Execution of August Bogusch - Brutal Nazi Guard at Buchenwald, Auschwitz & Gusen Concentration Camps
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2022
- Execution of August Bogusch - Brutal Nazi Guard at Buchenwald, Auschwitz & Gusen Concentration Camps. August Bogusch was born on the 5th of August 1890 in Lubliniec, then part of the German Empire. In October 1932 Bogusch joined the Nazi Party and in April 1933 he joined the SS.
In August 1939 August Bogusch arrived in Buchenwald.
Established in July 1937, Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps established within the German borders.
The camp played an important role in the aftermath of Kristallnacht, which occurred on the 9th - 10th of November 1938, when the Nazi leaders unleashed a series of coordinated violent riots against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany and recently incorporated territories. The Nazi SA and German civilians not only ransacked Jewish homes, businesses, synagogues, hospitals, and schools but the German SS and police sent almost 30,000 Jewish males to concentration camps.
Prisoners lived in the Buchenwald main camp which was surrounded by an electrified barbed-wire fence, watchtowers, and a chain of sentries outfitted with automatic machine guns.
August Bogusch left Buchenwald in January 1941 and on the 27th the same month, he arrived in Auschwitz, which was located in German occupied Poland, where he first served as a guard.
Bogusch became known for his incredible hatred towards the Polish prisoners whom he used to call such names as Polish swine and bandits. Among the Auschwitz prisoners, whom he would beat for the smallest violations of the rules, he had a reputation of a stupid, rapacious and sneaky man.
He was infamous for skillfully using his whip to make the inmates suffer as much as possible.
Sometimes Bogusch did not administer the punishment himself but would send inmates to a notorious penal company to which the prisoners were assigned for various reasons, including escape attempts, contact with civilians or the illegal possession of food money and additional clothing.
Another of Bogush’s specialties was hitting the prisoners in the face and kicking them.
At Auschwitz he also worked as a block leader.
Bogusch also took part in selections on the rail ramp and actively participated in taking prisoners - especially Jews and those who were sick - to the gas chambers.
In mid-January 1945, as Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, the SS began evacuating Auschwitz and its subcamps. SS units forced nearly 60,000 prisoners to march west from the the Auschwitz camp system. Prisoners suffered from the cold weather, starvation, and exposure during these death marches.
In February 1945, August Bogusch was transferred again to the Buchenwald camp, and finally to Gusen, which was a sub-camp of Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.
Established in May 1940, the Gusen site had attracted the SS because of its proximity to the stone quarries.
Living and working conditions in Gusen, as in Mauthausen, were harsh, which led to the death by murder, mistreatment, starvation, exposure, and disease of more than half of the prisoners.. By the end of 1944, some 6,000 prisoners worked in 18 factory halls in Gusen producing rifles, machine pistols and aircraft motors. The stress on armaments production brought some benefits to the prisoners in 1943 and 1944.
In January and February 1945, the SS forcibly evacuated thousands of prisoners to Gusen from Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Sachsenhausen. Most of the new arrivals were Jews.
More than 10,000 prisoners died in Gusen between January and May 1945, including 4,500 prisoners who were shipped back to Mauthausen to die.
Gusen concentration camp was liberated by the US soldiers on the 5th of May 1945. They found some 20,000 prisoners who were sick and starved.
In the confusion during the liberation, prisoners, enraged by the killings perpetrated by the Kapos and barrack elders the previous month, killed a number of prisoners who had served as Kapos, room elders or other types of auxiliary service to the SS staff.
Over the course of its existence, some 35,000 of a total of over 60,000 registered prisoners were killed in Gusen.
After the end of the war, August Bogusch was finally to face justice and pay for his crimes. Bogusch was tried at the Auschwitz Trial and he was executed on the 28th of January 1948.
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Great documentary with real footages and I love it when you say " there were no tears shed for ..."
I find myself waiting in anticipation for it..!
Aside from learning more about the darkest era in human history, I think that one of the best aspects of these videos are the photos of those who lost their lives in the holocaust. We've seen first-hand accounts on those who managed to survive, but showing biographical information on those who lost their lives makes the unthinkable number of 6 million lost more tangible. These people were not even granted the dignity of a solitary death, and I appreciate that these videos ensure that they are not forgotten.
Hi Eshi, this is exactly why we do it. Thanks for pointing this out. These people will not be forgotten ... millions of people see them every time they see our videos ...
it was in 1995 when i was in mauthausen for the first time. mikis theodorakis performed his Mauthausen Triology and I got to know some of the survivors. I will never forget this experience. since that time i have been a convinced anti-fascist. thank you World History for all these important contributions. The world should never forget these inhumane crimes.
Thank you so much for your kind words and watching our videos.
as a fellow anti-fascist i hope you've directed your efforts towards the systematic elimination of white people, otherwise you're wasting your time.
Die heutigen Kinder und Jugendlichen IHR solltet euch diese Bilder des Fabrikalen Massenmordens der Nazis Der Nationalisten immer vor Augen und im Gedächtnis halten !
Genau die selbe Ideologie verfolgt DIE AFD !!
WÄHLT IHR DIESE PARTEI !
Und lasst ihr euch von ihre Lügen und ihre propaganda beeinflussen dann wählt ihr MIT der AFD genau das was ihr hier im Video seht und lasst ERNEUT dies schreckliche was sie die AFD die heutige NEUE ALTE NSDAP DAMALS anrichtete HEUTE WIEDER GESCHEHEN und macht euch somit zu Mittäter ! DIESES MENSCHEN VERACHTENDE SYSTEM DER AFD DER NATIONALISTEN !
+1000 The only good nazi is a dead nazi. The world's fascists should ALWAYS be afraid.
@@roberthicks4923 pure whataboutism. you didn't get the point of this discussion. back to the school desk.
I was in Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Dachau and then Flossenbürg in 4 days during this summer. It was very interesting, i dont have any strong feeling to cry, but you just cant speak when you understand what was happening there, im glad its so well preserved and whats most important how many young people was there to see the place where such cruelty happend.
For info, Dachau is very crowded, so if you want to see everything, go there very soon.
To all those out there in doubt, the concentration camps on the Polish territory were German Nazi, not Polish, as some may think. Please, do not use the terms such as POLISH DEATH CAMPS or POLISH CONCENTRATION CAMPS, which many people seem to have adopted and use. Thank you, WH, for spreading out the truth about the atrocities of WW2 and the animals that were the cogwheels in Hitler's war machine.
OMG, his face says it all. Pure evil.
The picture of the man is ominous already.
He doesn’t exactly look like everybody’s favorite uncle.
@@djquinn11
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We ,a German family,were in Buchenwald twice with our then 13-16year- old boys,because we think that every German teen should have known,seen and spoken about what men can do to men,what our parents and grand-parents did to their neighbours,kids or other innocent people! When we came to the house where they still keep hundrets of little shoes we all cried...
Germany doesn't want people to forget this shame. America wants to erase all of its history. Stupidly.
@@karlabritfeld7104 😢😢😢
2:20 will take you to the actual recounting for those of us who are watching these and can do without the opening introduction.
Many thanks to those who have made these videos. It's ugly but important. 💙
I appreciate the names, dates and explanation you put in each photo and clip. So many just load up stock photos.
Thanks
Maybe some spoiled rotten, self entitled and often offended youths of today should take a seat and watch these videos
That might be a good idea, Tommy. We should not forget the lessons of history, namely what happens when extremists such as Adolf Hitler come to power, and we allow toxic ideologies such as anti-Semitism, racism, and bigotry cloud our hearts and minds.
My partner and I visited Auzswich. Beyond belief. The German people supported the criminals in Hitler's world of sadism. They voted for him in the 30s. Ordinary Germans were the clerks who did the paperwork, kept records, drove the death camp trains, designed and built the camps and gas chambers and rail lines. Ran the communication systems, made the weapons, and worse. The smell of the death camps permeated the countryside, the crematorium chimneys could be seen. Most Germans knew exactly what was occurring. Many benefited from contracts, the bankers grew fat. IG Farben made billions, The Krupps, aircraft manufacturers. The list is sickening.
A few of the hierarchy were hung, some did time. Many went back into business, cruel killers. Many went into German post war politics. Many, like Mengele escaped with the help of the Catholic Churches "Rat Lines."
Greg Hale thanks for telling it like it is
You are just trying to justify hatred of germans.
Hitler stole and forged power, blackmailed, intimidated, murdered and then purged all his political opposition. He held off the anitisemitism until those ordinary people were no longer a threat. Then the people who didnt support him were shot or sent to concentration camps.
Mass-formation psychosis is no joke and stockholm syndrome kicks in fast in these situations. I would have "supported" him as well ...as would all of you.
The colonialist British empire started all this with their assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by their serbian nationalist ally. As if they and the US wouldnt "invade" and install regime changes to every allied country in five seconds.
War is a racket, the british empire was crumbling. Germans are proud and thus easy to provoke.
The US supported and even financed the nazis rise to power. The Rockefeller Foundation helped found the German eugenics program and funded the program that Josef Mengele worked on (like wtf?) even George Bush Snr made a lot of money with the nazis.
The US must not have had a problem with mein kampf becasuse they loved the nazis in the beginning, they even let him have his own olympics - where the nazis were quite progressive regarding treatment of blacks. They hadnt begun the final solution at this point notuntil around the late 30s.
But in the end the alies mainly Churchill kept provoking and he turned on them and their bullshit like Gaddafi and Saddam. I suspect he knew he was going to lose all along but killed the Jews for revenge to stick it to all of us.
US is mostly responsible for the holocaust. Aside their own history of slavery, racism and genocide (as too britain) They spawned eugenics and sterilization.
In 1907, Indiana passed the first eugenics-based compulsory sterilization law in the world. As the decades followed It would get worse and worse and would stretch across the world.. Germans who admired America would simply follow on from this.
Once you start normalizing the isolation and sterilization of babies, then adults from the genberal population for unwanted diseases etc its not surprising that elimination of undesired racial groups via racial hygene or my favourite 'applied biology' laws would soon logically follow.
Lets not forget how we treat our livestock simliar to concentration camps. No im not a vegan but its worth thinking about.
I will never understand why the Catholic church helped the nazi's after the war ended, the nazi's did kill Catholic priests. I believe the Catholic church is controlled by satan. Investigate on your own and you'll see.
Once the Nazis got into power nobody dared criticize them. That would get you a bullet to the head. Also Hitler promised jobs and a new Germany "make Germany great again" during the depression when there was no money and things looked hopeless. He still lost the elections. He did not get the popular vote but Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor.
So what are you saying?
Hello, and as ALWAYS, Thank You for your Excellent, Informative videos.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Ernst Thälmann was never a prisoner in Buchenwald. Thälmann spent over eleven years in solitary confinement. In August 1944, he was transferred from Bautzen prison to Buchenwald concentration camp. There, on 18 August, perhaps on Hitler's orders, he was shot. His body was immediately cremated. Shortly after, the Nazis announced that together with Rudolf Breitscheid, Thälmann had died in an Allied bombing attack on 23 August.
The older I get and the more I travel the more I realise what a disgusting waste of oxygen human beings are , vile creatures , the lowest on a scale of the world's animals . I live with dogs , they understand family , love , sacrifice, and loyalty. They don't kill for fun , like every other animals they kill to survive I am ashamed of what human beings have done to this planet in the name of progress, for shame for shame .
Just a reminder that good people do exist ;D
You're an animal!no worse human!
I agree. People suck.
Remember you also are a sinner and a fallen human being full of Evil .
Agree
Wow that's one ugly cuss.
A non-bogus noose for Bogusch ! 😆😆😆
Love the narrator. He does a great job!❤️👍👍😃
Yes, he certainly seemed to be enjoying it. Makes you wonder.
We must NEVER FORGET.
Rest In Peace to The Innocent Victims, and Those That Fought for Them 🥀🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💔💔💔💔🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ Prayers for The Survivors, that they found Peace 🙏🙏🙏🙏💔💔💔💔
I went to the Yad Vesham museum in Tel Aviv in 1988 and then the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. Although the crimes are recorded the history has been sanitised. One does not get to experience the stench and the hopelessness. We can never forget the legacy passed on by the survivors. Antisemitism still exists even in the enlightened Western democracies. We are not so different as Nazi Germany which is why we must remain vigilant.
"We are not so different"? I doubt it!
look at Israel now
Sanitised? I talk with soldier who were there seen the photos ,heard about the body count and the racism was so awful it’s not sanitised.
Homosexuals, lesbians, priests, nuns, political oppositionists, midgets, anybody who spoke out against the Nazi regime was sent to the camps. Not only Jews.
Great vid , abiet the shocking footage..
If we dont learn from the horrors of this war we are simply doomed
It is said, in Hell, the torments a person handed out on earth, are repeated tortures in hell for eternity. Lets pray August Bogusch is repeating the torments he reaped on others for all eternity in hell.
Love the footage its great my pops was there in 44 45 21 yr badass from bronx witness the evil in bergen belsen british and yanks liberated guards where evil they got killed by prisoners pay back was severe good for the mofos dogs too usa no 1 never foget
@@johngoodridge3528 👍
Don't be silly.
@@johngoodridge3528 Love the footage ?
Lord forbid,blood stirring time.
What a bunch of cruel Devils.I hate to be in their shoes on Judgement day.
5:25 wrong translation. It is not a goat, it is a trestle. In German language the words for goat and trestle are the same ---> "Bock".
there were no tears for August Bogusch..................... did STEYR produce 98K rifles at GUSEN????? sucks that u have to edit the photos.
Killing for pleasure 🥺💔
So. You can do anything for pleasure
Good morning Australia❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
"Lest we forget"
This video was less about August and more about the concentration camps of Poland.
so sad😢
General George Patton was the best WW2 General. When US Army liberated Dachau they executed over 300 SS and concentration camp guards and when US Army prosecutors wanted to try them for War crimes Patton said "NO".
I can't wait for your video on Dr Dr Otto Rasch.
We think it will come either next week or the week after
is otto rasch another crackpot like bogusch?
This dude announces the date at the beginning of each video with such gusto
This video was put up yesterday. What happened?
Hi , it had 1 error so we decided to take it down and publish it again ...
We are sorry for that ...
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Thanks for watching
@@WorldHistoryVideos Thanks for replying. I get to watch it again and also I shed no tears for August Bogusch.
@@TheMatrixxandRhodesShow Thanks for watching us. We hope you like the video, it is well done with very good footages ...
@@tpl608 Worse but now it is fine ... Thanks for watching
@@tpl608 You suggest well ... we here represent the victims ... great-grandfather of one of us was a prisoner at Auschwitz ... thanks God he survived ... thanks for watching
My God.
I will shed no tears
What do you mean !?
That’s the last line the narrator says about the death of each of these monsters.
Why you will shed no tears?
@@alisade127 what do you mean,please explain more to me!!!
What DO you mean, please explain more to me!!!
What is ironic, that guy was Silesian. His surname Bogusch got polish roots. And he killed Polish people.
How could you ever go back to a normal life after beating hundreds of people to death? It seems impossible. You wouldn't have the compulsion to lash out in a simple argument, like road rage and kill someone? It seems it would be second nature after that. I'm glad I missed it. My dad and his unit liberated a concentration camp. My dad was named the commander until they could find a place for, and the health improved of the victims that were housed there. His pals went home in 45' but he had to stay until Dec. of 47'. Most of them were Polish, and the towns they came from, many of them didn't even exist anymore. My dad never said a word about this to any of his 8 kids. I didn't find out until he was in a coma in 2014 at a Jewish health care facility where he was treated very, very well. I wondered why he was in a Jewish facility as he was always a very proud Irish Catholic. It was in his Obituary in the local newspaper when he died. He used to go to church every day until his health gave out, and I would drive him around on Saturday for him to get outside for a while. He almost never talked about the war, a common trait for many soldiers. Now I know why. He did say once when I asked him if he was afraid to die in his late 80's, and he quickly turned his head with a look of terror and said " I have to answer for all those people I killed!" I thought, "you've been carrying that around for 66 years???? War is definitely hell. Now I understand him better, why he was in sour moods at times, normally a carefree happy soul, beloved by almost everyone he worked with. When he retired, the students at his inner city HS made a card for him about 4 foot high with the names of almost every student in the school. He was a tough love kind of guy, but they appreciated that he at least cared enough to council them when they went off the straight and narrow. His unit was artillery, and one of the few things he ever said was they shelled Cologne, Germany for 7 straight days. When they came through he said there was nothing over 8 foot high for about 10 miles, and the few who survived he said were staggering around like zombies. He said it was like a horror movie with plumes of smoke waifting past these poor souls, almost all deaf from the shells. He once again had to stay behind for a week to get the water running so they all wouldn't die. he was named mayor for that short time.
It seems that SS solders and workers at the camp were completing which one was the worst!
schrecklich zu wissen, dass so eine Person meine Familie war.
We can choose our friends but we're stuck with our family. Unfortunately. Love to you ❤
Yeah your putting me me on .
Oh a nice man
Just looking at that guy, you can smell the crazy coming off of him. It is deeply sad that such hate, cruelty, and insanity is still supported by lunatics today. Those who do not learn the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat them... and clearly (as a society) we have failed to evolve beyond such barbarity, intolerance, and systematic hatred. Whether it's the Russian war crimes in Ukraine, the systematic abuse of the Uighurs in Western China, the violent crimes against Muslims in Myanmar (Burma), the sadistic gulags in the DPRK, the myriad abuses by raical so-called 'Islamist' groups across Africa and Asia (barbaric terrorists perverting Islam), or the white nationalist hate groups waging terror in North America and Europe, there are litetally tens of millions that learned NOTHING from the horrors in the 20th century.
"Just looking at that guy, you can smell the crazy coming off of him"
LOL!
Oh when the Lord's judgment day comes, everyone's deeds will be shown for all to see....then the punishment, so these demonic temples of a people have not even felt a twitch compared to their overall punishment. I don't just want to believe this. I know this
How many criminals had got
Germany; every day a new one?!
enough that this series never ends. Luckily. the world should know exactly what kind of monsters the german and austrian nazis were.
There were also the Capos, Jews or other "undesirables". They were just as bad for turning against their religion and humanity.
@@luxor-uc2xs Maybe my comment caused a misunderstanding, sorry.
I fully agree with you, there were
a lot of murderers in those two
Nazi countries! Unfortunately
most of them did not pay for
all what they did!!!
@@robertomeneghetti6215 everything OK. yes, most of the ss people who worked in the concentration camps were never punished after the war.
@@roymartin500 - Easy to say, if you were not in their situation, in the middle of Hell. Would you let them kill you or would you accept to become a Kapo, hoping to be able to save your life? Only people who have gone through an experience like that have the right to comment. I've lost relatives during that war, in Auschwitz and Mauthausen (same person, 1 year in each camp). Another one in one of those Death Marches, the ones nazis said never existed. The one in the camps survived but he was in dire conditions when liberated by the Allies. He was not chosen to become a Kapo, but who knows...what if that had been his only way to survive ? I pity those who had to do that horrendous work. BTW, my relative was not Jewish, but his crime consisted in refusing to join the nazi party. So be kind to them, there was nothing else they could do to survive. Try to imagine sourself in their situation.
Contakt with civiliens..?? Were? There were only SS and other Staff! So were cut they have ANY Conatact with Civiliens
Watching his picture, The face of evil was depicted on his face
looking at the way the world is today i can safely say that i am extremely glad we arent all speaking german.
men like john money would be championed as pioneers of science, but weimar era germany put a stop to his work.
his experiments with children and sex/reproductive organs was revolutionary, but as always the nazis stopped true progress. i pray to science, to the the WEF, to any organization willing to continue this brave work and continue to vindicate our place in history as the true winners, as the good guys who defeated evil.
Imperial Japanese did all the same shit, except while genocide was considered a chore by the Nazis, Imperial Japanese considered it R & R. Look at what they did to Nanking.
Unfortunately the world is much more grey than good vs evil.
Nu Rutten nog
I hope the Germans won’t do this sort of thing for a third time.
Nah there won't be a trilogy on my watch
Either Communist or Fascism would have risen, who's to say which is better?
Why do you only mention Jews?
Russians, Roma, Poles, Greeks, etc.
Because you only hear about them..a lot of others suffered...
@@roberttelarket4934 What about germans? Do you have any idea how many germans died in those camps and under other circumstances created by the nazis? Tiergartenstraße 4? Hundreds of thousands of germans alone through T4?
@@roberttelarket4934 gays, political prisoners , people who resisted the Gestapo,'s "charms".
@@rogerduncan2603: Yes they were very charming.
la bête humaine
For those who believe in a compassionate and loving God,
what role did God play in this brutal treatment of his beloved children?
From A 75 year old atheist who lives in the real world.
Dont loose a war
What has losing a war to do with those ghastly crimes against humanity?
Look at the ancient Persia
Look at the modern Germany
And you'll understand why they believed they're the Best.
25 Lashes with a wet noodle 😂
friend of the pope.
Ha a lot of those USA soldiers were catholic who enter that war . before you throw stones could of you did better?
Liars beware!.
Who are you referring to as liars?
Nazis could have taken lessons from the Allies in application of mass murder, starvation, rape, and torture, because you choose not mention it does not mean it didn't take place.
Disgusting comment.
Truth is not always pleasant
edglord
Peter Williamson's comment is nonsense, he needs to take some history lessons. The West is far from perfect, its history and treatment of indigenous people, racism, various un justified wars like Vietnam is shameful. But there are no Auzswich camps in London or Washington or Canada or France. No mass deportations to purpose built gas chambers, no Einzattsgruppen murder squads, no criminal experiments on innocent humans dragged from their homes and countries. No slave labour in quarries or German industry. No women or girls sterilised without anaesthetics, injected with bacteria. Prisoners drowned in ice water to see how long they lived. Women having dogs ovaries transplanted into them. Torture, criminal sadism. All sanctioned by the Nazi State as policy. A doctrinaire criminal education system introduced. Blonde blue eyed "Aryan" women made available to the SS to produce the super race. Etc etc.
No Wannasee conference that drew up a list of 11 million people to face the " Final Solution" in gas chambers. And in the West we get to do someone called "voting", which was not possible under a one party dictatorship like the Nazis.
Some interred Japanese Canadians would certainly disagree with you in so far as concentration camps in Canada go, but then I don't know anything, read David Irving and try and lean truth INSTEAD of fairy tales.
I was a fascist for a long time; however I have always been an enemy to nazis.
This hero is still alive. I would love to meet him. He was at Battle of the Bulge and Dachau Liberation. He is 97 years old and still alive. Vincent Speranza WW2 US Army Paratrooper. He said "after Dachau we quit taking German POWs until the end of the war"
❤SS
Wait for it! Ahhhhhh, here we go 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 NO TEARS SHED! And the hits keep coming!!!
What da fuk do u mean no tears shed,homie am a Jew!!!
@@mitchellvilorio9659 If you would be so gracious as to translate your reply into comprehensible English, I would be pleased to reciprocate.