Back to Buchenwald with Veterans of WWII | History Traveler Episode 340
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- Опубліковано 29 бер 2024
- Buchenwald. The name along conjures the most awful imagines that one can think of. It was here where some of the worst atrocities of WWII were carried out. In this episode, we're visiting the camp with four veterans of WWII and taking a quick walk through the area to explore the history of this awful place.
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My dad liberated Buchenwald. He passed away in 2007. We still have his photographs. No words to describe. 😢
Thank God for people like your father ❤
I'd love to see those photos
May you Dad’s memory be a blessing, and his love stay close to your heart.
Your father may have liberated my Zaide, Yiddish for grandfather. ❤
Your dad, along with the other men who liberated this camp & many other camps are absolutely amazing heroes.
I’m extremely proud of their heroic actions & their humanity towards these innocently abused individuals.
I have watched many interviews with these liberators. I am so grateful & forever will be to them.
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I can see how there were incidents of some “misconduct” of US troops at some of the camps. The Nazis that suffered from this can appeal to my favorite Russian person “Tufskey Shitskey”.
Of all the things on Earth, I'll never understand how anyone could deny that this happened.....a horrible nightmare and a lesson we ignore at our own peril.
@@smokeykitty6023 I agree
History deserves to be remembered,good or bad
100%
@@TheHistoryUnderground JD
Thank you for taking the time and effort to make these videos! You’re such a asset to history teachers everywhere!
never forget the 1 million + German pow's that were purposely starved to death by Eisenhower and the Allies after Germany surrendered. Or the German women and girls that were gang raped and murdered by Soviet soldiers.
Yes , especially when he talks of people being tested with vaccines and political prisoners. We haven’t come too far 😢
Its the all lied version of history.
Very sobering. I had heard the Ike ordered the reporters to take a lot of pictures because he sensed that the day would come when people would deny that it had ever happened. Such wisdom!
Not just pictures. I was in HS in the 80s. I was in JROTC. Our instructors were retired US Army NCOs. One had fought in WWII. He had access and the rank to procure films that Army troops recorded of the camps. The videos horrific enough…without the smells and such. Years later I became an EMT. I’ve dealt with the dead in various states, some very unpleasant. But always one at a time. I can’t imagine the horror of hundreds or thousands of exposed corpses in various stages of decomposition. Or being a living prisoner forced t endure that stench…for months…while starving and freezing.
Even then, he recognized it's absolute unbelievability. Yet...
These episodes are now that much more important given Bud is no longer with us.
Absolutely. Almost got a bit emotional while I was editing this one.
@@TheHistoryUnderground
Thank You for your work....
@@TheHistoryUndergroundthese ww2 videos are full of lies...youtube will probably delete this comment🤮
UA-cam deletes my comment....how disgusting and corrupt
THESE WW2 VIDEOS ARE FULL OF OF LIES
I visited Dachau in the mid '90s which was a sobering experience all by itself. But shortly after, talking to my father in law who was there and seeing the pictures he had of bodies piled in the train cars, it really brought to life the horror that these places were. There can never be enough videos to document what happened. Well done JD 🙏
Thank you.
It’s why Eisenhower ordered the US Army to record the camps….and Germans of towns near them….to walk through the camp…so there could be no denying what took place…immediately, or historically. Eisenhower knew as GIs died off, deniers would rise.
My grandfather spent the last two years of the war in Buchenwald as a political opponent , esternwegen Sachsenhausen and then Buchenwald where altogether he spent nine years in those camps , he survived the war and lived until 1980
Wow!
my dad was in the 6th AD, and was there with them as they liberated this place. He brought one photo home, and wrote a letter to my mom, which he showed to me, and said don't ever let anyone tell you it never happened
My dad saw this 3 days after it was liberated under Patton. That's all he would share
Awful place.
I don't blame him for not sharing. He didn't want to load that evil onto your mind. I hope he was able to get over what he saw there. 😢😢
Gosh, Jolene, that would make quite an impression, coming from someone who was one of your chief protectors. One of those “stop you in your tracks” realizations.
In 1978 the mini series Holocaust came out and dad had me watch it, I was 17 yrs old @sandramosley2801
@@sandramosley2801I had old parents 😆
When we took Dad back to Europe in ‘07 to retrace his unit’s (11th U.S. Armored Div) movements across NE Europe, our last stop was the Mauthausen camp in Austria, site of the infamous death stairs. He first saw it in May ‘45 pursuant to Ike’s order that as many people as possible witness the camps.
Interestingly, a young Hungarian Jew inmate was so appreciative of being rescued that he swore he would emigrate to America and become a G.I.
Years later, Corporal Tibor Rubin, 8th Cavalry Regt, 1st Cavalry Div would be awarded the MOH for his actions in Korean combat and later as a Chinese POW.
Thank you for keeping the memory of this horrible time alive, we cannot forget. Thank God for the American soldier. I knew a man when I was young who had a prisoner number tattooed on his arm who was in a camp. That sight is burned into my brain.
I almost couldn't finish watching this but I knew I had to. So sad!!
Great job JD.
Thank you.
Living in Germany as a child in the early seventies I learned about the camps and Dad didn’t bother sugar coating it very much. I find that the older I get, early 50’s now, the harder these programs hit. This atrocity can never be forgotten.
That's good to hear. We must remember the acts so we don't repeat them.
My mother and her family were interned in Buchenwald. Opa did not survive to be liberated. He was extremely outspoken against the Nazi regime.
God bless your family, to have had direct impact from the atrocities, is indescribable, I am sure.
You know, i know the history.. but the human element is lost to most history books and documentaries.. you do a really good job at putting the human element to the events.. and also seeing these places as they are today.. very much enjoy your work
Thank you. I appreciate that.
"Human History" is lacking the "Human Component"!?
My Dad was part of the group General Joe Collins sent through Nordhausen Concentration Camp in April 1945. As we were retracing his "combat tour" from Omaha Beach to near Leipzig, Germany, we returned to Nordhausen in April 1996. After 51 years, it still affected him. What he saw and described, are so similar to the comments you have provided from other veterans in your concentration camp videos.
Don't ever Forget !!
What the allies did? Yes.
@clovergrass9439 ignorant comment. Maybe learn what war is and not start it
@@clovergrass9439 nutjob much?
Your hard work to bring us this history is very much appreciated. Thank you.
My pleasure. Thank you.
The human mind cannot comprehend this level of cruelty. Thank you for making this video.
My late father was there with the Sixth Armored Division. I wish I knew more, but he didn't talk about his time in WWII very much. Thanks for posting!
I am watching this the day before Easter Sunday with tears streaming down my face. I am 69 years old and even though it was studied about in school nothing reverberates with me as this has done. The holocaust was a monstrously massive undertaking by the Germans to try to rid the world of Jews and to make a master race. My heart breaks when watching this and it truly is very hard to believe one person masterminded it and carried it out. The one thing I want to believe is Jesus rose from the dead and took on the sins of the world. I fervently pray for the people who died and never got to marry, have children and have families or see their relatives again. I just do not have words adequate enough to address my feelings and watching the gentlemen revisit the sites and remember! God bless you all!
JD does an amazing job!! I've learned so much from his videos!!! God bless you JD!!!
@angelahartley3212. Jewish people in USA are now terribly oppressed with a virulent genre of anti-Semitsim.
I get hate messages daily ok social media.
We had desecration of Jewish gravestone markers in a city near my home.
Please stand with Jewish people in your community.
We are frightened.
#NeverAgainIsNow ✡️🩷
Respect
Couldn't have said it better myself. 👏 😢
May God rest their souls 🙏 💔
Do you need a tissue?
Makes my heart sad
We should always be reminded of what humanity is capable of.
I just recently learned my great grandfather, my grandmother stepfather (my dads mom). He was a German POW in Georgia, not sure camp was. what I found out that after the war ended, the POW were forced to watch videos of the concentration camps they found in German. My dad told me Grampa Mitch was always embarrassed of being German and refused to let his children learn German and that Germany did not deserve to continue as a country. My grate grandpa Mitch is buried just north of Chicago. I feel it sad to be embarrassed of your ancestry, but understand why he was.
Oh wow.
Many many years ago I was serving in West Germany with the British Army, & after the fall of the Berlin Wall & indeed the “wall” between East & West Germany I went on a trip to visit Colditz Castle, infamous as a PoW location.
Whilst there a fellow Brit asked if I had visited Buckenwald concentration camp, so on my return journey I indeed visited too 😢
Whilst serving in West Germany I had visited Bergen Belsen (where Anne Frank ended her days😢).
Something you didn’t mention (maybe it doesn’t happen nowadays), but did you hear any bird song?
That squeaking door or window was so eerie 😒
LEST WE FORGET 😔
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Yes…even after all this time even nature stands silent and utterly aghast at the evil that took place gleefully in all of these camps throughout Germany and Nazi occupied Europe. Never forget. Never again. 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇱
I visited Dachau in 1979, the army still had us visiting camps, I would never go back! You could feel the evil and it was extremely hard to watch this. As usual you did a good respectful video.
These places remain to remind us of how vile humans can be to one another. We must never forget. If we want to avoid such atrocities in the future then we must keep places like this. Not to glorify what happened but to remind us that when we dehumanise ANY group that we dehumanise ourselves.
Keep history alive JD. To those veterans, thank you for your service, because you did what needed to be done I can live in freedom.
What’s coming will make Hitler look like a walk in the park.
@@christyjestice587 when the Anti-Christ arises yes. But by then I won't be here.
Yes, humans are the “real monsters” 😢
In 1983, age 15, I read a book called The Butchers Of Buchenwald that rally ihad an impact on me. Thank you for another great educational video.
As a retired veteran, I truly appreciate your work. ❤
Thank you.
Another exceptionally well done video. This is actually the way history (especially the darkest part of) should be discussed and studied. Thanks for all the hard work.
Thank you.
What is saddest , is that the same thing is happening all over again.
Where? How?
Those afd - guys - that's what he's talking about...they want to repeat the whole entire process and start all over again ! They are getting ready for what they call/refer to as "day x" !
Comments are deleted!!!! This is so corrupt!!!
@@thomaswinkler1941 afd?
Where?
Cousin Pete (1st sgt Peter Vetcher, Co A - 1st Rangers) was sent to Buchenwald when captured at Cisterna in 1944. He escaped, recaptured on the coast and then sent to Stalag 3a which escaped from as well.
It's tragic what people are capable of such inhumane things
I cried so much watching this. We must never forget. Thank you so much for all your hard work on your channel😊
Thank you so much!
What Jack said. I think every freedom loving person should have to tour at least one of these camps. So that it can NEVER be repeated! I've only been to Dachau. It's absolutely disgusting how man can be so savage to each other. Why can we not find a way to solve our differences using our brains???
This what sin does to humans, causes us to become selfish, proud arrogant and all manner of evils.
Oct 7, 2023. Different group. Same motivation. Ethnic hatred is as old as humanity. And always with us.
My grandfather was captured at Dunkirk and was a prisoner at a camp called XXB where he met my grandmother they later married in the 1950s and had children one of which was my dad
It breaks my heart when I see the faces of these survivors. The horrors they witnessed and went through is something I can't fathom. How people can be so cruel to watch another suffer in those ways is beyond me 😢 . To hurt another living being in that manner is an atrocious act. The more I learn from your videos , the more I pray that this never happens again. 🙏
May they rest in peace.
I just read a true story by a holocaust survivor the book was called The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz and he was one of the boys who helped build the stables in Buchenwald...amazing to see it here. I think your videos are the best, so informative and respectful.
Thank you for keeping history alive…
Rest in peace to bud
Heck of a guy.
RIP to all of those who perished here. And also RIP BUD, who kept their memory alive by speaking about what he saw. 🤟🏼
This should have a million views. Such a shame that videos like this go unnoticed whilst kids reviewing stupid toys are getting millions of views. Excellent work JD!
Thank you for this respectful tour.
JD, every time you upload it gets me excited. I don’t dedicate much time to the internet anymore, but your videos always polarize me.
One of my proudest moments was donating a good chunk of cash to the Currahee Cleanup Project and watching your videos documenting the process of cleaning it… I still talk about that today.
You make me proud to be a History buff. Thank you brother.
- A 25 year old proud American.
I have study this camp many times over the years. This video hit hard. Like getting punched in the gut at every turn. Learned many new facts about this camp that had never been presented before. I hated standing at the rail gates at Auschwitz. Left goose bumps on my back when I closed my eyes to try to imagine what it was like. The uttered hate that was inflicted on these prisoners can never, ever be allowed again! One of your many great historical presentations JD! Much respect!
So many of the men that liberated these camps carried those memories and shadowed their futures. Hopefully this project will help them live easier at their age.
This is even more horrifying than I imagined. Trying to wipe the tears away just to finish watching. It's so important that this history is told. Thank you
Many of these prisoners were transferred to Flossenburg near where my Father in Law grew up during the war.
One of the hardest hitting things was the church right above the crematorium where ashes were spread for roses.
According to Wikipedia (not always the best. An alternative interpretation of “Jedem Das Siene” means “To each what he deserves”. Which makes more sense and is appropriately wicked for the context.
It's hard to believe people can be so cruel
Can we get some appreciation in the effort that goes into these video's? In the winter period we saw videos where the trees still had leaves meaning he shot so many footage to give himself a winter break and just upload video's. ( If im correct... ) It is not just a job i truly believe it is a passion that he has for the story of the past.
One question though , while you were in Belgium. Did you try out those Belgium beers? :D
Just wanna say, I've been watching your videos for a long time, keep it up man. Not as many people today embrace history, good or bad. A man in my town ran a store (he has since passed and the store is no longer there) and as a kid I remember seeing his tattoo. Obviously being a child he never said anything about it, not sure if he did to anyone. But, I often wish I was a bit older at the time so I could've learned his story. Especially now with how fast the victims and veterans of this era are leaving us. Gonna have to ask around for his name and see if I can learn a bit more of his story.
Thank you. I appreciate that.
@@TheHistoryUnderground Absolutely brother!
A kiwi pilot Phillip Lamason was the senior officer in charge of 168 allied airmen held in Buchenwald ...was able to get them transferred to a Luftwaffe prison camp...by all accounts from his fellow prisoners was a very brave man ...awesome documentary made in 1994 called The Lucky Ones..Allied Airmen and Buchenwald ..worth a look
Great video. I watch a lot of videos on the concentration camps. This is part of history that we need to never forget. Sad, sad part of history.
This was the first of many camps I have toured. What struck me the most was the frozen clock set at 3:15 above the entrance, which was the time the camp was liberated. The zoo is just despicable and shows how when people are fed enough propaganda they can dehumanize the targets of such hate.
When I was 20, 20 years ago, my college choir was on a concert tour of Germany. Weimar happened to be along our route and our director made sure we had time in our schedule to make a stop at Buchenwald. It would be a moment that would have a lifetime effect on me. As a naive 20 year old kid, not fully grasping the historical scope of the ground I was walking on as I passed through the gate, I can say now that the “weight” of the air in that place, as I perceived it, is something that continues to surface in my mind all these years later. It was a very emotionally heavy experience. Excellent video, JD.
Beautifully written.
Thank you. You seem always to hit the right note on these scenes.
The world needs to know and understand what the Holocaust was and the horror it produced. The world needs to know the hell man can perpetrate against humanity. The past is so important because we are presently on course for another Holocaust. JD, your videos are so damn important for all of us. Thank you.
I visited your partnership with the Gettysburg History museum and saw all of the World war II artifacts/relics for sale. I can't wait to get a piece of History. I normally don't trust sellers for something from World war II, but I know I can trust you and the museum who certifies memorabilia.
Thanks of course for another history lesson on this video.
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My uncle was liberated for Dachua prison camp by his older brother , although neither one had seen each other that day. He would have not even recognized him . Both are gone now, but the memories of their stories live on .
Wow!
With all the awful stuff we know...imagine all the horrific things we don't know about 😢
Well J.D. I'm not going to lie that was a tough video to watch, the inhumane violence that occurred at these camps is above appalling, and the evil that was instilled in the Germans is beyond comprehension, it takes a strong man to make a video such as you did, thank you J.D. for showing us one of the harder parts of WW2, !! they will never be forgotten!!!
I was enthralled as soon as the little birds at the very beginning of your Dachau video ceased their chirping and you started your descent into deeper and deeper hell. This one was a great visit to the exemplary museum of Buchenwald that should be praised for keeping the memory alive in such pristine condition. I was particularly impressed by the exceptionally well-maintained testimonies of the past, such as the height-measuring board they shot people through at point-blank range at 31:20. Never forget! Never again!
No blood stains or powder signs because it must be a replacement of the original artifact, well proven in court. Kudos to the museum. Never again.
I have chills... My papa liberated that camp.... he was a teenage American MP and even as a old man all he would say is photos were touched up to avoid causing a panic... they made the people look healthier in photos to keep people from freaking out... my heart goes out to all those lost and those who suffered there
Every time i feel something is very bad with my life, these videos give me a certain persevering power to just keep moving
RIP🖤
I was there just 2 weeks ago. It's a place you'll never forget. I was also in the former SS Führersiedlung.
Such a moving episode, JD! God bless all who suffered through those horrible times, and those who put an end to it! 💔🙏❤️
36:57 He clearly reliving the memories of that day like it just happened.
Very impressive video. Mankind is very cruel. Good that these camps are preseved for the people of this generation. Unfortunately many survivors have died through the years and are no.longer with us.
There is always hanging something.
A “good” coverage of a difficult subject must of felt wrong recording this but right for all the correct reasons.
I visited this place in 1989 whilst serving in the British Army. Still haunts my memories. Learned a few more things I didn’t know.
Author and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel is in the photo at 14:50. He is in the second row, 7th from the left next to the post. I think his book Night about his experiences in the concentration camp should be required reading for pretty much everyone.
Thanks for doing this video, JD, as these horrors should never be forgotten.
Thank you for visiting and showing some things that I have not heard about before. The zoo, the childrens block, the sinti and roma, the metal poles. Unbelievable yet, I think, it is being repeated. In different ways, but again. How many ways can humans think up on how to abuse humans beings simply because they were from a different location or religion and had their own way of living. Assert your freedom. Learn your boundaries and never back down. Especially when you cause no harm and never take any harm.
Crimes against humanity and they got away with it, in their own way, they did it and without thousands more lives being sacrificed, they would have continued. Once again, what will you tolerate or assert as a crime against humanity. Learn in order to teach. Feel it.
Very sensitive and powerful presentation, JD. Thank you. I can only imagine the thoughts going through the veteran as he stood in the crematorium and recalled what he had seen.
So very moving!! No shortage of evil there..😢❤
been to Buchenwald and some other places and walked around alone, you will feel cold, fail to understand and imagine luckily. Good to show these places and describe some of the events especially at this time in 2024 of difficult European times. I'd be ashamed to speak to a WW2 Vet about current events of my generation, how would we explain it to those that paid the ultimate price in the last days of WW2 if they saw where The Ukranians are now. Everyone should go and see Buchenwald or the others, if not yours and similar vids give some feel to these places and stories. Thank you for the vid.
Thats the first I've heard of remains being given to family. Thanks for sharing something new!
Well done video… and thanks to the service of the four men with you that helped bring an end to the Nazis. Your comment about the Russians taking over after the fact and there feelings about their enemies brings to mind a little known film called “The Savage Peace”. A film worth watching. One of the tag lines in the film states: Enjoy the war because the peace will be savage…
Thanks for sharing…!
You do great work.
Really enjoyed the video mate can't wait for the next one 👍👍
Thanks 👍
I don't understand the denial. Heard it all my life. I'm 69.
And yet here we are. And it's out in the open. This so hard to watch.
I toured Auschwitz and it was a very hot day - low to mid 30s C and I really hadn't thought about losing so many to the heat before that. You see the shivering winter scenes all the time and I gave little thought to those who would have cooked out in the roll call. Touring places like this is very important because it opens up many "oh yeah..." moments.
My Dad and my Grandmother where forced to work in that arms company next to Buchenwald first they where deported from Romania (as part of the German minority there ) came a long way from Eastern Europe lost everything because of the Hitler Stalin treaty then finally found shelter in Weimar.
All my dads older Brothers where recruited for the Wehrmacht and one to the SS and my dad to young for the army had to go to work with my grandma. They told me a lot of story’s about what was going on in the arms plant and also what they heard from the concentration camp inmates, they where working side by side as Germans second class. My Dad lost 2 brothers at the end of the war 1 was killed close to Fulda fighting the Americans one is still MIA in the Kurland area, the third uncle was severely wounded in the fighting against the red army somewhere in East Prussia. One was lucky. …. So Buchenwald’s is not just a bad place for the the other nations ppl also for Germans that where forced to work mainly for housing and food stamps and to give your sons and uncles to the nazi war maschine.
Oh my goodness. Thank you for sharing that.
My grandfather from the Netherlands worked in the arms factory as well. Later, during the bombardment of the camp he no longer worked there. Fortunatly he was working in the stone quarry near the camp. If not, i probably could not have written this message. Thanx for making the video.
@@TheHistoryUndergroundmy moms family had to flee out of the area that is now part of Slovakia one of the Country’s that where born after the split of Czechoslovakia, mom’s family was also part of the German minority in Slovakia.
On the way west they came thru the Czech city of Znaim still in German hands and the authorities that where responsible for the treck ppl out of the East they sorted her brother out because he was handicapped since he fell down from a tree some years before. At that time nobody had heard of the Nazi euthanasia program to kill handicapped humans. So they took him to a so called hospital where they gave him injections ( later we knew they poisoned him but not with one injection but many to kill him slow) my moms family came every day to his bed and every day it seemed that he gets worse when they asked what’s wrong with him the Nazi doctors said he has a pneumonia and they try to help the next day they came the bed was empty and his body already cremated. My grandpa was so angry he attacked the doctors and the solders beat him up badly. The death certificate said pneumonia but one doctor had a heart and later told my grandpa the he was slowly poisoned and he said if your son wounded have such a strong heart he would have died much earlier from this poison 😢euthanasia is a very very sad thing all humans have a right to live we will always remember my uncle I never met Eduard RIP
Seems to be the norm these days, Canada are openly pushing euthanasia if your are handicapped or in some way sick , part of the new Nazi ideology from the world economic forum, Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates philosophy that there are X billions too many on planet earth, we learnt nothing from the history!
Every one of your videos gets a little better then the one before it. THANK you for this one. FRANK FROM MONTANA......
This video was very hard to watch, but so important to see and pass on. The world must remember so that maybe it won’t happen again. Thanks to all those who fought for freedom!
When you were at the jail in independence, you were less than 10 miles from Frank's grave. It's located actually in a city park. On the far corner of that park is an old mason stone fence where he is buried next to his wife. The headstone has been replaced several times, of course.
This is what happens when people lose their own humanity. And it's just so depressing and sick to think of our own lack civil empathy that can lead to so much pain and suffering inflicted on any living being. Wonderful video!!
The mind boggles watching that to think people can be so evil
Thank you for creating and sharing this sobering and sad video. It needs to be remembered. My dad also served in WW2 with the 99th Infantry Division. He spoke of liberating a labor camp at Moosburg in late April 1945.
I am appalled and saddened to see what atrocities were committed by humans on other humans. It sickens me and breaks my heart.
So sad so sad place! 😓...
Well done. Thank you.
Great Job JD, and man this means so much more because you captured Bud who is no longer with us! Humbling, Heartbreaking what humans can do to humans! Thank you for all you do!
I have visited Dachau on a cold rainy overcast Sunday morning and that was very shoking but this is enen more so! I so enjoy these youtube videos but this is causing me to reflect that I may have to take some time away from them. God please bless everyone!
You do such a great job. Very respectful way to remember the past.
Thank you.
Love your content thank you so much very moving, very informative. My uncle Paul Pfau was a Navy pilot of The Miss America, B24 over Hungary, April 13, 1945 and was shot down by the Nazis. I find the date very moving and ironic as a month later the war officially ended …we lost so many beautiful people by the hand of those demons.
Thank you for covering this JD. Certainly an important part of history that should not be forgotten. Ever.
Hi JD. Keep up the good work, show the good and bad. In December 2018, my wife and I as part of a tour group went through the Buchenwald camp and as described, horrific. I recall us being taken into a room to the right of the gate where they had a model of the camp and explained the workings of the camp and surrounding factories. At the end when questions were asked, someone asked how sick and depraved you must be to come up with this concept of a concentration camp. Without missing a beat our tour director answered, " the British, they introduced concentration camps in South Africa back in 1900, where thousands died due to malnutrition, lack of medical care, exposure to the elements, etc". I think it shows that given the circumstances any nation can go to very dark places.
A relative was not in Buchenwald, but he was imprisoned for 2 days in Dachau. He had a certain combat role, perhaps signal person, and was caught by the Germans. Usually, men in his role would have been shot and not taken prisoner, but the Germans put him in Dachau. It was liberated 2 days later by the Americans. I suspect that knowing they were losing, that the Allies were closing in on him, they spared him. None of us knew until the day of his funeral. He was one of the kindest people.
Keep documenting JD. We must teach the good and horrible so it is not washed aside and forgotten or denied.
A huge salute to the veterans! Thank you for liberating the world and may it give you a place in heaven!