Mauthausen MASSACRE - Brutal SLAUGHTER of NAZI Guards during Mauthausen Liberation Reprisals
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- Mauthausen concentration camp became operational from the 8th of August 1938, several months after the German annexation of Austria, when the SS transferred the first prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp. The site was chosen because of the nearby granite quarry, and its proximity to Linz. During this phase, the prisoners, all of them German and Austrian men, had to build their own camp and work in the quarry.
In December 1939 the SS ordered the construction of a second concentration camp - Gusen - just a few kilometres from Mauthausen. The Gusen camp went into operation in May 1940.
The Second world war began on the 1st of September, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Three months into World War II in December 1939, the number had increased to over 2,600 prisoners, primarily convicted criminals, "asocials," political opponents, and religious conscientious objectors, such as Jehovah's Witnesses.
After the Nazi regime initiated World War II, the number of prisoners arriving in Mauthausen increased dramatically and broadened in diversity. After the fall of France in June 1940, Vichy French authorities turned over to the German SS and police thousands of Spanish refugees, virtually all of whom had fought against General Francisco Franco's rebel troops during the Spanish Civil War, and who had fled to France after Franco overthrew the Spanish Republic in 1939. The SS and police incarcerated the overwhelming majority of the Spanish Republicans, more than 7,000, in Mauthausen in 1940 and 1941 and individual members of the anti-Franco forces continued to trickle in to the camp until the last weeks of the war. Also incarcerated at Mauthausen were members of the International Brigades, most of them Communists of various nationalities, who had fought the Franco forces in Spain.
Among the Spanish prisoners was Francesc Boix, a photographer and veteran of the Spanish Civil War, who was imprisoned at the camp for four years. During his time working in the photography lab of the camp, he was able to hide and preserve until liberation about 2,000 negatives taken by the SS head of the department, Paul Ricken, as well as by himself. Those photos depicted the conditions in which the prisoners lived and were murdered in that camp and they were also proof that the camp was known and visited by high leaders of the Third Reich, such as Ernst Kaltenbrunner or August Eigruber, who appeared visiting both the Mauthausen camp proper, and the quarry adjacent to the camp.
Mauthausen Massacre Brutal Slaughter of Nazi Guards during Mauthausen Liberation Reprisals. When after the outbreak of war, people from across Europe were deported to Mauthausen, it gradually developed into a system of several interconnected camps. In order to accommodate the prisoners where they worked, the SS established several subcamps.
Commandants of these camps reported directly to German Nazi commandant Franz Ziereis. Newly-arrived prisoners were transferred to these camps from the main camp. During this phase, Mauthausen and Gusen were the concentration camps with the harshest imprisonment conditions and the highest mortality. Those who were ill or deemed ‘useless’ by the SS lived in constant fear for their lives. In 1941 the SS started to construct a gas chamber and other installations at Mauthausen for the systematic murder of large groups of people.
Living and working conditions in Mauthausen, as in Gusen, led to the death by murder, mistreatment, starvation, exposure, and disease of more than half of the prisoners.
The work in the quarries - often in unbearable heat or in temperatures as low as −30 °C- led to exceptionally high mortality rates.
The rock quarry in Mauthausen was at the base of the so called "Stairs of Death". Prisoners were forced to carry roughly-hewn blocks of stone - often weighing as much as 50 kilograms or 110 pounds up the 186 stairs, one prisoner behind the other. As a result, many exhausted prisoners collapsed in front of the others in the line, and then fell on top of the other prisoners, creating a domino effect; the first prisoner falling onto the next, and so on, all the way down the stairs. In the quarry, prisoners were forced to carry the boulders from morning until night, while being whipped by the Nazi guards.
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I shed no tears for these Nazi guards.
As my late father, a WWII veteran, would have said, "F 'em."
I would guess that far more of the guards should have been put down like the rabid dogs that they were. Did the Senior Nazi staff, "doctors" etc get their justified end?
@@davidsigalow7349 That's not the question. The question is, why do we feel this way about the Germans, but the Japanese, who did the EXACT SAME THING to allied prisoners, prisoners who looked and were treated EXACTLY LIKE THIS, and had much worse things done to them via unit 731, why did THEY get off scott free while the Germans were treated like this?
@@crforfreedom7407 General MacArthur made a calculated decision to not prosecute the Emperor, but I wish I had an answer as to why more Japanese were not tried and hanged for war crimes. Both Japan and Germany launched Wars of Annihilation, massacred millions of civilians and killed /tortured POWs. Both countries deserved utter destruction as a means of discrediting the murderous sick ideology that they both had embraced.
@@crforfreedom7407 Actually a lot of Japs were NOT taken prisoner and we did kill a lot of Jap war criminals. The amazing to me is that the Unit 731 was kept SECRET because those Jap doctors who did those evil experiments made a deal with US government to give the US their research results in exchange for IMMUNITY from prosecution for their evil crimes. Unit 731 even tortured US and USSR POWs held by Japan. But Stalin kept many Jap POWs as SLAVE labor and did not release them as they worked to death. USSR CRUSHED Japan in Manchuria at end of WW2 they attacked on August 9. Stalin kept German POWs until 1956 as SLAVE labor.
There is no torture that the survivors could ever inflict on the Nazis that would compare to the hell they'd already been through.
Nazi Doctor Aribert Heim,and so many other Nazi filth, escaping justice makes me so angry. He died a multi millionaire in old age.
True
It's really messed up that such a thing is true.
I'm 71...we were taught and shown images of WW11. I remember being sick about it and wondered if I could even continue my education.
Now at 71
I feel the same way
But I am so grateful this atrocity is being shown to the world.
I actually know people who think this is a lie.
Thank you for these images and history.
God help us all
I was at work one day and got just the smallest amount of a phenol mist on my arm. It burned like nobody's business. I can not begin to imagine how sick a person has to be in their head and cold in their heart to inject phenol directly into a person's heart. No matter what excuse he makes for the act. I shed NO tears for this monster.
My dad was a prisoner there. The perpetrators didn’t get 1/2 of what they deserved. The guards and administrators and doctors were worse than animal.. they all deserved severe sentences. Not 10 year sentences. They were killers
A great documentary on Mauthausen, which is needed since most people aren't familiar with the particular horrors of that camp. I know I wasn't, and I've read and watched a good deal about WWII. And I shed no tears for those guards.
That Netflix movie about the the photographer of Mauthausen is actually really good too I didn't know about this place till I saw that & u are right lot of ppl had no idea
Love this channel, the narrator's voice is crisp and the pacing is perfect. But not gonna lie, I almost spit my drink at the end when it started saying "There were many tears shed..." before clarifying it was for the prisoners.
:D
thank you
It seems to me the archetypical SS guard was like a juvenal bully turned wild, told they could do anything they wanted and justified by recent reforms of hate in public schools, hitler youth indoctrination and SS guard training. This is the day the bullies got there just due. The US Army may have done wrong but as many veterans of those units that made the liberation have said, "emotions had boiled over, these poor survivors now had a chance to reflect on loved ones lost instead of just surviving and just couldn't be consoled, our guys felt that pain and anger and helped, some of them at least". A trial should've been held and eventually did but it's extremely hard to feel any empathy for these SS bullies and capos. Great job World History team! Thanks.
When I was 12 yo, I found my older brothers for "Men Only" magazines. They had many articles and pictures on the concentration camps in nazi Germany. At a young age, I was appalled by the cruelty and crimes committed against people I saw no reason to be hated to this degree. I still don't and it disgust me that one human could do that to another human being. Let's not forget lest history repeats itself.
I might of learned who the Nazis where when I was about 11 or 12 and it was disturbing! Especially when they where incinerated every step was dark and the more I learned it got darker and darker! 😱 I really had no idea who those demons where and what they where capable of! Even the worst person you knew didn't begin to describe these monsters!
@Caleb Schultz Exactly. I remember the pictures of the dead people, the incinerators and then there were stories too. Stories of death marches where the prisoners never got food or water. The only liquid the men drank were their own urine. My little 12 yo mind couldn't handle the full horror of it all.
You do such excellent work with a difficult subject. Again, thanks for showing pictures of some of the victims so they are not forgotten.
Great info. Great channel. Shines light on lesser known events and people in the holocaust. It really disgusts me. And thats the point. We all have to remember and respect the fallen victims. Especially when there are ignorant and despicable people who deny (or worse) justify these atrocities. Thank you for this vital education
Arguably worse atrocities were committed by the Japanese. Idk why this channel won’t cover them
My old uncle was murdered in Mauthausen. (From the Netherlands). I have visited the camp many years ago and was deeply impressed.
You're a good nephew. Loyal and true. 💐
@@dukecity7688 Not for this uncle I guess. But for my other uncle that was murdered in Amsterdam on the Amstel river for saving hundreds of Jewish babies and Children I visit his grave at least two times a year. Plus the spot he was murdered a couple of times. He was the brother of my favorite uncle.
Pieter Hartog was part of the famous Corrie ten Boom network in Haarlem, who had a secret hiding place behind a fake wall in their house and watch shop. Her story is incredible, highly recommended looking her up. First female watch maker in the Netherlands and probably outside Switzerland. (Where she learned the trade)
My uncle was too there.
Yes, I remember icy showers were used at this camp. Well researched data unknown to the public. Mauthausen was very similar to Buchenwald. I believe it was primarily a mens camp. Keep educating us.
Thank you
@@WorldHistoryVideos
@@WorldHistoryVideos Ur welcome
RIP 💐 🙏 Those who died in Mauthausen ❤ 🕊 🇵🇭
Yeah, those "stairs", I cant imagine how those poor people felt when asked to push others down the stairs😰😰😭 Nazis did all kind of horrible crimes but this particular thing in Mauthausen still makes me chill!! What happened at the end was not a "crime" but swift justice
So did, and so does the OUN to his very day.
My Dad was a Staff Sergeant in the Eleventh Armored Division (21AIB Co. B) which liberated Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps. He told me that when they arrived at Mauthausen there were around 400 bodies stacked like cordwood. Dad said that they did what they could to feed the survivors but they continued to drop dead for days due to long term abuse and malnutrition.
If I remember correctly, some of the Americans loaned their weapons to the inmates in case they wanted to take revenge.
Sounds like something we would do.
That is a absolutely correct
I'm Canadian but I'd give my service weapon to a prisoner to enact revenge too.
Good
@clearcreek69 that's saying something if even a Canadian would do that.
I hate to say this but some of those SS guards and their Kapo henchmen deserved what they dished out to their victims. You mistreat a dog, and sooner or later, it will turn on you and bite you. Thank you for this eye-opening video.
It ain't no fun when the rabbit gets the gun.
I think the guards were treated fairly.
Not brutally.
I just finished watching The Photographer of Mauthausen on Netflix. I had no idea how horrible this camp was. I know a lot of the more infamous camps, I’ve actually visited and lived near one of them when I was a kid. But it was only recently that I learned about Mauthausen. I shed no tears for these cruel guards and capos.
Benjamin Frenzec (or however his last name is spelled) passed away earlier this month,he was 103 years old,their was a documentary about him yesterday,but when he was still a soldier he mentioned he witnessed a gang of former inmates beating and torturing an SS guard and he said he didn’t attempt to intervene,a good chance they’d attacked him if he’d tried,but yeah,he was a hell of a human being and the world is worse off without him in it for sure
Yes, such a loss ... he was a great man
If I remember correctly when I was a young girl I read "The Spark of Life" about Mauthausen. 😢😢😢
There were definitely no tears shed this time!
None!
It makes me sick that today we call political opponents nazi. This not only is deeply insulting but it diminishes the evil that these people represent. Shame on those who do this.
I made this same comment about the Sadist of Stutthoff, Herda Bothe. (funny aside, I live in Bothell, USA) and some guy replied that HE cried for her, as she, like most of the women convicted and hanged for crimes against humanity, was probably innocent, a victim of rumor and unfair trial procedure. Ugh.
ALL LIVES MATTER !!! Everyone deserves a tear shed. AMEN 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
@@africaisking7817 disagree. People that take take innocent lives, hurt others for pleasure or entertainment - those people not only deserve the same back to them. But no tears are warranted for them either
Mauthausen is a very large camp and well kept. To really get a feeling and understanding of the camp it really requires just about a full day visit. The view is incredible but it's heartbreaking to realize the suffering which took place there. Also, the Gusen camp is only about a ten-minute drive but only the crematoriums are left. The rest of the Gusen camp was torn down and houses and apartments now occupy the site.
I felt so happy today that some SS tasted their own medicine
Keep educating us ❤
I love your videos . History we can’t forget .
Thank you so much :)
My late Mother survived this brutal camp after 6 months in Auschwitz
Can U imagine being transferred from Auschwitz to an even worse camp? Your mom had an abnormal amount of self preservation in her heart. R.I.P.
Excellent photos not ever seen in your videos to date. They give an inside glimpse of the horrors you told in this video. Thank You! May We Please Have Another, Sir!
I have heard stories about what happened thousands of times and still it sounds unbelievable.
I'm glad a video like this has been posted as learning about this type of history isn't the most appealing
A nice surprising twist at the end.
Yes :)
Hello, and as ALWAYS, Thank You for your Very Important videos.
One of my favourite channels.
Not the best one? :)
@@WorldHistoryVideos Ha ha ha ha, top 3.
@World History
Have you ever seen the film version of "Escape from Sobibor" ? Very well done. Recommend highly.
Nice clip! No tears shed!
You should cover atrocities committed by the Japanese.
I think they said they will focus on japan next year
the axis, germany, italy and japan. it seems odd that any of them thought they were superior
I remember being 12 years old when I first heard about the holocaust, I am 62 years old now…. And adding what my mother heard about the atrocities, she was born in 1936….. all I could do was cry
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This is appalling. These stories just keep getting worse. Was there any despicable act the nazis didn’t do? So heartbreaking that the human race can resort to this level of cruelty.
Quite amazing just how many people reveal themselves as utterly barbaric, given the opportunity to be so without apparent consequences. To call them animals really is an injustice to other creatures.
My no wlate maternal grandfather was sent to Mauthausen twice and... escaped both times.
"What is history but a fable agreed upon?" -- Napoleon Bonaparte
First comment. Great channel.
How’d you avoid the context blue label?
Actually SEO is spelt SOE - Special Operations Executive. It was late4 dissolved and merged into MI6.
I've seen a documentary about Mauthausen it is now a memorial and museum to the brutality of the nazis. The documentary was focused on the caretakers of the site after the war. Almost all of them have succumbed to alcoholism and depression because of the oppressive atmosphere and history of the camp.
I'm watching the Concentration camps on the world history channel.All the footage is real and horrible.Let the prisoners exact their own justice.
I wonder why you label your excellent videos with titles including the word” brutal” implying the punishments these criminals received were unfair and not deserved. Far too many Germans and their accomplices escaped justice.
I doubt they sympathize with anything Nazi. It’s probably to grab attention in the title since you pretty much need to in order to get any views. I think they meant it to show how they got what was coming to them. But i could be wrong. Either way its a good channel and interesting and inspiring stories of resilience through the worst of humanity
They were also allowed to attack the guards physically
*How to liberate Nazi death camps*
Step 1: Discover the camp
Step 2: Find the dead prisoners and other Nazi crimes
Step 3: Find the survivors
Step 4: Apprehend the SS guards
*Results: Instructions unclear: SS guards were instead massacred*
Those poor guards deserved better treatment.
@Digital Apple and how does your summarization actually matter nearly 80 years later?
@Africa is King are you trolling by chance?
@@africaisking7817
Spoken like a true criminal.
@@africaisking7817 Cringe
Revenge is a dish best served cold!
In this case it was served hot, as the prisoners were enraged.
It's not SEO , it's SOE (Special Operations Executive) 04:27
Interesting video
They got some Revenge! I think it was Very Brave of them to fight back.
They should show it on PPV so I could laugh watching it
Still can't read the captions at that speed! Whilst it's an excellent channel if you are going to write captions then let us read them !
Hi Mikey, just press " pause " and read them ... It is a lot of work for us to write them, it is an extra bonus for you - our viewers, it is not for us ... there is a lot of effort behind every single caption you read. Thanks for watching us.
😢cant see the video properly for the text but excellent information 😢😢
Hello, if you mean that the captions cover the added descriptions of individual photos and footages, we recommend turning off the captions in the youtube video settings.
These film clips are So Very HEARTBREAKING! But necessary!🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀
The more I learn and the more footage I see, the more I realize that as depraved and disgusting as we might think the nazis were, they were even worse than that.
We must never forget 🙏🙏😥🇨🇦
It breaks my heart seeing what the Nazis did to those people God bless you all🙏🙏🙏
Literally, Hell on Earth!
What goes around....comes around.
😢 I could not listen anymore 😢 this is the worse camp I believe I have heard of! I've listened to many documentaries but this one tops the list of evil 😢
Hi Deborath. It was very demanding for us to process this video ... the atrocities commited in this camp are beyond one's comprehension ... simply digusting
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There were even worse camps.
@@tancreddehauteville764 🤢
@@tancreddehauteville764 which ones? Im curious
You get what you give! 👍
As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
I feel sick and shamed to watch.
What drives a human to be this barbaric
Great videos about the nazis, would also be interesting to learn about the Spanish and British concentration camps from the 1900s and how the conditions there compared to these.
You forgot the Bosnian camps, plus another few genocides
@@stevecunningham6537 sure, there have been lots and still have today, could have a whole series charting the conditions throughout history and see how far we have come or how little we have progressed.
Wouldn't be acceptable. Only Germans were bad!
No great loss on the justice on the evil ss .
Monsters
Peter- the boy anne frank loved died in this camp
🥺🥺🥺
At least 8,000 Slovenians died in this camp, whom the Austrian Nazis wanted to exterminate to the last, as they did with the Jews!! Among them were some of my relatives who were betrayed by the Slovenian White Guard, which was an auxiliary unit to the SS units.
Do Make a video on Indian Castism & Brutality!!
The gaurds got some payback Oh dear, how sad ,what a pity.
This title should be justice for Nazi Guards, brutal slaughter is what was done to prisoners of Mauthausen!
They got off easy
Only too little was given to the camp guards
The Jews are God's chosen people! Woe to anyone that has or will raise a hand against them!
Your title sounds like you feel sorry for these monsters. They deserved everything they got and many got away with their crimes
❤❤❤do to others what others have done unto you...be satisfied grab ur happiness ❤❤❤
God speed to those who parished at the hands of the Nazi's
Many tears shed for the thousands of Jews, as the say in legal court, human beings were murdered
descent into darkness has much better videos about the same topics
That doesn’t make them any better though…I understand they want to get revenge, but then we are no better. Also why is there any blurring of images? It’s history that shouldn’t be edited. I’m not sure of UA-cams rules though…maybe that’s why
The Mad Haus of Mauthausen, the day the Nazis died, \(°-°)|! the world found its wings again and empires will never return to earth (/^v^)/! ❤️🥇🏆
Germans (and white man) are the same....now teach human rights to others
I wasn't born then but we need to move on as it's the PAST. Leave it as a memory, history and let it rest.
The pie damaged in transit didn't help....they aren't usually soggy bottoms (i eat hollands pies) the potato and nest used to be meat and potato but they at least switched it when they dropped the meat content.
I rarely buy any meat and potato now because its a potato pie with flavourings 1 of the flavours is meat but they are potato pies imo. 👍
Oho! MANY TEARS SHED! Don't forget the crying towels, cases of Kleenex and tin bathtubs to collect the tears!
Otherwise the flood might wash you right out the door!
?
Absolutely!
But you won't have any such "tears" problem with regard to the perpetrators! : )
My stepdad told me of stories when they liberated a camp what they saw would be with him the rest of his life it was all sickening but he said the worst part was all the shoes piled up next to the furnaces little kids shoes piles 6-7 foot high he told me they would just stand back and let the prisoners take care of any guards they caught and some of the soldiers help deal out justice on these monsters
Y are we quite about the Jews doing the same thing to the palastinians maybe it was justice
Sounds like an act of mercy
God Bless The Innocent Victims, Survivors, and Those That Fought for Them.🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀💔💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
Blunt force trauma 12 pounds per square inch it is all it takes to crack open a human skull that's why your mother always told you to wear a helmet when you ride your bike I don't know what's worse death or chronic traumatic encephalopathy
The same as zelensky and fascists ...
Nobody mentioned that nor asked you. If your russian simping ass wants to comment on the internet, do it somewhere else
Troll, go back to your corner.
Get lost Russian troll
Wonderfully told story! This channel is my Favorite, such attention to detail, and well documented information. Everything about this channel is simply historically perfect, I love the speakers well spoken voice and perfect pronouncements of German names. Can’t wait for the next video! 🫡