Dachau Massacre - Brutal Execution of Nazi Guards during Dachau Liberation Reprisals - World War 2

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  • Dachau Massacre - Brutal Execution of Nazi Guards during Dachau Liberation Reprisals - World War 2. The major purpose of the earliest concentration camps during the 1930s was to incarcerate and intimidate the leaders of political, social, and cultural movements that the Nazis perceived to be a threat to the survival of the regime. In the concentration camps the prisoners lived in constant fear of the brutal treatment and terror exerted by the SS.
    One such camp was Dachau. The first prisoner transports arrived in the camp on the 22nd of March 1933.
    In October the same year, Dachau’s commandant, Theodor Eicke, introduced a system of regulations which inflicted brutal punishments on prisoners for the slightest offenses. Eicke ensured that the Dachau camp served as a model for all later concentration camps. It also became a training center or “a school of violence “for SS guards who were deployed throughout the concentration camp system.
    During the early years relatively few Jews were interned in Dachau and then only usually because they belonged to one of the above groups or had completed prison sentences after being convicted for violating the 1935 Nuremberg Laws which put Nazi ideas about race into law.
    The number of Jewish prisoners at Dachau rose with the increased persecution of Jews.
    The camp was divided into two sections-the camp area and the crematoria area.
    After the Second World War began on the 1st of September 1939, living conditions for the prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp drastically worsened. The murderous working conditions, the insufficient rations, and a lack of hygiene facilities in the camp led to a soaring death rate.
    The crematorium area was constructed next to the main camp in 1942. It included the old crematorium and the new crematorium with a gas chamber. Instead, prisoners underwent so called "selection" and those who were judged too sick or weak to continue working were sent to the Hartheim "euthanasia" killing center near Linz in Austria. More than 2,500 Dachau prisoners were murdered in the gas chambers at Hartheim. In addition, mass executions by shooting took place, first in the bunker courtyard and later in a specially designed SS shooting range. Thousands of Dachau prisoners were murdered there, including at least 4,000 Soviet prisoners of war following the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
    Beginning in 1942, German physicians performed medical experiments on the prisoners in Dachau.
    Dachau prisoners were also used as forced laborers. They were employed in the operation of the camp, in various construction projects, and in small handicraft industries established in the camp. They built roads, worked in gravel pits, and drained marshes. All under terrible conditions.
    During the war, forced labor using concentration camp prisoners became increasingly important to German armaments production.
    In the summer and fall of 1944, to increase war production, satellite camps under the administration of Dachau were established near armaments factories throughout southern Germany. Thousands of prisoners were worked to death.
    At the end of April 1945, the SS also began evacuating prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp to prevent their liberation by Allied troops. At least 25,000 prisoners from the Dachau camp system were sent on exhausting foot marches in the direction of Tyrol or taken away in freight trains. During these so-called death marches, the Germans shot anyone who could no longer continue. Many also died of starvation, hypothermia, or exhaustion.
    Several thousand prisoners died in the process.
    On the 29th of April 1945, the Dachau main camp was liberated by units of the 45th Infantry division.
    After the US soldiers ordered the SS guards to line up along the wall in the coal yard by the guard tower, Lieutenant Walsh yelled “Let them have it” and the US soldiers opened fire with rifles, pistols, and the 30 Caliber machine gun. After a 30-second flurry of gunfire, the Nazi guards were killed on the spot.
    Because General Patton, then military governor of Bavaria, dismissed all the charges, nobody has ever stood trial before the court for this reprisal.
    Out of over 200 thousand people who were imprisoned in Dachau and in the numerous subsidiary camps during its 12 years existence between 1933 and 1945, nearly 42 000 people were murdered.
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  • @rollydoucet8909
    @rollydoucet8909 Рік тому +1076

    It's no wonder that many war veterans refuse to talk about the horrors they witnessed. The freedom we enjoy didn't come cheap. Much respect for our military people.

    • @klientproby
      @klientproby Рік тому +23

      I could not imagine what combat soldiers went through. The two world wars really introduced horrors on an incredibly grand scale. Sadly, it's still happening.

    • @JoeSmith-tc6eg
      @JoeSmith-tc6eg Рік тому +15

      Liars are also often uncomfortable trying to recall and recount lies from past decades. Afraid to contradict themselves, their fellows and the sacrosanct historical narrative.

    • @taraarrington2285
      @taraarrington2285 Рік тому +11

      You're blessed to enjoy freedom

    • @freegeorgia4808
      @freegeorgia4808 Рік тому

      @@JoeSmith-tc6eg it's all on video baboon! The only liars are nazis like you. It's what national socialist nazis do.

    • @wfcoaker1398
      @wfcoaker1398 Рік тому

      @@JoeSmith-tc6eg So, the soldiers who liberated the camps were lying about what they saw? They faked the pictures and the footage of the camps? The logistics of pulling off a hoax like that, in the middle of a global war, and doing it so that the hoax isn't detected for nearly a century, would be daunting. Occam's razor by itself says that's unlikely, let alone all the other evidence.

  • @Boss302Kirk
    @Boss302Kirk 6 місяців тому +230

    My father was there and quite proud to be one of the liberators of Dachau. I was lucky to have a friend as my father. Rest easy Dad. Your dedication to the Allied Forces made for great re-telling to myself, since I was the only one you shared your history of WWII with.❤

    • @knivesgunfights526
      @knivesgunfights526 5 місяців тому +6

      You, sir, are more than welcome.

    • @arnoldgood1
      @arnoldgood1 5 місяців тому +6

      A great father! A hero!

    • @sukhdevchohan4129
      @sukhdevchohan4129 5 місяців тому +7

      Wanna say Thanks to ur Father

    • @Stick3x
      @Stick3x 5 місяців тому

      Make sure not to vote for Socialists.

    • @jasonvoorhees5640
      @jasonvoorhees5640 5 місяців тому +2

      your father was a draft dodging kweer

  • @adamv242
    @adamv242 Рік тому +323

    No tears were shed for the guards of Dachau.

    • @insertnamehere1258
      @insertnamehere1258 7 місяців тому +37

      and hopefully none will be shed now

    • @cagneybillingsley2165
      @cagneybillingsley2165 6 місяців тому

      those people are so brutish and inhuman, no wonder the nazi wanted to exterminate them

    • @mickeypip1524
      @mickeypip1524 6 місяців тому +3

      @@insertnamehere1258Why, because they’re gay?

    • @insertnamehere1258
      @insertnamehere1258 6 місяців тому +36

      @@mickeypip1524 no because they were fascists who tortured innocents.

    • @knivesgunfights526
      @knivesgunfights526 6 місяців тому +15

      None. Absolutely NONE! Today, that would be like shedding tears for Mexican Cartel members who deal in death, drugs, and human trafficking. That's probably the next thing this channel will highlight.

  • @shawnw6486
    @shawnw6486 Рік тому +293

    My grandfather was part of the unit that first liberated this camp. He died before I was born, but my grandmother had told me much about him because I grew up getting into things and found a box with his medals in it and became very interested. She said he was a combat medic. Before the war, he was vibrant and full of life and energy. Always smiling. Never drank alcohol or smoked, and when he returned, he was a completely different person. He drank heavily from the time he woke up and smoked almost 3 packs of cigarettes a day. He would have terrible nightmares where she would sometimes be thrown from the bed as he was fighting and screaming, and he refused to ever talk about the war. She had somehow put together through news and his paperwork that he was part of the unit that went to the camp, but she learned very quickly to never try to ask him about it. He ultimately died of heart failure. She said his body just couldn't cope with what was in his mind. Back then, there was no help with dealing with those things

    • @MrJimbelt
      @MrJimbelt Рік тому +35

      My father was part of the 7th Army what my father and your grandfather Witness was some of the worst atrocities against mankind ever performed. Your grandfather was a hero

    • @larrypatchett3474
      @larrypatchett3474 Рік тому

      I had a chance to meet Felix Sparks who was in charge of the unit that liberated Dachau and was likely your grandfather's CO. This telling of the tale is full of exaggerations. I have images provided by General Sparks of the incident at the coal yard. This piece says a Lt ordered the shooting and that none of the guards survived. I have an image of Sparks firing a .45 into the air to stop the guy on the machine gun. In the background, you can clearly see germans still standing and a few who ducked when bullets flew. I do suspect that gunner, who claimed he saw one move, was reacting to what they had all been seeing.

    • @shawnw6486
      @shawnw6486 Рік тому +32

      @MrJimbelt you're absolutely right. They were all hero's. They did their duty and destroyed this evil at great cost to themselves. Many paid the highest price. Though I didn't get to know my grandpa, any WW2 vet that I've ever talked to said if they ever had to, they would do it all over again to stand against such evil people. The greatest generation of men

    • @annehersey9895
      @annehersey9895 Рік тому +12

      The lasting effects of war that until recently, were never talked about nor were these vets ever encouraged to talk about what war had done to them psychologically. They were just supposed to 'buck up and take it like a man'! Luckily, the First Gulf War acknowledgement of PTSD which in turn really helped Viet Nam vets start to receive treatment and also be looked at in a different way. I even had a Korean War Vet that I connected with the VA

    • @andreadejarnette6733
      @andreadejarnette6733 Рік тому +7

      It's hard for me to handle just seeing this so I can only imagine the hell your grandfather endured. Much respect and gratitude for his service. He certainly paid with his life.

  • @JP-qg7xc
    @JP-qg7xc Рік тому +568

    My grand grand father was among the prisoners. He was there for political reasons . Two days after the liberation he died of typhus. Thank you for this video and footage. Now the conditions in which his life ended are more clear to me.

    • @ksb2112
      @ksb2112 Рік тому +39

      That is just so damned heart breaking. I am sorry....

    • @JP-qg7xc
      @JP-qg7xc Рік тому +35

      @@ksb2112 Thank you very much. Like many other Germans, he dared to oppose Hitler and paid with his life. Sometimes, I wonder what I would have done if i was in his situation.

    • @rameye
      @rameye Рік тому +30

      im sorry for your loss, my grandfather was part of the liberation force, he never got over what he saw there....unreal

    • @Hartley_Hare
      @Hartley_Hare Рік тому +14

      @@rameye My Grampa went through Belsen a couple of days after Belsen was liberated and was briefly billeted there. He didn't talk about it much as everything he saw was outside his frame of reference. How do you understand that kind of bestiality.

    • @rameye
      @rameye Рік тому +16

      @@Hartley_Hare You cant understand it, Honestly when he told me the stories of what happened during the initial assault and the things that happened afterwards I honestly thought he might be embellishing just a bit, to my horror I've come to learn he was spot on with the events as he described them. There was no youtube back in the day when he would speak to me about it to verify. I was the only family member he would speak to about it and I feel fortunate that he did, I hoped it would help him heal a little. He was an Captain in charge of Howitzers, when i look a his pictures I can see the company patch but not his unit, wish I could, sadly he passed on 2001.

  • @user-pu1xq9ef9u
    @user-pu1xq9ef9u Рік тому +137

    You really can’t blame them for killing the guards. The emotional response to seeing that would have been overwhelming.

    • @widowsson8192
      @widowsson8192 4 місяці тому

      The western allies bombed western Europe to oblivion. You think the western allies were innocent?? 60 million died in Europe! 60 million!

    • @luigivincenz3843
      @luigivincenz3843 Місяць тому +5

      I;ve read books on Dachau. The horror was so overwhelming US Officers were drawing guns on their commanding officers. Lt Col Sparks drawing his pistol on General Linden when Linden insisted his unit take command, was an example. THEN Linden's subordinate says "I'll see you after the war" which Sparks replied "What's wrong with now?"

  • @JM3jUiCe
    @JM3jUiCe Рік тому +33

    My grandfather helped liberate Dachau in WWII. He was A Fighting Thunderbird, in the 45th infantry.
    (I have his insignia as my profile pic. He didn’t talk much about the things he seen. But towards the end, in his last few years, he would tell me
    stories. This documentary pretty
    much verified everything he told me.
    Thank you Pop.

  • @johndilday1846
    @johndilday1846 Рік тому +36

    My father was in the US Army, and said that he was detailed to drive a truck with supplies to Dachau a few days after it was liberated. He spoke in later years of the smell and the bodies laying about. He said that while he was there the prisoners beat a former guard to death who had been trying to masquerade as a prisoner but was known, and obviously too well fed. Dad said that none of the GIs did a thing to intervene but watched it, feeling that it was justice and the prisoners had the right to get revenge. He said that some officers made trouble for them for not protecting the guard, but it was quickly brushed aside. He had nightmares about the stuff he saw for most of the rest of his life. Thanks for sharing.

  • @AlteredStateAdventures
    @AlteredStateAdventures Рік тому +218

    The Narrator really nailed it on this one too. When he spoke of the revenge being exacted i got chills

    • @zahidkhan5733
      @zahidkhan5733 Рік тому +26

      happy those prisoners got some payback against those monsters

    • @kevinwarburton2938
      @kevinwarburton2938 Рік тому +13

      Not revenge, justice!

    • @RUSH2112RUSH
      @RUSH2112RUSH Рік тому +4

      @Altered State Adventures: I believe the narrator is Matt Berry and if so it does seem rather a bizarre choice. Here in the UK he is mainly known for being a comedy actor in such series as The IT crowd and What We Do in the Shadows, he is also a rather talented musician.

    • @AlteredStateAdventures
      @AlteredStateAdventures Рік тому +1

      @@RUSH2112RUSH lol it's not Matt Berry

    • @RUSH2112RUSH
      @RUSH2112RUSH Рік тому +1

      @@AlteredStateAdventures You're likely right Altered' but whoever it really is does have a very similar voice to Matt Berry.
      P.s Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you and 'yours'.

  • @marleneassennato7197
    @marleneassennato7197 Рік тому +94

    They got their just reward for the horror they caused. Couldn't shed a tear for such beasts.

    • @maskcollector6949
      @maskcollector6949 Рік тому +11

      And yet some of their ancestors defend their actions, pride is a terrible thing.

    • @DeirdreMcNamara
      @DeirdreMcNamara 5 днів тому

      I doubt if any one volunteered for that - if given any option it would be between that and the Russian front... but when will people look behind the curtain at the "financiers" who fund these wars at huge interest and then scoop up the ruined towns, cities, farmlands and lay claim or buy them for a song... Only then will these atrocities cease.

  • @tamjacobite4758
    @tamjacobite4758 Рік тому +88

    Thank you for working on this video and for posting it. We must never forget or being told by people that this never occurred. It did happen and it was horrific.

    • @WorldHistoryVideos
      @WorldHistoryVideos  Рік тому +4

      Thank you

    • @atune2682
      @atune2682 Рік тому +1

      spot on.

    • @Mav86asian
      @Mav86asian 9 місяців тому

      Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Mahmoud Ahmadinejab, most Iranians, Indonesians, many in the muslim world will claim this is zionist hoax.

  • @Laughington
    @Laughington 10 місяців тому +92

    My grandmother was an army nurse and was in the first non-combative unit who entered Dachau. She told me quite a bit about the battle of the Bulge and other areas she was in. We didn't find out she had witnessed Dachau until the last couple years of her life.

    • @juno6602
      @juno6602 6 місяців тому +13

      There's an old saying that comes to mind: those who were there don't talk, and those who talk weren't there. That generation was something special, and I fear we'll never have another like them.

    • @jasonvoorhees5640
      @jasonvoorhees5640 5 місяців тому +1

      your granny was a liar and a coward

  • @johnroof2663
    @johnroof2663 Рік тому +419

    When I was a kid in the seventies, one of my 6 grade trips was to Dachau Concentration camp. It's a site you never forget. Watch some movies and you have an idea of how these people were treated the cruelty Was unreal. All I can say is I hope the world never let's this happen again. What happened to the SS officers was well deserved. Only cowards treat another human being like that........

    • @fitzburg63
      @fitzburg63 Рік тому +39

      This is happening all the time, now in Ukraine.

    • @deejcole9102
      @deejcole9102 Рік тому +4

      Holy shit as a kid..wow..well thwef just almost did it again.foiled!!!

    • @irmalaucirica1688
      @irmalaucirica1688 Рік тому +8

      A unique Experience visiting those camps! !
      Those were guards, the SS officer's most of them and the Hard Ranking Nazi's scape justice; Nuremberg Judgment was only as one examples to the World Justice, (just a little group was condemn! The majority scape to other countries, and great many returns to Germany and to the same jobs they had before! Incredible Injustices!!!
      About the same horrible Atrocities they happen soon after Nazi Germany, and are happening since that time all over the planet! Remember all the war massacre's in Africa, Russia, Ukraine's now, The killing Fields Etc.
      The entirely World its a homicide victim! The biggest one its coming soon! The Antichrist is alive and his rule its already prepared his Mark will be by choice, most people will receive it because they want to be able to purchased things and selling things, they rejected Jesus Christ and only believers Left behind would have to be decapitated because of their faith, they would got a choice if they deny Jesus as Lord and Savior, but since they refused the Mark of the Devil they know God is by our side and we are secure on His Hands!!
      Read, Revelations chapter 13- Mathew 24- The prophets tell us all on God's words!! Just search Rev, Daniel. Old and New testament is Gods testament for us! Jesus Is The Way, The Truth and The Life! No one comes to The Father, but by Jesus!!
      Read John chapter 14 and see everything He has prepared for the ones who become His children!
      Hitler was a carbon copy of the Antichrist, but like him since Christ walk the earth many like them had been with that spirit. The Apostle Paul wrote about that; In his time he said......The spirit of the Antichrist is here,..meaning Satan spirit is here, He's all Around living on the hearts of Evil people! *He even has His ministers in Some So called Christian Churches*
      Many like Him perform throughout Satan, being A monsters of destruction!
      Staling was like or wort's than Hitler the World have suffers many like them!
      Imagine now days were evil its call good, and good its call evil! Please read the bible! God's Love is so great, that He give His only Son as sacrifice like a perfect Lamb to die for us....John 3:16 God bless you Amway's!🍑

    • @vinayakdasaka4605
      @vinayakdasaka4605 Рік тому +12

      🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 for your Father, who was there to end this barbarians and monsters.

    • @deejcole9102
      @deejcole9102 Рік тому +8

      @@vinayakdasaka4605 i add lets pray for All fathers...more.

  • @medusagorgo5146
    @medusagorgo5146 Рік тому +32

    When I was stationed in Germany the first time way back in the late 80’s I visited Dachau, the first thing I noticed was that there were no signs pointing the way there. The second thing I noticed was how green the grass was in November. It was a humbling experience and I have never forgotten it. On my last tour of Germany, we lived near Weiden and we visited the Flossenberg sub camp. Where the barracks on the hill had been, new houses had been built. I was stunned by the fact that these people would want to live in a place where countless people had suffered and died. It’s madness.

    • @harukrentz435
      @harukrentz435 Рік тому +4

      The grass was so green i bet because so many bodies burried there.

    • @mickeypip1524
      @mickeypip1524 8 місяців тому

      @@harukrentz435 Good thinking : also the bone meal element.

    • @mickeypip1524
      @mickeypip1524 8 місяців тому

      People have houses on old battlefields . This is ancient history ...soooooooo long agooooooo! Zzzzzzzzzzzz

    • @davidschwartz6380
      @davidschwartz6380 7 місяців тому +4

      @@mickeypip1524 except this was not a battlefield...old or otherwise

    • @mickeypip1524
      @mickeypip1524 6 місяців тому

      @@davidschwartz6380 one death is as valid as another...or are you saying your’s are at a premium?
      Our soldiers died on battlefields for your lot!
      and you have the audacity to infer they are not as worthy....says it all!...troll!

  • @tankc6474
    @tankc6474 Рік тому +16

    Thank you for the upload respect from Ireland 🇮🇪 rest in peace to all them poor victims 🙏

    • @ticketyboo2456
      @ticketyboo2456 Рік тому

      TANK C Wasn't Ireland a supporter of the Nazis?

    • @tankc6474
      @tankc6474 Рік тому +1

      @@ticketyboo2456 Ireland was a neutral country during the war and without doubt not a supporter

    • @mickeypip1524
      @mickeypip1524 6 місяців тому

      @@tankc6474 Good to be neutral .....no blood : just carry on eating potatoes and drinking moonshine!

  • @AlteredStateAdventures
    @AlteredStateAdventures Рік тому +207

    Another amazing video. The amount of work it must take to edit these videos must be utterly exhausting. We commend your incredible efforts in bringing a voice to so many of the forgotten victims of WWII

    • @WorldHistoryVideos
      @WorldHistoryVideos  Рік тому +16

      thank you

    • @ArnieC1974
      @ArnieC1974 Рік тому

      @@WorldHistoryVideos so that's what the US army still does with the Geneva Convention? Those where pow's and should first be locked up and questioned. But they shoot people with they're hands up and white flags? Then the poor prisoners who were all dead or almost dying hit them to death? I've seen people hit to death but never by a living corpse! I think this whole series is made to hate Germany and Germans more! Come with something new, like what Stalin did to the jews en pow's or make a nice serie about Pol Pot or what the Japanese army did to the Chinese people or maybe something more in this time, guantanamo bay.... or that might be too scary for @worldhistory because then the Americans are in the shame and you know what is worse than concentration camps? Throwing nuclear bombs on 2 city's full of woman and children. You can do 2 things now, erase my comment that I made screenshots from and will be spread on social media or answer me in a proper way! The choice is yours @world history

    • @KimFsharpHarp
      @KimFsharpHarp Рік тому +10

      The narrator is stellar too!

    • @WorldHistoryVideos
      @WorldHistoryVideos  Рік тому +12

      @@ArnieC1974 Our videos are not made to hate anyone. Instead, they are educational and informative. We plan to focus on Russia and Japan next year ... Thanks for watching

    • @WorldHistoryVideos
      @WorldHistoryVideos  Рік тому +5

      @@KimFsharpHarp Yes, he is amazing :) Thank you for your nice comment and watching our videos.

  • @untermench3502
    @untermench3502 Рік тому +472

    My father was in the lead element of the 45th. Division. He was 82nd Airborne assigned to the OSS. Their job was to secure important facilities. His unit was one of the first to arrive on the scene. He said that 175 SS guards were executed, and for the rest of his days, he was haunted by what happened there.He had been in combat since North Africa and had seen many atrocities perpetrated by the SS and Dachau was the proverbial straw that broke the Camel's back.

    • @stacysatterfield2154
      @stacysatterfield2154 Рік тому +51

      My oldest late uncle was in the Army CORPS of Engineers in 1945 his group went into Buchenwald. These camps were Hell on Earth

    • @FalconXE302
      @FalconXE302 Рік тому +82

      It was people like your father who made sure people like us can live free... thank you for your fathers brave service in WWII.

    • @philemberley4669
      @philemberley4669 Рік тому +47

      My grandfather was sent to Dachau after Kristallnacht, then later to Buchenwald and finally was murdered in Lodz, Poland. The US liberators are to be heralded and never forgotten as these camps were finally closed. The human toil is unbelievable.

    • @stacysatterfield2154
      @stacysatterfield2154 Рік тому +15

      @@philemberley4669 shalom Phil I'm so sorry

    • @c.p.2341
      @c.p.2341 Рік тому

      Die 175 Ermordeten sollen ihn auch verfolgen! Bis in die Hölle und zurück! Die SS Männer waren nicht rechtskräftig Verurteilt! Somit ist es vorsätzlicher Mord und die US Mörder hätten vor ein Tribunal und nach schuldspruch Aufgehängt gehört! Genauso,wie die Erschlossenen.

  • @hyun1141
    @hyun1141 11 місяців тому +61

    I can't imagine being a soldier and coming upon a concentration camp like this, being at ground zero of one of the worst crimes against humanity without any warning would break me. The Nazis did something so evil that there wasn't an existing protocol in the US Army that could protect them from the immediate rage of those soldiers and prisoners. It's definitely a war crime but how can you expect a soldier to not do something like that when suddenly they're in the midst of all that death and suffering, with the survivors begging you to just take those who tortured them out of existence

    • @MikeySkywalker
      @MikeySkywalker 9 місяців тому +12

      Is it a war crime? We were carpet bombing cities indiscriminately and we nukes a country twice. I have no empathy from the Nazis who were killed. Zero. My empathy is for the allied soldiers who had to bare those scars from what they were forced to do. My empathy is for the survivors who against all odds survived. Even the US Military just swept this entire thing under the rug.
      By the way I’m not even disagreeing with anything you said. I might sound intense, but that’s just because I’m having trouble controlling my emotions after watching multiple of these liberation videos. I watch them once a month, so that I never forget what happened.

    • @elkrumb9159
      @elkrumb9159 8 місяців тому +4

      @@MikeySkywalkerMe too I feel you brother, the fact this happened is surreal and people who follow these ideologies make my blood boil

    • @muskokamike127
      @muskokamike127 7 місяців тому +10

      it's not a war crime to put down rabid dogs. Sorry, calling them dogs is an insult to dogs.

    • @ricr.96
      @ricr.96 5 місяців тому

      Imagine being an enemy nazi guard bracing for a revenge beating and possible execution 😮

    • @jameswoodbury2806
      @jameswoodbury2806 4 місяці тому

      Patton didn't act as if it was a war.

  • @panicxitsxbrea
    @panicxitsxbrea 7 місяців тому +8

    i befriended a very old man named arthur at our local cafe. he'd get his small cup and give me his wheezy chuckle, point to it and say 'used to be bourbon!' then he'd smile, say 'you're so pretty', and shuffle off. at one point he told me without preamble that he had helped to liberate dachau. his face that was usually so expressive went completely blank, and he never spoke of it again. i miss him.

  • @Hartley_Hare
    @Hartley_Hare Рік тому +443

    Those American soldiers had fought their way across north west Europe, seen their friends die and be maimed, witnessing what they thought were the lowest depths of humanity, and then they found this. If you had been there, had suffered like them, and had a loaded gun at your side, what would you have done?

    • @pit9555
      @pit9555 Рік тому +68

      exactly that or even worst

    • @kevinmcmullan1827
      @kevinmcmullan1827 Рік тому +74

      Emptied my magazine and reloaded.

    • @faithfuljohn9836
      @faithfuljohn9836 Рік тому

      exactly. No way these bastards would have lived another day.

    • @petepal55
      @petepal55 Рік тому +57

      I'd have handed it to prisoners and allowed each one round.

    • @gnarthdarkanen7464
      @gnarthdarkanen7464 Рік тому

      Let's just say that somewhere, there would be a High Ranking Nazi without hands or feet, his tongue and eyeballs carved out and cauterized... Teeth broken, and so horribly scarred that you wouldn't be able to look upon him without a deep curdling chill ruining your last meal...
      AND every single recoil, every outcry, and every time someone couldn't stop themselves from asking, "What the actual f*ck...?" would be his to cherish... I'd give up a kidney, and go hunting for donors... find blood and even PAY TOP DOLLAR for anyone to help keep the miserable wretch alive longer... NOBODY would be allowed to pull his plug. He'd try 10,000 times over to beg for death before I'd even contemplate letting the son of a b*tch die... WHATEVER it took.
      You wanted to know... The worst problem is I WOULD NOT want the motherf*cker to get the easy way out... I'd find a fairly young one, too... torment that motherf*cker to the ends of the earth...
      Whatever happens to his buddies??? I don't care, as long as he has to watch... the last thing he gets to see before I carve up his f*cking face... ;o)

  • @actone1030
    @actone1030 Рік тому +111

    I visited Dachau many years ago. Upon arriving in the town I asked several locals where the camp was; none of them were inclined to give me directions. The fact that the townspeople said they werent aware of what was happening there is pure bs. Dachau is a small city & no way they couldnt have smelled the death emanating from the nearby camp. For sure they knew what was going on.

    • @__________e5437
      @__________e5437 Рік тому +3

    • @johnhart125
      @johnhart125 Рік тому +2

      Hell on earth, will be repeated I'll bet, people are animals of worst kind

    • @squig808
      @squig808 Рік тому +13

      Besides that Dachau is reachable by car in 30 minutes from central Munich or like 10 minutes on RE Bahn. This proximity was super-obvious to me when I visited. Besides everything that happened on Kristallnacht, deportation of people thru other camps, and the 200,000 prisoners who passed thru Dachau over >10 years... it is unbelievable that most Munich residents knew nothing about the operation of this camp so nearby to their city (basically on the edge of Munich pop ~1M).
      Dachau, on the whole, has chosen to deny and hide this history just like in WWII. If not for survivors there would be nothing there. Dachau (County Commissioner Junker) managed to destroy the crematoriums in 1955, and continue over the decades to lament the reputation damage the camp has had on their town and claim victimhood of the Nazis (rather than actually feel any shame or own it).

    • @eg2739
      @eg2739 Рік тому

      @@squig808 have you never thought germans lived under a dictatorship and there was no free press and you have should kept eyes mouth shut ?

    • @Jimmy911ism
      @Jimmy911ism Рік тому

      You can't blame German civilians or even most of the military. They had as much power over what happened as do Russians under Putin: zero.

  • @hallelujah7304
    @hallelujah7304 Рік тому +353

    There is NO WAY that the Germans did NOT know about the camps and what happened to the prisoners. My German mother was born 1939, my German father 1934. I was born a long time after the war. When I asked my parents about the war a couple of times, while at Grammar School at the age of about 15 discussing the Holocaust, all they coldly said was: "But Hitler built the Autobahn". Shame on my Parents. I am so sorry about these cruelties.

    • @danijuggernaut
      @danijuggernaut Рік тому +15

      Actually this is a lie, Konrad Adenauer (Bundeskanzler after the war) was the Mayor of Köln and build the first Autobahn in Germany in 1932 between Köln and Bonn (the A 555).

    • @garysmith5586
      @garysmith5586 Рік тому

      The German population was brainwashed. Kinda what is going on in America right now.

    • @danijuggernaut
      @danijuggernaut Рік тому

      @@garysmith5586 Right now??? You´ve been brainwashed since generations, now you got the bill, three jobs, 6 days per week and still no money to live decent. Get ready what is coming.

    • @lindacollins6939
      @lindacollins6939 Рік тому +44

      They knew, they knew

    • @garysmith5586
      @garysmith5586 Рік тому

      Yea but if you dared to speak out you and your whole family would be slaughtered

  • @jwdeeming
    @jwdeeming Рік тому +99

    My great uncle was drafted into the Army at 34 years old because the area he lived in was having trouble meeting their quota. He served in the Battle of the Bulge but was also there when Dachau was liberated. He was there when one of the train "wagons" was opened and among the carload of corpses, only one living soul was found. In my family's archives is a newspaper clipping of when that rescued man later arrived in New York. My uncle was an avid photographer. In my mother's basement is a box of black and white photographs he took during the war - many at Dachau. I have yet to be able to get through them all without getting physically sick. He had what we would now call PTSD for years and refused to talk about any part of the war, other than occasionally driving the mail truck and being sniped at. Maybe I was too young to be told, but the execution of the SS guards was a part of the story I never heard. I am not surprised...

    • @jwdeeming
      @jwdeeming Рік тому +4

      @@obvi890 I'm not clear on details but I understand initially they were offered to a museum or historical society. Whoever it was took several, so I guess these were the rejects. Right now they are not my responsibility but I assure you they will not be discarded.

    • @blackwaltz3135
      @blackwaltz3135 Рік тому +1

      @@jwdeeming yeah im sure alot of that is historic, although a dark past, i always felt should be preserved to remind us of what we're capable of.

    • @JM3jUiCe
      @JM3jUiCe Рік тому +12

      My grandfather was in the 45th infantry for the Fighting Thunderbirds.(I have his insignia for my profile). He told me some stories this documentary touched on. He was also part of the Battle of the Bulge. He told us that although his unit didn’t get much credit for it, but they were there first and laid the ground work for backup. He told us some really messed up stories and the things he saw, from WWII. But he said, “you couldn’t imagine the things we seen. It’s something that will never leave you…” But he always told us, “you can smell death, miles away.”
      He told us many stories, like on the way to Dachau, they saw wild dogs and pigs, eating dead bodies, left decaying in fields. And once at Dachau, Gen.Patton showed after the liberation and took account of the happenings there, including an investigation of the execution of unarmed Nazis that were surrendering or captured by American soldiers. After seeing what the Nazis had done to those people, Gen. Patton tore up all the
      reports and threw them in a fire, saying something like, “The hell with those Nazis!” He told us the story of the German civilians supposedly not knowing of what was going on at Dachau and ordering American solders, to round up those German civilians, so they can bury the dead.I wish I can share more stories he told me but…Man, if I walked a mile in his shoes!
      Thank You Pop. You’re a part of History and an American Hero.
      I love you and miss you.

    • @blackwaltz3135
      @blackwaltz3135 Рік тому +3

      @@JM3jUiCe I'd love to hear more, These videos barely touch on all that happened then, just unbelievable

    • @Nancie6290
      @Nancie6290 Рік тому

      @@JM3jUiCe 💞💞🙏🏻🇨🇦to you

  • @user-kw8ff9ne8l
    @user-kw8ff9ne8l Рік тому +103

    How pitty that Josef Kramer,Maria Mandl,Irma Grese and Johanna Borman werent among them.

  • @DeepTexas
    @DeepTexas Рік тому +13

    Best new historically educational channel on UA-cam. Narrator is a badass.

  • @mattmadden3013
    @mattmadden3013 Рік тому +4

    I don't know which, but my uncke, John Rice, was in an American unit that liberated a concentration camp. My cousin displays a swastika flag my uncle seized. All the members of his unit singen, some even added a brief comments in his house. After he convinces his guests that he's not a NAZI, my cousin will tell you the story of how his father obtained the flag. GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY!!!
    Thank you for your presentation.

  • @karenbrown4524
    @karenbrown4524 10 місяців тому +2

    He is sincerely my favorite UA-cam narrator voice. It's just like butter even when telling us about the horrors of Nazi concentration camps.

  • @nathanielgreer2764
    @nathanielgreer2764 Рік тому +75

    My grandfather was a medic in WWII and was at the liberation of Dachau. The photos he took were beyond awful.

    • @arnavkhandekar166
      @arnavkhandekar166 Рік тому +1

      Do you have those?

    • @nathanielgreer2764
      @nathanielgreer2764 Рік тому +8

      @@arnavkhandekar166 my dad has the originals. I have digital copies.

    • @maxizac7
      @maxizac7 Рік тому +9

      @@nathanielgreer2764 Thanks for your grandfather service. I believe that all pictures taken by veterans on those days should be posted or used in a museum just to never forget what happened there.

    • @arnavkhandekar166
      @arnavkhandekar166 Рік тому +1

      @@nathanielgreer2764 is it possible to share?

    • @nathanielgreer2764
      @nathanielgreer2764 Рік тому +5

      @@arnavkhandekar166 I’ll send them to a friend and have him turn them into a video and upload it. I’ll post a link when it is done.

  • @luxor-uc2xs
    @luxor-uc2xs Рік тому +495

    No tears were shed for those nazi guards.

    • @waynegreene6405
      @waynegreene6405 Рік тому +50

      I'd be clapping mate.

    • @deejcole9102
      @deejcole9102 Рік тому +24

      Or the new nazis either..

    • @theatfshotmydog8224
      @theatfshotmydog8224 Рік тому

      @@deejcole9102 🙄 found the idiot.

    • @heatheryearwood9199
      @heatheryearwood9199 Рік тому +6

      Humans all humans with scars 💔 deep trenches of slurry and hatred ...we need help all of us those incarcerated and those guards who held such deep hatred

    • @pooldude317
      @pooldude317 Рік тому +12

      Nor should there be any...

  • @gabe-po9yi
    @gabe-po9yi Рік тому +57

    Completely understandable how seeing atrocities like that could push already stressed soldiers over the edge.

    • @doctorslayer2106
      @doctorslayer2106 11 місяців тому +2

      But In War there is no winner or losers..
      No Triumph or Defeat..
      Only Anguish, Suffering, Lost, Sadness and Death..
      War will Change you..
      It will change you physically and especially Mentally.

    • @alanh1406
      @alanh1406 8 місяців тому +1

      @@doctorslayer2106the only winner is death.

    • @garyt19651
      @garyt19651 6 місяців тому

      if that war was not won you wouldn't be writing this and neither would I

    • @mickeypip1524
      @mickeypip1524 5 місяців тому

      @@garyt19651 You are so right , Gary !
      I would be doing more positive things ....dog walking eg
      I find gardening very relaxing .
      Everyone needs a hobby, eh?

    • @mickeypip1524
      @mickeypip1524 5 місяців тому

      @@alanh1406 You really are a laugh a minute!

  • @MrJimbelt
    @MrJimbelt Рік тому +95

    My father was part of the 7th I can remember him talking once briefly about Dachau. About the smells and how grateful the prisoners were. He started to cry when he was talking about the all the dead bodies. The level of death was inconceivable I believe the the atrocities at Dachau effect of my father greatly.

    • @nancyb.3523
      @nancyb.3523 Рік тому +8

      God bless your father.

    • @debbie845
      @debbie845 Рік тому +6

      My father was part of the 7th. Daddy wouldn’t talk about it.

    • @MrJimbelt
      @MrJimbelt Рік тому +7

      @@debbie845 I'm sure by the time they fought their way all the way to Germany they thought they seen it all but nothing could prepare them for what they're about to see.

    • @debbie845
      @debbie845 Рік тому +4

      @@MrJimbelt I believe that because he never talked of it.

    • @walterbeaver6365
      @walterbeaver6365 Рік тому +3

      My dad was there for liberation. He took many pictures.
      I have been there many years later (1980).
      They also went to Austria, another camp "Gunskirchenlauger".

  • @shenry4485
    @shenry4485 5 місяців тому +6

    We had a Polish priest that survived the medical experiments in Dachau and came to Oklahoma after the liberation. As a teenager, I was in awe by some of the stories he would tell us.

  • @renee1961
    @renee1961 Рік тому +16

    Good afternoon, and as ALWAYS, Thank You for your Excellent videos. I appreciate everything that goes into each one.

  • @jgee4073
    @jgee4073 Рік тому +30

    I visited Dachau in December 1970, six months after discharge from service with Big Red One in Vietnam. Germans in Munich feigned no knowledge when asked directions to get there. You could feel the evil, much as you could feel Anne Frank’s spirit in her house in Amsterdam. We arrived very late in the afternoon, the only 3 visitors. Snowy and cold, we were almost locked in at closing.

  • @gnawbabygnaw
    @gnawbabygnaw 6 місяців тому +5

    Back in the 90’s the S.H.O.A.H. Foundation was started. Steven Spielberg was a big part of it. The idea was to get video interviews of all survivors of the Holocaust while they’re still alive. I was a video shooter for several interviews. Old Jewish folks telling the stories of how they survived. Was fascinating. The Foundation is in Washington DC.

  • @paulcombee2209
    @paulcombee2209 Рік тому +8

    My uncle was in General Paytons 3rd Army .He was 17 years old .He spoke about the ss guards herding about 100 POWs in to a huge barn and set it ablaze .And many attempted to dig out under the barns foundation .But were burned 🔥 alive with their chard bodies half way out .. Afterwards my uncle , was assigned to security police duty ,guarding Herman Going and the others at the Nuremberg Trials ..!

  • @nathanielcarreon5634
    @nathanielcarreon5634 Рік тому +55

    Treatment of their prisoners were more than brutal.

    • @slowery43
      @slowery43 Рік тому +4

      thank you Cpt Obvious

    • @mickeypip1524
      @mickeypip1524 6 місяців тому

      You mean the vengeful Jews’and Yanks’ who murdered innocent German Guards who had arrived only the day before?

  • @kathleenbremer758
    @kathleenbremer758 Рік тому +13

    My dad served with the U.S. Coast Guard, in WWII, in the European Theater. On a brief visit to Munich, I made it a point to take a tour of Dachau. When our tour group was standing in the courtyard area, I was overwhelmed by an intense feeling and blacked out. After watching this video, it now makes sense why I had such a feeling, given the executions there. I had also experienced the same feeling on a tour of Dublin’s Kilmainham Prison, where political prisoners where shot to death in an outdoor courtyard. I can only imagine what the liberators must’ve felt, not to mention those poor souls who barely survived the camp.

  • @antoniobolognio7100
    @antoniobolognio7100 Рік тому +15

    My Uncle was there.He was an Officer. Witnessed that horror 1st hand. Never, ever spoke a word about it. But he always had this haunted look is his eyes. He's buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

  • @willong1000
    @willong1000 Рік тому +119

    My late father was there! Having turned twenty-years-old just two weeks prior, Dad was a heavy machine gunner (MOS 605) in C Company, 163rd Engineer (Combat) Battalion; C company were attached to the liberating forces. Dad was remarkably candid and unemotional when relating his experiences in the war, which included significant action from landing on Utah Beach not long after D-Day through the end of the war. (Some unknown person even took a potshot at him after the official surrender when he was exploring a German town.) I learned about WW2, including the incident mentioned in this video of GI's forcing the German civilian population to view the evidence (and help bury bodies of victims) of concentration camp atrocities, from my father before I ever heard the subject addressed in school.
    As I mentioned, Dad was remarkably candid. However, he confided that there was one incident or experience in the war that he had never revealed to anyone other than his own father. Knowing my father's character, it puzzled me what could have been so horrible. It's only in recent years after learning about the reprisals at Dachau (through another video that touched upon the subject) that I have a clue.

    • @sochaoracza1506
      @sochaoracza1506 Рік тому +21

      RIP thanks to your father and his generation.

    • @willong1000
      @willong1000 Рік тому +5

      @@sochaoracza1506 🙏

    • @ariadneschild8460
      @ariadneschild8460 Рік тому +11

      He seems like he was a rare steady individual, may he rest in peace.

    • @willong1000
      @willong1000 Рік тому +13

      @@ariadneschild8460 Thank you, that he was! My father was conscientious and responsible from an early age, worked after-school jobs during the last years of the Great Depression to buy his own clothes and still contributed money to the family's needs. His dad, my paternal grandfather, said that Dad was born an old soul.

    • @ariadneschild8460
      @ariadneschild8460 Рік тому +9

      @@willong1000 there's not many like him, you're lucky to have had a father like that.

  • @mwhyte1979
    @mwhyte1979 Рік тому +43

    1998 while stationed in Germany with the USAF had the oppurtunity to visit the Dachua camp. I can't speak for anyone else but when I walked into the camp thru that gate it was physically like walking thru a door from a world of light and the sounds of birds chirping into a world darkness and oppression. Even more than fifty years later I could still sense the evil that permiates that place.

    • @tonyjones1560
      @tonyjones1560 Рік тому +5

      I went there in 1988 while in the Army. After about 15 minutes I was so “weirded out” that I had to leave. Awful, awful place.

    • @tonyjones1560
      @tonyjones1560 6 місяців тому

      @@mickeypip1524 I’ve been a history nerd since I was a kid. Also, I’m a US Air Force brat and lived in Germany…but it wasn’t until we moved back to the US that I found out that I’d lived in the midst of all that history (after the fact). Essentially, I went to Dachau for the same reason I took the White House tour, to “stand on historical ground.” I’d go to the White House again…but I’m “one and done” with concentration camps. I think a park on Dachau’s grounds would literally be too haunted to enjoy, but I agree with your sentiment. Perhaps, however, a way to prevent past horror from being repeated is to preserve the sites and be brutally honest about the events that took place there.

    • @tonyjones1560
      @tonyjones1560 6 місяців тому +1

      @@mickeypip1524 Very eloquent comment! Seriously, you gave me something to think about here🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

  • @brianminter2472
    @brianminter2472 Рік тому +5

    To J Gee,
    Been there too in 1989. I was there with my ex wife. She was born in Munich. I told her that I was going to visit Dachau, but when we got there, she refused to get out of the car.
    I told her I could be gone for hours, which I was. A very harrowing experience to say the least. It is hard to take photographs when tears are clouding your eyes
    I just thought that you might like to know......

  • @okinawapaul4369
    @okinawapaul4369 Рік тому +6

    Visited Dachau in 1989. For me, the most poignant thing wasn't the crematorium or gas chamber.
    It was the massive pile of inmates shoes.

  • @journeyandrew
    @journeyandrew Рік тому +53

    My late X- Father in Law, PVT Charlie Lovelace was one who fired the 30 caliber machine gun mentioned at 11.01 in the video. His machine gun fire team were the first three Americans in the camp. At the local VFW he was regarded as a hero. Privately every man who knew anything about it, said that had they been there, they would have killed every NAZI there if given the chance.
    There is SO much more to this story that was never mentioned in this video that he shared with me before he died, that I still have nightmares about. I later found out he never spoke about the details to anyone but me.
    There was a typewriter in the commandant office that he sent home to his sister who was in business school in Memphis. It was converted to English. My x wife who I haven’t spoken to in years may actually have it still because no museum would accept it.

    • @daveduncan9034
      @daveduncan9034 Рік тому +7

      your dad was a hero,,may he rest in eternal peace

    • @thomaslovelace1109
      @thomaslovelace1109 Рік тому +5

      My father also fought in the war his name was Edgar Lovelace he never spoke about the war he said the real heroes were left over there 🙏

    • @stanlogan7504
      @stanlogan7504 Рік тому +7

      Write down the stories or his heroics will fade away. He earned our eternal respect but writing is the key. Bless you and your father.

    • @31webseries
      @31webseries Рік тому +1

      @@stanlogan7504 I was just about to type this. Write down everything he shared with you.

    • @mickeypip1524
      @mickeypip1524 6 місяців тому

      @@31webseries must you?

  • @petergianarakos9203
    @petergianarakos9203 Рік тому +139

    I visited Dachau almost 50+ yrs ago. More than 20 yrs had passed since the atrocities had ended, My visit thru the buildings w 4 toilets that served 100 or more people, the stark Gun towers, the big big photos of what went on there were in stark contrast to a sunny day with birds flying and singing.I visited with my Jewish girlfriend who simply could not take in the horror of what we saw. Holocaust deniers are as evil and complicit as those SS guards were long ago. I have never forgotten that day and i likely never will,

    • @ProjectShinkai
      @ProjectShinkai Рік тому +11

      The scariest part is it looks like it's happening again.

    • @solvingpolitics3172
      @solvingpolitics3172 Рік тому +2

      @@ProjectShinkaiWhere?

    • @ProjectShinkai
      @ProjectShinkai Рік тому +10

      @@solvingpolitics3172 alot of people in us quoting Hitler, and hate against jews is on the rise.

    • @peterkin1010
      @peterkin1010 Рік тому

      Holocaust deniers are deceived people. And they're the same as those who choose to ignore communist atrocities in places like East Prusdia, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, China, North Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua, Angola, Mozambique, Afghanistan and so many more I could mention. Sadly, a majority of people would sooner believe a lie or prefer to forget things that aren't convenient for them. So Holocaust deniers are no better and no worse than communism deniers.

    • @ProjectShinkai
      @ProjectShinkai Рік тому +8

      @@peterkin1010 I heard people recently say the jews deserved it. Scary times.

  • @richardthiele8363
    @richardthiele8363 6 місяців тому +14

    Imagine living in a city whose name is synonymous with the worst human evil. I visited this camp in 2009 on a trip to Germany. I couldn’t help but cry when I thought of the horrors that so many thousands lived through at that place. Torturing and killing so many defenseless people. Mankind can’t sink any lower than that.

  • @afreightdogslife
    @afreightdogslife Рік тому +3

    I love this channel, especially the closing statements.

  • @Thx1138sober
    @Thx1138sober Рік тому +85

    I heard a story years ago where the prisoners found an ss guard hiding, borrowed a pair of pliers from a US signal company guy and used them to disassemble the guard.

    • @RobertDavis-qh1ry
      @RobertDavis-qh1ry Рік тому +19

      Now that's what I call symmetry!

    • @slowery43
      @slowery43 Рік тому

      nobody cares about sjupposed stories you heard, this isn't about you or rumors

    • @SoCalGrillin
      @SoCalGrillin Рік тому +2

      "Disassemble a guard" hahahahaha

    • @BarB2-90Nine
      @BarB2-90Nine 7 місяців тому

      How sweet that sounds about the Guard being tearing apart him piece by piece oh yes The United States knew about the prisoners they did nothing! for the Jewish people there until when ? after the fact . Germany death camp guards was horrible beyond words during this time a quick death of the guards was not enough like the town didn’t know what went on lol crazy lies

  • @cashus68
    @cashus68 Рік тому +30

    My grandpa Albert Carter all black trucking company the 88 pursuit was the first in there he said there were lamp shades of human flesh with tattoos and the ovens were still smoking and hot , he said he smelled it 3 miles away coming into it. also first across the reign river . they went first to North Africa and defeated Romel. I miss him so much we worked together 37 years hauling scrap metals.

    • @daveduncan9034
      @daveduncan9034 Рік тому +4

      you gramps was a hero..he lives on in your heart,,,so therefore hes still alive!

    • @Nancie6290
      @Nancie6290 Рік тому +2

      💞🇨🇦🙏🏻

    • @wandertree
      @wandertree Рік тому +2

      God bless your grandpa.

  • @NathanDean79
    @NathanDean79 6 місяців тому +12

    I would have wasted every guard I came across or I would give them to their former prisoners. This isn’t a war crime. This is justice. I would have settled all cases out of court.

  • @davidmommerency4589
    @davidmommerency4589 Рік тому +31

    I visited dachau when I lived in Munich in the mid 80’s. Hearing the stories from some survivors was gut wrenching. Seeing the pictures was worse.

  • @raytrumble1994
    @raytrumble1994 Рік тому +45

    I was stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany. My unit took a trip to Dachau in civilian clothes of course. it was very surreal. It was overwhelming with sadness. We took a tour and you learn that Dachau was the first concentration camp. I remember seeing numbers on the Wall and the tour guide told us the Guards would have competition on who could kill the most in day. You learn about these horrible things in school but to go there in person is really overwhelming and just insane. I cant find the words to describe it.

    • @mikey2363
      @mikey2363 Рік тому

      Complete and utter BULLSHIT.

    • @kellysimmons6142
      @kellysimmons6142 Рік тому +1

      @Tony Leamon I'm the last class of an all girls Catholic school. So we did learn about WW2 but only to the term of camps. Until my senior year one of my favorite all time teacher. She brought in a VHS tape and hit play. I can't remember the name of the movie. But I will never forget where I sat and that 32 girls didn't move, talk or goof off. That movie is etched in my mind. It started from the ghetto up and including the end of the camps. That year my teacher was award an award at the National Liberty museum. I probably will not get to Germany or stand on the soil. I can only imagine getting a chance to touch the wall with numbers or look out where the buildings were. Or stand where some one was beaten or worst killed. But one person can make a huge difference. My favorite teacher past a few years ago but I think of her watching these types of video. I agree schools should be teaching this subject. It did happen the stories are still coming out. Even our boys were terrorized. Now years later I have tons of questions and research just curious. This was a good video.

    • @joker7301
      @joker7301 9 місяців тому

      Your president Barack O. has found words to describe it! He described it as "Polish concentration camps"!! You can imagine how angry we are about it. And this idiot received the Nobel Peace Prize! Unbelivable....

    • @Bagelrob399
      @Bagelrob399 6 місяців тому +1

      I was stationed in Baumholder in 86 2/29th FA 8th ID and I took a tour of that camp. It was surreal and showed me just how dark humans can be. I hope this is never repeated.

    • @mickeypip1524
      @mickeypip1524 6 місяців тому

      @@kellysimmons6142 Why should we keep banging on about this piece of ancient history ?
      If the Jews feel a little piqued by this , let them care: we have our own agonies and more recent deaths.i am sick of seeing memorial after memorial in our parks and streets.

  • @eileenh4772
    @eileenh4772 Рік тому +4

    1977 Spring on a school trip to Germany. Toured Dachau. Horrible cried through all. Was 17. Now 63 still remember the evil feeling so heavy. Spent my life as an RN trying to hold to christian values. Pray daily for all.

  • @CandiceGoddard
    @CandiceGoddard Рік тому +48

    It's always very sad to hear about this. It always shocks me that with so much information available, some people refuse to believe that any of this happened.

    • @darianistead2239
      @darianistead2239 Рік тому

      Wilful ignorance. Some people choose to deny it happened because it goes against their indoctrination.

    • @davidh8924
      @davidh8924 Рік тому

      :::Trump had entered the chatroom:::

    • @jacksonreilly3441
      @jacksonreilly3441 Рік тому

      Revisionists do not claim that no atrocities were committed. They simply dispute the numbers and the methodology.

    • @lorraineconejo4143
      @lorraineconejo4143 8 місяців тому +1

      I think maybe their minds can’t accept that humans are capable of such horror.

    • @mickeypip1524
      @mickeypip1524 8 місяців тому +1

      @@lorraineconejo4143 Nah ! That’s codswallop ...perhaps people are so fed up with 80 years of bellyaching....

  • @christopheralvarez2318
    @christopheralvarez2318 Рік тому +87

    Terrific video. Sweet revenge for the prisoners who suffered so much.

    • @dullahan7677
      @dullahan7677 Рік тому +9

      Yep. Beware the weak who suddenly become strong.

    • @pacifichistorian
      @pacifichistorian 9 місяців тому

      Seriously. If I were an American soldier liberating Dachau in 1945, I would have taken one of the camp's Nazi flags and pissed on it and then burn it! Booyah! 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇺🇲🇺🇲

  • @mr.kimber44
    @mr.kimber44 Рік тому +5

    "We watched with less feeling than if a dog were (sic) being beaten." What sort of statement is that?! These people were treated worse than anyone in modern history has been yet they have no compassion for a helpless animal? That statement disturbs me as much as the treatment that these people were forced to endure.

  • @sandyman_pov
    @sandyman_pov 4 місяці тому +2

    I visited Dachau one day in 1998 by myself. It's hard to describe what it's like and how you feel afterwards. It affected me deeply and I didn't speak about it much to my coworkers after. I just didn't know what to say. It's almost like there is a thick cloud that hangs over the entire place. I don't think I'll ever experience something like standing in The Block ever again.

  • @michaelferguson3127
    @michaelferguson3127 Рік тому +56

    If you don't know how SS guards could be so cruel, you don't know human nature.

    • @14Aymara
      @14Aymara Рік тому

      Michael Ferguson - Human nature holds good and evil in it. It's up to each person to chose what path to follow. But, of course, if people are directed and in the hands of an evil individual like Hitler, mentally ill, capable of convincing people about his delusional ideals that he said would be able to solve Germany's problems, and brain washed them since their childhood...Well...we all know what that led to. Cruelty was needed to obey his orders...and cruelty can be contagious.

    • @jamesricker3997
      @jamesricker3997 Рік тому +6

      Being a guard at a concentration camp was voluntary
      All applicants were screened to make sure they were emotionally suited for the job

    • @14Aymara
      @14Aymara Рік тому +5

      @@jamesricker3997 - Does that mean they were screened to know if they were cruel, sadistic enough? Well, if they volunteered for the job...that was already a proof of their evil nature.

    • @michaelferguson3127
      @michaelferguson3127 Рік тому

      @@jamesricker3997 I read a book called Hitlers Willing Executioners. It's an interesting read. And of course, Milgram experiment.

    • @mariastevens6406
      @mariastevens6406 Рік тому +4

      @@michaelferguson3127 the fact you think something like that is interesting shows how dangerous you are.

  • @williamwills225
    @williamwills225 Рік тому +28

    Justice was delivered.

  • @richcollins3490
    @richcollins3490 Рік тому +31

    The video needs to be renamed, Justice served.

    • @Automedon2
      @Automedon2 Рік тому

      Justice would have only been served if the entire country had been brought to smoldering ruins. It took millions of Germans to make this possible, and they never paid for their collusion.

  • @danieljstark1625
    @danieljstark1625 2 місяці тому

    I visited Dachau in the mid-1980's. Except for the museum which had pictures of prisoners being tested in rareified atmosphere and cold, it was not possibe to get any understanding of what conditions had been like when the camp was in use. This video does that. Thanks.

  • @Theearthtraveler
    @Theearthtraveler Рік тому +21

    What a well narrated video!!!

  • @ronslaughterandalice1018
    @ronslaughterandalice1018 Рік тому +18

    I was stationed there in 1967 to 1969 and sure it had changed in appearance sense the war years but not so much to hide the scars. A very sad place. I was in the 3rd battalion 37th artillery.

  • @allenlovell1604
    @allenlovell1604 Рік тому +8

    Used to work with a fellow veteran named " Frank " and he told me about his grandfather, who was a POW in or near Dresden, Germany. After the firebombing of Dresden, the German SS force marched the prisoners to clean up the destruction , his grandfather picked up burnt and crumbling corpses like cordwood and stacked them in piles. Frank wrote a book about his grandfather's and other POWs' experiences in a book called Shadows of Slaughterhouse Five." It's grim and grisly reading, better have a strong stomach or better yet -an empty one. Deeds are too horrible to contemplate occurring.

  • @atune2682
    @atune2682 Рік тому +1

    thanks for the video.
    great video.

  • @kimmyk1
    @kimmyk1 Рік тому +31

    The people there knew. They watched as human skeletons walked by.

  • @gloriaf6971
    @gloriaf6971 Рік тому +28

    This is the first time that I am hearing that the Americans killed the German guards at Dachau. I am glad that some of the prisoners were able to get some revenge for the horror they endure at that camp. I visited Dauchau many years ago while I was on a tour of Germany. That place was huge. It is just mind boggling to think of all the people that were tortured and killed there. It is a shame that human beings can be so cruel to other human beings.

  • @Jorn41
    @Jorn41 9 місяців тому +1

    Working as a student assistant in the Museum for the Danish Resistance 1940-45, I once had the job of verifying and re-filing pictures from WW2. I had certain categories; fx. Industrial Sabotage in the town of Odense, pictures from Copenhagen - and pictures of dead camp guards from KZ-camps, executed by either soldiers or prisoners. Quite grueling pictures, but as the videos ends with - no tears was shed for them!!

  • @Ethericrose
    @Ethericrose Рік тому +1

    Thank you! For this video. Truly! 💚💐💚

  • @renee1961
    @renee1961 Рік тому +11

    I also Appreciate the Narrator 's voice, and elegant manner of speaking! Perfect for these videos!

    • @HanaHansVinduska
      @HanaHansVinduska Рік тому

      I was actually wondering if it is an actual person that narrated this. It’s almost too perfect, with regularity in accent and steady cadance…

  • @saulayala4970
    @saulayala4970 Рік тому +44

    Sounds like a great decision. Excellent leadership on the part of Gen Patton. Eye for an eye!!!!

    • @kellysimmons6142
      @kellysimmons6142 Рік тому +4

      Love Patton biggest set of balls for a General!

    • @krisaaron5771
      @krisaaron5771 Рік тому +2

      Years ago, I read that when Patton entered Dachau for the first inspection he pulled his handgun and had to be restrained by several aides from shooting the Nazi guards himself! On the road back to headquarters his aide -- after Patton's death -- said the general sat quietly in the back seat and sobbed. I believe he was deeply ashamed to be part of the same species as the camp guards.
      We do ourselves a terrible disservice if we call them "beasts". They were just as human as any of us. We must never NEVER forget what every one of us is capable of.

  • @billjeffers2273
    @billjeffers2273 10 місяців тому +4

    This is why I personally get pissed off when the word nazi is so loosely thrown around today.
    Disgusting and sad.
    Peace❤

  • @rhm5158
    @rhm5158 11 місяців тому +2

    Very well put together

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 Рік тому +12

    Excellent documentary coverage video that condemned Nazism regimes at Atrocious, brutalized behavior. Thanks for sharing

    • @WorldHistoryVideos
      @WorldHistoryVideos  Рік тому +2

      Thank you so much

    • @ronskancke1489
      @ronskancke1489 Рік тому +1

      Movies like Schindlers list bring tears to my eyes. He did what he could but alas there were too few like him.

    • @mickeypip1524
      @mickeypip1524 7 місяців тому

      @@ronskancke1489 I do like The Sound Of Music.......I liked it when the Family Von Trappe got away over the mountains to Switzerland at the end.

  • @theturquoisedream9244
    @theturquoisedream9244 Рік тому +23

    Even with all that, those fiends got off so easy and deserved so much worse.

  • @Patrick-sb2sb
    @Patrick-sb2sb Рік тому +123

    I am a Vietnam Veteran. I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I would like to say R.I.P. allied troops, and offer a hand salute to your memory. You are truly THE GREATEST GENERATION. And to the millions of people who suffered the horrors perpetrated by these devil possessed beasts I would like to say, REST in Peace and God Bless all the memories of you.
    And to Hitler and and the demon possessed hordes that blindly followed him I would say, burn in hell forever!!

    • @cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338
      @cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338 Рік тому +4

      My dad was there 67-68 and 70-71.

    • @theaggiefan54
      @theaggiefan54 Рік тому +4

      Thank you for your service

    • @Patrick-sb2sb
      @Patrick-sb2sb Рік тому +4

      @@cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338 Tell your Dad that a fellow Vietnam Vet said, Welcome Home. Do you know where he was stationed in 70-71 ? That's when I was there.

    • @Patrick-sb2sb
      @Patrick-sb2sb Рік тому +4

      @@theaggiefan54 Thank you for caring my friend.

    • @cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338
      @cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338 Рік тому +5

      @@Patrick-sb2sb He says: DMZ Fire Support Base Charlie 2 1st battalion 61st infantry 1M

  • @sarge6870
    @sarge6870 Рік тому

    Good info and narration...I'm subbing.!

  • @fotorabia
    @fotorabia Рік тому +61

    I went to Dachau in 1990..when i arrived to live in Munich. It was said there was still a stench that emanated off the ground from the mass graves in hot weather. Also local folklore of the residents of the village being in denial...it was suggested they would have been able to smell at least the crematoria...so were lying.

    • @sochaoracza1506
      @sochaoracza1506 Рік тому +8

      I am Polish I was in Germany from 1983-85. Can you believe that I haven't met one Greman who was in Poland from 1939 to 1945. They all were in the West front or in Russia. Makes me wonder who was in Poland?

    • @slowery43
      @slowery43 Рік тому +2

      BS - there is no smell from corpse after 45 years nice try though in embelishing your story to seem interesting

    • @josepherhardt164
      @josepherhardt164 Рік тому

      @@sochaoracza1506 Who was in Poland? The East Prussians. They were all destroyed when Koenigsberg fell. None are left.
      /s -- for the idjits who need the hint.

    • @JackSmith-hx8zh
      @JackSmith-hx8zh Рік тому +7

      I went there in 1989, at the height of summer. There weren't any odd smells. In fact, the place seemed oddly sanitised, with its lawns and flower gardens. Another, strong memory was how the bus driver to Dachau announced the stop, "Concentration Camp" in such a nonchalant manner, it seemed deliberately disrespectful. Nevertheless, it was an emotionally overwhelming experience.

    • @monabale8263
      @monabale8263 Рік тому +1

      so. disappointed? 🤨

  • @henrikandreason7261
    @henrikandreason7261 Рік тому +90

    What really horrifies my as well, besides it being one of the most heinous acts ever conducted in human history - is that the camp guards where so accustomed and ingrained with death that they could no longer sense the stench of it. In stark contrast to the allies who started to vomit, and even cry.

    • @ralphshelley9586
      @ralphshelley9586 Рік тому +3

      Himmler hurled at the ditches!

    • @henrikandreason7261
      @henrikandreason7261 Рік тому +4

      @@ralphshelley9586 yes exactly, because even he didn't spend time there like the guards did.

    • @mikey2363
      @mikey2363 Рік тому +4

      Look up the Holodomor

    • @tigerboy60
      @tigerboy60 Рік тому +1

      That's what happens when you "Brainwash" Children in school.

    • @christytaylor5554
      @christytaylor5554 Рік тому +1

      @@ralphshelley9586 that's cause Himmler was a specky right "see you next Tues".

  • @brianwilner3634
    @brianwilner3634 Рік тому +36

    I am happy I saw the end when the prisoners got revenge. It was a small token to give them any relief of the horror they endured. Never forget!

    • @yodatits8569
      @yodatits8569 Рік тому

      Arent the jews that fled to palestina opressing and killing the locals till this day? Im just saying in reality there is never a real villain and a real hero.

  • @adamskiyo
    @adamskiyo 8 місяців тому

    anyone know a link to where i can see some of the graphic stuff?

    • @KohalaLover
      @KohalaLover 6 місяців тому

      So you can practice?

  • @regsypher9168
    @regsypher9168 Рік тому +1

    Could tell me if you have done anything on the Thai-Burma railway and the Japanese prisoner war?

  • @Thesaltymedic36
    @Thesaltymedic36 Рік тому +15

    I visited Dachau years ago. It is something I won’t forget.

  • @claudethibaudeau2714
    @claudethibaudeau2714 Рік тому +85

    It doesn't matter how many of these videos I watch, I just can't imagine how any of them survived. Perhaps the will to continue and perhaps wishing the ultimate bodily harm on their evil captors is what kept them going. Talk about an intense will to live and I'd imagine that after liberation, nothing in the world could ever be fully comprehended as to why. Yes I understand some of the why but man I could never understand what they lived through in all of the concentration camps. May they all rest in peace.

    • @adcoxrobert3786
      @adcoxrobert3786 Рік тому +2

      Read about Viktor Frankl's experiences to know how they endured.

    • @TheJakecakes
      @TheJakecakes Рік тому +3

      @@adcoxrobert3786 Such an important book.

    • @adcoxrobert3786
      @adcoxrobert3786 Рік тому +1

      @@TheJakecakes Yes, and his point about loci of control (internal vs. external) turns out to be the cornerstone of psychological warfare. His captors couldn't defeat him no matter how hard they tried.

    • @mackavelli8872
      @mackavelli8872 Рік тому

      @@adcoxrobert3786 there's only one who thought like Victor Frankl and that's Victor Frankl.

    • @adcoxrobert3786
      @adcoxrobert3786 Рік тому

      @@mackavelli8872 I think like Viktor Frankl and I'm not alone.

  • @karatearmchairhistorian9825
    @karatearmchairhistorian9825 6 місяців тому +1

    I knew a Polish-American guy who was taken from occupied Poland as a teenager to work in a factory in Germany. When that part of the Reich was liberated, he joined the US Army and then was assigned to Dachau, where he arrived soon after the camp was liberated. He told me that he and other Poles in the US Army would purposefully turn a blind eye to any violence that the former prisoners would inflict upon the German guards (I guess there were other nationals, not just Germans who were guards at Dachau, but I do not want to diminish the overall German responsibility by using the generic term "Nazi"), and that the US Army officers would pretty much allow them (the Polish-American soldiers) to let the ex-prisoners do whatever they wanted to their former captors.

  • @patheis63
    @patheis63 Рік тому +2

    My great uncle was in the Rainbow Division & told me when I was a kid in the 1970s that Am GIs checked the suspected German death camp guards' shoulders for the ss lightning bolt tattoos. Those with the tattoos were then summarily executed.

  • @philipdemaeyer1665
    @philipdemaeyer1665 Рік тому +82

    My great-grandfather was one of the survivors of Dachau.

  • @arnabdutta9326
    @arnabdutta9326 Рік тому +16

    Its not a brutal execution of guards, but justice being delivered on spot for all the sufferings inflicted on the weak.

  • @dropd1039
    @dropd1039 23 дні тому

    Took 10 whole minutes to finally get to the point. Didn't need the history lesson. I'm so glad I block ads.

  • @rickoshay5525
    @rickoshay5525 Рік тому +9

    The opening reminds me of that scene from Cast A Giant Shadow when Kirk Douglas shows John Wayne the camp, and John Wayne then immediately orders that every truck and medical supply be brought to the camp immediately before he departs to apparently go vomit.

  • @renee1961
    @renee1961 Рік тому +67

    Prayers for The Innocent Victims, Survivors, and Those That Fought for Them.🥀🥀🥀🥀💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

    • @paddybrennan3644
      @paddybrennan3644 Рік тому +1

      Save your prayers
      What Devine purpose is there in killing

    • @slowery43
      @slowery43 Рік тому +1

      that's some excellent virtue signaling there Princess great job

    • @jimmurphy4703
      @jimmurphy4703 Рік тому +1

      There is no god

    • @mickeypip1524
      @mickeypip1524 7 місяців тому

      No more !
      I can’t stand any more of this hand- wringing...80 years ago....its doing my head in!

    • @davidschwartz6380
      @davidschwartz6380 7 місяців тому

      @@mickeypip1524 i am sure Lady Karma has some special plan for you

  • @NelsonRiverosMusic
    @NelsonRiverosMusic Рік тому +11

    It was good to see this video and to know that it was retribution. I don’t know how the prisoners could not put together a revolt even though many would have died but there were many more of them than probably guards.

    • @Stopthisrightnow560
      @Stopthisrightnow560 Рік тому +4

      It's very complicated.
      There were some small uprisings but the revenge the Nazis took was atrocious. They also divided the Jews and turned them against each other- even in the camps.
      The likelihood of ever organising a huge coup without anyone finding out or ratting them out was almost impossible.
      And then they had to take into account that the camps were completely cut off from society by gates and fences with almost no resources INSIDE the camp to help them break free.
      Iirc, there was an instant where a camp was found that had been abandoned by the Nazis but they were still unable to escape.

    • @josephgriffin2388
      @josephgriffin2388 6 місяців тому

      See what happens to societies that DON'T have some form of 2nd Amendment?
      When you strip a country of defending itself internally, this can happen again.
      Yall really think if Germans had been armed to the teeth, that this could've happened?
      NO PHUKING WAY!!!

  • @tonysigsby870
    @tonysigsby870 Рік тому +8

    Made sense that the prisoners got to take care of those guards

  • @harrynking777
    @harrynking777 Рік тому +83

    Good to know that some justice was carried out. A shame that it was only a small proportion of the total.

    • @UpsheetscreekWOapaddle
      @UpsheetscreekWOapaddle Рік тому +1

      Not enough IMHO.
      Perhaps when it's God's turn. Not sure if we'll know. We have deniers and those that support them (some in the GOP) amongst
      SMH

    • @johnnyloungejazz5477
      @johnnyloungejazz5477 Рік тому

      Their still out here folks, don’t think this will never happen again.

    • @CJinsoo
      @CJinsoo Рік тому

      @@UpsheetscreekWOapaddle actually they are in the Dem party-for example, the despicable sods proposing camps for the unvaxed, denying health care, denying jobs, let the unvaxed die.

    • @CF_E30
      @CF_E30 Рік тому

      There's evidence that these were not the camp officers for the duration of the war, but bought in at the very end to keep some order to the spread of a deadly epidemic called typhus. So they killed people that were actually trying to save the lives of the inmates. Also no gassing took place here, so do we simply murder all prison guards for doing a job of containing prisoners??

    • @MrRedberd
      @MrRedberd Рік тому

      @@UpsheetscreekWOapaddle Some? They all become complicit, way too easily. The only reason anyone quits the Republican party is when the guilt becomes unbearable. Then they are replace by someone more complicit.

  • @mariastevens6406
    @mariastevens6406 Рік тому +28

    Just imagine the fear that these ss guards must have felt before finally being killed in a horrific way. A fitting end for these monsters.

  • @madhistory
    @madhistory Рік тому

    Great Work Thank You for what you do . Jss

  • @geneo1976
    @geneo1976 Рік тому

    A great video. I married a gal who was born in Munich, Germany. When we went back to visit her family I had to visit Dachau being a WWII history buff. Well, almost any German will whisper the word "Dachau" if you are talking about the concentration camp. The war is a very touchy part of their history which most want to forget. It is terrible how one person, Hitler, destroyed the lives of so many people.

    • @Jimmy911ism
      @Jimmy911ism Рік тому +1

      The UK and France declared war on Germany, not the other way around.

    • @lorakossen1830
      @lorakossen1830 5 місяців тому

      @@Jimmy911ismyes after Germany invaded Poland. The Germans were the aggressors.

  • @lapensulo4684
    @lapensulo4684 Рік тому +32

    There were no tears shed for the guards of DACCHA.

  • @jamestakacs
    @jamestakacs Рік тому +6

    I thank you for your work. I truly love your programs. Now, I see everything through red white and blue glasses. I understand that. With that said, what did you want our brave American Soldiers to do? First, they did not know or experience anything like this. You have to remember you had young guys from the farms or the cities. Small town America. Where you helped your neighbors. If the farm down the road needed help with the harvest, you helped them. IF in the small towns or cities a neighbor was sick, you helped them.. A old lady is having trouble crossing the street, you helped her. When the Americans saw these damaged people in the camp they were their neighbors and they helped them. You're damn right the Nazi's paid the price. It's too bad.

  • @carstenhansen5757
    @carstenhansen5757 6 місяців тому +2

    Slow down the pictures, when there is text. It's annoying to have to pause, if you leaned back and if you don't pause, you don't get the text.