, you're in our hearts forever ❤
My Father was with the 45 division 157 infantry that was one of the first to arrive at Dachau. He wouldn’t talk about his time in the war.
So glad your family are here💜
What do you mean he stayed behind to die?
@@GameChanger597 assuming the Germans marched the other people away to hide them to try to prevent people from knowing what they had done but they likely thought this person wasn’t going to make it.
@@GameChanger597he wasn’t one of the people on the death marches. The nazis left behind the prisoners who were too sick to make the march at camps and actually those people ended up surviving most of them because most of the people on the death marches died since it was like a 30 mile march. Imagine, malnourished from the camps already and having to march 30 miles. Very few made it
He’s got to be one of the best looking 97 year olds. Clear mind. Good memory. Thank you for your service, Sir. 🇺🇸
For real for 97 he's still all there
Thanks and GOD BLESS THE WWII VETERANS
My father was in the army during Vietnam but was stationed in Germany. He had gone to a concentration camp and was horrified even though it was 25yrs after they were liberated. He said you could still smell the death. He didn’t like talking about it, it made him upset. My great grandmother was also in a Jewish nursing home in Brooklyn for many years up until her death; I remember going to visit her and they had patients there that survived concentration camps.
Anyone who argues that what happened during WWII is a falsehood has obviously never talked to or been around someone who lived through it, or someone who saw the horrific aftermath of it.
My guess is there is a spirit of death in those camps. It must be awful even now.
My father was born in Poland in 32 . He was 7 years old when the war started . He used to tell me about his childhood ,while walking me to school . Needless to say ,but I grew up at a very young age ,listening to things most adults wouldn't want to know . I learned about what it meant to have to be an adult ,at a young age ! I remember a girl in Jr. High school asking me why I looked so serious all the time . I didn't know how to answer ,because I didn't know I looked serious !
Some psychologists claim generational trauma ,follows the ancestors of traumatic death.
@@pinkiesue849There is. I was based next to Bergen Belsen concentration camp whilst in the British Army in 2013-2015. I was in Cambell barracks which is where the Nazis housed Polish prisoners. The negative energy round the whole barracks was horrible. It was very freaky, especially in winter. In 2015 we handed the camp back over to Germany as it had been 75 years. There was still swastikas on our camp they had been pained over obviously, however a very strange experience. Was so glad when the posting was over.
I visited Dachau in 1967 while working in Germany. I most definitely felt an aura in that place. It frightened me. The precision of killing people is what bothered me most. It was so very organized. In the museum, every photo of Hitler had been disfigured. And this was long after (25+ years) everything. I just cannot imagine being these American troops opening the camps. It must have been awful.
So long ago but his memory is still vivid. Think about having to live with what you have seen and went through for so long. God bless this men and all those who fought in that war.
Welcome to life
That has happen to every combat vet in every war. It is sad. God bless him
Yes, and all this horrific experience at age 19 to 20 years of age.
@@Roger-wf8sjSTFU. THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS ISSUE. THE HOLOCAUST KILLED MILLIONS OF JEWS. IT'S NOTHING TO JOKE ABOUT. THIS MAN IS A HERO!!! YOU NEED TO GROW UP AND SHOW RESPECT FOR OUR VETERANS.
@@dextermoore278 I am a veteran and not down aty local VA trying to claim fraudulent benefits like most, are you one of those
He was just a kid. I can't even begin to imagine the things he'd seen & done. People back then were a heck of a lot different than they are now!
I don’t think they’re different. People today just haven’t experienced things that traumatize and change them, for better, and for worse. It’s important that we have faith in our fellow humans, even if they don’t deserve it all the time.
They were brought up strict matured at 14 was never pampered that's why they were diferent I'm 1950 babe we left school at 15 on Friday started work on monday
@tamaramorton8812 They were different. They came up during the Depression, nearly starved to death, were scrabbling for work and thankful to get it. They worked from sunup to sundown. They were the polar opposite of the spoiled, entitled, resentful, emotionally fragile kids of today
@@jeanettereynolds3151my dad was born in 1917 his parents were very strict he didn’t have much of a childhood like kids do now .
I wrote a short Amazon book on him called “The man behind the mufflerman “because after he grew up he made iconic fiberglass statues like Paul Bunyan,Bobs big boy and several others which are all over the world.
I used to have a substitute teacher that would share his stories every time he would teach. It never mattered which subject he was subbing, it turned into history class. There wasn't a single student that would disrespect that man, and it was an honor to have him share with us.
I had a math teacher, who always ended up talking about the war. He died young - probably from grief. You could tell he never got over what he saw.
I had a substitute teacher that marched with Martin Luther king Jr and everyone loved him. No one disrespected him either
In the 9th grade I had a substitute teacher frequently. He always had a black suit on and a white shirt. He would pull his sleeve up on his arm, and show us numbers etched in his flesh. Believe it or not, I didn't understand then he was Jewish. I'm gentile. After world history I put it all together.
I also had a sub teacher that escaped a concentration camp with her family she was 3 years old at the time, they were put in for their political views and she remembered everything
I had a sub who was so old that her grandfather had been in the Civil War. He was only 14, but he was made a captain because he could read, but he also had to have his "boy" with him because he couldn't lace up his own boots.
She knew Kingfish Louis and sat in on the Watergate hearings. She was so old that she falsified her age to be able to keep subbing/teaching. She was so beloved that no one cared.
Mother was a British nurse in WWll and said she cried when she saw the returning soldiers come in from the concentration camps. She never forgot those images. Thank you for your service and I am happy you returned home safely.
Very similar to the description my Dad had as his Battalion went through Nordhausen Concentration Camp. Thanks for your service Bill.
Your dad is part of the Greatest Generation! Men like him saved us!
My Dad was with the 104th Timberwolves who helped liberate Nordhausen. He always remembered the bodies stacked like cord wood.
That is exactly how my Dad described the bodies.@@donalexander53
@@donalexander53 My father-in-law was with the 81st Engineer Combat Battalion, 106th Infantry Division (Golden Lions), during the Battle of the Bulge, at St. Vith, Belgium. His name was John H. Atsatt. He was one of 350 engineers that defended the two roads leading into St. Vith for five days, holding the Fifth Panzer Army. After the Bulge, because the 106th was decimated, he was transferred to the 104th and went into the Nordhausen camp. He also remembered the stacked bodies and skeletal living men.
Note US shouted loudly and photographed the dead bodies at Nordhausen BUT what they didn't say was as the accommodation was 2 storeys barracks the US HAD HEAVILY BOMBED IT - THINKING IT WAS ARMY BARRACKS!
Told a ww2 vet years ago that he will forever be a hero of mine and he replied that he was no hero, that all the heros died in the war. That will always stick with me.
Very powerful message...I can see why it stuck with you.
All World War II veterans who survived say the exact same comment
My father-in-law, with the 104th Infantry Division, was a liberator of the Dora-Mittelbau slave labor camp near Nordhausen, Germany. Three thousand corpses, as at Ohrdruf, as this gentleman indicates. My father-in-law never forgot the horrors he witnessed. He never forgot what he saw and was also an angry witness to the effects of the Holocaust.
And the head of the Dora camp where thirty thousand people died went on to live a privileged life as the head of the US Space Agency - NASA.
@@yvonnelas2969 Werner von Braun?
@yvonnelashford2969 Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots. In the old days most Americans knew who that is and the terrible actions this system has pulled. Please look it up
My grandfather also liberated Dora-Mittelbau. I was a young kid when he spoke with me once about it and all he mentioned were the few starving survivors. He had tears in his eyes. Until the day he died he would go into a rage at the mention of Nazis. He would be absolutely heartbroken and livid if he knew most of his grandchildren voted for Trump.
@@angiebalderas8212 Right? I think about this a lot.
97 year old hero. Still sharp as a tac and looks great. Thank you for your service and sharing your story for generations to come. God bless you sir.
Are you listening to what he's saying or more interested in what he looks like?
What a wonderful mind he has.
My father was in the 71st Infantry Division when they stumbled across the camp at Gunskirchen, Austria in May 1945. This was a small camp compared to most, actually an overflow camp of Matthousen. The guards had abandoned it leaving piles of bodies and 15,000 prisoners to starve or die of disease. My dad rarely talked about the war but I found his unit history book and saw photos in it of this camp and asked him about it. He said it was the worst thing he'd ever seen and he could never forget it. He also said I would run into people who would deny these things ever happened but they would be wrong.
Thank you for sharing
My dad was also with the 71st Infantry and was at Gunskirchen. It was later in life before he talked about it.
My father Dick Rosenback was also in the 71st. He never spoke of this until I was doing a report on WW2. It was the liberation of Gunskirchen lager. He gave me the book and said..this is why we fight wars. Simply the best of men!!!
God bless you for your service & for your testimony. We have so few left that can tell the real truth. You are such a great American.
He’s a hero, and looks so handsome in his uniform. I hope he sees this. Thank you sir!
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This beautiful soul live on this planet for 97 years, and have seen so much. We are losing treasures like this man with each passing day, and it is a wonderful thing that he is sharing his story with the world.
He is from the greatest generation...fought for our freedom...they came homeafter all this AND for our future,, infrastructure invented and caused to function a productive America.. God bless them all! God Bless America 🇺🇸
All the veterans stories should be told, and while the veteran is young and capable.
My dad was in WWII Army Air Corps. He had survivor's guilt all his life: why did his buddies die and he didn't? They were the Greatest Generation. May God rest them.
My father-in-law, of blessed memory, escaped from Lithuania but the rest of his family was killed in the pogroms. He never got over his guilt that he survived and they were slaughtered.
Much respect to you and all the men who didn't come home. God bless you.
God bless U from Australia
God bless you and all of the greatest generation that fought in that horrible war. Much love and respect to you sir. Thank you.🙏
My uncle died in WW2 George Beinlich Jr. KIA on the Western Front of Germany 1944. It must have been horrific to see in person what the Nazi's had done to other humans, living and dead.
My father in law was 97 when he passed from COVID, also a WW2 veteran who saw the camps. I will fight anyone who calls him a liar by saying it didn't happen. My grandfathers were also soldiers in WW2. We owe these people a debt we can never repay for what they did to combat that evil.
One of my best friends grandfathers was in charge of cleaning up the camps when they liberated them. He was required to document while clean up was going on. It definitely happened. I saw the pictures. It was horrific. He also has German SS helmet with a bullet hole in it I’m assuming he took from a dead SS at one of the camps. He died back in the 90’s. Never got a chance to ask him the story behind the helmet.
I completely agree with you! We can never repay our debt of gratitude to those who gave so much. The scars they carried, and in my grandpa-in-law still carried are beyond comprehension. I’m so grateful to the greatest generation for the freedom we enjoy today!🇺🇸
@@Dog-OI worked with a man whose father helped to liberate a death camp. Apparently what they saw was so horrible, they just shot the nazis.
Im only 64 but I had three uncles who were in WWII, two in europe, one was in the pacific in the Navy, these were men of integrity and when as a young ignorant teenager I tried to get them to tell some stories most times they would refuse the gory details except to say something like "lotta walking, shooting and dying" etc but when I would ask for more they simply would not say a word and if I pushed they would either look away or give me a look that spoke volumes - as if to tell men sternly to let it go. As I got older I learned that anyone who has been in a war carries demons with them and reliving it is something most try not to do but some cannoth help reliving it in nightmares, - after many years some do it just for historic record but you can tell its not easy. But there are mountains of evidence in captured documents of the gas chambers and ovens and of Joseph Mengeles medical / genetic experiments & atrocities on babies and children in concentration camp memorials around the world, actual videos of atrocities like making Jewish families and children dig mass graves then line them up on the edge of the pit and shoot them all in the head so they fell into the hole - then other Jews would fill it in and be ordered to dig their own graves and the process repeated. I have one very hard to watch VHS video thats a compilation of US soldiers liberating the camps and captured german films showing executions, gas chambers, ovens and torture footage thats just not to be believed - I only acquired it because even I thought the stories were exaggerated, but if anything many times they are glossed over ignoring the absolute evil people like Mengele etc. and others like Himmler, Reinhardt Heidrich etc who were I believe in charge of the camps and the so called "final solution" to the Jewish problem with others and one of the most horrific things was how easy it was in some cases to find people who happily committed these evil acts. Of course if you refused the execution duty you were usually shot yourself - but heres something - at one point the duty of shooting Jews around the clock became so mentally crippling and demoralizing even for some of the SS that it was causing them mental breakdowns and fresh soldiers had to be called in to continue. Oh it happened folks, LETS NEVER PRETEND IT DIDNT because if weve learned anything from war atrocities history has a way of repeating itself.
They helped defeat one of the most if not thee most evil military regimes in history.
As an American who wasn't yet born during WWll and one who makes an effort to know our history I salute this man for his contribution to the freedom I enjoy today.
I didn't need him to advise me to not trust politicians because I have never trusted them but I'm glad he said it because his word carries more weight than mine when voicing that sentiment.
Yes we should always respect our elders. ❤🙏
God Bless you Sir! My uncle was a rifleman in the 325 Glider Infantry Regiment which was part of the 82nd Airborne. He saw combat for the first time in the Battle of the Bulge and was shot a few months later in a fight that wiped out half of his division. Shortly after he returned to duty he was part of the division that liberated Wobbelin concentration camp on May 2, 1945. I can't imagine the horrors he saw and went through while he was over there. How does a 20 year old process seeing his friends killed and the faces of the dead and dying in that concentration camp? My mom was very young when he came home in 1946 and she says that she remembers him waking up screaming because of nightmares for years. He died last June and to my knowledge he couldn't talk about his experiences in the war until much later in his life. The men who fought in WWII might not think of themselves as heroes but I certainly do. Our world would be a much different place without them!
Totally agree -- my dad went through some very similar horrors and also had night terrors long after
When a close person like a family member is very quiet about his war service, like my father, the one question I found would get them to vent their memories, “did you have any best friends that did not make it back?” Have them open up about tragedies, NOT about himself, herself! By the way, what is not talked about are the Gold Star and Blue Star families, who worried every minute of every day, about their loved ones. God forbid, the sight of a military sedan driving up, and men in uniform walking up and handing them a telegram….. Death for the mother and Father and Siblings! And never talked about!
He is a strong man to have experienced this, remember it so clearly and not be a broken man. God Bless Him !
So sad that a 97 year old veteran who fought Nazis to liberate so many people that were put into death camps is worried about it happening again in our own country. I worry about this very much with the way politics is going these days.
I look at the hate spewed on social media and it wouldn't surprise me at all.
We must stay vigilant, we must keep fighting for equality- human rights and for that freedom our past Vets fought so hard for. RIP to our fallen. My family lost a few Vets who served in Vietnam. Cancer- complications from mustard gas and other toxins used ❤ we will never forget them, as long as we spread that history, that knowledge and the truths of their time. Their experiences are unimaginable until you hear it from their own mouths. You can see it, picture it- feel it from their voice and their expressions alone. They’re the bravest people and many who have passed were such phenomenal heroes
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There is evil going on in our country and through out the world
If these people get away with it, our lives will never be the same
Definitely NAZI'S among us. I high places. Never forget what this man tells us.
My great uncle liberated one of the camps he had shock therapy every six months until he passed away. He shook all the time from shell shock.
☹️😔 May he RIP
Poor man. Ptsd
Every year after WW2 my grandfather received a Christmas card written in Hebrew. He kept them in a box in his closet. I found the box one year while looking for a place to hide Christmas presents. When I asked him about them he told me he was part of an Army unit that found one of the concentration camps. The cards were from a woman who was rescued from the camp as a child. She sent one to each man from his unit for the rest of their lives.
Wow that’s amazing ❤
Wow! That's amazing.
Clearly it meant so much to him just by the fact that he kept them all
@@GameChanger597 He told me that the cards were a reminder of why we, as a nation, were fighting.
@@clarissapullen6718thats very sweet
I can rember when I was young, my Stepfather having nightmares for years and his screamng waking the house. These men went thru horrors more than any today can belive.
Yes my father would have nightmares and his cries would scare the shit out of me. I always dreaded when this happened.
I wonder what they dreamed about? Being near death and a buddy dying instead? I mean the camps were hideous but I wonder if you picture that. I always have flashbacks of things I couldn't control.
Thank you Mr Kongable for your service to our country, for the unknown sacrifices which you and families, the holocaust victims, and the killed in action soldiers.
You are very wise, and correct that our country’s leaders are on the wrong path. Our basic morals and ideals are no longer respected
Thank you for these interviews
No. His service to humanity and the world
We cannot flourish at all without men of his moral compass and utter integrity.
My dad was cut from the same golden cloth as theirs.
Our beloved country has become a sewer of moral degradation and a. mountain of government corruption, on every level.
John Adams said,
“ America will be great just so long as she is good.”
( I greatly admire our current veterans in
Congress, those who joined after the horrific attacks on 9/11/2001.
Now some of our youth are being taught that Osama bin
Laden was a hero.
May God deliver us from the evil controlling far too many of our citizens.
@@maryshanley329 Well said.
In an interview with a Jewish woman who were 17 at the time of her liberation, she said that she laid dying on the side of the road from one of the death marches when she was discovered and rescued by an african-american plutoon I think it was. They nursed her back to life and when she moved to the US later, she joined the Civil rights movement and marched together with Martin Luther King❤ That was her way of paying back and thanking them for what they had done for her and her people❤
Wonderful info
Bit of an extra bit of history regarding the unsung African Americans, look at the Wereth 11 massacre ❤
So sad considering the POC soldiers had to return to Jim Crow America and racism. The soldiers thought they would stop being treated as lower caste yet Jim Crow mentalilty amd violent pogroms prevailed.
Huge RESPECT we all need to Listen !!!
@@Sad_Bumper_Sticker SHAMEFUL Huge Respect they gave us FREEDOM x
He may not think so but anyone who had a part in the liberation of Europe is a hero. His advice for future generations about the politics in America right now makes him a Super Hero in my opinion!!!
God Bless you sir 🇺🇸
My late father in law was a paratrooper who liberated a concentration camp. We got very little info from him, he took the details to his grave. He said words could not describe it.
I got Goose bumps reading your story. My parents were silent, but men would get together in different homes ate and drank. They didn't realize children were listening. For them it was their therapy, they had to survive. I seen pics, that was enough for me. "It's not what humans should do to one another. They had a trial for those left behind to finish people off, as well as serve as guards. The Germany women were also committing atrocities, there was no emotions, regrets for what they done. They were hung, and there was many Getman monsters that escaped to other countries, eventually caught and brought to justice. The horror is beyond human comprehension.
He looks so dignified and proper in his uniform with those medals.
What an amazing man, particularly for his age.
If only we had people like him today.
We do.
Im having dinner tonight with an RN who was in Vietnam. I met her on a neighborhood app. These people are walking history books, and we are so blessed to meet them! So brave! 🇱🇷
Each year, in May, I travel from Europe to the USA -Arlington-, to pay my respects to all those brave men who sacrificed their lives to free us from the nazis.
Eternally grateful for the US military.
Thank you for your service, Sir! ❤
How Beutiful your soul is. Thank you❤
How in the world can people say the holocaust never happened when you hear these veterans stories.
Thank you for your service!
I know and there's photographs and lots of other evidence. The tattoos. Everyone's stories. Ridiculous amount of denial to deny the Holocaust. I wonder if people deny just to upset others or something?
That is not the only evidence. The Germans were very methodical in keeping records. Anal if you will. The footage here on youtube is available if you can stomach it. The testimony of survivors. My grandfather was a survivor of Auschwitz probably the worst death camp. Slavery? Blacks have nothing on the slavery of the Jews in concentration camps. The museum in Washington has all the evidence from the third reich. There is no refuting the massive evidence.
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Thank you so much for sharing your memories. We must NEVER forget what happened.
Thank you for presenting this incredible man to us. They walked all that way, didn't bathe for a month and had lousy food!! How few complaints so many of us should have!
THE GREATEST GENERATION. Thank you for your service, sir. Each day, there are fewer of these heroes
Ty for gathering their stories.
NOPE...The Greatest Generation was the PARENTS of the WW2 kids.
@@harrynutsackk What? People who fought in WW2 are called the Greatest Generation. The parents of them, who fought in WW1, are called the Lost Generation.
@@spencerfrankclayton4348 Ask any WW2 Vet and they will tell you the Greatest Gen is Their Parents. I don't give a rats ass what your Govt Media programs you to believe. They were also the LAST GENERATION to KNOW WHAT LAW IS........unlike to today.
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@@harrynutsackk its been changed, but it used to be the wwii ( parents of boomers were greatest as they grew up during and survived the great depression, saved us from germany, the silents were their parents, silent film era, seen but not heard era. but because the Brits call their wwi guys the greatest gen as they called that ''the great war'' i think is why it got changed, but i still call them what they used to be called, wwii, parents of boomers were / are the greatest, and the wwi / early 1900s gen was the silents.
I CANNOT begin to IMAGINE the horrors these guys went thru mentally...psychologically seeing what they walked into....OMG.....RIP to all the Holocaust victims
How come he doesn't talk about the millions of german women that were raped
@@marlena3789 why don't YOU call him and ask?
@@marlena3789that was mainly a Russian thing
@@marlena3789why don't you ask the Notsees why one in ten Russians did not live thru that war.
Thank you for your service, sir. Rest in peace to those who didn’t make it home.
I was born in 51 and knew a few men veterans of WW II , 3 uncles and some fathers of neighbor kids I played with whose Dads were either in the Pacific war or in Europe. Some enjoyed telling their stories, and others did not talk about it much if at all. It’s an honor to hear this Gentleman speak on here!!!! Thank You sir for your service!❤
Super sharp memory and fit for that age he must have been a beast in his prime
70 years later and still rocking in that uniform. Has the he what shaped his whole life being that young. Like all the others.
Thank you so much for your honor, and service. You’ve become one in a million in our society.
This was a great interview. Not many of these guys left. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Bill you are amazing! So many people could learn a lesson from you! Thank you for your service. Your sacrifice does not go unnoticed 🇺🇸
I cannot express how grateful I am towards Bill for being willing to step forward and tell us his story about what he saw. Being able to speak about the horror of both WW2 and the Holocaust is nothing short of 100% pure strength. Let alone describing it all in such detail. Even though a long time has passed since witnessing these horrors, the memory of it stayed behind. Physical evidence will vanish over time, but the memories will not. God bless this man's soul alongside those who did not come home, the concentration camp victims, and those who did live to tell the tale about the horrors of Nazi depravity! Although my great-grandfather was a WW2 veteran himself, he however, served in the Pacific Theatre of WW2. No matter where you are, any war can still create an impact on the world.
Bill Kongable - "Think of me as a veteran, not as a hero" The words of a humble man.
He has been living with these horrific memories for 70 years. How is it even possible to go back to a "normal life" after a war, after seeing things like that.
Thank you Mr. Kongable for your service to our country. I hope that we never, ever have to see, or go through something like this again. I've heard it many times that unless you learn from history, it's bound to repeat itself. God bless you Sir, and your family, and all those who didn't make it home, and for all those who perished in the camps. Those who did this will one day be judged for their crimes, but not by a jury here on earth.
Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it. George Santanyana.
This hero is the smartest 97 year old I’ve ever heard. Thank you for your service sir.
I watched Saving Private Ryan with a very dear friend who'd participated in the D-Day assault on Omaha Beach. After the 20-minute opening sequence, I asked him if it was accurate. He said, "Yes, everything except the smell." I'll never forget his words. He was Jewish and was also present at the liberation of a concentration. Stunning. We only spoke of these things as his death drew near...
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Combat Vets are very humble, special people.❤😊
This man is a real life legend and hero!!! Wow, to be just 19 and go through that kind of warfare. I'm in absolute awe of this man's courage. God bless you Sir❤ Thank you for your service and my freedom I hold so dear today. I pray we can make this a better world and only be deserving of what all you brave men went through so we can live the lives we live today. They don't make men like this anymore. Thank you for making sure his story was documented before they are all gone😢
Thank you sir for your comments on saving your country’s democracy- very timely indeed.
And in such an elegant and diplomatic way too. Wow.
My father Robert Vincent was in war two, he went missing in action in Hong Kong, no dogs were found, he has an unknown grave in Hong Kong, his brother Ken Vincent was keep a prisoner of war, was let go in 1945 when war was over! War is not the answer, and to this day war is all about money and power! ❤is the answer ❤
This man and his recollection of his true experiences in history are so valuable. All students should have this in their history class. ❤
Thank you for your service Bill . A young man should never have to witness that he'll. God bless you sir
We are loosing our true veteran heroes! My respect to you sir and thank you for your service to our country. Love ❤
There are still many more...from wars since WWII
Thankyou for your service . My father was in WW11 he went out with 50 in his platoon and returned with 5 . Hè didn’t talk about it much . He passed away at age 49 of heart attach. I enjoyed your story very much. Thanks.
Wise words from a humble man. Thank you all for your service and sacrifice, then and now.
My great Grandfather was an ambulance driver in the Finnish army during WWII and the wars against the Soviet Union in Finland. Driving back and forth between the front and hospitals with wounded comrades and Soviet prisoners of war during bombardments, while my grandmother together with her siblings and her mother, had been sent away from the cities to the countryside as internal refugees. According to my grandmother he never spoke much of his experiences, but he could wake up screaming and soaked in sweat from terrible nightmares. To calm down from the nightmares he had to chainsmoke cigarettes
Just saw this and I cannot THANK YOU enough for doing this. Much respect to these men. Videos like this should be shown in history classes so kids can know the truth and the horrors of war. You are fantastic for taking the time with these heroes!
How come he didnt talk about the millions of german women that they raped ? Or the 2 million innocent people that they killed on an open field at Rheinwiesenlager
Bless you for digging up these memories to tell your story. Thank you. Denial continues. Your courage is incredible, sir.
we should be worried about what's happening. THIS MAN IS SO SMART THE ENDING COMMENTS ARE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW !!!!!
Interviewer was so respectful to him
He served and that equals hero in my book .. my papa served navy in Vietnam era, he didn’t go over seas but he was a mechanic for air planes that were in war and he would repair them so they were able to continue the fight for our country
Such great advice from one of the bravest generations of this country! Thank you for sharing these experiences. So many things we can learn from .
This veteran is a gift to us all! To be blessed to hear his words & feel his pain & understand what took place should never be forgotten! Bless you, Sir, for your service & your sacrifice to this day!
Your clarity from your memory is astounding. You are a testimony for us. Thank you Sir!!!! What a memory to share. May we be removed from this inhumanity and horrific occurance! May this never, ever, ever happen again. 😢
Thank you for your service Bill! ❤
The eye-witness stories are so important to capture while still possible! Thank you for your service and than you for recording his memories. 🙏
Thank you for your service and giving your testimony.
I just want people like Bill, to live forever. I want to hug him. I am in my 60's, and had parents who lived through both world wars. It was never far from their minds. The ones that saw the worst of it, would not speak about it.
❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you for your service Sir. Please know your are truly loved and respected more than you’ll ever know.
What a fine and heroic gentleman. God bless that wonderful man and his brothers in arms.
Sir, you have a wonderful Birthday in February. I thank you for taking the time to tell us of your experience and i am so ever grateful you came home and lived a nice long life. Your an inspiration to all. You do not look your age. Your BEAUTIFUL! YOU ARE A WAR HERO! GOD BLESS YOU AND THANK YOU.❤🙏
our generation is so soft compared to our veterans. nothing but respect to these men
I was thinking the same
People get too comfortable. We have it so good. Thanks to these guys. It was quite a battle.
Right you are!
Y’all know there are young active duty soldiers and veterans today, right?
it's good that young people aren't forced to fight in a world war. You should be glad that out nation is not a war zone.
@@jenniferacrey2940 very grateful our young people are not in a war where death and destruction reign
Thank you for your service! My Grandpa was also a WW2 Veteran! We must never forget!
Amazing - it's like he's just 50 years old and he's genius, especially the end to be weary of tyranny and government.
Yes..he is still very sharp and very smart!!!
What an incredible man. Thank you for your service and telling us your story.
There are no words I know to thank you for your service to our country. Thank you beyond belief for sharing your stories. We must rely on these stories to learn the whole truth of the horrors you saw and they felt. My father served in Italy and he wouldn't say anything. An uncle was in the Pacific, Leyte Gulf, on the Ste Lo survived. I now am in my 80's and so appreciate your service and, again, thank you from the heart! Not knowing these things, we are bound to repeat the mistakes. GOD forbid disasters like that will happen again and worse! The talking from you are fascinating. I'm printing it to keep.
Thank the man for sharing the story. Many blessings to him.
A true war hero, more people need to hear these war experiences and the horror's that go with it. Real people killing each other is nothing like a computer games. 😢
My great grandfather never got to meet my grandmother because his plane, The Yankee Belle got shot down flying an Operation over France. Only two guys from his plane survived. My grandma never got to meet her father and our family lost a certified helluva guy. All my great grandma had was his newspaper articles and the letters he sent home. Tragic. 😊❤
Thankful for this gentleman sharing this as the veterans I knew growing up never would talk about what they saw. One of these men was seriously mentally affected for the rest of his life from seeing this camp. History has to be shared so we do not forget.
My Dad (George Volkel )was Reconnaissance Officer for the 89th infantry, and I think he and his driver happened upon Ordruff.
My grandpa was in ww2 and Vietnam my mom told me he never talked about it but by the time I was born my pop pop was in his late 60s early 70s and he would tell all us grandkids the stories the things he told from actually seeing hitler once to having to kill kids is still mind blowing
It’s so awesome that this man is willing to tell his story. It’s sad that so many young people lost their lives and the remaining ones are left traumatized from the encounters and what they had to do and go through. I wish many more wonderful years to this man and thank him for his service to our country ❤