EXECUTION of Elisabeth Volkenrath - BRUTAL NAZI Guard at Auschwitz & Bergen Belsen - Holocaust
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- Execution of Elisabeth Volkenrath - Brutal Nazi Guard at Auschwitz & Bergen Belsen - Holocaust. Elisabeth Volkenrath, one of 6 children of the forest worker Josef Mühlau and his wife, was born on the 5th of September 1919 in Schönau an der Katzbach, then part of the Weimar Republic which was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1933.
In January 1933, when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party came into power, Elisabeth was only 13 years old. Soon after she became a member of the League of German Girls, which was the female section of the Hitler Youth. These organizations, led by Baldur von Schirach, were the primary tools that the Nazis used to indoctrinate young people with Nazi ideology, thus shaping the beliefs, thinking and actions of German youth. While in January 1933, the Hitler Youth had approximately 100,000 members, by the end of the year this figure had increased to over 2 million. Jews were not allowed to join these organizations.
In 1941 Volkenrath was conscripted into the SS and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she was trained as a guard.
Ravensbrück, opened in May 1939, was the only major women's camp established by the Nazis. In total, some 132,000 women from all over Europe passed through the camp, including Poles, Russians, Jews, Gypsies, and others. Of that number, over 92,000 women perished.
In March 1942 Volkenrath was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp located in German occupied Poland where at first, she worked in a sort of tailoring shop where the prisoners mended the uniforms of their fellow inmates. The majority of the inmates employed in this workshop were elderly women and Volkenrath regularly stroke them with her fists, sometimes so hard that they fell to the ground. She would later claim that it was often necessary to slap their faces because they tried to steal bread which did not belong to them.
From December 1942, she was responsible for a parcel store where she supervised a group of 25 - 30 prisoners. According to her statements, these inmates had to open and hand out all the parcels which came either from relatives of the prisoners or Red Cross. The prisoners in question then came there to receive their parcels.
She was also in charge of the distribution of bread to the prisoners, which was done from the same office. The block leaders of all the blocks came with one or two other prisoners and then fetched the bread for their block.
Elisabeth Volkenrath left Auschwitz on the 18th of January 1945 when Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz concentration camp complex and the SS began evacuating Auschwitz and its subcamps. These forced marches of concentration camp prisoners became known as the death marches. The prisoners had to march over long distances under guard and in extremely harsh conditions.
On the 5th of February 1945 she arrived in Bergen Belsen concentration camp.
Sanitary conditions at Bergen Belsen were terrible and there was no water for washing and hardly enough for drinking and cooking. Between January and March 1945 when the prisoners were sent on death marches from the other concentration camps, about one-third of the prisoners who arrived in the transports were already dead, and almost 80 percent of the rest had to be fetched by truck from the station as they were too week and sick to walk. On one occasion out of a transport of 1,900 inmates over 500 arrived dead.
The prisoners got almost no food during these death marches and there was no food when they arrived at the camp either. The camp was so overcrowded that during the winter months when it was freezing cold, the prisoners had to sleep in a sitting position on the floor and somehow try to share only 200 blankets in a camp of tens of thousands of prisoners. Due to starvation, thirst and the outbreak of typhus epidemics, the average daily mortality rate of prisoners was between 250 and 300.
Yet even in such harsh conditions, Volkenrath enjoyed beating half-starved prisoners.
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My mothers Aunt Eva and Uncle Mike were in Poland and put in separate camps, Aunt Eva was a nurse and had to count dead bodies daily, her parents were shot, her sister broke her neck carrying water, her sisters boys six and four years old were going to be put to death, Aunt Eva a very small woman escaped with the boys, carried the 4 year old, she told us the story of hearing the dogs and sirens, entering in a small stream to lose their scent to the dogs, They made it, took a year to get to freedom, I was about 16 when her and Mike told their stories, it was heart breaking but also amazing, Never will forget this and a few years later I joined the military and went to Germany, shortly after took a trip to Dachau and of course it was a memorial but saw large pic of prisoners and a horrifying film, Grateful I got to see this and very very sad, Uncle Mike and Aunt Eva were two of the happiest people I ever met, They told us that the Nazi’s would not rob them of another min of their lives and grateful to be alive and together, My mothers mother lost her family in Hungary in the camps, I wish they had written a book before they passed, May they all Rest in Peace and look forward to seeing them again in Heaven❤️
I am currently reading 'three sisters' by Heather Morris. A true survival story about three sisters who survived Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau. One of the sisters actually worked in a post office in Auschwitz with an Elisabeth Volkenrath who was in charge/the guard. If this is the same woman that this book talks about...I am lost for words.
Please keep telling these stories! It is important for everyone to know what happened during WW2 and the Holocaust so it is never forgotten and repeated. You do an amazing job and hope you continue to do so! Take care and thank you!
Amen, sir. Amen.
Yes please especially since the so-called Jews in Israel need that industry lucrative to “justify” their Naziesque treatment of Palestinians.
Master Race / Chosen People
Both are the same sort of nationalistic supremacy ideology.
Imagine 400 years of that kind evil done to human beings
If you're referring to slavery, they want you to forget or not talk about it!
it has been mathematically proven that the holocaust is a hoax. it is physically impossible to process that many humans with the limited and crude facilities present in the 1940's. this lie must be exposed!
Once again, no tears shed for this vile woman.
If you don't shed tears, the facial tissue companies will go broke!
I shed no tears for Elisabeth Volkenrath.
Did anyone?
@@828enigma6 no.
@@828enigma6 Yes, her husband, unless they strung him up as well.
Not one drop. Pure evil.
Why hang her such treatment is meted out to prisoners in American prisons . Miscarriage of justice by victors . Maj Gen IA
As the saying goes, ‘the devil is in the details’. The reason I’m enthralled with this channel is because of the minutiae. We all know the over-arching story lines of the Holocaust, and are familiar with the horrific atrocities, chilling as they are. This channel drills down further into how the mechanics of Nazi policies affected the individual. 6 million dead is a monolith, an almost impenetrable concept. Focusing on a singular Nazi vermin heretofore forgotten by history is a brilliant way to remember, and never forget what they did.
This channel continues to set the bar for how WW2 educational videos should be produced. Thank you!
Seeing the picture of victims and their names really hits home.
It is said it were actually 8 millions and more victims of jewish genocide.
God Bless The Innocent Victims, Survivors, and Those That Fought for Them 🥀🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️💔💔💔💔
World History Channel, excellent video as always! Love how in-depth, thorough and instructive your videos are on these depraved individuals. Also, your narration is clear and welcoming!👍
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Giovanni Marino, M.D.
Shout out to the narrator for his clear and correct pronunciation of German words. I suspect German is his native tongue but in any case it's refreshing to hear someone speak the language properly.
It's hard to believe people could be so cruel and inhumane to helpless victims.
Very informative. Once again you made my day, even though it's just 19 minutes of my day :D
Have a good one mate 👋🏻
Thank you :)
Another monster brought to our attention by your excellent series of videos. Great job as always, and don't stop as the world really does need to see just how depraved people can become.
more like another shame trial
I'm sure none of you will get this but I just learned that Elizabeth Volkenrath would be my great aunt, I didn't know this and don't think like she did. I went through my entire life wanting to know what I had done that was so bad my mother couldn't love me. It's a sad thing to find out at 57 your mother couldn't look at you because you have the face of the worst woman to have walked on earth. Any one who thinks no one around to day isn't impacted by the horrific actions of the evil is wrong.
Hi, thanks for sharing this with us. Wha did your family tell you about Elisabeth? There are surely many things we did not cover in the video about her life. Feel free to share it with us. Thank u
That's an awful burden to bare, I hope you have people in your life who love you and you can find some kind of peace to call your own. Thankyou for sharing with us all, Be well
Everybody who commits crimes against humanity - unto this day - will one day stand before his Albert Pierrepoint.
I don't think they were exceptional people just exceptional circumstances. It could all happen again and just as many sadists and psychopaths would step forward from the ranks of what we think is normality.
Well said!
Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil'.
Your right. The Stanford experiment clearly shows how people can change when given power over people, these women guards if not for the war would gave gone on to have ordinary lives, the only mitigation, and I use that word very losely, is that the conditioning of the children and youth started long before the atrocities started.
When the war ended, the German population had to go through a process of de nazification and its ideology because it was ingrained in so many of the people, of course many still held on to the ideology and believed all the trials and evidence of the Holocaust was fabricated by the allies, simply because they thought it was to awful to be real
We must never, never forget these atrocities.
who's WE?
@@Bla_bla_blablatronHumanity
It is estimated thatJewish Marxist communism is responsible for any where from 80-120 million deaths worldwide. It has also been mathematiclly proven that German concentration camps (with their crude and limited facilities) could have Never processed 4 million people. The best number ( giving them every benefit of the doubt) would have been a little over 330,000. @@ladycplum
It is astounding and disgusting how some women like Elisabeth Volkenrath could be so cruel as to commit abhorrent acts of brutality against innocent civilians in concentration camps in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Thank you for this eye-opening and educational video. Rest in peace, o victims of the Nazi regime.
I'm glad that the names of these criminals are brought out so they can't hide!
They can't hide because they are dead!
May the people who inflicted such pain and suffering because they got enjoyment out of it, may you burn in the pits of hell for eternity and never feel any relief.
A good sentiment and it would be what they deserved but regretfully, there is no heaven or hell.
Actually, you are confused about what mortal death, hell, or hades, which is the grave and the lake of fire is.
And where and when the lake of fire occurs and the duration of such. You might want to study the entire text because it must be cohesive. God is not a monster and God takes NO PLEASURE in the death of the wicked.
While you are at it please study and understand the mortal death all men are appointed to and the second death and the first and second resurrections and who partakes in which and when the appointed time is.
Why you supposed Bible thumpers teach falsehood is beyond me.
@@doriangray7723 way to completely twist what I said into something it wasn’t 😂 way to put words in my mouth also 😂
The Horrific Suffering, and Torture Endured by The Innocent Victims is Absolutely Heart Shattering! 🥀🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
6:15 shows a Canadian war amputee who lost his hands in the U.S. Navy. He co-starred in The Best Years of Our Lives. Harold Russell.
Good movie.
I am so glad to have these informational videos. I hate to watch them, but am deeply hurt by treatment of all prisoners.
Your Research, Effort, and Time towards these videos is Truly Appreciated! You give us names of these Vile creatures, and it's Important we know.
My guess is its AI pulling from the internet .
It's so awful to think all this really happened. That human beings could be this cruel to one another and not have one bit of compassion😡
if the Germans were so cruel, why were the so called ''death camps'' full of survivors. it is estimated that jewish marxist communism is responsible for anywhere from 80 to 120 million deaths worldwide. this fact is never mentioned in the news or in any classroom. all you hear about is that precious 6 million.
That’s the craziest part about it. The perpetrators of such horrors were just… people. Like you or me. I mean, think about what put them in power- it wasn’t physical superiority or intellect beyond comprehension. They weren’t any different than a stranger on the street, and yet look what they did. All because they happened to be born an arbitrarily-decided way.
I love how this channel really research the backgrounds of these guards. Elisabeth must have came from a huge low income working class family…Her parents pulled her out of elementary school and forced her to work at an early age. What ever happened to her husband Heinz? Did he know his wife had been arrested by the British?
Omg hope u don't emply that a shifty upbringing justifies murder. No offense but Hitler thought so too
Scary how quickly some people become brutal when social norms allow it. The human morals that most of us have regardless of laws just aren't present.
To nie ludzie! To niemcy!!!
Is there anyway for you to do A psychological profile on all of these guards that seem to be " normal " before their concentration assignment? I understand needing a good paying job, but crutality along with it?
What we learn about a lot of these monsters is that so many come from average backgrounds. Understanding that these levels of sadism and depravity can seemingly exist in most people - the veil of reality becomes pretty thin. People, regular people, are capable of this. Normalizing and indoctrinating these ideologies and behaviors makes these monsters.
All starts with separating the “us and them” divisions. The ability to dehumanize begins to snowball toward justifying “bad things” happening to the “other group” - I think we are seeing that in how we’re seeing groups divided by supposed political leanings.
Progressing to the horrors and atrocities of the Holocaust become possible with the origin of viewing people as an “other group of people”
Don’t read too deep into which side I’m siding with. I’m not siding with either political group. I think we’re watching the beginnings of normalizing the us and them point of division
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Very true and very well spoken. Here, here!
You should look at what being a soldier does to most everyday men, or the cruelty experiment where people were told to essentially torture someone they 'could hear' but did it cause 'they were told to'.
Also modernly look at alot of the animal cruelty in alot of our meat or even animal care locations for example Seaworld actually were quite cruel to their animals- Meat processing plants turning simple farmer folk wanting to just provide for their family turning into cruel sadistic dehumanized characterisitics.
The allies were also very capable of rapacious cruelties as well both before the war, during it, and even after it- Vietnam rings a bell and remember before vietnam became an American problem it was a French problem and a short time a British problem. And the Bri'ish were sure good at starving millions during famines both the Irish and Indian famine that BOTH were very very easily avoidable and preventable but they didn't give shit about either. America they way we treated every minority group less than anything such as the trail of tears, the Manifest Destiny, and the 1/13th and 1/5th a man ideals.
@@ICee712 Some of them were actual psychopaths, some of them were normal. All of them were influenced from a young age. Either the ideals of the Hitler youth that the prisoners were subhuman, or they were abused at a young age, and abusing others was thus normalized for them.
The described imagery of her hitting little old sewing ladies and making them fall down is just brutal. Who could do such a thing.
Good day, and Thank You, as ALWAYS.
Its insane how if the conditions are favourable, people like these monsters where able to rise up into such positions of power. Imagine how many of people like these walk around us freely, only stopped by certain laws put into place after this tragedy, truly frightening.
This women was evil.
What’s chilling is how so many ordinary “everyday people” fully embraced this madness. This woman started out in life as a hairdresser, FFS. No tears, though, for any of them. None…!
Evil is always waiting to rise again somewhere
I guess all demons aren’t ugly on the outside.
She wasn't as pretty as Irma.
Both are hella ugly.
@@jacksonreilly3441 I totally agree. When you hear the horrific acts you imagine a hunchback with wrinkle and boils on their faces, but this demons look like cover girls.
@@CaptainCock-Strong Most red-blooded fellows wouldn't kick them out of bed for eating crackers!
I wonder how they all had a nice life before they entered these camps...
Wrong type of rope shown towards the end of the video. Those ‘coiled’ nooses were not used by British hangmen.
That's right ... they were with a slip loop and often covered with leather
Very bad time. People did going to die every where. As soldiers at the front, as normal people during bombings every day or as inmates of concentration camps. It was the industrialization of human destruction. I read somewhere, that a sister of here also served as a concentration camp guard. Do you know what happend to here and to here husband Heinz Volkenrath?
She was let off too easy.
I think you missed the part where they said she was executed. Also, as a species it is vitally important to place justice above revenge no matter how hard that may be.
She was young and good looking. Very sad that she got caught up in it all and a shame she was so nasty and horrible.
Kind of cute, but we aren't seeing her in the best light.
They should be made to live the rest of their lives in prison n work camps with limited food n water. No death! 😡
Who would want to be that evil not human. 😢 America 🇺🇸 should be proud to have gotten rid of this evil non human people and Americans should love ❤️ each other because we live in the best country in the world,I know America 🇺🇸 have a dark past but we must make it right so this type of evil and non human people will never rise again America 🇺🇸 strong 💪
You live in the worst country in the world
You can do some videos on the Japanese guards that tortured American soldiers
Hi Elvin. We will start with this in summer this year. Keep watching us
That would be racist. Only Germans were BAD!
Agree
Americans tortured Japanese civillians.
My birthday is June 7, 1944. I feel very honored to have that day. The the leg up in this occasion. The beginning of real hope. The day before my b'day will never be forgotten.😐 Around every 5 or 6 years, I am drawn to this behavior to remind myself of just how cruelty can be so widespread.
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Getman is not easy to dpeak. I had a german/polish girlfriend and i could never get the speaking and exhaling at the same time. This guy sounds english but is doing a good pronunciation pf german
Those camps were hell, I'm amazed anyone lived through it,
My late father was one of the first one's to Liberate Belsom Bardon and until I saw the old film from that camp I couldn't understand why he had Knightmares for over fifty years until his own death on Monday April 29th 1996 and how that evil Monster was allowed to come to Power in Germany is anyone's guess
I forced myself to watch this horrific tale.Only wishing that her executioner had been a laywoman prisoner,who had no skill in giving Elisabeth Volkenrath a speedy or painless death.
May she rest in peace .....
How could women be so cruel?
Evil is genderless. There is nothing inherently more or less good or bad in women, men, whatever. Humans are capable of this cruelty.
@@danij5055 Men are more apt to be evil, weak egos, sick egos and the testosterone.
Those guards who "thought" they got away w/atrocities .... didn't cuz they will or have or ARE paying for it in the next life. Ying Yang. Karma. What you give, you get back.
NO ONE ESCAPES JUSTICE!
How many of these guys are there.
England and france hae to shoulder part of the blame. They should have nipped in the bud first thing. First time he took any territory over. I will give great britain credit after the fall of france the french said england will have lher neck wrung like a chicken in 3 weeks.. that didnt happen partially thanks to the us supplying the english with supplies
@4:48 how good was the pay or job benefits? And did they know what their duties were gonna be ie killing people?
Hope you will have some sympathy for Gazan who are suffering in the same manner hope you will make documentry on show suffering world largest concentration camp
LOL.
Didn't see any execution footage. Dislike for false and misleading title.
😂😂
And others......who were they???
I hope you're doing well.! You sound a little different.
I wish these videos weren't censored. This is as real as it gets, and everyone must look at the Nazis' depravity and evil, so it doesn't happen again.
Kinda like the classroom today just extra!
how did this go ahead from 1933 until 1945 without anyone in the world doing anything about it...rip Roma people
we have people doing things like that nowadays, , most times it's all covered up. No tear for this evil lady.
Over the top Narration
No great loss
Another good story about the brutal ways of one person. I don't feel sorry for her or the entire Nazi regime.
old video?!
Hi Tommy. Old video was 6 minutes long. This one is longer and much better in terms of quality. See it, hopefully you will like it. We have very special things coming soon, new names and very interesting stories ...
@@WorldHistoryVideos maybe i was thinking of "the untold past"
@@zillsburyy1 I believe you see the difference ...
Evil people sickening films but children need to know what happened in world war 2 and other wars i was never learnt in school about the wars
The jews finally got some justice for all the injustice they indured.
Sadly not nearly enough. Wish it could have been avoided entirely of course
RIP 💐 🙏 Victims of Elizabeth Volkenrath ❤️ 🕊 🇵🇭
Excellent grooming of youth in Germany. Matches what Aryan society followed
In 3000BC in India. However cruelty and
Barbarism againt prisoners was unaryan Maj Gen IA
Evil, Pure evil👹👹👹👺👺👺
how anyone can be this cruel have this much hate is mind boggling it wasn’t just one race it was others too if you where gay gypsies or hardened criminals it didn’t matter not to mention these poor people having to do things to their friends or culture awful they also where forced into sex beating others and even playing their instruments for entertainment as others where put to death or being tortured just a horrific part of history and all those medical experiments just sickening
Anne they were taught from they age they were able that jaws were not human
As for gypsies and homosexual these were race defines who did not contribute to the Reich
Correction. Jews and race defilers
Hitler believed that "common" ie Aryan blood, defined a race
Stupid but Lotta folks bought it
Sorry did not mean to lecture
In the german language the "th" does not exist. So the pronounciation of the name of Elisabeth Volkenrath is really annoying.
so how do say it?
JUST PLAIN EVIL 😈!
She got off way too easy
I think you missed the part where they said she was executed. Also, as a species it is vitally important to place justice above revenge no matter how hard that may be.
Revolting monster
you'll be as bad as she was?
Someone so beautiful yet sadistic and truly evil with no regrets
Beautiful???? Really?😮
I wonder what the allied forces done with her before she was terminated 😏😏😏....karma.
You mean they lowered themselves to her level? Do you really hope that?
Perpetuating that level of cruelty? As a species it is vitally important to place justice above revenge.
lesson nbr. 2: Merkel Islamisation of Germany.
Coming soon, i believe.
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Im of polish Jewish origin and I watch these stories about the holocaust and cannot believe what the Israeli Defence Force do to the indigenous Palestinians on a daily basis. My great grandparents would be devastated if they could see the parallels now. 😢
You're a liar.
After watching this video...I got to noe why they hate Hitler....it's a badword extremely bad
Folkenraad. The th is silent.
Actually, the "th" digraph is pronounced like simple "t" in German, as in "Thomas".
Half of this video is recycled from other videos of the same theme. Lazy content.
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This was a terrible human, but I feel in the United States the same thing will happen!
But at least get the facts right
Seems like ALL the World History videos have the same unbearable narrator.
Hmmm. Are we absolutely certain that there were NO TEARS SHED? What about her young husband? Surely he must have wept for her, or was he lynched as well? Also, from 11:39 to 12:09 there is a discrepancy (or a big fib). If the prisoners were awakened at 4:30 AM, how could the roll call (Appel) last from 3:00 to 9:00 AM? Someone is telling porkies here!
Probably a typo, should be 5.00am
because they would wake them earlier sometimes and hold them in roll call for hours
I'll address your third point. I don't think you listened to where they said that the guards would enjoy making roll call as difficult as possible by forcing them to stand there for that long. If they moved they would be beaten. So yes, the roll calls can last hours.
Thumbs down for censoring the horror of this event.
The past tense of "strike" is "struck", not "stroke" JEEZ, is this written by chatgpt?
This story is identical to the one about Irma Grese. I question the validity of both of these. Nope, I call bull shit.
American combat mission is far worse than this video: US women hate children The Mahmudiyah rape and killings were war crimes involving the gang-rape and murder of 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and the murder of her family by United States Army soldiers on March 12, 2006. It occurred in the family's house to the southwest of Yusufiyah, a village to the west of the town of Al-Mahmudiyah, Iraq. Other members of al-Janabi's family murdered by American soldiers included her 34-year-old mother Fakhriyah Taha Muhasen, 45-year-old father Qassim Hamza Raheem, and 6-year-old sister Hadeel Qassim Hamza al-Janabi.[1] The two remaining survivors of the family, 9-year-old brother Ahmed and 11-year-old brother Mohammed, were at school during the massacre and orphaned by the event.
Irritatingly, the narrator continually calls her "Elisabeth Volkendorf".
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This guy slobbery German pronunciations is as bad as the Nazis war crimes.
The only thing that frustrates me is the fact that i cannot piss on her grave
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