A Warning to Those Visiting Auschwitz
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i went to the Death Camp Bergen-Belsen with my class in middle school. Even the greatest bully did not bring a single word out.. it was so silent there.. there was just trees, a huge path and thick fog. I will certainly never forget this day in my life and i am incredibly thankful that my teacher did this with us.
We had a german class over for an exchange for a week when I was in high school (I'm from Belgium). Their teacher insisted on visiting the former German camp of Breendonk, were prisoners of war were held and often executed. They all came out pale as corpses. You can say a lot about Germany, but it is one of the few countries on the planet that truly accepts and deals with the horrible stuff they did in the past. Can't say the same about Belgium to be fair. We were just as horrible in Congo.
I experienced the same. I went there too with my class in high school and everyone was so respectful and quiet, even the class-clowns and the douchebags who usually don’t care about other people’s feelings. The bus ride home was way quieter than the bus ride in the morning.
You guys are being dramatic and exaggerating
@@omega0195 No they are not that's just called respect my guy. Something you clearly know nothing of.
@@omega0195 no you just dont have any respect for the victims of the holocaust, there is no exaggeration here
From personal experience, the perfect time to go is in the middle of winter. Not only does the cold just about kill any humor that may exist, but standing in your winterclothes and STILL freezing while knowing how little the inmates had makes it much easier to understand just how horrible it must have been.
Thank you for the advice! I actually want to visit a concentration camp out of respect for my grandmother, who passed in 2019 and was able to share her stories with me and her experience in the war a few months before it happened. Maybe once COVID is over and we're free to travel again, I'll be able to finally do something and pay respects to both my grandmother and the thousands of others who were murdered.
Your words are very appreciated, and the insight was very helpful ^-^
Although I do agree some of these POS people that are out chasing likes and comments on social media will do anything for it. And it's disgusting
Love that advice
Honestly... there are three th8ngs I generally think about when it’s really cold, and really hot... ppl in the concentration camps going without next to nothing, soldiers during the wars, and the homeless population. I never... ever, complain on Remembrance Day because I know there’s an end to my discomfort after the parade and there’s food and drink. How can I bitch and complain when I know I’ll have a roof, and a warm place to sleep with lots of food at the end of it all? I can’t. So, I might let myself make a passing comment but then remember it’s not forever.
I did it, and you know what, my mood went down after the visit. Thankfully, I was able to recover quickly; I don’t think I can go there again.
We went there on a school trip in 10th grade, and everyone was respectful. Even the loudest kids were quiet.
i feel as if kids, even though unruly and young, do have an inner sense of when to stop messing around, that way for example kids older than 8 will be quiet at funerals and in places where they know horrible things happened
We did the same except some of the guys thought it was funny to draw the swastika symbol into the dirt when the guide and teachers weren't looking... It's hard to put into words how deeply disturbed and appalled I am at their behaviour
And that is how it's meant to be.
@@knappedennis please tell me they got sanctioned for their disrespectful actions.
@@caincawkwell8092 did u mention the wrong person?
My husband and I visited there in April. I am pleased to say that I did not witness any inappropriate behavior. Multiple tour groups move through the barracks. There was very little conversation, most just pointing something out to someone on the tour.
The mood was reverential and somber. It was very moving. Our tour guide told us where we could and could not take pictures and everyone complied.
My visit to Auschwitz was not a bucket list item, but was a pilgrimage of sorts. Although I do not have any Jewish heritage, I felt compelled to visit this sacred place. It is an experience that will stay with me for the rest of my life.
We all possess every heritage when we see the world as Ours.
No we don't!
“Pilgrimage”…well said and the right attitude.
Fortunately this was our experience as well.
I would like to also say that our guide asked to speak to the group before alighting from the coach. He said that no matter how many times he visited the site it never failed to affect him. He also said that in his view everyone should visit Auschwitz once in their life if possible. Just a personal hope that it may encourage the human race to learn something.
He then said that if anyone found the visit too distressing he would be right with us. The cue was to walk up to him and touch him on the arm and he would guide us out. No shame, no embarrassment. One lady did just that, she found it too distressing and he quietly took her outside and stayed with her.
In mid 90s I was visiting Poland and my aunt took us to Krakow region. My brother and I were teenagers and asked my aunt if she would take us to Auschwitz. She said : "You are not ready." I am a middle aged father now... and I am still not sure I am ready.
You seem to have a wise aunt.
If you can be quit, if you can be compassionate and thoughtfull of what happened at that place, you can go there.
I went to Theresienstadt as a Teenager with my class when we visited Praque. It was a cloud free, warm summerday but the mood was diferent, hard to explain. The feeling is kinda like when you walk into a really really big church, you feel small and insignificant compared to what the place you are at has to tell. Maybe Auschwitz is on another level than the camp i visited, sadly i cant compare them yet.
I can only recommend visiting at least one of the camps, if you want to go there not for Instagram or Facebook, but for yourself. Its strange to call it a "great memory". Because it wasnt fun or its not something i am proud of but its definetly an important memory for me.
I went when I was 17, I wasn’t ready then and I’m not now. It is a place you are never ready to go, but everyone should so long as they are respectful.
I was 16 when I was in Dachau. Didn't scar me, didn't kill me, didn't scare me, didn't hurt me in any way. Doesn't mean I can't comprehend what happened and be respectful or trying to prevent it ever happening again.
It just means I don't think or act as if I could change the past or as if the past would care...
@@ExtremeDeathman
i like your take on it.
really have nothing else to say rather than i understand and appreciate your way of thinking.
I won't forget my tour guide telling us at the beginning, 'A million people died here. You're standing in a graveyard'. it really set the agenda for our trip there. I'm glad everybody took it seriously.
Million?
Gràveyard?
@@omega0195are you asking me to explain?
@dhouse I can’t even imagine how difficult their job is let alone dealing with people who don’t take it seriously enough! Absolute respect to them.
@@lily.pollard.01 🎶 What do you mean?🎶
this place should be treated like a memorial or a place of mourning - you wouldn’t go to a funeral and go and kiss romantically
Some people would, sadly. During my grandpa-in-law's funeral ceremony, two of his grandchildren were full on french kissing their partners. May I add they were grown adults and sat in the front rows of church.
off topic but the last vid I came from was Scotland v Wales highlights and I just saw one of your comments
Some people don’t know how to process emotions, especially kids. Also, you don’t know the context of the kissing couple. They could have been Jewish and kissed because they were thankful they didn’t live in that era. People are too complex to get mad at them right away.
True it's a place of mass murder not a romantic place
@@Lisa-el7zo eh, that could be their way of comforting each other. Can't blame them if we can't understand how they are feeling or how they cope with it
I visited Dachau when I was 17 on a school trip. I will never forget it. The overwhelming feeling of sadness and horror. There were no birds within the fenced camp. The museum was difficult. Many students could not handle it. It changed me. We must never forget and continue to educate younger generations. I’m 70 now.
Unfortunately, seems the lesson is lost on the young people screaming "Death to Israel" and "From the river to the sea." I am 62 years old and I am just plain disgusted with them.
@@lmb1962There are the blinded youths that scream those words, but I'm glad there are sensible ones that protect Israel and call out those lies. As a 27 year old, i support Israel and the Jewish people
@@lmb1962I am 14 and I agree
@@JamesZ32100 I guess I shouldn't have implied that all youth is that way, that's not only wrong, it's not true. Thank you for being on the right side of this issue.
@@lmb1962there has been 25 times more Palestinian casualties in the war than Israeli. Didnt we all agree that this could not be allowed to happen again by any people? Are do we forget just because they are muslim and have a slightly different set of genes.
In 7th grade, we had a field trip to a local cemetery and before leaving, our teacher told us “there are people’s mothers, fathers, grandparents, and children buried here. Respect the deceased” and we all did. Those tourists need to be told the same
people are old enough they shouldnt have to be told that. Its like a known thing,( like when u go into a library and automaticaly speak quieter than you usually do) The people that act this way are going to do that were ever they go. Theyve heard about it, seen the movie, got dragged there by someone and dont really care.
Why the hell did you have a field trip to the cemetery. I feel bad for your school.
@@samtdl8639 I don’t remember, but I think it had to do with a book we were reading at the time.
Why the hell was your field trip to a cemetery
@@Fpm1632 as I mention to tie in with a book we were reading I think, but I don’t remember honestly and it was in middle school so we were old enough to handle it
This should just be played before anyone walks into the camp
yea
Definitely I’ve never been to the camp but I know what happened to the victims that were sent there
Edit: I shouldn’t be calling it “the camp” because it makes it sound like a pleasant place to go to when it’s not
They should also have them pay a fine if they do something disrespectful. It’s fair
I agree
@Queue Kumber Well said
I was fortunate that the tour I was on was extremely reverential and somber throughout. No one smiled; no one took pictures when asked not to; no one took selfies. Everyone was quiet and totally respectful. We had a tour guide who was firm and no-nonsense and I cannot vaguely imagine her permitting any unruly behavior. I'm grateful to have experienced the camp with the sorrow and respect it deserves.
It was very much the same when I visited about 3 years ago, at least in our tour group. But there were others there whom I saw taking selfies and taking smiley group photos. I don't understand why they thought that was accetable.
You are lucky.
no pictures?
Booooring. Boring group
One thing that always sticks in my mind when I visited Auschwitz, was the eerie feeling of standing in the footsteps of all those innocent people who died in that camp. To be standing right where they stepped off the trains and then standing next to the places where they were gassed and then burned in the ovens leaves a strange feeling of, under different circumstances and at a different time, I or anyone else that has lived before or since, could have been in their place.
It's common (or used to be at least) for tenth graders (15-16 year olds) in parts of my country to spend an entire school year collecting funds for a trip to Poland and the camps. My trip was just about half my lifetime ago now and nothing I've experienced since has made such a powerful impression on me. I was crying and I was trying not to make a scene, but the weight of what had happened hit me very hard and very suddenly after walking around and listening to our guide. I wasn't the only one. It was sickening and sad. The thought of people treating it as a fun day out, kissing and taking photos of human remains, makes me feel ill. If 60+ teenagers can behave and treat these places with respect you'd think anyone could...
I didn't visit Auschwitz, but my class went to Dachau once. We all behaved and were respectful. I think a big reason why people are disrespectful is that many people never really learned about what was going on and when they go there they also don't listen to the guide.
I am actually going on the same trip, to Poland and Auchwitz with my school at the same age (15-16). I am glad that I got to see this video before im going off. I will be much more cauceous when visiting now.
Btw, sorry that my typing is bad, Im norwegian not english
This is sickening I highly recommend all of you to watch a*dolf h*tler the greatest story never told on internet archive and find out the truth
@@ArrowMaster_ Er norsk jeg og! 👍 Fantastisk at det fortsatt er en greie, det er så, så viktig. Håper du og klassen får en fin tur og at dere kommer hjem med masse inntrykk!
@@skauing Tusen takk! Jeg gleder meg masse, jeg tror det kommer til å bli en fantastisk opplevelse🤩
when my mother went, someone there asked if there was any wifi "in case i get bored" ... its disgusting
It's to ask for the wifi but that phrasing is terrible
@@Apes_Together_Stronk didn't know its forbidden by law to install Internet infrastructure on structures that exceed the age of 82 years
@@Apes_Together_Stronk my house is older than that and it has good wifi. I don't see how age effects the quality of wifi.
I would’ve responded “no there’s no wifi, but in the early 1940s, millions of people were lumped together here, and senselessly beaten, starved, forced to live out in the cold with barely any clothes, and then murdered and when Adolf Hitler told them they were taking a shower.”
if something like that bores you, you should leave. And see a therapist.
Imagine being surrounded by monuments of death and the absolute worst of humanity and being like "time to smooch".
Humanity is a pretty long time, it's a bold statement to say it was the worst. It definitely the worst thing to happen within recorded history, but to say it's the worst thing to happen to humans is a baseless statement.
@@watson1381 Fine, if you really want to play the semantics game.
Imagine being surrounded by monuments of death and some of the worst things humanity has done and being like "time to smooch".
Happy now?
Sadly this is not surprising. I've seen similar behavior at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, and while there were far less victims than the Holocaust and those that died were primarily military personnel, each one of those people that died was still a father, or a son, or a husband, or a brother, or a friend whose life was cut violently short. That event would also expand the war and lead to even greater suffering and grief.
Memorials to tragic events should be treated with some solemnity and reflection by those that visit, but to some it is unfortunately just another tourist attraction.
Methinks some of the ignorant dipshits who visit there and display such behaviour are of the "holocaust denier" variety.
@Trey Stephens Some people never change
Tears ran down my face from entering Auschwitz until I returned to our hotel in Krakow...it was very emotional. Put down your phones, be silent and respectful...
You're a better man than me, I'd never be able to enter. Viewing from the car park would be enough for me .... 🇦🇺
Exactly. Outrageous people showed no respect for the suffering.
Being a photographer I just did the job but when I got back to the Hotel and saw the shots, I broke down.
The people who run the camp now should insist on everyone turning their phones and or cameras off and handing them in. They can write the owners name on a self adhesive label so the owner gets the right phone or camera back when they leave.
Womp womp
When I visited I was 13, and the first this i saw was this woman about 18-21 in a pink dress taking a damn selfie in front of the railroad car. And when I went into the barracks I saw people’s initials like A+C.....People died here in the worst possible way and thats how people act, it’s disgusting
Fr it's like they dont gaf
@Palepride Worldwide Railroad cars in these camps were typically used to deport Jewish prisoners to different camps. Auschwitz has a railroad system that’s remnants still survive to this day.
They put initials in the damn barracks!? Disgusting behavior,in a place where such horrible things happened.
I agree 110%. This film should b shown 2 every person before they go in. If they cannot show respect/ empathy/ compassion they should b kicked out. Innocent people were horrifically tortured & murdered here. Why on earth would u want 2 take selfies & other foto's. Disgusting behaviour.
If the dead could speak, they would probably thank you. Peace
Paul Schneider They may not care, I would probably be happy that they are able to jump around and be idiots care free rather than being shoved into a death pit, but yes... it is still disrespectful
@Abraham Shekelbergstien Go troll somewhere else!
I think they'd be sick that people wanted to visit such a place.
It's absolutely horrible.
It isn't "honoring" people to visit a place where people were tortured.
It's honoring to make sure NOBODY GOES THROUGH IT AGAIN.
We all know the story.
Not many people KNOW that WE (through operation Paperclip) brought a lot of those Nazi monsters over here and cleared their backgrounds in exchange for their work.
WE DID THAT.
THE UNITED STATES.
W.
T.
F!
Fluoride is bad for the brain.
educate-yourself.org/cn/genociderockefellernazis2apr03.shtml
That Gall my point was that the couple, kissing, were acting inappropriate and disrespectful. My comment had nothing to do with taking pictures of human remains. In fact, I agree with you, pictures or photos document and show the atrocity, and are not exploitative
If the dead could speak, most of them would probably be saying, "Help! Somebody get me out of this box! I can't breathe in here!"
As a Polish person, this really hits home. Thank you for this. Everyone needs to see this.
I’m part polish too, it’s so sad to me that some of my relatives probably died there, or relatives friends, etc. etc. having family from Poland or being Polish means that whether you want to be or not, you are connected to the Holocaust, I would like to go sometime, to pay respects.
I’m polish German and Italian and my bf is Jewish so same.
Same part polish here to
As a german i agree with you
My great grandparents moved to the US because of the horrible history of WW2. If they never moved to the US, I wouldn't be here today...They were Polish and I couldn't imagine what they had to go through.
Great sobering message you created. I’m 62 yrs old, in 1970 my Dad was stationed at Hahn AFB in the Rhineland west of Frankfurt. We toured Dauchau, it was 25 years after the end of WWII, and it was quite an somber moment in my young life, 4-5th grade boy. I didn’t entirely understand everything about the Holocaust, but every single person there was reverent, respectful. Over half were even crying, sobbing, perhaps family of the victims. I can recall the morning we arrived at Dauchau it was cold, it drizzle all day long. I remember the smell of the fields, vegetation, the dirt, the wood of the barracks. It’s seared into my mind. God bless.
I have a massive amount of respect for this gentleman. Well done sir.
Quite
I agree
well said, sir
Alfred Leicher "no restaurants" yeah just like how they starved the Jews. I can't tell if you're a troll or not if you aren't a troll I don't know what to say to you.
Alfred Leicher yes, no restaurants, days of starvation, months, mental and physical pain. Those people didnt deserve the torture, and yet you don’t take it seriously
I can't understand this. I visited with my school when we were all 14-15 and I honestly expected a bunch of teenagers to be messing around not taking it seriously. Every single one of us was absolutely silent the entire way around. Even the class clowns didn't say a single word since stepping through the gates. We all felt it.
Read an Anthropology theory article from my last class in Uni, but it revolves around the idea of "affect" in that a place's meaning/historical context give off a certain feeling depending on the person and their relationship to it. Auschwitz has a collective humanity-level affect on us all, more so if you had family/friends who died in it or were religious/Jewish.
@@jeremyjackson7429 wow, that person deserves to be smacked.
Just saying, if a bunch of teenagers with hormones flowing through them like the Nile River, can act with more respect than adults if they needed to, that’s saying something about our adults.
I may be biased here, but that doesn't surprise me. At least in my school, our teachers helped us understand the weight of atrocities like this. I think because we're exposed to more, and the media is more (keyword more, it's comparative) sensitive, we're able to be more empathetic. I can 100% see my dad just completely dismissing this and not even listening.
@@KingLimeIX that's a great point. We as human race go through downfall or ascent, collectively; even, if remotely something bad or good is happening, respectively on this Earth (which is like a collective human consciousness).
I went to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (we can’t fly a bunch of 13 year olds out of the country), and everyone- even the loudest and most obnoxious kids that giggled during bullying assemblies- were silent. We didn’t take any photos. No selfies or jokes. We just sat in awe and absorbed the sadness and horror of what happened.
If a bunch of kids can respect and understand the impact of the Holocaust, then there is no reason for an adult to not be able to.
Wait in the uk schools we send 13 year olds out the country to Spain and Poland for school trips like once or twice a year
@@GunkedUpGoober then you should be happy that you live in a rich country that can afford this, also if someone is from the us its harder from him to visit other countries as usa itself is big and its far from the "tourist" countries
@@Your_nearest_toyota_dealer Honestly tru it’s just odd seeing that us country don’t have as much out of country stuff as Europe does
@@GunkedUpGoober well usa is a big country which simply allows it to have many interesting things in it
@@Your_nearest_toyota_dealer Europe is the same-ish size of america and is so much more historical
An inmate in Mauthausen Concentration camp wrote on one of the walls: If there is a god, he will have to beg for my forgiveness.
I can't imagine how one walks into one of these camps and not weep the whole time there. I feel like going there is a solemn duty of remembrance, not some vacation trip.
Human asking for forgiveness when the human species in itself is not deserving of any forgiveness
I'm Polish myself and I can't show you enough how much I thank you for making this video, and for having human decency and for showing respect.
@PaganHammer7 hahahha nope 😂
@PaganHammer7 GDAŃSK were german. But Yalta makes this city Polish ....
@PaganHammer7 same situation with WILNO and LWÓW. Polish cities. Now in ukraine and lithuania.
Berlin is Austrian land
yeah
My mother was in a slave labor camp called Dinslagen. She was liberated by my fathers infantry, the 29th division. She always reminded us to never forget the past or we may have to relive it! Rest in peace my Mom and Dad! May I see you again!
Fascinating! How old are you now (if you don’t mind me asking) and when did your parents meet / get married? Apologies if this is too personal.
I cannot imagine what your parents seen and gone through. She's right about to remember your past and to share with her heirs. I'm sure they're in heaven and looking out for you as their angels did.
What a shame your mother survived the camp. To be in a camp, indicates filthy blood, and that you are a Jew. As such, you should be shot and tossed into a ditch with haste. Filth
No shit
We are reliving it. The media and academics are doing everything they did in 20s germany to grow a hardcore reaction.
Problem is we arent told the truth of how the NSDAP came about so we now just relive it
I visited both camps during a school trip when I was fifteen. We were privileged enough to have a survivor come along for the trip, sharing his stories. One quote in particular is something I will remember til the day I die. After talking about the inhumane conditions he lived in, he told us: "You guys have never been hungry. You have craved food. But you have never been hungry."
@Kacie Redgrift it is even sicker to force people to live like that.
My grandfather was a child during the war. He said something similar.
He told me about the time he was so hungry, that he went out on a field, saw some really old raddish, dug it out and ate it.
It was hard like wood and had maggots in it.
He said, that hunger is not a feeling you have, it's a kind of pain.
I didn't eat for over a week more than once and I still say, that it hurts, but it is still really bearable. I can't imagine how much two weeks or even more must hurt.
im crying
@@jutsuma3688 thats horrible, I didnt eat for a day once and I was in a really bad amount of pain, I cant imagine 2 weeks or even half a week
Jeg antar at det er "Polenturen" det er snakk om? Var der jeg og i 2018. Det er noe helt annet når man er der på ekte.
I completely understand and agree with you. I visited Dachau concentration camp in 1964. There were a few other people there too, but they were respectful. My attention was focused on what I was seeing and feeling: the brutal pain and suffering and imagining that I was one of the prisoners. How would I be able to live each day with constant hunger, terror, brutality that was meted out without thought…. And when would the death blow come? It is a place that you visit with wanting to get a glimpse of what people had to endure and the horror that they were subjected to. You want to let them know, in some way, that you are aware of their misery in this place and your soul cries for them. It was so despicable.
This comment needs to be pinned!!! This is EXACTLY how I {would} feel if I'd ever went to one of the concentration camps, especially Auschwitz, and how I felt when I saw Schindler's List for the first time. It's how I would imagine any sensible human being with a shred of decency would feel if they visited any of the death camps.
Beautifully said.
I want to meet the Jewish lady whose job it was to go through the clothes of the victims to find valuables to turn over to the guards at the end of the day. One day, she secreted some lovely jewelry on her person, dug a hole and buried it after her "workday" was over. She had just decided that by God Almighty, they were not going to get it ALL! That must have been an empowering act of sabotage. Like Mr. Schindler's factory where he had miscalibrated the machines so that the products they made were useless! You go, Mr. Schindler!
Well said. I have not visited any of those places but I did visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington. It was extremely difficult to keep it together.
Your soul cries out for them. You gave words to my devastation as I listen to survivor's experiences, go to Dachau, try to wrap my mind around something that is incomprehensible. I fear for the future.
I have visited before and I think this should be played for all visitors before they enter.
i always wonder if they give free soup samples, but i guess this guy will not like that...
@Blades I second that ...
100%
That’s honestly a great idea
@John Who No! Not stupid! Solid! Who are other people to tell how to behave? If you do not want other people to do what they do you are a Nazi as well! Idiot! Being free and to do what you want is where lots of people died for against Hitler!
I am 51 now and i can still remember when i was about 8, My grandfather was crying in a back room . I walked in and he jumped when i asked if he was ok. He rushed me off to play outside. Years passed before I was told that my Grandfather was a British soldier During WWII and helped Jewish survivors find clothes and food days after they had been saved from one of the camps. Each year on the day my grandfather saw the men laying on the ground begging for scraps he would do nothing but cry remembering that day.. Was not till after he had passed that I knew he kept a Diary of those days... I was only able to read about 5 pages before having to stop...April 17th was the date my Grandfather could not forget . For the last 3 years now after my Grandfathers death i too now pay my respect on April 17th . 6 days from now ....I wish you all well and may we never forget what happened , and take time to show compassion toward each other ....Love you Grandad
Your grandfather has my utmost respect for what he did my friend :)
You sure had an amazing Grandfather
@@SVD978 tyvm he was a great man
@@macks-how-tos i could not agree more , and he was humble about it
I couldnt imagine what it was like for him to go through that, or you now having to live with that. Your grandfather must have been very brave man
Jesus Christ, that's like going to someone's funeral and laughing the whole time..
I agree
Except people dont go to funerals to be entertained
It is sad, I think I'd be to scared to go to Auschwitz even if I had the money.
@@detonatingpunch381 You need to pay for the Vistit, really?! That's naughty
@@curtisjackson40 not really. The money they make from the tickets probably goes towards upkeep of the buildings and such. They need to take care of them or they'll crumble eventually, instead of being a stark reminder of one of the worst tragedies to ever occur
1:03 wow, i went there with the rest of my classmates last year, and none of them were that disrespectful
But ok, maybe they didnt want to do anything stupid, since we are germany
*Wer die vergangenheit vergisst ist dazu verdammt sie zu wiederholen.*
Those who forgotten the past are condemned to repeat it.
@@glimoreganajai2206" And those wicked souls who know history and repeat are the source of chaos"
This small thread of comments is so true. As someone who has massive respect for the people who sacrificed their lives to save jews aswell as jews, Ukrainians, Austrians , Hungarians etc.. its makes me upset thinking about my own class who only know the things i tell them yet they take it as a joke. They don’t take it seriously when i say the Nazi’s killed over 6 million INNOCENT PEOPLE!!
@@kayleekirkpatrick9193 true
@@kayleekirkpatrick9193 Wtf, wich country do you live in?
@@liamdahlberg1332 Canada. Im only in 6th grade so in my school we havent learned about it yet.
This is definitely a modern behavior. I went 30 years ago when I was stationed in Germany, in the US Army. EVERYONE was absolutely silent, respectful and contemplative. There was a very heavy emotion in the air.... A sense of great evil and loss.
I have a feeling social media has something to do with it.
@@DevineInnovations Yeah, I think that anybody taking selfies at this place should have the cellphone smacked out of thier hands then stomped on. I personally belive that taking a selfie here or anywhere else that has ties to the holocaust should be punished with a hefty jail sentance, like maybe 7 years of jail time, but no, 90% of the world's population is Jake Paul and I hate it...
@@redzgaming6880 Jail is a bit too harsh but yeah they should be kicked out immediately
Same thing I experienced at Pearl Harbor, unfortunately it was an older generation than I continuously being noisy. Sad to see teenagers being more respectful than 30 year olds
@@redzgaming6880 I don't know about jail, or even forbidding pictures..... I know people who took photos. It can be done tastefully and with respect. Maybe have an area where people can take that, "I was here" photo? Idk.... But the Instagram turbothots getting "sexy" pics ain't the right way to do it.
It's amazing how a group of teenagers in a school group are more respectful than adults
Yeah teachers do not us let have fun (just kiding) my class back then tried to behave as good as 13 year olds can behave
Yeah it went unspoken really. Also when I went it was mostly Jews that went. The two that wernt were me and an Asian guy
@@johnnysalami27 bro where u from? “Mostly Jews”, haha here in Sweden I have never meet a Jew, never even heard about Jews (in my city)
@@felixbb1445 you would be surprised but there are jews that still live to this day that visit auschwitz, it has nothing to de with one's heritage
Adults are way More ignorant
People say something like that could never happen again. The behavior you and others have witnessed there proves that it can
average people being narcissistic and thick proves our capacity for mass murder how…?
It is happening right now on Ukrainian territory that occupied by russian regime 😢
Every day, evidence of horrific illegal executions by the russians emerges
Making out in a place where people used to burn, it's disgusting.
A lot of people thought I was talking about a single kiss.
"But our love burns just as bright as the victims did. That is our form of paying respect you know."
-These people probably
why?
@@brokkoli3245 Cause that's a place of death, not a place of love. The entire camp is a place of death.
@@sofiachelli26 so is kissing in the supermarket also not ok? because its a place of trade and not of love? why is it bad to kiss where people died (or died in masses, because otherwise you couldnt kiss anywhere).
@@brokkoli3245 you're comparing a supermarket with a torture camp, it's enough to understand
I visited this place a few years ago. Never in my life have i felt a more eerie presance, the air was heavy and everything was completely quiet. Much like in a funeral as a coffin is lowered into the dirt, just never ending. Everyone around me back then did act appropriatly, i can't imagine how anyone wouldn't.
Yes the silence and the weight, the pain still haunts the camp.
When I visited Dachau, I had the same feeling and still can't describe it. It's almost like your perception of your surroundings changes. It was in high school and some of the other students tried to make fun of it, but honestly, I think it was just insecurity or an attempt to block out the horror.
People who believe in earthbound spirits believe that these victims and even the people doing horrible thing that their energy is affecting places where horrible things have happened and there is also residual energy that makes the places feel dense. Negative energy is dense (feel slow, hard to breathe, eerie, feel anxious) and positive energy is light.
Idk if anyone cares but I just tought to share.
@@Sunoocheeks1111 100% agreed. The amount of blood spilled there and the sheer volume of pain and suffering that occurred in that location has probably changed it forever on an energetic level.
Even thinking about going there makes me want to cry.
I visited at the age of 17 with a school group from Canada. Half of us cried, a few started smoking that day. A couple joked in an obvious effort to relieve the tension and were quickly shushed. No one took it lightly. This is not an amusement park. This is a place to learn and remember. But it is powerful and makes you a better human.
Did they start smoking, or become better humans?
@@saltyalts602 Those two things are not mutually exclusive. I can't speak to any internal impact it may have had on others but I know it made me more empathetic, understanding, and accepting of differences in others. The kids who started smoking did so, I assume, out of a great sense of shared stress and trauma.
Damn you going to different countries for school trips?!? Bruh the last time I had a school trip was year 4 I'm 20 btw
@@debilduzy134
When I was a kid school trips consisted of class picnics to a classmates farm. We never got more than 10 miles from the school...and it only happened twice in 10 years.
@@howardkerr8174 Yeah legit
I had the honour of visiting both Auschwitz I and Auschwitz Birkenau in February of this year 2024. It was both one of the most depressing and (respectfully) incredible experiences of my life.
Seeing the sign at Auschwitz I ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’, looking around the piles upon piles of human hair beyond imagination, the shoes and gas canisters used, first setting eyes on the infamous train tracks at Birkenau.
It was so so emotional to stand where millions stood for the last time. My group stayed at Birkenau until it got dark. It was freezing, raining, and utterly pitch black and we were stood at the very end of the camp, at the end of the train tracks. We had a ceremony, lit candles in respect and I even had the honour of hearing a Jewish song. At the very end of the ceremony, my tour guide said “now you get to walk back out those gates, you will go home to your families, to warmth, love and safety. No one else who reached the end of these train tracks got to do that.
I was utterly heartbroken and it’s weighed on me ever since and most likely will do forever.
So please, if you decide to visit these incredible places in history, be respectful, be quiet, and think about how lucky you are.
I saw people running out of the different museum barracks in Auschwitz I, there were people crying and I didn’t see anyone smiling for the entire time I was there. You don’t have to cry, but you most definitely shouldn’t laugh or joke around. Never take selfies, not even under the famous sign or in front of the train tracks. Don’t post pictures of the human hair on social media or any of those things (shoes, belongings etc).
Be mindful ❤
Congratulations on your pilgrimage
I went a few years ago, group of teenagers were laughing and taking pictures of each other in the crematoria etc., the tour guide handled it amazingly:
"When you die, I think I will come to your gravesite and laugh."
They were quiet from that point.
It’s so sad to see what a lack of respect people have. Props to the tour guide.
Give that man a raise
I think I would have said the same to them I think it’s important to call people out on disrespectful behaviour
He probably wont be alive then
@@silverzombo3915 well there is a little tip that you can do to shorten someones life
I don’t think I would emotionally be able to handle going on a tour of a concentration camp. The thought of all the people who suffered and died brings tears to my eyes.
That’s fine than, don’t go
@@mr.channel6467 thank you for your priceless input. Where would we be without you stating the blatantly obvious
@@SlamDunkPyro no need to be rude.
@@_s-p-e-c-t-r-a_music_ i don’t think it was him being the rude one
@@kaiservonpanzer213 hmm, maybe I read the convo wrong but I thought that the original reply that Caledon made was replying too was just a simple reply telling the op to not visit the camp. What they said did seem condescending to me, but I'd just rather forget that I made this comment in the first place.
People are so not self-aware.
These are the same people who call themselves "woke"
@@marcosmacedo9801 I mean, just don't act like an ass when standing in a mass graveyard. Not hard lol
You're correct.
That place is heavily distorted
@@marcosmacedo9801 I'm not sure about that statement. Seems like a blind generalization.
Lack or does not have common sense or may i say rare sense.
Thank you so much for demanding respect. It is a terrible thing that you even have to ask. These precious souls deserve so much love and respect. ❤
Same speech should be given before visiting the Museum of Tolerance. When we took a class trip there, My 8th grade teacher uninvited a few kids who typically misbehaved in class. Which is smart. I couldn’t imagine being in a Holocaust themed museum with kids acting out of line.
It isn’t a park, a theater or a playground. It is a graveyard, a place where the worst things were committed. Respect the people, the families who lost someone there. It’s not a place for selfies, it’s a place for respect.
Then why pay for admittance?
@@Garl_Vinland to learn about the horrific things committed there, it's not a place for jokes and laughs, if you think that way then your dense
@@vBlinz aw please shut the fuck up this stupid guy is saying it’s bad to take photos and tbh no it’s not it’s the memory “take a picture it will last longer” for a couple to kiss maybe they were kissing to comfort each other maybe they knew sum1 who was killed there and got sad and kissed to cheer each other up? People can also make jokes and laugh because some ppl like to laugh instead of cry snd some ppl makes jokes to cope with certain terrible events nun of that is disrespectful..if they were laughing AT the ppl who died or making fun of The people who died yes it’s disrespectful it’s not disrespectful to kiss or laugh or joke if u don’t intend to offend or be disrespectful it’s how people are so shut up and this guy can get off his fucking high horse THE GUY LITERALLY HAS DRONE FOOTAGE OF THE FUCKING CAMP AND HES GIVING OUT ABOUT PEOPLE TAKING PHOTOS FUCKING HYPOCRITE OF THE CENTURY
@@halol229 I also took a few pictures there but not from the hair and clothes. The guide literally says that you shouldn’t take pictures from it then why still do it. He calls out these people not people who take normal pictures.
@@halol229 your Irish you wouldn't know anything about this. Its highly disrespectful for someone who knows relatives who have suffered in these places. And if you think its acceptable to laugh/make jokes, make out in there and just being disrespectful then you might wanna get yourself checked. Also the guy was filming for a documentary and they allow that except for the things like the hair and clothes which he specifies. Get a grip would ya.
My niece went there for the first time when she was 14 years old for a tour. When asked about it, and if she found it difficult. She said the most difficult part of the tour she found was walking out of the gas chamber. When asked why was that she said, “because they didn’t get to.” Right there we knew she understood.
Same here, when I was there first time years back I was terrified by all this but the most horrible things was seeing all this names and pictures - I hope that nobody ever will be forced to be in the position of these prisoners, I cannot even imagine what was going through their heads...
Very empathetic girl. I'm 37 and just came back from Buchenwald with similar thoughts and feelings.
On the gate facing inwards they have the words 'Jedem das Seine' ('To each their own' or 'To each what they deserve').
As a visitor you get to open that gate with your own hands and walk back to the car park, drive home and sleep in a comfy bed. Those poor people had to look at that day in and day out and only hope and dream to one day walk out and live even one more normal day of freedom. 56,000 never did.
Hit home how much we take for granted in day to day life and how much war, pain and suffering some people have had to go through to have those basic rights and freedoms. So many souls who never lived with those basic human rights. And it's the same throughout history. Millions upon millions just suffering for the simple fact of being born in the wrong place at the wrong time.
UA-cam finally recommend something amazing and that should be shared
Merky Water definitely needs more awareness, a lot of things do ;(
@@kyranclear6022 so does this: ua-cam.com/video/j6p1zxKnDeM/v-deo.html
KatynMermaid 187 your really commenting on a video about a place where millions were murdered trying to push your political agenda. That’s really fucked up
@@joshwiner1411 this is a video with a clear political agenda
Imagine making that joke comment below this video
The solution is simple: All image-making devices are to be surrendered at point of entry. Retrieved upon exit. Those not wishing to comply, will not be allowed to enter.
They should make every person who visits there watch this before entering.
There are signs everywhere telling you that you should not take photos of certain things.
@@bennuballbags2 Yes, but selfies are more important these days.
they should make every person who enters turn off their cell phone and then remove the visitor from the site if they use their cell phone. I know when I visited the National Archives, the guard there made it very clear if he sees anyone lifting their phone and taking a picture or a flash going off, that would be IT.
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My senior year of high school 26 students (including myself) are selected for an educational WW2 trip to europe. On that trip we visit 2 separate concentration camps. I distinctly remember how the energy instantly changed as soon as we got off the bus. Every student almost immediately assumed a respectful quietness. there was little conversation about anything other than how truly awful this must have been for all involved. I cannot imagine how insensitive and disconnected you have to be to treat a place like this with such disrespect.
And yet teenagers are called the disrespectful ones
Marjan Rajicevix we did not. this trip was 2 years ago now but i still kept the itinerary and the names of them were the Buchenwald Concentration Camp and the Dachau Concentration Camp
@@terrygaedchens5928 you are the one spreading false propaganda. "Bolsheviks" came from Germany with Vladimir Lenin, who was enjoying life in Germany and being protected by germans. His ideas originated from Carl Marx, who was also born in Germany.
But what about people like me who mean no disrespect but simply cling to humor as a means of dealing with deep emotions?
Fuck that
I went to holocaust denkmal in Berlin some days ago, with my school. Everyone took happy pictures and laughed. I didn’t feel like it was the place for laughter and taking happy pictures of one another, and students from my class came up to me and asked if i was sad..
I’m speechless..
johanna torang sometimes, its good to laugh at bad things. yes, its awful, very awful. though thats why people listen to upbeat music when they feel down, to help take their minds off of what they are thinking about and raise their spirits. my grandpa fought in a war, and sometimes i laugh about it and joke around. i do this to take my mind off it whenever i start to think about how i could have lost him and wouldnt be able to talk to him like i did just yesterday. it helps me, and i havent thought about that in a while.
Wooden doors
Wenigstens warst du vernünftig genug und hast dich da benommen. Scheiss auf diese Menschen. Die machen das nur um ''cool'' zu wirken bei seinen Klassenkameraden. Ich glaube du weisst worauf ich hinaus will. Ich bin stolz dass du genug Empathie hast um nicht so ekelhaft zu sein wie deine Klassenkameraden. Ich hoffe du konntest deine Zeit da trotzdem sinnvoll benutzen um vieles zu Lernen und zu fühlen.
@Robert William Rosswhy do you think that ? how old are you and how educated are you, wanna know what kind of person is so gullible? Have you read real history or do you only read historical revisionism and far right blogs.
@Robert William Ross If I had been Indian you would have broken your own rule. I'm not Indian.
In Germany it’s common to visit a concentration camp once with your school class in 9th or 10th grade ( 14-16 years old) and I tell you, the behavior of the kids is very diverse. Some cry, some are making jokes, not necessarily out of disrespect but because they just can’t emotionally open themselves to the tragic especially in company of their classmates. When I did this trip a kid pulled out their e-cigarette in the crematorium. I think everyone remembers the day they visit a former concentration camp, but everyone reacts different to the atmosphere.
Honestly, this video of you should be played at the very beginning of every tour there. Thank you! You have my full respect!
I agree!
I agree as well
Well said
Well said.
The guys an idiot. He has a nazi haircut. Absolutely disgusting honouring nazi haircut.
Thank you for this. This is so important.
No
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I watched this on the toilet
@I Poop On Jewish Graves You aren't funny. You are disgusting.
@I Poop On Jewish Graves Shame on you.
I thought you were going to warn about the overwhelming emotion that hits you because of the tragic history.
I’m very shocked that people behave that way :(
Aaeylla Aardvark ..I've been told that by people who have been there as tourists, and I can believe it. There are so many places I would love to visit. To stand on the very spot that someone famous once stood, would be amazing. How anyone could go into this place and make a mockery of the horrendous things that took place there is beyond me.
Same!!!
Misty Puffs, l can believe it because as l get older, l'm fibding people are getting more and more uncivilized. It disgusts me and makes my misanthropic nature stronger and stronger.
Disgusting behaviour! These places should have the utmost empathy and respect to the millions of people murdered there where are their manners ! Shocking ! God rest their souls 🙏 💔 RIP
@@susanstuckey7697 people like this are just garbage. They should be flogged for their disrespect. It's hard to imagine someone doing this.
I so much agree with him, Respect those innocent people who lost their lives so tragically 😢
I had an uncle who removed the remains from the gas chambers and ovens. I never saw him sober. Only once in a drunken stoup per did he speak of it. This was 35-40 years later. He wept, no he baled like I have never seen a man cry. He died within a year. He was in his mid 50's.
People fail to realize that not all of the victims of these atrocities were the ones having the pain inflicted upon them, but those who inflicted the pain. I refuse to believe that every person who committed such horrible things were all believers of it. I am so sorry for not only you and your uncle, but also every other man forced into such horrible, dehumanizing things.
@@somerandombetafish7866 that's a stupid thing to say because the only times things change for the better is when the inderviduals stand up for what they believe in So either they are evil or cowards.
@@morrobarry sure, because one man standing up against the atrocities can have an impact, especially when there's thousands of troops willing and able to execute them for treason, on the spot. If you were running the furnaces and decided enough was enough, the guards would simply detain you or kill you then send in a new person in your place, one who didn't rebel. An individual has no power in these situations, aside from the ability to choose whether to obey or die
@@turbomega3907 You´re correct. Liberty Lovers Uncle was a prisoner most likely inducted immediately upon arrival at the camp and forced into the position under death threat. The first task was usually to dispose of their predecessors. This group of prisoners was called Sonderkommando. Their job was to clean out the gas chambers and the crematoriums and dispose of the corpses. Just imagine their horror of finding their own family members amid the bodies. They had no way of refusing or resigning other than suicide and even though the Sonderkommandos were kept isolated from the rest of the prisoners, the Sonderkommando were considered Geheimnisträger - bearers of secrets by the Nazis so according to SS policy every third month the Sonderkommando was gassed themselves and replaced with new arrivals to ensure the Nazi mass extermination remained a secret from the rest of the prisoners in the death camps.
@@morrobarry the sonderkommandos had to inflict pain and they didn't want to
My sister and I went to Dachau int eh 80's with my sister. From the moment we entered the camp, we were silent and did not speak until we were outside again, and had walked away from the camp. It was an overwhelming experience and one we will never forget. Unfortunately, we too experienced tourists and bad behavior in a place that is a memorial to the suffering of millions.
Did you notice that the birds did not sing either. Just eerie silence there.
@@IlovetheTruth
I've never heard that before.
It would be creepy.
Unfortunately, the world is full of self-absorbed assholes.
When my family visited dachau fortunately everyone there behaved.
It was the same when we visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington. And that is just a replica. I can't even imagine talking, smiling, or taking pictures at an actual death camp.
“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” - Elie Wiesel
Joe Doyle i’m reading his book “night” at the moment.
Nicholas Colson same
Nicholas Colson me too it’s so sad I cry every time 😭
rusty shackleford
Citation needed. Present proof or piss off.
Nicholas Colson I would like to read it sometime. How is it so far?
I found the same thing at Dachau, way back in 1974. Mostly Americans doing it. We weren't told not to take photos, but I just couldn't. I felt it would be sacrilege. I cried from the moment I entered until I left. I have those memories still implanted in my brain, I don't need photos.
The same thing happened when I went to Paris catacombs only this couple actually picked up a human skull for selfie. It was disgusting.
I went to the ossuary at Kutna Hora near Prague. My friend who I love dearly walked out of there crying because she heard me say these alleged skulls from hundreds of years ago showed signs of gunshot wounds. But I never picked them up that's just disgusting.
I mean that's fucking metal as hell
forget illegal that is unsanitary
that should literally be illegal
@@guywelsh9589 Oh boy would you hate forensics
A visitor's decorum should be that of a person attending a funeral.
You couldn't have phrased it better. Visitors should be told that as they enter. Having said that, they shouldn't need telling if they have any semblance of intelligence, empathy or even the remotest degree of historical knowledge.
Ikr. Can you imagine being at the funeral of a dear relative and some visitors you don't know opening the casket and taking selfies with the corpse in the background and then leaving while discussing and sharing on soc media? Really? GTFO.
Or viewing a crime scene which is what they are actually doing.
@@oleeb Well put.
My funeral is going to be a party I hope people not only kiss but get fucked up on drugs and have crazy animal sex on my grave...
This should be required viewing prior to entry.
Trevor Gale
That’s an excellent idea
Amanda Adrienne
I agree wholeheartedly.
Why don’t they?
I guess once upon a time people understood what horror this place stood for and why it is there and had empathy for the victims. These days we have generation X-Y-ME. So maybe some pre-education is now required.
Ban cell phones and cameras instead.
It confirms how out of touch people are today. You can't live life in your head alone. Many of my Jewish friend's grandparents lived with them. I remember their trauma and how their coping skills from that time spilled over into our daily lives. May we never forget & continue to honor them❤
they should just ban phones all together
Like, imagine getting murdered, tortured, then people taking selfies where that happened.
Bob I mean selfies are awful like wtf but I understand taking pics there I would probs take pics there but not of the human hair but if it was for like a class or a memory then that’s understandable but kissing and just taking selfies is like awful
I couldn't agree more. I shall be visiting this site once the pandemic has ceased and if I see this sort of behaviour, I will bring it to the attention of the tour guide. Utterly disrespectful.
I absolutely agree. If it’s come down to collecting phones of adults, then so be it. You’re there to pay your respect, not to be on a vacation.
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@@jamie25288 You mean lies and propaganda that you like to bathe in without doubt and with blind belief
Here's a good rule of thumb: Act as you would if those people who died in Auschwitz were watching you. Be respectful. It doesn't matter if they're in heaven or if they were watching you down here on earth. Treat the dead with respect.
But how do you respect someone who is not alive anymore?
@@mcirishmen2558 that's very easy. Just respect them. Think of them as your superior because of what they have gone through, what kinds of pain they've felt. You most likely have never felt that pain, so you can ad should respect them for being able to endure it longer than you or me probably ever could.
@@mcirishmen2558 just act like if you were at a funeral
@@mcirishmen2558 do you respect dead relatives?
@@AidenPerera i wish
If you're asked not to photograph certain things, it's just common courtesy to do as you're told. I was 15 when I visited Auschwitz, and it was right after that viral thing on Twitter with the girl who had taken a smiling selfie at Auschwitz and posted it online. Some of my classmates took some pictures with me in them, but more as a result of me just walking by, or that we were all going somewhere. I wasn't posing for a photo or anything. More just to show our parents that we were there.
@@winonah i went at 12 - heart breaking seeing the horror people lived through back then. i followed all rules, and refused to take photos during those periods. we were in a private tour, so luckily no one else did that either
@@winonah It depends on a lot of factors in my opinion, some of which are very personal. I would go with friends or family, as they are comforting in these kinds of places. As said in the video, there is human hair, luggage, and more, all from the poor Jews and Poles stuck in Auschwitz, so assuming you can handle these things, I think you should go.
And don’t touch anything or go “out of bounds”.
thats one thing id have to disagree with you. photographs of say the shoes, have massive emotional impact that can be imparted to the masses who may never be able to visit the camps. they need to be shared that anyone and everyone may know their true horror. lest we forget.
It's tragic what happened there, but people should take pictures if they want.
In 1976 I was in the British Army stationed at Bergen-Hohne, just over a mile up the road from Bergen-Belsen. I walked around the site for over an hour. Even though the place has been sort of sanitised there was an eerie atmosphere. Low mounds surrounded by low walls bearing plaques stating the number of dead in each mound. You leave such a place with so many thoughts spinning around your head.
Here in Austria, there's a concentration camp called Mauthausen. A couple classes went there on a school trip. My grandfather, whom I have never met before, survived a concentration camp in Germany, and my father often told me the stories about how his father survived such a terrible place. Just knowing that a family member of mine had to go through such horror pains me. When we arrived there the first thing our guide told us was to respect Mauthausen and the victims it had taken. A couple of my classmates and I brought some candles to light at the memorial placed in the middle of a park. However, some of my other classmates made antisemitic jokes, some raised their right arm as the Nazis did, and some just laughed throughout the whole trip. When I confronted some about it they looked at me with such confusion, it baffled me. I asked my teacher to do something about it but in the end, nothing was done. Looking back at it I feel really bad for those kids. Nobody ever taught them to respect such places. We must educate others on how to treat topics like that.
Great video Patrick! This message must be spread!
Vor rund 3 Jahren ist meine Klasse nach Mauthausen gefahren. Ich nicht, meine Mutter hatte mich davon abgehalten, weil sie schlimme Erinnerungen davon hat. Im Endeffekt habe ich es bereut, aber nicht um zu sagen "ich war dort". Ich bereue es, weil ich mir kein eigenes Bild davon machen konnte, weil ich mich nicht in das Leid der anderen versetzen konnte/kann, und ich diesen Menschen die dort ermordet wurden, nicht meinen Respekt zeigen konnte. Ich werde das nachholen und ich werde all denen, die nicht dort waren weil sie entweder den zweiten Weltkrieg oder den Holocaust oder was auch immer leugnen, denen die es noch nicht dort hin geschafft haben, oder aber auch denen die offensichtlich noch nie etwas davon gehört haben, davon berichten und jene darum beten NICHT weg zusehen und sich zu informieren. Ein solches Ereignis darf sich auf gar keinen Fall wiederholen und ich hoffe, dass wir (die nachfolgende/btw jetztige Generation) was daraus machen und definitiv dazu lernen!
I agree entirely I am a descendent of survivors and fell that it is the respond ability of parents and schools to teach children
@@paula.147 100% agree!
@@amolerat4456 German schools be like: yeah we go over the 3rd Reich for 2 years and barely touch the surface, because children go mimimi and sad. Make them cry. Make them feel pain. Give them an vague idea of how it must have been, let them picture the full evil and cruelty of the crimes committed there. Make them suffer, make them fear what was there 80 years ago.
The reason I am so radical and dramatic: The events have been fading from the collective memory for the last decade. Right-wing-populism is a thing in all over Europe again. People compare themselves to the hunted Jews (Coivd-deniers, to be more precise), to Anne Frank. The question is: Why do we let this happen?
Taking kids to places like this isn't good in my opinion. Kids prefer going to trips that are fun, so they make the fun themselves on places like this.
My class went to a village that was burned down without a valid reason during WWII, and all the people that lived there were killed. Ofc some of my classmates made fun of it. At that time we were young so I wasn't really mad, I just knew that it isn't right. But that's just what kids are. These places should be visited when you are older and you understand the weight of these places.
I have it on my "bucket list" to visit one of the camps, not as that, but out of respect and awareness to the history of the world.
I had the same with the graveyards in Normandy when I was younger. My parents took me and my brothers there and it was so eye-opening. To respect those who have fallen, that's the reason you should go to these places
Exactly. Having it on one's bucket list doesn't necessarily mean that one lacks the respect and solemnity for the place.
@@riddhiroy7 Bucket list is an informal word, it makes visiting the Auschwitz seem like a personal goal, an achievement, rather than a real tribute. You've got to remember he is speaking out of anger in this video. However, I know what you mean though, as in its a tribute you wish to partake in, just in my own opinion, I would not refer to it as a bucket list.
@@seeme8080 Yes, I understand. The 'personal goal' view is another way of looking at it which I hadn't thought of earlier :)
Regardless, I do realise the significance of the site and fully respect it.
I see a bucket list just as 'things I want to do in my lifetime' I think it's perfectly reasonable to want to go to historic places (respectfully). Though I do understand how the phrasing can seem rude/insensitive
People are so disrespectful....this hurts my soul.
I’d rather die than associate with those types of assholes.
You know, I'm in India. We have people taking pictures and videos of dying road accident victims. Here the police is not so good, ut takes very long to arrive. That's the ultimate shameless.
Arjun...I'm so sorry behave so horrible.
Chan Roobi Why would a Jew be offended if a pic was taken of there shoes? Stop getting so offended. If anything the people ruthlessly made as slaves and killed would want people to see and know the horrors that they had to endure.
And People that can’t make it to Auschwitch Need to see the truth and how bad it really was. How are ppl supposed to see the reality of it all if there’s no visual evidence it’s DEFINITELY not for amusement it’s for the history behind the pictures.
@@thatgall900 Sir, she means taking pictures for amusement. In a light hearted way.
Im Polish. I went to that camp before COVID. There was no hustle or bustle like in other places you might visit. Eerie silence. Just the sound of wind and birds flying by, or cars in the distance.
It was really something you have to see to belive. The complex is massive, and split into two parts. Auschwitz and Birkenau. There is a wall that was lined with so many bullet holes that you could see the lead acumulating in some spots from the bullets striking the previous ones that got stuck in the concrete. Our tour was really well behaved unlike the one youre talking abaout today. I do not have a single photo from that trip, and yet the images of the wall, the gas chambers and crematoriums where you imagine the days where the camp was still operational stay in your mind,
forever.
The same thing happened when I went to Anne Frank's House in Amsterdam. Signs everywhere, asking you not to take photos, but people ignored it. It was shameful.
@amanita333 fuck off
@amanita333 fuck you
@amanita333 Stubborn twelve year old kid.
@amanita333 You want to know why photo is not taken in some museums? Because banning photographs is believed to boost security by preventing thieves or terrorists from visually capturing and pinpointing weaknesses in alarm systems and surveillance cameras and taking photographs often violates copyright protections.
@amanita333 Yes. I did.
I came in this place with my class when I was in high school, the way they behaved was digusting to me. Shouting and laughing, while I was standing there, where my grandfather was before me and was tortured because he helped people who needed it and hid them ... it was mortifying to see that people didn’t care at all
I'm so sorry that happened. That would break me.
Your grandfather was a great man, and he's lucky that he has a granddaughter like you
God thats horrible
I know a lady in a senior home across the block of my apartments. I visited there because our Girl Scout troop was going to get our badge for visiting a senior home and spending time with them. At first I felt uncomfortable because I was Mexican and all the other seniors were white and I couldn't find a way to strike a conversation. Then I met Helen. She was very well dressed and had a lot of jewelry but one of the senior caretakers told me she had Alzheimer's. I still talked to her the whole time and she talked to me. Even though she would forget almost everything in less than 30 seconds I felt very close to her. I drew and colored with her when she told me that she wanted me to visit her in her room. I followed her to her room and she showed me a portrait of her siblings and her aunt. She told me the story of how she fled her home in the middle of the night to avoid getting caught and sent to Auschwitz. She told me she came from a wealthy family and remembered that her parents told her aunt and caretaker to get a head start. Her father died that night and she didn't know what happened to her mother. Her aunt had taken her and another sibling while the caretaker held her youngest sister. They got separated and she never saw the caretaker or her sister ever again. She told me that her aunt and her siblings starved and had to eat scraps and hide everyday that felt like forever. Helen started crying and I did too. I hugged her and I told myself that I would never ever forget her. It's so sad that she had to experience that at such a young age and now even though she has Alzheimer's her memories of her past still haunt her and she can recall everything even though she looks like a regular loving senior lady. I really want to visit her again as soon as the pandemic is over. I wanted to write her story down and keep it or get someone publish it if she allowed it.
Thats why whenever I hear people joking about Hitler or Auschwitz I want to shove a fist to their face for being so inconsiderate for not even having respect for those young and old souls who were tortured and scarred.
there is a big difference between people that chose to go there, to people that were kinda forced/pressured to be part of a group activity that somebody else decided to do.
it's true for any kind of activity
I went to Sachsenhausen on a school trip a few years back. I’m glad to say none of my 15/16 year old classmates acted in the ways you mentioned. When our guide told us not to take photos we didn’t, when she was explaining the kinds of activity that went on in the camp everyone was very respectful. I can’t imagine how people could act like that in such a place
I feel glad for you and your class. Unfortunately, there are such and such reactions to the concentration camp matter among adolescents. Most of them are more or less horrified, of course. Most do display appropriate reactions. But I've already heard adolescents giving positive statements about what happened in those places. I don't know exactly, though, who of them only _pretended_ to like this all and who actually _did_ . Probably both of these possibilities occur. The former is just a cynical pose, some like cosplaying the Really Bad Boy and this is one possible way to do so. This is unpleasant, but not really dangerous. The latter is really dangerous. Some are probably just individual sadists, others from traditional Nazi families who never really experienced any change of mind ever since NSDAP times, there is this kind of clans in Germany... Whatsoever. The rest of society should keep an eye on any kind of radical right-wing tendencies.
Your 15-16 year old class mates are more intelligent than the adult tourists he mentioned.
The same happened during my class trip! My classmates are usually very obnoxious (the kind of kids who think whatsapp hitler stickers are funny because of schock value), so I wasn't expecting a hoard of 14-15 year olds to be quiet. Thankfully everyone remained respectful when listening to our teacher and no one said/did anything annoying during the tour.
Literal teenagers have better behavior then those people in the video.
@@mysteriumvitae5338 Yeah, we gotta keep an eye out for them. We should mainly focus on containment because it will die out naturally, but we need to make sure they're not hurting anybody.
A memorial to human beings and their souls should be honored and respected to the highest degree😢
I’m really confused on why this video has 26k dislikes
Disrespect and self entitlement are rampant.
1:13 Even tough apathy is bad I don't think its the worst thing that has happened there. Exaggeration and overreactions can make people dislike things even if they agree completely.
Holocaust deniers and Instagram "influencers" probably.
@@urhop1999 hey, he wasn't saying that was greater than the original tragedy. he was pointing out how angry he was in the moment and how he didn't even do anything
Anti-Semites? Far right extremists? Who knows, there are some sick people out there.
I feel the same about ppl running on top of the "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe" in Berlin.
When we were little like 5 or something me and my brother climed the Berlin holocaust Memorial, a police man pulled us down took us too our parents and my dad told us what it stood for and showed us some pictures, we never even touched the stones again.
And then I see teens or even adults playing around, jumping from block to block it pisses me off because me and my brother didn’t know what it stood for and did it with out any knowledge of nazi crimes. This is not the case with these people. They know but just don’t care
I constantly see people being photographed in them...
I ran ontop of them with my sister when I was younger and my parents dragged us off because we didn’t know it was a memorial
i actually was on a class trip to berlin, we were there too, and the lazy girls just used these cement blocks as something to sit on
@@bsmith483 Most Muslims are not racist.
For those who weren’t there. In the gaschambers you can see deep nail scratches in the walls. You can see the agony the victims went through as they knew they were dying and panic overcame them in their desperate fight.
Making out in this chamber is most disgusting. I also saw girls pushing their ass against fences and taking photos of each other and like he said that made me feel angry and ashamed that I didn’t say anything.
That's just... Wow
@@harisa.8697 there's no guards for stupidity unfortunately. Also it's parents job to teach there children how to behave...
Weren't those scratch marks tourist inflicted? I think I read somewhere that people did that on purpose
Edit: found the source twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/986137266740449280?s=20
@@dredonaut5529 They look like nail scratches, but I dont know if they were made by tourists which sounds realy weird. but idk for sure
If I was there I would have hammered those asses.
Absolutely agree with you. My strongest memory ofAuschwitz is the poor behaviour of some visitors. I saw people posing for photos with their heads in the opening of the ovens, and some taking selfies of themselves posing with their fingers in the bullet holes in the wall of an execution yard. Truly appalling behaviour.
that's hilarious 😂
@ Hilarious??? Guess you’ll be doing those things if you ever go there.
As my brother once told me..”if you rely on people to do the right thing, you are setting yourself up for a huge disappointment”.
Your brother sounds like a wise man.
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I have a saying, it goes, "if you give people the benefit of the doubt, they will prove you wrong."
are you insulting the video?
Or even setting youself in danger
My guide told me: "It's not a museum. It's a cementary"
Cemetery
@@mark_dyl bruh
@@mark_dyl bruh
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Who tf starts kissing in a place where people got murdered and tortured... "ahh yea babe finally a good place to kiss, oh look some dead mans shoes and a pic of him thats sick!"
Jews and Polish Jews and, more to be honest.
vakio manki menee 45 stop crying
@@parabellum1488 go fuck yourself
@@parabellum1488 you are beyond horrible. Im so disgusted
ParaBellum go fuck yourself
My Grandfather served in Europe in the US army and aided in the these NAZI Camps Liberation. Mom said, He was never the same person. I've always wanted to visit n pay my respects. Although, I've never gone through what they did I do understand their plight. RIP.
The wide-eyed fear in the photo at 2:17 is heartbreaking. That's the face of someone who knew what was coming to them. How anyone could be disrespectful walking by that is utterly baffling.
I saw the same photo and thought the very same thing.. he did not have to explain how he was feeling, his expression showed it all. How terribly tragic.. just as tragic as those who come to visit and behave inappropriately.
i just started crying watching that moment. its so sad and i don't understand how people can be so disrespectful to each other.
I thought that they didn’t know that they were going to die
@@timo6312 It depended. A couple years into the war everyone knew Auschwitz wasn’t just another concentration camp where a good chunk of people died each day, it was considered “a death camp.” You went in, you didn’t expect to come out. Period. If, in 1943, you found out you were going to Auschwitz, you probably knew or one of the other passengers told you what fate awaited all of you.
That said, they typically were lured into a false sense of security right before it actually happened. For example, they would ask them to take of their clothes since all of them were dirty from the trip so they could take “showers.” Separate the men from the women and children and all and lead them in before locking the doors. Other camps would do this at higher rates later on, but earlier in the war the Nazis often opted to work them to death instead, so they could use them for manufacturing labor. Auschwitz was always in that sort of frantic murder pace that the other camps tried to get to at the end of the war.
Sorry if I said too much. Tried to only say what needed to be said.
@@svalentine4667 Wow that’s heartbreaking. Thank you for this
They came, they looked, they walked
Their eyes wide open
They didn't see
Because their minds were closed
Their eyes wide open
They didn't know they couldn't see
Because their minds were closed;
So they looked, and left
-Eugene J. Martin
Sorry to say, I know you are right. It is definitely an indictment on the human race which all of us must face.God bless you Eugene. Peace out.
Birthday card pish
Well written!
Im using for my insta bio if its ok
Paul French its based on a true story...
A man poured his heart and soul into creating a sincere message to simply respect the lives of those lost in this terrible tragedy. And 27 thousand people disliked it. Is there no shame?
I'm guessing some of those are from Holocaust deniers.
Or they just didn't want to see videos like this.
@@Not_Noodl there is the option to click not interested in this
No one wants to be confronted when they do something they shouldn’t, so they’ll respond with defensiveness or aggression. People now a days don’t care if they’re offending you as long as they’re able to enjoy themselves.. so they take their pictures so they can say “omg we went to Auschwitz, so terrible!” And then go along with their day not caring at all about where they went or who they effect or whom they disrespect.
It’s sad really..
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Wife and I visited 12 years ago. We both CRIED all thru it. It was sobering to say the least and is burned into my memory forever.
People acting disrespectfully should be kicked out of the place immediately!!
I agree
I fully agree. There should be personnel on the lookout so that this distasteful behavior is not allowed.
Fck yeah.
Aren't they
@Registeel on UA-cam The comment you replied to has unfortunately been deleted but what I’m guessing he meant was that the mongols were way more brutal than the Nazis and that Genghis Khan killed 6 times more people.
I went there when I was 14 years old. Saw a father a daughter standing in front of a portion of the electric fence, smiling, and taking a selfie.
Was absolutely disgusted. I kept staring at them until a tour guide came in and ask them to stop.
You go to places like this to learn, not to have fun.
@@LOGIBEAR01 don't get me started
@@LOGIBEAR01 are you serious logan
Let ppl be
@@heavyweaponsscout9990 but that's just wrong i mean they literally went to a graveyard to smile and take photos?like??
@@iva-x7w graveyard? No. But still, its not like youll make those people change their minds, they simply do not care.
Honestly I think if people are caught doing that they should be forced to deleted the images and get kicked out.
I’ve been to the acropolis museum in Athens and they’re very strict on no photography or touching the artefacts, figured auschwitz would be the same
That’s a weird thing to say and do, people should have the freedom to take images of historical events, what are the freaking lenses going to ruin the brick? Is the camera flash going to melt down the building?
@@jdubz33 the flashes can actually damage stuff like paintings. Ever see flags that have lost their colour due to the sun? Same phenomenon. With auschwits and other places like it, its simply about respecting that its not a place to gawk at, its a memorial. Its there to tell the stories of the ones who didnt make it, to keep telling the stories long after the ones who lived are gone.
Depending on the place or item you shouldnt be able to take pictures if its going to cause damage but i dont see the problem if you take pictures of your outing to preserve the memory of having gone there allowing you to look at the photos after however much time has passed and relive the experience. I dont see how taking pictures in the death camps is somehow disrespecting the dead.
@@jdubz33 have you ever heard of respect? Taking a selfie and posing is so unbelievable apathetic to a mass extermination of humankind.
it's crazy to me that the same people would probably pay respects properly at a graveyard, but cannot behave in a place of mass murder. it's sickening.
People everywhere have lost touch with reality. They’re living their lives as if they’re actually on a reality TV show.
Disgusting.
@Adrian B ... not really
@Adrian B because in reality tv shows everyone is just using youtube all the time. Also kinda ironic since you are also here commenting
I went , I cried , I left feeling empty. No one in the group was disrespectful. I took the tour in Spanish. It was good that we all payed our respects in a rightful way. Shame for those people that don’t understand misery or have empathy to go to a place where millions were slaughtered and murdered.
People are too smug thinking such a thing could never happen again. Not to them, anyway. They're happy thinking they are so far removed from that danger. We aren't, not with so many fools around.
Sounds like they have quite the tourist industry grift going on there.
@@maxdominate2481 Eh? You also pay to visit museums, no?
@@s.8462 - Right, but no one at a museum for the most part is telling how I should structure my experience. Plus, with the eventual acceptance of the revised history associated with the time period., all of the admonition might have been for naught at which time a latter bar and gift shop will be installed.
El grupo entero fue respetuoso seguramente por nuestro idioma. El español sólo se habla en países con una gran respeto hacia la muerte gracias al catolicismo inculcado tanto en España como en latinoamerica. Los americanos y el resto del mundo son diferentes, por desgracia.
As a 9th grader my entire class went on a school trip to visit historic places from WW2. Auschwitz was one of the stops. I still remember the feeling I had in Auschwitz to this day more than 12 years later. It is a hard feeling to describe. You know you are standing on the grave of a million people. The horrific things they were put through. There was just an aura over the entire place. A feeling of dread. Of respect for the dead. And the honor of remembering them. It was a powerful thing for a young man like myself to experience but I still carry it with me to this day. And it saddens me deeply that people would disrespect Auschwitz and the horrors that took place there like this.
You ever wonder how six million people allow themselves to be executed? It’s an interesting thought…….
Where was the disrespect? A couple had a small kiss and people took some photos??
This is just self indulging virtue signaling
@@ironandzinc when you are told not to take a picture it is common sense to not take that picture. And a small kiss is fine, but making out is not when you are in a place like that. It shouldn’t be that hard to understand.
@@ironandzinc nah, you have no clue what virtue signaling is. This is straight up disrespectful.
@@ironandzinc
You’re a prime example of folk today having literally no clue about what’s considered appropriate, acceptable, decent …
When I was a sophomore high school, my history teacher was a football coach. Since I really didn't like sports, I didn't feel much respect for him. However, he decided to show us evidence films from the Nuremberg trials, not some fictional but the real stuff, for two weeks of class. I remember watching football players coming out of that class crying. I have never forgotten how watching those felt. I can never forget, and I'm glad. Such monstrosity, carried out by fellow human beings on their fellow human beings, is too terrible to forget. Now that I'm old, I still haven't forgotten.
I am grateful for having to watch those. I almost went to Matthausen once, but knew my wife at the time could not take that. Never forget.
100% correct.
Don’t go if you can’t behave. Don’t „brag“ about having gone.
If you go, shut up and think about what you’re seeing. It’s not fun, it’s not a holiday but it’s important.
"Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it" - George Santanaya
That’s why we must learn this
He said "If you don't have the empathy to understand what happened at theses places, you don't deserve to go" which contradicts your quote if you can't go because you don't have empathy then you can't understand history
@@jacobwalker5027 With all due respect sir, as told by the author, the people that went alongside him on a trip to the most brutal place on Earth, just went in there for pictures, fame, or simply just plain bored and went there for pastime. At one moment he said that a couple just suddenly went kissing in one corner, to which I clearly concluded that most of the people that he went along with have little to no knowledge about the dreadful, murderous history of Auschwitz. And with that in mind, I posted the comment/quote in order to remind us that, if we never knew and never learned from the horrors of the past, we will just repeat it over and over.
If we dont remember, we'll forget and then we're allowing history to repeat itself
But thats the issue here. Everyone knows Auschwitz is a place where terrible crimes against humanity Happened. They just dont care. Thats the most painful part.
I'm in absolute shock that people behave this way when they visit. I'm German and the idea of visiting makes me want to cry. The horrors that happened there are unforgivable.
For the most part they don’t. I’ve been there twice and everyone was very respectful.
Martinez sounds Spanish or Mexican.
People can behave how they want. That's the freedom the men who gave their lives fighting the Nazis fought for. Stop pearl clutching and policing other peoples' behaviour.
You have been indoctrinated well!
@@cockoffgewgle4993 yeah they can behave how they want, but there are things where they shouldn't. Example given: In history class we visited a concentration camp, we looked at some of the most disturbing things I've ever seen so far. (Hooks on walls where they hung children, women and men alike in a room where there was no light at all) And a classmate of mine made a joke about them being killed like bugs and all. Everybody in earshot gave him shit for being an ass and acting disrespectful in a place like this, where people have been tortured and killed. So yeah. You can do and say what you want, but don't be surprised for getting shit for it if you behave like a dick.
People are desensitized to everything anymore. The lack of empathy and compassion is overwhelming. Sympathy for one another is replaced with obliviousness.