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What Happened when Tired & Enraged Allied Armies Started Discovering Concentration Camps in WW2?
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2024
- As the noose tightened around the neck of Nazi Germany in 1945, the advancing Allied armies began discovering the death camps of Hitler's "final solution." In this video, we tell the stories of the discovery of Dachau and Auschwitz camps.
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:39 Did Ordinary Germans Know about the camps?
1:43 Finding the Camps
2:40 Liberation of Dachau
4:44 German POWs Executions
6:16 Liberation of Auschwitz
7:45 Soviet Use of Auschwitz
8:47 Conclusion
A co-worker of mine knew a German machinist who was able to come to America after the war. He worked at a factory that used Russian prisoners as slave labor. The Soviets captured the factory and the German workers were lined up. Then prisoners would simply point out the cruel ones and an officer simply shot them. The machinist, to his horror, was pointed out. The officer said, "This man says you shared cigarettes with him."
He was allowed to go stand apart.
The ciggy, the international sign of peace
@@liammadden7572 a cop who used to train Jiu-jitsu with me always had a pack on him to help calm others down even though he never smoked a day in his life.
The saying "one kind gesture could change a life" saying could never be so real
I grew up in the 50s and 60s in Oklahoma where the 45th (a National Guard division) came from. There was talk about the executing the SS they found at the camp. It is also discussed in the Rock of Anzio - a divisional history of the 45th division. There was much talk about bodies falling out of the railway cars and the bodies stacked everywhere. Thinking back I think the sights they witnessed just pushed them over the edge. The 45th had been fighting since Sicily and had certainly seen there share of death and destruction, but this was just too much. Bill Mauldin the famous WW2 cartoonist served with the 45th. His book”Up Front” is a gem of cartoons reflecting the attitudes and morale of American soldiers.
A reminder that kindness, even in the darkest of times, can make a difference 😢
I remember reading that the most hated guard in dachau was found hiding in a barn wearing civilian clothes he was dragged out and beaten to death by the inmates
Hiding like the cowards they were
That is perfect to hear!
Evil fuck serves him right.
good
Can't say I blame them. If that guard hadn't committed atrocities against the inmates and was forced to be there, they might have spared him.
I never really felt close to my grandfather, he was aloof... distant. He seemed to watch life as a spectator and rarely reached out to me or my brother. It was after his death last year that I found out that he'd helped liberate two concentrations camps in the Netherlands. He also stayed in Holland 4 years after the war disinterring soldiers who had died in combat then reburying them in "official" cemeteries. Seeing his sketchbook from that era and his photos, one of him leaning on his shovel, a grim smile on his face, another of him standing on a concentration camp gallows, left me with the sad feeling that perhaps, to some degreed, my grandfather had never fully come home from the war. I can't imagine what those experiences, along with combat would do to a person and now respect him more than I ever believed possible.
Oh yea he never came back. Whoever he was before that was left buried in a field in a far off land. Respect to your grandfather and everything he was willing to do
@@hukares9901 I bet you feel so high and mighty sitting in your chair trying to prove these people never experienced or saw the suffering caused at the hands of Nazi's.
@@hukares9901 You're a really offensive person, not to mention seemingly rather unintelligent. Millions of men in that generation fought in World War 2, most survived to therefore become millions of grandpas. Basic math, basic history, basic truth.
@@billyjoel9313 I just think this comment section is filled with a bunch of over the top stories for a reason. People are full of shit. Is what it is. Haven’t you ever heard the saying “believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see”?
@@hukares9901 The way you said it, made it seem like you had firm beliefs the holocaust didn't happen. My bad
100% understandable that allied soldiers would so so shocked they would strike at the monsters who oversaw these atrocities, no jury would convict them
As it should be.
Gaza
i think slavery is wrong actually even if it’s the soviets enslaving germans and poles
I would
@NithinJune Depends on context one reason is "idle hands and devils playthings" if people are busy they cant kill guards, each other or escape. Obviously though Russian, German and Japanese camps were beyond horid.
Not 8,000 years ago. Not 800 years ago. Not even 80 years ago. In terms of how long time has been recorded, this happened yesterday. And THAT is the truly scary part.
still happening today,check out what china is doing to the uyghurs.
Yeah a couple of years ago I turned 37 and realised that I had been born (1982) half way between the end of WW2 and the present day. Before that, it was all as good as ancient history to me. Then it was 'oh this is the same humanity still'.
the human race is capable of incredible things incredibly amazing, but sadly also incredibly cruel things aswell. im afraid autrocities like these will never stop happening.
Everybody blames Germany. Germany weren't the only ones, the soviets killed more civilians, and most of those were Soviet themselves. The same goes for Japan. Even to this day genocides happen, in Africa Asia, and the Middle East. Modern Germany is a peaceful, welcoming country. That war and genocide was born from desperation of the first world war.
@@magnagermania9311 The messed up shit Japan did in WWII is criminally undertaught in US Schools.
My father did not describe what he saw when he went into those camps, he told me of his physical reaction; he said that he projectile vomited the entire contents of his stomach. I think there was more but he never said a word about it again.
I imagine my grandfather was the same as your father.
I am so sorry.
Respect to him
how old r you my grandfather was in the war and im 41 my father would of been so old if he was in it haha
@@danielchan9556 He must be in his 60s
My grandfather "disarmed" a German General at Dachau. He only talked about his time in WWll with my mom, his daughter in law. He called her his angel. After the war his PTSD never allowed him to share a bed with my Grandmother again. He was too afraid he would accidentally kill her in his sleep. He told my mom it was as close to hell as you could get. He revisited that hell often through flash backs etc. He was a tortured man after the war but he always loved us the best he could. He was the best at swearing. I know it sounds funny but he could string a group of words in such a way that you would never forget. It made his coming to soccer games a hoot. He would have been kicked out for sure nowadays. I miss him so much.
thank you for sharing this story
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@@hukares9901 I understand it sounds unlikely but we have his gun, a Luger, all with matching serial numbers that are traced back to the same general. Along with paperwork from the US Army allowing my grandfather to bring it home. My grandfather was a badass but you would have never known. He came home and worked in a smelting factory for the remainder of his working life. It wasn't until he was diagnosed with cancer that he began to tell my mother his war experience. He was a great man, whether you believe it or not.
@@needssleep2488hey @ need sleep2488 dont respond to that troll.
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One time I had the opportunity to talk to a WW2 army vet and asked him about liberating a concentration camp. That was one of the only times I saw a look of that much pain and anger in someone's eyes. He said, "I'd rather have gone through Dday 100 times than see what those people had gone through that 1 time." He didn't say anything else about that camp, but we talked about other stuff he did in the war.
This was in 2009, and he still remembered it.
I hope that when/if he dies that he sees the people from that camp smiling and thanking him for all he did. And he can be a peace.
I have a friend who is of German-Jewish ancestry. His family had lived in Bavaria for a very long time. He recently told me that he took a DNA ancestry test and was shocked to realize that he has been getting 'DNA Matches' for over a year now and has not gotten even ONE jewish ancestor hit from Germany... His entire extended German-Jewish family is gone... Not even ONE jewish relative... They were all wiped-out... unbelievable...
The only reason my ex wife Grandmother and Sister survived was doe to the fact the her grandmother lied to her husband who came to the US before the War about the cost of boat ticket and she and her Sister got off the boat in New York. The rest of the family in Chickoslavkiea were killed by the Nazi along with the whole village May they All rest in Peace. We can not afford to forget these tearable things or they will happen again
God Forbid
Damn.
@Mr. Davenport Identification, that's how it all starts
Thats so messed up.
My great grandparents fled in 1938, great grandmother with her firstborn through a ship in Hamburg and my great grandfather had to flee through France to catch the same ship because male Jews weren't allowed to leave the country.
We went to visit a town a few years back which has the same name as our last name. We were really excited to find out how many families with the same last name as us are still living there but when we got there we were told that there were over 20 families with that last name, only 3 were left and they were Christians. Don't know if they used to be Jewish before and changed for their safety or no, but it was a hit to the gut to hear all families, just like us, were all taken and never came back...
My uncle participated in the liberation of Dachau. He never spoke of it. We found out after he died.
Reason why.... likely no words to describe. Just like my grandpa in the korean war. Was part of '" hamburger hill" never spoke of his military expirience and i never knew until after his stroke. Which he couldnt articulate words after his stroke. So yeah i totally understand why.
Same thing with my Grandfather, the only comment he made during his life, was when my uncle was watching the movie Patton on tv, he said "Patton showed up at the camp, puked, and ran away".
@@MaceTrek patton or grandfather ran away...
@@semperfi-1918 Patton ran away, leaving his breakfast at the camp.
@@MaceTrek wonder what caused that...
My father lost his entire large family, save one sister. He had a number on his arm from the work camps.
Holocaust deniers - I have nothing but contempt for them. Corrupt cowards they are.
@biblereader Takes a little more than being irritated with someone who is willfully ignorant of the Holocaust to be a Nazi, that’s quite a strange comparison to make no? People are irrational creatures. You could lay all the evidence in the world at their feet but it doesn’t matter if they don’t accept it. I noticed your name is “biblereader” so I presume you are experienced when it comes to trying to convince people of a truth.
@@geekedup12 it wasn't *all* of whom?
@@geekedup12 15 year old spotted.
Never forget!!!
@lolm8376 Don't care about the age. From little bigoted acorns grow cowardly antisemitic mass shooters. It's too bad, but that's the world we live in.
An old friend who has since passed told me that when they liberated a camp their commander made all the villagers in the nearby town parade through to look at what was going on to shame them as they all claimed they had no idea of the atrocities.
That would be buchenwald camp. They all knew about the camps, but did they know their purpose? It can never be truly known as the adults of the time have mostly passed. I've always wondered if they were aware of their role in the Nazi atrocities
@@cowmeatius7151 is this the one from band of brothers?
@cowmeatius7151 I think some knew but didn't care, hey the Leader said X blah blah is to blame so I guess....
Most didn't want to know. If they "got wind" of anything they just pretend everything is fine and it's nothing.
If I don't walk down the road and see all the trucks go in filled with people and then leave. Then they keep coming back to drop off more people..... that black smoke that blows East
Fucking crazy world, what he are capable to do to each other.
@@cowmeatius7151 According to Marlene Dietrich, the German people knew exactly what was going on. In the film, Judgement at Nuremberg, one of her lines was that no one knew of the atrocities. She was outraged that they were white-washing history. Marlene had a huge fight with the director about it, but in the end was forced to stick to the script.
Oh so you watched band of brothers...
I had a high school teacher in the 80's who was a young medic who helped liberate Dachau. He said when he walked through the gates he saw American soldiers lining men in raggedy internment clothes up against a wall and shooting them. He asked why they were shooting internment camp victims. He said a sergeant told him they weren't victims but were guards who had traded their uniforms for internment clothes. The guards were easily identified because they were they only men in the camp who were at a normal weight. All of the victims were skin and bone. My teacher said nobody said a word to commanders about the executions because it was considered justice served.
Edit: Thanks for all the likes. For the record, my teacher's name was John Collum and he was a good man.
Died like the cowards they were
@@banger2998 I mean, the right to a fair trial exists no matter what. Those soldiers were in the wrong for executing those complicit without trial. I understand, and I don't think the punishment for those US soldiers should've been great, but they should have been punished. At the very least dishonorably discharged. When you enlist you swear to the constitution of the United States, and within that constitution is recognition of an inalienable right to a fair trial. Such rights cannot be revoked, only infringed.
@@DSiren When you enlist you swear to the constitution of the United States. Well that seems to mean fekall to your police forces.
@@laurencekelly5081 Bruh, it doesn't mean fuck all to half of congress and the President of the United States, who all support gun control, open borders, Big tech censorship, and more. As much as Trump was an asshole, he wasn't outright dismantling the constitution like Biden and the DNC have been.
In most cases where Police violate the constitution, it's under unconstitutional orders from the courts, legislatures, or other civil authorities. I'd say at least 70% of the time it's not their fault.
well, that´s clearly a war crime, even if it might seem justified. What if some were drafted in under threat of death to them and their families? What if some were prisoners that were better fed for whatever reason (collaboration, usefulness, theft)?
My history professor's grandfather was a tank commander during the war and was a liberator of Dachau. He said he never talked about it until towards the end of his life. The two things his grandfather said he never forgot was the smell of death and the crying of joyous freedom.
Damn straight. We forget, the world owes a debt to the allies that may never be square.
Eric Grimes who owes that debt ?
My grandmother was from Dachau and when the Allied troups arrived in Dachau was there with my mother, who was 4 years old. Everybody in Dachau knew what had been happening in the camp and they all thought the American troups would execute the whole town. My mother still remembers the fear you could sense in the whole town. She also remembers during war seeing the prisoners that looked more like skeletons than humans that regularly were sent to town to buy things there for the camp, because her aunt had a store. After the camp was liberated, all the grown ups were forced to visit it. The Americans treated the civilians still with respect and I think this is truly remarkable.
When I was at high school my school was visited by an American veteran who was the first to enter the concentration camp in Dachau and he told us about what he found there.
When you grow up in Germany you are taught a lot about war crimes and the holocaust, but talking to someone who was there makes everything more touchable.
I went to that same camp(Dachau) in May 2019 as a tourist from Canada. It's pretty chilling to say the least what the Naxis did there.
@@Skankhunt-ic2km We all do kiddo. I was born here in the USA but my grandmother was a Polish Army front line nurse who was taken and spent the war starving in a work camp as she was forced to do labor growing food for soldiers. I wouldn't be here if she didn't survive and was liberated then brought to America under a Catholic priest's sponsorship. We all owe all allies who helped. That you can sit here and make smart sounding remarks shows me you have no understanding of history. So many are so self entitled anymore, you just have no idea.
My grandfather had several trophies from WWII. Flags, a German sidearm, some German medals, even a dagger. Whenever anyone asked him where he had gotten any of them from, his response was always the same. "I acquired them suddenly".
My grandfather was one of these men that discovered one of the many death camps. he never mentioned it. When he passed, my mother, his daughter, found a shoe box full of photographs he took of the camp. Bodies LITERALLY stacked up like cordwood.
T yphus victims.
Pictures do not prove a genocide. (That's why nowadays there are autopsies.)
My grandpa was in the Italian Resistance. He helped many Jews flee to Switzerland, frequently via ordained priests and the Holy See. He used to say "after I knew what happened to those people I gave no quarter to the Nazis or fascist collaborators. One day I'll be judged for the lives I took, but know this, my boy, I regret nothing"
He shouldn't regret it
Be proud of your gramps
My Grandma was in the Norwegian resistance, she worked with the underground and also had a radio hidden in her house (she later married an SOE member). She never had any respect for the collaborators who allowed people to die to save themselves, or who were not willing to stand up and do something. After the war many of those who'd stood up to the Nazis were not treated well by those who had done nothing about it - presumably because they made them feel inadequate. Many people who saved others didn't speak about it as it could make them an outcast. She said that if someone tells you that they'll kill you if you do the right thing, you still do it - If you die, do it with some honour.
G-d bless him and his descendants.
You know what I like about Italians? There weren't that many who were really gung-ho about what Mussolini had to say. That dude regularly gave speeches with little or no response from his audiences.
Honestly, good for him. He’s right to feel the way he did
What is hard to fathom is how these scenes would’ve affected the 18 and 19 year old soldiers that liberated these camps.
Well, read Kurt Vonnegut's account of his war experiences.
And what about the young Germans who were working there? It must have been horrible for them to see it in action. A bit like eating meat; we love it, but most people are so far removed from the killing and processing that we just don't think about the fact that an animal was killed to feed us. It's all nicely packed in the supermarket.
I think the idea of the camps may have been like that - all good until you realise that innocent people were actually being killed.
Really though, im 19 and couldnt even imagine seeing half the things they saw
@@greasylimpet3323 I don’t think you can possibly be as disconnected as supermarket shopping when it comes to mass murder in a concentration camp. Your comparison implies that young German men loved the murder? That they didn’t understand what they were doing? Bad analogy
@@suylyath2658 you missed the point.
There is difference between the way Germans and Japanese treat their history. The Germans say ‘ we remember and we are sorry ‘ the Japanese say ‘ sorry we don’t remember ‘.
And aren't sorry.
My grandmother’s brother was sent to Sachsenhausen from Norway for helping with escorting people over the border to Sweden. He just barely survived two years there and was found by accident while one of the liberating soldiers noticed movement in one of the piles of the dead bodies. He was taken to a hospital and luckily recovered from severe starvation and torture… however, he was never the same since and lived the rest of his days back home in Norway until the mid 70s just before I was born. I never got to speak with him about this, but I was told by my grand parents parts of what he experienced and can only imagine the horrors. We must never forget this history and turn a blind eye towards the hatred that arises from time to time - even though it’s painful! 🧐
Read Tell the Tru'th and Sha'me the Dev'il by Ge'rard Men'uhin. Excellent book and there's a p d f
The level of pure horror after discovering these camps must have been a level of insanity most of us cant even imagine.
The horror persists dude, camps like this still exist today.
Years of learning and I still feel so much fervent rage, it makes me sick that I happily imagine Nazi "candles" lighting the roads... Hate begets hate.
It was the 1940s. Those same white soldiers knew of and sometimes participated in lynchings and other terror on black americans back at home with no legal consequences, so I dont think they were that shocked by Germany's brutality
@@jonathanguzman3044 very true but bare in mind , lots of British also took apart in a large majority of these operations , there may have been racism within the country but nothing like the horrors of America.
@@BD-sv8dj the british took part in running nazi Germany's death camps?? Wow I didnt know that
@@jonathanguzman3044 There were 4 lynchings in 1940 and some 250,000 members of the US armed forces in 1940. There was .. of course a really fucked up and dark racial history in the United States but implying that US soldiers on average participated in lynchings and equivocating them to the SS is beyond the fucking pale, shut up.
"Here's a bayonet and 10 minutes of us not seeing a damn thing."
'I see nothing, but that bugger's still twitching!'
* BANG *
'Thank You!'
@@TronTuborg “did you hear something” “no?”
''Oh dear I dropped my rifle, bayonet and all my ammo. Oh well, I'd better go look for it way over there to find it. I hope someone else doesn't find it and goes after those guards.. Oh well, I'll probably be too preoccupied with this to see or hear anything around me for the next 10 minutes or so.''
@@Xanderboof fascinating pattern on this 'ere brick wall, look at that silica...
@Waffen Werks Yeah, who knows how that slug ended up in the back of that nazi's head. Anyone saying I gave my gun to some inmates and let them have at it is probably just imagining things.
I always hated the idea that "no one knew."
You're telling me that depsite the seemingly unanimous participation in Krystalnacht, that not a single person had not even the slighest iota of an idea of what was going on?
"Hitler's Willing Executioners" 1996, by Daniel Goldhagen
Not to mention all the houses, apartments, and possessions that German citizens "appropriated" from their Jewish neighbors when they were taken away. Where did the Germans think the Jews were going at the point of a gun and being clubbed all the way?
Something like this could most definitely happen again. Easily. That's so damn frightening and shows how history repeats itself.
Not at the scale the Nazi's did it. Concentration camps exist all over the world even today. Russian Gulags, Chinese reformation camps, Gaza being essentially an open air concentration camp. But nothing has since come close to the industrial extermination of millions of people in a relatively short timespan. People die and are murdered in modern camps, obviously, but they're not systematically murdered by the hundreds at a time like cattle. These types of camps are condoned for that single reason. But if any country these days would be revealed to engage in a genocide of that scale, there's no way the international community would stand for it. It would escalate into military conflict to stop it because the west would simply deem it unacceptable to stand by and let this happen again. Especially Europe.
The regime currently occupying the White House has murdered 7,000,000+ people around the world in last 3.5 years with the bio weapon they funded with U.S. taxpayer money. The regime currently occupying the White House has effectively murdered more human beings in half the time as Hitler. And that isn't even county their complicity in supporting the Nazis in Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza.
@@TigerXGamenonsense!! A FAR GREATER tragedy is about to unfold before you very eyes and you do not even know it yet the signs are ALL AROUND.
Bible prophecy is being fulfilled at an alarming rate and STILL people pay NO ATTENTION to it. Zombies!
Anything that has happened in the past, in history, can happened again. To think otherwise is beyond naive and ignorant.
@TigerXGame Gaza essentially being an open air concentration camp ⁉️ 🙄 my goodness come back to earth
I find it hard to blame the allies for what they did. These predominantly young men saw the worst acts humanity could ever commit. It’s hard to blame them for losing themselves to their heightened emotional state. Especially considering these men will forever carry the scars the war left on them. These men went into the war as no older than a high school graduate they never were the same afterward
I prefer to think of it as a justice that the cowards of the world didn't have the courage to do themselves.
Had we never accepted the surrender, any individual operating under the Nazi banner could be executed.
Instead, now we have those filthy animals running loose again. This is why fascism should be eradicated the moment even one appears in a given country.
And some of these men had been at war for years at this point which modern militaries would never dare do
@@nathanjones6638 As a former Fascist Nazis and Fascists are two different things and both ideologies pretty much hate eachother nowadays. Nazis called us "race traitors" for not hating people for having a different skin tone than us or a different religion.
@@nathanjones6638 I used to be in a fascist kik chat and one of our main rules was "No nazis, ethnic nationalists or white supremacists"
@@shekelman9336 well, I care very little, except that the divide you described can be used to get two violent enemies to destroy each other. Death to fascism!
Can’t imagine the emotional toll the war and realization of the true evil acts taking place took on these brave men
Well said.
@Jeff Guse Or the Soviets
Acts such as these concentration camps are still going on today. China has many concentration camps active today while receiving money from Nike, Disney, Canadian government and soon the US government.
So don't try to be empathetic while we continue to allow these acts to carry out while even supporting it in small parts
@@TheFront Honestly getting retribution for the horrors that the nazis did, the U.S. soldiers and the victems of the holocaust who killed them, even if they were defenseless, they deserve medals.
It was not even war it was just murder to many
My grandmother's brother was a tank driver in Patton's third army. He was there for the battle of the bulge and was present when the 101st airborne found their first concentration camp and needed to be relieved as they didn't have the supplies or man power to deal with a concentration camp.
When talking to him. You could tell he truly hated the NAZI regime, and what they did.
Israel, Greg Lansky and Satan salute his selfless service
@@ijusthatenormiesihavenooth1164 Ok Nazi
@@ijusthatenormiesihavenooth1164nazi germany destroyed europe, why won't satan like it
I saw Auschwitz some years ago. There are simply no words to fully describe the place, or what was done there. We must never let anyone forget.
A man who baby sat my dad as a child was one of the soldiers that liberated Dachau. He carried a picture of it with him in his wallet incase someone said it never happened.
Time to whip that photo out, I think. It's starting to happen, and that alone is terrible.
My father was with the 42nd Infantry that had a component that was in Dachau and saw the train. In the 1960s we were walking in the foothills of the Rockies when he stopped. A dead animal was nearby and He asked if I smelled it. I said yes and he turned around and we went home. I asked him what was wrong and he said " Dachau."
I can understand that. That kind of memery is pretty hard to bear. Remembering things you wish you never saw.
Your father had PTSD right there, and if he's still alive, tell him my thanks for his service and for helping bring this atrocity known to the whole world. I know that I could never fully understand what he witnessed and experience, but all I can do is give him my thanks on behalf of everyone in the United States. God bless you and your father
That's some pretty hard shit right there. Tell him thank you for his service.
Damn!
:~(
I know the odds of your dad still being alive are slim, but if he is, please tell him thank you for helping slay a dragon, and if not, thank your family for letting us borrow him.
@@michaeltheundeadmariachi4494 The best thanks to those suffering PTSD is to vote in those who will fund Universal Mental Health.
death by pistols? they sure got off easy
My grandfather served in WW2. He was taken as a pow by the Germans and was captive for something like 13 months. They had a funeral for him back in the states. As the Allies began to push back the Nazis, the Nazis started to move the prisoners further away from the front. I remember hearing how as they were marching my grandfather would hear gunshots behind him as they were shooting anyone who fell or could not continue marching. I don’t remember all the details of the story, but eventually they had to stop and were holding the prisoners in a warehouse like building for the night before continuing the next day. In the night my grandfather and another prisoner managed to slip away and escape. They didn’t know where they were but they basically just decided to go the opposite direction from where they had been marching, eventually being found by allied troops. I was told he was an average sized man when he joined weighing about 150lbs, but when he got picked up he was about 90lbs. Also he was believed dead so you can imagine the what the reunion back home was like. My grandfather never talked about the war or went into detail about much. But apparently he had been drinking and shared this story with my father who then later told me.
My Grandfather was a scout during the war and was shocked by what they found. He said a bunch of skinny people in pajamas were all running up to them and hugging them. He also said the Germans tried dressing as prisoners to evade detection, but the prisoners would point them out, he never said what happened after that.
10 starved prisoners and 1 very fat one hmmm I wonder which one's the german undercover?
@@reichtanglevictor1694 hahaha 😂
@@reichtanglevictor1694 😂
He never said what happened, but it's a safe bet that German posing as a prisoner was sent to join the prisoners that didn't leave the camp.
One of the other comments said that they let the prisoners beat the disguised SS just short of killing them
My father was under Patton, he mentioned 1 time of helping to liberate the camps. Said they were under strict orders to not give any food to the rescued prisoners lest they stuff themselves and die from eating too much. Upon seeing the state the ex-prisoners they mentioned the m18 of every bit of food they had. The prisoners grabbed the food passed it around so that everyone got some.
My father spoke of this only once and never brought it up again. It was easy to see how that deeply affected him.
My dad was with a MASH unit in Patton's Third Army. When I registered for the draft in my Senior year he took me into my parents bedroom and took out a faded envelope. Handing it to me he said that one of the men in his unit took pictures when they liberated one of camps in the Buchenwald complex, because they knew that no one back home would believe what they were seeing. It was the only time he spoke of it, and he told me that I needed to be aware that, under the guise of God and Country, this is what people were capable of.
Eating too much after starving will kill you. Not many know that. A few religious people who ate after extended fasting died that way. They didn't know.
Yes. Even when they were starving for years, the prisoners still made sure everyone got food before they ate:
@@magyar1227 Your father was extremely wise. You're a very lucky man, I can't imagine having earned that knowledge the way he did.
I curious what you seen in those photos?
I'm reminded of dicaprios quote from shutter Island when he talks about liberating dachou "this wasn't war, it was murder"
I had a great uncle on my father's side who fought against an SS brigade remnant who had fled Dachau and hid in a neighboring village. There were only about 30 of them, my dad said my great uncle told him they fought half heartedly, like they knew they were done for. My great uncle wound up capturing a nazi flag and kept it for a souvenir along with a German canteen. He and his buddies posed with the flag for a picture.
In the 50s he gave my dad the souvenirs and told the story. It was also the first time my great aunt had heard of it...he had told nobody about what he saw.
I met a Dachau prisoner from Poland in 2012 in MA, he told he told me some shit I will never forget as long as I live,, I wish I could have talked with him more and that I could have documented it, I'm sure he's long gone by now, I was just working on his house for a couple days, but he and his wife fed us endless amounts of homemade sausage and lemonade, they were great people
What thigs he told ypu ?
Write them down, one day share them to someone who will be willing to listen and not shrug it off.
I concur, you should write down everything he told you that you can recall and look to submit to the approroaite place/institution, better for it to be preserved for posterity so none can deny it and so his memory lives on
Whatever you do, don't post it online. That history deserves to be documented in some historical archive or something. At least there, some halfwit won't accuse you of lying or something.
Write the story, also if you wanna publish it, ask for the family permission and don't forget the name of the dachau prisoner you met to honor him and other concentration camp prisoner
When you hear about people who helped liberate these camps and weren't able to speak about it, you must once again admire strenght of survivors who chose to tell their stories and educate younger generations about what was happening in camps.
That is so true!
dont even for a second think that the allies were some god sent angels who did nothing wrong and only fought for good
i am an indian and during the war 3-4 million of my countrymen were starved to death by winston churchil the devil
even though 2 million indian soldiers fought on the allied side and helped defeat germany
much of my family fought on the eastern front and died.
Who
sad
If you weren't actually there and experienced it yourself, it's impossible to say how you would have reacted.
It's not for us to judge the liberators.
Agreed.
I don’t judge them I applaud and appreciate them
@@dmac2899 Amen
I only judge them for making it quick. I would’ve shot them in the gut and left them to die in ditches
How could anyone judge them. Execution is merciful compared to what those guards deserved
This is why this needs to be taught. Evil thrives in darkness. This is important history and must not be forgotten.
I love that quote of yours mate. That's why all the evils done in secret have to have a little light directed at them.
From your mouth to god's ears. But people are stupid, small minded and self centered. So it is an uphill battle to get them educated. Given many educators today have dropped any talk of this.
I agree that this needs to be taught to remind people of the horrific suffering that people went through back then or it's just going to be repeated, and what's scary is that it is looking more and more likely these days.
@@goofnutgav "Wars and rumours of wars" as the good book says. Really worried about this point in history. In the last century, I figure we've seen more bloodshed than much of history combined, and I'm seriously worried about humanity's future.
We forget too easily the horrors of the past. Or we outright ignore it to get where we want to get. Too damned easy if that horror is conveniently let go, so we can hate again without worrying.
Trust me, at least in Germany it will never be forgotten. It is subject of history lessons in school for probably 5 years straight out of the 13 years history we have, repeated several times in different levels of complexity based on the age of the kids. Remembering the horrors of Ww2 is part of German culture nowadays.
The very first picture you used is a doctored photo lmao
Like so many things in history 😉
Nothing that the Allied soldiers did to those guards and soldiers was too extreme. No amount of torture, pain, suffering and fear would've been enough for those monsters. I'm a bit of a surly, bitter fuck at this point in my life, and never have I been in a combat zone or experienced the horrors that the Allied soldiers did in Europe. If I had, I probably would've pulled a few of those sick fucks apart like a chicken dinner and dared anybody to stop me. I doubt I'd have gotten any takers.
Gods bless the men who liberated those camps. May they sit at Odin's side until the end of time, for they are warriors true, and have earned their place in his High Halls.
My stepdads father was a liberator during ww2 and for the rest of his life he was in and out of hospital for psychiatric care .He lived on medications and oftentimes at nights his family could hear him banging his head against the walls...trying to get the memories out.
I had neighbors who constantly abused their dog and it scarred me for life. I got PTSD from the abuse I witnessed and from regret for not having been able to make justice. I can't imagine the PTSD a soldier who loves people the same way I love animals would get after seeing a person dying of hunger or tortured and not being able to do anything. Well... At least some of them were able to make justice by killing the perpetrators.
PTSD is NO JOKE. It may seem irrational for people who don't suffer from it but it's real and it's a constant torture. I'm here, after therapy, pills, meditation, etc, I'm better but triggers still happen and it sucks. That's why some war veterans who saw horror wake up in the middle of the night from nightmares because even things in their dreams trigger their PTSD.
My heart goes out to all the good people in the world who are suffering and dying, it infuriates me that there's a lot of bad people getting away with their evil crimes.
I want to do everything I can to help good people avoid getting PTSD, because it can be hell on earth.
Exactly why I dodged the Vietnam draft
@@chrisward4576 no, you were just a coward. I got my draft notice while in college and decided to join to get a school out of it. I saw Nam up close and still get flashbacks which I can deal with. But will never forgive the cowards who flew to Canada while my brothers fought and died so that asshole president (?) could pardon them, and you’re still a coward.
@@whiterabbit5356 HA!
@@Papapapapa78 I
I'm 50 years old. As a kid, I remember spending a lot of time with my grandfather and uncles who had all served in the US military in World War 2. Two of my uncles openly discussed their experiences in liberating the camps their units came across when I was older (not quite in my teens), because they wanted me to know what humanity was capable of. Every time they spoke of it, they were visibly angry. Another Uncle was in the Marines and participated in the Pacific island hopping campaigns. He was not bashful about relating what he witnessed and what he did, the things he was proud of and the things that he regretted. My grandfather was on a troop ship heading toward the Japanese mainland. If Truman hadn't used the atomic devices on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he most likely would not have survived the initial wave of the invasion. Instead, he served during the occupation. His description of the Japanese civilian populace post-surrender, was a stark contrast to my Uncle Billy's description of Japanese soldiers. Both were right. People are barbaric when stressed and also capable of doing amazing good. The best thing a person can do is tell what they experienced to the younger generations. I've always felt that what they told me and how they related it to the human condition instead of just blaming a specific group of people, made me a better person. It made me more understanding of victimization and what supposedly decent people are capable of under stress. It made me self-aware, a better man, a better father and a better police officer. My own studies of what civilians did during the war also showed me the slippery slope that oppression is. I'm a patrol Lieutenant and a weapons trainer. I consider it my duty to teach as many new officers as I can the dangers of making excuses for bad decisions. That tendency is what leads people to do evil things in the name of "the greater good". What I'm currently seeing in the world is not new to me, I've heard it all before before I was a teenager. It isn't the police, it isn't the government, it isn't certain political ideas, religion, or any of the countless excuses we all make to give the impression that we are "good". It's people. The sooner you can accept the Jungian reality of your darker self, the more likely you will be to avoid doing the evil you are capable. Unfortunately, too many are willing to cover that darker portrait of their own reality and hide it in the attic of their mind, trying to convince others that it isn't true.
This is what all the rioters and all the jaded police officers need to hear at this time. Nobody is evil until they suddenly are. Noone can keep you in check except yourself.
Certain political ideas do call for this victim/opressor narrative, the same kind of narrative that caused the persecution of Jews in Germany.
Good message thank you. You should do some more research on the situation surrounding dropping the bombs, it’s quite interesting, the whole your grandpapi would’ve died in an invasion excuse is quite debunked, Japan had already surrendered but the military leadership prevented them from officially declaring so on the impossible hope that they could eventually secure any negotiating power to pardon themselves/save face. They even went against the emperor’s wishes and prolonged the end of the war. We bombed civilians not military, and believe it or not the military leadership didn’t actually give a shit about either nuke. It just made the emperor officially capitulate and overrule the military finally, which they sent attacks against him for. Evil cowards.
@@frolicsomgaiety I've done plenty of research on the topic. Views and opinions vary depending on the perspective, and in many cases the personal political views, of the authors. My source was a person who was on a troop ship approaching the Japanese mainland. There were invasion plans that were bypassed because we nuked then instead. Considering that more Japanese civilians were killed in the fire bombings of Tokyo, I don't split hairs. It was the Japanese military that attempted a coup on their own Emperor to prevent surrender. None of that was known until after the capitulation. Civilian populations on all sides were targeted by all forces involved in the war, but I'm not going to feel sorry for the Japanese, considering their own actions during the war. That was kind of the entire premise. My grandfather, who only met Japanese civilians and soldiers after the surrender, had a great respect for them. He described them as generous and kind. My uncle Billy had witnessed first hand what Japanese soldiers did to prisoners and civilians during the war. I didn't get my history completely from a book. There was nothing great about that war. No side was entirely innocent of acts that would now be called atrocity. All sides choose to benefit from some of those activities.
@@Cmoth040 Agree with all of this, save one part, hear me out. Of course the Japanese soldiers were awful. “They” initiated aggression. Targeting civilian populations was done by all the major players. All true. None of these things in any combination are a reasonable excuse for targeting civilian populations. Listen to your own justification of it, I won’t feel too bad about civilian targets because of these things their military and soldiers did, and everyone was doing. You could justify any atrocity with that logic. Now it’s not even about the invasion excuse, it’s about not learning from atrocities of the past, which we can’t afford to let ourselves do. Justifying/dismissing such a loss of civvy life when we know every stage of bombing done by everyone on populations was strategically ineffective (proven again in Vietnam, we didn’t learn) is forfeiting your humanity for literally no reason. Perspective may dictate morality during a war but we have the luxury of hindsight, and in this case we see clearly that the bombings were needless.
In 1975, I was a US Army medic in Germany. A friend and I hitchhiked to the Austrian Alps and the route took us around the south side of Munich. You can see Dachau from the autobahn, Towers and barbed wire in the distance. I've always regretted not stopping to check it out. The Holocaust has always fascinated me. Thank you for this work.
I had a teacher in high school whose mother was a holocaust survivor, one of the stories he told that really stuck with me for some reason was that his mother could not eat peanut butter because when you are without food for long enough your body just cant process some types of food so she ended up eating a lot of peanut butter once she was liberated from the holocaust
To quote Brad Pitt's character from Fury, "you see him? He's SS! You kill every last one of 'em!"
Then it's only fair to be against the soviets
@SCP- 682 oh they’ve done their fair share of starving and murdering innocents
Except for the Estonian SS, who were the only conscripts in the SS
@@redfear77 i think there is something wrong with you if you hear "kill every last SS" and your first thought is "well what about the soviets"
Sounds like some Nazi apologetics to me
@@cameronb8503 My eyes Soviets and The Nazi’s alike should have been erased by the time 1950 rolled around, along with every other oppressive regime. We shouldn’t have let another exist or let another rise again.
I cannot imagine walking into an absolute horror show. Terrifying.
And yet somehow genocides have happened in the years since.
@@TheFront and are currently happening
The U.N. watched the Rwanda genocide happen. Sometimes people just don't learn the lessons of history.
China and North Korea still do it, but the media doesn't talk about it, or even have data on it, so apparently that makes it okay.
@@manictiger True!
Imagine being an allied soldier tired of the axis’s sh*t, and then seeing a prison impossibly filled with criminals. Only to realize that it wasn’t a prison and they weren’t criminals. And then trying to conceptualize what the f*ck had happened around them.😔
Patton really was a great general.
That's why they murdered him.One day before he was to return to the US definitely. He was going to spit some facts which would have gotten many into trouble.
He served zog
Then died like a dog
Those POWs who were executed still met a more humane end than the individuals they tortured and murdered
I'm pretty sure not all POW were the ones responsible for killing people. I'm sure some were just on the front lines.
Not all German soldiers were committed Nazis. Some were conscripted into the army and made to fight. One of the kindest men I ever met had been a German soldier during World War II. He wasn’t given a choice. It’s fight or be executed.
Clint is speaking facts here.
In the end, most German POWs did not survive and died due to...revenge. Even killed some more Germans later on to prevent some resistance or something. Revenge got the hold of em.
@@daerdevvyl4314 which makes him a coward! If you dont believe in something but yet you do it cause you "were forced" means you have no principles and are a pathetic cowards.
My great great grandfather was actually taken captive as a POW and kept in a camp like these. When he was liberated he weighed 94 lbs. He was 6'4". He never talked about it, ever, and I don't blame him.
Holy shit
@@lancefisher8358 my exact reaction, aloud
If the Nazis took POWs they thought were Jewish they would be sent to the concentration camps instead of the POW camp system, IIRC quite a few Jewish-American POWs died working in Von Brauns death factories
If he'd be taken by the Japanese, his chances of surviving the war were quite low. Germany's POW camps had a 96 percent survival chance, almost the same as POW camps in western Allied countries. Yet Japan still exists as a normal country, not consumed by self loathing.
@@conveyor2 according to the discovered German documents during the war, for Soviet POWs the death rate was approximately 57%. In a contrast to 3.6% of British and American POWs
Excellent documentary.
Here's a better question for you:
Why were the allies never held accountable for the fire bombing, and complete destruction, of Dresden, Germany?
It was an "open" city and used to treat the wounded on both sides.
Dresden was a central rail nexus for all supplies and soldiers heading to the Eastern Front. It absolutely was a military target and it's destruction was in no way comparable at all to the barbarism of the Holocaust.
Dresden was karma for Auschwitz and Dachau.
The fact that people deny this all happens only enrages me even more
This
Indeed.
the worse is that cpvid fascists took over the world and noone gives a shit
@@MostIntelligentMan absolutely no commection between cov regulations and facism, gtfo
@@Fede_uyz lol treating humans like animals and separating vaccinated rights from healthy normal people is not fascism? also banning any video that tells critique
I love this quote said by Brigadier General Felix Sparks, “tell us who were there that this didn’t happen.” Note how the “people” that deny this happened never say their beliefs in front of a WWII veteran that liberated a concentration camp.
Agree, Tell that to Deadly Croc and his asinine comment above, too many of his type on YT
Holocaust denial should be punishable by death.
@@utzius8003 👃
@@darth_chaos4616 Here comes the antisemite, like a moth to the lamp.
@@utzius8003 nah chill out bud
My father-in-law in the US infantry at the liberation of Buchenwald. The US forces made the citizens of the town walk through the camp to see the atrocities for themselves so the Germans could not deny them.
In the early 1900's after the fall of the Spanish empire, Americans also created concentration camps in the Philippines where hundreds of thousands of Filipinos were corralled, tortured and killed. Almost nobody talks about that now.
Also, we seemed to have forgotten the American camps for Japanese/Americans during WW2.On American soil.
The first to create concentration camps werevthe British, for the Boers.During WW2 both British and American interned enemies or supposed enemies in concentration camps.(See the Japanese Americans. Also, the Americans interned 11,000 Jehova's Witnesses, something Americans aren't taught in school.)
Source, N ot G uilty at N uremberg by C arlos P orter, p 2 2 )
Just because one nation did wrong doesn't mean another nation gets a pass.
It baffles me that people at my workplace who are freshly graduated from high school are increasingly unaware of these events and only get a brief one-slide introduction to the Holocaust during world history.
Visiting Dachau was just devastating.
A few months ago I got to experience the Ann Frank house in VR. Just going through a virtual tour had me bawling. I dont think I could handle visiting it in real life. It's a shame people are trying to brush over WW2. We need to learn about the awful crimes committed on all sides so we can prevent it from ever happening again.
when i was at the holocaust museum i sort of pissed off my teacher for saying "the soviets were just as bad" the actual museum staff agreed and she looked like a complete idiot.. We have to teach about the war crimes of socialist dictatorships regardless of flag especially when my cousin is defending china unironically
Yeah, and its all about bad old Israel holding Palestine at bay.
Unfortunately there is an awful lot of American History that is not taught in schools never mind the fact that most Americans are almost totally ignorant on the subject of WORLD HISTORY in it's entirety
My grandmother was a prisoner in Auschwitz. So was my grandfather. They were both teenagers at the time. The dozens of stories I've heard from them over the years are beyond comprehension. The fact that there are people in this world who have the sheer audacity to deny or minimize the horrors that my grandparents and so many others suffered, is infuriating, sickening and appalling
When i was going to college in 2008/2009 i met a survivor from the holocaust. She told me about the guards asking her where her parents were and then telling her that her parents were in the smoke coming out of a chimney. You have to be truly evil to say that and take delight in it. I can understand why the allied soldiers shot some of the guards
I can't say exactly which camp or who said it, but someone said after liberating a camp the enraged US soliders took 3 towns without orders.
Well last time I checked in history turkish soldiers went mad seeing people impaled by vlad so it makes sense that the us soldiers felt little bit disturbed by what they saw despite what they experienced.
The Turks impaled where soldiers who where invading. The people in the camps where civilians a bit of a difference.
And Vlad had learned that technique from the Turks when he was their prisoner. Both he and his brother were held as vassal prisoners in ransom by the Turks so that their father would play nice. Being nobility, they were educated in the ways of the world: theology, *war*, diplomacy, to read and such. Vlad’s brother eventually converted to Islam himself and he fought in an army opposing Vlad.
This all sounds and truly is barbaric to our modern sensibilities, but these were the same practices that happened in every culture at that time. Yet these acts are still being practiced today in many Muslim states. Every culture has done it, & every culture will do it.
@@worldofwarcraftman2 Soldiers are humans too are their loss of life is equally sad as a civilian, they likely didn't want to be there and even if they did volunteer it doesn't reduce the tragic nature of their death. Death is death and war is hell.
@@nyedavis922 yes but its one thing to kill a bunch of enemy soldiers that are invading your lands and another thing to kill your own civilians that had nothing to do with the war
The tactic of impaling captured Turks actually worked. Tradition says that over 20,000 people were impaled on this instance. The point was to create fear in the Turkish ranks - and he succeeded. It is called psychological warfare. The Romans used a similar technique called "Decimation". If a unit performed badly and it was not possible to separate the good fighters from the cowards, every 10th man was removed from the ranks and his fellow soldiers had to kill him. The end result was that the Roman Soldier was more afraid of the military hierarchy than the enemy. The Romans did the same thing during the Roman Slave Revolts. After one revolt, they crucified 6000 slaves and put these crucifixes on the main road to Rome. Tradition says that crucified slaves including men, women and children were crucified for a span of 30 miles on the main road leading to Rome. Tradition says that their bodies were left to rot and be eaten by scavengers. That certainly would have made an impression.
"Those who executed German POW's out of revenge were never held accountable"
Oh no! Anyway...
I would hope they were promoted, so as to train future generations how to deal with fascists appropriately.
@@nathanjones6638 no they were sent to vietnam and korea to kill kids
@@lucasart328 the US didn't kill kids in Korea the north koreans did that
@@nathanjones6638 Nazis =\= Fascists
@@shekelman9336 dude,the axis were fascist
There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.
@GoogleProfessorRoger Dommergue I tried also, but to no avail.
Amen. Cant wait to see the day people stop denying the holocaust happened. Its a terrible part of our shared human history, and we ahould never forget, lest it happen again.
I would've definitely been one of them soldiers who gave thier weapons to prisoners and told them go do what you gotta do
As a German these events still make me angry every time I am reading about them. I have absolutely no problem with the allied soldiers executing everyone involved with it. It was a disgrace and will be forever a stain Germans have to be taught about.
Gleiches mit gleichem Vergelten hat zu diesem Wahnsinn geführt.
1871 Frankreich gedemütigt
1918/19 Deutschland gedemütigt
Ergebnis siehe oben.
Verständlich seine Folterer zu ermorden ist es, damit sind diese Menschen jedoch nicht besser als jene.
What really sad is, is that about 80% of folks have voted on the nazi party.
Fun fact: If not ww2 I would be German LoL
Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱 ❤
i think as a german you have more right than anyone (not the victims) to be mad
@@avl5214 You may have misunderstood my comment. I am not angry about it at all. What we Germans did was a disgrace and I fully understand the rage and disgust the US soldiers might have felt when seeing all this.
Not only Germans have to be taught about this, my friend. Nor do you inherit the sins of your forefathers.
Anytime anyone is calling for a group to be systematically persecuted, you'll be more equipped to resist it.
My Granduncle, Was wounded liberating, “Dachau,” before the war, he had just graduated from the, University of Hawaii, with a Bachelors Degree, in education. He was planning to be a, “High School teacher and teach English literature.” After the war in the 1960’s. When I was a child about 9yrs of age. He was drinking at a holiday gathering and began to tell my cousins and I, of that day of liberation. The fighting was continuous for days. As they advanced into the camp, he told us kids, as we listened. How frightening it was entering the camp. He had stated the, “smell was horrendous.” When the Germans finally surrendered and fled. Then the stacks of bodies and crematoriums being discovered. He thought, he and his squad had been killed and he was walking amongst the dead in, “Dante’s Inferno.” One of the things that stuck in my mind before ever seeing any war footage of that liberation. Was of him telling us. Of the, “height of the stacks of bodies, fifteen foot high.” He told us children we must be prepared to fight against such evil and never let it happen in, America. A majority of the family served in all of the branches of the military because of men like my, “Granduncle and Grandfather. My Grandfather, who also was an eye witness to, “Pearl Harbor,” while he was working for the, “Department of Defense,” that morning, Dec 7, 1941.
Query, why all of the airquotes?
@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 , subject emphasis.
The Germans had no more food to spare for their own population, let alone their prisoners. No wonder they starved
@@spzer2557 They were starving them before the shortages.
@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 Not on the same scale
My Grandad was liberated from Stalag XX1D by Americans who had come from Dachau - he said they were absolutely enraged and were out for blood. One of the German Guards said, "Peter can you help me, they are going to Kill all the Guards". My grandad was captured as one of the 51st Highland Division near St Valery where he avoided capture for several months along with 5 others. On the run, they were caught in September meaning they were possibly the last armed British defending French soil.
My Dutch in-laws who were nazi sympathizers said that they knew their Jewish neighbors were never coming back. They also admitted to taking everything of value from their neighbors houses when they were taken away. My father in-law and his brother admitted this to me when my wife and I took him back home for his last visit. When I asked him about seeing the hundreds of American bombers flying over he said yhea there were so many but we shot enough of them down. He was in his 80s and was getting a little senile.
6:12 this is one of like 3 times in all of history that the line 'and then the authorities stopped investigations into war crimes and no one was ever charged' is met with a head nod and a "goddamn right" from everyone watching.
what were the other 2?
They should've been. Should've been a slap on the wrist but should've been.
There should have been SOME repercussions
@@f.7681 executing officers that committed atrocities that bad shouldn't have repercussions. An eye for an eye, this is war. They want to commit such atrocities that no man will ever forget of, then let their final moments be agonizing.
@@joeswansonthesimphunter2612 I agree with high rank officers who follow the orders fully believe that they are the good guys but not your every day solider who may be forced to.
My grandpa was a scout pilot at the Battle of the Bulge. Never fired a shot in anger. He had lifelong PTSD and night terrors. Even right before he died at 90 he would randomly wake up screaming about not wanting his boots taken.
There are no words that I can say to you that rightly convey how I feel about this.
in a war there is no rules germany attacked and any soldier serving is a capital enemy of the country you invade
Greg Bray That’s basically what I have heard. Boots were in short supply and it was one of the first things they salvaged from the dead. So the fear of your boots being taken is basically the fear of being killed in action.
@Michael Cueva Compare 1930s Nazi Germany Vs 2020s Communist Chinazi IN YOUR NEXT VIDEO Project before it's too late
@Michael Cueva ya your not the only one who feels like this. When I hear stories of allied soldiers taking revenge, I just feel strange. I cant say the german camp guards didn't deserve it. But I hate bloodshed. If we kill them I feel as if Im no better than the guards themselves. :/
(dont get me wrong what the nazis did in the camps were horrible but I would feel kinda sad if I was ordered to execute a person even if that person is evil. many of the allied soldiers probably had the same mindset as me, but can't do or say anything to stop the executions. Because what can you say to stop it? the guards deserved it. so ima give a salute to his grandpa for not acting in revenge.)
'The Soviets had no idea what they had found." The worst thing in history (to date) is what they had found.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana
There is a documented account of an infantryman who gave away all his rations to the starving prisoners as he was assisting in liberating the camp. He gave away everything.
And it killed the prisoners he had fed.
Tragically, their bodies were so terribly malnourished they couldn't assimilate real food and everything just shut down.
This man's kindness led to personal guilt and suffering the likes of which we simply cannot imagine as no one could convince him it wasn't his fault.
I heard similar stories from a survivor who talked about his time in one of the concentration camps. I don´t remember his camp but I remembered that he said he was taken from the camp by the Nazis to file and write the documentation for the scientists who used other inmates for experimentation. One of the files he wrote which he talked about was an experiment were a bunch of scientist were trying to figure out how to keep the German pilots who crashed in the Atlantic during the Battle of Britain alive in the cold water. They did this by sinking inmates in icy cold water to see how long they would live, and then tried different methods how to keep them alive longer. Anyway, I also remember him telling them about a salted sausage which the German´s gave to the inmates to see them fight over them. Anyone who ate of the sausage died because that the sausage had too much salt in them, which the SS knew and laughed about. This was why he and several other inmates were cautious when the SS were suddenly "generous". And then there was an execution of a young boy, who was hanged to cover up the fact that two officers who had sexually abused and taken turns with him. They killed for for two reasons, according to him; because they kept fighting over the ownership of the boy, and to cover up any "same sex" violation they might face from the higher ups as gays were executed if they were found out.
Unintended consequences, it still happens today, because of politicians in government. But that circumstance was truly not knowing. He it is not responsible or to blame, but the, NAZI, government that put them there are the criminals responsible.
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I hope that this horrific information proves to you the power and existence of human evil. It is a real power beyond comprehension and and Patton obviously knew this. We are totally incompetent to judge those who witnessed such gigantic evil.
My grandfather was in the 3rd ID, which fought just behind the 45th. I asked him once about this. His eyes drifted off and he started pounding his fist on the table and yelling about those gd Germans. My soft-spoken Pop-pop! I never brought it up again...
He had 4 battle stars & turned down a Purple Heart. He was being shot at and tripped and hurt himself & turned down the Purple Heart because it was his own fault!
Specifically: "Those goddamned Germans! They just left piles of bodies to rot!"
@@pmull6784 hero
Wow, I just can’t fathom what it’s like to see what he saw
i am a former member of the 3rd ID , thanks to men like your grandfather and his brave deeds, the rest of us carry on as " MARNE MEN" 3rd Id the rock of the Marne
"Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story."
Interesting article.
Vengeance in this instance is not just completely justified, but absolutely necessary. Zero sympathy for those bloody Nazis. Absolutely zero! 😡
My great grandfather was one of the liberators of Bergen-Belsen. We only found out after he died because he never talked about it to anyone, which we understood.
My grandad was in the SAS and was also involved in the Bergen-Belsen liberation. And that is where he met my grandmother
@@urigreenberg9760 Howd he meet her there? Just curious
@@goodlad6512 He was put in charge of accounting for the prisoners, he asked each one about their story when he got to her he decided he will take care for her and took he back to England under him where they fell in love. He was Jewish as well.
@@urigreenberg9760 cool
@@urigreenberg9760 it’s nice to know love came out of something so horrible
Can you imagine how outraged Americans would be if GI's were tried for executing SS Officers after what they found? Patton did the right thing.
For breaking military discipline and law? I doubt it. I understand tacit approval for some war crimes, but I doubt there would be much outrage at prosecutions.
Can I blame them. No was it the right thing no. But war is hell.
@@SFox-nf3bo Also, ignore the moral issues involved with summary execution for the moment. By executing them, the soldiers were _violating standing orders._
This itself is a crime.
@@zapazap your right, but only in Hine sight. At that moment In that moment, a moment in time, that you nore I can put our selves in. What they did I can't blame them. Yes they reacted on emotion but look and I mean really look at what they not only saw but went through. Unless you have been in war, or a life or death situation you can't blame them for there actions here. Broken men saw a broken world and there hearts broke apart. War is hell.
@@SFox-nf3bo "Broken men saw a broken world and there hearts broke apart. War is hell." I don't think i can find a better sentence to describe the situation at that time. Thank you.
“Tired and enraged”
My grandfather survived CC Dachau, just because he was still young but skin and bones at the end 35 kgs. He was already in coma when the American soldiers liberated the camp. Young medic, name left unknown, gave him a shot of antibiotic. Grandfather had cholera, Typhus and was in pretty bad condition. He must have heard from someone in the camp before that after getting better, you mustn't drink water even for some time. Just very little. But sick men had thrust to death. And drank water. And died on spot. Grandfather did not. After some months he was first able to travel back home. A bit better, but still skin and bones. He was not recognized by his own mother. Before WWII he was a miner, so explained that those who had some technical skills had better chances to survive. Knowledge of German language helped him as well. He never really recuperated psychologically. He had of then nightmares and could not really sleep at night.
Having been to dachau, I'm amazed american soldiers didn't execute everyone in a uniform. The town is right down the road, everyone knew what was going, everyone heard the screams. RIP to the innocent souls still interred here in mounds covered by flowers, with a small plaque that reads "here rest 12000 souls" and that is just one.
Would someone PLEASE tell me what the German citizens could have done!
They were every bit as helpless to stop their government then as we are now!
12,000 souls. Not bodies, or people alone, but souls. Thank you for making me cry.
@@GreenshirtMr1023 if that alone makes you cry......what do you do with the rest of history???
@@thelmagreenwood3377 except they were unarmed. Which is where the left wants us to get to so they can achieve the same control.
@@drew9584 I agree the whole point is to enslave us and reduce us to helpless obedience. But are the weapons available to us really enough to hold off a determined government w/ military behind it?
"Who is like the Beast? Who can make War with him?"
I can’t imagine coming upon a scene like that and NOT taking revenge or providing the inmates with weapons
I absolutely can. It seems a bit sick to me that the soldiers, faced with so much death, still had the taste for it and wanted more.
@@Nylak-Otter You get what you deserve
I think general Patton got it right.
As a person, Patton was not nice. (Refused to recognize battle fatigue as a legitimate medical problem). As a general, he was brilliant. His sweep across the south of France was extremely successful only to halted so that Monty could do his notorious Market Garden. And when the battle of the Bulge happened it took only 3 days for his troops to turn 90 degrees and come to the rescue.
Those soldiers mentioned in the video should've been prosecuted, but there were many killings like this in battle all the time and both sides killed prisoners who had surrendered. (Read accounts of D-Day and parachutists who killed most of their prisoners because they didn't have the men or place to detain them.)
As governor of Bavaria he refused to arrest Nazis that were engineers and worked to keep electricity and water going in direct violation of orders from Eisenhower. He actually cared about keeping the German people alive because he knew the next battle was with Russia and we would need their help. He really was brilliant!
@@rabbit251 not readin allat bullshit
My Great Uncle told me stories about trying to feed some camp victims from their own rations and the victims were so starved that instead of helping them it put their bodies into shock and killed them. I can't even imagine such a horrible sight.
My Grandad said the very same thing.
Refeeding syndrome is cruel.
Yep, some Finnish PoW's got back from Soviet Union and ate a good meal once in Finland and died. Body can't take it, at most you can give is broth with fat in it in the beginning. They belong to hospital really. Nazi-Germany wasn't the only one who was doing this.
Yeah you cant give victims like that real food. At most you can give them small amounts of soup for some days first
@@HeilAmarth Definitely. What a lot of people don't talk about (since allied forces won), are the war crimes of USSR.
My Uncle was one of the British soldiers who liberated Belsen. He told me that they allowed the healthier prisoners to identify the guards hidden amongst them. Then they gave the ex prisoners pickaxe handles and let them beat the SS soldiers, just short of killing them
One thing is justice and the other is revenge. We must never confuse one for the other.
But THAT was definitely justice...
Smells like war crime in here
War crimes are completely arbitrary. Have men watch other men massacre their friends for 4 years, then some guy in a suit 10,000 miles away calls time out and the game is over? Nah. Fuck em.
They should have left the pick on the handles.
What's worse is that these were 17-22 year olds. They would have to live with the horror of seeing entire box cars of decaying bodies
@ReadTellTheTruthAndShameTheD3vil ByGerardMenuhin it's a shit book
Auschwitz prisoners : freedom!!, Soviets : wouldn’t call it freedom but under new management
Imagine being a prisoner in those camps and seeing people come to _rescue_ you though, can you believe how moving that would have been...
Once you entered the gates of one of these camps you’ve stepped SO FAR outside the laws of man that there is just no way they can be applied to “justice”.
Unless it was soviets
@@stephenwalsh2476 revenge, yes, JUSTICE no.
@@davidpietarila699 Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve. As Leviticus, 24:19 and 20 said: "If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him: 20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him". By the standards of common religions, the Soviet troops acted mercifully.
Therefore, you are right, there was no justice. Unfortunately, in that situation, justice was technically unattainable. Scum should have been tortured for years before being executed. All of them. MANY times each.
There are books written by people who went through that. You should give them a read if you truly care.
I was 7 years old when I found out about it in the 70’s. My stepfather was a German; a child of an ‘SS’ family. He had books with black and white plates of the scenes the allies found. It was unreal but matter-of-fact.
Endless trenches of bodies. Emaciated and grinning. Horror.
But that’s nothing compared to the horror the holocaust deniers instil in me today.
But grandpa was just another soldier. Kurt Gerstein from SS family but an Evangelical. He wanted to find out about a relative who was in T4 programe. I dont know much about how, but he became a low level SS officer AND a disinfectant inspector. He had to transport Zyklon B. He even dumped a batch by saying it was contaminated . He was really against Nazism. He fought from inside and tried informing Allies who didnt trust the info. He reportedly committed suicide in French custody in France at WW2 end..
Those people should be treated thrown into a concentration camp for a week or month
See how they can still deny the cruelty the Nazi caused
There are still a lot of deniers. There is someone who claims claims be some kind of an Evangelical. At the heart of his message is that Jesus wasnt Semitic-- says something about one of Noah's sons--Shem. & then has a whole twisted Gospel narrative that HE and only he claims is proof that Jews
Supposedly killed Jesus--one crazy cookie with no icing but an abundance of nuts. He strings Muslims and sad seculars along and invited me to see his video about Jonah that proved this supposedly . I said NO way. This after insults which I returned in kind.
Poor Jewish Israeli was being insulted and
his grandm
a too by a denier who was raised by Nazi ancestors. I thought Deniers of holocaust booted off but they arent and are blatant.
Makes me angry.
The problem is that the sheer horror of it makes it easy to deny. "How can a human be so evil?" - that sort of thing. I see the same thing in people who support the CSA . "Heritage, not hate" they would say. But if they took the time to learn what CSA leadership said, they would know it was all about hate. So it's easy to see why people deny the Holocaust. It's simply so evil, that for some people, it can't be true.
A WEEK? I know you have good intentions with this post, but that is not enough. They don’t deserve the mercy of being taught. It’s sick. They deserved life in the Siberian gulags at a minimum.
When you see the absolute atrocities that were committed on people and mass in them camps seeing it first person not just the pictures it's hard to see why the people who sat there and willingly did this deserve to be treated better
Germany should have been divided into three pieces and given to Poland, Russia and France as war reparations. Japan should have been given to China as war reparations. Japan should pay war reparations to the islands they conquered during the war. The emperor of Japan should have relinquished his role as ruler of Japan. Never forget or history can repeat itself.
Germany was divided, but into only 2 pieces, bringing disaster upon East Germany for 45 years. And the Japanese emperor did relinquish his role. Have you read any history?
My great uncle was a medic. He was sent to Dachau camp. He helped to treat thousands of prisoners dying of severe malnutrition and other diseases. He returned home a recluse and an alcoholic. He died alone a few shirt years later. It clearly had a very bad effect on him. I never met him and died well before I was born.
And every single one of the entirely innocent German nurses sent in by the Inbredistanis to deal with disease in one camp died of that disease, mostly in their teens and twenties and the *Inbredistanis deliberately put their lives at risk, did everything they could to make sure these girls got infected, and withheld medication when they did* . But hey, Americans don't commit war crimes. And look up Ishii and unit 731, operation paperclip, and a lovely chap by the name of Reinhard Gehlen, the CIAs favourite Nazi General.
One of the many reasons the only way I'll go back to the US will involve acid spraying aircraft and a few dozen pallets of Novichok.
This is pretty fucking sad....
@@nerdybacon6244 Yeah it is!
This is so sad when he should’ve been proud of himself for doing his best to help them.
Hey may very well have liberated my husband’s grandmother as she was there. She was from Belarus and was the only member of her family to survive the SS invasion. She came to America after the war. The people of Belarus suffered horribly at the hands of the SS
My Grandpa (RIP) was a medic aide who saw action in Italy, Dday on Omaha beach, Belgium and Germany. His unit was with the division that liberated Dachau and my dad said he would serve prisoners bowls of soup then watch them fall over dead.
Dad said grandpa never talked about the war and when he was a youngster he saw a grown man come running up the my grandpa and hugged him while crying. He looks at my dad and says, "Your dad's a hero....he saved my life."
They learned the hard way that prisoners would literally die from eating too much.
Your Grandad was a hero
Holocaust victims would die from eating because the Germans starved them so much that their stomachs shrunk and would burst when eating food
@@holographicmeatloaf1596 Yeah it's called refeeding syndrome, it's terrible.
@@holographicmeatloaf1596 Jesus...
Fun fact:
If you’re a fan of Anime or the famous show, “Attack on Titan” you have heard the famous speech that wasn’t filmed by General Patton.
“Soldiers they don’t yield or scare when faced with the cruelty of this world. My soldiers reach out my soldiers rage!”
Patton and also Erwin Smith
Can you imagine how much hatred and disgust people felt towards the Germans after discovering those camps?
Grandfather served during the war where he assisted in the liberation of Dachau, he says it was only then that he realized they were fighting not men, but “monsters” and the “forces of evil” and “armies of darkness”
Germany in the 1930ies and 40ies was led by Satan himself. It was working to create Hell on earth for all of humanity. It had to be stopped.
Those same forces are still at work, creating division, fear and hatred everywhere. The nation that is most at danger right now, is the US itself.
@@TheEvertw meh
The Wehrmacht would sneak food to concentration camps. The prisoners said it was the SS who were the true assholes
@@chrvsalism2102 This is absolutely true.
Having Satan lead your country does not mean that every citizen is evil.
@ALeto3 Can you clarify this statement?