Went to the Imperial War Museum last Saturday, the Holocaust gallery is the most emotional place I’ve been into. First you see these delightful stories of Jewish life before the Nazi’s persecuted them, then you’re hit hard with the horrors they faced. It was hard to stomach. I walked around just thinking, how can humans do this to other humans? It makes no sense, it really doesn’t.
At the root of all this is that human beings are tribal. Anyone who looks and/or sounds different is to be feared. This tendency to fear, or be suspicious of, makes it easy for propagandists to influence specific groups/tribes to do their bidding. Having said that, the socioeconomic situation has to be right for this to work. If the majority tribe are feeling threatened by socioeconomic events, it is much easier to focus their attention on a different tribe and attribute blame. Fears and suspicions work on an emotional level and can easily morph into hatred. Once fear, suspicion and hatred are prevalent, compassion goes out of the window.
Fascists are gaining ground pretty much everywhere, everyday. If things keep heading into the direction they currently are, I fear something similar might happen again. Maybe even during my lifetime.
I am relieved to hear the phrase "...and their collaborators...". Many writers seem to forget the gleeful participation of the non-Jewish populations of invaded and occupied lands: in Poland, the Baltic States, Ukraine, even France. It would not have been so easy without the willing help of neighbours.
As a Somali, it pains my heart to see the plight that the Jewish people had faced in the hands of the German Nazis. I hope that nothing lie this will ever happen in the future.
I will never be able to comprehend how someone can be filled with so much hate to do this to innocent people because of their believes. Could you imagine being a worker during the construction of the camps just knowing that you are building something for the sole purpose of mass murdering innocent human beings.
I agree. I can't understand how anyone was ok complying with this. I guess the manipulation was an ongoing process and over time these officers began to believe that anyone who was not German or didn't conform to their ways was a threat and had to be eliminated, I don't believe they were all born this way. Terrible.
They saw all Jews as Bolshevik Jews. They had not the time, inclination nor intelligence to discriminate within the Jewish population. Thus the attempt to exterminate all.
I agree with literally everything they did until you add innocent into it, there are "people" in this world that need to be put in those camps, the ones who run it must be monsters that are able to control being a monster, but if innocents are put into the camp it's no longer the prime idea of what it should be, should be the last place a rapist sees not the victim
@@banannas2300 Fear can make people do anything. Manipulation by people in power can make people look down on a certain group very easily. Just look at the last 2 years.
IWM London, is one of the best museums I have visited. First time I visited the Holocaust exebition. It was hard to grasp, the reality of it, struck hard. Felt like my gut was wrenching out.. Very important, if not the most important part of the museum. (And I am mostly a ww2 aircraft buff)
I went to IWM London before it was revamped. Saw the Holocaust exhibition then, it was sad to see. I don't know how any human can do such horrible things to another human
I remember being a 6th grader and we were reading the Diary of Anne Frank and we had holocaust survivor woman visit our school and spent a week with my class each day in the library, learning extensively about the Holocaust, the night of the broken glass, the ghettos, we learned and saw images/footage of how brutal this truly was, how many people became victims to this horrendous situation. (Some might say: oh how could you expose and show young kids to such graphic information?) Well I just want to answer by saying: it was these exact moments of my Life, that I realized just how important empathy was. I experienced attempting to consider what these poor souls must have felt like? All around, you try and analyze the entire situation, and honestly, even tho it was very graphic material, it was a key factor that built compassion with-in myself. How I saw just how important it was to treat others around you with kindness and understanding. It motivated me to never let that level of hatred happen with-in me because I realized that "what those (evil people) were feeling and acting like is inside all of us if you let it fester and grow and flourish from inside to transfer to external communal group behavior. So rather than deny that all humans are capable of evil, actively face it, and actively chose to not let that evil and hatred grow in you." So by being self aware, allows me to realize, ok, so we all have our own unique perspective and there's no reason to force anyone to not be themselves, so it's okay to learn patience and understanding and not letting things bug you or get to you. Where you can disagree with someone but just let it go, you can even still interact with them, be friends , and you don't have to fully see eye to eye on everything, that's okay. Diversity makes life interesting and adds depth instead of everything being copy paste images of each other. (The one thing we all should agree on is people should not be able to go around hurting others around them no matter what.) So at the end of the day im very greatful for that experience in middle school of learning and facing deep parts of our mortality, our inner dark corners of the human mind, our ability to gather together and get carried away. Most of all tho, that no matter what I felt I learned humanity was capable of overcoming any amount of suffering and atrocities. That somehow someway we will find a way to live on and compassion and hope will always somehow live on. Somehow. Like nature, even forest fires occur, volcano eruptions, etc. Nature finds a way to live on, to find the good in things, to convert energy rather than waste it, it takes even difficult things and finds ways to utilize things to help with it grow and keep going even after the difficulties. Somehow turning negative into fuel for creativity and motivation. Nature is amazing, I love hiking my dogs In the dense forest here in NW Oregon. I'm always so facinating with it's abilities and the things I can observe from it if I look at it right and pay attention to it the right way. There's so much complexity going on, even just within the forest floor, or a decaying fallen old mossy tree. There's so many things that we can utilize from learning about what's going on and they almost can be transferrable attributes to other aspects of the natural world and you really see the interconnected systems, with-in different ecosystems in different ways. It's really amazing that nature finds a way and a way to find balance, hardly wastes anything, rather it finds creative manners to utilize things. It's inspiring and kinda gives hope to unknown bleak situations.
I visited Yad Vashem while I was in Israel in 2020, where hundreds of Holocaust artifacts are on display. Two that stick with me are a railcar that was used to transport victims to a camp as well as a chunk of the platform where the prisoners were unloaded, and a pit filled with shoes taken from victims and covered with plexiglass so you walk over it as you exit the exhibit. The videos and textbooks are nothing compared to *touching* pieces that were actually there. It was extremely emotional. My dad had to power-walk through the entire museum to get out before bursting into tears, and I really don't blame him.
The photo at 5:41 looks almost exactly like the photo of one of the Holocaust Survivors who was a teacher who attended our school for a speech to show us what it happened and what he experienced.
It seems to have been forgotten that Ukraine gave up 90,000 jews to the nazis in the second world war. Over 100,000 ukrainians joined the wermacht and the ss. People have such short memories.
People can deny it all they want. But if people simply look at the cross examination and testimony of Nazis on trial post ww2, all the information is there from their own mouths. If you read all their testimony it’s clear what happened. In fact ww2 is one of the most well documented periods and conflicts ever. Even some of the most radical Nazis like the editor of Der Sturmer, an anti semetic paper that said multiple times Jewry should be annihilated, was on court record saying that he believed millions were murdered. He was later executed by hanging because there was evidence he was actively reading reports of their murders while simultaneously publishing anti semetic propaganda.
Just unreal that pretty much the same thing is going on in Ukraine as I type this. To me it dosen't really matter what method is used to kill it's still murder.
What about the Uyghurs and Christians in China and elsewhere? It continuously happens. What about children stolen in the US and Canada and turned into sex slaves? Mankind is wicked.
@@jam99 it sure takes a lot, but the result is astounding. Check the "They Shall Not Grow Old" documentary about WWI, with coloured and voiced-over footage, while everything is described with the very words of interviewed veterans.
Carbon monoxide from captured Russian tank engines to start with, then they used Cyclon B, a commercially available poison used for pest extermination. It was Hydrogen Cyanide otherwise known as Prussic acid. It was in a powdered form that reacts with air to produce the deadly gas. The people in the gas chambers took around 20 minutes to die.
I am amazed people willingly walk over to the trenches turn their back and wait to be shot I would fight to the last breath try to take one of them with me
While you`re on the subject of Concentration Camps and the mass murder of civilians...any episodes available on the Camps set up by Britain in South Africa during The Boer War? , hundreds of thousands of women and children intentionally starved to death...
Oh, you mean the ones where the guards also starved to death or from the same diseases killing the internees? The ones where the action of the Boer fightsrs cut supply routes to?
Approximately 46,000 South Africans died in British concentration camps during the Second Boer War, approximately 25% of those imprisoned, not "hundreds of thousands."The deaths were the result of insufficient food, overcrowding, lack of medical care and disease. The British high command in South Africa was focused exclusively on winning the military struggle against the Boer guerillas and paid little attention to the horrible suffering in the camps. But there was no deliberate policy of genocide. The death toll was the result of pig-headed indifference, and incompetence, not a deliberate policy of mass murder. The whole episode is a hideous, shameful chapter in British history, but facts matter and it was NOT the "The Final Solution to the Boer Question." To conflate the two is an exaggeration.
The French were often brutal in their colonial wars and tried to keep hold of them, the British (though we invented the Concentration Camp, a black mark on our record) generally did more good and when it came to giving up the empire, we did it in the most peaceful transfer of power in history. The British learned their lesson and strove not to repeat it, as far as colonial empires go, the British tended to be the most well behaved on the whole apart from a few black marks against us which are an exception rather than the rule. The British Empire was the first to not only ban the trade and transportation of slaves, they gave the Royal Navy full authority to literally go to war on the Slavers and anyone helping them which destroyed the slave trade in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean by the late 19th century. The French and Spanish Empires, those were horror shows. Spain is probably the most brutal of the European Empires.
Germany let it happen. I don't blame the Poles for not doing enough. The Brits murdered Heydrich, liberated Belsen and could realisticly not do much to stop the holocaust. 80% of the jews died in 1942-43 and they died in Eastern Europe - far away from the reach of British bombers. The only ones who had a realistic chance of stopping this tragedy from reaching epic proportions were the Russians. But I find it hard to blame the Russian people for not doing enough sacrifices to stop nazi tyrrany. 20 million Russians died in their war with Hitler, so how much more can one demand of them?
@@jam99 To believe the German people were blameless for not revolting especially after Dresden?? Because, usually that type of destruction, on that scale, usually does the trick… But for some reason, not in Nazi Germany? The non-action of the German people to not commit a National insurrection is a crime in itself! Even to save their own lives, the lives of their children & the lives of future Germans! Let alone the millions held in captivity. So therefore the people not taking action for National insurrection against their NSADP government running the Nation! Hence, the blame goes to both the German people & that government that made up that Nation.
Actually, climate change, as there is lots of talk about it but little action against it, will likely cause fascism to rise again. Gigantic waves of refugees will be incoming when large parts of the earth will become nearly uninhabitable. This will further strengthen extremist / far-right parties, which are already on the rise. And this might ultimately cause WWIII and / or civil wars and / or a genocide or two. So maybe, just maybe we should tackle the topic of climate change, among other things.
It's time to let this slip into the past. Remembering these events to this degree only causes them and the horror they represent to live themselves, into the future. Remembering will absolutely not prevent these events to occur again for they most certainly have and will continue into the future.
For what it is worth, my Dad severed in the RCA during WW2. In the early 1980's when revisionist history was coming into it's own, we were watching the news and a holocaust denier was featured. He didn't speak of the war often, but turned to me and said "They really did kill those people.
Alexander Smith your dad have proof? Where is it? Can you show me or is this just a fancy story to grab some attention because your dad was invited to participate in world War 2.
Revisionism stems from pure careless ignorance and laziness because if you look at the Nuremberg court transcripts, which are corroborated by video recordings, the higher level Nazis incriminate themselves multiple times on large scale war crimes. Even Goering in the court transcripts admits he signed off orders that gave very lenient punishments to people that murdered Jews (and POWs). If you look at the own words of the people involved and their own recorded testimony, it’s no mystery. It’s all there. Jews were synonymous to bolsheviks. They were considered enemies of the state. They were all to be mass murdered, and after Jews were wiped out it’d probably be another group. It’s really simple.
No, killing by carbon monoxide was definitely not “inefficient” at all. In fact, far more Jews were murdered by engine exhaust than by zyklon B. Although the time it took for the victims to perish in the gas chambers was slightly longer, the speed of the hole process of killing people was often greater or much greater in the Reinhardt camps than in Auschwitz Birkenau. And the culmination of the holocaust, (that is the deadliest period) was not in the spring of 1944 but in the late summer and autumn of 1942.
That is correct. In just a 100 day period from late July to early October 1942 over 1.6 million people were killed in Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majadanek, and in mass shootings. By early October 1942 over 3 million people half of all of the Jewish people who were killed in the Holocaust had already been killed with them being killed in Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majadanek, and in mass shootings.
I think they are referring to instances where the gas chambers broke down for extended periods leaving would-be victims stuck waiting in the cattle cars for days on end before eventually being ‘processed’. The early days of Treblinka, for instance, were supposedly complete chaos.
Absolutely, it would be horrible. However, I fear that world is heading into the direction of fascism, again. This time, after communists, socialists, etc., I think that Muslims might be the first target.
The scale of the horrors almost defies acceptance. I have a horrible feeling that if I witnessed these events I would have kept my head down. There must have been a very strong will to survive, that is, to ignore what was happening. I hope I am wrong.
The Nazis certainly were experts at logistics. Still hard to believe those camps actually happened, but they did. Also hard to believe that the German people 'didn't know'.
No one knew for sure except many members of the SS. All this was happening during a giant war and the Gestapo was controlling information. There were rumors amongst the different National populations but no one knew for sure. Still the Germans were complicit in their inaction to stand up against the Nazi regime for many reasons. Even certain higher level nazi officials or their Allies didn’t know exactly what was happening. Millions of men were fighting and dying on the front and there were millions of POWs too in the camp systems. It was all very obfuscated. The SS ran the camps and they did everything they could to keep it secret.
The Wehrmacht were complicit in the Holocaust. Don't believe the post WW2 cold war myth of them being only soldiers. They permitted and partook in mass murder.
There was an attempt to "whitewash" the Wehrmacht, but it started to get debunked ever since ~1990s, starting with an entire exhibition full of photos made by Wehrmacht soldiers of their own or their comrades' war crimes.
You're right there are no good guys in war, but there's a far cry between bombing civilian centres to try and end a war (with no intention to wipe out the german people) and intentionally trying to wipe a people off the face of the earth. If you can't see the difference between those two then you're either wilfully blind or foolish.
@@adielstephenson2929 thanks for calling out the idiot. How can he compare the deliberate extermination of innocent kids for belonging to an ethnic group be related to bombing which was warfare anyway. He wanted Hitler not to be bombed into surrender to stop killing innocent people? Imagine
I’m pretty sure the guy that declared a militaristic one party state and said Jews should be annihilated from Europe in speeches and writing was the bad guy. Just saying
Went to the Imperial War Museum last Saturday, the Holocaust gallery is the most emotional place I’ve been into. First you see these delightful stories of Jewish life before the Nazi’s persecuted them, then you’re hit hard with the horrors they faced. It was hard to stomach. I walked around just thinking, how can humans do this to other humans? It makes no sense, it really doesn’t.
Ask the NKVD in Kiev in 41.
@@rowdyelitehater8595 And your point is?
At the root of all this is that human beings are tribal. Anyone who looks and/or sounds different is to be feared. This tendency to fear, or be suspicious of, makes it easy for propagandists to influence specific groups/tribes to do their bidding. Having said that, the socioeconomic situation has to be right for this to work. If the majority tribe are feeling threatened by socioeconomic events, it is much easier to focus their attention on a different tribe and attribute blame. Fears and suspicions work on an emotional level and can easily morph into hatred. Once fear, suspicion and hatred are prevalent, compassion goes out of the window.
Hatred to the Races of Jews and it was a Dark Ages to them the Retribution even now that Hatred Grows soon tk re-emerge..
Fascists are gaining ground pretty much everywhere, everyday. If things keep heading into the direction they currently are, I fear something similar might happen again. Maybe even during my lifetime.
I am relieved to hear the phrase "...and their collaborators...".
Many writers seem to forget the gleeful participation of the non-Jewish populations of invaded and occupied lands: in Poland, the Baltic States, Ukraine, even France.
It would not have been so easy without the willing help of neighbours.
As a Somali, it pains my heart to see the plight that the Jewish people had faced in the hands of the German Nazis. I hope that nothing lie this will ever happen in the future.
I will never be able to comprehend how someone can be filled with so much hate to do this to innocent people because of their believes. Could you imagine being a worker during the construction of the camps just knowing that you are building something for the sole purpose of mass murdering innocent human beings.
I agree. I can't understand how anyone was ok complying with this. I guess the manipulation was an ongoing process and over time these officers began to believe that anyone who was not German or didn't conform to their ways was a threat and had to be eliminated, I don't believe they were all born this way. Terrible.
They saw all Jews as Bolshevik Jews. They had not the time, inclination nor intelligence to discriminate within the Jewish population. Thus the attempt to exterminate all.
Well it all started when I signed up for art school-
I agree with literally everything they did until you add innocent into it, there are "people" in this world that need to be put in those camps, the ones who run it must be monsters that are able to control being a monster, but if innocents are put into the camp it's no longer the prime idea of what it should be, should be the last place a rapist sees not the victim
@@banannas2300 Fear can make people do anything. Manipulation by people in power can make people look down on a certain group very easily. Just look at the last 2 years.
IWM London, is one of the best museums I have visited. First time I visited the Holocaust exebition. It was hard to grasp, the reality of it, struck hard. Felt like my gut was wrenching out.. Very important, if not the most important part of the museum. (And I am mostly a ww2 aircraft buff)
Hard to imagine there are those who still deny any of this happened.
Try visiting birkinau and auswitch that's a harrowing experience as well.
@@Dez083 Just ignore them unless you can't.
I went to IWM London before it was revamped. Saw the Holocaust exhibition then, it was sad to see. I don't know how any human can do such horrible things to another human
I remember being a 6th grader and we were reading the Diary of Anne Frank and we had holocaust survivor woman visit our school and spent a week with my class each day in the library, learning extensively about the Holocaust, the night of the broken glass, the ghettos, we learned and saw images/footage of how brutal this truly was, how many people became victims to this horrendous situation. (Some might say: oh how could you expose and show young kids to such graphic information?) Well I just want to answer by saying: it was these exact moments of my Life, that I realized just how important empathy was. I experienced attempting to consider what these poor souls must have felt like? All around, you try and analyze the entire situation, and honestly, even tho it was very graphic material, it was a key factor that built compassion with-in myself. How I saw just how important it was to treat others around you with kindness and understanding. It motivated me to never let that level of hatred happen with-in me because I realized that "what those (evil people) were feeling and acting like is inside all of us if you let it fester and grow and flourish from inside to transfer to external communal group behavior. So rather than deny that all humans are capable of evil, actively face it, and actively chose to not let that evil and hatred grow in you." So by being self aware, allows me to realize, ok, so we all have our own unique perspective and there's no reason to force anyone to not be themselves, so it's okay to learn patience and understanding and not letting things bug you or get to you. Where you can disagree with someone but just let it go, you can even still interact with them, be friends , and you don't have to fully see eye to eye on everything, that's okay. Diversity makes life interesting and adds depth instead of everything being copy paste images of each other. (The one thing we all should agree on is people should not be able to go around hurting others around them no matter what.) So at the end of the day im very greatful for that experience in middle school of learning and facing deep parts of our mortality, our inner dark corners of the human mind, our ability to gather together and get carried away. Most of all tho, that no matter what I felt I learned humanity was capable of overcoming any amount of suffering and atrocities. That somehow someway we will find a way to live on and compassion and hope will always somehow live on. Somehow. Like nature, even forest fires occur, volcano eruptions, etc. Nature finds a way to live on, to find the good in things, to convert energy rather than waste it, it takes even difficult things and finds ways to utilize things to help with it grow and keep going even after the difficulties. Somehow turning negative into fuel for creativity and motivation. Nature is amazing, I love hiking my dogs In the dense forest here in NW Oregon. I'm always so facinating with it's abilities and the things I can observe from it if I look at it right and pay attention to it the right way. There's so much complexity going on, even just within the forest floor, or a decaying fallen old mossy tree. There's so many things that we can utilize from learning about what's going on and they almost can be transferrable attributes to other aspects of the natural world and you really see the interconnected systems, with-in different ecosystems in different ways. It's really amazing that nature finds a way and a way to find balance, hardly wastes anything, rather it finds creative manners to utilize things. It's inspiring and kinda gives hope to unknown bleak situations.
Excellent work, and you tell the story so well and so movingly. Congratulations
I visited Yad Vashem while I was in Israel in 2020, where hundreds of Holocaust artifacts are on display. Two that stick with me are a railcar that was used to transport victims to a camp as well as a chunk of the platform where the prisoners were unloaded, and a pit filled with shoes taken from victims and covered with plexiglass so you walk over it as you exit the exhibit. The videos and textbooks are nothing compared to *touching* pieces that were actually there.
It was extremely emotional. My dad had to power-walk through the entire museum to get out before bursting into tears, and I really don't blame him.
Harden up.
Thank you for your factual yet moving piece on the Nazi holocaust. Keep up the informative work.
The photo at 5:41 looks almost exactly like the photo of one of the Holocaust Survivors who was a teacher who attended our school for a speech to show us what it happened and what he experienced.
*"NEVER AGAIN."*
*And yet today in 2021 Academics and Politicians are denying it happened !*
Some people will always state that they believe something opposite to the consensus simply because they want attention. Don't give them it.
It seems to have been forgotten that Ukraine gave up 90,000 jews to the nazis in the second world war. Over 100,000 ukrainians joined the wermacht and the ss. People have such short memories.
People can deny it all they want. But if people simply look at the cross examination and testimony of Nazis on trial post ww2, all the information is there from their own mouths.
If you read all their testimony it’s clear what happened. In fact ww2 is one of the most well documented periods and conflicts ever.
Even some of the most radical Nazis like the editor of Der Sturmer, an anti semetic paper that said multiple times Jewry should be annihilated, was on court record saying that he believed millions were murdered. He was later executed by hanging because there was evidence he was actively reading reports of their murders while simultaneously publishing anti semetic propaganda.
Does the IWM have a section dedicated to telling the true history of Bloody Sunday 1972?
Thank you.
Just unreal that pretty much the same thing is going on in Ukraine as I type this. To me it dosen't really matter what method is used to kill it's still murder.
What about the Uyghurs and Christians in China and elsewhere? It continuously happens. What about children stolen in the US and Canada and turned into sex slaves? Mankind is wicked.
It’s not at all the same thing 😂
Impressive site , look's like The "HISTORY CHANNEL"
If you want to show the horror that occurred, colorize the photos and movies.
It's a very good point. I think it is starting to be done but surely this is very laborious?
@@jam99 it sure takes a lot, but the result is astounding. Check the "They Shall Not Grow Old" documentary about WWI, with coloured and voiced-over footage, while everything is described with the very words of interviewed veterans.
This terrible tragedy should never have happened.prayers for all. Holocaust victims
This is like uighurs in xinjiang
Eh?
The Chinese are not quite as homicidal.
I mean I could have heard wrong but I heard that they used sulfur not carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide from captured Russian tank engines to start with, then they used Cyclon B, a commercially available poison used for pest extermination. It was Hydrogen Cyanide otherwise known as Prussic acid. It was in a powdered form that reacts with air to produce the deadly gas. The people in the gas chambers took around 20 minutes to die.
I think it was zyklon b .....a cyanide based pesticide
I am amazed people willingly walk over to the trenches turn their back and wait to be shot I would fight to the last breath try to take one of them with me
Missing millions of people there
Where?
Looks like b1 and b2 uniform
Interesting how much is being omitted
While you`re on the subject of Concentration Camps and the mass murder of civilians...any episodes available on the Camps set up by Britain in South Africa during The Boer War? , hundreds of thousands of women and children intentionally starved to death...
Episode on the Armenian genocide by Turkey. Any chance?
Oh, you mean the ones where the guards also starved to death or from the same diseases killing the internees? The ones where the action of the Boer fightsrs cut supply routes to?
Approximately 46,000 South Africans died in British concentration camps during the Second Boer War, approximately 25% of those imprisoned, not "hundreds of thousands."The deaths were the result of insufficient food, overcrowding, lack of medical care and disease. The British high command in South Africa was focused exclusively on winning the military struggle against the Boer guerillas and paid little attention to the horrible suffering in the camps. But there was no deliberate policy of genocide. The death toll was the result of pig-headed indifference, and incompetence, not a deliberate policy of mass murder. The whole episode is a hideous, shameful chapter in British history, but facts matter and it was NOT the "The Final Solution to the Boer Question." To conflate the two is an exaggeration.
What abouta award goes to you. How about German genocide in South West Africa (Namibia) on at the same time.
The nazis copied the British camps in South Africa where is British guilt or are they proud while pointing fingers at others what a joke
French and British colonizers also unleashed horrors in their colonies but nobody talks about that because they won the second world war.
The French were often brutal in their colonial wars and tried to keep hold of them, the British (though we invented the Concentration Camp, a black mark on our record) generally did more good and when it came to giving up the empire, we did it in the most peaceful transfer of power in history.
The British learned their lesson and strove not to repeat it, as far as colonial empires go, the British tended to be the most well behaved on the whole apart from a few black marks against us which are an exception rather than the rule.
The British Empire was the first to not only ban the trade and transportation of slaves, they gave the Royal Navy full authority to literally go to war on the Slavers and anyone helping them which destroyed the slave trade in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean by the late 19th century.
The French and Spanish Empires, those were horror shows. Spain is probably the most brutal of the European Empires.
This comment is a joke.
Europe will forever have blood on their hands for letting this horror show happened.
Germany let it happen. I don't blame the Poles for not doing enough. The Brits murdered Heydrich, liberated Belsen and could realisticly not do much to stop the holocaust. 80% of the jews died in 1942-43 and they died in Eastern Europe - far away from the reach of British bombers. The only ones who had a realistic chance of stopping this tragedy from reaching epic proportions were the Russians.
But I find it hard to blame the Russian people for not doing enough sacrifices to stop nazi tyrrany. 20 million Russians died in their war with Hitler, so how much more can one demand of them?
@@nattygsbord To need to blame is the error. Do you judge a nation or the individual?
@@nattygsbord Well said, well said!
@@jam99 Both! I blame both Germany and the Nazi Regime!
@@jam99 To believe the German people were blameless for not revolting especially after Dresden?? Because, usually that type of destruction, on that scale, usually does the trick… But for some reason, not in Nazi Germany? The non-action of the German people to not commit a National insurrection is a crime in itself! Even to save their own lives, the lives of their children & the lives of future Germans! Let alone the millions held in captivity. So therefore the people not taking action for National insurrection against their NSADP government running the Nation! Hence, the blame goes to both the German people & that government that made up that Nation.
i cannot imagine the pain hitler gave them. and i cannot imagine the pain israel is giving to palestine
*And today [2021] all the Talk Talk Talk is about **_Climate Change_** !*
Your point?
Actually, climate change, as there is lots of talk about it but little action against it, will likely cause fascism to rise again. Gigantic waves of refugees will be incoming when large parts of the earth will become nearly uninhabitable. This will further strengthen extremist / far-right parties, which are already on the rise. And this might ultimately cause WWIII and / or civil wars and / or a genocide or two. So maybe, just maybe we should tackle the topic of climate change, among other things.
It's time to let this slip into the past. Remembering these events to this degree only causes them and the horror they represent to live themselves, into the future. Remembering will absolutely not prevent these events to occur again for they most certainly have and will continue into the future.
Those who forget about history are doomed to repeat it.
That’s terrible advice bro
Almost unbelievable that this happened such is the extent of the evil. It's so important that future generations learn about this crime.
It’s hard to ‘Like’ this video but it is an important historical narrative.
For what it is worth, my Dad severed in the RCA during WW2. In the early 1980's when revisionist history was coming into it's own, we were watching the news and a holocaust denier was featured. He didn't speak of the war often, but turned to me and said "They really did kill those people.
So glad your dad severed. My dad served.
Alexander Smith your dad have proof? Where is it? Can you show me or is this just a fancy story to grab some attention because your dad was invited to participate in world War 2.
Revisionism stems from pure careless ignorance and laziness because if you look at the Nuremberg court transcripts, which are corroborated by video recordings, the higher level Nazis incriminate themselves multiple times on large scale war crimes. Even Goering in the court transcripts admits he signed off orders that gave very lenient punishments to people that murdered Jews (and POWs). If you look at the own words of the people involved and their own recorded testimony, it’s no mystery. It’s all there.
Jews were synonymous to bolsheviks. They were considered enemies of the state. They were all to be mass murdered, and after Jews were wiped out it’d probably be another group. It’s really simple.
No, killing by carbon monoxide was definitely not “inefficient” at all. In fact, far more Jews were murdered by engine exhaust than by zyklon B. Although the time it took for the victims to perish in the gas chambers was slightly longer, the speed of the hole process of killing people was often greater or much greater in the Reinhardt camps than in Auschwitz Birkenau.
And the culmination of the holocaust, (that is the deadliest period) was not in the spring of 1944 but in the late summer and autumn of 1942.
That is correct. In just a 100 day period from late July to early October 1942 over 1.6 million people were killed in Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majadanek, and in mass shootings. By early October 1942 over 3 million people half of all of the Jewish people who were killed in the Holocaust had already been killed with them being killed in Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majadanek, and in mass shootings.
I think they are referring to instances where the gas chambers broke down for extended periods leaving would-be victims stuck waiting in the cattle cars for days on end before eventually being ‘processed’. The early days of Treblinka, for instance, were supposedly complete chaos.
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it would be sad if this was to happen again
Absolutely, it would be horrible. However, I fear that world is heading into the direction of fascism, again. This time, after communists, socialists, etc., I think that Muslims might be the first target.
History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes. Unfortunately probably will
The scale of the horrors almost defies acceptance. I have a horrible feeling that if I witnessed these events I would have kept my head down. There must have been a very strong will to survive, that is, to ignore what was happening. I hope I am wrong.
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Lest we forget
So where was God during this or should I ask?
14:34 he looks just like Paul Rudd
I refuse to verify my age...
It is parents who are responsible for their children's use of the internet. NOT ME
How's it up there on your horse?
Very good planning
The Nazis certainly were experts at logistics. Still hard to believe those camps actually happened, but they did. Also hard to believe that the German people 'didn't know'.
No one knew for sure except many members of the SS. All this was happening during a giant war and the Gestapo was controlling information. There were rumors amongst the different National populations but no one knew for sure. Still the Germans were complicit in their inaction to stand up against the Nazi regime for many reasons.
Even certain higher level nazi officials or their Allies didn’t know exactly what was happening. Millions of men were fighting and dying on the front and there were millions of POWs too in the camp systems. It was all very obfuscated.
The SS ran the camps and they did everything they could to keep it secret.
It was the German Army which invaded Poland, not Nazis.
They were more or less the same thing back then.
That is splitting straws.
Don't be silly.
The Wehrmacht were complicit in the Holocaust. Don't believe the post WW2 cold war myth of them being only soldiers. They permitted and partook in mass murder.
the Nazis were a party not a German army let's make that difference first it's like saying the Americans are slave owners
Germany should have their own museum about the Holocaust.
They should be made to feel guilty about all this.
Do they have one?
Yes, and Germany paid reparations to the Jews who lived.
Yes, they have plenty. They even have a huge memorial for the Jewish victims in Berlin
There was an attempt to "whitewash" the Wehrmacht, but it started to get debunked ever since ~1990s, starting with an entire exhibition full of photos made by Wehrmacht soldiers of their own or their comrades' war crimes.
Can't you look it up?
The Germans laid reparations to those they screwed over. More than the rest of Europe or America can say.
No worse than allied bombings. Don't kid yourself. War is war there are no good or bad guys.
Don't be stupid.
Really! The US and UK were no different morally than Nazi Germany?
Ludicrous statement!
You're right there are no good guys in war, but there's a far cry between bombing civilian centres to try and end a war (with no intention to wipe out the german people) and intentionally trying to wipe a people off the face of the earth. If you can't see the difference between those two then you're either wilfully blind or foolish.
@@adielstephenson2929 thanks for calling out the idiot. How can he compare the deliberate extermination of innocent kids for belonging to an ethnic group be related to bombing which was warfare anyway. He wanted Hitler not to be bombed into surrender to stop killing innocent people? Imagine
I’m pretty sure the guy that declared a militaristic one party state and said Jews should be annihilated from Europe in speeches and writing was the bad guy. Just saying