AUSCHWITZ: The Complete DISTURBING Tour | WARNING: Actual footage

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    The Complete DISTURBING Tour, WARNING: Actual footage. Auschwitz concentration camp is a place where the bleak reality of WWII conditions suffered by its inmates has not lost its intensity, sending shivers down the spine of its visitors and remaining reflection-provoking for years to come. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the primary site of the Nazi's "final solution to the Jewish problem". It is estimated that 1.3 million people were sent to Auschwitz and of these, 1.1 million died. Most people deported to Auschwitz were sent immediately to the gas chambers. Those who did not die in the gas chambers died of other causes, including starvation, infection, medical experimentation, and forced labor.
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  • @Ashleysplanet
    @Ashleysplanet  Рік тому +613

    I believe that it is important that every traveller recognises the history of the country they visit - especially those of us who make content in these places. The disaster of Auschwitz is heartbreaking, so if this video is hard to watch, that's fine, I understand. I'll see you in the next video.
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    • @marlenegb3267
      @marlenegb3267 Рік тому +1

      The Word HOLOCAUST means BLOOD SACRIFICE, & there have been MANY. How would the "Jewish" people know what it means? The Babylonian Pharisee's NEVER gave the Khazars the correct Hebrew alphabet when they converted them into their Satanic sex cult of Orthodox Judaism. The Ashkenazim don't speak Hebrew, they speak Cock-a- doodle. New York Times Headline: 6 MILLION Jews are under threat of extinction...What year did they print that? 1912.....How could 6 MILLION Have been killed, when there were Not 6 MILLION Ashkenazim in Poland & Germany put together?....The New York Supreme Court ruled that the ANNE FRANK DIARY was and is a FRAUD. Ghost written after the war by MEYER LEVIN of Sweden . WHEN IS THE ZIONIST STATE GOING TO ACKNOWELEDGE THE ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST...OR THE CHRISTIAN HOLOCAUST OF OVER 66 MILLION AT THE HANDS OF THE ASHKENAZI'S.. always looking for sympathy aren't you. It's sickening! from the Tribe of my Fathers before mee, Napthali

    • @richardmorris1965
      @richardmorris1965 Рік тому +1

      No I would never divulge the location of this place but if you worked on an ambulance you've been the one I'm sure I just thought it was odd

    • @richardmorris1965
      @richardmorris1965 Рік тому +1

      But it did surprise me to see that they were different tattoos I wasn't aware of that you know they were monsters but they did it anyway it was a

    • @ConservativeCE2
      @ConservativeCE2 Рік тому +4

      You cannot assume that every single one of those Jewish Prisoners were innocent.

    • @richardmorris1965
      @richardmorris1965 Рік тому

      @@ConservativeCE2 Nazi

  • @mikeelek9713
    @mikeelek9713 Рік тому +5242

    What's even more unbelievable are the number of people who claim that this never happened or that only a few thousand lost their lives.

    • @wano2363
      @wano2363 Рік тому

      Yer but we don't take them seriously so who cares... Free speech shall rule, the Jews would of wanted this.. those people just prove how ignorant they are... Just like Biden supporters😁

    • @lynnpaterson2143
      @lynnpaterson2143 Рік тому +187

      Just came home from Poland visited auchwitz IT DID HAPPEN

    • @alaskaaksala123
      @alaskaaksala123 Рік тому +125

      Or, that the people who died died from sickness only

    • @loniivanova8667
      @loniivanova8667 Рік тому +82

      Really???Who think this?

    • @PlaneBuilder2
      @PlaneBuilder2 Рік тому

      @@loniivanova8667 prob neo nazis

  • @garysmith5781
    @garysmith5781 Рік тому +4440

    I was in the 8th grade, back in '78. We were learning about the Holocaust...
    One of the students grand father was a prisoner at Auschwitz. He came in and told us first hand of some of what he experienced. He rolled up his sleeves and showed us the numbers tattooed on his fore arms. That is something I will never forget..

    • @adelerodriguez2432
      @adelerodriguez2432 Рік тому +194

      I would probably freak if I saw one of those numbers. It's an evil reminder of how the prisoners were stripped of their dignity and everything else. I'm not Jewish, but one of my great-uncles in the former Czechoslovakia was in one of those camps. He had been working against the Nazis and got arrested at a train station. He survived, thankfully, but had trouble with his legs years later.

    • @redwolf7929
      @redwolf7929 Рік тому +74

      I remember seeing an older lady at the local corner store as a boy in the early 80's with the tattoo on her arm.I knew what it was but not the full horror

    • @1neAdam12
      @1neAdam12 Рік тому +30

      Kinda weird to tattoo someone you're about to dispatch, isn't it?

    • @alpejohnson491
      @alpejohnson491 Рік тому +41

      @@1neAdam12 No I forgot what they do that to the prisoners but yes the Nazis did tattoo their prisoners on their wrist there are many sources that say why.

    • @1neAdam12
      @1neAdam12 Рік тому +10

      @@alpejohnson491
      Uh-huh, sure.

  • @jackivy8704
    @jackivy8704 Рік тому +207

    In 2018 I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau. With a class full of 16-17 year-olds, laughing beforehand having a great day. I have NEVER seen a mood change so suddenly and quickly. As you said in the video, you just feel drained, and empty, with no way to fully comprehend the horrors experienced in that death camp. It was a harrowing experience and I urge people that if they get the chance to go and experience it for themselves. The feeling you get is like no other and I cannot find the words to properly do the experience justice. It is one thing to learn about it in a classroom but going there and standing where 1.5 million were murdered because of the delusions of one man is an APPALING experience. Do not bring flash photography, and don't worry about speaking too loudly. You will inadvertently be silent throughout the tour.

    • @bobgear5859
      @bobgear5859 Рік тому +2

      Iwould,never,gotothat,camp

    • @peterzang
      @peterzang 8 місяців тому +1

      Thank you for this. Much love.

    • @dennisalexanderson6975
      @dennisalexanderson6975 2 місяці тому

      We saw Schindlers List at the movie back then in 94-95 with school,there were about a handfull of Arabs amongst the students and they laughed and were very amused of all the worst scenes. The hate some of these people have against Jews are worst than someone who claims to be a National Socialist

    • @nahor88
      @nahor88 2 місяці тому +5

      You know what's sick? I heard stories of teenagers actually browsing on their phones WHILE THE TOUR IS GOING ON. They're surrounded by the remains of where thousands upon thousands of innocent people died, and they're browsing on social media.
      It's good that they left the camp intact, as physical proof that such horrors were committed by actual human beings on others. No one talks about the fact that these horrors were not isolated to the Nazis. The Japanese committed similar atrocities to Chinese prisoners, for the same reason that they were taught from a young age that they were racially superior.

    • @user-up1if1hb6c
      @user-up1if1hb6c 13 днів тому +1

      Thats how I felt when I went to dachua. I wouldn't go in but my dad made me. It was a feeling of evil there I have chicken skin right now just talking about it.

  • @ztay5405
    @ztay5405 8 місяців тому +170

    We visited the camp today. It is nothing like seeing movies or reading books about the Holocaust. Being there was a totally different experience. It is tragic, inhumane, but unfortunately all true. We could even feel the pain from the voice of our Polish tour guide, Peter.

    • @user-rp9rb5bl8j
      @user-rp9rb5bl8j 7 місяців тому +5

      Ok so I'm on the fence about visiting a concentration camp. The bombing of the building is kind of hard for me to take in to be honest. How did you feel after the concentration camp visit?

    • @ztay5405
      @ztay5405 7 місяців тому +11

      @@user-rp9rb5bl8j It was the most valuable experience I've had in Krakow. I'll not visit a concentration camp again because it is heavy and very emotional but I firmly believe that every human being should visit one in his/her lifetime. Just to grasp the idea that a human being can do this to another human being is a knowledge that we should all understand. Just my two cents.

    • @michaelwilliamson4759
      @michaelwilliamson4759 6 місяців тому +1

      @@ztay5405
      You should have visit the Soviet Union extermination camps ran by the Jewish NKVD officers. Oh, wait… they don’t want that history exposed so you’re better off going to Auswitchz or some other death camp that the Soviet Union NKVD used during their occupation of southern Poland that the history experts claim Germany operated…

    • @mdgulfamrashid7787
      @mdgulfamrashid7787 5 місяців тому

      What Nazis did to Jews , Israel is doing to Palestinians but as always people who are feeling sad / emotional watching genocide of Jews are the same people who are closing their eyes when a genocide is happening in front us or may be surrounded by propaganda/hate that is not letting them speak
      Years later they'll feel sad what happened
      Just a fake and Hypocrites people

    • @RochellBarbara4690
      @RochellBarbara4690 Місяць тому

      I want to visit so bad but I’m a very emotional person just writing this I’m in tears but I want to go and feel it 😢

  • @Stephen8601
    @Stephen8601 Рік тому +845

    My mother was a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. She obviously survived (I was born in 1949), and as to how, can only be described as a miracle.
    The more young people like you who continue to bring these atrocities up is perhaps the best thing you can do. It makes us all not to forget.

    • @Ashleysplanet
      @Ashleysplanet  Рік тому +74

      What an amazing women. Thanks for sharing Stephen. I will continue to do what I can 🙏🏽

    • @WillyEckaslike
      @WillyEckaslike Рік тому

      your mother was very lucky because typhus ravaged BB due to the allied bombing anything that moved and food and med production causing a lack of supplies to the camps....when liberated the camp had been without water for a week because of the bombing of the pumping station

    • @kingsolomon899
      @kingsolomon899 Рік тому +6

      Thank you for sharing…

    • @dalewyatt1321
      @dalewyatt1321 Рік тому +20

      I hope she found peace and joy throughout her life after liberation.

    • @adelerodriguez2432
      @adelerodriguez2432 Рік тому +4

      I am so sorry this happened to your mother. I'm sure it affected your family if she had nightmares and flashbacks. I hope she didn't suffer from physical problems bc of the horrible conditions.

  • @Guzmandini
    @Guzmandini Рік тому +946

    This happened less than eight decades ago. Eight. Not even a century. This video was very well done. A horrific story, but well told.

    • @hugolafhugolaf
      @hugolafhugolaf Рік тому +19

      The crazy thing is, I was born in 1975. I'm thus 47, as I type this. Crazy to think that I've been alive much longer than the number of years between the end of the war and my birth. This happened only 30 years before! As of 2023, 30 years ago is 1993. It's literally yesterday! Unreal.

    • @Karma-hy6ki
      @Karma-hy6ki Рік тому

      It’s happening today in China buddy, and the china death total has exceeded the Holocaust yet no one is doing anything about it

    • @TheKonga88
      @TheKonga88 Рік тому +4

      Really? Eight decades is less than a century? Thanks for clearing that up for us 🤡🥱🙄

    • @hugolafhugolaf
      @hugolafhugolaf Рік тому +13

      @@TheKonga88 it’s called emphasis.

    • @Guzmandini
      @Guzmandini Рік тому +11

      @@TheKonga88 You're welcome, smarty pants. 😃😠

  • @viajarMOTO
    @viajarMOTO 8 місяців тому +62

    A extremely sad part of the worst of humanity that everyone should visit. You described the experience extremely well and we share so many of your feelings.

  • @pinkpuppy1984
    @pinkpuppy1984 Рік тому +744

    I was living in Germany from 2007-2010 and visited Auschwitz. It was all such a somber experience, but when I saw the room full of children’s dolls, my heart just sank 😞 I will never understand such inhumanity.

    • @Ionabrodie69
      @Ionabrodie69 Рік тому

      Auschwitz is in Poland not Germany.. 🤔🇬🇧

    • @DePoRtEd20
      @DePoRtEd20 Рік тому +59

      Humanity is cruel, even today we still see stuff like this happening, on a small scale but its still there, we just havent had an actual world war in our time to see the harsh reality of how cruel humans can be.

    • @JesusFriedChrist
      @JesusFriedChrist Рік тому +1

      It didn’t start at that either, it started small and worked its way up. Small things to discriminate, segregate, and deny Jews certain aspects of public society. Kind of like how the “unvaccinated” were discriminated against and segregated from participating in full public life because they exercised their fundamental human right to informed consent, as dictated by the Nuremberg Code, which was written in Nuremberg after the trials and the public realization of the medical horrors performed by the Nazis. And yet here we were, 75 years later, making the same mistakes that the German people let their society and government do in the 1930’s and 40’s. And when people who are politically and historically literate like myself pointed this out and were warning against it, even predicting the vax passports well over a year before they happened (it was all a crazy conspiracy theory that would never happen until it did, at which point not only is it completely normal but actually at good thing 🤡🤡🤡), we were called crazy conspiracy nuts and dismissed as such.
      Our accuracy and consistency is so good that “conspiracy theory” should just be replaced by “spoilers/sneak preview of reality in the next 6-18 months”.
      It pays to pay attention.

    • @AdolfHitler-lk4vo
      @AdolfHitler-lk4vo Рік тому +1

      Auschwitz is in poland

    • @anthonyfuqua6988
      @anthonyfuqua6988 Рік тому +40

      Did you go to Poland? That's where Auschwitz Birkenau is. There were concentration camps in Germany but all death camps were in Poland.

  • @Jdb2013
    @Jdb2013 Рік тому +523

    My best friend’s grandma was in a concentration camp and she had the tattoo on her arm and everything she was from Poland and afterwards she migrated to the United States and ended up in Philadelphia. I never asked her about it, but I could tell she was the strongest person I’ve met in my lifetime. She passed away this year and will be greatly missed.

    • @shivalidhillon
      @shivalidhillon Рік тому +13

      May God bless her soul..

    • @Lee-wg7en
      @Lee-wg7en Рік тому

      so she survived?

    • @Jdb2013
      @Jdb2013 Рік тому +2

      @@Lee-wg7en Yes she did

    • @Jdb2013
      @Jdb2013 Рік тому

      @@Lee-wg7en I believe she lost her parents and a sibling

    • @Lee-wg7en
      @Lee-wg7en Рік тому +2

      @@Jdb2013 I'm very sorry for her losses. WW2 was so unnecessary. well, I suppose all wars are, for civilians at least

  • @sarvdeepbasur6672
    @sarvdeepbasur6672 9 місяців тому +39

    It must have been a life changing moment for you and all who have visited Auschwitz. History has lot to teach, but we learn little, hence it has to repeat itself. A humble salute to all who survived this ordeal

    • @laurengarabedian9270
      @laurengarabedian9270 8 місяців тому

      It does teach us a lot I do not like Germans I don’t care if everything has changed they know what they did and for that that is unforgivable so I would not want to step on German land not in this life time if Germans could rewrite history they’d kill every Jew possible again I mean Jesus Christ died for the Jewish people and people who weren’t Jewish he died for the Germans but look at what they did. he was one judge me if you will if I went to Auschwitzs it would be for the Jewish people who were killed they’re all because of their race and it’s still happening today people whom are Jewish are still getting slandered and beaten because of their race why can’t we one and just not care about race I feel really bad for the person who has a nazi for a grandparent

  • @jackmartin245
    @jackmartin245 9 місяців тому +18

    The images alone break my heart, my father was present at a camps liberation, although he never spoke the name, he never described what he saw or experienced, the horror in his eyes, tremble of his voice, at just the mere memories were enough. There are times I wished he could have told me, I realized as I grew older, that some things are too horrific to describe to a child.

  • @attollo10
    @attollo10 Рік тому +582

    I visited these two camps as a freshman in high school. It is truly difficult to describe the depth of morose sadness that comes across your heart and mind as you see things like the prisoners' belongings. There was a moment which I experienced at the camp that I will remember for the rest of my life. As we entered the room that prohibited photography of any kind, the room with the display of human hair, about half of our group broke down in tears. The other half (including myself) simply stood in stunned silence. The sheer weight of the experience of visiting this place is hard to quantify. It is a mere glimpse of the depths of evil that all humanity should avoid. Thank you for this video. Much needed.

    • @ateebali7371
      @ateebali7371 Рік тому +2

      Why does the world still love Germany and Germans ????

    • @childskites6346
      @childskites6346 Рік тому +45

      @@ateebali7371 its not modern germans fault, it was their ancestors. This is what happened in the past. Thats why alot of modern germans get hate because of their country past crimes.

    • @alexbrigg2090
      @alexbrigg2090 Рік тому +1

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @mrcatmunch1
      @mrcatmunch1 Рік тому

      The thought of crying in a room with a load of hair just makes me crease

    • @daddyrabbit835
      @daddyrabbit835 Рік тому +2

      I was there in September and took pictures of the hair room. I didn't see any postings saying not to. Were you on a tour? My wife and I visited 7 different camps on our trip. I'm not sure why, but Daucha and Buchenwald were worse to us. I have to say Block 11 was tough as well as visiting the 4 crematories in Camp II.

  • @eddygoodwin7089
    @eddygoodwin7089 Рік тому +332

    I have a relative who helped liberate one of the camps and he said there was a dead horse outside the gate, when the prisoners got out they started eating it. Such an awful thing. It really put it into perspective for me hearing that. Can’t fathom how people could become so evil to want to do this to another human.

    • @DVincentW
      @DVincentW Рік тому +51

      When Auschwitz was liberated. many who survived, ended up dying after eating because their stomachs had shrunk. Internal hemorrhage.

    • @evatroniclover0026
      @evatroniclover0026 10 місяців тому

      It's human nature to make each other suffer you fool.

    • @JamesRichards-mj9kw
      @JamesRichards-mj9kw 10 місяців тому +1

      Most of the deaths were due to the illegal Allied starvation blockade, and aerial bombing which prevented supplies from reaching the camps.

    • @blainenodes8182
      @blainenodes8182 9 місяців тому +1

      Observation 👀...human history going back 3.2 million yrs ago, Lucy "book don Johansson,1999 or years2020 to 2023 to see how cruel a small group of humans can wreak havoc☮️

    • @JamesRichards-mj9kw
      @JamesRichards-mj9kw 9 місяців тому +1

      @@blainenodes8182 Wall Street financed the Russian Revolution.

  • @tiedngag
    @tiedngag Рік тому +26

    I grew up in the military and we were stationed in Germany. I was young, maybe 7 and we took a military tour of Poland and on the tour we visited Auschwitz. Even at a young age you could understand the gravity and seriousness of this place. There was bones and skulls in a room that were only a small scale of the death that occurred there. I am in my thirties now and I had not thought of that tour in a long time until watching this video.

  • @darahamm137
    @darahamm137 Місяць тому +3

    Thank you from presenting this in such a honorable way! I was able to show my 8 year old son, & it brought him to tears. We are in the middle of reading The Hiding Place, so it helped him understand a little better.

  • @gwidwock
    @gwidwock Рік тому +56

    Thank you for filming this. The world must never forget what happened there.

    • @migueldesantoz
      @migueldesantoz Рік тому +4

      Never!!

    • @bighand1530
      @bighand1530 3 місяці тому

      I haven’t. And I certainly won’t be forgetting for a long time.

  • @doug8525
    @doug8525 Рік тому +340

    One of my teachers in high school was a survivor of one of these camps. He never spoke about it much other than to say it was horrible. He showed us the tattooed number on his arm. He was a good guy. Also, I watched a video of this place made by a visitor. He said it’s eerily quiet. He wandered off by himself because he heard that if you can be alone, it’s very quiet. He mentioned that even in the trees around the area no birds were singing. He noticed there was no wildlife anywhere around there. It makes me wonder if animals can somehow sense death even from such a long time ago.

    • @kdm71291
      @kdm71291 Рік тому +58

      Animals are very sensitive to vibrations and energy........I'm sure they can feel that to this day!

    • @ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus
      @ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus Рік тому

      Wow another survivor.... so many survivors for a camp that was supposedly meant to kill people.

    • @ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus
      @ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus Рік тому +20

      No birds and wildlife? That could be because Auschwitz was in a village that had a lot of manufacturing factories. Birds and animals don't like pollution and people.

    • @dusannestorovic5699
      @dusannestorovic5699 Рік тому +22

      The animals probably smelled the decomposing bodies and heard all the comotion so they stayed away...
      Animals can definetely sense bad energy as well

    • @sportsfix6975
      @sportsfix6975 Рік тому +9

      I always wonder how people survived a death camp

  • @edgoodwin4389
    @edgoodwin4389 Рік тому +224

    Imagine being a prisoner in that camp and then coming back 70 years later to see it again. Still horrifying. I don’t know if I can visit again, especially if my entire family was killed there.

    • @kev03103
      @kev03103 Рік тому

      @Ho lee Fuk The Russians liberated the camp. God knows what they did to the Nazis bastards running it, probably off to the gulags.

    • @someone6170
      @someone6170 Рік тому

      @Ho lee Fuk , basically there were many concentration and extermination camps in Nazi controlled areas which had huge numbers of people in them. With the allies advancing quickly the Nazis didn't have time to kill everyone. They therefore left those who couldn't walk in the camps (7,500 survivors in all Auschwitz camps), and took the remainder on so-called death marches further into Nazi controlled areas away from the front lines (58,000 from Auschwitz - with three quarters surviving). All up it is believed about 250,000 to 300,000 survived both the concentration camps and death marches (although many died soon afterwards). Essentially you are talking about huge numbers of prisoners, huge numbers of deaths, but still many survivors, just based upon the huge numbers of people involved.

    • @1neAdam12
      @1neAdam12 Рік тому +6

      With the right story telling, you can make a child in a field of wild flowers seem like the devil himself.

    • @janewrighton9227
      @janewrighton9227 Рік тому

      @Ho lee Fuk Because there were millions of people in them. The majority-probably about 90%-of the victims of Auschwitz Concentration Camp died in Birkenau. This means approximately a million people.

    • @Dreadpirateflappy
      @Dreadpirateflappy Рік тому +18

      @@1neAdam12 Not much story telling needed when millions were murdered tbh... just plain facts. something Deniers never seem to like.

  • @artistbanker1915
    @artistbanker1915 5 місяців тому +7

    I visited this place today and like you felt numb. How man kind could inflict such cruelty on other innocent human beings, whose only crime was being different to them.
    A wonderful video and you really captured the moment.
    God bless their souls

  • @RochellBarbara4690
    @RochellBarbara4690 Місяць тому +2

    “I was a little girl i had done nothing to nobody and I still had to go there” 😢 wow that broke my heart

  • @frankcompagnone8550
    @frankcompagnone8550 Рік тому +447

    I had 8 uncles who served from 1942 to 1945. Each one made it home. And then there was my dad who served as a navy seabee in the islands of the south pacific. The stories of their experiences were very hard to extract.they didn't want to say much. They flew flags and gave me books that explained things. What's really sad is I don't think the human race has learned anything.

    • @Ashleysplanet
      @Ashleysplanet  Рік тому +18

      What an amazing family you have Frank.

    • @nomdeplume69
      @nomdeplume69 Рік тому +4

      the chinese stands out in this regard

    • @jaredclawson1813
      @jaredclawson1813 Рік тому +7

      Same with my family. My dad was second to the youngest of fourteen, between his and my mom's family they were sent to all fronts. I'm a generation behind most of my first cousins but my peer group of uncle's and close friends growing up on the ranch was a B-24 nose gunner, Navy Sea Bees and sailors, beach stormers and a couple Bataan survivors. I feel so fortunate to have spent my growing up years working side by side with so many of the greatest generation. I will be forever grateful for their sacrifices and will continue to relate their stories to any and all that will listen. God bless America.

    • @frankcompagnone8550
      @frankcompagnone8550 Рік тому +8

      @@jaredclawson1813 growing up amongst them on every side and maybe that's why I'm so angry now at this woke generation.. I think it's them that in 30 or 40 years will be suffering.. we will be gone..

    • @jaredclawson1813
      @jaredclawson1813 Рік тому +1

      @@frankcompagnone8550 I agree Frank. I live about an hour from where I grew up and it's hard to go home because so many of the people are gone now. Hard to relate to a lot of the younger generation. My daughter and I were visiting the airport in Kingman, AZ this morning looking at pictures of the miles of B-17s that were flown and stored here after the war to be chopped up and scrapped. Her big fascination wad the pay phone next to the pilots lounge. She's never used a pay phone, it's a complete novelty item. But, back him in N.M. she gets to fly in a '46 Ercoupe, so there's hope.

  • @Soofi1906
    @Soofi1906 Рік тому +485

    “If there is a God he will have to beg for my forgiveness” that is brutal 😢

    • @lorainekielsmeier6616
      @lorainekielsmeier6616 Рік тому +45

      i know right? but can you imagine the anger towards god, that person was feeling? seeing this short little video on the camps, i can see why someone would be angry at god for allowing the nazis to exist and do those horrible things. :(

    • @jehudavis5422
      @jehudavis5422 Рік тому +42

      There is and always be evil in this world which is not our ultimate home. The demons who did this and are burning in hell. No, God will not beg for your forgiveness don't count on that!

    • @residentevilfan5443
      @residentevilfan5443 11 місяців тому +12

      Knowing the only one that can help him/her did nothing ,yes i can understand your feeling

    • @christinagonzales4701
      @christinagonzales4701 11 місяців тому +16

      The devil exist too. Still does.

    • @jehudavis5422
      @jehudavis5422 11 місяців тому +28

      @@christinagonzales4701 the nerve of someone thinking that God will have to beg forgiveness blows me away!

  • @Antimatter_YT.
    @Antimatter_YT. Рік тому +47

    I’ve been to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., USA. Seeing these things in person is a totally shocking experience unlike anything you’ve ever experienced through reading or film. I remember seeing the human hair. It’s such an ominous and personal thing to lose, and seeing it in person is hard and totally understandable why photography is off limits. Thanks for sharing this video never letting us forget what happened

    • @radiumdude
      @radiumdude Рік тому +1

      “…never letting us forget what happened”…. blah blah… it’s happening today, in china, in north korea…. apparently all that “never let is forget song” isn’t changing anything.

    • @DVincentW
      @DVincentW Рік тому

      @@radiumdude FEMA, CDC, WHO, UN are all ready. and activated by the T man Jan 2020.

  • @Ash-gv7uj
    @Ash-gv7uj 6 місяців тому +7

    I was there last week. One thing that I really couldn't comprehend was the scale of it all. films, documentaries and history books didn't give me anywhere near that kind of perspective of how big it is. Seeing row after row of chimneys at birkenau knowing that they were buildings once used for such an atrocity is so hard, but I am glad I went, if only to tell others they should go if they ever get the chance. We must never forget what happened during those years, and the only way to prevent anything like it happening again is to keep people understandingg and remembering.

  • @JacobWillumsen
    @JacobWillumsen Рік тому +57

    What touched me the most was the small glass case containing children's clothes and shoes.
    It made me shed a tear.

    • @Lee-wg7en
      @Lee-wg7en Рік тому

      why? no children were killed there, I mean I have never seen the body of a child anyway

    • @SaharMaorLevy
      @SaharMaorLevy Рік тому

      I'm a Jew

    • @SaharMaorLevy
      @SaharMaorLevy Рік тому +1

      @@Lee-wg7en only 1.5 million children were murdered in the holocaust

    • @SuperHitman55
      @SuperHitman55 10 місяців тому +4

      @@Lee-wg7en They murdered children. Stop being silly

    • @Lee-wg7en
      @Lee-wg7en 10 місяців тому

      @@SuperHitman55 any bodies? as I said, I have never seen the body of a child anyway (in Auschwitz pics) - have you?

  • @Sduell60
    @Sduell60 Рік тому +169

    Thanks for the video. I am over 60 and not Jewish. However, I have spent a lot of time investigating the Holocaust and what happened there. I understand your feelings of being overwhelmed.
    When I try to imagine what they went through, I remember what it was like when I was personally homeless and starving for months. I use this experience as a starting point.
    But when I start imagining the daily torture, the dehumanizing, the hopelessness, the disparity, the filth, the constant death & dying, the depression, the weather and living conditions... I feel sick to my stomach, weak in body, numbed in my spirit as my emotions run crazy between empathy and pure rage against the monsters who did this.
    But, perhaps, the sickest people of all are those who deny this ever happened.

    • @alexbrigg2090
      @alexbrigg2090 Рік тому +4

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @ryejordantv1112
      @ryejordantv1112 Рік тому +17

      @@alexbrigg2090 I don’t get what’s funny?!….grow up!

    • @darkog8153
      @darkog8153 Рік тому

      Sickest are one's that can not see that today "our" governments are doing same thing as NazionalSocialists in 1930s. They declare you "sick" and majority will follow.

    • @michaelwilliamson4759
      @michaelwilliamson4759 Рік тому

      @@ryejordantv1112
      There are other groups of people that (weren't) killed by Germans in the camps. Only the Jews are talked about, that's what is funny.

    • @akhilgk3222
      @akhilgk3222 Рік тому +4

      @@ryejordantv1112 Ignore these guys, they just want some attention. We'll feel like idiots arguing with them

  • @annehenderson9207
    @annehenderson9207 9 місяців тому +1

    Thank-you for your moving description of the place and for sharing your own reactions to it. Your voice lends gravitas to a specatacle that truly demands it.

  • @carolynstuart5901
    @carolynstuart5901 9 місяців тому +5

    Those who deny these atrocities are just as guilty as the ones who committed them.

    • @BasementEngineer
      @BasementEngineer 9 місяців тому

      Suuure! You obviously cannot tell the difference between war propaganda and hard scientific truth.

    • @nimdaqa
      @nimdaqa 7 місяців тому

      @@BasementEngineer As a notable hardcore Neo Nazi (ironic) once said: "The problem with all revisionists is that while they CLAIM to be scientific, they fail to ACT in a scientific manner."
      You obviously don't know "hard scientific truth."

  • @jinxysaberk
    @jinxysaberk Рік тому +118

    It's so easy to disassociate yourself from history. I often find myself reminding myself that this is real. It doesn't feel it. It gueineinly feels like something that belongs in a horror movie. I can't even begin imagine the pain and suffering both families and the people themselves went through. It's terrifying how recent WW2 really was.

    • @robertallen6710
      @robertallen6710 10 місяців тому

      Yeah, when I was in kindergarten it only happened 12 years before...😔

    • @Meandme710
      @Meandme710 7 місяців тому

      What do you know about history, we had to write yours because of laziness/stupidity.

  • @geometrygraham3337
    @geometrygraham3337 Рік тому +29

    It makes me so infuriated how all those people died alone not knowing that they would be recognized for the terrible things that happened to them in the future. They died thinking the world was gonna stay like that. They died thinking that they would never be remembered. And that's terrible to think about.

    • @evatroniclover0026
      @evatroniclover0026 10 місяців тому +3

      but it especially infuriates me when people try to defend humanity, say we can be redeemed when we can't at all.

    • @SuperHitman55
      @SuperHitman55 10 місяців тому +2

      @@evatroniclover0026 I agree with this. It's still happening

    • @evatroniclover0026
      @evatroniclover0026 10 місяців тому

      @@SuperHitman55 Finally, another misanthrope.

    • @SuperHitman55
      @SuperHitman55 10 місяців тому +1

      @@evatroniclover0026 It's not that I dislike humans, it's just I don't believe they'll ever learn from this

  • @rebeccabowers7423
    @rebeccabowers7423 8 місяців тому

    I've just discovered your channel. My Dad fought all over Europe, and was in the Battle of the Bulge. He didn't ever want to talk about the war and it wasn't until he passed in 2012 that I started really studying it. I haven't been there to visit, but I have been to the museum in DC. I was handling it pretty well until we got to the part with all the children's shoes. That broke me. Thank you for starting this channel, I'm really enjoying it!

    • @Ashleysplanet
      @Ashleysplanet  8 місяців тому +1

      I'm glad you like it, and thank you for sharing that!

  • @bentleyprazma2936
    @bentleyprazma2936 8 місяців тому +1

    Family on my moms side is from Poland. My grandfather was a teenager at the time and him, his siblings and his mother were able to escape the country and settled in Canada. He didn’t talk much about it, and when asked about his father he would essentially shrug. At one point he told my dad that his dad was captured when they fled. Wether he ended up in a camp or not is something that often crosses my mind.

  • @ottoschless4115
    @ottoschless4115 Рік тому +252

    We cannot change the past, but we can certainly be brave enough to stop it from ever happening again. Great informative video. Thank you.

    • @Ashleysplanet
      @Ashleysplanet  Рік тому +5

      Love this. Thank you 🙏🏽

    • @davidgordon702
      @davidgordon702 Рік тому +31

      Unfortunately, we are still living in a world with pretty much the same type of concentration camps, that existed almost seventy years ago. Russia has those types of camps, hidden away in the cold wilderness of Siberia. And, North Korea has labor camps for any citizen, who breaks the most trivial of laws. So, unfortunately, we are still experiencing the horrors of the nazi camps...

    • @browhat4008
      @browhat4008 Рік тому +23

      @@davidgordon702 Dont forget China with the Uyghurs right now.

    • @tannerspahn6492
      @tannerspahn6492 Рік тому +13

      Except we’re letting history repeat itself in Ukraine right now.

    • @clivestraw1913
      @clivestraw1913 Рік тому

      Not if you got the un and NATO stiring the shit up for awar

  • @e.w.3989
    @e.w.3989 Рік тому +155

    As someone who has been there, I can tell you that when you first walk past security and see inside for the very first time, it hits you in a way that you can't really describe. It's like getting smacked in the chest with a baseball bat of emotion. All those images in history books, all those stories you heard growing up smack you in the face and it makes you want to fall backwards on your back.

    • @1neAdam12
      @1neAdam12 Рік тому +2

      Poppycock

    • @chrisb3976
      @chrisb3976 Рік тому

      @@1neAdam12 How is it poppycock? Are you one of the ingrates that think the holocaust never happened?

    • @lisah4898
      @lisah4898 Рік тому +2

      @@1neAdam12
      What is?

    • @1neAdam12
      @1neAdam12 Рік тому

      @@lisah4898
      With the right lighting, sound and music, you can make a film about a young child picking wildflowers in a field frightening. You only see what they want you to see. I've seen the other side and heard testimony of their truths, and it's completely different. Don't be so easily tricked by the masters of manipulation.

    • @lisah4898
      @lisah4898 Рік тому

      @@1neAdam12 What’s different?

  • @optimumevolution
    @optimumevolution 11 місяців тому +24

    Your commentary is vitally informative, raw, yet sensitively respectful. You took on an immense subject and were able to create a topical and poignant film that conveyed a harrowing piece of history, bringing the horror to life while honoring the millions who suffered and perished.
    Very very well done.
    This needs to be shown everywhere. You deserve an award.

  • @joshgale1518
    @joshgale1518 8 місяців тому

    Great commentary to the video... Very thought provoking as well... I visited the Washington DC museum and the end skylit bridge with the shoes piled and the smell of the leather brought what i saw there to a true realization that what i had seen was heartbreaking ... I felt immense numbness & sadness yet appreciated the awareness of atrocities... ❤ To all the victims of this tragic and needless atrocity

  • @danmang923
    @danmang923 Рік тому +153

    Can you imagine being one of the allied soldiers and having to clean up the aftermath.... I cannot even imagine what it must have been like to have been given such a burden without fully even knowing what was truly go on. My condolences to those who have lost loved ones and those who are still haunted. Lest We Forget. Never again....

    • @luigi7834
      @luigi7834 Рік тому +12

      It would be a horrible job. But at least you'd have the satisfaction of knowing you helped liberate the surviving prisoners

    • @0307660803
      @0307660803 Рік тому +1

      well heres a little jump boost the soldiers made the germans clean up the messes they let happen.

    • @sheepheard483
      @sheepheard483 Рік тому +1

      the german people didnt look much better/ losing a war for 2 years leaves you the choice of feeding the front line or feeding your pows..... war is hell.

    • @DVincentW
      @DVincentW Рік тому

      Watch Band of Brothers last episode.

    • @crosbonit
      @crosbonit 11 місяців тому +1

      You mean the Russian soldiers that found it? They did what they could for the people still alive, looked around for Germans to hang, drank vodka and moved on.

  • @kevinbl7821
    @kevinbl7821 Рік тому +164

    For me, the part that hits me the hardest is probably how they slept. Obviously it’s disturbing how many were killed there, but the conditions they slept in really shows that the ones who got too live were seen and treated as literal animals. It’s just so difficult to comprehend

    • @leebeeskee
      @leebeeskee Рік тому

      The humans there to be killed had little to no worth to their oppressors as they were going to die anyway so no comfort or thought was ever given to them. Unfortunately humans are still capable of evil and it's also how animals are still treated by us, kept in horrendous confines to be gas chambered. We're a shitty species that unfortunately has a higher brain function than our unevolved selves can handle.

    • @hijzybhat2139
      @hijzybhat2139 Рік тому

      Deserved it

    • @joebond545
      @joebond545 Рік тому +13

      Animals are treated much better. Or so I should hope

    • @sheepheard483
      @sheepheard483 Рік тому +1

      the guards werent doing much better than the prisoners. this is what happens when you lose a war for 2 years and are being invaded. you cant feed the troops, how would you feed your pows?
      A typical ration for one adult per week was: one fresh egg; 50g (2oz) butter; 100g (4oz)margarine; 50g (2oz) tea; 25g (1 oz) cheese; 225g (8oz) sugar; 100g (4oz or 4 rashers) bacon; 3 pints (1800ml) milk, occasionally dropping to 2 pints (1200ml). Meat to the value of 1s 2d (around 6p today) was also included.
      thats per week!!!!

    • @sheepheard483
      @sheepheard483 11 місяців тому +2

      @@leoaldebaran i always wanted a bunk bed when i was a kid.

  • @dianaf1669
    @dianaf1669 4 місяці тому +2

    You exhibited so much respect in your video. God bless you for this, in memory of all those who perished in these camps.

  • @Omegajunior2658
    @Omegajunior2658 6 місяців тому +4

    My father and I visited that former camp in Poland 🇵🇱 in September 2019. It's a really depressing place but worth visiting. God bless those poor people. I feel dreadfully sorry for them. 🙏😞😔
    As a Christian (Roman Catholic), I shall always pray for Jewish people who had been perished in the camp.
    We are the visitors from Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪.

  • @stevemason5173
    @stevemason5173 Рік тому +995

    An outstanding video here. The choice of words and tone of voice in the narrating is perfect. You can almost feel what is being said. I have seen many videos on Auschwitz and read a few books. but none has grasp my emotions as this one. A sheer place of horror and death. I will never, ever understand how one human being can inflict so much pain, suffering, horror and death on another living human being. I thought the mafia did some horrible torture to their victims until I learned of Auschwitz. I can't stand the site or knowing of animal abuse, and this horrifies me every time I watch it or any other videos. I 100% get what you mean by what comes over you by standing that place..

    • @Ashleysplanet
      @Ashleysplanet  Рік тому +35

      I’m lost for words Steve, thank you so much for the kind words.
      You summed this up perfectly! The horrors are unimaginable.

    • @LadyTidePod
      @LadyTidePod Рік тому

      @ben hunt who gives a f*ck about the Nazis' side? No excuse for that type of senseless evil. Please by all means go ahead and try to justify the intentional killing of innocent children. Good luck.

    • @bukboefidun9096
      @bukboefidun9096 Рік тому +16

      @@Ashleysplanet I have been there. It is stunningly mind numbing.
      I don't recall a prohibition on photography of the hair hall... but I and no one in my family took pictures in the building with hair, baggage, pots and pans, zyklonB canisters... we felt it would be like taking pictures at a funeral.
      The thing that struck me as very hard to reconcile were the lines of tour buses and the commissary where people eating and laughing... I could not eat a thing.

    • @bukboefidun9096
      @bukboefidun9096 Рік тому +15

      @ben hunt what side of this are you talking about... explain yourself

    • @joeyferguson840
      @joeyferguson840 Рік тому +6

      Those clay models really take your breath away. I saw a production once and they used close up shots with voice over, to give it more of a presentation I guess. It was really......it was powerful to say the least. Made me feel something. Alot of somethings. Sadness. Horror. Shame. Hopelessness. Emotions really flood when you see stuff like this, and those belongings. Thats on a whole other level. I will commend the people who saved these things. Looking at the condition of em all......our ancestors really knew how to make things that last. You don't see that alot anymore. Not as many people take pride in their work these days.....well compared to back then. The quality of these suitcases and handbags......the shoes....the boots. Some of those boots are in better shape than mine. To think all those qualities, trade techniques that might have been lost forever in the minds of those who were slaughtered. We lost that future with those people. They lost their opportunity to pass on their knowledge & trade skills to their kids.......on an individual level. They lost so much along with their lives. Their talents and their light snuffed out forever........cause of something so small as to jealousy & hate. It lit that fire and started a chain reaction to madness

  • @richardmills9964
    @richardmills9964 Рік тому +78

    I was privileged to visit Auschwitz/Birkenau about 5 years ago and your video caused me to re visit these memories. I felt, for me, that it would be disrespectful for me to take photos. But taking photos was not necessary. What I saw is forever etched in my memory. To add to the experience for me was the weather: it was cold, misty, and perfectly still.

    • @BlackRose22998
      @BlackRose22998 Рік тому +4

      Richard I agree with all you say. we visited in September 2021 and the horrors will live with me forever.. it too was a bleak day on our visit and its told that even birds don't fly over Auschwitz.. very harrowing indded

  • @nenis26
    @nenis26 9 місяців тому +9

    It’s incredible to be able to walk thru a place where a lot innocence was lost, where complete families were destroyed and where memories will be carried for ever even when some people are trying to denied what horrible this was and to those who perish may they rest in peace

  • @dorkflassbury1164
    @dorkflassbury1164 8 місяців тому +3

    I was there not even a month ago. It is impossible to grasp and comprehend what you see when you're there but even though I know the history and I'm old enough to have met survivors that were in my school and told us about it, it was a life altering experience and I'm still processing weeks later.

  • @garygreen1380
    @garygreen1380 Рік тому +74

    Visited the camps on the 14th December 22, so upsetting, we were cold but knew we were returning to somewhere warm,we could only imagine what those poor souls went through, the guide we had was really passionate about what he was talking about,if you visit Poland you must go here just so we never forget.

    • @BlackRose22998
      @BlackRose22998 Рік тому +2

      @garygreen I went to Auschwitz 3 years ago with my friend . we cried all the way through it a totally harrowing experience.. to my mind one of if not the worst atrocity of mankind ever.. we planted a metallic poppy under a tree in respect..what those innocents were put through is totally beyond comprehension 😓both my friend and I could smell burning when we went past the gas chamber it was truly horrific

    • @bighand1530
      @bighand1530 3 місяці тому

      As of right now, it’s January 23rd 2024. Watchman River’s newest brought me back here.

    • @alfredbickersclark4767
      @alfredbickersclark4767 Місяць тому

      My wife & I in the 90s stay for a holiday in Argen-sur ?? France and was introduced to a German, I asked him what his occupation was in Germany he told me he was a Dr and he told me at Auswich? So he never went to Argentina he hid away in France and the Bxxxdy Frogies knew it

  • @kevinklino3193
    @kevinklino3193 Рік тому +80

    I knew of how awful the Holocaust was, but actually seeing where the horrific events took place is on a completely different level. I think more people need to see and realize how terrible it really was

    • @copyer9088
      @copyer9088 10 місяців тому +2

      I think most people do

  • @moonwalker091000
    @moonwalker091000 10 місяців тому +2

    Very difficult to watch but I think its a piece of our history that needs to be shown and to make sure that this never happens again. Thank you for the post.

  • @PKLO9727
    @PKLO9727 2 місяці тому

    I think it’s great that they’re allowing you to put this on UA-cam. I think it’s now time to show the reality of what happens when nothing is holding you back from being evil to show why you should never do it. When I was sick with Covid, I felt like I was going to die. And to humble my mind, I would watch WW1 and 2 Clips and Documentary to show that I’m going through nothing. And it did humble me. I’ve seen actual video clips of this camp and it was one the most horrific events that has happened during WW2. And if the video is done right, these types of videos should be shown to educate us.
    Thank you for the video 🙏.

  • @Cookie69697
    @Cookie69697 Рік тому +100

    This is a trip I never thought I could do but I am glad I suffered my fears of visiting such a place but there was worse to come where the trains came into the much bigger camp and it’s recorded some were killed within two hours of arriving. I am grateful that Poland have kept the camps for people to visit.

    • @jettone11
      @jettone11 Рік тому +4

      I met a man that survived and actually showed me his tattoo on his wrist. I had chills even knowing that. It's so painful to think about it.

    • @r.j.5444
      @r.j.5444 Рік тому +1

      My mother told me a story about our family history when I was first getting into researching this kind of thing. She told me that two of her aunties (I believe), both elderly, were sent to auschwitz and gassed immediately. As despicable and twisted as it was, my mother was somewhat grateful that they were spared from the horrors that would've unfolded were they young, and forced to work until death. Such a dark and disturbing part of history. Yet nonetheless important to remember for the souls of so many, including my relatives.

  • @johnnyheffner7080
    @johnnyheffner7080 Рік тому +78

    my great uncle max is a survivor of auschwitz’s 2 camp, he wrote a big long essay about getting separated from the rest of his family and watching them get sent to their death besides himself and his father. it’s amazing reading what he went through and how he survived

    • @Lee-wg7en
      @Lee-wg7en Рік тому +2

      it's possible they ended up on the other side of the iron curtain after being transported to another camp. it happened a lot.

    • @sheepheard483
      @sheepheard483 Рік тому +2

      how does one survive a "death camp" and extermination?

    • @sassycat6487
      @sassycat6487 5 місяців тому

      @@sheepheard483the SS guards would sometimes keep around good workers. I even read recently that an SS guard protected a Jewish girl because he thought she was beautiful and he would even take pictures of her. I saw one of the pictures he took of her in a book and she looked clean and curvy. Nothing like a concentration camp victim

    • @sheepheard483
      @sheepheard483 4 місяці тому

      @@sassycat6487 how many times have you heard this story it goes like this
      I was three years old when me and my family got to the camp. My whole family died I was the only one that survived
      How many times have you heard that story? Here's the problem with that how does a three-year-old survive a death camp did the Nazis have daycare

    • @sassycat6487
      @sassycat6487 4 місяці тому +1

      @@sheepheard483 if you read some autobiographies of survivors you will have every question answered. I've read 5 or 6 just the past few weeks and couldn't stop reading. I finished every book in under 24 hours. One of my favorites was 'a gypsy in Auschwitz' about a Germany gypsy guy. His whole family even all of his cousins ends up dead in one way or the other. It's incredible he survived but he was a great worker and the guards and kapos took a shine to him.

  • @OfficialRodrigoLeon
    @OfficialRodrigoLeon 9 місяців тому +8

    My mother who knew an old boss who lived in the US was a Holocaust survivor and told her stories about her life in the concentration camps as a child. She lived in horror as her family were murdered by the Nazis. After liberating from the camps, she moved to the US for permanent residence in New York before moving to Los Angeles. Something my mom will never forget is that she saw her boss’s arms had tattoos of the ID numbers of the victims. Her boss worked with my mom until her passing in December 2021 at the age of 96. Her boss’s daughter still works with my mom but I will never forget how she told me her story of survival.
    Thank you mom for this heartbreaking story and Rest In Peace Mrs Miller (her boss). 😢

  • @gavintucker8942
    @gavintucker8942 5 місяців тому

    Excellent video. It's absolutely haunting to see that footage, and to think so many lives were lost there.

  • @stevenl8687
    @stevenl8687 Рік тому +37

    Never ever forget! we as humans can never allow this to happen anywhere ever again!
    Thank you 🙏 to all the vets!
    Huge thanks for posting

    • @michaelwackers6475
      @michaelwackers6475 Рік тому

      Cambodian Red Khmer KILLING FIELDS!

    • @williedesmond8201
      @williedesmond8201 Рік тому +1

      8 8

    • @daebak7370
      @daebak7370 Рік тому +3

      It will happen again during the 7yr tribulation period. Those who refuse to worship ob ma and recieve his mark will be beheaded.

  • @niabeans85
    @niabeans85 Рік тому +14

    Thank you for sharing this. I was there on Saturday, and I still feel completely numb and very overwhelmed by what I saw. It's something we learn about at shool and see on TV.. but it's COMPLETELY different being there and seeing it. I could feel the sadness around me. 💔

  • @craighockenberry3605
    @craighockenberry3605 9 місяців тому +1

    This video was very well done. Thank you

  • @larsw.9442
    @larsw.9442 3 місяці тому

    Currently reading "Ordinary Men" for the first time, and your description of your visit is very similar to what it is like reading through the descriptive events. It really is numbing to truly get a grasp of the extend of the horrors that have been committed. To imagine oneself as one of the victims, visualising in one's mind and empathising the kind of suffering they must have gone through, and to multiply this harrowing experince to an order of magnitude in the millions, is just unimaginable and frightning.

  • @clariceisbeauty
    @clariceisbeauty Рік тому +25

    This is devastating. I still cannot believe that people actually let this happen. I want to visit this place someday to pay my respects and learn things about those that were there.

    • @childskites6346
      @childskites6346 Рік тому +1

      Well it is hard to fight back when your own government has weapons. Germans that did not follow through with the orders of the Nazi Regime were also executed. There was also Germans that were helping the Jews but those Germans were executed by the Nazi SS. The police force in Germany during Nazi Germany Era were ordered to carry out executions as well.

    • @clariceisbeauty
      @clariceisbeauty Рік тому +3

      @@childskites6346 not speaking on the people that didn’t fight back but the people that actually were evil enough to concoct this plan and see it through. Maybe I should have worded it different.

    • @bolle1929
      @bolle1929 4 місяці тому

      This is what happens when you let fear prevail and Hitler knew this.
      People will do unspeakable things.
      Never again.. NEVER

  • @rage6382
    @rage6382 Рік тому +9

    What a powerfull video. Well done. For me as a German, born 1963, all I feel is" SHAME". I will not ask for foregivnes. It's hard to find words. 😪

    • @TFRM
      @TFRM Рік тому

      You can’t blame yourself. You don’t need forgiveness, you recognise.
      That’s enough.

    • @rage6382
      @rage6382 Рік тому

      @@TFRM , Thank you. That's what I'm doing.

    • @brucefoster8937
      @brucefoster8937 Рік тому

      That you feel shame for the Holocaust - a genocide of unimaginable cruelty, committed a couple of decades before you were born in Germany - says much about your good character.

    • @rage6382
      @rage6382 Рік тому

      @@brucefoster8937 , Thx for saying that. 🙏

    • @timstevens3179
      @timstevens3179 Рік тому

      You're a silly person.

  • @williamm3542
    @williamm3542 9 місяців тому

    All I can say is "Thank you" for this heart breaking video. Every world leader should be required to watch it................

  • @godstyle8799
    @godstyle8799 7 місяців тому

    when i visited the place a few years back, i could just feel how the air was thick and the place had this dense feeling of sadness hanging over it

  • @mrbennett3791
    @mrbennett3791 Рік тому +9

    Absolutely heartbreaking, thank you for taking the time to make this, great piece of film 🙏🏻🙏🏻

  • @davidparsons1476
    @davidparsons1476 Рік тому +60

    Well done on the video tour and narrative..I’ve been to Auschwitz and was called “sick” and a “ghoul” for going but people don’t really understand unless they’ve been..we cannot forget what happened within the walls and fences of this place..it is a sombre experience but also in a strange way it educates in a interesting way of how humanity treated itself..people really do need to see and learn of the atrocity’s that befell millions of innocent lives

    • @Ashleysplanet
      @Ashleysplanet  Рік тому +6

      Awareness 🔑

    • @davidparsons1476
      @davidparsons1476 Рік тому +8

      @@Ashleysplanet 100% it was horrendous what happened but unfortunately it is now part of history and people need to know and be aware of what happened

    • @stevegreenhorn934
      @stevegreenhorn934 Рік тому +4

      It very much is both a sombre and educational experience. I visited Dauchau way back in 1980 when I was but 21. I met an old man and woman at the bus stop outside the camp, both had tattoos, we had a conversation and I`ve never forgot that meeting with those survivors.

    • @paulkazakoff9231
      @paulkazakoff9231 Рік тому +6

      @@stevegreenhorn934 I remember going to Dauchau in 1981 and what an eye opener that was.Certainly had an effect on us and I know we all went quite silent for a long time after.Don't think I would want to visit another camp for a long time.Just disgusting what the Nazi's were all about.

    • @deborahcallicotte6284
      @deborahcallicotte6284 Рік тому +4

      Grew up in Skokie IL...neighbors cousin was survivor. A young girl at Auschwitz...was aging..poor health..but Alive.!...I cannot imagine how or why the whole world let this happen.

  • @Jackcrow955
    @Jackcrow955 10 місяців тому +2

    This must never happen again, people don't change, this could happen again in an heart beat, NEVER EVER FORGET.

  • @jasonwardy8192
    @jasonwardy8192 Місяць тому +1

    Bless those millions of innocents. A stark warning to all mankind.

  • @koof1776
    @koof1776 Рік тому +35

    I was there 2X. My grandfather Marcin taught me: "Never forget what the German Nazis did to the Jews and Poland, a country that welcomed them more than all countries in Europe."

    • @FortniteBlaster2
      @FortniteBlaster2 Рік тому +1

      Source?

    • @maciekapocaliptic
      @maciekapocaliptic Рік тому +6

      @@FortniteBlaster2 Damn man... come on! Just type "History of Jews in Poland" and there You go. It is no coincidence that Poland had the largest number of Jews in all of Europe.

    • @pompey6.573
      @pompey6.573 Рік тому +1

      @@maciekapocaliptic Europa the last battle, give it a watch.

    • @MrWolf-xk8sl
      @MrWolf-xk8sl Рік тому +1

      People are shocked how Germans could have done so, but even now they act superior to the other countries.
      It's the nuances, it's the comments, it's when they go on vacation when they act like they own the place, it's when they demand money from countries like Greece but yet take more than a century to pay for their destruction (see Namibian genocide).
      It's not shocking at all.

    • @pompey6.573
      @pompey6.573 Рік тому

      @@MrWolf-xk8sl at least they don't go around grooming young girls on mass or been expelled from 109 times from diffrent countries.

  • @lisanidog8178
    @lisanidog8178 Рік тому +16

    I met a lady years ago in a group home I was in and she was the housemother. She still had her tattoo numbers and asked why she still had them. She was from Germany by the way to explain that even they weren't immune. She said she kept her numbers so she'd never forget. But the most amazing was that she had no hatred about it. I asked why. I'd be broiling in it. She said keeping hatred makes you no better.

  • @girlygirl7341
    @girlygirl7341 4 місяці тому

    You covered this very compassionately❤

  • @1Adrix1
    @1Adrix1 9 місяців тому +12

    Thank you for this video. When you visit the camps a sense of dread slowly starts creeping in along with emptiness/numbness, and once the realization of the unbelievable horrors that took place there sets in, it may be quite difficult to translate your feelings into words from this point on. As the world moves on and the past is left behind more and more every year, it becomes especially important to remind people not to forget at least some of the horrible events that took place throughout the course of history. Otherwise studpidity takes over and then it's basically a one-way ticket to a repetition of what once everyone thought wouldn't have the slightest chance of happening again. Something like "holocaust denial" may sound about as insanse to us all as the flat earth society, but it is, indeed, real. The world is a scary place.

  • @johnbrown9092
    @johnbrown9092 Рік тому +35

    Visited twice and it is truly disturbing. Video well put together and respectful. Well done.

    • @victorgonzalezgonzalez7744
      @victorgonzalezgonzalez7744 Рік тому

      What i dont understand is if It was " truly disturbing" the first time , why you come back to that place ?

    • @johnbrown9092
      @johnbrown9092 Рік тому +4

      @@victorgonzalezgonzalez7744 Because my friend I am still trying to understand how a human being can inflict such cruelty to another human being. Surely you must understand.

  • @TF-si1ri
    @TF-si1ri Рік тому +8

    Very good and educational, yet extremely sad & touching video. You've done an incredible job at displaying what it might have been like to have endured this horrific place.
    I am struggling to find a way to understand how mankind can inflict such suffering on other human beings. Just horrendous.
    Thank you for opening my eyes to this.

  • @elisamcgowan4774
    @elisamcgowan4774 10 місяців тому +1

    Well put together video. Have you also considered doing a video about the Ninth Fort in Kaunas Lithuania?.

  • @brittany1799
    @brittany1799 9 місяців тому +2

    I can't comprehend how any human can do this to another human, let alone on this scale.

  • @loydhenderson6945
    @loydhenderson6945 Рік тому +234

    It is hard to imagine why this was allowed to happen. I don't see how a person could even possibly describe how horrible it would have been. It's good that people will see this video and see what went on there!

    • @1neAdam12
      @1neAdam12 Рік тому

      Communism infected all of Europe after the fall of Czarist Russia. This was merely a house cleaning.
      Weimar problems require Weimar solutions.

    • @kstockhaus
      @kstockhaus Рік тому +9

      This is what is happening in Ukraine too, today, now. ”Allow to happen” doesn’t apply here neither.

    • @1neAdam12
      @1neAdam12 Рік тому

      @@jesterzcourt1522
      You're comment is shadowbanned.
      @Jesterz Court
      I'm not sure "I'm not scared" is the correct phasing. You should definitely be concerned at the very least; concerned that you parroted the party line--and was still censored.

    • @coolboy5428
      @coolboy5428 Рік тому +8

      It is very easy, 109 countries.............

    • @loydhenderson6945
      @loydhenderson6945 Рік тому

      @@coolboy5428 I said it was the rusty colored chicken that pecked a hole in my garden boots. But, thanks for the sack of taters and green beans you gave us the other night.

  • @christineduran1896
    @christineduran1896 Рік тому +4

    Thank you for posting this very detailed, and thorough piece of history 👍🏻❤️🎥. You are very fortunate to visit such a place, and to tell us about your experience at the camp sites.

  • @leerilea1709
    @leerilea1709 7 місяців тому

    Thanks for posting this. I actually WANT to go there. I can't believe people think this never happened.

  • @Maggief99
    @Maggief99 7 місяців тому +1

    History must not be erased, so it may not be repeated. Heartbreaking footage - thank you for sharing.

  • @TheJohhnyrotten
    @TheJohhnyrotten Рік тому +42

    I was there two weeks ago. When you're there it's almost impossible to comprehend the horror that went on. Only now looking at photos and seeing people being separated from their families to go to their deaths, then realising "I was stood on that very spot" does it all sink in. I was disappointed in myself for not being traumatised after my visit, but I think delayed shock is beginning to set in.

    • @lindsaylane8360
      @lindsaylane8360 Рік тому

      I was like you too. I had heard stories from survivors and historians, yet I had trouble truly connecting the stories and people to the camp as I was going through both sites. It took time and discussion to process it. I would like to go back again to pay the site greater respect than I did before now that I processed the site for what it was.

  • @monajoe118
    @monajoe118 Рік тому +17

    Greetings from New Brunswick, Canada! Great job on putting this together, more people need to be educated or reminded about the atrocities that occurred in the past! I pray to God history doesn’t repeat itself!

    • @Ashleysplanet
      @Ashleysplanet  Рік тому +1

      Thank you Mona!

    • @vape647
      @vape647 Рік тому +1

      Look for klaus Schwab father..

    • @nopenopenopenopenope4101
      @nopenopenopenopenope4101 Рік тому

      history is already being repeated, don’t you see? look at the muslim prisoners in china; the recent genocides in africa; Look at Lebanon, for god’s sake

  • @tobymackay7279
    @tobymackay7279 Рік тому +5

    My great grandma was lucky enough to survive that horrible place it’s heartbreaking to think relatives go to such places she has only talked about it once and never spoke of it again after and just glad that she made it shes a strong woman and the best great grandma ever❤

  • @carolluther1625
    @carolluther1625 5 місяців тому

    God bless you for sharing. May we never forget!

  • @smarkham100
    @smarkham100 Рік тому +73

    I read the book: “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” VERY powerful book of survival!
    Thank you for sharing this with us; a awful reminder of the cruelties perpetuated on these poor souls!

    • @philliesphorever1964
      @philliesphorever1964 Рік тому +2

      Yes, I read it, too. And cried.

    • @Ashleysplanet
      @Ashleysplanet  Рік тому +5

      Wow I’ll check that one out, thanks!

    • @stevegreenhorn934
      @stevegreenhorn934 Рік тому +3

      Read that too. One of many I read about that awfull time. Sure makes ones own problems seem tiny or non existent.

    • @margarita8442
      @margarita8442 Рік тому +2

      he moved to australia and lived in melbourne

    • @1cho4221
      @1cho4221 Рік тому

      That's an excellent book.

  • @charlescastell4638
    @charlescastell4638 Рік тому +19

    Thank you so, so very much for this video. It's chilling, disturbing, and absolutely essential; there are those who argue endlessly that the Holocaust never happened, and postings like this are the challenge to that falsehood. I am 61, and we learned very little of the horrors of the Holocaust in school. These days I don't think it's even mentioned in schools, or in a text book. That it is disappearing from taught material is a dishonor to those who perished, and we should all make sure that we pass this work on to our friends and families. We must NEVER forget.

    • @davsaltego
      @davsaltego Рік тому +2

      This nor anything else will change the mind of deniers. That will never happen and is not the purpose of this video or any other such videos. The purpose is to preserve the horrible truth forever, and to warn future generations.

    • @adelerodriguez2432
      @adelerodriguez2432 Рік тому +2

      I am 62 and heard about the Holocaust from adults and other kids. I couldn't believe something like this could happen. When I was in 12th grade my Isms class did the Nuremberg trials.

  • @babystork310
    @babystork310 9 місяців тому

    Thank you. Very nicely narrated 😢

  • @emix7557
    @emix7557 9 місяців тому

    Have been there and yes I agree 'numb" was exactly the same sensation that I remember after the visit. So devastating even if you already knew the story of that place. But in the end I think that is a must to do at least for never forget and to give a pray for all those innocent people.

  • @tonywaller5380
    @tonywaller5380 Рік тому +43

    'If there is a god he'll have to beg my forgiveness'.....what a powerful statement in so few words. Coming from that time and situation it has a colossal impact......amazing film

    • @johannesdekoning9521
      @johannesdekoning9521 Рік тому

      Insane statement! God is just and holy, humans choose to reject Him... and the outcome is Auschwitz!

    • @PropheticEclipses
      @PropheticEclipses Рік тому

      There is a God but you Jews rejected him and cried let his blood and be upon us and our children! They cried we have no other King but Caesar. The Divine protection ceased and Israel house was left desolate. God begged and pleaded and in the prophecy of Daniel 490 years were given to Israel to repent. From the command to rebuild The temple by Artaxerxes Israel was given a time of probation to repent which ended in 31AD and right before the time expired Jesus was asked how many times shall I forgive my brethren? Jesus now referring to this Prophecy said 70 times 7 which is 490 years. This is why after the Jews rejected him and chanted for his crucifixion Jesus still would give them time to repent and so he commanded his disciples to preach only to The House of Israel why??? Because 3 1/2 years would remain as probation to repent but in 34 AD they stoned Stephen as the last messenger of God therefore sealing their fate. The 490 year Prophecy ended and the Jewish nation choose their fate in refusing to turn to God. This is why when Jesus on the crest of Olivet looked upon the city of Jerusalem and wept…. “ “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” Jesus looked at the future and saw the the fate of this Nation and how as a Nation it will now have to contend on its own without God as their protector. But thank God that all was not doom according to the book of Acts Salvation was still possible. Although the Natikn reject Jesus as the Messiah any one who would repent and accept Jesus as their Savior would still be a child of the Heavenly King. So yes it was Jesus that begged and even died for you in the hope that you would be saved … Love is written in blood!

    • @danteprudente8637
      @danteprudente8637 Рік тому +2

      What did God have to do with it? Did he blame his God but not the Germans (the humans who did this)? Strange thing to scratch on a wall.

    • @michaelhogan4447
      @michaelhogan4447 Рік тому +1

      God will have to ask for your forgiveness? What color shy is in your world?

    • @union310
      @union310 Рік тому +2

      It was mans doing not Gods. So you will see those men and women will have to looks for Gods forgiveness.
      That is how it works.

  • @brianligtenbarg1991
    @brianligtenbarg1991 Рік тому +27

    i was there in 2019.. i remember when i entered the gates i was instantly smacked in the face by a pressuring energy.. i could literally feel a dark vibe.. i didn't say a word the whole tour because i was so fascinated and disgusted at the same time. it made me realize how good my childhood was, and how good of a life i have and yet i complain about so many things. i think everybody should visit auschwitz/birkenau once in their life if they have the opportunity. it is the best history lesson you can get, and yet the saddest one.

    • @Ashleysplanet
      @Ashleysplanet  Рік тому +5

      Perspective is everything. This is why travelling outside of your hometown is so important.

    • @alistairthow1384
      @alistairthow1384 Рік тому +2

      @@Ashleysplanet walk a mile in someone else's shoes before you even think about judging them.
      This is a cold harrowing place.

  • @user-zz1el5xx5o
    @user-zz1el5xx5o 9 місяців тому +2

    I went there in the 1980s and still remember ever moment, I can not believe that some misguided people don't believe that it happened 😢

  • @Nobody-tf7mv
    @Nobody-tf7mv 4 місяці тому

    Very Nice narration brother. So many precious lives just wasted. What humanity has become, Its just puzzling that this saga even continues today. We just never learnt anything.

  • @marcusrenteria8046
    @marcusrenteria8046 Рік тому +10

    Powerful video. Thank you for bringing this painful and moving experience to life for so many who may not get to go visit this site.

  • @betsykeller9096
    @betsykeller9096 Рік тому +4

    In the end, I struggled with you asking to comment on what we thought "about this amazing place". At first, I felt amazing was a poor choice of words. But, when I think of how many survived to tell the tale, I do think that is amazing. I feel like you covered a lot of important ground - morally and physically. I think your video was very respectful and well done, but I don't know if I can comment on Auschwitz until I experience it myself. Thank you for sharing your experience.

  • @idalindeblad7254
    @idalindeblad7254 5 місяців тому +9

    Isn’t it strange then how theese people commit the same atrocities against the Palestinian people?

    • @user-je8kq2cg6u
      @user-je8kq2cg6u 2 місяці тому +3

      Egypt and Jordan had the chance to let these people cross the border to safety…… did they?….. No!

  • @Cookieman524
    @Cookieman524 11 місяців тому +3

    For me personally I felt this was narrated with the sincerity and respect it deserves. Thank you. For this I am subscribing as you seem a genuine character Ashley.
    However, for me, maybe just this time time given the intense meaning of this subject miss out the notification reminder mid video. It was a bit distracting.

  • @MichaelSaysSo
    @MichaelSaysSo Рік тому +17

    This is so respectfully portrayed - thank you for that.

  • @carasachs4004
    @carasachs4004 Рік тому +11

    Back in the late ‘80’s, my college had a chair in the humanities. For the first year, it focused on the Holocaust. I took a course on the Holocaust and attended many events, including the Keynote by Elie Wiesel. The one that hit me hardest though, was a talk by an elderly man named Curtis Whiteway. He was an American soldier who was one of the first to enter the camps and helped liberate them. If I remember correctly, Israel had planted a tree in his honor, and called him a “Righteous Gentile” for what he had done. He talked about the things he saw. Things no one outside the camps had seen before, and they didn’t even know what they were seeing at first. I remember him talking about a room for the nazi commanders (I think that was the term). Lampshades made of human skin. Severed genitals preserved and displayed. I don’t even remember anything he said after that. I know Mr. Whiteway has passed on, but I’m grateful to him and all the Holocaust survivors for speaking out about this. Never forget, and never again.

  • @goopapa4758
    @goopapa4758 9 місяців тому

    i like the subtle humour to soften the blows, like when you said pacific instead of specific

  • @Msmith415
    @Msmith415 3 місяці тому

    Thanks for sharing 😞

  • @_mrsarcastic_3517
    @_mrsarcastic_3517 Рік тому +53

    Loved this. I was assigned to watch Schindler’s List for film class last semester…after realizing i had mistaken it for another film that i had never wanted to watch… it was the most heartbreaking and I’m told most accurate depiction of the Holocaust. I literally brokedown. I cant believe people actually deny this happened.

    • @adamant5419
      @adamant5419 Рік тому +8

      I actually thought I'd downloaded Bambi, but mistakenly got Schindlers List instead. It was slightly different than I thought.

    • @jetskiwillywilly7970
      @jetskiwillywilly7970 Рік тому

      We don't deny it didn't happen just missing context. Like...if they hated Jews why have a soccer field for them. Or why march people to gas chambers below ground...only to have to haul bodies backup to the top the burn? Seems like very inefficient design. Or how the blockade of German 39-44 affected food rations of Jewish Prisons.

    • @restingpinguino
      @restingpinguino Рік тому +2

      @@adamant5419 why even joke about it? i get people have different coping mechanisms but to joke about something this horrible? please think a little more before you post nonsense, i know you have it in you

    • @adamant5419
      @adamant5419 Рік тому +2

      @@restingpinguino WHAT are you talking about? Look up the word, IRONY, and you will see that no offence or JOKE was made.

    • @restingpinguino
      @restingpinguino Рік тому

      @@adamant5419 me? What are YOU talking about? I was also being ironic, funny you’re trying to tell me to look up the word irony when it’s you that needs it. Damn bro can’t take a joke?

  • @kaldira7561
    @kaldira7561 Рік тому +16

    ive been there myself, my class was divided into 3 groups, group 1: silently following and listening to the guide. group2: disrespect the place and saying hail hitler and so on to then get kicked out. group3: those who had to be escorted out because they were crying so much they couldn't handle it because of how sad it is

    • @thrasherdave1428
      @thrasherdave1428 9 місяців тому

      I wanna know what the fuck your second group was smoking

    • @VinceTwiga
      @VinceTwiga 8 місяців тому

      Those saying hail hitler and making fun of it are actually the same devils as the nazis themselves. The only difference is they don’t have any power to do evil, but surely if they had, they would.

  • @Yahraas
    @Yahraas 2 місяці тому

    Very thoughtful and respectful. I've subscribed.